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missile that found that school. You want to delve how much Donald Trump's network was increased in the year. Well, Iran's up 200 billion since the year since Trump's presidency started. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Findout podcast. We were just making jokes about 80s like 80s rappers.

We were doing our best.

80s hip hop impressions. I was always trying to throw me off.

He's just good as me. They always try to throw me off. But I'm like, do this like ran to entrance into the podcast. They're trying to be a serious operation here. And I just get torn down every time. But anyways, welcome back, everybody.

I'm glad you're following us after Tuesday's episode where we literally just talked about how everything Trump touches turns to shit and you were not dismayed enough to not come back. So we appreciate that.

“I think today will be a little bit lighter.”

Unfortunately, Zach is down with the sickness. That's a song from the 90s, isn't it? Wasn't it? It is. And so you got the three of us today.

What's that? It was a disturbed. Yeah, I think that's not my not my favorite button. But anyways, rich wants to kick us off with a fun anecdote. No, it's really fun. So he put on her five minutes.

No, I will not do that. Now, so yesterday, my kid, my kid's in third grade. And he had a animal reported school. And so my wife and I went and listened to his presentation about parents and learned a lot of things. It was really fun.

In the process, we're sitting there, the parents in the back of the room. And they stack up a bunch of kids.

“And so I think five kids presented different animals.”

And when you're here in eight and nine year olds, talk about usually exotic animals. They're the red eyed tree frogs and the king cobras.

It's always going to be funny because they know only exactly what they learned for the report.

And then they can't, they can't add live. They can't go off script at all. And so we're sitting there and they get to this Q&A. So the every kid talks for maybe like two, three minutes. And then they get to the Q&A at the end and they take questions from their class.

And that was the fun part, of course, for the adults. Because like I said, the kids don't know any more than what they literally wrote into their report. One of the kids actually was just reading the slides with her back to the class. It was the best thing I've ever seen. And as these kids are taking questions.

And the answers are just, you don't know what you're going to get. Like one kid presented on zebras. And somebody said, and she said, zebras are 700 pounds.

“And then the question was, is every zebra exactly 700 pounds or are some of them different weights?”

And she was like, I think some of them are different weights. And so that was the kind of, those are the black ones.

It took a second and this is appropriate, right?

Like it's so it's it's it's heartwarming because these kids are just experiencing one of the worst parts of adulting, um, which is public speaking. And then also answering questions that you didn't know were necessarily, yeah, um, becoming. And I had the most like six sense of deja vu, though, as I was watching. And he says, like, what does this feel like?

And I realized it reminded me of Trump's press conferences talking about Iran. I was wondering how you are going to connect these. I'm impressed by that. I'm impressed because it was in it, I wasn't going there looking for an in with it with the podcast. Believe it or not, I was genuinely enjoying hearing about these different animals.

But guessing the answers in some cases on the spot, um, that is normal for eight and nine worlds talking about animals that they literally just learned about in the last seven days. But when you hear your president up there saying, what did you say the other day? I don't know that much about it. I think it was a direct quote. Yeah, he did it. He did all of this off of feeling. Right. That's right.

Kick, kick, permission, permission, permission, wasn't it? I thought they were going to attack us. So we didn't claim that somehow, somehow, Iran had Tomahawk missiles and it was their own Tomahawk missile that found that school quite well. And to be cleared out, it does seem pretty clear at the point that the U.S. did. It was on the school as much as we tried to say it. It wasn't, but it got hit twice.

So that's kind of difficult to say that two Iranian missiles failed at the exact same spot, at the exact same time and landed in the exact same spot. Doesn't really. Doesn't. Yeah. The New York Times says it has out today that a preliminary report shows that yes, it was, it was us and it was because we used outdated targeting data. So who would have thought that the same pentagon who shot down a mile our party balloon,

I read that we fired like a bunch of the counter targeting people to weeks ago.

Oh, we did. Yeah. Was that a doge thing? I don't know if it was a doge thing or not. It was a dumb fuck thing to do though. And now, now we're witnessing all these fucking, you know, they have activated the Kansas City airport of the weekend. There's the bomb like the photo bomb, a bomb threat that got diverted to Atlanta. And we're doing all of that and we have a 23 year old in charge of counterterrorism attacks. Yeah. Prior work experience is fucking gardening.

Luke is a hudders. That sounds like hyperbolead. It's not. It's not. And actually, if you look his photo up, it's like literally like he looks like what I like he said evil character in some like

bat B like it's actually ridiculous. It's fucking hair. It's like and like he's got the he's got one

eyebrow raised. By the way, I have to break. I want to bring up so we can't. No, no, it's I don't remember what his name is, but he literally is 23, 24 years old. He's 33. Yeah, I gotta look this up. This is well, while you're doing that, a bit of a few gay, 22 gay, 22. So Luke's terrorism prevention.

“You could be the next head of counterterrorism. I know, right? That's I think I'm perfectly”

qualified. Well, I bet you would do a better job because I bet pretty much anybody would do a better job. Yeah, every time I see this picture, it pisses me off. So there's a couple of things about shop that came out this today. One is on the picture. It pisses me off too. It's it's terrible. Yeah. We should, I think we're going to have to show it. We're going to tell it. I don't just put it up, Kyle put it up. But did you guys also hear this the floor shine story about Trump?

So I just heard about it today. Maybe it's been out for a little bit. So floor shimes are men's shoes. They're like a mid level. Their shoes are like 100. I think in this story, it was like $145. Apparently Donald Trump loves these shoes. And so he is obsessed with giving them to allies and people in his cabinet, which is weird for him to give a gift to anybody because he doesn't care. But it turns out he also likes to guess the shoe size. So he guesses the shoe size.

And then he gifts them. But then here's the kicker. Everybody is terrified to not wear them because if you show up, and some of these guys to show you like who we're dealing with. Apparently some of them are really angry because they're like, well, I like to wear Louis Vuitton dress shoes. And these are like cheapos. Louis Vuitton, for those of you don't know, are probably high hundreds. If not thousands of dollars per pair of shoes. And these are that these are

supposed to be the guys caring about the poured working class. But the funniest one is Marco Rubio. So Marco Rubio's pair are too big. And he still wears them. And this is another one we're going to have to put Kyle. We're going to have to have Kyle put this up. There's a photo of Rubio's back heel out of like miss is missing the back of the shoe by like an inch. Like it has to just be flopping

“as he's like walking. How much of a sick of fantic fucking nut do you have to be to wear shoes”

that are minimum two sizes too big? I'll show you afterwards to tell your orange daddy. No, there it's it's like literally like this like I just found it. Yeah, like I was bit like I'm much of a gap. There is. I can fit my whole thumb sideways behind his heel. Right. Yes. I swear it's an inch. It's like an inch. If I can put shoes and feet swelling so much that any size should fit him. Well, and apparently he also said this is not appropriate. But it's

what the president said. It's like, you could uh, you could tell a lot about a guy based on

shoe size. His shoe size. I'm like you literally never got out of 50 or 60s. Like you just

never like watch dementia. They they get back to the spot where they feel most comfortable. It's the same reason he says all that shit that he would have said in the 80s and 90s. Yeah. Well, he's also 63. So of course he has shoe size that's over 10. Right. So like it's very easy for him to be like well. The big shoes is the big man. And it's like yeah, they rolled out 16 wheelers in the White House in the last term and made you sit in it. Like

a six year old because you were like we had to distract you from doing other damaging shit.

“I think you're of a fucking Tesla across the White House lawn. These guys are supposed to be like”

tough alpha men. And if you if you get a gift and you can't say this gift isn't right for me, this gift doesn't fit. That's that's really not alpha behavior. And if you're leading the military or secretary of state and somebody gives you shoes and you are so like what cocked? Is that a is that a

Literally fucking floating around and quiet. Like I'm I'm looking at this photo and I'm just fucking laughing. If my kid walked out of the shoe aisle wearing shoes that fit like that, I would say absolutely not get those back in the box and come back here and try and choose that fit. Somebody needs to say that to Marco. It's embarrassing. Well and they only way that I was a role models, right for Mac. And also like these mega,

barely men wearing Louis Vuitton dress shoes. Now where would ever you want? I don't care, but by their definition of what they're in is what is not, which is of course, both be a little

“fluidy. I think is the way it would use Louis Vuitton. Like the first time I have experienced”

Louis Vuitton, somebody I know it's like parent had a bag and that they were like whoa and I'm like well, what is that? And they're like, that's like a $15,000 bag. I was like, that holds things so well. I've had, yeah, I bet it holds things. It's definitely better than the $100 bag. Yeah.

That should has never made sense to me. I still like carry my groceries around. Like my

lunch around like in an actual grocery bag. Oh, I used to, instead of having to wear a bag, I would use what grocery bag. Yeah, I would just carry one of those things, tie it off, you know. My favorite though is just because we know Marco Rubio, a little piece of him dies every day from selling his soul. So like for him to be the one with the floppy shoes, like just walking around, like is just, is just perfect. Another thing that came out today, actually it was newsmax that

reported this. Newsmax, which is one of the ones that had to pay tens of millions of dollars to settle defamation suits after lying about the 2020 election reported that do you want to know how much Donald Trump's network has increased in the year that he has become president in which barely a million. No, it's lower than that. $2 billion, $1.6 billion dollars. Which, how much is the Trump, how much is the whole Trump family's network, not though? Oh, much more,

“because Eric is officially a billionaire and I think Baron is like a hundred millionaire at”

it's all right. Well, all of them, the majority of this is based off of the crypto scamming

that they have been doing, which to remind our audience, crypto, has never produced a single

product. It is a purely speculative item. And yes, there are people who have gotten filthy rich off of it, but more, like as we've moved along, a lot of people lose their shirts because they try to get in late. And there's nothing, there's nothing to learn. It's a pretty mixed game. It's just so if you ever hear us, if you ever hear us start shilling for crypto, just know that they paid us exorbitant amounts of money. And we are selling ourselves. We have already become a lost cause if

we are, if we stop listening, as soon as we start shilling for crypto, remember when all of those those celebrities were shilling for, was it SBF that Sam, the guy with the jail? Oh, yeah, Sam, I remember him for a big ride for you. Yeah. And like, they were getting paid like tens of millions of dollars. And then the people were like, well, why did you do that? And I also just like, why didn't know what I was, I was just was paid. And I just like read, if like, yeah, this is the deal.

That's exactly. But yeah. So Trump, you know, it's one of the things to get sort of washed like wiped under the, pushed under the rug is like the corruption part because everything else is so bad. But yeah,

“how do you make, because he was worth, I think, in the low billions before. So like, he's gained like”

80, 90% like value on his portfolio in a year. But Elon's up 200 billion since the year since Trump's presidency started. Well, uh, Elon and Larry Page combined our over trillion. And they're the two that give the least about a money to charities of all billionaires. Yeah, they might as well

just like take one singular pubic here. And that's about the, the essential, that's about the

amount they give away. I wouldn't have put it that way. But that's the way that puts it. It's a piece of shit. It's useless. It's not much of value at personally. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, I get, I get you. Yeah. Well, and then going going back, we got this bad switch back to Iran. But Trump also today said that there is basically nothing left to hit in Iran. So I don't know if he is trying to get it off ramp to get out of here because American, the American public are so against this. But it kind of

seems like maybe they are setting the stage for that possibly. But the Iranian regime is still in charge. We replace it. We went, come in to come in. And now, and now the one in charge, we've murdered his entire fan. Basically is a tire family. Uh, no news on whether we have destroyed any of the enriched uranium, which was sort of the whole point of this about them not getting a nuclear bomb. So do we think he's going to keep going with this or do we think he's going to say, oh, we decimated them

victory. It's a one thousand per cent. He's not going. Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, so they, the Republicans, they were all huddling like a, in, in Florida this week talking strategy and one of the things that

way you've raised that because I'm immediately. Oh, that was the time. I don't like that. I don't like

“that. Fuck you. I think you like it. Um, he can text me about it later. Um, but was that, uh, he had been”

Trump had been begged to find a way out, find an offering. Yeah. Get the fuck out. And now all the headlines are like, you know, Trump hoping that this doesn't affect midterms and Trump hoping that we can evade the economic pain. I'm like, dude, how little do you understand about the Middle East and energy prices to think that there was a scenario where you can beheaded an authoritarian regime and have it not have global consequences, including economic consequences with energy prices. I mean, gas has gone up

what 60 cents a gallon, 70 cents a gallon. Like every day. It's like 12 cents more. So it will amount up another dollar a gallon by the time that's great. But he hears this episode. So yeah, because I got a fucking road trip to do this weekend. I'm pumped. It's going to be great. Get one of those Tesla's. No, real good. No, I don't think I will. Because we're more of a pro-rivial. Well,

yeah, we're a pro-rivial podcast. But at least, but at least takes spent 93 billion dollars in

September. So let's talk about that. So at least you did that. There was our story that came out that the defense department spent was at 93 billion dollars in the last one. Because the end of September is the end of the fiscal year in the federal government. It doesn't go January to December. Like most normal human beings, a lot of businesses do those off a quarter, a quarter off of what the calendar shows. But so in the federal government, there's a thing called use it or lose it,

which is a terrible policy that we should probably look at, which essentially says, you, if you don't spend your full budget in a year, the difference that you don't spend will come out of your budget the next year. So what does that mean? That means that nobody saves any money. And they just spent because it's like, why not? And when I went to the federal government, there was some of

“that as well, where it was like, well, you didn't do chair, you need to do this, you did it,”

which, you know, they don't spend a lot of money on these things. So like, it's never like,

but I think there were like $7 million on lobster tails. I think I saw four billion on cable telling me, I don't know how the fuck you can do that or you can. They finally know those 700 deer contracts. Is that like, US, there's a military network. I wonder if it's part of that. And there's like, I think it was 7 million on Apple products. And there's like another 686,000 in stakes. Rib eyes specifically. Yeah, rib eyes specifically. I mean, they did that.

I mean, they did all the inspectors general, like, over. Well, what do I do now? Right. What's the thing, right? Like, so they, I mean, he literally did the Michael Scott from that episode where he has a surplus on the office. And he goes and buys the fucking, he gets the fucking fur coat. That's exactly what he did. But I have not seen a single person, like, even the reporting I've seen. It's like, oh,

okay, he spent like a million dollars on stakes. He spent like four billion dollars on cable

tell of it. And he spent like seven million dollars on Apple products. Okay, where's the other 80 fucking nine billion dollars? Where did that go? I could not figure out a way to spend that

“much money. I mean, besides, like, jets. Laura, like, like, could you buy like a, you could buy it?”

Like, just crazy because they were just told that like our stockpile was running somewhat low as we're bombing Iran. Well, I assume that a lot of it is replacing munitions and things like that because we have lost a lot. But I think just put that on the list, like 50 billion people would be like, yeah, that tracks. Well, it's hard to, like, I mean, rich as you said, they fired. So every department had, there's this role called the Inspector General and it is an independent watchdog to make sure that

there's no fraud abuse at the various departments. Every administration bristles at it because, of course, like, they're independent. So there's no control over it. But kind of understood as a necessary thing in the federal government and so I'm fired all of them. So there are big balls. We don't need them. Oh, he's still there. I think he's still there. I think he took a mobile. I think he took a mobile. Dude, I did not hear that like, but within the government. So did I hear the three still at the

government? The three F 15s that were shot down is the equivalent of what they saved in Doge? Was it like I said? I heard that somewhere, right? That's a great subject because I was looking that up to potentially cover it in a video the other day and so all the numbers are fairly top of mind. But NPR's analysis, which is correct, was able to prove that they saved $2.4 billion. Of course, Elon Musk, the max he said was 150 billion before, and that was of course after they

cut it from $2 trillion to $1 trillion to $250 billion. So $2.4 billion is the max, is the max on the

dollars in lost tax revenue because of all of the lack of oversight. And so the net impact is like 20x, 30x in the red. We killed 600,000 people. Oh, right. Yeah, with USA, USA, right. And so, yes, if you do them, like looking at what you could spend, like we talked about last time, we were spending every day in Iran, we were spending the equivalent of a full week of funding the VA. There are all sorts of really fun comparisons like that, like you could build like 10 schools

“a day in the United States for the episode of Iran every single day. I think I read you could”

fund free school lunch for a year just on what we didn't Iran for every school in America.

Yeah, I mean, I think the estimates are like $800 to $1 billion a day.

$890 million a day. Which is crazy, because like I think it was Zach last time to the brought it up, the most expensive day prior to that was like 300 million. It was you, okay. The war in Iraq, the worst, the most expensive days of the peak of the war in Iraq for 300 million a day. Of course, that was like, you know, adjusted for inflation, maybe it's like equivalent to 500 million a day or something, but anyway, point is like two to three. Yeah, from day one,

from fucking day one. And don't forget that Christy Nome gave out a no bid contract for $200 million to a company that had incorporated eight days before they won the contract, for those ads. Someday, I'm going to sit with fucking popcorn and watch her get convicted for that, because there is zero doubt in my mind, but some of that money came directly back to her pocket. Frisham McLaughlin's husband was the see is the CEO of the strategy group strategy group

worked with Christy Nome, a ton in in South Dakota. They everybody knew everybody and and so then they signed this or they give this no bid contract to a shell company, which immediately subcontracted some undisclosed amount to the strategy group. So and then Trisham McLaughlin resigned and then four weeks later, three, four weeks later, Christy Nome is fired and it's all related to the same thing. And Trump certainly knew about it,

but claimed he didn't like that. He didn't like the ad because it was about her.

“That I believe because I believe he didn't like that because it wasn't him.”

They should have just a CGI demand a horse except no one would believe that he was going to say there's a lot of kind of horse if you fucking paid. I told you in the last episode like they literally signed her up. They lined her up on Mount Rushmore. They laid that her face like right next to it. You know, big fucking horse for him. We'll probably get a lot of animal cruelty complaints because he's probably. Yeah. It's not cruelty when it's like what do they call it? Like when you

when it's like appropriate, like when it's right, fully in a peaceful, um, like I would want to be put down if Trump was riding me. That would be. Oh, so okay. You're, yes. There's like the old dollar scenario. Yeah. Don't worry, Rich, if Trump is ever riding you, I will, you. Well, that's

something that I would hear. Take a picture first and why don't you have staff told me what

“Republicans that they need to quit talking about mass details. Yes. Yes. So this is something that”

came up from these. This retreat. I wish I would have loved to be the final wall at this retreat. Because I'm sure it was just a shit show. But yes, the White House has told allies and Congress to stop referring to mass deportations. Why is that you ask? Because nobody actually likes mass deportations out of the maga base. Like it's like that's there's a reason why he's sitting in the mid 30s to low high 30s because Americans keep seeing pictures of other Americans being murdered

and other people being tazed, ripped out of cars, five year olds being thrown in the bands, tear guessing infants like they got measles outbreaks and like half of the detention centers now. Yeah. The food and their mouth and the one malnutrition like all of these things. Yeah. So they've been to Montana once closing down because they're building these for lack of a better word concentration camps all across the country. I mean, they are. Those motherfuckers are literally

betting on which person is going to kill themselves next. That that was report that came out this week. Right. There was a $500 price pool if they picked the person in in detention that killed themselves next. That is so fucked up. See, people use the word concentration camp and they're like, well, they're not dying in there. Yes, they are. They're just betting on who's going to do it to

themselves first. Meals malnutrition, abuse, neglect, all of these things. Liam Ramos made it like four

days, and he was lethargic, sleep in all of the time, vomiting and had diarrhea, and then the measles outbreak hit that facility before a fucking sitting congressman went, it visited and finally used leverage to to to get him out. Him's camera. Tim hit that second camera now. He's got the zoom out

true, but like this happens to fair about anyways, if you're listening, you don't want to. I feel like a

“crowded closet. It's what the hell? No, I'm in the basement of my place that the heaters are not on.”

It's like 65 degrees in here. Fuck, I just looked outside and it's snowing. There's 70 degrees yesterday. Yeah, but look, climate change isn't real. Ah, it's just fucking ridiculous. Yeah, but how's the global getting warmer if it's snowing outside? Yeah, guys, we got all this snow this year. That was a great way. How could it possibly be getting cold warmer and don't make any

sense? It doesn't make sense. I've never heard you say that. Super. Yeah, so they're accentable.

Maybe we got to create a character. Always the motherfuckers. Every time I get some idiot mentioned you in a video on TikTok, I always watch them because I get a kick out of them, and it's always some fucking three tooth in bread, fucking trailer trash. Idiot. Tell me everything. Shut up, you stupid, lib-tard. Nobody asked. And it's like, how about you go die in a hole? You fucking idiot. I wish that I wish that the apps would actually say some idiot tagged you. Like if it's

based, if they could like read it and they might as well say that. Some more. What's like, Maga Love or 2024 tagged you in a video. And it's like, oh, I wonder how this video's going to come. Maybe he's one of the reasonable ones. Yeah, I know, right? He's got a picture of like Joe Biden in a back in the back of a truck. Yeah, let's go Brandon sign or something. I'm sure this video is going to be well worth my time. Donald Trump and Jesus writing a pony bear back on the side of

the alarm. Oh, the scary ones though. The scary ones are when it's like just a person's first and last name and they have like a professional hedgehog. Yeah, yeah. And then you like their kids and all their photos. They've got like 15,000 followers and they're like, they think they're the next Charlie Kirk and they do like a minute and a half like attempted debate on you. It's like, I could sit here and trash you. And but if I did that, it would just bring more people to your

page. Well, I'm not doing that. And also the most horrific comments when you click on the profiles,

there's always a cross in the bio. Oh, my God. Always in time. Always the meanest people are always

super religious. Yeah, the purple Christians, but it's always a Christian. Right. Yeah, it's, you know, it's so nasty partations. Oh, yeah, those bad. Yeah. We wrap. Well, they might put that rich laugh at nasty partations. Yeah. That's all. Yeah. No context find out. Just that'll be a little

“new. That'd be really helpful. Post that on threads. And we'll see how I think people”

assume positive intent on threads. I don't, I don't think that they would breed into that inappropriately rich. Don't say anything. Highly sarcastic right now. Tim can't stop getting a trouble. And well, let's talk about it. No, no, but so the, so the, so the, so the mass deportations came out because they said, don't mention that because the polling is so bad on it and the polling is so bad on Iran, which leads to this next conversation where I might have gotten in a little trouble where

so Marjorie Taylor Green resigned two months ago. And so last night was, we're reporting on Wednesday. Last night was the special election. There were 2018 or 20 Republicans running and one or two Democrats. So the Democrat quote unquote won the first round, but Georgia has run off systems if you don't get 50%. So they're going to the Democrat is going to be running against the second place finisher. And there's been quite an outrage on threads between the folks who are like excited about the

prospect of flipping it. And some, the people who, you know, have studied this stuff for a long time and are seeing that there were 18 Republicans. And so like all 17 of those candidates votes are

highly likely to go to the winner that in a district that Democrats have never gotten above 35%

in the last like 10, 15 years pointing out that this is probably not a flipable seat as it was a plus 37 or Donald Trump in 24. But here's a debate for the crew, should we be pointing that stuff out or should we be cheerleading and using this for boosting enthusiasm for candidates across

“the country? Both. I think pointing out, it's, it's like where are you going with the facts”

with the details. Because this is how I look at everything when I, when I, they're having the same conversations in Texas with Tala Rico is backing Tala Rico a lost cause for the left because of how expensive Texas is. And I'm like, yeah, that sounds like a question that like an insider strategist would ask. Because that's the first place they go is like, how are we spending our money and is it worth it? I think, you know, especially as people with a podcast with videos with big, with a big reach,

we have to be extremely mindful of how of the guidance we provide. But I think you can do both where you can say, listen, like this is a plus 37 district, a 10 point 15 point swing to the left is a massive win

across the country. They, they all start panicking. They're going to defensive mode. They start spending

money and they become less capable of going on the offense in swing districts, the ones that are, you know, that where they think that they can maybe have a chance. And so I think coming out and saying things like, this is a lost cause or there's no way we flip this. That you don't have to say that out loud. That can be true. Of course, we're not going to win everywhere. We, we want to win. But if people stay home and they don't vote because they think it's

a lost cause, then those margins don't move. And then the narrative starts to shift back and say, oh, or Republicans gaining ground back in the redist counties in Georgia, fuck no, we want that to be an eight point loss instead of a 37 point loss. And if, if we can pull it by 30 points,

“like we've pulled other seats by 30 plus points, that is a massive win. That is what matters. And”

that then resets the narrative to Republicans needed to defend anywhere where they're not ahead by more than 20 points. And that is a fucking disaster for the Republican party in the house. I think it is special. Realistically, my bet is that the Republicans focused immensely on the Senate in 26. Yeah. I think they're going to let the House cards fall with him. Yeah, there's no way, I mean, come on. They know they are absolutely fucked. If they're going to lose the House by 30 or 40 seats.

Like the, the House is good. They're piling up, they're piling up more, more retirements every day. Kevin Kylie, I think his name is from California, just California, from Republican to independent. He said, well, I'm still going to caucus with the Republicans. Like, so what's the point of this? But so what's the fucking difference? He's does other guys retiring who might not live. He's very

“ill and he might not live until the next Congress is sworn in. Oh, who's that? I think he's from Florida.”

He's an older guy. Oh, he's a geriatric. Of course he is. Of course he is. Of course. I'm I guess he splits his time between DC and the fucking nursing home. And Mike Johnson is begging him not to retire early. I'm like, this guy's probably he probably has less than 12 months on the planet. Yeah. And Mike Johnson wants him to stay in the House so that Mike Johnson doesn't literally lose the Gavl before the next Congress is sworn in. He loses two or three seats.

They, they, it automatically triggers a vote for a new speaker of the House. Like Mike Johnson could lose his job in the next six months if more people retire. That would be hard. They don't want the same act back in the House. They can't, they're already paralyzed and he could lose his Gavl. So no, they, they know that was the lost cause. But yes, I agree, Luke. I think if we can get them to

defend Texas after spending $100, $200 million just to defend the primary for John Coran in

that, assuming he makes it out. And then they have to spend another $2,300 million defending a Republican incumbent from James Tolerary. Go, that is a price well worth paying for us.

“And I think we can win Texas. My concern is more for like so in this district in 2022,”

Democratic candidate Marcus Flowers raised $16 million for that district. Same district hasn't changed. He lost by 31 points. So that's when I talk about, you know, that not probably being winnable. You know, obviously that was a midterm for Democrats. So that's not like because Biden was an office. It's not the greatest. But like, yeah, $16 million in a district like that is not an expensive media market. And to lose by 31 points, just shows some of these districts are just very,

very difficult. It would be like a Republican beating, winning the Jerry Nadler seat on the upper West side in New York City, which is like as deep blue as it possibly could get. Yeah, it's kind of funny because there is a former Republican running in that race. But that is was really up my only point is that like we should, we should fund candidates everywhere. But like we also should be realistic. And you know, I was saying like if you only have $25 to spend in this election,

I wouldn't put that $25 in that Marjorie Taylor Green District. I would put it in a place that's at least a Republican plus 15 or lower because those are the people. Like if we get, if we win plus 15s, that's a 40 50 60 swing. If we would plus 37s, there's basically no Republicans left at Congress, which is just not like quite a few. The difference is though that dollars aren't votes. I mean,

we spend $1 billion on Kamala Harris and we too, and $2 billion on Kamala Harris in a very short

period of time. And and it was a fucking disaster. I think taking that same line of thinking, if you've got $25 to spend, if you donate it to somebody who closes the gap by 20 or 30 points, but they

local races or go out and run for office because they think maybe they have a chance to win where

“like Democrats don't have a right to win. I think it's kind of like Howard Dean's 50 state strategy.”

It was very effective even that we didn't win all 50 states. But Barack Obama won like North Carolina. He won Indiana. Like we have friends and family in red states and blue states across the country. If you lift the whole narrative together, it has this greater than the sum of its parts effect on the public mood, the public sentiment. I think that's one thing that Trump did really well. He had no

ground game. They spent a lot for like third parties, but Trump ran famously terrible campaigns.

He just drove around and went to rallies and gave people merch. Because he treated it like a coast to coast rock tour and not a political campaign. I think it got a lot more people engaged. And then they were like, well, you know, Trump at least he's different, you know, and it kind of contributed to the whole, he's not a normal politician narrative. And he won way fucking too many boats. And he's a straight talker, which is really just code for he lets me be the asshole that I want to

be. Yeah. Yeah. He says all the quiet parts out loud. And I love that. Yeah. I mean, I think your point about lifting all boats makes sense. Like if the Democrat were eight. So there has been two general elections in that district where were where Democrats lost or got into the 30 percentage.

The 30 to 40 percent range twice. This was special election would be the third time. He got 37

percent of the vote yesterday. If Democrats get 37 percent of the vote in that district in November,

“John Ossoff wins that race. So in that those those cases, that's what you exactly what you said.”

Yeah. Like in the closing the gap stuff, it totally makes sense. Because if you have someone you believe in and maybe you don't really care about the top of the ticket, but you know this guy maybe you show up. And then you just check all the D's, which is generally how people vote, that that to me makes a lot of sense. Um, so anyways, I'm trying to find this guy's name. I can check all the D's anytime I get a chance. Sean Harris. I'm sorry. His name is Sean Harris.

And his, his threads account is Sean Harris for GA. F-O-R-G-A. So if you want to go follow him,

do that. I mean, yeah, Tim, just to pull that out because I think that's a really, really, really

good point. And my head hadn't even gone there yet. I know the people running for my city council. Like I know them personally. Um, they're not fancy people. They get paid like $12,000. Right. To be on the city council. Um, I know the state senator and state representative. I personally know this, the, again, these are not, these are not fancy people. This isn't elbow rubbing. These are, it's because they like, they work, you know, at like they might run like a tire

store. So shit, like these are very, very regular people. Right. I know those people and I will go and vote for them. And so the coat tails really go a lot of different directions. I don't go vote because Beyonce endorsed somebody or because, you know, even Barack Obama or somebody endorsed somebody. I go vote for all of the best people on the ballot that I know. And if I've got one person who's probably a safe bet to win, it's maybe more tempting to not vote and be like now they're going

to be fine. But if I've got three, four, five people and two of them are in a close race, I am one fucking hundred percent going and voting. I'm blocking out the day. My wife and I are going to go together. We're going to vote for everybody. We're going to talk about our ballot beforehand. Like it is happening and everybody will get the vote that that is needed. So peer pressure absolutely. Yeah. Get your ass out to vote. You get texts on on election day. Go fucking vote.

Having somebody locally, having somebody on the running for Senate, having somebody in the presidential ballot, obviously they're all on the same ballot. And if you were in the polling place and you're voting for two, three, four candidates you're excited about, that lifts all of them. It's not just about having a strong name at the top of the ticket. Like we sort of conventionally think. It might actually be more effective to have people, you know, personally on the ballot,

come to the vote. Well, so this is the model that run for something. The group that trains progressive candidates has. And they make the case in Amanda Litman who runs it makes this case online a lot. It's like riververse hotels idea because it used to be like there used to be a the way you voted used to be like there was just a ticket. You would vote everybody straight on one ballot. And it would really be based on the top of the ticket, especially in presidentials.

I do think you're right that it's reverse now because if you know that person, you know, well, they need my support because it's only like a couple hundred people in the vote in these elections. Like that incentive is stronger than say, well, I know my candidate at the national level

“is either going to win or lose. And so like, you know, whatever, that's why we need to run candidates”

everywhere. That's why I'm not, I'm not like saying don't support Sean. I'm saying like if you

play. That's all I mean. I just want to make sure that the money's not being diverted to that

to like sort of those Hail Mary situations rather than races that, you know, we can win.

“But we should be running everywhere, which is, which is a hundred percent right. I think I”

come more from the like whatever gets you excited in politics, whatever gets you engaged. If that's an initiative, a ballot initiative, if that's volunteering, if that's working at the polling station, if that's voting or donating to support anyone who gets you really excited to be engaged in politics, like that's my, that's my one A. That's that's my absolute top priority for everyone. Because I think when you learn more, you get engaged, you know the candidates. You

understand how the mechanics work. I think the rest comes pretty naturally versus trying like being told what to do. It's kind of like the movie inception. When someone else tells you what to do, you're like automatically or what it's in the opposite. I just, I don't know. I try to get people hopeful and then yeah, that it works out. And you said one thing that I got to push back. You said we should

“be realistic. I think we should be horrifically unrealistic. I think we should be absolutely”

reckless with our expectations and assume that we can and will destroy maga every single place that we can destroy maga because if people truly believe that it will actually change their behavior, it'll make them more likely to go do things. Of course, after the fact, once everything's done, everything's done. But in the lead up to it, we can actually manifest different versions of outcomes based on how people feel. It's not in the data, it's not in the fundraising,

you know, it's the vibe voting or whatever. Like Trump did this really tell people they're bomb us in this really well. I think their vote doesn't matter. And then the rest of the behaviors that you don't see besides the votes and the donations, they are also affected. But we're not, nobody's watching us closely. So you don't see it as well. Yeah, I just, I, I think you're totally right, I think in this video case, I've seen a lot of people being like, we could win the

seed. This is like, get a bowl. This is the, and it's like, you know, these districts have been horribly gerrymandered for a particular reason to make it difficult. So like, because the other

part of the problem, right, is that you don't also want to give people false hope. They're always

like super excited, super great. And then like, you know, somebody loses by 30 points, that's demoralizing as well. That's all I mean. I think we should be playing everywhere. And you're right, like, locals matter. Like, maybe in that district, getting to 37%, Alexa City Council member somewhere that there's never been a Democrat, right? And then you start to build a bench because people are winning. You can't build a bench if everyone loses, right? So like that, that part totally makes sense.

I'm just like, when I say realist, I mean plus 37, like, Trump would probably have, I don't even think this would do it. You probably would have to like, on a live somebody live on TV that, like, didn't like, I don't even know that would do. I'll honest, I don't even know if that would do. He said, he said it. He said he could kill somebody on Fifth Avenue and I know, I that theory hasn't been proven wrong. By the way, he said, I mean, it was his position to a fucking school

twice twice. And there are still warhacking meal cons that fucking love it. Oh, well, Lindsey Graham already moved on to Cuba every fucking speech that Pete Kegs breath makes. It sounds like slam poetry

“about killing brown people. Well, that's why that the SNL gets that they do with him now are so effective.”

Well, it's like it's the we are the most lethal force that has either lethal our bullets are demos lethal and the bombs they go boom. It's like a dude. You couldn't even do this shit when you were a fucking weekend host. Why are you here now? What is he doing? I think people are realizing what lethal means now. You know, when when you talk about having a lethal military, like that's like watching an action movie. It's like you're you're speculating. Now, like, oh, that yeah, sure,

of course, you should have a powerful lethal military, whatever. But when you call yourself the

Department of War and the Secretary of War, and then you go and you you lethal a school full of 170 or kids in Iran. This isn't something that's like happening other outside of the world of war and lethality. This is literally exactly what he's talking about. He's talking about just bombing and missileing and killing and destroying. And that like this is what happens when you call yourself the Secretary of War and you talk about lethality. It's indiscriminate violence. And that is

what we're getting from. Right. How many, how many girls were killed in that? 115 or 50, I think. Yeah. And like 170 total people. We've also heard that apparently 150 troops have been wounded on top of the seven that have lost their lives in drone attacks, which we also maybe we talked about. So on Tuesday,

like we found a cheap way to knock out drones out of the sky and Luke's best friend Pete Keg Seth, my supposed to say Keg Seth. Keg's breath said dough. And then we got drone and a bunch of Americans got killed. And then we went back to the Ukrainians when we were like, just kidding, can we have that now? I mean, it just shows like they keep talking about their this like lethal force and strategic and better. And it's like they are toddlers with buttons that they push to kill

people. Like there's no strategy for life and better word here. The fact that there's a landscape and Ukraine are still defending themselves. Like that didn't end just because they right began. And and he's sent trained, trained teams to the Middle East to help teach the, I don't know, allied forces, United States and UAE and our allies, Qatar, Bahrain, they taught them how to deal with these Iranian drones. Yeah, you think that maybe when like Zelensky was in the White House being

scolded by Trump, maybe they could have made it a little bit of right for not dressing right. They could have made a little bit of time to say, hey, like, I'm going to have this war in Iran, or say we're thinking about it back then. Well, they did attack Iran last summer. So, hey, we're going to have this war in Iran. You have a lot of experience fighting Iranian drones. Do you think that Pete Hexeth even knew, by the way, that the drones that Russia was using to attack

“Ukraine were Iranian drones? Like, do you think that their intel even went that far?”

They probably just thought it was Russian drones. I'm sure Ukrainian, or they're all, they're all Iranian drones. Well, I'm sure that the intel said that. I have no idea if they actually they processed that information because with Trump, you can't give him anything longer than a

page, which we found in the first terms. They have to be pictures. So, maybe it was like a big circle

with a drone on it, and maybe they just wrote Iran across it, and they handed him a piece of paper ready. And he's like, now explain to me the difference between Russia and Iran like I'm five. Yeah. You know, the only good thing about being in this spot, but being as young as I am, is that I don't have to sit there, and like you guys do, or in the early 2000s, you're like, oh my god, the dumbest fucking person possible is leading us to war in the Middle East. And now 20 years later, you're like, oh,

there's an even fucking dumb or mother fucker that is leading us to war in the Middle East. That, I have seen that sentiment before, and it is 100% correct. And I'm not convinced that we've seen, you know, if Magga wins, we haven't seen the dumbest one. That's the crazy part. I mean, we have to stop that now, but like you be careful what you say because you may be in the same boat as we are. I still got like another 12 years of the draft. I'm fucked. Oh, yeah, I don't have to

care. I don't have to worry about that. I also don't think he did. They did not take that off the table, but like, that's because they're afraid of the fracking. That's the insane amount of fracking. That's how they get into the 20s, a draft. Like that, that probably, like because again, you know, the people who they're going to draft are people who are not going to college. And do not have

daddy's that can get them five deferments for a vote first. Right. So it's going to actually affect

a lot of Magga. Now, they're not going to do it. There's no job. I mean, this is just like,

“I see you have to pass a law. There's no way in the draft. Nope. I don't think we will ever”

see a draft again to be honest. I just don't like, there's too much like now that there's too much information out there and like people have access to it. Like, you know, well, and we don't need millions of people. You know, it's drones. When you have drones and jets and, yeah, subs, you don't need, you don't have 10 million people onto a shore. My understanding wars are fought anymore, is that they've got drones that are the size of dragonflies now. And they've made drones that

look like insects so that when they're flying around, you don't have, like, I think this they had these in a rack and Afghanistan, maybe. I don't think they're not attacked. They listen. They're like, right. That's, but what they, like, little tiny missiles. But, you know, so, yes, the need for there,

there's never going to be a war in which two lines of infantry stand on each other side now.

“They take turns. It's just like, who's going to, who's going to die fastest, basically, right?”

Because they just get mode down or storming the beaches of Normandy would never happen ever again. Like, that's just not, thank God. So, no, there'll be much or 12,000 time-ahawk missiles at all the installed guns on the beach and then you walk onto the shore. Anyway, okay, why how do we find our way back to something sad? I don't fucking know. I can end it on my story from yesterday. You were there for part of it, Rich. Let's go. Let's hear it. Well, so, Mr. Rich and I were on the

phone yesterday, shooting the shit. And I went to, I was at the gym, and I got to the gym,

cardio while I'm on the phone with Rich. And so, I get in there, I get on the treadmill, I'm walking, and I have one headphone in, only one explicitly to make sure that I am not being too loud, because I hate it when people are really loud in the gym. I hate when people sing to themselves, I hate that shit. There's a woman on the treadmill next to me, and there's a dude on the other side.

The dude has never, I've been introduced to the guy before, we're kind of like, we know each other's

names. And the woman, to next me, is walking backwards on the treadmill, and she has no headphone in. And I noticed a couple times as Rich and I are talking that she, like, looks over at me,

“and it's important to note that there was some shit talking of Donald Trump in this conversation.”

And the woman looks over and she kind of like gives me the side eye. I'm like, all right, whatever, sorry. And like I tone it down a little more. I talk a little quieter, and nothing. And then I hear like this big, and she hits the emergency pause on the on the treadmill, and she moves down a row. Like a whole fucking 12, 15 feet away from me. I'm like, oh, okay, somebody's in a fizzy. She's mad that I'm shit talking Trump. And then another guy comes and

takes her spot like five minutes later, and Rich is still, and so we're still for the top. You're part of this. I was also part of this. And so it's like, Rich and I are just about talking, and I'm like, walk and walk and then I look down, and the woman is like right next me. And she's like, excuse me, I, like, so like, I muted myself on the conversation. I'm like, hey, what's up? And she's like,

“I just want to tell you that you're being really rude. And I said, what? And she's like,”

you were talking so loud on the phone, and you are, I'm sure you're disturbing both people next to me. And, and I, I just want to tell you that you're being rude. And I said, okay, I'm sorry. And then she goes, and just so we're on the same page, I am a general manager. And if you ever want to go anywhere in life,

you'll stop using the word like, and the effort so much, because I was never, I was I didn't hear this

word. And I was like, I said, oh, I'm sorry. And it took everything in my power not to just be like, get fucked. That, that was as much as I could do. And so, so then, and it gets, it gets better, because she came back for seconds. When I was on the treadmill, I had a hooding on. And underneath, I had my get fucked for charity shirt on. And so, I, I get off the treadmill, I go down to do my lift part. And I do my lift, and I during the course of the lift, I take my hoodie off. And so,

every, like, it's plainly visible. And so, I go, I am walking to switch machines, and she's there. And I see her, she looks at the shirt, and it's like her fucking head exploded. And I'm like, oh, fuck, it's not done now. And so, I do some more lifting, do some more lifting, and then I go to

get in the locker room to leave. And I see the lady behind the front desk come out. And I'm like,

she comes over. She's like, excuse me, we've had a complaint about your shirt. And I put my hoodie back on. She's like, I need to see it. And I was like, okay, so I take the hoodie off. And she's like, the mind explaining what it is. And I said, yeah, I'm an influencer. Get fucked as my catchphrase. This shirt feeds people. And the lady goes, oh, well, where do I get one? And I was like, oh, she did. Yeah, it was like, oh, that's cool. And she's like, I just want you to know that the

lady who reported you, she did report you. But we've had a lot of problems with her before. Oh, man. Don't take it, like, don't take it tart. And I was like, I appreciate that. But it's just like, I'm not kidding me. And titled boomers are the fucking worst. I'm, I love the, I'm a general manager. Is that supposed to be a general manager of what? Yeah. Why are you a general manager? Yeah. Like, like, of a professional sports team or like a restaurant. Her state. Right. I mean, in school,

it positively enraged me. I haven't benched 225 with that speed in months because I came off that treadmill. So fucking angry. Yeah. Luke, where can people purchase this shirt? You can get the get fucked for charity that in, in rage is boomers apparently. Mac, on Mac, on Mac, on Mac, on Mac, don't, don't, don't love them all. Don't love them all. That's fair. That's fair. Yes. And it goes to feeding America. We don't make a dime off of these shirts. It got all the proceeds go to feeding

America. We do make a dime off our other merch, which I also highly recommend to purchase because they are the likes of them. Yes. They're all made in America. All of that stuff.

“And but the feeding America one, yeah, is really, really important, especially with such, you know,”

Luke decided to do this after Trump decided to cut billions in assistance for poor working class families. So it's the least we can do. And you also like people love this slogan as long as you're not a maga boomer, I guess. So I'm convinced she was just pissed that we were shit talking Trump. Oh, yeah. Well, I think if she's complained before, then that's the other thing is

ripped me a new asshole was I disturbing you at all. And the guy, I know he goes, no, I didn't even

“hear a word of your conversation. And the other guy goes, nope. And it was like, well, shocker,”

both of you guys have headphones in. When you're on the treadmill, that's three feet away from me. I could be talking in a, like, subdued voice. And you would still hear it. Also, gyms are loud. Yeah, they're loud. Right? Into the real world. Music, equipment, banging, like the machines running, like if you have, you know, if she has extreme, extreme sound sensitivity headphones or ear plugs are the, are the thing that she would need. But it sounds like you're right. She just didn't like

your politics. I have never, people who go to the gym without headphones scare me. Like,

do you not know drawn out the voices in your head? Because I do. Yeah. Otherwise, it's just get, get, get, get, get, get, get, get, get. Exactly. It's like a constant rage. I, like, I, when I used to work out, I didn't pick up, but it was like, I used to do orange theory, which is, like, a class, you have to listen to the instructions. So, like, that's a little bit different. But they put music. It's loud as shit in there. Like, if somebody was like singing or, well, if they talked to be weird,

but, you know, you wouldn't be able to hear any of that shit. But we also have no, so I think there's a no cell phone policy in the, in that gym too. But that's different. Well, just a regular gym. Took a nice picture of me and I was like, thanks. She took a picture? I was like, what do we do it here? Oh, my, probably shared it with the, with the manager. She's a manager and she spoke to the manager. General manager. General manager. General manager. General manager. She went up to the

manager and she was like, I'm also a general manager. I really, I, I wonder, she's actually assisted to the general manager. Crazy thing is, I worked at that gym. And like, I, that's proof I can be hired by, by, I mean, the lady that, the lady who received the complaint came or asked where she could get your shirt. I think you're probably going to be okay. I think I'm fine. I think you're okay. So anyway,

“folks, you should buy that and help beating America and maybe don't wear it to gyms in red areas,”

maybe. Oh, actually. No, you'll send, you'll sell more to the, to the, the gym manager. That's true. Because even in those big red areas, there are blue people. So I got to find, I'm thinking about bringing the manager one, just because she was cool. I was going to say, you should, I was going to say, you should, you should take one and put it on her treadmill next time she's there for her as a gift. Yeah, that would go great. But now I'm thinking you should do a get current for charity. And then you

could put the get current shirt on her treadmill. Where it everywhere. Or, or maybe, just stay away from her. Yeah. I'm hoping not to have any more interactions with her. Yeah. So everybody do not do not engage

with people in the gym. People just fucking crazy. You never know. You never know. And you just don't

need to do that. But anyways, all right, we fit in our three of us got to an hour. That's pretty good. That's impressive. I think we're going to stop. Oh, a couple of things. So Luke, when the by the time people have read have listened to this, get angry when we get at our the final media, second show, get angry with Luke and country artist Brian Andrews will be live. What is the first episode about Luke, basically it's a debut. We went through about a week's

worth of news at rapid fire rate. So if you don't want us to look away, that's the place to go. Zach, who is also like doing some producing on it, describe it as a 30 minute brick of anger thrown directly at your face, but only at the bad people. I think the first title, the title

of the first one is the podcast that Maga will come to fear. Oh, I like that. I like it too. It's

pretty fucking sweet. So you could find that by searching, uh, getting angry and find out media, probably, uh, you could find it on our YouTube, Substack. There's a Substack page for it, I think specifically, it's on Apple and all those things, but it's not actually posted yet. So

“that's why I'm acting a little vague because I'm not a hundred such or everything is. But it is”

going up today, which is Wednesday. So by the time you listen to this, which is Thursday, you will be able to check that out. So you listen to this and then you run over and listen to that one. And then we've got, uh, four other five other shows coming in the next few weeks. So I don't remember which one's next. So we're not going to talk about it. But this go check that one out. It's, it's great. Uh, if you don't like the F word, don't, you're not a 97 times in 30 minutes.

Yeah. So it's, it's because they're angry. There's a angry. So just a fine. All right, folks. Well, thank you for listening. Uh, we hope Zack gets better. Feels better soon. Uh, don't forget to check out our Substacks and get some memberships to support us. Uh, so we get the lights on, I want to keep building new shows and building more content to help move people to our side. With that, have a wonderful weekend and we'll be back on Tuesday. Oh, no. Sorry. One other pitch.

turns out all of us that have kids. It's difficult to do it night. So we are going to do these on Fridays.

“So this Friday, meaning tomorrow at noon, we will be going live to talk about the week and to your”

questions, all that sort of stuff. So just what did you do know? We switched those because it was

basically impossible to get everybody together. So now we're going to do it during the day. So check us out

on Friday on the, uh, on our YouTube channel. So with that, now I really mean goodbye and have a lovely weekend.