September 1, 2021 • 52 mins
In today's episode we talk about what recalling Newsom would do, what recalling our troops did, and how recalling past hurricanes makes us think about current hurricanes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of I Heart Radio,
Welcome Together Everything, So don't don't well, come back, ladies
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and step right up and see Worst Year Ever. This
didn't go well. Kat literally recoiled as I did it,
and I lost all confidence. Oh I thought you were
recoiling in horror like I hurt your ear drums. I
want to note here that Katie is welcoming gentlemen. I
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am not. I I do not support acknowledging or or
letting gentlemen listen to our podcast only trash pandas you
have trash pandas a gender um um parakeets literally anything gentleman.
I mean I didn't. I did not acknowledge any of
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them in the intro. But that goes without saying that
one would assume. But I think we also need to
forbid gentlemen from listening. Is it? Is it? No gentleman
or no men like you? No, no gentleman, no no,
no pieces of ship men. Absolutely, this is a game
pro Pieces of ship podcast space for aggressive men. Oh
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for sure. If you're a fun boy, if you're if
you're a person, bring me your or you're tired, you're
fun boys yearning to hear a summary of the day's news.
Also reply guys, welcome as well. Reply absolutely, well you
can accept the accept the gentle ones, not the gentleman.
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Reply boys none, but if you're a huge ship head,
welcome aboard. Pile on. Well, we've killed two and a
half minutes. I know we're already of the way through
the podcast. I'm going to check out it now. How
are you guys doing? You know, I never ever asked
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on on our other show. I always ask everybody how
they're doing, and it's like a nice moment of connection potentially,
but never do we do that here doing bad? How's
the new show going? Guys? You're regretting it? Oh god,
absolutely mistake. I actually love our other show, even though
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it's a horrendous amount of work. I was brushing my teeth, going,
oh God, Sophie and Robert are already working, you know,
to be fair, it was probably not already working, but
I want no I barely work. I just come on
half asked and wait for Sophie and Garrison and Christopher
to do things, and then I extract their surplus value
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and turn it into a water bed. Robert, you refrain
from mentioning this five minutes ago when Cody was asking
advice for mattresses. What do you got, Cody? You want
a water bed and can give you advice on getting
a water bed? How big, biggest? How much work drafted
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to maintain it? Um more than a normal bed. That
sounds like a lot. It is more than a normal bed. Look,
that's what the normal water beds. They're not normal beds.
You gotta put conditioner in them. There's a pump. Now,
if it's a soft side water bed, this is the benefit, Cody.
The soft side water beds your pets aren't are very
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unlikely to break because there's there's like a mattress over
the top. Now, if it's a hard side water bed,
that sounds more durable. But the top is basically just
the big blue blue blue water they can get They
can get through that. I mean, it's still pretty thick plastic.
But yeah, it's actually happier to puncture. Well one day.
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Water bed is something that I've heard about and never
seen in person or touched or known anybody. You've never
seen a water but oh they're rad. When I was
a kid, my aunt and uncle who lived with us
intermittently because the economy you know they were. They kept
their water bed in our garage and I would get
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on it all the time because it's fucking ruled. Yeah.
All I know about water bed is you can't rent
with one, you have to can't wet, you can't rent
all sorts of like you have to like sign a
waiver or like there's like a bunch of like renter
restrictions for water beds. Yeah, that's why you find a
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landlord who's a criminal, and a criminal who's scared of
the police, not a criminal who doesn't have to be scared.
You find yourself the right kind of slum lord and
you can have a water bed. Yeah. Fair enough. We
should talk about the news, shall we? Ka? Wait? Wait, Katie, Cody,
how are you guys? Alright? Well today? Yeah, because you're
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is today not Monday? It's not, but it could be.
I think that in general, I'll speak for Cody and myself.
I don't know. Cody's mentioned a headache. I'll just touch
on the general feeling that I feel. Whoa that's going
into a different territory. Um, my throat feels great, but
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I do I do feel a continuing sense of on
we from a lot of people just general fatigue. I
think better than this time last year in that at
least the president isn't literally a monster. Well, how you're
looking at it, he's not suggested the hurricane. He's not
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on Twitter. Let's let's be honest about the main difference.
I can't believe I said that and thought, no, he's not.
He is not on Twitter pictures him walking. You guys,
You guys get my point though, Um, you know that's
that's the difference here. But I feel tired. I'm happy
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to see you guys though. Anyway, we really should talk
about the news and then circle background on whether or
not the president is a monster. So you want to
talk about the news so fucking much. What's in the news? Uh? Well,
the war in Afghanistan for the US is over. Did
we win? Well, Cody, you know what is what is
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a win of Americans that want to leave out of
the country. Is that a win? My middle school Jim
teacher explained that just by playing, you're a winner. And
I think that's how the war in Afghanistan worked. You know,
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we gotta a participation trophy if you consider purple Hearts
to participation trip. There's I don't know if I do
or not. I mean, you definitely participated. Yeah, you're like
that stabbed himself and tried to get one, but he
didn't get one. So I don't know. Um, Look, it's
a it's it's a weird mix of things because for
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the first time in I don't know, somebody I know
posted like for the first time in my life, I
woke up in the U. S A isn't at war
And I guess I don't really think because we're still
we're still all over the place, right, we're participating in Yeah,
but for the first time in my adult life, we're
not at war in Afghanistan. That doesn't get technically, although
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we are threatening retaliations. We did. We killed ten children
with him or six will be an ongoing thing. They're
talking about it. There's a lot more kids in Afghanistan's
gotta target those kids. Well, again, like the true the troops,
like we we quote we are out of Afghanistan. The
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drones get to stay like, well, the drones are never
out of anywhere. The war the worst days we have left. Yeah,
but that's right, that's a that's a participation trophy worthy accomplishment.
We're being very flip, right, now talking to truly horrific situation. UM,
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as we expected it to be. And uh you guys, yeah, Robert,
you walk us through some of the stuff that's happened
in the past week. Maybe no, I don't know. Uh.
We there's the we we pulled some troops started pulling
people out. We airlifted and I think Biden's claiming a
people in the space of about a week out of Afghanistan. Um.
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While we were doing that, we kept about troops mostly
centered around the Kabul airport, working with the Taliban to
provide security. Uh. The Islamic State and Khorassan carried out
an attack a few days ago on the airport that
killed thirteen US soldiers. And well, we don't know how
many civilians died just from the Islamic State and Khorassan's attack,
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because certainly dozens UM. But once they set off their
bombs and started there was also somebody firing, like with
a rifle. UM. U S troops responded and a number
we don't really know the number, but a number, potentially
very significant number of the civilians who were killed were
killed by US soldiers potentially just kind of panic firing
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into the crowd. Um, and I I've I've there's certainly
a lot of allegations of that. There's not open source
information yet that I've been able to see to kind
of verify to a heart ex stent like exactly what happened,
But there's a lot of reports. Um, we don't. It'll
probably be years before we get any kind of comprehensive
like if we're looking at kind of niss Or Square,
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any of the other times where U. S. Soldiers killed
a bunch of civilians, it will probably be years before
we get kind of a comprehensive information about how many
UM civilians were killed by U S troops in that.
But like a lot, you know, a lot of a
lot of Afghan civilians died overall as a result of
the attack. Um. In the United States, of course, what
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matters is the Americans who died. Who are you're seeing
a mix of them being lionized and this being spun
up into you know, Benghazi two point oh. Um. These
are the first US soldiers who have died in Afghanistan
in a while that anybody on the right is talking about,
because we just kind of ignored it for years and years, Um,
which is cool, that's just the way everything works. Um,
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I don't know that's that's anyway. But we we like yesterday,
the last troops left. The last guy out is a
major general, I believe with the eighties swond airborn. Um
and uh so, Yeah, there's no more US troops in
Afghanistan for the first time in my adult life. Yeah.
And some people's lives, yeah, and some people's whole life
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in some in some of the soldiers who died that
attacks lives, yeah. And a significant number of the children,
all of the children who were killed in the eight
retalityatory air strike that we carried out. Babies are not
born yet. Mhm, Um, mom bid give a speech today
about it. Did let's talk about that. Um. He's doing
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a job at speaking talk. He's called it a success.
We love words, folks. It's he's like, it's weird hearing.
I guess a president used terms like forever war? Um,
which did Um? And like m h, I don't know,
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it's like adopting language at the appropriate time. Um and uh,
I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that. Um.
He did say, he said we succeeded in what we
set out to do in Afghanistan. Over a decade ago.
He stayed for another decade and found to end the war. Yeah.
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I think what he's referring to is Osama bin Laden dying, right.
That happened a long time. That's happened in I think
May of eleven, so technically over a decade ago. Yeah,
like technically, and I think that's what he's referring to.
But like, I think it's important to always remember that
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the Taliban offered to give up with someone bin Laden
in two thousand one, uh and George W. Bush, the
president at the time, said no, we're gonna keep bombing
you and we're gonna go get him. And then the
war happened for twenty years. They offered to give him
up and we said no, right, Um, he wanted to
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deal with that ship. You know, you want to negotiate
with terrorists, Cody. Um, isn't that what? Yes? I was
joking Now, Robert, I don't know. I keep throwing to
you because you obviously know the most about the region
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and all of these things of the people present, not
the world. Um. So the attacks at the airport, I'm
we're from isis k not from the Taliban, well, from
the Islamic State in Coriban. ISIS is the Islamic It
can't be isis K because ISIS is the Islamic State
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in Iraq and Syria or Iraq and all show. Um,
this is just what people I was reading like, I
need to talk to Robert to clarify. Yeah, and and
people who were saying that are are incorrect. Um, it's
it's the Islamic State and Chorussan Province. Umar seeing I
s k more, I think yeah, I s k is fine,
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I s k p uh. They are so back in
the day. Actually, the organization that ISIS evolved out of
was was al Qaeda in Iraq, which was was run
by a little motherfucker you might have known called Abu
misables Kali, who was the author of a book called
The Management of Savagery that is kind of the blueprint
of it was a blueprint behind ISIS UM and a
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number of other terrorist groups. Um We Zarcati was killed
back in the mid aughts before ISIS ever came around.
But ISIS kind of his group is one of the
things they evolved out of. It was called al Qaida
in Iraq. Al Qaeda didn't like Zarkhali and it was
kind of like a tense situation between them, and there
were some disavowals. You know, it was one of those
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things where they liked they would kind of accept his
his his, you know, claiming a relationship with them when
he was doing stuff that they liked and not when
he was doing stuff that they didn't. But it was
very like the they disagreed on a lot and the
reason he he was just kind of had a group
and called it al Qaeda in Iraq um the Islamic
State affiliate groups, because there's others outside of Chorisson. It
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is more like that than I think what people are picturing,
which is that like there's some central Isis leadership carrying
out all of these shadowy occupations and attacks around the globe,
and no I s kp is. It would be better
to view them as a separate but affiliated group from
the folks in Iraq and Syria that we spent a
couple of years assisting in the fight against. And there's
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a number of similarities, particularly in tactics they embrace in
the in the the specific kind of radical Islam that
they embrace. But it is not like it's not like
there's some centralized leadership running ISIS operations all around. It's
more like an affiliate kind of thing where they're like, okay,
well this is a good branding to have, you know. Um.
And I s KP has been around for like a
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couple of years at this point, and in fact, last
year under President Trump, the United States carry started carrying
out strikes in support of the Taliban in their fight
against I s k P. Um. So we have been
four Biden was in office. We have been aiding the
Taliban fighting these guys. Um. We love that ship. Everything.
It always just gets stupider and stupider every war we
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get into. So that's obviously what if we are everybody
and then we arm everybody else and then we it
just never ends. Yeah, then we'll have peace piece in
our time. Well, that's how you get peace, right, everybody
has a gun if everybody's dead. That's I mean, that's
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that's that's what people always say is cool about Empires
is that they make a desert and call it peace.
And that's sweet and we like it it. We love it, folks. Um.
You know, I don't know, it's silly how it's gone.
Because now like we're getting out of Afghanistan, the Taliban
is stronger than they've ever been. They're talking about how
they want positive relationships with the US. Uh, we're relying
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on We relied on them in the end in order
to help maintain the security situation. Yeah, they did escort missions.
They did escort missions. Yeah, we had them and and
they you know, if you look at videos of Taliban
fighters who were kind of like taking these abandoned US facilities,
like they all look like US soldiers because they're all
wearing the same gear because it's like good effective, you
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know gear, but it's also kind of a style thing.
And it's just that this is this is how war works.
It's it's really dumb a lot of the time. A
couple of things. I wanted your your thoughts on UM one.
I mean, I guess we've talked about this at times.
Just all the equipment and stuff that we left behind.
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It's a lot less than it's being talked about. People
throwing out the number eighty eight billion, which is like
the total number of military amount of military aid we
gave the Afghan National Army, which included salaries, which obviously,
I mean obviously the Taliban did get some of that
because all the corruption but like that's not armaments left behind.
And then there's all these infographics going around that will
show all of the vehicles and aircraft and stuff we
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gave the an A as if like that's what the
Taliban got. But like no one. A lot of that
stuff was destroyed a lot of that stuff when the
a n A collapse. They took it to Uzbekistan or
I think Tashikistan. They took it outside of the country.
It's not there anymore. They did get some aircraft, including
some helicopters, and there's video that seems to be legitimate
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of them flying in a black Hawk helicopter. There's also
false video that they claim as them like hanging people
from helicopters, as far as I know, has been debunked. Um,
but they've got like they got, they do have some
they do have some air assets now, like that's for sure.
Surveillance stuff, um, you know specifically, I can't remember what
the systems called, but stuff that we we brought there
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and technology we created over the course of this war,
uh to you know, track and surveil people and find
out who's affiliated with you know, the Taliban and who's
on it's a database also of information that Taliban can
used to find Americans. Not Americans. Uh oh yeah, the
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bioelect Well, because we had these it was this it's
this bad security state, bad idea that you see all
the time where it's like, okay, well we just want
to have everyone registered in a thing biometrically. Oops, we
lost it and they have it, and now they have
an easy way to find everybody who worked with us. Like, yeah,
but what if you so what if you do it again,
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but you like make it a little bit more secure. Yeah,
that'll work. It almost worked this time, Cody, that close
super well if it was. Um speaking of biometrics, is
that our transition to an ad would love information about
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our sponsors request together. All right, we're back. We are
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back before we transition to talking about other things. Well, Robert,
did you have anything else to say about Afghanistan? Um?
I think yeah. One of the funny things was there
are a couple of different comments about all the gear
the talibanber getting. One was that you know, without the
spare parts to supply it, they would be fucked, which
is I mean partially true. Some of the equipment, like
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the Chinooks that they got are famously terrible aircraft that
I do not think they will be using long because
they're not worth it in the maintenance is a nightmare.
But other stuff like the black Hawks, like they'll find
a way. There's a lot of spare parts already in Afghanistan.
There's ways to get it fabricated. What was funniest was
like the people who were insistent like, oh, they don't
ever figure out how to fight, how to fly these
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helicopters and stuff without without training, And I was like, no,
they just they've got YouTube, Like you can figure anything
out with the internet. They shear diad they're up in
the air. Um. I mean probably they had some A
and A guys who you know, had flipped to the
Taliban and gotten training. But I don't. I mean, it's
not you'll you'll you can learn how to do anything,
is the is the point of it? Like all of
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this equipment we left behind, none of it's that complicated.
You know, you know, they don't need to manual to
have you out, have you ever gone drinking with soldiers.
They're dumb as shit and they figure it out. Obviously,
the Taliban would. All military weaponry is made to be
utilized by people who are the kind of folks who
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get blackout drunk at a bar named Skeeters and by
a fucking dodge charger at th PR like, and they
can manage it. It's fine, I specific forever, like, like,
tell me tell me this about this experience you definitely
had yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah, without telling me that you
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definitely had it yourself. But if the Iraqi Army can
master this stuff, the Taliban like things are made to
be easy to use. Um war, you don't have time.
It's like, it's not nuclear science. It's going boom boom,
pushing button to go there. I mean, yeah, I'm sure
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a lot of them will die in helicopter crashes, but
so do a lot of US soldiers. Like our helicopters
crash all the time. One of the things they do there,
they shouldn't be in the air. Don't get in the helicopter. Fine, god,
I uh, we do have other stuff to talk about.
But one last question that you probably won't have an
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answer to, but maybe have insight because this is sticking
with me right now. Obviously, the Biden just did his
speech and I jokingly said this at the beginning of
this conversation, but he's announced that um of American citizens
who wanted to leave did leave, and you know, there's
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some fuzzy math about how many that means left behind,
but he's saying one hundred two hundred, which okay, I
guess is the ten percent. Regardless, Uh, he said they
still can leave if they want to. But then I'm
hearing other reports of no, this is it. You know,
if you haven't left, this is this isn't you're not
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going to um And you know, I just was curious
if you had any thoughts on that, like would is
that even possible? Like what would you that require? We're
not coming in there to evacuate anymore people. Yeah, I mean,
what do you? I don't know, like it. It's kind
of silly because it's like if I were to take
a bunch of people's kids to a grocery store and
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then come back and them made it back, I would
I would be in prison. You have done a bad job.
But the president's not a dad, so who can say
if anything wrong was done. You know, who can say?
I feel like somebody could say, but I'm not expecting
anybody to have information or answers on this. It's just
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stuck with me. It's always it's all bad and fucked up,
and like, I don't know. One of the frustrating things
is there's I don't want to not hold Joe Biden's
feet to the fire on this because a lot of
this was a disaster, but also like it's been a
disaster since day one. Uh, And it's very frustrating that like,
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after twenty years of war, all of the shade is
going on this guy for like not getting everyone out
and like all of these different funk ups and like
and now people give a ship that we killed a
bunch of kids in an air strike, which is horrible,
And I was like, yeah, we've been doing that for
twenty fucking years. Where were you? Where you? And if
you if you've been angry for twenties straight years, great,
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I'm just I'm angry mainly about like the mainstream media
discourse around It's like, oh, now you guys care that
US soldiers are dying in Afghanistan. Now you guys give
a ship that kids are getting killed by our missus. Okay,
I I mean, I I first off, completely agree with you. Um.
I also feel frustrated that whenever you say, like, wait
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a minute, there's a problem with how this has been going,
I have a problem with what's happening. I also feel
like immediately there's a faction of people that are defending
Biden saying this stuff, and I'm saying, like, both things
are true. I'm the just because I'm criticizing how he
has handled this does not mean that I am trying
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to make a case that Biden is to blame for
everything that's happened. It's both things are true. So there's
this whole contingency of people online that feel the need
to go out of their way to say, my president
has been doing X, Y Z, and my president is
the only president you know that has done this, and
you're like, well, have some nuance here. It's not this
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side that side. I mean, we have been saying the
same kind of argument for the last few weeks as
this has been unfolding, of course, but it it frustrates
me continuously. Anyway, shameless plug. We have an episode of
Somewhere News out today about this exact thing. Um. And
who is quote to blame uh and spoilers. It's every president,
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every single one of them. Um. We touched on this
last week on here. I believe when we talked about
this all the cigar reports, um uh, and like it's
just so extensive and it's been going on for so
many years, and every step of the way, every single
president had access to information saying that it was bad,
we were doing a bad job. We're failing continuously. Um.
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And nothing changed. And um, yeah, you have like people
upset now like, well, weren't you, like, aren't you champion
like the drone program in general, like five years ago,
seven years ago? Um. So yeah, you can say Biden
didn't do a good job here, but you can also
say that about literally every president. Maybe all of them
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should go to prison. Maybe uh give him, hand him
over to the Taliban, see what happens, to see what
happens for themselves, what their punishment will be. Um, let's
move on to other topics, shall we. We're gonna talk
about the California recall for a little bit. Uh getting
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hot in here, guys. Uh, did you know that we
have the easiest state to recall govern Yeah, that's pretty cool, real,
nice little perk of being a Caligornia. Yes, yeah, it's
actually true that I believe every governor has had to
recall attept here, but J. Davis was the only one
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where it actually succeeded famously by Arnold Schwarzenheger. So yes,
it can happen here. Um, shout out. This whole thing
is so fucking dumb. We have talked about this, but
it's it's very important. Um. Literally, as soon as he
was elected, recall attempts began. You know, they were always
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going to begin, and it didn't really get much traction
until the pandemic. Um. And look, I'm not sitting here
making a case for Gavin Newsom. I think he has
been milk toast at best, you know. Um, but yeah,
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it sucks. Sucks you get to deal with COVID in
uh the middle of your term. Could have done a
better job. Sucks that you had to do a good job,
you guys. I still want to know how he got
access to all that hair gel when nothing was available
in the middle of the pandemic, because his hair always
was just I mean, oh, stockpiled, stockpiled it. He stockpiled
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crates and crates back when he was with with Gilfoil. Right.
I don't think there was ever a shortage of hair gel,
because that is not a hot ticket right now anywhere. Also,
you don't know his hair gel could have been hand sanitizers,
be it could have been honey, I don't know. Anyway,
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not important to gain traction during the pandemic. Um. And
this is interesting. I guess at some point a judge
allowed for ordered that I believe they got three or
four extra weeks to gain signatures. Uh, you know, since
the pandemic had hindered their petitioning. It's only fair. Uh.
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And and who knows what would have happened. But then
Gavin Newson during those I believe during those extra weeks,
was spotted having his infamous unmasked French laundry birthday dinner
in San Francisco, and it really pissed people off. French
laundry is like the most expensive of restaurants where you
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have you can never get rest reservations. And there he
was being unmaxed in the middle of this big search
um and and it really it piste people off. It
did it with his conservatives and liberals off. Uh And
after that, um, it really picked up steam and they
amass enough signatures to you know, trigger it. Um. So
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really it is a series of unlucky breaks. But also
he hasn't been a great governor, so a lot of loyalty. Um.
But at the same time, the opposite would be disastrous. Um.
And we are in a very precarious situation. It's this
horror while situation that we keep being in that I
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get why some people reject electoralism entirely. Where you're where
You're like, well, we've got this guy who completely watched
the pandemic response, who continues to botch the pandemic response. Um,
who's been a ship governor who's continuing to allow hydraulic
fracking and fucking up the fire response and and making Yeah,
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but the alternative is a knife wielding psychopath who wants
to stab every single Californian in the dick. Um. So
I guess we have to go And I mean, yeah,
well we'll get to that real quick. So this is
a precarious situation. Just so everyone understands, Um, if the
no votes do not pass the threshold, then one of
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the like forty candidates that are running on the ballot,
this just one of them has to get a majority,
and how much it's I think it might be sixty.
I don't have it actually, right, but yeah, and this
is allowed, and this is allowed. Also, Gavin Newsom is
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not one of the candidates on that ballot um, which
I don't know. Maybe the legality he wouldn't be, but
part of me is like, shouldn't be at least put
him on there, like if you because if people have
something else to vote for, so like we we recall
them and they're like, well, like okay. So here's part
of the thing that people have seen. I mean, I've
(32:35):
been saying this all along, but a lot of people
pushed back at me, so so I shut up for
a minute. But now more people are saying, which is
I do not know why. I mean I do know why.
I know why. The strategy from the governor has been
just vote no and once you vote no, do not
choose a replacement, which seems classic Democrats make no backup.
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And well, okay, so here's the plan. It's a plan. Well,
I just need to say that it's a it's a calculation. Uh,
because when Governor Gray Davis was recalled recalled in the
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post mortem, they concluded that having the lieutenant governor Cruz Bustamante,
but then lieutenant governor on the ballot as a backup
confused all the voters. Uh, and and you know that
is why not enough people voted no and picked Cruise Bustamante.
So that's the theory, the working theory that they took
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instead of saying, like, no, let's just be really clear
with our language. Let's Cody's raising his hands. This is
an audio format, so I had to say it. Thank you.
I just this is so like and I feel like
we've said this before on every podcast exists. One of
the key elements and features that you want out of
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a leader is communication. That's the thing that leaders should
be able to do. So if that is the case,
the solution is to communicate better so that people are
not confused. If the problem is people are confused by this,
the solution is communicate to them and make it not confusing.
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I mean, look, I fucking hope that they were right,
you know, but I don't believe that they are. I
think it feels very anti democratic to say no. And
I refuse to choose another pick because now the situation
is very likely that if it passes, which by the way,
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that the other part of this, Yes, obviously California is
a demo Democrat state. We are liberal essentially, but there
are huge pockets. There's a big contingency of of Trump supporters,
of of conservatives, and they are the people that care
about this. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom again not exactly a leader
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who inspires loyalty during a pandemic when everyone's exhausted, and
you know, they're not even like hammering home the importance
of what's at stake here. So there's a very very
high we know that voter turnout in general will be
low except for within the people that care very much
about this. So right now it's neck it's literally neck
(35:34):
and neck um and it's a bad situation because the
person who is in the front, who's the front runner,
is Larry Elder. He is a known conservative UH radio
personality in California for decades. Yes, with within here series
of abuse and anti climate change, you know, anti women,
(35:56):
anti science, and and this this right here is perhaps
even outside of the state of California. The thing that
everybody needs to pay attention to, why everybody needs to
be paying attention to this, is that Diane Feinstein is
on death store. I don't know if that's true, but
she is like senile, she's old talking about Yes, yes,
(36:23):
I'm getting to that she's retiring potentially even she might
decide to retire or she might die at any moment.
In that case, elder will get to replace her, and
that will entirely change our marginal you know, majority in
the Senate. Change the Senate fundamentally changes the Senate. So
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this is why, Yeah, this is why it's important for
everybody that's listening, and thank you for hearing us talk
about this so much. It's important. It's important to all
of us, For all of us. If you have relatives here,
if you can do anything, if you can talk to
people to get the word out, we need you to
do it. So, yeah, it's that's the thing. It's like
(37:07):
these sort of things that like it does affect the nation. Yeah,
it's not. It's just a California issue, biggest economy in
the world. Yeah. And Kate, Katie, to your to your point,
there have been lots of lots of discussions about Diane
and rumors of her well being right now. Um, and
(37:28):
you know, we all of us should have PTSD for
what happened with RBG. So yeah, and like it's yeah,
there are like a year or two ago about this. Yeah,
how and she has a lot left on her term,
a long time left on her term. I just don't like,
why would you? Why do you want to like die
(37:49):
at the office? Yeah? What what is wrong with you?
What is wrong with you that you cannot see? How
obvious is it? Is? It as simple as you're like
you guys, remember people would like George R. Martin had
a response because people kept expressing worry that he was
going to die before he get finished the books, and
his response was basically like fuck you, um, which was
(38:10):
a fair because it's it was people being worried about
like whether or not a book would get done when
talking about like a man with a family, and like,
very fair response from George R. Martin, who does not
hold any of our lives in his hands. Um, it
is in fact a fair response to ask of people
like Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Um. And in this case because
(38:30):
it's like yeah, we you if you die in office
or in the wrong time, it will negatively infect the
lives of potentially billions of people in terms of certain things. Um,
So get the funk out. But I think they just
get angry at like, well, you're saying I'm gonna die,
like I'm not gonna die now, I'm gonna like I've
(38:51):
got more time, I'm not out. Like it's this. I
think it might be as simple as like this very
human anger at the thought of your own mortality. One
sent think, which is why it should be illegal to
be that old. And I think I think, I mean,
I I definitely agree. I think that people have a
(39:11):
fear of their own mortality and of you know, their
legacy and control and they I think it absolutely is
is people holding on for dear life to their dear life. Yeah, um, yeah,
because you don't want to face that even though it's
a fact. I'm sorry, and like maybe like you don't
(39:34):
want your legacy to be that you held onto power
till the last minute, died in office and then we're
replaced by Larry Elder. Yeah. I want to something Katie
said again, because Katie mentioned like it just seems very
like lacks of days of cold the approach coming from
the Democratic Party, and it's like, yeah, I mean, most
(39:54):
people really are not that keyed in on this, and
there's not I mean like spending. Yes, Katie mentioned that, uh,
Newsom spending more than any other candidate, but like, I
really feel like I haven't seen much besides from like
and which is why we're talking about it so much,
because we're not seeing I say that as part of
(40:15):
the second part of my point is like, yes, Gavin
Newsom is outspending the other candidates. But Larry Elder, again
very known, he's he's no, I mean, he's a I
don't know the data or what he's spending. I'm saying
that he's a conservative radio host, and you know that
(40:40):
is campaigning. That is a campaigning. You know, you know
something Larry Elder. Larry Elder is the guy who allegedly
convinced Dave Reuben that systemic racism doesn't exist. Dope, I
think university. I believe Dennis Prager um is involved with
(41:01):
him somehow. There's no I mean, I would be surprised
if Larry Elder isn't in a Pregger youth video. Um. Um, yeah,
he's buddies with Dennis Braeger, and Dennis Prager helped Elder
get his first job in radio. Here's that we need
to take another break. Okay, he doesn't fact have many
(41:25):
Pregger youth videos of course. Well together everything, we're back
and Cody was just freestyling an epic rap that explains
(41:51):
how to solve the California recall problem. Cody, do you
want to just roll roll back in? I'll give you
a beat. Yeah, thank you. My name is Dennis Breger,
and here's what you gotta do, recall newsome please thanks sincerely,
Dennis Cragor nailed it. Well, that's gonna do it for
(42:14):
hearing of ust. Wait, did we just come back from
a break to end the episode? One thing? Actually it's
a freestyle Katie. Yeah. Yeah. We we ended on I
believe what they call a bang. Okay, we ended on
a bang. We ended on a banger and on a banger.
We ended with a bang is what it would. We
ended with a banger that I think is uh going
(42:39):
to get Cody his second British Video Music Award. Thank you.
I'm there's room on the shelf just wait and collecting dust.
I need to do the second one up there. Room
on the shelf next to your half of an Emmy. Yeah,
that you took from John Krasinski when you broke into
his house that one night. That's right, and I'm going
to get the other half one day. One day, had
(43:02):
so much base in your fanny peck, slice it half
to fit it in with your saw. Well, yeah, I
mean I didn't prepare that much, but I prepared enough
to know to bring a saw and have a bag
and I improvised. You got half of half of John
Kazynski's Emmy good, he got all of the money for
your idea. That's right. Quiet place y talking about quiet
(43:30):
place too? Is he still alive? Not quiet place one?
Cody had nothing to do, but I had a great
idea for a sequal. But you were of a quiet place,
a little quieter, a quiet place too. And I believe
you pitched that idea to John by driving past his
(43:51):
house and shushing in the middle of the night, which yeah,
and I saw the light turn on in the bedroom,
so he definitely heard it and he definitely heard it. Well,
you're a famously loud shush or Cody. Everybody says that
that's how I do it, that's how you do it,
that's how you do it. Well, Gang, we got anything
else to say? Um, I didn't want to mention uh
(44:13):
this earlier when we were talking about the eight five
billion dollars worth of military equipment is left for the Taliban.
UM because earlier today, UM, in talking about hurricane damage
in Louisiana, Representative Clay Higgins said, and I quote, let
me tell you what would be a good start for
(44:34):
the people of Louisiana. Billion dollars worth of military equipment
that was left behind Afghanistan. I just think that's just
like a fucking incredible piece of art. A couple of
strikers would have really helped out, just like, yeah, like
aside from the fact that we already talked about, like
that's not really accurate and like, come on, man, UM,
(44:56):
I don't know if that would help them. Actually, Yeah,
imagine people trying to flee the hurricane wondering, God, if
only I had a gigantic gas guzzling vehicle that gets
less than a mile per gallon and breaks down every
forty five minutes because it's just specifically made in order
to be endlessly profitable for a fucking contractor. UM, if
(45:21):
only I like talked to a single US troop about
how much they love their equipment. Challenge spoilers, All of
our vehicles are annoying pieces of shit. Fucking strikers and
m wraps and like hum vs good God, the fucking
(45:41):
chinook better at killing U. S Marines than any Taliban strike. Um,
incredible at killing US marines. The chinook real v I
P of the war against US imperialists. If only we
could have killed so many citizens of Louisiana, if we'd
had more shar we got more. We can blame it
(46:04):
on that instead of hurricane, instead of the fucking which
also one of the big stories of the hurricane is
that the massive amount of like levy reconstruction and ship
that New Orleans did in the year since because Trina
saved countless lives and stopped massive flooding and was a
highly successful example of how government funding going towards rebuilding
efforts and going towards improvement of infrastructure yields calculable benefits. Yeah,
(46:29):
it's stuff like that. That's um. It's like heartening and
disheartening because we're still like we don't we don't take
that lesson go we should do that like way more. Um.
We've talked about briefly about like you remember you were
you were the O Zone. I don't know if people
remember the ozone and how there was that episode of
Rocco's Modern Life about it exactly already C y C
(46:50):
L E recycle and so on and so forth. Uh
and uh, we were like, there's a whole neo zone.
We gotta we gotta so that ship up and so
we did that and then it was done and we
did that. Um, it's like a thing we accomplished because
(47:10):
we decided to do it. Uh. And it was slightly
before are are absolute health escape of politics instead of
the previous like mild healthescape of politics? Um, and this
is another example of like, well, we just we needed
to do this thing to prevent other things, and so
we decided to and we did it, and we can
(47:31):
do this more way more, um and now like and
we're stuck with these like New York Times are in
this article like as a preview of future hurricanes. Ida
is very scary. Yeah, like as a as a as
a preview of like now is what's going on now?
Like like doing like this could be this is a
(47:55):
sign of bad things to come. Yeah. I just need
to point out that we do not know, uh the
extent of the damage at this point in time. We
do not know, uh, just how many people died. Uh,
but it is yes, a success and that the levees
held and we did learn and from specifically. But I
(48:21):
will point out something which is, um, this was a
stronger hurricane, but it had more of like wind force.
But for whatever reason that is beyond me, I know,
science gal you know, uh, it brought less water. Uh.
(48:44):
It is actually very terrifying because the severity of the
pendulum swing, you know how quickly it changes, is increasing
and and these this the wind from this was much stronger.
So oh you know, yes, Letty's held. Also there was
less water, but bigger wids, all these roofs getting torn off. Anyway,
(49:10):
I agree with all those things that you guys said, Yeah,
let's build more stuff to help people in the future,
and maybe not make them like military equipment. I mean.
And as with every disaster, a decent chunk of the
relief effort has been uh, just citizens dealing ship the occasion,
Navy has has pulled a lot of people out of
(49:31):
bad situations without you know, help from the government. Yeah.
I just wanted to do a shout out to the
Casian Navy and kind of citizen relief efforts to to
pull people out of bad situations, which was a big
part of what happened at Hurricane Kultrine the last time,
and a big mitigating factor and a lot of the
awfulness and yeah, forever, Yeah, rely on each other because yeah,
(49:56):
I don't know. It seems like a lot of a
representatives think that military equip would help in a hurricane.
So it doesn't, and and we're not you know, I'm
sure at some point we will sit down and talk
about kind of the the shortcomings and the government response
to this hurricane and maybe even where they did well.
But it's just it's ongoing right now, and I don't
I don't think we know enough of it. Yeah, it
(50:21):
seems good that we rebuilt those levies. Well, yeah, we
should probably do more stuff like that. What if what
if we spent like maybe like one to three point
five trillion dollars on infrastructure? Well, where would we get
that money? Cody? Do you have some sort of time
machine to take us back to before we spent three
(50:43):
ish trillion dollars in Afghanistan? All I can say is
that I fixed it, and I do m Oh no,
it didn't work for some reason. It's because Sophie wouldn't
listen to your time machine noise is, Sophie, You've doomed
the United States because you didn't need to listen to
(51:03):
Cody make time machine noises, and you're just shrugging it off.
I know Americans listening. If you ever look out into
the world and say, damn the war on Terror, remember that, Sophie,
is what stopped Cody from ending it retroactively in the past.
And that's the news right there. Hearing that noise is
(51:29):
that Cody is the opposite of Donald Rumpsfeld in two
thousand one, just in two thousand one, and so if
he were to have made physical contact with Donald Rumpsfeld
in two thousand one, it would have set off a
cascade reaction rebuilding the Twin Towers exactly, and thus there
would have been no war on Terror. Yeah, the energy,
the anti energy. Although I would say I'm the opposite
(51:49):
of Donald Rumpld because I'm alive, all right. That's a
good note to end an episode on everything so dull.
Everything is so dull, and it's not again dumb. I tried.
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or no men like you? No, no gentleman, no no,
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Also reply guys, welcome as well. Reply absolutely, well you
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Reply boys none, but if you're a huge ship head,
welcome aboard. Pile on. Well, we've killed two and a
half minutes. I know we're already of the way through
the podcast. I'm going to check out it now. How
are you guys doing? You know, I never ever asked
(02:13):
on on our other show. I always ask everybody how
they're doing, and it's like a nice moment of connection potentially,
but never do we do that here doing bad? How's
the new show going? Guys? You're regretting it? Oh god,
absolutely mistake. I actually love our other show, even though
(02:38):
it's a horrendous amount of work. I was brushing my teeth, going,
oh God, Sophie and Robert are already working, you know,
to be fair, it was probably not already working, but
I want no I barely work. I just come on
half asked and wait for Sophie and Garrison and Christopher
to do things, and then I extract their surplus value
(03:00):
and turn it into a water bed. Robert, you refrain
from mentioning this five minutes ago when Cody was asking
advice for mattresses. What do you got, Cody? You want
a water bed and can give you advice on getting
a water bed? How big, biggest? How much work drafted
(03:22):
to maintain it? Um more than a normal bed. That
sounds like a lot. It is more than a normal bed. Look,
that's what the normal water beds. They're not normal beds.
You gotta put conditioner in them. There's a pump. Now,
if it's a soft side water bed, this is the benefit, Cody.
The soft side water beds your pets aren't are very
(03:42):
unlikely to break because there's there's like a mattress over
the top. Now, if it's a hard side water bed,
that sounds more durable. But the top is basically just
the big blue blue blue water they can get They
can get through that. I mean, it's still pretty thick plastic.
But yeah, it's actually happier to puncture. Well one day.
(04:04):
Water bed is something that I've heard about and never
seen in person or touched or known anybody. You've never
seen a water but oh they're rad. When I was
a kid, my aunt and uncle who lived with us
intermittently because the economy you know they were. They kept
their water bed in our garage and I would get
(04:25):
on it all the time because it's fucking ruled. Yeah.
All I know about water bed is you can't rent
with one, you have to can't wet, you can't rent
all sorts of like you have to like sign a
waiver or like there's like a bunch of like renter
restrictions for water beds. Yeah, that's why you find a
(04:45):
landlord who's a criminal, and a criminal who's scared of
the police, not a criminal who doesn't have to be scared.
You find yourself the right kind of slum lord and
you can have a water bed. Yeah. Fair enough. We
should talk about the news, shall we? Ka? Wait? Wait, Katie, Cody,
how are you guys? Alright? Well today? Yeah, because you're
(05:18):
is today not Monday? It's not, but it could be.
I think that in general, I'll speak for Cody and myself.
I don't know. Cody's mentioned a headache. I'll just touch
on the general feeling that I feel. Whoa that's going
into a different territory. Um, my throat feels great, but
(05:39):
I do I do feel a continuing sense of on
we from a lot of people just general fatigue. I
think better than this time last year in that at
least the president isn't literally a monster. Well, how you're
looking at it, he's not suggested the hurricane. He's not
(06:02):
on Twitter. Let's let's be honest about the main difference.
I can't believe I said that and thought, no, he's not.
He is not on Twitter pictures him walking. You guys,
You guys get my point though, Um, you know that's
that's the difference here. But I feel tired. I'm happy
(06:23):
to see you guys though. Anyway, we really should talk
about the news and then circle background on whether or
not the president is a monster. So you want to
talk about the news so fucking much. What's in the news? Uh? Well,
the war in Afghanistan for the US is over. Did
we win? Well, Cody, you know what is what is
(06:47):
a win of Americans that want to leave out of
the country. Is that a win? My middle school Jim
teacher explained that just by playing, you're a winner. And
I think that's how the war in Afghanistan worked. You know,
(07:08):
we gotta a participation trophy if you consider purple Hearts
to participation trip. There's I don't know if I do
or not. I mean, you definitely participated. Yeah, you're like
that stabbed himself and tried to get one, but he
didn't get one. So I don't know. Um, Look, it's
a it's it's a weird mix of things because for
(07:30):
the first time in I don't know, somebody I know
posted like for the first time in my life, I
woke up in the U. S A isn't at war
And I guess I don't really think because we're still
we're still all over the place, right, we're participating in Yeah,
but for the first time in my adult life, we're
not at war in Afghanistan. That doesn't get technically, although
(07:54):
we are threatening retaliations. We did. We killed ten children
with him or six will be an ongoing thing. They're
talking about it. There's a lot more kids in Afghanistan's
gotta target those kids. Well, again, like the true the troops,
like we we quote we are out of Afghanistan. The
(08:14):
drones get to stay like, well, the drones are never
out of anywhere. The war the worst days we have left. Yeah,
but that's right, that's a that's a participation trophy worthy accomplishment.
We're being very flip, right, now talking to truly horrific situation. UM,
(08:40):
as we expected it to be. And uh you guys, yeah, Robert,
you walk us through some of the stuff that's happened
in the past week. Maybe no, I don't know. Uh.
We there's the we we pulled some troops started pulling
people out. We airlifted and I think Biden's claiming a
people in the space of about a week out of Afghanistan. Um.
(09:04):
While we were doing that, we kept about troops mostly
centered around the Kabul airport, working with the Taliban to
provide security. Uh. The Islamic State and Khorassan carried out
an attack a few days ago on the airport that
killed thirteen US soldiers. And well, we don't know how
many civilians died just from the Islamic State and Khorassan's attack,
(09:28):
because certainly dozens UM. But once they set off their
bombs and started there was also somebody firing, like with
a rifle. UM. U S troops responded and a number
we don't really know the number, but a number, potentially
very significant number of the civilians who were killed were
killed by US soldiers potentially just kind of panic firing
(09:49):
into the crowd. Um, and I I've I've there's certainly
a lot of allegations of that. There's not open source
information yet that I've been able to see to kind
of verify to a heart ex stent like exactly what happened,
But there's a lot of reports. Um, we don't. It'll
probably be years before we get any kind of comprehensive
like if we're looking at kind of niss Or Square,
(10:09):
any of the other times where U. S. Soldiers killed
a bunch of civilians, it will probably be years before
we get kind of a comprehensive information about how many
UM civilians were killed by U S troops in that.
But like a lot, you know, a lot of a
lot of Afghan civilians died overall as a result of
the attack. Um. In the United States, of course, what
(10:31):
matters is the Americans who died. Who are you're seeing
a mix of them being lionized and this being spun
up into you know, Benghazi two point oh. Um. These
are the first US soldiers who have died in Afghanistan
in a while that anybody on the right is talking about,
because we just kind of ignored it for years and years, Um,
which is cool, that's just the way everything works. Um,
(10:53):
I don't know that's that's anyway. But we we like yesterday,
the last troops left. The last guy out is a
major general, I believe with the eighties swond airborn. Um
and uh so, Yeah, there's no more US troops in
Afghanistan for the first time in my adult life. Yeah.
And some people's lives, yeah, and some people's whole life
(11:16):
in some in some of the soldiers who died that
attacks lives, yeah. And a significant number of the children,
all of the children who were killed in the eight
retalityatory air strike that we carried out. Babies are not
born yet. Mhm, Um, mom bid give a speech today
about it. Did let's talk about that. Um. He's doing
(11:36):
a job at speaking talk. He's called it a success.
We love words, folks. It's he's like, it's weird hearing.
I guess a president used terms like forever war? Um,
which did Um? And like m h, I don't know,
(11:57):
it's like adopting language at the appropriate time. Um and uh,
I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that. Um.
He did say, he said we succeeded in what we
set out to do in Afghanistan. Over a decade ago.
He stayed for another decade and found to end the war. Yeah.
(12:18):
I think what he's referring to is Osama bin Laden dying, right.
That happened a long time. That's happened in I think
May of eleven, so technically over a decade ago. Yeah,
like technically, and I think that's what he's referring to.
But like, I think it's important to always remember that
(12:39):
the Taliban offered to give up with someone bin Laden
in two thousand one, uh and George W. Bush, the
president at the time, said no, we're gonna keep bombing
you and we're gonna go get him. And then the
war happened for twenty years. They offered to give him
up and we said no, right, Um, he wanted to
(13:02):
deal with that ship. You know, you want to negotiate
with terrorists, Cody. Um, isn't that what? Yes? I was
joking Now, Robert, I don't know. I keep throwing to
you because you obviously know the most about the region
(13:24):
and all of these things of the people present, not
the world. Um. So the attacks at the airport, I'm
we're from isis k not from the Taliban, well, from
the Islamic State in Coriban. ISIS is the Islamic It
can't be isis K because ISIS is the Islamic State
(13:47):
in Iraq and Syria or Iraq and all show. Um,
this is just what people I was reading like, I
need to talk to Robert to clarify. Yeah, and and
people who were saying that are are incorrect. Um, it's
it's the Islamic State and Chorussan Province. Umar seeing I
s k more, I think yeah, I s k is fine,
(14:08):
I s k p uh. They are so back in
the day. Actually, the organization that ISIS evolved out of
was was al Qaeda in Iraq, which was was run
by a little motherfucker you might have known called Abu
misables Kali, who was the author of a book called
The Management of Savagery that is kind of the blueprint
of it was a blueprint behind ISIS UM and a
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number of other terrorist groups. Um We Zarcati was killed
back in the mid aughts before ISIS ever came around.
But ISIS kind of his group is one of the
things they evolved out of. It was called al Qaida
in Iraq. Al Qaeda didn't like Zarkhali and it was
kind of like a tense situation between them, and there
were some disavowals. You know, it was one of those
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things where they liked they would kind of accept his
his his, you know, claiming a relationship with them when
he was doing stuff that they liked and not when
he was doing stuff that they didn't. But it was
very like the they disagreed on a lot and the
reason he he was just kind of had a group
and called it al Qaeda in Iraq um the Islamic
State affiliate groups, because there's others outside of Chorisson. It
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is more like that than I think what people are picturing,
which is that like there's some central Isis leadership carrying
out all of these shadowy occupations and attacks around the globe,
and no I s kp is. It would be better
to view them as a separate but affiliated group from
the folks in Iraq and Syria that we spent a
couple of years assisting in the fight against. And there's
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a number of similarities, particularly in tactics they embrace in
the in the the specific kind of radical Islam that
they embrace. But it is not like it's not like
there's some centralized leadership running ISIS operations all around. It's
more like an affiliate kind of thing where they're like, okay,
well this is a good branding to have, you know. Um.
And I s KP has been around for like a
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couple of years at this point, and in fact, last
year under President Trump, the United States carry started carrying
out strikes in support of the Taliban in their fight
against I s k P. Um. So we have been
four Biden was in office. We have been aiding the
Taliban fighting these guys. Um. We love that ship. Everything.
It always just gets stupider and stupider every war we
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get into. So that's obviously what if we are everybody
and then we arm everybody else and then we it
just never ends. Yeah, then we'll have peace piece in
our time. Well, that's how you get peace, right, everybody
has a gun if everybody's dead. That's I mean, that's
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that's that's what people always say is cool about Empires
is that they make a desert and call it peace.
And that's sweet and we like it it. We love it, folks. Um.
You know, I don't know, it's silly how it's gone.
Because now like we're getting out of Afghanistan, the Taliban
is stronger than they've ever been. They're talking about how
they want positive relationships with the US. Uh, we're relying
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on We relied on them in the end in order
to help maintain the security situation. Yeah, they did escort missions.
They did escort missions. Yeah, we had them and and
they you know, if you look at videos of Taliban
fighters who were kind of like taking these abandoned US facilities,
like they all look like US soldiers because they're all
wearing the same gear because it's like good effective, you
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know gear, but it's also kind of a style thing.
And it's just that this is this is how war works.
It's it's really dumb a lot of the time. A
couple of things. I wanted your your thoughts on UM one.
I mean, I guess we've talked about this at times.
Just all the equipment and stuff that we left behind.
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It's a lot less than it's being talked about. People
throwing out the number eighty eight billion, which is like
the total number of military amount of military aid we
gave the Afghan National Army, which included salaries, which obviously,
I mean obviously the Taliban did get some of that
because all the corruption but like that's not armaments left behind.
And then there's all these infographics going around that will
show all of the vehicles and aircraft and stuff we
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gave the an A as if like that's what the
Taliban got. But like no one. A lot of that
stuff was destroyed a lot of that stuff when the
a n A collapse. They took it to Uzbekistan or
I think Tashikistan. They took it outside of the country.
It's not there anymore. They did get some aircraft, including
some helicopters, and there's video that seems to be legitimate
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of them flying in a black Hawk helicopter. There's also
false video that they claim as them like hanging people
from helicopters, as far as I know, has been debunked. Um,
but they've got like they got, they do have some
they do have some air assets now, like that's for sure.
Surveillance stuff, um, you know specifically, I can't remember what
the systems called, but stuff that we we brought there
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and technology we created over the course of this war,
uh to you know, track and surveil people and find
out who's affiliated with you know, the Taliban and who's
on it's a database also of information that Taliban can
used to find Americans. Not Americans. Uh oh yeah, the
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bioelect Well, because we had these it was this it's
this bad security state, bad idea that you see all
the time where it's like, okay, well we just want
to have everyone registered in a thing biometrically. Oops, we
lost it and they have it, and now they have
an easy way to find everybody who worked with us. Like, yeah,
but what if you so what if you do it again,
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but you like make it a little bit more secure. Yeah,
that'll work. It almost worked this time, Cody, that close
super well if it was. Um speaking of biometrics, is
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back before we transition to talking about other things. Well, Robert,
did you have anything else to say about Afghanistan? Um?
I think yeah. One of the funny things was there
are a couple of different comments about all the gear
the talibanber getting. One was that you know, without the
spare parts to supply it, they would be fucked, which
is I mean partially true. Some of the equipment, like
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the Chinooks that they got are famously terrible aircraft that
I do not think they will be using long because
they're not worth it in the maintenance is a nightmare.
But other stuff like the black Hawks, like they'll find
a way. There's a lot of spare parts already in Afghanistan.
There's ways to get it fabricated. What was funniest was
like the people who were insistent like, oh, they don't
ever figure out how to fight, how to fly these
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helicopters and stuff without without training, And I was like, no,
they just they've got YouTube, Like you can figure anything
out with the internet. They shear diad they're up in
the air. Um. I mean probably they had some A
and A guys who you know, had flipped to the
Taliban and gotten training. But I don't. I mean, it's
not you'll you'll you can learn how to do anything,
is the is the point of it? Like all of
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this equipment we left behind, none of it's that complicated.
You know, you know, they don't need to manual to
have you out, have you ever gone drinking with soldiers.
They're dumb as shit and they figure it out. Obviously,
the Taliban would. All military weaponry is made to be
utilized by people who are the kind of folks who
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get blackout drunk at a bar named Skeeters and by
a fucking dodge charger at th PR like, and they
can manage it. It's fine, I specific forever, like, like,
tell me tell me this about this experience you definitely
had yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah, without telling me that you
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definitely had it yourself. But if the Iraqi Army can
master this stuff, the Taliban like things are made to
be easy to use. Um war, you don't have time.
It's like, it's not nuclear science. It's going boom boom,
pushing button to go there. I mean, yeah, I'm sure
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a lot of them will die in helicopter crashes, but
so do a lot of US soldiers. Like our helicopters
crash all the time. One of the things they do there,
they shouldn't be in the air. Don't get in the helicopter. Fine, god,
I uh, we do have other stuff to talk about.
But one last question that you probably won't have an
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answer to, but maybe have insight because this is sticking
with me right now. Obviously, the Biden just did his
speech and I jokingly said this at the beginning of
this conversation, but he's announced that um of American citizens
who wanted to leave did leave, and you know, there's
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some fuzzy math about how many that means left behind,
but he's saying one hundred two hundred, which okay, I
guess is the ten percent. Regardless, Uh, he said they
still can leave if they want to. But then I'm
hearing other reports of no, this is it. You know,
if you haven't left, this is this isn't you're not
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going to um And you know, I just was curious
if you had any thoughts on that, like would is
that even possible? Like what would you that require? We're
not coming in there to evacuate anymore people. Yeah, I mean,
what do you? I don't know, like it. It's kind
of silly because it's like if I were to take
a bunch of people's kids to a grocery store and
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then come back and them made it back, I would
I would be in prison. You have done a bad job.
But the president's not a dad, so who can say
if anything wrong was done. You know, who can say?
I feel like somebody could say, but I'm not expecting
anybody to have information or answers on this. It's just
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stuck with me. It's always it's all bad and fucked up,
and like, I don't know. One of the frustrating things
is there's I don't want to not hold Joe Biden's
feet to the fire on this because a lot of
this was a disaster, but also like it's been a
disaster since day one. Uh, And it's very frustrating that like,
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after twenty years of war, all of the shade is
going on this guy for like not getting everyone out
and like all of these different funk ups and like
and now people give a ship that we killed a
bunch of kids in an air strike, which is horrible,
And I was like, yeah, we've been doing that for
twenty fucking years. Where were you? Where you? And if
you if you've been angry for twenties straight years, great,
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I'm just I'm angry mainly about like the mainstream media
discourse around It's like, oh, now you guys care that
US soldiers are dying in Afghanistan. Now you guys give
a ship that kids are getting killed by our missus. Okay,
I I mean, I I first off, completely agree with you. Um.
I also feel frustrated that whenever you say, like, wait
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a minute, there's a problem with how this has been going,
I have a problem with what's happening. I also feel
like immediately there's a faction of people that are defending
Biden saying this stuff, and I'm saying, like, both things
are true. I'm the just because I'm criticizing how he
has handled this does not mean that I am trying
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to make a case that Biden is to blame for
everything that's happened. It's both things are true. So there's
this whole contingency of people online that feel the need
to go out of their way to say, my president
has been doing X, Y Z, and my president is
the only president you know that has done this, and
you're like, well, have some nuance here. It's not this
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side that side. I mean, we have been saying the
same kind of argument for the last few weeks as
this has been unfolding, of course, but it it frustrates
me continuously. Anyway, shameless plug. We have an episode of
Somewhere News out today about this exact thing. Um. And
who is quote to blame uh and spoilers. It's every president,
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every single one of them. Um. We touched on this
last week on here. I believe when we talked about
this all the cigar reports, um uh, and like it's
just so extensive and it's been going on for so
many years, and every step of the way, every single
president had access to information saying that it was bad,
we were doing a bad job. We're failing continuously. Um.
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And nothing changed. And um, yeah, you have like people
upset now like, well, weren't you, like, aren't you champion
like the drone program in general, like five years ago,
seven years ago? Um. So yeah, you can say Biden
didn't do a good job here, but you can also
say that about literally every president. Maybe all of them
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should go to prison. Maybe uh give him, hand him
over to the Taliban, see what happens, to see what
happens for themselves, what their punishment will be. Um, let's
move on to other topics, shall we. We're gonna talk
about the California recall for a little bit. Uh getting
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hot in here, guys. Uh, did you know that we
have the easiest state to recall govern Yeah, that's pretty cool, real,
nice little perk of being a Caligornia. Yes, yeah, it's
actually true that I believe every governor has had to
recall attept here, but J. Davis was the only one
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where it actually succeeded famously by Arnold Schwarzenheger. So yes,
it can happen here. Um, shout out. This whole thing
is so fucking dumb. We have talked about this, but
it's it's very important. Um. Literally, as soon as he
was elected, recall attempts began. You know, they were always
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going to begin, and it didn't really get much traction
until the pandemic. Um. And look, I'm not sitting here
making a case for Gavin Newsom. I think he has
been milk toast at best, you know. Um, but yeah,
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it sucks. Sucks you get to deal with COVID in
uh the middle of your term. Could have done a
better job. Sucks that you had to do a good job,
you guys. I still want to know how he got
access to all that hair gel when nothing was available
in the middle of the pandemic, because his hair always
was just I mean, oh, stockpiled, stockpiled it. He stockpiled
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crates and crates back when he was with with Gilfoil. Right.
I don't think there was ever a shortage of hair gel,
because that is not a hot ticket right now anywhere. Also,
you don't know his hair gel could have been hand sanitizers,
be it could have been honey, I don't know. Anyway,
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not important to gain traction during the pandemic. Um. And
this is interesting. I guess at some point a judge
allowed for ordered that I believe they got three or
four extra weeks to gain signatures. Uh, you know, since
the pandemic had hindered their petitioning. It's only fair. Uh.
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And and who knows what would have happened. But then
Gavin Newson during those I believe during those extra weeks,
was spotted having his infamous unmasked French laundry birthday dinner
in San Francisco, and it really pissed people off. French
laundry is like the most expensive of restaurants where you
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have you can never get rest reservations. And there he
was being unmaxed in the middle of this big search
um and and it really it piste people off. It
did it with his conservatives and liberals off. Uh And
after that, um, it really picked up steam and they
amass enough signatures to you know, trigger it. Um. So
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really it is a series of unlucky breaks. But also
he hasn't been a great governor, so a lot of loyalty. Um.
But at the same time, the opposite would be disastrous. Um.
And we are in a very precarious situation. It's this
horror while situation that we keep being in that I
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get why some people reject electoralism entirely. Where you're where
You're like, well, we've got this guy who completely watched
the pandemic response, who continues to botch the pandemic response. Um,
who's been a ship governor who's continuing to allow hydraulic
fracking and fucking up the fire response and and making Yeah,
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but the alternative is a knife wielding psychopath who wants
to stab every single Californian in the dick. Um. So
I guess we have to go And I mean, yeah,
well we'll get to that real quick. So this is
a precarious situation. Just so everyone understands, Um, if the
no votes do not pass the threshold, then one of
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the like forty candidates that are running on the ballot,
this just one of them has to get a majority,
and how much it's I think it might be sixty.
I don't have it actually, right, but yeah, and this
is allowed, and this is allowed. Also, Gavin Newsom is
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not one of the candidates on that ballot um, which
I don't know. Maybe the legality he wouldn't be, but
part of me is like, shouldn't be at least put
him on there, like if you because if people have
something else to vote for, so like we we recall
them and they're like, well, like okay. So here's part
of the thing that people have seen. I mean, I've
(32:35):
been saying this all along, but a lot of people
pushed back at me, so so I shut up for
a minute. But now more people are saying, which is
I do not know why. I mean I do know why.
I know why. The strategy from the governor has been
just vote no and once you vote no, do not
choose a replacement, which seems classic Democrats make no backup.
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And well, okay, so here's the plan. It's a plan. Well,
I just need to say that it's a it's a calculation. Uh,
because when Governor Gray Davis was recalled recalled in the
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post mortem, they concluded that having the lieutenant governor Cruz Bustamante,
but then lieutenant governor on the ballot as a backup
confused all the voters. Uh, and and you know that
is why not enough people voted no and picked Cruise Bustamante.
So that's the theory, the working theory that they took
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instead of saying, like, no, let's just be really clear
with our language. Let's Cody's raising his hands. This is
an audio format, so I had to say it. Thank you.
I just this is so like and I feel like
we've said this before on every podcast exists. One of
the key elements and features that you want out of
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a leader is communication. That's the thing that leaders should
be able to do. So if that is the case,
the solution is to communicate better so that people are
not confused. If the problem is people are confused by this,
the solution is communicate to them and make it not confusing.
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I mean, look, I fucking hope that they were right,
you know, but I don't believe that they are. I
think it feels very anti democratic to say no. And
I refuse to choose another pick because now the situation
is very likely that if it passes, which by the way,
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that the other part of this, Yes, obviously California is
a demo Democrat state. We are liberal essentially, but there
are huge pockets. There's a big contingency of of Trump supporters,
of of conservatives, and they are the people that care
about this. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom again not exactly a leader
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who inspires loyalty during a pandemic when everyone's exhausted, and
you know, they're not even like hammering home the importance
of what's at stake here. So there's a very very
high we know that voter turnout in general will be
low except for within the people that care very much
about this. So right now it's neck it's literally neck
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and neck um and it's a bad situation because the
person who is in the front, who's the front runner,
is Larry Elder. He is a known conservative UH radio
personality in California for decades. Yes, with within here series
of abuse and anti climate change, you know, anti women,
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anti science, and and this this right here is perhaps
even outside of the state of California. The thing that
everybody needs to pay attention to, why everybody needs to
be paying attention to this, is that Diane Feinstein is
on death store. I don't know if that's true, but
she is like senile, she's old talking about Yes, yes,
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I'm getting to that she's retiring potentially even she might
decide to retire or she might die at any moment.
In that case, elder will get to replace her, and
that will entirely change our marginal you know, majority in
the Senate. Change the Senate fundamentally changes the Senate. So
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this is why, Yeah, this is why it's important for
everybody that's listening, and thank you for hearing us talk
about this so much. It's important. It's important to all
of us, For all of us. If you have relatives here,
if you can do anything, if you can talk to
people to get the word out, we need you to
do it. So, yeah, it's that's the thing. It's like
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these sort of things that like it does affect the nation. Yeah,
it's not. It's just a California issue, biggest economy in
the world. Yeah. And Kate, Katie, to your to your point,
there have been lots of lots of discussions about Diane
and rumors of her well being right now. Um, and
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you know, we all of us should have PTSD for
what happened with RBG. So yeah, and like it's yeah,
there are like a year or two ago about this. Yeah,
how and she has a lot left on her term,
a long time left on her term. I just don't like,
why would you? Why do you want to like die
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at the office? Yeah? What what is wrong with you?
What is wrong with you that you cannot see? How
obvious is it? Is? It as simple as you're like
you guys, remember people would like George R. Martin had
a response because people kept expressing worry that he was
going to die before he get finished the books, and
his response was basically like fuck you, um, which was
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a fair because it's it was people being worried about
like whether or not a book would get done when
talking about like a man with a family, and like,
very fair response from George R. Martin, who does not
hold any of our lives in his hands. Um, it
is in fact a fair response to ask of people
like Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Um. And in this case because
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it's like yeah, we you if you die in office
or in the wrong time, it will negatively infect the
lives of potentially billions of people in terms of certain things. Um,
So get the funk out. But I think they just
get angry at like, well, you're saying I'm gonna die,
like I'm not gonna die now, I'm gonna like I've
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got more time, I'm not out. Like it's this. I
think it might be as simple as like this very
human anger at the thought of your own mortality. One
sent think, which is why it should be illegal to
be that old. And I think I think, I mean,
I I definitely agree. I think that people have a
(39:11):
fear of their own mortality and of you know, their
legacy and control and they I think it absolutely is
is people holding on for dear life to their dear life. Yeah, um, yeah,
because you don't want to face that even though it's
a fact. I'm sorry, and like maybe like you don't
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want your legacy to be that you held onto power
till the last minute, died in office and then we're
replaced by Larry Elder. Yeah. I want to something Katie
said again, because Katie mentioned like it just seems very
like lacks of days of cold the approach coming from
the Democratic Party, and it's like, yeah, I mean, most
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people really are not that keyed in on this, and
there's not I mean like spending. Yes, Katie mentioned that, uh,
Newsom spending more than any other candidate, but like, I
really feel like I haven't seen much besides from like
and which is why we're talking about it so much,
because we're not seeing I say that as part of
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the second part of my point is like, yes, Gavin
Newsom is outspending the other candidates. But Larry Elder, again
very known, he's he's no, I mean, he's a I
don't know the data or what he's spending. I'm saying
that he's a conservative radio host, and you know that
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is campaigning. That is a campaigning. You know, you know
something Larry Elder. Larry Elder is the guy who allegedly
convinced Dave Reuben that systemic racism doesn't exist. Dope, I
think university. I believe Dennis Prager um is involved with
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him somehow. There's no I mean, I would be surprised
if Larry Elder isn't in a Pregger youth video. Um. Um, yeah,
he's buddies with Dennis Braeger, and Dennis Prager helped Elder
get his first job in radio. Here's that we need
to take another break. Okay, he doesn't fact have many
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Pregger youth videos of course. Well together everything, we're back
and Cody was just freestyling an epic rap that explains
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how to solve the California recall problem. Cody, do you
want to just roll roll back in? I'll give you
a beat. Yeah, thank you. My name is Dennis Breger,
and here's what you gotta do, recall newsome please thanks sincerely,
Dennis Cragor nailed it. Well, that's gonna do it for
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hearing of ust. Wait, did we just come back from
a break to end the episode? One thing? Actually it's
a freestyle Katie. Yeah. Yeah. We we ended on I
believe what they call a bang. Okay, we ended on
a bang. We ended on a banger and on a banger.
We ended with a bang is what it would. We
ended with a banger that I think is uh going
(42:39):
to get Cody his second British Video Music Award. Thank you.
I'm there's room on the shelf just wait and collecting dust.
I need to do the second one up there. Room
on the shelf next to your half of an Emmy. Yeah,
that you took from John Krasinski when you broke into
his house that one night. That's right, and I'm going
to get the other half one day. One day, had
(43:02):
so much base in your fanny peck, slice it half
to fit it in with your saw. Well, yeah, I
mean I didn't prepare that much, but I prepared enough
to know to bring a saw and have a bag
and I improvised. You got half of half of John
Kazynski's Emmy good, he got all of the money for
your idea. That's right. Quiet place y talking about quiet
(43:30):
place too? Is he still alive? Not quiet place one?
Cody had nothing to do, but I had a great
idea for a sequal. But you were of a quiet place,
a little quieter, a quiet place too. And I believe
you pitched that idea to John by driving past his
(43:51):
house and shushing in the middle of the night, which yeah,
and I saw the light turn on in the bedroom,
so he definitely heard it and he definitely heard it. Well,
you're a famously loud shush or Cody. Everybody says that
that's how I do it, that's how you do it,
that's how you do it. Well, Gang, we got anything
else to say? Um, I didn't want to mention uh
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this earlier when we were talking about the eight five
billion dollars worth of military equipment is left for the Taliban.
UM because earlier today, UM, in talking about hurricane damage
in Louisiana, Representative Clay Higgins said, and I quote, let
me tell you what would be a good start for
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the people of Louisiana. Billion dollars worth of military equipment
that was left behind Afghanistan. I just think that's just
like a fucking incredible piece of art. A couple of
strikers would have really helped out, just like, yeah, like
aside from the fact that we already talked about, like
that's not really accurate and like, come on, man, UM,
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I don't know if that would help them. Actually, Yeah,
imagine people trying to flee the hurricane wondering, God, if
only I had a gigantic gas guzzling vehicle that gets
less than a mile per gallon and breaks down every
forty five minutes because it's just specifically made in order
to be endlessly profitable for a fucking contractor. UM, if
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only I like talked to a single US troop about
how much they love their equipment. Challenge spoilers, All of
our vehicles are annoying pieces of shit. Fucking strikers and
m wraps and like hum vs good God, the fucking
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chinook better at killing U. S Marines than any Taliban strike. Um,
incredible at killing US marines. The chinook real v I
P of the war against US imperialists. If only we
could have killed so many citizens of Louisiana, if we'd
had more shar we got more. We can blame it
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on that instead of hurricane, instead of the fucking which
also one of the big stories of the hurricane is
that the massive amount of like levy reconstruction and ship
that New Orleans did in the year since because Trina
saved countless lives and stopped massive flooding and was a
highly successful example of how government funding going towards rebuilding
efforts and going towards improvement of infrastructure yields calculable benefits. Yeah,
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it's stuff like that. That's um. It's like heartening and
disheartening because we're still like we don't we don't take
that lesson go we should do that like way more. Um.
We've talked about briefly about like you remember you were
you were the O Zone. I don't know if people
remember the ozone and how there was that episode of
Rocco's Modern Life about it exactly already C y C
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L E recycle and so on and so forth. Uh
and uh, we were like, there's a whole neo zone.
We gotta we gotta so that ship up and so
we did that and then it was done and we
did that. Um, it's like a thing we accomplished because
(47:10):
we decided to do it. Uh. And it was slightly
before are are absolute health escape of politics instead of
the previous like mild healthescape of politics? Um, and this
is another example of like, well, we just we needed
to do this thing to prevent other things, and so
we decided to and we did it, and we can
(47:31):
do this more way more, um and now like and
we're stuck with these like New York Times are in
this article like as a preview of future hurricanes. Ida
is very scary. Yeah, like as a as a as
a preview of like now is what's going on now?
Like like doing like this could be this is a
(47:55):
sign of bad things to come. Yeah. I just need
to point out that we do not know, uh the
extent of the damage at this point in time. We
do not know, uh, just how many people died. Uh,
but it is yes, a success and that the levees
held and we did learn and from specifically. But I
(48:21):
will point out something which is, um, this was a
stronger hurricane, but it had more of like wind force.
But for whatever reason that is beyond me, I know,
science gal you know, uh, it brought less water. Uh.
(48:44):
It is actually very terrifying because the severity of the
pendulum swing, you know how quickly it changes, is increasing
and and these this the wind from this was much stronger.
So oh you know, yes, Letty's held. Also there was
less water, but bigger wids, all these roofs getting torn off. Anyway,
(49:10):
I agree with all those things that you guys said, Yeah,
let's build more stuff to help people in the future,
and maybe not make them like military equipment. I mean.
And as with every disaster, a decent chunk of the
relief effort has been uh, just citizens dealing ship the occasion,
Navy has has pulled a lot of people out of
(49:31):
bad situations without you know, help from the government. Yeah.
I just wanted to do a shout out to the
Casian Navy and kind of citizen relief efforts to to
pull people out of bad situations, which was a big
part of what happened at Hurricane Kultrine the last time,
and a big mitigating factor and a lot of the
awfulness and yeah, forever, Yeah, rely on each other because yeah,
(49:56):
I don't know. It seems like a lot of a
representatives think that military equip would help in a hurricane.
So it doesn't, and and we're not you know, I'm
sure at some point we will sit down and talk
about kind of the the shortcomings and the government response
to this hurricane and maybe even where they did well.
But it's just it's ongoing right now, and I don't
I don't think we know enough of it. Yeah, it
(50:21):
seems good that we rebuilt those levies. Well, yeah, we
should probably do more stuff like that. What if what
if we spent like maybe like one to three point
five trillion dollars on infrastructure? Well, where would we get
that money? Cody? Do you have some sort of time
machine to take us back to before we spent three
(50:43):
ish trillion dollars in Afghanistan? All I can say is
that I fixed it, and I do m Oh no,
it didn't work for some reason. It's because Sophie wouldn't
listen to your time machine noise is, Sophie, You've doomed
the United States because you didn't need to listen to
(51:03):
Cody make time machine noises, and you're just shrugging it off.
I know Americans listening. If you ever look out into
the world and say, damn the war on Terror, remember that, Sophie,
is what stopped Cody from ending it retroactively in the past.
And that's the news right there. Hearing that noise is
(51:29):
that Cody is the opposite of Donald Rumpsfeld in two
thousand one, just in two thousand one, and so if
he were to have made physical contact with Donald Rumpsfeld
in two thousand one, it would have set off a
cascade reaction rebuilding the Twin Towers exactly, and thus there
would have been no war on Terror. Yeah, the energy,
the anti energy. Although I would say I'm the opposite
(51:49):
of Donald Rumpld because I'm alive, all right. That's a
good note to end an episode on everything so dull.
Everything is so dull, and it's not again dumb. I tried.
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