May 2, 2025 • 41 mins
Travis Clyburn and Michael Regilio dive into the muck that is Trump's Terrible 15th Week. More at dogmadebate.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Neil de grass Tyson.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey, I'm Adam Carol Gillette.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
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to the Weekly Roundup. So, of course I have my
weekly roundup co host Travis Cliburn.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
You know?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Roundup's actually got a little stank on it because I'm
a liberal and uh, I happen to remember that that
was the what was that a pesticide that roundup? Yeah? Monsanto?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Right, oh yeah, I believe a lot of people. Yeah,
it's still uh manufactured, but it's got different chemical elements
of it that they had to take out because it
was I believe, killing children. You know.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, she was like so evil that it like somehow
they don't know how it did this, but somehow it
sought out orphans and murdered.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Specifically yeah, biblically almost.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, And I will point out only because I love
the film so much that the film Michael Clayton without
calling out mon Santo by name, that is kind of
that is the bad guy in that film. Have you
ever seen that film?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
No? I have not.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No, I highly recommend it. George Clooney.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
There's some wild footage from these I believe sixties or
seventies where they were trying to convince farmers that this
particular past aside I don't even know if it's the
one we're talking about, because this has happened many times
is safe. That they have a bunch of school kids
at a school during recess and they're fuming them with
it and they're dancing. Yeah, and then most of those
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children years later died.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Get out of here.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I can't. I wish I could remember what best decide
it was. But they were like, look, it's safe, kids
could play in it. And then they die. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well this is uh. This was not on the schedule
to talk about today, but now that we're on it,
I do recall that there was a time when I
think it may have been Monsanto, but it could have
been another one. A guy was speaking to a room
like a community meeting, some sort of town hall. People
had concerns and he was like, it's totally safe. You
could literally drink a glass of the stuff. And a
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guy produced a glass of like one of the farmers
was like, I have some right here, and he poured
it into a glass.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
He's like, drink it. The dude was like, oh no.
Something similar happened with a fracking town too, where they
were like water, the water's fine, it's fine, guys, and
they were like, fucking drink it. Drink it. And he
was like, you know what, I'm not thirsty rat now.
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
That, of course, reminds me of Barack Obama in one
of his worst moments as president when he went to Flint, Michigan. Oh, like,
the water's fine, you could drink it. And he took
out a class of it, and I mean to say
he barely definitely, no sip was taken, but he barely
even let it touch his lips. He was like, oh,
there you go. Totally safe.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Drink up, kids, because you can see the lead in it. Man,
it was so dense with lead. Did they ever fix Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And as you know, or you may not know, but
that the drinking water in Flint was you know, damaging
the health of particularly children. But it also was like
leaving stains on like some of the parts that were
being manufactured by one of the giant auto manufacturers there.
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So the governor of Michigan at the time did approve
filtered clean water to be sent back through the pipes
to the auto manufactur sure for their car so that
the they looked sparkly and new. But the kids you
still had to drink it.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, shower in it, take a bubble bath.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Well that gets us to these uh, these car manufacturers,
these corporate tears, these billionaires. There's a guy named Elon
Musk who fits all those uh were's all those hats
if you will, and more because he's the one hat
(04:34):
that I forgot to mention with Elon Musk though, is
he's also a comedian.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
You know that. You know I've heard he gives it
a go.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He gives it a go because comedy's legal now thanks
to him. Yeah and uh. Even though there was an
article in Rolling Stone a few weeks ago that said,
like insiders in Trump's White House, like we're talking about
maga people, where like Elon Musky the least funny person
we've ever met.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
In our lives. Oh no, you have to have at
least even the biggest asshole comedians I know have a
bear level of empathy, you know, bear like a bottom
level empathy. Yeah, you have to have some because you
have to see things from other people's perspectives. He has
none of it.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, you know what you're You're not giving enough credit
because you're missing one of the things that about him
is that he's not a comic like you or I.
He's not a talking comic. He's a prop comic. He
busts out the chainsaws. Yeah. So you know, he's been
doing a lot and some people, maybe you've heard this,
(05:41):
it's colloquialism, saying he wears a lot of hats. So
he actually, this is so funny. He went to a
cabinet meeting wearing multiple hats at the same time. I'm
gonna let him deliver the joke because I'm not gonna
I'm not going to burn a dude's bit. I would
never do that to a fellow comedian.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So I'd like you to listen to every kind of you.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
So again, thank you, well, miss President. You know, they
say I wear a lot of hats, and as you
can see, it's true.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Even my hat has a hat.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Have you ever heard a bigger pity laugh in your life?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
My hat wears a hat? My hat? Where's that hat?
Hats wearing a hat.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I've done literally thousands of stand up open mics, and
I've never heard worst pity laughter in my life, or
more like laughs. So the boss doesn't fire me? Laughter?
You know that laughter that goes ha my goodness from
the belly fake laughter.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, I thought I would play off of this a
little bit because I want to. I feel like Elon's missing,
missing something and you couldn't see it because this is audio.
But the hat said Gulf of America. It was a
Golf of America hat, and I think underneath it was
the typical dark Maga hat. I couldn't see what was
written on it, but it was black, so I'm guessing
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it was dark Maga. So here's the problem. That comedy
comes from truth. You have to speak a truth in order,
you have to speak your truth, and that's where the
best comedy comes from. And I don't feel like Elon
was speaking is truth. So I came across this article
just this very day. So this is from the journal Nature.
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They crunch some numbers and they estimate that twenty five
million people will die due to the US cutting of
global health funds, including USAID and it reads. The United
States spent roughly twelve billion on global health in twenty
twenty four. Without that yearly spending, roughly twenty five million
people could die in the next fifteen years, according to
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models that have been estimated the impact of such cuts
on programs for tuberculosis, HIV, family planning, and maternal and
child health. So, as you know, Elon Musk's the guy
that made those cuts. So I was thinking twenty five
million people dying. I don't think a Gulf of America
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hat's quite going to do it. So I looked into it,
and people that have been responsible for twenty five million
deaths or more are as follows and they all wear
hats too. Nowsay don't. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm sure you've
seen some of the traditional Chinese hats he wore. So
I'm thinking maybe a traditional Chinese hat. Joseph Stalin, Oh yeah,
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hell of a hat wear, A hell of a hat wear.
He had a lot of hats, so maybe one of
Stalin's hats. Stalin estimated to have killed twenty to thirty
million people.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Okay, so on par and I think this one would be.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
A really funny hat. Genghis Khan also known as Jengis
Khan if you listen to hardcore history podcast, that's how
mister god now I can't give his name, Dan Carlin,
Dan Carlin, that's how Dan Carlon pronounced it. Estimated to
have killed forty plus million people.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
So if you want to be really funny, Elon, I
would find it a little bit funnier if you if
your hats were a Jengis Khan hat, a Joseph Stalin hat,
or maybe a Mause Dong hat. And I am I
not benevolent. I left the Hitler hat out of it.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well, he'll have the Hitler haircut under the hats, and
that will be the tag on top of the rule
of three. You know what I mean? You get the
three hats, rule of three Hitler haircut underneath for a tag.
You know? Yeah? Baby, there you go, there you go.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Elon, we fixed it for you. With all that money
you're saving, maybe you could Venmo, Travis Clyburn and I
a couple bucks for the comedy. Lesson are they are?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
They? Not worth it, I think, so I charge a
million dollars just for him though, just for him.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, So there you go. I thought that I would
start off with a little elon Musk News always fun
and uh, he's such a funny guy.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
His hat.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Did you hear what he said? I did hat was
wearing a hat. And he did that at a cabinet meeting,
because you know, cabinet meetings for the President of the
United States during economic crisis best time for prop comedy.
Oh yeah, So, speaking of economic crisis, here's a theory
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I've been working on for a while, and that Donald
Trump is a closet Bodhist and he wants people to
give up material possessions that only through that will it
be enlightenment. And that's what the tariffs are all about.
And he actually kind of said something like that. So
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why don't we take a listen to that clip?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Why don't you speak to President Shi of China, who
we still have And I look right now, and I
told you before, they're having tremendous difficulty because their factories
are not doing business.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
They made a trillion dollars with Biden, a trillion dollars,
even a trillion one with Biden selling us stuff, much
of it we don't need.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
You know. Somebody said, oh, the shelves are going to
be open.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Well, maybe the children will have two dollars instead of
thirty dollars, you know, and maybe the two dolls will
cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.
But we're not talking about something that we have to
go out of our way. They have ships that are
loaded up with stuff, much of which not all, much
of which we don't need.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Don't need it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
He's a Buddhist.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Don't need it, don't need stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You don't need all this stuff. Your bling will bring
you down. That's what Donald Trump is trying to say.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, the weight of your worldly possessions only hold you
down from enlightenment.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, thirty thirty dollars kids, one dollar number.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
What a number, by the way, to go from thirty
to two. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well, because he's speaking of his own experience, he's like,
you know, his children, that's all you can just shoveled
dolls and toys at them because he had no emotions
to give them, no father's love, so he replaced it
with material crap. And he realized that in the end
they didn't need that. They didn't need that stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
No, it's only keeping them, you know, I'd say tainted.
If you have no things, you can give all your
love to him.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
So in one sense, I'm like, oh, maybe Donald Trump
is a Buddhist, but unfortunately he's this weird kind of
Buddhist where he's like Buddhism for you, greed for me.
Because here's another latest headline. On Thursday, Zach Witkoff and
Eric Trump announced that Emiadi state owned firm MGX will
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use World Liberty Financial that would be Donald Trump's cryptocurrency company,
to complete a two billion dollar deal with crypto exchange Binance.
Donald Trump himself serves as the company's quote chief crypto advocate.
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This investment will formalize ties between the Trump families, crypto venture,
a foreign government, and Binance, which pleaded guilty in twenty
twenty three to violating US anti money laundering laws.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
This quote.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
This is only the beginning, said a spokesman for Trump's
crypto company.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It is It is only the beginning, isn't it, Michael,
is just the beginning, Just the beginning. Fuck? I mean
we talked about this last episode.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
No, no, no, the last episode. We talked about the meme coin.
That's right, snart cooin is the one where he was
giving a giveaway. Whoever gives me the most money gets
to have dinner with me. Yeah, fitting starts at twenty
five million dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh my god. But I guess my point is that
in talking about the meme coin, I forgot this is
two separate, totally separate things. Yeah, we I think just
kept asking each other, wait, are is he allowed to
do this? I thought presidents weren't allowed to make any
money while they were in office, and now he's doing
He's double dipping baby.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Much less crypto, which is again untraceable. You don't know
who's giving you the money. In this case, I guess
it's okay because Dudo is giving him the money. It's
a foreign government giving him two billion dollars. Here's what
Elizabeth Warren said about it. A shady fund back by
a foreign government just announced a two billion dollar deal
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using Donald Trump's crypto coin. The Senate is gearing up
to pass stable coin legislation that will make it easier
for Trump's family to line in their own pockets. This
is corruption. No senator should support it. I feel like
even that is like, do I live in bizarro Land?
Shouldn't shouldn't like federal agents be rushing the Oval office
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at this point and putting him in handcuffs. He just
took a two billion dollar bribe from a foreign government,
and the most vociferous progressive senator of them all, Elizabeth
Warren's like, oh, I wag my finger at you, and
I encourage other senators to not pass laws to make
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this more you know, acceptable.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Somehow I don't. I don't know how they're not calling
for I mean, Pritzker kind of gave that speech where
he was talking about calling for action, but I feel
like he just said it. No one's fucking doing anything.
It's it's so unbelievable to me that they're just like, hey,
you can't do that. I'm like, are you gonna stop him?
(16:22):
Are you gonna anything? No? Nothing, even though.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well that didn't work out for them. We impeached him
twice and nothing happened.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I know, they arrested, tried.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And convicted of thirty plus felonies. I didn't do anything.
So you know, this whole bribery thing, it's it's gonna
be a real loser at the midterms. So you know,
if the president wants to be completely corrupt and take
two billion dollars from a foreign government, speak of which
I thought I would remind you because this one, as
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I say every time, this whole mean coin and bitcoin
or not bitcoin, World Liberty Financial were to be clear,
World Liberty Financial is the crypto company owned by the
Trump family. The mean coin is just a crypto coin
that both Trump and now Milania both have where you
can just buy this thing and put money directly into
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their bank accounts. They're actually two separate things.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Gotcha, Okay? Yeah, good to make that distinction.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And Donald Trump, who once called bitcoin a scam, then
in the last election said that he was going to
be that he was going to make us the crypto
currency capital of the world. And I just wanted to
remind everyone because I've talked about it before. But Justin Son,
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a businessman who pumped seventy five million dollars into the
Trump family back crypto tokens, finds himself in a fortunate
position this week. This is reading from CNN from last month,
as federal security regulators are hitting pause on their siveral
fraud case against him. Oh pause is a one to
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eighty for the Securities and Exchange Commission, America's top financial regulator,
which two years ago charged Sun and his companies tron Bit, Torrent,
and Rainberry with selling unregistered securities and fraudulently manipulating the
price of digital tokens. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Like what the timing is pretty wild? Dude.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
He gives Trump seven, he buys seventy five million dollars
worth of Donald Trump's family backed crypto tokens, and the
Security Exchange Commission does a one eighty and pauses the
proceedings against him.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
It's weird. I wonder if it's related. That's so fuck that, man.
It's there's so many crimes every day, and it is
daily that like, I don't even understand how they could
keep up with them, you know what I mean? Well
we can't.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We can't. Yeah, And I'm going to prove that we
can't keep up with them because I'm going to read
you another headline. As you said, probably related. This one
might be related to what's going on with the Trump
family and the in your face corruption that's going on.
And you tell me if if you saw this story
or not, because I didn't, and I read a lot, right,
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Dominari Holdings, a small public financial services company with headquarters
in New York's Trump Tower, saw its stock price surge
by more than twelve one hundred percent in about six
weeks after Donald Trump Junior and Eric Trump joined its
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advisory board and took equity stakes worth millions. Trump Junior
has also been named to the board of a digital
firearms retailer called grab.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
A Gun.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
That's due to go public this Summer's.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Dying grab a Gun. I missed that entirely. I had
never I didn't know it's entirely.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Look, I am not a Wall Street dude, but this
struck me. As in six weeks their stock went up
twelve hundred percent one thousand, two hundred percent. I feel
like I've never seen that before.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You know what? In my head, I usually think like
my relatives or my Trump supporting And immediately my brain,
a redneck voice from inside my head went, well, those
guys are so good at business. That's because there's geniuses.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
That's what Junior, Yeah, Eric, yeah, oh, Kochie and gumboy
just a percent.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Company value went up twelve hunder within six weeks of
Don Junior and Eric joining the board.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Maybe the two dumbest people alive, by the way.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I just I've never heard of that before. I have
never heard of that before. I'm I'm I've not done
my research, but I can't think of any stock or
any business that has gone up twelve hundred percent in
six weeks. And I'm going to say something crazy and
we might have to bleep this out because we could
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get sued for giving financial advice. Yeah, but with it
going public this summer, I'm thinking maybe invested grab a gun. Yeah,
that that stocks that stocks might just go through the
freaking roof.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah. I feel like Trump's gonna be wearing a grab
a gun hat. You know. Oh, Elon's found a third hat.
Grab a gun dot Com put it right on top
of their grab a Gun is the funniest fucking thing
I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I know.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
That's that's hurting me on the inside itself.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It's like, at least at least try and dress it
up like you're not dipshits.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Like their crypto company is World Liberty Financial. Okay, it
sounds it sounds like something.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, we want you to join the board for our company.
It's called grab a Gun.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Grab a gun so digital gun selling company, correct.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Digital firearms retailer.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
All right, now I have to look it up. So
now you go to grab a gun dot com and
buy a gun on line. I'm sure that's super legal
and totally okay.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I mean, just because this is such an interesting story,
but did you know that Congressman Jonathan Fitzgerald Kennedy. I
think his name was Jonathan. I knew it was John.
Are all John's Jonathan's.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I believe so yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Else I've never heard it said, though I always hear
John Fitzgerald Kennedy also known as Jack Kennedy, also known
as JFK. The first thing he ever voted on was
a bill to make it legal to buy firearms through
the mail as a young congressman, and however, many years later,
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was murdered by a man who bought a firearm through
the mail. Man Lee Harvey Oswald bought an Italian sniper
rifle through the mail, and it was only legal for
him to buy an Italian rifle sniper rifle through the
mail because that bill passed, and John Kennedy voted yay, yes,
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make it legal too, and then was murdered by a gunge.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I'm having a family guy like flashback of Oh oh
but more, we got this? Yes kidding, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Grab a gun. Dallas based business or offering a wide
selection of firearms, ammunition, and accessories competitive prices. Their mission
is to provide customers with a seamless online shopping experience.
I can find out about it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, we get five hundred rounds of nine millimeter for
one hundred and thirty dollars sit right to your door.
What a deal?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
There you go. Also in unrelated news, tell me if
this story got by you, Donald Trump Junior and his
business partners, including Witcoff's son Who's That's World Liberty Financial
Investor are launching an exclusive DC club with a five
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hundred thousand dollars a year membership fee. Jesus pitched as
a private hangout for donors and business moguls to rub
shoulders with top Trump officials.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Oh it's now they're making a I imagine it like
that club and John wick that he goes to kill
the Russian guy in you know what I mean, I've.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Never seen I'm John Wickless, I'm Wickless. I've never seen
a wick film.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Listen, he is the Russian gangster's murderous dog and he
murders everybody. So that's basically the film. But that's the
vibe I'm getting very Russia, you know, I mean Russian
for sure. Inspired.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I mean, how is this even possible? So for five
hundred thousand dollars a year, you could rub should with
top Trump officials. Does that sound like access for money?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah? Yet another way, not just dinner. You know, you
can just show up to this club.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I mean, I can't even fathom a club where your
membership fee is five hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
What's your average membership fee for like one of those
fancy fucking yacht clubs? Do you have any idea? I
don't know how you would have that information?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Well, you want to know how I would know. My
first job was a dishwasher at the Boston Yacht Club
in Marblohead, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
So don't you know, I'm not saying you're that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
They've had outdoor, you know, patio parties in the summer,
and one time I was not dishwashing, but rather was
I can't I was working the drinks service or something
like that, and I cut myself and was too embarrassed
to tell anyone and was just bleeding all over the
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patio at the Boston Yacht Club, and the local news
anchor from the Channel seven news was the one who
noticed and offered me aid, that's my big story.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
About the Boston Yacht Club, just bleeding on rich people's shit.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, I just bleeding all over. But I couldn't say
anything because they were rich people and they were better
than me. So I was like, this guy was like,
excuse me, young man, you're bleeding. I'll tell you my
other story from there. On your first day is hazing.
Working in the kitchen. The chef would send you to
the storage room to get the mayonnaise slicer.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Of course, hilarious, hilarious.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You'd go in there and you'd be like, I know
they're fucking with me, but okay, what's a mayonnaise slicer?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Do you remember what the membership was to that? No,
I have no idea. I mean maybe that's normal. I
don't know. I don't know. No, no, no, no, no,
no no.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
My neighbors belong to the Boston Yacht Club. You living
next to the Rigilios with half a million dollar membership fee,
money in your pockets.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, you probably those two stories. Yeah, I don't know
how that stuff. I mean, I know that stuff is
skimming by or passing by everyone, even though that's obvious
another blatant corruption, because you know, big Daddy Trump is
doing so much terrible stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I was thinking about this the other day because I
am obsessed with the meme coin and World Liberty financial
and even like my friends who are super knowledgeable like yourself,
like I talk about this stuff and oftentimes like I'm
just learning about this, you know, and I'm like, this
is the big story, This is the ability for anyone anywhere,
like this dude's son who puts seventy five million dollars
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into Donald Trump's bank account and the SEC put a
pause on the investigation into them. It makes me feel
a little bit like the the I guess. In fact,
I think it's Bill Murray's brother plays him in Caddyshack,
the referee at the end where the bombs are going off,
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where Bill Murray's blowing up the golf course and he's
just watching the ball, watching the ball, watch, do you
know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah, And then at the end the ball rolls into
the cup and they win. But I feel like that's me. Like,
with all the explosions going off everywhere, I'm just watching
the meme coin, watching World Liberty Financial just I'm not
going to take my eyes off. I'm not going to
be distracted by any of this stuff. This is the story.
In my opinion, I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
No, and especially like, I mean, what perfect thing to
do was have Don Junior and his brother Old Eric
doing the more villainous things almost behind the scenes, while
you know, the shadow is cast by their father, so
he can do newsworthy things obviously, but the and they're
doing the real fucked up stony Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
He's like, I'll distract them, boys, you go clean up.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I got this.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
So other news. Donald Trump announced, of course, on truth
Social because that's where he announces everything. Quote, we are
going to be taking away Harvard's tech exempt status. It's
what they deserve exclamation point.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Okay, So that's wild.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, just going after high institutions of higher learning. We
had professor Sandy Tolan on the show last week talking
about the real reason that Trump is claiming anti semitism
on college campuses so that he can go after these schools,
so that he can diminish these schools and it has
nothing to do with anti Semitism. Obviously, the majority, not
(30:48):
in the majority, but large parts of the group's protesting
what's going on in Israel. Are members of a group
called not in Our Name, Not in My Name is
another version of it. There's also Jewish Students for Peace.
I believe that said. It's just they're going after higher
learning because that's what the Khmara Rouge did, and that's
(31:09):
what I mean totalitarian governments. They don't like the independent
thinking that's going on. But here's the problem. Federal law
prohibits the president from directing or influencing the Internal Revenue
Service to investigate or audit any organization. It's actually a
federal crime. That what he announced, no shit on truth
(31:32):
social and do you think that will matter? Do you
think that gonna matter one bit?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
My god?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
But the President United States is not allowed just like
I've said it so many times on the show before.
He's not supposed to have a relationship with the Attorney General.
There's supposed to be distance between the executive branch and
the ju JIT and the Justice Department because they don't
want the impression that the Donald that the president the
(31:59):
don no kidding, the don. In the future, we're going
to stop saying the President and whoever it is that
holds that office. For thousands of years to come, we'll
just be.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Called the Donald Donald like Caesar exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
That he's you know, instructing the Justice Department to investigate
his enemies or his political adversaries or anything like that.
Same with the Internal Revenue Service, they're not allowed to
instruct them. But with Pam Bondy that's gone.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
You know, James Comy very famously wouldn't even play pick
up basketball with Barack Obama because he didn't want to
create the impression that they had a relationship where Barack
Obama could pick up the phone and tell him to
investigate somebody. Pam Bondi literally is at every press conference
with Donald Trump and calls him yes, yes, yes, She
just calls him president, which is weird. She doesn't say
(32:53):
mister President. She goes, yes President.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Well, my furor would be a little on the nose. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
So I did a little bit of digging, and you
know why universities get tax exempt status?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Why is that it is so that.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
They can direct more money towards research for medical and
technological advancements, as well as to give more money for
scholarships to students.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
God forbid more poor people go to night schools.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
So who do you think you're hurting when you take
away the tax exempt status? Do you think that the
rich are going to be affected by this at all?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Absolutely not? Are they students anything? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
The two enemies poor people and.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Science and then you don't want them to meet poor
people doing science apps. So fucking literally not.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
That is a right wing nightmare. So, speaking of things
getting by you, as I'm keeping my eye on the
crypto ball, this got by me a clip you sent
me which I was like, I don't know, I got
a fact check that it checks out, but I'll play
you the clip. This is an Arkansas, Arkansas truck driver
reporting being audited for English reading and writing skills at
(34:21):
a way station.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
I couldn't believe it. Going through Arkansas, I thought it
was a joke. I got to stop at the waystation
in Arkansas and it was handed a piece of paper
and it says can you read and write English? I said, yes, sir,
I sure can. He goes can you read this? So
(34:45):
I read it to myself and I was like, okay,
start handing back. He goes, no, no, no, read it out
loud for me.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
So I read it.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Out loud for him, and you know it's short and sweet.
No problem, here goes now, can you write, you know,
write this for me on this page? And I didn't
know there was a whole bunch of people that have
already written on it. And I was actually witnessing people
in handcuffs that had been pulled in.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
And I was like, what's going on.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
He goes, Oh, we've come across now that if you
cannot read or write in English, that it's five thousand
dollars fine. And if you have a company in Arkansas
that employees people that can't read or write in English,
is a ten thousand dollars fine.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
So that part I'm going to quickly fact check him.
It's actually a five hundred dollars fine. And this is
not because Arkansas is like, you know what, our students
are failing us. And if you hire people who can't
read or write because of poor high schools, you know
we're gonna no, no, no, no. This is obviously going
(36:01):
after people of Mexican or South American descent.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Oh yeah, I worked in logistics for a long time,
and the biggest there's two groups of people that predominantly
do a lot of trucking, and it's Russian people, ironically enough,
especially out of Illinois and then and Chinese people as well.
So I would say nowadays, especially because I worked in
logistics back in twenty twelve to twenty fifteen, and so
(36:30):
again that was a decade ago. There's no way it
hasn't doubled the amount of people who basically don't speak
English or are from another country because there's not enough
Americans that want to do the job. It's a dogshit job. Yeah,
and especially all the unions are gone. Third party logistics
companies have basically ruined the profit margins on owner operators
(36:51):
if they get rid of people who can't speak English
or have a low reading comprehension. I mean, the supply
chain's already wrecked with the tariffs. Yeah, I mean, it's
going to destroy the supply chain because it's I'm talking.
I would I would wager a bet it's in the
seventy percent of truckers out there that aren't Americans. Wow,
(37:16):
or quote unquote Americans.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
It's Johnny Carson said, I did not know that just
be clear. That would be Arkansas has enacted Law HB
seventeen fifty four, Acts six oh four. That's what that is. Yeah, well, Andrew,
now be put in handcuffs if you cannot pay the
five hundred dollars fine or one thousand dollars fine. That's
the truth behind the fines. That's why I stopped it,
(37:38):
because he was off by a zero.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
The Yeah, and Trump signed the recently, I believe it
was a day ago or maybe two, the an executive
order staying that all truckers have to speak English. So
this is not only a Arkansas thing. This is not
going to be a a mayrack cut thing.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Yeah. And why you know what now that I think
of it, it's like I I just had this thought
as you were saying that. It's like, this isn't because yes,
they want to get rid of people, foreigners or whatever
it is. It's a xenophobic thing, but it's also because
they know we're about to need those shitty jobs.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
The guy working in the office right now is going
to be driving that truck in six months and we
need to open up the positions for them. And this
is the lowest bar possible. Could you write and read
in English that?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
And I think it's a way to fudge numbers as well,
because if the supply chain is fucked, I know a
lot of larger truckers and owner operators are selling their
rigs or trying to and just quitting. They're getting out
of it because they know the supply chain is going
to be so wrecked, especially people that work in the
Northeast and people that work in the Southwest. I've heard
(38:55):
a lot of truckers over the last month be like,
I'm not fucking doing this stuff anymore. And they're selling
the rig And so if you start physically removing the
you know, people who can't fluently speak English, people you
can say, oh no, no, no, there wasn't mass layer.
You know, truckers aren't giving up. It's not our fault.
We just arrested all those illegals. It's dangerous trucker illegals.
(39:20):
That's another way to look at it.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Either way, Well, another week I try and just cover
the stories that don't get cover. We could talk about
everything that you see on MSNBC and CNN. That would
just be in my opinion, going over the same old
stuff that everyone's talking about so.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
I know you you brought out some sleepers, some stuff
I didn't expect or I've not heard about.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yeah, well, this is the service we try and provide.
Speaking of services provided, why don't you remind people where
they can find the comedic services of one mister Travis Cliburn.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
And be at Cliburn Comedy on basically everything. Check me out, check.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Them out until Oh. By the way, we made predictions
last week and both didn't come true. Yours didn't come
true because the pope has not yet been selected and
your prediction.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Was yes again, if the Philippino pupe wins, Marjorie Taylor
Green will tweet the e I Pope.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
And what I predict? I said that I thought that
kilmar Abrego Garcia would be back in the United States
by now.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
That student though that uh yeah, which so.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
To the Trump administration's chagrin, and a federal or a yeah,
federal judge in Texas said that they cannot use the
Alien Enemies Act to deport people, but that is just
for the region that he presides over. It's not it
doesn't have federal jurisdiction, but it does have federal implications,
(41:04):
so that could be happening, but as far as Abrego
Garcia goes, they're doubling down. And to be clear, I'm
sure everybody saw this, but on ABC did an interview
in which he said, yeah, I could bring him back.
I don't want to, and they said, but the Supreme
Court said you have to.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
And he goes, well.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
By people who don't want brown people in this country,
So that's what I'm that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
And he thought those letters in that picture they gave
him were real. Yeah, he's a fucking genius.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
But everyone already saw that stuff. So we will try
and continue to find the stories that are beneath. We
were going to keep staring at the little golf ball
as the explosions go off.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Oh yeah, follow the ball and we'll see you next week.
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Speaker 1 (00:38):
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
You know?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Roundup's actually got a little stank on it because I'm
a liberal and uh, I happen to remember that that
was the what was that a pesticide that roundup? Yeah? Monsanto?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Right, oh yeah, I believe a lot of people. Yeah,
it's still uh manufactured, but it's got different chemical elements
of it that they had to take out because it
was I believe, killing children. You know.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, she was like so evil that it like somehow
they don't know how it did this, but somehow it
sought out orphans and murdered.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Specifically yeah, biblically almost.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, And I will point out only because I love
the film so much that the film Michael Clayton without
calling out mon Santo by name, that is kind of
that is the bad guy in that film. Have you
ever seen that film?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
No? I have not.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No, I highly recommend it. George Clooney.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
There's some wild footage from these I believe sixties or
seventies where they were trying to convince farmers that this
particular past aside I don't even know if it's the
one we're talking about, because this has happened many times
is safe. That they have a bunch of school kids
at a school during recess and they're fuming them with
it and they're dancing. Yeah, and then most of those
(01:58):
children years later died.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Get out of here.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I can't. I wish I could remember what best decide
it was. But they were like, look, it's safe, kids
could play in it. And then they die. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well this is uh. This was not on the schedule
to talk about today, but now that we're on it,
I do recall that there was a time when I
think it may have been Monsanto, but it could have
been another one. A guy was speaking to a room
like a community meeting, some sort of town hall. People
had concerns and he was like, it's totally safe. You
could literally drink a glass of the stuff. And a
(02:32):
guy produced a glass of like one of the farmers
was like, I have some right here, and he poured
it into a glass.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
He's like, drink it. The dude was like, oh no.
Something similar happened with a fracking town too, where they
were like water, the water's fine, it's fine, guys, and
they were like, fucking drink it. Drink it. And he
was like, you know what, I'm not thirsty rat now.
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
That, of course, reminds me of Barack Obama in one
of his worst moments as president when he went to Flint, Michigan. Oh, like,
the water's fine, you could drink it. And he took
out a class of it, and I mean to say
he barely definitely, no sip was taken, but he barely
even let it touch his lips. He was like, oh,
there you go. Totally safe.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Drink up, kids, because you can see the lead in it. Man,
it was so dense with lead. Did they ever fix Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And as you know, or you may not know, but
that the drinking water in Flint was you know, damaging
the health of particularly children. But it also was like
leaving stains on like some of the parts that were
being manufactured by one of the giant auto manufacturers there.
(03:50):
So the governor of Michigan at the time did approve
filtered clean water to be sent back through the pipes
to the auto manufactur sure for their car so that
the they looked sparkly and new. But the kids you
still had to drink it.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, shower in it, take a bubble bath.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Well that gets us to these uh, these car manufacturers,
these corporate tears, these billionaires. There's a guy named Elon
Musk who fits all those uh were's all those hats
if you will, and more because he's the one hat
(04:34):
that I forgot to mention with Elon Musk though, is
he's also a comedian.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
You know that. You know I've heard he gives it
a go.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He gives it a go because comedy's legal now thanks
to him. Yeah and uh. Even though there was an
article in Rolling Stone a few weeks ago that said,
like insiders in Trump's White House, like we're talking about
maga people, where like Elon Musky the least funny person
we've ever met.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
In our lives. Oh no, you have to have at
least even the biggest asshole comedians I know have a
bear level of empathy, you know, bear like a bottom
level empathy. Yeah, you have to have some because you
have to see things from other people's perspectives. He has
none of it.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, you know what you're You're not giving enough credit
because you're missing one of the things that about him
is that he's not a comic like you or I.
He's not a talking comic. He's a prop comic. He
busts out the chainsaws. Yeah. So you know, he's been
doing a lot and some people, maybe you've heard this,
(05:41):
it's colloquialism, saying he wears a lot of hats. So
he actually, this is so funny. He went to a
cabinet meeting wearing multiple hats at the same time. I'm
gonna let him deliver the joke because I'm not gonna
I'm not going to burn a dude's bit. I would
never do that to a fellow comedian.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So I'd like you to listen to every kind of you.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
So again, thank you, well, miss President. You know, they
say I wear a lot of hats, and as you
can see, it's true.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Even my hat has a hat.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Have you ever heard a bigger pity laugh in your life?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
My hat wears a hat? My hat? Where's that hat?
Hats wearing a hat.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I've done literally thousands of stand up open mics, and
I've never heard worst pity laughter in my life, or
more like laughs. So the boss doesn't fire me? Laughter?
You know that laughter that goes ha my goodness from
the belly fake laughter.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, I thought I would play off of this a
little bit because I want to. I feel like Elon's missing,
missing something and you couldn't see it because this is audio.
But the hat said Gulf of America. It was a
Golf of America hat, and I think underneath it was
the typical dark Maga hat. I couldn't see what was
written on it, but it was black, so I'm guessing
(07:15):
it was dark Maga. So here's the problem. That comedy
comes from truth. You have to speak a truth in order,
you have to speak your truth, and that's where the
best comedy comes from. And I don't feel like Elon
was speaking is truth. So I came across this article
just this very day. So this is from the journal Nature.
(07:39):
They crunch some numbers and they estimate that twenty five
million people will die due to the US cutting of
global health funds, including USAID and it reads. The United
States spent roughly twelve billion on global health in twenty
twenty four. Without that yearly spending, roughly twenty five million
people could die in the next fifteen years, according to
(08:02):
models that have been estimated the impact of such cuts
on programs for tuberculosis, HIV, family planning, and maternal and
child health. So, as you know, Elon Musk's the guy
that made those cuts. So I was thinking twenty five
million people dying. I don't think a Gulf of America
(08:23):
hat's quite going to do it. So I looked into it,
and people that have been responsible for twenty five million
deaths or more are as follows and they all wear
hats too. Nowsay don't. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm sure you've
seen some of the traditional Chinese hats he wore. So
I'm thinking maybe a traditional Chinese hat. Joseph Stalin, Oh yeah,
(08:48):
hell of a hat wear, A hell of a hat wear.
He had a lot of hats, so maybe one of
Stalin's hats. Stalin estimated to have killed twenty to thirty
million people.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Okay, so on par and I think this one would be.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
A really funny hat. Genghis Khan also known as Jengis
Khan if you listen to hardcore history podcast, that's how
mister god now I can't give his name, Dan Carlin,
Dan Carlin, that's how Dan Carlon pronounced it. Estimated to
have killed forty plus million people.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
So if you want to be really funny, Elon, I
would find it a little bit funnier if you if
your hats were a Jengis Khan hat, a Joseph Stalin hat,
or maybe a Mause Dong hat. And I am I
not benevolent. I left the Hitler hat out of it.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well, he'll have the Hitler haircut under the hats, and
that will be the tag on top of the rule
of three. You know what I mean? You get the
three hats, rule of three Hitler haircut underneath for a tag.
You know? Yeah? Baby, there you go, there you go.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Elon, we fixed it for you. With all that money
you're saving, maybe you could Venmo, Travis Clyburn and I
a couple bucks for the comedy. Lesson are they are?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
They? Not worth it, I think, so I charge a
million dollars just for him though, just for him.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, So there you go. I thought that I would
start off with a little elon Musk News always fun
and uh, he's such a funny guy.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
His hat.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Did you hear what he said? I did hat was
wearing a hat. And he did that at a cabinet meeting,
because you know, cabinet meetings for the President of the
United States during economic crisis best time for prop comedy.
Oh yeah, So, speaking of economic crisis, here's a theory
(10:54):
I've been working on for a while, and that Donald
Trump is a closet Bodhist and he wants people to
give up material possessions that only through that will it
be enlightenment. And that's what the tariffs are all about.
And he actually kind of said something like that. So
(11:15):
why don't we take a listen to that clip?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Why don't you speak to President Shi of China, who
we still have And I look right now, and I
told you before, they're having tremendous difficulty because their factories
are not doing business.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
They made a trillion dollars with Biden, a trillion dollars,
even a trillion one with Biden selling us stuff, much
of it we don't need.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
You know. Somebody said, oh, the shelves are going to
be open.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Well, maybe the children will have two dollars instead of
thirty dollars, you know, and maybe the two dolls will
cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.
But we're not talking about something that we have to
go out of our way. They have ships that are
loaded up with stuff, much of which not all, much
of which we don't need.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Don't need it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
He's a Buddhist.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Don't need it, don't need stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You don't need all this stuff. Your bling will bring
you down. That's what Donald Trump is trying to say.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, the weight of your worldly possessions only hold you
down from enlightenment.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, thirty thirty dollars kids, one dollar number.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
What a number, by the way, to go from thirty
to two. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well, because he's speaking of his own experience, he's like,
you know, his children, that's all you can just shoveled
dolls and toys at them because he had no emotions
to give them, no father's love, so he replaced it
with material crap. And he realized that in the end
they didn't need that. They didn't need that stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
No, it's only keeping them, you know, I'd say tainted.
If you have no things, you can give all your
love to him.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
So in one sense, I'm like, oh, maybe Donald Trump
is a Buddhist, but unfortunately he's this weird kind of
Buddhist where he's like Buddhism for you, greed for me.
Because here's another latest headline. On Thursday, Zach Witkoff and
Eric Trump announced that Emiadi state owned firm MGX will
(13:22):
use World Liberty Financial that would be Donald Trump's cryptocurrency company,
to complete a two billion dollar deal with crypto exchange Binance.
Donald Trump himself serves as the company's quote chief crypto advocate.
(13:44):
This investment will formalize ties between the Trump families, crypto venture,
a foreign government, and Binance, which pleaded guilty in twenty
twenty three to violating US anti money laundering laws.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
This quote.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
This is only the beginning, said a spokesman for Trump's
crypto company.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It is It is only the beginning, isn't it, Michael,
is just the beginning, Just the beginning. Fuck? I mean
we talked about this last episode.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
No, no, no, the last episode. We talked about the meme coin.
That's right, snart cooin is the one where he was
giving a giveaway. Whoever gives me the most money gets
to have dinner with me. Yeah, fitting starts at twenty
five million dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh my god. But I guess my point is that
in talking about the meme coin, I forgot this is
two separate, totally separate things. Yeah, we I think just
kept asking each other, wait, are is he allowed to
do this? I thought presidents weren't allowed to make any
money while they were in office, and now he's doing
He's double dipping baby.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Much less crypto, which is again untraceable. You don't know
who's giving you the money. In this case, I guess
it's okay because Dudo is giving him the money. It's
a foreign government giving him two billion dollars. Here's what
Elizabeth Warren said about it. A shady fund back by
a foreign government just announced a two billion dollar deal
(15:14):
using Donald Trump's crypto coin. The Senate is gearing up
to pass stable coin legislation that will make it easier
for Trump's family to line in their own pockets. This
is corruption. No senator should support it. I feel like
even that is like, do I live in bizarro Land?
Shouldn't shouldn't like federal agents be rushing the Oval office
(15:38):
at this point and putting him in handcuffs. He just
took a two billion dollar bribe from a foreign government,
and the most vociferous progressive senator of them all, Elizabeth
Warren's like, oh, I wag my finger at you, and
I encourage other senators to not pass laws to make
(15:59):
this more you know, acceptable.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Somehow I don't. I don't know how they're not calling
for I mean, Pritzker kind of gave that speech where
he was talking about calling for action, but I feel
like he just said it. No one's fucking doing anything.
It's it's so unbelievable to me that they're just like, hey,
you can't do that. I'm like, are you gonna stop him?
(16:22):
Are you gonna anything? No? Nothing, even though.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well that didn't work out for them. We impeached him
twice and nothing happened.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I know, they arrested, tried.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And convicted of thirty plus felonies. I didn't do anything.
So you know, this whole bribery thing, it's it's gonna
be a real loser at the midterms. So you know,
if the president wants to be completely corrupt and take
two billion dollars from a foreign government, speak of which
I thought I would remind you because this one, as
(16:55):
I say every time, this whole mean coin and bitcoin
or not bitcoin, World Liberty Financial were to be clear,
World Liberty Financial is the crypto company owned by the
Trump family. The mean coin is just a crypto coin
that both Trump and now Milania both have where you
can just buy this thing and put money directly into
(17:17):
their bank accounts. They're actually two separate things.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Gotcha, Okay? Yeah, good to make that distinction.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And Donald Trump, who once called bitcoin a scam, then
in the last election said that he was going to
be that he was going to make us the crypto
currency capital of the world. And I just wanted to
remind everyone because I've talked about it before. But Justin Son,
(17:46):
a businessman who pumped seventy five million dollars into the
Trump family back crypto tokens, finds himself in a fortunate
position this week. This is reading from CNN from last month,
as federal security regulators are hitting pause on their siveral
fraud case against him. Oh pause is a one to
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eighty for the Securities and Exchange Commission, America's top financial regulator,
which two years ago charged Sun and his companies tron Bit, Torrent,
and Rainberry with selling unregistered securities and fraudulently manipulating the
price of digital tokens. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Like what the timing is pretty wild? Dude.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
He gives Trump seven, he buys seventy five million dollars
worth of Donald Trump's family backed crypto tokens, and the
Security Exchange Commission does a one eighty and pauses the
proceedings against him.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
It's weird. I wonder if it's related. That's so fuck that, man.
It's there's so many crimes every day, and it is
daily that like, I don't even understand how they could
keep up with them, you know what I mean? Well
we can't.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We can't. Yeah, And I'm going to prove that we
can't keep up with them because I'm going to read
you another headline. As you said, probably related. This one
might be related to what's going on with the Trump
family and the in your face corruption that's going on.
And you tell me if if you saw this story
or not, because I didn't, and I read a lot, right,
(19:27):
Dominari Holdings, a small public financial services company with headquarters
in New York's Trump Tower, saw its stock price surge
by more than twelve one hundred percent in about six
weeks after Donald Trump Junior and Eric Trump joined its
(19:48):
advisory board and took equity stakes worth millions. Trump Junior
has also been named to the board of a digital
firearms retailer called grab.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
A Gun.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
That's due to go public this Summer's.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Dying grab a Gun. I missed that entirely. I had
never I didn't know it's entirely.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Look, I am not a Wall Street dude, but this
struck me. As in six weeks their stock went up
twelve hundred percent one thousand, two hundred percent. I feel
like I've never seen that before.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You know what? In my head, I usually think like
my relatives or my Trump supporting And immediately my brain,
a redneck voice from inside my head went, well, those
guys are so good at business. That's because there's geniuses.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
That's what Junior, Yeah, Eric, yeah, oh, Kochie and gumboy
just a percent.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Company value went up twelve hunder within six weeks of
Don Junior and Eric joining the board.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Maybe the two dumbest people alive, by the way.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I just I've never heard of that before. I have
never heard of that before. I'm I'm I've not done
my research, but I can't think of any stock or
any business that has gone up twelve hundred percent in
six weeks. And I'm going to say something crazy and
we might have to bleep this out because we could
(21:33):
get sued for giving financial advice. Yeah, but with it
going public this summer, I'm thinking maybe invested grab a gun. Yeah,
that that stocks that stocks might just go through the
freaking roof.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah. I feel like Trump's gonna be wearing a grab
a gun hat. You know. Oh, Elon's found a third hat.
Grab a gun dot Com put it right on top
of their grab a Gun is the funniest fucking thing
I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I know.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
That's that's hurting me on the inside itself.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It's like, at least at least try and dress it
up like you're not dipshits.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Like their crypto company is World Liberty Financial. Okay, it
sounds it sounds like something.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, we want you to join the board for our company.
It's called grab a Gun.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Grab a gun so digital gun selling company, correct.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Digital firearms retailer.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
All right, now I have to look it up. So
now you go to grab a gun dot com and
buy a gun on line. I'm sure that's super legal
and totally okay.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I mean, just because this is such an interesting story,
but did you know that Congressman Jonathan Fitzgerald Kennedy. I
think his name was Jonathan. I knew it was John.
Are all John's Jonathan's.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I believe so yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Else I've never heard it said, though I always hear
John Fitzgerald Kennedy also known as Jack Kennedy, also known
as JFK. The first thing he ever voted on was
a bill to make it legal to buy firearms through
the mail as a young congressman, and however, many years later,
(23:41):
was murdered by a man who bought a firearm through
the mail. Man Lee Harvey Oswald bought an Italian sniper
rifle through the mail, and it was only legal for
him to buy an Italian rifle sniper rifle through the
mail because that bill passed, and John Kennedy voted yay, yes,
(24:03):
make it legal too, and then was murdered by a gunge.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I'm having a family guy like flashback of Oh oh
but more, we got this? Yes kidding, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Grab a gun. Dallas based business or offering a wide
selection of firearms, ammunition, and accessories competitive prices. Their mission
is to provide customers with a seamless online shopping experience.
I can find out about it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, we get five hundred rounds of nine millimeter for
one hundred and thirty dollars sit right to your door.
What a deal?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
There you go. Also in unrelated news, tell me if
this story got by you, Donald Trump Junior and his
business partners, including Witcoff's son Who's That's World Liberty Financial
Investor are launching an exclusive DC club with a five
(25:08):
hundred thousand dollars a year membership fee. Jesus pitched as
a private hangout for donors and business moguls to rub
shoulders with top Trump officials.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Oh it's now they're making a I imagine it like
that club and John wick that he goes to kill
the Russian guy in you know what I mean, I've.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Never seen I'm John Wickless, I'm Wickless. I've never seen
a wick film.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Listen, he is the Russian gangster's murderous dog and he
murders everybody. So that's basically the film. But that's the
vibe I'm getting very Russia, you know, I mean Russian
for sure. Inspired.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I mean, how is this even possible? So for five
hundred thousand dollars a year, you could rub should with
top Trump officials. Does that sound like access for money?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah? Yet another way, not just dinner. You know, you
can just show up to this club.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I mean, I can't even fathom a club where your
membership fee is five hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
What's your average membership fee for like one of those
fancy fucking yacht clubs? Do you have any idea? I
don't know how you would have that information?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Well, you want to know how I would know. My
first job was a dishwasher at the Boston Yacht Club
in Marblohead, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
So don't you know, I'm not saying you're that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
They've had outdoor, you know, patio parties in the summer,
and one time I was not dishwashing, but rather was
I can't I was working the drinks service or something
like that, and I cut myself and was too embarrassed
to tell anyone and was just bleeding all over the
(27:01):
patio at the Boston Yacht Club, and the local news
anchor from the Channel seven news was the one who
noticed and offered me aid, that's my big story.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
About the Boston Yacht Club, just bleeding on rich people's shit.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, I just bleeding all over. But I couldn't say
anything because they were rich people and they were better
than me. So I was like, this guy was like,
excuse me, young man, you're bleeding. I'll tell you my
other story from there. On your first day is hazing.
Working in the kitchen. The chef would send you to
the storage room to get the mayonnaise slicer.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Of course, hilarious, hilarious.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You'd go in there and you'd be like, I know
they're fucking with me, but okay, what's a mayonnaise slicer?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Do you remember what the membership was to that? No,
I have no idea. I mean maybe that's normal. I
don't know. I don't know. No, no, no, no, no,
no no.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
My neighbors belong to the Boston Yacht Club. You living
next to the Rigilios with half a million dollar membership fee,
money in your pockets.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, you probably those two stories. Yeah, I don't know
how that stuff. I mean, I know that stuff is
skimming by or passing by everyone, even though that's obvious
another blatant corruption, because you know, big Daddy Trump is
doing so much terrible stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I was thinking about this the other day because I
am obsessed with the meme coin and World Liberty financial
and even like my friends who are super knowledgeable like yourself,
like I talk about this stuff and oftentimes like I'm
just learning about this, you know, and I'm like, this
is the big story, This is the ability for anyone anywhere,
like this dude's son who puts seventy five million dollars
(28:53):
into Donald Trump's bank account and the SEC put a
pause on the investigation into them. It makes me feel
a little bit like the the I guess. In fact,
I think it's Bill Murray's brother plays him in Caddyshack,
the referee at the end where the bombs are going off,
(29:14):
where Bill Murray's blowing up the golf course and he's
just watching the ball, watching the ball, watch, do you
know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah, And then at the end the ball rolls into
the cup and they win. But I feel like that's me. Like,
with all the explosions going off everywhere, I'm just watching
the meme coin, watching World Liberty Financial just I'm not
going to take my eyes off. I'm not going to
be distracted by any of this stuff. This is the story.
In my opinion, I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
No, and especially like, I mean, what perfect thing to
do was have Don Junior and his brother Old Eric
doing the more villainous things almost behind the scenes, while
you know, the shadow is cast by their father, so
he can do newsworthy things obviously, but the and they're
doing the real fucked up stony Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
He's like, I'll distract them, boys, you go clean up.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I got this.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
So other news. Donald Trump announced, of course, on truth
Social because that's where he announces everything. Quote, we are
going to be taking away Harvard's tech exempt status. It's
what they deserve exclamation point.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Okay, So that's wild.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, just going after high institutions of higher learning. We
had professor Sandy Tolan on the show last week talking
about the real reason that Trump is claiming anti semitism
on college campuses so that he can go after these schools,
so that he can diminish these schools and it has
nothing to do with anti Semitism. Obviously, the majority, not
(30:48):
in the majority, but large parts of the group's protesting
what's going on in Israel. Are members of a group
called not in Our Name, Not in My Name is
another version of it. There's also Jewish Students for Peace.
I believe that said. It's just they're going after higher
learning because that's what the Khmara Rouge did, and that's
(31:09):
what I mean totalitarian governments. They don't like the independent
thinking that's going on. But here's the problem. Federal law
prohibits the president from directing or influencing the Internal Revenue
Service to investigate or audit any organization. It's actually a
federal crime. That what he announced, no shit on truth
(31:32):
social and do you think that will matter? Do you
think that gonna matter one bit?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
My god?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
But the President United States is not allowed just like
I've said it so many times on the show before.
He's not supposed to have a relationship with the Attorney General.
There's supposed to be distance between the executive branch and
the ju JIT and the Justice Department because they don't
want the impression that the Donald that the president the
(31:59):
don no kidding, the don. In the future, we're going
to stop saying the President and whoever it is that
holds that office. For thousands of years to come, we'll
just be.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Called the Donald Donald like Caesar exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
That he's you know, instructing the Justice Department to investigate
his enemies or his political adversaries or anything like that.
Same with the Internal Revenue Service, they're not allowed to
instruct them. But with Pam Bondy that's gone.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
You know, James Comy very famously wouldn't even play pick
up basketball with Barack Obama because he didn't want to
create the impression that they had a relationship where Barack
Obama could pick up the phone and tell him to
investigate somebody. Pam Bondi literally is at every press conference
with Donald Trump and calls him yes, yes, yes, She
just calls him president, which is weird. She doesn't say
(32:53):
mister President. She goes, yes President.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Well, my furor would be a little on the nose. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
So I did a little bit of digging, and you
know why universities get tax exempt status?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Why is that it is so that.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
They can direct more money towards research for medical and
technological advancements, as well as to give more money for
scholarships to students.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
God forbid more poor people go to night schools.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
So who do you think you're hurting when you take
away the tax exempt status? Do you think that the
rich are going to be affected by this at all?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Absolutely not? Are they students anything? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
The two enemies poor people and.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Science and then you don't want them to meet poor
people doing science apps. So fucking literally not.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
That is a right wing nightmare. So, speaking of things
getting by you, as I'm keeping my eye on the
crypto ball, this got by me a clip you sent
me which I was like, I don't know, I got
a fact check that it checks out, but I'll play
you the clip. This is an Arkansas, Arkansas truck driver
reporting being audited for English reading and writing skills at
(34:21):
a way station.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
I couldn't believe it. Going through Arkansas, I thought it
was a joke. I got to stop at the waystation
in Arkansas and it was handed a piece of paper
and it says can you read and write English? I said, yes, sir,
I sure can. He goes can you read this? So
(34:45):
I read it to myself and I was like, okay,
start handing back. He goes, no, no, no, read it out
loud for me.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
So I read it.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Out loud for him, and you know it's short and sweet.
No problem, here goes now, can you write, you know,
write this for me on this page? And I didn't
know there was a whole bunch of people that have
already written on it. And I was actually witnessing people
in handcuffs that had been pulled in.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
And I was like, what's going on.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
He goes, Oh, we've come across now that if you
cannot read or write in English, that it's five thousand
dollars fine. And if you have a company in Arkansas
that employees people that can't read or write in English,
is a ten thousand dollars fine.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
So that part I'm going to quickly fact check him.
It's actually a five hundred dollars fine. And this is
not because Arkansas is like, you know what, our students
are failing us. And if you hire people who can't
read or write because of poor high schools, you know
we're gonna no, no, no, no. This is obviously going
(36:01):
after people of Mexican or South American descent.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Oh yeah, I worked in logistics for a long time,
and the biggest there's two groups of people that predominantly
do a lot of trucking, and it's Russian people, ironically enough,
especially out of Illinois and then and Chinese people as well.
So I would say nowadays, especially because I worked in
logistics back in twenty twelve to twenty fifteen, and so
(36:30):
again that was a decade ago. There's no way it
hasn't doubled the amount of people who basically don't speak
English or are from another country because there's not enough
Americans that want to do the job. It's a dogshit job. Yeah,
and especially all the unions are gone. Third party logistics
companies have basically ruined the profit margins on owner operators
(36:51):
if they get rid of people who can't speak English
or have a low reading comprehension. I mean, the supply
chain's already wrecked with the tariffs. Yeah, I mean, it's
going to destroy the supply chain because it's I'm talking.
I would I would wager a bet it's in the
seventy percent of truckers out there that aren't Americans. Wow,
(37:16):
or quote unquote Americans.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
It's Johnny Carson said, I did not know that just
be clear. That would be Arkansas has enacted Law HB
seventeen fifty four, Acts six oh four. That's what that is. Yeah, well, Andrew,
now be put in handcuffs if you cannot pay the
five hundred dollars fine or one thousand dollars fine. That's
the truth behind the fines. That's why I stopped it,
(37:38):
because he was off by a zero.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
The Yeah, and Trump signed the recently, I believe it
was a day ago or maybe two, the an executive
order staying that all truckers have to speak English. So
this is not only a Arkansas thing. This is not
going to be a a mayrack cut thing.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Yeah. And why you know what now that I think
of it, it's like I I just had this thought
as you were saying that. It's like, this isn't because yes,
they want to get rid of people, foreigners or whatever
it is. It's a xenophobic thing, but it's also because
they know we're about to need those shitty jobs.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
The guy working in the office right now is going
to be driving that truck in six months and we
need to open up the positions for them. And this
is the lowest bar possible. Could you write and read
in English that?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
And I think it's a way to fudge numbers as well,
because if the supply chain is fucked, I know a
lot of larger truckers and owner operators are selling their
rigs or trying to and just quitting. They're getting out
of it because they know the supply chain is going
to be so wrecked, especially people that work in the
Northeast and people that work in the Southwest. I've heard
(38:55):
a lot of truckers over the last month be like,
I'm not fucking doing this stuff anymore. And they're selling
the rig And so if you start physically removing the
you know, people who can't fluently speak English, people you
can say, oh no, no, no, there wasn't mass layer.
You know, truckers aren't giving up. It's not our fault.
We just arrested all those illegals. It's dangerous trucker illegals.
(39:20):
That's another way to look at it.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Either way, Well, another week I try and just cover
the stories that don't get cover. We could talk about
everything that you see on MSNBC and CNN. That would
just be in my opinion, going over the same old
stuff that everyone's talking about so.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
I know you you brought out some sleepers, some stuff
I didn't expect or I've not heard about.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yeah, well, this is the service we try and provide.
Speaking of services provided, why don't you remind people where
they can find the comedic services of one mister Travis Cliburn.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
And be at Cliburn Comedy on basically everything. Check me out, check.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Them out until Oh. By the way, we made predictions
last week and both didn't come true. Yours didn't come
true because the pope has not yet been selected and
your prediction.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Was yes again, if the Philippino pupe wins, Marjorie Taylor
Green will tweet the e I Pope.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
And what I predict? I said that I thought that
kilmar Abrego Garcia would be back in the United States
by now.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
That student though that uh yeah, which so.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
To the Trump administration's chagrin, and a federal or a yeah,
federal judge in Texas said that they cannot use the
Alien Enemies Act to deport people, but that is just
for the region that he presides over. It's not it
doesn't have federal jurisdiction, but it does have federal implications,
(41:04):
so that could be happening, but as far as Abrego
Garcia goes, they're doubling down. And to be clear, I'm
sure everybody saw this, but on ABC did an interview
in which he said, yeah, I could bring him back.
I don't want to, and they said, but the Supreme
Court said you have to.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
And he goes, well.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
By people who don't want brown people in this country,
So that's what I'm that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
And he thought those letters in that picture they gave
him were real. Yeah, he's a fucking genius.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
But everyone already saw that stuff. So we will try
and continue to find the stories that are beneath. We
were going to keep staring at the little golf ball
as the explosions go off.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Oh yeah, follow the ball and we'll see you next week.
Travis absolutely
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