Well, what craziness has the news brought us today? Let's make sense of it...
American Eagle brand is not backing down to the outrage mob. Don't underestimate how important this is.
The New York Times ran an op-ed calling for a reexamination of how death is defined - in order to increase the amount of organ donations. If that disturbs you, you're not alone and there is something you can do about it.
But in other medical news, the world's 'oldest' baby wa born through IVF with an egg that was frozen in 1994. Ethical debates aside...wow!
American Eagle brand is not backing down to the outrage mob. Don't underestimate how important this is.
The New York Times ran an op-ed calling for a reexamination of how death is defined - in order to increase the amount of organ donations. If that disturbs you, you're not alone and there is something you can do about it.
But in other medical news, the world's 'oldest' baby wa born through IVF with an egg that was frozen in 1994. Ethical debates aside...wow!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Look at that.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
You made it through the weekend. You made it to Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
We're just kicking off a brand new, freshly unwrapped work week.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You're never gonna believe this.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I know it's shocking, but there were some insane news
over the weekend to catch you up on. Not all
of it bad, not all of it bad at all,
but nonetheless crazy. But that's okay. I'll talk you through this.
We'll make sense of this whole thing, but more importantly,
what you can do about it.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
That's what I do.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Eanks in front of the Wicked Radio livestream, all part
of Wicked Wisdom with Bill Adams. Thanks for being here
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, a lot to talk about.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Here's the great news that Sydney Sweeney ad is doing
great things for American Eagle and I was looking for this.
This is the full circle wrap up moment of this
entire affair. What would American Eagles reaction be to all this?
I think you're gonna like it. I think you're gonna
like it a lot. Trump likes it. He even responded
(01:03):
to this thing. You know, when an ad campaign is successful,
and when even the president is very aware of it,
he's probably saved it in his book marks, and he's
watched it like thirteen times.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I have no idea, but he'll talk about that as well.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
In scary news, and this was the most insane thing
I've ever seen. The New York Times ran an op
ed that picked up steam over the weekend about redefining death,
how and why for organ donation. Now, I'm gonna not
gonna try to change your mind on this, but I'll
tell you if you are freaked out by this, what
(01:36):
you can do for it. And in other medical news,
it's funny. We have like a theme today with medical miracles.
The world's oldest baby was born the oldest embryo anyway,
because the egg was frozen in nineteen ninety four. And
there are ethical questions, but let's admit it here, this
is kind of amazing, isn't.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It that can even happen.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
It's a miracle. It's miracle war all here, thanks for
finding me. All right, let's get right you're gonna like this.
You're gonna like this a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I told you.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Crazy news continues, but it's not all bad. American Eagle,
the jeens company, the clothing company, has made a statement
about the Sydney Sweeney ad many times. Last week in
the live stream the podcast, I talked about the woke
outrage mob calling this a call for fascism.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
This this play on words on jeans and Sidney Sweeney
and how dare they put an attractive female, blonde, blue hyde,
blue eyed, with big boobs in an ad. It ito's fascism.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Almost all of the world sees that as ridiculous. Now
that's the first thing that should make you feel great,
because they are insane. The outrage mob their nuts. It
was mostly very self hated, ugly people who were against
the ad. And now American Eagle has responded. Oh and
by the way, the jeans are selling outlift and right, massive,
massive success, which means other companies will follow suit in
(02:53):
their advertising. Prioritizing and celebrating the beauty of the American
female body is back. It is not going away. It's
the first piece of good news. The second is we've
got a company now in American Eagle. That's not backing
down to the outrage mob.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I can't love this enough. Here's the official statement. Sidney
Sweeney has great genes, is.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
And always was about the genes. Yeah, could we go
back to that for a second. It was a play
on words, her jeans, her story.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
See.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I like what they did there in the statement. They
made it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
They kind of took the playbook away from the lunatic
lefties and they made it about the feminism thing.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Very smart. We'll continue.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
They go on to say, to celebrate how everyone wears
their ae jeens with confidence, their way. Great genes look
good on everyone. That might be the perfect statement, the
perfect statement to end all of this, and they get
some extra playoff it. Let's, you know, be honest about this.
It's just a smart advertising move, American Eagle. I salute
(03:55):
you first of all for not backing down, and secondly
for a very creative ad and response.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
What kind of ad was this?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Let's let's review just for just.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
For somethings are passed on from parents to offspring, often
determining traits like her color, personality, and even eye color.
My chains are blue, Sydney.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yes, she does have great genes. Yes she does. But
here's more for the outrage.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Mob to to dig into to see the bout so BuzzFeed.
I can't believe they're still in an existence, but they
still are. It's just a horrible outlet media outlet. They
dug up Sydney Sweeney's voting records. Dun, dun, dull.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
First shocking thing to me was I didn't know she
was a Florida resident. I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Hmm, interesting, I'll have to keep my eyes open on
the road for great gens, right.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And they also dug that they duged. They dug deeper,
and they found that she had registered before as a
Republican in the state of Florida.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh, not only is the attic a call for fascism
with the jeans, Oh she's a registered Republican. How dare
her have a mind of her own go against the
left wing media hypocrisy out in Hollywood?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well, this will really send the outrage mob over the edge.
But I thought this was hilarious. So some reporter just
got the hold of this story and they caught up
with Trump on the tarmac heading too. I think it
was Marine one, not Air Force one. Either way, it's
loud in the background, but he got he got this
reaction and this is this is how he felt about
that piece of.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Who was carry she's a registered Republican. Oh now, I
love her head? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
To Sydney Schmide, you'd be surprised at how many people
are Republicans.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
First of all, that's just a funny, funny as hell
response to that kind of thing. You know, even if
you don't like Trump, you can't not admire how that
guy thinks on his feet. I mean, that's just a
funny reaction. But there's something a little nugget in there
of truth that's really important. What he said in there,
he said, you know, comes back to the reporter and
(06:16):
kind of a wink, wink, nod nod and says, you'd
be amazed at how many people actually vote Republican, referring
to celebrities but are afraid to talk about it. And
we've heard stories back and forth over the years that
there's a lot of people in entertainment that actually have
their own opinions, but they're afraid to say them because
they want to still work, you know, they don't want
to get blacklisted. He who would know that better than Trump?
(06:40):
And he kind of hinted around at that, So it's
kind of amazing. I have to wonder too. I wouldn't
imagine that Sidney Sweeney's going to come out with any
kind of a statement that apologizes for how she's voted
in the past because BuzzFeed decided to dig it up.
But you gotta wonder if stuff like this happens and
a big brand like American Eagle decides not to back down,
(07:00):
If how how soon or how long it's gonna take
for celebrities to come out and say, yeah, I'm not
backing down.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
This is how I feel about certain things. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It would still be better if celebrities keep their political
opinions to themselves, But again, this is different. She didn't
want to get this information out there. They dug up
her records, not her fault. All right, that was fun.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
See I told you it's not all bad news. It's
good news. There company not backing down. Let's go to
the swamp though for some serious news. Very quickly.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
No, while the investigation continued and the talking heads were
talking about Russia collusion, who's behind that.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Wink wink, nod, nod. I think we know.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
And also the story about the border and the jobs
reporting us all this other crap that comes out of
national news very quietly, maybe maybe the biggest story of
all time came out.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
This is what I voted for.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And I don't care whether you're left, right, blue, red,
whatever the hell you want to call yourself. Everybody, this
is everybody should be in favor of having secured elections.
Is one of my major voting points, going going back
to every election.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
In fact, well they've started.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
The report is the Department of Justice is cleaning up
the voter roles, calling on all states to provide what
they have, and they're hinting around at the thought of
an audit.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
This one's audio only. Let's go to Fox News with
the report.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
This came out on Saturday, where they're going to make
a big push for this one.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Trump administration looking to boost election integrity as the DOJ
opens a nationwide investigation into voter roles. The apartment is
calling on local officials to identify felons, dead voters, and
also non citizens who might have.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Cast a ballot. No, okay, that's just the beginning of
the story.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Here kind of sums up exactly where they're going with
this and so far anyway, I mean, what have we
learned about this administration, the Trump administration two point zero
so far. When they leak out this news and they
start to identify what they're going to do, especially through
the Department into Justice, whether successful or not, they jump
on it right away. In other words, seems to be
(09:06):
the pattern so far with this administration. They'll send out
a press release or make a press conference, tell the
media outlets what they're gonna do. So far, anyway, I
think they're mo is they're already starting to work on it,
you know what I mean, So they can kind of
like send out a test balloon, see what the public,
see what the base feels about this, and then they
start to get to work on it. So apparently reportedly
(09:29):
this has already started now to clean up the voting rules,
and they're starting to put the screws to every single
state elections office, all fifty of them, to clean up
their voting rules. Here's the most important thing of the
entire story. Out of all of that, besides the fact
that it seems like shocking they're actually doing this right,
this is we shouldn't even have to get to this point,
but they are. Here's the real story so far, and
(09:51):
they're expected to hear from more. So far, two states
are already pushing back, making statements saying they're not going
to do this. I know it's incredible, but happening. Minnesota
and Maine, with more on the way, expected to push back.
Get this just even saying it sounds bizarre to push
back against cleaning up their voting rules and providing the
(10:13):
Department of Justice, the federal Department of Justice, with the
information they need to get rid of dead voters, illegal voters,
people that shouldn't be voting, duplicate votes, voting schemes, all
of it so far, and those two words are the
story so far. Two states already pushing back, Maine and Minnesota. Now,
(10:34):
in my little pea brain, I'm thinking, well, if there
was a call from the Department of Justice for any organization, state, company,
you know, agency, anything to show your work and they
push back on it. I may be simplistic here, but
that tells me you are crooked as hell and you're
trying to cheat.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
That's just my takeaway. So that's going to be frustrating.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
This is going to be a massive legal challenge is
the Department of Justice, oh God forbid, tries to clean
up our voting rules and secure our elections.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
The pushback on this is going to be infuriating. It's
gonna drive you crazy. It's gonna be insane, it's gonna
be maddening, it's gonna seem bizarre. We're even in this world.
Here's the great thing, here's the great takeaway on this.
It's going to expose all of the rats in this case.
They're giant rats because they're states. Right, The schemes are
going to be unveiled on who's first of all, look
(11:28):
for the states who's pushing back. Look for the major
political figures who are pushing back, because those are the rats.
Those are the people trying to cheat elections, and they're
going to be exposed now in this administration. They may
not get this done, but they're gonna roll this wheel
down the hill, and the process is already going to
be started to clean up the voter rules despite the pushback,
(11:48):
which I know is unbelievable that there are states even
pushing back, because if you have fair elections, there's no
cheating going on. There's gonna be plenty of states going, yeah,
look at our books. Great, We're proud of this. We're
proud of because you know what, We're a state that
cleaned up our own voter rolls before he even came
to us. So we would love to brag about this.
Those are the good ones. Watch out for the rats.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
But the good news is they expose themselves in the sunlight.
It's gonna be great. That's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
All Right, this is horrifying. I even I intentionally held
back on this story because I'm still reeling from it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
There was an.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Op ed that came out lace late last week and
it made a lot of headway. It really gained a
lot of traction. I would even dare say it went
viral over the weekend, an op ed in the New
York Times. Say what you will about the New York Times,
but there's still plenty of people who they're still very
influential in certain circles Washington business world and the medical community,
(12:46):
which is what our story hears all about. I'm gonna
give you, okay, I'm gonna read you the headline of
the op ed, the title of the op ed, and
you tell me your immediate reaction to this, and the
first thing you think of this is the I'll tell
you about the guy that wrote it in just a second. Ready,
donor organs are too rare. We need a new definition
(13:08):
of death. Yeah, I'll read it again. Donor organs are
too rare. Right there, it would have been interesting and
most people would have said, yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, you
know is there are a lot of people who are
I'm an organ donator. For now, we need a new
definition of death. What are they talking about here?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Let me go on.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I'm not gonna read the whole thing because you really
don't need to read too far into this to realize
how dark this is.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Now. The guy that wrote it is Sandeep Jahar.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
In promoting this and getting it out there, he put
on his X account and I'm sure maybe Instagram or
Facebook two, I don't know, but this is from X.
This is what he says, death is not simply a
biological fact, but it's also a social choice. To increase
the number of donor organs, we should expand the death
definition of death.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
And then he goes and he links the op ed.
What does it say in the op ed?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
The need for donor organs is urgent and estimated fifteen
people die in this country every day waiting for a transplant.
We got to figure out how to obtain more healthy
organs from donors while maintaining strict ethical standards. Right, here's
a real interesting part. New technologies can help, but the
best solution we believe is legal. We need to broaden
(14:26):
the definition of death.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Even that headline is.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
One of the darkest things I have ever seen in
my entire life or even heard, Like, I can't believe
they even came out with that. Now, not my job,
and I don't know why you would listen to me
anyway for medical advice or what you want to do
with your body, or how you want to be cremated,
what you do with your family.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I totally understand that. I'm just giving you my opinion.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I already have a very very healthy distrust of the
overall medical system that we have. I just do That's
just me, personal experience, what I've learned.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Throughout the years.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Blah blah bl They also have a very unhealthy trust
of the health insurance and medical insurance industry.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Again, that's just me. Do what you want whatever.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But I saw this and I read this, and I
looked into it and saw some of the reaction from
the people supporting this, and I said, yeah, I'm gonna
look into ways to get my name off the donor
registry because they're insane. I don't trust like the guy
who wrote this and his co authors. I don't trust
them to make the decision on how dead I am.
(15:30):
It's crazy to even say that, not if I'm dead,
how dead I am? Like, how does it work? Well,
he's got he's got a five percent chance of making
it through. You know, I'm in the recovery room, I'm
in the ICU. He's got a five percent chance according
to our new definitions.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
That's close enough. Pull the plug. What if I don't
have a health advocate? What if I don't have I
can't speak for myself.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I'd be out of it, right, I'd be all, you know,
drugged up and everything else. What if I don't have
a health advocate in my room at the time with
my family, even if they are there in the hospital,
but they decided to go on a coffee break, right,
you know, they're out of the room for a couple
of minutes. Over at two o'clock in the morning, all
of a sudden, the doctor decides to pull the plug
on me and start harvesting my organs. There's something very
(16:16):
wrong with this. And again, I'll say it again. I
don't want to talk you or scare you into any
of this kind of stuff, but the fact that this
is out there, this is insane to me that they're
even pushing this out there. This is so insanely dark.
And I'll throw this out there as well. Why is
it even an issue? It's organ donation. Everybody loves that, right,
this same outlet, And I wanted to go to the
(16:38):
New York Times for this because it's, you know, comparing
apples to apples. They had another obit about organ donation
in it was July twentieth, No, it was July. I
don't know the date, but it was twenty twenty and
it said, this same same outlet, a push for more
(16:59):
organ transplants, putting donors at risk.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Well that's interesting, isn't it. That's really interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
So in conversations with friends and family that I have,
because like I said, I've always been a an organ
donat donor, I've always thought, well, it's a great thing.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Everybody should do that, right.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, I'm rethinking that now and again it is the
fourth time has said a personal choice. Not trying to
influence you either way on that, but interesting, there are
so many searches after this article. This is what they
don't understand. They're scar they're scaring people away from donating
organs now.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
One of the number one.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Searches on search engines this weekend after this article came
out was how to get your name.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Off the organ donor list.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
This is what happens, a natural result, and if you're
interested in that, plenty of information out there. You're going
to identify your state's donor registry, update your status online,
visit the DMV or they have a form to get
your name off there. You can update your driver's license
I D. You could check registries if necessary. Certainly talk
to your family and if there's a good.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Piece of news this whole thing.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
It opens up the discussion, you know, with your friends
and family and what you want to do with this
in case something really goes bad. And you can search
specific states to see where you are on this.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
My choice. But I cannot believe that was even a headline.
Cannot believe it. Incredible.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
So that's the dark side of that's the really dark
side of I'll call it the medical community. Let's go
to something bright, because I know there are ethical concerns
in this story.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I understand that there are a lot of people actually
upset about this one.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Personally, I'm fascinated by this, not to get into the
morality of it or the medical ethics of.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
It, but what if.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
An egg that was harvested from a lady in nineteen
ninety four was just born in the form of a
baby boy this past weekend. Because it happened, they're calling
him the world's oldest baby. Because of when the eggs
were harvested, Linda and Tim Pearce's son, Thaddius was born.
(19:11):
The egg originally came from nineteen ninety four. Let's go
to the story on this to explain it a little
bit better. Here's a I think it's ABC News with
the story.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Right now, doctors are marveling at what's being called the
world's oldest baby. The Ohio boy was born from an
embryo frozen in nineteen ninety four, and he was conceived
in a lab by a couple using IVF, which was
relatively new.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
At the time.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
His adoptive parents found the embryo through a Christian adoption
embryo agency. And so for more on all this, I
want to bring in.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Wow, that is that is something.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
It's amazing to me that they can actually do that.
And the egg survived, and he went out to talk
to a doctor who said, really, the only risk is
the health of the mother at egg donation time to
be frozen. That's the most important fact. And then of
course through the IVF you know thing, I know there
are a lot of people who are against IVF and know,
you know, for religious reasons whatever, But can we just take,
especially after the dark organ transplation transplant story, can we
(20:11):
at least take the medical miracle that this is and
appreciate it for what it is. I mean this nineteen
ninety four. Of course, my thought was, what if the
kid comes out and he grows up as a child
of the nineties with all that sensibility, because we all
know kids who are from the nineties, and that may
(20:33):
be you right now. You're a lot different than the
kids that were born ten years ago. You were a
lot tougher, you were a lot less woke. What if
the kid comes up with all the characteristics of.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
The mid nineties that would be great anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Take that for what you will, but the main takeaway
is don't back down from anybody like that American Eagles
American Eagle brand, because they didn't and their result is
they're winning.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
About that.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
See crazy news as always, but not all of it bad.
It's how you kind of reprocess things this and make
it work for yourself.
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Look at that.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
You made it through the weekend. You made it to Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
We're just kicking off a brand new, freshly unwrapped work week.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You're never gonna believe this.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I know it's shocking, but there were some insane news
over the weekend to catch you up on. Not all
of it bad, not all of it bad at all,
but nonetheless crazy. But that's okay. I'll talk you through this.
We'll make sense of this whole thing, but more importantly,
what you can do about it.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
That's what I do.
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Well, a lot to talk about.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Here's the great news that Sydney Sweeney ad is doing
great things for American Eagle and I was looking for this.
This is the full circle wrap up moment of this
entire affair. What would American Eagles reaction be to all this?
I think you're gonna like it. I think you're gonna
like it a lot. Trump likes it. He even responded
(01:03):
to this thing. You know, when an ad campaign is successful,
and when even the president is very aware of it,
he's probably saved it in his book marks, and he's
watched it like thirteen times.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I have no idea, but he'll talk about that as well.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
In scary news, and this was the most insane thing
I've ever seen. The New York Times ran an op
ed that picked up steam over the weekend about redefining death,
how and why for organ donation. Now, I'm gonna not
gonna try to change your mind on this, but I'll
tell you if you are freaked out by this, what
(01:36):
you can do for it. And in other medical news,
it's funny. We have like a theme today with medical miracles.
The world's oldest baby was born the oldest embryo anyway,
because the egg was frozen in nineteen ninety four. And
there are ethical questions, but let's admit it here, this
is kind of amazing, isn't.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It that can even happen.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
It's a miracle. It's miracle war all here, thanks for
finding me. All right, let's get right you're gonna like this.
You're gonna like this a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I told you.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Crazy news continues, but it's not all bad. American Eagle,
the jeens company, the clothing company, has made a statement
about the Sydney Sweeney ad many times. Last week in
the live stream the podcast, I talked about the woke
outrage mob calling this a call for fascism.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
This this play on words on jeans and Sidney Sweeney
and how dare they put an attractive female, blonde, blue hyde,
blue eyed, with big boobs in an ad. It ito's fascism.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Almost all of the world sees that as ridiculous. Now
that's the first thing that should make you feel great,
because they are insane. The outrage mob their nuts. It
was mostly very self hated, ugly people who were against
the ad. And now American Eagle has responded. Oh and
by the way, the jeans are selling outlift and right, massive,
massive success, which means other companies will follow suit in
(02:53):
their advertising. Prioritizing and celebrating the beauty of the American
female body is back. It is not going away. It's
the first piece of good news. The second is we've
got a company now in American Eagle. That's not backing
down to the outrage mob.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I can't love this enough. Here's the official statement. Sidney
Sweeney has great genes, is.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
And always was about the genes. Yeah, could we go
back to that for a second. It was a play
on words, her jeans, her story.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
See.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I like what they did there in the statement. They
made it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
They kind of took the playbook away from the lunatic
lefties and they made it about the feminism thing.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Very smart. We'll continue.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
They go on to say, to celebrate how everyone wears
their ae jeens with confidence, their way. Great genes look
good on everyone. That might be the perfect statement, the
perfect statement to end all of this, and they get
some extra playoff it. Let's, you know, be honest about this.
It's just a smart advertising move, American Eagle. I salute
(03:55):
you first of all for not backing down, and secondly
for a very creative ad and response.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
What kind of ad was this?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Let's let's review just for just.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
For somethings are passed on from parents to offspring, often
determining traits like her color, personality, and even eye color.
My chains are blue, Sydney.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yes, she does have great genes. Yes she does. But
here's more for the outrage.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Mob to to dig into to see the bout so BuzzFeed.
I can't believe they're still in an existence, but they
still are. It's just a horrible outlet media outlet. They
dug up Sydney Sweeney's voting records. Dun, dun, dull.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
First shocking thing to me was I didn't know she
was a Florida resident. I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Hmm, interesting, I'll have to keep my eyes open on
the road for great gens, right.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And they also dug that they duged. They dug deeper,
and they found that she had registered before as a
Republican in the state of Florida.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh, not only is the attic a call for fascism
with the jeans, Oh she's a registered Republican. How dare
her have a mind of her own go against the
left wing media hypocrisy out in Hollywood?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well, this will really send the outrage mob over the edge.
But I thought this was hilarious. So some reporter just
got the hold of this story and they caught up
with Trump on the tarmac heading too. I think it
was Marine one, not Air Force one. Either way, it's
loud in the background, but he got he got this
reaction and this is this is how he felt about
that piece of.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Who was carry she's a registered Republican. Oh now, I
love her head? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
To Sydney Schmide, you'd be surprised at how many people
are Republicans.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
First of all, that's just a funny, funny as hell
response to that kind of thing. You know, even if
you don't like Trump, you can't not admire how that
guy thinks on his feet. I mean, that's just a
funny reaction. But there's something a little nugget in there
of truth that's really important. What he said in there,
he said, you know, comes back to the reporter and
(06:16):
kind of a wink, wink, nod nod and says, you'd
be amazed at how many people actually vote Republican, referring
to celebrities but are afraid to talk about it. And
we've heard stories back and forth over the years that
there's a lot of people in entertainment that actually have
their own opinions, but they're afraid to say them because
they want to still work, you know, they don't want
to get blacklisted. He who would know that better than Trump?
(06:40):
And he kind of hinted around at that, So it's
kind of amazing. I have to wonder too. I wouldn't
imagine that Sidney Sweeney's going to come out with any
kind of a statement that apologizes for how she's voted
in the past because BuzzFeed decided to dig it up.
But you gotta wonder if stuff like this happens and
a big brand like American Eagle decides not to back down,
(07:00):
If how how soon or how long it's gonna take
for celebrities to come out and say, yeah, I'm not
backing down.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
This is how I feel about certain things. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It would still be better if celebrities keep their political
opinions to themselves, But again, this is different. She didn't
want to get this information out there. They dug up
her records, not her fault. All right, that was fun.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
See I told you it's not all bad news. It's
good news. There company not backing down. Let's go to
the swamp though for some serious news. Very quickly.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
No, while the investigation continued and the talking heads were
talking about Russia collusion, who's behind that.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Wink wink, nod, nod. I think we know.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
And also the story about the border and the jobs
reporting us all this other crap that comes out of
national news very quietly, maybe maybe the biggest story of
all time came out.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
This is what I voted for.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And I don't care whether you're left, right, blue, red,
whatever the hell you want to call yourself. Everybody, this
is everybody should be in favor of having secured elections.
Is one of my major voting points, going going back
to every election.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
In fact, well they've started.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
The report is the Department of Justice is cleaning up
the voter roles, calling on all states to provide what
they have, and they're hinting around at the thought of
an audit.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
This one's audio only. Let's go to Fox News with
the report.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
This came out on Saturday, where they're going to make
a big push for this one.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Trump administration looking to boost election integrity as the DOJ
opens a nationwide investigation into voter roles. The apartment is
calling on local officials to identify felons, dead voters, and
also non citizens who might have.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Cast a ballot. No, okay, that's just the beginning of
the story.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Here kind of sums up exactly where they're going with
this and so far anyway, I mean, what have we
learned about this administration, the Trump administration two point zero
so far. When they leak out this news and they
start to identify what they're going to do, especially through
the Department into Justice, whether successful or not, they jump
on it right away. In other words, seems to be
(09:06):
the pattern so far with this administration. They'll send out
a press release or make a press conference, tell the
media outlets what they're gonna do. So far, anyway, I
think they're mo is they're already starting to work on it,
you know what I mean, So they can kind of
like send out a test balloon, see what the public,
see what the base feels about this, and then they
start to get to work on it. So apparently reportedly
(09:29):
this has already started now to clean up the voting rules,
and they're starting to put the screws to every single
state elections office, all fifty of them, to clean up
their voting rules. Here's the most important thing of the
entire story. Out of all of that, besides the fact
that it seems like shocking they're actually doing this right,
this is we shouldn't even have to get to this point,
but they are. Here's the real story so far, and
(09:51):
they're expected to hear from more. So far, two states
are already pushing back, making statements saying they're not going
to do this. I know it's incredible, but happening. Minnesota
and Maine, with more on the way, expected to push back.
Get this just even saying it sounds bizarre to push
back against cleaning up their voting rules and providing the
(10:13):
Department of Justice, the federal Department of Justice, with the
information they need to get rid of dead voters, illegal voters,
people that shouldn't be voting, duplicate votes, voting schemes, all
of it so far, and those two words are the
story so far. Two states already pushing back, Maine and Minnesota. Now,
(10:34):
in my little pea brain, I'm thinking, well, if there
was a call from the Department of Justice for any organization, state, company,
you know, agency, anything to show your work and they
push back on it. I may be simplistic here, but
that tells me you are crooked as hell and you're
trying to cheat.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
That's just my takeaway. So that's going to be frustrating.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
This is going to be a massive legal challenge is
the Department of Justice, oh God forbid, tries to clean
up our voting rules and secure our elections.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
The pushback on this is going to be infuriating. It's
gonna drive you crazy. It's gonna be insane, it's gonna
be maddening, it's gonna seem bizarre. We're even in this world.
Here's the great thing, here's the great takeaway on this.
It's going to expose all of the rats in this case.
They're giant rats because they're states. Right, The schemes are
going to be unveiled on who's first of all, look
(11:28):
for the states who's pushing back. Look for the major
political figures who are pushing back, because those are the rats.
Those are the people trying to cheat elections, and they're
going to be exposed now in this administration. They may
not get this done, but they're gonna roll this wheel
down the hill, and the process is already going to
be started to clean up the voter rules despite the pushback,
(11:48):
which I know is unbelievable that there are states even
pushing back, because if you have fair elections, there's no
cheating going on. There's gonna be plenty of states going, yeah,
look at our books. Great, We're proud of this. We're
proud of because you know what, We're a state that
cleaned up our own voter rolls before he even came
to us. So we would love to brag about this.
Those are the good ones. Watch out for the rats.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
But the good news is they expose themselves in the sunlight.
It's gonna be great. That's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
All Right, this is horrifying. I even I intentionally held
back on this story because I'm still reeling from it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
There was an.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Op ed that came out lace late last week and
it made a lot of headway. It really gained a
lot of traction. I would even dare say it went
viral over the weekend, an op ed in the New
York Times. Say what you will about the New York Times,
but there's still plenty of people who they're still very
influential in certain circles Washington business world and the medical community,
(12:46):
which is what our story hears all about. I'm gonna
give you, okay, I'm gonna read you the headline of
the op ed, the title of the op ed, and
you tell me your immediate reaction to this, and the
first thing you think of this is the I'll tell
you about the guy that wrote it in just a second. Ready,
donor organs are too rare. We need a new definition
(13:08):
of death. Yeah, I'll read it again. Donor organs are
too rare. Right there, it would have been interesting and
most people would have said, yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, you
know is there are a lot of people who are
I'm an organ donator. For now, we need a new
definition of death. What are they talking about here?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Let me go on.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I'm not gonna read the whole thing because you really
don't need to read too far into this to realize
how dark this is.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Now. The guy that wrote it is Sandeep Jahar.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
In promoting this and getting it out there, he put
on his X account and I'm sure maybe Instagram or
Facebook two, I don't know, but this is from X.
This is what he says, death is not simply a
biological fact, but it's also a social choice. To increase
the number of donor organs, we should expand the death
definition of death.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
And then he goes and he links the op ed.
What does it say in the op ed?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
The need for donor organs is urgent and estimated fifteen
people die in this country every day waiting for a transplant.
We got to figure out how to obtain more healthy
organs from donors while maintaining strict ethical standards. Right, here's
a real interesting part. New technologies can help, but the
best solution we believe is legal. We need to broaden
(14:26):
the definition of death.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Even that headline is.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
One of the darkest things I have ever seen in
my entire life or even heard, Like, I can't believe
they even came out with that. Now, not my job,
and I don't know why you would listen to me
anyway for medical advice or what you want to do
with your body, or how you want to be cremated,
what you do with your family.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I totally understand that. I'm just giving you my opinion.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I already have a very very healthy distrust of the
overall medical system that we have. I just do That's
just me, personal experience, what I've learned.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Throughout the years.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Blah blah bl They also have a very unhealthy trust
of the health insurance and medical insurance industry.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Again, that's just me. Do what you want whatever.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But I saw this and I read this, and I
looked into it and saw some of the reaction from
the people supporting this, and I said, yeah, I'm gonna
look into ways to get my name off the donor
registry because they're insane. I don't trust like the guy
who wrote this and his co authors. I don't trust
them to make the decision on how dead I am.
(15:30):
It's crazy to even say that, not if I'm dead,
how dead I am? Like, how does it work? Well,
he's got he's got a five percent chance of making
it through. You know, I'm in the recovery room, I'm
in the ICU. He's got a five percent chance according
to our new definitions.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
That's close enough. Pull the plug. What if I don't
have a health advocate? What if I don't have I
can't speak for myself.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I'd be out of it, right, I'd be all, you know,
drugged up and everything else. What if I don't have
a health advocate in my room at the time with
my family, even if they are there in the hospital,
but they decided to go on a coffee break, right,
you know, they're out of the room for a couple
of minutes. Over at two o'clock in the morning, all
of a sudden, the doctor decides to pull the plug
on me and start harvesting my organs. There's something very
(16:16):
wrong with this. And again, I'll say it again. I
don't want to talk you or scare you into any
of this kind of stuff, but the fact that this
is out there, this is insane to me that they're
even pushing this out there. This is so insanely dark.
And I'll throw this out there as well. Why is
it even an issue? It's organ donation. Everybody loves that, right,
this same outlet, And I wanted to go to the
(16:38):
New York Times for this because it's, you know, comparing
apples to apples. They had another obit about organ donation
in it was July twentieth, No, it was July. I
don't know the date, but it was twenty twenty and
it said, this same same outlet, a push for more
(16:59):
organ transplants, putting donors at risk.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Well that's interesting, isn't it. That's really interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
So in conversations with friends and family that I have,
because like I said, I've always been a an organ
donat donor, I've always thought, well, it's a great thing.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Everybody should do that, right.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, I'm rethinking that now and again it is the
fourth time has said a personal choice. Not trying to
influence you either way on that, but interesting, there are
so many searches after this article. This is what they
don't understand. They're scar they're scaring people away from donating
organs now.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
One of the number one.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Searches on search engines this weekend after this article came
out was how to get your name.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Off the organ donor list.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
This is what happens, a natural result, and if you're
interested in that, plenty of information out there. You're going
to identify your state's donor registry, update your status online,
visit the DMV or they have a form to get
your name off there. You can update your driver's license
I D. You could check registries if necessary. Certainly talk
to your family and if there's a good.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Piece of news this whole thing.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
It opens up the discussion, you know, with your friends
and family and what you want to do with this
in case something really goes bad. And you can search
specific states to see where you are on this.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
My choice. But I cannot believe that was even a headline.
Cannot believe it. Incredible.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
So that's the dark side of that's the really dark
side of I'll call it the medical community. Let's go
to something bright, because I know there are ethical concerns
in this story.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I understand that there are a lot of people actually
upset about this one.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Personally, I'm fascinated by this, not to get into the
morality of it or the medical ethics of.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
It, but what if.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
An egg that was harvested from a lady in nineteen
ninety four was just born in the form of a
baby boy this past weekend. Because it happened, they're calling
him the world's oldest baby. Because of when the eggs
were harvested, Linda and Tim Pearce's son, Thaddius was born.
(19:11):
The egg originally came from nineteen ninety four. Let's go
to the story on this to explain it a little
bit better. Here's a I think it's ABC News with
the story.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Right now, doctors are marveling at what's being called the
world's oldest baby. The Ohio boy was born from an
embryo frozen in nineteen ninety four, and he was conceived
in a lab by a couple using IVF, which was
relatively new.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
At the time.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
His adoptive parents found the embryo through a Christian adoption
embryo agency. And so for more on all this, I
want to bring in.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Wow, that is that is something.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
It's amazing to me that they can actually do that.
And the egg survived, and he went out to talk
to a doctor who said, really, the only risk is
the health of the mother at egg donation time to
be frozen. That's the most important fact. And then of
course through the IVF you know thing, I know there
are a lot of people who are against IVF and know,
you know, for religious reasons whatever, But can we just take,
especially after the dark organ transplation transplant story, can we
(20:11):
at least take the medical miracle that this is and
appreciate it for what it is. I mean this nineteen
ninety four. Of course, my thought was, what if the
kid comes out and he grows up as a child
of the nineties with all that sensibility, because we all
know kids who are from the nineties, and that may
(20:33):
be you right now. You're a lot different than the
kids that were born ten years ago. You were a
lot tougher, you were a lot less woke. What if
the kid comes up with all the characteristics of.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
The mid nineties that would be great anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Take that for what you will, but the main takeaway
is don't back down from anybody like that American Eagles
American Eagle brand, because they didn't and their result is
they're winning.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
About that.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
See crazy news as always, but not all of it bad.
It's how you kind of reprocess things this and make
it work for yourself.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
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