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In the aftermath of the 2024 election, America is even more divided than before. Half the country fears the end of democracy and the other half welcomes it. As America inches toward the brink of authoritarian rule, now more than ever, we must force ourselves to have the necessary conversation. Welcome to the necessary conversation. I'm Chad Culchin. With me is my sister Haley Pope, fellow lefty. You were out protesting this week. I saw. Yes, we'll get to that. Also joining me are my mom and dad deep in the QAnon MAGA conspiracy pit. You worship Donald Trump as a god. And we are going to talk about hopefully today the six top political issues of the week. If we can get to all of them, I do hope we can because they were all important. Uh, but before we do that, Mom, you usually open with diddies, but this week you have sent me a special file. Okay, I'll talk real quick about this. Uh, I did this several times because someone unfortunately forgot to tell me vertical or hor horizontal. I told you vertical the entire time. Told you vertical since day one. What? Told you vertical since day one. Oh, okay. Then I didn't listen. I'm just terrible. I'm terrible person. I didn't listen. Also, I had no help filming. Hello. I had to do it when he was asleep. Hello. Because if I touch the Trumpy bear, he gets very angry. So, I did this all on my own. There you go. Can you explain what the Trumpy bear is? They'll see it in the video. They should. The video I'm using is the first one you sent me. It's the best performance. Um, Trump's not in there. No, explain Trumpy Bear. Trumpy Bear is a bear that we bought. It's Trumpy Bear. Can I go get Trumpy Bear just to show him? No, he'll get mad. Okay, go ahead. All right, so my mom is musically inclined and this is a rap song that she made kind of in support of Trump and everything that went on this past week. Are you ready? Is this the hat backwards one? No. Here we go. Oh, okay. Words by me. Beats by Chad. I thought the red. My name is Patriot Money and I'm back by popular demand. I'll try to serenade you the best I can. Adam. Adam Muffler. You can't even rap. So don't make fun of me or my fam or I might have to tap. All you do is reviews of old clips. Cuz if that's all you can bring, then you're full of [ __ ] Greenland will soon be celebrating days. They will be happy coming our way to secure and peaceful USA. Greenland will be ours. USA. USA. They will be celebrating happier days. Tariffs are up on us all. People are alarmed. But give it some time. Give it some trust. We will be so much better and fine in time. Fine in time. This is not my own those Teslas. Keep cleaning them all up. Your ass will look nice and pretty. All striped up and locked up. 20 years in jail without Sleepy Joe's bail. Striped and locked up. Trumpy Bear is the man. 45, 47, and 48. That's when we will truly be great. Our country will be made strong. Peace will come again. It's been way, way too long. Trumpy 48. If you think you can do better, then bring us your rap. If not, just shut your mouth and give me no more crap. Shout out to my patriots. Jumbo video. Mom, lady in pink, Edie, Files, Pennsylvania. Mom, Dale B and Janice. I love you all. Love is all that matters. Peace out. The end. Okay, that was not my best one. No, I agree. You've done better raps in the past. Maybe we'll get another one in the future. you. No, this was the best performance by far. Um, I need to explain quickly. Who is Adam Mockler? Mom, you're trying to start a beef with him. He is a leftleaning YouTuber who talks about politics that did cover some of our early Tik Toks uh maybe like a month ago or something and now you have beef with him. Yeah. Well, I saw part he mentioned our family in one of his uh YouTube clips and it wasn't very nice and he made fun of us. So, how old is he? Let's see his rap. 20 something. And all he all he really does is replay clips of things that people say and then rips them apart. Yeah. All right. Well, Adam Mockler, if you're out there, if you're listening, my mom hates you. If anybody else out there, I said bring me a rap. We hate him. I do not hate him. My dad hates you. We hate him. Okay, let's uh move on. Thank you for that rap, Mom. It was great. I will put on He's a loser. You don't even know him. Be quiet. Doesn't matter. Okay. Okay. Uh we also like to start our program with a question from a listener. If you have a question that you want to send to any of us or to all of us, just record it in a one minute or shorter audio or video format. I do give preference to video formats and send it to the necessary conversation [email protected]. Are you ready for this week's question? Mom, are you leaving? I'm ready. I can hear you. I have to sit her down. Okay. Are you ready, Dad? Oh, yeah. Here we go. Hi, Culture family. Jason here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Today, my question is about admitting when you've been wrong. Admittedly, this is not easy to do. However, I think it's a really important part about being a mature adult. So, what are all of your thoughts about admitting when you've been wrong? And secondly, has there been a moment recently that you've been able to do that? Curious about your answers and I hope you're all doing well. Take care. All right, an interesting question. I could go first on this one. I was wrong recently, I would say, about two things. One, I really did think Kla Harris and Tim Waltz were going to win that election. I thought that it was kind of an overwhelming surge of support for them when she first was uh announced financially and otherwise. And obviously I was completely wrong about that. I would also say that I was wrong about Elon Musk. I thought that he was like a good guy who was here to save us with technology. I now know I was wrong. Haley, uh mine isn't political at all. Um, I admit that I'm wrong quite a bit in this house because I'm a parent and there are times where like I'll raise my voice or I'll yell at the kids and it's out of, you know, my life is stressful and these are the people that I see every day. So, they kind of get everything that I've got. Um, so I apologize to my kids and my husband for um, you know, like I shouldn't have done that. I shouldn't have raised my voice. I'm sorry. Apologizing for things that you do when you're dickish is very important and I want my kids to learn that lesson. So, we apologize when we're wrong, for sure. Mom, I don't know. I don't know what I've done wrong lately. Okay. Um, have you ever been wrong in your life? Of course. Every day I'm probably wrong on things. Okay. Yeah. But you can't think of a specific one? Not really like a big one. Um, okay. When we first started the podcast, I thought nobody would listen to this, but five people. I guess I'm right. We got about five listeners. I don't know. I I don't know. Me and Kitty, we don't know that. We don't know. Yeah, I was wrong when I uh thought that uh Trump would do 45 and 47. He's also going to do 48. Okay. So, you're not able to admit something you've been wrong about. Oh, yeah. I'm wrong. I thought he'd be done at at 47. I'm wrong. He's going to make it to 48. Okay. So, you just kind of refuse to engage with the question then. What is something you've been you asked question? I gave you a [ __ ] answer. But your answer is a future prediction. Oh, yeah. Therefore, you can't know if you're wrong about that or not. Well, I'm wrong because I thought 47 would be the end of it. Okay, he's gonna be 48. I I'll be honest. I heard I had to put Kitty down. I heard the question, but I didn't really get it. So, we're wrong about what? He asked if we're wrong about the future. Oh my god. He's Do you apologize when you are wrong? Do you admit? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I was wrong. He's going to be the 48th president. Yeah. So, the answer is no. You don't apologize. There's no There's no no. I We just said yes. Goddamn you [ __ ] don't even take what I say verbatim. You're not understanding the question or you're willfully ignoring the You're not understanding the question. Have you done Have you ever done anything terrible to let's say me or Chad or said anything that was wrong and then said you were sorry? Probably not. Exactly. Probably not. I'll say 100% never. Let's move on to our Mom. Are you here? You You're 100% full of [ __ ] All right, Mom. Are you there? I am right here. I'm with the Kit Kat. If you can just sit in the chair for the the hour that we do this. Guess what? I try, but she's right there. I'm afraid she's going to fall off the couch. Go ahead. Is dad watching TV? No. No. Is it on? It's in your glasses. I can literally [ __ ] see it. I'm not I'm not watching it, though. I'll turn it off. Thank you. It's all that I ask is one hour per week that we have a conversation with each other. You ask you ask a lot of [ __ ] What's some other [ __ ] that I've asked? I got to sit here for one hour and listen to you read. Okay. Well, you're going to have to listen to me read a little bit right now for our first topic. Yeah, there you go. Trump's tariffs. Power's off. Can you still see it in my glasses? I can. Well, it's not on, smarty. It's probably the computer. Maybe it's a computer, but I'm afraid I would function. All right, we got six topics. Let's get through these here. Tariffs. This week, Trump devastated the stock market again by announcing and implementing more tariffs against several significant trading partners of the US. Among those affected are China, who was seeing a 64% uh tariff on imports. The EU got a 20% tariff. Japan got 24%. All foreign cars and parts get a 25% tariff. And a baseline 10% tariff was applied to all imports from most other countries. While Trump was playing golfer at a Saudibbacked golf tournament, the stock market was crashing as a result of his tariffs. In the 48 hour period after he initiated them, $6.4 4 trillion was erased from the stock market as the Dow Jones fell by over 2200 points on Friday following a 1,679 point drop the previous day and the NASDAQ fell more than 20% from his December peak under Joe Biden. In response, JP Morgan raised the probability of a US recession from 40 to 60% indicating they think it is likely to happen. The last significant economic downturn in the US attributed to presidentially imposed tariffs occurred after the enactment of the Smoot Holly Tariff Act in 1930 which raised tariffs over 20,000 imported goods and exacerbates exacerbated something called the Great Depression. You're you're both gone now. No, I'm here. Where's he? God, I'm here. Where's dad? You guys are like wrangling [ __ ] kindergarteners. What the hell is he had to go to the bathroom? Okay. He can't pee before we start. I told him to. He did not. He not missing it. He can hear you go. Okay. Dad, how are these tariffs helping regular Americans? [Laughter] How are this insane? He's the one who complains about I got to sit here and listen to you for an hour every week. It's like he's not even here. Well, I can tell you I can tell you how they're not going to help me. So, all of my ingredients are going to go up by about 10%. That means I have I either have to find alternate sources, which is going to be next to impossible, or [ __ ] jack up my prices for people who already can't live in a home, can't feed their [ __ ] kids. So, small businesses are about to [ __ ] shatter. Mhm. Coco, like Coco, I think, is up 10 or 20%. Hang on. Hang on. Tell dad he doesn't get to speak unless he's sitting in that chair. I just told him that you don't get to speak unless you're in the chair and it's your turn and it's not your I tell you what, I just bought two pairs of Nikes online last night. Oh, just to stockpile, I guess. Yeah, they're my favorite. Well, you must be running in money. Yeah, they cost $50. Um, Dad, I want to ask you now. Tariffs, how how are these tariffs helping regular Americans? Well, what's going to happen is America is going to see their stock market drop for a little while. Then we're going to see $2 trillion worth of investment coming into the United States of America. And you will see the stock market at 50,000 within two years. All right. So, he erased $6 trillion worth of value of the stock market in 48 hours. So, if we get two trillion coming back, we're still down four trillion. What are you talking about? Two trillion. 6. You just said two trillion. at 6ion in investment. That's not what the stock market's going to do. Uhuh. Start's going to go to 50,000. It was at what 40. I've seen many Republicans saying that as a talking point and it may the last you hear many Republicans, you hear many economists on both sides saying that. Uh not JP Morgan. Oh, JP Morgan and old Mr. Diamond. Yeeha. I got money JP Morgan and they're one of the worst [ __ ] performers out there. The last time this happened was in what, the 1930s. Oh my god. Now you're going to go back to 1930. Do you think that the world and our economic economy is the same as it was in the 30s? How stupid [ __ ] How stupid am I? We're about to hit another great depression, [ __ ] Well, well, we're going and what got them out of the great become a nationalist country or we're going to become communists. And what got them? And if we become communist, you won't have a stock market was a [ __ ] world war. No, we won't. Okay. Trump had tariffs the very first. You've been talking World War on because of Trump since he took office. Your hair Wait a second. Wait a second. Both of you were talking World War II every week when Biden was in office. That's before Trump became reelected. Trump had tariffs the very first time, the first term. You like twisting [ __ ] when he was elected and it did nothing but strengthen our America back then. But it takes time. All you guys are freaking out. These tariffs won't be forever. Your idea of long term is six months. 50 countries have already called to him saying, "How can we make this right? Let's do this. Let's make this right. Let's make it fair." He was elected on this. He said he was going to do this. This is why people elected him and now he was elected. He was No, not everybody. Hang on. Hang on. He's whining about on always let Chad talk. Okay. Go ahead. He was elected on a promise to lower prices and costs for everyday Americans. So far, that ain't happening. It will take time with these will happen, Chad. I truly believe it'll happen. Eggs and gas are already cheaper. All right. When do you think the stock market and gas are already cheaper? Fact. Okay. Fact. Okay. When do you think it isn't happening? Right. It isn't happening. People's 401ks just got erased. Oh, now we're talking about 401k. We weren't talking about the stock market five minutes ago. Okay. Huh? And what did I tell you about the 401ks? Yeah, we were. What did I tell you about the 401ks? Tell me. No, we were talking about the price of eggs and gas and you jumped it right back to where you were to start with. So, you're so full of [ __ ] It's ridiculous. All right. The customs border people, you know, where things are coming in, going out. Yeah. United States, since the day that he put those tariffs on already, we're we are collecting $200 million a day. Mhm. He's doing this to make it fair trade for other countries against us and for us. Y'all don't get it. It's going to take time. It will be okay. I promise. And in the long run, we'll be making a lot more money for our country and everybody else. But then you won't celebrate him. It's just like you told me I'm going to lose my social security. I got a deal in the mail saying it's going to go up. All right. Well, we'll see. That's where we're at with the tariffs. Now, let's move on to our next topic. There we go. Wrongful deportation. This week, we found out that Trump wrongfully deported a 29-year-old El Salvadorian immigrant residing in Maryland named Kilmar Abrigo Garcia to the El Salvadorian mega prison known for human rights violations. Abrigo Garcia, married to a US citizen and father to a US-born child, had been granted protection from deportation in 2019 after an immigration judge recognized his credible fear of persecution by gangs in El Salvador. Trump's administration called the mistake an in quotes administrative error. US District Judge Paula Zenis ordered the Trump administration to facilitate Abrigo Garcia's return to the United States by 11:59 p.m. on April 7th. That is tomorrow night as of our recording on Sunday. However, officials including White House press secretary Caroline Levit lied about the US government lacking the authority to retrieve him from the El Salvadorian prison. And it seems they have no plans on correcting what they admit was an error on their part. Dad, does Kilmar Abrigo Garcia deserve to be in an El Salvadorian mega prison? Yes. Even though Why? He's a criminal. He's not. Absolutely not. M3. No, he's not. He's a gang. He's a gang member of the 13. He's not. No, he's not. Yeah, he used to be. How do you know this? Why did I read that? That's what How do you know? How do you [ __ ] know you don't? That's the Trump administration all over. He's tattooed all over hell with that stuff. Haley is tattooed from her chin to her toes. Yeah, but it doesn't say MS13 on it. Neither do his tattoos. Yeah, they do. All I've read I mean I read that it they all I've read is that our government is saying he was a member that he was a gang and that's why he's there. But then he and his wife are saying no he never was. So again you had to pick a side. I don't know. They doubt they made an error. If there's any doubt get them out. No but there is no doubt. The Trump administration has said this was wrong. It was an error. They admitted doing something wrong. The Trump administration can do what it wants. This is somebody's [ __ ] This is someone's the law and father. Read my lips. He's the law. Okay. No, but they've they even are admitting that they have then they'll bring him back. Then they'll bring him back. And what's your problem? No. They've said that they're not going to bring him back. Okay. And what's your problem? My problem is they can just snatch up anybody they want, send them to this mega prison, and never bring them back, even if they admit doing something wrong. Where is he from? Dad, I just have to ask you, can you are you capable of No, I not speaking over someone else questions without giving me a a question back. Where is he from? Maryland. No, he's not. Yes, he is. Where is he born and raised? irrelevant. Oh, it's irrelevant. Correct. It's very relevant. A US judge said he could stay here? I don't give a [ __ ] what a US judge said. So, you think everybody who lives in the United States that was born in a different country should [ __ ] leave? If they're not legal, you bet your ass. So, Elon Musk, pack them up and get them out. He's married to a United States citizen. Doesn't matter. It does matter. No, it doesn't. By law, that makes you legal here. No, that's the old law. The law is now Donald Trump's law. So whatever he decides, that's what's going to happen because you're either a nationalist and for America or you're a [ __ ] communist, which you and Chad are both communists. By your logic, you think any person not [ __ ] born here needs to leave. That's correct. They're baiting you. Okay. I don't give a [ __ ] where they're baiting me. These two don't have any bait. They're commu. They're communists. They're going to be deported to if they don't watch it. Wait a minute. Hang on, Dad. Why do you think me and Haley are communists? Because you're either a nationalist all for America or you're on the other side of the coin, which is headed towards communism in this country. Okay. Therefore, you and Haley are both You don't even realize you're [ __ ] communist, but you are. Okay. Now go now go ahead and make another question about you know bubble gum watch I would like to say this [ __ ] if he is brought back to the United States. I have read they are bringing him. You have read they're not bringing him. I have read he's a gang member. You have read he's not. So the gang member thing is fake. Why are we arguing about this? It doesn't matter. It's one [ __ ] guy that I don't give two shits because the greater scope of things is that they can do this to [ __ ] anyone. No, they can't. You were born. He just did. No, he didn't. I did not. That guy was not born in America. So, shut it up. Let me talk. Haley, I do get scared when you were handing out those um what do you call them? that if you're not a citizen and they to do this Miranda rights for immigrants. No, not you weren't handing out Miranda rights. That's what they are. It tells immigrants their legal rights. Dad, well, that scares me that you were doing that. First of all, this guy you're talking about is not even a US citizen. All right. I'm not doing anything illegal. Hang on a minute. Dad, you were bringing up that he wasn't born here, so he should get out. Now, when we were talking about the uh laws that Trump is trying to pass to make natural-born citizens, children born here of parents who are not from this country, he's trying to revoke their citizenship, you were for that. So, which is it? If you're born here, you get to stay here, or no? Yeah. If you're born if you're born here, you get to stay here. If you weren't born here, you better have a job with the federal government that allows the law to keep you here. Okay. So, even children born to immigrants, but if they're born here, those are US citizens. You have changed your mind about that. No, they're they're gone. Okay. Mommy and daddy. So, being born here then doesn't mean anything. Not anymore. That's the new But you just said it did. I know. That's the old law. You were asking me about that. Now, I'm telling you the new law. You're either a nationalist or a communist. So, it's new law versus old law. That's right. And so, new law, it depends on what you're asking me. You asked me four different questions in different segments of this little Yeah. I I was hoping you could handle a couple question you got going on. [ __ ] I'm [ __ ] tired of this same [ __ ] over and over. All right. Well, let's move on to something a little new. You are a [ __ ] communist. All right. I'll I'll take that and wear that badge proudly. As a communist, I want to talk about our next topic is President Trump disrespecting our military. This week, Trump disrespected the military once again by deciding to skip the transfer ceremony of four US soldiers who died during a training exercise in Lithuania. What was so important that he couldn't make it to the ceremony? Having dinner with the Saudis at one of his golf resorts in Florida and then playing golf the following day. The dignified transfer ceremony took place at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. The only member of the Trump clown show to attend was Ding-Dong Pete Heads. Let me say something. Can I say one thing? Yes. Ding-dong. When you when you read these things to us, you get us to put on our boxing gloves the way that you read and say things. That last line. Say it again. Say that last. You mean like No, hang on. Hang on. Harris. Yeah, you guys call Kla Harris You guys call Kla Harris horseface every episode we ever talked about her. Say your last line and sleepy Joe. The only member of the Trump clown show to attend was dingdong Pete Hegsth. That's that makes us that makes me upset right there. But you did it. Yeah, you do it constantly. You call every time you talk about any Democrat, you have some name for them. Camela Harris, did you like Biden? Camala Harris. No, I didn't tell them. But I didn't call them names. And so I'm I'm simply doing it to show you what it's like from the other side. This is how we experience a communist. He's a communist. He likes to get us going. He's a communist. It has nothing to do with getting you going. It's simply dishing back to you what you do to us. Okay. Get off of All right. So, let me ask you this. Do you think that skipping a ceremony for fallen soldiers is okay if you're playing golf? He sent a representative that you said was bad. Um, he's playing golf though, trying to get the peace deal done. He was trying Yeah. with Saudi Arabia is a big peace deal of Russia and Ukraine, which it is, which is a bigger deal. But he probably should have attended that because I am very uh Yeah, I'm He should have attended it, but then he sent in his behalf Hegathth. Yes. Now, I guess I do think that's okay. I would rather want that than what happened to Biden where he's watching his clock falling asleep when our Afghanistan guys came back. So, so being present for it is not Trump was at negotiation. There is no reason Trump was not at negotiations. Joe Biden was there physically but he wasn't present. You said he was playing golf. He did earlier in the day and then he went he was playing golf, right? He also Well, the stock market is crashing Saudi Arabian people. He's playing golf with the guys to talk peace with. But you guys don't see it that way. So that's okay. So wait a minute. White House official posted him in his little golf cart bragging about, you know, how well he was doing at the [ __ ] golf tournament. Yeah. Do you think Do you think it's okay for presidents to be playing golf when they should be doing uh political things, things for our country? He was doing political things while he was playing golf. He's been a representative. All right. You act like him driving around Saudi Arabia playing golf is not It wasn't Saudi Arabia. It wasn't in Saudi Arabia as in No, I said with the Saudis. No, you said in Saudi Arabia. I heard it. Move on. Well, I do have a clip to play for you. If you're curious about what Trump thinks about politicians playing golf instead of doing their jobs, here's a clip. Let's take a look at this. And how old is this clip? Obama, it was reported today, played 250 rounds of golf. Everything's executive order cuz he doesn't have enough time cuz he's playing so much golf. Obama want to get off the golf course and get down there. I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf. He played more golf last year than Tiger Woods. Guy plays more golf than people on the PGA Tour. I love golf. I think it's one of the greats. But I don't have time. If I were in the 10-year-old clips, I don't think I'd ever see Turnberry again. I don't think I'd ever see Dural again. I'm not going to be playing much golf. Believe me, if I win this, I'm not going to be playing much golf. And he's not. He literally was this weekend. That's what this whole Yeah, that's one time section is about. That's one time. And who who was the president in the history that took more vacations than anyone and never even showed up? Sleepy Joe. But we're not talking about Sleepy Joe. We are talking. We never do. That's the problem. We spent two years talking about Sleepy Joe. Mr. Communist Trump is now president. Please. Because he is. I'll call you fascist from now on. How's that? You know what he thought is? Move on. This is going nowhere. You know who killed more You know who killed more people in World War II than Hitler? H. Do you know? Obama. Biden. Okay. Um, and guess what? Stalin was a fascist. A communist. Okay. Move on. Um, no. More Russians more Russians were killed by their own people in the entire war. All right, I want to ask this question about that clip I play. Some of your Google factf finding. All right, that clip that I played where Trump is basically saying he would never play golf and golf is bad and politicians who play golf are not good politicians. Yeah, those clips are 10 15 years old. I don't 10 or 15 years old. I ain't going to give you two cents for them. Now, there's one in there that you you played that was 2008. How many years is that, Chad? You tell me. 17. Nice. Quick math. So, you're playing [ __ ] You're playing [ __ ] that doesn't matter. Okay. It's irrelevant. All right. Now, we communist. Okay. I'm a communist and we've gotten very heated here. Dad, you seem very mad. So, I want to try and simmer down a little bit. All right. You ready? What I want to ask is for each of us to go around and tell a brief story about something, a good memory you have from when you were in your 20s, okay? Before Trump, before Biden, before Obama, probably before you were even politically active. Think back in your life to when you were in your 20s and tell a fun story. I'll start to give it a little tone, a little flavor. This is when I was in college. I was at a party extremely drunk and some guy at this party that I did not know said, "Hey, does anybody want to go touch the Hollywood sign?" And I was like, "Hell yes." And so a group of maybe five or six of us piled into this guy's car who we didn't know, all drunk, drove up into Beachwood Canyon, climbed over some chainlink fences, and I have put my hand on the H. And I will never forget that moment. It was a very LA Hollywood thing to have done. So we just tell 20 or 21. Are we just telling like wild stories from college or No, when just sometime in your 20s. I just want us all to think back to the people we were before any of this political [ __ ] Okay. Uh I mean I was having children in my 20s. So was mom and dad. So I mean a lot of my memories of being in my 20s are motherhood. I have college stories like that where Conrad and I went out into the middle of nowhere. His who is now his sister-in-law. Um her last name was Buck. And uh she said, "I always wanted one of those deer signs that you see on the side of the road, you know, cuz they're bucks." And this is not characteristic of Conrad at all, but we were probably mid college at this point. middle of the night, we got into his pickup with a handsaw, like a double-handed saw. Oh my god. Yeah. And we went out into the middle of nowhere and we saw down one of those signs. Yeah. Like it was pretty wild. Yeah, it actually was. He'd never done anything like that before. Um so I have stories like that. But I think I don't know like when I didn't think about politics really ever was a time when I was a young mom. We could buy a house. We had two cars. Um, we had food on the table, could buy clothes and [ __ ] I got to stay home and raise the kids. Like, it was that is a hard job. I'm not like minimizing what stay at home moms do. It was [ __ ] hard, but easy in in regard to I I didn't have to worry about them losing their rights, me not having health care. So, it was just like not as much stress, I guess. I was never as anxious. It's like I wake up every morning now just kind of like wound up and what's going to hit me. So, it was just a simpler time I think all all together. Okay. Mom, what was something you did in your 20s? Some fun moment. I really didn't have much fun in my 20s. We were dirt poor. We were raising you as a baby. We had to work very hard. We had to get through school to get a job to make money. We were so dirt poor that one day we had no diapers and no milk. And I looked at your dad. I said, "Which one?" And he said, "I'll go in the store. I'll get the milk. We can figure out the other end later." Our 20s were hard. They were not easy. There wasn't one fun moment. Um, we had to do everything for free. We couldn't pay to go to a movie. We couldn't pay anything to go do anything. So, we would take you in the baby stroller and go to the zoo. That was fun times. Okay, Dad. Not one moment. Oh my god. You didn't have like a a fun night out with your buddies even once? I never went out with anybody. Anybody? Not once. Not one [ __ ] time. No money. And so you had no fun? It was just a decade of pure torture. Oh, it was a The 20s were hard on it. Not the whole 20s. I would say from probably about 19 to 25. Yeah, it was pretty damn hard. Your dad always worked. I worked. What happened at age 26? There was some good times or No, I had a job. First job. Okay. And what did that feel like when you got hired at that first job? Wasn't that I just had money some a little bit of money to get started with? No, we didn't start out on the cush like you two did. We didn't have a family to help us. We had a family and they were saying good job, wonderful, but they never gave us anything financially. We had to pay all our school loans back. Nobody helped us. Federal government didn't forgive all that [ __ ] like they do you [ __ ] so not possible to keep politics out of it or think back to a time prior to it. How about your 30s? Were there any fun moments then? I got a fun moment mom had in her 30s. Work. I worked all the time. I remember that one. I got a I got a fun moment from complains about her 15hour days. I had them for 50 years. I love how it's always competition. I know. I know. Well, and I I worked hard as you do, longer than you ever have or will and make more money and are taller and stronger. More beautiful. Okay, let's move on. Rabbit and the eggs. Yes, it's the rabbit and the eggs. Is that what Haley's bringing up? Yeah. Yeah. Goddamn. Uh, for those the story is my mom went out. Who was it with? Your cousin. Who did you go out and get drunk with? Mom. Dad was gone on some kind of a business trip or something. You went out high school teacher. Yeah. Like tennis coachation system just went out and got [ __ ] hammered and then came back and made me and Haley make her scrambled eggs and Haley put our rabbit in the bed with her and she woke up beer and apricot brandy together. Peach. You had peach schnops. Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah. That was the last time I think I ever drank in my life. Almost. That is a [ __ ] lie. That is a [ __ ] lie. I've I've witnessed you drink. Okay, that's a [ __ ] lie. All right, let's move on. All right, here we go. Our fourth topic is Elon Musk loses this week after broken dick Elon Musk went on Fox News to whine about Tim Walsh laughing at Tesla stock crashing. He also lost $25 million in a failed attempt to get a conservative judge elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Susan Crawford demolished Musk's candidate, Brad Shiml, by a 10-point spread, despite Musk hemorrhaging tens of millions of dollars into Shiml's campaign. Crawford's win means the Wisconsin Supreme Court maintains a liberal majority, which is more bad news for the Nazi saluter. Tesla has significant legal trouble in Wisconsin, where state law prohibits direct sales from manufacturers, making it impossible to open Tesla dealerships. Mom, do you think this is an indicator that Musk has no more political power? No, I think they just won. No big deal. Uh, I think everyone hates Musk because they are trying to get back at Trump. Okay. They don't You don't think that the hatred comes from seeing him on a stage with a chainsaw laughing and bragging about firing tens of thousands of people? No, he wasn't laughing and bragging about that. I saw that thing. He was cutting the fat, right? People have lost their jobs. People have lost their jobs because of Doge. That is% Elon Musk. Good. I believe it's the people that never came to work. Yeah, you're That's inaccurate. That is not true. Move on. Fat schlar This narrative that that they're trimming the fat and that they're seeking out all the fraud. It's [ __ ] All right, Dad. Let me ask you this. Do you think billionaires should be able to try to buy state elections like this? Sure. They have been doing it for a hundred years. Okay. So, not a big deal then. No. But you get mad when you believe George Soros does it. No, I don't get mad. I'm just telling you how that happens. All right. Now we finally got Now we Now we finally got a billionaire on the other side of the coin. Finally. And you don't like it? I don't like it. and you don't like it. Look, both parties are corrupted by huge mega donors, billionaires. Both sides are I'm not arguing that at all. Yeah. No, you don't think the Republicans are the the difference between George Soros and Elon Musk is George Soros wants to destroy America. Elon Elon Musk does not. Okay? And George Soros did this very thing to the UK. Now, let me ask you this, Mom. Do you think because Elon Musk put $25 million behind this campaign, that is why they lost? I don't know. I don't know. You You guys would both agree that public sentiment is heavily against Elon and Musk? No, it's against Tesla. It's against Trump through Musk. Okay. Right now, the popular popular sentiment, you're full of [ __ ] There's 77 million people who like what he's doing. There's probably 37 million people who don't. The difference is the 37 million people shoot their big mouth off more. Then why do you think his stock has cratered and lost 50% of Nobody's going to buy a [ __ ] car when a bunch of crazies are going to scratch it all up and set it on fire. I see. So, you think it's people just fear property damage against the car and it has nothing to do with ideology? That's 100% accurate. I think it's because they hate Trump. They're doing it. Interesting. Haley, have you heard that uh Zuck, aka Mark Zuckerberg, head of Meta, head of Facebook, head of Instagram, head of WhatsApp, has purchased a $25 million mansion in DC next to the White House. No. Oh my god. Why would he do that? He may be the next Musk. There's a lot of stuff that I've been reading is basically saying that Musk is on his way out. He knows that this whole plan was completely [ __ ] It has destroyed his car company and now he's on shaky ground. So, he's going to eject from politics, go back to being the the billionaire leader of these companies and then the next in line is my ass with three. This one is more dangerous. So, I mean, we're talking about complete control of social media. We're talking about complete [ __ ] like propaganda 100%. You get no news. Like, this one is far more dangerous than Elon Musk in my opinion. Maybe it'll shut you communists up. I did read that where they were saying that Musk could be out, but then Donald Trump said, "No, his work is not done. He's leaving. He's going nowhere. He is not leaving. He's not going anywhere." If Donald Trump said it, it must be true. This is true. I think personally, I think Musk is about to bail. I think he's going to try and slink back to the shadows and hopefully his, you know, if he's not on TV all the time doing dumb [ __ ] I think he hopes that his stock will go back up and all of his companies will be fine because that's why he got into this in the first place is to get more money for his companies. And now it's backfiring. So, I think he's going to try to run back home, tail between the legs, and make everything good again. If Zuckerberg becomes the next billionaire who gets that first buddy role and it may just be a rotating cycle. We know from Trump's first term, people only last about two or three months in the orbit of Donald Trump before he excommunicates them. So if you guys happy if Zuckerberg becomes first buddy, absolutely it will not make me happy. But I do think this Zuckerberg has that same kind of thirst for fame that Musk does. We've seen it in all of their whenever they do a new Facebook roll out. He's like front and center. Hey guys, let me show you about this and tell you about this. He wants to be on stage and I think it will be if he does that, it will be as big a disaster as it has been for Musk. I think people will wholesale stop using all of his products. You know what the difference is between um Elon and and Soros is Soros did it underneath and quietly and people were saying who's who's supplying this? Who's paying for this? The thing Elon's right out in the front of your face. The thing about Zuckerberg that you're missing though, like you think everybody's just going to full stop Meta and that's not true because there are businesses that [ __ ] rely on that [ __ ] and I'm one of them. Sure, that's fine. I'm gonna have I'm gonna have no choice but to continue using [ __ ] Facebook and Instagram and we need Tik Tok. We need Ticky Talk. Well, that's Jeff Bezos seemingly is in line to buy Tik Tok, but they have extended the the ban date. It was supposed to be April 7th. They extended it another 75 days. So we don't know. So is there a new new platforming coming someone else? Somebody's always making a new platform and it just requires certain circumstances in society to be correct for that platform to kind of like take steam. But the idea that all people will continue to use these things is not right. I agree with you. Businesses are going to have to if that's where you are generating most of your revenue or rude. Sorry. Am I Am I bothering you guys? I told him don't act like you're going to sleep. And I said that's rude. And he said, "I'm just closing my eyes." Jesus Christ. All I ask is an hour a week to talk to your kids. We're here. Can we read? No. We're having a conversation. Dad, can you do that? I'm asking you as your son to talk to your kids for an hour a week. That's all. Yeah. So I can listen to your communist plot. All right. I don't even remember what I was saying. Oh, uh, Instagram. I think the general user, it's actually easier to say, "Nah, [ __ ] it. Delete the app." And if that user number goes down, all their advertising revenue falls off the table. Even if businesses are using it to promote their products and their brand and all this kind of stuff. If the people aren't on it, they get that advertising, it's over. That's lights out. That's gonna sink. That is literally going to sink industries. He's trying to tell us we don't know what we're talking about. Are you talking about Instagram? Yeah. Well, any of the the Mark Zuckerberg products, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp. Those are the big ones. I'm like that. I'm Every day we talk about like what our game plan is for the next, you know, five, 10 years because we have three kids. Like, are we going to hit a [ __ ] depression? Are we going to have to put tiny homes in our backyard? Like, I don't [ __ ] know what's going to go on. And and all these tariffs and now Zuckerberg might be [ __ ] propaganda left and right like I don't know if I'm going to have that revenue. I we have no idea what's going to happen. It's terrifying. That's why the stock market is tanking. People are scared shitless terrified more money. That's the way everyone is terrified. That's the way we felt when Biden was the president. So you kind of now feel the way we did when he was in there. Yours is irrational and based off of hatred for Biden and your love of Trump. It wasn't based on reality. Okay. Oh, all right. Stock market never erased $6 trillion of value in two days. It'll come back. An objective fact. This will make us so much stronger. And then you have employment rates were up. Homelessness was down. Everything was kind of on an uptick. And now we're all in the [ __ ] shitterter. All right, let's move on. We have two more topics I want to get to quickly. The next one is Trump's third term this week. orange face once again showed his lack of respect for the Constitution by suggesting he might seek a third term in office despite the clear prohibition outlined in the 22nd amendment of the US Constitution. Just just listen to the the facts just real quick, Dad. It takes me 30 seconds to get through this. Listen, these aren't facts. Go ahead. That is a fact. He did say that he's thinking about running for a third term. I'll give you the exact quote. In a in a March 30th interview with NBC News, Trump said, "There are methods which you could do it, and a lot of people want me to do it." One potential method Trump mentioned involves Vice President JD Vance running for president with Trump as his vice president. Then Vance would resign after being elected, allowing Trump to assume the presidency. I didn't hear that one. Critics argue that Trump's suggestions reflect authoritarian tendencies. Senator Chris Murphy warned that such rhetoric could erode democratic institutions, stating this is what dictators do. Mom, do you think this is what dictators do? Um, maybe. But he won't run. I mean, I don't think he'll run. He He won't run. It'll be Vance or maybe Baron. Maybe Baron. But he won't run. But he You know what he did? I saw he said something like, "If we can do three, bring Obama back." He'd love to run against Obama again. That's what he said. Bring him. That would be an interesting election. Dad, are you okay with him trying to get a third term? Yeah, he can't. But are you okay with it? Obama can't run. Why? Why? He had him back to back. Trump did not. Okay. So, what does that mean? Why would that matter? You can only run two consecutive he can only run consecutive terms once. Okay. Well, then Trump by your what you've just stated would not be able to have another term right after this one. Yes, he would. Yeah, it would be his second because this would be his first. If he if he ran 47 and 48, that's only one time that he did concurrent. Okay. And that matters to you for some reason. Yes. He won't run. It's the law, you dumb [ __ ] Oh god. I don't know why you think that it that he when he tells you that I'm trying to do these things. Why don't you believe him? Well, he's literally talking about a third term. Why do you think run? I think it was like a joke. It would be funny. I believe it the way he was talking about it. Let me ask you, Mom. You know, you you use this argument, this defense of things Trump says a lot. He's just joking. When? How do you tell if he's joking or telling the truth? What? I don't have that ability. I take everything he says to be pretty much true that we have to at least believe what he's saying here. What the [ __ ] are you talking about? I guess you you don't take anything he says to be true. I do. What are you talk when he says I grab women by the [ __ ] I I think he did do that. I knew you were going to say that. You just said you didn't believe him on the 48th. No, I do believe that he's going to try to do this. Oh, god damn. Go on with your [ __ ] story. He shouldn't be my story. It's Trump's. He shouldn't be able to run again, I think, is what we're trying to say. But I do think he's going to try. I do, too. I don't know what time will tell. And would you guys be okay with that? I assume yes. There's anybody on the Democratic side? No one. you. There's no one over there. What do you mean? Well, hopefully AOC. I'm not Who cares who the Oh my god. That'll be a cold day. Hang on. No, we're not moving on because this is very important. One of the cornerstones of the American presidential process is that that president can only have two terms. You're talking about if they're non-consecutive or not. That doesn't matter. Be consecutive. No. The 22nd amendment says you get two terms. Period. It doesn't matter if they're consecutive or not. I'm gonna have to Google. I'm gonna have to go to sleep. Changing this is changing. You're talking about communism. It's changing the fundamental fabric of American democracy. If we have a president coming in and saying, "I don't care what the Constitution says. I'm going to stay in this chair for as long as I want." You don't think that's bad? He didn't say it like that. That's This is a gateway for that. Oh. Oh, okay. A gateway constitution. for clearing that up. You political geniuses. Thanks for clearing that up. I don't think he'll run. He just mentioned it. I think it was a joke. He's not going to run. You two know less about politics than you think you do. All right. Okay. Dad, you have said multiple times in this very episode, but over the course of the past couple of weeks as well, that Trump is law. Trump is the law. Do you think that we still have three branches of government that are equal and can check and balance one another? Yeah. The problem is now our executive branch has to offset the judicial branch which has been tainted and ruined. What mom? And therefore Donald Trump is the law. He's rocking the chair and our microphone is going to fly off of here in a minute. All right. So you think then that the executive has absorbed the judicial system and there's only two branches. No, I think it needs to absorb the judicial system. So okay, so you're for So you're talking about communism, but you're No, I'm not talking about communism. I'm talking about nationalism. There's a huge difference. No, you're you're calling us communists basically as an insult to say that we are not Americans. Maybe that we're not into American democracy. Oh, you're not nationalist, which means you you believe you believe that uh Joe Monkey over there sitting next to you, your kitty cat, should get as much money as you do, no matter how hard you work. I'll be back. That's communism. Okay. Where did mom go? Pan. Jesus Christ. Well, I want you here for this next topic, Mom. The final one. Yeah, she's right. Just talk a little more. I think everybody in the United States certainly deserves medical care. Certainly should be able to buy a home. Who doesn't have able to make a livable wage? Who doesn't have that? Millions of people. Who? 350 350,000 people. Name four people you know personally. 350,000 people I think this year went bankrupt,000 went bankrupt uh 360 million. You're pissing went bankrupt because of medical. I'm back. Okay. You know how many went bankrupt in [ __ ] France? Had to Yeah. Look out because they have universal healthare. Fran France is about to go bankrupt. Okay, I'm ready. What's What are we talking about? Let's move on to our final topic, the hands-off protest. Yesterday, nationwide, hands-off protests unfolded across the United States with over a thousand individual demonstrations in cities all over the country in opposition to Trump and Musk and their recent policies, including reductions in federal programs, layoffs with the education department, defunding of those off. We're listening. I said I want No, you're not. Every time I start reading one of these things, you guys start talking to each other and insulting me. Why do you do that? I am not insulting you. I said about this one. I asked you this question. Why do you do it? Do what? Why do you talk when I'm reading these things? And dad, when you're reading these things, I don't care what you're saying. Why not? Because they're all made up horseshit. Okay. Then then just remain silent. Hang on. No, no, no. Dad, you think this is made up? Yesterday, nationwide, hands-off protests unfolded across the United States with over a thousand individual demonstrations in cities all over the country. Do you agree that that happened or not? Dad, do you agree that that happened? And now he's doing some kind of childish silent treatment. Toddlers. Toddlers. I was supposed and now I'm asking you a direct question. I want to take this piece by piece. Am I supposed to shut up or answer your [ __ ] You're supposed to answer this question. Do you believe that protests happened yesterday? Yes. Oh, sure. Yes. Okay. So, what I'm saying then is not [ __ ] It's not made up. You agree with it? No. Yes. You make it sound like it's half the country. It's it's such a small minute segment of America. I said there were It's not even It's not even worth [ __ ] mentioning. Okay. Well, I believe it is because that's all I'm going to say. I believe it is because your daughter was at one of these protests in Dallas. Don't make it right. But do you believe it's worth mentioning to discuss what we all do during the course of the week? No. Yes. Go. Do you have interest in our lives? I don't. You have no interest in me and Haley's lives? Not if you're going to go protest America. Okay. Well, what? Let me ask you this then. Just on a a kind of No, you're done asking me. Ask your mother. No, I'm You're the one who's saying you don't have interest in our lives. What would you like to talk to us about? Giving up communism and being a nationalist. I But what if we don't have interest in that? Just like you don't have interest in Haley going to a prison. You would sit there and be bumps on a log. All right. So, you're you can only speak. It's okay for me. It's okay for me to have to answer horseshit, but it's not okay for you to change your mind. No, I'm not asking you to change your mind. I'm having a conversation with you. I'm not changing my mind. And until you two start changing your mind, I don't really have a lot to add. Okay. Well, there you have that. Mom, do you have interest in your children's lives? Chad, what kind of question is that? I just asked Dad and he said no. No, you do. I don't. He's not a national. Let me ask you, do you have interests in our lives? I [ __ ] created a podcast that I'm doing with you every week because I want you in my life and I'm interested in your lives. Then why did you ask me that stupid question? Because the guy sitting right next to you said no. answered that question. No, finish the finish what you [ __ ] wrote. Get finish it. Uh the end of it is it was boycotting Trump and Musk and their recent policies including uh reductions in federal programs, layoffs within the education department, defunding of cultural institutions, new tariffs, and attacks on the LGBTQ plus community. Haley, you were at one of these protests. How was it? So I w we I didn't organize this first of all. Uh some democratic kind of leaders in our area organized one in in the square where my business is. Uh and they did that I think on purpose because they know that we are there. Um, so it, you know, 50 people came and then a hundred and I was looking out the window like, "Holy [ __ ] there are at least a thousand people out there in our town of Flower Mound that's notorious for being like right-wing conservative, you know, like all the [ __ ] It's maja here." Yeah. Uh, so to see like a thousand people out there kind of chanting and rebelling and resisting this [ __ ] very encouraging. Um, the one in Dallas was even bigger. Uh, I had to bake because we were selling out like left and right. Everyone was coming into the bakery. It was [ __ ] madness. So, I had to bake a little bit, but I went out there for a little while. Um, just to kind of like see the people and like see what the [ __ ] was and hear them speaking and uh to see that here like in this red pocket to see all these people [ __ ] pissed. Um, it's encouraging because it lets you know that you're certainly not alone. I think there's a lot more of us than people realize. Uh even in these like really conservative areas. Uh I saw my merch on a ton of people. That's cool. And people are sending me photos from all around the country. People in Boston, New York, DC, they're like, I'm wearing your [ __ ] because we have become synonymous with this movement. And uh originally your simmer down was like you told us, you know, do you think that you've changed the world in some way? Oh yeah. Yeah. And then you [ __ ] switched it. Well, because I was trying some new technique. It didn't work. I thought maybe it would get mom and dad to think about like a better, simpler time, but they refused to engage with it. So, well, that resonates with me because I do think I have in my own way, in my own, you know, small part of whatever [ __ ] place this is, whatever world we're living in. I see [ __ ] like that. And I hear people literally telling me, we're here because of you. You did this, you know? So, to to acknowledge that like what I'm doing matters, that like the merch and the you know, all of this [ __ ] it's not for nothing. like all these people have found a voice in a voiceless community because I had the balls to [ __ ] say you can do it too. And so yeah, I feel like we're making a difference. I do. It matters. That make that made you a lot of money though, too, didn't it? I mean, yeah, we had people coming in left and right. My my So, you want more protests? Well, my supporters, like the people who come into my bakery every day are like-minded individuals. It's always been that way because I've always said my piece. Here's what I want to say about those protests. Um, I follow this one guy on Instagram, uh, David Harris Jr., and he said for sure uh I mean he had a clip where these people were in Maryland hopping on buses going to DC being handed um the same exact protesting signs done with the same handwriting. There are organizations out there that you can go to that you can get online and become a member of. They pay you. And there were paid there were paid um people on some of those buses going to protest. We're done for today. Now, maybe not in far enough. Yeah. Did you hear that? Yeah. This has just been hell today. This has been like the worst one. But you realize the the handsoff protests, you know, they were nationwide. You realize there were like I think I read almost 5 million people. Nobody's paying them. Yes, they are paying. Nobody's paying these people. You said that's okay. It doesn't matter. Mom and dad, you said that's fine. Elon Musk tried to buy a a a Wisconsin Supreme Court as long as they're not. Are we going to drag this [ __ ] thing up and hurting people? So that's what's going to come. That's what's going to come next because when people start losing jobs, can't eat, can't buy homes, that's what comes next. The tariffs are going to make things better. Give it time. Quit whining. All right. Well, thank you everyone for joining us. That wraps up our show. We didn't get to talk about Corey Booker's 25-hour marathon speech, which I think was largely pointless, but um Did you know that he was vegan? You know, he's a vegan. I didn't know that. Why would that matter? Good for him. Why would that matter? makes him twice stupid. It's harder to stay awake 25 hours if you're vegan. Um, thank you everyone for joining us. Again, if you guys out there have a question you want any of us or all of us to answer, just record it in a one minute or shorter video hopefully or audio clip, send it to the necessary conversation [email protected]. Before we go, as always, despite dad the fact that you seemingly hate me and Haley and you think we're communists, I do love you and that is why I'm doing this every week talking to you guys for an hour. Mom, I love you, too. Despite all 20 minutes, uh, we've been recording for an hour and five minutes. That's the accurate time. Mom, I do love you. Uh, and I know you've got a lot to put up with there. sitting to your left. Haley, I love you as well and I'm very proud of you for going out uh and protesting this week. I do think it's important that we we keep doing that, that we keep at least making our voices heard, even though it wasn't covered that well in mainstream media. I will say there's I have a lot of people come into the bakery who tell me they listen to the pod who say their parents are a lot like our parents and they like break down and cry and they say like I don't I don't know how to patch it up. I don't know how to talk to my own parents. But they watch our pod and I think it's they're slowly kind of like getting the courage to kind of do it to finally have that the necessary conversations. But there is something happening here that does matter. I get a lot of people that either write me or come into the bakery and tell me. So it's not for nothing. Um, mom, I love you. Dad, I love you. Chad, I love you. I love everybody except the communists. You better not be one. Chad and Haley, I love you. Bob, I love you. I think we need to get off politics for a while. This is killing me. We need to do something else next time. Let's do something other than You want to do an anti Well, it depends on what happens next week because I do think it's important to talk about this stuff. But, um, yeah, I'll try to I'll put together a little non-political episode that we can do in the near future. Cut it off. Oh, god damn it. Okay. You just won't shut up. You're not going to tell us you love us? I did. I said I love everybody except the communist and you called me a communist in this very episode. You need So you need to become a nationalist. All right. Work on it. I thought you were a libertarian. Work on it. I'm not what a libertarian. What are you doing? A libertarian. Oh my god. You just keep him going. You should be careful at those protests. Be careful. Hey, you may be thinking the wrong side's going to get violent. All right. All of the all the manga here [ __ ] literally one of them who posts [ __ ] in like a group here called Flower Mound Cares. Why did I talk? Sat in his car and filmed it from his car so he could take it to this group and like [ __ ] talk. Are you saying they're not going to do anything? Are you saying they're chickens? You saying they're They're all chickens. Oh yeah, they're all [ __ ] [ __ ] We'll see. We will see you all next week. This was bad. This was a bad one.