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[15] Cleaning a couple things up.
[16] Buf Bonsor was never a brave.
[17] So that was just an acquisition that I made an MVP baseball that just stuck with me and it was kind of like Mandela.
[18] Where do you play?
[19] I think it was a twin.
[20] San Francisco and Minnesota twin as well.
[21] Build submarines .com is a slick effort by the Navy.
[22] As if the armed forces spending in NASCAR has gone well, they decided to go back to that well.
[23] But it does seem cool.
[24] I think I'd like to build submarines over, you know, fight in one.
[25] Yeah.
[26] Submarines are a bit terrifying to me. I don't like the idea of them.
[27] I would get claustrophobic in something like that.
[28] It would seem, I wouldn't trust a submarine.
[29] Seems like a really stressful work environment, especially if you get like half an EAS.
[30] Are you manning the submarine?
[31] I mean, are you in a Navy submarine?
[32] I'm manning the submarine in that I would be a man in the submarine.
[33] But what if I told you for like near a million dollars, I can get you in about six of your friends in a private submarine to see the Titanic?
[34] I thought you were going to end with Bigfoot.
[35] Controlled by an Xbox.
[36] To see Bigfoot under the sea with Jose Kinseko.
[37] Logitech.
[38] Put up the photo of Mike Ryan with Pitbull.
[39] It's one of the better costumes we've ever had around here.
[40] I do not blame Pitbull for.
[41] being very excited that someone would come that close to recreating him.
[42] You told me I was quote crazy for this one.
[43] It was a seminal moment in this show's history.
[44] I want to Greg, you had already given us.
[45] Do you think I can fit in that suit?
[46] Oh, no way.
[47] No way.
[48] You were correct.
[49] That's right.
[50] How does this suit not fit after eight years and 40 pounds?
[51] It's a terrible feeling.
[52] It is not great.
[53] Someone do something to my suit?
[54] Greg, you You did go to buildingsubmarine .com.
[55] You reported the news before, Mike Ryan, that this was a lovely website, that you thought it was ingenious advertising.
[56] I think it's a brilliant ad campaign.
[57] I really do, because the idea of building submarines is fun.
[58] It's a go -to website name, if nothing else.
[59] You want to build your own submarine.
[60] You know, I mean, Elon Musk builds rocket ships.
[61] Why can't I build my own submarine?
[62] I have been disappointed today, as I said.
[63] I wanted to start this long -term relationship with Armando today.
[64] I wanted it to have legs today.
[65] But I am certainly used to around here hearing a lot about wonderful and great ideas that never end up happening.
[66] One of them that I thought was ingenious, Billy, this was your idea, and then I don't know what happened.
[67] I went on vacation and it hadn't happened.
[68] We had a billboard possibility here all over South Florida that would have been, you would have done a QR code on a billboard, and you would have gone to it.
[69] It would have just been that.
[70] And it would have just said something religious about, you know, saving somebody or, and then you would have just gotten inside.
[71] And it would have been Connor McDavid is not a savior.
[72] He's overrated.
[73] That's what would have been inside.
[74] We would have had billboards all over South Florida.
[75] I thought it was going to be executed while I was gone.
[76] What happened?
[77] Well, so this was going to happen.
[78] It was going to happen in Edmonton because we got turned down.
[79] by Edmonton by multiple people.
[80] Yeah, so then what was going to happen is we came up with like an acronym and the letter spelled out choke and it was going to be on a board and it was just going to be like very vague in a QR code and it was like healing, emotion, like things like that's like to maybe entice people that are looking for, you know, like salvation to click on this thing.
[81] And then once they clicked on that, we were going to have also a fake website to get it by the campaign.
[82] So there'd be a fake website and then once we announced it live, we were going to change it.
[83] the website, and then I was going to say about how much Connor Mcdaver is not your salvation.
[84] He's a choker.
[85] That was going to happen in Edmonton, and then what ended up happening is then we put our efforts into finding a billboard in South Africa that you were going to see by the airport with Greg Cody's face.
[86] And we were trying to figure out when you were going to drive by the airport to see Greg Cody's face.
[87] What a great joke.
[88] Yeah, and then what ended up happening is he just got like six around South Florida.
[89] No, we got a couple here.
[90] The price was right.
[91] It was free, I think.
[92] What ended up happening is we didn't do anything.
[93] But we looked at South Africa, we're going to have great coaches to surprise you on vacation.
[94] Inspired.
[95] You get points for the idea.
[96] No, you don't.
[97] All we do is have ideas that we don't complete around here, including meeting up with Pitbull today.
[98] But no points for having one?
[99] No. Come on.
[100] Do I get any points?
[101] We should interview Boof Bonzer.
[102] That's my contribution.
[103] How about this, Dan?
[104] Can we finish that story?
[105] Two points.
[106] Yes.
[107] Yes.
[108] Yes, I would love to interview Boof Bonzer.
[109] I would also love.
[110] to interview today someone talking about produce from a produce section somewhere that can tell us whether or not it's okay to break ginger and have.
[111] I would also love for somebody to bring in pickle brine so that Greg Cody can drink it during the show.
[112] But none of those things will actually happen.
[113] Get Steve Carter.
[114] We need him on the list.
[115] Well, I have something you might like, Dan.
[116] It's a segment that you're always talking about and we haven't done that many times.
[117] A gas bag of the week.
[118] You want to do that?
[119] Yes.
[120] Please let's do.
[121] Finally, thank you.
[122] I want to win this.
[123] Gas bag of the week.
[124] Who is our gas bag of the week?
[125] Gas bag of the week.
[126] Gryphol has been turned into this obsequious, sniveling.
[127] I don't know if he's been turned into anything.
[128] This absolute Uriah heap where, oh, Jerry's a great man, a great man who wants to win.
[129] He's a great man. I think that he's always been that.
[130] If you talk to people who know Pager or have known Pager of Grifold, that that's one of the things that I was told to look out for that he's a climber.
[131] Just an inveterate suckass and this, oh, Jerry's had because of tough decisions to make.
[132] It's not a tough decision to fire your dumbass?
[133] That's an easy decision.
[134] He doesn't make it because they don't want the aggravation to have to slide somebody else in there and maybe give somebody a bump in salary.
[135] You're paid no matter what.
[136] Put Pedro out of his damn misery already.
[137] That's Dan Bernstein.
[138] 670, the score railing against the Chicago White Sox who have now lost 21 straight.
[139] That's actually led to our first ever follow -up video on the gas bag of the league because things are not going well for the Chicago White Sox at the moment, Dan.
[140] That means that means that is unbelievable.
[141] That means a hundred years under 500.
[142] Yes.
[143] And he got the job.
[144] He's 100 games under.
[145] Oh, boy.
[146] Yeah.
[147] That's tough.
[148] So I got to go to psychology tomorrow.
[149] I got to go to a doctor.
[150] No, I do.
[151] I have to bring my money.
[152] Because a few years ago, I was happy now, and I'm bitter and weird.
[153] You're bitter watching this team play?
[154] No, just like a...
[155] Because I'm not thinking I was the bad at manager when they picked Pedro in front of me. That's, I got a, I got to see a secretary.
[156] So I'm drinking a lot.
[157] You are?
[158] I have probably my wife a lot.
[159] I scream into, the only people get along with me is my grandkids.
[160] Everybody out, I hate him.
[161] I don't know why.
[162] Don't take you personally.
[163] Maybe that's why.
[164] I swear to God, I'm not playing around.
[165] A lot of people there, but I know, I thought, like, I was bitter on myself, like, my God, I'm this bad.
[166] Then I went to management, Venezuela.
[167] Come, I go, wow, man, I won a championship.
[168] I'm not allowed it.
[169] So my city's going to go, it's like, holy cow, I should be embarrassing.
[170] Wow.
[171] Ozzy Gien can't be the gas bag of the week.
[172] He won a championship with the Chicago White Sox.
[173] Congratulations to Dan Bernstein, 670, the score.
[174] Looking like one of the parents from the Beastie Bull.
[175] party for your right to fight?
[176] What is it?
[177] Fight for your right to party.
[178] Nailed it, Dana.
[179] They'll fine, though.
[180] That is a fine.
[181] J -Lo, you are a fly girl.
[182] He's wearing a Beastie Boy shirt and he looks like he's one of the parents from the original Beastie Boys video.
[183] And I am now the age where I can't remember what the name of that song was.
[184] To be fair, Florida is a right to fight state.
[185] Thank you, Jesse.
[186] Summer's the best time to run the way you want.
[187] Dial it up with new challenges and programs and bring your workouts with you to make the most of outside sunny days.
[188] Stugats, guess what?
[189] What?
[190] You know what you can do with Peloton?
[191] What?
[192] Get the app.
[193] Go outside, ride a bike.
[194] Well, I thought you ride Peloton inside.
[195] Well, you do.
[196] You can ride Peloton inside if it's a rainy day or if it's cloud or you just don't want to get outside.
[197] Maybe it's too hot.
[198] It's summertime.
[199] Go outside.
[200] I record a lot from my office with you.
[201] And you've noticed it's sitting there yet it hasn't been used.
[202] Well, now's the time.
[203] the best time to start that push, Stugatz.
[204] Right, can we do it together?
[205] Not on the same bike, but we could join a class together.
[206] I used to do that.
[207] We used to have Guillermo Ton.
[208] I'd invite people.
[209] We'd all take a class together, same time.
[210] So I think you're starting to get concerned about my health and my age, Billy Gill.
[211] I sense that with you.
[212] We're beyond starting.
[213] Okay.
[214] Whatever road lies ahead, your training starts here with Peloton Tread and Tread Plus.
[215] It's not just a bike, a treadmill too.
[216] I'm going to go outside.
[217] I'm going to get in shape.
[218] I'm going to do it with Billy Gill.
[219] I want to be in your class.
[220] I want you to be my instructor.
[221] You don't want to spend more time with me. No, I can schedule a class and we can ride together.
[222] I won't be the instructor of the class.
[223] We can have Camila could be our instructor.
[224] I like the Grateful Dead class.
[225] My daughter, she uses the Peloton.
[226] She was on it once and an instructor who was playing Grateful Dead tunes.
[227] Let's do that.
[228] Okay.
[229] Why don't we go for a run?
[230] Outside, guided run.
[231] Peloton.
[232] Me and you, that's something we can do together.
[233] Okay.
[234] Turn on the app.
[235] Me and you, go outside.
[236] Enjoy the summer.
[237] Call yourself a runner with Peloton at one peloton.
[238] At one peloton .com slash running.
[239] Don Libotard.
[240] Yeah, very awesome.
[241] Imagine if someone told you you couldn't have a Corvette.
[242] Stugats.
[243] I'm a grown -ass man who's not filthy rich.
[244] I can't afford a Lamborghini.
[245] Well, I probably can, but that's...
[246] Whoa!
[247] Wow!
[248] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.
[249] This episode of the Dan Levitart Show with Stugats is presented by Smyranoff.
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[251] Please drink responsibly.
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[253] Over the next couple of months, we're going to have some big announcements around here that are going to be fun and exciting.
[254] And over the next couple of months, we're also going to lean into some things that we probably haven't done a ton of before because of the nature of where America is.
[255] Hassan Piker is going to join us to God's.
[256] He is on Twitch eight hours a day, and he's become a new and popular and influential political commentator.
[257] And I have told the audience before that I don't talk about politics around here.
[258] I have all my life talked about race, and then that ends up becoming politics because now everything is politics.
[259] But over the next few months, we're going to try and get you some voices and some angles from people.
[260] Who's breathing so hard?
[261] Is that you, Cody?
[262] Who's breathing hard into the microphone?
[263] I'm breathing very easily.
[264] It doesn't sound like it.
[265] You sound a little strained in general.
[266] Roy, you're with me on this, right?
[267] Even him saying I'm breathing very easily sounded like it was coming through a cheese grater.
[268] Yeah, that doesn't sound easy.
[269] huh okay I tell you what when I'm not speaking how about I go like that or you can just sound too low or you could just breathe quieter like you could just not stop breathing we don't know nobody here wants that nobody here wants that we all dread that day don't stop breathing but you could breathe a little quieter when the microphone is right under your beak okay I'll take the blame for that I'll just you know the mic is probably too hot on Greg yeah it's not Greg's fault Greg's doing a great job of breathing good pace good in good out let me just I'll turn down his mic a little bit when he's breathing.
[270] Because I think that it's just turned up, and the mic's a little too sensitive.
[271] Because Greg's doing a great job today.
[272] Thank you, Billy.
[273] The whole time he's breathing?
[274] No. That would be the whole show.
[275] Play it by here.
[276] Figure it out.
[277] I can hold my breath.
[278] How long?
[279] Not very long.
[280] Let's not do that.
[281] I'll hold my breath for like a minute.
[282] A minute and a half.
[283] You can't do it for a minute.
[284] Oh, yeah.
[285] I feel like back in the day...
[286] I think old Greg goat back in the day used to go under water in a pool and hold his breath longer than any other.
[287] kid around.
[288] Yeah, Greg.
[289] Sounds like a Cody Olympic event.
[290] Greg, you can't and shouldn't hold your breath for a minute.
[291] We can try it if you want.
[292] It's his breath.
[293] I don't think it's safe.
[294] Why don't you do it?
[295] Practice it on your drive home.
[296] No, no, not in the car.
[297] Not in the car.
[298] Bad idea.
[299] No, no. Driving around in his Corvette as a weapon.
[300] I haven't faded in months.
[301] Don't worry about me. Yeah.
[302] Why don't you just hold your exhales for the moment?
[303] Okay.
[304] Then we'll try one at a time.
[305] We'll hold exhales and then we'll hold the in heels.
[306] Here's the thing, Billy.
[307] I'd be for.
[308] trying this.
[309] This has been happening more and more around here.
[310] I'd be for trying as an exercise from the maker of a staring contest on his audio podcast, the Greg Cody Show.
[311] That was a good one.
[312] Great idea.
[313] I would be for just sitting here and watching him hold his breath for a full minute and I assure you he's not going to be able to do it.
[314] I don't think he's going to be able to do it.
[315] But the problem with any exercise with Greg Cody is that I just asked, can we get some pickle brine in here for next week so that he can drink some pickle brine and he's like ooh i'm on a lot of high blood pressure medication i don't want to it's hipa geez it's dangerous well he's right i mean it is dangerous to drink a bunch of salt that that even if you're not on high blood pressure medication you drink pickle brine you're gonna need it afterward yeah yeah my doctor says i need much more sodium in my diet so i i guess i should drink more pickle juice now uh we're on blood pressure medication like about 40 % of uh everyone is Put it on the poll, please, at Levitard Show.
[316] It seems like you ran under breath.
[317] Well said.
[318] It's 20 % of everyone.
[319] At Levitard Show is 40 % of everyone.
[320] No, this is about when he starts to fade, yes.
[321] Is 40 % of everyone on high blood pressure medication?
[322] Yes or no?
[323] Stugats has a couple of top five lists that are ready to put a bow on some of the things we've done today.
[324] One of them is top five players in sports who can note.
[325] die.
[326] Yes, dice.
[327] The plural of dice, not hair dye or not people dying, like Greg Cody would do if he held his breath for a minute, and top five people in sports who connote through their name, produce.
[328] Yes, something you would find in the produce aisle at a supermarket.
[329] Right, not production, not what you think of as production in sports, produce.
[330] Like ginger from Gilligan's Island.
[331] Like Al -Banana.
[332] Like ginger that you crack in half.
[333] Ginger that you crack in half.
[334] All - Banana.
[335] Let me scratch him off.
[336] Yeah, you got to get rid of it.
[337] Al -Banana.
[338] That should say cilantro.
[339] This is not how you play the game.
[340] But it's just produce.
[341] Like, it can't be Jared Mayo.
[342] I don't know.
[343] That's a condiment.
[344] That's a condiment.
[345] That's things you would find in the supermarket in general.
[346] We can play that game.
[347] No. What about juice that's next to the produce?
[348] No, but it's not produce.
[349] Does Bill Raftery count?
[350] Onions?
[351] Not what we're doing.
[352] Let's see.
[353] Let's see.
[354] Which one do you want to do first?
[355] Oh, I just thought of a good one.
[356] Let's do produce.
[357] All right.
[358] Top five.
[359] Let's see if yours is better than any in his top.
[360] Five.
[361] Let's see.
[362] No, you wait until he...
[363] Okay.
[364] Why would I want it?
[365] This is a man that can hold his breath, I'm telling you.
[366] Come on, it's noon.
[367] They're sharp as a tack today.
[368] Sharp as a carpet tank.
[369] Have you noticed that this is when you tend to deteriorate on Tuesdays?
[370] Or have you not noticed this?
[371] I'm just peaking.
[372] Yeah.
[373] Number five, Stugatser, do we have any O -LI?
[374] No, just a straight five.
[375] Is this just sports?
[376] all of entertainment.
[377] These are top five people in sports athletes who connotes something you would find in the produce aisle at a supermarket.
[378] So no Jean -Shallet.
[379] I mean, you say people in sports.
[380] That's produce.
[381] Coaches, like you just said athletes there, so you need the...
[382] At this point, just giving the five would be quicker than all of these.
[383] Number five.
[384] That's true.
[385] Kelsey Plum.
[386] Number four.
[387] Eli Apple.
[388] Number three.
[389] Cleo Lemon.
[390] Number two.
[391] Don Cherry.
[392] and number one Darrell Strawberry A fine list Greg Cody Do you have any Peppers Do you have any any better than that?
[393] Yeah I had Bob Lemon not knowing he was going to do Cleo Lemon I had to audible to Ralph Pomegranate Oh Ralphie Good list Pommie Thank you Thank you everyone So your ad lib off of Bob Lemon when you scurried away because he stole it with Cleo Lemon was to go Rob Pomegranate.
[394] Ralph.
[395] Oh, sorry.
[396] Yeah, come on.
[397] That's another fine.
[398] Rob was his little $100.
[399] My bad.
[400] It's such a bad.
[401] It's just such a shit joke you love to make.
[402] What?
[403] I've never said the word pomegranate on your air before.
[404] You've been making it for 50 years.
[405] You changed someone's name to Al -Banana.
[406] You've been making it, they beat you to it with Al -Banana.
[407] I know he did.
[408] And you come back on the back end with Ralph Pramagranet.
[409] Ken Paul.
[410] Yeah.
[411] Not the same.
[412] Five, top five players, athletes, people in sports who canote die.
[413] Number five, Stugat.
[414] Andrew Luck.
[415] Number four.
[416] Germain die.
[417] Number three.
[418] Antrell Roll.
[419] Number two.
[420] Roll the dice, Dan.
[421] Dice K. Yeah, I got it.
[422] Oh, nice.
[423] I got two.
[424] Number one.
[425] Antonio McDice.
[426] Carr Dale Jones.
[427] Oh.
[428] My list.
[429] O -L -I.
[430] It is his list.
[431] Do you have something else that you wanted to get to?
[432] You're still staring at the list.
[433] I'm staring at Antonio McDyce because when he played, that's all I did was stare at Antonio McDice.
[434] He's just one of those guys you stare at when he's playing basketball.
[435] He was chiseled, man. He was very muscular.
[436] John Bones -Jones.
[437] Oh.
[438] I counted, by the way, Greg did the 60 seconds with no breathing.
[439] He just didn't want to distract anyone.
[440] No, we can do that, Bill.
[441] If you insist, you're the executive producer today, and it's going great.
[442] And we have, if you want to just stare as we wait for Hassan Piker, you get everything out there in the clearing out of everything of your fine breathing?
[443] If I'm going to do it, I have to enter a zone.
[444] Can you get near the microphone, please?
[445] That's my fault.
[446] I turn it down.
[447] You won't hear me. No, you didn't tone it down.
[448] Just like a professional, Greg, at the end of a work day, pretend like you're still here broadcasting and working with us.
[449] Okay, I know you checked out as soon as we promoted your, podcast a bunch of time but stay with us here you want me to hold my breath or no all right we're going to do this then i don't think it's a good idea but i don't think you realize how long a minute actually is so we're just going to sit here and stare at the at the clock as you try to hold your breath wow are you ready at the 16 minute mark you try and hold your breath for a minute we're just going to stare at you i think this is a terrible idea and i think you're going he's going to try cheat but so they said about landing on the moon four three two one okay Greg is holding his breath presently or four seconds a smile there's a smile he's a smile he'll be smiling 30 around what if a nostril moves because I can see him cheating under these circumstances no he's doing fine those those nostrils are substantive they could sneak air without us realizing it potentially it's just No, I don't see any chest moving.
[450] No, he's holding it.
[451] No, he's doing great.
[452] So far.
[453] You're halfway there, Greg.
[454] 30 seconds.
[455] Only 50 more seconds to go.
[456] What if he's dead?
[457] No, he's not dead.
[458] He's there.
[459] I can tell.
[460] He's got a lively look to him there.
[461] But also, he's in the zone.
[462] He's in the zone.
[463] He closed his eyes there, but that's not cheating.
[464] Was that him grunting?
[465] No, wasn't him.
[466] 53 seconds, 7 .5.
[467] seven to go six five five oh the lip is quivering the lips three two one and Greg has done history has been made Greg Cody this is the part that we have to worry about though did you feel like quitting at any point yeah when were you worried when did you get worried but you said 90 seconds you could do 90 seconds when when did you praying that the minute would be oh incredible when like when did you start praying well when somebody said seven seconds ago, I had to really work for those last seven seconds.
[468] The last seven are always the hardest seven.
[469] That's what they say.
[470] If this were 2020, we would be able to diagnose that you do not have COVID right now.
[471] Well, really?
[472] Big day.
[473] You guys don't remember when that was a thing?
[474] It was like, if you can hold your breath for 20 seconds, you don't have COVID.
[475] Really?
[476] How about that?
[477] Hmm.
[478] As I said, we all just memory hold it.
[479] I did.
[480] As I said, we are going to get to Hassan Piker.
[481] We're waiting for Hassan Piker to get here.
[482] Eight hours a day on Twitch, huh?
[483] Somebody does more than us.
[484] Eight hours a day on Twitch twice as much is what we do.
[485] And the political commentary keeps giving you.
[486] Like every day gives you more and more to talk about.
[487] It is something that you can, if you have some fluency on the subject matter, you can spend eight hours a day talking about just how weird everything in America has gotten.
[488] But before we get to him, I wanted to ask you guys, if anyone has been able to verify whether or not, Snoop Dog is being paid an exorbitant amount of money for being the Olympic mascot the way he has been being around everything and helping Peacock sell these games in a way that was that was and is smart.
[489] I would assume that you would have to pay a substantive amount of money to get Snoop Dog to be this kind of symbol and salesman on behalf of everything that Peacock is doing to garner attention.
[490] And I told you when I was talking about LeBron James and the marvel of what he is doing at his age, Stugat, that LeBron James is the second most improbable story to see at the center of these Olympics from America at his age.
[491] Snoop Dogg from a murder trial, his 30 years of relevance is, I dare say, unlike anyone in the history of hip -hop.
[492] And hip -hop is, you know, 50 years old, and there are plenty of guys in their 50s, but nobody gets to be this.
[493] Like, he has done commercials like with the, I think it was like about Lee Ayacocca and AOL, and I was surprised to see that like 15 and 20 years ago to see him go and be that mainstream for him to cross over from hip hop and some of, I mean, when you're coming from death rose to God's none.
[494] Ice Cube has has been in and out of public favor because his, his politics and assortment of things.
[495] find objectionable.
[496] Nobody gets to be beloved this long from hip -hop and go from murder trial to this kind of Olympic mainstream.
[497] It's just a super unusual story.
[498] The reports are, and this is according to Forbes magazine, is that Snoop is getting paid $500 ,000 every single day plus expenses.
[499] He's worth every penny.
[500] Can you tell me when you say Forbes is reporting that because the way that I had heard that reported, I did not like the credibility of the report.
[501] Claimed he heard it from an NBC executive, that one?
[502] Well, who claimed they heard it?
[503] Overheard it.
[504] Who?
[505] Henry McNamara, one of the world's most influential young entrepreneurs, according to Forbes, claimed he heard from an NBC executive that Snoop is getting paid a half million dollars a day.
[506] Okay.
[507] So that's a flimsy report, it feels like I'm with you.
[508] You gave it to Forbes and you gave it the weight of Forbes after we had a conversation about credibility of a Dion Sanders story.
[509] And it was just overheard at the Olympics by an entrepreneur is different than Forbes is reporting it.
[510] That's fair.
[511] My apologies to Forbes.
[512] I just don't know how much that would actually be worth because I would imagine Snoop Dog would not be cheap.
[513] Some people have theorized that this is just part of a promotional effort because he's part of the voice show, correct?
[514] Which is also very popular.
[515] And so I don't know what any of this would cost, but I would pay a substantive amount to have the whiff.
[516] I just can't believe I'm saying any of this.
[517] The whiff of this marijuana smoke around my Olympic events.
[518] Like the idea that he has outlasted the stigma, the American public stigma of just, never mind murder, a murder accusation, a murder trial, the stigma of marijuana that he's outlasted it.
[519] It's one of the greatest stories in the history of American pop culture.
[520] No joke that this guy gets to fit in in every environment he goes to whether it's at a fencing event or whether it's running with death row.
[521] Well, Flavor Flav is also charged with attempted murder and he's there too.
[522] Right.
[523] This guy Henry McNamara said that he sat next to the NBC executive at dinner.
[524] I mean, this is reporting.
[525] There's a good time to mention to our audience.
[526] Don't commit murder because if you're innocent.
[527] Good advice.
[528] Like look what you can become.
[529] Just to be clear also, because there's a little bit of confusion there, I think marijuana is not as serious as murder, because there seemed to be, like, things that we've forgiven, it seemed like we were putting them on a level playing field.
[530] I don't think that they are equal.
[531] Well, one of them he was not guilty of, one of them he is guilty of.
[532] Murder, not guilty.
[533] Marijuana smoke, 30 plus years.
[534] I mean, life and hip -hop is always about, you know, tearing down preconceived notions.
[535] It was the great Dan Lovitard, who one said, you got a party for your right to fight.
[536] Yeah.
[537] That's a public, somewhere in there was a public enemy song that I was mixing it up with because they did do it.
[538] No, they did, they did, they have a lyric somewhere, fight, it's not a party for your right to fight something like that.
[539] No, I'll find, yeah, no, I'll trust you on this one.
[540] Trying to sound older, huh?
[541] I'm going to find it.
[542] Where, right?
[543] I am, I'm going to find what it is that I was mixing that up with before the end of the show, and perhaps as soon as we find Hassan Piker as well.
[544] We're going to get to Stugats' weekend observations here at some point as well, But I have still not gotten.
[545] We started the show here, and I'm scared this late in the show to go to this, because when we started the show here, it ended in a place where Greg and Stugats were deciding that they get to decide who's American in this country.
[546] Whoa.
[547] We never said that.
[548] Greg did it.
[549] But off of Stugats' unpopular opinion yesterday that got him in trouble with a lot of people because he went after Simone Biles, Greg Cody also has some Simone Biles opinions.
[550] that I believe to be controversial.
[551] I don't know if you're going to wade into the waters as deep as Stugans is, are you?
[552] Well, I just want to quote something she tweeted, and it'll always be Twitter to me, not X. Simone Biles said, and by guys, I assume she meant fans and media.
[553] She said, you guys really need to stop asking athletes what's next after they win a medal at the Olympics.
[554] Simone, you're in a profession that attracts attention.
[555] and publicity.
[556] You're the goat.
[557] You're the all -time greatest gymnast.
[558] You've hinted that you may continue, not retire, and be back for the L .A. Games in 2028, but you haven't made that definitive.
[559] It would be negligent for fans not to wonder and for media not to ask what's next.
[560] So don't go on Twitter and take great umbrage and insult that anyone would ask you, what's next, when that's one of the big stories in sports.
[561] If you're still doing this at 31 and still winning another gold medal and the goatdom continues for four more years, huge story.
[562] Everybody wants to know.
[563] Someday people will stop caring about Simone Biles.
[564] Don't hurry that day.
[565] Jessica has dropped her head in her hands.
[566] I'm off the hook, it seems.
[567] There is great shame all around us now.
[568] And on top of that, you're breathless.
[569] I regret not going to immediately going to you after you had held your breath.
[570] I could hold my breath for a minute and a half now if I wanted to.
[571] Oh, boy.
[572] But I don't.
[573] Let's do that.
[574] Let's do that now.
[575] You're still really.
[576] Jessica, why did your head drop into your hands?
[577] It was like such a profound take from Greg.
[578] I admired how seriously you took that.
[579] Gold medal for Greg today on takes.
[580] It's, you know, it's a take.
[581] What can I tell you?
[582] Do you guys want to hear any of public enemies part?
[583] party for your right to fight?
[584] No, thank you.
[585] I have it right here on my, I have it right here on my phone.
[586] No, you guys are good.
[587] I think we don't want our YouTube video taken down for that.
[588] Or to see you try to find a way to play music off your phone.
[589] I doubt that you found this all.
[590] I did find, I got it right here.
[591] Oh, we don't.
[592] We have it not the traditional way.
[593] What do you mean, not the traditional way?
[594] Go to iTunes.
[595] Just sing it like we did with Lucy.
[596] Well, I had to find it first.
[597] I wasn't too.
[598] Go to Spotify.
[599] Go anywhere.
[600] Come a few bars.
[601] iTunes, it's going to load up your shuffle.
[602] It felt old as it came out of my mouth.
[603] I got to be on iTunes.
[604] But Mike, look where he went.
[605] I mean, Google.
[606] I just, I was just looking for the lyrics, do God.
[607] I was looking for, you can't make fun of me and come at me with iTunes.
[608] And then you guys missed what Cody did, which is hum a few tunes.
[609] No, a few bars.
[610] That's the expression.
[611] Hum a few bars.
[612] Far's of what?
[613] Hassam Pikers here.
[614] People don't hum anymore.
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[632] You don't remember the idea for a home run?
[633] I was probably like, that kind of thing.
[634] Something?
[635] Okay, no, the home run call was that kind of swing, that kind of thing.
[636] Stugats.
[637] Oh, it's a good call.
[638] Thank you.
[639] And plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it.
[640] Like, you're not tailing it to a particular name.
[641] You know, all that jazz.
[642] You know, you don't kind of do that.
[643] You just a generic call.
[644] That kind of swing, that kind of thing.
[645] This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats.
[646] It's one of the most influential political commentators out there.
[647] It really is hard to find anyone that breaks things down, complicated things down better.
[648] He streams every day, as I told you, four, eight hours, and the news every day seems to provide for you even more than eight hours of information.
[649] There are a number of things I wanted to talk to you, but thank you for joining us, Asana.
[650] I appreciate your patience there.
[651] Thank you for being on with us.
[652] thank you for having me I hope you guys can hear me well I am currently at a basketball I'm currently at a park this is usually my basketball hour and it's the one time of the day that I have a little bit of time to myself where I take my dog out and I actually play run some drills that I found on TikTok so that I can stay competitive with these young guys out here as a 33 year old man so I apologize for the backdrop if it's a little weird and unorthodox.
[653] Hassan, did you ever get those shoes that were designed to help you jump higher?
[654] Ooh, the e -space shoes.
[655] Yeah, the ones that had like little platforms at the bottom.
[656] Do you ever get those for your basketball training or no?
[657] No, I never did.
[658] But I was talking to a content creator.
[659] I was on the Creator League at RDC put together in Criter League at DreamCon in Austin a couple weeks back.
[660] And I was talking to one of the basketball content creators out there by the name of YPK Ray.
[661] And he was telling me about, how he has like this insult now.
[662] The kids, they have this insult.
[663] They put on their shoes that makes them jump.
[664] But no, I got my dusty Kyrie Irvings here.
[665] I got a bunch of them.
[666] When he got, when they, when they canceled the shoes, I went and bought a bunch of them on clearance because I, when I wear, I'm a big boy.
[667] So if a shoe works for me, it's like, you know, I wore hyperdunks for like 10 years after they were discontinued.
[668] And, you know, it happened to be that his shoes.
[669] who's they fit really well for me. So I went and bought a bunch of them off clearance.
[670] Any parallels between you trying to keep up with the young man and a young man's game and you in the content game trying to keep up with everybody during a crazy political time?
[671] Not necessarily.
[672] I'm a bit of a dynamo.
[673] I'm honestly pretty solid when it comes to my endurance on the court as well for a 33 -year -old guy.
[674] I work out quite frequently.
[675] But as far as like the content sphere goes, I mean, I'm a one -man operation.
[676] So, no, I mean, I don't see Jake Tavern doing eight -hour streams every day.
[677] You know, that's who I'm competing with.
[678] Or when it comes down to it, like, if I look at the content space, it's like I'm, I'm never going to be able to do the stuff that like Kai Sinat's doing, you know?
[679] He's just, he's an entirely different playing field.
[680] He's a very entertaining guy.
[681] I love him.
[682] He's great.
[683] But, you know, my lane is politics.
[684] I should have merged the two.
[685] I try to merge the entertainment and the politics, though.
[686] together and I hope I do a decent job at it but you know overall there aren't that many hours in the day for me to be able to do even more than I'm doing currently we are getting you on here before you are starting your workday so I don't know if anyone's heard what your thoughts are on Kamala Harris naming Minnesota governor Tim Walts as her VP candidate what are your thoughts there oh i love it um i i'm very excited about waltz uh waltz is a he's a fighter he's done a lot with a very slim majority in the uh state legislature in minnesota and i've been you know i've been riding for the democratic party in minnesota for quite some tiles quite some time so i'm i'm actually very excited about waltz uh i definitely think he was a better choice than shapiro a lot of people immediately think oh is it because of israel or whatever no like waltz also uh you know, going to be pro -Israel.
[687] Most Democrats are, in general, that's American foreign policy.
[688] My frustration with Josh Shapiro was actually because he was pro -school vouchers.
[689] He worked with the Republicans in the state when he became the governor to push for a school voucher program.
[690] And I think that that's, you know, that's very right -wing for me. I don't really like that.
[691] I think that's immediately it spells that you're anti -teachers.
[692] union and you know that's a pretty solid pretty important constituency for the democratic party tom also on the other hand is a teacher so i'm i'm very excited to hear how he will communicate a more progressive agenda for the democratic party i think they actually have listened to the voters they've been doing a lot of good things uh these uh these past this past month especially they've done they've almost become this competent party that i never really experienced i never really thought they could be.
[693] You know, it's been shocking.
[694] And the Republicans are kind of flailing around because they also don't know how to deal with a competent party.
[695] I think they've gotten too used to, you know, running against someone like Joe Biden.
[696] I think they got too used to running against unpopular candidates and unpopular policies in general.
[697] So we'll see what happens.
[698] Hassan, you mentioned popularity.
[699] And I've noticed that recently, at least in terms of eyes and attention and maybe word on the street, you're a bit of an outlier in that you're more progressive but you're sharing those progressive views on platforms like Twitch and other various accounts of social media.
[700] I've noticed there's a bit of a seed change from just four years ago in the last election cycle.
[701] It almost seems like there's a conservative, concerted effort to appeal to IG lifestyle pages.
[702] And we saw Trump on a highly popular Twitch stream yesterday.
[703] What do you make of this very clear strategy from the GOP?
[704] Yeah, I think they kind of lucked into that.
[705] I mean, obviously Donald Trump is always going to be doing stuff like that, regardless.
[706] That's unique to Donald Trump.
[707] J .D. Vance tries to do it with the milk boys.
[708] It's not going to be the same, obviously.
[709] But in terms of the Republican Party kind of leaning into this lifestyle stuff, you're absolutely on the money on this.
[710] I think the Manistphere grew quite a lot organically online.
[711] And this kind of pendulum swing occurs, Regardless, you know, you've got a Democratic president in charge.
[712] All of a sudden, people are going to go back to the regular old culture war issues.
[713] This is something I called immediately.
[714] As soon as Joe Biden became president, I was like, we're going back to the culture war stuff.
[715] It's going to turn into like Gamergate era politics.
[716] Everyone is going to be talking about trans people this, trans people that, you know, things that actually don't, things that actually don't touch on the pocketbooks of any Americans.
[717] It's not exactly a kitchen table issue.
[718] We are very dominated by a right -wing culture war narrative.
[719] in this country.
[720] And I think it stems from the inability of the Democratic Party in actually addressing some of the economic problems that American families are facing.
[721] And their lack of interest in actually doing something bold and brave in terms of like declaring a bold and brave progressive agenda, an economic agenda.
[722] There are some good things that the Democratic Party did, even under Joe Biden, despite the fact that I'm very critical of Joe.
[723] And I think they should continue along with that so that we can move away from these these like i can't believe i'm going to use the term the democratic party is now using but weird these weirdos who are constantly focusing on like really marginal really silly really inconsequential things making it like the the primary concern of every single person there's like this sweatiness to it there's this nervousness to it this anxiety to it it's like uh frequently imagining that there's, like, probably a trans person behind every corner.
[724] Like, it's like, I don't get it, man. Just like, let people live.
[725] I care about expanding child tax credits.
[726] I care about eviscerating child poverty.
[727] I care about health care.
[728] I don't know.
[729] Like, these things are going to help you, too.
[730] Like, I'm pretty sure most Americans would agree at the end of the day.
[731] If the Democratic Party actually ran on that, instead of constantly picking up a, dare I say cowardly posture and trying to always run defense after the Republicans end up dominating the political conversation in every issue, whether it be the crime hysteria, whether it be the immigrant crime hysteria and the panic that they cultivated, instead of capitulating to the right way framing, if they actually ran on very progressive policies and said, like, do you want health care or not?
[732] Like, what are we talking about here?
[733] I think more Americans will be on board.
[734] It seems unusual, given the depth of the things that plague America that what is working now is the very accurate your weird running on a platform of their weird over there.
[735] Yeah, but it's true though.
[736] Because it's true.
[737] It's honestly like I think it's much better than just talking about how like scary they are, how authoritarian the Republicans are.
[738] Is like, do they present a genuine threat to American democracy?
[739] Potentially.
[740] I think so.
[741] Definitely.
[742] But that actually gives the Republican Party like a sense of a sense of power, I think.
[743] And this actually deflects.
[744] This actually neutralizes that power and just says, no, dude, you're weird.
[745] Like, you're odd for hyper -focusing on this sort of stuff.
[746] And I think that that is the, I mean, that's something I've been doing for years.
[747] I call it Hogwatch.
[748] I'm fascinated with Republicans in general.
[749] I love my countrymen.
[750] I love watching them in the wild.
[751] You know, I love, I love watching the way they operate.
[752] I've been doing this for years and years and years.
[753] And I've noticed it like, you know, they've gotten increasingly more nutty on the timeline, especially with like social media becoming more right wing with like Elon Musk purchasing Twitter.
[754] I heard you say you will never call X. I agree.
[755] I will never call X either.
[756] Elon Musk purchasing Twitter making it more right wing, like making it overtly more right wing and putting so much like violence on the timeline too above all else.
[757] I think that this has created this false sense that Republican policies are actually more popular than they are.
[758] They're not.
[759] Like, most people don't care.
[760] Most people have never met a trans person.
[761] They don't think about trans people all that much.
[762] They probably might think, like, oh, it's a little weird.
[763] Like, I don't really understand this trans stuff.
[764] I thought it was only two genders.
[765] Whatever, I'm moving on.
[766] I care about being able to pay for my groceries.
[767] But there's a lot of people on the Republican Party, especially in the commentary sphere.
[768] that have just broken their minds on this issue where that's all they care about.
[769] They're like, I don't care about anything.
[770] I want to make sure that we're melting like this 0 .1 % of the population.
[771] I want to do harm to the 0 .1 % of the population.
[772] It's like, dude, that's odd.
[773] Why do you care?
[774] You care more about trans stuff than trans people do.
[775] You know, I have trans friends.
[776] I have plenty of trans members in my community.
[777] They don't think about the latest and greatest in trans technology or trans culture in the same way.
[778] that like a Ben Shapiro type does it's like it's so strange like let people live but it's an but it's an easy winning position for your base if you're always perpetually focused on demonizing others so that you could protect white power you so that so that anyone who's different from the norm can't get to equality yeah no absolutely I think it is I think it is a very children yelling in the park.
[779] I think it is a very, you're right.
[780] I mean, it's an old narrative.
[781] It's a cliche.
[782] They do it all the time.
[783] They used to do it for gay people in the 90s.
[784] And then, you know, that became legal and normal with gay marriage.
[785] Then they had to move on to something else.
[786] They had to move on to trans people.
[787] And now the narrative is exactly still the same.
[788] Like, for trans people, they say the exact same stuff that they used to say by gay people in the 90s.
[789] But ultimately, I think you have to set up a counter to that.
[790] You know that this is going to be a talking point.
[791] And if you're the Democratic Party, you've got to give the right something to sink their teeth into, right?
[792] You can't be constantly in a defensive posture against the right.
[793] You actually have to go forward with a bold agenda so they can call you a socialist.
[794] And then you have to talk about why that bold agenda is not necessarily bad.
[795] And it's actually good for Americans, right?
[796] like free lunch and free breakfast at schools.
[797] Tim Walts policy, right?
[798] He passed it.
[799] He passed it in Minnesota.
[800] It was phenomenally popular.
[801] You think Republicans don't want their children to get free school lunch?
[802] Of course they do.
[803] Of course they like that.
[804] It's ridiculous.
[805] I mean, it's incredibly too, it's entirely too costly to take care of children in this country.
[806] Many people can't even think about that idea because they just don't have.
[807] have enough money.
[808] We have, uh, you know, we have two, two income households that still can't take care of children and have children.
[809] Child care is entirely too costly.
[810] One aspect of that is free school, uh, free school lunches.
[811] That's a good policy.
[812] Let the Republicans yell about how that's actually socialism and how that's bad.
[813] If you put forward a bold progressive agenda, if you actually gets done on the progressive side, sorry for cursing.
[814] I don't know if I'm allowed to do that.
[815] That's fine.
[816] That's fine.
[817] Go ahead.
[818] In front of the kids, though.
[819] Yeah.
[820] Yeah, they can't hear me it's all good um but if you yeah if you get if you get stuff done uh republicans are going to inevitably try to uh position themselves against that stuff and these things are very popular ideas that that are helpful for for all americans right so that's part of the reason why i i think it's uh i mean i fall to the democratic party a little bit for where we've gotten to in terms of the discourse here but it's not like republicans just started to yelling about trans people.
[821] It's not like Republicans just started saying that like immigrants are doing crime and their rapists and their drug dealers or whatever.
[822] They've been saying that because they know that they have to, they have to actively campaign every day for four years and not every four years.
[823] Whereas Democrats, on the other hand, only campaign every four years when they remember they have to run for office.
[824] And then they're like, whoa, whoa, this stuff, this immigration stuff, maybe it's gotten a little too out of hand.
[825] maybe the Republicans are right, which is the dumbest thing you can do.
[826] I've said this before.
[827] It's like you got abortion, you have democracy.
[828] Those are like two major things.
[829] Now with Kamala Harris, obviously being the candidate and not Joe Biden, you also have age, you have instability, you have all these things.
[830] You can also talk about how progressive Kamala Harris is in comparison to Donald Trump.
[831] These are all in the pocket for you.
[832] This is your strong suit, right?
[833] play to your strengths never talk about immigration never bring that up Joe Biden should have never done the right wing immigration bill they should have never capitulate the right wing framing on immigration Democrats historically have always done things like this they always tagged to the right but they always end up losing they always end up losing because that's their strong suit that's what they're good at that's what the Republicans are good at I don't know why you would like if you're LeBron you don't have to play chess you can do the dunk competition against like a grand master you know what I mean I don't understand why Democrats are like, I'm LeBron, one of the greatest athletes of all time, and no, I'm actually going to play chess instead of the dunk competition against the grandmasters, like Hikar or Magnus Carlson or whatever.
[834] It just doesn't make sense.
[835] Can you explain this part to me, though, because Kamala touted that right -wing immigration bill in Atlanta last week, too.
[836] Like, why is it that that seems to be the point that both parties can agree on?
[837] I mean, the stuff with the deportation, it's a bit crazy.
[838] A bit crazy.
[839] I mean, it's very crazy.
[840] And Donald Trump is talking about Eisenhower.
[841] He's talking about a word I can't say because it's a slur in the aftermath of the Sera program where we deported 1 .3 million Mexicans from this country, including Mexican Americans, as a matter of fact.
[842] Not just people from, you know, not people whose nation of origin is Mexico.
[843] We did that during World War I. We did that in the aftermath of World War II.
[844] And Donald Trump's touting.
[845] that is a popular policy, and it's got like 60 % approval right now.
[846] And a big part of the reason is because there's no counter messaging against that from the Democratic Front.
[847] They have completely been captured by the right -wing framing on the matter.
[848] And obviously, it's very racist, very fascist.
[849] I mean, it's just like straight Nazi Germany stuff.
[850] No one is thinking about, like, what, 20 million, let's say there's 20 million migrants of this country that aren't documented.
[851] how exactly are you going to do the mass deportation?
[852] You're going to start going in the brown neighborhoods with Bortak, with the American Gestapo, Special Weapons of Tactis for the Customs and Border Patrol, in what the ACLU calls Constitution Free Zones, and you're going to start doing door knocking operations and cast a dragnet over brown communities, and then put them in Seacot style like in El Salvador, or like mass detention centers, mass deportation facilities.
[853] You're going to put them in front of one judge, 200 at a time.
[854] Because this is 20 million people.
[855] That's a lot of people, right?
[856] You have to make this process as expedient as possible.
[857] So now you're putting 200 people at a time in front of a judge that is declaring them to be illegal.
[858] Then you have to put them in concentration cabs.
[859] I mean, that's just straight Nazi Germany stuff.
[860] And I don't think anybody is talking about it on those terms, which I find to be abhorrent.
[861] I find it to be morally repugnant.
[862] to have agreement with, like, neither one of the parties is being reasonable here.
[863] It's just, it, everyone's getting dragged over to a place that, like, I mean, what is that?
[864] How is it that we've arrived there?
[865] Like, that is not anyone's idea of America in principle.
[866] I know.
[867] And Americans are actually not of one mind on this.
[868] Immigration historically is one issue where Americans are, like, consistently, both very sympathetic to migrants on and also very Hitlerian in the same breath, like these are, if you look of focus groups on immigration, you'll be shocked.
[869] Like a person will unironically say, I want mass deportations of all migrants living on U .S. soil.
[870] And in the next breath, we'll say something along the lines of, yeah, we should do amnesty, actually, for everyone that's been here.
[871] And it's like, how can you have these two opinions?
[872] That's because the Democratic Party is too scared.
[873] They refuse to actually have any sort of counter messaging got on this front, and they just capitulate the right wing framing every single time.
[874] They did this with a crime panic too.
[875] It's completely borne out of hysteria.
[876] It's straight Hitlerian on the Republican side.
[877] And what's happening in America right now is not dissimilar to the rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany in the sense that liberals also capitulated to in an effort not to adequately put up a strong fight.
[878] align with the communists and align with the trade unionists, align with the socialist against the rise of Nazis and the rise of fascism.
[879] In Germany, they, you know, they said, no, this guy is working within the confines of German politics.
[880] It's fine.
[881] And we all know what happened afterwards.
[882] It's called the ratchet effect.
[883] The Democrats regularly play the role of almost controlled opposition on a lot of issues, this one being one of them.
[884] It's the same with the bipartisan consensus on American foreign policy.
[885] This is basically, which I would consider to be fascist in general, but no one really cares about that.
[886] And this is fascism inward, like bringing fascism back domestically, having concentration camps for people that don't look like you, that people whose immigration status could be quickly and expediently dealt with and turned into documented U .S. citizens who are already participating in the American economy in incredibly meaningful ways.
[887] people who statistically are less likely to do crimes than natural -born U .S. citizens.
[888] A fact that Democrats should be saying every single day of the week, they should be put in that front of center.
[889] It's just completely made up.
[890] This hysteria about migrant crime is completely made up.
[891] Crime is down.
[892] Crime is down in America, across the board, okay?
[893] Crime is down.
[894] It readjusted back to like the lowest levels that it was at pre -pandemic, right?
[895] And it's only going down further and further.
[896] So the idea that like we have, you know, tens of millions of migrants crosses the border and they're doing crimes is so silly.
[897] It's like, okay, migrant detentions are up, crime is down?
[898] So what's going on?
[899] Is it that they're just like doing less crime?
[900] Is that what it is?
[901] Well, it turns out that is actually the case.
[902] All available empirical data on the matter shows undocumented immigrants are responsible for less crime per capita than natural born U .S. citizens are.
[903] I'll give you another fact.
[904] If you were to listen to the Republicans, the Republicans constantly talk about, sorry, my dog is actually sitting.
[905] Hey, Tyah, sit, babysitting.
[906] That's a good dog.
[907] We haven't heard that dog once, you.
[908] What kind of dog are we talking about here?
[909] Yeah.
[910] I'll show you.
[911] I'll show you.
[912] Yeah, I'll show you her in a second.
[913] So the one thing that, what was I talking about?
[914] You were saying you were going to give us one good fact.
[915] You have one good fact that we need.
[916] You mentioned Hitler a lot, too.
[917] Oh, I did mention Hitler a lot.
[918] That's unfortunately, that's where we're going right now.
[919] And we're bouldering towards that.
[920] So like I said, Democrats should constantly be talking about the fact that there is no readily available empirical data to suggest that immigrants are doing more crime.
[921] As a matter of fact, the only available empirical data shows the exact opposite of that reality.
[922] So it's a pure Republican hysteria, Republican panic.
[923] And it's really racist panic.
[924] One other thing I'll tell you is this.
[925] Donald Trump talks about immigrants are responsible for 100 ,000, hundreds of thousands of deaths every year.
[926] that's what he says he says that at his rallies he says that as the rnc i've never heard from a democrat be like yo hold on what are we talking about here that seems like a big old deal i've never heard a democrat go that seems insane to say let's take a look at the data well i did look at the data customs and border patrol data shows do you want to know how many do you want to know how many murders undocumented migrants committed this past fiscal year uh yes i would because i i did see what John Oliver did on what you're saying there that migrant crime is a total fiction.
[927] There is nothing to support it.
[928] It's just a made -up phrase.
[929] Yeah, it's completely made up.
[930] You want to know, I'll tell you what it is.
[931] I looked at the data.
[932] 23.
[933] So that means, and we've definitely heard 23 horrific, gruesome things that an undocumented citizen has done in this country.
[934] So that means that every single instance of a murder committed by an undocumented and migrant was heavily publicized in this country in an effort to make you think like they're doing crimes every day.
[935] This doesn't mean that like undocumented migrants are responsible for zero crimes.
[936] Of course not everyone.
[937] They're human beings.
[938] Some human beings are going to do good things.
[939] Some human beings are going to do bad things.
[940] We're all a victim of our own circumstance.
[941] But you have to look at like if this is how to deal with crime, you have to look at the entire group of people and see if they're responsible for an overwhelming share of the crime.
[942] And it turns out They're responsible for less crime.
[943] It's actually insane that we have this conversation.
[944] Donald Trump tries to link the undocumented murder rate.
[945] He tries to claim that it's 100 ,000 because he tries to claim that it's fentanyl, right?
[946] It's actually the fentanyl that they're bringing over the border.
[947] Another total fabrication completely made up.
[948] 90 % of drugs that are coming across the border are apprehended.
[949] This is the Department of Homeland Security Zone data.
[950] And this is not, you know, woke Marxist Hassan making this up.
[951] This is the Department of Homeland Security, okay?
[952] So according to the DHS data, and this was the same under Donald Trump, it's the same under Joe Biden.
[953] It'll be the same under Kamala Harris or whoever comes president.
[954] The Department of Homeland Security Zone data shows 90 % of the drugs apprehended at the border are not actually like border crossers, right?
[955] It's not a law -abiding abuela from Guatemala who walked all the way to America or tried to cross the Rio Grande River.
[956] like carrying bags of fentanyl over the border.
[957] That would be insane.
[958] That's an unsustainable business.
[959] That's an unsustainable operation.
[960] You know who's actually trafficking the drugs?
[961] White American citizens that are crossing over the border after getting their cars chopped up by the cartel.
[962] Of course, 90 % of the drugs are apprehended at regular points of entry, according to the Department of Homeland Security's data, and more than 90 % of those apprehended are American citizens.
[963] Because they're the ones who are less likely to get stopped.
[964] Like, we're the millers.
[965] this guy is full of he doesn't know at all all of the fentanyl caring abuela we have in Miami and you were you look like my grandma you look like Miami you were briefly I live there you were briefly in Miami I think he's there now I've been to that park I know that port it looks a little like South Beach but it is not that it's Coral Springs it's not the park in South Beach we've got a couple of questions on the way out we've got a couple of questions we need to see the dog and we need to know what kind of basketball drills you were doing.
[966] Yeah.
[967] I follow a bunch of TikTokers.
[968] This is my dog.
[969] First of all, here she is.
[970] This is Kaya.
[971] That's a good girl.
[972] She's a very good girl.
[973] She's the best girl.
[974] She's a little baby still.
[975] She is only around 18 months.
[976] But she's very well trained.
[977] She's a big dog.
[978] She's a mutt.
[979] She's a mix between Chow Chow Chow, Tibetam Mastiff, and St. Bernard.
[980] That's number one.
[981] Number two, what kind of drills do I do?
[982] Honestly, it's been a while.
[983] Like, you know, I haven't played like organized, like organized basketball at all in many, many years since high school.
[984] As a matter of fact, that's, you know, multiple decades at this point almost.
[985] So I just look at TikTok, whatever pops up on my TikTok feed, I see like, you know, those guys good drills.
[986] I post good drills.
[987] I forget what that dude's name is, but, you know, they'll always have some drills.
[988] on there.
[989] And then I try to do some of that stuff so that I could be a little bit more explosive in my old age.
[990] Because unfortunately, I'm a little too slow.
[991] I'm 6 '4.
[992] I'm 230 pounds.
[993] And yeah, I'm entirely too slow.
[994] You know, this is like, what is that?
[995] That's like a shooting guard status in the NBA, right?
[996] Steve Kerr was 6 '5.
[997] He's going to post you up.
[998] Steve Kerr would have post you up at 6 .5.
[999] Can you dunk?
[1000] That's what I'm saying.
[1001] I used to be able to.
[1002] My knees are pretty bad.
[1003] Come on, give it a try, go.
[1004] I wear knee braces.
[1005] I can't.
[1006] Maybe today's the day, though.
[1007] Yeah, you never know.
[1008] Good talking to you.
[1009] I will tell the people, you can follow his Twitch channel at Hassan.
[1010] A, B, as and boy, I thank you.
[1011] Good catching up with you.
[1012] Thank you.
[1013] Thank you for having me. Have a good one, guys.
[1014] Thank you, sir.
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