Taylor Swift Release Party and Miller's Mayo Mayhem

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Nathan Brady: So, I don't know what you thought you saw.
Mike Smith: What does annotating do back, baby?
Nathan Brady: Don't worry about it. Okay. Okay. Here we go. Hey everyone, and welcome to another episode of the of the Blues Edition podcast. I I know you guys have missed us all uh all of you. Um I'm Nate Brady alongside my my beautiful co-host Mike Smith.
Mike Smith: I'm Mike Smith, everybody.
Nathan Brady: We've been on hiatus for a couple weeks. Um, we needed to get away from it all. Even though we didn't really do a great job of getting away from it all, did we?
Mike Smith: We just we just put a little more American distance between us and the problems and that solved everything for a short time, but now we're back.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Now we're back.
Mike Smith: So, We're back.
Nathan Brady: Um, and things, as it turns out, are worse than ever. So, that's good. Sorry. Um, where do we start?
Mike Smith: And that's too bad.

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Nathan Brady: I mean, you're you're gonna be you're gonna be the guy today. You're gonna be the guy that drives this thing because I I have to tell you, I don't want to know what's going on and I've been trying my best. Um, basically all Okay.
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, while I was out, I didn't look at at at uh Blue Sky at all. That's my only social media. I didn't look at it.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: I refused. I don't watch the news. I don't read the newspapers. So, I was blissfully ignorant to everything going on. But now I'm back and I'm going to make you suffer.
Nathan Brady: Okay. Okay, because here's what I know. Here's the only thing kind of I know from at least today. Uh, Stephen Miller only eats mayonnaise.
Mike Smith: I saw that.
Nathan Brady: That's it's look, as far as bald white guys go, um, you know, it's hard for us to kind of to be out there and be seen as good people generally.

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Mike Smith: I was like, is that why he has that droopy complexion where he looks like kind of a white nationalist droopy dog? You know what I mean?
Nathan Brady: And, you know, I don't feel like I have a good representative for, you know, bald white guys.
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: And and and I do I look, you can see I do I kind of do this myself.
Mike Smith: Like uh Yeah.
Nathan Brady: It's I'm not, you know, but I put this I put this on myself.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: However, Stephen Miller really takes it to like it's like if if those little mustaches were ever cool, like Hitler Hitler ruined them, right?
Mike Smith: Yeah. Right. Right.
Nathan Brady: So So the Right.
Mike Smith: Charlie Chaplan's pissed because of it. Sure.
Nathan Brady: So the Stephen the Stephen Miller look um boy it's really killing it for um what's supposed to be right the greatest race on earth. So he thinks it's not a good Yeah, it's not a good look.
Mike Smith: Why do the people who espouse that they're the greatest race on earth always look like Steven Miller?

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Mike Smith: Like they're they're either they're just not Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Worse. They're like Steve Bannon.
Mike Smith: They're just not attractive.
Nathan Brady: They look like Yeah.
Mike Smith: Exactly.
Nathan Brady: I mean, he's got like he's got like boils and, you know, every disease growing on the surface of his face and you're like, how?
Mike Smith: Is a great example.
Nathan Brady: This is the Oh, it's you. It's you. You're the guy.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um, so yeah.
Mike Smith: And then they talk like RFK like we are the greatest generation ever existed.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: just like h how can anyone take this seriously?
Nathan Brady: Can can we Okay, before we start, did you see the story, you might have been away while this was going on. Did you see the story that um RFK is heading research on basically putting all the vaccines into one mega vaccine?
Mike Smith: No, I I had not read that. Now, hold on.
Nathan Brady: So okay, sure.
Mike Smith: Hold on. I because I haven't read that.

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Mike Smith: I'm going to play the advocate first. Okay. because there are examples of medications that have been combined for uh and and have had success. The teddap comes to mind because we both have kids. We've had to get that through whether they were growing up. Um and I think that the flu vaccination is usually like a several influenza strain vaccinations for the season and you have to jump out ahead of it, right?
Nathan Brady: No, they have to Oh, that one is crazy because they have to basically predict which stream.
Mike Smith: So they usually screen you for like seven or eight that are predicted.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah.
Mike Smith: So I mean there are there is some you know precedence for combinatoric uh vaccination techniques.
Nathan Brady: Anyway, at the same time that he he did that, he was like, "Also, let's cancel 22 grants and contracts worth about 500 million um for research and development for mRNA vaccines. Dude, we what a f*** that I mean, and there's such great work coming out of mRNA research.
Mike Smith: Oh, I know.

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Nathan Brady: We're seeing possibilities of of a a literal cancer vaccine.
Mike Smith: We've talked about it on the pod before. So mRNA is one of those one of those uh technologies technologies one of those science applications that really feels like it we're at the really at the outset of determining how big it can be but it feels like
Nathan Brady: I mean,
Mike Smith: it's going to be monumental if given enough you know access and and funding to to research it. Um, I was talking to Yeah, I was talking to a friend of mine who's in immunology as a as a researcher, as a a scientist who does works with the tobacco plants and like does you know immunization research
Nathan Brady: it looks inc I mean, it looks incredible. Yeah.
Mike Smith: basically and he was saying that the turnaround time on traditional vaccinations that that he's working on versus mRNA vaccinations in terms of like getting them like to the approval process and proved that they can do what they do
Nathan Brady: H
Mike Smith: is is like night and day. He's like, I spend nine months trying to do something with this and he's like, mrna, they can get done in like, you know, a month or a week or something like that.

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Mike Smith: So, like it seems like a miracle drug, but but for some reason all these guys don't want to use it.
Nathan Brady: It's it's Listen, I think that the greatest thing to come out of the Trump administration if if you ha if you were going to if you had to save human civilization and you to pick one thing that came
Mike Smith: If we're acknowledging that there's anything Yeah.
Nathan Brady: out of Trump one is that is the operation warp speed, right? Is is Yeah.
Mike Smith: Yeah. When we were Yeah. When we were in COVID lockdowns and stuff, they're like, "We need a vacation right now."
Nathan Brady: Right. And uh I mean that that was it. That was the thing.
Mike Smith: That's the only.
Nathan Brady: Anyway, I want to I want to get to our uh main story today, which is Taylor Swift is has announced her new album. Um it's set to drop um in about 30 minutes. Um, so we're gonna we're gonna stay here.
Mike Smith: Oh, you know, you know what's funny?

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Nathan Brady: We're gonna watch this countdown clock and we're gonna let I tricked you. I tricked you, Mike, into coming on to the show. We're gonna Now
Mike Smith: My wife and I, we were and my son actually, we were sitting on the couch watching baseball game and I had my phone up and I was watching the count the first countdown to the announcement because it was going to be done 12:12 August 12th. So, you know, midnight plus 12 Eastern time. So, it's like 9:00 our time in LA. I'm sitting there just going, "Show me the album. Just show it to me. I just want to see it.
Nathan Brady: you just want to see it, right?
Mike Smith: Just wanted to see it.
Nathan Brady: So, we're gonna we're going to stream the whole thing. We're going to listen to it live. Um, give you some, you know, No. All right.
Mike Smith: We'll get We'll get copyright take down immediately.
Nathan Brady: Sorry, everyone. Yeah.
Mike Smith: It's great.
Nathan Brady: No, this Yeah, this won't work.

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Nathan Brady: Um, and she is, you know, listen, I'm sorry for all you Swifties out there. I'm a Swifty. I went to see her on uh the tour before the Arrows tour. I forget.
Mike Smith: Right. Right.
Nathan Brady: Um, I got to see her and uh Soom GZ Selena Gomez. Um, no, listen. Great, fantastic show. She puts on a great show, but she will tear your m************ Etsy shop down if you even mention her name.
Mike Smith: Oh yeah, I'm sure she's she's worth so much money.
Nathan Brady: She is she is violent.
Mike Smith: I'm not surprised that she doesn't have, you know, 40,000 people on retainer to just like troll all the sites for anything related to her that are unlicensed and just bring them down.
Nathan Brady: And I have mixed I have mixed feelings about it because on the one hand I think copyright law is just out of hand uh in the United States. But then on the other hand as an artist wanting to protect your work and your brand I get it.

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Mike Smith: Sure. Yeah. I mean I mean she's she's her brand.
Nathan Brady: So right slop, right?
Mike Smith: So like I I kind of get that. You know what's interesting? And we didn't plan for any of this, but I like riffing a little bit. I've been seeing a lot more um AI swamp, I like to call it, on like uh yeah on the internet basically. And it's and it reminded me of that thing that Trump did where he like posted this video of Obama like being in the White House with him for some reason and then he like gets arrested and you're like
Nathan Brady: Sure. And then in handcuffs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. or the stupid AI Gaza uh you know Trump Gaza hotel that he did, All right.
Mike Smith: right. Oh, I was thinking more of the Obama thing because we were talking about like Taylor Swift and her self being her brand and I've been seeing a lot more of these celebrity AI things. Like I think the one that comes to mind that I saw probably over lunch today was like I think it was an Instagram post that was basically just the actors of House the TV show like from season one and it did AI things to like make them move a little bit and then it like did a glow up into their current state.

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Mike Smith: So it like showed you like a before and I'm like and I'm like at some point you're making money off of their likeness and basically nothing else, right?
Nathan Brady: Oh, I hate I've seen I've seen it. I've seen it. Right.
Mike Smith: So there there's got to be some line there where for especially for actors but also for most performers where where your brand is who you are and your face and your voice in a lot of cases like I I I think of um um Alan Tudk. He does all of these like Disney voices and things but like his voice is his brand.
Nathan Brady: I love Alan so much.
Mike Smith: I know he's he's great.
Nathan Brady: Uh yeah.
Mike Smith: But I'm like, at some point they're going to try and like force this AI slop on everybody and they're going to try and replace these actors.
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: And I'm like, there's got to be lawsuits. I feel like Yeah.
Nathan Brady: You know, and one of the things that I think the scariest thing in all of this is that it's getting really good.

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Nathan Brady: It's getting to the point where, you know, we went from uh right, we went from this uh you know, we went from this.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: remember Will Smith uh eating spaghetti.
Mike Smith: Oh man, that looks great.
Nathan Brady: Um yeah, clearly Will Smith.
Mike Smith: I mean, that's clearly Will Smith taken with like with what what appears to be two plates of spaghetti with a bowl of spaghetti in between them.
Nathan Brady: Um we went from this to in between them and and he bent the spoon. Um when you're digging that hard into the spaghetti, who can blame you?
Mike Smith: Well, I mean, yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um sorry, let me go back to the countdown. Um this is the countdown to when we'll actually get to our first topic today. I guess 23 minutes remaining.
Mike Smith: Yeah. Good. Good. No. No. So like go ahead.
Nathan Brady: Uh but yeah, it's yeah, it's it's getting so good that there is a worry that somebody like a President Trump is going to post a video of of Obama doing or saying something or something happening to him that 800 million people are going to see and believe.

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Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah. That's that's the real scary part, I think.
Nathan Brady: Uh it's it's it's going to be frightening. I think the next presidential election, think of how far we've come in AI in just the last, you know, two years.
Mike Smith: Two years. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I think the next presidential election is going to be in literally insane.
Mike Smith: especially if we're going to have candidates with the sets of lack of scruples that we've seen with with Trump and and the modern GOP. I don't really see them doing anything except blatantly lying. Like you could imagine in even in the last election if they had these sorts of tools at their disposal, you would see regular uh uh commercials on television. I'm certain of just having Camala Harris saying nonsense to to further their message. You know what I mean? Like it's one thing to be like Camala Harris believes in X Y and Z and you you know drum up votes for that, but then it's another thing entirely to just have your AI produce a video of Camala Harris saying XYZ and you're like, "Look at her. She's

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Mike Smith: saying the thing." You know what I mean?
Nathan Brady: I think I think that yes, I the problem is Trump won on that playbook of saying whatever the hell I want.
Mike Smith: She's anti-Israel or she's protrans or whatever. He He sure did. He sure did. All I'm saying is is that before you had to take him at his word essentially that he was telling you the truth about what she did and said.
Nathan Brady: They didn't care, right?
Mike Smith: And of course they didn't care. But you'll sway many more people who didn't vote or who voted otherwise with an actual video of a person and they can't tell the difference between that and AI.
Nathan Brady: I mean, that's all Twitter is right now. That's all the Nazi app is.
Mike Smith: It's all AI.
Nathan Brady: It's all AI. It's all Look, look what what uh Kla Harris did and it's her, you know, giving the same Nazi salute that that Elon gave her. It's it's b******* like that. But it's literally every every cat turd, every one of those major accounts is just sharing this AI generated propaganda and calling it real and

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Mike Smith: Really? Wow. So going back to it, what I was saying before about like the celebrity likenesses and things like that, like it is very clear to me even in with the the way that things have progressed today that this is AI. Like I look at it and I instinctively go that's AI there. There's no doubt in my mind. Um, and I think it's very easy to spot for me, but I have a very critical eye of things and and you're the same way where you just look at it and you go, "Who would believe this is real?" But people who are just, you know, doom scrolling are going to maybe not have such a critical eye and maybe they'll just go, "Wow." And then move on and then in the back of their head that that, you know, that she did that or whatever.
Nathan Brady: There's a there's an innate soullessness to a lot of the the images and videos that are generated with AI and and dialogue and whatever and chat like we can spot even without like the glaring clues like the seven

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Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: fingers or whatever. We can still spot things that are AI. But I think the the thing that I'm scared scared about is that I think in less than a year we won't be able to tell the difference. like it will No, I think it'll get better at I think one of the things that they're trying to do, right, is make it get better at those little tiny social cues that happen that give the the uh
Mike Smith: You don't you you don't think so?
Nathan Brady: watcher, the viewer, um the sense of reality in the image or in the video.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: And I think I think that's coming. It's the the VO um what is it? Uh 11 Labs and heck even chat GPT um and others that are doing advanced voice mode. If you listen now to the conversations um that you have in advanced voice Yeah.
Mike Smith: Oh, audio tics. Yeah, like you and I do it all the time where you say something and you have just a little micro pause where you go uh and then you then it makes it sound more natural.

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Nathan Brady: Right. Right.
Mike Smith: And I agree that the voice things have come a very long way.
Nathan Brady: But I think that's coming in I think they're I think it's coming to video.
Mike Smith: You think it's coming in video? I mean, it has to be. What else are they sinking all that money for, right?
Nathan Brady: What? Right. What else would you be doing? Because they want to be able to do, you know, full-scale movies with this stuff.
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: And you're not going to buy that software unless the characters you create are realistic.
Mike Smith: Yeah. I mean, I agree. I'm really I find it I'm I'm on two sides of the fence, right? Because I'm I'm a fence sitter. Uh it's really interesting. Like from a technical aspect, I find all this stuff just deeply interesting. And I feel like they've been slowly chugging through the uncanny valley for a long time, but I still feel like we're in it.

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Mike Smith: And I agree, maybe they'll come out the other edge, but but it's been okay.
Nathan Brady: We are in it. I think they're going to bust through. I I think they're going to bust through. But to your point before though, it's already uh fooling enough people where it's a problem, you know?
Mike Smith: Yeah. No, I know.
Nathan Brady: I mean, it's it's scamming it's scamming spouses into sending money to people that they shouldn't be sending money to, you know, with fake fake phone calls and things like that.
Mike Smith: I I Right. Right.
Nathan Brady: So, you know, if you're tricking somebody that you literally spend your entire life with, um that's that's already a major issue and it's just going to get better.
Mike Smith: Right. Right. That's true. And people are lazy inherently.
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: I mean, that's why fishing attacks work or spear fishing attacks work is because it's it has the sense of plausibility in on first blush that you're just like and then you go and do whatever it is and then you think about it for one second, you're like wait a minute.

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Nathan Brady: We're we work with literal and and we can be considered for some of the certifications and things that we have security experts that still get very close to being tricked with like a I almost clicked that link in
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: that email and then this one little thing um made me go wait a minute um and that's where I think that's where AI is headed to that one little thing is going to disappear and yeah yeah I mean
Mike Smith: Yeah. And to your point, you know, enough people are already missing that wait a minute moment. So it's like if it gets better, it's just going to make more people fall for it.
Nathan Brady: that's why right that's why those call center you know scams are it's a multi-billion dollar business because people fall for it you And with now with AI, dude, the emails have gotten it's no longer, you know, a Persian
Mike Smith: Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Nathan Brady: prince with all kinds of um misspellings. I mean, it's a very very believable email from my boss, your boss, whoever.

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Nathan Brady: Um that Right.
Mike Smith: Who has better grammar and spelling than you?
Nathan Brady: Exactly. Where you're like, "Oh, this is okay. This is legit." So that that first clue is gone now. Now you have to look for all those other clues.
Mike Smith: Yeah, right.
Nathan Brady: Okay. Well, it's PayPal with a f****** four instead of, you know, an A, you know. Uh, so anyway, um, let's get to some stuff that's been happening this week. So, first I want to I'll I'll pull up this mic and I'll let you kind of intro uh into what's going on here.
Mike Smith: Okay. All right. Do you remember?
Nathan Brady: Big sigh.
Mike Smith: Yeah, big side. Do you remember uh in our last episode we discussed Trump deploying the National Guard in Los Angeles um and the protests that were going on at the time and well that largely didn't work.
Nathan Brady: Right. Do Yeah.
Mike Smith: Uh obviously states have more rights than that that you know obviously the the president's not supposed to use any of the military or the national guard for um police work ostensibly.

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Mike Smith: I forget what that's called municipal policing local law enforcement.
Nathan Brady: Local local law enforcement basically, right?
Mike Smith: Yeah. So the president said well that didn't work against one of the biggest states in the nation. What if I try it against a not state in the nation? And so he's doing it again. He declared a crime emergency, hilarious phrase, in the District of Columbia, so Washington DC. And he's vowed to deploy, I don't know if he's done it yet, but I think maybe he's just penned it. Uh uh the National Guard to help police and like solve the homeless problem and some other things in Washington DC. So that's pretty bad because Washington DC doesn't have a they're not a state and they do have a mayor but basically the president is the governor of DC in the same sense. So he is allowed to deploy National Guard for that. Uh he does have to declare an emergency. This is what he had to do. But people are out there just working their day-to-day lives and living their lives and they don't actually think that there's an emergency out there.

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Mike Smith: In fact, just today, the Legal Eagle had he was live on the ground in DC just filming himself. He's like, "Look at all this lawlessness." And it's like mothers pushing strollers with babies in there.
Nathan Brady: and and of course as we all understood going up to this it would it very strange because crime in DC was actually at an all-time low.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um, so the the one counter, right?
Mike Smith: And it's been falling historically.
Nathan Brady: And the one counter I wanted somebody to ask, I wanted a reporter to ask was, "Wait, so you mean to tell me that since you've taken over uh in DC that crime is up and now we need the
Mike Smith: Some stuff's happened.
Nathan Brady: National Guard?" But
Mike Smith: Some things big balls.
Nathan Brady: no, the reality the reality is uh Big Balls goes out and gets his ass kicked by a bunch of teenagers or whatever. um and suddenly we're calling in the National Guard, right?
Mike Smith: Oh, okay.
Nathan Brady: I mean, it was a it was obviously just uh one of the many excuses that Trump used um to just spread his authoritarian overreach.

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Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: And that's that's all this is, right? He's he wanted to see what he could get away with in LA. He didn't get away with as much as he had hoped.
Mike Smith: Basically got away with nothing in LA.
Nathan Brady: He I mean
Mike Smith: We'll move on to that in a moment. But he didn't he didn't get anything that he wanted out of LA other than making headlines about, you know, with his his ilk about how LA is unsafe and, you know, dangerous and violent and all this other stuff that LA is just simply not. Again, for listeners, we I live in Los Angeles.
Nathan Brady: yeah it's fine.
Mike Smith: Los Angeles is fine. Come and visit us. It's It's fine.
Nathan Brady: I mean, it's it's fine.
Mike Smith: If you're a baby or you're Stephen Miller, don't visit LA because you're gonna get your head cracked.
Nathan Brady: Don't visit LA. If you're JD Vance, who for some reason only vacations Yeah.
Mike Smith: JD Vans, come back to Disneyland.

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Mike Smith: I loved you getting booed there.
Nathan Brady: who he for some reason he only vacations in blue states. Um he's looking forward to going to Hawaii. He's uh um been to He was just in California, right, at Disneyland.
Mike Smith: Yeah, he went to Disneyland.
Nathan Brady: Um you know, he he I don't know.
Mike Smith: Why not go to Disney World?
Nathan Brady: I don't know.
Mike Smith: Go to your pe like you won't get booed there.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Isn't that Yeah.
Mike Smith: Does he just have like a fetish for uh for being humiliated and yelled at?
Nathan Brady: Um I don't know.
Mike Smith: Is he one of those guys?
Nathan Brady: It's possible that he is. But so I want to I want to point out some things here for listeners that may not really understand how ridiculous this is.
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: It is one thing to call in the National Guard to help sweep out those ghettos, which is a thing that it's a it's a it's a Saturday Night Live phrase that always comes into my mind when I hear Trump doing s*** like this.

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Nathan Brady: But it's one thing to deploy 800 National Guard troops to start patrolling through the streets of Washington DC and have really no clue what the f*** they're doing and have people laughing and pointing fingers at them.
Mike Smith: Well, that's the other thing.
Nathan Brady: But the they're not trained they're not trained in any of this, right?
Mike Smith: They're not they're not trained to do any of that. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: But the other but the people who are trained in this is is the other really unusual um highly controversial move that Trump took was taking over direct federal control of the DC police. So that's that's the thing that people should be even more concerned about.
Mike Smith: Right. Right.
Nathan Brady: Not that the guy called in the National Guard and he didn't when the Capitol building was getting overrun.
Mike Smith: Well, yeah.
Nathan Brady: Uh but right, but he called when when big balls got hurt.
Mike Smith: when when there was a treason happening uh I'll need to uh check this.
Nathan Brady: Um that's I mean sure that's concerning, but I think the really concerning thing is taking over direct federal control of the DC police force.

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Mike Smith: This is something that I think is true as of my reading as of few hours ago. But I believe he wanted to take over DC. But I believe that DC is still uh their police force is still under their own jurisdiction and control. But they're being they're receiving orders from up above and maybe we'll follow along with them, but I don't think that they're like forced to play along. That that was my last under that was the last thing I heard about it, but I but I could be wrong about that.
Nathan Brady: Okay. Okay. I mean, um I I think we're splitting hairs, but you know, according to the AP, he has at least begun the takeover with what whatever that means as of, you know, August 12th at 6:13 p.m.
Mike Smith: Splitting hairs there, but Okay.
Nathan Brady: Um maybe Oh, no.
Mike Smith: Oh, that was literally 40 minutes ago. Okay, never mind.
Nathan Brady: I I said August 12th, but Yeah.
Mike Smith: Oh, 12th. Oh, yeah.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Okay.

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Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Well, I don't know.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah. Um, so I don't know. I don't I you know, uh I don't know if it's the the fact is is that he's trying. He's got his hands and everything.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: He employed the National Guard. He is seeing again what he can get away with and he's getting it's harder to push back in DC than it was in in LA and that's why he's doing it.
Mike Smith: So, let me ask you this, Nate.
Nathan Brady: Okay. All right.
Mike Smith: What What's the end game here? You take over DC. Next step, go.
Nathan Brady: Well, okay. So, I'm gonna preface this by taking a quick sidestep and talking about Trump firing the uh the head of the National Labor Statistics, right?
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: The one that that comes out and says, "Hey, um here's what the unemployment numbers are."
Mike Smith: Yep.
Nathan Brady: Because he didn't like the unemployment numbers, right?
Mike Smith: Right. Right.

00:25:53

Nathan Brady: So he so he hired a guy who uses, you know, whose background is Hitler's favorite ship, um who is willing to uh fudge the numbers to whatever he likes so that the propaganda machine runs nice and smooth and
Mike Smith: Right. Right.
Nathan Brady: Trump can say, "Look, everything's going great." So the the sidestep of that is to say the next crime report that comes out is going to show that whatever he's doing in DC is is working dramatically. And it means that the the the Fed and I I don't mean the banks. I mean, you know, the White House and and the US government should take over more control of local police. So, I think that what he's doing here, the endgame is to spread, just like everything he does, is to spread his authoritarian reach, right?
Mike Smith: So you think this is his Okay, so this is his uh his trial run at trying to take over important cities.
Nathan Brady: What else would it be? I mean, why else would you do this?
Mike Smith: I don't know.

00:27:02

Mike Smith: I would I that's what I'm saying is I don't see a clear path to victory on anything. And and I I listen to what you're saying here and I I see that. But okay, you've taken over municipal policing for large cities. Let's say you do get New York and Los Angeles and Houston and whatever. What then? Why do we care?
Nathan Brady: Yeah. I mean I mean listen listen isn't isn't that what it is?
Mike Smith: You're just going to start lining people up and hanging them from the rafters? Probably not. I mean, what what is the end game?
Nathan Brady: It's about fear, power, control, right?
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: So you if there's police all over the place, okay, and those police are loyal to the Supreme Leader of the United States, are you think you're going to go out with your um Pete Buddhajge sign?
Mike Smith: Right. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Uh you think you're going to you're going to be knocking on doors canvasing for Gavin Newsome? Um it's it's it's a way to maintain power and control.

00:28:04

Nathan Brady: That's all it is.
Mike Smith: Okay. But I mean, I don't really see that working in practice. I do think that you're going to see people carrying people signs and knocking on doors for Newsome. I don't really think that they're they just they'd be stretched too thin. They would need enough people on the ground because you saw it even even the other day. I'm going to bring it up and I hope you have it handy because I certainly didn't put it in the notes.
Nathan Brady: Oh, here we go.
Mike Smith: But you got the guy who threw the sandwich at the FBI agent and I'm just like that's you're going to have that across the country.
Nathan Brady: What?
Mike Smith: How are you going to police every little nuisance person who does that while other people while you're also have this secret job of stopping people from canvasing and and and going out knocking doors for the next presidential candidate or you know the midterm you know uh representative senators candidacies? I don't I don't know man.

00:28:57

Nathan Brady: And you and you understand that that guy that that that man has been charged with assaulting a federal officer.
Mike Smith: Yes, his words. That's I I read it. It's it's going to be big.
Nathan Brady: So, but but the point being what now?
Mike Smith: But there are always going to be people who do that.
Nathan Brady: Sure. Until there isn't until you control the entire judicial branch and people are getting life sentences for keying a Tesla, you know, it's it's funny. I understand like it's funny to think about, but you have to realize this is actually affecting people. This will affect people in DC.
Mike Smith: I'm not saying it's not going to affect people to be completely clear here.
Nathan Brady: This will affect I I Okay.
Mike Smith: I'm just saying like I I don't see it moving the needle enough in terms of control for them to gain anything meaningfully from it. Now, having said that, I see a different endgame in mind that that may be crazier than your end game.
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: Okay.

00:29:56

Nathan Brady: Okay. Okay.
Mike Smith: Um during elections you have to have the House and the Senate convene with members to come and and you know count the votes ostensibly the electoral college and put them in place. Well now if you're controlling all the DC now now now I believe it like oh we had to detain this guy because you know Senator who's because whatever.
Nathan Brady: You're Yeah, you're getting to the same end game though, right?
Mike Smith: Oh, it turns out he's he's got 40 grams of uh you know, not meth. What's the what's the drug that they hate?
Nathan Brady: Uh um um um fentinyl.
Mike Smith: Fentanyl.
Nathan Brady: But but you're you're getting you're getting Yes.
Mike Smith: Yeah, exactly. And so we had to lock him up and he can't make this vote because he's been dy arrested.
Nathan Brady: I think we we see though the same endgame, which is retain power. My thing is I don't think if if I'm just thinking that this is what's Donald Trump's endgame, then yeah. I mean, Donald Trump's a f****** idiot.

00:30:57

Nathan Brady: like he didn't, you know, this isn't him coming up with all of this, but this is Steven Miller and people who are unfortunately smarter and more conniving and coordinated than Donald Trump is.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: And I think it's not just this. I think it's what you're seeing in Texas with redistric redistricting.
Mike Smith: Right. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I think you're going to start to see all of these tiny things that are popping up that is about spreading the authoritarian reach of the president. And it's more than just h we'll we'll we'll fix the voting at, you know, in DC. It's fixing the voting everywhere. It's make making people uh more scared to throw a a banana at an FBI agent when we should be throwing bananas and laughing at these people. It's going to make people more scared to post pictures of ICE agents. You know, it's it's things like that that eventually lead to one vote, one person not voting, 10 people not voting, 100,000 people's votes not counting, that kind of stuff.
Mike Smith: Right.

00:32:02

Nathan Brady: And then suddenly you have a a third Trump turn. Now, I think Trump's gonna I don't think Trump's going to make it.
Mike Smith: You think he's going to Oh, you mean health-wise? You don't mean think he's going to bungle it to the point?
Nathan Brady: I health-wise, yeah, I don't think Trump's gonna make 2028. I mean, if if I were if I were a betting guy, I would say um but they're but they're setting up for their party, their America first, you know,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: basically neo-Nazi party to regain control. And I think that's what's gonna happen.
Mike Smith: Yikes.
Nathan Brady: That's what I mean. I'm sorry, but like how can you not how can you not look at where we were eight years ago and see the trajectory that we're on and think that this is basically the worst of it. I mean, I couldn't have imagined this eight years ago, everything that's going on right now, just like kind of you couldn't imagine what AI is doing. And I think we're we're the trajectory that we're on right now if nobody stops this from happening is uh unimaginable.

00:32:56

Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: So yeah, yeah.
Mike Smith: Well, it's imaginable. We just don't like I hate it.
Nathan Brady: Um anyway, sorry I got I got I got sidetracked. I got sidetracked.
Mike Smith: I hate it. What is Ken Paxton doing in uh in Texas?
Nathan Brady: Let's talk. You want to talk about what Ken Paxton's doing in Texas?
Mike Smith: Well, you brought it up. I think it's important to talk about.
Nathan Brady: Okay. All right. Let me pull that up because, you know, I do know that we wanted to talk about uh what we're doing to stop Trump in some places like LA, but let's No, let's start here.
Mike Smith: Why don't you call that? Okay. What are what?
Nathan Brady: Let's start with uh let's start with Ken.
Mike Smith: Okay, let's let's cover Paxton really quick and then we'll come back to that.
Nathan Brady: Okay. So, what's going on here?
Mike Smith: Well, Ken Paxton. Okay, so there's a legislative body in Texas as with most states going to be state representatives and they're the same sort of idea as representatives at the federal level.

00:34:03

Mike Smith: their elected representation for your various districts in your state. Um, and then they make choices that affect all of Texas. Texas after redrawing the map uh their electoral map uh a few years ago, I want to say very maybe it was even less than that. Uh we're given an order from Daddy that a new map needed to be drawn because he's afraid of losing the House of Representatives in 2020. uh six in the mids.
Nathan Brady: Right. This is this is a an a mid decade uh redistricting which is I guess they do it every decade. So this is not a normal thing. Right.
Mike Smith: Right. Right. It's shouldn't have been done.
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: It should not be done.
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: And the Republicans tried to pass the new map uh basically in the middle of the night so that they couldn't vote. They they had to vote on it. They couldn't debate it and the public wouldn't know about it. and they had the the enough votes to pass it.

00:35:05

Mike Smith: However, Texas has an interesting rule and it's important that we note that it's a rule and not a law. A rule at the legislature that they must have a quorum which means that they must have half half plus one people present to make any vote. The Democrats basically not being able to do that jump ship and left town. May maybe the quorum is actually 66% because otherwise why would they leave? Um and so all the Democrats instead of showing up to vote left town.
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: They they fled to Los Angeles and Illinois and maybe New York. Hard it's hard to remember exactly which Democrat states they they fled to, but they basically said you can't vote if we're not there. It's in the Texas Constitution. Good luck. And they basically forced their hand. So Ken Paxton had sued. He's suing all of these states, but notably Carol, Carolina, California, and um Illinois to try and what's even the word, Nate? He's trying to get them to deport these Texas Republic or uh is that the word?

00:36:15

Nathan Brady: literally deport, right?
Mike Smith: What is it called?
Nathan Brady: I mean, oh, oh, extradite, right?
Mike Smith: When when somebody commits a crime and then they flee overseas and you ask them to come back like extradite. He's asking these states to extradite these, you know, legallyapp appointed representatives of Texas state back to Texas. And first of all, I mean, California's response was just hilarious. They were just like, "What? No, get out of here." And
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah.
Mike Smith: then they dismissed it. They're just like, "No." But it Illinois allowed the suit to continue. And then today, uh, a judge was like, "Well, no, you're an idiot. Right.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Uh and and thank goodness. So I want to give an update for people who have been following it and got a little nervous today or yesterday when they saw that it had passed. it passed the the Senate in Texas. So, in order for it to become law, it has to pass uh the the House in Texas.

00:37:11

Nathan Brady: And these are are basically House Democrats in Texas that are still absent from the state.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: So, so they are still in a standoff until uh those Democrats decide to show back show back up.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: And I think there is some deadline. So, right. So, they're they're trying to stay past They're trying to stay away past this deadline.
Mike Smith: Well, okay.
Nathan Brady: Um, I forget, you know, I don't have it in front of me. Um, right.
Mike Smith: You know how the legislators are at local, state, and federal levels. They basically work two months a year and then they have vacation. So, there's going to be some deadline where they all agreed this is the end of our legislative work and now we party and then they go off and do whatever they want. Um, so I'm guessing that's the deadline, but I'm I'm not really
Nathan Brady: Okay. So, it's Yeah. So, what we what I see here at least is it's not really a deadline like a fixed statutory deadline, but there's a that they are having a special session to address the redistricting and it's scheduled to end on the 19th.

00:38:10

Nathan Brady: Um, so they can extend it if they want, but it's scheduled to be like, "All right, uh, didn't we we couldn't get it passed on the 19th, where the um speaker of the house in Texas has set a deadline for Democrats to return by this Friday." Of course. What does that mean? Um which I don't care about your f****** deadline.
Mike Smith: Yeah, sounds like you've got a deadline.
Nathan Brady: Um and of course Yeah. And you know um the of course Republicans are very excited about this because it's set to um uh gives them five more seats but shuts down people like uh Jasmine Crockett, right?
Mike Smith: gives him five more seats in the Right.
Nathan Brady: Because that means her district would be affected by this.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Um, right.
Mike Smith: She get she her district gets split into two other Republicans. So you're like that's not how this should work at all.
Nathan Brady: That ain't it. And of course, now we've seen Gavin Newsome and other um other governors of large states say, "Well, you don't want to do this. You

00:39:11

Nathan Brady: don't want to tangle with us because, well, we'll offset you and then pick up more." And
Mike Smith: Yeah, that's the So, I I have to I have to harp on that for one second. So, California, let's I mean, how many reps does California have? Nate, you're going to be my stats guy, but I I I just want to point out that California is, you know, one of the largest states in the nation and we don't really jerrymander our maps very hard except
Nathan Brady: Um, well, it's
Mike Smith: for like the coast cities around Southern California. But once they go inland, we're just like, "Yeah, yeah, you got Redlands, you've got the Riverside, you got blah blah blah." and we just sort of ignore those. But you could really easily break those up to be instead of like 12 red districts, it's nine blue districts and three red districts. And they just haven't done it because that's sort of the nuclear option.
Nathan Brady: So what's hilarious what's right and what's really funny is the only reason to ever look briefly at the Nazi site is to watch those people arguing with Grock because when Grock shares information with them that they don't like because it's an AI it aggregates information and it gives factual information based on its sources and then I watch them in just a thread arguing back and forth with a robot.

00:40:20

Nathan Brady: It's hilarious. But one of the things that was great was uh I saw a user a you know a blue check lot of follower user say well is is California uh districts even fair?
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: And then Grock was like actually California is one of the fairest districts in the state in in the country by doing this this and this. California regularly draws lines that are fair to blah blah blah. And I was like, ah. And of course he argued for like, you know, yeah, fix this.
Mike Smith: Then you added Elon and you said, "Grock's being woke again. Daddy, come and fix him." You
Nathan Brady: And then it started spewing calling itself Mecca Hitler again. But it is hilarious to watch these guys argue with the AI robot, especially especially when it's giving them just factual information.
Mike Smith: can tell by the last name of Brady that this man is with the robot.
Nathan Brady: Um, right.
Mike Smith: That's the problem again. And we we said this in the last episode, but we live in a postfact society.

00:41:17

Mike Smith: And and for some people, their brains can't handle that. There's the one side of people like like us where I just I state a fact to somebody and they they go, "Well, that's not true." And you go, "I don't need to talk to that person anymore and you live your life." But then there are people who who live in that bubble of like you told me a fact and I'm not an expert on that and I don't believe you. I'm like, "Why live your life that way?"
Nathan Brady: I had something that happened the other day. I'm going to be a little bit vague about it and maybe I won't maybe I won't be vague about it.
Mike Smith: All right. All right. Hit me.
Nathan Brady: I play I play poker. Um I mentioned on the blue sky I like I like to play a lot I like to play a lot of poker.
Mike Smith: We We've talked about that on the podcast.
Nathan Brady: I you know um that's what I first did when I came to California.

00:41:51

Nathan Brady: My my my poor way of contributing to society. Um is and so I'm I'm at I'm playing at a home game and they the dealer does something wrong, right? And I go, "Hey, as somebody who used to be who, you know, who used to work in the casinos, etc., I said,"Hey, that's not how you're supposed to do that." So,
Mike Smith: Hat.
Nathan Brady: the person who was running the home game, this is a a no rake home game. Nothing illegal going on here. No drugs or anything like that, okay guys?
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Call on the up and up. Don't come after us. Um, the person who the person who had invited everybody over says, "Well, what's the right way to do it?" And I said, 'Well, here's the right way, and here's the information that backs it. And they go, they look at it, they read it, they listen, they understand the argument, and they go, "Well, we're going to keep doing it our way." And I go, "Okay." So, and and this is what we're dealing with when somebody says, when these people who we're arguing with go, "Give me the facts."

00:42:51

Nathan Brady: And we go, you're like, "You don't have any facts." And I go, "Actually, here's 415 studies." Um, and you know, there there's literally I can't find one source that says what you're saying. Um, and but but here's the facts. And they go, "Well, I don't I don't believe it. Uh, I'm just going to yeah, fake news.
Mike Smith: Thank you.
Nathan Brady: I'm just going to live my own way." And then you go, "All right, forget forget it then. I don't need you in my life." Uh, but that's literally what we're dealing with. And that's all that X is right now. And that's why it's hilarious to see Grock literally all it's doing I think the majority of the resources the CPU usage that comes out of Grock is fighting with it used to be us right it used to be
Mike Smith: It used to be us. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: me you and several other left-leaning people on Twitter arguing with these people and now they're just arguing with Grock and it is kind of funny to watch I'm just I'm just Um, so what else we got?

00:43:42

Mike Smith: We don't like to laugh at them very much.
Nathan Brady: Oh, can I can I can I share something?
Mike Smith: You got to share it.
Nathan Brady: Um, just because I got a notification on the repost of this that said Jesus f****** Christ.
Mike Smith: Let's share. All right.
Nathan Brady: Um, I want to share that the Trump administration is trying to replace PBS with Prager University.
Mike Smith: No, they're not.
Nathan Brady: Um, they are they are and this is this is from Brian Tyler Cohen. Um there's reputable sources that and this is obvious obviously a Stephen Miller thing. They are trying to make Prager University as you already know they've got like special press passes now. They're trying to put it into the curriculum of uh you know that they're trying to get it in the schools. They're trying to get it into the education system. They're trying to get it into um public broadcasting. I just want to play this clip. This is just this is just insane. So, here's the Tennessee Holler.

00:44:46

Nathan Brady: By the way, if you don't follow the Tennessee Hauler, please do. It's a lot of local Tennessee news, but it's also a lot of national news, and they do a fantastic job.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Um, we get a lot of their of our national news from them. But, but here here's a an example of a clip that we would be that would become part of public broadcasting, assuming Prager University becomes a part of it, right?
Nathan Brady's Presentation: Slavery is as old as time and has taken place in every corner of the world, even amongst people I just left. Being taken as a slave is better than being killed. No. Before you judge, you must ask yourself, what did the culture and society of the time treat as no big deal? Slavery is as old as time.
Mike Smith: God heaven.
Nathan Brady: What the f***? So that's what we're dealing with.
Mike Smith: Okay, a couple moral quandies for me here if you don't mind.
Nathan Brady: Do well did you think about it?
Mike Smith: Slaver sla slavery is better than being murdered, right?

00:45:52

Mike Smith: Better than being killed.
Nathan Brady: Probably not for a lot of people and it's worse and that's why a lot of slaves took the the other option.
Mike Smith: Well, let's I mean, one of them you're alive, right? Okay. So, what if I'm a slave and I kill my enslaver though?
Nathan Brady: But anyway, I that wasn't covered in the video.
Mike Smith: Like, where does that fall on the whole who's worse? Me or my enslaver? Darn. Darn.
Nathan Brady: Yeah, I don't I I I don't know if I can help you there. I'm sorry. That wasn't Oh, sorry.
Mike Smith: A lot of this stuff doesn't hold up to any reason to Oh, good. Now we're speaking of reason, here he is. JFK or RFK Junior's here. Um, I just I just wanted to point out where they're like he's like, "Slavery was okay in a lot of different like sure, but I don't give a s*** anymore. Slavery
Nathan Brady: I didn't mean to cut you off. No big deal.

00:46:43

Mike Smith: is bad now and we should teach that." And he's like, "No, no, no. You need to teach that slavery.
Nathan Brady: No, ask instead. Ask yourself, wasn't it no big deal? f****** hell. Um, RFK Jr. learns he is not also Denmark's HHS secretary. Did you know that?
Mike Smith: That's a That's a headline.
Nathan Brady: That's a headline.
Mike Smith: I love it.
Nathan Brady: What happened here?
Mike Smith: RFK Jr. is on a tour where he goes to places and he speaks to people and he just puts his foot in his mouth, which honestly sounds better than his regular voice, which is nice.
Nathan Brady: Okay, that's that's fair.
Mike Smith: God, I can't help it. I just every I I think his voice is somehow just stuck in my brain and I just can't I can't get rid of it. It It keeps me up at night. Anyway, so he he wanted this report this uh he publishes in an op-ed earlier in the month where he demanded the retraction of a study published in the annals of internal medicine.

00:47:47

Mike Smith: Um obviously it was a Danish vaccine study and he basically calls it a bunch of hogwash.
Nathan Brady: It was a Danish vaccine study.
Mike Smith: He doesn't back that up with anything. He just says that it's propaganda, but it's a stunt by the pharmaceutical industry and it's just nonsense.
Nathan Brady: Sure. Yeah. Okay.
Mike Smith: And so he demanded that they take it down.
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: And it turns out that Denmark doesn't have to listen to him in his weird voice.
Nathan Brady: and and they so they didn't comply.
Mike Smith: So they didn't comply.
Nathan Brady: Wow.
Mike Smith: I love it.
Nathan Brady: I love that.
Mike Smith: Isn't that great?
Nathan Brady: I love that for them. Um it sounds like Denmark just continues to follow its own vaccine policies which are currently better uh than than ours. Um so hey
Mike Smith: Yeah, we are getting to the point where you may need Do you remember uh what did we call it? Oh my god, I feel like this was like 90s and 2000s era, but but people would take vacations to foreign countries to get their medical care taken care of.

00:48:45

Mike Smith: There was like a term for that, but I don't remember what it was. Like a medievation or something. I I don't remember. But I think we're getting back to that where people are going to be like, I don't want the medicine here. I'm going to go to the place where they believe in science.
Nathan Brady: All right.
Mike Smith: No. Yes.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: No. Yes.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Wow. Um I would I would I would like him to um disappear um legally. I mean from Yeah, that's what I mean.
Mike Smith: I just want him to go away. I I liked him better when he wasn't in the spotlight. Uh, but I I feel that way about a lot of the people that I want to be that person again.
Nathan Brady: I want to be who I was before I heard him speak for the first time.
Mike Smith: I want to be able to sleep at night without my my sleep paralysis demon sitting over me with speaking in his voice.

00:49:31

Nathan Brady: I want to be that, right? I I would love that. Oh, I would love that.
Mike Smith: Ah, that would just be great.
Nathan Brady: What What else we got today? Is there anything else we want to cover before we let these poor souls go?
Mike Smith: I I think the only thing is maybe a scam. Do you want to do a scan?
Nathan Brady: Yeah, let's do a scam.
Mike Smith: Let's do a scam. Okay.
Nathan Brady: Okay, I'm I'm ready to do a scam.
Mike Smith: You ready to do a scan?
Nathan Brady: I think you're talking Are you talking about the ICE scam? Because I think that's pretty funny.
Mike Smith: I'm talking about an ice scam, baby. You want to do an ICE scan?
Nathan Brady: Okay. All right. I'm going to sadly share a Fox News uh story here. But over a 100,000 Americans rush to join Trump's massive ICE hiring spree nationwide.
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: Uh but then okay so far not good but then what then what's happening

00:50:16

Mike Smith: So, so far bad, not good. However, upside the upside is that apparently uh they are in such need of applicants that they're willing to give a signing bonus of up to $50,000 uh to to to entrance who make it through and become ICE agents. Now, I haven't seen the contents of a contract for working for ICE. However, the scam works like this. You sign up, get your 50 grand. When you make it through the physical and you can, you know, waddle downhill and all that, then you quit. Easy. 50k
Nathan Brady: I mean, okay, so I'm going to push back a little bit on this because from what I what I understand um from Reddit and other places is that the hiring process is actually a lot more rigorous. then, hey, I signed up. I answered some questions. Um, and then I got my money. So, first of all, if you're out there thinking of doing this, go for it as long as you don't actually join ICE or or get that bag.

00:51:27

Mike Smith: Get that bag.
Nathan Brady: But also the idea that anybody from the United States government under Trump's government is going to give me money for any reason when they say they're going to give me money. Very hard to believe. Um I mean very hard to believe I would ever actually see this 50k bonus.
Mike Smith: Sure. Sure.
Nathan Brady: But the hiring process, it's got to involve background checks. Uh you know, well, sure.
Mike Smith: I can pass a background check.
Nathan Brady: Sure. But I mean, I'm just I'm just saying there's there's a lot more to this. Background checks, interviews. I don't know if they do polygraphs. I've seen some people say that they do polygraphs. Um I'm I'm just saying a lot of people don't want to be in the position of how do you feel about the United States of America right now or something like that, you know?
Mike Smith: But you you and you and I you know we can pass a polygraph test. That's not really the problem.

00:52:20

Nathan Brady: Um I'm Um, so I understand.
Mike Smith: I could lie through my teeth for that. 50 grand's not nothing, man. I'm just saying. Don't scam the government. We are not giving advice to scam the government. Instead, you should like and subscribe.
Nathan Brady: Yeah, do that instead.
Mike Smith: Leave a comment.
Nathan Brady: You're not going to get 50 grand for it. Um, but neither are we.
Mike Smith: I will post. I will reply to your comment with the dollar amount of $50,000. That's That's it.
Nathan Brady: I've seen I love those scams on like Instagram and Tik Tok where um somebody is like selling their course for like how to be whatever the best uh affiliate marketer or the best you know whatever and they're like if you want my free guide just comment guide below and then there's 450,000 people that comment guide you know and then the response is sent you a DM f****** What what a time we live in. So anyway, comment
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: guide in our uh in our if you want a guide on how to I don't know what what are we good at?

00:53:25

Nathan Brady: Are we good at anything?
Mike Smith: Ranting about politics and and occasionally some tech stuff.
Nathan Brady: All right. Yeah. Uh so if you want a guide on tech and AI and politics stuff, comment guide below. Uh but also like and subscribe.
Mike Smith: That would be great.
Nathan Brady: Um, and get that bag if you can legally legally legally.
Mike Smith: Legally, consult a lawyer if you're confused.
Nathan Brady: Um, consult a lawyer. Don't re This is not legal advice. This is not financial advice. Uh, get that bag though, I guess. Um, Mike, anything else you want to say today?
Mike Smith: I'm happy to be back. I hope you're I'm glad you I'm glad you all spent some time with us today.
Nathan Brady: I'm glad you're back. Um, I think this is episode 59 of the blue sedition. I mean 49 49 of the Blues Edition podcast. Um so our next episode will be the big 5. Um I don't Do we have anything special planned?
Mike Smith: Maybe alive. I don't know.
Nathan Brady: Maybe a live Oh, maybe a live one.
Mike Smith: We'll talk we'll talk it over.
Nathan Brady: That that would be good. Yeah, let's do a live stream.
Mike Smith: Yeah, we'll kick it around and we'll figure it out.
Nathan Brady: Uh we'll figure it. We'll do something. We'll do something for you guys. Um so anyway, thanks for joining us. Be sure to hit the like and subscribe button, comment, guide, or whatever the hell you want below, and we'll catch you next time. Bye, everyone.
Mike Smith: Thanks everybody.
Nathan Brady: Okay, we did do it, didn't we?
Mike Smith: You did it. Way to go. Way to go. I always believed in us. Well,