April 3, 2024 • 27 mins
Desi Lydic dives into Trump’s billion-dollar loss on Truth Social, the future of abortion in Florida following two major rulings, and how the media can't stop talking about what a moment women’s basketball is having. Plus, Josh Johnson and Desi try to decipher what happened at the three-point line when North Carolina took on Texas. And New York City has lost millions of dollars thanks to ghost plates, a new way of obstructing your license plate to avoid ticketing. Michael Kosta teams up with the city’s most infamous ghost (plate) buster to expose drivers and even cops who have employed this innovative method in the newest Thank Me Later. Plus, Representative Colin Allred of Texas’s 32nd District sits down with Desi Lydic to discuss running for Senate against Ted Cruz, his plans to protect and restore women’s reproductive rights, the importance of paternity leave, and what’s at stake in the upcoming election.
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Welcome Daily Show. I'm Debbie Lenex. We've done so much
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best sports. Michael Costa tries to get out of a
speeding ticket, and Donald Trump has found an entirely new
way to lose money. So let's get.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Into the headline.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Let's kick things off with some news from the business world.
Last week, Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social went
public with a value of eight billion dollars, which seemed
like a lot for a website whose business model is
what if Twitter was just Nazis? And guess what? Turns
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out it was Tonight's.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Stock and Donald Trump's media company tanking after Trump's social
media platform Truth Social reported losing fifty eight million dollars
last year. The company was valued at nearly ten billion
dollars after it went public last week, as Trump supporters
rushed to scoop up shares.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Truth Socialist is doing very well. As hot as a
pistol and doing great.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
But today that route awakening. The revelation of last year's
losses sent the stock plunging more than twenty percent, and
the value of Trump's own stake losing more than a
billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Trump, you lost a billion dollars yesterday. Now you're only
worth six billion dollars. You broke bitch. We got him finally.
Now there's a bit of a disagreement over why the
stock drops so much. Analysts say it's because of huge
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losses in limited market upside, while Trump advisors argue it's
because of won'te gay trans DEI Hunter, Biden's laptops. So
who's to say? At this point, it just seems like
Trump is trying to be in every section of the newspaper, finance, politics, style,
city crime. It mattered time until he drops a theater
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review just saw wicked, total witch. Let's move on to
the fight. Yeah, you can collabor that is, oh drop.
Let's move on to the fight over abortion rights, where
today Florida handed us a mixed bag. Now to Florida,
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where the State Supreme Court just issued two major rulings
on abortion rights.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Major decisions. The Florida State Supreme Court has now cleared
the way for one of the strictest abortion vans and
the nation to go into effect. It bans abortion at
just six weeks into pregnancy, but at the same time,
that same state Supreme Court also allowing this issue to
be on the ballot in November, allowing Florida voters to
decide whether they want to protect access to abortion up
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until viability, which is considered to be around twenty four
weeks into pregnancy.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Florida, what is going on here? You're restricting abortion, but
you're also putting it on the ballot. Pick a lane.
These are some crazy moon swings. You better hope you're
not pregnant. Look, a six week abortion ban is obviously
a terrible setback for women's rights, but there is a
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small glimmer of hope and that the voters also have
a chance to legalize abortion again, which is good news
and also depressing to be celebrating that as good news,
But in this climate, I guess that's where we're at
right now. I don't know whether I'm happy or not.
I feel like Ron DeSantis's face, but hey, at least
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abortion is on the ballot. Finally, the people of Florida
will be able to choose something besides community service or
jail time, and that is something, that is something. Let's
move on to sports. We're in the final stretch of
March Madness, that special time of year that turns every
office into an underground gambling ring, and last night all
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eyes were on a rematch between two of the biggest
stars in the tournament.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
In goat fashion, Caitlin Clark led Iowa over defending champion
LSU and a readout of last year's final.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
For anyone who questioned her greatness, Caitlyn Clark had the answer.
Forty one points, nine threes twelve assists, a record making
masterpiece that lived up to the hype of a rematch
in an ethnic battle of.
Speaker 9 (05:04):
Greats, Clark steps back fires you back, oh mine from Schenectady.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
She's simply ridiculous, She's possessed.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
This poor announcer Kaylen Clark hit so many big shots
that the guy was clearly running out of things to say.
She's ridiculous, She's possessed, She's a witch drowner. I don't know,
but honestly, honestly, what an awesome rivalry. Kayln Clark and
Angel Reese, two fierce competitors playing their hearts out captivating
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the nation while they're still in college. My biggest accomplishment
in college was getting a single dorm because of my ibs. Hey,
if there was a sock on the door, it was
an especially bad night. Point is it feels like women's
basketball is having a moment this year, and you can
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tell by how much the media can't stop talking about
how they're talking about it.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
What a great thing for women's sports that we care.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
We're talking about it tonight on CNN because people are caring,
and ultimately that is good.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
We care.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
The fact that we're talking about women's basketball and any
you know, women's sports in general.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I mean, this is really great.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
A freaking love of one.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
It's really great.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I've done this for thirty two years.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
I've never once spent five minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Of any show I've ever done anywhere talking about a
great women's game last night at any level.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Okay, I might say more about you, but we'll take
the win. We'll take it.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
People are excited about women's basketball right now. They're discovering
it like it's the first time your mom tried sushi.
Oh my god, have you heard about this? Spread the word?
But everyone is raving everyone. Even Shaquille O'Neal said, women's
basketball this year is a better game than men's basketball. Yeah. Yeah,
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he's like the most famous men's basketball player. That's like
chef boy Ard telling you he only eats spaghettios. Now
spaghettios the official food of clinical depression. Spaghettios. Want to
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hurt an Italian person's feelings, try spaghettios, went Mark Spaghettios.
You don't have to love your kids anyway. Think about
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how far women's basketball has come. Ten years ago, if
you went to a bar on a Monday night to
watch women's basketball, it was because you were an alcoholic.
But today, if you're at a bar on a Monday night,
it's because you're an alcoholic who also wants to watch
women's basketball. That is progress. So this has been a
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hugely successful college tournament for the women, even despite some obstacles.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
In the women's tournament, controversy is brewing after four games
were playing on a court in Portland, Oregon, where the
three point line was about six inches closer to the
hoop on one side. The error was discovered before North
Carolina played Texas in the Elite eight. Both teams coaches
decided to go ahead with the game to not delay
the tournament.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Okay, I really relate to this as a woman. It
is so classic for someone else to fuck up and
we're like, oh, the line is messed up. It's fine,
We'll just go ahead and play four games. You can
fix it later or not whatever. I'm sorry, but what
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exactly happened with the three point line? To get more
on this, we go live to Josh Johnson at the arena. Josh,
what happened down there? The line was several inches too short.
That's a that's a huge error.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Well does he?
Speaker 11 (09:31):
I talked to the director of court maintenance who made
the mistake, as well as several other men who were
just around, and we all we all agreed that your
link being a few inches shorter than everyone was expecting
is no big deal, no story here back to you.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
That's not true. Having the line be that short makes
an enormous difference.
Speaker 11 (10:01):
Enormous is a little mean. Plus, it's not about the
length of the line, It's about how you play the game. Okay,
And I think we can all agree it was a
pretty good game. You know.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
It's good for me.
Speaker 11 (10:14):
I enjoyed it and as far as the difference, the
women didn't even notice, all.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Right, Josh. Even if the women said they didn't notice,
trust me, they always notice.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (10:30):
But let's get this line guy a break, because when
I talked to him, he swore this had never happened before.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (10:37):
And we don't even know why it was too short.
Maybe it was his first time, okay. Maybe it had
been drinking, all right, Maybe the arena was cold.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
How does being cold make a difference?
Speaker 6 (10:49):
It just does.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Okay, Wow, you seem pretty worked up about this. Why
don't we move past the length of the line, thank you.
Let's talk about the curve, because the curve was weird.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
All right, I'm out.
Speaker 11 (11:05):
This is why on we played basketball by myself, okay, Josh, Josh.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Say, John Johnson, everybody.
Speaker 12 (11:18):
That we'll discovery that.
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Go welcome Max's Daily Show.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Last week, New York City introduced the first congestion pricing
plan in the country, and there's one local who's set
on making sure New Yorkers pay their fines our own.
Michael Costa caught up with him in another installment of Thank.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Me Later, Hi, I'm Michael.
Speaker 13 (12:01):
Costa license plates they help track traffic violators, But what
happens when shifty citizens purposely cover them up? Sir tonight
on thank me later, we'll meet one man who's dedicated
his life to ensure that New Yorkers are being held
accountable for traffic violations. I want to bike along with
this snitchelante to investigate, and you can thank me later.
Speaker 11 (12:27):
Communities cheated out of improvements to roads, bridges, and other
infrastructure because of people covering up their license plates.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
When it goes through the camera system, we can't pick
it up.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Official say. These scofflaws cost the city more than one
hundred million dollars every year.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
Some New York drivers have started obscuring their plates by
partially covering them. These are called ghost plates, and one
man is taking it upon himself to bust these ghosts plates.
Speaker 14 (12:55):
I think it's kirsh Konstan still on the criminal mischief beed.
I'm going to dedicate today to illegal covered license plates.
We've got a guy with the DA placard, I'll tell
you that at the minute, and a cover.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
So what even incentivized this genuine New York freak to
make this his life's mission. I caught him in one
of the hottest zones for ghost plates, Lower Manhattan.
Speaker 14 (13:15):
The issue is, if you're driving around and your speeding
and you're doing it with a covered plate, you're never
going to get the ticket, and you're never even going
to realize how badly you're driving. I want to make
sure the person gets all the tickets to which he's entitled.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
What do you say to your critics who say he's
a snitch, he's a loser, he doesn't have a life,
a hobby, a family, a job, he doesn't have friends
or a social life.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
What do you say to those people.
Speaker 14 (13:42):
I'm not trying to get people tickets. What I'm trying
to do is show the people who are trying to
get people tickets that their system is broken.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
We're in New York City, there's cops everywhere.
Speaker 13 (13:51):
Why aren't the police officers cracking down on these ghost plates.
Speaker 14 (13:56):
The vast majority of the people I've caught to facing
or covering their it's our cops or firefighters or court officers.
And then about one hundred and twenty of these videos
in the past three months, and I'd say about seventy
of them were law enforcement officials. The very people who
shouldn't be breaking the law are finding a way to
break the law by defacing their plate and then break
the law by then speeding.
Speaker 13 (14:16):
We're getting more cops tickets for speeding.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Give me some. That's awesome. I mean it's not.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
The goal is not to be an asshole.
Speaker 14 (14:25):
The goal is to be a little bit of an asshole.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
When does it end?
Speaker 13 (14:28):
And does that mean you're in a ditch somewhere with
a couple of NYPD bullets in your chest?
Speaker 14 (14:32):
Not that I want that, I mean it would pick
a great story.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
I actually see two heroes here.
Speaker 13 (14:38):
Yeah, I see you, thank you, who is putting your
life on the line more or less enforcing law enforcement.
And then I see another hero here, and that's me
because I've found you and I'm sharing your story with others.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
It's exactly right.
Speaker 14 (14:52):
So thank you for that.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
You can thank me later. Oh well, thank you right now.
Speaker 9 (14:55):
That's not what the Segond's called gersh took me on
a bike along through Lower Manhattan to catch some ghost
plates in action. After only a minute of biking, we
hit our first defender.
Speaker 14 (15:06):
This is a great one.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Is this normal wear? And tear and the answer is
obviously no.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Right.
Speaker 14 (15:10):
So in a situation like this, regardless of where we are,
I mean, we're literally within inches of a.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Police so, I mean I'm nervous right now, you're nervous.
What We're in a private cop lot? Yeah, and he's okay, okay, good,
here's Gris Kuntsman. This one is just so defaced. I
couldn't resist.
Speaker 14 (15:27):
I want him to get all the tickets he deserves.
So I got my paint pen and we're just gonna
fill this in for him. And just as a courtesy
to the officer, because we are in police parking, I'll
also do the New York the plate cover is illegal.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
You can see it.
Speaker 14 (15:40):
But if you're a speed camera which shoots at like
this angle at night, these covers are illegal. For that reason.
I'll probably just pull out my screwdriver and do what
I do best. Okay, I'll just take the illegal cover
and I'll just leave that on the front.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Of the car to show that you're not stealing it.
Speaker 14 (15:56):
Yeah, and I don't steal anything, and then we more
or less get out of here.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Let's get out of here. Bye.
Speaker 14 (16:01):
This is now the third time I've caught this guy,
Are you serious?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Yeah, same cop. You've been here before. Oh yeah, actually twice.
Speaker 14 (16:07):
But the fact that he's scraped it off again means
I got to do some more work.
Speaker 13 (16:10):
There's such a important part of being a pest yeah,
and actual and ways to actually get shit done and
to get people to respond to you, you have to
be an annoying.
Speaker 14 (16:23):
A bit of an asshole.
Speaker 13 (16:24):
Yeah, and this is the third time you've got this car,
third time and you're being annoying to it.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
After a grueling day of catching ghost plates and meeting fans.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
All right, ladies, we'll see you later. Look me up.
I'm Ronnie Chang.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
I had to recognize all the great work Gersh was
doing for the New York community.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
Has anybody ever given you a thank you card, a trophy,
a plaque, a certificate for the public service you're doing.
Speaker 14 (16:48):
I'd be ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
No one's done that. Well that's going to change today,
what because on behalf of the Daily Show?
Speaker 13 (16:55):
Oh my god, we got you your own ghost clipt
ray as for your girshader, So my favorite ghost plate
killer when it comes.
Speaker 14 (17:03):
To Boston ghost plates, who are you gonna call?
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Gersh? Counts men? Wow? Thank you Gersh for being the
annoying snitch. New York City needs to keep its streets safe.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
And you can thank me later. Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 12 (17:21):
When we come back.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Representative Colin all right, we'll be joining me on the Girl,
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my guest and I represented Texas's thirty second district and
is running for the Senate against America's sweethearts Head Cruise.
Weare welcome, Representative Colin allready.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
How you doing doing well? How are you?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I'm doing great. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 15 (18:21):
Yeah, this is great, different I usually do so.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, they're fun right now, you guys.
Speaker 15 (18:26):
Are It's a little better than the house right now.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
It's just slightly. That's I mean, that's not saying a lot.
That's keeping the bar. It's pretty low. You have such
an interesting resume. You're a former NFL player, civil rights yeah,
civil rights attorney, congressman, and now currently running against.
Speaker 12 (18:47):
Head Cruz for the.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah in Texas as a Democrat, which is a bit
of an uphill battle. Right right now, you're currently pulling
at six points behind. Does it make it worse that
you're lagging behind Ted Cruz?
Speaker 15 (19:04):
Of all people, now listen, I'm confident that on November fifth,
that Texan's are going to come out and show who
we really are. I think we've had enough of twelve
years of having an embarrassment. One of the most divisive
centers in the country is somebody who I think fundamentally
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doesn't appreciate who we really are as Texans. I'm a
four generation Texan. He was raised by a single mom
in Dallas. You know, you mentioned what I've been able
to do, but I was able to do that because
I had a lot of help from my community for
my state. I want to make sure that we can
have someone who actually cares about us in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
You have said before that you don't Texas doesn't have
to be embarrassed by their senator. What is the most
embarrassing thing about Ted Cruz? Is it that he fled
to Cancun while Texas were in the dark and cold,
or that time that he didn't feel the booger on
his lip for so long burned in my memory?
Speaker 15 (20:10):
You know, I think there's the antics, right, There's like
the you know, reading green eggs and ham on the
Senate floor while you're trying to take health care away
from forty million people and stuff like that. There's the
fact that he podcasts three times a week, which is.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
A lot hard.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah, that's a lot when I.
Speaker 15 (20:25):
Say, senator, But you know when you had that little
ROLLI bag when he's coming back from kankun Oh, yes,
you know. It's frustrating going through those little rope lines
at any time. When you're going through it alone to
explain why you abandoned your stake during a statewide crisis,
that was really embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
That's the topper. That was his hopper. You're a father
of two, and you were one of the first members
of Congress to take paternity leave. First of all, thank
you for your service. And secondly, why is that so
rare among your colleagues.
Speaker 15 (21:04):
Yeah, yeah, Well I didn't know that I was going
to be the first one I did it. I thought
that it was just a normal thing to do, you know.
I grew up and not knowing my father, and so
for me, I knew that when we had kids that
I was going to do it right. And that starts
at the beginning. And there's so much.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
We've learned a lot.
Speaker 15 (21:26):
There are so many benefits for when men take leave
in those early days, it's better for the men themselves,
for their spouses for their kids. And you know this
is not available to every American and I want to
make sure that it is. And that's one of the
things I've been working.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Because you.
Speaker 15 (21:46):
And I both know that those early days are tough.
Oh yeah, and when you're welcoming, you know your bundle
of joy is also coming with a whole lot of
other things that are changing your life. And you know,
I don't think it's right that we're the only major
developed country in the world that doesn't have a national
paine policy.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
But not agree more. Texas was one of the first
states to criminalize abortion. What would be your plans to
protect and restore women's reproductive rights?
Speaker 15 (22:17):
As you mentioned, my wife and I we've had two
boys in Dallas in the last five years, and I
went to every ultrasound appointment, every genetic testing. And you
know those rooms when you're having those conversations with your doctor,
they're too small to have somebody like Ted Cruz in
there with you. What's happening in Texas is really it's
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a tragedy. We've had twenty six thousand women who had
to get birth to their rapist child since these laws
went into place. We've had stories like Kate Cox. It
was a mother of two who had a much want
and third pregnancy. She'd go to the emergency room four times.
Her doctor said she needed a medically necessary abortion, and
she asked her state, can I have it close to
home because I have a one and a three year
old at home. They said no, And they didn't just
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say no, it's if you do this, we're going to
prosecute you, your doctor, your hospital. We have counties saying
you can't drive through the county if you're going to
use the roads to access an abortion. I mean, that
doesn't sound like freedom to me. And I know one
thing about us is Texans, so we believe in freedom,
and so to me, the only way that we can
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restore this right to Texas women and families is at
the federal level by codifying Roe v.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Wade.
Speaker 15 (23:27):
And I'm not saying a little.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Voter turnout is going to be critical for you to
flip the seat. It's been estimated that nine point five
million registered voters didn't vote in the last election. How
will you encourage Texans to get out and vote and
does it rhyme with moorshin well?
Speaker 15 (23:51):
As you mentioned as a civil rights lawyer, but I
was a voting rights lawyer, specifically before I ran for Congress.
To me, there's nothing more important than getting you know,
Texans and our fellow Americans engaged in our democracy. And
in Texas, we make it way too difficult to vote.
But I want folks to know there's a reason why
they're trying to make it harder for you to vote.
Why are they trying to take your voice away? Why
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are they trying so hard to make it difficult for
you to be engaged? Don't let them do it right?
And to our young people, you know, it's like one
of these things where you wouldn't let your grandparents pick
your playlist for the next six years.
Speaker 12 (24:22):
I don't want to.
Speaker 15 (24:23):
Pick your centermer right, you know, so?
Speaker 12 (24:30):
You know so?
Speaker 15 (24:32):
I mean, I think it's also true that we have
to talk about what's at steak, you know. To me,
in Texas, what's at steak is our fundamental freedoms. If
taken away a woman's right to choose, the ability to
make your own decisions about your body. They're banning books,
They're kicking kids out of school because of their hairstyle.
I mean, to me, this is fundamentally about who we
are as Texans and as Americans, and we have to
restore freedom in Texas and across this country. And I think
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folks are going to come out and stand up for that.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
You serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee. We just recently
found out that seven aid workers were killed in Gaza
due to Israel air strikes. Does that give you any
hesitation to providing Israel with bombs?
Speaker 15 (25:18):
Listen, this is a horrible tragedy, and these folks were
there to feed folks who are suffering from famine, extreme conditions.
They've done it around the world, and to me, it's
an incredibly noble venture that they're engaged in to try
and make sure that we can combat these conditions. And
as I see it, October seventh was a tragedy and
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the response in many ways has been incredibly difficult to
deal with. Our role, I think has to be to
try and ensure that we as we're negotiating foreign extended
cease fire, that we have these hostages come home and
that we find a way forward in which there's two
states existing peacefully next to each other.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
And that has to be all then go.
Speaker 15 (26:01):
And we've had a difference, you know, this has been
our policy for some time, but in some ways I
think it had drifted away in a strange way. I
think this is a highlight of the need that we
come back to this, that we make sure that we
have a peaceful and independent Palacitian state next to a stable,
democratic and Jewish Israeli state and these folks co exist
because we, honestly we cannot continue down this road.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I so appreciate the work that you do, and I
so appreciate you being on the show tonight. I wish
you the best of luck. Representative Colin Allred. You pick
rank and we'll be right back up today.
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Welcome Daily Show. I'm Debbie Lenex. We've done so much
good news for you tonight. Women's sports are now the
best sports. Michael Costa tries to get out of a
speeding ticket, and Donald Trump has found an entirely new
way to lose money. So let's get.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Into the headline.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Let's kick things off with some news from the business world.
Last week, Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social went
public with a value of eight billion dollars, which seemed
like a lot for a website whose business model is
what if Twitter was just Nazis? And guess what? Turns
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out it was Tonight's.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Stock and Donald Trump's media company tanking after Trump's social
media platform Truth Social reported losing fifty eight million dollars
last year. The company was valued at nearly ten billion
dollars after it went public last week, as Trump supporters
rushed to scoop up shares.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Truth Socialist is doing very well. As hot as a
pistol and doing great.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
But today that route awakening. The revelation of last year's
losses sent the stock plunging more than twenty percent, and
the value of Trump's own stake losing more than a
billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Trump, you lost a billion dollars yesterday. Now you're only
worth six billion dollars. You broke bitch. We got him finally.
Now there's a bit of a disagreement over why the
stock drops so much. Analysts say it's because of huge
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losses in limited market upside, while Trump advisors argue it's
because of won'te gay trans DEI Hunter, Biden's laptops. So
who's to say? At this point, it just seems like
Trump is trying to be in every section of the newspaper, finance, politics, style,
city crime. It mattered time until he drops a theater
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review just saw wicked, total witch. Let's move on to
the fight. Yeah, you can collabor that is, oh drop.
Let's move on to the fight over abortion rights, where
today Florida handed us a mixed bag. Now to Florida,
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where the State Supreme Court just issued two major rulings
on abortion rights.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Major decisions. The Florida State Supreme Court has now cleared
the way for one of the strictest abortion vans and
the nation to go into effect. It bans abortion at
just six weeks into pregnancy, but at the same time,
that same state Supreme Court also allowing this issue to
be on the ballot in November, allowing Florida voters to
decide whether they want to protect access to abortion up
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until viability, which is considered to be around twenty four
weeks into pregnancy.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Florida, what is going on here? You're restricting abortion, but
you're also putting it on the ballot. Pick a lane.
These are some crazy moon swings. You better hope you're
not pregnant. Look, a six week abortion ban is obviously
a terrible setback for women's rights, but there is a
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small glimmer of hope and that the voters also have
a chance to legalize abortion again, which is good news
and also depressing to be celebrating that as good news,
But in this climate, I guess that's where we're at
right now. I don't know whether I'm happy or not.
I feel like Ron DeSantis's face, but hey, at least
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abortion is on the ballot. Finally, the people of Florida
will be able to choose something besides community service or
jail time, and that is something, that is something. Let's
move on to sports. We're in the final stretch of
March Madness, that special time of year that turns every
office into an underground gambling ring, and last night all
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eyes were on a rematch between two of the biggest
stars in the tournament.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
In goat fashion, Caitlin Clark led Iowa over defending champion
LSU and a readout of last year's final.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
For anyone who questioned her greatness, Caitlyn Clark had the answer.
Forty one points, nine threes twelve assists, a record making
masterpiece that lived up to the hype of a rematch
in an ethnic battle of.
Speaker 9 (05:04):
Greats, Clark steps back fires you back, oh mine from Schenectady.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
She's simply ridiculous, She's possessed.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
This poor announcer Kaylen Clark hit so many big shots
that the guy was clearly running out of things to say.
She's ridiculous, She's possessed, She's a witch drowner. I don't know,
but honestly, honestly, what an awesome rivalry. Kayln Clark and
Angel Reese, two fierce competitors playing their hearts out captivating
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the nation while they're still in college. My biggest accomplishment
in college was getting a single dorm because of my ibs. Hey,
if there was a sock on the door, it was
an especially bad night. Point is it feels like women's
basketball is having a moment this year, and you can
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tell by how much the media can't stop talking about
how they're talking about it.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
What a great thing for women's sports that we care.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
We're talking about it tonight on CNN because people are caring,
and ultimately that is good.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
We care.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
The fact that we're talking about women's basketball and any
you know, women's sports in general.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I mean, this is really great.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
A freaking love of one.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
It's really great.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I've done this for thirty two years.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
I've never once spent five minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Of any show I've ever done anywhere talking about a
great women's game last night at any level.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Okay, I might say more about you, but we'll take
the win. We'll take it.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
People are excited about women's basketball right now. They're discovering
it like it's the first time your mom tried sushi.
Oh my god, have you heard about this? Spread the word?
But everyone is raving everyone. Even Shaquille O'Neal said, women's
basketball this year is a better game than men's basketball. Yeah. Yeah,
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he's like the most famous men's basketball player. That's like
chef boy Ard telling you he only eats spaghettios. Now
spaghettios the official food of clinical depression. Spaghettios. Want to
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hurt an Italian person's feelings, try spaghettios, went Mark Spaghettios.
You don't have to love your kids anyway. Think about
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how far women's basketball has come. Ten years ago, if
you went to a bar on a Monday night to
watch women's basketball, it was because you were an alcoholic.
But today, if you're at a bar on a Monday night,
it's because you're an alcoholic who also wants to watch
women's basketball. That is progress. So this has been a
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hugely successful college tournament for the women, even despite some obstacles.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
In the women's tournament, controversy is brewing after four games
were playing on a court in Portland, Oregon, where the
three point line was about six inches closer to the
hoop on one side. The error was discovered before North
Carolina played Texas in the Elite eight. Both teams coaches
decided to go ahead with the game to not delay
the tournament.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Okay, I really relate to this as a woman. It
is so classic for someone else to fuck up and
we're like, oh, the line is messed up. It's fine,
We'll just go ahead and play four games. You can
fix it later or not whatever. I'm sorry, but what
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exactly happened with the three point line? To get more
on this, we go live to Josh Johnson at the arena. Josh,
what happened down there? The line was several inches too short.
That's a that's a huge error.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Well does he?
Speaker 11 (09:31):
I talked to the director of court maintenance who made
the mistake, as well as several other men who were
just around, and we all we all agreed that your
link being a few inches shorter than everyone was expecting
is no big deal, no story here back to you.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
That's not true. Having the line be that short makes
an enormous difference.
Speaker 11 (10:01):
Enormous is a little mean. Plus, it's not about the
length of the line, It's about how you play the game. Okay,
And I think we can all agree it was a
pretty good game. You know.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
It's good for me.
Speaker 11 (10:14):
I enjoyed it and as far as the difference, the
women didn't even notice, all.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Right, Josh. Even if the women said they didn't notice,
trust me, they always notice.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (10:30):
But let's get this line guy a break, because when
I talked to him, he swore this had never happened before.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (10:37):
And we don't even know why it was too short.
Maybe it was his first time, okay. Maybe it had
been drinking, all right, Maybe the arena was cold.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
How does being cold make a difference?
Speaker 6 (10:49):
It just does.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Okay, Wow, you seem pretty worked up about this. Why
don't we move past the length of the line, thank you.
Let's talk about the curve, because the curve was weird.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
All right, I'm out.
Speaker 11 (11:05):
This is why on we played basketball by myself, okay, Josh, Josh.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Say, John Johnson, everybody.
Speaker 12 (11:18):
That we'll discovery that.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Hear of that New York doesn't want but needs, so don't.
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Go welcome Max's Daily Show.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Last week, New York City introduced the first congestion pricing
plan in the country, and there's one local who's set
on making sure New Yorkers pay their fines our own.
Michael Costa caught up with him in another installment of Thank.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Me Later, Hi, I'm Michael.
Speaker 13 (12:01):
Costa license plates they help track traffic violators, But what
happens when shifty citizens purposely cover them up? Sir tonight
on thank me later, we'll meet one man who's dedicated
his life to ensure that New Yorkers are being held
accountable for traffic violations. I want to bike along with
this snitchelante to investigate, and you can thank me later.
Speaker 11 (12:27):
Communities cheated out of improvements to roads, bridges, and other
infrastructure because of people covering up their license plates.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
When it goes through the camera system, we can't pick
it up.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Official say. These scofflaws cost the city more than one
hundred million dollars every year.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
Some New York drivers have started obscuring their plates by
partially covering them. These are called ghost plates, and one
man is taking it upon himself to bust these ghosts plates.
Speaker 14 (12:55):
I think it's kirsh Konstan still on the criminal mischief beed.
I'm going to dedicate today to illegal covered license plates.
We've got a guy with the DA placard, I'll tell
you that at the minute, and a cover.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
So what even incentivized this genuine New York freak to
make this his life's mission. I caught him in one
of the hottest zones for ghost plates, Lower Manhattan.
Speaker 14 (13:15):
The issue is, if you're driving around and your speeding
and you're doing it with a covered plate, you're never
going to get the ticket, and you're never even going
to realize how badly you're driving. I want to make
sure the person gets all the tickets to which he's entitled.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
What do you say to your critics who say he's
a snitch, he's a loser, he doesn't have a life,
a hobby, a family, a job, he doesn't have friends
or a social life.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
What do you say to those people.
Speaker 14 (13:42):
I'm not trying to get people tickets. What I'm trying
to do is show the people who are trying to
get people tickets that their system is broken.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
We're in New York City, there's cops everywhere.
Speaker 13 (13:51):
Why aren't the police officers cracking down on these ghost plates.
Speaker 14 (13:56):
The vast majority of the people I've caught to facing
or covering their it's our cops or firefighters or court officers.
And then about one hundred and twenty of these videos
in the past three months, and I'd say about seventy
of them were law enforcement officials. The very people who
shouldn't be breaking the law are finding a way to
break the law by defacing their plate and then break
the law by then speeding.
Speaker 13 (14:16):
We're getting more cops tickets for speeding.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Give me some. That's awesome. I mean it's not.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
The goal is not to be an asshole.
Speaker 14 (14:25):
The goal is to be a little bit of an asshole.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
When does it end?
Speaker 13 (14:28):
And does that mean you're in a ditch somewhere with
a couple of NYPD bullets in your chest?
Speaker 14 (14:32):
Not that I want that, I mean it would pick
a great story.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
I actually see two heroes here.
Speaker 13 (14:38):
Yeah, I see you, thank you, who is putting your
life on the line more or less enforcing law enforcement.
And then I see another hero here, and that's me
because I've found you and I'm sharing your story with others.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
It's exactly right.
Speaker 14 (14:52):
So thank you for that.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
You can thank me later. Oh well, thank you right now.
Speaker 9 (14:55):
That's not what the Segond's called gersh took me on
a bike along through Lower Manhattan to catch some ghost
plates in action. After only a minute of biking, we
hit our first defender.
Speaker 14 (15:06):
This is a great one.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Is this normal wear? And tear and the answer is
obviously no.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Right.
Speaker 14 (15:10):
So in a situation like this, regardless of where we are,
I mean, we're literally within inches of a.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Police so, I mean I'm nervous right now, you're nervous.
What We're in a private cop lot? Yeah, and he's okay, okay, good,
here's Gris Kuntsman. This one is just so defaced. I
couldn't resist.
Speaker 14 (15:27):
I want him to get all the tickets he deserves.
So I got my paint pen and we're just gonna
fill this in for him. And just as a courtesy
to the officer, because we are in police parking, I'll
also do the New York the plate cover is illegal.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
You can see it.
Speaker 14 (15:40):
But if you're a speed camera which shoots at like
this angle at night, these covers are illegal. For that reason.
I'll probably just pull out my screwdriver and do what
I do best. Okay, I'll just take the illegal cover
and I'll just leave that on the front.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Of the car to show that you're not stealing it.
Speaker 14 (15:56):
Yeah, and I don't steal anything, and then we more
or less get out of here.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Let's get out of here. Bye.
Speaker 14 (16:01):
This is now the third time I've caught this guy,
Are you serious?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Yeah, same cop. You've been here before. Oh yeah, actually twice.
Speaker 14 (16:07):
But the fact that he's scraped it off again means
I got to do some more work.
Speaker 13 (16:10):
There's such a important part of being a pest yeah,
and actual and ways to actually get shit done and
to get people to respond to you, you have to
be an annoying.
Speaker 14 (16:23):
A bit of an asshole.
Speaker 13 (16:24):
Yeah, and this is the third time you've got this car,
third time and you're being annoying to it.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
After a grueling day of catching ghost plates and meeting fans.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
All right, ladies, we'll see you later. Look me up.
I'm Ronnie Chang.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
I had to recognize all the great work Gersh was
doing for the New York community.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
Has anybody ever given you a thank you card, a trophy,
a plaque, a certificate for the public service you're doing.
Speaker 14 (16:48):
I'd be ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
No one's done that. Well that's going to change today,
what because on behalf of the Daily Show?
Speaker 13 (16:55):
Oh my god, we got you your own ghost clipt
ray as for your girshader, So my favorite ghost plate
killer when it comes.
Speaker 14 (17:03):
To Boston ghost plates, who are you gonna call?
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Gersh? Counts men? Wow? Thank you Gersh for being the
annoying snitch. New York City needs to keep its streets safe.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
And you can thank me later. Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 12 (17:21):
When we come back.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Representative Colin all right, we'll be joining me on the Girl,
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my guest and I represented Texas's thirty second district and
is running for the Senate against America's sweethearts Head Cruise.
Weare welcome, Representative Colin allready.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
How you doing doing well? How are you?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I'm doing great. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 15 (18:21):
Yeah, this is great, different I usually do so.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, they're fun right now, you guys.
Speaker 15 (18:26):
Are It's a little better than the house right now.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
It's just slightly. That's I mean, that's not saying a lot.
That's keeping the bar. It's pretty low. You have such
an interesting resume. You're a former NFL player, civil rights yeah,
civil rights attorney, congressman, and now currently running against.
Speaker 12 (18:47):
Head Cruz for the.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah in Texas as a Democrat, which is a bit
of an uphill battle. Right right now, you're currently pulling
at six points behind. Does it make it worse that
you're lagging behind Ted Cruz?
Speaker 15 (19:04):
Of all people, now listen, I'm confident that on November fifth,
that Texan's are going to come out and show who
we really are. I think we've had enough of twelve
years of having an embarrassment. One of the most divisive
centers in the country is somebody who I think fundamentally
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doesn't appreciate who we really are as Texans. I'm a
four generation Texan. He was raised by a single mom
in Dallas. You know, you mentioned what I've been able
to do, but I was able to do that because
I had a lot of help from my community for
my state. I want to make sure that we can
have someone who actually cares about us in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
You have said before that you don't Texas doesn't have
to be embarrassed by their senator. What is the most
embarrassing thing about Ted Cruz? Is it that he fled
to Cancun while Texas were in the dark and cold,
or that time that he didn't feel the booger on
his lip for so long burned in my memory?
Speaker 15 (20:10):
You know, I think there's the antics, right, There's like
the you know, reading green eggs and ham on the
Senate floor while you're trying to take health care away
from forty million people and stuff like that. There's the
fact that he podcasts three times a week, which is.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
A lot hard.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah, that's a lot when I.
Speaker 15 (20:25):
Say, senator, But you know when you had that little
ROLLI bag when he's coming back from kankun Oh, yes,
you know. It's frustrating going through those little rope lines
at any time. When you're going through it alone to
explain why you abandoned your stake during a statewide crisis,
that was really embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
That's the topper. That was his hopper. You're a father
of two, and you were one of the first members
of Congress to take paternity leave. First of all, thank
you for your service. And secondly, why is that so
rare among your colleagues.
Speaker 15 (21:04):
Yeah, yeah, Well I didn't know that I was going
to be the first one I did it. I thought
that it was just a normal thing to do, you know.
I grew up and not knowing my father, and so
for me, I knew that when we had kids that
I was going to do it right. And that starts
at the beginning. And there's so much.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
We've learned a lot.
Speaker 15 (21:26):
There are so many benefits for when men take leave
in those early days, it's better for the men themselves,
for their spouses for their kids. And you know this
is not available to every American and I want to
make sure that it is. And that's one of the
things I've been working.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Because you.
Speaker 15 (21:46):
And I both know that those early days are tough.
Oh yeah, and when you're welcoming, you know your bundle
of joy is also coming with a whole lot of
other things that are changing your life. And you know,
I don't think it's right that we're the only major
developed country in the world that doesn't have a national
paine policy.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
But not agree more. Texas was one of the first
states to criminalize abortion. What would be your plans to
protect and restore women's reproductive rights?
Speaker 15 (22:17):
As you mentioned, my wife and I we've had two
boys in Dallas in the last five years, and I
went to every ultrasound appointment, every genetic testing. And you
know those rooms when you're having those conversations with your doctor,
they're too small to have somebody like Ted Cruz in
there with you. What's happening in Texas is really it's
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a tragedy. We've had twenty six thousand women who had
to get birth to their rapist child since these laws
went into place. We've had stories like Kate Cox. It
was a mother of two who had a much want
and third pregnancy. She'd go to the emergency room four times.
Her doctor said she needed a medically necessary abortion, and
she asked her state, can I have it close to
home because I have a one and a three year
old at home. They said no, And they didn't just
(23:01):
say no, it's if you do this, we're going to
prosecute you, your doctor, your hospital. We have counties saying
you can't drive through the county if you're going to
use the roads to access an abortion. I mean, that
doesn't sound like freedom to me. And I know one
thing about us is Texans, so we believe in freedom,
and so to me, the only way that we can
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restore this right to Texas women and families is at
the federal level by codifying Roe v.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Wade.
Speaker 15 (23:27):
And I'm not saying a little.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Voter turnout is going to be critical for you to
flip the seat. It's been estimated that nine point five
million registered voters didn't vote in the last election. How
will you encourage Texans to get out and vote and
does it rhyme with moorshin well?
Speaker 15 (23:51):
As you mentioned as a civil rights lawyer, but I
was a voting rights lawyer, specifically before I ran for Congress.
To me, there's nothing more important than getting you know,
Texans and our fellow Americans engaged in our democracy. And
in Texas, we make it way too difficult to vote.
But I want folks to know there's a reason why
they're trying to make it harder for you to vote.
Why are they trying to take your voice away? Why
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are they trying so hard to make it difficult for
you to be engaged? Don't let them do it right?
And to our young people, you know, it's like one
of these things where you wouldn't let your grandparents pick
your playlist for the next six years.
Speaker 12 (24:22):
I don't want to.
Speaker 15 (24:23):
Pick your centermer right, you know, so?
Speaker 12 (24:30):
You know so?
Speaker 15 (24:32):
I mean, I think it's also true that we have
to talk about what's at steak, you know. To me,
in Texas, what's at steak is our fundamental freedoms. If
taken away a woman's right to choose, the ability to
make your own decisions about your body. They're banning books,
They're kicking kids out of school because of their hairstyle.
I mean, to me, this is fundamentally about who we
are as Texans and as Americans, and we have to
restore freedom in Texas and across this country. And I think
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folks are going to come out and stand up for that.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
You serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee. We just recently
found out that seven aid workers were killed in Gaza
due to Israel air strikes. Does that give you any
hesitation to providing Israel with bombs?
Speaker 15 (25:18):
Listen, this is a horrible tragedy, and these folks were
there to feed folks who are suffering from famine, extreme conditions.
They've done it around the world, and to me, it's
an incredibly noble venture that they're engaged in to try
and make sure that we can combat these conditions. And
as I see it, October seventh was a tragedy and
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the response in many ways has been incredibly difficult to
deal with. Our role, I think has to be to
try and ensure that we as we're negotiating foreign extended
cease fire, that we have these hostages come home and
that we find a way forward in which there's two
states existing peacefully next to each other.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
And that has to be all then go.
Speaker 15 (26:01):
And we've had a difference, you know, this has been
our policy for some time, but in some ways I
think it had drifted away in a strange way. I
think this is a highlight of the need that we
come back to this, that we make sure that we
have a peaceful and independent Palacitian state next to a stable,
democratic and Jewish Israeli state and these folks co exist
because we, honestly we cannot continue down this road.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I so appreciate the work that you do, and I
so appreciate you being on the show tonight. I wish
you the best of luck. Representative Colin Allred. You pick
rank and we'll be right back up today.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Now trading the symbol DJT, which makes it hard to
find on the internet because every time you put dollar
sign DJT and you do get Dow Jones Transportation. So
just remember that if you might be. It kept coming
up as Dow Jones transportation.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
A mixed for me today and I was like, what
the hell is this?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
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Join me on this podcast as I navigate the murky waters of human behavior, current events, and personal anecdotes through in-depth interviews with incredible people—all served with a generous helping of sarcasm and satire. After years as a forensic and clinical psychologist, I offer a unique interview style and a low tolerance for bullshit, quickly steering conversations toward depth and darkness. I honor the seriousness while also appreciating wit. I’m your guide through the twisted labyrinth of the human psyche, armed with dark humor and biting wit.