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Brett Cooper
Welcome back to the show everyone. Happy Thursday. I'm excited to see you guys. Today we have a show. It is chock full because women are harassing men online in a new app, Hunter Biden is teaching us how to make crack cocaine in a recent interview. And apparently Joe Rogan is not an influential podcaster, so obviously we're gonna be learning a lot. Also, before we get started, I just want to shout out PDS set for sponsoring this episode. Wanted to give them a shout out at the top of the show. So before we dive into those subjects, just a couple of things. First of all, I appreciated all of your guys comments about the set. I'm so glad that you enjoyed the live show and the new set. Also, we did know that we had no soundproofing in this room yet, but I just wanted to start live streaming. And so today we have hung some things up. So hopefully it sounds a little better from our ears. At least what we're listening in on, what my team is, et cetera, sounds much better, but we'll keep improving cause that's the name of the game. Also, before we get into those major stories, we do have some news updates. I was seeing you guys, I was lurking in the chat as I do before every episode. I'm always watching, guys. I'm always watching. But yes, you guys were talking about Hulk Hogan. So unfortunately, Hulk Hogan passed away. I believe he died of a cardiac arrest. That was just announced like 30 minutes ago. And I saw a couple people in the comments also saying like, death comes in threes. Has somebody else just died? Because Ozzy Osbourne passed away like yesterday or the day before last. And then Hulk Hogan. And then literally as I was refreshing X for my last little refresh before going live, I saw that a musician named Chuck Mangione just passed away. Now, I did not know who Chuck Mangione was before this. I think he was a jazz musician. But there we have it. Three men that were iconic, allegedly. Cause I don't know Chuck, but he probably was iconic in many circles in one generation have all passed away in the last 48 hours. So certainly does seem to be that that superstition of death comes in threes is true. So you guys were right to call that out immediately. Now the other news that I think we should touch on is that the DOJ is meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell today. I don't know when exactly that is happening, but it was scheduled to happen today, Thursday in Florida. That was what we had talked about last week. Ghislaine had Said like, I want to speak. I want to give my testimony. I will give you the information that you want to hear. So. So I'm interested to see what comes from that based on how things have been rolled out over the last couple of weeks. I don't know how you guys feel about it. I'm not. My expectations aren't high is basically what I'm thinking. We haven't gotten any information. There's been no transparency. So it's good that this meeting is happening. And I think that she's a really important piece of the puzzle, because if there were these clients out there and she's the only one that's in prison. And also, Epstein had other women who came after her that picked up her role of kind of being this alleged, you pimp of sorts, of bringing these women to Epstein and his alleged clients. But she's the only one that's in jail. Like, none of it makes sense. So if she gets a chance to share her story and kind of put the pieces together, that'd be great. But also, who knows if we're going to get any of that information, because as it's been going, it seems like we're not getting anything. Also with the Epstein stuff, the House Oversight Committee is set to subpoena the Clintons, which is very, very fun. Now, again, are my hopes high? Not really. Will they find a way to get out of it? Maybe. I have no idea. But they are going to try to subpoena the Clintons, which is super interesting. Tulsi is also going after the Clintons and going after Obama. She is ripping into things, which is great. But also, in my conspiratorial brain, I'm like, is this just a distraction from Epstein because you guys fumbled so hard? Is anything actually going to happen with Obama? You're accusing him of treason. Are we actually going to see arrests? Are we actually going to see Hillary Clinton have to answer for the fact that she was drunk and on all these different alleged drugs that they're talking about, I have no idea. So we'll see. We do know that Hunter Biden was on drugs, that we're gonna talk about that later. He was very open about that in a recent Channel 5 interview. And then the last big news of the last 24 hours, which I'm sure you guys have seen everywhere. I literally can't escape it. It has been hysterical. Is that the first couple of France, First Lady Brigitte Macron and President Macron of France, they are officially suing Candace for defamation for talking about Brigitte's alleged, maybe, possibly penis. So we'll see how that goes. But it has been hysterical to watch. If you guys did not watch Candace's episode yesterday where she goes through what they're suing her for and kind of gives her side of the story of her conversations with her lawyer and what they presented them with, it is so interesting. It's also crazy because they just lost another defamation lawsuit and in France. So it's like Candace's angle is that this is all like a PR thing, like they just lost this defamation, so they want to have like, look, another shiny thing, like we're fighting this, like, whatever. Anyway, that was literally everywhere, like Vanity Fair, Deadline Jerry News, everybody was talking about it. That was the news of yesterday. So we'll see where that goes. But going back to the. The main stories of the day, the real drug user. We need to talk about that Hunter Biden interview. Hunter Biden just did his first, like, sit down exclusive long form interview and he did it with Channel 5. And first of all, my favorite comments under this interview was everybody saying, like, legacy media must be like quaking right now because like Channel five, like this random guy on Channel five just got this interview and it has gone absolutely viral. Like it is all over X, it's all over Instagram, it's all over TikTok. And the YouTube interview itself, it's like three and a half hours long, has millions and millions of views now. And it actually was a really interesting, interesting conversation. I feel like I learned a lot about him and their family and he was open about a lot of things. There was also a lot of stuff that was said about Biden that was like, should we have known about those drugs that your father was also on? Like, he was kind of excusing Biden's debate performance because he was on Ambien, I believe is what he was saying. And everybody was like, oh, maybe we should know what drugs the President was having to take in order to just go about his daily tasks, which he was not doing well in the first place, obviously. But also what I think a lot of people on social media are missing is that there was a pretty heavy conversation throughout this interview about addiction and grief that I thought was really interesting. It made me wish that Hunter would go on Theo Vaughn's podcast. Cuz if you guys remember Trump's interview with Theo prior to the election where they were just talking about drugs and Trump was like, oh, Theo, like, how was that? How was that tripping? I feel like Theo and Hunter would be an Absolute, just insane duo. But anyway, they. Because it's under Biden, they got into a conversation about the differences between cocaine and crack cocaine. And I am gonna give Hunter a little bit of credit right now because this clip was kind of clipped out of context because the way that they got into that conversation was because they were talking about him being questioned in front of Congress. And he was saying how hypocritical it felt that he was being judged by all these members of Congress, where he was like, I know that you guys are out partying. I know a bunch of you have done drugs. I know that you have friends that do drugs. I know that some of you have struggled with addiction. I know that you have family members who struggle with addiction. And you're here sitting and judging me. And. And I know the parties that you go to. I know what goes on behind the scenes in D.C. which, by the way, if you wanna hear more about that, Jorge Santos, who is the former congressman who's about to go to jail, he's been like, revealing everything recently as he gets ready to turn himself in. Crazy, crazy stuff. So Hunter had a point there, but that's how they got onto the drug conversation. And basically he was saying, like, I can't believe these people think they're so much better than me because they were doing X, Y and Z and I was doing crack, which is apparently like the dirty drug. But according to this interview, he was not just a drug user. He's a kind of drug connoisseur. And so later in the interview, he gave some information for all of us non drug users about how crack and coke are different. I can't believe this is what I'm saying. I said this is like a serious conversation we're having that connects to politics. But anyway, you have to listen to this clip. It's so funny. He says that crack is actually not dirty at all. He shouldn't be judged for it. It's actually safer than alcohol. Just listen to the X Y expert, Hunter Biden. How different is the experience?
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Hunter Biden
Vastly, vastly different. And like, for real, I feel really reluctant to kind of have some euphoric discussion. I know you're not asking me to do that, but have some euphoric discussion about crack.
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Brett Cooper
I think this might be kind of the opposite here.
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Hunter Biden
Okay? No, it's the exact opposite. I'm saying I don't want to have the experience of some euphoric recall. That's how powerful crack cocaine is. Does crack cocaine make you act any differently? No. Is it safer than alcohol? Probably. People Think of crack as being dirty. It's the exact opposite. When you make crack, what you're doing is you're burning off all the impurities so that it combines with the sodium bicarbonate, which makes it smokeable.
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Brett Cooper
Okay? So just wild to hear all of that, like, sitting in a serious interview on the news being like, no, guys, actually, it's. It's safer than alcohol. I don't know what the problem was here. But anyway, I wanted to bring that up because those clips about crack and cocaine were obviously going viral. But I kind of care less about Hunter's drug rants, and I care more about what this man said on illegal immigration, because this is where the interview really took off for me. And per usual, as a Democrat, he said the quiet part out loud. So now I want you guys to listen to this clip for someone.
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Hunter Biden
Am I gonna be like, all these Democrats say you have to talk about and realize that people are really upset. Illegal immigration.
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Brett Cooper
You.
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Hunter Biden
How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you have food on your table? Who do you think washes your dishes? Who do you think does your garden? Who do you think is here by the sheer just grit and will, that they figured out a way to get here because they thought that they could give themselves and their family a better chance. And he's somehow convinced all of us that. That these people are the fucking criminals.
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Brett Cooper
He is so angry, the veins are literally popping out of this man's neck as he's just screaming the F word, talking about illegal immigration. But basically, what he is saying, and this is something that we've talked about on the show repeatedly. I remember that there was this older woman from LA and we clipped her, and we put her in an episode a couple of months ago where she was basically saying the same thing. But it's like you are saying the quiet part out loud. You want cheap labor. You want easy, cheap labor with no protections for employees. You don't care, because these menial tasks that you don't wanna do yourself, Hunter Biden, are being done by other people who you get to control. And it is so hypocritical because Democrats claim this moral high ground when it comes to immigration. We need to be compassionate. We need to be inclusive. If they wanna come into our country, let's open the borders. Let's let everybody. Let's. We love everybody. Everybody's so wonderful. And yet they say things like this simultaneously. You' that all these people are good for are menial tasks that you think you are too good. For and also Hunter Biden, like most people mow their own lawn, most people do their own dishes, most people do their own laundry. Like, this is a elitist you problem. These are normal things that normal Americans have to do on a daily basis, just as functioning human beings and functioning adults. But you, as somebody who was born into wealth, has always had wealth, is of an elite class. You're sitting here and you've always had, what is it? Illegal immigrants doing all of these tasks for you that you believe are below you. And this, you've decided, is the rationale for why we should stop deportations. This is the rationale for why we should just let illegals flood into our country and take over. I mean, it makes no sense. It is not compassionate, it is not loving in the slightest. And it is insane that they think it is, but we hear this argument constantly and it's just. Anyway, it's insane. And we could sit here and we could go through clips of this podcast because like I said, it is going so viral, it is circulating everywhere. But again, the podcast is three hours long, so go watch it if you want to, but I will read you this tweet, which I think sums up the podcast perfectly. If you don't want to sit through three hours of Hunter Biden and like weird camera angles that kind of makes it feel like it's on Parks and Rec. But this guy said in the span of three hours, Hunter Biden gave step by step instructions on how to cook crack trash Nancy Peloton and claimed that she secretly hates Kamala. That was a good part. That was like very dramatic. Told Nancy Pelosi's daughter to f herself. Said that Joe Biden was strung out on Ambien during the Trump debate. Blamed Obama, David Axelrod, Podzi of America and George Clooney for staging a coup against his father. Admitted his family relies on illegal alien slave labor, threatened to invade El Salvador to retrieve gang members, confessed the Russian disinformation laptop was his, claimed Israel allowed the October 7 attack to justify invading Gaza, argued crack is cleaner and safe than alcohol, and defended cheating on his taxes. Now, all I know from this interview, everything we've learned, is that Hunter Biden is not a hardworking American like us, so he might not need PDS debt. Now, the truth is that hard working Americans, unlike Hunter Biden, are drowning under crushing debt, trapped by high interest credit cards, personal loans and medical bills. Creditors profit from keeping people broke and controllable. And my friends over at PDS Debt are here to change that. PDS debt does more than just help you manage your debt. They empower you to take control. With their technology. They go beyond the numbers to understand your unique financial situation. No more cookie cutter solutions. Just a clear path to financial freedom that fits your lifestyle. And here's the best part. There is no minimum credit score required. So whether your credit is fair or bad or good or great, they are here to help you save more, pay off your debt faster, and start putting money back where it belongs, which is in your savings account, which is so important in 2025. Getting started is so easy. Just go to pdsdebt.com Brett for your free debt assessment and see what options are available to you. Anyone with enough eligible debt qualifies. Get started with your free debt analysis in just 30 seconds@pds debt.com Brett I'm out of breath, guys. I am 35 weeks now, and you might notice I'm leaning back in this episode. I literally can't sit up forward right now. Like, I feel like I have a baby, like, foot in my rib cage right now. Also, is this comment still up on the screen? Guys, hold on. We might have a technical difficulty. Oh, no, we're back. Perfect. You guys just got to read more about Hunter Biden while I was complaining about having a foot in my rib cage. Anyway, now, before we move on from Hunter Biden, now that I've had a chance to catch my breath, the last thing that I will say on Hunter is in regards to this tweet. And somebody said, if I was Hunter Biden, you would never hear or see my face again. I would be happy to live in obscurity. I certainly wouldn't be doing podcasts. What on earth pushes someone to behave like that? Okay, well, here's the thing. This man is Joe Biden's son. He is the child of the most establishment of the establishment Democrats who have made all of his problems go away for years. He was literally pardoned by his father, the president, in the final hour of his presidency when Biden had said repeatedly he was not going to pardon his son, he was not going to do that. He has had to face little accountability for his actions ever. Ever. He's been able to do all of this insane stuff, be embroiled in all of these scandals, these political scandals that range from, you know, domestic things to things that span into geopolitics. And he's been able to, like, rent a house in Malibu. And what was he doing at one point, like, teaching art classes at Harvard or something like this? Like, the man has no Shame, which kind of you can sort of respect him for, but I don't really. But he genuinely has no shame. He doesn't have to live in obscurity because he has nothing to be afraid of. So why would he live in security in obscurity? Is what I was trying to say. Now, moving on from that, there are a lot of men, however, who would love to live in obscurity, but they can't, thanks to a new app that is going viral right now called the Tea. So this app is officially number one on the App Store, on the entire App Store. And this app called the Tea, is a women's only app where you can upload photos and information and screenshots of men that you might be dating or maybe you just swiped on, you know, their dating profile. Maybe you've just met him, you can post photos of him or screenshots of his dating profile in order to get the Tea on him from other women. And people have caught wind of this app over the last few days, and all hell has broken loose on social media, Understandably so, because men, again, understandably, are concerned about their privacy. And in the lingering age of MeToo, they are, of course, concerned with what accusations or lies or even exaggerations could be, you know, slewn about them online with no consent, with no idea that it is actually happening, and no ability to defend themselves whatsoever because it's just a blanket app. They aren't even allowed on the app. And the thing is, this app, they say that it's about protecting women. Apparently the man who made this app, like, his mom got divorced or his dad died. And so she was an older woman and she was on a dating app and she was messaging all of these guys and had no idea that some of them had criminal records. And so he wanted to create this app as a way to protect his mother. But in how this app actually operates and what women use it for, it's not that it's not actually about protecting women. It has become a place where women can just complain and pile on about innocent men who have, again, no idea that this is actually happening. And also, this is not the first time that this has happened, and it's not the first time that this has completely spiraled out of control and moved so far away from what the intended purpose of a platform like this is for. Because this app is a, like, nationwide version of Facebook groups that are titled something like Nashville, Are we dating the same guy? St. Louis. Are we dating the same guy? Do you have information on whatever they're called, they're all sort of called are we dating the same guy? And there's different versions for different cities. And these groups, sort of like this app, were created and intended to help women protect themselves and maybe unearth cheating partners if they had suspicions about somebody that they were, you know, dating or married to. But like this app, it has turned into a place of speculation and insults and even the harassment of men. Like now women will just post a photo of a guy, hey, do you have any information about him? And it'll be hundreds of comments just ripping into this guy. Oh, I don't know, but he looks like a douche. Oh, he's so awful. Oh, yeah. People that these men do not even know. I mean, it is absolutely ridiculous. Now, Vice even wrote an article about these Facebook groups back in 2023. They highlighted one of these victims and they said, in the world of dating discourse, definitions of a red flag can differ dramatically. So too can you read on how a date went. Andre, whose name, like all the daters in this piece, has been changed to protect his private. Andre is a 27 year old from London who uses Tinder and Bumble. He was alerted to a post about him in the city's group by three different friends. His date said that he was too pushy. He claims that she came back to his place, acted weird, and then left. Quote, I knew I was in that group because I heard it from multiple sources. Obviously her side doesn't match up with my side. We had a miscommunication. And then I'm hearing from these girls I grew up with that I'm a creep or that I did something. I don't think that these groups are helpful to anyone. No, they're not. Again, because the man has no ability to share his side of the story, has no ability to defend himself in the slightest. And again, it just piles on. This is another example. This is a story from Reddit. This is the one where people are just piling on about like appearances and that kind of thing. But this girl said, my little brother, I don't know if it's a girl or boy, but my little brother got posted on one of these Facebook groups for our city yesterday. 110,000 members. Just a screenshot of his hinge profile saying, anyone talk to this guy? To give you an idea, my brother is pretty douchey looking, but he's genuinely a cool guy who treats women respectfully. There are 150 comments so far. About four of these comments are actually from women saying that they have met him or gone on a date with him. The rest are insane. Wild speculation. A ton of commenters deciding that he must be a serial cheater based on his appearance. A few comments saying that he's probably gay. My brother sometimes works on weekends. One of the top comments says, I matched with him but noticed that he's slow to respond on weekends. It's pretty clear he's hiding something. Oh, my God, a job. He's hiding a job. Being a responsible man. Most of the comments, or many of the comments were just gleefully critiquing his appearance. Everything about him was heavily scrutinized and mocked, from his facial features to his fashion sense to his beard and everything in between. This was surprising to see since women usually think, oh, my God, I'm screwing this up. This was surprising to see since women usually seem to think that he is handsome and in real life. Now, what I want to say here is that, like, this is the most classic chick thing on earth. Like, it is like peer pressured pile on. Everybody's doing it. Everybody's saying these things. So I'm going to join in and just make wild accusations about this guy that I haven't met because I want to feel like I'm part of the group, like I'm part of the clique. And it. It feels good to trash on men because men are the worst. And f the patriarchy, like that. All of those ideologies, those values, those attitudes about men have led us to this point where men, innocent men who have done nothing wrong, who've literally not even interacted with this person, are getting harassed online. And now, to be fair, in this Vice article talks about this. There have allegedly been attempts to try to better regulate those Facebook groups and moderate them. And they have a ton of moderators who kind of go in there and say, like, this is an exaggeration. Clearly you don't know this man. Let's keep this tame. But that has been futile over the years because again, hundreds of thousands of members and there was also a video that somebody posted on X that I saw where she was literally scrolling through one of these groups and just showing the hundreds, the thousands of photos of random men just on this Facebook group who again, who did not give their consent and have no idea that they are in this group being picked apart by thousands of often very bitter, very angry women who are just looking for. For a problem. And so all of this has now been, you know, developed. It has grown, and that is where this new app, the T fits in. And the T is saying that they have, like, a better system to help prevent bullying and all of that stuff. But based on people who have been on the app and what they are saying, that does not seem to be the case. Does not seem like they have a better system in place to protect these men. And, you know, in my mind, I was trying to think if there was, like, if there was something that I would, like, approve of or think was a good idea in regards to an app like this. And, you know, if this app was simply an easy way for women to run background checks before they go on a blind date or go meet somebody off of a dating app just so that they can, like, make sure their bases are clear, that makes sense to me. Because, you know, it can be dangerous for sure, and you. You don't know who you're going to be meeting. And I think it would be fine if a man did that, too. If that. If that was just the purpose of this app, was like, hey, here's the person I met on a dating app. Here's the information I have. Could you just make sure this guy is not, like, a serial killer or has some kind of, you know, charge? I just want to know. That would be one thing. But this, again, has spiraled completely out of control, just like these Facebook groups. And also, people keep making this comparison, but I think it's important to bring up, like, oh, my God, guys, imagine if men had an app like this. If men had Facebook groups. I saw a joke. There was one where somebody was like, there should be one called Coffee, and it's like the alternative to the tea and where it's like, men get to talk about women. There was also one. It was a joke. I actually, before I got on the Live, I was on the App store trying to see if this was real or not, because it looked real, but it was actually fake news, and it got me. Wait, what was it called? The box. I don't remember. Oh, my gosh. Wait, I can't believe. Did I just take it down? Oh, there we go. Guys, I have it still pulled up. The box Gore. It's, like, such a bad name, but it's like, honestly, it's really funny, but. But, like, imagine if those apps actually existed. If men were online posting photos of women ripping their appearances to, you know, to shreds, saying, this is how many men she slept with. She is a slut. I don't want to be with her. Whatever it is, all hell would break loose. Women would be losing their minds. There would be lawsuits that women would be winning in Droves. It would be this feminist fight that would take over our culture. And yet when women do it, it's not a problem because it's about safety, because it's just about protecting ourselves, when really that is not why these women are using the app at all. Anyway, clearly I have feelings about this. I'm gonna see if any of you guys have comments. Let's smash that like, button. Larry agrees with what I'm saying. Apparently. Okay. You know, it's just, it's like, it's appalling. It is a complete double standard. It is very appalling. How, however, my friends, to transition into the next story, it is not as appalling as the fact that the victims of the LA fires have received none of the money that was raised for them. Literally not a single cent. So if you remember, in January there were the horrific fires in the Pacific Palisades, which is like the Malibu region of Los Angeles. I also wanna point out, I think a lot of people who are outside of Los Angeles thought that that was only impacting the very rich and the very wealthy and powerful. But, but the Palisades, that is a neighborhood that is near Malibu, but it's kind of behind Malibu. And these are people who have lived in the Palisades for 20, 30 years. They are humble suburban homes. Obviously these homes are worth millions of dollars now because it is outside of Los Angeles. But the people that I knew that grew up in the Palisades were very normal middle class Americans. The friends that I know that lived there were very conservative, very Christian. And their homes have been completely wiped out and they have no support. And because of the way that California is run and the restrictions and the hoops that you have to jump through in order to get building perpets and all of that, like nothing is being moved forward. And so thousands, thousands of people from California are now displaced. They are in rental homes, they are in Airbnbs. These rental prices are insane because people took advantage of that and there was price gouging. They are trying to be able to build their homes and often there is like a, there is a time window with insurance, like fire insurance and that kind of thing of when the insurance will actually pay for you to rebuild your home and cover all of that. It's like two years. And these people are now six months into this process and they don't even have a building permit. They can't even get somebody out to their property to clear off the burned ash so that they could bring an architect in in the first place. Because the entire process is messed up. So that is going on behind the scenes. Meanwhile, in January, I believe it was on January 30th of this year, there was this whole celebrity concert that was put together and it was called Fire Aid. And they did it at the Hollywood Bowl, I believe. And they had, let me see, they had Billie Eilish and Earth Wind and Fire and Katy Perry and Green Day and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. All of these huge names, all of these artists came together, they live streamed, people were donating from around the country. The owners of the Clippers donated a ton of money and they raised $100 million for the victims of the LA fires. And what was said on the website, what was said at the time was that 100% of these donations of what was made during this huge concert of the Hollywood bowl would be going to the victims of the LA fires. However, now we are, you know, six months out from the LA fires and where did the money go? Because people online, the actual victims of these fires, people who are displaced, are saying we haven't seen any money. What they whatsoever. Spencer Pratt, who is a former reality star, he went viral during the fires because he was documenting everything. He has been very active on social media, specifically on X, just ripping into Newsom and he was, I think, one of the first to blow the whistle on this and say, like, where, where is the support? Like, nobody in my community has seen a penny. And this is what one journalist whose name is Sue Pascow found out after investigating the money, shockingly, is not going to the victims. Take a watch.
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So I contacted Chris and I said, you know, victims want to know when they can get their money. Seems like a very simple question. He said, basically they don't. All this money are going to nonprofits and then nonprofits will take care of making sure the money's distributed. So I looked at the. Initially they gave $50 million to about 120 nonprofits. And I looked at these nonprofits and one of them said, we help mobile home parks. And there were two mobile home parks in the Palisades, all low income. And so I contacted the people there. They had never received any money. They had never heard of that. When you go through, I would urge everyone to just go to the nonprofits that are listed if you want a good laugh. I mean, one of the nonprofits cleans preschool bathrooms. Well after the fire, who knows?
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Brett Cooper
Okay, preschool bathrooms, cleaning preschool bathrooms in the Pacific Palisades. That seems like a really important cause. When everything has burned down, when all of the Students have had to move to schools in completely different parts of Los Angeles. Oh, yeah, but we really need to be giving money to is organizations that are cleaning preschool bathrooms. Now, the other appalling thing that she said that she uncovered was that she called some of these organizations saying, hey, so how did you spend the money? And they went, oh, we haven't gotten any money. What do you, what do you mean? Like, I don't. We haven't seen any money. So where is it, where is it actually going, like, genuinely? Now, Jesse Watters also tacked onto the back of her research. He did some of his own following the money. Take a listen to what he found. Because the two organizations that she mentioned in that clip were just the tip of the iceberg. Primetime followed the money, and she's right. A lot of the grants went to a laundry list of left wing nonprofits like the California Native Vote Project. What do they do? Empower Native Americans to participate in the democratic process. Fire Aid claims that group was chosen to help Native American families who were displaced by the fires. But the Pacific Palisades only has 16 Native American residents. The Pasadena NAACP also got money. What does the NAACP have to do with wildfire relief and prevention? Okay, that is like the most California thing I have ever heard. Like, where this money really needs to go, how we're really going to support the victims is by helping the Native Americans and supporting the nca double the naacp. Like, this is really how we're going to impact these people's lives. No, it's ridiculous. Now, Jesse went on to say that local podcasts were getting money from Fire Aid to report on the fires. They literally gave grants to local podcasters, one of which got a whopping seven views. They gave money that was supposed to go to fire victims to a podcaster who got seven views who was reporting on the fires. And okay, this is the most insane part. He said this later and sue confirmed this. So there was $100 million raised. The first round of grants was $50 million. Second round that they've already done is 25 million. The last 25 million they are like reviewing applications for right now. But of that $75 million, only 1 million went to the LA Fire Department Foundation. Like, if you're going to support any nonprofit in the wake of a fire like this, what all of these firefighters had to go to, like, it would be that one. And you gave $1 million. And again, not a single cent went to the actual victims, which again, was the whole intended point of that concert. $100 million it was like so amazing. They raised all this money. It was supposed to go to these people. I mean we shouldn't even be surprised by this because this is what happened in Maui. I think that they raised. That was the whole Oprah scandal. They raised $200 million. People didn't see a set. Oh my gosh, guys, this was the other thing that I saw on X today. I totally forgot about this in the episode. Karen Bass, the LA mayor, she tweeted this two days ago. She brought in the city officials from Maui and she did a photo op and she was like listening and learning from the officials in Maui who got them through the fire. We're going to, we're going to really get LA back on track. Karen, Karen, of all people to listen to. It is not the officials on the burned island of Maui who did not give those citizens any of the money, who did not give them any support, who instead just let all of this historic land, this land that was owned by native Hawaiians, just let it be bought up by developers. Like that really is not. Those are not the people that we need to be listening to right now. 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Joe Rogan was nowhere to be found on the 100 most influential podcasts. But not just him. There was no Theo Vaughan. There was no Sean Ryan. One thing that was shocking to me now, both Sean and Theo are, like, relatively new. Not like new new, but, like, relatively new in the podcast space. So what was shocking to me is that Adam Carolla, of all people, was not mentioned in this list. Adam Carolla, who still holds the Guinness Book of World Records record for most downloaded podcasts. He was one of the first podcasts in the space. He basically created this as a medium. I think that he got over 50 million downloads between 2009 and 2011, which was when he started the podcast. He, like, spearheaded this as an entire medium. Nowhere to be found. Also, like Ben Shapiro, who arguably helped create political podcasting as a genre, nowhere to be found. Also, pardon my take if you're a sports fan. Like my husband, like, he listens to part of my take basically every single day he's listening to an episode. They are the biggest sports podcast in the world, and they were not on there like, this was not an exhaustive list. This was the list from one left wing time writer who had a very, very obvious bias and did not actually want to be honest about what podcasts have had influence on the medium or on the culture. It was literally just like, these are a hundred of the podcasts that I like and I think are important based on my opinions. Like, I can argue, like, for example, Armchair Expert is on. That's with Dax Shepard. That is on there. I would agree that that was a really influential podcast. Like, I think that I was listening to Armchair Expert back in 2016. It makes total sense that Armchair Expert was on here. Like, that was one of the first podcasts where celebrities would come on and they would promote their shows through a podcast. Like, instead of just going on like Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel, it was like the first celebrity getting vulnerable show. And then like, you know, Joe Rogan started having more celebrities on and that sort of thing. And now Theo does. But Armchair Expert was revolutionary in that capacity because it was something that was happening for the first time in podcasting, not on, you know, radio. Like, it wasn't Howard Stern. And so it makes sense that he's on there. But. But that's a left wing podcast. Like, I think Dax is maybe more middle of the road, but it's definitely more left wing. It's like, this person obviously had a clear bias and was like, I am not going to include any of these podcasts that go against my belief system and my values. They're not influential in the slightest. Which is laughable. Guys. It's laughable for so many reasons. But it's laughable because in 2024, like, weren't we just saying that this was the podcast election that podcasters on the right and on the left honestly won the election for Donald Trump because he did his whole podcast tour. J.D. vance was everywhere. They were doing these long, in depth interviews on shows like Rogan and Sean Ryan and Theo Vaughan. Like, these are the people who swayed an entire culture, who swayed an entire political landscape. But yeah, no, guess they're not. They're not influential, guys. Why would they be? It's so ridiculous. Now, I did go to. If you click on the link to, like, look at the most influential podcast, it'll just show you the little, like, bricks and logos. But if you go to, like, how, like, how did we decide what shows were on here? I obviously clicked on that. I wanted to see what the criteria was. Like, is this just one writer's list? And they misrepresented it on social media, saying that it was some exhaustive thing. Is this supposed to be left wing podcasts only? Is this supposed to be newer podcasts only? Whatever it is, no, it is supposed to be the exhaustive list. Just listen to this. Much of putting this list together. Where is it? Yeah, much of putting this list together when it came to this particular brief podcast involved sorting out who could conduct an insightful interview or piece together a compelling monologue from who is just a big name. Like, okay, so you are actually trying to sift through here and see so what is, what is relevant, who is changing the game. They also in the paragraph immediately after this, I didn't screenshot this part, but I should have. Immediately after that paragraph, the writer goes into this whole thing about how, you know, we have. We wanted to do this list because more and more when we do our Times list of most influential people, we are including podcasters. And they have a hyperlink in there on the word podcasters. If you click that link takes you to Joe Rogan. Like, you literally cannot make this up. They are saying in their own criteria that they are doing this list because podcasters are so influential. The person they reference when they're talking about that is Joe Rogan, who they left off of this list. It is so ridiculous. But going back to what the writer said about, you know, not just being a big name, being able to, you know, do an interview and have a compelling monologue, they said all of that. And yet some of the podcasts they picked were like, Julia Louis Dreyfus podcast, which I've never heard before, and Amy Poehler's new podcast that she just started, where she basically just hangs out with all of her friends and they giggle like they're not having deep, culture changing conversations. You listen to that because you like Parks and Rec and you sort of want to have a reunion. The Kelsey Brothers. Like, this writer put the Kelsey or the Kelsey brothers podcast on this list. Like, that is not changing culture. The reason why I go listen to in the Heights, which is with Jason Kelsey and Travis Kelce, is because I want to hear what Taylor Swift is doing. And Taylor Swift has been basically living under a rock since she finished her ERAS tour. And sometimes Travis will be like, oh, yeah, Taylor said this? And I'm like, oh, what is she doing now? Like, are we getting a new album? That's the only time that I tune into that podcast. Like, this is not culture changing. These are not compelling conversations. The people that are having those kinds of conversations are the people that you intentionally left Off. So there you have it. There is my rant about Time magazine. There is a lot that is appalling in the world today from what Hunter Biden said about illegal immigration. Because that just exposed him for being an elitist and thinking that he is better than all of us that wash our own laundry and do our own dishes. Which is what I was doing before I came here to live stream with you guys. It is appalling that the people who are victims of these fires in Los Angeles are receiving no aid and on top of that are getting no support from the government of California who are actively trying to make this as difficult as possible. And it is appalling that Time magazine cannot realize what is influential and what is not. Now I wanna read some of your comments and see if you guys have any questions before I log off here. I had to take a deep breath cause I was really ranting about that. Really guys, it's like been in the last week that I'm like, it's getting hard to lean forward and talk. Let's see. Oh, Saga said, it's ironic that you brought up Morgan and Morgan and I happened to get a defender bender this morning. Call them. Call them. I don't know how much money they'll get you. I don't know how much money you get from a fender bender, but see what they can do. Oklahom said. I thought that this was prerecorded because you speak so well. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Time made us a list of what not to listen to is what Pacific Northwest vibes say. Well, I think that, I mean you could say that. But also like some of those podcasts, like they had some of the true crime podcasts on there. And again, like I used to really love Armchair Expert. Those were some of my favorite interviews. I think Dax Shepard is a really great interviewer. And again, I have listened to in the Heights. I have listened to Amy Poehler's podcast because I'm obsessed with Parks and Rec. And she did her whole thing with like Rashida Jones. Everybody like zoomed in and she had. And like they have a bunch of like SNL people come on there. Like the writer put interesting podcasts that people are listening to, but they aren't culture changing podcasts. These are not things that are influential in the medium. Like Amy Poehler's podcast where she is basically bringing on old friends. Like that has been done. It's been done a myriad of times. She's kind of doing what Rogan did when he started when he just had all of his comedians on and they would shoot the shit and that sort of thing. That's what they would do. This is not new. She's not moving the needle. Even though as a fan of her work and her shows, I might enjoy it. So anyway, I don't think you need to completely avoid some of those podcasts, but it is just very glaring that there were biases there. It's not some exhaustive, objective list about who's changing the culture at all. Jacob said, do you have any more interviews planned or will make an appearance on another podcast? Other than doing my stuff on Fox and popping in and out and maybe a couple other news hits before maternity leave, not really. I put a hard stop on all long form and like sit down interviews until after I have the baby because talking is getting harder as I was saying. And I also feel like, like I, as you guys saw, I did the Sean Ryan interview, which was just my favorite interview. And I feel like we covered so much ground and even though I love going and talking to interesting people and I love going on podcasts and I think it's a great medium, it was like I basically just bared my soul for four hours and I feel like I needed to give it some time. Cause it's like, okay, well what else could I talk about? Like, let me have some like new life. Let me have our baby, become a mom. Settle into that. Maybe I'll have some new stories to share, but that way you guys just aren't hearing the same thing over and over again and hopefully give you some new tidbits. Maybe I'll have some new projects to announce, but no, nothing planned for at least the next, oh my God, five weeks. And then I'll probably be on maternity leave so few months, but maybe after that we'll put some stuff together. I'm gonna be so sad when you go on leave, but I can't wait to meet little Alex junior. You're amazing and deserve to be on that podcast list. Thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate it. Okay, I'll do one more. I'm gonna see if there's any here. Thank you, Zach. That's a very sweet compliment that you gave me in the super chats. Any update on Pee Pants? Oh yeah. That's how we should end the show today, guys. Pee Pants is doing great. We are still. I had a long conversation with my mom about this last night. He is nursing throughout the day. And this mom, we bought her, we bought the new nurse cow from a dairy where they are using milking Machines every single day. So her calves that she had had previously had been immediately pulled off of her because that's how they work at those bigger dairies. So she has never actually had a baby cow nurse on her before. So he's learning how to nurse because his mom was not producing much milk. She's learning how to be a mom basically at the same time. But she, unlike, like his actual mom, has a ton of milk that needs to be drank. So it's a learning process for both of them. So he is very much wanting to drink. He is up there following her around. She's a little uncomfortable with it. So we're basically having to like hook them up together and watch them. Because she will like try to kick him off, basically. Not in like a mean way, but she's just kind of like, this feels weird, this feels uncomfortable. This doesn't feel like the milking machine. Plus it's hot and there's flies everywhere. It's just not a pleasant time because. Cause like, Alex and I never expected to have dairy cows here. And my mom is currently in the process at her new property of building out her barn with her milking operation and having like a stanchion and that sort of thing that would be out of the sun, out of the flies, that sort of thing. So we don't have that right now. So we're milking them in the pasture, which is not pleasant because it's like the most humid that Tennessee feels like it has ever been in my years of living here, even as a child. And it's like 100 degrees at 6pm I think that's what it was last night. So. So it is not the most pleasant time for either of them. But they're learning, they are doing well. We just have to kind of keep going out multiple times a day to make sure he is actually getting the milk that he needs and is not just like following her around and getting kicked off. So it's a process for sure, but it will be a shorter process is what my mom was assuring me about. Because she was like this. You need to have discipline on and you need to make sure that he's drinking all of this milk for the next couple of weeks. But this means that you won't be bottle feeding him three times a day for six months, which you would not have been able to do when you had any baby. So we're working through it, but he's doing great. He's getting bigger. He's like frolicking around. He literally looks like little Ophi, which is really cute. Like when. Oh, he was a puppy and she would run around. She was a bit more active than Cookie, our new puppy, was. So I'm using that as an analogy anyway, so thank you for asking, Zach. He is doing very well. Last, we need Pee Pants Merch. Why should. That'd be really funny. Maybe I will, guys. Maybe I will do Pee Pants Merch. Last one from Donna Horse. I know you don't support general parenting, but what do you think is a better way to parent? Oh, gosh, we'll see when I actually start. But I think natural consequences. I think that's what my mom did, which I think is really important. It was like real life consequences of your actions. She wasn't like the worst, most strict, crazy, rational parent ever, being strict for no reason. All of her strictness and everything she did had a reason, and it directly connected to what we had been doing as a child. If I had made a mistake, if I screwed up, whatever it was, there was a natural consequence that I had to face. And I think that that really prepared me well for life. Because if you're not Hunter Biden, then you will have to face consequences. You will have to take accountability in your life. And I think it's better to be prepared for that as a child. And I don't think that that has to include really harsh disciplining all the time, because sometimes the natural consequence isn't that severe, but you still have to face it. So I think that she did that really well. And that's probably something that we will continue doing because I don't want to raise our son to be Hunter Biden. So that is where I will end the show today. Guys, thank you so much for joining and I will see you on Monday. Have a great weekend.