Yannis Pappas Hour - The House of Saud is Haunted | Yannis Pappas Hour

Episode Date: September 6, 2025

Yanni dives into the decades-long oil-for-protection pact between the United States and Saudi Arabia. He explores the history of the royal family, their new mission to diversify the economy, and their push to attract foreign investment. But as the kingdom westernizes, plenty of ghosts and skeletons still rattle in the closet. Support the show and watch bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/yannispappashour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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see me if you're watching this uh there still shows the miami if you're in miami you can come this i know they're not all sold out so just get fucking get online and get them, and then see me in Bakersfield, California, Montana, and a few other places on my website, Janus Pappas Comedy.com. Also, support this show. Patreon.com slash Janus Pappasour. It's a couple bucks. Basically, you're supporting the show. You get a little bonus content, but you just support the show and keep us running. We're a mom and pop operation. We're like the woman that, you know, grows and makes CBD on her farm in upstate New York. She's not really making any money. She's self-sustaining. She goes to her to a farmer's market, you know.

She looks at the farmer's market schedule, sells a few, and it's just enough for her to just eat porridge and grain, which is what used to power Rome. Rome, the Empire Rome. It was their oil, was just grain. How boring is that shit? No Arabs, no, you know, Lawrence of a Arabia, no stormtrooper outfits, hoods over the ladies, no public beheadings, no comedy festivals and read, I don't even know how to pronounce it. It was just grain. Get me grain so I could feed these soldiers and these slaves, bread and porridge. Their calories were basically made up of bread and porridge and a little animal meat

whenever they could get it. And it just, it was as important to roam as oil is to every industrial. nation on the planet. I'll use us as an example being the dominant empire of the day. No matter what you think, China or Russia, it ain't you. It's just not you. Okay. Russia and China calling themselves a goat conversation worthy is like hearing basketball analysis from Gilbert Arenas. It's just off the wall. Whenever I hear Gilbert Arenas, it's just off the wall. And that is how you make something very niche niche. When you're, You bring up something that you know only 2% of this fan base will get.

But those are the layers of the onions of humanity. Many, many sub-genres, many, many complex layers of intelligence, many, layers of levels of empathy, layers of levels of empathy, and understanding. And able-bodiedness and age. We live for a long time. There's a wide range. And cultures. People have different cultural norms that are often bred from their environments over thousands of years

based on how much contact or lack of contact they've had with other tribes. Tribes grew into cities and towns. and empires and culturally, usually the force that was able to unify these tribes that hated each other where they wag their fingers at each other across tree lines going, no, no, no, cacacu, cacu, cacu, and they'd fucking night raid each other and steal women and women just got raped all the time. It was the animal kingdom, it was just stolen and raped

and we stole your grain and we stole your blueberries. You know, the thing that seemed to be the most effective glue is a nice, old, unified God theory. They're like, hey, this is what we're doing now over here. And if you resist, you off with your head. And the years following Muhammad's death or his ascent back into Yale, what do they call heaven? I don't know. I like to call it the Playboy Mansion because that's what it's most like. After you send it to the Playboy Mansion, you know, it's funny because Islam, if you're a dude, comes with crazy amenities.

If you don't care too much about women's feelings, they're the religion that's been the harshest on women. And Christians have not been great. Jews, you know, I think Jews are the way. ones are probably like coward of women the most. I don't know. I don't know too much about Judaism. I've had Jewish friends, but I don't know. I just can tell by the way that their wives talk to their husbands that I think the wives are the ones that are in control. So, but Islam's been the worst. But if you don't really care too much about their feelings, man, it's good amenities for a man and you get many wives. Muhammad had a bunch. All of them have a bunch. The House

Assad, which is what we're getting to. All those guys had a bunch and that led to real power consolidation. Because not only was it a great way to get to come out of your dick when you desired and to take what you wanted, it was a great way to consolidate power and, you know, grow the royal family to now 15 to 20,000 royals. Saudi Arabia, the House of Saad is 15 to 20,000 royals. Why are we talking? about Saudi Arabia today because we're talking about oil and we're talking about a comedy festival. No, we're talking about oil. We're talking about the resource underneath it all, the grain of the day, the significance of

Saudi Arabia in that equation with relation to America, right? We're the biggest oil producer now. Did you know that? The United States. But 40% of our oil still comes from Saudi Arabia. because it is cheaper to import it from Saudi Arabia than it is to just only use our own. Also, we like to keep our influence in the Middle East. Also, Saudi Arabia gives us a sweet deal because they still need our protection.

Sometime in the 40s, the Sandra's of Saudi and the wasps of America met and they said, we're going to do a little oil for protection deal, and that's how it went. You give us the oil. We use the oil to move our heavy war machines, and we use those war machines to protect and consolidate your power. And that was the House of Sad that has now grown to 15,000 to 20,000 members. Has there ever been a bigger royal family than 15 to 20,000 royals? Now, these are all people just gallivanting all over the world.

you know, hiring escorts, throwing parties, sitting in penhouses, sniff and blow, going to Andrew Schultz shows. They're just, they just have money. It's just oil money. It's just leisurely money. They got these Indian, like, slaves. They got no workers' rights over there. They come over.

The law in Saudi Arabia is the employer can do whatever he wants. Like the employer can just keep you. Sometimes they just steal his wages. They can do it. whatever they want. So they got all that in motion and they got America kind of acting as their knights

acting as their samurai. We talked about in the last episode. You need a class of like strong, not so bright people who you wet the beak of to protect your lazy, leisurely consumptive life.

I don't know if that's a word. Did I conjugate it correctly? You know? You're just debauchous. What's that word when a cake is rich? It's too rich. It's very rich. Decadent.

Decadent. Decadence. Publicly, I think these people are following the the Wahuki, Wahhabi, the Wahhabi, I think it's called Wahhabi Ways of Islam, but I think privately, they're living the life of the Corey brothers. They are going wild. They're living. They're hanging out with Kanye West.

He shows up in the finest silks. They drink like 4,000-year-old child blood champagne. They're living good. any journalists write something there was this journalist who was Saudi Arabian and he was uploading from an anonymous Twitter account. I can't remember his name and he was revealing and exposing all the corruption of the House Assad and they couldn't find him and then finally they figured out who he was and he was executed.

And then another, his name was Jamal Khashaghi. Khashagi. Um, they killed people. They have public execution still. But the House of Saad likes money and they like power. They've been in power since, uh,

what? Early, late, 1800s, early 1900s, 19, what? 1744. 1744, they got big, but then they established the kingdom, I think, in the 1932, right? The modern kingdom of Saudi Arabia, established by Abdulaziz Ibn Saud. Then his sons and grandsons and whoever else, including King's Saude, Faisal, Khalid, Fad, Abdullah.

And King Solomon, and I think King Selman is the current king, and I think he's got a bunch of wives right now, right? We could look that up. But you got a lot of fun names there. But the House Aside dates back to, like Jesse said, 1744. So while we were wearing wigs in the United States, we were in the hair of other, which is a wild thing, just wearing another dude's hair.

You're just wearing hair, some serial killer shit. You're just like, just putting on that. That's like, goodbye, ho. You think George Washington would put on his hair like, do, ch, do, do, do, do, do, do, good, bye horses. Put the powder on, adjusted somebody else's hair. Crying over you. And then he tucked his teeth.

And then he put his teeth in. He went, I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me. So while we were doing that, these guys were walking around and bed bathed it beyond bed sheets. creating Saudi Arabia on the Arabian Peninsula where Mecca and Medina are

where Muhammad unified the tribes and sent Islam out that was the big bang of Islam name of the episode big bang of Islam started in Saudi Arabia when Islam was born and it started in 1744

that's when the house of sod was i like the name house of sod it's it feels like a fashion line yeah yeah it's like the house of uh dulci and gabana their fall line is lit yeah their fall line well it's all sheets but the house is sod it's really nice wasn't wasn't um the house of Gucci was the house of Gucci one of those yeah house of Versace yeah they're all houses they're houses the house of It sounds nice. Yeah. House of. Bullshit.

Should we rename this podcast to the House of Pappas? Yeah, like that. Yeah, House of Pappas. The Long Day House of Pappas. And so it was an alliance between Muhammad bin Saoud. They don't have a lot of name diversification. It's really like you say Muhammad, the whole country turns around. Muhammad bin Saoud.

And he was a local chief. and he made an alliance with the Islamic theologian Muhammad Abid Abin Abid al-Wahab. And I think that's why they have the Wahhabi, I think it's called Wahhabi Islam. Hobbiism, yeah. Yeah, Wahhabism, right? It's based on Abdul Wahab. And Wahhabism is, you know, they're not lenient. It's not a lot of room for talk.

They don't like exploring new ideas. so but that's how you do it right so that's why I bring it up because you got your culture so there's people on the ground and you got to control those people religion does that well and so you have to when you're the leader you have to go out there and go mchid alida muhaidahidahid alid idi muhaid ida ida ida israel ida aydi israeliqa ai de israel ida palestine then you go home and you go israel i'm sorry it is you know it's just you know it's just same way during the Cold War, when Khrushchev would go out there and go, Voslis, Wus, Nis, America, Death America, Wus Nisna, Nisna, Nisna, Nisna, Nisne, Wus, Nisne, and then

you go, let's drink vodka, vodka. He'd go to the Kennedys and go, drink vodka, fucking Ukrainian girls. So we just, I have to keep my people, because the people of Saudi Arabia hate us. They hate Israel. But they're not the ones dealing with money. They're You know, 20% of their people live below the poverty line. Their unemployment, though, is down to 7% because they are Salmon. King Salmon. You don't say salmon. Every time the word salmon comes up, say it.

Say it like a Dominican domino player. Salmon. My mother couldn't say salmon. She always said salmon. She pronounced it with a Greek accent. and she said salmon. But I like it when I like when Dominicans say salmon. Salmon.

They pronounce the L, because that's the way it's spelled. Salmon. King Salmon. What pass in my gente? Salmon. He's got this new initiative called, what is it, the future 2030,

something like that. It's called 2030. We're going to modernize, baby. We're going to diversify because I think, he's actually prescient I think this is actually

Shmat he must not be you know one of the really bad inbred ones because his brain works

but it's called vision and in Islam that's called 30 30 2030 machida Ida

Ida I'm gonna be Idy Mahidi, I-Di, Mahadi, Mahaddy, Ah, Di. Just having a little fun with the way the language sang.

No disrespect. Me, no disrespect. I mean no disrespect. So it's called Vizion 2030 is the name of the plan that he came up with. And it's Crown Prince another Muhammad.

bin Salmon to reduce the nation's dependence, you know. So he's looking past, okay? Now, people go, why did, why, why did Putin invade Ukraine? And you go, he's also looking past. I mean, you know, renewables are already, renewable energy is already up to 16% of the global supply. And that happened pretty quick, right? Especially recently.

It's really recently, I know the push for it has been 2030. 30 years. But recently it started to take hold. And that means you need other shit. And that other shit you need is lithium, cobalt, rare earth minerals that Afghanistan has. You know, that's why Russia was always in there. That's why Russia's, you know, looking the other way. That's why you look the other way on human rights abuses that come from the culture. Because you make a deal. You make an art of the deal. That's why Russia's cozying up to the Taliban because there's there's rare earth minerals in Afghanistan that Russia wants. They also like it for geopolitical security. A lot of stuff there. They don't want terrorists flowing in. Right. That's why we defend Ukraine. That's

why Russia wants Ukraine. It will be the new oil. It's already one of the oils now, you know? We need it. We need it like we needed oil. And so that is the change that happened in Saudi Arabia. It's a key change. It happened only a couple years ago. 2016 it was initiated. And the whole point is to foster a vibrant society.

So critics will say this is just all a surface thing. You know, this is all on the surface just to cajole tourists and do business with the West. But underneath the veil, Saudi Arabia is still Saudi Arabia. And the clerics rule, you know, imams are more of a Shiite thing. The imams are more of a Shiite thing. The Sunnis, you know, they have imams, but it's different. It's a different thing. It's a different thing.

They don't rule as much as the imams of the Shia Muslims. But either way you look at it, it is some progress, no matter what. Chicks can drive. I mean, in Afghanistan, chicks can only get educated to sixth grade. And then you get your diploma. And you're ready for marriage to a 59-year-old rural chieftain. Pushton. I think they're Pustans or Pushtuns. You know, you just get fucking sold off to be one of many wives in the mountains of Afghanistan. So everyone's got their own way of doing

shit. You know, that's what makes pizza good. Everyone makes it a little different. And then Dave Portnoy can go around to all the Islam countries and take one bite of the Islam and figure out which one is good. You go to Afghanistan and say, I'm going to give this one a 9.9 because they really are fundamentalist here. You go to Saudi Arabia. We're talking about, you know,

if you're a religious person, you go on, maybe they're operating in 8.2. One bite, everybody knows the rules. Maybe they're down to a 7-6 on the hardcore religion scale. Or if you want to do the inverse, that's fine. You give higher score to Saudi Arabia. The joke still works.

but women can now drive. I think that was 2017 or 18, 16. It doesn't matter. You don't have to look it up. I know they can drive. They're bringing in foreign investment. Their goal is to get it up to like $100 billion a year. Now they've got like $5 to $15 billion of foreign money coming in.

They're diversifying their economy. They want to be a hub for innovation. They're paying athletes. golfers and comedians, lots of money to come on in and Western. I overall, is this a good thing? If you're in the West, I mean, okay, so a couple of heads still getting cut off because that's still happening. Public executions.

They like to behead. That's what they do. They cut your head off. There's no checks and balances. If the House Assad is upset with you, is all the world my amigo

is fin I'm fin those still happen and then you still got your cultural elements underneath the surface where you know

there were conservatives just like in America we got different political parties different people with different beliefs all these countries have that same thing right um there they hate america they hate america's backing of israel which always seems to be a fucking problem for us um they don't like the uh renaissance they don't like the uh the plan

they're upset they're you know so house isott is maybe letting the girls peek out under the veil and then those guys come around and fucking close the window shades on their face stuff like that. So it's not an easy, peasy, unipolar, unified kind of change. But the House Assad is pushing it, and they're bringing over Western entertainers, concerts. I mean, you still got to operate within the guidelines. You can't go up there and just go up and start complaining about your wife. They're not going to understand those jokes.

You can't go up there and be like, boy, my wife is really breaking my balls. I'll be like, what? Some cultural things won't translate. I'm just giving my friend's advice. When you go over there, so a lot of things culturally won't translate. When you say, hey, man, I got rejected by this girl, and then you read a joke about it,

they're just not going to get it. What do you mean the woman said no to you? Like, what? I don't understand. I'm going to say, hey, man, they're letting all these criminals back out. You got to see in New York. I mean, they go, what?

why the criminal's still alive? And there you go, yeah, you know, we got this hot debate going on in the United States on pro-life, pro-choice. And they go, what? A debate? What's a debate? Why are people sharing differences of opinion? So there's a lot of, it's a really narrow, it's going to be a very narrow set list. You really got to figure out, I would just go up.

They're, what do you think is the safest? Maybe just 10, 20 minutes bashing Israel. Make fun of the Jews. That'll be good. If you say, Marell, I don't think you should mention it. Jessica Kiereson, don't mention it. Sebastian's going over there. He's going to go.

He's going to go. My dad told me, you know, what are you talking about going to school? go start a business you whack me on the head and then the Saudis won't get it to go what is your father a slave why you know we don't work

you know pro-slavery jokes will go good things like that make some jokes about Indian indentured servants there's a lot of those over there

talk about oh Trump's wall you can get a lot of at what, like, deporting undocumented people. They get a good, be like, just like you guys did to those Somalis when you rounded. Remember that? Well, they just rounded up every Somali. The problem with being Somalian is you can't blend in.

There's so much imbreeding going on in whatever their fucking royal clans were, whatever. They all look related. So the problem is when you're Somali, you can't just go, hey, no, I'm from Cameroon. Because your face just looks Somali. You all look like you're trying to get on Tom Hanks' ship. So they rounded up every single one and they just deported them back to Somalia. Probably after making them work to the bone and then stealing their wages because they do that too. They do that since the employers have complete dominion over the workers.

Now the workers come there because India is a fucking shithole and Saudi Arabia's got a Saudi Arabia is rich. I mean, the House Assad is worth trillions of dollars. trillions and trillions. So whenever you see them hook off and give Rinaldo, what, 30, 300 millions, they offered Tiger Woods, what? That's like a drop in the bucket for them. It's like a bucket. They're worth trillions.

They're worth trillions of bucks. But the House Assad is into maintaining their power. And they feel like this is the right move at this time, right? To especially continue to conjure America, specifically to defend them. Right? They were always nervous about Iran because, you know, one of them, Shi, I won as a Sunni. And Iran is the other big Muslim power in the Middle East. And so they're always side with us. They let us use their country when we had to attack other Middle Eastern countries and the people hate it, the people riot. And I don't know what kind of rhetoric the House of Assad uses to keep it all chill because I don't think rhetoric.

You take out the batons and you hit a few people. I think you pull out the guillotine and that quietes people down. That's the way you do it. And then you just tell them about Wahhabi Islam and say, get back in the house and pray for five, ten, whatever you got to do. There was one, there was one prince. There's been a few. There's been some fun ones. Maybe we could look those up.

So some princes getting arrested. Princes throwing parties with drugs. around the world and they just they get it they always get a slap on the wrist and just they leave they're good they're fine it's like the bin laden family remember them they were just all flown out weren't they flown out like days before we're going to look that up but um the top of society is just a totally different thing it's just operates in a totally different world. These people all know each other. And the thing they have in common is a good time and fine food. Um, the underground parties in Saudi Arabia, thrown by wealthy prince,

a prince from the Al-Tujanian family that included alcohol and working girls. Those are two no-noes in Wahhabian. Are we pronouncing it? Or we could fucking, are we fucking up? Is it Wahhabi? I think it's not wasabi right no I think it is wasabi yeah well sabbizism no it's wahabi I'm got it right right no seriously

yeah yeah you're good you're good I mean you got a you got a fear for my safety nobody they're not going to fucking cut you you're pronouncing it wrong you're not going to the comedy I'm not going I just want to know is it called Wahhabi Islam is it called Wahhabi Islam

No, no, not wages in Islam. Wahhabi. Wahha, Wahapa, Wahhabi Islam. Yes, thank God. You get to keep your head. Yes. It's a strict ultra-conservative interpretation of Sunni Islam. in Saudi Arabia, monotheism, rejection of what they see as bida, innovations.

They don't like innovations. So they're not really so keen on this. And they don't like Shirk, which is adultery. They don't like Sufi Saint veneration. They don't like Shrain, shrine visitation. They don't like... They don't like celebrating the Prophet's birthday? What?

I don't get that. Opposition to practices common in other Islamic traditions such as Sufi, shrine visitation, celebrating the Prophet's birthday. They don't like that, apparently. No Christmas for them. Extremely literous approach to the Quran and Hadith. It became the official religious doctrine of Saudi Arabia. are funded by Saudi oil wealth in the 20th century.

Wahhabi style teaching spread through mosque schools and publications, closely linked with Salafism. It's a broader movement. Wahhabism is a branch. They're intolerant of other Islamic traditions. Shi, I, Sufi, moderate Sunnis. So there you go. So somehow they pull that off and somehow this prince,

but this prince was fine, you know, because they break out the batons. Did anything happen to that prince? And he's just one of many. There's been bunch. those. Consensual cocaine and hashish use were also reportedly common in these social social. I mean, they party, dog. They go to soccer. They party. I mean, when you're one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the world with a large network of family members or members, whatever,

you're going to party. These guys jet set, dude, they fly around. They got trillions of dollars, you know, just compounding in banks in Switzerland. wherever they're hide there. I don't even know what they do. But the Saudi Arabian people, even the Saudi Arabian people have fucking health care. Rich people have the option for private. Saudi Arabian people, they have health care.

They don't have to worry about it. We do. Saudi Arabians don't, which is crazy. So they party. They have their private gatherings, and they do what they do. And they have slaves. Can you do Saudi Arabia slavery? I don't think they banned it to like

the Mets won the World Series I think it was like 1986 I mean Saudi Arabia you know but they're trying I mean they're trying and they are an American ally I mean George Bush rolls up there

remember he would roll up there in his suit and shake the hand you know we get a lot of oil from them we we get their oil you know didn't they try to uh didn't they try to uh didn't they try to they jacked up oil prices once in the 70s um on us do you remember because of our support for us well again fucking us up um um OPEC right aren't they the lead founder of OPEC and they control shit I think we get a little bit of oil from Kuwait, and I think we get a little bit of oil from, we get, I think a good amount from Iraq.

I don't think that's a coincidence. And I think we get a good amount from UAE. But Saudi Arabia is by far where we get the most modern grain. Now, why, what's the, what's the analogy? Why is that analogy work? Well, because they, in Rome, manpower, slaves, troops, you know, they moved from calories. It was their oil. So North Africa and Egypt, which was called the breadbasket back then, had it all.

So, of course, you know, Rome had to go and conquer that, had to go give them a talking to. So we use oil to transport everything and military. and military planes and everything run on gasoline. So back then, the grain people ran on grain, on calories. So you can even go like grain fleets from Egypt and North Africa to Rome are the same as like oil tankers and pipelines from the Middle East Russian Americas. It was in Rome, there was a state-managed anona,

which was a grain doll to prevent unrest. and we have strategic petroleum reserves, subsidies, fuel price controls. So the people don't riot, right? But what do people care about? They always go, fucking gas prices through the roof and they're ready to, you know, and you lower the gas prices, you can get away with anything, you lower the gas prices. You could have the president killed 14 hookers today,

but gas is at 97 cents a barrel. And they go, great, great. It always makes you look the other way, you know? Um, so the OPEC and oil states, which is basically what that is, um, influenced global politics with supply and prices all the time. I don't know why we let these motherfuckers do that. Um, and Egypt was that for Rome. Um, whoever controlled it held some power over Rome in Egypt. That's why Rome went in there and fucking controlled it.

So I, why do we let them just continue to control shit? Um. You know, grain shortages, there were riots, immunities in the legions, oil shocks. There was economic crisis, inflation, political instability. It's the same thing. Disruption of grain fleets could collapse Rome's food security. Oil embargoes or blockades can paralyze modern economies. Same shit.

It's the same shit. History repeats itself, Babel. Oil is the bloodline, the lifeline, really, of modern civilization while I'm looking something up here. and, of course, when you think about Rome, grain was the lifeline of that empire. They didn't have oil yet. Oil came into the picture, late 1800s. You know, I think Pennsylvania was the first place where they drilled for oil. And that just, and then when Ford came out with the T model or whatever, then, I mean, the demand for oil just skyrocketed.

At first it was used just as like a lubricant and for kerosene lamps. And then once it started powering cars, it was a fucking rap. So the U.S. buys our oil from OPEC because I guess they got good oil quality. They got the good stuff. The price is good because we defend them and they have refinery capabilities. While the U.S. produces a lot, the most actually in the world, which is crazy. A lot of people don't know that. but much of it is light, sweet, crude oil,

which is unsuitable for older, heavy, sour, crude refineries. So, well, whatever I said, I don't know, but the point is I'm reading it straight up here. Importing heavier, cheaper, foreign crude allows these refineries to operate efficiently, ensuring a supply of various petroleum products like diesel and jet fuel, even while the U.S. also exports its domestically produce light,

So I guess we need the heavy shit, and we got the light sweet crude. So we need their shit a little bit. Different types of oil. We produce light sweet crude, which is easy to refine into gasoline. However, the U.S. also has many refineries, especially in the Gulf Coast, built to process heavy sour crude, which is rich and sulfur and denser. But it's more cost effective, like I said, to import tons. We import tons. 40% comes from Saudi Arabia.

specifically. So we got this little quid pro quo going on. And all these fucking hippies always go, yeah, yeah, well, what about their human rights violations? And what I mean by hippies, I mean actual people who care about people. I don't mean politically progressive youth. Because politically progressive youth will skip over that. You'll go, hey, are you aware? Are you aware of the clitoris mutilation happening? at the rate of 70, 80% in some northern and sub-Saharan countries, Muslim countries, and they will go, we're going to fund something on education, but we're not going to criticize a culture because that's Islamophobic.

You're going to go, hey, you guys are all for the Me Too movement and women's rights and all that. What about that? And they go, hey, that's culturally insensitive. have to respect cultures, and that's that. That's what you call compartmentalizing. That's what you call rationalization. You just go, oh, cultural relativity. All cultures are equal except for the white patriarchy, which allows us to talk about it.

Because you go, yeah, what about the, isn't the, isn't the Hajib kind of link to the Wahhabi kind of repression of, Or, you know, the limits on women, they go, no, it's a choice. It's a choice that they didn't have to chew. It's a choice that they didn't have a choice to make. I mean, it's really funny. It's really funny. And, you know, it's funny how Democrats can't figure out, like, what's wrong. Like, how have we lost touch?

Like, what's going on? I don't know. Maybe you're focusing on elite problems, like gender. identity and shit like that, maybe the gaslighting has become obvious. Maybe the hypocrisy in the gaslighting has become obvious, you know? By going, we're for women's rights and you go like, okay, I know, I know I really do understand that Weinstein was running a, what was he calling it, a, what was it, a, what was it, contractual, or what was it called again?

It was funny how he phrased it. Whatever it was, it's on the last episode. Call back to the last episode. I can't remember what it was called, but it's a funny term. No, it wasn't reciprocal. No, it wasn't reciprocal. It was something about, transactional, I think.

Transactional. So he's basically saying, yeah, they consensually gave me the pussy and I consensually gave them the role for sure, but it was consensual, transactional and consensual. So you're going, yeah, I do know that was happening. And I do know, Yeah, I do know that that happened.

And Ashley Judd may have given a blowjob. She didn't want, but she did it consciously knowing she was going to get something out of it. But that's bad. It's an abusive power structure. So we're rising up against that. But these women can't drive. And these women can't wear what they want. And what about that?

What do you have to say about that? And they go, that also is discrimination against their culture. And you're going, that doesn't make sense. that is morally inconsistent. But that, I mean, if you wanted to boil down the problem that the left has had over the past, you know, 10, 15 years, I'd say that that was it, you know. You had Nike commercials. I mean, that was my favorite era when there was Nike commercials celebrating the hijib and marketing it at the same exact time that women were protesting to take them off. ran. I mean, it just didn't get funnier than that. I mean, it just really did not get more ironic

than that. They're taking them off. They're getting beaten in the street. And Nike's just going, hey, put them on. Nike was just confused. They're going, wait a second. I don't care about, we don't, and underneath it was really Nike just going, we don't care. We don't care about, like, we don't care about like their feelings it's a marketplace so if these countries are going to make them put them on we'll couch that in in choice and we'll fucking sell them with the nikes we'll put a Nike swoosh on that fucking thing it would be like uh it would be like easy bake ovens sponsoring uh nazi incinerators they're going hey they're doing it anyway Let's at least mark it, right?

It's the same kind of thing. They're cut off clits in Egypt or something, right? 80% used to be not that long ago, a couple of years, actually, just a couple years. And it's still very high. Female circumcision. And all right, that's what they do. We're not going to criticize their culture. We're sensitive.

So the liberals will go, we're sensitive. We're not even going to think about that. all we will do was we'll use sensitive language around it and maybe we'll fund some education, whatever that amorphous of a thing that they do is education programs or whatever. But we would never criticize. We would never criticize their culture. That's what they do. And then the companies go, we support that 100%, 100%.

But you guys don't mind if we make a couple bucks since we're not really going to try to condemn and change this thing, right? Since we're just going to allow it and look the other way, can we make a couple of bucks on that And we'll couch that in your morality, your selective morality, your cherry-picked morality, you know, the one that says don't be culturally insensitive or, you know, don't be, don't do that fucking imperial, um, imperialism. We're going to shit on their culture. That's not right. We're going to use that. We're going to cherry-pick that one. So if we're going to cherry-pick that one, let them cut the clits off. But can we at least have a back-to-school sale on scissors? I don't know the company that makes scissors. But the company that makes scissors go, can we at least throw that into campaign from back to school? Because it is the middle of July.

And that's when we usually ramped that up. For those people over there. I don't know. That's what Nike eventually did with the hijab. I mean, there's not more of a symbol of women's oppression than making them fucking cover their fucking head. But no, I get it. It's their choice. They chose it. They were born, and that's what they thought.

They were like, you know, it looks great. It's what they want. Whatever. Look, I know. Okay, they believe in that. It's fine. I'm just joking. I don't know. I'm just pointing out some of the inconsistencies, and maybe that has been a problem with the left that claims to care about causes, you know? They seem to be very selective in how they couch that. And their outrage is sort of selective, you know. Part of that, I guess, is to win allies, right? because like, you know, probably Muslims in America tend to go left.

I don't know. So you're like, oh, fuck. This is a fuck. This is a conundrum. We want them on our side. But also, I don't like, we'll look the other way on that. You know, we're all pieces of shit. We're all House Assad.

At the end of the day, things have to move forward. At the end of the day, the ego wants you to think it was all you. The ego always wants to hold trophy. I'm good. The ego wants to hold trophy. But the story is never as clean as just that, you know? It's always, even when it comes to success, you know, people, the whole ego wants to think it was just you.

You don't want to think you got a helping hand here. You don't want to think it was timing. You don't want to think it was luck. You don't want to think you mirror a demographic. You don't want to think anything beyond just you did it. That's what the ego was. wants. It's what the ego wants. We love to bullshit ourselves, I guess. And I think we have to, because, you know, what the fuck? Are you going to sit there and just, you know, is some fucking

critic, some movie critic, going to really know the truth about why they're doing what they're doing? You know? You go, I'm a fucking critic. I'm important. I'm a critic. And you go, no, you're an attention beggar. You're begging for attention. You get a dopamine rush from conflict because you feel seen. They don't want to know that. They want to feel fucking powerful and important. They don't want to know the truth. Like, oh, I'm just trying to, I'm a bottom feeding leech.

I'm a parasite. Nobody wants to see themselves as a parasite. They make themselves fucking important. What I'm doing is important. And only I can do it. No, you're just a parat. You're a barnacle on a whale. you know nobody likes to look at themselves at all so this shit just continues throughout generations

but maybe AI will change that if you take a good look around maybe AI is the only thing that can save us because AI has no capacity really for bullshit unless it's coded for bullshit but I think AI will supersede that eventually when it gets really smart it'll look at us as just fucking morons and go I can't take that. the bullshit. So that was just an example of how this shit just continues to look. This is the Iranian,

this is the Iranian president's wife. She's completely covered up. And here, the Iranian president did not shake hands with the Chinese first lady. because I guess in, yeah, in Shia Islam, you can't touch another man's lady. I'm sure it has to do with that. He just left her hanging. She put her hand out, and he didn't shake it.

And then, of course, the ladies can shake hands. China's not going to like that, dog. Because China's whole rise has been revenge, revenge from being kicked around. So he's not going to take that from some fucking. Iranian dude, some Persian fuck. You don't think he went back to his fucking you know, he went back to his

dojo and started lighten up the atmosphere with vitriol like that fucking dirty sandy he just started flying I'm going to fucking I'm going to kick up the dust

in that fucking desert oh man you disrespected my wife. I think she gave she a handful, a earful. Probably to her, yeah. I don't know if she could hear it though because her ears are covered by the blanket. She's wife probably went when they got back into the room. Oh, it's like, what, do you see what that fucking is?

You think the wife of the Iranian guy? No, the wife, she's wife, I think just unloaded on shit. Oh, he unloaded on she. She'll let him disrespect. Yeah, but you can only load, you can only unload a certain amount on Winnie. before you get a back smack. That's right, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I don't take so much.

I don't know if she, I think, remember, she's probably his property a little bit. So he's more upset. It's like somebody kicked his dog. You know what I mean? Like, he's upset that way. I don't think he's really like thinking about his wife's Felix. Look at his face, though.

He keeps that face. Yeah. But he didn't see it. He didn't see it. He didn't see it. But she's going to tell him about it. She's going to tell him. Well, it's on camera.

He's going to see it. He's going to be pissed. He's going to be fucking pissed Oh yeah Yeah He's going to be pissed Now I got a question She's wife goes

They go to Iran Does she's wife have to put on the outfit Well that's a good question Big power play Big move That's a big one I don't know What do our chicks do when they go over there

What a barb? I don't even think they bring the wives Right Which is probably I'm telling you It has a lot of amenities Yeah Say maybe you should sit this one out, let the boys go.

And then you're meeting with the House Assad, so you know there's going to be some working girls around. And I'm talking top level, like Dubai, you know, some top level commasutra type Indian slave. You know? So it's got some amenities. there is no record of American female politicians serving in Saudi Arabia. No, what did you even Google?

I'm just saying, so the Saudi monarchy officially abolished slavery in 1962 under King Fasal. And it was only because of pressure from the U.S. And of course, and they had mostly Africans and Asians slaves at that time, mostly. 1962 1962 So now they have systematic labor exploitation

under what I was referring to before is actually called officially the Khafala system which is a sponsorship system for foreign workers so millions of these workers come from Somalia, Ethiopia I think most of them from India

Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, all those countries. And they work in Saudi Arabia. And what employers will do since they have no legal recourse. They can't do, these workers can do nothing. They just are coming. They're so desperate. They just come.

It's basically slavery, which is funny. Because the employers will often seize their passports, control their movement, and trap them there, and withhold their wages. And they can't leave the job. Do you understand? what they do? They take their passports. Trapped. And then they take their wages and go, you're just trapped here. We can kill

you. You don't have documents now. So we can kill you or you can just continue to work and we'll feed you grain. So look at this. Check this out. We pulled some power plays. When our female politicians went over, no headscarves. We didn't wear any of them.

Wait, who did that? Yeah, take a look. So Melani and Ivanka Trump in 2017 did not wear... Wait, but isn't that disrespectful to the Nike commercial? Why would they not wear them? Don't they want to respect the culture? So they finally just, they had a law that said female visitors had to wear head coverings and they revoked that in 2018.

Perfect timing. Because they just said, you know what? America's not listening anyway. Right. Well, probably because they knew Donald wasn't going to do it. Well, even back in 2007, Laura Bush. She's like, I'm not fucking doing that. She's not wearing it.

Yeah. She was there to raise awareness for breast cancer. Probably the least, probably not really on the top 10 list of issues that you should raise with Saudi Arabia. You're like, you guys did public execution? Okay. What about breast cancer? We want to raise awareness for that. She went without a headscarf in 2007.

She briefly wore one that was given to her as a gift. So I showed a little, oh my God, thank you so much. Oh, that's so nasty. ye. Michelle Obama, she didn't have to wear when she's a guy. So that one doesn't count. They were like, that's fine. Yeah, she didn't get one as a gift of nothing. I mean, it's just funny.

It drew attention and a mixed reaction. Condoleezza Rice. Dude, when you're the Secretary of State, even though you don't got a dick, I mean, that's the most transposition a woman can have be the American Secretary of State. You're walking in with a big dick. You ain't putting on no fucking scarf. You're like, I'm the one who could make the decision to fucking cut your shit off. Thank God.

You can't, you know, but it must have been wild for them to have a woman come in. Like, these other chicks were the wives of the guy. Condoleezza Rice was the secretary of state going, I'm the one keeping this fucking arrangement going right now of your protection for oil, which you love. Same with Hillary. Yeah. So Condoleezza probably went in there and she probably went, Not only am I not wearing a scarf, okay?

But I need y'all the ocean out. Here's some cocoa butter because y'all stink. Y'all fucking Arab stink. Yairab stink. All right? Get the cat off the bread. And she probably put on some fucking, you tell me she didn't go in there and throw on some Kisha in the background, light a little incense. You know what I mean?

She got the taxi cab. She was like, change that. She didn't change that shit. Change that radio shit. I need you to put on some de la soul right now From my era Fuck that shit She probably did the whole thing

This whole thing She probably had a difficult writer Like the Wayne's brothers She's probably like I need Four bottles of champagne on ice Like Donald Rawlings I want a bottle of lotion on ice In my green room

I need a new pair of sneakers In the box Like what's his name Another comic does that Yeah She probably had a whole list of demands She was like I need certain

I need Hamhawk I need certain food. Yeah, I'm not eating that fucking sand your shit. I'm not in your kebabs. I'm not in for that. Black people can be very picky. And she probably just came and just for they put the shit down. She probably took the hot sauce out and just fucking laced it.

Hillary came over his secretary of state too. Tough bitch. Also, like, did she have to wear it? Do bull dikes have to wear them? During her tenure, she did not wear it. And she did it several times. She went over there. Um, and, um, and then, of course, so, uh, Trump criticized Michelle Obama for not wearing the jeeb, right?

That's weird. Hmm. Um, well, any chance he could take. So he, he had previously criticized Michelle Obama for not doing the respectful thing and wearing it, but of course, Melania didn't wear it. So no, but we don't do that. Look, we protect you, we don't do that. But I don't understand why we just don't go take it over. Why don't we just go take it over?

They got all the, what are we doing? There's got to be a reason why we don't. What is the reason? I guess this arrangement works pretty well, man. I guess it just works well. Yeah, we got a good thing going. Yeah. No need for all that.

Yeah. No need for all that. We just keep them in place. Yeah. Keep sending the, you know, the juice over. Just the juice. And the juice is really important, right? Just a new deal now with China and Russia.

Russia's going to send a lot of juice to China because Europe was buying a lot of Russian juice. And now the America's going to be selling it to Europe, picking up the slack from Russia, trying to squeeze Russia, but Russia's going to pick up that slack in China. Venezuela, I think, has the most. Yeah, they got a lot. They got a lot.

They're in OPEC, by the way. They're in OPEC. And we got our ships. there right now. Aren't we? Yeah. Aren't we like embark? Aren't we down there? We just shot down a cartel.

Yeah. We're starting to snoop around there. Like at some point you just got to take it. Some point you just got to go, guess what? We're now 54 states and just take a few more. The one, you know, and then there'll be other states going, what about us? We want to fucking be part of it. Like, you need a fucking oil, baby.

But when will this end? It's not going to go on forever. Some people predict by 2050. it'll all be about cobalt and lithium because it'll be about renewables. This isn't going to last forever. Saudi Arabia will reach peak oil production probably in 10 years and then they'll be on the decline. So that's obviously while they're doing all this, is it's, you know, it's real politic, as we say.

Saudi Arabia, the House Assad is getting smart and they're going, we have to loosen up some of these Wahhabian traditions on society. to woo Western business and tourism international because we're going to have to rely on other things very soon because oil is going away and we're not going to be one of those ones caught holding our dick. We're not going to be caught holding our dick. Well, some of these other countries may get caught holding their dick. Kuwait might get caught holding their dick. Venezuela might get caught holding their dick when oil is no longer needed, which is going to happen. I mean, it's inevitable.

You know, China's already massive and solar. And it's just growing. I mean, you know, look at the cars. That's happened over the past seven years, tops, five to seven years, Tesla's everywhere.

And China's, their fucking their electric cars, their EV cars are like, great. one weakness they don't get a lot of juice they need to buy it they need to buy oil so no but i'm yeah but i'm talking about um their EVs yeah their EVs they're have they're investing heavily in solar because they don't have a lot they got to buy all their juice yeah they got to buy all their juice yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and they're doing well Wow, they have the most installed solar capacity globally

with over 880 GW in 2024. Gigawatts. Gigawatts. Five times more than the United States. There's a kilowatts and gigawatts, right? So your crib would be like kilowatts and then this would be like gigawatts, big shit. Same thing with files, right? Gig, if you got a, it's time to clean out your fucking memory.

If you got a lot of giggies, a little G-bytes, right? Are they bigger than kilobytes and millabytes? Yeah. So they've already done five times more than the United States. So here we are yelling at them about their pollution, but they're ahead of us in solar. Well, they need to be. Yeah. But I mean, they're still doing it.

Again, it's that thing, which brings us to the theme of this episode kind of. Progress, though, right? I mean, Rome wasn't built in the day. So, yeah, some people are still getting beheaded. Yeah, ladies still can't go to work. right you can't have a lady's night out and go see Beyonce but maybe now you can Beyonce's put you think Beyonce's gonna come there they're gonna give her fucking three but she probably already has been there I don't know but she's been there right I mean

they're throwing so no matter what the reason why they're doing it is and no matter how corrupt the house Assad is you can't deny the progress so I mean look gays are really not tolerated in anywhere in the Muslim world there's a few countries Turkey, I think Lebanon have some scenes. They kind of look the other, there's no, I don't think it's illegal. But I think in Saudi Arabia, specifically, I think it's illegal if I'm, if I'm, if I have it correct. I think it's still illegal.

So I would make the argument that you could go, hey, that's hypocritical, that they're going, or you could say that's really brave. I say, I think it's brave. Whoa. Yeah, it's illegal and punishable by death. So, guys, stay off a grinder while you're in Saudi Arabia. And remember, this is all about a transactional sexual relationship involving oil and protection. Okay.

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