The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump EXPOSED Before Special Master, Ginni Thomas DEPOSED By 1/6 Committee, GOP cruelty GROWS each day

Episode Date: September 30, 2022

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of good news to report from manufacturing jobs that are soaring than exceeding pre-pandemic levels. Medicare premiums are decreasing and there is a plan that was just introduced to end hunger by 2030. This is the Midas Touch podcast live. Ben, Brett, and Jordy, I'm coming right back from Italy. Literally, I am right off the airplane, swooped right in here, put the headphones on, and started this right away. Great to see you, brothers. So good to see you guys. You are a maniac, Ben. Ben is a maniac. I don't think anybody really totally realizes that-

Break it down, Brett. When Ben says that he actually just got off the airplane, he means that he literally just got off the airplane. Ben has been texting us every single step of the way. First off, all these breaking news hits that you've been seeing on our news channel, Ben has been doing while he has been on his trip, nonstop, nonstop working. I don't know how he does it. And then he flies back from Italy and this is literally, you're back for what, like 10 minutes? And you are now doing the Midas Touch podcast live. And yes, we are live, live, live tonight with everybody. And we are so excited. Jordy, how are you doing today?

I'm doing well. I want to go one step further. Ben's doing these breaking news hits in Italy about the far right leader who just took power in Italy while he's in Italy. That is a bold move, my brother. Coincidence? I was there to see some historical events. Unfortunately, not the historical events I would have loved to have seen when I'm in Italy, but the Fratelli d'Italia party or the Brotherhood of Italy party, which is their far right party, took power. Georgia Maloney is the leader of that party. It arises from the Benito Mussolini regime and reign and the party traces its origins and its logo from that. A real disturbing development there.

But also one of the things I noticed as I spoke to a lot of people there, there was just a lot of complacency. You know, it kind of reminded me a lot of the 2016 Clinton Trump elections where people were just like, I don't know, whoever wins, wins, whatever. Let's just try to shake things up. And it was that mentality, right, And that complacency. And frankly, that we were a part of at the time, I wish I would have done more in 2016, but Midas touch arose from the idea of we need to do something to stop it. We need to call it out. And one of the things that really kind of reinvigorated me out there is this commitment to do what we're doing here in the United States and

start connecting with affiliates internationally to spread this unapologetically pro-democracy. Because as we'll talk about today, these messages are very interconnected, right? This Georgia Maloney strain of right-wing conspiracy theory, pro-Putin. It was the same type of thing we're seeing with Viktor Orban. It's the same thing we're seeing with the MAGA Republicans right now. And they look to their strong men, quote unquote, are actually the weak, fragile men who are destroying the world and destroying the economy with their destruction of the rule of law. And so you see that really exposed out there in Italy. And just so you know, too, we're going to say, Brett, I was going to say it's no coincidence also that there's an

alliance forming between all the people you just mentioned. There's basically an alliance between the Pudens of the world, the Bolsonaros of the world, the Orbans of the world, the Malonis of the world, and the Trumps of the world and all of his ilk. That's no surprise that there is this autocratic movement happening across the world and they are all kind of working together. And that's one of the scary things. And I think what Italy shows you, and it's been like you were saying about Trump, it's that a very small percentage of people can bring forth autocracy into a nation. Maloney was able to win with a plurality of just about what, 25% of the votes, the way they work in the parliamentary system there. And think about Trump. Trump's support always hinges at around what, 25%,

33%. And it goes to show you that complacency is what we have to get past. And it's why we've been pushing for so long, even when the poll said that nobody cared about it. Democracy, democracy, democracy, democracy. We need to make democracy the issue of this election. So now it's on, yeah, it's on us, but it's on really all of you to have these conversations with your friends and family members, let them know what's going on around the world and why it's so important that everyone gets involved in these midterm elections. And so if you want to know about this flight that I took and how long it was, it was about eight hours long. So I'm in New York right now. I'm staying at my mom's. The time difference is six hours from here to Italy. And it's not- You don't know what time it is right now, admit it. You have no idea what time it is,

what day it is. Very disoriented East Coast. On my computer computer i have the west coast time which is 5 0 5 p.m showing it's 8 0 5 here it's like 2 a.m in italy so i'm struggling with that but before i left and i took off to head to italy you know before i took came back from italy i saw um a lot of stuff going on in this court case before the special master and before Judge Eileen Cannon, right, Brett? And I saw the Trump lawyers objected to a lot of what the special master was doing because the special master ordered that Trump file a declaration under penalty of perjury regarding the inventory log that the FBI submitted as a condition preceding, because it would seem to be a very basic task to ask, right, of Donald Trump's lawyers, like, hey, can you just have Donald Trump sign a declaration before we review

thousands of records? Are these the records that exist? Because Donald Trump's been saying they planted it and all of that. And so Donald Trump filed an objection, which was like an absurd objection, because this was the special master that you asked for. This was the process that you wanted. There's a very distinguished special master who's just saying, hey, you're the plaintiff in a case. You filed a civil lawsuit. So it's not a burden for you to submit a declaration under penalty of perjury to say these are the records. Trump's lawyers objected to that. And, you know, I did a video on that. And. And she was like, yeah, why would he ever have to submit an affidavit? She rejected the recommendations of the special master, the distinguished former chief judge of the Eastern District of New York, who she brought into the process, who simply said,

submit a declaration under penalty of perjury, please, so that we could determine if these documents are the real documents. She said, you don't have to do that. She then also said, submit a declaration under penalty of perjury, please, so that we could determine if these documents are the real documents. She said, you don't have to do that. She then also said, let's let this process drag on until December. And then she also said, I'm going to be the one who's going to decide about if there should be a return of property issue. Why would there be Judge Reinhart, the magistrate judge, who's the judge who issued the search warrant? I'm going to be the one to decide what's called federal rule of criminal procedure 41G motions. And so those were the three findings that she made today, which just kind of came, I mean, we knew that she was corrupt. We knew that she was in Trump's pocket, but this takes it to a whole new level. And Ben, not to turn this into an episode of Legal AF here, which is another great podcast

that y'all should tune into, hosted by Ben Micellas. Nice plug. Yeah. Why is she allowed to do this? Like, what is the rational, what's the reason? Why does she have say that this is now the law? Well, she's a district court judge and district court judges are vested with a lot of power. And one of the things that she did is she asserted that she had equitable jurisdiction, which should be wielded in extraordinary circumstances to ultimately hire this special master. But the special master basically works under her. All a special master can do is make recommendations and she could accept or reject those recommendations. And here she rejected the recommendation that you

file, which is completely wild. But here's the thing why people shouldn't be worried. The Department of Justice filed the key appeal with the 11th Circuit. They've got their 100 classified records back. They're pursuing their criminal investigation. So the import of all of these proceedings before the special master are relatively meaningless after the 11th Circuit wrote this scathing opinion, which basically all but called Judge Eileen Cannon an idiot because they don't use those terms. But they said it's self-evident that a former president can't steal top secret compartmented information and claim a possessory interest, nor has Donald Trump ever even made the claim that he has a possessory interest.

But I still would have liked to have seen this declaration under penalty of perjury because Donald Trump was really trapped in the corner here because he's the plaintiff in the case, again, who brought the lawsuit. The special master, Judge Raymond Deary, said, put up or shut up. File an affidavit under penalty of perjury. You want to go and do your stupid fascist circus cosplay rallies? You want to, okay, do a declaration under penalty of perjury and judge eileen cannon such a hack goes he doesn't have to do that why he brought the lawsuit because she is pretending not pretending she is acting like his defense attorney she is donald trump's best defense

attorney she is honestly no different except she has actually actual power than like the all these trump lawyers that we see on TV. She, that's how she is behaving. She is his stooge. Sidney Powell. She's basically Sidney Powell on the bench. And I mean, look, I'm happy you said that about the 11th circuit though, because I think it's important that people know that Wallace is not, not important.

All the important, the truly important things are still going underway. DOJ is still looking at all the confidential documents, which is really the most important aspect of all this. So in a way, all this is a bit of a sideshow. Um, but at the end of the day, it's like Canon is really just exposing yourself as this corrupt, inexperienced judge. And when I look at it, I can't help, but start thinking like, you know, we know about her family connections to other people in these right wing movements.

You can't help but think like who's kind of controlling behind the scenes and and kind of, you know, pulling the strings a little bit and telling her what to do here to protect Donald Trump. And here's the thing, though. She's not smart about the process and what she's going to force the Department of Justice to do, which they haven't yet. They just filed a very narrow appeal on the issue of the top secret classified records, because that's what they said would have caused irreparable harm. So they basically asked the 11th Circuit to stay or stop her order pending an overall appeal of her even claiming that she has equitable jurisdiction in the first place. Now, based on the 11th Circuit's analysis of why she shouldn't be able to assert equitable jurisdiction over the classified records, that same analysis would apply to her asserting equitable jurisdiction at all. I always get the comments and questions.

Why does she have jurisdiction? She doesn't. She just claims she's like, she went rogue and claimed she had jurisdiction. But I think what the Department of Justice is going to do soon though, two, is they're going to file, I think, an appeal, an overall appeal on just her having jurisdiction and lay it out again.

And she's going to be completely divested of this process. But the Department of Justice at this point is like, look, we've got our classified records. We're pursuing our criminal investigation. We're good. Whatever's going on in the special master is a sideshow anyway. And the wheels of justice turn. Does that then go to the 11th Circuit? What's the next step? Where do they go? And then the 11th Circuit would make a determination about Eileen Cannon? as it relates to the stay. And so they've already found, based on how they have to analyze it, that there's a probability of success on the merits, that there is no jurisdiction by Judge Eileen Cannon in the first place. So ultimately, I think that that's what the Department of Justice

is going to do. I just want to reiterate for those just joining us that Ben is on absolutely zero hours of sleep and is breaking all this down right now live. This is incredible. I'm not looking at the comments or the comments recognizing that I look like super tired. No, you look tired. You look fantastic. I just wanted to reiterate for those people are asking the question, when does Ben sleep? I truly do not understand when Ben sleeps. That is a common comment. You know that I'm actually a little bit tired here because I rarely, you know me, I'm a tea drinker. When I break out my soda habit, you know, I need a little bit of sleep.

But we mentioned Sidney Powell, you know, we put Eileen Cadden, Sidney Powell, who I also put in that ilk, and I love the word ilk, is Ginny Thomas. And Ginny Thomas, I mean, the fact that you have, and I don't give her a pass that, oh, it's just the wife of the Supreme Court justice. It's like the people who try to give Donald Trump's kids a pass. Oh, they're just his kids. They're just his children. Yeah, they run the company purportedly. They're literally, one, 40 years old. They're adults. They're just his kids. They're just his children. Yeah, they run the company purportedly. Like they're literally 140 years old. They're adults. They're not children.

Right. And I put them in that category. Brett, what do you think? No, I mean, I think what we saw today is really just a person who's been flouting the law all this time. Ginny Thomas is literally the wife of a Supreme Court justice. Yes, she wasn't under oath today, apparently, but she spoke to them for three and a half hours. And guess what? It is still actually illegal to lie to Congress whether you are under oath or not. Let's be clear about that.

Benny Thomas said that Ginny Thomas continued to spread the big lie in this meeting, continued to double and triple down on this notion that the election was stolen. When asked for proof, she did not provide any. I am very curious to see at the next hearing, which apparently is not going to be next week at this point. They're still trying to figure out a date. I'm excited to actually see the clips from this hearing. I think when they play the clips from this hearing, it will show just absolutely how batshit crazy Ginny Thomas actually is. And I think it's important, like we should almost read some of the comments that Ginny Thomas wrote to Mark Meadows. Read those text messages. Because this is not in the realm of like, oh, she had some questions and she just wanted to ask

them. Like this is truly QAnon like as deranged like think about the craziest comments that you've ever seen on social media on your Facebook page and now imagine that that is the coming from the wife of a Supreme Court justice who's not only the wife of a Supreme Court justice but somebody who has a lot of pull and right-wing circles and is connected to all these right-wing think tanks and bread Brett, so she runs a consulting company, Liberty Consulting. And basically what she does is she sells access to Clarence Thomas. He then doesn't declare all of the money that she's making, which he's obligated to do. And then I did a, I think on our legal AF, we showed the study where over 53 or 54% of the amicus briefs submitted to overturn Roe v. Wade that ultimately led to the Dobbs decision were filed by Ginny

Thomas related groups. That was a staggering stat. Over 54% of all of the briefs submitted to the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the left is attempting the greatest heist of our history. Another text. Do not concede. It takes time for the army who is gathering for his army. The army. I mean, we're getting into QAnon like very weird lingo.

You know what? OK, Mark, don't want to wake you. Thomas wrote. Sounds like Sydney and her team, Sydney Powell, are getting inundated with evidence of fraud. Make a plan, release the Kraken, something literally Ginny Thomas wrote, release the Kraken and save us from the left taking America down. Anybody who's speaking about Americans like that, that close to the Supreme Court is extremely dangerous.

And I saved the craziest for last, which is straight out ripped from the pages of QAnon. reporters, et cetera, are being arrested and detained for ballot fraud right now and over coming days and will be living in barges off Gitmo, as in Guantanamo Bay, to face military tribunals for sedition. It's a cult. She's in a cult. It's QAnon. I mean, it's scary. Honestly, you would almost feel, you would feel bad for a person like this if they weren't so close to this position of power in the United States that is affecting so many Americans. You can't feel bad for her because there are real consequences to her actions. Let's watch the video of her walking into the hearing because I just think it adds a weird kind of eerie layer to this all. Let's play the clip. Ms. Thomas, why do you feel like you need to speak to the committee to clear your name?

Thank you for being here. Did you speak with your husband about your beliefs of the election being stolen? Thank you for your question. I look forward to answering the members. So that's Ginny Thomas being questioned by a by a reporter honestly that's like you put some horror music behind that it's a horror movie right there she was actually in a cult in the 1980s right called a live spring um and she went from one cult to q anon i mean she's full-fledged in q anon you also need to remember, Brett, she was sending

emails to all of the state legislators as well, telling them to become fake electors. And she said, we need to submit, quote unquote, clean electors. And that was part of the scam and the scheme that's currently being investigated by the Department of Justice and Fonny Willis out in Georgia. You know how people have tells, not to interrupt you, but to interrupt you. You know how people have tells when they're lying? Well, if you watch that clip, and I've watched that clip probably a hundred times today, she doesn't actually blink in that clip until she starts to say, I'm excited to answer questions in front of the committee. It's very obvious. And again, that's- I'm not sure if that's a tell there. I think

it was something else going. Well, I'm just saying, that's- I'm not sure if that's a tell there. I think it was something else going. Well, I'm just saying, that's someone who's genuinely not well. A perpetual tell. At the same time, she can't be this close to a position of power in the United States. It's terrifying to see it play out in real time like that. Yeah, and then you have somebody like Justice Alito

going around and is just complaining, why does everybody think the Supreme Court is illegitimate? I cannot for the life of me think why anybody would have criticisms of the Supreme Court or be questioned. He's saying this to Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal while he's saying it without even self-aware. Why would anyone think I'm legitimate? We're illegitimate as I'm giving an exclusive to the Wall Street Journal with Rupert Murdoch right now. I'm spending my time as a Supreme Court justice speaking to Wall Street Journal. Come on. And this is also after he went.

Remember when he went abroad and gave that speech? Basically, just was that early? Did he give it in front of the Italy? I think it was like a church in front of the right wing party. I didn't connect the dots there, but I think he was in front of the Fratelli. He definitely gave it, I think, in Rome at a church. And he was mocking Americans who were upset with the Roe decision then. So he's a person who has made this court extremely, extremely politicized.

And I mean, just think about the story that we just told you, the clip we just showed you of Ginny Thomas. Then think about Justice Alito whining to the Wall Street Journal that people are questioning the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. And just the fact that he can't acknowledge why Americans would be so upset with the Supreme Court right now. To me, that in and of itself speaks incredible volumes. I mean, and you only have to look at recent history to see how the Supreme Court was corrupted. I mean, and you only have to look at recent history to see how the Supreme Court was corrupted. I mean, we all saw how Mitch McConnell delegitimized the entire court and the Supreme Court is not above reproach. They are nine unelected officials with some of the most

power in the entire country. There has to be accountability here. These aren't monarchs we are dealing with. And if they're unelected officials, we have to have a way to be able to voice our opposition and voice our feelings. That's we live in America. We should be able to do that without being told that we're overreacting here. They stole the seat from Merrick Garland. That wound is still very raw in this country. They ended up then using, but totally putting their logic aside for the reasons that they didn't let Merrick Garland at the seat saying it was an election year. They then forced in the unqualified Amy Coney Barrett just days before the 2020 election. Then they went ahead and stripped away a constitutional right that has been in this

country for decades, for decades. After all the people on the court, every single justice who voted against it, who struck down Roe, had said in their statements, yes, Roe is the law of the land. We're not going to touch the court precedent. And they have the nerve now to go, I don't understand why anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the court. No, it's the worst, Brett. And so you have that what's going on in the court. We talked about what was going on internationally with Italy. And we talked about what's going on with one of the Supreme Court justices' wife. I want to talk about these radical MAGA extremist politicians, though.

And let's focus on two things. First, let's just talk about, this is kind of the low-hanging fruit, because we did the Youngstown ohio trump fascist cosplay circus rally where jr majowski or majewski he started off he goes i'm gonna turn the green new deal into a big brown turd i'm like what is this i'm like i didn't realize that was him that was the same dude yeah wow he goes i'm gonna turn it into a turd and i'm like who that who the hell is the guy what else did he say in the intro he said something else like he said he's got he said he had eagle bumps and then brett told him he should probably get oh i like these eagle bumps all over me we don't get goosebumps on stage we get eagle bumps and he made his his pronoun joke

my pronouns are kiss my ass he did like the whole ted Cruz thing. That's how he let it off. So he kicked it off with that hilarious joke that Republicans like to make. And so they touted him as like, this is like our centrist MAGA, whatever candidate. The guy's like, he fits every profile, like the biggest liar, stolen valor in the world, right? He claimed first off that he was a combat veteran in Afghanistan. This was a major part of his story. He centered his entire campaign around this, but the records show that he was actually never in combat. He was actually a plane loader and cutter, which by the way, thank you for, you know, absolutely. Exactly. You worked for the military. I think no matter what your job is, I think you should be praised for doing service for this country. But you but he made his whole campaign that he was a combat veteran in Afghanistan.

And then he basically said, what do you say? He goes, it wasn't in my personnel file because it was classified. In other words, he's been talking about classified information and breaching classified information publicly. But obviously that's not true. Obviously it's not true. We have a background public to just get behind the guy because why not? He's saying things we like. Why do our due diligence?

Why check him out? Let's just go with him. We like him. I don't understand why he couldn't just declassify those records with his mind though, Ben. He can't do telepathic mind you can't just be like well i wanted to show you these records in fact i just figured out a way let me telepathically communicate it to kash patel who by the way kash patel is like literally signing q anon cards and like publishing them on it like that's how deep down the rap is,

dude, for kids, books, kids, book, QAnon, kids, books, literally where he's saying, where we go, when we go all for QAnon kids, book to these people. And then the other thing, Majewski said, I learned my ABCs in elementary school. I don't learn my cues. That's all I know. Right. And Majewski was also told that he could not reenlist in the Air Force after his initial four years were up. And many wondered why. And Majewski's campaign said last week that he was, this is what they went with, that he was punished and demoted because he got into a bar brawl like a real man. People are so ridiculous. They went with bar brawl.

Everything they do is a freaking lie. It's a parody. Military records show that this was a lie. He was punished because he was stopped for a DUI on a U.S. air base in Japan in September 2001. And so he had a DUI. That's why he didn't reenlist. And he made up a bar brawl story and a combat veteran story. And look, one of the issues with all of this MAGA Republican, I want to take this, you

know, Majewski is a freaking joke, this guy. But there's a real serious issue here at stake. And this is when these MAGA policies and their focus on talking about CRT and this and that and just making up and going after Disneyland versus actually helping people. And we see this right now, particularly with Hurricane Ian. And again, my thoughts with everybody out there, I saw some of those videos.

I mean, it's horrific what was going on. As you delve deeper into some of the politics and policies behind them, the property insurance industry in Florida has basically completely collapsed. And DeSantis' response to it completely collapsing and people really unable to get insurance premiums are like $5,000, $6,000. People can't even get it. People can't even get it. Was rather than to solve the problem, right? Because I guess solving problems is woke.

That's what the woke lefties do. We try to get people insurance. What a woke. The woke people, they want to use their brains. What a woke, crazy concept. But what they would do is they would mock the rating agencies. The same way Trump would just go after Fauci, like that's the MAGA Republican, they would criticize and yell at the insurance companies,

the ratings agencies, rather than solve the problem. So basically, they would want to help the insurance companies, not actually try to solve the problem. But with the rating agencies, they would go, oh, the reason that we're getting downgraded is because the rating agencies, like you're giving us the wrong grade, screw you. And there have been many, many, many articles leading up to Hurricane Ian raising this issue and raising the problem, but again, not addressing it at all. Instead, kidnapping asylum seekers in Texas, in Bexar County, and shipping them on these PR stunts, torturing them, and sending them to Martha's Vineyard.

Tens of millions of dollars. they're not shipped away for free. That comes out of the state budget often. That is money that could have gone towards solving this issue and towards rebuilding after these storms. But instead, it was used for these political stunts. I think that's an important thing to note as well. Look at their leaders down there in Florida. You have DeSantis.

You have the Gateses of the world. I mean, these are horrible, horrendous people. And it's true. They just deflect, guys. They just deflect and deflect and deflect. While they're shouting all the Mr. Potato Head, CRT, Disneyland, while they're doing all that to rile up their people, DL in the background, what you're not seeing is them actually not solving any of these issues.

The rents are soaring. The insurance is soaring. And they're not doing anything at all to help those problems. So people are suffering, but they're distracting them by going, oh, but did you see Disneyland, those groomers? Let's protest Disneyland. Let's take away their rights. And that's kind of like, oh, let's not say gay in schools. This is the new one. This is the new one. Why is Lizzo playing the historical flutes? Yeah, yeah. The flute that they didn't even know existed like 48 hours ago is now the world's biggest

controversy in the right wing ecosystem. And it's all just manufactured controversies. It's all just made up stuff. Obviously, everything, it goes without saying. But obviously, everything is- For those who don't know, Lizzo, she she visited was at the library of congress or one of the historical sites that keep these like historically preserved flutes and she played a more modern track on the flute and because she played it all of the right wing naga like podcasts and stations were like that was a really offensive

to our country to our integrity integrity. That is making- The people who like shit on the walls of the Capitol are all of a sudden upset about like a trained musician playing- Literally, Brett. The people who take their freaking... We have so many people watching. I don't want to get them a bad taste in their mouth, but they literally take their feces. They throw it on the Capitol. They like piss in it. And then they're like, how dare she play the freaking flute freaking flute i mean that's who these bag of people are though and you know they're not really upset about any of this it's all fake outrage it's all just phony they know that it's going to get them clicks they know that it's going to have give them something to talk

about in their whatever sort of chats they do i don't think the podcasters are actually angry but they get their base angry for sure. Well, however, their base can feel like victims because that's part of it. Like the more they feel like a victim, oh, whoa, pity versus actually solving the problem. Remember this too, though, about DeSantis, right? DeSantis as a congressman and Senator Marco Rubio,

both had voted against disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Like, that's just how cruel those people were. I don't want to, you know, and don't let that get lost. I forgot, by the way, that DeSantis was like a congressman for a while, which is weird when you think about it for this reason. What accomplishments have you ever heard of Congressman Ron DeSantis? What good have you like? Think about right now, what good did he do for the country when he was in Congress? We like never even heard the guy's name until he ran for president and did the kind of build the wall corny ad with his kids and then took over Florida and turned it into what it is

now. But you have that, you have Rubio and DeSantis actually voting against Hurricane Sandy funding, which as a native New Yorker really pisses me off that anybody, I mean, it's like, you know, it pisses me off in the way that, you know, when these people don't try to help 9-11 responders, you know, when people are in trouble, when people are suffering, that's when the government needs to step up and help out. When we are in crisis, we come together as Americans. That's always how it's been. That's always how it should be. And you have these shameless, disgusting people going, oh, well, that's the liberal elites

in New York. We're not going to help them, which, by the way, couldn't even be further from the truth about most of the people who live in the state of New York. But they just let them rot and suffer. And meanwhile, you get a guy like President Biden. Biden, before anything even happens, approves emergency funding for Florida instantly, speaks with all the mayors. He contacts DeSantis. He speaks with DeSantis, even though DeSantis was going on Fox News and whining, he hasn't talked to me yet. He hasn't

talked to me yet. Biden talked to him. While DeSantis was whining, Biden was actually getting things done and leading. Yeah. He was dealing with all the local officials and making sure that they had what they need and making sure that FEMA was prepared to take on the storm before anything even happened. And you have DeSantis going on. Where else is he going on local Florida TV to brief them on what's happening? I mean, he might have. I don't know. But where is he spending most of his time? He's spending most of his time on Fox News, going on Hannity, going on Tucker. And it's just such a contrast to what we've also seen with the Trump administration, where when you saw Puerto Rico

just devastated by storms, what did he do? He flew down there. He threw paper towels at them. He really didn't help them at all. And when the mayor of San Juan called him out and said, we need more relief. We need help. What did he do? Did he say, oh, thanks for giving me your input. We're going to help you with the federal government because at the federal government, we know that we are all Americans, whether you voted for me or not, we're going to expedite that aid to you. No, he attacked the mayor of San Juan. He's made it his mission to just viciously attack her on Twitter, on TV. That was his reaction to the storm. When you have Biden actually just being a

leader and caring for people. And we're seeing this time and time again as natural disasters strike the entire country. The Hot Honey McCrispy is so back at McDonald's with juicy 100% Canadian raised seasoned chicken, shredded lettuce, crispy jalapenos, and that completely craveable hot honey sauce. It's a sweet heat repeat you don't want to miss. Get your hot honey McCrispy today. Available for a limited time only at McDonald's. What else was Tucker Carlson talking about though when DeSantis went on like right before, right around that time period? You know what he was talking about, right? He was spreading the dis- I mean, he I mean, he wasn't talking about the sexy green M&Ms. He wasn't talking about Mr. Potato Head. That was a few months back, but something

far more insidious. He was accusing the United States of engaging in sabotage of the Nord Stream and two pipelines, which the authorities in Europe have basically all but said for certain the sabotage came from Russia to try to literally harm the NATO countries in the surrounding area. People believe that the Russian Navy ships were spotted near the Nordstrom leak sites, which is causing significant problems in that area as part of the false flag operations that were being created. But Brett, let's play if you can, because what Tucker Carlson was saying was being reiterated. Perhaps you want to talk about what Charlie Kirk was saying as well? Yeah. Well, first I'm just going to say like, it's interesting how, or it's not

very interesting, but let's be real. Every single time we see a story come out and there is a Russian side to the story. And there is a side that the entire Western, everybody from intelligence services to the media, to the United States government get behind. Every time we see that, where do Republicans choose their allegiance? They always take the side of Russian propaganda 100% of the time, and they make it their mission to amplify Russian propaganda. It's like you're following the stock markets. It's a trend line. They'll always follow Russian propaganda. And Tucker and Charlie Kirk and all these MAGA extremists, not only were they accusing the US, they said that the US is guilty until

proven innocent, number one, but then they suggested ways that Russia should retaliate against America. I mean, they're full-fledged traitors. It's not even a close call. This is the most anti-American vileile stuff should we play charlie kirk mcgurk mcdurk play charlie kirk mcgurk which is exactly echoing what tucker carlson and apologies in advance for having to listen to his voice if this was an act of the central intelligence agency the cia which again is just speculation it's very important how does that get us closer to peace? Is this a potential midterm election operation? Pure speculation. I am asking a question. I know Media Matters will have a heyday with this. Is this a wag the dog situation where they want us talking about a war in Europe when we have

inflation, border problems, and the economy? Is this because that there is a looming red wave here? Is this an underwater October surprise? I don't know. But I certainly don't trust our government. The government that lied about the origins of the Chinese coronavirus, that lied about the mRNA gene altering technology, that lied about the efficacy. All right, I'm done with that. Wow i i can't believe he moved it into covid i don't even think i ever got that far into the club why does everyone on the right want to do a bad tucker carlson impression i mean like everyone always wants to just like like try and be tucker and just such a weird thing to i don't know you know who really does it too is

that benny johnson guy yes like like you watch them and you're like, are you like trying to imitate Tucker? I almost called him so weird. These, these people are such, they're such losers. It's really, truly anti-American. And they wrap it in this whole speculation. I'm just asking questions here. Just a question. Don't be afraid of questions. I'm just raising the issues. And it's like, no, you're purposely putting forth propaganda to try to put forth a narrative, which coincidentally, sarcastic, obviously aligns exactly with the Russian line. I mean, every single time. And they're all coordinating it too. So at the same time, you have that happening. Trump's going on those networks at all. And he tried this line out at the most recent rally. And it was just one of the most disgusting eyebrow raises. What did he say? And he's like, I'm going to talk about

the N-word over in Russia. I'm going to talk about the N- and that's nuclear. That's nuclear. I'm talking about the Russian nuclear. And he's then gone on and said that like multiple times, basically saying that Russia wants to use, you know, it's nukes. And then he went on and gave a, on his social media, this is what he said. He says that he wants to be the one to mediate between Russia and Ukraine after his previous idea was to extort Ukraine, not deprive Ukraine of all of its weaponry that it basically needed, and to basically carve it up to give all of the land directly to Russia. That was Trump's plan while he was in office. Unfortunately, Biden won, but he goes, this is what Trump said on the social media platform. US leadership would remain cool, calm, and dry on the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines. This is a big event that should not entail a big solution, at least not yet. The Russian-Ukraine catastrophe should never have happened and would definitely not have happened if i were president do not make matters work with the pipeline blow up be strategic be smart brilliant get a negotiated deal done now both side needs

and want it the entire world is at stake i will head up group i mean but also just you notice the language that he says to the russia uk can't Ukraine catastrophes should never happen. Russia unlawfully invaded Ukraine. Like he, he acts like it's just some natural event is Russia. You just happen. It's just this catastrophe as if it's the hurricane one to me. Yeah.

And the fact is, is that we all know at this point what that actually means, right? If he is actually mediating this process, it means he's going to do exactly what he tried to do with Zelensky when he got impeached over it. He would try to extort Zelensky for whatever he wants at the time. He would try to then concede all the land that Russia wants from Ukraine and just give

it to them. And then basically strong arm Zelensky and strong arm Ukraine into saying, we're not going to provide you with weapons. So you could either take this deal or you could leave it. Then Russia would overrun Ukraine. And inevitably they would then try to take more land than they were even offered in the deal. Then they would continue through Europe. And then you have a true world war three situation. I mean, it's pretty obvious what Trump would have done in this situation and why he says, oh, it'd be so easy. Yeah. Cause you would have given away everything to Russia. It's very, very, very obvious what your move is in this situation.

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said the inevitable end of all of these policies that republicans are pushing he said if there is an abortion ban do you think that women should go to prison for murder should they be charged with murder if they have an abortion because it's going to be illegal so if you're going to do that should they go to prison and he said yes shall we play the clip let's play it it's like let me pull it up we're live now guys so you know it's oh brent but you were the one who said let's play shall we play the clip i got it i. I got it. I got it. I want to clarify something. He wasn't caught saying this.

It's not like he was at his dinner table saying this. Like he just. Yeah, Jordan, lay down the law. All right. All right. Mastroano. Mastroano. Play the clip.

Okay. So my question is, you know, would, and again, you can give me a yes or no on this. Would that woman who decided to have an abortion, which would be considered an illegal abortion, be charged for murder? OK, let's go back to the basic question there. Is that a human being? Is that a little boy or girl? If it is, it deserves equal protection on the law.

So you're saying yes. Yes, I am. I mean, there's no room there for other any other interpretation other than yes. I mean, he would lock women up for murder. I mean, that's that's it. Geordie is rocking his Shapiro for governor tote bag. Yeah. I mean, that's why it's so important that Pennsylvania does elect Josh Shapiro, who's somebody who's going to stand up for abortion rights and is

going to stand up for democracy against this really radical extremist, Doug Mastriano, who's a literal January 6th insurrectionist. This is a really dangerous guy who does not want to accept the results of elections where Republicans don't win them. He doesn't believe in democracy, frankly, and he wants to send women to prison. And I think it's important to note that whether you realize it or not, there is a woman in your life who has had an abortion. I promise you that because the stat will actually surprise you, but one in four women in their lifetime will get an abortion. So think about that and think about how hard those decisions can often be for people.

And now think about the fact that you have somebody like Doug Mastriano who wants to run a state, who wants to run the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. You have somebody like that who wants to lock these women up, who wants to throw them in jail. Your wives, your mothers, your daughters, your friends, your family, anybody wants to throw them in prison for getting health care. That's not the America I want to live in. That's all I know. Brett, did you see the floor speech Wednesday night

by Representative Elisa Slotkin, the Democrat from Lansing? It was a speech that's now been viewed millions of times where she really condemned her Republican colleagues for threatening to vote down her bipartisan Solid Start Act. And what the Solid Start Act is, is a bill to connect veterans with the Department of Veterans Affairs as they transition to civilian life. And there was a pilot program of it, but this bill would make it permanent. And what the Republicans were objecting to was a 16-word provision of the bill that said the following, that it would ensure that the VA provided women veterans with information that is tailored to their specific healthcare and benefit needs. That's what it said. The 16-word provision that they were objecting to and saying that they did not want to support this ability of the VA to help veterans transition to civilian life, they wanted to strike language

about providing women veterans with information that is tailored to their specific health care and benefit needs because they viewed that that language would be providing reproductive health care and they wanted a total abortion ban. And so there was just this really inspiring, sad, tough, but powerful speech by Elisa Slotkin who called out these Republicans and said, you want to really have a conversation about this? Let me explain to you what the real issues are here as you're playing with the lives of women veterans and women in general. And you want to cower behind these fake labels and these fake

names. Let's really talk about what this issue is here and what you're denying. But how sick is that, that that's what the Republicans were denying. And that's what we're dealing with as we approach these midterms. The stakes cannot be higher. And connecting all elements of this podcast, I want to talk about Marjorie Taylor Greene in a little bit. But these are people who say that when they take power, the first thing they're going to do is they're going to defund the FBI. They're going to defund the Department of Homeland Security. They're going to defund the Department of Homeland Security.

They're going to defund the Department of Education. They're going to shut down the government, just have total government shutdowns. They're going to take away Social Security. They're going to take away Medicare. They're going to increase prescription drug prices. And this is not fear-mongering, right? I hate it. I don't like to use that word, but I hate it when mainstream media was like, that's

fear-mongering. But they're not saying necessarily that they are going to absolutely repeal social security. It's like, if you listen to them, yes, it is what they are saying. You know, it's the same thing where they were like, well, you would go, well, Justice Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, they didn't say that they were going to overturn Roe v. Wade. They said it was precedent. So I'm going to fact check you Midas Touch Network and say that you're calling them out unfairly because all they're saying is that they don't want to make it mandatory and they want to turn it into discretionary. And yeah, sure, when they make

it discretionary, they could revoke the rights and just make people beg for their social security every year and likely take it away because they're calling it an entitlement and that people don't deserve it. But let's just trust them that they're actually do not want to do it. It's like, listen to what they're saying. Listen to their actions. It's self-evident to quote the 11th circuit. They're telling you what they're doing. And the mainstream media wants to, again, hear no evil, see no evil. Jordy, how many times do we have to see this play out before we're like, are you going to believe them? Are you going to listen to what they're saying? Or are you going to keep hiding behind your fact checks where you parse words here and there and go,

they're never going to take away Roe. They said it was settled precedent. So believe them when they say it, despite all evidence to the contrary. No, absolutely. We talk about the GOP Handmaid's Tale video that we had released about the young lady crossing the border with her mother and then getting pulled over by the police. When we released that ad, we initially released that ad back in 2021, way before the- 2020. You're right. Sorry, 2020. Way before the decision came to the court, we just saw where things were going and heading

towards at the time. We tried to sound the alarm and we were called alarmists. And we were actually kind of flagged by people on our side. Hey, you guys may be taking it a little bit too far. Breitbart wrote an article about us. I think we got a Breitbart. I think we got a Daily Caller. I think we got all those people. But then we got people on our email list. Then we got people on Twitter and stuff who said, guys, this is outrageous. Stop scaring people. Stop. Roe is here. It's the law of the land. Stop scaring people. And now I'm like, hello, are you going to pay attention or are we going to be doing this a year from now?

And you're not going to have your social security. You're not going to have your Medicare. You're going to be put on the street because of these people. You're not going to be able to vote. Like we need to all be sounding the alarm right now and truly understand the strangest thing. And I don't want to be like, just, okay, just talk about Midas touch, you know, but like this pro-democracy network, there's, it really is a unique concept. And, you know, I go back to this one comment, they were like, and the person said it sarcastically, they were like, who would have thought there's a market for calling traders, traders. And when you and I, when we talk about it, us three, it does surprise me.

It's like, why isn't anybody else doing this? It should be so obvious to call it out, to criticize it, to condemn it, and then offer the solutions to these things that are staring us in the face. But I think, again, the strength of what we've been able to are staring us in the face. But, you know, I think, again, the strength of what we've been able to build is rooted in the Midas Mighty community of people, because this isn't just like a network. And when you become just a network, you're beholden to special interests, you're beholden to corporate interests, you're beholden to trying to both sides the issue. We don't have to worry

about that because it's a movement fueled by all of you. But it's why it's so critical that we call all of this out because if we don't call it out, who else is calling it out, right? I go back to that quote, right? First, they came for the socialists and I didn't speak out. I wasn't a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me. We need to speak for our democracy. We need to speak for each other against these gaslighters.

Because when these people come into power, if they come into power, it's not fear mongering. We know what they're going to do. They are coming for us right now. They are coming for you right now. And we have an incredible opportunity though, to prevent that from happening, from reversing that tide of what's happening. And I just want to briefly switch gears though too. And I want to talk about the good news about what's going on. But first we have to also talk about though this marjorie taylor green piece of it oh we we get we get into this oh we gotta get we gotta totally get into marjorie taylor green's divorce like let's analyze them here's why we have to get here's why we need to talk about marjorie see this is the part of the

show where if we weren't live we'd probably be like – I actually thought about us not discussing it. But for someone who is asking for their privacy to have just last week kicked an activist from Voters of Tomorrow from a few years back harassing David Hogg, Parkland survivor, stalking and harassing. It is just so – maybe this isn't the right word, but ironic that now she's asking for her privacy. How about this, Jordy? They literally repealed the right of Americans to privacy. They were the constitutional right of privacy. Look, at the end of the day, do I really care one bit about her, actually the inside arrangements of her marriage? I don't care about it. But what I do care about, though, is that she condemns the way other people be, you know, are, she condemns other marriage.

She acts like marriage is like a traditional, but meanwhile, she's out like apparently like, you know, and like, and by the way, everyone can have whatever relationships that you want, but don't go and start utilizing your platform to condemn you know if but if she wants to have a you know a relationship and be you know whatever she does with the with the gym with her with her we go you know whatever but stop but don't stop coming after everyone else is bad we want to love you want to love holier than now and you're the one who who's committing adultery behind people. What are you doing?

And then kind of go, please respect my privacy. Please respect my privacy. It's the ultimate gaslighting 101. We don't have to go into it deeper than that, Brett. I think that's good. I hope that perhaps she could drop out of the race to spend time with what's left of her family. Good news? Should we talk about good news?

Good news under the radar, which we're taking into the radar because it needs to be actually reported on. Let's talk first about manufacturing jobs have now surpassed pre-pandemic levels. There's 67,000 more factory workers than before the pandemic to be exact. And I know that MAGA Republicans and Republicans are literally trying to do everything they can

to destroy the economy. It's like a freaking sadistic tug of war right now with literally Democrats and pro-democracy and independents, like just trying to like go about like just doing things right and normal. And we literally have an insurgent like terrorist political party that engages in every way to harm America and to harm the economy. I mean, they've been trying to do it now for some time. I mean, literally, you have Greg Abbott in Texas who was trying to shut down the border. Then you had even people from Texas like Ted Cruz trying to shut down the northern border and encourage economic terrorism, shutting down bridges and trying to stop trade from happening. Anything to own the libs, I guess, is like, let's own the libs by destroying America.

That's what basically MAGA Republicans try to do. But Biden is just fighting for jobs every single day. One of the stats that I saw, I don't know if you saw this, Jordy and Brett. And Jordy, I like to, I see how I do more, Jordy. That growth right there. I'm very proud of you. Thank you.

Leaning in on unions and leaning in. Look, when people are sick, they deserve sick leave, right? That was a major issue with the potential strike that was taking place with freight workers, right? Making sure that people have rights at the workplace. And what always just like shocks me still at some of these like fascist circus Trump rallies is when you see people there in the crowd who, you know, you know, are benefiting from the Affordable Care Act, which they Republicans want to appeal, will repeal, you know, you know, they're likely on, you know,

either Medicare or they're on social security or will be on social security soon, which they Republicans want to appeal, will repeal, you know, you know, they're likely on, you know, either Medicare or they're on social security or will be on social security soon, which Republicans are trying to repeal. Like, you know, that they are availing themselves of all of, you know, the things that Democrats are fighting for yet. They're like, let's own the libs by, you know, whatever. It's ridiculous. And I mean, it's the same thing that we were kind of talking about earlier with DeSantis, where they do all those distractions. They have all those crazy rallies. They rile people up about these issues that they really shouldn't care about, like about

pronouns or about, you know, whatever QAnon conspiracy theory they have that day. Mr. Potato Head, you name it. Green M&M. They were Lizzo's flute. whatever QAnon conspiracy theory they have that day, Mr. Potato Head, you name it, Green Eminence, Lizzo's flute, they rile them up while they are stealing from them so that they don't realize what they are doing. And in the background, you have all these good things happening in the Biden economy that frankly, not even the mainstream media is giving nearly enough attention. That's why I'm excited to be able to have our show here where we could actually talk about a lot of the good out there in the world that's going on. I mean, just think about this. Typically, jobs don't come back from factories once they're lost. If you go back to the 70s, jobs do not come back after a recession

in factories. This is the first time since the 70s, the first recovery after a recession in which factory jobs have actually returned. And not only returned in this case, but have exceeded their previous numbers. I mean, that's a big deal. These are union factory jobs. It's a huge win for workers. And I think it's important that we're constantly fighting for workers in this economy. I mean, they are the backbone of this economy. And we just see constantly kind of Democrats fighting for over and over again, kind of just regular working people. And then Republicans just get incredibly mad about it nonstop.

We saw this with the whole student debt issue recently, where everybody knows by now a Biden's plan to cancel $10,000 in student loan debt for those making less than 125K a year or households with 250. That gets an additional 10K for Pell Grant recipients. And now you have all of these right-wing states, you have all these Republican states suing the Biden administration to try to make sure that Americans are burdened with student loan debt. I mean, it is so comically evil and it is such a strange hill to die on in general, but especially 40 days out of the midterm, your big move is going to be let's sue the Biden administration to make sure that hardworking Americans are forced into student loan debt. It is just beyond parity. So the states are suing. We already saw this lawsuit come and go

from this Pacific Legal Foundation, this Koch-funded right-wing group, where they basically said, oh, this is extreme government overreach by the Biden administration. I think they filed that on Tuesday. It's Thursday, and that case has already been struck down by the Biden administration. I think they filed that on Tuesday. It's Thursday. And that case has already been struck down by the judge swiftly dropped. So there, just to break it down in the most basic terms, the person was like, I'm suing you because you're forcing me to get my loans forgiven. And then so Biden was like, okay, well then don't do it. You don't have to opt in. You don't have to opt in and then we won't forgive it then. And so then the court was like,

then you're not really injured. You don't have standing to sue because you weren't harmed. And so now they want to change their pleadings. They want to do an amendment to claim now how this harmed them in a different way. The one thing I want to point out, and I apologize because I don't know who tweeted it, but whoever tweeted it was great. Maybe it was you, Brett. Maybe it was someone else. This says, the Republican Party hypocrisy at work. The Republican Party wants you to know that the student loan cancellation will cost $400 billion over the next 30 years. But what the GOP doesn't want you to know is that their tax policy, which was their tax cuts for billionaires from January 27th to January 2021, cost America $2 trillion in the first year and $7.5 trillion in four years with very little, if anything, to show. And I've talked about this over and over again. You know my trickle down concept.

Tricle, trickle, trickle, trickle, trickle. Exactly. For those watching, they're like, what the hell are you guys doing? But the idea of that the Republicans lean into this view of trickle down economics and that anybody but a billionaire would cheer on the notion that rather than give the money to you, we're going to give it to your CEO. And hopefully your CEO then trickles it to you versus the democratic plan, which is we will give it to you. And then we will go from the middle up versus trickle it down. Like who is rooting for, you know what? Don't give me that money. I don't want that shit. I give it to my boss. I give it to him. He may buy a Lamborghini. And then from the Lamborghini, that sale may result

in a auto parts piece. And I may then work for this. And then maybe I'll see a little bit of that just trickle and hit me. Like, why wouldn't you want it directly? Which average American roots to be trickled on? Here's why. Here's the average American. Lizzo's flute. Lizzo's flute. Wait, what did they do? They just stole $2 trillion from me. I was too busy worrying about Lizzo's flute the whole time. Biden's cut the deficit. Every one of the issues, like Republicans, $7.5 trillion in four years was the Republican tax cut. No funding mechanism for those tax cuts. It goes to 1% of Americans as opposed to student debt relief, which is actually a 46 million Americans

benefit from student debt relief, which is the one that Republicans have the problem with. I think it shows you exactly who the Republican Party is working for. It's as clear as night and day. Other great updates, Medicare Part B premiums will decrease in 2023. This is the first time they will decrease in over a decade, and that matters to most Americans. They're just doing normal stuff too, like Biden administration unveiling new measures that would require airlines to be more transparent with customers about the fees they charge and provide ways for customers to see the money they are owed in the event of flight cancellations and delays. The Senate has also voted 72 to 25 to pass a short-term stopgap government funding bill that will extend government funding until

December 16th. The bill also includes $12.3 billion in aid for Ukraine, which will now go to the House, which it will consider the bill tomorrow. Biden administration announced their plan to end hunger in the U.S. by 2030 during the first White House conference on health and nutrition in 50 years. At this point, Biden's like, yo, I'm just going to do everything. Yeah. I'm just going to end hunger right now. The White House plan hinges on an $8 billion in commitments from the private sector to help fight hunger, including $4 billion that will be dedicated by philanthropies that are focused on expanding access to healthy food. I mean, all critical stuff, but he's putting in the work, right?

We're talking about Inflation Reduction Act, right? We're talking about the Infrastructure Act. We're talking about the PACT Act. I mean, I could go down the list. The CHIPS Act, the biggest investment in the American semiconductor industry in history, bringing jobs here. Any one of these would be a gigantic accomplishment for any president. He's done multiple. I think they should start trolling the GOP with legislation and start naming them after the boring shit that they pretend to care about.

Like all the fake stuff. Like there should be like the flute bill. Like that should be a bill. Like the M&M bill should be a bill. The Dr. Seuss, like we should just start throwing out all these things and be like, Oh, you, that's what you care about. Well, maybe you'll care about it when it's actually in this bill and stands for whatever it stands for. I think it's a brilliant, I think it's a brilliant concept. I'm actually not tracking that line of thought at all, but I'll let Ben take it from here. I'll explain it to you after the show.

All right. Well, look, here's thinking about everything we talked about on this podcast and this episode. For me, yeah, but for me, here's the thing. The reason that I always say this, the reason I'm a Democrat is not because I love the donkey logo. It's not because to me, the Democrat team is like, oh, the cool Democrat team. There's only one group of major political party that exists right now that is doing the responsible thing. They're acting like adults. There's difficult compromises that need to be made and getting shit done is tough, but at least we have a party that's taking it seriously. They're taking it seriously domestically. They're focusing on who our allies are. We're not selling out our country to Vladimir fricking Putin and Kim Jong-un like the MAGA

Republicans do. And we're focused on actually helping people with actual solutions. And that's the only reason why I like Democrats right now. If Democrats start acting like Ginny Thomas and she's going, well, I'm going to talk about why. You know, like, you know, for real. Right. If we start having people like that who were like, well, we go on, we go all big, you know, release the crack. And I'd be, I'd be so done in two minutes. I'd be out. I'd be like, what are you talking about?

And we need to grow this pro-democracy movie. Like that impression. I love that. No, it's almost like every episode, Ben breaks out a new impression. I'm always totally surprised by it but i'm always impressed 100 the don jr one that i do like is is a pretty last week i brought out my ted cruz which i don't know if i'm gonna have it now but you got ted crew we're all gonna work on our impressions and we're gonna do a whole show in other people's voices one of these days yeah like the people

call it just bad impressions but anyway and we'll lose all of our subscribers. I am so glad to be back though right now working in full effect from Italy. I had a great trip out there. I love Milan. I mean, it is a very, very beautiful city steeped in history. I got to see a lot of really cool things out there. I had to do some of my other work as a practicing litigator. I think I could announce this here for the first time on the Midas Touch podcast as well, that starting next spring, I will also be a USC law professor. I'm going to be a lecturer at USC law. You're just trying to find out how to like, give me more plates. Did you not tell Jordy? I knew this. I didn't know it. What are you talking about? You didn't know I was going to be a USC law professor? Hold up. What?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's basically going to be Ben's YouTube videos, but in front of a class. That's amazing. Congratulations. I have to finish my syllabus soon, but I'm excited for that. So if you want to join that class in the spring semester, you can look it up. They wanted me to publicize it. Are you going with Mr. Ben, Mr. Mycelis, Professor Mycelis? Are you guys kidding right now? I don't know if you guys are. No, no, no. This is very

nice. It's true. In fact, I'll tell you a funny story. Ben got an email. I don't even know. He'll probably be mad at me telling this. Ben got an email from USC and it was just a general email saying when classes were starting a few weeks ago. And it was like, you ever have those nightmares where like you wake up and you think you missed an exam or something. Ben got terrified that his class that he was teaching was like two days and that he had to come up with the entire syllabus in two days and that he hadn't been working on it. Ben was like, I swear I'm starting in the spring. I swear it was the spring. I've never seen just the look of panic on his face until he realized it was just a generic email about the semester in general. Well, it's so great spending this time with you, brothers.

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