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You’ve heard of “Netflix and chill,” but what if I told you about “Medicare and FAP?” With these immortal words, Doug and Todd open the second episode of the Attention Deficit Hyperactive Politics podcast with a case for instituting a guaranteed basic income, including a brief analysis of pilot programs and the conclusions we can draw from them.
In Weekly Political News, the duo focus on the stories that show how the Trump Admin is failing to live up to Pete Carroll’s “win forever” mantra - that is, instead of getting better every day, right now America is getting worse.
The show concludes with the patented “What’s Geek this Week?” segment, which constitutes the back half of the episode. On the nerd-docket this week are the new Avengers: Doomsday announcement, the potential revival of a hidden gem, and some good ol’ fashioned reminiscing on classic cartoons that are up for modern reboots. Turn the volume up and take a ride!
Show sources:
Family Assistance Plan - Wikipedia
Does contemporary Western culture play a role in mental disorders? - PMC
Universal basic income pilots - Wikipedia
Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fears - Yale Daily News
Russian scientist working at Harvard detained by Ice at Boston airport | US immigration | The Guardian
Rumeysa Ozturk: What we know about the Tufts University student detained by federal agents | CNN
Museums and parks must remove some items related to race and gender: Executive order - ABC News
A DHS staffer faces serious punishment for accidentally adding a reporter to a group email
Disney and ABC hit with FCC investigation over DEI policies | CNN Business
Republicans Vote to Let Banks Screw Over Working Americans
AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY - Bringing Back The Original X-MEN Might Be The Multiverse Saga's Biggest Mistake
SCOOBY-DOO Live-Action Series Moving Forward At Netflix; First Story Details Revealed
The Critic Creator Hints At Series Revival - ComicBook.com
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hide hey Doug what are we gonna do tonight the same thing we do every week
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Todd try to record a podcast that's great that's even better than last
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week so all right we're trying we're trying we're trying um I mean we we're streaming Ling things a little bit this
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week we we learned from last week um I don't know if anybody noticed from last week's episode but it's when I first
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uploaded it I was kind of quiet because I thought maybe my mic was too hot and I
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kept adjusting it to make sure I wasn't overpowering Doug and then the end result was you could barely hear me
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unless you cranked the wall way all the way up so I uh I went in and increased the volume on that part of the podcast
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and uh re upload it so hopefully if you haven't redownloaded the last week's episode you can do now and get the the
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the I wouldn't say improved audio but louder audio um but uh this week I'm I'm
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keeping an eye on the the volume levels on OBS to make sure that I am not sounding like I'm in the other room when
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recording so yeah if we can just get a little bit better every week you know
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who knows where we'll be in the long run I think maybe I need to actually can I adjust the volume on the mic itself see
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turn that up right there oh like hey that's that's louder
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right there's an I think you are louder now there's an actual volume knob on this microphone and uh yeah there we go
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now I'm peeking a little bit better in the in the on the EQ talk some more Doug Todd's Todd's over there fiddling with
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his knobs yes playing with knobs they're sliders actually but that's cool enough
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but now we have I have uh Doug sent over some some screenshots of tweets or posts
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or whatever memes and whatnot just yeah yeah so now that's what you're G if you're watching the video side of this
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that's what you're going to see you're not going to see our faces for podcasting and uh which is fine you
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don't need to see us to hear us or understand so yeah just just use the
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theater of the mind to figure out what these voices look like what you what do you think of that that HP uh logo with
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the the state the new logo I love it it looks great I think it's going to yeah I think it's going to attract some some
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listeners I love it I I we can thank uh Microsoft co-pilot for the AI artwork
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that it that it that is uh what it is so it was one of the few that actually got
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the letters correct you know how when you use Ai and you say I want this word on this thing and it goes oh what are
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words what are letters and giv you do had to use words are you sure this is supposed to
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be P maybe it's supposed to be an r or an F like no no we want for some reason
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it just say fingers melted into it or like if you're telling to to to create a person the person always has weird eyes
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or like a weird mouth or like 18 fingers so you know
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AI people and people are worried that it's going to take over the world when he figures out how to do a proper hand
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or a proper face that's when we need be worried yeah once once it does fingers right Run for the
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hills so we got a lot to get to this week we have a jam-packed episode we've got a primary topic we got news of the
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week and then as always we'll finish up with a nice what's Geek this week to sort of cleanse our pallets politics and
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in case this is your first episode this is our second one and this is adhp which is Attention Deficit
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Hyperactive politics it's a couple of neuros spicy dudes talking the weekly events trying to just basically vent our
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frustrations with the world today and uh and that's and we're but we're also trying to come with some positive ideas
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and solutions to move forward on and we'll see what happens yeah sorry I need
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to mute my phone I just decided to give me a notification for something it got
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excited it's like hey don't forget to take out the garbage so for for those of you that
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heard last week's episode uh we went over my five principles one of those principles was to attack crime at the
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root source which means Universal Health Care and a basic income now I came across something interesting today we're
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recording here on Sunday March 30th 2025 and uh someone mentioned that uh
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Richard Nixon is actually this was the cynical historian brought up in a video I was watching that Richard Nixon
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actually favored a universal healthcare and a basic income plan so it's it's
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this is that shocked me because you know Nick is one of the great villains in American history but he was a qu he was
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a Quaker and he did have a heart to some degree um so so basically it just put
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the thought in my head what if we could take the burden of providing health care and a living wage off of business owners
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what if you could simply pay market rate for labor and not worry if your employee can afford clean clothes a place to live
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a hot meal before and after work and a way to get to job on time so you may have heard of Netflix and chill but what
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if I told you about Medicare and fap Medicare and fap so
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so fap in this case is not what your dirty mind is thinking of Todd I mean
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fap has always been like you know the sound your hands make when you know you're you're uh shining your your
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helmet yeah well in this case fat means the family assistance plan oh of course
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it does just like ABC always means British Corporation in my life yes I mean but uh
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big beautiful yeah but the family assistance plan was a welfare program
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introduced by Richard Nixon in August of 1969 so so fap came out of 69 um of
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course it did which aimed and what it did is it aimed to implement a negative in income tax for households with
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working parents so it was influenced by lbj's War on poverty and uh it it was
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meant to replace the aid to assist families with dependent children so just a bunch of there's no fun acronym in
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that one um okay but it was essentially a universal basic income and I feel like
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if Nixon and I can agree on something maybe it's actually a good idea so I I went in and I looked through
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kind of the history of basic income programs we've definitely had we've had some in America some pilot programs and
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there's been others throughout the world the most consistent benefit of basic income appears to be an improvement in
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mental health and that's really important to this podcast it is
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and arguably that's a positive to every aspect of life so some examples include
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uh in Manitoba I just hit the mic which is a great move by me okay I didn't hear
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it oh cool I'll smack this thing around all I want well well B the mic
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um I apologize I'll I'll see myself out um but but uh some some examples include so
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in Manitoba Canada they had a program uh it saw a decrease in hospitalizations due to mental health diagnosis as well
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as an increase in children completing education through 12th grade rather than dropping out early to work um in Native
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American communities where they kind of reviewed how Casino profits have been spread out as a basic income to tribal
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members um we saw lower instances of Behavioral and emotional disorders and
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uh better relationships between children and their parents that's good and that right there is just going to increase
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education and right basically having good citizens and then uh another one I
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pulled out here is in Stockton California uh this was a recent one uh they evaluated the results in 2019 they
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found that most participants had been using their stiens to buy groceries and pay their bills and again that's consistent all these studies is people
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aren't frivolously spending their money on drugs and that kind of stuff that's one of the arguments always against the
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Ubi but here here they used them to buy groceries pay their bills uh 43% had
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full or ptime jobs and only 2% were unemployed and not actively seeking work
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so whether or not the incentive to work diminished during these times there was a positive psychological effect on
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individuals based on how they felt in having a guaranteed income each month right it's weird it's weird how people
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think oh they have a nice cell phone or they're driving a decent car they must have money why are they in here why are
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they getting food stamps like you don't know the guy's story you don't know that you know they could have lost their job
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in their house last week or last month and there's the car they're using is like their mother's or the phone they
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have is the the phone they they got when they still had a job and had a good credit rating you know things have ch
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things can change in 30 days you know it doesn't just because someone has a you know a an iPhone 13 or whatever the
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current one is and uh you know and and they're driving a a a 2016 car doesn't
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mean that they're they're uh they're trying to to to scam the system they
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that [ __ ] can happen so yeah and and most people are not two months two good
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months away from becoming millionaires but almost all of us are two bad months away from being homeless right oh wow
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that's a good analogy never I've never thought of it like that there's I mean it's there the amount of wealth people
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have there's no way they can spend it all in their lifetime unless they give Mass amounts of it away you know like I
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think Bill Gates like 10 years ago gave away a bunch of money to the to the Washington State Special Olympics I
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think it actually closer to a decade ago but still he gave away millions of dollars just to help kids who want to
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play sports and I think the best example of sort of philanthropy of that sort is
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McKenzie Bezos like what the media doesn't cover and maybe we'll cover this in a future episode is she's been giving
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away her wealth like right she got half of Jeff bezos's money in the divorce and she's just been giving it away hand over
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fist to all these various causes and the results of them are actually positive there's actually good things happening
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because of the monetary investment and that's just and it's stuff that we could do as a country through higher taxes but
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again the media doesn't cover the positive results there I don't remember her name but she was a daughter of Roy Disney and she was talking about how
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like uh people like myself uh that have a an unlimited source of income should
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pay more taxes uh than the average person in America because we have more money we should be spending more in
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taxes because you know we have more coming in so it should there should be more going out and just the bottom line
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is the if you are successful in this this economy that means you know the the
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economy fit you it worked for you you benefited more from the economy you have
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more to give back exactly and then looking at looking
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there I go punching the mic again um looking at holistically these various Ubi programs the lesson appears to be
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that providing a Ubi a universal basic income sometimes called a guaranteed income uh Alexander Hamilton called it a
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Citizens dividend um but I like yeah I think that's a great way to sell it is
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that a as a citizen's dividend you profits exist because of markets markets
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exist because of people the people deserve to be compensated for their value and and but what it really does
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though what having this guaranteed income does is it curtails the rat race mentality that most Americans are caught
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up in you know the reporting of mental illness is way more prevalent in the USA
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than non-western countries right we we can we can compare it to uh Nigeria
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which is one of the hey Doug I'll be right back I have to go do something real quick yeah no
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worries but we compare it to Nigeria where we have one of the lower developmental rates but we have far less
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mental health issues now some people will argue that's because they don't have an individualistic approach to
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society they are more of a social Society where where admitting to a mental illness is not uh is not okay
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it's not socially acceptable to admit you have one so therefore the reporting is lower so what studies have done is
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they've look they've taken a look at things like uh bipolar disorder which have biological markers they look at
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substance abuse which has actual you know hard hard numbers you can see where
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substance abuse is being done and lastly they've looked at suicide rates and that's again not one you can think and
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so what we see is that the USA leads by far um in in all of those categories of
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of bipolar disorder of substance abuse of suicide rates versus the less
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developed countries that have more that that don't have the rat race that we
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do so so what I'm trying to what I'm trying to get at here is that by having
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a Ubi basically people can relax and be themselves and focus on work that's good
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and needs to be done so any drop in work incentive by a Ubi is more than made up
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for by an increase in mental health when people are mentally healthy we are less likely to lose them to mental health
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disorders to substance abuse to suicide and then you actually get more productivity out of them right you we
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can we can all deal with a little bit less human productivity if we're getting more humans to be productive and and
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this is goes without saying with AI and automation which is really taking the menial tasks away and how do we take
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care of people once we don't need menial labor right we all should benefit from
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the population we're we're a part of
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absolutely so we do have sources for all this we'll list those in the podcast description please look them up you can
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aren't you I you know I have I wasn't touching it all of a sudden it just went all the way down that's really weird I
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hate it when it goes off when I'm not touching it I was just cleaning it okay say a little F man when he rub
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his helmet it spits in your ass it did it again that's [ __ ] weird that is weird do you have some
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sort of audio like volume correction on maybe and because I got too loud turned
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it down so maybe that's why quiet down Todd quiet I I don't need to be
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yelling so all right well was I saying before I got [Laughter]
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comment on those as well so all right so with that I'm ready to transition into
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some weekly politics news cue the theme for that oh right we don't have
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one I mean I mean either one of us could like go into suo and go uh create
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Bee music for political discourse and then play whatever it gives
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us well we'll do it and post yeah okay so we got quite a few stories
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to get through here we'll see if we make it through all of them so first story is actually two stories so basically we
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have the three prominent yell professors depart for Canadian University citing Trump fears that comes from the Yale
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Daily News and then we also have a Russian scientist working at Harvard detained by ice at Boston airport so
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what we're seeing here is the continued chilling effect on American Excellence um basically if anybody we we have proud
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Americans moving out of the country to do their work but we also have uh brilliant International scientists and
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other experts that are being that are being treated as if
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they're as they're susp as as if they're being suspected of terrorism okay so we have uh
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so if I can get to my story here so this is coming from the guardian
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a Russian scientist from Harvard Medical School has been detained by us Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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that's ice according to her friends and colleagues um she works with the Russian
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scientist K and oh boy I should practice this name but it's uh Miss Petrova uh
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where she was detained at Boston Logan International Airport
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back in February when when she was coming for a trip from France and she was stopped by us authorities um
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basically she committed an error on a form and that was enough for them to revoke her visa the point being they are
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trying to just terrify people into thinking that you just don't want to
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come here because any kind of mistake could be a reason to sub you to to
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further scrutiny and perhaps detain you it gets worse than this though she had a form they're fighting with they're
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working with her she's probably going to be okay but what else what we've also seen is uh Canadian Cen Jasmine Mooney
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was detained by us authorities and was held by ice for two weeks before being released we had a German tourist was a
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tattoo artist spent six weeks in detention including eight days in solitary confinement after being
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arrested at the Mexican border um there's been a handful of other detainees University students and
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researchers um we've talked about uh mmud khil who was detained and sent to
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Louisiana over being a protest organizer Also earlier this week we had Ruma oerk
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a Turkish doctoral student at tus University who was detained by plain closed officers in broad daylight and
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notified that her visa had been revoked now do you know why her visa was revoked no I do not it was because she
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co-authored in oped March of last year so a year ago that was critical of the
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University toughs for their response to the student government asking them to cut ties with Israel Over the war in
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Gaza so that is being spun as she is pro terrorism oh wow and this is a this is a
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woman who went to America after winning a full bright scholarship completed her Masters at Colombia and then started her
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doctorate at tus these are brilliant people that we want working here but the whole point is they don't fit the agenda
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so they're being they're really it's terrorism against them so so that they'll self-deport so that they'll stay out of
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here boy some people man we're sorry our government's so
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stupid yeah and if you read what Trump supporters are saying on the internet they believe anyone here on a Visa is
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living under a privilege that's being should be dangled on a thread over their head with a threat to cut them off at
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any point just to compel obedience just to keep them from saying anything
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critical as if as if they are as if they were here as our pets or something oh
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wow but but they ignore the Constitution so the Constitution over
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several cases over decades has both outlined that people in the country
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whether their citizens or not are protected by the Constitution and that's been expanded over time through
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subsequent cases to not just include people who are here legally but anybody that's here whether they're illegal or
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not they they are at least o du process so in 1903 scotus held that quote an
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alien who has entered the country and has become subject in all respects to its jurisdiction and a part of its
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population could not be deported without an opportunity to be heard upon the questions involving his right to be and
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remain in the United States I.E due process uh fast forward 50 years 1953
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the Supreme Court said once an alien lawfully enters and resides in this country he becomes invested within the rights
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guaranteed by the Constitution to all people within our borders but expanded to that in 1953 the court added aliens
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in a separate case added aliens who have once passed through our gates even
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illegally may be expelled only after proceedings conforming to traditional standards of fairness encompassed in due
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process of law and so what we see here is as time has gone on we have learned
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better and we have done better and we have defined these rights as anyone within our country because we're America
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like that's what we that's what we believe in I mentioned I already so another there's a separate link we'll
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have links for all these stories in the in the podcast description so please look those up uh the next story is from
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ABC News museums and Parks must remove some items related to RAC and gender so
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what we have here is classic fascist revisionism uh they want things that are supposedly
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anti-American and divisive to be removed from like the Smithsonian and what do you suppose that
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kind of stuff is Todd um it's it's probably anybody who is a darker skinn
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complexion than the average European and and any anything that makes that might make the white person feel
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guilty right like oh we can't talk about we can't we can't talk about
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segregation we can't talk about Jim Crow but to me that that is America the most American
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thing is improving every day now we just talked about it in the last story we
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talked about it last week with the Maya Angelou rule do the best you can and when you know better do better and
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that's what that's that's what makes America great making it's it's not about romanticizing our history it's not about
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it's not about saying so that I want to read this highlighted section from from the story about the museum okay so this
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comes from an executive order that Trump signed the order said
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that the exhibits and programs that it seeks to remove undermine the nation's
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quote unparalleled Legacy of advancing Liberty individual rights and human
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Happiness by casting its success as quote inherently racist sexist
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oppressive or otherwise irredeemably flawed so that's the point of the order
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it feels like they we can't mention the things what that make America seem
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irredeemably flawed but that's what's great about America is that as flawed as
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we are as flawed as we've always been it's never been irredeemable right for
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God's sakes we were the country of slavery we were one of the last countries to end slavery we saw Haiti
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end slavery and we Outcast them we we we blockaded them we wouldn't let them have
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trade with us and and haes still suffers to this day from choices America and her neighbors made back in the 1800s
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revolving Haitian re slave revolution but we still got better we
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got over it we moved ahead and the next phase of it was Jim Crow and segregation
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and again massive flaw that we redeem ourselves from but the only way we
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redeem ourselves is by acknowledging it and doing better when we know better we
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have to do better but that's what great about America it's like it's like people who are anti-science and they say oh well
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science is constantly changing its conclusions and that's the point that's how science works that is the point we
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learn and we do better we learn better we do better we're like oops my bad here
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here's here's what it is now because we found new information yeah and it's it's
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it's like Pete Carroll the former coach of the Seahawks the National Championship and Super Bowl winning coach it's like he says you got to get
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better every day because if you're not getting better you're getting worse and so I I submit that the Trump
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Administration through this executive order and other actions they're making us worse every single day because the
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most American thing I can think of is acknowledging a flaw and improving yourself improving your country yeah
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help yourself help your neighbor help your
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nation any any other thoughts on that before I move to the next story no go ahead all right we're marching right
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through we're making great time hopefully we're not going too fast for everybody if you need to if you need to rewind and listen again please do uh
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again this is the ADHD adhp podcast we're hyperactive we're attention deficit zero spicy to to the inst and
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I'm anxious as hell about all this so we're we're doing the best there's also a lot of stuff on why did it keep do oh
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you cut off it did it again it um there is uh a lot of stuff to go through on the uh on the on the show
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notes we don't have to go through every single story at least not the ones that I posted we can skip some of those but
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uh yeah I don't know I'm getting too loud maybe that's why it keeps cutting itself off I don't know how to change
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that so it's all right I've got I've got just a few more to go and and obviously we're going pretty quick here so I think
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we're doing okay so here's an interesting one that's coming off of uh I'm sure if you're listening to this
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podcast you're somewhat aware of signal gate it last it it the story basically broke when we recorded our first episode
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last week so this is a followup from that just just as a comparison point
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so oh excuse me if I can I've got all my links up but
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I don't have them in the correct order there we go so I'm gonna read the story from NBC News and and just chime in when
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you think you know what the story is about okay a federal worker accidentally
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includes a journalist on a detailed message in advance of a government
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operation does that sound familiar yeah yeah no that's a SE half right whatever
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his name except it's not it's not while that sounds like the case of the Atlantic editor-in Chief being added to
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a group signal chat by Trump's National Security adviser Michael Waltz and it's
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actually a Department of Homeland Security employee who told colleagues she inadvertently sent unclassified
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details of an upcoming raid to a journalist in January so same thing basically the same
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thing of accidentally including a journalist on a on a potentially sensitive but not classified
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message and unlike unlike Waltz and Heth who both remain in their jobs the career
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DHS employee was put on administrative lead and told last week that the agency intends to revoke her security clearance
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which means she doesn't get to work in this field at all anymore more she's got to go find a whole new line of work now
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and it's just I highlight this story to demonstrate the the double standard the
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hypocrisy if you're not in the Inner Circle you would get busted like this
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we've had there's there was a military uh serviceman a year or so ago who was
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sharing classified stuff on his like Call of Duty Discord server with his
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friends he's in jail as far as I'm aware but if you're part of the Inner Circle
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they just rally the you know they they rally around you they start yeah
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shooting the messenger protect protect your own kind of thing yeah well and I think it's very
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telling that that the Trump Administration is calling it a hoax because we've heard them call plenty of
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things hoaxes and if they're all and now I just got to assume that everything they've called a hoax is as legitimate
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as story like I said last week anytime that Trump says that's a lie that's fake news
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I I believe it to be true just automatically yeah and I think one thing we can do here in this podcast is try
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and be a trump interpreter and I think one thing we've learned now that we can say for sure is Donald Trump says it's a
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hoax that means it's true information that he finds damaging yeah and that's
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how you should read it if he says hoax read it as Direct Hit it's read it
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projection it's like anytime they say the left has done this this and this they're telling on themselves this is
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what we've done and we don't want to be caught by it so we're going to blame them for
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it and then furthering our fall into fascism our next story is about how
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Disney and ABC have been hit with FCC investigation over their Dei
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policies so this comes yeah this comes from uh
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where did I apparently don't have the link to that one up let me click on this here all
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good so this this comes from CNN so in a letter to Disney CEO Bob
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Iger the FCC chair wrote that he wants to ensure that Disney and ABC have not
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been violating FCC equal employment opportunity regulations by promoting
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quote unquote invidious forms of Dei discrimination I don't know what invidious means I don't
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know if they meant Insidious but uh probably Insidious yeah they're basically saying you're not violating
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equal employment by by looking for Dei hires are you no no no you just need to H you just need to H hire the first
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white man that comes to the door don't don't look any further like to me equal employment opportunities is about
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expanding the pool of candidates Beyond just the people you know in daily life
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and into the the populations that you might not be familiar with because there's great candidates there it's not
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about filling a quota it's about expanding the search and so what we have here is an attempt to get Disney to
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comply and we have lots of evidence of people comp complying in advance um this we have law firms that
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are could win cases against the Trump Administration that are just going along with what they say and this is what's
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really scary to me because this is exactly how you fall into fascism is when the corporations start complying
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when the law firms start complying there's not much else the rest of us can
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do right so there there it's and again this
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is unabashed fascism just trying to say no this is the way you should think about the world because how
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traditionally a conservative would say you can't tell a corporation how to do their hiring if they want to look for
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population if they want to look for candidates and in uncommon populations that's their prerogative but now the
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administration is coming in here and saying no you need to narrow your search you need to you need to hire more people
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that look and sound and act a certain way and yeah now what do we do about
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this I short of writing your congressman and I guess that's really the thing to do for most of this is to call your
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Congressman call your representative call your Senator um it's I I did that
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for the for the first time here recently with the uh the Senate vote to for
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on the uh continuing resolution that happened last month um called Senator Maria canwell because I had heard that
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she was potentially a vote for clocher and just told her hey I voted for you
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every time you've ever run I'm never going to vote for you again if you vote for clure without getting something in
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return now I'm I'm assuming I was one of many that made a similar phone call
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because she ended up not voting for cloer and and everything I hear is that
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calling your Congressman works the best calling your representative calling your Senator leted their
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inbox right uh they can ignore email they can ignore notes and letters but
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they when their phone lines are constantly tied up because people are calling in they listen to that so if
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there's anything you take away from this is an action people can do um oh and and
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maybe we can put up a well if if you don't know how to Google the the phone number for your local office please
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reach out to us comment on our Facebook send us a message we'll help you out there
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yeah and then lastly for the news for this news um just to demonstrate that
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the Republicans are not serious about helping anybody other than themselves and their cronies um the Republicans are
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now going not only do they want to end the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which is one of the best things our
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government has done in the last 10 years years or however long it's been but now
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they want to the Biden administration had capped overdraft fees
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at$ Five well they're going to put an end to that excuse
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me so the Republicans are are out to make Americans ripe for scams and
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ripoffs that's really the whole domestic agenda of the Trump Administration is
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take away the regulations make the world safe for scam artists and and even
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though like I don't know if you're aware of this but the biggest Medicare fraud in history or at least at the time it
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was was done by Republican senator Rick Scott oh so yeah during his tenure as
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chief executive the company defrauded Medicare Medicaid and other Federal programs the US Department of Justice
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won 14 felony convictions against the company he was chief executive of and
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they were fined 1.7 billion in what was at the time the largest health care fraud settlement in US history oh wow
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yeah and and while they try and end the Consumer Protection Bureau all all while
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screaming for uh waste Fraud and Abuse um I think I I I don't know which Trump
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edmin official it was but he was on an interview this past week where they said
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uh he he compared his grandmother who's on Social Security and he said if Social Security payments don't come in for a
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week or two his grandmother wouldn't complain he says the people complaining are the ones
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committing fraud he said the the fraudsters are the loudest and most and most violent
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complainers and I'm thinking wait a second is this is this actually like a
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Freudian slip regarding Trump because who's been more shouty
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loudy uh crying crying wolf over everything
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than Trump like I think I think Trump demonstrates that better than anybody else I mean I I do think Trump is the
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biggest fraud country he will I mean I think it was him that said that uh uh
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protesting Tesla is illegal like why they want to try and
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make it so the average person can't afford a Tesla so who who's who who are
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you going to come after you're going to come after someone who who spent you $1,000 on a used car are you going to
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come after that person you know um I don't know it just it's ridiculous um
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and then have you seen the video I don't know what it was for it was some news broadcast where where uh where Elon was
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basically he was whining he like it's not fair he he got on stage and he made
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fun of my company because the stocks had dropped oh he was talking about Tim Walls yeah yeah he's like he's a jerk
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I'm like okay okay yeah I saw a great comparison on that about uh so one week
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musk is saying that empathy is the is a great weakness right and then the next
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week oh I'm my feelings are hurt because he's making fun of my my stock priz yeah empathy for the empathy for
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the but not for for everyone else the thing the one that cracked me up is the audio from him saying that and then the
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video is showing him running on stage with a chainsaw right so
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which of course was a nice little uh rendition of the was it the Argentinian
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president who was trying to use a chainsaw on stage he he was poking point
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of that guy okay I didn't know he was yeah he was mimicking it because he there they're all these that's the guy
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that's the guy in Argentina who pulled a a crypto scam on his country oh which is also very similar to Trump who's pulled
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a crypto scam on his own supporters the day before his inauguration this year so
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like did didn't didn't Elon have like a crypto thing happening where he he called that Doge as well there was a
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Dogecoin I don't know if that had anything to do with Elon because that was but it might have I mean I remember
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him talking about it there was like the one of the last times I ever tuned in to uh to Joe Rogan's podcast he was talking
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about Doge for like 10 minutes I was like I don't care about this [ __ ] I'm G to turn this off and that was the last
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time I ever listen to that podcast but when he so Ice start Dogecoin Dogecoin
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is a crypto currency created by software Engineers Billy Marcus and Jackson Palmer who decided to create a payment
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system as a joke and the value of Dogecoin right now is currently 18 cents
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okay that's funny because he was promoting the hell out of it on Twitter back all they do is they create a viral
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they create a meme coin to go viral so they can pull a pump and dump scheme is what they're doing is they they get
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people to buy in right away after they're already they they're bought in from from initial from initiating the
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coin um and it's illegal in a lot of ways depending exactly how you do it but
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no one is doing anything about it right now yeah well that so that's the thing when when people start talking about the
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department of blah blah blah blah blah whatever whatever the acronym for doge is I was like Doge why is why is
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everyone talking about the this Dogecoin thing cuz that's what I initially thought they were talking about talking
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about this [ __ ] cryptocurrency and like did the did the US government just now make that an official currency of
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our country what's going on and then I realized it's a it's it's whatever uh elon's in charge of in our in our
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federal government which yeah he named it he gave it the acronym that came out
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to be Doge because he's he thinks he's so he thinks he's writing on on uh viral
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success and he just wants to be hip and he thinks that's a a clever way to do it kids all on board he likes that word is
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what it is he's it's it's one of his hyper focuses I think cuz he's like cuz he talked about he I think he even
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talked about Doge when he was a when he hosted SNL a few years back too so it's
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uh so it's like it's it's like it's just like his obsession with the letter X exactly what I was goingon to say it's
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just like X for him yeah no it's he named all of his kids A variation of X
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like his trans daughter or her dead name starts with an X and then his newest kid
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the one who told uh Trump he's not the president also name his ex so it's it's
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one of his hyper focuses so it's yeah he really makes he makes he
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makes all of us neurod Divergent people that are uh trying to not piss off
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everybody around us look bad uh because it's it's not something we do on purpose
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we don't we don't do these things on purpose and I'm not even sure if he's doing these things on purpose he just thinks they're a really good idea it's
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giving him a dopamine hit so he's like oh this Doge I like this name Doge we're going to call we're going to use that as
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an acronym for my my part of the federal government and and and I'm going to hire these these 17-year-old kids to to find
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uh money for me and you know take it away from other people kind of thing and then it it it becomes this
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clown show that hides the true intent of basically just they're trying to fire everyone in the federal government
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they're trying to they're they're trying to do that Curtis yaren rage thing which is retire all government employees
42:57
oh I I saw another thing today that cracked me up and I should probably be posted on on the uh if I haven't already
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posted on on blue blue sky I'm going to uh there's a video and I think it's an
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AI video of uh of uh Elon putting on uh
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on a Cheeto dust on the Trump I've seen this yes oh God painting
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his shade of orange yeah using a bag of Cheetos
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well that wraps up the political news for the week and now we can transition over to what's Geek this week what's
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Geek this week and yeah we did it in less than 45 minutes yay blowing through it blowing through
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it so let me let me pull up my Google doc uh and which ones did we decide we
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wanted to talk about because I grabbed a bunch uh the critic right uh I'm
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definitely interested in hearing what you have to say about this critic Revival um I certainly have thoughts on
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the X-Men in the in the Multiverse but I don't want to spoil too much so so definitely pick out a couple things
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besides those also didn't we mention that the no we didn't mention it last week I I think I talked to somebody else
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about it uh they they announced in a fight talking to other people Todd they announced last a few days ago in in a
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five hour live stream all the actors that are going to be in Avengers
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doomsday and now it's not necessarily all of them it's all that they're announcing right now well I mean that's
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like what 12 people are you saying they announced 12
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or there's still 12 they've announced 12 names 12 or 15 names only 12 I mean I
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can get the list hold on I felt like that I felt like that train of chairs went on forever yeah well it's because
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it was a five hour live stream and they were like slowly going down the line uh let's see here
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Google Avengers gims day I did know that uh Patrick Stewart
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and uh Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen are coming back uh we can only
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assume that they're going to be playing Xavier and and Magneto but you know you never know they might have something
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else for him cuz Pat Uh because uh RDJ is going to be doomsday he's not going to be Iron Man so it's possible these
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people are coming back to somebody else entirely right nope yeah they could do a weird M multiversal swap here where
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everybody is somebody else so I I pulled up the IMDb page full casting crew uh
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and it shows here that um
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uh James Marsden is coming back as Scott summer Cyclops Rebecca rain is coming back as
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Mystique Sir Patrick Stewart is in fact going to be professor Xavier or
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Professor X Tom hon will be Loki uh let see who else
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uh shanning Tatum is going to be playing Gambit again because we didn't get enough of his terrible accent in the in
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the Wolverine and in Deadpool movie I loved it I loved his portrayal he's I he
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looked it sounded just like what we expect him to sound like but it was it was I think he could have pulled a
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little bit back on on the accent it didn't have to be quite so thick um where is it where is it Eric
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lyer is is in fact uh Ian McKellen and uh so yeah it's basically
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you want me to go down the list of all the people that are get that they've announced so far no real quick do you
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think um that IMDb has an inside scoop on this or do you think that IMDb is
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just assuming that they're playing those characters well these are all the names that were on that video that 5H hour video these are all the names I I
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watched the the bridge version of the video which just basically showed up all the different chairs that they showed
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that's what I saw yeah yeah and uh so we have basically uh everybody from the uh
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The Last Avengers movie I think minus uh Captain America Hulk and uh um well basically
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all the people that died in the last movie with yeah was Chris Hemsworth on the list Chris Hemsworth is playing Thor
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in this movie yes Anthony Macky is Sam Wilson Captain America Bucky Barnes
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Sebastian Stan um let's see here uh simu
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L is uh shangi uh which he know he did that movie uh Winston Duke is come CH
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yeah Shi uh Winston Duke is coming back as mbaku from Black Panther
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mbaku uh see who else uh I saw sh was in there yes Shere is
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coming back uh latia Wright I think is how you pronounced her name latia Wright
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lettia right uh and then uh ten Hera is
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coming back as Neymar so Neymar what has what was he in
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he was in the second um black uh Black Panther the one that's right one where
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sh becomes black panther yes uh Kelsey grar is coming back as Beast we have uh
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uh uh Wyatt Russell is coming back as us agent John
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Walker uh Red Guardian is is coming back uh with uh David Harbor they also have
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huh Elena oo from the Thunderbolts yes Thunderbolts yeah that's the next that's the next uh that's the next Marvel movie
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coming out just is think it's coming up in the next couple months next couple weeks yeah I've heard i' see this is why
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I say don't know if they listed all the names because I think part of the reason they made sure to get those Thunderbolts
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actors that are going to be in it listed is because they want to I i' I've heard that that's kind of like they want to
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get people interested in the Thunderbolts so it's like oh they're going to be in doomsday I better see Thunderbolts right I mean it's that's
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possibility but I mean I don't think that there might be a few like uh uh
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like hidden they're not going to show the names until the movie comes out kind of thing uh I'm sure we might I I'm
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assuming and I don't know for a fact but I'm assuming that at some point we're going to see Deadpool and Wolverine in
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there maybe as a as a quick little they hiding in the room kind of like they did the X-Men in the the last in the in the
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second Deadpool movie where everybody was just hanging out in the room I do wonder about about Deadpool um because I
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have I have a whole theory about Deadpool that Deadpool is so the the the
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thing about about Deadpool is he is the writer of his own stories so any Deadpool comic or show or movie is just
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Deadpool telling us a story right and we don't know if it's really happening or not and that's why that's why like that
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would explain why his movies are ostensibly set in the MCU but it doesn't look exactly like the rest of the MCU
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does it has some different characters now in in in Deadpool versus Wolverine
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that is the first Deadpool MCU movie period so um before that it was still
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the uh Fox uh entertainment X-Men movies that's why um in the first one you
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didn't see any of the X-Men except for uh uh the big steel Russian dude which I
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BL drawing a blank on Colossus Colossus thank you um he was in it but that's
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because he wasn't really in any he was but he wasn't main character in of the other X-Men movies right but but
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something that the uh filmmakers have talked about especially with the first Deadpool movie where they have the
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downed uh carrier um they were they couldn't
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specifically use assets from the MCU but they were trying to set it up so that
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you could say it was in the MCU at a later date once once it all came together like they were trying to leave
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that door open but ultimately I just think the Deadpool stuff is just whatever he says happens so I could see
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a companion film to Doomsday of like dead Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe type of deal I where somebody said that
51:39
that that doomsday is essentially uh uh leading into Secret Wars right and uh
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you know we're going to we're going to see we're going to probably see a little bit of the Dead uh uh X-Men versus The
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Avengers in this movie and and and to that extent this kind of
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goes to the the Facebook conversation that was had is do you think that the Avengers are just going to kill off the
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ex the original X-Men and then that's how we set the stage for new X-Men after a reset or how do what do you think is
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going to happen there I think it might be uh just kind of it's going to be more
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Multiverse stuff where you were going to see like original X-Men um probably not going to see
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Wolverine but possibly I mean they're they're not not going to lead with that because they they want other people to
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be like oh hey they're going to see these other X-Men characters that's cool um we might actually I don't know I'm
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I'm hoping that we're going to see maybe him sitting at the bar and telling Xavier to go [ __ ] himself again but um
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uh but beyond that I think it it's going to lead into a new team of of X-Men you
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know we're going to see a younger version of some characters uh kind of like they did with the Days of Future
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Past I think is what the last one or apocalypse was the last one but uh so do
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you think a new class of X-Men will show up by by Secret Wars or do you think there's going to be a big reset and then
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we'll gradually bring in new X-Men in the future I I what I'm thinking is going to happen is because people want
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to see the original cast we're going to see them at least at the beginning of this movie or at some point during this
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movie and then we're also going to be introduced to new versions of those same characters by other people maybe
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uh maybe uh Jennifer Lawrence may come back as as the younger you know
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Mystique um AR some of the other the other people from the the the newer version of the X-Men right because I
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think it's important to point out that the Doomsday uh teaser had none of the
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of the new Class X-Men it had had none of the McAvoy era X-Men it did not in
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the cast which maybe that's just going to be a head fake and they're all going to be in it as well and we're going to have two generations of X-Men teaming up
53:56
to fight Doom or The Avengers or however it goes right the other thing we wanted to talk
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about there's a couple different things uh one of them being be uh the critic
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the TV show the critic from I think was it the late 90s or early 2000s it was it
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was mid to late 90s for sure okay uh the critic was uh a a show that was created
54:20
by I think one of the one of the creators of The Simpsons because it animation style is very similar
54:26
without and he showed up in a Simpsons episode without the jaundice yeah um but uh yeah he apparently said on on
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social media that there's a possibility of a Revival with John litz uh what it says this is what it
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says here on comicbook.com The Simpsons and Family Guy might stand at the top of
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the hill when it comes to Fox's animation slate but Springfield and goog's finest are far from the only
54:53
characters that became popular on the network Jay Sherman aka the critic first
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debuted in 1994 there it is garnering two seasons uh and may many moments that
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have become memes online while nothing has officially been confirmed one of the
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creators responsible for the original animated series is hinting at a
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Reviving that a Revival that might see John loveit's return to the role of the
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titular character I actually thought the show was hilarious cuz it kind of was uh
55:28
like it it came out before Family Guy and it was kind of doing the the Cutaway
55:34
stuff that Family Guy is famous for before Family Guy did it um and it was
55:39
always kind of a a a a spoof on the uh uh was it uh the who were the two film
55:46
critics the tall skinny guy and the short F CIS Eber thank you I was thinking you know uh abent Castello of
55:53
of film reviews but uh I mean literally who's on film they were the men on film
55:59
yeah they were the tall skinny one and the short fat one um but uh and that's kind of what they looked like anyhow but
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yeah it was a spoof on that and but they would show like these uh movie trailers that were parodies like it was like Jaws
56:11
27 or um uh just weird stuff like that uh so yeah I I would absolutely watch it
56:19
if they came out with a new version of the critic and and interesting enough the
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critic I I I looked it up here real quick and it said it was 1994 to 2001
56:29
and I'm like I don't remember it being on for that long but it was only three seasons so it's actually been revived
56:35
once before so it had a season in '94 a season in '95 and then season 3 is in
56:41
the year 2000 yeah season 3 was like a web series if I remember it was on YouTube but uh ah okay yeah well YouTube
56:48
didn't exist yet but well I mean it was online either way so but uh it was a web series I remember that um and and funny
56:55
enough episode one of season 3 was about the X-Men and we've got and we've got Wolverine and cyclops and storm right
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here in the thumbnail but yeah no it was uh you know he his catch phas is it stinks you know
57:10
uh but uh no it's it's one of the characters that that John litz does that makes me laugh and not want to change
57:16
the station because his characters are always kind of Hit and Miss with
57:21
me and and he needs something to do I haven't seen John litz in quite a while and he's I he's he's I I love his
57:27
character in The Wedding Singer which is one of my favorite movies of all time I I as far as I'm concerned it's the greatest romcom of all time well you and
57:35
that character is at the beginning of Little Nikki too yes yes which is one of the worst
57:42
films I've seen in a theater I think I love that movie it's so funny what's an eight about 500 bucks
57:50
um but uh no I that was one of those movies that when it first when it first came out of oh and I lost
57:56
again okay I got too close to the mic and it muted me uh it was one of those
58:02
DVDs that I would put in my DVD player and my DVD player would just sit there and play the the menu music over and
58:10
over again because I'd fall asleep watching it in my room can you stop watching that movie before you go to sleep please cuz that music is driving
58:17
me bunkers and uh yeah but uh it's I don't
58:22
know I there was so much of that movie I really liked because I I still a bit of a metal head but I was really into heavy
58:28
metal at the time that movie came out I had long hair I was you know was still relatively not fat and
58:35
uh yeah that's that's something is you actually have an era where you weren't fat I've been I've been overweight since
58:42
I was about eight years old I I was I was that weird kid who uh would eat lots
58:47
of sugar and and and people thought I was a pothead cuz of the amount of sugar I would eat and uh like no I'm naturally
58:55
this weird but I I've seen your yearbook photos that you posted on occasion I'm
59:01
like oh Todd he wasn't he wasn't even fat then his I was well in early 2000s
59:06
at the time that the show was popular late 90s early 2000s I was I was maybe a
59:11
buck 60 I was that's I was a buck 60 in like the fifth grade yeah so but yeah no
59:19
I I I like the show I thought the uh the parodies of the movies that they made fun of were were clever
59:26
um I believe the first two seasons the ones that were on TV are available I
59:32
think on Hulu either Hulu or one of the no it's on one of the one of the free free streaming ones so it's either it's
59:38
either on freey or it's on uh like Tubi or uh or um um what's the other
59:46
one one of the free streaming sites either way just look look up the critic I'm sure you'll find it somewhere it's
59:53
available free to watch and did you say would this be a fox show again or had did they hint at where it
59:59
would come back on I'm thinking if it if if it's anything like previous Fox shows
1:00:05
it's going to be like an exclusive on Hulu because I'm just wondering like if
1:00:10
you want to see this show after you get done calling your Senator and your Congressman you you know call call up uh
1:00:16
I don't know who would you call up to to get a to say you want to see the critic I guess just tweet it tweet at John
1:00:24
Lovitz let's take a look uh it's on tuby right now that's what it's
1:00:29
on and they just have I'm sure they just have the the rights to the syndication but uh yeah they have the first two
1:00:35
seasons on on on uh on uh on tuby um and it's uh it's John Lovitz uh
1:00:43
Nick Jameson Maurice Lamar Nancy cartright Christine Kavanaugh oh man
1:00:48
rest in peace um Christine kavan if you're not familiar uh was the the
1:00:55
original voice of Chucky on uh on on Rugrats on Rugrats okay yeah I knew that
1:01:01
I knew oh and or no or was it was it Chucky yeah she was Chucky she was also the original uh voice of the all the
1:01:08
moms on South Park as well and she uh I know she's also I mean once you hear her voice you recognize it a thousand places
1:01:15
and she did all sorts of Animation I think she was involved in all real monsters as one of the she she was the
1:01:20
the one with the giant lips and the eyeballs um yeah uh she was also the girlfriend friend of ug on Salute my
1:01:28
shorts on yeah she played the mail lady yeah yeah she uh she she suffered some
1:01:34
some depression issues I think and and took her life in 2000 and that and that
1:01:40
ties back into what we were talking about earlier where people stress the F out and make poor choices and I think we
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can get people making a lot better choices with the institution of a guaranteed income I also something I
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meant to mention at the top of the show during that segment was in no in all the research I've ever done on a
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Ubi I've always found it to be the case that every dollar spent towards a
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guaranteed income has uh is Multiplied when we get it back in the economy it never hurts the economy it never costs
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us money as a nation you know we spend money on the program but it always has a
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compounding of effect where you get more benefit out of it from just from a dollar standpoint in the in the in the
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GDP or however you want to measure the economy um you get more for it than you spend on it always right so there was
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one more story that I wanted to talk about um before we end the show and that is the uh there apparently uh
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Netflix has got the rights to uh doing a a liveaction TV series for
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Scooby-Doo um and this is what it says here Zo the Scooby the Scooby-Doo Live
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series we first heard about last year is a God damn it I getting see Scooby
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scoob's got you too excited and now yeah they got to tone you down stop God damn it [ __ ] off with this [ __ ] come on knock
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it off I I don't know how to turn that off it's it's okay absolutely pissing me off
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I'm you know need a Scooby Snack I seriously though I think I'm going to switch back over God it's going crazy
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right now it really doesn't want us it does not want the people to hear about the Scooby-Doo Live Action all right so I'm trying to keep my voice calm because
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it keeps like turning down the volume and I don't know if it's the the
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microphone doing this or if it's some software doing this or what it's it's it needs to stop though um hopefully we
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don't find out that I've been just muted this whole time uh no you're you're fine I think what I'm going to do next
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week it's a mystery [ __ ]
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oh man oh man this is fun though this is just it's not fun this this is not fun this is not fun for me I don't like this
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I want it to [ __ ] stop um I don't I don't even remember what I was saying now because this is
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this keeps happening I'm going to say what I'm going to say is next week I'm not using this mic in this capacity
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anymore I'm not using the the USB side of it because I think that's part of it I'm going to I'm going to hook it up to
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my my my my mixer recording system and never does this with that so I'm going
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to use that next time what I'm try was trying to say is that uh it looks like there's the assumption is this the
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liveaction Scooby-Doo is going to be akin to the Riverdale series on the CW
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which was kind of a weekly mystery every every week there was a new new bad guy who was trying to to hurt somebody in
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Riverdale and I mean that's kind of way the Scooby gang was originally back in 1969 anyhow so I don't see that as a bad
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thing and I liked Riverdale um so I I heard good things
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about Riverdale I I never saw it I I don't really watch the CW in fact uh I'm a YouTube TV subscriber so I don't even
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know if I get the CW uh CW you can't find that series on CW anymore I think
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you have to go to I think Netflix to find it but uh it's it's I I thought
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that's set in the Archie Comics universe is that the case I mean it's it's based on the Archie Comics series it it is the
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Archie in name only cuz the characters are all the all the characters you recognize but it's think of like the
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characters from Archie and then put them into like like X Files or Gravity
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Falls oh that you know that does sound pretty interesting actually so it's it's a it's it's the it has the look of like
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a cleancut like High School from like the you know the old days kind of thing
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they don't even specify what the the decade is for the show there's each
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episode excuse me each episode's a little weird and it that it you don't really have like a people don't have
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cell phones in the show so it could be it could take place in the 80s for all we know or the 70s or whatever but based
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on the clothing alone it's com it's uh it's current Day stuff but yeah um it's
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I I went in thinking this is going to be stupid like this is going to be like every other CW
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uh teen drama uh it's going to be right that's immediately what I think of yeah and it's nothing I mean there is teen
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drama stuff in it because it is a CW but it's more than that it's a it's a it's a
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who done it kind of Series where the this the show that show Riverdale is is
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narrated by Jug Head who's um um played
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by one of the two kids who was in Zack and Cody oh one of the life boys the one of
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the twins yeah and um so he narrates the whole series you know hi I'm you know my
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name is Dred blah blah blah blah blah it and weird [ __ ] happens in my town of of
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Riverdale and uh towards the SE that series end they kind of like did some
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Crossover with Sabrina the Teenage Witch and because that's also written by the same people U the original Comics
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original Marissa Joan Hart Melissa no they used they use they use the one from
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Netflix the girl yeah my wife watches that show so I'm somewhat familiar with dude that show was really good too by
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the way um I really enjoyed both shows if you haven't watched Riverdale I
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recommend it especially if you like kind of like the um kind of like the murder
1:07:42
mystery type stuff yeah and you know there's like you you see characters if
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you're familiar at all with with uh Archie and his gang uh like uh Sabrina
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character you see at some point during the show you see Josie and the Pussycats at some point during the show um uh The
1:08:02
Groovy Ghoulies these are all like these are all cartoons from like the 60s and
1:08:07
7s for me so when I watched it was like oh I remember this character you know
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and uh uh but no I those are all the cartoons that would come on I'd be like this this isn't Ninja Turtles what what
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am I watching here yeah like like we said earlier I'm 10 years give or take a
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couple years old older than than Doug so for me uh my childhood resides in the
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70s and 80s and so uh a lot of the stuff that I'm looking at I'm going oh this
1:08:35
reminds me of when I was a kid and he's just like oh this looks familiar I kind of remember this when I was young but uh
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uh this real this uh uh God damn it
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brain uh live action Scooby-Doo is going to be a an hour TV show and
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what I would love to see in this TV series is I would love it if Matthew
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Lillard was norville's Dad okay because he of course played Shaggy in the in the most famous
1:09:08
Scooby-Doo film I think he I mean he replaced uh Casey KAS when Casey retired
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oh doing the voice in the cartoon too yeah yeah absolutely I did not know that yeah no he with the acception of one or
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two that like had like famous people voicing the particular characters m has
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been the voice of Scooby since I want to say like the late 90s since like after
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he did that move no wait that movie was like 2000 or something or was later it would it would have been yeah I think
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yeah early 2000s to 2010 I think that's around right around where uh the
1:09:43
original voice of Scooby or Shaggy retired CU he was dealing with some health issues um Casey KAS Casey KAS um
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he uh he took over for the the role of Shaggy um because he did such a good job on the
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liveaction theatrical movies like zoinks you know and uh and he was actually one
1:10:05
of the people that was very vocal about the the last uh Scooby-Doo movie that came out in theaters called
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scoo he's like uh I don't know why Warner Brothers didn't have me and the
1:10:17
rest of the original cast do it for this movie cuz you know it's let's be honest the character
1:10:24
voices they chose were not great was that an animated feature yeah it was It was supposed to like it was supposed to
1:10:30
start a Hanah barara Universe in movies oh well that would have been interesting
1:10:36
but it didn't work out did it it didn't work out cuz the you you find out later in the movie that the bad guy is Dick
1:10:42
Dastardly okay and I don't know if you remember who Dick Dastardly is oh that name rings a bell but could of be old
1:10:50
school uh uh must the the handlebar mustache kind of guy and he had the oh
1:10:56
oh yes yes the dog that would that would laugh like like that right and uh so the
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story surrounds him and his dog to a degree you find out later in the movie I
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don't want to ruin anything if you haven't seen that movie scoob is what it's called it's on Max I believe um
1:11:15
it's not a terrible movie The it's kind of an origin story for Scooby and and Shaggy um but that was supposed to start
1:11:22
a whole like movie Universe of Hannah barbaric characters going from Scooby-Doo all the way over to like Blue
1:11:29
Falcon and all this other stuff and um it didn't do well because and I believe it didn't do well in theaters because
1:11:36
they had like celebrity voices doing like Fred VMA Daphne and Scooby and
1:11:42
Shaggy although Scooby was voiced by the current actor who does Scooby he's the only person of the
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entire cast who carried over from the previous cartoon TV shows and other animated movies movies that went
1:11:55
straight to video um Frank Welker the voice of an entire several Generations
1:12:02
at this point um he is he he was the original actor who plays Fred and has
1:12:08
played Fred since 1969 with the exception of like three or four movies
1:12:13
and uh in maybe one or two act uh animated series but he's been Fred
1:12:18
almost in every Incarnation um I think it's in his contract that he has to play at least one character in Scooby-Doo
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whether if it's not Scooby or Fred it's something he plays he played um he
1:12:29
played Fred's dad in in Velma I believe and yeah he's one of the more famous
1:12:35
voice actors in everything I mean he's been on Spectre Gadget oh Super Friends
1:12:42
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Muppet Babies dude yeah he was so du you
1:12:47
name all these the thing is is the voice he used in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends is the same voice he uses for
1:12:52
Fred that's his normal speaking voice that's the way he talks he doesn't change anything when he talks like Fred
1:12:59
um he's also the voice of of Ray STS in The Real Ghostbusters as well as Slimer
1:13:04
he's um Dr claw in in uh Inspector Gadget which is the same voice he uses
1:13:10
for Soundwave and Transformers and the cave of Wonder and Aladdin so he's uh
1:13:18
he's like a voiceover God anytime I anytime I meet a voice actor I say tell
1:13:23
me a Frank Walker story I want to hear something about Frank weler and they're always happy to tell stories about Frank
1:13:30
because he's that cool of a guy and uh speaking of cartoons coming
1:13:35
back I also saw this week that uh Darkwing Duck is coming back with the original voice actor as well really
1:13:41
they're ringing back Darkwing Duck with Jim Cummings cool I met him I met him last year and like 10 years ago uh both
1:13:49
times he did Tas for me which I immediately turned into like an 8-year-old kid
1:13:55
I mean even though I mean his version of Taz came out when I was in my my late teens Taz Mania was a fantastic cartoon
1:14:02
it's on it's on max if you haven't seen it um it came out in like the early 2000s or maybe the 90s I can't remember
1:14:09
which but it's it's kind of like a just Tas Tas being a Tasman de devil in
1:14:17
Australia or Tasmania and he is uh it's kind of like
1:14:23
a a family sitcom where he's like the the uh oldest sibling I think or maybe
1:14:29
he's the middle child cuz he has a sister and a younger brother in that show and uh so I met I met uh Jim
1:14:36
Cummings uh last summer at summer con here in Washington state Washington State summercon happens every June at
1:14:42
the PE Fairgrounds or Washington State Fairgrounds at wherever they want to call it now and uh uh and he he's also
1:14:50
the voice of uh Tigger and wapoo yep and he's also the voice of uh Hondo
1:14:58
tan Tanaka one of the one of the characters from uh from Star Wars Clone Wars and
1:15:05
Rebels Hondo uh he is also a character you see at the Galaxy's Edge at
1:15:11
Disneyland and uh when I met him I was like man I was just at Disneyland a couple weeks ago I heard your voice so
1:15:17
many times in that Park he's like oh yeah I do this this this and this oh and
1:15:23
they just added me on this I like yes I heard all of that he goes cool yeah now
1:15:28
he he seemed like a nice enough dude um I did find out that uh recently that he
1:15:33
is um he is a trump supporter so I I uh luckily didn't know
1:15:40
that when I met him because I probably would have said something like uh so uh
1:15:45
yeah how about that Jim what do you what do you say I wonder if he still is given the light of this second Administration
1:15:52
stuff but uh I mean he I remember when the pandemic hit he was like repeating
1:15:58
all the stuff Trump was saying and people shut him down quickly he's like no Jim that is not how that works he
1:16:05
goes apparently I was wrong so well at least he can admit that that's that's a big thing yeah yeah I mean he's I think
1:16:12
he's just trying to like keep himself from getting himself into like uh how
1:16:17
they put it like a social social cash where he loses the social uh you know oh
1:16:24
yeah his a he wanted to keep his social capital capital that's the word I'm looking for and uh but no he seemed like
1:16:29
a nice enough dude he was really cool I mean I spent a lot of money getting an autograph and stuff so I'm glad he was
1:16:35
nice but uh uh I met him that day and I also met uh
1:16:43
uh damn it I just forgot his name the guy who does the voice of Goofy and I can't remember his name right now oh
1:16:50
yeah I can't pull those yeah uh let me either way he's he's been Goofy for like the last 35 years super nice dude
1:16:59
um y yeah um but yeah I'm I'm actually not surprised that Darkwing Duck is
1:17:05
coming back cuz uh Darkwing Duck did make uh two or three appearances on the
1:17:11
Revival of DuckTales so aha okay that's where that
1:17:16
momentum comes from if you haven't seen that um it's on Disney plus I liked it
1:17:22
uh David tenet was was Scrooge mcdu on that you know which is cool because he's an actual
1:17:28
Scotsman and uh uh the original voice who did uh Scrooge McDuck was a dude
1:17:34
from uh um I'm drawing a blank on his name but he was Wilbur on uh uh Mr
1:17:43
Ed oh okay yeah now that was a show that was one of the first TV shows I ever
1:17:49
watched it was it was on on Nickelodeon it was on Nickelodeon in the 80s and I that was how I saw it I didn't know Mr
1:17:57
Ed even existed before Nickelodeon and Nickelodeon introduced me to so many
1:18:02
great shows they're all like it's true yeah I was incredibly lucky to have that early 90s and late 80s Nickelodeon yeah
1:18:10
oh my gods of my geek them so many great shows um a lot of the stuff I have a lot
1:18:16
of the videos I have on my computer for like watching when I'm bored are like cartoons and TV shows from the 80s and
1:18:23
90s from codeon and I have a playlist of just like Saturday called Saturday
1:18:28
morning where it plays all that stuff I hit random and just plays a random episode that's sitting on my computer
1:18:34
and uh that was one of the shows they had on there too so
1:18:40
yeah it's a a great way to keep your childhood constructed in a box and access it when you need to yeah I saw a
1:18:47
meme the other day and I think I posted it where is uh I like I think I figured out why I have
1:18:55
I as an adult I still like uh TV shows and things from my childhood is because
1:19:01
that was the last time I was really legitimately happy I was like that kind of hit a
1:19:07
little little hard but yeah it's very true I mean I I I'm look I watch these
1:19:13
things and go I remember watching this as a kid and how much I liked it then and today I still like watching those
1:19:19
things that they a lot of them have aged very well very few shows from my
1:19:25
childhood have not aged well so
1:19:30
yeah well that that wraps up what's Geek this week um do we have anything else we
1:19:36
want to touch on um do we have I I know we talked offline about this do you want
1:19:42
to talk about potential guests coming up well we uh we we will be having
1:19:48
guests in the future um I don't know how soon maybe maybe next week we'll see about that okay um but uh we'll we'll
1:19:56
keep that we'll keep that under wraps for now we definitely have one guest who's interested and then uh probably
1:20:01
going to see if we can start getting uh I I coexist in a world of standup comedy so I have lots of access to Comics that
1:20:08
would probably love to come on here and vent about politics the way we do so you can look forward to that for sure yeah
1:20:15
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