0:16

Alright.

0:16

Well, we are starting today with hurricane

0:18

Ian in Florida, and they

0:20

they don't call it a disaster for

0:22

nothing. This is not really a weather show

0:25

but there's been a lot of political stuff revolving

0:27

around the hurricane to get everybody up to speed.

0:30

Many trapped in Florida as

0:32

Ian heads towards South Carolina reported

0:35

by the Associated Press. There

0:38

are rescue crews, two point five

0:40

million Florida homes per the

0:42

Associated press without power, two

0:44

point seven million homes without power

0:47

according to other reports. Florida governor

0:49

Rhonda Santos told the news conference. We've

0:51

never seen storm surge of

0:53

this magnitude, it is basically

0:56

a five hundred year flooding

0:59

event. when it comes to

1:01

casualties, hundreds are

1:04

feared dead.

1:05

Now, it

1:06

takes a while to officially get

1:08

those numbers. But we

1:11

now have heard from multiple political leaders

1:13

who are saying, listen, we're being told

1:15

about dozens if not hundreds

1:17

just in our municipality. So

1:20

you start adding that up and unless everybody's

1:22

wrong you're talking about at least hundreds

1:25

dead The Daily Beast

1:27

reporting that as well as millions

1:29

more were into darkness in

1:31

one of the most powerful storms in American

1:33

history. AND THEN AFP

1:37

AND Yahoo News REPORTING FLOODS

1:39

DEVASTATION AFTER HURRICANES, FLORIDA.

1:43

So there's a couple different things I

1:45

think that important to mention here for

1:47

a show like ours. First of all,

1:49

we see a completely different Rhonda

1:51

Santos. that I sort

1:54

of knew existed in the sense that I've

1:56

told you all before. DeSantis is not

1:58

a stupid guy. His incredible

2:01

violent partnership, maybe

2:03

acute partisanship is is a better

2:06

phrase for it, is a sort

2:08

of a calculated decision. I'm not saying he's

2:10

not a right winger, but he can get along with everybody

2:12

when he chooses to. And he has said Joe

2:14

Biden's been good, helping,

2:16

and getting along, and this

2:18

is not the time for pettiness. And it again, it's

2:20

just another reminder that It

2:22

could be like this all the time if people

2:24

just wanted to be more reasonable because that's all it's

2:26

happening. This antigen is just being more reasonable

2:28

in part because he knows that his reelection

2:30

could potentially hinge on is

2:33

he seen as handling the hurricane

2:35

correctly. In addition, you know,

2:37

when COVID started, many of us

2:40

naively and incorrectly thought, this

2:42

will bring the country together. We're all going

2:44

to unite against the virus, and then we did

2:46

many Republicans essentially taking the side

2:48

of the virus, ignoring all

2:51

suggestions and guidelines and recommendations

2:54

and not getting vaccinated, all that different stuff.

2:56

Okay, fine. With the hurricane,

2:58

we're just all going to Now,

3:01

you've got people claiming that the

3:03

hurricane is a hoax. Now, what does it

3:05

mean? What does it mean that it's a hoax? Some

3:07

of them say, well, it was a rain storm,

3:10

but it wasn't really that bad. and

3:12

this was just a way to get the

3:14

hurricane in the media to

3:16

avoid talking about fill

3:19

in the blank. Right? Whatever it is. This was

3:21

a distraction. Some claiming

3:24

that it was a geoengineered

3:27

weather event of some kind. Again,

3:29

for whose benefit, it's like never really

3:31

completely clear. Others

3:33

fixating on the evacuation order

3:36

And are they legal or not and mandatory

3:38

and all these different things? Folks,

3:40

it's a hurricane. Okay. Oh, and actually, I should

3:42

say, some also immediately

3:46

fixating on wanting to blame

3:48

climate change for this particular

3:51

hurricane. And as we've talked about before,

3:53

Climate change is not really about

3:55

any particular hurricane, but

3:58

climate change models would

3:59

predict

4:00

that we would have more extreme events

4:03

and that the events themselves would

4:06

be more extreme. But I

4:08

I we don't need to

4:10

play the game of this particular

4:12

hurricane was caused by climate change

4:14

and the human

4:18

activities on the planet. We don't need to do that.

4:20

The climate change models don't require that.

4:22

So I think that that to the extent that people on

4:24

the left are doing it also doesn't make

4:26

sense. the priority is

4:28

getting power back on,

4:30

reducing fatalities as much

4:32

as possible,

4:35

and starting to get things back together,

4:37

and we will let you know how things are looking

4:40

by Monday. Here's just

4:42

a wild, wild report from

4:44

Vanity Fair's best leaven.

4:47

Donald Trump thought he could sue

4:49

Congress for impeaching him. He

4:51

thought he could sue Congress because

4:54

as legislators, they

4:56

impeached him. Now what's not clear is whether

4:58

he thought he could sue Congress as

5:00

an institution or that he

5:02

could sue the individual members who

5:05

voted to impeach and

5:07

later in the senate to convict. You know, with

5:09

Trump, it's never really clear what he means.

5:11

this entire article is worth reading

5:14

by Beth Levin.

5:16

And the key part is

5:19

actually from Maggie Haberman's

5:21

forthcoming book, Confidence Man,

5:24

which says, when

5:26

the House introduced articles of

5:28

impeachment against Trump, for

5:30

the first time in twenty nineteen,

5:33

Trump reacted with a familiar

5:35

refrain according to the book I'll

5:38

just sue Congress. They

5:40

can't do this to me. Best

5:42

Lebanon adds, it's not

5:44

clear whether Trump responded similarly

5:46

after the second impeachment articles,

5:49

though there's probably a fifty percent chance

5:51

that he did. Listen, this

5:53

would not really be a shock to

5:55

anybody who's been following the, I guess,

5:57

we would call them trials and tribulations of

5:59

Trump. he thought that pulling in

6:01

a special master after the Mar a Lago

6:03

search warrant was gonna be good for him

6:05

and it did not work out out that way.

6:08

he looked directly into the sun

6:10

during that eclipse even though he was told

6:12

not to. I mean, like, at the micro level and the

6:14

macro level, he always believes things that

6:16

aren't true and believe certain things

6:18

would be good for him that that actually are not.

6:21

What's particularly funny

6:23

about Trump thinking he can sue Congress

6:25

is that right now, we talked about this

6:28

yesterday on the bonus show. The

6:30

argument that Trump's lawyers are

6:32

making to get a

6:34

defamation suit against Trump dismissed

6:37

is that the defendant should actually be

6:39

the government and not

6:41

Trump. And so

6:43

you have this extraordinary situation

6:46

where on the and and the point

6:48

is you can't sue the government for

6:50

defamation. So it's

6:52

defamation versus the impeachment.

6:54

But on the one hand, in court,

6:57

Trump's lawyers are arguing You

6:59

can't go after the government for defamation.

7:02

And really, Eugene Carol's

7:04

gripe is with the government and

7:06

not Trump, even though it's Trump who said the things

7:08

that are allegedly defanatory. And

7:10

meanwhile, after and during the impeachment,

7:12

Trump was saying, well, I'll just sue the

7:14

government as if that's something you can

7:16

do over a legislative duty

7:19

that Congress has, which is

7:21

to consider whether a president has done something

7:24

worthy of impeachment. It's all it it's all

7:26

completely scrambled. You all know that.

7:28

And the other theme to this is

7:30

the things that are said

7:32

publicly in the Court of Public

7:34

Opinion by Trump,

7:37

and even sometimes by his lawyers, don't

7:40

translate to what they actually try to

7:42

argue in court. These are two different

7:44

things. And likewise, nobody's

7:46

gonna sue Congress for carrying out an impeachment,

7:48

and of course, it didn't happen. We

7:50

will see what ultimately comes

7:52

of twenty twenty four, but best level in

7:54

sort of raising the alarm here and saying, listen.

7:57

the election stuff was

7:59

not the only wacky dangerous unhinged

8:02

stuff that Donald Trump was thinking at that

8:04

time. Alright. I have more

8:06

to add for you on the

8:08

quest for one point

8:10

five million YouTube subscribers.

8:13

we are dangerously close.

8:15

We are now only looks

8:17

like three thousand one hundred

8:20

and fifty six subscribers away.

8:23

from one point five million.

8:25

And we have a bunch of stuff on the

8:27

calendar. People have been writing in saying

8:29

David, if you can get to the

8:31

one point five million sooner,

8:33

here's what I'm willing to do. And this is just for

8:35

fun. Okay? Everybody relax. It's not like a

8:37

big deal. People are just having a good time. Alright.

8:40

If we get to the one

8:42

point five million by October

8:44

fourth at Sundown, I will

8:46

do the Yam Kapoor fast. I

8:48

never do the Yam Kapoor fast I

8:50

will do it, and I will live

8:52

blog how bad it is to do the

8:54

sunset to sunset fast for Yom Kippur.

8:56

Okay? If we get to

8:58

the one point five million by October fifth.

9:01

I will obtain a

9:03

unicycle and post a

9:05

video of me trying to ride a

9:07

unicycle down the Street, I've never done it. This

9:09

was suggested by Anne from Utah.

9:11

And now I have other things to add.

9:13

If we can get to the one point five million

9:15

by October tenth, Bo,

9:18

will get a bag of mangoes tattooed.

9:20

With some kind of tagline

9:22

from the show, Beau says his wife is a

9:24

tattoo artist in New York City, he already

9:26

has a bunch of tattoos and he's willing

9:28

to get a mango David Pacman

9:30

show related tattoo if we make it to one

9:32

point five million subscribers by October

9:34

tenth. October twelfth,

9:37

Chris is a muralist in

9:39

Atlanta, meaning that he

9:41

paints murals And he

9:43

says if we get to one point

9:45

five million by October twelfth, which is his

9:47

birthday, he will paint a

9:49

David Pacman show mural in

9:51

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9:53

to us. I think that that would be absolutely

9:55

awesome. Kurt says that if

9:57

we get to the one point five million by

9:59

October

9:59

twenty one, he will

10:00

get a Mount Rushmore tattoo

10:03

on his back except it'll

10:05

be Biden, Obama,

10:07

Clinton, FDR, and

10:09

me, which kinda scares me, but it sounds

10:11

interesting. And then

10:13

Kelsey says that if we make it by

10:15

November fourth, which we really

10:17

should, she will bake

10:19

and decorate a custom

10:22

vegan David Pac winter

10:24

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10:26

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10:28

Obama and another will be Alex Jones or

10:30

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10:34

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10:47

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10:49

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10:51

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10:53

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10:56

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11:01

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11:55

this is comical, a complete

11:58

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12:00

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12:06

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15:42

extremely extremely important stuff

15:44

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15:46

go first to Jason

15:48

from Toronto, Canada Jason,

15:51

welcome. What's on your mind today, my friend?

15:54

Hey, David. How are

15:56

you? I'm doing well. Thank you.

15:58

Just actually go I

15:59

have a couple of questions for you.

16:02

One politics related. Do

16:05

you feel that as major

16:07

news networks are starting to distance themselves

16:09

from Trump and all the legal

16:11

issues he's currently in. Are we seeing the

16:13

slow demise? of him potentially in

16:15

his movement? Or do you feel

16:17

that that's still a little bit of way

16:21

as

16:21

far as as seeing kind

16:23

of the mag movement kind of

16:25

dwindle down. I think we've got a long way to

16:27

go. Right now, it's not

16:29

so much that the TV networks like

16:31

Fox News, for example, are stepping

16:34

away from Trump, but they're

16:36

giving themselves other options In

16:38

other words, they're starting to say, hey, a

16:40

lot of people seem to like DeSantis.

16:42

They're kind of building the

16:44

escape hatch, so to speak. but they

16:46

haven't yet pulled the

16:48

eject button. If if that makes sense,

16:50

that's the analogy I would say.

16:52

However -- Right. I think depending on what happens

16:54

in twenty in November of twenty two in the

16:56

midterms, and depending on what happens in

16:58

terms of the indictments and public opinion

17:00

around Trump's indictments, if indeed he

17:02

gets indicted, then you may start to

17:04

see things change. One interesting thing is if you

17:06

look at predict it, which is betting

17:09

markets, the Sandoz is now in the lead

17:11

as who is expected to get the twenty twenty four

17:13

Republican domination based

17:15

on the betting numbers. If those

17:17

numbers continue to go against Trump's

17:19

favor, you might see an acceleration But

17:21

right now nobody's really abandoned Trump. They're just giving

17:24

themselves other options. Howard Bauchner: Yeah,

17:26

that makes sense.

17:26

And just the other question I

17:28

have for you, as a new father, what are

17:30

you enjoying most about your

17:33

experience? I I'd

17:34

say like the,

17:35

you know, essentially day to day

17:38

development. and just seeing how things change so much from day to

17:40

day and, you know, she's able to do new

17:42

things, and attention span goes up, and

17:44

ability to just, like, kinda

17:46

hang out without flipping out increases.

17:48

And it really is I mean, certainly from

17:50

week to week, it gets very different.

17:53

That's

17:53

awesome. Good to hear. Alright. Things are

17:55

good to hear. Yeah. Things

17:57

are good. The good temperature here is certain

17:59

to drop

17:59

as fall comes in. But

18:02

otherwise, things are right. You I mean, I

18:04

can't I I apologize for this question, but

18:06

there's no way you can get a good bagel in

18:08

Toronto. Right? That's a Montreal thing.

18:10

I mean, you can

18:11

get a good bagel in Toronto. I mean, it's

18:13

less it's less known, but, yeah, there's

18:15

a couple of bagel shops here in the city there pretty

18:18

good. Wow. Montreal

18:20

is known for it? Yeah. Yeah. There's some

18:22

pretty good places here. And smoked salmon

18:24

and everything's available? Yep.

18:26

Incredible for sure. incredible. Wow. And you guys have the Internet

18:28

and running water and everything? Oh,

18:30

yeah. Yeah. That's amazing. We just got cars

18:32

a couple months ago.

18:34

Very good. Alright, my friend. Thank you for the call. That was

18:37

a joke, by the way. Obviously, we we love Toronto.

18:39

Thank you. No offense to that's

18:41

those are just jokes. Everybody relax.

18:43

Alright? Let's go to John from Kentucky.

18:45

John, what's going on?

18:48

Hi there, David. Can you hear me? I can.

18:50

It it It quite literally sounds like

18:52

you're underwater. You're not underwater. Are

18:54

you? I'm not

18:55

right. Oh,

18:56

boy. Did you say you're not underwater

18:59

right now? I'm not underwriting

19:01

right

19:01

this moment. Oh, you know, it sounds all it sounds

19:03

so much better. What did you just change?

19:06

I just went off of my car Bluetooth

19:08

to my handset, beautifully done.

19:10

beautifully done. What's what's on your mind today? Yeah.

19:12

I just had a I had a

19:15

question. I've

19:17

been I'm an Uber driver, and I talk a lot of politics

19:19

in the car, which is a mistake. I gotta

19:21

say. Yeah. But a question

19:23

that's kind of been popping up as a twenty five year

19:25

old left, is it just I

19:27

just What's the point in conservatism

19:31

before? III

19:33

mean, I'm

19:33

not gonna I can't answer that for

19:35

you. That's interesting. So, like, let me

19:37

see if I can understand the situation. You

19:39

drive Uber in Kentucky?

19:42

Yes. And so, are most of your

19:44

passengers right wingers? Well,

19:46

I

19:46

I actually live in Louisville,

19:49

Kentucky, so we're a blue dot in a red

19:51

state. Okay. So I get a good

19:53

mix. of people. So I have a lot of Leftists in the car, I have

19:55

a lot of Liberals, and then a lot

19:57

of the people that I get are Republican.

20:00

Yeah. And I I just

20:02

simply like, one of the things that I've been saying recently,

20:05

I don't know if you've ever watched adventure

20:08

time. No. I don't even know what it is.

20:10

Okay. Venture time is a is a kids

20:12

show. It was really, really good, though.

20:14

There's this there's

20:17

this vampire lady named

20:19

Marceline. And in one of the

20:21

episodes, he's fighting this other guy who's the

20:23

vampire king and they break apart. And

20:25

the vampire king is like, hey, Marceline, you've

20:27

lived over a thousand years. What have you learned?

20:30

And she says something to the

20:32

effect of you know, everybody

20:34

keeps making the same mistakes over and over

20:36

again, and I guess nobody lives long

20:38

enough to see the pattern. Right.

20:41

Well, listen. My thought on that is as follows.

20:43

And I don't wanna interrupt the retelling of

20:46

adventure time episodes, but to here's

20:48

my thought. There's two things going on with conservatism.

20:51

One is the idea of

20:52

let's keep doing things the way

20:55

we've done them before just for the sake

20:57

of continuing to do them the same way

20:59

we've done them before, which for me isn't a

21:01

very good argument necessarily.

21:03

Right. And

21:04

then also, there is a sort of

21:06

contrarianism to conservatism

21:09

when people from typically

21:11

from the left say, hey,

21:13

here's an advancement that we

21:15

have, which will improve things.

21:18

There's like a reflexive contrarian

21:20

as where it's just like, no. No. No. No.

21:22

We're not gonna do that just because

21:24

you want to, we're not going to do it. So

21:26

the I think that those are two important elements

21:28

of it. Hey, one

21:29

hundred percent. And, like, you know, one of the

21:31

things I've been saying a lot in the car is, respectfully,

21:33

I don't have to have lived a

21:35

thousand years to see that the story of human

21:38

history has always been conservatives

21:40

or their historical contemporaries

21:42

fighting against progress. Yeah. And

21:44

then Leftists or their historical contemporaries

21:47

dragging them, kicking in screaming into that

21:49

progress. Correct. So, yeah, I just don't

21:51

see the yeah. It's just frustrating

21:53

living in in red state

21:55

right now. John, what's the

21:57

wackiest Uber driving situation you've

21:59

experienced? Oh,

22:02

honestly, I've had too bad right now. I

22:04

did have one lady get in the car with the

22:07

MAGA hat and the flags and

22:09

the pins and stuff. And we're

22:11

about two minutes into the ride, and she

22:13

just casually says, you know, I just can't stand

22:15

the way the media treats true patriot.

22:19

Right. And so I kinda give it a

22:21

second. I'm like, okay. I'll bite. Who

22:23

are true patriots? And she says,

22:25

well, Matt Gates Alex Jones just to name a

22:27

couple. Yeah. I'm like, oh, okay. Well,

22:29

I don't have to say Alex Jones is

22:31

full of crap. You know, he says that

22:33

in depositions and stuff. But

22:35

Matt Gates, the guy who's currently under investigation

22:37

from the DOJ for child sex trafficking.

22:39

Like, this is the guy who's a true patriot

22:41

to you, really? Have you ever had to kick anyone

22:44

out of the car? I have

22:46

not, but I think that's mostly

22:48

because my demeanor in the car is

22:50

very much if you don't like it,

22:52

you can walk Right. So I think

22:54

that more kind of like that

22:56

keeps people in line a lot of the time. So

22:59

yeah. Well, John, I appreciate the call.

23:01

Stay safe out there. I'll

23:02

try brother. Thank you. Alright. Congratulations on the new child.

23:04

Thank you. There's John from Kentucky with some

23:06

powerful powerful declarations As

23:09

a reminder, if you want the opportunity to

23:12

get on to chat with me and you are

23:14

currently in the Discord waiting

23:16

lobby, your nickname must

23:18

be name and where you're calling

23:20

from. It doesn't even have to be real.

23:22

Like, I don't know where where you really are.

23:25

but it has to be in that format. So people who just

23:27

have, like, single word nicknames and stuff like that, you're

23:29

not gonna get called on just as a

23:31

heads up, so everybody knows and is

23:33

on the same page. Let's go

23:35

to Alex from Seattle. Alex welcome.

23:38

Good morning,

23:39

David. I wanted to ask you

23:41

about a book written by a guest you had on a

23:43

few months ago, Bobby Azarian. Sure. That was

23:46

called the Rumensa reality. Yeah.

23:48

Did you did you read the book? I

23:49

read part of it. Yeah. For

23:52

that one, I read, like, I often

23:54

do introduction, table of

23:56

contents, first chapter, last chapter, and

23:58

some stuff in between. Okay.

23:59

Interesting. I found it to be I want first of all, I

24:02

wanted to thank you for having that guest on having

24:04

that book. I I've in the process of

24:06

reading it, and I've I'm

24:08

reading it slowly because it's a very dense book.

24:10

I'm sure if you read a couple of chapters,

24:12

you probably like, it's it's very

24:14

it's explaining each piece that

24:16

goes, building case for,

24:18

you know, you know,

24:20

why why why do we exist? What

24:22

is life for? I just wanted

24:24

to know if you you if

24:26

in the brief parts that you read, if there was anything you

24:28

found to be either

24:30

disagreeable or if it changed anything about

24:32

how you thought about concepts like

24:34

free will determinism because it goes into a lot

24:36

of that. No. I mean, you know, when I I

24:39

read so much that it's rare

24:41

at this point, that I read

24:43

something

24:43

and it completely upends my

24:46

view. It's just sort of like

24:48

it now averages into

24:50

my views over all

24:53

and just like can slightly tweak

24:55

things. So I don't know that I can say that there

24:57

was any kind of like big one eighty

24:59

that I did as a result of the parts of the book but

25:01

it certainly presented and so did the interview.

25:03

You know, you III think my

25:05

view tends to be

25:07

there is really no one

25:10

source that describes reality

25:12

as far as I'm concerned. What

25:14

I'm looking for are

25:17

thoughtful ideas

25:19

to integrate into my understanding.

25:21

So, no, I can't say I had any

25:23

real one eighties. Okay. Did you

25:25

I mean, is there something you read in the book that made you

25:27

say, wow. I I mean, prior

25:29

to reading the book, I mean, I I really kind

25:31

of believed in the concept of determinism, it seemed

25:34

to make the most sense to me -- Yeah. -- you know, ball

25:36

rolling down a hill, add more complexity,

25:38

you know, start to finish. I I feel like

25:40

that kind of worked. And especially with,

25:42

like, more progressive politics, you can use that

25:44

lens and you can look at the way people's lives exist

25:47

and the problems they ran into and you can use

25:49

that. And the way the book presents it is

25:51

kind of, you know, it

25:53

basically takes things like life and it says,

25:55

instead of it being a thing that just kind of

25:57

magically happened and it's like a miracle, it

25:59

frames it as like it as

26:01

an inevitability based on fundamental laws of

26:04

science. And it continues to build from there.

26:06

And so I found that

26:08

it it really made me rethink. It didn't believe

26:10

in free will again if that kind of makes

26:13

sense because it frames it

26:15

as as know, the concept of free

26:17

will is the ability to imagine possible

26:20

realities and then steer yourself there.

26:22

And, anyway, I just I I

26:24

found it to be a book. I recommended it highly that

26:26

I've as someone who does not consider

26:29

themselves religious, I found it to

26:31

be a thing that explained the

26:33

universal way that kind of gave it a purpose that kind of

26:35

made sense. So and and I was just I was very

26:38

surprised at that because I'm highly

26:40

skeptical similar to your your perspective around

26:42

a lot of things. I was surprised at how much

26:44

I connected with the book and found it to be interesting.

26:46

Well, I appreciate the feedback, Alex. Thank

26:49

you. love to

26:50

have more authors like that on your show.

26:52

We will make it happen.

26:54

Alright. Alright. Thanks, Alex. Take care. Very always

26:56

great to hear that people are getting value.

26:59

from from the the guests on the show.

27:01

That's fantastic. Let's go to

27:03

Willie from Oregon. Willie,

27:05

welcome to the show. What's on your

27:07

mind today? Hey,

27:09

I was just curious if you

27:11

have paid any attention to the truth

27:14

social ads instead of did popping

27:16

up? No. We just did a story

27:18

earlier this week about how the a company that was

27:20

going to invest a hundred and forty

27:22

million to merge with truth social,

27:24

they're they're just completely bailing, and truth

27:26

social is likely gonna fail soon. But what

27:28

where are they running ads?

27:30

Well,

27:31

there was an update to the app.

27:33

And so I did that and all of a sudden notice

27:35

that these ads started popping

27:37

up. Like, after that.

27:39

It looks like Trump's the only

27:41

one paying for ads. Just hand tied by

27:44

them. Okay. There's

27:47

one for you know,

27:47

twenty five hundred free knives and reading

27:49

through that was like, arm yourselves --

27:52

Oh my goodness. -- oh, let me ask you

27:54

this. Pretty dark. Are

27:56

you on when you're on the app, do

27:58

you just look to

27:59

see the wacky stuff that gets

28:02

posted? Are you on there to kinda like

28:04

argue with people or to Troll.

28:06

Like, what's your what do you do on

28:08

the app?

28:09

Oh, could we cuss

28:11

on this or no? No. Please don't.

28:14

Okay.

28:14

Just messing

28:17

with Trump and following the

28:19

the cuckoo there. I see. Have you

28:21

had anybody, like, directly attack you because

28:23

of things you post? Oh,

28:26

yeah.

28:26

I I did that for a little bit.

28:28

You know, I there's not

28:30

much common sense on there. So it's kind

28:32

of pointless to do anything, but just

28:35

like to keep an eye on what that

28:37

guy's up to and

28:39

talking and, like, you know, last night, it

28:41

looked like he he just reposted

28:43

the craziest stuff and it's

28:45

pretty

28:45

scary. Yeah. I like to kinda keep an

28:47

eye on him and see what he's up to, but the

28:50

the you should look at some

28:52

of the ads that have been popping up on there. They're

28:56

very strange. I'll check that out. Very strange. I'll check

28:58

that out. Thanks for bringing in to my

29:00

attention. Yep. Yep. I

29:02

think it's worth looking into it and talking about

29:04

a little bit. Alright. Willy

29:06

for more time. Thank you very very much. Appreciate

29:08

it. Thank you very very much. really,

29:11

really important stuff

29:13

happening on truth and it

29:15

soon should fail completely. Alright?

29:17

Okay. Let's take a very quick break if you're

29:19

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31:00

powerful phone calls happening today,

31:03

and we don't want to miss a

31:05

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31:07

to Bobby from Jersey,

31:09

Bobby from Jersey. Welcome. What's going

31:11

on?

31:16

Bobby from Jersey, you gotta unmute yourself, Mike. Hello,

31:18

David. Can you hear me? Yes. I can.

31:21

Alright. Is

31:21

there a specific way that you

31:23

go about engaging with conspiracy?

31:25

Depends on

31:26

the specifics, I would say. I

31:28

I mean, depend depends on where

31:31

and with

31:32

whom. Sort of, like, well,

31:34

when I say far

31:36

right conspiracies, like, Q1 on and, like,

31:38

the election results or whatnot. Yeah.

31:41

Like, is there really a way you can, like, debunk

31:43

that? Or I mean, the the problem

31:45

is that a lot of the people that believe this

31:48

stuff aren't actually open

31:50

to thinking of

31:53

thinking critically about it. And so if

31:55

you show them contradictory evidence,

31:57

they say that evidence not reliable

31:59

or has been planted. If

32:01

you show them the absence of

32:03

evidence for what they say, they go

32:05

right because they're covering up

32:08

the evidence for what I believe. So unfortunately with a

32:10

lot of them, there's really no way

32:12

to talk them out of it or even get them

32:14

to reconsider. Yeah.

32:17

That's what I've noticed too. Alright, David.

32:19

Thank you. Alright. Thank you very much.

32:21

There's Bobby from Jersey. Yeah. I mean, unfortunately,

32:24

it's It's depressing is

32:26

the reality. It's depressing. Let's

32:28

go to

32:29

Rahman from

32:32

Minneapolis. Welcome back to the program.

32:34

What's going on? Thank

32:35

you, David. How's your day going

32:37

today? It's going well. Yeah.

32:39

My first question is, how would you compare

32:42

Donald Trump to past Republican leaders

32:44

like Richard Nixon,

32:47

Reagan, Bush, and how and how they

32:49

conducted business in this country and their

32:51

scandals? Well, I think

32:53

that

32:53

Trump has done

32:55

mean, listen,

32:56

compared to most of the people you listed,

32:59

all

32:59

of them. Trump

33:00

has had way more wrongdoing that he's

33:02

engaged in than any of them. I

33:04

think the difference is Trump has had

33:06

the benefits of the right wing

33:09

media machine, including Fox

33:11

News and NewsMax and Right wing media

33:13

and and defenders to

33:15

the death on social media and on

33:17

and on and on. But I think

33:19

that look at the list of all

33:21

the things that Donald Trump has done. Look

33:23

just look at all the criminal investigations that he's

33:25

under right now. So I think that Trump is

33:27

worse in terms of misdeeds. I

33:29

think Trump's dumber than most of them.

33:31

I mean, Nixon was a horrible person, but he

33:33

was quite smart.

33:34

Reagan you

33:36

know, was no genius, but he was

33:38

he was relatively smart. Bush was

33:40

kind of like when it when it started with

33:42

the whole kind of dim But again, Bush

33:44

seems like a mensa member compared

33:47

to Trump. So I I think that Trump is

33:49

also particularly just dumb in

33:51

a very superficial

33:54

way. Yeah. Like,

33:55

what I believe is the light. Like,

33:57

if it with Nixon, he didn't have

33:59

the right way media

33:59

back. Then if he did, I don't think

34:02

he would have been impeached.

34:04

right Right. With me

34:05

and with Reagan, I feel like with Donald Trump,

34:07

he's he's essentially taken every

34:09

he's just taking every bad part of each of each of

34:12

those presidents. Like, with Reagan, he had the

34:14

Iran contra scandal with Nixon

34:16

was water getting with Bush, it

34:18

was it was about lying about

34:20

WMDs and and torturing

34:22

people. Yeah. No. Absolutely. And I

34:24

think you're you're spot

34:26

on that had Nixon

34:26

had the benefit of this right wing media machine that

34:29

was defending everything he said

34:31

all the time constantly It

34:34

is quite possible that public opinion among Republicans

34:36

would not have shifted. Republicans would

34:38

not have gone to Nixon and said, listen, if you

34:40

don't resign, we're gonna have to impeach you. And

34:43

that that it could have actually saved Nixon. And so

34:45

that the really scary thing there is

34:47

more about Trump

34:48

did enough horrible

34:50

things that were

34:52

it not for. Were it not for the

34:55

right wing media apparatus, Trump might have

34:57

had to resign. Trump in the

34:59

seventies might have had to resign and

35:01

that really puts a big spotlight

35:04

for the horrible destructive nature of right wing

35:06

media, and we should not forget that. Howard

35:08

Bauchner:

35:08

Yeah. Second second question

35:10

before I go, this is very quick.

35:13

with with a lot of people with a lot of people going against

35:15

Progressive's, I'm like, Progressive's all they wanna

35:17

do is make people's lives like,

35:20

versus centrist versus right wing versus people

35:22

in the right wing, progressive all

35:24

they wanna do is make people the lives better.

35:28

So why are so many people going against them even though

35:30

the the the only thing that they care about is

35:32

making every everybody on have

35:34

the same eco footing in

35:36

this country. Yeah. No. I I completely agree with your

35:38

perspective, and the counterpoint

35:40

is the right would say, no. No. No.

35:44

Listen. as

35:45

the government, what we want the government doing is

35:47

not making people lives

35:50

better. It's letting

35:52

people live the life they wanna live. And

35:54

if some people don't want a better life, then

35:56

we should allow them to do it. It's

35:59

a nanny

35:59

state that forces

36:01

themselves upon you. That's the way that the right would approach it. Yeah.

36:03

But when when

36:04

Republicans talk about small small

36:08

in state not people's lives. Yeah. There are

36:10

actually lines people who would progress as Of

36:12

course. They act they

36:14

they actually they actually wanna stand up whose lives, they make whose lives better. That's

36:16

all they really wanna do. I agree with you. I

36:18

agree with you completely, but good luck

36:20

convincing a Republican of

36:22

that. Alright.

36:23

alright Alright.

36:24

Rock, one from Minneapolis. Great to hear from you again. Very much appreciated.

36:27

Let's go to Alex from Baltimore. Alex,

36:29

welcome back to the program.

36:33

Hello? Hey, David. Can

36:35

you hear

36:35

me? Yes, I

36:38

can. Alright.

36:38

Real quick, I wanted

36:40

to say, congrats on the baby. It's been a

36:42

little while. How much has your espresso

36:45

budget increased since then? You

36:47

know,

36:47

it really hasn't changed dramatically. I

36:48

have to tell you because, you know, one

36:51

of the things this I I hate

36:53

to admit this, but with my

36:55

particular espresso machine. I am much

36:58

better at getting a double

37:00

shot just right than a single.

37:02

So often what I do and I know it's

37:04

wasteful, but at the end of the day, it's

37:06

just water. Even if I only want a single shot, I'm usually making a

37:08

double and then just dumping the

37:10

second shot that I don't want.

37:12

So all that I've really been doing

37:14

sometimes is

37:16

just having the second shot. So it hasn't really changed

37:18

the budget. Well, lucky you.

37:20

Yeah. Now why should is

37:24

that surprising? Well, just with

37:25

with our child, it was a lot

37:27

rough going to the first few months with sleep,

37:29

so I definitely had

37:32

lots red eyes and extra coffee. That's Don't listen. It's

37:34

rough, but it's like how much coffee am I really

37:36

gonna have, you know? That's fair.

37:38

I'll just play around Alright. I

37:40

mean, I guess a lot is the answer. Who knows?

37:43

Yeah. Fair

37:43

enough. Real question. Yeah. So I had

37:45

I had something about eliminating

37:48

the filibuster, so I'm not

37:50

against it in principle or

37:52

anything. Okay. But I but I

37:55

do wonder, like, and we

37:57

just got rid of it, period, like, for

37:59

example, Trump's first two

37:59

years in office wouldn't they have just been

38:02

able to

38:04

just pass all sorts of crazy horrible stuff? And

38:06

how would we stop

38:08

that without the filibuster? And or

38:10

is that just a risk we

38:13

have to take to get stuff done

38:15

now. Yeah. I unfortunately listen.

38:19

The retrospective stuff I think is fine. It's like, well, listen, if we

38:21

only needed fifty one instead of sixty on this, then it

38:24

might have passed or whatever. The the problem

38:26

is that usually when people talk

38:28

about that, you're going

38:30

backwards only a very narrow amount of

38:32

time and also so what you have to think about

38:34

is imagine that

38:36

the filibuster had been previously done away with, and then think about all the things

38:38

Republicans would have been able to pass when

38:40

they had the opportunity. And also,

38:42

if Democrats did away with the filibuster now,

38:44

think about what that

38:46

would mean for Republicans and what they're willing to do at

38:48

some future point. So I think that's

38:50

all fine. I I really do think the right

38:52

way to think about the filibuster is

38:54

less about what could we

38:56

have done during this narrow window, but

38:58

what might they do? The it should just be

39:01

listen listen.

39:02

added court At its core, are there certain

39:04

things where there should be sixty

39:07

votes in favor, or should

39:09

everything just be fifty one? I actually think

39:11

we need to just be

39:14

honest about how it needs to be organized. Are there things where we should

39:16

have even more support than that? Because they are

39:18

so significant

39:20

and impactful to American

39:22

life. I don't pretend to know the answer,

39:24

but I think the best way to think about

39:26

this is less about we could have done this

39:28

if we had gotten rid of the filibuster in

39:30

January of twenty twenty.

39:32

I don't I don't know. I mean, yes, we can play that

39:34

game, but it really is about does it make

39:36

sense that in this country, you need

39:38

a simple majority or are there certain things where you

39:41

actually should have a sixty percent majority

39:43

or even greater and

39:45

to start with that rather than just the politics of it if that

39:47

makes sense. Yeah. No.

39:50

I

39:50

get that. I would just personally, I

39:52

would say split the difference and make it fifty five.

39:55

that's just my personal take take it

39:58

or leave it. Yeah. I mean, listen, it's

39:59

it's a matter there's no right

40:02

answer. It's like, you could have someone who says,

40:04

you know, I think anything that has to do with

40:06

taxes should have fifty seven votes and

40:08

anything with health health care should have

40:10

fifty five and anything with

40:12

budget should be everybody

40:14

will have a different opinion, and I don't know that there's

40:16

any right or wrong necessarily, but

40:18

fundamentally, that's the philosophical question that this

40:20

is all about. Right.

40:22

I just wanna hear your take. I appreciate

40:24

it. Alright. Alex from Baltimore. Thank

40:26

you very much. Let's go next

40:29

to Jojo from California. Jojo, welcome to

40:31

the show. What's

40:33

on your mind? Joe

40:36

Joe from California,

40:37

what's on

40:40

your mind? Joe

40:43

Joe from California, you're turned to

40:45

speak. You're unmuted. You're on. You

40:48

can

40:50

speak now. Alright.

40:54

Jojo from California, clearly

40:58

having apparently some kind of

41:00

technical issues of various

41:02

kinds. Jojo,

41:04

I'm sorry that we are not going to be

41:06

able to speak, but there is

41:08

some kind technical problem have. Jojo, you're muted yourself. Jojo,

41:10

are you back now?

41:13

No. Alright. Well,

41:15

Jojo has gone. Let's go to

41:17

Chris. Chris, welcome to the program. What's on your

41:20

mind? Thanks,

41:24

commissioner. Chris, you're on the

41:26

program. What's going on? Say what?

41:28

You're live right now.

41:30

Is that

41:31

what I Chris, you're

41:32

live. This is David Ham, and

41:35

welcome.

41:35

Hi. And

41:38

there we go. Chris, you're on

41:39

the air right now, and we can hear you. Go on

41:42

my front. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sitting

41:43

here. Listen. I'm at work right now. My my guy. Yeah. I'm

41:45

talking to you, Chris. Yeah. I'm

41:48

saying I'm at work right now. I can't talk. I was just

41:50

listening in.

41:52

Go. Alright. Okay. And work work's going okay for you?

41:54

Yeah. Yeah. I

41:55

apologize. No. No. No. I

41:58

apologize. What kind of work do

42:00

you do? I'm a

42:01

manager in the beer distributor. Really? Yeah. What's

42:04

going on with

42:04

the beer world these days? effective

42:08

because a lot of IPAs don't coming out. Is it is

42:10

it just an IPA fiasco these days?

42:13

Yeah. Like, right now, I got

42:15

a case in here that's we're a

42:17

hundred and twenty hours to twenty four Oh my goodness. What country

42:19

is that from? No. It's

42:22

a

42:22

it's a

42:23

local bearman. Right

42:26

outside of Philadelphia. Oh my god. I didn't think Billy Billing.

42:28

Sorry. What was that Billy? I

42:30

said, how my boy, Jimmy from

42:32

Billy Billing. I have no idea.

42:35

Yeah. He been playing

42:36

any of his voice over people. We

42:38

haven't been getting any.

42:41

Wow. Yeah.

42:43

i'm sorry Consenting? But

42:44

a really quick look at some picturesque. A pleasure having

42:46

you on. Alright, my friend? Thank you,

42:48

my guy. Alright. There is Chris from

42:52

Pennsylvania. And I think we gotta call it quits when we're

42:54

ahead folks. So we are gonna do it

42:56

for calls for the week

42:59

We will speak to more people next week. We'll take a quick

43:01

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43:42

Friday mailbag. Anybody

43:44

can be on the mail

43:46

bag, you simply have to write into info

43:48

at david pacman dot com. We have a whole

43:50

bunch of different types of emails that we

43:52

get. We get policy deep policy

43:56

wonk type emails. We

43:59

get superficial criticisms We get praise and we also get

44:01

trolling and today we're going to start with just a little bit

44:03

of trolling. It's always good just to get a sense of

44:06

the types of things I get. Peter

44:08

wrote in and Peter

44:10

says, you're a political

44:12

hack empty vessel. Are you

44:14

ever going to take that war

44:18

criminals Thalice out of your mouth and your is Y0U

44:21

apostrophe r e, out of

44:23

you are mouth. you

44:26

pro imperialist progressive

44:29

bootlicking peasant brain

44:32

loser. No wonder you

44:34

have a for profit opinion show, not a

44:36

new non for profit

44:38

newscast. You don't do

44:40

news. You

44:42

preach one-sided b s. What's very

44:44

interesting is this is from a left winger.

44:46

This is left wing

44:50

hate mail. They believe I am an imperialist and not

44:52

really a progressive and that

44:54

I just love Joe

44:56

Biden, the

44:58

supposed imperialist war criminal

45:00

and that the fact that

45:02

this is not a nonprofit show

45:06

is

45:06

part of the problem. Now what's funny is he kind agrees with Alex Jones

45:09

in a sense. Oh, the bonus show where you

45:11

wanna make money, but everybody else that makes money

45:13

to fund themselves is bad.

45:16

Yeah. So, yes, my show, like, basically,

45:18

every other YouTube Podcast Show

45:20

is not an

45:22

nonprofit. a lot of people might not

45:24

even realize, to have a nonprofit, you need a

45:26

board, you need I mean, it's it's actually

45:28

quite complicated to be a nonprofit, and

45:30

it doesn't really make sense for a whole bunch

45:33

of different reasons. We considered it at one

45:35

point. These are folks who

45:37

are in the you can never be progressive enough

45:39

category. And that's why I flagged this one. We get a

45:42

lot of right wing hate

45:44

mail, but the left wing hate

45:46

mail is also interesting because

45:48

in theory, Peter is someone

45:49

with whom I probably

45:51

agree ninety five percent

45:53

of the time. maybe even ninety eight

45:55

percent of the time. But is exactly the type of stuff that hurts

45:58

the left. And you really hate to

46:00

see it. hate to see it can't

46:02

control it. It is what it is.

46:04

Vincent wrote in. Vincent, now

46:06

this is right wing hate. Vincent is

46:09

a very anti semitic. Vincent

46:12

says Pacman, why is the

46:14

left woke crowd so dominated

46:18

by Jews?

46:19

Without Jews support,

46:22

the

46:22

left would die on the vine,

46:24

same as true for Wokeism.

46:26

Only the financial and intellectual support

46:29

from Jews allows voyeurism

46:31

and leftism to continue

46:33

their evil existence. Why

46:37

do most Jews support such

46:40

evil? Yikes. So remember,

46:42

you know, a bunch of different things.

46:45

Jewish Americans, much

46:48

like black Americans, are a very

46:50

left wing voting block, one of

46:52

the most left wing voting blocks in

46:54

the country. When it comes

46:57

to wokism, as defined, I

46:59

guess, by Vincent, it's a

47:02

relatively small part of what there is on

47:04

the left. I think it's extremely over represented in in media

47:06

and extremely over represented by right wing

47:08

media. But sometimes when they

47:10

say wokism, you know, I've talked about

47:14

where there can be excesses sometimes on the left. And I say,

47:16

sure. I can talk about this, but these

47:18

aren't like huge deals on the left.

47:22

Sometimes what the right means by Wokeism is we're

47:24

against treating people terribly because

47:26

of their identity. That's considered

47:30

Wokeism. Earlier in the week, we had this clip of this Republican mom

47:32

saying, I don't like all this

47:34

Marxist stuff like

47:36

anti bullying. sometimes

47:38

that's what they mean. They're just really angry that it's

47:40

not okay to criticize people who don't

47:42

look or sound like you anymore. So anyway, pathetic

47:44

stuff, anti semitic stuff for sure, but

47:46

very very common out there. Oh,

47:48

here's a nice nice voice mail about

47:50

my recent interview with Adam Stein. My

47:54

compliments. I was quite impressed with

47:55

your interview of Adam Stene

47:57

of Wisconsin. I really don't know how many

47:59

interviewers could keep such an

48:02

even keel when faced with

48:04

some of the responses Adam had,

48:06

my compliments to you, sir, yeah, I

48:08

get this question a lot like in my personal

48:10

life as well. How do you remain so

48:12

cool with these people? there's two

48:14

parts of it. One is just the

48:16

experience of doing it.

48:17

The

48:19

second is

48:20

a little bit of desensitization. When you've

48:22

heard this crazy stuff for a decade

48:24

and a half, you do

48:26

become somewhat desensitized to

48:29

the level of depravity that is

48:32

exhibited by many of these folks.

48:34

And I don't know that that's a particularly good

48:36

thing because I'm sort of suffering from a

48:38

normalization in a sense. I'm still

48:40

against the things they say,

48:42

but I'm used to hearing them

48:44

when they are very much not normal. So

48:46

something to think about. Ryan

48:48

wrote in about preventing life,

48:50

also the notion from the Adam Steen

48:52

interview. And Ryan says,

48:54

hey, David, The notion

48:56

of preventing life is

48:58

completely absurd. You're possibly

49:00

preventing life with nearly every action you

49:02

take. For example, I didn't get my

49:04

morning coffee today because I was running late.

49:07

Therefore, I didn't happen to run into

49:09

my future wife. Therefore, we didn't go

49:11

on to have children, thereby, preventing a

49:13

life. Any action can be seen as preventing a life. Thanks

49:15

David Ryan from Milwaukee. Yeah, it's

49:17

sort of like It's

49:22

like a chaos theory on right wing

49:24

brain worms. Adam Stein was

49:26

saying not only is he against birth control

49:28

I'm sorry. Not only is he against abortion, he's against birth

49:31

control as well, because you're

49:34

preventing life. very, very

49:36

weird argument. And it didn't make it it's

49:38

he even seemed confused by it quite

49:40

frankly. Carl wrote in. Carl says,

49:43

are you streaming any debates I'm

49:46

in Pittsburgh and would

49:48

love to see you do a stream of

49:50

Federman versus Oz or

49:52

Shapiro versus

49:54

Mastriano. Oh, and a silly name suggestion for the financial show

49:56

Pacman, the financial factman. Okay.

49:58

Yeah. So I have a whole

50:00

bunch of

50:02

different streams. that are scheduled when it comes

50:04

to debates. Tonight,

50:06

we've

50:06

got Abbott versus Beto. next

50:11

week, we have JD Vance versus Tim

50:14

Ryan,

50:14

and then we have

50:16

Mark Kelley versus Blake Masters.

50:20

the week after we've versus Christ, Whitmer

50:23

versus Tudor, Dixon, and

50:25

if it happens, the

50:27

Rafael Warknock versus hertial walker

50:30

debate, although who the hell knows, whether any of those

50:32

debates are gonna happen. Week after that, we've

50:34

got Rubio versus Val Demings. If it

50:36

gets confirmed, Oz

50:38

versus Federman, and then the week

50:40

after that, nothing scheduled

50:42

yet. So there there's there's actually

50:44

close to like a dozen different debates

50:47

that I plan on covering, and I

50:49

hope you'll join me for those.

50:51

Dan

50:51

wrote in, David, sir,

50:53

why doesn't Federman just take

50:55

the Montréal cognitive assessment exam.

50:58

I would love to see Republicans make

51:00

light of the very exam.

51:02

Trump has been bragging about for years. Yeah. We had a

51:04

voice mail call there last week with a similar idea,

51:06

which was basically Trump took

51:08

a dementia stroke brain injury test

51:10

and brags about it like it

51:12

gets him in dementia. if Federman took

51:14

it, who Federman had a stroke. And now there's

51:17

people saying, oh, we can't think,

51:19

whatever. If Federman

51:20

took it and passed it,

51:22

would

51:22

Republicans then be satisfied? And the answer is, of course not. They would all of a

51:25

sudden say it's not sufficient. We It's

51:27

I

51:29

I know. that Hannity and Trump and everybody brags

51:31

about this test, like it's the be all end all of intelligence

51:33

and cognition. But if it was

51:36

what Federman

51:38

said, And by the way, I got an email from a neurologist in our audience

51:40

who said, you know, David, it's not a what if?

51:43

Almost certainly, Federman

51:45

was given that test. that

51:47

assessment because he had a stroke, and it's typical that that's

51:49

what you do. It's not used for what

51:52

Trump used it for. It's

51:53

stunning, stunning

51:55

stuff. Then different

51:56

Dan wrote in about our YouTube thumbnails.

51:58

Now this I want to address in some serious,

52:00

some depth. Dan says those

52:03

YouTube thumbnails that involve a ridiculous facial expression?

52:06

Dude, please don't do that

52:08

anymore. Your content

52:10

is remarkable and consistent

52:12

and on point, you don't

52:14

need that cringy kind of

52:16

mimicry. Much loved, Dan.

52:18

Listen, guys. They're just

52:20

YouTube thumbnails. Okay?

52:22

I get it.

52:23

There's things that there are trends

52:25

on YouTube and other platforms that

52:27

are kind of gimmicky. Okay?

52:29

Sometimes they're even a little

52:31

cringey. But one of the things we do

52:33

is we adapt.

52:34

If we did our titles today,

52:37

are

52:37

dramatically different than what they were a

52:39

decade ago. Okay? The

52:42

conventions and what does well on our

52:44

different platforms change

52:46

over time. Titles

52:47

have changed, our set

52:49

has changed, the audio

52:52

equipment has changed, how the show is produced has

52:54

changed, and yes, thumbnail change and sometimes we test

52:56

thumbnails where I have a goofy look

52:58

on my face. Okay?

53:00

If

53:01

that alone makes you not wanna

53:02

watch or listen to the show

53:05

anymore, then I'm sorry because

53:08

really the content is what what I would

53:10

hope would be most important, but we're

53:12

rolling with the changes. If you don't

53:14

adapt, you die. in our space.

53:16

So listen, if those

53:18

funny faces don't do well, we'll stop

53:20

using them. If they go out

53:22

of style, we'll stop using them. If they hurt us, we'll stop using But just

53:24

testing different things. That's all. Alright?

53:26

Please folks with peace and love

53:30

Barney wrote in about something that is really,

53:32

really important. Barney wrote

53:34

to me and said, America

53:36

is a food desert. David

53:40

Englishman traveling through the USA here

53:42

currently in Chicago. I

53:44

speak to a lot of Europeans on my

53:46

travels and we are shocked that much

53:48

of the US is a food

53:50

desert and that we are all

53:52

completely undernourished and cannot

53:54

follow a typically healthy diet we might

53:56

adhere to in Europe. It's

53:58

impossible to find cheap healthy

53:59

food literally

54:01

anywhere, writes barney. It costs

54:03

seven

54:03

dollars for a salad,

54:05

thirteen for

54:06

a foot long subway, for example.

54:08

I even found it's

54:09

more expensive to buy Florida oranges

54:11

in Florida than it is for me to

54:13

get Spanish oranges in England.

54:15

Yes, I understand inflation's a factor, but this is

54:17

happening everywhere. And despite this,

54:20

groceries and healthy foods in

54:22

particular are

54:24

obscenely expensive. I think

54:25

the reason is you have one national supermarket,

54:26

so there's no competition, and there are

54:29

a general lack of supermarkets compared

54:31

to the UK. So this part

54:33

I don't know, we have more that

54:36

don't we have I mean, there's Trader

54:38

Joe's, there's

54:40

Whole Foods. There's

54:42

well, that's actually interesting.

54:44

Is is Wegmans National? I'm not

54:48

even sure. Maybe Barney's onto something. Maybe we only have, like, two

54:50

national supermarket chains. Like, I

54:52

know, Stop and Shop is just a Northeast

54:54

thing, I

54:56

believe. Yeah. That that may be a problem. Listen,

54:58

Barney is completely correct. And a

55:00

lot of people, you know, when I've traveled

55:04

through the Midwest. Small towns in the

55:06

northeast typically

55:08

have great food and

55:10

plenty of supermarkets, you know,

55:13

upstate New York and Vermont

55:16

and, you know, Maine, these play there

55:18

there's typically no issue. But when I've

55:20

been in, like, Wisconsin. When I've

55:23

been in Northern Indiana, when I've

55:25

been in even Kansas City,

55:27

Missouri is like,

55:27

okay, right in the city, but then it gets a little

55:30

bit rough. it is a major

55:32

problem. And there's multiple problems.

55:34

There's the

55:34

the pricing issue, of course,

55:36

the food

55:37

desert issue where there are

55:39

I mean, even even in New York and Boston,

55:41

there are poorer neighborhoods with a

55:44

dearth of options other than

55:46

chain restaurants. And there's also a lack of education, sadly, as

55:48

to what constitutes a healthy diet. What does

55:50

it mean to eat a healthy diet? Well, I

55:52

don't

55:53

know. I eat I eat chicken and

55:55

vegetables. But what do you mean? Well, yeah, I mean, it's wings

55:57

that I

55:58

fried as well as

56:00

you know mashed potatoes, excluding,

56:02

right, there are fries, whatever. There

56:05

are definitely misunderstandings about

56:07

how a diet should

56:10

established and honestly part of the problem is that that old

56:12

school food pyramid also

56:14

was somewhat inaccurate

56:16

and confusing. So, Barney, you

56:18

have correctly pointed out

56:20

that there's a lot of problems with food

56:22

here in the United States. And

56:24

it's really like

56:26

trying to You're kind of like trying to dig yourself

56:28

out, but as you do it,

56:30

you're digging

56:32

another hole. I don't know

56:33

if it's the right metaphor. Get your

56:35

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56:39

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56:41

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