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How Close Is Trump To Dying?

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This week on The Necessary Conversation, it's Chad, Haley, and Mary Lou. Bob is still out recovering but getting better. We miss you, Dad. ❤️

🤒 How close is Trump to death? Photos from a White House Rose Garden dinner went viral showing Trump sweating excessively and looking visibly ill — the latest in a long string of swollen ankles, bruised hands, and constantly falling asleep on camera. Then two days later he stepped off a plane with freshly dyed brown hair in what appears to be a desperate attempt to look younger. We ask Mom: does she think Trump is healthy?

💣 Day 190 of Trump's war with Iran and now Trump and Vance are both claiming it's not a war. Vance said "there is no active shooting" — despite three consecutive days of U.S.-Iran exchanges of fire that same week. Trump called it "small potatoes." Then on Saturday, the U.S. struck three Iranian oil tankers after Iran launched ballistic missiles at two Navy ships. Eighteen U.S. service members are dead. We ask Mom: is sending 18 Americans to their deaths "small potatoes"?

🗳️ Trump is trying to kill mail-in voting before the midterms. A new USPS rule would force states to redesign ballot envelopes, upload voter data to a federal portal, and get pre-approval — or USPS will refuse to deliver their ballots. A federal judge blocked it in 23 states, but it's headed to the Supreme Court. Mail voting was 43% of all ballots in 2020. And of course, Trump himself votes by mail. We ask: why is he trying so hard to make it harder for people to vote?

✈️ We simmer down to hear about Haley's latest galavanting.

🌍 The UN announced the world will breach the 1.5°C Paris climate target "within the next few years." Earth is already at 1.4°C above pre-industrial levels. The goal has officially shifted from preventing climate change to surviving it as a species. Meanwhile, Trump has withdrawn from the Paris Agreement, repealed the EPA's Endangerment Finding, and cut funding for NOAA weather monitoring and climate research — during one of the worst climate disaster years on record. We ask Mom: do you think global warming is real now?

📞 Reporting revealed that inmates at four Oklahoma prisons are being used to make political telemarketing calls for Republican candidates, paid $2 an hour while the state collects $10. The calls are funded by a conservative super PAC that paid roughly $600,000 to the vendor. Some inmates say the scripts go beyond polling into outright campaigning. We ask: why aren't inmates campaigning for Democrats too?

🎖️ Army Secretary Dan Driscoll — the youngest ever to hold the position and a close friend of JD Vance — resigned after clashing with Pete Hegseth over the firing of senior generals and the blocking of modernization efforts. His exit leaves the Army without Senate-confirmed civilian or uniformed leadership during an active war. The U.S. has a $900 billion defense budget. Iran's is roughly $15 billion. We ask the obvious question: why can't we beat them?

No Dad this week but Chad, Haley, and Mom covered a lot of ground. Bob will be back.

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The Necessary ConversationHow Close Is Trump To Dying?. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

In the aftermath of the 2024 election, America is even more divided than before. Half the country fears the end of democracy and the other half welcomes it. As America inches toward the brink of authoritarian rule, now more than ever, we must force ourselves to have the necessary conversation. Welcome to the Nizera Gourmetz. I'm, yeah, I said real fast. Did you catch that? No. Necessary conversation. I said it's so fast you couldn't hear it. Okay. With me today is my mom and we have a brand new guest on the show. Haley Pope. Sorry. My sister. Yeah. My daughter who's been galvan team. She hasn't been here in a long time, but we welcome her with open arms. Right. It was one episode and I had to do like very real shit. You act like I was out there to I'm traveling again. It was very real shit that I had to do.

Oh, it was real shit. Save it for the simmer down. Very real shit. Save it for the back after a long time. One week. She was doing very real shit. Everybody it was very real shit. We assure you. Save it for the simmer down. All right. Mom, you got any diddies. A shout out just one more time. Amanda Ripley. She was very kind, very nice. We were in her article in the paper in the New York Times. It was published August 20th of 2026. The name of the article was the parents are mega. The kids are liberal. Can you two help? She had promised me when that went to print that she would try really hard to get me some copies and they did arrive. And I thank her very much for it. And she also has a web page herself. Amanda Ripley.com. Go check her out. She like for several years has helped. I don't know if she's helped people, but she has written about conflicts in people's lives.

And that's kind of why she grabbed on to the necessary conversation. Yeah. Yeah. Amanda Ripley. I have a ditty as well. Remember a couple of weeks ago when we talked about the wild horses being slaughtered for me and you just refused to like side with the horses and instead side of Donald Trump. Anyway, stop. Stop. Stop. Take kind of take some of that back or just stop for a minute. Take your hat off. I did not side. Come on in the hot. I don't know. I've always been on. No, no, no, no, no, no. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It's not on the horse's side and this has been going on for 35 years. No, no, no, it doesn't matter. Whatever. Okay. You took his side, not the horses. So anyway, I did watch Blue Zeus. Have you guys seen it? I have it. Yeah. I highly recommend it. You don't know exactly what's happening with Mustangs in America. Recommend you watch Blue Zeus. It very beautifully articulates like why it's happening.

Obviously all because of greedy fucking money, hungry pieces of shit in our government and in cattle ranching. Anyway, so go watch that doc. It's very eye opening. It's sad. You feel like every emotion imaginable. But it really made me feel compelled to do something. So we are running merch right now and we're going to donate some of those proceeds to Skydog Sanctuary, which is in that documentary. And they basically have dedicated their lives to finding these wild horses at the BLM, like farms basically where they hold them before they go to slaughter, before they go to bad homes who just sell them for meat as well. So they dedicate their entire lives to rescuing as many as they can and also keeping families intact, which is like really important for wild horses like their families. Like keep them alive. Now they're herd animals and they rest you'd him and then they went and searched all the other pens for his family.

Yeah. And they brought them to their land and they have like 9,000 acres where they release them essentially like back into the wild so they can look at their days. I think some of that too though is in Malibu. They have a few horses in Malibu, California also like five or six or eight, not very many, but then the majority is on the bigger range. Yeah. Well, I just want to ask you a quick question about the horses. You think all these horses should be saved. None should be eaten, right? Correct. But you don't feel that way about cows. No, we've always ate mate of cows. Right. It's the same shit. Yeah, it's the exact same thing. It's just like a social construct. You've been brainwashed again. An animal is an animal is an animal. Like why aren't you feel like you're eating your dogs? It's just a social construct. Because I don't eat dog meat or horse meat. There's no difference. I really don't eat cow meat very much. I don't like steak. I don't like a lot of the beef. But you eat them chickens. You eat them fish.

I eat a hamburger. I eat hamburglers. Yeah, that's a cow. Okay. Are did he's concluded? I do believe they are. My side. We have a bunch of topics to get to. We're going to be talking about how close Donald Trump is to death. We're going to be talking about how Trump and JD Vance characterize the war in Iran as not a war. We're going to be talking about how Trump is trying to get rid of mail-in voting. We're going to be talking about climate change. We're going to be talking about prison labor where they are now having in your home state, mom. I saw it. Inmates are making calls on behalf of Republican candidates in the upcoming elections. We're going to be talking about how the military exodus is still continuing under Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth. Before we get to any of that, we do have a question from a listener. If you would like to submit a question, all you have to do is record it in a one-minute or shorter video and email it to the necessary conversation plot at gmail.com and put in the subject line question. Are you ready for today's question?

Yes. May I say one more thing real quick, I forgot. People have been jumping on me and saying things that I blink. Like when you say stuff, I blink. Okay, you know why I blink? I got dry. I have the driest eyes in the whole damn world. I am not kidding you. So I don't blink. I don't blink to be mean to you guys or it's like when I'm really watching the videos and I got to go, oh, oh. I have to come do these treatments where they put hot things on my eyes and so I'm not blinking to make fun of you guys. There you go. I'm a blinker. Okay, here's our question. Hi guys, my name is Cheyenne and I am from California. My question is for Mary Lou. So over the last, we'll say year, we've noticed that your opinions on things have changed, which is great.

However, you still consider yourself maga, but with some of the things you believe now seem pretty different from where a lot of maga candidates are. Like you said that you think the war with Iran needs to end. You think everybody deserves health care. You have been really vocal about taking care of veterans soldiers. Service men and women. You want transparency with the Epstein files and now after everything that's been happening with ice, you said you think I should be abolished. So when you're looking at people who are actually going to be on the ballot in Oklahoma in November, how does that affect your vote? Are you going to look at each of the candidates and what they actually stand for? Or do you still see yourself voted Republican because that's the part you identify with? I guess the bigger question is if the person with the R next to their name supports things that you've realized you don't really agree with anymore. At what point does what you believe become more important than the part you align with?

Thanks guys. Really love the podcast and Mary Lou, very proud of the purpose you've made over the last year. I look forward to seeing more. Okay, mom. So that's the question. You have clearly exhibited that you disagree with most of what the Republican party stands for at this point. Will you be voting straight Republican in the midterms? Or are you actually going to look at the candidates and see who aligns with your new views on health care, war, and Iran, ice, Epstein files and vote Democrat? I will vote. I will not vote straight Republican this year. And I'm going to look at both names and I will research and figure it out who I'm going to vote for. This is the first I'm not going to vote straight Republican. I believe you're not only what? Then you're not maga. No, I can vote both ways. I can vote for Democrat. I can vote for Republican.

Yeah, 100%. You can vote however you want. But the reason I put this question in here is because we've only really covered that kind of thing in the context of Trump that you can disagree with him and all these things, but he's still your president. He's still your president. But the question I thought was interesting because we're not talking about him now. We're talking about the rest of the party. All of whom align with Trump's views on all of this other stuff that you disagree with. So that's kind of where I'm getting at. It's like with Trump, you'll say he's still my president. But with some of these other political candidates, you're not going to vote for him now. You're saying I really haven't seen any Democrat yet that I like on the other side. Same things, but as it gets closer, I am going to read more and more and see more. But all of those issues we just talked about, the war, Epstein files, everything, the prices of things going up, universal health care. These are all issues that Democrats, you share the Democratic view on those things.

We'll see. We'll see how they spill it and how they say it on TV and they're saying it right now. Yeah, it's not happening right now. You can go research all of those candidates right fucking now. I will. And what Chad and I talked about last week too, though, is sometimes I believe that the person will say one thing, but they're really going to do another. So don't Trump. On the other side too, both ways. Okay, so almost you said you weren't going to vote straight Republican. That's a big step. Yeah, that's a big step. Yeah. What's it going to feel like when you put that checkmark or however you do it? I'm sure you do it. I'm like a little video touchscreen. How's it going to feel when you mark off the box for a Democrat for the first time? I don't know. I might just stroke out right there. Okay. But we have to do absentee ballots and we'll get to that. Well, I don't have to, but your dad will because he may not be able to get up and get about by then.

But we'll talk about that. So that's one of our topics. Yeah, that is one of our topics. Speaking of let's move into our topics. First up. How close is Trump to death on Wednesday? What? I said, I hope tomorrow I want you both to be very careful with your words today. In this topic. Okay. Because there was a lot of questions. I hope you both be very careful with your words today in this topic. Okay. Because there was a lot of questions. That was with his words taken literally and he now is in jail. I don't want you guys to go to jail. Thank you. I don't want to get jail either. Okay. Sorry, I'm just queuing up some images because these are important as well. Let me read this. I don't get these images on Wednesday of this week. Um, Trump attended a White House Rose Garden dinner where he hosted GOP incumbents running in midterm races. Attention quickly shifted from his messages for the candidates to his unhealthy appearance photos from the event immediately went viral that showed Trump sweating

excessively and looking ill. This is just the latest in an unending series of clear signs of his physical decline that includes swollen ankles, bruised hands, constantly falling asleep on camera and official White House meetings. But his terrible appearance isn't where the story ends because two days later as Trump stepped off an airplane in New Jersey, he unveiled his new hairdo. He died his hair brown and it seems to be a clear attempt to look younger and healthier. Let me quickly find this picture. I got it. It's right here. I'm trying to. There he is. No, I want to show you the, um, the picture of him sweating at the Rose Garden first. Let me just see if I can get this quickly here. Uh, yeah, there we go. There we go. Okay. So I'm going to show you this picture now, Finn. I did see that online. I've seen it several times. What's that? The one at the Rose Garden. He did not look well. That's correct. We're going to see it.

Sorry. I have this cute up. All right. Here we go. You ready? This is the picture of him at this Rose Garden. Wow. Now, Mom. Do you think Trump is healthy? That picture doesn't look very good for sure. So I remember, I remember you guys telling me like four or five months ago, Sainy wasn't healthy. And I was like, I don't see it yet. Yeah, I can see some things now. He looks like when Arnold Schwarzenegger and Total Recalls on Mars and his helmet comes off. I don't know. Any minute now. Oh, shit. All right. So that's what he looked like at the Rose Garden. Right? You're saying he doesn't look healthy there. Now, let me show you this picture of him two days later stepping off of a plane in New Jersey.

Oh, who's this? Who's she? Look at that. What the hell? No hair. Who does? When did you guys start to be so unkind of people? People. It's on a trial. I hate him. I hate him. This is all like I can't. She's right. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You just came out of being unkind to people. You and dad have called Michelle Obama big Mike for how many years? Yeah. I totally believe that's a truth though. You do not. Well, this is the truth too. I totally believe she is a man. I really do. Fine. We are also talking about the truth here. Donald Trump will like shit at that Rose Garden. And now he's got a brown hair due. I'm not making any of this up. No. We're looking at it. So he colored his hair. So he colored his hair to make him feel better. I do know this. Okay. I am trying to be a better person.

I've had people close to me die now. I am trying to be better. But you still support Donald Trump who is a pedophile, fraudulent, criminal, rapist. Like you want to be a better person? Denounce that shit. I want to be a better person by the things that I say against other people. When I called Sleepy Joe Biden, Sleepy Joe, I probably shouldn't have done that. That's not nice. You just backed up big Mike. But that I do totally believe in that concept. So to me, that's not criticism. Okay, hang on. Hang on though. If you believe in that concept, what is the concept that Michelle Obama is a man? Yes. Okay. Transgendered and to find. Fine. If that is what you believe, why make fun of Michelle Obama? I never make fun of her. Big Mike. That's what I would like to call her. No, that's what you and dad called Michelle. Okay, fine.

I apologize. All right. That's progress. I want to be a better person. Apology exceptions. Don't be half-man sure of all that. I want to be a better person. I don't want to call Sleepy Joe Sleepy Joe. That's good. I don't want you guys to call Donald Trump names. If he is dying, you're going to have to be the one on Judgment Day at the end to say I did make fun of him. Judgment Day. That's going to be why you don't get it to have it. Well, you're going to be at the pearly gates. Donald Trump is a rapist, pedophile, fraudulent piece of shit who is stealing money from us on a daily basis. I will not apologize for making fun of him. He's a piece of shit. Okay. You can disagree with his politics and everything else that he stands for, but calling people names. He is raping people. He is a rapist. Fuck that guy. I'm going to make fun of him every chance I get. And this is different, Mom. There's a big difference here between, you know, whatever you're saying about Michelle Obama or Sleepy Joe calling people derogatory nicknames and simply stating facts.

Trump is a 34 time felon. Trump is robbing the country blind in an unending series of corrupt business deals with foreign countries and tech billionaires and whatever. Trump is a convicted sexual assaultor. He is these things. This is not us calling him names. This is not us making fun of him. These are real true facts that this thing's he's done. That's why we that is why I continue this podcast because I want you to realize that he's a terrible person. And when you believe in the things that he fucking talks about just in who he is, that kind of makes you a little bit of a bad person. You're supporting a fucking rapist. That's crazy. We've been over the rapist case. We've been over all that. That last one that I didn't believe the woman. That one for sure. But you didn't believe the woman is irrelevant. Two juries believed her unanimously.

Nine to zero were both votes and the Supreme Court upheld those in a civil case. Yes. Okay. Civil doesn't matter. If you brought a civil case to court and you want it, would you feel like it didn't matter? I don't know, Chad. Okay. Do you think OJ is guilty? We've talked about that. Yeah. Do you think he's guilty? Probably. Do you think OJ is guilty? Probably. Well, he was found guilty in a civil court, but not in a criminal one. So it doesn't matter, I guess, right? All I'm trying to say is I think people, you need to choose words and be more kind. And I'm trying to do it. And I do apologize for calling Big Mike, Big Mike and Sleepy Joe, Sleepy Joe. I do. That's not nice. It's not nice. You just reiterated the insult. What am I? I shouldn't have called Michelle Obama, Big Mike. And I shouldn't have called Joe, Joe Byron, Sleepy Joe, but you reiterated the insult.

And so how should I have said it, Haley? I just told you. Yeah, just like you. Use their names. Look. It's semantics. I appreciate that you are making this conscious stuff. He did when I apologized. You all jumped my ass. No, I just said I appreciate it. I just said I appreciate that you are making this conscious stuff and saying that you don't want to use language like this anymore. I think it is a good thing. I support you. And on your behalf, I will also never call Donald Trump a name. I will state facts about Donald Trump. I will not stop doing that, but I won't call him a name. I will. And I will. Haley can be the name caller, but I will join you. I wish I could shit fucking don't Trump. I hate him. I'm going to continue to call him names. I will not. Mom, if you adhere to your end of the bargain that you're not going to call people names anymore, I will not call Donald Trump any names. I will do an impersonation of him from time to time. That's fine. That's okay. And again, I will state facts about him and his convictions and his allegations and all of that. I do believe by the pictures he's having big health issues now.

I can just have heart failure. He's his body's pumping up pretty good. It's very. Now, why are you laughing at that? I said that. It's just a funny phrase. His body's pumping up pretty good. I just found it funny. Sorry. It's congestive heart failure, probably. Or his kidneys or something are going. My final question on this topic, Haley, how long does he have to live? I mean, I don't think he survives another year. Mom. No one can tell you the day you got to have in our hell. We know this. I don't even want to guess on someone's life or death. I don't want to do it anymore, but not very long. Any more. Less than a year. Put it in your notes. Put it in your predictions. Less than a year. Okay. Maybe. This is Haley's predictions. What is today is nine. Six. Twenty six. He's going to be a visit and met you McConnell real fucking soon. Trump dies in a year.

Okay. We'll see. Where's my McConnell? Guess who's been. That kind of came to it. People don't even talk about it anymore. Well, fuck is he? I don't know. Guess who's been gone one year already. My kitty cat shook a bear, honey, bunches. I saw you made a post about them. It was very sad. One year. Speaking of one year, we're rapidly approaching one year that we've been in what Donald Trump and JD Vance call not a war this week. Both Trump and JD Vance declared that the war with Iran is not a war as we reached the 190th day of the war. Vance gave a press briefing at the White House on Thursday, September 3rd, the first briefing in over 40 days, where he rejected the term war saying, I wouldn't call it a war right now. There's no active shooting. He said this despite three consecutive days this week when the United States and Iran exchange fire around the street of Hormuz. The next day for early September 4th in the Oval Office, Trump was asked about Vance's comment and said, it's small potatoes for us.

Trump said, I would say that it's intermittent. I could see someone not calling it a war. Why haven't Jamie Foxx? Have you seen Jamie Foxx's impersonation of Trump? It's so good. I know. It's right on the money. Trump also said the US is not fighting right now. Then on Saturday, September 5th, US forces struck three Iranian oil tankers after Iran launched ballistic missiles toward two US Navy ships. Mom, do you think the war with Iran is a war? Yes, I do. And I think that was crazy talk, that they talked that way, that 18 family members. I mean, the 18 people that had been killed there. I don't think their family members appreciated any of that kind of talk or the 750 wounded soldiers we have. Or how many people are on the aircraft here? Right. Right.

And he's calling it small potatoes. Yeah. How many people's lives are directly affected by this that are in military service, who, as you said, now have family members who have given their lives for this pointless war. And he's just sitting in the White House, sweating close to death, small potatoes. So you've seen his disregard now again for the people who are fighting this war, the Americans. Why do you still support him? Why do you still support Donald Trump? Like I said, right now he's the president. I hope he gets to sound of this war quick. He called it quick. Quick, we're 190 days in. The quick is gone. You can never have that hope again. It's gone. We are 190 days into this war. So this is just your loop. This is just your loop. You're always going to continue. Well, we'll see. We'll just see what happens. I know he did that, but that doesn't really matter. That's the frustration that I have with you. You're seeing it happen real time.

He has no fucking regard for any of the people in the military that are over there right now, calling it small potatoes. Like that's a piece of shit, president. You're like, he's still my president. But why? Is that my impersonation that you just did? I mean, they're my president. Yeah, I still like president like myself. Okay. Oh, Lord, what they, what they both called it was intermediate fighting, which is ridiculous. It's a war. Yeah, I'm not happy about the war. You know, there's just called Donald Trump a piece of shit. I'm not doing that, Haley. But that's why he is. It's not. Let me, let me ask you another question. Why do you think Donald Trump and JD Vance refuse to say that this is a war? I do not know. Think about it. What benefit is it for them to say this is not a war? I really don't know because it is a war. There are two points that they're trying to make here.

What? One, if it's a war and they started it without congressional approval, it's illegal, which is what has happened. But several presidents have done that in the past. That's no big deal. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if other people have done it. It is an illegal act. What's your second point? The second point is they're trying to downplay it in the minds of the American public, which it's obviously not working because it's absurd to see them say that. But if they can convince any portion of the mega voter base that like, no, no, this isn't a big deal. It's not a full blown war. It's just a little skirmish. It's just an exchange or whatever. And it's more likely that people will not turn against him and the Republican party in these primaries in the coming presidential election in the next couple of years. So that's why they're doing it. That's why they're saying this is not a war. They're counting on you guys being complete fucking idiots. Okay. The same reason that JD Vance was like, yeah, the anti-Christ is here and I'm fighting them. Like that whole interview was fucking insane.

Yeah. And they're counting on you being a dipshit. And just like the line and sinker. Look, I don't know if that's true about the anti-Christ thing. I think they are true believers. I do believe that JD Vance, Peter Teal, the upper echelon of these like crazy Christian tech billionaires and shit. I think they really actually do think they are fighting the real anti-Christ. No. We talked about that last week. Chad and I did on a Wednesday episode. And I just had, no, that was just the conversation that there are bad people walking around. No grifters, praying upon people who are easily fucking susceptible to the grift. And like who better to go after than super fucking religious people because that's all Christianity is. It's a fucking grift. Okay. When you sit down and you look at what's going on, none of that shit is real. And they know that. And so they're going after this demographic that is easily brainwashable. And that's what Maga is comprised of. You are able to be brainwashed.

Am I wrong? You're supporting a fucking rapist. Why? Why? Why is your fucking leader? He is the cult leader. Whatever you say, dear leader. That's brainwashed. Okay. Maybe I'm. All right. Let's move on to our third topic, male invoting. This week, the fight to block Trump's attempts to end male invoting. He did up. Website executive order 14399 back in March, quote, ensuring citizenship, verification, and integrity in federal elections, which directed the U.S. Postal Service to write uniform national standards for how states send mail in an absentee ballots. In response, U.S. PS issued a 95 page final rule, effective August 21st, that is the operative mechanism now being fought over. The rule does not ban mail invoting outright. Instead, it layers on new federal requirements that states must meet before U.S. PS will carry the ballots. First, counties and states have to redesign their mail in ballot envelopes to include a

unique, intelligent mail barcode identifier and get those designs pre-approved by U.S. PS before ballots can go out. Second, state election officials must create accounts on new federal ballot mail on a new federal ballot mail portal and upload each mail in voters information at least 30 days before the election or by the date ballots start going out under state law. Third, U.S. PS says it will refuse to deliver ballots for any state or locality that has not met the envelope approval and data upload requirements. The rule forces last minute envelope redesigns and a largely untested data upload system just weeks before the ballots are supposed to go out as a result. Boston-based U.S. District Judge Indira Telwani issued a preliminary injunction blocking key parts of the U.S. PS rule, finding it likely unlawful and unconstitutional. Telwani's injunction bars enforcement DC in 23 challenging states through November 3. The administration has now asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to intervene and overturn what this judge has done.

The court had earlier given Trump an interim procedural win in August, but U.S. PS implementation has remained blocked. It's still unresolved and headed back to the justices now to see what the final call is going to be. Trump's trial and voting hit a record 43% of ballots in 2020 and about 30% in 2024. So tens of millions of voters are potentially going to be affected by this. More Democrats have typically voted by mail in recent cycles and of course Trump regularly votes by mail. Mom, why do you think Trump is trying so hard to make it more difficult for people to vote? I think he was the correct people to vote. The one. And who are the correct people? That your name matches the body that goes in there to vote. So not you. That you're the correct identified person voting. That's what I think he wants. But in my state, we still we can do that.

No. Yes. Because your name on your birth certificate will not match your ID. Yes. So that's going to be a problem for you in Trump's world. No. I will still be able to get absentee ballot. If I want how are you going to mail it? What do you mean he's trying to eliminate mail in voting? That's what this whole thing was that I just told you about. I just read in Oklahoma, we can still get an absentee ballot. I have to request it by October 19th. The fight is how the post office will handle the mail. That's where the fights coming from. But he is doing that. Trump is the one telling them like just shut it down. He makes right some fucking weird rules that nobody can implement in time for the election where you got to change the envelope and have this bar code and set up an online portal and send us all the names of the people voting. And it's like nobody can do all that shit and fucking 30 days. You just said like so much information that's never going to happen. It's going to go back. Oh, here we go.

It's never going to happen. It's going to go back to the way it was. How about this? Did you ever think Trump would start a war with Iran? Would you have at one point said that's never going to happen? I wouldn't have said it's never going to happen, but I didn't think it would happen. Oh, okay. They're trying to suppress virtually any vote that they can that's not fucking Republican. In Texas, it's like rampant. They're shutting down like different polling places like all over the place. In Texas, it's really bad. Like they're making it so hard for us to vote here, especially in areas that are predominantly people of color. I have not seen that here. And I got online and I can request our absentee ballots if we want. They do have to be notarized, which or I can go vote, of course, in person, but dad, if he's not up and going by then, he'll have to have absentee. Shouldn't everybody have that right to mail in your ballot? Shouldn't everyone have that right?

I guess if you can get it notarized with your correct name. No, there is no one voting that doesn't have matching names for their fucking address license, all of that shit. That's not a thing. You're like making it up. No, no. You think all of these immigrants are like voting via mail in ballot? Maybe. You don't know. Mom, yes, you do know that there have been investigations into all of these claims of voter fraud for the past three or four years. They have found nothing. And these are bipartisan investigations. Republicans have found nothing. There is no evidence to support Trump's claim that there is widespread voter fraud in any style, any capacity at any level. He is lying to minimize people's ability to vote so that fewer Democrats can vote. Think about everything he's told you. Yeah, somebody took a box cutter to the fucking reflective pool. Now we know that's a lie. Yeah, I'm going to lower your fucking groceries in your gas.

We know that was a fucking lie. Why do you continuously believe this bullshit? He's doing this to suppress votes. There are no immigrants out there in the fucking United States sending in mail in ballots. I think there are people without the proper ID doing it. I saw a man on their own Instagram that said he voted five times and was laughing about it. Then it must be real. Right, it must be real. That guy on Instagram. Let me. I always back. You all are being mean. We're not being mean. That's being real. I'm trying to. I'm trying to just present you with the facts here. The facts are there is no evidence of voter fraud. The facts are Donald Trump is trying to get rid of mail in voting, something he himself does. So this is another example of do what I say, don't do what I do. The elimination of mail in ballots will disproportionately affect people who are people

of color, people in low income districts, Democrats generally, they do more mail in voting than Republicans. So even if, let's say he's successful in this, he gets rid of all the mail in ballots, it means that people who are likely to vote against him are going to have a harder time voting than people who are likely to vote for him. So he's trying to rig the system. He's not letting everybody vote. Now you're also saying, as we've talked about this, you said, that'll never happen. And this is an argument or a defense that you use a lot on this show. When we say something that you clearly disagree with, something you don't want to happen, you'll say, well, that's never going to happen. But you don't take the one step further in your mind to see that Trump is trying to make it happen. Whether it happens or not is irrelevant. Why is Trump trying to do all these things that you don't like and that you say it won't happen? But he's still trying to do it. Because he believes that there was voter fraud from people that should not have been voting.

Why do you think he believes it? Everything I've read said it was not when the last election. Whether you win or not, none of this shit existed prior to Donald Trump. We've always had free and fair elections. Nobody had a fucking problem with any of this shit. But there are states like Chad State that doesn't dump all the ballots for what? Weeks or something and not counted for weeks, things like that. We have always had proof voter fraud. I don't know. They can dump ballots whenever they want. Make it work. I'll ask, how does that prove voter fraud? That I feel the vote should be counted on the day of the election. I have always believed our voting system is bad. It needs to be changed. Things need to be better. And you guys do too. Okay. Well, if you believe that all the votes should be counted on the daily election, which is obviously

a gigantic monumental task because there are millions and millions of votes. What do you think about Donald Trump calling up somebody in Georgia and being like, find me 11,000 more votes after the election has been counted? Right. I remember this conversation. Right. What do you think of that? Not good. Okay. Not good. Exactly. Why do you think he did that? He's a cheater. He wanted to win that state. Right. He's a cheater. He's going to do whatever it takes to fucking win these elections. And he's fucking cheating. And that's what suppressing the vote is. And that's why Biden was our president, right? What? He didn't win all the elections. He doesn't want to mall. What are you talking about? You're losing me. Why are we talking about Biden now? Hello. What do you mean? I don't think you should have won. I don't think he won correctly. Okay. Right.

Because Donald Trump is planting the seed that like they're all cheaters. Everybody's cheating. He's the only one doing it. I think there's a lot of politicians that cheat with votes and try to win votes and try to buy votes. Okay. Let's simmer down. Haley, you were galovanting. Right. Tell us the stories of your galovantin. Where do I begin? I had to take a kid to college and we were flying on American Airlines and on the way to Massachusetts. We were delayed by like four hours. So we finally get to where we need to go. The car rental place did not have the right rental. So we had to wait another hour to get that. Eventually we got the kid moved in. Everything was fine. And then we were on our way home. American Airlines left us in the airport for 13 hours.

Delay, delay, delay, delay, delay. They just kept saying, you know, we're going to fix the plane. Just give us another hour. We're going to fix the plane. Give us another hour. After 13 hours, they said, go fuck yourself. Here's a voucher for a hotel. We'll figure it out tomorrow. And I said, absolutely not. So we get I have one question real quick. Who told you go fuck yourself? American Airlines. The CEO came out. He came out and he said, go fuck yourself. That's what it felt like. And I was like, I'm not spending another fucking day, minute, hour here. And so we were able to get another flight. As luck would have it was delayed. But we finally got on that plane. So we make it home at I think it was almost one in the morning. We're supposed to be home by like two in the afternoon. We finally get home at one in the morning. As we pull up to the fucking gate, the pilot comes on and says, folks, I'm really sorry

about this. The bridge that connects, yeah, pretty much the bridge that connects the plane to like the building. It's broken. It's broken. It's broken. So we have to bring maintenance out and fix it. Just hold tight. Are you fucking me right now? I was ready to like, and I wasn't sitting by my spouse. Because it was like, we had to book, you know, a flight on the fly. So I'm sitting by this person that's been farting for four hours. Nice. Nice. I did kick in my fucking seat. I'm about to just like end it. Okay. They finally like get the bridge on or whatever, whatever. I'm fucking pissed, but like we're home. We go to get our luggage. As luck would have it, they lost a piece of our fucking luggage. So it was just like the most nightmarish shit that you can imagine. Something that could go wrong went wrong in terms of American airlines. I am absolutely pissed. I think I need to just like write to them and say, are you going to give me a free ticket

or what? But then am I going to get delayed for 13 hours with that free ticket? Who fucking knows? So that was a nightmare. And then I came home and all hell broke loose in my bakery. Broken mixer, broken AC. Just every fucking thing. So what you do? My job almost died. I mean, I'm not making this shit up. It was like a week from hell. Wow. So you might rethink Galavant again for a while. That was not a Galavant. It was a fucking parental duty. That was a Galavant. Almost zero fun was fucking out. Okay. All right. Fucking nightmare. Well, we're glad to have you back. And I'm sorry for all the troubles that you incurred at the hands of the CEO of American Airlines. But it said, fuck all the fuck yourself. Beaking of broken air conditioners, our fourth topic is climate change. On Wednesday, the UN Environment Program released a first of its kind assessment that stated

the world will breach the 1.5 degrees Celsius Paris Climate Accord target within the next few years. Earth is already about 1.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Those have called it a strategic retreat as the goal now shifts from avoiding climate change to surviving it as a species. The report lays out an overshoot path crossing the 1.5 degrees Celsius peak, ideally, ideally near 1.8 degrees Celsius around the mid-century this century. Then call temperatures back down by 2100 through rapid emissions cuts plus carbon removal at enormous scale. It's framed as quote, theoretically possible, but unlikely with the current government policies pointing toward roughly 2.6 degrees Celsius increased by 2100. 2026 is already one of the worst climate disaster years on record with deadly wildfires from Big Sur to France, European heat waves, and a super-elinio that is intensifying right now and will likely persist until 2027, causing any number of catastrophic weather conditions

on multiple continents. Following his second term, Trump has systematically pulled back from climate science, withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, repealing the EPA's 2009 endangerment finding and pausing NOAA's funding for research and extreme weather monitoring while cutting clean energy support. Mom, all this stuff I've said, this report came out. All of it. Do you now think global warming and climate change is real? We have talked about this. So, this is how I think about it in my brain. There is climate change and that is caused by humans. Okay. Okay, that is correct, right? Yeah. It's like long-term shifts that because way too many people, the earth is having temperature changes. It has nothing to do with way too many people. Okay. It's caused by humans. It's caused by humans.

No, it's caused by greed. Okay, climate changes caused by humans. It's caused by greed. It's caused by capitalism and greed. Period. Those are the things that cause it. Natural tea like these in our climate. The cyclical, is that, did I say it correct? The cyclical changes. That is like the natural disasters that I see happening. Okay. That's the El Nino. That's the La Nino. No, only Nio. Yes it is. At least from everything I've read, I'm not a climatologist, so I'm not a weather person, but I've read a little bit about this. The reason El Nino is as bad as it is is because the water temperature is rising. It is doing more harm. It makes the storm bigger and more catastrophic. Right. The reason the water temperature is rising is because, as I just said, the temperature of the earth is rising due to greenhouse gases. Carbon in the air, all of these things that come from deregulating industry globally, but

certainly in America, which Donald Trump is doing. But whether these natural things are happening or the things are happening because of humans, both of those can happen at the same time. That's what I believe. Okay. Like, all of the, you know, what was that last one, the big water gush? Where was that at? It was just horrific to watch when the people were running. To me, that's natural disasters, things like that. Yes, but the whole reason for the Paris climate accord was to get all the big countries that produced the most carbon in the atmosphere to reduce that so that we would not cross this threshold of a 1.5 degree Celsius increase in our global temperature. The UN is now saying we've missed that one. That window's gone. We're fucked now. Now the strategy is how do we survive what's coming? I know. Donald Trump stripped away the regulations.

He stripped away all the funding for all of these things that would keep this at bay. He took us out of the Paris climate agreement. He literally took us out of it. None of this is real, but there are people who have dedicated their entire fucking careers to studying this shit. But you cannot sit here for one minute and think that you know more than they do. Oh, wow. Why are you being so nice today, Haley? I'd like to know. I've never said I'm an expert on any of this, but this is my belief. I think it's both ways. It's being caused by humans. There is a cause by our urge natural disasters that happen at the same time. You are believing people. Your belief is fucking irrelevant when there is statistical and factual fucking information. That's what I'm trying to explain to you. There are people who have dedicated their entire careers to this science. And you're like, well, I don't believe it. I'm sorry. I don't. Dad and I have never believed in climate change. Why? Why? Because of his job in the oil and gas industry, because of everything, all the charts,

everything he's read. He said it's not fucking climate. It's not religious. He's very smart with the climate. He had to do that with his job. That's fine. But no reason to shoot down Haley. God. It's fine that dad knows things about the weather or whatever, because he traded natural gas. He was only like a few people in the whole world that could trade natural gas, oil, and weather. He traded weather. Okay. Fine. Those three commodities at the same time. Great. We have the biggest El Nino in recorded history. It is the size of it. Right. The speed at which it's growing. They are off the actual chart that they use to measure these types of storms. They had to make a new chart. Right. Due to the oil. So as much as dad may know about oil and natural gas and trading weather, he don't know shit about this super El Nino. God. I'm just. And just take it from somebody who lives in LA over. I've lived here now for 30 years, almost.

Over the time span that I have lived here, the fires that now happen every year, they are more frequent. They are more destructive. I mean, they burned down entire cities now. Yes. That was not the way it was when I was first coming out of college and even my first 10 or 15 years out here, it was not like that. There'd be a little fire here. No, it burned off some, you know, shrubs and shit on the side of this hill and like West Lake or something. Now it's like Pacific palisades is gone. A whole fucking city gone. And that happens every year. You're telling me that that's not climate change. That's not cause for concern. It is cause for concern. You need to move. I've asked you to move out of that ungodly state. Uh-huh. Move closer. I go where? I'm going. I'm going to go where? Texas is going to burn up. What's the temperature where you are right now, Mom? Let's go to North Dakota, maybe. What's the temperature where you are right now, Mom? We have had, I think, over 20 days of 100. Over 100, yeah. Right. Have you ever experienced something like that?

We've lived here 12 years. No. Right. We're out. We're in a dust bowl, they said. It's okay, but they called it the dust bowl of like the 30s or whatever. But you're still like dad knows more. I I kind of believe what he believes. I'm sorry. That's what I believe. That's crazy. You're seeing it with your own eyes. You're experiencing right. But things are getting worse back in the day with the dinosaurs. Things like that happen to them too. Cold hot, cold hot. Well, hopefully that we're trying to avoid what happened to the dinosaurs. It was happening to us. It was a terrific event. Yeah. We don't want to go extinct. I'm not. That's kind of what we're trying to avoid here. Too many people. Remember, your dad has always said that. Damn, I wish he was sitting there. Why is dad the Oracle? Why is dad the Oracle? Why is dad the Oracle for you? It's like dad's a he's very smart. He's a very smart man.

You can be smart, but also be fucking wrong. He's very smart about that. I wish I was sitting here. God, dammit. He wasn't. Well, why don't you believe? Why don't you believe the specialists and the professionals and the scientists? Why do you take dad's word over theirs? Because he's very smart. I do believe he was a genius in what he did with his job and with the charts that he made and did every day. I really believe that. That's fine, but he's not a genius when it comes to climate change. Oh my gosh. I wish he was beside me. But you yourself are now saying that it's like two things. You think it's just the earth doing its thing and it's us, right? I have always said that. He never thought it was climate change. He thought it was cyclical patterns in the world in universe, whatever. I think it's both. So you believe we are contributing to it as a species. Therefore. If we all collectively agreed, perhaps in a climate accord, perhaps in the Paris climate

accord, that every country who has a big enough industry to actually affect carbon emissions and that kind of stuff, if we all agree, we're going to lower that to not hit this threshold where once we go over this temperature, things are fucked, why is Trump not agreeing to do that? Why did he pull us out of it? Because he wants our country to have more oil, gas, money. It's his buddies that are billionaires that run companies that want to have no fucking accountability in terms of climate. AI data centers, AI data centers, large beef factory farms, like all of this shit that is being like Elon Musk, all of his bullshit, it is producing what is killing us. And he's getting paid to roll back. They have no fucking restrictions or regulations. He's rolled it all back. He's doing it with our fucking food. Like they're finding glass and popsicles, fucking E. coli everywhere, salmonella and blueberries.

Do you see a recall every day like I do? Yes. The things that used to be funded that kept us safe no longer exist. We're eating fucking poison and we're sucking it in. All of his billionaire buddies are fucking making money off of it. I'm not eating it. He does nothing for the people. He does everything for himself. Okay. We know where you stand. All right. Speaking of doing things for the people, our next topic is political prison labor. This week we learn from reporting by KGOU and Oklahoma watch that inmates at four Oklahoma prisons. In other state, James Crabtree, Mabel Bassett, Lexington Correctional and Joseph Harp worked in prison call centers placing political telemarketing calls in support of Republican candidates at the behest of make liberty win a Virginia based conservative super pack. Some inmates of the scripts went beyond polling into outright campaigning with demeaning references to opposing candidates.

The very thing mom that you're saying we shouldn't do, call people names. They had these inmates doing it on their behalf. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections signed a contract with a vendor called HBW Leads that has been in place since January 2026. HBW Leads was acquired in 2020 by Ohio based double A solutions, which launched a political calling subsidiary visible trends in 2025. The super pack paid the vendor roughly $600,000. The inmates making the calls were paid $2 an hour while the Department of Corrections collects $10 an hour per worker. The state defends it as job training. Mom should inmates be forced to campaign for Republicans. They're not being forced to campaign for Republicans. They were offered a job. I saw it on the news. I did see it here. They were offered a job. They are learning a trade. What's the trade?

I think the education skills on a phone. Do you think that these people have never talked on the phone? Never used a phone. I feel and I've asked a couple of my friends, pretty clubs, by they were going, it is productive. They are earning a little money. I think $2.3dc. They should earn much more money if there are any of those people who are listening, ask for a raise. I don't see that they call people names on the phone. It was just trying to say, hey, are you going to vote for someone? I'm making this phone call for them. They didn't name call people. Did they? That's what I just read you. One inmate said that it was, some inmates said the scripts went beyond polling into outright campaigning with demeaning references to opposing candidates. I would like to hear that call. Sorry, I don't have that for you. Maybe they will. Maybe they will. But I kind of...

Do you see how like, insane this is that Republicans are the ones writing the laws to put more people in prison? All four of these prisons are federal prisons. They're not for-profit prisons. But the general kind of scheme of how prisons work in America is. The more people in your prisons, the more money the prison makes. And even in this case, you're seeing that they made $600,000 from this vendor to then have their inmates do this labor to try and get Republicans elected so that more people will stay in jail. It's just a snake eating its own tail at this point. I would rather see someone in jail doing something productive like that than sitting there trying to figure out how to break out, how to get their next drugs, how to do something that's not good. I really look kind of... I mean, it's weird. I think it's kind of a job training skill for people. They're campaigning for Republicans only. You don't think that's bizarre? The Democrats could give money and let them make calls for them too.

I don't see it as bad as you guys see it, I guess. You don't see the dystopian nature of this? That the Republicans are the ones who write these laws specifically to imprison people so that their rich friends can make money off of it. Then they're paying the people they imprison $2 an hour to keep them in power. I think the $2 an hour is ridiculous and I don't see the first part of it that way. The whole prison system is ridiculous. There are so many people in prison that don't belong there. But there are so many people that do, highly. Right. But you're just discounting the people who shouldn't be in prison. You're saying, like, well, fuck it. Maybe 10% of the people in prison should be there. Like 90%? I didn't mean it like that. I mean, we need prisons for the bad people that do bad things. There are always good prisons. What does the bad thing know? Do you think that somebody who sells weed should be in prison? That's a brand new thing.

I have no idea. What do you mean a brand new thing? It's not a brand new thing. Weed's been around for a minute. People have been rotting in prison for fucking selling weed. But weed is not a, what level of drug is that now that y'all have changed? Because of Trump. Well, it's illegal in Texas. Except for Texas, yeah. But he has decriminalized it federally. But each state has its own laws. This is where like everybody has gotten in trouble like California, what is known as the Emerald Triangle, which is in Northern California where a bunch of weed has grown. Under prior presidents, they would just send in the FBI DEA, whoever, to just bust their operations and like, haul everybody to jail. Even though recreational marijuana use is legal in California, federally it was not. But now federally it's been decriminalized. But in Texas, they're like, fuck that, recriminalized. And so now if you get caught with any weed, you're going to jail for life in Texas. For life?

It's fucking insane. Not for life. But for many years. Anyways, all right. So you have no problem with this. Let's move on to our final topic. The military exodus continues. On Monday, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned after about 18 months as the Army's top civilian. Driscoll 38 was the youngest ever Army Secretary. He attended Yale Law School where he became close friends with JD Vance, served as an Army officer in Iraq, then worked in venture capital. He ran unsuccessfully for a North Carolina House seat in 2020, served as acting ATF director 2025 to 2026 and became Army Secretary in 2025. He was generally well regarded with good relationships across both parties in Congress. Being with scene has focused on readiness and modernization rather than culture war fights. Trump also tapped him for an unusual diplomatic role, sending him to Ukraine to push peace negotiations. He resigned because he felt that his modernization initiatives were being blocked, and he was uneasy with the turmoil caused by defense secretary Pete Hegseth, firing senior generals,

including Driscoll's allies like Army Chief of Staff, General Randy George. Drisco clashed repeatedly with Hegseth because Hegseth reportedly distrusted Driscoll's close ties to the White House in Vance. His wartime exit leaves the Army the largest military service without Senate confirmed civilian or uniformed leadership and is viewed as part of an ongoing churn as Hegseth consolidates power. Mom, do you think it's good for us to not have a secretary of the Army while we're in a war? Of course not. He butted heads with the PD. And they butted heads. They didn't get along. I had read where he even went to Trump and Trump said, don't go, please stay. He didn't, they didn't like each other. Correct. And he, I, I had read he wanted to like modernize the Army. That's what I just said, yeah. Yes.

And then. So what do you agree with? You think that we should have kept the guy that knows his shit and just wanted to make the military better or do we keep Pete Hegseth who's like running everybody into the ground? We should have kept him and Donald Trump should have done more to keep him. And he should have fired. When he went to Trump, Trump wanted to keep him. But it doesn't matter. Trump, this is kind of like something that I think you aren't grasping with Trump and Hegseth and all these guys. Trump doesn't want competent people around him. He wants people who will only tell him yes in every case. That is Pete Hegseth. This guy, Driscoll was not that clearly. This guy had some integrity. He was like, I'm trying to do something here to make our military better. Hegseth was like, fuck you, your friends with JD Vance. And that means the jury and closer with Trump. Hegseth basically was afraid of this guy, I think, like blowing up his spot because Hegseth clearly doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. But he was not fired though. He chose to leave, right? Sure. Because he didn't go along with him.

Sure. But that's plenty of people are doing that. There's all kinds of resignations and firings that are happening in the military. They are making Hegseth and Trump are making our military worse. You see that, right? Oh, that was a good guy. I don't think you should have left. There are any good guys left. There aren't any. Certainly not. Trump's cabinet. Let me ask you this. The United States military ranks number one globally with an annual defense budget of approximately 900 to 920 billion dollars. Iran ranks number 16 to 25 globally in any given year with an estimated annual defense budget of 10 to 15 billion dollars. So we're at 920 billion. They're at 10 billion. Okay. You can see that right about a percent, about 1% a little more than 1%. You just grab and see.

Yes. Why can't we be Iran in this war? Because you have a bunch of fucking idiots running the military now. That's a good question. And I gave you the answer. Sorry. Yeah. What could be the only answer? Why can our military? That is 90 times bigger than Iran's, at least in spending, not beat them in a war. I think because... I think because... I guess what I believe is if we do it, we're going to kill good people with the bad people. We're already doing that. We're already killing good people. I just read a story this week that we bombed a fucking wedding that had kids at it and killed people. They bombed this girl's school. They're constantly killing civilians. It has nothing to do with it. Again, we spend 920 billion. They spend 10. Why can't we beat them in a war? I don't know.

Because our leadership is fucking terrible. The people running the war do not know what they're doing. Those people are Donald Trump and Pete Hague Seth. Well, for the sake of our military, I hope you're not right. What do you mean? It's happening. I'm not making any of this up. This is not a prediction. We have been in this war for 190 days. American lives have been lost and continue to be lost. We are hemorrhaging money, troops, support, morale. You've got the secretary of the army saying, peace out. This is fucked. I do not want to be a part of this. We have the biggest military in the world by a magnitude that has never been seen before in human history. Never before. We've got the biggest military. And we've got the worst military plans. And I am in charge because I am depresed. Well, became our source in a good effort for a minute. The question I'm asking is with all of this resource, with all of this military power,

why can't we beat a country that has such a smaller military than us? The only answer is because the strategies we are employing are bad. The decisions we are making are bad. And those decisions are being made by Trump and Hegseth. Was that Hegseth the fucking Fox News personality or something? It's because you have a fucking TV star running a military. Who's your favorite person on Newsmax, Mom? I don't know. I like them all. Megan Kelly. You like Megan Kelly. She's not on Newsmax. She's not on Newsmax. Oh, my bad. Take Smokey Joe. You know that guy? I like, yeah. What if he was running the United States military? He'd probably be pretty good. I don't know. Well, I guess that backfired on me. Pete Hegseth is an idiot who is obsessed with the projection of this like male machismo

attitude. How many videos do we have to see of him faking that he's lifting heavy weights and doing pull ups and shit, you know? Have you ever seen the videos of him with the pastor of the church that he goes to where the pastor refers to women as just vessels to give birth? He thinks women belong in the home, subservient to their husbands. Like it's all that bullshit question old school shit. Okay. Mom. He is the most, he is the most misogynist fucking like white nationalist Christian piece of shit. He has like a white nationalist tattoos on his body. He's a fucking racist out loud. The guy on Newsmax I like I did look him up. He's a Navy seal Carl Higgsby. I like that. It's a Navy seal. I wanted to say this earlier too when you guys were cutting down Trump so bad about his health and if he would die, well, JD Vance would then take over.

How do you feel about that? Bad. What do you mean? You're on your Vance? Yeah. He's a fucking imbecile. He is I think more aggressive than what Trump is aggressive. He's just a fucking brown noser. Yeah. Whatever you say. Can you imagine JD Vance having like any meeting with any other leader of any other country? No. Yeah. They're all like just kind of grifting dipshits but the point I'm trying to make with this final topic and why I brought up our military spending and all of that is just to like put on the table for you. What is actually happening here? We spend more money on the military than any country in the world. I believe we spend more than the next closest 10 countries combined. In this case with Iran, we are spending roughly 90 times what they spend on their military and we cannot win this war. And now it's been protracted out to such a degree that we are getting close to running out of munitions.

We've got entire aircraft carriers full of people that are like having mental health issues. People are jumping off the side of the aircraft carrier because they don't want to be in the fucking military anymore. All of this bad shit is happening and it's because Trump and Hegseth are making these stupid decisions. That's the only reason. And then Trump comes out and is like, well, I don't think they've been out there long enough. This is small potatoes. Then he like downplays it and minimizes the sacrifice these people are making in quotes to protect our country from whatever the fuck he's telling us there is. Is it regime change? Is it nuclear weapons? Is it who knows what? They've started this war with no plan to- And now they're going to like this. Yes. Now they can't leave the war or it will look like we've lost the war. Mark my words. Whenever this war ends, the first thing you're going to see is Donald Trump on TV saying how it was a glorious victory. We decimated them. He's already said that. He already said we destroyed or what did he say?

We'll obliterate it. Total obliteration of their entire military. Really? That was 190 days ago. We did. Why are we still in a war with them? We did strike again. It was yesterday or the day before already. It was a kind of wedding. But I'm just saying like, remember at the beginning when Trump said we, it was total obliteration of their military. Yes. Why are we still fighting in a war with them then? How are they still fighting us if their military is totally obliterated? Yeah. I know. OK. But you still, you still love Donald Trump. I don't love Donald Trump, but he is my president. He doesn't have to be. You can say like, fuck this guy. Fuck this guy. Can't wait till he's gone. Get him out of there. You can say that. You don't even have to go that far. You don't even have to go that far. I'm just asking you, as we do every week on this, but like some of these things that I'm now presenting are like undeniable. This thing with our military, not being able to be to wrong. That's undeniable, right?

Shouldn't be like that. We will. We won't get them. We'll beat them. We are not beating them. We've already lost this war. 18 people have died to a military that is one tenth or not even one tenth. One, one, one. It is like a little more than 1% of what our military spending is. You know what I'm saying? You lost this war. 18 people have died. Well, yes. Anytime a death occurs, it's terrible. Yes. But nobody should have died. Like how is anybody dying in this war? It's like a, it's a four-nothing war. Why are we in it? Can you tell me? Why are we in this war? It started because all those heads of that one state were there. They wanted to get them all at once and because of the nuclear stuff. Okay. But again, with our $920 billion to Iran's 10 billion, we were not able to do that.

So far. It's 190 days in, Mom. What you say so far will see. You've got an entire aircraft carrier of their home. Yes. But they had to turn that aircraft carrier around and come back home because everybody on board was having mental health issues because they had been at sea for longer than any ship in the history of the United States military. That's bad decision-making. That's bad leadership. That's Pete Hegg, Seth and Donald Trump. This will literally go down in history as the worst era in America. This is the worst fucking president we have ever had. I don't think so. Name another one. Those worse Obama. Um, all right. He's the worst mom's tapping out. I can see it in her eyes. Okay. Thank you for joining us everybody.

Thank you, Haley for making it home after the harrowing American Airlines series of misadventures. Yeah. It seems like a day from hell. I'm glad you made it through. I'm glad you're back. Thank you mom for doing this. I love you, Haley. I love you mom. Dad in the other room. If you can hear me in your hospital bed watching Newsmax, I love you as well. He was watching Avatar. The last airbender. The last airbender? Yes. Wait, no. Or the different new one. The brand new one. The brand new one. The brand new one. The brand new one. The brand new one. Hey, what the fuck are these now, Vee? We should just roll in there and blow up their fucking tree and take the unentainee. He's kind of like that, isn't he? That character. He's kind of like you. I love you, Haley. I love you, Chad. I love you, Bob. And go Kansas State. 71 to 3. Who'd they play though?

Nichols State or Nichols University. Okay. The bad part was this was supposed to be on ESPN. We all had it set up on the TV. The Cox Man came out. Should have said I do it, of course. No, wasn't happening. I have to grab my iPad. Get it off the iPad. He watched it on the iPad. Thank God. Uh-huh. Go cats. Okay. Lovey mom, lovey Chad. Told that I love him. Also watch that blue zoo stock. I will. All right. And yeah, maybe we can get them on the podcast. And tonight watch me on YouTube. Right here. I'll be doing a live 6 p.m. PDT. I assume neither of you are joining me. I'm going to edit my book. Me too. Or go galvancy. But I'll be doing this live tonight at 6 p.m. PDT. Thank you very much. Both of you for joining me. What time is that my time? 8 o'clock? Yeah. Why do we have to do it so late? I'm in bed at 8.

Okay. It'll just be me. As I said, thank you for joining me. Uh-uh. I will be on this live at 6 o'clock tonight. PDT to answer any and all questions about today's show or whatever else. Sometimes we get some interesting questions about astral projection and all kinds of weird shit. Uh-uh. It's a fun time to join me there. He loves it. He loves it. Astral projection. Mm-hmm. I got very close the other night. Um, I was having a lucid dream. But then for whatever reason, when I'm lucid dreaming as soon as it kicks in, I don't know why this happens, but it happens a lot. I am immediately teleported to staple center and I'm playing for the Lakers almost immediately every time. Oh, boy. It's always playing for the Lakers as like a 50 year old man, a 50 year old 5 foot 9 man. Did you really want to tell everybody that? I just, I find it funny.

And then I always wake up from that dream and I'm just like, why am I always having these fucking dreams about playing for the Lakers? Maybe discuss that tonight. Okay. I bring your questions and all my Lakers dreams. Bye. Bye. Oh my God. Serious.

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