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Episode Date: October 24, 2025EP853: Bryan discusses the time he spent his father's hard earned cash on 900 numbers! He found out! Plus, the White House is now the "Comcast White House" and a comet is coming to destroy us all. S...ome people are working on it...but they are not worried about you. TCB Tunes: TCB TV! Watch EP #853 on YouTube! Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB FOLLOW US: Instagram: @thecommercialbreak Youtube: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast Website: www.tcbpodcast.com CREDITS: Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Executive Producer: Bryan Green Producer: Astrid B. Green Voice Over: Rachel McGrath TCBits & TCB Tunes: Written, Voiced and Produced by Bryan Green. Rights Reserved To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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                                        And when my dad got that phone bill a month later.
                                         
                                        He fucking flipped his shit and all charging privileges on the phone were taking off.
                                         
    
                                        I couldn't call collect.
                                         
                                        I couldn't call 411, which I think you at some point became a charge service like 50 cents to call 411, which was the early search engine for telephone numbers and other information.
                                         
                                        It was literally called information.
                                         
                                        That's what you would call.
                                         
                                        So all of that is blocked.
                                         
                                        All of it.
                                         
                                        Okay.
                                         
                                        So I got in trouble to that that cured me quickly of wanting to call anybody and spend any money.
                                         
    
                                        I should have called the sex hotline is what I should have done.
                                         
                                        Yeah, I'm surprised you didn't do that one.
                                         
                                        I didn't.
                                         
                                        I was too afraid to do that because I think I knew that my dad got the bill and that I would be busted.
                                         
                                        The next episode of the commercial break starts now.
                                         
                                        Oh, yeah, cats and kittens.
                                         
                                        Welcome back to the commercial break.
                                         
                                        I'm Brian Green.
                                         
    
                                        This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Kristen Joy Haudley.
                                         
                                        Best to you, Chris.
                                         
                                        Best to you out there in the podcast universe.
                                         
                                        So much to me.
                                         
                                        talk about today we've got 3i the comet that is a comet or question mark spaceship that is
                                         
                                        traveling around the solar system right now hiding behind the sun doing things that no one else
                                         
                                        has seen it seen a comet do and now we're getting our first pictures uh apparently i'd like to
                                         
                                        i have seen them all over the place but i've yet to verify it from a reputable source so there's a
                                         
    
                                        lot of pictures. It looks strange to me. It's traveling at 137 miles per hour, 137 miles per second
                                         
                                        or something like that. It is big. It is weird. And it will make its appearance on 1111 of this
                                         
                                        year for 88 minutes. It will be able to be seen and then it will be gone. No one knows. No one
                                         
                                        knows. Not even the people who study this stuff understand why it's acting the way it's
                                         
                                        acting. And it's interstellar, meaning it came from somewhere in our galaxy. And now it's coming to
                                         
                                        our solar system and then it's gone. It's hiding behind the sun. Its tail is facing the sun instead
                                         
                                        of away from the sun, which is not how a comet usually acts. Usually the tail is burning off
                                         
                                        in a different direction. I don't know. Spooky. Could this be it? I don't know. If it is,
                                         
    
                                        let us all go down peacefully with love and joy. And Nike's. And Nike's. That's right.
                                         
                                        And nice shoes. May we all go down with nice shoes. Baby, get the kids some new shoes. Even though we can't
                                         
                                        afford it, buy them. Because you know what?
                                         
                                        11-11, that's our day. Kids, 11-11, too.
                                         
                                        I know. That's pretty crazy. Well, that's funny because last night I was, you know,
                                         
                                        because of the meteor shower is going on right now.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        And I really wanted to see it, but I'm in the city. Yeah, you're in the city. The light pollution.
                                         
    
                                        So I, you know, I was outside looking for it last night. I was like, damn, there's too
                                         
                                        light. So I pulled out my app, my night sky app, which I love that app. I love that app.
                                         
                                        I'm on it too. And so I'm pointing it around the sky. And I see the asteroids. They're shooting
                                         
                                        everywhere, you know, beep, beep, beep, beep.
                                         
                                        And then I see the comet thing.
                                         
                                        And I was like, what is that?
                                         
                                        Oh, you saw it?
                                         
                                        That's wild.
                                         
    
                                        It popped up on the night sky app.
                                         
                                        But it's behind the sun right now.
                                         
                                        I think we, I don't know.
                                         
                                        I don't think we can see it necessarily.
                                         
                                        Well, it showed it in the sky.
                                         
                                        I didn't, with my naked eye, I see it.
                                         
                                        But I saw it through the app.
                                         
                                        It was like blazing through the sky.
                                         
    
                                        I was like, what is that a comet, I guess?
                                         
                                        Unbelievable.
                                         
                                        Just.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        It's weird.
                                         
                                        It's wild.
                                         
                                        This is now the second time in a couple of years.
                                         
                                        this has happened, if you remember the Ulanga, Ulamamba, whatever it was the Hawaiian thing
                                         
    
                                        that came by that looked like, you know, basically a big dick that was flying through the
                                         
                                        sky and people couldn't figure it out.
                                         
                                        And so...
                                         
                                        Was that Bezos's starship?
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        I wouldn't put it past any of these guys to be flying shit around interstellar.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        I just don't know.
                                         
    
                                        And so, you know, I hate to speculate, but this is, this hits close to home.
                                         
                                        And it's going to be close enough, closer than most.
                                         
                                        And, you know, there's zero percent chance
                                         
                                        According to people who study this stuff
                                         
                                        Zero percent chance that's going to hit Earth
                                         
                                        Like a point zero zero one percent chance
                                         
                                        It could hit the moon
                                         
                                        But I mean there's either zero or a hundred percent chance
                                         
    
                                        And they'll figure that out
                                         
                                        Sometime around, you know, later on this month
                                         
                                        Which would give us 11 days to react to it
                                         
                                        So there you go
                                         
                                        We didn't have the moon, we'd be screwed
                                         
                                        We would not be in a good position
                                         
                                        It would change the tides
                                         
                                        It would change a lot of stuff about the way that we live
                                         
    
                                        If the moon was to be off course
                                         
                                        or even molested in any way.
                                         
                                        Like it would just change the things on Earth that we don't even understand, right?
                                         
                                        It would change all your periods would be different.
                                         
                                        All your moon cycles would be half moon cycles or something?
                                         
                                        I don't know.
                                         
                                        Who knows?
                                         
                                        You guys could turn into, you girls could turn into crazy werewolves and we'd just be left to our own devices here to raise our wild children.
                                         
    
                                        And then, of course, today as we're talking, as we, Chrissy and I are recording this, the 31 people busted in.
                                         
                                        a huge NBA betting and poker scandal.
                                         
                                        That's insane.
                                         
                                        Although this is not the first time there's been a bet.
                                         
                                        People, you know, you have Pete Rose.
                                         
                                        You have the, there was a guy that was, I forget back in the 80s or 90s, he was
                                         
                                        throwing college games and making big money off that because he owed some crime family
                                         
                                        money.
                                         
    
                                        But this includes all of the five major crime families.
                                         
                                        They're all involved in it.
                                         
                                        Most of it has to do with poker and not with throwing basketball games.
                                         
                                        Yeah, secret poker games.
                                         
                                        Secret poker games where they had like,
                                         
                                        X-ray machines under the table.
                                         
                                        They had machines that were, that, that, that from far away, a computer could tell which
                                         
                                        card to spit out, either a face card or a number card.
                                         
    
                                        Weren't they already making money?
                                         
                                        Millions.
                                         
                                        Their regular day job.
                                         
                                        Yeah, but this is what the crime families do.
                                         
                                        They find a way to get in the middle of these, you know, lucrative, illegal activities.
                                         
                                        And then they just.
                                         
                                        I'm talking about the NBA people.
                                         
                                        Yeah, I don't understand that one because the guy, Rosier, who just got, you know, he spent 10 years
                                         
    
                                        in the NBA and then you've got this coach
                                         
                                        that's caught up and he also was like
                                         
                                        he was an NBA champ
                                         
                                        and then he spent many years in the NBA
                                         
                                        and now he's spent many years coaching on and off
                                         
                                        and it's just beyond
                                         
                                        me but you never know what's
                                         
                                        going through someone's head and you never know why
                                         
    
                                        they need money and you never know what they're
                                         
                                        willing to do for it and sometimes from
                                         
                                        a place of desperation you do stupid shit
                                         
                                        so I don't want to cast judgment
                                         
                                        because we all the details
                                         
                                        we all do stupid shit
                                         
                                        and may
                                         
                                        the court system will figure it out
                                         
    
                                        You know, I feel great that our
                                         
                                        Cash Patel, our tiny little FBI
                                         
                                        director.
                                         
                                        Yeah, that he's in charge?
                                         
                                        Yeah. Everything will be okay.
                                         
                                        He can't blink, but hopefully he can figure this out.
                                         
                                        What's wrong with his eyes?
                                         
                                        I mean, he's got a thyroid problem or something.
                                         
    
                                        Someone should check that out.
                                         
                                        I mean, he does not blink.
                                         
                                        His eyes are so buggy.
                                         
                                        What's his name?
                                         
                                        RFK should check him out.
                                         
                                        Oh, yeah, RFK.
                                         
                                        Yeah, that's the last guy
                                         
                                        should be checking anybody out.
                                         
    
                                        That guy is a total fucking kook, man.
                                         
                                        Honestly.
                                         
                                        Okay.
                                         
                                        But anyway, all of that,
                                         
                                        All of that, to be said.
                                         
                                        Chrissy has finally gotten around
                                         
                                        listening to my new podcast.
                                         
                                        Thank you very much for that.
                                         
    
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                                        I secretly, quietly rolled out the first episode.
                                         
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                                        You did a great job.
                                         
                                        Thank you very much.
                                         
                                        But we were talking about, it's about TV psychics.
                                         
                                        It's about psychics in general,
                                         
                                        but I focus in on TV psychic.
                                         
                                        which is a billion dollar become a billion dollar industry and this all kind of started you
                                         
                                        I'm not going to rehash my entire hour and a half long podcast but it all started this crazy
                                         
                                        this craze that's going on right now started with the one nine hundred numbers back in the 80s
                                         
    
                                        when they became became very popular and very lucrative businesses for landline based telecommunication
                                         
                                        companies who would charge outrageous per minute fees for you to call and talk to a supposed
                                         
                                        It was psychics and sex.
                                         
                                        Those were the two things.
                                         
                                        Psychics and sex.
                                         
                                        You're right about that.
                                         
                                        Yeah, psychics and sex.
                                         
                                        You were either calling a dating hotline, a porn hotline,
                                         
    
                                        sex hotline, or you were calling a psychic.
                                         
                                        And for a minute there, for probably like a decade,
                                         
                                        it was really about the psychics.
                                         
                                        And Dionne Warwick was buddied up and she had a line
                                         
                                        that I don't think got in any trouble, but maybe it did.
                                         
                                        But the Miss Cleo thing.
                                         
                                        Oh, Miss Cleo, yeah.
                                         
                                        just ended in the early 2000s really wow it lasted that long it lasted that long and that was PRN the psychics readers network and I was telling chrissey this led to an interesting conversation but I was telling chrissey that when I was a kid I had my own phone line so for our 15th birthday I think 14th or 15th birthday my dad installed a phone line for each of us that's nice well I think he was sick of us taking up all the
                                         
    
                                        house phone time, right? It was getting a little much. And you got two twin teenage boys,
                                         
                                        and that's your main method of communication. There's no, I mean, there's pagers, but there's no
                                         
                                        cell phones. They have cell phones, but they're very expensive. They're car phones, clunky and big.
                                         
                                        My dad had one, but it's like a thousand. Speaking about per minute fees, it's like a thousand
                                         
                                        dollars a minute to call locally. It was insane dollars. And so my dad had it, but he was like,
                                         
                                        we only use this in emergency circumstances. My dad gave me one for emergencies.
                                         
                                        so happy birthday we obviously never made big deals about birthdays but happy birthday and what we unwrapped
                                         
                                        was a phone an actual phone like a physical phone yes and we were Kevin and I were like oh great
                                         
    
                                        thanks for the phone dad that's cool we can is it cordless it was not cordless until a couple of years
                                         
                                        later when I paid for my own cordless phone but but it had a big cord so you can walk around the
                                         
                                        entire room with it. And then he said, I have installed your own phone lines in your own room. Now,
                                         
                                        we already had the outlet, but he said, here's your phone number, here's your phone number.
                                         
                                        And I'm paying for it. Okay. Great. Until a couple years later, when one night, I am watching one of
                                         
                                        those channels, I see Miss Cleo and I call her up, right? And of course, it's not Miss Cleo
                                         
                                        that's talking to me. It's somebody on the other line. But they were so good at talking to me that they
                                         
                                        got me and they got me on like a hour and a half long phone call, a long phone call. And I just
                                         
    
                                        didn't understand at the time. I mean, I probably did somewhere, but I wasn't thinking it all the
                                         
                                        way through as teenagers don't do. And when my dad got that phone bill a month later,
                                         
                                        oh, trouble. He fucking flipped his shit. And all charging privileges on the phone were taking
                                         
                                        off. I couldn't call collect. I couldn't call 411, which I think you at some point became a
                                         
                                        charge service like 50 cents to call 411, which was the early service.
                                         
                                        search engine for telephone numbers and other information. It was literally called information. That's what you would call. So all of that is blocked. All of it. Okay. So I got in trouble of that that cured me quickly of wanting to call anybody and spend any money. I should have called the sex hotline is what I should. I know. I'm surprised you didn't do that one. I didn't. I was too afraid to do that because I think I knew that my dad got the bill and that I would be busted, essentially. So what I learned many years later,
                                         
                                        was that my grandfather was also prone to spending money calling QVC, late-night infomercials, possibly one-nine hundred numbers, and spending dickloads of money, buying stuff.
                                         
                                        My grandfather was, too.
                                         
    
                                        You know, he loved all, I mean, forever, there was, it was cooking, all the cooking gadgets.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        The choppers and the cookers and the boilers and the steamers and the whatever.
                                         
                                        at anything and everything. And yeah, he ended up having a whole closet full of all of these
                                         
                                        gadgets. And I ended up taking some of them when we moved him out of his house to go to the
                                         
                                        retirement home. I ended up taking some of them. They were great ideas. A lot of them. They were
                                         
                                        just cheaply made for mass production. So they didn't last long. Agreed. But they,
                                         
                                        he had a whole, you know, graveyard full of them. I don't, listen, millions of Americans must have
                                         
    
                                        because it was, you know, in my research for TV psychics, I went down the 1-900 craze
                                         
                                        and the infomercial craze hole, rabbit hole also.
                                         
                                        And it still remains a billion-dollar business.
                                         
                                        The thing is, is that those kitchen gadgets, when they work, can be really cool.
                                         
                                        They work.
                                         
                                        They save you time.
                                         
                                        They make food that you like, whatever it is.
                                         
                                        I mean, there was that lady who was selling all kind of kitchen gadgets and cookbooks on how, you know,
                                         
    
                                        it was like an air boiler, right?
                                         
                                        an air boiler what the fuck is an air boiler right i made you know nacho cheddar cheese
                                         
                                        shit yourself potatoes with my air boiler look at this and you know show these beautiful pictures
                                         
                                        of this food and then you get the machine you never know how to work it just a piece of junk
                                         
                                        you know the george foreman grill made that guy so wealthy he was a heavyweight champion of the world
                                         
                                        but don king took all his money like don king took everybody else's money he did you know he was broke
                                         
                                        until the George Foreman Grill took over the world.
                                         
                                        I think my grandfather had like four of those.
                                         
    
                                        Oh, yeah, we had a bunch of them.
                                         
                                        It's unbelievable.
                                         
                                        I took one to college, yeah.
                                         
                                        So this is kind of interesting because we're talking about this.
                                         
                                        Last night, my youngest, who's just now, you know, she's a toddler, and she's communicating
                                         
                                        pretty well.
                                         
                                        But she's also in that like terrible twos, terrible threes stage.
                                         
                                        So at any moment, she turns into a nightmare.
                                         
    
                                        at any moment. Throwing a holy hits. You know, it doesn't matter. The carpet isn't green.
                                         
                                        I can't paint the walls. Why does my foot look like that? All this stuff just sets her down a path
                                         
                                        and it can go on. This can last for half an hour, 45 minutes. You probably heard some of it
                                         
                                        in the background of the show because when it happens, it's loud. And, you know, as a parent,
                                         
                                        you learn to deal with it. But it can be frustrating. So last night, just trying to get to the finish line,
                                         
                                        Like just trying to get to seven o'clock when it's time to put her to sleep, right?
                                         
                                        I'm just trying to get there.
                                         
                                        It's dinner time.
                                         
    
                                        Everything's going well.
                                         
                                        And then all of the sudden, she sees apples.
                                         
                                        And she goes fucking bananas, right?
                                         
                                        Bananas for the apples.
                                         
                                        She wanted them?
                                         
                                        I want manzana.
                                         
                                        Manzana, daddy.
                                         
                                        Manzana, man, man, man.
                                         
    
                                        And I'm like, holy shit, kid, okay, Manzana.
                                         
                                        So I go and I, you know, I'm washing it.
                                         
                                        Astrid's sitting there. I'm washing it. And I'm like, God damn, I hate cutting apples,
                                         
                                        but I guess I'm going to go cut up. And I go to take out a knife. It's better than candy.
                                         
                                        This is absolutely true. So thank God for small favors. I go to take out a knife. And she,
                                         
                                        no, what the knife? Don't do the knife. Don't do the knife. What the fuck are you talking about?
                                         
                                        You want the whole apple? Here's the whole apple. No, she drops down to the floor. She's banging her head
                                         
                                        against the floor. Hair wild everywhere.
                                         
    
                                        No, I understand. Here's the thing.
                                         
                                        what are you talking about and astrid goes use the thing the apple slicer and that's what she wants
                                         
                                        and i'm like oh the apple slicer what is an apple slicer and she goes you don't know what an apple slicer is
                                         
                                        it's sitting on the counter it's like this round thing with a bunch of blades in it right and there's a little
                                         
                                        hole in the middle where the blades are attached i cannot for the life of me understand how this thing
                                         
                                        works because it's sharp on one end and it's dull on the other but you're supposed to so i'm trying to push
                                         
                                        the apple through the apple slicer, right? And Astrid is looking at me and she goes,
                                         
                                        what are you doing? And I go, I don't know. I'm trying to slice the apple, but you got to use the
                                         
    
                                        sharp side, right? And she's like, Brian, how can you be so, I wish I was videotaping this. How can
                                         
                                        you be so dumb? And I'm like, you use the sharp side. You must use the sharp side. She says,
                                         
                                        why are you trying to push it through? Don't you, you're going to end up with five fingers hanging out
                                         
                                        on the ground. Right, right. Those things are sharp. I didn't know that you had to pull, you had to take
                                         
                                        the whole contraption and push it through the apple. I'm trying to push the apple through the
                                         
                                        contraption. I'm about to kill myself right here in front of my screaming child.
                                         
                                        That's like the onion thing that my grandfather had. It was like you had to push it on top
                                         
                                        and then it would chop. It would make it a bloomin onion. Right. Yeah. And this is the same thing
                                         
    
                                        they have back at the back of the fucking chilies, right? It's one of those blooming onion things.
                                         
                                        Chrissy, I swear to God, I got so upset at everybody because Astrid was making fun of me. And I was
                                         
                                        like I've never seen one of these. I don't know how to work it. I don't know how to do it. And she's
                                         
                                        like, use your common sense. Why would you put your hand through that apple slicer? And I'm like,
                                         
                                        I didn't intend to put my hand through the apple slicer. You were going to let me do it. And she's
                                         
                                        like, I just wish I'd videotape that because you really are losing your marvels. This is
                                         
                                        another one of those, you know, $10 contraptions. The gadget, yeah. That you sit at the corner of a
                                         
                                        grocery store aisle that you buy, that you go, oh, that's great. It really does make your life
                                         
    
                                        easier. Yeah. But they sell those on our infomercials for like 2999 plus 2999 shipping and
                                         
                                        hand. 2999 plus 2999 shipping and handling. It's a huge market. And so many people that we know
                                         
                                        are probably secretly addicted to buying that shit. I mean, my mother is, I'll tell you right now.
                                         
                                        Oh, yeah, because it's affordable and they make it look so good. I mean, it's going to solve everything
                                         
                                        in your life. Well, you can solve all problems.
                                         
                                        after midnight on basic cable.
                                         
                                        That's what happens.
                                         
                                        Yes.
                                         
    
                                        My mom got in such a mess with that fucking QVC.
                                         
                                        Oh, my mom did too.
                                         
                                        Back in the day.
                                         
                                        Years ago.
                                         
                                        She's not using it anymore, obviously, because she's not with us.
                                         
                                        Yeah, well, we don't know, but we don't think so.
                                         
                                        But yeah, my dad had to put the cabosh down on that.
                                         
                                        That was like in the 90s.
                                         
    
                                        Oh, it just went to, yeah.
                                         
                                        I mean, we had boxes.
                                         
                                        It was like Amazon is now with the boxes coming all the time.
                                         
                                        We had boxes of all the stuff coming all the time.
                                         
                                        Wow.
                                         
                                        I finally was like, no more.
                                         
                                        Yeah, and that's a thing.
                                         
                                        I think Amazon is kind of normalized this impulsive purchasing.
                                         
    
                                        That's true. It has.
                                         
                                        And it can be there today.
                                         
                                        Like if you buy it at the right time, it's the right item you have prime.
                                         
                                        It can be there today.
                                         
                                        And I'm a victim of this.
                                         
                                        All these wires in the studio.
                                         
                                        Yeah, I wouldn't have all these wires in the studio if Amazon didn't exist
                                         
                                        because I would have to go to a store and physically pick it out.
                                         
    
                                        And it would just be a much more painful process.
                                         
                                        But Amazon makes it so easier, Walmart.com, or whatever, that it's,
                                         
                                        It, I don't know. It's just one of those things. It's a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing and a curse. That's it. And, you know, my mom, we've bailed her out so many times with QVC. I have called QVC and I have said you are. You did. You told me about that. You are taking advantage. Don't let her buy anything else. Why are you extending her credit? She doesn't have any money. And you keep on extending her credit. Even though she's failing to pay the bills that she has right now, you've got to stop. You're taking advantage of an old lady. It is predatory.
                                         
                                        in I see their point of view that she has a free will like how do we know who she is but I said this is like the fifth time that my mom has been in some kind of debt to you or the debt is close to defaulting absolutely well finally finally I think the last time I got through to them because they won't let her purchase and she keeps on saying I just want to buy this one can you call hi Brian can you call QVC I found a really pretty dress and you know I don't have any you have dresses mom I went in
                                         
                                        closet and I saw six, six of the same dress. Six, Chrissy, of the same fucking dress.
                                         
                                        Most of them in the same size. And I'm like, what is this all about? And she's like, I don't know.
                                         
                                        I think I liked it so much. I bought it a couple times. And I'm like, why did it? And she goes,
                                         
                                        I forgot that I bought it and then I just bought it again. She had, I just can't explain how much junk.
                                         
    
                                        Esther went over there and one time cleaned out her closet. She was starting to put the same clothes in piles.
                                         
                                        Yeah. She had like 15 piles. Where there was.
                                         
                                        were multiples of the same exact thing. That is predatory. But I do get it. I do understand that,
                                         
                                        you know, it's not QVC's responsibility to make sure my mom is spending her money responsibly.
                                         
                                        But when you keep on extending the credit and extending the credit and extending the credit,
                                         
                                        it's too much. And that's exactly what these companies were doing back during the TV psychic
                                         
                                        hotline days. And that's why PRN, not PFN, which is Psychic Friends Network, but PRN, which is
                                         
                                        psychic readers network, they were extending mass amounts of credit to a lot of people to the tune
                                         
    
                                        of half a billion dollars worth of like outstanding debt that people had to this one company.
                                         
                                        And they just kept extending the credit when they were finally taken down by like some,
                                         
                                        you know, whatever, the Department of Justice or whoever, they agreed to forgive all of that
                                         
                                        debt. So the last five, the last half a billion didn't count for them. But, you know, it's just one
                                         
                                        of those things. It's like, especially in this day and age in 2020, 5, where everything is
                                         
                                        monetized and we're all essentially trying to take advantage of each other. It's just one of those
                                         
                                        things that's happening. We're in one of those like late capitalism stages where everyone just
                                         
                                        wants to get their bag and head off to, you know, Mekanos with, and buy a house or West Palm Beach
                                         
    
                                        or whatever. Abiza. You just have to be mindful that not everybody has your best interest. Oh, yeah. That's
                                         
                                        Right. So be mindful. Be mindful. What was it? I saw, what was Trump? What is his new thing that he's selling? Was it Christmas ornaments or something? You name it. I think it was Christmas ornaments. Yeah. I mean, you could name anything. I think there's Christmas ornaments that are on sale now. Makes sense. It's getting holiday time. But here's an example. And listen, I understand Donald Trump does not actually make these himself. But, you know, he sold those watches, like those gold,
                                         
                                        Platinum special watches, good as a Rolex, going to be worth a million dollars.
                                         
                                        There are so many hundreds of people complaining that they either didn't get their watch,
                                         
                                        it was broken, or it didn't show up as, like it didn't show up in the condition it was promised.
                                         
                                        It was essentially a piece of junk.
                                         
                                        It was a piece of junk.
                                         
                                        It was a Casio watch.
                                         
    
                                        And they thought they were getting a Rolex, right?
                                         
                                        And just be mindful.
                                         
                                        Not everybody has your best interest at heart.
                                         
                                        I cannot believe that I'm saying this about the president of these United States.
                                         
                                        But he's kind of got a reputation for not selling great stuff.
                                         
                                        So don't buy it.
                                         
                                        I mean, let him be president.
                                         
                                        Focus on that.
                                         
    
                                        Don't worry about Christmas ornaments or watches.
                                         
                                        Let's focus on that.
                                         
                                        All right.
                                         
                                        So as we all try and figure out our financial situations and worry about impending doom and all that other stuff, for the remainder of this show, I will stay away from talking.
                                         
                                        about Donald Trump and his watches. But I do want to talk about this three. The bulldozer?
                                         
                                        What's that? The bulldozer? Oh, my God. Can we please? God. I know. I saw pictures.
                                         
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                                        Okay, so everybody knows that Donald Trump is currently demolishing one third of the White House,
                                         
                                        essentially to make room for the largest building that will be part of that complex,
                                         
                                        90,000 square feet square foot ballroom.
                                         
                                        Because he says that all presidents have been asking for a place to.
                                         
                                        It's been demanded.
                                         
    
                                        Demanded.
                                         
                                        530.
                                         
                                        That at 5.30, everyone can go party in one particular place, and they don't have that yet.
                                         
                                        He's already laid waste to it.
                                         
                                        Here comes the chief.
                                         
                                        He's the chief, and he needs sailing.
                                         
                                        It's like a South Park episode.
                                         
                                        It really is.
                                         
    
                                        So he's already laid waste to a lot of the White House grounds.
                                         
                                        He's made renovations inside of the gaudy renovations inside of the actual Oval Office and the rest.
                                         
                                        He's got pictures of, you know, Joe Biden's auto pen hanging.
                                         
                                        I mean, he's really small-minded when it comes to all of this stuff.
                                         
                                        And while he claims to love the place, he doesn't seem to have any reverence for it.
                                         
                                        It's an old building.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        It's been around for a very long time.
                                         
    
                                        It's gone through a lot.
                                         
                                        It's been through major renovations on more than one occasion.
                                         
                                        And every president puts their own little stamp on the White House.
                                         
                                        And every first lady usually puts her stamp on.
                                         
                                        on the White House. And the East Wing is hers, typically. It's where her office space is and some other
                                         
                                        stuff. The fan, like they had a theater in there, the presidential theater, where as far back as
                                         
                                        Ronald Reagan, they took pictures of him watching movies in there with his family. So it's half
                                         
                                        residential, half office, half, you know, where they put like the Christmas trees during
                                         
    
                                        Christmas time and all of that. It's been around for a long time. The last major renovation was like
                                         
                                        back in the 40s, I think. Oh, really? Yeah.
                                         
                                        but here's my hot take on this okay you're the current president you occupy the people's house right now
                                         
                                        you want to make some changes that you think are going to benefit future presidents and
                                         
                                        probably yourself okay i understand that and i think you should be allowed to put your stamp
                                         
                                        on the white house even if that means major renovation or possibly demolition i believe you
                                         
                                        should be able to do that. But that should go through some kind of channels where other people
                                         
                                        besides you have some say in what goes on, like a historical preservation society, where there
                                         
    
                                        are conversations back and forth about what makes sense and what doesn't make sense to rip up.
                                         
                                        Just taking a bulldozer to the White House. Yeah. I mean, it's insane. It's insane. Disney World
                                         
                                        does a better job of hiding the demolition than the fucking White House did, right?
                                         
                                        Disney World says, pardon our progress.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Donald Trump says, I love the smell of a bulldozer in the morning.
                                         
                                        I mean, come on.
                                         
                                        Come on.
                                         
    
                                        It just feels disrespectful.
                                         
                                        It does.
                                         
                                        It does.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Put a tent up or something.
                                         
                                        I don't know.
                                         
                                        You're the fucking president of the United States.
                                         
                                        You can do something.
                                         
    
                                        Park your Qatari plane in front of it.
                                         
                                        Like Ida or something.
                                         
                                        I mean, do something.
                                         
                                        I am not opposed to Donald.
                                         
                                        Trump saying, I want to make some changes to the White House, I think that it needs some
                                         
                                        changes. If he doesn't say it, who's going to, right? If the president doesn't say it,
                                         
                                        who's going to? I mean, there are, I'm sure there are preservation societies and other people
                                         
                                        that are involved in this. I don't know, I know that there are, like, commissions that are
                                         
    
                                        involved in any kind of renovations that go on. I mean, I haven't read enough about it, but hopefully
                                         
                                        they saved some kind of, I mean, if you're talking about since the 40s, like the flooring could
                                         
                                        have been reused? Have you seen the pictures? They saved nothing. I know. That's what I'm saying.
                                         
                                        They saved nothing. Boom. They just tore it down. They literally brought in some rinky dink construction
                                         
                                        company that I'm sure is tied to some congressional candidate or something. And they brought them in and they
                                         
                                        tore it down. Here's the part where I take real issue. Guess who's paying for it? He says me and some
                                         
                                        private donors. Yeah, he said the private donors were. Those private donors are.
                                         
                                        like Comcast and other big corporations.
                                         
    
                                        What?
                                         
                                        Sponsored it?
                                         
                                        It's sponsored by Comcast?
                                         
                                        Are you going to put an NBC logo up front?
                                         
                                        I would not put it past.
                                         
                                        This wing brought to you by Xfinity?
                                         
                                        I mean, there's about to be a wrestling match, right?
                                         
                                        UFC match right out in front.
                                         
    
                                        This is total idiocracy.
                                         
                                        It is.
                                         
                                        and I get it like at some point you've got to spit in the face of convention you got to come up to the shake things up you got to sure that's why he was put in that's why people voted for him and I'm not immune to understanding that right I may not have liked him but I understand white people did like the way that he was talking I think some of those people now have regrets because the things he was saying are actually happening and they thought he was just you know I don't know joking around I don't know what they thought he was doing some kind of standoff
                                         
                                        routine or something but no he's actually doing it when it comes to the white house i think we got to
                                         
                                        have a little ounce of conservatism when it comes to what we're demolishing little decorum
                                         
                                        and you can't put fucking exfinity digital signs on the top of the roof you can't do that
                                         
                                        this really is idiocracy and when you see the movie exfinity white house yes
                                         
                                        And the White House has, like, digital billboards and they're all, like, flashing signs are like 7-Eleven and McDonald's.
                                         
    
                                        That's what's coming next.
                                         
                                        That's how you want to live.
                                         
                                        Cool, dude.
                                         
                                        But that is the sign of a failing democracy.
                                         
                                        When you, you probably Donald, Mr. Trump, you probably, Mr. Trump, I'll give you the respect you deserve it.
                                         
                                        Mr. Trump, you probably could have gone in front of a commission and said, these are the changes that I want.
                                         
                                        We need a ballroom.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
    
                                        Let's talk about it.
                                         
                                        I don't deny a ballroom.
                                         
                                        I mean, it sounds great, I guess.
                                         
                                        Cool.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        I mean, where were they throwing the parties before?
                                         
                                        I don't know.
                                         
                                        Right.
                                         
    
                                        Exactly.
                                         
                                        I've seen a lot of episodes of West Wing, and it seems like there's plenty of party space.
                                         
                                        Dancing space.
                                         
                                        I know.
                                         
                                        Yeah, they're always on a party.
                                         
                                        Where do they host all these people that come, like when a whole, you know.
                                         
                                        And he just had Andrea Botticelli or whatever.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
    
                                        Where did they put him in a three foot by three foot closet?
                                         
                                        Like, what was going on there?
                                         
                                        I don't know.
                                         
                                        The White House seems pretty big.
                                         
                                        It doesn't seem like we need 90,000 square feet.
                                         
                                        But, you know, I guess when you get all those Trump coin buyers inside that's the
                                         
                                        I don't know.
                                         
                                        I don't know. Maybe that's what set this off.
                                         
    
                                        I didn't have enough room for all my Trump.
                                         
                                        For all the, yeah, the people that are spending money on it.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Listen, listen to me.
                                         
                                        go have a conversation with somebody and let's talk about it.
                                         
                                        And then if we need a ballroom, maybe we can do a ballroom.
                                         
                                        But it shouldn't be a one-day con.
                                         
                                        It shouldn't be a one-day process.
                                         
    
                                        Today, I announce it tomorrow.
                                         
                                        It's gone.
                                         
                                        And I'm now building something.
                                         
                                        He's been planning it for a little while.
                                         
                                        Wasn't he like up on the roof a while back looking down?
                                         
                                        Yeah, yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                        It was like, what are you doing?
                                         
                                        It was pointing here.
                                         
    
                                        It was like, yeah.
                                         
                                        I don't know.
                                         
                                        He's in a game of Minecraft.
                                         
                                        He's just building on his...
                                         
                                        He's certainly breaking norms, that's for sure.
                                         
                                        Let's build it here.
                                         
                                        Build it there.
                                         
                                        Bear that down.
                                         
    
                                        Turn this down.
                                         
                                        Put another flag up here.
                                         
                                        Let's...
                                         
                                        I don't know.
                                         
                                        I don't understand.
                                         
                                        And by the way, this is the thing I am least concerned about right now.
                                         
                                        No, exactly.
                                         
                                        That's the thing.
                                         
    
                                        With what's going on with this administration.
                                         
                                        Yeah. I mean, let's get the Marines out of our cities first and then we can go from there. But, you know, hot take. I don't think Donald Trump should not be allowed to do things at the White House, make renovation. See, everyone got all, you know, up in arms about him gold plating, gold painting, essentially, the inside of the Oval Office. I did not, I do not like it, but I did not take as much of offense because of it's his Oval Office, at least for the next four years. She does to do what he wants to.
                                         
                                        If you want to spray paint it gold, cool, dude. All right. It is not my taste. And when you see pictures, it just looks, it looks so ridiculous. It really does. But okay, cool. All right. That's fine. But demolishing an entire wing of the building, it's just like a whole different thing. It really is. I mean, I don't think, I think even most people with common sense can agree with that. And, you know, just saying that it's cool to own the libs.
                                         
                                        Yeah, all right.
                                         
                                        But now we have to live with, you know, this 15-story building with the, you know.
                                         
                                        I mean, I guess my problem with it.
                                         
                                        Walmart.com advertisement on it for the rest of our life.
                                         
                                        I know.
                                         
    
                                        I think my major problem with it is, you're right.
                                         
                                        He can make renovations, do things, whatever.
                                         
                                        But I don't, my major problem is all the money that's being spent on that.
                                         
                                        I don't care if it's where it's coming from.
                                         
                                        Really, honestly, it could be used for so many other things.
                                         
                                        It really could.
                                         
                                        Children or whatever.
                                         
                                        Hungry children.
                                         
    
                                        Homelessness.
                                         
                                        Like things that are true problems
                                         
                                        that that kind of money could go towards to help.
                                         
                                        We don't have an acting government right now
                                         
                                        because it's not being funded because it's closed.
                                         
                                        It's shut down.
                                         
                                        There's no agreement to spend any more money on most things.
                                         
                                        And some of those things include SNAP benefits for people and for children.
                                         
    
                                        And we can all argue about who rightfully or wrongfully gets those SNAP.
                                         
                                        NAP benefits. But when you have a social net, safety net like that, there of course are going to be
                                         
                                        people who take advantage of it. Exactly. No, there's going to be abuse to it. But, I mean, again,
                                         
                                        it's just that the children suffer for it. I feel terrible. I would rather feed 10 hungry children
                                         
                                        and 30 people who were just too lazy to go get a job, then let those 10 hungry kids go go hungry.
                                         
                                        And so that $250 million that's being spent, if Comcast was willing to donate that to the SNAP
                                         
                                        benefits program. I bet that could take care of a month or two of the SNAP benefits across the
                                         
                                        country so that those kids could survive the adults bullshitting around. And, you know, I agree with you
                                         
    
                                        100% on this. And why is Comcast secretly donating all this money to build an East Wing?
                                         
                                        What do you mean? Because everybody wants to curry favor.
                                         
                                        They want a curry favor and they want some regulation to be bent or broken so that they can get
                                         
                                        what they want out of the president and this administration.
                                         
                                        It is for sale. It's all for sale. And that's what I was just talking about. In the age of our Lord, 2025, we should really keep our eye on the ball here because everything is for sale and they are literally selling it all. And that is a banana republic. That's what it is. And I'm not saying it doesn't happen with other administrations. Of course it did. It probably has happened since the beginning of our republic. It probably has happened in some
                                         
                                        way, shape, or form. But sometimes those people get caught and it snaps everybody else up into
                                         
                                        line. And sometimes... Yeah, it's never so blatant. It's never so out in the open. Yeah. Can we please
                                         
                                        put it behind the curtain again? Put a tent over it. Put a tent over it. Park your plane in front of it.
                                         
    
                                        It's just lunacy to me. And anybody else that doesn't see that, I'm really sorry because
                                         
                                        right now your side is winning. Well, when your side isn't winning, when these same things
                                         
                                        were happening with other administrations, how did you feel about it? I can guarantee you didn't
                                         
                                        feel good about it. So just take that same amount of criticism that you had for the libs, quote
                                         
                                        unquote, or whatever, of which I do not consider myself a part of. But whatever it is, when you
                                         
                                        look over on that side of the island, you see some of the same things happening. Do you criticize them
                                         
                                        as fervently as you're willing to criticize the people who happen to be on your side of the fence?
                                         
                                        if the answer is no, then that is hypocrisy, and you are simply not thinking straight.
                                         
    
                                        If the answer is yes, then speak up and speak up loudly.
                                         
                                        I mean, I think it's just, it's hard, I would think, for any normal person to, like,
                                         
                                        rationalize some of this.
                                         
                                        But people are trying to.
                                         
                                        And the way that they rationalize it is by saying, but they, but they, but two wrongs don't
                                         
                                        make a right.
                                         
                                        And so, but they is not an argument.
                                         
                                        that's an excuse and excuses are what we don't need right now.
                                         
    
                                        We need people to be held accountable no matter which party they are in, no matter which party they are in.
                                         
                                        Whether it's Joe Biden or Barack Obama or George Bush Jr. or George Bush Sr.
                                         
                                        Democrats, independents, Republicans, anybody, all of them.
                                         
                                        If they're not doing the right thing, they should be held responsible.
                                         
                                        Responsible. Absolutely. And then, you know, when the president of these United States is then
                                         
                                        blessing the corruption by letting George Santos out of jail or any other, any other hundreds of people that he's let out so that he can curry favor and loyalty from them, then that is clear corruption too. So, you know, listen, we usually don't talk politics on the show, but it's getting a little hot in the kettle right now. And this is generational damage that's being done to this government and our society. And if we don't all start speaking up,
                                         
                                        a little bit louder, it's going to take generations, generations to unfuck what's being
                                         
                                        fucked right now. We are literally going to have an Xfinity, you know, 2999 a month for the first
                                         
    
                                        three months Xfinity. Yeah, scrollers on the top of the White House, if we're not paying attention
                                         
                                        and I fear that we're not. Now, there's a lot of noise being made about this. There was already a
                                         
                                        Tesla car commercial that was made. That's it. Yeah. And now there's going to be a UFC commercial.
                                         
                                        And soon there's going to be an Xfinity commercial. And soon there's going to be an Xfinity
                                         
                                        commercial and that's it and you know there you go it's corruption no matter which way you look at it
                                         
                                        and no matter which side of the aisle you're on and so i just implore anybody who doesn't necessarily
                                         
                                        agree with all of my yeah don't get desensitized and that's easy to do right now absolutely it's too
                                         
                                        much coming at us too fast and we're all like ah whatever ah whatever uh whatever that's you and your
                                         
    
                                        children and their children's children and even if you don't
                                         
                                        don't have children. That's people around you and their children who are going to have to find a way
                                         
                                        to cut through the mustard. And the mustard is getting spicy. Yeah, or your parents. I mean,
                                         
                                        think about, there's this whole talk about what, the sandwich generation. You know, you've got
                                         
                                        young kids and you've got aging parents. Yeah. And you've got to help take care of both of those.
                                         
                                        And, you know, the elderly too are getting hit with all of the medical care. My mom may not get her
                                         
                                        check in this next couple of days. And that.
                                         
                                        That's going to be a problem for us. And that's going to become my problem. And I, of course, it's my mom. So there you go. But if that happens month after month, after month, with no sign in sight that any adults in the room are going to get together and understand this. And I just might say this, by the way, I don't care who's at fault for bringing the government to a standstill. It doesn't matter to me. It's a moot point. I don't give a shit. They're all adults. They should be figuring it out. And we elected them to do so. But if you.
                                         
    
                                        take a look at your estimates for health care. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Ours is going to double.
                                         
                                        Oh, yeah. How are we going to afford that? We can't afford it right now. How are we going to afford it moving
                                         
                                        forward? It's fucking insane. So what am I going to do? My children get the health care. I don't. I guess
                                         
                                        that's the way it's going to have to be. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, people just straight up aren't going to
                                         
                                        be able to afford it. Oh, no, no, no. There's going to be millions that are just not going to have health
                                         
                                        insurance. They're not going to go to the doctor. They won't be cared for. And that may not matter to you
                                         
                                        being a healthy person sitting here on whatever day you're listening to this, but it's going to matter
                                         
                                        at some point. And when it does, and it's not there, in this crazy healthcare system that America
                                         
    
                                        has stitched together, you are fucked. You are going to fall through the cracks, going to fall through
                                         
                                        the cracks. And when that happens, you're going to wish that at some point you would have
                                         
                                        screamed or spoken up just a little bit louder because this is a problem. And no one on the top
                                         
                                        cares. They just don't. They're busy
                                         
                                        building the Xfinity
                                         
                                        wing of the fucking White House.
                                         
                                        Do you understand what I'm saying?
                                         
                                        This is crazy. All right.
                                         
    
                                        Well, there you go. Okay, we had our little
                                         
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                                        Good morning. Lovely to hear from you.
                                         
                                        I hope you're doing well today.
                                         
                                        What can I help you out with?
                                         
                                        Yeah, so we're here on the commercial break, taping an episode.
                                         
                                        And we would like to know more about this comet, interstellar visitor, known by its short name, 3i.
                                         
                                        Can you tell us more about that?
                                         
                                        She's thinking. She likes to think.
                                         
    
                                        Absolutely. I can dive into that.
                                         
                                        So 3i is basically the shorthand for the third.
                                         
                                        known interstellar object we spotted passing through our solar system. The first one you might
                                         
                                        remember was enumois back in 2017. So 3i is another visitor from beyond our solar system
                                         
                                        and it's been studied as it zipped through. It's basically a comet like object. So it's got some
                                         
                                        ice, it's got some dust and scientists have been super excited to study it to understand what
                                         
                                        stuff from another star system looks like. So that's the gist. And if you need more details,
                                         
                                        just let me know.
                                         
    
                                        Okay.
                                         
                                        That is the sanctioned version of what this is, right?
                                         
                                        Now, there are many other scientists and astronomers and thinkers, the type that would
                                         
                                        think about this stuff for a living, who are curious as to what, the type, you know the type,
                                         
                                        the kind that you don't want to sit next to at a dinner party, you know the type.
                                         
                                        The kind that make your life miserable.
                                         
                                        they are saying that this object is behaving strangely
                                         
                                        and that that strange behavior may or may not be extraterrestrial.
                                         
    
                                        So let's talk a little bit about that version of it.
                                         
                                        This is from a Yahoo News report.
                                         
                                        The Harvard professor is raising questions about 3-Ey Atlas,
                                         
                                        the comet passing through our solar system,
                                         
                                        and he says that it's a hurtling object,
                                         
                                        giving off medical, giving up, giving off chemical, medical, medical signals.
                                         
                                        Medical, medical signals that do not appear to be natural.
                                         
                                        Theoretical physicist, Abilow, says that Keck II Telescope in Hawaii recently collected data that indicates 3i is emitting nickel, but little, if any, iron, a characteristic we only find an industrial-produced nickel.
                                         
    
                                        nickel alloys, such as a compound used in metal coatings to fortify surfaces.
                                         
                                        Loeb has become a familiar figure in the news coverage about 3i because of his startling
                                         
                                        theory that the comet could be some form of alien technology. For months, he has been
                                         
                                        highlighting the object's lack of traditional comet's tail, its curious trajectory through the
                                         
                                        Milky Way, and its unusually large size. It's at least a thousand times more massive than the
                                         
                                        previous interstellar objects we've ever seen, Loeb said. And it does raise a question as to why
                                         
                                        it's such a large object delivered in our inner solar system when we've only seen small ones
                                         
                                        before. He argues that the international community should get on the same page about what to do
                                         
    
                                        if extraterrestrials or drones come into proximity with Earth. We should keep our eyes open
                                         
                                        and not assume anything because this could be the Black Swan event, where something that
                                         
                                        looks natural at first ends up being a Trojan horse because the implications could be huge for
                                         
                                        humanity. We must take this seriously. Three-Eye is expected to disappear behind the sun later this
                                         
                                        month and pass Jupiter next year before leaving our galaxy. Loeb, on the other hand,
                                         
                                        likens the object to an interstellar blind date. You often assume that dating a partner would be
                                         
                                        very friendly, but you have to worry about serial killers as well. Well, that's a rather dim view
                                         
                                        of blind dating, Ovi.
                                         
    
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        So,
                                         
                                        Avi is...
                                         
                                        I think it's cool.
                                         
                                        I think it's cool, too.
                                         
                                        Avi is really the one
                                         
                                        who has been kind of leading the charge
                                         
                                        amongst others,
                                         
    
                                        but he's the loudest voice
                                         
                                        because he's become well known,
                                         
                                        especially when the last
                                         
                                        interstellar object came through.
                                         
                                        He became well known
                                         
                                        saying this doesn't act,
                                         
                                        look, or feel like
                                         
                                        anything we've seen before.
                                         
    
                                        It's possible.
                                         
                                        It could be an extraterrestrial probe,
                                         
                                        something that's coming close to Earth
                                         
                                        or in our solar system.
                                         
                                        to take some pictures or some, you know, data measurements, keep an eye on us, to spy them.
                                         
                                        That's exactly what we're doing.
                                         
                                        That's it.
                                         
                                        We're sending stuff out there doing the same thing.
                                         
    
                                        You're so right about this.
                                         
                                        So what makes us think that, see, there's a couple different theories about extraterrestrials.
                                         
                                        And so many people are, I want you to not worry in this sense.
                                         
                                        So many people are thinking about what we do, what happens, how do we handle contact with extraterrestrial life.
                                         
                                        My personal belief is they are already here.
                                         
                                        They are the octi pie.
                                         
                                        Those octopi are weird and they can get out of cages.
                                         
                                        And they, let's just admit it.
                                         
    
                                        They're strange objects.
                                         
                                        But, okay, let's assume for the octopies.
                                         
                                        That's right.
                                         
                                        I don't think it's octopi.
                                         
                                        I know it's not octopi, but I like to say it.
                                         
                                        Let's just assume that there is a more intelligent form.
                                         
                                        Even though octopus are very intelligent, there's like a super intelligent form from somewhere
                                         
                                        way out there that are coming in and they are doing whatever they're going to do. There's three
                                         
    
                                        different versions of what happens. Number one, they're here to take our resources. They mean us harm
                                         
                                        and they want to do, they want to eliminate us so they can get to whatever it is, eliminate us or
                                         
                                        enslave us to get to whatever it is they need. Now, if that would be water or air or minerals,
                                         
                                        there are lots of places in the solar system where they could get that unmolested by pesky human
                                         
                                        beings. There's lots of water throughout the solar system, even our own solar system, in moons and
                                         
                                        other places. There, you know, air, probably unlikely they have exactly our air composition, but
                                         
                                        why would they need to take it? And what would they put it in? A bunch of plastic bags and take it back.
                                         
                                        I mean, you know what I'm saying? And then other resources like minerals, they can be found plentiful
                                         
    
                                        throughout the universe, except for the man-made kind, which I'm sure if they're, if they can make a
                                         
                                        spaceship to get here, they probably don't need any help making, you know, chemical compounds.
                                         
                                        Let's put it that way.
                                         
                                        The other thought by some of the thinkers and people who are those types.
                                         
                                        Those types.
                                         
                                        You know, you know, the kind.
                                         
                                        The kind who smell bad, but, you know, are really interesting.
                                         
                                        You know what I'm talking about.
                                         
    
                                        They don't smell bad.
                                         
                                        They just have bad breath.
                                         
                                        They have bad breath.
                                         
                                        Yeah, you know, but everyone can be guilty of bad breath every once in a while.
                                         
                                        But they have, like, chronic bad breath.
                                         
                                        And you're like, you've got to stay away from them, but you really want to hear what they say.
                                         
                                        and they speak in a weird voice.
                                         
                                        You know what I'm talking about.
                                         
    
                                        Yes.
                                         
                                        All right.
                                         
                                        Those people, they have another theory, which is basically like the zoo theory, which is they are coming to observe.
                                         
                                        And it's likely they probably don't want to do us any harm.
                                         
                                        They may even mean to protect us.
                                         
                                        They want us to stay safe and sound because they are observing us like we do with animals at a zoo, right?
                                         
                                        We take them in.
                                         
                                        Yeah, we take them away from whatever natural habitat they have.
                                         
    
                                        but let's say we find an animal that's hurt or whatever you take it to a zoo and you take care of it and you want it to be okay and if it gets hurt you shoot it with a tranquilizer dart and then you stick your finger up its ass yeah yeah there you go right i mean so there's that and some people really are clinging on to this theory talk about a probe talk about a probe hey listen there is lots there's so much more evidence of these uaEs coming out on a daily basis for
                                         
                                        really reputable sources that my belief is if aliens have been here that's the stance they're
                                         
                                        taking in the first place they're not here manipulating us or trying to kill us or mean us any harm
                                         
                                        they really are just observing what's going on they're taking lots of pictures while you're in
                                         
                                        your shower they love human titis that's what they're observing bulldozers yes i do not understand
                                         
                                        Why bulldoze something so beautiful?
                                         
                                        You know, and then there's this third version,
                                         
                                        which is like ravenously hungry predators who just like, you know, kill everything.
                                         
    
                                        But I don't know.
                                         
                                        I don't buy into that.
                                         
                                        But if this thing is zooming past us and its intention is to either make contact or give us a good look,
                                         
                                        give us a see under our skirt a little bit,
                                         
                                        it has got some people at least.
                                         
                                        Well, alarmed enough that they are screaming loudly that the international community should be thinking about this.
                                         
                                        Now, here's my opinion. And I'd like you to take some. I mean, I think that they are thinking about it.
                                         
                                        That's it. I'd like you to, I'd like you to take a little bit of comfort in this. I believe that at the highest levels of government, excluding like J.D. Vance and Donald Trump and Cash Patel, at the highest levels of trained government, military officials, CIA, possibly, you know, others in.
                                         
    
                                        secret weird, you know, organizations that we don't even know about, along with many others
                                         
                                        throughout the world, have probably not only been thinking about this, talking about it and
                                         
                                        potentially planning for it.
                                         
                                        Sure.
                                         
                                        If...
                                         
                                        I would think so.
                                         
                                        Everybody's not just sitting around like, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
                                         
                                        No, these plans have probably been long in the talkings.
                                         
    
                                        The truth is, is that they may already know things that we don't know.
                                         
                                        I'm sure that they do.
                                         
                                        They're not going to scare 8 billion people into freaking out and spending all their money on
                                         
                                        QVC overnight.
                                         
                                        You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                        Like, that's just, there's got to be some contingency for keeping everybody calm
                                         
                                        while certain dooms swings on that.
                                         
                                        That's right.
                                         
    
                                        Yes.
                                         
                                        Keep it close to the breast or close to the breast, Chrissy, which one?
                                         
                                        And so take comfort because if Avi is out there screaming about it, then there are other
                                         
                                        people who have been thinking about it, not for a minute, but for a long time.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        And they either have a plan or a bunker, one of those two.
                                         
                                        And it doesn't matter which one, you're not included in either of them.
                                         
                                        So just, you know, live your life.
                                         
    
                                        Get your pool ready.
                                         
                                        I mean, it's, you know, it's getting to be wintertime.
                                         
                                        You don't need that water in there anyways.
                                         
                                        Let's get the bunker.
                                         
                                        I just watched, funny enough, I just watched a company on Instagram called Atlas Security.
                                         
                                        So this is 3-E-A-Atlas.
                                         
                                        Atlas security are the people.
                                         
                                        Remember a couple months ago when it came out that there was a bunker being built in Idaho, like a 12-story bunker underground?
                                         
    
                                        Yes, I read about that.
                                         
                                        For a million dollars, you could buy a $2.
                                         
                                        bedroom apartment, there's been a tour of that and a physical tour. Someone went in and took
                                         
                                        a tour with the guy who started this whole project. It's amazing. It's quite amazing. And it exists.
                                         
                                        And it's sold out. So there you go. Oh, and I'm sure. And I think isn't there a show on Apple or
                                         
                                        Netflix or one of those that's about the same thing? All these rich people get the access. They buy in.
                                         
                                        Is that called invasion? Is that what it is? Invasion. Everyone's talking about. Yeah, I just saw. Yeah. I just saw
                                         
                                        I don't know.
                                         
    
                                        When I get done with slow horses, then I will go to it.
                                         
                                        The diplomat is back.
                                         
                                        I got to pick it up where I left off.
                                         
                                        I left off halfway through season two.
                                         
                                        Oh, Brian, it's so good.
                                         
                                        Jeff and I just blew through this last season.
                                         
                                        And, yeah, so good.
                                         
                                        I do love her.
                                         
    
                                        I do love her.
                                         
                                        It's full twist and turns.
                                         
                                        Is it Carrie Washington?
                                         
                                        No, it's Carrie Russell.
                                         
                                        Oh, Carrie Russell.
                                         
                                        Sorry, Carrie Washington.
                                         
                                        Yeah, and Alice and Janie's in it.
                                         
                                        There's another guy, too, from the West Wing.
                                         
    
                                        So they definitely like.
                                         
                                        Alice and Janie shows up?
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        I didn't know that.
                                         
                                        She's the VP, so get on where you left off.
                                         
                                        There we go.
                                         
                                        Where I left off, she becomes the VP.
                                         
                                        She already was, but yeah.
                                         
    
                                        Oh, she was?
                                         
                                        Just go back and watch it.
                                         
                                        Okay, I'll go back and watch it.
                                         
                                        She was not involved in the program when I was watching.
                                         
                                        So, okay, I will.
                                         
                                        I will go back and watch it.
                                         
                                        I love Alice and Janie.
                                         
                                        I love everything about the West Wing.
                                         
    
                                        I am now on my 75th rewatch of the West Wing,
                                         
                                        desperately crying for the good old days.
                                         
                                        I mean, that is a very idealized version.
                                         
                                        of government and how it works and all that stuff. But, you know, one Jed Bartlett administration,
                                         
                                        and I think we could just fix it all. All the fuck-ups from Biden and Trump and all this other stuff,
                                         
                                        we could just, like, put it all back together again. If we could have one Bartlett administration.
                                         
                                        If we could have Leo as the chief of staff for one administration, I think he could fix it all.
                                         
                                        But Leo doesn't exist. And the guy who played him died. So there you go.
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, what a great show. All right. Well, listen.
                                         
                                        I would also take Julia Louis Dreyfus from V.
                                         
                                        Yeah, that's, yeah, if you want a funny version of those.
                                         
                                        Okay, so everybody calm down.
                                         
                                        There's nothing to worry about.
                                         
                                        And if there is something to worry about it, we're not going to know about it.
                                         
                                        So don't worry about it.
                                         
                                        There you go.
                                         
    
                                        It's just going to happen.
                                         
                                        Only control the things you could control.
                                         
                                        That's right.
                                         
                                        Only Joe Rogan is going to know about it in the podcast world.
                                         
                                        And, you know, he's not going to tell anybody else.
                                         
                                        He's already built his bunker in Austin, I'm sure of it.
                                         
                                        Yeah. I think he records in a bunker, actually.
                                         
                                        It looks like he records in the bunker.
                                         
    
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Even Joe Rogan and Andrew Schultz got together a couple days ago, week ago, whatever it was.
                                         
                                        And yeah, they were pissing and moaning about bringing Trump on.
                                         
                                        You know.
                                         
                                        Hindsight's 2020.
                                         
                                        It always is.
                                         
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                                        And I don't care.
                                         
    
                                        Just, you know, if you think that you messed up, then say you messed up.
                                         
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                                        We can all, history books, we'll figure it out later.
                                         
                                        Don't worry about it.
                                         
                                        History will remember the last thing you did, not the first thing you did.
                                         
                                        You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                        If they haven't been rewritten.
                                         
                                        Yeah, they haven't been rewritten.
                                         
    
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