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Snag the hoodie that will bring you comfort for life, the American Giant Classic full zip and save 20 off your first order at american-giant.com when you use code STAPLE20 at checkout, that's american-giant.com code STAPLE20. What's up, everybody? What is up, everybody? I'm here. We're going to be streaming. We're going to be live streaming. Let's see how it goes. Been hanging out since the podcast. Went roller skating with my child. Had some rotisserie chicken. Started thinking about what I wanted to talk to y' all about. We got the Nuggets game at 9 o' clock in the set in the in central, so I'll probably, you know, stop by then. I'm gonna let people get in here. Here's the plan. We're just figuring this out. We're gonna try, we're streaming, going to talk to you guys. You're going to give me your questions. I'm going to scroll my little X feed, scroll some other stuff on the Internet. Going to vibe out. I'm going to drink my drink. My orange wine. Teased a rose earlier. We ended up with an orange wine and we're going to see how it goes. And I think that's the plan for the day. We're going to try to maybe, if people like this, add additional elements as things go on, maybe guests maybe do other more complicated things. But for now, it's just gonna be you and me hanging out. If I need additional info, there are a couple producers helping me out, Jared and Ansley, so we might, we might call them in as well. If you have thoughts, comment on Substack Give us your chance, give us your super chats on YouTube and let's see. I can, I think I can pull them up on the screen. Here we go. Boom boom. User IQ42 said smoke them if you got them. Smoke if you got them. This is right. If there is ever a piece of Bulwark content for you to be high. For those listening to me and Sager today or watching this deal, what were your thoughts about Sega? Why don't you tell. Why don't we start with that and then I'll start scrolling the Internet. I had a couple of personal pieces of feedback. I assume you guys know this but I'm like there are old stories about David Letterman about how crazy David Letterman went after after shows, after late night shows if he, if he didn't like the episode and I would throw shit. And like that's kind of me now. I'm not throwing shit but it's like for the daily pod. It's like very important to me. It's good and I'm hard on myself and I self, you know, I start, I start to get, start to get a little grumpy. I mostly take it out of my husband. I try not to take it out on the Bulwark people but every once in a while and so today's pod I'm reviewing, I liked it, I think better than some of you guys did. Mixed reviews. We'll see what you guys think in the comments. Now my two self reviews were Dude Sagar shout out Saga for coming on. He knew, you know, we're not aligned on stuff. He, you know, he didn't know what I might try to blindside him with but dude is deep in the sauce and the Epstein stuff, I mean I obviously Epstein is a disgusting pedophile and there are other co conspirators. We need to figure out who they are. And there was a cover up. I'm on board for all that and I don't even know if he killed himself. So I'm in the sauce myself and I've seen stuff but he's throwing out shit about passports from the 1990s and it's hard for me to fact check in real time. So I'm not 100% sure how great all that was. And then some people were upset at me about the immigration part not pushing back on him in particular. There's one stat he used a couple times talking about how there were 20 million illegal immigration insurance brought in during Biden. Obviously that is false. The reason why I did not object to him in that moment was because I presumed and I haven't done this. So maybe this will be your first test. Jared Ramsay, I presume he's pulling the 20 million from. He's like adding people who came in on temporary protected status. He's adding asylees, he's adding refugees and basically saying that those are illegal. And it's like having a semantic argument about that with them. Did not feel right. Maybe that number is big even if you include all those people. I'm not sure. So I guess that was one little weakness. Let's see a couple of thoughts. Jack wants to know how Sager is an atheist and also such a wet blanket and a buzz kill. I don't know about. That's a good question. But he's not a drinker or a weed smoker, which is fine. I respect that. I got sober friends. Don't tell me what to do with my life. Don't. Don't start talking to me about my testosterone, though. My testosterone is just fine. No matter what the. Oh, the expectation is High level shoe talk. We're gonna get there. We're gonna get to some high level shoe talk. Be patient. We're gonna hang out for a little while. So yeah, it's. Drew says, I think this is what happened. I think Saga thought the people who are asylees are illegal. But look, the gist of my feeling was like my brain, I need to disagree with people. I just, I can't have like only never trumpers on every day. I'll like, I'll, you know, start to go crazy myself. That'll drive me around the bend. And so I, I've brought on some folks who are to the left of me recently and had some good engagements. Ryan Grimm was on. Who else has been on me and Ta Nehisi had a great pod. I thought that I've just been wanting to get more people who are at least Trump curious to kind of hash some stuff out. The problem, as I said, is the intro to the pod is like most of the Trump supporters in the commentary space are like full. You know, they're just Trump humpers. They'll say whatever, they'll change. They'll be bad faith. And so I think on Saga is. And as you heard, like, at least he's being straight. Like at least he's saying he got fooled. Not a lot of people are out there saying I got fooled in this day and age. So. So I respected that. What else? What the fuck? Yeah, what's wrong with orange? Oh, is that like, is that a Trump comment. What the fuck? Orange wine. Anyway. Yeah, orange wine is nice. I don't know if you guys are on the orange wine deal, but orange wine is nice. Mansplaining Survivor says she's proud of me for doing this live. I appreciate that. Oh, boy, that's rough. That's a deep hit on Sagar Timu Dinesh. It's Dinesh d' Souza they're referencing. If I told you about the how Dinesh was in a love triangle with Ann Coulter and Laura Ingram, that's an interesting story I was told about. I had an old timer regale me with that story a while back. Maybe we'll get into that a little bit more. Any. Any other thoughts? Tim is. Oh, what are you doing here, Doyle? I'm not, I'm not, I'm very high T. High T, Tim. Sagar seems low T. A lot of people have thoughts about everybody else's tea. I wouldn't even know how to measure T, to be honest. But, you know, I'm doing my best. Thank you. Are you seeing on YouTube here we can do super chats. We appreciate that. We appreciate you. Sadly, I can see how people can get sucked into his uses. He's not an idiot, and he can talk about a lot. I, I look, here's the other thing about Saga. That is a coherent worldview, and we talked about that, and I thought it was interesting, actually, that he basically admitted that a big portion, a majority of maga are basically in a Trump cult. I think on the show, I called it a Trump lifestyle brand. And I think that's important to just understand that there are big parts of the MAGA base, I think that, that have America first views. There's some vote, there's some Trump voters who are like more traditional Republicans, and then there are other people that are just in it for the swag. You know, they just want the red hat. They just want to see the lived tears. And Sager admitted that. And so, you know, as far as, like, having somebody who's like that on, who's just in it for the red hat, I just don't really know the value of that. I mean, there's some value in what Sarah does and focus groups and like, trying to understand them, but for an interview session, at least with having Zagreb and he's a coherent worldview, and I don't, I don't, like, really begrudge people that have that worldview, honestly, I think that this judgment around Trump was like, was massive and catastrophic and maybe country ending. So I wish they'd reflect on that a little bit more. But the fact that there are a lot of people out there that are socially conservative, that want more traditional mores and values, that don't like my libertine, you know, pro strip club stances, that don't want America fighting foreign wars. We didn't get into a lot of economic stuff, but Sager's pretty reasonable on, you know, kind of how to think about domestic economics. Sometimes he's a little bit anti economics, like anti Adam Smith for my taste, but, you know, that's coherent. A lot of people hold that view. It's good to engage with it. I can also see how that is appealing to people. And frankly, I think that the Democrats should have a message for those people. Right? Because there was a period of time where folks that were socially conservative, fiscally moderate, foreign policy, more isolationist. They voted third party, they voted for both parties, some of them for Clinton, some vote for Obama. They were Pat Buchanan people, they were Bush people. They were dispersed, they were diffuse. And now, as we've sorted, that group went all the way into the MAGA column. And obviously that's not good for Democrats. Democrats got to figure out a way to speak to the regular voter version of Sager, like somebody that does not like wars, that is maybe more socially conservative than the Democratic candidates are, but is also maybe open to more generous welfare state, wants healthcare to be funded, wants schools to be funded. Those people exist, a lot of them, actually. Frankly, I think there are more people in the country that hold that basket of views and like, you know, central left, moderate views. And so Democrats got to figure out how to talk to those guys. So I was happy he came on. I wanted to talk to him. And I don't know, I feel like you guys tell me, but I feel like if I was a person that had that basket of views and was listening to that conversation, they'd have to have been at least Kamala curious by the end, or at least not voting for Trump curious. Because dude could only name one thing he thought Trump did well on. And I think that was the most telling part of the whole conversation. And he is a. He has a news show, so it's not just a random voter. Like Sager has a news show. Breaking points. He talks about the news every day. He's aware what's going on in Washington. He knows what the Trump administration was doing. When I asked him to name what he thought Trump has done well over the last 14 months, his answer was sealing the border. And I said, okay, what else? Nothing. Nada. So I. I would. I think that's pretty telling. I got distracted by this. Sorry. I'm learning about this. I don't know what. You know, the multitasking is a little challenging. So I want you guys to bear with me. I want notes at the end of this how I did what you want more of, what you want less of. Wordsmither says I have dialectis. Dialectitis. I gotta be honest, I thought that said dialect tits. That's. I just. I'm sorry. I'm like a little boy at heart. Let's do this. Let's do it. Let's pull up the big screen. Now we're going web surfing. All right, here we go, Jared. Let's do it. We're gonna be searching my Twitter. Let's see. Can I spell this? Do I have to start doing spelling? Why? Dialect. Dialectitis. What do I have? What's that? A dialogue? Oh, it's a. It's a Socratic. It's a Socratic method. I know about the Socratic method. I just. I just didn't know that fancy word. I do have that. All right. You demanded the shoes. I pulled up a couple of little things here I want to discuss. Then we'll scroll X together, and I'll keep an eye on your comments. And you guys just tell me, here's the deal with the shoes. Now, I am not a fancy shoe man myself. I'm not like, we need to go a little bigger on the screen. I'm not a. I don't like wearing dress shoes. I pretty much only wear dress shoes to funerals. I'm trying to think, last year, when have I put on dress shoes? I put on dress shoes for Dick Cheney's funeral. I put on dress shoes for a Mardi Gras ball. I feel like I wore dress shoes one at a time because I wanted to be fancy. I can't come up with it, though, so I'm not a big dress shoes expert. Joe Perticone's are man for that. Let's look at this. They all are in the same shoes, and they don't. They don't fit. So here's Sean Duffy is way too big. I don't know who that is with the cankles, but he can't even fit in his. Like. Did Trump not ask him their size? Oh, that's horrible. Those socks and shoes are a horrible match. Oh, whoever did that, that is disgusting. Rubio. Oh, that's Rubio. Yeah. Rubio shoes don't mass floor. What do we think here? Floor shine Dress shoes. This is interesting. They're using the gifts as a light hearted way to encourage loyalty and unity within his circle. That's a little fascy for me. It's a little fascy in a free country. I feel like people in the cabinet of the president should wear whatever outfits they want. I don't think they should have uniforms. It's getting close to putting on military outfits and flair. I don't love it. Yeah. So there's Marco. We go way back with Marco. I don't know how many of you guys remember this, but Marco, you know what we could find? You got. Let's see if I can find it. Marco. Lift shoes. Advertisement 2016 if this doesn't show up. Well, yeah, okay. If somebody could find. If somebody could find me. Jared, could you effort this? The Jeb super PAC didn't add a lot to our political culture. I'm just going to be honest with you. I had nothing to do with the Jeb super pac. A lot of times people blame me for that. People will be like, Tim spent $100 million to finish in last place. And I was like, I have a career that has a lot of losses in it. I had some wins, but I had a lot of losses. In the case of the jump campaign, all of the money was in the super PAC and the campaign had no money. Long story. It's stupid because our campaign finance laws are stupid. That is why this happens. But there were some others that work on the super pac. We're not going to impugn anybody. They spent nine figures. They were the ones that sent out iPads to people in New Hampshire. And you know, the money didn't. Didn't turn into a lot of votes. You live and you learn. One thing they did, though, one thing they did was come up with a very fancy. A very funny, rather advertisement making fun of Marco's fancy shoes because he was wearing lifts. He's wearing like these Cuban lifts to try to seem a little bit taller simultaneously to talking about how Trump had a small dick. So we'll try to find that. We can watch that. We can watch that together in a little bit. It's deep in the archive. You know, it's been 10 years now. Oh, shit. I didn't want to. I was going to pull up your questions, but we got to Ben Shapiro's eyebrows. I like this. My girl Ari, make fun of whatever he did to eyebrows all you want, but it's very successful in distracting all of you from what he did to his lips. I do think that's interesting. Now, we were told that this is a Photoshop. We're told that it's a Photoshop. Look at the lips, though. And look at the lips. So we are told that it's a Photoshop. And so what I did all on my own here was I pulled up today. This is. No, this is not today. This is pin Tweet, I guess. February 28th. Let's see if. Let's find. Let's find. Oh, he's doing. He's at. He's selling a shirt. I don't want to. I don't want to help him make money. Try to find one. Oh, here we go. Here. Here is on March 4th. Let's take a closer look here. That's. That's not natural, I think. I think. I don't think that's natural. Let's go. Let's go to the. Let's go to what you have to say. Please share us a comment. If you think that. If you let me know what you think about how. How does that happen? Do you think that's like, hgh, or do you think there's no way that's a natural brow? And I shout out to Ari about the lip. I also don't think that. I also don't think the lips are natural. Yeah, but are the lips photoshopped? Gorilla 4454. Great question. Well, now, this is not a Photoshop. This is Ben's own account that we've pulled up. And do any of you have a verdict on this? Because I'm not sure what's happening here. We've got eyebrow pencil. You think that's one theory. Eyebrow pencil. Okay, another theory. Sassiest Dragon says microblading. I don't know if that's right. We'll keep searching. We'll keep searching. I don't know. We're just going to leave that. Should we leave that up for a little while longer, do you think? Or you guys. Have you guys seen enough of Ben Shapiro's eyebrows? Greetings from Ireland. We'll leave that up for a little bit. A little bit longer. See, this is gonna be a little different than the podcast. All right, you're not seeing this on the podcast. This is a good theory. Oh, no. That wasn't what I wanted to put up, Mr. Insanity. That was rude. We can't. We're not doing. Okay. It's a little bit more R rated on the live stream, but I don't know if we're doing comic jokes on the. I think we can not. I Don't know that we need to be talking about loads yet. Moving on. Speaking of, look at this. How about this for a transition? Ben Rhodes and Ben Shapiro, two bends, different visions for the Middle East. I should have Rhodes back on. I feel like I've had a lot of the dubs on lately, though. I've had a lot of like the isolationist lefties, the hard left, anti war lefties and I. And it's because it's speaking to me right now in this moment because I just, I could not be more hardline against what they're doing in Iran. And it seems absolutely moronic. And so I don't, you know, I'm having on guests that are like feeding my hate fire and feeding my rage over the fact that like on CNN they're trying to do the whole, you gotta hand it to Trump on this one. I mean, it's really been an impressive shock and awe. Like, I just, I can't. I understand why attacking Iran is something that Bibi Netanyahu's wanted to do for 40 years. I understand that the Iranian regime is bad. What we are doing is obviously stupid. So anyway, for that reason I've had a lot of like that type of foreign policy view on the show lately. We had Zoron Sky Sagar today, for that matter, coming from the right and so Rhodes fits that. I've been interested in having a foreign policy person on maybe next week or the following week that has. That wants to at least try to proffer some kind of view on the other side. It's hard for me to imagine what that is. I think I would enjoy exploring that with somebody as an intellectual matter. I feel like I would come out of that conversation even more convinced and passionate about the fact that this is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever seen. But anyway, I'm interested in hearing some other views, but we should, we should get Ben. We should get Rhodes on soon too. Rhodes. As you guys know, super fans know, the pod save the world is my falling asleep pod. I do. I love to listen to those guys on planes and they just kind of doze off when they're talking about Peru. And then I wake up they'll be talking about the United Arab Emirates. And it's nice, It's a good experience. So I got some substack chance I want to get to here from the Sagar. Oh, yeah, yeah. Ansley, what's up? So I sent you the Marco boots picture, but we also have the ad for you. We can pull it up if you want. Oh, great. Yeah. Let's pull up the ad. Let's watch the Marco ad together and then we'll get to the substack comments. That should be fun. You keep flipping when you shoulda not. Floppy. That's how we did it in 2016. Now it's work is work, but you ain't earned it yet. These boots are made for flipping and that's just what they'll do. One of these days, young Marco's gonna flip, flop, flip on you. Man. I haven't seen this in ages. I forgot. I didn't. I couldn't have. Don't think I could have even pulled that. It was to the tune of these Boots Are Made for Walking. We've pulled this up on stage. This is what's prompted that ad. Let's take this all the way back to 2016. So now Marco has been in two dress shoe related controversies. He's in these. What do you call this type of boot? There's a word for this type of boot. This is the fun part about live streaming is that you guys are going to get to see what I know and what I really know. Because sometimes on the pod, it's a little behind the scenes for you here. I'll forget something. Chelsea Boot. I'll forget something. I'll take a little pause, I'll Google it, and then I'll talk about it through the magic of audio and video editing. Thanks to Katie Cooper and Katie Lutz, we will. It'll seem like I knew it. So that's nice. It's magical. In this case, I couldn't pull the name Chelsea Boots, but there it is. Chelsea Boots. Look who sent that tweet. Look who started that controversy back in 2016? Michael barbaro of the Daily. He was just a lowly New York Times reporter back then covering the Jeb and Marco campaigns. And he started this whole little controversy. Look at how. Look at the amount of inches, though, that Marco got. I mean, he was getting, what, two and a half inches height there on the debate stage in 2016. So he's always been kind of a boot cuck, that Marco Rubio. A shoe cuckoo. You know, I don't know if he's in defeat or not, but he will do. He'll do what is needed from a footwear perspective. All right, so did we have. Oh, wait, I knew what I was doing. We're gonna go back to the substack questions. The substack questions. I have them over here. I can't pull up on the screen like YouTube, but my girl, Darla. Darla's in Minnesota. She's been with us from the start. Darla's feedback on the saga conversation. She says it was super interesting. Annoying and interesting. People like disagreement. I want to shout out Darla. She. When I. When I book came out, I went to Mini. I was in Minnesota for a wedding, my friend's wedding. And so we tagged a book event on there. Darla put that together very early Bulwark. We had like the OG Bulwark. People were there when I. When we were at this last Minneapolis show, we sold out. Two nights, thousand person venue. I said to her, I was like, hey, look how far we've come from that book event where 40 people showed up. And she was like, adamant that 140 people showed up. It seems like 40 to me. But either way, we've come a long way. It's nice to have our OGs over there on Substack. Let's see what else we got. Any other viewer questions? We have any Ben Shapiro questions? No. Okay, well, we'll keep on pressing forward the whole concept of this. We'll see how this works. The idea here was that I was going to just scroll Twitter and the Bulwark Gang was like, I think the people just want to watch you scroll, Twitter and like trash talk people and like, just talk about it. So we'll see if that's true. I have some other little links, some other little surprises. Show you. We have a section here behind the scenes that says, like, Tim Blind React, where Ansley and Jared have pulled some things that they want to see me react to. So we'll do that in a second. Let's see what's happening on my Twitter feed. You also get a sense of who I'm following. So some big secrets here. Cat Abu Ghazale Mentum. Where is she? How's she doing? I don't know about that. She's up to 37 Daniel Bis. We have Cat Albuxale on the FY pod. I'm also thinking I want your feedback on this too. I'm also thinking that this live stream can kind of be like a little bit of a new an FY pod vehicle. I bring on young people to stream with me other streamers, things of that nature. Maybe we'll have Cat on. I don't know. That's one idea for what we're going to do with this. Oh, yes. Okay. John Fetterman, John Federen. I haven't watched any of this. Let's. Do you want to watch Fetterman together. Let's watch Fetterman together. His son is kill every last member of their. Their leadership. Well, his son is now in charge, and he's considered even more of a hard line. They should kill. They should kill him too. Well, maybe they will, but in, in the meantime, he's. He's been elected by their 88 clerics to be the guy in charge. It' to see how we're better off with him in charge. And did you expect the Iranian people to rise up multi part question here and encourage them to do. Well, there's also a fact that he hasn't been able to produce a video or seen in public at all. Why? Why? Maybe they're seriously injured. It could be very hard to just sit down and even do a video and have them put that out. So hopefully he is significantly wounded. And if he does recover, you know, I do absolutely support, you know, having Israel to just eliminate him, you know, kill him. Any other parts of the leadership. I mean, I'm always going to support that. I think it's a good thing to continue to eliminate, you know, leaders of Hezbollah. Let's just kill all of them. That's nice. Oh, see, we're in trouble over here, guys. We knew this is going to happen. All right, we're back on. Drive the. Should we lose it on the screen? What did I do? Jared, you need to reshare your screen and reshare. Okay, guys, see, we knew we were gonna have some hiccups. Time one here. Okay, everybody, so just, you hang out, we're gonna pull it back up. Who's this guy? We got it. I think we got it. Tiny Tim in the corner. I said close all tabs, guys. Okay? All right, everybody. Everybody is an expert. You know, everybody's an expert in the comments section. When you manage procurement for multiple facilities, every order matters. But when it's for a hospital system, they matter even more. Grainger gets it and knows there's no time for managing multiple suppliers and no room for shipping delays. 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Time is a flat circle and I mean, I couldn't. I went. I was too nice to him because I couldn't handle the questions. He couldn't handle them. And anytime I asked him a follow up question, it was not like on something that he had a talking point for already. He would start to stutter and he'd get lost. And I didn't know whether it was the stroke or whether what was happening. And so I felt like I was like a debate. I kind of, I felt like going hard at him. Like I go after somebody on the Piers Morgan show. Felt like it would be almost like beating up a kid, right? I don't know. I felt like going after like a slow person. And so I didn't want to do it. And then I felt like maybe he's still a senator. I just should have gone wholehearted at him. And then that was before that big New York magazine came out story where it said like, even his staff is worried about his mental health. I just, I think that the dude's literally just not all there. And I mean the obvious thing about this, it's almost like too annoying, too cliche of it. Makes me sound like too much of a lib to say is like, it is definitely interesting. The dude had a stroke and got very dumb and lost his mental faculties. And all of a sudden he became hard maga, Desert Navy and JBL crack sarcastic on the pods after argue with the Internet that you don't really want a socialist populist party running America all the time. I agree with that. I don't want a socialist populist party running America all the time. We're on the same page on that. What did I do? I lost you at the Fetterman combo. The questions are coming up fast. I'm working on that. I'm having a pinot noir, but Tim brutally wine mogged me with his orange wine. That is true. Nude. I have. I am brutally wine mogging you. So let's see what's happening on threesome I don't know what that's about. Fetterman twined of the Matrix. Okay, let's see what's happening over here. Frank Calabresi. This guy gave money to Cat Abu Ghazale. That's a look. I don't know, like that, that. The face tattoos. Is it kind of cute? Is the face tattoo kind of cute? Like there's. I feel like when. Back when I was a Republican, Republican Tim would have been very anti face tattoos. It's kind of like my mother talking to me or something. Like, why would you do that to your face? It's on your face your whole life. Now that I look at it, it's kind of like, oh, just a little face tattoo there's kind of cute maybe. I don't know. He definitely, he definitely doesn't look like a Republican. Let's see what's happening in Dubai. Yeah, the, the, the images from the Persian Gulf right now are pretty, pretty troubling. I don't know how much you guys been following what's going on, but tonight I was watching this before I popped on here and outside of Iraq, Oman, I believe in Bahrain. Iran's been hitting oil tankers and other assets with drones. Things are on fire. There's some discussion that maybe one of the boats on outside of Iraq that got hit had an American flag on it. So could have been an American either, you know, private company or I don't know. I don't want to speculate, but not great. Take a look at what Chris Murphy's got here. U.S. intelligence indicates Iran's leadership is still largely intact and not at risk of imminent collapse after nearly two weeks of relentless. Yeah, duh. That one's a big duh. I don't know if you guys read JBL's triad. Today was really good. It was really good. He went back and looked at. There was like a US Institute of Peace white paper from 2010 that talked about how Iran was going to deal with a US Israel attack. And what they found was kind of obvious. Like they learned from what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. They made their leadership more diffuse. They realized that they could outlast us, that they would have longer appetite for pain than we would. They laid out exactly what they're doing with economic attacks. Going after interests in the region, going after allies in the region. There's a post I saw earlier that, like, I think 11 countries in the region have had some type of military attack on them, either from Iran or Israel or Hezbollah in the past 24 hours. This is just. It's like, such an unbelievable shit show. It's hard to even wrap your head around. Let's see. Here we go. Somebody's paying me $10 to do something. Well, I can't pull it up on the screen. I'm working on this. Gonna get better week by week. Paying you $10 to encourage you to use dark mode. Light mode is boomer status. I'm in my fucking wired headphones USA of Jordan. Okay, I appreciate that, but I don't. I don't like dark mode. All right, dark mode might be boomer status, but, you know, it ain't for me. Okay, I'm sorry. Not. To each their own. What else we got here? This is a little different. My comments are a little different. Like, I like watching the Nick Fuentes clips where his. His commenters are all like. Like, nick, I haven't gotten laid in six weeks. And, like, this girl talked to me. And, like, should I talk to the girl? Or is it gay to talk to girls? Or I'll be like, nick, I am a white nationalist, and I'm applying for law school, and I'm wondering if on my entrance exam, for my entrance paper, I should write about the problems with brown people coming into the country, and I should write about white genocide and how white genocide is happening. And Nick's like, what in the fuck are you fucking morons talking about? I like that. I hope some of you guys are dumb so that I can. I can make fun of you. It's kind of fun to watch them do that. The only thing gayer than gay sex is straight sex. Apparently. That's true. Team Dark mode. A lot of people are. Team dark mode. Let's criticize Nick's eyebrows. What's wrong with what's happening with Nick Fuentes? His eyebrows? I'm not sure. Let's take a look. Snick. Fuentes have big eyebrows. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Those are some. Those are some honkers. They got. They got some girth on them. That's true. I don't know. I usually don't mind a big eyebrow, but when it comes to Ben Shapiro's eyebrows, they are huge. Okay, I don't think we're gonna listen to Max Blumenthal or to keep going. Josh Barrow. Ooh. Gavin Newsom fighting with Trump about dyslexia. I think we'll keep going on that. Hey, we're gonna be in Austin. We still got tickets for Austin. We got some great happening. Adam Kinzinger is going to be there. Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher is going to be there, the bulwark.com events. Dallas is sold out. Come see us in Austin. I loved this. I mean, I didn't love it because it's. It's horrible, but it's. It's like a. It's a funny video. Like, watch this. This is a Chinese on cargo. It's like they're trying to do the Leroy Jenkins to the Strait of Hormuz, and it's like. Nope, never mind. No, thank you. Yeah, not great. Largely intact, Iran's Butyl regime dead 1300 civilians, including hundreds of children. That's good. Favreau's been good on this. I have to say, Favreau has been good on this. What else we got? Oh, speaking of faces, what is wow. Wow. Can I. Can I scroll in on that? Whoa, whoa. Can we move me so we can get a closer look at Trump? Jared, is that possible? Feel like I'm covering up the key part of the image here. Look at that. Yikes. Yikes. I mean, when you add the sweat with the burnt sienna makeup, with the wrinkles, with this little neck vagina with the hair. I mean that. The bruise on his hand. That dude looks rough. That dude is looking very, very rough. What? You don't want me to do that? Okay, stop. Some people don't want me to do that. Okay, I guess we'll stop. We won't put. We won't put Trump up there anyway. All right, we'll go back. We'll keep scrolling, see what else is happening out there. I feel like I've had a very political run here on my feet. I wanted to show you guys my other interests. I don't dare. What do you guys think about the die workwear guy? Sometimes a little much for me. Tucker. Oh, there's my boy Brendan. You know, Pete Hegseth started file. Okay. Pete Hegson started finding this dude. Robert o'. Neill. Does everybody know what I'm about to pull up? Do you know what this guy is known for? I mean, he claims that he. I think. Isn't he the guy that claimed that he killed Obama? Jared, isn't that him? What I more know him for is the. Is the concubine thing. Let's pull that up here. Our boy Harry says it's sad. I was. I was invited to be on a panel with my boy Harry Sisson. He's the liberal influencer guy that got to the Trump did the meme where he was flying over and he shit on him with the poop. Anyway, I can't go to the panel, though. Here's Robert o', Neill, former Navy seal. He called the Harrison Porters concubines. Can we find this thing? Okay, so here's Harry. Harry's posted this image here where Gen Z voters were proudly voting for Kamala Harris. Real men support Harris. Move that over. Does that help? And I think, unfortunately, I think the boys have had a falling out. My understanding is that Harry and Chris are aligned and Parker and Dean are aligned, and there's like, a little bit of a Gen Z podcasting riff. Anyway, we continue. So, Robert o'. Neill. Look at that. And he wrote, you are not men. You're boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines. Which is a little. A little hot, but strange also. And not masculine. I. I don't know. I don't know. Anyway, that's the guy that. That's got Pete Haggs that's following now on Twitter, if it gives you a sense of what they're looking for. Do we want to listen to. Should we. Should we listen to this? Should we cold listen to Alex Jones? I don't know if I have that in me. What do you people think? Should we cold listen to Alex Jones? Some people like to know he's Roman Maxing. Okay, we'll think about it. We're gonna think about it. While I look at some of the other viewer questions from subsec, I'm getting some feedback they want to hear from more substack people. All right, lady Katie B. We're working this all out at some point. Since I'm a relatively loud Esther, I'd love to hear Tim tell the Bulwark origin story, though that may bore some of the OGs. I'll make it fast. It doesn't bore you. Basically, they shut down the Weekly Standard, which was Bill Kristol's old magazine. Sarah Longwell had started a website that was so stupid, and I told her it was dumb. We were old friends. Me and Sarah were young and gay together in D.C. and it was like a aggregator of Never Trump articles. It's like the Drudge Report for Never Trumpers. I was like, this is not monetizable, Sarah. Nobody will come. There's already enough. This market is full. But then when the Weekly Standards shut down, there are a lot of people that work there, including your boy jvl, all of you guys favorites. And. And they were like, hey, we can stand got shut down because the owner was a big trumper and he was mad that Crystal and JBL and others were shitting on Trump. And so they're like, hey, Bill and Sarah talked. Let's take some of the best people from the Weekly Standard, start this other thing. It was called the Bulwark. That was the name of the aggregator, and that's why we have the clip art ship. And. And so they all got together. Me and Sarah were old friends. She asked me if I'd write for this new thing they're doing. I said, absolutely, that is a good idea. Actually, we do need a Never Trumper media outlet that does original reporting and commentary. Charlie Sykes was starting the podcast at that time, doing the daily podcast, and it took off. It was crazy. And it was honestly crazy. It was all of our side hustles. For the most part, JBL was doing it full time, but for the rest of us, it was all our side hustle. And we were just shocked, like, how many people like reviving with it. And that's the origin story. Alison Turbot asked, will there be a sequel to why We Did It? That was my book. No. No. And people asked a lot. I think there's a Reddit thread about this. I lurk on the Bullock Reddit from time to time, and they're like, why did Tim not want Sarah to write her book? Because we talked about this. Should we. Should we promote Sarah's book for a second? Let's promote Sarah's book. Let's do that. We should. We talked. Oh, wait, no. This is not it. This is not it. How to eat knowledge of it. Achieving financial success one bite at a time. That's the wrong one. Where are you at, guys? Where's Sarah's team at? Like, working these Google Fu rankings. There it is. How to eat an elephant. Sarah told me Sarah said on the pod when she was on it that multiple times. So many people noticed. They're like, tim didn't want me to write this. And, you know, we were joshing each other, teasing each other. We never actually said on the show why didn't want to write it. And people were asking, like, was that an inside joke or was too jealous of her? And, you know, at times I can be jealous. Not in this case. The issue was writing a book sucks ass. It's really hard. And JBL talked about this on the Secret Pond with Sarah, about how, like, most people who are very busy people have ghostwriters that help them write it. And Sarah didn't want to do that. And, you know, I was like, when I wrote my book, it was still kind of in the side hustle part of the book. It wasn't when I was doing the daily podcast. Charlie was still doing it. And I told her how bad it was going to be and how hard it was going to be. And I was like, I need you to run this fucking company. Like, I need you to be doing YouTube vids with me. And, you know, we have like a growing little media company here with a lot of people who want to hang out with us. And I need. I need your time on that. Not like, you know, sitting around in your. In the basement of your house grinding away at your book. And she didn't listen to me like usual. She wrote the book and seems like it seems like it worked okay. She was able to manage herself at the bulwark. Manage the bulk rather, because I'm not doing any fucking management. No paperwork is an important lifestyle, life choice value. An important life value for me. And so she did it because she's amazing. She wrote the book. You know, we should also shout out. You can get Sarah's book if you want. We should shout out Mark Hartling's book too. I'm just a little book promo here for one second. What's Mark's called? What's Mark if I don't return Father's Wartime Journal. Go get that. Look at that. Number one best seller right now in survival biographies. It's great. I got it downstairs. Go get his book. Anyway, where was I? Oh, yeah, I was reading substack comments. Will there be a sequel to why We Did It? Long story short, no. No. The publisher writes me about once a quarter and says, hey, what's the status on book 2? And I was like, never. Not happening. Let's see. Kessel. We kind of covered all that. Matt Colbert. Colbert. Are you Colbert or Colbert? We're gonna do. Colbert says, can we get an Isaac Chotner episode? I. I think Isaac's more of a questioner than questionee, isn't he? I could not believe that my boy Greg Landsman did the Isaac Chotner interview. Don't go look at it. Greg is a great guy, good congressman, good instincts, good intentions most of the time. And I just. I feel like he's blinded by. By, I think, a righteous hatred of the Iranian regime. And I get that. I get. I do. I totally get it. But we can't let these fucking jokers start a war over this and, like, cripple our economy and have no plan. And, you know, Mr. Magoo, their way through the Middle east gets. It's a fucking loser. It's a fucking loser. And so Greg. Greg lands was one of the small Number of Democrats that were saying that they were for this and he an Isaac Chotner interview. And folks don't we love Greg. Don't read that one. But if you're not familiar with Isaac Chotner, he's a New Yorker writer that does just these brutal interviews. Go go read one of the ones he did with the MAGA person. Enjoy that. If Isaac wants to come on the show, I would have him on. I can't think of listening to hearing him do other interviews. But maybe I'm just misremembering. No matter Question. Why is Tim always so coy about tomorrow's podcast? I can answer this. I don't want to jinx it. I don't want to jinx it. I don't like. I don't believe that a podcast is going to actually be on until they actually show up. And sometimes it's because if it's a new person in particular, I don't know, Morris Katz, for example, supposed to be on, had them booked forever. Was pumped. Like we had drinks in New York to kind of just make sure that we vibed and I was excited to do it and we got it on the calendar and then like 24 hours before he Zoran's White House second meeting happened and so he had to cancel. And I think even in this case I did kind of screw it. I said we had a new guest on tomorrow, but we didn't end up having a new guest because Morris can do it. Michael Steele slept through the show one time. We love you, Mr. Chairman. Nothing wrong with that. Jasmine Crockett ditched me last second one time. There have been others. So I just, I don't like to jinx it. That's why. And then even when I know the prison is going to show off sometimes I just think it's kind of fun to tease you guys. Let you guess and think about it. I was pretty upset I didn't get more positive comments about the the Outro song. I guess we're on you on the YouTube folks. You don't get to see that because of the rules. But for the audio listeners, the Outro song on today's pod was pretty good. You guys can go check that out. Give me a bonus download if you haven't heard it. Scroll to the end. D. Wilson, how does Tim prep for his podcast? This is a good question because particularly for right now, because I didn't think about this when I scheduled doing these live streams at night. It's because it's usually right now 8:17. My husband just Put my daughter to bed. She's out there. I'm going to charge my computer. She goes to bed. I go downstairs, sit on the couch. And some nights he'll turn on one of his shows. Some nights I'll turn on basketball and we'll sit there and I'll be on my little computer and I will read through everything in the news, read through any interviews the person has done recently, who's the next day's guest. Then in the morning, if they've been on other podcasts, I'll do a little walk and listen to the podcast. I got spotted by somebody in the neighborhood today doing my little podcast walk, listening to their other things because I want to hear if they say interesting stuff on other shows and. Yeah, and then like in the morning, I'm kind of reading X, doing what I'm doing right now with you guys. So anyway, you're filling this time, right? So for tomorrow's show, I might be behind. I'm behind in my prep for tomorrow's show. Luckily, the Nuggets tip off at 9, as mentioned, so be able to stay up a little later and do it while I'm doing the Nuggets. Reggie, I just sold my car online. Let's go, Grandpa. Wait, you did? Yep. On Carvana. Just put in the license plate, answered a few questions, got an offer in minutes. Easier than setting up that new digital picture, Fran. You don't say. Yeah, they're even picking it up tomorrow. Talk about fast. Wow. Way to go. So about that picture frame. Ah, forget about it. Until Carvana makes one, I'm not interested. Car selling made easy on Carvana. Pick up. These may apply. Let's see. This is a very long question from Tad. We'll come back to that very long question from Tad. Let's go back over to here. Did we have a verdict on whether we wanted to watch Alex Jones? I didn't see a ton of excitement. People asked about Pondering Politics is in the chat. What's up? Pondering Politics. The. Is FYPOD coming back? Somebody asked. Probably not. Or not in its current form. FYpod was a lot of work. And so I'm really busy and I wanted to do it well. And it didn't really achieve its goal. The audience was mostly moms and grandmas of Gen Z, people who wanted to hear what their kids were like. And that's fine. That's cool. Appreciate listeners at every age level. But like, the goal of it was to reach younger consumers. I thought it was really good at bringing cool young guests. Like, if you go look at the guest lineup on FYpod, it's like insane. All the, like, all those people are going to be senators and, you know, the influencers and commentators of the future, like, they're all awesome. So this might be a vehicle for doing something like that. There could be other stuff. I don't know. We're still kind of working on that. I miss Cam, too. Cam's gonna be back on. Ooh, the board. Can you put a poll in the chat? Yeah, we're still working on that. Cam's gonna be back on maybe next week on one of the shows, so keep an eye out. Me and Cam talk all the time. I'm texting that guy all the time. Molly. Not My Party's got me into politics. So if people don't know, Not My Party was my Snapchat show, which I started. That was like really the first big thing I did with the Bulwark back in whatever that was 2019. And that showed the audience of that. This also I was trying to recreate with FYpod. Like, the audience of that was literally like 18 to 29 year old boys, almost entirely like young men. I never understood why young women didn't watch it. I already kept asking people, like, what I could do to get more girls to watch it. But for whatever reason, on Snapchat, it's mostly guys that are consuming political stuff. But I loved that show. And then Snapchat changed the rules and they went from like a closed system, like a cable network where there are only a certain number of channels and I was one of the channels, to like an open system like TikTok to compete with TikTok and Instagram Reels. And so every joker in the world had a channel. And so, like, the numbers went way down and just. And like, it cost a lot to do. Not my party because, like, it was. It was not stripped down like this right now, where you just have Alex Jones's face on here for the last 20 minutes. But it was like. Like we had a legit producer, legit graph graphics team. It was very like, I loved it. Like, it was scripted, it was much more formal. And it's just like the amount of work and time that went into that and cost just wasn't worth it anymore because the views on Snapchat went down so far. So it sucked. But thank you, Molly, for watching that. You're the exception that proves the rule, I guess. Unless you're a man, Molly. And I had a dude come up to me at the rabbit hole. Here in New Orleans. Maybe over the summer now, I guess it was. And he was like, bro, bro. It's like a college guy. It's like, bro, like, you raised me on not my party. Like, I've been watching you since. I was like, I've never felt more old in my life. He was like, I started watching you. You were 13, bro. And then he. And then I was like, so who'd you vote for? And he was like, I won't, I can't tell you. I was like, so you voted for Trump? He was drunk and he's like, yeah. I was like, I raised you. You watched my show for five years, then he still voted for Trump. That was tough. That was a tough hit at the rabbit hole. If the bulk is the right flank of the say types of the left flank of the anti Trump coalition, what policy stances should either side moderate on to ensure a stable coalition? Here's the thing. I, I think that we both need to moderate on shit that isn't core to eat. What either of us want was an unpopular answer to that question, which is some cultural issues. Like, I am a neoliberal libertarian. Like, you can call me on the right of the anti Trump coalition. I'm not sure I am sometimes. See, some of these jokers and Democrats in Congress are more interested in doing traditional right wing stuff than me. But I think that public safety border, you know, gender and sexuality stuff, people say, I get this all the time. When I, when I say people gotta moderate on stuff, they're like, tim, would you moderate on gay marriage? And I was like, well, well, gay marriage is popular. So, you know, I wouldn't moderate on gay marriage. Like I would moderate on like giving gays special privileges to certain things. Right. I don't know, I just, I think the cultural issues are really what's holding the coalition back right now. I appreciate the question. Boatman. See here. Love the show. I'm wondering if you'd ever have Michael Moore on as a guest. I guess I would. I haven't, I haven't thought about that dude in a minute. I have no, I have no idea what his deal is right now, but I, I would, maybe I would do it, I guess. Why not? Law Monkey. To be clear, they're coming for game marriage too. They might be, but it's. But kind of. That'd be great actually, because that's a cultural issue that our. We're on the winning side of. There was an Idaho vote. I don't know if people saw that today. It was an Idaho In Idaho, I think it was the state house in Idaho voted to repeal gay marriage. And Jared or Ansley effort, this, I think it was 4426. And so I think that all the Democrats and 17 Republicans were against repealing gay marriage. 26 Republicans, four. So that's kind of interesting, I guess, as a. As a barometer of where things are in Idaho. Pager like attack in Beirut. That's something. What's happening with Candace? Should we just go on over to Candace's feed? What's she been talking about lately? I thought I saw Jared Kushner linked to Israeli American. It's always Israel with her. Jared Kushner linked to Israeli American brothers of convicted sex trafficking. I mean, I'm sure Jared's linked to some pretty nasty folks. Israelis again. Let's see. Trump lied to your face after he killed a bunch of little girls. Candace Owens and Dave Smith. Show me the lie. How about that Candace Owens comic, Dave Smith. He was on Piers Morgan with me recently. I don't know if you guys saw that. He's like a right wing isolationist guy, kind of in the sager mold, but like a little dumber. Kind of a lot dumber, but have to hand it to Candace, but that's pretty good. Yeah. Somebody popping on. Was that my hair? Yeah. Tim, real quick. The vote number was 44 to 26. Seventeen Republicans joined every Democrat and voting against it. Thank you, Jared. If there's other stuff, is there stuff I'm missing? Thing is, we're still trying to work through. You know, how I get information coming in. But if you guys see anything you want me to talk about, you guys go ahead and pop on. That's fine, given the old Not My party video. If you'd like to watch that. Is it my hair? Yes, it does have your hair. Ansley has it. I think she sent it to you in Slack. She can put it in the doc. Okay. Yeah. All right, I'll pull that up. Tim, have you seen the account that just says Candace mispronounced? Anything else can I say I like making fun of Candace. I make fun of Candace a lot. I like making fun of people. I think it's okay to be made fun of. Everyone should take jokes. Not that big of a deal. I forget what I did yesterday. The other week, I made fun of Gen X and like you would think that I made fun of people's mother. Like the Gen Xers are a little touchy in the comments. Just like. It was just a joke, guys. It wasn't anything personal. Like, we're just all having fun out here. Millennials have our quirks too, don't get me wrong. Anyway, I don't love the Candace mispronouncing things thing, though. Just feels wrong to me. Like, at least she's trying. I don't know. I've got a lot of other. I've got a lot of other issues with Candace besides her mispronouncing things. I think I mispronounced things. Ms. Industrial Licks. I like the saga episode. It irritated the hell out of me, but was illuminating and important. Know thy enemy. Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at. Know the enemy. And those people are gettable. The saga types are gettable. Me, not him. But like that type. All right, here we go. Let's pull it up. We have an old video of me. For people that have not seen Long Hair Tim, for all the newbies that didn't know Not My Party, Ansley has chosen. Her favorite episode is Barstool Bros. The future of the Republican Party. This is Not My Party. Brought to you by the Bulwark. You probably know Dave Portnoy, or as he calls himself, El Presidente. He's the pizza loving France star who founded the extreme, extremely popular digital media empire, Barstool Sports. Now GOP bigwigs are inviting him to appear at Republican conferences, hoping he can bring some cultural cachet to the party. Please come. And Politico even wrote that the Grand Old Party is becoming the Barstool Party. But will the stoolies go for that? No shot. No way. The Barstool Republican narrative dates back to 2016, when the parallels between the site and the rise of the populist Donald Trump were unavoidable. First you got the irreverent language. Get that son of a off the field. Sam Ponder you. And then you had the mocking of the elite media. Main street media. Poop. Poop. They are the fake, fake, disgusting news. Not gonna let Mickey Mouse push us around. And of course, a shared hatred for political correctness. In 2016, Portnoy laid all this out, telling CBS there's a sentiment among frat guys, lacrosse players, and middle class, affluent white kids that they're getting kind of persecuted. Oh, cry me a river. Trump's an f you to see society. Who's telling us? I was kind of going for bj, right? So it seems like Trump at Portnoy were a match made in heaven. But will that love connection have staying power? If you were to ask me who I think like the biggest right wing social icon In America right now. I think he's. Dave is called. Rise of the barstool Conservatives. I'm not so sure. Now I get why some Republicans want this bond to be forever. Barstool is culturally relevant and Republicans have tended to, well, not be. Consider the bands we used to get at Republican conventions. Here's the problem. Barstool has always been intentionally non political. All right, that's enough. Okay? I don't. I keep telling you guys, I don't own an iron. I don't own an iron. Life is too short to iron. It serves no purpose. I look cute and the hair is horrible. I hate everybody that complimented that hair. I had this hair for like a year and a half and I was like, what? Will you people, will you listeners, we viewers out there, do me a favor? If I ever do something like this again where I look this much worse than I would otherwise, will you please just tell me like, I can take it? Like I can take it. All right. I want to look hot. As hot as I can. And the looks are going to go soon. The Lebanese. I always think about my Uncle Joe. Poor Uncle Joe's getting dragged right now. He's about to catch a stray. But yeah, he always was a youthful guy. Like, young looking guy, handsome guy. And then one Christmas, it was just like, boop, he's an old Lebanese man now. So that's gonna happen to me sometime. But until then, I wanna. I wanna look handsome. So if I do stupid stuff like this, like, please tell me this was fixable. Ironing is dumb. Ironing is waste of time. Are you ready to really. Are you ready to really go deep now? Jbl is about to lose his mind. Are you ready for a real talk? Folding is also a waste of time. I'm like a child. Like a college dorm room child. Like, grabbing clothes out of the pamper. Half the time just is what it is. I got a lot on my plate. People are like, how do you do everything? Do you not sleep? No, I sleep. I sleep, sleep. I parent podcast. I go out to concerts and I don't fucking iron or fold my clothes. That's for the. That's where the time comes from. All right, what else has st Candid's been talking about? Wait, hold on. Where'd that guy go? That guy had a good comment. Wait, hold on. There is some gay and Lebanese this. There's someone else told me that I looked like the Tears for Fears guy. I can't find it and pull up on the screen. But I. I didn't know tears For Fears at all. And I took that as a big insult. Multiple people told me I looked like the Tears for Fears guy. And when the first time I heard that. There. This is that. Thank you, Nicole. The first time I heard that, I was like, I think that's when I decided to cut my hair because, like, the Tears for Fears go. Wasn't hot. Yeah, the hair was not it. I agree. Swoosh. 6:19. Do you think there'll be enough political backlash from Iran that Trump will ease up on Cuba? I don't know, man. I think dude is drunk at the casino and he's just rolling. I don't think so. Not lesbian. Lebanese. I lost it there. Somebody else said they were gay in Lebanese areas. What up, Tig? I9 gay and Lebanese solidarity. I have a little brother that's also gay in Lebanese. So, you know, we all out here. Oh, wait, there's the Tears for Fears thing again. All right, we move forward. Let's see what else Candace is talking about. What is exactly wrong with speaking German? Oh, God. Did Erica Kirk know Jeffrey Epstein? I don't think so. Is it worth watching the whole episode to find out? We're in hell. Yeah, Candace is in hell. That's for sure. Oh, she believes Candace now. Okay, let's see what else is happening out there in the news. We had. Should we go? Why don't we go to the blind video? Blind. The blind material. We trust Ansley and Jared. Right, guys? You guys been watching any of the Jared videos out there? He's becoming a star. He's becoming a star. We're gonna do the same with Ansley. Okay, here we are. Blind react. Oh, one of them is my man Peter Twinklage. Peter Twinkledge is over at the Don Lamond show, and I've been told to blind react to this tweet that he sent here. It is Timor who would win a fight between Pete Hegseth wielding a full bottle of Tito's or gnome with an unloaded shotgun. Boy, I think Pete eggs have to beat that ass is the answer. Kristi Noem. I know the amount of work that she's had done on her body. Like, I. When you watch her hold the shotgun, I just. I think that, like, the whole skin is, like, kind of bearing down on her, and, like, her face is kind of. Her face is static. But then, like. Like, somewhere underneath, all that skin has to go somewhere. I think it's very challenging for to lift something up that high. And Pete Hegseth is a madman that doesn't like women. Doesn't care about women. And I think he just smoke her in the face. So I'd say Pete Hegseth would. Can we. You know, the other thing I saved for this live stream and this might be in the doc somewhere, but maybe. But answers are just messages to me. There was a controversy today about how Pete exit didn't like some of the. Some of his profile views. Like the. Not. Not like his social media profile, but like the side view. He told people to stop showing that at the Department of Defense. I. I deliberately avoided that story today so that I could like pay attention to that live. So let's pull that up and kind of live react to that as well. Lydia. Oh, okay. I've seen this. This isn't a surprise live react. But let's watch it together because it's really good. It's a good selection. This is for people who miss this. So there's a lawsuit. The American History association is upset about some of the stuff that was banned from, you know, the various public materials during doge when they're eliminating anything that wreaked of dei. It was like, remember when they like control F G and so they. They deleted the Enola Gay from the website, you know, talking about the history of the old gay and the veterans. And so anyway, during the deposition, this video came out of this douche and let's watch that together. That's. That'll be. That'll be fun. There was the EO explicitly laid out the details. I don't remember it. Off top man. It's okay. I'm asking for your understanding of it. Yeah, my understanding was exactly what was written in the EO So can you. I don't remember what was in the. So right now do you have an understanding of what D.E.I. is? Yeah. Okay, so what's your understanding as you sit here today in this deposition? Well, it was exactly what was written in the EO and so anytime that we would look at a grant through the lens of complying with an executive order, we would just refer back to the EO and assess if this grant had relation to it. Okay, but I guess I'm stepping back from your methodology strictly in terminating the grants. Do you have an understanding as you sit here today of what DEI means? Yeah. Okay, so what's your understanding of what it means? Well, it is exactly what was written in the EO okay, so why is the documentary about Holocaust survivors? This is the good part. This is the good. It's the gender based. It's gender based. Yeah. Sorry, that's inherently discriminatory to focus on this specific group. It's inherently discriminatory to focus on what specific group? The gender based. So females. Females. And you believe that that's inherently discriminatory? I'm just saying that's what it's focused on. This is related to dei. Right, but you just use the term inherently discriminatory. What did you mean by that? It's focusing on DEI principles. That dude fucking irons his shirt. That dude wastes time ironing his shirt, I'll tell you that much. This way you don't get out of your head, you know, that's why you don't have some like trillionaire with academy addiction telling you that you should go into the government and start, you know, scraping for people's Social Security numbers because you're going to end up in a deposition like this where you sound like a fucking moron. All right? Like, really? That's what you want your grandkids to see? You were the guy that was blocking the grant for a documentary about female Holocaust survivors because it was DEI and this is just shameful, shameful shit. I lost that. I pulled that out. I'm not going to goose and msg. I will be a goose in New Orleans though. Folks want to come hang the good morning from Norway. Tim, can I pull that up? I don't know how to pull that up. I'll just read it. Good morning for Norway. Tim. Keep up the good fight. Remember, sanity and politics is possible. We have it. But humane behavior means social democracy and reform. So the bulwark needs to move leftward. Thank you all for bringing us left enough. Okay? I think it's important for you guys to hear at times sometimes there's some lefty stuff that's dumb. You know, there's some lefty stuff that's dumb. California hasn't really been, you know, managed perfectly. All right, like, it's okay. We can all. We're all grown ups here. We can take feedback we can understand to move to the left of the right. Oh, I've got great news about this. I got great news about this. I'm so happy you brought this up. Broadway Scott, want to get serious for a second? Can you do a follow up interview with Andre? I wonder what his life is like in Venezuela now. Bulwark live in San Francisco soon, please. Is this. Would it be inappropriate for me to do this? Andre. Andre messaged me. Andre messaged me on Instagram a while ago and I wasn't like, I wasn't sure it was him. Like, I thought it might be a fake account because it was, you know, it looks kind of serious but you on want to know how you're doing. And so I messaged his lawyer and I was like, this is real, right? This isn't like some fishing thing. And it was. And so we've been messaging on Instagram. He's in Spain and here I'll just, I'll pull up the account for people want to follow them. How do I do that here? And it's really sweet. It's nice. See he got out of Venezuela. He's in Spain. He's trying to, he's working on, you know, getting visas and all that and it makes me emotional. But here he is. Let's pull him up. So there it is. I'm sure he'd love to, love to hear from you guys, but he has made it out of, out of Venezuela and out of that hellhole. I guess they won't let me open this but if he messages me back, I'll let you know. I just asked him, I just told him people wanted to know how he was doing. So that's great. So he's out. We've had some, some positive progress in this admin to the question of whether I will do a follow up interview with them. I don't know. Well, I'll think about it. We'll talk to him and if he has an update, I definitely like to get you guys an update. And you know, it's really, it's really nice that he got out. Hola from Oregon. Been lurking on the road crew. Tim's hair was crazy. My hair was crazy. My hair was crazy. Getting a lot of text. At least you will text me about the, about the stream. No, these are just all my other texts. Oh, Aunt Yanny. What's up Aunt Yeti? No, none isn't about the stream. These are just people texting about other. Getting a lot of nice texts against text right now about Bobby Polito. Did you guys listen to that interview I had with Bobby Polito? He's running for Congress down there in South Texas and that dude is going to be a congressman. I love that dude. That was a great interview. I just got a little update text on his campaign. My buddy had a surgery so I'm going to check in on him really quick. He's okay, he's just all medic. He's just all, he's all gassed up post surgery. But it seems like things, seems like things are good. So I love to see that. All right, what else do we got here? Any Comments? Tim, read the pandering project super chat. Didn't I just do that? Bulwark live in your hometown of Denver. We did a Denver live show and we were thinking about doing one this summer, but I don't think it's going to happen. I'm sorry, I apologize. I don't think that's going to happen. What else do we got over here on the sub stack? Questions? Anything? These aren't questions. Bad Trump shits. Dems. We're going to talk about Dems. How about cultural life? Let's go to the cultural life section. Thank you, Ansley, for separating this out. We've done enough politics. We're going to do a lot of politics on the show. Douglas is headed to choir practice. Did I have any favorite restaurants during my Minneapolis trip? No, I didn't. It was fucking freezing. The city is uninhabitable. God love everybody up there for standing in solidarity with each other. I don't know what any of you people are doing though. Crazy. So no, I didn't have a good restaurant. I didn't trip. After the Alex Preddy memorial, we went to this Jamaican place that was really good. We guess figure out we answer Jared, just go search for the Alex Preddy memorial location. It was like one block away from where Alex Freddy was killed. There was a Jamaican place. I'd love to shout those guys out because that neighborhood let me get emotional again. It's like that neighborhood next to the pretty memorial. This is the thing that pissed me off the most about Sagger today, just to be honest, is this fucking social cohesion bullshit. Especially coming from the kid of an immigrant. But it's like that neighborhood. I could have just gone to restaurants on that block, honestly. There was like a Malaysian place and a Jamaican place and an African place and a Vietnamese place and it was just. It is this part of Minneapolis that is a community, is a neighborhood. It's where people live. Looked like kind of a middle class neighborhood, maybe gentrifying a little bit. I mean I'm just kind of stereotyping. Having walked through it, I'm not an expert on the, on the that part of the town, but. And it's like, you know that they're just immigrants here, like a lot of immigrants here. And there are a lot of people that are scared and they're running these restaurants. People that work at the restaurants are scared. And so I would support the restaurants on that block next to the party memorial if we can. If we find it, I'll shout it out. But that was. Hey, I got it. What is it? Pimento. Pimento. Jamaican pimento. That's Nicolette and 27 6th in Minneapolis. Pimento. Thank you, Ansley. That's sick. Yeah. Oh, I tried the curry goat. Jennifer, I want to know what Tim normally does on Wednesday, sacrificing for us. I already told you guys. And I'm sitting on the couch watching basketball and preparing for tomorrow's podcast. Tuesdays and Thursdays it's kids basketball game. Can I. I gotta come clean about something about yesterday's basketball game. Okay, nobody's gonna care about this besides me, but we're 75 minutes into the live stream, so I gotta get it off my chest. We're playing against a team that is not very good. And my team was just like, had a lot of close shots that were being missed. They're playing, we're playing well, we're getting better. It's just a lot of shots rimming out. And so we're up 7 to 3, high scoring game in the fourth quarter. And this poor girl on my team, God love her, gets a rebound and turns around and shoots it on the wrong basket and it goes in on the other basket. And that's not supposed to count in the rules of the league, but they gave it to the other team and the other team is not good. And so I was like, I didn't fight it, you know, and I went and talked to the little girl. It's like, it's okay, it's okay, you know, come on, come on, you know, remember we're going the other way. She might have been a little mad at me for reminding her that a couple more times, but. And, and that the other team ends up scoring like a lucky basket and end up tying. We end up tying and like we should have won, but we tied. And that girl was like really sad and I kind of felt like I let her down. Sounds like I should have fought about it. Like I should have fought. I think I don't know what the right thing to do was in that situation as a coach. Like, should I fought about it and like, made sure that didn't count or I'm gonna need to smoke. Talking about this basketball game yesterday, this eight year old basketball game that's had me in fucking shambles all night last night and all day today. Yeah. Am I bullying kids again? No. Like, I'm not, like. But anyway, I. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I felt bad for that girl then because it was like, I think she kind of felt like we didn't win because of her. And if I would have fought it, we would have got the win anyway. It's tough. Coaching is hard. Thank you. I appreciate that. Anc. ANC Chad. I thought you're gonna be ANC Chad. It's AMC Chand. Yeah, It's a tough call. Thank you, Dylan. I didn't know what to do. It's a tough own goal. Anyway, that's what I'm doing on Tuesday and Thursday night. So I don't know if this will be every Wednesday night again. This is all. We're like, we're trying this stuff. So give me your thoughts. What you'd like to see more of, less of. You know, we're just trying to do a hangout. When are we getting the next level pod on some out of office gummies? Two next levels a week. Pro, Pro. Come on. Look at how much content I'm doing already. That's, that's too much to ask. I, I. Even though my reputation is as a pothead, which is fair because like I was into jam bands in college and I did a lot of pot. I don't really do pot anymore unless I'm at a concert and even then sometimes not. Nothing against it. It's not like Sagar. It's just that, you know, I feel like my brain being fuzzy the next day and I got to like pod for you guys. So I'm not really doing a lot of, a lot of weed gummies. Sorry. Every once in a while, every once I get goofy if I go. I love. I don't get to go to movie theaters anymore, but I do love doing a little weed gummy at the movie theaters. Went to see Marty Supreme. I did do a little bit and, and I have no tolerance now. And the guy behind the, the concessions guy at the movie was like a YouTube watcher. So shout out if you're watching right now. And. And he's a little bit awkward about it. I forget what he said. He like didn't. He kind of was oblique, I guess. He didn't want to be obnoxious or whatever. He's kind of obliquely referenced it. But I was stoned and so I didn't quite get it. And we had kind of an awkward exchange. Thank you to the new member. You should call these live streams the Tim Miller special report. I don't think so. Tim. Cast is taken, unfortunately. I got kicked out of a softball game. I was coaching, fighting about a rule. There are ten year old girls. Always fight for your kids. Okay. Sassy's Dragon. Now you're making me feel bad. Yeah. And yeah, okay, yeah, I guess I should have, but I mean, she did score on the wrong basket, you know, I don't. The other team I felt bad for. Ugh, I do feel bad about that. I got. I got into some business. My little brother was playing tennis. Let me tell you, that watching this stoned is the best. That's cool. Round up for the Dallas live show. Oh, Roundup after the Dallas live show. Be there, be square. I don't know anything about Roundup that place, but I don't, unfortunately, I don't know about the post show live show things anymore. For me, it's tough. I liked it. I like doing those hangs back when we were doing like one show at a time. When you're doing back to back shows, it's brutal. I'll get pretty tired. But you never know. We'll see. I might. I might make an appearance. We'll see. Sometimes you're riding high after a show. We'll see how it is. Let's see here. What else do we got? If I missed, is there anything that I promised you guys I was going to do that I missed? Oh, Barry thinks CBS News is on a roll this week. Could you have a worse time to have decided to put like a pro Israel hawk in charge of a news outlet than like a month ago? I mean, like, these guys are embarrassing themselves having to do administration agitprop on behalf of a war that is a fucking disaster. Like that is a shit show on top of a dumpster fire. And like CBS News is trying to shine this turd every night. That's like, what do you. Do you know what this is? You think this is gonna work? I don't see it working. I don't see it working. What else do we got here? Yeah, that's a no. I'm not gonna do that. Oil ripping higher. That's my boy, adam. Cancer and yeah. 92. We're up over the Tommy Norris line today. Back up over the Tommy north side. What do we think about this? About Jake Paul? Trump wants Jake Paul to run for political office. I mean, could we be on more on the nose and idiocracy than that? I did love this run of things by Jarvis. We should shout out my guy Jarvis. He was making up fake conservative confirmed speakers for CPAC this year. E girl who became Catholic five minutes ago. A lot of that. JD Vance became catholic five minutes ago. Married guy with a Christian podcast who only hangs out with vulnerable young men. It's kind of like a David Letterman Top 10 vibe. Chicks giving adult. I didn't really like that one kid who called you the N word on Fortnite. Yeah, he's gonna be there. He's gonna be at CPAC this year. Podcasters getting clearly paid by cutter. Guy who makes documentaries on things that didn't happen. Streamers been banned for every platform. Not me yet. Not me yet. I haven't been banned from jack shit yet. What else guys? If there's anything you really want me to hit, put it at the top of the put at the top of the dock here and we'll start to wind this thing down. Nuggets tip off here in about 10 minutes. What else guys? What have I missed? What do you want me to talk about? What do you want me to talk about next time? What do you want from the live stream? Let's see. Would you ever have destiny on the pod? I like destiny. We'll see what happens. We'll talk about it. Jake Paul has massive sweat marks in his armpits. That's true. That's not good. Appreciate every time tries to make things about racial mind. Folks, we're all human beings. Thank you man. I appreciate that. That is the fundamental element of a liberal democracy and of pluralism is that you judge people based on who they are. And that doesn't mean that you don't care about what's happening with race. And obviously I have a mixed race family and I care about it that there's discrimination, there's racism. It should be called out when there is racism. But I don't like any time that somebody wants to judge someone else based on their characteristic traits instead of based on their behavior. And I do see this a lot coming from coming from people who are too online and the arguments on both sides. How bad are the nuggets get smoked tonight? You got to pay more than two bucks to get to get nuggets trash talk on for here. Yeah, competing. What is JBL's high score on the pinball machine? I don't. What is. Why is he so into pinball? Dude's got to get outside the house. Who have the comedy bros you liking lately? I'll tell you this. So at this point I don't think it's gonna happen. So I might as well just tell everybody and maybe I can will it into the world. The Tim Dillon podcast is awesome. Now Tim Dillon has some kooky views, conspiracy and race but his podcast is great. He's no bullshit. He fucking skewers this administration in the way that you can only skewer them if they're one of. If you're one of them. Right. Like, at some level, like, I can all, like, I do some sick burns, okay. About this administration. I feel like I'm elite. Talking about JD Vance's recessed side profile and how he's a hall monitor and how he's changed his name three times now he's a Ph Tony and how he probably fingers himself. But, like, I, I, like, really can crush JD I'm good at it, but nobody can. Like, there's a, There's a limit to how high I can go to the level I can get to. Like, if you're, if you're attacking somebody within your own ideological tribe, like, you can achieve heights that, that I can't reach because it's so personal. And Tim Dillon has been. Been doing that. He's been achieving heights I can't reach. And he's annihilating this administration over Iran and Epstein and all these other things. And he's really funny. And I try. I've been trying to interview him or write about a profile about him, and he won't do it. So come on, Tim, let's do it. I'm trying, mama. I'm trying to be a good dude. Cuban heels, let's say, listen to Tim Dillon show bit on lesbians at the Airbnb. I haven't heard that. I love some lesbian. I would love to have Tim Dillon on. You guys go tell him to come up. Okay? You guys go tell him to come on this show. I would love to. I would do his. I'd meet him anytime, anywhere. I think his is really funny. I mean, he's wrong about a lot of things, but who cares? Tim, what do you think about your Tigers Skiff and have a chance. I, I, the Tigers could be. It could be an unbelievable historic season, or it could be a total shit show. Like, I literally, I'm open to any outcome, but it's going to be really fun. And they're the bad guys now, and I love that. I love being the bad guys. Super left. He's like, Hassan pushed people away from the Democrats sometimes. Sometimes, man. I mean, like, Hasan has some really bad takes. Like Hassan loving China. I don't like. You know, we can hash it all out. But he also brings some people in, so it cuts both ways. I think that scolds are the people that really push people away for the Democrats. Like, those are the folks that I really don't like, because you gain nothing by being a Scold and you turn people off, you annoy people. So you know, Hassan's got some issues, but. But he brings some people in. Like some people aren't gonna like, I'm not. There's some people that I can't reach that Hassan can reach. There's people that like Tommy and John and the pod Bros and you know, that aren't accessible to us because they like think that we're two establishment shills or whatever. It was like when Saga came on the podcast today, he's like, you're. You're an establishment neocon shield. It ruined it. And I'm just like, not really. No, I'm not like actually like, if you listen to the show, like, I'm not. I'm header. I have a lot of, you know, varying different views. And I mean, as he found out of the course podcast, we agree on various number of things, but some people just like have that frame. I was on the. It's actually kind of funny. Let's pull this up. This will be kind of a funny place to end. Let's pull up the. The breaking points Reddit. So I looked at this. I just wanted to see what those guys were up to. Anyway, the point that I was making was that Hassan can reach some people who like have this brain poisoning that they refuse to listen to anybody that like has ever worn a collar. And like, and they just are so convinced that like they have to be. Have anti establishment purity and. And so Hasan can reach those people and if he can influence them to go down the lefty pipeline instead of the Candace pipeline, that's a win. Here's some of this shit though. I wanted to pull this up. This is so funny. So on our, on our Reddit, if you don't go on there, like there are always people like policing like what the Bulwark audience should be. And it's kind of funny. Some of the borks. I was big mad, but I enjoyed reading the inverse of this. What are you talking about? Tim Miller is maybe the online's biggest Israel support. Not named. Like, you can't write. You can't write. Not named. Ben Shapiro. He tries to hide it, but he can't. This was a mask off moment today. What are people talking about? Like, I literally did what, 20 minutes with Sarah on Monday where we like grappled with this and talked about how we changed our views on Israel. It's like, like some people are really up. These are people that are like really obsessed with Israel and like everything has to be about Israel and everything has to be about the Zionists. And every bad thing that happened is the Zionists. And so if any person says anything that caveats that or that that questions whether it was really the Zionists behind everything, like, they immediately go on. And you're like, you know, they might be on the payroll too. Where is this one? Oh, fuck now. There've been a lot more posts since I last look at that. Okay, here we go. Here it is. Tricky ground. Who listens to the Bulwark. It's made up of neoconservatives. And he keeps going, where are the replies? This is the funny part. Them. Let's see, where is it? He says something about like, I can't find it. Somebody basically said that the breaking points people are like, this goes against our ethos to go on the Bulwark podcast. It's like, everybody, like, chill out, man. Life is more complicated than this, you know? But some of those people are never gonna be able to get because they look at. They're like, you worked for Jeb 10 years ago, so I'm never going to listen to you. And it's like, okay, like, that's not a way to live life. But for that reason, we need other people that we can reach. 50 bucks. What up? The great correction. Bulwark Confessions. Tim, I watched so much you leaving of 2024 that you start in a dream. We were dating, making out, and I'm a hetero. Buy your hubby a drink on me. Thanks for all you do. Wow, I'm blushing. A sexual dream of a heterosexual man. That's nice. Thank you. That's great. Every once in a while I've had some weird dreams. You know, every once in a while somebody comes into a sex term and you're like, why was Connie Chung in my dream known? I've never had a Connie Chung sex dream. But, you know, you get some weird ones sometimes. But man, I am. I'm struggling now. I'm reeling after that serious question. Should we be concerned about traveling to Cali? Oh, this is DBH tr. I think this is about the. There's an FBI bulletin put out that's basically that Iran is looking at. I believe it was drones targeting the California coast. There's been subsequent recording on reporting on that that there's actually no credible evidence of this. I think that it is. I am not a false flag guy for people who are like, false flag people. Like, there are false flag guys out there. Hasan might be a false flag guy. There are people in false flag guys on both sides and like, everything might be a false flag for them. For people who don't know what a false flag is, it's like where the government orchestrates a killing in order to create a justification for doing a further action. Right. So, like, the idea is that maybe the Trump administration would, like, create a fake terrorist attack here to justify further action in Iran. I don't know that they're going to do. I don't think that they're competent enough to do that really. But I do think that, like, misinformation coming out of the FBI is obviously going to happen, and I think that that's probably what we were saying right there. I'm gonna drink here for a second comment. Okay, this is how we'll end. I'll take a couple of your comments and we'll end with the James Carville rant because it was so good. I'm going to dinner with James on Saturday. Hey, Tim, just want to pop in some folks on substack. We're noticing we had some issues with the chat, but we've got that sorted out now, so. Oh, great. Should be fixed going forward. Yep. Sorry about that, guys. Yeah, sorry, Substack, guys. We will. We'll do. We'll. We'll work on that for next time. I'm still my. I took some subset questions, but yeah, occasionally you get some tech issues. It's our first try. So I want feedback on that. We're to fix the chat. Feedback on what? You guys think that else I should be doing? Should I have. I don't want to make this an interview show because I already do that, but maybe I should have someone else on and hang with me for part of it. Maybe we'll do that. Maybe other things. Let's. Let's put that. That Carvel vid and I'll take a couple of your guys. More comments in the meantime while we wait for the Carville vid. Anything else? What else we got down here? I'm still kind of reeling from the straight dude that had a sex dream about me. Kind of want to hear a little bit more. I kind of want to hear a little more about what we were doing. Is that wrong? Tempe T Cup. I really appreciate you and Sarah talking about Israel. It helped me understand why people defend them so aggressively. Cool. Thank you. Like, I think it's. Dude, here's the thing. Like, I. I obviously have an ideological mission with the Bulwark. We want to defend liberal democracy. We are anti Trump. I oppose authoritarianism in all its forms. But, like, this isn't a super pac and if you want to like get propaganda or like be a part of a super PAC that does advocacy that that is their job and spins all the time for one side, then like there are plenty of options for that. Like what I'm trying to do is have an honest podcast that obviously has a perspective and a point of view, but also that grapples with stuff and, and I think that the Israel thing is like it's going to be so important and another heterosexual man who feels weird about being attracted to the young long haired Tim, that's kind of strange. Does that mean. Are you feminizing me? I think the Israel thing is going to be critical in 2028 and I think it's just important to understand it and to reflect on it. Do I have beef with btc? No, no. Old Scott, what's up? No, I don't have beef with BTC at all. I love that dude. I love btc. Brian Tower Cohen, for people who don't know, me and him did a little show together inside the right during 2024 and I appreciate him doing that with me. I thought it was useful. I brought his kind of progressive audience, like my perspective on how Republicans and MAGA are thinking about things. But we decided to shut down after the election in part because I wanted to do other stuff. You want to do other stuff. And I also don't think that like that's a good role for me anymore. Like I don't, you know, I don't know any of the people in this administration. Like I know Susie Wiles, but like it's been 10 years since I was a Republican in good standing or since I worked on a campaign at least. And so I just like, I don't think I'm the right person for that job anymore. So anyway, me and BDC have no beef and I hope to see him when we're out in LA in a couple months. I'm dying for Liberal Currents. Bulwark collab. I think I like Liberal Currents. I have to go double check on their stuff. I think I like them. Be Keith Edwards and yeah, me and Keith have done something. I love that dude. So, you know, we're all about it. You people want every Wednesday. Every Wednesday. I don't know if I can commit to everyone's. I'm gonna do my best. I'm doing enough as it is. Okay. I don't know. I'm trying. I'm grinding. This is the chat. I've been waiting for a long time. Oh, paid member of both Cool. I appreciate that. Why is Lindsay so rabid? Okay, well, you pull up the James Carville clip. I'm going to tell you Lindsay story. We'll do story time about Lindsay, and then I'll let you go. Lindsay. Like, nobody hated Lindsay more. Excuse me? Nobody hated Trump more than Lindsay. Like, my TVS was matched by nobody. So Lindsay's. Me and Lindsay got to hang out a lot for, like, two months at the end of the job campaign. See, endorsed Jeb after he dropped out, and he traveled with us and say what you want about that dude, he's a good Hank. And so we liked having in the car because we were losing. We're getting our ass beat, and we wanted Jeb. It was, like, fun to have him around. With Jeb, we had this thing where one week in New Hampshire with Eric Cantor, because I don't know him, he's a congressman from Virginia who's like, such a wet blanket. And he was traveling around with us for a day, and, like, he was showing Jeb the bad polls, like, asking him why he's losing all the time. And I'm sitting in the car, I'm like, what? What? Do you have any eq? And I'm calling the campaign manager, like, get Eric Cantor the. Out of this car. Like, I. I don't. Me and Jeb, like, I'm. I'm trying to keep his head clear and his eye on the ball. Like, if we're gonna have any chance, we gotta do on New Hampshire. So, anyway, Lindsay came the next day, and he, like, regaled us with hilarious stories about midgets and no offense to little people and other, you know, southern South Carolina stuff. He was funny. And him and Jeff would have scotch at the end of the night. It was good. It was a good hang. So we hung out for, like, two months. He'd get drunk and he'd call me in the middle of the night. Like, ideas about how we could beat Trump. And he would, like, sometimes call me and just rant about how much he hated Trump. I know what you guys thinking. We're up there and, like, one night we were in New York together. So we were in New Hampshire. Then we flew New York to do tv. And we're all at the same hotel. And, like. Like, Lindsay and. And I, like, was trying not to drink that much during the campaign because I had to. Fucking busy. I had a real job. And. And Jim was drinking scotch and, like, Lindsay is pounding chardonnay. Like, Jeb sneaks away because he's got to go to bed. Because he has a real job, and Lindsay wants to keep drinking with me. And he, like, sat there the whole time just ranting, ranting about how much he hated Trump, calling him every name in the book. And then he didn't hit on me. So take from that what you will, but why is he so angry? I think it's that, like, he's got a. He's got a lot of conflicting things in his head he's got to deal with. So maybe that's why Lindsay's so rabid. Oh, yeah. Sorry, Broadway. Sometimes I only have so many stories, man. And, like, some people are new. They get to hear the new stories. Okay, do we have the Carville clip? Should we end with Carville? Who's got. There it is there. Oh, wait. Katie. What up, Katie? Katie's eight months pregnant, and her husband says she watches so much. Tim Miller. The baby is gonna think I'm the father. Tim's a good name. It's a little bit out of fashion now. Something to think about. Or if it's a girl. My mother's name is Treece. Not a lot of people name their girls Treece anymore. And I think she'd send a present. So something to think about if you want to name your kid Treece. All right. Should we close it with Carvel? Do you have anything else? Anybody else? Any other super chats? Other chats? Anything? Anybody I want to get to, or are we just gonna go out with a TDS rant? I can't wait to hang out with James on Saturday and share this with all you guys. I'm not seeing anything else that's catching my eyes. I appreciate you guys for hanging with me. It's been pretty good, I think. I don't know. Broadway wants me to tell my husband thanks. I will, though. He's fine. Reen's basketball's not on down there, so it's probably a win for him. Oh, question, Tim. Didn't happen. All right, we're gonna get the TDS ran. Here we go. I gotta pull it up here. I gotta figure out how to do this. Okay, calm down, James. Calm down, James. Let's watch this together. It is so, so satisfying. You're right. I got Trump syndrome. I hate the motherfucker. And you know what? I don't want to get rid of it. I don't want to get better. I want to get worse. I want to hate him more. I pray to God in heaven, God reign the righteous reign of Trump Derangement syndrome. Pray for me, Lord. I'm your Vessel on this earth. Pray for the people that listen to this. We want more. We want to hate the son of a bitch so much that we can't see straight. And, oh, my God, James, you can't give him credit for getting rid of the penny. Let me tell it to you straight. Oh, you go fucking faint. Like saying Mussolini made the trains run on time. So I'm supposed to be here. This guy's been convicted of 34 felonies. Is it by anybody's estimation, is compliant to Putin and dictators. He's invading people when they're authorization. He's got the most incompetent buffoons. So I'm supposed to give him credit for firing Christy Noem when he actually hired Christy? No. Oh, and he hired Pam Bondi. What's this tin horn drugstore cowboy we got for a secretary of war? This. Don't even get me started. What about illustrious labor? The labor secretary is understated. Oh, I can't forget toilet seat Bobby Kennedy. I mean, you have somebody in your cabinet that snorted cocaine off of a toilet seat, and Dan Abrams is telling me I got Trump drink syndrome. Oh, my God, I love that dude. All right, everybody, the comments. We're gonna get figured out. I'm gonna figure out how to read the super chats next time. So if you're on YouTube and you're super chatting, you're paying. I appreciate that, but I missed some of them. I gotta figure that out. Sub stackers. We're gonna get your comments figured out next time. I got some of them, but I missed some of them. I'm learning. All right, just kind of let me grade me on a curve on this one, but let me know what you thought about it. Whether this is going to be a fun thing to do. What could make it more fun? What can make it more valuable? I appreciate all the feedback. Shout out to the band. Lifeguard. His shirt I'm wearing. Go check them out. There's some young kids I saw play down the street a couple months ago and go nuggets and fuck you, Donald Trump. I got Trump for Angel syndrome, too. And I want it to rain down on me, right? Oh, I also need the soundboard like Hassan, you know, I need to play Lady Gaga. Rain on me after that. Like, that would have been a nice, nice outro, but maybe I would get tagged on YouTube. We got to figure it out. We're gonna figure out all the particulars. Hope you enjoyed it. 1 hour, 39 minutes, 39 seconds. That's pretty fucking good. If you ask me. I'll see you guys later.