Aug. 15, 2025

Royce D'Orazio - Content Creation, Media, and Scandals

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Royce D'Orazio - Content Creation, Media, and Scandals
Royce D'Orazio - Content Creation, Media, and Scandals
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Royce is a well known and famous TikTok star who has many connections and stories to tell. Royce's career extends beyond TikTok and has roots in radio and film. Royce and I discuss Content creation, Hollywood Scandals, and the existing political landscape.

https://roycedorazio.substack.com/

Watch the Video Episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvNd2me9y-8&t=2070s

00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:22 - Royce - Why he became a Content Creator
00:04:16 - James Gunn Controversy - Rumors vs Truth
00:08:31 - James Gunn and Hollywood Elites - Power and Pedophilia
00:10:16 - Epstein - Speculation and Coverup
00:12:28 - James Gunn, Epstein, Trump - No Accountability
00:14:05 - Challenge The Narrative - Breaking Free of the Echo Chamber
00:15:29 - James Gunn - How Deep is The Rabbit Hole?
00:18:31 - Pedophile Mindset - Power and Control
00:21:17 - Coercion and Manipulation - Do You Really Have a Choice?
00:22:45 - The Sacrifice of Exposing the Truth
00:23:45 - Bondi, Patel, Bongino - Fame and Power vs Results
00:26:34 - Dan Bongino - Expectations vs Reality
00:29:13 - Can Bongino Leave the FBI - What's Next for Dan?
00:31:17 - Flood the Zone with Shit - News Cycle and Short Memories
00:33:10 - Politics - It's One Big Show
00:34:26 - Voter Choice - The Third Party Solution
00:36:07 - Independent Ticket - Confirmation of a Broken System
00:36:44 - Democrat Party - Broken and Leaderless
00:38:03 - Dark Horse for Change
00:39:25 - Trump - Perceptions and Opinions
00:44:59 - Has Trump Done Anything Good?
00:46:19 - Future of American Political Candidates
00:48:31 - Good Intentions vs The Establishment
00:51:32 - Manipulation and Media - Selling the Idea of Change
00:54:46 - Obama vs Trump - Communication Differences
00:56:11 - Presidents should be Politicly Homeless
00:56:59 - Podcast Bros, Revisionist History, and Gatekeeping
01:00:54 - Independent Media - The Big Business Lie
01:02:44 - Not in It for the Money - Sort Of
01:03:44 - New Media Grifters
01:07:55 - JD Vance - True Intentions
01:09:45 - Andrew Tate - Grifter in Sheep's Clothing
01:13:13 - Podcasters - Clout Chasing and Closed Circles
01:14:34 - Podcasting Today - Narrow Window of Opportunity
01:17:23 - Overcoming Barriers in Success - Content Creation Today
01:22:02 - Your True Self vs Expectations
01:23:09 - Finding Your Voice Through Honesty
01:24:56 - Grifting vs Persona
01:26:57 - I am what You See - Podcasting as and Extension of Yourself
01:28:22 - Meaningful Conversations
01:29:41 - Opportunities and Taking Chances
01:30:44 - Fear and Success
01:32:14 - Not Trying Means Not Progressing
01:32:41 - Fear of Failure - Roadblock to Success
01:34:35 - Challenge Yourself - Opposing Viewpoints
01:35:45 - Education and Understanding Through Discourse
01:40:12 - The Close Minded Left
01:41:27 - Both Parties Have Their Problems
01:43:00 - Groupthink and Tribalism
01:44:12 - Hyper-consumption and Media Saturation - Means of Control
01:46:14 - Emotion vs Logic and Reason - Today's Politics
01:47:26 - Substack - The Perfect Platform
01:49:11 - Challenges and Demands of Content Creation
01:50:09 - Technology and AI - Streamlining Workflows
01:54:09 - Shedding Skin - Becoming Yourself in Content Creation
01:55:35 - The Famous Trump Phone Call

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All right, we're going hoys, got it going after your

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technical difficulties, so we're fine.

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This is the thing.

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This is the thing for me. I don't I don't

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do the typical interview question answer thing. I like to

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I like to do a little background and eventually, in

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our conversation your background comes out in terms of your

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experiences and whatnot. So yeah, welcome to the show.

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It's the way we do it.

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The one thing I got to ask, though, is I'm

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not going to pronounce your last name because I'm gonna

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not do any justice. So if you could possibly do

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that for me, I'm horrible, I really am.

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Well, first of all, thank you for having me. I

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appreciate that here well, and you can butcher it however

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you'd like. But my full name is Royce Durazzio. That's

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just the cleanest, easiest way to say it.

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You just way to do it, all right, Royce, Well,

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thanks for being here. Now going through, I'm gonna be

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honest with you. I've been listening to a lot of

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your podcasts lately and it's not bad, no, but it

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seems like we have a little bit of a similarities

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in terms of what we have done. Possibly in some backgrounds,

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and then I was looking through your blog and I

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see that you do. You know, you write a little

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bit on some politics, but you're also just about, hey,

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what's happening, current events, et cetera. And I did hear

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one podcast that you did where you were talking about

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streaming and content creation. So I mean, there's a lot

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of ways we can go here, because I think all

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of those things are good topics to have, especially since

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everybody is trying to get into the podcast base. Everyone

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wants to be a content creator, et cetera, and I

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think they have a lot as a big false sense

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of what it takes to do this. You know, and

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your son's been doing this longer than me, so I'm

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sure you have a lot more stories. But I know

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you were doing the TikTok thing for quite a bit.

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Don't know if you still do. That's something I never

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got into. But you know, let's start with where you

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came from with your content creation and why. I mean, honestly,

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you can tell me why.

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You know, as you asked that, I think it goes

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further back than I realize, because I had an internet

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radio show before podcasting was a term, and we were

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in a guesthouse in Beverly Hills and we had four

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phone lines trunked like real phone lines trunked into each

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other and we would go live on RANT Radio and

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we did this underground show for like two years every Sunday.

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Podcasting came out and I didn't understand it at first.

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Turns out it just means recorded, so it goes that

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far back. The TikTok thing is a whole other ride.

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I fell into that during the pandemic, and that was

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based in a lot of irl stuff, but mostly Disney parks.

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And now I'm trying to break that whole thing.

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Okay, Well, what attracted you to do in the underground radio?

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I've always loved radio. I grew up listening to Stern.

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I'm from the Philly suburbs and I just love talk.

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You know, I've got a face for radio, the gift

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of gaps. What's a good combination, And I think that

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especially in a day's world. And one of the reasons

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I'm loving substack so much is it's like perfect for

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audio and people are always looking and I love radio

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because it just forces you to listen. So I've just

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always loved radio. And one of the things that Stern

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did for me growing up was I felt like I

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was sitting in a room with contemporaries hanging out, and

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that added value, especially when you get to a point

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when you're growing up where you feel like you're all alone, right,

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So to have those familiar voices that would maybe inform

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me a little bit, make me laugh, there's value to that,

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you know.

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Yeah, I've always been more on the audio side personally

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as well. There's something about hearing a conversation without the

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distraction of visuals. But with this big push lately with

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all the podcast aggregators, hosts, everybody wants to go to viato.

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They think it's the thing.

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But you know, when I look at what's going on

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as statistics like, I still have more downloads, more and

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more interaction on my audio side than I do on

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the video side. Regardless, it's just two different worlds, two

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different ways of consuming it, two different people that want

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to want to go ahead and consume it a certain way. Really, so,

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I like audio. It allows you to focus and really

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hit the conversation. Now, with that being said, let's talk

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about your podcasts, because there's a few episodes I don't

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even know if we can talk about this. But one

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thing that drew my interest. I don't know how far

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you want to go because you're geting at vague about it. Anyway,

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it was kind of a shorter one is when you

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were talking about James Gunn a little bit. I really

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wasn't sure the whole story on that. Yeah, you know,

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given the nature of my podcast, by the way, it's

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it's pretty much current advanced politics geopolitics.

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Now, I'm not sure how political.

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We're going to get, but this is something that really

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caught my attention given the Superman movie. And there's a

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few things that you said in terms of like, you know,

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maybe he stepped on people to get where he got,

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and you know, you didn't say exactly like that. I

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am that's just kind of how I heard it. But

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the reality is, can can you get more background on

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that situation and what you know and kind of what

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you heard secondhand? Because I wanted to get more detail

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on that. If you're okay talking about.

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It, I'm happy to talk about it, and I love

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that's what you chose. Uh So let me start with this.

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I grew up with some guys that wound up becoming

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close to and working with James. So what I have

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to say comes through those accounts, not through you know,

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reading things online. It's not even secondhand. I guess technically

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it's secondhand, but it's really it's firsthand. Right. So at

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the time that well, let me let me start with

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James as a as a person and as a writer.

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I personally, and this is just a personal opinion that

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he's a horrible writer. And if you want proof, go

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back to those Scooby Doo movies where he made scrappy

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do the villain? I mean, who does that? Right? Like?

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Who does that? Just so that's bizarre. So, but the

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first Guardians of the Galaxy was developed by a woman

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named Nicole Pearlman. I think it was about a decade

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in development. So he plucked it and she got some

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benefits off of it. I don't know if it was

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a producer credit or what. But he took everything with

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it and and he from what I heard through the

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people that I know, is that he kicked and screamed.

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He had a web series at the time, uh with

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with a raccoon puppet, I believe, and he got that

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going enough that he was able to say, I know

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how to do this. I know how to do this,

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and he's so, but what I what? I what I

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know that's more important and we're relevant to where you're

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going with this, is they went to those parties. I

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saw the photos from those the parties that my quote

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unquote former Well now they're former friends, so I can

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say that former friends went to where the uh priest

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and uh child party. I don't remember exactly what they

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called it, but it was either you you dressed up

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as a child or you dressed up as an abus

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or a priest. That was the premise, right, their premise,

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not mine. So it was I don't know if they

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called it priest and pedophiles, and you could go, well,

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that doesn't even make sense, but like, who really needs

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to waste that much time thinking about logic, right? And

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the kind of people they hang out with. Some of

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them are self proclaimed there's a band that they hang

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out with. So it was this type of group of people,

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and there's a lot of familiar names that you would

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know that we're at these parties that I was told

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was at these parties. But moreover, when the whole thing

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broke with Disney, I had already seen those photos on

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the person's cell phone, who went to the party. The

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article that you may be referring to that I wrote

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about with the individual in it is somebody that I

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grew up with, and when I went to source the

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photos for my sub stack, I didn't realize that he

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would be in the in the picture, and it jarred me.

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And this is somebody, I mean, I grew up with

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someone who correct to the extent that I have IMDb

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credits with them. Okay, yeah, I'm sure that was a shock.

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The photo was a shock. I knew he was there,

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and I knew he was part of it, and I'm

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privy to a lot more than what I just said.

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But that's that's me laying the tracks for you, and

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so take it where you'd like. Well, you know, it's it's.

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Really really really getting down to I'm sure you can

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only say so much without getting in trouble, right, James

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gunn Is, He's he's a fairly powerful figure, I guess.

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In terms of with somebody for the truth, can you.

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Well, here's you want to know what I believe. I

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really don't give a damn who they are. If they

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did it, in my opinion, fuck him, I don't really care.

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I don't care how powerful they think. They are not

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gonna affect me personally, honestly, they're just not. They don't

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control my income. So you know, as far as as

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far as you're concerned, you mean, be as open as

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you want to be. But the reality is I personally

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didn't know about these parties that if he's involved in,

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and the tie to Disney, like, I didn't understand everything

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that was going on. I just I just know that

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all of a sudden he just started coming up. Not

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sure why. I know that the movies he's been involved

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with where yeah, they're kind of like okay, but yet

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everybody's praising this guy. And so when I heard your

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podcast you're talking about this, you know, these allegations or

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whatever was going on with these parties kitty parties or

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pedophile parties if we want to call it that, I

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really really just caught my attention. I really was like, WHOA,

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what the hell's going on with this? And it really

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really raised the question because it sounds like you know

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a lot of people in that world right just from

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growing up with people, you have associations, and it's really

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like the stories that we always hear about this, I mean,

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are they really true? Is there a lot of that

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going on in Hollywood in general?

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Yes, really, there's a lot of that goes on in

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the world period. And not that I'm trying to flip

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it into a plug, but I literally just wrote an

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article that was really more of an info dump. It

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wasn't even really an article. It's literally an info dump.

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But when you stop and you look at that level

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of power and those people, it transcends party politics, it

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transcends religion and any other ideology, and at that point

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it becomes about nothing other than more power and more money.

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So that's why you'll never see the Epstein files, you know,

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because everybody is involved at that level.

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Well yeah, and that we can absolutely assume. And then

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since you brought that up, you know, also the other

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tie that everyone can see if you're actually just connecting

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the dots, even at a third grade level. Did he

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how was that not related?

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You know who?

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Everyone saw it? And then suddenly he gets off, you know,

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slap on the wrist. Really and as far as the

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Epstein files go, it's very evident that look, if there

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was nothing that was going on there, why was Jill

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saying Maxwell arrested?

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Why for what being a pimp only Well, I don't

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know how you. I mean, I think it's indisputable there

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was something going on, right.

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no list, but somehow they had to hold her. Now

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she's trying to negotiate, saying she's going to release names

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in the list. If Epstein wasn't who he was and

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didn't have the connections he did, why would he kill

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or not kill himself? However you want to coin that one.

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trying to hide and cover up. Obviously, to me, what

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I thought in the beginning, because I was looking at

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it from the geopolitical point of view, was they didn't

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want to release the list because I think personally, I

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don't know for sure, this is all conjecture, but I

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think that there was ties to world leaders that would

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really up to end everybody's world, and at the moment,

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they couldn't just release all these names because it would

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just be a shift form.

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Was really going on in the beginning, But now I'm

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not really sure what's going on. So they have evidence,

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then they don't have evidence, Then they do have evidence.

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I mean, they had about two decade investigation into everything

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was doing, but somehow they don't have anything at all now,

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like it all just disappeared.

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Well, so I think what it really And it's interesting

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to talk about the idea that, oh, it'll bring down

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power structures and industries and all these things. But I

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think more importantly, it's just because Epstein is out of

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the picture doesn't mean that the leverage that he had,

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much like Diddy, doesn't hold value. So I think it's

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more about we don't want to release these things because

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we give away all the leverage we have on all

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these people. Why would we do that?

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That could be that could be the case. And while

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we may have leverage, it also sets the precedent so

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far that it's okay to get away with doing those

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heinous things. Though, I mean, if there's never gonna be

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accountability and they just keep getting away with it, so

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what does that say to the rest of the world.

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But I think that's the that's the raw truth. I

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think that And look, I mean Superman, so just let's

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bring this all up. And because it does so, Superman

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just opens up right, Superman is being produced. First of all,

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it's wild to me that he's directing the movie and

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the CEO at the same time. That should be considered

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a conflict of interest in Anythingeah, I heard you talk

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about that. Okay. So then on top of that, you

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have the whole politicization of the Superman movie. You have

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the James gun pedophilia accusations over the years and all

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of that michigas to use some Yiddish, and then you

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have the Trump of it all and the EPs. I mean,

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it's all so murky, and then you have people arguing

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like in ways that are just completely hypocritical because they

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can't see it for what it is. We live in

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a world where people at this level are not held

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accountable for their actions period. Has nothing to do with party.

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will we ever be able to hold anyone accountable in

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your in your opinion? And do you think it is

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ever gonna happen or is it just because they are

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in a powerful position that's just going to constantly be

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able to get away with the lifestyle they live.

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first Drassic Park, testing the weaknesses. So what Trump has

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done in as they like to call it, one point

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zero and now is continue to test the weaknesses in

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the system, which only opens it up for somebody who's smarter, sharper,

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and more able to do more damage. You know. That's

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I think the problem is that we're headed in that

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wrong direction. That's kind of one of the reasons that

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I think we need to start having more open conversation

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from the middle and really get back to like, I'm

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not here to persuade, and I don't mean literally with you,

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but like, I'm not here in the conversations I have

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with my audience or anybody or even you to persuade.

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I'm actually here to pick up something that I might

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not have thought of. And I think people need to

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get out of their silos. I see a lot of

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the same faces talking to the same people. It's like

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to make another James Gun reference, and I'll let the

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nerds pick this up on their own. But it's like

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the Toxic Avengers. When I see you know, the same

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six people you know circulating on the same podcast, I'm like,

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you guys are just yelling at the same audience. You're

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not producing any new conversation because that's too much work.

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That that's that's another conversation, and that's something I agree

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with me with you on.

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Now, Okay, we'll get to that.

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As far as far as the James Gun thing, I mean, Epstein,

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it is what it is. We know it's out there.

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It's unfortunate what's happening. But as far as James Gun

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is concerned, I don't even know how many I mean,

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how deep does this go with him? How long has

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this been going on with all these allegations, because I

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literally don't know. I never paid attention to the guy,

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to be quite honest, and I'm so engrossed with so

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many other things that I do on the podcast that

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I really if you only take so much in right,

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it's a crazy world right now, there's so much happening.

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How deep does that go that you know of? So

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the whole thing that happened with Disney in a nutshell

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was they started unearthing old tweets. This guy comes from

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the Troma world, so he's always sort of been the

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alternate guy, right, So he's always considered himself to be

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sort of a you know, I don't know what you

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want to use. A provocateur is the word he would use.

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I don't quite think. I don't think he's that witty.

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I think he wishes he was a provocateur. But he

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would say these outlandish things over the years on Twitter.

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He had relationships I cannot remember the name of the

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band where they're self proclaimed pedophiles. They just go after

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They would talk about going after young underage girls. Right,

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So he surrounded himself with these type types of people. Well,

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all I can tell you is that at the time

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that this happened, at the time that he was being fired. Okay,

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at the time he was working for Disney prior to

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being fired, he was having these parties because I know

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people that went there. And my one former friend came

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up to me and goes, look at what I wore,

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and he shows me his selfie where he dressed up

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like a child with a propeller hat on at the party.

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And I looked at him like, what is what is

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wrong with you? Like what part of you thinks this

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is something that I this is not entertaining. And then again,

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if you are suggesting you're a provocateur, there's no audience here.

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This is behind closed doors. So what I can verify,

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or what I can say verifiably is that those parties

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happened during that time. One of the people I know

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worked one of the people I knowed. I'm deciding if

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i want to say what I want to say, because

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somebody who's really sharp can put all the dots together.

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But one of the two people I'm talking about spent

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a long time getting close to James because it benefited

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their career, and it has to the extent that you'll

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find James has producer credits on all of their projects.

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So it's kind of one of those things where it's like,

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and that's the industry, right. I mean, I don't want

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to totally derail it, but I could tell you other

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stories of other situations, public stuff that you would know

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about where I've worked with people who openly talked about

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these things as if they were okay. And these are

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people who on paper should be speaking out against these things,

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but they turned a blind eye because of their career.

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And I'm talking about people that work with Cosby by

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the way, So it just it's sort of like one

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of these things where again and no, there's no party

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lines anymore. I could tell you that I'm a Democrat,

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I could tell you I'm a Republican, it doesn't really matter.

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I'm making a ton of money. I'm turning a blind

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eye to your transgressions. Right, that's Hollywood. That's that's really everything.

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I shouldn't it's not fair to just pick on Hollywood.

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No, no, no no, but it's we're talking about Hollywood since

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we well I brought up the James Gunn thing. Yeah,

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so that's why we're discussing it. But you know it

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gets me, is I don't I don't have that mindset,

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like why what is attractive about a child? Like what

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is it about that type of person or people like

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that that they need to abuse and destroy children?

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Like why? I mean, I don't even want to have

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that conversation because then you're asking me to get inside

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that mindset. And I can only tell you because I

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know you listened to that particular episode that I've seen

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throughout my life a lot of this stuff firsthand, and

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I think it always comes back to the same thing.

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People like to see what they can get away with.

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I know it goes deeper, but generally speaking, when it

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comes to power and abuse, people like to see what

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they can get away with. Can I say anything on

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this podcast? Yeah? So I worked with a woman who

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at the time was over at NBC. Now, she said

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to us at lunch one day before this Bill Cosby

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stuff ever broke when Hannibalbarris broke it. She because she

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was a producer on The Cosby Show as a young woman,

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she said, very flippantly over lunch, as if it was

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about running an errand Bill Cosby used to force the

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pas to give him blowjobs, as if she said, Bill

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Cosby used to force the pas to pick up his

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dry cleaning. You know, it's just like what you do

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just part of your day. Now that woman has an oscar.

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She's I don't want to make this issue that it's

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not but on paper, you know, Democrat, Democrat supporter. And

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I know these things firsthand because I worked on campaigns

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by happenstance that she was on. And it's just the

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small world that way, uh, and went on to produce

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other people and you know, beyond Cosby and so so

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saw it for what it was back then, right, went

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on to trade off of other plights and get an oscar.

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I'm trying to be a little vague there. And you

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know again you go, you look at this person, you go, well,

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I think that I thought you were like a liberal,

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and I thought you were like, these are the issues

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and and this is like you know me too, and

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all these things, but not when it not when it

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comes to self interest, right, But you have to ask

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yourself if you were in that situation, what would you

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really do? I'm not really sure.

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I mean, that's that's the thing I've I've brought up

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and other other conversations is like, for example, if we're

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talking about someone who's corrupt, right, we we think, we

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think we want our politicians and everybody that all of

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our heroes are infallible. Someone waves a hundred million dollars

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in your face. How infalliable? Fallible you're gonna be? You're

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gonna turn it down? Are you really gonna say no?

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Are you?

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Are you to say no if someone gives you a

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hundred million?

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But can we bring that back? Can we bring that

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back to the Epstein thing for a minute. Yep, And

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let's just trade that money, uh formula there for power formula.

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You're you're any of these people, your cash Betel, your

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Dan Bongino. Right, And you're brought into an admin right,

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and you get a look behind the curtain and you

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realize that you know you were manipulated to the extent

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that you know, Trump knew he was never going to

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release these Epstein files. Right, But now you're in a

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position of power and you're and you're being given the

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ultimate option. Do you give up your power or do

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you are you silence in exchange to keep it? Or

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do you choose to speak up and then become ostracized

439
00:22:19.880 --> 00:22:23.079
and become the enemy. And you can already see that

440
00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:25.400
Trump is taking the if you're not with me, you're

441
00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:28.960
against me approach by immediately turning anybody that doesn't agree

442
00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:34.720
with him, meaning his supporters, into the enemy to nullify

443
00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:37.519
this story. So it's just one of those things where

444
00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:40.440
you're like, you're you're trapped. Like I mean, imagine those

445
00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:42.400
guys coming in there and thinking that they were going

446
00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:44.720
to shed light on something and now that they're like, oh,

447
00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:50.559
we were stuck. I mean, it's like the ultimate chess move, right, Yeah.

448
00:22:50.799 --> 00:22:53.359
I mean, you're you're as stuck as you want to be.

449
00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:54.279
I mean, if you.

450
00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:58.759
This is just really the moral argument, right, the argument

451
00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:01.599
the morality of the situation and the reality. And to me,

452
00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:04.720
it's you're going to have to make that choice. I mean,

453
00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:08.279
you don't want to destroy yourself, but at the same time,

454
00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:10.720
truth has to be told to make sure that we

455
00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:14.160
can you know, decapitate this power structure. And that's where

456
00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:16.920
that's really you know, what it comes down to. I mean, sure,

457
00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:19.680
do you want to be beholding held hostage by by

458
00:23:19.799 --> 00:23:23.960
some you know, greasy asshole who's who's literally just you know,

459
00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:26.799
has no moral compass whatsoever. It's taking advantage of the

460
00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:30.319
people in the system. I mean, I don't think most

461
00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:34.000
people would now. I think where people do not want

462
00:23:34.039 --> 00:23:36.960
to step out and where they don't want to bring down,

463
00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:40.559
you know, the kingdom, so to speak, is when their

464
00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:42.920
family is threatened. I think most people on the personal

465
00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:45.839
level can care less, but they don't want to sacrifice

466
00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:47.759
their family or the loved ones. And if that's just

467
00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:49.920
being held over the heads, and that's where the issue is.

468
00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:52.200
I believe someone like Dan Bongino, I mean, if you

469
00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:55.400
want to talk about that, everyone has their opinion on

470
00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:57.359
this whole thing that's going on with this MAGA movement

471
00:23:57.359 --> 00:24:00.720
and all these individuals and you know, self reclining influencers

472
00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:02.960
and whatnot. But you know, he gave up millions of

473
00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:07.799
dollars as a podcaster and wants to go ahead and

474
00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:10.359
now become you know, part of the FBI deputy director

475
00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:13.880
used to be a secret service agent. Great, he wanted

476
00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:16.039
to uncover things, so did Cash Mattel. The whole reason

477
00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:17.960
these guys, or at least Cash was even you know,

478
00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:21.079
GANI supporters, because he was supposed to expose bring things down.

479
00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:23.920
Then we can also have the conversation as to why

480
00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:26.680
the hell was Pambondi even put into the position she was.

481
00:24:27.960 --> 00:24:30.119
You know, as far as I was concerned, I didn't

482
00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:32.240
really see much of what she did anything in Florida.

483
00:24:32.839 --> 00:24:34.640
Sure she talked tough, but I mean.

484
00:24:35.160 --> 00:24:37.079
But maybe maybe she was put there to make sure

485
00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:39.720
that the files never get released. Maybe that's why those

486
00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:42.599
binders came out. And then they realized that we thought

487
00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:45.359
we could pull a fast one that didn't work, kick

488
00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:47.160
the can that didn't work.

489
00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:49.759
Here we are, yeah, exactly, And that was that was

490
00:24:49.880 --> 00:24:53.039
just that was it was hilarious.

491
00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:54.240
Well, it wasn't beyond hilarious.

492
00:24:54.279 --> 00:24:55.960
That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen here to

493
00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:56.279
give you that.

494
00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:58.640
Would you take a picture with a binder celebrating that

495
00:24:58.680 --> 00:25:01.799
you that you've got pedophile documents? Like even if you were.

496
00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:04.920
It's not even just about that, whereas it's to me,

497
00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:06.599
it's it's it's you're the White House.

498
00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:08.000
You're the White House.

499
00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:09.839
You're supposed to be held to a higher standard, and

500
00:25:09.880 --> 00:25:13.559
you're gonna use influencers and give them this access that

501
00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:16.920
you won't give anybody else. Right, Well, that's say about

502
00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:17.759
your administration.

503
00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:20.880
But that's why Dan Bongino got the job, right, because

504
00:25:20.920 --> 00:25:23.279
the whole idea is that these people, this goes back

505
00:25:23.319 --> 00:25:25.920
to what you were saying about like family and doing

506
00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:28.799
things for the right reason. The problem is these folks

507
00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:33.119
are there for fame and power, and now a guy

508
00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:36.319
like Bongino is in the ultimate situation. And by the way,

509
00:25:36.359 --> 00:25:38.440
I was just kind of laughing more at the influencers

510
00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:42.880
holding the binders celebrating pedophilia. Even though they're anti pedophilia,

511
00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:46.519
they're still holding those binders and celebrating it. Oh yeah,

512
00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:48.920
I get it, I get it. But but but so,

513
00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:52.039
But Bongino isn't like the ultimate like lose lose, win

514
00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:55.119
win scenario because he's got he gets to choose power

515
00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:57.720
or go back to his audience. But neither one of

516
00:25:57.720 --> 00:26:01.839
those are predicated on doing what's right. No, it's all

517
00:26:01.839 --> 00:26:03.000
about self interest, and I.

518
00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:04.680
Don't know him personally, so I mean we can only

519
00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:08.799
assume what he's thinking. But just from how he has

520
00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:11.839
carried himself and what he's done in media, I think

521
00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:14.839
he would have loved to have stayed on his podcast,

522
00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:17.359
you know. I think sometimes it's better to be on

523
00:26:17.400 --> 00:26:19.240
the outside. Once you're on the inside, you don't like

524
00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:19.920
what you see.

525
00:26:20.680 --> 00:26:21.079
I can't.

526
00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:22.960
I can't necessarily say I can put any blame on

527
00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:25.680
him because he's not really in charge. He's he's debut director.

528
00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:27.839
I mean, at this point, he's towing the line. He's

529
00:26:27.880 --> 00:26:30.240
trying to be careful what he says in light of

530
00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:32.799
representing the FBI and also being you know, one of

531
00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:35.960
the prime picks by President Trump, right, he had Trump

532
00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:38.799
support himself. So I get where he's coming from. So

533
00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:41.279
I can't fault him. But the problem is is we're

534
00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:44.400
seeing an FBI that is really a repeat of what

535
00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:47.359
everybody else said was wrong about the previous administration's FBI.

536
00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:50.559
What's the damn difference at this point, There's never going

537
00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:52.519
to be a difference. That's that's why they call it

538
00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:56.240
the deep state. Well exactly, so, Litsten, here, here's what happens.

539
00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:58.440
You know, we just we mentioned Stern earlier. Yeah, and

540
00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:01.720
I always used Stern as the analogy. Okay, Stern railed

541
00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:05.960
on iMOS his entire early career, Okay, and then Stern

542
00:27:06.039 --> 00:27:13.880
became Imus. Because it's inevitable no matter what your genre is, Okay,

543
00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:18.079
when you hit success, it's inevitable that you become the

544
00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:22.440
very thing you were railing against. So Bongino will probably

545
00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:24.920
leave at some point because he's better off being on

546
00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:28.519
the outside making money yelling at a boogeyman. And maybe

547
00:27:28.920 --> 00:27:31.400
maybe the boogeyman will become Trump, or maybe he'll find

548
00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:34.559
a new boogeyman. But once you're on the inside, now

549
00:27:34.599 --> 00:27:36.960
you're accountable for the things you were railing against. And

550
00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:39.680
then there's that reality check like, oh, we don't get

551
00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:42.400
to make these decisions, they're made at a higher level. Oh,

552
00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:44.559
we're never going to release any of this stuff because

553
00:27:44.599 --> 00:27:46.920
it's going to ruin all the power structures in the world.

554
00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:51.119
And welcome to the club. But you're indoctrinated now, and

555
00:27:51.160 --> 00:27:52.160
you're like, well, I don't want to be in this

556
00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:52.880
club anymore.

557
00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:55.960
Well, yeah, I'm unfortunately the guy who says let it

558
00:27:56.039 --> 00:27:57.799
all fucking burn. I don't really care I mean I

559
00:27:58.559 --> 00:27:59.839
think the world needs a reset.

560
00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:00.759
Yes.

561
00:28:01.319 --> 00:28:04.720
Now, as as far as you know Bonginos just as

562
00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:07.759
the example, I don't want to get stuck on just him.

563
00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:09.440
But no, but it's a very good example because it's

564
00:28:09.480 --> 00:28:11.279
a guy. It is like why did he get the job?

565
00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:12.680
It absolutely is a good example.

566
00:28:13.119 --> 00:28:16.279
But this really brings brings the old saying home, you know,

567
00:28:16.359 --> 00:28:17.680
like you don't know what you don't know?

568
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:18.160
Right?

569
00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:23.359
And the thing about power, it does corrupt, Like let's

570
00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:26.119
let's let's take me you it doesn't even matter. You know,

571
00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:28.200
let's say one day we we don't know, what if

572
00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:30.000
we became a Joe Rogan one day? Right, what if

573
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:33.480
that even happened. Could you imagine the pressures and and

574
00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:36.200
and everything that would be waved in front of you,

575
00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:39.319
you know, to tempt you to try to mold and

576
00:28:39.319 --> 00:28:41.160
shape you. I mean, once you get to a certain level,

577
00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:42.920
you don't want to let go of that. And I

578
00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:43.680
understand that.

579
00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:44.279
Uh.

580
00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:46.759
But you know, as far as Bongina goes, I think

581
00:28:46.759 --> 00:28:51.359
he has enough. I think he has enough strength and

582
00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:54.400
enough of a moral backbone that I don't think he

583
00:28:54.440 --> 00:28:54.799
wants to.

584
00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:55.319
Be where he's at.

585
00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:59.160
I I think that he thought that he was getting

586
00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:01.160
into one situation where he was going to be able

587
00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:04.839
to make a difference, and now he's doing the Oh shit,

588
00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:06.039
what did I do?

589
00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:07.400
What did I do?

590
00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:10.519
Not that I was ever to be honest, you know,

591
00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:12.640
I was never a diehard fan. I respected who he

592
00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:15.480
was and what he did. Didn't agree with everything he said,

593
00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:19.440
but at least he had he stood for something. You know,

594
00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:23.119
he definitely wanted to expose, wanted to make sure that,

595
00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:26.640
you know, whatever was wrong was righted, and that's what

596
00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:29.200
he said. I mean, whether you're like you know, whether

597
00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:32.119
you're into being a Republican Democrat, mag to me, that

598
00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:34.079
doesn't matter. For the most part, a lot of his

599
00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:37.640
messaging was really about trying to right the wrongs. And

600
00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:39.200
now he's on the other side of it, and he's

601
00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:43.640
looking like a jackass. You know, not his fault. He

602
00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:45.000
didn't know what he was walking into.

603
00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:48.119
So well, that's that's exactly what I think it is.

604
00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:51.440
And I think, you know, now he's in a he's

605
00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:54.039
caught in a catch twenty two because he's really damn

606
00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:58.960
no matter what he does, but his choices are power

607
00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:02.559
and money. I mean, he's gonna be fine either way,

608
00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:06.000
right and as long as he doesn't totally bite the hand,

609
00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:08.200
which is why if he does leave and go back

610
00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:11.119
to podcasting, that's going to be a tough nut to crack,

611
00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:13.079
because what are you gonna do. You're gonna start railing

612
00:30:13.079 --> 00:30:17.039
against Trump in the deep state. No, he won't do that.

613
00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:19.720
I mean he's but then what do you do? That's

614
00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:22.720
like there's a larger question there. If you want to

615
00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:24.119
go a little bit wider with this.

616
00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:27.440
Well, we can go wider, but at some point he's

617
00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:29.400
going to have to try to save face, just as

618
00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:30.119
anybody would.

619
00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:32.839
How does he do that? If you're in him right now?

620
00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:33.519
How do you play this?

621
00:30:34.039 --> 00:30:36.319
There's well, the only way to play it is to

622
00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:39.920
kind of go against your own laurels. To be quite honest,

623
00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:44.680
you would have to drum up the story that look,

624
00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:48.720
I got inside, it's so dirty, I can't clean it up.

625
00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:52.400
And you know, no matter what I did, I was

626
00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:55.640
under threat, I was under durest. I couldn't act out,

627
00:30:55.759 --> 00:30:58.200
and here I am. And while you're on the other side,

628
00:30:58.240 --> 00:31:00.680
there's no way that you would be able to say, Look,

629
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.960
everything was Trump's fault. The Trump administration is filthy. He's

630
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:06.440
not going to say that he is the setting president. Now,

631
00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:08.640
he's not going to lose his connections and his access,

632
00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:11.880
but he can spin it if he wanted to, just

633
00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:14.920
like most everybody could spin this, and anybody who's really

634
00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:17.440
savvy and media can spin this story and come out

635
00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:19.559
the other side not necessarily clean, but maybe you won't

636
00:31:19.559 --> 00:31:23.079
look so bad. And let's just not let's not go

637
00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:25.279
ahead and dismiss the fact that people have short memories.

638
00:31:25.559 --> 00:31:27.279
There's so much has gone on in the world that

639
00:31:27.319 --> 00:31:30.759
people forgot in three days. You know, I have his

640
00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:32.640
conversation with people all the time when we're talking about

641
00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:35.640
presidents and deportations and things like that. I'm like, wow, great,

642
00:31:35.640 --> 00:31:37.440
did you know that Bill Clinton deported twelve million?

643
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:39.519
Did you know that Obama.

644
00:31:39.079 --> 00:31:41.359
Took seven hundred and fifty billion dollars away from Medicaid

645
00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:45.000
and raise taxes by one trillion? They go, No, this

646
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:47.359
was your era. You worked in the administration at that time.

647
00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:51.559
You don't remember this, you know. So it's it's it's

648
00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:55.119
the news cycle, right. There's the trick is this and

649
00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:57.200
you you probably know this way better than I. The

650
00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:59.519
trick is to overwhelm the public. You want to keep

651
00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:01.720
the new cycle spinning as fast as you can with

652
00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:06.079
enough flashy headlines that you can drum up to guide

653
00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:09.559
and misdirect people. It doesn't matter what happens. You know,

654
00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:12.200
if you're able to move quick enough in media and

655
00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:15.720
you've moved the new cycle fast enough, people forget. Because

656
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:19.960
our attention spans today are so short that nobody really

657
00:32:20.119 --> 00:32:22.200
is going to clamp down on it like a bulldog

658
00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:25.519
and not let go of it. They're eventually just going like, well,

659
00:32:25.559 --> 00:32:28.200
hold on, what did Elon Musk just say? You know

660
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:32.839
what happened? What a putin do? Their attention span is

661
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:36.400
so short that I know. For fact, politicians and people

662
00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:38.319
that have the power, as you say, and the money,

663
00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:39.079
they know this.

664
00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:41.480
They know this. That's why there's always.

665
00:32:41.160 --> 00:32:43.720
The adage that, oh, they're rich and they're powerful, they're

666
00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:44.920
just going to get away with it because they know

667
00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:47.359
they will. If you could delay it long enough, if

668
00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:50.759
you could belay and delay the investigations, the prosecutions, et cetera,

669
00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:53.000
you're going to get away with it. People lose interests,

670
00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:55.160
and people are going to forget about it. And that's

671
00:32:55.200 --> 00:32:56.960
just a fact. It's just the reality of the world

672
00:32:57.000 --> 00:32:59.759
we live in. So it's unfortunate, but it's true.

673
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:03.839
It's really true. That's that's the Steve Bannon strategy, flood

674
00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:06.640
the zone with shit. I mean, that is why he

675
00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:09.559
you know, Trump says I'm going to deport Rosie O'Donnell

676
00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:12.799
because he's trying to distract from the Epstein conversation. Yeah,

677
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:16.240
you know, but you'll see it through now here. Here's

678
00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:17.960
the thing, because you brought up a lot there that

679
00:33:18.119 --> 00:33:20.759
that I and I'm going to try to comment on

680
00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:23.839
all of it at once here. But you know, he's

681
00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:26.200
a show biz guy, for better or worse, and he

682
00:33:26.359 --> 00:33:29.079
fancies himself a show biz guy. So I could see

683
00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:34.079
a Bongino exit being like, listen, I know you're gonna

684
00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:35.799
have to go out there and you're gonna have to

685
00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:38.000
say what you need to say for your audience to

686
00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:40.519
save face. And I know you're gonna have to rail

687
00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:43.640
against me. But like we're good, you know what I mean, Like,

688
00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:46.480
I know that Trump knows that the game is played

689
00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:49.759
that way. I actually think not to derail this, but

690
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:54.680
I think Trump and newsomer type I think so too. Well,

691
00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:57.240
they're they're pretty much family, you know that, right? Well?

692
00:33:57.480 --> 00:33:59.400
How many how often do you do you always see

693
00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:01.319
them at But you know when you can see footage

694
00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:02.720
of them at partis and whatnot. They're not They're not

695
00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:04.400
sitting there stabbing each other in the back. They're shaking

696
00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:07.200
hands or smiling, they're cracking jokes. They all know each other.

697
00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:11.800
I'm sure there's there's there's definitely animosity between some absolutely,

698
00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:14.920
but they're all part of the same team.

699
00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:18.360
Realistically, they're all part of the same team. They're all politicians.

700
00:34:18.440 --> 00:34:21.599
They're all playing everybody for as you said, power and money,

701
00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:25.960
and it's all about manipulation, you know, it's misdirection, slight

702
00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:28.119
of hand, it's all that's exactly what we're dealing with.

703
00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:29.079
You know.

704
00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:33.960
It's like it's like when we're the discussion came up about, uh,

705
00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:36.119
what Elon Musk wants to do, and I know you

706
00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:38.320
had an opinion on this with this whole third party thing.

707
00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:42.880
Great idea, it's not gonna happen and it's not gonna work.

708
00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:46.199
But we do need more diversity in our choices, we

709
00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:48.639
absolutely do. But there's just too much money and as

710
00:34:48.679 --> 00:34:50.800
you said, power within the two parties that it's never

711
00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:53.199
gonna come to light. It's just not gonna happen. As

712
00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:55.719
rich as Elon Musk is, he's not as rich as

713
00:34:55.800 --> 00:34:59.039
every single donor combined in the two parties. He's not

714
00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:00.880
gonna he's not gonna to break the surface. It's just

715
00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:01.440
not gonna happen.

716
00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:03.719
Well, I don't think a third party is enough to

717
00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:06.119
break the surface anymore. No, it really won't.

718
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:08.519
They've tried with a tea party they I mean, remember,

719
00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:11.119
Ross Perot was probably the only one back in the

720
00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:13.639
day with enough money to get enough attention. And he

721
00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:16.639
you know, he bumped it. He did, he did well,

722
00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:19.760
but still it just was not enough. And it's not

723
00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:21.840
saying that he was the perfect candidate to be a president,

724
00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:24.239
but it was a good example of what could be done.

725
00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:29.320
But in today's times, with the amount of bombardment of

726
00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:32.199
information and social media that everybody wakes up to and

727
00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:34.960
you just can't get away from it, good luck fighting that.

728
00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:36.679
You're just not going to be able to keep up

729
00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:38.800
with everybody else is going to just becoming at you

730
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:40.639
from all these other angles. So I don't think the

731
00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:42.320
third party is going to work out. It's a great idea,

732
00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:45.079
does it need to happen? Sure we have the Libertarian Party,

733
00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:46.880
good luck with that too. They can't even decide whether

734
00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:49.039
or not they even want to be a political party.

735
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:51.719
They have so much infighting because they can't agree on

736
00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:53.079
what they want to do, and they can't even agree

737
00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:54.760
on who's going to lead the damn Libertarian Party.

738
00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:59.559
It's just a shit show. Our choices and the independent

739
00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:03.039
parties come a workaround for anybody that needs to circumvent

740
00:36:03.920 --> 00:36:06.719
the rules. So you know, Andrew Cuomo is going to

741
00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:09.159
use it right now. But either party will use the

742
00:36:09.239 --> 00:36:11.280
independent ticket to play.

743
00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:13.800
People will they will? I think the independent ticket is

744
00:36:14.599 --> 00:36:18.840
is really coming down to the fact that people are

745
00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:21.400
just over it, but they they don't seem to.

746
00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:25.480
Know where to turn. Running Is Cuomo running is? Excuse me,

747
00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:28.840
I'm sorry, Cuomo running is an independent? That that just

748
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:32.599
further proves how broken the Democrat Party is, absolutely because

749
00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:35.760
here's no room for a real independent if you're basically

750
00:36:35.880 --> 00:36:39.079
trying to flip the script and make and make the

751
00:36:39.159 --> 00:36:42.199
nominee of the Democrat Party the independent candidate, that's what

752
00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:42.880
he's trying to do.

753
00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:47.039
No, completely under I completely understand. I get what he's doing,

754
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:50.159
and he is sending a clear message. You know, look,

755
00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:52.599
if we want to talk about parties, great, let's let's

756
00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:57.639
talk about parties. They both suck honestly, they both got

757
00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:01.079
their issues. The Democrat Party is probably the most broken

758
00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:03.599
at this point because there isn't a clear leader. There

759
00:37:03.639 --> 00:37:08.559
really is not, sadly, I mean, years ago, a lot

760
00:37:08.599 --> 00:37:12.079
of people, including like me, would we were Democrat, voted Democrat,

761
00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:13.960
you know, but there were a different party back then

762
00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:16.679
in the day. They've morphed into something else that nobody recognizes,

763
00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:22.119
and they do not seem to be able to get

764
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:25.639
a pulse on what the people are really wanting and

765
00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:29.480
what is actually needed. It's they're too busy putting themselves first.

766
00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:32.679
Now that can also be argued Trump's doing the same

767
00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:38.280
damn thing. Sure, but he won on the message of

768
00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:41.440
putting America first. That's what everybody wanted. We can argue

769
00:37:41.480 --> 00:37:43.280
whether or not, and he's coming through in US promises.

770
00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:46.480
I'm sure we could. But the Democrat Party right now

771
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:48.920
does not have a leader. Who's next? Who's the rising star?

772
00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:52.719
AOC police not going to happen, Crockett.

773
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:56.800
No Buddha jet like. Who is going to step up

774
00:37:56.840 --> 00:37:59.920
and actually be the leader of that party? I hope

775
00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:02.840
it's somebody whose name we do not know at the moment.

776
00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:08.440
I agree it would be great to suddenly like if

777
00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:10.280
there was some dark horse that just all of a

778
00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:13.760
sudden popped up and was able to move the needle

779
00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:16.480
and you're like, oh wow, okay, this is what I've

780
00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:16.920
been looking for.

781
00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:17.840
This makes sense.

782
00:38:18.079 --> 00:38:19.960
But it's not even just about that anyone could tell

783
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.199
the story and get the votes. It's really about are

784
00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:25.119
you going to actually do what you say? Or once

785
00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:27.800
you're in there, are you going to let like you said,

786
00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:31.119
the deep state takeover and you just become that damn

787
00:38:31.159 --> 00:38:32.000
puppet on a string.

788
00:38:32.599 --> 00:38:34.239
Well, they're never going to get the chance. That's the

789
00:38:34.320 --> 00:38:37.679
real issue because somebody, because if somebody did rise up,

790
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:43.440
if this mythical creature rose up, okay, that they would

791
00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:47.079
be squashed by the establishment. That's the problem is that

792
00:38:47.199 --> 00:38:51.679
the Democrat Party is run like a high school click

793
00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:57.159
and everything comes from the DNC and is dictated outward

794
00:38:57.920 --> 00:38:59.360
and until that could be I mean, look at what

795
00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:01.679
happened with Dave. I don't even like the guy, but

796
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:03.320
look at what happened with David Hogg.

797
00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:06.960
Yeah, he was supposed to be the face of the DNC.

798
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:12.039
He was supposed to be the the that's very I mean, listen,

799
00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:16.880
I'm sure him, I'm sure him and Dan Bongino could

800
00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:21.039
have a really good conversation over a beer. Oh, I'm

801
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:24.719
sure about getting too close to the sun. I'm very sure.

802
00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:28.840
You know, I'm gonna Okay, let's do this because I

803
00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:30.840
want to move into different directions. But before we do,

804
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:35.440
let me ask your opinion on Trump. What's your thoughts?

805
00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:40.800
I think Trump Trump is oddly one of the most

806
00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:44.840
consistent politicians we have ever had. And if you go

807
00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:46.840
back and you look at that interview he did in

808
00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:50.880
his thirties, and I never remember who the woman was

809
00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:53.280
the interviewed him. I always forget her name. I want

810
00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:59.079
to say it was Ronna Barrett. But he he is

811
00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:01.920
somebody that every but he loved because he said really

812
00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:07.719
shocking stuff. And at the same time, people on all

813
00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:12.079
sides were asking him his entire life to consider running

814
00:40:12.119 --> 00:40:15.440
for office. It wasn't until he chose to come down

815
00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:19.519
the escalator and play the playbook that I guess he

816
00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:22.039
inevitably was always going to play a La roy Cone

817
00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:26.440
that he started, you know, pissing people off. But I

818
00:40:26.519 --> 00:40:31.000
think Trump is is not a product of our culture.

819
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:36.239
I think that like we we just caught up. Like

820
00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:39.039
I think we just caught up. I mean he's consistent.

821
00:40:39.679 --> 00:40:42.239
I don't think we bred him. I think that he's

822
00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:46.599
always been there. He's been in rap songs, he's he's

823
00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:52.199
been in movies. Yeah, he's he's iconic. And it was

824
00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:56.239
only until he got into politics and showed people how

825
00:40:56.360 --> 00:40:59.519
he would actually do things, despite what he said all along,

826
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:02.119
despite all the wild things he would say on The

827
00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:05.360
Stern Show, And then people are like, well, wait a second,

828
00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:07.000
we don't actually think if this is the way you're

829
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:08.519
going to lead, that you should be a leader. Like

830
00:41:08.760 --> 00:41:12.880
it's buyer's remorse. It's buyer's remorse.

831
00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:17.119
Ye, good way to put it. Yeah, he's he's he's

832
00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:19.840
not presidential. That's that's the thing about him. He's not

833
00:41:20.039 --> 00:41:24.400
hilarious absolutely. I mean I like that he has no filter,

834
00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:28.599
but at the same time gets him into trouble for sure,

835
00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:31.800
And who the hell talks to world leaders the way

836
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:32.199
he does?

837
00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:34.880
Right, By the way, hilarious doesn't mean I like him.

838
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:39.360
I can objectively say somebody's hilarious, right, but people, we can't.

839
00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:41.400
We live in a world where that's that will be

840
00:41:41.559 --> 00:41:45.159
taken as an endorsement. Well, yeah, that's true. You don't

841
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:46.519
have to like him. It's fine.

842
00:41:46.599 --> 00:41:48.760
I mean, we all don't have to agree on on

843
00:41:48.920 --> 00:41:51.159
candidates and who we back or whatever it is. I mean, look,

844
00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:52.960
there's a lot of people who voted for him that

845
00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:55.760
are now now looking at the fact that you know,

846
00:41:55.800 --> 00:41:57.719
there's a lot of promises that he made that he's

847
00:41:57.760 --> 00:41:59.920
not coming through. A lot of things he did were fine,

848
00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:03.559
a lot of things were great, But there's always the

849
00:42:03.679 --> 00:42:06.079
real argument here has always been we never had a

850
00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:09.119
perfect president. The problem with this guy, you know, even

851
00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:11.440
though he's human like all of them, is he has

852
00:42:11.480 --> 00:42:14.239
no damn filter. He's I mean, who the hell Arizon

853
00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:17.119
Grievance is out on social media? You're the fucking president.

854
00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:20.039
You're the president man a drug addict.

855
00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:23.280
You know what I'm saying. It's like, what are you doing? Yeah?

856
00:42:23.280 --> 00:42:25.400
I know, it's well that's what I'm saying. It's hilarious,

857
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:27.360
but it's also scary at the same time, right, Like

858
00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:30.320
I can laugh at it, but then also be like

859
00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:33.960
this is this is absolutely terrible. We're all gonna die, right,

860
00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:35.760
but how do you not laugh? You know? I mean,

861
00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:38.079
what else was someone I gonna do? Cry? Well? What

862
00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:43.239
is the reaction? The reaction? Look, I think there's a

863
00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:46.360
lot of things that Trump has done that. If the

864
00:42:46.519 --> 00:42:50.760
messenger was different, he would have been applauded. Because he's Trump.

865
00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:56.119
It's it's bad branding, right, you know, maybe it's not

866
00:42:56.320 --> 00:42:59.559
because he won so but at least to the opposition, right,

867
00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:01.599
I mean, there's there's a lot of people that just won't,

868
00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:04.480
that will openly not give this man credit for anything

869
00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:07.079
because they despise him. I don't despise him at that level.

870
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:10.079
I used to watch The Apprentice at nauseum because I

871
00:43:10.079 --> 00:43:14.400
thought he was hugely entertaining. But I didn't even if

872
00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:17.079
I thought he could have been a good president, this

873
00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:20.280
version of him is not capable of being a good president.

874
00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:24.320
He's got moments where he's effective, right, but he is

875
00:43:24.440 --> 00:43:28.840
surrounded by some really dangerous people. I don't and it cares. No,

876
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:31.320
he doesn't care because it's all about again self interest. Yeah,

877
00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:34.480
it's self interesting. Honestly, this is last term, Like he

878
00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:37.920
doesn't care. What comes next is what comes next is

879
00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:43.639
far more dangerous and more concerning. Peter feel backed JD.

880
00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:47.159
Vance presidency has the ability to do far more damage

881
00:43:47.199 --> 00:43:50.159
to this country than anything Trump's capable of doing because

882
00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:52.000
his brain can't move fast enough.

883
00:43:54.280 --> 00:43:58.400
The thing with Vance's I can see what you're saying

884
00:43:59.079 --> 00:44:01.840
and why it would be dangerous to the degree that

885
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:05.039
you're speaking or where you're coming from, because Vance is

886
00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:08.159
a polished person who knows how to present himself and

887
00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:10.360
knows how to speak while he's eloqu when he's educated,

888
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:14.679
he's everything. And Trump is educated too. But Trump just

889
00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:16.960
doesn't care. You know, He's always been rich and famous,

890
00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:19.280
he's always been powerful, so in his mind, this was

891
00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:20.639
just another notch on his belt.

892
00:44:21.039 --> 00:44:23.599
Honestly, you can tell he said in that interview in

893
00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:27.559
his thirties that he would only because she asked him again,

894
00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:31.599
can I never get her name right? But she asked him,

895
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:33.199
would you run? And he said, I would only ever

896
00:44:33.280 --> 00:44:35.360
run if I was broke because people would elect me

897
00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:38.239
because they'd feel sorry for him. He is so honest

898
00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:40.519
in this interview in his thirties. Yeah, I mean, it's

899
00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:43.960
a version of him that we don't see. And I

900
00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:46.400
watched this thing from like from end to end with

901
00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:48.239
my jaw on the ground because it was just so

902
00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:52.519
fascinating to hear how open he was. But Trump is

903
00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:57.480
a guy that is just smart enough to get away

904
00:44:57.519 --> 00:45:00.599
with a lot of things, and just smart enough to

905
00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:02.920
keep the house of cards going and a lot of

906
00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:05.519
that he learned from other people. Yeah, do you think

907
00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:10.000
he's done anything good? Oh? Yeah, yeah. I mean even

908
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:12.880
when he's doing bad, I think he's doing good because

909
00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:16.400
I think that you need the bad to breed the good.

910
00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:19.679
So I think that if Trump is showing the worst

911
00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:24.119
signs the were sides of what this country has to offer,

912
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:27.440
that maybe it'll breed better leadership and maybe this is

913
00:45:27.639 --> 00:45:30.800
rock bottom and we can actually get somewhere productive. But

914
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:33.320
I don't think the Democrats have anything to offer towards

915
00:45:33.400 --> 00:45:36.960
that solution. No, they don't. We need we need a

916
00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:38.719
guy like you. What we need is a guy like you.

917
00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:41.440
Did you? Who is this girl who she just lost

918
00:45:41.519 --> 00:45:43.679
but she was running with a discord and a TikTok,

919
00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:47.199
you know what I'm talking about. No, I wish I

920
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:49.400
could remember her name right now. Our last name was Fox.

921
00:45:50.239 --> 00:45:55.440
I really don't recall. Well, the primary was yesterday. The

922
00:45:55.519 --> 00:45:59.000
primary was yesterday, And I apologize for not remembering her

923
00:45:59.079 --> 00:45:59.880
name her first name.

924
00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:02.880
Literally, been doing nothing but interviews and podcasts, so like,

925
00:46:03.039 --> 00:46:06.239
I'm kind of disconnected, even though you know I should

926
00:46:06.320 --> 00:46:08.079
know that, since it's the nature of my what I do.

927
00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:11.719
But yeah, I literally have been disconnected. I've just been

928
00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:15.800
having podcasts after podcasts after guests since and I'm finding

929
00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:18.400
that I'm learning stuff from people I'm talking to in

930
00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:22.159
real time. I'm like, what, I don't know that I should, So, yeah,

931
00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:23.840
I apologize, I don't.

932
00:46:24.280 --> 00:46:26.039
I really only got dialed into her in the last

933
00:46:26.760 --> 00:46:30.159
three days to be fair, right, So, but she she

934
00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:33.599
didn't win, but her campaign she was. She's an influencer,

935
00:46:34.440 --> 00:46:38.840
and she wound up using discord. Interesting, and I think

936
00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:41.760
that's that's really that the next generation. So I think

937
00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:45.480
that when you talk about rebooting and overhauling, it'll be

938
00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:48.440
a whole bunch of people that are doing direct to

939
00:46:48.559 --> 00:46:53.920
consumer politics that doesn't involve money, that just involves online organizing.

940
00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:56.679
I mean, could you just imagine if they got rid

941
00:46:56.719 --> 00:46:59.159
of all of the lobbyists and influence.

942
00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:02.639
You don't have to it, you just circumvent it. Why

943
00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:05.599
do we keep asking people for money? All right? Just

944
00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:09.199
five more dollars, George, just listen, help me out, just

945
00:47:09.320 --> 00:47:11.840
five more dollars. We didn't make our goal, and we're

946
00:47:11.840 --> 00:47:13.199
still not going to make our goal. And I'm going

947
00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:16.440
to ask you again tomorrow, just five more dollars. I'm like,

948
00:47:16.519 --> 00:47:18.599
how much more money do you frigging people need. You're

949
00:47:18.679 --> 00:47:21.320
running on the fact that people are barely getting by,

950
00:47:21.679 --> 00:47:24.400
so stop asking for money. So the way we take

951
00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:27.960
money out of politics is to just not allow money

952
00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:31.920
to rule our politics. Start electing people using social media

953
00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:36.000
it's free. Well yeah, but that's that's not the people's choice. Really,

954
00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:40.280
that's up to the politician to do that. So there's

955
00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:42.480
but she's a disruptor, and she's she's a proof of

956
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:44.920
what's to come because somebody will do it louder and

957
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:47.119
harder than her, and maybe it will be her next time.

958
00:47:47.639 --> 00:47:50.320
But when it's that disruptive, they won't be able to

959
00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:50.960
stop it.

960
00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:54.280
Yeah, but it's it's also a big reason, like it's

961
00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:56.360
not new though, right, that's that's a big part of

962
00:47:56.360 --> 00:47:59.400
why Trump got elected. He did take advantage of social media.

963
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:02.400
You know, he also had the money, but he was

964
00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:04.519
a different extremely popular and social media.

965
00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:07.840
Yeah, but that's but but look, I mean Trump, you

966
00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:10.880
know they say he wasn't a politician. Trump was a politician, right,

967
00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:13.960
He's a businessman. He was. He's a big time donor.

968
00:48:14.639 --> 00:48:16.440
He may have been on the outside, but he was

969
00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:19.880
he was in that world. We're talking about young folks

970
00:48:19.960 --> 00:48:23.880
from the outside that aren't in it for money or

971
00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:26.880
power or book deals that are like, hey, I got

972
00:48:26.960 --> 00:48:29.800
a job, let me just come do you know, pass

973
00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:33.360
some legislation, get some stuff through, help the people, and

974
00:48:33.440 --> 00:48:35.480
go home and go back to work. But that's the

975
00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:36.079
way it should be.

976
00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:38.239
Yeah, But I mean that's the whole I mean, you're

977
00:48:38.239 --> 00:48:41.719
talking about a unicorn man, and honestly, you know, everybody

978
00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:43.679
has that intent. There's okay, not everybody, but a lot

979
00:48:43.719 --> 00:48:45.760
of people do have that intent. Most people who want

980
00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:48.360
to get into politics want to change and help. They're

981
00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:51.119
not necessarily getting into it because they know unless they

982
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:53.480
come up from a long line, you know, within a

983
00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:55.960
family that was already involved in politics. But most people

984
00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:57.719
from the outside, they don't know what they're getting into.

985
00:48:58.119 --> 00:49:01.719
I think the corruption just it just comes with a job,

986
00:49:01.960 --> 00:49:03.719
and it's almost like you got to pick and choose

987
00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:06.880
your battles and your poisons. I think most people start

988
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:08.840
wanting to make a change, but once you get in there,

989
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:12.119
it's I mean, it's it's a cess pullman, you know,

990
00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:14.639
trying to ward all that stuff off, all all the

991
00:49:14.760 --> 00:49:18.159
all the influence, all the all the money, all how

992
00:49:18.199 --> 00:49:20.719
are everything that comes with it. It's hard to stay

993
00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:21.199
the course.

994
00:49:21.760 --> 00:49:23.960
No, I get it, but that doesn't mean it can't

995
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:26.519
be done. And I mean, you know, if you just

996
00:49:26.519 --> 00:49:29.480
look at innovation as a whole, it's never easy. But

997
00:49:30.199 --> 00:49:31.880
so one of the guys I interviewed when I first

998
00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:34.760
started my podcast was a guy former mayor by the

999
00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:38.360
name of Keith Ramos in New Jersey, small town. He

1000
00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:41.760
got involved in the politics because he got involved with

1001
00:49:41.840 --> 00:49:44.280
politics because he went up to the current mayor at

1002
00:49:44.320 --> 00:49:50.800
the time after a meeting, after a public meeting, and

1003
00:49:51.159 --> 00:49:54.239
ask him some questions about how money was being allocated.

1004
00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:56.280
And the mayor turned to him and goes, you don't

1005
00:49:56.280 --> 00:49:58.119
ask me these kind of questions. I'm the king of

1006
00:49:58.280 --> 00:50:01.800
this town. And he's like, did you really just say

1007
00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:05.760
that to me? And he ran and he beat this

1008
00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:09.199
guy and he was able. And I can't represent what

1009
00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:13.519
he did eloquently enough to even try right now, but

1010
00:50:13.719 --> 00:50:17.480
he made a difference in his town. And I said

1011
00:50:17.519 --> 00:50:20.559
to him, what's next, you know, like, because you would

1012
00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:22.360
think now you move on right, you go a little

1013
00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:24.760
bit higher up the ladder, but it comes back to

1014
00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:26.840
just your point, and it's a lot of work. And

1015
00:50:27.119 --> 00:50:29.320
I don't you know, doesn't know if his family is

1016
00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:31.320
ready for it. And you know, once you dip your

1017
00:50:31.360 --> 00:50:33.760
toe into the bigger pool, you open yourself up to

1018
00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:37.320
all sorts of exposure and it's a big decision. But

1019
00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:40.519
this is a guy I was, a working class guy

1020
00:50:40.599 --> 00:50:44.039
from the outside, didn't like what a politician said to

1021
00:50:44.159 --> 00:50:48.360
his face and took the reins so it could be done. Oh,

1022
00:50:48.440 --> 00:50:48.960
I know. Could.

1023
00:50:49.599 --> 00:50:51.599
I'm not trying to be too negative about it.

1024
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:54.159
I'm not saying this for your benefit. I know you

1025
00:50:54.280 --> 00:50:56.760
know these things. I'm saying people listening because it's the

1026
00:50:56.800 --> 00:50:58.199
people listening that are going to run.

1027
00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:03.920
It's quite okay to have an opinion, and it's also

1028
00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:09.400
okay to be disenchanted about the whole situation as far

1029
00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:12.239
as I feel, because it's we all want better, we

1030
00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:14.360
all want change. I don't disagree with what you said.

1031
00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:18.960
Absolutely you're correct. If there's a possibility, fine, but there's

1032
00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:20.639
nothing new under the sun. I mean, like you said,

1033
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:23.360
the lady that was using discord whatever. Look, it's all

1034
00:51:23.400 --> 00:51:26.000
that is is the delivery. It's just the way you're communicating.

1035
00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:29.639
But outside of that, you still have to present yourself

1036
00:51:29.719 --> 00:51:32.519
as someone that the people want. You got to make

1037
00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:34.599
people believe that you really, truly, in fact, do you

1038
00:51:34.639 --> 00:51:35.960
want to make the change, and you're gonna do it

1039
00:51:36.039 --> 00:51:39.400
on behalf of the people. And so now it comes

1040
00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:43.199
down to the reality, who's the better salesperson? Regardless of

1041
00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:45.800
what's in your heart, it's whoever the better sales person is.

1042
00:51:46.159 --> 00:51:50.320
The fact of the matter is politics is really nothing

1043
00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:53.159
more than a high school popularity contest. There are so

1044
00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:57.519
many inept people without qualifications that are voted into positions

1045
00:51:57.639 --> 00:51:58.760
just because oh.

1046
00:51:58.719 --> 00:51:59.280
I know that name.

1047
00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:01.599
They look on their Oh yeah, I've heard that commercial.

1048
00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:03.239
You don't even know anything about the guy.

1049
00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:06.000
But so you're absolutely right. But that brings it right

1050
00:52:06.039 --> 00:52:09.840
back to our earlier conversation about television, because TV turned

1051
00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:12.440
it into a popularity contest. Yes, it did. In the

1052
00:52:12.519 --> 00:52:14.880
era of radio, you would be able to listen to

1053
00:52:14.960 --> 00:52:20.079
the message, not be staring at the messenger, right, But

1054
00:52:20.159 --> 00:52:23.199
there's still influence in radio as well, of course, but

1055
00:52:23.880 --> 00:52:26.679
it was a huge shift to be able to now suddenly,

1056
00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:30.679
you know, optics literally factored in.

1057
00:52:32.239 --> 00:52:33.800
Are you talking about government syops?

1058
00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:36.800
No, I'm just talking about the fact that as soon

1059
00:52:36.840 --> 00:52:38.920
as you have television and with you no I know,

1060
00:52:39.159 --> 00:52:41.440
but as soon as you have television the conversation just

1061
00:52:41.519 --> 00:52:42.440
because oh, look at him.

1062
00:52:42.920 --> 00:52:46.199
No, you're right, It's it's easier to manipulate with when

1063
00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:49.239
you have the visual component. You can always imagine what

1064
00:52:49.400 --> 00:52:51.519
the person is. You know, you could drum up. It's

1065
00:52:51.559 --> 00:52:53.840
like reading a book, right, if you read a book,

1066
00:52:54.320 --> 00:52:56.239
Like movies and books are the same thing, really just

1067
00:52:56.320 --> 00:52:58.519
one's the visual component. But when you read the book,

1068
00:52:58.519 --> 00:53:00.880
you have a whole different idea of character, You have

1069
00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:02.880
an entire different idea of what this world is as

1070
00:53:02.920 --> 00:53:04.719
person lives in. And then when you see the movie,

1071
00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:07.599
that's why you're disappointed. You're like, this is not what

1072
00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:10.159
I read. This isn't what I drumed up in my

1073
00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:12.920
mind that I was getting behind, or what I loved.

1074
00:53:13.519 --> 00:53:19.519
And so that visual component is needed to manipulate people absolutely,

1075
00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:22.039
But with audio you can't. If it was just an

1076
00:53:22.039 --> 00:53:24.440
audio side, it's easy for the candidate to also hide

1077
00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:27.440
behind as well. It's it's harder to make the connection.

1078
00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:30.760
It's some people are sad enough to tell when someone's lying.

1079
00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:32.639
Like you just look at and you're like, this guy's yeah,

1080
00:53:32.760 --> 00:53:35.039
this guy's full of shit, right, you could tell at

1081
00:53:35.079 --> 00:53:37.639
the gate, but you know you're not wrong.

1082
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:40.320
Yeah, the visual component. It's Look, it's a big part

1083
00:53:40.360 --> 00:53:41.719
of marketing. It's what it is. Everything.

1084
00:53:41.760 --> 00:53:44.000
Everything we're talking about in campaign is just marketing and sales.

1085
00:53:44.199 --> 00:53:46.320
It doesn't matter what your stance is. It's how you

1086
00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:46.880
can sell it.

1087
00:53:47.159 --> 00:53:47.639
It really is.

1088
00:53:48.079 --> 00:53:50.559
If you know how to talk and you're eloquent, that's

1089
00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:52.719
what people are going to eat up. You know, it's

1090
00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:55.960
in the Bomb administration is a big bondministration is a

1091
00:53:56.159 --> 00:53:59.840
big example of that. Everybody thinks he was the best ever.

1092
00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:00.719
No, he wasn't.

1093
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:03.239
He was an amazing speaker. He knew how to talk,

1094
00:54:03.280 --> 00:54:05.280
he knew how to present, so when he spoke, you

1095
00:54:05.400 --> 00:54:08.320
had to pay attention and everything he said because of

1096
00:54:08.440 --> 00:54:10.960
his timing, his you know, everything that he did and

1097
00:54:11.079 --> 00:54:13.599
how he spoke, people just ate it up. But not

1098
00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:16.639
everything he did was great. And I'm not here to

1099
00:54:16.679 --> 00:54:18.239
bash him. I'm just using him as an example of

1100
00:54:18.360 --> 00:54:24.119
somebody that can be a very polished, presentable person if

1101
00:54:24.199 --> 00:54:27.119
you keep your tone the way you need to keep it,

1102
00:54:27.199 --> 00:54:29.920
if you have a certain tone, if you have enough

1103
00:54:30.039 --> 00:54:32.960
pause that allows people to sit there and think. I mean, look,

1104
00:54:32.960 --> 00:54:34.760
it's an old trick. If I'm talking to you and

1105
00:54:34.800 --> 00:54:36.679
I just paused for three seconds something. I'm just going

1106
00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:38.440
to shake my head. That's an old sales trick. I was,

1107
00:54:38.519 --> 00:54:39.719
you know, I had a sales rep firm. I know

1108
00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:42.440
how to do all this crap. And eventually you're just

1109
00:54:42.480 --> 00:54:44.159
going to say the first thing on your mind.

1110
00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:45.320
And you're either going to agree with me or not.

1111
00:54:45.480 --> 00:54:47.119
But more than likely you're going to start agree with

1112
00:54:47.199 --> 00:54:49.760
me because you don't want to have that awkward moment.

1113
00:54:51.320 --> 00:54:54.760
Yeah. No, And the thing with Obama, I mean you're

1114
00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:58.280
talking about that, that's not just Obama. I mean, look,

1115
00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:01.599
Obama's first term, I think he, you know, came out strong.

1116
00:55:01.639 --> 00:55:04.599
I think his second term was all lame duck. Obama

1117
00:55:05.760 --> 00:55:10.119
had great speech writers and he was a strong orator.

1118
00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:12.880
So you know, when that guy can get up there

1119
00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:17.400
and play the teleprompter like he's Hendricks, then yeah, it's

1120
00:55:17.440 --> 00:55:20.519
gonna work. Now people will some people will say Trump

1121
00:55:20.639 --> 00:55:23.159
is not a good messenger, but you could argue he's

1122
00:55:23.199 --> 00:55:29.280
a very effective messenger for all the wrong reasons. So

1123
00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:31.920
it just depends. I mean, part of it has to

1124
00:55:31.960 --> 00:55:33.880
come with the tone of the country, right. I think

1125
00:55:33.960 --> 00:55:36.719
that again we caught up to somebody like Trump or

1126
00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:40.480
enough people did where they're like, Okay, well we identify

1127
00:55:40.599 --> 00:55:42.480
with that as real talk. We'll take it. We don't

1128
00:55:42.519 --> 00:55:45.079
want to be spoken down to. Yeah.

1129
00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:47.360
I think I think what it was is, I think

1130
00:55:47.360 --> 00:55:49.400
a lot of people felt he was saying what they

1131
00:55:49.440 --> 00:55:52.519
always wanted to say themselves, and he always has yeah,

1132
00:55:52.679 --> 00:55:55.679
And they saw someone who wasn't ones that mincing words,

1133
00:55:55.760 --> 00:55:59.079
wasn't holding back, like oh shit, now that's my guy.

1134
00:55:59.440 --> 00:56:01.800
And that was the appeal. I really was the appeal.

1135
00:56:02.800 --> 00:56:05.320
And yes he is a politician, but look, we're not

1136
00:56:05.400 --> 00:56:08.519
going to fix this, Royce, We're not. I like having

1137
00:56:08.519 --> 00:56:12.079
this conversations. I like having you know, I like having

1138
00:56:12.199 --> 00:56:15.280
other people's perspective and what they think of the situation.

1139
00:56:16.320 --> 00:56:17.360
I don't I don't know where we're going with this.

1140
00:56:17.440 --> 00:56:21.159
I don't know what's next. I mean, honestly, I wish

1141
00:56:21.239 --> 00:56:26.679
a president who was elected can just throw away the

1142
00:56:26.760 --> 00:56:30.559
party politics. I'm tired of everything being so politicized. I

1143
00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:32.639
want the president to actually look out for America and

1144
00:56:32.679 --> 00:56:35.280
look out for the people. It doesn't matter whether or

1145
00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:37.599
not the Republican Party is getting points to the Democratic

1146
00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:39.159
parties get point. I think at that point, when you

1147
00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:42.440
become president, you should be neutral. You should be centered, right,

1148
00:56:42.719 --> 00:56:44.239
That's what you should be because you've got to work

1149
00:56:44.280 --> 00:56:48.480
with both sides to get anything done. I don't know

1150
00:56:48.599 --> 00:56:50.239
when that's going to change, but man, we need that

1151
00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:50.920
so badly.

1152
00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:53.480
Really, I agree. I don't know how we get back

1153
00:56:53.519 --> 00:56:56.000
to it. And again, maybe maybe this is rock bottom

1154
00:56:56.280 --> 00:56:58.559
and there's nowhere to go but up. If it's not

1155
00:56:58.800 --> 00:57:03.599
rock bottom, then we have unfortunately a long way to go. Agreed.

1156
00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:06.400
So let's talk about media, because you kind of alluded

1157
00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:09.360
to that earlier when you're talking about podcasters and basically

1158
00:57:10.199 --> 00:57:13.400
everybody having this this circle of friends, right, I see

1159
00:57:13.400 --> 00:57:16.880
the same guys all over the place. They're all stroking

1160
00:57:16.920 --> 00:57:18.960
each other's egos and patting each other on the back.

1161
00:57:19.039 --> 00:57:21.400
And you know, I could drop names because like you

1162
00:57:21.519 --> 00:57:24.159
got like the Dave Smith with the Tucker Carlson's and

1163
00:57:24.199 --> 00:57:28.039
the Rogans, and then you know, now you have Daryl Cooper,

1164
00:57:28.119 --> 00:57:31.239
the martyr made guy. It's like, no matter what happens

1165
00:57:31.440 --> 00:57:33.519
with Peers Morgan, no matter what anybody says, it seems

1166
00:57:33.559 --> 00:57:36.199
like this whole team just jumps to their aid and goes, yeah,

1167
00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:37.760
you're the you're the man. And you also got Dave

1168
00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:39.719
Smith thinking he wins every damn argument, there is a

1169
00:57:39.800 --> 00:57:42.400
debate regards of what he says or what his takes are.

1170
00:57:43.800 --> 00:57:48.159
So I you know, the the problem I see with

1171
00:57:48.239 --> 00:57:50.960
that is, you know, it's a blatant to me, and

1172
00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:53.800
I don't know if everybody does intentional. But for example,

1173
00:57:53.880 --> 00:57:55.840
let's let's just talk about you don't have to, but

1174
00:57:55.920 --> 00:57:58.280
I will. Let's just talk about like Daryl Cooper, for example.

1175
00:57:58.679 --> 00:58:01.679
I think he's an intelligent guy. He denies he's an historian,

1176
00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:03.480
but then he says he is one. If someone calls

1177
00:58:03.559 --> 00:58:04.840
him a historian, all of a sudden he has one.

1178
00:58:05.159 --> 00:58:06.519
If he gets called on his shit, then all a

1179
00:58:06.519 --> 00:58:10.519
sudden he's not. He makes comments right, all of a sudden.

1180
00:58:10.599 --> 00:58:14.079
Hitler wasn't such a bad guy, you know, he was Okay,

1181
00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:17.519
he was just misunderstood. I don't understand what it is

1182
00:58:17.599 --> 00:58:21.000
about this revisionist history bullshit that we're going through right now.

1183
00:58:22.280 --> 00:58:24.280
And the reality is we could all look back one

1184
00:58:24.360 --> 00:58:28.119
hundred years, fifty years even and always say, you know,

1185
00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:29.599
we should have done it this way.

1186
00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:30.599
They were wrong.

1187
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:32.719
There's a big difference of living through the time period

1188
00:58:32.840 --> 00:58:36.280
versus scrutinizing what has been done before you were born.

1189
00:58:36.440 --> 00:58:39.599
So what are your thoughts on this? To me, it

1190
00:58:39.719 --> 00:58:42.119
just seems like this big circle of friends are just

1191
00:58:42.199 --> 00:58:45.159
patting each other on the bat. They're pushing each other's narratives,

1192
00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:49.679
and it's like they're ganging up to keep control of media.

1193
00:58:49.679 --> 00:58:53.039
Because podcasting is media. Podcasting is a big business, and

1194
00:58:53.199 --> 00:58:55.679
as many people who want to think that it isn't.

1195
00:58:56.199 --> 00:58:58.039
I hate to break it to you, but it's an industry.

1196
00:58:58.800 --> 00:59:02.280
What's your thoughts on what happening lately with this movement

1197
00:59:02.559 --> 00:59:05.119
with these podcasters who just seem to be doing nothing

1198
00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:08.280
but making sure that they're the first and only voice heard,

1199
00:59:08.920 --> 00:59:13.079
and anybody who has an objection is suddenly a deranged

1200
00:59:13.159 --> 00:59:14.960
idiot that doesn't have their facts straight.

1201
00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:17.840
Well, the first thing I think of is like an

1202
00:59:17.880 --> 00:59:21.239
Ian Carroll, Okay, yeah, because when you talk about the

1203
00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:25.159
Holocaust and Hitler and all of these I shouldn't say all,

1204
00:59:25.480 --> 00:59:30.920
but a lot of these folks they they practice a

1205
00:59:32.960 --> 00:59:39.639
how can I say this, They practice a faux intellectual curiosity. Okay,

1206
00:59:40.119 --> 00:59:43.840
So it becomes okay to ask questions in their mind,

1207
00:59:44.800 --> 00:59:48.599
all right, and in the in the guise of well,

1208
00:59:48.639 --> 00:59:51.000
we don't know this and we don't know that, and

1209
00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:56.079
it becomes this fake intellectual curiosity, but it's very, very dangerous,

1210
00:59:56.960 --> 00:59:58.840
and they love to do that when it comes to

1211
00:59:58.920 --> 01:00:05.400
the Holocaust and anti Semitism. Okay, I think from the

1212
01:00:06.159 --> 01:00:11.719
independent content creator journalist perspective, I don't think there's much

1213
01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:15.079
of a thing as an independent content creator. If you

1214
01:00:15.239 --> 01:00:17.920
go look at most of these folks, the big ones,

1215
01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:22.840
not all a lot of them. They trace back to

1216
01:00:23.039 --> 01:00:28.519
night coo okay, they trace back to Chernin, Peter Chernan's

1217
01:00:28.599 --> 01:00:34.079
Churning Group, which is backed by Katari money, the Qia Okay,

1218
01:00:34.519 --> 01:00:38.000
Chernin has investment. The Churning Group has investments in Spotify,

1219
01:00:38.320 --> 01:00:41.960
which obviously has a deal with Brogan. They're invested in Nightco,

1220
01:00:42.440 --> 01:00:47.480
which manages Chi Senate and Hassan I believe, and the

1221
01:00:47.880 --> 01:00:51.559
Costco guys. So when you see all these independent creators,

1222
01:00:51.559 --> 01:00:55.519
whether we're talking politics or we're just talking creators, they're

1223
01:00:55.639 --> 01:00:59.480
generally being funded and managed by only a handful of people.

1224
01:00:59.840 --> 01:01:02.960
They have the illusion of independent. Go down that rabbit

1225
01:01:03.039 --> 01:01:05.159
hole of Nightco. I think it was his name, Red Rusher,

1226
01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:08.719
Go down that rabbit hole of Nightco and Churning Group,

1227
01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:11.800
and you see how much of that money is all

1228
01:01:12.320 --> 01:01:15.280
that those independent companies funnel back to that money.

1229
01:01:16.559 --> 01:01:19.599
I think you think it's just being controlled by just

1230
01:01:19.679 --> 01:01:22.840
a small handful of people, like, here's the personality we

1231
01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:25.559
can get behind this guy, and now once they got

1232
01:01:25.639 --> 01:01:27.679
him to a certain level, they're just controlling the narrative.

1233
01:01:28.199 --> 01:01:30.199
No, I don't think it's that thought out. I think

1234
01:01:30.239 --> 01:01:32.800
it's more like, no, I really don't. I think it's

1235
01:01:32.840 --> 01:01:35.480
more like, this is business and we don't really give

1236
01:01:35.519 --> 01:01:37.800
a ship what people are saying on either side as

1237
01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:42.000
long as they're keeping things murky and people arguing, right, okay,

1238
01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:46.239
because at the top, none of this exists. They're all

1239
01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:49.239
all these politicians on both sides of the aisle are

1240
01:01:49.360 --> 01:01:52.760
doing blow and shots on K Street together. Okay, to

1241
01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:56.880
go back to Gavin Newsom, Gavin Newsom's ex wife was

1242
01:01:57.000 --> 01:02:01.920
dating Donald Junior Trump Junior. Yeah, okay, it's all everybody's.

1243
01:02:02.199 --> 01:02:06.199
Everybody's hanging out. Okay. So at a certain level, they're

1244
01:02:06.239 --> 01:02:09.400
all they're all in there in their one percent club,

1245
01:02:10.159 --> 01:02:13.239
all right, and we're stuck playing this this game of

1246
01:02:13.360 --> 01:02:17.360
party politics or identity politics, or whatever you want to

1247
01:02:17.400 --> 01:02:19.599
call it. And I and I just think that we

1248
01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:23.880
were blinded by that because at the end of the day. Uh,

1249
01:02:24.760 --> 01:02:27.800
it's it's are there people out there trying to do

1250
01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:33.320
an independent thing? Yes, I don't think that the controlled

1251
01:02:33.400 --> 01:02:38.000
independent media is necessarily being handed a narrative. But I

1252
01:02:38.159 --> 01:02:41.559
think when the people at the top are making money

1253
01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:44.440
off of whatever they're saying, they don't give a shit

1254
01:02:44.519 --> 01:02:47.400
what they're saying because ultimately they get the final word

1255
01:02:47.440 --> 01:02:49.480
because they control the purse strings. Yeah.

1256
01:02:50.039 --> 01:02:55.000
But these guys are also extremely disingenuous. Oh yeah, because

1257
01:02:55.760 --> 01:03:00.159
Sean Ryan, for example, I remember watching one of his

1258
01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:05.000
appearances on Talker for example, the whole time, I'm not

1259
01:03:05.159 --> 01:03:06.599
in it for the money. I hate the money. I'll

1260
01:03:06.599 --> 01:03:08.360
never do it at the And on the other hand, oh,

1261
01:03:08.400 --> 01:03:10.480
I'm building this multimillion dollar studio.

1262
01:03:11.559 --> 01:03:12.199
Well, which is it.

1263
01:03:13.079 --> 01:03:14.199
You want to do it or you don't want to

1264
01:03:14.239 --> 01:03:15.679
do You're in it for the money or not. If

1265
01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:18.159
you didn't care, why are you putting so much investment

1266
01:03:18.239 --> 01:03:21.719
of your time and money into this thing? Like it

1267
01:03:21.800 --> 01:03:22.719
doesn't make any sense.

1268
01:03:23.480 --> 01:03:25.719
Yeah, there's a lot of people like that come to

1269
01:03:25.840 --> 01:03:28.079
mind that you're just in this for money, you know,

1270
01:03:28.440 --> 01:03:30.559
because if you all got together and actually wanted to

1271
01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:33.719
affect something, you could, but you don't want to erode

1272
01:03:33.760 --> 01:03:36.039
your revenue. I mean, there are some people out there.

1273
01:03:36.039 --> 01:03:38.039
I like that. There's some that I can think of,

1274
01:03:38.159 --> 01:03:39.360
and I really I don't want to get in the

1275
01:03:39.400 --> 01:03:43.920
pointing fingers because some of these people I kind of

1276
01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:46.760
have dealt with in the past, so I don't feel

1277
01:03:46.800 --> 01:03:51.519
like blowing that up yet yet. But there's some organizations

1278
01:03:51.559 --> 01:03:58.320
out there that went from anti Trump to fundraising off

1279
01:03:58.400 --> 01:04:01.800
of that too. Now we're a media company and we're

1280
01:04:01.840 --> 01:04:04.639
no longer a pack and you're like, oh, so this

1281
01:04:04.800 --> 01:04:08.920
whole thing was just a scheme to launch a media enterprise,

1282
01:04:09.159 --> 01:04:12.880
and now all you did was fundraise to build prop

1283
01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:16.880
up your quote unquote independent media outlet, you know, and

1284
01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:20.760
now you're out there continuing that grift. Yeah, well the

1285
01:04:20.840 --> 01:04:24.440
grift is real. Listen, I've been accused of grifting. I'm

1286
01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:26.760
a live streamer from TikTok. That's all I've been accused

1287
01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:27.360
of is grifting.

1288
01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:29.880
It's okay, it's it's and it's not for me to

1289
01:04:29.960 --> 01:04:33.840
get you to talk badly about anyone in particular. But

1290
01:04:34.159 --> 01:04:36.199
you know, I don't have a problem calling out people.

1291
01:04:36.360 --> 01:04:36.920
I never have.

1292
01:04:37.079 --> 01:04:41.719
I can care less because the reality is somebody has

1293
01:04:41.760 --> 01:04:44.079
to and there's people out there they say stuff about

1294
01:04:44.119 --> 01:04:46.719
me too, like who cares? You know, at some point

1295
01:04:46.840 --> 01:04:49.440
you've got to be able to stand for truth if

1296
01:04:49.480 --> 01:04:51.639
you can, or the truth we know anyway, because again,

1297
01:04:52.039 --> 01:04:53.800
you know, it's like like I said, everything that we

1298
01:04:53.920 --> 01:04:56.039
know in our assessments, in our opinions are only as

1299
01:04:56.079 --> 01:04:58.480
good as the information we get period. You know, And

1300
01:04:58.599 --> 01:05:00.920
I've always said, we're you know, right today, wrong tomorrow

1301
01:05:01.440 --> 01:05:02.159
always happens.

1302
01:05:02.519 --> 01:05:05.400
You're never going to be in Yeah, you're never going

1303
01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:06.440
to be information. Yeah.

1304
01:05:06.840 --> 01:05:09.639
So but when I when I when I see what

1305
01:05:09.840 --> 01:05:12.199
you just mentioned, the Grift for example, when I see

1306
01:05:12.239 --> 01:05:14.679
someone like and I'll just keep drumming it because I

1307
01:05:14.719 --> 01:05:16.559
can care less about what this guy thinks. But let's

1308
01:05:16.599 --> 01:05:18.039
say like a Dave Smith. And it's not because I

1309
01:05:18.039 --> 01:05:21.039
hate him, I don't. I actually I respected his intelligence.

1310
01:05:21.079 --> 01:05:22.480
I thought he was great when he first came out,

1311
01:05:22.840 --> 01:05:26.840
But now you can clearly see it's like he's just

1312
01:05:27.000 --> 01:05:28.639
kind of just going with what works.

1313
01:05:29.519 --> 01:05:29.679
You know.

1314
01:05:30.360 --> 01:05:33.760
It's it's always the same argument, the same thing. We

1315
01:05:33.840 --> 01:05:35.440
don't have to stay on him. I just use him

1316
01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:37.159
as an example. No, but but and I don't really

1317
01:05:37.199 --> 01:05:38.000
know much about him.

1318
01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:39.360
I know the name. But let me ask you this. No,

1319
01:05:39.440 --> 01:05:41.079
I'm just using him as an example. Yeah, but let

1320
01:05:41.119 --> 01:05:43.960
me ask you from the from the perspective of grifting. Yeah,

1321
01:05:44.280 --> 01:05:47.719
isn't it really all about perceived value? And I can

1322
01:05:47.840 --> 01:05:50.079
argue both sides of this, But isn't it really about

1323
01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:53.440
like how how many people pay for Netflix and do

1324
01:05:53.599 --> 01:05:56.320
nothing but scroll the menu and never why you look

1325
01:05:56.320 --> 01:05:58.440
at forty things like I think I'll watch nothing, I'll

1326
01:05:58.480 --> 01:06:02.719
just go to bed. So is that a grift? I mean,

1327
01:06:02.800 --> 01:06:04.159
if you pay it and never use it, is it

1328
01:06:04.199 --> 01:06:08.760
a grift? So I think that if people are grabbing

1329
01:06:09.480 --> 01:06:14.719
their information from a Joe Walsh okay, and he's becoming

1330
01:06:14.800 --> 01:06:18.800
their news source, then is it so wrong that they

1331
01:06:18.960 --> 01:06:22.719
choose to subscribe to him and help bankroll him. I

1332
01:06:22.840 --> 01:06:25.239
think the problem I have is that there's such an

1333
01:06:25.280 --> 01:06:31.159
oversaturation of this stuff that people just get further siloed. Well, So.

1334
01:06:32.679 --> 01:06:37.360
I say, what a grift is my opinion and the

1335
01:06:37.400 --> 01:06:40.400
way I see it and understand it is when someone

1336
01:06:40.519 --> 01:06:44.679
is literally disingenuous. Okay, there's someone who doesn't necessarily believe

1337
01:06:44.719 --> 01:06:47.840
in all the bullshit that they're spewing, but they said something,

1338
01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:52.199
they presented something that got them the attention. Now they

1339
01:06:52.280 --> 01:06:55.280
know what works, and now they just keep spitting out

1340
01:06:55.320 --> 01:06:57.800
and spewing the same old crap over and over because

1341
01:06:57.800 --> 01:06:59.719
they know that that formula is going to get them

1342
01:07:00.159 --> 01:07:04.559
the eyeballs. Those are grifters in the in the most

1343
01:07:04.599 --> 01:07:07.760
literal sense. Yes, so that that's my take on it.

1344
01:07:08.199 --> 01:07:11.400
I don't care that someone iurological guy. I mean the

1345
01:07:11.719 --> 01:07:15.039
Internet trolls, they consider what we're doing right now grift.

1346
01:07:15.119 --> 01:07:17.440
Oh yeah, I get what you're saying. Yeah, I understand,

1347
01:07:18.079 --> 01:07:19.920
but I don't. I don't have I don't.

1348
01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:21.840
I don't care that someone makes money. I mean, why

1349
01:07:21.880 --> 01:07:25.039
should you not be able to earn a living doing

1350
01:07:25.119 --> 01:07:28.320
what you like. I'm not against that whatsoever. I was

1351
01:07:28.679 --> 01:07:30.960
what I meant by a grift is exactly what I said,

1352
01:07:31.159 --> 01:07:34.079
or just just now in how I defined it is.

1353
01:07:34.280 --> 01:07:37.880
It's like, look, dude, you know you don't really believe

1354
01:07:37.920 --> 01:07:40.920
in what you're saying because just three years ago, just

1355
01:07:41.000 --> 01:07:42.719
three years ago, and I don't even say names were

1356
01:07:42.760 --> 01:07:47.840
just hypothetically you said Trump was was an asshole. Now

1357
01:07:47.880 --> 01:07:51.199
you're licking his boots. That's a grifter, because now licking

1358
01:07:51.239 --> 01:07:54.440
Trump's boots is what gets him paid. Okay, I get

1359
01:07:54.480 --> 01:07:56.639
you gotta pay bills, but the reasons you're doing it,

1360
01:07:57.440 --> 01:07:59.719
I'm sorry. You are being disingenuous. You are grifting, and

1361
01:07:59.800 --> 01:08:01.840
that's what a grifter is, and so that's what I'm

1362
01:08:01.880 --> 01:08:02.440
talking about.

1363
01:08:02.599 --> 01:08:07.800
I'm not talking you consider JD. Vance a grifter? You

1364
01:08:07.920 --> 01:08:10.000
know what. I think he is. Definitely.

1365
01:08:11.280 --> 01:08:14.280
I definitely think he's biden his time. I think he

1366
01:08:14.639 --> 01:08:17.159
is probably to be honest, if I had to say, yeah,

1367
01:08:17.159 --> 01:08:18.600
I think he is kind of a grifter. He is

1368
01:08:18.720 --> 01:08:22.119
someone who jumped on the ticket. I think he's using

1369
01:08:22.199 --> 01:08:24.479
Trump to get where he needs to go. But I

1370
01:08:24.520 --> 01:08:27.279
don't know if he believes in everything that Trump does whatsoever.

1371
01:08:27.840 --> 01:08:30.880
I really don't think I think Vance is the cleanup guy.

1372
01:08:31.720 --> 01:08:33.760
Because you were like describing all that, and I'm like,

1373
01:08:33.840 --> 01:08:38.279
you are painting the picture of JD. Vance. That's that's

1374
01:08:38.319 --> 01:08:40.640
what That's what I see. That's just what I see.

1375
01:08:40.960 --> 01:08:43.920
I I agree with you. He's intelligent. He is. He is,

1376
01:08:44.039 --> 01:08:46.760
He's very intelligent. But I don't believe he's bought in.

1377
01:08:47.039 --> 01:08:51.359
I just don't. I I think that it's the same

1378
01:08:51.399 --> 01:08:55.800
thing with Marco Rubio. You know, I can see that definitely,

1379
01:08:55.960 --> 01:08:59.399
these guys are in it for their career advancement. Unlike

1380
01:08:59.439 --> 01:09:02.399
a guy like Pete Hegseth, who is in it? Because

1381
01:09:02.640 --> 01:09:04.880
how do I turn down this opportunity? Of course I'm

1382
01:09:04.880 --> 01:09:06.319
gonna take it. And then he gets it, he goes,

1383
01:09:06.479 --> 01:09:09.239
this is a lot of work. I think I'll have

1384
01:09:09.319 --> 01:09:14.199
a drink, right, you know, did you see the video

1385
01:09:14.319 --> 01:09:19.279
of him with the drone delivering up the document? Like

1386
01:09:19.399 --> 01:09:23.239
what are we doing? It's fun even your videos, like

1387
01:09:23.319 --> 01:09:25.760
you said, you have to laugh, yeah, but like it what?

1388
01:09:26.079 --> 01:09:29.840
First of all, there's nothing impressive about a drone carrying

1389
01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:34.840
a payload of one sheet of paper. No, like like

1390
01:09:35.079 --> 01:09:37.920
what it should have been is a document like like

1391
01:09:38.199 --> 01:09:42.520
like like gorilla taped to a concrete block. Okay, and

1392
01:09:42.640 --> 01:09:45.800
the drone flies in a concrete block and he takes

1393
01:09:45.840 --> 01:09:48.920
the paper off the block. But there's nothing impressive about

1394
01:09:48.920 --> 01:09:51.319
a drone flying in a piece of paper. That doesn't

1395
01:09:51.359 --> 01:09:55.880
say masculinity. That's his small penis. That's like that makes

1396
01:09:55.920 --> 01:09:58.520
me think of Andrew Tait. When I think of small penis,

1397
01:09:58.560 --> 01:10:01.159
I think of Andrew Tate. Get me started on that guy.

1398
01:10:01.640 --> 01:10:04.479
I'm trying to because you can't stand him. Listen. I

1399
01:10:04.520 --> 01:10:06.359
wish you remember pay per view in the nineties. I

1400
01:10:06.600 --> 01:10:08.079
would love to get in the ring with that guy.

1401
01:10:08.359 --> 01:10:10.239
I don't care if I lose. I just want to

1402
01:10:10.319 --> 01:10:10.920
punch him in the.

1403
01:10:10.960 --> 01:10:15.279
Face, right, you know he brought him up. Let's talk

1404
01:10:15.279 --> 01:10:17.920
about Tate like. I'm gonna let you start it because

1405
01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:19.079
you obviously have a lot to say.

1406
01:10:20.399 --> 01:10:22.319
I just think he's got a small penis and I look,

1407
01:10:22.399 --> 01:10:24.119
the only reason I can say this is because he's

1408
01:10:24.319 --> 01:10:26.520
he's jumping around in that little bikini all the time.

1409
01:10:26.680 --> 01:10:29.359
I'm not asking to see these photos, he's putting them

1410
01:10:29.359 --> 01:10:31.600
out there. I'm like you, there's nothing about you that

1411
01:10:31.680 --> 01:10:35.760
says man. You are like an AI generated version of masculinity.

1412
01:10:37.520 --> 01:10:38.279
I can agree with that.

1413
01:10:38.720 --> 01:10:40.520
I think I think the guy is just a h

1414
01:10:40.760 --> 01:10:43.800
He's just a scammer. Literally, well, he's a grifter. I mean,

1415
01:10:43.880 --> 01:10:46.439
come on, is his his online university?

1416
01:10:47.199 --> 01:10:50.840
Have you ever looked at that crap? Only to the

1417
01:10:50.920 --> 01:10:52.520
extent that I know would exists? But no, I haven't

1418
01:10:52.560 --> 01:10:54.399
like signed up if that's what you're asking. Oh no, no,

1419
01:10:54.680 --> 01:10:57.880
I wasn't asking. I'm not sure where you go. No,

1420
01:10:58.079 --> 01:11:01.560
but look, have these stupid courses on how you can

1421
01:11:01.600 --> 01:11:04.439
make money? I got a webcam, girls and all that shit.

1422
01:11:04.560 --> 01:11:07.199
The paper route you're doing it wrong, you know, shit

1423
01:11:07.319 --> 01:11:07.439
like that.

1424
01:11:07.840 --> 01:11:10.239
I know I'm being facetious, but just saying it's like,

1425
01:11:10.319 --> 01:11:13.800
it's that bad and people buy into this crap and

1426
01:11:14.119 --> 01:11:14.960
they said, I.

1427
01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:17.680
Would have you wouldn't do the web girl the webcam business.

1428
01:11:17.720 --> 01:11:19.479
You got like eight girls to do webcams, and you

1429
01:11:19.520 --> 01:11:22.479
sit around and driving a nice car and sitting in

1430
01:11:22.520 --> 01:11:25.760
a bikini drinking whatever he's drinking. I got life.

1431
01:11:26.399 --> 01:11:29.279
Well, yeah, it's imagine being then insecure that that's what

1432
01:11:29.399 --> 01:11:32.119
you have to do. It's it's the problem is that

1433
01:11:32.239 --> 01:11:34.520
he is presenting that as the life that a man

1434
01:11:34.680 --> 01:11:39.279
should have. I mean, that's your thing, great, that's you whatever.

1435
01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:42.279
No, I know you were, but I know there's always

1436
01:11:42.319 --> 01:11:44.000
that one out there who's like, oh wow, he's really

1437
01:11:44.039 --> 01:11:44.319
into me.

1438
01:11:46.239 --> 01:11:48.760
I think it's just so ridiculous that that these young,

1439
01:11:49.119 --> 01:11:52.119
younger men are buying into this, Like if he is

1440
01:11:52.279 --> 01:11:56.560
the beacon of manhood, we're in trouble. I'm sorry. There's

1441
01:11:56.640 --> 01:11:59.640
nothing masculine as you said about him. He is absolutely drifting.

1442
01:11:59.680 --> 01:12:03.039
He's he's just really manipulating and molding young people's minds

1443
01:12:03.079 --> 01:12:05.640
to believe that if you act like me, you treat

1444
01:12:05.720 --> 01:12:09.520
women badly and you make bad investments that you're you're

1445
01:12:09.560 --> 01:12:12.199
gonna be a great person, You're gonna be successful individual.

1446
01:12:13.119 --> 01:12:15.920
Everything he's doing is just look, it's a house of cards.

1447
01:12:15.960 --> 01:12:18.560
Man. He know it's weak. He's a weak person. He

1448
01:12:18.680 --> 01:12:19.520
is weak, you know.

1449
01:12:19.640 --> 01:12:21.319
And and and sure, when he gets mad enough, all

1450
01:12:21.359 --> 01:12:23.319
of a sudden, it's like, oh, you know, let's get

1451
01:12:23.359 --> 01:12:26.119
in the ring. Like, bro, listen, that ship sailed. Sure,

1452
01:12:26.159 --> 01:12:28.640
that's that's when his lisp starts flying.

1453
01:12:28.880 --> 01:12:30.439
Yeah. Yeah, And I can only make fun of that

1454
01:12:30.479 --> 01:12:32.640
because I had a lisp as a kid. So don't

1455
01:12:32.680 --> 01:12:35.359
come for me because I overcame it. He didn't. And

1456
01:12:35.439 --> 01:12:38.439
then he gets really upset and he's like, dolls'll get

1457
01:12:38.479 --> 01:12:40.720
in the bring, would you okay, I'll beat you up.

1458
01:12:41.840 --> 01:12:44.920
British comes out. Yeah, like you know what he looks like.

1459
01:12:45.039 --> 01:12:49.279
He looks like like if Bam Bam from the Flintstone

1460
01:12:49.520 --> 01:12:53.039
grew up, but like never saw a therapist, you know

1461
01:12:53.039 --> 01:12:55.279
what I mean? Because he's like he's like bam bam

1462
01:12:56.840 --> 01:12:58.800
like and I can't get that out of my head. Yeah,

1463
01:12:58.880 --> 01:13:01.800
give him, give him like a giant drum stickers to

1464
01:13:01.920 --> 01:13:04.680
the chicken wing and uh and put them in one

1465
01:13:04.720 --> 01:13:08.079
of those Cocta things and it looks chromagnom so so

1466
01:13:08.199 --> 01:13:11.880
we were Box Adventure from Turbographics. Remember Box Adventures? Yes,

1467
01:13:13.439 --> 01:13:17.159
I remember that ship. You're going back? Hey? What what?

1468
01:13:17.399 --> 01:13:17.680
What is?

1469
01:13:17.760 --> 01:13:20.159
What are your thoughts that I have thoughts? We probably

1470
01:13:20.159 --> 01:13:22.399
were very much on the same page with this guy. Uh,

1471
01:13:23.520 --> 01:13:27.960
what were your thoughts about these podcasts, these conservative podcasts

1472
01:13:28.000 --> 01:13:30.439
that got behind this guy and platform him and gave

1473
01:13:30.520 --> 01:13:33.000
him the ability to do this podcast too? Like why

1474
01:13:33.079 --> 01:13:35.840
why is Patrick pick David having someone like him? You

1475
01:13:35.920 --> 01:13:38.920
know that that made no sense to me? Like there

1476
01:13:38.960 --> 01:13:41.560
there were there were, there was everybody. Yeah, Cannas owns

1477
01:13:41.600 --> 01:13:43.640
behind him, like she's gone off the deband anyway. But

1478
01:13:43.960 --> 01:13:47.039
I'm just saying that what what what was behind that

1479
01:13:47.159 --> 01:13:47.680
in your mind?

1480
01:13:47.760 --> 01:13:49.760
Like why? I mean, did they need the money that bad?

1481
01:13:49.840 --> 01:13:52.079
They need the eyeballs that bad that they would lower

1482
01:13:52.159 --> 01:13:54.880
their standards enough to platform this guy.

1483
01:13:55.800 --> 01:13:58.720
It's all self interested again. And Cannas Owen's husband is

1484
01:13:58.880 --> 01:14:03.520
like best friends with Andrew Tape, so so there's there's

1485
01:14:03.560 --> 01:14:05.840
real connections there, and I think sometimes you just do

1486
01:14:05.960 --> 01:14:09.359
it to save phase, you know, And it's all about clout, right,

1487
01:14:09.439 --> 01:14:12.399
It's all about clout, which is why people play the circles.

1488
01:14:12.479 --> 01:14:15.319
You know, you're talking a lot about folks on the

1489
01:14:16.239 --> 01:14:18.960
the conservative leaning side, and I can think of a

1490
01:14:19.000 --> 01:14:23.199
lot of people on the left leaning side of things

1491
01:14:23.520 --> 01:14:26.479
that do the same things. I mean, like Lev Parness

1492
01:14:26.800 --> 01:14:29.439
and Michael Cohen, Like how many times do these guys

1493
01:14:29.520 --> 01:14:31.800
need to go live on a podcast and talk to

1494
01:14:31.880 --> 01:14:35.199
the same twelve people? Like how much more does Michael

1495
01:14:35.239 --> 01:14:37.560
Cohen have to offer this world? Or is he just

1496
01:14:37.680 --> 01:14:39.760
there to get his five bucks a month. I don't know,

1497
01:14:40.119 --> 01:14:42.399
I don't know. You know, a great point, it really is.

1498
01:14:42.560 --> 01:14:46.800
It seems like the ability for since we're talking about

1499
01:14:46.800 --> 01:14:51.479
podcasting now, the ability for anybody who has the hope

1500
01:14:51.520 --> 01:14:53.000
in the dream to build.

1501
01:14:52.760 --> 01:14:53.439
Something as.

1502
01:14:55.279 --> 01:14:59.600
An independent podcaster. It seems like the window of opportunity

1503
01:14:59.600 --> 01:15:02.760
of the doors just being close to you. Because in

1504
01:15:02.840 --> 01:15:04.800
the beginning was the wild West, like anybody could just

1505
01:15:04.840 --> 01:15:07.359
get in there. Anybody can get in there and become,

1506
01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:10.359
you know, some a bit of a success in terms

1507
01:15:10.399 --> 01:15:12.800
of a following right right in the beginning, there wasn't

1508
01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:15.760
as many options. But now we're looking at what was

1509
01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:19.239
it they said last report, over five million podcasts out there.

1510
01:15:19.279 --> 01:15:19.399
Now.

1511
01:15:19.439 --> 01:15:21.000
It doesn't mean all of them are active, but Still

1512
01:15:21.000 --> 01:15:24.600
you got a huge saturation of choices, and who's going

1513
01:15:24.680 --> 01:15:26.680
to be presented to you when you open your app?

1514
01:15:27.159 --> 01:15:31.880
You know they and these apps are like okay, like Apple, Spotify. Look,

1515
01:15:31.960 --> 01:15:34.920
I've done enough in business to understand how it works.

1516
01:15:34.960 --> 01:15:36.800
I've been in sales. I understand how this works.

1517
01:15:37.199 --> 01:15:37.880
They deny that.

1518
01:15:38.159 --> 01:15:40.439
No, no, no, we don't take money. There's no such thing.

1519
01:15:40.520 --> 01:15:42.760
These people all play the game bullshit. You guys are

1520
01:15:42.760 --> 01:15:45.479
all lying. They all got big pockets behind them. The

1521
01:15:45.520 --> 01:15:48.239
only reason that every time you open Apple, for example,

1522
01:15:48.319 --> 01:15:51.439
and you see let's say, hot Save America is because

1523
01:15:51.439 --> 01:15:54.279
there's enough money to keep them on the front page,

1524
01:15:54.359 --> 01:15:55.880
just not because of their damn downloads.

1525
01:15:56.279 --> 01:15:56.439
Man.

1526
01:15:56.880 --> 01:15:58.520
Look, there was a time I was in the top

1527
01:15:58.560 --> 01:16:01.000
one hundred in politics on Apple and most people probably

1528
01:16:01.039 --> 01:16:04.359
even know who I am. You didn't see me on

1529
01:16:04.479 --> 01:16:07.479
every Apple splash page right when you open it.

1530
01:16:07.600 --> 01:16:08.079
No you didn't.

1531
01:16:08.439 --> 01:16:12.159
So it's a bunch of lies and manipulation and bullshit.

1532
01:16:12.439 --> 01:16:14.640
And it's unfortunate that you have voices out there like

1533
01:16:14.960 --> 01:16:16.920
I personally, Royce, I don't know what you do, but

1534
01:16:16.920 --> 01:16:18.600
I don't even listen to a lot of big guys anymore.

1535
01:16:18.640 --> 01:16:20.600
Unless there's like a certain interview I want to hear.

1536
01:16:21.199 --> 01:16:23.159
I support a lot of independence. I really do, because

1537
01:16:23.159 --> 01:16:26.359
there's a lot of good quality independent podcasters out there

1538
01:16:26.359 --> 01:16:27.720
who are going to do the work. They're going to

1539
01:16:27.760 --> 01:16:30.239
do the deep dive. They have other jobs and in

1540
01:16:30.319 --> 01:16:33.000
their spare time, they are really putting their all into this,

1541
01:16:33.680 --> 01:16:35.800
and I respect those people.

1542
01:16:35.920 --> 01:16:36.039
You know.

1543
01:16:36.079 --> 01:16:38.239
I'm one of those people period, You know, I am.

1544
01:16:38.920 --> 01:16:41.000
This isn't This isn't where I make my money. You know,

1545
01:16:41.319 --> 01:16:44.079
I make my money elsewhere. But I love doing this

1546
01:16:44.319 --> 01:16:46.720
and I felt that I had a voice, so I said, hey,

1547
01:16:46.840 --> 01:16:48.720
let me go ahead and do what I can. And

1548
01:16:48.840 --> 01:16:51.600
on some episodes, man, I sound like an encyclopedia because

1549
01:16:51.640 --> 01:16:52.600
I will dig that deep.

1550
01:16:52.600 --> 01:16:53.600
I get highper focused.

1551
01:16:54.119 --> 01:16:58.640
So I think that, you know, the window of opportunity, unfortunately,

1552
01:16:58.960 --> 01:17:01.640
is getting narrower, and it's very sad to see that

1553
01:17:01.760 --> 01:17:03.479
this has become an industry. I have a person I

1554
01:17:03.600 --> 01:17:06.039
know that has been podcasting for a very long time,

1555
01:17:06.119 --> 01:17:08.159
and you knows some people that are in the industry

1556
01:17:08.239 --> 01:17:11.640
that are pretty well known people, and he still wants

1557
01:17:11.680 --> 01:17:13.079
to hold on to the fact. He looks at it

1558
01:17:13.239 --> 01:17:15.560
as you know, it's just like bands, you know, it's

1559
01:17:15.640 --> 01:17:17.840
just like being in a band and all of this.

1560
01:17:18.079 --> 01:17:19.800
You know, it's not an industry. It's punk rock.

1561
01:17:19.880 --> 01:17:23.039
Now. I'm sorry, it's not anymore. And that's unfortunately. I

1562
01:17:23.159 --> 01:17:26.560
wish it wasn't. That was not the truth, but it is.

1563
01:17:27.000 --> 01:17:27.560
It really is.

1564
01:17:27.720 --> 01:17:29.800
So how does because you've been doing this for a

1565
01:17:29.840 --> 01:17:32.520
long time, how does someone become successful? And that could

1566
01:17:32.520 --> 01:17:35.439
be many things. It doesn't necessarily mean rich, But how

1567
01:17:35.439 --> 01:17:38.000
would you be able to be able to get your

1568
01:17:38.079 --> 01:17:40.680
voice heard and also be able to do this for

1569
01:17:40.760 --> 01:17:42.880
a living to where you know, maybe you make enough

1570
01:17:42.960 --> 01:17:43.760
to keep it going?

1571
01:17:43.960 --> 01:17:48.159
For example, how to set that I could tell I

1572
01:17:48.239 --> 01:17:52.000
mean I had for the post pandemic, I made a

1573
01:17:52.119 --> 01:17:56.000
living live streaming on TikTok, and you could look at

1574
01:17:56.039 --> 01:17:58.600
the metrics on TikTok and my success on TikTok and

1575
01:17:58.720 --> 01:18:00.960
think that it was really, really imporant pgressive. But as

1576
01:18:01.039 --> 01:18:03.359
soon as you took it out of that ecosystem, it

1577
01:18:03.439 --> 01:18:08.399
didn't scale, it didn't carry over into other platforms. I

1578
01:18:08.960 --> 01:18:15.159
have decided to break it in pursuit of growing further,

1579
01:18:15.680 --> 01:18:19.439
much along the same thought process of what you're asking,

1580
01:18:19.600 --> 01:18:23.439
because it comes down to if you're really gonna do this,

1581
01:18:23.760 --> 01:18:26.000
and if you've done it long enough that you're now

1582
01:18:26.159 --> 01:18:29.439
in it, And I'm like, oh, okay, well I didn't

1583
01:18:29.439 --> 01:18:31.640
expect to still be here and now I'm here, So

1584
01:18:31.840 --> 01:18:35.039
now what's next. I can't do this forever. So that's

1585
01:18:35.079 --> 01:18:37.680
the evolution, right, And if you're going to stick with

1586
01:18:37.840 --> 01:18:41.079
it the most. Look, I've gotten to the point where

1587
01:18:41.079 --> 01:18:44.920
I'm like, I just you're gonna get all of me. Okay,

1588
01:18:45.079 --> 01:18:47.159
there was a time when you wouldn't. You're gonna get

1589
01:18:47.199 --> 01:18:50.319
all of me. And if I lose followers, so be it.

1590
01:18:50.960 --> 01:18:55.159
But I'm hoping that I have five hundred really really

1591
01:18:55.359 --> 01:18:58.680
passionate people that are interested about anything that I have

1592
01:18:58.880 --> 01:19:01.680
going on, that they can help lift up anything that

1593
01:19:01.760 --> 01:19:04.119
I have going on. And I think that that's the

1594
01:19:04.279 --> 01:19:07.920
long term proposition. You know, I have six hundred and

1595
01:19:07.960 --> 01:19:11.520
fifty thousand followers on TikTok, but if I go live,

1596
01:19:11.960 --> 01:19:14.520
there might only be two hundred people watching any given home.

1597
01:19:14.920 --> 01:19:18.600
It's all bullshit, right. So then I go over to

1598
01:19:18.680 --> 01:19:21.479
my sub stack and my core people are there, and

1599
01:19:21.560 --> 01:19:23.159
those are the people that are on my Twitch and

1600
01:19:23.239 --> 01:19:26.760
my youth They're everywhere. So I think that part of

1601
01:19:26.840 --> 01:19:29.640
it has to be as weird as this sounds. It

1602
01:19:29.720 --> 01:19:32.640
has to be not focusing on the money that's short term.

1603
01:19:33.399 --> 01:19:36.039
You have to go long term and build something that

1604
01:19:36.239 --> 01:19:39.880
provides value for people. When I'm not live, people want

1605
01:19:39.920 --> 01:19:41.920
me to go live. I mean, I used to provide

1606
01:19:41.960 --> 01:19:45.920
a very specific type of stream. But now the people

1607
01:19:46.000 --> 01:19:48.479
that I have gotten rid of and the people that

1608
01:19:48.560 --> 01:19:51.760
I have kind of whittled it down to, don't just

1609
01:19:51.920 --> 01:19:55.479
watch me sit here and do like what I'll call

1610
01:19:55.600 --> 01:19:57.760
office hours where I'm like, guys, I just got to

1611
01:19:57.800 --> 01:19:59.479
go through notes and clean off my desk, but I

1612
01:19:59.560 --> 01:20:03.920
haven't been live today. And and if I went to

1613
01:20:04.039 --> 01:20:06.760
the parks where I used to stream, and I pay

1614
01:20:06.880 --> 01:20:10.119
and I played the game, I can make hundreds of dollars.

1615
01:20:11.319 --> 01:20:13.520
But I got to work the leaderboards and work the

1616
01:20:13.600 --> 01:20:16.760
gifting and do the whole thing. So that's short term money,

1617
01:20:16.840 --> 01:20:21.159
which is nice, yes, But I'm now, folks correct, So

1618
01:20:21.399 --> 01:20:24.439
now it's more valuable to be like, guys, I didn't

1619
01:20:24.439 --> 01:20:25.960
make it to the park today, but let me show

1620
01:20:25.960 --> 01:20:29.319
you what I've been working on, you know, So now

1621
01:20:29.359 --> 01:20:33.560
they're on the ride with you, and it's it's it's

1622
01:20:33.680 --> 01:20:35.159
it's a lot more work to do it that way,

1623
01:20:35.199 --> 01:20:36.880
and a lot of people said, just stick to doing

1624
01:20:36.920 --> 01:20:39.039
the dumb ship. Just stick to do and I'm like,

1625
01:20:39.039 --> 01:20:40.319
I don't want to spend the rest of my life

1626
01:20:40.359 --> 01:20:43.560
doing that. So to answer your question is how do

1627
01:20:43.600 --> 01:20:46.000
you how do you make a day like you? It's

1628
01:20:46.079 --> 01:20:50.079
not about getting tons of you right, It's about speaking

1629
01:20:50.119 --> 01:20:52.800
to the people that are listening. It's not it's it's

1630
01:20:52.880 --> 01:20:55.119
it's having it. Not speaking down to them, it's speaking

1631
01:20:55.199 --> 01:20:58.680
to them, speaking with them. So I think I think

1632
01:20:58.760 --> 01:21:02.479
that if you can find a way to sustain that,

1633
01:21:03.720 --> 01:21:05.600
then maybe you break through. I got to tell you

1634
01:21:05.760 --> 01:21:07.840
sometimes when you were describing this at the top of

1635
01:21:07.920 --> 01:21:11.359
the show about like you know, hitting that benchmark and

1636
01:21:11.399 --> 01:21:13.119
then having all that, and I'm like, it doesn't even

1637
01:21:13.159 --> 01:21:16.000
sound appealing at this age, like I've had I've had

1638
01:21:16.039 --> 01:21:18.880
a slice of it on TikTok, Like it's not appealing,

1639
01:21:19.439 --> 01:21:21.479
Like I'm not I'm not doing what I'm doing these

1640
01:21:21.560 --> 01:21:26.680
days reviews. I'm doing it to keep that core audience

1641
01:21:27.279 --> 01:21:30.760
going on these new endeavors. I could give a ship.

1642
01:21:31.479 --> 01:21:33.520
I mean, I get if somebody comes in a gains

1643
01:21:33.560 --> 01:21:35.199
me hard, I'm like, just don't don't fucking watch me,

1644
01:21:36.399 --> 01:21:39.640
Like I don't, I don't care. But but but you know,

1645
01:21:39.720 --> 01:21:42.199
like when, why weren't you in the park the other day?

1646
01:21:42.520 --> 01:21:42.680
Well?

1647
01:21:42.720 --> 01:21:44.920
I was, Oh I missed it? Well, who why the

1648
01:21:44.960 --> 01:21:47.840
fuck are you asking me? Right? Like, like if you

1649
01:21:47.960 --> 01:21:49.560
come into my life, I go, where were you? I

1650
01:21:49.680 --> 01:21:51.680
was working? Why the fuck were you working? Why weren't

1651
01:21:51.680 --> 01:21:55.399
you watching my live? Asshole? Like it's it sounds pretty

1652
01:21:55.479 --> 01:21:59.000
ridiculous when you flip the scrap. I hope I answered

1653
01:21:59.039 --> 01:22:00.600
your question. I know it just ranted a lot.

1654
01:22:00.680 --> 01:22:02.479
Well no, no, no, no, no, that's all. It's all

1655
01:22:02.560 --> 01:22:05.000
valid information. I mean, is your experiences right.

1656
01:22:05.720 --> 01:22:09.159
I I want to make it clear, like I believe

1657
01:22:09.680 --> 01:22:10.279
anybody in.

1658
01:22:10.399 --> 01:22:13.720
This space, for example, to me, be who you are.

1659
01:22:14.239 --> 01:22:17.600
Don't put on a front nothing. I hate nothing more

1660
01:22:17.680 --> 01:22:21.520
than watching somebody who's a character. Okay, now, unless you're

1661
01:22:21.520 --> 01:22:25.520
specifically putting it out there that it's entertainment, fair enough,

1662
01:22:25.680 --> 01:22:28.279
I know what I'm getting into. But you know, if

1663
01:22:28.319 --> 01:22:31.960
you're in the news, commentary, space, politics, anything like that,

1664
01:22:32.039 --> 01:22:35.279
which is really hot right now, don't don't don't be

1665
01:22:35.359 --> 01:22:38.119
something you're not. Just don't be something you're not. I

1666
01:22:38.359 --> 01:22:40.760
can't stand fake. That's that's what that's how you're.

1667
01:22:40.640 --> 01:22:43.600
Going to break through. But you still need to play into. Unfortunately,

1668
01:22:43.600 --> 01:22:46.439
you still have to play into the clickbait world if

1669
01:22:46.439 --> 01:22:48.560
you really want to. I understand I don't like doing it,

1670
01:22:49.159 --> 01:22:50.960
and I'm on your side. I agree with you. I'm

1671
01:22:51.000 --> 01:22:52.079
I'm against it as well.

1672
01:22:52.520 --> 01:22:54.760
But you know, everything I was saying earlier really had

1673
01:22:54.800 --> 01:22:57.640
to do with you know, I I see people get

1674
01:22:57.800 --> 01:23:00.800
so bent out of shape in his heart and when

1675
01:23:00.800 --> 01:23:04.279
they're like they're inspired and they're like, I'm going to

1676
01:23:04.359 --> 01:23:06.479
do this too, and then they get into it and

1677
01:23:06.560 --> 01:23:08.439
they feel, like you said, they've got to reach a

1678
01:23:08.479 --> 01:23:09.159
certain threshold.

1679
01:23:09.199 --> 01:23:11.439
I need ten thousand downloads, I need twenty thousand. I

1680
01:23:11.439 --> 01:23:13.640
need one hundred thousand, and it's like, give a shit.

1681
01:23:14.239 --> 01:23:16.159
You know, I like doing this more than I like

1682
01:23:16.199 --> 01:23:19.079
doing my own podcast. Yeah, you want to know why,

1683
01:23:19.239 --> 01:23:21.479
because when this is over, I'm gonna go smoke a

1684
01:23:21.560 --> 01:23:24.760
bowl and not have to edit shit. I'm not gonna

1685
01:23:24.760 --> 01:23:26.560
have to edit shit, right, you know what I mean?

1686
01:23:26.920 --> 01:23:28.600
And I can curse over here. I don't have to

1687
01:23:28.680 --> 01:23:32.479
care about here losing a follower. This is your fucking problem.

1688
01:23:32.560 --> 01:23:35.680
Yeah, well, everybody, Look, everybody, this is the my damn

1689
01:23:35.680 --> 01:23:37.039
show there. You know, I got a filthy mouth, so

1690
01:23:37.079 --> 01:23:37.680
it doesn't even matter.

1691
01:23:38.000 --> 01:23:40.239
But my audios will hear this and be like, oh man,

1692
01:23:40.279 --> 01:23:42.399
why does he act this way on his podcast?

1693
01:23:42.600 --> 01:23:45.119
Yeah, and you've got to listen more. I like I

1694
01:23:45.239 --> 01:23:47.439
like having the conversations though words. I like having the

1695
01:23:47.560 --> 01:23:50.000
opportunity to have someone open up and just let go.

1696
01:23:50.319 --> 01:23:52.479
I really do. I think there's more value in that.

1697
01:23:52.560 --> 01:23:55.680
I think you learn from somebody a lot more instead

1698
01:23:55.720 --> 01:23:59.319
of trying to play the persona and try to stay

1699
01:23:59.359 --> 01:24:01.600
within the guardbe. I mean, if you can't speak your mind,

1700
01:24:01.640 --> 01:24:04.439
then we're not having real conversation. We're just not You

1701
01:24:04.479 --> 01:24:05.760
should be able to express yourself.

1702
01:24:06.000 --> 01:24:07.199
But then it does to means you're doing it for

1703
01:24:07.239 --> 01:24:10.439
the wrong reasons, and that goes back to the whole

1704
01:24:10.600 --> 01:24:14.600
grifter thing, because you're if you're there. So when I started,

1705
01:24:14.640 --> 01:24:15.960
not to bring it back to what I was doing

1706
01:24:16.039 --> 01:24:18.039
on TikTok, but when I started doing what I was doing,

1707
01:24:18.079 --> 01:24:21.039
I was front of trend. A lot of people started

1708
01:24:21.079 --> 01:24:23.880
doing it because they saw what I was doing and

1709
01:24:24.000 --> 01:24:26.920
I was doing it with success. I originally started doing

1710
01:24:26.960 --> 01:24:29.680
it for my own mental health escape, and I think

1711
01:24:29.800 --> 01:24:33.479
because I was just having fun and being me that

1712
01:24:33.600 --> 01:24:37.039
people latched onto it. But I maintained an air of professionalism.

1713
01:24:37.840 --> 01:24:40.199
What has happened over the years is there's nothing left

1714
01:24:40.279 --> 01:24:42.960
to do. So now I just satirize it and let

1715
01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:45.000
it rip all day and just look for the punchline,

1716
01:24:45.600 --> 01:24:48.199
you know what I mean. Because it's an oversaturated market,

1717
01:24:48.279 --> 01:24:51.479
so there's nothing left because now everybody's doing it for

1718
01:24:51.600 --> 01:24:54.079
the clout, and and I'm like, man, I've been doing

1719
01:24:54.119 --> 01:24:56.439
this so damn long. I've seen it all, I've done

1720
01:24:56.439 --> 01:24:59.800
it all. There's nothing left to do but to completely flip.

1721
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:02.800
So with that being said, where where is the grift?

1722
01:25:02.880 --> 01:25:04.760
As you said, like, where where would it be that

1723
01:25:04.880 --> 01:25:06.159
you would be grifting?

1724
01:25:06.760 --> 01:25:09.119
How am I a grifter? No? You're saying, no, no, no, no,

1725
01:25:09.399 --> 01:25:13.159
that's the question. That's I don't care. Okay, I listen.

1726
01:25:13.560 --> 01:25:15.520
Reddit would tell you I'm a grifter because of the

1727
01:25:15.560 --> 01:25:18.239
gifting on TikTok. But I would tell you a lot

1728
01:25:18.279 --> 01:25:20.279
of those people on Reddit are just jealous that I

1729
01:25:20.319 --> 01:25:22.600
get to make money going with Disney World. Oh I

1730
01:25:22.640 --> 01:25:23.399
thought I thought you were.

1731
01:25:23.560 --> 01:25:27.439
You're alluding to maybe because for example, you can act

1732
01:25:27.520 --> 01:25:29.920
one way on a show like mine, but then on yours,

1733
01:25:30.039 --> 01:25:31.880
you you have to be a different person.

1734
01:25:32.279 --> 01:25:35.199
No, if people don't understand persona that's them. Gotcha? What what?

1735
01:25:35.560 --> 01:25:35.600
What?

1736
01:25:35.800 --> 01:25:38.319
What I used to do in the early days about

1737
01:25:38.359 --> 01:25:41.239
being professional was I didn't express my opinions as much

1738
01:25:41.800 --> 01:25:44.399
as you know I didn't. I didn't I didn't say

1739
01:25:44.840 --> 01:25:47.880
what I was thinking. Now I say whatever I want.

1740
01:25:48.159 --> 01:25:51.159
I choose my words carefully right, so that if people

1741
01:25:51.159 --> 01:25:53.239
are only half listening, they're not going to know what

1742
01:25:53.319 --> 01:25:57.319
I'm saying. But to those that have, you know, anything

1743
01:25:57.359 --> 01:26:00.239
above an eighth grade reading level, I can get was

1744
01:26:00.319 --> 01:26:03.079
saying things in a family friendly manner and rip somebody

1745
01:26:03.159 --> 01:26:06.920
to shit, right. So so, but it was a natural

1746
01:26:07.000 --> 01:26:10.359
evolution of like showing all of myself. It's not that

1747
01:26:10.479 --> 01:26:12.840
I wasn't being authentic in the beginning. I was still

1748
01:26:12.960 --> 01:26:18.119
being me, but I I took the gloves off because

1749
01:26:18.119 --> 01:26:20.920
there was nothing left to do and it became an

1750
01:26:21.000 --> 01:26:27.359
oversaturated market. So again, how do you differentiate yourself? How

1751
01:26:27.399 --> 01:26:28.920
do you you know it goes back to the idea

1752
01:26:28.920 --> 01:26:31.520
of the purple elephant, if you're familiar with that marketing term.

1753
01:26:31.840 --> 01:26:33.880
So how do you differentiate yourself in a world of

1754
01:26:33.960 --> 01:26:37.239
podcasting now? When everything on YouTube is a face like this,

1755
01:26:37.520 --> 01:26:41.359
like yours, right, I'm I call to me. You know

1756
01:26:41.399 --> 01:26:43.880
what this is like you're an audio guy. This is

1757
01:26:43.960 --> 01:26:47.359
like phase two of podcasting, because podcasting had a boom.

1758
01:26:47.640 --> 01:26:51.079
This is the phase two boom of podcasting. This is

1759
01:26:51.159 --> 01:26:54.439
like when mini disc came back the second time. So

1760
01:26:54.720 --> 01:26:56.760
that's what this is, you know what I mean.

1761
01:26:57.000 --> 01:27:02.039
Yeah, yeah, well I I understand what you're getting at.

1762
01:27:02.479 --> 01:27:07.000
In my perspective, I'm I am what you see man,

1763
01:27:07.359 --> 01:27:08.239
You know, I don't.

1764
01:27:08.359 --> 01:27:12.039
I don't. I don't believe in being that different person.

1765
01:27:13.119 --> 01:27:16.039
The only thing this does for me when I get

1766
01:27:16.079 --> 01:27:17.840
on the mic and I got the earbuds or whatever

1767
01:27:17.880 --> 01:27:19.560
the hell it is, I get focused.

1768
01:27:19.680 --> 01:27:20.279
That's all it is.

1769
01:27:20.560 --> 01:27:23.840
It's just like me having a drink right loosens me

1770
01:27:23.960 --> 01:27:25.800
up a bit, and now I can have a conversation

1771
01:27:26.279 --> 01:27:29.119
without inhibition because now I'm just focusing on you. I

1772
01:27:29.279 --> 01:27:32.239
know that I hit the record button and I got

1773
01:27:32.359 --> 01:27:35.920
to get here to this space where I can listen

1774
01:27:36.479 --> 01:27:38.720
hopefully say something that has any value.

1775
01:27:39.279 --> 01:27:41.399
But and sometimes I'm playing mental.

1776
01:27:41.279 --> 01:27:45.359
Judo with people, you know, But I am who I am,

1777
01:27:45.560 --> 01:27:46.920
you know, And you're right, there's a lot of guys

1778
01:27:46.920 --> 01:27:49.279
that may look like me, but really, you know, for me,

1779
01:27:49.720 --> 01:27:51.600
like I'm a working person, you know, I work with

1780
01:27:51.680 --> 01:27:53.079
my hands. I work in the trades. I do a

1781
01:27:53.159 --> 01:27:53.680
vent production.

1782
01:27:53.800 --> 01:27:54.359
You know, I'm in it.

1783
01:27:54.840 --> 01:27:57.560
Sometimes I get here and this is what I look

1784
01:27:57.680 --> 01:27:59.479
like because I ain't got time to polish up and

1785
01:27:59.520 --> 01:27:59.880
put a suit.

1786
01:28:00.279 --> 01:28:01.920
Can I wear one? Absolutely? I love it?

1787
01:28:02.479 --> 01:28:05.640
But right now, hey, I'm more concerned about having a

1788
01:28:05.640 --> 01:28:07.640
good conversation and making sure that people can hear what

1789
01:28:07.720 --> 01:28:11.199
we're talking about. So will will this change someday?

1790
01:28:11.319 --> 01:28:16.319
Possibly? Who knows? But for the amendment, I just I

1791
01:28:16.319 --> 01:28:18.439
didn't take it. But I'm just talking about But I'm

1792
01:28:18.479 --> 01:28:21.920
saying the world we're living in, it's microphone phase chair square. Well, No,

1793
01:28:22.000 --> 01:28:23.760
there's guys like this, this is come on.

1794
01:28:24.119 --> 01:28:26.279
There's there's the ex military guy with the hat and

1795
01:28:26.359 --> 01:28:28.199
the tight shirt, and you know that there's a lot

1796
01:28:28.239 --> 01:28:30.079
of that going around right now. And they think it's

1797
01:28:30.119 --> 01:28:32.359
because it's cool and it's this whole manisphere thing. It's like,

1798
01:28:34.159 --> 01:28:36.000
you know, it's it's just a stick.

1799
01:28:36.119 --> 01:28:37.920
It really is. It's all it is. But when you're

1800
01:28:38.399 --> 01:28:40.439
what we're doing right here, and I will tell you

1801
01:28:40.560 --> 01:28:42.479
because when I'm listening to you and then when I'm

1802
01:28:42.520 --> 01:28:45.880
responding to you, I'm in the zone right now, like

1803
01:28:46.039 --> 01:28:48.840
I'm in a I'm gonna. I'm in a a dialed

1804
01:28:49.000 --> 01:28:52.720
in thing right now where I am. I am focused

1805
01:28:52.760 --> 01:28:55.760
on listening to what you're saying. I'm trying to build

1806
01:28:55.880 --> 01:28:58.319
my thoughts and to the to the point that I

1807
01:28:58.439 --> 01:29:02.079
start going like from my heart, and when I'm done,

1808
01:29:02.239 --> 01:29:04.760
I'm like, Man, I hope that made sense because that

1809
01:29:04.960 --> 01:29:07.640
really just came from the soul, you know, because I'm

1810
01:29:07.640 --> 01:29:08.159
in the zone.

1811
01:29:08.720 --> 01:29:10.920
Yeah, but you got you got to put it out there, man,

1812
01:29:11.560 --> 01:29:13.439
you know, that's the whole that's the beauty of these

1813
01:29:13.479 --> 01:29:16.359
type of conversations. You have to let it go and

1814
01:29:16.439 --> 01:29:17.600
you have to get it out there.

1815
01:29:17.800 --> 01:29:19.159
But you can't do that if you're trying to hold

1816
01:29:19.239 --> 01:29:22.880
up a fake front. It's impossible, exactly exactly.

1817
01:29:23.039 --> 01:29:26.119
And that's that's the issue that I'm having right now

1818
01:29:27.000 --> 01:29:30.039
with the podcasting world, and it's become such a big

1819
01:29:30.119 --> 01:29:33.199
thing and it's so influential that it's leading people in

1820
01:29:33.279 --> 01:29:36.760
the wrong direction. I believe there's a lot of intentional

1821
01:29:36.880 --> 01:29:39.960
misinformation or you know, like you said earlier, there's like

1822
01:29:40.000 --> 01:29:43.399
a handful of companies or whatever that control most of

1823
01:29:43.479 --> 01:29:46.920
the narrative because of the money behind it, and that

1824
01:29:47.079 --> 01:29:49.520
individual when they started may not have wanted to be

1825
01:29:49.600 --> 01:29:51.680
that person, but now they're too deep. It's like, you know,

1826
01:29:51.760 --> 01:29:53.560
going back to what we're talking about earlier, do you

1827
01:29:53.600 --> 01:29:55.439
want to get rid of the money or the power?

1828
01:29:56.039 --> 01:29:57.880
You're kind of stuck in this situation. It's like, well

1829
01:29:57.880 --> 01:29:59.439
what do I do to I go back to poverty,

1830
01:30:00.439 --> 01:30:01.920
go back to you know, washing dish?

1831
01:30:02.079 --> 01:30:03.720
Like how do I have my cake and eat it too?

1832
01:30:03.920 --> 01:30:06.199
Is that possible? Not to bring it back to Bongino,

1833
01:30:06.279 --> 01:30:08.520
But I mean, he really is the perfect example. I

1834
01:30:08.600 --> 01:30:11.239
mean I almost empathize with the guy, you know what

1835
01:30:11.319 --> 01:30:13.479
I mean, in a weird way. I mean, first of all,

1836
01:30:13.680 --> 01:30:16.840
was he was secret service for Obama? Yes? Okay, so

1837
01:30:17.000 --> 01:30:19.199
like let's not even politicize the man for a half

1838
01:30:19.239 --> 01:30:21.880
a second. Let's just talk about him as a podcaster, right,

1839
01:30:22.680 --> 01:30:26.399
Like you you had a really good thing going, why

1840
01:30:26.439 --> 01:30:29.680
would you leave it? Because you would be a fool

1841
01:30:29.920 --> 01:30:32.119
to not take that opportunity, Like if you and I

1842
01:30:32.319 --> 01:30:35.199
were given that opportunity, you'd be a fool not to

1843
01:30:35.279 --> 01:30:37.640
take it because it's once in a lifetime. But then

1844
01:30:37.680 --> 01:30:39.239
you get there and you find out the grass isn't

1845
01:30:39.239 --> 01:30:40.640
always green, and that's truth.

1846
01:30:41.239 --> 01:30:43.359
There's there's nothing much truth in what you said because

1847
01:30:44.039 --> 01:30:46.640
you only have one life, and how many opportunities do

1848
01:30:46.680 --> 01:30:47.560
you ever really get?

1849
01:30:47.680 --> 01:30:50.079
You know, would you rather live with the doubt? Would

1850
01:30:50.119 --> 01:30:53.800
you rather live with the doubt or did you really

1851
01:30:53.840 --> 01:30:56.399
regret it? Though I will yes, you would.

1852
01:30:56.640 --> 01:31:00.680
Everybody regrets the decision to not pursue, and many of

1853
01:31:00.760 --> 01:31:03.399
us may not even pursue something because of the fear.

1854
01:31:03.800 --> 01:31:06.279
And there's also the imposter syndrome. Maybe we don't believe

1855
01:31:06.399 --> 01:31:08.760
like we belong in that position, or or that we

1856
01:31:08.920 --> 01:31:11.079
need we should be the person in that in that

1857
01:31:11.199 --> 01:31:15.039
position taking advantage of the opportunity. So a lot, a lot,

1858
01:31:15.119 --> 01:31:16.880
a lot of what holds people back. I believe it's

1859
01:31:16.920 --> 01:31:18.720
both fear and imposter syndrome. If it's not fear, it's

1860
01:31:18.720 --> 01:31:22.479
imposter syndrome. There's very few people that can be confident

1861
01:31:22.640 --> 01:31:26.640
enough to walk out there into any situation and go,

1862
01:31:26.760 --> 01:31:28.960
you know what, no matter what, I'm going to be

1863
01:31:29.039 --> 01:31:29.720
me and I'm taking this.

1864
01:31:29.920 --> 01:31:31.800
I'm taking this. Not many people do.

1865
01:31:32.359 --> 01:31:34.079
And it's it's and it's not it's not to put

1866
01:31:34.119 --> 01:31:36.840
anybody down who feels the way that I just describe,

1867
01:31:37.239 --> 01:31:39.600
because there's times we all feel that way. There's times

1868
01:31:39.640 --> 01:31:41.640
we all feel that way. I've had job offers where

1869
01:31:41.640 --> 01:31:43.560
I'm like, you know what, the money's good, but this

1870
01:31:43.680 --> 01:31:46.279
isn't me. The sain't my wheelhouse, you know, just like

1871
01:31:46.760 --> 01:31:47.760
I'm not going to be that guy.

1872
01:31:47.920 --> 01:31:49.279
I just knew it right, you know.

1873
01:31:49.960 --> 01:31:52.319
So again it wasn't I wasn't trying to talk down

1874
01:31:52.319 --> 01:31:53.840
to anybody who may feel like, oh I don't ever

1875
01:31:53.880 --> 01:31:55.800
fit in. I'm not going to take that step. There's

1876
01:31:55.800 --> 01:31:58.239
a lot of fear. I've always had the entrepreneurial spirit.

1877
01:31:58.880 --> 01:32:01.439
I've never been afraid to take a chance. I've risked money,

1878
01:32:01.439 --> 01:32:03.680
I've risked all that you have to and I'm I'm

1879
01:32:03.720 --> 01:32:05.560
not some multi millionaire by the way, but I think

1880
01:32:05.600 --> 01:32:09.359
I did pretty well for myself considering. And the reality is,

1881
01:32:10.239 --> 01:32:12.640
you're gonna hear a hundred no's. You only need one

1882
01:32:12.760 --> 01:32:15.880
yes man, you really do the basic principles of sales.

1883
01:32:15.880 --> 01:32:17.840
I've always I've always taken personally, like even with my

1884
01:32:17.880 --> 01:32:19.600
sales teams when I used to have the company, is like,

1885
01:32:20.319 --> 01:32:21.640
I don't care, you're gonna hear on a hundred knows.

1886
01:32:21.640 --> 01:32:23.000
You've got to keep knocking those doors you've got. If

1887
01:32:23.000 --> 01:32:26.560
you're not trying, you're not progressing. And if you're always doubting,

1888
01:32:26.600 --> 01:32:29.840
You're not even gonna try. You're gonna live until you've

1889
01:32:29.960 --> 01:32:32.880
cold called. I mean until you have cold called in life. Then,

1890
01:32:33.199 --> 01:32:35.840
because once you've gotten through the rejection of a cold

1891
01:32:35.920 --> 01:32:38.680
call and then also had the success of a cold call,

1892
01:32:39.039 --> 01:32:40.760
that you could take nose all day long.

1893
01:32:41.079 --> 01:32:44.279
Sure, Kirby vacuums cut co all that. I mean, it's

1894
01:32:44.359 --> 01:32:50.960
just like it's it's you know, look so and again

1895
01:32:51.199 --> 01:32:53.279
I don't want to harp on the Bongino thing, but

1896
01:32:53.359 --> 01:32:59.479
my last point to that is that the fear, the

1897
01:32:59.560 --> 01:33:04.479
fear of of regret by not taking that job. Okay,

1898
01:33:04.840 --> 01:33:07.319
I don't think now if I was in that position

1899
01:33:07.399 --> 01:33:10.079
and decided to leave, that I would regret taking the job.

1900
01:33:10.560 --> 01:33:14.119
I may go, oh, I'm leaving now, this isn't what

1901
01:33:14.279 --> 01:33:17.680
I thought. But I think the deeper regret is not knowing.

1902
01:33:18.199 --> 01:33:20.880
So you take that leap and you take that opportunity.

1903
01:33:21.239 --> 01:33:23.279
But to bring it back to the point of failure

1904
01:33:24.600 --> 01:33:27.840
is most people they shut down after a failure and

1905
01:33:27.880 --> 01:33:30.920
they don't realize that that failure is necessary. So then

1906
01:33:30.960 --> 01:33:34.279
the failure becomes the thing that is the roadblock. When

1907
01:33:34.479 --> 01:33:38.680
failure is actually a necessity. Failures is a litmus test

1908
01:33:38.760 --> 01:33:39.239
for success.

1909
01:33:40.079 --> 01:33:43.000
Well, they don't ever want to feel that embarrassment again,

1910
01:33:43.239 --> 01:33:45.720
so they avoid conflict, they avoid struggle.

1911
01:33:46.199 --> 01:33:49.000
But failure is not doing it, not failing at trying.

1912
01:33:49.399 --> 01:33:51.880
Failing at not trying is success in its own even

1913
01:33:51.920 --> 01:33:54.840
if it look most businesses, as you well know, were

1914
01:33:54.920 --> 01:33:58.960
berthed out of a completely different thing. Before Lego was Lego,

1915
01:33:59.079 --> 01:34:01.880
they were making wooden toys. Nintendo was a card company.

1916
01:34:02.319 --> 01:34:04.800
So you know, you you you fail at one thing,

1917
01:34:05.319 --> 01:34:08.079
it's it's it's the it's the not doing that is

1918
01:34:08.159 --> 01:34:11.039
the failure. Yeah, And I hope people listening hear that.

1919
01:34:11.439 --> 01:34:14.680
I completely agree, And that's that's what I was getting at.

1920
01:34:15.279 --> 01:34:17.399
That just probably didn't communicate it, No.

1921
01:34:17.479 --> 01:34:19.600
You did, you did. I just I love harping on

1922
01:34:19.680 --> 01:34:22.000
that because I think that we live in a fear

1923
01:34:22.079 --> 01:34:26.800
based culture, whether it's executive level decision making or or

1924
01:34:26.920 --> 01:34:30.760
whether it's just even the fear of of offending. Like

1925
01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:32.560
you're not going to say anything in this conversation to

1926
01:34:32.640 --> 01:34:35.640
offend me, right, you know what I mean? And I'm

1927
01:34:35.680 --> 01:34:37.840
get I'm reading from you that it's probably the same

1928
01:34:37.960 --> 01:34:38.119
for you.

1929
01:34:38.680 --> 01:34:41.439
I'm good man, you know, I just look, I just

1930
01:34:41.520 --> 01:34:44.239
had I don't know if you heard of him, Derek Gilliard.

1931
01:34:45.039 --> 01:34:49.760
He served under the first Trump administration. He was part

1932
01:34:49.760 --> 01:34:53.680
of HHS twenty five years and he wrote this book.

1933
01:34:55.640 --> 01:34:56.399
I think it was uh.

1934
01:34:56.680 --> 01:34:59.319
I just had him yesterday too, longest four years of

1935
01:34:59.359 --> 01:35:03.960
his life, as he calls it, his perspective of working

1936
01:35:04.039 --> 01:35:07.399
in the Trumpet administration as a black man. And we

1937
01:35:07.560 --> 01:35:11.359
had this long conversation and we we broke through barriers.

1938
01:35:11.399 --> 01:35:13.760
We talked about race, we talked about racial stereotypes. He

1939
01:35:13.840 --> 01:35:15.880
asked me straight up, he is a white guy. Let

1940
01:35:15.920 --> 01:35:17.319
me ask you why there's so many white people that

1941
01:35:17.359 --> 01:35:20.319
shoot up schools and whatnot. And I'm like, happy to

1942
01:35:20.479 --> 01:35:21.319
happy to address that.

1943
01:35:21.720 --> 01:35:24.600
You know, you can't. You can't be afraid to have

1944
01:35:24.760 --> 01:35:26.319
those discussions. You really can't.

1945
01:35:27.359 --> 01:35:30.720
I have a file on that one, right, But you

1946
01:35:30.800 --> 01:35:32.520
can't be afraid to have these discussions. You know, if

1947
01:35:32.960 --> 01:35:35.159
you're afraid of being offended, you're not going to progress

1948
01:35:35.199 --> 01:35:35.560
and learn.

1949
01:35:35.880 --> 01:35:37.680
You're just not. I think it's boring to have a

1950
01:35:37.800 --> 01:35:41.680
conversation where all we're doing is agreeing. Why do I

1951
01:35:41.720 --> 01:35:42.720
want to have that conversation.

1952
01:35:43.399 --> 01:35:47.000
I mean, look, I've had many many conversations where I

1953
01:35:47.039 --> 01:35:50.319
don't agree with everything everyone says. But at least you know,

1954
01:35:50.319 --> 01:35:53.520
if you're intelligent enough of a person, I should walk

1955
01:35:53.560 --> 01:35:56.880
away understanding your perspective. And I should walk away with

1956
01:35:56.920 --> 01:35:59.680
an understanding that I know why you think the way

1957
01:35:59.720 --> 01:36:03.000
you It doesn't mean you're stupid. I just understand why

1958
01:36:03.119 --> 01:36:05.720
you think the way you do. I can now say, okay,

1959
01:36:06.239 --> 01:36:08.479
the way you lived, what you went through, Now I

1960
01:36:08.600 --> 01:36:08.840
get it.

1961
01:36:09.199 --> 01:36:10.279
I get it. I get it.

1962
01:36:10.319 --> 01:36:13.840
I didn't understand it before, and that's that's important to me.

1963
01:36:14.039 --> 01:36:15.800
It really is. And I like learning.

1964
01:36:15.840 --> 01:36:17.279
I mean, one of the things I enjoy about having

1965
01:36:17.319 --> 01:36:20.560
this conversations Royce, is I always walk away learning something.

1966
01:36:20.880 --> 01:36:24.600
I'm always hungry for knowledge. I'm always diving deep and

1967
01:36:24.880 --> 01:36:27.399
going down these rabbit holes. But I like coming away

1968
01:36:27.399 --> 01:36:28.680
from conversations where I'm.

1969
01:36:28.520 --> 01:36:29.760
Like, damn, I didn't look at it that way.

1970
01:36:30.319 --> 01:36:33.199
Or you might tell me something like you know earlier,

1971
01:36:33.199 --> 01:36:35.399
when you were just talking about the lady that ran

1972
01:36:35.479 --> 01:36:37.119
that discord, Now I now I got to go look

1973
01:36:37.119 --> 01:36:37.520
at who.

1974
01:36:37.479 --> 01:36:40.119
This person was, like things like that. But I do

1975
01:36:40.399 --> 01:36:41.000
like learning.

1976
01:36:41.039 --> 01:36:44.920
I like coming away with knowing that this conversation was

1977
01:36:44.960 --> 01:36:46.720
worth it because there was value in it, because we

1978
01:36:46.800 --> 01:36:50.600
both walked away with some insight that we didn't have before,

1979
01:36:51.199 --> 01:36:53.319
and that's what I like about this. And so even

1980
01:36:53.359 --> 01:36:56.279
on on what I do Royce like, I listened to

1981
01:36:56.640 --> 01:36:58.720
quite a bit of your podcast recently, knowing that you

1982
01:36:58.760 --> 01:36:59.920
were going to be coming on, so I wanted to

1983
01:37:00.039 --> 01:37:02.119
hear more where you're coming from. But even with me,

1984
01:37:02.159 --> 01:37:03.920
a lot of when I first started, a lot of

1985
01:37:04.000 --> 01:37:06.760
people had this thing where it's like, oh, he's the

1986
01:37:06.840 --> 01:37:10.880
Maga guy, He's the Trump Trumpster guy. And my guests

1987
01:37:10.960 --> 01:37:14.640
were never really like the conservative trumpters guys. I've had

1988
01:37:15.079 --> 01:37:18.039
most people that were on the liberal or democratic side.

1989
01:37:18.079 --> 01:37:18.199
You know.

1990
01:37:18.239 --> 01:37:20.880
I just talked to a psychologists who was a hardcore liberal.

1991
01:37:21.199 --> 01:37:23.800
He wanted to start a fight with me verbally in

1992
01:37:23.880 --> 01:37:25.720
a nice way. I didn't let it get that way,

1993
01:37:25.800 --> 01:37:28.399
and then we both ended up coming to understand that

1994
01:37:28.479 --> 01:37:31.000
we agree on more than we disagree. Because when you

1995
01:37:31.039 --> 01:37:32.880
take politics out of it and you just talk about

1996
01:37:32.960 --> 01:37:35.880
things that human beings need to deal with, you find

1997
01:37:35.920 --> 01:37:39.560
out that, damn, we're all pretty freaking similar.

1998
01:37:39.920 --> 01:37:43.000
We really are. Well, most people want the same things right.

1999
01:37:43.119 --> 01:37:46.399
They want mentally, they want to be viable, financially viable,

2000
01:37:46.479 --> 01:37:48.920
they want health, they want to leave this place in

2001
01:37:49.319 --> 01:37:52.000
a better condition. For their children and their children's children.

2002
01:37:52.239 --> 01:37:56.399
It's just how they choose to get there. Yeah, voices made, Yeah,

2003
01:37:56.960 --> 01:37:59.159
who but who I mean, show me somebody who doesn't

2004
01:37:59.199 --> 01:38:04.359
want those things. Everybody generally has the same desires. It's

2005
01:38:04.399 --> 01:38:06.119
how you get there. I have to tell you this

2006
01:38:06.199 --> 01:38:10.439
really quick because you're talking about all these all these

2007
01:38:10.479 --> 01:38:16.239
different folks and I so I'm doing the substack thing now,

2008
01:38:16.399 --> 01:38:18.439
you know. Like I said, I broke TikTok and I'm

2009
01:38:18.479 --> 01:38:21.359
building up substack and we've hit the Substack leaderboard thirty

2010
01:38:21.439 --> 01:38:25.159
five and Rising News whatever eighty three. Cool. It's not

2011
01:38:25.279 --> 01:38:27.359
based off of gifting and money. It's based off of

2012
01:38:27.479 --> 01:38:30.000
engagement and followers and all that. So it's nice. It's

2013
01:38:30.039 --> 01:38:33.560
a different proposition and I like it, and I'm trying

2014
01:38:33.600 --> 01:38:36.000
to get people on, but I don't want the same

2015
01:38:36.159 --> 01:38:41.119
five names, some of whom we've mentioned. So I find

2016
01:38:41.159 --> 01:38:44.279
this kid on the leaderboard okay, because I was like, oh,

2017
01:38:44.279 --> 01:38:46.560
this is the best place to go go with contemporaries.

2018
01:38:46.600 --> 01:38:49.359
They'll see that you're up there doing your thing and

2019
01:38:50.279 --> 01:38:54.800
young journalists. Okay, black kid. And I only say that

2020
01:38:55.000 --> 01:38:57.439
because it's like, like, I couldn't be more of an

2021
01:38:57.439 --> 01:39:01.119
ally buddy but okay, fine, so he's supposed to come

2022
01:39:01.199 --> 01:39:03.239
on the podcast. I send him the link like an

2023
01:39:03.279 --> 01:39:06.079
hour two hours before the show, and he goes, Royce,

2024
01:39:06.199 --> 01:39:08.840
I can no longer do your show. The way you

2025
01:39:08.920 --> 01:39:15.319
have characterized Trump's victories in your recent articles is absolutely abhorrent.

2026
01:39:16.119 --> 01:39:18.920
And I am a journalist, but I am also a

2027
01:39:19.039 --> 01:39:24.239
human being, and I wrote back, Trump's victories don't necessarily

2028
01:39:24.319 --> 01:39:28.720
correlate to victories for all American people, and he blocked me,

2029
01:39:29.720 --> 01:39:32.439
and I'm like, this is wild, Like this is a

2030
01:39:32.560 --> 01:39:35.560
very true statement you made. Though it's true, it's true

2031
01:39:35.640 --> 01:39:37.199
what I said or what he said, what you said.

2032
01:39:39.920 --> 01:39:41.279
I just I'm like, dude, I'm trying to have a

2033
01:39:41.319 --> 01:39:43.159
conversation with you. First of all, you're not a journalist.

2034
01:39:43.279 --> 01:39:45.479
None of us are. Okay, even the people who call

2035
01:39:45.520 --> 01:39:49.039
themselves a journalist on TV are not journalists. The commentators journalists,

2036
01:39:49.159 --> 01:39:52.880
they're talking heads. Man, probably are so, but this kid's

2037
01:39:52.920 --> 01:39:55.680
not a journalist. Number one and number two. Trump has

2038
01:39:55.720 --> 01:39:59.840
had a string of victories politically speaking, how how are

2039
01:39:59.880 --> 01:40:03.119
you if you can't admit that you could talk about

2040
01:40:03.159 --> 01:40:06.680
the negative effects of these victories, but politically he's had victories. Yeah,

2041
01:40:06.720 --> 01:40:09.800
if you can't admit that you're not objective, right.

2042
01:40:09.800 --> 01:40:13.039
I mean, you're not necessarily saying you need to like

2043
01:40:13.159 --> 01:40:15.079
this guy because of these victories. They may not be

2044
01:40:15.159 --> 01:40:18.279
the victories you want, but he did have them. I

2045
01:40:18.479 --> 01:40:22.600
wanted to hear what was of concern to this guy,

2046
01:40:24.159 --> 01:40:25.960
and that made me. I'm like, you know what, this

2047
01:40:26.119 --> 01:40:28.560
is the problem. You can't talk to and I'm an independent.

2048
01:40:29.000 --> 01:40:31.439
You can't talk to anybody on the left. They don't

2049
01:40:31.680 --> 01:40:32.840
it's their way or no way.

2050
01:40:33.119 --> 01:40:36.560
I've been fortunate enough to have some though, and I

2051
01:40:36.800 --> 01:40:39.000
don't I don't know what it is. I tend.

2052
01:40:39.479 --> 01:40:42.880
I tend to like in this conversation, you know where

2053
01:40:42.920 --> 01:40:44.159
we have a lot of back and forth, but there's

2054
01:40:44.159 --> 01:40:48.000
a lot of times where I let them talk. I

2055
01:40:48.079 --> 01:40:49.720
want them to reveal who they are so I can

2056
01:40:49.800 --> 01:40:51.920
understan where they're coming from before I form an opinion,

2057
01:40:52.000 --> 01:40:55.359
because you know, I could be very reaction, but it

2058
01:40:55.399 --> 01:40:58.439
could just go down the wrong road. I might be

2059
01:40:58.560 --> 01:41:02.119
creating a bad situation for me and my guests if

2060
01:41:02.199 --> 01:41:06.960
I just if he says, you know, listen, he says,

2061
01:41:07.039 --> 01:41:08.920
you know, fuck the Republicans this in this and you

2062
01:41:08.960 --> 01:41:11.319
guys are war hawks whatever. I don't even care about that,

2063
01:41:11.359 --> 01:41:14.279
but just saying then I could be re reactioning to like, hey,

2064
01:41:14.319 --> 01:41:16.920
screw you this whatever that gets us nowhere. Let me

2065
01:41:17.079 --> 01:41:19.239
let me let this person talk, let me let them

2066
01:41:19.279 --> 01:41:22.760
get it out, because the more you talk, the more

2067
01:41:22.800 --> 01:41:24.359
we're going to come to a place where we can

2068
01:41:24.439 --> 01:41:27.239
actually start having the conversation. And then now we're going

2069
01:41:27.319 --> 01:41:30.439
to find out that we both hate politics.

2070
01:41:30.960 --> 01:41:34.880
You know, there's nothing you said in this conversation that

2071
01:41:34.960 --> 01:41:37.399
I have disagreed with, And there's nothing you've said in

2072
01:41:37.479 --> 01:41:40.680
this conversation that makes me think you're maga or conservative.

2073
01:41:42.880 --> 01:41:47.920
Well that's the stereotype. But I'm just saying fair enough.

2074
01:41:47.960 --> 01:41:50.560
I appreciate I try to stay centrist.

2075
01:41:50.720 --> 01:41:52.760
I try to. There's times that I do.

2076
01:41:53.039 --> 01:41:54.520
I mean, I'll be honest, I do lean more right,

2077
01:41:54.600 --> 01:41:58.039
But I don't think either side is one hundred percent right.

2078
01:41:59.279 --> 01:42:02.560
They both have their problems. They're both fricking crazy. Let's

2079
01:42:02.560 --> 01:42:04.279
just be honest. Man, You get into the extreme sides

2080
01:42:04.319 --> 01:42:06.560
of both of them, is like, wow, where what world

2081
01:42:06.600 --> 01:42:07.319
do you guys live in?

2082
01:42:07.640 --> 01:42:08.600
Well that's the horseshoe.

2083
01:42:09.399 --> 01:42:14.279
Yes, yes, funny that was just brought up recently with

2084
01:42:14.439 --> 01:42:17.479
someone else else talking about talking about.

2085
01:42:17.279 --> 01:42:20.920
That so you know, I don't know where all this

2086
01:42:21.079 --> 01:42:21.319
is going.

2087
01:42:21.399 --> 01:42:23.960
I just know that what I see out there is

2088
01:42:24.199 --> 01:42:27.159
is a lot of frustrated individuals, including myself, because we

2089
01:42:27.279 --> 01:42:30.920
all want change, but it just doesn't seem that, you know,

2090
01:42:31.560 --> 01:42:33.199
as you said, or in the deep state, they don't

2091
01:42:33.199 --> 01:42:34.920
want to give up their position, they don't want to

2092
01:42:34.960 --> 01:42:38.479
give up what they're doing, and we're just always going

2093
01:42:38.560 --> 01:42:40.960
to be arguing over stuff out of our control. You know,

2094
01:42:41.159 --> 01:42:43.840
there's people who get so obsessed about it that they

2095
01:42:43.880 --> 01:42:45.880
get sick from it, just from the stress. You know,

2096
01:42:45.920 --> 01:42:48.640
they can't even get through their day without going on

2097
01:42:49.159 --> 01:42:51.800
X or you know, Blue Sky or whatever app they

2098
01:42:51.920 --> 01:42:56.039
choose to be on and just spewing whatever opinion they have.

2099
01:42:57.119 --> 01:43:00.199
And it's like, man, a perfect example of that for me.

2100
01:43:00.319 --> 01:43:03.119
By the way, I'm not gonna name names, but where

2101
01:43:03.199 --> 01:43:06.640
I live, and you know, I have frequently in the

2102
01:43:06.720 --> 01:43:09.560
Bay Area many times, especially for business. I went to

2103
01:43:09.640 --> 01:43:11.840
school out there in San Jose for some time. And

2104
01:43:12.640 --> 01:43:15.680
the reality is it's a whole different world. It's a

2105
01:43:15.720 --> 01:43:18.039
whole different world, and it got to the point where

2106
01:43:19.119 --> 01:43:22.680
it's so far left that if you say anything that

2107
01:43:22.880 --> 01:43:27.640
is outside of the group, think you're a Trumpster. It

2108
01:43:27.720 --> 01:43:29.520
got so bad that one day a friend of mine

2109
01:43:29.560 --> 01:43:31.279
saw me wearing a hat that just had an American

2110
01:43:31.399 --> 01:43:35.560
flag and they called me trumpy. I'm like, what does

2111
01:43:35.600 --> 01:43:37.960
the American flag have to do with Trump? It represents

2112
01:43:38.039 --> 01:43:40.880
the United States of America, you know, the country in

2113
01:43:40.960 --> 01:43:43.000
which you reside, the country on which you are a citizen,

2114
01:43:43.079 --> 01:43:47.319
the country in which you are benefiting from its protections

2115
01:43:47.359 --> 01:43:50.000
and a sovereignty. What does that have to do with Trump?

2116
01:43:50.920 --> 01:43:55.199
And that's where we have gotten And that's what I'm

2117
01:43:55.279 --> 01:43:57.840
concerned with, is that there's too many people living on

2118
01:43:57.880 --> 01:43:58.960
the surface of the headline.

2119
01:43:59.359 --> 01:44:00.439
They don't want to deeper.

2120
01:44:00.520 --> 01:44:03.239
They just believe whatever it is that their favorite morning

2121
01:44:03.319 --> 01:44:06.560
show is telling them and taking it for face value.

2122
01:44:06.600 --> 01:44:09.199
And it never It really wasn't that bad before people

2123
01:44:09.359 --> 01:44:12.920
were They used to think for themselves. And I don't

2124
01:44:12.920 --> 01:44:14.359
know if they're just so busy that they don't want

2125
01:44:14.359 --> 01:44:15.680
to take the time to do so anymore.

2126
01:44:16.399 --> 01:44:18.600
I don't think it's that they're busy. I think that

2127
01:44:18.760 --> 01:44:22.279
you know, there used to be a term second screen. Okay,

2128
01:44:22.279 --> 01:44:24.800
I haven't heard it see second screen? So yeah, second

2129
01:44:24.840 --> 01:44:27.319
screen was a term. You know, Oh, you're watching TV.

2130
01:44:27.560 --> 01:44:30.039
Have your iPad out that's your second screen. Oh okay,

2131
01:44:30.199 --> 01:44:32.600
got it? Okay, so second screen viewing and all this.

2132
01:44:33.359 --> 01:44:36.479
We are long past second screen. People have the news

2133
01:44:36.600 --> 01:44:39.359
on with music playing in the background, and they're scrolling

2134
01:44:39.439 --> 01:44:43.039
Twitter on their iPhone. So I think a lot of

2135
01:44:43.119 --> 01:44:47.479
it has to do with hyper consumption and the spread

2136
01:44:47.520 --> 01:44:51.359
of information too fast. So when you take social media

2137
01:44:52.479 --> 01:44:56.039
and you pair it with you know, a Steve Bannon

2138
01:44:56.079 --> 01:44:59.000
strategy like flooding the zone with shit right, it makes

2139
01:44:59.039 --> 01:45:02.439
it very very hard card to you know, the headline,

2140
01:45:02.520 --> 01:45:04.960
to your point, always gets the most noise. It makes

2141
01:45:05.000 --> 01:45:08.479
it very very hard to fact check anything because people

2142
01:45:08.520 --> 01:45:11.479
are already onto the next headline, and the fact check

2143
01:45:11.680 --> 01:45:15.479
never gets the level of engagement sure notice as the headline.

2144
01:45:16.199 --> 01:45:20.720
So it's oversaturation, gotcha. I mean that's just my opinion,

2145
01:45:20.960 --> 01:45:23.159
But I mean, you scroll, you scroll, you scroll, jump

2146
01:45:23.279 --> 01:45:25.600
to the next I disagree with you, because that's a tactic.

2147
01:45:25.680 --> 01:45:29.479
It's a real tactic that is used oversaturating. Look, how

2148
01:45:29.520 --> 01:45:30.760
are you going to keep people in control?

2149
01:45:31.079 --> 01:45:34.119
You overwhelm them. You overwhelm to the point.

2150
01:45:33.920 --> 01:45:36.319
That they don't know how to make heads details what's

2151
01:45:36.359 --> 01:45:39.479
going on. You keep them moving, you keep their attention

2152
01:45:40.079 --> 01:45:41.960
moving you guide them just like a horse of blinders.

2153
01:45:42.000 --> 01:45:44.720
That's exactly what they're doing. And it's the same thing

2154
01:45:44.800 --> 01:45:45.079
in war.

2155
01:45:46.520 --> 01:45:49.960
How do you your enemy, you know, through misinformation, disinformation

2156
01:45:50.600 --> 01:45:54.920
and getting the people to believe the narrative so that

2157
01:45:55.199 --> 01:45:58.399
they rise up and they oppose the ruling class. That's

2158
01:45:58.439 --> 01:46:03.439
what we're seeing in America right now. And I don't

2159
01:46:03.479 --> 01:46:05.439
know where it's gonna go. Look, I don't even want

2160
01:46:05.479 --> 01:46:08.920
to say that I'm enjoying the ride, because sure, we

2161
01:46:09.000 --> 01:46:12.800
get eyeballs from talking about this stuff, but I am

2162
01:46:12.880 --> 01:46:18.000
more concerned with the the sentiment of how people feel

2163
01:46:18.159 --> 01:46:22.039
in view things these days, and that it seems like

2164
01:46:22.159 --> 01:46:26.560
we've we've just lost the ability to reason, that the

2165
01:46:26.840 --> 01:46:30.880
ability to think logically has just I mean, it's just

2166
01:46:31.000 --> 01:46:31.960
gone out the window.

2167
01:46:32.159 --> 01:46:35.680
Unfortunately. Everything everything's emotional. I feel like America is just

2168
01:46:35.760 --> 01:46:40.319
a big ball of zombies, you know, just fire. Yeah,

2169
01:46:40.920 --> 01:46:44.640
and you got the perfect background, I mean you really

2170
01:46:44.640 --> 01:46:46.560
And I didn't say that because of that. It's just

2171
01:46:46.640 --> 01:46:48.760
the way I have always felt. It's a dumpster fire,

2172
01:46:48.880 --> 01:46:52.520
and you know it's not. And and party politics has

2173
01:46:52.600 --> 01:46:56.000
just been turned into a sport, so people wave their pennant,

2174
01:46:56.439 --> 01:46:59.079
but they don't think logically about what they're and that's

2175
01:46:59.119 --> 01:47:01.119
why you have this whole Epstein fisser to bring it

2176
01:47:01.199 --> 01:47:05.399
back to that, because uh, you know, look, the Republicans

2177
01:47:05.399 --> 01:47:08.239
have become the big tent party and everybody has their

2178
01:47:08.279 --> 01:47:11.079
wedge issue, and now what you have is a whole

2179
01:47:11.119 --> 01:47:15.119
bunch of people that feel betrayed. Okay, but what's going

2180
01:47:15.199 --> 01:47:16.560
to come out of this? They're going to go vote

2181
01:47:16.600 --> 01:47:18.680
Democrat next time, or they're going to stay home. No,

2182
01:47:18.920 --> 01:47:21.720
it's not like it's going to birth any movement. It's

2183
01:47:21.800 --> 01:47:24.079
just it's the same old It's this that's why they

2184
01:47:24.119 --> 01:47:26.520
call it political theater. It's the same old game.

2185
01:47:27.439 --> 01:47:33.479
It's exactly Yeah, it's exactly fear you're you're substack what

2186
01:47:34.359 --> 01:47:36.600
you mentioned a little bit, But so you got into

2187
01:47:36.600 --> 01:47:38.399
your substack because you kind of want to just change

2188
01:47:38.439 --> 01:47:39.399
the direction you were going.

2189
01:47:39.720 --> 01:47:42.319
What about what about that substack attracted you to it?

2190
01:47:43.079 --> 01:47:43.199
Was it?

2191
01:47:43.439 --> 01:47:45.760
Was it the community involvement in general or was there

2192
01:47:45.840 --> 01:47:47.840
something else, some other vibe about it that you really

2193
01:47:47.880 --> 01:47:48.279
were into?

2194
01:47:49.000 --> 01:47:53.720
It was it was literally the mechanics. So I have,

2195
01:47:54.119 --> 01:47:55.960
as I told you, I've been doing TikTok lives over

2196
01:47:56.000 --> 01:48:01.560
the years, and my TikTok handle is this theme. I'm

2197
01:48:01.600 --> 01:48:03.319
not even looking to plug it, so I'm not going to.

2198
01:48:03.720 --> 01:48:07.199
But it's it's Disney theme, okay, so I don't. I don't.

2199
01:48:07.319 --> 01:48:09.399
You can put it in the metadata, so I don't.

2200
01:48:09.479 --> 01:48:13.159
Even in the early days, I didn't even want to

2201
01:48:13.159 --> 01:48:16.840
break that, right. I wouldn't even if I was doing

2202
01:48:16.960 --> 01:48:18.800
like a live radio show, I'd go do it on

2203
01:48:18.880 --> 01:48:21.880
my Instagram, you know, and I would take callers and

2204
01:48:22.000 --> 01:48:24.079
a virtual phone bank. So I was always trying to

2205
01:48:24.199 --> 01:48:25.960
do these things, but I was trying to do them

2206
01:48:26.359 --> 01:48:30.399
wherever I could. I did a word press blog and

2207
01:48:30.560 --> 01:48:32.800
was trying to get that going. I built up the

2208
01:48:32.920 --> 01:48:34.920
discord and was trying to make that. I thought that

2209
01:48:34.960 --> 01:48:38.760
would be more message board than it really was. So

2210
01:48:39.279 --> 01:48:43.079
when I discovered that Substack was my blog and I

2211
01:48:43.119 --> 01:48:45.760
had a newsletter, a monthly newsletter, was became a pain

2212
01:48:45.840 --> 01:48:47.399
in the ass. Somebody said, hey, we'll do a newsletter.

2213
01:48:47.439 --> 01:48:49.840
We'll help you, and then here I am every month

2214
01:48:50.079 --> 01:48:52.359
trying to stream do a newsletter. It was too much.

2215
01:48:53.079 --> 01:48:59.520
So Substack became obviously my podcast is everywhere, but Substack

2216
01:48:59.600 --> 01:49:03.800
became a podcast, hosts a newsletter, a blog, and it

2217
01:49:03.840 --> 01:49:05.880
took care of the discord, being able to have a

2218
01:49:05.960 --> 01:49:08.119
chat thread and all these things. So it just became

2219
01:49:08.199 --> 01:49:12.119
a one stop shop for everything. So it was literally

2220
01:49:12.199 --> 01:49:15.479
the mechanics that makes a lot of sense. I never

2221
01:49:15.560 --> 01:49:16.119
got into it.

2222
01:49:16.560 --> 01:49:19.960
And honestly, you know, it's like you said earlier, you

2223
01:49:20.039 --> 01:49:22.199
can get very overwhelmed doing this, Like you have to

2224
01:49:22.239 --> 01:49:25.720
pay attention to all this different medium and you got

2225
01:49:25.800 --> 01:49:27.199
to see on top of it, and I just barely

2226
01:49:27.239 --> 01:49:27.680
keep up.

2227
01:49:27.560 --> 01:49:30.239
With what I'm doing now. Same so when you're telling

2228
01:49:30.239 --> 01:49:31.319
me your story, I'm like, I don't even know how

2229
01:49:31.319 --> 01:49:33.159
you're able to keep up with all of it. Oh,

2230
01:49:33.159 --> 01:49:35.239
I'm pretty the whole kids series. At the same time,

2231
01:49:35.319 --> 01:49:37.439
I'm relaunching my YouTube and next year or at the

2232
01:49:37.520 --> 01:49:40.840
end year. It's crazy, man, I just readid you by YouTube?

2233
01:49:40.960 --> 01:49:45.520
I destroyed it and just started relaunching it and focusing

2234
01:49:45.560 --> 01:49:47.880
on video for the specific for that side of it.

2235
01:49:48.720 --> 01:49:52.479
So yeah, definitely, I mean video editing. I never thought

2236
01:49:52.520 --> 01:49:53.760
would be a video editing guy. I was always a

2237
01:49:53.840 --> 01:49:57.760
sound engineer, right, and then I got into video because

2238
01:49:57.840 --> 01:49:59.760
doing events also, and everybody wanted a live stream. And

2239
01:49:59.800 --> 01:50:01.840
now I'm doing imag for concerts and we're doing all

2240
01:50:01.840 --> 01:50:04.279
this stuff. And it's just a natural progression. Now, Henry,

2241
01:50:04.279 --> 01:50:08.399
I'm spending hours and in front of the damn software

2242
01:50:08.600 --> 01:50:09.439
just doing his waves.

2243
01:50:09.479 --> 01:50:12.439
Man, you gotta streamline your workflow. Oh, I'll believe me.

2244
01:50:12.520 --> 01:50:14.720
It's streamline. Maybe I'm just too picky. I don't know.

2245
01:50:15.079 --> 01:50:17.039
You might be, but but but I only say that

2246
01:50:17.079 --> 01:50:21.159
from experience, because no understood. The last four months, five

2247
01:50:21.239 --> 01:50:24.760
months have been I feel like I've I've had a

2248
01:50:25.039 --> 01:50:29.760
master class in assistive AI, and I have figured out

2249
01:50:29.840 --> 01:50:32.720
how to use AI not to do the work, but

2250
01:50:32.880 --> 01:50:34.880
to make it easier so I don't have to do

2251
01:50:35.439 --> 01:50:37.960
the heavy lifting, so I can do like twenty. I

2252
01:50:38.000 --> 01:50:39.960
think I heard somebody said, like, oh, like ten eighty

2253
01:50:40.039 --> 01:50:43.079
ten or whatever. Everybody's got a bullshit phrase, But basically

2254
01:50:43.600 --> 01:50:46.359
I can have a eighty twenty at whatever it was, like,

2255
01:50:46.399 --> 01:50:48.319
ten eighty ten, whatever. I don't know. It might not

2256
01:50:48.439 --> 01:50:50.199
even even added to one hundred. They might have gone

2257
01:50:50.279 --> 01:50:53.399
over budget quite frankly. But it's just one of those

2258
01:50:53.439 --> 01:50:57.800
things where you're like, oh, there's a way that I

2259
01:50:57.920 --> 01:50:59.840
can do all Like when we do when you come

2260
01:50:59.840 --> 01:51:04.399
on my podcast, we'll use software called Riverside. Yeah, I'm familiar, Yeah,

2261
01:51:04.640 --> 01:51:06.640
and I love it because by the time we're done,

2262
01:51:07.479 --> 01:51:10.000
I've got my transcripts, I've got my clips, I've got

2263
01:51:10.039 --> 01:51:12.640
everything I need. Now I might not use it all,

2264
01:51:13.000 --> 01:51:16.039
but I've got options at my fingertips. And i haven't

2265
01:51:16.079 --> 01:51:21.199
even I haven't even finished talking. So that's the kind

2266
01:51:21.199 --> 01:51:23.359
of stuff that then buys me time to go. You

2267
01:51:23.439 --> 01:51:25.840
know what, it's time to relaunch my YouTube because now

2268
01:51:25.880 --> 01:51:26.840
I have the bandwidth.

2269
01:51:27.439 --> 01:51:31.680
You know, technology is advancing in a way that yes

2270
01:51:31.800 --> 01:51:32.319
or our benefits.

2271
01:51:32.359 --> 01:51:32.479
You know.

2272
01:51:32.520 --> 01:51:34.680
My issue is is every time I've tried to use

2273
01:51:35.399 --> 01:51:37.520
I was an early adopter of Riverside, and I can

2274
01:51:37.600 --> 01:51:40.680
never get it to work consistently and correctly. Where I

2275
01:51:40.720 --> 01:51:44.000
got so frustrated I just stopped using it. Interesting and

2276
01:51:44.079 --> 01:51:47.119
I know they got better. I've tried it recently, No,

2277
01:51:47.239 --> 01:51:51.039
I couldn't say recently. A few months back I had

2278
01:51:51.079 --> 01:51:52.359
a guess where I was going to try to use it,

2279
01:51:52.880 --> 01:51:55.159
and same frustrations.

2280
01:51:55.159 --> 01:51:55.920
I just had to go back.

2281
01:51:55.960 --> 01:51:57.479
I think I just want too much control, you know.

2282
01:51:57.520 --> 01:51:59.960
I like to go back and multi track the audio.

2283
01:52:00.000 --> 01:52:01.359
I want to have more control of the audio. I

2284
01:52:01.399 --> 01:52:03.520
want the individual feeds, like.

2285
01:52:04.000 --> 01:52:06.159
Maybe it's just me. I mean, it's just me. Yeah,

2286
01:52:06.199 --> 01:52:08.079
But there's I mean, look not to push AI, but

2287
01:52:08.119 --> 01:52:11.199
I mean AI can take stems out of an MP three. Yeahs.

2288
01:52:11.720 --> 01:52:13.479
So you get to this point where I'm like, and

2289
01:52:13.600 --> 01:52:16.199
it's for people love to resist this stuff. I love

2290
01:52:16.279 --> 01:52:18.399
to be on the as close to the front of

2291
01:52:18.520 --> 01:52:22.039
these things as possible. I always find myself finding the

2292
01:52:22.119 --> 01:52:25.479
next thing when when whatever I'm doing starts to hit

2293
01:52:25.560 --> 01:52:27.520
mass adoption, I'm onto the next. Yeah.

2294
01:52:27.520 --> 01:52:29.920
I believe in using it as well, Royce. I just

2295
01:52:30.039 --> 01:52:31.239
I guess I'm control freak.

2296
01:52:31.359 --> 01:52:31.479
You know.

2297
01:52:31.800 --> 01:52:33.840
When it comes to my shorts, I absolutely use AI.

2298
01:52:33.880 --> 01:52:35.600
I mean, I use a program that just doesn't I'm

2299
01:52:35.640 --> 01:52:38.359
not sitting there. I'm not sitting there and doing I'm

2300
01:52:38.399 --> 01:52:40.520
letting it do it for me. I'm going back and

2301
01:52:40.560 --> 01:52:42.199
I might make an edit here or there, but other

2302
01:52:42.279 --> 01:52:44.039
than that, I'm letting the software do it for me.

2303
01:52:44.039 --> 01:52:45.119
I don't have time to do all that.

2304
01:52:45.359 --> 01:52:47.239
I get it, man, I mean, I look, it took

2305
01:52:47.319 --> 01:52:49.520
me so long to learn how to edit video on

2306
01:52:49.600 --> 01:52:52.680
my cell phone, like to jump from Premiere to but

2307
01:52:52.760 --> 01:52:55.039
this is years ago, to jump from Premiere to my

2308
01:52:55.159 --> 01:52:58.239
cell phone, and at a certain point it became so

2309
01:52:58.520 --> 01:53:01.199
clunky to try to take stuff off my phone and

2310
01:53:01.279 --> 01:53:03.960
put it in premiere. I was like, stop being stubborn,

2311
01:53:04.960 --> 01:53:07.880
and now I can edit. I can edit on two

2312
01:53:07.920 --> 01:53:12.640
cell phones simultaneously. Yeah. Yeah, that's a bad day if

2313
01:53:12.640 --> 01:53:13.119
I'm doing that.

2314
01:53:13.359 --> 01:53:15.119
I tried to do a self phon thing. I got

2315
01:53:15.159 --> 01:53:17.000
the I got the big you know thumb thing. I

2316
01:53:18.159 --> 01:53:19.960
I can't do it. I got I gotta I gotta

2317
01:53:19.960 --> 01:53:21.640
get in front of my in front of my PC

2318
01:53:21.800 --> 01:53:23.800
or whatever it is, and you know, have everything laid

2319
01:53:23.840 --> 01:53:25.520
out in front. I guess I'm just too old school.

2320
01:53:25.560 --> 01:53:28.760
I don't know how old are you? Forty seven? All right,

2321
01:53:29.000 --> 01:53:31.520
I just turned forty four, so we're we're the same ballpark.

2322
01:53:31.560 --> 01:53:36.399
But I look, most of my my contemporaries don't touch

2323
01:53:36.520 --> 01:53:38.279
the stuff. They're everybody's.

2324
01:53:38.439 --> 01:53:42.359
It's still very very young, it's very very new, and

2325
01:53:42.760 --> 01:53:45.119
I find it to be very exciting as a creator

2326
01:53:45.239 --> 01:53:50.119
because it's giving me time to focus on more important things. Yeah,

2327
01:53:50.239 --> 01:53:51.439
I mean, time management is the thing.

2328
01:53:51.479 --> 01:53:55.000
Your time is valuable, so agreed, you know, and maybe

2329
01:53:55.000 --> 01:53:57.039
I should look into more of that stuff. And that's

2330
01:53:57.039 --> 01:54:00.119
also a good lesson for anybody who's getting into the

2331
01:54:00.159 --> 01:54:02.279
space that you know, hey, take advantage of the technology

2332
01:54:02.319 --> 01:54:04.399
out there. We'll give you more time.

2333
01:54:04.439 --> 01:54:06.000
Don't let it do all the work, but let it

2334
01:54:06.079 --> 01:54:07.560
do some of the heavy lifting so you don't have to.

2335
01:54:07.840 --> 01:54:09.520
I got to look into the substack thing. I've always

2336
01:54:09.520 --> 01:54:12.359
I've always heard. I've just never dove into it, and

2337
01:54:12.399 --> 01:54:15.239
it's mostly a time thing for me. But yeah, you know,

2338
01:54:15.720 --> 01:54:17.119
I've been going through some of your stuff and it's

2339
01:54:17.119 --> 01:54:19.680
pretty good. I mean, you're very active, and uh, it's

2340
01:54:19.720 --> 01:54:21.720
really cool what you're doing, man, it really is. It's

2341
01:54:21.760 --> 01:54:23.560
almost like you're, like you said earlier, from what I

2342
01:54:23.600 --> 01:54:26.239
can tell, you're just reinventing yourself to it to a degree,

2343
01:54:26.279 --> 01:54:26.960
Do you feel that way?

2344
01:54:28.880 --> 01:54:31.760
I think, you know, reinvention Maybe not so much. I

2345
01:54:31.800 --> 01:54:34.640
think I'm peeling back some layers that I buried. I

2346
01:54:35.039 --> 01:54:37.600
I was involved in a lot of this political stuff

2347
01:54:37.680 --> 01:54:40.079
early on. I don't know if you if you saw

2348
01:54:40.159 --> 01:54:41.840
the art, like if you know anything about the Trump

2349
01:54:41.920 --> 01:54:44.680
call and all that, No, I heard you talk about it.

2350
01:54:44.760 --> 01:54:48.720
I wasn't really sure about what that was. Well so

2351
01:54:49.039 --> 01:54:50.760
so so I'll answer your question and then I can

2352
01:54:50.800 --> 01:54:53.000
give you the quick summation on that. But sure, it's

2353
01:54:53.039 --> 01:54:55.800
not that it's a reinvention. But I feel like I'm

2354
01:54:55.880 --> 01:54:58.079
going back to the things that I used to do

2355
01:54:58.399 --> 01:55:01.880
and getting to show all of my myself. So I've

2356
01:55:02.119 --> 01:55:03.920
gotten rid of the people that just wanted me to

2357
01:55:03.960 --> 01:55:07.159
take them to Disney every day. Oh and I call

2358
01:55:07.239 --> 01:55:10.880
that like a Disney daycare. And now I've got the

2359
01:55:10.920 --> 01:55:12.840
people that, yeah, we really love it when you take

2360
01:55:12.960 --> 01:55:15.039
us there, but we also want to hear about your

2361
01:55:15.079 --> 01:55:18.600
other thoughts. So I've been able to kind of pull

2362
01:55:18.760 --> 01:55:21.479
back in some stuff. So I would say it's more like,

2363
01:55:23.640 --> 01:55:25.600
maybe I'm just being semantical now and it's just my

2364
01:55:25.680 --> 01:55:27.720
own desire to control the narrative. But I feel like

2365
01:55:27.760 --> 01:55:32.239
I'm shedding skin. If anything. I don't think it's a reinvention,

2366
01:55:32.439 --> 01:55:35.640
because that would imply that I'm doing something I've never done,

2367
01:55:35.760 --> 01:55:38.960
or it's new territory, and it's not new territory, you know.

2368
01:55:39.800 --> 01:55:41.399
So and I can tell you the Trump story if

2369
01:55:41.399 --> 01:55:46.439
you want to hear it real quick. Sure. So I

2370
01:55:47.840 --> 01:55:51.159
let's see, I'm running an arcade business in Los Angeles,

2371
01:55:51.960 --> 01:55:56.239
and somewhere along the line, I start branching out into

2372
01:55:56.239 --> 01:55:58.359
doing content because content has always been a part of

2373
01:55:58.399 --> 01:56:02.840
the thing. And I'm producing a podcast for Stuttering John

2374
01:56:03.399 --> 01:56:10.359
from The Stern Show. Tonight's show former announcer, and he says, Oh,

2375
01:56:10.439 --> 01:56:13.039
We're gonna have Casey Armstrong on the show today, and

2376
01:56:13.119 --> 01:56:15.359
Casey Armstrong was a guy from The Stern Show back

2377
01:56:15.399 --> 01:56:19.920
in the day. And Casey turns down at the last minute.

2378
01:56:19.920 --> 01:56:22.760
I'm too busy and John didn't have anything to do,

2379
01:56:23.520 --> 01:56:24.560
and I go, you know what you should do is

2380
01:56:24.560 --> 01:56:26.439
you should call the White House because Trump had just

2381
01:56:26.520 --> 01:56:29.760
gotten into office. I guarantee you can get through because

2382
01:56:29.760 --> 01:56:32.680
a few weeks earlier, I was just po driving around

2383
01:56:32.720 --> 01:56:35.079
and I got through to the White House and Hope

2384
01:56:35.119 --> 01:56:37.359
Hicks called me back and I was like, oh shit,

2385
01:56:37.520 --> 01:56:43.000
I think I'll hang up now, and so he goes,

2386
01:56:43.079 --> 01:56:46.039
oh okay. He goes, well, I used to party with Trump.

2387
01:56:46.119 --> 01:56:48.039
I used to go on the helicopter with him to

2388
01:56:48.520 --> 01:56:51.680
AC So he picks up the phone and this is

2389
01:56:51.720 --> 01:56:56.319
on his podcast, this is first term, and he goes, Hi,

2390
01:56:56.520 --> 01:57:00.840
John Melendez. Click, they hang up, calls again. He goes,

2391
01:57:00.880 --> 01:57:03.600
John Melendez, I used to hang out with Donald click,

2392
01:57:04.319 --> 01:57:06.560
and I go, you gotta go my cousin Vinnie. You

2393
01:57:06.640 --> 01:57:12.119
ever see my cousin Vinnie, not Melendez? Say Menendez, you know,

2394
01:57:12.319 --> 01:57:16.079
not Jerry Callo, Jerry Gallo. I don't realize as I'm

2395
01:57:16.239 --> 01:57:20.720
saying this, that corrupt senator from New Jersey, Bob Menendez,

2396
01:57:20.760 --> 01:57:23.800
a Democrat, has ties to the Kushners and the Trumps.

2397
01:57:23.960 --> 01:57:30.239
I just said it for the joke. Okay, Hi, White House,

2398
01:57:30.279 --> 01:57:34.399
because mind you were calling the main switchboard, White House. Hi,

2399
01:57:34.680 --> 01:57:37.920
this is a calling from Senator Bob Menendez's office. Oh

2400
01:57:38.000 --> 01:57:42.960
hold on one second, please, right. So then, and John

2401
01:57:43.119 --> 01:57:46.359
is doing like the worst fucking British accent you've ever heard,

2402
01:57:46.760 --> 01:57:50.239
and he says his name is like it was like

2403
01:57:50.520 --> 01:57:53.319
his name was like uh like it was like an

2404
01:57:53.319 --> 01:57:57.720
amalgamation of like Bond names. It was like Sean, like

2405
01:57:58.399 --> 01:57:59.920
I don't even remember what it was. It was like

2406
01:58:00.079 --> 01:58:03.800
Sean Moore or something like that. And he goes, uh, yeah,

2407
01:58:03.960 --> 01:58:05.560
my name is Sean Moore and my parents were big

2408
01:58:05.640 --> 01:58:08.680
Bond fans, and like this is all getting through, and

2409
01:58:08.760 --> 01:58:11.199
the woman's like, well, listen, we just have one question.

2410
01:58:12.039 --> 01:58:15.039
If you're calling from Senator Bob Menendez's office, why do

2411
01:58:15.159 --> 01:58:17.800
you have an eight one to eight area code from California?

2412
01:58:18.560 --> 01:58:21.279
And he goes, oh, well on holiday in like the

2413
01:58:21.399 --> 01:58:24.840
worst accent, and they're like, oh, that makes sense. So

2414
01:58:25.039 --> 01:58:27.760
the next thing you know, they're like, we'll call you back.

2415
01:58:27.880 --> 01:58:29.760
We wrap up the podcast and we're like, fuck, that

2416
01:58:29.920 --> 01:58:32.359
was close. We're done. And I get a call that

2417
01:58:32.520 --> 01:58:34.079
night and he goes, I just got off the phone

2418
01:58:34.079 --> 01:58:37.760
with Donald Trump. I go, what? He goes. Jared Kushner

2419
01:58:37.840 --> 01:58:39.560
called me I was on a date with some girl.

2420
01:58:39.640 --> 01:58:41.880
I go, I gotta go. They were at a restaurant.

2421
01:58:41.880 --> 01:58:44.079
He goes, I gotta go outside. The President's calling. I go,

2422
01:58:44.479 --> 01:58:46.600
you must you had to have gotten laid right, because

2423
01:58:46.680 --> 01:58:49.119
like that's the ultimate Like I don't think he did,

2424
01:58:49.199 --> 01:58:53.079
which is a whole other commentary on him. But so

2425
01:58:54.039 --> 01:58:57.520
I get this voicemail like this this this MP three

2426
01:58:57.680 --> 01:59:00.079
texted to me because his buddy recorded the call a

2427
01:59:00.239 --> 01:59:04.640
third party. I spend two days trying to get this

2428
01:59:04.720 --> 01:59:08.520
out into the media. I finally Politico picked it up,

2429
01:59:09.000 --> 01:59:12.319
and it was a whirlwind, but it was I basic.

2430
01:59:12.439 --> 01:59:16.680
I produced that call on Air Force one, so so

2431
01:59:17.279 --> 01:59:20.399
so so reinvention, not so much dipping my toe back

2432
01:59:20.439 --> 01:59:24.239
in the water. Maybe that's that's I like that story.

2433
01:59:24.800 --> 01:59:26.399
It's a fun story, man. I try to tell it

2434
01:59:26.439 --> 01:59:27.319
as quick as possible.

2435
01:59:27.680 --> 01:59:30.199
That is well, Royce, I don't hold you up anymore

2436
01:59:30.680 --> 01:59:32.680
because you're in a you're in a completely different time zone,

2437
01:59:32.680 --> 01:59:36.319
but not man, joining this. I I like this conversation

2438
01:59:36.760 --> 01:59:40.319
and I'm looking forward to joining you on your podcast

2439
01:59:40.600 --> 01:59:44.079
down the road here. So with that being said, Man,

2440
01:59:44.079 --> 01:59:45.600
if you don't mind, I want to wrap this up,

2441
01:59:47.079 --> 01:59:50.520
get on with my evening over here, and uh again,

2442
01:59:50.600 --> 01:59:51.359
appreciate your time.

2443
01:59:51.439 --> 01:59:54.119
I really do. Thank you for coming on. I really do,

2444
01:59:54.720 --> 01:59:55.560
and thank you.

2445
01:59:55.880 --> 01:59:58.720
I hope everything you do moving forward is just a success.

2446
01:59:58.760 --> 02:00:00.760
And I know that doesn't always mean for all of us.

2447
02:00:00.840 --> 02:00:01.159
It's just.

2448
02:00:02.840 --> 02:00:04.319
Keep at it, man. I mean, you've been doing this

2449
02:00:04.439 --> 02:00:06.840
a while and I like what you're doing. It's great,

2450
02:00:07.199 --> 02:00:09.199
it really is. I like your attitude. Man, you always

2451
02:00:09.239 --> 02:00:10.600
coming at it with a little bit of humor, and

2452
02:00:10.600 --> 02:00:13.279
it's like you're just very engaging. And it was a great,

2453
02:00:13.720 --> 02:00:16.159
great conversation, great experience, man, appreciate it.

2454
02:00:16.359 --> 02:00:17.800
Thank you for having me on. I look forward to

2455
02:00:17.800 --> 02:00:21.039
having you on my show. And honestly, I don't do

2456
02:00:21.119 --> 02:00:23.880
a lot of this, but it's it's really nice to

2457
02:00:23.920 --> 02:00:26.439
have these kind of conversations and to hear how other

2458
02:00:26.479 --> 02:00:28.479
people are thinking and to be reminded that at the

2459
02:00:28.560 --> 02:00:29.960
end of the day, we all want the same stuff,

2460
02:00:30.199 --> 02:00:31.840
absolutely for and be honest.

2461
02:00:31.880 --> 02:00:33.399
Down the road, I'll probably have you on again if

2462
02:00:33.439 --> 02:00:34.000
you're open.

2463
02:00:33.880 --> 02:00:37.079
So any time, man, I really enjoyed this, I really did.

2464
02:00:37.199 --> 02:00:38.680
And I don't know how long we've done here. I

2465
02:00:38.760 --> 02:00:41.520
have no concept of time right now. I don't know.

2466
02:00:41.800 --> 02:00:44.680
Let me look down. I think we're about yeah, just

2467
02:00:44.760 --> 02:00:48.760
over two hours. Okay, I found about two hours. But

2468
02:00:48.920 --> 02:00:51.840
it no, no, it's not a bad thing. No no, no,

2469
02:00:52.079 --> 02:00:55.800
it's not. Thank you, thank you. I'm gonna go ahead

2470
02:00:55.800 --> 02:01:08.159
and grab this up, sir, take your content of your field. Attention, devils,

2471
02:01:08.359 --> 02:01:16.239
high high temption, high stairs on my get do do

2472
02:01:16.960 --> 02:01:23.000
do do do do do do do do do