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All right. Well, we're live streaming and uh just making sure we got everything set up here.

I don't know if we got anybody watching just yet. I haven't looked.

How's it going, Doug?

Can you hear me? I can't hear you for Oh, hold up. I

know. I It's the I turned the volume down on the computer. There we go. Now I

should be able to hear you. I can hear stuff in your in your room.

Okay, you hear me now? Yeah. Okay, there we go. So, hi everybody. Hey Todd. Um, I'm doing okay. Uh, it's you

interesting July 4th. What? Fourth weekend. Are we live and

streaming now? We are live and streaming now. I haven't hit record, but we're live and streaming.

Okay. Um, are we still So, we're just kind of pre-show. Yeah, this is pre-show. I haven't hit

record, so we haven't started. But we are streaming and we are on the on the

interwebs on YouTubes and over on on uh Twitch as well.

Where's the button I'm looking for? There it is. Ah, hey, look. There we are.

There we go. Right. So, I'll get the music ready. Hit

the record button.

Oh, right.

Hey, Doug. What do you want to do tonight? Same thing we do every week, Todd. Try to record a podcast.

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Hey everybody, thanks for tuning in to ADHDP with Doug and Todd. I'm Doug.

That's Todd. How you doing, Todd? I'm doing good. Doing good. Just been uh just been dinking on on the computer,

chatting up with people on Messenger and and earlier I was playing around on Suno, so I made a bunch of new songs.

Oh, nice. Um did you do anything for the fourth or were you just or were you in mourning

like a bunch of the rest of us? I was um I was watching Indiana Jones movies.

Okay, that's not a bad way to spend the time. Um because I wanted to see somebody kicking Nazi ass. So, you know, that's

why I was watching it. There you go. I like it. And uh we uh we had some thoughts on doing we

had some different options on Fourth of July stuff, but we ended up just kind of staying home doing a low-key thing. in

it. Seemed like our neighbors all kind of had a similar idea because it was just a it ended up being kind of a a

little uh neighborhood fireworks show which was kind of fun. We we had the we had the artillery

happening here in in my neighborhood. So, uh yeah, that was that was exciting

for the animals, I'm sure. Yeah, our uh we definitely gave extra

treats to our cats and uh treated them to a new uh we got a new cat toy uh cat

uh what do you want to call it? Like a uh that's a a tent tunnel system. Oh, okay.

So, it's indooroutdoor. So, uh over the weekend we we have a little above ground pool set up. So, we

uh splashing around in the pool and then we have uh our cats are indoor cats. So,

we we uh we put one end of it inside the house and then like kind of closed the

window up around it. Yeah. And then uh stuck out the tunnels and the other play areas into the yard and

so the cats could come out and hang out in the backyard with us. It was kind of fun. Nice.

Yeah. No. Uh yeah, it was it was lots of artillery going off and a few like

sparklers type things and that

Oh, I'm getting messages from people. I'm a closed messenger on my computer. Oh, not from viewers, just from random.

No, just like I I sent links out to people. Hey, I'm going live. And they're like, oh, I'll check it out here in a

little bit, you know. All right, cool. Fair enough. Uh do you have the phone number up? Just curious.

I do. Hold on. Uh

the phone this isn't, you know, we're not we're not doing a live caller focused show like we did last week, but we would

absolutely take any calls if somebody wants to call us. I actually and I got it working, so it actually will ring through. Now, I

didn't I didn't have it enabled to call in uh to my phone. It was uh it wasn't

it wasn't on do not sure, but it wasn't it wasn't set to actually allow calls to come in. So, I got that. I see. But the phone

number if people want to give a call call in or send a text you can uh 4252437571.

There you go. So yeah, we'll uh we're actually going to have some topics this week. Uh but it's going to still be more

of a loose a loosey goosey format. Um but uh

there has been some issu there's been some some big issues in the news recently. I don't know if you've heard if you paid attention, Todd,

a little bit. I try. I I'm I'm trying, but at the same time, I'm like,

if you if you had to pick a top political story this week, what would you think of this? I mean, you know, the whole like uh the

bill uh whatever passing through to the president for getting rid of uh uh uh

Medicare and Medicaid. So, yeah. So, um, so what that got me, so if

if anybody's listening to this podcast, I imagine they're somewhat up, um, if

you're listening for the political part of this podcast anyways, you're probably up on what's going on with Trump's bill.

Um, you know, it's been passed. It's going to go into effect. It it has huge cuts to Medicaid. It uh basically means

the end of student lunch and student uh a lot of student activities in rural

areas that didn't already have good strong um school district.

Yeah, it's it's I'm you know my kids get my kids are both special needs classes

and they get free breakfast and free lunch. Um they've had that for the last couple years. Um, I don't know if

because we're in Washington state thankfully, you know, maybe that's still going to survive based on state based on state programs,

but you know, we always have the people on the right trying to fight new taxes on our side. So, who knows if we're

going to be able to fund that kind of stuff going forward. Um, you know, the only the only, you know, hope right now

is that things aren't going to go to effect right away. Most of the stuff is set to most of the cuts are set to hit

uh you know after the midterms start hitting in 2020 in late 26 and 27. Um

so maybe by the time we reverse if we can reverse the Congress in 2026 then

maybe we have a chance to do something about this before right

the worst effects go into place. So, the the best thing to do right now is to

find out who's running for primary in your local elections. Who are you going

to vote for? Uh, which side are you going to vote in the primary on? Uh, you

may find in your area you want to register as a Republican to champion a certain Republican that is a non-MAGA,

non-Trump type of Republican. if if you live in a place where Republicans are going to win,

you know, there's there's if there's anybody in a primary, you know,

somebody's probably going to try and stand out by being non-Trump. Um, and this is again, this is for people that

live in a red district where the Democrat's not going to win anyways. If the Democrat, if you live in a blue

district, go in and go find your most progressive candidate and support them, like what we saw with with Mum Donnie in

New York. Yeah. um go, you know, I know we have in Michigan there's a very

progressive Senate candidate running in the primary uh hoping to upset the incumbent and or maybe even running for

an open seat actually after retirement. Um he's actually running for an open seat, so he stands a decent chance. Um

other than he's, you know, the progressive candidate and gets labeled a socialist and all that. No. Yeah, of course.

Yeah. Um but that's, you know, I'm talking here. This is kind of leading into the subject that I wanted to talk

about is everything I think about when it comes to this bill because the other thing that this bill does is it funds

ICE to insane degrees. Uh if if I'm if I'm thinking of it offhand, it's their

budget was like 17 billion and it's going up to like 68 billion or something like that. Some insane number either way. And it's

like, why? How how are they going to spend that money if in in in immigration

and customs enforcement if it's not to build camps and go mass incarcerate

people? Yeah. Like what else would they be spending that money for?

And so we are literally like we we already have the first we already have the first thoughts of a of a

concentration camp in America where we have the the alligator Alcatraz. Did you hear about this?

Yeah, I've heard it called al Alligator Alawitch as well.

Yes. Yes. That's what I think I've seen that on uh Blue Sky and Substack.

By the way, since I've been perusing Substack more often, I've found that it's just Twitter. Like, I didn't

realize it was just Twitter with the option to like do your own long blog post on the side. Okay.

Like the if you just do the Substack stream, it's just classic Twitter. Okay. Which, you know, or Blue Sky.

Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I'll uh I got a story here.

Let's see which what pick your fancy here. Do you want the Guardian from Europe or England? Uh CBS News? Do you

want Scripts News? Do you want the Feminist Majority Foundation? Or do you want something called Wes?

Uh it's all the same story. Yeah. So, let's do it.

Pick one. Just pick. Which one do you like best? It don't matter to me. All right. We're going Feminist Majority

Foundation. Okay. So alligator Alcatraz raises legal and

environmental concerns in a new development in the current administration's federal immigration

immigration enforcement. A new detention facility has been constructed in Florida's swampy everglades nicknamed

Alligator Alcatraz by Florida Attorney General James Ummeer. The facility has

been established at a decommissioned airport spanning 39 square miles of the

Florida Everglades. Detainees will be surveyed by more than 200 security cameras and 400 personnel while enclosed

with 28,000 plus feet of barbed wire. Sounds like a Call of Duty map. Uh it is

estimated that the detention center will hold a capacity of 5,000 beds by early

July and will cost 450 million annually.

Like this is what they're spending money on. Do you understand what they could do like with for $450 million?

They could keep Medicare. Yeah. They could keep Medicaid. They could they could fund everyone's lunch.

So, they've been selling merchandise reference referencing alligator Alcatraz. Yeah. On websites and commercial platforms.

Yeah. It's just all God, it's all got to be a marketing thing. This really is idiotic.

Just one giant grip. Uh grip. It's got what plants crave. Yeah. Oh god. Yes. And of course, you

know, Gatorade is from Florida. So Oh, yeah. Naturally, we called it Gatorade. And then of course, uh

indigenous groups have expressed concerns since alligator Alcatraz has been built on sacred land. You know, if

they can't get this wrong enough, they get it wrong in every direction, right? Uh Talbert Cypress, chairman of

the Muscoi Business Council, told ABC News that the facility is surrounded by the Big Cypress, where his tribe has

lived for centuries. Not only that, but some tribal villages are located a mere 900 ft from the facility's entrance. He

pointed to a lack of environmental studies about the detention cent's impact on the local ecosystem, as well

as fearing for traditional native camp safety as traffic lights increase through the area. Yeah, that's another

thing is this project got the treatment of like what you would do for like a necessary new dam or something to power

an entire region where they're just like we're going to we're going to wave away the environmental impact study so that

because this is an emergency situation and and this just feeds into

what what I was what I was getting at for this

this bill. All it makes me think about is when you have a capitalist society, a

capitalist society that's successful and generates wealth, you are either going to have to have a welfare state or a

police state. Like you have to have no opt the only other third option is just be fine with rebellion, right? like just

just let just let people openly rebel where they choose to and and don't fight

it and hope it hope it doesn't catch fire and turn the whole place over. Um, you know, that's

but that's basically it. If you're going to allow wealth disparity to happen, um, if you're going to stratify your

society, you either need to be a police state or a welfare state. And we have had a welfare state in America since the

New Deal. uh it created the middle class as we've known it. Um

and it mostly did that through a high progressive income tax that lasted through uh you know up to into Nixon and

then was kind of you know it was cut down by Kennedy still kept it at like 73%. Um and actually increased revenue

because it brought a bunch of money back into the system that was trying to avoid it. Um, got you.

But then it kept going all the way down to like where it's at like 32 or 28 now.

And and this gets into the whole Thomas [ __ ] uh thing that I've talked about in

past episodes where again if you're if you're newer to the podcast, if this is the first episode you're listening to, if this is the if you're listening to us

live and this is the first time you've heard of us, uh Thomas [ __ ] Pik Ty, uh

he's a French economist. He wrote the book capital in the 20th century or capital in the 21st century um but it's

mostly about the 20th century and it demonstrates how there was a period in

American history or in western economies um in the because he also included

France uh in this um but there was a period of time where upward mobility was

in fact a reasonable expectation of hard work um and in America

and that was the time when the tax rates were the highest. Um, and as tax rates

have come down, uh, income gaps have have risen and most people are not

moving upward. There's no longer as much, if any, upward mobility. It's it's

more like a lottery ticket if you do move upward. Um, most people are just an

echo of their parents' success right now. Um, or a lack thereof. Um,

so what we end up with is we either need more welfare like a Bernie a Bernie uh

style democratic socialism or like Zoran Mumdani in New York.

We need that kind of stuff. or we have to be a police state where we're just going to say we're fine with having a

poor underclass and we're just going to police them so that they they can't rob us or threaten us or make us feel

uncomfortable and we'll just we'll just hammer them down and and deport those that we can. And this is this could

because this is definitely a move towards the police state. This is cutting welfare programs while

increasing the ICE which is serving as the administration's gestapo like just

basically secret police that are disappearing people that are undesirable. So,

right. And and you know their their mandate is immigration and customs enforcement,

right? But what happens if they've once they've deported everybody they can and

they need a new scapegoat? Like are they just going to become is is everyone's citizenship going to be questioned at

that point? Like is it going to be who can who goes back the furthest, who did a crime, whose parents did a crime, who

missed a form, right? It's going to be like those uh old

German movies where people are having to show papers for traveling and that kind

of [ __ ] Already got to. Yep. already got to.

I mean, even now for like flying in a plane, you got to get a real ID or a passport.

And that was this was a choice we had after 911 as well is, you know, do we

cooperate with the world or do we become the world police? And obviously, as team America would lead you to believe, we

decided we were going to be the world's police. Yeah. Because we know what's best for you.

Well, we didn't want to give up what we would have to give up to cooperate, right?

We'll just police it. We'll just police it, which is, you know, that's what it is on the on the local scale, too, is is

people that own everything don't want to give up ownership. I saw in order yesterday that said,

so let me get this straight. Uh we have a felon uh that has an immigrant uh partner

telling us that he wants to get rid of felons and immigrants.

That doesn't make any sense. Yeah, it's you know it's

he just does it because he taps into the the dark underbelly of American popular

himself. He's He's I mean he's projecting everything he says that that the left is doing. He's doing. He's

absolutely doing these things. Oh, yeah. Every every accusation from Trump is a confession. 100%.

Yeah. And then you heard now this week that Pam Bondi, the attorney general, she's saying, "Oh, there is no Epstein list."

Oh, is that the newest? It doesn't exist now even though for months now.

Oh man. Yeah. What what is the uh

so we'll we'll we'll go to CNN here for Pam Bondi's

botched handling of the Epstein files. So the Trump administration's promises

to release Oh, this is I think I think what they meant is promise. Uh, the Trump administration's promise to

release extensive and significant new information related to disgraced financeier Jeffrey Epstein appear to be

petering out, depriving conspiracy-minded MAGA supporters of the smoking guns they have long sought as

they've publicly tried to influence figures to Epstein's crimes. So, and to the extent those MAGA supporters are

disappointed, the Trump administration has itself to blame, that especially applies to Attorney General Bam Pam

Bondi, or who I was about to call Bam Bondi.

Does is that like a mashup of Pam Bondi and Bam Marggera? Maybe. Maybe. They Bam's looking a lot

better these days, though. I know. He's looking a lot like his uncle. He I was going to say he looks like his

dad. He's almost He almost looks like if his dad could skateboard if you've seen the recent the recent Oh, I have. Yeah, he

he actually No, I think you're right. I think he looks more like his dad than his uncle. But either way, I was He's gotten a He's gotten a lot thicker since

I've seen him last. Oh, yeah. Well, I have, too. Uh well,

same. Yeah. Uh the Justice Department posted a memo Monday that says there is no evidence

Epstein was murdered or that he kept anything amounting to a much anticipated

client list. The department does not plan to release any new documents on the matter, an official told CNN.

So they're gaslighting us now is what they're doing. Yeah, there was never What do you mean? There was never a client list. Why would

you have thought that? Why? And What I meant by the client list

was it was a receipt from uh from Raid. It looked really really big. Although it

only had five items on it. It was all coupons on new lists. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. No. Why would you think he killed himself? Most people beat themselves up before they hang. You know, he you know that the soap that

they have at the prisons are notoriously slippery. So it it shot out of his hand and then hit him in the leg and fell

over and he smacked his head on a toilet seat 10 feet away from the shower.

Wasn't he found actually to have hugged himself though? I don't even know how he died. I just know that he died in prison and everyone

was like he didn't kill himself. I was like, you know what? He you know if I

don't I'm not surprised if he was killed because he was he was a pedophile and and as I've been told by people that

I've known to gone to have gone to jail or prison, they do not like pedophiles in prison.

So those guys usually slip and fall in a shower. Yeah. And Miami Herald's Julie

K. Brown, one of the best sourced reporters on the Epstein case, reported earlier this year, "Those who have

worked with the FBI on the case for decades say there is no evidence Epstein kept a ledger of list or list of clients

who were involved with his se sex trafficking operation. Still, the memo undercuts theories that

continued to circulate, including that there was proof that influence influential figures were involved in ex

Epstein's exploitation of underage girls. At their most pitched, these theories held that Epstein was able to

blackmail those influential figures who appeared on a purported client list. They also undercut Bondie's personal

rhetoric. The new memo's key findings are very different from how Bondie built them. Farright activist Laura Loomer,

who has demonstrated influence with the Trump administration and has frequently criticized Bondie over her handling of the Epstein investigation, called for

Trump to fire his attorney general. If she doesn't get fired over this Epstein memo, people are going to be so

blackpilled," Loomer wrote on X, using a term that some of the far-right used to signify a belief that the system is

beyond repair. Oh yeah, that's right. Red pill is like becoming a aware of what's going on and

blackpilled is for those who no longer be want to be redpilled but also don't

want to be bluepilled. Yeah, I was going to say where's the blue pill fit in with this? Well, the blue pill is clearly, you know, well,

where we are because we're we're, you know, not Republicans or not MAGA, so

we're the we're the woke ones. We're in the blissful ignorance. Yeah, we're we're woke, so therefore

blissfully ignorant, which is weird because woke should be the red pill, right? You would think. Yeah,

you would think. So, uh, apparently the idea that Epstein

kept a client list that potentially implicated influential figures has become an article of faith in some

circles. Key Republican lawmakers have treated its existence as an established fact and pushed for its release. And a

big reason was Bondi herself. During a February 21st interview on Fox News, host John Roberts asked whether DOJ

would release a list of clients. Will that really happen? Roberts asked. Uh Bondi responded, "It's sitting on my

desk right now to review." Yes, that's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. Yeah.

So, so there you go. Like they were pretending it was there. They were certainly acting like it was there. I

think they were playing their constituents for fools like they do on everything else. Yeah. Um,

but to any extent that a that a Epstein list has been assembled from contacts

and things like that, um, you know, Trump's on it and that's why this is all

happening. Yeah. I mean, even if Trump wasn't like the most mentioned name on it, they'd be

figuring out a way like if Trump was just barely referenced, they'd figure out a way to scrub him. Yeah. and and release some sort of

composite of like, okay, we have these based on people in his phone, people he's messages with, people he's

We've all seen the video of those two hanging out. And and they the way they were acting in that video looked like

there were a couple teenage boys like checking out girls. They were like at the mall like, "Check

that one out. That one's hot. I like her. She's got a nice butt." That kind of Oh, yeah. No, it's it's two sleeves

bags. If you ever seen two sleeves bags hanging out together, two sleeves bags on the sleeves.

Oh yeah. So So um

someone someone famous recently in like the last few days passed away and I'm trying to remember who the hell it was.

My brain is just not wanting to brain today.

you know, I've been doing so much mourning for the country that I I you know, I know who you're talking I I know

I saw someone too. Um yeah, I mean, I've seen a few people obviously, you know,

but it's like hold on. I I know I have it somewhere. I have a website that has

all that [ __ ]

At least I did. Where is it?

Either way, uh um I'm g still look for it. I I gotta find it now because now

that I mentioned it, I'm [ __ ] not seeing the [ __ ] thing. Uh

meanwhile, the uh markets are down again uh because Trump announces new 40%

tariffs on a growing number of countries.

Oh, of course. Right. So, what do we have now?

President Donald President Donald Trump still comes out of your mouth. It's just all wrong. Uh, cranked up the pressure

Monday on America's trading partners, firing off letters to heads of several countries, informing them of their new

tariff rate. But at the same time, Trump took some of the edge off by signing an executive action Monday to extend the

date for all reciprocal tariffs with the exception of China to August 1st. So the

the 90 days was up and now that's pushed back to August 1st. So we extended it another 30 days basically. Okay. Uh

what the hell? You know, I really absolutely [ __ ] hate the websites that like will like

hide [ __ ] because you have a popup blocker. We're not going to let you see our [ __ ] [ __ ] you. I don't need to look

at your website anyhow. Sorry. Yeah, those websites are shady anyways.

Uh, let's see. I just [ __ ] had it. Where'd it go?

All right. Well, Google Google's telling me it's Julian McMahon, the guy from Niptuck and the Fantastic 4.

Oh, he did. He did pass away. Yeah, that's that's one person who did. Yeah. Or as as people I used to know call it,

Fantic because of how the logo looked.

So that's unfortunate. I thought of the of that entire movie, I thought he was probably the best part of that of that

movie's whole like Dr. Doom thing he had.

And then in the sign of of what happens with when you do go towards police state and

you defund the welfare state in order to fund the police state, you get

what? You get, you know, poor rescue responses. You get poor warnings. You know, we need to fund the National

Weather Service. Yeah. There there's there's a trending sound on Tik Tok right now that says,

"So, let me get this straight. You're angry at the uh at the service that was

defunded by the government to warn people about these types of things.

I'm paraphrasing it, but uh but yeah, and they and then you know because you know we're talking about the

Texas flood and unfortunately you know there's more than a hundred dead because they weren't properly warned." And from

what I'm reading, it's not just that, you know, they they, you know, they undercut they they

defunded Noah and the National Weather Service and they cut a whole bunch of staff. Um they're still able to make

their weather predictions. Uh not as many, not as accurately. They don't put as many weather balloons up in the air

anymore. Um because a lot of their various remote stations don't have the

funds to do the weather balloons as often as they did before, right? Um but but they were still

getting predictions. The problem is they then hand those predictions off to who? They've they've cut people up and down

the chain at that nobody took these forecasts and disseminated them to the

town. uh this town in Texas, which you know, living off the Texas ethic of

pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps, they didn't, you know, they didn't want to pay taxes and they didn't

pay the taxes for the warning system that would have told them this flood was

coming and to evacuate the area. Yeah. Like that's the thing is it's like

taxes taxes are almost always, you know, except in the sense of when they fund

war, taxes are always going to something useful. Like you can argue over how

useful, but taxes are always going to something useful. And the idea that we should save money in our budget by

selling off necessary warnings and programs is absurd. It'd be like if you

needed to make your mortgage and you decided you're going to sell off your oven and your furnace of your house to

make mortgage for that month. It's like, okay, you made mortgage for this month. Maybe it pays three months of mortgage,

but then what do you do, right? You don't have anything else big to sell off and you still got to find a way to

eat and heat yourself. So, so that's what we're doing when we cut

Medicaid, when we cut the Noah, when we cut the National Weather Service, when we cut all these programs, when we cut

school lunches, when we cut school funding, what we're doing is we're we're selling off our oven. We're selling off

our refrigerator. We're selling off our furniture. We're selling off parts of our house to pay a mortgage that we need

to we're going to need those. We're just going to need to buy those things back to begin with. Yeah. like or suffer the consequences of

not having them, which in the case of the actual economy means people die.

And at first we did it with, you know, first Doge did it with with uh US aid

and we now know that that's going to kill between 15 and 40 million people. I

forget what the I the number might have been like 40 million people with 15 being children. Um, it's an article I

read during the week, but it was it was I want to say the

percentage was more of children was more than that. So maybe it wasn't maybe Yeah, maybe the 40

is the wrong number, but it's just that's what we do know. It's it's it's a line from a weaker than song

where the mayor's out killing kids to keep taxes down. Like that's what we're doing. We're just saying, you know, we'd rather be free and tax we'd rather be

taxfree than have happy people, right? And that's that's where we're

moving towards the police state and away from the welfare state.

You know, when we move towards a welfare state, you end up like, you know, like a Finland or a Denmark. um you end up with

happy people and you don't have to spend as much money on on policing your

neighborhoods because everybody's happy and nobody feels the need to risk crime

when they're happy and they at least have their basic needs met, right? Oh [ __ ] another person has

passed from my childhood. Uh the actor who played Cletus Hog on the Dukes of

Hazard passed away. Oh, Rick Hurst.

Yeah, that was a show that was before my time and I never got back to. Oh man. I mean, it's you can't it's not

streaming anywhere right now, but you can you could probably buy an episode or two or find clips of it on YouTube. He

was actually one of the better characters on the show. That's a bummer.

So, do we have anybody watching? Uh, you know what? Let me take a look.

I haven't been watching been watching. Uh we have one over on Twitch, but

that's probably a bot um because of the reream or the stream elements, one of

the two. I don't I'm not seeing anything over on YouTube right now.

Fair enough. People might jump in here in a little bit though because uh my friend Shannon said she was she was still out and

about, but when she gets home, she'll she'll she'll hop on and watch

So, and any mis calls or anything? I haven't had anything happen on my

phone. I don't have it I don't have it muted or anything. So, you'll hear it rings when

it when it when it starts going. But, uh uh

but it just everything to say in the news that happened this in this last week, which is just really in a time of

a lot of bad news very often. This was a particularly bad week of news with the

passage of the bill and then the Texas floods, right? Um it's just just a one of the saddest,

you know, the saddest the saddest Fourth of July since the last Trump Fourth of July.

Yeah. Uh at least, you know, maybe even before that because at least the last Trump Fourth of July we thought was the last

Trump Fourth of July. We thought there wasn't going to be another one with him.

But uh but it just you gotta you gotta vote, you gotta turn out, you gotta you gotta

go progressive, you got to take care of you got to go towards the welfare state. Even if that has a bad taste in your

mouth, it's part of the it's part of the preamble of our constitution. Like you know, we're not just supposed

to provide for the common defense. We're supposed to um ensure the general welfare or promote the general welfare.

And that's that's the government's role. promote the general welfare. Like that's

it's that's more couldn't be more simple than that. And the fact that the preamble to the Constitution doesn't

ever it doesn't ever become pertinent to any discussions. Like we

never interpret anything like well what would the preamble of the Constitution what would the whole point of the

Constitution lead you to believe this means? And we don't ever evaluate it from that perspective. We always

evaluate it from some from some word analysis of like well what does this comma mean? What is this what does this

preface mean? What is what is the word what does the meaning of the word is?

Um you know sometimes things are what you see. Sometimes there's no hidden

meaning. Yeah. Well it's like the preamble tells you how you're supposed to interpret it. How

you're supposed to interpret the constitution. Yeah.

and promoting the general welfare is in there. Policing the state is not.

In fact, police police didn't even exist in most places until sometime after the

Civil War. Yeah. Because uh it wasn't the original the original um

words I'm looking for are escaping me. Uh the original purpose of uh of a

police of a police force was uh to maintain the slaves and and make sure

they don't take off or or uh leave. I don't I don't even know. I think they had private bounties that did that and

private groups like I think the original I'm thinking that that's that's what that became though that those groups

like be that could be because I I was almost thinking more in the north of like police arising like in New York because

they protected businesses downtown from Yeah. from

anarchists and things like that. Um,

like that's kind of my in in my history of police, they basically rose to as

property defenders, which is really still what they do today, which is why we we have such a clash between police

and protesters and things like that because the police is really their ultimate duty is to protect property and

that clashes with that clashes with human rights in a lot of cases.

But, you know, I mentioned earlier that we've had a we've had a welfare state

since since the New Deal. Um, yeah.

And that's been eroded away through the last few decades, you know, especially under Reagan and and in the

subsequent decades, we've just further further exacerbated the issue which has, you know, resulted in the biggest

inequality in American history now, right? Um, but if we were to go back

towards a welfare state, we were going to go back towards a New Deal. Um, one

of the things that came from the New Deal era that was never implemented was the second bill of rights. Have you ever

heard of this? The second bill of rights. No, I have not. Right. Yeah. Right. Like that's that's what I said when I The second bill of

rights. Is that like second breakfast? Yeah. Just you're already kind of full,

but it's still delicious. Um, no. It's it's uh so the second bill of

rights or the bill of economic rights was proposed by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State

of the Union address on Tuesday, January 11th, 1944.

So, not long before he passed away. Okay. In his address, Roosevelt suggested that

the nation had come to recognize and should now implement a second bill of rights. Roosevelt argued that the

political rights guaranteed by the constitution and the bill of rights had proved inadequate to assure us equality

in the pursuit of happiness. His remedy was to declare an economic bill of rights to guarantee these specific

rights. So these are the rights that it specifically enunciated um employment.

So the right to work but that should be differentiated from what's now known as right to work

right to work. Right. But the but employment, a guarantee of employment, a guarantee of

an adequate income for food, shelter, and recreation. So I think that jives with our idea of

of a guaranteed income and basic income, right? Farmers rights to a fair income. Now,

that's a bit it's too bad that they didn't get that because they've

subsequently been bought out by global national chains.

So, you know, there's really is no more farmer like we had in the 1940s. You

know, farmers are all corporations for the most part now. Um, but on further on

the list, freedom from unfair competition and monopolies. It's unfortunate that we don't have an amendment addressing that specifically.

Decent housing, adequate medical care, social security, and education. So,

those are all supposed to be guaranteed items under the second bill of rights. Now, as you may have guessed, we never

got the second bill of rights. Uh,

but but that may mostly be due to to Roosevelt having passed away. It's hard

to really say. U but after Roosevelt's death in 45, President Truman administration had within a few years

within a few years compromised the New Deal. FDR's third-term vice president, Henry Wallace, launched a presidential

bid in 48 with a new party. The progressive platform, the progressive party platform promoted the opposition

party's abandoned economic bill of rights. So, we did have an entire uh new

party form to promote this economic bill of rights. And and that's to me is one

of the saddest uh parts of history is that the progressive party became, you

know, a third an irrelevant third party rather than the main arm of the

Democratic party, you know, following following FDR. It would have been nice,

you know, if we had kept up the more progressive tradition. Yeah. But but after all after, you know,

four elections, you know, four cycles plus plus Truman, so really five um of

Democratic rule, it was kind of time for the pendulum to swing the other way. So

once it went into, you know, Eisenhower's hands, he still did a lot of good progressive

work, um, to be honest, but it was from a Republican

businessoriented perspective. Yeah. And it and it sort of it left the

conversation of progressivism behind, which, you know, we were doing well through the 50s, so I I get it, but

It really progressivisism really didn't come back until the social until the civil rights movement.

Yeah. Oh, that makes sense. But this I do I did like when I discovered the second bill of rights

that how much how well it aligned with our stated goals for this podcast, you know,

right? I mean, which I of course have memorized and

looking up on my phone. I mean, it happens, you know. I I I have

uh especially when it's hot. I I get I get a lot of brain fog,

which is which is worse, I think, than just like having your train of thoughts derailed,

right? But we had things in there like everyone deserves food, shelter, and healthcare, right? Boom.

Uh personal responsibility often means working together.

Lack of trust in government is the problem with elections, not the role of government. Everyone should pay the same taxes on

the same dollars. The percentage increasing as the dollars increase. Um, but yeah, it's I mean we we kind of

combined all this into one item, but and the right to a good education is, you know, maybe that's not something we

specifically state in our in in ours, which we definitely should because that

is absolutely important to being able to conduct. everybody went to college, then nobody would be a Republican,

right? And if and it's not that everybody needs to go to college, but college, there

should be a free college option, you know, that's not a quality free college

in every state or, you know, multiple in every state to to get at least whatever the minimum

like college um certificate is. Well, yeah. Well, whether it's a AA or a

B or you know or a BA um associates or a bachelor's, um

it's just if you are a good enough student or you have the intellectual curiosity to pursue higher education,

there should be a free option for you that's of quality. We got a guaranteed

we have a comment on YouTube from Smoke Elijah to review Tech USA's. I don't know what

that means, but that's what he said. That sounds like a a bot or a

It's probably It's probably a bot. Yeah, I don't know. Fair enough. Well, thanks for the

interaction. We appreciate it. That get that gets, you know, that that tweaks the algorithm a little bit,

right? Yeah. Every little bit helps, right?

Let's try something real quick. Joe Rogan is a little person. He is tiny. He

is super short. He is not as big as he looks on camera.

Joe Rogan as in [ __ ] I think you have to look in a mirror and say Joe Rogan three times.

I think saying Joe Rogan two and a half times is what you need to do because that's about how tall he is.

I actually someone someone said that um about a month or so back over on Tik Tok. Like if you want to get some

interactions from bots, you got to say something about Joe Rogan in a negative light and they will come for you.

They have to be listening though. You need to write it. Well, I mean, yeah. Put it in the show description. There you go. I'll put it in the chat.

Joe Rogan is shorter than Tom Cruz. Is that true?

Uh, no. No. Tom Cruz is like almost uh he's I think his online thing says he's

like 5'6, but he's like closer to five, maybe 48. He's tiny.

48 would be ridiculously small though.

Yeah. Now, this is something I didn't know just kind of looking in some in in

through the the Wikipedia on the Bill of Rights. Uh, so Maryanne Williamson, she

ran for president in 2024. Okay. Um, she spoke in a way that like really

spoke to my progressive heart, but everything about her just kind of felt

like a trick. I don't know. It felt like, you know, it it didn't feel right. But in her 2024 presidential primary

campaign, uh, she featured a 21st century economic bill of rights in her platform, which again just chose just

goes to show that she was really she had me in particular really dialed in with her rhetoric in her platform. But there

was just something about her that I just didn't it felt it felt almost like evil. Like she did it and it like she was just

saying this to get you to come over like like you know taunting me with camp. We got another comment asking what it is

we talk about on here. So, what do you want to tell them, Doug? What? Well, we t we talk about politics and

pop culture. Uh, first half of the show is usually mostly political news, latest news of the week, and then the back half

of the show is is usually pop culture, what's what's geek this week, and some weird some weird don't mind if I say a

bad word, but some weird [ __ ] Yeah. Yeah. Now, this uh that's that question is

from Take Notes 420. So Oh, yeah. And and please feel free to

light up and dab up if you if you are so inclined. Yes, go for it.

Let us know what you're dabbing on or smoking on. Yep.

So, uh, I did want to touch on this story that,

uh, this is hanging over from last week or something you posted, Todd, but is Donald Trump legalizing driving

without a license? Yeah, I I posted that um I think a day or two after we

recorded last. I I want I just want to put it in there because I didn't want to forget it. Yeah. So, it's interesting. Uh several

videos have gone viral on TikTok making false claims that President Donald Trump plans to abolish driver's license

requirements in 2026. Yeah, it's absolute [ __ ]

So, numerous social media. Oh, I just spilled Oh, it was only It was an empty can that was apparently still had some

drops in it. I just knocked it over on my own legs. It's okay.

Excuse me while I wipe this up. Excuse me while I whip this up.

Worked for Blazing Saddles. So, this month, numerous social media

users on TikTok have have suggested that beginning in January 2026, people will

not need a driver's license to operate a motor vehicle. Uh, the videos, which have been viewed and shared thousands of

times, feature creators either promoting the claim directly or reacting to it with disbelief and concern.

Yeah, we are on we are the latter half on that one. We don't believe it. We think it's absolute horshit.

Yeah. One video which has been shared over 200,000 times was posted by user

Mela Ashara. Excuse me. Enjoy that one. Uh she said, "So by January of 2026, you do not need

a driver's license to drive anymore. You can literally get in the car and go." Is this just part of like the Russian

misinformation campaign to bring as much chaos to America as possible? It it it

sounds or China or whoever it it legitimately just sounds like the uh the uh uh the uh sovereign sovereign

people kind of speak. That's the kind of [ __ ] they would talk about. I don't need I'm not I'm not uh I'm not uh how is it?

I'm I'm not uh I'm not driving. I'm traveling. I'm legally allowed to travel

from the Constitution. You cannot stop me from from traveling. Blah blah blah blah blah.

Yeah. And Newsweek goes on to note that even if a president supported ending certain requirements, a change would

require significant state level legislative action or a modification of existing transportation regulations at

the federal level. Yeah. So, no changes being implemented in 2026. That's not going to happen. Yeah.

Each state will enforce its own laws. Just that that's I hate that that's

something we have to keep reiterating in the Trump era is the states will enforce

their own laws. Yeah. We don't have a king. And and we we won't have a king. I don't

I don't think we're going to I I'm I'm I'm confident that our government is

going to do whatever they need to do to get somebody else into office. So,

yeah. Right. Right. The f on. And so without you know goes without saying

Newsweek rated this an F a false. Yeah. Yeah.

So with that Todd um if unless we have any anybody that wants to call in or or

ask a political question uh we can move on to what's geek this week. All right.

What is geek this week? So let me pull that my uh Google doc up here. The first thing I have here is that

no theme song. Oh, yes. Yeah. Thank you for reminding me cuz I'm I'm just not branding today,

man. I live for it, man. I live for this theme. I live for all our themes.

Welcome to What's Chief This Go for the coolest in pop culture tech news. Let's

dive in. All right, so it's rumors have been

floating around the internet the last few days. At least that was the first time I saw anything about it. Rumors of

a reboot for Indiana Jones after after Harrison Ford said, "Yeah,

they're not going to do anymore after I'm done. They're done with this. They're not going to do more." And uh

this article here, let me pull this up is on

uh Walt Disney World News Today or WDWnt.com.

It says, "According to latest rumors, Disney and Lucasfilm are planning to on rebooting the Indiana Jones franchise

sometime in the near future." uh says, "According to new uh new

article from comicbook.com, multiple in internal sources have

reportedly confirmed Disney and Lucasfilm are planning on a reboot of Indiana Jones. Comic Book has pulled

statements from DIS Insider, DIS Insider, uh, which state, "Lucasfilm is letting

the Indiana Jones franchise rest for a bit before they will do a full reboot of

the franchise. The rumor goes on to state, "I would expect the studio to

announce something next year at D23 Expo because even though the last film tanked

in the in the box office, Indiana Jones is still an iconic IP and Disney and

Lucasfilm do not want to waste that." I mean, yeah. I'm I'm surprised it took

them what was it 15 years since the last one they did. And that one was moderately better than this one. And uh

this most recent one. I was shocked when I saw how much time was between like from like the Shia Labou one to the more recent one. I was

like, "Oh, wow. It was like I mean they a whole another generation." Yeah. They they uh I mean honestly they

they could have done at least two or three movies in the time that they in between the last one and the and the

current one. And the way they the way they explained the absence of of Mut was

you know he went uh he and Indiana Jones his dad got into a massive argument and

then Mut decided to enlist and didn't come home. Oh.

So he Wow. That's that's some dark backstory to add to Indie. Yeah. You know, and of course, uh they

basically also um say that Marcus passed away not long after dad. And of course,

I think that was in the that was in the Crystal Skull movie. Never mind. Either way, they uh basically all the

characters that we all loved in the first three movies were all pretty much gone. Um, Marian does make a a brief

appearance in this most recent one, but it was not towards not until the end of

towards the end of the movie. So So you think they're going to have Alden Aaron Reich play Indiana Jones in the

reboot? I mean, you mean the guy who played Solo? I I I don't think so. I, as much

as I liked him in that, I don't think he There's no way they would, right? There's no way. I mean, he's he doesn't have that he he's he he doesn't have

that um I mean, he barely Plus, a reboot's not supposed to be it's

not supposed to be the same character again. It's it's I mean, it's it's it's going to be it's going to be Indiana Jones. Whether or

not Indiana Jones is going to be a 35-year-old white male is really the question because I've seen um some

articles about people like making suggestions who they would like to see as the new Indiana Jones. And a couple

of them uh one was uh the the woman who was in the most recent one as his his uh

god niece or his godaughter. And uh I don't know. I I alter or uh what was it? uh the the

the the the slum slum lord millionaires lady. I don't know. I don't know her name. I

just know that she was in that movie. I honestly have no idea. I have I don't even have a face. Uh okay. Well, she's I think she's uh

British, but she's also part Indian, like like East Indian.

Um so she's one of the people listed. And then of course uh at the top of the

list was uh Kquan who played short Round. Oh, wouldn't that be interesting

if it was now if if if it was going to be same universe. Um not like a a start

over and like have a new actor playing uh Henry Jones Jr. We have just the next

generation which would be key. He's the next gener. He's our age. My age, not ours. My age. He's actually a couple

couple months older than me. But, uh, I found that out today. Um, he, uh, I

think he could he could easily do like the Indiana Jones thing where he, um,

maybe he went back to college from the time that we saw him at in at uh, when

he was like 12 or 13 in in the second movie to Yeah, he could have been an archaeologist. like he could have been training to become

he could have gone to college after like um that interview not interview that that um interaction with Indiana Jones

that you know brain is not brainy today. Uh, so yeah,

he could have gone to college and and become a an archaeologist and all that and just and then been like, uh, hey,

uh, let's, you know, he's like, "No, I'm retired kid. I can't do this anymore." This, but hey, check this out. He could

be Indiana Jones himself could turn into like the Marcus character who was like giving Indiana the the the paperwork or

the stories to go investigate. That's kind of how I'm thinking. Anyhow,

um I would I honestly I'd be cool with that, but I'm I'm also good with like a complete reboot where we get a different

actor entirely to play Indiana Jones. Um yeah,

Henry Jones, which is I'm I'm assuming that's where they're actually going. Yeah, that's that's definitely going to be the way that Disney's going to do it.

Lucasfilm. Um Oh, and here's the list of the actors.

If I would have just kept looking at the [ __ ] dock, I could have told you. Um, so the 10 actors that they think could

replace Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. Number 10 is Chris Pratt because of

course Chris Pratt. Um, and then number nine is Tom Hardy. I could see that. I

could see him uh especially if he does if he doesn't do American accent. If he does a British accent, that'd be even

cooler. Um, we if we made him a Brit, Chris Pine would be a good a good uh

choice, I think, as a as an American uh Indiana Jones if they want wanted to.

Yeah, I could see Chris Pine. Uh, Edris Elba, I could see him doing it.

He gets flooded for like everything like this. He'd be fine at it. He'd be I I I think I think um I think it could

be depending on how they do the backstory of his version of Indiana. It could be really good. Um, if they make

him an American, I don't know. I've not heard him do an American accent. So, I'm I'm sure he can do a great job of it

because he's a he's a decent actor. He's actually a really good actor. Not more. He's more than decent. He's really good.

Um, but he he's one of the people he's one of the top choices that people have for for James Bond,

right? So, um, Scarlett Johansson.

Now, if that would definitely be interesting if if she was like the like the

granddaughter of of Henry Jones Jr., she's like the daughter of Mud, Henry

Jones III. I could see that. I'm going to have to set that way in the future.

I mean, it's it's already the last one was already kind of in the future because it was 15 years after the last

movie. Like, is she older than Shia Labou? Are they about the same age? Well, I mean, they can age her. They can

well they can always say that you know he because he died in the in what was it uh Korean War I think is where he where

he died I think in the it was either Korean or it was uh it was Korea

or Vietnam rather probably Vietnam right so that she could have she could be like

because I think she's in her late 30s early 40s if if that I think she's in her 30s either way

she's basically my age yeah she's a millennial And I'm older than him.

Yeah. But I guess that was set in the past. So yeah, I mean it it could be. I She

didn't have to be She doesn't have to be chronologically younger than he is in real life. She could just be playing the

part of the older child of the now deceased. Yeah. It could even be set in modern

times and just she's the great great grand Yeah. daughter. Great great grand. Or or if they if they were to do like a

reboot entirely, just a whole new story. She is uh uh she is like the the the

granddaughter or the or the daughter or the niece of somebody who was like a you know I don't know somebody in history

and then she she she decided to kind of follow suit. I don't know. Uh the next

one on the list is Scott Eastwood. Apparently he is the son of Clint

Eastwood. I didn't know who he was. I was going to say, isn't that the name that Marty McFly made up when he went to the Old West? No, he he used Clint

Eastwood in the Old West. Clint Eastwood, that's a stupid name. But uh uh but yeah, Scott Eastwood, the son of

Clinton Eastwood, one of the most iconic action heroes in cinematic history.

What was he in? I guess he was in the Fast and Furious movies. Um and Guy Guy Richie's Wraith of Wrath

of Man. Okay, I've seen those movies. I don't remember him in them as anything.

So, um, but yeah, I mean, he he has kind of the the, uh, the, uh, the kind of the

everyman look to him. He looks like he could like pass as like a a former like football star in high school or

something. And then number four is Pedro Pascal

because of course he's the Mandalorian and you know, Reed Richards, so why the [ __ ] not?

And uh okay, this is the woman's I was trying to remember her name, Phoebe Waller

Bridge. She plays the the the godaughter to Indiana Jones in the last movie and

uh she does most of the action stuff. So, um I need to rewatch that movie because

I the last time I watched it is I kept like either nodding off or I was, you

know, fidgeting with something and I kept missing stuff. Um, and number two

on the list is Bradley Cooper. I could see that. I could totally see that.

And then and then number one is uh Kiquan Khan.

Okay. You know, uh yeah, short round. So that and like I said, I think if if if they

were going to do that, it would have to be kind of a a uh continuation of the

same universe in which, you know, Andy put him through college, you know,

probably at the right around the same time as Mut went back to college. So,

and you said uh you said Tom Holland was on that list. No, no, he should. You know what? That's

not a bad idea, though. Tom Holland could easily be like an Indiana Jones kind of guy, right?

Well, he did the Uncharted Yeah. movies, right? So, yeah, I could see that. Same difference.

I could see that before I could see uh Chris Pratt. I'm glad Mark Wahberg wasn't on the list

at least, right? Yeah. I don't really like him either. Um, but yeah, that's that's what that

is. I got to go run and uh grab some ibuprofen. You want to start talking about this next story and I'll be right

back. Yeah, I can I can do that. No problem. So, Stephen Steven Spielberg,

I guess, has done many many movies over the years and and I've seen most of those movies, I think, give or take one

or two that I have missed. But it looks like he um wanted to do one more genre

of film that he hadn't done before. And uh apparently he's never done a uh a

western. I don't know. I I mean I'm not huge into westerns. I think the only western I will admit to liking and like

and will actively rewatch at least at least once a year is uh Tombstone

um with uh with Val Kilmer. But yeah, I could totally see if if it was like if

it was like if it's a straight like uh just an actual western, there's no

science fiction to it. There's no fantasy to it. It's just a straight gunslinger type movie. I could see him

doing that. He's done action movies before. He's done movies where um yeah, I think um

adventure movies is he's definitely good at that. Um

let's see. Let's see what it says here on this article. Let me pull this up real quick.

It says Stephen Spielberg reveals what movie genre he still wants to make. During an event held by Universal

Pictures in honor of Stephen Spielberg, the Oscarinning director shared the next

movie genre he wants to make. Spielberg is best known for his work on science fiction movies such as Close Encounters

of the Third Kind, ET Extraterrestrial, War of the Worlds, Ready Player One, and

the Jurassic Park movies. What's next for Spielberg? In a recent interview,

Spielberg uh expressed desire to direct a western, even though the acclaimed

filmmaker hasn't directed one. He did previously produced a western miniseries

in 2005 titled Into the West. However, some fans

are argued that Spielberg's Indiana Jones franchise would also be considered

an action adventure movie with a western influence. You know what? I don't think they're

wrong there because I mean just the whole like uh because of the

time period that it takes place in. There's lots of you know revolvers and

and that type of weaponry. Um but there isn't anything like inherently uh like a

western where you go to a western town where people are riding horses instead

of riding buggies or cars. So, I don't think it really uh is the same thing as

a western as much as it is. It's an action film with with lots of lots of

gunplay. But, I don't know. I I I I it would depend on the story for me to if I

wanted to watch it or not, but I could I could totally see doing that. Uh

I could get into a Stephen Spielberg western. Yeah, it says here, "I still have an appetite for a western, which it will

someday hopefully do." Uh, it's something that eluded me for all these

decades. Spielberg re revealed the award-winning filmmaker has just wrapped

production on his sci-fi project which has been described as as an untitled UFO

movie. It is directed by Spielberg from a screenplay written by Jurassic Park

scribe David Cop uh based on a story by the Oscar winning filmmaker. Uh the the

ensemble cast includes Emily Blunt, Wyatt Russell, Josh O' Conor, Coleman

Domingo, Colin Furth, and Eve Hawen Houston. Um and Noah Noah Robbins.

It is produced by Spielberg and uh Christy

Mossco Krager. I I am I'm I'm I'm totally butchering her name. I

apologize. You're doing your best for Amlin Entertainment along with Chris Bighgam. Uh this will be uh Spielberg's

latest directorial feature project uh since helming the 2022 Fablemans, which

I haven't seen yet, but I need to. Um which is me saying it, not the article.

Uh the article just had a quick aside. Yeah. Yeah. Like I need to watch that

movie, but uh which was closely based on his early life. Aside from directing, Spielberg is also serving as a producer

on a number of upcoming projects including Universal Pictures uh Jurassic World Rebirth with Scarlett Johansson,

Netflix's Thursday Murder Club movie, and with Pierce Broman, and Apple TV

Plus's Cape Fear series with Amy Adams. I actually just watched the the the

newest Jurassic World movie, and it was it was really good. I liked it. I enjoyed it. So, that reminds me of

something else I did this weekend is Thursday is Thursday night. Uh, we went to the drive-in.

Oh, how was that? Good. It was good as always. Uh, but we saw we saw How to Train Your Dragon with

Jurassic Park. Oh, wow. Or Jurassic World. Jurassic World Rebirth. The new one. Yeah. Um, but I think it's just being a

Thursday after Sam and I had worked all day. Um, we uh we all pretty much slept

during Jurassic Park. Oh man. I mean, I I saw a bit of it. I saw a good bit of

it. It was It was fine. It I I think I would have enjoyed it more if I wasn't falling asleep.

Yeah. I know. It had some slow moments. Excuse me. Um but overall, I enjoyed it.

It There was a couple parts that were like, "Oh, I'm seeing some foreshadowing."

I was like, "Yeah, that guy's gonna die. He's an [ __ ] so he's gonna die. He's He's gonna get eaten by a dinosaur." Um,

so yeah. Uh, yeah, there was there was lots of stuff like why is this happening kind of stuff

going on, but but I liked, you know, I liked the dad of the kids that they ended up rescuing and then became part

of the movie. And then, uh, you know, I love Scarlett Johansson.

She's great at it. But it just, you know, I was just like, do we need more?

I It made me want to go back and watch more of the King Khan movies again. The King Kong and Godzilla.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the next story I have here is from screenrant.com. It is uh what is this?

The title of it is James Gun reveals his thoughts about the DCU Batman costume and whether he will wear the trunks like

Superman. Now, what does that mean? Wear the trunks like Superman. So, in the original like Superman and

Batman and pretty much all the superheroes back in the day, they wore their underwear on the outside of their leotards.

And at some point in the 2010s, I think, uh, Superman didn't have that. And in

sometime in the 90s, Batman didn't have that. So, um, we might see a kind of a a

call back to the Adam West Batman who did wear the underwear on the outside of his outfit.

So, and I think that's what he's talking about. But this is what it says here. DC Studios co-CEO James Gun shares an

update about the DCU's Batman bat suit in the brave new and the Bold. After 11

liveaction Batman actors have portrayed the Cape Crusader on the big screen,

expectations around the DCU's new Batman are inevitably high.

Every previous actor, director, and writer have left a mark on Batman's

movie legacy, and uh the DC Universe's next Dark Knight needs to propose

something new, if not groundbreaking. In an interview with CBR, James Gun

answers whether Batman's DCU bat suit has been chosen. Gun confirms that

there's no no decisions made about the costume at all yet and reveals that he

still doesn't know which approach to that DC Studios

and the brave and the bold will take with the Batman with Batman's costume. The DCU head recalls being in a uh the

same position for Superman's costume until the last minute as other

discussions took higher priority. Uh read his comments down below. Says, you

know, there's no decisions made about the costume at all yet. I do like the

blue and gray bat suit, but I like the other versions, too. I like many

different versions. I'm a Batman super fan and I so I like all of the different

versions of the bat suit. I don't know what we uh are going to do. I didn't

know we were going to do the trunks on Superman until the last minute on this

movie. Listen, I didn't know the trunks were going to be that important until I

took this job. Even Jim Lee came up to me and the first thing he asked was,

"What are you going to do about the Trunks?" And I'm like, "Really?" Like,

we're talking one of the most iconic characters in the history of the world,

and all we're talking about is his trunks, his underwear. I mean, we

haven't seen the Bat Trunks since the 60s as far as on camera goes. So,

I I wouldn't be mad if we if we got a, you know, gray and and blue bat suit

with the trunks and a yellow belt, you know. I wouldn't I wouldn't be upset by it.

What do you think, Doug?

He's muted, folks.

So, I don't know. I I think I think uh it depends on on the the There we go. Sorry, I couldn't get the I

couldn't find the screen again to unmute myself. Okay. I was uh my my I was talk I was chatting

with my wife. Sorry. I figured you were talking to either your wife or the kids. So,

it's all good. No worries. So, what do you think? Do you think they should have the the the gray and blue bat suit or

they should stick with the black? You know, they've never done the blue on in a movie, have they?

Not since 1966. Yeah, but not in the modern era. Like they No, it's always been all black.

I mean, actually, wait a minute. There was uh the gray and blue in the Flash.

I don't believe he had the trunks. It was that it was that it was it was it

was the scene where the Batfle B Affleck's Batman was riding the the bat

cycle across the bridge and he was like zigzagging in and out of other cars

being thrown at him or something was going on. You say this like I remember that scene. I I I vaguely remember it myself. I mean

the only thing about that movie that really stood out to me was the fact that Michael Keat was Batman again.

Right. That's the part that I remember that that's I mean I don't get me wrong I really did really like Ben Affleck as

Batman. I did I thought he was the best second choice to to Michael Keaton. Like

if if I had to choose between any of the bats it would be Michael Keaton then Ben

Affleck. But if I had to choose between all the actors it would go Kevin Conroy uh you know Keaton and then Ben then

Affleck. So Kevin Conroy is from the animated series. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, and the uh the Arkham

games, the video games. Oh, okay. Okay. I just got those, by the way, on uh on

uh on Steam. Steam has the Arkham games for like four bucks a piece, man.

You can buy all of you can buy all the games and the on and all the DLC for like like 18 bucks. Rumor has it that

the uh Xbox is going to be partnering with Steam and that kind of stuff so that

I'll have access to the Steam market through my Xbox. That would be badass. All right.

Yeah. Or at least on the next Xbox. This next story I have here from the uh

the Geek What's Geek this week was something that happened last week after our show and I was like, "What's going

what's what's this all about?" I I clicked on it. I was like, "Oh, that's really cool." And what am I talking about, folks? Um, so there was like a a

competition to to to pick the next um

Lego kit and uh people would make their own custom Lego kit. And if you if you

got over I think 10,000 votes, then your kit would become an official Lego set.

And this one is for the X Files. Now,

see if I can maybe pull this up on screen here.

Come on. There's my mouse. All right. Um,

where is it? This week

and

See? So, what are you looking for right now?

Oh, I'm trying to pull up on on the screen here so people who are watching the video can see what I'm talking

about. Here we go. All right. So, here it is. The uh X Files Lego kit. Me

resize this. So, if we were watching on YouTube right now, should we be seeing it?

Yes, it should be because I noticed I think I noticed this on the on a past episode, too. Like, it

sounded like you were sharing stuff, but it was just showing the logo like the what's like right now. I I I hadn't done this before, but I I

decided I wanted to show this this kit. So, it right now it's just showing what's geek this week.

Um, yeah. Hold on. Here we go. I wanted to get this right before I put

it on screen. Here we go.

So, the kit is basically it is a a a rectangle kind of box with a

it's only a box in that the the bottom shape is a is a square. It's a box, but

on top of it on top Oh, there it Okay, now it's coming up. on top. It has like a a woodland scene

with a UFO like beaming somebody aboard the ship. And it I I'm guessing that

this kit, depending on how many pieces it has, will probably be about two or three hund bucks. It also looks like it

could be a pretty decent size kit, too. So, um, this is a X-Files Lego kit. Yeah. Yeah. And it has it has uh Fox and

Fox Moulder and and and Dana Scully and I think two or three other people in there as well. Let me look at it real

quick. Um, I saw this and one of my roommates is a massive like uh fan of

the show. Oh yeah, Skinner's in there. And it looks like the smoking man is also in there. Um,

and there's an alien. So, I think that looks cool. And here's here's a here's a better shot of of the

office. And uh it even has his I want to believe

poster on the wall, too. But, uh,

it says here, "Keep an eye out for more development news on the Wet Wireds the

X-Files Lego set. And for more, here's everything we know about Ryan Cougler's upcoming reboot of the series. We talked

about that a couple weeks ago, the the reboot of uh XFiles. And uh, yeah, I

don't know. I think it looks cool. It might not be a big kit, so it may not be as expensive as I'm thinking, but it

might be um at the very least it'll be about 160 bucks, I think. So, but it

looks cool. I like it. If I had the money to buy it, I'll definitely buy it.

So, take that out. And we're back. Um so, that is I think the last of the

what's geek this week. That is it for that. So, we should move on to the uh

weird [ __ ]

weird [ __ ] where we dig up the craziest quirkiest stories that make you go, "What the heck just happened?" Buckle

up. It's about to get weird. All right, so this week's what uh that's

some weird [ __ ] I didn't have a lot to pull from. Uh, so one of the things that

I I was talking to somebody about like how difficult it's been to find weird stories because a lot of the stories

that come up in weird is all these [ __ ] that our government's doing right now and I don't really want to continue

talking about that stuff in the back half of the show. Uh, yeah. So, a friend of mine was like, "What?

Haven't you ever heard of the black eyed children?" I was like, "What are you talking about?" Apparently, it's a paranormal thing. Black

We talked about those last week. Or did we? Yeah. Oh, [ __ ] Okay, then I'll take that off the list and we will move on to the next

thing because I I I didn't remember if we talked about that or not. Um, set them up. I'll knock them down.

Excellent. Uh, flying car prototype. Did we talk

about that? Um, no, but it makes me want to watch the flying car sketch between uh Dante

and Randall, right? Uh, have you you seen that? I have. I have seen that. So, basically

what this is, it is a quadcopter that is ridable, but it has a a body on it, so

it looks kind of like it could be a car. And uh I've seen a guy ride a quadcopter.

So, this one's like just standing on it. Yeah, this isn't like that. This is like it has a it has like a pod in the middle

where you can there's like a seat and controls and it has a like a body around it. So, it has like the shape of like a

kind of like a very generic looking car. Um, apparently the link I have for this

story is just a YouTube video. Um, so what the YouTube

Okay, it's a short even. It's not just a video, it's a short. Here we go. Here's the actual video which will have like a

description and stuff I can talk about. Uh, it says uh it's got 40,000 views. uh

was posted three months ago says new car from LF Aeronautics shows

some of these look like AI images or CG and that's one of the things that people they comment in the video about like

it's not CGI it's not AI uh and it shows his car like in in a position where it's

it's in traffic or it's simulated traffic where there's a bunch of cars in a in a driveway and he does a vertical

takeoff and moves in front of the car that's in front of him and then lands in front of the guy. Um, the video itself

is about four minutes long. Um, it does like an intro. It talks to the founder

of the of the company that makes this car. Uh, and they talk about the

competitors and the operating modes and uh, uh, model zero ultralight, which I don't

know what that means, but it sounds like it's an ultralite is like an ultralight aircraft, right? It's so it's basically a backpack

with a fan and a and a and a parachute. Yes. Say I don't know if I want to ride in

this thing. But now watch the video. It's It actually looks like a

I am That's what That's They all look fake to me except for like maybe this one shot at the very beginning. But then

who knows? I mean, the the Olive Aeronautics flying car prototype.

Yeah, it could just be one of those things that looks so unnatural that it looks fake, but I mean, the the the the opening video I

see is him flying over the white car and there's lots of lots of dust being blown everywhere. And uh

it looks like a giant model like helicopter with a with a car skin on it.

But uh I don't know. I it it looked interesting enough to talk about.

It's very cool. Like if it's if this is real like like I I it's I mean even just

as a prototype like as a concept it's it's very interesting like are we going to have to start dealing with because

even whether it's this car or it's like this guy that is on TikTok who flies

around on his hover pad and uh well he got a ticket cuz he touched down at a red light when he shouldn't have.

Right. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, and like I said, the it's been difficult to find uh

uh you know, some weird [ __ ] stories. So, um, the next one is about a bear who

gets trapped inside of a truck in Colorado. Uh,

oh. Yeah. So, a bear managed to get too close. Uh, weird.

A bear managed to close itself inside of a parked car in Colorado and demolish the interior of the vehicle before being

freed by a sheriff's deputy in Jefferson County. Sheriff's office shared body

camera footage recorded by a deputy summoned to the location in the foothills. Oh, there's a bear in there.

Come on. Uh, the deputy can be heard saying after peering through the window.

Oh my god. This is why you lock your car door, man.

This [ __ ] doesn't happen if you if you keep your doors closed and locked.

I'd be more worried about I'm watching the video right now. I'd be more worried about people driving off of my car than

Hi. Which the red one? I'm watching the video right now. Are

you able to share it? Oh, there's a bear in there. I I'm playing the audio from it. Thanks for showing them so fast.

Yeah, no problem. Oh, so here's what we're going to do. I got a rope.

So, I'll just tie it to the door handle. Skip ahead.

Tight door handle.

Pull the door open from like 10 ft away.

I'll be I'll be sharing this video on our on our Facebook page.

Come on. Go on.

Go on. That that poor bear just got stuck in

the car and then like he wanted to get out so trying. It's like what are you supposed to do if

you leave food in your car and the car unlocked? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully these

people have learned a lesson about locking the car door and not leaving

uh or leaving don't leave the door open and having food in your car to attract

animals into your car. Yeah, that bear has detailed that car.

Yeah. And not in a way that is preferable to the uh to the owner, I think. All right. Uh

this next one, this is definitely one of the ones that I Okay, this definitely falls into the that's some weird [ __ ] is

uh medical clinic pleads uh people to stop bringing in

unsolicited samples, urine samples.

What? Um, a a medical clinic in Scotland has asked

local residents to stop bringing in inappropriate or unsolicited urine samples.

The Sultan Surgery in Fraserboro, Aberdeenshshire

said on social media that doctors and medical staff at the clinic have been un

inundated with a high volume of unsolicited urine samples, often in

non-medical household containers instead of sterile sample containers. Please be

advised, we are no longer able to accept urine samples unless they have been

specifically requested by the practice. The post said this change is necessary

due to the high volume of inappropriate or unsolicited samples being submitted

which affects our ability to provide timely care to all patients.

I mean what what what I what I want to know is

what instigated this. Why all I got to know?

Does it say down further if I keep reading? Probably does. And I'm just I'm I'm I'm I'm exhausted from reading that

man. I just a British Medical Association Scotland

representative explained doctors need to perform exam an examination before they

can interpret urine test results. Each unsolicited sample handed in requires

time and medical supplies to test in practice. contact the patient for

information and then interpret the results and or send away for further testing. The

representative told SC STV, which I'm sure is some sort of uh cable network or

something. Uh one doctor speaking anonymously to the Times of London said

multiple clinics have had to put up signs asking patients to not bring in

unsolicited urine samples. We really, really want patients to speak to a clinician for proper medical assessment

before we ask them to bring in a sample, the doctor said. And when they do, we

will issue them a sample bottle to return rather than a random domestic container, which can sometimes be

inappropriate. Oh my god, what are people pissing into that they're bringing to the doctor's

office? I want to know, but at the same time, I don't want to know. Oh, man. Because I

know the I know it's going to be disturbing, but it's also going to be really, really, really funny.

All right. The doctor said that the culprits are often older patients seeking to be tested for urinary tract

infections without first contact, without first consulting a medical expert.

So, so they're just showing up with a jar of their of their urine going, "You got to check my pee. Hey, I have an infection. Hey, you got to take a look.

You got to do it. Hey, you're Yeah, you're you're a doctor, right? Does this does it does

this does this look infected to you? Does this look infected to you? And there he's pulling up a jar. He's pulling pulling down his pants and

showing his left butt cheek. Does he look infected?

Yeah. Sorry. That's not my impression of Scottish people. That's just my my impression of someone who's really really intoxicated trying to show his

butt to the doctor cuz that's what I think of when I think of pe Scottish

people bringing in jars of piss. God, you know, somebody set them up to

do that, right? You know that somebody he's like, you know what' be really funny is if you brought in a mason jar

full of urine or just a flat of or what would be better is if you

brought in a a a used condom filled with piss. That is not what a condom is for.

Right. Oh man. All right. Well, uh and then the last story I have here,

this is it for today, guys. Uh, over 300 people in T-Rex inflatable

costumes race like horses at Washington State Racrack.

Yes, T-Rexes like horses. Yeah. Emerald Downs Racetrack in Auburn,

Washington, held their hilarious T-Rex World Championship races on June 28th,

2025, where over 300 people from across the United States and Canada wore T-Rex

costumes and raced against each other like horses after being released from

the gate. I can picture it. I I already know how this looks. I've seen it before. Click the Click the video, man.

He Rexes away and they come flying down the stretch in the championship and they're playing four, five T-Rexes

hitting the wire. That's [ __ ] awesome. Okay. Yeah, I'll be posting uh Yeah, there'll be links in

the in the in the description of the of the uh episode if nothing else. If I don't put it on

the Facebook page, it'll be in the description. Um, I didn't know this was a thing, but I, you know, it's it's

Auburn, so I'm not entirely surprised. Um, so I've I've seen this do I've seen them do

this at like minor league ballparks for baseball, and they this this is a thing.

This is a thing that's definitely gets done on the regular. It it says here that this race began in

2017 as a team building exercise for employees of Triguard Pest Control, and

it grew from there. In fact, Andrew Stuber of Houston, Texas, who won the

men's championship in its original member is an original

member of Trigard. Uh, okay. I guess there's another video down here, but

yeah, it's it's those inflatable T-Rex costumes and uh several videos here. Oh

my god. And somebody actually like came down in in in a parachute, too, wearing a T-Rex

costume. They really went all out for this T-Rex thing. I need to find out like

Oh, yeah. There's video of the uh Well, this link to this story will be in the show notes, but

yeah, there's literally video of the skydiver taking off.

So, the ridiculous dinosaur race not only took place on the ground, but in the air as well with Skydive Snomish

overseeing the event. So, uh,

photos and video looks like they're all on Emerald Down's uh, Instagram. So, if

you want to check this out for yourself, definitely click the the link below in the in the in the description. You can

see all these photos and the videos of the hilarity that ensued.

Wow. Wow, man. Uh, that was uh, that is it

for today and me. That's some weird [ __ ] And uh

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