492 - Eric Swalwell, The Great Layoff, & We Endorse Katie Porter

28:18Tim Dillon:What business would you open? Like what would you get excited about in America today in the current climate in which we live? I give you a few million dollars and I say, hey, good news. The dream of being a small business owner in America is now yours. You get to choose what business you get to wake up every day excited to go to. And people are going to have to think about this. By the way, the era of the mass layoff is here. And this is a fun, exciting article. From Snap to Block to Amazon, a new template for right-sizing the workforce is spreading through C-suites and other companies are taking note.

29:08Tim Dillon:So what's basically happening is the C-suites are the executives. And they're basically saying we have to right-size, meaning Snap is laying off 16 % of its staff. Block lopped off 40 % of its workforce. Oracle is shedding thousands of employees after Amazon cut about 30 ,000 in a matter of months. I think Oracle did that with one email. It was basically like 20 or 30 ,000 people that were like, everybody get out. Welcome to the era of the mega layoff. So this is the era of the mega layoff. You used to get laid off in a personal way. that's how bad things are you used to get laid off in a personal way somebody would bring you into the thing you know into the office and go listen you know we're making changes around here and I wish I could keep you and I have been fighting to keep you Nancy because everyone loves you here and we all know how hard you work Nancy We know how hard you were.

30:13Tim Dillon:Oh, please don't cry. Please don't cry. And then Nancy would go, I knew it was coming. I just didn't think it would be this soon. I didn't think it would be this soon. Because Cliff, Cliff is, you know, he's doing good. Because it's Cliff is Nancy's husband who shot a black child. And it's now, it's now under, under investigation. and they go, Nancy, we all support Cliff and we know that child was wrong, in the wrong. But unfortunately, Nancy, you got to go. Now you just get an email, you get a mass email and they just tell you, you and everyone you know pretty much are fucked now. And this is going to hurt.

31:06Tim Dillon:Like, here's what this is going to hurt. You know those, like, outdoor malls that still have a little life in them with, like, a Jenny's ice cream and a Poke Bowl spot? And, like, you know, everybody's, you know, they all got back from Coachella, and they're talking about, you know, how good Bieber's set was. It was so cool. He went back old school. Like, this is going to turn those places into Detroit. Those upwardly mobile, six-figure earning, kind of like normie core, Austin City Limits, white Converse shoe wearing, New York City, Soho living, matcha drinking. You know, they are fucked. that breed of person is unfortunately now going to be turned into the type of person that I talked about earlier with the flesh-eating diseases and the schizophrenia.

32:09Tim Dillon:That's coming. Now, hopefully these people find a way to avoid that fate. I'm not rejoicing in that. I'm telling you that's what's happening.

32:18Tim Dillon:These types of people who are used to like traveling and going to places, These are the people that go to Thailand and they post photos of Thailand on their Instagram because they have the money to do that. They are in trouble now. They are in trouble. The people that think nothing of eating a ribeye for$125 and drinking a$27 glass of Cabernet are in trouble now. The people that think nothing of renting a weekend house in Montauk are in trouble now. They're in trouble now. The young professional is being hunted. The six-figure-a-year graduate of a fucking really good private school. Maybe not an Ivy, but maybe.

33:18Tim Dillon:But a really good private school. A thing like a Vanderbilt. whatever the people that move to new york that move to brooklyn that get a job at the startup that work in fintech are being hunted by the ai demon and sam altman sam altman has released a demon to now hunt some of some of the people i do find pretty annoying but i don't want them I don't want them to end up falling off the grid and wandering around the streets with their children and living in tents. But those Stargates are opening the door, and people say to me, why do you call it the AI demon? Well, number one, it's funny. But number two, I don't know.

34:09Tim Dillon:I don't know what it's going to do. Maybe it's, some people call it a god. some people say it's a god and it's, you know, whatever. Like Rogan says, like quantum computing plus blah, blah, blah. Maybe that's God. I happen to call it a demon because I liked the world before it. I liked the world where, you know, where people would go out and see each other and talk and have jobs and own things. So I call it a demon. I'm not engaging in some quasi-mystic medieval religiosity here. I'm just using a term to describe the nothing. You want me to call it the nothing from Neverending Story? That's fine.

34:51Tim Dillon:The nothing. If you remember Neverending Story, the great film from the 90s where Atreyu battles the nothing. And the nothing blows through the town. And the nothing just leaves everything. And it all says, for lease, for lease, for lease. Open a business here outside the bus stop. in the empty parking lot, open a business. But the people now, now, by the way, globalization has displaced the manufacturing sector in America. So if you lived in upstate New York or Scranton, Pennsylvania, or somewhere in the Rust Belt, you've been fucked. You already work at Kroger. You're getting out of prison. Your son's on meth.

35:37Okay?

35:38Tim Dillon:Now, I'm generalizing, obviously. That's not everyone. Some people's kids run heroin. My point is this. You've been fucked. Oh, your daddy made cars? We don't give a fuck. Spill an aisle four. Take your heroin and go to bed. And that's what we did to those people. And we call them white trash. And we call them Nazis. And we call them names. And we watch them die. And we don't care. and if some of them happen to die in our cities, we get off on it. We jerk our cocks and flick our beans to watching people stroke out on our streets and die because we feel that we're good liberals by watching people die.

36:21Tim Dillon:We have a death fetish. People in Portland and Los Angeles, these well-meaning white people like, they do never want to criticize homeless or unhoused or whatever. They don't want anyone off the street. They have a death fetish. they come a little harder knowing someone's dead near them. Sorry, but that's what it is. Don't love it. Don't love it. But they feel like they're good people, but it's a psychosexual fetish where they like to watch people have seizures on the street and it allows them to sit and stroke their cock. And I don't think it's good, but it is a death fetish that white, these same people that AI is now hunting, they have a death fetish because the Kroger people, the veterans, whatever, whoever are stroking out on the street and these people don't want to say anything about it.

37:19Tim Dillon:They don't want to offend anyone. And now it's coming for them. And now you stroke out on the street. And now you put the needle in your arm, Savannah. How about that, Savannah, who worked at Oracle? Now you put the needle in your arm. Now you're a prostitute, Savannah. You used to work at Oracle, and you're a fucking whore now because you want to survive. Not so fun, is it? Speaking in hushed tones about, you know, the need to be compassionate to people, even though you've never engaged in that personally. Civic duty, compassion. Where are they going to go? We need to let them die outside of Trader Joe's.

38:09Tim Dillon:Where are they going to go? Well, you're going to join him now. You're going to join him, Savannah. You're going to join him. And I hope not. By the way, I hope not. I am not rejoicing in the idea of the young professionals in our country becoming homeless. I am not. but I am telling you they are being hunted now by the demon, by the nothing. You sit in an office all day. Who knows what you do? There's a meeting at four. You guys get the email about the meeting at four? Yeah, we got it. It's like a meeting we all have to be in. Yeah, we have to be in the one at four. All right. Is it like a brand meeting?

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40:56Tim Dillon:Katie Porter back in the governor's race. Eric Swalwell is out of the race because what? He raped everyone?

41:06Tim Dillon:Swalwell's exit means for Democrats in California's governor's race. So here's the thing. Billionaire Tom Steyer and ex-Congresswoman Katie Porter stand to benefit the most in Democratic field with no clear frontrunner, several strategists said.

41:22Tim Dillon:Eric Swalwell's scandal tainted departure from the California governor's. What is so funny, by the way, as I see Kathy Griffin and all these people on threads that were just talking about how great Eric Swalwell was. This is always funny when they're all like, and by the way, they all yell at me because I had J.D. Vance on. They're like, you spoke to J.D. Vance, and now he's doing all of this stuff, and you have blood on your hands. And you go, well, how about you all just were saying how great Eric Swalwell was five minutes ago, and he's throwing women in a closet. He's raping everyone. You were all talking about how great this guy was literally last week.

42:02Tim Dillon:And he's going around and throwing women down the well. And you all tell me how great he was. He understands California is the complex ecosystem of Oh, I'm sorry, that sound? That's a woman that went down the well Can you get up a little news story about what he did, Eric Swalwell? There's all kinds of photos of him, right? All these women are like, this guy's a creep This isn't one of those misunderstanding things I think this guy's a real creep

42:39Tim Dillon:you're yelling at me about jd vance jd vance doesn't attack women it's i don't think his wife even speaks to him eric swalwell what's going on here let's let's watch a little bit by the way the california the new york post moving to california is like obviously not helping it's just the most hysterical reporting ever and i agree with some of what the but there's just no need for another media, like another like psycho media institution in California. Like literally every, every headline from the California post is like homeless trans person chokes, and you're like, all right, let's watch this here.

43:15Tim Dillon:Who's this? Is this Judge Janine? I think that's Judge Janine. Thank God. So now Judge Janine now, friend of the show, Judge Jeanine, who looks drunk. I like Judge Jeanine because she's hammered. I looked at a house by Judge Jeanine in Florida years ago. This is a true story. And my realtor goes, you know, Judge Jeanine lives next door. And I swear, she walked out of her house at a certain point, like 30 minutes into the showing. It was like a long showing. And he goes, Judge Jeanine. And she goes, what? And he goes, this is Tim Dillon. She goes, who? And that was it. And it was that warm welcome.

44:02Tim Dillon:But here she is. This is Judge Jeanine talking about Eric Swalwell, who apparently was an amazing person up until last week when he started throwing women in his closet. Someone who was allegedly drugging, choking, raping victims. Drugging, choking, raping. By the way, by the way, drugging, choking, raping. That's what he was doing. And then everybody on threads, because they're all geniuses, were like, well, this guy's great. We got to throw our support behind him. And he was drugging and choking and raping people. So this idea that like all of these people are like omniscient guardians of truth all the time, you just supported a guy who was drugging, choking, and raping people, which in fairness to Eric Swalwell was probably legal in California 10 years ago.

44:56Tim Dillon:But the point is this, all of these people are the same people that will attack any person who thought Donald Trump had a good idea. That doesn't mean that he's had a million good ideas, but he had some good ideas, and he still does, by the way. He's just chosen to not do anything about any of them. And instead, we're invading Cuba, which is not what anyone signed up for. but these people with no irony and no self-reflection at all who supported the drugging choking raping eric swalwell up until 10 minutes ago will tell you that everyone should be omniscient and know everything that's going to happen give it up for let's listen a little more here to judge janine friend of the show judge janine piero a lot of people make fun of her alcoholism i think a functioning alcoholic is more impressive than a regular person and i always have and let me dig into this before we go to judge when you meet my friend's father was uh and he died of thros delivered it's fine but when he was a functioning alcoholic like a guy who just every morning he wakes up and the goal is just to plow through the day or lady to plow through the day so they can get back home to get booze in a glass so that they can sit on their couch and go to that place where it's okay.

46:23Tim Dillon:They just want to go to that place where it's okay. The second glass, when that second glass, that cork opens, that bottle of wine, that ice clinking in that martini shaker,

46:41Tim Dillon:they just want to go to that place where it's okay and all day they're actually pretty fucking productive because the sooner they get what they need to done they go home and they and and cleared for takeoff they're ready to go they're out of there and they're in that place where everything is warm and everyone loves them and everything's okay and everyone's proud of them so i've always respect to Judge Jeanine. I like functioning alcoholics and I like when they get a little messy. They're going to get a little messy sometimes. Judge Jeanine, take it away. District for a significant period of time, I would expect there would be victims who might have information.

47:23What I think is really important right now is for anyone who has any relevant information or has any complaints.

47:31Tim Dillon:Hold on for a second. Judge Jeanine is now asking people with complaints against Swole. Is she prosecuting this case or they just bring this? Is Judge Janine have anything to do with this? I guess so, right? What is, is Judge Janine like the Attorney General? Now what's going on with Judge Janine? Oh, she's a U.S. attorney. D.C. U.S. attorney. So wait a minute. Was Pam Bondi replaced by Judge Janine? Hold on. What's going on? I need to know this. She's a U.S. attorney. What is Judge Jeanine doing here?

48:10Tim Dillon:So she's United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. So Google who's our Attorney General right now. I'm wondering, who is Attorney General of the United States right now?

48:25Tim Dillon:Todd Blanche, right, the guy who cut the Maxwell deal. Good freak, right, okay. He can play the game. He plays ball. So is she is she like an attorney general for the state of California? No, she doesn't live here. She lives in Florida, right?

48:45Tim Dillon:What is Judge Jeanine doing? Oh, she lives in New York and in whatever. All right, whatever. So Judge Jeanine is a U.S. attorney and I guess they're just bringing her on to is she pursuing a fed case again okay judge okay so dc u.s attorney genie pure announced earlier thursday that she has opened a hotline for anybody to give information about alleged sexual or inappropriate conduct in dc by the married swalwell 45 because you got to remember eric swalwell was a congressman and then he was running for the governor of california by the way fbi director cash patel has also encouraged any possible victims to contact federal law enforcement i I mean, this is a guy that told us there were no, Jeffrey Epstein had no victims.

49:31Tim Dillon:Cash Patel is asking victims of Eric Swalwell to contact law enforcement so he can promptly delete their messages. Cash Patel wants you to call up and leave a message so he can send agents to your house and threaten you. Can you believe it, this goon? Patel goes, we should welcome him to sit down with the FBI and share any information he has. Patel tauntingly wrote on social media Monday evening. Hey, release the files, you fucking fraud. You should be fired.

50:06Tim Dillon:Victims shared harsh graphic stories being assaulted by the new former lawmaker with one accusing Solwell of sexually assaulting her at the Times Square Edition Hotel in April 2024. Well, I'm confident that Cash Patel is going to get to the bottom of this because he's done a great job with the other victims. right with Epstein and all this like he's done a phenomenal job with all the other victims

50:35so this Eric Swalwell guy is out um so this guy's a bad guy okay we're not gonna go through every

50:45Tim Dillon:allegation he's a bad dude he's telling women let's go to the hotel and I gotta get some clothes I got to pick something up. Whatever he's doing, some bad stuff. Now, Katie Porter, friend of the show, and our choice, this is, we're going to make an endorsement now because we don't endorse people on the show ever. But we are endorsing right now, we are endorsing Katie Porter because the Democrats will win California. It's not going to, a Republican is not going to win. Spencer Pratt's not going to win. It's not going to happen. You know? I'm sure Spencer Pratt's a nice guy. But I don't think he's going to win.

51:23Tim Dillon:But maybe he'll win. I don't think he's going to win. But I don't know. The polls are not looking, they're not too hot. We're going to endorse Katie Porter here because we, if we're going to, if it's all going to end, which it is, by the way, spoiler alert, we'd like to end it with Katie Porter. We need kind of this hamburger helper abusive mom to kind of bring it all to heel. let's watch a little bit of this because now this is Katie Porter outlining her priorities. Now, by the way, we don't need to know Katie's policies to endorse her. This is our new rule with any politician we endorse. We don't need to know their policies.

52:05Tim Dillon:And we've never endorsed a politician before, but we're going to start right now with Katie Porter. And we don't need to know her policies. And in fact, we'd rather not, but we're going to watch this news clip anywhere where Katie is going to outline her priorities for the state of California. Now remember, Katie is, I believe, from Orange County. She's a mom. And she's mad and she's angry. So, and we need that. We need kind of that energy because Newsom is too suave. He's like a slick scumbag, lives on a vineyard type of guy. We've had that. Cool as a cucumber, the fucking silver fox hair, all that.

52:46Tim Dillon:But we don't want that anymore. We need a mom who's angry. We need a mom who occasionally shits herself. Not full on. Not like full on where it's embarrassing. But where you just say to yourself, I kind of shit myself. We need a mom who is on the shot, takes a little Mangiorno, and then gets ahead of herself and has a little burrito, and he's got to go home and change the pants.

53:20Tim Dillon:and on the phone with her assistant goes, I shit myself. She's angry at the assistant that she had to spell it out, that the assistant didn't automatically know what I have to go back home means. Well, are you going back home? Is there something that I can pick up at your house? Because you're actually running late. Hey, I gotta go back home. Is there anything I can just get for you because you're actually already 15 minutes late for that? I shit myself! And then there's silence on the other end of the phone. And then the person goes, understood. That's what we need. We need a governor who screams, I shit myself, into the phone.

53:59Tim Dillon:And then there's a quick pause. And then her assistant goes, understood. Katie Porter. Former Orange County Congresswoman Katie Porter is a top Democratic contender in the race for California governor. Ahead of the June primary, Porter is among the Democrats hoping to pick up Congressman Eric Swalwell's supporters. That's right. Drugging, choking, raping. Porter gave an interview to KTLA outlining her party. Drugging, choking, raping. Drugging, choking, raping. That's your boy. Keep going. Sorry. Tackling homelessness and giving free college tuition. KTLA's Annie Rose Ramos reports. Katie Porter says it's time for California's first female governor.

54:42I think this is a time for women to lead. That's right.

54:45Tim Dillon:It now stopped. Katie's on a shot. Katie looks good now. She's on a goddamn shot. Katie looks good. Fuck. Katie's coming. I'm proud of Katie. So now Katie is getting healthier because remember, she almost killed her assistant when her assistant mistakenly stumbled into the frame. So now Katie has started her campaign with it's time for women to lead. This is her first policy. Now I like this policy because it's not about anything that the state is going through. It's not about the budget shortfall or employment. It's not about homelessness or crime. It's not about the fiscal health of the state.

55:30Tim Dillon:It's not about anything climate related, fire prevention or anything like that. Katie's decided the most important thing is just to say it's time for women to lead. Now, you might think the mayor of Los Angeles is a woman. The mayor of the largest city, you know, the one that burned down? The mayor of the largest city in LA is already a woman. In fact, a woman of color. There's tons of women on the LA City Council. You know the council that governs the largest city in the United States of America? that's also a woman the mayor of beverly hills one of the wealthiest cities in america is a woman interesting but katie porter has decided that it's time for women to lead um let's because i so that policy i like so far i like that policy because it does it's not about anything so that's what I like.

56:26Tim Dillon:So I, by the way, this is my, I tell everyone to stay above the fray. Just say things like that. It's time for women to lead and women to be listened to. And so, okay, let's continue. Let's see what policy number two is. Katie Porter. I think this is a time for moms to lead. Okay. Stop, stop, stop. We have policy number two, policy number two from Katie Porter. It's time for moms to lead. Policy number two, because again, this is the morning news. KTLA Channel 5, they're in a disgusting park. They've put Katie Porter in one of those directing chairs. By the way, she's heavily drugged. Not only on the shot, she's heavily drugged because she cannot be, the thing about Katie Porter is she has to be on several medications so she doesn't punch this skinny bitch in the face who's bothering her.

57:22Tim Dillon:So now Katie Porter is, now can you Google if Karen Bass has children, the mayor of LA? I'm just curious. I don't know. I don't really care about people's families, but I just want to make a point. I wonder if Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, is a woman. Oh, she does have a child. Okay, so again, it's interesting because Katie Porter, I guess, doesn't know that the mayor of Los Angeles is a mom and a woman. I'm unaware of this, but the mayor of LA is a mom and a woman. Many of the people on the LA City Council are women Identify as women and believe a lot of them are mothers And I know for a fact that the mayor of Beverly Hills Is a woman and I believe she has children Google mayor of Beverly Hills family Again, I don't really like even talking about people's family I'm just making a point because Katie Porter said it's time for moms to lead And I couldn't agree more Oh,

58:29Tim Dillon:Craig is now the mayor Sharona Nazarian is the one that I know Craig just got elected So a dude just got elected and replaced a woman I thought it was a woman But a dude did just get elected And um

58:44Yeah

58:44Tim Dillon:She was a mother She was a mom And she just did get replaced by a guy But is she running again? I don't know But the point is this there's a lot of people in our country that are are and by the way that are near katie porter katie porter could meet these people and probably has um so we have a mother and a woman leading the city of los angeles that's pretty obvious but so okay so the first two planks in the platform i like women to lead moms to lead let's see let's hit us hit us with some specifics katie don't make us wait katie porter again friend of the show three who drives a minivan sort of famously You must be acutely aware of gas prices.

59:32Californians want relief at the pump. You say no to big oil. Well, one of our reasons that our gas is more expensive here is because we have something called the low carbon fuel standard. We have our own blend of gasoline. And now they see beautiful clean air. We're seeing respiratory health go improve. That's because we have our own fuel blend. So to be clear, you would strongly oppose sort of opening up those refineries, drilling. We have refineries open right now in California, and they need to stay open.

1:00:07Tim Dillon:So now what Katie is now talking about, the news person said, you're a mom, you have a minivan, and there's just pain at the pump. And Katie goes, well, we have pain at the pump because we have a low carbon fuel emission, blah, blah, blah, standard. We have our own blend of gasoline, and now we have clean air and then respiratory health. By the way, a lot of people are getting lung cancer that have never smoked. Whatever. Katie Porter is now claiming that respiratory health is up. Now, I don't know how she's measuring that. Everyone I know is sick every two weeks. People are dying of lung cancer at 24 years old that have never touched a cigarette.

1:00:40Tim Dillon:But Katie Porter is now saying, actually, it's okay that gas is expensive because... But the real answer is Katie Porter says, here's the deal. You don't have to drive far To attack your husband You want to save the gas For the days when you need to show up At your ex-husband's house with a weapon No, Katie Porter I understand what she's saying Because you can't turn everything in Because the Republicans, if they were in power Would just turn everything into Mordor Where everything's oil, sludge, and horror And I get that We can't have that. So let's listen to a little bit more of Katie Porter here.

1:01:25Tim Dillon:Again, we're endorsing her. By the way, without knowing any of these policies, I don't even know what, and she doesn't know what her policies are. It doesn't matter. None of them do. Actually, spoiler alert, none of them have a clue because once you own this dump, then you realize you can't really help anything. Nothing's going to get fixed. But let's listen to a little bit of Katie Porter. The most painful I've had in a long time, it's because of President Trump's war in Iran. That is why she's right. She's hitting Iran. And she's right. One of your platforms, eliminating state income taxes for families making under one hundred thousand dollars, doing this by making the corporate tax structure progressive.

1:02:01That does hinge, though, on a vote. My question to you is what happens if you cannot get the vote? Is there, in other words, a plan B? Californians are going to be the ones, as you point out, who get to decide. And they understand right now.

1:02:14Tim Dillon:She wants to eliminate state income taxes for people under a hundred grand and do that by making the corporate tax progressive. I don't hate that. I don't hate eliminating the, I don't know how many taxes those people pay anyway. I'm sure they do pay taxes. I don't know what the percentage is, but I don't hate that idea. The thing about Katie Porter is she does have some good ideas. She does understand that we do need to help people that have less money. so um let's just finish this out because i do again i'm i like her i i don't hate this woman she's fun to talk about because she's abusive and cruel and all the things that i like and think are important actually um but let's just finish up with her over time they get a big raise at work they might pay a little more tax that year they might get bumped up into a higher bracket and they think it's absolutely fair that the same thing should happen for businesses.

1:03:13You're promising free tuitions at UCs and CSUs in part funded by that progressive corporate tax. You just explained. Can you drill down on some of the details of this plan? My proposal is to pair two tuition-free years at a UC, a CSU, or a Cal Poly with those two free years at community college. Does this apply to people who identify as undocumented? There's no qualifiers on that with regard. So she's saying we're going to give free tuition, two years at a community college and then two years at a regular school.

1:03:46Tim Dillon:And that it'll apply to undocumented people, too. It's whatever she's giving. She's basically saying, listen, we're giving you two years at a community college for free, I think. And then we're going to give you two years at a Cal Poly or or a thing like that. Now, here's the problem with school being the answer. school is not get rid of her by the way thank you Katie Porter we appreciate it we'll see you on a campaign trail I've offered my services no one's called me back

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1:04:59Tim Dillon:School is not the answer. I don't know why we... And I'm serious here. I don't know why we keep this bullshit about school being the answer. School's not the answer. It's clearly not the answer. We literally just talk about the era of the mass layoff. Can you go to that article again? Because by the way, all of those people that just got told to fuck themselves, they all went to school. They all went to college. You think they didn't go to college to work in an Oracle? You think somebody found them on the street? No, they all went to college. of student loans. In Silicon Valley and beyond, companies are cutting staff and doing it with a big ax.

1:05:41Tim Dillon:Instead of laying off people in more incremental and less disruptive ways, employers are seizing on the potential financing upsides, financial upsides, of severing swaths of their workforce at once. That is a departure from not long ago and mass layoffs registered as a sign of trouble or mismanagement that a company needed to take drastic measures to right its performance. Now, such a company is more likely to get a big stock bump and praise from investors for acting boldly. That's what the country we've created, where somebody walks in and goes, we fired everyone. You've acted boldly. You've acted boldly.

1:06:19Tim Dillon:Put them all in the street. Behind the scenes, so Snap got rid of 23 % over the last year. Block shares had fallen 16 % this year before it laid out 4 ,000 and nearly half of its employees in late February. The stock has since reversed those losses and then some. So by the way, companies cutting employees tells the stock market things are good. This is how perverse this is. So if you're eliminating thousands of people from your company and profits are going up that way, instead of your company growing and adding employees and adding market share, you're signaling we're going to eliminate human capital and we're going to eventually automate all of these jobs.

1:07:14Tim Dillon:We're going to use AI and the investors are going to benefit. And instead of the stock market going, oh, you're in a precarious financial position that you need to ax all these people, they go, no, this is great. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of them and put them on the street. But here's my point. All of these people that worked at these companies went to school. They all have degrees. Some of them have graduate degrees. And the idea that educate, you know, when I grew up, everybody taught, and they were not wrong. They talked about how important education was. Education is the key. It's in the information age.

1:08:02Tim Dillon:Education is the key. Don't be in a union, you pig. Don't work construction. Don't work with your hands. Be fat and work in an office. That's the dream. Have back spasms and work in an office all day. And have someone tell you when you move up a floor. You want the big office, Bob?

1:08:29Tim Dillon:You want the big office, don't you, Bob?

1:08:35Tim Dillon:Well, you'll get it soon, Bob. Keep doing everything you're doing. We're looking at you.

1:08:44Tim Dillon:And we told people, we demonized an entire swath of jobs. plumbers, electricians people that work with their hands people that work in unions, people that install HVAC, we said they were all animals and pigs and you want to and they pointed at the people in the street doing construction, fixing potholes on roads that you needed to drive over to get to your fucking house and you said you want to be like them or you want to go to college you want to go to college, you can work at IBM and get cheated on Don't you want to go to college and work at IBM So your husband can cheat on you with a child Your pedophile husband Isn't it a nice life you have Working at IBM The FBI dragged your husband out of the house Pedophile

1:09:36Tim Dillon:That's an aside But the point is this We've demonized So many jobs And so many fields And then Katie Porter and all these people but they cannot help their snobbery. And it's not just Katie Porter. They cannot help looking down on people. They love these institutions and supposedly convey some worth on people. And all of a sudden, all of these people are graduating from college into the weakest job market in years. And they have them. I'm not saying we don't need college. I'm not saying we don't need specialized skills. there's going to be a lot of jobs for nurses and home health aides and you know people that run you know nursing homes and hospices and things like that because we have you know hundreds of millions of people that are about to retire and that are retired about to really need end-of-life care so i get it you're going to need people to compete in highly skilled manufacturing jobs you know taiwan's making all these chips because we haven't devoted a ton of time and resources to preparing a workforce to do those specially skilled high-end manufacturing jobs that we'll need as tech becomes even more and more a part of the economic picture but the idea that like school now listen i get it go and be a teacher go be a specific thing and go get a degree for a specific thing.

1:11:09Tim Dillon:But this idea that you're going to get a very broad degree in some type of discipline that can be applied anywhere. And you also studied philosophy. Well, that's interesting. And that that is going to be your ticket. It's not going to work anymore because Sam Altman has open the Stargate, and the AI demon is chasing you around that little Brooklyn apartment, and he's going to sink his teeth into your neck. Don't be mad at me. It is what it is. You're going to be eliminated whether you have your degree or not. So what Katie Porter should say, if I'm telling you she should say, we need a massive infrastructure project.

1:12:07Tim Dillon:we need high-speed rail. We need to invest in our public spaces. We need to rebuild bridges. We need to rebuild buildings. We need to destigmatize lots of jobs in this country and prepare people for incoming AI. And it's going to take a long time before AI is going out there to replace HVAC or whatever. We need teachers and cops and firefighters. We need medical professionals to help homeless people and addicts. Okay? We need all of that. But to just say we're going to send you to community college and then put you at USC, who gives a fuck? For what? I have a master's in public administration.

1:12:50Tim Dillon:Shut up. Shut up. I'm telling you, Sam Altman has opened the Stargate. It's not as easy anymore as going and getting an impressive degree and standing there in front of your fucking dumb family. Sharon's so smart. We always knew she was smart. Is she? Is she smarter than the AI demon? Oh, I think not. I think not. So what's coming is going to be incredibly disruptive. And it would be smart if our politicians started shifting our cultural values along with their priorities and start talking about realistic, rational ways for people to actually earn a living. But again, listen, we can all be wrong, right?

1:13:40Tim Dillon:Kicking, choking, drugging, raping, choking, raping, drugging. Your friend, you went to fundraisers at his house. You drank wine with him. You talked about how great he was on threads, Kathy Griffin and others. And by the way, I don't fault you. he said some nice things should I go around faulting everyone? is it their fault? I don't think it's their fault kicking maybe it wasn't kicking maybe I'm adding kicking I think I'm adding drugging choking raping is enough I think I'm adding kicking to that I think I'm adding kicking I think it was I think drugging choking raping I think I'm adding kicking.

1:14:31Tim Dillon:Can we just, let's get a little more Judge Jeanine here, just from the beginning here. Hear about someone who was allegedly drugging, choking, raping victims. Okay, I added kicking. It's drugging, choking, and raping. I added kicking. So as a journalist, I'm taking responsibility. I don't know if Eric Swalwell kicked them. He drugged them, choked them, and raped them. I added kicking. I just got ahead of myself. I imagine when you were drugging, choking, and raping someone that you might throw a kick. So as a journalist, I want to apologize to the members of the press community for insinuating that Eric Swalwell, who drugged, raped, and choked women, that he also kicked them.

1:15:27Tim Dillon:He may not have kicked them. He may have kicked him and we don't know.

1:15:35Tim Dillon:But we support Katie Porter. It's time for women to lead. It's time for moms to lead because it's time for moms to go out there. Women, moms, time for moms. And not rich moms, minivan moms. I believe this. minivan moms who've had enough that's kind of the the we need to pivot in that direction pivot away from gavin newsom his silver hair you know his charm you know his wife's out there talking about killing someone remember she killed someone gavin newsom's wife she went to some jail she's like you're all killers but so am i and we're all doing fine she goes it was an accident I killed someone as an accident.

1:16:25Tim Dillon:I killed you. And I'm sure you all killed someone as an accident. Try to get up. Gavin Newsom's wife, and then we'll end the show like this, but Gavin Newsom's wife recently was like, hey, she went to a jail, or maybe it was a while ago, and it just surfaced recently. But she was basically, she killed someone by accident. So Jennifer Sybil Newsom, the wife of Gavin Newsom, yeah, she accidentally killed her sister. Make this bigger, please. She killed her sister back. Governor Gavin Newsom's wife told inmates she had killed her sister in a freak golf carting accident in an apparent attempt to connect with them.

1:16:59Yeah. Yeah.

1:17:02Tim Dillon:Jennifer Sybil Newsom, an actress, documentary filmmaker, and wife of Gavin Newsom, recounted her comments in a resurfaced clip from 2016. Speaking at a tech conference in San Francisco, she said she, quote, had to be very raw when she interviewed the young offenders for a 2015 documentary, which examined how cultural norms about masculinity affected boys. I told them about my own loss, she says in the footage, with tears in her eyes. She said, I lost my eldest sister a few days before my seventh birthday, and I blame myself for her death. Well, what? Why? During a holiday to Hawaii in 1981, Miss Newsom, then age six, had been playing with her eight-year-old sister, Stacey, when the golf cart she had been driving went into reverse and killed Stacey.

1:17:45Tim Dillon:Here's what happened. Do you want to know what happened? she said she didn't see the sister behind the cart. That's a lie. That's a lie.

1:18:01Tim Dillon:Here's what happened. She was on a golf cart, and she's young. She doesn't know golf carts kill people. She sees the sister behind her. She tries to scare the sister a little bit, and she kills her. She kills her. It's manslaughter. It's manslaughter. I'm not saying, hey, you're a kid, but it's manslaughter. it's manslaughter. Well, in this case, woman slaughter, or as Katie Porter would call it, mom slaughter. Because it's time for women to lead. It's time for women to get in the golf carts and kill their sisters again. And then go to the prison and talk about it. But, and God bless Jennifer Sybil Newsome, whatever.

1:18:40Tim Dillon:God bless, get her out of here. But, and we, that's a sad tragedy and whatever. And she went to a jail and said, I'm sure all of you guys are in here because of a golf accident as well. Aren't all you guys in here because of a golf carting accident? And then some guys like, no, we actually dissolved the body of a guy in a tub. Right. So was it, which hole was that? Hole 19? Yes, hole 19. The one after 18. The one off the course, hon. Anyway, that's Jennifer Sybil Newsome, but that's not what we need. We don't need people, you know, with golf cart accidents in their past. We need a Katie Porter.

1:19:19Tim Dillon:We need a woman who at the public pool summer snack bar, I want you to picture this. She's in Teva sandals. Those are the sandals. They're not flip-flops. They're Tevas. They have the get-up Teva sandal. It's the Velcro. Make that big. She's in a Teva Sandal There it is Katie Porter's in a Teva Sandal at the Summer Snack shop at the pool And she's on A line And there's two people ahead of her And one of them's Some Republican dad She just knows She knows he's some fucking Republican dad and she's standing there and her eyes are burning the back of his head and she's praying she just wishes a freak lightning strike came out of the clear blue sky and just zapped him and watch him burn and she stands there and she stands there and she stands there and then she gets one of the children nuggets and the other one pizza and she gets herself a Caesar salad and she sits down by the pool and she goes, it's time to eat!

1:20:46Tim Dillon:Time to eat! That's how she talks. Time to eat! Get out of the park, time to eat! And the kid has one nugget and wants to go back to the pool. And then the kid takes two bites of the pizza and goes back to the pool. And she's secretly relieved because now she has four nuggets and 80 % of a slice of pizza at the public pool. And the kids go back and play in the pool and she goes, fine, well, whatever, we'll eat later. And she quickly and quietly eats the nuggets in the pizza and she puts them in the garbage and she sits down and her friend texts her and goes, listen, the Swalwell thing's breaking right now.

1:21:42Tim Dillon:Drugging, choking, raping. We're back. And Katie Porter, with pizza still lodged in her throat and sauce on her fingers, looks at her iPhone and she lives another day. the gleam in her eyes could light a thousand torches through the woods it's time for women and even more than that it's time for moms bye bye andy and anna here from your new favorite podcast no such thing as a fish yes we are two of the four hosts of the podcast that stuffs fascinating, amazing, weird, mad facts into your ears on a weekly basis. You got any good facts, Andy? Yes. How about this one? Anteaters have evolved on 12 separate occasions.

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