(upbeat music) - Hello and welcome to hysteria. I'm Erin Ryan and this week we are welcoming Lee McGowan to the show. We're so excited. You're here Lee. You may know Lee as the host of the Politics Girl podcast or I am Politics Girl on social media or as the hilarious lady behind the headline. CNN panelists can't hide her contempt for Scott Jennings. - I mean, can any of us really? - Welcome Lee. We're so glad you're here. Okay, Lee, this week among the right-wing conniption fit over John Ausef's like room temperature reference to Natalie Harp. It was revealed that Harp was so obsessed with President Trump. She once rode in the trunk of an SUV so she could accompany him to court. What's the most humiliating thing that you've ever done for a guy who didn't like you as much as you like him? - Oh God, are you serious? Did you hear that Natalie also slept in the locker room of that midster because they couldn't find her a room? - Yeah. - So she lived there for a while. - But like, I'm questioning the physics of that. Like, what did she sleep on one of those little benches? - Yeah, like the bench. - Yeah, in style. - Maybe she did. Maybe she hung upside down. - Yeah. - Yeah, I mean, who knows, but this woman is obsessed. And I think the thing is is that like you said, the very lukewarm comment from John Ausef, he was like, he would rather travel with Natalie and everyone's like, outrageous, got himself. Did his podcast yesterday that was like, why I am so outraged? - He's a feminist, feminist icon, Scott Dennis. - A feminist icon that keeps blowing by the Epstein files. Like, this is bananas. And I think we should know what's going on with, you know, a woman who stays four feet from Donald Trump at all times and was chosen among all people above our Secretary of State to travel on the plane that wasn't gonna get blown up, you know? That is something we really should know. - I just wanna know, where is Melania? - Where is she? - As far away as she possibly can be. Let's be honest, Melania wants nothing to do with it. She loves Natalie. She's very happy Natalie's doing her job. And Melania can be off doing her thing. - Yeah, Natalie Harp is her human shield. - Yep, absolutely, she's thrilled. (laughing) - Today we're diving into Trump's personal lawyer, AKA Attorney General Todd Blanche's corrupt first weeks in his new post. The administration's blatant denial of the chaos unfolding on the USS Abraham Lincoln. Trump's scheme to take over the US banking system. Great, and the new data centers popping up all over the country. Then we're gonna talk about a surprising new discourse of family estrangements. Finally, we'll wrap up with Sandy Petty. (upbeat music) And welcome back. You're listening to "History of the Podcast" that enjoys dancing on Corey Mills' political grave. Now, Corey Mills, as you are awarely, is a Florida representative who has, I think the political science term is a fucked up history. He's been accused of all the bad stuff. He is like a, when all the transformers get together and they become one giant, I don't think that's the transformers. I feel like that's a kid show where they all became one creature, what was that? That was called. - There was a power rangers, they did that. - Power rangers, they also did that. - They also did that in transformers and they became the super Autobot. But I think he's like an Autobot of all the bad things that Republican men are right now. He's got domestic violence. - Perfect. - He's got accusations of running kind of a crooked, like arms, dealing adjacent business. - Okay, yeah, check. - He is, he was dating a 19-year-old when he was 43 and he was like, adults just want to find love. Like check, check, check, check. Well, he lost his primary in Florida last night. So I don't know what he thinks in the future for representative Mills. - Fox News host. - Fox News host. - Go in. - With that drawing. - Good point, they do like the hand sums. Maybe he'll pull over to one of the other networks. But I mean, like you said, he's the epitome of what this party stands for now and what people should really be distancing themselves from. I mean, I think somebody put out a stat the other day that said once a week, a Republican representative comes out as having an inappropriate relationship with a child. Once a week is too many, that's a real problem. We want to get it down to zero times a week, yeah. And we would love to not have the, you know, the avatar of the entire party be, you know, in the Epstein files. - Yeah. - A million times. - Yeah, yeah. Well, fish rot from the head down, don't they? - They do. - All right, speaking of rotten Todd Blanche, Trump's personal lawyer turned deputy attorney general, turned attorney general is in, in his new job as actual attorney general and he's been there for a little over a week. Before he was serving there, he was serving as the active AG since Pam Bondi got the boot in April. As a reminder, our attorney general is the country's top law enforcement official and is supposed to run an independent and impartial DOJ. But in our performance review of Blanche's short tenure, it's clear he has no interest in the actual integrity of the role. He has declined to pledge independence from the White House. He said, of course, he will consider Trump's view for decisions. He's appeared to implicitly endorse New York Republican gubernatorial nominee at a rally. Basically, he's standing on his hind legs, begging for treats from Donald Trump, like a legal lap dog. And we also know where his priorities lie, especially in abortion, because earlier this month, the recording of a prayer call, which why are you on a prayer call, sir? A recording of a prayer call leaked where he told faith leaders that the DOJ was working with federal health agencies in the White House to make the DOBS decision permanent in every single state. Unless we forget it was Todd Blanche who did a sit down with a Q's child sex trafficker and Epstein accomplice Gillen Maxwell last July, shortly before she was transferred from Florida to a like puppy prison camp in Texas. - Yeah. - Okay, what's going on? What's your reaction to A.G. Todd Blanche? What do you think he's up to? - Well, listen, A.G. Todd Blanche should have been disqualified from the very beginning, right? The idea that the president's personal defense attorney should be the attorney general of the United States is just like a ludicrous blatant conflict of interest. I mean, it should have been shut down by the Republicans right away. It was outrageous from the beginning. And like you said, this is the same guy who is ignoring the Epstein victims, right? He will not talk to them. He moved Gillen into her puppy prison. He's just got no business being there. He's been a A.G. for what, less than a week. And he's already said, like you said, his priority is to make abortions illegal. So no more states, right? So no more we're giving it to the states. Like this thing is going away period of the end. It's project 2025 wet dream. He's putting his finger on the scale for these Republican candidates, which is absolutely the opposite of what a Justice Department person is supposed to do. It's supposed to be completely independent. We had a complete meltdown when a former president ran into an A.G. on a tarmac once. And now we've got him being like, yeah, you should vote for this guy, which is bananas. So I think with Todd, he's going to be a real problem. I think he's going to be a real problem with this election. I think he's going to allow way more than we should have to interfere with these elections. I think he's the exact A.G. that Trump wanted in 2020. That he said, go get me these ballots, go find me these ballots. That's the A.G. he wanted in 2020. And that's the A.G. he has now. And it's what we should be really looking out for, I think. Yeah, I mean, here's something that happened to Pam Bondy, though. Like nobody could have been a bigger lap dog than Pam Bondy. Like you saw her histrionics in cabinet meetings where she was like, you saved, are you all ready for this? 65 million or whatever. She said like 100 million people were saved by Donald Trump, like Donald Trump's government intercepting one third of the country. One third of America almost died. And she just, she was just trotting out these ridiculous, like chest puffing like statements that were completely ridiculous and humiliating for her to say. She tried to pursue Trump's priorities as A.G. but ran into this pesky thing called the law. Grants, courts, grand juries. I feel like Todd Blanche is facing the same entrenched establishment that Pam Bondy did. Do you think he can somehow figure out a way to circumvent it or is he going to run into a justice system-shaped wall as well? Well, Aaron, first of all, he's not a woman. He's not trying to do it while being woman. You know, this is the problem. I mean, the first people-- He's never going to have his period. He's no. And honestly, at the end of the day, the first people that have been kicked from the cabinet are all women, right? Like they're the ones that take the heat first. At least Pam told us that there were thousands of hours of videos of the Epstein tape that had shocked her. It was Pam that said they're all on my desk and you wouldn't believe what's in them. It's Pam that gave all those influencers the binders to stand outside of the White House. And then it was Pam that was like, yep, nothing to see here. I just don't think that she was willing to completely tank her entire life. And Donald Trump needs people that will tank their entire life for him. And I think Todd is 100% on board for that. I think Todd has been a Trump guy from the beginning. And I think Todd has absolutely zero script bulls. If Pam has one, he has zero. Yeah, the thing that I keep bumping up against just like, what is his long-term plan? I mean, Donald Trump is an 80-year-old man. And like, he's not going to be president for that much longer in the grand scheme of human history. You know, his life will not go on. And we're not dealing with like JD Vance. You know what I mean? We're not dealing with somebody who's got decades left. If you take a look at how Trump has declined just in his vitality. From 2024 to now, it is dramatic. If you look at speeches from 2024 versus now. I wonder if what is someone like Todd Blanche have for after Trump is gone. Does he have an AT?
like after Trump plan? Yeah, I think there's a lot of people with an AT. I think they all have to have that. I think the goal in why they're moving as fast as they are is to make sure that the system is rigged enough that even when Trump is gone, they still have all the power. I mean, I think they're dry running it with the Mitch McConnell thing. You know, I think that we haven't seen that man for two months. And he's still doing votes in the Senate. He's still voting to approve Todd Blant, even though we have not seen him and he is most likely dead. I think they're going to try that. I think they are beta testing what happens when they lose the president and how long they can trick the public. And I think that they're trying to set up a system. So it is a JD fan. So it is a Marco Rubio. Or it is in my opinion, a Tucker Carlson. And they've already got the, you know, the culture on board. And they have taken all the wheels of power. So it doesn't matter what we think, what we want, what we vote for. They already have it. They're not planning to go anywhere. They are not acting like a group of people. Who think they have to win an election? Yeah. So I think that should terrify us that they are acting in such a way that's like, yeah, so what soldiers don't eat? What are you going to do? Be a man about it. Like they are not acting like people that we're trying to win an election. They're acting like people that think they're going nowhere. And I think Todd thinks he's in the inner circle. And that's where he's going to stay. Hmm. Well, I don't know if he would have gone on the Natalie plane or the regular plane that Stephen Miller was on. But I mean, I don't know. They said P.A. Access on the Natalie plane. And now P.A. is cruising around checking out his potential presidential possibilities. And I'm like, oh, baby, you're not going to make it on the plane next time. I cannot think of a more compromisable guy. Like what we know about P.A. Access, what we know about him is horrendous. Like a police report indicating a sexual assault, like which he denies, which he doesn't deny the sexual encounter. Yeah, which would have happened when I think his third wife was pregnant with their baby. But he did deny the sexual assault. But there was like a police report and a rape kit done. And yeah, so there's that. There's the fact that he's had three wives. He cheated on wife number one with wife number two. She did on wife number two with wife number three. And then was like sleeping around Washington. He drank his way through two veterans organizations. He's basically gorged himself with like lobster tail and fancy lotion, I guess. I don't know. He built a whole makeup room. He's getting Botox at the Pentagon. Yeah. Like he is, what don't we know? Like we never know everything. And I feel like that's just the tip of the iceberg with him. And now he thinks he can be the president. Yeah, I think he thinks he would look good on the poster. I don't think he can do the president much like he can't be the secretary of defense. Like you can't hire someone like a 46-year-old fat boy with a drinking problem to run the Department of Defense. And you certainly can't hire that man to be president of the United States. But he certainly does look good on the poster. And I think that's where they get confused. That they think like, well, this is my job to look presidential. Like it doesn't matter if I can do the job. Donald Trump can't do the job. I'm just going to be the next person in line for this. The man has the brains of an artichoke. Like it's not going to happen. Well, you know it's crazy. And I talk about this a lot and I kind of wonder at it. So Pete Hegseth and I grew up not far from each other. And we would have been in high school at the same time. Yikes. So let that sink in, right? You know who he was in high school. He's fucking pickled, man. He is pickled from the inside out. Liver out just a pickled, pickled 46 year old. The thing about him is he was his high school valedictorian. And he went to Prince. He had a brain. At one point, he had a big ol' brain. And looking how stupid and what a hambo he is now. It's like, wow. That is kind of fascinating, actually. Drinking. That there was a time where he was the valedictorian. And drinking is very bad for you. Like it's bad for your brain. Drinking that much over decades. I mean, he is kind of peacocking and being a ridiculous man, which is Michael Wolf's characterization of him. Ridiculous man. And I think it's perfect. The actual service members serving their country are dealing with just completely inhumane situations. Yeah. The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier departed from San Diego in November 2025. And at that time, it was set to return in May of 2026. The deployment did not go as planned. I don't know if plans are a thing in this administration. The ship made a single day port stop in Guam in December and then was redirected to the Middle East in January out of the war in Iran. We know how that's going. The Lincoln ended up deployed for a record-breaking nine months with over 200 days in a combat zone. And now the ship is finally set to return home, although, again, TBD dates. One will be replaced by another aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington. Okay. There are 5,000 people on board this ship. Yes. 5,000 people. Reports of food and water shortages, broken plumbing, mental health crises. I heard that three sailors. I don't know if more than three sailors, but the last I heard was three sailors had attempted to jump overboard. And that was in some ways the only way to access mental health care is to actually attempt self harm on the ship. And while the administration is like, oh no, everything's fine. Pete Hegseth is like, it's completely misrepresented. But I don't know how we can say that from his perch in Iowa, trying not to be photographed eating a corn dog. And then last Friday, Acting Navy Secretary Hong Cao announced the ship's return and he accused the press of trying to paint our warriors as victims. Come on, man. I mean, first of all, look, the right wing has gone above and beyond. To paint our soldiers as, can I say pussies? Yeah. Yeah. That's what they're trying to do. I saw a Fox News host speaking directly to the camera and he was like, man up. You're such, you're being such babies. And I was like, oh my god. Like, you were the right wing. You were the party of the military. Like, what are you doing mocking these people who are literally suffering? Have you seen some of those videos of like the sewage going across the floor and coming out of the sinks and they don't have any soap and they don't have any, like even just the food itself. It's not like, oh, we don't really like this food. It's that they don't have enough food and an army marches on its belly. That's like the oldest term. You need good socks and you need full bellies if you're going to be a working soldier. I think the thing is we're now learning that Iran destroyed the main US naval logistics hub in Bahrain earlier in the war and Pete Heggsett did not publicly acknowledge that. They didn't tell anyone that that damage had happened. So while Washington's out here talking about how we're winning, the sailors were living with the reality of what had actually happened. They couldn't go into a base and get more, more supplies. We were literally foisted by our own petard. I know. And we go on and on about our lethality and loving the military and we need to like up the tee on all these guys and you're like, no, you need to up the like cap carbs to give them a piece of meat. Please give them a piece of meat while Pete's eating his lobster and steak. Like, I just think the whole thing is that like Americans are not the priority of these people, right? It is about their own power, their own image. It's a vanity war and we're busy at home with vanity projects. He's using our money and our military for their own good. And I think it's really, really striking that the party that has gone on and on about how much they love the military is the first people to be dissing them like this. And now they're sending them home, right? Like that's breaking news. They're going to bring them home and it's supposed to be this feel good story. But they're leaving all the boats that are supposed to support that boat there, like without a job. Their job, all those little destroyers, is to support the big carrier. But they're like, we're going to bring the carrier home, see it's a win. It's a win, everybody. The, you know, Lincoln's coming home. But they're leaving all those little boats and all those little boats have soldiers on them too who don't have any of the same things because they can't go into that base in Bahrain. And like there's seven Navy ships that are having the same problem. We're just not hearing about it, right? So it's more than just the 5,000 soldiers. It's a whole group of people that are supposed to be our fighting men and women that we have completely rejected. Yeah. And it's in such sharp contrast to like Pete's chest thumping about lethality and building a high T military, it's like he's more interested in optics than anything else. He hasn't thought through what the actual reality on the ground is. I read that in World War II, they had a ship that was there to make sure that sailors that were deployed on sea were supplied with ice cream. That's how important like morale was. And I don't think that's silly at all. I'm like these people are putting themselves in harm's way for like reasons that have never been clearly defined, searching for objectives that have never been clearly spelled out. The least we can do is make sure that they are clean, warm, well fed and comfortable as we figure out what our way out of this ridiculous quagmire is. Yeah. I also think it's like this idea that people like in World War II, we had to do this. I'm like, bro, this is not World War II, right? This is actually a record setting deployment. Yeah. This is not typical. This is not nine months at sea is not how long people are at sea. I have a father-in-law who was a Navy pilot and he did two deployments on those big ships and it was a long time, but not at sea for that long. He was gone for 18 months when my husband's brother was born and then he was gone again for I think 11 months, but they go into port, they have a way to get in and it's a mental health thing and I think ultimately we're in an unnecessary war that the president promised we wouldn't be in and the military has a trillion dollar budget. It's the biggest budget they've ever had even though they keep failing their audits every single year. And they're like, we don't have enough money to feed the soldiers. Where's the money going? Oh, oh. I mean, do you want to see me with my tinfoil hat on? Bring it. I mean, I don't know. I think that Donald Trump is a person who makes money disappear by trade. Money go in. Where money go? Yeah, something come out now.
not worth money that went in, what happened to money? It's very, it's like the July 4th, America 250, it all looks kind of like a grift, right? And I feel like the military budget is clearly a way for money to go in, something to come out, but like is what comes out doesn't match the money that went in, like why are we, and even if it does, like why are we misappropriating it so dramatically, so that the defense department under Pete Hegseth was scrambling to spend money in September of 2025, so that they wouldn't threaten their continued huge budget, so they were eating lobster all the time and like fancy meals. - And they bought a bunch of pianos and like, I mean, that was the most obscene. They bought, they didn't buy any pianos on this ship either, like I know. - I know. - They had pianos, they could at least-- - No, they bought a grand piano, a baby grand or a grand piano for like the admiral of the blah, blah, blah, you know what I mean, as if that person needed it, 'cause they were just trying to spend money. Like you said, if people don't understand, you try to spend money because if you don't spend your whole budget from the year before, they might not give it to you the next year, so they were just like, you know, making it rain. - They should've just gone to Costco. - And like just completely like loaded those ships up-- - Loaded those ships up with like a giant fruit by the foot that makes you sick with some sort of botulism that we've given out. - Allets of spam. - Allets of spam, they could've had all interesting, like I saw like a birria bomb, which is like for a slow cooker, they could've gotten so many gadgets and gizmo. - It would've been good. I mean, look, this is what happens when you hire people for loyalty and looks and not skill and experience, right? Like the whole plan was to bomb Iran and then figure out the rest later. They thought it would be easy peasy like Venezuela. And it really was not. There's no funding plan, no exit strategy, no logistics. It's just all bravado, it's like a guy who's drunk at a bar and he like, you know, gets into a fight with someone, and the person's like, I'm a black belt. And he's like, I can take you, you don't even mean like, that's what I feel like our military is doing. But it's made us so weak and vulnerable. Like we should be really upset at how vulnerable we are. We're now sitting ducks with a trillion dollar budget. - Cool. Nobody would want to take anything from us. All right, we're gonna take a quick break. When we come back, more news. (upbeat music) - Bistaria is brought to you by one skin. A lot of skincare makes big promises but can't deliver. One skin's different. 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It's not gonna cool down those things. And like, I just think the whole thing is sort of pressing that this is where we are, you know what I mean? And I, I can't say I'm like 100% on board with this commercial, I get where they're coming from, but hard paths for me, and it doesn't really make me want to buy other those products, so. - I do love liquid death, though. And there's my son, you love that. - They're not a, they're not a sponsor, but I just gotta say, we have liquid death, the cherry obituary drink is perfect. It is perfect. It is so good. - It's a perfect beverage. - It is a perfect beverage. Ice cold cherry obituary drink after like a long day. Sometimes I'll mix in a little something else into it, but it is perfect. Okay, I could, I could go on about cherry obituary. - I could wax political about this. - Tall can of water-ish stuff. - It's like water with like a hint of cherry, it's so good. - It's so good. - It's what crystal light was in my childhood. (laughing) All right, what else are we getting into today? - I think we should talk about the fact that you exactly what you're talking about. Money in, no idea where money go out. And I think the biggest problem is that like, we should be super concerned that this person that we're talking about that seems to have a very good idea of how to take money and make it disappear is gonna maybe get a bank of his own. He's going to have a bank, right? So, World Liberty Financial, which is Trump's cryptocurrency, has now been conditionally approved by a federal financial regulator appointed by Trump himself to become a bank. And I don't know if anyone remembers that scene from Hamilton when they were singing about how concerned they were that Alexander Hamilton wanted to start a like national bank, because you know, the government officials would have too much power over our money. Now we're talking about giving one government official, the same government official by the way that the Supreme Court, the IRS, the now new AG, has made above the law, his own bank, right? So like, what are we even doing here? If this goes through, honestly, if this goes through, World Liberty Financial would be able to issue stablecoins, which would then be backed by safe reserve assets like the US Treasury, making trips cryptocurrency, the one that owned by himself and his sons and the Saudis and the Qataris, right? Like the 9/11 crew. Convertible one to one to US dollars, right? So this is a way that they could take untraceable crypto, wander it through a US government sanction bank and then convert it into cash. So we are giving the guy who had 300 bank accounts closed by capital one for potential money laundering, a laundromat, right? Yeah, I just don't know what we're doing. That's really, you know, I keep thinking about like, I know my brain is like trying to kind of crystallize into something that's like less overwhelmingly corrupt, but like, I would never play monopoly with Donald Trump, where somebody that cheats at golf, you know what I mean? I don't think that they should have a bank. I don't think that someone who cheats at golf should be in charge of a bank. I mean, 'cause like, I was thinking, you know, do I think, what about other leaders of banks? Do I think they cheat at golf? I don't think Jamie Dyne.
in cheats at golf. Well, I think dickfold probably cheated at golf. I will tell you, the prime minister of Canada, he ran two banks, right? He ran the Bank of England and he ran a banking Canada. And he helped both financial crises that we went through. Like, I might give him a bank, but I do not think that at least Canadian by the way. I am Canadian, but he's doing a great job. There's a thing like Senator Elizabeth Warren, I think, said at the best. She said, if this isn't stopped, which it should be, like the Congress should be absolutely outraged that we're even suggesting this, but she said, if this isn't stopped, President Trump would be able to approve, operate, and supervise his own bank, which is clearly absolutely ludicrous. And this is the same company world liberty financial that Trump reported making $800 million in income from last year. And now he's he's here being like, actually, you know what? I think I should probably own the bank at the same time. And I think genuinely the American people have to be flipping out about this and they really need to be talking to their Congress members about killing this and its infancy because this is like, this would make Putin blush. This is this level of corruption is like it's very smash and grab Russia after the fall of the wall. Everybody just kind of taking whatever they can. The thing that really strikes me about his overtures to getting a full-on bank is the the adage that Donald Trump confesses by accusing I think really applies here because he and people who have say whatever he wants them to say have been concerned about fraud all of a sudden. Fraud, fraud, fraud. Oh, what's going on with the fraud? Like, I think that we should have taken that as an indicator that Donald Trump was about to start his own giant fraud machine. Yeah. And it it's very concerning. This is a way for people who and I think that I think that people should realize is that this bank is not just going to be a free for all. Like I can't just be like, you know what? Cool. I'm going to do some crime now. I'm going to laundress some money through Donald Trump's bank because I'm not friends with Donald Trump. If you are friends with Donald Trump and he owes you, you can, if you have, he owes you favors, you can use this bank in order to lunder money. He's still going to go after enemies of himself for doing the same thing but not his friends. So this is like another example of a bank that will only really be available to people who do what Donald Trump wants them to do. Yeah. Well, this is the law that only applies to people who are not friends with Donald Trump now. It's that old adage that's, you know, for my friends everything, for my enemies, the law. And that is kind of how we're functioning at this point. And I just want to be so clear that like we went into Venezuela and took a bunch of money. It's missing. We took a trillion billion dollars, whatever it was to go into the board of peace. It's missing. Right? Like there's already money that's being laundered. Donald Trump had all those accounts closed because of money laundering. He sold, you know, a place in Mara, near Mara Lago that he bought a mansion, you know, for $45 million and then sold it two years later for $90 million and had done no nothing to it. So like the money laundering is all over the place. And then you give the guy the money laundering. And I think we should also be clear that this is, JD Vance just did a speech in a Q&A where he said he thinks that we should end the US dollars position as the global reserve current. That terrified me because we are giving a guy with a cryptocurrency his own bank. And then you've got the vice president being like, you know what? Like maybe we shouldn't have the US as, you know, having the dollar. So he's like, we consume too much and Americans buy too much. And I was like, tell that to Americans who are drowning in debt right now. But then didn't JD Vance just do like a round of podcast appearances where he was like, he was basically like a hype Williams video from the late 90s. Like I fly around on a helicopter. I'm so like I have such a fabulous life. Like Aaron, he took his child to their like golf or riding lesson, like something very posh in a helicopter because they might be late. Like they took the vice president's helicopter to get his son to golf. Yes. Okay. A man of the people this one. Yeah. Total regular guy. He's like, I love it. This has been great. I don't go to the grocery store. I don't cook a meal. Like I love this job. You're like literally from Hillbilly, LG to Beverly Hillbilly. Like it is, it is real. It's like, come on, man. This is like so new for reach that I'm a little bit embarrassed. What do you think the odds are that Congress stands up to this, this bank? I think if public outcry gets big enough, the odds are higher. I think if the polling going into the election, this cycle looks more and more dangerous to people that thought they were safe, they might stand up and do something. This might be an easy win for them, for Republicans because it's so ridiculous. It is so ridiculous on its face. We can't give this to him. But more people should know about it. More people should be yelling at the representatives about it. And more people should be yelling about data centers as well. Oh my god. We've got a data center. The worst. Okay, listen, like in March, Gallup Poll showed that 71 percent of Americans opposed the construction of AI data centers in their neighborhood. And yet we are putting these things up like just one on every corner, right? And at the end of 2025, the United States had 5,427 data centers. How is it that these things are going up so fast? It takes six months of city and neighborhood approvals to even build like an ADU over your own garage. And that is with everyone else's buy-in. You have to get approval from this person, approval from that person. These data center monstrosities are going up completely against the wishes and the express desires by the way of the communities themselves. But I feel like this was kind of always the plan. This is why they got rid of the EPA. This is what Elon was really doing with Doge, right? First, it was, you know, get rid of all the people that are investigating me and like close all the organizations that are investigating my private companies. But then in kind of a you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours, tip for tat situation. He was also paving the way for what the bigger plan was with these data surveillance centers. And I think these data centers, they just need so much energy that some of these companies are building gas turbines on site to fuel them. They're essentially jet engines running 24 hours a day to power these. In fact, journalists and scientists started using thermal imaging to show how much heat these places were pulling off. And the visuals are staggering. I'm not sure if you've seen those videos with like how much heat and pollution is coming off. You can't see it when you really look at them. But when you put thermal imaging on it, you can really see it. Oh my gosh. And it's no wonder they're poisoning the air and like heating up the surrounding area up to 12 degrees, by the way, for 100 miles, saying nothing about the water they're using. I saw the people in Coachella Valley being like, if they heat up or if they heat up 100 miles, 12 degrees, like we're already in the desert, like we won't be able to live here. No one will be able to function. So I have to question why we're even allowing this to happen. I mean, it's a very puzzling for me as well, because it to me feels like we are on a fast track to a complete surveillance state. This isn't really about getting people their own personal assistance or like streamlining workflow or whatever. I'm not helping us. It's trying to make us completely available, completely controllable. And I, again, I sound tinfoil hatty, but there's no other direction this is going. Like it's always technology always goes to appeasing horniness or causing war. Everything is like horny war. Eventually, it leads there or it came from there. And this is clearly leading to some kind of AI driven surveillance state, AI driven war machine. And I can't believe that people are not realizing that all of this kind of, all of these sales pitches that we're getting from technology companies that are, by the way, being rightfully called out as bullshit by people, they all are just such, I feel like we're being gaslit by them. Of course we're being gaslit. It's like we're developing a weapon. That's what's happening, but there's a bunch of steps that need to happen before the we're at weapon. And one of those steps is we need to have all of these data centers up. We need to have all of this data. We need to be collecting data perpetually on people so that we can hone these weapons. Yeah. No, I mean, listen, you're talking about like this tech comes down to basically porn or war, right? And I think the thing is if you think about the people that control these companies, for them, they know that if they keep doing this stuff that takes our water and takes our land and heats up our thing and we can't cook, you know, we can't grow our food and our animals die on our farms. And because of what's coming off these things, that there will be a war. And so what they're trying to do is set up a situation where even if we fight back, we can't because they've completely surveilled us, they know what we're doing. I think about like old Eastern block countries and how people would meet, you know, in like private little places to have discussions about how to be in a, you know, how to fight back, they're trying to eliminate that possibility of us being able to do anything without them watching us. And I don't know anyone that is a regular American who isn't, you know, Sam Altman or whoever, who aren't even sure if they want the human race to survive. By the way, these tech guys like Teal and stuff, and you know, they're asked, well, you want the human race to survive, right? And they're like, well, you know, and so it's problematic. And these are the guys building this. And I think we need to be really serious that they're hoping that they can get it done fast enough that we don't fight back properly. I mean, I heard recently that Halloween is supposed to be a flock out night because everyone's already on the streets and costumes and masks. And there's a whole group of people that are like, those flock cameras have got to go. Not that we're saying that you're not saying that. I'm saying other people. Rumor. Other people are saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, we're not. We would never encourage anybody. I would never. I can't even breathe in a mask. Anything. No, no, I would never encourage anybody to do anything.
- Never, never, never, never, never, never. Not like what they did in Minnesota where they cut down all the flock cameras. - No. - I saw a video of a police officer in Wisconsin having a conibction about the fact that people didn't like the flock cameras and he basically threw a fit. I will have to send it to you out, please do. - But it's funny because he does it with this really real Wisconsin accent and he's so aggrieved and he's like, you know, I, you guys can't even, and it's like, it's very silly. He basically threatens to run background checks on people who are protesting the flock cameras. - 'Cause we live in the land of the free and now we're the land of the surveil. - Where the land of the outrage. - They should be absolutely outraged. I feel this all the time. I wanna remind people like, hey man, everything that you're upset about, the ice raids, the detention centers, the pardons, trumps giving to his friends and family or people to pay him, the government contracts that he's giving to insiders, the like extraordinary price of groceries and homes, every vanity project that you're like, how do we have money to guild these horses? Everything you're upset about. Like, even if it's Trump's big boy day out parties, like the UFC thing on the White House lawn that he's now saying, you know, it was people have sabotaged the grass. I'm like, bro, you put a ring on top of the grass. So everyone knows that you're in it. - And it's a ring-shaped brown hair. - It's like saying, these people came in and destroyed my grass. But like, everything that you're upset about, it could all be over if Congress just did their job. If Congress, Republican Congress members who have control of both houses of Congress just stood up and said no to this man. It could stop everything from the, you know, unnecessary war to, you know, the UFC fights. Everything could be stopped, but they refused to tell this man no. So, I mean, it's literally like, remember that show, my Super Suite 16? - Yes. - It is Donald Trump's Super Suite 16. - Every day! - Every day! - Every day. - It is unending. They were rolling out a Lamborghini cake where we are putting on a UFC fight and it just doesn't happen. - We're having an indie race now. Where it could destroy like things in the Smithsonian's and like rack the roads where people in DC already are like, we already have the worst traffic in the world. It is dangerous what we're doing just to placate this one giant 10 year old boy who's on a shopping spree with our money. - It just is, this is a really good, I guess maybe one good takeaway of the Trump era is that it's a perfect illustration of why men should not be in charge. We should. - This is what happens when we let men run everything. Like, you, well, see that part's right. When we let men run everything, because I'm telling you, like what I saw John Ossoff do this week, I'm like, that man can be in charge. Because he's out there saying like, we need to bring our soldiers home, we need to treat our soldiers like the heroes that they are. And then the Republicans and the entire right wing lose their mind because he looks handsome saying Republicans style things. And they lose it over Natalie. And now every single one of them has the same talking point from a, you know, they know. There are men out there that can do great jobs. I'm a huge believer in the matriarchy. I think we should be a matriarchy through and through. But I keep reminding people that a matriarchy isn't just a flip side of the patriarchy. - No, not women on the top of the pyramid. - That's a gynacricy. - Thank you. - Yes. - Look at you with your big words. - Thank you. - I like it. No, it's a circle, right? It's like who we center in the middle. We're all in the circle. And we center people who are weakest, which is mostly children and the sick and the elderly. And it's like making sure those people are okay. Then all the rest of us will be okay. Do the kids have good education? Do the kids have good drinking water? Do the kids have safe places to live? Do the kids not get shot in their schools? Then we're all gonna be doing better, right? That's a matriarchy. And there can be great male leaders in a matriarchy. But not these broification dudes that are like the alpha bros who are the least alpha I've ever met. You know, they are the wussiest men I've ever seen. They build makeup stations. You know, first that is the primary concern. Change the letterhead. You know, these horses need to be shinier. So these are the men that cannot be in charge. And these are the men that, you know, any sort of version of the toxic patriarchy has told us are the alpha's and these are the wrong men to put in charge. Absolutely. 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Head to myalloy.com and use code hysteria to get $20 off your first order. [MUSIC PLAYING] And welcome back, you're listening to hysteria, the podcast that is celebrating a return of honesty to politics. Why don't we play a clip of a moment of honesty in politics? Our Taiwan and the South China Sea national security issues for the United States, and if so, why or how? I'm just going to be honest here. I'm not on national security. I'm not that informed on national security. So I do support the military. My brother was in the Air Force for 33 years. So I will do everything I can to support the military. My dad was in the army. I'm not a polished politician up here. National security is not my thing. It's not my area of expertise. But I do support the military. Oh my gosh. OK. That was US Senator. Yep. Darling Graham, acting US Senator right now. She is currently in a war. And that woman is a Senator right now. Yeah, yeah. She's going to be honest. She's going to help the troops. She doesn't know how. She doesn't know what they need. She's going to help them. She's for the troops. What are we doing, like, come on? Can you imagine if a surgeon came into your-- you're about to go under. You're in the OR. And you hear the surgeon say, well, I don't know very much about the human body. But I'm in favor of getting well. You're cutting-- You count back from 10. You're going to-- You're about to cut me open, you maniac. You have to know how these things work. Yeah, you have to know. And she's running for election. She is. She's running against a great candidate, though. The Democratic nominee, Annie Andrews. She's the best. I've been working with Annie Andrews seriously since she ran her first campaign against Nancy Mace. And I love her. Because she is the first person she came out. First of all, we need way more STEM people in government. There's too many science and technology.
things that we don't understand. It's how we end up with people like HHS Secretary or FK Junior who don't know anything about what they're doing and make us all sick. But she's a pediatrician. She's a working pediatrician. And she's like, "Listen, I love my job. I chose to do this because I want to make kids healthy." And unfortunately, our government is making sure kids are not healthy. And so I have to do another job and stay away from my, you know, be away from my own family because I will help more children. And she is the most amazing person. She is legitimately in it for the people. And then she's potentially running against this woman whose entire claim to fame is being Lindsey Graham, who was a giant war hawks sister. Who doesn't know anything? But she doesn't know anything about, you think her brother would have talked about, you know, a family dinner. Maybe that's all he talked about was war. He was giddy when we went to war with her. Maybe she just, her eyes glazed over. She's like, she's talking to her husband again. Yeah. Speaking of. She makes their sister. a senator when you die. Like, that is so bananas. Like, you said, your surgeon came in and it was like, I won't be doing this. My sister is going to do it. Yeah. And this sister is like, yeah, I don't know very much about bones. But, but yeah, I'm rooting for you. All right. Let's talk about families. In the past couple of years, there have been a lot of stories of high profile family estrangement that have suddenly become part of the cultural conversation. Harry and Meghan splitting from the royal family, Brooklyn Beckham splitting from his royal family, a different kind of royal family. There's not much data on there about family estrangement, but the data we do have indicates that family estrangement is on the rise. The first large-scale national survey on family estrangement in 2019. So this would have been like seven years ago, which is crazy. If I'm that 27% of American adults had cut off contact with a family member, and a U-gov poll from 2025 found 38% of American adults say that they are currently estranged from a family member. Now that same poll found more specifically that 16% of American adults say they're currently estranged from a parent and the behavior cited for the estrangement are that parents engaged in manipulative behavior, physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, lies and betrayal. So good reasons to cut somebody off, right? Nevertheless, over the last month, I've just happened to notice some stuff. I've noticed what what I would characterize as a smattering of articles, bemoaning family estrangement as something that is the children are in fact wrong. Not not family estrangement is something that is happening. It's happening and increasing numbers. And so it's really on parents to do some self-examination and figure out why their kids don't want to talk to them anymore. No, this new generation of family estrangement think pieces are all like don't cut off your parents. It's bad. And there's their sites very little evidence for why it's bad usually relies on like one anecdote of a person who cut their parents off and then was like gee, I shouldn't have done that. Okay, so nobody should do it. I think there's something deeper going on. This feels to me like something coordinated. Lee, what do you think is going on here? With all of this family estrangement, Pearl clutching mostly from a sort of right wing perspective. Yeah, no, it's definitely a family of party, party of family values kind of thing. I mean, look, it's being framed like it's some sudden crisis. That's not actually the case. I think this generation is just deciding that they don't have to go through their life miserable like generations before them did. And many ways I think of it like the increase in divorce rates where people were like people are getting divorced and we're ruining the family. And it's like no, it's the same issue with the family estrangement and divorce rates. For a long time, women had to be partnered up to exist in society. So they got married and then they stayed married. And then when they didn't have to do that anymore, the divorce rates went up, right? Because women were asking more from their partners. And when men couldn't do that and we suddenly have a loneliness epidemic, right? I feel like it's the same thing with parents. Like if they're saying to me like I gave you a roof over your head and you had food. So like you need to behave how I want you to behave, right? And a lot of children are saying no, I actually don't. I needed to treat me like an actual person. I need to not feel bad about myself every single time I'm with you or whatever it is. I think it's also that people have way less children these days. So they put the loss of one relationship probably has more weight than it would have a couple of generations ago. If I had like nine children and one wasn't talking to me, it wouldn't be such a big deal. And I think there's also this argument, which I think is very interesting about smartphones. And how smartphones have created the expectation of constant contact and connection with your family members, which is not always possible or desirable. So maybe you're not so much as strange as you're just not getting everything you want from your child. You're not getting, you know, the constant need for connection that the technology offers you, but it's pushing your child away. I just think that the whole thing is pretty fascinating. I mean, you said that the study, the first study was in 2019 and then the next study was in 2025. And we don't have, we have like scanned data. Right. No, no, absolutely. But I mean, you could say, okay, it's gone up. Family estrangement has gone up more than 10% in less than 10 years, right? And that makes sense to me, because the last 10 years have been the Trump years, right? And so many people have become estranged because of what we're calling politics, but it's really morality and behavior and what you're willing to tolerate. And I think a lot of people are finding themselves estranged from family members because they just can't tolerate where their family member sits on the political spectrum. Yes, right now. I've seen ads on Fox News that are about family estrangement. Right. And I've never seen an equivalent on a mess now. I've never seen, you know, if I'm reading, if I'm reading the nation, I don't have like a little thing on the side that's like, what if people, what if your kids don't talk to you anymore? And it just seems like maybe this is a, this is a scenario facing people who are on one side of the political spectrum and these pieces that we're seeing offer them kind of a bomb. It's like, it's not your fault, actually. You're not terrible. You're not intolerable. Your kids are the problem. And actually, maybe it's even your kids' therapist. Maybe your kids shouldn't be going to therapy. I had a friend many years ago who had a very dysfunctional relationship with his mother. And I remember witnessing a conversation where he casually mentioned in front of her that he was going to go to therapy and she was like, oh, you're going to talk bad about me in therapy and she started crying. And it was just like, yeah, that's why he's going to therapy. Like, that is why it, to me, it just feels like this, it is aimed at people who are on the right to tell them that they're actually not wrong. And I think that Lee, during our production call, you mentioned something that you thought was maybe a little bit more insidious going on here, that this push, this narrative that it's the children's fault and the children are doing something wrong by cutting their parents off kind of serves a political. And can you go into that a little bit? I think generally, I think that the entire mega movement was built around. It's not your fault, right? So if you don't have the job that you want, it's because these immigrants or these women took your job. If you don't have the life that you want, it's because these people stole it from you. It's because of the open borders. It's because of this. It's because of that. It's never self-responsibility. It's never looking inward at yourself and being like, what did I do? Or the system. Yes, the system that it did. Exactly. What did I do? Or what is broken in the system that didn't allow me to get where I need to or want to be? And I think that this is just the next product of that. Because if you look at what's going on around the country right now, you can't say, well, I don't have this because of these people. And I don't have that because of these people. So we need a new scapegoat. In this case, it's your own children. If your own children are asking you to like really look at what's going on around the country. And you might take a moment to do that. And that might actually change your political persuasion because you've lost, you can't see your grandchild anymore. They've removed themselves from you. That might actually persuade you to open your mind a little. Watch a different news channel. You know, read different information because the thing is, once the wool comes off people's eyes, it doesn't go back on. I know how long we worked on my father-in-law who was career, like I said, career military, right? They were like, we are Republican. And we kept saying yes, but this party is not Republican. This is not the Republican party. The Republican party is gone. And the more we went through it, once the wool comes off, it's not going back on. In fact, a lot of those people become almost zealots about how much they relied to by somebody else. And they don't want that from their own children. So they're doing this estrangement thing. Therapy is bad. It's all woke. This kind of thing. And I think the thing is, is that yeah, removing the stigmatism of why people do therapy means more people are in therapy. That's actually what is going on. And getting to know yourself and having a better sense of who you are might lead you to spend less time with people who are damaging to you, who are toxic to you. And sometimes those people happen to be your family members. When I think about people like Harry and Megan or the Beckham family, that's people who got married to someone and their family doesn't like who they married. That is pretty typical. And that's been going on for generations. Like I said, this is not some sudden crisis that we're coming on. This is something that's been happening for a really long time. And it's now being capitalized on by one side of the political spectrum to try and hold on to a base that might otherwise drift away from them. I think it also is a testament to the way that people tend to view their children based on their political beliefs. Correct. I have found that conservatives seem to think that their children are their property. Yeah. And their children are theirs to control. And I mean, it's not, it's not totally conservatives. There are some people who are more left leaning like that. But I think that, I see this a lot when I see people talking about like, oh, conservatives are the ones that are having all the babies. So liberals are going to die out. And it's like, that's not many conservative couples have made plenty of liberal children, right? They've made gay children. They've made trans children. It's like that is not a reliable way. Your children are not yours to control their human beings, their human beings. Like you keep them safe, you feed them.
And you teach them how to be decent human beings. You make sure they go to school, you make sure they take baths. You protect them from danger, you keep them, I've got a four year old and a two year old, you keep them from hurting themselves constantly. But then like they are their own people and they go out in the world and they make their decisions. And if your worldview depends on them being yours to control, then it is really deeply upsetting when you completely lose control. There are actually no mechanisms to make your kids continue to talk to you. And something that I think we haven't touched on yet is it a lot of people that go no contact, go no contact because they are LGBTQ and their parents are huge fucking assholes about that. And I think that if there's something so gross about these articles telling people that are LGBTQ who have parents who are terrible, that they need to spend time with their terrible parents and let their parents both have their terrible beliefs, have their dehumanizing beliefs, and then also maintain a relationship with a person that they don't see as fully human according to their beliefs, like those are two things that should not be, they should not go together. That is not something they get to have. You can't have your cake, it's literally having your cake and eating it too. Yeah, and that's why they hate therapists because that therapist will tell that kid that. That therapist will say, "You don't need to actually tolerate that. You don't need to go to Thanksgiving if you don't want to go. If you feel bad about yourself all the time, it's okay if you go with friends." And you choose a family that you build for yourself. That is all right. I think you're right about the conservative side of the spectrum and the conservative media in general, pushing patriarchal dominance, pushing in that way more than the left. I'm the father and I tell you what to do, that kind of behavior that often happens in families. The left is more about living your truth and it's definitely more pro-therapy and it's definitely more pro-LGBTQ. But aside from parent to child, like you said, you have a two and a four-year-old, your job is to make sure that they get the things that they need to keep them safe, to keep them bad, to keep them clean. But other than from parent to child, no one owes you a relationship. No one owes you that. You earn a relationship, right? And once children are grown, I have an 18-year-old. So I'm in a totally different position. I took care of him his whole life and now he's going off to college. And I have to get to know him again as an individual, as a person, not just as my child, as the person that he is. And that's a tough transition, but it's when you have to do. And if you end up saying, well, I still say everything and you don't get to do this. And I expect you here for that you have to be like, no, this is his life now. And I want to be a good enough person that he still wants to hang out with me, not because I'm his mother, but because I'm interesting or because I'm good company or because he knows that I will respect him and love him always, because that is the relationship that comes first. But he doesn't owe me that. It's something I have to earn. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, we're probably going to see more of family estrangement pieces, think pieces, Fox News Pearl clutching all that between now and the election, because having forbid Maga people engage in any self-reflection or parents whose kids won't talk to them engage in any self-reflection at all. Okay. We're going to take a quick break. Back to Danny Petty. Stereo is brought to you by Remy. 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Oh god, I feel so bad for that poor teenage hero lifeguard. Oh my god, I feel bad for everyone in this country. This is ridiculous. Like, what are we doing? Like, you're lucky I wasn't there, kid, you'd be freaking dead. I wouldn't do it. No, you're a hero, but like, I'm probably also a hero, I'm probably the best hero that there ever was. I mean, wouldn't jump in the water. But let me, who is this man, truly? I'm just imagining Donald Trump being swept away by a rip current and like with his arms waving like a beetle that's been turned on its back. He wouldn't get no one. He wouldn't get in the water. No, no. He wears his suit because it's the only thing that looks halfway decent on him, but he wouldn't even go in the rain. He wouldn't go in the rain. No, he hates everything, he hates everything natural, he is anti-nature. Anti-nature. He is why we're knocking it all down, America. That's why Mar-a-Lago faces the thing, that's why he loves golf courses. He loves things that are just completely unnatural. Can I just say, as a side note, Mar-a-Lago face is the most bananas thing because it reminds me of when I was younger and I used to read old national geographics and you would see like people in a certain culture who had the big discs in their ears or the big disc in their mouth. They did the body mod. They did the, you know, all the gold rings and you got a new one every year, so your neck was really, really long. And it was part of what the culture was. And I remember thinking like, wow, you know, the people all around the world are doing this sort of body thing to themselves that must hurt, that must be a problem that must, you know, be troublesome, but it makes them part of their society. And I feel like Mar-a-Lago face is that, to be part of a society that you're saying outwardly, like, look, I'm one of you. Even if you end up looking like terrifying, terrifying. Oh, my kids have gotten scared at people with Mar-a-Lago face before. I was watching that show, that really bad reality show, that was about the Mar-a-Lago real high, it was like the Netflix version of the Real Housewives of Mar-a-Lago or whatever. Missed that one. It was like West Palm Beach and it was just very, everyone was just like monstrous, monstrous, but they're so, they use it as like a cultural signifier of being, like, of following the rules. It's also really interesting how often they say that liberals are ugly and liberal women are ugly and like conservative women are the hot ones. I find that really interesting because I'm like, really? Yeah, oh, Member's Only Caroline just texted me. It's Member's Only Palm Beach, it was called. Um, yeah, I missed that one. I might, but my kids were like afraid of the ladies. They were like, huh, mommy, what did she do? And I'm like, it's, she's kind of like a monster and they were like, well, here's the thing. Like, look, I'm someone who has a very aggressively moving face, right? My face does a lot of things. You can tell what my personality is right away. You know what I'm thinking of you. Scott Jennings knows. Scott Jennings knows right away. There's a meme of me just doing a face, like it's what it's always been. When I was younger, my husband would be like, baby, you got to watch your face, like everyone knows what's happening. And the thing is, is that there are little kids who are afraid of me because I'm like, hey, you know, like big face, yeah, but if my face always stayed like that, that is what would be Tara. I think that I have a resting face that is not aggressive and Mar-a-Loga face is, there is no resting face. Yeah. I think about what Kimberly Gilfoil looked like. She was so pretty. I mean, absolutely gorgeous. She was so cute. It's a shame. It's a shame. And I don't like to diss other people's looks, but they're choosing. No, that's a choice. That is a choice. And I think that's the difference. Yeah, no, I actually think that it's sexist to not criticize the choices of women because they're women. Yeah. I think there's context. I think it's sexist to ignore the context. But like, they're women making choices and those choices are dumb. And women are human beings that deserve to have their choices critiqued as well. So women making choices and those choices are dumb? Yeah. Those choices are really dumb. And they look terrible. And in five to ten years, when that shit is completely out of fashion, they're going to be like, yeah, they're going to be like people that got face tattoos because of post-molone. It's like, uh-oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, before we get to Sandy Petty, some announcements for the class, we don't need to tell you how important these upcoming midterms are or what's at stake. You already know, which is why you also know we'll need everyone to pitch in and organize in their communities over the coming months. 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- There knows what's happening. - I'm not if she's on her way to get Wisconsin. - I'm getting it ma'am, I'm getting it. Claire never called me ma'am, I would cry. All right, now let's get to Sandy Petty. I'm gonna start just as something I'm feeling a little bit petty about. It's whatever. So Donald Trump is suing the BBC. That is the broadcaster in the UK. He's suing them over a story about January 6th and because of what he said was deceptive editing of his comments that he made right before the gaggle of insane people made their way to the US Capitol and tried to kill some cops. So he sued them because he said it was edited together in a way that was like deceptive. He sued them for $10 billion, right? - It seems like a reasonable-- - Yeah, I tell you, Billion, I mean. - I mean, yeah. - It's a banana Michael. - It's a banana Michael, what's it cost? But he, you know, now during the course of the lawsuit, the BBC is trying to subpoena his children, has trying to serve his children. And Donald Trump is saying that the BBC is targeting his family. It's like, sir, you sued them. You sued the BBC and now they're trying to get defense by figuring out like what the kids knew. But here's the thing, they can't serve the kids because the kids have secret service protection. And so now the BBC is petitioning a court to be allowed to serve them via email or certified mail instead of in person because the process servers can't, can't get through the secret service. This is also like, it's also like, almost slapstick. It's like da, da, da, da, da, it just doesn't make, it's so silly. I'm feeling very petty about this. - Yeah, well, the man is one perpetual self-own. I mean, as soon as they found out that he was gonna get his financial subpoena for that BBC lawsuit, he was like, whoa, can we get out of this lawsuit? And he's been trying to get out of it for a while because of the subpoena of the financials. And now they're going after the kids and he's trying to keep the kids out. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. He's not protecting his children. Let's be fair. He's protecting himself. - He's got a tiger by the tail and he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Nobody did the same to me. - The tiger would have teeth. Nobody would tell me, hey, timeout tiger, no biting. No biting. - I didn't know, I didn't know. But he did the same thing with the Capital One case. I mean, the one that found out that all of his accounts were closed for money laundering, right? He sued them. - Yeah. - He sued them because he said that his accounts were closed because of January 6th. And then they were like, no, did we close your accounts because of money laundering? And we wouldn't have said that out loud if you hadn't sued us. Like, it's so many self-owns. I just wish our media wasn't so owned by one side of this political spectrum that we would hear more about these things. - Yeah. - It's hard to keep track of it. It's hard to keep it. - Oh, God. - But that's the goal, right? It's a fire host. It's what Steve Ben told us they were going to do. It's a fire host of information. So you just feel like, I don't know what's going on and actually it hurts me. And so I'm going to go over here instead. And they want us to not pay attention. They want us to be completely overwhelmed. And we have to keep going like, let's bag it up. The man can't have a bank. Let's bag it up. He doesn't want to release his financials. Let's back it up. We still have this Epstein Transparency Act that we need to put out. Like we have to keep backing it up and reminding people what we have. - Yeah. - All right. Lee, sanity corner, or are you feeling good? - Oh my God, sanity. My sanity is so on the brink. So no, there will be no sanity. - Okay. - It is all petty all the time. - Okay, great, great. - Yeah, I mean, look, I'm an urge. So I'm genuinely concerned about the amount of food we cannot eat in America now, right? Like it's just a never ending list. Like there's people that can't afford food, but if they can't afford food, it might kill you now. You know, we've got Ecoli and the frozen berries and we've got cyclospor and the lettuce and we've got Listeria and the soups and cheeses and botulism and baby formula and screw worms and the beef. Like the whole thing is bananas. And now we've got Seminella and the eggs, the eggs that won the election because we need to be able to afford them that could literally kill you. They're like, this is the worst Seminella that we've actually ever had. And I feel like-- - Super Seminella. - Super Seminella. And I just feel like, are we out of our minds? Like my family went to Italy this summer. We had the first holiday we'd had in two years maybe and it was during the worst part of the cyclospora outbreak. And in many ways, Italy sees, you know, food as like art and as like a historical, you know, inheritance to be passed down from generation to generation. And as we were eating all this food and enjoying all this stuff and not worrying about being like poisoned, our country was literally poisoning its own citizens for profit, right? So it's hard to not consider that we have like ruined one of the most basic enjoyments in life by putting profit first. And that's not even talking about the fact that people will be out late at night, like on the streets eating with friends, eating with family. And we do most of our eating like standing up at a counter in the car, like, you know, like everything's to go because we don't prioritize food as a basic necessity in life that actually brings us joy. And then on top of that, we've put everything we've profit first on everything. So now we're allowing the food companies to police themselves and we've gone from policing, you know, like checking for eight food-borne pathogens to two. You know, we like cut the FDA by 20%. We cut the actual scientists from 11 to three. You know, like it's just obscene. - Yeah. - And people are really sick and I enjoy eating very much. I enjoy eating and like now I'm like, I don't know what to eat. - I feel like this food stuff is really ruined the summer. Like what, salads are fucked? - Yep, salads were fucked for most-- - Barriers were fucked. - Barriers were fucked. - Burgers are fucked. - Yeah. - Popsicles. - Popsicles. - There's new pop. - Dog food, dog foods now, fuck. - Oh, well, I'm not gonna eat. - It's got semenle in the dog foods. - So we're gonna kill your dog as well. - So what am I gonna eat for lunch today? - What are you gonna have? - I'm gonna have to eat. - I'm gonna have to, I'm gonna have to, I'm gonna have to, I'm gonna have to. - But it's ridiculous. I mean, Americans are being treated like disposable, worthless interferences in the corporate profit. And like just from what we eat, that's obscene. - Yeah. - And it should make people angry. Aha, caught so much movement in the first place. 'Cause people were like, what's in our food? Why is our food poisoned? Like, why do we have feces in our food? And why do we have these red dyes that are nowhere else in the world? I mean, it caught fire. Because people really do understand what's going on. And I'm like, why are we so sick? Like, this is so dumb. And then we have no health insurance on top of it. So when we do get explosive diarrhea, we can't afford to go to the hospital. - Well, you know what, the bright side of that is, you know, poor men's, it was epic. (laughing) - That's like a devil wears product. Like, I'm only, I'm one stomach flu away from my goal weight. - Seriously, thank you. Maybe just wants us all to be hotter and thinner. - Yeah, although there is a limit to that, there's definitely a limit. I don't think there's anything hot. - Maybe that's what they're doing to the soldiers too. - Yeah, oh my God, I just don't eat. - Yeah, galos, humor. - Galos, you're here on this hysteria. That's all the time we have for this week's episode of hysteria. - Lee, thank you so much for coming by. - What a pleasure. - This was super fun, and listeners, if you wanna get in touch,
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