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I rambled for like 40 minutes. I had all this really great stuff for you. I was super funny. Everything was really, really, really on point. And we got none of it. So you're gonna get the second round tonight from me again, just me and nobody else. And hopefully in find out podcast history, we'll never have to do this again. So, anyways, I'm going to talk about a whole bunch of important stuff. We got the California primary election numbers coming in. We've got Trump appointing somebody to be the Director of National Intelligence who has no experience. We also have a congressman who won his primary last night, but nobody has seen him for three months. That's right. Definitely not a Democrat, definitely a Republican. And also, I am going to be answering your questions from Find Out Social. So. And actually, one more thing. I keep forgetting things. The firing of Scott Pelley by Barry Weiss at 60 Minutes is another big one we got to talk about because essentially mainstream media is dying in front of us. So we're going to dive right in because frankly, I got to get this done so our editors can get it done so you can get it out to by tomorrow morning, we're going to talk about California first. So California is a unique position in primaries in that they have something called the jungle primary, which is there are no Democratic and Republican or Independent primaries. Everyone's together, and the top two people advance to the general election. So you can be in a situation where there's one Democrat, one Republican, or you could be in a situation where there's two Democrats or two Republicans. It all depends on who finishes in the top two. Generally, in California blue state, you get two Democrats, but in this particular case, there were about 30 Democrats running for governor of California and about two, maybe three Republicans running as well. So there was a worry that with the 30, it's not quite 30, it's 2020 or 25. If they had split, let's say, 75% of the vote, 25 ways, it could have allowed two Republicans to advance. But luckily, that is not going to happen. What looks to be a Dow, even though the votes are still coming in, is that you're going to get Javier Becerra as the Democrat and Steve Hilton as the Republican. So the important part here is that Javier Becerra, when he came on the Findout podcast, was pulling around 4 or 5%. And now all of a sudden it looks like he is the presumptive front runner and probably the next governor of California. So obviously that says if you listen to the Find out podcast, you watch the Find out podcast, whoever comes on here wins. Right? That's what we're talking about. Maybe. But also I want to talk about Steve Hilton for a second because I've actually met Steve Hilton when I was at Everytown for gun safety. He came and he met with me and somebody else to essentially beg for Bloomberg Money for a startup that he was doing. So. Mr. I was, I was endorsed by Donald Trump, was begging for Bloomberg Money and let's say 2015, 2016. So not that long ago, the guy's a fraud. I think the good news is that all the Democrats are going to rally around Javier Becerra and Steve Hilton's going to lose probably by 20, 30, 40 points. So that's good. We also got to talk about the LA race, LA race for mayor, which is even crazier than the governor's race in that you have Karen Bass, who is the current mayor, you also had somebody on the city council running against her as a Democrat. And also you have this guy, Spencer Pratt, who is best known for being a side character on the reality show the hills probably 20 years ago. And also he has been known to try to sell photos of his wife, Heidi Montag, photos of her while she was a teenager to, to the tabloid press. And also he's been blaming Karen Bass for his house burning down in la. But the guy didn't have mortgage insurance. I don't know how that's Karen Bass's fault. But anyways, there's a whole grifter and Republican and thing which has been pushing him. Luckily, Karen Bass came out on top of Spencer Pratt did come in second. But we know in November with only one Democrat in the race, Spencer Pratt's probably going to lose by 30 points. So we avoided some catastrophes there. And but I think there's some important lessons here also that like when people don't like a particular candidate or, or a person in office, Karen Bassus had a tough first term. People are willing to turn to anybody, which we saw with Donald Trump in 2016, even though it makes no sense and it would be even worse than they are willing to roll the dice. So, like Democrats have to listen to this stuff, even though Spencer is a. Is a joke and he's not going to be mayor. But, like, there are people who are willing to grab on to anybody to infect change. So Democrats have to, when they get in office, they have to make things change. And that is a very important thing. You can't just go into office and basically go, I'm here now. We're just going to keep going as usual. You can't do that because otherwise we get people like Donald Trump or Spencer Pratt, and every once in a while, one of those idiots gets in charge. So we have to be very, very careful with this stuff. And I. Karen Bass was a great congresswoman. She was a potential VP nominee for Kamala Harris. So she's not an incompetent person. But I think there are some problems in LA that need to be addressed. And we have to understand the underlying causes of why so many people will vote for a complete and utter buffoon rather than just like laughing at them and saying they're idiots. We have to understand why they're doing that and make sure they don't, because we cannot have another Donald Trump situation at the federal level, and we certainly could not afford a Spencer Pratt situation in a top five city in the United States. So with that, you know, it's good that we seem to have avoided that. Unfortunately, we're gonna have to listen to him for another four months or so, five months, and then hopefully we will never hear hear from him again. So that's what I have to say about California. But there's some other electoral news that's also important. So there is this weird situation in New Jersey, which is known as a very blue state, but they do have Republicans on the House side, and one in particular, this guy, Thomas Keane Jr. His dad was a governor, I believe, a very popular guy, and he won a very tight race. I think this is his first or second term. But guess what? He won his primary last night. No one has seen him for three or four months. That's right. He hasn't been in the Congress. He hasn't. He hasn't voted. He hasn't put out any statements. Nobody knows where he is, including Speaker Johnson, who says he talked to him but wouldn't divulge any information. The guy has not voted in three or four months, and he won his primary last night. So we don't know why he hasn't been around. No one has even photographed him or seen him or anything. But that's a swing district. And I have to tell you, if you have A medical issue that keeps you out of Congress for at least a quarter of the year, if not more. And you're not willing to say why you don't deserve to be in Congress anymore. So I would say in that district, there was. There is a great candidate and we're going to try to get her on the show here. Rebecca Bennett, who was a. A naval helicopter pilot. She has just won the Democratic nomination in that district against Thomas Kean Jr. We need to make sure that she wins because regardless, like, first of all, we need to get rid of every Republican that we can. But if they can't even show up and vote, they need to go. So Rebecca Bennett is stepped up and is. She just won the nomination over three other candidates, I believe so. Strong candidate. We need to make sure that she wins. So if you can give all the money that you can to her right now, we need to make sure that Thomas Kean Jr. For whatever reason, doesn't come back to Congress. I hope he gets the help he needs. I hope that his life is not endangered. But you can't just disappear for three to four months of the year, especially with Congress and the tight control of the Republicans have. You can't just disappear. It just doesn't work that way. So with that Rebecca Bennett, we're going to try to have her on, but until then, give her money. Because somebody like that who doesn't even respect his voters enough to tell them why he is gone, does not deserve to be there. So that's another piece of this, and that's the piece I forgot this morning. So I'm glad in a way that my audio didn't work because I got to come back and talk about this. Another thing we need to talk about is the Graham Platner latest. It's not a scandal, but the latest hiccup in his campaign. It came out that his wife approached their political director, or his political director at the time and told her that she had found text messages on Graham's phone that suggested that he was having sexual conversations with five, six women. This political director was the one that quit after the whole tattoo thing came out. And then apparently she decided that she was going to leak this. Last week, after Grand Platter's wife had talked to her in confidence, she leaked it. And so now everybody knows about this story. And I have to say, like, I, I am a supporter of Grand Platter. I've met him a couple times. But, like, I'm not sad that the story came out because if this is real, people deserve to know, and people need to hear the type of person he is and then make the determination if they want to keep, like, supporting him or not. And it seems like most of the people in Maine that I have talked to, because I am from Maine, have said they don't love this, but, you know, it is a situation between his wife and himself. They both went to marriage counseling, and they've worked through it like they had gotten through all of that by the time the story came out. So with that being said, I'm still supporting Graham Platner. Everybody should still support Graham Platner. But if you have questions about him, that's also totally fine. And I would say to the campaign, you've known about this since, what, July or August of last year. You could have gotten this story out there earlier, especially when this tattoo came. Came out. And so, like, this is a bit of the underbelly of politics, but, like, the reality is, like, as a political operative, you have to understand when you can get stories out or whether you need to hold them. This is a situation that people deserve to know, and they should have put it out when there was another bad thing happening. So that we were not talking about it now. Because the reality is this isn't just about Maine. If we don't win the Maine Senate race, we're not taking the Senate. So this has national implications. Susan Collins has told Mainers for years that she's a moderate and she's been lying about it. And we need to start calling her out. And I actually. One of the things I really love about Graham is that he does that. He calls her out for the bullshit because she claims that she's moderate. But if you're somebody in Maine, you should ask Susan Collins if you ever get a chance to meet her because she doesn't do town halls. But if you get a chance, say, when were you ever the deciding vote against a Republican president? And wait for her answer. Because the reality is it has never happened. Because Mitch McConnell has a deal with her and Lisa Murkowski that when there is a tough vote, if they have enough votes, he will let them vote against it to protect themselves. Because they're not stupid. They know that they need those votes in those moderate places, otherwise they don't have a majority. And that is what Susan Collins has been lying to Boehners about forever. And that's partly why I love Grand Platter. As I said before, he calls it out. So, yes, he has shitty things in his background, but that primary ends next Tuesday. There is nobody else that could stand up. So we have Graham Platner. I hope to God that that is the last thing that we hear about him as far as, like, the questionable stuff, because he is a real political talent and the people really love him in Maine and I think he has a shot to defeat Susan Collins. But, like, this amateur shit has to stop. @blyze.com it's not just about window treatments. It's about you, your style, your space, your way. Whether you DIY or want the pros to handle it all, you'll have the confidence of knowing it's done right. From free expert design help to our 100% satisfaction guarant guarantee, everything we do is made to fit your life and your windows. Shop up to 40% off with minimum purchase and a free professional measure right now@blinds.com plus pay at your own pace starting at 0% APR with affirm terms apply. We're done with Maine. We're going to keep going. I have horrible transitions because usually I have three other people that could help me through them. Oh, man, I have racked Rocket fired through all of this so much faster than the last time. I have a list of things that I want to talk about here, and I've actually gone through four of them already. So you're actually going to get a much shorter episode, which, interestingly enough, I've always been told in my digital career that people want shorter content, but when we end short, we get people writing to us and saying, hey, I wish you could keep going because I actually want to hear from you, like, 90 minutes. Well, I can't do that by myself, so you're going to get a very, very short episode from me. This, like, for tomorrow or which is Thursday. But one of the things that I asked people and, and this is important for folks to know is, like, I asked people on our new app Find Out Social, which operates very much like Twitter or Threads, but has no billionaire telling us what we can or could not say. And you could post any links you want without suppression. I asked folks to tell me, like, ask me some questions and I will answer them on the show because I knew I was, like, going to be by myself and I kind of was going to wing it. And now that I'm doing it for a second time, I'm like, oh, God, I really need to make this better. So I'm going to answer some questions and we'll come back after that because I'm realizing I missed some stuff. To talk about the 60 Minutes disaster and why you need to support Independent media. So with that, let's get into the questions, which I now have to find on my phone. So we are going to do this. Okay, we got them. Okay. So the first one, the question is origin story, of course. How did this podcast come to be? And I think it's important to have this conversation every once in a while because we have been doing this for over a year now. But a lot of people have found us along the way, and so they don't necessarily know the origin story. So I will tell it. So I was one of the guys that got asked to do the White Dudes for Harris campaign, which obviously, in 2024, when Joe Biden dropped out of the race, Kamala Harris stepped in, and there was a lot of excitement. And we knew that we had to move quickly to galvanize supporters, bring new people into the fold in order for her to win in November. So we did this crazy thing where we were like, let's talk to white men and get more of them on our side. And while we were talking about it, we were like, this is either going to be the greatest thing ever, or we're all going to get canceled for doing this. And we thought about it for a little bit, and then we were like, you know what? We need to do it. And we launched it, and it was a tremendous success. And it was so great to see so many white men be like, I am excited about Kamala. And, you know, we generally don't talk about men, or white men, in particular, the Democratic Party. And I'm so glad you're talking about it. And so we had a call with a quarter million people on it, including people like Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker, Jeff Bridges, the dude, a lot like Tim Walls was on it, a whole bunch of people. We had, like, almost quarter million people on that call. We raised, like, $6 million. And we realized that, like, the Democrats had kind of ignored white men, and we did it for right reasons. Right? Because, like, white men, generally speaking, are at the top. The top at the pecking order. So why would you create a whole set of policies that helps the people at the top already? But the reality is, when you don't talk about them, a lot of them start to drift and wonder, where do I fit? And so we lost a lot of them to the banosphere and these idiots like Joe Rogan, who are idiots, but they talk to them. And so we realized it's time for us to step up and do the same and show them that, like, you don't need to follow A blind like a total idiot. You can actually there are like minded people who care about others who understand, like woke is a good thing. And we need to support people who need a leg up empathy and kindness and all this stuff. And so with that, even though we lost in November, we were having these chats on WhatsApp with the same group of people and Zach on our that's on the team was like, we're having great conversations, we should do a podcast. We should keep this conversation going. And a bunch of us said yes. And we launched a few weeks after Donald Trump was sworn in and it exploded. We hit number 29 on the US Apple podcast chart for podcasts and we, we were instantly monetized on YouTube. It was all this like crazy excitement. And I kind of joked at the time, I was like, I think we accidentally started a company and that's what we did. And we were like, well, we just did this with a bunch of guys who have a lot of followers. Like the find out podcast guys have about 4 million social followers amongst the platforms. And because when we announced it that was enough to drive a lot of people to listen. And we were like, let's do this for other creators. And so that is what we have done with American Power with Mr. Global, Chad Scott, Nat Townsend, which we have done with Get Angry with Brian Andrews and Luke, who's also on the final podcast and what we're doing with Dr. Nola with Nola Haynes is not a Spy. And some of the new shows that were coming. So like we are taking short form creators who have large followings and building out their long form and then we can cut all this stuff up and fire it out. And Luke was just telling me the other day, our clips are being seen every month between 8 and 10 million times. 8, 10 million times four shows. And that is where you start to affect change. Because we are showing up at people's feeds and we are showing them that there is another way to think. You do not have to listen to Joe Rogan, all his idiocy. There are people who actually know what they're talking about on our side. So that is the origin story. This is a harder question. Do you think we will ever see true justice come for Trump? They said chump, not Trump. But I assume they mean Trump, his administration, his family, the Republicans and billionaires who allowed him to dismantle democracy and grift of the American people. If not, what do you think will happen to them? So this is a hard question. And I think Donald Trump, because of his health is probably not going to be around long enough to face criminal justice. That is just a fact. He is a very obese 80 year old who eats horribly according to the HHS Secretary. And you know, he doesn't have a great family history of, of living long time either. So I don't think he is probably going to face a lot of criminal responsibilities. He does have the fact that he is an adjudicated rapist, we have that he is a felon. But I will say for anybody who's running for president on the Democratic side, they have to, part of their plank has to go after this criminal activity, this grifting and this like handing contracts to the Trump family without, with no big contracts, all this stuff that's going on. So while I don't think Donald Trump probably will because he is a weasley little bastard and will probably get out of it, we have to make sure that the people who are complicit in this illegal activity face justice and go to prison if they are found guilty. So that's how I think about that. Okay, this is a, this is one that I liked from earlier and I'm going to give you the exact same answer every week at work. A question is written on the board directly across from my cubicle. And here is the question, how do you cook your bacon? My mom is listening over there. If you just heard her cackle, she likes this one. I'm going to tell you, you bake it, you don't put it on a pan, you bake it. I don't like it. Super crispy. That's the best way to get the best texture or the best flavor. And it's also the least messy. So that's what I would tell you. 350, 375 for like, I don't know, 15 minutes, something like that. That's what I would do. Very serious question. I know this is a harder question. Way harder. I'm reading these in a timeline. So that's why you're getting serious and not serious. How do we reinvigorate the American. They say mythos, but I think they mean ethos to inspire people across party lines to amplify progress. There are many ugly things that this administration has revealed about how our country operates. But in your view, how do we revive the American spirit? Well, this actually was a hard one for me to answer earlier and I'm going to try again. And the reality is, until we break the MAGA fever, I actually don't know how we do that. But if we can, I think there are things that both sides agree on that we could come together on and say we need to fix. The government needs to work more efficiently and effectively. I agree that I worked in the federal government for five years. There are easy things that we could do to make it work more effective effectively. I think that we need to make sure that people understand why the federal government needs to protect people's civil rights, which this administration has completely gutted. We have to explain when you take that away and you look at the gerrymandering that's happening across the South, Alabama, Louisiana, all these places, Tennessee, are taking votes away from black people. And we need to explain why that needed to be put in place in the first place. In the south because of the 1960s, they had also gerrymandered districts and made sure that black voices did not have a majority in any districts. We have to explain to people why we need those things back. Because representation matters, not just for people who look like me. So if we can do some of those things and it's going to take a long time, I think we can start to bring people back. But we have to break the MAGA like cult of personality in order to do that. And I don't really know how to do that exactly, but that's what we have to do. All right, another question. Okay, we have better policies. How do we get America's back on our side? And I have an easy answer to that. Support progressive, left leaning independent media. We started this because we knew our message wasn't getting out and we needed to communicate directly to people who were not hearing why Democratic policies were good for them. So you have to support people that are doing these types of things. And we have a whole host of friends. First of all, if you could afford a membership with us, you should do that. But there are also people like Case of Rasheed, Mike Nellis. There are so many people. Adam Mockler. I'm forgetting a bunch in my head. They're all going to yell at me for not putting them listed on here. But the reality is, like, you have to fund the people who are pushing the messages that you agree with because they have to pay the bills, you know, and I have to pay the bills. I have a family. I'm doing this clearing in my house with this like, wild background. And, you know, we have to make money in order to do this. So you have to support independent media. We do that. We get those messages out, we get a megaphone, we will win. So someone asked me about this actually Worked out really well. Someone asked me who I was hiring from 60 Minutes. So this is a story I wanted to talk about because this shows how conservatives are getting into mainstream media and destroying institutions that people have come to rely on for accurate information that hasn't have any bias at all. And what we're seeing right now at cbs. So the Ellison family, which is a right wing family, bought CBS or Paramount and they put Barry Weiss, who is a right wing hatchet nutcase, in charge of CBS News. She runs this thing called the Free Press, which essentially is just like right wing propaganda. And they have brought her in to essentially do what Donald Trump asked, which is to destroy cbs. And she is actively doing that. She, she's basically neutered CBS Evening News, which has lost millions of viewers. And then just today, she fired Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes, which 60 Minutes is the most profitable show that, that CBS has outside of, I don't know, probably syndication with 2 and a half Men or some other dumb show like that. And she fired the main guy because he dared to stand up and question what she was doing at her hiring of Nick Bilson. Bilton, excuse me. Bilton, who is just a journalist, has no experience in tv, no experience running a newsroom. So he stood up and said, why are you qualified? Why are you destroying this? And all the people in the room were either clapping, applauding, laughing. Today they fired him. Maybe the biggest cash cow that CBS has. And Scott Pelley is the pinnacle. Like Anderson Cooper had just left. Leslie Stahl's been gone. She may come back, she may not. We don't know. They've destroyed it. So, Scott Pelley, you got fired today. I can't afford you. Really. I can't give you any money, to be perfectly honest. But if you want us to run a podcast for you, you can be up top of the billing. We'll drop the find out podcast down. Scott, you could be the number one person. I don't care. But I have a feeling that you are going to get a very generous offer from somebody who has deeper pockets than we do. But if you need a home, let's chat. Okay, let's see what else we got. What is the one policy that Democrats should be screaming to the rafters relentlessly? This is easy. Anti corruption. Anything related to anti corruption. Do we want to ban stock stock trades for members of Congress? Absolutely. That should be one. Whoever is running for president and gets the nomination should be willing to give powers back to Congress and the like. Like the war powers. The fact that we can the President can now like wage war without Congress? I want to see somebody running for president that says no, we need actually Congress congressional approval like we used to. I need somebody that's willing to give up something and I think that will be a very powerful message. But the stock trading thing should be a flat. No stock trades, no. No wiggle room, no ifs, ands or buts. That's what they should have. And I think the anti corruption stuff is hugely important. We talked to the executive director of Next Gen America the other day about the focus groups that she did with young men and they all said corruption was the number one issue for them. They thought that Trump was a mob boss and that like none of this is above the board. So hitting anti corruption I think is the most important thing that Democrats can do. Someone asked if Ken Martin should resign. And this is a hard question for me because I have met Ken a few times. He's been very gracious to us. We've also seen some missteps. And the answer that I have to this is I don't know. And part of the reason is that anybody who is the DNC chair is going to be unpopular because really their main job is to raise money. It is not to win. It is not to like, you know, make get the right candidates in positions. It is a behind the scenes job. So if he's raising money, great. If he's not, then we need to talk about it. But I think for most people, like, he has been very friendly to creators and influencers in independent media, which is very important. He allowed us to use the DNC studios for our State of the Union live show, which no one else was going to do, and allowed us to do whatever the hell we wanted. That there was no message or like no restrictions or anything like that. That is the type of stuff that the DNC needs to be doing more. So like, while I understand that the autopsy thing was embarrassing and pathetic and all of that, and I think he probably got caught in the middle and he should have just like released the stupid thing earlier. But who do you want in your place and what do you want to see as the result? And that is the most important question. If you don't know the answer to that, then you should just say, let's keep Ken. He's been putting money into the state parties, which has been a miss for a long time. I say let's keep going. We're also at June and November. Is the election changing now? Kind of feels familiar to 2024, right? But like, we don't need to do that. The campaigns know what they need to do. We need to raise money. If it's bad in November, we change. If it's good, we don't. That's generally how it goes. So that is what I'm going to say. Any advice on how to beat outsiders of maga? Our governor primary in Iowa has Trump's pick suddenly crushed by a pretty damn racist guy running on population and backed by Tucker Carlson and Turning Point usa. I'm legit terrified there's no hope for Iowa with our registration disadvantages. I want to talk about Iowa because Luke is from Iowa. We've talked. Luke has talked a lot about this and he's talked to a lot of the people running, including Rob Sands, who just made the is the Democratic nominee. I think there are potentially five pickups in Iowa. The Senate race, the governor's race, and three congressional districts. I think that they have picked some very extreme people on the Republican side. And let's not forget, Barack Obama won Iowa in 2012. That was only 14 years ago. That's not that long. So there are opportunities there. And so we need to make sure that all five of those candidates have the resources that they need to, to run their campaigns effectively. And I think that we will pick off a few of them. We have also talked at the Find out podcast of potentially doing a live show in Iowa to help galvanize a different type of. Of. Of Democrat than I think the parties are used to more men leading, maybe a little bit younger as well. And so we may be going to Iowa in the fall. So I am very bullish on Iowa. I think that we can win at least two of the five of those, if not three. And if you run three, that all of a sudden you might get all of them. So yes, I agree some of those candidates are terrible on the Republican side, but it also gives us an opportunity to pick up those seats. All right, let's keep going. Oh, we only have two more questions left and then I can go to bed. How do we build a better, more ethical media ecosystem? The conversations in the last pod really highlighted the need for change in how Democratic liberal progressives get their message out, especially to younger generations. It's sort of what I said before, supporting media companies like ours. So find out. Media has four shows. We are partizan. We are not an unbiased place. Our goal is to make sure that more Democrats win and that we bring more people into the fold. So part of it is making sure that folks like us, folks Like Kashim, Kasem, Rashid, Mike, and all of these people get the resources they need to continue to keep going and talk about these things. Like I said, our shows get downloaded tens of thousands of times a month, which is great. But our clips from our shows are 8 to 10 million after only a few months. Now imagine another year from now, we're probably looking at 20 million. Then you go to 30 million. But we need the resources and we need to make sure that everybody in this ecosystem is getting funded as well. So if you could afford a subscription, which is just 9.99amonth, whether it's on Substack or YouTube or Patreon, that helps us keep going. And that means we can do more stuff, because if the money runs out for us, those 8 to 10 million clips go to zero. So we need the money. The other folks doing this work need the money we need to fund it, just like Republicans have done for a long time. And then finally, maybe the hardest question that I've ever been asked, and I still do not really know the answer. Who is my dream guest? I don't know. I answered it earlier and I'm going to give you the same answer as I gave earlier because it feels like cheating if I don't. But, you know, we basically get to interview anybody we want on the show from the political perspective. So, like, you know, dream guests on the political side, it's sort of like, yeah, I would love to talk to Barack Obama. I would love to talk to any former president, Bill Clinton as well. I don't really want to talk to George W. Bush, but. Or Hillary Clinton or Kamala. Like, all of those would be great, but like, at some point, I think we will get big enough that we could do that. So is that really a dream guest? It's probably not. So then you start going into, is it sports, is it music, is it movies? And then there's a whole host of people, people that I think would be really, really interesting to talk to. I mean, I think, like, on the movie side, of course, George Clooney would be an amazing person to talk to, especially with his wife being as remarkable as she is. Or, you know, who else in the movie world? Tom Hanks, of course. Like, these people would be amazing. Music for me, is probably where it gets the most exciting. And there's probably. There's a few people that I would say are the. Are the ones that I would be, like, in awe of talking to. And that's sort of. If you're talking about dream guest, you Sort of need to be in awe. And I think my answer to that, because he is probably the most famous person on the planet, even though he's 84 years old, would be Paul McCartney, who is somebody who has been famous for literally over 60 years and everyone loves. Seems like a nice guy. That would be incredible. I'd also love to talk to actually one of these guys I have talked to. But I would love to talk to Brian May and Roger Taylor from Queen because they are probably my favorite band and I would love to hear from them. I actually was a. I had a bit of a pen pal relationship with, with Brian May after the Obama campaign because he saw I was on the campaign and we were kind of exchanging messages. I'd love for them to come on because I have so many questions for them them, but that's probably it. I mean, you know, sports wise, most of the people I like from sports are probably not democratically aligned like a Tom Brady or Rob Gronkowski or a Larry Bird or somebody like that. But those are probably the answers that I would give you. So with that, I think I made it. I really hope my video or my audio is working this time because if I just rambled for 35 minutes, I'm gonna be very upset. But I think we made it. I think I'm hoping this is not the worst episode that I have ever filmed. It is very hard to do this solo. I really rely on the other guys to do the back and forth and I could actually take a break and actually like look at my phone and realize what we're talking about. So. But I thought, you know, I had a couple guests in mind and it didn't really work out. And so I was like, you know what, let's see if I could actually ramble. I talk a lot anyways, so let's see if we could do it. So we've made it 35 minutes, so I think I'm done. And I am going to sleep very hard tonight because this was a lot. But I want to thank you for sticking around. Let me know what you think. Also, please make sure if you haven't signed up at the Find Out Media Social app, you do that. That's where we're going to be asking people's questions. We're going to actually do a lot of engaging. So if you go either to the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, just type Find Out Social and you could download it. You'll get access immediately. Also, if you can afford a membership, we would greatly appreciate that. That helps us keep the lights on. And if you're not subscribed to our Substack, which is our daily email list, make sure you do that to find out. Media.substack.com and with that, I'm going to wrap. I'm just probably going to go lay on the floor and sleep because this is very tiring to do. But I want to thank you all for doing this. I hope to God I never have to do this again, but I appreciate you all sticking around. And we will be back on Tuesday, actually, with Congresswoman Sarah Jacobs, who is going to be on to talk about some AI legislation that she's introducing to make sure that we hold AI companies accountable and put some regulations around them so they don't run around wild and put data centers to places people don't want them and do all these things that nobody wants. So have a great weekend, everybody. We'll be back on Tuesday with Congresswoman Sarah Jacobs, California we'll talk to you soon. Bye, everybody. Hate cleaning, Hate scrubbing, Hate dishwashing, bro. 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