Planet Rage #0230 – John C. Dvorak Is Wrong

Summary

Planet Rage #0230 – "John C. Dvorak Is Wrong"

Released: July 20, 2026
Hosts: Larry Bleidner & Darren O’Neill

Episode Overview

Episode 230 of Planet Rage sees Larry and Darren traverse the hotter points of current socio-political insanity, with signature sardonic rage and irreverence. Titled “John C. Dvorak Is Wrong,” the episode riffs on controversies in digital authenticity, the rise in clickbait podcasting, social media fabrications, the ongoing decline of Chicago, political hypocrisy, and cultural decay. Throughout, they roast faulty logic, virtue signaling, and cowardice, all while offering their own take on trending stories.

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Key Discussion Points

1. AI Fakery, Clickbait, and Social Media Stupidity

Starts ~03:10

• The hosts skewer the proliferation of staged videos and fabricated outrage on social media.

  • Eric expresses suspicion about “viral” videos: “It’s either AI or it was completely scripted and fake. But people don’t seem to understand that.” [03:32]
  • They reference No Agenda, with Darren accusing JCD (John C. Dvorak) of not discerning staged AI clips: “It was obvious the guy’s videos he was bringing were completely scripted and done for the lulls, for the clicks.” [04:46]
  • Larry laments the enduring stupidity exploited by content creators: “Most people are stupid. Those guys doing obviously bogus videos know there’s a big chunk of humanity out there.” [04:16]

• On Amazon Echo and voice AI fakes:

  • Eric: “You could have the thing say beyond profanity, literally anything you wanted.” [06:13]

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2. Podcast Clickbait and the ‘Someone-Is-Wrong’ Formula

Starts ~12:00

• The episode reflects on the power of provocative episode titles, and how invoking a prominent name (first Jesse Watters, now JCD) earned a spike in downloads:
  • Eric: “From this point forward, every fucking show is somebody’s wrong.” [14:15]
  • Larry: “We’ll never run out of material, Darren, ever.” [14:22]
  • Insights into podcast metrics show how a No Agenda shout-out can double or triple downloads.

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3. The Internet’s Perverse Incentives: Dunkin’ Croissants & Outrage Loops

Starts ~15:12

• Larry shares his viral post on a bad Dunkin’ croissant, highlighting what gets traction online: “All anybody really fucking cares about is the fucking crappy croissants at Dunkin Donuts.” [17:26]

• The hosts speculate that social media algorithms intentionally stir the pot, fueling culture war friction.

  • Larry: “I think that’s part of our edge.” [20:18]

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4. Chicago: Crime, Taxes & Mayoral Insanity

Extensive, from ~15:00 to ~49:00

• Crime statistics, governance failures, and the exodus of the tax base from Chicago.
  • The hosts lampoon J.B. Pritzker's self-congratulatory interviews and policy lies.
    • Eric: “Raising the minimum wage actually hurts the… disenfranchised. That’s who it hurts.” [24:31]
    • Larry on politicians’ language: “I’d be shocked if it isn’t some type of weasel word phrase that covers the lie.” [26:34]
    • On sky-high property taxes—repeating CBS’s “Illinois has the highest property tax rate in the country.” [28:42]
• William J. Kelly’s confrontation with Mayor Brandon Johnson over crime, policing, and evasion of responsibility:
  • Johnson’s response to criticism: “Your behavior is anti-black. Knock it off.” [35:00]
  • Eric: “You disagree with Brandon Johnson because he’s Black and the reporter’s white? …You’re full of shit, Mr. Mayor.” [35:20]
• Danielle Carter Walters, Chicago Flips Red, and the prospects for a Republican mayor:
  • Walters proposes curfews, parental accountability, enforcing law & order, and ending sanctuary city status. [41:54–46:35]
  • Hosts are cautiously sympathetic, noting the historic obstacles in Chicago’s political machine.

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5. The “Manchild” Problem & Parental Privilege: Sunny Hostin’s Son

Begins ~52:38

• Recapping the viral encounter where The View’s Sunny Hostin's adult son calls his mother (a former prosecutor) after trespassing, hoping to evade a ticket:
  • Darren: “This is 24 years old. …He is not a man; he’s a manchild.” [64:46]
  • Larry: “She should be so mortified and embarrassed for herself and for what she’s done to that dude. She should never show her face in public again.” [65:31]
  • Hosts highlight the hypocrisy of elite “white privilege” critics using privilege for their own kids.
  • Larry on modern parenting: “Kids are kids now until they're like 40 years old, they have bad parents forever.” [68:07]

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6. Hunter Biden, Political Grievances & Hypocrisy

[69:32+]

• Larry likens Hunter Biden to other privileged “manchildren,” mocking his public appearances and perceived lack of accountability.
  • Hunter on Trump: “I would tell him to go fuck himself. …What kind of man would I be if I didn’t?” [71:24–72:11]

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7. Economic Reality Checks – Inflation, Wages, and Podcast Fact-Checking

[76:43+]

• Darren and Larry debunk “everything’s more expensive” myths with data (e.g., egg prices have normalized) and recall much higher mortgage rates in the past.
  • Larry: “That’s actually kind of a normal mortgage rate. When they were down at 2 and 3%, that was fucking insanely low.” [78:06]
  • On the Kamala Harris inflation vote, Byron Donalds corrects progressives on how bills impact inflation. [74:28–76:09]

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8. Radicalization, Marxism, and Culture Decay

[83:48+]

• Larry plays a lengthy Marco Rubio speech warning about the impulses behind radical leftism and communism.
  • Rubio: “It is a revolt of the worst against the best…perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create…by seeking to destroy those who can. This is what radical leftism is.” [84:19]
  • Larry: “Not some people—most people are stupid. If anybody with a fucking brain would read any portion of any of this shit…they should recognize this is crap. I don’t want this.” [86:02]

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9. Education’s Role in Ideological Brainwashing

[90:55+]

• They revisit anti-American narratives in the school system, echoing a (British) professor’s testimony:
  • “What little they know of history will be all about black and brown people fighting for equality against the white man... history is taught through an oppressor lens…” [90:47–91:47]
  • Larry: “That’s what they’ve been fed…The teachers have been affixing fire hoses to kids’ mouths and fucking shooting their garbage down their throats for decades.” [90:27, 92:54]

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10. Media Clown Show: Don Lemon, Joy Behar, and ‘The View’

[96:47+]

• Don Lemon compared MAGA to the Nazi party: “MAGA is the closest thing to the modern version of a Nazi party.” [97:10]
  • Darren: “Make America Great Again…is as close to the Nazi party as we’ve ever had, according to Don Lemon. What proof does he have? Really, none.” [97:10–97:37]
• Joy Behar’s ignorance about Jesus’ self-identity, and the ongoing decline of talk shows to intellectual black holes.

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11. Culture Wars, Trans Issues & California Madness

[122:25+]

• Stephen A. Smith is played condemning California’s “gender-affirming” laws for minors:
  • “You can’t tell my child to go across the damn street without my permission. What the hell you doing signing off…on the notion that a kid can do something…like a sex change without the parental consent? The hell is wrong with people?" [122:50]
  • They argue that overreach on social issues could finally break Democratic dominance.

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12. Defending Elon Musk and Free Speech

[117:51+]

• European MP Eva Vlaardingerbroek is praised for defending Musk’s role in protecting free speech:
  • “Elon Musk saved X by buying it, but he also saved freedom of speech in Europe by buying it ... There are billionaires in this world who do nothing to protect freedom of speech and in fact do a lot of bad things to limit it even further.” [118:54]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Social Media Outrage:

  • Larry: “Most people are stupid.” [04:16]
  • Eric, on viral videos: “It’s either AI or it was completely scripted and fake.” [03:32]

• Podcasting Real Talk:

  • “From this point forward, every fucking show is somebody’s wrong.” — Eric [14:15]

• On Political Evasion:

  • Mayor Johnson’s stonewalling: “Your behavior is anti-black. Knock it off.” [35:00]
  • Eric: “You’re full of shit, Mr. Mayor.” [35:20]

• On ‘Manchild’ America:

  • Larry: “He is not a man; he’s a manchild.” [64:48]
  • “She should be so mortified and embarrassed…she should never show her face in public again.” [65:31]

• On Economic Reality:

  • Larry: “When they were down at 2 and 3%, that was fucking insanely low. But people don’t know that.” [78:06]

• On the Leftist Utopia:

  • Marco Rubio: “It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice, liberation.” [84:19]

• On Education and Indoctrination:

  • Guest: “What little they know of history will be all about black and brown people fighting for equality against the white man.” [91:06]

• On Therapy Culture:

  • “Kids are kids now until they’re like 40 years old, they have bad parents forever.” — Eric [68:07]

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Significant Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment / Quote | |-----------|----------------------------------------------------------| | 03:10 | Rant on fake/invented outrage and AI-staged viral videos | | 12:00 | Power of clickbait episode titles | | 24:31 | J.B. Pritzker’s lies on minimum wage and affordability | | 28:42 | “Illinois has the highest property tax” (news clip) | | 35:00 | Mayor Johnson: “Your behavior is anti-black. Knock it off.”| | 41:54 | Danielle Carter Walters: Policy proposals as GOP candidate| | 52:38 | Sunny Hostin’s son, the “manchild” incident | | 64:48 | “He is not a man; he’s a manchild.” – Larry | | 84:19 | Marco Rubio’s takedown of radical leftism | | 90:47 | Brit academic on school curriculum and history | | 97:10 | Don Lemon: “MAGA is the modern Nazi party.” | | 122:50 | Stephen A. Smith on child transitions and consent | | 118:54 | Eva Vlaardingerbroek on Musk, free speech & EU |

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Tone & Style

• The episode is brash, explicit, and funny, mixing gallows humor with exasperated realism (“They’re totally fucking garbage. Just, just junk people.” [00:00])
• Hosts freely insult stupidity and hypocrisy in politics, culture and the media, adhering to a “rage management” flavor (as near the close: "We're like no agenda, but with an anger management issue." [19:43])
• Loads of pop-culture, cross-podcast references, sometimes inside-jokes for devoted listeners.

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Value for Value and Closing

• The hosts thank donors by name, joke about podcasting as a sustenance pursuit (“If everybody listening right now would come in with two bucks...”), and reaffirm their commitment to listener-driven value.
• Closing banter includes nostalgia for Keith the Queef and the legacy of old-school, irreverent radio.

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Summary

Episode 230 of Planet Rage is a classic of the show’s chaotic, anti-PC style—an unfiltered takedown of digital fakery, political hypocrisy, the culture of perpetual outrage, and the deterioration of civic life in places like Chicago and California. Using wit and direct language, Larry and Darren lay bare what they see as the failings of current American and Western society, calling out both left-wing overreach and the enabling stupidity that powers it. With viral stories as their springboard (from “manchild” privilege to violence-as-victimhood mentality), they argue that only real talk and exemplary hard truths can counter the prevailing madness.

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Note: All quotes and timestamps taken verbatim from the episode transcript. Only primary content is included; all ads, intros, and outros are omitted.

Transcript

[Larry Blidner]

They're totally fucking garbage. Just, just junk people.

[Darren O']

The U.S. strikes back.

[William J. Kelly]

Killing a member of the Islamic State

[Mamdani]

home world going shit.

[Eric BP]

Planet Rage.

[Larry Blidner]

Planet ra. Planet rage.

[Darren O']

Welcome to Planet Rage, the intersection of insanity and madness. Here are your hosts, Larry Blidner and Darren o'.

[William J. Kelly]

Neal.

[Eric BP]

Hey, Larry, we've made it to the dentist's favorite episode. It's 2:30. He's muted. Man, this is coming out of the box strong.

[Larry Blidner]

Here I am, baby. Sorry about that. I was laughing hard at the dentist line and that's okay, right?

[Eric BP]

2:30. Get it?

[Larry Blidner]

230.

[Eric BP]

2:30. Yeah, it's that time when you go to the dentist. If they make your appointment for 2:30,

[Larry Blidner]

run, run like hell.

[Eric BP]

Going to be painful. Or if you want to hear about some good, well, some bad dental experiences, either listen to my shows or. Larry had a great episode about a dentist that nearly killed him.

[Larry Blidner]

He almost did that. Boy, oh boy.

[Eric BP]

That's why when I see things on like Fox News now, like, would you trust a little AI powered dental robot in your mouth? I'm like more than a lot of dentists.

[Larry Blidner]

Absolutely. Definitely more sanitary. Yeah.

[Eric BP]

And they could.

[Larry Blidner]

That's how the guy almost killed me. First of all, he infected my mouth with something, you know, when he was in there cutting out two wisdom teeth. And then he let me go too soon and I woke up at the bottom of a staircase because, you know, the drugs hadn't yet worn off. Holy shit. Very bad.

[Eric BP]

Yeah, they give you some good stuff or bad stuff, depending on how you rate them.

[Danielle Carter Walters]

Very bad.

[Eric BP]

In this past weekend, shy rack, very, very concerning. Only one reported shot and killed and 19 shot and wounded.

[Larry Blidner]

Well, I guess Brandon and Pritzker got everything under control then. It's the only possible explanation, isn't it, Darren?

[Eric BP]

No. I got a lot on a lot on the boys from Illinois. But now there could be a lot more. The shot clock actually stayed at 1 every 4 hours and 42 minutes where the murdered slowed slightly. 1 every 19 hours and 35 minutes. But no, the Illinois. It's amazing to me, like social media, how much is just absolute fabrications, absolute lies. People don't even consider the most basic questions. Like there was a video today of an older guy, like slapping a guy on the back of the head because he wasn't standing up at a Cub game during the national anthem. All right, and I want to know one, well then who was taking the video and why? Because it didn't seem like this was a big altercation at first. It's like when the camera just happens to be rolling to catch something. It's like, it's either AI or it was completely scripted and fake. But people don't seem to understand that.

[Larry Blidner]

No, they don't. They do not.

[Eric BP]

Which is very concerning. Like, you don't get, well, why do you think this person was filming this interaction then? If it wasn't the guy and it wasn't the guy that he slapped in the head during the national anthem, why is somebody focusing the camera on this guy? Doesn't make any sense. And if these two guys didn't know each other and somebody hit you in the back of the head, it was not going to go with just standing up and no other reaction. I'm sorry. This is Chicago.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, but you know, people. I really believe. And it's not. Some people are stupid. Most people are stupid. And those guys that are doing those, you know, obviously bogus videos, they know there's. There's a big, big chunk of humanity out there.

[Eric BP]

It's gonna look like I'm pissed off.

[Mamdani]

Right?

[Eric BP]

Well, like, it's like JCD with all of his AI clips that he brought to no Agenda yesterday. And I'm in the troll room. Like, it's full of not real. Not these things. Like, they can't count to 10. I'm like, AI suck in a lot of ways.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

But it was obvious that the guy's videos he was bringing was completely scripted and done for the lulls, for the clicks, because people go, I didn't.

[Larry Blidner]

I didn't get through the whole show. John knew this, of course, before he played them.

[Eric BP]

No, he believed.

[Larry Blidner]

No. Oh, yeah.

[Eric BP]

It's like, no, these are not real.

[Larry Blidner]

How dumb. Somebody couldn't count to 10. What else do they have?

[Eric BP]

Well, the device wouldn't count to 10 for him, and he was asking for it to count to 100, but it's really no different.

[Larry Blidner]

All right.

[Eric BP]

And he was like. In the way the AI was answering, it was too quick. Of course. They used the chat GPT voice that everybody knows what sounds like a younger black dude. So it's a very distinctive voice, which sells the credibility on it.

[Larry Blidner]

Well, you know, but long, long before there was. I mean, there were countless. Just millions of hours of. Of YouTube footage of people being stup. Jay Leno. And, you know, the man in the street thing has been a wellspring of humor for American, you know, for the idiocy of many Americans for forever, you know.

[Eric BP]

Yeah. So once the Amazon and any of those types of devices. But the Amazon was the first one I remember, beyond one being in the phone, like the Siri with the Apple was the first. But the big talking tubes in the home, right. The first one was the Amazon devices. And there were countless videos of people that faked what the thing could say. Because one, almost from the beginning you could do custom programing, like if you were running a B and B, you know, or one of these vacation rentals where nobody is even there, see, the host is not there. You could set it up so they could ask questions like hey, where are the extra towels? And it would answer so you could have the thing say beyond profanity, literally anything you wanted. And people are like, oh, you see, this is what it answered. Because they're. It's either a liberal or it's a conservative, or for whatever reason, people should be upset by the answer that it gave.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

And you have to be able to understand how easy it is to fake. And then again, jcd, you would have to ask yourself what is the probability of this being real or not? And he says he tries these different AIs. So did you try any of these things? Because I did and got totally different answers than what the guy on the videos is showing. It's like, it's for entertainment. And it's also concerning when you go look at just what is being posted on social media by politicians. Now for the Democrat Party that was allegedly agog because Donald Trump would post mean things. It's non stop now from oh yeah, not just the twits that are the talking heads like the Harry Sissons and those ilk, but you know, JB Pritzker posting stuff. You know, Trump's a loser. Nancy Pelosi, Trump's a loser. You know, it's like there's.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, well, I want to know which ones are getting, as Trump said in his speech, being paid directly right. By the Communist Chinese party to do this stuff. I wonder if Harry's one of those or your buddy and, and Sir Benrose's buddy Pacman. You know, it's possible.

[Eric BP]

I wouldn't doubt it if they're taking money from anywhere. And then you start realizing this could go into people on the networks as well. This doesn't just have to be the.

[Larry Blidner]

Sure.

[Eric BP]

You know, idiots on YouTube with their own show.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah. Scott Belly, you know.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Right.

[Larry Blidner]

And Scott Simon.

[Eric BP]

And you have to ask why are they saying the things that they are? Why do you have networks refusing to take a speech by a president who brought out some new information? And again, you are way better off as far as promoting your particular political agenda by saying, hey, let Me show you exactly what Donald Trump said and then tell you why he's lying, why he's full of shit, why he's wrong. That is very powerful. The. We're not even going to let you hear it. That says to me that you don't have any valid response to it.

[Larry Blidner]

Well, I think it was very powerful. I mean, look at, look at what, look at what Twitter was doing to the Republican Party and right wingers prior to the Musk purchase.

[Eric BP]

Yes.

[Larry Blidner]

You know, silence is very fucking powerful. You know, and I mean, really, that's the mainstay. That's the critical mass of leftism. It's not so much what they say, it's what they leave out, what they don't say and what they don't let be said. So, you know, I think that's a very. It's a very powerful weapon and they.

[Eric BP]

I agree, but if you're going to do that, you make it very clear that you actually have no response for the data that is being put out there. And then there's a bunch of videos where they're like, oh, the Spanish team hates Donald Trump. They won the World Cup. It's like, well, it just happened to pop up on my screen when the awards were being given out right after the game. And every single one of them shook his hand, smiled, he was putting the medals around their necks, him and another dude who I'm assuming was from FIFA. Yeah, but they were sharing the. Putting the medals on. It's like there was no ill will there. And they're like, oh, Donald Trump was trying to get in the picture. It's like, no, he wasn't.

[Larry Blidner]

No, not at all. But they had that teed up from the previous week when Trump was saying, essentially, Spain, I don't like them. You know, and then. And then the big thing was, well, we'll see how this works out next week if Spain wins, you know.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Right.

[Larry Blidner]

And, you know, Trump, being a really smart guy, just, you know, congratulated. And then they tried to. There was one guy, his name is something like Misa M I S S

[Eric BP]

A, I think Messi.

[Larry Blidner]

Messi. Whatever the fuck it was, something like that. And he goes up to get his medal and shakes Trump's hand and does not only, like for a split second looks him in the eye, but then he's looking away. And everybody interprets that as, oh, he fucking hates his guts, so he won't. He didn't want to be there, but the guy was some kind of a test. I mean, I get that all the Time from. From Starbucks to supermarkets, you know, people, there's a. There's a vast, vast chunk of. Of Gen Z, or Gen Zeds, as Devora calls them, who don't want to look people in the eye. Really?

[Eric BP]

Yes.

[Larry Blidner]

It's. It's so scary because they're. They're just. They're just accustomed to. With their phones. That's their form of communication. And that was clearly what was going on with this guy.

[Eric BP]

People read things into. It's hilarious that people give him the time of day and sad at the same time.

[Neal]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

But I think I'm going to entitle today's episode, JCD is Wrong. And let me explain why.

[Mamdani]

Wow.

[Larry Blidner]

So we're. So we're just. You just. You want to fire a shot across the bow?

[Eric BP]

Well, this is marketing. It is marketing because I was looking. I mean, donations are down as they are with no agenda, but our down is different than no agenda down. Like, when they're down, they're like, hey, Saranimus sent us 3,500 in cash. When we're down, it's like we didn't get 35 bucks. So it's a little bit of a different down, which would be a great show title as well, to a different down.

[Larry Blidner]

But yes.

[Eric BP]

I went to look at these stats from our web server. I'm like, well, how are we doing?

[Larry Blidner]

How are we doing? I want to know.

[Eric BP]

Valid question. Right? And I'm going through and looking. And most of our shows up until recently, the downloads are somewhere around 3,000 downloads per show, which is.

[Larry Blidner]

That's pretty damn good for a little

[Eric BP]

engine like us, for a multiple hour show of angry guys talking about politics. That many complete downloads. Yes, it's fairly impressive in the podcasting world. I mean, we're not going to compete with Joe Rogan and no Agenda, but still not yet pretty intriguing. And I looked and it's like, okay, then, episode number 227. We're on 2:30 now. That one hit a little over 6,000 downloads.

[Larry Blidner]

Why was that?

[Eric BP]

I don't know. It may be because of 228, which hit 15,000 downloads.

[Larry Blidner]

What the fuck, man? I want explanations for this.

[Eric BP]

Well, 228, hence the show title I want for today, JCD is wrong. 228 was Jesse Waters is wrong. Not only that, it followed no Agenda. So Adam Curry at the end of no Agenda said, oh. Coming up Next, Planet Rage.228. Jesse Waters is wrong. That ought to be interesting.

[Larry Blidner]

Well, boom, that's it.

[Eric BP]

I'm wondering if that was it, that the Podfather. Just saying that at the end of no agenda, I wouldn't doubt it.

[Larry Blidner]

Forbidden this point forward. Every fucking show is somebody's wrong.

[Eric BP]

Planet Rage is gonna be.

[Larry Blidner]

We'll never run out of material, Darren, ever.

[Eric BP]

There's a lot of people that are wrong, let me tell you.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah. And if we get tired of that, everybody's wrong but us.

[Eric BP]

Yes.

[Larry Blidner]

How about that?

[Eric BP]

And then the last show was back to 7,000, but I say back to 7,000, we were averaging three.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

And over the last three episodes have six, seven and 15,000 downloads.

[Larry Blidner]

Well, I had a little lesson in this myself, which you may. You may find amusing. Right. So between, you know, you. Between Planet Rage and this and, you know, random thoughts and it's a. Our whole little sort of network of stuff, you know. Many years. Been doing that Larry show for 10 years. You've been with. With random thoughts for probably what, eight or nine by now, I would think.

[Eric BP]

Yeah, I think it's eight years.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah. You know, and all. And so, you know, and over those years I've posted a ton of. On X and no Agenda Social. And I don't. I don't do any others really. I don't do really very much on Facebook or. And I don't do Tick tock or Instagram. But you know, sometimes I get kind of a, you know, something will. Will strike a chord with people and I'll get a bunch of likes and you know, retweets or whatever. Reposts. But a couple of weeks ago, I went in a Dunkin Donuts local. Dunkin Donuts. And I got my usual order, which is a. A latte and a croissant. Right. And they hand me this bag. Usually there's a decent, you know, it's not like a, you know, quality bake bakery croissant, but it's kind of puffy and flaky and it tastes all right.

[Eric BP]

Oh, I saw the picture of this thing.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah. And this thing. And the picture doesn't do it justice because it really was like the size of a hockey puck and almost the same consistency. It was just this greasy fucking lump of shit, you know. And so when I moved to Connecticut, my wife. My wife said, oh, you got to join this. Whatever the fucking next door, you know, thing is for the neighborhood. You familiar with that, that platform?

[Eric BP]

Yeah. Where people have the Neighborhood Watch kind of thing?

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, some neighbor. Yeah. And it's all stupid shit, you know, look what I saw in my. Look at the bird I saw yesterday. And I got A hangnail. What should I do about it? It's all fucking moronic crap. I almost never look at it.

[Eric BP]

Larry's only paying attention to the British version of Bird.

[Larry Blidner]

There you go.

[Neal]

Yeah.

[Larry Blidner]

So for the fuck of it, I posted that picture that you saw on Darren there and I said, dunkin Donuts says, this is a croissant. It's an insult. Right. That fucking thing blew up. Like I gave away a nuclear secret in this little dipshit fucking area. We're not only talking maybe, you know, a couple thousand people, whatever, might look this. And I'm still getting notifications. There's another comment on your croissant. You know, and that told me so much about America and the Internet because sometimes I post stuff that's kind of important and kind of. Kind of funny and kind of cool. But no, all anybody really fucking cares about is the fucking crappy croissants at Dunkin Donuts.

[Eric BP]

Oh, yeah. And if you're on X now, if you respond to one liberal to tell them they're full of shit, all you get in your feed is liberals. It's interesting.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, they did that to me. Yeah, it's just carpeted with them. Yes.

[Eric BP]

It's like immediately they're like, you want to follow these people? It's like, okay, Elon, JCD's right here. If your AI was super smart, it would look at the response and go, well, this is to a liberal or whatever group. You would know who the poster is. And then is the response positive or negative? Or maybe they're doing it exactly because they want the fighting and they know the fighting is.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, I think so.

[Eric BP]

Is what generates more interest and keeps people on there. It's like. But I don't really have arguments with people on X because you've learned that it doesn't help. You're not going to convince anybody. You're not really ever. Nobody's ever going to be like, wow, thank you for letting me know. Whether it's obvious that you're right and now you've let me see the light. Never once has that happened. No, it never will, you know, just absolutely not going to happen. But I was intrigued. I mean, like, one, it was the Jesse Waters thing or was it because it was after no Agenda and Adam mentioned it?

[Larry Blidner]

Probably all three.

[Eric BP]

And if we name it JCD was wrong, Will Adam read the title with the same via? Maybe more. He might really sell it there. Dude is wrong.

[Larry Blidner]

He's wrong, I said.

[Eric BP]

The funny thing was we talked about Jesse waters for like 15 seconds on that show.

[Larry Blidner]

That's true. We gave it very short shrift. You're right. Yeah.

[Eric BP]

Like you can't believe what the title says.

[Larry Blidner]

No, no, it's clickbait.

[Eric BP]

But I was intrigued because the one thing I have known for a while when it comes to any of these ventures, so podcasts, but also, you know, if you're a YouTuber, anybody doing content in the way that we are, there is usually a slow burn up until you hit a point and then it's usually crazy quick up from there.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

I'm wondering if we're getting close to that point to where it's like, well, people are noticing. People like the show. We are kind of like no agenda with an anger management issue. So if you like no agenda and you listen to those shows when they're live, where you listen to those shows in one day, well, you need a least a third for your week and probably a fourth and a fifth.

[Larry Blidner]

Definitely. And think of it this way, wouldn't you rather hear Darren or me say bullshit instead of John saying bull crap?

[Eric BP]

I mean, he said. I mean, these. They've been trying to stop swearing. I mean, that's been there and it's futile.

[Larry Blidner]

Why do they do that? No, keep doing that because I think that's part of our edge.

[Eric BP]

That's bullshit.

[Imbecile Husband]

That's fast.

[Larry Blidner]

Well, or impressive.

[Mamdani]

Go yourself.

[Larry Blidner]

There you are. There you go.

[Mamdani]

What did you have for breakfast?

[Eric BP]

I mean, what did you have for breakfast? Line sold that ISO more than anything else because. Oh, yeah, it was just so unexpected from jcd. That was. That was, you know, before the heart attack. He wasn't quite as kind and gentle as he is now.

[Larry Blidner]

It was like. It was like he's like Trump Post assassination attempt to kind of mellowed him out a lot.

[Eric BP]

Yes, they've figured, you know, it's a whole new JCD now. I mean, it may be. And they may have. They may have had like a Biden double. We may have had a. Ooh, it could be a JCD double. We don't know. But for what? Yeah, if anybody is new and listening and you haven't heard the show before and you're part of this, then let us know. Just say hi. I mean, donating would be great. Planetrage show slash donate. Or you can just drop us a email at Rage at Planetrage show, just

[Larry Blidner]

say, hey, you know, so Adam, like, he's. He's a, you know, serious techie kind of Ben dude, right. And I guess I understand that he somehow programmed or created that sort of all Knowing AI voice that says. And so it is written. You know, was that his. His thing? Did he do that? Or is that. Is that. Does everyone have access to that.

[Eric BP]

That voice? I'm sure somebody has access to that voice. And running a local AI with a text to speech isn't really all that hard to set up.

[Larry Blidner]

All right, so that's what he did. All right, so who knows? Maybe, maybe, you know, maybe John's gone and Adam's doing a, you know, an AI filling.

[Eric BP]

Could be just. Although Dvorak was hard to. Because of the cadence and the way he speaks.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

It is much harder to make it sound like him than somebody who has a voice that doesn't change all that much. Women seem to be way more consistent for some reason. At least just hearing the voice and how long you can get away with it. Like, I think this sounds fairly decent.

[Darren O']

I love getting up in the morning to Darren o'.

[Neal]

Neal.

[Danielle Carter Walters]

Who the fuck is that?

[Eric BP]

I mean, I think that sounds 95% Taylor Swift.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, is that. Is that what Tay Tay sounds like? Okay, that's good.

[Eric BP]

There's something with people, like I said with RFK Jr. You're not Bobby Kennedy. You're not going to get Bobby Kennedy. So it's a. The voice would be very hard for an AI to duplicate.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

So it's very interesting. Some voices are easier than others and it's how quickly, you know, things respond. Which was another kind of giveaway with the AI videos where the guy's like, oh, I now have three AIs on the line, three different devices, and they're talking to each other. It's like, it doesn't work like that. It's never gonna work like that.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, I don't believe. Oh, I. I contest that, man. I think it's only a matter of time until, I mean, think of it instead of, you know, Rogan and. And Candy O and all these people on each other, that's just. Just set up warring fucking AI podcasters and let it rip.

[Eric BP]

That would be better. It would never end. It would just keep going.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, that's got to be in the tubes. Has to be.

[Eric BP]

Yeah, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But, you know, when you getting back to the crime in Chiraq, it's like one. No, this is not changing. I thought this was interesting because, you know, J.B. pritzker is in the news. I think he still believes he might be able to run for president.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, I think he's got a. It's a tiny shot.

[Eric BP]

You know, this Was JB Pritzker on one of these news programs?

[J]

Well, I think you know that my agenda, which I've gotten through and, and done in Illinois, we have more to do. But I. But I raised the minimum wage. It was $8.25. When I ran for office, I said I was going to raise it to $15 an hour, and I did.

[Eric BP]

Okay. I just want to point out, for anybody that's been following along, raising the minimum wage actually hurts the less, you know, the disenfranchised, that's who it hurts. Because the more you raise the minimum wage, the less likely a poor person is going to be able to find a job. This has long been proven to be true, but yet it's the first thing that J.B. pritzker will tell you on a news program. Because he's a liar.

[Mamdani]

Yeah.

[Larry Blidner]

Well, I read recently that Mamdami teamed up with. Apparently the hotel workers in New York have a very powerful local. And so the maids. The maids now doing the rooms in hotels in New York are gonna be getting over 100 grand a year.

[Eric BP]

Oh, that's sustainable.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah. Just think of what that will do for the tourist business when the minimum nightly room rate in New for some will be, you know, two, three thousand.

[K]

Right?

[Eric BP]

What? What? Tourists, Larry, they'll be gone. Yeah, of course, but that's what they want. They want to then turn those hotels into homes for migrants.

[Larry Blidner]

Exactly, yes.

[Eric BP]

And you know who's going to pay for that? Well, the city will, of course, which means the taxpayers, which means you, if you live in that city. Anyway,

[J]

I said I was going to make life more affordable. And indeed we made homeowners insurance more affordable.

[Danielle Carter Walters]

Wow.

[Eric BP]

No, it did not. Did not make home. Homeowners insurance has gone up. Yeah. It's a lie. Just pure lie to lie.

[J]

We made auto insurance more affordable.

[Eric BP]

Did not make auto insurance more affordable at all. I've never heard anybody that I know complain. You know, I hear everybody complain about auto insurance going up. I have not heard anybody come out and say, wow, I'm so glad JB Pritzker fixed auto insurance. My auto insurance went down. I haven't heard that from one person in Illinois, I would bet.

[Larry Blidner]

I mean, he's a wily fuck who I detest, but I'd be shocked if that isn't some type of a weasel word phrase that covers the lie. So instead of saying auto insurance, homeowners insurance was reduced. The prices are reduced. That's real fucking easy to say. As you said, eh, you're wrong, but it's probably something like when you factor in cost of living and inflation and the phases of the moon. You know, he's got some probably formula they came up with behind that to somehow validate or substantiate that claim. I'd be shocked if he didn't because he's a.

[Eric BP]

A politician.

[Mamdani]

Lying.

[Larry Blidner]

Imagine that

[J]

we said we were going to fix the roads and the bridges and the airports and the water ports across the state. And what do you know, we have. And so there's much more to do. But I think, you know, it is about addressing the things that really affect your daily life. And all those things could be steps in the right direction and could be positive. But just like safety in so many ways.

[Eric BP]

Unless people really feel it.

[J]

Yeah, it doesn't matter, Right. I mean, you have everything, everything's pockets matters to people, right? I mean, that does matter. It actually want to make things more affordable.

[L]

Right.

[J]

The best thing you can do is put a little more money in people's pockets.

[Eric BP]

Yeah. Put more money in people's pockets. Which since JB Pritzker has been in office, you would expect from what he just said there for that, the Illinois state income tax rate would have come down under him, right? No, no, it hasn't. Our sales tax in the state of Illinois should have come down then, right? No, no. So our gas tax, of course, then would have come down under JB PR now, the tolls on the tollways in Illinois. No, no, that hasn't come down either. And property tax. Well, here's what CBS Chicago says about Chicago's property taxes.

[Darren O']

Illinois homeowners are feeling the pinch. Some new data shows that Illinois does have the highest property tax rate in the country.

[Eric BP]

Wait, wait, wait. The wait. JB Pritzker is making everybody. Oh, it's great. What do you mean?

[Darren O']

Rate in the country? Property tax. Have the highest property tax rate in the country. The highest property tax rate in the country.

[Eric BP]

Can't believe it.

[Darren O']

The highest property tax rate in the country.

[Eric BP]

Yeah.

[Darren O']

Jb, the cap shows Illinois on top ahead of states like New Jersey and Connecticut, where tax.

[Eric BP]

Oh, man, we're paying more than you, Larry. This sucks.

[Larry Blidner]

Wow.

[Darren O']

They're also among the nation's highest. According to a researcher at the Tax Policy center, the median property tax bill in the US jumped 30% between 2019 and 2024. Experts say a big reason is rising home values that are then driving up assessments. If you're looking for the lowest property tax rates, head to beautiful Hawaii.

[Eric BP]

Yeah, but you can't afford a hot dog in Hawaii.

[Larry Blidner]

That's true. And somehow I suspect that's bullshit too. But who knows?

[Eric BP]

Probably. Or that's like, it's very, it's very little property. So I don't know how they're.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eric BP]

Figuring that one out. But I love when politicians will just come right out and lie to you again because nobody's going to fact check check them in the mainstream media. Very rarely do you even see on X where there is an official thing that pops up with like, enough people have questioned this because it's bullshit. Things just go in and people just like, okay, it must be true because he said it like not, not true at all.

[Larry Blidner]

I just wish that Juicy Smollett would come back into the fore and get involved in Chicago and Illinois politics. That's what I want to see.

[Eric BP]

He might be a better mayor than Brandon Johnson. That's the problem.

[Neal]

Right?

[Larry Blidner]

That's what I want to see. That, that guy, he's been too quiet lately. Let's revive him.

[Eric BP]

We had something from this guy on, I think one of the last shows. This is William J. Kelly, who is a longtime Chicago reporter who likes to troll Brandon Johnson. So it's always fun and amusing to hear what he is saying to the. To the hapless mayor.

[William J. Kelly]

Mayor Johnson. The University of Chicago, one of the most prestigious universities in the city, in the country, really just released a poll today stating that 60% of Chicagoans do not want you to run for reelection. I guess, presumably don't want you to be mayor. Period.

[Eric BP]

I mean, that's a pretty big number. 60% are like, no, get rid of this guy.

[Larry Blidner]

Yes, it is.

[Eric BP]

Will they elect somebody else in the next election? That's going to be the question.

[William J. Kelly]

This, I have to tell you, is hundreds of thousands of real Chicagoans who have been reaching out to me personally over the course of the last year, essentially stating the exact same thing. They say that it's because of your, your approach to violent crime, specifically the way you handled the Sheridan Gorman case. On the day that Sheridan Gorman's parents came to Chicago to retrieve her body, you told jokes about abolishing ice. You, you named an ice plow. Abolish ice. You, you laughed, you smiled, you giggle.

[Darren O']

Do you have a question?

[M]

Yes.

[William J. Kelly]

Many Chicago, that was despicable. It was below the dignity of the office of. Of mayor. It was below the dignity of really the United States of America, a big city. Mayor William, I believe your question is about the polling. Do you.

[Darren O']

Is that correct?

[William J. Kelly]

Even two.

[Eric BP]

Would you not want to just smack this broad? Oh, it's like this is the typical liberal. What?

[J]

You can't.

[Eric BP]

Mayor Johnson can't even hear the full question from the guy without somebody coming to his aid.

[Larry Blidner]

But, you know, Mayor Johnson's pulling her chain, shut this guy up.

[Eric BP]

It's like, what, the dudes?

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, he's pressing a button, like, nah,

[Eric BP]

dude, no wonder where people don't want you in office.

[William J. Kelly]

Two decent words that you can cobble together to say to apologize to the parents of Sheridan Gorman.

[N]

Well, look, as I said before, you know, every act of violence in this city is horrific. And you know we will continue to do everything in our power to keep the people of this city safe. Look, one act of violence is one too many. It is my top priority, and I will continue to do everything that I can to create safe and affordable communities. Right. And as much as we grieve for the loss of life and all of the lives that have been lost because of the senseless acts of violence.

[William J. Kelly]

Can you even say her name?

[N]

The larger point is that we do have a real issue with illegal weapons in this. In the city of Chicago and across America, the federal government has to do a better job partnering with municipalities.

[William J. Kelly]

You don't seem to want to say the name Sheridan Gorman.

[Darren O']

I believe you asked your follow up question.

[William J. Kelly]

The follow up question. It has to do with law enforcement. Police Superintendent Snelling retired today. Hundreds of thousands of real Chicagoans again tell me that Superintendent Snelling was the only bright light in your administration. Will your next superintendent appointee have to follow your anti police philosophies? That, that. That law enforcement is a sickness. A quote, sickness that incarcerating repeat violent offenders like.

[Darren O']

All right, thank you for the question.

[N]

I got your question. Wait a minute. So, no, I'm not. I'm not anti police.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Police.

[N]

And I've been very clear about that.

[Eric BP]

And I think.

[N]

William, you can't talk over me. William, you can't talk over me. All right, I'm responding to your question.

[William J. Kelly]

Over my question.

[N]

Well, listen, if you. Okay.

[L]

For me.

[N]

All right, let's move on. Thank you.

[William J. Kelly]

Will you. Will you.

[N]

I've already answered your question. In fact, the way you are conducting yourself right now, though, you're accusing me.

[Eric BP]

Okay, what do you think? What do you think he's going to accuse him of here, everybody.

[Larry Blidner]

I don't know.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Will you.

[William J. Kelly]

Will you.

[N]

I've already answered your question. In fact, the way you are conducting yourself right now, though, you're accusing me of being anti police. Your behavior is anti black. Knock it off.

[William J. Kelly]

Really? Really?

[N]

Next question.

[Larry Blidner]

Holy shit.

[Eric BP]

This is how bad it's become. You disagree with Brandon Johnson because he's black and the reporter's white. Well, what you're doing to me is anti black. I'm like, you're full of shit, Mr. Mayor.

[Larry Blidner]

Wow.

[Eric BP]

But it shows you how easy this rolls off their tongue. You got nothing else. You're a racist. This is it. That's what they did to Trump is what they do to everybody. Oh, you don't. You don't want to believe what I'm telling you.

[Neal]

Racist.

[Eric BP]

It's unbelievable. It really is.

[Larry Blidner]

Wow. I mean, this.

[Eric BP]

Where did we go from point A to that point B? And I will. You know, William J. Kelly, I understand what he's doing because he's actually using the leftist playbook, which I think is hilarious with the say your name thing.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

But.

[Eric BP]

But I don't really think that necessarily is forwarding any. As a good leftist. I'm surprised Brandon Johnson doesn't understand that playbook. And why wouldn't you just then say the woman's name?

[Larry Blidner]

Well, he's a former educator. What. What was the. What was her story?

[Eric BP]

She was just out with friends, was a Loyola student, and was killed by a migrant for no apparent reason.

[Neal]

Mm.

[Eric BP]

Shot multiple times. But, you know, migrants, they're. They should be here. And.

[Larry Blidner]

Yes.

[Eric BP]

You know, they shouldn't be incarcerated.

[Larry Blidner]

You mean illegal aliens.

[Mamdani]

Right.

[Larry Blidner]

Right. I don't call them migrants, but, I

[Eric BP]

mean, they were originally migrants, but they could also be illegal aliens. I mean, some migrants aren't illegal, but the ones that come in without permission,

[Larry Blidner]

the ones that aren't illegal go home after the job's done.

[Eric BP]

No. Why would they ever go home? America, baby. Everybody that came to see the World Cup's like, america, baby, we love America. But you're racist if you disagree.

[Larry Blidner]

Yes.

[Eric BP]

With what is going on.

[Larry Blidner]

What an. He is really.

[Eric BP]

I mean, as long as we did Brandon Johnson, if I got one more on him explaining how the budget's gonna work for. For Chiraq.

[N]

Today you introduced another referendum question calling for a 3% tax on millionaires. Why is this something you're trying again after alderman struck it down last week? Just because you have some corporate aligned alders that are resistant to the needs of working people, that doesn't mean you give up the fight for working people. Look, I'm not the first leader to propose bold transformational ideas. And then you have a handful of. Of corporatists that.

[Eric BP]

Bold transformational ideas, Larry, that's. We charge the rich more. That's a bold.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, I had a question for Brandy. You know, just Guessing, are millionaires working people as well? Don't they work for their money? Some of them.

[Eric BP]

This is very much like what Mamdani stepped in with working class question this past week.

[Larry Blidner]

Sure, sure.

[Eric BP]

What is the working class to you? I love when people are using things like the working class. The working class. The working class. You're like, oh, can you define the working class?

[Mamdani]

Well, fuck you.

[Eric BP]

Why would you ask that? Well, because you keep saying the working class.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[N]

I want to prevent that progress from happening. When you talk to everyday people in this city, they know that our revenue streams and the way we attract revenue is unfair. That's why we were able to effectively pass the social media amusement responsibility tax. And then the state of Illinois followed our lead. The economy is shifting and we have to shift with it. We have to go know where the revenue is in order to make sure that our infrastructure is secure, that we're responding to health care needs, closing life expectancy gap, investing in our public education system, creating more jobs, investing in our transportation system. And here's the real danger if we don't do it. People talk about New York a lot. The average price of a home in New York is $1.1 million. The average price of a home in Los Angeles is $900,000. And I know they're working hard to address it. Even some of the colleagues who may not not agree with my question have raised the same proposal in previous iterations. My question to them is, do you support taxing the rich or not? Do you support challenging those with means to put more skin in the game? Or are you going to try to balance budgets off the backs of working people like they tried to do in last year's budget, and now we're short $130 million that way fails. What we're proposing works. So let's do what works. Tax the rich.

[Eric BP]

Let's do what works. Tax the rich. It doesn't work, though.

[Neal]

Wow.

[Eric BP]

It's been proven over and over again from the very earliest days of this show there we talked about. There was a video that a guy put out that's like, well, you know, it's not just taking taxing the rich. You could literally take every penny that Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, all of these guys have. You could take every penny they have. Not just tax them more. You could take every penny of every asset they have and you would still not fix the problem.

[Larry Blidner]

Of course not.

[Eric BP]

So the whole concept of we just need to tax the rich, it's like, but the rich aren't the majority of the people saying that you're not going to expect the middle class and the lower class to pay their fair share. Well, why shouldn't they pay their fair share? They're the most massive number group out there. We've long talked about that too with this podcast. It's great when people would come in, if somebody wants to come in and give us $10,000 as a donation, that would be awesome.

[Larry Blidner]

That'd be great.

[Eric BP]

But if every person that's listening to this right now would send us a dollar right now, that's even better.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, do it.

[Eric BP]

Just do the math. I mean, it's one of again, this is very simplistic stuff, but this again is part of the Weather Underground and the whole socialist democrat thing which is to make them lower class people mad at the upper class. Everybody should hate the cops and all this. It is another sign of division. And we can close out Chicago with this particular clip. This is Danielle Carter Walters. I think we've had her on a couple of times. She is the head of Chicago Flips Red and she is throwing her hat into run as a Republican for mayor against Brandon Johnson, which the elections are in like seven months. It is this year that Johnson's up to reelection. So this should be interesting.

[Darren O']

Let me ask you, on the line of public safety, do you believe that the city should be working more with the federal government when it comes to alleviating some of the crime issues that we do have?

[Danielle Carter Walters]

Yes, I believe we should. One life that's lost is a life too many. And I've been a big advocate for just public safety. We need help. Drastic times calls for drastic measures and we're in drastic times. So I think that any, I would welcome any help that we can get just to save one life. Because one life lost is a life too many, especially when it could have been prevented.

[Darren O']

And for the teen takeovers that you mentioned, how would you address them differently than what's being done now?

[Danielle Carter Walters]

Well, when you don't invest in communities, when you starve communities of economic resources, then you take the mental health facilities away, the drug rehabs and you lock them down during COVID and you release them. What do you expect? So although I understand why it's happening, we still, because this administration has allowed it to get out of control, now we must crack down on it. So what I would do is enforce the curfew laws that we have. I wouldn't enforce that. I'm going to get a social media unit. I'm going to definitely have a rapid Response team.

[Eric BP]

I mean, I was amazed if the major cities like Chicago don't have a social media unit, which could be like one or two people and an AI monitoring social media. So when somebody calls for a street takeover that they know about it immediately.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, it's surprising.

[Eric BP]

I mean, let's remember the police unit that is strictly to protect the mayor. The cost is 30 to 50 million dollars a year. I just want to point that out. When you're like, we don't have enough money to do X, Y and Z and, oh, wait, enforce the curfew laws, why would we want to do that? I don't know how crazy.

[Larry Blidner]

Because it's not a teen takeover, Darren. As Brandon says, it's a team trend. It's a trend like fashion. You know, that's probably what they do. They all get together, say, man, dig these kicks. How do you like my. My shirt? Right?

[Eric BP]

Showing off. It's usually like showing off stolen cars and all sorts of fun stuff.

[Danielle Carter Walters]

All right, I'm going to look at ways to hold these parents accountable.

[Eric BP]

I mean, I agree with that, but as you and I have talked about, that's going to be a very high bar to cross. Although, even if there's a fine, even if you could just pull them in front of a judge at any point, even if there is no fine, any inconvenience to the parents maybe would be helpful for the parents that have any control over their kids.

[Larry Blidner]

Yes, it would.

[Danielle Carter Walters]

I'm going to look at ways to hold the organizers and the promoters legally and financially accountable.

[Eric BP]

Okay. This is also an interesting thing. So if you see whoever started the hey, let's go take over 5th and Maine, and that ends up happening, if you can track that down to the person that said, let's do this, then, yeah, they should be held accountable. That seems reasonable.

[Darren O']

Does indeed, when children know that they are loved and cared for. For sure. I want to touch on your thoughts.

[Danielle Carter Walters]

You mentioned illegal immigration and would you

[Darren O']

keep the city sanctuary status if you were mayor?

[Danielle Carter Walters]

Well, I'm going to to push to end them because I just, you know, I'm about doing things in decent and in order. And I'm for law and order. And I just believe that everybody should adhere to the laws, whether it be federal laws, whether it be immigration laws, local or city. I mean, local laws. So if we as citizens have to follow the law, everybody else should. And so. And I just don't feel like it's right to tell Chicago citizens that's already struggling that we don't have anything for you and you have to wait your term. And not only do we not have anything for you, we're going to tax you to take care of people who came over here illegally. I just don't think that's right.

[Eric BP]

It's gonna be an interesting story.

[Larry Blidner]

I wish her luck. She's gonna need it. Yeah, no shot, but yeah.

[Eric BP]

Well, if you're going against the machine, there's no doubt about it. Her husband is a retired cop. So I mean, you may get the police vote, which I don't think that was probably not even a question because most of the police, it seems, do not like the current administration. She needs just a little bit of polishing in the delivery. But she's an attractive woman. She runs, I think her own business and something to do with fitness. So has a decent chance based solely upon the fact of nobody can play the race card. Cause it's not a white guy or white woman running against Brandon Johnson. So it helps that she is black. And the hitting home over and over and over again. This illegal immigration thing could be the one thing that is the downfall of the current administration. Because I think it is a large enough fuck you. From the administration to the people that have lived in Chicago their whole life. When you see resources going to people that just showed up, it might actually make them vote the other way. I don't not going to guarantee it. I'm not going to put money on it, but I could see it happening and not being a complete pipe dream.

[Larry Blidner]

Well, I hope you're right.

[Eric BP]

It's about, would be about time to be like, are you kidding?

[Larry Blidner]

I mean, how long has it been since there was a quasi, even right wing mayor of Chicago?

[Eric BP]

Not in my lifetime. Nope. Nope.

[Larry Blidner]

You have high hopes. Holy.

[Eric BP]

We go back, we had Jane Byrne, we had the dailies. I mean both Bill and Richard Daly and his dad, both of course Democrats, more moderate Democrats. We had Harold Washington, we had, you know, Obama's buddy that Rahm Emanuel, who they still think maybe has a chance to run for president.

[Larry Blidner]

Give it a shot.

[Eric BP]

We've had Republican governors, but never a Republican. But I mean really, this could also be in her favor if you get enough people to listen, like, look, you've been voting this way for over 50 fucking years. What has it done for you?

[Larry Blidner]

But I've heard, you know what I mean? I'm not ever focused on Chicago politics, but I've absolutely heard that precise phrase be tossed out at elections in Chicago, Detroit, all the strongholds, St. Louis, Philly, all those places onto deaf ears, you know, and Once they get in. I mean, like when I moved to la, you had. Pete Wilson was the Republican governor of California and a guy named Mike Reardon was the mayor of Los Angeles, and things ran pretty fucking well. But as soon as they were out, they just, you know, reorganized everything in their commie way, and nobody's ever going to. California will always just continue to get more. More communistic until they'll just come right out and say, that's where we are. That's what they're about. So I. You know, once they take hold, the only thing that gets them out is. Is nukes or guns. Really? Really.

[Eric BP]

And making the voting actually secure and fair. They don't want to hear about that.

[Larry Blidner]

Well, it's. It's impossible without a massive, massive influx of really, you know what, you'd have to say expert and physical muscle to just walk in and, you know, say, this is. You know, we're going to check every fucking id. If everybody comes in here, we're going to be standing over your shoulder while these votes are counted. What federal agency has that type of resources to do that? I don't know. I don't think they do.

[Eric BP]

But we really need a system that puts your vote, whether it's an actual blockchain or just into a database where you can then go home and check and make sure that the right vote is there. That.

[Larry Blidner]

I mean. Yeah, I mean, I heard the boys talking about it and. And Adam was right. He says, yeah, the machines. Yeah, you stick your thing in there and it's a good receipt. Here's a sticker. I voted.

[Eric BP]

Right. How do you know that it. Right. How do you know that the little thing you circled is going to be the thing the machine sees? You're exactly putting such a. I mean, the fact that that doesn't even give you a printout, which is, you know, here's your little gas station receipt that says, here's who you voted for for president, governor, mayor.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, and how fucked up is that, Darren? Because you think of every goddamn purchase you make anywhere.

[Eric BP]

Yes.

[Larry Blidner]

Like you said from a gas station, even, you know, an atm, you, whatever, you always get something. Well, here's. Here's. Here's. Here's proof that this. This transaction. Transaction occurred except your fucking vote.

[Eric BP]

Yeah. And I'm fine with that being digital, and it just shows you a little QR code that you can take a, you know, picture of and you can look at what your vote was. You know, it's not tied to who you are. Just, boom, there's the vote.

[Larry Blidner]

Right.

[Eric BP]

That would make so much sense and it wouldn't be that hard except the Democrats want cheating, it seems, because they don't want to verify that the people who are coming in to vote are actually who they say they are.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Oh, no.

[Eric BP]

It's too much of an inconvenience.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, yeah, and it's racist.

[Eric BP]

Right. We have to move beyond that and it's time for, you know, a reckoning with the people who are the not law followers. That's the only way to really go now. I think we both have these Sunny hosting clips. We can go with your. Mine, I was going to try to cut it up because it was long and yours is a little bit shorter. So.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, it was. It was a little. All the meat is in. In this one. I clipped it pretty carefully, I think,

[Eric BP]

because it was another case of somebody that has railed against Donald Trump and others like.

[Mamdani]

Oh.

[Eric BP]

Using their privilege. Oh, yeah, this was a very interesting, stupid little case. And this is Sunny Hostein, of course, the woman from the View whose son who is, I think 23 or 25 years old.

[Larry Blidner]

20, 24 years old.

[Eric BP]

I was close. He was between 23 and 25.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

24.

[Larry Blidner]

24.

[Eric BP]

And he was in a restricted area. No trespassing. Taking a random walk, I guess, or run.

[Larry Blidner]

It was, it was. It was near a. And I don't know whether it was a. Like a freight yard or a passenger railroad area, but there was an open gate that he just decided to go through and, and stroll along there.

[Eric BP]

Because the gates open, it means come on in, I guess.

[Larry Blidner]

Come on in. Yeah.

[Eric BP]

What's your name, sir?

[L]

John Brian.

[Neal]

Brian.

[Eric BP]

Is that your badge number 281 4?

[L]

Yes. So the reason we're stopping you. This is trespassing right here.

[Eric BP]

Oh, I'm sorry, The. It was open over there. I was just walking.

[Larry Blidner]

It was open.

[L]

Where are you coming from?

[Larry Blidner]

All the way over there.

[Neal]

Yeah.

[William J. Kelly]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

And I also like that immediately. His first question is, what's your badge number?

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, sure. Well, that's. That's the end of this. He got that out and then his T levels went right back into the. Into his shoes. Yeah.

[L]

Okay.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

I saw.

[Eric BP]

I just looked open for me, so I walked in.

[L]

So this is considered trespass. Trespassing is criminal trespass. Reason why it's such a big deal. People get hit by a train all the time. We want to prevent it, obviously.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Can you please.

[Eric BP]

You want me hold it for you? Yeah, my mom.

[Larry Blidner]

The phone's on 2%.

[Eric BP]

FYI. Here you go.

[L]

So, yeah. So this trespassing A big deal. We don't want people to get hit by a train, which is why we came running over.

[N]

Okay.

[L]

Do you have any idea on you? Yes.

[M]

Okay.

[L]

Do you. Where is it?

[Eric BP]

It's, it's.

[Larry Blidner]

It's on my phone. Of course.

[Neal]

Tell them your mother is a federal prosecutor.

[Larry Blidner]

Okay.

[Eric BP]

And what I'd like to point out here is what I saw other people pointing out. This is Sunny Hostein telling her son. I mean, I don't know if she realizes she's on speaker or not. Maybe she doesn't. But she's telling her son to lie to the police because she is not a federal prosecutor. She was a federal prosecutor, but she is not currently a federal prosecutor. You can't just say, tell him your mom's a federal prosecutor. But she's not.

[Larry Blidner]

She's. She's former. It's the same, Darren. There's no difference. Once you're in, you're. It's forever.

[Eric BP]

Yeah, that's not how it works.

[Larry Blidner]

No. Oh, what do I know?

[Eric BP]

Hey, mom, how are you?

[L]

This is Officer Gomez. Your son's fine. How are you?

[Eric BP]

Prosecutor. Okay. He's a Harvard graduate. Okay, what, what does that mean?

[Larry Blidner]

He's a Harvard grad. Well, essentially, let me tell you what it means. First up. It means he's better than you are.

[Eric BP]

Oh, the laws don't apply to Harvard graduates. Is that true?

[Larry Blidner]

Better. And he's smarter than you are. That's what that means.

[Eric BP]

I think Bill O'Reilly's a Harvard graduate, so the laws don't apply to him either.

[Larry Blidner]

Probably not.

[Eric BP]

He's not a criminal. He has no criminal record. No criminal history.

[L]

Yes, yes, no, no, I understand that. The issue is, like I told your son, is this is considered criminal trespassing. So besides being illegal, it's actually very dangerous for him to be around the railroad tracks. You know, I mean, we get people that get hit all the time.

[Eric BP]

Let's get my mom on the phone.

[L]

Of course, yeah.

[Neal]

Hey, mom.

[Larry Blidner]

Hey, mom.

[Eric BP]

Hey. So he said that. Can I grab my phone?

[L]

Absolutely, go ahead.

[Eric BP]

And if, and if the phone dies, can we call her?

[L]

Absolutely. So, yeah, just tell her Ms. H, this Officer Gomez.

[Neal]

Hi, Officer Gomez.

[Eric BP]

I'm about four minutes away.

[L]

Okay, that's fine.

[Larry Blidner]

So I one thing just now, she's on her way, right, to get there, right?

[Eric BP]

You got to go. Rush, rush. Because her 24 year old son is incapable of saying, I'm sorry, I'll take the ticket and go on my way.

[Larry Blidner]

Right?

[Eric BP]

Because it doesn't seem like they're detaining Him. It doesn't seem like they're arresting him. They're giving him a ticket.

[Larry Blidner]

They briefly cuffed him. And as you hear this guy continue. I can't believe how. How accommodating this cop, this Officer Gomez is. He says right there. And I'd like to get the opinion of other. And I guess it's up to them. It's there. But he basically knocks down the charge from a misdemeanor, which that was to. To a violation which is essentially. It's like littering or a parking ticket. It's basically nothing. But not to Sonny.

[Mamdani]

No.

[N]

No.

[Eric BP]

She's fighting to get that taken away, too.

[Larry Blidner]

Yes.

[L]

So I am going to be writing your son what's called an appearance tick. I'm sure you know what that is.

[Larry Blidner]

Don't bet on it. Don't assume that Officer Gomez.

[Eric BP]

Right. Don't assume because she's. Says she's a federal prosecutor and that she was a lawyer, that she has any comprehension of any legal term whatsoever.

[Larry Blidner]

Whatsoever. Yeah.

[L]

Explain everything where he has to report all that stuff because it is criminal trespass where he was. It's normally. Hold on for one second. It's normally a misdemeanor. Obviously, we're cutting it down to the violation because he. Listen, he's. There's nothing on his record. He's been very cooperative with us. But as of right now, we will have to issue him the appearance ticket.

[Eric BP]

Officer, is that really necessary? This is a kid that doesn't do anything. Harvard graduate and a Yale researcher.

[Darren O']

He teaches geometry.

[L]

I understand that.

[Eric BP]

Okay. Now this is also the most interesting part of this video, which it wasn't the first, like 8,000 times I heard it until I saw somebody saying. And I don't know if there is any unredacted copy of this out there. I would doubt maybe it's somebody who is reading lips. But her thing with the. He teaches. You know, at first I thought maybe she was saying like, what school? But it sounded like from. According to what somebody had posted, which again, it's the Internet, it was like, oh, you know, these stupid kids or dumb kids or something. Geometry. And I'm wondering why they cut that little blurb out. What kids? You know, what. What goes in that?

[L]

Right.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Eric BP]

Because really, it'd be quite interesting if she was belittling the children that he teaches, you know, while she's trying to get her kid off of. From getting a, you know, minor ticket written that, you know, he might have to pay a fine on. So it's just very interesting. I was like. I was not paying really any attention to that. I understand that the audio dropping out would be normally to protect the anonymity. So if a particular name of somebody was mentioned, but this. I just agree this is kind of a weird place for it to be used.

[Darren O']

He teaches geometry.

[L]

I understand that.

[Eric BP]

Why would you put something on his record like this?

[Neal]

No, no, it's.

[L]

It's not. It's not even. It's not anything criminal. He just has to appear. I'm dumbing it down to a violation. That's all it is. So it's.

[Larry Blidner]

Did he say dumbing it down? I think he's. First he said cutting it, then he said dumbing it.

[Eric BP]

Yes, dumbing it down to a violation.

[Larry Blidner]

So you can understand it, Sonny.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Right?

[Eric BP]

Let me dumb this down for you.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

So you can understand. It's like you're. You're getting mad about something that there's no reason for you to get mad about. We have given him the least what we can possibly do because one, we still have a job to do. I know he said that in the full video. May still say that here.

[L]

Oh, yeah, it's just going back down. I'm writing him literally for the 140.05. It's a trespass violation. He would have to appear, which is inconvenience. I understand that, but with all due respect, ma', am, I still have a job to do. And we have to deter people from being on the tracks because again, I

[Neal]

understand, but what I'm asking is of you is once a prosecutor, once a judge gets this, all he would have

[Eric BP]

to do is pay a fine. What happens if you didn't do it? What happens if you're like, oh,

[William J. Kelly]

so

[Larry Blidner]

now that Sonny boy is basically suggesting. Forget it. What happens if he didn't do it? Because she said, well, the judge is. Now, Sonny.

[L]

He's.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

He's.

[Larry Blidner]

He's being her second, right? The legal advice. What happens if I just didn't do it right?

[Eric BP]

What if you just didn't write that ticket you've already written?

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, come on. Because it's sunny.

[Eric BP]

I mean, I teach geometry, right? To some dumb fuck kids or whatever. My mom. I'll say my mommy had to come help me. Oh, do we really have to get me into trouble? It's like, you really think this is helping this kid? Who, Yale? Harvard? You're throwing this shit out, but he can't handle a routine stopped by the police when he knows he was trespassing. I mean, he was not being Violent or anything. And I think the cops would have dealt with him the exact same way even if Sonny Hoste didn't get on the phone.

[Larry Blidner]

I don't think so. No, I think, No, I don't. I think that if Sonny's presence hadn't been known in his, you know, his, his lineage, you know, those guys have been, you know, if it's. Let's just say it wasn't. The guy's a nice looking guy, you know, he look. He looked healthy and clean, you know, but if it's. Let's say it was some fucking vagrant, you know what? Get the fuck out of here. You know, put him in the back of squad card. Get this, get this garb.

[Neal]

Boom.

[Larry Blidner]

That's how it would have gone down. You know, this, all this palaver and you know, please see it my way. And I've got a job too. That's because it was Sonny Austin's kid. And this guy, Officer Gomez thinks, you know, who knows, who knows who she knows really.

[Eric BP]

Or I guess he knows he's going viral or.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, yeah, he's got the cop cam on and he wants to come off looking like a good guy. But I think it would have been very different had it been. Had it been a different offender.

[L]

No, we have cameras everywhere. If we didn't see you, somebody would have called it over. Correct.

[Eric BP]

You know, and there was too many trains coming in and out of there to not.

[L]

I hate to say it's like my partner said, our hands are tied. It is what it is. Listen, I. I really appreciate you being cool about this, you know, put you in handcuffs and we do that for our safety. Hi miss, how are you? I'm Officer Gomez.

[Larry Blidner]

She just arrived. That's why she said hi.

[Eric BP]

And then that. See this was caught up in such a bad way because when she said that her kid taught the whatever students that was in person.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

So I don't know whoever had cut this one up, why they cut it up in the way they did. But I think we got all of

[Mamdani]

the

[Eric BP]

information there which is. Oh, her son gets into trouble.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

And it's not enough.

[Larry Blidner]

But the funny thing was. Yeah, I'm sorry.

[Eric BP]

Well it's just not enough that they took it from. Okay. You're in a. You know, as far as trouble goes, it was never more than a five, you know, I mean if you're murder, you know, that's 10 plus. Well, he was never more than a five and they brought it down to a one. And she's still not happy.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, but you know, and people, when I saw there's a. Obviously it's a viral furor over this and justified, but most of the complaints were about the privilege. And again, let's review. How many times have we heard Sonny on that show about white privilege? She sounded pretty privileged here and so did her kid. But I think the more, the more just mind blowing element of this story is this fucking guy. He is not a man. He's a man child.

[Eric BP]

Yes. 24 years old.

[Larry Blidner]

24 years old. Other people says, well, he's a Peter Pan. No, Peter Pan had kind of balls. Peter Pan fought with crocodiles and Captain Hook. He didn't grow up, but he still had at balls. This guy is a quarter century old and calls Mommy because he might get the equivalent of a fucking parking ticket. He's developmentally frozen at about, I'd say the level of maybe a 5 year old. Every kid I knew by the time I was six or seven would have handled that properly. Yeah, okay, I'm sorry, guys. Here's my name and I'm better.

[Eric BP]

Yeah, but to be fair, Larry, by the time you were 6 or 7 in New York, you and all of you, your friends had been arrested like 46 times.

[Larry Blidner]

Actually, I never was. I was too fast for that. But it's just, I mean, she and her man child are just indicative of. They're a living, breathing poster for much of what's wrong with America. You know, These fucking men child dipshits who. It's beyond belief. Fucking Harvard and I teach and this and. Hello, mom, can I call my mommy? Holy shit. She should be so mortified and embarrassed for herself and for what, for what she's done to that dude. She should never show her face in public again.

[Eric BP]

Well, and they tell your cop that I'm a federal prosecutor. It's like, that's a lie. You're not, you know, so, I mean, again, if you want to talk about words, mean things, accuracy, and she wants to like nitpick all these little things that they do on the View all day, every day. Yeah, Wonder how you feel now.

[Larry Blidner]

I'd have had at least a modicum of respect for her if, even if he did call. Mommy said if she said, hey, hey, Junior, you know these gentlemen, very nice, you know, deal with yourself, you know, I'll see you later. Goodbye. He was just sickening. Just sickening.

[Eric BP]

Once Officer Gomez said, we are knocking it down to the barrister ticket, she should have been like, okay, well, no reason for me to come out there then.

[Larry Blidner]

Exactly.

[Eric BP]

This is done.

[Larry Blidner]

Sickening.

[Eric BP]

But she had to still show up to try to get them. Not even to write that because, oh, this is going to go on his record. It's like, it's not even a ticket. This is not even your speeding. So, and the sh.

[Larry Blidner]

And the show up was because just in case they've never seen the, or heard the View. Let them see me, then they'll, I'm a TV star. Then they'll know who they're dealing with.

[Eric BP]

Uh huh. At that point you're lucky that the cops were not anti the View and been like, oh, we're just gonna throw the book at your boy. It could have gone either way.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

Be like, we don't have to knock anything down. What are you trying to really, really influence what we're doing here? It's like he broke the law. He did it. He's not saying he didn't. Again, this is not a case of we don't know whether he did what they're accusing him of. He's not denying that he did it. He's just like, oh, I, I, I, it wasn't locked, so I just walked in, you know, using the oh, it must be a mistake defense. It's an interesting, you know, to see, but so common.

[Larry Blidner]

I mean, again, I guarantee you millions and millions of people of moms and dads watch this and saw nothing wrong with what happened. Nothing.

[Eric BP]

Well, no, because kids are kids now until they're like 40 years old, they have bad parents forever. I mean, that's the whole thing. It's like, and you're never going to be able to live in the real world. And it's amazing to me. And there are different levels of this because my wife will complain every now and then like, oh, parents are calling to see if, you know, there's internships or jobs available with the Village over the summer or something. I'm like one that's a little different. You know, they're trying to help them find a job or something. But when the parents show up for the interview with the kid, then, you know, there's a problem.

[Larry Blidner]

But even the thing, you know, I'm with Kim. No, I mean even to have them, you know, the proper thing is call yourself. What are you, you know, I mean, just do it yourself. Don't ask me, don't, don't, don't humiliate yourself by asking me as your parent to find a job for you. Do it yourself. Because someday I won't be around.

[Eric BP]

And it could be one of those kids though, that's like, mom, I, you Know, I looked, I called everywhere. Nobody's hiring. Let's see, that would be. My mother would have done the same thing. Like are you hiring? Yes. Okay. They're hiring. Go there.

[Larry Blidner]

There you go. Boom. Right? Yeah.

[Eric BP]

Because kids are dicks again with bad parents usually.

[Larry Blidner]

Yes.

[Eric BP]

Where would you like to go next on this beautiful rage fell, rage filled episode?

[Larry Blidner]

You know, I was thinking of. Really you think of an example of another, another man child who's at least twice. Sonny Austin's son is Hunter Biden.

[Eric BP]

Yes.

[Larry Blidner]

Same thing. You know, very, very similar attitude lives through daddy. What is he probably in his mid-50s, maybe 60? I don't know.

[Eric BP]

He's not 50s. Yeah.

[Larry Blidner]

At least. And you know, he's definitely. He's kind of running for something because he's appearing everywhere. He's constantly on podcasts and this and anything. It's like he's flacking for the old man and laughing. He laug. Laughs hysterically about the 14, 15 million dollars he owes but never explains why and to whom. How'd that happen? I guess when you, when he got, when he got cut from Burisma, right,

[Eric BP]

that that money just didn't go anywhere then.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, 80 grand a month went away. Things tough to pay bills when, when that goes away. But here's this, here's this idiot talking tough and it's, it's just, it's just so ludicrous.

[Neal]

I would tell him to go fuck his father yourself. That's what I would tell him and please leave. I mean like, like I can be, I can be civil and I can tell you like, oh listen, I. He's a president. I don't want him going to be pissed off. I mean I, you know, like it's the President of the United States. Well, obviously. Wouldn't you want to have a constructive. That this man has tried to torture me for 10 years. He says the, that he says about my dad. The shit that he says about my dad, his obsession with tormenting my dad. Hanging a picture of an auto pin on the fucking on the beautiful and all the things that he said about him and anyone would expect me to do anything outside of which I would never do is physical violence against that person.

[Eric BP]

I mean because you would never see the exterior world ever again. Right.

[Larry Blidner]

And let's not forget his old man was the one that he said he wanted to take Trump out behind a barn and punch the shit out of him.

[Mamdani]

Right.

[Larry Blidner]

Wasn't it about what Joey said?

[L]

Said.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, yes, he did as he said

[Eric BP]

he was a Nazi and a Nazi Yeah, democracy, Frank.

[Larry Blidner]

I mean, I haven't followed everything, but I don't remember. I don't remember Trump saying shit about this fucking jerk off Hunter. He went head to head, he went real, real hard on Joey and every word was deserved. But now it's Hunters. It's about him. I don't think.

[Eric BP]

I don't think.

[Larry Blidner]

I think Trump gives a fuck about Hunter Biden.

[Eric BP]

He said the laptop was real and said that the agency should do whatever they need to do.

[Danielle Carter Walters]

Do.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

What kind of man would I be? None.

[Neal]

If I didn't tell him to go himself, what kind of man would I be? And I asked that to all of you UFC fans. I'm a UFC fan too. You know, I've challenged Junior to a cage match three times now. Never heard back from him. That's how I'm gonna pay all my debt.

[Mamdani]

Wow.

[Larry Blidner]

There you go. So this guy, he's an unaccomplished, utterly unaccomplished silver spoon junkie dipshit talking out his ass. A carnival sideshow. That's more pathetic than his idiot old man, really. And people are talking about him. People say he should run in 28. I see that a lot.

[Eric BP]

Well, that. Well, this goes along with the insanity of everything we see on social media, that people think, well, you know this. Oh, yeah, of course he'd be a great candidate because his name's Biden.

[Larry Blidner]

Like, yeah, right.

[Eric BP]

What are you talking about? I mean, then you didn't see everything that was wrong with the Joe Biden era. You know, these folks that are as

[Larry Blidner]

Pac, Pacman and Sisson, right?

[Eric BP]

They're claiming Donald Trump's family's enriching themselves. And you're like, pointing to Biden, you're pointing to Pelosi, you're pointing to Obama. Like, now do them. I mean, if you really want to be honest, do them. Do we have a problem with people in power, in politics, making. Making copious amounts of money? We do, but it's not just one side. And the Trump folks seem to be smart enough to have segmented them in such a way that you're never going to get Donald Trump on something. He's way smarter than you fuckers are. That's the problem when it comes to that. But I thought this was interesting. Again, just if we're going back to the, you know, Biden's and Kamala's. This was Byron Donald's on the Breakfast Club with Charlemagne the God, okay. And was explaining to them because, of course, it's election time coming up and they all want to complain about the cost of things and you know, who is at fault and they get taught a lesson.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

I would argue we're not really thriving right now. Disinflation, which by the way was brought to us by Kamala Harris, has really slowed down people from being able to excel by Kamala.

[Mamdani]

Yes.

[Eric BP]

Vice president. Oh, oh.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Charlamagne.

[Mamdani]

Still a president.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Charlamagne. Listen, man. When Joe Biden wanted to do his American rescue plan, Kamala Harris was a tie breaking vote in the United States Senate. She broke the tide and started disinflation that has hurt so many people in our country. Everybody listening to your show who's. It's not true.

[Eric BP]

First of all, it's the easy.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

You sure you want to go there?

[Eric BP]

You sure you want to go there?

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Sure you want to go there? Okay, let's go there.

[N]

You got notes, Angela, right?

[Darren O']

That's fine.

[Mamdani]

I have.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

No, I'm going give it.

[Darren O']

I'm going to give it to Charlamagne.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

I'm going to give it to Charlamagne because. Angela, Angela, hold on.

[Darren O']

For every infrastructure project in your community,

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

you can go to the third page

[Eric BP]

just to highlight a portion of Joe

[Danielle Carter Walters]

Biden and Kamala Harris and the Congress

[Darren O']

that voted for the American rescue plan.

[Eric BP]

That's what should be happening.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Larry Summers wrote an op ed back in 2021. Larry Summers. Larry Summers was the treasury secretary for Bill Clinton. He was an economic advisor to Barack Obama. He said that the American rescue plan that Joe Biden wanted, that Kamala Harris was the tie breaking vote in the United States Senate, would create a massive inflation that we have not seen in a generation. Well, guess what?

[Eric BP]

What?

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Larry Summers was correct. You know who also was correct, Angela? I was, cuz I was in the budget committee when they brought the bill. And I said in that committee, it's going to cause massive inflation. That's what happened. So the problem we have in our economy today is that prices have gone up massively. Wages adjusted for inflation is down. People's pocketbooks are hurting.

[Eric BP]

Yeah. And most people do not remember the Kamala being the breaking tie breaking vote. Most have no idea how one bill can have that effect. And it does have a domino reaction going on down the line. And everybody's watching. Well, Donald Trump, you hear this woman laughing like. Well, she's only the vice president. Yeah. Do you not remember? She was the tie breaking vote. So what do you mean? She was just the vice president? Oh, no. You should thank everybody because they helped build some bridges. Okay.

[N]

Okay.

[Eric BP]

I'm sure some bridges were helped in the billions of dollars or trillions of dollars that were bilked out and wasted in this Save America plan, whatever the Biden thing was.

[Larry Blidner]

Yes.

[Eric BP]

And people still want to point to things like the cost of eggs and all that. And I looked it up. I'm like, okay, what? Really? Because it seems to me like they have gone back down. I can buy two dozen eggs now again for under four bucks, which seems fairly reasonable in the world of eggs.

[Larry Blidner]

Yes.

[Eric BP]

And I looked at a. This is macro trends.net following egg prices over the last starts in 1980. So a nice long time here.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh yeah.

[Eric BP]

And where we are at right now at $2 and 14 cents, it looks like right about there per dozen on average we're getting them a little less when you buy them at two dozen that $2.14 going back would equal when adjusted for inflation to the cost of eggs in August of 1987. So this concept of like, oh my God, things are so much more expensive now. They're not that.

[Larry Blidner]

No. And you know, and I see the screaming about there was a thing of, you know, a link on one of the sites, you know, mortgage rates are now 6.6%. Like that's what the fuck they. That, that's actually kind of a normal mortgage rate. If you look at it over, over decades, that's not high. That's about where they should be. When they were down at 2 and 3%, that was fucking insanely low. But people don't know that.

[Eric BP]

Yeah, I know people who have paid in the double digits. I mean we're great. We refinanced it like 3.5 or 3.6, which, which, you know, it's like, well, yeah, that's, you know, that's better.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, I can remember my friend when he bought his first house and it was in the early 80s, I think it was fucking nuts. It was like 18% could be 16, 8, something like it was insane. In fact, he couldn't buy it himself. He had to throw in with his brother in law and it became World War iii. They said, don't do this, I have to do it. No, you're not, don't. He did it.

[Eric BP]

So you had to get somebody else to sign for it. And then you had all the mortgage insurance and all that kind of stuff.

[Larry Blidner]

It was so bad. They actually. It was a two story house and one was up and one was down. So you would think that two different floors, you know, the kitchen, bathroom on each floor would be enough separation. Right. You'd be wrong. There was, there was Actually, a white masking tape line in the front hallway. You walk on this side, I'll walk on that side.

[Eric BP]

So it wasn't like. Well, wouldn't it just be. Because that's. My grandmother's house was down in chirac at, like, 42nd at Wood street, where, you know, you'd walk in, and then you could either go in the main level or you could go upstairs to the second level. And they were completely separate.

[Larry Blidner]

No.

[Eric BP]

So that I could see where that would lead to problems big time.

[Larry Blidner]

And then there were pets involved and young kids. And there's a miracle there wasn't a stabbing, at least. Really?

[Eric BP]

Well, yeah.

[O]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

It's kind of like what you would expect. Yeah, I know we talked on the last episode about Timmy Walls.

[Mamdani]

Tap on.

[Larry Blidner]

Tim, what you got for me, Darren?

[Eric BP]

This is just a quick 16 seconds. I wouldn't have even have brought it, but I thought it was worthy of tacking this on to the conversation from the last episode, which was the child rapist that was going to be deported. So then Timmy Walls gave him a pardon in the hope that he wouldn't be deported. But then he was deported anyway. Timmy is still doubling down on the child rapist.

[Mamdani]

Wow.

[Eric BP]

Did that make us any safer? Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable? Did it improve the idea that we can't all be judged by our worst day? And I want to be very clear.

[K]

These are horrific crimes.

[Larry Blidner]

Holy shit.

[Eric BP]

Yeah. That's the re. That was the.

[Larry Blidner]

Can't all be judged by our worst day.

[Eric BP]

That's why I brought it. I have the same reaction.

[Larry Blidner]

What a fucking piece of shit he is.

[Eric BP]

But he's a typical Democrat. So I want everybody just to understand that. That this is now the mindset. So I guess everybody you can do, as long as it's just one day. You can rape, you can murder, you can do whatever you want. Just like you can't judge me. It's just my worst day.

[Larry Blidner]

It's a bad day.

[Eric BP]

Yeah, that's it. I mean, I only was only one day. I mean, I killed 48 people. But you can't really judge me by one bad day. I had a bad day. I didn't have coffee that morning. So, I mean, I should be let off. And this is the sickness that is happening in the brains of the Democrats who are being overrun by the socialists in their party. And there are people even that are longtime Democrats, including Bill Maher, who are starting to question this, which I think is good.

[Larry Blidner]

It seems there are very few. I mean, the Only one I've heard is your pal Fetterman.

[K]

If.

[Larry Blidner]

Can you name any other Dems that's saying, hey, hey, back off this social. He's the only one.

[Eric BP]

The only one in office. Correct. Now, if you're going with the pundits like Bill Maher and Stephen A. Smith, I'm hearing it. Yes.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, but. But those. Those guys don't control any levers of power. They're just pundits.

[Eric BP]

So they hopefully encourage people to vote in a different way. But I'm not sure that's. That's enough.

[Larry Blidner]

No. So I think the Democrats will do very well in the midterms. 2028 is a different story, because by then, this wing of the party, this new wing with all the energy and it's not just a few people anymore. I read every day I read about a new person in some Colorado and Wisconsin, somebody who is saying some variation of not defund the police, abolish the police. No prisons, no police. Like, what world do they think we could possibly live in under these conditions? It's just a level of nutty that I'm so glad that whenever it was, I was like, no, I'm not going along, because this is where it ends. Could you see yourself voting for J.D. mace?

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Yes.

[Larry Blidner]

If this is the Democratic side. Yes.

[Eric BP]

Do you think he's a typical Democrat, or do you think Mars really turning right?

[Larry Blidner]

No, no, he's not the.

[Eric BP]

This was also interesting. I don't know if we need the whole three minutes, but this is Marco Rubio going through and talking about the dangers of this socialist communist.

[Larry Blidner]

You hear this, I heard this, and it's great. And this is why he better be the fucking guy in 28. Because Vance doesn't have this kind of. Or rehearsal oratory in his. In his quiver. He just doesn't. And he's okay. He's with the folksy, you know, I'm from Ohio and dig me and. But Rubio, man, he can lay it down. I mean, this guy's a gifted speaker.

[Eric BP]

Yeah. I think Rubio's better at getting people to. Oh, yeah, follow. You know, that's the biggest thing.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[K]

This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred above all else, a hatred for civilization itself. It is a revolt of the worst against the best. A revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy. By seeking to destroy those who can. This is what radical leftism is. It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time. They can call themselves anti capitalist or anti imperialist or communist or anarchist or Marxist, but the fundamental character is always the same. It's always the same. It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice, liberation. An overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built to wreck what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world. Through violence and through terror, they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us. The old dogma was wrong. The old dogma was wrong. None of this is driven by idealism. It is not utopian. In fact, it is the opposite. One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism, for example, is that it sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice. That's actually not true. Communism does not sound good in theory.

[Larry Blidner]

This was his best line. Just to put it in for a second. You know, I've heard that all my life and I've always said, what the fuck are you talking about? Even in theory, it's. And so I think so that again, that speaks to what I saying. Not some people. Most people are stupid. Because if you. If anybody with a fucking brain would read any, any portion of any of this shit, any of their fucking dogma, if you're. If, unless you're an imbecile, you should recognize this is crap. I don't want this. But people say, oh, it looks good on paper, right? No, it doesn't.

[Eric BP]

Well, and the question that Net Net is asking in the troll room, we do these shows live. Got like 85 people listening right now. No agenda, stream dream. To name one socialist country that doesn't have police in prisons, right? Oh, wait, there are none.

[Larry Blidner]

None.

[Eric BP]

Everybody's got police in prisons.

[Mamdani]

Why?

[Eric BP]

Because otherwise there is anarchy and there is no government. There is no government if you can't control your citizenry.

[Larry Blidner]

And real tight, real tight borders, usually from the inside.

[Eric BP]

Yes, right. That's more worried about you getting out rather than somebody else getting in.

[K]

Yes, that's actually not true. Communism does not sound good in theory. The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul. The world it envisions is a world without courage. A world without creativity or ambition. A world without heroes or glory or great causes to strive towards. Without a world without miracles, without myths, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things. And the world communism envisions is a world without God. For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization, for them it's an unbearable humiliation. A reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be. So they choose instead to destroy. They attack pipelines, they attack railroads, they attack power grids and laboratories. The physical embodied symbols of power and invention and achievement. This is the nature of the terrorism we face today. They despise the west because the west is great.

[Eric BP]

Yeah. Absolutely true.

[Larry Blidner]

All true. Yeah.

[Eric BP]

Yeah. I would hope that Rubio is the guy's name that's on the ballot the next time we come through a presidential.

[N]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

And that more people wake up of the. I'm still amazed that the moderate Democrats, maybe you pointed out, maybe there's none left besides Fetterman aren't standing up and going, no, we're not going to allow these socialist group who were calling themselves Socialist Democrats to have a foothold in our party. And it's growing at such a rate.

[Larry Blidner]

Sure.

[Eric BP]

It's amazing.

[Larry Blidner]

I mean, think a few, just a few years ago, like right around when we started the show, Darren and AOC was basically a joke.

[Eric BP]

Yes.

[Larry Blidner]

Really.

[Eric BP]

Now she's a viable presidential candidate. Probably the most viable in the Democrats right now.

[Larry Blidner]

Yes. And when most of the time when her name was mentioned or something came up, it was always, you know, some. It was, it was poking fun at her, you know, legitimately, properly. But people are taking it real fucking seriously now. And that's unbelievable. And you know, Marco's right. It was a great, great, great speech he gave there. He's probably afraid to because the teachers union, but they're the ones that are primarily at fault for what's happened to this nation. They're the ones that have been, I would say, spoon feeding. That's too light. They've been affixing fire hoses to kids mouths and fucking shooting their garbage down their throats for decades, for several generations now. And that's how you get so many of these boneheads, you know, wearing their fucking Che Guevara T shirts.

[Eric BP]

Right. Not understanding who he was.

[Larry Blidner]

He was an absolute fucking piece of shit. A murderous bastard. And was so good he got greased in the jungle and died alone. That was a good thing, you know. And so they're always that way. There's never a good one. They're always shit. So I found this thing, this is a good one to follow. I Think Rubio's. There's a. I got a clip here. It's called Brit professor blames Teachers. And what this woman says is really sharp and really accurate.

[Darren O']

The culture shift comes from what children learn at school and online. Ask any young person what history they learned at school and they'll tell you.

[Mamdani]

Hitler.

[Darren O']

Ask them what else.

[Danielle Carter Walters]

Slavery.

[Darren O']

Ask them what else. American civil rights. In fact, what little they know of history will be all about black and brown people fighting for equality against the white man. Women fighting men for the vote, Gay and trans people fighting for various rights. Our young people have been taught that history is simply one long story about various groups struggling under the oppressive dead white man. Out with Dickens, Shakespeare, Kipling and Wordsworth with we must decolonize. History is taught through an oppressor lens. The triangular slave trade. White men held the power. What about Britain ending the slave trade? More than a quick mention, if at all.

[M]

No.

[Darren O']

What of the Arab slave trade that lasted three times as long as the triangular slave trade?

[Eric BP]

No, no, no, no. Can't mention the Arabs.

[K]

No.

[Eric BP]

Can we mention that there's still a slave trade in Africa? Can we mention that?

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah. And, you know, she went on, it was, it was a much longer clip, but it got a little bit. A little over thought. But that's, that's what they've been fed, you know, and that's been. I can remember that, you know, myself certainly by the time I was in high school, there was definitely. Things were very much shaded as to the bad Americans and we were, we were oppressors. What the are they talking about? I thought I was oppressed in that school, and I was, you know, but that's. That was it. And then it was the same thing in Colombia, and it's only worsened. It's been amplified exponentially since that time. And kids coming through school now just believe that everything American, everything that was done from the Wright brothers, Henry Ford, they're all scum, all bad, all racist, all shit, really. It's incredible.

[Eric BP]

Well, and part of this, I think, rolls into the Internet and how kids are being taught. Back in the day, you kept the same textbooks probably for a decade. The parents knew what was in them. You could see that couldn't be changed instantaneously. And the way the information is spread to the kids now, I mean, parents don't know what their kids are being taught.

[Larry Blidner]

No.

[Eric BP]

Or they're too stupid and they just want their kids to graduate. So it's like, well, we're not going to. You know, if they disagree with something, the teacher Is saying, well, they're probably not going to do anything about it. Then their kids are going to get so ingrained in this and so brainwashed and gaslit that they're going to turn against the parents. You want to talk about Nazism? We saw that in Hitler's time as well.

[Larry Blidner]

Sure.

[Eric BP]

The Hitler Youth turning their parents in. Oh, no, Mommy and daddy are Nazis. But they're turning the air conditioning up past 68.

[Larry Blidner]

Or climate change.

[Eric BP]

Right?

[Neal]

Sure.

[Eric BP]

And you got to turn them in.

[Neal]

And

[Eric BP]

when you can control that younger generation, that is a lot of power.

[Larry Blidner]

That's all the power, really.

[Eric BP]

The teachers have a big effect on it. And when you have so many that are spewing this, the founders are bad, you know, again, without understanding. Because maybe the people that are spewing this are completely stupid as well, that don't understand that you had to make choices. Like everything today, you still have to make some choices the better or an evil. It's kind of like, well, you know, if you have diabetes, so either we have to cut your leg off below the knee or you're going to die. Well, you're like, well, I don't want to lose my leg. Well, then you're going to die. A young country that is being formed, was it perfect?

[Mamdani]

No.

[Eric BP]

But it was created in a way that was going to allow us to continually get better. That was the beauty of it. And the concept, again, when you go to slavery, it happened all around the world. This was not. I hate to inform the black folks, but you weren't the only ones that were enslaved.

[Larry Blidner]

Well, I would say that if, if you asked any, any kids, like, say, from grammar school through high school, where slavery, slavery was invented, they would think it was the United States.

[Eric BP]

Oh, yeah.

[Larry Blidner]

Regardless of the race, the race would make no difference in the answer. You would get white or black. That's what they'd say. Okay, so that's where we're at.

[Eric BP]

Yeah. And they don't understand that. Well, there was slavery between the black cultures in Africa. I hate to tell you, it was

[Larry Blidner]

plenty in the United States as well. She went on later, like I said, it got a little bit, a little bit deep. But how many black slave owners there were in the United States?

[Eric BP]

Yeah, one of the first known slave

[Larry Blidner]

owner was Native American Indian tribes. Okay. They, they fought on the side of the south because they, they wanted to continue slavery. Right? Never say that. They never ever say that, but it's a fact.

[Eric BP]

Well, nobody goes back to how did the enslaved get brought over to the new World? It's like, it wasn't by white folks. It was. You know, it's like it's just a drastic misunderstanding of exactly how that all worked out. And of course, it's because the teachers want to give people a total bullshit account of things, which is how you get people like Don Lemon. Who. On one side.

[Larry Blidner]

Have you got a Don Lemon clip?

[Eric BP]

Yeah. I mean, Don Lemon on one side comes across as like, oh, I'm this academic, but he's also a complete fucking moron.

[O]

You think that once Donald Trump is gone, it's the end of maga? I don't know if it's the end of that sort of attitude. I mean, the MAGA is the closest thing to the modern version of a Nazi party. This is America's version.

[Eric BP]

Closest thing without the world. Yeah, MAGA is the. Like, the Nazi party. So make America great again. A phrase that has been said by pretty much every president in the history of the United States is now as close to the Nazi party as we've ever had, according to Don Lemon. What. What proof does he have? Well, really, none.

[Larry Blidner]

Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.

[O]

It's the closest thing without the Holocaust and all that stuff.

[Eric BP]

I mean, without the killing of all the millions of people.

[Larry Blidner]

I mean, otherwise, 6 million of stuff

[Eric BP]

there, it's exactly the same, you know, except for the killing of millions of people. That. I mean, it's very close, though, if you take away the killing of the millions of people. Exactly the same.

[K]

This is.

[L]

I.

[Larry Blidner]

This is the only way. I sort of missed Tucker from when he was on Fox when he would just nightly brutalize that fucking idiot Don.

[L]

And he.

[Larry Blidner]

I think he's the one that came of Don Lamo. And he would call what is like the dumbest man to sit in front of a microphone.

[Eric BP]

Right. I don't think he understands. I mean, his brain, relentless.

[Larry Blidner]

What he. What he did to Don. And it was always funny, the guy's

[Eric BP]

brain is not functioning that sort of mindset.

[O]

That's what Maggie is. Because most intelligent people or logical people, when they get new information, and if that information is not. Is negative or not factual, then they change their minds with me.

[Danielle Carter Walters]

Oh, well.

[Eric BP]

Well, we know you're not intelligent then, Donnie, because there's plenty of data out there.

[O]

I wish I had known better. And now that I have this information, then I can readjust. No matter what you. No matter how many facts and how much information you give him, you give them about this presidency, about the policies, they don't change their minds because they're really not Voting for the price of eggs. They're voting for white supremacy.

[Danielle Carter Walters]

Oh,

[Eric BP]

and I already debunked your eggs theory, Donnie. I know you weren't listening, but wow. No, you're voting for white supremacy. But it gets better because then it goes into the, you know, to the Curryism, which is, you know, blaming other people for exactly what you're doing, which is what he's doing here through this whole thing.

[O]

They're voting for power.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Power.

[O]

They're voting to have a preeminent voice. They don't. They're afraid of. They've been co opted by many people in the Republican Party and Donald Trump to think that their failures are due to something else. The other, the black person, the woman, the Latino, the immigrant, the migrant.

[Eric BP]

But the Democrats aren't blaming everything on the white man, right, Donnie? You dumb motherfucker. That's all they do. It's always that you can't do something, it's because of the white man. And so you're gonna be like, oh, no, they're blaming the other. No, I've never heard a Republican and say, hey, I couldn't build my business because of that. Fill in whatever you want there. Never, never once. Donnie, you're looking at your own fucking party and you're too fucking stupid to understand it.

[O]

That person is taking your job. That person is the reason that you don't have the financial or career success that you think that you should have. It's because of them we want to take our country back. That's what MAGA is.

[Eric BP]

No, that's what you, the Democrats are literally doing exactly that. It's hilarious.

[Larry Blidner]

It's just. God, I'm surprised he has. He hasn't sort of faded from, you know, from the lens, but he's still, you know, he's still. He's still kind of a fixture, you know, I guess he's got his fans.

[Eric BP]

I think he recently thought he could run for president, which I would highly encourage.

[Larry Blidner]

Yes, he should. He should go for it.

[Eric BP]

I mean, the opposite of the Don Lamone is Stephen A. Smith.

[Mamdani]

You can't get everything. You can't get everything. But we damn sure don't want to be a socialist nation. This ain't Denmark. This ain't Finland. This ain't Sweden. This is the United States of America. You roll over to these borders with the vision and the fantasy and the passion that, yo, here I can achieve anything. I ain't trying to be like everybody else. I'm trying to be one on one. That's what this is about. In America, we don't talk about that enough when it comes to the socialists. Because they're convincing folks that rather than individuals being a problem, rather than lobbyists being a problem, they're trying to convince you America's a problem. Problem.

[Eric BP]

Nope, not America. The problem. Nope. Like I said, I'm interested to see these folks that, including Stephen A. And Bill Mar, who are on the higher visibility end of the leftist talking heads, having a slight change of view when they see what is going on within their party. Will it make a difference? I don't know.

[Larry Blidner]

I wonder if Stevie Smith was a Sam Kinison fan because he's kind of got that thing going, you know, he's gonna scream and scream and then kind of whisper and that was, that was Sam's thing, you know.

[Eric BP]

It's very effective as a speaking style. Yeah, it's that half, you know, preacher, half. Yeah, it's a very, he's like, he's

[Larry Blidner]

working the revival meeting.

[Eric BP]

Yes. It gets people all riled up, though. I like.

[Neal]

Sure.

[Larry Blidner]

Sure it does.

[Eric BP]

Now, you've got a few other ones here. Where do you want it? Julian or Musker?

[Larry Blidner]

Let's see. How about, we could take a little side thing. This is, this is a story that was really hot. Of course, this, these two Canucks.

[Eric BP]

Yes.

[Larry Blidner]

The femme one. Slugged some girl on the boardwalk in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, town I know very well, spent a lot of time there. Always liked Point Point Pleasant, New Jersey, because I think she was wearing a, I don't know, MAGA hat or a MAGA shirt, whatever the, it was something Maga.

[Eric BP]

Something trump, something Trumpian.

[Larry Blidner]

And she took two, she, she belted her twice. And I think the second was, it was a closed fist and somebody was videotaping this. Maybe she was. I, I, that's still unclear whether she had somebody taping, making, recording it or it was just some bystander. I don't know, though. But they grabbed her and they locked, they locked her ass up. And they're going to deport her back to, to, to Canada. And as you know, as I, as you know, I like to say, Darren, there, there are no mysteries. And if you took her and her imbecile husband, who you're about to hear speak in a moment and put them, let's say, in a checkerboard display with, you know, 50 other faces, and said, which of the assholes that slugged some innocent girl cause of a T shirt she wore? You picked them first.

[William J. Kelly]

Really?

[Eric BP]

They have the look.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, they have the look. They're totally fucking Garbage. Just junk people. J U N K Junk people. And so listen to this fucking asshole. Here he is at the wheel of his suv, begging help from the American public so he can help his wife get out of jail and I guess not be deported or deported in the limousine, and he's complaining how fucking broke he is, but he's driving a vehicle and he's down in a fucking vacation spot on the Jersey shore. It's not Monte Carlo. It's very middle class, but it costs money to hang around in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. I know this for a fact. So how fucking broke is this idiot?

[Imbecile Husband]

I need help. I don't know what to do. My wife is okay.

[Eric BP]

I already like the. I need your help.

[Mamdani]

I don't know.

[Larry Blidner]

I don't know what to do. I know what he should do. He should call Sonny hostage, say, mommy, Mommy, help me.

[Imbecile Husband]

I need help. I don't know what to do. My wife is being detained by ice. She's in Ocean County Jail right now, and I can't get a hold of her. She keeps trying to call me, but they won't let me put money on her corporate card. The kiosk in the Thomas river, like, jail is broken and all the numbers and stuff they gave me wasn't right or wouldn't allow me to put money on her card. And ICE is coming there to pick her up. I need an immigration lawyer. I need help. I don't, I don't know what to do. I don't have any money. I'm so broke. But I'll, I gotta figure something out. I gotta save her.

[L]

I.

[Imbecile Husband]

Look, love, I need help. I need, I, I need you to figure out. I don't know. I don't know. This just happened. I, I, I, I need help. I need my wife. I, I don't want her to get hurt. I don't want to see her get. I don't know what to do. I don't, I don't know what to do.

[Eric BP]

Where was the. Hey, she beat somebody because they were wearing a Trump hat. Part of the.

[Larry Blidner]

He didn't mention that, did he?

[Eric BP]

No, I don't know why. And that his wife was living here illegally for over a decade from what the story was, if I remember correctly. Here's the thing. If you want to live here illegally, the best thing you could do is not assault people randomly for their political garb.

[Larry Blidner]

That would be a good tip. Yeah.

[Eric BP]

And then you want to cry about it. Dude, you're going to be living in Canada because they're never letting your Wife back into the country.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

Like, maybe just learn how to go to Canada. Just go. Drive north. Ok. Somebody tell them drive north.

[Larry Blidner]

Somebody had said. It's not verified, though, that they found out that this guy has, like, a fairly lengthy criminal record in Canada and so he can't get back there. They're like, stay the fuck out. So the love connection is broken it up. I don't know if that's true, but I hope it is.

[Eric BP]

Oh, that would be great. So she can't go to the United States. He can't go to Canada. Mexico, guys, that's where you want to go.

[Larry Blidner]

Cuba. Go to Cuba. Right?

[Eric BP]

That's even better. Venezuela. Just keep going south, then.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eric BP]

That is hilarious. Just the whole sound of this, it's like, well, you know what she did? So you're sitting there crying like, she's the victim here.

[Larry Blidner]

That's always the way.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

People pretending to be the victim. It's the most popular thing to do today, because it is. Well, people are too fucking stupid. They'll be like, oh, no, we'll. We'll send you money to a GoFundMe without knowing who they are, what they did. People are so in the head.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, they are.

[Eric BP]

They don't want details. They don't want to know what's going on. Like, Joy Behar, she has no idea what's going on.

[Neal]

No.

[Larry Blidner]

Never did.

[Eric BP]

You'll enjoy this one if you haven't heard it.

[Darren O']

It really himself did not run around saying, I'm the Messiah.

[Eric BP]

I'm the Messiah.

[Neal]

Jesus.

[Eric BP]

Have a little bit of.

[Larry Blidner]

That's exactly what Jesus said.

[Neal]

I am.

[Larry Blidner]

You know what?

[Darren O']

Mommy did not.

[Mamdani]

It's been,

[Eric BP]

the Pope's got him.

[Darren O']

He's got God. She just said, I knew Jesus. Jesus was not narcissistic like this guy. When you are the Messiah, it's not narcissism to say it.

[Eric BP]

Yes, it is.

[Darren O']

When you are the Messiah.

[Eric BP]

I'm going to move this along because

[Darren O']

this is like, it's too much for me.

[Eric BP]

Okay, finally, I'm with Whoopi on something. It's too much when.

[Larry Blidner]

Who are they talking about?

[Eric BP]

Joy Behar. I was. They were talking about. I think Trump and Joy Behar made the claim that Jesus never said he was the Messiah. Like we did. Did, actually. I mean, I'm not saying he walked around with a parade and a sign.

[Larry Blidner]

He didn't. He did not live like a Messiah.

[Mamdani]

Right.

[Larry Blidner]

He did say that he was. Yes.

[Eric BP]

And for her to be like, that's not. We never did that. Like, why would you talk about things. You have no idea what you're talking about. Oh, wait, the view.

[K]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

It's like. That's just. And then the. It's not a narcissistic thing to say. You're the Messiah, if you are. Enjoy Behara. Yes, it is.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Really.

[Eric BP]

I mean, I don't understand the.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

I don't think Joy Behar. Well, I mean, he put her next to Sunny Hostein, and together they have three IQ points. I think it's a.

[Larry Blidner]

It's a brain trust, a think tank.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

Even together, they can't even blow their nose, man. It's very, very sad that these are the people that have a nationwide talk show that probably has close to a million people watching every day.

[Larry Blidner]

I would be shocked if it was less. Yeah.

[Eric BP]

And they're retarded, literally. They have no clue of the world around them.

[L]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

Very bizarre.

[Larry Blidner]

It is. Tis. It is.

[Eric BP]

You've got a Jillian Michaels clip on elections that maybe go here.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, let's do this. This broad always. She just gets better and better, you know, and, boy, she's. You know, she's been around on the scene a long time. She does not fucking age. And if she's getting work done, it's the best possible because she doesn't look like she's had anything done to her. She still looks like she's, you know, maybe 28, 30 years old, and she's not.

[Eric BP]

And she's a reform Democrat.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, she's definitely. She's on the. She's on the. On the mar thing, at least, I think several. She's lapped him several times on the. The right. The weight. The race to the right wing. And, you know, here's what she has to say.

[Eric BP]

I could find the right button here.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, that's all right.

[P]

I gotta be honest. It seems to me that he's the only one standing between us and the complete loss of free and fair elections. You know, I used to think that Trump was insane for suggesting that the 2020 election was stolen. And now

[Darren O']

I'm just.

[P]

I'm actually not so sure, because these animals in California are not just changing election law. They're changing what elections actually are. And California is not the end of this story. It's the blueprint. And here's the thing. Everything we just walked through, that's the surface. That's the part that's documented, that's litigated, that's on the record and already legal. So no matter how nefarious or corrupt it may be, they made it legal. But here's what they didn't count on. They didn't count on us. They didn't count on this. The fact that 30 million Californians now have a roadmap. Not a rumor, not a conspiracy theory, but a documented, sourced, timestamped account of exactly how. How this is done and exactly who did it. And you can't unknow this. And they can't unbuild what they built in the dark now that it's standing in the light. And the fight for California is the fight for the country, guys. And it starts with conversations like this one.

[Larry Blidner]

Well, I admire her optimism. She's a very smart girl. I gotta disagree with her. I see no hope for California. But maybe I'm wrong.

[O]

Wrong.

[Eric BP]

I think they're having a deja vu or. We had that clip before.

[Larry Blidner]

I've never done this clip before.

[Eric BP]

I think I do.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, you did. Okay.

[Eric BP]

I think it was one of the days you were having the insomnia.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, okay. Then I. I remember blacked out that show. Entire insomnia means an entire day blackout. It's like.

[Eric BP]

Yes. But it's still entirely true. Which is the fact that California, where Donald Trump and the Republicans are right now trying to get things put into place to make things transparent so people can't cheat.

[Larry Blidner]

Right.

[Eric BP]

California is actually changing laws to encourage cheating.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, yeah. It's. We're going to prosecute anyone who exposes a fraud. That's what you said.

[Eric BP]

Which is like, how does this even get passed without being Gulag state number one?

[L]

Right.

[Larry Blidner]

The money line in her speech was it's a blueprint. Yeah. And that blueprint, actually, it's already in place in Washington and Oregon, in New York, in Massachusetts, in Maine, a lot of. In Illinois. It's all over the place. And they're following that blueprint. That's what's really scary because they. They get in power and then they rig it so they can never be taken out of power.

[Eric BP]

Yeah. Which is what they are afraid of. I don't know if we talked about in the last episode. It was that Elizabeth slot Nick, that, oh, if this Save America act gets passed, the Democrats will never win another election. It's like, wow, that's admitting a lot if you're a Democrat.

[Larry Blidner]

Right.

[Eric BP]

To say, if we put these things into place, that people need an ID and you need to be verified that you're a citizen in order for you to vote. If a Democrat will never win. If that happens, we are now in full understanding that it is cheating 101 all the way. Through.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

And speaking of New York, this was just a quick clip. This woman's name is Antonia Marrero, who is the head. And I've never didn't even know this was a thing. You talked about the teachers union being strong.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, yeah.

[Eric BP]

She is the head of a tenant union. Like, wait, you have a union of a bunch of people who don't have homes and for some reason that gives you power? I mean, that should be the opposite, but this was speaking at a Mamdani event. It went viral for all the usual reasons.

[Larry Blidner]

Okay.

[Darren O']

Our city is turning the corner on tenant power. When we organize, we win. Results. The Mamdani administration is emboldening us so that we no longer tolerate the violence of evictions as a matter of business as usual.

[Eric BP]

Okay, is that not like the saddest little cheering you've ever heard as well?

[Larry Blidner]

She's talking to her mother, I think.

[Darren O']

My landlord owns dozens of buildings, but he is not a steward of the public trust. In fact, it is the opposite.

[Eric BP]

Oh, he owns dozens of building. That's bad. Now, did you catch the main thing that people were making fun of, which is the violence of eviction? So it is now violent?

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, sure, yeah.

[Eric BP]

If you're renting from somebody. Hi, Nick the rat. He's in the sewer.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, hello, Nick.

[Eric BP]

If you don't pay your rent and you get your ass kicked out, you have now had violence committed against you. According to these five in the head. Democrat Socialists.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, yeah? Yeah.

[Eric BP]

So what is the answer? That they should just be able to live wherever they want for free? And these people that own the buildings are bad. Do we not understand why this is non. Not sustainable, Folks, That's.

[Larry Blidner]

No, it is sustainable because, you know, the only thing that really makes evictions happen, happened at least in Los Angeles, was the sheriff's department. If you were. You know, and that it took years. Like, that's why, you know, I considered becoming a landlord. Actually, I was. When my house was wrecked by the earthquake and it was rebuilt and I was back in New York for a while, I rented my house out. But they fucked with the laws after that. So that it became to a point where I thought, I'll never rent. Because if they turn into assholes and stiff you and wreck the place, it literally takes like two years to get them out. But then finally, family who shows up? The sheriffs. But remember, there won't be a police department, so there will be no sheriffs.

[Eric BP]

Right, Right. Police.

[Larry Blidner]

Right.

[Eric BP]

It's like. It's insane. Then it's like this is it. Nobody should ever rent them ever again. But wait, they can't afford places to live, so then what?

[Larry Blidner]

Well, the government will provide, right?

[Eric BP]

Well, that's the scary part. The government will provide.

[Larry Blidner]

How sure?

[Eric BP]

Yeah, that's a good question. They never really want to answer that one.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, they'll answer it. It'll be a load. You get a phone call, you get an emergency text on your phone, Darren. Oh, you prepare a room for a guest you hadn't, you haven't yet met.

[Eric BP]

I'll be at the door with my nine millimeter in hand. Now you've got one left in here. Who is Eva V and why is she Eva V?

[Larry Blidner]

Eva V. I've, you know, had a couple of clips from her over the years and she's, she's the girl we need, we need Adam Curry to pronounce her last name. It's Vander Vinderbeck or whatever. She's really a great looking blonde chick and she's speaking at this gathering in Europe and I think it's the same one where Marco gave that speech, I'm pretty sure. And she's, you know, everybody. It's lately, I mean, not lately forever, but since definitely since he became a trillionaire, which I think he no longer is. I think he slipped beneath that. But that, that was kind of the, that was the, you know, the flag that's the starter's pistol for everybody shit on Musk and she's having none of it. And she's a really good looking blonde lady who speaks with a Dutch accent but is very understandable. And here's what she has to say.

[Eric BP]

Lardinger. Broek.

[Larry Blidner]

That's it.

[Eric BP]

That's one hell of a last name.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eric BP]

I don't know how I would actually say it.

[Larry Blidner]

We need, we need Adam for that.

[Eric BP]

We need, we need expert Dutch.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[M]

I think we have to give credit where credit is due. And, and you're correct, Elon. Musk saved X by buying it, but he also saved freedom of speech in Europe by buying it. So there's no. But he's a trillionaire or his other fault. There are billionaires in this world who do nothing to protect freedom of speech and in fact do a lot of bad things to limit it even further. So I really think that we should be incredibly grateful to him and I'm a bit more optimistic because Musk has already been under massive attack from the United, from the, from the European Union, obviously. He's already been fined. X has been fined. He's not paying the fine. He's fighting it in court and I trust that he won't pay the fine. Do we really think that Elon Musk is going to bow down to Ursula von der Leyen? I really don't think so. And that's exactly what we need because these people here feel like they are invincible and it's good that we have in a giant audience in front of them to show them that maybe they are not as big as they think they are. So I really want to say thank you because it's true. I o x my livelihood and also being able to speak out and making this a success. The Safe Europe act is not a success because of the mainstream media at all. I mean we barely had media reports on on it. So it's all through social media and of course it is more so through X than through any other platform. So I think we should be grateful and I agree with Dries of course that the attacks are going to ramp up. But if there is one person I think that we can count on in this fight, I think it's him. He wouldn't have done it otherwise if he didn't really care. I mean he could do a lot of other things with his free time. So yeah, that's my positive note that I'll end on.

[Larry Blidner]

There you go, Eva. We dig Eva.

[Eric BP]

And Elon does appear to enjoy trolling leftists.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh yeah, sure he does.

[Eric BP]

I mean of course when you're the first guy ever to make a trillion dollars, you're like, yeah, your system works, it's fine. Yeah, you know, you just have to work. You just have to come up with something unique. You don't even. There are constantly doors now being knocked down because of technology that will allow people to one do a radio style show like we're doing. You can do that. You can make videos and put them immediately online for the whole world to see. You can be a content creator in all sorts of different ways. But even if you want to just run, you know, a regular little business, if you're the best candy maker or widget maker in the world, it's now, you know, just a few clicks away from setting up an online storefront where you can sell whatever you want. I mean this is is insane that there are still people fighting for the right to be like we, we need the government to take care of us because we are totally unable of fending for ourselves. It's sad, but again, it is a mind virus that your kids are being fed when they go to school. I liked, I don't remember who was involved, but somebody was like, oh, homeschooling, that's horrible.

[Larry Blidner]

And.

[Eric BP]

And the parents were like, my kid will debate you anytime. And anytime, you know, like, this is it. They're going to be way more knowledgeable than the. Probably the adults that are complaining about homeschooling, but definitely than the kids that are at their same age level.

[Larry Blidner]

No doubt.

[Eric BP]

And since Keith the Queeth is still off, I do have one more. Stephen A. Smith.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, good. And when you get through with Stephen, I want to talk to you about Keith a little bit.

[Eric BP]

So, Keith the Queef. But this is. He's talking, I believe, about Captain Hair Gel and, like, what's going on with the transgender children in California. Just like the laws about elections. The laws in California about transgender kids and what they have to tell parents or not tell parents is insane.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, yeah.

[Eric BP]

Stephen A. Agrees.

[Mamdani]

In the same breath, he talking about transgender folks that don't even make up 1% of the population and how. Yo, it's perfectly okay. I just have the heart that if a kid wants to transition from male to female, he can't help that he was born this way, and even though his body says he's a male, inside he's a female, and he wants to make that transition. I'm for doing so without parental consent. You can't tell my child to go across the damn street without my permission. What the hell you doing signing off, verbally or otherwise, on the notion that a kid can do something like that, like a sex change without the parental consent? The hell is wrong with people? That kind of verbiage has to get out of the mouths of Democrats.

[Eric BP]

No, no, I. I'm encouraging them to double down on that, Stephen.

[Larry Blidner]

Absolutely. He's. Yeah, true.

[Eric BP]

Because this is another thing that might just push rational thinking, people who aren't political, you know, apparatchniks to go, wait a minute. Do I want to be a part of that? It's because that's insanity. This is. You know, there's always.

[Larry Blidner]

Again, that's part of the. That's part of their playbook, man. You know, destroy. Destroy religion, destroy the churches, and destroy the family. The government is your family now. You know, we'll decide what your kids can do. That's what they're. That's where they're at that.

[Eric BP]

But think back, Larry, to the 1980s to just say 80 to 90. The political arguments between the Democrats and Republicans, they seem so rational now. Yeah, it was about budgeting. You know, it was about, you know, some of the law enforcement, and there Was, you know, a lot of things that people disagreed with and how much taxes should be paid. But nobody saw this coming.

[Imbecile Husband]

Coming.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

It's just insane.

[Larry Blidner]

It is.

[Eric BP]

I am missing Keith the Queef, you know, his weekly dose of.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, I miss. So my brother's a big fan of this Sean.

[M]

He.

[Larry Blidner]

And he. He loved the Keith stuff. And by the way, he had an interesting thought. Remember I had a clip last week of some. Some dip with the ultimate vocal fry. Right, Right.

[Eric BP]

And.

[Larry Blidner]

And so he said, you know who that guy is? That guy's. Imagine. Imagine Bobcat Goldthwaite heavily sedated. And that's really. And I think holy shit, he was right. That's who that guy sounded like. Just, you know, Bobcat on SSRIs or something, you know, Thorazine. But anyway, my brother, he's a big fan, you know, does it. And he says could ask Darren just wants to play the original Keith Aquifa jingle. Cause that just thing. That thing rocks.

[Eric BP]

Yeah, I like it. The Queefman like. I miss Bobcat.

[Mamdani]

Go away.

[Eric BP]

What are you doing, man? I don't know. He was always funny, man. It's been a long time since I've heard him. I remember watching that show where he. He voiced the bunny for Was the like the Married With Children spin off that was on whatever the other network. And it was even like, you know, more raunchy than Married With Children was. It was called Was Nikki. Nikki something that she was around for a while. The actress. But Bobcat Goldwaith as the. As the bunny that only the father could see the bunny talking. Otherwise it was just like a toy that was laying there. But it came to life like the guy was going crazy. It was great. And he's just a fool.

[Larry Blidner]

The things he says are beyond belief.

[Mamdani]

He's such an asshole.

[Eric BP]

He's king the queen. King the queen.

[Mamdani]

He the queen.

[Eric BP]

And he has a small dark dick too. Unhappily ever after. That's it, Eric bp.

[Larry Blidner]

That's gold, man. That is just am gold. Yeah, but did you know Keith would get the back, man? I miss Keith.

[Eric BP]

I don't know if our last three shows have been the most listened to shows we've ever had. Then maybe getting rid of Keith was the.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, maybe that's it. Can we undo that, my brother?

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

No more Keith.

[Eric BP]

No more Keith. No more Keith. No more Keith.

[Larry Blidner]

We tagged it at the end. I mean all that tonnage is going to be up front, right? They just. They couldn't disappear. Disappear from the. From the start. Yeah.

[Eric BP]

I mean that's why I can't just, oh, this is good stuff.

[Larry Blidner]

Good stuff.

[Eric BP]

I miss Keith. He always had something completely stupid and irrational to say. And he was fun to make fun of.

[Larry Blidner]

He was good radio, no question.

[Eric BP]

But we are a value for value proposition. So even if 5 billion people listen, if nobody donates, we're in trouble.

[Larry Blidner]

We're. Give us some money.

[Eric BP]

I should do a poll. You know, you can also email Rage at Planetrage Show. And we've heard a lot of talk, you know, between no Agenda, the Value for value, and all of that. But I just want people to, you know, reinforce that for me. It's like, do you prefer value for value? Do you prefer hearing advertisements? Do you prefer something like Patreon where you're like, I'm gonna pay five or ten bucks a month and I'm gonna get an extra episode and I feel like I'm getting more, so I'm gonna give money. I just want to know what people feel as far. I mean, I know everybody's gonna be like, free, man, free without ads. Okay, but take that part off the table.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

Which is the lesser of all evils would be the question. I'm curious.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

Because working on Value for Value, it's nice. Adam and John over at no Agenda have made nice careers out of it as so far for us, it is just a little bit of a hobby.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

But we do have a few people to thank for today's show. We appreciate the people that go over to Planetrage Show Donate.

[Larry Blidner]

We do.

[Eric BP]

There's a PayPal button. There is crypto information. There's a P.O. box address if you want to send in cash, gold, whatever. It's all can koozies if you want.

[Larry Blidner]

Yes. Thank you, Nobore.

[Eric BP]

I received mine and all of that. So the information is there. Planetrage show donate today was a little bit low, but Sir Nubbin came in during the show. He's in the cult of Scumbags, one of the rare few, which means over a thousand dollars in total donations. He came in with $57 and says, Ray John Dudes.

[Larry Blidner]

Nice. Thank you, Sir Nubin. It's an odd number. Is there a meeting behind 57?

[Eric BP]

That's probably. And it says, say Ray John Dudes. But does that mean you want me to say, say Ray John Dudes, or do you want me just to say Ray John Dudes? This could be very confusing.

[Larry Blidner]

Ray John Dudes.

[Eric BP]

We've learned that with CSB though, the more you ask questions and have them send more donations with the answers to the Questions. Yeah, that's always the best way to go about it. Our buddy surfer came in with 20 bucks. That's like 20 bucks a show. He's got to be getting close to a thousand.

[Guest Speaker (e.g., Marco Rubio or others)]

Thousand.

[Larry Blidner]

He does. Thank you, surfer. Thank you very much.

[Eric BP]

He says Raging Bulls got nothing on Darren and Larry. That's true. And we're better than De Niro any day.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

Can you imagine elevator shoes, right? Yeah, we don't need lifts. Can you imagine listening to that guy do a two hour podcast? That would be.

[Larry Blidner]

Oh, man.

[Eric BP]

I guess interesting is maybe the wrong word to use. I don't know if. If he could keep it together or not.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

And let's see here, we got the mighty plantain, your buddy coming in with 10 bucks. That's monthly, Chris, you have my prayers.

[Larry Blidner]

Being up there in Maine, brother, it's really scary what's going on in that place. So. But thank you very much.

[Eric BP]

There's a lot of scary things going on in a lot of places right now.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eric BP]

And then speaking of no beret, he came in with $8.30 and he says, hey, you dadgum people, have you heard Billy Bones lately? Yeah, I have, actually. I walk through the Mind podcast. You should check him out.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, he's good stuff.

[Eric BP]

Official Hondur of northeast Knox County. Well, I didn't know that he had that title.

[Larry Blidner]

Okay.

[Eric BP]

He says, follow no beret x [e-mail] and no beret over on freeatlantis.com on the Fetty. And he says, I should say hi to the little woman he loves. Likes that. When the mail got here with the canoozi that my wife asked what kind of a would spend $8.30 to send a can? And I said, no beret. I mean, I had the answer. I knew who it was because he's like, you were going to be getting a message. Now he comes in with $8.30 in honor of the.

[Larry Blidner]

Of the postage. That's very cool.

[Eric BP]

He has interesting handwriting, as you pointed out. Although yours, like half of it came off the.

[Larry Blidner]

I don't know how. Well, I guess it had like that barcode on there. Right. The way he sent it in the mail. So that's probably how it found its way because usually with those things, you give them another address that's not on the envelope. Right. They kind of type that in. But whatever that Sharpie is, or ink marker, no bray that used in there, it just smeared right off the envelope. But all it said was, it kind of said that Larry show. And then it Was just a blur. A swipe.

[Eric BP]

It must have got wet or something, and it just kind of came on I out something.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

And then our buddy Mark Kodra came in with 3:33 twice. So that's 6:66 and all right. Another health karma for him.

[Larry Blidner]

Yes, plenty of that, Mark. Plenty of that.

[Eric BP]

It is lung cancer, and he's doing a biopsy in a couple of weeks. So we'll keep you in our prayers, and indeed we will. He said he never smoked a day in his life with the. The lung cancer. It's odd. There's people that smoke every day. Day don't get lung cancer.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

Then there's people. I mean, it's. It could be a little bit of asbestos. It could be all sorts of things, But I've heard of a lot of people that are getting through the lung cancer and not too bad.

[Larry Blidner]

Much more than in previous years. Yes.

[Eric BP]

So hoping they caught it early with my mom. They're like. Well, we don't know. They did actually, in. The biopsies aren't horrible, but it's kind of a pain in the ass. And they did a biopsy on something on her lung just a couple of weeks ago, and they're like, like. Well, it's. It's benign, but, you know, we want a second opinion. Like, really, really understand.

[Larry Blidner]

I don't get that at all.

[Eric BP]

No. But there have been weird things. Lungs are. I don't know if it's quite as mysterious as the eyes, but there were, like, some crystalline things that had shown on her lungs when she was going through, like, the original cancer and that. And then they, like, disappeared. Then they, like, came back, and nobody really seems to know what they are. So the medicine world is, you know, put it in God's hands and.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, it's Jinky.

[Eric BP]

Uhhuh. Our buddy Tom Tomsky came in with his $5 a month.

[Larry Blidner]

Thank you, Tom.

[Eric BP]

Just now, the thing went off. Bubba, sir. Bubba Hotep came in with five bucks and says the original Keith the Queef song is so much better. People like the original. That's it.

[Larry Blidner]

It's the one.

[L]

Oh, that's.

[Larry Blidner]

That's solid gold. Yeah.

[Eric BP]

And I think you hit it with the. The fact that it has that AM radio kind of.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

Vibe to it. Back when radio was fun.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

Thank you, sir. Bubba Hotep.

[Larry Blidner]

Thank you, sir. Bubba Hotep.

[Eric BP]

Dan Kerna came in with two bucks. See, if everybody. We talked about if everybody would come and everybody listening right now would come in with two bucks.

[Larry Blidner]

Yes. Like, that day, we had 15,000 listeners

[Eric BP]

two bucks a piece of every one of you. Come on then. CSB came in with 50 78, one of the last few people on the Satoshi's world. Thank you, CSB and just says put the AI Arch Wizard YouTube channel link in the show notes what we will do. No need to read. So I'm going to tell you. I'll just go over to AI Arch wizard and ask CSB an AI question. If he can answer your question, he wins.

[M]

Yeah.

[Eric BP]

And Eric PP was streaming live when we did the show last week. I don't know if he's streaming live now. He may be because he's in the troll room. Either way, thank you. Thank you, Eric PP and everybody for donating to the show. Tell a friend. Bring them along.

[Larry Blidner]

Friends.

[Eric BP]

Obviously we have the hockey stick. We're going up, up, up.

[Larry Blidner]

We're going up. And thank you for hanging with us because we love hanging with you.

[Eric BP]

Currently 91 listening, 95 peak. We're getting so close to that hundred live.

[Larry Blidner]

We are.

[Eric BP]

Once we break that number, it's all. It's anybody's guess. We could have thousands, millions listening live.

[Larry Blidner]

We'll be making Rogan sweat.

[Eric BP]

Exactly. Why wouldn't you want to listen to this show? It is fun and entertaining and sometimes

[Larry Blidner]

you may even learn something.

[Eric BP]

No, we don't want to guarantee that.

[Larry Blidner]

But we. We like to think that.

[Eric BP]

We just like to think it'll help your blood pressure come down a little bit.

[Larry Blidner]

Yes, catharsis.

[Eric BP]

When we do the shows live, you can find us on the mighty no Agenda stream, which is available at no Agenda stream, which is also where the infamous no Agenda troll room is that we hijack at the exact same time on Mondays, 1pm Central. And when we're not live, you can always find the shows at Planetrage show or in your favorite podcasting 2.0 app. And then Larry and I, of course, have solo shows. His is that Larry show show. Don't forget the that. Is there somebody that just says LarryShow.com because that would be weird.

[Larry Blidner]

Well, there was when I started mine. There was. He didn't have a show, but he was like. He was like a itinerant kind of wannabe comic. Who's. Whose main. Who's this? The. Com comedy was a side hustle for this guy. He was in his 80s. His. His main gig was a dentist, I think.

[Eric BP]

Oh.

[Mamdani]

And his.

[Larry Blidner]

And his. His site was the Larry Show. So for a while. For a while I used to get, you know, who the is. What is. What is the. No, it's not the Larry. It's that Larry. The Larry shows for getting your teeth fixed.

[Mamdani]

Right.

[Eric BP]

Are you the dentist?

[Imbecile Husband]

No.

[Larry Blidner]

Yeah, yeah. So.

[Eric BP]

So go over to that Larry show.com for all of your Larry needs.

[Larry Blidner]

Yes. And don't forget to pop into weekly random Thoughts dot com. This is a great episode. Rationally Stupid, it's called. And that's. I like that. That's a great title. Rationally Stupid. And again, my God, this, this for the thumbnail alone, it's well worth a look. And then when you listen, you're gonna love it here. So get over to Random Thoughts dot com.

[Eric BP]

Gotta love that AI art. And then come back here, here next Monday. Donate, bring a friend, tell them all about it. Get to the troll room and all that fun. 1pm Central. Mighty no agenda stream Planetrage show, blah, blah, blah. Do it, do it. Until next time,

[Darren O']

The U.S. strikes back.

[William J. Kelly]

Killing a member of the Islamic State.

[Eric BP]

Thinking that gun, whole world going

[Mamdani]

planet

[Eric BP]

rise,

[Larry Blidner]

Boom, boom, boom.