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The District of Columbia on our nation's capital. Yeah, and thank you very much. You and Tammy had that and Hillary rose into it. Yes, right.
Through a book party for me last night, and I not only felt very American, I felt very loved. Yes, yes, it was a nice book party for the Eldrop Happiness. But you had a rant. You ransed it in front of the power elite of Washington.
That was nice. I loved it. But everyone seems so shocked. There's no rangers down here.
No, but no. Everyone literally seemed like they were going to swallow their tongue. I'm not sure if they were horrified or turned on. Yeah.
To mix it up. It was like sex with me when I was a younger man. I'm horrified to get slightly compelled. It was funny.
What is going on here? Because you were like, first of all, you trashed all the tech companies and then blamed everyone here for not doing their job, right? You're like, they're doing their job, but you're not doing yours. And if it walks like a duck.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And then you talked about happiness, how they can be happy, which makes sense. That was an easy step away.
That's right. Angry to press professor on happiness. That makes all the sense of that. Yeah, it was quite something.
There was silence in the room. You have to see case there. You have a bunch of people. You have a lot of people.
You have a lot of people. You're the president. You're going to go on now. You think no one's invited to be the press.
That's what's called good judgment. Who's that woman with perfect skin? Who's that crazy smart? Who's on there all the time?
She was there last night. Oh, yeah. Yeah. She was on our yummy cheat.
She was a coach. She's amazing. She had been to the Acosta press conference. She was telling me all about it.
Yeah. And he was there too. Although he looks 14. What's with all these young people?
Seriously. Who was there? Who was there? Who was there?
Jim Acosta? No, no, no, Jim Acosta. Yeah. Yeah.
They looked 14. Yeah. And the former Wonder Woman was there was really funny. Oh my God, how awesome was that?
What's that? So I was a young woman who served in like Wonder Woman and that kind of coy. And she runs up to you and hugs you and she's delightful and nice and friendly. Yeah.
She's great. She's great. She's great. She's great.
Anyway, we had a good time and now you're tricked out with swag from Tammy and Democriting. We had a deep pillow. T-shirts, all this crap. He's wearing a Democriting Dies and Darkness T-shirts from the Washington Post.
Okay. Which is very fun. And we're so good. Good, I'm glad you had a good Washington.
Here we are in Washington. There's lots to talk about in Washington. Right now, as we speak, I think President Trump is having a social media summit. Yeah, that'll work.
I know. I wrote this week about the decision, the really big decision, actually, that he cannot block people on Twitter. He's got to everyone. He can't block people he doesn't like, essentially.
And neither can other public officials. And I wrote a comment about how he's more tethered to Twitter than ever. This is sort of the marriage made in reality heaven. And then how he uses it and what would he do without it?
And one of the things he's having, of course, even though he's indebted to Twitter and indebted to the internet and others in the text base, he's having a social media summit which he didn't invite Twitter and didn't invite Facebook to, nor did they want to come. And it's packed full with people who are going to whine about shadow banning and this and that. So anything? Well, we talked about this.
It is a marriage made in hell, right? But it's a marriage. They're incredibly good for each other. Twitter is probably a few billion dollars market capitalization they own to the president, because they're constantly in the news.
And he has direct access to what 63 million people? Yes, 63, he's 60. Unfortunately, the media will ask questions back. And they have a little bit of discretion.
And they editorial and filters and people argue that's maybe the problem, the media. But a lot of the stuff he puts out there just wouldn't be newsworthy. And the notion that social media has been anything but outstanding for the far left and the far right, it's kind of whack job central. Right.
I agree. So I wrote it in the comment that it's more important. It's not just that it's good for him. He's using it to govern.
And so one of the things that happened this week, and it's happened several times, is that he put out a tweet, essentially saying the reports about the citizenship question not being on the census were fake. And they were actually statements put out by the Justice Department, which he is in charge of in the Commerce Department. And so the people at the Commerce Department and the Justice Department didn't know what to do in one of the lawyers in the case, because the judge was like, what's going on? And he was like, I don't know what the tweet means.
So he's governing by tweet. So it's really fascinating if this is appropriate, or it is what it is, essentially. Well, it's just a shocker to see the president be wrong on something. It's, you know, who's.
I guess why they did what he said via tweet. Whatever he commanded via tweet, they're doing. Yeah, I don't. I just don't understand.
I mean, the interesting move would be if Twitter, you know, said, like, he's violated our terms of service and then kicked them off the platform. I think that would be incredibly interesting to Twitter. But the problem is someone who then created a shadow account and just are posting everything he says. We've seen so.
But that's harder. That would still be harder. It would really minimize his impact on it. Or at least it would.
Certainly. It would not have the same visceral, quick, hot pop. But look what's happened. All the intermediaries that thought of themselves as having discretion and power are being disrupted, whether it's, you know, we talk about direct-to-consumer.
This is hot space where it's, like, a way or quipped, or peloton where they've said, we can bypass this industrial complex of distribution and go straight to the consumer. And the same thing's happened with media. Everyone's like, OK, let's go buy. Do an end-runner on the gatekeepers.
And the president reflects that. And in some ways it's tough. He's going between an end-runner on his own agencies. In my sense, he doesn't listen to anyone.
I don't know. It's just interesting. I think he was going to be using it. He'll be interesting if it's contagious.
Yeah, that's true. That's candidate. candidate is just dude. I think he probably is there today complaining about this.
Who's there Facebook and Twitter aren't there? Who's there at social media today? Nobody. Nobody from social media.
Is Pinterest there? No. Nobody's going. No.
Listen, I talked to Silicon Valley. I mean, not that anyone. It's worth $3 a month. Yeah, but I talked to such many people.
We're not going. We weren't right. Well, that's the worst photo op in the world, right? Yeah.
That's OK. I'm standing next to someone. I'm not going to be scolded. Yeah.
Anyway, they're not going. They weren't invited. And if they showed up, actually, they'd be jailed. Because you can't break into the White House.
It's interesting that they're doing this without it. But whatever, it's just for press. Anyway, it'll be interesting to see what happens. So the other big story, obviously, is Jeffrey Epstein.
Yep. Yep. Now you're looking at me. So give me your view.
You go first. This is so dangerous. It is. You know, this was implications for the country, obviously.
And obviously, this guy is linked all over the place. He's not just linked in Wall Street. He's linked in Silicon Valley. He's got a lot of Silicon Valley investments.
When you say links, OK, this is where I like her. Well, he's centralized. Please try not to. There's no good way.
Now that this is successful. The abuse of young women. Look, let me start off by saying, if he's guilty of half of the things, he's accused of he should die in prison. Right?
These things are terrible. When they're against children, I like the fact that Michael Jackson died, 90 pounds involved. Because I think his truth had emerged in terms of what he had done. And he needed literally to be necessitated every night to sleep.
I think he got his come up. And I think Jeffrey Epstein didn't. But I think there's a couple things going on here. They're interesting.
And I think ultimately will come out. And first is, I think we're in the midst of a revolution. Whenever you have this level of income inequality, you're going to picture this for us. I'm going big.
I'm big picture in it. But the big gods going to fly. Right. So this represents what?
This represents what? The pullback. My brain is a like on heroin. This represents what?
Well, OK, so whenever you get to a level of income inequality, we have now get self-corrects in one of three ways. War, famine, and revolution. And when the midst of a revolution where we decided to go after rich people. Now, he's a rich pedophile.
But this is the thing. Florida fucked up and didn't figure out a way to put him in prison for the rest of his life. And I believe this is quite frankly, it's double jeopardy. And they're claiming because the feds decided not to prosecute him, they can prosecute him again.
But what would happen if all of a sudden we decided in 20 years that crack or 10 years was the scourge of the universe. And we started going back and re-prosecuting people who are already out of prison for crack. So did Florida State prosecutors totally screw up here? It's Florida State prosecutors.
Alex Acosta, who is the labor secretary? Oh, yeah. And he's in a ton of hot water now. But I don't think, but this is an awful person.
He should be in prison right now. But part of our justice system is you don't retry things. They screwed up. They shouldn't have screwed up.
Well, what's going to happen? They're going to come up with new people now. You think they'll find those? Oh, lots, tons.
I think they probably have them at this point. And also, there were other activities that they weren't prosecuting in New York. And so, well, that's what they're claiming. They're claiming one of the victims came into New York airspace.
Yeah, there were tons of stuff. I think yesterday, like, six or seven more came up. So I think that's where it's going. And what's the media doing?
The media's immediately going, OK, who is on his plane? I mean, if someone offered me a chance to get off Spirit Airlines and they were a pedophile, I'd say, OK, fine. Look, the implications of people knew. I think that's one of the things.
They'd actually some of these guys go on. The rumor was out there. The rumor was out there about him among a lot of people. Even Trump's comments that he's a great guy.
He's a terrific guy. But he likes the young guy. They were all insinuations almost persistently. They knew what was going on.
Or some section, some version of it. And so I think that's what was interesting. Old media actually started this thing off, which was eventually Brown who just kept out of the show. And so it's interesting.
Old media does have a little kick in it. So what's clear, though, is sort of more going on. If you commit a crime, you don't want to be poor, because prosecutors come in and say, we're going to put you away for 30 or 40 years unless you cop to a plane, go to prison for three years. So I believe there's a lot of innocent people in prison who were worried about spending the rest of life in prison, so cop to play.
And you also don't want to be a billionaire, because I think billionaires become new targets in what is a soft revolution against rich people. Interesting. So what you want to be. It's so bad.
It's so violent. It's so violent. But I don't know. I don't think being rich is a crime.
So bottom line is, if you commit a crime, you want to be rich-ish. You don't want to be. You don't want to be. The worst place is to be poor, because you have to cop a plane and you're probably intimidated and have to end up in prison, maybe when you shouldn't be in prison.
And second, you don't want to be a billionaire, because we're in the midst of a revolution. All right. But now, the economy, as we're going to get to the last thing here, is never been better. We've got this great economy.
The Fed is thinking of cutting rates, and the economy went crazy. But one of your rants yesterday was against rich people getting away with stuff at the party, and also that there weren't enough startups that start up. Culture is dead, essentially, is there haven't been enough of that. And so how do you juxtapose these two things?
You're ruining everything and being unfair of the news, because I think you're wrong. I think it's a nuanced argument. Look, the Fed cutting rates, I'm not an economist, but it feels to me like socialism on steroids, and we artificially suppress interest rates, so that we can create asset inflation, who owns assets, rich people. So who needs a little bit of inflation to get greater wages, middle-class people.
So again, this is nothing of a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. The notion we're going to cut interest rates to me just makes absolutely no sense. And also, you hear all these billionaires, Jamie Diamond, and Rich People saying tax me, it's not noble. It's self-preservation.
They recognize that people with pitchforks and lanterns are coming for them. People are just so fed up. So there's a lot of work here. But I think we're in the midst of a soft revolution.
We're also in the midst. I think when the Epstein case, I think the Southern District is going to my prediction here. I think the Southern District is hoping someone to drop a dime on the president. And I think this is an end run to get at the president.
And I think we have a group of very intelligent government officials who have said, this is no longer about partisanship. They look at the president and say, OK, he's a bigot. He's a Republican. Maybe like him.
We don't. But I think the thing that has created real concern amongst government officials, including people in the Southern District, is he's stupid. And it's dangerous to have someone stupid in the White House. I think when you have Iranian government seizing or trying to seize the British tankers at this morning, it's because the president and his diplomatic staff have failed to acknowledge one of the basics of game theory and geopolitics as an agency or strengthen greatness as an agency of others.
And we've slowly but surely done the equivalent of cut our military in half by alienating our European allies who have large armies of fantastic intelligence services. So Iran is like a shark bumping a big fat stupid seal right now. And you should be. The big best stupid seal would be Trump, correct?
I think it's just clarifying. Blowing a drone out of the air. Sea mammal. There you go, sea mammal.
Blowing a drone out of the air. And because they know we're not going to go into the Middle East or the Earth or the time. And they know the guys, military has been cut in half, because he's not getting along with our allies. They're just literally, they haven't read basic game theory strategy.
And Iran. It's been mentioned they went to go. Well, and this all goes back to the worst geopolitical decision of the last 50 years since we went to the South East Vietnam was when we decided to take out the buffer against Iran and destroy Iraq. But anyway, that was the Iraq-Iran award.
Now, Iran's this power. And quite frankly, they are flexing their muscles. And they're now the power in the region. And I think we're somewhat new to do anything about it, unfortunately.
All right, let me get you back to the economy. The startup culture, the innovation. Sure. So there's this myth that we're in this.
The Arab innovation, largely this myth, implemented by big technology. And we're actually in Arab non-innovations. Which is what you said about that. 30 years ago, 15% of companies were less than a year old, now it's down to 7%.
Twice as many companies being started in the car administration as they're being started now, because the fastest growing parts of our economy, search, social, digital marketing, technology hardware, are all controlled by one or two monopolies are do-oply. So we basically said, I know, let's take the fastest growing parts of our economy, and let's let one firm dominate it, and aggregate unbelievable spoils from the entire market with a few people. So you have companies worth $550 billion, Facebook spread across 22,000 employees, and the companies like Ford, with 150,000 employees, it's worth $50 billion. And it's great to be a shareholder of Google, right?
It's great to have real estate or the Frawi dealership and Palo Alto, or San Francisco. But it's terrible for the economy. And the government's job is to prevent a tragedy of the commons. And we have a tragedy here.
Did you feel like you got through them? I don't know. I've been down here a lot. Yeah, I've been down here a lot for me.
But look, I have this really kind of, I think, strange impression of DC. And my impression of DC is it's a bunch of thoughtful, nice people who want to do the right thing to get along. And that's my impression so far. I think that's what he said.
Yeah, I represented Walden, Senator Warren, Senator Bennett. I'm new with these guys, and they all seem really generally concerned and want advice on what to do. So the world isn't what it is. We can absolutely fix this.
The thing that's unfortunate, I think, is a lot of people feel resignation around big tech that we're outgunned and it's too late. And it's just so ridiculous that people down here and turn back Hitler, they would cure polio. Yeah, this discussion might sound less like he goes. Maybe they're too big to fight.
And I go, nobody is too big to fight. Alex Swisher. We took on the Imperial Army. It's a pan that had been the Imperial Navy.
It'd never lost a battle. I don't like the Imperial Navy. He's gone. You got to go to the war.
You got to go to the history channel. I'm old. This is one of the ways I can tell I'm old. I just watch films about Hitler.
And the idea of a cruise doesn't sound awesome. We are not invading. It's not really. Well, we could absolutely fix this.
Well, I like this professor. We're going to take a break now. We're going to get back to other things. Next, I like this professor Galway comes to Washington.
Yeah, it's fun, right? Yeah. And I'm getting all the swag. And I was at the line hotel with all the cool millennials.
Getting pretty drunk. I met a transgender hooker. She was pretty nice. And a nice young man, a gentleman said, I love your work.
Yeah, where's it? And nothing to say. Oh, wait, we got to tell this story. We'll do it next.
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What is it? Insure domestic tranquility? So you're talking about a foundational document. So I'm building a document that will protect American democracy.
That's this week on America, actually. Just got to come back. Tell your story. So I'm getting on a helicopter to go to Montauk, because that's how the big dog rolls.
Which you want to blade? And I'm on blade, which is literally like douchebag air. Anyway, so the guy I don't even call it with the lights and the elevators, the helicopter in. Yeah.
He's like guiding him in left right, whatever. Which is the ultimate invisible until you fuck up job. You're a totally anonymous. And then you might become infamous for a brief moment.
Anyways, we're going out trying to make sure that the tall guy, the big bird guy, doesn't get decapitated by his blade spinning at 1100 RPMs. And he's got a pretty important job. And he looks at me and then he looks back and then he whips and stops doing his very important job and goes, and screams out, where's Cara? So literally people, again, we're conjoined twins.
People think that we just roll the air. We don't hang out. You invite me out all the time. You always say you're going to take me out to dinner.
And then what do I get? Nothing. I get your partner. You know who loves me?
And it's pretending she doesn't know me. She's my new crush. Who? Worryed out.
Oh, yeah. She was in. Oh, my God. She comes.
She's like, hi, I'm Maureen Dowd. And I'm like, you know who I am? You know who I am? She's got she's in the dog at the park playing with his ball.
She knows who I am. You know what? Maureen Dowd. Oh, my gosh.
She got Nancy Pelosi to give up some good stuff. That was big this week. That was big this week. Yeah.
There's a fight with the squad. OK, that's going to be my morning dad one this week by getting Nancy Pelosi in the squad into a fight. And then we're supposed to say, don't tweet to them to the squad. You can't do that.
That's your win. That's not my win. But it was passing. My win, obviously, is making for Pino.
Yeah, that was inspiring and incredible. And you know what's great for looking indicator? My son's eight and 11. They're in town and we were going to hang out with her.
Rose Lavelle. Rose Lavelle. Thank you. Thank you.
But I think Megan is really interesting. And she's sort of using this media moment everywhere on Twitter, on that stuff. Yeah, she's interesting. You know, saying, I want everything.
I deserve everything, essentially, which is confident women is not something you can see a lot. You do see confidence, but she's really aggressively confident, which is great. And then she's using it to say, you know, we have to be better. We've got to love more.
Hate less. She talks about making the world a better place. And then she talks directly to Trump. Your message is excluding people.
You're excluding me. It's just a really interesting use of all the mediums, but her now and this team. And it's weird, too, because the reaction when a female athlete commands the space she occupies, it seems obnoxious. Yeah.
Look at what dudes do. Look at the celebrations and how obnoxious they are. And when a woman does it, it's, oh, no. Oh, why do people like it?
I think a lot of people. I think she'll get used to it. They better get used to it, because that's the way lesbians roll. And that's what we're going to do.
I do that all the time. It's interesting, because when I did it, because when someone was like, why do you think you do? Well, I said, because I'm fantastic. And they were like, well, isn't that.
And I was like, what? It was into the reaction was fascinating. And this failed to me this week, for Mac with a major security vulnerability. I think they've had a good run in the stock market, so they had a camera business on your computer or your phone or something like that.
We've left it soon. Do you use them? I do, all the time. Yeah.
I love it. I love it. It's a great product. Yeah, I was going to do one of the better IPs.
Yeah, but they can't have a security vulnerability in their cameras. Now, if a camera on my computer is recording shit, it is completely embarrassing for them. That's a better business. So what does your win and fail?
So actually, I'm going to go, my fail is the dispute between AOC and Pelosi. I think Putin and his bitch, the president, would love to see the Democrats go after each other falling into their hands. Yeah. And AOC is the Muhammad Ali of our generation.
She's brave, she's amazing. And Nancy Pelosi is the Nancy Pelosi of our generation. All right. Okay.
The two of them should literally lock hands and say, all right, we're the peanut butter and chocolate of the shit and we're just going to do our job. So in any way to see them not hand in hand, it's like, all right, get in a room and hug it out because they're too important and they're too important. They don't agree with everything. I mean, I suppose you got to protect them in the middle.
I agree with you, but I'm with her. I know, but she's got to protect the middle. She's got to protect the ones that got her there. Behind closed doors.
Behind closed doors. I mean, every now and then of that tweet. I just don't think they'd start snipping each other. I think that's it.
And then Kelly, how I jumped in and used it a phrase from. Yeah, well, she's the word cat fight, which made her look stupid. It's like we're not back in dying of two days. She's the word cat fight.
There you go. What is your win this week? My win is kind of strange. It's the United States Navy.
So I have a close, Fran Conny Hawk West, who's husband, Commander Brian Cowen, passed away a few weeks ago and was late to rest with military honors. And so I'm a super impressive guy. He's been 20 years in the Navy, an impressive guy. And obviously speaks well to the Navy to be able to attract him into the service at two wonderful kids, Lucanana.
And I immediately liked him because he was an orzeman like me at Yale. I was at UCLA. And what does he decide to do? Does he go to Wall Street?
Does he go to work for Google? No. He goes to medical school at Penn and then goes to Walter Reed to do his residency. And now he's on a ship conducting surgery on young men and women at sea.
And I think it just makes me feel a little bit safer knowing people that's impressive or standing watch for us. And I think how does the US Navy, how they created a culture that has and continues to attract such impressive young men and women? And I don't know what it's done. But hats off to the Navy for standing watch and whatever it is they do to continue to attract some of our best and brightest men and women.
So my winner is the US Navy. I'm feeling very good. He was a doctor for the Navy. He was a doctor for the Navy.
He was a doctor for the Lieutenant Commander. He was indeed a judge on a ship. A lot of places he actually did a lot of stuff with an Asa. He was on those boats.
He was in San Domingo. He put him through school. He didn't have money. He didn't have a war.
He couldn't afford college. And he put him through medical school and college. And then he served until he got out and he talked just right after he got out of the airport. Literally half a year.
He was very young. He was 33. 34. Yeah.
So his whole life was in the military. It's an interesting place. I want to do it in the military. You told me to spy.
I wanted to be in the military. I wanted to go around and do it. And what stopped at? How did you get up here at Vaub?
Gay. Gay? Stop, I'm old. Don't ask them to get in.
Don't ask them to stop? Yeah, they are. They don't tell. They can't tell.
I'm going to talk to my repeat soon. I can't go if you don't. Her pee came out fairly late. After?
He was in the military. Yes. I couldn't do it. You just can't do it.
No. Far as like ask me. Ask me. I'm going to tell you.
I wanted to tell you. I already told. It was difficult. You came out when it wasn't cool.
It was very hard. He was very hard. Anyway, we really wish I had been in the military. That would have been nice.
I would be a general right now. General is something. Yeah, that's just frightening. I don't even like to think that.
I would totally be a general. And then I'd go fight with Trump and things like that. It'd be great. My dad took me to Annapolis to try and get me excited about it.
Mostly because they didn't want to pay for my college. And I found out the first year it's changed now they weren't allowed off campus. And then I went to UCLA during sorority rushing. Now I'm going to UCLA.
I'm going to UCLA. I'm going to UCLA. I'm going to UCLA. I'm going to UCLA.
I'm going to UCLA. I'm going to UCLA. I'm going to UCLA. Now we came from the episode you were talking about New Korea and the Chinese trade war.
You said within the next 99 days, people are going to start geopolitically testing the system. And Trump's weaknesses. And we're more than halfway mark to 90 mark. You were correct.
Well look, again, agency and strength, are strength is in the agency of others. Our adversaries see our allies fracturing. Because of just an incredibly poor strategy and weak thought leadership on the part of the administration, they start testing us. And so they start casting us.
Now, Iran is seriously testing us. So this was going to happen. It's only going to get worse. It's a huge disappointment that were literally you know, the greatest alliance in the history of mankind, and that's a North American treaty, the North Atlantic allies.
It's just incredible to think that we would be this stupid, and I think there was going to be ramifications. At this point, I'd say, what is the next testing? I don't think it'd be a problem. Let's double down on your prediction.
It's difficult. It's difficult to, it could be anything. It could be Russia deciding to, like, according to, quote, to a soft invasion of one of their neighbors. It could be another missile being launched by North Korea, another test.
It could be the Iranians spinning up their uranium again. I mean, all sorts of stuff. I'm pretty sure it's not going to be Canada. I'm pretty sure it's not going to be Canada.
That's what he does not do so well, though. He might need something. Yeah, guys. That guy's great.
Yeah. He might need to do something. Yeah. Might need to make some text.
Take over in Minnesota. That's it. Minneapolis has ours. Tomorrow belongs to me.
I mean, basically Minnesota is Canada. I managed to make Nazis just in Trinidad and Minnesota. I'm not to clear how that works. I think I'm still a bit drunk.
I had four makers in Ginger's last night at the bar. Oh, right. Yeah. That was nice.
That one who gave me a ride home, your ex-wife. It's literally like, you're, again, you're the Sultan of Brunei with, if you were a man, you would be horrified by you. It's like, there's wives, ex-wives, kids everywhere. Yeah.
Anyways. Well, what can I say? Back to Barbara. Back to Barbara.
I'm, you know, and I start thinking, is there a ready-teller near here? I don't know what's going to happen here. Stop, we're going to, let's get you out of Washington before you end up in the title basin with a stripper. That is really what's going to happen.
You say that like it's a bad idea. I can't believe I'm going to go to Trump hotel. That's my hobbies, Carrot. All right, whatever.
I got to get you out of Washington before there's a scandal to Jour. Anyway, there's lots of big political guests coming on Ricodie Goodsoon. I interviewed your friend Michael Bennett, Senator Michael Bennett yesterday, and Pete Buttig, I loved him. He was very wonky.
He's going to be here in like four minutes. Anyway, Adam Schiff, I'm going to visit up on Capitol Hill. He's a gangster too. Yeah, I'm injuring Lauren Underwood and Andrew Yang, and there's so many political people.
I'm going to, hopefully, be talking about Elizabeth Warren soon. Yeah, what do you think? I think you're super impressive. I mean, this is going to be interesting.
I'm going to need your help with questions. Yeah, no, I don't. Give me one for Pete Buttig, Judge, and see here. Why'd you come out so late?
Well, everyone ask them that. Give me another. What did he say? Because I did.
And what about, I would be very interested in how serving in the military has changed his view of the world. I think that people who serve along side brave men and women and put their lives at risk for the country, I just think that's got to change forever. All right, I'm going to see her as Salahum. I'm going to ask her.
And also, quite frankly, is he taking oxygen away from other candidates? A gay man who ever sees governs 150,000 people, a third of the size of congressional district? What makes him believe he is qualified to be president other than we have something totally non-qualified right now? Well, that would be an argument.
You know, is America ready for a gay president? I'd like to think so. You think America's ready for a fattic? You've had a gay president?
I'm sure we have. There are rivers everywhere. Really? Yeah, but it's back in the 1800s.
Oh, really? I didn't know that. Yeah. But I'd like to think we're ready.
I'm just an enormous fan of his. I think he's got the... But you think he's taking him too much oxygen? Interesting.
Well, he's fairly captain, but give him. We met his strategy head, the woman who's sort of the mastermind behind the curtain. She's an incredibly impressive person, I heard last night. But yeah, he's done a great...
Who would have thought? You know what's impressive about these people is they even have the confidence to say, okay, I'm there up at the city of 150,000 people. I'm going to have a president. That takes a lot of confidence.
The confidence is the one word for it? Yeah, so what is it? Is it confidence or delusion, right? But right now it looks like confidence.
It's confidence. I need you to help him explain. He keeps talking about you can't have what's more important to mock your capitalism. I still don't quite understand what he means about that.
He says a lot of things that are like that. He's so smart, but I don't really understand what he's saying. He describes Michael Bennett. He's very wonky.
He does explain. He's still my man though. No, he was great. But Merritt Pete's in the wings.
In the wings. All right. I will ask these questions to these people. Anyway, thank you Scott.
Thank you, Karen. Thanks for hosting such a wonderful audience. No problem. Very American and I felt loved and affirmed.