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We're truly
I think so, too.
I mean, what time do you guys even wake up?
I always, I wake up at four, so I have a lot of time.
4.30.
4.30.
4.15.
4.15, yeah.
So we have a couple hours in there where we, you know, start moving and grooving.
That's what I do.
Yeah.
Yeah, really?
Yeah.
Put on some music and start dancing around your apartment.
Grooving and grooving.
Well,
So, yeah, we're happy and perky here in the morning.
No, I shouldn't be.
I had like three and a half hours sleep.
Oh my gosh.
I could not sleep last night at all.
Really?
Yeah.
What they did, we...
have a regulated air conditioning unit.
So when there's a high draw in the area, they cut our air conditioning off.
MG&E, my supplier of electricity.
Yeah?
Yeah.
So they have a program where if you volunteer to have a limiter on your air conditioning unit and they are allowed to turn it off in high draw times like yesterday, very hot day.
They turn off certain areas.
of the air conditioning units.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know they could do that.
Yeah.
Yeah, they do that.
And they did that yesterday.
Now, you don't know this is happening, right?
So, so it gets to about, oh, I don't know, 77 degrees in the house and, you know, we're all just, you know, freaking
out.
What the
We usually have it around, you know, 72 or four or something like that, but 77.
Wow.
And it never really cooled off overnight.
So it's down to 75 right now.
That's not enough.
And I couldn't sleep.
I can't sleep in hot weather.
I can't do it.
I understand.
I'm the same way.
Yeah, so it was really uncomfortable.
You have these gigantic vents.
It's an old house.
Well, I
know,
the
tend
Yeah.
So I
I've been trying to get my kids out of the house so we could go see some groups because once you go to a club and you see a group and and and it's likely you like the group.
Yeah.
That it just all of a sudden turns something on inside of you where you just want to go see
or discover new groups instead of seeing the great success ones that, you know, you normally buy tickets online for.
I mean, say hello to Kitty for us.
That's what we do.
We talk to everybody else.
I mean, we're in the same business, and we feel sorry for everybody who is in the same business.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know if we seem to feel sorry for him.
I know you're a little more bitter.
They know what they're ready for.
We're a little more angry about it.
Well, we talked to you, Rock and John.
From Wart.
Wart's tent was right next to ours.
Yeah, man, that was terrific.
And not only that.
He's been there forever.
But he was there and the morning guy in direct competition with us, he was there too.
He said, I think we're in competition.
how it works
nice to meet you that would fast.
I had a good time a little too much to drink
Yeah.
He's a lot younger than I thought.
me feel old.
Yeah, nice to meet you guys.
And I love civic media.
Thanks again for your support to the community.
But I wanted to talk today.
I wanted to mention this.
Me, Hassan, Mehdi Hassan.
Yes.
Yes.
One verse 20.
a debate slash interview with all these fascists who are I don't I think they're all white people I would assume but it really shows the the morals of these people that the lack of morals and how they were perfectly fine with these deportations and ruining people's lives and the destruction of the country and in
You
end goal of having this you know technocratic
white-white-led country, you know,
What's the name of that?
That's Jubilee.
It's Jubilee.
Yeah, I thought that was the name of the channel
That's just the name of the show?
Well, that's a name.
It's Jubilee.
I don't know if it has a name, but I think they rename it each time they have a debate.
But how do we counteract that?
Because it seems like they're getting...
They now have an online community amongst each other spreading this hateful ideology that started with Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and their philosophies that are spreading.
truth.
They do
You might have missed that you might have missed those
live.
Yeah.
I'm in a room full of I don't know what to call you anymore conservative Republicans fascist I don't know are your parents Americans or immigrants?
No, my parents are United States citizens, but
they're immigrants you said
No, they came here as immigrants.
However, but I want to make the claim that we can't even- I came here
as an immigrant.
I'm
an immigrant.
But at this point, when they came, can I see the condom?
First, fourth, fifth, 14th, 22nd
my amendments that I came
If you don't want to debate them, just say so.
and
refused to condemn the Nazi holocaust, my friend.
I don't think you're in a position to ask anyone any questions.
I said that one pardon against somebody.
It was 1600 ponds.
600 of those words.
I guess one example that you just gave me.
I can give you more.
Okay, fine, fine.
I'll say the exact same thing every single time.
Then your
argument will fall apart.
When was the Islamic Republic of Iran founded?
1979.
When was Gaza occupied by Israel?
Uh, 19... Well, they
were very first
time.
67.
67, yeah.
So, can we do the math together?
12 years before the Islamic Republic of Iran existed, Israel was oppressing, occupying, dispossessing the people of Gaza.
So your argument makes
Neither of us are economists.
It's the economists'
studies.
Don't
assume who I am.
Are you an economist?
I could be.
But are you?
I could be.
Are you?
I'm not going to tell you.
Are you?
I'm going to major in economics.
Are you
an economist?
No, not right
now.
OK, so
when I said neither was economist, I was correct.
Just everyone
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I charged it up on Friday, the space car and full charge on Friday.
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You know, I gotta say this thing, you know, uh, uh, Trump came to an agreement with, uh, the leader of the EU.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, uh, right.
And supposedly, you know, maybe I just live in a different universe than everyone else.
But when she announced that they came to an agreement, that there was this deficit between the countries, the European Union and the U.S., and there will be now a tariff of 15%, a broad 15% tariff on all the stuff coming from Europe and to our country.
And for some reason, that's something to celebrate.
I'm really angry about this.
I'm going to be happy with a 15% increase in the price of goods from Europe.
Yeah.
OK.
Before we even start celebrating them, they seem to be celebrating this, OK?
The rest of the European countries have to vote on this before it passes.
Oh, is that right?
Yeah.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah, these little, little parts
What?
What
the pharmaceutical part of it is part of this deal Yeah, and the pharmaceutical part and this this is another fantastic idea Which makes just makes me steam okay?
So what Trump is doing he's trying to lower the prices of drugs in this country remember last week We played the cut or he's gonna lower prices by a thousand percent right.
Yeah, and that means if you are
getting drugs anyplace, you'll get money back and the drugs.
That ain't
a bad deal.
We don't talk about it enough.
But in order to bring these prices down in our country, they have to raise the prices in Europe.
So we have to make them pay more for their drugs because they're already selling them for a very low price and if we match their price We would have really super low drugs in this country and they would too But what he wants to do he wants to raise their price up so we don't have to lower our price as much
but
he urges CBS to cancel Stephen Colbert immediately to save face because Colbert is stepping out and he's saying some pretty nasty things about Trump.
And now here are the, these are the people that took that high road and said, you know,
the government shouldn't be telling people who would be canceled and who shouldn't.
It's canceled culture.
Remember that kind of rose up out of this whole idea of the government stepping in saying, you know, you really shouldn't post these people online.
They're lying, canceled culture, censorship.
So now they're the ones, now, you know, they took that.
Well, you know, we feel like free speech.
That's what we're all about, the maggots.
Now, of course, they're asking to be
The sensors mm-hmm.
They want to take people off the air.
They want to take What's a talk show during the day?
The view the view they want to take that off.
Yeah Really, they're going after that going after everybody now But they're the ones who took took the side saying we know we can't we can't cancel people That's cancel culture.
Yeah,
Yeah, right
This is
Oh,
I appreciate that, but it can't compare to you guys.
You are the funsters.
Joe.
I wanted to return to the issue of tariffs.
I didn't realize this, but apparently a large tariffs have been done only three times in, you know, we have smaller sized tariffs all the time, 1% to 3%.
but these hawkers like this, we've done them in 1828, 1930, that rings a bell, 2025.
And as somebody was saying, we only do them only every 100 years because we need that amount of time to fall away before we forget.
The tariffs of 1828 were described as the tariffs of abominations.
Wow.
We should pick
And as I note that apparently GM suffered losses in the second quarter this year of $1.1 billion.
It's a 35% fall.
I'm happy very unhappy because we have been previously in an international economy where you buy steel from here you buy other things from there and By putting these tariffs on they they have really taken it a big hit again 1.1 billion dollar hit 35% fall in the second quarter
off
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's bad news.
So, um, I just wanted to add that little bit to the discussion.
Thanks as always.
You're fun.
all right the number okay go you know they're trying to have it both ways you know with the ice and immigration the right mega's love it in fact they just love watching the videos of people getting hauled away you know separating from their children outside of kindergarten dad's trying to pick the kid up and they're dragging them out of the car they love watching these videos sick and
And I've seen a few of them.
They're heartbreaking
is what
Yes.
What?
Representative Chip Roy says he's going to bat for one immigrant in his district.
He believes to be a good guy.
So so when he's running for office again, he said, you know,
Believe us, you know, we should get rid of the illegal immigrants in this country, but but I I'm defending some of them and so Okay, so I can have it both ways.
Yeah He alluded to what he claimed were collateral arrests meaning people who were simply in the vicinity Getting arrested and put into these camps.
He says
He's here legally at the moment.
Actually, he's got a green card, Roy said.
I think he's deserving of potentially being tracked, you know, on track to be a citizen and he's got some things that he has to deal with.
These are human beings.
You can kind of address these things, you know.
They're human beings.
No kidding, man.
I mean, we've been saying this all along.
They're all human beings, not just the ones you picked out to be the good guy.
And he says, as members of Congress, we have room to do that.
Yeah.
Well, you're not doing that.
And you're, you know, this, the saving face thing that you're doing is not working for me and it shouldn't work for anybody else.
Right.
So they're trying to have it both ways.
Of course they
Yeah, that's how it works.
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He's in Scotland.
And talking about Bibi and the agreement they have.
And he's encouraging Bibi to continue doing what he's doing.
And BB is denying that he's starving any of the people in Gaza.
Of course, we know that is absolutely untrue.
It is disgusting what we're seeing online.
We're seeing video of this.
It's devastating there.
I want to play something from former U.S.
Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel.
He's telling the BBC about what's going on in Israel and the war crimes committed by BB.
So let's listen to this cut right here.
in Gaza after he retired and left, he says, when he saw American colleagues and the IDF killing civilians.
The soldier is Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar, Special Forces veteran of the US Army's Green Berets.
He's in Washington.
I spoke to him from a spot just near the Gaza border.
I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians.
I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces firing a
a main gun tank round from the Markava tank into a crowd of people destroying a car of civilians that were that were simply driving away from the site.
I witnessed mortar rounds being fired at the crowds of people to keep them controlled.
As a professional soldier with a very long career, what was your professional opinion of what was happening?
My professional opinion of how the sites were established was
what I would describe as amateur.
In my most frank assessment, I would say that they're criminal.
In my entire career, have I never witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population.
I've never witnessed that in all of the places I've been deployed to war until I was in Gaza at the hands
of the IDF and U.S.
contractors.
Based on the knowledge you have, do you think that you were a witness then to war crimes?
I think you're saying that very emphatically.
Without question, I witnessed war crimes.
I witnessed war crimes being held by the Israeli Defense Forces without a doubt.
Using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, firing tank rounds into unarmed civilians is a war crime.
People can resist hunger for a long time, but in the end their strength ebbs away and deaths can rise Exponentially and that is what seems to be happening now in Gaza Israel insists its forces have not targeted civilians now We have eyewitness testimony to add to the considerable evidence that they've done so as a matter of routine Jeremy Bowen BBC News Jerusalem
I was hoping that, you know, it was just not a real video.
In other words, it was maybe a different situation, a different time, a different decade, but, you know, I saw like a 14-year-old boy that was just gnarled up skin and bones and died.
Right.
And it was just, it was, it was just unthinkable.
It's offable.
That they're letting something like this happen.
And you think, you think...
The guy in charge of the most powerful nation in the globe would do something or say something, something to stop all of this.
He's actually just saying, you know, baby, do what you need to do.
You know, you got to handle on this.
And listen, listen to this, this, this track from Trump here.
This is cut 149.
This is his point of view on it.
Listen.
They pulled out of Gaza.
They pulled out in terms of negotiating.
It was too bad.
Hamas.
A mask didn't really want to make a deal.
I think they want to die.
And it's very, very bad.
And
it got
to be to a point where you're going to have to finish the job.
They really, they asked the thing, don't forget, we got a lot of hostages out.
So now we're down to the final hostages and they know what happens after you get the final hostages.
And basically because of that, they really didn't want to make a deal.
I saw that.
So they pulled out and
They're going to have to fight and they're going to have to clean it up.
You're going to have to get rid of
Yeah.
This has been going on for over a year.
And people have not talked about it because they've been accused of being anti-Semitic.
Well, it's not anti-Semitic.
We're trying to stop this incredible, incredible assault on unarmed civilians.
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