Yannis Pappas Hour - So Here We Are 🌍

Episode Date: March 15, 2025

Yanni follows what’s dominating the stage—tariffs, cuts, and the like. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s mouth is tanking Tesla stock, which isn’t great for Yanni’s wallet. Why are we re-litigating social nukes? America is pulling out of the WHO, so don’t tell the old folks. Missouri sued China—and won. Yanni breaks down the difference between private growth and the government’s role, explaining why they’re not the same.   Support our sponsors  https://www.factormeals.com/factorpodcast    Support our show  https://www.patreon.com/yannispappashour

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Welcome to another episode of the Yanis Papas Hour. We're still up at patreon.com slash Yanis Papas Hour. Weekly bonus episodes. There is a coterie of fans out there that really enjoy those episodes. So go and join if you love the show. If you're new to the show, thanks for joining us. Also just, he's a friend of mine.

No other reason I want to say go get Michael Kosta's book. Lucky loser, he was a professional tennis player. Now he's on friend of mine. No other reason I want to say go get Michael Kosta's book, Lucky Loser. He was a professional tennis player. Now he's on The Daily Show. He's a great guy. Just a good person. So go get Lucky Loser, Michael Kosta. It's just a friend.

They didn't pay me to say it. He didn't ask me to do it. He just sent me a book with a nice card. And so the card was enough for me to promote it to a few thousand people. It was just, cause that's a little extra effort. His handwriting sucks. And, but it was enough. Also, he sent it a long time ago and I just found it.

But it's out there if you still read, if anyone still reads anything that's not on a screen or get it on your Amazon thing. But he said he goes you're a good dude who makes makes being funny seem easy and then he had me. That's all he needed to say but then he even pulled me even further when he said here's my book I visit a Dutch prostitute in one of the chapters so it's not all bad. I'm in. Thanks for being a friend and helping spread the word sincerely Costa. And I initially have to say I liked him because I thought he was Greek because his name was

Costa but then I realized he's not Greek. He's just a white guy from the middle of the country who's very funny and a good dude. And I like Michael Costa and I want to get him on this show, Hyenas again. We had a classic episode of hyenas back in the day, which was great. So you know from the Daily Show, but he's also a great stand-up comedian. He really is. Great jokes and he's a guy you can have a reasonable conversation with. He may be the only secret Republican on that show ever. I don't know if he is. I'm not saying, I'm not. But when you talk to him, he's like, yeah. He gets, you know, you could talk to him

like a reasonable person, you know? And that, you know that there's a lot of right people on the side you can't talk to reasonably either. And some of them live with me. And sometimes, you know, it's just, there's a lot, it's a religion to us. Some people, it's a religion. Some people, it's a business. Some people it's a business.

Have you noticed that there's like there's sections of the body politic you can go for these people it's a religion. Okay so you're not gonna campaign to those people and then you got people who it's a business. You want to talk to those people because those people have what we call no moral compass. All they care about is self-interest. So you wanna talk to them because they're malleable. These people are not, the religious are not, but they have a moral compass, just too much of one.

So you got your religious political followers, you got your business political followers going, hey, how's this gonna affect my bank account? And then you just got everyone else who's doing it for whatever whatever reason that is. Wow, you know, that's a hodgepodge of people going, this is right, this is wrong. I was my conditioning, my mother was a Republican, my daughter is a Democrat. I'm a student, I want to buy a house, I whatever, you know, the food is poison. My girlfriend's trans, she wants to play soccer. I'm in for house, I eat whatever, you know, the food is poison, my girlfriend's trans, she wants to play soccer, I'm in for that,

I'm dating a girl who's liberal, so I became liberal. There's just a hodgepodge of people, and those people I would say are even, are second level hardest to reach, because a good piece of trans puss is gonna make you a little more religious than it is business interested. The business interested people are malleable, right? Because they're just money's more malleable.

Like, okay, all right, I'll look the other way. All right, the immigrants are doing what? Okay, as long as my bank account is doing good, you want to talk to those people. And maybe the Democrats and Republicans have been doing a little too much of talking to those people and they forgot about these people who are too fat because they're hitting the buffet at Applebee's, the two for 20 meals not enough. They need to work, they need a better purpose in life instead of trying to get a promotion at Walmart. And they want their town to look better again. And they want to live like their grandfather did on a line pushing toilet paper to the next guy. You know, or, you know, or somebody who, you know, loves Jesus and doesn't want to see

Chinese people or Puerto Rican people. You know, there's a bunch of reasons and they go, which one of the candidates sounds more racist? That's my guy. Even if he's not racist, he sounds more racist. That's my guy. You got to talk to them a little bit, which is what Donny T came and did. He spoke to the culture of it. Bernie was just speaking to the, don't you want more money? And they're going, we don't understand that man. I don't know. I don't know what I want. I eat at Subway. Sure, it's killing me. Sure, it's processed meat that's full of sodium

I don't care. I'm eating. My mom's got a house. She's fat. She's got neck fat She orders Cheesecake Factory from the Cheesecake Online store. She's got an addiction to Amazon spending Yeah, we got Christmas tree tchotchkes that are filling the basement because my dad doesn't banger anymore So she fulfills that void with plastic from the 99 cent store and the Christmas tree shop yes but we don't have six figures anymore and Bernie you're kind of speaking to me because you're going like wait a second what about my tax breaks why they giving the tax breaks to that guy okay why are you doing that you're kind of talking to me but Bernie you're not talking to human

language baby Trump speaks the human language. He goes, other, boom. His wife's a pig, argh. He's got punchlines, sweetheart. You know what I'm saying? He's getting into the culture. You get into the culture wars a little bit. Abortion, yeah, you think Donald Trump cares about abortion,

but he got into the issue. He didn't just hide from it like Bernie, like, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, Biden's the better candidate for this candidate. He's a better candidate than that candidate. You know, it's like, stick to your guns. Is Hillary, is your friend Hillary a better candidate than Donald Trump, really?

Really? And then you wanna know why you didn't win besides the fact that you, you know, look like a substitute teacher in an urban neighborhood. And you're a little old and you know, it's tough to eat around you. I mean, you have no backbone, right? I mean, you, you're, you're, you're endorsing the person that cuts your knees off eight years ago, four years ago, whatever it was eight years ago, right?

But on the other side, all the Republicans are doing the same, they're all bending the knee. Marco Rubio, yes, musta, my wife is a whore, but yes, musta, I am squeak, but yes, musta. They've all been called something by him, lazy, whatever, and he's just, now they're just, yes, musta. So, that's where we are.

Those are the sections of the body politic you have to campaign to and market and pander to and win the affection of in order to get elected while we're still a democracy, which we still are and we probably will remain. Do not make any inferences from what I'm saying. I'm just saying, I do think there's a 72% chance on Kalchi that he does a third term.

I just think that there's a 72% on, I mean, I'm picking the, what is it? I'm definitely going, you're not gonna make as much money if you bet that he's gonna at least petition for a third term if he's alive. It's probably up on Kalchi. Use my promo code, whatever it was. But here we are, we're still talking about the same things.

News has slowed down a little bit, Jess. It's slowed down just a little bit. You know, like you know when COVID news slowed down because all that was happening was COVID. So it was just the same COVID every week headlines. Nothing else is going on in the world right now except for doge still and tariffs. That's what's going on. It's where's the corruption,

how much of it is, what's going to get cut, who's to be afraid, was it corruption, is it overreach, are we in a constitutional crisis, are we not, and tariff wars. That's what's going on, that's what people care about, that's what the stock market's responding to. That sensitive little bitch. Come on, let the president run his mouth a little bit. He runs his mouth. I mean, here's the deal, okay? You got two businessmen in there running the country. There are also two guys who love themselves.

They love their egos and they're both performative. They love the cameras. You don't see Jeff Bezos, and Jeff Bezos looks like he wants to be a movie star, themselves. They love their egos and they're both performative. They love the cameras. You don't see Jeff Bezos and Jeff Bezos looks like he wants to be a movie star, but he's hiding on his yacht and he's drinking baby blood. And he's got his Latina. And if you don't think he's got a trans mistress who's hot, you got another thing coming. He's doing the Roman opulence thing in private, right? Elon Musk is doing the Louis 14 opulence thing in public. 14 wives, a hundred kids, he's

flying around in a jet, you know, he's saluting, he's going on every podcast and commentating show possible, he's making everything public. He's running around and these two guys are two guys who love riffing. They are products of this era where we just riff. Podcast baby, you know, no, no, no, no, no bits. They're just going. They're just going. So the mouth runs. I think Trump could use a little more polish. You know, before you see it just, you know, just if you're riffing, or at least tell the people before you go, I'm riffing. What usually is in a politician's internal workings is comes out. Maybe, maybe, maybe it will be a recession.

Maybe they won't, maybe it won't be a recession. Maybe I'll bomb the shit out of Iran. Maybe I won't, but I'm thinking I'm gonna kill them all. And then you go, what does he mean? And then you're the president dog. You're not on a TV show, you're the president. So every word that comes out of your mouth is gonna have a economic repercussion.

So get solid what you wanna do quietly, right? In private, and then do it. If you're going to get rid of the corruption and everything, do it, but talk about something else. Talk about Dallas's offensive line. You don't have to every day be running your mouth to whatever fucking, you know, mouthpiece lets you go. You know, every time he goes on what's

his name Fox the only guy the the fun the obsequious Fox guys got his nose so far up Trump's ass he fucking you don't even know that he has a nose Hannity Hannity you don't have to go on Hannity every five minutes anymore you're not campaigning anymore dog you're not campaigning have you ever seen a president who loves to fucking talk to the public as much as him? You're not campaigning anymore. How many fucking interviews? Look, what's Elon Musk? He's talking to everyone. Just fucking do it Just do it talk about something else Talk about how the tesla now can jerk you off

Talk about how the tesla can now Talk about the tesla will now tell you If it sees a man or a woman on the street and will say it has to be a man or a woman and it has to identify. That's a woman. Cause now it just shows a shady person. So it could be interpreted as non-binary and say you've upgraded,

there's a new Tesla upgrade that goes, that's a woman and don't call it anything different. That's right behind your car. It was picked up on camera and don't hit her Talk about that and do what you have to do You talk it too much. I'm always I'm always a Little skeptical of someone who's always telling me how great they are all the time or telling me what they're doing all the time It's just you know people get nervous when you speak they get nervous It's a little nerve-wracking when you go, I've

given directions if Iran assassinates me, I've given directions to obliterate them. What do you mean? Nukes? Be specific. You can't just fly off at the mouth, you know? Be specific. Tighten it up. Tighten the setup a little bit. Do a tight five on a late night show. Cleaned up, a little bit more, Nate Bargatze it a little bit, baby. Think about everybody who's listening, not just your fans. Because now you're the president of everybody. And your mouth is always going up and down.

His mouth is like the fucking Dow Jones. It goes up, it goes down. And Elon, his Robin to his Batman, or who thinks he's Batman. You know, you guys are running your mouths so much, you're making the criticisms easy by them going like, is this a tech usurpation? Is this a tech taking over government to, you know, make it into control all the media acts and you know, he controls acts, but now he's in the government. It's like you guys were talking about this left wing monopoly and now it's like you're almost doing the same thing on the other side. It's what it seems. And don't give me the meat, the press is still on. Nobody's watching fucking Meet the Press,

who's under 72, okay? The mainstream is now the internet, all right? So if you still tell, oh, well, fucking Rachel Maddow is still, it's like nobody's watching. So, you know, that point was five years ago. CNN is totally left-wing bias. Yeah, for the 14 people with shopping bags

who sit alone with their stains on their shirt and their button downs untucked eating Chinese food on the Upper West Side, maybe. Maybe those 14 Jews who grew up socialist watching Woody Allen movies with their parents and they didn't know that he was about to marry his Asian stepdaughter? Maybe. Maybe they, maybe they are watching and that's it. Okay, nobody watching CNN anymore. You know what they're watching? They're watching my friends.

Those are the new reporters. I don't know how this happened None of them went to Columbia Journalist School I'm not gonna I'm not gonna opine on how this happened, but it happened Okay, they're not tuning in anymore to hear what Chet Lemon has to say They're tuning in to hear what what kind of questions Theo von from the real world is gonna ask a presidential candidate And I don't know how we got here. Okay? I know these people. I never thought, you know, my brother, you know, my brother was in politics.

I never thought I'd be closer to people in politics than my brother. But now I am. The vice president is going on my friend's show. I mean, you know, Tim Dillon's getting to the bottom of what's gonna happen now. You know, so while these guys are thinking about not doing the drugs that they used to love to do, they're getting the scoop for all of us, okay?

That's the mainstream now. So stop whining about the left wing bias. It's over. Now there, the right wing is the mainstream. I mean, Fox probably does less numbers than them, but Fox is still number one. Gutfield's number one. So I've been hearing all this left wing bias, blah, blah, blah. But for like 10 years, Gutfield's been the number one fucking late night program. Nobody's watching that left-wing shit is what I'm saying. They did it to themselves. So it's not the mainstream anymore. You can't call someone who makes 250 fucking million dollars the alternative media anymore. The internet is mainstream and that's just how it goes and that's just where we are.

That's where we are. I don't know how we got here. I'm not saying it's a bad or a good thing. I'm just saying it is a thing. It is a thing, right? So don't start yelling about CNN, okay? CNN's over, dog. When you're yelling about CNN, you're basically, you're yelling about a sushi restaurant you used to love that is not there anymore, that turned into a bike. When you're yelling about CNN, you're basically, you're yelling about a sushi restaurant you used to love that is not there anymore. That turned into a bike shop. And you're just mad that, that it's, you know, that, that sushi guy was mad. He was rude to you. You're like, that guy who used to have that place there was rude to me. He's like, that thing is gone. It's gone.

Chet Lemon is at a leather bar right now, blowing a dude. Like, he's got his money, he got his payout. Nobody's listening, nobody's caring. What is his name again? Chet Lemon, Jack Lemon. Yeah, I don't even remember his name. The guy, that dude, Rachel Maddow's gone. I mean, she's still on, but like nobody cares.

Nobody's listening. Nobody's listening, okay? Chelsea Handler, you know, it's over. I mean, her TV show, her TV show, but she's trying to sell stuff. She's not going to be talking a lot about Trump either. Everyone. They're all quiet now. Because it's, they're, they're, they're gathering up, they're huddling up to figure out, okay, they're like, all right, well that, that was a fun ride. We all got a lot of money out of that. We convinced all the industry that this was the cultural movement of America and boy were they wrong. Turns out America is a little bit more culturally right than they thought. But it was a good gig. They got a lot of money. They got paid a lot. They go, oh, this is the person who's speaking to the majority of people and the youth and this is what people want. And then the next thing, you know, you woke up 10 years later

and I worked for a network called Fusion that was thinking that we're gonna do this, as young people, they're diverse, they want left, all the left, and then they just woke up and all the fucking young people are now just right. They're all Reagan-lovering. I mean, the whole young gen, you know, negative Z or whatever they are, they're all just right wing maniacs.

You know? So you guessed wrong. So here we are. Now the left wings are, left wings, they're lighting Teslas on fire. They're lighting Teslas on fire. Now, this goes back to my point of, yes, these maniacs are out there and they would light something else on fire. But as a Tesla stockholder,

now we're going to go back talking to, now you know what I was talking about at the beginning, how we're gonna go back talking to, now you know what I was talking about at the beginning, to the people who are a little older, who aren't in that Holden Caulfield phase of life yet, just like look at you, phony, but it's like, oh, no, that's me. I'm a utopian child, who's passed the Holden Caulfield era of their life,

and is a little bit more self-interested. As a stockholder, I would just like to say, maybe you can shut the fuck up. Maybe you can just shut your fucking South African mouth with your hair tits. Shut your fucking mouth, okay? Stop saying who should be pardoned, who should get out. Stop giving fucking interviews. Just shut your mouth. Just shut fucking mouth. OK, stop saying who should be pardoned, who should get out. Stop giving fucking interviews. Just shut your mouth.

Just shut your mouth. Take your little fucking bouncer outfit off. It looks like he's checking IDs at a fucking nightclub every night. All right. Go back to your fucking nerdy room and just shut up. Some of us out here got money invested in your company, and they don't wanna hear your ideas on who should be pardoned and who shouldn't be pardoned.

They don't wanna hear about your ideas of what should happen with fucking Medicaid and Medicare. Keep it quiet, tell it to the president and let him make a decision and shut your mouth. Don't you got a kid to call? I'm sorry, I got money in this. Am I wrong? Am I wrong?

Do you have Tesla stock? Yes I do. Would you like this gentleman to shut his fucking mouth? Good buying opportunity. Good buying opportunity. Yeah, I don't know dude, not if they settled, not if I go downstairs and my fucking middle class Tesla has a swastika on it.

Trump just bought one. I mean, I've had enough of the bouncer outfit. I've had enough of the bouncer outfit. I've had just as much as enough as fucking Trump's long tie. I've had enough. tie. I've had enough. He bought it. He bought a Tesla. That's going to fix it. That's going to fix, uh, Elon Musk and Ben Shapiro, uh, talking about how maybe Derek Chauvin should be pardoned. Why are we revisiting and relitigating? What are we doing? These fucking nukes, these political nukes And he's fucking nukes these political nukes Because the guy had fentanyl in his system and he couldn't breathe yeah, okay, you know what you do Maybe then you take your knee off his neck Wasn't there an autopsy that said he died from asphyxiation or whatever okay solved

Solved everyone cares about Derek Chauvin so much right now. Saddled. No matter what you believe, haven't you ever heard about a fucking, what do they call that? A purge? Just one. A token of peace.

Sometimes you gotta, anyone ever see the last of the Mohicans? Right? Sacrifice. Or a guilty party. He's still alive, right? He's working in the kitchen. I don't know the details. Okay, all I know is it's the video did not look good even if the guy was on fentanyl and it was a bad guy. Did not look good that he was kneeling on his neck while the guy was calling for help. Putting pressure on his neck, which is what helps you breathe. So I don't know, but I don't know the details,

but either way, do you see what I'm saying? I'm talking about those people, the people, the business people in the middle, not in the middle but you know with interest you ever see last of the Mohicans where he says take me and then he goes on the faggots sticks faggots is also a term for sticks it's a cigarette in England it's also originally what and unfortunately, originally and unfortunately, its original meaning was all the twigs that they would burn you on. So they put the this British soldier and because he sacrificed himself for the greater cause. And they those were officially called faggots.

Unfortunately I think, unfortunately, I think that probably became a term maybe that was used because of what those sticks function was. I don't know if that's true. Flamers? Flamers, right. And that's not funny. That's not funny. And it's a bad thing. But phonetically, it is a good word. That argument's been made by a lot of people It's a good word just like some other words. You can't say it's a good word some of the worst words just for some reason they got like a Alright, like a they just but you know, you can't use it in that context without being we will cackle it or we don't have a Cackle wrong show we'll edit it out because I don't I see you know, we want to get demonetized or just give it a we'll beep it

Although this is a new world then it's a new world and also the context of what I was saying was I was referring to the sticks Because that is there. That's the proper numbing closure. It's synonymous with Bonfire sticks You know which igniters you can call which igniters. You can call it witch igniters. I think someone else called them witch igniters. So Fiestatas. Anyhowzers. That's my personal play.

You know, it's just too much media personality going on. These guys are just all just on screens all the time. And they're just, it's stream of consciousness, dog. Just do what you gotta do and come up with the results. And don't talk until you've come up with the results. Till you've got your conclusions. And then say what you're gonna do, and then do it, and then we're gonna just watch the pie bake

and see what happens. All right? Obviously there's mismanagement of money. It's government. Obviously. You have human beings involved. There's greedy people. There's you know backdoor deals. Everyone's you scratch my back, I scratch yours. It happens in private and public sector. Okay? So you want to get rid of that. Okay, do it and shut your mouth, do it, and then come out with what you did, or what you plan to do. Don't keep talking as you're doing it.

You know what I mean? It's like me constantly saying, I'm working on a new hour, I'm working on a new hour. You wanted me to run this one by you, you wanna run this one by you, let me run this one by you, oh, this one, oh, that one sounds racist now. I shouldn't have done that. I should have waited till it was a fully formed bit. Oh that one sounds really,

really horrible to women. I should have waited till that was a fully formed bit. I can only talk with the analogy of what I know. Polish up the set. And then tell us about how you're gonna use your chainsaw on what people value the most, social security. You're giving old people panic attacks, all right? Don't even let them know that you pulled out of the Who and that's gonna take a year to officially do that, but don't let the old people know that the Who for the flu vaccine was actually very important because you need the whole globe to try to guess what the strain is going to be. Yeah, it's usually around 40% effective or sometimes more. Some years it's 60, 70, 80, some years 40, but you need the data

from the whole world to report out of that. So don't tell old people you may not be here for Easter. You may not be here for Christmas, but there's a better chance you may not be here for Easter. You may not be here for Christmas, but there's a better chance you may not be here for Easter. It's just a longer period for flu season. Maybe not even Thanksgiving if you go to a, if you, if your grandkids are around and they go to raves. But for, if you don't believe in the flu vaccine, congratulations, I guess. This there'll be a less act, a potentially less accurate flu vaccine without the who don't tell the old people that yet. Because it's got to be all positive.

Anything Trump does if you believe it, it's got to be 100% net positive. Everything. And for you other people, whatever Bernie's saying is 100% net positive, because you do know that's how the adult world works. Right? Adults know, oh, that's a cute dog. But they also know, oh, look at him playing

with a squeaky toy. But adults know that the squeak is mimicking a death rattle and that excites the dog So that's the difference between children adults and women and men Because the women go if you tell that to a woman she won't be able to sleep for four weeks She got my car my little yeah, I say yeah that thing has the DNA 99 point something percent of a wolf it is playing with that thing and doing this because it's simulating killing it. And that little squeak gets the dog excited because it thinks it's an animal dying. And your little Shih Tzu or your Chirawa would rather eat something alive.

And it would do it and it would enjoy it. Raw meat right off your leg right there's no yin without a yang what makes the good time roll bad times that's what makes the good times roll bad times too much good times make the bad times roll you got to know when to say it's time for me to leave the party man I can't feel my left leg. I've done 18 lines of cocaine. My heart rate is now at 180. I'm having too good of a time.

You gotta know when to fold them. You gotta know when to put down the sword and pick up the plow, or put down the plow and pick up the sword, or put down the plow and the sword and pick up a joint. Indica, get into the couch, or pick up a beer, put down the plow and the sword and pick up a joint. Indica get into the couch or pick up a beer or a clonny or whatever it is.

CBD or jerk off, you know, or cuddle with your wife or dog or whatever. You got to know, you got to know humans just always just go too far. And that's what makes me nervous about the anti-semitism. I see on x because I think about 2012 and I remember going Oh, there's some sort of thing going on right now Where everyone's acting like very fascisty about words and things like that And then it ballooned into uh Watching a six foot four guy Who started taking estrogen like two years just

winning a swim meet and then people going what's your fucking problem with that and you're going like are you gaslighting me right now are you not seeing what I'm saying you saw Wookiee Whoopi Goldberg on the view the other day you know she talks down. I don't understand. What's the controversy? They act like these female athletes aren't tough. They can handle that. And you're going, you're going, can I just, you're just, you're going, can I get on the view for five seconds, please? Please just put me on the view for five seconds.

And let me ask the, let me just respond to Whoopi by going, Okay. And let me ask that let me just respond to whoopie by going Okay Can Someone who was bored a woman tackle Christian McCaffrey in the open field and watch her go I Don't even want to hear what she had to say. You don't even look it up. I saw it. Everyone knows it happened She's gonna understand Hey, who's taking on whoopie Goldberg?

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that could make me say one's better than the other or predict what's gonna happen. I don't remember us ever going to war with Canada, but things have changed. I remember the Raptors playing an American team and that's as far as it's gotten. I know the Olympics come once in a while and they just, we go to war on the hockey rink and usually lose, but sometimes win. But now Ontario, the province of Ontario, and I think this is Rob Ford's brother right right so this is the one who doesn't smoke crack has suspended it's a low bar but it's great that he got elected on his name even

though the name comes with crack yeah yeah it's like if Marion Barry had a brother named Steve Steve Barry and he just campaigned and he said, I don't smoke crack like my brother. And they're like, you're good. So Ford said that he is suspending the 25% electricity surcharge for us customers after Trump ups aluminum steel tariff. So, the tariff war is on. They're in effect. We better hurry up and get those fucking aluminum factories made. How long is that gonna take? Oh, we have them here?

I mean, I don't know. Why are we buying from Canada if we have them here? Just cause of Dems. That's the cause of Dems look Jesse just gave me, I don't know if I buy that. There's gotta be a reason. It's gotta be better aluminum or cheaper or something more reliable. I mean, it's like saying, how come I didn't buy a Ford? You know why I didn't buy a Ford.

You know, it wasn't because of the Democrats, right? Right. You know why I bought a BMW. It wasn't because of Barack Obama. What kind of Patriot are you? Right? You know why I bought a BMW. It wasn't because of Barack Obama. What kind of patriot are you? I'm one who's fucking looking around and saying, I don't see a lot of Fords. And I see a lot of Republicans, but I don't see a lot of Fords.

You gotta get the F-150. That's why. Yeah. I don't see a lot of Buicks. I just don't. You need a pickup truck. I see a lot of Hyundai's and Toyota's and BMW's. That's cause you're in lib city. Yeah. This is cause lib city. It's cause, it's cause of the Dems. So it's gotta be because of the Dems that we were using their electricity and aluminum. There's gotta be a little bit better reason than Nancy Pelosi's tits. So I don't know what's going to happen, but this is going to force change quick.

We got to do it quick because somebody's getting hurt here. Somebody's getting hurt. And by somebody I mean, people who pay for aluminum, right? So that's how it works. So now if you lose, I guess aluminum foil, fucking save it, reuse it. What do you do now?

You reuse the aluminum foil? Explain to me how this works. Is this bad, good? What do you think? I don't know. I have no idea. Well, you're supposed to know maybe the maybe a can of coke will be more expensive now Right, or we just all because yeah, yeah cycle or cycle. We got better. So, you know force innovation. That's right There you go. Recycle all your bud light cans, right? And that is the best case scenario of these policies right because? Cause it's a three pronged approach, right? So we're not just doing tariffs in a vacuum. Okay. Let's give, let's give, um, let's give Cheeto. Cheeto. He's an orange kid.

He's just an orange looking guy. He's got orange powder. Yeah. What's the, what's the, what is that? The cat who's on the Cheeto thinks, Oh, cheetah. Yeah. The cheetah dude. Let's give the Cheetah, let's give Trumpy Poo, let's give him the benefit of a doubt, and his administration. So, what is the end goal of, yeah, you know who I'm talking about. Chester the Cheetah.

Chester the Cheetah. Okay, if Chester the Cheetah had hair tits. So the end goal, right, so best case scenario, they're going to cut taxes, right? Inflation is going to go down because of the tariffs. So people will have more money, will have more capital, and it'll force innovation. More entrepreneurs, more workers, more people have money to spend because the taxes are cut. No more income tax.

They're trying to get rid of that, right? So that's the whole story. They're going to reduce the government spending. They want to impose the tariffs and they're going to reduce income taxes. So those three things together, best case scenario, will produce innovation, will have a little painful period, but the ingenuity of the American capitalist engine will change forms and excel, right? Yeah, yeah, you wanna boost the middle class.

You wanna give them something to do, you wanna give them some jobs, you want them to have more money because the last 30, 40 years. Worst case scenario, worst case scenario, robots are here tomorrow. Um, the American worker can't get the job done. Everyone's still wants an only fans page or a podcast, and they don't want to go work at your new startup for Velcro dick

clappers or whatever company you've started. That's now being advertised on some podcasts, right? That needs people to box. Am I correct? Yep. That could happen. And the owner of that company goes, can I just get a couple of Mexicans and builds a

tunnel under the wall and imports them to box? And by box, I don't mean the sport. I mean to put the Velcro penis clappers into boxes and mail them out because a white 19 year old or a black 19 year old or Hispanic 19 year old who was born here doesn't want to do it. That's worst case scenario, right? So my thesis from the last episode stands.

It's yet to be seen. I'm not saying it's a conclusion. I'm just saying that's what it's going to come down to. Right? No, seriously, do you think? Yes. Yes. So that's worst case scenario. It doesn't work.

Yeah, who knows? And people get the more money and they go to Footlocker. That could happen. Right. Buy Footlocker stock. Right. And what I mean by that is Footlocker or not just Footlocker, Jesus Christ, not just Foot Locker. They could also go to Zara, right? They get their extra money, that extra income and they go out to dinner

again. How nice would be not to pay income tax though, huh? It would be very nice. It would be very nice. Believe me. Believe me, be very nice. Okay? Be very nice. It'd be very nice. But, um, either way, unfortunately I'm getting banged out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bad. Yeah. I'm getting banged out bad either way. It seems like both administrations, I was getting banged out. Nonstop. Yeah.

So I'm just in that sweet spot where you just get fucking banged out. I don't got enough to hide and I go, I don't got a little to not to notice. I just get banged out with the rest of fucking regular Joe's regular Joe's with a little more money. Get fucking banged. Yeah, they get you good. They get you good. They get you good. And I just try not to pay attention to it.

And I don't care because I know I'm helping my fellow man. Sure. It's going to a good place. It's going to a good place. Money well spent. It's money well spent. place. It's going to a good place. It's money well spent. It's money well spent. Yeah. I've done social work. Now, listen, I understand. Okay. Like we were saying before, I think people always compare the private and public sector and go, which one's going to get the job done better.

I think that depends because running a country that is really an empire, you know what's a country? Texas. That's the size of a regular country. We are an empire. We're a collection of states with different little cultures. We share the same language. We are Rome. The official language is English, sometimes Spanish. If you're in Minneapolis, sometimes Somali, okay? And other places. If you go to some Polish neighborhoods, it's Polish. But we're an empire.

So the differences between running an empire and a company, I think they abound. I think the differences abound. But I think the similarity is between the public and private sectors, that they're both run by people with different purposes, right? The purpose of the government is to just keep things going to make these people happy, but also make the lazy people also not rob you on the street. So sometimes when you're paying a tax, if you're smart, you may go, all right, all right. I know dogs are wolves and want to kill. So I'm an adult. Maybe I'm okay paying this person's

welfare because that means they're not going to rob me violently. I'd rather rob them have an intermediate and they just take the money and it's like mugger money. Sometimes it's just like mugger money. You go, some people are just never gonna figure it out and they're just gonna feed off the system and you can't get rid of them and you gotta cohabitate. Just the same way you gotta cohabitate with retards and trolls and all these fucking self-hating assholes. You gotta go cohabitate with angry people

and people who fart too much. You have to cohabitate not just with lazy people, but with all types of people. And government's function is to just keep the ball rolling and keep poor people out of rich people's foyers. That's it. Go up the hill, build your house, and just let the water push the poor people down

and let them be happy down there because they can afford a fucking the dollar meal. And it just kind of works and you shuffle shit around and it kind of works like when I did social work, you kind of just go, what's your medications? Okay, let me check. Maybe we'll change this, maybe we won't. You just check the same boxes over and over again.

You shuffle, you shuffle, you shuffle because some people are immune to growth for whatever reason, that's government's function to make sure we stay on top, but make sure we don't collapse. Private sectors purpose and goal is growth at all costs, which is different. It's different from the government. We don't want growth at all costs. We don't want a debt growing at all costs.

We don't want spending growing at all costs. We don't want the government growing at all costs. We don't want the government getting too small at all costs. We don't want a debt growing at all costs. We don't want spending growing at all costs. We don't want the government growing at all costs. We don't want the government getting too small at all costs. We want a nice shuffle. A little bigger, a little smaller, little more benefits, little less benefits. You know, you want it to vacillate according to the times. What's going on now? Hey, COVID, yeah. Now take it back. Take it back because we sell some arms to Iran. Get that money right back, whatever. Iranians kill each other. It's for a civil war over there, but we got the money from COVID back.

And you shuffle it around and you keep it and you keep your borders tight and you don't ask questions about how the fucking sausage is made. And you just look at your iPhone and you don't think about the four year old who put it together. And that's the purpose of government sometimes.

It's not to cut all waste at all costs. Sometimes waste is a good thing, right? Because you got to cohabitate with people who need that waste so they don't storm your foyer. I don't know. It's more of a balancing act, I think. So we're gonna see. We got two austere businessmen, one who's definitely a lot more successful and effective than the other. Let's just be honest. Let's just tell the full story. One of them was innovative

and became the richest person in the world. The other one kind of more of a celebrity, doesn't really own the things he says he owns, he slaps his name on it. He's more like when you go to Michael Jordan steakhouse, he's got four 14, 20% ownership, but they use his name and they franchise it because he's a, he was a celebrity. He was a celebrity. He was America's celebrity billionaire.

He was like a cartoon character, but he's got money, but he's flopped a lot. He's got some stupid fucking ideas. From what I can tell Elon Musk has had no fucking stupid ideas of business. He said fucking none. Maybe one, right? Getting out of A.I., but he got out of open A.I. for like moral reasons. He's suing. Yeah, and he's suing because of that.

But I mean, you know, Tesla, all fucks, SpaceX doing great. And pretty soon we're going to have the chip in our head that says vote Republican. Oh, fucks. SpaceX doing great. And then pretty soon we're going to have the chip in our head that says vote Republican. Pretty soon we're gonna have the chip in the heads where you go, I feel like I'm a girl. He's gonna go there's no such thing as a girl, there's a boy. The woke by virus stole my son. So two businessmen and we're gonna see if that translates well because I don't know if we've seen that. We've seen an actor, we've seen Ronald Reagan, we've seen lawyers, we've seen you know, that's judges, they're all lawyers.

A lot of governors. A lot of governors. So we'll see. And a lot of people criticize these people and criticism should be there.'s what freedom is about is you should criticize you should hold them accountable That's that's part of the job right there because they actually have something important That affects your life, so that's part of it But also you sometimes got to give them the benefit of the doubt of how hard it is to govern Especially what are we population of 345 million or something like that? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's not it ain't Finland

No, it ain't Finland. No. It ain't Finland, it ain't homogeneous Finland. A lot easier to campaign than to govern. It's a lot easier to campaign than to govern and he is an excellent campaigner. And he's just, the economy, behind all the commentary that you guys consume, I think the facts are that the economy was turning around,

like towards the end of Biden, it was starting to turn. Right, what is it, the GDP versus the deficit, what's that called? Was kind of turning around a little bit. He reduced it a little bit. Sally's jobs were being created. He pulled out of the COVID. He was starting to pull out of the COVID malaise.

The economy was looking like it was sort of rebounding. But yes, the debt was balloon, but was sort of rebounding. But yes, the debt was ballooned, but it's always fucking ballooned. Yes, we had all these other issues. Yes, there's tons of things you can criticize him for. But he also started bringing the factories in. That was him who started like the first big chip deal for Michigan or one of those places was Biden wanting to bring the chips back. But overall, he's not inheriting as healthy as an economy as he did after eight years of Obama. Right? That's just I overall net I think that's a fact, right? We have some deep troubles. We have some deep troubles.

We just don't know how bad COVID really was. But he is inheriting the bad way, however you view it, of funding the Ukraine War. That's bad. That's he did. That's something you can say also he's inheriting, right? And a bunch of other shit I'm missing. All right, because I know a lot of people think he was horrible. And the border crisis. And the border crisis. That was really expensive. Right. That was really expensive as well. So he is inheriting some horrible things. But as far as the economy per se, it's not as healthy as it was under Obama, right? No. Like overall. Yeah, we don't really know what it is, you know, right, because you don't know what they were doing to the

books, like how many government workers were there, like where the money was going. So there's a lot to be decided. We don't know how much was being swept under the rug during the Biden administration. Because Obama, the economy was good. It got really good towards his last four. And then Trump came in and it stayed good. Till COVID. Till COVID. Stayed good. So, and also this is still, we're still kind of recovering a little bit from COVID supply chains, tariffs, all this shit. You know, Obama was just free and, you know, maybe you could criticize that. Hey, he's a little too friendly with China. A little too laissez faire, talk tough but no Dewey, right? So he's not coasting right now is what I'm saying, economically. No, and he's trying to do really tough shit.

He's trying to do tough stuff real fast. So we got to, the only, my conclusion, don't get hyped on anything I said, because a lot I don't know. All I'm just saying is I'm reinforcing my point that we are watching the cake bake and nobody can predict. Everyone's got opinions on what's gonna happen, but nobody fucking knows. This could go one way or the other.

I think I'm right about that. It ain't gonna be like, ah, something's bad. It's gonna go, whoa, or wow. It's gonna be a whoa or a wow. It's gonna be whoa or wow. Ain't nothing in between. Could be the name of the episode. It's going to be like, wow, he did it or whoa. Fuck. Yeah.

It's going to be that. So, um, we will find out, we will find out what happens. Um, Missouri, um, did win its civil lawsuit, I believe against China. I didn't know you could sue China, but Missouri has been awarded $24 billion, uh, in damages from, uh, COVID, um, because of their, like repressing of information or whatever the case was made So Missouri plans to seize assets to make China pay a twenty four point five billion dollar judgment Good luck collected. What are you gonna call dog the bounty hunter? I Bet you Kings he's going yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's coming right up. That'll be doubted. Yeah checks in the checks in the mail

Don't worry, Missouri, it's coming. It's coming. The money's coming. You know what Missouri's going to get? Just like I was supposed to be in Springfield, it ain't showing up. Yeah, you're not going to get the money or Yadis Pappas in Springfield, Missouri. This weekend. There's some fortune cookies.

Yeah. One, you're going to be mad about the other one nobody's even going to know about, and that's me. So it just ain't happening. It just ain't happening but it's a funny thing to see and everyone's going, ooh, this is gonna set some precedent. Yeah, good luck collecting. But I guess you could seize assets or something legally.

Right? How could they collect? I don't know, some trinkets. Maybe some trinkets. Some cheap plastic shit. Maybe they own a company or something. Yeah, maybe. They do own a lot of land.

Lands, maybe they seize the land, but is that legal because they're going, hey, this is, it's usually proct, like the government outright doesn't own it, right? They own it through like private companies. Yeah, right. Follow American law. Yeah, yeah, you're probably right about that.

It's a lot harder. It's the world out there, baby. It's the world out there. And it's the same news, different week. What's my advice to you? My advice to you is if you got money in the market, keep it in there. Keep it in there. Keep it in there.

I'm telling everyone to keep it in there because I don't wanna run. Is that the right advice? I don't know. You may need the cash. I don't know. It could go way, way the other. You don't feel like a little,

you feel confident with the money in the market because you know, I got my finger on the button like this. I'm like this. I'm like, get it out, get it out. Okay. Get it out. Get it out. Oh, you got to think long-term man.

Long-term. We're going to be long-term meaning we're going to have like, how long was it? Great depression. 10 years. That's a long time. Yeah. But what are you doing with the money? It's a long time.

Keep it in there. You got a dollar cost average. Keep buying by the dips. Okay. All right. I'll do that for another day and then I'm fucking cash it out move it to Monaco where's good to be right now well countrywide yeah yeah good luck and who's who wants us nobody wants Americans except for that Italian little town oh yeah I'll move there that's paying you they give you like a little shack.

I heard that you move into those houses. Or you could go to Alaska where they pay you to go there too. Yeah. And just, it'll shorten your lifespan. It's no fun. Yeah, I think the leading cause of death in Alaska is a gunshot wound to the head.

During a 24 hour dark day. During the winter. Just alcoholism and domestic abuse. Yeah, so those are the best case scenarios, worst case scenarios, and we're gonna see it play out. And you know, just, I don't think it's a good idea to paint swastikas on Teslas because the people driving them have nothing to do with Elon Musk.

So I don't know if that's gonna help or hurt, but I guess they're doing it because they want to scare everyone to sell their cars, right? To hurt him. He doesn't care about the money. So you're not doing anything. Plus don't you guys like electric cars? It's still an electric car, right? It's still not using gas with what you believe in. So just, I'm not saying this for any reason that has anything to do with me. Just leave the cars alone.

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