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They Tried to Kill Crypto — Now They Need It | BNY & Ripple Change Everything
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Jeff
Welcome to on the Chain. They tried to kill crypto and guess what happened? Well, there's so many things going on here. They tried to kill it and now they actually need it. Who are we talking about? We're talking about the banks. One of the oldest banks in the world, BNY Melon just moved deposits. Guess what? On chain tokenized cash is live. Institutional rails are locking in and Ripple is sitting right at the center of this shift.
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Chip
And at the same time, Ripple just secured full UK regulatory approval. This is big news. While the same banks that debanked crypto are now lobbying to shut down stablecoin competition. That tells you almost everything you need to know about who's actually in full blown panic mode.
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Jeff
Panic mode. And this isn't happening in a vacuum. Geopolitics is snapping into place. Greenland, that little ice country is back on the strategic map. What is all that about? What's all the noise about? And why is Denmark Mark have their stranglehold on that, on that region. Iran is literally burning moss in open revolt and power blocks are hardening in real time. It's amazing to see this happening.
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Chip
Yeah, it really is in money, when you think about money, the energy, the territories, everything that's coming into free speech. It's converging. And when banking goes on, chain and empires start losing the narrative control. Things move really fast, Jeff, man.
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Jeff
And this isn't chaos. It's a sip system that's actually flipping in real time. Maybe it is chaos. I. I don't know.
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Chip
Controlled chaos maybe.
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Jeff
Yeah, controlled chaos.
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Chip
Well, anyway, you know what we do here, we like to dive head first into the shallow end for maximum impact. Let's go ahead and let's break it down. Let's go. Welcome, everybody, to on the Chain. It is a new year. Brand new year. 2026. Is this the year? Of course it's the year. Every year is the year. This is certainly the year. The year everything goes parabolic. We all end up becoming rich as hell and we just say, I don't know, let's just fade into the. Fade into the ether, as they say. So we'll do that. Welcome everybody, for being here. Good to see everybody. Let's see. Greetings from Belgium in early. How you doing? It's afternoon there, so you don't have to have that late night. Get Art on the lake. What's going on, Art? I had a nice chat with Art yesterday. It was a good chat. We had a nice little chat. We'll be talking more about that as weeks come. Gonna be doing it Gonna be doing. Yeah, a little happy and I don't know, gonna be doing a good experiment coming up that I'm gonna be working on with art here. So it's good. I'll keep you guys apprised of what's going on there. Yeah. And so a lot of stuff to break down today, Jeff. It's just funny. It's like, you know, I remember back like when we first started doing the show, you know, every once in a while you'd have like interesting news. There would be something that you go like, oh, that's kind of interesting or that. But now there's so much going on. It's like when we do show prep, we have to figure out like what do we choose? Because there's so much going on. Like if we really wanted to cover the things we need to cover be like a four hour show, there's like no way we can do a four hour show. But I just look at all the things. So we kind of break it down into like little manage chunks I guess and, and kind of see, you know, what's, what's available there.
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Jeff
What's up for today?
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Chip
Yeah, what's, what's on, what's on the, what's on the list for today. So we're going to start a little bit of crypto news and we'll go ahead and dive into some geopolitics. I wanted to pull up a video here and you know, I guess the big news here kind of two things, what we teased in the, in the open, which is the, the, the FCA approval. This is huge for Ripple. They've really been crushing it. If you look back over the year, Brad Gar put out a post on x2 that kind of sums it up. But it's been probably, you look at four or five years when that, when that lawsuit was going on now against the sec and you look at what they've done. I mean they've obviously been doing a lot of planning and strategia rising Jeff, and figuring out like strategizing so but in the, in the coming weeks about what they're going to do, but they just been absolutely just crushing it as a fintech company. They will become, and probably you know, my, my, you know, predictions they are, will be the premier fintech company out there though. And people are like, oh, they're gonna go public, dude. They don't need to go public. You gotta open yourself up. The regulatory control. Jeff and I have said this many times and the, and the big, the big fanboys, the moon boys have been telling you that they're gonna go. They don't need to. Why would you sign up to be. To have your, you know, your business scrutinized every quarter when you do a release and on an annual basis when you put stuff out? No, they're. They're moving fine. They're moving at light speed. They're going to have so much. You watch the next. I think they're valued right now at 40 billion. I wouldn't be surprised if that jumps to 80 to $120 billion because of these new acquisitions. But go ahead and take that, Jeff.
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Jeff
So, man, this is coming straight from. From Ripple. The future of regulated digital asset payments in the UK has finally arrived. Actually, the rope just has arrived. RIP was officially secured approval of both an EMI license and crypto asset registration from the UK's FCA. Who better to explain what it means than our UK and Europe Managing Director? Cradock.
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Chip
Cassie Cradock.
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Jeff
Yeah, Cassie Cradock. And this is all coming from Ripple, not our Managing director. For those listening, this is a statement coming, coming out of the managing of the news.
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Chip
We are the Managing director. So here you go. Here's Cassie, Casey Craddock right here talking a little bit about this. Let's go.
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Cassie Cradock
Reputation for financial integrity and innovation makes it an ideal market for responsible digital asset adoption. And today I'm proud to announce a major regulatory milestone. Ripple has secured its electronic money institution licence and crypto asset registration from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority. This is a major step forward for regulated digital asset here in the United Kingdom. And crucially, this license enables us to bring our flagship offerings, including Ripple Payments, directly to UK institutions. The UK is already one of Ripple's largest office hubs outside the us, a clear reflection of our continued continuous investment in the region's talent and infrastructure. And now with this license, we can lean into the market even more.
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Chip
Big news, you know, and the regulatory body there, the fca, it's funny, you would think that they could have brought their Ripple payments to financial institutions there, but it's just been approved, right? So it must have been in the works for some time. But you just look at all the banking licenses they attained in the Southern district of New York and a lot of the money transmitter licenses, but you know, this, you're. It's going to be hard to compete with Ripple on some level when they have all the pieces put together, and especially with all the acquisitions. You're not going to be able to bring that kind of firepower. You'll have one niche, one little part of it, but you're not going to have the whole big picture. And I think that's what makes this incredibly, you know, really unique. And I'll throw this up here too. Here's the official sort of presser that went out about the the payments and Ripple payments. A license end to end cross border payment solution manages the flow of funds on behalf of its customers, connecting them to global payout partners to deliver fast, transparent and reliable payout capabilities around the world. Through its license solution, Ripple handles the underlying blockchain and operational complexity so businesses can launch digital payment services quickly without ever having to take on the cost or burden of infrastructure management. That's huge. Right? So they get up and running pretty quick. Finance is undergoing a fundamental shift and we are rapidly moving beyond pilots in a new era where blockchain and digital assets serve as critical infrastructure for the global economy, said Monica Long, president at Ripple. Went on to say that extending Ripple licensing, portfolio and payment solution is more about than just efficiency. It's about unlocking trillions in dormant capital and then realizing a world we're in a world where value moves instantaneously. Sounds like a trailer right there. We are thrilled to see the UK embracing compliant infrastructure necessary to make vision a reality. So Jeff, that's, it's pretty big news again. The regulatory compliance that they've been seeing throughout is moving at a breakneck pace really and allowing them to really do business. Now what's strategic and interesting about the uk? Well that's the financial banking center. You could say New York, but it really is London, the city of London to be exact. And that's where all the banking pretty much happens. You know, if you remember the big Brexit thing, the big to do was well, what about the banking? You know, most of the banking in Europe is done in, in, in, in, in and around London. That's the sort of the hub if you look at that part of the region of the world. So now all those big banks have a strategic advantage and being able to leverage product like Ripple payments.
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Jeff
Yeah, which is, it's, it's interesting from a geopolitical perspective seeing how England through London is really attempting to manipulate a lot of the geopolitics, especially when it comes to some of the things that the US has been doing. And when you start drawing some of the, the dots or lines and connecting the dots, many of the instances of chaos that we see unfold in the US over the years as some of the fingerprints of England on it. And so, you know, we can Very clearly. See and one of the things that we talk about a lot is that as the crypto, as this new financial system comes into play, the power brokers aren't going to be so quick to let their power go. And that also goes within the geopolitics. So England as a has been empire that obviously had a large swath of land that it controlled at one point, now kind of relegated back to its own island. But at the same point, you know, they've attempted over the years to stay relevant from a geopolitical perspective, a power broker perspective, and they see their power slipping not just internally when with the onslaught of the illegal immigration that we're seeing turn the UK upside down, but also from a banking financial perspective. Over the years, the US and Chip, you brought up, you know, thinking about New York as kind of an epicenter, but the UK has done a very good job of trying to maintain their power, whether it's through political manipulation or whatever it's been. But now as we have Trump and the MAGA movement and we have this massive movement right now that is there to cut those ties of control and switch to a more America centric, individualized control versus globalized control and the global elite and all those manipulators on the bigger stage, the UK's not happy about it. The UK's got a lot of issues that are going on internally, while at the same time we're seeing how crypto unfolds. We still have traditional finance to deal with. All of the, the normal Main street is still in play and so England is still in play to that point. But I just thought it was kind of an important point to really look at the shift and the narrative that's taken place with London, like you said, still as a banking epicenter, especially regionally. But where does that go from this point and are they. And it's interesting to see as they allow these licensing to take root because again, they're looking and seeking a power control mechanism. Now when, when we had a previous administration in, in play here in the US that was attempting to crush crypto and destroy it in the US in order to maintain the power broker status, we still saw over in the uk, because we've talked about the FCA many times and this movement towards adoption of crypto and they've been at it for a number of years. This isn't like all of a sudden, it just happened overnight and they were seeking to help really solidify their power position and leadership position within the crypto space. I don't know if it's too little too late, I don't, you know, on either side. It's going to be interesting to say how it all unfolds. But we see some bigger pieces that we'll talk about later that are coming into play. Iran being one of them, Greenland being another one of them. Venezuela was a big power play. There's things that are happening regionally and globally that are really important for people to observe and understand, to pay attention to because they, all these pieces fit together and, and we'll unpack a little bit more.
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Chip
Yeah, Jeff. And it's funny because we was having a conversation with somebody out there. I said I think we're the only real show that does the crypto kind of like merges crypto. Someone said they knew of one other show that brought a lot of the politics in, but I think, but I wasn't aware of it and I couldn't find, find it. But you know, we think about merging the two people. Like well, that seems like an odd pairing but they're, but as Jeff just said, they're so well connected. If you understand what's happening at the geopolitic level, you kind of understand the, the need for decentralization, the need for crypto, you know, why stable coins are changing the face, why banks have been forced almost not necessarily at gunpoint, but to adopt stable coins whether they like it or not. And that's largely what you know, main theme of the show is about and what Ripple's doing in that space and, and especially with one of the biggest banks here in the US But I just wanted to show you a couple more things. So Monica Long talked about, you know, she had commented saying pump to serve UK businesses digital asset needs now on a regulated E to E infrastructure. She put two explanation points. She's super excited. That means that once UK business is on board with us, we can then handle moving, trading on, off ramping digital assets for them around the world. And this is like the important sentence right there is like what they could, what they can now offer that they couldn't offer before. But they have this vast sort of like this go to sort of like storehouse. You think about they might onboard them for Ripple payments, they might onboard them for custody, they might. But they've got all these services and they pretty much have a skunk works there. So everything sort of like under one roof which makes it super exciting. Also we had Stu Alderotti who, who's the, the console over there for Ripple said yet another major step forward. Proud to announce the approval of our EMI license and crypto asset registration from the UK's FCA. This is a positive signal for the UK's digital asset industry and it really underscores Ripple's global licensing momentum. And that's key right there. Says we're proud to meet the FCA's rigorous standards and look forward to scaling Ripple payments for UK financial institutions. So I would imagine that over the course of 2026 we're going to hear a slew of announcements about partnerships that are going on with some of the, you know, the, the, I would say headquarters there in London. You're going to start seeing now a lot more things open up and you know, they probably have already. There may be some NDAs in place where they won't announce it, but I still expect there's going to be some that actually will get some notoriety and notice. Ripple also put this one out. Jeff, go ahead and take this one here, man.
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Jeff
Ripple's just hammering the news. That's crazy. Today our partners at BNY Global, that's Bank of, that's bank of New York. That's Melon, right? Bank, yeah. Melon, yeah, yeah. So launch tokenized deposit services for institutional clients. Again the focus here with Ripple. And not to confuse the fact that too many people are still thinking that Ripple is somehow focused on, on main street retail. They are not, they're focused on institutions. But so here the, the big play. BNY Global launch tokenized deposit services for institutional clients. Bringing the promise of digital assets directly into the banking system. With Ripple prime as an early adopter, we're proud to expand our long standing strategic collaboration with bny, the primary reserve custodian of the RL USD. And again this is a big play for the stablecoin. We're not talking about xrp, the digital asset, but we are talking about their stablecoin that is built on the xrpl. So that's important to note. BNY also puts out a, a release here breaking breaking news. BNY expands digital cash capabilities by enabling the on chain mirrored representation of client deposit balances on its digital assets platform via tokenized deposits. Now this is the big news. This is institutional that will also trickle down into retail. This is really important to understand the big change and, and these changes don't happen overnight. Obviously this has been in play for a while but for BNY to expand on the digital side, but they want to have, and now they have a, a mirroring representation so they haven't flipped completely but eventually this is like stage by stage by stage. So Here on chain mirrored representation of client deposit balances on its digital asset platform via tokenized deposits. This Launch helps advance BNY's ambition to support programmable on on chain cash for institutional market infrastructure. We have to underscore that programmable and understand how a bank banking environment could better utilize programmable digital asset versus government. Utilizing programmable digital asset to the detriment of the citizen. The bank using programmable digital asset to the benefit potential benefit of the holders to help leverage things like smart contracts, interest and, and maybe beyond. We still need to really uh, you know, monitor that and watch that this again this is more we're looking at institutional market infrastructure and it goes on in collaboration with early participants. We continue to connect the traditional and digital financial ecosystem to help our clients unlock new capabilities. This is really big news because this is BNY at the forefront looking forward, looking for, you know, big plays from a financial technology perspective and being able to leverage the future and the advancements of the future of digital asset and they re they represent it as digital cash. I think you know, better terminology should be stablecoin. We have to avoid certain terminology. If we go consistent with digital cash, governments adopt digital cash. If we, if we're okay with programmability, governments will then adopt programmability and it becomes very dangerous. So we have to be very cognizant of terminologies that's used. Hopefully somebody steps in and corrects BNY and say no, it's not really digital cash. Let's focus on the tokenization of the stable coin. But let's draw a clear distinction between digital cash and the stablecoin technologies. Not the same. And let's also hopefully someone steps in and also has an address on programmability and get more of a clear definition of what that programmability truly means. And distinction between banking, financial institution utilizing programmability for their own development and the development of their institutional clients versus government digital cash using programmability as a punitive measure against the citizens that hold that digital asset or digital cash. So we have to be very careful. Right now is the time to be cognizant. If you lose the, the war on terminology all breaks loose and we have to be very careful about that.
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Chip
Exactly. Brad Garlinghouse. Finally we hear from him in the New Year. He says happy belated New Year. I just hit send on Ripple's quarterly shareholder email to say that 2025 and Q4 were successful for Ripple feels like saying Tom Brady was just a great quarterback back. And the hashtag that go Greatest of all time agree with that 100. Our two major acquisitions, Ripple prime and G Treasury, greatly accelerate and expand our ability to deliver on our vision, enabling the Internet of value. XRP has been and will continue to be the heartbeat of that vision with truly the most comprehensive licensing portfolio. And now today the UK's EMI license added. We're poised to make 2026 even more consequential. Building and using crypto infrastructure, updating our global financial plumbing and rethinking legacy systems. None of that happens overnight. At Ripple we're going to be continuing to take the long view of what crypto based assets like XRP and RLUSD can do rather than chasing cycles and hype. Bring and this is, that's key. Right. So they're not talking about the hype. They got the long term vision, they got the infrastructure to set it up. He goes on to say bring on 2026. No, he didn't say, I said that we're firing. And also wouldn't it be funny if he did though? Although go back in there and hack this tweet. So it's, you know, so it said bring on 2026. We're firing in all cylinders. It's happening. And the funny thing is I love that one where they superimpose Brad's picture on that where he's at the digital controls. Maybe we'll have to pull that up just for fun because I, I never get sick of watching that. Of course it's, it's not him on there but it's always fun to sort of see. Also Reese Merrick, also from Ripple, he runs over there I think. Is he a mia? Where is he at? Where is he? The. Yeah, he's. Yeah. Managing. Yeah. Middle east and Africa. So there he is. So he said it's hard to describe the energy of ripple right now. 2025 was the foundational but the acquisitions made and now the UK EMI license in the mix. 26 is looking like a game changer. Well, in a space often distracted by hype cycles, these are the second side of that you're not going with. They're not following the crowd. They're leading, they're leading. They're not trying to follow what the hype cycles are. And I love that you got two people kind of putting that out there from Ripple. I love working for a company that takes the long view. We're building infrastructure that actually matters for the future of finance. And who was it? It was Henry Ford that said if we asked people what they wanted they would have said faster horses Right. So it goes. It always comes down to this.
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Jeff
You have to have the vision, first and foremost.
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Chip
It's always vision of what that looks like and what, what you know, just looking. Brad needs to update his metaphors. Plumbing is kind of a shifty way to talk about.
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Jeff
I don't know, I like, I like the terminology. Plumbing. I think it's a very easy way.
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Chip
I get what you're saying about the plumbing. It's. It is an old metaphor. But what's the new metaphor? Like, what would you. That would be readily adoptable? I don't know if there is plumbing.
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Jeff
Is Main Street Chip. Main Street.
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Chip
Yeah. I don't really know what that would be. Meta law man here, who you guys know, big in the community, really phenomenal. You know, he's also an attorney, but he, he's also pro John Deaton and I've got to know him a little bit. We kind of always kind of comment back and forth that we've deemed each other a little bit here and there. The same big banks that debanked us are now telling senators that it's pro consumer and it wants to outlaw the payment of rewards on stable coins. Any senator who falls for this anti competitive ploy does not deserve support in the community. The crypto community. We won't get fooled again. No, no, no. I threw an extra no on there, but he's absolutely 100 spot on. The same banks that were telling us, you know, the debanking and everything else, because you were in crypto and you're purchasing crypto. We know that famously Garlinghouse talked about it. But these exact same folks that were talking, you know, these getting debanked. You know, we got Trump debanked. So family got the bank because they didn't agree with something. A lot of it came down to crypto for the crypto community. A lot of big influencers, a lot of people debanked. Now the same people are starting to say like, oh no, you can't or earn any kind of yield on stable coins. Well, geez, Jeff, why would they be saying that? What is that a threat to? It's a threat to the very existence is what it is. So basically they're taking. Because you know what happens to a bank, Jeff? You basically, you can get interest and it's about 1.4%. Sometimes it's like 0.5 interest. Now with stable coins, imagine you're earning 5 to 7% interest. Oh, that means you pull the money out of the bank and put it on chain. Right. So that's what they're really worried about instead of adopting it. But what does that do? If they adopt it takes out their profits. They're going to have to rethink how they make profits. Either they get in line, they fall in line, or you go to Congress. You try to get your boys in Congress, basically the lefties and the Rhinos, those are Republican in name only to kind of go along with your ploy and you promise them a lot of money for the reelection campaign. Well, I mean, we might accidentally put a couple million dollars in your, in your campaign. You got the lobbyists and everybody else jumping in there.
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Jeff
That's it. Ed Oficus here is saying, and I think it's kind of a poignant comment right at this moment, that's the dumb Democrats that tried to kill crypto. They didn't want the average Joe to get rich. They fo fafo real quick, let's go, let's go. And, and it's a great point because as we monitor that and we see what the senators were doing and you see, you know, what's her name over there that John Deaton was running against Elizabeth Warren, everything she did to try to undermine the crypto industry along with Gary Genzer and, and they work together, they orchestrated together, and she tried to use her influence. And here's somebody that benefited monetarily from the traditional manipulative system. Why is it that Democrat and rhinos, Congress, Representatives and senators get rich beyond belief within a short period of time? Where's the money coming from? How are they getting so wealthy? How are they investing what? You know, there's so many big questions. Why. Why is there $600 billion in fraud that is unaccounted for? Why is California missing six or seven billion dollars? Why are all the states missing billions of dollars? Why are the congressional representatives and the senators getting wealthy? You know, that's the big question. And now we need, we need transparency with transparency. They don't want transparent, they want chaos. Chaos allows for corruption and fraud hands down across the board. Go to your state government and wherever or your city government or your, your. Trying to think of the.
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Chip
I don't know, I can't anything about.
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Jeff
Local municipalities or think about the local municipalities. But the supervisor of election. If you go to your supervisor of election office and you see chaos like we had here in Broward county under Brenda Snipes, oh, it's all chaos. So it's so confusing and difficult. You guys don't understand. That's fraud and corruption. As soon as you hear those types of Words you don't understand. Let me be clear. There's chaos, there's controlled chaos, because they want it to be that way. And with that controlled chaos, Minnesota, perfect example, how much money went from the state taxpayers into the hands of the Somali terrorists that ended up over in Somalia funding terrorism, or all of the Somali illegals that are in Minnesota. Think about one state, billions of dollars, billions of dollars of tax funds going from the paying citizen to the illegal. And it goes through fraud and corruption. And, and the, the politicians know about it, right? So we have to understand that since they know about it, the senators know about it, the congressional representatives know about it, the local elected officials know about it, they turn a blind eye to it. And the point is that it's all about control, financial control, them getting wealthy. And then when you see how the system gets manipulated. Why is it that Elizabeth Warren wanted to crush crypto because she was tied in to traditional banking. But it's not just the banks, because there's power players beyond the banking institution. They're part of the, the cog. There's multiple parts of the cog. They're one part of the cog. There's other power brokers that want to maintain power control. They want to maintain the flow of money, they want to maintain the flow of payoffs to these congressional representatives. And once you plug in transparency to this whole equation, the. Their whole system breaks. And what is Trump doing? He's breaking their system from the ground up. He's going ground up, bottom up, top down, and he's destroying their system. They don't know what's H. They don't know how to, how to defeat it, which is why Greenland is in play also, because Greenland is a very critical component to their power stranglehold. And that funding and money that's coming in from China, from Russia and from elsewhere. And now we have to look at the power brokers on the street. Who is funding the Islamic uprising in the United States? Who's funding the protesters that are on the streets right now that are trying to defeat ice? Who are all of. Where's the money coming from? How. Where's the organization coming from? It's big business. It's big power. And we have to connect all these dots. We have to dismantle their infrastructure. And, and we'll talk more about that in a little bit. But I figured this is a good rant and you're lining up with a lot of stuff on green.
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Chip
It's a perfect rant. I mean, Jeff, and think about it. I mean, The I think what most people are missing, they're looking at surface. Trump's mean because you said this. Most people understand. I would imagine most people, if you're not deep diving and seeing what's going on. If you don't want to look at what was released in early December about the strategy of the United States, if you don't think the UK was put on notice. They were put on notice. They're not happy. They've been running a lot of interference behind the scenes and Trump just blocked them. You want to, I don't want to use the word plumbing but basically like Jeff, like you said, he is disabling everything. And if you want to know why the tariffs are such a big deal because you no longer need the Federal Reserve to rely on the borrow money from. And then when the Federal Reserve is a scam organization, the whole idea of Trump, he's cut, he's cut the, the trade deficit over more than in half by 60% in just a few months. Like most of the tariffs went into play between July and September. So that's going to get neutralized, going to be pro. It's going to be plus next year. And if you think about it, this is where if you get rid of the fraud. We've talked about this before. Fraud is what, one third of the money that's collected. If you get rid of the fraud, you back it up with tariffs. You could really take. Anybody making $500,000 or less doesn't pay federal income tax anymore. And you couple that with what's happening in Florida by on the ballot in November. We have on the ballot is going to be you're going to get the vote for if you're owner occupant, zero property tax. And people go like what will you do? What's it? And I kept, I heard this argument for somebody here recently. I was in a, you know, just chatting with somebody. They go, I don't know what you're gonna do. How do you come with the shortfall? I go, well, geez, I don't know. How do you come up with the shortfall in your household? What happens when you don't have the money? You gotta figure it out. With AI coming into play, you don't need these minions on the ground. What does government do? It expands. It always expands. Well now it's getting chopped in half. You're gonna have to figure the crap out. Businesses are still going to pay. People that have like rental properties are still going to pay. You're just going to have to do More with less. You're going to have to cut staff. You're going to have to figure it out. With AI coming into play, you can cut 60% off there. You're not going to miss it. So these people running around, wondering what they're going to do. You're going to learn how to live within the budget you're given. The same way you and I do. That with the money's not there. We got to cut something. We don't say, well, we'll just spend money on our credit cards. Sometimes you do that to try to make ends meet, but you're going to have to figure it out. But I wanted to go through with this.
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Jeff
Yeah, Chip, before we get into that, just bring this up so we can get into that. But Laurel brought up, you know, a good, you know, point here, said, if the world will be multipolar, how will it be divided into the. Into the different parts? Is it three parts or four parts? Is it Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, the East?
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Chip
Yes.
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Jeff
How does that get broken down? For right now, there's one power broker. There's one hegemonic power in the world, and that's the US There used to be. We used to be, you know, multi. There used to be the Soviet union and the U.S. now it's just the U.S. is the major power broker. My opinion on how this all breaks down is that the US Remains as. As a major power broker up. But yes, there are. There have to be separate blocks. We have to see the rise of financial growth within Africa before it can become a power broker. It has the resources, it has some potential. I think we have to deal with, with the cultural issues within Africa, meaning the tribal issues within Africa. If you go through, like, regionally, Africa is the one biggest challenge because most of the borders within Africa are artificial borders that were drawn by the colonial powers, which is why you still have feud, feudal tribal warfare going on within many of the African countries, and they can't get a handle on it. Regionally, Africa is going to maintain to be a challenge. I don't see them being a power broker in the near future. I think Europe is suffering. There's not going to be an eu. The EU needs to be dismantled, and we need to see individualized countries rise back up to their own sovereign power. So forget about the EU as a block that has to be dismantled. It's really dangerous right now. You don't need an eu. You don't need group thought. You need individualized sovereign thought from each individual country. So break up The EU break up the, the, the Euro. The Euro doesn't need to exist any longer. Go back to sovereignty Caribbean. I don't know how that factors in, but yes, I think the America block has to be very strong. There's a lot that has to happen regionally within the Americas from the US As a central point. Uh, we see Venezuela as much in play. We have to get rid of outside influence from China and Russia in our own hemisphere. We have to be able to see South America grow. But in order to do that, we have to get rid of socialism and communism at our southern border. We have to deal with Mexico and Canada's got to get in and either we're going to close our border with Canada or they got to get in line and they got to shut their border to outside influence because that country is already danger and it's in threat. It's a definite threat. Based on the illegal immigration that flooded into Canada. They have a small population of 30 million. It's very, very easy to flip that country and flip that narrative. There's dangerous political thought up in Canada, how they want to manipulate their, their people. But I believe that Canada, the Canadians at large want to get in line. They want freedom as well. So that has to be part of the America bloc. But time will tell, you know, do we close the border? I'd rather see development with Mexico than with Canada at this point, because I think in Mexico there's, it's a much larger population. It's very significant. There's a lot of growth potential down in Mexico. Canada is going to take some time to get on board because they still support, they still believe in, in the queen. So if they're going to support a monarch in Canada when they were supposed to have fled the monarch, and there's parts of Canada, whether it's Quebec that might secede or Alberta that might succeed, you know. Yeah. So Alberta, you know, more sided with us. Quebec separating from, from Canada more, as you know. Does that ever happen? I don't know. But Alberta for sure, we already see some movement in that direction where they're so separate from the rest of the country. But again, think about a country the size of Canada with 30 million people. That's the same population with California or Florida pretty much. And we have what, 24, 25 million people in Florida. We. And most of the Canadians come here in the winter. So then, then not anymore. But there's so much that's such a big conversation.
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Chip
If you want to bring in a stooge, you bring in Mark Carney, he destroyed the banking up there and, and he was, you know, in charge of the banking over there in the uk. This guy is morally a deficit to almost anything he touches. He's a stooge. He's a guy that's responsible for blowing stuff up. Alberta will secede. They've already talked to the United States. United States. They will be said, they will recognize them as a sovereign country. They will be a trade partner. 100 so you're going to see it's going to come to a vote. And the good thing is that the Canadian constitution allows for that. You'll see Saskatchewan right behind. You'll see two or three provinces Canada is going to exceed is going to basically will not exist in this present form. And if Alberta goes, you're going to see other provinces behind it. They are going to be the strong block and all you're going to be left with is Ontario and Quebec. And Ontario and Quebec are already pretty much lost to the leftists. And at some point because of their immigration, because of Jeff's talking about, about flipping it. I mean, ultimately I think what's going to happen is Canada doesn't realize that this is, these are the end days for Canada. That's just it. You don't realize that they're like business as usual, pretend. No man, it's over. And it's going to be over in a really catastrophic way. And don't say that you weren't warned when, when Trump said the 51st state, he was basically forecast, you know, foreshadowing that Canada is going to fall. And you can either get in line as a sovereign country and be a trade partner. And what Mark Carney discovered was we don't need the U.S. so they shut down the U.S. they put all the bourbon and whiskey that people in Canada wanted, they blocked it all because the, you got to understand that the liquor is state run. So boom, they put it behind that tons, they have tons of inventory. They just locked it all up. The Liquor Control Board in Canada locked it all up. And so one of the things that Carney thought was he was going to go to Europe and become a trade partner. And they told him to go pound sand. Then he went over to Asia, he went to Japan, he went on a mission to find him. And you know what? Everybody told him that go F yourself. So now poor Omar Carney, the destructor of destructors of everything, is in a really precarious position of just overseeing the downfall of Canada. And I just hope that the people, the good people In Canada. I know Canada. Canadians, well, they're amazing people. They are great humans. And unfortunately, they got to put up with, again, another government that doesn't give a crap about them. And we'll. We'll find them dispensable any moment. I used to work for a Canadian company, spent a lot of time with Canadians, Grew up across the Canadian border. A lot of my family, you know, immigrated from Canada. Canada. The people don't. Don't just. It's not the people I'm rallying, you know, having this rant about. It's the government. The government does not serve the people. The people are going to say, go screw you f around. Find out. That's what's going to happen. So I think that's kind of where we're at. Yeah, but at the half minute of the hour, I wanted to do two things here. I wanted to, first of all, talk about Badass Yeti's coffee. There it is right there. There you go. Badass Yeti's coffee right there, baby. That's what I'm drinking in here, by the way. Fresh ground. Just ground it up.
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Jeff
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Chip
This is a very fresh bag of it. And Jeff, what I got, I love when you get it because you can see all the oils dancing on top of it. And I was just crunching the. The. When you have fresh ground cough, you know, fresh beans, my God, when they've just been roasted, they're not all dried out. They're kind of wet. There's some oils on top of that. You put it in your mouth and it's delicious. It's not like you break a tooth on it. It just crumbles really easily. That's the difference with roast to order versus other. Coffee's been sitting on the shelf six months to 12 months, and it's got that dried out, barely brown. It's like a light tan color. And it shrinks, too. It gets really small. That's what you're used to grinding up and drinking. This is a different breed. Go to Badass Yeti's coffee. You want to roll the promo, Jeff? There. Badass Yeti's Coffee. But it's. What's badassery? I would say a badassery, but. But this is the yeti version right here. Badassery right there, baby.
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Jeff
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Chip
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Badass Yeti Vocalist
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Cassie Cradock
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Chip
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Cassie Cradock
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Chip
Bang on my head here. Jeff freaking love that tune, man. I wanted to comment on this. I know more monkey business put out there. Of course we know about this, man. How we. How do we not know about this? You're talking about the guys that do massive amount of show prep. Of course we know about this. Jay Cleaver has a lawsuit against Zach Rector. Now, Zach Rector came out in a video about 30 minutes long. He talked about Jake. You know, I'm not gonna speculate on this because I have not read it yet. I'm not read what the lawsuit is, but basically what Zach Rector did. And by the way, I got to hang out with Zach a little bit at Swell. He's a good. He's a good dude. I did see Jake there as well, but I didn't really have. I didn't, you know, maybe some minor, you know, bumpings into with Jay Claver. And I will just say this. You know, I'm not. Again, hard to speculate, but what I've known about that lawsuit for a long time. I knew about it since its inception. I knew about what he was talking about, the lawsuit. He read the lawsuit. He read about stuff like that. Zach Rector came from a standpoint of, hey, this is. I was going to go into business with these guys. Here's why I didn't. Now he did it publicly. Okay. So he. He, you know, made a whole video about it, and he talked about the price point. But, you know, Zach's early days, he talked about, you know, giant price points, too. But you saw him evolve into somebody who was more grounded over time. You know, you got to give him a little bit of, you know, sort of leeway, only because he's, you know, he's pretty young, but he kind of. He has grown. He used to be a price guy and price predictions. So he was going after, you know, Jake for making his price description, you know, saying $100 by the end of the year. And look, I mean, everybody's free to make these. These, you know, predictions. We don't really do them here. We'd use them as pipe on our. On our thumbnails. We don't really leverage that too much. Jeff and I will say, can I go to $8? Of course it can. When's it gonna happen? I don't know. If we had a crystal ball, we would all be, you know, we'd all be in a better place in life. But, you know, he was kind of getting on him for price predictions. He used to make a lot of price predictions. What most people missed that was in that video was some of the allegations that were. That. I wouldn't even call them allegations that were proven through a lawsuit. And what happened was, you know, Zach basically read that. So now there's a lawsuit for $30 million. But here's the thing. This could be used as a leverage to crush somebody. But I'll tell you what happens when, if you're going to take the time to do a lawsuit, well, that opens up discovery. That opens up discovery to Zach Rector, and Zach can now do discovery. And geez, you know, it's interesting what you can find through discovery of what you know and what you don't know. So filing a lawsuit like this certainly can open you up to new, new issues. Right? So I. I personally think that this is more of a. Maybe a show type of a. Of a thing where, you know, let's face it, Zach Rector, $30 million, it's absurd, right? And I don't know what is in the lawsuit. I tried to find it. I couldn't locate it, and I only saw one article that was basically had a gate, you know, gatekeep, you know, on it, so I couldn't really notice it. But I know you've been putting it out there. I just wanted to. We can't really comment. We've not read it, and it's not really our place to comment whether somebody, you know is having a feud inside the community. One person said this, the other person said that, look, you can find the issues, you can make the judgment for yourself. I know both of those guys. I met both of those guys. I don't necessarily think they're trying to do, you know, they have their own way of approaching it. But let's see how this, we'll see how this goes on. I'm, I'm curious to see how this all ends. But, man, discovery, I don't know if you ever want to open yourself up to discovery, you know, especially when what was read on air was from the lawsuit itself was the admission was a lot of the things. And so as a result, you know, the, what, what Jake is claiming that he lost, you know, customers and confidence in the marketplace. As you can imagine whether what was alleged is true or not, some of it came directly from court documents, some of it was speculation. So I don't know what the lawsuit is. I'll just say that and put it on that because I know you said to go ahead and Google it. Yeah, we're pretty well aware. If you can find the docs, if you actually have the doc of the lawsuit, I'd love to see it. But again, we're not in a speculation, you know, game here. We talk about things we know about and that's kind of how it works here. So I will say that, you know.
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Jeff
You know, yeah, good.
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Chip
I'll say all things said, Jeff. You never know who's going to pop in, right? So you never know if, oh my God, it's, look at this. Look what happens.
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Jeff
Serious. And you're bringing in a bear.
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Chip
Dancing bears, you love them. Jeffers. It's like, hey, get out of here, dude.
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Jeff
So, so yesterday Trump had a big announcement and he said, and this is, this is really, you know, key because we look at the endless control of the banking industry and the credit card industry that gets tied back to the banks as well. So yesterday Trump posted, he said, please be informed that we will no longer let the American public be ripped off by credit card companies that are charging interest rates of 20 to 30%, which has become the norm in many cases and even more which festered unimpeded during the Sleepy Joe administration. To be fair, it's been going on for a long, a lot longer than that. But affordability, effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on credit card interest rates of 10%. Coincidentally, the January 20th date will coincide with the one year anniversary of the historic and very successful Trump administration. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Make America great again, President Donald Trump. And that's putting the credit card companies on notice that as of January 20th there's going to be a cap of 10 interest on the, on the credit cards. And so a lot of, lot of things that are happening to, to rein in the unfettered power that the financial industry has had to manipulate. And then we have to think about those that are behind and to end all of the punitive damages that have been levied on the American people. You know, so it's about time Americans get their power back. Just like what we're witnessing now over in Iran as well is that the people have taken to the streets, tens of thousands of people on the streets in, in Iran that are burning mosques and burning public government buildings in order to end the reign of terror that has been inflicted on them for many decades. We're talking about more than 47 years of reign of terror at the hands of the Ayatollah. And so that hopefully will come to an end. They tried a similar type of uprising during, when Obama was in office. Then Obama basically turned a blind eye to the people of Iran and let them suffer as he did the people of Venezuela, as he did the people of Cuba. Whenever there's an opportunity, we want to see that there's support coming from, from the United States and we see that the Iranian people know that they have the back, the backing of the US to revolt and end 47 years of tyranny. Again, people up and it was never an Islamic culture in Iran and they're very outspoken about that. And we see a genocide of mass proportion as Islam has colonized countries throughout the Middle East. The stupid American left and, and Europeans that don't truly understand uh, what genocide is for some reason they don't understand or, and they also don't seem to understand what true colonization is. Even though the Europeans were barely adept at colonizing countries around the world, whether it was England, which is guilty of colonialism, Germany, France, etc, but now what they've turned a blind eye to is the massive Islamic movement across Europe that is seeking to topple Europe, not coexist with Europe. We've seen 57 nations of Islamic terror that control and manipulate those regions. Iran is attempting to break away from it because as a Persian history, uh, the, the Iranians were never uh, part of that, of that culture. And so they're looking to liberate themselves from the the talons and tentacles of that Islamic fascist regime. And so hopefully we'll see see that happen. You know we're looking forward to some freedom and liberation in Iran and see the Persians once again maintain their sovereignty.
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Chip
I would definitely like I'm doing the rest of the show as bearable guy. 1, 2, 3. BG123 just sit here like this.
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Jeff
XRP plumbing. You're. You're 100 wrong about that. The, the Islam is not propaganda. Go to them. I know you've been to Morocco. Morocco is not the center, the epicenter of the Islamic revolt. So I think you need to go and re educate yourself on what's actually happening in the Middle East. So I am not speaking propaganda. I understand this topic very, very succinctly. I know people that have been on the forefront of this battle for decades. People that have been on the forefront of revealing the terrorist infrastructure in the United States and throughout Europe. So that's great. You have first hand experience. I do as well. You're 100 on the opposite side of reality. So we could have converse. I would love to sit down with you in person over coffee because I, I love having these kind of conversations. Here we go. So now there's no, no issue of a differentiation in opinions.
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Chip
And I always included the. Not only Zionist but now the Christian.
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Jeff
The Zionist. Christian.
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Chip
People could take Zionists and shove it right up where it doesn't shine. Because I just don't understand Zionist basically makes Israel has a right to, to. To exist. And if. And it was funny because I had sent Jeff something the other day. I gotta go back and grab it. We'll grab it for tomorrow night. But here's a guy with first hand knowledge of a detailed 3000 years ago. So good luck on that. This other stuff is all you want to talk about propaganda. Another stuff existed. You want to talk about, you know, the Persians. You look at mathematics and their contributions. The Persians, not the Muslims. The Muslims take credit for it. They want to talk about propaganda. There's your propaganda. We even, we were the inventors of this. You know what they're inventors of? Death and destruction and rape. That's what they are the inventors of. And, and basically in the British Empire got a bad knock for like colonization. Oh, they want the British Empire. Well the British Empire might be one of the greatest things that ever happened to society for a lot of different reasons because a lot of these were third world countries that basically got with the program. Now was it the right way to do it? That's up for debate. But if you look back in hindsight when, when you had the, when you had the Islam moving across Europe and you said, well, the Crusades, well, the Crusades were to take this stuff back and don't think that Crusades 2.0 isn't happening. I wouldn't roll that, you know, rule that out at all because people are waking up to the death. Culture, religions do not ever preach that. If you dis, if you don't believe the way I believe, I a first of all tax the crap out of you. I, I tried to use the Kia to become, to lie to your face, but I chop your head off. Sorry, man, that doesn't qualify as a religion. That's more of a cult type of a thing and people hiding behind the, the face of religion. If you look at religion, it's always been peaceful. Judaism, Christian, you know, Buddhist, all of these types of schools of thought, especially ones that actually have a written sort of a scripture to them do not preach hate and destruction and death. They just don't, you know. So when you get the propaganda type of stuff, there's tons of that propaganda to go around and we're going to disagree and that's one of the great things here. XRP Plumber we're going to disagree and it's good to bring it up, it's good to have conversations. Doesn't mean we're going to change each other's thought pattern, but I think it's good for the, for the sort of mass thing. But I, I did want to show this, Jeff, I was going to say this for tomorrow night, but because it came up, I want to talk about this when it comes to Venezuela because this I think shows, talks and speaks to what the US Is actually doing and what people missed about Venezuela. Now, where were the weapons from China and Russia and what happened? They were a non factor. They were the best and they were non factor. So what this did is this really woke people up to don't f with the United States. We're not playing. We're not, we don't have a commander in chief that's playing. So listen to this guy here. Lay it down.
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Venezuelan Soldier
Carrier guard that was protecting Maduro has spoken and you got to hear what he said. It's in Spanish, but I'll translate. Also, Trump announced that, you know, the cartels, they're going after him in Mexico. The whole vibe of Latin America has changed because of what happened in Venezuela. And now that we're getting firsthand accounts from people, they were there the Soldier says they didn't hear him coming.
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Chip
They said.
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Venezuelan Soldier
He says the Americans had technology superior to anything they've ever seen. Everything that they were using for radar for anything was completely taken offline. They had drones, and the drones were taking out bases and taking out things faster. They didn't have no technology. They've never had to fight against drones. He also talks about that There was only eight helicopters. There was only 20 men that were sent in, and those 20 men killed hundreds of their men, and none of those soldiers were injured. He talks about it felt like they were firing 300 rounds a minute. Nothing they've ever seen, nothing that they can compete with. And then he also talks to the fact that the Americans had some kind of sonic shock boom that was sent out, and everybody immediately started bleeding profusely out of their nose. They couldn't even gather themselves because whatever was sent at them made them fall to their knees and vomit blood out of their mouth and out of their noses. They were incapacitated immediately. He says he never wants to fear, never wants to go through that again, doesn't want to have to fight with the Americans again. He's sending warnings to everybody out there that you. You think you can fight the Americans. You don't even know what their weaponry is like and what they're capable of. 20 men took out hundreds. And that's starting to spread all through Latin America. And now they're not saying, if you want me, come and get me anymore. They're like, oh, especially after Trump says, hey, Mexico, you're on the list, too. Yeah.
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Chip
And you notice the Colombian president all of a sudden wants to meet. He was defiant. You're gonna come get me. I'm gonna take you out.
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Jeff
Rah, rah, rah.
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Chip
Now he wants to meet. You see, because Maduro had the opportunity, too, to meet, had to work things out, sort of negotiate. So Trump doesn't play. Man, Trump, this is his last time around. He wants to build a future for his family, his legacy, his kids. People go like, oh, you need to be crazy to run that job. Yeah, you do. But you also have to be crazy to want to succeed and have a mission and have three years left to accomplish that. And I would never bet against Trump. And this is a guy on a mission. Here's Trump here talking about Greenland. Listen to this. Are you thinking of giving people Greenland to get them on board with a possible US?
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Donald Trump
I'm not talking about money for Greenland yet. I might talk about that. But right now, we are going to do something on Greenland, whether They like it or not. Because if we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland and we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor. Okay, I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way. And I'm a man. And by the way, I'm a fan of Denmark too, I have to tell you. And you know, they've been very nice to me. I'm a big fan. But you know, the fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land. I'm sure we had lots of boats go there also. But we need that because if you take a look outside of Greenland right now, there are Russian destroyers, there are Chinese destroyers and bigger, there are Russian submarines all over the place. We're not going to have Russia or China occupy Greenland and that's what they're going to do if we don't. So we're going to be doing something with Greenland, either the nice way or the more difficult way. Please go ahead, ma'.
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Chip
Am.
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Cassie Cradock
Mr. President, why is it so important to you to own it when you have a military presence there which you could expand to affect the security?
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Donald Trump
Because when we own it, we defend it. You don't defend leases the same way. You have to own it. And you know, with a nation. Look at what happened with Obama with that horrible deal they made with Iran. It was a short term deal. It was like a nine year deal. Countries can't make nine year deals or even hundred year deals. Countries have to have ownership and you defend ownership. You don't defend leases and we'll have to defend Greenland. If we don't do it, China or Russia will not going to happen. We are not going to have. And I like China, I like Russia. I love the people of China, I love the people of Russia. I get along very well with President Putin, but I'm very disappointed in him. I get along very well with President Xi. I'm going to go over to China in April, but I don't want them as a neighbor in Greenland. Not going to happen. And by the way, and NATO's got to understand that I'm all for NATO. I saved NATO. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have a NATO right now. But we're not going to allow Russia or China to occupy Greenland and that's what's going to happen if we don't. Right?
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Jeff
I think Chip, people don't, they don't comprehend the regional significance of Greenland. Right? So here's, well, here's the west. Let me here, I know, but either way, you know, Greenland is very close in proximity to where we are. Iceland is basically a four, five hour flight max from JFK to Iceland. Greenland is, is obviously that much closer. So imagine in the territorial waters you have Chinese and Russian ships controlling this, this region. Again, this comes down to our control in our own hemisphere, in our own region. And Canada's going to be no help. So they can't do anything. So we can't rely on Canada. So again, it's the US having to protect our interests right off of our shores. And then this is going to be regional influence all the way down through the tip of South America, right? So obviously everything that we just did in Venezuela was really important. But this whole region here is also going to be really critical to everything that we're doing. Obviously getting safety, security on all of our borders, getting all of these countries in check. And again, if we think about regionally what we've got here at the top of South America and the heavy influence from the drug running and why is Venezuela in such a position? Colombia, Ecuador, etc, you know, this, this whole region up here, Brazil, not as much, Peru, not so much. But all these countries have to start regionally getting along, get to get rid of all the socialist communist infiltration into South America. It's going to be a challenge. But this region here, Trump, is 100 accurate. Chip, this is, it's a must. It, it's not, it's not a negotiation point.
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Chip
Yeah, I agree with that. But first of all, I hate that. Put that map back up for a second, Jeff. I hate these maps. That makes it look like Greenland's the size of, bigger than Europe. It's not. Okay, this is, I don't, I don't know what people think. Or Iceland, I should say. Like, you know, you think about Iceland, like, or even Greenland too. It's always like, it's always this massive, you know, Greenland looks massive, Iceland, you know, the whole thing, it's just like to me, we don't have to exaggerate like that. And Greenland looks like massive too. But this is like more accurate right here. If you remove that for a second. Let's move that. And here we go. There you go. So if you watch this right here, you can actually see, look at, look at the region right there as this, you know, sort of spins around. You can see there's Russia right there and there's China over there, I think, Let me see. Is that's. But you can see like right there. Look at how close it is. Look how close. Right there's Russia right there. Look at Greenland. There you go. This. I mean, look at Iceland. So you see it. It's like to me, it's just. I know what Trump is saying, but there's a reason. Like, you know, when he's going off, he's mean. You don't think he knows things. You don't think there's intelligence on what's going on. You don't think. And he's 100. Right. Thinking that, you know, it has to be a stronghold. But again, Denmark loosely has some kind of control. We'll get into some more issues later. But I wanted to, I wanted to put up Jimmy Carr here, who's a comedian who was actually speaking in Denmark. This is a little bit of comic relief, but it'll kind of, it'll still kind of show you a. A little bit about like the relationship here. Here we go. Here's Jimmy Carr.
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Jimmy Carr
Should you sell it?
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Chip
So somebody yells out, Heckler in the audience yells out, should we sell Greenland? And so here's his response.
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Jimmy Carr
Should you sell it? Well, you've got, you've got. The alternative is they take it.
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Chip
So.
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Jimmy Carr
I mean, no offense to your fine military. Okay, why don't we just have a quick game? I'm just going to ask a question. Hands up, who has a military where they can't even afford blanks? They've just got to say, bang. Yeah, it's you, isn't it? It's fucking you.
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Chip
Bang.
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Jeff
Yeah.
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Jimmy Carr
Greenland, Scotland. Well, you sold them the American Virgin Islands, right? You sold them that. And what you get for that? How much? 25 million for the British Virgin Islands.
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Stephen A. Smith
Okay.
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Jimmy Carr
You know who's the negotiating team?
- [67:36]
Jeff
What?
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Jimmy Carr
We didn't put the fucking autistic boy on the case. Did we want the. So when was this? Was it 100 years ago? Even? Fuck, 25 million is. You had a holiday home and you fucking sold it.
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Chip
What?
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Cassie Cradock
Sorry, Back then there was a Trump.
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Jimmy Carr
Back then there was a Trump. Back then, the same tactics, the pressure.
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Cassie Cradock
To either sell it or they would take it.
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Jimmy Carr
Sell it or they would take it. Okay, fucking sell it. Have you learned nothing? You could militarize. Some people are anti war, but if you're anti war, you better get on board with being very pro suppression.
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Badass Yeti Vocalist
Fuck.
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Jimmy Carr
How many people are there in Greenland?
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Jeff
57,000.
- [68:32]
Jimmy Carr
57,000.
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Jeff
Yeah.
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Jimmy Carr
Give me a more accurate figure. Is your name Alexa? You're Good at this.
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Chip
Guy's hilarious number. Can you be a little bit more. Can you give me more accurate. 57,000. Right. And the other thing that I wanted to sort of put up here because I got a bunch of other things on Greenland here. Let's. Iceland, I should say. Here we go. Look, here's, here's. Here they. Here's their defense of Greenland against Trump. Here we go. Hang on a second here. There you go. There it is. There's Denmark's Build a Lego Raw. There it is. Greenland right there. A Lego wall. There you go. That's it.
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Jeff
I'd love to see a Lego wall around Greenland.
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Chip
That seems pretty good, right Jeff? I mean that'd be awesome. It sounds. And one of the things I think that's missing here in this big equation is the value, Jeff. They don't understand the value. Like if you think about it, can you imagine a buc EE's in Greenland? Like, how cool would that be? Like if you guys don't know Buc ee's an institution here in the south, it's the greatest thing you've ever seen. You will drive an extra 10 miles just to go to BUC EE's because it's a one stop has all. It's hard to describe, but when you go there, you. It's the cleanest bathrooms of any place you'll ever stop. They're like pristine, right? There's people cleaning them non stop. Right? So it's a clean bathroom, but you're going to be guaranteed that any kind of food, you can just grab any kind of style of food, you know, knickknacks, tchotchkes, all kinds of stuff. You think about this. Just look at how great that looks. Jeff. Look at this. There it is. Buc ee's. Look at Greenland. That's fantastic. You know, it's just. Can you just imagine these people getting. Getting that? I mean, how amazing would that be? And I also think that. Let's see what else we have here.
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Jeff
Is that a Target?
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Chip
Yeah. Where's the target one I got here?
- [70:38]
Jeff
I believe they finally opened a Target here.
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Cassie Cradock
My new snowmobile is parked right over there.
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Jeff
This place is amazing.
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Chip
Yeah, the old, the old Target. But look at this right here. You see, now Greenland is considering meeting directly with the US without anything having to do with Denmark. So there you go. There's some. There's some big news right there. And then somebody came up with a pretty brilliant idea. Jeff. I actually kind of think this is interesting. To avoid any kind of issues at all. You Know, if you go back to how things were done way, you know, a couple hundred years ago, somebody suggested that the simple diplomatic solution is Baron Trump marries Princess Isabella of Denmark and Greenland's given to America on a dowry payment.
- [71:27]
Jeff
There we go. That's how it's going to get done.
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Chip
That's how it's going to get done. I mean, it sounds crazy, but I actually like. I actually like the sound of that. I love this little meme. Here's another great little meme too. Here it says, this guy at the top says, Trump is talking about taking over Greenland. This guy says, Denmark says, u. S. Attack in Greenland would be at the end of NATO. And he says, harry, I already like the idea. You don't need to sell it to me. The memes are just fantastic. Another thing that I think that people miss out too is people think like, you know, what about the people of Greenland? Well, just so we're clear, the people of Greenland are not white. They're Inuit. And Greenland's about 88 Inuit and only about 12 Danish. So if anyone's thinking Greenland looks anything like Denmark in terms of demographics, not at all the case. Right.
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Jeff
Let's ask them. So do they enjoy having Denmark control it, or they would have rather it be a protectorate of the U.S. here we go.
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Chip
Let's roll some history on Greenland.
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Badass Yeti Vocalist
Here, too old silence of the tundra. A bond was born, not from treaties or trade, but from blood and bravery. While Germany controlled Europe, the Nazis set their sights on the Arctic. Greenland became an unwitting combatant, and the United States stepped in, not to conquer, but to protect. In 1943, nearly a thousand American soldiers with four chaplains set sail from New York to Greenland, carrying with them hope, duty and a quiet fear. But their ship was torpedoed by a Nazi U boat and the frigid waters of the North Atlantic became. Became a grave. Those four chaplains gave up their life vests, giving their lives so that others might live to protect America and Greenland. Their sacrifices helped win our freedom and we will never forget. Together, Americans and Greenlanders stood as sentinels at the top of the world. But today, Greenland faces new threats from Russian aggression and Chinese expansion. Our shared legacy lives on in every joint mission, every Arctic patrol, every partnership forged in the shadow of melting ice and rising tensions. This is not just history, it is destiny. Now is the time to stand together again for peace, for security, for the future. America stands with Greenland.
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Chip
There you go, another propaganda film, Jeff, just love it. Just another propaganda film. And then finally this one here, it's time. So what you're watching here is you're seeing a dog sled team, right? You're watching a dog sled team move around through Greenland. Here we go. Trump is the greatest ever. Listen to this comment here. Trump's interviewed on Air Force One.
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Donald Trump
You know what Denmark did recently to boost up security in Greenland? They added one more dog sled. It's true. They thought that was a great move.
- [74:37]
Jeff
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
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Chip
I mean, pro. I mean, we thought Reagan was funny, but, man, Trump is just too much, man. Unfiltered Trump, even. Even crazier. But my God, Jeff, it's like you really just can't get enough of the dude, man. He's too much. So we'll see what ends up happening on that. Here's Trump on Colombia. He's good. He was asked about Colombia because, you know, the Colombian president was getting pretty graphic about, like, come get me all this stuff. Well, didn't work out good for Maduro, but here's Trump had been when he.
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Donald Trump
Was asked yesterday and, you know, he's been very hostile to us and to the nation and to me. Called me a dictator and lots of other things, called Biden, some terrible names, far worse than he called me. But he called yesterday through people and he wants to meet. And that's fine with me. I've. I've made up with people also, you know, so we're going to have a meeting with him. We had a very good conversation. The people of Colombia are incredible people. Marco would know that better than anybody because he's married to a woman from Columbia, and I don't mean Columbia University. That would be. I'm not sure. I think I like Columbia, the country better, if you want to know the truth. The people. The people are the people. Hold it all. The people. The people are great people. I look forward to meeting with them. Going to meet in the very near future.
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Chip
Also. Now he wants to meet. I wonder for all that rhetoric to like, huh, maybe we should meet. It didn't work out so well for Maduro. And it's great when you're sitting there hiding behind there, but also learning how 20 men went in and basically disabled all of your weapons system systems and took out all of your men, probably resonating throughout. But the greatest thing about Marco Rubio isn't how he stepped up, Jeff. And I see him as a foreign runner for, you know, president and in 2020. What is 2028? I see him as a forerunner. I've seen this guy just like, become like a Viper. And so somebody started a meme about Rubio when he's sitting on the couch in the Oval Office. You know, Rubio finding out he now is going to be the, you know, the. He's going to be the president of Iran. He's now going to be the president of, you know, Venezuela. He's going to fill key positions in the NFL. So somebody put together a video on this of all these memes, and they're spectacular. I even did a meme on, you know, Rubio as the CEO of the XRPL dethroning Daniel. And he did. He's like, oh, we showed that the other day, too. But here we go. Look at this. So here we go. These are all the memes. So, leader of the geopolitical chaos. There he is. He's got the multicolored jacket on right there.
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Jeff
Oh, my God.
- [77:15]
Chip
Here he is, the president of Venezuela, Marco Rubio. Here he is, the supreme leader of Iran again. Miami Dolphins new head coach. Because they actually asked about. Yeah, he actually looked good.
- [77:29]
Jeff
It looks good in that outfit.
- [77:31]
Chip
He came out and he said, someone. He goes, I don't usually talk about rumors, but, no, I will not be the new coach of the Miami Dolphins. So I'm not going to rule it out in the future, but for right now, no, I mean, like, this is just hilarious, man. We. There's so much fun we're having. There's so much winning going on. Like, it's just. Man, I've never envisioned a government could be this much fun. And here he is as the governor of Minnesota. He's got. He's got Tim Waltz's hunting outfit on right there. Here he is as the Cuban national baseball manager. Here he is the prime minister of Australia. And here he is as the governor of Greenland. He's got his little arctic.
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Jeff
Really doesn't look happy there with the arctic suit. He looks happy everywhere else.
- [78:19]
Chip
Except there he is. Is the. The. The GM of Minneapolis Hilton Hotel, if you guys don't know that story. ICE was basically refused in a Hampton Inn, which is owned by Hilton, and they were denying ICE agents. And so it got back to Hilton. If you're a franchise franchiser and it gets back to them, you're. You're supposed to comply with whatever the franchisor wants. Franchiser talked, you know, Hilton talked to them directly and said, hey, did this happen? He said, it did happen. Don't worry, we're going to correct it. Well, a guy went in with a camera. This is to show you that we are the news now. A Guy went in with a camera, just an average guy, said, I'm from ICE and I want to rent a room. They said, you know, I want to book a room. They said, no, you can. So what did, what did Hilton do? Well, they basically said, you're no longer part of Hilton. And I know you get a big. I know, I know somebody very close to the, this industry. You're going to pay a big fine, number one to get out of your contract. Remember, that's the first thing, a massive hit fine you're going to have. And there could be some legal action because of the damage to the overall brand. That's probably going to happen in the background. But the more important thing is you lose all your booking. All the booking goes through Hilton. So when they pull that, you can no longer book a hotel. So now you got to figure out your own thing. And now you don't have a name. And now you don't have a, a massive name behind you. And what did the Hilton do? They sent a crew to take down the signage off of the hotel. So if you f around, you're going to find out. And they found out real quick. And this, this hotel is basically. Man, they're probably, probably going to end up selling it and then somebody else will come in. I know it's, it's an Indian owner who basically refused. So they're going to, I don't think they're going to be able to go to another hotel chain and say we want to become a franchiser. I think the guy's gonna end up selling it for a loss, paying massive fines and just suffering. So here he is, is the new GM of the Minneapolis hotel. You can see he's got the little Hilton badge right on. Art. Yeah. Go woke, go broke. Here you go, here's now. He's now the new Manchester United manager. There he is the president of Columbia.
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Jeff
His white out. Oh, that's great.
- [80:25]
Chip
There he's the Africana president right there. There you go. There he is the prime minister of Denmark dressed like a Viking. And then here he is the minister president of Bavaria. He's got the Bavarian leading hosen on there he's got the. Here he is as the Cowboy, the Dallas Cowboys new head coach. Then here he is negotiator of Kimura Accords. He's dressed like, just like Star Trek, Star Trek kimono Accords.
- [80:56]
Jeff
Oh my.
- [80:57]
Chip
Areas is the Green Bay's new starting quarterback. And again the ultimate Florida man. He's got the blue jacket over the white wife beater shirt with the white pants on with the aviator sunglasses. There he is as Marco Liberace. Dressed like Liberace, of course, at a sparkling green blue outfit, would be dazzled all over it. And here he is, is the governor of Tokyo. He's got the. He's got the. The freaking hat on with the little anime character on it. And there he is, is Miss Universe. Here he is as the head painter of the Trump Ballroom. Again, there's Pope Mario Marco. There he is, his captain, Rubio. And again, Marco Rubio replaces Bad Bunny as a Super bowl halftime show headliner. Here he is as the Florida Gators head coach, again, the host of the Megyn Kelly show. Here he is, his head chef, Mar A Lago. And again, Patriot Marco Ruby, who's got a rip bod right there with the eagle on his shoulder doing, you know, flexing the bicep. Here is the Marco Rubio, secretary of everything playset action figure, powerful and dominant. And then here's Marco Rubio on work break. Just kidding. He doesn't have time. That's the Ben Affleck famous, you know, thing where he's got his head back and discussed smoking the cigarette. So it's just. And Marco will go down, I mean this, as the greatest secretary of state in the history of the United States. Gotta love that, Jeff. Having a little bit of fun, but whatever.
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Jeff
It's amazing.
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Chip
I. I think the guy is like, you know, and I, I mean, not that I don't like JD But I just think, you know, one of the things that's missing with J.D. vance is the personality. Every major president has that cult of personality, you know, that, you know, Clinton had it, Obama certainly had it, Biden didn't have it. But that was sort of stolen. Jeff. Biden didn't have that cult of personality. He just was installed, not elected. But when I think about J.D. he's just very even tempered. You can't ever get him off his cr. What I like about Marco is he gets passionate, man. He'll rip your head off. He'll come with facts. I remember when he first was on the scene, when he first got elected. The first two years, he went on every talk show, and there was really no one better at that time of explaining conservatism. He was the best. Somewhere along the line, that kind of fell off a little bit. I know I tell this story, you guys have probably heard it a million times. But I tell the story about when, you know, my daughter was younger, we used to go to a lot of Heat games together in the LeBron era. And I remember we were sitting there, and I heard a voice, and I'm like, God, I know that voice from somewhere. And I turn around, and it's Marco rubio when he was a senator. Marco rubio with his wife jeanette behind me, sitting behind me. And I tell my daughter, who's, I don't know, maybe nine or ten at the time. And I say, hey, senator Rubio sitting behind us. And she says, oh, you think he'll let me take a picture? I said, well, here's how I want you to ask senator Rubio, would you. Would you please take a photo with me? So she waits for her moment. She's all nervous. She's turned around. She says, senator Rubio, he reigns over. And she says, would you take a picture with me? He goes, of course I will. So I took the picture of her. And it's funny, because when he became secretary of state, I sent it to my daughter. I'm like, do you remember this? She's like, of course I remember that. She goes, that's awesome. Glad you sent me that picture. I'm gonna show, you know, my friends or whatever. Of course, she's a little kid then, but we took the picture or whatever. It was one of those live pictures where you see them kind of moving, you know, that you can. You can adjust the shot. And so on the way home, I. I, you know, I figured, like, yeah, let's go on the way home. And then she says to me, she goes, pop, I got a question. I go, what is it? And she said, how did we end up with better seats at the game than Marcus, than senator Marco rubio? That was her question. Like, she couldn't understand, like, how we got better seats. I'm like, well, we were sitting one row ahead. She goes, I know, pop, but they were better seats, and he's a u. S. Center. I go, it just depends, you know, anybody can buy seats. But she couldn't understand how we had slightly better season. Marco rubio.
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Jeff
But anyway, so before Marco Rubio before ran for u. S. Senate, actually hosted an event at the house for him when he was considering running for senate, and at the time, he was running against the establishment candidate, and the entire establishment here was, uh, on board with their candidate. And. And that was, uh, Charlie crist at the time. So if you think about the GOP establishment on board with charlie crist, and then you had the tea party and others that were backing Rubio, and the establishment thought that rubio couldn't win u. S. Senate. And so we had hosted an event and we actually had all these different, uh, leaders, uh, within the community get together. Uh, Marco showed up and we sat down and we talked about the probability of him winning in a, in a, in a runoff against Charlie Crist and the rest is history because obviously he did win. And then the establishment jumped on board with him like they were supporting him from day one and they said, oh no, we knew he was going to win and we're always on, on board with Rubio. But there was a period of time where Rubio did upset a lot of that tea party group up because they felt like he got to Washington and he forgot about everybody. There was definitely a turning of tide over the last number of years. And if we talk to all these leaders here on the ground now and you see where Marco was when he first started when he was in the, in the Florida House and state, I think he was state senate here. I know he's in the speaker of the House here in Florida, but then going from there to U.S. senate. And then there was that period of time where people felt like he was no longer supporting and he went towards the establishment, but then there was a clear breakoff from the establishment. I believe that Trump had a big part of that. When he was running against Trump there was definitely some wake up time. I know I've had multiple conversations in the early days with Rubio and I saw at different meetings and I saw his progression way back then based on where he came from and his, his development of understanding this before he was a U. S. Senator of uh, geopolitics. And then I've seen his progression over the years and I can tell you, I mean now it's the most impressive, uh, with what we're seeing as Secretary of state. I honestly didn't think that was it within him at that point. I thought he was full establishment. But he's the wake up has been phenomenal and what he's accomplished as Secretary of state is, is just amazing. And we see the true Rubio. This is where he was way back when. And again there's that period of time where there was a kind of a, a blank period within the U. S. Senate and upsetting people in Florida. But then now this wake up moment and it's really, it's been so impressive to see his accomplishments as Secretary of State like you said, you know, as he's come out and the, the strength and the power and you know, just the way he's presenting himself and presenting the, the country and presenting, you know, it's just. It's just really, really impressive. And I don't see any other politician along those lines.
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Chip
No. And also too when he's gone down to South America, being able to meet, you know, meet on their. They're. Because he speaks Spanish fluently. Being able to meet them where they are like to have a really open, you know, dialogue. But just what he's done is impressed the hell out of me. Like I see him as a forerunner for president. People are like, JD's like the automatic. I don't see it that way. This guy's proven himself just one year in that he's very Trump like in a lot of ways. But you know, I think a lot of the pressures when you go to. When you go to Washington, they take you behind the. The woodshed and they kind of read you the riot act and this is how it works here. I'm glad you have a lot of fun ideas but. And they find ways to basically blackmail you. They find ways to hold, you know, stuff over on you. But I think there was a turning point where Ruby said I don't care anymore because he did. I saw somebody put it in the chat that he sort of. And you know, I have an alt account X account where I was hammering him a lot because I felt, you know, as a Florida voter and I hated Charlie Chris. I felt like he really kind of sold us out. You know what I mean?
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Jeff
So sure, Charlie Chris definitely sold us out.
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Chip
Charlie Chris, I did not like he was a complete loser. But Longview Compute says, what are your thoughts on the continuous account set activity of the XRPL the last two months?
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Jeff
And just to point out, Longview Compute is also a streamer.
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Chip
Yeah.
- [89:50]
Jeff
Content creator, I should say. And that's good.
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Chip
I don't know what I have to. I have to. I'll have to subscribe. I recommend you guys go check it out as well. Let me see. So does this Long View Compute and then YouTube. Let's see if I can find it here. Let's throw it in the. He's going to surpass us and and subscribers even though we've been doing it for six years. But don't talk about anything too controversial, man. You'll end up just like us at a bad place. But I'm going to share this with people if you guys want to check it out. I'll throw it in the. Throw it in the chat there. But etf boom or recession.
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Jeff
I appreciate you guys been trying to find collaborators. So he's out there trying to connect with other streamers well, there you go. He's definitely welcome to on the channel.
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Chip
And he's a Kansas City fan too. I see. He's a, he's a Chiefs fan. What do you think about the Chiefs leaving? That's a bummer, man. I, I hate to see that. I really feel like it slaps the fans right in the face. And the Chiefs have been so dominant and people are getting on them for just having an off year. And it happens, man. You got injuries, a lot of things that happen. But the way people have treated KC this year has been, I think, completely unfair. And they. Everything that KC accomplished in my homes. You know, Mahomes is a beast. You know, the guy knows how to win. I'm a Josh Allen fan. You can see it right there's my Josh Allen. I'm a, you know, I'm a Bill's mafia guy. But you know, Mahomes always found a way to win. A guy could be, A guy could have a broken ankle, he could be limping around, he figures out how to win. So that's something I've always appreciated about KC and you know, sad to see them leaving. It happens, man. What are you gonna do? So, yeah, we'll, you can hit us up on our dms, man. We'll. We'll chat. Hit us up.
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Jeff
Yeah.
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Chip
Good to always collaborate with people, like minded people in the, in the biz as they say. So I mean, definitely happy to do that.
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Jeff
Yeah, definitely look forward to connecting with you. Uh, check us out.
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Chip
No, we're not going. Australia excerpt. We're not going. We're not gonna make it. It's a one day event. Uh, we weren't invited this time. We were on. We were uninvited. We were first invited and uninvited.
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Jeff
Oh, well, things changed a little bit.
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Chip
Yeah, well, things changed because new ownership and people were doing it, but the whole thing changed all together. That's fine. I mean I, I think they're doing amazing things. They've got, they've got three ripple speakers, Monica longs to be speaking, Brad Garlinghouse and now David Schwartz. They've got some other. I think Hugo's going to be there. I don't know who the, who the speakers are, but they have, they basically put one of the most dynamic events that has ever existed in the space by having powerhouses there. So hats off to them for doing just an amazing job. It's hard for us to get there on top of it. Listen, last time almost broke us six hours from Jeff and I to Miami to LA nine hour layover in LA, take a shower, jump on a 16 hour flight to Sydney, then jump on another two hour flight that when I came back it took me two weeks to kind of like get back into the, the swing.
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Jeff
I'm going there for a one day.
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Chip
Thing now, but I would support anybody going. If you're thinking about going. It's going to be a phenomenal event. The people running it are great. Crypto Queen is just fantastic. She's put together and set off. They put together an amazing program. Really. I'm really happy to have been part of the first one to see them build on the second part of this and really develop it and put Australia on the map. Very excited about that. But if you're in Australia, if you can get to this event, I say get to this event, you're not going to regret it. It will be one of the coolest things you'll ever attend. And if you're from the US and you can get over there, I highly recommend. It's just that it's not, it's, it's a tough time of year for me also, Jeff. So even if we wanted to make it work, we would have probably had to decline anyway just because we couldn't make the timing work because it's in February. But we're really proud to be part of the first one. I'm glad to see what the new organizers have done to build on it. So unfortunately I was just kind of kidding about being invited. It wasn't what didn't come down to that at all. It's just that I don't think we could have, we could have swung it. But I want to talk a little bit. Let's position a little transition to the UK here. Starmer threatens to ban X in Britain. All options on the table. The UK jails people for calling rapist pigs. Now they're coming for Elon Musk. Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he's asked Ofcom to consider banning acts entirely over AI generated images from Grok. People have been making AI images, putting people in bikinis and even worse. And again, this has got out there. They're saying it's disgraceful. Karma said it's disgusting. Not to be tolerated. X needs to get their act together. Elon said, okay. Oh, you can only do image generation if you're a paid customer. The safety online act again. Member safety. Oh, hang on a second. Did I just click on a different. Hang on a second. Let me figure out where I am here. Somehow I connected on a different thing. Here, here we go. Online Safety act, better known as the the Censorship act, gives Britain the power to block social media sites nationwide, access 20 million UK users. How do you think this is going to go over for Keira Starmer fee if he thought to even touch this? Well, as you f around you find out. Rep. Annelina Paula Polina Luna, who's from the west coast here in Florida. If Starmers are successful of banning X in Britain, I will move forward with legislation that's currently being drafted to sanction not only Starmer, but Britain as a whole. This would mirror actions previously taken by the United States in response to foreign governments restricting the platform, including the dispute with Brazil in 24 and 25 which resulted in tariffs, visa revocations, sanctions, consequential consequences tied to free speech, concerns against Brazilian officials over concerns related to censorship and free speech violations. Starmer should reconsider this course of action or there will be consequences. There are always technical bugs during the early phases of new technology, especially AI and those issues are typically addressed quickly. X treats these matters seriously and acts promptly. Let's be clear, this is not about technical compliance. This is a political war against Elon Musk and free speech and nothing more. Nigel Farage who's leader of the Reform Party had something to say about it as well.
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Nigel Farage
Of banning X from a government that's been attacking free speech and creating a two tier society in our country, frankly is appalling. Look, this feature clearly is horrible in every way. Distasteful, sick. I get all of that. I know that X today of making some changes to say only paying subscribers could use the service. X will need to go further. But the thought of banning platforms, I mean what is happening in 21st century.
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Jimmy Carr
Britain and then the follow up, you've supported victims of grooming gangs and sexual based violence. Will you also take a stand against X as it is allowing these degrading images on their platform?
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Nigel Farage
Look, I think the whole grooming gangs scandal and here we are in London where it's yet to be uncovered in the opinion of Reform uk. Of course what is happening with this capacity on X is monstrous. But banning X is not the answer. Talking to them and saying we can't live with this, that's the way forward.
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Chip
100% UK chip.
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Jeff
The UK has lost their minds.
- [96:45]
Chip
It's gone.
- [96:46]
Jeff
The UK no longer supports freedom. The UK as, as their, their political institution is broken, it's damaged. It's, it no longer is relevant on, on the global stage and, and we can prove that it's no longer relevant on the global stage because the uae, and this has been going on for time, but now the announcements are, are more official. But the UAE is now cutting funds for their citizens who want to study in the UK out of fear that Emirati students will be radicalized by the Muslim Brotherhood on British campuses. Because there's more presence of the illegal entity of the Muslim Brotherhood in the uk. There's more radicalization of Muslims in the UK than in the, in the uae. Why? Because the UAE has banned it. Because when you go to the uae, you go to Saudi, it's no longer allowed. But in Europe and in parts of the US it is allowed because the west have been duped. They're relatively naive. They don't really understand. They're trying to embrace what they don't understand and it's a danger to the public. And because of that, the government institution in the UK is also a danger to the public. And they need to get rid of that. That institution. Really, it all comes back in the U.K. also, the manipulation of their monarchy. The monarchy is no longer relevant. Their political infrastructure is broken, Their parliamentary form of government doesn't work. And the UK is backwards. And it's, it's really a shame, you know, to see everything because years ago I used to love visiting in the UK and now we've decided as a family we're not going back to the U.K. you know, we're not going to go to England, Scotland, maybe Ireland maybe. Those are all kind of question marks in that region. I'm looking at other countries around the world. But that, that part has now been removed from our, our need to visit again location. And it's a really shame, you know, why? Because, you know, they got to figure out how they're going to fix it. When they fix it, that's a different story. But at this point, to go to an area where it's already, you can tell everything is backwards. I'm not, I'm not sending my money there, you know, and neither is the uae. So the UAE is not doing it. I'm not saying I'm taking a note from them. We made that decision.
- [99:08]
Chip
Yeah. Brad did make the last announcement at the swell, which I attended, and he did announce that the next swell is open. They're also taking. What's the other event? Apex. They're also combining that they're going to need a bigger place in New York. It's going to be in New York City. They've already released the dates that it's going to be and so it will be Open to the public. So I'll imagine there will be a much bigger attended events.
- [99:31]
Jeff
You're right. Ireland maybe. I, I love Ireland. I've always enjoyed Ireland.
- [99:36]
Chip
Isle of man. Yeah. Yeah, I've always loved Ireland too and I've been to North Ireland as well. Different, different, different vibe up there. But actually I enjoyed the vibe up there actually better. I don't know people. I found the people to be really cool and warm. So let's see what was the wandered.
- [99:55]
Jeff
Around through Dublin and throughout all of Ireland and, and I found the same thing. It just. Overall when you're just out and about, people are amazing. You know, I've had the craziest experiences.
- [100:06]
Chip
Just one great stuff, man. I mean it's such amazing people there. It's really, they're really curious. They love to have conversation and chat. Here's mayor candidate of London. This is Layla Cunningham. But listen to what she has to say. Will launch I can assure you than.
- [100:24]
Cassie Cradock
An all out war on crime against.
- [100:27]
Jeff
Knife gangs, drug dealers, phone thieves, shoplifters.
- [100:31]
Chip
And those rape gangs that have been ignored.
- [100:33]
Jeff
I can assure you they will have nowhere to hide. It will be a reckoning. They're hiding.
- [100:46]
Chip
So I like her position. She's also reformed candidate. I don't know if she can win in London because there's so many Muslims there. It's kind of like you've imported this voting block that I don't know if you can win. So this woman was asked about Elon Musk. What should we do about Elon Musk? She's in the US but I thought this was kind of interesting. We're here right now.
- [101:04]
Donald Trump
What would you tell him?
- [101:06]
Chip
Go back where you come from? America or where he came from?
- [101:11]
Jeff
South Africa, South Africa.
- [101:13]
Chip
Out to Africa, right? Oh, Africa, south africa, south africa, right. Oh. That. I gotta go. Margaritas Disclaimer. I am. You are a disclaimer. Think the second amendment makes a difference? Hell yeah, it does. They always take your guns. And what do they do systematically over the pandemic? Oh, we're just going to take the pistols. Oh, we're just going to take your rifles. Oh, all we're going to confiscate all weapons. Never give up your weapons. One of the cool things about going to Australia we, Jeff and I learned was when we started talking to some people like yeah, you guys gave up your weapons. And they would start showing us pictures of their weapon caches and all kinds of stuff after they qualified us to make sure we were one of them patriots and they said largely in the cities that's true, but not on the outskirts. Once you start getting outside the city, people have all of their weapons, they have guns, they have everything. So don't think that that's a thing. That's what they said. Don't believe the propaganda the same way you don't want us to read the propaganda for coming out of your country. Your mainstream media don't believe the. The. The mainstream media here in Australia. So I thought that was very extremely telling. It was really kind of cool to. To hear that sort of breakdown. So. And again, Jeff, this is. This is an Iran burning mosques. They've had it. They've had it. And finally, I believe this will succeed. Trump said that if you kill people now, a couple people have died, some through being trampled, just because of the thing, but there was a young, beautiful woman, 21 years old, 20, 21, shot in the face. Trump said, if you hurt, harm the people, you will. You're. They're gonna. They're coming in. So also, Bibi Netanyahu came in and said that they will support a free Iran. They said the Iranian people are fantastic. They're separate from this. He pledged the fact that if anything happens, they would be glad to help out to liberate that country and return Iran to the greatness that it was. He doesn't have any beef against the. The people itself. And this is where all of what you see coming out of Israel is because Iran's been funding. They funded the October 7th attacks. They were the ones that were largely taking a lot of the money that the previous administration had continued to give them and then turned it into basically terrorism. So what, you know, the best thing you do is pray for what's going on over there. Iran, and really free Iran. The Iranian people returning to who they are. I'm telling you, it's gonna be a force to reckon with in that. And I cannot believe they will not get the support of a lot of the other Arab countries like Saudi Arabia and, you know, the EAU and all that. They'll have tremendous support. And now you're talking about eliminating any friction over there, at least the 90% of the friction over there in Iran. So I think that's a phenomenal turn of events. And make no mistake, man, what you see happening Chile and. And middle of which is my wife's home country, just elected a conservative. It's interesting. His parents were German. He was born in Santiago, Chile. His. He ran the last three times, but he's also the founder of the Republican Party in Chile. He founded it in 2019 was also the leader of that. So you start to see that when Trump's in office, it makes it okay to now he didn't see any of this conversation a year ago talking about kicking people out, talking about taking their sovereignty back. You didn't hear any of this stuff. When you get a new, when you get a new, you know, sheriff in town, the new sheriff sets the precedent for how the world works. And when you saw when Biden was there, the wokeism and all that stuff got out of hand. You saw what happened during the pandemic. It got out of hand. They wanted vaccine, passports, they wanted to control you. That stuff's gone. Trump is disabling it. He's bringing partners on board. What you the turn of events, you see that's happening in South America and you're gonna see Lula probably be ousted as well there in Brazil. This guy is, was jailed. He's a fraud. He's doing a lot of the same stuff to their previous president that they tried to do here in the US Against Trump, but he was elected. That was stolen. They're going to show ahead and prove that. And you know, there's no, there's no mistake that the, the, the company that was largely responsible for the fraud is no longer owned by Venezuela. Isn't that interesting? Venezuela machines, Venezuelan company and all of a sudden they stole election. So what we, this is why it's a great time to be alive. We are witnessing a massive revolution. It's worldwide. And one of the coolest things about it to be witnessing this is that it's not just Trump. Trump's bringing people on board and you're starting to see this spread. You saw it in Argentina, you're going to see it in Peru next. You now see it in Venezuela, you see it in El Salvador. It's a great time to be alive. There's never been this push for freedom. When people taste freedom, when they taste a little bit of what it, what it's like to actually be able to, you know, work and live and have a great country, they want more of it.
- [106:29]
Jeff
That's right. That's right. And we're, we're definitely, we're definitely getting to that point. Long visa, my ex is not verified but I reached out to you at Longview crypto suite so we'll, we'll check that out. If you found on the chain chip myself, we'll make sure that we accept you on, on X which would be really cool.
- [106:53]
Chip
So let's go, let me go to Long View. What's your handle? Throw your handle. Let me see if I go long.
- [106:59]
Jeff
It's right there. Long view crypto.
- [107:02]
Chip
Long view crypto. Okay, hang on. Okay, let me see. I'll just go ahead.
- [107:07]
Donald Trump
Right.
- [107:07]
Jeff
Everyone's going to start talking in different languages over here. And then we're gonna have to interpret everybody's statement.
- [107:15]
Chip
What's going on with that, Jeff? I don't know.
- [107:18]
Jeff
I want to see as many languages as we can see in the post. And everyone's going to start speaking in code.
- [107:31]
Chip
All right, let's see here. Hang on a second. Okay, follow back. I just followed you back. So now you can DM me. You should be able to DM me.
- [107:41]
Jeff
Put it in Arabic. We'll read it in Arabic too.
- [107:45]
Chip
How about just in English? Okay, I'll start talking Dutch only. No, let's not do that, guys. We'll ignore your comments. Your comments will be ignored. I like that.
- [107:54]
Jeff
Oh, we'll have to read through and interpret it. But extra people. I mean, if you put it in Arabic, I'm sure we can. We can read it as well.
- [108:03]
Chip
So that's a no. But now, guys, it's the time you have all waited for. It is the yeti drawing. Play that music video one more time, Jeff. Then we're going to do the drawing. Type in yeti Y e T. I type it in the chat. There's 12 people. Let's get that up to 15 to 20. Let's go.
- [108:19]
Jeff
Long view. Compute. This is our giveaway.
- [108:21]
Chip
Come on, Chip, don't give me a Dude, don't give me a. Come on.
- [108:25]
Jeff
We can read multiple.
- [108:26]
Chip
Come on. Type in right there. Lethal's got it many languages.
- [108:31]
Jeff
But Charles, anyone who's brand new here, this is our giveaway time. We're going to give away one of our badass yetis from. This guy is from the white tribe. We have the white tribe, the blue tribe, and soon there'll be the purple tribe and the black tribe from the badass yetis. And we have another project that will be rolling out very soon. But anyhow, this is the guy that we're giving away today is one of the ass kickers. This is one of the ass kickers from the white tribe. And you look how badass this guy is right down to ready for battle. Dude, his boots. His battle boots, his battle arm guards and everything right up to what he's wearing on his head. Look at that. That's. This guy is kick ass. Watch out because he might bring out that spear. But here we go. Get ready. Here's the song that goes with this guy right now. Here we go.
- [109:42]
Chip
Clip.
- [109:43]
Badass Yeti Vocalist
Don't miss light tr cold hard one move dark. Ready?
- [110:02]
Chip
Badass. Yeti in motion no fear in the ocean Badass Every mic lock built for war knocked out rock Badass Coffee black cup your head hard we are Yeti.
- [110:11]
Badass Yeti Vocalist
Yeti Yeti white ready Ask keeper Step.
- [110:15]
Chip
Whole room steady.
- [110:20]
Badass Yeti Vocalist
Yeti.
- [110:22]
Chip
Z. Whoa. I gotta go back to what the hell happened.
- [111:04]
Jeff
Yeti.
- [111:06]
Chip
I don't know what happened to what's going on here. Okay, we got 17. That's great. And curry. 17. You have one in 17 chance. Something I do want to talk about. If you guys ever have a. This is the. Here we go. Share the screen, baby. Here we go. There it is. And go. We have rules for our giveaway on our YouTube channel. All submissions adhere to YouTube community guidelines and YouTube is unaffiliated. Okay, that's out there. So this is one of the things we have to abide by. And we did abide by that. And let's go to here. There's Yeti. Ready, Jeff? Let's go. Put the music on. Let's do this.
- [111:49]
Jeff
Hang on. 17. Look at that.
- [111:51]
Chip
17. Gosh. Allen's and number 17. May the best person win or even the worst person will take any or. Let's do it. It's gonna be Jim D. Double D winning. Jim D, are you still here? Jim D. Jim D, are you here? D? Jim D. Yeti in Hebrew wins Yeti.
- [112:30]
Jeff
Congrats. Jim D. Where's Jim D?
- [112:33]
Chip
Guys, we're going to be launching in the new year. We're going to be launching the Badass Chimps. That's our new NFT project. We're going to be launching that. Hopefully you guys will support us and support the project itself, but they're going to be pretty cool. We'll be launching that probably towards the end of the month here. And more details on that.
- [112:52]
Jeff
Love the badass chimps.
- [112:54]
Chip
They didn't give me favoritism a little bit. Nobody gets favoritism. It's, it's, it's completely random, man. Jim D, Congrats.
- [113:05]
Jeff
Indeed.
- [113:07]
Chip
Congrats. Jim. Right. There he is right there. Jimmy crack Corn. And I don't care. We have his wallet. So there it is. Jimmy Crack Corn. If you go on to go out there and follow Jim D on X at Jimmy Crack Corn. Crack is spelled K R A K crack corn because somebody probably had it spelled the right way.
- [113:24]
Jeff
That's funny. I don't even have it. Oh, there it is. What is it? Jimmy crack coin.
- [113:30]
Chip
Oh, Jimmy crack coin. I'm sorry, not corn. Jimmy crack coin. Jimmy crack corn. Jimmy crack corn. And I don't care. Jimmy crack corn. It's actually a song. The hell is that song from? Jimmy Rack Growing Up. Bluefall. Well known American folk song from the 1840s. Yeah, I didn't know the story behind this, but apparently originates in blackface. Ministrally. That tells the story of an enslaved man whose master dies after a horse throws him. A death Jimmy observes with the famous refrain, jimmy crack corn and I don't care. Possibly because he was given chicken feed. Crack corn is punishment. Refill. Liberated. Wow. Who knew that?
- [114:11]
Jeff
Damn. That's crazy. I had no idea.
- [114:14]
Chip
I had no idea it was. But I guess a lot of things you learn here, whether we want to or not. Here on the.
- [114:20]
Jeff
Whether we want to or not. That's right. And do we want to? Yes, we do. We like learning stuff.
- [114:25]
Chip
We like learning stuff. Hell yeah, we do. Jimmy Crackhorn. Thank you for that. Playing through. Jim also threw his wallet up there on top of it, man.
- [114:33]
Jeff
I like leering stuff.
- [114:35]
Chip
I like leering, leering, learning, learning. It's the best meme ever. All the old songs are messed up like that. Look at Ring around the Rosie. Oh, no. I'm afraid to, man. Don't ruin it for me. Are you that old? Yeah.
- [114:47]
Jeff
Hell yeah. Bring around the Rosie had to do with the Black Death.
- [114:51]
Chip
You have to be. I am that old, unfortunately. Gosh, I hate to say that, but I am that old.
- [114:56]
Jeff
Here we go. Jim D. Sending this NFT over to you now.
- [115:02]
Chip
Yeah, I'm an old dude, man. I mean, what are you gonna do? It's like, been around planet for a long time. I'm the last year of the boomer generation. If you want to look that up, you'll know exactly how old I am, But I'm the last. Okay, Boomer. Boomer. I'm apparently like the cutoff year for the boomer generation, which was after World War II ended and you had that. Everyone went back home and made lots of kids, and that's. That was the cutoff year for that. So there you go. Daycare center. Sure.
- [115:33]
Jeff
You're at the beginning of the X, man.
- [115:35]
Chip
Yeah, I'm kind of like right on the edge there, quite honestly.
- [115:39]
Jeff
So you're on the cusp of the generational tides right on there, Jeff. More Gen X sprinkled in with a little bit of the Boomer.
- [115:51]
Chip
Okay, Boomer. I want to play a little bit of this because I just love Stephen A. But Stephen A. Went mental on Keith Oberman because, Keith, I just want to play this last thing. We'll get out of here. But this is great. I love Stephen A. Here we go.
- [116:03]
Badass Yeti Vocalist
Say this.
- [116:06]
Stephen A. Smith
About Keith Olbermann. I'm sick of your pathetic ass. I really, really am. You're a 66 year old, barely with any friends. Who the hell knows what's going on in your life? And all you do is sit back and the second you disagree with somebody, you pop. You of all people, you.
- [116:33]
Jeff
You.
- [116:34]
Stephen A. Smith
Keith Olbermann literally trying to get me fired. It's time for.
- [116:41]
Chip
As he said, by the way, Keith Olman put this post on acts. He said, by the way, speaking for a lot of people who actually built the place, it's time for ESPN to fire Stephen A. Smith. He's damaging the brand in a way on air cartoon character could never approach well. They don't like when his stance sort of, you know, he's a lefty. But he does see this guy does have the ability to reason and say things the way they are. And people get mad at him because breaks the lefty sort of mold here. So he's going freaking ape over here on.
- [117:09]
Stephen A. Smith
On Keith Overman ESPN to follow Stephen A. He's hurting the brand. He's bad. He's damaging the brand. What cartoon character who looks more like a cartoon character than you? Keith Ozman. You can't run five feet with your fat self.
- [117:30]
Chip
Oh, geez.
- [117:31]
Stephen A. Smith
And I'm not talking about fat people. I'm talking about Keith Olbermann. You can't run five feet. You've been walking around with a K a cane, exercising melodrama every chance you get. All you do is make enemies. You nate Palm Bridges all the time, including espn, and you got the nerve to talk about me? You think I'm gonna say how many times? I want y' all to know, ladies and gentlemen, I've been in this business since 1994. I have never uttered a negative syllable about Keith Olbermann.
- [118:08]
Chip
Ever, ever, ever, Jeff. Ever.
- [118:13]
Stephen A. Smith
Keith Olbermann is one of the greatest talents we have ever had in the history of sports television, if not television overall.
- [118:26]
Chip
Phenomenal.
- [118:27]
Stephen A. Smith
An unbelievably exceptionally gifted writer and commentator.
- [118:33]
Chip
He was great.
- [118:35]
Stephen A. Smith
Who is nothing short of exceptional at.
- [118:39]
Jeff
What he does in sports.
- [118:42]
Stephen A. Smith
So why does he have to resort to being seen on YouTube and barely anywhere else? Because nobody wants him. Because he's a raw pain in the ass, that's why.
- [118:56]
Chip
100%. 100% man. And that with that. Jeff, we gotta get out of here. It was a long show today. We did well, let's hang on for another. Let's see, we're an hour and 59 minutes. Let's just hang on till we get two hours. We haven't done a two hour show in a long time, guys. A long time. Well, we're gonna go ahead and get out of here, guys. We're gonna do this. Appreciate you guys. I guess because we haven't been really doing the show. It's good to have that voice back. So we're gonna get out of here. Jeff, anything before we go?
- [119:35]
Jeff
XRP Plumbing. You folks have a fantastic day. Weekend. Jeff, Chip, take care of yourselves. Peace and love.
- [119:40]
Chip
Peace and love to you too, man. Peace and love. Peace and love. And now you're. He's the new. He's the new agitator in our. In our chat.
- [119:47]
Jeff
We always love having agitators.
- [119:49]
Chip
Yeah, we love that you get us going, man. You just wound up. I think he just does that just to Just. Just to poke the bear in the eye. Yeah. So that's it, guys. We'll see you guys tomorrow night. That's officially. Officially two hours right now. We just hit the two hour mark, guys. We are out of here. Have yourself a great rest of your weekend. We'll see you guys tomorrow night. Chip and Jeff. Oh, let's go. Let's go. Are you down with otc? Please like, subscribe and click the bell to be notified when the next video drops.