JD Vance is a Little Bitch. Has He Said Thank You Once Since We Started This Podcast?

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Nathan Brady: Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of the Blue Edition. Uh, I I caught you with your your mouth full. Uh, just we just hit start and this guy's got his mouth full of something. Um, what was I saying? The Blue Edition podcast. That's us. Um, I'm Nate Brady.
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Mike Smith: wouldn't. I
Nathan Brady: Uh,
Mike Smith: think people appreciate how genuine we are.
Nathan Brady: yeah. Well, uh, I got some genuinely crappy stuff to go over today. Um
Mike Smith: Yeah, I'm I'm expecting it.
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Nathan Brady: guys, we're it's not going to be good news. It's not going to be good news for a long time. Um unless we can report some uh deaths in the Well, uh so h uh
Mike Smith: Well,
Nathan Brady: what do we got today? So, we have we have a lot to talk about. I want to talk about tariffs today. I want to talk about the horrendous Zalinski meeting today. I want to talk about uh the $250 bill, which I think is going to be a fantastic bill. Um we So, we got some things to talk about.

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Nathan Brady: Why don't we lead with uh I guess the the the stuff that's happening today that's causing some some pain to those on Wall Street. Um it being March 4th, some tariffs have kicked in today.
Mike Smith: Yeah, new tariffs or
Nathan Brady: new tariffs.
Mike Smith: the same tariffs but they've updated the amount being
Nathan Brady: Well,
Mike Smith: collected
Nathan Brady: new tariffs uh on Canada
Mike Smith: like
Nathan Brady: and Mexico and increased tariffs on China.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Um so so today um Trump imposed a 25% tariff on almost all imports um from Canada uh and Mexico and then an additional 10% tariff on Chinese imports which raises their total to uh 20%. Um and of
Mike Smith: Was
Nathan Brady: course he's once again trying to justify these tariffs um as a as a measure to combat fentinyl trafficking which you know uh
Mike Smith: that what he was doing originally? I thought he was going to try and balance the budget. Which What are we doing here? Is
Nathan Brady: well
Mike Smith: he doing
Nathan Brady: it's

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Mike Smith: both?
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: What are we doing?
Nathan Brady: it's whatever he decides at the moment but but yeah what what he's what he said most consistently uh if he's ever consistent is that these these tariffs are um almost retaliatory uh to to get the the Mexican and Canadian governments to respond to the flow of fentinel that is coming into the United States. Um, and we've talked about
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: this quite a few times on the podcast that um, a lot of the fentinel, most of the fentinel studies have shown that have had make its way into the United States are actually coming uh, through legal paths, legal pathways into the United States. So, making it through the border, coming in from American citizens that have the ability to cross the border. Um, these are not like people who are trying to get into the country, you know, whether they're fleeing gang violence or looking for a better life. These aren't the people like crossing, you know, rivers and and and dangerous areas
Mike Smith: Right.

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Nathan Brady: with fentinel. You know, that's not what's going on.
Mike Smith: I think that's a really important distinction. So f there's there's a couple of things that you talked about there that I just really want to like press on a bit. So imposing tariffs which are due at the time of goods crossing the border into the United States from foreign countries in order to suppress fentinol. That's not real. That's that's not a real thing.
Nathan Brady: It's not I mean All right.
Mike Smith: We we've actually seen evidence of that. That's not a real thing. like goods and services. You're not buying, you know, a pallet of of t-shirts or whatever and then trying to sell them, you know, at your Forever 21 or whatever you're importing from Canada. Like, that's not And it doesn't come with your fentinel that way. That's just not a thing. Like you're saying, fentinel comes through the through the border by people, right?
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: They're driving, they're they're with their family or whatever and everybody's got a little baggie on them because it doesn't actually take up a ton of space and it's very hard to detect and they go back and forth across the border several times and

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Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: they seem legitimate. It seems like they're
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: taking a family vacation or whatever.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Come back, they distribute that. That's how fentanel gets into the into the United States. So, the tariffs aren't going to stop that. They're not even going to affect that at all.
Nathan Brady: No, but I'll tell you um in a time where you know there's been persistent inflation in the United States um what do you think this is going to do? Uh will this make inflation better? Will this
Mike Smith: Well,
Nathan Brady: lower the cost of goods?
Mike Smith: no, it's not going
Nathan Brady: No.
Mike Smith: to do that.
Nathan Brady: No. What is this
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: going to do?
Mike Smith: we I'm not going to, you know, dive into it too much. We spent an entire episode talking about the ramifications of impi imposing tariffs in this way. But basically, it's going to raise prices for Americans across the board, imported
Nathan Brady: Right.

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Mike Smith: or otherwise
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: because whether you like to acknowledge it or not, a lot of the the things that are having tariffs imposed against them are things like raw materials coming from other countries.
Nathan Brady: Exactly.
Mike Smith: So for instance,
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: CocaCola is manufactured in Atlanta, Georgia. Like that
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: we take that for granted. But all that aluminum for their canning process comes from China. That aluminum now has a 25% uh tariff, sorry, 20% tariff against it in importing. Who's going to foot that bill? Nate, do you think your Cokes are going to go up, you know, a quarter or a dollar or whatever?
Nathan Brady: Well,
Mike Smith: Maybe.
Nathan Brady: certainly not mine. I don't drink that s***. But yes.
Mike Smith: Well,
Nathan Brady: Uh yeah. Sorry to anyone who drinks the Coke. And you've got the you already paid what is that? $5 a can for whatever
Mike Smith: I've
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Nathan Brady: Laqua
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Laqua is that you're drinking here. Um
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: so you know first it's important to understand um that Mexico, China and Canada are our biggest trading partners right
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I mean by by miles okay so um tariffs on these three countries specifically is going to impact 90% of consumer goods. Um
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: and and like you said, the raw the raw materials um will will affect a number of other things and
Mike Smith: agriculture too. You have to
Nathan Brady: agriculture.
Mike Smith: remember that we get a lot of agriculture imported from both Mexico and Canada because of their close proximity and they can grow things that we can't and vice versa, but they're going to also have their own tariffs on that. So, we're paying more, they are paying more. It's a lose-lose situation
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: if
Nathan Brady: a lose-lose.
Mike Smith: you are a person who buys things.
Nathan Brady: It's a lose-lose situation where I'm going to talk in a second about uh retaliations that are already happening um from Canada.

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Nathan Brady: But one of the things uh you know the automobile industry for instance
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: came out and said um this we're going to be affected the most um and they said that it has a potential increase for new vehicles for instance of around $12,000 if these
Mike Smith: All right.
Nathan Brady: uh tariffs remain in effect. Um,
Mike Smith: Well, I guess I hope nobody needs a new car anytime soon because as we
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: know,
Nathan Brady: hope
Mike Smith: wages
Nathan Brady: nobody
Mike Smith: aren't going up and
Nathan Brady: I hope nobody needs
Mike Smith: prices
Nathan Brady: a new
Mike Smith: will
Nathan Brady: car.
Mike Smith: be.
Nathan Brady: I hope nobody needs medicine. I hope nobody
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: needs electronics. I mean, this is going to affect everything across the board. Um,
Mike Smith: Yeah. I think that I'm I think that I'm most worried about the fresh produce thing. I think that there was a period of time leading up to this most recent election where people were absolutely horrified about and some of it was disingenuous, I think, but I think that there are a lot of like, you know, like you and me, working-class folk who were just seeing their grocery bill go up from, you know, $100, $200 to twice as much in the span of a month or two.

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Mike Smith: and it was
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: price gouging mainly, but this time it's
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: imposed by the government. And
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: mean, I'll
Mike Smith: don't know, if I'm honest, I don't know how this administration's going to weather that storm because the people are going to be pissed off when they see their grocery bills for the next couple of months.
Nathan Brady: my grocery bill is is insane. And I think, you know, I I am like a value shopper. Like, I
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: don't care
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: about, you know, I don't go to like the big grocery markets or whatever. I go to a place called Grocery Outlet. I'm always looking for deals. I am I I eat once a day,
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: okay?
Mike Smith: you buy bulk and you freeze everything for as long
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Nathan Brady: do
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Nathan Brady: stuff like that and my grocery bill is so insane that I don't understand how uh other people deal with it. Like I don't understand like
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: uh so I know that credit card debt is rising um across the country especially because of groceries because people are now using credit cards have been for a while but more so
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: now than ever are now using credit cards for essential items like
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: food
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: you know. Um, so
Mike Smith: Yeah. And then and and treating it like like making the minimum payment and things like that. Like a lot of the stuff you you we had for a long time used to see like college kids getting in trouble with and like young
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: adults like
Nathan Brady: Yes.
Mike Smith: you know 18 to
Nathan Brady: Yes.
Mike Smith: 30ish in that range.
Nathan Brady: Mhm.
Mike Smith: They would pay off, you know, they'd have a $1,000 credit card bill and they'd pay off the minimum amount of $48 because that's what they can afford.

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Mike Smith: And then before you know it, they're our age. You're in your 40s and you're like, "Wow, I've got several hundred,000 of debt to this credit
Nathan Brady: by
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Nathan Brady: the way
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Nathan Brady: that that used to be me. I I I'll be honest. Um
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I was I was very bad in my uh in my early 20s with credit cards in my finances. I I screwed up really bad. And I had for somebody I was only making, you know, I was a general manager of a restaurant and I was only making like 35,000 a year and I had maybe $80,000 in credit card debt at the time and
Mike Smith: That's
Nathan Brady: I had really
Mike Smith: That's
Nathan Brady: messed up
Mike Smith: wild.
Nathan Brady: and I got very lucky to have fixed it, but I got ex I got caught in exactly what you said, right?
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I had I had one credit card. Okay, it got maxed out. I can only make the minimum payment on it.

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Nathan Brady: Now I have to I need another credit card to buy these things. Before
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: you know it, I have five credit cards. they all, you know, are maxed out that I'm making the minimum payment on it just so that it doesn't, you know, hit my credit report in a really negative way and and before you know it, it spirals completely out
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: of
Mike Smith: at
Nathan Brady: control.
Mike Smith: the end of the day, you're just trying to get groceries for your family. You're like,
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah.
Mike Smith: I have to eat food. I mean,
Nathan Brady: Yeah. I mean, and and that was at a time when I was paying uh $150 a week for rent um and
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: groceries were
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: cheap and you know, but comparatively I was only making 35k a year. Now you look at it though and still the average household household income. We're talking about multifamily income is somewhere around $75,000 a year.

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Nathan Brady: And people are expected now you're paying for a family of four three $400 a week just for groceries. That's that's six $1600 to $2,000 a month on
Mike Smith: That's
Nathan Brady: groceries.
Mike Smith: Yeah. Wow. You pay
Nathan Brady: That's
Mike Smith: less on
Nathan Brady: insane.
Mike Smith: a car payment, right? You can lease
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: a car for less than that.
Nathan Brady: way less than you lease four brand new cars for your family for less than well right now you can I
Mike Smith: Geez.
Nathan Brady: don't know about soon.
Mike Smith: Yeah. In
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: the next month or two.
Nathan Brady: it's it's really I I always think about how I am um and this isn't a humble brag by any means, but I'm in a decently welloff situation myself right now. And I
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: find that we are almost on the verge of really struggling, you know, like if we if I miss one thing, things could go south, right?
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: I don't know how other families are even surviving right now.

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Mike Smith: I think that a lot of families, you know, are surviving right now, but also I think that there's a huge swath, and I've said this in every episode of of America who is just so sick to death of politics, they just don't pay any attention to it. And so they hear tariffs and they just go, I don't know what that is. I don't care. And they just tune out. But then in a week, I think literally in
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: like a week or two, you're going to
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: have people screaming. People who don't normally get up in arms about such things, they're going to be screaming
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: about the high prices of of
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: groceries and gasoline and you name it.
Nathan Brady: And and you know, this wasn't even on our agenda before I get to this story about um Ontario and the retaliatory tariffs, but you know, one thing that that that we saw, I don't even think it's on our list of things to talk about today, is that for the first time in 80 years, in 80 years, the Social Security Administration is saying that they are potentially going to miss some payments to senior citizens that are relying on that money to live literally

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Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: for essential items. So now put all of that together, tariffs, increased prices at the grocery store and on medications, and now senior citizens who are living social security check to social security check are potentially going to be missing payments.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Holy crap, man. I mean, this is this is devastating.
Mike Smith: Yeah, it's it seems like a a strategic attempt to undermine every piece of federal system that we have. They really are. I I think their endgame is to just try and make the federal government look as as as incompetent as possible
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: so they can come back and rally on we don't need a federal government because look how terrible it is when they made it that way.
Nathan Brady: And and listen, I have been um extremely we both have extremely critical of the Biden administration for all of the things that we thought they could have done that they did not do to help the working class and help people in need. But one thing that they did which which they were so poor at communicating that's a whole other episode about how poor of a communicator Joe Biden was as the leader of the Democratic party.

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Nathan Brady: But one of the things they did do was really help the economy out of what was a global hit because of the pandemic. I mean they
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: really they really helped level us off and trend us in a right direction. The problem is that people were still struggling so much that they still were looking for a change, not the status quo, and that
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: steady increase and just slowly getting better just wasn't enough for them. But now it's it we're going to we're going to completely drop off and go back in the other direction. Um,
Mike Smith: Yeah, it's it's unfortunate and I think you're right. I think that the Biden administration did a lot at the macro level, the federal level
Nathan Brady: yeah.
Mike Smith: where you have the big picture thing where they would tout statistics about the economy being good, job creation being up, unemployment being down, you know, some wages, not all wages, some wages were up like across the board. like these are really good metrics, but then there a they didn't say it they didn't phrase it very well like they're like you're saying Biden was so old at that point he couldn't go out in championing those cause those uh effects rather and then the second thing is that and we talked about this during the election cycles as well it's really hard when you're living paycheck to paycheck and you're just trying to get enough food on

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Mike Smith: the table for your family to hear how great the economy is and how
Nathan Brady: Yes.
Mike Smith: great things are
Nathan Brady: Yes.
Mike Smith: going and you're like I'm at the end of my rope here. Like
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: what are you f****** talking about?
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: so I think you know I obviously we saw people vote on that. I think that there was a lot of independence of just like stop telling me lies like
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: stop telling me
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: how great things are.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah. And and so yeah, I think the messaging Oh, man. We we talk about this all the time. The messaging with the Democratic party was very very poor. I heard uh I listened to a great interview yesterday with uh Governor Healey of Massachusetts. She's
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Democratic governor of Massachusetts where um she basically said the Democratic brand is just awful right now. They they don't understand what the working class is dealing with.

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Nathan Brady: They don't know how to speak to the working class anymore. We have to change the
Mike Smith: Heat.
Nathan Brady: entire brand of the Democratic party. Doesn't matter how good you're doing or what good you're doing. If the perception is that you're either not doing those things or you're not doing enough for
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: for the people.
Mike Smith: I I think that it's I think that the Democrat party especially like 90s on we'll say has really sort of branded itself as this this and and we get we get scapegoated with this sort of or like straw man attacked with this sort of thing but it's like the party of the intellectuals like these
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: college educated
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: wellto-do etc etc and I think at some point the the democrat the democratic party internalized that and they're like we are the party of, you know, the the wellto-do, you know, well-educated people who know better, right?
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: the I shut up, I'm talking kind
Mike Smith: Yeah.

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Nathan Brady: of attitude,
Mike Smith: Yeah. And and
Nathan Brady: you know.
Mike Smith: instead of making the bigger tent, they like push out the people who are like, I want to vote for you, but you're not helping me. And then they're like, well, you're the reason that we have Donald Trump. No, you're the reason we have Donald Trump.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah. And I I mean I'm saying that a lot. It's very hard for me to blame, okay, I want to blame all Trump voters, right? And
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: I certainly blame the racists and the misogynists and the people
Mike Smith: Of
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: course.
Nathan Brady: want to hurt other people, but
Mike Smith: Of
Nathan Brady: it's
Mike Smith: course.
Nathan Brady: difficult for me to just blame workingclass people who don't really understand what's going on and just they're begging for anybody, please anybody to help. They're literally willing to make a deal with the devil if
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: it means it will save their family from

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Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: what they're
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: dealing with right now.
Mike Smith: I think you're completely right and I I think it's sort of we see it a lot in because we in our our field obviously we do a lot of tech stuff. We work with a lot of people who are college educated and who are pretty well off just generally and you get a real sense from them that they don't have a strong connection with anybody who's ever had to like live paycheck to ch pay paycheck or they didn't know
Nathan Brady: sleep
Mike Smith: where their
Nathan Brady: in
Mike Smith: next
Nathan Brady: their
Mike Smith: meal
Nathan Brady: car.
Mike Smith: was coming from and
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: yeah
Nathan Brady: exactly.
Mike Smith: they never slept in the
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Exactly. And so
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: you're like, it's not their fault, but they just can't conceive of a person living this way. And so they don't think that those problems are real. And I think
Nathan Brady: Take

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Mike Smith: the flip
Nathan Brady: it,
Mike Smith: side's true,
Nathan Brady: man.
Mike Smith: obviously, but like just like the inability for people to to empathize with people they've never met or gone through things that they've never gone through. I just don't understand how the party how both parties have become this way.
Nathan Brady: It's it's the it's the whole um you know I don't want to give uh tax breaks or or um uh college uh refunds, you know, loan refunds because I had to go and and pay for it myself. I mean, that's literally insane. I had
Mike Smith: man.
Nathan Brady: my paycheck garnished to finish my uh student loans, okay? And I still wanted other people to have it better. You know,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I just
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: don't understand because part of it is that the leaders, these grifters in in the opposition will tell them that they're going to pay for it. Oh, now you you have to pay for it. Which just it really isn't true. Okay?

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Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: I mean,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: we could take we could take care of all of those people without raising taxes on the working class.
Mike Smith: So
Nathan Brady: I'll
Mike Smith: that's
Nathan Brady: tell
Mike Smith: that's
Nathan Brady: you.
Mike Smith: my point though, like it's the messaging, right? Because
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: on the right the messaging is they're going to tax you, a person who's not going to benefit from any of these things for
Nathan Brady: Mhm.
Mike Smith: these things. And on the left the messaging is what? Like like okay Bernie we understood Bernie. He
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: said we I think healthcare is a right for all in America. We can afford it. We're going to tax
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: everybody.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: Everybody has
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: healthare.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: Everybody needs healthare. That's an easy one to understand. like the student
Nathan Brady: What?
Mike Smith: loan thing. I I sort of

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Nathan Brady: Can
Mike Smith: don't even
Nathan Brady: Can you
Mike Smith: understand the argument there either, but like the messaging wasn't we're going to tax everybody to to pay for these college educations so that you can go to college. It's not like you were making the same argument as like elementary school or high school, right? Like what was the what was the messaging there?
Nathan Brady: So, I I have to I have to go to Bernie. We're going to take a little we
Mike Smith: We're
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Mike Smith: gonna
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Mike Smith: Bernie.
Nathan Brady: trip right now.
Mike Smith: Let's
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: go.
Nathan Brady: I want to I want to play this one minute clip because of something just ridiculous that James Carville said who everybody knows is one of the biggest, you know, uh Dem strategists out there. He's been involved in several campaigns, you know, Clinton, uh Obama, etc. Let's listen. Listen to this.
Nathan Brady's Presentation: James Carville wrote this quote, "Roll over and play dead. allow

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Nathan Brady's Presentation: the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us. Senator, what say you? Do you think that's a good idea? Uh, no, I don't. Uh, in fact, the problem is the Democrats have been playing dead for too many years. 60% of our people live paycheck to paycheck. We have more income and wealth inequality than we've ever had in the history of this country. We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country. Millions of seniors are struggling to heat their homes and put food on the table. I don't think you play dead. I think you stand up for the working class of this country and make the point that right now the Trump administration is clearly an administration designed to represent the interests of the Musks of the world. 13 of the people that he nominated to head agencies are billionaires. James
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady's Presentation: Carville

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Mike Smith: such
Nathan Brady's Presentation: wrote this.
Mike Smith: simple messaging. It's It's so painful that no other Democrat really will come out and just say these these things like he puts it so
Nathan Brady: What?
Mike Smith: well.
Nathan Brady: What
Mike Smith: He
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: says the same thing that we're saying like you're not connecting with average voters who are living paycheck to paycheck who need the to to to be supported in these ways. And he's like,
Nathan Brady: What
Mike Smith: "And
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: it,
Mike Smith: have the
Nathan Brady: Mike?
Mike Smith: billionaire class trying to rule everything, and we should be against that, too.
Nathan Brady: What is it about the Democratic Party that had us fighting with each other about Bernie Sanders? I mean, we still have people that will drop into our replies
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: if we
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: play. Who can argue with what Bernie Sanders just said there? You can't. I mean,
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: if you're arguing with that

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Mike Smith: here's the thing. Here's the thing. You and I have spoken to a lot of people over the years probably since 2012
Nathan Brady: 15,
Mike Smith: I'll say yeah
Nathan Brady: okay, sure.
Mike Smith: little before that but just talking with people all walks of life Republican libertarian Democrat you know liberal socialist whatever and individually I think that I I think that it's plain to say like they all agreed with Bernie Sanders's messaging. They said that yeah this this is the person who should be leading the country. This is a man who understands the plight of working people and what problems need solving. And so then why did we all fight with each other about this man across the board? I don't have a good answer for you.
Nathan Brady: I mean, I do have a good answer. I mean,
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: the the answer the answer is pretty obvious. Um, and people hate to hear it and they will get so mad at it, but
Mike Smith: I'm ready.
Nathan Brady: people in power, people that held the purse strings for the Democratic party,

00:26:08

Mike Smith: Sure.
Nathan Brady: they did not want this type of person leading the Democratic party because it would take their power away from them.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I mean, it's as simple as that. And so, the messaging that they control the media. I mean, I this isn't a conspiracy. I mean, I I am I am not the uh you know, they look at Hillary's emails, but look at one of Hillary's emails, which was the instruction to her her media friends uh to elevate Donald Trump to Pi Piper Donald Trump in the 2015
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Republican primaries to make sure that they put Donald Trump's face all over CNN, all over every news network. They aired his rallies in its entirety. You had Bernie Sanders speaking. Literally, this message hasn't changed in the 15 years that I've
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: at least been aware of Bernie Sanders, right?
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: It has been the same stump speech. It has been the same message to the working class. CNN would not air five minutes of this.

00:27:11

Nathan Brady: Instead, they would air Trump his full speech in its entirety. And I got to give some credit to the Dems. They thought that by doing that people would see how how ridiculous Donald Trump is and wouldn't vote for him and instead something else happened. I mean, the pi piper strategy worked, right?
Mike Smith: Yeah, I mean, you know, and and hate to give credit to Donald Trump, obviously, but he does speak to the working class. He's lying to them, but he speaks to their needs. He's pandering, but it's effective.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. I mean, we've said it
Mike Smith: Let's
Nathan Brady: before.
Mike Smith: Let's
Nathan Brady: Maybe
Mike Smith: say
Nathan Brady: the devil
Mike Smith: as a
Nathan Brady: should just lie more.
Mike Smith: Yeah. Let's say as just a a a thought experiment that Bernie Sanders is just lying to us and he doesn't believe any of these things. This is great messaging. You will get a ton of votes behind this person even if he turns out to be the devil and doesn't believe this stuff.

00:28:07

Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: That's what Trump did. He understood that it's more about what you say than what you do
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: because
Nathan Brady: And
Mike Smith: what
Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: you say
Nathan Brady: to
Mike Smith: gets you elected and what you do keeps you in power.
Nathan Brady: and and
Mike Smith: Those are
Nathan Brady: to
Mike Smith: two
Nathan Brady: be fair,
Mike Smith: different things.
Nathan Brady: I'm I'm not sure Trump even understands that he's like I don't think Trump's even following a strategy. I think Trump is just being Trump. I think
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: he is just he's just spitting garbage out and is and basically behind the scenes is like, "Oh my oh my god, is this working?" Like, "Oh, cool." I mean, he he looked shocked, you know, in 2016 when he won, right? Uh and then it it all turned around from there. Um it was kind of like have you seen the video of um Cash Patel um uh basically holding his first press press conference as uh FBI director.

00:28:59

Mike Smith: No, I haven't.
Nathan Brady: He he said he said and I and I quote well I'm paraphrasing it's almost exactly this. I don't remember the exact words but it was holy f****** s*** this is wild literally to a room full of reporters. Like I can't can you believe this?
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Uh, I mean, anyway, so we we took a little detour there. Uh, I want to come back really quickly just to wrap up the the tariff story. Um, Canada immediately imposed uh 25% retaliatory tariffs on nearly $30 billion of American imports. Um, and then Ontario ripped up, I think it's a hundred million
Mike Smith: Mhm.
Nathan Brady: um, uh, yeah, hund00 million Starlink deal. um and plans to tax electricity in response to the Trump trade war. I mean, this is getting uh LCBO is removing 3,600 American products from its shelves and warehouses. We already saw even the threat of these ridiculous tariffs that a lot of Canadian grocery stores are proudly displaying made in Canada um on their grocery shelves and

00:30:07

Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: removing American items. Um
Mike Smith: that's what LCBO is. It's like a lot a big chain of like liquor stores and grocery like bodegas
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: and things like that.
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: But but I mean they're not gonna they're not doing nothing. And we told you all they weren't going to do nothing. and nobody's going to take this lying down.
Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: So,
Nathan Brady: then
Mike Smith: as as much as Trump hates it, it's going to be a trade war. Not not him bullying his way into victory. It's going to be a trade war and it's going to be a slog and he's not going to pay for it. We're going to pay for it. The Dems aren't going to pay for it. The Republicans and Democrats and independents and everybody else are all going to pay for it.
Nathan Brady: Trump immediately responded
Mike Smith: Governor
Nathan Brady: uh at 12 I don't know if you've seen this yet at 12:40 uh p.m.

00:30:55

Nathan Brady: today from his uh truth social account um with this nonsense.
Mike Smith: Trudeau. Oh, interesting.
Nathan Brady: Please, please explain to Governor Trudeau of Canada that when he puts on a retaliatory tariff on the US, our reciprocal tariff will immediately increase by a like amount. So,
Mike Smith: This is a person who doesn't understand how trade wars work. So he's he's saying, "Oh, you didn't like my 25% tariff, so you put a 25% tariff. I'm going to make it a 50% tariff." And he expects it to end there.
Nathan Brady: I mean, um,
Mike Smith: Idiot. Absolute idiot.
Nathan Brady: first of all, what kind of what who wants to go to to the table with this guy, especially when he starts with, "Please explain the Governor Trudeau Like
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: what are
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: mean,
Nathan Brady: what
Mike Smith: I I
Nathan Brady: are you
Mike Smith: believe
Nathan Brady: doing
Mike Smith: that
Nathan Brady: man?
Mike Smith: I believe that he is stupid enough to not know his appropriate title.

00:31:53

Mike Smith: Like, that
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: seems
Nathan Brady: mean
Mike Smith: reasonable.
Nathan Brady: he's he's he's making a joke about Canada being the 51st state, right?
Mike Smith: Oh, you
Nathan Brady: Like
Mike Smith: think? I don't think he's that bright. I think he just messed
Nathan Brady: no
Mike Smith: up.
Nathan Brady: no he because he kept calling Canada the 51st state. Like I think think this is still a uh I think this is still a riff on that. I mean he knows it's President Trudeau. He doesn't want anyone else to have that president. He's the only president. I mean, this is a good segue into another president came into the Oval Office um on Friday and that went as about as bad as I think anybody has ever seen. Uh
Mike Smith: in living memory.
Nathan Brady: in in I mean to to go back to the interview with Governor Healey, um I think it was it was her who who had asked a historian. She said, "I had asked a historian like have you ever seen anything like this?"

00:32:44

Nathan Brady: Like is there what what what do we do? like how do we prepare? She's like this is un un literally unprecedented
Mike Smith: Uncharted.
Nathan Brady: times.
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: I mean this is this is just crazy. So let's uh if you're here, if you're listening to this, there's no way you haven't heard about
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: this
Mike Smith: heard
Nathan Brady: meeting yet.
Mike Smith: this.
Nathan Brady: Um but we're gonna we're going to play this clip just because uh it it's just insane.
Nathan Brady's Presentation: is very dis disrespectful to the country this country far more than a lot of people said they should have. Have you said thank you once this entire meeting? No. In this entire meeting, have you said thank you? You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October. offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country, please. You think that if you will speak very loudly about the war, you He's not speaking loudly.

00:33:39

Nathan Brady's Presentation: He's not speaking
Nathan Brady: It
Nathan Brady's Presentation: loudly.
Nathan Brady: was
Nathan Brady's Presentation: Your country
Nathan Brady: what
Nathan Brady's Presentation: is in big trouble. Can I help? Wait a minute. No. No. You've done a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble. I know you're not winning. You're not winning this. You have a damn good chance of coming out okay because of us, Mr. President. We are staying in our country, staying strong. From the
Nathan Brady: All
Nathan Brady's Presentation: very beginning of the war, we've been alone and we are thankful. I said stay in this cabinet. We gave you through this stupid president 350 billion is very
Nathan Brady: right. So, I mean, there's there's so much going on in this one clip, but there's so much more that happened as well. And I I want to call out a couple of things that I think we should talk about.

00:34:20

Nathan Brady: one, at some point, which we don't have the clip I I think right now, at some point he said that Trump said that this war would be over in three days, you know, if
Mike Smith: Oh yeah, this
Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: was
Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: that was
Nathan Brady: Zalinski responded, "Yeah, Putin says Putin said that. Yeah, I heard it." He said, "I heard it from Putin."
Mike Smith: right.
Nathan Brady: And and the translation there, I don't think a lot of people realize what Zalinsky is saying is that's Putin's talking point. We've already I've heard Putin say that you're repeating you're paring Putin's
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: talking points to me.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: And I think that's really important that people understand that
Mike Smith: Yeah. I mean, it's, you know, and I think that it's it's the problem that, man, they it's hard to listen to these people when they uh are trying this bully strategy of I'm just going to talk over you. I don't actually care what you have to say.

00:35:14

Mike Smith: I'm just going to say stuff now. Um, but man, yeah, this is all Trump I'm sorry. This is all Putin talking points. You know, like you said, the three days thing was a Putin talking point. It's not in this clip, but he says later he he loses his his his s*** and starts yelling about how they're on the verge of World War II and
Nathan Brady: and that
Mike Smith: somehow
Nathan Brady: he's gambling
Mike Smith: it's
Nathan Brady: with
Mike Smith: Ukraine's fault. He's gambling
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: with you. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: he's
Mike Smith: With World
Nathan Brady: he's
Mike Smith: War II,
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: which again
Nathan Brady: You
Mike Smith: is
Nathan Brady: know
Mike Smith: another Putin talking point. That's something that they throw out there all the time because they're losing the war and they can't really do anything about it. Um, I don't know what to say. He's a Russian agent. So is JD. I just Also, I have to just I have to say this just really quickly.

00:35:54

Mike Smith: JD Vans is a little b****. Just Jesus Christ. Have you said thank you even one time since you got here? What
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: a
Nathan Brady: mean,
Mike Smith: whiny
Nathan Brady: honestly,
Mike Smith: little s***.
Nathan Brady: I I I feel like that should be the title of this episode. And
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: just
Nathan Brady: I don't
Mike Smith: want
Nathan Brady: know
Mike Smith: to
Nathan Brady: if
Mike Smith: slap
Nathan Brady: we're
Mike Smith: him in his fat mouth. I hate him
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: so much.
Nathan Brady: He have you. First of all, there's audio. If you've listened to the whole thing, there's audio of of Zalinsky coming in um and saying, "Thank you. Thank you for meeting with me, Mr. Thank you. Thank you." So, there's audio of that just in this meeting alone.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: And
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: then there's
Mike Smith: Walking
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: into
Nathan Brady: fact

00:36:25

Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: check
Mike Smith: room.
Nathan Brady: that was like Zilinsky has thanked the United States, you know, 33 times. I want to call out something that uh Vance said that was particularly disturbing to me that I don't really hear a lot of people talking about in that clip because his his have you said thank you once was just so ridiculous that it kind of overshadowed this other thing. But he said, "You campaigned with the opposition
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: like like you know we have gotten to the point in the United States where the Democratic and the Republican parties are seen as bigger enemies than the United States and Russia. I
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: mean that that is basically what what Vance is saying there. How dare you? How could you come to the United States and campaign with the opposition with Democrats and and now you're here asking for money?" I mean, that is just wild,
Mike Smith: Yeah, it's it's a really stupid thing to say because he was here with the president at the time who was

00:37:24

Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: a Democrat.
Nathan Brady: And by the way, he also met with Trump. He went to Trump
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Towers
Mike Smith: And he and
Nathan Brady: and met
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: with Trump.
Mike Smith: We all have to remember that this that that that the uh the invasion started the Russian invasion of Ukraine started in 2015. So, I mean, this has been going on for the two presidencies and then some.
Nathan Brady: And And Trump, by the way, got the dates wrong. uh during this interview and Zalinsky
Mike Smith: Shocking.
Nathan Brady: had to correct him because Zilinsky did say uh you know I think he said 2014 to whatever um and Trump was trying to say well well here's here's here's the bigger picture first. What Zalinski is saying here is that I don't think that a peace deal is going to work with Putin because he broke the peace deal last time and
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: and all he did was use that time, that period of quote unquote peace to regroup and attack again.

00:38:18

Nathan Brady: And
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Zalinsky is saying, "Listen, if we don't stop this, if you guys don't back your this peace deal up with a security guarantee,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: then Putin is going to do the exact same thing." And Trump said, "Not you. I'm
Mike Smith: Not with
Nathan Brady: president
Mike Smith: me
Nathan Brady: now."
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: And
Mike Smith: not
Nathan Brady: he
Mike Smith: with
Nathan Brady: said,
Mike Smith: me.
Nathan Brady: "Dude, you were president from 2016 to 2020. What are you talking about?"
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: You know?
Mike Smith: He said he said that there have been three ceasefires negotiated with the help of the United States. Trump did it twice and Biden No, Trump did it once and Biden did it twice. and Putin
Nathan Brady: break
Mike Smith: reneged
Nathan Brady: proc.
Mike Smith: on all three
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: of them by just reringing and then starting a new offensive. And so when when Trump's telling Zalinsky, you need to accept this peace deal that I'm brokering without your inclusion with Russia and we're going to have a ceasefire, Zinski's like, well, that doesn't mean anything.

00:39:14

Mike Smith: Ceasefires don't mean anything to Russia. So why do I care about that? You can't if you're not going to back that up with any security guarantees and assurances with either boots on the ground or, you know, money or weapons or ammunition or food or whatever, then what am I getting out of this? Nothing. Why would I even talk to you? No
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: reason.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: That's and and it's a perfectly reasonable like negotiating question.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: You're offering me nothing except the lies that I've been fed by this person three times. Why would I trust that it's going to be any different this time around when it was no different last time with you or with your predecessor,
Nathan Brady: And and frankly, especially when the person that you're talking to is paring the talking points
Mike Smith: right?
Nathan Brady: of, you know, I mean, literally, guys,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I I I don't know how to make this any clearer. This is this is if you thought that it was a Russian conspiracy before that there were Russian assets within you know the Trump administration in 2016 and that Russia was trying to help him.

00:40:11

Nathan Brady: I mean look no closer than now. The director of national security national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is paring Trump talk uh Putin talking points on Fox News. She refuses to say anything bad about Putin and their regime and what they've been what they've been doing. They refuse to acknowledge that Putin is responsible for
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: killing Ukrainians on the ground in Ukraine. I mean
Mike Smith: Yeah. They they they only do Russian talking points. And I'm really wanting to speak here to people who who don't believe in this. They call it a Russian hoax or whatever. And I just want to point out that the people in Trump's cabinet that he's appointing and he himself are only stating things that are provably in reality untrue. They're
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: like, "Ukraine started the war. Ukraine did not start the war. Russia invaded Crimea and then Ukraine. They took over
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: Crimea first and then invaded Ukraine as a second offensive. They started it.

00:41:11

Mike Smith: Ukraine has been defending itself and retaliating as a part of that war that has has befallen the and it's just talking points like that and they all come from the Kremlin. This whole idea of oh you're playing with World War II like that might be a real fear that people have especially if you're you know if you're a little bit older if you're a Cold War kid you remember like the idea of that that's terrifying I'm sure but those are talking points that scare you out of action. They they want you to be isol isolationist in America because you are the other world power. And if you're not backing up your allies in Europe, no one will.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: And then Russia can take over Europe.
Nathan Brady: and and you know uh Tulsi Gabbard especially I'm I'm just so blown away by by her role in this but she has she has uh pared the talking points or Putin's justification for the invasions both uh that Russia had legitimate security concerns uh and that there there was a USbacked biological research facility um in Ukraine which Mos Moscow had used as the justification another justification for its its invasion this Bolabs conspiracy

00:42:26

Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: all of which is nonsense but Tulsi Gabbard now the director of national intelligence has parited I mean I can't frankly if I were Zilinsky I'd be scared to even travel to the United States at this point I
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: mean
Mike Smith: don't think I would do it again
Nathan Brady: yeah I mean so he he you know he left the United States he was asked immediately to leave by uh by Marco Rubio and uh and other staff.
Mike Smith: and staff.
Nathan Brady: And
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: he he went to he went directly to to to London. Um there there was an emergency meeting with heads of state in Europe about what they what they could do to not only help fund Ukraine because it's looking
Mike Smith: All
Nathan Brady: uh less and less like the United States is aligning with uh Europe on its defense of Ukraine
Mike Smith: right.
Nathan Brady: um and and backing and and putting together a security guarantee of their own. I mean th this is this is just wild times right now.

00:43:29

Nathan Brady: I mean, Trump Trump is aligning with Vladimir Putin and uh uh North Korea and and China, which is weird because of the the retaliatory tariffs that that he's dealing with on with China. He's he's going to have no friends by the end of this. I mean there there is
Mike Smith: It's the problem, you know, because the United States's allies have traditionally been democratic states, uh, democratic countries rather, or very similar, you know, like
Nathan Brady: Right,
Mike Smith: UK's,
Nathan Brady: right,
Mike Smith: you know,
Nathan Brady: right,
Mike Smith: um, and he's just alienating all of our allies,
Nathan Brady: right,
Mike Smith: alienating our country to all of our allies.
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: And they're all sort of rallying the wagons, you know, they're they're circling the wagons and hunkering down against this threat of of Russia and I suppose China as well. And they are asking for help if we're not giving it. But I'm with you in the sense that at some point, let's say as a as a as an experiment that
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: Ukraine gets uh, you know, the funding and the support and the munitions and whatnot that it needs from the promises of the the EU just holistically, right?

00:44:50

Mike Smith: And they continue this war for another three years and they're defending their country. That's not a good look for anybody who isn't helping them and is an ally. Like the US is gonna look very silly at the end of that, right?
Nathan Brady: I I mean, how can we look worse than we do right now?
Mike Smith: That's fair.
Nathan Brady: I I mean, can by the way, did you realize the state of the union is tonight? I did not even I mean I didn't even realize that uh with everything that's been going on.
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: the Democrats, because they are cowards, will not walk out and abstain.
Nathan Brady: yeah,
Mike Smith: They should,
Nathan Brady: of course not.
Mike Smith: but
Nathan Brady: They
Mike Smith: they
Nathan Brady: should.
Mike Smith: won't.
Nathan Brady: They should. Um yeah, totally didn't totally didn't realize that that was that was happening tonight. But this ties in with the conversation we were just having. Um okay. I mean, um, there's a lot more to talk about, uh, with Zalinski, um, and Trump.

00:45:53

Nathan Brady: And, and I think, by the way, I think a lot of what Trump is doing is sort of a retaliation against Zalinski personally because that Zalinski is the reason Trump was impeached.
Mike Smith: Well, Trump is the reason Trump was impeached. It just
Nathan Brady: in
Mike Smith: so happens
Nathan Brady: I'm
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: sorry I'm
Mike Smith: crime
Nathan Brady: I'm
Mike Smith: he
Nathan Brady: speak
Mike Smith: committed was was against Zalinsky.
Nathan Brady: I'm
Mike Smith: So,
Nathan Brady: speaking in a as in
Mike Smith: yeah,
Nathan Brady: Trump's
Mike Smith: he he
Nathan Brady: mind
Mike Smith: did he he's he's upset that he got caught
Nathan Brady: yeah
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: in
Mike Smith: he
Nathan Brady: Trump's
Mike Smith: blames
Nathan Brady: mind
Mike Smith: Zalinsky
Nathan Brady: Zilinski
Mike Smith: for him
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: being
Nathan Brady: the reason
Mike Smith: caught.
Nathan Brady: right
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: so you
Mike Smith: Like
Nathan Brady: know I
Mike Smith: all
Nathan Brady: think there's
Mike Smith: criminals, he doesn't take any he

00:46:34

Nathan Brady: yeah
Mike Smith: doesn't acknowledge any of his own part in that.
Nathan Brady: right so I I do think that yeah uh there's there's something there. I think there's something there. Um
Mike Smith: Of course,
Nathan Brady: Oh,
Mike Smith: he's always
Nathan Brady: okay.
Mike Smith: been a petty person. I mean, everything that we've ever covered on on Trump just illustrates just how petty he is about every little thing.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: And whenever he feels snubbed by anything, he he lashes out, you know, a hundfold against it. I think you're right. I think that this is him just being like, "You're never gonna win this war with Russia without our assistance, and I'm never going to give it to you, and I
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: want you to come here and and, you know, get on TV and feel bad in front of me because that's going to make me feel better." Sinsky had to know he wasn't going to get any support from this administration. I think the only reason to do it is to try and make, you know, to come out here and make his case in front of the American people and being like, "We're in a war. We

00:47:27

Mike Smith: didn't start it and we got to defend ourselves." And then Trump's just going to be like, "You're corrupt. You he looks like an idiot the whole time." And
Nathan Brady: Well,
Mike Smith: then
Nathan Brady: speaking
Mike Smith: JD
Nathan Brady: of
Mike Smith: outdoes
Nathan Brady: idiots,
Mike Smith: him and JD proves who the big idiot is. Good
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: job.
Nathan Brady: mean I mean I am uh I am I I will I will say that at least I am not worried about JD Vance taking over the Republican party when this is when Trump is all said and done because Jesus uh I just don't think he I his his level of charisma this is weird to say isn't on the same level as Trump. I mean for for most of us Trump is repulsive, right?
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: But there's something really icky about JD Vance that
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I think even even the people that support his type of politics feel,
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: which is weird to say.

00:48:17

Mike Smith: We've said it before like Trump has a sense of the grandiose about him. He's big and he's boisterous and he says stuff and he's confident about it and and he has that that that you know magnetimousness. I don't have that word. And JD just comes out there and he looks he looks like just a flaccid dick. He just doesn't have anything.
Nathan Brady: Man, you are giving me some great title ideas for today's episode. Shady Vance looks like a flaccid dick
Mike Smith: He
Nathan Brady: episode.
Mike Smith: does. Look at
Nathan Brady: Whatever
Mike Smith: him.
Nathan Brady: this is.
Mike Smith: Jesus Christ. If you haven't, do yourself a a hate favor. If you hate yourself enough, go and look at JD Vance's picture after he's clean shaven. He just he looks like an uncircumcised penis and I can't with him. Give
Nathan Brady: Uh,
Mike Smith: me a new story. I want a new story
Nathan Brady: have you said thank you once during this
Mike Smith: since we

00:49:12

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Mike Smith: interesting.
Nathan Brady: Have you said thank you one time? Um, okay. Here's here's a fun one that
Mike Smith: Thank
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Mike Smith: Thank you.
Nathan Brady: to amend HR1761 to amend the Federal Reserve Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to print $250 Federal Reserve notes featuring a portrait of Donald J. Trump and for other purposes. So, uh, Rep. Rep. Joe Wilson is clearly kissing some ass here, right?
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I mean, like,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: what what is this? Is th this dear leader crap is this
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: is this
Mike Smith: This
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: is
Nathan Brady: so

00:50:03

Mike Smith: North
Nathan Brady: confusing.
Mike Smith: Korea nonsense.
Nathan Brady: Yeah, this is so confusing to me from the party that is always trying to scare you with communism and socialism and ah, you know, they're the guys that walk around with Trump pins and Trump, you know, this and Trump hats and red hat the red hats are everywhere. I
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: mean, what? And now, oh, we got to let's we got to get him while he's still here, while he's still president. We got to get him on our money. You know, he's he's the king. Long live the king. What the hell is going on?
Mike Smith: I don't know. I think you're right. is just the deer leader nonsense. Luckily, this this only has three co-sponsors at the moment. It's not going to
Nathan Brady: only.
Mike Smith: do anything. Yeah, it's never it's never going to come to a floor vote because people
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: Maybe it will. I wouldn't expect it to, but we live in weird times.

00:50:54

Nathan Brady: yeah, it was referred to the House Committee on Financial Services, which the House Committee on Financial Services will have one extra Republican, I believe, on it than uh Democrats. So, we'll see. I mean, right now, are you the are you going to be the the uh uh Republican that um spits in the face of Donald Trump? You know, are you going to say no to Donald to your dare dear leader Donald Trump? I mean, none of them are.
Mike Smith: It is interesting because in years past the way that you would have handled this or something like this is you would have said you'd have parried it out a bunch on the news. You'd have been you'd be all over Fox News being like we're going to make a $250 bill and then you'd talk to your buddies in Congress be we're not bringing it to a vote. We're just not going to do it. And then time would pass and you know grandpa would forget. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: So, one of one of the co-sponsors here is uh basically right in my

00:51:46

Mike Smith: in
Nathan Brady: area.
Mike Smith: your district.
Nathan Brady: In fact,
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: he's
Mike Smith: know.
Nathan Brady: he's
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: you know, he represents me. Uh this god damn.
Mike Smith: you can write him. You can write
Nathan Brady: Oh,
Mike Smith: him and be like or call him up and be like,
Nathan Brady: well,
Mike Smith: I I
Nathan Brady: here it
Mike Smith: don't
Nathan Brady: is,
Mike Smith: think
Nathan Brady: guys. Here is uh here's uh Daryl Isa's phone number. 20225-5672. Tell him uh what you think he should do with a $250 bill. Uh I I can think of a couple things. He can roll it up and
Mike Smith: Here's the thing. I I don't think anybody cares about this.
Nathan Brady: No,
Mike Smith: Like,
Nathan Brady: nobody cares about it. We don't
Mike Smith: how
Nathan Brady: really care
Mike Smith: often
Nathan Brady: about
Mike Smith: do
Nathan Brady: this.
Mike Smith: you walk around with hundreds in your pocket?

00:52:25

Mike Smith: Like, that's a bill that exists. You walk around with a hundred in your pocket at any point in your life. Do
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: you ever
Nathan Brady: got
Mike Smith: like
Nathan Brady: to
Mike Smith: go
Nathan Brady: go
Mike Smith: to
Nathan Brady: directly
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: into
Mike Smith: supermarket
Nathan Brady: the ATM.
Mike Smith: and you're like,
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: "Yeah, no, exactly." You're gonna like, "Can anybody break this for 20s?" Something there's a bill
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: I can do something with.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: $250 bill is just just a waste of if you want to talk about waste and inefficiency. This is a waste and inefficiency. There is
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: no need unless you're going to print, you know, five of these and Trump gets to keep them. Like, there's no point. It's a waste of our It's a waste of our taxpayer money. Nobody's
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: ever going to see these.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.

00:52:58

Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: The money you recoup from your pennies, like four times that's going to have to cover this.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: Such a stupid bill.
Nathan Brady: Um, I want to get away with not talking about Elon Musk really for uh this entire episode.
Mike Smith: for
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: one episode you
Nathan Brady: for
Mike Smith: don't want to
Nathan Brady: one
Mike Smith: talk
Nathan Brady: episode,
Mike Smith: about.
Nathan Brady: I don't want to talk about him. So, I want to talk about um there there are two things that we wanted to talk about. I I'm not going to play the
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: Gaza video. Um,
Mike Smith: Thank God.
Nathan Brady: yeah. I mean, guys, if you haven't seen the Gaza video with with Trump and um uh Netanyahu with their nips out in front of the Trump Gaza Hotel. Um,
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: what do
Mike Smith: we
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: live in such stupid times. The AI is is a problem. I wasn't expecting I don't know why I wasn't expecting but I wasn't expecting the president of the United States to be doing his own propaganda videos a and b so poorly just like just it's AI slop it's it's garbage it like looks

00:54:03

Nathan Brady: love?
Mike Smith: ugly
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it it's
Mike Smith: like
Nathan Brady: terribly
Mike Smith: it's it's
Nathan Brady: made.
Mike Smith: one step beyond like 10 or 15 fingers on each hand like it's barely passable
Nathan Brady: But
Mike Smith: as
Nathan Brady: but
Mike Smith: AI
Nathan Brady: the message the message in it is just unbelievable
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: message
Nathan Brady: there
Mike Smith: is we we approved of this genocide because I get to put a hotel there.
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: I mean, that's all it is is, oh
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: yeah, we eradicated these people, these human beings who lived here. We killed
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: them all
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: so that I could have a hotel. That's the messaging. There's no other messaging. It's not, oh, safety. No, you wanted to put up a hotel and and and
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: your video completely confirms that. Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.
Nathan Brady: So, I want to um I want to end today's episode on our, you know, the final topic of the day with what's going on with the measles.

00:54:56

Mike Smith: Measles.
Nathan Brady: Measles. I know
Mike Smith: Measles.
Nathan Brady: you're all excited. He said, "Boy, I I hope they talk about uh
Mike Smith: The measles.
Nathan Brady: this this disease that that that was eradicated uh in the United States in in, you know, the 2000s
Mike Smith: 2005.
Nathan Brady: um 2005. Uh so so thankfully there's probably not much to talk about except
Mike Smith: Yeah, you would. Whoa.
Nathan Brady: except um if if you don't know um you know uh last week a uh a young a a child uh was was the first child in I think 10 years to die of the measles uh un unvaccinated um and was was the first to die of the measles in 10 years. um you know in 2024 we saw 285 measles cases reported in the United States and it was the highest number in five years. Um and that number is growing and already you know I think this what does this say as of February 27 there are already a total of 164. We now have confirmed outbreaks in um you know one that started in in Texas where that child was killed.

00:56:16

Nathan Brady: Um the obvious reason these outbreaks are um are happening more often is because of the declining vaccination rates. um 95% of the cases so far in 2025 uh are linked to being unvaccinated or unknown vaccination status, which is usually unvaccinated. Um, I I don't know I don't know what to say about this other than like I'm almost at the point now where I would be considered a borderline communist if I'm like start taking these kids away from these parents, right?
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Like
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: take them take them away because you're killing your kids.
Mike Smith: You're you're doing worse than that. And I think that that's an important thing to to remember here is that whether you liked it or not and whether you agreed with it or not, COVID happened. COVID
Nathan Brady: It
Mike Smith: was
Nathan Brady: was
Mike Smith: a
Nathan Brady: real.
Mike Smith: real thing and
Nathan Brady: It
Mike Smith: it
Nathan Brady: was
Mike Smith: affected
Nathan Brady: real.
Mike Smith: the world and COVID had and we believed at the time around a 1.2 R not value.

00:57:33

Mike Smith: The AR not value of a virus basically says how communicable it is give or take. If it's less than one means it'll die out on its own generally. So like it's it won't spread as like you won't spread equally or more than a one to one
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: ratio,
Nathan Brady: number of
Mike Smith: right?
Nathan Brady: people that you interact with. Exactly.
Mike Smith: Right? And so if it's less than one, you really don't have to worry about it a ton because it will just die out over time. If it's equal to one, that means that you will infect the same number of people who get like get it initially. So you're just you're contracting it like I get it, I give it to Nate, Nate gives it to his wife, his wife gives it to some, but it's it doesn't spread out that way. So you need to do something at some point. you need to like quarantine people to get
Nathan Brady: One
Mike Smith: them
Nathan Brady: of one
Mike Smith: to ensure

00:58:19

Nathan Brady: of those people.
Mike Smith: that
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Exactly.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Exactly.
Mike Smith: And and okay, we thought it was like a 1.2 to 1.4. It ended up being like a 0.8 which is pretty close. You know, it's still spreading pretty badly. And I think that that that number actually reflects after like uh a certain amount of the population was inoculated after that whole thing.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: Measles.
Nathan Brady: Okay. Give
Mike Smith: My
Nathan Brady: me
Mike Smith: god,
Nathan Brady: the R
Mike Smith: measles.
Nathan Brady: number.
Mike Smith: the the AR not of measles is between 12 and 18 depending on which variant it is. When you get it, you spread it to like 20 people because that's just how infective it is. It's and like COVID, it has a huge incubation period of almost two weeks where a you're asymptomatic for that amount of time. So you don't have a cough, you don't have hives or any of the stuff that comes with measles, but when you breathe in or cough, sneeze, you're infecting other people.

00:59:19

Mike Smith: That's why it's AR not is so high is because people don't know that they're sick yet. And by the time that these things start breaking out, everyone already has it. So when it says 164 cases, that is not one week ago. And that could mean that there
Nathan Brady: multiply
Mike Smith: are so
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: many more
Nathan Brady: by by
Mike Smith: people infected
Nathan Brady: potentially
Mike Smith: who don't
Nathan Brady: 18.
Mike Smith: have symptoms
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: yet.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Let's So, let's say that again. The AR not of 18 12 to 18 means that one person being infected will likely infect on average as many as 18 other people. that. So with 164 confirmed cases and as of February 27th, I'm sure there might be a new number that's out already now. We are I remember I just remember COVID starting and be and telling my wife I think this is going to be a a problem.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: you know, I think this is going to be a big deal.

01:00:15

Nathan Brady: And not, you know, a week, two weeks later, we were on lockdown and measles is going to be a problem and it's going to take out a lot of children that are unvaccinated.
Mike Smith: It's going to take out a lot of children and a lot of the elderly who didn't get the measles vaccine during the 80s and 90s when it became more prolific amongst children.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: You're going to have people like our parents age are not vaccinated against measles most likely. And you know, some of them had it luckily and they survived it and
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: now they're basically immune to it, but a lot of them didn't. It's sort
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: of like chickenpox. I know people who aren't vaccinated to chickenpox and also didn't have it. It's sort of the same thing.
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: I mean, we're too old for the the chickenpox vaccine. I had chickenpox when I was, you know,
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: eight.
Nathan Brady: had chickenpox when I was a kid, too.

01:01:06

Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: So, but but but but I mean, most people don't die of chickenpox.
Nathan Brady: yeah, measles on the other hand, you know, when you get that you you get that rash, I mean, the the rash is because the the virus is in your blood, okay? It's spreading to your lungs. It's it's
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady: it's
Mike Smith: going everywhere.
Nathan Brady: going to cause this type of large cell pneumonia that uh is likely going to kill you. Okay, so I think the number was, let me see if I can find the number here. I just had it in my in my uh gruesome notes that
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: the um the hospitalization rate so far in the United States tw this is high 25% of all measles cases in the United States in 2025 has required hospitalization. Okay, that is an insane number. One in four of those people of the 164 so far that we know of have required hospitalization. I mean, first of all, guys, we still have COVID out there.

01:02:11

Nathan Brady: We still have the flu out there. We
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: now we have the measles out there. H hospitals are going to be overrun again if this if this isn't stopped. Okay, hospitals are going to be overrun. We're looking at we we have RFK Jr. already cancelling meetings. um with the uh with the the uh I forget what the organization is uh that that determines what the next flu vaccine the makeup of the flu vaccine is going to look like. They're the
Mike Smith: Oh
Nathan Brady: people that
Mike Smith: yeah.
Nathan Brady: they they look at a world map and they they they uh predict what strains are traveling where and they decide that what certain concoction makeup the flu the flu vaccine is going to look like. But they have to start that planning basically now in order to
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: have it ready for the for next season
Mike Smith: Season.
Nathan Brady: flu
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: season. That is already gone, guys. There there there's a chance that if they even roll out a flu vaccine, because RFK has said that maybe they might take it in house.

01:03:12

Nathan Brady: They don't know what they're going to do. If they even roll out a flu vaccine, it's it's likely going to be entirely useless, but they
Mike Smith: It
Nathan Brady: might
Mike Smith: may
Nathan Brady: not
Mike Smith: be ineffective.
Nathan Brady: even roll out a
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: flu vaccine.
Mike Smith: It's it's
Nathan Brady: Uh,
Mike Smith: it's I mean obviously it's February. No, it's not. It's March right now. Uh and we don't know what that'll look like in in eight months, but yeah,
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: it's it's right now is when you start looking at what the f what the flu did here because we're basically coming out of flu season now, but also we're looking at where it's going next, right? because it's it's it's going to be moving toward winter in the southern hemisphere as the months the next couple of months becomes everybody understands that and we need to follow the flu as it travels the world and see how it mutates and we need to know
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: as a

01:03:56

Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: response to predict what will happen when we see it in Australia when we see it in you know we're like okay it's going to come back this way and it's gonna we're not
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: doing that there's not going to be a vaccine
Nathan Brady: So, I want to remind
Mike Smith: or
Nathan Brady: people
Mike Smith: it'll
Nathan Brady: of
Mike Smith: be an
Nathan Brady: something.
Mike Smith: ineffective one like you
Nathan Brady: I want to remind people of something. I'm gonna show Bernie Sanders one more time. Okay.
Mike Smith: Okay,
Nathan Brady: I'm sorry if you know if listen
Mike Smith: don't be
Nathan Brady: you guys
Mike Smith: sorry.
Nathan Brady: who are not Bernie
Mike Smith: Even
Nathan Brady: Sanders
Mike Smith: even even
Nathan Brady: fans
Mike Smith: our enemies like Bernie.
Nathan Brady: that's fine you know just bear with me for a second because Bernie's face in this image that I'm about to share is my con my face constantly right now okay look at his face
Mike Smith: Is it the vein
Nathan Brady: first

01:04:32

Mike Smith: popping out of your
Nathan Brady: look at his face are you out of your mind but I want to remind people of something
Mike Smith: That
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: That
Nathan Brady: Bernie
Mike Smith: is his
Nathan Brady: showed
Mike Smith: face, everybody. That is Nate's face every single
Nathan Brady: I mean,
Mike Smith: time
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: we
Nathan Brady: were with
Mike Smith: have a
Nathan Brady: me yesterday.
Mike Smith: pre-show meeting.
Nathan Brady: You were with me yesterday. Uh,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I want to remind people of uh the the something that happened during RFK's confirmation hearing that Senator Bernie Sanders brought large billboards of of clothes for babies, as he called them. He was trying to explain what onesies are. He
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: RFK was selling onesies. Um, and for for the listeners at home there, the the one onesie on the left says unvaxed unafraid and the other uh onesie says no vax, no problem. These are onesies for ba clothes for babies as Bernie

01:05:26

Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Sanders said that
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: are basically saying my child is unvaccinated. This is a parent would be buying this for their
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: kid and saying my kid don't need no vaccine.
Mike Smith: Do you think that they're gonna bury their kids in those or
Nathan Brady: Jesus Christ, man.
Mike Smith: I had
Nathan Brady: Even
Mike Smith: to
Nathan Brady: I wouldn't have
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: even
Mike Smith: had
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: to
Nathan Brady: wouldn't
Mike Smith: ask?
Nathan Brady: have gone that far. Uh
Mike Smith: I mean, I I will say this is just the optimist in me and it's going to be my downfall,
Nathan Brady: oh boy.
Mike Smith: but we've seen a lot of people uh particularly out of Texas in this measles outbreak, people who are directly affected. their kids are sick. Um they're being hospitalized and they're basically saying, you know, we were wrong. They're coming out and saying, "I I didn't know it would be this bad. I didn't think it was realistic to say that this could happen to us and blah blah blah." And

01:06:22

Mike Smith: then they they would say things like, "Why are they telling us that, you know, that that it's no big deal when it clearly is? Our our child is hospitalized. Why are these grifters telling, they didn't say grifters, why why are these elected officials telling us, you know, just don't get the vaccine. It's not a big deal. If you get sick, you'll be fine. Blah blah blah.
Nathan Brady: This is
Mike Smith: And they're seeing it firsthand and they're understanding now,
Nathan Brady: but
Mike Smith: but
Nathan Brady: this is exactly but it's too late. This is exactly
Mike Smith: it
Nathan Brady: what
Mike Smith: is
Nathan Brady: happened
Mike Smith: too
Nathan Brady: with
Mike Smith: late.
Nathan Brady: COVID, you know,
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: um the people literally, guys, this isn't a this isn't fake, you know, this is real
Mike Smith: we
Nathan Brady: news.
Mike Smith: don't want this.
Nathan Brady: People
Mike Smith: Just so we're clear.
Nathan Brady: people were on respirators, okay, go
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: dying with their dying breaths saying, "I wish I had gotten the vaccine."

01:07:08

Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I mean, that really happened. Family members telling stories of their loved ones passing. Uh, I remember the story of a husband dying, saying this to his wife, telling his wife to go get vaccinated as
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: he was dying.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: You know, I mean, guys, do you know, if you're if you're this deep into our show, it's likely you're vaccinated, your kids are vaccinated, whatever. But if
Mike Smith: You
Nathan Brady: this
Mike Smith: have
Nathan Brady: somehow
Mike Smith: common sense.
Nathan Brady: reaches
Mike Smith: Well done.
Nathan Brady: guys, if this somehow reaches you and you're one of these people who are who are antiax or your your do your own research crowd, well, first of all, let me just say RFK Jr. has even come out and backed the measles vaccine now. He's had to he's had to say it because people are dying. I mean, I want
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: to see I would love to see antivaxers being held uh liable for what's happening for these

01:07:57

Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: deaths. I
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: would love that. I I want to see, you know, the spread of disinformation, purposeful misinformation being held accountable. You know, if it if it's not going to be at the level of, oh, these these platforms don't have a right, it's free speech or whatever, fine. I want to see somebody taken to court and somebody, you know, this had a direct effect on me and my um willingness to vaccinate my children and my child died and I believed in this person because this is a my representative. This is a person in power. This is a person that told me I shouldn't vaccinate my children,
Mike Smith: Yeah, if there's no repercussions, then there will be no change. I
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: mean, that's the thing is that so much of this that I have seen is from people who are obvious grifters to me. I think
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: that they're obvious.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: They're they're telling you don't get the vaccine.

01:08:54

Mike Smith: you know, they don't want to tell you this one weird trick and it's something they sell.
Nathan Brady: It's their supplement. It's their
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady: supplement.
Mike Smith: their supplement
Nathan Brady: Exactly.
Mike Smith: or whatever and and it's it's healthier for kids. It's all natural and blah blah blah. And people are scared. People are dumb, but they're scared. So, they don't want their kids to have, you know, problems. So, they don't get them vaccines in the hopes that everything will just work out. It's like you
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: put
Nathan Brady: have to
Mike Smith: your
Nathan Brady: tell
Mike Smith: faith in these in these snake oil salesmen over
Nathan Brady: right. I
Mike Smith: scientific studies performed by thousands and thousands of people who want nothing better than to improve the lives of your children and
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: have
Mike Smith: don't
Nathan Brady: to tell
Mike Smith: trust
Nathan Brady: this
Mike Smith: them. You believe the guy selling the snake oil?

01:09:36

Nathan Brady: I have to tell this one anecdote. Um, and I'm not going to say who the family member is, but this is a true story. I I my daughter my daughter, this is I will say this part. My daughter has lupus and she was hospitalized. She was intubated. She was, you know, um it was very very bad and it was it was honestly she was on her deathbed. Uh she's she's so much better now. Um it's it was a miracle. There were some incredible doctors at Tus Children Hospital. But when one of my family members who I who I used to be pretty close with heard the news uh and and knew what the disease was, she sent me a link to a random doctor in you know a a doctor that had been basically I don't know what the the term is for doctors who are like lawyers who are disbarred basically,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: right? Uh you know lost his license or whatever.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Um but this doctor was now selling basically a vitamin D supplement.

01:10:34

Nathan Brady: I mean that's really all it was. I looked at the thing and and it was it was she she should just eat better and take these, you know, and and that that would that'll answer her, you know, solve her autoimmune disease. And there are people out there, my point of this is that there are people out there who who believe these grifters. They take them on their word because they're so convincing. They they have either whether it's great marketing materials or or just a a great uh marketing strategy or a way to really get into people's heads. Um a large amount of people, intelligent people too. this family member is a fairly intelligent person at least I thought believe these lies that oh well if she you know if it's if it wasn't for the plastic in the water um you know maybe this person wouldn't have gotten pancreatic cancer maybe and and you know if it wasn't for the magnets and the vaccine you know maybe this person wouldn't have died uh so I don't know how we stop this I I think I've said this before about uh the the way that our parties are right now in the United States, the way that the the way that we're fighting each other, I do not see this getting any better and I don't know how to fix it.

01:11:52

Mike Smith: right?
Nathan Brady: I just don't know.
Mike Smith: Yeah, the answer is education, but we didn't talk about who was nominated for the head of education.
Nathan Brady: We don't
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: even have time to talk about I mean, by the time our our next episode comes around, we will have dismantled the Department of of
Mike Smith: yeah, that'll
Nathan Brady: Education
Mike Smith: that'll be gone.
Nathan Brady: from the inside. Um, okay.
Mike Smith: Get
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: your
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: vaccines, folks.
Nathan Brady: get
Mike Smith: Just get
Nathan Brady: get
Mike Smith: your vaccines. Listen to the doctors and then like and subscribe and leave a comment.
Nathan Brady: um guys, I don't care if you don't comment or sub or like the channel. If you're going to get your vaccine instead, just do that instead. Do both.
Mike Smith: do both.
Nathan Brady: But
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: do both. But I'd rather you just go get vaccinated.
Mike Smith: Well, we
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: don't need the likes and subscribes.

01:12:38

Mike Smith: Those just make us feel good. The
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: vaccines,
Nathan Brady: Was it?
Mike Smith: that should
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: make you feel good. So, go
Nathan Brady: Please,
Mike Smith: do that,
Nathan Brady: please. But it if but
Mike Smith: please.
Nathan Brady: it's but back back to I think what you were alluding to before is just before we wrap. It's not these people that who are refusing to get their kids vaccinated while seeing other kids die are not just hurting their own kids, but they're going to hurt others, especially
Mike Smith: They're going
Nathan Brady: with
Mike Smith: to hurt
Nathan Brady: measles.
Mike Smith: it. They're going to hurt a bunch of people. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: They're g you're going to hurt other people. So, please get vaccinated. Uh, that's all the time that we have for today. Um, I'm Nate Brady.
Mike Smith: I'm Mike Smith.
Nathan Brady: Thanks
Mike Smith: This is
Nathan Brady: for
Mike Smith: the Blues
Nathan Brady: joining us.
Mike Smith: Edition podcast.

01:13:14

Mike Smith: Thanks for
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: joining.
Nathan Brady: we'll catch you next time. Cut it there. Just cut
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: it there. Yeah, you usually just just cut it. Uh, all right. Good show.
Mike Smith: Yeah. Me, too.
Nathan Brady: Damn, that went that went uh I
Mike Smith: We
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Mike Smith: Some stuff happened
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Um, did anything happened while we were there any breaking news?
Mike Smith: probably. Yeah. I don't know. Uh, okay. Well,
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: next week is March 11th.
Nathan Brady: What does that mean? Oh, you're Are you making a new tab?
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Nice.
Mike Smith: So, you know, 2020 or March 4th has those show notes. This
Nathan Brady: Okay,
Mike Smith: tab has new show notes
Nathan Brady: perfect.
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Nathan Brady: like
Mike Smith: them all, but who cares?
Nathan Brady: Yeah, but we don't want things like f****** retards and stuff in our show notes.
Mike Smith: Oh, yeah. Maybe you shouldn't use my notes. Maybe
Nathan Brady: We
Mike Smith: just
Nathan Brady: should
Mike Smith: the links.
Nathan Brady: we should probably clean some of this up, maybe. All right. this. Podcast, cleaned
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: up already. So,
Mike Smith: All right.
Nathan Brady: all
Mike Smith: I got to work
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: on this TDD.
Nathan Brady: All right. Good luck later.