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I had to go through this yesterday with my wife.
Really?
Yeah.
Just come on.
It's not that bad.
I said, no, the dew points, they're really bad.
Well, what is it?
And, you know, I said, I bought this outside thermometer in order for us to know exactly what it is.
You know, it's one of those indoor, outdoor things.
You can tell what's going on out there.
Sure.
And it's very accurate, but it.
but I bought it because it had dew point on it.
And, you know, dew point is in degrees.
Yes,
it is.
And I said, because, and I said, it's not so much the degrees, it's the amount of pain and stress that you have to go through.
Look.
Okay.
So, you know, I said, it's not so much degrees, but it's the comfort level.
And I said, you know, it's really uncomfortable.
And then if you get into the seventies, it's unbearably uncomfortable.
That's, it's all true.
Okay,
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
All right.
It's all over to you.
All right.
All up to me.
All right.
1885.
The Statue of Liberty arrives in the New York Harbor.
So that's the beginning of the Statue of Liberty.
And then in 1950, the first kidney transplant is actually conducted at a Chicago hospital.
Do I know what Chicago hospital?
No, I
you think of
Juneteenth has a hard time celebrating now because of DEI, because of the funding that they used to get.
Corporations used to fund things like that, but now they can't do it anymore because of the ban.
So they're having a hard time celebrating this particular day now.
I don't get why it was banned.
I don't get it.
It's a racist thing.
It's a way of sealing in systemic racism for decades to come.
I mean, we're trying to get rid of it.
We're trying to wipe it out.
We were really getting close.
And then Trump came in and banned D.I.
And they
for everything, even though diversity...
equity and inclusion doesn't seem like it's anything bad or even in combination anything bad, but they banned it and made it illegal for a lot of these places to have these policies.
So now we're kind of stuck in all these groups that depended on that funding for parades and big get-togethers.
Now they can't do it anymore because the funding has dried
It's Greg Roldy, 1947.
He was the lead singer of the band Santana and Journey.
And keyboard player.
Extraordinaire, yes.
Great, yeah.
And then we have one more birthday, and it's Dominic, 2003.
I don't know who he is, but.
That's you.
Oh, that's me, yes.
There we go.
You're gonna go with your girlfriend, Isabel?
What are you thinking of going?
I think we're going to Cento, which is a block down in, yeah, State Street.
It's an Italian restaurant, very nice.
We were like the last person that they booked for six o'clock today.
Lucky you.
You got right in there.
I'm happy.
I'm excited.
I'm excited.
That's why, you know, I can't wait to go.
All
Okay.
It's right on the corner.
Everything changes.
dimples the dinosaur.
I know.
Still is.
Scotty Yarbrough won't let Francis out of the box in his basement.
He's got some curse or something.
I pleaded with him.
Bring Francois into the studio
in the
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Oh, okay.
So he's well-trained, scientifically trained, he knows his stuff, and he'll be in here to fill us in.
And that's...
why we want them in here, we want to find out a little bit more because we also know that there's recent research saying that if you smoke pot, there's a possibility of having a heart attack.
It increases the possibility of having a heart attack.
We don't know how true that is.
It could be just lifestyle.
People who smoke pot sit around and eat chips all day.
Sounds
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's a weird subject because, you know, when we were younger, I mean, it was all
You know, it was in the 60s and 70s.
It was a rebellious thing to do.
It was a rebellious thing.
Yes.
And it was very, you know, people were getting busted, thrown in jail, you know, having a joint or whatever.
And, you know,
you knew
wanted to
Marijuana is a legal, I know that.
For now.
In a couple of years, things may change when all the kids grow up and start wearing ties and going to the polls.
Marijuana is going to be like liquor packaged in tax and sold right off the shelf.
I doubt it, Mr. Shipley.
No.
Look,
I don't mean to be disrespectful, but it seems to me there must be better things for cops to do than chase down wild rumors about something as innocent as marijuana.
Why don't you go after the big bad guys, the heroin peddlers?
Yeah.
I won't argue with you about them.
They should be stopped.
That's right.
We'd like to put them out of business.
That's why we're here.
What do you mean?
We're trying to keep them from getting a new customer.
There's a big difference between marijuana and hard narcotics.
Yeah, but it's only a small step.
And everybody who takes a drink is going to be an alcoholic.
We know that's not true, don't we?
Let's face it, we're on opposite sides of the fence and there's nothing we can do about it.
For you, if there's a law against it, it's wrong, black and white.
I just don't see things that way, that's all.
Well, you ought to give it a try, fella.
It might keep you out of jail.
Maybe, but we'll change the law some day, even though your friend here thinks we won't.
Believe me, it's a new world.
Your laws are as outdated as bustles.
Laws are gonna have to be changed to keep pace with the new morality.
They'll change or we'll have to break them.
What about your daughter?
How's she gonna feel if you end up in jail?
She won't like it anymore, and I will, but you'll have to catch me before you can arrest me, won't you?
In the meantime, it's a big game I hide and seek, and to me, it is a waste of time.
How old are you, Shipley?
Twenty-three.
Isn't about time you grew up.
Here we go.
Lecture number 131A.
No,
I'm not going to give you a lecture.
I don't have the time.
I'm just going to lay it out for you straight.
Here's my lecture.
Listen to me.
You chippy around with marijuana long enough and you're going to buy yourself a lot of grief.
Joe Friday.
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And I'm talking about LaMonica McIver, representative, a Democratic representative, and it's just a...
She has, listen to that, I don't know what grand juries do or how they work, but this grand jury, federal grand jury is indicted her in three counts.
The charges include two felony counts of assaulting a federal officer.
Two counts and one misdemeanor.
All they were doing was there's just people in a large crowd pushing each other.
That's it.
That was it.
That was all.
And then this is what they're charging them
Gordy.
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down, until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber,
idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
You know?
It, uh, in some, or many ways, it may be very difficult to survive this, uh, for some people anyway.
And I'm gonna, my first story is not a...
Not a pleasant one.
It's devastating, really.
You know, the cuts that have been made by Elon and in the legacy that he's leaving.
This is a cut from a little while ago.
And I, you want to mention something first, but
I
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Okay.
Well, yeah,
We know that USAID was a devastation for the entire world globally.
economy because it helped so many people, so many economies out there.
We tried to help and that's why we were this beacon of freedom in the world because we were out there behind everyone, we were helping people out.
And apparently, somebody didn't get that message, some foreigner from Canada in South Africa who just became a citizen thinking that he was a real American for some reason.
Well, some of the reasons why, at least some have speculated that it's because they were one of the leaders in doing away with apartheid.
And, well, you know, Elon from South Africa, part of that whole history, that whole scene, so maybe it was a way to get back or even.
We don't know.
It's just speculation.
But here is Lawrence O'Donnell.
He had a little choked up on this story, but doing away with all of these funds that helped the rest of the world out and the legacy is not a good one for the U.S.
So let's listen to cut 72.
This
was a child as precious as yours or mine.
Evan's life was in our hands and for five years.
America kept him alive with antiretroviral medicines costing less than 12 cents a day through the president's emergency plan for AIDS relief or PEPFAR.
This was a program started by President George W. Bush and has saved more than 26 million lives so far.
And it turned the tide of AIDS around the world and built enormous goodwill toward the United States.
Then along came President Trump.
and his freeze on most humanitarian aid in January.
How could a five-year-old orphan possibly obtain medicine on his own?
Evan weakened and soon died of an opportunistic infection.
Marco Rubio told the House Committee, no children are dying on my watch.
Evan died on his watch.
Evans of all ages are dying on Marco Rubio's watch.
And no one is counting.
And so we don't know.
as of tonight, whether it's tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Evans, but we know it will be in a New York Times column titled quote Elon Musk's legacy.
is disease, starvation, and death.
Michelle Goldberg reports, Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year.
This is what Musk's foray into politics accomplished.
If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without
voting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he's engendered.
Musk's sojourn and government has revealed severe flaws in his character, a blithe dehumanizing cruelty and a deadly incuriosity.
Bill Gates has seen starving children in Africa many, many times and has devoted his life and his billions to trying to save them, which makes Bill Gates verdict on the current richest person in the world so important and powerful.
Bill Gates, the former richest person in the world, said, the picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one.
And the picture
of the richest person in the world carrying around his drug box of ecstasy, Adderall, psychedelic mushrooms, and then taking life-saving drugs away from the poorest people in the world is a picture only Donald Trump could have created.
And with Elon Musk and Donald Trump, soulless, mindless entities are what you see.
We'll be right back.
Hey, I love that you do this idiocracy stuff because it so embodies America's biggest problem.
We obviously have an imagination problem, and we're fairly stupid at it seems especially at the top I mean we have China that's number one now by a large measure And we can see what they're doing that works They are run by engineers and scientists.
They are highly revered there and we are now run by crony capitalism and religion
Religion doesn't produce products or wealth.
So Yeah, and they have a 50-year plan that they're acting on and are being successful in we have like a day-to-day plan if there is if there even is a plan I
yeah,
so where's the where's the imagination like I like that some people like Buddha judge and Pritzker and others I think are maybe trying to form a new
American moral kind of framework or a plan as to what America can be now that we've fallen so far.
we need that desperately.
this
Yeah.
So yeah, I know there's a way that I think Buttigieg and all the others are trying to at least explain what we need to do next and how we should approach it and At least reframe it just a little bit, you know My sons are both Gen Zers are are very fed up with the system the way it is They hate Hillary.
They hate Kamala.
They hate everybody.
They hate Biden They're not happy campers at all
And we have debates around the house all the time, but I think you're right.
There is a different way to go.
There is a different way of framing it.
We're working on it.
But the way we describe it here, we're pro-democracy.
We're in between.
We're really not political in the way that we're looking at things.
We're looking at...
things in a practical way, in a way to save money, in a way that makes sense, that helps people, makes their lives easier.
Life is tough, very difficult.
A lot of people have very difficult lives, family lives.
And if we can make it just a little bit easier, everything can be better, you know?
So.
It's a big
probably.
I'm making my eggs and fretting about the collapse of my country that
What?
Because this was a little debate.
I don't know how old the debate is, but it's on the site Jubilee, which I like to watch, but my kids make fun of me for watching it.
Anyway, it was...
It was a group of magas surrounding this other group who are trying to say we need the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
It will save you money.
They'll be in your corner in case you get ripped off and they're like shaking their heads.
No, no, you know, they're too smart
I applaud Elon Musk.
He has found an enormous amount of waste, specifically fraud and abuse.
And he did that by getting into the government and showing us how fraudulent he is.
For example, if you have heard of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and you listen to a single Republican tell you what it is, from Congress to Mark Andreessen on Joe Rogan, to Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan, to Elon Musk, they will all say verbatim the same thing.
It is a agency that was created by Elizabeth Warren to debank p-
That's a lie.
She doesn't run it.
It doesn't debank people.
In fact, it keeps people from being debanked.
And one of the big things the CFPB did and does is they try and keep X.
Facebook and all these social media companies from becoming payment processors that don't have to follow the same laws as banks and there were 280 complaints against Elon Musk's companies alone and he walked in and he fired the inspector generals and then he gutted it and he did this at the CFPP he did it at the National Labor Relations Board where we also now know that there was a sudden spike of information going out and Russians were using the created usernames and passwords that have been created 15 million
to try and log in.
He went to the FAA.
He was able to go and look at every contract that he was negotiating against.
He went to NASA.
He went into every one of these programs and he gutted them and he made it so that he and his billionaire friends didn't have to keep the rules anymore.
And all he had to do is hold this shiny object in front of everybody's face.
Look, we're gonna cut two trillion dollars.
Never mind, it's a trillion dollars.
Never mind, I only cut 150
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What a
And I'm just...
You know trying to work through that all right now Why don't we continue what we were listening to about the consumer financial protection Bureau and the guy was making a really great argument of why it is
Good to have that bureau around in order to protect us as consumers.
And I think he wraps it up here.
And as he's wrapping it up, I just want to the visual of these magas shaking their head.
No, no, this would never happen.
It's just amazing.
But let's let's finish this off here.
Look, we're going to cut two trillion dollars.
Never mind.
It's a trillion dollars.
Never mind.
I only cut 150 billion.
And you mentioned before it's closer to 60.
But if you want to take what's what has receipts, it's 32 billion.
dollars.
And we increase the budget by 200 billion dollars.
We're increasing the budget.
He has saved us nothing.
And he's hurt every one of you by gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Every one of you lost the ability to go when your bank screws you, when Chase comes in and they start charging.
Exorbitant fees and they cheat behind closed doors.
You all lost your government.
Then they were shaking
know, those came
Oh, well, let me add another layer to the cake of Mr. Trump's lack of compassion on Rubio's lack of compassion.
There's a great article in HuffPost of people, Huffington Post of people want to check it out.
Trump hasn't visited a single natural disaster on his watch as president.
Wow.
It's one of the classics,
you
know, you go to the site and you're there, you show your
Just showing up matters.
It says the federal government, our whole country is aware of what you're going through.
And we're all going to pull together to help you get through whatever tornado, forest fire, flooding, whatever it might be that has devastated your community.
He has, however, participated well in golf and at a cost of about 38 million for the American consumer.
So he's, you know, missing an action there.
And of course, at the same time, he's got the deal of trying to lessen everybody's relying on FEMA in any way.
He really wants to get that out of the way to such a degree.
I don't know if you remember a Sarah Huckabee Sanders was trying
to
get aid for her.
And I never forget the line he said to her in the first pass where she was desperate to get aid to her state, which had been ravaged by tornadoes.
He said, you'll figure it out.
So, you know, from the heart of darkness there we have, he essentially ended up okaying aid to that particular state because it's a Republican governor that had been his press secretary, but it took six weeks of her calling with all of the cash aid that she had to get any kind of assistance.
So here's the future folks.
Good luck to us all.
Someone who actually worked with him at one time, yeah.
Yep, thanks for that reminder.
And he wants to get rid of FEMA completely.
Of course.
He doesn't want to have anything to do with it.
Let the states figure out how to fund things.
And it's so apparent that he doesn't know what the states are going through,
you know, I'm sure this will go great.
I
Yep.
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