Musk Madness, Poker Legends, and Political Satire Unleashed

Is Elon Musk really just the DeLorean of our times? Join us for a rollercoaster episode as we take a playful swipe at some of the biggest personalities in politics and tech. We kick things off with a humorous look at Norman Chad's legendary status before diving into the curious world of political priorities during the early days of the Trump administration. With a satirical slant, we ponder why leaders dream of space escapades while the world's mundane issues grow like weeds. Throw in a peculiar tale of Musk gifting a Tesla Cybertruck and the ensuing debate over its potential uses, and you've got a recipe for chaos and comedy.

Our journey doesn't stop there. We bring on the legendary poker commentator Norman Chad, whose wit and candor add a special flair to our exploration of poker and gambling. The guests share their insider stories, revealing the stark contrasts between the old guard of poker players and the new generation fueled by online strategy. As we navigate the cultural significance of poker and debate the emotional highs and lows, Chad’s amusing anecdotes and insights capture the unique allure of the game and its intertwined history with American culture.

In our final act, we tackle the ego-driven escapades of Elon Musk and Donald Trump, analyzing their larger-than-life personas through a lens of humor and critique. We explore Musk's social quirks and Trump’s grand gestures with religious texts, all while highlighting the spectacle of political dynasties and their potential impact on America's future. All the while, we invite you to engage with us on social media, share your thoughts, and perhaps even join us on the show. This episode promises a lively blend of comedy, satire, and critical examination that will leave you entertained and eager for more.

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Speaker 3 (00:37):
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The start of the Trumpadministration so many, so many
things to say, so manyinauguration moments to go
through.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, and also a little later TikTok's temporary
grift, I mean sorry, ban.
Who else felt the rug pull?
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
I think everybody in this room did.
And then we're going to have alittle Gen Z perspective on our
favorite segment Make this IshMake Sense.
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Speaker 3 (01:16):
today we have our interview with the legendary
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(02:57):
It happened on January 20th.
Former President Donald Trumpand current convicted felon took
the oath of office to onceagain be our commander in chief.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Commander in chief.
That's it, yes, commander inchief.
We have so much to break down,from the inauguration day
moments to first orders and allof the pardons in the new
administration.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Plenty of takes are out there.
On this all over you come toslap the power for is the
different take.
I'm going to lay one on youthat you probably haven't heard
of.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
All right, go for it.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Make sure to tip your president on the way out.
The government, it's just it'sall for sale, it's okay.
And people are like, oh well,it's always been for sale.
Look at Joe Biden and all thisstuff.
Yeah, joe didn't do a lot ofgreat stuff on the way out, but
man, there is just no hiding ithow much it's for sale and it's
so gross.
I'm trying to approach thiswith an open heart, which is

(03:54):
just dumb, because we've gonethrough this before.
We know what we're going to get, what got done in 100 executive
orders that helps anyone otherthan billionaires Right, and
it's like what is everyoneexcited about?

Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I tried going through the list of all the absolute
ludicrous 50 to 100 yearsbackward movements that were
made yesterday, and not one ofthem benefits any part of
humanity.
So I'm just like what are weexcited?

Speaker 2 (04:25):
like, yeah, I don't what's what's also.
I mean, there's so many thingsto go over, like we can get
trivial, like why he didn't havehis hand on the bible and oh
yeah, we know that one he willspontaneously combust I would
believe he could blow up inflames.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
I mean, he's already red and orange to begin with.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, yeah, but the declaring two genders.
I had our, our, um, our amazinguh security here.
Uh, tim, big tim he was.
He asked me on the way out lastnight.
He was like what do you thinkabout trump saying that?
And I was just like I it's allbullshit, nothing moving forward
.
Can you trust?

(05:01):
Or only look at it through thelens of how it helps
billionaires?
It's just where we're at.
It's no longer that we striveto help people.
These people aren't striving tobe better, they're striving to
make enough money so that theproblems don't affect them
including, you know, moving tomars, if all yeah, yeah, like

(05:21):
it's just so ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
It's just ridiculous in all capacity.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
How about planting a flag in the Palisade talking
about going to Mars and shit?
Man, it's so frustrating.
You're head of a governmentefficiency agency and you're
going to just siphon the moneyover to do you know shit as
anything else other than takingcare of stuff at home.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
And I mean even what he was saying with the ceasefire
and the Gaza comments.
It was just one blow afteranother.
Yesterday, talking about howbeautiful the land is there and
all the things we can do withthe Gaza Strip because it's on
the water.
That's not new, though.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
I mean, we're literally talking about that's
not new.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
No, yeah, no but did he think yesterday was the day
to?

Speaker 2 (06:08):
well it is because he's got him, he, he, he says he
has a mandate, which he doesn't.
He only won by 200 and somethousand votes across a couple
of states.
When you, electorally, alsomore people are unhappy with him
today a lot more than we're onelection day, doesn't help us.
Now the issue is not chasingaround all the ridiculous stuff

(06:30):
that he's going to come out ofhis mouth.
It is trying to find where thekernel of truth is, because
there's always some kind ofsmall kernel of truth and all
the batshit crazy things he said.
Did he, did he, you know?
Did he stop the war in ukraineon day one?
You know?
No, still going on.
Um, there's just so many thingsthat are going to be going back

(06:51):
against his word.
I think the two genders thing,it's so funny, because what does
that do?
What does that do what?
Yeah, you know what does thatdo other than it satisfies the
base?
Yeah, and I think the mostegregious thing that is done is

(07:13):
the pardoning of the J6 violentcriminals.
There's even an argument to behad.
A new york times did a goodpiece on a guy who had left the
country after january 6th toavoid being arrested because he
thought that president trumpwould win and president trump's

(07:35):
been saying he would pardon him.
So he just stayed out of thecountry until trump got elected
and now he's coming back.
Now his story is fascinating inthat he was there, he got
caught up in it, he got swept upin it and if there's a thousand
people or whatever 900 of them,sure yeah.
But the oath keepers and allthese people that were planning

(07:56):
this for months and had tacticalweapons and injured police
officers some police officersgot killed and everything those
guys are walking free.
And the problem is he just tooka whiz over the rule of law,
just took a big piss on the ruleof law.
That is what hurts the most.

(08:17):
But to be honest, I mean, oncethe Supreme Court immunity
decision went down, we knew hewas going to do this.
Anyway, it just should not stopit.
It's not okay, it's not normaland it's not acceptable that
there is no rule of law in thissituation.

(08:38):
That's what hurts.
I think so much about theJanuary 6th.
You know the violent criminals,you know, and it also says that
you know.
So now anybody who works in apresident's orbit, do whatever
the you want.
I'll pardon you on the way outexactly and if that's the case,

(09:00):
you know we are that's that's,you know that's fascism.
Congratulations here we areyeah, we said we, you know it
was like, oh, fashion, blah,blah, blah.
But no, if you gotta, if yougotta, pay a million dollars to,
to, to bend the knee and bethere so you can curry favor.
Uh, it's.
Yeah, it's been going on for awhile, but it's the, it's, it's

(09:20):
all the other stuff, it's the,yeah, it's just so much.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
It was like one, just I, I, I just had to stop
looking at some point.
I mean it was like the ParisAgreement down the drain.
World Health Organization, downthe drain, yeah, why.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Just to be one could make a credible argument that he
doesn't want to make Americagreat again.
I mean, he certainly wants tomake money.
It's all a grift, but that'snothing new either.
The problem is there's nogoverning in any of this.
That's what you're there to do.

(09:55):
You're not there to makemillions.
You're not there to mint atruck a meme coin.
You're not in the executiveoffice to mint a meme coin.
It's so bananas that that islike we're here.
The guy that tried to overthrowit and it was eerie.
I heard on psa uh, this morningwhich, by the way, that was or

(10:15):
I that joke.
Make sure to tip your presidenton the way out.
That was.
That was love.
It is an amazing, but it's anamazing.
It's the truth.
That's what the balls were.
Tip your president on the wayout.
This is fucking mob shit.
So stupid.
But the WHO?
Why, you know, other than toprove you know, last time, what

(10:36):
he did on day one in 2017 wasgot rid of the pandemic response
team on day one.
What went wrong from that?
Nothing.
Everything was great.
What went wrong from that?
Nothing, everything was great.
What went wrong?
Yeah, no, the deportations andthe detentions and the and I
love it too.
How many people are just fuckingidiots online because they

(10:57):
think that because he wrotesomething down on a piece of
paper and signed it with hisstupid Ronald McDonald signature
, that it means you can clean?
You can't wipe the constitution.
You can't wipe a sentence outof the constitution with an
executive order.
So, birthright citizenship,you're going to have to keep
going on that one.
I'm sure they will.

(11:18):
But they're coming after gaymarriage.
They, you know.
They're coming after transpeople and everything, and it's
just, it's nothing to helppeople.
No, I saw that eggs are all myeggs, in a lot of places are
approaching 175 or 150.
We'll have to like double checkthat, whatever, but I don't
know.
It's a laundry list of thingsand we can't chase it around.

(11:39):
It's just when we're.
We're a show that's based ontrying to find some good stuff
and on this show, thisparticular episode, we can't lie
to you.
We're not going to lie to you.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, there's not a lot of good.
There wasn't a lot of good.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
I really struggled.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
No, I couldn't find anything good for this week.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
You got Mr Bear Carcass coming in and he's going
to replace the WHO with youknow, I don't know probably with
I don't know probably who knows, you can put some telling
everybody to fix their ails withWindex or something like that I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Pour bleach on everything.
That'll be the next one.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
It's hard to get away from this, but it blows my mind
that they're asking us to actlike the Elon thing.
Everybody saw it.
You know he's a Yahtzee it'scool man.
And his response wasn't no, I'mnot a Yahtzee.
His response was that theHitler stuff that he gets from

(12:39):
the left is tiring.
That's not a denial, bro, youknow what I'm saying.
And just own it.
Just own it.
It's too.
It's so on the nose.
You're you know, and it's youdid.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
You saw everyone oh, yeah, and and the, the, the
excuses were amazing.
Yeah, I think my favorite onewas that he was holding his
heart, which he doesn't have one.
Let's just's just start there,so you can't hold your heart.
It's like the Iron man fromWizard of Oz.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
Yeah yeah yeah, but he has more feelings than him.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
But anyways, I digress, you cannot say that he
was holding his heart and givingit to the people with such
force and such an erratic likethat kind of power movement had
nothing to do with love.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
And I'm just not buying it for not even one half
of a second.
No, and he's chasing everybodyaround.
He's like look how much I skatearound the edge instead of
being a man and just owning it.
You're Yahtzee man, it's allright, just own it.
But what kills me is it's notYahtzee, it's Roman Bro the
Yahtzee stole it's Roman Bro.

(13:43):
The Roman the Yahtzee stole itfrom the Roman.
Stop it.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
It's just obnoxious.
Yeah, stop it.
He just wants to see how muchhe can push, because he's him
and he can get away with it, andhe's like, oh well it's just
yeah, I have a desk at the WhiteHouse and I'm just oh, I'm only
flirting with Yahtzeeism.
It's like no man, you guys arewe got it.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
You're fascists.
Yeah, we got it.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
No it was disgusting.
Just own it, just be a man andown it All, right, yeah, and
then yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
So I'm just thinking I'll ask you, so I'll be like
yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Oh yeah, that's right .
We were talking earlier aboutElon and the Yahtzee salute and
all that stuff about Elon andthe Yahtzee salute and all that
stuff, but you actually cameinto close contact with the
Fuhrer, didn't you?

Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yes, can I?

Speaker 2 (14:36):
say that?
Can I get away with saying that?
Probably Okay.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
So, yeah, so you know , some of the rescue groups that
were working together got windof Elon coming out to a very
specific In the Palisades, inthe Palisades when you were
working.
Yes, where I was working Tocome and visit.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Now, I'm moving around.
You know, we get a call, we getan emergency, we're moving
around, yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
I've seen you in your wheelchair.
Man, it's a.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah, it's really fast.
So I was not present for thegifting, but Elon decided to
give one of the rescuers on theground one of those Tesla trucks
.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh, the Cybertruck.
Yep, just hand it over, it's aYahtzee sled.
Yeah, yeah, it's the new word.
It really the new word, it'sreally should just say yahtzee
sled.
Now my first thought was likewhat the hell man?
Actually it's just a douchebaglot.
Yahtzee sled, yeah I digress.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
It's like one of those things.
It's like.
It's like when I hear about youknow, rescue world is
interesting, but when you'vebeen working for free for like
25 years and then something likethat happens, you're like damn
wish it was me right no, sureebay works, you sure eBay works.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
It'd be nice to get it because, whatever, I would
have just taken it and sold it.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah, and then donated all the money to my
rescue animal.
Yeah, yeah, so that would havebeen a much better use of them
driving around that vehicle andwhat it stands for.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
So, it was just interesting, you know, do you
remember, remember there wassomething along?
It was so, um, it was justinteresting.
Do you remember, remember therewas something along?
I it was like remember becauseit got, it was made famous in
back to the future.
But the DeLorean, the cybertruck, reminds me of the
DeLorean, like it's just, it'sheld together.
It looks like it's heldtogether with like duct tape and
promises.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
I find it very ugly.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
To be honest, like I don't like the design, I don't
see how, 10 years from now,we're not looking back and
saying, woof yahtzee, sled man.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
You should have seen that coming, because it seems
ugly ass car, it seems obviousit just seems so obvious, you
know I just it's supposed like.
I don't know if it's supposedto look like a military, like
one of those military tanks thathas like the, I think yeah,
that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
I'm a tough guy with my, but you don't look tough.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
No, he's not, I don't think it looks tough at all.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
No, he's not tough.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
And from his punk ass .

Speaker 2 (16:48):
I'm good.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Keep the Tesla.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
I'll pass.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
I'll just keep working saving dogs and cats,
and if somebody else wants todonate us a vehicle, I'm still
going to sell it, no, but donatea, of course, if it's a nice
vehicle that I can use to saveanimals in.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Absolutely, we'll add it to the fleet.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
But I definitely don't need a Tesla truck that I
probably can't fit even onecrate in, so I Did he donate it
entirely.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Entirely.
Yeah, he donated it entirely,which is cool.
Look, shout out, look, anygenerosity appreciated.
And again, we put this at thetop of the show.
We're just reacting to what youguys do, not what you're trying
to.
Not react to as much as whatyou say, but we have a new
policy around here Anytimeyou're laughing, all right.

(17:34):
I don't know if you got thememo, but anytime you see one of
those, from now on you'resupposed to scream Yahtzee.
Okay.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Why did I have to move to LA, where there's like
one per five cars?

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yahtzee, that's the new thing.
Remember it used to be punchbug when you were a kid.
Now you get to actually yeahthere's no cool.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Now you get to zieg heil and say, yahtzee, it's not
like the Jeep thing.
You know where they give eachother little cute ducks.
Yeah, you get to zieg heil andsay, yahtzee, it's not like the
Jeep thing you know no, no, nowhen they give each other little
cute ducks.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you know, hey, anyway.
Anyway, we digress, yeah, geton with it, all right, and we've
got to move on to more of thegrift, because it's all grift
all day TikTok, we all got sweptup into it and we thought it
was going to be banned and allthis shit only for it to be

(18:27):
something, only for it to be aPR stunt for the dear leader.
Yeah, he saved, dear leader, Iknow the dear leader has taken
care of us.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
He has saved us from TikTok the one thing he did good
is TikTok?

Speaker 2 (18:41):
No, no, no, but that's it.
It's like what?
No, no, no.
But look, this is the guy thatsaid it was a national security
threat.
He's the guy.
I love it.
He puts out fires, that hehimself starts yeah.
And this is just another one,and because seeing the TikTok
CEO there, just like with allthe ass kissing that was going

(19:04):
on, it's just so much asskissing that was going on, it's
just yeah, it's so gross, it'sjust so gross, god.
And the tiktok thing reminded meof the kavanaugh hearings when
it came right back and you sawthe thanks to the dear leader
who has the biggest On earth, bythe way, and shoots holes in

(19:26):
one every time.
He golfs, only holes in ones,as a matter of fact.
That's all he shoots, you know,but I have to say, the greatest
.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
This is what every great dictator no, it's sure.
It's dictator.
This is what they do.
Yeah, they create a fire.
Yeah, they fix it yeah.
And then the people are likeThank you, Thank you leader,
Thank you leader.
The propaganda and massmanipulation is just appalling,
and I was just watching it.
As soon as I saw the littlemessage ding on my TikTok, that

(19:58):
was like oh, we're so thankfulfor Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
I'm like what it was right then that I knew that it
was a grift and you know what,that it was a grift and you know
what, that morning of ChristineBlase Ford, I think, was her
name on the Kavanaugh hearingsand I think we even talked about
this Like it was her hearingsabout a credible rape allegation

(20:21):
.
And there were plenty morewomen that FBI just conveniently
, under Trump, didn't look intofor kavanaugh's uh, confirmation
hearing.
But in the morning she wasspeaking and it was really only
the democrats that got to talkand ask her and stuff like that,
and we had listened tosomething that was a credible,
this woman was speaking crediblyand we were like, oh, my god,

(20:42):
this might be a situation wherethis person is going to be held
accountable and oh, I don't know, maybe they won't get confirmed
as a justice.
And they took a break and by10.30 am Pacific, it was like
the fascists had it.
It was like, oh, the fix was in.
Oh, the fix was in this wasnever going to be a legitimate

(21:07):
confirmation hearing in.
This was never going to be alegitimate confirmation hearing
and we as voters were nevergoing to get an actual, real,
clear look at, uh, credibleallegations against um, a now
supreme court justice, andthat's what this felt like to me
.
When the rug pulled out, it waslike, ah, the fix was in the
whole time yeah and it's just sodepressing.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
I don't know it is, you know I mean, I don't know,
to just go back to the tiktokreal quick I you know this isn't
really our wheelhouse.
I feel that we may need someperspective from our gen z
correspondent yeah, this isdefinitely a gen z alley.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah, I mean, I wonder where he is, though last,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
I always have to click my heels three times and
and he just pops up.
You know.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
All right, let's do it.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
All right.
One, two, three.
All right, that was fast.
That's so cool, asher.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Asher, I mean how did you?
Get those on there.
I'm pretty sure I saw that.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
All right, our Gen Z correspondent, mr Asher
Freidberg, all right, go ahead.
Fill us in First reactions toTikTok being unavailable, go.

Speaker 5 (22:13):
Oh my God.
So it was a weird night for GenZ just overall.
I mean because, first off, itwas not supposed to take place
that soon.
It was supposed to be aplanning on taking an
opportunity to download alltheir favorite stuff, whether
it's like a recipe or your ownoriginal content that you might
not have somewhere, or if you'resomeone like me who your job
relies on TikTok.

(22:33):
It was scary, so it was a lot,and people were also all caught
off guard by the initial messagethat we had when you first go
on to TikTok, where it's like weare thankful that President
Trump promises to bring backTikTok yeah, we talked about
that, dear leader.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Dear leader, we are thankful that President Trump
promises to bring back TikTok.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
Yeah, we talked about that.
Yeah, dear leader.
Yeah, dear leader.
Yeah, yeah, a lot of us, Iwould say a lot of us, saw right
through that.
I would hope so, a lot of us, Ihope.
A lot of people on TikTok rightnow are.
You know?
A trend I'm at least seeing isa lot of people being like we
still don't like you Trump.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
We didn't do it.
We know what you're doing.

Speaker 5 (23:06):
And there's even some meme formats coming out now,
people parodying the messagethat went out.
There was a funny AMC Stubs oneI saw, where it was like AMC
Stubs will be unavailable in theUnited States because not
enough of you saw the RobbieWilliams Monkey man movie Stuff
like that.
What does that mean?
Do you know the Robbie Williamsmovie?
No, oh gosh, there's a Monkeyman movie.

(23:27):
It's called Better man andRobbie Williams.
It's a biopic but he's a CGImonkey, oh wow, and it's
apparently really good, but noone's seeing it because no one
knows who Robbie Williams is inthe US, was it, monkey?

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Man?

Speaker 5 (23:39):
Was Dev Patel's movie .
That's Dev Patel, but they'recalling it the Monkey man movie,
by the way.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
One of the best movies of last year hands down
Like.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
John Wick right.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Like harder than John Wick.
I got to see that and Dev Pateldid the whole thing, did part
of it during COVID and he's justa badass Like he's director and
he's acting in it andeverything.
But yeah, I don't.
With regards to TikTok, I mean,obviously, who knows, I don't
know if this is permanent.
It's just, it's just a lot ofhocus pocus, right, because how

(24:12):
can the supreme court daysbefore unanimously say this ban
needs to go through?
And then, well, I guess weanswered it at the top of the a
block too, which is it's not agood faith argument anymore and
you don't believe.
If you don't have rule of law,then things like this are just
going to happen and it's justall bullshit.
And if, hopefully, we're out,you're on the good side of that
shitstorm.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, hopefully at least you have an umbrella to
protect you from the shitstorm.
It's raining shit.
It's raining.
Go to our merch store.
We're selling shitstormumbrellas.
Speaking of Gen Z, what isgoing on?
There's a meme coin, it seems,dropping out of mar-a-lago like

(24:52):
every 12 hours, right, andthey're all.
It's so like gross do.
What's the feel?
What's your feel on the ground?
As far as genzy, who do deal ina lot of crypto and meme coins
and stuff like that, what's yourtake on that?

Speaker 5 (25:05):
well, me personally.
I am not in the crypto scene.
I don't fully understand crypto, but for my generation, a lot
of people are investing.
Yeah, a lot of people areputting their money in because
On DJT or whatever, yeah and Idon't even think everyone doing
it is a necessary supporter ofDonald Trump.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
No, it's just trying to make money.

Speaker 5 (25:30):
Yeah, it years just for some reason.
And look, as soon as Trump wonthe election, it went up to like
$30.
Not that that's a hugedifference.
But if you have a lot of moneyinvested, I mean if you want to
take advantage of Trump's win, Imean it's a way to do it.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Just be careful, because what it really is is a
vehicle for money laundering,yeah right.
So just be careful, becauseyou're going to get it's going
to get pulled, the rug's goingto get pulled, it's just a
matter of when.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
I haven't seen any kind of meme coin.
That's done well, I mean withthe Tua coin or with the.
Oh my God, there was anotherone.
That just happened, a reallybad one.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
There's a bunch of them.
There's the Melania one.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yes, the Melania coin .
Okay, wait, it's a crazy time.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
I mean, look, some of Gen Z has even decided to
purposely go to Red Note andother apps that are very
affiliated with the ChineseCommunist Party.
Yeah, it's kind of crazy thatpeople are like well, the logic
behind it is that people werepissed at the US for banning
TikTok, for saying that may ormay not be spying on us.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
We don't quite know, we have a hunch, yeah, but
they're like fine, if you'regonna take away tiktok, we're
going to an app that'sdefinitely having us be spied on
I know we talked about that onthe show last week where it was
like that seemed like I, I mean,I, I mad, mad respect to gen z
and even like gen a getting inon that game right now and stuff
like that, but the practicalrealities of it, like you said,
for people that count on it fortheir job and things like that

(26:44):
it is, you know, it's just kindof.
It's just like it was soflippant and then it was such a,
it was just such a like a scamthat it was just feels gross.

Speaker 5 (26:53):
I would completely agree.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yeah, yeah, well, thank you, asher.
I appreciate the update Comingup after the break.
The one and only, Mr NormanChad.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Gambling is part of the culture of America.
Gambling is part of the cultureof America since even before we
were America.
I'm Norman Chadd.
I know gambling.
I've played blackjack and poker.
I've bet sports and horse races.
I've even hit the slot machinesat a Pahrump Nevada 7-Eleven.
You say gambling, I saygambling mad.
So join me on Gambling Mad withNorman Chadd.

(27:25):
Wherever you find your podcasts, follow us on socials at
Gambling Mad Show or at GamblingMad, norman Chad at YouTube,
joining us for the interviewtoday.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
He's a legend of the poker world, a World Series of
Poker commentator for years,decades and, more importantly,
he's a brilliant writer, ahumorist and he is the host of
Gambling Mad, with Norman ChadIn studio today.
Mr Norman Chad, thanks forbeing here, norm, a pleasure.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
You seem so excited.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
You seem so excited.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Well, when I agreed it had been broached to me as
like guy's night out.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
And now.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
I've sat down and it's you know, I've got the lady
over here, so Gotcha.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
I mean, like just you know, I'm not even here.
All right, that's good.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
Let's go.
No, norm, I appreciate havingyou on the show.
We've been working togetherfull disclosure with Gambling
Mad now for seven or eightmonths.
I tell this story a lot.
When I was in college I didn'tlike poker but somebody turned
on ESPN and they had on theWorld Series of Poker and it was

(28:32):
because of this person in thebackground, this commentator
that was just making fun ofeverybody, like just going in
and just making fun of everybody, and I was like I love this guy
.
I had no idea that we'd beworking together later in life
and it's always been curious tome how did you get in to poker

(28:52):
commentating and that side ofthe field.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Well, I started playing poker.
Actually, I was a cesareanbirth.
There's a little difficulty onthe delivery so I was in the
maternity ward a little longerthan expected, like usually
there for a day or two.
I was there for three weeksthere's a lot of rows of babies
and I started playing liar'spoker, which you do with dollar
bills, like I didn't know how toplay actual poker, but with a
dollar bill.
We started playing dollar billsand that got me into poker.

(29:18):
And then I played a lot incollege and when I moved to Los
Angeles I started to better todo because I was between
marriages and it was also open24 hours.
It just seemed to me like itwas a resting spot for anybody
who had no life or was havingdifficulties in their life.
You know, if you lost your job,you're going through a divorce.

(29:38):
Just go to the cart room.
It's open 24-7.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
That's how I feel about casinos right now.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, like Same concept.
Yeah, yeah, you know they neverclose.
You know they are cleaned moreoften than 7-Elevens.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
True, the bathrooms are usually pretty good,
actually they're pretty good inLas Vegas.
Yeah, and keep the drinks fun.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Not in Los Angeles casinos.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
No, no in Hollywood Park.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Casino.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
We always talk home casino.
We talk about you know, don'ttouch anything.
Wear a hazmat suit if you can,sure, and always with the doors,
with your elbows it's a toughplace, yeah but yeah, I started
playing at hollywood park and Iwas doing other work for espn
and they were going to be doingpoker at an extended version for
the first time ever 20 yearsago and they asked me to consult
with the production companybecause they thought I was more

(30:24):
of a poker person than I was.
And I really, really wasn't.
I wasn't a poker professional,I was just playing on weekends.
So I consulted with thisproduction company for months
and then they asked me if Iwanted to do the poker
commentary, which I thought theywere joking about, and they
said no, we're not going to hirean ex-jock poker pro to do it,
and I'd never met them.
They said you make us laugh infor a few days.

(30:46):
And I did think about it for afew days and I asked my best
friend about it.
He said what's to think about?
I said it's poker on TV.
What is that?
It's old men throwing chipsinto the middle of the table.
And my friend Vinny said yeah,but you don't have much of a
career right now.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
I said you know, let poker, you were a columnist.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
And after poker.
Yeah, I've always been a sportscolumnist, a sports writer, and
I started writing a sportscolumn at a very young age.
I got lucky.
So I wrote a sports column for35 years until the pandemic I
ended it.
So I was always writing asports column, but not a regular
sports column, like most sportscolumns go to games and they
write about the games.
I indeed, was sitting at homejust making jokes about what was

(31:34):
going on in the sports culture,because it was an oversized,
ridiculous culture.
Very easy, when that carnivalwas passing by my front door, to
go, hey look, how stupid thatis.
That's all I did.
And now in poker I go hey look,how stupid that is.
So I essentially made thetransition from just the couch
to the poker table saying thesame stuff.
Amazing.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
And what's great is, I know, if you don't make fun of
somebody in a room, you don'tlike them, so usually it's a
sign of affection with you,which is a lost art.
It was a different time, say 25years ago, when you could
comment and it wasn't such apolitically correct climate.
You know that it is now.
Who was your, were yourinfluences from a, you know, a

(32:14):
comedic standpoint, a writingstandpoint, and then also, have
you had to curtail that over theyears or you've just sort of
changed mediums and venues?

Speaker 1 (32:22):
You know, on the politically correct thing you
got to be more careful the pastfive years.
Yeah, that doesn't affect methat much.
On the comedy level, I was afailed stand-up comic when I
came out of college.
For two years I just wasn'tvery good and I stopped doing it
because I was going to getmarried and wanted to have an
income for my wife while we weremarried, until she wanted to
divorce me.
So I provided that income bydoing newspapers full-time.

(32:44):
But comedy-wise and I used tostudy comics.
I liked the ones who were.
It's much harder and much, muchrarer to find somebody who's
doing political humor.
It's a really obviously alwaysoffending half the people, as we
now know more than ever.
Sure, so when I was in highschool and college and I'm
watching tapes of Mort Saul andLenny Bruce, and then George

(33:05):
Carlin, when he, you know, hewas a regular lounge guy and he
did like a 180.
Yeah, and said I just don'twant to be telling mother-in-law
jokes, let's talk about theworld, yeah, so those guys and
Carlin had a remarkable career.
I mean, he set a high bar forlike 50 years, yeah, and he's
talking about what's going on inthe culture.
So those are the guys I mostrespected and relevant today.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
So much of what he said today was prescient they're
starting a new George.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
I think his daughter, kelly, has something to do
about it.
They're starting a new GeorgeCarlin YouTube where they're
going over his old bits andstuff he said 50 years ago, 30
years ago, 15 years ago, allrelevant to this moment.
All the time he was right morethan he was wrong.
So that was fun.
When I moved into poker,poker's changed a lot even

(33:50):
before you get politicallycorrect the poker crowd.
When I started 22 years ago,this was essentially pre-online
poker, which which grew withwhen I started to do it.
Yeah, just coincidentally so,the old, the other poker players
used to have much more of ahistory, much more of a
storyline.
Older they might have beenlawyers, engineers, full-time

(34:10):
gamblers.
And the new generation of pokerthat came in when I started to
do it were guys who playedonline from the time they were
16 years old.
They just were in front of acomputer.
You know, like this dame overhere.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
She just buries herself in the damn computer all
day.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yeah yeah, and if Jesus walked by and said hi to
her, she'd go yeah, good, youwouldn't see it.
And oh my.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
God, I miss Jesus, why?

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Because she's playing Angry Birds.
You don't play Angry Birds onthere All the time, all the time
.
But the new group was harder totalk about because they didn't
have any history.
Yeah, you know everybody's got astory or their phones.
Since they're 16 years old,they hadn't been out and about
Plus.
They look at the gamedifferently.
So when I'm broadcasting andI'm talking about a story or

(34:52):
somebody's jacket or something,they are much more dialed into
the strategy and the analyticsand all that.
So they don't connect with meand I don't connect with them,
which has been difficult.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
What's the craziest thing that you've seen as of
late, or what probably sticksout in your mind the most?

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Well, we've had people cry at the table, which
happens.
There is crying in pokerbecause the emotions can get
high.
But what always amazes me aboutmost of them, especially the
ones who are just pure gamblersand those are the ones that Dora
Brunson used to talk about youessentially have no respect for
money, yeah, so they're willingto go to the nosebleed stakes,
they're willing to go frompenthouse to outhouse, be rich,

(35:33):
be poor.
They don't know how much a loafof bread costs in the market.
They haven't been in the marketfor 20 years and just I was
always amazed at how much gamblethey have in them.
You know a lot of the pokerplayers like to play golf.
They gamble like to play golf.
They gamble for high stakes onthe golf course, even when
they're playing in a pokertournament in which the buy-in
wasn't that much.
They'll do what we call propbets, which they're betting on

(35:55):
which cards are going to comeout onto the board.
They're going to be more red ormore black, and while they can
be playing a $1,500 tournamentand they're paying $1,000 every
time the flop comes out of threecards, they're betting $1,000
on I got red, you got black, andif it's all black or all red.
That's 5K instead of 1K, so thefact that their mentality can
be just into that while they'resupposed to be playing at the

(36:18):
highest level of their game justalways amazes me.
That that's just the way theirbrain functions.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
I feel like it's like it reminds me of the kids when
I was in school that were like Ibet you can't.
They had to just have a bet oneverything, or I dare you to.
They just have that mentalitywhere they constantly have to be
in competition.
They constantly have to figureout a way to be on top or or win
something like there's.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
There's something about that so there's two things
you just mentioned by accidentthat are very smart.
One is that a lot of these guysalways have to be in action, as
you just mentioned.
That gets their adrenalineflowing.
And the reason gambling is adifficult addiction, as with

(37:03):
narcotics is you get a high froma certain narcotic or a certain
gambling and then to reach thatsame high you have to keep
going up higher.
You have to get it in yeah.
And so they go above their headand that's a problem, as it is
with drugs.
So they always have to be inaction.
Like you said, they will bet onanything.

Speaker 5 (37:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
They'll bet on traffic signals changing and if
there's going to be more thanodd number of people who come
across the crosswalk signal overthat, or an even number during
the 15 seconds that they cancross Stuff like that, they need
the action.
That's the first thing.
And the second thing, as youmentioned, is they're incredibly
competitive.
A lot of them often come fromsports, where they had an injury

(37:40):
where they couldn't playanymore or their career was over
.
And to keep fulfilling thatcompetitive nature, well, you
move into poker or golf orsomething like that.
That makes sense and poker youcan play year-round, you know,
and the weather doesn't make adifference.
So they're both action junkiesand they're very, very
competitive.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
You know it's a stressful world, especially we
talk about.
Poker.
Rooms are always open andthings like that during the
fires out here.
You know, and you know thepoker room's still going.
You know it's like people losetheir house.
Go play poker.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Probably you're not even making that up.
Literally we counted in my gameI play, which dozens and dozens
of people play, but we had 17regulars in that game.
Four lost their homes in thefire and two were playing in the
game the next day.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Wow, wow and one of them said where else am I going
to go?
Well, fair, that's a fair point, sure.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
And the other one it was our regular day and he said
I come in.
So yeah, what compels you towrite?
You think I've always been.
I felt bad because my parentsused to say go out and play with
the kids.
You know, go play kickball, goplay soft.
I said I like to observe morethan I like to participate,
which is not a good way to gothrough life, by the way you're

(38:51):
always on the sideline but, youknow that's why I used to love I
could sit in a cafe and movieshave done versions of this and I
think what's the currenttherapy show?
Shrinking they do something thatI've been doing my whole life.
They sit in the train stationand they watch the people on the
other side.
What does he do for a living?

Speaker 5 (39:10):
What do you think this guy's from?
I can send the cafe all day.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
I love doing that.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
I love doing that, I do it in the car right at home,
we do it here because we havethe windows out to Wilshire,
Everybody that walks by we'relike let me tell you about this
guy, problems all around me andI did a rant once on you know,
like I didn't even have to havea broken leg at the time.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
But I'm on a broken leg and I'm on a scooter and
crutches and I'm second in lineat the grocery store and they
open up the next register as I'mwalking over there on crutches,
you know three people race infront of me from back of the
line and I go what the f?
I mean?
You know we're living in asociety.
How can you just butt in frontof somebody who's on crutches?

Speaker 3 (39:51):
So that stuff always occurs to me and it's not
healthy and that's why when mywife, my current wife and final
wife Glad you were specificabout that, yeah we agreed it's
till death.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
do us part.
So we will kill each otherbefore we divorce each other
Before we divorce.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
I like that Okay.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
But when she sent me the therapy for the first time
five or six years ago and hetaught me cognitive behavioral
therapy, because I told him thishappens, that happens he said,
okay, what do you got to do?
Stop right there, because theseare all just moments that are.
And he taught me how to thenthink of something positive,
bright.
It can be something from whenyou're five years old, it can be
your favorite ice cream flavor,but get that out.

(40:31):
But that's what always drivesmy anger and writing and
whatever it is, it's just sortof again the absurdity and a lot
of times the injustice of thecarousel around us as it's
gotten worse and worse, just inAmerica, with just a lot of
injustice.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
It is a challenging time that we're walking into,
but at the same time, plenty ofmaterial right.
I mean it, just it's.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Yeah, I again like.
For instance, people toldStephen Colbert, who I watched a
lot during the first Trumppresidency, that maybe he's
happy that he's coming backbecause it's more material.
Stephen Colbert has actuallygot a good heart, whether you
think he's funny or not, I findhim funny.
But he said no, this is worse.
I would prefer not to have thiscathartic experience.
I prefer not to.
I switched over to Blue Sky fora while instead of X, and I'm

(41:16):
on both.
But X and Blue Sky are justlike Fox News and MSNBC, so
there's just two bubbles nowonline that are equivalent to
the cable bubbles.
That doesn't help us at all.
So we've got to get out of thebubble.
Everything is not fight to thedeath argument.
There's nuances and sometimesyou disagree with somebody, and
it goes that way.
It's the way it always was.

(41:37):
It goes that way for a whileand maybe it'll come back your
way.
You fight for what you think isright, but now it's.
I'm right, you're wrong and youare an idiot.
I'm right, you're wrong andyou're a moron.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
You're a radical leftist.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
They just call you names instead of coming back
with arguments.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
by the way, what do you think about stripping the
CDC and leaving the WHO andstuff like that?

Speaker 3 (41:58):
And the Paris Agreement.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Yeah, what do you think about the Paris Agreement
he said he was going to do andeverything?
What I'm concerned about is, onday one, obama left him, in
2017, a pandemic response 800page pandemic response outline
and he got rid of it on day oneand, uh, we know we don't have
to guess what happened.

(42:20):
We know what happened and themismanagement of things.
I'm curious, because that onewas that the fact that he's
stripping all the language he's,he's pulling the ability for
the scientists at the cdc andstuff to tell us about bird flu
to tell us about and then youhave um, you know dude who puts
bear carcass on roof, you know,as a potential for our health

(42:44):
and human services, when, at thesame time, we're not allowed to
actually hear from science thatisn't bought and sold somewhere
.
What do you think about that?
Where we're at with that?

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Well, this is actually worse than the pandemic
response to me, and it's kindof hard to be worse than the
pandemic response, right.
First of all with the ParisClimate Agreement that we've
pulled out of.
There's four nations in theworld who aren't part of it.
It doesn't matter what theother three nations are.
There's 190 nations that said,yeah, this is probably a problem
.
And there's us and three othersthat say no, we're not going to

(43:16):
do it.
That's probably a bad sign.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
It's Yemen, I put Okay, I don't want you to do not
taint Yemen.
That's true.
All I was saying is we're inwith Yemen, who have given the
middle finger to climate change,right?

Speaker 1 (43:29):
Yes, Okay, so let's just go on this thing that you
just Shout out to Yemen.
You can't convince people tofollow science anymore.
No, when it came to thepandemic, there was an evenly
divided scientific community.
Let's say, about masking andvaccines Okay, I'll give it that
.
And my point was well, we don'tknow which way is right.
Yeah, okay, I'll give it that.

(43:49):
And my point was well, we don'tknow which way is right.
Yeah, but if you're, if we'rewrong, let's say, take the masks
off and don't vaccine.
And it costs people's lives,I'm willing to wear, I don't
want to wear a mask.
Right, it's uncomfortable, Idon't want it.
But I'm going to wear a maskfor a week, a month, three, four
months, whatever, because wedon't know which way is correct.
Yeah, the people on the otherside, they label you the worst
things in the world.
Yeah, that was a 50-50 split.
Yeah, and I say you give thebenefit of the doubt to saving

(44:10):
lives.
Yeah, okay, with the climatechange, this is, you know, an
existential threat to the planet.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
First of all, 95% or more of serious scientists
believe that there's a threatright now and the plant will go
away.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
So again, if you're in doubt, let's just say it was
50-50.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
This isn't even 50-50 .
This is 95-50.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
So I've got to give the planet the benefit of the
doubt, Even if we're wrong.
I'm sorry the businesses aregoing to have to pay more for
this.
It's just insane.
It's insane.
It is insane, but it's ame-first attitude and I'm not
gonna pay this and my well, it'sgonna happen down the road, but
it's bullshit anyway it won'taffect me, yeah, so it just
kills me that.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
That's the attitude we were all tripping over the um
, feeling it in the bottom of myheart, man feeling it in the
bottom of my heart right and andit would be so much better if
you just own it instead ofgaslighting everybody and acting
like you're not doing what weknow you're doing.
When you kind of saw what wasgoing on and then the reactions

(45:11):
from everybody online about ohwell, it's just roman, salute,
you know, which is the?
You know at all.
That's what it.
What was your take on that whenyou saw the sort of feedback
and everything on it?

Speaker 1 (45:21):
you know it's weird.
You know elon and this is theunderstanding of the year you
know he's a weird fish.
Yeah, he's tough to to pin downon the fact that obviously he
has incredible skills businesswise, science wise and otherwise
that are incredible, that havemade him the richest man in the
world as far as that went.
And I have so many problemswith Elon, and again he's got

(45:46):
some autistic tendencies.
So people, some people arearguing.
And again he's got someautistic tendencies.
So people, some people arearguing.
Again there was a childlike wayof expressing himself.
He's socially awkward, Allthat's true.
So I wasn't sure what it was.
Except, you know, it came, itwas bang bang.
It wasn't.
You know a more casual one, itwas bang bang.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Yeah, he says he's a Jew at heart.
He came out after he was a Jewat heart, so maybe you're a
Jew-otsy.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Never heard of a combo that's a new one.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
It is a new combo.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
Like a Labradoodle.
You're a Jew-otsy, you're onboth sides of the fence.
I have so many problems withElon, that that thing and the
fact that he's decided that he'sking of the world and he's just
entering every Westerndemocracy saying, all right,
that person's got to go.
You know we're supporting this.
You know who, by the way, wouldhave the ego to think, whether

(46:41):
you have money or not, that I'mgoing to decide what Germany
should do, what the UK should dowhat Canada should do.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
Well, that's that false superiority complex that
they all have.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
When it gets to that point, there's no bigger
dopamine hit.
Yeah, there's no stopping youat that point.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Your way is right.
No one can stop you.
You have all the money to backyou, you have all the brains to
back you.
But there should be, butthere's no rules in place
anymore.
There's no laws that preventthis or help us in any case.
But I feel like there should besome global, you know law that
states that you can't controlthe whole world people, but he's

(47:17):
gonna try.
No, oh yeah, there's.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
There's no law that you can stop somebody like that,
no so so I know some of my some, some jewish friends of mine
who know elon, say, trust me,he's not anti-semitic.
I think he is, uh, but youdon't, you know, you never know.
He say, trust me, he's notanti-Semitic.
I think he is, but you neverknow, he's not a Nazi, he's not
anti-Semitic.
I said, okay, I'll give him thebenefit of the doubt there.
How about if he's amegalomaniac who believes he
should.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
He's a megalomaniac.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Yeah, You're going to deny that, that he should have
power over everything that'shappening just because he has,
he has, you know he's so I, I,it's hard for me to sympathize
with Elon, even in this thing,and I'll just leave it at.
Maybe he's a.
Jew a Juwazzi and what did youthink about when Mr Trump didn't

(48:04):
touch the Bible?

Speaker 3 (48:05):
Okay, First of all, the Bible.
A lot of hand gestures going onhere, but I want to know about
this one.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
The Bible caught a break.
I don't think you want, I don'tthink you want Donald Trump
touching anything.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
That's a fair point.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
They might have to like republish all of that.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Speaking of hazmat suits, you know it was amazing
when he started selling theTrump Bibles last year.
And when he's been interviewedabout the Bible being one of his
favorite, just some of thegreatest sound clips of him
interviewing about the Bible'sone of his favorite books, yeah,
and so, without even trying todo a gotcha moment, so what's,
let's say, one of your favoriteportions?
What's your favorite?
Oh, there's so much good stuffin there.
Of course he say any one thing,but you know, I don't know.

(48:45):
Maybe when Amos and Andy camedown the mountain, but he's
never read the Bible Of coursenot, it just cracked me up that
again it became a big deal thathe didn't touch the Bible.
Yeah, do you know, when he wasat a ceremony in Israel, maybe
commemorating some of thehostages that had passed away,
that they found their dead?
And he was over there on one ofhis trips that had passed away
that they found their dead?

(49:05):
He was over there on one of histrips and they had him looking
at a Torah the holy, and heasked the rabbi, do you want me
to sign it, the whole?
Do you want me to sign it?
Oh, no, we're good, we're good,we're good.
President Trump, he showsBecause he knows that if he
signs a Torah, I mean, that's oneBay within a week and

(49:29):
somebody's making money.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
But again, it's the audacity, the ego to think that
you like.
Who are you to sign a Torahthat's by the way, asia.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
The worst thing about that is, besides the fact that
this whole thing, if you takeout, you know a leader from
Al-Qaeda or something, there'ssomebody else who's going to
replace them.
That has the same main site andwe have tens of millions of
real Trumpers now, but just hisfamily alone.
Because I've always complainedabout the political dynasties, I
want to go away.
I want the Kennedys to go away,I want the Bushes to go away.

(50:01):
I want the Klins to go away.
Do you know, sitting in theon-deck circle swinging that bat
is Don Jr.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Don Jr is going to step up big time and that's
another generation of Trump andI have no doubt he'll run for
president in 32, 36, whatever.
Yeah, okay, so yeah, it's theaudacity they all have, they
somehow, when you see Don Jrinterviewed on anything.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
I, when you see Don Jr interviewed on anything,
there's an arrogance and I knowbest and you don't, and you go
how, why, and all you were justhanded stuff down.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Before we let you go, it's a segment that we call
Don't Tweet Me this Way.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
We basically just pulled some favorite tweets off
your page, yeah from people offyour Twitter page.
Just a few, a few favorites.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
This is from Norman Chad.
Norman Chad, my man Elon Musk,not only follows one of the most
racist accounts on X, he alsois one of the two paid
subscribers to get extra content.
That's a good bit.
That's a good line $5 a monthbuys you more racism.
What a bargain.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Okay, by the way, is $5 a month buys you more racism.
What a bargain.
Okay, by the way, is $5 a monthto get extra content from that
particular person Extra racism,right.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
But Mickey Terp replied back you're still alive,
you know.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Mickey, that one's really supposed to cut close to
home, yeah yeah.
Oh yeah, you had your 15minutes in 1985.
Yeah, I never thought about youagain.
What do you they love to gowith?
Yeah, yeah, you're still alive.
At least does it in three wordsyeah, good for mickey, good for
mickey.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
Good for victory this one is is great.
You responded to dear joe bidenallow me to say your hateful
ancient senile ass one more timeand you said positive and
beautiful content keeps flowingon to X Like polychlorinated
bifinil down a sewer drain andthe response from Riley Sampson

(52:02):
keep crying, sissy.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
Oh, keep crying, sissy.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Yeah, I feel, like you get called a sissy.
Quite a bit you get called.
This is a common theme here.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
Okay, yeah, by the way, that was the positive and
beautiful thing is, whatever theBiden thing I was citing, that
somebody wrote was in the first24 hours after Elon had asked
and he broke his own rule within24 minutes.
I want more beautiful, positive, informative content on this
platform.
Yeah, positive informativecontent on this platform, and
then I mean he's still out there.
So anyway, yeah, if you, theyquestion.

(52:30):
If you are a man, they questionyour manhood if they disagree
with you Sissy is one of thenicer words they use.
That's true.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
Sissy is kind of like kind, you know.
Yeah, oh.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
I never knew.
I had to look up the word cuckabout two years ago.
I never knew the word cuck.
Everyone was calling me a cuck.
They used to call me a tool.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
I went from a tool to a cuck.
Well, let me do this one.
This is Norman Chad Time foranother edition of Trump Tittle
Tattle, where we break down allthe damage being done by
President-elect Donald Trumpthis week.
Billy the Kid 17, hits back andsays Norman Chad, the communist
little twat.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
Twat See twat is a great word, twat is a good one.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
Yeah, I know they got you on three counts there the
communist, the little and thetwat.
That's a triple banger, youdon't see twat a lot.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
And this is from Chris22730890.
You know, that's when you'vegot, like you know.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
There's no chance.
That's a Russian bot.
There's no chance.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
That's a Russian bot, zero chance that's a Russian
bot, no chance, and I love thatthey used a little Charlie Brown
symbol.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
Oh, that's cool too.
It's cute.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
And they're holding a gas can and lighting something
up, so I think it's a safe bet.
You and Donald Trump have a fewthings in common.
I am sure your mitts are small.
Multiple divorces, popularcatch with small hands Phrases
from 20 years ago.
You're definitely funnier.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
I wonder if he knows your name or if he's ever
tweeted about you.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
He does not know my name.
They're giving you a lot ofcredit here, though he does not
know my name.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
I don't think he's ever tweeted about me.

Speaker 5 (54:00):
Yeah, there is a compliment in there.
There was in there.
That's what I'm saying.
He said I was fun.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
I think Donald Trump is accidentally funnier than
almost any of us.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
He really is he really is?

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Let me relate to you.
Yeah, because when I in theearlier kinder gentler time,
before the internet, people usedto write letters to the editor
or they would write youpersonally.
So when I was writing a columnin the late 1980s at the
Washington Post, I received aletter.
Remember someone since had aletter.
It's a lot harder than sittingin your pajamas and going.
You're a little what-a-twot.

(54:30):
Boom, yeah, yeah, yeah so easyyeah, you've got to find a pen
paper, write it out or type itout, get an envelope, get a
stamp and they'll go take it tothe mailbox.
By the way, the guy had areturn address, oh shit, which
again.
So he wasn't anonymous becausethis was there was like rules
back then.
Okay, it's a whole differentballgame then, and this was the

(54:54):
greatest critical letter I everreceived from a reader, and it
goes from zero to 60 in a hurry.
Okay, he was unhappy with mywork.
Norman, does your HMO cover thebad back you undoubtedly have
from bending over every morningto suck your own that I went

(55:14):
into my assistant sports center.
My boss wasn't there.
Hire this guy.
It's really brilliant writing.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
It's incredible writing.

Speaker 5 (55:21):
Do you?

Speaker 2 (55:21):
understand, he got a beginning middle and end.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
here I mean the efficiency and the wordplay
immediately.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Yeah right, it's actually really fucking
brilliant.

Speaker 3 (55:26):
I'd hire him, let it in.
I mean the efficiency and thewordplay immediately.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Yeah right, it's actually really fucking
brilliant, I'd hire him.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
I'm in.
I say that Unfortunately, I'velost the letter which I had in a
box.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
Oh wow, I always wrote it down, you frame it.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would frame it.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
I can't believe I still don't have it.
I hope this guy shows up on oneday.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Yeah, I'm here for it .
Definitely.
Have you seen Roseanne Barr'srap video.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Yeah, it was one of those things where you can't
unsee once you see it and, bythe way, I was going to turn it
off after 10 seconds.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
But it was just like a volcanic tornado, like just
twisting me in and down, yeah,and I couldn't turn it off.
Did you watch it?
We did.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
We did yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
It was painful in a sense.
Well, yeah.
It's painful.
In that I love it, becausethey're dunking on liberals
right and so this is the time.
Go for it, dunk all overliberals.
I get it, but I don't think anyof this gloating is going to
age well in a real,consequential way, and that's

(56:37):
where I don't.
When it starts to matter, Idon't know.
Shame, left the building a longtime ago.
So when that actually matters,I don't know, but I that's the
only part of it where it's likewow, I hope there's going to be
a bad look for a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
It should be and there should be bad karma there.
It's the old thing about.
You won the election, so whyare you gloating this way and
why are you a sore winner, soreloser?
We understand Sore winner isreally a bad look, yeah, but
it's the way of the world.
Now I mean, it's just, it'sjust incredible.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
Yeah, I just wonder like what kind of um casting uh
director they went through forbecause so, so I so like you.
After like 10 seconds I wasjust gonna like I I was, I was
over it.
It was so hideous and hein, Ireally didn't want to watch it
anymore.
But what was even moreinteresting to me was to look at

(57:32):
the people in the backgroundand I went face to face and if I
had to be a nice person rightnow, I would say such a
beautiful mix of Americans onthat video.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Norman Chad.
Make sure to check Gambling Madwith Norman Chad everywhere you
find your podcasts, and thankyou so much for sitting with us.
This was an absolute joy.
Yeah, it was a pleasure.

Speaker 4 (58:01):
Join me Sasha Peters on Women in the New Season 2,
where we bear it all except forour bodies.
Leave that to your imagination.
My wish for women is that westrip away the fear of judgment
and really embrace the fullspectrum of who we are.
I don't know if you were comingto terms with being pregnant on
the show.
Yeah, I think she was a littledepressed.
Let's live boldly and openlyand change the narratives that
define us.
I called my doctor.

(58:22):
I'm like I want to drive my carthrough a brick wall.
We deserve it and there's nobetter time than now.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Let's get out of our comfort zone and get down to the
bottom of who we are.
All right, god love Mr NormanChad.
He's you know.
Like I said, he's one of myfavorite dudes.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
He's just comedy hour .
It's brilliant.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
If he doesn't make fun of you, he doesn't like you.
Which.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
I learned very quickly on day one.
Yeah sure he did a lot ofmaking fun.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
Yeah, he's still making fun of Asher.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
That's why he loves me.
No, totally.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
He never stops, I know.
So, all right, we lied.
We do have some good news.
Several weeks later, la firesare still burning in places, but
the good news is we're makingexcellent progress.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
Yes, yeah, I mean we have been doing, you know, we've
been working the fires prettymuch since day one.
You know which we mentioned onthe last show evacuations, doing
rescues.
It's still very rough out there, but I mean we've had some

(59:30):
great successes with, you know,know, rescues, people being
reunited to their um you know,for loved ones um so there's.
So there's some good stuff goingon, you know yeah um, and then
we also had, you know, justaside from the fires, you know,
shelters are getting morecrowded.
A lot's going on in the shelterworld right now, um, in trying
to move dogs and make space forsome of the fire.
You you know, dogs that arecoming in, ones that are being
surrendered.
So we had two dogs, bluey andMarble, that were both found

(59:53):
themselves on the euthanasialist and we were able to get
them and I actually sent them toa friend in Vegas and they're
doing like marvelous right now.

Speaker 4 (01:00:02):
So yeah, what kind, what kind of dogs?

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
Well, so Marble is kind of dogs.
Well, so marble is this reallycute little aussie.
Yeah, and bluey is like a tinylittle pocket pity.
She was from a hoarding case,um, but just just to see, like I
mean, we're gonna show somefootage of these guys because
when you see them in theirkennel yeah and then you see
them like not even 12 hourslater yeah in my friend's house.
They're just playing with toysand like they just look, like
they're laughing and you know,know, just the happiest little
beings ever, even though theywere mortified, sitting at the

(01:00:32):
shelter.
And it just every single time.
It just always makes me thinkof if we just gave them a chance
if we just give these scaredlittle babies a chance.
you know, people pass them allthe time in the shelter because
they look scared, they lookfearful, they look like they
could be aggressive.
You get them out of thoseshelter doors and immediately

(01:00:55):
it's like yeah, voila, yeah, so,yeah, so it was really, really
exciting.
We also got noah, our littlehandicap pup, a wheelchair and
he has just been flying.
Hey, he is like cruising.
I mean, literally, you guys aregoing to die when you see this
video that we're going to put inthe show.
He is just vroom, vrooming allover town like like speeding
down the sidewalk.
And it's just possibly thegreatest thing ever.
I think I have to watch thatvideo at least three times a day

(01:01:15):
.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
And then I'm happy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Nice, you know, we'll put it on our, on our tech yeah
.

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
On our socials and uh .

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
You don't want to miss it and, as always you know,
make sure to check outCompassion Kind for the most
updates as well.
More good news actually is theLA Kings are showing their
gratitude for the badass MFs atthe LA Fire.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
Department.
Yeah, I love it.
I mean just putting the logocenter right in front showing
their respect.
You know, giving them props.
I mean, the LA firefightershave been kicking ass the last
two weeks.
I have had the pleasure and thehonor of working with them in
the field and I will say I havenot had one bad experience,
that's amazing.
Not one.
Yeah, always nice, alwayschecking in.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Doing the most extras .
I mean we've, you know,exchanged phone numbers to check
on houses with animals.
They really have beeninstrumental in all the rescue
efforts that we've been doing.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
That's amazing.
That's amazing.
Before we get out of here, buyPopular Demand.
I love it.
Two scams and a slap.
Today I'm in the hot seat again.
I think Asia's undefeated and Idon't think I've won.
I don't think I've won one yet.
So we're going to try.
Today might be the day.
Today might be the day.
We'll see, We'll see.

Speaker 3 (01:02:29):
These are some good ones.
Give it to me.

Speaker 5 (01:02:31):
I'm going to get it, I'm going to pick it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
So the deal is.
I don't know which one of theseis true, and you, the listener,
don't either, but Asia does,and lay it on me what First
local woman wins lottery twicein one week and attributes this
luck to daily sock puppetconversations?
I mean, I have so manyquestions about lucky sock

(01:02:58):
puppets, but go ahead.
Okay, got it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
Okay.
Next up, we have a mother thatdelivers two babies from two
separate uteruses in two days.
Last but not least, that'sinteresting, okay.
City introduces a pet tax tofund public parks, sparking
outrage and an epic dog paradewait a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
Oh my god, I have so many questions, so, uh, which
one of these is?
So there's two scams in hereand one slap, I think.
I'm going to say I think thedog parade sounds like a scam.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
Correct.
Oh, look at me You're doinggood.
I'm halfway, you're like 50-50.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
All right, but I do have questions about but the dog
parade, but put a pin in that.
But a dog parade like put a pinin that, and I think the real
one is the lady with two utes.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
Good job, look at me, look at you winning Two utes,
yes.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
That's a please don't at me on this.
That is a my Cousin Vinny jokethat I threw in because I'm a
wordsmith.
No, because uterus is just anodd thing to say.
I thought utes, no disrespectto uteruses women anywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
Uteruses are amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
Yeah, two different uteruses over two days.

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
Yes, she has a rare condition where she had two
separate operating uteruses yeah, and got pregnant and instead
of twins coming from one uterus,which is the normal yeah um,
there's like a 0.03 percent ofhaving babies like this.
That's crazy, so just crazy.
A medical marvel.

(01:04:41):
Yeah, both babies are good,both babies are healthy and it
was just an interesting like two, two, two, you know you know
Two days apart, two uteruses,two babies, and that was it Two
Utes, two Utes my cousin Vinny.
I didn't even know you couldhave two uteruses.
I didn't know you could havetwo Utes.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
Well, congratulations to both the kids and to me and
to you for getting it right.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
What 12-1?
12 to one, 12 to one.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Yeah, I have the whole year to catch up.
You do, but every win is a win,that's right.
Every win is a win.
So stay tuned and see if I keepgetting my butt kicked.
But, um, all right, you thelistener to slap the power.
Thank you guys so much.
Uh, us on Instagram the name offuture guests you'd like to see.
You know we've got a you knowkind of.
There's a bunch of potentialguests that we have coming up,

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you want to see anybody else,make sure to hit us up.
All right, and we've been askedby our producer, Bree and Asher
, to make sure that if you guysfeel that you are an expert at
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Then make sure to.
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I love that.
Yeah, that's cool, right yeahwe've been wanting to do more
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We want to hear from you guys,we want to include you all.
Let us know who you want to seeon the show.
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Alright, until next week.
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