"Best of the Internet" With Producer Dan

I'm back for the final segment of our program and producer Dan joins us as he does

every day and

How are you doing?

I'm just about to say producer Jan. We have we have news on this show. Yeah, that's gonna be different in the modern era

That's possible, but no, I don't think we've gone that far

Well, let me back back in back in Virginia here, so yeah, you know

I got to figure out I got to take these trips. It was a really interesting trip. I will tell you

To be in New York with this kind. It's not a secret meeting, but it's a meeting of really really really I was told

There were three billionaires in the room on Monday night

Like 100 people in the room. I was one of them and I'm not the billionaire

So if you stacked up the people with you know the billionaire status to

To popper status. I was probably in the popper status

category, but interesting to hear

What these people are thinking and you know New York there's some some media types

Who were in the room a lot of people who were writers or associated with some of the editorial boards and I don't ever want to

Share too much because it's all off the records and you're not supposed to repeat it

But I thought I mean it's interesting to be invited and included in this group and be able to share

A little bit about that on the air, but man there was palpable concern in New York

And I think that that's legitimate to be worried

Well, we were talking about this before the show

You know both of us I guess maybe talked a little bit about our own weight loss journeys or whatever else

I think I lost 35 pounds last last fall. However, I've probably put

Is there a hand back on if you cut a deal with the company?

Well, unfortunately, I think I've put 10 or 15 back on just the stresses of getting this this project

I've not been very good or diligent about going to the gym lately, but you know you get to a certain weight

And you say to yourself gosh, you know

It's just so frustrating to deal with how much maybe to take off and you think I wish I

Wish I had had thought about doing this sooner

I wish I'd taken action before before now and we kind of need to think about

Iran in the same way that that we're in the situation we are with Iran because we let this go for so long

And if we suffer any sort of retaliation or whatever at this point any of the consequences that we faced are the

Result of the fact that we didn't do anything about this

Until now and if we wait to do anything

until later

The consequences are going to be worse just like if we don't get in the gym or if we don't start dieting if we need to lose weight

It's going to be worse a year or two or three or whatever from now if we if we don't do anything right right this moment

The principle here is you either pay now or you pay more later

And if we have to pay anything now for this it's the result of the negligence that we've exhibited for the last 45 years

Not because of what we did this week

This week is why it's not going to be worse later. It's um

Some people would scoff at that analogy, but I think it's a very good analogy and

There are probably three or four major things that you could

Draw that connection to I would say

Immigration in the country no one has wanted to enforce the law because it's ugly

Oh my god, we're gonna split up families and what about the little five-year-old who is an American citizen

But their parents are here illegally that's too complicated and I don't want to be the bad guy

Well, you know what now you've made it even worse because that little five-year-old is now 25 years old and married with

a family and

Abuela is going to have to go if we're going to enforce the law and if we don't enforce the law about poor Abuela the grandma

then

Who do we enforce the law? I mean, you know, we've we've created chaos

Where it didn't need to be if someone had just been stoic about it and responsible not irresponsible

I would use the the deficit as another example of that we're 39 trillion dollars in debt

You want to know why we're 39 trillion dollars in debt because no one has the guts to say right

We have to cut spending and we can't pay for everybody's

Cell phone we can't pay for everybody's a school lunch. We can't pay for everybody's retirement

We can't pay for everybody's medical care

And you know what's weird is I don't think they've paid for any of this for me

I mean, I'm not rich and I am you know, I try not to be bitter in life

Because it's you know, it's easy to get to that place if you hang around the wrong people

But I look I'm like I don't think the government ever picked up any tab for me that I'm thinking

Yeah, I mean, I drive on the highways you build at an exorbitant cost, but I

There is an entire group of people who have been raised to believe that the government has to pick up some of their tab

So that they can live a certain lifestyle, you know, the living wage for them is

Something coupled with government assistance and I

I'm getting frustrated that

I have been up most of my professional career at four o'clock in the morning

Five o'clock in the morning to go to work and

I'm looking at all these other people who were sleep until noon who were getting

You know bills paid for no one has had the gods to stand up in front of the country

Without vilifying people and just say tough you're gonna have to pay your own bills now

Why because we didn't do that and now we're 39 trillion dollars in debt and this cannot continue and when it collapses

This is this is what really worries me damn

Yeah, to your point about not making the tough decisions up front

There are two ways this goes either somebody is tough enough to tell the truth and make some tough decisions and assume that the American people will

Support them, which is a big assumption because we're live

I think many of our people do live in fantasy world 39 trillion. I don't even know what that means

I don't know what that number is we'll just continue on this track if we choose that

At some point it's all coming down on us

like the Soviet Union collapse and

And

Americans are gonna starve to death and the society will forever be changed because we

Did have the guts to do what we needed to do now

Yeah, I can't claim credit for this analogy it comes by by way of comedian Adam Karola whom I whom I really admire

Why didn't he get his own night late night show us to that punk Jimmy Kimmel anyway

But he's he's a car guy. He said you know some cars or Jaguars that you have to take into the shop every week to get maintenance

I had a friend of mine who had a Jaguar and I can attest that was basically as many times

He was taking the card of the job or you have a Toyota where toyotas are so well built

You could go 50,000 miles without an oil change and the thing would probably keep running but

but

As a point at which even the Toyota will break down

If good point and America is like a Toyota and it it's it's built to last and to run

but

We have been neglecting

The maintenance for a long time and eventually

Every

Quote unquote car is going to break down if you if you don't take care of it

And we haven't taken care of it and we I if you look at the dashboard

Yeah, I mean the dashboard tells the story 39 trillion dollars and dead

A lot of people on welfare a lot of people who are here huge numbers of people who are here who are not citizens

Questioning the validity of every election

If if this were the dashboard on a car

The car is about to be like out. Yeah, it's a problem

All along the way to be on on the dash. Yeah, yeah check oil check tires

I mean everything is is flashing like crazy and and we just we just keep on acting like Leslie Nielsen and the naked gun

Nothing to see here. Keep moving nothing to see here, but yeah, so it's well

One of the things I'd like to do at the end of every show is best of the internet

Which is really the worst of the internet

Depending on if it's pretty good though. I've found it's funny in the last few days. It's pretty pretty amusing

But so you've got a collection of things that the internet has barfed up related to the

The timing of Iran and the president and his team

What what did you find you want to show us some of that? Let's see here. Why don't we start with this?

This is a cover version of Bohemian Rhapsody called Iranian Rhapsody

With Trump folks. Yeah with with president Trump at the piano

Gosh

Yeah, the only thing they could have done better with is the voice for Trump that he's seeing

Doesn't really sound like his voice, but

I've never heard of the same but yeah, I get you

Be a little more how in the world

Can they do something that looks that recent? I mean, you know, it's not

Yeah, I think the average person look at that. No, it's not real

But it yeah, that's pretty real wow

And then this this is a well, this was one that you sent me that I thought was great

The only only thing is I wish they had changed the lyrics and this one like they did on the last one. I think it should have been

Iran are you okay instead of the original lyrics, but we have we have dancing Donald Trump Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth and the Oval

That I mean that's clever that's clever and think of that you would never have been able to pull something like that off in the past wow

Isn't that amazing? I mean yeah, I look

Maybe AI is a double edged sword. I don't want to say this and Trump all dancing

In the Oval Office wow, that's but obviously and then AI

I've saved I've saved what I think is the best for last this is this is a series that that folks do

With with numerous leaders, but but Donald Trump has been one who has been the the focal point in part

I suppose because he is the president right now

But Trump baby Trump baby needed to address the world after the the bombing of Iran and this is this is Trump baby talking

Good evening Iran or as I like to call it america's 52nd state

Right behind Canada a salamu alaikum mother truckers. That's right. Oh my god favorite president a new iatola slash supreme leader learned a new phrase

Very cultured many people are saying I pronounced it perfectly probably the best pronunciation in history believe me now

I told come on. I said Ali

buddy

Knock it off stop with a nonsense

Make a deal have bebe very easy very

And what did he do? He kept running his mouth kept talking tough big mistake huge mistake actually

Because I don't bluff folks everybody knows that I'm like a casino except I always win in the houses america

So congratulations people of Iran you are now liberated you didn't even have to do anything we did it for you

You're welcome

Wow

See now that that is that that's the kind of thing

That AI and the internet have now enabled conservatives to do because right think about it 20 years ago

Even 10 years ago

The only people who would have had the resources is the or the ability to pull that off would have been the people in saturday night live or south park or

You know one of the entertainment

behemoths and they are all way left of center

So if you felt like you were constantly the butt of the joke you were because they hate you and they want to mock and ridicule you

And if you read any of the books by leftist leaders

Ridicule is one of the best ways to humiliate and defeat your opponent

And they have successfully done that for decades to conservatives

So now you've got conservatives who are putting this stuff out. I mean, I don't know. I look at that

And think that makes Trump

Look, I mean, it's silly and it's a joke, but it makes him look good compared to what they would do to him

Don't you think? Yeah, no, no, it's sort of that stuff. I think it's more flattering than anything else

Yeah, no, and then it's a series of of these these videos. This is this is they've I think they've become kind of a kind of a popular

Trend on on social media and whatever else and then the other thing I think we should mention is I do think that we that the read revolution now is an official monkey of the show

And I wanted to show the the photo of a punch the monkey. That's right. That's right punch the monkey

This was kid John, you know, John made a special trip to special special special layover in Japan to see

Some people are doing that. I did not do that. I did not go to Japan

But this is a little AI version of a little punch the monkey and his stuffed animal with me

Obviously, it's not real. Oh, I guess I mean, do you know that it's not really it's not real

Um, but you know, it was weird when when we posted that on the read revolution Facebook page

There were some really nasty snobby obnoxious people who thought that that was

What beneath the dignity? I mean, what do you what world are you living in you whack jobs

Supposedly Republicans

Wack job Republicans who were attacking me for putting that picture up. Hey, you know

Donald Trump stands in front of the White House and hands out

Halloween candy

Glenn young can put on his little cowboy boots and his little cowboy hat and stands there and and does photo ops

This is a this is a news program, but I'm trying not to make it just so completely boring that nobody

outside of the

General Assembly wants to watch it

I mean what really and truly what world are you living in where you wouldn't look at that go oh

That's a story that everybody in the world around the way I bet you go to Africa to Nairobi Kenya and they would recognize that little monkey

Because it's all over the internet one of the top stories of the last 14 days

You're such an obnoxious

Wrench that you think that that is what beneath the the dignity of a political candidate

Give me that you get the hell out of here. Yeah, I mean really

What what miserable people we have in both political parties if that's the attitude. I thought it was cute

I was very happy to see former boss of ours would always remind us we're in the entertainment business

We're we're supposed to entertain so we well, you know, you know, I used to have arguments about that

As I said we're in an information business and he said we're in the entertainment business and truth be told it's kind of

A little bit of both a little bit of an enlightenment is Glenn Beckwood said. Yeah, right. I've always liked that phrase of his you know

The fusion of those two things you hope that you hope you can

Give people information off of that if you just make it dry

policy wonk

Bowl right

You will I mean look if if you're trying to sell ads or get eyeballs you're gonna fail

Because nobody's interested in that I mean the masters are not interested in that maybe the policy people in DC

We'll sit through it, but nobody else will and you're gonna lose the country because the truth is

that

politics is downstream from culture

So you've got to reclaim the culture

If you have any hope of changing the policy and the politics

So I don't know that that was annoying when I saw these nasty comments from these

Soulless jerks

You know just for you jerks. I'm gonna play I'm gonna show a video a punch the monkey every day for the rest of the week

At the end of the show just to stick it to you because

Right and it's true. They're punch watch day 17

There are people who are crying every day about poor little punch the monkey being

disowned

By the other monkeys now they're pro abortion

They don't have any problem with babies having their brain sucked out on the day that they're

About to be born that's not a problem for them

But I'm glad that they're not totally dead inside that they see a little monkey being mistreated at least they have some

Some sympathy for the monkey it would be great if the first time I saw those videos I was fighting back tears

I mean, yeah, what about sad heartbreaking

It was it was

When the other monkeys are basically tormenting

The poor the poor little guy

Yeah, I mean

You hope that you hope that people aren't aren't so dead inside that they can't empathize or some of them are that sort of a situation

Yeah, some of them are and that's evidenced by the the policies

That you're seeing today and you know what whether you're on the right

Politically or the left politically you can't get to that place

I mean, you just you cannot allow and if you do get to that place then you need to get get off the stage

Because you've got to have you can't you can't make public policy based totally on emotion and empathy

Withside on empathy is a lot of people have been calling it lately

You know, you'll you'll destroy yourself if you if you've got a boat that is supposed to have four people in it

And you've already got six people in it and

You put the seventh and eighth person in you're all gonna die. So you know, it's just a horrible reality that you've got to be able to make tough decisions

um

But you also can't you also can't get so callous towards

uh, the basic emotions of humanity that you crush people

Because of your your hatred and I think everybody needs to check that on the right end the left

Because we're in a bad place at the moment

All right, um, so we wrap this wrap this one

Yeah, and I hope people will stick around and watch producer Dan

He doesn't even tell me what he's picked at the end of every show

If you stay for the conclusion he plays one like three or four or five second little

Yeah, this one's a little longer today, but it's worth it. It's worth it 20 seconds. Yeah, but it's all right

That's gonna do it for us on the read revolution on this Wednesday. We will be

Should we talk tell people who will be will be on the show tomorrow

We can

Okay, the former skin of the house bill how will be will how and we will be asking him about the history

Of a partisanship in the general assembly and redistricting and I think he'll have a very enlightening story to tell you

About the republican attitude

Versus what we're seeing from the democrats. So that's tomorrow on the read revolution make sure you give us a like and a follow

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