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We must ban books to protect the children. We must
keep drag queens out of school to protect the children.
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That's the other good news. You're here. I'm here, I'm queer,
you're used to it. It's all good. So glad you
are here. We've got a lot to talk about I
you know, I have battled myself about the Middle East. Ay,
I don't think the piece is gonna last, Okay, I
really don't. And even this morning there's already crack showing
in it. B I just I don't buy that it's

(01:45):
not all a grift, that this wasn't all just set
up somehow in a grand scheme to make Trump, you know,
look good around the world with people that he has
not been looking good with. So, I mean, I my
distrust Donald Trump is it's not deranged. I mean, he
earned this distrust, but it is it is so great

(02:08):
that I I just can't give it to him. I
just can't say, good job, Donald Trump. I don't. I
just don't buy it. I don't buy any of it.
And I don't buy why they need our president to
be basically the president of Israel. They have a president.

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So I don't. I don't buy any of it. And
as far as I'm concerned, you know, this is just
me speaking. I think it's all a grift. I think
that there's some sort of scheme going on that we
don't know about. So I don't, you know, I I

(02:52):
just I don't know. I would love to hear what
you guys think. You know, first of all, peace is
a good thing, no matter what, no matter who broke
at it, no matter how it happened. But I don't
think Israel is gonna stop. And eighty percent of Gaza
is destroyed, eighty percent. They're literally going home to rubble,

(03:15):
dead bodies, plague, lack of water, lack of food, no infrastructure.
I mean, what are they going home to? And that
is important to take into account that Israel really couldn't
do anything more to Gaza. So is it really a

(03:37):
peace deal broker by Trump or was it that there
was just nothing more to destroy? You know, there was
nothing more to do. And the headline from Bloomberg Gaza
Truth brings relief, Truth brings relief. But Arab states fear
what comes next. I mean, it's not like everybody there.

(03:59):
It's a twenty four point plan, this Trump plan, and
we're only at point two. Release, you know, seize fire
and then release the hostages. That's point one and two.
There are twenty two other conditions. One of them that
is a sticking point is people in Palestine say two

(04:21):
state solution are no deal. Israel says we will not
recognize the Palestinian State. So is this going to lead
back to more conflict? You know? So I don't I
don't know where that's going. I just know that I
don't buy it. I don't feel at ease with it,

(04:43):
and I'd love to hear what y'all have to say
in the chatroom at YouTube dot com, Forward slash really
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At patreon dot com, forward slashually Caroll. So what do

(05:06):
you do? Do you buy what's going on there? Do
you think the peace will be everlasting? And do you
give Donald Trump credit for this? I mean, a broken
clock is right twice a day. So is this something
good that has come out of his second term? Am

(05:26):
I just too blinded by my rage and hatred towards him?
I mean, Hitler did some good stuff. You know, he
invented the VW there's that, you know. I'm told he
could pay on a few of the things that you know,
But yes, am I just too blinded to see that
this is actually a good thing, because I don't think
it is. I think Netanyahu had nothing more to destroy.

(05:50):
Eighty percent of Gaza is destroyed. There was really nothing
more to do to these people except just kill them all.
And the world wasn't letting him when he said.

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So I don't know, we'll see. I hope for the
people in the region that this last, not for Donald
Trump looking good, which is all he cares about. I
hope that for the Palestinians and the Israelis that this
piece lasts. But that's really up to Benjamin and Yaho

(06:50):
more than anybody else, because he's doing with the big
bombs and the big you know, the big everything, so well,
I don't know about everything. Obviously, he's got a small something.
He's trying to over exert his manhood so like Trump,
you know, they both got the tiniest you know, what's
in the world. So I don't know. I'll take your
comments down below. Is this a good thing? Is this

(07:12):
a bad thing? Well, it's not bad. Anytime there's peace,
it's not bad. But is this a lasting thing? Is
this twenty four point plan going to be? You know? Met?
You know in France, this story really intrigued me this morning.
They have a new prime minister or a new president.

(07:34):
I'm sorry the macron is still there, but the guy
that runs the country under him basically has been swapped
out three times in like a year. And today he
was trying to address a new government and he to
appease the socialist because the far right wants to retirement
age raised. And this means the age that you can

(07:57):
collect your pension in and for retirement benefits in France. Now,
how many of you know what that retirement age is
in France? How many of you raise your hand? How
many of you know? It's sixty two? Over here, our
retirement age is sixty seven, full retirement age for you

(08:19):
to get your full soil security sixty seven in France
in sixty two. And they were going to raise it
to sixty to sixty four, not even sixty five, not
sixty seven, but they were going to raise it to
sixty four, and they freaking rioted in the streets. They

(08:40):
were like, hell, no, we're working two more years because
they value life more than work. They value quality of
life more than working yourself to death for some corporation
until you're almost seventy with you know, the average life
expectancy in the United States. Let me double check, because

(09:02):
our retirement age is sixty seven, you know, for full
social security, although everyone says you should take it at
sixty two. Average life expectancy USA. In the United States,
the average life expectancy is seventy eight point three nine years, okay.
In the UK it's eighty one years. In Canada a
sad one years. We die three years earlier than our

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British and Canadian counterparts. So if you work until sixty
seven and you live the full life expectancy, that's only
eleven years of your life, not nine to fiveing not
having a job eleven years. So a lot of people
get jobs at eighteen, all right, So there's eighteen years

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without a job when you're a kid, and then there's eleven.
So out of seventy eight years, twenty nine of those
are spent not working and fifty two are spent working.
Do you see the problem there? Fifty two years of
your life are supposed to be spent working from the

(10:09):
time you're eighteen until you're sixty seven. Now I know
that's really only fifty What fifty would be, yeah, forty
nine years, not fifty nine. Sorry about that, forty nine
because if you're eighteen you work for fifty years, you'd
be sixty eight. So forty nine years, forty nine years

(10:31):
of your life spent working. And then let's say you
do live to be at seventy eight, so that's eleven
and eighteen twenty nine, so twenty nine not working, forty
nine working, and zero eighteen you're working. You're going to school,
you're doing chores at home, you're learning to be a human,

(10:53):
so you're actually kind of working. So the only time
of your life you really get to enjoy is less
than about a decade out of your whole life. A decade.
Now in France they're like, uh uh, nude. France's average

(11:13):
life expectancy is eighty three years old. They want twenty
one years of not working, and so they're like, you
will not raise the retirement age now, Frances broke. It
is in a huge national debt, and that's why one
of the ways they want to get out of it
is to raise the retirement age so they can save
the money of those two years. But the public is like,

(11:36):
uh uh, you won't have to find some other way, honey.
I'm with the French, you know. I am French. My
mother's last name is Tromplay, my father's last name is Boulet.
I'm French Canadian. I'm with the French, and I'm with
them on this. I think in the United States our
retirement age should be and that you're gonna freak out.

(11:57):
I think the retirement age should be fifty five years old.
I think social Security should start when you are fifty five.
Come on, that's still like forty years almost working. So
I just think we don't have enough time to enjoy
our lives, and that's why we're so fricking miserable. We

(12:19):
are a miserable nation, you have to admit, and a
stupid one. We are a stupid nation. Hello Raybernadi, Hello
Sandy in the chatroom at YouTube dot com, Forward Slash really, Carrell,
we are a stupid nation. And it scares me. It really,
it scares me. There was a news article. You know
that I love to read the news articles, right, I
love I love to read the news articles. And yesterday

(12:43):
I was reading a news article about literacy in America,
and you know, like, are IQ's because a lot of
times I say that we're a stupid nation, like, oh,
We're so stupid, But now I have proof that we

(13:04):
are a stupid nation. I want to share this article
with you. It's something. It's from the Atlantic, which I
love the Atlantic. It says America is sliding towards illiteracy.
Now I my whole life, I have been told that
part of the problem with being gay is being around kids.

(13:26):
My first big article for the high school paper, because
you know, I wrote for it, my first big article
was and I still have it my mom saved. It
was about a proposition coming through in California. I actually
surprisingly think it was called Prop eight back in the day,
and it basically said there could be no gay teachers

(13:49):
and if another teacher knew or suspected that another teacher
was gay, they had to turn them in. And I
thought this was horrible. I was sixteen. I was in
high school wearing designer jeans with a peerm barber Strys
and hairdoo, and I thought this was Wretchard. Well, it
was called the Briggs Initiative because of the lawmaker at

(14:09):
the time that was going that was Champion. How many
of you remember the Briggs initiative. Anita Bryant got the
pie in the face because she came to support the
Briggs initiative in California. So at Jordan High School in
Long Beach in nineteen seventy six, I think I was

(14:31):
like fourteen fifteen, Briggs was being debated by Harvey Milk,
who of course was against the Briggs initiative. Well, that
debate changed my life. Here was Harvey, this openly gay,
fabulous man. I was covering this for my high school paper.

(14:52):
No one was doing this at high school papers, you know,
nobody was. But there I was. And that initiative got defeated.
But it was my first taste of how conservatives thought
that gay's being around kids was a bad thing. Even
though I was a kid and I was gay, and

(15:15):
I knew two of my teachers that were gay, and
in junior high school, I wanted my band teacher mister
Parne to be gay because he was bearded and long hair,
and I would have done him in the back of
the music room if he'd asked, even in seventh grade.
Oh yeah, mister Parne. I wonder if he's even alive anymore,
and he's probably old and wrinkled. But that was the

(15:39):
narrative growing up. Being gay is not socially acceptable because
it goes against God and it's bad for the children. Okay,
so what we have now learned is, of course being
gay around kids, it's not bad for the kids. It's
actually good for the kids. But in this draconian world

(16:00):
we live in now, they're banning books that are inclusive. Again.
They're saying, drag queens can't read stories to your children
because it's dangerous. And MAGA makes a big deal about
protecting children, calling gay people pedophiles and everything else. And
yet these parents that are so protective of their children

(16:23):
that they don't want them reading, you know, books about
being gay, and they don't want them being read to
by drag queens are doing nothing to stop the only
and clear and present danger to their kids outside of guns.
And that's the first to prove their hypocrisy about how

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little they care for their children. Every day in America,
we allow children to be slaughtered because of guns. It
is the number one killer of people over or under
the age of eighteen in America. Guns. But the second
biggest danger something that is directly affecting their memory, their reading,

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and their comprehension skills. Social media. There has now been
a conclusive ten year study of adolescent children and the
use of social media, and everything about social media is
bad for children. Everything about it. There is nothing redeeming

(17:28):
about it, every single thing. And it is taking away
their memory, their cognitive abilities, their social skills. It is
making them dumber. It is directly harming youth social media.
The evidence is out there. It's in front of everybody

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that wants to read it. It is definitive. It is
not wishy washy, it is not contested. Media is bad
for children, so much so that parents are buying this
thing called sell to Jack, an unfortunate name c E.
L two jack. Sell to Jack. It is not a

(18:15):
masturbatory thing. It is a thing you plug into your
cell phone and it turns your cell phone into a
wall jack for a landline. And many homes are making
their kids use a landline type phone now and not
use their cell phones at home. Many parents are giving

(18:35):
their kids dumb phones, flip phones that only do text
maps phone calls. That's it, because it is bad, So
all this. Gays are bad and gay books are bad,
and transgender kids are bad. That's all bullshit. The two
worst things in the country for our children as proven

(18:59):
by science, guns and social media, and parents do nothing
en mass about it, and government instead of stoppings, we
should have let TikTok expire. We should not have TikTok.
More and more celebrities are getting off social media. In

(19:21):
New York, there was just a movement called app Stinens
app stinents app stinents, and their first public event where
you go and delete social media apps, had twenty five
hundred people at it. They expected twenty. They had twenty
five hundred. There is now a movement amongst gen Y

(19:44):
and gen Z and jen Alpha to delete the social
media apps because even kids now know that it's bad
for them. But wait, there's more. This is really alarming.
What I'm about to read to you is really alarming.

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American education. The National Assessment and Educational Progress Test okay.
It released this year, shows that thirty three percent of
eighth graders are reading at a level that is below basic.
One third of all eighth graders in the United States

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are reading at a level that is below basic, meaning
that they struggle to follow the order of events in
a passage or to even summarize the main idea. They
can read a passage, not remember the order of events,
and not summarize what they just read. That is the

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highest share of students unable to meaningful read in over
forty years, meaningfully among fourth graders forty percent. That means
two what one in five? Basically forty percent, because that's

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twenty out of fifty or ten out of do the
map twenty five or five out of twelve point five
or two out of you know, just do it down.
But forty percent are below basic in reading, forty percent

(21:32):
of fortune are below basic in reading, and eighty.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Now is show.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yes, James Snabel, The tech does provide an endorphin rush.
The algorithm is designed on social media to trigger chemicals
in your brain, endorphins, and it works, and it's addictive
like crack cocaine. Social media is to the New Age

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what alcohol and tobacco was to their parents and grandparents.
So back to the story. Thirty three percent of eighth
graders are reading at a level that is below basic.
They struggle in the order of events in a passage
or to summarize the main idea. They also grew up
with social media in their lives from day one. That
is the highest share of students unable to meaningful read

(22:45):
in over forty years. Among fourth graders, forty percent are
below basic in reading. That's you know, that's a lot.
Forty percent. It's the highest share in over thirty years. Now,
remember the ACT test that you used to take for college,
The ACT, a popular college admission standardized test that's graded

(23:08):
on a score of one to thirty six. I got
thirty five, by the way, on the ACT. The ACT test,
which is graded on a scale of one to thirty six,
the average test in America right now, the average score

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on the College Prep ACT test scale one to thirty six.
The average score is nineteen point four, the lowest since
the test was invented in nineteen ninety. We are raising
a nation of idiots. American school children have given up

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almost all the games they achieved at the start of
the century, the learning losses are not distributed equally across
grades and subjects. The NAEP result show that the top
tenth of students are doing roughly as well as they
always have that was my group, whereas those at the
bottom are doing far worse. From two thousand to two

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thousand and seven, the bottom tenth of fourth graders in
reading ability showed substantial improvement before stagnating, but by twenty
twenty four those gains had been erased In forty nine
of the fifty states. Every state except Mississippi, the gap
between the top tenth and the bottom tenth grew. This

(24:34):
is this is something the upshot is grim. The bottom
tenth of thirteen year olds, according to long term data,
are hitting lows in reading and math not seen since
the test began in nineteen seventy one. Wow wow, just wow.

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And it says. While many progressives and liberals are quick
to blame funding and funding cuts to schools, which that
is a valid concern, the likeliest culprit for learning loss
is smartphones. Jonathan Hate, the social psychologist and author of

(25:21):
The Anxious Generation, is the most prominent evangelist of this thesis.
He argues that declining school performance and other worrying trends
among gen z such as the rise and anxiety, depression,
and suicide is all traced to the new phone based childhood.
Just like they're saying in my chat room, parents now

(25:44):
give their children a tablet or a phone to occupy
them wherever they go. It is a phone based childhood.
And his arguments match the trends. Smartphone ownership rocketed rocketed.
In twenty eleven, just twenty three percent of teenagers had

(26:04):
a smartphone. By twenty thirteen, thirty seven percent did. By
twenty fifteen, seventy three percent of kids had access to
a smartphone, and by twenty eighteen, ninety seven percent of
everyone over the age of eight years old has a smartphone.

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Ninety eight percent of any child over the age of
eight years old, no matter the social economic background, has
a smartphone. And as it says in the article, you
don't have to be a genius to correlate why the
drop in reading, math, memory, cognition. It correlates directly. So

(26:56):
we now know the most dangerous thing in our society
outside of guns. Is this right here? This a tablet
or a smartphone. This, This is so mind boggling because
I know that nothing is going to be done about

(27:17):
this data. Just like earlier in the week when we
were last week when we talked about the new planetary
diet where you can only have red meat once a week,
chicken twice a week, fish twice a week, and then
dairy once a day and only four eggs a week.
That you're not going to follow that the world is
not going to follow it, and it needs to. It'll

(27:37):
save forty thousand lives a day, and it will make
us meet our climate goals. Not going to happen. We
now know that the only way to truly save our
children isn't to stop drag queens reading to them, isn't
to keep transitioning out of school, isn't to prevent a
young girl from getting an abortion who was raped or

(27:58):
or you know whatever. No, none of that. The only
way to actually save our children is to take away
their phones and go back to being parents. Now, there's
so many stories about this that I want to talk
about today. I'm really amped about this. On the BBC,
they did a story about a report that just came

(28:20):
out in the UK about cyber attacks and cyber terrorism,
and they recommended that every company only have employees that
can do things without a computer. They recommend writing, actual writing,
cursive writing, and print writing, and the ability to do

(28:41):
spreadsheets and the ability to do math without a computer
because if you get hacked and they take your business down,
if you have employees that can do the business without
a computer, you won't lose as much money. They are
literally reckoned. Amending going back to pen and paper in

(29:03):
the UK as a backup because data is being so breached.
So we know that we are dumber than ever. That
adult's in America now, the average IQ I believe I
read it was ninety eight. Let me double check that
average IQ. In the USA, the average IQ fall between

(29:30):
eighty five and a hundred.

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So now we know the biggest dangerous to our kids,
guns and bone. And whose fault is that? Whose fault
is it that we are producing a complete and total
nation of idiots. Maga's fault.

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So, the average IQ in America, according to the National
Institute of Study and Technology, is ninety seven point three.
Now you might be wondering what that means. What does
ninety seven point three mean. Seventy and below is someone
with an intellectual disability. Okay, that is somebody who is

(31:24):
mentally challenged, some sort of mental disability, a potential learning disability, autism,
whatever it might be. Ninety to one hundred and nine
is the average intelligence. Most average scores fall into this range,
which does not mean you're highly educated. It just means

(31:47):
you're twenty points above a learning disability. So the average
American is twenty eight points above a learning disability, all right.
One hundred and ten to one hundred nineteen is a
high IQ better than average cognitive abilities. One thirty nine
is above average IQ, indicating bright individuals. One and above

(32:10):
is genius IQ level often exceptional problem solvers. My IQ
is one forty three the last time it was tested. Yes,
I am a member of MENSA. So most America is
about twenty three points ahead of a learning disability. And
we wonder why Donald Trump won the election. I'm being

(32:32):
serious here. We wonder why it's so easy to manipulate
the electorate. And we wonder why liberals are frowned upon
because studies have proven that liberals have higher IQs. I
could do the real I could ask chat GPT right here,
another enemy of the people, chat GPT. I mean, really,

(32:54):
chat GPT is dumbing people down. I mean, how many
look how an idiotic we are. We think e bikes
are a good thing. Okay, we think that basic motorcycles
that go slow are a good thing. We act like
you're getting exercise on an e bike. We're buying kids fat, diabetic,

(33:17):
obese children, kids that are now getting ozebic. We buy
them e bikes so they don't have to peddle. Maga
exists in America, and the right wing exists in other
countries because they're stupid. And I have I have the

(33:39):
IQ test and the results to prove it. The only
intellectual people in Maga are people who are manipulating those
people to get money. That's it. The only smart people
on the right in any country, any country, whether it's
Maga here or the far in Germany, the only intellectuals

(34:02):
on the right are the ones using those people to
get power. That's it. It's a few smart people using
and Trump is an idiot. He's an idiot. He's an
idiot being used and supported by smarter people who are

(34:24):
using him and his idiot followers to get what they want.
And I have the numbers. So what should we do.
If you're a parent, you shouldn't let your kid near
a smartphone. You shouldn't if you're a parent, No smart
I don't care how they scream and bitch and yell.

(34:46):
If I had a kid, I would have that cellular
jack in my house. They would use a landline while
they're in the house or you know, attached to a
cell phone. And when they went out, they'd have a
dumb phone. And they make dumb phones. Now where would
do phone calls? Text messages and a map? That's it.
That's all it would do. Period. And I don't care

(35:08):
how much they screamed and yelled I would make it
mandatory that they read a book a week. If I
had a child, they would have to read an actual book,
one book a week, period, no discussion, nothing, I don't
care if their school assigned it or if I assigned

(35:29):
it or whatever. A book a week. We are an
incredibly stupid nation, and we're getting more and more stupid.
Look at if thirty three percent of eighth graders can't
even read. We're not graduating the best and the brightest.

(35:50):
We are becoming an idiot mak. We are part of
a supid nation. People of the USA can't read or
do anything.

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Need to know, you know. Can I just say this
out loud? I have to say this out loud on paper.
I am a genius. My IQ is such that I
classify as a genius on paper, and I do the
stupidest shit. She would ever. My dad used to look

(36:48):
at me and say, you are as book smart as
they come. You're freaking Albert Einstein. But you ain't got
the street smarts God gave you. Cause sometimes times I
do the stupidest shit. It's like, you know, it belies
my genius. You know, I just I do. But you

(37:09):
will find that that the smartest people in the world
often are either emotionally immature or they just kind of
do stupid things in their in their other life, in
their non academic life. They don't. You don't get it all. Okay,
I got the brain smarts, I didn't get the emotional smarts.

(37:30):
I'm too trusting. I put too much into friendships. I
do I I when I have a friend, I give
them my whole heart and soul, just not guarded at all.
I don't guard. I don't guard my heart, and subsequently
I get hurt. I've been very stupid in relationships, done

(37:50):
very stupid things, very stupid things. With Andrew, I did
possibly the most stupid thing a partner could do. I'm
not gonna share it. It's between An and I a
few close friends. Nothing bad. I didn't hurt him, well,
I heard him emotionally, but I you know, didn't hit
him or anything, but my jealousy just caused me to
do something that was really stupid because he wasn't cheating

(38:14):
or you know, I'm very jealous. I am a very
jealous person. I am. I get so jealous when I
have a partner. I can't help it. I just I
just it's important for me to feel that I'm number
one to my partner. And the sad part is no
partner can make me feel like I am. I realize

(38:34):
now I have to, But back in the day, I
didn't know that, and so I was very jealous. I
always wish I could go back and be the lover
to Andrew now with all my knowledge now back then,
but I was twenty eight years old, twenty eight to
thirty nine, you know, I didn't know shit. So I'm
a genius, but I'm the stupidest genius you'll ever meet.

(38:57):
Sometimes I just I do stuff. That's just how many
of you out there are like, very smart, but then
you find yourself in really stupid situations. You're like, how
did I get here? Like I'm smarter than this. Like money, money,
I'm so bad at money, and I don't like money.

(39:18):
And I have an aversion to money, and subsequently I'm
poor if I'd used my intelligence to make money, but
I didn't. I used my intelligence to make friends, and
I used it to help my friends. I never really
used it for evil to make a ton of money,

(39:38):
you know. I just so, I'm very bad at money.
I don't understand the stock market. I don't have any
idea how it works. It's just a bunch of made
up numbers that can be manipulated. It seems stupid to me,
you know, I don't. I just And I was offered
one hundred bitcoins when they first came out as part
of a radio promotion. I was offered one hundred bitcoins

(39:59):
and I said, that's nothing, that's fake money. I don't
want that. I turned them down. One hundred I would
be worth over two hundred million dollars today. So yeah,
I didn't buy Apple stock when it was fourteen dollars
a share, and I looked it up and I was
going to buy some and I didn't. So yeah, I've
done a lot of dumb things, but on paper, I'm

(40:21):
a genius. So there we have it. Ah, let's take
a personal moment. A lot of you were asking did
I fix my friend dilemma, not with the female friend.
In fact, I doubt that she and I will ever
be close again. With the other friend, he apologized. I apologized.

(40:46):
We are speaking, but to say that it hasn't distanced
me a little bit would be a lie, because I
now know that this person can turn off our friendship
with a light like a light switch, and I can't
do that. And so now I don't say afraid, but
I'm leary to let myself care as much about that

(41:12):
person because of how they can just cut and run.
Because again it goes back to me being jealous and
me saying that I need to know that I'm important
to that person. If a person can just cut me
off from all communication and everything, after every day communicating
with me and then just cut me off, it makes

(41:33):
me hesitant to be that close again, because I can't
just cut a person off like that. Oh I can.
I can be done with you that fast and never
talk to you again, but inside I carry you with me.
I don't know if that makes sense to you. I
can seem like a heartless bitch because I can cut
you off and be done with you, but inside of me,

(41:56):
I will hurt for years about that. So, yes, it's fixed.
Yes I'm glad it's fixed. But the resolution is I
won't ever be as close to this. No, I'm not
saying I'm not close. I'm not saying I don't love them,
that I wouldn't do anything in the world for them.
I would, and I am, but there's a piece of
me that's not gonna take that extra oomph because they

(42:21):
can just turn me off, they can just cut me out,
and it would be dumb to set myself up for
that again. So love them, will be their best friend
in the world if they want me to be. But now,
if they were to stop talking to me, I wouldn't
apologize again. I wouldn't communicate with them again. I wouldn't

(42:41):
try to fix it again. If they do it again,
we're done' that's it. So but thank you for asking.
Let's see carrel And I was like that when I
was young, Corel. I had an aversion to money. I
can't really explain it now. I wish i'd focus more
on making money, yes, exactly. I didn't realize that my
life would be so much happier once I hit sixty.

(43:02):
If I actually paid attention to money, I should have
over a million dollars right now, I've made over a
million dollars in entertainment. I should have more than a
million dollars. I don't. I have three thousand, two hundred
dollars in the bank. After bills are paid, I'll have
about nineteen hundred. And I have my house. And that's it.
That's all I have. I have no four O one k,

(43:24):
I have no nothing. I have nineteen hundred in the bank,
and I have my house, and I have a sag
after pension which will be good for my life, and
then social Security. And that's what I've got. And that's dumb.
And I should be working every day on projects to
try to bring in more money. But I'm sixty two.
I'll be sixty three and twenty eight days, twenty days, whatever.

(43:48):
So the energy level is just not there. So I
do what I can. Maybe I'll marry a Ridge guy,
who knows that's the other way till I didn't. I
never married for money. Andrew was home. Andrew did not
have a house when we met. He was living in
a motel. So I did not marry for money. I
married for love. And when he died and we did

(44:09):
the lawsuit, I only got after we paid one hundred
and eighty thousand dollars in lawyer's fees. I only got
sixty thousand dollars from the lawsuit from Andrew because in California,
wrongful death is capped at two fifty. So the lawyer
was one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, and so paid
him for six years of service, walked away with sixty

(44:32):
thousand dollars, took Jake and Heather or to Europe to
spread Andrew's ashes that cost about fifteen thousand, bought a
new motorcycle, and that was it the money basically, So
there was no real money from that settlement. Everyone thinks
I made a ton of money from that. Nope, sixty
grand that's what I got. So I'm not supposed to

(44:53):
disclose that, by the way, but I just did. Oh
well soon. There's a lot of other stuff I want
to talk about today, but one of the funny things
I want to talk about some of us being stupid.
I mean, what are we gonna do about that? What
are we gonna do about the fact that thirty three
percent of eighth graders you know, can't read, and that
forty fourth graders are too stupid to exist. What are

(45:16):
we gonna do that the national IQ is only twenty
points above autism? I mean, are we really just gonna
keep living in a country that's ideocracy? Is that? I
mean we're just content to be heading towards ideocracy? If
you haven't seen the movie, please see it. Is that
really we're content to head towards ideocracy. That's that's what

(45:37):
we're okay with. Because I'm not okay with that, But
it seems America is. You know, in Japan they pride
themselves on their IQ. In Japan they pride themselves on
education and how much they're educated. In Ireland they pride
themselves on education. We're the only country where education is

(46:00):
seen as an afterthought. And that's because the Republicans and
MAGA are uneducated themselves. They don't like smart people. Look
at all that MAGA screams about. They scream about things
that smart people say, smart people tell them about climate change,
and all MAGA can do is use their idiot brains

(46:21):
that are basically twenty points above autism to say that
climate change isn't real, to say that the scientists are wrong.
All Trump and MAGA look at OURFK junior. He has
destroyed our national health care because he thinks he's smarter

(46:41):
than the scientist he's not. I bet his IQ is ninety.
We are letting idiots lead us off a cliff, and
smart people are going along with it. They're like, oh,
what are we gonna do? We gotta give in or
they're leaving. Smart people are leaving the United States, the

(47:02):
people with money, educated people with money are leaving, and
you can't blame them. So what do we do? The
number one thing we could do ban guns and ban
social media. That is the number And you act like
that couldn't be done. Oh, we can't take away social media?

(47:24):
Why because the billionaires wouldn't be rich anymore because something
else wouldn't come along. You know, there was a thing
called artifact and I loved it. There should be a
social media app where it's actual credible news agencies posting
actual credible news, and it's moderated so no fake news

(47:46):
gets through and no biased news like Newsmax or Fox News,
speaking of which Newsmax has now joined with The New
York Times, AP and many other outlets. Washington Post, They're
not gonna sign what Peter Hegenberger Peter Hergsbath or whatever

(48:08):
wants them to sign. Have you heard about this at
the Pentagon? Have you guys heard that if you want
a press credential to be in the Pentagon, you have
to sign a document that says you will not release
any story or any quotes from any member of the
Pentagon that hasn't been approved by Hegerberger's office. Can I

(48:32):
I mean, I just choke on those words. They want
every and if you don't sign it, you don't get
your credential. So the major outlets New York Times, AP,
even Newsmax is saying we're not signing it, and you
can throw our reporters out, but we're not signing it. Now.
Of course MAGA they're like, oh, I think this is

(48:54):
a good thing because they're idiots. We now have concrete
prove that when I say they're idiots, I'm not being insulting.
They are of low IQ. Most of them can't read,
most of them can't write, and most of them can't
comprehend facts or summarize articles. They regurgitate the small little

(49:18):
sentences they hear on the number one enemy of the people,
social media, and they're just stupid. And I have the
scientific facts to back me up on this. People who
vote conservative tend to be of lower IQ. That's a fact.

(49:39):
You can argue that. You can hate it, you can
scream I'm a liar, you can do whatever, but it
doesn't change the fact that most conservatives are ten to
twenty points above autism when it comes to their IQ. Yep.
A teacher here in Switzerland has a boyfriend who lives
in Colorado. She doesn't want to move to him because

(50:00):
she is making three times as much in Switzerland then
she would make in the US as a teacher. Yes,
that's another real problem. We don't pay our teachers. We
don't care about our kids. I never want to hear
Maga once again ever say they care about their children.
They don't care about their children. By the way, if
you're in the San Francisco Bay area or anywhere on
the risk on the west coast Los Angeles, please be careful.

(50:21):
There is an atmospheric river that's happening right now. We're
getting a little remnant of it here in Vegas. We
got about a forty percent chance of rain, but you
guys are getting torrential rains. Don't fuck with the rain, Okay,
don't drive into intersections that are you know, filled with water.
Don't go on dirt roads. Don't be out in the country.
Be at home. There's a huge, terrible storm happening from

(50:45):
San Francisco down to La dumping a year's worth of
rain in one storm. Don't fuck with it. Okay, be safe.
This is an atmospheric river. It is not typical rain.
Do not be out in it. If you don't have
have to be okay. Please, I know a lot of
you listen to me in that area. I need you to,

(51:05):
Rachel Cappers, stay home. Okay, all of you in that area,
stay home. That better stay home. Maybe you're in southern California.
All right, we'll finish up when we come back with
some moment. Another thing we're being stupid about because of
social media. Talk about those I'm gonna get back, and
should the National Guard be in Sifferance with Bill. We'll
talk about that. We don't go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
Now is show.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
I'm told the Bay Area's rain has moved through and
the sun is shining. But it did rain, So just
be careful. I just I care about y'all. Be careful.
I know I have listeners outside of the Bay Area.
But I love you all, and I want you to
be careful. Speaking of the Bay Area, Elon Musk and
several other things, that the National Guard should be deployed
to the Bay Area. You a lot of you live there.

(52:20):
What do you think? I mean? I've been on Market Street.
It's a freaking mess. Drug addicts everywhere, in hypodermics and
all of that. Is the National Guard the answer? You know?
I mean, it does appear that the city resources are
not doing the job. Is the National Guard the answer?
I don't think it is. I am not for it,

(52:42):
but something does have to be done. The homeless are
out of control. Drug addicts are out of control. Union
Square is a pit. You know that mall is a
mess there. You know, hardly any people in the mall.
I'm not even sure the Master Hotel is even there anymore.
I don't think any of the businesses I went to
when I stayed at the Master all the time, or

(53:02):
there on Fourth and Market. I used to love that area,
Fourth and Market. I used to love it. I used
to want to live right there. I wanted to live
at the Master. I wanted to just have the room.
They always gave me this fabulous one bedroom suite. I
was like, you know, the living room and two bathrooms,
and I loved it. I loved that area, the Castro,
I love it. Market Fourth and Market down by the Embarcadero.

(53:26):
God would I live there? But now would I? I'll know,
walking Ember would be a problem because you know, I
know it's not as bad as the news makes it sometimes.
But I have seen firsthand. What would the National Guard do?
You know? And is just sweeping these people off the street.

(53:49):
That does that solve the problem? And they're going to
come back, you know what? So I don't know. I
think cities should handle their own issues. I think cities
have police departments and fire departments and paramedics and social
workers and all of that. The problem is cities haven't
been taking care of business. I mean, this is where

(54:10):
Donald Trump is exploiting cities. They really haven't been taking
care of business. Crime rates have risen, homeless rates have risen,
drug abuse has risen, and they're screaming, well, we don't
have the money, we don't have the money. Well you
gotta do something, and they're not. So then Trump says,
I'm gonna send in the National Guard here. I come

(54:32):
to slave the day. But do they really help. We
have no statistics that they're helping in any city that
they're in. I think they just create more fear and chaos.
That's what I think, right am. Oh God, you guys,
you guys. I prayed to the universe since yesterday afternoon.

(54:57):
I did. I don't pray to God, I pray to
the universe. And I cried last night because Ember is
the most valuable thing in my world. I know many
of you have a most valuable thing in your world,
a husband and wife, a dog, whatever, kat hamster, guinea pig,
Richard gear or whatever. And I know she's gonna get

(55:20):
a condition she's ten. I know that in the upcoming years,
something's gonna come along, because no one, nothing, lives forever.
And I'll be okay with that so long as it's
like age appropriate. In other words, is she's thirteen and
gets cushings and then only lives two to four years, okay,
fifteen to seventeen. Okay. You know if she gets cancer

(55:44):
at fourteen or fifteen, okay, I don't want her to
and I'd love for her to live to be twenty,
but that's not realistic. Most little dogs live thirteen to
seventeen years, so I know she he's going to get something.
I just didn't want it to be now. I wanted
just a few more years of her and I having

(56:05):
our life. I cried, I prayed, I am. I know
it's not healthy, it's not healthy that so much of
my life is wrapped up in my little girl. But
you all must understand. She goes everywhere with me, and
I am alone for the most part in Vegas. I

(56:26):
have friends. Heath is a good friend. Heath is a
really good friend. I'm so glad I met Heath here
in Las Vegas. He's an interesting person. He's dropped dead
freaking gorgeous. If he were gay, we'd be dating. Well maybe,
but i'd ask him out if he was at least gay.
He's like six foot four and he's Oh, he's so handsome,
and he's age appropriate. He's in his fifties. But his partner, Laura,

(56:48):
I love her so much. I wouldn't want her to
be with anybody else, So I'm so glad they have
each other. But he's a great friend, and he's even
offered to take Ember if anything ever happens to me,
And that's that's the sweetest A person can do. But
outside of Heath and Sherry Hamby, who I love. She's
an African American, you know me, and you know me
and black girls. I love my black girls, okay, and

(57:10):
I love her dog. And so I've made a few
good friends. But I'm basically alone all day, every day
except for Ember. When I moved from Long Beach, Ember
was in the van with me. So was Steve cabral
By the way. He stayed with me for a couple
of weeks and then went back. And then when he
went back and I was all alone in the lakes,

(57:32):
it was me and Ember. When I'm alone in the
hospital with a fib happening and my heart's two hundred
or above. You know, I watched a UK emergency show
in the UK. They would have shocked me after just
an hour, but they left me thirty six hours in
the ICU with my heart over one hundred and fifty.
Who was there, hugging me, kissing me, making me deal

(57:53):
with feeding her and having friends come to walker. Ember
was so oh, oh, I'm sorry. I just I love
her so much and I know the day is coming
in a year or two or a month or five

(58:14):
or I don't know because it's the future, and I
don't know. I just know that I love her so
much that I don't want anything bad to happen yet
not yet. I know it's going to but just not yet.
It's like me every time I go to the doctor now,
I'm like, look, I know I'm going to get something.
I'm sixty two, I'm only on one drug, so I

(58:36):
know ultimately I'm going to get something, but don't let
it be yet. I know I might have to have
surgery on my order, but make it later so they
have advances, you know what I mean. It's like, just
not yet. I'm not done. I've got more to do here,
and I know you feel the same. And that's why
America is so frustrating right now. So many of us

(58:57):
aren't done being us. We're not done working and entertaining,
or or being in our jobs, or being in our families.
We're not done. And it's so hard right now in
America to strive forward. It's like Trump is this mud
that we're we have to trod through. You know I

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