September 9, 2025 • 48 mins
Welcome back to the Civil Union Podcast with Ryan and Alex! In the season 2 premiere episode, the duo returns after a summer hiatus, highlighting their trip to Las Vegas and discussing the unforgettable Backstreet Boys concert at the Sphere. They dive into current political issues, including concerns over gerrymandering and Governor Mike Kehoe's actions in Missouri. The conversation gets heated as they critique the Missouri Republicans' stance on redistricting and gun control, especially in the context of a recent school shooting perpetrated by a transgender individual. They also talk about the economic conditions, as evidenced by the declining 'stripper index,' and discuss tipping culture's evolution in America.
00:00 Welcome Back to the Civil Union Podcast
01:35 Summer Recap: Vegas Adventures and More
06:53 Political Landscape: Gerrymandering and Controversies
15:07 Economic Insights: The Stripper Index and Recession
25:45 Game Time: Trump or Movie Villain?
33:47 Missouri's Third US House District
34:34 Gun Violence and Transgender Issues
41:31 Viral Clips
48:03 End of Episode 1
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(00:08):
Welcome to the Civil UnionPodcast.
I'm Ryan here with my husband,Alex.
We are here to spill the tea onthe ever so changing political
landscape.
That's right.
You've come to the right place.
We're spilling tea, calling outthe bs.
This season will be so muchbetter than the last democracy's
messy.
And so are we.
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Hey, we are here, we're backagain.
I'm Ryan with my husband Alex.
Hello.
And we are, um, it's, it's backat season two.
Oh my gosh.
I can't believe we.
Have been through so much.
Not as like Americans, but likeas.
Husbands and, we went throughsummer.
(00:50):
We didn't record a podcast.
It's been since like may youknow it, it's a lot of work and
it's a lot of just wait to readthe news and keep up for this
podcast.
So we took like a summer off andI will tell you it was really
hard sometimes to hear some ofthe stuff going on and not do
this podcast and not speak ourmind.
'cause so much has happened inthe last three months.
(01:11):
I know.
I can't tell you how many timesI actually like.
Pre-written like a Facebookstatus update, like, you know,
sharing my opinion like everyonedoes these days, and I just
like.
Would like delete itautomatically, because I'm like,
no, I'm not gonna be that personand I'll just save it for the
podcast.
So I'm so happy we're back.
Yeah, we, we have a lot ofmaterial now guys.
(01:33):
Yeah, we do have some goodmaterial.
Um, how, how was the summer?
How was your summer, Alex?
Oh man.
The summer was good.
I actually didn't work as muchand we went to Vegas in July.
We did go to Las Vegas.
That was so much fun.
Saw the Backstreet Boys.
Backing it up in the sphere.
Oh my God.
The Backstreet Boys at thesphere.
Okay.
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Anyone that has the chance to goto the sphere, fucking do it.
It is the coolest experienceever.
You can't compare it to anythingelse.
The videos I got were justamazing and, you know, we had
the chance to see Lady Gaga thatweekend, or we had the chance to
see Backstreet Boys at thesphere and.
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I know Alex really wanted to goto the sphere and when I said,
oh, well Backstreet Boys areperforming there, and his eyes
like lit up and so we, we gottickets to the sphere.
We were on the fourth floor inthe center, eight rows back.
And I'll tell you what, it waslike the best seats in the
house.
It was the.
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Coolest experience.
Did you ever feel like you weregonna like fall off?
Because that's the, that's theconcern with like so many people
is like, oh, it's so steep, or,oh, it's so high.
Did you feel like that?
No, I never felt that.
Like, I think like the, theenterprise center where the blue
St.
Louis Blues play, like, I feellike that's more steeper than
the sphere, but I hear that.
(02:58):
I hear that all the time frompeople.
Yeah, it wasn't, it, it looksbad.
It definitely like isintimidating, but once you're at
your seat, it really wasn't toobad.
And even when we got there, Iwas like, oh God, I hope we're
not standing this whole concert.
But then we ended up standingand it again, it wasn't that bad
because you had so many peoplein front of you and you don't
see the tears below you.
(03:20):
So it's just you're kind of inthe moment and you're kind of
just there in your space.
It really wasn't too bad.
But it's like the first, Ibelieve you said it was the
first pop band or pop musicartist that was performing at
the sphere.
And I tell you what, I'm sohappy I saw that.
I, I swear to you that I'm goingto be looking at residencies at
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this sphere for the rest of mylife and be like, oh.
S this person's playing there.
Like let, let's go there and seethem.
You know?
So yeah, I've told that tonumerous people.
I'm like, just follow the sphereand the moment you have a band
there that you wanna see, justbuy tickets'cause it's gonna be
worth it.
It was so good.
Could you imagine Taylor Swiftperforming there?
(04:02):
Oh, it would never happen.
She's so bigger than that.
But like I.
Or like a dance, EDC, like somesort of electronic.
That would be so cool.
So cool.
Yeah.
Highly recommend though guys.
You need to go see it.
But also this summer, you know,we had some downtime.
We got to go to the pool.
We got to just basically hangout.
We were working, you know, butit was, it was a good time.
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It was a good time.
It was a good cheap summerthere.
Well, not really cheap, but goodand cheap when it comes to
travel.
Yeah.
Now there's a slight crisp inthe air and, uh, it's, it's,
it's, uh, getting cooler out.
Leaves are starting to fall, sowe're, we're headed in the fall
now, so I cannot wait forHalloween season.
I am so amped for it.
(04:46):
I am ready.
Yeah.
I'm wearing a hoodie right now.
You are wearing a hoodie.
You're always wearing hoodiesthough.
That's true.
That's true.
Yeah.
So, and then you're almost donewith your, uh, master's degree?
Yes, I'm on my last class.
My master's will be done thefirst or second week of October,
and then it is Alex, MBA, readyto go take on anything.
(05:08):
Oh, that's so exciting.
Congratulations.
Thanks.
We'll, yeah, we're going to SanFrancisco in October to
celebrate, so it should be agood time.
I'm really, really excited forit.
Anything else going on in yourworld?
Um, no.
I mean, I, that's really it.
I've been working so much thelast few weeks.
I, I think I've been averaging70 hours a week, so it's just
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been nuts.
But, you know, it, it's nicebecause.
The way the economy is.
I am very fortunate that we, Ican pick up shifts and we can
have such a good, you know, um,income in this household because
a lot of people can't do that.
And so I'm very fortunate.
So even though we're working alot, you, you're working a lot
too.
Like We are, we're do, we'redoing good for ourselves right
(05:52):
now, which is, which is great.
I'm, I'm, we're comfortable andI'm so ready for our San
Francisco trip and I'm so readyfor fall.
Yeah.
Amazing.
I saw this video that's likeresurfacing on TikTok.
It's the Alabama governor.
She like burped giving a pressconference.
It's kind of hilarious.
It happened in 2001 or 2021, butit's like resurfacing now.
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I don't know why.
I have no idea.
But do you wanna hear her burp?
Yeah, let's do it.
All right.
Let's go.
Wow.
Yeah.
What did she have for lunch?
So when you told me about thisvideo, I was like a burp.
And then I watched the video andI mean, it was a, it's a
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substantial burp if what it'slike.
Deep and long.
I, I actually looked at thevideo and I was like, wait, was
this a woman or a man or whatwas this?
'cause I'm so confused thatthat's just absolutely
hilarious.
So, okay, so we have to startoff by discussing how Trump is
trying to rig the midtermelections.
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We all know what gerrymanderingis, and if you don't read up on
it, but the Missouri Republicanmajority is currently in the
process of passing updatedgerrymandered districts right
now.
Trump Lapdog, Mike Kehoe, ourwonderful governor and I say
that ever so sarcastically,called for a special session
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this week to redraw thesedistricts that Republicans
already passed in.
2022.
So gerrymandering, from myunderstanding is basically them
trying to redistrict like votinglines to allow certain
ethnicities not to be able toget to the ballot or their vote,
maybe not matter as much orweighted as much as that kind of
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the, the idea of why they aredoing what they're doing to kind
of take over more Republicancontrol.
Is that what's going on?
Yeah, that is absolutely theconsistency.
It's always.
Been a controversial topic andat like Texas was doing this
like last month and.
Everyone was, all theRepublicans were pointing out,
look at Illinois, look atIllinois and their gerrymandered
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districts.
But as a nerd in middle school,I loved reading maps.
And when I had my social studiesbook, I, I I, I was learning
what gerrymandering was.
And North Carolina had the mostgerrymandered district.
It's like this tiny little boxthat followed, uh, you know.
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Across a highway or whatever andit was it, it's always been a
thing.
It's always been controversialand there's been Supreme Court
rulings over it in favor of.
Being able to gerrymander.
That is one of the things duringelection night that I find the
most interesting.
It's not even the fact of likefollowing CNN or whatever with
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their viewpoints, but it's thefact of like, I love watching
the, like the people who arelike knowledgeable about it.
Go through district and countyand county and they'll like
predict how many votes they'regonna come in.
I find that so interesting, butthat's where this kind of comes
into play.
Yeah.
So after each census, theconstitution warrants each state
to redraw their districts infavor of a political party.
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Red states do it.
Blue states do it.
Everyone does it.
The Texas Showdown we saw overthe summer is essentially taking
place here in Missouri rightnow.
So.
While you struggle to pay foryour groceries.
I mean, let's be honest, I thinkwe've all been to the grocery
store and taken items out of thecart in order to try to stay on
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budget or while you struggle tosave money or struggle to pay
your rent.
I mean, these fuckingRepublicans haven't done a damn
thing to help resolve thehousing crisis in this country.
But I'm starting to digresshere.
We're paying them.
To play in our capital right nowto redraw maps illegally.
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No new census has occurred sothey can keep guard of their
seats.
Come the 2026 midterms.
So they have to, technically,they should be, have to wait for
the new census to do the newredistricting, but they're not
doing that, right.
Each census is every 10 years.
So 2020 we had one.
They redrew the maps, theRepublican majority, both in
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Texas and in Missouri, andapplied that to the 2022.
Uh, midterms and that was goingto keep hold until the 2030
census.
And then the every state redrawstheir maps.
And then in 2032, the new redrawmaps would apply to those future
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elections.
You know, it, it, it helps withpopulation growth and everything
like that, so Okay.
But they're like five yearsearly.
Right.
They're doing it way early.
Is that the, well, they're liketwo years after they've already
done it.
Right?
And no new census has occurred.
So this is questionably illegalif you think about it.
Yeah, because it should comeafter each census.
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You know?
I feel like nothing is illegalwith this administration right
now.
It's amazing that no one isdoing anything about this right
now.
Anyways, so right now, Missouriholds a six two Republican
majority when it comes to theUnited States representatives.
That's six red, two blue.
The two blue fish out there arelocated in the major cities of
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this state.
One in Kansas City, one in St.
Louis.
Missouri Republicans areessentially breaking up Democrat
representative EmmanuelCleaver's, Kansas City District
into three sections, essentiallyeliminating his chances of
winning in 2026.
They're also re redrawing theone St.
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Louis Blue District to try toeliminate lame duck.
Ann Wagner from losing her seatin Congress.
Ann Wagner, by the way, hasnever held a town hall since
taking office in 2012.
Trump lapdog Governor Keho.
Is winning praise from the WhiteHouse for the circus he's
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creating, just like TexasGovernor Abbott did in Texas
back in August.
So while Keho and his Republicanbuddies play with their maps,
just remember that these guysdon't care about you or your
vote unless it benefits them.
Missouri has consistently votedto pass things like the
expansion of Medicaid.
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Republicans overturn that.
Republicans overturned theminimum wage increase and
guaranteed paid sick leave forMissourians.
They overturned that one thatpassed in November, and since
Missouri Republicans lost theabortion amendment, now they're
claiming they disliked thewording of that amendment, and
now they're planning to reword anew amendment to make it more
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confusing for voters like youand me to get confused at the
ballot box in hopes that.
You know, we outlaw abortion.
Again, like what's the point ofvoting for any of these things?
If later down the road theseRepublicans are just gonna, just
gonna overrule it?
I mean, what is the point of itall?
I, it absolutely befuddles me.
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I don't know what that wordmeans, but it sounds like it
means something good that I'msaying it befuddles me because I
don't understand how they canget away with this.
Don't they care about theirvoters and what the voters like
pass and, and it doesn't.
They don't because they, if theydon't like it, they're not going
to put it into law, you know?
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We were at, I was at a townshipmeeting thing, uh, this past
week and we talked about thisand we said, how, you know,
Democrats really should be usingthis to their advantage and
start putting these things thatthe Republicans are overturning
on billboards, on things to showpeople like, these are the
statistics.
This is what you voted.
For, and this is what's beingtaken away from you as you're on
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your rights and what you wanted.
Because right now it's like alot of people, I don't think,
realize that all this is goingon in the background.
There's so much noise.
Yeah.
Keho and his Republican buddiesresent Missouri voters over the
summer.
Keho also signed a law thatallows landlords to discriminate
against tenants from usinghousing vouchers, social
security, disability insurance,child support, and tips to pay
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rent.
Um, where are all the waitersand waitresses and bartenders
expected to live?
And how is it if that's incomecoming into you, how are we
going to allow landlords todiscriminate against you from
getting an apartment or rentinga house in the right school
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district that you wanna live in?
This guy's.
Legacy.
Ki Ho's legacy is already a hugepile of shit and he is only nine
months on the job.
I just, I can't, I don'tunderstand why they're allowing
discrimination, like those twowords just are insane to me that
they're put together.
Isn't that kind of crazy?
It's nuts to me.
Ugh.
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Alright.
New topic.
New topic guys.
The stripper index has dropped.
The stripper index.
Yeah, the stripper index.
Seriously, sex workers arebetter at predicting recessions
than the old, rich white guys onWall Street.
Like I remember each goddamnmonth, Biden was in office.
There was some article out thereof some old white guy bitching
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about how we're all doomed, andit's all Biden's fault when the
stock market crashes.
Does anyone who listened lastseason remember me saying that?
10 of the last 11 recessrecessions all occurred under
Republican leadership.
Okay.
Again, the stripper index hasdropped.
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I just love saying that maybe weshould update this.
11 of the last 12 recessionshave occurred under a Republican
presidency because guys we're ina fucking recession again.
I find this story justabsolutely comical, but I also
fucking love it.
I, I read the article online andapparently.
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Many of the sex worker regulars,like the regulars of these sex
work, like, you know, I guesscustomers, um, aren't tipping at
all or just tipping less thanhalf of what they used to tip.
And that this shift reflects abehavioral trend where consumers
start to prioritize essentialsrather than luxuries.
(16:33):
Yeah.
And tipping your sex workers isa luxury now.
Why should we consider thestripper index as reliable sex
workers?
Observe the behavior ofconsumers on a daily basis,
giving them a street level viewof economic health that predates
Wall Street Reports.
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Historical events like the 2008financial Crisis showed similar
patterns where sex workers saw adrop in clients of revenue
before the broader economiccrash.
That is so interesting.
It's absolutely crazy.
So crazy.
So speaking of the stripperindex, it makes me think of our
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trip in Las Vegas.
I keep seeing all these videosonline of like.
Empty streets and empty casinos.
It's kind of crazy, but I mean,clearly international tourism
has dropped.
The tariffs have continued toinflate prices.
No one wants to travel to theUnited States right now.
(17:37):
It is funny to me that, youknow, there is a definite
recession going on.
We've talked about this in thepast.
We talked about this I thinkright before our break.
And it, you know, if the, ifthe, if the party was flipped
and the Democrats were the onesin the White House, this would
be the story they would berunning with.
Over and over and over again.
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They'd be blaming Biden.
Actually, I think they, I thinkthey did when he was president
for the high prices and allthese things right before he got
outta the office.
Like that was their, that wastheir main push point at the
beginning of Trump's campaignrun was eggs, prices and all
these things.
It's like now we're way worseoff and it seems like no one,
it's just like crickets.
Like no one wants to talk aboutit.
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Okay, well we all know if wecan't afford certain things, we
know you guys aren't either.
Just'cause you're Republicandoesn't mean you have more
money, like everyone'sstruggling here.
Um, I don't know.
It's just, it's crazy to me and.
We did, we did tip our strippersreally well in Vegas.
We didn't see any strippersanyways.
I know, I'm curious.
Lemme just say that when we werein Las Vegas, we had an absolute
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blast and it was absolutelypacked with tourists.
But that weekend was also like afluke because there were just so
many concerts going on at thetime.
But the stripper index mentionsregulars not tipping as much and
oh my God.
So this household right now has.
Tipping fatigue.
Sorry.
You know, I worked the serviceindustry for 15 plus years.
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I know I tip all the time atrestaurants and bars, like
always 20%.
I don't care if your serviceabsolutely sucks.
I'm giving you at least 20%, ifnot more, but.
Everywhere and everyone asks youto tip right now, like we were
at the sphere, and of coursewe're gonna get merch, we're on
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vacation, and I think we got twot-shirts and a collectible
poster board, which I stillhaven't hung up.
And I, it was like$150.
And when I swiped the card, thelittle custom tip thing came up
and it was like 18%, 20%, 22%.
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I'm sorry, I am not tipping.
Someone who got me a shirtturned around, picked out the
correct shirt that I ordered anda poster board and give them$25.
I'm just, I'm not doing that.
I, so I clicked the custom'causethere was a custom box next to
it and I gave$5.
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But back in the day, like thatwasn't a thing.
Like these, it's just like wagereplacement if you think about
it.
Yeah, and you know, we are ahousehold that tips we've always
tipped and I don't know if Icould ever be with someone that
didn't tip.
I find that so rude andannoying.
But yeah, these places areeverywhere you go, McAllisters,
Panera, everywhere.
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It's like they're not, that'snot, that to me is not worth a
tip.
You're literally, thosecompanies should be paying their
cashiers the right co.
Price that they should be worth,and I shouldn't have to help you
with that.
Now, I know Alamo Drafthouse andother places, they'll do like,
what, an 80% gratuity on yourtab, and then you're still
expected to tip on top of that.
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I get that.
I get it.
Because to run a theater, it'sexpensive and they're just
having you help with gettingtheir benefits paid and all
that.
There's a difference with that.
But when you are expected totip, and the funny thing is
these little machines that theyhave now, these little debit
card machines.
The buttons, it's like 10%, 20%or, or 25%.
But then there's like thetiniest little button that says,
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um, custom.
And it's like we see it, we knowto look for it.
But do older people know to lookfor it?
Would my, would my parents know?
Oh, let's.
Look at this like, to not tip,like I've, I've checked out
before and just automaticallytipped 15% because it was just
automatic.
Like, I was just like, checkout.
Now.
(21:34):
It's just, it's very frustratingbecause I don't, I, it, it adds
up, like you said, 20 bucks on$120.
That's a significant, that's awhole, that's a.
That's a cd like, or I guess avinyl one.
I thought I said it and Ithought about that, but yeah, I
don't know.
Everyone's stupid it, so, andthen like, I was smart, so,
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'cause I am good at going toVegas and I like took a case of
water with me in my luggage andlike towards the last day, I
think we were there for likefive nights.
I, we ran outta water and so Iran to the hotel market.
Um, in the lobby and Ipurchased, I just grabbed the
two biggest smart water bottles.
I could find no price tags onit, and I just went to check
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out.
And so I'm at the cashier and Iget checked out and it was 10 99
a bottle of water.
So I'm spending$22 for waterright now.
And it asked me the gratuitything, 18 20, 20 2% or custom,
and I'm like, I am not paying.
$5.
(22:40):
I'm not giving a$5 tip for mepicking out the water and you
just scanning it for me.
I'm sorry.
I'm just not.
So I press custom and I gave adollar, but still, I'm like
kicking myself'cause I'm like, Idon't know.
I think, I think it, it istipping fatigue right now.
And you know, maybe this is ustightening our belt because of
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the economic recession, youknow, because we are in a
recession.
I, like I said earlier in thistopic that I'm talking about.
The job reports number justdropped and August only gained
22,000 jobs.
It's the smallest number sincein many years.
(23:21):
Okay.
They updated the June numbers,and in June, the month of June,
we actually lost jobs.
We lost 13,000 jobs.
And that's the first job losswe've lost in America since
December, 2020.
And who the fuck was presidentthen?
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Fucking Donald Trump and mesaying this is that this is
technically, if not this is arecession and it's because of a
Republican presidency, it'sbecause nothing has been done
about the housing crisis.
It's because of the tariffs andit's just going to get worse
(24:04):
before it gets better.
Unfortunately, I hate to saythat it's time to tighten our
belts, save our money, and justreally, really, you know,
navigate the waters as best aswe can.
But, this technically best jobloss in June ended the second
largest economic surplus.
(24:24):
In America.
So this was like the secondlongest streak of job gain, job
growth since the 1990s, 1990swere the best.
And before that, it was the1960s.
Just a little information therefor you.
I will say, I just want toclarify because I, I don't want
people to think like we are.
I had completely still tipwaiters and bartenders and
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people who actually, you know.
Old school deserve the tip.
Like we are not, like, not, nottipping.
It's just these little, littlemin, minuscule, the areas where
it's like, this doesn't make anysense.
And then we've talked to otherpeople about this, our friends
and people around us, and itseems like everyone is in
agreement that this is aproblem.
So are we, are we talking abouttipping again?
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Yeah.
I went back to, well, because Ithought of if you're all good, I
think people understood.
I thought about it, I was like,I don't want people to think
we're not tipping.
So also just today as well.
So we got the jobs report todayand just today.
Resorts world, Las Vegasreported that they are down 18%
revenue when compared to thesame three month period last
year.
This means that no one istraveling to Las Vegas.
(25:27):
The sex workers are losing moneyand they actually, you know,
predict recessions and they'retelling us that we're in a
fucking recession.
So I believe the sex workersover the old rich white guys in
the Wall Street.
Yeah.
So anyways, Hey Alex.
Yeah, it's game time.
Are you excited?
I am and I am more excited forthe music, always in the
(25:49):
background.
I think it's fun.
It is fun.
Um, so since you love movies,here's one I created.
It's a Who Said it?
Trump or a movie villain?
There's 12 questions.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
Are you ready?
I'm more than ready.
Okay, so here we go.
Number one.
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They're poisoning the blood ofour country.
Trump or Voldemort from HarryPotter.
They're poisoning the blood ofour country.
Trump?
Yes.
Good job.
Thanks.
You have like how many HarryPotter themed tattoos do you
have?
Oh gosh, three.
(26:31):
I have only three.
Only three.
Three.
Yeah.
That's a lot.
Well, I need, I want one withTaylor Swift quotes or
something.
Um, okay.
Number two.
Here we go.
Don't ever apologize for beingthe smartest person in the room.
Let me repeat that.
Don't ever apologize for beingthe smartest person in the room,
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Trump or.
Mysterio from the Spider-Man.
Far from home movie.
Oh.
Have you even watched that moviebefore?
No.
I'm gonna say Mysterio.
Yes.
Good job.
Two for two.
We need to, oh my God.
We got a bell.
You gotta ring the bell.
(27:13):
What bell?
There's the bell.
Remember I had the bell?
I got to call you.
Oh my God.
I wonder if it would pick up anddo it for question one.
You got that one right?
Okay.
God.
All right.
Number three.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
There has to be some sort ofpunishment.
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That's the quote.
Okay.
Trump or Joffey Baron from Gameof Thrones.
Jeffrey, I think it's justJeffrey, J-O-F-F-R-E-Y.
Oh, so many people hated thatcharacter.
You gotta watch Game of Thrones,so you know the hate on that
character.
He was a terrible, terribleperson.
(27:55):
Anyway.
Say the quote again.
There has to be some form ofpunishment.
I'm just gonna say, JeffreyTrump.
Oh, you can't ring the bell.
Damn.
He said this in regard to womengetting fucking abortions.
Well, there has to be some formof punishment.
Like, what the fuck?
I will say what happened toJeffrey in Game of Thrones?
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That should happen to, it's,it's coming.
I swear to you.
It's coming.
And if you've watched Game ofThrones, you know the reference.
Well, I don't, but okay.
Yeah, it's, yeah.
Okay, so, um, here we go.
Number four, everybody dies.
It's just life around here.
Trump or Killmonger from BlackPanther.
(28:40):
Killmonger, was that his name?
I don't know how to pronouncethat, but I know who you're
talking about.
Say it again.
Everybody dies.
It's just life around here.
Oh man.
Trump Killmonger.
Oh crap.
I was doing so good in thebeginning.
Alright.
I'm gonna say like the, theanswers first and then the
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quotes.
Okay.
Yeah.
Or whatever, or the choices.
Okay.
You ready?
Yeah.
Trump or Mother Gotel from themovie Tangled.
I guess that's the animationone.
Yes.
Here's the quote.
You want me to be the bad guy?
Fine.
Now I'm the bad guy.
Trump mother.
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I, well these are stupid.
Alright, ready?
Uhhuh, Trump or Thanos fromGuardians of the Galaxy.
Okay.
We're going to win at space.
Well, that's Trump.
Yeah.
Good job.
Woo.
I'm gonna ring my bell.
You gotta be more aggressivewith it.
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I know.
I hope it's catching up on themicrophone.
Okay.
Um, good job.
Are we ready for the next one?
Okay.
Trump or Denzel Washington'scharacter in the moving training
day.
Here's the quote.
I think I'm entitled to personalattacks.
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I'm gonna just say Trump.
Yes.
Good job.
He hates personal attacks.
I've also never seen trainingday.
That's, I never have you.
I have it on VHS or I did.
I don't know if I watched it.
I should, didn't make animpression on me, I don't think.
Um, okay.
Ring the bell.
Oh, perfect.
Okay.
So let's say imported brass fromItaly.
(30:29):
God bell, if you guys saw thisbell, it looks, it's like a$3.
It looks like something that is,should be like an antique store,
like there's flowers on it.
He was so proud of this bow whenhe bought it.
What movie did I watch?
Oh my God.
I watched The Parent Trap withLindsay Lohan and that evil
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stepmother, or the wannabestepmother got a bell for the
maid.
And I think I was like kind ofhungover watching it and I'm
like, I'm gonna get a bell forAlex and ring it.
And I got it.
And Alex was he.
Was not happy.
He didn't like it.
He's like, you paid money forthat?
God.
What?
Housewife rings the bell?
Is it Lisa Vanderpump or one ofthe housewives?
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Ring the bell.
Anyway, keep going.
Alright, number eight.
We got like five more.
Let's do this.
Okay.
Okay.
So, um, Trump wore PresidentSnow in the Hunger Games.
It's the things we love the mostthat destroy us.
Trump or President Snow in theHunger Games.
Who said it?
Snow.
Yes.
Yes.
Ring the bell.
Perfect.
Uh, Trump or Homeland fromAmazon Prime Show.
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The boys.
Did you ever, have you ever seenthat?
I've seen the first season.
It's actually a really raunchygreat show.
Okay, so the quote is, they'reindeed the enemy from within the
boys.
Uh, what his face, it was Trump.
Damn.
He said it at a rally.
In Madison Square Garden inregard to Americans that don't
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support him, he said they areindeed the enemy from within.
Well, I guess we're the enemywithin.
Within.
Oh, interesting.
Okay.
So, oh, number 10.
Here we go.
Trump or Miranda Priestly fromDevil's Wear Prada.
Truth is, there is no one whocan do what I can do.
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That's Miranda Priestly.
Yes.
Good job.
Yes.
I'm ringing the bell.
She says that I think in eithera hotel room or a car, I can
picture it anyway.
Okay.
Trump or Luke Skywalker.
If you're not with me, thenyou're my enemy.
Do you know why Luke Skywalkerwould be a villain?
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Do you understand this at all?
I, I, I don't care.
Oh, he's the No.
Go on tell speech.
No, it's okay.
Keep going.
No spill.
No go spill.
Actually, I could be wronganyway.
No, what's the quote?
If you're not with me, thenyou're my enemy.
I would say Trump, LukeSkywalker, fricking a.
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Alright, last one.
Here we go.
Okay.
Um, it is Trump or the Red Queenin Disney's Alice in Wonderland.
I'm not a dictator.
That was it.
That's it.
Okay.
Okay.
Um hmm.
Trump.
Yes.
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Good job.
Ring the bell.
There we go.
Yeah.
Okay, buddy.
I believe you right there.
Yep.
He's not a fucking, oh my God.
Treater.
Okay.
I figured out who rang the bell.
It wasn't a housewife, it wasthe, the old lady, Ken.
No, not only, she's fabulous.
She's from southern charm and ifpeople know the reference, she
rings the bell for her littlebutler and it's amazing.
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She's fabulous.
She lives in, um, Charleston.
Anyway.
Okay, next topic.
Here we go.
So Missouri's third US Housedistrict is currently held by
Bob Ander.
Bob Ander is as crazy MAGA asyou can get.
Seriously, guys, this is skyfucking scares me.
This guy's absolutely nutsactually.
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And tragically, last week,another repeated American
tragedy, a Catholic schoolchurch shooting that tragically
took two children and injurednumerous other.
Children still these deaths willdo nothing to sway Republicans.
Grip on the gun epi epidemicplaguing our country.
Now if, if vaccines were killingchildren like guns are today,
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vaccines would've been outlawedmany, many years ago.
Let's be honest.
But anyways, I'm digressinghere.
Okay, so the gunman of thishorrible crime was
transgendered, at least wastransgendered, and then started
to detransition.
I don't know the wholebackground of this, but back in
2020, she changed her birth namefrom Robert to Robin.
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So this perpetrator also madederanged videos on social
medias, and somehow, yet again.
That shit never gets flagged.
You'd think that with the rapidrise of AI technology, shouldn't
there be some sort of likeblanket on these social sites
that flag keywords or sentencesthat notify some sort of
(35:10):
authority that kind of like thered flag laws.
Do you know when you're likemaking these videos.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, and they, they have flagsfor people that, um, look at
child porn.
So I don't know why theywouldn't have things flagged for
these kind of things for gunviolence.
You know what I mean?
Like, same thing.
Yeah.
So anyway, the Minnesota,Minnesota shooting takes place.
Okay.
(35:30):
I see.
MAGA lover, bomb Ander, BobAnders.
Start posting on Facebookbecause my fucking logarithm now
is.
All news from doing thispodcast.
So Loser Bob was literallyattacking the trans community
and blaming the Democrats andtrans community as a whole for
the attack.
(35:51):
I'm going to read you some ofthe posts I saw on his Facebook
and you can go look at them'cause he's absolutely nuts.
Okay, there's three of them.
The first one says.
How many suicides and massmurders will it take before we
outlaw medical malpractice knownas gender affirming care?
That's why I follow filed the NoHarm Act to outlaw chemical and
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surgical mutilation in serviceof the transgender cult.
Then he starts blaming Democratsfor the shooting.
He went after Gavin Newsom, whoby the way, I absolutely love
right now.
This, this, and guy wrote.
transgender ideology, which yousupport.
Resulting in a mentally illyoung man being transitioned,
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which you support and committingcrimes in a gun-free zone, which
you support.
Your party owns this, meaningthe Democrats own this school
shooting.
Then he went after my girlKamala and responded to her
post.
Ms.
Harris is treating mentalillness with wrong sex hormones
and affirming this man'sdelusional mental illness.
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Time to end senseless,transgender mutilation.
The loser apparently holds adoctorate degree, but writes
like a fucking Trump truthsocial post.
Okay.
Okay, so we still followingalong?
You still good?
Yeah.
Okay, perfect.
So, so the next, so I'm seeingall of this already.
Okay.
And I'm, I'm fired up becauseanother fucking school shooting
happens.
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So the next morning I'm on myway to work and I run in to grab
like a quick breakfast sandwich.
And while I'm waiting I hear.
These three, I see these threeold men, old white men, like
conversing at a table and Ioverhear like key words, like
trans mental illness and thenlike mumbling in between those
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words.
And I couldn't make out whatthey were hearing, but I was
really trying to listen but notmake it like noticeable.
And I couldn't like infiltratebecause I didn't know what they
were saying.
But I can only imagine what theywere saying.
And I'm sure they were goingafter the trans community.
And what really fucking pissesme off is that where is their
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outrage?
When men straight cisidentifying men commit these
tragedies, all of a sudden thetrans community is getting
attacked because a trans personcommitted the crime.
But no one attacks the men thatare doing these.
It, it absolutely blows my, II'm not surprised.
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'cause it happens all the time,you know?
But it pisses me off.
It gives them literal, likeliteral ammo to go after this
group of people.
Exactly, exactly.
So I had to do some research andaccording to the New York Times,
there is no common profile.
Of people who carry out massshootings, except that 97% are
(38:45):
committed by men.
Now, factor in race, white mencounted for nearly 50% of all
mass shooters in the UnitedStates with an average age of 34
years old.
And a mass shooting isconsidered, uh, it's considered
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a mass shooting when there's.
Four or more people shot in onesetting, okay?
Mm-hmm.
There's more.
Between 2018 and 2023, 2,826,mass shootings were by CIS
shootings.
So cis identifying men that arelike straight.
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Only three were trans.
So with the amount of hate thetrans community has received,
where is the outrage when thesestraight men are committing
these heinous crimes?
It's just wild.
It's wild to me that there's allthese statistics, all these this
and that, that and this.
That proves that is, you know,whatever.
But if they just freakingoutlawed guns or made'em more
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harder to get.
It's just funny how in America,our talking point has to come
down to these little statisticsof like, who does what.
It's like, just take the gunsaway.
Just there's a, there's aneasier answer here.
Just make it harder to get agun.
Like, I don't know why we haveto ban people, assault weapons,
right?
But like, look at all of thisattention that vaccines are
(40:14):
getting right now and howthey're trying to outlaw them or
not mandate them in Florida andyet.
We do nothing about the guns asa A, and let's all remember
this, as Republicans blamemental health and not the guns
for yet another school shooting,let's kindly remind them that
205 Republicans voted against abill to expand school base
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mental health services.
On average, 11 and a half peopleare killed per mass shooting
when an assault weapon is used.
Versus 5.1 deaths in a massshooting when just a regular
firearm is used.
We have children getting shotbecause lawmakers are choosing
(40:58):
to protect assault weapons overkids.
When you continue to stoke hateand fear within the people you
lead, we will continue to seethese tragedies.
I mean, it's just, it's nevergonna stop.
It makes me sick.
You know?
When, when, what was theshooting with the little kids in
North Northeastern UnitedStates?
What was that, Sandy?
Was that Sandy Hook?
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Oh yeah.
Sandy Hook in 2001.
When that happened and nothinghappened because of it, I knew
that if that didn't changeanything, nothing will.
Nothing will.
Anyways.
I can go on and on about this.
Yeah.
But.
Let's, let's hear some, uh,viral clips, um, that I, I've
liked this week.
Uh, one is kind of long, but I,I love'em.
So this, this first one is ifit's, it's like if you're an
(41:41):
American citizen living abroad,tell me why you want to go back.
Okay.
Let's listen to it.
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I mean, yeah, I mean, she makessense.
She had all good points and alot of it has to do with
healthcare and a lot of it hasto do with finances.
I mean, it is the honest truth.
We have terrible healthcare inthis country.
Oh my God.
We do.
So, okay, so here's another onefrom, uh, a mom who I think is
running for Senate.
Um, she is talking about the bigbeautiful bill and how.
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Once it gets passed, well, Iguess it's already been passed,
but once it's implemented, um,she's talking about kicking a
bunch of kids off of Medicaidand them not getting the right
medical care that they need ordeserve.
Ready?
Yeah.
Alright, here we go.
(45:12):
Okay.
I love the fact that she startedcussing, but even though it was
like bleeped out, but I, I dolove it.
You know, and it's, it is kindof on the same subject of like
the, the school shootings andthings.
It's like these republicans,they, they don't care about
their kids.
I don't know why people keepvoting for them, especially if
you have kids and you're votingfor Republicans, because A, they
don't care if your school kidsget shot in school, and B,
(45:33):
they're ready to take.
Wait, their healthcare, it'slike, it's just it.
What?
They are not standing behindfamilies and kids.
We don't even have kids.
And it still bothers me how muchthey don't support kids in this
country.
Yeah, I'm all for everything.
She said 33 or no, 32 of the 33top advanced countries have
(45:56):
universal healthcare except forone.
And that's us because.
Republicans don't want us to, Iguess, live long.
I don't fucking know.
It doesn't make sense.
I, I have no idea.
Anyways.
Yeah, it seems like all of themare living to like 90.
They're not going away.
So let's hear, um, the Trumpadministration officials kiss
(46:20):
Trump's ass.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
Okay, here we go.
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My God.
I, I just, oh, it makes me sosick.
It's a cult.
It's a fucking cult.
It's so creepy.
It's a fucking cult.
Don't go into the cult.
Get out.
It is people.
And you know, if you actuallywatch the video, they were on
this big table and they're alljust, I mean, and Trump's little
smug ass face is just like,mm-hmm.
(47:50):
Thank you.
And it's like, what ishappening?
No.
Oh my God.
I can't wait till we should gowatch the next South Park
episode after this recording.
Okay.
We'll talk about that next week.
That's just so hilarious.
Anyways, um, everyone, thank youso much.
I can't believe it.
We're on season two.
This was a great episode, Alex,right?
Yeah.
I'm glad we're back.
This is fun.
I'm so happy for being here.
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Okay, thank you everyone forlistening.
Give us a follow on Instagram onTikTok and I'm going to be just
like posting a shit ton nowbecause baby we're back.
Bye guys.
Bye guys.
See ya.
Bye all.
Welcome to the Civil UnionPodcast.
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And so are we.
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Hey, we are here, we're backagain.
I'm Ryan with my husband Alex.
Hello.
And we are, um, it's, it's backat season two.
Oh my gosh.
I can't believe we.
Have been through so much.
Not as like Americans, but likeas.
Husbands and, we went throughsummer.
(00:50):
We didn't record a podcast.
It's been since like may youknow it, it's a lot of work and
it's a lot of just wait to readthe news and keep up for this
podcast.
So we took like a summer off andI will tell you it was really
hard sometimes to hear some ofthe stuff going on and not do
this podcast and not speak ourmind.
'cause so much has happened inthe last three months.
(01:11):
I know.
I can't tell you how many timesI actually like.
Pre-written like a Facebookstatus update, like, you know,
sharing my opinion like everyonedoes these days, and I just
like.
Would like delete itautomatically, because I'm like,
no, I'm not gonna be that personand I'll just save it for the
podcast.
So I'm so happy we're back.
Yeah, we, we have a lot ofmaterial now guys.
(01:33):
Yeah, we do have some goodmaterial.
Um, how, how was the summer?
How was your summer, Alex?
Oh man.
The summer was good.
I actually didn't work as muchand we went to Vegas in July.
We did go to Las Vegas.
That was so much fun.
Saw the Backstreet Boys.
Backing it up in the sphere.
Oh my God.
The Backstreet Boys at thesphere.
Okay.
(01:54):
Anyone that has the chance to goto the sphere, fucking do it.
It is the coolest experienceever.
You can't compare it to anythingelse.
The videos I got were justamazing and, you know, we had
the chance to see Lady Gaga thatweekend, or we had the chance to
see Backstreet Boys at thesphere and.
(02:16):
I know Alex really wanted to goto the sphere and when I said,
oh, well Backstreet Boys areperforming there, and his eyes
like lit up and so we, we gottickets to the sphere.
We were on the fourth floor inthe center, eight rows back.
And I'll tell you what, it waslike the best seats in the
house.
It was the.
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Coolest experience.
Did you ever feel like you weregonna like fall off?
Because that's the, that's theconcern with like so many people
is like, oh, it's so steep, or,oh, it's so high.
Did you feel like that?
No, I never felt that.
Like, I think like the, theenterprise center where the blue
St.
Louis Blues play, like, I feellike that's more steeper than
the sphere, but I hear that.
(02:58):
I hear that all the time frompeople.
Yeah, it wasn't, it, it looksbad.
It definitely like isintimidating, but once you're at
your seat, it really wasn't toobad.
And even when we got there, Iwas like, oh God, I hope we're
not standing this whole concert.
But then we ended up standingand it again, it wasn't that bad
because you had so many peoplein front of you and you don't
see the tears below you.
(03:20):
So it's just you're kind of inthe moment and you're kind of
just there in your space.
It really wasn't too bad.
But it's like the first, Ibelieve you said it was the
first pop band or pop musicartist that was performing at
the sphere.
And I tell you what, I'm sohappy I saw that.
I, I swear to you that I'm goingto be looking at residencies at
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this sphere for the rest of mylife and be like, oh.
S this person's playing there.
Like let, let's go there and seethem.
You know?
So yeah, I've told that tonumerous people.
I'm like, just follow the sphereand the moment you have a band
there that you wanna see, justbuy tickets'cause it's gonna be
worth it.
It was so good.
Could you imagine Taylor Swiftperforming there?
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Oh, it would never happen.
She's so bigger than that.
But like I.
Or like a dance, EDC, like somesort of electronic.
That would be so cool.
So cool.
Yeah.
Highly recommend though guys.
You need to go see it.
But also this summer, you know,we had some downtime.
We got to go to the pool.
We got to just basically hangout.
We were working, you know, butit was, it was a good time.
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It was a good time.
It was a good cheap summerthere.
Well, not really cheap, but goodand cheap when it comes to
travel.
Yeah.
Now there's a slight crisp inthe air and, uh, it's, it's,
it's, uh, getting cooler out.
Leaves are starting to fall, sowe're, we're headed in the fall
now, so I cannot wait forHalloween season.
I am so amped for it.
(04:46):
I am ready.
Yeah.
I'm wearing a hoodie right now.
You are wearing a hoodie.
You're always wearing hoodiesthough.
That's true.
That's true.
Yeah.
So, and then you're almost donewith your, uh, master's degree?
Yes, I'm on my last class.
My master's will be done thefirst or second week of October,
and then it is Alex, MBA, readyto go take on anything.
(05:08):
Oh, that's so exciting.
Congratulations.
Thanks.
We'll, yeah, we're going to SanFrancisco in October to
celebrate, so it should be agood time.
I'm really, really excited forit.
Anything else going on in yourworld?
Um, no.
I mean, I, that's really it.
I've been working so much thelast few weeks.
I, I think I've been averaging70 hours a week, so it's just
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been nuts.
But, you know, it, it's nicebecause.
The way the economy is.
I am very fortunate that we, Ican pick up shifts and we can
have such a good, you know, um,income in this household because
a lot of people can't do that.
And so I'm very fortunate.
So even though we're working alot, you, you're working a lot
too.
Like We are, we're do, we'redoing good for ourselves right
(05:52):
now, which is, which is great.
I'm, I'm, we're comfortable andI'm so ready for our San
Francisco trip and I'm so readyfor fall.
Yeah.
Amazing.
I saw this video that's likeresurfacing on TikTok.
It's the Alabama governor.
She like burped giving a pressconference.
It's kind of hilarious.
It happened in 2001 or 2021, butit's like resurfacing now.
(06:17):
I don't know why.
I have no idea.
But do you wanna hear her burp?
Yeah, let's do it.
All right.
Let's go.
Wow.
Yeah.
What did she have for lunch?
So when you told me about thisvideo, I was like a burp.
And then I watched the video andI mean, it was a, it's a
(06:38):
substantial burp if what it'slike.
Deep and long.
I, I actually looked at thevideo and I was like, wait, was
this a woman or a man or whatwas this?
'cause I'm so confused thatthat's just absolutely
hilarious.
So, okay, so we have to startoff by discussing how Trump is
trying to rig the midtermelections.
(06:58):
We all know what gerrymanderingis, and if you don't read up on
it, but the Missouri Republicanmajority is currently in the
process of passing updatedgerrymandered districts right
now.
Trump Lapdog, Mike Kehoe, ourwonderful governor and I say
that ever so sarcastically,called for a special session
(07:19):
this week to redraw thesedistricts that Republicans
already passed in.
2022.
So gerrymandering, from myunderstanding is basically them
trying to redistrict like votinglines to allow certain
ethnicities not to be able toget to the ballot or their vote,
maybe not matter as much orweighted as much as that kind of
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the, the idea of why they aredoing what they're doing to kind
of take over more Republicancontrol.
Is that what's going on?
Yeah, that is absolutely theconsistency.
It's always.
Been a controversial topic andat like Texas was doing this
like last month and.
Everyone was, all theRepublicans were pointing out,
look at Illinois, look atIllinois and their gerrymandered
(08:04):
districts.
But as a nerd in middle school,I loved reading maps.
And when I had my social studiesbook, I, I I, I was learning
what gerrymandering was.
And North Carolina had the mostgerrymandered district.
It's like this tiny little boxthat followed, uh, you know.
(08:27):
Across a highway or whatever andit was it, it's always been a
thing.
It's always been controversialand there's been Supreme Court
rulings over it in favor of.
Being able to gerrymander.
That is one of the things duringelection night that I find the
most interesting.
It's not even the fact of likefollowing CNN or whatever with
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their viewpoints, but it's thefact of like, I love watching
the, like the people who arelike knowledgeable about it.
Go through district and countyand county and they'll like
predict how many votes they'regonna come in.
I find that so interesting, butthat's where this kind of comes
into play.
Yeah.
So after each census, theconstitution warrants each state
to redraw their districts infavor of a political party.
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Red states do it.
Blue states do it.
Everyone does it.
The Texas Showdown we saw overthe summer is essentially taking
place here in Missouri rightnow.
So.
While you struggle to pay foryour groceries.
I mean, let's be honest, I thinkwe've all been to the grocery
store and taken items out of thecart in order to try to stay on
(09:32):
budget or while you struggle tosave money or struggle to pay
your rent.
I mean, these fuckingRepublicans haven't done a damn
thing to help resolve thehousing crisis in this country.
But I'm starting to digresshere.
We're paying them.
To play in our capital right nowto redraw maps illegally.
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No new census has occurred sothey can keep guard of their
seats.
Come the 2026 midterms.
So they have to, technically,they should be, have to wait for
the new census to do the newredistricting, but they're not
doing that, right.
Each census is every 10 years.
So 2020 we had one.
They redrew the maps, theRepublican majority, both in
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Texas and in Missouri, andapplied that to the 2022.
Uh, midterms and that was goingto keep hold until the 2030
census.
And then the every state redrawstheir maps.
And then in 2032, the new redrawmaps would apply to those future
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elections.
You know, it, it, it helps withpopulation growth and everything
like that, so Okay.
But they're like five yearsearly.
Right.
They're doing it way early.
Is that the, well, they're liketwo years after they've already
done it.
Right?
And no new census has occurred.
So this is questionably illegalif you think about it.
Yeah, because it should comeafter each census.
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You know?
I feel like nothing is illegalwith this administration right
now.
It's amazing that no one isdoing anything about this right
now.
Anyways, so right now, Missouriholds a six two Republican
majority when it comes to theUnited States representatives.
That's six red, two blue.
The two blue fish out there arelocated in the major cities of
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this state.
One in Kansas City, one in St.
Louis.
Missouri Republicans areessentially breaking up Democrat
representative EmmanuelCleaver's, Kansas City District
into three sections, essentiallyeliminating his chances of
winning in 2026.
They're also re redrawing theone St.
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Louis Blue District to try toeliminate lame duck.
Ann Wagner from losing her seatin Congress.
Ann Wagner, by the way, hasnever held a town hall since
taking office in 2012.
Trump lapdog Governor Keho.
Is winning praise from the WhiteHouse for the circus he's
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creating, just like TexasGovernor Abbott did in Texas
back in August.
So while Keho and his Republicanbuddies play with their maps,
just remember that these guysdon't care about you or your
vote unless it benefits them.
Missouri has consistently votedto pass things like the
expansion of Medicaid.
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Republicans overturn that.
Republicans overturned theminimum wage increase and
guaranteed paid sick leave forMissourians.
They overturned that one thatpassed in November, and since
Missouri Republicans lost theabortion amendment, now they're
claiming they disliked thewording of that amendment, and
now they're planning to reword anew amendment to make it more
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confusing for voters like youand me to get confused at the
ballot box in hopes that.
You know, we outlaw abortion.
Again, like what's the point ofvoting for any of these things?
If later down the road theseRepublicans are just gonna, just
gonna overrule it?
I mean, what is the point of itall?
I, it absolutely befuddles me.
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I don't know what that wordmeans, but it sounds like it
means something good that I'msaying it befuddles me because I
don't understand how they canget away with this.
Don't they care about theirvoters and what the voters like
pass and, and it doesn't.
They don't because they, if theydon't like it, they're not going
to put it into law, you know?
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We were at, I was at a townshipmeeting thing, uh, this past
week and we talked about thisand we said, how, you know,
Democrats really should be usingthis to their advantage and
start putting these things thatthe Republicans are overturning
on billboards, on things to showpeople like, these are the
statistics.
This is what you voted.
For, and this is what's beingtaken away from you as you're on
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your rights and what you wanted.
Because right now it's like alot of people, I don't think,
realize that all this is goingon in the background.
There's so much noise.
Yeah.
Keho and his Republican buddiesresent Missouri voters over the
summer.
Keho also signed a law thatallows landlords to discriminate
against tenants from usinghousing vouchers, social
security, disability insurance,child support, and tips to pay
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rent.
Um, where are all the waitersand waitresses and bartenders
expected to live?
And how is it if that's incomecoming into you, how are we
going to allow landlords todiscriminate against you from
getting an apartment or rentinga house in the right school
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district that you wanna live in?
This guy's.
Legacy.
Ki Ho's legacy is already a hugepile of shit and he is only nine
months on the job.
I just, I can't, I don'tunderstand why they're allowing
discrimination, like those twowords just are insane to me that
they're put together.
Isn't that kind of crazy?
It's nuts to me.
Ugh.
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Alright.
New topic.
New topic guys.
The stripper index has dropped.
The stripper index.
Yeah, the stripper index.
Seriously, sex workers arebetter at predicting recessions
than the old, rich white guys onWall Street.
Like I remember each goddamnmonth, Biden was in office.
There was some article out thereof some old white guy bitching
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about how we're all doomed, andit's all Biden's fault when the
stock market crashes.
Does anyone who listened lastseason remember me saying that?
10 of the last 11 recessrecessions all occurred under
Republican leadership.
Okay.
Again, the stripper index hasdropped.
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I just love saying that maybe weshould update this.
11 of the last 12 recessionshave occurred under a Republican
presidency because guys we're ina fucking recession again.
I find this story justabsolutely comical, but I also
fucking love it.
I, I read the article online andapparently.
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Many of the sex worker regulars,like the regulars of these sex
work, like, you know, I guesscustomers, um, aren't tipping at
all or just tipping less thanhalf of what they used to tip.
And that this shift reflects abehavioral trend where consumers
start to prioritize essentialsrather than luxuries.
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Yeah.
And tipping your sex workers isa luxury now.
Why should we consider thestripper index as reliable sex
workers?
Observe the behavior ofconsumers on a daily basis,
giving them a street level viewof economic health that predates
Wall Street Reports.
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Historical events like the 2008financial Crisis showed similar
patterns where sex workers saw adrop in clients of revenue
before the broader economiccrash.
That is so interesting.
It's absolutely crazy.
So crazy.
So speaking of the stripperindex, it makes me think of our
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trip in Las Vegas.
I keep seeing all these videosonline of like.
Empty streets and empty casinos.
It's kind of crazy, but I mean,clearly international tourism
has dropped.
The tariffs have continued toinflate prices.
No one wants to travel to theUnited States right now.
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It is funny to me that, youknow, there is a definite
recession going on.
We've talked about this in thepast.
We talked about this I thinkright before our break.
And it, you know, if the, ifthe, if the party was flipped
and the Democrats were the onesin the White House, this would
be the story they would berunning with.
Over and over and over again.
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They'd be blaming Biden.
Actually, I think they, I thinkthey did when he was president
for the high prices and allthese things right before he got
outta the office.
Like that was their, that wastheir main push point at the
beginning of Trump's campaignrun was eggs, prices and all
these things.
It's like now we're way worseoff and it seems like no one,
it's just like crickets.
Like no one wants to talk aboutit.
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Okay, well we all know if wecan't afford certain things, we
know you guys aren't either.
Just'cause you're Republicandoesn't mean you have more
money, like everyone'sstruggling here.
Um, I don't know.
It's just, it's crazy to me and.
We did, we did tip our strippersreally well in Vegas.
We didn't see any strippersanyways.
I know, I'm curious.
Lemme just say that when we werein Las Vegas, we had an absolute
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blast and it was absolutelypacked with tourists.
But that weekend was also like afluke because there were just so
many concerts going on at thetime.
But the stripper index mentionsregulars not tipping as much and
oh my God.
So this household right now has.
Tipping fatigue.
Sorry.
You know, I worked the serviceindustry for 15 plus years.
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I know I tip all the time atrestaurants and bars, like
always 20%.
I don't care if your serviceabsolutely sucks.
I'm giving you at least 20%, ifnot more, but.
Everywhere and everyone asks youto tip right now, like we were
at the sphere, and of coursewe're gonna get merch, we're on
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vacation, and I think we got twot-shirts and a collectible
poster board, which I stillhaven't hung up.
And I, it was like$150.
And when I swiped the card, thelittle custom tip thing came up
and it was like 18%, 20%, 22%.
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I'm sorry, I am not tipping.
Someone who got me a shirtturned around, picked out the
correct shirt that I ordered anda poster board and give them$25.
I'm just, I'm not doing that.
I, so I clicked the custom'causethere was a custom box next to
it and I gave$5.
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But back in the day, like thatwasn't a thing.
Like these, it's just like wagereplacement if you think about
it.
Yeah, and you know, we are ahousehold that tips we've always
tipped and I don't know if Icould ever be with someone that
didn't tip.
I find that so rude andannoying.
But yeah, these places areeverywhere you go, McAllisters,
Panera, everywhere.
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It's like they're not, that'snot, that to me is not worth a
tip.
You're literally, thosecompanies should be paying their
cashiers the right co.
Price that they should be worth,and I shouldn't have to help you
with that.
Now, I know Alamo Drafthouse andother places, they'll do like,
what, an 80% gratuity on yourtab, and then you're still
expected to tip on top of that.
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I get that.
I get it.
Because to run a theater, it'sexpensive and they're just
having you help with gettingtheir benefits paid and all
that.
There's a difference with that.
But when you are expected totip, and the funny thing is
these little machines that theyhave now, these little debit
card machines.
The buttons, it's like 10%, 20%or, or 25%.
But then there's like thetiniest little button that says,
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um, custom.
And it's like we see it, we knowto look for it.
But do older people know to lookfor it?
Would my, would my parents know?
Oh, let's.
Look at this like, to not tip,like I've, I've checked out
before and just automaticallytipped 15% because it was just
automatic.
Like, I was just like, checkout.
Now.
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It's just, it's very frustratingbecause I don't, I, it, it adds
up, like you said, 20 bucks on$120.
That's a significant, that's awhole, that's a.
That's a cd like, or I guess avinyl one.
I thought I said it and Ithought about that, but yeah, I
don't know.
Everyone's stupid it, so, andthen like, I was smart, so,
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'cause I am good at going toVegas and I like took a case of
water with me in my luggage andlike towards the last day, I
think we were there for likefive nights.
I, we ran outta water and so Iran to the hotel market.
Um, in the lobby and Ipurchased, I just grabbed the
two biggest smart water bottles.
I could find no price tags onit, and I just went to check
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out.
And so I'm at the cashier and Iget checked out and it was 10 99
a bottle of water.
So I'm spending$22 for waterright now.
And it asked me the gratuitything, 18 20, 20 2% or custom,
and I'm like, I am not paying.
$5.
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I'm not giving a$5 tip for mepicking out the water and you
just scanning it for me.
I'm sorry.
I'm just not.
So I press custom and I gave adollar, but still, I'm like
kicking myself'cause I'm like, Idon't know.
I think, I think it, it istipping fatigue right now.
And you know, maybe this is ustightening our belt because of
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the economic recession, youknow, because we are in a
recession.
I, like I said earlier in thistopic that I'm talking about.
The job reports number justdropped and August only gained
22,000 jobs.
It's the smallest number sincein many years.
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Okay.
They updated the June numbers,and in June, the month of June,
we actually lost jobs.
We lost 13,000 jobs.
And that's the first job losswe've lost in America since
December, 2020.
And who the fuck was presidentthen?
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Fucking Donald Trump and mesaying this is that this is
technically, if not this is arecession and it's because of a
Republican presidency, it'sbecause nothing has been done
about the housing crisis.
It's because of the tariffs andit's just going to get worse
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before it gets better.
Unfortunately, I hate to saythat it's time to tighten our
belts, save our money, and justreally, really, you know,
navigate the waters as best aswe can.
But, this technically best jobloss in June ended the second
largest economic surplus.
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In America.
So this was like the secondlongest streak of job gain, job
growth since the 1990s, 1990swere the best.
And before that, it was the1960s.
Just a little information therefor you.
I will say, I just want toclarify because I, I don't want
people to think like we are.
I had completely still tipwaiters and bartenders and
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people who actually, you know.
Old school deserve the tip.
Like we are not, like, not, nottipping.
It's just these little, littlemin, minuscule, the areas where
it's like, this doesn't make anysense.
And then we've talked to otherpeople about this, our friends
and people around us, and itseems like everyone is in
agreement that this is aproblem.
So are we, are we talking abouttipping again?
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Yeah.
I went back to, well, because Ithought of if you're all good, I
think people understood.
I thought about it, I was like,I don't want people to think
we're not tipping.
So also just today as well.
So we got the jobs report todayand just today.
Resorts world, Las Vegasreported that they are down 18%
revenue when compared to thesame three month period last
year.
This means that no one istraveling to Las Vegas.
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The sex workers are losing moneyand they actually, you know,
predict recessions and they'retelling us that we're in a
fucking recession.
So I believe the sex workersover the old rich white guys in
the Wall Street.
Yeah.
So anyways, Hey Alex.
Yeah, it's game time.
Are you excited?
I am and I am more excited forthe music, always in the
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background.
I think it's fun.
It is fun.
Um, so since you love movies,here's one I created.
It's a Who Said it?
Trump or a movie villain?
There's 12 questions.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
Are you ready?
I'm more than ready.
Okay, so here we go.
Number one.
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They're poisoning the blood ofour country.
Trump or Voldemort from HarryPotter.
They're poisoning the blood ofour country.
Trump?
Yes.
Good job.
Thanks.
You have like how many HarryPotter themed tattoos do you
have?
Oh gosh, three.
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I have only three.
Only three.
Three.
Yeah.
That's a lot.
Well, I need, I want one withTaylor Swift quotes or
something.
Um, okay.
Number two.
Here we go.
Don't ever apologize for beingthe smartest person in the room.
Let me repeat that.
Don't ever apologize for beingthe smartest person in the room,
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Trump or.
Mysterio from the Spider-Man.
Far from home movie.
Oh.
Have you even watched that moviebefore?
No.
I'm gonna say Mysterio.
Yes.
Good job.
Two for two.
We need to, oh my God.
We got a bell.
You gotta ring the bell.
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What bell?
There's the bell.
Remember I had the bell?
I got to call you.
Oh my God.
I wonder if it would pick up anddo it for question one.
You got that one right?
Okay.
God.
All right.
Number three.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
There has to be some sort ofpunishment.
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That's the quote.
Okay.
Trump or Joffey Baron from Gameof Thrones.
Jeffrey, I think it's justJeffrey, J-O-F-F-R-E-Y.
Oh, so many people hated thatcharacter.
You gotta watch Game of Thrones,so you know the hate on that
character.
He was a terrible, terribleperson.
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Anyway.
Say the quote again.
There has to be some form ofpunishment.
I'm just gonna say, JeffreyTrump.
Oh, you can't ring the bell.
Damn.
He said this in regard to womengetting fucking abortions.
Well, there has to be some formof punishment.
Like, what the fuck?
I will say what happened toJeffrey in Game of Thrones?
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That should happen to, it's,it's coming.
I swear to you.
It's coming.
And if you've watched Game ofThrones, you know the reference.
Well, I don't, but okay.
Yeah, it's, yeah.
Okay, so, um, here we go.
Number four, everybody dies.
It's just life around here.
Trump or Killmonger from BlackPanther.
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Killmonger, was that his name?
I don't know how to pronouncethat, but I know who you're
talking about.
Say it again.
Everybody dies.
It's just life around here.
Oh man.
Trump Killmonger.
Oh crap.
I was doing so good in thebeginning.
Alright.
I'm gonna say like the, theanswers first and then the
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quotes.
Okay.
Yeah.
Or whatever, or the choices.
Okay.
You ready?
Yeah.
Trump or Mother Gotel from themovie Tangled.
I guess that's the animationone.
Yes.
Here's the quote.
You want me to be the bad guy?
Fine.
Now I'm the bad guy.
Trump mother.
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I, well these are stupid.
Alright, ready?
Uhhuh, Trump or Thanos fromGuardians of the Galaxy.
Okay.
We're going to win at space.
Well, that's Trump.
Yeah.
Good job.
Woo.
I'm gonna ring my bell.
You gotta be more aggressivewith it.
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I know.
I hope it's catching up on themicrophone.
Okay.
Um, good job.
Are we ready for the next one?
Okay.
Trump or Denzel Washington'scharacter in the moving training
day.
Here's the quote.
I think I'm entitled to personalattacks.
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I'm gonna just say Trump.
Yes.
Good job.
He hates personal attacks.
I've also never seen trainingday.
That's, I never have you.
I have it on VHS or I did.
I don't know if I watched it.
I should, didn't make animpression on me, I don't think.
Um, okay.
Ring the bell.
Oh, perfect.
Okay.
So let's say imported brass fromItaly.
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God bell, if you guys saw thisbell, it looks, it's like a$3.
It looks like something that is,should be like an antique store,
like there's flowers on it.
He was so proud of this bow whenhe bought it.
What movie did I watch?
Oh my God.
I watched The Parent Trap withLindsay Lohan and that evil
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stepmother, or the wannabestepmother got a bell for the
maid.
And I think I was like kind ofhungover watching it and I'm
like, I'm gonna get a bell forAlex and ring it.
And I got it.
And Alex was he.
Was not happy.
He didn't like it.
He's like, you paid money forthat?
God.
What?
Housewife rings the bell?
Is it Lisa Vanderpump or one ofthe housewives?
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Ring the bell.
Anyway, keep going.
Alright, number eight.
We got like five more.
Let's do this.
Okay.
Okay.
So, um, Trump wore PresidentSnow in the Hunger Games.
It's the things we love the mostthat destroy us.
Trump or President Snow in theHunger Games.
Who said it?
Snow.
Yes.
Yes.
Ring the bell.
Perfect.
Uh, Trump or Homeland fromAmazon Prime Show.
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The boys.
Did you ever, have you ever seenthat?
I've seen the first season.
It's actually a really raunchygreat show.
Okay, so the quote is, they'reindeed the enemy from within the
boys.
Uh, what his face, it was Trump.
Damn.
He said it at a rally.
In Madison Square Garden inregard to Americans that don't
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support him, he said they areindeed the enemy from within.
Well, I guess we're the enemywithin.
Within.
Oh, interesting.
Okay.
So, oh, number 10.
Here we go.
Trump or Miranda Priestly fromDevil's Wear Prada.
Truth is, there is no one whocan do what I can do.
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That's Miranda Priestly.
Yes.
Good job.
Yes.
I'm ringing the bell.
She says that I think in eithera hotel room or a car, I can
picture it anyway.
Okay.
Trump or Luke Skywalker.
If you're not with me, thenyou're my enemy.
Do you know why Luke Skywalkerwould be a villain?
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Do you understand this at all?
I, I, I don't care.
Oh, he's the No.
Go on tell speech.
No, it's okay.
Keep going.
No spill.
No go spill.
Actually, I could be wronganyway.
No, what's the quote?
If you're not with me, thenyou're my enemy.
I would say Trump, LukeSkywalker, fricking a.
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Alright, last one.
Here we go.
Okay.
Um, it is Trump or the Red Queenin Disney's Alice in Wonderland.
I'm not a dictator.
That was it.
That's it.
Okay.
Okay.
Um hmm.
Trump.
Yes.
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Good job.
Ring the bell.
There we go.
Yeah.
Okay, buddy.
I believe you right there.
Yep.
He's not a fucking, oh my God.
Treater.
Okay.
I figured out who rang the bell.
It wasn't a housewife, it wasthe, the old lady, Ken.
No, not only, she's fabulous.
She's from southern charm and ifpeople know the reference, she
rings the bell for her littlebutler and it's amazing.
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She's fabulous.
She lives in, um, Charleston.
Anyway.
Okay, next topic.
Here we go.
So Missouri's third US Housedistrict is currently held by
Bob Ander.
Bob Ander is as crazy MAGA asyou can get.
Seriously, guys, this is skyfucking scares me.
This guy's absolutely nutsactually.
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And tragically, last week,another repeated American
tragedy, a Catholic schoolchurch shooting that tragically
took two children and injurednumerous other.
Children still these deaths willdo nothing to sway Republicans.
Grip on the gun epi epidemicplaguing our country.
Now if, if vaccines were killingchildren like guns are today,
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vaccines would've been outlawedmany, many years ago.
Let's be honest.
But anyways, I'm digressinghere.
Okay, so the gunman of thishorrible crime was
transgendered, at least wastransgendered, and then started
to detransition.
I don't know the wholebackground of this, but back in
2020, she changed her birth namefrom Robert to Robin.
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So this perpetrator also madederanged videos on social
medias, and somehow, yet again.
That shit never gets flagged.
You'd think that with the rapidrise of AI technology, shouldn't
there be some sort of likeblanket on these social sites
that flag keywords or sentencesthat notify some sort of
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authority that kind of like thered flag laws.
Do you know when you're likemaking these videos.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, and they, they have flagsfor people that, um, look at
child porn.
So I don't know why theywouldn't have things flagged for
these kind of things for gunviolence.
You know what I mean?
Like, same thing.
Yeah.
So anyway, the Minnesota,Minnesota shooting takes place.
Okay.
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I see.
MAGA lover, bomb Ander, BobAnders.
Start posting on Facebookbecause my fucking logarithm now
is.
All news from doing thispodcast.
So Loser Bob was literallyattacking the trans community
and blaming the Democrats andtrans community as a whole for
the attack.
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I'm going to read you some ofthe posts I saw on his Facebook
and you can go look at them'cause he's absolutely nuts.
Okay, there's three of them.
The first one says.
How many suicides and massmurders will it take before we
outlaw medical malpractice knownas gender affirming care?
That's why I follow filed the NoHarm Act to outlaw chemical and
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surgical mutilation in serviceof the transgender cult.
Then he starts blaming Democratsfor the shooting.
He went after Gavin Newsom, whoby the way, I absolutely love
right now.
This, this, and guy wrote.
transgender ideology, which yousupport.
Resulting in a mentally illyoung man being transitioned,
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which you support and committingcrimes in a gun-free zone, which
you support.
Your party owns this, meaningthe Democrats own this school
shooting.
Then he went after my girlKamala and responded to her
post.
Ms.
Harris is treating mentalillness with wrong sex hormones
and affirming this man'sdelusional mental illness.
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Time to end senseless,transgender mutilation.
The loser apparently holds adoctorate degree, but writes
like a fucking Trump truthsocial post.
Okay.
Okay, so we still followingalong?
You still good?
Yeah.
Okay, perfect.
So, so the next, so I'm seeingall of this already.
Okay.
And I'm, I'm fired up becauseanother fucking school shooting
happens.
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So the next morning I'm on myway to work and I run in to grab
like a quick breakfast sandwich.
And while I'm waiting I hear.
These three, I see these threeold men, old white men, like
conversing at a table and Ioverhear like key words, like
trans mental illness and thenlike mumbling in between those
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words.
And I couldn't make out whatthey were hearing, but I was
really trying to listen but notmake it like noticeable.
And I couldn't like infiltratebecause I didn't know what they
were saying.
But I can only imagine what theywere saying.
And I'm sure they were goingafter the trans community.
And what really fucking pissesme off is that where is their
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outrage?
When men straight cisidentifying men commit these
tragedies, all of a sudden thetrans community is getting
attacked because a trans personcommitted the crime.
But no one attacks the men thatare doing these.
It, it absolutely blows my, II'm not surprised.
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'cause it happens all the time,you know?
But it pisses me off.
It gives them literal, likeliteral ammo to go after this
group of people.
Exactly, exactly.
So I had to do some research andaccording to the New York Times,
there is no common profile.
Of people who carry out massshootings, except that 97% are
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committed by men.
Now, factor in race, white mencounted for nearly 50% of all
mass shooters in the UnitedStates with an average age of 34
years old.
And a mass shooting isconsidered, uh, it's considered
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a mass shooting when there's.
Four or more people shot in onesetting, okay?
Mm-hmm.
There's more.
Between 2018 and 2023, 2,826,mass shootings were by CIS
shootings.
So cis identifying men that arelike straight.
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Only three were trans.
So with the amount of hate thetrans community has received,
where is the outrage when thesestraight men are committing
these heinous crimes?
It's just wild.
It's wild to me that there's allthese statistics, all these this
and that, that and this.
That proves that is, you know,whatever.
But if they just freakingoutlawed guns or made'em more
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harder to get.
It's just funny how in America,our talking point has to come
down to these little statisticsof like, who does what.
It's like, just take the gunsaway.
Just there's a, there's aneasier answer here.
Just make it harder to get agun.
Like, I don't know why we haveto ban people, assault weapons,
right?
But like, look at all of thisattention that vaccines are
(40:14):
getting right now and howthey're trying to outlaw them or
not mandate them in Florida andyet.
We do nothing about the guns asa A, and let's all remember
this, as Republicans blamemental health and not the guns
for yet another school shooting,let's kindly remind them that
205 Republicans voted against abill to expand school base
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mental health services.
On average, 11 and a half peopleare killed per mass shooting
when an assault weapon is used.
Versus 5.1 deaths in a massshooting when just a regular
firearm is used.
We have children getting shotbecause lawmakers are choosing
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to protect assault weapons overkids.
When you continue to stoke hateand fear within the people you
lead, we will continue to seethese tragedies.
I mean, it's just, it's nevergonna stop.
It makes me sick.
You know?
When, when, what was theshooting with the little kids in
North Northeastern UnitedStates?
What was that, Sandy?
Was that Sandy Hook?
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Oh yeah.
Sandy Hook in 2001.
When that happened and nothinghappened because of it, I knew
that if that didn't changeanything, nothing will.
Nothing will.
Anyways.
I can go on and on about this.
Yeah.
But.
Let's, let's hear some, uh,viral clips, um, that I, I've
liked this week.
Uh, one is kind of long, but I,I love'em.
So this, this first one is ifit's, it's like if you're an
(41:41):
American citizen living abroad,tell me why you want to go back.
Okay.
Let's listen to it.
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I mean, yeah, I mean, she makessense.
She had all good points and alot of it has to do with
healthcare and a lot of it hasto do with finances.
I mean, it is the honest truth.
We have terrible healthcare inthis country.
Oh my God.
We do.
So, okay, so here's another onefrom, uh, a mom who I think is
running for Senate.
Um, she is talking about the bigbeautiful bill and how.
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Once it gets passed, well, Iguess it's already been passed,
but once it's implemented, um,she's talking about kicking a
bunch of kids off of Medicaidand them not getting the right
medical care that they need ordeserve.
Ready?
Yeah.
Alright, here we go.
(45:12):
Okay.
I love the fact that she startedcussing, but even though it was
like bleeped out, but I, I dolove it.
You know, and it's, it is kindof on the same subject of like
the, the school shootings andthings.
It's like these republicans,they, they don't care about
their kids.
I don't know why people keepvoting for them, especially if
you have kids and you're votingfor Republicans, because A, they
don't care if your school kidsget shot in school, and B,
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they're ready to take.
Wait, their healthcare, it'slike, it's just it.
What?
They are not standing behindfamilies and kids.
We don't even have kids.
And it still bothers me how muchthey don't support kids in this
country.
Yeah, I'm all for everything.
She said 33 or no, 32 of the 33top advanced countries have
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universal healthcare except forone.
And that's us because.
Republicans don't want us to, Iguess, live long.
I don't fucking know.
It doesn't make sense.
I, I have no idea.
Anyways.
Yeah, it seems like all of themare living to like 90.
They're not going away.
So let's hear, um, the Trumpadministration officials kiss
(46:20):
Trump's ass.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
Okay, here we go.
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My God.
I, I just, oh, it makes me sosick.
It's a cult.
It's a fucking cult.
It's so creepy.
It's a fucking cult.
Don't go into the cult.
Get out.
It is people.
And you know, if you actuallywatch the video, they were on
this big table and they're alljust, I mean, and Trump's little
smug ass face is just like,mm-hmm.
(47:50):
Thank you.
And it's like, what ishappening?
No.
Oh my God.
I can't wait till we should gowatch the next South Park
episode after this recording.
Okay.
We'll talk about that next week.
That's just so hilarious.
Anyways, um, everyone, thank youso much.
I can't believe it.
We're on season two.
This was a great episode, Alex,right?
Yeah.
I'm glad we're back.
This is fun.
I'm so happy for being here.
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Okay, thank you everyone forlistening.
Give us a follow on Instagram onTikTok and I'm going to be just
like posting a shit ton nowbecause baby we're back.
Bye guys.
Bye guys.
See ya.
Bye all.
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