The MeidasTouch Podcast - The Self-Flagellation of the GOP with Michael Cohen

Episode Date: February 2, 2021

The Meidas Brothers begin the show by talking about being attacked by far right Breitbart and the hate mail that ensued. They then discuss nobody’s favorite, Lil’ Stephen Lawson, who infamously did not make a name for himself as he drove Looting Kelly Loeffler’s campaign into the ground. Now, Lawson is ready to take his lack of skills to a new PAC with the goal of tearing down the non-existent candidacy of Stacy Abrams. Meanwhile, the GOP is engaging in an all out assault on voting rights. The brothers then discuss that phenomenon of the #PsakiBomb! After, they discuss their frustration with so-called “progressive” chaos agents who possess zero understanding about how government works, and psychotic forces at work on the right trying to derail President Biden’s Agenda. Ben breaks down the process of reconciliation and explains how this can help the Dems pass legislation with a simple majority. Next, the brothers bring you the latest on impeachment and discuss the coup in Myanmar. Michael Cohen, former Trump fixer and attorney and host of the Mea Culpa Podcast, joins the program to discuss the GOP’s support of QAnon, whether he will be appearing at the impeachment trial, and the criminal investigations into Trump. The brothers then end the show by talking about the anti-vaxxers disrupting vaccine distribution across the country, before getting an update from Jordy on his recent appointment with his allergist. If you like the MeidasTouch Podcast please consider giving us a 5-star rating in the Apple Podcasts app! New episodes every Tuesday and Friday! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/meidastouch/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/meidastouch/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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If you have questions or concerns about your gambling or someone close to you, please contact Connex Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Welcome to the Midas Touch podcast. Ben Mycelis here, joined by my younger brothers, Brett and Jordy. We have a great podcast for you today. We have Michael Cohen as a guest, and I know people have had Michael Cohen as guests on their shows before, but let me tell you this. There's nobody who will interview Michael Cohen the way the Midas brothers will interview Michael Cohen. First off, we're all from Long Island, including Michael Cohen. We grew up around the same area. We're all Jews who know where the laser is hidden specifically. Who told them where the

lasers were? That's the crazy shit that Marjorie Taylor Greene is spewing that a Jewish laser is causing California wildfires as Donald Trump supports her with those messages and messages that 9-11 is a hoax and her message that the school shootings like Parkland was committed by crisis actors and didn't really take place. All of these horrific, you know, lies, anti-Semitism and disgusting things she spews. I want to ask Michael Cohen about that. But that brings us to a natural starting point where I reflected in the last podcast that we can no longer call the GOP conservatives and that they lost that title when they embraced and they support people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Bobbert, that QAnon has become part of the very fabric of what it means to be Republican and that there is nothing conservative in the old way the word conservative used about these people. fascist and crazy and psycho. And Brett and Jordy Breitbart and right wing, crazy, psycho,

fascist media was not appreciative of me calling them out. Now, were they? They were not there, Ben. So Breitbart wrote an article. The headline was anti-Trump PAC, current GOP, no different from ISIS. And the funny thing to me about the way they laid out this article was by making that great article, great article, by laying it out with that headline, current GOP, no different from ISIS with a picture of Josh Hawley as the header. It sort of felt like an implicit approval of our statements until you actually read the minutiae of the article. And the article overwhelmingly felt very positive towards us talking about our big reach and the success of Midas Touch.

I mean, if this was a hit piece, you got to come harder at us, Breitbart. For some reason, I tend to enjoy when places like Breitbart write about us even more than places like Huffington Post and like CNN. I don't know what it is, but it's just a badge of honor. And our email box just became flooded with hate mail. We get the craziest. We get the craziest emails. So this was one that I got from somebody named Ann Olson. I did this. I made this a screenshot and then I posted it on Twitter.

Yeah, let's talk about the screenshot before you get into this. When Ben says he did a screenshot, Ben means he took his phone up to his computer screen and took a photo and then posted the photo online. That's a screenshot. You could see, you could see like the mouse cursor in the actual photo. It's the most pathetic screenshot. Listen, I know you, I know you are very self-conscious about people knowing that you're a millennial, but there's no reason, Ben, why you don't know how to screenshot an image online and post that. I saw all the posts were just people saying like,

I'm trying to read it. I have to blow it up. Maybe it looks okay on a 70 inch screen, but Ben, why don't you read it for the people so that they could understand what was going on in this post? Yeah. So first off, not a millennial. I'm a Gen Y and I got, the system was rigged and I've recently been called the millennial by people with an agenda to, let me read it for you. This is what Ann Olson wrote. Yeah, a millennial agenda. It would be millennials want to suck other millennials into the title because it's just so self-deprecating to be a millennial.

Let me read to you the email I got from Ann Olson. A millennial would laugh like you, Brett, okay? That's what a millennial would do in that situation. Yeah, millennial keep laughing. This is what Ann Olson said. How dare you call me and anyone like me that supports president Trump terrorists. Dot,

dot, dot. I suggest you leave this country before you stir up someone that might really be insulted by your comments. Your comments could cause somebody to want to hurt somebody like yourself or others around you. Creepy smiley face. Yes, very creepy smiley face. But let's pause there and analyze Anne's first email, because this goes on, because Ben responded. So Anne, as people do, she first starts it off by saying, how dare you call me

and anyone like me that supports President Trump terrorists and then immediately shifts into a death threat saying that people are going to come to you and it would be a real shame if somebody killed you. I don't think she's making the best point. Like something a terrorist might say. She's not making the best argument here in terms of dissuading people of her terrorism. What say you, Ben? I go back to her and I say, I'm not worried about that. Thanks for the feedback. I am going to keep doing what I am doing.

Every single day. Natural response. I thought it would end right there. But Ann Olson responds to me five minutes later. Yes, I was told that you're full of shit. Good luck with your life. And by the way, this won't help you make any money, asshole. But this is what I expect from a left wing lunatic in Californication. First off, who's your source, Ann Olson? Who's telling you that I'm full of shit? Is there a source for that? I'd like to see that. I'd like to see that cited. And then,

by the way, this won't help you make any money, asshole. I don't even know. Is she my financial advisor right now, this Ann Olson? I think it's just important, though, that people note, yes, of course, your was misspelled. So you're full of shit, not you are full of shit. And meanwhile, you're the lunatic. But every sentence she ends with an exclamation point that just makes the email that much more aggressive. Also, she calls California Californication.

Good show. Really good show. Enjoyed it. Watched every season. Highly recommended. I don't see how that's an insult. Yeah, I'm Gen Y. I'm smooth. Ied it. Watched every season. Highly recommend it. I don't see how that's an insult. Yeah, I'm Gen Y. I'm smooth. I'm sophisticated.

I'm lowercase letters and I'm correct spelling. And finally, here's how I ended this discussion. The TKO. I wrote, I do just fine in my other work to let me work for Midas Touch for free, where I get

paid in your white supremacist terrorist tears. That's such a good closer. Yeah, that was an epic closer. And has Anne responded since that devastating knockout blow? This short answer, she wrote me something crazy this morning. I'm not continuing this crazy conversation. How long do you think this would go on if you continue?

I think you have to. I think you owe it to the Midas Mighty to keep it up just one response a day until she quits. Well, let me hear it from the Midas Mighty. If you think that I should respond to Ann Olson, please tweet at my cell is B and let me know you should continue this conversation going with the crazy MAGA person who wants to see me dead. But I have bigger fish to fry. And it's not you, Brett, the minnow fish, the middle fish, Brett, Brett getting a lot of love on Twitter these days. A lot of people say Brett is the naughtiest. I've seen that comment. The naughtiest. The naughtiest. A few times come up. They know that Brett is quite naughty. Fascinating. Let me talk to you about a naughty idiot who is a loser and not named Brett Micellus.

It is somebody named little Stevie Lawson. Stevie Lawson's back in the picture. Stevie Lawson's back in the picture. Stevie Lawson's back in the picture. For those who don't know who Stevie Lawson is, that's probably best that you don't know who Stevie Lawson is. Nobody should know who it is. Nobody really should know who this human being is. Stevie Lawson was the communications director for Looting Kelly Loeffler, who was the worst communications director literally ever.

And he randomly would try to come after me like every week or every other week. And not only that, but he would like creep into my replies. And I wouldn't even like realize it until like, I would just see other people attacking him from being in my replies. And I'd be like, dude, you're the deputy campaign manager. Can you just get out of my freaking replies, man? Well, he was proved to be the very worst campaign manager that there was. We made a video about him. Let's play the clip from the last Midas Dutch podcast where I talked about Kelly Loeffler's horrible campaign manager, Stevie Lawson. Play the clip. Leffler's communications director,

deputy campaign manager, Steven Lawson. Little Stevie. Little Stevie. Where'd you go, little Stevie? Stevie, I'm looking at you, you seditious traitor, you despicable, disgusting human being.

You may have blocked me on Twitter for calling you out as the worst political operative in the history. But don't think the Midas Mighty has forgotten him. Stevie Lawson thought that he was some fucking rock star wanting to boost his Twitter fucking presence and looks like a piece of shit fool. Stevie Lawson, Stevie lawson you embarrass the country you embarrass the family so that's what i said about stevie lawson so stevie lawson then proceeded to he's by the way he's at steven lawson underscore you'll find him just look at my timeline i i still go after him

but then stevie lawson blocked me blocked Touch, blocked my brothers. He was so devastated, apparently, by the Midas Touch truth telling that he went private for 24 hours. Great communications director. Let's hide all my communications as a communications director. But anyway, Stevie Lawson, you know, in his next career path, he is now one of the leaders in a group that was just announced today. What's it called, Brett? It's called Stop Stacey. So their goal is to stop Stacey Abrams from, I guess what they say is radicalizing America, which when you chip down to what that means is allowing people to vote. They basically started a super PAC to stop people from voting, to try to stop Stacey Abrams and the efforts of organizers from getting people to the polls in Georgia, because that's the only way somebody like little Stevie Lawson and a shitty candidates could win elections. Little Stevie Lawson.

By not letting people vote at the polls. Little Stevie Lawson and his shitty candidates could win elections. Little Stevie Lawson. By not letting people vote at the polls. Little Stevie Lawson. How many times could one person just be on the wrong side of history? I mean. Little Stevie Lawson. He seeks it out. You know. Little Stevie Lawson self-flagellates.

He's an S&M. This is my opinion. I have no facts. This is just my own personal opinion. I think he self-flagellates, you know, so he whips himself. And I think he's totally into S&M. Like he just loves being beat. You could tell with that shit eating grin of his that little Stevie Lawson is just such a he's such a I won't even go there. the group's mission statement here to get us a little back on track and so it says here uh their mission statement is we will some self-flagellation to the group's mission statement uh we will do whatever it takes to expose stacy abrams radical network and highlight her dangerous agenda and ultimately defeat her and her left-wing candidates at the ballot box so stacy abrams has not even

announced that she's running for governor yet but but they've created a super PAC against her hypothetical campaign. They use the same tropes that did not work in the last election. Radical liberal Raphael Warnock, radical liberal Raphael Warnock. The people are over that shit. The people want legitimate politicians who can freaking govern and they don't want to hear radical liberal radicals, Stacey Abrams. People are done with that language. And what Stevie Lawson needs to truly be worried about is the candidate that he's supporting. Brian Kemp is being attacked by the president who Stevie Lawson supported and showed subservience to while self-flagellating President Trump when President Trump basically whipped Stevie Lawson into doing whatever the hell Donald Trump wanted and had and had Loeffler basically mimic all of the Trump conspiracy theories and stop the steal

bullshit ultimately for Loeffler when she finally took the stand in the Senate, said that her conscience couldn't vote the way she told everybody she was going to vote and didn't hold up the electoral votes from being counted. So I think Brian Kemp right now, his approval rating stands at just 42 percent. His disapproval rating is 51 percent and more than one third of Republicans, 36, disapprove of his performance. But Brett, would you highlight more than anything is that what's really under attack here, voter rights is under attack in the biggest way possible. you know, Republicans in certain states that stood up against Trump, like the Brad Raffelsbergers, to some extent, you know, the Kemp's, to some extent, you know, Governor Ducey in Arizona. And we've given some of these Republicans light credit, but like, it's really hard to, because at the end of the day, they just didn't rig the game enough. And now they're out here

rigging the game in any way they can. I mean, and that's what they're doing. The Georgia GOP is doing everything that they can to prevent people from going to the polls. They're trying to make it as hard as possible for people to vote. And this is one example. And this is just one of the most ludicrous examples out there. But this is a mainstream Republican thing. Georgia Republican is introducing a bill requiring voters to send copies of their photo ID to election officials two times before they're allowed to cast an absentee ballot. Do they have to send a freaking blood test too? Like what are they going to make people do? Remember that stupid game growing up? I don't know if you remember it because you're a

millennial and I'm a Gen Y. It was called, this is a Gen Y game. It was called Mother May I. Do you remember? Like there would be someone who was mother and you would ask mother may I like, and whoever would get to mother first would win. So it'd be like, mother may I walk five steps? Mother may I walk 50 steps? And whoever was playing mother would get to decide

who gets to walk. Now, I quickly figured out that this game was rigged because mother gets to choose whoever basically wins, and it's the dumbest game ever. I know you guys have no clue. You guys played freaking PlayStations while I was playing Mother May I. Mother May I?

Is this a Mike Pence thing? I've never heard of it. But the point is that what the GOP wants is to make every possible obstacle imaginable for you to vote, you know, before you can actually get to the ballot box, you know, requiring two photocopied one who even has photocopiers. I'll tell you this. I don't I don't have a working printer in my house. So if I lived in Georgia and they passed this rule, that would mean I would not be able to vote. Now, think about how many other disenfranchised people, how many other people who don't have the

money to afford a printer, how many people do not have the time because they're balancing multiple jobs to send two separate photocopies to the government in order to be eligible to vote. This is clear voter suppression and we need to fight it at every turn. And we are so lucky that we got in senators like Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff who are seeing this for what it is and who are supporting legislation like the John Lewis Voting Rights Act that will prevent states from taking voter suppression tactics like this. And here's a little fact bomb for you, Brett. According to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, state legislatures as of now have filed since the last election over 106 bills that are aimed to change the election rules to make it much more difficult to cast the ballot. This is more than triple the amount of bills on this topic, you know, at the previous time at the last election. And so, you know, they're going to try to prevent no excuse absentee ballots. These Republicans are going to try to do everything

to prevent the vote. And we need to step up. And as you said, Brett, this is an issue that the Democratic Party is fighting for. Everybody deserves the right to vote. Now, I talked about fact bombs, but let's talk about another type of bomb. That's a good segue. Now I know why you're such a good lawyer. The king of segues here right now. I've been impressed. Let's talk about a sake bomb.

And no, not the sake bombs that us Gen Ys. It's all interweaving this episode. Not the sake bombs that us Gen Ys did when we went to Benihana's. Do you even know what Benihana is, Brett? Of course, we did all of our Benihana trips together. Of course, I know what a Benihana is. That's not a Gen Y thing. Come on.

Okay, so I hate when people did the actual sake bomb. It makes the biggest mess possible. And I guess the sake bomb is when you put a little shot glass of sake in the beer. You put the two chopsticks on top of your cup. You then put the sake shot on top of the chopsticks and then you bang the table and you yell sake bomb. It would give me headaches. It would make me incredibly just kind of stressed out and paranoid that it was going to spill everywhere. It's one of the reasons that I

quit drinking. It just made the whole process very annoying. So I feel very strongly against sake bombs. But can you tell us, Brett and Jordy, about the sake bomb I'm talking about? So the sake bomb we're talking about is Jen Psaki, the press secretary who just absolutely crushes it day in and day out when she gets asked either a dumb question or the answer to the question is something just so obtuse that the reporter who's asking it should have know better. And we got fed up, man. We got fed up of these dumb questions and these ridiculous reporters coming after Jen. And you know what? We said to each other in our text group, hey, we should make up a term for every time that Jen dunks on a reporter or a question. And I came up with a really bad example. I'm not even going to say it. Brett came up with an example.

Jordy was like, sock a dunk. I'm like, okay. Sack a jack. Sack a jack. All right, Brett, your example wasn't that much better, so I'm not even going to say it either. Mine was good. Ben comes over the top.

They got sacked. Yeah, that's brutal. And then Ben comes over the top with the absolute winner guys sake bomb and my head exploded brett's head exploded and then what happened i just and i just and i went to sleep that day i said my work here is done it's only 8 30 in the morning i've contributed to midas touch i said ben that's why you get paid so well in those white supremacist tears you are white supremacist tears with that one, Ben. And so we tweeted out a very simple tweet.

Anytime Jen Psaki dunks on a reporter will henceforth be known as a Psaki bomb. And Twitter went into a tizzy with Psaki bomb becoming one of the top four trends in the United States. Everybody was supporting it at first. And then it seems like it's probably overwhelmingly overwhelmingly 90, I would say 98 percent of people. But then there was a faction. I would say our support rate is very similar to when Donald Trump on the Saki bomb, when Donald Trump would send those emails that 97 percent of the Republican Party supported. Yeah, I think about 97 percent of everybody supports Saki bomb Yeah, I think about 97% of everybody

supports Saki bomb as a thing. But let me tell you something. We've been talking a lot about unity and what does unity mean in America? And we brought unity to America because it's not about dunking on reporters. I mean, there are great reporters. If you ask good questions, you should,

you know, that's the job of journalism. But the stupid kind of gotcha questions, the questions that say many Democrats have said and then not be able to answer who are these people that you're referring to that are saying these things? Or if you start asking questions, do you think that it is a little bit mean to the Democratic constituency that you're doing? start asking questions. Do you think that it is a little bit mean to the Democratic constituency that you're doing? If you're going to ask infantile and silly questions, I think it should be non-controversial that you're going to be called. We love good reporters like we need a strong

and free press. It's an essential part of our democracy. But let's not act like everybody in that briefing room is going out there with good faith to ask questions that everybody needs to know. A lot of them are trying to get soundbites. You have OAN in there. You have Pete Doocy in there. I mean, do those people speak for me? Absolutely not. And here was a weird one. We got this tweet from a reporter. I guess he was offended at us talking about a press secretary dunking on reporters. And this is what you said about Saki Bomb. This is trending in my my timeline it's difficult to articulate in a single tweet the corrosive effects that stan spelled s-t-a-n stan culture migrating to politics has but reporters are on your side criticize them sure but they're in the room to hold power to account

on your behalf. First off, I genuinely consider myself a decently intelligent person. There's a lot of that that I genuinely have no clue what it means. And that's part of the problem. I mean, that elitist sort of snobby culture is how we got into this. Not everything's a culture. Stan culture, or this culture, or that culture. What are you talking about?

We made a silly play on words. Yeah, we came up with Saki Bomb, which is a dumb expression that 97% of people support, and we tweeted it out because Jen Saki was asked a dumb question and she Saki Bombed him. Okay? Okay, Claire.

I'm going to give you the reporter's name. Okay, Claire Malone, the reporter who I was about to keep anonymous. The white chocolate macadamia cream cold brew from Starbucks is made just the way you like it. Handcrafted cold foam topped with toasted cookie crumble. It's a sweet summer twist on iced coffee. Your cold brew is ready at Starbucks.

Leave us alone, Claire. And then, by the way, then people have the nerve after she tweets out that. And by the way, she does a screen grab of our tweets. She doesn't even tweet us. She does a screen grab of our tweets. Add us next time, Claire. Add us, please.

So she comes at us and then people have the nerve to come after us, you know, when we respond to her ridiculous tweet saying, why are you going after Claire? We're not going after Claire. Claire came after us.

We put an end to it. That's not going after someone. Yeah, I like the concept that you're not allowed to respond when people call you out. And you know what? After four years of having a press, multiple, multiple press secretaries who just gaslit the American public day in and day out. For once, we have a press secretary who is actually delivering it to us straight. It seems to be doing it to the best of her ability. And I hope the press holds her to account, but we also have to hold the press to account and everybody to account. And God forbid, we take this time, 11 days into the administration to just show our appreciation that we have just a normal fucking person in this position again.

No doubt. And as we hold everybody to account, hold yourself. That's a bad transition. I was going to try to see I was I was on a roll with transitions. You see where I was going there? Quit while you're ahead. It's okay. If you're the Hall of Famer system is as long as you're three for 10, you're basically a Hall of Famer, which is the system I subscribe to. Yeah. Before I go beyond three of 10, let's take a break. When we come back, though, the thing that's just frying my mind are so-called progressives who are attacking President Biden for not getting every single thing done in two weeks. We're going to talk about that and more and bring on the lasers and Michael Cohen cohen when we return you're listening to the mightiest touch podcast welcome back to the mightiest touch podcast now this infuriates

the shit out of me and when i get infuriated i curse i try not to curse too much because i curse too much someone told me i curse too much last episode. I know the cursing is the thing we have to tone down our cursing. We can't turn off the mightiest mighty. New tone, new tone, new tone, new tone, less cursing. But when I get mad, I curse occasionally. And I get mad when there are people who call themselves progressives and you could be progressive, but who have no

understanding generally of the way the political process works and are already basically criticizing and using inflammatory hashtags like Biden lied. I don't even think these people are truly progressive. I think they're just chaos agents who are out there just to royal up shit. I cursed again twice. And they're saying things like we were promised the stimulus checks. We were promised the survival checks. Biden lied. The Democrats lied. We're not going to vote Democrats again.

Now, it's a small group of people who are saying this. But what the hell are you doing? What are you saying? Do you know the way the political process works? We've been 10 days, 11 days by the time you're listening to it, maybe 12, 13 or 14 days, but we've been two weeks essentially into the Biden administration. And he's repealed the Muslim ban. He's ended the zero tolerance policy that kidnapped children. He's reversed the transgender military ban. He's ordered hundreds of millions more of vaccines. And trust me, you know a friend

and you know somebody who's actually getting that vaccine now. It's actually hitting you that these vaccines are real. He's instituted federal mask mandates. He's invoked the Defense Production Act to produce more COVID supplies. He's ended DOJ contracts with private prisons, rejoined the World Health Organization, rejoined the Paris Climate Accord, expedited plans to honor Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. He paused student loan payments and evictions, defended Dreamers, restored ethic rules. I'm out of breath, Brett, but that's a whole lot of- And that's the Midas Touch podcast. Thank you so much for joining. And look, we all agree that if they don't pass survival checks, we are going to hold them accountable. But I am OK that within the first month, this is going to get done.

You know, within the first 45 days, it's going to get done. You have to literally move in to your office, undo a ton of the damage created by Trump for you to then actually move on things and initiate things. I mean, it was just a few days ago that we in the Democrats in the Senate negotiated a deal that allowed them to assume the leadership of committees. So we're moving as quick as we could be moving. And look, I just want you to know what we're dealing with here. Brett, if you could play this clip on the Republican side, on the obstructionist side of what they're trying to do, play this clip of Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana on what his view is of certain spending in this $ point nine trillion dollar stimulus

package being proposed by the Democrats. He has one hundred and seventy billion for schools. Now, we've already given schools one hundred and ten percent of what they what they usually receive from the federal government. Parochial schools have opened with a fraction of that money. Charter schools are open. The real problem is public schools. That issue is not money. That issue is teachers unions telling their teachers not to go to work. And putting $170 billion towards teachers unions priorities, it takes care of a Democratic constituency group, but it wastes our federal taxpayer dollars for something which is not the problem. Imagine your issue with the COVID stimulus bill being the teachers are the problem and they're receiving too much aid.

What a just terrible take. Right. And then play this clip. It's of an Anderson Cooper interview with a subscriber, a former subscriber of QAnon about what he believed about Anderson Cooper. And I want you to remember, this is what mainstream Republicans view. How do we know this is what mainstream Republicans view? It is indisputable that Donald Trump remains the leader of the Republican Party. And Donald Trump just last week supported Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is the QAnon leader in the Republican Congress.

So let me just make the logic game very simple for you. If the leader of the party, Donald Trump, supports a leader in Congress who's QAnon, you are the QAnon party. That's what you become. So let's listen to what they believe. Did you at the time believe that Democrat high level Democrats and celebrities were worshiping Satan, drinking the blood of children? Anderson, I thought you did that. And I would like to apologize for that right now. So I apologize for thinking that you ate babies. OK, so that is who on the Republican side, when we talk about unity, bipartisanship, how the freak do you negotiate? You see, I use curse.

How do you negotiate with those people? And it's so easy if you really want to say this is not our party. You know what you do? You expel those members from Congress. At minimum, you censure them. You know what you don't do? You don't start elevating them to positions of power and to Senate committees, which is what this party is doing, which is a tacit approval of all of these statements and kooky

conspiracy theories and a slap in the face to Americans. Oh, there's no doubt about that. So look, we as Democrats, we took a bipartisan approach. We tried to see it. Actually, we're still trying to see if a bipartisan one point nine trillion dollar stimulus package that's going to deliver on the promises can be achieved. But the Republicans don't want to do that. They just want to be the party of no. And so the Democrats are pivoting very quickly to a process that's known as budget reconciliation. Now, budget reconciliation is a fairly complicated process. But what you need to know about budget reconciliation is that if a bill can be considered a budget reconciliation bill, you only need a majority of senators to

vote in favor of the bill versus 60 votes because there still exists a filibuster. So you have to get through a 60 vote threshold if it's just an ordinary bill. And for it to be a budget reconciliation bill, it has to pass what's called the Byrd test, B-Y-R-D, named after Senator Byrd, meaning it has to be legislation that affects spending, revenues, and debt limit laws. So if it affects the power of the purse, which is a power of Congress, and for the Congress's right to make budgets and to implement budgets, then it could be framed as budget reconciliation. And you can pass things through this process, although it can get,

why wouldn't you do everything by that? Well, it has to be classified as spending revenue or debt limits. And if it doesn't pass some of these parliamentary tests of meeting those stringent requirements, certain aspects of the bill can be removed from the bill. And so it's just a very arduous process for both the House and the Senate to come forward with a budget reconciliation process. But you now have the Republicans basically acting like reconciliation and getting this passed through that process is, you know, a horrible thing, that it is a betrayal of the mission of unity, you know, and it's just, no, we tried unity, okay, but we're not going to be stupidity in the attempt to find unity. And as Jen Psaki, a.k.a. Saki bomb said, reconciliation is a parliamentary process. It's

a way to get legislation through. It's a way to get relief to the American people, she said. The president wants this to be a bipartisan package regardless of the mechanisms. Republicans can still vote for a package even if it goes through with reconciliation. There's no blood oath anybody signs. They're able to support it regardless. And so we're moving as fast as we can be moving these bills. And laws take a little bit longer than 10 days. And we're going to be the first to hold politicians accountable if they don't make good on their promise.

Isn't that right? That is absolutely right. It's only been 10 days. And Joe Biden is welcoming Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski and the other 10 GOP members who made this bill to the White House today. But let's be clear about what the bill the Republicans are proposing is. They are not offering any aid for state and local governments. They do not want to give anybody stimulus checks. So basically, this bill is just a poison pill. They know the Democrats are never going to go for it. They want to put it out there to have this fake sense that they're trying to be bipartisan when they know it's A, never going to pass it. B will never help the American people anyway. No doubt about it.

Impeachment hearings are next week, not the smoothest transition, but we got to move this show along. Impeachment hearings will be taking place next week. We have some updates. Number one, the QAnon shaman, the QAnon shaman.

He may be testifying against Donald Trump. We're stupid. Are we coming with that? We're talking about a QAnon shaman. I wonder if the shaman will be wearing his wolf. Will he be wearing his wolf garb in court and his face paint? Is that permanent? They might bring it for evidence.

Yeah, I bet they bring it for evidence. I mean, it's so pathetic. The shaman intends to blame the entire thing on trump yeah the shaman hates the shaman hates trump now the shaman's gonna pursue the life i'm making this up the shaman's gonna pursue the life of a yogi um he's going to be he he's gonna be q anon yogi and uh he will be anyway. But how crazy, what was it, from 300? Was that the movie when it was called? Like, this is Sparta. You could just imagine the circus of him going in and saying, this is shaman. This non-organic food is hurting my tummy.

So all of Trump's lawyers dropped out of representing him for impeachment. And so Trump just keeps digging and digging deeper and deeper to find some legal representation. And so finally, on Sunday night, we heard that Trump had hired two attorneys, Bruce L. Castor Jr. and David Schoen. Now, let's give you a little bit of background about these two. Bruce L. Castor Jr. ran for district attorney of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. But what is he most known for? He's most notably known for not wanting to charge Bill Cosby with sexual assault and

letting Bill Cosby off the hook. And then suing one of Bill Cosby's victims. Suing one of the victims. That's what Bruce Castor is known for. Now, tell me about David Schoen. Let's talk about David. So David may be a different story. I don't know. David Schoen is an Atlanta-based civil rights and criminal defense attorney. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get to the good stuff. Get to the meat. So not only do you represent Roger Stone, who we all know, chaos agent Roger Stone, but he also was going to represent Jeffrey Epstein and met with him multiple times in prison prior to his

death. So Trump has put predator defending pedophile defending attorneys in his thing. I don't know if Trump confused impeachment with his upcoming rape trial. I'm not sure if these are the right attorneys for the job. But Ben, you know, attorneys all the time have to defend, you know, not so great clients. It comes with the job. I Ben, you know, attorneys all the time have to defend, you know, not so great clients. It comes with the job. I understand everybody needs representation. So how do you feel about it? Yeah. I mean, I'm not normally one to say, well, this attorney represented these people. I'm not one to hold grudges like that. But this is all the GOP does, by the way, is they say they blame attorneys for who they represent and treat the attorneys for representing people.

Look, in the Raphael Warnock Senate race, Senator Warnock was criticized because a lawyer who happened to run a gigantic law firm who represented Harvey Weinstein as part of that gigantic law firm, donated money to the Warnock campaign. That was the big headline in all of the right wing fascist newspapers. Raphael Warnock accepts a donation from a lawyer who represented Harvey Weinstein. Really? So now you as the GOP, you know, literally you couldn't find two lawyers with a pedigree and representing the literally most vile people in the world than the two lawyers who are now representing Trump. But what they say is birds of a feather flock together. Now, one piece, though, about this impeachment that really hit a core, it just made it all feel a little different. One of the things that really got me is when I saw Jonathan Swan of Axios recently interviewed the Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky. And he asked Vladimir Zelensky, because remember, Ukraine had seen multiple revolutions recently. And they look to the United States of America and their pro-democracy movements as a stable democracy, as a place where none of this could happen. But when I think about these impeachment hearings, these words from Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky are always going to be in the back of my mind and probably in the back of my mind forever.

I could not imagine that something like this was possible in the United States of America. I believe this was a strong blow to democracy of the United States. It is just that after something like this, I believe it would be very difficult for the world to see the United States as a symbol of democracy in the world. I mean, it's just frankly embarrassing. And for those of you who remember, Zelensky was the guy who Trump tried to orchestrate this whole quid pro quo with.

It was the reason that phone call was the impetus for impeachment number one of Donald Trump. And that Zelensky, you know, it's just very upsetting to hear that from another world leader. A world leader. And that's the the strength of America internationally is that we were this beacon of hope. We were this beacon of democracy. And Donald Trump crippled that. He tarnished that. And it's going to take a lot of time to rebuild. Even as President Biden pursues pro-democratic traditional American policies and foreign affairs engagements, people are still going to wonder, like, can I really trust these people? Can I trust this country? What's going to happen? I'm hearing about, you know, QAnon and all these crazy kind of cultists that exist there. Is this an ally that I can trust? And that brings me to this final point, Brett, as we know that there were revolutions in Ukraine,

but we heard about this coup that took place in Myanmar recently. And Myanmar was once Burma. Oh, before I get into Myanmar, just the one fun fact for our mightiest mighty out there listening. This is the fun fact about Zelensky. Zelensky, who's the president of Ukraine, was like the Ryan Seacrest of Ukraine. He was on a show called League of Laughter. He also was in a scripted series where he played the president. He was the sitcom president who then became the president. I just think that's an incredible.

That's like that Seth Rogen movie. Right? But yeah. So just, so take that truth bomb into your pocket. But going to Myanmar, which was once Burma, there was a coup and the leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling party were detained. The leader Chi was a Nobel Prize winner. She came to power in 2015 with a landslide election. There were significant criticisms over her recently over certain human rights abuses. What I want to focus on here is

in connection with the coup, the language that's been used to be report when it was reported on. And here's from some of the articles. I've compiled some. The military of Myanmar alleged discrepancies such as duplicated names on voting lists in scores of districts and was unhappy with the election commission's response to its complaints. The military did not say if irregularities were substantial enough to have changed the election outcome. While Leader Xi won 83% of available seats in the most recent November 8th election, which was seen as a referendum of the fledgling Democratic government, there were minor irregularities that were there. And but election observers said that the voting was without major irregularities. And Brett, when I read that, what does that sound like?

It sounds like the United States of America. You know, we have to as a country, we need to investigate all alleged human rights abuses and, you know, see what's going on there. And we also have to make sure, though though that there's a democratic process happening in these countries. And we need to be a beacon of democracy, not one that looks at as a mockery of it. We need to set an example for the world. Yeah, no doubt.

And that's why I wanted to share that. It just, we are as America, really what we went through is no different than like the coup in Myanmar. And that's not a good place to be in. When we come back from the break, we will have Michael Cohen, host of the Midas Touch produced Mea Culpa podcast to get his take on current events. We'll be right back after this.

That's not America. That's not America. Welcome back to the Midas Touch Podcast. The man who needs no introduction, a Long Islander, Michael Cohen, host of the Maya Copa Podcast. Also, executive produced by the Midas Touch Brothers. How are you, Michael? I'm doing good. What's up, gentlemen? I see we got a third one here today.

The guy who went AWOL on me. You know what i blame the other brothers they totally boxed me up the problem is a lot of our twitter supporters are team jordy these days and they're trying to fix that by showing up and doing more appearances than me the true story is jordy's bedtime is kind of around 8 p.m and so basically anything after 5 p.m pacific time we go jordy you want to do michael cohen's podcast tonight and it just goes radio silent for hours and hours and hours and then the next day he goes why don't you tell me you're going to be on mea culpa i said dude we did you were sleeping you were sleeping total fabrication

he's the baby of the family isn't he yeah the fans think that the best brother is like a good looking contest i mean look if you saw photographs of me in my mid-20s it's a different kind of guy so it should be viewed based on brain thank god thank god for that right i do have to say that you know time has not been a friend to you but that's all right i'm sure your personality hasn't changed much it's it's okay michael at the end of the day it's about personality it's about intelligence it's about charmingness shut the fuck up michael cohen let's get right look at least at least you have those three because the looks is not on your side let's

get right into it michael cohen michael you've heard about yes sir we're both long island jews and you've heard about the jewish lasers that are causing the wildfires in california according to marjorie taylor green can you believe though that after all of the crazy shit that she said you know including those anti-horribly anti-Semitic things, her saying 9-11 is a hoax, her threatening the Parkland shooting victims as they were going to the Capitol building. And what is what is Donald Trump do? Supports her, throws at this moment, says that he's got she's got his full support. What do you think about that? Well, is it any different than what I had said last time?

And I will repeat it again, and I will continue to repeat it till the day I die. Donald Trump is emphatically a racist. He is a sexist. He is a misogynistic, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, anti-Semite. That's who he is. So the notion that he's going to turn around and he's

going to denigrate Marjorie Taylor Greene for making these wildly stupid comments, it's just not within his bandwidth because Donald Trump doesn't give a shit if you're Jewish. He doesn't care if you're Catholic. He doesn't care if you're Muslim. He doesn't care about anyone or anything other than himself. So the fact that she makes a very inarticulate, borderline, fucking ridiculous comment about lasers, you know, from from Jews, you know, starting forest fires. Why should Donald Trump get himself involved when he has more than enough shit on his own plate to deal with? Michael, we have the impeachment trial coming next week. See, I think you would make actually a great character witness for Trump in the sense that you knew his mindset. You know what he was saying to his supporters. Now, I don't know if you're going to testify, you know, or not. I know the Democrats want to keep it, you know, super short. But if you

were to testify, what would you say at that trial? That's actually a great question. First of all, they have not asked me, but what they should be asking somebody like myself, who got up before the House Oversight Committee, as well as made the same statements to the Senate and House Select Committees on Intelligence, as well as the judiciary. And I talk about it in my book, Disloyal. Donald Trump is like a mob boss who talks in code. Now, this code wasn't all that difficult to translate, but there are things in what he had said when he blew this maga whistle to Donald Trump is going to use the only argument that he can possibly say is that I never told them to storm the Capitol. I never told them to break down doors. I never told them to try to find and kill Nancy Pelosi or Mike Pence. I never said those words. That's true, Donald. You never did. But when you turn around and you make a gesture or you make a statement like we should go storm the Capitol, we should take over the Capitol. Right. What he's doing is he's playing to these insurrectionists the same way he was trying to play to Putin when he said, boy, Russia, if you're listening, wouldn't it be great if 35,000 emails were

ultimately found that were whitewashed from Clinton's computer? What do you think he's saying there? It's the same exact thing. One place that the witnesses who are attending the Trump trial, one place they're not staying is the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C. Have you seen, Michael, how empty that hotel is since Trump has left? It's like a it's like a ghost town in there. One of the things that was just so crazy to me, and I don't know what your perspective of this is, is that you had this bribery both from domestic and foreign so transparently out there, both from the moment Trump took power, what we saw in the videos of foreign countries coming in to the Trump building in New York, and what we saw at the Trump Hotel in D.C. What can you speak about that when you were there? I

mean, would you see these foreign dignitaries kind of coming in? And was it just known that these people were basically bribing him at that time? Well, you may remember that Trump and children, specifically Ivanka and Don Jr. and Eric, they made a statement early on that all of the profit from foreign dignitaries were going to be either donated or returned to the U.S. government. Now, people have to remember that Donald doesn't own that hotel. It's leased through the GSA, which is part of the U.S. government. So they are, in essence, his partners. The money that they made from these foreign dignitaries was supposed to go back to the government. But that never happened. And if it did, it's in such a small amount that it's not the full extent of how much money was collected. Now, I can tell you that that place became the meeting ground for all dignitaries, for anybody that wanted to ingratiate themselves into the Trump administration.

Because at any given time, you could find different administration officials, cabinet members, and so on, all hanging out, whether it's at the bar or in the restaurant that was there. And so it became sort of a breeding ground of corruption. I mean, Rudy Giuliani sitting, for example, on a couch, right, holding court there with his either wine in the morning or his scotch at night was just a regular routine. Seeing Corey Lewandowski or Dave Bossy roaming the area on a nightly basis, figuring out who that they were going to mark next. I mean, that's what it became. The Trump Hotel became a breeding ground for political corruption. So, Michael, we got the impeachment trial coming up, obviously, and it's looking like these cowardly Republicans will do

anything but convict the guy. Only five of them actually stepped out of line to say that the trial itself was even constitutional to even hold this guy accountable for inciting the insurrection. But there's a lot of other things going on behind the scenes. There are criminal trials coming Donald Trump's way. Do you have any indication as to how the criminal investigations into Donald Trump are currently progressing? So I guess you're referring, for example, to Cy Vance's case here in New York, the New York DA. The answer to that is I do not. I anxiously await either being called or seeing on

television the indictments going out. But today's already, we're in week two since the inauguration of Joe Biden. So why he, why Don Jr., Eric, Allen Weisselberg, the CFO of the Trump Organization, Ivanka, Jared, whoever, why there are no flying indictments, I have no idea as of yet. And the same holds forth for Tish James. Now hers, my understanding is not at the moment being considered criminal, but rather civil. I also don't understand why that case has not already begun. Now, again, you know, they may have their reasons and I'm not questioning it. I just, if I was Cy Vance, the second that his ass landed in Mar-a-Lago, I'd have somebody standing there with papers serving him very much like I did in my lawsuit of Cohen versus Trump organization. I'm already asking for him to be deposed.

We already served subpoenas on his counsel and so on. Fuck it. Get right to it. What are you wasting time for? You think Donald Trump's going to come show up at your office and pick up the fucking subpoena? Not a chance. He knows he's got trouble. And the longer and every single day that goes by, you're just empowering him. He's becoming more and more emboldened to continue to do the wrong thing. And every day while he sits there at Mar-a-Lago in Magistan, as I call it in Mayakolpa, right? Every day that he sits in Magistan with his sycophants and his MAGA army, all sitting, right? He's figuring out how he's going to advance the Trump News Network so that

he can now have income coming in, because right now there is no income. And it looked like Magistan when we saw the photo of him and Kevin McCarthy with the tacky gold ballroom behind him. It looked like something that you would see of an exiled dictator, like a picture out of Gaddafi's Libya. And to me, New York is just the tip of the iceberg here. He incited an insurrection in DC.

He should be held accountable for inciting an insurrection in DC. He tried to mess with the election in Georgia. He should be held accountable for interfering with the election in Georgia. So I be held accountable for interfering with the election in Georgia. So I think there is a lot more to come on the legal front that's even beyond our political processes. And I'm hoping that people start picking up the pace and start moving on to the next bits of this. And what about all of the various different congressional committees that need to be, you know, bringing up charges against Trump as well?

From witness tampering and obstruction of justice and all the other things that he did to people like myself, right? What I love now, these fucking GOPs and many of the Democrats as well, I have to tell you, it's really beginning to irritate me, something fierce. They want secret service. They want protection because they're fearful for their lives. Now they want to be able to expense flap jackets, right? Bulletproof vests and things like that. I get that. And you know what? They should be entitled to it. But what bothers me the most, where the fuck were they when Trump was doing to me, a civilian, somebody who doesn't have Capitol police to protect them, someone that's not capable of having somebody shuffle me, you know me underground through the subway system to a remote location that's safe. I basically had to drive myself to D.C. I walked the streets by myself. I can't walk with family because you never know what one of his MAGA warriors will try to do because many of them are fucking unhinged. And you know what?

I didn't see a single one of them even issue an admonishment to him. So as far as I'm concerned, right, join the fucking line of people that deserve protection. Well, Michael, they wouldn't even defend themselves. He's currently witness tampering with them, with the jury in the impeachment trial. A lot of these Republicans apparently are fearing for their own lives and they still want to kowtow to every single thing that Trump wants. And Michael, the impeachment trial next week, what type of shit show is that about to be? So it's funny that you say that because that's what Donald Trump is all about. The whole goal of Trump is to make this into a shit show it needs to be a circus that's why i

always call him captain chaos because that's what he wants to do and what's donald trump going to do he's going to play the victim oh they didn't want me to be president from day number one day number one they came at me from day number one everything that i tried to do i did great we never had it better i mean could you imagine he wants the fucking Nobel Peace Prize for creating a vaccine, something that he doesn't even believe is legitimate. He doesn't believe the pandemic is real, despite the fact that it put him on his fat ass, right? And Walter Reed, that his kids got sick, his administration, that there's 450,000 Americans that have died. But that doesn't make a difference to Donald Trump.

So what is he going to do? He's going to figure out how to turn the entire impeachment into basically another infomercial on why people need to continue to support Trump day in and day out with their hard-earned dollars, whether they're big donations or small dollar donations, it doesn't matter. Why are you going to need to tune in to Trump News Network in order to hear the truth, right, as told by Donald Trump himself, with that at the next hour, you can hear the next truth teller, Donald J. Trump Jr. And after that, you can hear more truth from Eric Trump, Laura Trump,

Barron Trump, you know, Mickey Mouse Trump and everybody else, Melania Trump. And they're going to have the whole Trump family spewing the same fucking lies over and over again and keep sucking money out of these MAGA supporters of his that legitimately cannot break out of the cold. Finally, Michael, we're two weeks into the Biden administration. How do you think he's doing? So I'm actually impressed with what Biden is up to. The first thing that he did is he took the look, he took the easy route. He did exactly what Donald Trump did and what any president should be doing now. You take all of the bad things that the previous predecessor, right, did, and you get rid of it through executive order. And that he's doing. He started signing an inordinate number of executive orders, basically undoing every stupid thing that Donald Trump did, from the Paris Climate Accord all the way to, you know, getting rid of these cages for, you know, for

immigrants. I mean, whatever, whatever Trump did, Joe Biden is undoing. But the difference, and why, again, I'm impressed with what Biden and Kamala Harris are doing, they are actually reaching out to the opposite side of the aisle. The fact that Biden could meet and to talk and to have a civil conversation with somebody like Mitch McConnell in order to try to bring the country to a place of less divisive, to a place where it's beneficial to everybody so that they can figure out how to get stimulus checks into the American people's hands. I'm impressed with it because not many people could stomach Mitch McConnell. And in light of the way that he's been such a fucking asshole

and such a supporter of Trump through thick and thin, now all of a sudden he's beginning to slowly move himself away from the Donald Trump Trumpism line, right, to something more centrist. That's only because Joe Biden has been good enough, honorable enough and decent enough to allow that to happen. Because all Biden had to do is say, fuck you. I don't want to speak to you. We're going to do what we want. We're controlling the House. We control the we control the white house this is tic-tac-toe schmuck you're out of the game but he didn't do that and for that i give him a lot of credit because i don't know if i would be that decent and mcconnell didn't do it since mcconnell's been in power no he's not giving an inch his whole thing was not giving an inch and you know what

i like i like that every day like with trump all you would hear about is Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. One, I like not hearing as much about Trump. But two, I like a president who moves in the background, who's a bureaucrat, who does the work and gets it done and doesn't make every single day, every single moment about himself. And Michael, we talked about this on your podcast. You know, it's that abuser's mentality that Trump had, constantly abusing us as a country every day with the gaslighting, the lies, the violence in the language, the inciting of violence. And what we have in Biden is what we used to have in presidents. We could have disagreements over policies, but it's someone who's heads down and doing the work. I admire that.

You know, I sit and I listen sometimes to friends of mine, and they're really well-educated, professional individuals. And they always want to bring up Trump and, you know, how I was such a supporter of Trump at the beginning and now how I'm so very critical of him. And then one of them asked me the other day, are there any policies that you think that Trump did that benefited this country? And the answer is yes. Right. I am not going to turn around and say that there's nothing that Donald Trump did that I think was a benefit, whether to the country or to the world. There's no way in the world that you could possibly say that. However, you have to look at the individual and what his mandates were as a total, not as a piece. Yes, I am extremely happy that Donald Trump acknowledged that I have an immigration problem. We do.

Wow. Breaking fucking news. But now don't you need to have a policy for immigration? OK, I get it. You didn't like what was going on. So you put a hard stop. But you can't. That's the problem.

So he took the popularist view and he ran with it. But then he never finished it. And that's even worse because he took apart something that at least there was a process. You knew you had to work within a defective process. He stopped that defective process, but he offered no alternative. So what they do, they put people into cages and then they send them back. So what did he actually accomplish? And the answer is nothing. And the same holds true for prison reform. He signed a fucking piece of paper, and then he had Bill Barr put out the first step back, 18 U.S.A., I think it's 3632. He had them

come up with a overall general theme, to which he, of course, took full pad on the back, that he himself has done more for prison reform than any president since Abraham Lincoln. Again, always to Abraham Lincoln. Well, no, they've accomplished nothing. That act basically was the signing of that one piece of paper, and that the BOP, the Department of Justice, Michael Carvajal, the chair of the head of the BOP, they have done absolutely nothing within which to define the first step back. That's like, for example, what I'm suing on right now in this habeas corpus action that I have against the government, the BOP and Michael Carvajal. This is my point. It's easy to take something apart.

But why are you taking it apart if you don't have something to replace it? That's Donald Trump. Michael Cohen, men's fitness model, host of the Mya Culpa podcast. Thank you so much for joining us on Mya's. Thank you so much for joining us on Mya's Touch. It's really hard to get into great shape when you're on confinement. It's funny that you said that really quick.

I ended up having to go to the hospital today because I hurt my shoulder working out. Now it appears that I ripped the, what do you call it, the ligament in my shoulder. And now I have to go for shoulder surgery on top of everything. Well, we wish you the best on the shoulder surgery. If you need me to teach you how to do this, the shoulder curls and the things I got you next time, we'll go on your podcast. Got you out of the house, Michael.

Got you out of the house. It sure did. Exactly. And next time, make sure the brothers accidentally invites me next time. I'm sorry, which brother are you? Michael Cohen, always a pleasure. We'll see you back.

Thank you for joining Midas Touch. Have a great day and wish you well on your shoulder injury. Take care, fellas. Welcome back to the Midas Touch podcast. I want to talk about the continuing intrusion into efforts to heal the country, both literally and figuratively. And this is coming from anti-vaxxers across the country. But there were two stories, one in L.A. and one in Wisconsin. Right in our backyard, Ben. Right in our backyard. What's going on over there, guys? So let's talk first about in Wisconsin that particularly... Right in our backyard, Ben. Right in our backyard. What's going on over there, guys?

So let's talk first about in Wisconsin. A Wisconsin pharmacist went wild. And not in a good way. A Wisconsin pharmacist sabotaged hundreds of doses of the Moderna vaccine. This guy also happens to believe the earth is flat and that the sky

is a shield put up by the government to prevent individuals from seeing God. You know, real normal stuff. And this guy is somehow in a position of power where he gets to decide who gets the vaccine. And so we got that. Then right here in my own backyard in Los Angeles, anti-vaxxers coming to Dodger Stadium and blocking the entrance, causing this mega vaccine distribution center to be shut down right here in my backyard. For those who don't know, Brett literally lives in Dodger Stadium. I literally live in Dodger Stadium. No, but I used to live, it used to be right by me. I could

still see the fireworks of Dodger Stadium from my place. And all I want to know is what is it that these people want at the end of the day? They claim to want to open up the economy, but they reject the same vaccines that would allow us to open up the economy. They claim to support life, but they reject vaccines that have been proven to be 100% effective, not even 98% effective, 100% effective in preventing deaths from COVID. They're totally fine with about 450,000 Americans dying of COVID. They claim to want freedom, but they're blocking Americans from, on their own free will, going to Dodger Stadium to get their own vaccines. If you don't want the vaccine, that's your own stupid choice that you could make. Go out, get sick, don't get

the vaccine. I don't care at this point. But don't pretend like you're freedom-loving patriots by preventing other people from getting a vaccine that they so desperately need. And at this point, all the people who are getting vaccines are frontline health care workers and the elderly and high risk people. When you're shutting down these facilities, that's not protesting. There's nothing peaceful about this protesting. It's biological terrorism at the end of the day. And can we just talk briefly, Brett, just about like what these people look like who are at these protests. They're wearing Uncle Sam, like ridiculous Uncle Sam hats while holding signs that say ridiculous things like,

I only like muzzles in the bedroom, heart, heart, heart, which because it's a mask and that masks are muzzles to them. I mean, it's the most. Once again, if you don't like the mask, get the fucking vaccine. You're still gonna have to wear the mask for a little bit. But that's how we move on from this. You get the vaccine. So why are you stopping people from getting?

I just want to know, Brett, like she woke up in the morning. Yeah, she took her Uncle hat out of her closet. She maybe went to CVS, maybe Rite Aid. She bought a big poster. She took a magic marker and she wrote, here's what I'm going to write today. I only like muzzles in the bedroom. Honey, do you like my sign?

Oh yeah, that's so badass, girl. That's so bad. That's how I think the guy's next. Let's go to Dodge Stadium and prevent people from getting their vaccines. Yeah, what are we going to do? Well, I think that we should go to Dodge Stadium and let's stand in front of the gates and let's prevent the elderly and high-risk individuals

from getting their vaccine. It's just so despicable. I want to be clear. They're not, I don't think they're seeking, you know, some righteous cause in their own heads. Even I don't think they're actually seeking in their minds, you know, this, this patriotic act. I think they're seeking attention. There's something wrong with these people at such a core level. Now, I'm not letting them off the hook by any means. What they're doing is despicable. But I don't think what they're doing is out of patriotism or misguided patriotism. I think it's out of attention seeking. And that's my Miami Alex moment. Ben said on the last episode that people

like Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene were doing Second Amendment cosplay. I feel like these people are doing America patriotism cosplay by wearing these hats and claiming to support freedom while preventing high-risk individuals from getting vaccines. It makes no sense. It's so strange. And Jordy, I would be remiss if I didn't close out this podcast because I know people who just heard you speak.

The Midas Mighty are going to be very concerned about you because you sounded very sniffly there you did you sounded very congested i'm not gonna lie like as i'm not saying this to be rude your nose looks a little like it looks a little crooked like did they did they punch your nose today you know i haven't you know i got into a fight i have a broken nose. That's messed up, man. You can't go out and find a nose. Yeah. You don't know that.

It's not worth talking about. You know I have a broken nose. It's fucked up. All right. But anyway. I didn't know this happened. Jordy, his nose looks a little crooked right now. Yeah, because it's broken.

Because I broke it in college. Why did he break your nose? No one knows. Brett, do you see what I'm saying, though? His nose looks like a little bit tilted to the left. What did they do with the allergy? Who broke your nose? The allergist? Tell us.

That's not what happened, but the allergist did not go well at all. So Jordy went to the allergist today. Yeah. So I'm there. Doctor comes in the office. He goes, Mr. Marcellus, I think you filled out the paperwork wrong. I go, what do you mean? He goes, you wrote that you have two dogs and a cat, but you also checked off the box that you're severely allergic to animals. And I go, no, sir, that's that's correct. And he looks at me with just like this utter like disgust and just like disappointment. And, you know, it reminded me of when we were kids and our parents, you know, they wouldn't get angry with us, but they would just tell us like they were disappointed when we did something that they didn't necessarily disappoint. Just brutal.

And anyway, he goes, Mr. disappointed when we did something that they didn't necessarily disappoint just brutal um and anyway he goes mr myself let me ask you this are you trying to live every day of your life just as and as miserable as you possibly can and i looked at him without missing a beat now i was kidding but i looked at him real serious and i go doctor respectfully you know you're my allergist and not my therapist. I just don't think we have enough time for me to really get into this right now. And he didn't find that funny at all. And then he recommended me to a different allergist that I have to go see next week.

Now you got rejected by the allergist. I have to go to a different one next week. So Jordy got rejected by the allergist. I have to go to a different one next week. Jordy got rejected by the allergist, got referred to a therapist. Jordy, these Midas jokes, man, are very niche with our Midas audience. They don't translate. You can't sake bomb your allergist when you go see him next time, okay? It was brutal. I'll come correct.

I'll fix my nose. I'm going to get healthy. Don't worry. Jordy, the Midas might be rooting for you. Brett and myself, we're rooting for you. We need you to get healthy. Don't worry. Jordy, the Midas Mighty are rooting for you. Brett and myself are rooting for you. We need you to get healthy. We don't want to tease you on this show anymore. We love you, Jordy.

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