The Young Turks - The Young Turks 11.22.17: Neil Gorsuch, Lisa Murkowski, Harvey Weinstein, and North Korean Defector

Episode Date: November 23, 2017

A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from November 22st, 2017. For more go to http://www.tytnetwork.com/join. Hour 1: Cenk & Ana. Tax records revealed in a new report showed that a Virginia-based non-profit organization gave millions to a group that took out ads urging GOP Senators to keep Merrick Garland out of the Supreme Court and put Neil Gorsuch in. Last year alone, The Wellspring Committee gave $23 million to the Judicial Crisis Network, which in turn spent $7 million on materials opposing Garland. After President Donald Trump was elected, JCN spent another $10 million in pro-Gorsuch ads. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she supports GOP efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate.  Hour 2: Cenk & Ana. Harvey Weinstein allegedly hired private investigative firms to collect damaging information on his sexual harassment accusers and spy on actress Rose McGowan, who alleges that Weinstein raped her. A former sports doctor accused of molesting several girls while working for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University pleaded guilty to seven charges of criminal sexual conduct on Wednesday. Larry Nassar entered the plea during a hearing in Michigan's Ingham County on Wednesday. Nassar, 54, was charged with molesting seven girls, all but one of whom were gymnasts, mostly under the guise of treatment at his Lansing-area home and a campus clinic. He faces lawsuits filed by more than 125 women and girls. The United Nations Command in control of the border between the two Koreas released dramatic video on Tuesday of what happened when a North Korean soldier defected to the South on Nov. 13.  The video shows the defector speeding south in a jeep before getting out, being shot at least five times by North Korean soldiers pursuing him and then being dragged to safety by South Korean soldiers. The surveillance video also showed one of the North Korean guards step across the demarcation line between the two countries while chasing the defector, in violation of a cease-fire agreement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And you're going to see today when it comes to stories about Republicans and Democrats why we need that revolution. There are about four devastating stories in this program about this. So don't miss a minute of it. You're going to get the first segment here, but sign up, you get the whole show, okay, t-y-tnetwork.com slash join. But overall, if you're watching, please stay here because I think you're going to going to be fascinated by these stories, including the one about net neutrality. But before we get

to the stories, and of course, it's Jen and Anna today. Hey, how you doing Anna? Good. Okay. Just another quick programming note. At 505 today, Pacific, 805, Eastern, after the regular show is over, I'm going to make a statement, and there's a reason why it's at that time. I'm going to make a statement about Jordan Chardon. And so, you know, some people have been very curious about that topic, I will address it at that time precisely. Okay, so let's leave it till then and then let's do the show. All right. New reporting indicates that a secret donor gave a considerable amount of money to help promote Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. In fact, this donation also had a lot to do with the fact that Merrick Garland was blocked from being

confirmed as the Supreme Court justice that would replace Antonin Scalia. Now, according to this reporting, last year alone, an organization known as the Wellspring Committee gave $23 million to the Judicial Crisis Network, which in turn spent $7 million on materials opposing Garland. After President Donald Trump was elected, JCPN, which is also known as the Judicial Crisis Network, spent another $10 million in pro-Gorsuch ads. So here's what we know so far about these two organizations. First off, last year was a very lucrative and profitable year, well, lucrative year for Wellspring, as they raised more than twice as much money than in previous, in the previous year, or any previous year.

This is largely thanks to one anonymous donor who gave $28.5 million. So we don't know exactly who that donor is because of their status. They are exempt or they don't have to disclose who their donors are. They're not required to because they're considered a social welfare organization. Funny. Yeah. But here's another component of the story that's relevant. Neil Corky, who is, that's a funny, no, corkery.

Neil Corkery, who was listed as Well Springs president on their tax return, is a former judicial crisis network treasure and also his wife, Ann, also served as well-spring president. So there's a lot of inner dealings going on over there. Okay, so let me break this down. So they, in a sense, bought the Supreme Court seat. Now, I say they, because we don't know who the anonymous donor is. So here's what we know. And this is exactly what dark money is. They set up an organization that under tax law is called a social welfare organization. Do they help the poor, the needy, and say, no. No, they don't do any of that. They do deeply political things like buy a Supreme Court seat. But, because no one's at home in our government when it comes to the rich and the powerful,

they never get investigated. The IRS never investigates them, the FEC never investigates them. So this anonymous donor who wanted by a Supreme Court seat gives $28.5 million to Wellspring. Wellspring's nonsense. They don't do anything but by Supreme Court seats, apparently, because they spent almost all their money on this issue as Anna just laid out for you, okay? So what do they do? They then transfer it through the judicial crisis network, who then puts in all this money to influence Republicans to make sure that they blocked Merrick Garland for a year.

Merrick Garland was Obama's appointee. Now, normally, the Senate is supposed to give advice and consent. The president appoints, and then they, in a timely manner, have to give advice and consent. And the Republicans said, no, we're not going to do our job. We don't care. We're going to obstruct him for as long as it takes. Now, it turns out that they were, in essence, getting paid to do that because we've legalized bribery in this country.

So in the form of lobbying, campaign contributions, independent expenditures, all coming from this one guy who wanted to buy a Supreme Court seat and we let him. So they block Garland with $7 million. Now, when Gorsuch comes and they're like, that's the guy we want it. Now, remember, Gorsuch, the one thing he's most known for, not right wing or left wing, although he's massively right. No, he's known more for being enormously pro-corporate. So there's a famous case where a trucker was going to freeze the death.

Every other judge that saw that case said he's allowed to drive home so he doesn't die. Not Gorsuch. Gorsuch said, no, he must obey the corporation no matter what. And the corporation said, that's our guy. That's our guy. He let us actually murder, not murder, that's not fair. He'll let us let our employees die. He'll do it.

Let us do anything. That's the guide. That's why Gorsuch was selected in the first place. And the secret dark money is going around influencing these politicians. And it worked. They bought themselves a Supreme Court seat. What kind of an insane system allows this dark money and allows this legalized bribery? We don't have a democracy.

These people have captured our government. If you don't get the money out, we're doomed. They're going to buy the next seat. And this one worked. It was a proof of concept. They got a great return on investment. For what? Is it because the dark money donor cares about abortion?

Maybe, I don't know, nobody knows who he is, right? Or it could be that he cares about making sure employees get paid less. He makes sure, or it could be that he wants to make sure there's no work safety regulations because they, you know, cut corners on safety and maybe their workers die. But hey, they need to buy a Supreme Court seat and they did. They did. And look, I think one of the main reasons why people vote the way they do. in general elections for whatever candidates are available is, okay, well, this person is likely

to nominate a Supreme Court justice, right? You hear that argument time and time again. And regardless of where you are in the ideological spectrum, this should concern you. Because this means that regardless of who you elect as president, you know, we have a system that's so corrupt that Congress can be bought and they can go ahead and be obstructionist when it comes to, you know, the hearings. you know, confirming these individuals of Supreme Court justices. I mean, it doesn't, it doesn't matter what you do as a voter. What really matters is what corporate interests want and, you know, how they can use their influence in the form of millions of dollars to have members of Congress make decisions

that they like. So I'll give you more context. The Republicans in the last two years, not just Mary Garland, blocked 100 judges that Obama put into place. They only let 22 go through in the last two years. In their first year of Trump, they've already okayed 59 justs to go through. So almost three times as much in half the time. Because why?

Because some guy decided, hey, I'm going to auction off these seats. Now, do you think that that guy is doing it for his health? Or could it be that he is going to financially gain from the decisions that Gorsuch is going to make? So guess what, guys? and if you're a right winger and you're snickering like, we bought a seat, we're the corrupt party, that's awesome. Congratulations. But remember this, George Soros, Mike Bloomberg, et cetera,

also have a lot of money. So what we've now done is we've started an auction for Supreme Court seats. So the next time there's a Supreme Court seat, one guy on the right wing is going to put in 20 million or 100 million or a bunch of guys. And then some people on the left are going to put, and it's all dark money and we can't see it, they're going to put in $20, $200, $200 million, and we're going to have an auction for the Supreme Court seat. Yeah, again, I know that we're incredibly divided right now, but you have to put your political ideology aside for a second and just think about whether or not you value the democratic process.

Because if you value democracy, then this should upset you, again, regardless of what your political ideology is, if this had happened, if the shoe was on the other foot and it was, you know, Democrats do. this, I would be just as outraged by it because it means that our democracy doesn't matter. It doesn't even work, it's not functioning. Corporate interests, you know, reigns supreme in this case. So sometimes people ask, hey, Wolfbacks to get money out of politics. But hey, are you guys really going to get union money out and Soros money out? Of course, of course we are. I don't want Soros buying the elections. I don't want the unions buying elections. And I don't want corporations to buy elections. Right when there's always like, oh, politicians are corrupt. I agree with you, brother.

I got an important question for you. Who corrupted them? Yeah, Rush Limbo never talks about that, right? There's a guy behind the curtain buying these politicians. And usually it's a corporation. And so I care about the corrupted politicians. I also care about the people corrupting them. Get all the money out, wolf dashpac.com.

Look, you don't want to support Wolfpack? You want to sport a different organization? Bless your heart. But they're actually fighting to get you change to bring back democracy. Unfortunately, at this point, America has become almost literally the most corrupt country in the world. Why do I say that? That sounds like an outrageous statement if you're watching television.

They tell you everything is totally fine. No, the reason why there's a revolt and a revolution, both on the right and the left, is because we legalize bribery. All the other countries, you have to actually break the law and make sure you don't get caught. And if you do, you'll go to jail. We just said, no, it's okay. You could put in millions of dollars, hundreds, billions of dollars. into politicians, campaigns,

do it in independent expenditures, do this lobbying, and it's now called legal. That's crazy. All right. Well, moving on to some policy issues. We need to talk about a relatively new show called Un-F-The Republic, or UNFTR.

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Now, the repeal would specifically target the mandate that helps to, you know, keep the premiums low. It mandates that everyone, regardless of your health, would have to buy insurance. Otherwise, you would face a tax penalty when you do file for taxes. Well, Lisa Murkowski, Senator Lisa Murkowski, has written an op-ed in response to this Senate proposal. As you know, Murkowski was opposed to efforts to repeal the affordable Care Act. So understandably, people were wondering whether or not Murkowski was in favor of this new proposal by the Senate. And it seems as though she is in favor. She wrote the following. I have always supported the freedom to choose. I believe that the federal government should not

force anyone to buy something they do not wish to buy in order to avoid being taxed. Now, this is problematic, especially when you consider the fact that the Senate doesn't need much in terms of votes in order to pass their proposals. But here is a little bit of good news. Senator Ron Wyden, I'm sorry, Senator Ron Johnson, Republican from Wisconsin, opposes the bill saying that it disadvantages small businesses. And Senator Susan Collins from Maine has said that the bill needs to be changed. So there is disagreement on the Republican side in regard to this proposal.

But it's interesting that Lisa Murkowski says she's in favor. of repealing the mandate. Because even though the mandate is unpopular, it is the one component of the Affordable Care Act that kind of, not kind of, it does. It keeps the premiums lower. You get rid of that. Healthy people won't buy into the insurance. They won't be subsidizing the older and sicker individuals, and their premiums will go up. Now, I know that Paul Ryan doesn't understand insurance and the Republicans don't or they pretend not to. I think actually Paul Ryan is stupid enough that he doesn't actually understand it. And they'll say, well, we would do healthy and the young shouldn't subsidize the poor.

But you don't know when you're going to get sick. That's the whole point of insurance. And you could be 24 years old and you think, well, I don't need insurance and I don't want to buy into it. And it's true that 64 year olds on average get more sick than 24 year olds. Except, oops, you don't have insurance and then you got sick. What are we going to do? Let you die? And the Republicans say, yeah, bootstraps.

Ha, ha, I tricked you, made you get off of insurance, told you you didn't need a mandate. now you've got cancer and you don't have insurance, I guess you're answering, hey, you got emergency room, so you'll have some peace and comfort in an emergency room waiting room right before you die. Because you're not allowed to get treatment because you don't have insurance. The way that insurance works is that we all subsidize each other in case we get sick. And so now, on a national level, not the local level, but at the national level, never trust a Republican.

So Lisa Murkowski, oh, yeah, no, no, no, I've got issues with this thing, but I secretly I'm going to work behind the scenes to see how much, you know, the different, you know, goodies that they're going to give me so that later I can turn around and, and go against this and say things like, oh, the government should never demand that anyone buy insurance. How outrageous. Really? The government demands that we buy car insurance. You literally cannot drive a car if you don't have car insurance.

That's sure. You will be arrested. You'll be arrested if you're driving without car insurance. Why? Because the people who don't get into accidents, subsidize the people who do get into accidents. And if you wait till after an accident to get insurance, well, then it doesn't work that way. That's why we have to buy the car insurance ahead of time. What if somebody who has no money to plows into your family?

And oops, there's no insurance. Sad day for you, you know, your loved ones are hurt and nobody's going to pay for them. That's why car insurance is mandated. But finally, look, Obamacare is too complicated. Oh, the mandate this, and then that requires this and the state regulation and that, Medicare for all. Medicare has a 77% approval rating. You know why? Because it works. Right. So let us all into Medicare. Problem solved. And then if you want to buy private insurance on top of that, have at it, hoss. But at least we're all covered and we don't all have to panic that at any point our loved one can die because they didn't have insurance. Right. Exactly. And people would still have access to insurance, which is the argument that you hear on the right over and over again.

But access for them just means it's available to buy if you can afford it. But again, if the younger, healthier individuals aren't helping to subsidize insurance for older, sicker adults, well, the likelihood is that their premiums will be so expensive and unaffordable that they won't even be able to purchase it. So access means two completely different things based on who you're having a conversation with. Talking to sincere people, then access means affordable health coverage. that people can afford, right? And in this case, to Republicans access is, it's there.

It's really expensive, but it's there. You can access it. No, no, it's such a stupid rhetorical trick. Hey, guess what, guys, congratulations. You all have access to Ferraris and Bentleys. You have access to them. You can go buy them if you have the money. You don't have the money.

Sadden it for you. Hey, don't worry, though. Republicans made access to Ferrari is acceptable for and available to everyone. It's preposterous. We're the only developed country that lets people die in the streets that doesn't have universal health care coverage. When they say it's not practical, they mean it's not practical for insurance companies, drug makers, and the privatized corporations that have taken over our government.

It is practical for every other developed country. Yes, of course everybody should have insurance. And if you want more on top of that grade, and I'll say one last thing. They say, oh, man, oh, in those countries, you have to wait on long lines. First of all, that's nonsense. It's been debunked a thousand times over. But guess who else has to wait on lines? We have private insurance.

Does that mean it's super convenient and easy? No, it takes me two months to get an appointment for a checkup. Oh, I have private insurance. I should be super fast. That's not how it works. All the Republicans want to do is take decision making away from the public interest and give it to private interests. So they say, oh, it's okay.

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I'll tell you how. All right, back on the Young Turks, a couple of tweets. Marcel Schneier says, Amazing dress, Anna. Thank you. Wouldn't normally comment about that sort of thing, but it is super cool. Vintage, Marcel asks? No, it's not. It's one of my favorite clothing designers.

I don't even want to mention the name because someone's going to find something wrong with it. So I'm just going to, thank you. I appreciate it. Okay. Riley Grady says, that dude, a fucking Korean Terminator, go baby, go. Okay. And I wanted, oh, we found the sweater. Can you guys bring that up?

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and that's the whole point of the 10-day thing. All right, what's next, Anna? All right. Donald Trump has been feuding with a well-known father in the basketball world, LeVar Ball. Now, LeVar Ball has sons who are playing college basketball at the moment, and one of his sons was arrested in China for shoplifting. Now, Trump claims that he managed to get LeVar Ball's son along with two other players back to the United States after they were detained in China. and Trump wanted a thank you from Lovar Ball. Ball has refused to thank him, and it is the most nonsensical feud ever imaginable.

It's annoying. I hate even talking about it. But something has come out of this that I thought was interesting. Trump supporters are upset that Lovar Ball refuses to say thank you to Trump. And so they are taking to Twitter to attack Lovar Ball, except they are mistaking Lovar Burton for Lovar Ball. Lovar Burton is a completely different person.

He is, you might, you might remember him as the host of Reading Rainbow. That's how I remember him from my childhood. That does seem pretty offensive. He's a delightful person. But I want to keep... I, of course, remember from Star Trek the next generation. Oh, he was in Star Trek?

Oh, yeah. That I wouldn't know about. But Reading Rainbow, I remember. Just take a look. It's in a book. Oh, that was such a great show. I love that in Star Trek. They had okay graphics back then and stuff. But they just took like a hair comb, not a comb, but like the thing that you put together and made it his eyepiece. Like do, do, do, do, do. Did they really?

Yeah, he's blind, but he can see because of the hairpiece on his head. Jorny LaForge on deck. Anyways, so hilarity ensues. Okay, so here's what some of the tweets said. Okay, one person says, you're a husband actor with a thief for a son, and Trump is the president of the United States. Get the picture. I'm not sure you got the picture, Mark.

Okay. All right, another person writes, washed up actor, check. Sun caught stealing in China, check. Trump's still president, check. But none of that is true, huh? L-O-L. Yeah, actually, one of them is not true. Actually, two of them are not true.

What's interesting is, like, there's some portion of Trump's base that, like, they don't care what Trump does. Like, they just, like, they love that Trump is president so they can say that Trump is president. Like, they get off on that. I don't get, okay, yeah, he's president. Yeah, you know, our problem is that we do, or maybe our solution is that we don't think like the right wing.

So if we fought like them, the entire eight years of Obama, everything. would have been like, but Obama's president, what now? I know, I know. Like, which you almost never saw anyone do like, oh yeah, what happened to Mitt Romney? Right? Like, it's in the past, we're done with it, but they never, like, this is the only thing they have to cling on to.

The last one, I think, is the worst. But before we move on to that one, this similar thing happened to me yesterday where a guy on Twitter said, Anna and Jake don't understand anything about fine ass. These dumbasses wouldn't even know how to spell derivatives. And he spelled derivatives wrong. Which was just awesome.

I mean, it is Twitter 101. Yes, yes. So this guy's like, oh, yeah, I got my facts right. You got a son for a thief, you know, a thief for a son. No, you don't have your facts right. And but you like to rub it in anyway. Just buy a clue before you go on Twitter. That's all.

I hate Twitter. Twitter, I feel like Twitter is just like one big example for why you should just give up on humans, right? Like it's like a collection of the worst people on the planet all in one place. And then like you'll get sprinkles of like interesting smart people that have funny things to say. But the vast majority are like, I have nothing to do with my life so I'm going to Photoshop stupid shit all day and think I'm funny. Anyway. One last thing on that and then we'll get to the worst one. So look, it is like the internet in a lot of ways, the best of us and the worst of us.

So there are great, funny stuff that happens on Twitter. There's really smart comments that happen on Twitter, et cetera. And you get to stay connected with people that you care about. But yes, especially if you're like us and you live on the internet and you've got a lot of haters on the internet. Twitter sometimes I just, everybody thinks that I'm on Twitter all the time because they're on Twitter all the time. But I actually just go in and open the door like once in a while. You like crack it open a little bit. Yeah, I just track it open and I look.

Same here. But it's like going on the whole time and they think I'm in the room and I'm not in the room. And sometimes, most of the times I now open the room and you have a bunch of lunatics screaming in the room. No, no, no. I mean, in a lot of ways it's actually flattering, right? Like if you can get past like the juvenile insults or whatever, like there are people who are having nonstop conversations about you while you're out there living your life. Like, it's kind of flattering.

So I'm amazed by it. frightening, yes. Yeah, I know. Because every time you open the door and you see like, they're like gnawing at each other's like bones and stuff, ah, and they think that you're in the room. I know, I know. It's so good. It is a little bit of madness.

Anyway, last one. And then Stephen Epps writes, you sure don't do much for the black cause with your unlawful, ungrateful parenting skills. See, they had to make it racial, right? It's not just that Levar bald, the actual person who was ungrateful to Trump. is ungrateful. It's not that Trump did a good thing. It's that you're black.

By the way, like, you guys don't find it a little problematic to, like, pressure people to thank others, right? Like, why aren't you thanking the president? Thank the president. Thank the president. Just what? Can you imagine if that happened in the Obama administration?

First of all, can you imagine if Obama ever even, like, took credit for something? He wouldn't take credit for anything, you know what I mean? And so can you imagine if he was like as boastful or even a fraction as boastful as as Trump is? Oh, they would lose their minds. Can you imagine if Obama went to a small town in the south where jobs increased a little bit? And he was like, you guys should all thank me. How come you guys aren't thanking me?

Everyone should thank. I mean, come on. Just please for a second think about the shoe on the other foot. This is absurd behavior by any president. Don't care about your ideology. Don't care about your political party. You should not be wasting your time demanding a thank you from LeVar Ball. Okay, last two things on this.

Because so Trump, look, LeVar Ball and Trump had a clown off. And they got into a circus and they're like, okay, who's going to be the bigger clown? So look, if I'm Levar Ball, I go, hey, I'm super happily that my kid's back. Wonderful. Okay, and be done with it, right? But no, he loves the spotlight. He's Trumpian in that sense. But Trump, you're supposed to be, you're the president for you to be like,

oh, I wish I hadn't gotten him out. Oh, yeah, no, no, no, no, boo-boo. You're such a child. Okay, and lastly, about his supporters, if I went around saying, like, why have you thanked Obama for this? Why haven't you thanked Obama for that, huh? Like, what do I, like, how sad? Like, what a sycophantic, sad existence to, like, oh, Obama's the best.

Obama's the best. Oh, why haven't you thanked him? You should all be thanking him. He's the greatest. He's the greatest. That means you're so, you're like, you're so pathetic. You're like, oh, the alpha male. The alpha male is so great.

I love him. But here's another ironic part about all of it. It's like, we're the party of small government. We don't want the government to have too much power. And then simultaneously, you have to thank the president of the United States. Now your head to the government. What? Yeah.

So, no, we are not going to bow our head. to the leader of your government. We're not betas like you. All right, what's next? All right. I love doing updates on this woman because she's amazing. Earlier this week, a woman in Texas made headlines after a local sheriff called her out for having a bumper sticker that contains some expletives in regard to Trump and those who voted in favor of Trump. Now, the sheriff, Troy Nells, had threatened prosecution against this woman because of the bumper sticker,

but then realized that there were some First Amendment issues there and later took the Facebook post down. But because of this story, it turned out that there was a warrant out for her arrest. She did end up getting arrested, but posted bail. And then there's the other component of the story that I love. She started selling these bumper stickers, and they have sold out. They are now back ordered. So there is Karen Fonseca, the woman that I was talking about. And yes, she is selling the bumper stickers that you see behind her.

She even created a new bumper sticker in response to Sheriff Troy Nell's. And so that happened. The proceeds from these sales will go toward voter registration drives that will help elderly voters get to the polls. And just to rub it in a little bit more, one of the people helping her is a Fort Bend area Democrat named Ali Hassan Ali. I mean, the story is just, there's so many twists and turns. Yeah, and he says, you know, they'll make more stickers. And it's, look, it's an ode to freedom, so I'm sure the right-wingers would like it. You know, don't tread on me, semplify and all that stuff, right?

I got my right as an American, just put anything that I like on my pickup truck. And if the big government wants to try to prevent me for my freedom of speech, well, we do live in Texas, so, you know, they can stick it. So look, I don't know how Republicans in general are reacting to this, but I did read several comments, so this is anecdotal, several comments from Republicans in Texas who are like, what Sheriff Troy Nells is trying to do here is outrageous. They were against the fact that the sheriff was going after this woman, even though they were Trump voters and didn't agree with the bumper sticker. I like that it says not only F Trump, but F you for voting for it. I mean, that's strong. I mean, that lady's got some balls on her. She does.

I honestly, I wouldn't go in that direction because you just don't know what unhinged people would do. And that's your car. I mean, at the very least, I would expect it to get keyed, just based on how crazy people are. But she feels courageous enough to do it. So do you, boo? Well, she rolls Texas style and you got to respect that. Okay. We don't have time for the other story, right?

We don't. Sorry. All right. So then let me tell you a couple of things. So, yes, I am going to put out a statement in about seven minutes or so at 805 on Jordan Chardon. For the guys out on the radio, I'm sorry. There's a reason why it has to be past 8 o'clock Eastern. And it's going to come at 805, and t-y-tnetwork.com.

We'll have it here, obviously, YouTube and Facebook where we stream as well. And so I'll clarify the situation. People have very legitimately been asking for clarification, and we will give that to you, and I'll explain why it took a while as well. So other than that, we obviously want you to have a happy Thanksgiving. We're going to be off the next couple of days. But actually, after the statement, I'm also doing old school with Ben. at 9 o'clock Eastern, that'll be much more relaxed and fun times and we'll talk about fun

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