Ep. #737: Mike Rowe, Tara Palmeri, Matt Welch

Summary

Real Time with Bill Maher: Episode #737 — Mike Rowe, Tara Palmeri, Matt Welch

Date: August 8, 2026
Podcast Host: Bill Maher
Panel Guests: Mike Rowe, Tara Palmeri, Matt Welch

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Bill Maher dives into the current political landscape, the state of the American workforce, the rising influence of government in business, cancel culture, and social dynamics shaping the Democratic Party. The show features a one-on-one interview with Mike Rowe, followed by a spirited panel discussion with Tara Palmeri and Matt Welch. The panel tackles socialism, capitalism, identity politics, cancel culture, and the cultural ramifications of COVID-era science worship.

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Key Segments and Insights

1. Monologue – Satirical Deep Dive into Current Events

[01:09–08:33]

• Bill Maher opens with tongue-in-cheek commentary on headlines: SpaceX’s failed moon mission, the Iran “war,” government appointments, and Trump’s relationship with ex-ally Jeanine Pirro.
• Highlights the ever-growing anxiety about artificial intelligence and government UFO disclosures (“AI gonna kill us all. … No date when we'll all be dead, but you can access the new platform through chat. Rip!” — Bill Maher, [06:25]).
• Introduces Francesca Hong, a candidate critical of all holidays (“Finally, a politician willing to stand up to big stuffing!” — Bill Maher, [07:03]).

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2. Interview with Mike Rowe – The State of Blue Collar America

[08:33–22:10]

The Importance of Blue Collar Trades

• Mike Rowe revisits his mission of advocating for skilled trades and the impact of his foundation's work ethic scholarships:
  • "We've given away about $20 million in these things." — Mike Rowe, [11:54]
• Both Rowe and Maher critique the “college-for-all” mentality and celebrate the growing policy moves toward removing unnecessary degree requirements:
  • “16 states have now put that into law. … You put that idea in the water.” — Bill Maher, [13:09]
• Rowe laments the rise in student debt, juxtaposed with an abundance of open, well-paid skilled jobs:
  • "We've got 400,000 jobs in construction right now, twice that in the defense industrial base." — Mike Rowe, [14:01]
• Maher and Rowe discuss societal and generational issues:
  • “There are 7 million able-bodied men… not in the labor force… not looking [for work].” — Bill Maher, [15:33]
  • “On average they’re spending between 2,000 and 2,100 hours a year on their screen.” — Mike Rowe, [16:41]
• Rowe ties workforce attitudes back to educational policy, particularly the removal of shop class:
  • “When we took shop class out of high school, we sent a message to a whole generation of kids: not just that these jobs aren’t worth pursuing, but they’re not even worth looking at.” — Mike Rowe, [20:48]

Memorable Moment

• Maher’s satirical diagnosis for the “lost boys” epidemic:
  • “I think it’s because the porn is too good.” — Bill Maher, [16:20]

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3. Panel Discussion – Politics, Socialism, and Identity

[22:10–35:35]

The Evolving Left, Socialism, and Trump’s Economic Nationalism

• Maher observes a shift within the Democratic Socialists, claiming they now espouse “communism” rather than “socialism” ([22:52–24:14]).
• Discusses how Trump’s government is now acting like a quasi-socialist entity:
  • "President Trump, after they invested in [Intel], then went on to buy stocks in Nvidia, which shot up 200%." — Tara Palmeri, [24:17]
  • “It’s seizing, literally, the means of production.” — Matt Welch, [24:51]
• The blurred line between government intervention and socialism is highlighted (“It’s crony capitalism, too.” — Tara Palmeri, [24:50])

The Michigan Primary and Identity Politics

• Panel analyzes Dr. El Sayed's primary victory, positioning him as a “change candidate” unaligned with the DSA, and the broader implications for the Democratic Party:
  • “He is a change candidate… He's running against Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer who spent 30 million against him, and AIPAC, that spent another 30 million.” — Tara Palmeri, [28:17]
• Maher suggests being a person of color can allow politicians in the Democratic Party to adopt more centrist stances:
  • “When you’re a person of color, it allows you to be more centrist.” — Bill Maher, [31:14]

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4. Cancel Culture and Free Speech

[39:13–45:47]

The Persistence of Cancel Culture

• Maher brings up the firing of Broadway actor Gino Seegers over “problematic” tweets, reflecting on the stifling of dissenting opinions:
  • “Cancel Culture is not dead… You are not allowed to have any opinion that doesn't conform exactly, and I mean exactly, to the one true opinion.” — Bill Maher, [40:19]
• Panel discusses market-driven self-censorship, especially in liberal-dominated industries like theater:
  • “I think this is more of a market decision… they probably decided that this online mob … made some comms and marketing decision, and they were like, we don't want to have a boycott.” — Tara Palmeri, [40:33]

Gender and Women's Sports

• Addresses WNBA player Sophie Cunningham’s stance on trans athletes:
  • “She said… love is truth and being honest and I want to protect young girls in a locker room… who shouldn't have to go against biological men. This is where about 80% of the country is…” — Bill Maher, [42:25]

Internal Contradictions of the Left

• Maher questions progressive priorities when liberal candidates deemphasize LGBTQ rights to appeal to conservative constituencies:
  • “Because a lot of Muslims do not feel that way, unfortunately.” — Melissa Chaudhry, as referenced by Bill Maher, [47:42]
• “This is what liberalism is now.” — Bill Maher, [47:49]

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5. Fauci, COVID, and the Dangers of Hero Worship

[50:29–end]

• Maher critiques Rand Paul for violating his privacy crusader credentials by publishing Dr. Fauci's diary, then offers a nuanced take:
  • “Dr. Fauci, depending on your politics, is either an esteemed, dedicated public servant or a vain, flawed bureaucrat. Well, it's both. Life's complicated that way.” — Bill Maher, [50:50]
• Satirizes Fauci’s self-image as revealed in his diary:
  • “‘It is not hyperbole to say I am the most famous and talked about person in the country.’ … None of that is Trump. That’s all Fauci writing to himself at 80.” — Bill Maher, [54:01]
• Argues that science and expertise were co-opted by political tribes and celebrity culture:
  • “Hollywood co-opted Fauci, and Fauci told the country what Hollywood wanted to hear.” — Bill Maher, [58:07]
• Urges recognizing the nuances rather than criminalizing errors:
  • “He is very, very far from being a criminal. … He put in a lot of service for the country, but at the end of the day, he was somewhat seduced.” — Bill Maher, [58:36]

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Memorable Quotes

• “I realized I don’t think people are listening to anything I’m saying. I think they’re looking at who I’m sitting next to.” — Mike Rowe, [10:27]
• “We removed all the optical proof from K12 that that kind of work even existed.” — Mike Rowe, [20:48]
• “It's seizing, literally, the means of production.” — Matt Welch, [24:51]
• “Who is the Democrat who's going to stand up and say, I'm a white guy. I'm not a racist? Because I don't think white people are worse. We're all the same. Humans are not good people.” — Bill Maher, [34:14]
• “Cancel Culture is not dead because he is shit canned from the show. And in certain precincts of this country, you are not allowed to have any opinion that doesn't conform. Exactly, and I mean exactly to the one true opinion.” — Bill Maher, [40:19]
• “Talk about main character syndrome. Fauci drops celebrity names like 60 Minutes drops correspondence.” — Bill Maher, [54:45]
• “Can we not call people criminals just for the part they got wrong?” — Bill Maher, [53:44]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Monologue and Political Headlines: [01:09–08:33]
• Interview with Mike Rowe: [08:33–22:10]
• Panel: Socialism, Capitalism, Government Power: [22:51–32:15]
• Panel: Identity Politics in Democratic Party: [32:15–35:35]
• Cancel Culture and Free Speech: [39:13–45:47]
• Final Editorial: Science, Fauci, COVID Reflection: [50:29–end]

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Tone and Style

• The discussion is sharp, satirical, often self-deprecating, and unafraid of controversy. Maher employs irreverence and biting humor to confront taboo topics and hypocrisy across the political spectrum, while guests Mike Rowe, Tara Palmeri, and Matt Welch provide grounded industry and policy perspectives.

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For the Listener

This episode is essential listening for anyone interested in the intersecting crises facing America’s workforce, the evolving politics of the left and right, government intervention in industry, debates around free speech, and the large-scale cultural reckoning triggered by COVID-19. The dialogue is thought-provoking and the best moments come when Bill Maher and his panel challenge the audience—and one another—to reconsider their assumptions.

Transcript

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[C]

Start the cl. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you people. How are you? I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Woof, woof. Absolutely. All right. Thank you. Okay. All right, let's get to all the big news. Big news from outer space. Did you see this? You know, Elon Musk has this company, SpaceX, amazing, amazing company. And they went public a few months ago, did very well and. But their rocket crashed into the moon. I don't know if you said they were rocket not there for like, that's science. Things go wrong before they go right. But yes, we hit the moon with a rocket. Trump announced today the moon has been completely defeated and they're begging for a deal. Begging for a deal. Oh, I kid, I kid. The Iran war, Is it a war? I don't know. It's a war. Not a war. It's complicated. That's its status. It's very complicated. Iran. Ooh, now they're saying that they're going to. The Strait of Hormuz is open, except they're going to ban ships just from United States and Israel. This really pissed off Trump. He said, you are so lucky we are out of missiles. Yeah, turns out we are. You know, we kept saying to Iran, there's more where that came from. No, turns out not. Turns out not more where that came from. I don't know. We spent a trillion dollars on defense and Marada missiles. You know, French fries are expensive at McDonald's, but when you look at the bottom of the bag, there's one left. But president had a, I would say a mixed week. He did get his Attorney General through. That's his personal lawyer is the Attorney General. And he got his Director of National Intelligence through. But he lost Jeanine Pirro. Even she would not go along with his story about the reflecting pool. And she's pretty far maga. But no, she even she wouldn't go along. And Trump said she folded like an umbrella. Don't we want umbrellas to fold? I mean, is that it's. It's like saying about some guy you don't like, boy, that guy really shat the toilet. Yeah, that's where you shat. Okay, but yet Jeanine Pirro literally brought a suitcase of evidence to the White House to show it wasn't vandals, it was bad construction. And Trump not buying was sad. He said people get away with things and it's a disgrace. He was very wounded. He said, sometimes I wonder why I even bother making shit. I kid the President. But listen, while we're obsessing about reflecting pools and the ballroom that was in the news today, the ballroom, the pool, I say this every week, AI gonna kill us all. Last week it was. They kind of like went into their own evolution. They can evolve on their own now. We found out this week for the first time, they've created functioning viruses not seen in nature. No date when we'll all be dead, but you can access the new platform through chat. Rip, listen, I've said this before. I hope the aliens are here. I do. I hope they're here and watching us and they're gonna save us. And by the way, the administration this week, just a few days ago, maybe yesterday, they unleashed a new trove of UFO files. Interesting things in there. Triangular craft, weird lights over an army base, a stick like figure with large eyes. That was just an Ariana Grande video. I'm sorry, that was. We wanted to. Maybe that joke will make her eat something. So it's. I'm doing my. I'm saying maybe it'll help. Speaking of eating something, I gotta tell you this. Democrats have found a candidate who hates Thanksgiving and wants to get rid of it. Yes. Running for governor in Wisconsin, Francesca Hong. Have you heard about this? Yeah. Thanksgiving, she says should be canceled. I say good. Finally, a politician willing to stand up to big stuffing. Wow. Oh, gotta love the Democrats. And surprisingly, Debbie Downer's policy about Thanksgiving is not popular with Anybody, really. I mean, white people don't like it. People of color don't like it. Women don't like it. Men don't like it. It does have 98% approval with turkeys. But of course, you know, she wrote this. She said right on her tweet years ago. A couple of years ago, I get rid of Thanksgiving. Of course, yesterday she went on cnn, renounced it. I don't believe you. I don't believe you. People who renounce things. We know what you said. You mean it. Live by it. You fucking squirrelly out of it. No, you meant it. You know why I know she meant it? Because she hates all holidays. She talked about feeling attacked on Christmas when someone put on her computer a Christmas scene. Doesn't like fireworks. Fourth of July, Halloween. All the far lefties hate Halloween costumes that are inappropriate.

[D]

Oh, please.

[C]

This woman doesn't like Valentine's Day. Another way of capitalism taking over our love life. She said Valentine's Day, the holiday that brings out the worst of humanity. That's the holiday that. That's the holiday that brings out the worst of humanity. Have you ever been to a Black Friday sale? People will hip check an old lady to get an air fryer. That's the wor. Okay, so this is their. Her policy. No Christmas, no Thanksgiving, no July 4, no Halloween, no Valentine's Day. One place you don't have to worry about running into. Francesca Hong, Party City.

[A]

Also,

[C]

I couldn't make a character like this up. And she's running for governor of a big state, Wisconsin. She also said that she once left a restaurant because she had an anxiety attack from being around, quote, too many old white people. Well, there's an easy solution to that. Don't go to Cracker Barrel. All right, we got a great. Sarah Palmeri and Matt Welch are here. But first up, he is the founder and CEO of the Mike Ro Works foundation and host of the Way I Heard it podcast. Mike Rowe. Mike Rowe. Mike, you haven't aged a day since I saw you in 2013. How you doing?

[D]

Don't think I'm buying a blink.

[C]

All right. It's been too long since you've been with us. I'm glad you wore your blue jeans. You are the. Yes. Your work boots. Even on a show like this, you're the blue collar.

[D]

This is so weird.

[C]

Why?

[D]

It was literally 13 years ago. We weren't in this studio. Went like that in a blink, but it was the most. Look, I was just talking in makeup. I'm wearing makeup. It was the strangest week for me, because I did your show. The foundation had just announced a scholarship program. So I'm out there hawking it and I'm making the rounds and we had a great conversation and it moved the needle. Three days later, I wound up having the exact same conversation with Glenn Beck on his show.

[C]

Wow.

[D]

Move the needle. It was great. Went home, felt pretty good. Went on the socials. And that's the first time I saw. All my buddies on the right completely lost their minds when they saw me talking to you. And all my buddies on the left completely lost their minds when they saw me talking to Beck.

[C]

Fuck both of them.

[D]

You know what? I. It was truly the first time, though, I realized I don't think people are listening to anything I'm saying. I think they're looking at who I'm sitting next to.

[C]

Yeah, people don't engage. I make this complaint all the time. I just say to people whenever they criticize me, are you engaging with the idea? If you are, we're good. If you're just saying no, you're old, you're white, you're this, you're that, or on the other side, you're black, you're blah, blah. That's not the idea. Engage with the idea.

[D]

What a concept.

[C]

So let's. Yeah, so let's talk about your ideas.

[D]

All right.

[C]

Because, you know, you are the original blue collar guy. I mean, your obituary is going to say, you know, blue collar hero who put that issue on the map. You really are. And it's. And it's ever more relevant. It is, you know, it's a heck

[D]

of a thing when the headlines catch up to your own smack.

[C]

Right?

[D]

And honestly, no, look, I was trying it on 13 years ago. The foundation had been around for five years. We were doing a pretty good job of shining a light on a bunch of decent jobs that for a whole lot of reasons people weren't excited about having when we started offering, it was like, well, welders, steam fitters, pipefitters, shipbuilders, linemen, plumbers, electricians. You know, that part of the workforce that doesn't require a four year degree, but kind of keeps the whole country stitched together.

[C]

Right.

[D]

Dirty Jobs was a love letter to those vocations, but it was an entertainment show. The serious part of me wanted to do something a bit more on the nose with the foundation. So we started these work ethic scholarships. We've given away about $20 million in these things. Thank you. I wasn't looking for applause, but thank you.

[C]

But you deserve it.

[D]

Well, I Don't deserve it. But I'll tell you who does. The, the people like you. And I'm not just sucking up, but this is.

[C]

Go ahead.

[D]

All right. Okay.

[C]

No, no, okay. No, no, no, no, I will.

[D]

It's a, this is, this is marketing and PR 101. And it goes both ways. You know, people always kind of poo poo marketing. They're like, whatever, it's the first thing in the budget to go. But the ideas, the stigmas, the stereotypes, the myths, the misperceptions that surround 7 million open jobs right now, many of which are in trades and in manufacturing, those things are real. And it's a mindset, right? And so to get parents and guidance counselors and people to think differently about the nature of the work, it's turning a tanker around. And so people are paying attention now more than they.

[C]

And you have had an effect. An area we've both agreed on for a long time is we don't. Instead of trying to make everybody get a college degree, I've certainly done a number of editorials on this. Make it so college degree is not necessary as much for jobs where it isn't. And 16 states have now put that into law. I think that's because you put that idea in the water that you don't need a college degree for everything. And that's what we're doing now. This is great progress, I think, because as you say, there's so many jobs that need to be done and we don't have enough people to do them. I mean, because of so many things that are, you know, the environment is kind of going off the edge and AI and God knows what else, fires. We saw all the need for rebuilding here. Rebuilding, to me is going to be a very big growth industry and there's just not enough people to do it.

[D]

We had $1.1 trillion in outstanding student loans when you and I talked last. Now it's 1.8 trillion. Most of that's held by kids who either started a four year degree and dropped out or who got one and statistically aren't working or not working in their chosen field. That's a bad number. Meanwhile, we've got $400,000, 400,000 jobs in construction right now, twice that many in the defense industrial base. It's bananas. And I'm. Look, I. People, I'm not sure, believe me completely, but not a week goes by when I don't get a call from some CEO of some consequential company, some of which, some of whom you mentioned in the monologue or an elected official. Governors mostly. And they're freaking out like they've done the math for every five tradespeople who retire to come in. It's been that way for about 12 years now. So never mind the stigmas and the stereotypes. The arithmetic is horrifying and it's all just conspired into this bully base of bad data. And I'm telling you they are in a panic. I mean they, I mean anybody, certainly any company that has a blue collar workforce is going full on. Jim Farley told me he's got 5,000 empty bays at Ford. These are AI proof six figure jobs, right? 120,000 a year. He can't fill them. He can't fill them. And that's.

[C]

But they're out there, that's what they're everywhere. Well, there's 7 million men, able bodied men, mostly young, who are what they call nilf. NILF is not in the labor force. This is different than unemployed. Unemployment means you're looking but you can't find a job. This is not looking. The guy who should be not looking,

[D]

the guy who should be sitting here to have that conversation with you is called Nick Eberstadt and he wrote a book called Men without Work. He published it in 2005 originally and then again during the pandemic because everything he predicted happened. That exact number. Right now it's like 6,990,000 able bodied men. Not only not working, not looking. That's never happened in our country, not in peacetime.

[C]

Why aren't they looking? I think it's because the porn is too good. The porn is excellent, but it takes away the motivation. You have to be motivated. You have to, oh, I gotta get a job to get a girl.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Now they don't want a girl because they sit home and

[D]

take matters into their own hands.

[C]

They do.

[D]

Come on. I mean, come on. Nick would say the question doesn't start with what are they doing? It starts with what? What aren't they doing? They're not volunteering at their local church. They're not in the Kiwanis club. They're not checking out the Rotarians or the Lions Club. They're not in the Boy Scouts or Skills usa. They're not contributing anything in their community. What are they doing? On average they're spending between 2000 and 2100 hours a year on their screen. It is just, we just haven't seen the like of it before. How are they able to survive? That's. I don't, I can't paint with too broad a brush. Maybe some of them are trust fund kids, maybe some of them have nothing.

[C]

A lot of it is money from other generations.

[D]

Sure.

[C]

You know, they just hate our generation. Except when we give them money, that's always okay. Yeah, it's always okay when you get daddy's money. Then the boomers aren't so bad.

[D]

I shared your monologue from last week. Oh yeah, I thought it was, I thought it was really important because you didn't, you didn't accuse anybody of anything really.

[C]

Just quoted.

[D]

You quoted.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

So I put this up on my little page and I wrote what I wrote and we have over 200,000 comments on this thing. You hit something that's so primal right now. And for me, I don't really have a dog in the big socialism hunt specifically, but I've got one in workforce. And when I look at 4 or 500,000 open jobs and then I look at those 7 million able bodied men not even looking at the jobs at all, and then I look at this whole conversation unspooling. I don't know if you saw this, but the stat that got me within the Democratic party right now, 59% of Democrats who support socialism have college degrees. 40% who support socialism. So this thing that's being called a worker uprising, it's really not. It's not. This is happening because a lot of people with a really expensive credential are in the hole in a big way and they're pissed. And I don't blame them, honestly. I mean, we can say what you want about it, but we. They took our advice, man. They took our advice. We said borrow whatever it takes, go follow your dream and then go get your dream job. And that was a bunch of nonsense.

[C]

Yeah, they don't want to borrow money to get a degree for a job that doesn't exist.

[D]

And I don't want to lend them money that they'll never be able to pay back to get their credential for the job that they want.

[C]

No, I mean, you had it right all those years ago. Shop class, you know, which by the way, they've taken out from a lot of schools. I know. I wanted to show you this picture. Do you remember a couple years ago there's a big story. It was out of Canada. This is not America. But it could have been here. A shop teacher, I think her name was Kyla Lemieux. Yeah, yeah, show the picture. This is a shop teacher.

[D]

Yeah, There you go.

[C]

Your thoughts. Well, that's a shop teacher.

[D]

Two thoughts. Come to mind. Come on. I'm doing what I can.

[C]

Yeah, I think you're doing great.

[D]

The first thing that has to go. Her hair.

[C]

Yeah, her hair is a real hazard.

[D]

You get around a lathe that hair, you can.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

No, look, when we took shop class out of high school, They said the one on one would be a serious look at the changing face of modern day proletariat.

[C]

I mean, I just thought it was apropos for you.

[D]

It's apropos.

[C]

I mean, it just says a lot that that is it. Now, that's not the typical shop teacher,

[D]

but not typical, no. But at least the shop class is there. I mean, when we took shop class out of high school, we sent a message to a whole generation of kids. Not just that these jobs aren't worth pursuing, but they're not even worth looking at. We removed all the optical proof from K12 that that kind of work even existed. So even a guy walking from math to English can't poke his head into the metal shop and go, oh, look, a lathe. Oh, look, enormous boobs. Whatever they see, that's gone. So I can't prove it, but I can draw a pretty straight line to every calamity we're talking about right now. Whether it's student debt, those 7 million men not working, or all these open jobs. It starts with the removal of shop class. And everything that happened after that turned us into frogs in the boiling water. And a little more and a little more and a little more. And now my foundation has electricians that we trained six years ago that are making 230 grand a year. $230,000 a year right now, no college debt. They're setting their own schedules. More overtime than they can fill. And those stories, man, that's. That's the compliment I meant to pay you and everybody else.

[C]

I have nothing to do with shop glass. You have everything to do with it. Let's not make it another 13 years. Is my mother. Thank you, Mike. That was fantastic. Mike Rowe. All right, let's meet our panel. Thank you. Last place you'd ever find me is shop class. Okay. He is an editor at large at Razid magazine and co host of the Fifth Column podcast. Matt Welch. Our friend Matt Welch. And she writes the Red Letter on Substack and hosts the Tara Palmieri show. Tara, Tara, Tara. Right, Tara. I'm very busy.

[A]

Jersey girl like you.

[C]

Tara. Tara Palmeri. Not Tara Palmer. Okay, so let me pick up on what he was talking about. Yes. Last week I did this whole thing about how The Democratic socialists only in recent years are really communists. And I just quoted them. Okay, I just used their own quotes. Now you can argue with me. Somebody in the audience gasped. Several people did at one point that told me, okay, this is new to people, but either you don't know what communism is or you don't speak English. Here's the interesting part. The Democratic socialists very recently were truly socialists. They were founded by this guy. I think his name is Michael Harrington. His name is now a slur that should tell you where they've gone. It's like, oh, my God, you're a Harringtonite. You still believe in socialism. So interesting, the wrinkle in this story, because now that they're communist, there's an opening for socialism. And you know who's filling it? Donald Trump. Donald Trump. How else do you explain a 9.9 stake in intel by the government? Is that not socialism? Nvidia, we took 15% cut when we let them sell chips to China. Nippon Steel, that's merged with U.S. steel, we have a golden share. We basically run their boardroom now. And, you know, this is socialism, I think, because Bernie Sanders agrees with it all.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

He wants to do it with the AI companies.

[A]

The free market is dead. They have decided that the government wants to control 30 different companies. And intel alone, which was a loser because of Nvidia, they have. They basically own 9.9% of that company, and that's a lot. And President Trump, after they invested in this company, he then went on to buy stocks in Nvidia, which shot up 200%. Okay, so he actually made a ton of money on this. His government created a floor on a stock that he owns. It's crony capitalism, too.

[C]

It's crony capitalism.

[B]

It's seizing, literally, the means of production. Because let's remember how these things happen. How did intel happen? Right. One year ago today, Donald Trump was out there saying, we need to maybe fire the CEO of Intel because I think he's a Chinese spy. It's like, what? The president is just singling out a huge CEO of an important country company. And so they had to scramble the jets and have a meeting at the White House. And what happened at the end of that meeting? Okay, you stay. We get 10% of your company. That is thuggish behavior. We have never seen anything like this in modern times.

[A]

Also, the shakedowns. I mean, since he came into office in 2025, he has raised $800 million, mostly from corporations, for his ballroom, for the library, for the freedom. 250, which is where they are doing baptisms on the National Mall and it's all going through foundations and LLCs. Who's getting rich?

[C]

Who gives a shit about the ballroom? We have to stop talking about the ballroom. It's not about that.

[A]

It's not about that. It's about the money that they are making from the ballroom. OK, who's getting the contracts in a,

[C]

in a 4,5 trillion dollar economy? We're talking about the ballroom. It's no stupider than Burning Man.

[A]

No, but there's just so many device for them to make money.

[B]

It's. It's important not to sleep on the problem of seizing companies, which is something that Republicans knew a lot about. When they objected strenuously to Barack Obama joining or you know, having Government Motors.

[C]

They were saying he's picking winners and losers. At least some of the companies he picked were winners, like Tesla.

[B]

What happens is that the government now is your regulator, it's your shareholder. So it's a profit and loss. Sometimes it's your financier, it's giving you money, and then sometimes it's your customer too. The conflicts of interest are crazy. And then from the perspective of the company, now the company doesn't have to think about its customers, which a company should be doing. It's thinking about one person in the White House right now. So it's doing worse and we're doing worse.

[C]

And none of us are saying that we're against socialism. Every modern democracy is a quasi socialist country, as it should be. The private sector shouldn't be.

[B]

Wouldn't say none of us are against

[C]

socialism of any kind. You're not for Medicare, Social Security, the Marine Corps?

[B]

I don't necessarily call those. I'm not against social programs necessarily. Many of them I am. But socialism as an idea is a bad idea. It's worth calling socialism out as well as communism. Communism is the bad applied version. Socialism ain't no picnic either.

[C]

But some part of a democracy has to be socialistic. The government has to do certain things that the private sector cannot or should not. Am I wrong about that?

[B]

The government is there to do things that we decided that we can't do ourselves, right? And that's going to happen in every single company. I don't call that socialistic.

[C]

Okay, well, most people do social. It's literally called Social Security. By the way, I found someone who's not a socialist in the Democratic party and it's a surprising one, but I was reading a lot about him this week. Mr. El Sayed. Dr. El Sayed. That was the big story in politics this week is there was a primary in Michigan. There was a more conventional Democratic candidate lost a squeaker to Dr. El Sayed. Now, he's obviously on the subject of Israel. We're not aligned at all. But it's interesting. He's not dsa.

[A]

He says he's not.

[C]

He says he's not. And he says I'm a capitalist.

[A]

He does say that he believes in regulating monopolies, which I think most people agree with. I think right now he realizes he just won the primary election with the help of Hasan Piker. And he's probably got to move a little bit to the right. He needs to. He didn't win Detroit. I mean, he didn't win black voters, he didn't win rural voters. He won the Subaru voter, the white, urban, college educated voter. So he's got a lot of work to do. Macomb County, Wayne County. But I think the interesting thing about him is he really speaks to the moment and it's a huge rebuke on Donald Trump. Whether you believe in the DSA or what they stand for or socialism, he is a change candidate. He went out there, he basically said to people who are broke and pissed, I hear you. And I am running against the people who are in power right now. And it's not just Donald Trump because the rest of Democrats are only running against Donald Trump. He's running against Donald Trump and Chuck schumer who spent 30 million against him, and AIPAC, that spent another 30 million against him. So he's the anti establishment candidate trying to, he's like, this isn't a gate. I don't get past you people. You want to spend $60 million on me? That's $60 million worth of billboards, thank you very much. So this is, this is just what's going to happen in these moments because Americans love change and he is the change candidate.

[B]

We learn about major political parties by what happens in their contested primaries and what we see now kind of beginning in New York, but also with the grand Platner race in Michigan, in Colorado and elsewhere, all the tension, all the fights are right there on this and what voters in Michigan have decided enough of them. And what dsa. And Hasan Piker, a big fan of Chinese communism and Cuban communism too. So he might not have DSA on his forearm, but he's hanging out with Hasan Piker, who's a loon. And what they're saying right now is that we don't care if we lose or we're willing to roll the dice on losing this. This is what the Tea Party was doing with Sharon Engel and Christine o' Donnell ten years ago. We will back this person because we want that change agent so much. We want to change the nature and the characteristic of our political party. So it's no more Chuck Schumers. Cause my God, how long is Chuck Schumers going to be with us? Forever. And so they back a person. Michigan is a contested state. Democrats absolutely want and need yes.

[C]

And the convention to win it. The conventional wisdom is that Democrats walked into a trap. They, as often happens in the primary, the fringe candidate, the candidate on the far left in the Republican Party, the far right wins the primary because that's who votes in primaries. I don't think that's the case. I think he's probably going to win Michigan and I'll tell you why. Because in the Democratic Party, when you're a person of color, it allows you to be more centrist. A lot of these people, they just, they simply don't trust white people. And I'm talking mostly about the white people.

[B]

Are you saying that he's.

[C]

They don't like, they don't like white people. Don't like white people.

[B]

Are you saying that he's centrist though?

[C]

I'm saying it allows you to be more centrist like Obama was. They just trust you more. I mean, look at this. Francesca Hung, she, I mentioned in the monologue what she said about whiteness and toxicity. She described her son. Now she has an ex husband who is white. Okay. She's Asian. She described his wrestling with this is her own son being in proximity to whiteness. Of all the things I think the Democrats have to lose, number one, whiteness. It's not a disease. You look like nice people. You're nice people, right?

[A]

Yeah, kinda.

[B]

I think, I think you would be Italian, so.

[A]

Oh yeah, white ethnic. White ethnic. I guess, you know.

[C]

Okay, well that, I'm sorry, but that does not count as a person of color. That's a person with a good tan. That's a very different thing. But this has got to go. I think, I think this is their big flaw.

[B]

I think they're not running on that. Like she didn't run and campaign on.

[C]

People hear it. Sure.

[B]

Because it's in every single one of their tweets from 2020 and 2021. I mean these grown ass adults five years ago were saying and doing absolute nonsense and now they're running in every Democratic race and distancing themselves from their tweets. That they made as, you know, 35 year olds.

[C]

Yes. Only in America can you be 35 year old and be like, oh, I'm sorry, it was a youthful indiscretion. I don't know what I was saying. Yeah, I don't believe any of them. All the DSA people are saying, oh, these things you quoted last week. We don't. Yeah, you said it, you meant it. Stop it.

[A]

Yeah. Flip flopping, though. This is as old as.

[C]

That's not flip flopping. That's lying. That's just pretending you don't. I know who you really are, and that's okay. Communism is an economic system. It always leads to a horribly corrupt, violent political system, but it is an economic system. You're allowed to vote for it. I'm not saying make it illegal or anything, but just own up to what it is. That's what it is. When you're talking about seizing the means of production, you are a communist. Okay. Just own it.

[B]

Yeah. I think the interesting twist right now is that they are trying to distance themselves from their tweets of five years ago because they realize how just completely unpopular it is. And it also reminds us that, what did we do 12 years ago? Suddenly we decided that, you know, that biological sex was incredibly fluid, but race was cement. This was bizarre. I mean, race is a much more kind of variable, sometimes even fictitious concept. And yet we're going to die on this hill and then be obsessed over here with everybody's little single drop of whatever background that they have. It's madness. We need to get away from that madness. And these reminders that people were saying this five years ago, they are telling on themselves. A person who thought that five years ago, right now, is not going to be serious today, I don't think.

[D]

But who's.

[C]

Who is the Democrat who's going to stand up and say, I'm a white guy. I'm not a racist? Because I don't think white people are worse. We're all the same. Humans are not good people.

[A]

No, they just aren't.

[C]

We've all done horrible things of every race. Slavery. It wasn't invented in 1619. Everybody did it throughout history. They didn't even think it was wrong in the Bible. There's lots of rules about it. None of them are. Don't do it.

[B]

There's an additional burden that this places when you are thinking constantly in terms of race. Who gets off easy in this? White people do, actually, because we're not obsessed with being white. We don't think about it.

[D]

It's weird.

[B]

Anyone who does think about it we know is weird and we don't want to hang out with them. It's strange, but the burden of is like there's supposed to be a black way to think or an Asian way to think. It's madness. We should think like individuals and not have to be always self conscious of how we are different than some majority. That is a stupid way and an anti american way of looking at things.

[C]

Yeah, it's just this. It's weird that they, the far left, liberals, the white, they seem to have this self loathing like that's very important to their identity that we know we're bad. That's how we know we're good.

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[A]

All right,

[C]

so there's many important stories, but I want to talk about Cancel Culture for a minute because I saw this story this week. An actor on Broadway named Gino Seegers. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. Oh, there he is. He was set to star in a movie called. A movie, a play called maybe a musical, I don't know, called Hadestown. Hadestown, Not Hadestown, Hades. He was going to play the devil, and then they found out he is the devil. So he will not be playing the devil. Why? Because they got a hold of the old tweets. I guess they're not that old. But just the lesson here to me is that Cancel Culture is not dead because he is shit canned from the show. And in certain precincts of this country, you are not allowed to have any opinion that doesn't conform. Exactly, and I mean exactly to the one true opinion. He said he's talking about trans people. I'm not against anyone living out their lives the way they want, but I am against their rights superseding the rights of other people. Now, if you made this argument in any sort of reasonable debate, it's okay

[B]

about anybody, about anybody superseding your rights.

[C]

We do not have the right to have a differing opinion. This cannot go on. I don't think it can go on. I guess it will go on.

[A]

I think it was a calculated Marketing decision, because Broadway obviously has a very big population that runs it. Gay population. People that buy their Consumers that buy tickets are gay. I think that they probably decided that this online mob that moved very quickly against them, they made some comms and marketing decision, and they were like, we don't want to have a boycott of our show, so let's just get rid of them. I think this is more of a market decision in terms of Broadway, because he'd be welcome at the Pentagon under hegseth in a second.

[B]

I just.

[D]

Every time.

[B]

Every time I read one of these stories, I always, like, you know, they usually portray, like, you know, his hateful statements that he said. I'm like, all right, what paragraph's it gonna be, 12 or 19 that we're gonna get to what the statement is, and is it gonna be remotely hateful? I didn't find it. Did you find? I hated it.

[C]

I mean, there are some other ones. He said. He said, now, of course, some people will come to me and say, oh, Gino, they, meaning trans folks don't feel that way. They're just tired of being hunted. They're tired of being oppressed and persecuted. I'm sorry, I don't see that. I don't see transgender people becoming oppressed or being persecuted. Well, of course not. You work on Broadway. But, you know, he's just basically saying there isn't some pogrom going on out there. Jews are getting stabbed every day somewhere around the world.

[B]

And let's say he's wrong about that. Like, he's just materially wrong in that analysis. Okay? You can say something that's wrong.

[C]

You can say, no, you can't.

[B]

You can't.

[C]

That's the thing, is that you just can't. This is not the only one this week, the Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham. I don't follow the WNBA as closely as I would like to. Not because they're women. Just got time for all sports. I don't watch college either.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

It's okay. I'll get it.

[C]

I know.

[A]

It's ok.

[C]

I don't even have to apologize for it. Okay. She said I got a lot of feedback, negative feedback about me hating trans. She didn't say she hates trend. She said, I am here to extend love, but I also think that love is truth and being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men again. This is where about 80% of the

[B]

country is, and Martina Navratilova is. And has been for a long time.

[C]

Right.

[B]

Prominent athlete and lesbian.

[A]

What, the lesbian part is just the funny part?

[C]

Well, no, I mean, that's relevant to the decision.

[B]

And someone who had a trans trainer. I mean, Renee Richards was her trainer for a long time.

[A]

Gay people are necessarily the same in terms of, like, their beliefs on this.

[B]

Of course. I mean.

[A]

Yeah, that's what I'm just saying.

[B]

Martina Navratilova is not an insignificant person in this debate and can't be called a MAGA Barbie, which is what people are calling Sophie Cunningham because she's blonde and she pointed at people. And she is. She knows that she has a fan base of people who don't. Who are on the 80 side of the issue instead of the 20 side of the issue. And there's an attempt to kind of demonize her. And I think the interesting part is that it's failing. I mean, there's. She has to answer questions at every press conference in the wnba and she kind of just matter of factly gives it back, and she's not really suffering all that much. I think the culture has changed a lot in healthy ways. But just as in Broadway, just as in the sports press corps, strangely enough, there are places where they try to enforce the 20 against the 80. And it looks ridiculous, increasingly.

[C]

So you think it's also marketing when they made Patti lupone of Broadway bend the knee because she had a controversy about a year ago. If you don't know Patti LuPone, she's a big Broadway star and she was working in a theater that was shared a wall with another show, happened to be a black show, and the noise was bleeding through the wall. And Patti LuPone said, Can we work this out? And she was history's greatest monster for suggesting black people are loud. That's not what she was saying. She was just saying people in my show can't hear because of your show. Maybe we can work something out. And she was made to apologize. All of Broadway had to put out an open letter. They all hated her. She had to. This is madness.

[A]

I think that the arts are controlled by liberals.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

And so therefore, they get to set the rules. I mean, that's what they do.

[C]

I don't think that's liberal. To me, that's regressive. That is not liberal. Liberals don't know what liberalism is anymore. By the way, Patti LuPone was on this cruise ship. Did you read about that? The cruise ship that went. It was a gay cruise ship. She's a gay icon, Broadway star. Okay, so she's on this Gay cruise ship would not let it dock in Turkey and Egypt would not let the cruise ship dock. And a lot of people were saying, well, I mean on the left they were saying, well, you know, this is this rightist backlash against gay people. No, it isn't. It's because they're Muslim countries, they don't think gay people have equal rights or in some ways, some instances don't think they should even be allowed to exist. This is what the problem is. They don't know where liberalism is. Yeah, I mean that's illiberal.

[B]

Yes. And we are in a situation where there are large minority strings in both major parties and the blocs that comprise them that are anti liberal. The post liberal right has been talking about this for a long time. They look at the Enlightenment founding principles and say, I don't know, that's not common good. We need to think about the common good. And on the left we've seen for a long time now a very anti liberal set of sort of speech ideas and just the amount of social pressure that was enacted on people for many, many years and everyone went through it, there was a backlash. You know, if you are facing your HR person trying to tell you a bunch of nonsense and you know, if you speak up and say that sounds a little crazy, you're going to get into a world of hurt. A lot of people went through, through that and told themselves like the solution to this is to vote for Donald Trump. And now I'm sure there's some regrets about it.

[A]

I mean, there's always going to be a consequence to having an unpopular opinion. Someone could see hear one of my opinions while I'm sitting here and they might not want to open a door to me. And I just think a lot of it is driven by the market. Some of it is driven by fear. And if they make decisions in 48 hours, it's super rushed. And especially with the way that things move right now. The online mob, it, it can get together in a matter of minutes. But I do think that you don't know if what you say is going to close doors. You don't know how you are offending people at any time.

[C]

Well, I'll give you a good example of that.

[A]

And if they have power and money, then they make the decisions. That's usually how it works.

[C]

You know, I'll give you a good example of that. Apropos to the idea that the liberals are fetishizing the wrong people. Melissa Chaudhry, she was also running, she was, you know, pretty staunch liberal. She was asked about LGBT rights, which she has supported, including as she has supported justice, health care protections, and housing and unemployment. She says, then why is that not on your website? Her answer? Because a lot of Muslims do not feel that way, unfortunately.

[A]

Hmm.

[C]

Oh. Since they don't feel that way, we just throw the gay people under the bus.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And this is what liberalism is now.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, there was some of this in the Michigan primary of. Well, it didn't want to come out too strong about the Ayatollah being killed because a lot of the constituents out there are a little upset about that. Well, you can probably take a position about the Ayatollah being killed or about Hamas being bad or Israel having a right to exist, which El Sayed several times has said he found it hard to get to a. Yes, let's say.

[C]

Right. And I don't think El Sayed is a terrorist or. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know enough about him to know what he thinks about something, some of these issues. But I assume he's running in America, he wants to be in America and he wants to have American values. I certainly would hope that to be the case. But, you know, come out forthrightly and just say, we do not want to be the country that doesn't allow gay ships to dock. Okay. Is that that hard to. Okay, so Trump got two guys in this week. Two of his people had a pretty good week with Todd Blanche, his personal lawyer, which. Okay. Jack Kennedy and his brother as the Attorney General. Okay. And Jay Clayton, John Ossoff, who. I think that's the guy the Democrats should be looking to. I think he says some great things. Of course, he's a Jew. Forget it. He said to Todd Blench, who could not. Or maybe it was Jay Clayton, who could not get himself to say that Trump lost the 2020 election. He said to him, aren't you embarrassed this is the right question to be asking Republican. Aren't you embarrassed that you can. That you have to sit here knowing that Donald Trump is watching you and that you can't say what everybody else in this room knows, including you, that he lost the 2020 election? How can you do your job under those circumstances? That, to me, is the question the Democrats should be asking.

[A]

It's brilliant.

[C]

It's brilliant. And it goes to your Jeanine Pirro

[B]

thing in the monologue, too. Your job, the way you got that job is by nodding enough when the President of the United States said something that was just absolute bs. You got that job for that reason. And then you will come up and this happened with Dan Bongino and everybody else. Suddenly you come into the office and you can't keep doing the lie in office. And it's very difficult. And so then you have to go and have a rough meeting with the president. Think about that world that we're in right now. Like, that is, you either have to say that the 2020 election was rigged, or in the case of RFK Jr that the 2004 election was rigged against Democrats. Look that up if you haven't. But that is a really bad place. We're in an epistemic dead end right now.

[C]

All right, thank you very much. Very fun. Time for new rules, everybody. Okay, new rule. Now that Jeanine Pirro stood up to Trump and said she won't prosecute the guy Trump accused of vandalizing the reflecting pool, she has to tell us, why don't you want America to be great? I don't think Trump isn't going to get that 200% tariff on French wine. Now. It's 300%. New rules. Scolds and prudes have to stop saying there's something weird about Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson being married to his second cousin. Have you ever been to Maine? There are three things. Marry your cousin, get Lyme disease, and kill camp counselors. And. And they're not actually married. They just have a couple of kids. Marrying your cousin, that would be gross. New rule. Since I couldn't make this year's International Outporn Festival in In Nada, Switzerland, please sign me up for next year because I'm dying to find out where you put the weed and how you light it. And I hear the music sucks, but the snacks afterward are amazing. New rule. Now that scientists have created the first ever 3D map of the nerves running to and from the female clitoris, they have to tell me, why does it look so much like the COVID of the Eagles One of these Nights album, Neural designers at the AI Moga Company must tell us why their new humanoid robot comes with blond hair and a fat ass. You're working too hard. Have you met a human male? We'll stick our dick in a vacuum cleaner. Here's a sign you're living in a future nobody wants. When you meet a girl at the club and tell her back that thing up and she says, you mean to the cloud. And finally, new rule. Stop threatening to put everyone in jail who you just don't like the way Senator Rand Paul is trying to do now with Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is back in the news because Senator Paul, formerly of the Privacy is everything wing of the Republicans party, got hold of Dr. Fauci's personal diary and published all of it. Rand, babe, your entire brand is Senator Right to Privacy. You're the libertarian guy, the fourth Amendment guy. It's your family legacy. Your entire political career has been about warning us about government overreach. You printing someone's diary is like AOC wearing a gown that says tax the poor. And so we enter yet another story. News new story that illustrates the Rorschach test that is America. Dr. Fauci, depending on your politics, is either an esteemed, dedicated public servant or a vain, flawed bureaucrat. Well, it's both. Life's complicated that way. You know what's really complicated? And Dr. Fauci definitely got some of that wrong. He said if he got the vaccine, it was highly unlikely you'd get Covid or transmit it wrong. Okay, but that's not because it was part of some self dealing plot. Things were changing rapidly. They just got it wrong. That's science. Reports of Fauci deliberately lying are based on lazy research, including from centrists that got timelines wrong or transposed. But Fauci could be unforgiving, too. In his diary, he described a dispute with another medical advisor, Scott Atlas, who wanted to keep the schools open, which Fauci told his Dear Diary, borders on criminal. No, he's not a criminal. And you're not a criminal. Which should be obvious since only two months later, when Atlas resigned, Fauci wrote the one area he was correct was in saying that school children are not the drivers of the outbreak. Okay? So can we not call people criminals just for the part they got wrong? Look, Look, from the beginning, there were two schools of thought on how to handle Covid. One was the model they followed in Sweden and Florida. Two places that have nothing in common except a love of old people in sweaters. But both places thought it was smarter, and both did quite well by laser focusing on protecting the vulnerable and letting life go on for everyone else. They thought it was a good idea to get out and go in the sun for vitamin D and fresh air. You know, crazy stuff. Not crazy stuff. Okay, the other side. Well, let's just say they erred on the side of caution. Really, really into airing on that side. I showed this picture last week. That's a Democratic socialist meeting in Colorado last month. Now, that's extreme, but it's the direction that. That half of the country tends toward. David Leonhardt studied this issue and wrote of Democrats during the pandemic. Organizing their lives around Covid is core to their identity as people progressives. And that is the place where I have a problem with the hero worship of Anthony Fauci. Because it seems fame is a drug with 100% addiction rate. Have you read some of the shit in Fauci's diary? Last week I played a game here called who Said It, Fauci or Trump? Let's play. It is not hyperbole to say I am the most famous and talked about person in the country. The nurses went absolutely wild to see me. I am such a valued spokesperson and a good communicator. One person said that Tyra Banks was sexy, but I was even sexier than she was. None of that is Trump. That's all Fauci writing to himself at 80. Why? So we can read it back when he's 100. Remember what a hot piece of ass he was at 80. Talk about main character syndrome. Fauci drops celebrity names like 60 Minutes drops correspondence. I mean, it's like finding out that in the 1950s, Jonas Salk kept a diary as he was developing the polio vaccine. But it was mostly about how he got to meet Howdy Doody. Now, am I saying all of Fauci's decisions came about because he was lapping up the adulation? No, but you have to try awfully hard not to notice how much Fauci is energized by being embraced by one particular cultural tribe. It was Julia Roberts who was telling Fauci he was Jesus with a petri dish, not Randy Quaid. And that side likes to think of themselves as the purely science people. Even though keeping kids out of school that long and traumatizing 2 year olds with masks wasn't good science, Fauci supported some strange policies for such an esteemed epidemiologist. Natural immunity doesn't count now. Meaning even if you've had the disease, you still had to get the shot. That sounds more like what Pfizer and Fauci's celebrity friends wanted to hear. He let this shit go to his head. Turns out the really dangerous intimate contact wasn't shaking hands, it was kissing ass. And yet, he is very, very far away from being a criminal. Please, he's not Dr. Mengele. Because your kid had to take algebra on Zoom. He put in a lot of service for the country, but at the end of the day, he was somewhat seduced. 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