Military Testosterone Screenings, Diarrhea Parasite Politics, and Data Center Debates

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argentina what i would just say to team england and the people surrounding that that team me and my boys got so much joy from watching team england through this tournament it was so much fun for us it created so much additional connection i had such a great time so not that anyone's gonna hear this but thank you team england it was wonderful who's gonna win now who's gonna win argentina or spain i say spain i think you're right i think this kid you mal and uh you actually called this you said you said that at the very beginning of the tournament you thought it was gonna be spain i did i did an interview with smart people and they said spain i'm going to the game on some good that'll be fun i'm going because it's this is this is the one place my total advocacy for drinking has paid off you know who's taking me who ab and bev oh my god they're like that's the dude that likes alcohol bring him oh my god how do you get why don't i get invitations i pick the winner and then i never get invited to anything so okay so they're but i have to but i have to pay for my boys to go i'm buying tickets it is come on crazy expensive to go to the floor that's well that's money well spent for you scott gallery anyway scott i saw the odyssey oh what'd you think i loved it it was great really yeah i went with casey newton um after going i was in san francisco i went to my son where my son is working which is uh he's he's working at a restaurant called boulevard he's the saladier um and we had dinner there and then we went to see the odyssey i was thinking of you the whole time um you know it's interesting because you know elon's against it right because it's like gives a shit i know that i know what does care here's the thing it is an anti-fascist movie it's about it's an anti-fascist movie disguised as of course the odyssey but the way he's done it if he finally reveals himself at the end matt damon is amazing um and hathaway off the fucking charts there's very little cgi and so it's real people like so that's the thing that's what's astonishing because you keep watching you think for a minute it's ai or cgi and it's not uh charlice there is in it for five seconds as calypso and it looks like an ad for lancome essentially um and it's a perfume ad it looks like a perfume you'll see what i'm talking about her outfit is fantastic just there's a lot of sort of stunt casting that i don't know if i preferred because they're not on very much distraction i find those are some yeah it is it really is my second favorite movie oppenheimer my other one is chris nolan i think literally perfect film perfect feels it feels like that movie i know perfect film for me was dunkirk altogether there's elements of all the movies in this movie there's a dunkirk like scene on the beach you'll you'll love it you'll love it you'll love it i it's gonna i'm excited make all the money and it's gonna deserve it and it's gonna win all the oscars and it deserves it you should dress like odysseus this halloween that's my feeling when i'm really yeah that's what i feel considerate yeah i think you'd be good as long as i get to go wear a wig and show off my muscles that's what halloween is for muscles you can show up your muscles and speaking of muscles scott i'm gonna start testing my co-host testosterone levels i feel like i need to do that now defense secretary pete hegs says the military will begin annual testosterone screenings for service members age 30 or older with voluntary testing for younger troops service members found to have low testosterone will be offered voluntary hormone replacement therapy as part of the new program i didn't know they did gender affirming care i thought they were against that let's listen to a clip from this bizarre announcement this initiative it's not about artificial enhancement it's about restoring and optimizing your natural capabilities protecting your longevity and ensuring you have the biological foundation required to sustain the fight well now we know he's on tea you know let me let you run with this you have taken you take testosterone you've talked about it why is he doing this explain explain make the good case for it i guess well i mean if part of if part of healthcare coverage is like i'm on testosterone because i think it's good for my brain and my heart health and it makes quite frankly it just makes me feel younger weird things like i don't have to pee as often um and my doctor said we're not going to take you you know you don't want to i'm not using it to be a monster more aggressive i'm using it because i want to quite frankly feel 45 again and hormone replacement therapy is something that i think you know under a doctor's supervision for men and women in the city i take i take hormone replacement therapy yeah i i think it's i think it's a can be a real value add under the supervision of a doctor but this is just performative in my opinion stupidity i mean young men don't have or our military and men don't have a testosterone problem it we have a loneliness problem young men are falling behind because they aren't low on testosterone they're falling behind because they're low on purpose education work and relationships and we're having trouble finding although actually recruitment is up this year we're having trouble finding 70 of people remember how joining the army used to be the option of last resort 70 of men that walk into a recruiting office right now for the armed services don't qualify because of obesity or mental health problems so if if you want to if you want a more lethal fighting force we need to make more investments in young men and it's not about pumping them full of testosterone i know it's not so this is just performative stupidity he conflates this weird notion of masculinity and fitness and optics with or doing bad pull-ups our military is headed towards asymmetric war you know who's going to have the best you're going to have the most lethal fighting forces will be the ones that master ai asymmetric drone capabilities really good management ability to attract the best and brightest and have special forces of just out of fucking control brave and smart and strong people but those people are in their 20s and they are soaked in testosterone that's correct i that's the whole thing i was like we're literally ukraine and and the most recent conflicts have all shown and with iran against the united states has shown that might is not the actual winner here or largeness or muscularness it's something very different and you know testosterone can also if it's taken wrong fuck you up like beyond belief correct i mean i you have a doctor's care but i know a lot of people who do this is off the shelf and problematic and cancer causing and everything else if you don't do it properly yeah i i for the most part i don't think young people need the average young person needs the following nothing they need relationships they need a gym they need the money to have decent nutrition you know but they don't i some of the craze around peptides and enhancements i and i realize this is somewhat hypocritical but as a 61 year old male desperately clinging to just try and feel 45 again i do think there's a difference but i it worries me this notion that young men the peptide stacks and i i think that stuff is is borderline a little bit scary and your your 25 or 35 year old self is pretty fucking awesome on its own as long as you do some very basic good sleep good nutrition gym three four times a week some some practice to push your limits you know be strong be fast i agree i can't tell you the amount of like people tell me they're buying off-the-shelf peptides i'm like oh my god yeah i don't do any of that shit are you i'm like it comes from china it's not it's not tested i hope you like sepsis like i just am like oh my god and it's not to say there shouldn't be they shouldn't be doing all this research on peptides by the way glp1s are a peptide um but the way people are doing and this just sort of brings it out this idea let's jack up our let's steroid up our um our troops and make them insane like i don't know just so unhealthy anyway typical of pete hagseth because he's as dumb as a box of hammers uh next one elon musk likely broke wisconsin law when he promised to hand out those million dollar checks to voters in 2025 state supreme court election which he lost according to the wisconsin election commission the bipartisan panel found probable cause that elon violated a state law that makes it a crime to offer a person anything of value to get them to vote now it's in the hands of wisconsin da to decide whether to pursue charges i i'm doubting they will um but honestly when he did that that was kind of so grotesque is he did it several different places across the country i suspect he'll do it again if he's not stopped so i don't mind this moving forward in some fashion um but he you know he's unchecked i mean this the money he's been he's put 90 i think 90 million dollars into um elections right now at this point just him and in the for the midterms and you know ken griffin a whole bunch of people are just shoveling the money in and the supreme court the most recent decision just allowed them to shovel it even more yeah i think ken griffin is probably running for president by the way um oh really so say more as you land well he's taken a lot of public stands on politics and if you're a billionaire the key to happiness is to be anonymous and he's decided not to be anonymous which says to me he has political ambitions oh interesting um also a smart guy a lot of money um but you know he's been very very vocal but like the problem is so he's going for the mark cuban slot except he's like half as nice like that kind of on the there's a huge lane on the republican side everyone keeps talking about the democratic the democratic primary is going to be a is going to be a gladiator fight because there's a lot of good people handsome handsome os off i'm having did you see him in the senate hearing he's amazing he looks like kennedy i think he's hot i can't believe it i was hot you guys got total kennedy vibes yeah total pamela vibes i'm having i'm name-dropping i'm having uh coffee with another potential presidential candidate senator kelly from arizona who you meet with the guy you want to talk about testosterone the guy flew a craft 30 000 miles an hour an hour while also flying combat missions he's a solid man he's a man you know he's a twin you know and he's like talk about someone who's been an outstanding husband he's anyways he's a great role model for young men but look i the problem is in election interference in wisconsin the problem is we've essentially decided that money can run unfettered and so what do we have in society most people would agree the 1 percent has disproportionately benefited it's not even the 1 percent it's the 0.01 percent and the 0.01 percent right now is in a position because of citizens united and the most recent supreme court decision i i told you my conspiracy theory which i think is just just self-evident i believe that this phone call took place president trump is there any way you can lean on the sec chair or the nasdaq to let to include spacex right out of the gates in the nasdaq 100 and as a result you'll get you know retail investors will have the opportunity to invest i'll have more demand and i see my net worth increasing of a small group of stocks and not a lot is out there and so it it it juices the stock but go ahead it's trillions of dollars that have to all be allocated to one of 100 stocks based on the market cap which creates unbelievable demand that has never been there for that has never been there for a new issuance in history so president trump if i my net worth goes up 120 billion dollars because of a smart move on your part i don't see any reason why i wouldn't put one to 10 billion dollars into the midterms and these elections are won or lost by two or three percentage points you're telling me a billion dollars can't get you another couple points in maine i mean or wherever it is maybe he didn't win in wisconsin he spent 25 million dollars there and just well that's the silver lining here is that money seems to have some effect uh money the the roi on money is going down it used to be that 95 percent plus of the people who raised the most money won because it was largely based on incumbency and television buys and this but tom star spent a quarter of a billion dollars to come in fourth or something in california yeah so that's the good news but still it goes back to the same thing the problem isn't people the problem isn't people with billions of dollars the problem is if you can directly connect it to undermining our democracy you have unelected people deciding who's going to be president so anyways i i think we need one case isn't going to move the needle i like that they're doing it though because that was at the time i was like can anyone stop this this is insane you're buying votes i just it's it's so buying votes it was like you know that it just seemed like ridiculous that that that it was so explicitly bad i hope i hope they pursue it but um speaking of election interference which there's a lot we're recording ahead president trump's working his hardest to interfere with the election uh he's going to do a primetime address to the nation where he will discuss quote free and fair elections and other topics of potpourri as one advisor put it should never use the word potpourri allegations about china meddling in the u.s election will reported come up and some reports suggest he'll once again push claims of election fraud in georgia speaking of john ossoff let's listen to what ossoff had to say during an appearance on ms now there's talk that he might try to declare me and raphael warnock illegitimate senators obviously the president has no power to do that but he does have the power to try to intimidate people he's demonstrated his will to abuse power i expect him to use whatever he puts out there on thursday as a pretext either for some attempted unconstitutional use of federal power to interfere in the election or to give his proxies and loyalists in state and local jurisdictions some cover for whatever they might attempt or to lay the groundwork for challenging the result so there it is you know and it's really interesting because you know especially because his like handmaiden staticians like senator cynthia lummis rhymes with hummus dummis um you know i don't know if they were they were properly elected like there they are they go they follow along and um trump also removed all three sitting members of the bipartisan u.s election assistance commission a group that oversees the testing of voting systems it's all over the place this is something bannon steve bannon has talked about there's all manner of attempts uh possibly using ice at all et cetera et cetera etc uh thoughts on this besides the handsomeness of john also you can't have a democracy when one of the two parties acceptance speech is always the following we won or it was rigged you just and election interference the good news is that essentially affordability which right now the democrats are seen as better on is dominating in gallup polls what people are concerned about only 2% of voters believe America's biggest problem is election reform so but at the same time I also read 60% of Republicans think the 2020 election was rigged I mean this is just so bad for America because when you repeat a lie this is straight out of the GRU when you repeat a lie over and over it becomes less outrageous then it becomes normalized then it becomes self-evident correct yeah and that is correct and our media they just have a responsibility I was just so I met I forget his name the guy interviewing to be the head of our intelligence service I met him Clayton Jay Clayton yeah I met him at a conference I spent a little bit of time with him reasonable smart impressive man oh the picture can't say that Biden won the 2020 election yeah he can't he actually can't do it and because then his nomination will be pulled by Trump and it's like okay at some point at some point these men have to be men and say my kids are going to think I'm a coward I just it's like you don't think that video is going to be played back over and over and over in your kid's third grade civics class rest of his life rest of your life it's like yeah and by the way maybe the nomination gets pulled but don't you want to be that dude don't you want to be the guy that said of course he was elected yes and then have Trump and then have Trump pull your nomination and be a fucking hero I know you know of all people Thomas Massey was like we have the House the Senate the presidency and pretty much the Supreme Court and we're saying the elections elections were rigged rigged like wow keep rigging them like it was it's ridiculous I mean the fact I mean one of the things it's just ridiculous it's it's an astonishing repetition of lies those two there was two hearings it wasn't just him it was also the um attorney general can't say it they can't say it biden was certified president that's all they'll say which is not the same thing I mean that the fact that they can't say it and that's happened several times with cabinet members is really something else it really is and and as it's as if they live in Putin's Russia and they do for the Republican Party where if they say the wrong thing they they get like thrown out a window essentially and this is a not a not a real throw out a window but a sort of version of it a political version of it there has never been a testosterone therapy like a Republican losing an election well we'll see we'll see I don't know you think Tom Tillis and John Cornyn are gonna push back on Blanche look what truth tellers these guys are once they lose their election and they have only six more months in the state I'm waiting to see if they vote against Todd Blanche I don't think they will mean his personal lawyer right yeah I'm his lawyer I mean I was his lawyer I mean I don't know what I mean um you know I don't think they're gonna I think they're gonna vote for and they're not they're gonna let it out of committee I just don't I I don't think they they still can't sack up too late Tom sack up Tom sack up Tom take some testosterone if you need to take some borrow from hexeth he can't stand he can't stand hexeth the whole thing you're right when do they when do they stand up on stuff like this and it's like what Adam Schiff said to Todd Blanche what happened to you you used to be you used to be a person of quality and it's really interesting anyway um we'll see what happens and I'm not are you watching the speech tonight oh I could care less you know what I will watch it I'll just watch it on one of three social media platforms that'll give me the two or three clips Kausti is now saying there's a 45% chance that Democrats take both the Senate and House at the midterms yeah both anyway that's still 45 let me just say I'm gonna go back because this is the same thing this repeating of the lie that you just said the reflecting pool this is the kind of thing the lie the lie the lie the lie the lie and then everyone and by the way the media repeated it we should have like just now the reporting is in and I gotta I gotta commend CNN who did a very tough report on it just like stop repeating his lies and tonight if you if you all repeat his lies you're as complicit in this in what's happening here you have to say this is not true this is not true and not even entertain it um in some level you can report on it but you don't have to entertain it the way they as if it's an equal thing I just that to me is really what really drives me crazy anyway let's go on a quick break when we come back things are going to get explosive and 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ridiculous blaming Taco Bell for this and making things more difficult the CDC of course scaled back the country's comprehensive system for tracking foodborne illness outbreaks last summer thank you RFK that's your fault they cut these these things states can report cases through other systems but experts say the cuts created blind spots making outbreaks harder to track um just ridiculous these people made the cuts and this is the result everyone's having diarrhea it's the fact that diarrhea is the is the brand for the republican party like bringing us diarrhea measles and possibly polio is and Ebola is really quite something I just I don't know I like lettuce and now I'm like nervous about eating it it's crazy the memes are amazing let's go through a few of them someone on X posted I found an explosive diarrhea parasite with a picture of Stephen Miller also first Mitch McConnell and now cyclospora big week for evil vegetables and maybe explosive diarrhea will finally be the thing that brings both sides together thoughts on explosive diarrhea yeah I don't know I I'm I was feeling really good I'm I had the best you know what's coming I had the best bowel movement I've had in years the other night and then I realized I was still in bed look I don't you know all of these things whether it's testosterone yeah look the CDC we need we need thoughtful people it this goes back to the same thing this is true of Democrats and Republicans we've taken for granted how many competent people work for the government work for the government and that you need a diplomatic corps that can say this memo of understanding doesn't mean fucking anything and we need to do hard work of diplomacy here we need we need talented medical professionals in the CDC to go this is a risk these are the preventive steps we need to take who have the support of the White House and aren't trying to figure out ways to undermine vaccines so for every look for every $1 invested in public health preparedness you get multiple dollars in avoidance of health care costs and productivity losses foodborne illnesses already cost the U.S.