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Mike Smith: canteen around so I'm not flashing
Nathan Brady: Oh,
Mike Smith: at 25 all the time.
Nathan Brady: headphones.
Mike Smith: Get your headphones in. Wear your goddamn headphones. I'm always above you in the show, right?
Nathan Brady: Mhm.
Mike Smith: So, like if I do like the Brady Bunch and I just kind of go,
Nathan Brady: Can I do this?
Mike Smith: is it like
Nathan Brady: Yeah, it does. It's really creepy. That's really creepy if we do that. And I'm just like, and this guy.
Mike Smith: Oh s***.
Nathan Brady: Ah, yeah. Then that's funny.
Mike Smith: Uh, we have fun.
Nathan Brady: We have fun here. Okay, I think we're ready.
Mike Smith: I'm ready.
Nathan Brady: All right, I'm going
Mike Smith: I'm
Nathan Brady: to
Mike Smith: ready.
Nathan Brady: do it.
Mike Smith: ripping and roaring and all sorts of other art words, especially that one art word.
Nathan Brady: Whoa. I hit record right as soon as we said that. So, we're not going to use this part. Damn it.

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Mike Smith: Have you been annotating the whole time?
Nathan Brady: Yeah. No, just started.
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: Just started with the R word. Okay, here we go. Hey everyone and welcome to another episode of the Blue Sedition Podcast. Uh I'm your host Nate Brady alongside this guy
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Nathan Brady: Yeah.
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Nathan Brady: Hey
Mike Smith: coming back and listening to us.
Nathan Brady: man, I love introducing you to people uh like when we're out somewhere or whatever and I go, "Oh, this is Mike Smith." And they're like, "Okay, what what's his real name?"
Mike Smith: I know.
Nathan Brady: Like, it's
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: really
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Nathan Brady: Mike
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Mike Smith: in. It's builtin anonymity. I don't need those
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Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: no one who's going to steal me,
Nathan Brady: Yeah. And
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: know,
Nathan Brady: that's why you're the uh uh leader of Antifa. So,
Mike Smith: they'll
Nathan Brady: um,
Mike Smith: never believe it. They'll
Nathan Brady: they'll
Mike Smith: be like Mike Smith. Okay,
Nathan Brady: like,
Mike Smith: buddy. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: yeah, come on.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Come on.
Mike Smith: That's how we know it's a fake organization.
Nathan Brady: What's happening, dude? Like, what's going on? What's going on in your
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady: world? Uh,
Mike Smith: Well, you know, yesterday was Cinco de Mayo. Uh
Nathan Brady: okay.
Mike Smith: we we had a little bit of fun there. Um
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: I don't think there's any political news to really report on. I think it's just Cinco de Mayo and then they agreed we'll just hold off for a week.
Nathan Brady: And then so all right so we can just end the show.

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Nathan Brady: I'm surprised are we actually still allowed to celebrate Cinco de Mayo? I'm surprised there wasn't like an executive order around no no more Cinco deio.
Mike Smith: It's the May 5th.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah. It's
Mike Smith: You're
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: not
Nathan Brady: it's
Mike Smith: allowed to call
Nathan Brady: America
Mike Smith: it Cinco
Nathan Brady: day.
Mike Smith: anymore.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. It's
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: Gulf of America day.
Mike Smith: it is
Nathan Brady: They
Mike Smith: kind of
Nathan Brady: from
Mike Smith: surprising
Nathan Brady: now on.
Mike Smith: that they don't they didn't call Cinco de Mayo woke because it's
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: just like it's it's a Mexican holiday, isn't it? Or do
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: we just celebrate it in a really racist way like we put on sombrero and stuff
Nathan Brady: Well, well, I mean, we certainly celebrate it in a really racist way, but I don't think um
Mike Smith: so you don't think it's woke?
Nathan Brady: well, obviously I don't think it's woke.

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Nathan Brady: Uh but no, I don't know. I don't know. Uh because so here's the thing. The reason
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: why I say this is because I I know that uh Trump just had a conversation recently with the president of Mexico where um he said, you know, he was he was basically demanding or trying to insert the US army into Mexico, right? And the
Mike Smith: Right. He's
Nathan Brady: uh
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: He's
Nathan Brady: Mexican
Mike Smith: saying
Nathan Brady: president.
Mike Smith: like he wants he wants the US army to fight the cartels, right?
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah.
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: And of course the Mexican president was like uh thanks but no thanks. And then of course he, you know, uh, he then goes and tells reporters that, well, you know, it's because she's a very, uh, stupid person and, you know, it's just like,
Mike Smith: it's justial
Nathan Brady: come on,
Mike Smith: truck stuff.
Nathan Brady: man.
Mike Smith: Okay,

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Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: just,
Mike Smith: have some I have some Cinco
Nathan Brady: okay.
Mike Smith: detomy facts here. I just real quick wanted
Nathan Brady: Oh,
Mike Smith: I'm
Nathan Brady: all right.
Mike Smith: interested.
Nathan Brady: Yeah, let's do that. Let's do that.
Mike Smith: It commemorates the battle of Pueba in 1862 when the Mexican
Nathan Brady: 1862.
Mike Smith: army
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: achieved an unlikely victory over French forces. So it was a symbolic win.
Nathan Brady: Mhm.
Mike Smith: It's not Mexican Independence Day. It's just a victory day that they have. In
Nathan Brady: Jeez.
Mike Smith: the United States, it's evolved uh into a broader celebration of Mexican-American culture, especially in areas with large Mexican-American population. So here obviously
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: Los Angeles area very
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: large Mexican-American uh population big huge
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: Cinco Maya. So why haven't they called it woke and just like tried to demolish it yet? It's
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: not

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Nathan Brady: that's a
Mike Smith: it's it's it's completely Mexican. It's not even Mexican-American really.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Well, that's that's
Mike Smith: Somebody
Nathan Brady: really interesting.
Mike Smith: Hey Nate, can you ping Ben Shapiro? See if he wants to hop in just talk about this for a minute.
Nathan Brady: And I don't thankfully I don't have a direct line to Ben Shapiro.
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: Uh
Mike Smith: okay.
Nathan Brady: yeah, so I'm grateful for that. I will be honest with you guys. I mean, because we're transparent. Uh we're idiots sometimes and and we're transparent about being idiots and I would have bet my life that Cinco de Mayo was the celebration of like was Mexican Independence Day.
Mike Smith: Right. It's a common misconception apparently. Like a
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: lot of I thought that before I started looking up. I'm like, I know it's Mexican Independence Day, but what's the deal here? And it's like,
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: it's not Mexican independence.
Nathan Brady: As a matter of fact, it's not.

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Nathan Brady: And
Mike Smith: What you
Nathan Brady: yeah,
Mike Smith: know to be true is wrong.
Nathan Brady: so um hopefully if you're listening, you've learned something today.
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: it's an educational stream if
Nathan Brady: probably
Mike Smith: nothing else.
Nathan Brady: probably everybody knows this already and we're just the dummies.
Mike Smith: That's
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: fair.
Nathan Brady: but at least we're doing this uh and we're learning, right?
Mike Smith: We
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: are
Nathan Brady: okay. So, I think there was some news this week. Um
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: they
Mike Smith: darn.
Nathan Brady: did they didn't put
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: the news
Mike Smith: miss
Nathan Brady: on
Mike Smith: I missed
Nathan Brady: hold.
Mike Smith: some. Okay,
Nathan Brady: There's I'll tell you what, guys. We got a mix of good news and bad news. Um, the good news, by the way, is almost always look at this bad thing that Trump did and now we're getting a little bit of it back, right?

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Nathan Brady: It's never
Mike Smith: yeah.
Nathan Brady: it's it's not good news on its own. It's good news because of something terrible that Trump or his ad administration did, right?
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: and I think that the first uh let's just lead with some good good news,
Mike Smith: Let's
Nathan Brady: okay?
Mike Smith: go.
Nathan Brady: Let's just
Mike Smith: I'm
Nathan Brady: let's
Mike Smith: ready.
Nathan Brady: just lead
Mike Smith: Let's
Nathan Brady: with
Mike Smith: do it.
Nathan Brady: this. set the tone, right? Uh what
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: am I looking at here? What is this court court filing? What is this document?
Mike Smith: Uh, I see the versus Donald Trump at all. That's pretty good.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah,
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: that's good. Uh
Mike Smith: yeah. Mosa
Nathan Brady: this is Mosa
Mike Smith: Madawi.
Nathan Brady: Madawi.
Mike Smith: That's that's a name I recognize.
Nathan Brady: Okay. That's the uh that's the the young man who uh thought he was going to uh for his his citizens test.

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Mike Smith: right,
Nathan Brady: um and uh a Buddha practicing Buddhist
Mike Smith: right?
Nathan Brady: um thought he was going for his citizens exam and then was detained by ICE. Um
Mike Smith: Oh, yeah.
Nathan Brady: yeah. Yeah.
Mike Smith: They
Nathan Brady: So
Mike Smith: they catfished him. I forgot about
Nathan Brady: yeah,
Mike Smith: that.
Nathan Brady: yeah, exactly. So turns out uh not so fast. Uh he
Mike Smith: Hold
Nathan Brady: was
Mike Smith: on.
Nathan Brady: he Yeah, he was released. Um this is this is really great news. Um, and
Mike Smith: Yes.
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: Yeah, of
Nathan Brady: hope
Mike Smith: course.
Nathan Brady: it sets kind of the precedent and the tone for uh these I'm I'm going to say nonviolent and I don't want it and I don't want it to come off as as meaning that anybody else everybody else who is detained is somehow violent. I
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: first want to say that um it it calls out the the fact that due process is not being followed that um habius corpus is important that uh you know so so I want to start by saying that but I also want to point out that the Trump administration keeps doing this thing that they're not getting checked on.

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Nathan Brady: So, he
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: had an he had an interview with I think it was ABC the other day. Um, and I forget who the interviewer was. It wasn't the the big one where everyone was making fun of him for not knowing what the Declaration of Independence was, but it was another interview. Uh, it was
Mike Smith: This
Nathan Brady: a a
Mike Smith: is
Nathan Brady: woman
Mike Smith: Trump,
Nathan Brady: was
Mike Smith: not not Mad
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: Dolly.
Nathan Brady: a woman was a
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: woman was interviewing Trump and um, you know, saying, "Hey, you know what about due process? Don't you care about due process? Don't you care about the Constitution?" And he was saying something like, "What am I going to do? hold three million trials. Like I
Mike Smith: 5,000
Nathan Brady: can't do that.
Mike Smith: trials. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Well, he said three million at first. Like he's just
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: being
Mike Smith: Whatever

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Nathan Brady: ridiculous,
Mike Smith: his number
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: was. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. And then and then and you know and he kept saying like we I I committed to getting these criminals out of here. And the one thing that really aggravates me that people aren't pushing back on him on that people aren't checking him on is you can't call somebody a criminal unless they've had their due process. So, for what
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: reason is this person a criminal? Because you
Mike Smith: Well,
Nathan Brady: said
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: so.
Mike Smith: especially
Nathan Brady: You heard it.
Mike Smith: I I'd like even a halfway response to that. Like, okay, let's say that you want to curry favor with Trump and you don't want to call out the fact that he that nobody's a criminal until they've been tried, right? But we also have like Mosen Madawi here who wasn't charged with any crimes in his
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: life. It is
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: guilty of nothing and

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Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: he's being roped into these these same statements. So I would respond to him as the interviewer of what about Mosen Madawi who is not a criminal and you are trying to deport him anyway
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: and then just that that's how I would push back to try and you know keep Trump from just taking his mic off and walking out
Nathan Brady: And I love that Madawi like, you know, immediately, well, almost the first thing he said when he came out was like, I'm not afraid of you. not afraid of you thugs, which I wouldn't say per personally. I'd
Mike Smith: I'm
Nathan Brady: be like,
Mike Smith: afraid of those thugs to be
Nathan Brady: uh,
Mike Smith: fair.
Nathan Brady: you know, they can turn that right back around on you. So, so be careful. Um but yeah, and obviously you know one of the reasons why um he was specifically targeted um as we know there's that there's uh very pro-Israeli groups like Petar who are going after Palestinian activists
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: um and doxing them and sending their information to the Trump administration.

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Nathan Brady: Um and and he was one of those that um fell into that because he's a high-profile. You we've seen I think we showed on the podcast a
Mike Smith: We
Nathan Brady: couple of
Mike Smith: we
Nathan Brady: weeks ago
Mike Smith: did.
Nathan Brady: his
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: interview on 60 Minutes. So he's very highprofile, but he's also very so very clearly one of the good guys in all of this. Like
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: nonviolent,
Mike Smith: I mean, he's Yeah,
Nathan Brady: you know,
Mike Smith: he's he's staunchly uh uh antiviolent. I mean, he in that interview specifically was talking about how he was instructing people like that we need to keep these people out of here who are just going to come in and change the message and make it a violent thing and we got to kick them out. And he was very succinct and just very obviously like cognizant of this element that he that he and his fellow protesters needed to be aware of at the time.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Uh and you know Mosen he he received a lot of support um from the Colombia community.

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Nathan Brady: He got I think it was something like over 90 letters from um students and Jewish students um that you know attested to his piece of character and
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: all this
Mike Smith: professors
Nathan Brady: stuff.
Mike Smith: and Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Professor Yeah, exactly. Um and he actually plans on going going to Colombia graduation and then pursuing his masters in the fall. He's like, "What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?" You know, what are you gonna do? Do something. you know,
Mike Smith: I kind
Nathan Brady: um,
Mike Smith: of like it. I mean, again, he's the thing that's annoying is that he's a green card holder.
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: Uh
Nathan Brady: And they can
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: just revoke his green
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: card
Mike Smith: they
Nathan Brady: for
Mike Smith: can just revoke
Nathan Brady: which they
Mike Smith: it.
Nathan Brady: have.
Mike Smith: They
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: can be like, "You're not staying here." And and and they don't have to even make a case about it.

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Mike Smith: They can be like, "Oh, due to administrative whatever, we've revoked your green card status. Return
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: to your place of origin. You have 90 days or whatever."
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: And there's
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: there's no process for him to appeal that and like it's unlikely he would be able to appeal it given the current administration. But it definitely is um like a sign in the right direction of like I'm not I'm not going to take this line down. I'm going to just keep
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: doing the American thing here. I'm going to continue going to college. I'm going to graduate. I'm going to go to and get my masters and and you're going to have to kick me out to stop me.
Nathan Brady: So, I think you just I I really like that you said that that's the American thing. I think what we're seeing what's working really well, we're t we've talked about the law firms in the past that have acquiesced and the ones that have stood up.

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Nathan Brady: It seems like when you have a bully like Donald Trump, the American thing to do is to stand up and push back against these bullies and they crumble. That to
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: me
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: is the most patriotic thing that you can do. Uh as as opposed to the other side who calls themselves patriots uh that are that are, you know, kissing kissing the the weird platform boots or shoes that Donald Trump wears to this like slanty thing and like I don't I don't know. Uh adds six or seven inches to his height. Uh so yeah. Anyway, um, however, I think we're what we should be a little bit worried about here is that, uh, Trump sends him to Alcatress. So, I'm I'm a little bit
Mike Smith: Wow,
Nathan Brady: worried. Yeah.
Mike Smith: what a
Nathan Brady: Have
Mike Smith: segue.
Nathan Brady: you heard? Yeah. Have you
Mike Smith: Uh
Nathan Brady: heard the
Mike Smith: yeah, I have heard Alcatraz is a lovely tourist destination uh in San

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Nathan Brady: uh
Mike Smith: Francisco. You go up there, you go in the bay, you get to walk the tour and see the museum there and they talk about the history of it.
Nathan Brady: they they actually get 1.4 million visitors annually. I looked that up. Um so they that Yeah.
Mike Smith: It's It's busy enough that the last time I was there, I wanted to go and was unable to.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. It's super busy, right? Um, and
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: we've we've wanted to check it out, too. Um, it has not operated a prison since 1963. So, we're talking 62 years ago, if I can do some quick math, right? Um, due to high costs and deteriorating deteriorating infrastructure, um,
Mike Smith: Yeah. I mean, what does he want to do with it? He
Nathan Brady: he
Mike Smith: wants
Nathan Brady: wants
Mike Smith: to nationalize
Nathan Brady: to reopen
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: it.
Mike Smith: museum
Nathan Brady: No. Yeah, he wants to reopen and expand Alcatraz. So

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Mike Smith: as a
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: museum.
Nathan Brady: means that the he wants to make the museum bigger. No, I I think what he's realizing is that he got a little too much push back when he asked President b***** to take homegrown
Mike Smith: Oh. Oh,
Nathan Brady: terrorists. So
Mike Smith: yeah.
Nathan Brady: now he's
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: he's looking for a place. And I think he think Trump is really into moes. I don't know if you remember last time
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: he's like super into like if you surround things with water,
Mike Smith: Water
Nathan Brady: nobody
Mike Smith: if Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. So I think I think he thinks that
Mike Smith: Oh man, just
Nathan Brady: it'd
Mike Smith: like
Nathan Brady: be in a
Mike Smith: he's he's like he's like a child's mind in a lot of ways. Like
Nathan Brady: Oh,
Mike Smith: that's something that my
Nathan Brady: all the
Mike Smith: son
Nathan Brady: ways.
Mike Smith: would say and
Nathan Brady: Yeah.

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Mike Smith: I'd look at it, you know, I'd look him in his, you know, innocent face and I'd be like, "What a what a fun idea. No
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: adult is going to do." But how I'm glad that you think this way that
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: I we had um I
Nathan Brady: Of
Mike Smith: know that I reposted this on our on our Blue Sky account, but somebody and I'm struggling to find it obviously, but somebody
Nathan Brady: course,
Mike Smith: basically scour the uh the the local and and national uh television cycles for where Trump is and when it's posting. And they found that there was like Escape from Alcatraz or some other movie on TV the night before he announced this. And
Nathan Brady: shut
Mike Smith: they're like,
Nathan Brady: up.
Mike Smith: there is a shocking connection between what's on TV the night before Trump announces something and what he announces. Like a direct
Nathan Brady: No
Mike Smith: line.
Nathan Brady: way.
Mike Smith: He's I saw a movie where Alcatraz, there was only ever one guy who ever escaped from there and he probably died and he sees it in the movie and then he's like, we got to reopen Alcatraz.

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Mike Smith: Like that's how his brain works again. Childlike.
Nathan Brady: Okay. I want to find I we we got
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady: to find
Mike Smith: in
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: our
Nathan Brady: eventually
Mike Smith: It's It's
Nathan Brady: because
Mike Smith: in
Nathan Brady: that's
Mike Smith: our timeline somewhere. I reposted it. It's pretty
Nathan Brady: okay.
Mike Smith: great. And I think the guy's been going on and and just running these direct lines ever since. I kind of love it.
Nathan Brady: I mean, it would be hilarious if it was on like before or after certain Fox News shows that he likes to watch. Like even
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: on it's like on Fox, you know, it's
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: like
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: next Alcat, you know, Escape from Alcatraz or whatever.
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um, so I you know what I'm ridiculous. Not going to happen, right? Very unlikely to happen.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Uh, so

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Mike Smith: Yeah. Here it is. It's It's
Nathan Brady: Oh,
Mike Smith: from a
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: a
Nathan Brady: got it.
Mike Smith: person named Robert Andrew Powell. And I'll send it to you so you can share
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: it here. But
Nathan Brady: All right.
Mike Smith: it says,
Nathan Brady: Let's
Mike Smith: "I
Nathan Brady: share.
Mike Smith: may have the context for this. Last night, WPBB uh BT and Palm Beach broadcasted the 1979 Clint Eastwood film Escape from Alcatraz." And he shows a little a little clip of it.
Nathan Brady: All right. Well, let's drop
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: Let's give
Mike Smith: think
Nathan Brady: him
Mike Smith: it's
Nathan Brady: a follow because this is awesome. Um, no, but he's not watching PBS.
Mike Smith: it
Nathan Brady: I mean,
Mike Smith: says
Nathan Brady: he
Mike Smith: PBS there. I I don't know. But I think that it's funny to have the idea of maybe he just saw it on TV. You can imagine Trump just flipping through and he sees Clint Eastwood.

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Mike Smith: He's like, "Oh, Clint Eastwood." He just watches the movie and he's like, "We got to reopen Alcatraz.
Nathan Brady: Yeah, it was it was Saturday. So, does that mean or or uh Friday night? So, that does that mean that he was in Florida? because he's saying this was like on a local Palm Beach channel,
Mike Smith: I don't
Nathan Brady: which
Mike Smith: know
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: but probably I don't
Nathan Brady: probably
Mike Smith: know where the
Nathan Brady: on
Mike Smith: president
Nathan Brady: his
Mike Smith: is at any given time and on the
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: weekends I
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: think he
Nathan Brady: mean,
Mike Smith: is back in Florida
Nathan Brady: yeah,
Mike Smith: right
Nathan Brady: I think
Mike Smith: so
Nathan Brady: so. He is. I mean, I think that was the kind of the point there. Um Oh, absolutely ridiculous. In the event he orders them to remove past schedules, look, the people are the diplomat.
Mike Smith: yeah
Nathan Brady: Yeah.

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Mike Smith: I mean
Nathan Brady: Wow.
Mike Smith: you know the internet's all right these People are going to be okay. We got the s**** of the of the world here.
Nathan Brady: Wow. Amazing. So, yeah. I, you know, um very unlikely this is going to lead to anything, but he's he's just absurd. Uh he All right, let's move on. What else do we
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: got? We got
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: other stuff to talk about. Um
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: you know what? Something I want to talk about. I want to talk about tariffs because as
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: we've been
Mike Smith: we haven't
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: we haven't talked about tariffs yet, have we? We should talk about terrorists.
Nathan Brady: Oh, there's this big red thing up here. Dow slides nearly 400 points. S&P falls again. Yeah, that's great. Um, and I
Mike Smith: This is
Nathan Brady: don't
Mike Smith: today.

00:18:52

Nathan Brady: even look I don't even look at my 401k because I'm, you know, I can't retire anymore. Let's Yeah, I think it's today. Let's see.
Mike Smith: Oh god.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Yeah. 389
Nathan Brady: Yep.
Mike Smith: 83.
Nathan Brady: Yep. Um, it's
Mike Smith: Well,
Nathan Brady: only down 3,000 points uh in the last six months.
Mike Smith: I I
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: keep a uh a uh my Dow starts January 20th and then I just watch it every day to see that
Nathan Brady: yeah.
Mike Smith: red number
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: like h how how are the markets allowing this man to continue?
Nathan Brady: Well, it's it's Biden's stock market, which is which
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: okay.
Nathan Brady: all right. So,
Mike Smith: Well,
Nathan Brady: let's talk
Mike Smith: let's
Nathan Brady: a little bit about uh we we touched on this. Um we predicted this story was going to come out last week and it came out I think like the day after or or actually it came out oh looks like it says Tuesday, April 29th, but basically um Port of LA shipping down this week uh because of tariffs.

00:19:54

Nathan Brady: The shipping volume at the Port of LA is expected to drop 35% this week due to the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods. Um and so about 25% of the usual number of arriving shifts are projected to be cancelled just completely cancelled.
Mike Smith: There's no reason
Nathan Brady: So
Mike Smith: to send them. Yeah, they have no cargo to ship.
Nathan Brady: Right. Right. And again I mean we were what we talked about last week was these tariffs are going to have a down you know a serious downstream impact. Right. So not only
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: local businesses big retail businesses now we're talking about obviously it's affecting trade. That trade though affects other thing. It affects jobs. It affects you know that these ships don't just drive themselves back and forth.
Mike Smith: right? They're
Nathan Brady: So
Mike Smith: not fully
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: automated
Nathan Brady: know
Mike Smith: fleets just yet.
Nathan Brady: right
Mike Smith: And not only that,
Nathan Brady: um
Mike Smith: but I mean the long shoremen who have to take the can the the containers on and off the ships and find where they go and things like that,

00:20:49

Nathan Brady: trucking
Mike Smith: they're sitting
Nathan Brady: trucking
Mike Smith: on their hands
Nathan Brady: jobs.
Mike Smith: now.
Nathan Brady: Oh where where are the truckers? Where are the truckers? You you guys
Mike Smith: Where
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: are the
Nathan Brady: guys
Mike Smith: truckers?
Nathan Brady: are going to have you
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: guys are going to have plenty of time to do your little truck rallies um that you love so much. So So go for it. Go do your truck rally
Mike Smith: Hey,
Nathan Brady: because
Mike Smith: but at least under Trump, the price of gasoline's down across the nation, according to Trump.
Nathan Brady: is that with the eggs? Is that is Was there a 98%
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: uh decrease in G?
Mike Smith: that's the eggs.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Is is
Mike Smith: Sorry.
Nathan Brady: gas 35
Mike Smith: I'm
Nathan Brady: cents
Mike Smith: sorry.
Nathan Brady: a gallon?
Mike Smith: You're right. Biden's gasoline prices have gone
Nathan Brady: Biden's

00:21:22

Mike Smith: up
Nathan Brady: gasoline prices
Mike Smith: under
Nathan Brady: have gone
Mike Smith: Trump.
Nathan Brady: up. Yeah. Um so uh the drop unfortunately is expected to continue. It's going to get worse. Um some a lot of importers and and and you know this is long this is going to be years of issues here and long lasting long-term effects because what's happening is there are manufacturers and real retailers that are now have to find alternate solutions and are going to likely forge new relationships and create those you know whatever. It's just it's screwing everything up uh big time. And guess who's going to pay for it? You. You
Mike Smith: Is it
Nathan Brady: specifically.
Mike Smith: me?
Nathan Brady: It's It's you specifically.
Mike Smith: Oh no,
Nathan Brady: I I need to borrow some money so
Mike Smith: Mike's
Nathan Brady: my
Mike Smith: gonna
Nathan Brady: kid
Mike Smith: have
Nathan Brady: can
Mike Smith: to pay
Nathan Brady: have
Mike Smith: for it.
Nathan Brady: 30 dolls instead of two dolls.

00:22:12

Mike Smith: What has he gone about with this 30 dolls thing?
Nathan Brady: Well,
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: mean,
Nathan Brady: saw that you know the clip that I'm referring to. So, in his
Mike Smith: yes. Yeah,
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: he's
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: said it several times now.
Nathan Brady: Oh,
Mike Smith: He
Nathan Brady: he
Mike Smith: did it
Nathan Brady: said
Mike Smith: in
Nathan Brady: it
Mike Smith: that
Nathan Brady: more than
Mike Smith: interview
Nathan Brady: once.
Mike Smith: that you were talking about, but yeah.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Then like they they they caught him on Air Force One and he's like talking through the door like he does and he and he changed his number and he was like, "Kids don't need 14 15 dolls. Get by
Nathan Brady: Uhhuh.
Mike Smith: with two doll two dolls." Like he's he looked completely confused. But
Nathan Brady: Yeah. So we only
Mike Smith: somebody
Nathan Brady: have doll
Mike Smith: in his somebody in his cabinet literally told him like, "Don't say 30 dolls. Nobody

00:22:47

Mike Smith: has 30 dolls." And so like he started to say 30 and he stumbles. He's like 14 dolls or 13 dolls. Too many dolls. Like he just
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: lowered the number a little bit. It's very
Nathan Brady: frankly.
Mike Smith: good.
Nathan Brady: Too many dolls. Okay. Well,
Mike Smith: That
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: is
Nathan Brady: heard
Mike Smith: too many dolls.
Nathan Brady: I heard we're saving $200 billion. Is that right?
Mike Smith: I swear to God
Nathan Brady: Can
Mike Smith: this
Nathan Brady: you do this
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: math
Mike Smith: think
Nathan Brady: for me?
Mike Smith: I think he I don't think he understands trade and he definitely doesn't understand simple mathematics. So he he says something like I I used napkin math when I laid this out before, but it
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: was something like the the trade deficit with China is like a hundred billion dollars. So what that means to somebody who's thinking about it, let's pretend that China sells us $200 billion worth of materials and goods and we sell them a hundred billion dollars worth of goods and materials.

00:23:45

Mike Smith: That's a difference of a hundred billion dollars. So that's a trade deficit for us of hundred billion dollars
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: because that's how you work it out. That's what you're saying is is that we're taking in we're spending more than they're spending on our stuff.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: We're spending
Nathan Brady: You're
Mike Smith: more
Nathan Brady: you're
Mike Smith: on
Nathan Brady: you're
Mike Smith: their stuff
Nathan Brady: basically
Mike Smith: than they
Nathan Brady: injecting 200 billion into their economy. They're injecting 100 billion into our economy.
Mike Smith: and so the deficit difference there
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: is that 100 billion that he's talking
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: about.
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: So Trump's plan is, I'm going to tariff the s*** out of everything out of China and make it way too expensive for them to do this. I'm going to make up that hundred billion dollars.
Nathan Brady: Uh-huh.
Mike Smith: But in reality, China's not going to buy American goods because they're going to have the same tariffs in place.

00:24:26

Mike Smith: So you're you're reducing all of those numbers. And the logical conclusion says if you keep going up and up with your tariffs like he's doing, reciprocal, right? 145% on you. China's like, "Well, then we're going to do 145% on you." He goes, "Well,
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: I'm going to do 200% on you." And they just keep doing that until there's no trade. You're not making those hundred billion dollars in sales to China.
Nathan Brady: But
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: but but
Mike Smith: it doesn't
Nathan Brady: but
Mike Smith: matter what China's doing to you because
Nathan Brady: that's
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: what but that means the trade deficit is completely balanced.
Mike Smith: That's correct.
Nathan Brady: If if
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady: we
Mike Smith: balanced.
Nathan Brady: have no
Mike Smith: It's zero.
Nathan Brady: trade,
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady: it's zero. And we put a lot of people out of work in the United States and cost of goods goes up, but trade
Mike Smith: Yes.
Nathan Brady: deficit is zero, which is all

00:25:08

Mike Smith: But
Nathan Brady: I care about,
Mike Smith: oh god,
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: but also like you're like we've been par uh uh saying every single week, a lot of those businesses that the the materials and goods that we're buying from China simply are not produced here. And so when I hear the Republican talking heads go, well then they'll just start getting produced in America. I'm like, when do you do you see any factories being opened to make you the 30 dolls my children need? I don't think so. They're not being built. So, store shelves are going to be empty of a lot of goods if you keep this up. Is that a good look on Trump? Is that a good look on this, you know, economic
Nathan Brady: Is it is it a good look
Mike Smith: package?
Nathan Brady: on Biden? I think is what you mean. Uh
Mike Smith: Okay. No, the tariffs are 100% Trump's fault. I think that I think even the news outlets acknowledge that.

00:26:02

Mike Smith: It might still be Biden's stock market, but it's Trump's uh storeshelves. My god.
Nathan Brady: um.
Mike Smith: And I
Nathan Brady: Oh
Mike Smith: just want
Nathan Brady: my
Mike Smith: somebody
Nathan Brady: god.
Mike Smith: to explain to him the difference between a deficit and not no longer making that those sales because you're taking the hundred billion that we were making that we were trading and you're reducing it because of this tariff war. So even if you get the deficit to zero, some magical how, there's no way that they're going to keep consuming at the same level because we're not going to keep consuming from China is the same level. Everything just costs too much because tariffs.
Nathan Brady: Everything just costs too much because of tariffs.
Mike Smith: In trade wars, everyone loses. That's the reason that we started having free trade. It was the reason we tried to open up these treaties and expand trade with other countries is because trade wars don't work for anybody. Especially, and we're learning this now, in established trade uh situations, new trade situations, you can keep your tariffs super high because it doesn't matter because it doesn't affect anything.

00:27:08

Mike Smith: Nothing's on the shelves right now. But half of the stuff on the shelves is from China. So, you're taking them off the shelves. Can't replace them. That was my That was my tariff tri rate. Thank you for indulging me in my TED talk.
Nathan Brady: This guy's Vine Prasad. Um, he argued against lockdowns because he is not a f****** idiot. Damn, the news media is dishonest. Um, I don't know. This guy, this I think this guy is just a random like weirdo on X.
Mike Smith: Who is this
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: person?
Nathan Brady: he's just like a random he's he like yells a lot on X about conspiracies and COVID. Um he's like super strange guy. Oh, sorry. Sorry. He's the new uh FDA administrator. Sorry. He's was just tapped by the by the Trump administration to lead the FDA. Um
Mike Smith: Interesting.
Nathan Brady: so you might you uh you might want to look into him a little bit.

00:28:14

Nathan Brady: Um, I just saw this this happened at I think like around 10:00 a.m. this morning. Um, I don't follow him, but I know from other people that he has like a a YouTube channel. Uh, he, you know, conspiracy stuff. Um, you know, things like that. So, yeah, I would look into him a little bit. Um, basically obvious pick for the Trump administration. Really bad pick for us.
Mike Smith: Oh, Americans.
Nathan Brady: uh Americans
Mike Smith: Interesting.
Nathan Brady: in general. Yeah. Um he's he's basically compared like masks and vaccine mandates to uh like Nazi Germany. Uh you know, he's he's he's antivaccine trying to so distrust. uh probably I believe allegedly I think he called for like um uh Fouchy to be arrested and you know just a just a regular type of normal
Mike Smith: Just a normal thinker with
Nathan Brady: just
Mike Smith: a
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: regular
Nathan Brady: normal
Mike Smith: brain.
Nathan Brady: regular brain type of person. um he he is often there's some notes here that I have on him that he's criticized for misunderstanding and misrepresenting the limitations of clinical trial and doesn't understand the NIH at all.

00:29:40

Nathan Brady: Um so is great a great choice
Mike Smith: Man,
Nathan Brady: overall.
Mike Smith: no one understands clinical trials. That was another thing that came out. RFK Jr. had said something about clinical trials and like wanting to uh restore the the the practice of using placebo. Did you see that? Yeah, he called for I don't know if this was like at a speaking
Nathan Brady: Does
Mike Smith: engagement
Nathan Brady: he
Mike Smith: or
Nathan Brady: not
Mike Smith: what,
Nathan Brady: know
Mike Smith: but
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: I swear
Nathan Brady: we still use placebo? What? What's he talking
Mike Smith: we
Nathan Brady: about?
Mike Smith: don't in clinical trials. We don't
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: in
Nathan Brady: don't
Mike Smith: clinical
Nathan Brady: understand.
Mike Smith: trials because it's unethical to use placebo. Basically, we're basically saying that you're you're taking people who need this treatment uh an
Nathan Brady: That's
Mike Smith: emergent
Nathan Brady: not
Mike Smith: treatment
Nathan Brady: true.
Mike Smith: and you're
Nathan Brady: I was just in a clinical trial like two years ago that was a double double blind placebo study with placebo controls.

00:30:29

Nathan Brady: So I
Mike Smith: Well,
Nathan Brady: don't know.
Mike Smith: okay then. Let's let's let's move on then because I
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: must have something about this story wrong.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Uh yeah, I'm not sure. I was in a but but to your point though, I was in an ADHD study and I was off my medication and um I was in a study for a new medication that was in stage three clinical trials or something like that. Um and I had clearly gotten the placebo. Either that or the medication just completely did not work. But there were two control groups and uh there were one control whatever whatever it was. But it it uh I I had to actually drop out because it was that bad. So that does speak to your your point a little bit about it being um
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: not
Mike Smith: So,
Nathan Brady: unethical,
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: but
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: like
Mike Smith: I have the story now.

00:31:15

Mike Smith: Uh
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: it's it was out of Reuters and it was RFK Jr. and specifically it was him calling for um placebo in vaccination trials. Uh
Nathan Brady: Okay, that makes more sense.
Mike Smith: and so the claim that the point that that scientists were trying to make is that uh including placebo and vaccination trials is a violation of a fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called and I'm going to get it wrong equip poise. It looks like eq ui p o i s e and it means that no one's exposed to excess risk uh just to test the therapy and that's
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: the reason why we don't do that in vaccination trials.
Nathan Brady: that makes sense. That makes sense.
Mike Smith: So I had some I had some of it but I
Nathan Brady: And
Mike Smith: anyway getting back to the the guy
Nathan Brady: well,
Mike Smith: now
Nathan Brady: well, no,
Mike Smith: for
Nathan Brady: sorry, just real quick before you move on. So, so
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: RFK Jr. is arguing he wants more people to be like subjected to his brain worms without getting vaccinated for it.

00:32:24

Mike Smith: Yeah. No. So, his stance appears to be one of that he doesn't believe that vaccinations are effective or safe. And so, what he wants to do is reintroduce placeos into vaccination trials because he thinks it'll show that the people who got the placeos actually reacted better than
Nathan Brady: But
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: isn't
Mike Smith: people
Nathan Brady: isn't that the definition of like you have a vaccine trial? It is a subset of a population that is now vaccinated. Okay? And
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: then everyone else is unvaccinated. So
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: your control group is the entire rest of the population. you can just go to like cities or like whatever because it's not because for like ADHD you have to find people specifically who have ADHD and that's how you
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: have to you do those like placebo trials, right? But for
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: vaccines, you're not giving somebody the vaccine and then shoving COVID in their face. You're just giving them the vaccine and then they're going about their business.

00:33:26

Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: isn't your isn't your placebo group the people who are not involved in the clinical trial?
Mike Smith: I'm not
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: the guy to
Nathan Brady: All right.
Mike Smith: ask this question,
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: but
Nathan Brady: That's
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: satisfying.
Mike Smith: mean that that stands to reason with me. the people not include because that's the way it was with co right we
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: had a a very select group of once we believed the vaccine was safe and effective and ready to be starting ramp up for massive
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: deployment they started treating the most uh what do they call them most at risk uh
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: subsets of the population first and then they were seeing they were measuring efficacy based on on their uh
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: immun response to to covid so Yeah, I mean, you know, you and I being not particularly old or in any particular, you know, um, demographic where we have increased risk of COVID, we didn't get the vaccines till way late in the process.

00:34:24

Nathan Brady: or money or power,
Mike Smith: Oh, right. We didn't have money or power either. I
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: forgot about that.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady: Because
Mike Smith: like
Nathan Brady: there
Mike Smith: that's
Nathan Brady: were
Mike Smith: a that's basically a disability. So,
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um Okay. Yeah, that's really interesting. I'm going to read more about that after. Um because now I'm because
Mike Smith: yeah.
Nathan Brady: I've
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: been involved
Mike Smith: mean,
Nathan Brady: in a couple of clinical trials and it has always fascinated me. happy to give back except for the one where I literally had to, you know, cut short, which sucks because then they can't
Mike Smith: yeah.
Nathan Brady: use any of my my stuff. But yeah, um,
Mike Smith: Yeah. I think it just makes clear that his position is is he's he wants results that reflect his personal ideological view of vaccines. And so

00:35:04

Nathan Brady: right,
Mike Smith: he's making suggestions that will make vaccination test like clinical trial results appear less effective because he's properly you know watering the the solution. He's trying to make
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: it appear less useful.
Nathan Brady: Right. Um, okay. Well, I'm gonna I want to uh kind of stay on topic a little bit because I know this is something that you've talked about a lot and you've you've even done like a short on our channel about this. So, Florida has become the second state to ban uh fluoride. So, uh talk to us about this. What does this mean? Why is it bad? Give give me give me the give me the scoop here.
Mike Smith: Fluoride in your drinking water protects your teeth from cavities
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: without you having to go to a dentist and have a fluoride treatment applied for you, which
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: I don't know about you, we we had them in California at the very least where you would go to the dentist as a kid and they'd put the big tray in your mouth and it had the fluoride goop in it and

00:36:11

Nathan Brady: Mhm.
Mike Smith: you had sit there for what felt like seven quadrillion years
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: with this horrible horrible tasting gunk and and try not to throw up everywhere. It was terrible. Um but no, I mean, yeah, they're they're going to take they're going to stop the process of fluoridizing their water supplies. Um and Florida already has kind of bad water to begin with. um it's not going to be good because they haven't actually suggested any replacement um for that action. They're not saying they're not making public statements of you know your tax dollars will now go to uh public uh policy like I I know that I talked about it in one of our episodes but for instance Japan does not have Floridaiz Floridaated I don't remember the term water. Uh they don't do that. What they have instead is that every everybody in uh public school up till uh college basically have a a thing that they do every day where they they take a little doussing in their mouth of of uh a fid fluidated product like that, spit it out, and then they have their protection on their teeth.

00:37:25

Mike Smith: Uh maybe it's like once a month or something.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Um but it's a but it's a public
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: policy.
Nathan Brady: a program. It's a public
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady: service.
Mike Smith: a program
Nathan Brady: It's a
Mike Smith: that's
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: paid
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: for, you
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: know, by tax dollars to
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: help with with
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: tooth decay and keeping teeth and gums healthy. Florida hasn't proposed any such a program. They're just going to stop putting fluoride in the water.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. And I know Utah was the first state to do this and I don't know that they did anything either um to replace that with. I'm not
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: not
Mike Smith: they
Nathan Brady: sure
Mike Smith: they
Nathan Brady: on that. Um
Mike Smith: didn't do anything.
Nathan Brady: yeah, and Hawaii
Mike Smith: And again,
Nathan Brady: also
Mike Smith: and I said this in the episode where we talked about it specifically, but removing fluoride as a treatment of your teeth takes decades for you to see a difference.

00:38:08

Mike Smith: You will, you can live 20 additional years and have, you know, uh, teeth problems. You're talking about cavities, talking about like root decay, talking about gum disease. And it's so slow that that the only way to measure the difference is over these longitudinal studies that take literally decades to measure. It's the reason we started doing this fluidation project because it was hypothesized to do this. We started measuring it 80 years ago and we found that it does improve the quality of teeth and that you know
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: all that sort of stuff.
Nathan Brady: They
Mike Smith: So they're
Nathan Brady: say it
Mike Smith: going to just
Nathan Brady: uh
Mike Smith: they're going to go cold turkey
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: and no results are going to come out of that except for the children born after that and then 20 years they'll have terrible teeth. You're gonna have Appalachia mouth all over again, but it'll be in Florida.
Nathan Brady: So, it seems like we're really
Mike Smith: Maybe
Nathan Brady: doing a
Mike Smith: appropriate.

00:38:54

Nathan Brady: great job.
Mike Smith: I don't
Nathan Brady: You're really doing a great job for the children. Um just really set them setting them up for success.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Uh yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean it says um um you know fluoride and drinking water benefits are I mean you've listed most of them but like reduces cavities and tooth decay by about 25%. There's studies that show that strengthens tooth enamel making uh you know obviously you're you're more resistant to to tooth decay. Um it helps all age groups. And then most importantly for those of us that can't afford um
Mike Smith: Yeah, regular dental checkups.
Nathan Brady: all going all the time, it saves, you know, like uh families that what $38 a month in, you know, potential. I mean, it just adds up. Uh fewer fillings, fewer extractions, less mouth
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: pain, fewer mis days of work and school. That's always been mind-blowing to me to take just a quick detour. You would think like health care.

00:39:55

Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: Yep.
Nathan Brady: you would think the things that made your employees more efficient and more healthy so that they could come to work and do their jobs would be something that you would favor as being like a, you know, let's say you're a multi-billionaire who has all of these businesses or whatever. Assuming that it's not health care, you would think like, oh, the mo the most important thing I care about um is keeping my workforce healthy and making
Mike Smith: productivity.
Nathan Brady: sure they're come to
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: work every day. Productivity and efficiency. So,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: I care about public policy that affects that, right?
Mike Smith: Yeah. I I think that there's I mean it's it's sort of a cliche, right? But I think that there are two, you know, distinct views on that and it boils down to stick and carrot. So, I think that you're right. I think that, you know, an employer that actually gives a s*** about their employees would view such a thing as as a carrot.

00:41:03

Mike Smith: They're like, I'm going to help the lives of these employees because they're going to make the business work. They're the they're the gears that that makes this machine run. And then there's the other side of it where you're a kind of a piece of s*** employer and you're like, if you don't do your job, you're going to lose your health care and I'm not gonna you you can't even afford
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: to go to the dentist.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: So
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: get back to work.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: And so man, I see it. And then they're like, "Yeah, you you're not taking a sick day to go to the dentist, okay? You're taking one of your vacation days to go to the dentist.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: That's not
Nathan Brady: Exactly.
Mike Smith: health care. It's it's in your mouth. It's not in your body.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. What are you, an idiot? The
Mike Smith: What are
Nathan Brady: eyes
Mike Smith: you idiots?

00:41:45

Mike Smith: You're
Nathan Brady: don't
Mike Smith: trying
Nathan Brady: No,
Mike Smith: to go to
Nathan Brady: eyes.
Mike Smith: the dentist with your health insurance? Are you stupid?
Nathan Brady: Eyes and teeth have nothing to do with the human body. So, knock
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: it
Mike Smith: hate
Nathan Brady: off.
Mike Smith: I hate a lot of the
Nathan Brady: I hate it
Mike Smith: industriousness
Nathan Brady: here.
Mike Smith: of our country. It's just so ridiculous to me.
Nathan Brady: Um, let's switch back. Let's switch gears back to um talking about deportation, especially uh what we're the crazy stuff that we're doing
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: in
Mike Smith: fun stuff. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: the fun stuff we're doing in El Salvador.
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: Man,
Mike Smith: or
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: gool logs.
Nathan Brady: you need to help
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: me here because I cannot control my hatred for the Democratic party. And it's very hard to be vocal about how much you hate dem leadership right now when we're dealing with what we're dealing with currently,

00:42:38

Mike Smith: Right. Right.
Nathan Brady: right? So, it's
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: hard
Mike Smith: No.
Nathan Brady: for people to understand that these two things can both be very bad and sure maybe different degrees of bad, but very bad nonetheless.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: what do we
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: do?
Mike Smith: mean
Nathan Brady: How do we do
Mike Smith: I don't know, man. Because so much of dem leadership for the last at least 20 years probably more has been about optics more than anything. They don't care about substance or anything. They care about
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: optics. So you know uh
Nathan Brady: Which is mind-blowing to me because you're right. All they care about is optics. So they have they pay so much money for all these dem strategists and all of this stuff and they have opt and they you know they Kamala uh Kamala campaign uh redid the the don't call me daddy I I don't forget the name of the podcast.

00:43:28

Nathan Brady: They spent millions of dollars on the set on you know getting the look and everything right and it's got to be perfect and optics and this and that. I mean, the the popularity of the Democratic Party is just nosediving,
Mike Smith: It's tanking. Yeah, it's
Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: they're
Nathan Brady: it's
Mike Smith: not
Nathan Brady: because of stuff like this.
Mike Smith: right. Well, I mean, and even like you were saying, it's hard to be in the Democratic camp because you see these kinds of things happening where, okay, you you held a filibuster for the longest, you know, time or whatever,
Nathan Brady: 24 25 hours fine.
Mike Smith: whatever
Nathan Brady: And it wasn't even a filibuster.
Mike Smith: met, right? It was a sit in for all intents
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: and purposes,
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: but but and then it didn't accomplish anything. And then
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: you showed up for work and voted for the enemy the next day. So what? So your optics are already like you're just doing this to get press coverage.

00:44:22

Mike Smith: Okay,
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: fine. And now you're saying, well, I don't think that we should be having any of our elected officials go and see these goologs, these torture camps, these slave camps, whatever you want to call them, because it's bad optics for us. The Democrats, you know, it's not. We shouldn't do that. I argue yes, you should, and you should bring all the news outlets that'll come with you and show them what it's about. But just what are you doing? Why are
Nathan Brady: Democrats
Mike Smith: you this way with the optics?
Nathan Brady: Democrats have always been bad on immigration. And I I mean that both with their optics and just just bad in g policy, too. But,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: you know, it's like you're really no different. Oh, okay. You're definitely different than kind of uh Donald Trump immigration
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: policy,
Mike Smith: There.
Nathan Brady: but Democrats and Republicans were pretty closely aligned on immigration policy uh especially the last maybe 20 years or

00:45:20

Mike Smith: enacted
Nathan Brady: so.
Mike Smith: policy. Yes. The Democrats
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: have very much like campaigned on anything but immigration and then the
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: Republicans claim, you know, campaign on how bad the Democrats are on immigration
Nathan Brady: when they're both doing the same thing,
Mike Smith: when they're all voting for the same s*** anyway.
Nathan Brady: right? And
Mike Smith: But
Nathan Brady: the the
Mike Smith: but the Democrats just can't find a position because Democratic voters aren't anti-immigrant by and
Nathan Brady: Right,
Mike Smith: large. They're
Nathan Brady: right,
Mike Smith: like, I think that if you want to become an American, there should be stable and simple, not simple, but like straightforward pathways to
Nathan Brady: right,
Mike Smith: that.
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: And Dems, elected Dems, are like, "Oh, we're not going to f****** do that.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Mike Smith: Why
Nathan Brady: Exactly.
Mike Smith: would why
Nathan Brady: Exactly.
Mike Smith: would why would I let a Mexican become an
Nathan Brady: Right.

00:46:03

Mike Smith: American? I'm not going to do that.
Nathan Brady: And so then it leads to situations like this where Jeff is calling uh is saying, "Hey, we should stop going to El Salvador because it's a bad look. It's a bad look for
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Dems
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: because it's it's
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: it's like we are we are
Mike Smith: Bad
Nathan Brady: positioning
Mike Smith: vibes.
Nathan Brady: ourselves as anti-American, pro-violent, you know, uh whatever." And it's just not like everybody knows that's not the case. And we've seen um actually even from the Republican side, Donald Trump supporters um I mean there's there's going to be a ton that love everything he does ever,
Mike Smith: It's a gradient, of course.
Nathan Brady: but for for the most part, Republicans are starting to sour on Donald Trump's version of immigration. Uh and I think we should really be leaning into that. Not only because
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I think it's morally the correct thing to do, but I mean that's what I want.

00:46:55

Nathan Brady: The bottom line
Mike Smith: No.
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: And the messaging should be simple. For Democrats,
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: it it should be we want clear and established pathways to cit citizenship for like nonviolent include whatever rhetoric you need to make it clear like I want dishwashers to come to America. Like you you want that you want pathways to citizenship and and and then just I would just put in the sunshine all of these people that they're trying to deport to goologs who are who have committed no crimes. be like,
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: "Oh, they were trying to send this this college kid, you know, to Al Salvadorian prison to to die there basically because he said that he thought that there was a genocide in Palestine." Like, show that we're seeing empathy even from the right who are like, "Well, hold on. Did he commit a crime? Did he stab some No, no crime.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Right.
Mike Smith: Does he
Nathan Brady: No
Mike Smith: get a
Nathan Brady: crime,

00:47:45

Mike Smith: court case?
Nathan Brady: no due
Mike Smith: What
Nathan Brady: process.
Mike Smith: do you mean he doesn't get a court case?"
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Like, I'm hearing like you're saying, there are people on the right who are like, "Why didn't he get a court case? Hold on.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah. And I And I think for for reasonable pe reasonable people, it's scary because then you think like, oh crap, well, when the Democrats come to power, you know, what if
Mike Smith: They
Nathan Brady: they
Mike Smith: can just
Nathan Brady: start
Mike Smith: import whoever they want.
Nathan Brady: putting people away? uh what if they go back and revisit January 6th and and
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: you know so anyway uh point be what what I'm trying to say is it's obvious that Republicans right now at least Republicans in power are definitely the bad guys and
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: saying that they're the bad guys and showing people that they're they're the bad guys and being on morally the the morally correct side shouldn't involve any optics strategies.

00:48:40

Nathan Brady: It's pretty simple. If Cy Booker and the Hispanic Caucus want to go down to El Salvador, go that I don't that is not going to hurt. There's
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: no way that's going to hurt, right? I mean,
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: don't
Nathan Brady: don't
Mike Smith: see
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: how
Nathan Brady: don't
Mike Smith: it
Nathan Brady: see it.
Mike Smith: can.
Nathan Brady: I don't see
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: it. So, all right. Um, let's move let's move on from Jeffre and the Democratic Party. I mean, guys, just do something. Just just be just be better. Be better at leadership.
Mike Smith: Right. And their message is one of don't take the microphone. That's I think the thing that bugs me the most is they're like you had a plan. you were going to go to El Salvador and show these goologs, right? You had a plan of action.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: Don't do action.

00:49:27

Mike Smith: That is the the leadership's message of we can't don't do action right now. And I'm like, sit around, do nothing,
Nathan Brady: Yeah. What? Yeah.
Mike Smith: hope that
Nathan Brady: Exactly.
Mike Smith: the Republicans burn the House down with themselves inside. I mean, this is just not political strategy that is sustainable.
Nathan Brady: Right. Okay. I think we're going to move on to um maybe maybe our last a last story. Um and this was breaking just a little bit before we started. And this is just so unreal to me. Um, the Supreme Court allows Trump's anti-transmilitary ban to go into effect. Um, and I I kind of want to remind people that part of that military ban was basically calling trans people dishonorable.
Mike Smith: It was in the court filing. Yeah, it's it's f****** despicable is what it is. Oh
Nathan Brady: it.
Mike Smith: god.
Nathan Brady: I I don't even know what to say about this. I mean,
Mike Smith: There was a period of time in uh our youths where we had uh you recall the the the saying of uh or phrase don't ask don't tell.

00:50:42

Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: And it was this this unwritten rule that you could be gay in the military as long as nobody knew about it. Don't ask people if they're gay. Don't tell them you're gay and it'll be fine. and and we've spent the better half of the as you know and latter 1990s fighting against that where gay people who wanted to serve their country were coming out and being like I'm gay and I want to be in the military. What are you going to f****** do about it?
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: And and you know I want to believe that over time we'd made some progress on that. I feel like pe there were openly gay people in the military. um there have always been and there's not going to be a problem with that. And then this is just don't ask don't tell all over again. This is just a ban on trans people in the military instead of gay people in the military. And I don't see any difference. And I can't understand Scotas' ruling on this outside of I don't know.

00:51:47

Mike Smith: I I don't know. I can't I don't understand it. I think that it's ridiculous.
Nathan Brady: I mean, it's it's it's the lower courts got it right and they, you know, they called it unsupported and discriminatory and I mean, that's
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: absolutely the case. I
Mike Smith: I mean, it's clearly discriminatory.
Nathan Brady: clearly
Mike Smith: That's the whole point. That was the point of the ban is to discriminate against trans people. That's the only point of the ban.
Nathan Brady: and and
Mike Smith: So, how you can't rule it unconstitutional discrimination against a protected state uh protected class, I don't understand.
Nathan Brady: I don't get it. And of course, uh, soayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented. Um,
Mike Smith: Yeah, it went down party lines.
Nathan Brady: and I I mean this decision just allows the uh the DoD to just start discharging people like today immediately. Um,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: so thousands of people are going to be affected by this today.
Mike Smith: Yes, I I'm I'm I'm I'm I wouldn't say looking forward to, but I I uh eagerly await the legal eagle going over this particular ruling because I want to know their, you know, legal belief uh of the the reach of this this Supreme Court um binding

00:53:00

Nathan Brady: Oops.
Mike Smith: because or ruling rather because I'm with you, it doesn't feel like it stops at trans people. It feels like there's at the very least, you know, uh a crack in the dam and maybe we can just kick anyone out of the military for any reason. And it can be discriminatory and that's okay. Like it feels like maybe women are getting kicked out of the military next because they're women and that's the reason,
Nathan Brady: I mean, that's that's the that's the way we're going, right? like women and
Mike Smith: right?
Nathan Brady: then and
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: then
Mike Smith: mean,
Nathan Brady: they can't vote
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: know, obviously Stephen Miller and um and um Hexth have been very vocal about their want to remove women from from uh enlisted action and maybe from the military in, you know, full face.
Nathan Brady: range.
Mike Smith: So, I know that it's in their, you know, in their uh best case scenario basket. So, I wouldn't be surprised if this ruling gives them an extra inch or or more to be able to do that.

00:54:04

Mike Smith: And I'm like, I these are people who want to serve the country. These are people who are willing to lay down their lives for this country and its citizens. And you're telling them that they aren't good enough or they weren't built correctly to do that?
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: That's just that's so just brazenly disrespectful. And I I they don't they don't the country that makes that decision doesn't deserve these people.
Nathan Brady: Agreed. uh not I mean I I don't know what to do. Um if you're a member of the trans community or an ally uh like we are um leave some comments on um what can we do? You know
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: what what can you
Mike Smith: Sure.
Nathan Brady: do about this? Um because I I truly don't know. Um, I follow a few a few people on Blue Sky who I think um, in fact, let's let's bring up uh, you know, follow
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: our
Mike Smith: guess
Nathan Brady: news sources list especially, but

00:55:13

Mike Smith: I'm gonna
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: guess
Nathan Brady: think
Mike Smith: Aaron. Is it
Nathan Brady: Aaron
Mike Smith: Aaron?
Nathan Brady: is it Aaron Reed? I think is one of the one
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: of the uh, great sources that we follow. Um,
Mike Smith: Yeah. She
Nathan Brady: so
Mike Smith: follows
Nathan Brady: yeah.
Mike Smith: all of these news stories about trans rights and
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: things
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: like
Nathan Brady: so,
Mike Smith: that.
Nathan Brady: um, here, in fact, this is probably where I saw the the story
Mike Smith: First
Nathan Brady: break
Mike Smith: announcement. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: was was from, uh, Aaron in the morning, uh,.com. So, so definitely check her out. Um, okay. I I lied. I want one more. I want to just share one more stupid uh trying to say that word less but one more ridiculous story uh that we we haven't had a chance to talk about. So for you for you folks at home first let me play the clip and then we can

00:56:00

Nathan Brady's Presentation: nonabono. No, say that in English. He asked me about the president appearing as the pope. I I hope he didn't have anything to do with that. I I that Are you offended by that? Well, you know, you It wasn't good. brut. Yeah. The way
Nathan Brady: it wasn't
Mike Smith: Maybe it wasn't good
Nathan Brady: it wasn't good and I think the Catholic church came out with a a statement. I I remember hearing a more stern statement something like we you know we just put our beloved pope uh you know to rest
Mike Smith: to rest.
Nathan Brady: um
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: you know and we're we're holding a conclave uh to replace him you know and basically ended with do not mock us. Um and
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: then what's hilarious is I've now heard Trump on several different occasions talking about it was a joke. Oh, it wasn't even me. Oh, I don't
Mike Smith: Yeah.

00:56:56

Nathan Brady: know. May, he goes, "Maybe it was." He said, this is a quote from him about it. He This is quote word for word a quote. Maybe it was AI, but I know nothing about it. I just saw it last evening. Wait, you saw it? Did
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: you dress up like the Pope? Then it was obviously AI. What are you talking about? Maybe it was AI.
Mike Smith: So, I mean this I I think that it that's a really that's a that's a a secondary issue that I wanted to talk about with this, but it very clearly means that he's given his keys for his account over to some some intern or something to do. And it's probably just his, you know, fever dream. So, he's walking around Mara Lago and he says out loud and the intern's right behind him. He goes, "You know what? I I I think I'd make a good pope. And then goes about his day.

00:57:48

Mike Smith: I don't think he's like doing anything malicious in that thought. But then his intern's like
Nathan Brady: Well,
Mike Smith: AI image of Trump as pope to Grock or whoever. And
Nathan Brady: well,
Mike Smith: it
Nathan Brady: they
Mike Smith: comes
Nathan Brady: sent
Mike Smith: up with
Nathan Brady: it
Mike Smith: this
Nathan Brady: to
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: him, but
Mike Smith: who's
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: who's what do you
Nathan Brady: Well,
Mike Smith: mean?
Nathan Brady: no, somebody somebody made it, I'm sure, like you're saying,
Mike Smith: Sure.
Nathan Brady: like his intern,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: but he posted it because later he then said, "Oh, I showed it to Melania and she thought and she thought it was cute and so like as to say that's why I did it because Melania thought it was cute and funny like
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: trying to
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: throw.
Mike Smith: I I read that as after the fact. I think that
Nathan Brady: Oh,
Mike Smith: he
Nathan Brady: okay.
Mike Smith: was going through his truth social and he saw a post that his account made and he thought it was cute or she thought it was cute when he showed it to her.

00:58:27

Mike Smith: He's like, "Look at this." You know, but I mean, it's the f****** president. Why are you allowing somebody else to use you as a mouthpiece this way? It's unbelievable to me. And yeah, I have his quote. He was, it was during the Fox News one-on-one interview. They asked him, they said, "Some Catholics were not so happy about the image of you looking like the Pope." He responds, "You mean they can't take a joke? You don't mean Catholics. You mean the fake news media. The Catholics
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: loved it. I
Nathan Brady: Catholics
Mike Smith: had nothing to do
Nathan Brady: loved
Mike Smith: with it.
Nathan Brady: it.
Mike Smith: I had nothing to do with it. Maybe it was AI." And so, I mean, I had nothing to do with it. Maybe it was Abot. It's the intern behind you. I mean, just be honest with us. Like, you don't control every post that gets made here.

00:59:08

Mike Smith: We've seen some of the posts where you have like really good grammar and no capitaliz capitalized words or anything. We're like, "Well, Stephen Miller wrote that one. We understand
Nathan Brady: right,
Mike Smith: it."
Nathan Brady: right, right,
Mike Smith: So,
Nathan Brady: right, right. But I still love it. The Catholics loved it, man. All right,
Mike Smith: Catholics
Nathan Brady: keep going
Mike Smith: loved
Nathan Brady: down that
Mike Smith: it.
Nathan Brady: road. Keep going down that road. That That's great. I love it.
Mike Smith: How many How many Catholics are in the United States? Is is Catholicism a big religion here?
Nathan Brady: I I mean it's it's smaller than it was a decade ago, but I it's still uh it's it's up there. There's there's uh probably tens of millions of Catholics in the United States, right?
Mike Smith: Yeah, I mean I imagine but I mean is it like a big sect? Like is it is it big enough swath where pissing them off will matter?

00:59:48

Nathan Brady: There's 53.
Mike Smith: Wow. was a 22 53 million.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. 53 million. Yeah. I knew it was tens of millions. I couldn't tell you the Yeah. So, uh yeah, I would say so. And roughly twothirds, uh self-identify as Christian. So, 2 224 million. Uh
Mike Smith: Oh, oh, oh, not Catholics, but Americans.
Nathan Brady: no, no. Americans. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Mike Smith: I was like, only twothirds of Catholics identify as Christian.
Nathan Brady: No, that would be the that would have to be the other way around because we have
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: one. Yeah.
Mike Smith: I was like, that's wild. Oh,
Nathan Brady: But yeah, so um
Mike Smith: so this might be So, you're telling me that the president might be posting AI images and I should be aware of it.
Nathan Brady: I'm saying that he's going to hurt his chances for a third term. Um so he needs to be careful.

01:00:43

Mike Smith: is good.
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: He
Nathan Brady: don't
Mike Smith: should
Nathan Brady: know
Mike Smith: have
Nathan Brady: any
Mike Smith: zero chances, but
Nathan Brady: he
Mike Smith: hurting
Nathan Brady: should have
Mike Smith: him
Nathan Brady: he should
Mike Smith: should
Nathan Brady: be
Mike Smith: should be good.
Nathan Brady: you know what I want to look at. Hey, just just
Mike Smith: What do
Nathan Brady: humor
Mike Smith: you want to
Nathan Brady: me
Mike Smith: look
Nathan Brady: for
Mike Smith: at?
Nathan Brady: a second.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Vegas
Mike Smith: Yeah, I got
Nathan Brady: odds.
Mike Smith: you.
Nathan Brady: Vegas odds.
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: What is it?
Mike Smith: don't
Nathan Brady: 2028
Mike Smith: do it.
Nathan Brady: presidential
Mike Smith: Don't do it.
Nathan Brady: election. I
Mike Smith: Don't
Nathan Brady: gotta
Mike Smith: do
Nathan Brady: see
Mike Smith: it.
Nathan Brady: if his name is on there.
Mike Smith: Don't do it.
Nathan Brady: I gotta see if his name is on there. Um, his name is not currently, at least in some of the books.

01:01:12

Mike Smith: Okay. All right,
Nathan Brady: I don't see odds checker. Wait a minute. Wait. 2028.
Mike Smith: hold
Nathan Brady: Come on.
Mike Smith: on.
Nathan Brady: Come on. Come on.
Mike Smith: I don't I don't want it to be there.
Nathan Brady: I It's got to be there.
Mike Smith: You're going to make me
Nathan Brady: Wait,
Mike Smith: crazy.
Nathan Brady: Yahoo is listing him as there. Yep.
Mike Smith: Well, that's Yahoo.
Nathan Brady: Yep. No, but I mean they're they're saying uh the betting odds from sources from odds checker
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: um has him Donald Trump is the second favorite right now to be to be elected president in 2028.
Mike Smith: He's not allowed to run.
Nathan Brady: JD
Mike Smith: I'll put it to
Nathan Brady: Vance
Mike Smith: you this way.
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: Even
Nathan Brady: the favorite
Mike Smith: Even
Nathan Brady: right
Mike Smith: Poly
Nathan Brady: now.
Mike Smith: Market doesn't have him as an option.
Nathan Brady: No chance.
Mike Smith: I don't see anything on poly market for 2028 president.

01:02:10

Nathan Brady: Oh, well,
Mike Smith: I just do 2028. Does that broaden it enough where it says Trump runs and it's, you know, 99 to1
Nathan Brady: no.
Mike Smith: or something?
Nathan Brady: They're pro They're probably They probably don't open books like that far out, you know,
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: like
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: wouldn't
Nathan Brady: would
Mike Smith: think so.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. I mean,
Mike Smith: All right.
Nathan Brady: that would
Mike Smith: Well, I
Nathan Brady: have
Mike Smith: think
Nathan Brady: to
Mike Smith: I crashed
Nathan Brady: sit
Mike Smith: Poly
Nathan Brady: for a
Mike Smith: Murk,
Nathan Brady: while.
Mike Smith: so I'm just going
Nathan Brady: All
Mike Smith: to
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: move on
Nathan Brady: Good,
Mike Smith: then.
Nathan Brady: good, good, good, good, good. Uh, so yeah, so this has JD Vance as the favorite, which is I also think ridiculous. Donald Trump, and they had to clarify. Yes, we are talking about Donald Trump senior uh as the second favorite. and then Okaziocortez um

01:02:46

Mike Smith: Wow. Really? As the first Democrat name?
Nathan Brady: as the first Democrat name.
Mike Smith: Never mind.
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: Yahoo's got it spot on. Let's go Yahoo.
Nathan Brady: um I I think that uh AOC demolishes Vance in a head-to-head matchup. Um that's
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: just me.
Mike Smith: I don't think I don't think Vance can beat anybody. I don't think Vance can beat Cy Booker. Vance
Nathan Brady: No,
Mike Smith: such a weird guy. He's such a just blah person.
Nathan Brady: we we'd lean into the weird thing, right? We wouldn't let that we wouldn't let that
Mike Smith: If
Nathan Brady: fizzle
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: out
Mike Smith: know
Nathan Brady: and die.
Mike Smith: he's running, she's going to call out how f****** weird he is every single speaking engagement
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: because
Nathan Brady: Good.
Mike Smith: she's
Nathan Brady: Good.
Mike Smith: not a moron.
Nathan Brady: Good. All right. That's it. That's gonna we'll we'll end we'll end our show on Donald Trump is currently the the
Mike Smith: Leave a
Nathan Brady: uh
Mike Smith: comment calling us weird. How
Nathan Brady: second
Mike Smith: about that?
Nathan Brady: favorite of We are weird. We are weird. Uh okay, that's our show for today. Thanks everybody for watching. Um, don't forget like and subscribe and uh, you know, put us in the top eight, poke us, whatever, whatever social things that you do. Re resk us um, all that fun stuff. And we will catch you next Tuesday for another episode of the Blue Sedition Podcast. Thanks again.
Mike Smith: Thanks everybody. Are we good?
Nathan Brady: We did it. We did it. I hope you like it. Dad.
Mike Smith: I do like it and annotation. Or is it when we close the thingy?
Nathan Brady: I'm
Mike Smith: I don't remember.
Nathan Brady: ending it right now so I can get the summary.
Mike Smith: Yes. Delicious.