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505 - Andrew Tate, A Socialist Makeover, & The Demise Of Red Robin

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505 - Andrew Tate, A Socialist Makeover, & The Demise Of Red Robin

The speaker critiques the current state of American politics, media, and culture through a series of interconnected themes. Central to the discussion is the controversial case of Andrew and Tristan Tate, accused of human trafficking and rape, with the speaker asserting that while they personally had a positive experience in Romania, they firmly oppose any such crimes. The narrative then shifts to a dramatic, emotional portrayal of Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darlene, who is depicted as honoring her brother’s legacy through a morally charged, high-stakes political campaign—though the speaker questions the authenticity and realism of this narrative. The discussion extends to broader societal issues, including the decline of traditional fast-food culture, with theme restaurants like Red Robin criticized for serving nutritionally harmful, industrial food that contributes to obesity and public health crises. The speaker attributes this to systemic exploitation, poor food quality, and corporate greed, especially from private equity firms that streamline operations and degrade customer experiences. These issues are tied to larger political trends: the rise of identity-based movements like the DSA, which the speaker sees as lacking media and public engagement skills, and the failure of both major parties to address real societal problems like food deserts and health inequities. The ultimate message is a call for transformation—where politics, culture, and public institutions must evolve from scandal and identity politics toward transparency, health, and genuine service. The speaker urges a reimagining of American values, emphasizing that true progress requires not just moral courage, but practical, well-organized, and deeply human solutions.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dylan show. It is the summer in America. We are in the heat of it, the dog days. Of summer, I hope it's everything you would imagine. I hope you are making your dreams come true. When you're on the east coast, there's so much pressure. For the summer because you only get. One summer, I mean, that's like some slogan that I grew up with or maybe I heard recently you only get one summer. I forget who was advertising that I don't know, but probably some rehab or something, you know, I don't know what was advertising that Narcan or something you only get one summer, Narcan, but whatever it is, they're right. There's really only it's July, August and then a little bit of September by a lot of the country goes back to school in August and their summer is over and they consider the start of fall August because they have snowstorms in October, whereas New York in New England has a longer fall and, you know, usually we go back first week of September, and then. And then we get colder weather usually towards Christmas and then after. That was it. That was the episode. I just want to kind of go over that and break it down for everybody and make sure that. These tape brothers can't catch a break these guys, huh? You know, I met them in Romania. I interviewed them on the Patreon. And this was years ago, and they were lovely and they took me to a steakhouse. I was in Romania to do a gig. To do a gig for some Bitcoin guy who had lots of money who paid me a lot of money to go out there and do comedy in Bucharest, Romania for a group of people that could barely speak English and they liked me and saw me and wanted me to go. And it was a very challenging. I did it in some like weird restaurant event venue and I did about 25 minutes and it was barely understood. And I think one of the guys stood up and was like, "Dorogaden, dorogaden!" So I think he saw me on Joe's show. And I was there and I hit up the tates and I said, you know, you have any wrecks and he recommendations and they go, we know who exactly who you are. We'll pick you up from the airport. And they did and they came in their roles, Royce's and they truly were. Now I know they're accused of rape and human trafficking, whatever. But let me just say my piece first. And then I'll get to that. I'll get to that. They were truly lovely. We had a lovely meal. We went to their home. We did a podcast. They were, they were lovely people. Do I, can I like, am I like saying they're a pure of spirit? I don't know. I'm just saying my personal experience with them. They're accused of choking women. Sometimes until they pass out then raping them. Again, not good. That's from the New York Times. My producer highlighting that. I understand that I'm getting to that. And I appreciate you highlighting that as I talk about how lovely or dinner was. Thank you very much for doing that. We are against that here at the team Dylan show choking women until they pass out and then raping them. Obviously wrong. We get it. We know it. Not for it. Now have never been for it. Have never been for it. I witnessed none of that in Romania. They wanted their, one of their girlfriends was there. I think her name was baby G or something and she was a little quiet. Some of the women with them were quiet. That's what I will say. They some of the women there were quiet. They were not offering loud opinions. A little nice. But it was very, you know, I don't know. They didn't seem like victims to me. Could was there an arrangement with a working a little bit. Hey, sure. But by the way, life is an arrangement. Truly. Sorry. And I'm not, and I'm not, and I'm not trying to, to, uh, you know, discourage the real true romantics out there because I feel like that's a beautiful thing. Love's an amazing, beautiful thing. It's a celestial thing. It comes from the, you know, it's lovely. And I hope you're fine to get this summer. You'll be get one summer. But there are love is a little bit of a commodity in certain places. And I felt like maybe it was, uh, there was a commodified love, which is very, I lived in Beverly Hills. I live in New York. I'm well aware of that. I've had my friend's mother's tell me I married this person, uh, for very practical reasons. I had my, my friend's mother told me that on the back porch of her want to a home. She said, I married her husband's name for very practical reasons. I was never over over the moon and love with him. But I knew he'd be a good father and he'd make a good living. And these are okay things. So what I'm saying here is that we are against choking women until they pass out and then are, are, are we can't keep doing that with that word because we'll be out of this algorithm. So we're against all of that. And if that happened, that is unequivocally, unacceptable. And I have no reason to believe it didn't happen. I didn't see it with my own eyes. I don't know what's going on. They've taken a lot of controversial stances and made a lot of people unhappy and they've made a lot of enemies, but also they live a weird life. And they kind, they live together in one house in Romania and God only knows what's going on. And they are very open about the idea that they kind of like a herm, like a bunch of different women there. And you know, women are kind of in their mind, women are more, uh, property than they are people. So they have been arrested, but again, so let me just go back to my experience with them, which was very, very, um, cordial and nice. And I thought they were respectful and had, and dignified. And I don't, I, I don't like hearing about the choking, uh, and the, you know, whatting. That's not, uh, for me. So let's watch a little bit of that. They're facing new UK charges and they got them on a bunch of charges. They got them on all kinds of things. Let's take a look here. Tonight, Andrew and Tristan Tate are behind bars in Miami, waiting for their possible extradition to the UK. Who's that guy with that hat? A Fedora. As a brother. Go away to hold on. Oh, yeah, go back. Oh, okay. Kristan, anything to say US marshals arrest the controversial social media influencers in Florida this weekend as prosecutors in the United Kingdom announced a slew. Let's stop this for a minute. And again, I'm not defending them at all. These seemingly are the only human traffickers we want to arrest. Like these are the only people in our society trafficking that we seem to care about. By the way, there's nobody in Washington. No, but not a member of the political class. None of our billionaires who've all been like a lot of them have been credibly accused. I'm not defending the Tates at all. I am saying though, they do seem like the only people involved in this particular crime that we have a huge interest in apprehending and they keep getting arrested and then they keep letting them out. And it's like, what's going on? Tate said, I'm a solitary and I'm next to a cannibal in there. He goes my, my cellmate or the guy in solitary next to him, not Selman, but his neighbor is a guy who's screaming all night and who's a cannibal. But again, which by the way, if you are doing that, the choking in the pet, you know, if you're doing all of that, then that's what you get. And I have no sympathy for that. But let's watch a little bit more of this news story here on NBC in Florida this weekend, as prosecutors in the United Kingdom announced a slew of new charges, including for rape. Their first reaction to the allegations is the first reaction that any innocent man or woman would have. What is that? It's garbage. The brother's attorney speaking today outside Miami federal. That the first reaction and innocent person would have his garbage. Sounds a little says a little guilty. Is that their principal defense was that it's garbage. He goes, play that again. He goes the first reaction any innocent person would have is that it's garbage. Go on reaction to the allegations is the first reaction that any innocent man or woman would have. It's garbage. When did lawyers start talking like my uncle Tommy, like what lawyers on this like playing just different things, like the degeneration of people's ability to communicate's unbelievable. Yeah, they had the same reaction anyone would have the same as in his garbage, whole things garbage. You're like, um, what? You're my lawyer. Lawyers are supposed to articulate something in a way that you can't. Lawyers aren't supposed to sound like you lawyers are supposed to sound like like professional and they're supposed to use legal terminology. They're not supposed to be like, it's just all things garbage. It didn't choke nobody's garbage. Attorney speaking today outside Miami federal court where the brothers appeared before a judge in beige and brown prison clothes shackled at the wrists and ankles as the extradition process begins. We are, of course, objecting to extradition. Because Andrew and Tristan are innocent. They've never done nothing wrong. They shouldn't be extra doubted for crimes. They never done nothing They never done nothing wrong Who is this? This lawyer looks like someone who is taking courses on Indri-Tate site Four months ago. They never done nothing wrong these two. I mean, this is unbelievable. All right, get him out of here the tape brother It's friends of the show We we we want justice for the women or whatever. I mean, and I don't I don't mean to minimize it when I say or whatever I just don't really know what's going on over there. I mean because this has been a saga for years with them They keep arresting them. They keep going there. They're they're running this trafficking ring and then they keep popping up again in Miami in a night club So I don't know what's going on So are they running a trafficking ring and are they like worldwide natural traffickers and and rapists or whatever. I don't know what's happening if that's the case Lock him up throw away the key Like by all means But they were lovely to me at its stake house in Romania. They picked up the bill Lindsey Graham sister Darlene announces she will run for her brother Senate seat and this is a story that warmed my heart, you know, I cover The news here and I have for a long time and a lot of stories make me sad because I you know I'm an empath I am I'm an empath and I feel and that's the difference between me and others I feel sorry for the slurp of coffee. I know that's disgusting, but I feel deeply and I care deeply and I moved and that is why the news sometimes pains me I get I curl up into a fetal ball and I say no, no, stop it Because so much of it is negative and bad genocide war You know the the energy cost are going up or whatever and This story is nice because here you have a a man Lindsey Graham Who is no longer with us and he was a senator from the great state of South Carolina and He served the people of South Carolina proudly and with honor and You know whatever that meant whatever that meant he was bound by the honor code and I'm serious about this Whatever he did he didn't talk about it. That is the DC honor code now You might you might aspire to a higher honor code in your life Fine, you're allowed to do that. You maybe you should You know, maybe you're it's the code of the samurai with you or something great. Hey congrats No one cares what what Standard you hold yourself to I Hope it's a standard that you can try to live up to and one that helps you in your life Lindsey Graham was bound by the honor code of DC, which is that whatever you did in a hotel room With a dirty boy a dirty boy was not discussed It was not discussed at the brunch. It was not discussed. It happened. It was there dirty shameful hot Anonymous hotel room shenanigans and You didn't discuss it You just went about your day. That was the honor code that Lindsey Graham lived his life by and again You might be going that doesn't sound honorable at all. Well good for you in your car commuting to work listening to this fine By the way, you're allowed to have that belief and you might be correct But like many of the points in your head where you go. I'm actually right. It means nothing that you're right It doesn't mean anything that you're right He lived by a code Is it the code most people would consider honorable? No But in his tribe in Washington DC the people that he was around The things they got into this was their code you kept your mouth shut and He's no longer with us for reasons. We don't know. We can't know. These are the big questions the ones we can't even ask But somewhere along the line Lindsey Graham who wanted you want he wanted and I said because I only wanted to see was gazin-nuked before he died All he wanted to see was gazin-nuked before he died I just want to say it go away All he wanted to see is gazin-nuked and he never got to see it. He got close But he never got to see it Never met a warrior didn't love and he's gone. So now I want you to play His sister again because in honor of his because again when someone lives a life of honor As Lindsey Graham has done in his own way. We just said that His sister has to honor him His sister has to honor him by carrying on the legacy of Lindsey Graham the legacy On your knees in the Capitol, Hilton on your knees choking down The the sweaty cock in an in and this and I've done this is actually not a terrible thing to do in the in a in a in a hotel room And and you're sucking cock in the in the August heat in Washington, D.C Lindsey Graham doing this and then walking in the Congress and then voting to kill people and His sister goes that's a life of Purpose it is he had a purpose driven life. That's the thing nobody wants to talk about Lindsey Graham was a purpose driven life He knew exactly who to say everything's a purpose driven life is like good By the way That's not true some of the best people I know I have no idea why they're here and don't want to know and They're lovely people and they have no but you know who's got a real purpose Bidlottin Putin Kim Jong-un whatever Stephen Miller Purpose is not always ideal Some people that are are are deeply committed to things Can be committed to the wrong things and make life worse for themselves and others But Lindsey Graham for all his foibles For all the times in life he fell short of What an ideal but that is an ideal man in America to be a closeted gay senator from South Carolina and then vote to kill people is Is our idea of masculinity in this country it kind of is Lying cheating and being a coward and that's what our country is is kind of liars cheaters and cowards so That's what we've evolved into but fun And and a little bit of talent So Lindsey Graham um And we never know how to be normal people by the way we can't just be normal dudes in America We have to either we have to larp is like Viking Nazi warriors on the internet Who long for the ancient world but would be their five minutes before getting killed by someone because we spent our entire lives on a keyboard We can't do that. We don't know how to do that. We don't have to be like a normal guy who's like I have a family I love them. I protect them. I provide for them. I'm in a community. I'm reasonably compassionate I'm not an idiot. I work hard all of that. We don't know how to do we have to larp as the Odyssey Is it ruined my life? It's that Or it's or it's you're in on your knees in a hotel room in Washington DC Shocking down a cock in the August heat And then walking into the Senate or and going let's kill all the people That Israel wants to kill and you know Lindsey Graham lived that Life and now here's his sister Beautiful woman Darlene Graham. I see his face in her and that's why I get emotional you know me. I'm an empath I'm an emotional person. Many people out here on this internet are not and I feel for them When you feel the way I feel I'm moved by 0000 a wind will rush my face and bring a tear to me just a summer wind summer wind This is to send it a Darlene Graham try to listen to this interview without crying And if you can your sec Your associate but try to listen to this interview. This is a sister of a brother It's a sister of a brother It's a sister of a brother Lindsey what are you getting up to in that hotel? Are you being bad? Lindsey are you being a bad boy in that hotel? Now Darlene mind your business. We were having meetings all night. Men's work. Men's business, darling. Mama, Mama would cry, Lindsay. If she saw what you were doing in that hotel, Mama's crying in heaven, Lindsay. You leave Mama out of this, darling. I'm making deals to make our country safe. Mama would cry if she saw you in that hotel, Lindsay. Wearing a dress. Mama saw you in that hotel, wearing a dress and God saw you. He sees everything. Now, darling, you shut your mouth. So this is, and by the way, that's a word for word conversation. If you found NSA transcripts, that would be a word for word discussion of Lindsay and darling, Graham, both friends of the show, new friend of the show, darling, listen to this interview, and I want you to listen to it with an open heart because we welcome this woman with an open heart here. Our country has fallen and it needs to get up. And darling Graham, hopefully, oh, Senator, she is a senator, right? She just becomes a senator. Great. Take a listen to this interview, there's a warmth to her voice. It fills you with warmth, darling. Do you need to say I've been praying a lot, talking to my family, but with the love of my family, with the support of his staff, I know I'm a hard worker. I learned that from Lindsay. He cared about the people of this state. I've worked for almost 30 years for the people of this state. I want to talk about that in a minute. I feel like I can do it. I feel an inner peace about it. Yes. Will it be difficult? Yes. Absolutely. Have you ever made a final decision? I've made a decision. I mean, I can't kill them all. I'll kill every last one of them brown babies. If I see a brown baby in the scope of my gun, I'll kill that brown baby, Sean. I'll kill him in Jesus' name for you. I'll kill them brown babies for you and for everybody for Lindsay. You know, Lindsay's up there in heaven, sucking cock. That's what Lindsay's doing, and he came to me in a dream. He was in a dominatrix outfit and he was in hell for a little while, but they kicked him out because they didn't trust him in hell. They say, "Are you working for Israel? The devil kicked him out of hell. Can you imagine that?" So he went up to heaven and he's in a special place in heaven where they're not letting him with everybody else, of course, of his deeds. And he appeared to me and he said, "Now, darling, you go walking to that sandhand and you kill those babies." Let's keep watching her. There's something in battle. I just feel good. I can't explain it. I'm an empath, really. See it any other way. I just can't. I've thought and I prayed and I just, he's worked so hard for so long. I just, I can't just let that die. I've got to step in and carry on his legacy. So here's what's happening. Let me explain what's happening in the country, Ren. These people, the establishment of Republicans, whatever you want to call them, are on their way out. This is the, we're about to, you know, potentially put ground troops in Iran. The energy markets are going to be rattled and even more than rattled. We're going to probably mire ourselves in a quagmire in the Middle East. Similar to Iraq, could be worse. China will emerge victorious here as a leader financially morally, which is not what we want. And this will be the final war of the American superpower, most likely if we continue on the path that we are. And the people that are pushing this, Sean Hannity and Fox being one of them and others are pushing this as the final battle for the Middle East, for the supremacy of Israel, for the supremacy of a certain Christian fascist ideology that wants to subjugate large parts of the Middle East for the strategic military and economic reasons. Some of those reasons are religious or whatever. And it is this fusion of fundamentalist Christians in America, some of them. And, and, and radical Zionists, people in the Lecude Party, people like Smote Rich and Ben Gavir, people that are controversial, even in Israel. People like Netanyahu that they are starting to get fed up within Israel, people that are at the far right end of the political spectrum there. This is a suicide pact between these two groups of people. A lot of it is financial. Jared Kusher is making lots of money. All of these guys are making a lot of money. On the other side of this, you have this online contingent of the right that has absolutely no power other than to get views on YouTube. They're people like Tucker Carlson or Candace Owens or Fuentes or any of these people that really, really disagree with what the establishment Republicans are doing and they're very vocal about it. And in my estimation, a lot of it, I don't agree with all of them on everything obviously, but on many of the central points like the Iran war is a colossal massive mistake and our support for Israel is a massive liability across many different criteria that they are correct. They have been proven right, but they don't have any institutional power in Washington, DC. They have very little institutional power in the universities. They are a movement that exists primarily on the internet with a lot of charismatic personalities, and they have backing a lot of backing specifically with younger people across America that are more right inclined and some of them to the left. On the other side of this is the DSA. And the DSA is eating the mainstream of the Democratic Party. The leader of that Mamdani elected New York City, which New York City doing pretty well. It has not turned into a hell storm of chaos here. By the way, it's like fine. Now could it? Sure. Could anything happen? Yeah. But Mamdani is a charismatic Trump-esque figure who's like, yeah, who's a war criminal. I'm going to rest him. He's not going to rest him, but it is what it is. It's a little bit of a show. That's where Ken Griffin lives. He's a billionaire. We're going to go get him. A little bit of the Trump-esque quality. You have AOC who was, you know, people in the DSA have been lukewarm on her recently because they don't feel like she's been as, you know, she hasn't been as much of a purist. As they would like, she's been a little lukewarm on criticism of Israel or whatever. Whatever their issues with her are, she's a little too wishy-washy for them. And she does not have the charisma of Mamdani. She's okay, she's not bad. She's fine. She's attractive. Young, but, you know, she Mamdani has that quality. Graham Platner, another one of the DSA stars gets taken out by a sexual assault allegation. And can you play who's stepping in for Graham Platner? It's like a trans person. But the DSA make no mistake is the insurgency and they're on the rise and they are going to kick people like Chuck Schumer out of the party and they are going to run their candidate. Some of some of whom are just, you know, completely insane. But Mamdani so far, New York has not descended into a hellscape so far. That doesn't mean I agree with all the DSA shit, which is like get rid of jails. You know, there shouldn't be any prisons. We don't need police. We don't need a border and kind of like open season on white people like like a lot of Kill Whitey. A little too much Kill Whitey from my liking. Add a little too much, you know, everybody's and the DSA is made up of Muslims and trans people and white kids from Bushwick or whatever. Like, so it's an interesting alliance of people. I don't know how it will work and I don't know how that all works. But that is what's going on right now in our country. That is where the excitement at the excitement is with with with young Muslim people and young trans people and very skinny white guys from the Midwest. And those people are are a real insurgency and the democratic parties old and boring and bloated and corrupt and the same thing with the Republican party. And that's why you have Sean had it. He interviewing this woman and she's like, I pray down at Sean and it's just feels good to do and Sean's like, have you made a decision? Have you made a decision? And these people are trying to hold on to power. power because they're, they're losing it. It's a generational thing. Um, so here to replace Graham Platner, um, they have this, uh, Democrat, main Democrat Ashley Webb, who is running to replace Graham Platner. Now Graham Platner was one of the only, because here's the thing with, with the DSA and, and I, and I say this lovingly because I'm an empath, it's a lot of freaks. Same thing with the far right. It's a lot of freaks. It's a lot of people you can't put the front and center, they're not camera ready. A lot of, my, my money is good looking fun, charismatic, but a lot of DSA people are not camera ready. They're not ready for the spotlight. They're not here yet. They're not, they haven't prepared. You need to prepare, okay? So this woman, and I say that because I recognize trans identity and this to me is a woman. It's not a great looking woman. It's not that, a white, you know, from Wheel of Fortune, it is, um, that's not a man. I mean, it biologically, it's a man, but it's not, I don't know what's, you know, it's, I go, you want to be called a woman life too short. I'll call you whatever you want. I really speak to six people. So I don't, I'll call anyone anything. And I usually only speak about myself. So I don't really address people by their pronouns because I usually don't address people at all or ask some questions about themselves because it's usually really uninteresting. I speak mainly about myself and I speak in ideas sort of like a Caesar where I will have lunch with someone and then just talk. I barely look at them. I just kind of talk out almost like at the rest of the restaurant. So there's no real worry here in that I'm going to be in polite and offend someone. But if some of these DSA people are just not camera ready, they haven't done the work. They're not media trained. And this is a great example Ashley Webb running to replace Graham Platner. Here she is, Miss America, roll tape, Ashley Webb, what qualifications do you have to serve in the US Senate? Oh, I ran for office several times. Didn't win, but they did run. And then I'm a songwriter. And then I write my own books. And then I suppose my transparency. I wouldn't lie to the people and I wouldn't deceive the people like, okay. Well, again, you got to watch this a little bit on YouTube too because there is a visual component to this that is, you know, even the audio, those pretty damning. This woman, this last, this lady, our gal pal, Ashley Webb, not ready for the, so that's what the DSA is going to have to do. They're going to have to get their candidates camera ready because America is, if nothing else, a production, our country is a production. It is produced. And what you need to do is find some media train, trainers you need, you need publicists. You need a vocal coach. You need a stylist. You need a makeup artist. You need a therapist. You need a debate coach. You need a PR person. You need an agent, a manager. You might need a business manager. You need a social media manager. You might need a raky healer. You need a spiritual advisor. You need a gender specialist. You need a lot of people to cut. You need someone to sage the room. You need a lot of people to come in here and get these candidates because some of what they're talking about, I'm all on board with get people healthcare, get them jobs, whatever. But if you people think you're going to have any hope or any chance, you need to wrestle control of that organization back from the freak show. In the same way that people on the far right are going to need to do that because you can't keep nominating like Hitler loving, human hating psychopaths who want to like burn down every institution in America that isn't some like revival church that they come from where they're also raping people, most likely. But she can't nominate the tape brothers either. You understand what I mean? Like you can't nominate clavicular for the Senate, the far right. I know they would like to do that. They would like to nominate clavicular. And the far left wants to nominate this person. And here's what we need to do. It's a production. Take a little lesson from Hollywood. America's not going to, you're not going to change America overnight from what it has been for the last couple of hundred years. We are a produced country. It is a production. And you need to put these people, this woman needs to go through a car wash. This woman needs to go through a full on car wash. There needs to be 15 professional dog groomers on her. You need to get them on her, put her in a car, put her in a carrier, put this woman in a carrier, zip it up. She's going to the groomer, take her to the vet. And I'll tell you right now, if you don't do that, you're not going to win. Take this bitch to the animal hospital and figure it out. And it has nothing to do with her gender. It has to do with her appearance and the way she is speaking, which disturbs me. The DSA's got a lot of hot tranny boom bannies. I'm sure of that. You put a nice hot Asian tranny up there, spout some Marxism, daddy's all ears. I don't know what the fuck this is. And no one does. So put her in a van, take her to the car wash, make her walk through it, like Cersei from Game of Thrones at the second of last season or last season, forget she should walk through the town square and everybody should shampoo her enough already. I'm a singer and I'm a songwriter. Enough enough enough. So that's a little PSA. And I don't even agree with the DSA a lot. So here's my little tidbit for you free advice from someone who doesn't really agree with a lot of your shit, agrees with some of it. Get a hold on what the hell's going on. You know how much you know how Lindsey Graham sister. Do you know how many pre interview she did before they sat her down with Hannity? They told her exactly what to say. Tell them you pray down it. And it is just what Lindsey would have wanted. Tell them you know it's going to be difficult, but you're going to rise to the occasion. Tell them that. Let's finish her interview because by the way, she at least, you know, is is is is is doing the bullshit they've always done. It's not working as well because it nothing does. You can't run the same. This is the problem right now with our country, by the way, we are in need of new scams like badly. You cannot run the same scam for a hundred fucking years. People get hip to it and they need a new scam. Lie to people in a new way, put work into it. You can't completely just the same bullshit I pride and God said kill them all. That's what I'm here to do. You can't just keep falling back on this folksy bullshit. People are seeing through this. People understand what you're doing. These chain restaurants like Red Robin are failing. Get up red Robin. And by the way, it's sad because these these Americana chain restaurants were part of my childhood. Not as much Red Robin, but TGI Fridays was like a central pillar of my childhood. TGI Fridays, you know, I wasn't an Applebee's kid, but I'm just naming restaurants Applebee's Red Lobster Chili's. Chili's is seem to survive because Gen Z's kind of ironically given Chili's another lease on life because Chili's are some irony. There's some like, you know, nostalgia mining going on at Chili's nostalgia maxing at Chili's people for whatever reason like to go to Chili's because it gives them that it's like a fun, you know, kind of the bullshit example of Americana, whatever. And I like Chili's no hate on Chili's, but the rest of these things are going belly up and they're going belly up quick because you know why people have realized that's not food. You got away with it for a long time, giving people things that looked like food and smelled like food, but we're just chemical sludge. And then eventually people go, oh, these restaurants have been buried in a sea of documentaries in education, people getting smarter, people go, hey, man, we know what this is. It's not food. It's fun. It's hot. It's if we're drunk. And that's what it was for many years. You were kind of buzzed and you were like, all right. Yeah, I'm buzzed on a Wednesday. I'm buzzed. And I'm going to have this thing. I'm going to eat this fish and magig. That was one of the things that friendlies is a fish sandwich, like, I'm going to go to Benagons and have the turkey O tool. I'll go to T.J. Friday. You don't have to check the annual strips, which were very good. But again, none of this is food. It's a circus and you, and by the way, it lasted for decades. It lasted for decades. People would go into those restaurants, my family included, and they were fun, and they were packed, and there was a lot of people there. And they were eating the three falls, and they were eating the big mouth burgers. And they were eating, you know, I think at the end of Fridays, they had something called the bucket of bones, which was just ribs and French fries in a bucket. It's called the get that a bucket of bones, 2Gi Fridays, they still may have it. There's only a few Fridays left. But near the end of that, this is what they were serving. They were, yeah, yeah, there you go, the bucket of bones. Come on in for the bucket of bones. Pork ribs blasted in our signature sauce, bone and wings, seasoned fries. Yeah, it was, it was in a bucket. It was a bucket of shit. And again, this isn't good quality stuff. They buy this in bulk, and it's, it's, it's, it's preservative laden shit that's meant to last forever if it needs to. If there's a soft month that it sits there until you come back in the next month and eat it. And all of those theme restaurants were based on the idea that it was fun. It was a blast. You were going to have a good time. And the food was whatever it was. I'm drinking coffee from the Starbucks box because I brought the Starbucks box into the, and I'm now the milks going everywhere. They give you this milk. We really live in hell and I'm going to use this plush lobster to wipe up all of the coffee in the milk that you spilled, and then I'm going to throw this lobster in the garbage. And that's the way we're going to handle it. But red robin trims its flock, burger chain closes another restaurant in a shakeup that could see 50 shuttered. Yeah, they're on the way out. They're on the way out. This was a scam for a year and was a fun scam. Not all scams are bad, by the way, people, the word scam has gotten a negative connotation. But in not all scams are bad. This was a scam. It was like, what if we told them this was food? And then they were like, I guess we could do that and go, yeah, we'll fucking, we'll put like tennis rackets on the wall and a bunch of silly hats and will, and they'll come in and we'll get them drunk and they will serve them a pretzel bites or say, it's fine. What do they care? And it was, by the way, it was fine. It was good. Nothing was better than going to T.J. Friday's as a young kid and eating at T.J. Friday's Rod Brownie obsession to Stato Nachos. Yes, thank you very much. But here's the deal where we're a morbidly obese country right now. We are looking at why one of the reasons why is the food we eat is industrial waste. It doesn't matter how much memorabilia you put on the walls or how many fun snow globes, you litter around a restaurant or whatever the hell you do, whatever fun, old timey posters you throw up in there to give people the idea that it's a fun. It is a factory of chemical waste and industrial sludge. That is what red robinies, red robin closed because people know right now that taking your children to these restaurants is guaranteeing them a horrible life. If I walk my child into this den of sin and I feed them burgers and brownies and fucking wings drenched in chemicals, they're going to be a fat pig and their life is going to be tough and it's going to be hard and their health is going to decline rapidly. So things like red robin, the, the jig is up. The scam has ended. You have to be terribly, terribly abusive to your children to cause I'm not talking about you. Take them there every once in a while. You're out of vacation. It's a rest stop. There's something there. Take them there, the way our parents took us to these places would be abuse. To take your children to fast food or fast casual, whatever this is called family dining, they target lower income to middle income families and and and and they exploit the, the need for a family without a, without a lot of time to, to need to feed their children and you bring them into these restaurants and these restaurants. Now they look old and haggard, but when they were hot, they looked fun and cool. But we are now looking back and we have an epidemic of diabetes. We have heart disease. We have a lot of problems in this country and we turn around and we're looking at these types of restaurants. We're looking at red lobster, we're looking at Fridays, we're looking at chilies, we're looking at eye hop, sorry, we're looking at waffle house, we're all of these restaurants. The American diet went under the microscope over the last few years and now your children are going to have to get injected with drugs to just remain a normal size. And why? Because of this. So I know it's really sad that people are losing their jobs. I never want to see people lose a job at a place, because I know there's a lot of people that work at Red Robin, okay? And a lot of people are probably mad if they listen to this, you shut up, you fat fuck. What should we do? I get it. I, I, I stand with you, but you need to find a new scam because these theme restaurants where parents unload a station wagon of fatties to get sticky with this chemical sludge is not going to work. People are too hip for it. It's not going to work, okay? Because people would, they would just rather go to the fast casual to Jersey mics and stuff like that. And you know what happens to those restaurants, torches, tacos, it recently private equity buys those restaurants and ruins them and, and, and by the way, they're not great restaurants to begin with, but private equity like the Blackstone group, Steve Schwartzman, all those guys, they go in to Jersey mics and go every cut the portion size and, and start using less of the things. Don't pack it with the vegetables anymore. They start fucking you over and I'm not saying you have to eat the whole Jersey mics. Sometimes people would eat half of it and then bring the other half home. They get two meals out of it. They Blackstone group don't want that. You don't get two meals out of the foot long anymore. They're shrinking the portions and the food's not as good and they're cutting corners and they're moving to kiosks so you don't see a human being when you walk in. That's what private equity's doing. They're going, hey, where it's bare minimum, you're going to be, you're going to be treated like you're in prison. That's what private equity does. They buy a company that's in the food service space, whatever, hospitality and they go, how about you're treated like a prisoner? We're going to determine, like Israel does for Gaza, the exact calorie amount you need to live and that's what we're going to do. That's how we're going to roll here at the new Jersey mics private equity version where you're treated like a prisoner and you're going to order it a kiosk and then a disinterested central American who can just not speak English and doesn't know where they are is going to and I'm their lovely people, but they're going to hand you a shitty sandwich and you will eat it in your car so that the executives of Blackstone can buy a 17th house in a country you've never heard of to go live in when the Great War comes. So that's where we're at now with a lot of these restaurants. It is, it is cut, cut the costs, trim the operating expenses, bring in the robots and make it because they go, it's old monopolies and you don't have any choice and it's, what are you gonna do? Where are you gonna go? There's not a sandwich shop like a mom and pop. They're at a business. You want a sandwich. You're going to Jersey, Mike's or you're going to a grocery store and making it yourself. So if you're on a break at work, you got to go to Jersey, Mike's and we're just going to feed you like you're in prison. And there's nothing you can do about it. And we're going to make it shittier and shittier and shittier and shittier and shittier. And we're going to take people out of it. We're going to put in kiosks and we're going to staff it with people that got to the country 10 minutes ago and none of them will speak the language. And again, it's not their fault because they're here and they were brought in so that your kid can't do that job. They're brought in so that your child who just got his working papers or her working papers, they can't do that job. So now they're on in a mall parking lot filming someone's death. Essential American Mike Grant is handing you a sandwich that was made to get Steve Schwartzman in 19th house. You know, and that's the way we're going to run our country. And that's it and you'll eat your shitty Jersey Mike sandwich in a car and you'll order it at a kiosk and that's that's what we're gonna do that's all and if you like my father worked at lows when he was getting divorced from my mother my father got a side job at lows. The storm people work at things like this by the way there's this idea that like everyone doesn't do that. People have those jobs. I don't know when this idea happened in our country that like nobody would have a job like that. People had their job. My dad worked at lows, the home improvement store while he was getting divorced my mother because he needed to pick up extra money and he got a job at lows and got a job working at lows. And those are the people. I am certain of it that are are are are the the people that claim to love them hate them. The people that claim to care about those people on the left and the right by the way the people that claim to care about people that are working at an hourly wage job at a place like lows. Their lives are the ones that get worse. Their lives are the ones we don't care about. If you're eating caviar off a potato chip in March is vineyard with your pussy on the street, we love you. But if you are working at a job trying to help an elderly housewife figure out, you know, something that she needs to buy, we don't care about you. We'll we go at you every way we can. We will take the jobs. We'll also say if you want to have lunch, we got private equity company owns that. And you'll eat like you're in prison because you're and that's the way we feel. But these family sludge factories like red robin, the tower of onion rings shit is going away. It's going away and it's sad. It is sad. It's sad. Let's yeah, let's watch. By the way, look at this. I want you to look for a minute. This will be studied. Historically, it will be studied where they go. What happened here? What happened? There's a lovely looking woman whose name is Maya, little ethnically ambiguous. We love that for her. This is a red robin commercial. She is walking out with two stacks of what it looks like five cheeseburgers on top of each other. Each of them with two patties on it and they're sliders. But they're the size of a burger that you would eat in Europe. And then not eat again for six to seven hours. But there's ten of them and they are appetizers. They are sent to the table before your actual burger. Red robin is kind of a burger restaurant. So what date? There are towers of sliders. What do you think you're ordering after that? A chicken Caesar salad? No, another burger, a bigger burger with more shit on it. Now, red robin's got burgers with guacamole and barbecue sauce and blue and it's just like it never stops. But they start you off with towers of burgers, little burgers to get ready for the bigger burger. And this is no longer like if you're sitting there and you have a little bit of an overweight child. You have a child that's exhibiting the tendency to be a little overweight and you're sitting there and I was this child. So don't talk to me like I don't know what I'm talking about. You're sitting there and the waitress puts down the tower of burgers and the little fatty's eyes light up. You realize your, your his pusher, your his drug dealer, your his drug dealer. You're getting, he's getting excited about food and fat and sugar. And I'm not saying you shouldn't like food or love food or appreciate food. Many people in the world don't have it. But this disgusting pornography at the table of just burger stacked on top of each other, you're teaching your children that food is some type of circus where their, their, their job is to be impressed and wowed and bold over by the fact that the food doesn't even look like food. It looks in human. It looks like some type of strange fucking, you know, thing that would come to you in a dream. It's a cartoon. It's like these dogwood sandwiches. You know, it like it is a novelty item. That's not food. It's franken food. It's a novelty item. And it hits the table. And if you're a parent and you see your fat little child, grab one of the burgers and start wolfing it down his face. If you have any conscience, if you have any conscience, any decency, you go, this is bad. This is wrong. I'm killing you. I'm killing you. Let's watch the rest of this commercial. Are those the towering sliders? Everyone needs it. Now let me describe the commercial. The commercial is a waitress running around with these sliders and people in the restaurant begin to attack her to get the food. Is that not what the commercial is? Yeah. So the commercial is she's walking with these slider towers and everyone in the restaurant gets up and starts to try to physically name her to get them. So get that out of here. But my point is that scams can only run a certain amount of time before you have to move on from them. You know, this model scout for Jeffrey Epstein found that in his home near. Maybe this is why JD Man's key like and these guys keep down playing this. They're still killing people. Maybe I should shut my mouth. They're still killing motherfuckers. This is years later. Daniel Siong, face allegations of rape and trafficking in France had appeared more than a thousand documents in the Epstein files. And then he, he got got 69. Well, he was older. It was under investigation by the prosecutor specializing in human trafficking in France, Q's of murder rape and other charges. He was found dead in his home on Monday evening. An investigation is determined. The cause of death had been opened and on top is to be carried out. Yeah, they're get there. They're, they're, this is what they call tying up the loose ends. They're tying up all the loose ends. And they can't kill everyone at once. They can't kill everyone at once. So the killings come, uh, you know, when they have to, they kill people and they have to know, well, he's being investigated. Da, da, da, da. Let's just minimize risk and get him out of here. He was providing and he, he was well connected in the modeling world and also worked as a scout on commission for Jean Luke Brinnell, who was a leading agent in Paris, New York, Miami from within four decades. Brinnell killed himself with prison in February, 2022 after spending 14 months in custody awaiting trial on charges of rape of minors and sexual arrests. So there's something going on in the modeling world. Obviously, the modeling world is a funnel to this other world. Now, I was never in the modeling world. Now many people thought that that's odd. And actually, I've got a lot of pushback as people go, don't you know all of these people? Like all the modeling people from all the model parties. And it, it, it, it is uncomfortable. You know, because that is a world that I'm in kind of that world of kind of the international modeling community. But I've never seen, I want to address it on the show. I've met in any of the model events that I've been at. I've never seen anything on toward. I've never witnessed anything. And I am, I wouldn't say a fixture, but I am someone that is often finds himself sort of in that milieu of sort of models and scouts and international modeling and kind of the sex industry and just the kind of that, that just, you know, kind of image, culture, and, and it is a shallow and holocal. I pulled myself out of it as I've gotten older. I've pulled myself out of it as I've gotten older because I've realized how shallow it was and how people wanted me just for my body. And that is thrilling when you're younger. But now I feel as if it's something where I just, I want more of a multi dimensional experience. And I just felt very one dimensional. It's like yachts, yachts, yachts, yachts, yachts, yachts. Enough. How many boats in the South of France am I going to go on and, and be, and have people ogle me. So in this modeling world in which I live and I'm very accustomed to and know like everyone in, it is hard that some of my heroes, John Luke Cornell and this man, some of my heroes, the great photographers, the great agent scouts, these people were like family to me when I was in Paris. being sort of just model and model adjacent and it's hard to look at a group of people you thought you knew and I I was like I thought we were just having fun being hot on a boat what's all this other stuff what's all this other stuff I thought we were just having fun on a boat being hot with some billionaires what's going on guys why is it all gone wrong why has it all gone wrong that's the question but you know there are these yacht parties in all serious I'm like that was a bit I want people to know I actually because I know it is confusing but I was I actually was not a model but this world this modeling world they have these parties is yacht parties where these people are basically like they're basically like sorry I'm returning I think you know RFK call me he's mad at me about the about that I said he wasn't doing anything and you know supposedly and here's where I will defend RFK I do like RFK's family a lot and I like him and Cheryl and I did that whole thing about we want more I want more I do and I he fought the Clio Foss faith thing and they overruled them because we're just we're we're ruled by corporate oligarchs and they're not going to let him do anything and I think somebody wants to is probably silly you know but some of what you know I think he had a thing where he thought the candy fun dip gave you a chance or something but whatever you know every supposedly he's he's actually going to do something with ultra processed foods that's good he's gonna like designated the body call me goes hello I said hi how are you I said good is that someone showed me a clip of you saying that I wasn't doing anything and you played the clip on the your show where I hit the yak with my phone I said well well yes I said well I said that because I said you are an exciting character to me and I think we do have a lot of poison food and I was a victim of it as a child not a victim of willing participant but a victim and I think a lot of kids are victims of of these these corporations are poisoning fucking kids man and he goes well of course I agree with you but I'm doing a lot behind the scenes that people don't know were were the first administration to come up with a definition of an ultra processed food and he goes I fought the Glyophosphate battle and I lost but I can't wait for this way said by the way I will correct myself and I'm a man of my word a man of my word you know can you get something up about the ultra processed food and see if he's because he's behind the scenes trying it's hard I guess what's happening I like this nine hours ago and I'm by the way credit where credit is to thank you Senate advances maha friendly bill for food warning labels and junk food ad ban so they're going to try to put warning labels on food and they're going to try to ban junk food advertising by the way I think that's good I think that's good the bill which would ban junk food advertisements targeted to children and require the food and drug administration to put strong warning labels on ultra processed foods hind sugar salt and saturated fat was proposed by senator Bernie Sanders wait a minute hold on hold on an earlier version of the bill died when Sanders introduced back in 2004 but it was that was a for president Trump appointed maha leader rfk as health secretary so rfk's on board with it good for him on that here's the deal when are we going to wrestle with the fact that both the Republican party and the democratic party forever have just been okay with everyone being poisoned people are going to have to start asking those questions and unfortunately it's not going to bode well for fucking red robin red robin death I think that you know you go to your your best junk food your best things you can eat to the naughty go get a whatever but here's the deal not like we do not like we do we have a carnival of literal horrors that we are feeding the children the children and I just want rfk doing more you know I mean I think that's super important and I think he is trying I think is hard now correct myself because he's you know he's like you played the video where I hit the yak you played that on your show and said I wasn't doing anything we said I'll go on my show and I'll I'll correct myself if I was wrong and maybe I am a little bit wrong you don't have to do that and in his credit he said I didn't have to do it I get slammed every day and so I'm a man of my world I am nothing but a man of my word so this guy is trying by this is what I think he is to truly rain in because by the way we should have healthy food there's no reason we don't have healthy food we have enough fucking money there's so much great produce in the country a lot of it comes from California but by the way it we can have food we shouldn't have food deserts where poor people have to eat sludge and then their minds and bodies are are out of whack they're chronically ill they're not capable and and and we're doing this on purpose we're doing it on purpose people that cannot afford to eat better a lot of them are are are like being driven to an early grave not only that but the quality of life they have is significantly diminished if the DSA wants to get on that train but the more I see of them they're talking about the calories or white supremacy and body image is white supreme and if they keep the democratic party wants to win these have to drop the hatred of white people have to drop it you have to start talking about class you have to start talking about jobs and healthcare you got to drop this identity politics should it's not going to work stop writing articles a common needs to come back stop trying to make people to judge a thing he's not a thing he's not a thing give it to John us off give it to Andy Bashir boring straight white be done with it stop trying to make a point stop the theatrical theater kids shit you're all losing and you've driven your party the world they don't want is manifesting more and more every single day with all of the actions that they undertake so this weird theater kid energy got released in the democratic party I'm going to end on this but let me tell you exactly what happened and the Republican party's not immune from this either by the way it's just weird like strange college energy like performing arts camp energy that like weirdly a lot of people in the right have to where not actual actors actress is not actual festival not actual people in theater whose lives are hard and you do something that they love and it's kind of like under appreciated in their underpaid and they find a community and that we're not at that we're not talking about that we're talking about the simulation of that that's what a theater kid is it's that with a net it's being able to pretend that you've made the sacrifices to understand but you haven't because you're theater kid and you're at some summer camp or you're in a high school or college or whatever it is so you have all that diva behavior with nothing to back it up and you've not earned it and you are going out and proclaiming that you are worthy of attention but you haven't mastered the skill and hone the craft to deserve it. You are a petulant childish tantrum throwing baby. That is the energy unfortunately of a lot of people in both the Republican and Democratic parties right now. The Democratic party is the one that I focus on because they should win the midterms and then the next election because the Republican party is about to put troops on the ground in Iran. Their best idea is to have Lindsey Graham sister take his senate seat and vote so that we can go further into World War three while Lindsey Graham sucks cock in another realm. So they rightly should lose and the Democratic put if and people get mad at me what are you saying there's no deep state no dummy. But if the deep state can never be affected or impacted or changed and why even elect this guy why did you all get excited and wear the dumb hats dummies why did you care so much about this guy in his election if this deep state if you were just going to blame everything on the deep state. Then what the hell was the point? Why did you go to the rallies? Why did you do we just trying to go to a concert? And that's really what it was. Did you just like the merge? Why did you care so much about this guy? Well if this well, why isn't he investigating his own assassination attempt? Let's talk about the deep state for a minute by the way Why don't we know anything about the guy that assassinated him? Okay, we're tried to sorry attempt it I'm not saying there's no deep time. That's saying there's not some permanent government apparatus I've talked about it a million times on the show. I get it But for the people that ran on upending the deep state to then come in and blame things on the deep state seems like you have to be an idiot For that to work. Why were you excited for this guy to win? Why did anyone think it would be interesting for this guy to win if he was just gonna do All the things that this deep state wants him to do. What is he doing that they don't like by the way? Maybe some tariffs that'll just expire the minute he's out of office He's in Iran. He kidnapped Maduro Flot cameras are everywhere The detect people are getting all the money. So who is this deep state again? Who are these people that are really upset and up in arms with him? Who are they? I don't know who they are. He seems to but what would they want him to do that he's not doing He seems to be pretty locked up with all of these people surveillance technologies everywhere The pace at which unregulated AI is going to grow and become a real problem is is is harrowing We're about to commit troops to a war with the country and we'll probably lose That's the other thing unless we put a million people in there and hold their government and then what a winning look like It'll just be tallies of dead people. It's gonna be a nightmare It won't feel like winning. It'll feel like losing and and it'll probably be actually losing too Because there's not much you can do in that country, but again, we're on the brink of that We're on the brink of that So again, I'm I'm I'm asking all the smart people. I'm excluding the paid hack Maga people that are getting paid by this. That's great. Oh, he unwound de i ta da great. I'm all for that I'm all for that. We've invaded uh, or you know, we're about to invade uh, I ran You know, uh, you're in a half into the presidency Um He's running crypto scams out of the Oval Office his family's gotten really rich Immigration. There's no legislation passed. So everything he's done is executive order and it's all reversible Whatever, I mean, I don't even you know, listen, I'm not I'm not sitting here chastising People for their beliefs meaning that you're allowed to believe something that isn't true That's a great thing about our country. You're allowed to believe something that isn't true I just don't have to believe it You cannot You can't make me believe it Because when you talk about this deep state and I go well, what would they want permanent war check surveillance check I don't know it seems like they're pretty happy Seems like they're pretty happy You know I It seems like they really didn't like Bernie Sanders that's deep state And they probably didn't like Trump early on. I don't know what happened. They certainly didn't like him early on They seem to have warmed to him now. I don't know what happened Maybe that's it through that shooting but no one will investigate. It's why don't know But I'm a man of my word and if RFK is trying then RFK is trying Thank you You played the video right Attack I hit the yak with my phone Yes So I'm a man of my word and and when you're a man of your word you have to honor your word. I'm an empath I feel People yelling at me And all these dorks everywhere playing my clip about the deep state. It's not that I don't think it exists It's that well within why did why was there such excitement at four Donald Trump He ran against the permanent um Uniparty That was sacrificing The middle class of this country with poor people always of course, but they were governing um At the behest of an elite few people and he's kind of he's doing the same thing So I'm trying to figure out exactly how just think of the sim the symbolism Of getting into the White House and then of Elon Musk who's the richest man in the world at this point Um the first few months he's he's you move him essentially like into the White House It's just incredibly dysfunctional thing. He's getting in fights with people in the White House some of them physical He's getting in a fight with the president. He accuses the president being in the Epstein fog and then the president like I don't know it feels weird to still be jazzed about this Depending on however jazzed you were about seems odd it seems like a cope It seems like you need to queue on ain't happening. It ain't happening Nobody's getting marched off to get mo. It's time to wake up. It's turned time to turn the computer off and go for a walk I'm sorry. I know it's upsetting to you Sorry, but it's just there's a reality here that people need to accept I mean in my belief my estimation now they don't have to and I can't compel them too It's a great thing about America. You're allowed to believe whatever you want to believe You're allowed to sit there and say no, Trump has the best of intentions. He just keeps getting thwarted That's the way they believe he just keeps getting thwarted Every time he tries to do something somebody else there is you know like Tricking him. He's getting tricked So And there are people that'll believe that until they're dead There's people that'll go to their grave believing that that he was the one true great American patriot hero The guy that hosted the apprentice was the one guy that tried to save America, but he was thwarted You know, and that's okay. They're allowed to do that if it makes him if it makes you feel better Something's got to make you feel better. It's either going to be the red robin Berger skyscraper that they bring out to your table Or it's going to be the idea that Donald Trump was the the the last great hope of America, but he was thwarted He was the only one who cared about us. So something's got to make you feel good. Something's got to make you feel good It's what it is. Something's got to make you feel you could get on your knees in a hotel room in Washington DC and suck off Congressional page and then vote to kill everybody Or you can eat a big onion ring tower at red robin or you can believe that Donald Trump was the only person in our country that ever cared about you Whatever you need to enjoy your summer you only get one summer

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Andrew and Tristan Tate are facing UK extradition charges related to allegations of human trafficking and rape, though the speaker personally did not witness such behavior during a prior encounter in Romania.
  2. The speaker expresses skepticism about the legitimacy of the accusations, emphasizing that the Tates were respectful and hospitable during their visit, while also condemning any acts of choking or rape as unequivocally wrong.
  3. A major theme is the critique of power structures, where the speaker argues that only the most controversial figures are being pursued for serious crimes, while powerful elites remain unaccountable.
  4. The interview highlights a performance of "honor" by Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darlene, who is portrayed as carrying on her brother’s legacy through a narrative of moral sacrifice and political action, despite its controversial and hyperbolic elements.
  5. The speaker critiques current political movements, including the DSA and far-right groups, for lacking media readiness, professionalism, and public engagement, calling for greater training and strategic presentation.
  6. A central concern is the decline of traditional American dining culture, with theme restaurants like Red Robin being criticized for serving industrialized, unhealthy food that contributes to obesity and long-term health crises.
  7. The speaker links food industry practices to broader social decay, arguing that fast food chains exploit vulnerable families and that private equity has further degraded food quality and customer experience.
  8. The narrative concludes with a call to reform both political and cultural systems, urging accountability, transparency, and a shift away from identity politics toward solutions focused on health, equity, and public well-being.

Summary:

The speaker critiques the current state of American politics, media, and culture through a series of interconnected themes. Central to the discussion is the controversial case of Andrew and Tristan Tate, accused of human trafficking and rape, with the speaker asserting that while they personally had a positive experience in Romania, they firmly oppose any such crimes. The narrative then shifts to a dramatic, emotional portrayal of Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darlene, who is depicted as honoring her brother’s legacy through a morally charged, high-stakes political campaign—though the speaker questions the authenticity and realism of this narrative.

The discussion extends to broader societal issues, including the decline of traditional fast-food culture, with theme restaurants like Red Robin criticized for serving nutritionally harmful, industrial food that contributes to obesity and public health crises. The speaker attributes this to systemic exploitation, poor food quality, and corporate greed, especially from private equity firms that streamline operations and degrade customer experiences. These issues are tied to larger political trends: the rise of identity-based movements like the DSA, which the speaker sees as lacking media and public engagement skills, and the failure of both major parties to address real societal problems like food deserts and health inequities.

The ultimate message is a call for transformation—where politics, culture, and public institutions must evolve from scandal and identity politics toward transparency, health, and genuine service. The speaker urges a reimagining of American values, emphasizing that true progress requires not just moral courage, but practical, well-organized, and deeply human solutions.

FAQs

Andrew and Tristan Tate are currently in Miami, behind bars, awaiting possible extradition to the UK where they face new charges including rape and human trafficking.

Yes, Andrew and Tristan Tate are accused of human trafficking and rape, with allegations supported by reports from the New York Times and UK prosecutors.

Yes, the speaker describes a positive and cordial experience with the Tate brothers in Romania, including a meal and a visit to their home, and says they felt respectful and dignified.

The speaker criticizes the Tate brothers' legal team for using dismissive language, such as calling allegations 'garbage,' and says it lacks professionalism and legal rigor.

The speaker argues that political candidates, especially from the DSA, need to be media-trained and visually presentable, as America is a production-driven society and candidates must be 'camera-ready' to succeed.

The speaker claims these restaurants are closing because their food is industrial waste and their marketing exploits children's appetites, contributing to obesity and poor health, making them unsustainable.

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