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Ep. 208 – “I Have Poop on My Fingers” -Representative Dennis Hastert
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This week we’re joined by Jeremiah to discuss the colorful cast of characters being appointed to the highest offices in the land! It’s traditionally known as a cabinet, but I think this is more of a pantry given the number of rotten potatoes inside (that’s my joke and you need to cite me if you use it. I will press charges.). As always, if you’d like to get in on the fun, join our Discord server! You can find a link in our Instagram bio.
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Exploring the 'Peterson Paradox'
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Well, that is a problem that we do have in, uh, our media landscape is people who become experts in one particular field. Think, think so that makes them qualified to speak to other fields. Yeah. It's, it's the Peterson complex or the Peterson paradox. Uh, I'm trying to call phrase. you Here's the thing though, fellas. Okay. Remember where we live. What's the alternative?
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so So grandma you know has cancer and she buys some ah you know medicinal crystals. like It's not like there's perfectly good, affordable, well-run healthcare care waiting for her on the other side of the equation. That's fair. You know what, dr Dr. Oz, he's prescribing a little hope. That's what he's prescribing, right? Oh yeah, snake oil.
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Hey
Introduction to 'Growing Up Christian' Podcast
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everybody. Welcome to another episode of Growing Up Christian. I'm Sam. I'm Casey. And I'm Jeremiah. And boy oh boy has there been a lot that's happened in the past week and I have a feeling we'll be saying that for the rest of all of our weeks for the next four years. But
Tales from the Schoolyard: Sam's Storytime
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before we get into the ah all the current events or the ones that we like and want to laugh at. I had some shit happen today, not just today. I had some shit recently happen at my work ah for anyone who doesn't know or who might be a new listener. I'm an adjustment counselor at an elementary school. ah So we have i have I work with a student who's been like,
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ah You got weary about telling work stories on the podcast, but oh, well, ah no names, shall we mention? I work with a student who's probably five ah kindergarten student. That's my school is like that's that's what I work with this year is kindergarten. So ah working with a kindergartner and she ah has a problem with swearing in class, um also with hitting and throwing sand and all like just kind of typical like ah You've never been around other children type of behaviors But this kid's funny has like a raised by wolves vibe like I'm like Mowgli ask you definitely grew up in the jungle I don't think anyone's actually like I don't know if anyone's really looking after you and Focus on the bare necessities. I'm dying because we I we've had a meeting with the parents before um but we have us You know
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We ended up having another meeting not too long ago ah to just talk about how things are going. And yo, that we couldn't read the sweatshirt at first. I had to look up what the sweatshirt was by Googling it after our meeting. But ah you could only see the bottom, which was just like SMO. And then I couldn't see the rest because it wasn't because of how like she only had it partially zipped and it was folded over.
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and then the bottom words were fucking me. And I'm like, we're all trying to make sense of what this shirt is. You walk in- The kindergartner was wearing it? No, the mom. The mom at the parent meeting. The mom wore this to a parent meeting. A parent meeting at an elementary school, yeah. Oh my gosh. And the shirt, I found it online after it said, I wonder if life smokes a cigarette when it's done fucking me. Awesome shirt, great job. I mean, that's okay, yeah.
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And then the best part was that I didn't see dad's shirt. ah My principal was like pointing it, trying to point it out to me ahead of time, but he ended up zipping his hoodie up. ah But ah apparently his shirt said, ah tell your boobs to stop staring at my eyes.
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Wow, this kid's a classic sorry this kid going into the military or into a prison at some point, unfortunately. so Yeah, that's a future kick streamer. This week, ah the the girl gets off the bus and she goes, I have poop on my fingers. And I go, ah excuse me.
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And I look at her fingers, I'm like, I almost wanted to smell it to verify. I'm like, maybe she just ate chocolate on the bus. But I wasn't going to take any chances because I know enough about this kid to know that it is 100% possible this kid has shit on her fingers. So like come on, Mowgli, let's go to the sink.
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So I'm like, wait, what? Like, how? Like, I just shocked. So I just asked why or how. I don't remember exactly what I said. I would have gone with who. And she goes, it's from my butt. And I was like, yeah, I figured it's from your butt.
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Hey, so far, that's I haven't heard any lies. It could have been someone else's, so I'm not, like I'm happy. like i'm It's your butt, and that is good. so ah So I'm like, you need to go right to the nurse's office.
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and don't touch anything on the way in and she goes to grab her sweatshirt out of my hand with her poop fingers and I go no other hand and she puts out her other hand and I put her backpack back on her and I'm like you need don't touch anything walk into the nurse don't touch anything she's like okay as she's passing by kids she's got her like fingers up in the air she's like I have poop on my fingers I have poop on my fingers to everybody she walks by She goes into the nurse, I go check in with the nurse later and she goes, ah she goes, yeah, her ass crack and her pants were clean. Apparently she likes
Parental Denial and School Dynamics
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to dig for poop. This kid on the bus just clawed at whatever turd was at the bottom of her butt. just I'm like, and she's just digging at it, sitting next to kids on the bus, showing kids on the bus. I'm like, what the fuck? i don't even
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Sun hinged I don't even know I'm like, what do I even do? How do I work with this kid? I can't even deal with this I'm still reeling over those just that is an agent of chaos yeah it's like She walks into school clean she leaves like caked in dirt every it's like dirt's everywhere her hair's all over like this kid is like the it's like it's It's just like the personification of hot mess meets five year old, like jungle child. I don't even, dude, it is something special. Hilarious kid, but ah to like this week was a lot.
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what do you know what profession does this kid end up in but like in all yeah funnying I mean excellent mechanic I'm just gonna throw it out there oh yeah can't be afraid of mass like good plumber plumber welder mechanic like I mean heavy equipment mechanic like yeah i should be great When stuff like this happens, Sam, I don't know how often it's your job to do this. How do you, do parents react to news like this? Well, like how often are parents like, Oh, that's our little Avery like digging for shit. Or are they more like you're lying about my child because my child would never.
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Yeah, uh, we get parents are like, do you have any pills? We, I would say the moat, the most common response is, Oh, we don't see any of that behavior at home. And then you spend 15 minutes with them and they tell you all about what's going on at home. And you're like, no, that's, that's what we're talking about. Like, I don't, you don't, You just described the behavior we're seeing at school at home that you said you don't see at home. So I don't I think at some level there's a there's some denial. i We work with some family. I mean kids some kids look it's very common for people to be like when a kid does wild shit or has some challenging behaviors. It's very common for people to be like ah the parents and like it's kind of gets a little annoying sometimes working in a school where it's like everybody wants to just blame the parents but that that can be part of it certainly but there are so many there are so many families that have had great easy to work with kids that have one challenging kid like that can happen
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And it's not always anything to do with the parents. And we have plenty of families who are like, yeah, I don't, I hear what you're saying. We're following up. I don't know. I'm, I'm doing my best. I've made all the doctor's appointments. I don't know what to do with this kid. I've had four other kids and they were all easy. And this one is killing me. Or it's like the old, they're like I have a, like they might have an older kid and then like a younger, like a preschooler and they're all fine doing typical behaviors and sometimes it just, I don't know. you You don't always know what's going on. But a lot of the families are like, yeah, I i hear it. I hear what you're saying. And
AI's Impact on Social Media and Public Perception
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whatever they they're, most people are more than happy and willing to like partner with the school to try to curb challenging behaviors.
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Digging in your butt for turns. Yeah, maybe maybe make sure the parents are trimming her fingernails. yeah and don't want Prevent hemorrhoids. You'd get the occasional family that's just challenging to work with, that doesn't think anything. like It's clearly like they're the problem that's reinforcing the poor behavior, but they don't think that that's what's going on. and that' Those are very, very challenging families to work with.
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Some of the, I've i've had to, the worst part of my job is uncomfortable conversations with parents about their children. It's, it that never gets easy to have those conversations. It always feels shitty. You always, that and filing 51A's occasionally, like that's part of my, I'm a mandated reporter.
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Um, so I'll tell you some of the worst conversation I've ever had is when we've had to file and the parents call the school and they ask to talk to me and they bring up like, why'd you do this? And it's like, ah, fuck. ah Those are occasionally you'll let parents know like this is what's being said. Uh, it's easier like with like divorced families where it's like a kid accuses someone of hitting them or something like that. And.
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Whatever, like, but no and the ah the worst conversation I've ever had is like actually having to talk to a parent about what their child said and why you had to file. It's terrible. Man.
Political Critiques: Jon Stewart and Beyond
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Well, Sam, thank you for doing that job and I'm very glad I don't have to because I don't want to. yeah I won't. I won't. I just won't do it. You can't make me.
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my ah My daughter eats turds. Yeah. She's a spaniel, but shia she comes in from outside. So I've got these radio collars that I bought. Oh yeah, and you would tell me about those. do they How are they working? i've been They're awesome. Yeah. So we live out in the middle of nowhere. I don't have an invisible fence. I was thinking about putting one in because it's just, you know, we try to let them roam, but You know, you can't keep them out of the road 100% of the time. So right we got these callers that basically like there's an app on your phone and you walk the boundary of the fence you want to make.
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And you can adjust it and stuff like that. But basically it just does it all by GPS. And so like, if they get close to the fence, it makes a, it plays a tone. You adjust it, you keep them on their toes. you Some days it's smaller. Some days it's like Fortnite. No, Fortnite, you just shrink it. You have to trade the dog for the exact fence. Yeah. yes where they Finally eat each other's throats out.
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Yeah, that if they, if they go, if they hit two, if they hit the line, it shocks them, you know, and they don't, I mean, the thing that I've found with like anything that's like a, like a shock trainer, like a bark collar or anything like that is dogs get shocked like twice. And then they just don't do that stuff anymore.
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It's great and people get all weird about it but like it's it's excellent and now my dogs like get to roam around outside for hours every day and I don't have to worry about him being in the road eight but your dogs do only get they only really need a few negative experiences before they just they do know not to do something like even when my dog was.
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younger and had the counter surfing problem where they would just like put their snout up and try to eat everything. we we left ah We tied a string to a bagel and then tied a whole bunch of soda cans to it and he grabbed the bagel and pulled it and all the soda cans came flying down on him and like made a bunch of loud noise and he hated it and it was probably three years before he tried to take anything off the counter again. are He's scared of bagels.
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yeah That's the one thing he just voted for. He learned the write and the right lesson from that.
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like Phoebe, she's always eight turds. I don't know why. I can't care of it. I don't know what to do about it. We've tried- Well, because they're awesome, Casey. I don't know what you don't understand. Talk to my students.
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It's efficient. I mean, you get 100% of the nutrients out of your food. If you digest it three or four times, but true she comes in and like, you can just like once in a while, she comes in and in her gums caked up there. Oh, I'll like, um'll I'll be like Petner or something.
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And she's panting and I'm just like, Oh God, ah like you're going to smell it, you know, but the worst thing that ever happens like is like, she'll come in from outside. She's been running around outside with Pippin and stuff. And,
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She'll like drink a whole bunch of water. And then all of a sudden you hear me black and ah cleaning up dog barfs. Annoying cleaning up barfed up turd is the worst. Like waterlogged barfed up turd is the most disgusting thing in the world. It's awful. Do you guys have like a carpet shampoo or like a good one? Yeah, but I don't know if it's even helping any like i you.
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my carpet it's you would probably be better off like eating off the the the airport bathroom floor than off of my like oh no our our carpets exactly the same way now especially because as our dog gets older to where he needs to wear a diaper and he's just been wearing a diaper for pee but now we're having to start sourcing diapers for everything because he's i guess gotten to an age where he's like I Uh, no, but he is very stupid about knowing when he comes back in, he forgets there's two steps. You got to wipe him off and then you got to put a diaper on him. And he always remembers there's one step and then he starts trying to leave and you have to drag him like, and hold him still. And of course he's stupid. So he's not very cooperative, but he he'll do the same thing where like, sometimes he'll just drink a little bit too fast or eat a little bit too fast. And then he'll just hork it up somewhere.
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And then if you don't catch him quick enough, he'll eat most of it, or he'll just stare at it and stare at you and be like, whatever, I'm going to take a nap and just leave. But our our carpet, like ah we're going to have to rent like a really good, I have a carpet shampoo or that gets carried around the house pretty regularly, but we're going to have to replace the carpet. It's like at that point. Yeah. But the problem is like, we're eventually going to need to replace the carpet, but it's going to have to be the whole upstairs. So like just the logistics of doing that is going to be miserable. Yeah. yeah It will be annoying.
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That's not a thing you do yourself, I feel like you just absolutely come do carpet. and they Yeah, the people who do it, but I feel like flooring is just, well, you could the vinyl flooring that people put in like basements and shit. That stuff is like, clicks together pretty easy. Yeah, I've done that. And you can cut it and snap it real easy to get around like corners and shit. but No, carpet, if i even if it was like wood flooring, I wouldn't fuck with wood flooring. I don't have that. i I wouldn't do a lot of things. It's very clear that I'm not a do-it-yourself guy. We've had that conversation before, but carpet, definitely not. I will say that when you go to like when you so if you're running around looking at houses like you're in the market or something like that, you can tell which ones did their own carpet.
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Yeah. Yeah. Getting carpet stretch correctly seems like that's got to be harder than it looks like because it's really easy to see what it's done poorly. It's kind of like you can always sell floors too. Like even if you can tell who did their own flooring anyway, because half the time they don't take the trim off and they just try to get it as close as they can, but there's always that gap. Oh yeah. That's terrible.
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Yeah, it's ah it's a little like spotting a car where the person did their own window tinting. It's got that nice bubble glass look. I'm just really hoping after I'm done renovating our bathroom that you won't be able to tell that I did the tile myself. that's like my like Drywall, I feel pretty good about. Tile is the thing I'm a little worried. Did you get a tile cutter? I haven't yet, but I'm going to. I feel like if you have that... like A guy like you could do it. i'm not This isn't about me. this is about I feel like yeah if you have the tile, the spacers, the tile cutter. like I'm at the stage, Sam, where i am I have a laser level and a bunch of shims, adhesive, and measuring sticks, and I'm going around plumbing the walls perfectly.
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like in line You'll be fine. I'm hoping. I certainly can't take longer. like I would trust you. I believe in you so much that I would ah i would allow you to tile my bathroom floor.
00:18:02
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I appreciate that. I wouldn't pay for it, but I would trust you enough to do a free worthy job that came out fine enough to be free. I would rather you shoot me in the head and I'll have to bring you a gun because I know you don't have one. I'd rather bring a gun you can shoot me with rather than do it and for someone else.
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yeah
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Yeah, yeah, there's definitely things that just I don't know. They're ah they're a paying expert sort of thing. Speaking of paying an expert, um the incoming president has been choosing the experts that he wants to be helming his ah his administration, and it's turning out to be a real a real Ocean's Eleven of a little murderous row.
Trump Administration Drama: Personalities and Misconduct
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It's like, it's a ah it's like only martyrs in the building. You know, it's just like a a group of unsuspecting rag. to like who They don't all belong in the same space together. You wouldn't expect to see it, but shenanigans will ensue. Oh, I don't think they'll all survive in the same space together. Like the amount of of egos and like social media grandstanding that's going to be a part of this administration, that there, I don't think there's going to be a whole lot that's going to be just flat out entertaining. That part might be entertaining. Like we know beyond all shadow of a doubt.
00:19:20
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Elon is not going to be interested and invested in this particular pet project for four years. Oh my God. He doesn't have it in him. and they the Elon is one of the people that Trump has a slated for government efficiency, right? Yeah, the not real ah not real department. The not real department.
00:19:44
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to manage government efficiency of which he has appointed two people to manage. there There is a department, I forget exactly what it's called, there is an actual department that that is assigned to like audit. They do a great job. Maybe. they write up I'm sure they write up a lot of really good, stiff, boring reports that get sent to Congress who immediately puts them in a drawer and never looks at them.
00:20:08
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But the irony of appointing two people to head government efficiency is like, dude, you're already off to a bad start. But this week, I think do we want to talk about some of the recent, the recent additions.
00:20:21
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Oh yeah. I mean, obviously the big one that people are having ah having a field day over is Matt Gaetz. Which, this is, will they, won't they? With the ethics panel? The house ethics panel or whatever it is. Like, whether they or not they're gonna release the report. Which is funny because it's like, if you're talking about not releasing it, it's because he rapes people.
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And if you release it, we just know he still rapes people like we're not. There's no real question about it. I don't think I get his heel. Is it? I don't know if any of that tracks, but I don't know if it's alleged he's actually raped anybody. It's alleged that he's paid multiple women for sex and some of them were under the age of 18. OK, yes, does cause 100 percent. Well, yes, statutory rape. But for the purpose of putting hairs on statutory.
00:21:07
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Well, because I don't think that's the worst part. Like I don't, I don't think the statutory part. You're really taking a hold for yourself, Jeremiah. No, no, no. i did yeah For Jeremiah, it's the hypocrisy. It's the pain in the minor for sex. I think that is the worst part. The fact that it is technically statutory rape, I don't think. I like your use of technically. Ease up, dude. I'm just saying but we say if we're going to be quibbling over which people in the incoming administration are rapists, we're going to be here all day. I'm saying you want to focus on the stats that make these players unique. And as far as I'm aware, Matt Gaetz is the only person
00:21:44
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ah and the incoming administration that is alleged has paid minors for sex. So I just feel like let's let's focus on the things that are going to be at the top of his rookie card, you know? Feather in your cap. Because obviously we watched ah the the typical media news cycle.
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of Trump's first term, just pull
Democratic Party's Electoral Challenges
00:22:08
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on threads that didn't, so much of it ended up being horseshit and they got stuck on it for four years, which really did not help them for the last eight at that point. It kind of just blew out their own credibility. But don't worry. They're having a bad couple of weeks. Yeah. I'm sure they've learned a big lesson and things will totally be different this time. Oh my God. John Stewart had a really good piece on the lessons that Democrats have learned over the past 12 years.
00:22:34
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where he just It's just a compilation piece of like, oh, here's the thing that everyone talked about was going to happen and be a problem. And then here's them talking about how they were wrong and what lesson they learned from it. And then it was then another clip of how they clearly didn't learn their lesson at all. It was very great. Yeah. Highly recommend anything Jon Stewart's been putting out in the past like couple months has been gold.
00:23:00
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I, most of the things Jon Stewart's put out in the last 20 years. have Yeah. goal wass just Yeah. He's pretty great. But he's definitely over like the typical media stab. Like he, the democratic party he knows is just a bunch of shit bird old guards. Yeah. Well, and he's like consistently like been willing to be the one that, you know, in good faith says, Hey, um, I know this thing that we're all supposed to say here.
00:23:30
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It's kind of ridiculous, you know? Yeah, which I think is like one of the most endearing things about him. It is funny how like I've watched. Oh my God, I don't know how many hours at this point of like postmortems on what went wrong and all this stuff, you know, and it is funny to like.
00:23:51
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I just haven't. I've tuned out. I've like, I've canceled like I've just marked as complete the last several weeks of news podcasts and stuff. I'm like, I'll tune back in at some point. I just need a break from like the excessive naval gazing and pearl clutching.
00:24:05
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yeah Yeah, that's fair. COVID is unrelenting. The stupefied wonder, of people are like, how did he do it? It's like, I don't know guys, because people feel like everything's really expensive and it turns out at the end of the day, like we have a hard time seeing past the ends of our noses. Like you can blame a lot of other things, but like it turns out people just aren't that complicated and literally do not care about a lot of the issues that you've been screaming about for years. Like they just don't care. They don't think it affects them.
00:24:35
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They think stupid things affect them, but those are the things that they care about. And if you're not pandering to that, you're out of luck. That's the game. Yeah, it is funny to watch like the you know, it's the most interesting thing is to watch people who are left leaning dissect what went wrong, especially because, you know, I watch breaking points all the time. A big fan of them. I really like crystal ball. She.
00:25:04
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lost the plot during this election. I mean, she was off in all sorts of different directions. And now, like, listening to her, like, pick apart what went wrong with the democratic strategy and stuff like that is it's it's interesting, but it is funny to listen, like, what liberal people pick out of the mix is like, you know, I don't think this is actually a part of it. I think it's more this.
The Influence of Young Voters
00:25:29
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I mean, the bottom line is exactly what Jeremiah said, though. It's it's You, you, you didn't give people any sort of like vision for like their economic prospects. I mean, you guys didn't really like bring anything to the table to talk about. like there's no you You won't disavow any of the previous administration, like the current administration's actions, which are very unpopular. Like you don't seem to be presenting a plan for what you're going to do. That's going to change things. I mean, there was a, I watched a pretty good video. I think Crystal did it the, actually this week about.
00:26:01
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how like democratic mega donors kind of nuked Kamala's price gouging ban thing, you know, that they were marketing there for a bit, but then they kind of throttled it back after a little while was cause like her, her big donors didn't like that messaging. So they had them tone it down and it's like, that's their, that's the problem. The corrupting influence is so obvious at this point, like that's everything that went wrong. i v like but But Trump's way more corrupt.
00:26:30
Speaker
Well, yeah, that's true. But it turns out the people voting for him don't like they don't. They've heard you say that so many times that like that just doesn't mean anything anymore. Right. Yes. He is held to a different standard. And the sooner you realize that the sooner you can do something about it, like you're not going to be able to convince people after this long to pay attention to the lies or the hypocrisy or whatever else like that. That does not matter. And it hasn't mattered way longer than he's been running for president. Like he he has a great near dedicated What? People don't trust that they're better. That's what it comes down to is like, they used to. And I mean, they had that going for them for a long time. But like watching them shift and turn and flip all of their stances over the past like four years, I feel like people are just like, Yeah, I just don't. Or at least you're not better enough that I'm willing to, to, to buy it. I think the people on the left are look that I
00:27:26
Speaker
My experience is that people are looking for something more and when they weren't going to deliver that, ah the numbers show that people decided not to vote. They didn't show up. The voting, the number the people who showed up, it was pretty bad. ah that's It was pretty low voting numbers and I just, yeah, people don't.
00:27:46
Speaker
It's not that like, we kind of know what we're going to get at the end of the day. I know i know what voting blue is going to get me. I know they're going to say some things. They're going to promise the same shit. They're going to say the same things. They're going to tow the same lines. It's going to be, you know, the status quo.
00:28:06
Speaker
and they keep telling us that like it doesn't oh we're now you have all these like strategists who like poo pooed everybody who they did it i think what sorry i'm losing my train of thought you have all these strategists who were like oh uh turns out a traditional uh traditional direction didn't it wasn't really the best thing for us it's like that's what everybody's been telling you and you were just so convinced that like that people are going to vote the way they always have. And there was a real ah neglect of like just young voters. And I get that they've always neglected young voters because their turnout's always been bad. But
Jordan Peterson and Dr. Oz: Cross-Field Commentary
00:28:46
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I think people were hoping to be able to vote for something they could get excited about. And when they couldn't, they said fuck it. Yeah, we know, they know that
00:28:57
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they They knew what their options were and they knew one option was worse than the other, but you could only just back people in the corner for so long and make them feel like they're morally obligated to vote for you or the worst thing's going to happen and then never deliver on a single promise or do anything that you actually want them to do. And then you just say, fuck you guys after a while. And he he gained a lot of points with a lot of different groups, you know, I i just saw a thing this week where like he he gained 11 points with voters under 30.
00:29:26
Speaker
It's so wild. Dude, I don't know what world we live in anymore. Young men are are trending a lot more conservative. Young women are not. they're They are trending more liberal over time, but young men have had like a conservative resurgence, or I guess ah not a resurgence because they're always changing. but like Gen Z and Gen Alpha have started trending way more right than the typical logic that we've always used about young people you know start out more liberal and then trend more conservative over time.
00:29:55
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That's because Michael Tate told them if they acted like that, they'd get their dick sucked. That's why. Uh, I mean, that's a non-zero part of it, unfortunately. Like, I think he is still like one of the most influential people. Speaking of influential people, can we talk about some of these cabinet picks? I'm not like, I don't know that anyone needs our hot takes on this topic. No, you're right. Yeah, no, it's more fun. So, so we're talking about like, what's going to be the top of people's rookies cards. Like, has Kristi Noem done other good things as the governor of wherever? I don't know.
00:30:22
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ah South Dakota? Sure. yeah let's Let's assume South Dakota is a real place. Has she done anything worth noting as the governor of South Dakota? Maybe. But all she's going to be known for for the rest of the country is the woman who was like, pumped that she killed her dog. Execution style. Yeah, for like really shaky reasons. And that's fine. Like that's, that's whatever. I feel like that is average crazy.
00:30:44
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for the the Trump cabinet, I'm excited about Dr. Mehmet Oz. so I don't know anything about Dr. Oz. i would be What is his deal? i would Okay, Casey, what do you what do you know about Dr. Oz? Because I guarantee you, you don't know enough. I know that he had a TV show and that he ran against Federman. That's right. I forgot he ran against Federman. That's all I know about him.
00:31:12
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OK, that's fantastic. So I do have his Wikipedia open just so I can reference some stuff, but I would also recommend to people. I think I feel like I recommend this podcast like every time I'm on here. Behind the Bastards did a great series on Dr. Oz. What's his first name? Mehmet. And that's what you hate the most about him. It is not. It is not. ah But he good try, though. He is ah a Turkish-American.
00:31:36
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He grew up in Delaware. um He's 64 years old. He graduated ah from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania and ah is a phenomenal cardiothoracic surgeon. so The sad thing about Dr. Oz is he is actually exceptional at the field that he went into.
00:31:59
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like There are not that many cardiothoracic surgeons, not that I'm super qualified to talk about it, but like from the little bit I've read about it, that is a super in demand field. And he is a Harvard, I believe Harvard School of Medicine cardiothoracic surgeon. He is legitimately fantastic at that. But Oprah had him on.
00:32:20
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in the early 2000s onto her show. And he talked about some quackery. ah And let me see, he did more than 60 appearances on on the Oprah Winfrey show. And then he got spun off into a Discovery Channel series, Second Opinion with Dr. Oz. And then in 2009, turned into the Dr. Oz show, which ran for 13 seasons.
00:32:42
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he He was he peddled a lot of like bogus supplements for money and shit. Yes. ah Well, the way Wikipedia has it and all this has has cited references. I just love the way they wrote it. Oz's promotion of pseudoscience, including the topics of alternative medicine, faith healing and paranormal beliefs, has earned him criticism for a number of medical publications and physicians. So like faith healing. Yes. What does that mean? Well, he he would have people on like a little bit little bit like the Joe Rogan of um of health TV shows, like back before Joe Rogan was doing it. I don't know that it really is that like Dr. Oz is specifically promoting all these things. He would have anyone on to promote anything and he would treat them as they were all equally legitimate of like, wow, that's a really interesting idea. Have we considered whether or not the crystals can banish your cancer? This is where Jeremiah and I go back and forth because he hates that about Joe Rogan.
00:33:39
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I like it. Well, it depends on what you're looking for. If we're looking for entertainment, you can get some great entertainment out of it. If it's we're looking to not have millions of people be led astray to the point where they take like a horse medicine, I, uh, to combat it. Fake news. I, I think the difference for me is a number of people in line at tractor supply trying to buy it would say otherwise. Fake, fake news. You're, you're the mainstream media and that him guy.
00:34:09
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I think that but what the difference for me is is ah when you put doctor in front of your name and then you have people on who talk about how crystals healed them. That is vastly different than Joe Rogan, which I look, um I've listened to one episode of Joe Rogan's podcast. I've seen a lot of clips because everybody likes to dunk on him with the clips. Not my favorite guy at all. I think, uh,
00:34:34
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him going from Bernie to Trump endorsement was wild shift. ah So I'm not, I'm not team Joe at this point. I'm a little annoyed with him, but I don't hold him to the same standard that I hold somebody with the name doctor in front of their name.
00:34:51
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Well, I'm thinking a lot of people are doctors you can be a doctor in a lot of things. Dr. Oz is an actual medical doctor. Like I'm not done walking you through like, I can't stress enough. This guy is an actually great doctor.
00:35:07
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and that's what makes it hurt so much worse. um So let's see, he ah data da da da he did his residency at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and then was a president or ah professor emeritus at Columbia University. He was like their professor of cardiothoracic surgery. um He and his colleague founded the Cardiac Complementary Care Center. um They received a lot of media publicity in 1996 doing a successful heart transplant for Frank Torrey, the brother of New York Yankees manager Joe Torrey during the 1996 World Series.
00:35:41
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Um, let me see. He has helped develop numerous devices and procedures related to heart surgery, including the Mitra clip and the left ventricle assist device. And by 2015 held a number of patents related to heart surgery. Again, he's not just a heart doctor. He's like one of the best heart doctors or heart surgeons we have in the country. And he's most famous for his like 13 daily daytime. Tell him what he's wrong about.
00:36:11
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That's 100% true. Well, that is a problem that we do have in ah our media landscape is people who become experts in one particular field think thinks that that makes them qualified to speak to other fields. Yeah, it's it's the Peterson complex or the Peterson paradox. I'm trying to call phrase. use Here's the thing though, fellas. Remember where we live.
00:36:39
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What's the alternative? so so Grandma you know has cancer and she buys some ah you know medicinal crystals. like It's not like there's perfectly good, affordable, well-run healthcare waiting for her on the other side of the equation. why not fair you know what dr Dr. Oz, he's prescribing a little hope.
00:37:00
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That's what he's prescribing, right? Oh, yeah. Snake oil. You mean? I mean, honestly, he might be a pastor at that point. He might be successful with people who are on ah Medicaid or Medicare, like for old people, like if they've been watching his show for 15 years or something, however long it was on the air, like, or both of his shows.
Dennis Hastert Scandal and Political Accountability
00:37:19
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He might be able to talk them into all kinds of things. like there's There's a real scenario where he might actually be able to do some good. It's just the lingering fear of all the other stuff. like Him and RFK teaming up to, like I don't know, figure out if you can banish worms with ultrasonic wave therapy that we somehow are going to spend $5 billion dollars on. like That's what worries me.
00:37:42
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i'm I'm kind of here for the rodeo at this point. like i'm I'm ready for it. I'm ready to just kind of watch everything burn. i It's like that. ah Yeah, it's a gift of what's the dog in the house fire was just like I'm fine. It's fine. Everything's fine That's I feel like where most people are at ah Because the alternative is that like we just downward spiral into Like our own mental turmoil and brother I got news for you
00:38:13
Speaker
that A lot of the country is doing just that. They are. they are but it's not kind of that That will be of no benefit to you or anyone. and I'm not here to tell you how to grieve. that's not here's what i just am like this is this is how This is how the notion of American exceptionalism dies.
00:38:34
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And that is largely seen as a conservative viewpoint, right? i don't think they get ever best America's the greatest, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They'll die with that hard on in their pants. Liberals no have their own version of American exceptionalism that's more subtle and maybe just as stupid, where it's like, you know ah yes, we are you know like we're in a proxy war with another country over this and that and the other. But you know at the end of the day, we're a better puppet master than this person or that person. so
00:39:10
Speaker
It's like it comes through in different ways. That's so be cynical. How could you be so cynical, Casey? We deserve whatever we get at this point. like that That's true for sure. Isn't that how democracy works? It's not because Trump is a bad guy. It's because we're all bad.
00:39:29
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fat, spoiled, vapid people that are are are living meaningless existences for the most part. And like that's how that's how we get so invested in this garbage and how we end up with just like a circus of morons running everything.
00:39:47
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you know Like, it's crazy. It's crazy that like we're we're listening to the back and forth debate over whether or not the future attorney general actually trafficked a child or just paid a prostitute unknowingly for sex that happened to be underage.
00:40:08
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That's a thing that we're doing right now. Like 30 years ago, that would have been the biggest story for like six months. Well, less than 30 years ago, when old Billy got his dick sucked in the Oval Office, it was like,
00:40:24
Speaker
Well, we can have a man in office that doesn't honor his marriage vows and blah, blah, blah. That's true. That's true. But it's a bit different when it's the president. I'm just saying, like, if anybody in our president, our future president, and just a senator, just the fact that a senator or a congressman of any kind, like, would have that type of scandal associated with them would have like stopped the presses for months. Like a scandal like that used to be enough to force someone into retirement.
00:40:50
Speaker
yeah okay so interesting i gotta look up this guy's name um there was a guy who is the speaker of the house that uh He got charged in like a molestation scandal.
Content Farming and Media Sensationalism
00:41:05
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He was a Republican speaker. It happened in like the early 2000s. And I was listening to a podcast where somebody was talking about it the other day and I was like, I've never, I've never even heard of this guy. It's the craziest story. And like, I mean, he was literally like dethroned, but it was almost like too, it was almost like too much, too dark, too on the nose.
00:41:26
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So I don't know if it just like didn't make the news cycle or if they just didn't focus on it or whatever. But I got to find this guy's name now to darkness. Dennis Haster.
00:41:38
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Yeah, I've never heard of him. Are you saying like the news, it was so dark that the news, it wasn't like, oh, like the news appreciates like the ditty, ditty, not lighthearted aspect of the scandal, like better into that. Oh, yeah. It was, I don't know. click clickbait headlines have yeah click Clickbait headlines have really,
00:41:59
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really hurt us as a society. People figure out like, Oh, well, that's just the game. Like don't hate the player. If you want to get clicks so that your news organization doesn't go under because literally no one wants to spend money on news anymore, ah then I guess you have to play the same game as like an AI content farm being run out of Russia.
00:42:17
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So I use AI at work ah for something like there's ah there's an AI program that's based on like four schools um and it's great. It works really well. It can help you come up with like IEP goals and objectives.
00:42:32
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ah it can like I'll use it to write like social stories to read to kindergartners that are about them. Like you put in the student's name, you put in like some of the challenging areas.
00:42:43
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You put in some information about them and it'll like it'll just give you a it'll just give you ah like a social story with them as the main character. It's great. like AI is such a useful tool in that.
00:42:57
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and I totally lost my train of thought for the second time. You use AI at school. Yeah, you mentioned AI. Oh, for, yes. So the more I use it and I read through the stories and information that it gives me, the more I'm noticing when I like read articles, like when you like Facebook, like sponsored articles and shit on Facebook, the more I realize how much of that is written in the exact same format. Like AI has a very,
00:43:28
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and no Once you use it enough, it's a very noticeable writing style ah that you just go, oh okay. um Nobody wrote this. is like This is just being churned out relentlessly so that way people click on it and they get the ad money. like That's all it is. they're not really It's not trying to be thoughtful. They just needed like a certain word count and they just have AI. sweat and made all That's what my Facebook feed mostly is now because say over the last couple of political cycles, I've muted enough people. um And then my my actual friends I still have on there just don't like have tons of stuff to post about. like it's that There's just not that much going on. um And so Facebook, like they don't have an option. like They're not going to show you stuff from weeks ago. They need to fill that feed. And so much of it now is just content farms where it's like
00:44:19
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I think it's literally just mashing together different random stories and having an AI write stuff, pull random images and slap it together. Because I'm like, guaranteed no person looked at this. like It's not even really clickbait. It's just like hallucinations of idiocy. it There's an age level to it too, because I love the ones that are like, It's clearly an AI image of like a celebrity made like made out of sand in a four-year-old standing next to it. And they're like, wow, look at this four-year-old. They made this ah sand sculpture of this celebrity. Oh, I know. And then it's literally like a bunch of 60-year-old people being like, wow, great work. Keep up keep up the hard work. You're doing great, young man. Or maybe it's 60-year-old people. Are you familiar with the dead internet theory?
00:45:05
Speaker
No, but I'm sure it'll make me want to blow my brains out once you tell me. Most of the internet is just bots talking to each other, like those content farms to to increase their reach on Facebook. It's probably true! Because you just said that you don't even, like, you only you only see stuff that's made up at this point because you've unfollowed so many people and none of us are posting. I haven't had a Facebook post in three years, probably.
00:45:29
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like We're not posting, but somehow we're going on Facebook and just being fed content, knowing that we've unfollowed people and that our friends who we actually follow aren't posting anything because we're a real life humans. That's exactly the opposite of suicide inducing. Because I mean, that would to me would actually be a hopeful theory.
00:45:50
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you know because like most of what I'm seeing is actually not real these aren't real people saying this stuff then well you could tell sometimes by their grammar and idiocy like uh unfortunately this is a real one but I feel like a lot of the people like oh that's so interesting or whatever I feel like a lot of those probably are bots Because they're just doing it to like pump engagement to try to get it in front of real people like me in the hope that I'll be like, maybe I do want to see the first onset conceptual photos of Dwayne Johnson, ah the rock in mo the live action Moana. Maybe like I will be suckered into thinking this is a real image of him the size of a house and not AI. There are so many ads for movies coming out and video games coming out that are just AI generated not happening.
00:46:33
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oh i know they're terrible it's so annoying when you accidentally click on one and then it starts playing you're like this is just cut from a different mood and then the next three weeks you just see the same type of ad back back when we were in school alright i go to the local community college room doing dual enrollment you get into class you lose limewire to download limewire pro you know the pro move you get limewire pro going At this point, I have maybe 40 minutes left in the class to download movies or music or whatever else I can get. And then you see that there's a trailer available for like Spider-Man 3. And you get all excited because you didn't think the trailer was coming out for like a month and you download it and you copy to your thumb drive, your 512 megabyte thumb drive, you take it home, you wait seven minutes for it to copy off the thumb drive onto your computer. And it turns out... and well
00:47:26
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Maybe that or or it's somebody that has painstakingly cut together a fan edit trailer based on previous Spider-Man movies and the things we know about the new Spider-Man movie to try to make something they could get. it This happened to you. This is very specific. You're still so bad, dude.
00:47:42
Speaker
This type of thing has happened so many times in the past where it's like, somebody actually, like, were they being deceptive? Yes. But you can appreciate a person went through a whole lot of effort to fool people with something stupid like that. Now it's like, make me trailer for a new Spider-Man, new Spider-Man movie where Timothy Chalamet is Spider-Man instead of Tom Holland. And then you can like make some stupid AI. I am, I am all for, I think if you are the type of person who Creates fake trailers for things I'm I fully support using the military to deport you do it out Anywhere it's also like this i know I don't want it. I don't want to deport them I want to put them to work in the camps that are almost certainly coming. There's camps Okay talked about those camps we can it's like fat camp essentially he like is reinventing fat camp I think
00:48:36
Speaker
Right but it said it'll be fat camp but instead of that you're like butchering an animal then you have to eat it raw and no one's allowed to wash their hands and also sunscreen is banned. It's camp for people who want to get off of heroin and Ritalin and other prescription drugs. It's for people who want to drink un-fluoridated water that they dig out of the ground themselves.
00:48:55
Speaker
it i don't ah it is this is It's not a joke that he did talk about setting up oh champs for people who want to get off of drugs, including pretty frequently and regularly in well-accepted prescription drugs. I'm not talking Vicodin, Percocet, shit like that. like It's like, oh, you're ADHD and you're on Adderall. well if you want ah he has ah He has a problem with Adderall and he included that in his list of drugs that you might need to get off of. ah It also has a problem with sunscreen. and if you're also like what i mean What better people to send to camps to shovel shit than someone with ADHD off their medication? It's not a bad idea.
00:49:39
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It's not ethical, but it's not practically bad. If we're talking, if we're we're starting with, obviously you can't just send everybody on with ADHD medication to a camp. But if you want to start with the kids with ADHD who are making fake trailers on the internet, that is a subsection of people like, okay, let's start there. Let's see what they come up with. Yeah.
Cultural Symbols and Misappropriation
00:50:00
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Okay. So pivoting back for a second, yep John Dennis Hastert.
00:50:04
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Born January 2 1942 is an American former politician, teacher and wrestling coach who represented Illinois 14th congressional district from 1987 to 2007, and served as the 51st speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007, eight years.
00:50:23
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Hastert was the longest serving Republican Speaker of the House in history. After Democrats gained a majority in the House in 2007, Hastert resigned and began work as a lobbyist. In 2016, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for financial offenses related to sexual abuse of teenage boys. Incidentally, was that the last time any politician served jail time for doing something fucked up?
00:50:49
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Also, 15 months from New Jersey. What were these crimes? Because 15 months sounds light. I mean, I guess it's for financial crimes, but I feel like the sexual abuse of teenage boys part should be a little heavier there.
00:51:04
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so i think okay so I think if you're a politician, it's like ah yeah it's not written down, but it's just like one of those unwritten laws that you can't serve more than two years. In May 2015, Hastert was indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals to evade bank reporting requirements and make false statements to federal investigators. Federal prosecutors said that the funds withdrawn by Hastert were used as hush money to conceal his past sexual misconduct. That sounds familiar.
00:51:34
Speaker
He was committing bank fraud to try to hide the fact that he was paying blackmail money to people that he sexually appealed to. Stormy Daniels. So similar to Trump's case, if there's not enough evidence to get them on the, were you doing this sexual crime, you get them on the, you committed financial crimes to cover up another crime and prove the financial crime. And then you lied to Like everything else here, it's like financial crimes probably they, I would guess another. financial crimes have a statute of limitations of like 300 years and sexual crimes. It's like 13 months. It's like, ah, it didn't happen or you can't prove it out. Well.
00:52:14
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As I already said, civil suits. Okay. So in October, 2015, Hastert entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors. Under the agreement, Hastert pleaded guilty to the structuring charge, a felony. The charge of making false statements was dropped. In court submissions filed in April, 2016, federal prosecutors alleged that Hastert had molested at least four boys as young as 14 years of age during his time as a high school wrestling coach. Oh Christ. It sounds so much worse. Hastert admitted that he had sexually abused boys whom he had coached, referring to Hastert as a serial child molester. A federal judge imposed a sentence of 15 months in prison, two years supervised release and a $250,000 fine. Hastert was in prison in 2016 and was released 13 months later. He became the highest ranking elected official in US history to serve a prison sentence. Can you believe that we've never heard that guy's name?
00:53:13
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That is wild. There's an additional ick factor when you find out they're a wrestling coach. like it makes you It makes your skin crawl even more. Yes. Wrestling is sticky. I don't like it. I used to have to go watch my, uh, I could see you in a singlet trying to take down another boy when you were 12. Oh, well Casey would be lethal with Casey's height and build. Casey would be ripping people in half. Yeah. I'm a little, 105 pound category, short and stout. These hands are clubs.
00:53:46
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soft ones that are not good for much, but you know, pie other pawing through the dirt looking for fossils and taking people down in the rain. Oh, you're hard to grip onto. Do you not, do you, do you have mostly roles that are hard to get like a good handhold on? He's got a very viscous sweat.
00:54:04
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I have poop on my fingers. That's how you win. You start losing and you just shove your fingers up your asshole until you poke your turn. Isn't that literally like a thing that like wrestlers do where they like won't shower and stuff so they're when they put their taint on the opponent's face? it's just like ah i I also saw a video earlier this week at a wrestler. I think he i think you got a penalty for this. like I don't think you're strictly allowed to do this, but it was, these two wrestlers were, I mean, they were very technical. Like one flips the other over the other flips. Like they're just constantly like evading, rolling, evading, the rolling. And one of them came up with like the clincher, pun intended. ah He was like, you know what? All I got to do is hook him somewhere that he can't get away. And so- Is that a Jake Paul Z, Mike Tyson?
00:54:51
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No, ah no. it's ah He hooked the guy in the butt. um And I don't know. I don't know if there was actual penetration. It was through the singlet, but he was definitely gripping right there. And the other guy had the reaction you would probably expect. ah
00:55:10
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he Yeah, I will like I don't think I don't how desperately like how desperately would I be losing a wrestling match when I'm like It's time to go for broke I love that you said it was a penalty like it's not an immediate loss to finger somebody's asshole in a wrestling match Well it's probably that most i don't go rich that's the penalty well Yeah, the thing is Sam. I said I think it's a pellet. It's like kicking someone's shin in a soccer game. Don't quote me. I think it's one of those things where there's not a specific law for that because you're like, well, I didn't realize, I didn't realize we needed to specify that particular thing in the law. It's the airbud loophole. That's all it is. i Okay. It's not like that happens in Virginia. The airbud loophole.
00:55:54
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to
00:55:56
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In Virginia, um I was listening to a podcast that was talking about this guy who this guy was a member of the KKK, and he won in the Supreme Court, like his right to burn crosses or whatever. But one of the laws that had to get adjusted, there was a law in Virginia, where they tried to prosecute somebody because there was a law that said,
00:56:14
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basically at a certain point, like I think in the 50s or 60s, they had enough and they were like, okay, if you're burning a cross, we're just gonna assume you're doing that with the intent to intimidate people ah because literally no one else burns crosses. Like it's a very, people are only doing it for a specific reason. So we're just gonna start from the assumption if you're burning a cross, that's why, and you can't do it in all of these scenarios. All right, so the crosses and and ends with the American flag.
00:56:40
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i don't like your subscribe actually i don't agree with but i'd die for your right to do it but this guy and that he earlier on he he got off on a technicality he's like actually his lawyer had to argue actually since he burned the cross on public land there was no victim because it wasn't done in front of anyone in particular. So they had to go back to the law and be like, you also can't burn crosses on public land either. Like but it just hadn't been a thing. Normally people were burning them like on black folks lawns or on their lawns. Like either you're showing off your cross or you're burning it on someone else's lawn who you'd like to leave town. And so they had to clarify were like, you also can't do it next to the road. but I can't believe we have to write this down, but that is now part of the law.
00:57:26
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When you bring this up, I, like I know burning, I know KKK members burning crosses on black people's property is, was a thing. I don't, I don't actually get, because most KKK members were religious as far as I know. yeah like where's but I don't know where that came from. I don't understand that actually.
00:57:49
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Does anyone? I'm not, I'm not sure of the origins. Yeah, I'll, I'll look that up because I'm curious about that. Yeah. It's super interesting. Cause I mean, the idea, like, I feel like anyone that I've ever known, the idea of burning any sort of, uh, like monument type thing is always problematic for the group of people who associate with it. Like I can't, I did know this. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No, go, go, go. No, I was going to say growing up as like even white Christian, if someone ever, if anyone ever burned a cross, it would be, if i I know the time have shifted. I'm just saying, like, growing up, if someone burned a cross or a flag, like, if you burn a flag, it's it's intentionally being, ah and like, trying to prove a point, right? It's an act of protest. If you burned a cross, it would be anti-Christian. If you burn a flag, it's anti-America. So, yeah, that, right? So, like there now I'm interested. Go. I should rather if this flag offends you, I'll help you pack. That's right. I'll help you light it on fire.
00:58:49
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um So I should have known this because my wife is an Outlander fan. um In Scotland, the fiery cross was used as a declaration of war. The sight of it burning like on a hillside would command all clan members to rally to the defense of the area of their clan. So on other occasions, a small burning cross could be carried from town to town. It was used in the War of 1812 between Britain and and the US s as a means of mobilizing the Scottish militia, which were settled in Ontario. And it was also supposedly used Yeah, and also used. Yeah, it was like a use as a beacon where you light a cross on the hill that everyone's agreed on. Basically, the fires of Gondor, like that, that's what it is, is it's a oh, the cross has been lit and like we have to go to war now. um So the in Scotland itself, the last significant use of the burning cross was during the Jacobite uprising in 1745. So what's interesting is in the reconstruction era, ah the clan did not burn crosses.
00:59:46
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um i'm trying to I'm scanning down to find when is the first time. Okay. So in the birth of the nation, are you familiar with that? Like you yeah the scanning articles and finding what you need quickly. I like that. i I read insanely quick. That's why that's like one of my only superpowers really read it all.
01:00:07
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Well, you spend 18 hours in the car every week, so you can get your reading another way. Nobody can listen to an audio book on like what you, I'm sure you have the times to speed on 2x speed while, while watching the Joe Rogan podcast on a tablet stuck to his dash. like against vi and And eating buffalo wings, bone in. Yeah, but ah but in Birth of the Nation, um the the movie from 1915, two sequences depicted cross-burnings, and then people just, the Klan latched onto it after that and repurposed it. It's one of those things kind of like a swastika where it's like- It's from a movie? Yes.
01:00:46
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um God, they suck. well okay it's not from It's not from a movie. So lame. It's from like the Ku Klux Klan's like The Matrix, which is the birth of a nation. like Right, right. it's like the it's that It was the Turner Diaries of their time. right right But it's one of those things where it's like a swastika where there's lots of other cultures with deep, rich, long histories of very peaceful, loving things, and they use the swastika as a symbol of those. But it's kind of been ruined for everybody now.
01:01:16
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It's basically what Deadbeat White Dudes and Ford Taurus is, what Fast and the Furious was to them in like 2002. Careful, careful. I knew that was good. I was happy. Don't come for my heritage like this.
01:01:33
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But yeah, it um that's where it came from, was a movie. And now and now now Scottish folk don't really use that as a celebration of anything anymore, which sucks because- I imagine they, I would suck if you started the thing and it was like, and it got ruined by somebody else to the point. so I guess that's how I feel about Christianity, but- Well, Sam, are you are you familiar with the Jacobite uprising?
01:01:55
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i I am not anything about that. Okay. So you I love how you asked, like, it's common knowledge. Like, Hey, I just want to point out that I am better than you. And I read really dumb fast. No, at no point was I say that the Jacobite uprising is a thing that people know about historically. Like I'm not, you know about the Jacobite uprising, don't you? Okay.
01:02:17
Speaker
ah Have you ever heard of the French Revolution? ah yeah but that's okay god god's associate french revolution it's The American Revolution and The second American revolution. eight The sexual sex one and the second revolution. So anyway. Those are the only three. It's the trifecta of revolutions and that's the only thing I care about. So the Jacobite uprising was the last time that Scotland really tried to rise up and win their independence against England.
01:02:48
Speaker
So that's why it's significant because so many clans and stuff um were completely wiped out, are almost completely wiped out. So much Scottish history was completely wiped out. Like the Jacobite uprising, England had a tendency to do that to people. Just they did. They did. And it hurt extra hard when it was like the country that's literally connected to their country. But this was like the go for broke. They had been they'd been um the Jacobites had been basically you think of them as like the American revolutionaries.
01:03:18
Speaker
They had been storing up gold. There's conspiracy theories about where's the jack of my gold. um They'd been building support amongst like nobles and other people for decades. This was a decades long thing that finally turned into an actual revolution and they got stinking close. Like it also hurts because it's,
01:03:36
Speaker
There was a very real chance, if you're Scottish and care deeply about that, that was the point where you almost won your independence from England and it didn't work out. And this was like 30 years before the American Revolution. It's not like there had been a big precedent of countries kicking England off. We had a whole ocean in between us, but you think about Scotland, they're a weak march from just sending more troops up there. And England, of course, was very brutal afterwards. They imprisoned a bunch of people. They executed tons of people. They basically stomped them out. When you think about the track record of groups of people or countries that were able to push England back and liberate themselves from them, it was
01:04:24
Speaker
mostly just the one with a giant ocean in between. i don't know' not no there's there's other kinds but it is funny though I know there is. I mean obviously India did it but like it is funny that like that that does tie into American exceptionalism and it's like I mean, ah look, if there were, if you could just walk from one country to the other, would we have really been that successful? I don't know. And Canada ought to keep that in mind before they start running their mouth with all that good healthcare. But anyway, so, but with the Jacobites, like that's there, the South will rise again. Like that's, that's their thing is for people who care about this again is, is like the Jacobite uprising. and
01:05:06
Speaker
and they were the actual aggrieved party in that case. like They really were the victims. like it you know i I'm sure there were awful people and atrocities were committed because it's a war and everything, but as far as like their overall cause, it was a relatively just cause and the burning cross was last used then. Think about like you know that they've got to want to have like burning crosses and stuff for like annual festivals and things and they just can't do it because The Matrix for Racists had to come out in 1915. Dude, think about like being in, you know, like a like a ah somewhat isolated Scottish village and it's like a misty, you know, kind of dark, creepy morning. And all of a sudden you look up on the hill and there's just this huge cross just like burning super bright. That would be terrifying.
01:06:01
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I look sounds kind of sick if I'm being honest. It does. Yeah. there is like I wasn't ready to fight until I saw that. And I am good. I'm like, they got a cross on fire in the middle of the constant rain we have. I'm in. I will kill yeah anybody that walks up to that. That's like that's like playing thunderstruck before the soccer game. I put on bagpipes.
01:06:28
Speaker
I'd prefer something like that song. Oh, there's only one. There's only. Yeah, that's true. there's ah Well, no. OK, this is a small side detour. I assume some of the people who are listening to this podcast, maybe you're of Scottish heritage. Maybe you're not married yet. Maybe you've had the thought of I would like to have bagpipes at my wedding. um I used to shoot weddings for a living. I've been to all kinds of different cultures, weddings, mostly white. He brought his guns to weddings and he opened fire on them.
01:06:58
Speaker
Sure, um but like i've I've been to a ton of weddings and without a doubt, the biggest mistake I've seen people make for like music at their at the ceremony is like, let's get one dude with a bagpipe. Do you know how loud bagpipes are? Like there's no subtle version of like, let me just softly bring the bagpipes in. Like the bagpipes only come in at one volume. And if that volumes while the pastor's trying to talk or people are trying to walk down the aisle, it's just like a foghorn going off in the church. Like if it's outside, it's a little bit better because you can just have them stand farther away. It sounds beautiful. You do it like in the fall out in the woods and the mountains. Bagpipes are awesome. I'm not trying to say like, don't get bagpipes. If you're getting married inside a church, no but like if you're getting married inside a church, you are a moron. If you get a bagpipe player to come.
01:07:49
Speaker
especially when with good acoustics. But always Catholic churches don't even think about it. I was shooting a wedding though in 2015, early 2015, and the bagpipe player was playing the theme from Interstellar. And I gotta say, it was pretty great. It was way too loud. I don't know if everybody was vibing, but like I'm just here to help. like I'm hired help. I don't care. and by whoever Whoever paid for that, which I'm guessing the people getting married, it was those two and you were the only ones who liked it. I'll just let you know now.
01:08:21
Speaker
Well, the stakes are a lot lower for me. I don't have to care about any of this as soon as I leave. Dude, I think if I'm, if I'm trying to pick a like a kind of an indigenous instrument for my wedding, I think the only choice is didgeridoo. Well, indigenous, like, are you talking about something from your culture? What's the didgeridoo? Didgeridoo, it's like the big Australian ah pipe thing that's like, wow, wow, wow, wow.
01:08:50
Speaker
Oh, it sounds like something. It sounds like the name. Sam, sometimes people know about instruments that are the culture's play. Okay, cool. Thanks. Yeah. Dude, didgeridoos, Jacobite, whatever. Like, all of those sound like the name that Scott will give to normal household objects.
01:09:11
Speaker
fish you a bassoon guy that like always shows it like there's always one guy at a show that has a kilt on it seems like yes not yeah it's not ah it's not uncommon enough i'll give you that like well okay almost everybody if you're a ah pasty white dude like or White Lass, you probably have some Scottish heritage or like some small bit of Scottish heritage in you if you do 23andMe and something because like people were moving all over Scotland, Ireland, England, like a lot of Europe. Like you're going to have, you know, that's why you'll have like i I'm 4% Germanic and 6% Austrian and 24% Scottish or something. It's like, yeah, that's that's pretty normal. Like that doesn't give you a whole lot of purchase for
01:10:02
Speaker
your real Scottish heritage. Like I can go, there's a, back in our, near our hometown, there's a real Scottish store. Um, and you can go in and look up your clan and like, we can look up where, like my last name, what clan took over that clan. And so like what colors were allowed to wear and everything, like what our gang colors are now. And like, it's so dumb. Cause like, sure. I have some Scottish in me, but like, I've got no actual connection to that. Like if your parents came from Scotland, sure.
01:10:31
Speaker
Like if you were born in Scotland, sure, maybe your grandparents, but even then I don't, I don't really feel like you should be throwing up colors, you know? Yeah, there is something to be said for that. Like chill out. Like people who get their family crest tattooed on their chest. That they found in an inner, they like did a Google search. Right. That's how they found their family crest. Or like, look, our last name meant honor 800 years ago. It's like, all right, Tristan, Google.
01:11:03
Speaker
Yeah. Dude, I feel like my, so I'm Norwegian, like mostly Norwegian. Yeah, that's right. i i I feel like aa our symbols have been co-opted by racist douchebags, too, because the the little millionaire Thor's hammer thing, that's like a common white supremacist symbol. All of your fancy little equilateral crosses that you could get tattooed on your chest. It's not explicitly racist. Everyone's going to think it is, though, if you do it. like it's It's real hard to get away with any of that now. that people like
01:11:38
Speaker
I don't know. He's got some Nordic stuff like on his chest. It feels bad. Looks, looks kind of Viking-esque. It's probably bad. I opened Reddit today and it was a, there was a, it was a picture of a guy with his chest tattoo and he goes, do my tattoos look like they're belong to a white supremacist? And it was like a, it was Russian stuff. Uh, and there was a, this was Cyrillic alphabet.
01:12:00
Speaker
Yeah and there was a cross involved with it and people were like it's not like we we know it's not but like if you walked around without a shirt on in the United States people would think that you might be like there's no way around that and that sucks and that's not even fair but Well, is it not fair? Like if somebody's walking around with their shirt off with a bunch of Cyrillic tattooed on them, I'm not going to think better of them. It doesn't need swimming a shirt now. That's your punishment. You have to get that covered up. But one of them was like, look, it's pretty easy to get that covered up. I'd recommend it. Uh, and the guy who got it was like, it had to do it because his wife is, it was, it was actually his ex wife who was Russian, who was Russian. And he had her name tattooed.
01:12:45
Speaker
And then there was a cross in the middle of it it and it did not look good I'm gonna that first thing if I saw that like that would but that also doesn't help it it was a prison tattoo phone, right? It makes everything look like your buddy did it at his kitchen table or you got it in prison That doesn't help the look of like legitimacy. Yeah but ah Probably got Aryan tattoos is the new bastard of Israel Mike Huckabee.
01:13:09
Speaker
yeah the and I was actually wondering, like, Mike Huckabee, great pick. ah Let's be real, great pick based on Trump. Well, because because he might... Lindsey Graham would have. I know he doesn't want to give up his current role. Lindsey Graham had... Look, ED is a real problem for people Lindsey Graham's age, and he has not had a problem getting hard since Israel invaded Palestine. And he would... He loves it. He would be so good.
01:13:37
Speaker
Yeah, but Sam, you're missing the bigger picture. Am I the bigger picture? I don't think he can get bigger than he is, dude. No, no, no, no, Sam. He's the eternal, the eternal picture. Mike Huckabee probably is thinking I get to help bring around the actual end times. You don't think Lindsey Graham thought about that while he was inside of a young lad? You don't think that ever crossed his mind? Mike Huckabee though, Mike Huckabee though, like out of everyone that Trump could have nominated, like I'm being a hundred percent serious. Mike Huckabee might actually believe that.
01:14:09
Speaker
like Yeah, he could be a true believer. I think he might be saying some wild stuff about it. Huckabee, he wrote a book. Huckabee, did he speak at Liberty? Well, yes, we were there. That's what I thought. yeah Did he slap the bass while he was there? Yeah, I think ah be i think Huckabee has spoken at 75% of the churches on the East Coast at this point. like Dude, he looks like a Southern Baptist pastor. Holy yeah shit. i just Oh, he probably missed his calling to be one.
01:14:40
Speaker
He looks, Oh no, he is. mike Michael Dale Huckabee is an American Baptist, not Southern Baptist. He's an American Baptist minister, political commentator, and former politician who served as the 44th governor of Arkansas. So he is needy in it. Mike Huckabee looks like a skin tab. yeah He looks like a lump of flesh growing off like out of your armpit because you've been rubbing aluminum into your skin for, you know, eons.
01:15:09
Speaker
That's what he reminds me of. He kind of looks like like a fat discount Kevin Spacey. kind of a little bit, but he also, he really does look like, like if he was just the pastor of the little Baptist church down the street that had like 80 people in attendance, you would never think twice. Like that dude could also vanish in a crowd. If he wasn't already famous, like he could vanish immediately. how does there's like typical There's like fat and then there's like pastor, for pastor fat, pastors carry their fat differently than regular people. because and He's been, he's been guilting people into even doing his lawn work for like
01:15:44
Speaker
20 years, you know, like he is it's like no upper body mass at all. It's just all pear shape all the way down. Yeah. And then, and then gets up and gives a sermon about like, uh, you know, why beards are bad or something like that. You know, but beards are bad because I can't grow one.
01:16:03
Speaker
But that was that was another recent one going around as a pastor denigrating men who grow beards. Yeah, I saw that clip. Wait, walk me through that one. There's not much to walk through. It's just that denigrating men who grow beards. Yeah, it's not manly. You're not masculine. You're not a godly man. Shave your beard, bitch.
01:16:24
Speaker
I would have guessed that he, would they be making the exact opposite argument? Like I could see Mark Driscoll making the argument of like, if you can't grow a beard, it's because you're a lady man. And maybe he even did. i He probably did. That is a very Mark thing to say. Yeah. Yeah. This guy's going off on people for having beards and like talking about how it's like, it's prideful and you know, because you're grooming it and whatnot, if I remember right. And fellas, this guy is.
01:16:52
Speaker
So dumpy. Fellas, is it a sin to like shampoo and comb your hair? Can we talk about... I just want to read the titles of some of his books.
Mike Huckabee's Satirical Critique
01:17:03
Speaker
Of whose books? Mike Huckabee's? Yeah. they so there's a How I Got My Sons Off for Strangling a Dog at Camp.
01:17:12
Speaker
By Michael Huckabee. Pastor Michael Huckabee. Let it be on your lifetime. How to be intentional about the legacy you leave. Quit digging your grave with a knife and a fork. A 12-stop program to end bad habits and begin a healthy lifestyle from the world's fattest politician.
01:17:31
Speaker
Okay, that actually- I have poop on my fingers. i would say we well I'm actually kind of interested in that one. That sounds that sounds that's very self-aware. No, that is not the title. i i If that was the actual title, I'd be like, actually, okay, that sounds pretty cool. It it stopped before I started from the world's fattest politician.
01:17:54
Speaker
ah You got it. From hope to higher ground. He likes this 12 stop thing. From hope to higher ground, 12 stops to restoring America's greatness. Steps or stops? Demarketing obesity. That is like, don't fat shame me the book. Demarketing. What's the synopsis of that? I don't know. I can't even click on that one. Wikipedia won't even hyperlink it, so it's obviously useless.
01:18:22
Speaker
it's It's demarketing obesity, right? Yeah, demarketing, D-E dash marketing obesity. How about this one? I'm sure this is a great little pamphlet. Thank you for spelling that for us, Sam. D-E dash marketing. Why did you know there was a dash? The D is the part that Casey was going to get hung up on. If you want to read, he wrote the forward for With Christ in the Voting Booth.
01:18:49
Speaker
And that is a very, that is actually an erotic fan fiction novel about having sex with Christ in the vote. Wait, about a poll worker who's doing it all for Jesus. in yeah or No, a poll watcher, one of the people that's like, for the Republicans recruited to just like look for the mischief. This makes no difference. Where I'm from, where I've been, what I believe. It's mostly flat.
01:19:14
Speaker
It's do the right thing inside the movement that's bringing common sense back to America. A simple Christmas, 12, back at 12. This is 12 stories instead of stops. but A simple Christmas, 12 stories that celebrate the true holiday spirit. And a simple government, 12, this guy is having sex with the number 12 every night. A simple government, 12 things we really need from Washington. And I got two more for you. Dear Chandler, dear Scarlett, Colin, a grandfather's thoughts on faith, family, and the things that matter most.
01:19:56
Speaker
And lastly, in 2015, God, guns, grits, and gravy. St. Martin's Publishing Group. Huckabee discusses the myriad of differences he's seen between those who live in the blue coastal bubbles and the bubbas of red flyover states. Huckabee uses Jay-Z and Beyonce as examples of culture of crude, which is awesome. It's like, oh, how about I base my book on ah ah but on things that aren't great about America by referencing only black people who are popular. and Do you have a synopsis for us, Casey?
01:20:35
Speaker
Yeah, it's not very interesting. It says, although catering to our biological interests, food companies have been recently accused of contributing to the growing problem of obesity. As a result, managers are torn between trying to satisfy consumers and trying to satisfy concerned public policy officials who bring threats of taxes, fines, restructus restrictions, and legislation. Although the situation appears perplexing, there are profitable win-win solutions. This article describes two hardwired principles that influence food acquisition and consumption. And it identifies four reversible drivers of food consumption that marketers could use to help consumers better control what and how much they eat. from a i to selling every they're open It to something called the Burger King Bill of Rights.
01:21:23
Speaker
Which all right says, ah you have the right to have things your way. You have the right to hold the pickles and hold the lettuce. You have the right to mix Coke and Sprite. You have the right to a whopper sandwich with extra tomato, extra onion, and triple cheese. You have the right to have that big meal sleepy feeling when you're finished.
01:21:43
Speaker
you have the right to put a paper crown on your head and pretend you're ruler of insert your make believe kingdom here god i hate this he's he's literally talking about his entire life holy shit this guy has no self-awareness oh christ you love the idea talk now and he's climbing his way to the top of the ladder declaring himself the burger king and then sentencing lindsey graham to the burger dungeon Wait, but he's going to be the ambassador to Israel. That means he's going to have to eat ethnic food. Oh, yuck. Yeah. uncle No, it doesn't. If it's Israel, it doesn't count. It does when it comes to spices, their spices, that man's like intestines have never encountered before. I don't. Is there anything his intestines haven't encountered? I'm not sure.
01:22:33
Speaker
Yeah, ah several days without red dye floating or whatever. Are you sure? It stands to reason that if you're a conservative male who harps on gayness, you've probably sucked a dick or two. Got a little Dennis Hastert in him, maybe. Yeah. Oh, yeah. 80% chance that dick was under the age of 20. I'll be generous. he's he's ah I heard a couple of clips of him today talk, because that that one's a recent announcement. but um One of the things that he said was he was talking to like an Israeli group and he was like, you know, I don't use words like the West Bank. I use words like Judea and Samaria, you know, accurate. Oh my God. There's no occupation. kind gaanites in God's most hated people that deserve death. You're like, Oh, okay. Yeah. He's going to be a nightmare. I don't
The Role and Perks of Being an Ambassador
01:23:30
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know. I mean, how?
01:23:31
Speaker
I don't really know what the role is of an ambassador, I guess. I mean, it's is it just kind of a glorified, like, I have lunch position? It's mostly, it's a lot of schmoozing and just keeping open lines of communication, handling small administrative things. For Israel, it's probably going to be a lot more than that. It's a lot of communication. it's a lot of like There's a lot of communication happening and it's not always going to be between the the highest people.
01:23:58
Speaker
It's like, yeah hey, tell them that we're doing this. And they go, I'm going to tell you we're doing they they're it's basically a game of telephone that you get paid pretty good for. And it's also so that like you're keeping your finger on the pulse of everything that's going on so that when the president's like, hey, we're having a problem over in this country, we need to figure out what would these two or three countries think if we needed to like put a trade embargo on or whatever. Yeah. Then you can call the ambassadors of those countries and they can talk about going to have to handle that.
01:24:26
Speaker
It is an important role, and it does require hardball at times. It's not it's it's an important role. It can't be. It depends on the country. like if you're If you're the ambassador to like Uzbekistan or something, like maybe. like Less consequential. But if you're if you're the ambassador to a country that's like that you hear about in the news a lot, that is an important role.
01:24:50
Speaker
That's why people like kind of jockey for ambassador postings because you and your family get to move to an embassy. um And if you get to move somewhere like maybe you've always wanted to live and your job is pretty dang chill in a lot of those places like you're just kind of there to be there and schmooze. Yeah. And so if you love schmoozing because you're a politician, would you like to move your family somewhere for four years to live in like Sweden?
01:25:13
Speaker
Sure, why not? Like nothing bad is going to happen. It's Sweden. Would you like to go to, you know, I don't know some like Pacific Island or something? Sure. Why wouldn't you want to do that? Sounds like a great time. Ambassador to the Maldives. right To the Mall of America. Yeah. i mean that's forque So all these, I don't know, ambassador any, I think,
01:25:37
Speaker
Presidents can just pick ambassadors. I don't think they need any sort of approval for that But like all these picks that are coming up gates McMahone Oz make man you make man. Wait, what did I say? Nick Mahoney Okay ah Anyway ah Do they need a Do they need some sort of approval? And are we- I will look that up. Is there any worry that he'll get it? Or I mean, if Trump has the Senate and the House- No, I really feel like- Some of these options have to be confirmed by the Senate or whatever. Okay, so all nominations on behalf of the United States to a foreign country international organization are made by the President of the United States. So even like an ambassador to the UN or something has to be nominated by the President and then confirmed by the Senate.
01:26:29
Speaker
so So like secretary of education to yeah have to be confirmed all those have to be confirmed. And there's a good chance most of his picks will be confirmed because it's mostly all of his picks are based off loyalty. Yes. I'm, I'm sure that the newly Republican majority Senate is going to totally bend over backwards. Well, Matt Gates, a lot of people truly hate even in the Republican party. Yeah.
01:26:55
Speaker
Yeah. So they're, they're, that's the only one I see a small chance that people would be like, does it have to be the child rapist? Could it be? I know. And I can imagine so many of them were like, ge the guy from night of the living dummy, like the amount of people who were hoping that they would never have to deal with this situation. I could, I don't like, it makes you wonder what Trump's thoughts were. Was he like, I'm going to see what happens. Does he like, what's his, what's his, uh, MO with Gates?
01:27:22
Speaker
ah gates has been loyalless just like yes Gates has been loyal when most everybody else wasn't. Gates committed crimes for Trump. He's the one who led the barge into the skiff. Like he he led a bunch of people that barged into that secure um ah facility. Like, you know, that you're not allowed to have phones or anything and they were live streaming it to pull a stunt to try to stop, ah you know, an investigation into one of Trump's crimes. Like he's committed crimes already that he hasn't received any actual consequences for. so And he and i had interviews with him like from years ago where his whole MO, he's like, attention is good. Attention for our side is good. That means we're winning the conversation. And people are like, what are your policy objectives? He's like getting fat dunks on the libs. That's his whole goal. like So I'm sure as attorney general, a notably funny position where you have lots of time to get dunks on people, I'm sure that'll be great.
01:28:19
Speaker
i I was in a ah a meeting today after work talking about our next meeting. it's like it It was more like a training. And we were talking, they they mentioned, oh, our next training is gonna be on January 6th. And I desperately wanted, I don't have the audacity or the gumption to do cool shit like this, but I just wanted to be like, oh, I'm actually off that day.
01:28:47
Speaker
go for it just to see it's i'm always air but it's like Yeah, but wouldn't wouldn't the joke then, I wouldn i think, I feel like that would be a safe Massachusetts joke. Cause wouldn't the joke be and you're off so you can go protest like Trump getting confirmed. ah Yeah, it would probably get away. yeah If Trump lost, it would have been a better joke.
01:29:08
Speaker
It would have been a better joke. I actually won't be in that day. um but Those are fun. i I think I was texting you about it, but ah my my favorite thing to do now like in work situations is just a like just throw it. I just try to like throw something out there that just like takes people completely by surprise you know and usually something pretty dark.
01:29:37
Speaker
and like ah We were working at this college the other day doing like a class and ah we were doing some services on the security guard's truck. and They were telling us about how the ah people had broken into the the parking lot at night and cut the catalytic converters off of some cars. The security guard is talking to us and he's like, yeah, I'm with security. I headed up here at the at this tech center or whatever and I'm like,
01:30:06
Speaker
I'm like, so why didn't you murder the people who stole the cats? He's like, well ah what? I said, you've got a gun. Why didn't you kill the people that were stealing the catalytic converters? And he's like, oh, well, you know, I'm like, how?
01:30:23
Speaker
Makes me wonder, like, how many people have you killed in the line of duty? And I just kept like poking him and poking him and poking him. It took him way too long to figure out that I was just messing with him, but it was it was fun for me.
01:30:39
Speaker
I wish I wish I had more of that I like like I love the idea of that of oh this was fun for me and I can tell people about it later ah but as soon as I say something and people look at me like I'm the dumbest person they've ever met I go oh I need to kill myself or change the course of
Challenges in Education: Funding and Job Security
01:30:56
Speaker
this really fast like I can't I can't handle that scrutiny It's all fun until somebody lodges a complaint. yeah yeah really you pass You have had complaints lodged against you. on like And Sam, you work at a school, so I also feel like like you have less rope to hang yourself with in an educational setting. yeah slightly uh even like we said at the top of the episode this is it it i i do i always i feel like i carry a slight risk all it takes is any all it takes is for any family to hear this and go that guy's i don't want that person anywhere near my children for me to get fired that's
01:31:40
Speaker
It wasn't only shit. I don't even have professional status yet, which means status yet, which means so and they don't need to raise schools until you work there for a certain amount of time. Don't even need a reason to shit. Can you? They can just pink slip you and be like, Oh, you haven't worked here three years. You are, uh, we'll just get rid of you. Like no questions. You can't fight it. They could like in the private sector or the, the, the, like the.
01:32:08
Speaker
Any other, any other job, right? If they go, ah we're going to fire you because we like this person more for the job. Like you can't just do that, but I mean, there's ways around that. They're going to collect unemployment for however long. But schools can just be like, uh, we're, uh, we're going to get rid of your position and you go, Oh shit. And then, and then halfway through the summer, they're like, Oh, we found, we found money in the budget to reopen that position with the person that we actually want to do the job.
01:32:38
Speaker
Uh, that should happen all the time. That's why like you have to, usually you have to work in a school for three years to get professional status, which means they can't just fire you for no reason. They need to actually fire you. And that could be challenging because you do have a union.
01:32:53
Speaker
on your side. But like the it's not uncommon for schools to just get rid of certain people like, oh, it's you're coming up to your third year. Well, we're just going to not renew your contract for next year. And not that way they don't have to deal with entering another person into professional status. It's really shitty. ah Yeah, that sucks. Great field. Great field to be getting into in my Uh, mid thirties, but whatever. If I make professional status, I'll at least have a pension and can have a retirement in my future, which I don't have right now. We have off the government dole, you know, this soaking up tax dollars until Trump actually got the department of education. It's gone. It's the saddest thing about it. Jeremiah is I just think about.
01:33:48
Speaker
You know, that money could be going to a POC family and yet we have to pay this white guy ah to to sit on his butt when he serves like like eight years in the school system and then just like spends the rest of the next 40 jerking off on on our dime.
01:34:06
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Yeah, that's my goal. You get professional status and then just jerk off all night. I mean, if there's any profession that notoriously is overpaid and underworked, it is the modern education system.
01:34:19
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i It is also rough because I took out a lot in student loans. to get a worse paying job. And I love now with a the the forecast of a Trump presidency gutting the Department of Education and repealing all of the Biden administration ah ah legislation on or Department of Education policies on student loan repayment, which like it used to be like 10% of your income
01:34:51
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you would have to basically pay back every month in student loans and Biden, reduced the Biden administration reduced it to 5%, which is manageable for taking out all that loan to get a worth paying job.
Student Loan Concerns and Humorous Solutions
01:35:03
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And my God, Trump is giddy over turning that back into 10% and restructuring loan repayment and it is i'm gonna I'm probably going to get fucked once he's president. i'm goingnna um I got into this thinking, i oh, I increased my monthly payments by X amount and it'll be manageable. and it's likely going Really, really good chance it's going to double and I'm going to have to ruin my credit over refusing to repay what I'm obligated to in a certain period of time. Well, Sam, refusing to pay, I mean, you took out the loans. Why don't you just pay that?
01:35:43
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Look, can we get a little personal responsibility in the chat here? I know, I know. I was personally responsible for what I was expecting to pay. ah but Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and go work at the Dalton School where young entrepreneurs like Jeffrey e Epstein. I'm very much looking forward to getting a part-time job once I finish grad school. Once I free up all that time, I'm really looking forward to replacing it with a part-time job so I can afford my student loan payments. You gonna sell Kirby vacuums? I'm going to sell a lot more than that.
01:36:20
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please join me in offering a warm welcome to the new ambassador to Chechnya Hannibal Lecter I'm starting only fans dude everyone get in on it everyone just look don't even you don't even have to look at it just feel bad for me just feel bad for me pay me five bucks it's like patreon but if you want to see my asshole you could that's all like you don't have to it's up to you you're trying to you're trying to do a humiliation like sub only fans yeah sure but you want other people to pay you but that eight whatever it takes i was just reading an article i'll cry while jerking off i'll do it i'm fine i'll just cry and sob i'll jerk off with with the tears that drop onto my penis i am whatever you guys want
01:37:08
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What do you need to see? It's explicit for me. Me for it. I know. I want to see it. Maybe if it's implied, like you've got a blanket over your lap. Sure. Like that ah like that Shane Gillow sketch, where his family watches him sitting on a vibrator, or whatever it was. That Billy and Keith's oldie fan set. Everyone should watch that. That sketch is perfect. I have never heard of that. It's incredible watching it. Oh, man. The things we're done here. Billy and Keith is so funny.
01:37:34
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yeah Alright, whatever. This is a weird note to end on. Sorry guys. I'm just trying to figure out how to afford my new... I'm trying to afford how to pay for my new career, I guess as well. Well, we'll find a way. We'll find a way!
01:37:53
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Maybe all this money we're making from the podcast. I mean, you can have my half. Oh, thanks. That helps.
01:38:02
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If Jeremiah wasn't too busy trying to take it all from us, grab your bitch. Wasn't whether there was any money. I'm sorry, guys. He's really busy. There isn't because you took it all. All of it. It's gone.
01:38:18
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Alright, well, thanks everybody for listening and we will see you next time.