0:00

The two RuPaul lines are all born naked and the rest

0:02

is drag. And it's

0:04

so silly, but it's like how you can't love someone else

0:06

until you love yourself, like truly like, like,

0:09

are there any two more important sentences? That's like, those

0:11

are it. If you just get an internalize those two

0:13

ideas, you're pretty good. Yeah.

0:17

Speaking of spanks. It's funny that

0:19

RuPaul's like, if you don't love yourself, how

0:21

are you going

0:23

to love somebody else? Oh, there's no makeup because

0:25

we're in the pandemic. I'm putting on a balaclava.

0:28

Oh my God. I forgot about that. And

0:41

we're back. I'm here with Kendra. I'm

0:43

here with Chris. Howie is on

0:45

vacation. Sarah Lazarus is sick as

0:47

a dog. You love to put our

0:49

business out there. Yeah. That's

0:51

not like social security numbers. Do you know

0:53

the last time you said on the air that I was sick,

0:55

I then got a text from my mother being like, why are

0:57

you sick? So that does

0:59

that mean your mother listens? Yes. I

1:02

like that. Oh yeah. She listens to like every episode. Hi,

1:04

mom. Good for her. Hi

1:07

Kendra's mom. I bet Kendra was a

1:09

challenging, challenging daughter.

1:12

And I think it speaks really well at you that you allowed

1:14

her to have so many different kinds of animals in the home.

1:18

And, uh, having worked with Kendra

1:20

now for several years, I just want you to know. I

1:23

see you. Wow. I

1:25

wasn't real. I was, oh, you know,

1:28

I was an easy child. No,

1:31

I'm sure you think you were compared to what came next. Well,

1:34

you know what? We can't focus on that right now. Let's

1:36

get into it. What a weekday. This

1:40

week, Donald Trump finally answered the question

1:42

on everyone's minds. What will he do to pretend he wouldn't sign

1:44

a deeply unpopular national abortion ban he will 100%

1:46

sign. Many

1:50

people have asked me what my position is on

1:52

abortion and abortion rights. Especially since I was proudly

1:54

the person responsible for the ending of

1:56

something. that

2:00

all legal scholars, both sides,

2:02

wanted and in fact demanded

2:05

be ended. Roe v. Wade.

2:07

My view is now that we

2:09

have abortion where everybody wanted it

2:12

from a legal standpoint, the

2:14

states will determine by vote or

2:16

legislation or perhaps both, and

2:18

whatever they decide must be the

2:20

law of the land, in this case, the

2:23

law of the state. This

2:25

statement was at least initially taken at face value,

2:28

covered as if Trump said he would leave abortion

2:30

up to the states, but A, he doesn't actually

2:32

say that, and B, he's the world's most famous

2:34

liar. If you believe Trump wouldn't sign a national

2:37

abortion ban, the instant Republicans sent one to his

2:39

desk, I've got a Trump endorsed Bible to sell

2:41

you. I bought it as a joke. I

2:44

don't even know what I was thinking. Please, someone's stupid. It takes this

2:46

Bible off my hands. People are going to believe that you own that. Well,

2:48

you know what? Maybe I did buy a Trump Bible. Did you actually buy one?

2:50

No, I did not buy it. Here

2:54

are some things I did not buy. I did not

2:56

buy a Trump Bible. I did not buy an Apple

2:58

Vision Pro. I

3:01

am currently closer to buying an Apple Vision Pro

3:03

than I am to buying a Trump Bible, but

3:05

that's because I will never buy a Trump Bible.

3:08

I may ultimately buy an Apple Vision Pro.

3:11

And the Trump sneakers are in your closet. I would

3:13

have bought those. If those Trump sneakers, I

3:16

liked those Trump sneakers. Okay.

3:19

All right. If

3:22

it wasn't the Trump version, if you had

3:24

just the gold sneakers with the American flag,

3:26

no T, no Trump connection, even

3:28

with the American flag, you're going to wear sneakers with the

3:30

American flag on it. Yes. Yes. As

3:33

part of what I believe should be our collective progressive

3:35

left project, which is taking back the symbols of patriotism.

3:39

We should all be wearing the American flag. We should all

3:41

be wearing the Gatsun flag. We should take these symbols back

3:43

and make them our own. They get them. The

3:46

freaks get it. If the freaks own

3:48

patriotism, then patriotism is for freaks. Trump

3:52

told Americans to follow their hearts and edit this. Now

3:54

it's up to the States to do the right thing.

3:57

Like Ronald Reagan, I Am strongly in favor of

3:59

A- Exceptions for rape. Incest.

4:02

And a of the mother. Trump

4:04

once pro choice to go hard antiabortion turn

4:06

during the Twenty sixteen primary, saying a one

4:08

point that if abortion were outlawed women who

4:11

god one would face some sort of punishments

4:13

a comment that he walked back to mid

4:15

backlash. It was revealing moments having not really

4:17

thought through any of this very deeply, Trump

4:19

just assumed correctly that being pro life means

4:21

punishing women for having abortions. He didn't realize

4:24

that while it does mean that you aren't

4:26

supposed to say it, just make it a

4:28

logical conclusion of your policies. He wasn't versed

4:30

in the nuance politics of taking away basic

4:32

human rights was like it was. His first

4:34

Stone Temple Pilots concerts and he was like oh

4:36

I love this reminds me of Pearl Jam. Of

4:39

course it does man, But shut the fuck up.

4:42

Just weeks ago, trumpet been privately talking

4:44

about supporting a sixteen week national abortion

4:46

bans, reportedly telling one aide know what

4:48

I like about sixteen. It's even. It's

4:50

four months. Sorry. You were denied

4:52

an abortion at seventeen weeks and now you're and Sepsis

4:54

A may not be able to ever have another babies,

4:56

but she'll be relieved to know that there was a

4:58

good reason. Sixteen as a perfect force. After

5:01

calling that reporting fake news Trump and

5:03

publicly announced that he was considering a

5:05

fifteen week several ban. The

5:07

number of which that people just are agreeing

5:10

on Sistine as I'm sick it in terms

5:12

of that. Ad. It'll come

5:14

out to something that's very reasonable.

5:17

But. People are really be a bit

5:19

hard liners are agreeing seems to be

5:21

sixteen weeks seems to be a number

5:23

that people are agreeing at, but I'll

5:25

make that the announcement at the appropriate

5:27

times. And again, some statement does not

5:30

preclude supporting this ban, and he says

5:32

explicitly in his new statement that he

5:34

is not endorsing the ban in order

5:36

to win the election. His position is

5:38

virtually unchanged, which is why anti Abortion

5:40

groups express disappointment a Trump's decision not

5:42

to endorse a national bounce right now,

5:45

while saying that they were still riding

5:47

for. Him Anyway, it's anti. abortion. Groups know

5:49

that Trump may not align perfectly with their

5:51

views, but he still vastly better than his

5:53

opponent. It's. sort of like how many on

5:55

the left are upset with by the to the israel

5:57

war in gaza us but they understand that despite series

5:59

miss for the good of the country, we

6:01

all have to do everything we can to re-elect him,

6:03

because he is far better on every other issue, and

6:06

even on the issue of Gaza, Trump would be far

6:08

worse." I agree. Meanwhile,

6:11

former Vice President Mike Pence called Trump's new stance

6:13

a slap in the face to the millions of

6:15

pro-life Americans who voted for him. Continued Pence, and

6:17

not the hot kind of slap in the face

6:19

that I let mother do to me once a

6:22

year on Ascension Day. God, it's coming up. Keep

6:24

it together, Mikey. I'm

6:27

sorry, because this screen is

6:29

still up, we're looking at this Trump

6:31

interview that he did. I just want to

6:33

say, I want my politicians to be accessible.

6:36

This man will talk to anyone. Who are Sid and

6:39

who are his friends? I've never heard of this. You

6:41

know what? It's one of those things where

6:43

it's like, we've never heard of Sid and Friends, but it's got more viewers

6:45

than like, you know, Fleabag

6:47

ever had. Where

6:49

is he finding these people? On

6:52

WABC, listen to Sid and

6:54

Friends in the morning on

6:56

wabcradio.com. wabcradio.com, traffic and hate

6:58

on the 8th.

7:02

You definitely just did an ad for like, ingesting

7:05

Clorox. Yeah, for sure. I like that.

7:08

Traffic and hate on the 8th. Meanwhile,

7:11

President Biden slammed Trump in a Monday statement

7:13

saying that Donald Trump made it clear once

7:15

again today that he is more

7:17

than anyone in America, the person responsible for

7:19

ending Roe v. Wade. He is more than

7:21

anyone in America responsible for creating the cruelty

7:23

and the chaos that has enveloped America since

7:26

the Dobbs decision. Let there

7:28

be no illusion if Donald Trump is elected

7:30

and the MAGA Republicans in Congress put a

7:32

national abortion ban on the resolute death, Trump

7:34

will sign it into law. Or

7:36

the statement continued, perhaps still signed it in

7:38

the private study while dining with Eric and

7:41

Don Jr. and jokingly, but non-jokingly, referring to

7:43

them as abortion number six and abortion number

7:45

seven. Speaking

7:48

of the promising next generation, during a speech in

7:50

Wisconsin, Biden announced a new plan to reduce or

7:52

eliminate student debt for tens of millions of borrowers.

7:54

The White House estimates that the plan would wipe

7:56

out debt for more than 4 million people and

7:58

reduce the amount of for 25 million people.

8:01

A majority of Americans with federal student loans

8:03

will qualify for some form of relief. Kendra,

8:05

I believe you are one. I'm excited. This

8:08

is, uh, the marital income limit on this

8:10

is finally something that I fall into for

8:12

some relief. And I've never, like of all

8:14

of the other past, uh, plans that have

8:17

both succeeded and failed, I've never qualified for

8:19

anything. So this is very exciting for me.

8:21

I will say as someone who holds a

8:23

federal student loan, maybe like the

8:26

most frustrating thing about the

8:28

last two or three years has

8:31

been just like the unknown because for so long,

8:33

I graduated in 2010 and for so long it's

8:35

just been like habit. I pay my student loans

8:37

every month. I have a federal and a private,

8:40

um, and I just pay it. It's always been part of my life. But

8:42

then once all of this

8:44

started happening, especially with the pandemic cutting

8:46

out, um, cutting out payments for a

8:49

year, it just

8:51

feels so unknown now of like, should I still be

8:53

paying? Should I not still be paying? Should I pay

8:55

once every three months? Should I, because it just feels

8:57

like anything could happen at any time. And will I

8:59

get the money back that I have been paying if

9:01

it's deemed that I didn't need to be

9:04

paying this whole time? It's been really

9:06

weird. Yeah. Yeah. It

9:08

says here that the only borrowers who wouldn't be eligible

9:10

are those who quote, got a degree in something fucking

9:12

stupid, like poetry or Latin. So sorry

9:14

to 98% of our listeners. Wow.

9:18

Biden highlighted, this anthropology degree really

9:20

serving me well. I

9:23

consider you a student of people. Thank you. Biden

9:25

highlighted his efforts to keep his promise to cancel student

9:27

debt, even after the Supreme court blocked his initial $400

9:29

billion debt relief program. Tens

9:32

of millions of people's debt was

9:35

literally about to get canceled. But

9:37

then some of my Republican friends and elected

9:39

officials and special interests sued us and

9:42

the Supreme court blocked us, but that

9:44

didn't, well, that didn't stop us. No,

9:47

I mean, sincerely, we continue to find alternatives

9:49

passed to reduce student debt payments. Continued

9:53

Biden. You're never too old to experiment with alternative

9:55

paths. That's what I told Jill when I talked

9:57

to her about opening up our marriage on April

10:00

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for more content. But

12:51

not everyone smells what Biden is cooking. Dwayne The

12:54

Rock Johnson said in a Fox News interview last

12:56

week that he will not be endorsing Biden again

12:58

in 2024 after backing him in 2020. The

13:02

endorsement that I made years

13:04

ago with Biden was

13:07

what I thought was the best decision for me at

13:09

that time. And I thought back then, I'm

13:11

in this position where

13:13

I have some influence. And

13:15

it's my job now to exercise

13:18

my influence and share with

13:21

this is who I'm going to endorse. Am I

13:23

going to do that again this year? That answer is no. I

13:25

was then the most followed

13:27

American man in the world. And I am today. The

13:31

most followed American man in the world.

13:33

And I appreciate that. What that caused

13:36

back then was something that

13:38

tears me up in

13:40

my guts back then. And now, which

13:43

is division. And

13:45

that got me. And I didn't realize

13:47

it then. I just thought, hey, our

13:49

country feels like there's a lot of

13:51

unrest. It feels like I would

13:53

like things to calm down. To

13:55

be clear, The Rock's endorsement obviously did not

13:57

cause division. The division was already in the

13:59

air. He just didn't like hearing about it.

14:02

It's like if in the movie San Andreas, he

14:04

flew the rescue helicopter away from the earthquake because

14:06

when he flew towards it, people started screaming for

14:08

help and it grossed him out. Johnson

14:11

continued. The takeaway

14:13

after that, months and months and months,

14:16

I started to realize like, oh man,

14:18

that caused an incredible amount of division

14:21

in our country. So I realize

14:23

now going into this election, I'm not going to do that.

14:25

I wouldn't do that because my goal is to bring our

14:27

country together. I believe

14:29

in that. There's going to be no endorsement.

14:32

This level of influence, I keep my

14:34

politics to myself. And I think it's

14:36

between me and the ballot box. But I will tell

14:38

you this. While like a lot

14:40

of us out there, not

14:43

trusting of all politicians, I

14:45

do trust the American people and I

14:47

trust that whoever they vote for, that's

14:50

going to be my president and that's who I'm going to support 100%. I

14:53

endorse whatever happens. Whatever happens is great as long

14:55

as no one is mad at me, the rock. I

14:58

love this country and its people too much to try

15:00

and make it a better place. The rock

15:02

also bravely came out against the Wokes saying

15:04

this. In today's

15:06

easy, cancel culture world

15:10

and cancel culture, woke culture, this

15:12

culture, that culture, division, et cetera,

15:16

that really bugs me. And in

15:18

the spirit of that, you either succumb and be

15:20

what you think other people want you to be

15:22

or you go, well, no, that's not who I am. I'm

15:24

going to be myself and I'm going to be real. And

15:27

that may get people upset and make this

15:29

people laugh and that's okay. In

15:32

summary, does the rock have a preference? Yes, but

15:34

he will express his preference privately. He will decide

15:36

what he thinks is best for the country in

15:38

an election that has vast stakes for his hundreds

15:40

of millions of fans and then choose not to

15:42

help make that better outcome a reality. Why? For

15:45

The rock, keeping it real means hiding what he

15:47

really thinks. If The rock told you what he

15:49

believes, that wouldn't be true to what he believes.

15:51

After All, a lot of people out there will

15:53

try to silence you for expressing yourself and the

15:55

rock hates that. And So he won't express himself.

15:57

You See the rocks. Fame is a good unto

15:59

itself. It has no value to. the desire to

16:01

be on serving his reputation in interests. Could he

16:03

spends some of that capital he's earned over decades

16:05

to make the world a better place? Yes. But

16:07

then he couldn't be buried with it in his

16:09

pyramids. The rock is simply too influential to use

16:11

his influence. The rock is too big to care.

16:15

I have a question: is that a bottle of

16:18

his branded alcohol sitting on the table between them?

16:20

like is this whole thing just an advertisement for

16:22

one of his company's Is Brandon is out of

16:24

this? Is that My at Wrestlemania as? Yeah. I

16:27

thought it's like. It's.

16:34

Politics. Is so hard. And. You

16:36

know it's always hard, but man, there's so

16:38

many people out there that could make it

16:40

easier. Like do I think the rock endorsing

16:42

job? I'd make the biggest difference in the

16:44

world that know, but why they give you

16:46

add up. All of these people who know

16:49

better, who in their private lives, claim that

16:51

they are compassionate, believe themselves to be kind,

16:53

believe themselves to have good values, If.

16:56

He went onstage at the Democratic Convention if

16:58

he was joined by a bunch of other

17:00

big. Non partisan or republican figure

17:03

saying the for the good of the country

17:05

we have to get behind Joe Biden I

17:07

think the really make a difference and like

17:09

his whole life he walks around he hugs

17:11

all of as fancy as a very import.

17:13

His image is very important to him. Writes

17:15

his image as being a decent and beloved

17:17

figure who cares about the people who care

17:19

about him is very important him and ironically

17:21

he has decided that in order to protect

17:23

that image as someone who was beloved and

17:25

caring he is not going to do something

17:27

to help or show love to the people

17:29

that love him. especially the people who are

17:31

vulnerable. Really benefit from having Joe Biden. The

17:33

White House's opposed the all Trump and. The.

17:36

I know it's like all this is just what

17:38

him bending over backwards to avoid saying it as

17:40

one indoors because he didn't like the political blowback.

17:42

but. It's just frustrating. I've

17:44

always said that that isn't funny to meet you

17:47

if you'd really, if he was really serious about

17:49

helping with politics. He. Would have sat john Saturn and

17:51

up with a stellar. The. snow genuinely

17:53

i genuinely believe that if he wanted

17:55

to be helpful he would have that

17:57

man up with the person who makes

17:59

us I don't know that John

18:01

Federer can afford the rocks then pay for it

18:03

because I know Contribution

18:07

I don't think the rock can pay for those suits and I bet those

18:09

suits are Wow

18:14

Wow, what is he paying for a custom suit? God,

18:16

it looks good. I miss the

18:18

rock from like 15 years ago when he

18:20

was Self-deprecating and would poke fun

18:22

of his own image versus the one now

18:25

It's like he thinks himself as the most

18:27

serious person in everything all the time and

18:29

he's just so Boring to

18:31

me now as an entertainer Doing

18:36

an interview on a show with a logo that

18:38

looks like it should be on the cover of

18:40

a YA fantasy He's

18:45

gotta move alcohol, please just google the Wil Kane

18:47

show logo and just see what I'm talking about

18:49

Yeah, we have the things we have been promoting

18:51

What are we doing? What are we doing? What

18:53

are we doing? Well,

18:57

these people are like making putting these people

18:59

into the algorithm of my brain. I've never heard of

19:01

these folks before I just don't I

19:03

I Don't get it. I

19:05

really don't get it and it's and you know,

19:07

like people like Oh Taylor Swift should do this

19:09

Taylor Swift should do that I'm

19:11

like, well actually at one of her concerts. She said

19:13

this and oh she did put out this endorsement and

19:16

that's all that's all great but I Find

19:19

it like I just I just can't imagine Being

19:22

in the position of having this much reach and

19:25

seeing what is happening in Politics

19:28

and forget having to be dragged kicking and screaming To

19:31

like do the right thing that you

19:33

wouldn't be like so excited Like you're the rock

19:35

you have the most followers of any American man

19:37

in the world. I want to do a count

19:40

Yeah, sure Like

19:43

the idea that you wouldn't be excited like wow,

19:45

like the election is really important I

19:48

have I want to I want good

19:50

things to happen I can help my these millions

19:52

of people understand what I think is the best thing to

19:54

have happened and that the idea that You would see that

19:56

opportunity be like no. No that would make a group of

19:58

people mad at me that That might hurt my

20:00

future box office. That might hurt my image. That

20:03

might make people mad. I don't like that. I

20:05

like being publicly lauded. I like being celebrated universally.

20:08

He says in this thing, I don't want to

20:10

sow division. I want to bring people together. But

20:12

not saying what you think doesn't bring people

20:14

together. It just lets people stay exactly where

20:17

they are. There are a ton of people

20:19

who will hate you for endorsing Trump. There are a ton of people that

20:21

will be glad you did what you could to elect Biden. They're

20:23

there. They exist. They're moving about

20:25

their days. You're not bringing them together. You're just

20:28

going to each of them individually and saying that

20:30

you want to be loved by both separately. And like,

20:32

okay, that's a choice you can make, but don't pretend

20:34

it's anything other than a dodge. I

20:37

mean, and it's fine to believe all of that, like

20:39

to believe that you don't want to sow division, to

20:41

believe that you don't need to say anything. But then

20:44

my thing is don't say anything.

20:46

Never have, you know who's political

20:48

beliefs I know nothing about? Tom Cruise. Couldn't

20:51

tell you a thing that man believes. Can't

20:54

even tell you his favorite movie because he will

20:56

never say it. Just don't

20:58

say anything. Once again,

21:00

this podcast, if it believes anything,

21:02

it believes that Tom Cruise is the kind of

21:05

movie star we want and love

21:07

and need. And I agree. I agree. Yeah.

21:10

I know nothing about him. Yeah. It's

21:12

the, yeah. No, I know. I know.

21:14

And well, that's part of it too. It's

21:17

also like what gets to count as expressing

21:19

a view or what doesn't. Like he

21:22

does here get to say like, oh, I don't

21:24

like cancel culture. I don't like woke culture. Right.

21:27

And there's just because

21:29

the Republican Party went

21:32

completely bananas, there are all these rich

21:35

successful people out there whose instinctive

21:37

politics is a kind of moderate

21:39

old fashioned Rockefeller Republican cosmopolitan conservative

21:42

worldview. And because it doesn't really

21:44

have a political home in the

21:46

Republican Party and being

21:49

a Democrat is just not cool, we

21:52

end up with this. And so you can't,

21:54

it's not partisan, I guess, to go off

21:56

against woke culture, cancel culture, because

21:58

if you're a rich, successful person in a. in LA or

22:00

New York, that's what people

22:02

are talking about at dinner. That's why all

22:04

these movies are about cancel culture. Oppenheimer's about

22:07

cancel culture. Ferrari's about cancel culture. Napoleon's about

22:09

cancel culture. Every movie is about cancel culture

22:11

in one way or another because these are

22:13

that when politics has no material impact on

22:16

your personal life, when you don't feel threatened

22:19

by abortion bans or by

22:22

draconian border policies or efforts to

22:24

crack down on protest or basically

22:27

politics for you is something that happens on

22:29

television, it's a sport. It's

22:31

something you watch, it's something you observe, it's something that

22:34

your personal identity is wrapped in with but

22:36

not your personal stakes. This is

22:38

how you end up with this kind of moderate but empty

22:41

politics where the only thing you can decry is cancel culture because

22:43

it's the only thing you feel or see. It's the thing you

22:45

worry about. And I just ... These

22:49

people need better conversations. All

22:51

right, now I'm done. How

22:53

do you start ... I don't know how you're supposed to not be out of touch when you're

22:55

in the rock. Hey, after

22:58

WrestleMania, he's getting back in his helicopter and going

23:00

back to Star Island where he

23:02

does not have to interact. It's great for him

23:05

to see LGBTQ people out when he's out

23:07

in Miami for the nightlife. It's great for him

23:10

to experience all of that stuff. But then his

23:12

private police force or the private police force of

23:14

Star Island, none of that gets in. He

23:17

just goes back home. How do we get out here? I don't

23:19

know. We're

23:21

going to cut some of this. I just wonder what microaggressions The Rock

23:23

deals with on the rock. On

23:27

a daily basis. I'm sure it was a lot more back in

23:29

the WWF date. For sure.

23:32

Back then. I feel like probably now

23:34

for him, microaggressions come to the fore,

23:36

it's all online. Who's he actually talking

23:38

to in the real world that's not

23:40

just immediately ... Beloving. ... trying to

23:42

exist in his shadow somewhere or beloved

23:44

him or ... Lighting

23:47

up, panicking, nervous. That's

23:50

why ... Of course, if he's

23:52

talking about something, he's talking about cancel culture,

23:54

he's talking about well culture. If he sees

23:57

culture, it is people like that criticizing him on

23:59

the internet. internet, which is annoying to him. Yeah, yeah. Because

24:02

he's not even the type of person, like, take, say, Will

24:04

Smith. I could imagine walking into a

24:06

Vons, and Will Smith is there,

24:08

and I would not recognize Will Smith just because

24:10

he is a normal size. No, genuinely, because he's

24:12

a normal sized human being. The Rock is never

24:14

able to go somewhere where people are interacting with

24:17

him not knowing that he's The Rock. Because he's

24:19

a she's shaped like a rock. Yeah, yeah. I

24:21

mean, just he's just so- He's a massive man.

24:23

Yeah. Yeah. On

24:25

Thursday, heart transition, Biden got on the phone

24:27

with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and delivered

24:30

what sounds like an ultimatum, that the US

24:32

would change its policy towards Israel unless Israel

24:34

took immediate steps to protect civilians and address

24:36

the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. By

24:39

Thursday night, Israel's security cabinet had approved measures

24:41

to open the Erez crossing in northern Gaza

24:43

for humanitarian aid and increase the flow of

24:45

supplies to another crossing, even though for

24:47

weeks, if not months, they said that they

24:50

weren't standing in the way of that aid,

24:52

but there were practical impossibilities to getting that

24:54

aid in. Interesting. Did the ultimatums work

24:57

unless you're trying to get someone to commit to you

24:59

romantically? Well, even then they can work, but it's not

25:01

quite right. It's like, did the ultimatum force you to

25:03

actually see happiness right in front of you or did

25:05

it only force you to see that what was in

25:07

front of you was slightly less terrifying than

25:10

being alone? Have

25:13

you ever issued an ultimatum in

25:15

your personal life? I haven't. I don't

25:17

think. No,

25:20

yeah, I did actually. Nice. Yeah.

25:23

With my ex. Did it work? Did

25:25

it work and then it didn't work? It

25:28

didn't work, I think is the ultimate answer there. Yeah. I

25:30

think we know how I feel about ultimatums. During

25:34

their call, Biden also told Netanyahu that

25:36

an immediate ceasefire is essential. Meanwhile, after

25:38

facing months of criticism for failing to

25:40

apply more pressure on Israel given the

25:42

devastation in Gaza and mounting conflict in

25:45

the region, Biden's decision to take a

25:47

slightly harder line made Republicans absolutely furious.

25:49

Cried Republicans, wait, no, keep doing that

25:51

thing that makes gender studies major burn

25:53

you in effigy. House Republicans

25:55

introduced a resolution in Congress denouncing Biden for

25:58

calling for a ceasefire criticizing efforts one-sided

26:00

pressure on Israel with respect to Gaza. Now, they

26:02

make Republicans more upset than Biden addressing a crisis

26:04

in an election year, reaches the deal on the

26:06

border, shut it down, calls for a ceasefire when

26:08

a country we're supplying with weapons is killing civilians

26:10

by the tens of thousands, center him. They're like

26:12

a bunch of hot topic golf kits on a

26:14

beautiful day pissed at the sun for ruining their

26:16

vibe. Speaking of ruining the

26:18

vibe, last Thursday, R.F.K. Jr.'s presidential campaign sent

26:20

out a fundraising email that referred to January

26:22

6th insurrectionists as activists who had been stripped

26:24

of their constitutional liberties. We all remember those

26:26

precious words of our founding. We are all

26:29

endowed by our creator with the right to

26:31

life, to liberty, and to drop a loose one

26:33

on Nancy Pelosi's day planner. I never thought I'd

26:35

say this, but I wish he'd go back to

26:37

talking about how fluoride toothpaste causes bipolar disorder. Kennedy's

26:40

campaign quickly distanced itself from the email with

26:42

a spokesperson saying, that statement was an error

26:44

that does not reflect Mr. Kennedy's views. It

26:47

was inserted by a new marketing contractor and

26:49

slipped through the normal approval process. And

26:51

he has to be careful around that new marketing contractor.

26:53

He's a disbarred lawyer with an anger problem in the

26:56

morning and a drinking problem in the afternoon. And his

26:58

suit coat smells like it's from a steamer trunk labeled

27:00

guys and dolls in the back of the auditorium at

27:02

the local high school. But believe it or not, that

27:04

marketing contractor was once the mayor of New York City.

27:08

And then, slipping back, Kennedy said that if

27:10

elected, he would appoint a special prosecutor to

27:12

investigate the harsh treatment of January 6th defendants.

27:14

He said that while he opposes Trump and

27:16

all he stands for, he was also disturbed

27:18

by the weaponization of government against him. You

27:20

can't say you oppose all Trump stands for

27:22

while also parroting his grievances. His grievances are

27:24

all he stands for. It's like saying, I'm

27:26

no fan of the Joker, but I will

27:28

set a series of elaborate traps to test

27:30

the moral boundaries between Bruce Wayne as a

27:32

human being and Batman as a heroic figure.

27:35

Kennedy also said in his statement that there

27:37

was little evidence of a true insurrection and

27:39

included the false claim that the protesters

27:41

who stormed the Capitol carried no weapons.

27:43

In reality, a bunch of insurrectionists were

27:45

armed with guns. Others had axes, knives,

27:47

tasers, bear spray, baseball bats, and literal

27:50

fucking pitchforks. But to be fair, this

27:52

is also how they attend NASCAR events. Kennedy

27:55

then put out a second statement that read, that

28:00

none of the January 6th rioters who

28:02

invaded the Capitol were carrying firearms was

28:04

incorrect. Several have been convicted for carrying

28:06

firearms into the Capitol building. Admitting you're

28:08

wrong, this absolute amateur, this dilettante. He

28:10

makes his name talking about how vaccines cause autism

28:13

and he thinks it means he could just start

28:15

sounding up on January 6th not being real. It

28:17

takes actual qualifications to talk about that. It takes

28:19

holes in your brain so big an adult could

28:21

walk through them without bending over. Speaking

28:24

of conspicuous holes, Steve has pulled off one

28:26

of the biggest heights in Los Angeles history

28:28

on Easter Sunday, stealing somewhere between 20 million

28:30

and $30 million in

28:33

cash from a Garda World warehouse in

28:35

the San Fernando Valley. Garda World, you

28:37

couldn't even Garda one sink in warehouse.

28:41

Love and analog heist. Fuck off phone

28:43

scams and cyber attacks and AI voices telling

28:45

your grandma you've been kidnapped in Buenos Aires.

28:47

We're breaking into a building and cracking a

28:49

safe like good old fashioned patriotic Americans. Though

28:51

the burglars tripped at least one alarm, the

28:53

theft wasn't discovered until the next day when

28:55

warehouse operators opened the vault. Can you

28:57

imagine? You feel a little off for being too much

29:00

Easter candy, but you drag yourself into work and then

29:02

immediately first thing in the morning before you've even poured

29:04

yourself a coffee, you have to call your boss and

29:06

tell them someone stole $30 million. Woof.

29:12

Officials haven't announced any suspects, but said it

29:14

appears to be a professional sophisticated operation with

29:16

one former FBI official speculating in the LA

29:18

Times that it likely involved a current or

29:20

former employee who knew the facility's layout. The

29:22

former agent also pointed out the challenge that

29:24

these now face saying, this is a lot

29:26

of money. I use the analogy we have

29:28

stolen the circus elephant. Where do you hide

29:30

it? There aren't many places this amount of

29:32

cash to go. Yeah, and Joe

29:35

Biden's America would take weeks to spend that at

29:37

a coffee shop. Am I right Maria Bartiromo? So

29:42

according to the Federal Reserve Board, a bill

29:44

in the amount of the domination weighs about one gram.

29:47

If the thieves stole $30 million in smaller bills,

29:49

let's say it was all 20s, that

29:51

would be 1.5 million grams or 3,300 pounds of cash. So

29:58

they have a cool, interesting hobby. They're good at

30:00

making plans, and they're super strong. Hey, if you

30:02

recently robbed the garter world in the San Fernando

30:04

Valley, DM me. I don't know. Were

30:10

I still in my fan fiction writing days, I

30:12

would probably be commuting

30:14

into work and turning this into a story

30:16

of Danny Ocean and Carmen Sandiego's honeymoon. Oh

30:20

my God. Oh, I like that. I am curious

30:22

how many people are writing spec scripts based on

30:24

this right now. I love it. This

30:26

morning. Plug it into chat GPT, they'll give you one. Anyway,

30:30

this should be an easy crime to solve. We just

30:32

need to keep our eyes peeled for the richest, buffest

30:34

man. Wait a minute. It's

30:38

the Rock. I think it's the Rock. All

30:40

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