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Ep. 234 – Calling in Airstrikes on My Trump Mobile Flip Phone
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This week we’re talking about what everyone is talking about – Israel’s surprise attack on Iran, the possibility of direct American involvement, the MAGA split over a new Middle East war, and of course, the Trump family’s latest attempt to squeeze money out of red-blooded midwestern patriots with early onset dementia, T1 Mobile. What a time to be (temporarily) alive, am I right?
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Confidence vs. Destruction
00:00:00
Speaker
Yeah, they were like, yeah, we basically destroyed their missile systems, their scientists, their everything. they they were they were The confidence. i got I mean, theyve they've been watching a lot of... ah I a lot of film, you know, there's like pickup artists of, uh, yeah.
00:00:15
Speaker
You know, they've been watching Rocky. They've been watching like all these comeback films of like, you know, people just get the confidence they need to really, really just squeak out that way. You know, like the underdog story. They love it. They must love it.
00:00:30
Speaker
Cause, uh, what is it? Sun Tzu or, uh, whoever wrote the art of war. I think rule number one in there was fake it till you make it. I mean, it's in that rule number one.
00:00:41
Speaker
Just in general. Like, like why why is that in a book about something like that? Like, that is literally what everyone has been saying since the first time they ever applied for a job and lied on their resume.
00:00:52
Speaker
Dude, that's the first sentence in my church's doctrinal statement. Yeah.
Podcast Introduction & Mental Health
00:01:18
Speaker
everybody, welcome back to another episode of Growing Up Christian. I'm Sam. And I'm in despair. and i'm and I'm feeling depression, dude. i was gonna I was gonna run that back with it. I'm incredibly fucking...
00:01:32
Speaker
depressed i i know that could just be a thing to say depression despair i don't know what your experience with like you you've never had any like you've never clearly mentioned any real experiences with depression but like i have one yeah i'd say one and a half okay But yeah, that's about the only brush I've had with it in a real serious way.
00:01:58
Speaker
Mine comes and goes. Um, and I have very like weird, like feeling like it's a physical thing for me too. Um, I mean, it's just a ah mental thing obviously. Uh, and it's just kind of like hanging out in the back of here, the back of the brain, just waiting to like, kind of just take some cheap shots here and there.
00:02:21
Speaker
Um, um, But I also get this like feeling it's like in my cheekbones and it's not like a pressure. It's not like a numbness. I just, I almost just feel my cheekbones and I don't really, God, I have been getting over this cough for four fucking weeks, dude. Kill me. You're a sickly fella. ah yeah All right. Um, but yeah, dude, it, and it's, uh,
00:02:50
Speaker
It's just like a weight almost, like an invisible weight. And I feel it. And it's been it's been hanging around for the last few days between like my closing constantly getting pushed back, ah you know just the world problems, a little of financial stress because selling house is never easy and you never have as much as you want and your mortgage is always higher than you expected.
Global Tensions & Financial Stress
00:03:17
Speaker
but um Yeah.
00:03:19
Speaker
And then just throw on the brink of World War III and all the feelings that come with the, you know, those pleasant thoughts when you lay down at night about the ah percent chance of getting nuked is, and you go, hey, I don't know.
00:03:36
Speaker
It impacts the way I feel and move through my day-to-day life. Yeah, I... feel like the last, I don't know, five days, I've just been like glued to my phone, like every spare minute when I'm not working or something like that, or something's completely occupying me. I'm looking for an update to see if it's happened yet.
00:03:59
Speaker
Yeah. And I don't know, man, I've been back and forth on whether or not it's ah it's all going to go down, but it seems like. It seems like the verdict's in I mean, especially after today, after, you know, some of the tweets and stuff that that Trump made today. Bizarrely worded and tweets, too.
00:04:19
Speaker
His PR campaign did not help with those. It's so insane to to pretend that there's that there's anything other than, like, the impetus to to start a war there.
00:04:35
Speaker
Yeah. Like, especially
Middle East Politics & Propaganda
00:04:36
Speaker
after the fact that, like, you know, I mean, there was... There's this always like this constant thing with within MAGA and stuff. And even outside, you know, I've been there too, where, you you know, there's a part of you that wants to think that Trump is angling for something better, you know? Yeah. Like when he's in so he's meeting with, or, you know, the the State Department people are meeting with Iranian officials and they're doing so without Israel's like knowledge or something
00:05:06
Speaker
There's a part of you that's like, maybe, maybe they are actually doing what these people are claiming they're doing. You know, maybe they are trying to establish some sort of a deal and stuff. And then the the Israeli attack was absolutely insane. Just just a total unprovoked act of aggression towards Iran, who has shown like so much restraint throughout like the last two years.
00:05:32
Speaker
Right. dave They've actively... They've tried to like maintain a footing. you know, with Israel and stuff, but have gone like way out of their way to avoid conflict.
00:05:45
Speaker
Even when, you know, the Israelis did things like bombing the the Iranian consulate in Damascus. An insane move. right An insane move that taken out of the last two years, would it would be a waypoint in world history that somebody bombed a consulate building in a foreign country. There was a lot of conversation about what ah like about a retaliation then they're like do that don't they cut before Iran before Iran retaliated I one of the things that you hear right is that well they have to they have no choice like you can't get attacked like that and literally do nothing as a nation and you and you just but yeah so that and then of course it came and we knew it was coming and
00:06:38
Speaker
But bombing the consulate that kind of that same conversation would come up. It's like, don't they kind of have to respond. You can't just let someone bomb you like that. And yeah, but they didn't really. What was their response?
00:06:50
Speaker
It was like you kind of like half asked like, like. like you can shoot our shit down kind of response, right? they Yeah, they waited like i like a week and a half, and then they telegraphed the the response in advance, gave them every opportunity to prepare for it and be ready for it, and then they didn't really send their best stuff. They kind of threw a bunch of like...
00:07:12
Speaker
low-level drones and stuff at them. I mean, it was it was just a show of force, but not a strong one. And I don't think there was even any casualties in in it. I mean, it it barely meant made anything. and And the U.S. and Jordan helped shut shoot him down I think I forget what what Sagar on breaking points had tallied it up, but I forget what it costs the U.S. like a quarter of a billion dollars just to repel that one attack for Israel.
00:07:40
Speaker
and We shot down like 90 percent of the drones that that came through that time. Which is crazy to think about the amount of money you know we spend on shit like that when the the suffering – OK, I'll walk suffering. But there are people suffering here.
00:07:56
Speaker
the the But by and large, I'll say economic discomfort or uncertainty is probably a better, more appropriate term to use.
U.S. Economic Priorities & Criticisms
00:08:07
Speaker
But when you look at like where we're at economically, especially for millennials, especially for first time homebuyers, especially for like people who are single, who don't have like that, you know, second, like that, that combined income, like there's so much going against what the American people our need or our dealing with. And it's like, to and then just to go for to constantly, constantly, constantly here.
00:08:37
Speaker
Where are we going to get the money to help you out? Where are we going to get the money for that? Now they're talking about like obliterating like any sort of ah ah income-driven repayment plans for student loans. And anyone who's in default is and ah going to have their wages garnished. like When you look at all of that shit, and then you just like in one day, they just... like jizz out a quarter of a billion dollars like a 13 year old boy who looked at his first pair of tits and a porno Maggie found in the woods and it's like gone it's just boof who is gone it's just gone in three and a half seconds two pumps and god damn it's infuriating it's infuriating to think of the exorbitant amounts of money spent everywhere else
00:09:21
Speaker
to not even like i don't like We had a lot of conversations about Russia, Ukraine, and like and and what's an appropriate amount to spend and how much do you support. like i and I truly believe there are plenty of good causes just for the sake of them being it being an ethical thing, is to support nations at certain times in certain ways. But this...
00:09:44
Speaker
this This is real of all fucking places. you object and They are objectively immoral. And in every fucking step of the way, they have not done one good thing for anybody other than Netanyahu. Not even the fucking, like, i you and I were talking about Israeli support for Netanyahu's choices, or i think it was the one you sent me was specifically, like, in regard to, like,
00:10:15
Speaker
and ah Palestinians and how they need to be defeated at all costs has like 60-65% support amongst
Israeli Aggression & Political Influence
00:10:23
Speaker
Israelis. We understand there's a massive propaganda campaign. We understand that oh the ins and outs of that. But when you look at like the air ah kind of the I mean, the attack on Iran is like, it signed the death warrants for countless Israelis. like And for what?
00:10:43
Speaker
Because Netanyahu for the 20th year in a row has been lying about how Iran is two months away from having a nuclear program. yeah It's crazy shit. It never ends. I can't believe that the news is the fucking news right now. It's it's really like... um Yeah, man, i don't I don't know. I just I don't understand it.
00:11:05
Speaker
i ah It's just i think The last 10 years here has all kind of led to this point where where you know you're you're just confronted with like the harsh reality that our government is inept, corrupt, bought and paid for. like it's just i mean There there there is there is no impetus to to take care of the American people.
00:11:31
Speaker
you know anything other than just like window dressing pageantry projects you know instead i mean and and that's what most of what trump has done so far this term you know and it's like it's it's appeasing to his like heaviest supporters but in actuality like it's not making it it like doge didn't make any sort of difference on the budget and stuff like that, you know, right. This ice raids and stuff like that are just penalizing people who are who are trying to do the right thing and go to court and handle their immigration stuff the right way. And i mean, it's just it's all for show. It's really not addressing any of the problem. But the pageantry of it is what ah a percentage of his base wants.
00:12:16
Speaker
But I think like that there's nothing more – nothing lays bare like the the the reality of what this country is like this whole issue around Israel, Palestine, and now Iran. Because, i mean, literally like the the quote-unquote oppositions.
00:12:36
Speaker
To to Trump, you know, Chuck Schumer made a video like a week and a half ago calling Trump Taco Trump because he's folding on Iran. He needs to be tougher on them. No side deals, no negotiations.
00:12:51
Speaker
You need to stand firm and demand an end to their nuclear program. It's like this this is the opposite this is the opposition. like This is one of the leaders of the opposition party here. yeah yeah it's It's so unbelievably depressing to like look across the aisle.
00:13:07
Speaker
and mean, because you expect Republicans to be like absurd and ridiculous and contradictory when it comes to Trump because he's just – that's the only like linchpin holding that group together. He's whatever they need him to be for them at whatever time they need him to be it.
00:13:25
Speaker
But to watch like democratic leaders, you know, just line up in support of Israel and like call for, for Trump to be tougher on Iran and, you know, repeat all these stupid talking points about Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and stuff. I mean, it's just, it's so nuts, man. i i I don't know what to do with it.
00:13:45
Speaker
i I just don't know what to do with it.
Misinformation & Belief Systems
00:13:47
Speaker
And it it, nothing's believable. Like again, after the last, 15, 20 years of like red herring. They have a nuclear program. They're working on nukes. It's, I just watched a compilation video of like at least 10 times Netanyahu was like, they're two months away from having nukes.
00:14:07
Speaker
They're 10 months. it When you watch it as compilation- saw a picture of him presenting a diagram about the Iranian nuclear enrichment from the 80s. Yeah. Yeah.
00:14:18
Speaker
That's crazy. And then- We have we had the Iran nuclear agreement. which by all accounts was working. Trump doesn't like the idea that someone else had a plan that was working and said he was going to be tougher. I don't even know what his goal was, but he ripped up the fucking agreement.
00:14:36
Speaker
His goal was to appease his backers, which is the nut jobs in the Israeli government. so That's the only thing. Right, which ripping that up only allows Israel's take on Netanyahu to have a stronger...
00:14:52
Speaker
a stronger story for them achieving any sort of nuclear armament, right? it's like It's like arming Hamas and funding Hamas so that you don't have a party that you can negotiate with on the other side of the aisle, you know, in Palestine.
00:15:08
Speaker
Right. ah So then it's like that whole deal got ripped up and Trump is on the record saying, ah Yeah, I'm going to make a better deal. We're going to have a stronger deal. We need to be harder. We can't have this stupid pansy ass deal. We need something.
00:15:23
Speaker
Real and strong. And they shouldn't – and then he had some take on they shouldn't be enriching any uranium at all, which is silly because they can. i mean anyone – They have purposely blurred the lines between civilian nuclear enrichment and military nuclear enrichment, which is – it is a vast chasm. I forget what the numbers are on and on a civilian nuclear enrichment for like an energy plant plan, but it's like 10% something.
00:15:51
Speaker
And don't – for nuclear weapons, you need like 60% or 65% to like make a dirty bomb, which is crap, right? That's not going to do squat. Yeah. It's – so yeah. And now we're here where they go – they just keep pushing the same narrative. And it's like – so you ripped up the deal because you're going to be tougher on them.
00:16:08
Speaker
And then by all all accounts of any expert in the area – Iran still is not working towards nuclear armament. That's my understanding. A clip of Tulsi Gabbard from April, from like early April, has been going around because she said that U.S. intel does not support the notion that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon.
00:16:32
Speaker
Yeah. I'm sure she'll ah have some new take on that. Well, Trump was questioned about it on Air Force, I think on Air Force One, like yesterday. this reporter is like directly citing her and asking her and he goes, i don't care what she said. I believe they were very close. Oh my God. It's like, okay.
00:16:50
Speaker
All right. Well, sure. that That's so familiar sounding. I love those words. I don't care what any expert or anyone else has to say about anything. I'm just going to believe what I believe because it's a, it works for me.
00:17:04
Speaker
You know, that's like, I do. And I think that like a lot of, The issues that we have are because like growing, we grew up in that world, right? It's like the Bible says it.
00:17:18
Speaker
I believe it that's good that like That's good enough for me. That's clear. That's whatever. like And you have like you have so many people suspending critical thought ah just in order to maintain some like fantasy narrative that makes them feel comfortable because obviously shaking that up makes people uncomfortable and no one wants to feel that way. So you just... Nope.
00:17:44
Speaker
That doesn't work for me. So ah the only... the only barat Barometer? the only The only tool by which I measure truth is how I feel about it. That's it.
00:17:55
Speaker
yeah You know, it doesn't matter what experts said it actually. And in fact, when I believe something that people are saying wrong, now I just live into this fantasy narrative that says the only reason people are attacking me is because I'm right.
00:18:10
Speaker
That's it. I'm so right that the enemy is trying when you believe in this like creepy shadowy figure who's just like popping up behind everything, trying to fucking steal souls and possess children.
00:18:26
Speaker
ah you just, you can say that you can just go, ah I'm so right that the enemy of all enemies, that the devil himself is occupying temporarily the brains and bodies of people in order to try to convince me that I'm wrong everything.
00:18:44
Speaker
and drag the rest of the world to hell with them. And it's like, if that's the only, if that's your only fucking standard, then you're lost. There's literally no hope for you. And you're an absolute complete waste of time to speak to.
00:18:57
Speaker
Like if you know somebody like that, just move on. Don't argue, just move on. You can look them in the eye and tell them they're a lost cause. If you want, that's not going to help because that will only validate their persecution complex. Yeah.
00:19:10
Speaker
But like there's a certain segment and a certain base of people that are actually impenetrable due to the walls that they've built up to deflect any form of reason or new information.
00:19:26
Speaker
Yeah, when it contradicts like a primary motivator, you know. it doesn't matter if a secondary stated value has to, has to fold in order or bend in order for you to, to, to dismiss something that's inconvenient. Like, yeah, you just do it.
00:19:42
Speaker
And I want to, see you I feel like we try our, I don't want to blow smoke up our asses or whatever, but I do feel like both of us, try pretty hard to avoid that sentiment. And I think you, I mean, you help me with that because, you know, I'll spout off here and there and you'll be like, well, I don't know about that.
00:20:03
Speaker
And I will listen. When you say, I don't know about that, I'll listen to whatever take you give me and seriously consider it. So like I, but, and even, I was telling you this before we recorded, ah but I'm going to tie it into what we're talking about now, because Ways that I try to do this, right?
Listening & Peaceful Discourse
00:20:21
Speaker
my My in-laws had Newsmax on before I came down here for like 10 minutes. And I was listening to it in the kitchen. they were in the living room. i i The thing I don't like about myself...
00:20:36
Speaker
is the types of things that like pretty easily trigger me. So I hear it and I'm immediately kind of warm in the face, right? I go, Oh my God, I know everything they say is wrong and stupid. And and I don't believe any of it straight up. Like, and then the other part of me goes, just listen to it.
00:20:53
Speaker
Like, it's not hurting you. You're safe, dude. Like you're going to be just fine. Stop being a fucking baby. And you can hear things that make you not happy and you can still be right fine. So anyway, I start listening to it and shockingly, ah there were a few things said where I go,
00:21:12
Speaker
I mean, and maybe it's that stop clocks right twice a day bullshit. But at the end of the day, it was about the war that might be erupting in Iran that we might be getting involved in. And it was pretty clear that nobody talking, none of the talking heads were excited about it.
00:21:28
Speaker
And they were trying to quell the way that they would and discuss Trump's involvement and try to make him still seem like it's all deal shit. It's anti-war, whatever.
00:21:40
Speaker
He's trying to avoid it. But at the end of the day, and they might change it, right? Like, i don't think these people have the highest of scruples. I think there's a chance that if we got invested into a war, they would find a way to be like,
00:21:53
Speaker
well, you know, we weren't really for it, but then, you know, this guy knows what he's doing, and he's got to be for the right reasons. And now that we know the reasons, we're good. Like, I can see it going that direction.
Political Criticism & Common Ground
00:22:04
Speaker
But just taking it at face value, I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that they criticized our longstanding involvement in the Middle East. And...
00:22:15
Speaker
Had a had some reservations, serious, significant reservations that about getting involved in another war in the Middle East. And they threw some major shade at Lindsey Graham, who is the world's biggest political cock bitch of all time. He sucks so bad, dude. i hate I hate him and Ted Cruz more than anybody in our government. I hate those two.
00:22:40
Speaker
Awful, awful humans. And it was nice to hear hate for him from these people. And I, for a second, I felt like we could have shooken hands. So I, but, ah so the two things that from that, I, I try to listen, even when I know I hate the idea in the,
00:23:03
Speaker
backdrop of the group of like, we know Newsmax has an angle, right? We know what their funding is. We know what they're doing. so Call it an angle. Yeah. It's a, it's a right angle.
00:23:14
Speaker
yeah agree so we i i You have a solid idea of where they're coming from. And I know that I hate the people who are financing it and I go, but whatever, fuck it. I'll just, I'm going to just sit here and listen to it.
00:23:27
Speaker
And my original thought was to just, Think of all the ways to say, fuck you, this is stupid. And instead I just go, all right. i So I try. I'm trying my best. I know I'm not always great at it.
00:23:39
Speaker
um But just trying to hear other sides and listen to people I don't agree with in order to – Even just yeah test my own ability to not fucking freak out and turn into a little baby about everything. Cause that's so annoying. Like when you hear stuff, you ever like hear stuff you don't like and forget everything you ever believed. Cause you're like, that's actually wrong because I heard this thing. Well, forget where I heard it from, yeah but I know that's not right. And you go, and then you walk away wanting to fucking put a bullet in your brain because you look like the world's biggest idiot and you failed your cause. And I'm like, even, even just sitting in an environment where I, everybody doesn't agree with me and learning how to be peaceful in it is a, that dude, that's my next step.
00:24:31
Speaker
Like that's the next step in my human evolution is like, surrounding myself with people I know I disagree with and letting them talk about whatever they want around me and just finding my inner peace it would be something I could do it in a lot of contexts just cannot do it with my parents yeah that's normal though that's like that that's very normal you have uh you have an incredible your your skin is incredibly thick for that kind of shit I'm a salesman and full of crap.
00:25:02
Speaker
Yeah. And you can find the humor in all of it too. ah When it's something silly and you can think to yourself about why it's funny and truly get an inner chuckle out of it.
00:25:16
Speaker
And I just get too mad. I hate that about myself. I know. It's hard to train out. I'm trying though. I think... Dude, what I don't really fully, what I haven't fully wrapped my head around so far is that, ah you know, I've said it a million times on here, but most of the people that I interact with on a daily basis, the vast majority of them are right wingers.
00:25:43
Speaker
Most of the guys that I work with and stuff are big Trump guys and stuff. And they might not be like following politics on a daily basis or anything, but they're, they're Trump guys. They all kind of like are on the team, you know?
00:25:56
Speaker
they And they like being on the team. like it's ah It's a point of pride that they like to joke about and this and that. um I'm not hearing support for this from anybody.
00:26:08
Speaker
I'm hearing a lot of like excuses. I'm hearing a lot of like people making like like ah excuses for Trump and why maybe this is happening and what could have happened. And it say it ranges anywhere from like this is him like this is hard negotiations, like he's pushing for you know a better settlement, and he's willing to get tough and stuff.
Trump's Decisions & Middle East Geography
00:26:29
Speaker
you know to That's a crazy way to get your hands dirty to get a better deal.
00:26:34
Speaker
Right. You know, and on the flip, on the other side, it's like, well, you know, he trusted the Israelis and they betrayed his trust by attacking Iran behind his back. I don't think he actually knew about it or he didn't know about it. He didn't approve of it. But i think he, you know, knew that there was no value in like contradicting them and not just like joining in on it, you know, for the time being and taking credit for the victory or whatever. Like,
00:27:01
Speaker
There's a lot of that kind of cope, but dude, nobody wants this. I love the idea of people talking about it in a way that It's like like they're defending the feelings of an imaginary best friend. well It's so true. Yes. Well, I think Trump didn't want that. And like, he was kind of sad. he It really hurt his feelings. That is, but buddy Netanyahu went out of his way. It's like, dude, he's not your friend.
00:27:28
Speaker
Like they're so worried about his feelings. And maybe that's because they know as well as I think I do. Yeah. here's what I think might have happened. And it's like, Oh my God. He doesn't have feelings. He doesn't have thoughts. do you know how peacefully that bitch sleeps at night?
00:27:44
Speaker
It is despite everything he's done wrong. he goes, he sleeps, dude. I, I can't go to bed without thinking about how, uh, today I was talking to a social worker at work.
00:27:57
Speaker
I have a couple more days left to school. She goes, she goes, ah We talked about a student. She said, thanks so much for help. I said, absolutely. Anytime. Give me call if you need anything.
00:28:08
Speaker
She goes, have a great – she goes, have a – I thought she was going to say have a great summer. She goes, enjoy your summer off. And I go, you too. And then I hang up the phone. And I'm going to think about that when I go to bed at night.
00:28:23
Speaker
She's like, have a great summer. You said, you too. Love you. yeah Love you. Bye. Have a great summer off. She's not having the summer off. I have a summer off. She doesn't. And she's, I'm like, she's going to be like, oh my God, I can't believe he said that.
00:28:36
Speaker
And I'm like, that that's in my head. I'm thinking about that still. And that was the first thing that came to mind when considering how I'm going to fall asleep tonight. And this guy is literally responsible for like playing both sides of a fucking war game.
00:28:50
Speaker
And And people are worried about his feelings. This dude with all of the 90, what is it? 91 fucking charges, to tons of failed but bankrupt businesses. He's filed for bankruptcy a million time, fraudulent college bullshit meme coins that he sold to his fucking supporters right after getting elected.
00:29:09
Speaker
Another fun thing that we'll talk about momentarily. And it's like the amount of bullshit this guy has done to like, well, To just steal money from everyone he can. And that dude just quietly masturbates himself to sleep every fucking night. Every night.
00:29:28
Speaker
Yeah, I think it's... He doesn't have values. That's the whole thing. is like He doesn't have value. He values winning. And like when Israel looks like... It deals.
00:29:40
Speaker
I think he's been pitched this... like He's been pitched the Israeli lines of propaganda on this conflict. They've hard sold him on it for years now.
00:29:51
Speaker
I mean, if you don't think this started in 2015...
00:29:55
Speaker
then you're mistaken. I mean, this has been a this has been a ah a territorial goal of Israel for, you know, I don't know, as long as we've been alive. Yeah.
00:30:05
Speaker
But I think... ah like What is it? what Once he felt confident that... Well, Iran represents kind of the last like the last like real serious vestige of resistance against their territorial ambitions. The Greater Israel Project, I think, you know? All right, yeah, that makes sense. Because i do it my my geography of the Middle East is not good at all.
00:30:30
Speaker
I'm willing to bet it's, I'm admitting that, and but it's about as good as almost everybody else's understanding of Middle East geography. I don't, and I had to look at a map last weekend.
00:30:43
Speaker
um of like where Israel was and compared to Iran. I did have to look at a map to remember that. It's like southeast of the cowboy boot.
00:30:55
Speaker
Yeah. ah i know't that that So then I'm like looking at it and I go, what's they seem far enough away. What's the problem?
00:31:07
Speaker
But you know, you look around though, and i mean, 23 hour drive, dude. I definitely, met I Google mapped it 23 hour drive or some shit like that. That's going from here to Florida. I don't think about Florida.
00:31:18
Speaker
If Florida told me, Hey, you shouldn't do that. Like you're Florida and you're pretty, you're 24 hour drive away. I'm, I think we'll be okay. i think if the if the what they've done to to Gaza over the past two years has showed anything, it's really laid bare like how
Iran's Influence & Regional Responses
00:31:35
Speaker
inept and helpless the surrounding Arab nations are around Israel.
00:31:42
Speaker
Because Iran and Yemen are really the only ones. And Yemen is like a ragtag group of like just angry obstructionists, you know, doing doing what they can to try to make trouble for the Israelis in response to Gaza. And like, dude, good for them.
00:31:58
Speaker
they They rule. ah The Houthis, I think, rule. yeah At least in that regard. I'm sure there's plenty of things about them that are bad, but yeah. You know, it's really just Iran.
00:32:11
Speaker
You know, Jordan is helping to shoot down missiles. Egypt is actively resisting, like, helping Palestinians. or i mean, at this point, like... Yeah, they didn't really show up.
00:32:21
Speaker
I don't know what I expect them to do. I mean, they their government was completely undermined and overthrown, you know, what, back during the Obama administration. I mean, they've they've slowly, like, turned over...
00:32:33
Speaker
all of those governments in the surrounding nations and stuff. There's just nobody there that represents any sort of threat to them anymore, except Iran. Okay. and so they got ah they want them out of the way.
00:32:47
Speaker
and And by what you what's the i mean the end game? you just They say it's about nuke. I mean, dude, they they there is a video of them bombing...
00:32:59
Speaker
like the yeah um Like a media center. Like the media, you know? oh yeah. During a news broadcast. Yeah. That was unbelievable. It absolutely insane.
00:33:10
Speaker
And then, like, everything they go after. must have thought Hamas was in the basement. Oh, my God. Everything they go after is just the occasional, like, uh...
00:33:22
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it's the it's the occasional reel, like, oh, that we should – it sounds normal to target something like that. And then the rest is just, like, hospitals, schools, broadcasting centers. I mean, it's it's every – just any civilian area you can hit. Like, they – it's gross. It's disgusting. Like, I don't know.
00:33:43
Speaker
i don't – I can't – I just – I don't – I don't have any words, obviously. I'm fucking tongue-tied thinking about what a man like Netanyahu and all of his lies. He knows he's lying. He's a fucking liar and he knows it.
00:33:57
Speaker
This isn't just bad ideology. This is like ah he's a sick, disgusting fuck. And he's a liar and he knows he's lying to everybody all the time.
00:34:08
Speaker
And it doesn't matter to him. He's a fucking psychopath. Serial killer psychopath. He's just one of a bunch, too. I mean, this isn't just an Israeli thing. I mean, there's, you know, if you, if you.
00:34:21
Speaker
Right. If you've ever been involved. fucking thing If you've ever, like, looked at conspiracy stuff at all, then you probably know what Project for a New American Century is, where, you know, back in the 90s, they laid out a plan to topple, like, I don't know, seven or nine or 11 countries in five years, you know, starting with Iraq. I forget what they are, but it's like Iraq, Libya, Syria,
00:34:48
Speaker
um Somalia, Iran's like the capstone. That was the last one on the list. And you just look at those countries. They've all since since we've been alive and cognizant, they have slowly churned over the governments in all of those countries.
Historical Interventions & Consequences
00:35:04
Speaker
And, you know, there's places like Iraq where we engaged in like active nation building activity after the fact, you know, we took out their government and then tried to set up our own little, you know, puppet regime in its place, which was a total failure.
00:35:19
Speaker
um And then there's places like Libya where we literally like, you know, Hillary Clinton, when she was secretary of state under the Obama administration, like they they took out Muammar Gaddafi, who, yeah, okay, yeah, he's a bad guy, he's a dictator, he's bad guy.
00:35:33
Speaker
Libya is like a a war-torn hellhole ruled by like literal warlords. They have open-air slave markets now, you know, like. They're in no way better for better off than they were when Muammar Gaddafi was still there.
00:35:47
Speaker
right He stands as like a an example to the other nations that are, you know, that opposed to Israel because, you know, at one point he was pressured into abandoning abandoning his nuclear program.
00:36:01
Speaker
He handed over his nukes and turned in like a proliferation a non-proliferation treaty of some sort. I forget what he got for it or if it was under threat or what it was, I don't remember. But... um You know, Gaddafi ended up floating around on the internet being sodomized with a bayonet.
00:36:19
Speaker
that's the that's the that's the That's the example here. That's why there's this whole like, you know, Trump treating like unconditional surrender. it It's insane. That is a declaration of war. There's no way.
00:36:33
Speaker
There's no way that the Iranians will ever do that. Why would they? We are not trustworthy. Israel is not trustworthy. It means your leadership is out and we are going to we're going to turn over your government and we'll put our own little puppet regime in place.
00:36:49
Speaker
And then we'll start leeching off of all your natural resources and stuff like that. Maybe like dispose of, you know, whatever portion of the population we see fit. it ah Dude, this whole thing is such a massive
Public Support & Media Influence
00:37:01
Speaker
mistake. And like we were talking about a minute ago, like I just don't, I'm um close to a lot of really conservative people.
00:37:09
Speaker
I'm not hearing anybody who's for this. The only people, literally the only people that I'm hearing like make a case for this action is congressmen on both sides of the aisle, right?
00:37:22
Speaker
um Right. Lunatic media figures. Concerning. yeah which And then, and then of course, like religious nut jobs within the administration, which was brings me to point. local pastors.
00:37:35
Speaker
yeah Yeah. Did you see the text message that Trump tweeted from... um Mike Huckabee. What? He like screenshotted something Mike Huckabee sent him?
00:37:48
Speaker
I have to read this you. He's a middle school girl. He's a middle school girl. And this is when I don't hate him so much. I love him. Petty bullshit like this kind of gets me a little fired up. This is a proud thing for him. oh man. I thought he was going to like fuck him over.
00:38:04
Speaker
Oh, yeah. It's the other way around. Okay. I'm gonna i'm just going to read this to you and it's going to make your blood boil. Okay? my Mr. President, God spared you in Butler, Pennsylvania to be the most consequential president in a century, maybe ever. Oh, my God.
00:38:21
Speaker
The decisions on your shoulders, I would not want to be made by anyone else. You have many voices speaking to you, sir, but there is only one voice that matters, his voice.
00:38:31
Speaker
God. I am your appointed servant in this land and am available for you, but I do not try to get in your presence often because I trust your instincts. God. No president in my lifetime has been in a position like yours, not since Truman in 1945, which was a consequential year for Japan, if you remember.
00:38:49
Speaker
e I don't reach out to persuade you, only to encourage you. I believe that you will hear from heaven. and that voice is far more important than mine or anyone else's.
00:39:00
Speaker
You sent me to Israel to be your eyes, ears, and voice, and to make sure our flag flies above our embassy. My job is to be the last one to leave. I will not abandon this post.
00:39:12
Speaker
Our flag will not come down. What post? You did not seek this moment. This moment sought you. it is my honor to serve you, Mike Auckabee.
00:39:23
Speaker
My God, kill me. What? uncle
00:39:29
Speaker
Dude, that is the most nut gargling text of all time. This moment. didn't yeah You didn't seek this moment. It's not you. No, no, no. I think you forgot the part where he fucking green lit this attack and then tried to play both sides so we don't get fucking blasted.
00:39:48
Speaker
Because if we get hit, dude, if if we get hit, That is going, I mean, that is who not going to look good for him.
00:40:00
Speaker
That is, ah that's kind of what but a lot of people are. are I'm genuinely worried about it. I'm genuinely worried it. Well, how do you manufacture, if if if truly we have a good barometer for how many people actually support doing this, right? And there is a percentage of people who are going to be like, I trust Trump's judgment.
00:40:20
Speaker
And he says that this is necessary, right? There's also a contingent of nutty like Israeli stands that want to see the end times or whatever that are going to support it. But right the vast majority of people I don't think are on board for it.
00:40:31
Speaker
How do you manufacture consent for a broad military action? I mean, false the words false flag have been floating around a lot. Oh my God.
00:40:43
Speaker
And dude, they're not above it. They've done it before. not but not on our own soil. ah You have stuff. There's some on our own soil. I know false flags are a thing in order to like, Oh, so-and-so so attack so-and-so.
00:40:57
Speaker
It was probably really us involved, but it gives us the green light. Like the USS Liberty wasn't on our soil, but they fired on one of our Navy ships, killed a bunch American soldiers.
00:41:09
Speaker
Uh, people think the Boston bombing was a false flag. ah like the marathon bomber. People think 9-11 was a false flag. ah But those ah those are the only two that come to mind.
00:41:21
Speaker
And the Boston one, because it's local for me, probably. I don't know that. The Gulf of Tonkin is like the the quintessential one. you know Refresh. The Gulf of Tonkin was like the incident where that ushered us into the Vietnam War.
00:41:36
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Where like... um ships were fired upon. I can't remember the details of it exactly. yeah yeah that's That's the big one that gets pushed around a lot, you know, and I i don't think it's incorrect.
00:41:48
Speaker
um there's There was also, before the Spanish-American War, there was a ah there was a battleship near Cuba that exploded mysteriously in the night.
00:42:00
Speaker
And that was used as context to get us into ah the Spanish American war and invade Cuba. And then the Philippines where we did horrific things to the Filipino people.
00:42:12
Speaker
um They, they would be right in never forgiving the U S for what they did there. Yeah, that's true. ah Man, it's crazy to think of... um Ah, fuck you, man. I hate the idea of thinking about a false flag. like Because the chances of Iran... I mean, the the luxury of being a U.S. citizen has always been being oceans away from all of our enemies.
00:42:39
Speaker
um We just... Nothing can move in our direction without us knowing about it for hours before it lands here.
00:42:51
Speaker
And if it, so it, yeah, dude. So, I mean, it, there is It's hard not to believe iran could Iran could do anything that would result in something somewhat notable or catastrophic here.
00:43:07
Speaker
Well, a bunch of the morons like that are that are pushing this whole thing, like Charlie Kirk, have been tweeting about Iranian sleeper cells you know that were...
00:43:18
Speaker
that word enabled to sleeper cells
Propaganda & War Narratives
00:43:22
Speaker
yeah yeah yeah which there is a country that has sleeper cells inside another country and and launches attacks from within but you know it's not iran yeah i mean they did it like three days ago i i forget about using that as an excuse like that you can always just drop the words i you know There's a whole bunch of them dropping those words.
00:43:48
Speaker
Yeah, you've been in the game a lot longer than me. Sleeper cell is a long-standing way of yeah ah excusing something wild that happens, right? Like, all of a sudden we're attacked.
00:44:01
Speaker
It's like, well, how did i how did Iran make that happen? You're like, they've had sleeper cells. They've been planning this for a long time. It just so happens it coincides with all of our fuckery bullshit in their country.
00:44:13
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's did it's just all the... It's all the war on terror talking points, the same language, the same verbiage. like They don't even have the like, that's what's crazy about this whole thing is like there's not even a good propaganda campaign around it.
00:44:29
Speaker
Like they they haven't even attempted to sell it to us in any sort of meaningful way. No. I mean, at least, like, when you think of the World Trade Center is going down, like, you can look back and put yourself in a moment and go, I can see why they could have gotten anything done at that point.
00:44:45
Speaker
Like, devastating, terrifying, scary.
9/11 Reflections & War Anxieties
00:44:49
Speaker
I mean, that's... dude so I'm glad you brought that up because I was thinking about that driving today on my way home where i'm like I was thinking about how... Like, I was a kid when 9-11 happened.
00:45:01
Speaker
ah We were kids. And... Obviously we had the war on terror after that, that lasted a while, but you know, the full force of it was throughout our like or preteen teenage years.
00:45:15
Speaker
And I never, I don't know if it's the difference. I was trying to think about whether it's the difference of like the situation or being a kid and being an adult now, like the way I'm feeling with this uncertainty of war and what that means economically, politically, socially, globally.
00:45:39
Speaker
What is that? Like all the unsettled feelings I have about it that like, I don't, I didn't have as a kid, everything was kind of black and white. it was like, well, they did that. We obviously have to respond, but this is a game of risk. I play video games. I'm fucking idiot.
00:45:54
Speaker
Like you don't know anything. You just kind of like think of things in simplistic terms and I don't know if my parents were thinking about things then the way I am now, because I know people were scared. like What generation were they from?
00:46:09
Speaker
My parents. Yeah, what are they are they boomers? Oh, yeah, they're boomers. Well, yeah, that's why. Yeah.
00:46:17
Speaker
Why evaluate anything? Why ever think like further than surface level about literally anything in your life when you could just like, I don't know, turn on Seinfeld or whatever? Yeah, yeah.
00:46:29
Speaker
I don't know. I but i feel genuinely worried. and I'm like, is this... And we haven't had two massive buildings collapse over here, but this feels, don't know, man, this shit feels wild. And it ah it's really, i'm I'm feeling a baseline of anxiety and stress over it.
00:46:46
Speaker
I think that, I feel like we're we're already in, and you know, this is gonna, we're recording this on Tuesday night. So, I mean, i I would expect that we're probably actively involved by the time this is posted on Friday.
00:47:00
Speaker
Maybe, maybe not. I don't know. But it sure seems like it. All the yeah all the assets are in place. But um dude, I just I don't know. There is a weird swell of support for like military action around, you know, the Ukraine war.
00:47:19
Speaker
Which is understandable because that is a really like, it was an awful thing to watch a country get invaded and and stuff like that. Americans are much more, um have been much more on the fence about what Israel has done to Gaza after October 7th.
00:47:36
Speaker
You know, but I just don't. I don't know how many more reminders we could possibly get that like this war is like a, is such a terrible expended, like a waste of human life and of resources and of economic, you know, um productivity and, and all of this stuff. And it's like all the, all the talking points recite, you know, regurgitated about, well, you know, I mean,
00:48:03
Speaker
it was really good for the economy back in World War II when the U.S. got in. It's like, yeah, well, the U.S. wasn't actually involved. They were just selling tons of weapons to a bunch of countries that were in flames.
00:48:14
Speaker
You know, it's not the same, dude. It's not the same. but And we don't have that industrial base anymore. Like, I i think, well, I was texting you. um There's like some real questions about,
00:48:26
Speaker
how long the Israelis can withstand like these aerial barrages from Iran because the intercontinental ballistic or these ballistic missiles that Iran is firing are a lot different to intercept than like the, you know, the Hezbollah rockets that they're used to dealing with.
00:48:44
Speaker
You know, it's a, it's a big, fast moving, you know, high intensity explosive round and, and you really need like Patriot missiles in order to intercept them.
00:48:54
Speaker
So I was listening and I don't know, i'm I'm regurgitating things that I've heard here because this is way out of my depth, right? But I was listening to like this former Pentagon official. talking about the issue, you know, and the shortage of munitions that we already have due to you know, the war in Ukraine and what we've already sold to Israel.
00:49:12
Speaker
Before this even started, like, ah you know, last week, there was only like 4,000 Patriot missiles produced and ready to go around the entire globe, not just in Israel. every That's fucking crazy, dude.
00:49:29
Speaker
Our industrial base has been so neutered over the decades here that like we can't produce hardly anything. I mean, we are producing them at such a slow rate.
00:49:40
Speaker
And you know in order to intercept some of these missiles, if you want a good chance of intercepting them, like this guy was saying. should cut Medicaid to cover the Patriot missile bill.
00:49:51
Speaker
Well, you know, it's life and death now. We've got protect our Israeli allies. Knows to the grindstone, I always say. But he was saying that like in order to stand a good chance of intercepting these missiles, like you need to fire between two and four patriots per incoming missile, which is an insane rate when you think about how many missiles there, you know, Iran is firing at Israel. It's like it's only it's its last vestige of defense, it seems like.
00:50:19
Speaker
And there's a real risk that they could run out of these like aerial missiles. you know, interceptor rounds, the Iron Dome could kind of go silent over the next couple of weeks if this continues.
00:50:32
Speaker
And there's nowhere to get them. I mean, on top of that, you know, you look at, like, the Ukrainians are in an absolute state of panic now because we we're done with them.
Munitions Shortages & Strategic Challenges
00:50:43
Speaker
Like, I think Peg Seth has pretty much told them that, like, hey, you're you're about to be on your own, okay? Okay. we'll We'll sell you a few things here and there. we'll We'll help out where we can. But like, you're not a priority anymore.
00:50:56
Speaker
Israel needs our help. And the Europeans are looking at how they can pick up the slack on what we're leaving behind there. And Europe is like almost completely inept as an economic power. And, you know, like one of their top options, like really the only feasible option they have is, well, we'll pool money and buy missiles and stuff from the Americans.
00:51:19
Speaker
But don't have them. We don't have them. So there's no... there's Ukraine, what's your Venmo? you couldn't We couldn't be in a worse position to take on something like this.
00:51:34
Speaker
I mean, it's our weakest point in a long time. and And we're just jumping in with both feet. and you know Because the Israelis say that they're you know they're in complete control of the skies above Iran. It's like, well, you seem to be hit getting hit with a lot of missiles still, guys.
00:51:50
Speaker
It's just like the whole other thing. How do you even know what you're dealing with in terms of facts on the ground? Like, I don't think we can really trust a whole lot of what's coming out in terms of like, you know, I mean, you certainly can't trust Israelis like battlefield assessments of what's left. they They came out after the initial attack and acted like Iran was already defeated.
00:52:13
Speaker
Like it was over for them. Yeah, they were like, yeah, we basically destroyed their missile systems, their scientists, their everything. they they were they were The confidence. i yeah I mean, theyve they've been watching a lot of ah and know a lot of film. you know there like Pickup artists?
00:52:29
Speaker
of ah Yeah. you know They've been watching Rocky. they've been watching like All these comeback films of like you know people just get the confidence they need to really, really just...
00:52:40
Speaker
squeak out that win you know like the underdog story they love it they must love it because uh what is it sun tzu or uh whoever wrote the art of war i think rule number one in there was fake it till you make it i mean it's in that rule number one just in general like that why is that in a book about something like that like that is literally what everyone has been saying since the first time they ever applied for a job and lied on their resume Yeah, that's the first that's the first sentence in my church's doctrinal statement. Yeah.
00:53:15
Speaker
The death and resurrection of Christ. You're right. fake it until Jesus just fake faked it till he made it. But I think, like... Nobody has a better propaganda machine than the Israelis. not Not to say that it's very effective at this point, but like listening to their assessments of what stage of the conflict they're even in at this point with Iran, right it's hard to know what exactly is going on. And like you look at how that played out like with the the war in Ukraine. I mean...
00:53:48
Speaker
i The idea that we were sold throughout the war in Ukraine have been so insane, like looking back at them, like we started out the war in Ukraine. mean, the Ukrainians hit hard, like right off the bat.
00:54:02
Speaker
And yeah yeah every single outlet was talking about how completely inept the Russians were. This is going to destabilize their government. Putin could fall at any point.
00:54:13
Speaker
Oh, he might be sick. He might already be dead. He has cancer. he has some sort of disease or something, blah, blah. blah And like now look at it. I mean, they're just seizing territory left and right. Like, i don't know, dude. It's just I don't know. you You just don't know what to believe about any of this stuff.
00:54:32
Speaker
And I feel like all you can really do is find like a couple of outlets that you trust and yeah try to use those as your anchor points, you know, and i don't, I don't know.
00:54:43
Speaker
ah just don't know what's going to happen, but it just, if we do get directly involved to the point where Iran, you know, retaliates against us, there's a lot of, we've got a lot of people in the Middle East that are in big trouble. Yeah.
00:54:58
Speaker
Yeah. and Now, dude, like you said, you don't know what to believe.
Trump Mobile Phone
00:55:02
Speaker
It might be tough to know exactly what to believe right now, but I can tell you something you can believe in, and that is the new Trump mobile phone.
00:55:14
Speaker
That is...
00:55:16
Speaker
it's it's fucking beautiful i thought this was a i thought it was a gag when you said it look me looks like it should be it is it i mean it has about the sincere about the same sincerity of his that is his meme coin uh this or his shoes or his watch or his i mean what the fuck hasn't this bitch done this is getting ridiculous The phone looks so dumb, too. it's I mean, but it's probably not even the real phone. It's probably a prototype, quote-unquote, just like that watch that people spent, what, $100,000 on and never got?
00:55:54
Speaker
They're like crowdfunding a DIY smartphone from Trump. 16, 2025. This is from the actual website, trump.com, and that is going to fucking ruined my algorithm so you guys are welcome alongside the team from Trump Mobile Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump unveil T1 Mobile which sounds like like it sounds like we're in a Terminator prequel and T1 Mobile is the name of whatever the fuck was designed to abort yeah John Connor inside of his pregnant mother the the liquid mercury policeman yeah
00:56:39
Speaker
A transformational new cellular service designed to deliver top-tier connectivity, unbeatable value, and all-American service for our nation's hardest working people.
00:56:50
Speaker
That means no poors, guys. Sorry. If you're poor or unemployed, you cannot get this phone. ah The best thing about it is the 47 plan is available for $47.45 month.
00:57:02
Speaker
and forty five cents a month I don't know why it's not 47, 47.
00:57:08
Speaker
I think it's hilarious that they stopped caring about what you actually reasonably price something at and just go, let's go with 47. Like it could have been 50. It could have been 40. I can T-Mobile.
00:57:21
Speaker
You can start at 30 spectrum. 47. He's president 47, right? Yeah. And that's why it's the 47 plan, which is available for $47 and 45 cents. and forty five cents ah subscribers will receive you guys listen here's what you get yeah it is not unlike other carriers unlimited talk text and data the features are huge good complete device protection what does that mean because device protection I do I look this up I found a ah tweet about it or an x about it or whatever and in an Instagram post and
00:58:02
Speaker
It was the Twitter post where i that one of the comments was like, it's probably similar to a Google phone, but he strips all the spyware out of it. And I'm like, lets this thing is this thing probably literally brought to you by Palantir. He's literally like trying to set up a a database.
00:58:23
Speaker
Because right now... That guy thinks it's good it's the same, but no spyware. It's so stupid. I love how stupid these people are.
00:58:34
Speaker
ah Here we go, dude. Cancel your AAA membership because you get 24-7 roadside assistance through Drive America. I'll mention that solid roadside assistance.
00:58:45
Speaker
You also get telehealth services, including virtual medical care, mental health support, and easy ordering and delivering for prescription medications online. so that we can get your antidepressants and therapy appointments in the wake of a World War III. And what it really does is he he pays a little bit more on the front end so we can get that 47-45 on the long game. And this helps prevent you from putting a gun in your mouth and killing that service for him.
00:59:13
Speaker
Yeah, an Amazon drone will drop off like bathtub hydrochloroquine to you at and any select location. yeah You get free international calling to more than 100 countries. These are probably all the countries that aren't on our no-fly list. What it was what the anti-immigration list? but what would We have the country bans or whatever.
00:59:35
Speaker
There are certain countries that we're just not letting people come in from. ah I'm sure South Africa is on the list. the bad ones. is yeah exactly. Well, there's only 100 good ones left, and those are the ones you can call.
00:59:48
Speaker
Yeah, like you can come here if you come from a country with, you know, real full-fledged human beings. Not one of these bad countries. Well, here's another important part about these countries. Free international calling to more than 100 countries, including many with American military bases to help honor the families who are bravely serving in our military abroad.
01:00:10
Speaker
Does he literally say that? Yeah, it does. I like how it says many. Oh, my and not all Because if you're actually going to honor them, it would be all. It would be free calling to any military base.
01:00:22
Speaker
which would actually make some people hard that would sell it for some people and i wouldn't even blame them yeah if you had a kid that was going to be deployed right but a lot of you will a lot of you are going to i know when the draft comes back dude you need a need a phone plan with with uh calling to tehran you know pretty soon oh my god dude it is so goofy um When I first heard about it, customers can make the switch to Trump Mobile with just a short phone call to 888-TRUMP-45.
01:00:55
Speaker
So where we moved 47 and we're back to – we're using the 45 brain. I'm guessing Trump 47 was somehow already taken as a phone number. Yeah, it must have been.
01:01:08
Speaker
That was the name of like Steve Bannon's like ah predatory mutual fund or something. ah Customers can easily, oh it works with all, it it basically piggybacks off of ah all three major carriers.
01:01:22
Speaker
um But here's the here's the main disclam dis disclaimer. Trump Mobile, its products and services are not designed, developed, manufactured, distributed, or sold by the Trump organization or any of their respective affiliates of principals.
01:01:39
Speaker
T1 Mobile LLC uses the quote-unquote Trump name and trademark pursuant to the terms of a limited license agreement, which may be terminated or revoked according to its terms.
01:01:52
Speaker
So ah one other nice thing about this is they're quote-unquote built in America. ah Yeah, I wonder what that means. It's a $500 phone, so that means they just assemble it here. That's all that that's going to mean.
01:02:07
Speaker
So this is basically just like a cricket mobile skin. Yes. Yes. It's so good, dude. I'm pretty happy about it. ah When I first heard about it, a couple of my thoughts were like, is it ah can you only call Trump phones with it? It's like a bat phone for Trump supporters.
01:02:28
Speaker
ah I guess you can reach anybody you want, especially those loved ones on some military bases. Hmm. Interesting. Yeah, I ah and don't see that one going far.
01:02:41
Speaker
feel like that's a weird market to try to get into. ah I'm curious as to what the app store is like. like Is there everything Trump... ah like You cannot get the CNN app, guaranteed.
01:02:52
Speaker
You can watch Newsmax, possibly get OnlyFans. um I'm not sure. i imagine that the app will... The app store will limit the type of propaganda you're allowed to consume though i do like how there's like uh other sections to this site like lifestyle is a section oh they do some lifestyle branding yeah and it's just like eric trump and his like vineyard and vine family gross yeah i let's see uh here's their christmas statement 2023 was a banner year for the trump this isn't even updated
01:03:33
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No, old, They haven't even bothered to like keep up with this. 2023 was a banner year for the Trump Organization, and I am so proud of our amazing teams and world-class properties.
01:03:44
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We will never stop pushing forward, and we are so grateful that you can do what we love that we can do what we love every single day, bringing you and your family's memorable experiences and products in a great honor.
01:03:57
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Is a great honor. and Boy, if I could read. um i read like Eric Trump. The EVP of the Trump organization. so Is that executive vice president, which is called I'm the son?
01:04:10
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That's just all. I'm in the... There's already a vice president. If you're executive vice president... OTV. you You share your ideas in the several minutes that you have to...
01:04:26
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hand over a coffee that you have to bring down to the correct temperature prior to handing it to the actual vice president. These people are fucking worst.
01:04:37
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Eric Trump was born with a literal mud flap of skin excruiting from his brow, and they had to have it clipped and sewn back in order for him to see straight.
01:04:48
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like That's true. log it's Like a It's like when your golden retriever needs eye surgery because their eyelids are too dangling. Yeah, think about like a sheepdog's bangs, but it's just ball skin.
01:05:02
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Attractive.
01:05:05
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Dude, the other thing I was thinking about with all this is um who is it? what's What federal kind organization is in charge of regulating telecom companies? Like the FCC?
01:05:17
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Are they in charge? Or that's media. um I'm not even sure. but, but when you think of what, what company does regulate T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, and now Trump wireless, like the fucking dude, I just, I'm so done with this guy.
01:05:36
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Yeah. Finding every director of that organization is Dinesh D'Souza. So I don't foresee him like finding, finding problems with that. It's just so exhausting, man. Like,
01:05:48
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Oh, i'm go i I, as president, am going license my name to a company that I regulate, that my that I'm been responsible for fucking regulating. This is crazy.
01:05:58
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The conflict of interest with this man are unending. And it's wild to me that like his supporters are like, no, are you serious? It's not a conflict of interest.
01:06:09
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it's he he He owns it and he controls it. Why is that a bad thing? He's so smart. Now he's unfettered by control that will limit his vast intelligence and superiority to get the job done. It's like, what fucking type of sycophant do you have to be to think that way?
01:06:31
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I don't know. It kind of makes you like relish the thought of Hunter Biden, you know who is If nothing else, at least he was just like a ah motivationless degenerate that like, but you know, sold paintings that mask, you know, that were really just phone calls to the big guy.
01:06:48
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Like, right at least you can wrap your head around the scope of that scam. His scam and his scandals and everything he's involved in looks like it's just like it's like peanuts compared to what we're dealing with. now Yeah. Like.
01:07:01
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He's finger painting. I would fucking love to go back to the days where he snorts the entire set of A Christmas Carol. And just that's it. That's the biggest problem we're dealing with. You don't know what you got until it's gone.
01:07:18
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Oh my god. I want to go back to run-of-the-mill government corruption so bad.
Nostalgia for Past Corruption
01:07:23
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I feel bad that I ever complained about it. I want Nancy Pelosi to... Make another million out of insider trading if it means we can just move past whatever corrupt game we're in right now. ah Make it all, Nancy.
01:07:38
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Make it all. I follow a couple of Instagram accounts, you know, that track like, you know, a bunch of senators investment funds and stuff. Oh, yeah. and ah And there was several of them that were on the Security Council that bought a bunch of defense company stock like like a few weeks ago jesus fucking christ and it's it's already up like 17 of course it is god dude it just makes you want to oh boy i dude i i mean you have to be muslim declare a fatwa i don't know i was when i was texting with you was it today where i'm like this
01:08:18
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Out of all the texts, if they are opening a database on us, I can't imagine it being much longer before I'm on a government watch list with all the things that I said to you about... I openly talk about being radicalized constantly. I feel like I am, dude. i' when i think about like When I think about CEOs getting murked in the streets, I kind of get hard.
01:08:41
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I don't know, dude. I can feel it. And then... ah and then And then you see terrorism, right? what We had some of those MAGA terrorists during the No Kings thing. We've seen recently a representative, was it um Minnesota? Minnesota Rep getting gunned down. Yeah, that's weird deal. seeing some shit play out.
01:09:10
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we're seeing some shit play out ah Terrorism can ah can hit both sides. What is that guy's deal? I don't know, dude. um Did you see the videos of him like preaching in Africa?
01:09:25
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Oh, he's a man of God, dude. He loves the Lord. I don't understand what's going on. There's so many weird things about that whole deal. Like he, like I've seen a couple of different like reporters talking to his roommate.
01:09:40
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Who's like a fat, fat old dude that works at pizza hut or whatever, Papa John's I think it is. But then he was married and has five kids and he was somehow connected to a defense or a private security firm.
01:09:55
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Called like Praetorian Guard or something like that. Praetorian Guard? That sounds like something out of a video game. I think it's Roman terminology, if I remember right. Okay.
01:10:06
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But then he... God, what was it his So they they published text between him and his wife, I think today or yesterday something. Hey, they just going to kill Senator real quick.
01:10:18
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He said... all right, babe, love you. Be home for dinner. I think the quote was dad went to war last night. And then something about how there's going to be people coming to the house and I don't want you guys there when they get there. So, you know, get, get out.
01:10:33
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And they caught his, his wife went and withdrew like 50 grand in cash. Why does he have that much money? Nothing about it makes it, it's all so weird. You got paid. This guy's an anomaly.
01:10:45
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He got paid to do it, man. um Maybe, maybe, I don't know. of a sudden they got 50. No normal fucking American has 50 grand chilling a bank account to withdraw.
01:10:57
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If I went to withdraw, if if I had 50 grand and I went to withdraw it, my bank would be like, uh, you're going have to wait like three days because we don't trust you. Maybe those preaching gigs in Africa pay better than you'd think.
01:11:09
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Probably. I probably need to get involved in something like that. His sermon sucked. We could definitely do better. We could, dude, I'm sorry. Was it last week? Two weeks ago? You gave a great faux ass sermon. That would, uh, you could bring in the money, dude.
01:11:28
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i it's it's hard to watch uh if you haven't seen the video good you should go watch it but there's i think christian nightmares posted it and it's a video of this guy like preaching in africa and it's it sucks so bad and he's like got it he's got a translator so there's this guy on stage that's translating it into france i actually i don't know if it was africa if it was somewhere in the caribbean i can't remember but This guy is translating for him into French, and he's like he's like, I love the Lord so much, and when I think about how much I love the Lord, it makes me want to dance. And he starts like hopping around, and he's like, I'm excited about what God's doing in my life.
01:12:07
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Hallelujah. Woo! And this guy is like translating for him while this dumpy white dude, like... like jostles around on stage and it's, dude it's terrible.
01:12:18
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Things I hate about that so much is like the lack of effort and preparation, right? You're going to another country, another people, a different culture with like, with different ideas and context and presuppositions built up around certain vocabulary words like God or the Lord.
01:12:43
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And he's just like, I'm excited what God's doing with my life. I'm excited about the Lord. And like with absolutely no understanding of how that translation is being reinterpreted through their own cultural lens, right?
01:12:57
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It's so fucking phony and weak. And it's all so we can post a fucking YouTube video and have his wife lift up his fucking fupa and suck his tiny fucking dick. And that's all it is.
01:13:09
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At least go over there and give them like a ah fun like crypto prosperity gospel like our buddy ah Eli Regalado. Right, dude. wonder what that guy's up to.
01:13:20
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Either get rich, dude. Get rich. Like what are you – oh, you're going come home with like 50 grand to show up? Like what are we doing? 50 – you're going to look like that much of a dork.
01:13:31
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When that much money is on the other side, I just, I hate having a conscience sometime because life is tough and it would be easier if I could just find a way to scam people out of their money.
01:13:45
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And look, I don't want to get, look, I already said I didn't want to blow smoke up our ass earlier, but we've made zero attempt to make any money off of this. That's how much we believe in our mission, guys. we see yeah No, that's just how much we like to talk and have show We don't even have Hunter Biden levels of motivation. No, we don't.
01:14:08
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i
01:14:11
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i do I don't know. I feel like the draw here is that you know we're we're forthright with you and and honest about things. And i I want to just take a moment to be honest with you that if a scam opportunity arises, I i will i will perpetrate it upon all of you.
01:14:30
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On the record. It's the law of jungle out here. Okay. This is America 2025. mean, you've essentially already, you're in sales, dude. I mean, it's hard to, it's like, it goes insurance, sales, and then just everything else that you can do for a living when it comes to how shitty of a person you are.
Political Corruption & Accountability
01:14:47
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Health, healthcare company, executive management. Yeah. in Insurance. so That's insurance. Oh, uh, state seeks $3.4 million dollars from crypto founding pastor as civil trial starts.
01:14:59
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So he's he's in court. He's facing $3.4 million dollars in restitution. What loser. I hope he rots. ah Dude, we just... There's no real standard by which you can...
01:15:15
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hit people for corruption. Like, it's just, it's such a great corruption if you're a politician in such a gray area. Like, we dealt with it with, like, the mob and, like, we have certain laws on the books that can, if you're too blatant about it or you keep too much your money in the United States, like, we can hit you. But, like, we have loopholed corruption to the highest degree. I mean, i it's...
01:15:44
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There's nothing more American than just being a corrupt fucking loser and having no accountability for it. it It's so annoying. And being such a lame dork.
01:15:57
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You're a dork. Like, where does Lindsey Graham spend all that war profit money? You know? Like, what does evil spend his money on? On little twink boys, dude. We know that. It's probably true. He loves that shit.
01:16:11
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I'm going to look up Lindsey Graham's house. That's my homework for the week. Yeah. Oh, God. yeah i don't know, dude. I'm thinking now after we're at the end of this and it's fine. But I'm wondering, do do we hit the – and people can weigh in. Our friends in the Discord can weigh in. Do we do we start with the the fun stuff first?
01:16:32
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We start out kind of heavy on this one. But I wonder if – I don't know. I don't know if people are here for our stupid, shitty stories that we find or if they're here for it all. I don't know. Do we wrangle people in with the the silly stuff and then get serious on them?
01:16:50
Speaker
ah I don't know. Nothing serious. None of this is serious. We're all going to die. it's I mean, shit's fucked completely. Yep. So and ultimately, this podcast is completely worthless.
01:17:03
Speaker
I really need to get hit with a missile before I have to deal with the consequences of like five hour energy poisoning. Yeah, yeah. Dude, your 50s and 60s are going to suck.
01:17:15
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I'm just going to be brain dead in a chair. They're literally going identify new terminologies for... certain for the for energy drink poisoning based on you the the the most the the thing you have to look forward to most is that all of your health care coverage will be free because you will be just put into an intense experimental trial because of what you've done to your body they will probably be able to get in on like four class action lawsuits yeah i can i can definitely sue like alani energy or something like that you know
01:17:50
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That's what you have to look forward to most. You will be... and It'll all be covered, dude. Your phone will not stop ringing with some of the sleaziest lawyers in the country trying to make a quick buck off of...
01:18:03
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Your demise. trying to Trying to weaponize the mutant bacteria in my gut biome. yeah I got like skeever belly. dudes Speaking of biomes, we had my... We'll close on this real quick. We had this we had my ah school field day ah ah this past week, which is a great
Humorous Anecdotes & Hygiene
01:18:26
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time. We've just set up a bunch of games and activities in the parking lot, but we get these two big blow-up water slots.
01:18:33
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Every year we get them. The kids fucking love it. I was posted at the bottom of the slide the entire day. So all like, well, between kindergarten, first grade, all like 350 kids came through that slide that day.
01:18:49
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You get to see all their smiles. A bunch of them cry. They're like, ah, they get up there and they're like, ah, I don't want to go down. They're really scared. They're crying. The water at the pool at the bottom of the slide, right? You go down the slide, you hit the water pool.
01:19:04
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It's only about one and a half to two feet deep. And after the first half of the day, you couldn't see the bottom of it anymore because the water was so murky. Ooh. And,
01:19:17
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You said, when you say something about your biome, I'm like, my first, I was like, this is like, by the end of the day, someone comes over and they're like, dude, that, what the fuck? Like that water disgusting. Like kids would come down the slide, dude, I'm behind it.
01:19:31
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And occasionally they hit and it splashes and it like hits you in the mouth. And I'm like, it just gives you that instant gag reflex feeling. Like I'm barfing up the microbiome of 400 students.
01:19:45
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microbiome soup 400 kids went into that water that's like straight out the bilge pump on like a chinese oil barge that it's worse than what rfk swam in with his grandchildren whatever river that was it's oh god it had a flavor dude it had a fuck it when it would hit delaware river catfish you lick your lips and it's just like Oh, yeah.
01:20:10
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That's not... that's got I don't know. i don't know what it was. Like a metallic twang? Yeah. Slimy. A little slimy. It's like I soaked a penny in onion water. It felt like I put... Yeah. It had this feeling of like somewhat... It had that slight chapstick feel. Like, why are my lips greasy after I got splashed by this?
01:20:31
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You can see it floating. You can see all the grease. All the child c grease just floating on top of the water. It's like you tongue-kissed chicken skin. Oh, fuck.
01:20:43
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All right. Well, thanks everybody for being patient with this one. It's just a lot going on.
Media Intake & Coping Mechanisms
01:20:50
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Yeah. It's hard to talk about much else. So it is, and it's ruining our days. It's probably ruining your days.
01:20:56
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um I try not to get into the doom spiral. Like I am trying to limit my media intake. Also trying not to put anyone else in a doom spiral. So apologies. If you walk away from this very, very sad.
01:21:10
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I may convert back to Christianity just as a coping mechanism because like, I need to believe that some of these people are going to hell. Oh yeah. That's that. I do miss that feeling of knowing who will be there and who will not.
01:21:27
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Of course, back then we would have thought that all the wrong people would. Oh yeah. Lindsey Graham would have been going to heaven, dude. We would known that back in,
01:21:41
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That's recent. 2001. Well, ah good luck out there, everybody.
Hope & Listener Connection
01:21:47
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I don't know if we have any listeners in the Middle East or not. I haven't looked at stats in a bit, but if so, don't know. If you live in Iran, you can please...
01:21:57
Speaker
you can please please join us for a podcast. God damn. You can, you can come live at my house if you want to be a sleeper cell.
01:22:07
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Yeah. If you have one Iranian listener, I want you to explain. i don't care what your perspective is. And I, is if you've literally looked up at the night sky and watched rockets fly overhead in blast within an immediate vicinity, I will listen to what you have to say and what your opinions are. That's,
01:22:30
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Yep. Who am I to fucking tell you what to think after seeing that shit? Well, on that note, hope everybody has a ah ah decent rest of the week.
01:22:41
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Thank you for listening, and we will see you time.