Venezuela DISTRACTION Hides Epstein, ICE and ACA Debacle

We're back. Happy 2026. I'm Jim Drastick. I'm Tiffany Drastick. I'm Nick

Knudsen. And today on the dangerous ones, don't look over here. While cable

news and the pundit class are fixated on Venezuela. And yes, it matters. But

let's not forget millions of Americans just lost their health care, including

yours truly. Ice is still out there kidnapping people off the street. And the

Epstein files have been punted to page six gutter like it's celebrity

gossip. Happy 2026 everybody. But we're back and we brought candy, memes,

videos, and plenty of reasons to laugh together because we're five days

into the new year and 2026 is already off its meds. Let's get

dangerous. Seriously. We're bad. You couldn't even give us like two days

of normal. No, it was just like, yeah. Let's start that war.

I don't need that shit. Welcome everybody. Welcome to the show. Welcome to all

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dangerous ones.com. You got this down. Oh, man. I haven't done it if you

know. It's a muscle memory, baby. Muscle memory, right? Hey, listen, we're

only 302 days to 302 days until the November midterm elections. Okay. So we're

almost in the 200s, you guys. That's how I have to take it. One day. With

there's 302 days until the midterm elections, that's going to be a big focus

for us here on the show. Yes. But so that brings us to today's to today's

comment question of the day. What is your right or die issue this year? What is

your right or die issue? Is it health care? Is it women's rights? Is it starting

fucking wars? What is yours, Nick? Yeah, that's a good question. Probably health care

this year. Oh, yeah, health care. Yeah. It's a fucking cluster.

Oh, my God. Yeah. Let us know right now in the comments. I can't wait to see

what everybody says. Me too. Because there's there's so much going on. There's

there's a you mentioned the midterms. There's a possibility that we'll be

interviewing a candidate this week. That's right. You guys. Somebody who's

running for a congressman on the show. Yeah. So and then also a new segment

that we're doing called stick around and find out kind of a fun little

segment. Mark, what is today's stick around and find out question? Today's

stick around and find out question is which member of the dangerous ones? These

guys, these guys, which one of them was in the civil air patrol as a kid?

Ooh, civil air patrol. Listen, stick around to the end of the show and you're

going to find out stick around and find out civil air patrol. That's kind of

wild. So listen, let's get caught up. There's so much to talk about. First of all,

Christmas, New Year's. How was your Christmas? Better than yours. Yeah.

That's true. Yeah, Christmas. Oh, good. No, I was good. Yeah, good time with family.

Yeah, good. Yeah. I want to thank everybody who sent messages. I made a video and a post

about getting sick. I won't go into all of it right now because of a

programming note tomorrow. We are going to go live at five pacific time and we'll

have a lot more time to kind of get into it. But you can still, you can still hear it.

It is, it hit me, hit me hard. It said James, you're going to take a break at the end of the

year. No matter what you do. Oh, you thought you were going to do episodes this week? No,

no, no, I'm afraid not. You're not doing anything. So we, it's funny too, because we had made

those episodes at the end of the year with it without we were all smart. You know, we had

like these three. We're going to ship together, man. Christmas episodes. We were going to come

back the week before new years and we're just going to hit a hard and man. I went right to the hospital.

Yeah. Oh, my God. I'll tell you all about it tomorrow. It was, it was crazy. But I really,

really, from the, I was telling Tiffany, as I was reading those messages that people wrote,

and a lot of people wrote about how they were, they have breathing issues as well,

and how they have nebulizers at home and, and, and hallers and stuff. And now with everything

going on with the ACA subsidies and losing health care, including me, I do not have health care

as of today. Um, uh, it's all about that too. It really meant a lot that people said those things.

I really, I read each and every one of them. You know, Anthony spinning circles keeps

a nevinous truck. I know, I know. It's just really, really, uh, tough stuff, especially when you

can't breathe. That's a scary thing. That's like, that's no joke. When, well, I will say this,

and we'll move on. When they take you into the hospital ER and they pump you full of everything

they can give you without killing you. And you're not even a scosh better. They're like,

you're staying the night. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, I started sweating. I went, oh, this is not good.

Oh, my God. It was just, and then I'm like, New Year's Eve. I'm like, are they going to wrap

this up? Because I think we're losing our health care tomorrow. No, no, they didn't wrap it up.

No, no, no, that's a whole, I can't wait to tell you guys about that. That's great. So, yeah,

we're a little crazy today. We're a little crazy. But we're so glad to have you guys here. How was

your Christmas and New Year's? How are you starting off the New Year? I wonder what everybody's

New Year's resolution is. I don't really have a resolution other than to stay safe and healthy.

Yeah. And to continue to do this show. Yeah, we're going to wrap you in bubble wrap.

We're going to get somebody to get an elevator put in the building now. Yeah, really.

Put it in a dumbware. Me and Nick will be down there. That's perfect. Well, we have a,

we're going to talk about a bunch of things today. We're going to talk about, obviously, Venezuela.

Yes. And I keep saying it wrong. How do you say it? You got it.

Venezuela. Yeah, because Tiffany, Tiffany coached me before it. And then

but we're going to be talking about the ACA subject. Because this is what, this is our big theme

of the show today. Don't look over here. Yeah. This big thing, this big splashy thing with

Venezuela, it makes you kind of not focus on fucking just lost health care to millions of

Americans. Yeah, they're still kidnapping people up the street. And a whole bunch of other

terrible stuff. Yeah, you can find a dictator, but you can't find anyone on the Epstein files.

And the Epstein files. Right. So let me just, yeah, yeah, let me just do a quick run through.

I know everybody has been watching the news, but here's, here's what's going on. On Saturday,

January 3rd, Trump announced it, what he called a large scale strike in Venezuela.

Scale strike. And US force is seized. Matoro and Celia Flores during the operation,

capping off a month's long US escalation in the region. Everyone hates me. I have to start a war.

And say Maduro and Flores, man, if you watch cable news today, they were, that's all they were,

that's what drove me so crazy is that's all they were talking about. They got the, the OJ

cam, where it's basically following him on my god. Anyways, as of today, Flores, they were in

federal court and lower Manhattan pleaded not guilty and were ordered held at Metropolitan

Detention Center in Brooklyn. And the judge set their next court date for March 17. Nick

St. Paddy's day. Nice. Yeah, Nick. First of all, I want to real quick before we get to it,

is Nick. I really want to thank Nick and Mark so much for filling in also. And you guys did

the episode the other day. If you're a channel member, check out the episode that you can see,

it's just fantastic. You're so good at like everybody relax. I know. Okay. You know, I'm on two

red bulls already. Yeah. Clearly, this is not. But you walk into an episode with Nick, you walk out

much like calm. That's because I have such low expectations. Like, of course, he invaded Dennis

right. But we had a little chat before the show. What is Demcasters saying? What's going on?

What's the feeling out there? What do you think? I mean, people are very rightfully concerned.

Maybe a little bit less about the war part of, you know, but boots on the ground. That kind of

thing at this point, it's hard to say exactly how this is going to unfold. But that's of course

the shitty part when you do a regime change, or it's actually not technically a regime change.

It's just a leader change. But when you do this, you just don't know what's going to happen.

We don't know what's going on inside of Venezuela and the power struggles and who's after who

and where the militaries at and all that. So what happens in terms of unrest and interventions

that are going to be needed down the road? Well, I mean, we don't have a lot of great examples

of in recent history of these things going very well. Yeah. Well, everything he touches in America

dies. I mean, his entire career, he just runs everything right to the ground. So it looks like

it's going to be tough down there for it to really mark on. Yeah, please. It really just pisses me

off about this and watching the right wing react on social media.

Everybody was like fucking imperialism. No more no more regime change wars like in America first.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he goes and does this and they're like, yeah, fuck, that was awesome.

I know. You know, he's such a strong guy. And then if we say anything about it, they're like,

you're sipping for Maduro. No, no. I just yeah, there is no there is no core belief with with

his base. The core belief is whatever he does is right. Yeah. Look over here. Look under this.

What is this? What is this? It's like, yeah, it's like with the abstinence. Yeah, he won't release

the files. Yeah. And that was their thing. Yeah. And now they're just like, what are you going to do

about it? That's their thing. What are you going to do about it? It's a tricky thing for the left,

right? Because there's a lot of folks in America who were born in Venezuela, who are cheering

to. Oh, yeah, Maduro's an asshole. Yeah, it's a tricky line. Obviously, you can't we don't

agree with going in and just regime change like this. Although every, you know, lots of American

presidents have done things like that. But it's a tricky line. Yeah, he was a piece of shit.

He was terrible for the country. So where's the middle? You know, I think I think the thing

that's different about this from maybe some past regime changes, including Bush going into

Iraq, yeah, was there was some level of sort of messaging about bringing democracy. We're doing it

for this reason. We're doing it. We're doing it. We're doing it for free. The shit out of you.

Yeah, we're in the free. The shit out of you. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Like we're American. We're

going to come and spread democracy across the across the globe. Like that used to be the thing.

Yeah. This is just straight up like imperialism. Yeah. This is just like you have oil. We're

taking I don't like that guy. Yeah. So I'm going to come take that guy take the oil. I'll make a

deal with the vice president and yeah, we'll install her and then she'll let us have the oil and

we'll bring the companies down and we'll pillage. And that's and that's it. Yeah. And Greenland's next.

Yeah. And we have lots more to say about that. There was this video going viral over the weekend

that was just fantastic. We both all three of us separately saw the video and said, you know,

we got to show on the show on Monday. That's great. Danger court. Check out this video. It is

stunning late night operation. I had some friends of mine execute a raid on my neighbor Tom's house.

He put up quite a fight, but we got through and he's in custody. I haven't liked what he's been

doing over there for a while now. So I've decided to run his house myself. He leaves his Christmas

lights up too long. He never trims his avocado tree that hangs over my fence. And I believe he's

running fentanyl out of there. I can't prove the last one, but it makes sense. I've seen him speak

Spanish. I got rid of the wife as well. I didn't have a com with her, but we did do a fourth

of July block party and she brought empanadas. So better safe than sorry. I've got them at a

residence in a couple of towns over. I've been using his home as my own little man cave. Pretty great.

Turns out he has a fantastic wine cellar that I have tapped and do extensively. Anyway,

I'll be running his home until the time when I can have a safe proper and judicious turnover to

some other guy, which probably won't be happening soon. And just a heads up, I plan to take over some

other neighbors homes as well. Phil Cross the street has a pretty cool car. I'd like to be in

charge of Alex, who lives catty corner from me, has a wife who's a yoga instructor.

He'd taken that one soon. Again, doing it for the good of the neighborhood. So stay tuned.

It's so great. When you bring it down to that level, that's how ridiculous this is.

And Mike, just where does it end? When did they wake up and go, oh my god, I was conned.

Yeah, yeah. You know, and this brings us to a larger point that I've been following lately,

and I don't mean to be scary, but this is true. Started a few months ago and this idea of,

it's not new idea, but it's they've been floating this idea of sphere of influence,

meaning that America would generally, instead of us having allies across the world,

we would now be just in control in somewhere or another of everybody in our sphere, the Western

hemisphere, South America, Greenland, Canada, I don't know how Cuba and all those types of places,

whereas, and then Russia would be in charge of parts of obviously Ukraine and Central Asia,

and China would be in charge of the Indo-Pacific, right?

Well, since South America on it, so it's ours, and we're going to take it.

Now, this isn't just like me being some liberal on a podcast, talking about this,

this is what they're doing. They've already spoken about it in some ways, and now we're seeing them

make crazy threats to other countries like we're just going to take over. I mean,

we've heard him talk about Greenland already for a while. They're going to do that,

and they're going to do something, and it was funny too, because when we had Malcolm dance on,

he was like, it's going to be harder than they think, but because it's so rough and rugged,

remember that? But, yeah. But, you know, they, you know, now with Cuba and with Colombia,

and they've already threatened that Canada should be the 51st state, you know, crazy stuff.

So this idea of sphere of influence is where they're headed, where there's a strong man in one

part of the hemisphere, and they run everything there. That's where we're headed, and that

should scare the shit out of everybody. Remember when Republicans were all freaked out about,

this is like back in 2008 or 2009, when conspiracies were finally starting to fly all over the

internet, and they were talking about how they were freaked out because Canada and America and

Mexico and South America were all going to become one thing, and they were losing their mind. There

was a word for it. Yeah, and now they're like, this is a really good idea. You should actually,

I know. Okay. I know. I just, is this the consequence of physics being phased out of school?

Like, what? Every single day I wake up, I'm like, how the fuck did we get here?

Yeah, yeah. And, well, and the main thing too, Nick, when you agree, is that's why we're so focused

on the November midterms here on the show, is that's one small step that we can at least take

as a people to get out, because there's not a lot we can do other than to protest loudly and fight

back, right? Yeah. I mean, courts have been intervening here and there, not all the time,

but they've kept him in check in some ways. Yeah. That's one option. The other option, you know,

we have three separate but equal branches of government, right? We have Congress, we have

Supreme Court, and we have the White and the executive branch. And the White House has a ton of

power right now. The Supreme Court and the courts are giving him more and more sort of wiggle room

to exercise that power, obviously, like saying that he can't be convicted of a crime,

is giving him a lot of leeway. And so like, yeah, Congress, Congress is something that we have a hand in.

Like, we don't, we don't elect Supreme Court justices. We elect senators and senators approve

Supreme Court justices, right? So that's a longer play. But in terms of what we can do this year,

yeah, the midterms, you know, flipping the house in particular so that there's a check,

and he can't just ram legislation through. It's going to be really important. And also,

if the Democrats have control of the House or the Senate or both, you know, they control the

committees, they decide what to investigate and what not to investigate. They can subpoena,

you know, things. So, um, yes, we really, really, really need to do this.

I know we've been saying, oh, the election of our lives, but it really is.

Right, right. And then by the way, Lindsey Graham was on the Air Force one talking some shit.

Lady Graham. Lady Graham.

Mark, Mark, play that video.

I could have done it. And as to this commander in chief, he did something people talked about doing.

You just wait for Cuba. Cuba is a communist dictatorship that's killed priest and nuns.

They've preyed on their own people. Their days are numbered. We're going to wake up one day.

I hope in 26. In our backyard, we're going to have allies in these countries doing business with

America, not narcoterrorist dictators killing Americans. This is a big fricking day.

And everybody in the world is thinking differently than they were just a few days ago, because of what you did.

I go ahead. The last part is true. I don't know if it's possible to have a man farther up

another man's asshole. Oh my god. I know. Lindsey Graham, uh, Donald Trump's asshole.

Remember when he was like, that's it. I'm off this right now. I love this guy. What the fuck boy?

That tells you money and power changes everybody. And he mentioned the narcoterrorist. That's

that's the whole line. Yeah. Yeah. That blowing up the boat. Right.

Yeah. That's the whole pretense for going in there into Venezuela in the first place.

Right. It'll be the pretense for Cuba and probably not Greenland, but

right. But like he doesn't give a shit about the drones. He doesn't give a fuck about that.

He pardoned, who is it? The president of the president of the

agoterrorist who was convicted in America of bringing tons of

like literally tons of cocaine into this country. Yeah. He was bringing in the middle.

No candy. Yeah. Oh my god. Like now he's like, he, oh, I got to go grab this guy and put him on

trying for the same kind of thing. Yeah. It's horse shit. It's not. It's not true. Let's get

to something funny though. I need some money. First memes of 2026 first meme. All right. Are we ready?

Yes. Three, two, one.

Oh my gosh. That's so good. What do you like, Nick? This one. Because of me, it's now 2026.

That's the highest number year ever. Much higher than Obama. In the crowd. I like this.

I have oily hair. I don't guard once and take it over. We'll be taking that little

way. It's my digging her back. That's my favorite one. Oh my god.

P. Diddy calls with a dick in a box. He says I took my oil too. Oh my god. Oh god. I miss that.

I got to tell you, man. I miss that so much. I miss, I miss memes with the danger car. How

do you guys doing out there? You guys okay? Sorry. We had to get through some rough stuff to

start with here. Okay. Well, next some more. Here we go. ACA subsidies. As I said at the beginning

of the show, I don't have health care as of today. Neither do you. Let's I know you got a little

thing you wrote. Let's let's hear what's going on. And then we'll talk about it on the other side.

Okay. As of January 1st, 2026, the enhanced ACA premium subsidies that started in 2021

expired and surprise the affordability part of affordable care got shoved off a cliff.

Those extra tax credits had been helping more than 20 million people pay for marketplace

coverage. And now many are staring at brutal renewal notices. Oh my god. You wouldn't even believe

that. When's he here this? Holy shit. Analysts estimate subsidized and rollies are facing

average premium jumps around 114 percent for 2026, meaning a lot of folks are seeing monthly

costs double or worse. Projections suggest about 4.8 million people could drop ACA marketplace

coverage in 2026 because the new prices are simply not doable. They're not. Oh my god. And the GOP's

plan to extend. Sorry. They don't have a plan. That's basically it. They don't have a plan.

Their plan is don't extend the subsidies and then look over here. And then Trump might give you

a $2,000 sometime next year that'll never have. Right. And you're going to get 1776 to go to

Venezuela, I guess now. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. Anyway, it's back to their

bullshit. One alternative floated by the GOP is replacing the subsidies with a health savings

account deposit tied to bare bones, plans, and Trump's own vibe solution has been just give people

money, including teasing the 2000 per person checks. Like you can vent more your way out of a

national health care crisis. Yeah. Yeah. First of all, let me let me just. Here's our situation.

I'm going to tell you the absolute honest truth. On about December 17, 18, we got an email saying

that we would no longer be covered through the ACA from our state. And would we buy health insurance

through the exchange? Again, this is on the 17th or 18th. Then I, so I said, okay, well, I'm

better. So on January 1st, I called Kaiser, who I have health care with and said, I would like to

purchase health care. They said, no fucking problem. And I said, how much? And they said, a number

that was 400% higher. 400% higher. So think about that. You got 400% higher than what you have been

paying. Yes. Okay. Yeah. And it won't start till February 1st. And I said, well, why is that? They

said, because you had to let us know that you needed health care on January 1st by December 15th.

I said, I did not know that until the 18th till about the 18th. They said, not our fucking problem.

And they told us we had the 15th to decide. So and you're in the middle of a health care crisis.

Guess what? I'm not thinking about how to sign up for fucking health care right now because

he's in a crisis. But we also didn't know that we needed to do that because we thought we would

still stay in the ACA. Right. So there's that whole fucking horseshit. Luckily, luckily,

I'm telling you, the only reason why we're even able to afford this health care now with the outrageous

monthly cost is because our daughter's last year of college is this next few months. Oh, thank god

it is our last year. Because if it was a freshman year, this would be a 10 and entirely different

conversation. And we have our carpet. We were now paying off our car this year. It would be done

this year. And so if it wasn't for those two things actually colliding, we would not be able to

do this. It always fucking happens when you have a Republican president too. You see the light.

You're like, oh my god, I'm going to get ahead and just drag you right back into death.

Yeah. What do you think? Yeah. It's a question. Yes. So you said that when you went to Kaiser directly

as an individual purchaser, yeah, there was 400% higher than what you had been paying for the exact

same plan for the exact same plan. What was the, how much higher was the like market place version?

It's the same amount. Same amount. So I looked through the marketplace first and they have certain

plans on Kaiser. And then I thought, well, let me call them, right? Same exact time price. Yep.

To the penny. Yeah. And so the exchanges completely useless. It didn't do me any good. Yeah.

And by the way, just so you know, they didn't ask me even before they gave me those quotes,

how much money I was making. So I had nothing to do with how much money I made it or didn't make.

It just said, this is how much it is. And so now I would like to know, where did my 400% increase?

Where did that money go? That was helping us pay for our health goes, helping millions of people pay

for their health care. Where is it? And by the way, does anybody else? Well, extraction and

Venezuela. I was just, does anybody else find it ironic that we just took over a country that has

free health care? I mean, you know, can I just like show up there and go to the doctor? Yeah.

I'm going to a doctor. I'm going to go through the Darian gap. Let's go.

Yeah. So anyways, I know you at home are, this has got to be a big subject for you guys,

because we talk to the danger core every day. And there's lots of folks who have health issues

and just like anybody else. And believe me, like, I'm laughing about it today, but that was not

the case last week. Really, really. Oh my god. And it was around, you know, it's in here. And like,

when your husband, like, gets sick, this is what I do. I'm like, I'm not talking to anybody.

It was tough. It was tough. So now with this new thing, it's, it's, um, yeah, you know,

and and health care is so, this is probably the most insidious thing that America is doing right now

is what's happening with health care. Yeah. You know, the fact, the fact that there are four

profit insurance companies acting as middlemen between people and care, yeah, is something that

does not have to be the case. Yep. And it ratches up the cost for everybody. Yeah. And

they're just, they're making billions and billions of dollars. That's, that's what I hope comes

out of all of this is that we finally all look around at each other and go, fuck these bloated

assholes. I'm not paying somebody to sit behind a desk and tell me on my claim, what I get,

and what I don't get when my doctor calls and goes, no, he needs, he needs it. She needs it.

They don't know. Yeah. Yeah. What are we? That's, can I just call my doctor and they come and

they do the little thing and they leave and then that's $500 or a sheep or whatever it is?

Because you bring up, that's a really good point. Now, just really briefly, one of the things in

America that we don't have is that we have with most other things, commodities and things that we buy

is we don't, I can't price shop for an X-ray. I can't price shop for a blood withdrawal or

I can't, you can't with a COVID shot. I suppose a little bit if you want to go to Safeway or some

like, you know, maybe a little, but for most health care items, there's no price shopping. So,

there's no competition. So they can do whatever the fuck they want. It's no different than while

we were gone, one of the things that drove me personally crazy is MTV is gone. Now, I was born

in 1975, a kid of the 80s generation and MTV for the most, it's not completely gone, but for the

most part, it's gone. And that's because Paramount bought it through CBS, blah, blah, and who's now

trying to get bought by Netflix, it's fucking ramped monopolies out there. Yeah. Don't get me

stirred. They just ruin everything. They just ruin everything authentic, you know? Yeah. Yeah,

fucking MTV. I just, I do not back to the health care thing. I do not understand how like in

the age of Zoom, how we all had to do business for years because of a pandemic. Why is it costing

me $4,000 to talk on a screen to my doctor who goes, yeah, I'll refill your prescription.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're getting the $5,000 because I'm pretty sure my doctor would do it for like

25 bucks. You know what I mean? Fucking a man. Can we get an exchange? Can we get like a co-op?

Can we get like where are philanthropists who want to help build this? Because this is not going to

work. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Nick, I mean, the last words on the health care thing, I mean, it's just

about, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Health care, midterms, resistance. That's what this show is going to be

about over the next next year and, and fighting back. Memes! Memes! Memes! It's time to be said,

mommy. I want memes, mommy. Mommy. All right. Ready? All right. You guys ready? Ready? Three, two, one.

Madison, get 2026 started. No, that's funny. I love this one. 2026 goals. Don't die. That's just

that's it. Let's just think about it too. Oh, no, it's going to be art. Here's another one too. Yeah.

Remembering about the files, 2026. I love that it's a school bus. I got that.

And then I love the fireworks at the end. It's a perfect start for 2020. Oh, a big old cat. Yeah.

There you go. Oh, great memes. Good memes. Yeah. Good ones this week. Love you internet. Then

the shore memes, 50321. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Shout at the dangersones.com or give us a call 503212-4600.

One last thing we wanted to talk about today was while we were gone, what happened next? This is

a not horrible, terrible news story. So in a stunning reversal, absolutely no one is shocked by

Donald Trump is Donald Trump lost and is now pulling federal troops out of Portland, Chicago

and Los Angeles after months of chest thumping about law and order. Turns out yelling on truth social

is not the same thing as having legal authority and the courts reminded him of that. We don't

have any oil here. After governors, after governors and mayors pushed back and judges smack down

the overreach Trump is suddenly pretending this was all part of the plan. The strong man fantasy ran

straight into the constitution and again, the constitution won. And then I wanted to follow up

on that too because Broadway Scott D called and he wanted a Portland update. So while we

kicked the National Guard out, let's see the other thing. How the fuck are you going to run

Venezuela when you can't even figure out what to do in Chicago with the National Guard in

Portland or Baltimore? Please fuck out of here. So the other update with Portland is the city past

an ordinance that if you lease to customs or ice, you are now going to face penalties and fees.

And you're going to face penalties and fees if if you lease to those people and you

cause a disturbance outside and you have hazardous materials like tear gas or pepper spray

because it's leaking into the apartment across the street right into their apartments. It's getting

on all of their clothing and their kids and the pets. And so now they're not there's a law that says

you can't do that in the city of Portland. And the funniest thing about that is that building is

the only building that is affected by this new law. Oh, you're kidding me. Oh, I didn't know that.

So, which is, you know, it's good and bad because I, you know, I don't know how to feel about that.

I'm glad that there's laws against that. But I can see this getting into the wrong hands and then going,

well, I'm not going to lease my building to you because you voted this way.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, we'll take the good news where we can get it. And it's something and I'm

just proud that at least the city of Portland is doing something and going, you know what?

We're done with the fuckery. Okay. Yeah. And I'm really proud of Portland leading the way

when they came down the ice and starting the whole inflatable costumes. Portland for forever.

Yeah. Fucking awesome. Yeah. Love you guys. There was a shout out to some of those folks who

live in the apartment building. Yes. Across the street from the ice, but ice building because

there are a number of you guys who watch the show and contact us. So, you know, shout out.

Hope it helps. Yeah. And we've got to meet him when we were down there at the ice facility. So,

yeah, Mark played the, played the video apparently Trump said some wild shit about the, about

coming back to Portland and the insurrection act. Let's take a look. And then he talks about,

oh, we can only can't handle it. But we pull back and we'll go in at the appropriate time. But

we're the ones that brought the crime down. We brought it down 20%. They didn't bring it down.

Pritzker didn't bring it down. Same thing with Gavin News. If we didn't go in to Los Angeles

seven months ago when they had the riots, even the police commission, the head of police

said if we didn't have the federal government go in, we would have lost total control

of the city of Los Angeles. What the fuck? How to cancel the Olympics?

Thank you. Speaking of Los Angeles, the National Guard, you pulled out the National Guard

of Portland in Los Angeles. You know what? You know the Portland? We got it down to almost no

crime. You know that? Supreme court decision. We can go back. We're allowed to go back in.

But we'll go back in with the crime star. So the crime will soon start because they don't know

that we're out. And at the appropriate time, they don't go back in. And we may, if we,

you know, we're allowed to, most powerful thing we have, we haven't used the insurrection act.

You're considering using this? I was always considered it, but we haven't needed it anywhere.

Forty eight percent of the president's Instagram. Yeah, it's wetting it.

Bush used it, I think, twenty-two times or something. You know that, right? I mean,

Bush the elder. He keeps pushing that, too. That's not true. But the word of the day is

bloviate. Something he said isn't true. What?

Um, yeah. So, you know, he's, he's clearly, I think he's saving the insurrection act for

election year, not this year, but the one for the next presidential election. I think he's

going to do that. I truly believe that. Yeah. I mean, he's not stopping with his whole. He

really needs a civil war. Yeah. He wants a civil war. And it's not like he hides what he wants to

do. Right. He's been talking about Venezuela for months. Yeah. Yeah. That's the only thing I

believe Marco Rubio about is when he's like, when the president tells him he's going to do it,

he's going to fuck and do it. When I heard, when I first learned and read that day, I woke up

whatever it was. When I heard that they were sending an aircraft carrier down to Venezuela,

I went, man, they're going to, they're going to do something. They don't send them for no reason.

Yeah. I mean, something's going to happen. Okay. It is time to find out the reveal of the

stick around and find out. Remind us what was the question. Yes. For those of you following

along carefully, the question was who was in the civil air patrol as a kid?

Which one of the hosts was the civil air patrol as a kid? Which one do you think? Which one

put it in your mind? Okay. Three. Raise your hand. Three, two, one.

Tiffany. I know. I was a nerd. I was a nerd. You were in the civil air patrol. Talk about it.

What happened? I don't know. I just probably saw top gun in 1986 and I was like, yes,

I want to go into the Air Force Academy. So how long were you doing it for? Like two years. Two

years from like age what? It was like seventh grade to ninth grade, I think.

Yeah. Yeah. Did you have to shine your boots? Shine my boots every Monday night.

Yeah. Really? Yeah. And so for people who don't know, civil air patrol is essentially.

It's like, it's like cadets for cops, but for the Air Force, right? So you go into civil air patrol

and you do all of your, you know, you, this is so, wow, this is embarrassing. Okay.

You go through all that stuff and then you can transition into junior ROTC or ROTC,

which is a direct pipeline to the guard, or you can go into the academy, get an education,

offer so school, and then you're in. But where you want to get into the Air Force?

Yes, because I didn't, I didn't realize I was blind, though. See, that's what got me is like six

grade. They're like, honey. I was like, that's not true. That's not true. And they just kept

getting worse. My eyes, you know, and then finally they were like, you can't even see the chalk

board. I don't think it's going to work out. Right. Right. Raise your hand if you think Tiffany

drastic would have been a kick ass fighter pilot. Not only that, but I know we've talked a lot

of it, but, but ultimately, were you joining the civil air patrol? I don't know if this is true,

to possibly become a national someday. Yeah. Yeah. That was a good, yeah. That was a good

pipeline. I know. I know, but wasn't in the card. Well, there you go. There's today. Stick around

and find out. And all the chance for very nice was one of the only things I ever belonged to

growing up where I was not sexually harassed by the adults in the room. So thank you. Double

win. So Airports all the way. Folks, we want to look, well, fantastic. How would an interesting

little thing on a live or something? We'll have to get into a more like stick around and find out.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then so hate, listen, a little programming notes. We're going to go live

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Well, plus the next weekend is going to possibly be the debut of the. Yeah. Oh my god. Dangerous

conversation. Oh my god. Yeah, you guys. Dude, you guys, I'm so sorry. I got sick there. I mean,

I'm so sorry. Starting this weekend will be the first episode of a dangerous conversation,

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Yeah. I want to kind of change the name of the danger core producers because we also have

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getting in the next week. I'm going to start be putting things. Would you help this man decide what

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Thank you so much. And thank you everybody for your amazing kind words. It really, really

changed my everything. Yeah. He was having a rough day and then he saw all of your guys' messages

I'm she I'm like propped up on a desk. Are you seeing everybody?

Listen, we love you guys. We're going to see you tomorrow night at 5 come on with the

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