November 20, 2024 • 39 mins
In this week's serving of political chaos, Dave and Brad dive headfirst into Trump's cabinet picks, featuring the greatest hits: Matt Gaetz for AG, Bobby Kennedy Jr. for HHS, and a cast of characters that would make the writers of "Veep" say "too unrealistic." Plus, they explore why octopi (or is it octopuses?) might be Earth's next overlords, and why the federal government is basically just a really expensive jobs program for people who couldn't hack it in the real world. All this, and John Gruden discovers iced coffee.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
In these bleak days, humanity is at a breaking point.
Economies are tanking, the woke mob is canceling everything, and
the little guy who's just trying to run a small
business is getting screwed from both ends. But not all
is lost. Amidst the chaos, two men offer up their
(00:26):
voices in the darkness, dropping two thousand pounds laser guided
truth bombs on today's lunacy, introducing the Sirens of Sanity,
David Pridham and l Bradley Sheaf.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
About me Congressman Matt Gates, I said, sir, I do
not know who you are.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
He said, I'm a right wing firebrand with no wonder
each Well, buddy, there you go. You and I were just,
you know, sitting here like a couple of gentlemen preparing
for a podcast, saying to each other, boy, it's gonna
be tough to find something to talk about this week.
There's just not a lot going on, nothing that's really controversial.
And we realized we needed a song for a week,
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you know, where there's just nothing really going on. And
guess what what there happens to be a rap song
about Matt Gates.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Well, not a surprise, I mean he is.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
One.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
He's the next US Attorney General. Apparently he quit the house,
so he's gonna be confirmed apparently.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
And why wouldn't you write a rap song?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I mean, there was a I believe at one point
back in I want to say the seventies there was
an Elliot Richardson shuffle. So typically an attorney general does
get their own, you know, their own rap song.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Bobby Kennedy shuffle.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yep, yep, much like the Bears, Much like the eighty
five Bears. There is a shuffle for everything. Ikey Shuffle,
the Ikey Shuffle, super Bowl shoffle Ben Bengals, the Yeah.
So there you go. There's a there's a rap song
about Matt Gates, a mac Gates shuffle. We found it.
I'm I'm I feel like I'm not really going out
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on a limb to say you heard it here first.
And there's obviously some number of people who actually have
heard the mac Gates rap song previously, but there cannot
be many that's.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Still I haven't heard it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, no, no, no, no, it's it's some guy some
rapper wrote wrote a song about him.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Like in the last couple of days or before that.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh, I don't I don't. I don't know the answer.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
To that, was it performed in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
You know, My guess is it wasn't performed in the eighties,
but it has kind of an eighties vibe. So I
think between the vibe and the content and the timeliness thereof,
particularly for this very fine program, it makes the perfect intro.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yeah, you want to hear a funny story. This is complete,
completely off the beaten path. But I just thought of it,
and I meant to tell you about it the other day,
but I forgot. So it's happened a lot these days.
Did I tell you the story about the watch with
with with old Guermo Blanco.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
No.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
So I get a call from our friend in California
the other day before he took off to the Land
of the Rising Sun. And our friend in California is
like all concerned. He says, listen, I want to I
want to ask you a question about Guillermo Blanco. And
I said, uh, And you know how Gama Blanco is
known to where he has He has that one huge
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watch that's a knockoff that he wears and I don't
even know what the brand is. But our friend in
California says to me. He says, uh, you know, what's
the story with him with with Blanco? He he he
he must be really is he really just wealthy? And
he like it, has just a ton of fu money
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and just doesn't want anyone to know about it. And
I was kind of take it back and I was
like what why And he said he's wearing a two
hunred and fifty thousand dollars watch.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
And he's yeah, that's what he said. And I'm like,
well he did. It's not a two hunred and fifty thousand.
That's not a two dollars I don't think he spent
anything on that.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Watch, right, Yeah, fellow, Yeah, what what would lead our
friend in California, who admittedly can be a little, you know, naive,
perhaps bordering on the point of sappiness, to think that
Guermo might be in possession of a watch worth a
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quarter of a million dollars.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Well, I saw the way when we were all together
last Yeah, in the ball he saw that watch.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
All of us, we've seen the watch. None of us
thought it was a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars watch.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Well, apparently apparently he does. So I just thought that
was kind of. I just thought that was kind of funny,
and I.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
You know what I said.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
You know what I said, I said, Well, maybe he is.
I said, I'm not exactly sure the back story there.
That is a good watch.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'll tell you what you and I would both be
you know. I mean, you can knock us over with
a feather. We've been hanging around with the guy for
a long long time, and I would be tickled if
it turned out that, you know, Guiermo came out one
day and just said, you know what, I gotta I
can't do this anymore. I have a billion dollars. I
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had just been screwed with you guys for you know,
the better part of twenty years. I would enjoy that.
I would like that.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
So what do you think?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I mean, it seems like we are in uncharted historic times,
right because we've got the elections over. I mean, it
was a rather resounding result, and now you know, Trump
is sort of It's interesting because last time he was
doing this in twenty sixteen, all the people he had
a very very establishment type process where he had like
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people who were in the Republican Party giving him names
of people, and he was he was naming a bunch
of people he didn't know to different positions, like that
guy who remember Rex Tillerson.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
It was a Secretary of State for a while.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Oh yeah, I would not have been able to come
up with that name. But now that you say it,
yes I do.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
It was like the CEO of of Exon or something.
And then he hired him and he fired him.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
And but but so back then he was hiring a
bunch of people who didn't know. Now he is hiring
a bunch of people that he knows, people that campaigned
for him, people that were loyal to him. I think,
you know, one of the one of the problems with
what happened last time was he had all those Obama
loyalists who stuck around while he had to get those
knitwitz confirmed, and they did everything they could to impede
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his progress. And I think, here, you know, he's pretty
intent on day one just going for it and uh, implementing.
He knows, he's only gout four years, so implementing his policy.
And so I'm wondering what you think about all these
you know, Matt Gates for Attorney General, Robert Kennedy Junior
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for j JS, Telsea Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence,
Rubio for State, the women from North Dakota, the Nator Dog.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
No, she didn't need the dog. She killed her dog
for a head of the.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Shouldn't say she didn't.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Pat Somerl's daughter for chief of Staff.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I mean, this is uh, you know, it's it's a
It's a Donnybrook, as Pat Somerl once said.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Well indeed, but I love it. I mean, first of all,
if you are a Biden slash Harris supporter and apologist,
can you look anyone in the eye and say, well,
as crazy as Trump's appointments, projected appointments and appointments appear
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to be that, these are worse people than he had
in his cabinet than than mayorcis right, I mean, are
you kidding me in this? Than that Treasury secretary what's
her name? Yeltsin that, then then the current Secretary of
State and Secretary of Defense. They're terrible. They're awful in
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many cases, they're awful people, and they are certainly terrible
at their job. So before you go throwing stones at
who Trump has picked, I mean, look at who they
are replacing, right, I mean, just straight up look one
for one, right, they may be you know, sort of
off the beaten path appointments, but Biden's cabinet was is
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just terrible. And the things that are you know, I've
always trickled out, but the media has tried to you know,
suppress and are continued to come out about you know,
like FEMA skipping over houses of people that had a
Trump sign in their yard. I mean, it is crazy,
and you know, who knows if it's true. Hopefully we
find out, but I mean, just the number of things
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that have gone on under Biden's appointees and just stop it, right,
I mean, if you're trying to take the perspective of
we've gone from adults to non adults, or we've gone
from really good people to people who aren't going to
be so good, that's flat out wrong. I mean that's
just wrong, factually incorrect. Now, you know, are these folks
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on a different you know, political spectrum than the previous Yeah,
you know, they're they're way over on the other side.
Is that necessarily going to be worse? I don't know.
I guess we'll find out, but you are not going
to convince me that they're worse choices than we're already there.
And frankly, buddy, I am all four blowing it up.
I mean, when you look at the government and what
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it has become, all these little niche incredibly expensive things
that the federal government does not need to be involved
in the National Endowment for the Humanities. Okay, humanities are important, right,
You're not ever going to hear me say that we
should stop studying them or engaging to them or enjoying them.
And it's not the government's job to support that, right,
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that is not the government's job. That is not why
we have a government. It falls well outside the boundaries
of what the you know, founding fathers were trying to
design and that we have continued to implement over the
last couple of one hundred years. Right, I mean, it's
just that's not what the government is there to do.
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It is so bloated, and it's just become a jobs program,
and an incredibly entitled jobs program. The protections around federal
employees are ridiculous. And so you know, and and and
as you pointed out, Trump's only got four years and
he knows it. It's not a very long time, but
he's but he also doesn't have to he doesn't have
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to care what anyone thinks he's not going to be
re elected. He's not allowed to be re elected, so
he doesn't care. He's going to do what he said
he was going to do to the best of his ability.
You can say whatever you want about Trump, but if
you think that he was, you know, just sort of
screwing off during his campaign, like he was just sort
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of saying things to see what happened, you're wrong. He
means that stuff. And so if you find that terrifying,
well then be terrified, because that's what's going to happen
to the fullest of his ability. And I'll tell you what,
ripping down a bunch of the federal government is fine
with me, right, And then what that gives us an
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opportunity to do is look and go, oh, like, maybe
we dug too deep, Like you know, what turns out
that particular organization was, you know, more necessary than was anticipated.
Let's put it back. We can do that, okay. But
I mean, if you think I'm going to be upset
about the idea of him blowing up what the federal
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government has become, I am not. You are mistaken. I
am looking forward to it. I hope he does it.
I'm sure there will be mistakes along the way. He is,
after all, Donald Trump. But fine, let's see what happens,
because the continued growth of the government is not.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Yeah, I think it's I think it is very interesting
because you always try to put these presidential transitions in
historical context, right, and they've all been rather cookie or
rather is it rather or rather.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Are you talking about Dan? I believe it's Dan rather
rather Rather. They've been pretty cookie cutter right over the past.
I mean, in our whole lifetime, they've been cookie cutter,
right Ford to Carter, cookie cutter, even Reagan cookie cutter.
They come in, they typically come in with some big
economic package. Everything else is don't rock the boat.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
You have institutionalists who bridge gaps between certain administrations, whether
it be people like Clark Clifford and the you know,
the Democratic side, Jim Baker on the Republican side, and
it's always don't rock the boat, right, it always is,
don't rock the boat. The government is going to continue.
It's like remember Godfather three. Remember when the mafia Don
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in Italy is in the Cardinal's office in the Vatican
with Don Corleon and Don Corleone is trying to take
control of international immobiliare so that he can take his
family out from the darkness of the underworld and actually
sort of launder all of its money and then gain
legitimacy in the eyes of the public and the don
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with the glasses, and eventually, by the way, the don
that don would die at the end by having his
glasses removed and rammed through his eye by one of
Don Corleone's bodyguards, and any of it that's not really
relevant to the story. But the guy looks at Don
corleon and he goes, and Corleone loans the Vatican Bank
like one hundred million because they the cardinal absconded with
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some money, and there was a bunch of graft and
corruption and this and that. Then they killed the pope.
None of that's relevant. What's relevant is when this don
and the guy with the glasses looks at Don CORLEONEI goes,
we will, we will let you take control of our
little enterprise.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
But all of our ships must sail in the same direction.
Do you remember that I do.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah, So all of.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Our ship that's that's like this. It's like, you'll let
you take over the government, but everything's going to go.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
You know, we killed Kennedy.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Okay, you know, we overthrew governments, we killed foreign leaders,
but it's all going to go in the same direction.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Right. We shuttered businesses and arrested people.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
For you know, violating COVID mandates which were unconstitutional, but well,
all of our ships will sail in the same direction.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
That's what it's always been in.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
This is more of a burn the fucking boats mentality, right,
he is saying, I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
All across the board.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Across the board, I mean, the Rubio thing is probably
the most conventional pick, and I would look, I would
love to see I would love to see them focus
on re establishing relations with Cuba. I think that would
be great. I think Rubio is a guy who could
do it. Whether he will, I mean he's a very
hardline Florida politician on that, but that's the type of
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thing I'd love to see them do. But all these guys,
whether it's the guy at Defense, I mean, the guy
at Defense, is going in to literally burn it down.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
They have.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
You know, I don't know if you saw recently the
past year, Austin who's the Secretary of Defense, not Stone,
called the Lloyd went up to the Capitol hillon he testified,
and he was talking about the DEI requirements that Biden
imposed on the on all the hiring across the board,
military hiring, deployment, all his craziness. And this guy, the
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Fox News guy Hescott, who has two Bronze stars, who
has written books. He was the head of a veterans
organization that lobbied to get veterans healthcare they needed when
they returned from combat, which was God's work. As far
as I'm concerned, this guy's term, he's literally he's going
to go in there. He's taking a blowtorchs to the place.
If Matt Gates ever gets near the Department of Justice,
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you'll never have this shit that you have going on
now with the FBI. You see, they rated Polymarkets offices
a couple of days ago. Poly Market is the online
betting establishment that basically takes bets on elections and they're
all overseas because you can't bet on elections in the US,
but it's based in the US. And they rated the
guy's office yesterday. I mean, this is the type of
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stuff they're doing at the FBI. That's that's just nuts.
And the stuff with the with Trump and those confidential
files just go take them, take them back. But don't
you know, we're going to put him through the ringer
and charge a former president who's running for office, and
then you're not going to charge the sitting president who
literally had the same thing.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Neither one of them.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Should be charged, by the way, but at the same thing,
at the same thing. Go on, and then you're going
to have this crazy special council release a modified or
amended complaint weeks before a presidential election. I mean, it's
just unheard of what the Department of Justice is doing,
so that needs to be taken down. And then ha
Jazz Kennedy is going to go in there and and
you know they're again. There's some vaccines that are very important.
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There are others where the pharma lobby, I mean, the
pharma lobby has made billions of dollars off COVID vaccines
for billions and they're and they're immune from any litigation
or any claims related to adverse effects of those vaccines
percent immune.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I mean, it's insane.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Regardless of whether or not they're negligent, regardless of whether
or not there was any knowledge about uh side effects
that weren't disclosed, they're they're they're immune, and so he's
going to go deal with that stuff, and he's going
to deal with the the fact that the food industry
in this country. I mean, we've talked about this before.
There are foods, there are food ingredients in this country
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that are banned in Europe that we allow.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Our are are our kids to eat?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Right?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I mean, like skittles are fucking toxic. They're toxic. They're toxic.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Maybe you look at some of the ingredients they're toxic,
and they won't say you can't you can't sell them
in Europe you'll be arrested, and you can sell them here.
And it's like there's this whole story this book I'm
reading about the conversion of the old tobacco companies into.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
You know, they bought a bunch of the feld like R. JR.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Reynolds bought the whole Nabisco deal and all these tobacco
companies when they were at the height of their power,
they bought food companies. And then their model was, Okay, well,
we know how to hook people on tobacco, We're going
to hook people on junk food the same way, using
these chemical ingredients that aren't good for people and that's
something that Bobby Kennedy is going to put a stop to,
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and it's great he should. And it's across Telsea Gabbard
to d and I, I mean some of the bs
that we're seeing about, you know, through intelligence and the
craziness about not being able to resolve the Ukraine Russia thing.
And I really do think he's going to have it
settled within six months. But it's just crazy, and it's
like all these people are burned. The boat's appointments and
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you know what, they may knock out Matt Gates, but
I don't think. I'm pretty sure the guy who's going
to replace him is the nominee is not going to
be Bill Barr. It's going to be Matt Gates too.
And that's what's going to happen. And if he doesn't
get him, he's going to do some recess appointment and
put someone in there for two years and he's going
to be fine with that. And I really think that's
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where we're headed. You know what, since we haven't seen
this in our company since nineteen thirty in our country
since nineteen thirty two. Right Roosevelt came in. It was
after a string of Republican presidents. The economy was booming
and then it crashed and people throwing themselves out of windows,
no regulation on what the stock market manipulators were doing.
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And he came in. He took care of that. He
took care of sort of trying to rebuild the the
you know, the country after the whole Great Depression, and
he did it in a radical way, and he talked
about radical things like he talked about, you know, stacking
the Supreme Court and all that stuff. And you know,
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so that's I think that's the closest analogy we have
to what's going on, obviously without the Great Depression part.
But that's the last time an administration came in and
just changed course so drastically as I think we're about
to see.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah, well, and you can say that Trump's crazy, and
you're not wrong, but in many respects, he's crazy like
a fox. Right, So what do you do if you
want to put a controversial attorney general in that office? Well,
you put up a guy that is just, you know,
hands down, a lunatic Matt Gates, right, and then you
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battle for him for a while, right, You legitimately battle
for him and say no, no, no, I mean, obviously
this guy is said and done some things that you know,
might seem a little bit wild, but I like him,
and I think you can do the job. And you know,
you get all the pushback that you're you know, you
knew the moment you did it, you were going to
get and so you push back against that for a while,
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and then you go, okay, all right, all right, okay, okay,
all right. Maybe not Matt Case, but maybe this guy
who is a guy that had you put him up first,
would have been, you know, ninety five percent as controversial.
But everybody's breathing such a sigh of relief that it's
not going to be Matt Gates that they're just happy
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to take. You know, whoever you put up in his place,
who's you know, slightly behind Matt Gates on the you know,
lunatic scale, and you get him in a landslide, right,
everybody just goes, oh, okay, thanks, great, I'm glad, glad
we got off the Gates thing. Let's put this guy
in and he's going to get exactly what he wants,
and that is what he wants, right, I mean, not
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to say the same thing over and over. He wants
to blow it up. He's come right out and said it.
I mean, you sent me that little video clip of him,
you know, his first you know whatever. You it wasn't
really a press conference. It was like three minutes of
him just talking and saying, Okay, you know, here, here's
what here's my plan, here's here's what I'm coming in
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to do, you know, my first hundred days, whatever it was,
And you could boil that whole three minutes down to
I'm blowing it up. I'm blowing up the DJ, I'm
blowing up the DoD, I'm blowing up homeland security. I'm
blowing all of that up. It doesn't work, it's bloated,
it's it's been weaponized, and I'm blowing it up. And
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he is going to do that again to the best
of his ability. And he's got both houses of Congress.
And I do think you know, that is a strategy
that's worked across the board in government, in business, you know,
just in life. Is if you want to slide somebody
into a slot that's going to be controversial, put somebody
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up who's even more controversial, an act like that's who
you want. You're dead serious about it. Get everybody freaking
out that that might happen, and then back off and
throwing the guy you've always wanted, who is you know,
more palatable, even if slightly so, and you're gonna get him.
So Yeah, I mean, if anybody thinks that Trump's getting
around like this is just a big show he's putting on,
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mm hmmm, he fully intends to do this.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Yeah, And I and I think that's I think that's
what harkens back to FDR.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Right, he was the same way. He didn't you know,
he and Hoover hate. He hated Hoover.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Hoover didn't care.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Hoover lived for like forty some odd years. After that,
he moved into the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
He was never welcomed back into the White.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
House for the what was it like, uh, but twelve
years of FDR was at twelve twelve years.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
But then as soon as Truman came in, uh, he
invited him there and he helped he.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Helped reconstruct Europe and get supply chains going.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
So that's a.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Little known, little known fact about herb Reteuver. But it's
almost like, you know, the past is prolog right, Like
Jim Garrison said when he was when he was prosecuting
Clay Shaw for the murder of JFK. Even though Clay
Show was acquitted, and many people said that Garrison not me. Again,
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I wasn't around at the time, but many people said
that Garrison was simply being prosecuted because he was a
homosexual who wore gold body paint at certain times.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
You know. Again, as one does, as one does.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Garrison seemed to think differently, but past his prolog I
think someone else may have said that at some point too,
but certainly Jim Garrison said it.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Okay, well there you go. He also said, back into.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
The lift, back back to the lift, back into the lift. Yeah,
so we're gonna have to watch that movie at some point.
But this is listen.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
We'll see how this all goes. But it's gonna be
very interesting to see. You know, the Republican senators they
got rid of Mitch McConnell, and they're gonna have to
confirm these guys or you know. I don't think Trump
is going to be incredibly forgiving in terms of the schedule.
I think he's gonna want these people confirmed so they
can get to work on January twentieth and the new
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Congress is seated. Some of them will choose to stand,
but they'll be seated on January third, so that gives
them that that's when they start these hearings. And you
know what else is interesting. They're not doing FBI background checks.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Do you know that?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I did not know that, but I mean, having done
background checks as an FBI agent, I can tell you that,
you know, the process is well founded. I mean serious
about doing it those cases. I mean, I've been in
the Bureau in a long time, but in those cases
they're called spin and special investigations, and they're taken very seriously.
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But you know, a background check, you go and you
talk to people's neighbors. That I mean, you only have
to watch TV for about ten minutes before there's some
neighbor who happens to be living next short to some
guy who's been keeping you know, thirty women in his
basement for a decade. And what does the neighbor say, Oh, man,
you know, seem like a regular guy to me. I
had no idea, right, So I mean knocking on neighbors
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doors and ask them, hey, tell me about this guy,
and going to their former bosses. I mean, it's all
all that's fine. It's probably the best you can do,
but it doesn't really do anything. You don't know how
somebody's going to be in the position until they're in it.
And then if you, you know, layer on top of
that the fact that many folks believe the FBI has become,
you know, incredibly politicized. Why would you do one? What
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good does it do you?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I mean apparently not?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah, so there you go. Plus what are you going
to find out about you know, Matt gets that hasn't
already been found out? I mean, you know, what are
you going to find out about? The guy?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
So there was some, there was some He was giving
some speech. I think it's seapack that conservative. Did you
know there's a gladiator too coming out?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
By the way, I did know that. It actually looks
like it might be pretty good.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Maybe we'll hit over to the IMAX and see that.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
He was giving a speech at CMAX and he was
talking about that women thing again, and he said, he said,
why is it that the and this is not me
saying that, this is Matt Gates, but he said, why
is it that whenever he watches these women marching in
the abortion marches, that the women that are marching, are
the ones that are the least likely to get pregnant.
(27:26):
And then he said, no one's going to want to
impregnate anyone. And I'm quoting here that looks like a thumb.
Mat Gates said that it's not funny, Brad, it's not funny.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Well serious, Well, I mean he was probably serious when
he said it. It is somewhat funny. You know, as
Matt Gates once said, if you want to be offended,
to be offended. I don't think he cares. But yeah,
I mean you know that that's.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Your But see, this is what I talked about again.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
If you do want to blow something up, that's the
guy to do it.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
But this is what I talked about last time, right,
And this is why this is the problem, right, because
you know, last time we got twenty sixteen, you and
I got sucked in. You know, we were smoking cigars,
dancing around, and then you're like, okay, but this is
there's a little letdown, right, because there's no way he
can top this, And then he did. Right the next
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thing that's the Russia collusion hoax, right, and you're in
the middle of that, then the Mueller thing, and so
this time he comes out, he wins a historic election,
he wins the popular vote.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Right, Okay, no way you can top this. Well, wait
a minute.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
The next thing, you know, Bobby Kennedy takes his shirt
off and he's doing pull ups on muzzle Beach, you know,
and then he nominates the guy from Fox and Friends
for d D And then Matt Gates, I mean, the
Matt Gates thing. Can you imagine how great those hearings
are going to be? Can you imagine?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (28:50):
I mean, well you just can't mean there if you
go look at hearings. He's where he's on some oversight
committee in the House. You know, Lloyd Austin, the Fence Secretary,
was screaming at him during one of these hearings. He
got hit to the point where he almost had a
heart attack gainst it. And then Gates had Merrick Garland
to the point where he almost had a heart attack.
(29:12):
And it's going to be sort of flipped where Gates
is going to be giving Democratic senators. He's just gonna
call them whatever the hell he wants to call them
during these hearings.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I mean, it's going to be un chartered territory. I mean,
this is gonna be.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
And so just when you think Trump can't get can't,
you know you're at the pinnacle. No, wait a minute,
there's going to be a confirmation hearing for Matt Gates.
Wait a minute, I nominated the Fox and Friends guy
for the Wait a minute, Bobby Kennedy is doing another
sent a rose on muscleb I mean, it's just it
never ends, and that proves that Trump is a genius
when it comes to marketing.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
M hm, oh yeah, I always has been and he
gets it right. I mean again, none of this is
on accident. And you can say what you will about
Donald Trump, but in many respects, he's crazy like a fox.
None of this is on accident. He knows exactly what
he's doing. He's doing it on purpose. He wants these
confirmation hearings. He wants guys like Gates to just sit
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at that table and call a Democratic senator a total jackass.
That's what he wants. And again, you know, my suspicion
is that he wants all that to play out so
that it's all on tape and everybody sees it, and
then he can, you know, pull back half a step
and nominate someone else and just say Okay, you know,
I'll give you Gates, and then he'll give Gates some
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you know inside the White House gig that doesn't require
an appointment, and put somebody else up for a turn
in general who will just sail through? Why, well, because
they're not Matt Gates. But he wants guys like Gates.
And again, Gates is crazy like a fox. He knows
exactly what he is doing. Right, you can hate him,
you can desire to see him just suffer eternal pain,
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but he knows what he's doing. And he's going to
filay people during these hearings, right, and again that just
might make you hate him more. But that's what's gonna happen.
And that's what Trump wants to happen. Right. He wants
to get people fed up with the government, fed up
with the potato heads that we have elected over the
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last you know, ten, fifteen, twenty years. He wants for
America to look and go, yeah, these people truly are dopes.
The people that are in charge of our government are dopes.
And you know they're just on the public tit, right,
They're just taking money. Our taxes keep going up. Where's
that money going? It's going to these people, and he
wants America upset about that, and he wants America behind
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him on blowing it up. And I think he's going
to get there.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Yeah, no, I agree. Okay, so we got a couple
of minutes left really quickly. I don't know, Brad, are
you familiar. I think we've talked about this. Professor Tim
Colson of Oxford University.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Maybe he's a professor of science at Oxford. Just science
as it always has it always has always Who are
you Don Rickles?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
You can't just accept that Don Rickles?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Yea? Was he known for not accepting things? Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:19):
He's just critical, highly critical, Brad.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
He was in charge of Operation petticoat Don Rickles.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
I already got a wife, Brad. Thank you. So doctor, professor,
maybe a doctor too. I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Tim Colson has looked at and studied what would happen,
what would happen if and he convened a commission on this,
a commission in the event that mankind was wiped out
through either wars or climate change, which species would take
(32:53):
over the Earth?
Speaker 4 (32:54):
And I am uh.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
And so he did a study on this, and they've
drawn specific conclusions and it'll surprise you. I could probably
give you ten guesses and you wouldn't get it.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I'm sure that's true. Well sure, yeah, like I just
you know, I just took one, so you know, and
all the you know, apocalyptic movies, it's always cockroaches that
you know, because they survive everything and they don't need much.
So I mean that would be I would presume that's
near the top. I you know, they got to be
a little bit careful about your you know, your preliminary assumptions.
(33:33):
Like if if climate change wipes out mankind, then it's
going to wipe out the things that are closest to mankind, right,
So if you want to look at things kind of
on a scale, then I would presume that all of
the upper primates are going to be gone as well, right,
I mean, if man can't man kind cannot survive the
(33:54):
climate change, then you know, all of the monkeys and
gorillas and apes, et cetera, my guesses will not survive.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
So can't see that's a good, but that's a good
that's a good point because my first inclination was that
apes would take over because of.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
The Charlton Heston movies.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Right, Planet of the apes returned to Planet of the Apes,
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, back to the
Planet of the Apes and Mark Wahlberg and you're right,
You're right, I mean Coulson. Professor Coulson in his extensive
study on this topic at Oxford where Bill Clinton went
for a period of time, and by that Professor Coulson
did did conclude that the primates would not take over
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the Earth.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
All right, So it's not primates, it's not I'm presuming
it's not cockroaches. Correct, Well, can you give me a hint, like,
is it a you know, is it avian like our birds?
Is it reptile? Is it fungal? Or is it going
to be all bacteria all the time? I mean, what
are we talking about here?
Speaker 5 (34:53):
It is a well known creature. Wow, it is not
a bird. It is not a bird.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Although although one thing to understand is that in this
study he he pulled up the Professor Coulson did say
that some birds, such as crows, ravens, and parrots, are
extremely intelligent and could construct communal nesting sites that last
for decades. And there are certain insect species, including large spiders,
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that construct towering structures which bear a resemblance to human civilization,
but that not none of those are covered.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
None of those are so it's not going to become,
you know, Planet of the spiders or Planet of the crows.
So I don't know, buddy, tell.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Me the the octopus.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
The octopus is going to become the dominant species.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
He did conclude. And this is again that tenured professor. Okay,
this is not some jack clown who's.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
Uh And by the way, this guy Coulson or Pulse
Coulson is one of the world's leading zoologists and biologists,
and he is in line to uh work at the
National Zoo under Trump where they are getting Panda's back Brad,
pandas are on the way.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Another uh ramification of the Trump election. But yeah, he he.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
Colson concluded that these these octopi octopuses would rule the earth,
maybe not become land animals, I think, he said as
part of it, I've read this report yesterday, so I'm
little I don't have it in front of me, but
he did the A believe he said that they're unlikely
to become full land animals, but they'll still roam the
earth and control things with an iron.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Fist eight iron fists frankly, Well.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
Yeah, theoretically, what was that Jabberwaukee was the octopus on
Hannah Barbara?
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Yeah? Yeah? Or was Jabbrawaukee the shark? Yeah? That could
have been the sea in any case? Yeah, I mean, okay,
there was.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
An octopus though. Remember the laugh Olympics. I always left
the Laugh Olympics. No there was, Yeah, I know there
was an arty competition. Remember Battle of the Network Stars.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
I do remember battling the Network Stars.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
See, you can't even explain to people today.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
They just don't get it the ramifications of of that.
And then and then also the other thing we don't
have time to get into because is already over is
John Gruden joined Barstool Sports yesterday and had his first
first ice coffee on social media. So he's never had
a nice coffee before, had one yesterday for the first time.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yeah, well, good on them. You know, everyone should enjoy
a nice coffee like a gentleman every once in a while,
you know, before the octopuses take over. Because you know,
I again, you know we can hold two things, they
can hold eight. Right, So like even if you're a
heavy coffee drinker and you're gonna go double fisting it
they're gonna go octofisting it. You're not gonna be able
(37:52):
to get a coffee, right, I mean, every time an
octopus watch into the Starbucks, you get eight coffees, you're
out of luck. That won't matter because you know, underneath
this rubric pressure stinked and so it doesn't matter, right,
we won't care. But those are some things you got
to think about. I mean, if you're an octopus ruling
with an iron fists, meaningfully got eight.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
Of them, so velvet hammer type deal.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah, exactly, well, but I think we should put a
pin in it, you know, right about there. It is
what it is. But and if we're not around, we're
not around, you know, for the Donald Trump of octopuses
eventually winning office and being able to do, you know,
four times the amount of work of the human Donald Trump,
because he's got four times the amount of of of
you know, not limbs. I guess I think I've really
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got two times the number of limbs. We don't do
a terrible lot with our feet other than walk around
on them. So I'm gonna I'm gonna give the octopus
four times the capacity. And we've carried it in one podcast.
We've carried it from Donald Trump to Octa Trump, and
we did it smoothly, without any bumps in the road,
so that people could follow that path. And now that
(39:00):
that's what you're left thinking about, is Octatrump, and that's
our job. We've accomplished it. We've done it for this week.
We'll do it again next week at the same time,
at the same place, right here on IP frequently.
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Speaker 2 (00:44):
About me Congressman Matt Gates, I said, sir, I do
not know who you are.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
He said, I'm a right wing firebrand with no wonder
each Well, buddy, there you go. You and I were just,
you know, sitting here like a couple of gentlemen preparing
for a podcast, saying to each other, boy, it's gonna
be tough to find something to talk about this week.
There's just not a lot going on, nothing that's really controversial.
And we realized we needed a song for a week,
(01:12):
you know, where there's just nothing really going on. And
guess what what there happens to be a rap song
about Matt Gates.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Well, not a surprise, I mean he is.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
One.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
He's the next US Attorney General. Apparently he quit the house,
so he's gonna be confirmed apparently.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
And why wouldn't you write a rap song?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I mean, there was a I believe at one point
back in I want to say the seventies there was
an Elliot Richardson shuffle. So typically an attorney general does
get their own, you know, their own rap song.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Bobby Kennedy shuffle.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yep, yep, much like the Bears, Much like the eighty
five Bears. There is a shuffle for everything. Ikey Shuffle,
the Ikey Shuffle, super Bowl shoffle Ben Bengals, the Yeah.
So there you go. There's a there's a rap song
about Matt Gates, a mac Gates shuffle. We found it.
I'm I'm I feel like I'm not really going out
(02:08):
on a limb to say you heard it here first.
And there's obviously some number of people who actually have
heard the mac Gates rap song previously, but there cannot
be many that's.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Still I haven't heard it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, no, no, no, no, it's it's some guy some
rapper wrote wrote a song about him.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Like in the last couple of days or before that.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh, I don't I don't. I don't know the answer.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
To that, was it performed in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
You know, My guess is it wasn't performed in the eighties,
but it has kind of an eighties vibe. So I
think between the vibe and the content and the timeliness thereof,
particularly for this very fine program, it makes the perfect intro.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yeah, you want to hear a funny story. This is complete,
completely off the beaten path. But I just thought of it,
and I meant to tell you about it the other day,
but I forgot. So it's happened a lot these days.
Did I tell you the story about the watch with
with with old Guermo Blanco.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
No.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
So I get a call from our friend in California
the other day before he took off to the Land
of the Rising Sun. And our friend in California is
like all concerned. He says, listen, I want to I
want to ask you a question about Guillermo Blanco. And
I said, uh, And you know how Gama Blanco is
known to where he has He has that one huge
(03:34):
watch that's a knockoff that he wears and I don't
even know what the brand is. But our friend in
California says to me. He says, uh, you know, what's
the story with him with with Blanco? He he he
he must be really is he really just wealthy? And
he like it, has just a ton of fu money
(03:54):
and just doesn't want anyone to know about it. And
I was kind of take it back and I was
like what why And he said he's wearing a two
hunred and fifty thousand dollars watch.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
And he's yeah, that's what he said. And I'm like,
well he did. It's not a two hunred and fifty thousand.
That's not a two dollars I don't think he spent
anything on that.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Watch, right, Yeah, fellow, Yeah, what what would lead our
friend in California, who admittedly can be a little, you know, naive,
perhaps bordering on the point of sappiness, to think that
Guermo might be in possession of a watch worth a
(04:32):
quarter of a million dollars.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Well, I saw the way when we were all together
last Yeah, in the ball he saw that watch.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
All of us, we've seen the watch. None of us
thought it was a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars watch.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Well, apparently apparently he does. So I just thought that
was kind of. I just thought that was kind of funny,
and I.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
You know what I said.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
You know what I said, I said, Well, maybe he is.
I said, I'm not exactly sure the back story there.
That is a good watch.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'll tell you what you and I would both be
you know. I mean, you can knock us over with
a feather. We've been hanging around with the guy for
a long long time, and I would be tickled if
it turned out that, you know, Guiermo came out one
day and just said, you know what, I gotta I
can't do this anymore. I have a billion dollars. I
(05:14):
had just been screwed with you guys for you know,
the better part of twenty years. I would enjoy that.
I would like that.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
So what do you think?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I mean, it seems like we are in uncharted historic times,
right because we've got the elections over. I mean, it
was a rather resounding result, and now you know, Trump
is sort of It's interesting because last time he was
doing this in twenty sixteen, all the people he had
a very very establishment type process where he had like
(05:46):
people who were in the Republican Party giving him names
of people, and he was he was naming a bunch
of people he didn't know to different positions, like that
guy who remember Rex Tillerson.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
It was a Secretary of State for a while.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Oh yeah, I would not have been able to come
up with that name. But now that you say it,
yes I do.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
It was like the CEO of of Exon or something.
And then he hired him and he fired him.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
And but but so back then he was hiring a
bunch of people who didn't know. Now he is hiring
a bunch of people that he knows, people that campaigned
for him, people that were loyal to him. I think,
you know, one of the one of the problems with
what happened last time was he had all those Obama
loyalists who stuck around while he had to get those
knitwitz confirmed, and they did everything they could to impede
(06:31):
his progress. And I think, here, you know, he's pretty
intent on day one just going for it and uh, implementing.
He knows, he's only gout four years, so implementing his policy.
And so I'm wondering what you think about all these
you know, Matt Gates for Attorney General, Robert Kennedy Junior
(06:53):
for j JS, Telsea Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence,
Rubio for State, the women from North Dakota, the Nator Dog.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
No, she didn't need the dog. She killed her dog
for a head of the.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Shouldn't say she didn't.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Pat Somerl's daughter for chief of Staff.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I mean, this is uh, you know, it's it's a
It's a Donnybrook, as Pat Somerl once said.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Well indeed, but I love it. I mean, first of all,
if you are a Biden slash Harris supporter and apologist,
can you look anyone in the eye and say, well,
as crazy as Trump's appointments, projected appointments and appointments appear
(07:41):
to be that, these are worse people than he had
in his cabinet than than mayorcis right, I mean, are
you kidding me in this? Than that Treasury secretary what's
her name? Yeltsin that, then then the current Secretary of
State and Secretary of Defense. They're terrible. They're awful in
(08:04):
many cases, they're awful people, and they are certainly terrible
at their job. So before you go throwing stones at
who Trump has picked, I mean, look at who they
are replacing, right, I mean, just straight up look one
for one, right, they may be you know, sort of
off the beaten path appointments, but Biden's cabinet was is
(08:27):
just terrible. And the things that are you know, I've
always trickled out, but the media has tried to you know,
suppress and are continued to come out about you know,
like FEMA skipping over houses of people that had a
Trump sign in their yard. I mean, it is crazy,
and you know, who knows if it's true. Hopefully we
find out, but I mean, just the number of things
(08:48):
that have gone on under Biden's appointees and just stop it, right,
I mean, if you're trying to take the perspective of
we've gone from adults to non adults, or we've gone
from really good people to people who aren't going to
be so good, that's flat out wrong. I mean that's
just wrong, factually incorrect. Now, you know, are these folks
(09:11):
on a different you know, political spectrum than the previous Yeah,
you know, they're they're way over on the other side.
Is that necessarily going to be worse? I don't know.
I guess we'll find out, but you are not going
to convince me that they're worse choices than we're already there.
And frankly, buddy, I am all four blowing it up.
I mean, when you look at the government and what
(09:33):
it has become, all these little niche incredibly expensive things
that the federal government does not need to be involved
in the National Endowment for the Humanities. Okay, humanities are important, right,
You're not ever going to hear me say that we
should stop studying them or engaging to them or enjoying them.
And it's not the government's job to support that, right,
(09:57):
that is not the government's job. That is not why
we have a government. It falls well outside the boundaries
of what the you know, founding fathers were trying to
design and that we have continued to implement over the
last couple of one hundred years. Right, I mean, it's
just that's not what the government is there to do.
(10:18):
It is so bloated, and it's just become a jobs program,
and an incredibly entitled jobs program. The protections around federal
employees are ridiculous. And so you know, and and and
as you pointed out, Trump's only got four years and
he knows it. It's not a very long time, but
he's but he also doesn't have to he doesn't have
(10:39):
to care what anyone thinks he's not going to be
re elected. He's not allowed to be re elected, so
he doesn't care. He's going to do what he said
he was going to do to the best of his ability.
You can say whatever you want about Trump, but if
you think that he was, you know, just sort of
screwing off during his campaign, like he was just sort
(11:01):
of saying things to see what happened, you're wrong. He
means that stuff. And so if you find that terrifying,
well then be terrified, because that's what's going to happen
to the fullest of his ability. And I'll tell you what,
ripping down a bunch of the federal government is fine
with me, right, And then what that gives us an
(11:22):
opportunity to do is look and go, oh, like, maybe
we dug too deep, Like you know, what turns out
that particular organization was, you know, more necessary than was anticipated.
Let's put it back. We can do that, okay. But
I mean, if you think I'm going to be upset
about the idea of him blowing up what the federal
(11:44):
government has become, I am not. You are mistaken. I
am looking forward to it. I hope he does it.
I'm sure there will be mistakes along the way. He is,
after all, Donald Trump. But fine, let's see what happens,
because the continued growth of the government is not.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Yeah, I think it's I think it is very interesting
because you always try to put these presidential transitions in
historical context, right, and they've all been rather cookie or
rather is it rather or rather.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Are you talking about Dan? I believe it's Dan rather
rather Rather. They've been pretty cookie cutter right over the past.
I mean, in our whole lifetime, they've been cookie cutter,
right Ford to Carter, cookie cutter, even Reagan cookie cutter.
They come in, they typically come in with some big
economic package. Everything else is don't rock the boat.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
You have institutionalists who bridge gaps between certain administrations, whether
it be people like Clark Clifford and the you know,
the Democratic side, Jim Baker on the Republican side, and
it's always don't rock the boat, right, it always is,
don't rock the boat. The government is going to continue.
It's like remember Godfather three. Remember when the mafia Don
(13:07):
in Italy is in the Cardinal's office in the Vatican
with Don Corleon and Don Corleone is trying to take
control of international immobiliare so that he can take his
family out from the darkness of the underworld and actually
sort of launder all of its money and then gain
legitimacy in the eyes of the public and the don
(13:28):
with the glasses, and eventually, by the way, the don
that don would die at the end by having his
glasses removed and rammed through his eye by one of
Don Corleone's bodyguards, and any of it that's not really
relevant to the story. But the guy looks at Don
corleon and he goes, and Corleone loans the Vatican Bank
like one hundred million because they the cardinal absconded with
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some money, and there was a bunch of graft and
corruption and this and that. Then they killed the pope.
None of that's relevant. What's relevant is when this don
and the guy with the glasses looks at Don CORLEONEI goes,
we will, we will let you take control of our
little enterprise.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
But all of our ships must sail in the same direction.
Do you remember that I do.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah, So all of.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Our ship that's that's like this. It's like, you'll let
you take over the government, but everything's going to go.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
You know, we killed Kennedy.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Okay, you know, we overthrew governments, we killed foreign leaders,
but it's all going to go in the same direction.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Right. We shuttered businesses and arrested people.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
For you know, violating COVID mandates which were unconstitutional, but well,
all of our ships will sail in the same direction.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
That's what it's always been in.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
This is more of a burn the fucking boats mentality, right,
he is saying, I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
All across the board.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Across the board, I mean, the Rubio thing is probably
the most conventional pick, and I would look, I would
love to see I would love to see them focus
on re establishing relations with Cuba. I think that would
be great. I think Rubio is a guy who could
do it. Whether he will, I mean he's a very
hardline Florida politician on that, but that's the type of
(15:08):
thing I'd love to see them do. But all these guys,
whether it's the guy at Defense, I mean, the guy
at Defense, is going in to literally burn it down.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
They have.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
You know, I don't know if you saw recently the
past year, Austin who's the Secretary of Defense, not Stone,
called the Lloyd went up to the Capitol hillon he testified,
and he was talking about the DEI requirements that Biden
imposed on the on all the hiring across the board,
military hiring, deployment, all his craziness. And this guy, the
(15:38):
Fox News guy Hescott, who has two Bronze stars, who
has written books. He was the head of a veterans
organization that lobbied to get veterans healthcare they needed when
they returned from combat, which was God's work. As far
as I'm concerned, this guy's term, he's literally he's going
to go in there. He's taking a blowtorchs to the place.
If Matt Gates ever gets near the Department of Justice,
(16:00):
you'll never have this shit that you have going on
now with the FBI. You see, they rated Polymarkets offices
a couple of days ago. Poly Market is the online
betting establishment that basically takes bets on elections and they're
all overseas because you can't bet on elections in the US,
but it's based in the US. And they rated the
guy's office yesterday. I mean, this is the type of
(16:22):
stuff they're doing at the FBI. That's that's just nuts.
And the stuff with the with Trump and those confidential
files just go take them, take them back. But don't
you know, we're going to put him through the ringer
and charge a former president who's running for office, and
then you're not going to charge the sitting president who
literally had the same thing.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Neither one of them.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Should be charged, by the way, but at the same thing,
at the same thing. Go on, and then you're going
to have this crazy special council release a modified or
amended complaint weeks before a presidential election. I mean, it's
just unheard of what the Department of Justice is doing,
so that needs to be taken down. And then ha
Jazz Kennedy is going to go in there and and
you know they're again. There's some vaccines that are very important.
(17:06):
There are others where the pharma lobby, I mean, the
pharma lobby has made billions of dollars off COVID vaccines
for billions and they're and they're immune from any litigation
or any claims related to adverse effects of those vaccines
percent immune.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I mean, it's insane.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Regardless of whether or not they're negligent, regardless of whether
or not there was any knowledge about uh side effects
that weren't disclosed, they're they're they're immune, and so he's
going to go deal with that stuff, and he's going
to deal with the the fact that the food industry
in this country. I mean, we've talked about this before.
There are foods, there are food ingredients in this country
(17:46):
that are banned in Europe that we allow.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Our are are our kids to eat?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Right?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I mean, like skittles are fucking toxic. They're toxic. They're toxic.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Maybe you look at some of the ingredients they're toxic,
and they won't say you can't you can't sell them
in Europe you'll be arrested, and you can sell them here.
And it's like there's this whole story this book I'm
reading about the conversion of the old tobacco companies into.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
You know, they bought a bunch of the feld like R. JR.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Reynolds bought the whole Nabisco deal and all these tobacco
companies when they were at the height of their power,
they bought food companies. And then their model was, Okay, well,
we know how to hook people on tobacco, We're going
to hook people on junk food the same way, using
these chemical ingredients that aren't good for people and that's
something that Bobby Kennedy is going to put a stop to,
(18:36):
and it's great he should. And it's across Telsea Gabbard
to d and I, I mean some of the bs
that we're seeing about, you know, through intelligence and the
craziness about not being able to resolve the Ukraine Russia thing.
And I really do think he's going to have it
settled within six months. But it's just crazy, and it's
like all these people are burned. The boat's appointments and
(18:59):
you know what, they may knock out Matt Gates, but
I don't think. I'm pretty sure the guy who's going
to replace him is the nominee is not going to
be Bill Barr. It's going to be Matt Gates too.
And that's what's going to happen. And if he doesn't
get him, he's going to do some recess appointment and
put someone in there for two years and he's going
to be fine with that. And I really think that's
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where we're headed. You know what, since we haven't seen
this in our company since nineteen thirty in our country
since nineteen thirty two. Right Roosevelt came in. It was
after a string of Republican presidents. The economy was booming
and then it crashed and people throwing themselves out of windows,
no regulation on what the stock market manipulators were doing.
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And he came in. He took care of that. He
took care of sort of trying to rebuild the the
you know, the country after the whole Great Depression, and
he did it in a radical way, and he talked
about radical things like he talked about, you know, stacking
the Supreme Court and all that stuff. And you know,
(20:02):
so that's I think that's the closest analogy we have
to what's going on, obviously without the Great Depression part.
But that's the last time an administration came in and
just changed course so drastically as I think we're about
to see.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah, well, and you can say that Trump's crazy, and
you're not wrong, but in many respects, he's crazy like
a fox. Right, So what do you do if you
want to put a controversial attorney general in that office? Well,
you put up a guy that is just, you know,
hands down, a lunatic Matt Gates, right, and then you
(20:39):
battle for him for a while, right, You legitimately battle
for him and say no, no, no, I mean, obviously
this guy is said and done some things that you know,
might seem a little bit wild, but I like him,
and I think you can do the job. And you know,
you get all the pushback that you're you know, you
knew the moment you did it, you were going to
get and so you push back against that for a while,
(20:59):
and then you go, okay, all right, all right, okay, okay,
all right. Maybe not Matt Case, but maybe this guy
who is a guy that had you put him up first,
would have been, you know, ninety five percent as controversial.
But everybody's breathing such a sigh of relief that it's
not going to be Matt Gates that they're just happy
(21:21):
to take. You know, whoever you put up in his place,
who's you know, slightly behind Matt Gates on the you know,
lunatic scale, and you get him in a landslide, right,
everybody just goes, oh, okay, thanks, great, I'm glad, glad
we got off the Gates thing. Let's put this guy
in and he's going to get exactly what he wants,
and that is what he wants, right, I mean, not
(21:41):
to say the same thing over and over. He wants
to blow it up. He's come right out and said it.
I mean, you sent me that little video clip of him,
you know, his first you know whatever. You it wasn't
really a press conference. It was like three minutes of
him just talking and saying, Okay, you know, here, here's
what here's my plan, here's here's what I'm coming in
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to do, you know, my first hundred days, whatever it was,
And you could boil that whole three minutes down to
I'm blowing it up. I'm blowing up the DJ, I'm
blowing up the DoD, I'm blowing up homeland security. I'm
blowing all of that up. It doesn't work, it's bloated,
it's it's been weaponized, and I'm blowing it up. And
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he is going to do that again to the best
of his ability. And he's got both houses of Congress.
And I do think you know, that is a strategy
that's worked across the board in government, in business, you know,
just in life. Is if you want to slide somebody
into a slot that's going to be controversial, put somebody
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up who's even more controversial, an act like that's who
you want. You're dead serious about it. Get everybody freaking
out that that might happen, and then back off and
throwing the guy you've always wanted, who is you know,
more palatable, even if slightly so, and you're gonna get him.
So Yeah, I mean, if anybody thinks that Trump's getting
around like this is just a big show he's putting on,
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mm hmmm, he fully intends to do this.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Yeah, And I and I think that's I think that's
what harkens back to FDR.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Right, he was the same way. He didn't you know,
he and Hoover hate. He hated Hoover.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Hoover didn't care.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Hoover lived for like forty some odd years. After that,
he moved into the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
He was never welcomed back into the White.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
House for the what was it like, uh, but twelve
years of FDR was at twelve twelve years.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
But then as soon as Truman came in, uh, he
invited him there and he helped he.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Helped reconstruct Europe and get supply chains going.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
So that's a.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Little known, little known fact about herb Reteuver. But it's
almost like, you know, the past is prolog right, Like
Jim Garrison said when he was when he was prosecuting
Clay Shaw for the murder of JFK. Even though Clay
Show was acquitted, and many people said that Garrison not me. Again,
(24:15):
I wasn't around at the time, but many people said
that Garrison was simply being prosecuted because he was a
homosexual who wore gold body paint at certain times.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
You know. Again, as one does, as one does.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Garrison seemed to think differently, but past his prolog I
think someone else may have said that at some point too,
but certainly Jim Garrison said it.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Okay, well there you go. He also said, back into.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
The lift, back back to the lift, back into the lift. Yeah,
so we're gonna have to watch that movie at some point.
But this is listen.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
We'll see how this all goes. But it's gonna be
very interesting to see. You know, the Republican senators they
got rid of Mitch McConnell, and they're gonna have to
confirm these guys or you know. I don't think Trump
is going to be incredibly forgiving in terms of the schedule.
I think he's gonna want these people confirmed so they
can get to work on January twentieth and the new
(25:16):
Congress is seated. Some of them will choose to stand,
but they'll be seated on January third, so that gives
them that that's when they start these hearings. And you
know what else is interesting. They're not doing FBI background checks.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Do you know that?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I did not know that, but I mean, having done
background checks as an FBI agent, I can tell you that,
you know, the process is well founded. I mean serious
about doing it those cases. I mean, I've been in
the Bureau in a long time, but in those cases
they're called spin and special investigations, and they're taken very seriously.
(25:53):
But you know, a background check, you go and you
talk to people's neighbors. That I mean, you only have
to watch TV for about ten minutes before there's some
neighbor who happens to be living next short to some
guy who's been keeping you know, thirty women in his
basement for a decade. And what does the neighbor say, Oh, man,
you know, seem like a regular guy to me. I
had no idea, right, So I mean knocking on neighbors
(26:16):
doors and ask them, hey, tell me about this guy,
and going to their former bosses. I mean, it's all
all that's fine. It's probably the best you can do,
but it doesn't really do anything. You don't know how
somebody's going to be in the position until they're in it.
And then if you, you know, layer on top of
that the fact that many folks believe the FBI has become,
you know, incredibly politicized. Why would you do one? What
(26:37):
good does it do you?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I mean apparently not?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah, so there you go. Plus what are you going
to find out about you know, Matt gets that hasn't
already been found out? I mean, you know, what are
you going to find out about? The guy?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
So there was some, there was some He was giving
some speech. I think it's seapack that conservative. Did you
know there's a gladiator too coming out?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
By the way, I did know that. It actually looks
like it might be pretty good.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Maybe we'll hit over to the IMAX and see that.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
He was giving a speech at CMAX and he was
talking about that women thing again, and he said, he said,
why is it that the and this is not me
saying that, this is Matt Gates, but he said, why
is it that whenever he watches these women marching in
the abortion marches, that the women that are marching, are
the ones that are the least likely to get pregnant.
(27:26):
And then he said, no one's going to want to
impregnate anyone. And I'm quoting here that looks like a thumb.
Mat Gates said that it's not funny, Brad, it's not funny.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Well serious, Well, I mean he was probably serious when
he said it. It is somewhat funny. You know, as
Matt Gates once said, if you want to be offended,
to be offended. I don't think he cares. But yeah,
I mean you know that that's.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Your But see, this is what I talked about again.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
If you do want to blow something up, that's the
guy to do it.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
But this is what I talked about last time, right,
And this is why this is the problem, right, because
you know, last time we got twenty sixteen, you and
I got sucked in. You know, we were smoking cigars,
dancing around, and then you're like, okay, but this is
there's a little letdown, right, because there's no way he
can top this, And then he did. Right the next
(28:20):
thing that's the Russia collusion hoax, right, and you're in
the middle of that, then the Mueller thing, and so
this time he comes out, he wins a historic election,
he wins the popular vote.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Right, Okay, no way you can top this. Well, wait
a minute.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
The next thing, you know, Bobby Kennedy takes his shirt
off and he's doing pull ups on muzzle Beach, you know,
and then he nominates the guy from Fox and Friends
for d D And then Matt Gates, I mean, the
Matt Gates thing. Can you imagine how great those hearings
are going to be? Can you imagine?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (28:50):
I mean, well you just can't mean there if you
go look at hearings. He's where he's on some oversight
committee in the House. You know, Lloyd Austin, the Fence Secretary,
was screaming at him during one of these hearings. He
got hit to the point where he almost had a
heart attack gainst it. And then Gates had Merrick Garland
to the point where he almost had a heart attack.
(29:12):
And it's going to be sort of flipped where Gates
is going to be giving Democratic senators. He's just gonna
call them whatever the hell he wants to call them
during these hearings.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I mean, it's going to be un chartered territory. I mean,
this is gonna be.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
And so just when you think Trump can't get can't,
you know you're at the pinnacle. No, wait a minute,
there's going to be a confirmation hearing for Matt Gates.
Wait a minute, I nominated the Fox and Friends guy
for the Wait a minute, Bobby Kennedy is doing another
sent a rose on muscleb I mean, it's just it
never ends, and that proves that Trump is a genius
when it comes to marketing.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
M hm, oh yeah, I always has been and he
gets it right. I mean again, none of this is
on accident. And you can say what you will about
Donald Trump, but in many respects, he's crazy like a fox.
None of this is on accident. He knows exactly what
he's doing. He's doing it on purpose. He wants these
confirmation hearings. He wants guys like Gates to just sit
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at that table and call a Democratic senator a total jackass.
That's what he wants. And again, you know, my suspicion
is that he wants all that to play out so
that it's all on tape and everybody sees it, and
then he can, you know, pull back half a step
and nominate someone else and just say Okay, you know,
I'll give you Gates, and then he'll give Gates some
(30:32):
you know inside the White House gig that doesn't require
an appointment, and put somebody else up for a turn
in general who will just sail through? Why, well, because
they're not Matt Gates. But he wants guys like Gates.
And again, Gates is crazy like a fox. He knows
exactly what he is doing. Right, you can hate him,
you can desire to see him just suffer eternal pain,
(30:56):
but he knows what he's doing. And he's going to
filay people during these hearings, right, and again that just
might make you hate him more. But that's what's gonna happen.
And that's what Trump wants to happen. Right. He wants
to get people fed up with the government, fed up
with the potato heads that we have elected over the
(31:17):
last you know, ten, fifteen, twenty years. He wants for
America to look and go, yeah, these people truly are dopes.
The people that are in charge of our government are dopes.
And you know they're just on the public tit, right,
They're just taking money. Our taxes keep going up. Where's
that money going? It's going to these people, and he
wants America upset about that, and he wants America behind
(31:41):
him on blowing it up. And I think he's going
to get there.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Yeah, no, I agree. Okay, so we got a couple
of minutes left really quickly. I don't know, Brad, are
you familiar. I think we've talked about this. Professor Tim
Colson of Oxford University.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Maybe he's a professor of science at Oxford. Just science
as it always has it always has always Who are
you Don Rickles?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
You can't just accept that Don Rickles?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Yea? Was he known for not accepting things? Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:19):
He's just critical, highly critical, Brad.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
He was in charge of Operation petticoat Don Rickles.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
I already got a wife, Brad. Thank you. So doctor, professor,
maybe a doctor too. I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Tim Colson has looked at and studied what would happen,
what would happen if and he convened a commission on this,
a commission in the event that mankind was wiped out
through either wars or climate change, which species would take
(32:53):
over the Earth?
Speaker 4 (32:54):
And I am uh.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
And so he did a study on this, and they've
drawn specific conclusions and it'll surprise you. I could probably
give you ten guesses and you wouldn't get it.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I'm sure that's true. Well sure, yeah, like I just
you know, I just took one, so you know, and
all the you know, apocalyptic movies, it's always cockroaches that
you know, because they survive everything and they don't need much.
So I mean that would be I would presume that's
near the top. I you know, they got to be
a little bit careful about your you know, your preliminary assumptions.
(33:33):
Like if if climate change wipes out mankind, then it's
going to wipe out the things that are closest to mankind, right,
So if you want to look at things kind of
on a scale, then I would presume that all of
the upper primates are going to be gone as well, right,
I mean, if man can't man kind cannot survive the
(33:54):
climate change, then you know, all of the monkeys and
gorillas and apes, et cetera, my guesses will not survive.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
So can't see that's a good, but that's a good
that's a good point because my first inclination was that
apes would take over because of.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
The Charlton Heston movies.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Right, Planet of the apes returned to Planet of the Apes,
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, back to the
Planet of the Apes and Mark Wahlberg and you're right,
You're right, I mean Coulson. Professor Coulson in his extensive
study on this topic at Oxford where Bill Clinton went
for a period of time, and by that Professor Coulson
did did conclude that the primates would not take over
(34:31):
the Earth.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
All right, So it's not primates, it's not I'm presuming
it's not cockroaches. Correct, Well, can you give me a hint, like,
is it a you know, is it avian like our birds?
Is it reptile? Is it fungal? Or is it going
to be all bacteria all the time? I mean, what
are we talking about here?
Speaker 5 (34:53):
It is a well known creature. Wow, it is not
a bird. It is not a bird.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Although although one thing to understand is that in this
study he he pulled up the Professor Coulson did say
that some birds, such as crows, ravens, and parrots, are
extremely intelligent and could construct communal nesting sites that last
for decades. And there are certain insect species, including large spiders,
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that construct towering structures which bear a resemblance to human civilization,
but that not none of those are covered.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
None of those are so it's not going to become,
you know, Planet of the spiders or Planet of the crows.
So I don't know, buddy, tell.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Me the the octopus.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
The octopus is going to become the dominant species.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
He did conclude. And this is again that tenured professor. Okay,
this is not some jack clown who's.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
Uh And by the way, this guy Coulson or Pulse
Coulson is one of the world's leading zoologists and biologists,
and he is in line to uh work at the
National Zoo under Trump where they are getting Panda's back Brad,
pandas are on the way.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Another uh ramification of the Trump election. But yeah, he he.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
Colson concluded that these these octopi octopuses would rule the earth,
maybe not become land animals, I think, he said as
part of it, I've read this report yesterday, so I'm
little I don't have it in front of me, but
he did the A believe he said that they're unlikely
to become full land animals, but they'll still roam the
earth and control things with an iron.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Fist eight iron fists frankly, Well.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
Yeah, theoretically, what was that Jabberwaukee was the octopus on
Hannah Barbara?
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Yeah? Yeah? Or was Jabbrawaukee the shark? Yeah? That could
have been the sea in any case? Yeah, I mean, okay,
there was.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
An octopus though. Remember the laugh Olympics. I always left
the Laugh Olympics. No there was, Yeah, I know there
was an arty competition. Remember Battle of the Network Stars.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
I do remember battling the Network Stars.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
See, you can't even explain to people today.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
They just don't get it the ramifications of of that.
And then and then also the other thing we don't
have time to get into because is already over is
John Gruden joined Barstool Sports yesterday and had his first
first ice coffee on social media. So he's never had
a nice coffee before, had one yesterday for the first time.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yeah, well, good on them. You know, everyone should enjoy
a nice coffee like a gentleman every once in a while,
you know, before the octopuses take over. Because you know,
I again, you know we can hold two things, they
can hold eight. Right, So like even if you're a
heavy coffee drinker and you're gonna go double fisting it
they're gonna go octofisting it. You're not gonna be able
(37:52):
to get a coffee, right, I mean, every time an
octopus watch into the Starbucks, you get eight coffees, you're
out of luck. That won't matter because you know, underneath
this rubric pressure stinked and so it doesn't matter, right,
we won't care. But those are some things you got
to think about. I mean, if you're an octopus ruling
with an iron fists, meaningfully got eight.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
Of them, so velvet hammer type deal.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah, exactly, well, but I think we should put a
pin in it, you know, right about there. It is
what it is. But and if we're not around, we're
not around, you know, for the Donald Trump of octopuses
eventually winning office and being able to do, you know,
four times the amount of work of the human Donald Trump,
because he's got four times the amount of of of
you know, not limbs. I guess I think I've really
(38:38):
got two times the number of limbs. We don't do
a terrible lot with our feet other than walk around
on them. So I'm gonna I'm gonna give the octopus
four times the capacity. And we've carried it in one podcast.
We've carried it from Donald Trump to Octa Trump, and
we did it smoothly, without any bumps in the road,
so that people could follow that path. And now that
(39:00):
that's what you're left thinking about, is Octatrump, and that's
our job. We've accomplished it. We've done it for this week.
We'll do it again next week at the same time,
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