January 18, 2025 • 53 mins
Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration as the 47th President of the United States serves as the focal point of this episode of the All About Nothing podcast. Hosts Barrett Gruber and Zac King engage in a candid discussion about the implications of Trump’s presidency, touching on both potential positives and negatives that could arise during his term. The conversation dives into the significance of voter rights for felons, with Barrett emphasizing the importance of allowing those who have served their time to participate in democracy. Humor is woven throughout the dialogue as they speculate about the absurdities that may unfold, reflecting on Trump's unique ability to generate both controversy and comedy. As they wrap up, the hosts express their hope for a peaceful and productive term, regardless of their personal feelings toward the former president.
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Welcome, nothingers, toanother episode of the All About
Nothing podcast.
This is episode number 238.
I am Barrett Gruber.
I'm Zach King.
And Barrett did writesomething down because he was staring
at it.
I have, I have, I have notesfor the intro and the outro.
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That's what I, that's what I do.
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Follow us wherever we're onall the social media.
All the links are on our webpage.
TheAllAboutNothing.com we are,we didn't actually plan on doing
a show tonight, but I amrecording Saturday at Soul House
with Preach Jacobs, localColumbia, South Carolina star, as
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well as Donald Brock, who isthe guy that runs the Soda City Comic
Con as well as the WilmingtonCoastal Comic Con.
He's also the guy when youwalk past a dark alley and you're
like, you swore you saw something.
You did.
It was Donald Brock.
It's a little creepy, but yeah.
So we're gonna have DonaldBrock on for the the episode following
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this one as well.
Leroy.
Jen.
Nope.
Leroy Green is gonna join us.
He's gonna love it.
Keep it in bucket.
We're doing it live.
Leroy Green, formerly of wltx.
If you would have said Brown,I would have been like, look, look,
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I.
I, I confess my age.
My age takes a toll.
That's.
I think you just, I think youknow two too many Leroy's.
It's possible.
You know what?
And I don't think I knew anyLeroy's before this.
Leroy.
There's only one of them.
Yeah.
100%.
That is not inaccurate.
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So, yeah.
So next episode, we're goingto be discussing the Coastal Comic
Con, which is coming up inWilmington on March 1st and 2nd.
Unfortunately, Zach will notbe able to join us.
Maybe ish.
We talked about.
Yeah, yeah, we did talk about that.
A little bit.
We talked about the.
I could show up.
I think that would be fun.
I think that would be fun.
I see no reason why not, aslong as my wife's not.
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Like, it could happen anyminute with the pregnancy.
Think that early.
I think we're talkingbeginning of March.
I think that's a little earlyfor any minute now.
Sure, sure.
But, you know, so Sam Witweris going to be there.
Matthew Wood is going to be there.
Right.
Matthew Watterson is going tobe there.
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Cal Dodd is going to be there.
These are Cal Dodd, Matthew Watterson.
These are guys.
This is the voice of Magnetofrom the X Men 97.
And Cal Dodd is the voice ofWolverine from the X Men animated
series from 1993 all the waythrough now.
So it's going to be.
It's going to be a really bigdeal and a fun time out there in
Wilmington.
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That's four out of four show homies.
Yeah.
We didn't interview two of them.
We did.
That is.
That is correct.
We didn't get to interview CalDodd and Matthew Wood.
We did not.
We did Sam Witwer and MatthewWatterson, and they were fantastic.
I actually reached out toMatthew Watterson on Instagram and
asked him if he'd be willingto come on the show with us for a
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little while before theCoastal Comic Con.
He has seen my message and hedid not respond, which is, you know.
Well, that's when you go,like, I know you've seen this.
I don't want to be that Guy.
Look.
Yeah, look, you've responded.
You've responded to a messagefrom me now, and you can't cut that
off.
I don't know how Instagramworks, but I know I can keep sending
you messages till you werestill open.
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We'll tell Guy, and if Guy hasto give you a personal cell phone
call, it will happen.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, it doesn'tsound like he's going to be at Coastal
Con this year.
That sucks, because he was anawesome interview.
He was fantastic.
Sunspot.
Yeah, Sunspot on X Men 97.
I'm hoping that we get anopportunity to speak with Guy at
some point.
I know he's going to be herein Columbia or in South Carolina
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at some point because he'sgoing to be heading up to Greens
Green, Greenville.
Greenwood.
Nope.
Greenwood.
Yeah, he's going to beGreenwood to Greenwood at some point.
So we'll try and get a hold ofhim when he does that.
We got the Net gun ready.
Yeah, that's right.
Tasers.
Whatever.
Whatever it takes.
To put down a sunspot.
That's so yeah.
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Also want to make sure toremind everybody ever play sports
and social is signing up fortheir spring here in Columbia area
spring leagues are signing up now.
You can go toeverplaysocial.com and, and sign
up for whether it'svolleyball, kickball, softball.
They got a whole list of things.
I'm going to be in the bowlingon Tuesday nights at Casey Casey's
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Bolero.
So go check outeverplaysocial.com and also a reminder,
go check out the T shirts anddesigns and prints and whatnot over
at zjzdesigns zjzdesigns.comyou can check that out and find plenty
of things that you potentiallywant to wear.
There's a whole lineup ofpatriotic stuff.
I know the inauguration iscoming up and maybe you want to wear
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something for the inauguration.
They have sad faces too.
So actually the elf just havethe elf just drooping a flag.
My suggestion now is that weneed, yeah, we need, we need some
sad, we need some sad art onthe, on there as well.
Zach.
I, I, I, I may haveinadvertently blown up on TikTok
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a little while ago earliertoday as well as on YouTube.
So between YouTube and TikTok,I'm looking at like 6, 000 views
on a video that I postedspecifically about Mike Johnson has
the speaker of the House hasnow ordered that the flags for the
inauguration on the Capitol beflown at full staff.
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And that is because over thecourse of the last two weeks, Donald
Trump has been basicallypublicly crying about the fact that
he would be the only presidentin history to ever be inaugurated
with flags at half staff.
Now, I knew, I didn't knowthere was another president.
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I was gonna let it go.
I didn't know there wasanother president that had been inaugurated
with their flags at half orwith the flag.
Capitol flags at half staff.
You're not the only one, apparently.
Yeah, I did, I didn't know that.
And honestly, I was just gonnalet it go.
I wasn't gonna say anything.
I was, you know, it was justgonna be one of those, oh, Donald
Trump's being, you know,Donald Trump and was just ultimately
gonna just let it go.
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But then when Mike Johnsonordered that the flags for the inauguration
are going to be at full staff,even though President Carter passed
away less than 30 days ago, Idecided that it was probably something
needed to be said.
So a friend of the show, Ami,hostess of the podcast welcome to
Wonderland, which you can findeverywhere as well, she, she mentioned
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this morning, she asked Me, ifthere had been another president.
And I was like, I have no idea.
I didn't look.
And, and so she pulled it upand sure enough, it was.
Harry Truman had passed away25 days before the inauguration,
the second inauguration ofPresident Nixon.
And I found photographicevidence of the flags at half staff
in the 1973 inauguration ofRichard Nixon.
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Do we think Richard Nixon gaveus shit?
Not.
I don't think he remotely cared.
I, and honestly, it's probablybecause he had a bunch of, he had
a bunch of other stuff goingon with Watergate.
The likelihood was he was, he was.
These flags are lower thanthey should be.
I just wanted to point thatout while I'm here.
I accept that these are low.
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I don't know who, who TerrySherman is, but.
Yeah, so I made, I made avideo that all it did was basically
just point out the fact, hey,here is photographic evidence that
there was a president inmodern day history who was inaugurated
with flags at half staffbecause of the death of another president.
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Previous president.
Now certain.
A certain demographic, certaindemographic that uses one platform.
Understood.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mocked, laughed.
And a certain platform wasjust full of blissful, ignorant,
GFB craziness.
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Yeah.
I, I have to, I have to.
I, I, I'm gonna, I'm gonna say it.
The amount of views andsupport and comments on T that were
accepting of the informationthat were, that were responsive to
it is, was, was overwhelming.
It was more than I expected.
The, on, on the YouTube, thenumber of comments that were made
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that were.
Honestly, they, Some of themwere just downright like, attacking,
attacking me.
Like, one commenter, I'mtrying to find one commenter actually
said, he said, he told me toget a life.
He said, you'll need a vastamount of cope to make it through
the next four years.
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To which I said, sadly, thisis my life.
This.
The thing that bothers me themost is the grammar is insane.
Like, if, if there was sometribunal where we got like, we, we
were about to get like, EdStark, like, executed for being like,
I think people should be ableto control their own lives.
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They're like, no, so we'reabout to get beheaded.
The thing that would, like,make me the most depressed outside
of losing my life is seeingsome dude hold a sign that instead
of worst, it says worse.
Because you know exactly whatcomment I'm talking about.
Because I was just like, yeah,I would just cut it off.
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I don't want to be here anymore.
Let's go.
And here's.
Here's for the peoplecommenting on YouTube that are trying
to either hurt my feelings orput me in my place or whatever.
I love it.
I'm here for it.
So the comment was, get a life.
You'll need a vast amount ofcope to make it through the next
four years.
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Laffy face, laughy face,laughy face.
And I responded, I said, yeah,sadly, this is my life.
And then somebody else said,take it easy on him.
He's still living with his mother.
I'll have you know.
That one I take offense atbecause I don't live with my mother.
I haven't lived with my.
And she listens to this show,so she can come to my defense in
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the show.
Show notes or I'm sorry, Mom.
If you could please commentthat I haven't lived with you since
2000.
Tell them all that, Xander.
Tell them that he does notlive with you.
I am not.
Other son does.
I am not living.
That's right.
I am not living with my mother.
And to which my response wasbold claim.
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Thanks for helping with the algorithm.
You know.
And then somebody elseresponded, that's all you got.
We know what you like.
That one confused me.
I'm not sure where that onewas going.
I think the worst one is gone.
And I use that correctly.
But he was like, I livedduring the time of Jimmy Carter and
he was the worst president.
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I did.
Yeah, he was the worst.
He was the worst taken down.
Idiot.
Yeah.
And that was purely by his choice.
Look, I'm, again, I'm here for it.
All of the negative comments,whatever it is that people want to
say, I don't thrive off of it.
It's not that I get somethingout of it, but it is entertain.
Entertaining.
And, and, and the amount ofwork that some of these below 50
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IQ people have put into it isjust, you know, I enjoy it.
One guy commented, daddy,Trump is home.
And I said, you don't.
And I, I looked at his profile.
I went and looked at it.
I said, you don't look likethe kind of guy to call a man daddy,
but, man, good for you.
I said, some have a reallyhard time coming out, you know, so
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kudos.
Someone must have yelled athim, like, finish cleaning the septic
tank.
I, I'm just, I'm.
I'm dumbfounded by the factthat, like, one person even responded
like, oh, you went and did research?
It's like, yes, because if Ididn't, if I didn't know something
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just based on just hearingsomething and not knowing it, if
it sparks an interest in me,I'm going to research It.
I'm going to look it up to seepotentially what it is.
That's seeing whether it'strue or whether you know what, what
background there is to it.
I'm going to look it up justbecause it potentially has me interested.
Can I bring in a special guestto see if they know it?
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Okay, sure.
Yeah, absolutely.
Hi, Gemini.
Hey there.
What can I do for you today?
Was there any president thatwas inaugurated while the flags were
at half staff?
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I can't help with responses onelections and political figures.
Right?
Oh, no, he took the middle lane.
He did take.
If he, if he didn't have thatleash on him, he'd tell you.
Yeah.
So trying to check withartificial intelligence systems to
decipher whether or not theyknow if a president was elected or
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inaugurated with the flag.
It's kind of wild that itwon't, it will not comment politically
anything about political stuff.
See, and that to me, doesn't,it doesn't strike me as a politically
left or politically right thing.
It's a fact.
Yeah.
What's a fact?
But yeah, so just a heads up,if anyone listening to this goes
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on to any of our social mediasand they find some of the posts and
there's a desire to comment,that would potentially be, I don't
know, would potentially betrying to be negative or try and
incite some sort of rage outof me or Zach, it's not going to
happen.
I acknowledge to someone that,you know, my early years of living
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here in Columbia, SouthCarolina, I did comedy, I did stand
up comedy.
And I guess Zach and I arejust built differently than, than
some people when it comes tohow we respond to critiques and not
even non critiques.
Just flat out, it's stupid.
Yeah, like a lot.
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Like 50 Cent.
You can find me in the club.
In the club.
Yeah.
So, you know, that was, thatwas my day.
Today.
We are what, how?
We're five days, I guess, fourdays away from the TikTok ban going
into effect.
So by the time most people arelistening this episod because, you
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know, we.
If you're not a, if you're nota member, if you're not a paid member
for the podcast and then if.
There was ever a time to likeshare and subscribe.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, no, that.
Honestly, look, I have, I havejumped onto this mass following,
this mass following thingthat's been going on.
Have you, have you seen any of these?
So on TikTok, there's a lot ofpeople that are saying, hey, if TikTok's
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going away.
Let's do a mass following.
Let's just, let's blow it up.
Let's everybody become, youknow, thousand followers and, and
just see how far we can take it.
And I, everyone follow.
Follow Matt Gates.
I was shocked at the number of16 year olds on Matt Gates's thing.
You'd think they would havebeen warned by now.
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But I, so I've, every time Isee a mass follow, come on, I like
share, subscribe or follow andthen, and then I, I share it or you
know, reshare it, whatever.
And you know, it's, it's, it'spushed me over the 600 mark.
I haven't done it on thepodcasts TikTok because I, I, I don't
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know.
I find myself on mine moreoften than, than the podcast one.
But, but yeah, I, encouraging it.
Look, before TikTok degrades,I, I say everybody do everything
you can to make the most outof it.
There's a lot used to be fun.
It's still fun.
There's just the, the, the,the looming, the looming fear that
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its success is going to not, Iguess the success is going to come
to a demise.
Ruin our, completely ruin ourother podcast.
That's a fact.
In fact, what the pod is thatwhat the pod was that is going to
have to potentially convertinto a show where Carrie just tells
her story, tells us storiesabout her dating life to which our
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response will be.
The pod was that while we sipon mayonnaise shots.
Oh gosh.
I mean we could.
That just felt like a booger.
Didn't even have aftertaste.
It's just like that one youcan't spit out at that time that
you got down right after youwere sick and you would just have
to swallow it.
It was bad.
What, what Zach's talkingabout is we did, we did the Tapeworm
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Shop which was like vodka, itwas vodka tabas sauce.
Yeah.
Black pepper and, and then mayonnaise.
A squirt of mayonnaise whichmade it look like it was a tape.
And I got the biggest shot of mayonnaise.
Don't get me wrong, I love mesome mayonnaise, but Jesus Christ,
that was just a booger.
A hot booger.
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It was not one that I willever try again.
I could say, I've tried it now.
That's all I needed.
I would try it again if wecould blend it.
If we could just get themayonnaise into the vodka hot sauce
mix.
Yeah, but I think the wholepoint of it was that you needed that
texture of liquid versuswhatever the mayonnaise is.
The booger swallow, itliterally was just like a clump that
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went.
I feel like I just swallowedit straight down.
I don't even remember it kind of.
It's like the weak version of,like, apparently in Alaska, you can
kiss the toe in the bottle ofvodka right up there.
And then the worm in Tijuana.
Yeah.
And, I don't know, chickenlips in Kentucky.
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Whatever else they do.
Like, it's one of those.
It's just like in Missouri,they probably drink it for fun.
Oh.
So to everybody.
Everybody potentially watching us.
No offense, Laurie.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Lori will have to tell uswhether or not she.
She actually does the.
You guys like mayonnaise inyour beverages?
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This here sweet punch is delicious.
If it had a little squid of.
Mayonnaise on top, it'sdefinitely something that should
never be included.
There should not be anythingsemi solid in your drink.
I mean, ice is fine.
But I saw this.
I saw this video on TikTok ofthis girl that was obsessed with
the Ninja Turtles.
She.
She, like, goes into debt,like, buying the movie heads and
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stuff like that.
The movie heads are cool.
That I.
I was like, I don't know.
I'd probably go into debt for that.
Just kidding.
But she also, every day had toeat a pizza and make it weird because
the Ninja turtles made it weird.
One of her pizzas that wasweird was just like, she ordered,
like, a deep dish and justcovered the top in mayonnaise.
No cheese.
Like.
Like, it had cheese andeverything, but under it, she coated
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it just like it was just awhite pizza covered in mayonnaise.
That's just.
That seems so unnecessary.
Like, I get the bit.
You try it, Right?
It wasn't a bit.
This girl's mentally insane.
Like, her room is covered withNinja Turtles.
She dresses up like it andreenacts it on her front lawn.
Is it flavored mayonnaise?
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Like.
Like spicy mayonnaise?
Mayonnaise just flat out,Duke's mayonnaise.
I'm gonna.
I'm gonna say no.
I mean, I've had egg on pizza.
I've had.
I've had pineapple.
All the other stuff.
I'm trying to think.
I would try the mayonnaise slice.
I would take a slice of hermayonnaise covered pizza.
I would not do Miracle Whip.
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Well, I'm not a Miracle Whipfan anyhow.
I can't do the Miracle Whip.
Miracle Whip is salad dressingto me, that's.
My dad always tried to.
Tried to trick me.
He'd be like, Make a bologna sandwich.
Just go ahead and put MiracleWhip on it.
We don't need mayonnaise.
I was like, dad, that's a sin.
We don't do that here.
Like, a sin.
That's not okay.
I'll never buy Miracle Whip.
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Well, I guess, I guess the,the question then.
And how would you put it on?
How would you put Miracle Whipon a salad?
You, you make, you make saladdressing out of Miracle Whip?
Oh, is that what it is?
It's an ingredient or.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
There's no insanity is justputting flat Miracle Whip on a salad.
On a salad.
Oh, you've, you've crossed a line.
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Yeah.
The people in the white coatsare here to help.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I still want to see the.
What do you mix it with?
You're just like honey mustardand Miracle Whip, I guess.
I don't know.
I, look, I, I, I, I'm not, I'mnot the person that's going to be
like, oh, we should add, weshould add Miracle Whip to that.
Those words only came out ofmy worth my mouth now.
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They're never going to comeout of my mouth again.
I just think the guy whocreated Miracle Whip was like, what
if I made mayonnaise grosser?
Tom, no.
How could the world be wrong?
How can I make the world morewrong here?
I mean, we just survived.
You know, there's orangespecks in this mayonnaise.
Ish substance.
It's 1952.
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The world just survived theNazi regime.
Here's Miracle Web.
Bill made it home after amortar hit his helmet.
He didn't die.
Well, what did he do?
He made Miracle Whip.
Done Miracle Whip.
I got an idea.
No thanks, Larry.
I just want you to know thereis no support for Miracle Whip in
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the comments on our TikTok.
Nobody has said anything insupport of.
Support of Miracle Whip.
Wait, is it the inverse?
Everyone's like, no, nobody's.
Nobody said anything.
There's 70 people watching outthere and nobody's.
Nobody has said anything about Miracle.
No support of it.
Just like voting.
Get out here and tell your,Tell us your heartfelt thoughts on
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Miracle Whip.
The things that should trend on.
This is what I want on TikTok.
I want miracle Whip to trend.
One guy's like, it's okay, Lube.
You're like, so you can.
You don't have to follow anymore.
Hashtag Miracle Whip.
It helps me whip it good.
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So with TikTok potentiallycoming to an end, I'm curious, have
you seen any of the stuffabout this rednote with.
That's an actual Chinese appavailable in the, in the United States.
So I have, I have seen a lotof videos that people are posting
that they are looking at thevideos on, on RedNote and like they're.
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People on RedNote in China areresponding to people in the United
States joining their app.
And, and it seems like it's,it's, it's taken off pretty well.
There's a lot of people thathave done it.
They're calling themselvesTick Tock refugees.
And some of the people thatare on there are just like, oh, I'm
so excited.
There's, you know, there'sAmericans on here where.
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Because they're, because theChinese version of Tick Tock versus
the American US Version ofTick Tock, we don't, we don't, we
don't have access to thosepeople and they don't have access
to these people.
So it's, it, there's been areal, like, community.
That's so weird.
It's just like Red Notebrought to you by GGPing.
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No, thanks.
So I don't know, I don't knowwhy they're banning TikTok and don't
ban like Omegle.
What is Omegle?
It's like where you can likechat roulette kind of thing.
Like where you just.
And China can use it.
They do use it.
Other countries use it like dick.
Dick.
Dick person.
Are you okay?
They're like, there's their dick.
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It's, I don't know, likethey're bringing Tick Tock for no
reason.
The only, the only thing Isupport, like, needs to be fixed
is you're giving China your information.
If you buy things off of likeTikTok shop.
Sure.
Which it has turned into like,you know, GNN or whatever the shopping
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channel was.
There are a lot of ads.
There are a lot of ads.
I will say this about RedNote.
What I have seen so far onRedNote because Julie joined.
What I have seen is there.
There are.
There are virtually no ads.
There is.
There is.
I don't have theinfrastructure for ads and to ship.
Yeah, potentially.
But it's.
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Honestly, it's.
Yeah.
And Kelly's right.
TEMU is bad about too.
But there's a.
There is.
I don't know, there's ageneral, genuine sense of like, community
and it seems like they're soappreciative of Americans joining
on RedNote and people are interacting.
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Well, look, I'm going to say this.
If there's ever some sort of afight or war Between China and the
United States, it isn't USCitizens versus them citizens.
It is just governments.
I have no interest in everseeing any harm come to the Chinese
people.
It's just like, I don't hate Russians.
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I don't hate Ukrainians.
I don't hate the Chinese.
I don't hate the Taiwanese,Japanese, Koreans, I definitely don't
hate North Koreans.
It's literally the people incharge can't get around on it.
And they try to rally you tonot like them as well.
I, I think, I think we'vegrown as a society just to be like
most of it.
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Like, not, not even most ofus, but the select few of us.
If you're watching this stillis probably you included.
People are people.
They're.
And literally no differentthan you.
Yeah.
I mean, the Iranians, for instance.
I don't.
There's so many Iranian youthsthat want Western culture to be there.
(27:03):
They want to wear jeans and stuff.
They want to.
They want the, like, the sneakers.
But they're ran by like, youknow, totalitarian regimes and shit
like that.
These countries, just likeours, isn't truly listening to us.
Right.
We think it is with voting,but, dude, who knows how voting works
anymore?
At the end of the day, likenow, now they're saying there was
(27:28):
issues with the Trump being elected.
Of course, we had, we had Mr.
Mypella, Mike Lindell tellingus how Trump was robbed in 2020 of
it.
@ the end of the day, you go,I think we've kind of gone too far
with this.
We.
We're not hating each other,but you're making us hate each other.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, now and, and again, Ithink, I think that it even, even
(27:49):
back into the 50s and 60s and70s when, when, you know, Russia
was the, the, the big, youknow, or I guess the Soviet Union
was the.
Big bad, the red scare.
Yeah, it was.
I don't think it was everAmerican people versus Soviet people.
I think it was.
It was the American governmentversus the Russia, the Soviet government.
(28:10):
It was.
You know, that was, that wasalways, that was always the way it
was.
You know, somebody that I usedto work with made a comment when
Trump was running the firsttime in 2016, and after everything
started coming out about theRussian collusion and things like
that, this guy who is ultraconservative is, you know, red, white
(28:31):
and blue everything.
And kudos to him for havingthat level of commitment, you know.
But he said to me, he askedme, he was like, why should I hate
Russia just for being Russia?
And at the time, I said, Isaid, I'm not suggesting that you
hate Russia.
I'm not suggesting that youtake out ads on social media project
(28:53):
or, you know, portraying yourvision of disgust over Russia.
I have no interest in that.
I don't think the problem'sthe Russians.
I think the problem isVladimir Putin or whoever's in charge.
But he was like, why should Ihate him?
And I said, you shouldn't.
He said, but if it comes downto what their.
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Honestly, for me, it's whatthe Russian government does to the
Russian people.
The fact that.
What was this?
Tucker Carlson went over toRussia to interview with Putin and
he thought he had this out.
Just amazing.
Interview with Vladimir Putin.
Yeah.
Then Putin was like, what aweak ass.
Yeah.
Like Putin released on his ownTV networks.
(29:35):
He was like.
He was like, this is thedumbest thing I've ever done.
Like, this is.
This guy.
He kissed my ass the entire time.
Like what?
Like what People didn't evensee on the show or the Twitter episode
or whatever.
They were like.
They were like, he.
He basically gave me thequestions ahead of time.
He let me.
He let me lead him down, whatever.
(29:56):
And then he did a whole thingwhere he was walking around the grocery
store.
I was like, oh, the food'sless expensive here.
Look, this is a loaf of bread.
Yeah.
What.
What an idiot.
And I look at that and I.
And I'm like.
I'm like, you don't understandthe fundamentals of communism.
If you don't.
If you can't recognize thatthe food there is subsidized.
And then like, so.
So just cognitive dissonance,big time.
(30:20):
Just being like, how cheapthis food is and then being like,
I guess communism might work alittle bit.
These is in Russia.
Like, dude, that's the.
The most insane.
And like, when I think aboutcountries like Russia and North Korea
in China, I think Russia, Ithink Putin, what a dick.
(30:41):
I don't hate.
I don't hate Russians.
Yeah.
I think of their government.
What a dick.
I think of China.
I think ggping, Winnie thePooh, the softest damn leader they've
ever had in China.
I think North Korea and Jong.
Illustration.
The weakest, softest, just thesoftest, dumbest boy.
Like, it's.
It's the leaders, it's not the people.
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And I'm.
I know that it has to be that way.
When Australians are Chineseor the UK looks at America, I don't
think they go straight to.
All Americans are dumb.
I think they go like, holy.
Your leadership and yourgovernment is.
Yeah, but I mean, that's how Isee it.
I literally do not go, howridiculous are the English, how ridiculous
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are the Chinese or the North Koreans?
Can't these North Koreans dosomething about their stoplight actor
culture?
Like.
No.
Like it's ridiculous.
No.
And they absolutely cannot.
Because the threat of gettingyour ankles broken in a mine while
breaking rocks is insane.
If they wanted to leave thecountry, they can't thank.
(31:47):
When the lights go out, you goinside and don't you say anything.
Yeah, yeah.
When, when TV crews from, youknow, western countries like the
United States or the UK orwhatever, like when they come to
North Korea to like filmspecials or film documentaries or
whatever, it's.
It's, it's virtually like aghost town.
And it's like, well, when you do.
See people that they're.
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They're state hired actors.
Yeah, yeah.
That will not talk to thepeople that are there to film.
Do you think that the level ofintelligence, like, technologically
in North Korea is as advancedas, say, I don't know, the United
States or China or like, youknow, I'm not, Not even remotely.
(32:31):
I think, I think, I think thethings that North Korea gets, they'll
get through trade.
But there's no, like, forinstance, there's nothing a North
Korean citizen looking for abetter HDMI cable.
Right.
Like, there's not any.
Much less.
Are they watching anything?
(32:51):
Like they would need it.
Right.
So they're just going to getstate sponsored television.
That's what you watch, right.
That's what you get.
There's no bigger, better.
Everyone's equal on the mostdismal of levels of existence.
And there's even, like, Ithink like North Korea builds buildings
(33:14):
just to build buildings andhave them exist.
Like they built.
I think there was evensupposed to be a Trump Tower in North
Korea at one point.
If I'm not, I could be wrong.
It was either modeled afterit, they, they completely stopped.
But it's still now the tallestbuilding in North Korea.
It is a.
Literally no one's ever lived there.
There was no plans for anyoneto live there.
(33:36):
It's just a building to, to bepart of the great caper that is North
Korea.
Yeah.
So Cooper had a comment.
He said it's hard to haveequal tech without the industry to
support it.
And I.
That's true.
I agree that you can't.
You, especially if you don'thave like advanced university, you
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know, universities that areteaching these advanced skills and
things like that.
So.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
You don't want your.
North Korea is not a countrythat wants you to know stuff.
And if you do, you're going towork for the government, and then
you're going to shut up and doas you're told.
There's not going to be anyadvancement work shopping like, all
(34:19):
right, the rocket didn't flyas far as we wanted it to get in
this room, you.
Show up and like, where's thewater cooler?
We don't go to the watercooler here.
Kind of like how Bob Lazartalked about working on that ufo.
You and Bob work on the ufo.
You're not talking to anyother departments about building
(34:40):
this rocket and how any otherpart works in conjunction with your
part.
Yeah, make your part good.
That's it.
Figure this out.
I've seen so many videos of,like, Westerners visiting North Korea.
And the actors, to me, isstill the most insane part that the
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government hire, like.
Like, let's call it hires, but gets.
Gets people to pretend to behaving a good time.
Yeah.
But when the people who arethere to visit come to, like, interview
them and ask them about thetown, the city, they'll just walk
away and not talk to them.
They.
They went.
I saw them go to a cardealership, and there was people
(35:23):
looking at cars.
They tried to talk to thepeople looking at cars.
They would just walk away fromthem, not even talk to them.
Yeah.
And they were like, these aregovernment actors.
Yeah.
Yeah, that makes.
Yeah, that makes sense.
And.
And of course, in a.
In a society like that, likein North Korea, that's the image
you want to maintain.
You want to.
You want to have the image ofa freedom or the ability to go out
(35:45):
and say, you know, buy a caror go to the grocery store and pick
out what you want to eat.
But.
But that isn't.
If it's.
If the cameras aren't on,that's probably not what's going
on.
So, I mean, they killed one ofour citizens.
He got arrested for.
I can't remember what he did,but he was so malnourished by the
time we got him, he died.
(36:05):
He died basically, like, onthe way.
I remember something about that.
I remember something aboutthat sticky in.
A camp, and you're breakingrocks until the rocks are no longer
to be broken.
Then you get another rock andyou're breaking that down.
Like, it's just.
I don't understand.
I.
I think what boggles my mindis I don't understand any productivity
in a system like that.
That I can't.
(36:25):
They're gonna do.
They're gonna.
They're gonna do everythingyou tell them to do.
But, like, if they went to warwith somebody, you're gonna fight
the most malnourished people ever.
Right.
Like, they've been grinding awar machine for the most part.
That's it.
Cooper also just said NorthKorea has a TikTok account that's
purely.
(36:45):
I guess that is all they'reshowing is the, the state actors,
the.
The government actors outthere doing.
Oh, that'd be interesting.
We gotta find that.
Yeah, I might.
Might have to look for that.
Yeah, I guess so.
By the time this episode airson Monday, TikTok ban will likely
be in place.
I don't see the Supreme Courtstepping in to issue a stay.
(37:09):
I think there is a possibilitythat there is a bill that has been
a bill that is being.
That is attempting to beintroduced to the floor of the House
or the Senate, one of themthat could potentially at least stay
the ban for 160 days or 260days or something like that.
But I think even in thatsituation, all they're going to do
(37:31):
is just keep kicking the bandown the road.
Because this is an app thathas more than 170 million Americans
on it.
There is a serious level ofcommerce that does take place.
Even if I get annoyed at thenumber of ads that I scroll past.
I admittedly have boughtproducts off the TikTok shop.
(37:54):
I, I absolutely have.
I, My.
These.
These little.
I'm not looking forsponsorship, not with four days left,
five days left, but these,these wireless microphones that I,
that I, That I use to.
To record content with.
I got those off the TikTokshop, like, and they're.
They're.
They're decent.
I mean, they're.
They're good enough for me.
(38:14):
I bought some of the fantic stuff.
I have fantic screwdriver anda fantic vacuum cleaner.
Now.
How dare you buy stuff from China.
I don't have anything in myhouse made in China.
Do not check where thatmicrophone was made there, Zach.
Do not look at themanufacturer on that microphone.
I don't, I don't care if ticktock dies.
(38:36):
At the end of the day, I thinkit's the dumbest that could possibly
be litigated.
Because at the end of the day,it's kind of like.
I mean, we have, we havepeople like the Rizzler that exists,
and I'm just like, tick tocks.
Like, that's.
Is that it?
Like, what, what else youdon't like when kids say bet and
(38:57):
cap?
Is that why we're like,there's no reason behind it.
It's insane.
We'll.
We'll just stick to ourYouTube shorts and our Facebook shorts
and.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I'll, we'll write out.
We'll write out TikTok.
It'll get no support, and thenour, our apps just won't work.
Eventually.
Yeah, that's what's gon.
You won't be able to download it.
(39:18):
So if you don't have TikToknow, go ahead and download it while
you still can and just ridethe wave.
Yeah, I mean, that's TikTok.
Do America a favor.
Just never update.
We're all going to run on thesame update the entire time until
we crash it.
I think that's all you can do.
I guess the last thing I wantto talk about.
Of course, by the time thisepisode comes out and everybody starts
listening to it, by the way,theallaboutnothing.com is where you
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The, the 20th.
Send the all about Nothingpodcast to Honolulu, Hawaii.
Yeah, we could do an episode.
You, you guys send us to Honolulu.
We will do.
We'll do 10 episodes.
Barrett will get in the sharkcage and swim with a great white.
(40:03):
I, I don't have any fear of that.
For some reason, that, that,that thing doesn't, that doesn't
scare me.
I don't, I don't know why I'll.
Be holding on to the thing.
Just like, go, Barrett, swim.
I'm wearing chain mail.
But, you know, so the 20th, asof whatever time, 12:00pm on the
(40:24):
20th, Donald Trump will havebeen inaugurated as the 47th President
of the United States.
And I don't want to speculateon what the potential negatives are.
What I want is for us to tryand come up with a few positives
that could potentially comefrom Donald Trump being.
When Donald Trump'sinaugurated as president.
(40:44):
A positive.
Yeah.
Can you come up with apositive while you come up with a
pot?
It's kind of like, it's kindof like when the waitress comes over
to the table and, and, and wethink everybody's ready to order,
but it's going to be a lot of.
Can you come back to me inlike, two minutes?
I, I'll, I'll order.
Would that be, like, weird?
Yeah, I, I, some comments.
(41:05):
Gator aunt says she's got nothing.
Uh, nothing.
Got nothing.
I'm Trying to think of some positives.
I think if.
I guess if I put a lot ofthought into it, I think there's
the potential that a DonaldTrump presidency, at least within.
That's a good point.
Okay, so silky McGilke, hesaid that maybe Donald Trump will
(41:31):
let felons vote.
And.
Okay, so that is somethinglegitimately I feel inclined to agree
with.
If you have committed afelony, you have served your time,
you are now out of prison,you're out on parole, not out on
parole, but you have servedyour time, you have repaid society.
(41:55):
I think you should be allowedthe right to vote.
Absolutely.
Fair enough.
You have a job, you're payingtaxes, you have a right to vote who
it is that's representing howthose taxes are being dispersed.
Fair enough.
So I'll give a littlehumanity, humanity back to those
who, yeah, serve their time.
I think the one positive I canstart out with is the jokes are going
(42:16):
to write themselves.
Oh, I feel at this point, Imean, he's not president yet, and
he's already tried to buyCanada and Iceland, so.
And rename the Gulf of MexicoGulf of Amer, because that's what
we care about.
Gulf of America called theGulf of Piss.
I don't care how long.
(42:39):
How long do you think?
So Donald Trump will beentering his presidency with the
lowest approval rate of anyincoming president.
I want to say, I think thelast thing I saw was, like, it was
32%.
He's the first president toever be inaugurated.
One is a convicted felon, twowith approval ratings, sub 40.
(43:01):
Like, this is the firstpresident to ever do that.
When Biden came in, he was.
He was like mid-40s.
Clinton came in, he was in mid-40s.
Like Obama was.
Was in the 50s, upper-50s.
You know, I look forward toeggs being basically free.
Right.
Not supposed to happen.
Why?
Why?
Well, I am.
(43:22):
I am genuinely curious as towhy is it that that's the one thing
people go to, like, how manyeggs are.
And don't get me wrong, Idon't know.
Since I was a kid, I think mymom has always gone like, Jesus Christ
brought us eggs $2.15.
It is, it is an anecdote thatpeople go to a lot of the time, you
(43:43):
know, but like, I get.
Eggs for free, so that's.
Oh, do you want to.
Do you want to do a littleshout out for your sister's farm?
Yeah, go to Dos Farms, get yousome not free eggs.
Dos Farms, Chapin, South Carolina.
Or is they in Little Mountain?
Little Mountain.
Little Mountain, Little Mountain.
South Carolina, Dos Farms.
(44:03):
My sister.
My sister has gives me freeeggs, and so does my in laws.
They have chickens, and I getfree eggs there.
I got more eggs than I knowwhat to do with.
I'm gonna start a monopoly.
Ask for Shelby at Doss Farmsin Little Mountain, South Carolina.
I got so many eggs, I'll throwthem at Donald Trump during the inauguration.
Ooh, careful.
(44:24):
Come at me.
Eggs ain't that bad.
Get a chicken.
Yeah, I don't know.
The price of milk isn't veryexpensive right now that I can think
of.
And I say that because, forsome reason, my kids go through this
thing where they'll drink awhole lot of milk all at once, and
we run out of a gallon of milkin less than a week.
And then we have a gallon ofmilk sit there for two weeks unopened.
(44:46):
Tell me about it.
I think that we need to stopthe gas shit.
That happens.
You got the plus price.
Like, not.
I'm not talking about thegrades of gas.
You have your credit cardprice, your cash price, and if you
use a debit card, that countsas neither.
You just pay the credit price.
That's fair.
Them that used to be illegal,do it again.
That's fair.
Put it back.
(45:06):
If Trump could do that, justgive him a third turn.
Look, I fully.
I.
I have fully acknowledged mybug guy was here today.
Lamps Pest Control here inLexington, South Carolina.
Check him out.
He didn't know I was going todo that.
I didn't know.
Some guy named Lance, it wasn't.
His name's Rick Lamp.
Lamp Pest Control, Lexington,South Carolina.
(45:28):
Let's shine some light onthese bugs.
Yes, he's good.
He comes every quarter.
He does his.
He does his thing.
If we have an issue, he's in.
Every corner of your house.
Yeah, that's right.
That's the.
I don't know what to tell you, Barrett.
They just don't like it.
Yeah, but.
And.
(45:48):
But I told him today.
We were talking.
We were talking a littlepolitics before he left, but I told
him today, look, if DonaldTrump accomplishes the things that
I think that are importantthat he has promised, whether it's
gas prices going down, if it'sgrocery prices going down, if he
ends the war in Ukraine, if heends the war, if he somehow negotiates
the end of the war in Israel,I will be the first one to come on
(46:12):
here and say, kudos.
This is.
This is what he said he wasgoing to do, and he did it.
I'm not holding my breath.
You know, same.
Same as I wouldn't hold mybreath if Kamala Harris had promised
the same thing and got elected.
I'm not going to hold mybreath, because while I want her
to succeed, I want DonaldTrump to succeed, too, because I
(46:34):
don't want to see any, anyonein the country get harmed.
No, I don't want a clownrunning it.
Let's say he has a stroke thatreverses him and he becomes a presidential
savant.
I would enjoy it.
It's not going to happen.
Right?
We already did this, y'all.
He's the most incompetentyou've ever seen.
Any, like, round two is goingto be number two of anything.
(46:58):
Has not been better than thefirst one.
Yeah.
My fear is that there are nomore adults in the room.
That is, you know, PeteHessian out there.
You can't even admit that ifyou ever hit a woman that that could
potentially disqualify youfrom a public office that requires
Senate confirmation, that, youknow, there are allegations, they
(47:23):
may be unfounded, but thereare women that have gone on the record
that he has put their hand onthem, and to me, that's disqualifying.
Yeah.
He's gonna stock it withpeople who, who now, like, have seen
what staffers have had to dealwith and staffers that came out and
had things to say about it.
And now he's gonna havestaffers that will just take it the
(47:46):
entire time and not come outand be like, that was bad.
So now you have bona fidepsychopaths backing him up if he
says KFC needs to go to themoon, like, he'd be like this after.
Yep, that's right.
Getting asked on the phone,Donald Trump wants a KFC on the men
so the aliens can have goodcountry cooking, all 11 herbs and
spices, like, the most insane shit.
(48:07):
He's going to have the mostinsane people now backing him up.
I, I, I don't know.
I think the most surprisingthing is if we buy fucking Iceland,
I would be like, of course.
Greenland.
Yeah.
I'd be like, of course ithappened this time.
Well, according, according tosurveys done by people that live
in Greenland, that, that they,they, they don't want to be part
of the United States.
They're very happy with theiruniversal health care.
(48:28):
They're very.
That's not what Trump Jr.
Said when he went there forhis podcast.
Yeah, I saw, I saw some of thestuff from Donald Trump Jr.
Look, and nothing against theTrump name or anything like that,
but in all honesty, If DonaldTrump Jr.
Says it, I tend to believethat There probably needs to be maybe
(48:49):
a finite, at least amount ofresearch into some of the things
he says, and I think peopleare going to be disappointed that
like him, that support him,that they're going to be disappointed
in how factually incorrect he is.
Does Greenland have volcanoes?
I.
I am not aware of volcanoes in Greenland.
I'm aware of.
I don't think so.
(49:11):
That'd be nice because wecould convince Trump Jr.
There's a cocaine mine at thebottom of the volcano and he can
land his helicopter and filmhis podcast down there.
Call me crazy, I would just like.
To think that our podcast getsmore listeners than.
Than Donald Trump Juniors, butI know that's probably not true,
(49:33):
so.
Well, all the people he hasbunny for cocaine probably listen
to his podcast for, like, tipson what is he gonna pay him back
and stuff like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you know, possibly.
He owes me five bucks.
That was for a McRib at aMcDonald's at an airport.
(49:54):
I didn't know who he was atthe time.
Why are we buying.
Why are we buying Airport McRibs?
Why did he want to make rib?
I don't know.
I had a.
I.
I'm a human.
I had a double quarter pounder meal.
That's fair.
That's fair.
He just wanted one McRib,extra onions.
It was weird.
Well, Zach, I promised youthat this episode wouldn't go an
hour, and we've almost gottenthere, so I'm gonna.
(50:15):
I'm gonna wrap it up.
I gotta go.
I got important stuff to do.
Listen to you.
Listen.
By the time you all arelistening to this episode, it is
January 20th.
It's probably after 12:00.
And I guess, you know, as.
As one of the hosts of thispodcast, I will just say, congratulations,
Donald Trump, on your inauguration.
(50:36):
I.
I sincerely will support allof the things that you do that are
good and that do well for thepeople of this country.
Do I get to say something?
Yeah, go ahead, Zach.
Donald Trump, congratulationson your nomination and win.
And I hope you have a painfulshit every time you shit for the
(50:59):
next four years.
And I hope the last one, thisis the worst one, and that it ships
the bowl.
Fuck you.
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Welcome, nothingers, toanother episode of the All About
Nothing podcast.
This is episode number 238.
I am Barrett Gruber.
I'm Zach King.
And Barrett did writesomething down because he was staring
at it.
I have, I have, I have notesfor the intro and the outro.
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Follow us wherever we're onall the social media.
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TheAllAboutNothing.com we are,we didn't actually plan on doing
a show tonight, but I amrecording Saturday at Soul House
with Preach Jacobs, localColumbia, South Carolina star, as
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well as Donald Brock, who isthe guy that runs the Soda City Comic
Con as well as the WilmingtonCoastal Comic Con.
He's also the guy when youwalk past a dark alley and you're
like, you swore you saw something.
You did.
It was Donald Brock.
It's a little creepy, but yeah.
So we're gonna have DonaldBrock on for the the episode following
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this one as well.
Leroy.
Jen.
Nope.
Leroy Green is gonna join us.
He's gonna love it.
Keep it in bucket.
We're doing it live.
Leroy Green, formerly of wltx.
If you would have said Brown,I would have been like, look, look,
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I.
I, I confess my age.
My age takes a toll.
That's.
I think you just, I think youknow two too many Leroy's.
It's possible.
You know what?
And I don't think I knew anyLeroy's before this.
Leroy.
There's only one of them.
Yeah.
100%.
That is not inaccurate.
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So, yeah.
So next episode, we're goingto be discussing the Coastal Comic
Con, which is coming up inWilmington on March 1st and 2nd.
Unfortunately, Zach will notbe able to join us.
Maybe ish.
We talked about.
Yeah, yeah, we did talk about that.
A little bit.
We talked about the.
I could show up.
I think that would be fun.
I think that would be fun.
I see no reason why not, aslong as my wife's not.
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Like, it could happen anyminute with the pregnancy.
Think that early.
I think we're talkingbeginning of March.
I think that's a little earlyfor any minute now.
Sure, sure.
But, you know, so Sam Witweris going to be there.
Matthew Wood is going to be there.
Right.
Matthew Watterson is going tobe there.
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Cal Dodd is going to be there.
These are Cal Dodd, Matthew Watterson.
These are guys.
This is the voice of Magnetofrom the X Men 97.
And Cal Dodd is the voice ofWolverine from the X Men animated
series from 1993 all the waythrough now.
So it's going to be.
It's going to be a really bigdeal and a fun time out there in
Wilmington.
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That's four out of four show homies.
Yeah.
We didn't interview two of them.
We did.
That is.
That is correct.
We didn't get to interview CalDodd and Matthew Wood.
We did not.
We did Sam Witwer and MatthewWatterson, and they were fantastic.
I actually reached out toMatthew Watterson on Instagram and
asked him if he'd be willingto come on the show with us for a
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little while before theCoastal Comic Con.
He has seen my message and hedid not respond, which is, you know.
Well, that's when you go,like, I know you've seen this.
I don't want to be that Guy.
Look.
Yeah, look, you've responded.
You've responded to a messagefrom me now, and you can't cut that
off.
I don't know how Instagramworks, but I know I can keep sending
you messages till you werestill open.
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We'll tell Guy, and if Guy hasto give you a personal cell phone
call, it will happen.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, it doesn'tsound like he's going to be at Coastal
Con this year.
That sucks, because he was anawesome interview.
He was fantastic.
Sunspot.
Yeah, Sunspot on X Men 97.
I'm hoping that we get anopportunity to speak with Guy at
some point.
I know he's going to be herein Columbia or in South Carolina
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at some point because he'sgoing to be heading up to Greens
Green, Greenville.
Greenwood.
Nope.
Greenwood.
Yeah, he's going to beGreenwood to Greenwood at some point.
So we'll try and get a hold ofhim when he does that.
We got the Net gun ready.
Yeah, that's right.
Tasers.
Whatever.
Whatever it takes.
To put down a sunspot.
That's so yeah.
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Also want to make sure toremind everybody ever play sports
and social is signing up fortheir spring here in Columbia area
spring leagues are signing up now.
You can go toeverplaysocial.com and, and sign
up for whether it'svolleyball, kickball, softball.
They got a whole list of things.
I'm going to be in the bowlingon Tuesday nights at Casey Casey's
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Bolero.
So go check outeverplaysocial.com and also a reminder,
go check out the T shirts anddesigns and prints and whatnot over
at zjzdesigns zjzdesigns.comyou can check that out and find plenty
of things that you potentiallywant to wear.
There's a whole lineup ofpatriotic stuff.
I know the inauguration iscoming up and maybe you want to wear
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something for the inauguration.
They have sad faces too.
So actually the elf just havethe elf just drooping a flag.
My suggestion now is that weneed, yeah, we need, we need some
sad, we need some sad art onthe, on there as well.
Zach.
I, I, I, I may haveinadvertently blown up on TikTok
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a little while ago earliertoday as well as on YouTube.
So between YouTube and TikTok,I'm looking at like 6, 000 views
on a video that I postedspecifically about Mike Johnson has
the speaker of the House hasnow ordered that the flags for the
inauguration on the Capitol beflown at full staff.
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And that is because over thecourse of the last two weeks, Donald
Trump has been basicallypublicly crying about the fact that
he would be the only presidentin history to ever be inaugurated
with flags at half staff.
Now, I knew, I didn't knowthere was another president.
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I was gonna let it go.
I didn't know there wasanother president that had been inaugurated
with their flags at half orwith the flag.
Capitol flags at half staff.
You're not the only one, apparently.
Yeah, I did, I didn't know that.
And honestly, I was just gonnalet it go.
I wasn't gonna say anything.
I was, you know, it was justgonna be one of those, oh, Donald
Trump's being, you know,Donald Trump and was just ultimately
gonna just let it go.
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But then when Mike Johnsonordered that the flags for the inauguration
are going to be at full staff,even though President Carter passed
away less than 30 days ago, Idecided that it was probably something
needed to be said.
So a friend of the show, Ami,hostess of the podcast welcome to
Wonderland, which you can findeverywhere as well, she, she mentioned
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this morning, she asked Me, ifthere had been another president.
And I was like, I have no idea.
I didn't look.
And, and so she pulled it upand sure enough, it was.
Harry Truman had passed away25 days before the inauguration,
the second inauguration ofPresident Nixon.
And I found photographicevidence of the flags at half staff
in the 1973 inauguration ofRichard Nixon.
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Do we think Richard Nixon gaveus shit?
Not.
I don't think he remotely cared.
I, and honestly, it's probablybecause he had a bunch of, he had
a bunch of other stuff goingon with Watergate.
The likelihood was he was, he was.
These flags are lower thanthey should be.
I just wanted to point thatout while I'm here.
I accept that these are low.
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I don't know who, who TerrySherman is, but.
Yeah, so I made, I made avideo that all it did was basically
just point out the fact, hey,here is photographic evidence that
there was a president inmodern day history who was inaugurated
with flags at half staffbecause of the death of another president.
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Previous president.
Now certain.
A certain demographic, certaindemographic that uses one platform.
Understood.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mocked, laughed.
And a certain platform wasjust full of blissful, ignorant,
GFB craziness.
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Yeah.
I, I have to, I have to.
I, I, I'm gonna, I'm gonna say it.
The amount of views andsupport and comments on T that were
accepting of the informationthat were, that were responsive to
it is, was, was overwhelming.
It was more than I expected.
The, on, on the YouTube, thenumber of comments that were made
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that were.
Honestly, they, Some of themwere just downright like, attacking,
attacking me.
Like, one commenter, I'mtrying to find one commenter actually
said, he said, he told me toget a life.
He said, you'll need a vastamount of cope to make it through
the next four years.
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To which I said, sadly, thisis my life.
This.
The thing that bothers me themost is the grammar is insane.
Like, if, if there was sometribunal where we got like, we, we
were about to get like, EdStark, like, executed for being like,
I think people should be ableto control their own lives.
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They're like, no, so we'reabout to get beheaded.
The thing that would, like,make me the most depressed outside
of losing my life is seeingsome dude hold a sign that instead
of worst, it says worse.
Because you know exactly whatcomment I'm talking about.
Because I was just like, yeah,I would just cut it off.
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I don't want to be here anymore.
Let's go.
And here's.
Here's for the peoplecommenting on YouTube that are trying
to either hurt my feelings orput me in my place or whatever.
I love it.
I'm here for it.
So the comment was, get a life.
You'll need a vast amount ofcope to make it through the next
four years.
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Laffy face, laughy face,laughy face.
And I responded, I said, yeah,sadly, this is my life.
And then somebody else said,take it easy on him.
He's still living with his mother.
I'll have you know.
That one I take offense atbecause I don't live with my mother.
I haven't lived with my.
And she listens to this show,so she can come to my defense in
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the show.
Show notes or I'm sorry, Mom.
If you could please commentthat I haven't lived with you since
2000.
Tell them all that, Xander.
Tell them that he does notlive with you.
I am not.
Other son does.
I am not living.
That's right.
I am not living with my mother.
And to which my response wasbold claim.
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Thanks for helping with the algorithm.
You know.
And then somebody elseresponded, that's all you got.
We know what you like.
That one confused me.
I'm not sure where that onewas going.
I think the worst one is gone.
And I use that correctly.
But he was like, I livedduring the time of Jimmy Carter and
he was the worst president.
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I did.
Yeah, he was the worst.
He was the worst taken down.
Idiot.
Yeah.
And that was purely by his choice.
Look, I'm, again, I'm here for it.
All of the negative comments,whatever it is that people want to
say, I don't thrive off of it.
It's not that I get somethingout of it, but it is entertain.
Entertaining.
And, and, and the amount ofwork that some of these below 50
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IQ people have put into it isjust, you know, I enjoy it.
One guy commented, daddy,Trump is home.
And I said, you don't.
And I, I looked at his profile.
I went and looked at it.
I said, you don't look likethe kind of guy to call a man daddy,
but, man, good for you.
I said, some have a reallyhard time coming out, you know, so
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kudos.
Someone must have yelled athim, like, finish cleaning the septic
tank.
I, I'm just, I'm.
I'm dumbfounded by the factthat, like, one person even responded
like, oh, you went and did research?
It's like, yes, because if Ididn't, if I didn't know something
(13:25):
just based on just hearingsomething and not knowing it, if
it sparks an interest in me,I'm going to research It.
I'm going to look it up to seepotentially what it is.
That's seeing whether it'strue or whether you know what, what
background there is to it.
I'm going to look it up justbecause it potentially has me interested.
Can I bring in a special guestto see if they know it?
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Okay, sure.
Yeah, absolutely.
Hi, Gemini.
Hey there.
What can I do for you today?
Was there any president thatwas inaugurated while the flags were
at half staff?
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I can't help with responses onelections and political figures.
Right?
Oh, no, he took the middle lane.
He did take.
If he, if he didn't have thatleash on him, he'd tell you.
Yeah.
So trying to check withartificial intelligence systems to
decipher whether or not theyknow if a president was elected or
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inaugurated with the flag.
It's kind of wild that itwon't, it will not comment politically
anything about political stuff.
See, and that to me, doesn't,it doesn't strike me as a politically
left or politically right thing.
It's a fact.
Yeah.
What's a fact?
But yeah, so just a heads up,if anyone listening to this goes
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on to any of our social mediasand they find some of the posts and
there's a desire to comment,that would potentially be, I don't
know, would potentially betrying to be negative or try and
incite some sort of rage outof me or Zach, it's not going to
happen.
I acknowledge to someone that,you know, my early years of living
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here in Columbia, SouthCarolina, I did comedy, I did stand
up comedy.
And I guess Zach and I arejust built differently than, than
some people when it comes tohow we respond to critiques and not
even non critiques.
Just flat out, it's stupid.
Yeah, like a lot.
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Like 50 Cent.
You can find me in the club.
In the club.
Yeah.
So, you know, that was, thatwas my day.
Today.
We are what, how?
We're five days, I guess, fourdays away from the TikTok ban going
into effect.
So by the time most people arelistening this episod because, you
(15:56):
know, we.
If you're not a, if you're nota member, if you're not a paid member
for the podcast and then if.
There was ever a time to likeshare and subscribe.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, no, that.
Honestly, look, I have, I havejumped onto this mass following,
this mass following thingthat's been going on.
Have you, have you seen any of these?
So on TikTok, there's a lot ofpeople that are saying, hey, if TikTok's
(16:17):
going away.
Let's do a mass following.
Let's just, let's blow it up.
Let's everybody become, youknow, thousand followers and, and
just see how far we can take it.
And I, everyone follow.
Follow Matt Gates.
I was shocked at the number of16 year olds on Matt Gates's thing.
You'd think they would havebeen warned by now.
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But I, so I've, every time Isee a mass follow, come on, I like
share, subscribe or follow andthen, and then I, I share it or you
know, reshare it, whatever.
And you know, it's, it's, it'spushed me over the 600 mark.
I haven't done it on thepodcasts TikTok because I, I, I don't
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know.
I find myself on mine moreoften than, than the podcast one.
But, but yeah, I, encouraging it.
Look, before TikTok degrades,I, I say everybody do everything
you can to make the most outof it.
There's a lot used to be fun.
It's still fun.
There's just the, the, the,the looming, the looming fear that
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its success is going to not, Iguess the success is going to come
to a demise.
Ruin our, completely ruin ourother podcast.
That's a fact.
In fact, what the pod is thatwhat the pod was that is going to
have to potentially convertinto a show where Carrie just tells
her story, tells us storiesabout her dating life to which our
(17:43):
response will be.
The pod was that while we sipon mayonnaise shots.
Oh gosh.
I mean we could.
That just felt like a booger.
Didn't even have aftertaste.
It's just like that one youcan't spit out at that time that
you got down right after youwere sick and you would just have
to swallow it.
It was bad.
What, what Zach's talkingabout is we did, we did the Tapeworm
(18:03):
Shop which was like vodka, itwas vodka tabas sauce.
Yeah.
Black pepper and, and then mayonnaise.
A squirt of mayonnaise whichmade it look like it was a tape.
And I got the biggest shot of mayonnaise.
Don't get me wrong, I love mesome mayonnaise, but Jesus Christ,
that was just a booger.
A hot booger.
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It was not one that I willever try again.
I could say, I've tried it now.
That's all I needed.
I would try it again if wecould blend it.
If we could just get themayonnaise into the vodka hot sauce
mix.
Yeah, but I think the wholepoint of it was that you needed that
texture of liquid versuswhatever the mayonnaise is.
The booger swallow, itliterally was just like a clump that
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went.
I feel like I just swallowedit straight down.
I don't even remember it kind of.
It's like the weak version of,like, apparently in Alaska, you can
kiss the toe in the bottle ofvodka right up there.
And then the worm in Tijuana.
Yeah.
And, I don't know, chickenlips in Kentucky.
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Whatever else they do.
Like, it's one of those.
It's just like in Missouri,they probably drink it for fun.
Oh.
So to everybody.
Everybody potentially watching us.
No offense, Laurie.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Lori will have to tell uswhether or not she.
She actually does the.
You guys like mayonnaise inyour beverages?
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This here sweet punch is delicious.
If it had a little squid of.
Mayonnaise on top, it'sdefinitely something that should
never be included.
There should not be anythingsemi solid in your drink.
I mean, ice is fine.
But I saw this.
I saw this video on TikTok ofthis girl that was obsessed with
the Ninja Turtles.
She.
She, like, goes into debt,like, buying the movie heads and
(19:50):
stuff like that.
The movie heads are cool.
That I.
I was like, I don't know.
I'd probably go into debt for that.
Just kidding.
But she also, every day had toeat a pizza and make it weird because
the Ninja turtles made it weird.
One of her pizzas that wasweird was just like, she ordered,
like, a deep dish and justcovered the top in mayonnaise.
No cheese.
Like.
Like, it had cheese andeverything, but under it, she coated
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it just like it was just awhite pizza covered in mayonnaise.
That's just.
That seems so unnecessary.
Like, I get the bit.
You try it, Right?
It wasn't a bit.
This girl's mentally insane.
Like, her room is covered withNinja Turtles.
She dresses up like it andreenacts it on her front lawn.
Is it flavored mayonnaise?
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Like.
Like spicy mayonnaise?
Mayonnaise just flat out,Duke's mayonnaise.
I'm gonna.
I'm gonna say no.
I mean, I've had egg on pizza.
I've had.
I've had pineapple.
All the other stuff.
I'm trying to think.
I would try the mayonnaise slice.
I would take a slice of hermayonnaise covered pizza.
I would not do Miracle Whip.
(20:55):
Well, I'm not a Miracle Whipfan anyhow.
I can't do the Miracle Whip.
Miracle Whip is salad dressingto me, that's.
My dad always tried to.
Tried to trick me.
He'd be like, Make a bologna sandwich.
Just go ahead and put MiracleWhip on it.
We don't need mayonnaise.
I was like, dad, that's a sin.
We don't do that here.
Like, a sin.
That's not okay.
I'll never buy Miracle Whip.
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Well, I guess, I guess the,the question then.
And how would you put it on?
How would you put Miracle Whipon a salad?
You, you make, you make saladdressing out of Miracle Whip?
Oh, is that what it is?
It's an ingredient or.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
There's no insanity is justputting flat Miracle Whip on a salad.
On a salad.
Oh, you've, you've crossed a line.
(21:37):
Yeah.
The people in the white coatsare here to help.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I still want to see the.
What do you mix it with?
You're just like honey mustardand Miracle Whip, I guess.
I don't know.
I, look, I, I, I, I'm not, I'mnot the person that's going to be
like, oh, we should add, weshould add Miracle Whip to that.
Those words only came out ofmy worth my mouth now.
(22:00):
They're never going to comeout of my mouth again.
I just think the guy whocreated Miracle Whip was like, what
if I made mayonnaise grosser?
Tom, no.
How could the world be wrong?
How can I make the world morewrong here?
I mean, we just survived.
You know, there's orangespecks in this mayonnaise.
Ish substance.
It's 1952.
(22:20):
The world just survived theNazi regime.
Here's Miracle Web.
Bill made it home after amortar hit his helmet.
He didn't die.
Well, what did he do?
He made Miracle Whip.
Done Miracle Whip.
I got an idea.
No thanks, Larry.
I just want you to know thereis no support for Miracle Whip in
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the comments on our TikTok.
Nobody has said anything insupport of.
Support of Miracle Whip.
Wait, is it the inverse?
Everyone's like, no, nobody's.
Nobody said anything.
There's 70 people watching outthere and nobody's.
Nobody has said anything about Miracle.
No support of it.
Just like voting.
Get out here and tell your,Tell us your heartfelt thoughts on
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Miracle Whip.
The things that should trend on.
This is what I want on TikTok.
I want miracle Whip to trend.
One guy's like, it's okay, Lube.
You're like, so you can.
You don't have to follow anymore.
Hashtag Miracle Whip.
It helps me whip it good.
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So with TikTok potentiallycoming to an end, I'm curious, have
you seen any of the stuffabout this rednote with.
That's an actual Chinese appavailable in the, in the United States.
So I have, I have seen a lotof videos that people are posting
that they are looking at thevideos on, on RedNote and like they're.
(23:51):
People on RedNote in China areresponding to people in the United
States joining their app.
And, and it seems like it's,it's, it's taken off pretty well.
There's a lot of people thathave done it.
They're calling themselvesTick Tock refugees.
And some of the people thatare on there are just like, oh, I'm
so excited.
There's, you know, there'sAmericans on here where.
(24:12):
Because they're, because theChinese version of Tick Tock versus
the American US Version ofTick Tock, we don't, we don't, we
don't have access to thosepeople and they don't have access
to these people.
So it's, it, there's been areal, like, community.
That's so weird.
It's just like Red Notebrought to you by GGPing.
(24:35):
No, thanks.
So I don't know, I don't knowwhy they're banning TikTok and don't
ban like Omegle.
What is Omegle?
It's like where you can likechat roulette kind of thing.
Like where you just.
And China can use it.
They do use it.
Other countries use it like dick.
Dick.
Dick person.
Are you okay?
They're like, there's their dick.
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It's, I don't know, likethey're bringing Tick Tock for no
reason.
The only, the only thing Isupport, like, needs to be fixed
is you're giving China your information.
If you buy things off of likeTikTok shop.
Sure.
Which it has turned into like,you know, GNN or whatever the shopping
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channel was.
There are a lot of ads.
There are a lot of ads.
I will say this about RedNote.
What I have seen so far onRedNote because Julie joined.
What I have seen is there.
There are.
There are virtually no ads.
There is.
There is.
I don't have theinfrastructure for ads and to ship.
Yeah, potentially.
But it's.
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Honestly, it's.
Yeah.
And Kelly's right.
TEMU is bad about too.
But there's a.
There is.
I don't know, there's ageneral, genuine sense of like, community
and it seems like they're soappreciative of Americans joining
on RedNote and people are interacting.
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Well, look, I'm going to say this.
If there's ever some sort of afight or war Between China and the
United States, it isn't USCitizens versus them citizens.
It is just governments.
I have no interest in everseeing any harm come to the Chinese
people.
It's just like, I don't hate Russians.
(26:22):
I don't hate Ukrainians.
I don't hate the Chinese.
I don't hate the Taiwanese,Japanese, Koreans, I definitely don't
hate North Koreans.
It's literally the people incharge can't get around on it.
And they try to rally you tonot like them as well.
I, I think, I think we'vegrown as a society just to be like
most of it.
(26:42):
Like, not, not even most ofus, but the select few of us.
If you're watching this stillis probably you included.
People are people.
They're.
And literally no differentthan you.
Yeah.
I mean, the Iranians, for instance.
I don't.
There's so many Iranian youthsthat want Western culture to be there.
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They want to wear jeans and stuff.
They want to.
They want the, like, the sneakers.
But they're ran by like, youknow, totalitarian regimes and shit
like that.
These countries, just likeours, isn't truly listening to us.
Right.
We think it is with voting,but, dude, who knows how voting works
anymore?
At the end of the day, likenow, now they're saying there was
(27:28):
issues with the Trump being elected.
Of course, we had, we had Mr.
Mypella, Mike Lindell tellingus how Trump was robbed in 2020 of
it.
@ the end of the day, you go,I think we've kind of gone too far
with this.
We.
We're not hating each other,but you're making us hate each other.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, now and, and again, Ithink, I think that it even, even
(27:49):
back into the 50s and 60s and70s when, when, you know, Russia
was the, the, the big, youknow, or I guess the Soviet Union
was the.
Big bad, the red scare.
Yeah, it was.
I don't think it was everAmerican people versus Soviet people.
I think it was.
It was the American governmentversus the Russia, the Soviet government.
(28:10):
It was.
You know, that was, that wasalways, that was always the way it
was.
You know, somebody that I usedto work with made a comment when
Trump was running the firsttime in 2016, and after everything
started coming out about theRussian collusion and things like
that, this guy who is ultraconservative is, you know, red, white
(28:31):
and blue everything.
And kudos to him for havingthat level of commitment, you know.
But he said to me, he askedme, he was like, why should I hate
Russia just for being Russia?
And at the time, I said, Isaid, I'm not suggesting that you
hate Russia.
I'm not suggesting that youtake out ads on social media project
(28:53):
or, you know, portraying yourvision of disgust over Russia.
I have no interest in that.
I don't think the problem'sthe Russians.
I think the problem isVladimir Putin or whoever's in charge.
But he was like, why should Ihate him?
And I said, you shouldn't.
He said, but if it comes downto what their.
(29:15):
Honestly, for me, it's whatthe Russian government does to the
Russian people.
The fact that.
What was this?
Tucker Carlson went over toRussia to interview with Putin and
he thought he had this out.
Just amazing.
Interview with Vladimir Putin.
Yeah.
Then Putin was like, what aweak ass.
Yeah.
Like Putin released on his ownTV networks.
(29:35):
He was like.
He was like, this is thedumbest thing I've ever done.
Like, this is.
This guy.
He kissed my ass the entire time.
Like what?
Like what People didn't evensee on the show or the Twitter episode
or whatever.
They were like.
They were like, he.
He basically gave me thequestions ahead of time.
He let me.
He let me lead him down, whatever.
(29:56):
And then he did a whole thingwhere he was walking around the grocery
store.
I was like, oh, the food'sless expensive here.
Look, this is a loaf of bread.
Yeah.
What.
What an idiot.
And I look at that and I.
And I'm like.
I'm like, you don't understandthe fundamentals of communism.
If you don't.
If you can't recognize thatthe food there is subsidized.
And then like, so.
So just cognitive dissonance,big time.
(30:20):
Just being like, how cheapthis food is and then being like,
I guess communism might work alittle bit.
These is in Russia.
Like, dude, that's the.
The most insane.
And like, when I think aboutcountries like Russia and North Korea
in China, I think Russia, Ithink Putin, what a dick.
(30:41):
I don't hate.
I don't hate Russians.
Yeah.
I think of their government.
What a dick.
I think of China.
I think ggping, Winnie thePooh, the softest damn leader they've
ever had in China.
I think North Korea and Jong.
Illustration.
The weakest, softest, just thesoftest, dumbest boy.
Like, it's.
It's the leaders, it's not the people.
(31:03):
And I'm.
I know that it has to be that way.
When Australians are Chineseor the UK looks at America, I don't
think they go straight to.
All Americans are dumb.
I think they go like, holy.
Your leadership and yourgovernment is.
Yeah, but I mean, that's how Isee it.
I literally do not go, howridiculous are the English, how ridiculous
(31:26):
are the Chinese or the North Koreans?
Can't these North Koreans dosomething about their stoplight actor
culture?
Like.
No.
Like it's ridiculous.
No.
And they absolutely cannot.
Because the threat of gettingyour ankles broken in a mine while
breaking rocks is insane.
If they wanted to leave thecountry, they can't thank.
(31:47):
When the lights go out, you goinside and don't you say anything.
Yeah, yeah.
When, when TV crews from, youknow, western countries like the
United States or the UK orwhatever, like when they come to
North Korea to like filmspecials or film documentaries or
whatever, it's.
It's, it's virtually like aghost town.
And it's like, well, when you do.
See people that they're.
(32:08):
They're state hired actors.
Yeah, yeah.
That will not talk to thepeople that are there to film.
Do you think that the level ofintelligence, like, technologically
in North Korea is as advancedas, say, I don't know, the United
States or China or like, youknow, I'm not, Not even remotely.
(32:31):
I think, I think, I think thethings that North Korea gets, they'll
get through trade.
But there's no, like, forinstance, there's nothing a North
Korean citizen looking for abetter HDMI cable.
Right.
Like, there's not any.
Much less.
Are they watching anything?
(32:51):
Like they would need it.
Right.
So they're just going to getstate sponsored television.
That's what you watch, right.
That's what you get.
There's no bigger, better.
Everyone's equal on the mostdismal of levels of existence.
And there's even, like, Ithink like North Korea builds buildings
(33:14):
just to build buildings andhave them exist.
Like they built.
I think there was evensupposed to be a Trump Tower in North
Korea at one point.
If I'm not, I could be wrong.
It was either modeled afterit, they, they completely stopped.
But it's still now the tallestbuilding in North Korea.
It is a.
Literally no one's ever lived there.
There was no plans for anyoneto live there.
(33:36):
It's just a building to, to bepart of the great caper that is North
Korea.
Yeah.
So Cooper had a comment.
He said it's hard to haveequal tech without the industry to
support it.
And I.
That's true.
I agree that you can't.
You, especially if you don'thave like advanced university, you
(33:57):
know, universities that areteaching these advanced skills and
things like that.
So.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
You don't want your.
North Korea is not a countrythat wants you to know stuff.
And if you do, you're going towork for the government, and then
you're going to shut up and doas you're told.
There's not going to be anyadvancement work shopping like, all
(34:19):
right, the rocket didn't flyas far as we wanted it to get in
this room, you.
Show up and like, where's thewater cooler?
We don't go to the watercooler here.
Kind of like how Bob Lazartalked about working on that ufo.
You and Bob work on the ufo.
You're not talking to anyother departments about building
(34:40):
this rocket and how any otherpart works in conjunction with your
part.
Yeah, make your part good.
That's it.
Figure this out.
I've seen so many videos of,like, Westerners visiting North Korea.
And the actors, to me, isstill the most insane part that the
(35:01):
government hire, like.
Like, let's call it hires, but gets.
Gets people to pretend to behaving a good time.
Yeah.
But when the people who arethere to visit come to, like, interview
them and ask them about thetown, the city, they'll just walk
away and not talk to them.
They.
They went.
I saw them go to a cardealership, and there was people
(35:23):
looking at cars.
They tried to talk to thepeople looking at cars.
They would just walk away fromthem, not even talk to them.
Yeah.
And they were like, these aregovernment actors.
Yeah.
Yeah, that makes.
Yeah, that makes sense.
And.
And of course, in a.
In a society like that, likein North Korea, that's the image
you want to maintain.
You want to.
You want to have the image ofa freedom or the ability to go out
(35:45):
and say, you know, buy a caror go to the grocery store and pick
out what you want to eat.
But.
But that isn't.
If it's.
If the cameras aren't on,that's probably not what's going
on.
So, I mean, they killed one ofour citizens.
He got arrested for.
I can't remember what he did,but he was so malnourished by the
time we got him, he died.
(36:05):
He died basically, like, onthe way.
I remember something about that.
I remember something aboutthat sticky in.
A camp, and you're breakingrocks until the rocks are no longer
to be broken.
Then you get another rock andyou're breaking that down.
Like, it's just.
I don't understand.
I.
I think what boggles my mindis I don't understand any productivity
in a system like that.
That I can't.
(36:25):
They're gonna do.
They're gonna.
They're gonna do everythingyou tell them to do.
But, like, if they went to warwith somebody, you're gonna fight
the most malnourished people ever.
Right.
Like, they've been grinding awar machine for the most part.
That's it.
Cooper also just said NorthKorea has a TikTok account that's
purely.
(36:45):
I guess that is all they'reshowing is the, the state actors,
the.
The government actors outthere doing.
Oh, that'd be interesting.
We gotta find that.
Yeah, I might.
Might have to look for that.
Yeah, I guess so.
By the time this episode airson Monday, TikTok ban will likely
be in place.
I don't see the Supreme Courtstepping in to issue a stay.
(37:09):
I think there is a possibilitythat there is a bill that has been
a bill that is being.
That is attempting to beintroduced to the floor of the House
or the Senate, one of themthat could potentially at least stay
the ban for 160 days or 260days or something like that.
But I think even in thatsituation, all they're going to do
(37:31):
is just keep kicking the bandown the road.
Because this is an app thathas more than 170 million Americans
on it.
There is a serious level ofcommerce that does take place.
Even if I get annoyed at thenumber of ads that I scroll past.
I admittedly have boughtproducts off the TikTok shop.
(37:54):
I, I absolutely have.
I, My.
These.
These little.
I'm not looking forsponsorship, not with four days left,
five days left, but these,these wireless microphones that I,
that I, That I use to.
To record content with.
I got those off the TikTokshop, like, and they're.
They're.
They're decent.
I mean, they're.
They're good enough for me.
(38:14):
I bought some of the fantic stuff.
I have fantic screwdriver anda fantic vacuum cleaner.
Now.
How dare you buy stuff from China.
I don't have anything in myhouse made in China.
Do not check where thatmicrophone was made there, Zach.
Do not look at themanufacturer on that microphone.
I don't, I don't care if ticktock dies.
(38:36):
At the end of the day, I thinkit's the dumbest that could possibly
be litigated.
Because at the end of the day,it's kind of like.
I mean, we have, we havepeople like the Rizzler that exists,
and I'm just like, tick tocks.
Like, that's.
Is that it?
Like, what, what else youdon't like when kids say bet and
(38:57):
cap?
Is that why we're like,there's no reason behind it.
It's insane.
We'll.
We'll just stick to ourYouTube shorts and our Facebook shorts
and.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I'll, we'll write out.
We'll write out TikTok.
It'll get no support, and thenour, our apps just won't work.
Eventually.
Yeah, that's what's gon.
You won't be able to download it.
(39:18):
So if you don't have TikToknow, go ahead and download it while
you still can and just ridethe wave.
Yeah, I mean, that's TikTok.
Do America a favor.
Just never update.
We're all going to run on thesame update the entire time until
we crash it.
I think that's all you can do.
I guess the last thing I wantto talk about.
Of course, by the time thisepisode comes out and everybody starts
listening to it, by the way,theallaboutnothing.com is where you
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The, the 20th.
Send the all about Nothingpodcast to Honolulu, Hawaii.
Yeah, we could do an episode.
You, you guys send us to Honolulu.
We will do.
We'll do 10 episodes.
Barrett will get in the sharkcage and swim with a great white.
(40:03):
I, I don't have any fear of that.
For some reason, that, that,that thing doesn't, that doesn't
scare me.
I don't, I don't know why I'll.
Be holding on to the thing.
Just like, go, Barrett, swim.
I'm wearing chain mail.
But, you know, so the 20th, asof whatever time, 12:00pm on the
(40:24):
20th, Donald Trump will havebeen inaugurated as the 47th President
of the United States.
And I don't want to speculateon what the potential negatives are.
What I want is for us to tryand come up with a few positives
that could potentially comefrom Donald Trump being.
When Donald Trump'sinaugurated as president.
(40:44):
A positive.
Yeah.
Can you come up with apositive while you come up with a
pot?
It's kind of like, it's kindof like when the waitress comes over
to the table and, and, and wethink everybody's ready to order,
but it's going to be a lot of.
Can you come back to me inlike, two minutes?
I, I'll, I'll order.
Would that be, like, weird?
Yeah, I, I, some comments.
(41:05):
Gator aunt says she's got nothing.
Uh, nothing.
Got nothing.
I'm Trying to think of some positives.
I think if.
I guess if I put a lot ofthought into it, I think there's
the potential that a DonaldTrump presidency, at least within.
That's a good point.
Okay, so silky McGilke, hesaid that maybe Donald Trump will
(41:31):
let felons vote.
And.
Okay, so that is somethinglegitimately I feel inclined to agree
with.
If you have committed afelony, you have served your time,
you are now out of prison,you're out on parole, not out on
parole, but you have servedyour time, you have repaid society.
(41:55):
I think you should be allowedthe right to vote.
Absolutely.
Fair enough.
You have a job, you're payingtaxes, you have a right to vote who
it is that's representing howthose taxes are being dispersed.
Fair enough.
So I'll give a littlehumanity, humanity back to those
who, yeah, serve their time.
I think the one positive I canstart out with is the jokes are going
(42:16):
to write themselves.
Oh, I feel at this point, Imean, he's not president yet, and
he's already tried to buyCanada and Iceland, so.
And rename the Gulf of MexicoGulf of Amer, because that's what
we care about.
Gulf of America called theGulf of Piss.
I don't care how long.
(42:39):
How long do you think?
So Donald Trump will beentering his presidency with the
lowest approval rate of anyincoming president.
I want to say, I think thelast thing I saw was, like, it was
32%.
He's the first president toever be inaugurated.
One is a convicted felon, twowith approval ratings, sub 40.
(43:01):
Like, this is the firstpresident to ever do that.
When Biden came in, he was.
He was like mid-40s.
Clinton came in, he was in mid-40s.
Like Obama was.
Was in the 50s, upper-50s.
You know, I look forward toeggs being basically free.
Right.
Not supposed to happen.
Why?
Why?
Well, I am.
(43:22):
I am genuinely curious as towhy is it that that's the one thing
people go to, like, how manyeggs are.
And don't get me wrong, Idon't know.
Since I was a kid, I think mymom has always gone like, Jesus Christ
brought us eggs $2.15.
It is, it is an anecdote thatpeople go to a lot of the time, you
(43:43):
know, but like, I get.
Eggs for free, so that's.
Oh, do you want to.
Do you want to do a littleshout out for your sister's farm?
Yeah, go to Dos Farms, get yousome not free eggs.
Dos Farms, Chapin, South Carolina.
Or is they in Little Mountain?
Little Mountain.
Little Mountain, Little Mountain.
South Carolina, Dos Farms.
(44:03):
My sister.
My sister has gives me freeeggs, and so does my in laws.
They have chickens, and I getfree eggs there.
I got more eggs than I knowwhat to do with.
I'm gonna start a monopoly.
Ask for Shelby at Doss Farmsin Little Mountain, South Carolina.
I got so many eggs, I'll throwthem at Donald Trump during the inauguration.
Ooh, careful.
(44:24):
Come at me.
Eggs ain't that bad.
Get a chicken.
Yeah, I don't know.
The price of milk isn't veryexpensive right now that I can think
of.
And I say that because, forsome reason, my kids go through this
thing where they'll drink awhole lot of milk all at once, and
we run out of a gallon of milkin less than a week.
And then we have a gallon ofmilk sit there for two weeks unopened.
(44:46):
Tell me about it.
I think that we need to stopthe gas shit.
That happens.
You got the plus price.
Like, not.
I'm not talking about thegrades of gas.
You have your credit cardprice, your cash price, and if you
use a debit card, that countsas neither.
You just pay the credit price.
That's fair.
Them that used to be illegal,do it again.
That's fair.
Put it back.
(45:06):
If Trump could do that, justgive him a third turn.
Look, I fully.
I.
I have fully acknowledged mybug guy was here today.
Lamps Pest Control here inLexington, South Carolina.
Check him out.
He didn't know I was going todo that.
I didn't know.
Some guy named Lance, it wasn't.
His name's Rick Lamp.
Lamp Pest Control, Lexington,South Carolina.
(45:28):
Let's shine some light onthese bugs.
Yes, he's good.
He comes every quarter.
He does his.
He does his thing.
If we have an issue, he's in.
Every corner of your house.
Yeah, that's right.
That's the.
I don't know what to tell you, Barrett.
They just don't like it.
Yeah, but.
And.
(45:48):
But I told him today.
We were talking.
We were talking a littlepolitics before he left, but I told
him today, look, if DonaldTrump accomplishes the things that
I think that are importantthat he has promised, whether it's
gas prices going down, if it'sgrocery prices going down, if he
ends the war in Ukraine, if heends the war, if he somehow negotiates
the end of the war in Israel,I will be the first one to come on
(46:12):
here and say, kudos.
This is.
This is what he said he wasgoing to do, and he did it.
I'm not holding my breath.
You know, same.
Same as I wouldn't hold mybreath if Kamala Harris had promised
the same thing and got elected.
I'm not going to hold mybreath, because while I want her
to succeed, I want DonaldTrump to succeed, too, because I
(46:34):
don't want to see any, anyonein the country get harmed.
No, I don't want a clownrunning it.
Let's say he has a stroke thatreverses him and he becomes a presidential
savant.
I would enjoy it.
It's not going to happen.
Right?
We already did this, y'all.
He's the most incompetentyou've ever seen.
Any, like, round two is goingto be number two of anything.
(46:58):
Has not been better than thefirst one.
Yeah.
My fear is that there are nomore adults in the room.
That is, you know, PeteHessian out there.
You can't even admit that ifyou ever hit a woman that that could
potentially disqualify youfrom a public office that requires
Senate confirmation, that, youknow, there are allegations, they
(47:23):
may be unfounded, but thereare women that have gone on the record
that he has put their hand onthem, and to me, that's disqualifying.
Yeah.
He's gonna stock it withpeople who, who now, like, have seen
what staffers have had to dealwith and staffers that came out and
had things to say about it.
And now he's gonna havestaffers that will just take it the
(47:46):
entire time and not come outand be like, that was bad.
So now you have bona fidepsychopaths backing him up if he
says KFC needs to go to themoon, like, he'd be like this after.
Yep, that's right.
Getting asked on the phone,Donald Trump wants a KFC on the men
so the aliens can have goodcountry cooking, all 11 herbs and
spices, like, the most insane shit.
(48:07):
He's going to have the mostinsane people now backing him up.
I, I, I don't know.
I think the most surprisingthing is if we buy fucking Iceland,
I would be like, of course.
Greenland.
Yeah.
I'd be like, of course ithappened this time.
Well, according, according tosurveys done by people that live
in Greenland, that, that they,they, they don't want to be part
of the United States.
They're very happy with theiruniversal health care.
(48:28):
They're very.
That's not what Trump Jr.
Said when he went there forhis podcast.
Yeah, I saw, I saw some of thestuff from Donald Trump Jr.
Look, and nothing against theTrump name or anything like that,
but in all honesty, If DonaldTrump Jr.
Says it, I tend to believethat There probably needs to be maybe
(48:49):
a finite, at least amount ofresearch into some of the things
he says, and I think peopleare going to be disappointed that
like him, that support him,that they're going to be disappointed
in how factually incorrect he is.
Does Greenland have volcanoes?
I.
I am not aware of volcanoes in Greenland.
I'm aware of.
I don't think so.
(49:11):
That'd be nice because wecould convince Trump Jr.
There's a cocaine mine at thebottom of the volcano and he can
land his helicopter and filmhis podcast down there.
Call me crazy, I would just like.
To think that our podcast getsmore listeners than.
Than Donald Trump Juniors, butI know that's probably not true,
(49:33):
so.
Well, all the people he hasbunny for cocaine probably listen
to his podcast for, like, tipson what is he gonna pay him back
and stuff like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you know, possibly.
He owes me five bucks.
That was for a McRib at aMcDonald's at an airport.
(49:54):
I didn't know who he was atthe time.
Why are we buying.
Why are we buying Airport McRibs?
Why did he want to make rib?
I don't know.
I had a.
I.
I'm a human.
I had a double quarter pounder meal.
That's fair.
That's fair.
He just wanted one McRib,extra onions.
It was weird.
Well, Zach, I promised youthat this episode wouldn't go an
hour, and we've almost gottenthere, so I'm gonna.
(50:15):
I'm gonna wrap it up.
I gotta go.
I got important stuff to do.
Listen to you.
Listen.
By the time you all arelistening to this episode, it is
January 20th.
It's probably after 12:00.
And I guess, you know, as.
As one of the hosts of thispodcast, I will just say, congratulations,
Donald Trump, on your inauguration.
(50:36):
I.
I sincerely will support allof the things that you do that are
good and that do well for thepeople of this country.
Do I get to say something?
Yeah, go ahead, Zach.
Donald Trump, congratulationson your nomination and win.
And I hope you have a painfulshit every time you shit for the
(50:59):
next four years.
And I hope the last one, thisis the worst one, and that it ships
the bowl.
Fuck you.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!