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Two best friends fucking fast for mixing to our case we're having a blast seeing these dreams thinking on screens it was all bad like you know like whatever together forever every chair we're going forever we'll say you bad like whatever welcome to like whatever a podcast for by and about gen X i'm Nicole and this is my BFFF Heather Hello All right so we have to start talking by start talking about this Lizzie Borden show on Netflix.
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Did you finish it?
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Nope.
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Me neither.
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So Heather texts me this weekend that the Lizzie Borden show was off the rails.
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And I was like tremendously.
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I didn't even realize it was on.
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Like, I'll go watch it.
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And I forced myself to watch like three or four episodes.
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It's about how far I got.
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And then it was bedtime, and the next day I was like, it's not worth it.
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It was terrible.
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It's awful.
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Like I understand that it's like a recreation of a story, but firstly, it was all about the maid.
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Yes.
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It just happened to be the maid story with a character named Lizzie Borden in it.
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And Netflix loves to throw random lesbian relationships in all over the place.
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They're always very seem out of place and awkward.
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Yeah.
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They've been doing that for years.
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Okay.
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Here's the thing.
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The story's a great story to begin with.
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Yes.
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Like it's just on its own.
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Yes.
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If you just went with what was factual.
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And I think literally the only factual items in this thing is the two people got murdered and everyone's names.
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That's it.
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Correct.
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That's like basically the end of the truth in the Netflix series.
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And I I just I don't understand.
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I mean, I I get you want to make a story and you're gonna get creative, but how about we then just on its own?
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Make it its own make another story about this maid.
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Yes.
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And then another thing I didn't get about her, if you're so worldly and traveled and knowledgeable, why are you being abused by the woman of the house and sexually abused by the dad?
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Like, why are you there?
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Like I if you have all these other cool places to go and see and do, why are you there?
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And um here's where I just okay.
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I could I could get with the the maid saying, fine, we'll roll with that if that's the angle you want to take, because obviously it is an unsolved homicide still, and blah blah blah.
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That's the way you want to take it, fine.
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Why are we throwing other serial killers in there?
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Like, what is up with that?
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She didn't know about Elizabeth of Balfour.
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What's was up with the Eileen Warno's thing?
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That's where I was done.
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Yeah.
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The Eileen Warno's thing.
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No.
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Right.
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We're done now.
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I can't with that.
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Like you're just now you're just being insane.
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Like that's just crazy to throw.
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And she's in there wait.
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Why is she in so much?
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Just make the Eileen Warno's one.
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Right.
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You could have just done that.
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That is what you tried to make Lizzie Borden.
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Just do Eileen.
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You already had it.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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And and and okay, so maybe and maybe you could throw Elizabeth Balfour in there.
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That's a great story, too.
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And could make its own, like should probably be its own because she was a monster.
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I love that one.
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I love that one.
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So do that.
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But why are you making the Lizzie Borden the Eileen Warno story?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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There was nothing about the Lizzie Borden story.
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No, nothing.
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No.
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It was just there were X's in it.
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I mean, I guess that's kind of close.
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I don't know.
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Yeah, it was really, really bad.
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Like, really bad.
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Like, I really considered writing Netflix, like going on their page or something.
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If you were a fancy of true crime, this one is not for you.
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It is not.
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Although someone texted me um a couple of nights ago.
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Uh and it was a friend of mine, and she was like, Oh my god, have you seen the Lizzie Borden?
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Or have you started or watched the Lizzie Borden show on Netflix?
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And I was like, Oh my god, she likes it.
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So I write back, just I'm just not even gonna mince words with her.
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I was like, Yes, I watched about three episodes.
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I hated it, I'm not gonna finish it.
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Oh my god, I love it.
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Like there's zero truth in it.
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Yeah, and even without that, it was just a dumb story.
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It's and it's not good.
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It's not no, it was a really dumb story.
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It felt like just a whole bunch of random things were happening all over the place, and there was no cohesion to it, and it didn't make any sense.
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Yeah, it was it was not, it was really bad.
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It was really bad.
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I I refused to watch.
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I I think I got three, maybe four episodes, and then I was like, That's where I had my kindergarten.
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I know I watched three, I might have watched four.
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I ended with Eileen being at the Lizzie Borden house.
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I was like, okay.
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Because first of all, you couldn't even stay at the Lizzie Borden house until the late 90s.
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Eileen was already dead.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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I don't think I got that far.
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You must have watched four and I watched three.
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I I got that far, and then I was like, okay.
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Okay.
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Now, now we're just not even pretending.
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Well, it's so funny too, because when I was watching it, because you had already said it was off the rails, like something happened a little way in, and I'm like, oh, I wonder if that's what she's talking about.
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And then something else.
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I was like, oh, I bet that's what she and then I was like, oh, if she wasn't talking about it yet, it was definitely that.
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Like it just kept getting dumber and dumber.
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Dumber.
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Just the more you get into it, you're like, this is just this.
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No.
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No.
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And the problem is, is they've progressively gotten more, we'll say, creative with the truth in these.
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Like the Dahlmer one was pretty close to reality.
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That one wasn't bad.
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Yeah.
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The Menendez Brothers was a little more fabricated, but still the Edgein was yeah.
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I remember you weren't really satisfied with that.
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Yeah, the whole Nazi thing, which the maid was in the Edgeen one.
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She was the Nazi.
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Oh yeah.
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Oh, okay.
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I knew she looked familiar.
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I just couldn't play.
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Yeah.
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So like now we're just just throwing in the truth to the wind, and we're like, fuck that.
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But like you said, the Lizzie Bourne story is such a good story.
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Like, why didn't you make a show about that?
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There is a new um documentary coming out on I want to say the ID channel about Eileen.
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Um I can never hear her last name.
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That specifically now made me hate Eileen.
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And I don't ever want to know anymore about her.
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Like I don't, I'm done with that one now.
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Like now I don't even want to, I don't even want to care.
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All right, so we're talking about the woman that was monster, that movie Monster.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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I cannot remember her last name, so I'm making sure we're on the same page here.
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But yes.
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That that Lizzie Borden thing made me want to not care anymore about Eileen.
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I don't think I can do that.
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I freaking love Eileen.
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Uh I don't even want to, I don't even want to know.
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I'm done with her now.
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And it was not even her fault.
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I mean, it is because she's a serial killer, but you know what I mean?
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Like no.
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Boop.
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She's been cut off from my true crime.
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She's out of the rotation.
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Well, my favorite thing about true crime is the psychology.
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And she, I feel like by far has the most severe mental illness.
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Like a lot of male serial killers live very normal lives and just do a
little killing on the side.
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But she was just like living for it.
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She was open and out, and she'd tell anybody that wanted to hear her that yeah, I fucking killed him.
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Yeah.
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Well, she's out of my rotation now.
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She's been banned.
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Dang it.
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I'm sorry.
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Damn Netflix.
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I also wanted to send uh thoughts and prayers out for Lionel.
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He had heart surgery.
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Yeah.
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I can't even.
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They're not saying specifically.
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They say he had AFib, but they're not saying specifically what I don't I can't live without my Lionel.
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Yeah.
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It's gonna be sad.
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Well they caught it.
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And he got his own.
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I know, but I mean, let's be real.
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I mean, everything's gonna die.
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So I just it's it's I don't know.
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I've been having like a weird uh because you know, they put all these actors like William Shatner is in his 90s and all the and it's like he's like 95.
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I know and it's like man, they're all gonna go, they're all gonna start going now.
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And it's just I start to feel that like when we have like two or three go in a row, I'm like, oh man, this it's all just downhill from here.
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Yeah, like we're like, oh my gosh, we're so shocked, and it's just gonna be like every other week now.
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Yeah.
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It's just it's just crazy, it's you know, and and that's just the way it goes.
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I mean, I suppose you know, our parents had that when but but not really because these are their stars.
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So yeah, like they they love, I guess.
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We love them because our parents never paying attention.
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I don't know.
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I'm not really I'm not, it's a weird, it's a weird spot to be in.
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It is, it is getting old is not for the faint of heart.
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It's really not uncomfortable.
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My work friend and I were discussing um how different things are now from like maybe the 80s and 90s, and you know how he's a millennial, but at the very end of being a millennial.
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So whatever as after millennial, he's kind of in that he's 30.
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So I think it's alpha, isn't it?
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Gen alpha.
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No, I think it's the one before.
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I think Gen Alpha is the one coming up now.
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Oh I can't keep track.
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Gen Z?
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Gen Z.
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Yeah.
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He's a Zennial.
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Okay.
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No, that's X and Millennial.
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Whatever is millennial and Gen Z.
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No, I think Gen Z and Millennial, because Xennial would be.
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I thought it was Xennial with an X.
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No, I think you're right.
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Anyway, anywho.
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I already said I can't keep track of them all.
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You know, they do have it hard, right?
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You know, it's hard to buy a house.
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It's you can't, it's hard to get off the ground, it's hard to get a job, it's hard all that, blah, blah, blah.
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So we're talking about it, and I think uh my point was Gen X, I have decided that the personal embodiment of Gen X is John Daly.
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I mean, just look at him.
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Like he's I think overall, because I do belong to a lot of these Gen X groups and stuff like that, and you know, a question will come up are have you anybody starting their retirement, blah blah blah, and everybody's like, What's retirement?
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I don't have enough money to get through today, and who else is living paycheck to paycheck?
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And da-da-da.
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And then I think the problem is is our generation just never moved past being teenagers.
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Like, I think we had to be grown-ups, and then we hit teens, and we were like, fuck it, we're this is where we're gonna live.
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And we're just irresponsible, and we're just like, I don't know, I'm just gonna work.
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We didn't think we're gonna live this long.
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So we're just like throwing.
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We live in the moment.
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Yeah, we live in the moment.
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I think that's what exactly like we just can't get our shit together.
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And then the his age group kids are like so focused on retirement, like they have to get their shit together now, and they have to have this job, and it's gonna get them.
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And nobody taught us that.
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And and then it's like we were expected to just know.
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And then I think we just we just didn't get our shit.
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I think we
can't get our shit together.
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I think that's the problem with Gen X.
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We just are just like too busy being 18.
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Right.
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And just not really giving a fuck.
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We're we're we're still 18 in the middle of a field by a bonfire drinking Boone's farm.
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I think that's the problem with that.
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Except for the Boons farm, I wish.
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I was scared to say I wish, but ooh, thought of Boons Farm.
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And green alcohol.
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You know, I think that's what we are.
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I think that's who we are.
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I think we never left that stage, and so we just can't get our shit together.
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Now, not of course, that's a generalization.
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I'm not saying all of us, because of course we have the the Elon Musks and the people who have made a million billion dollars.
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They're all well and good, they got their shit together.
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There's always outlaw here.
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But I think probably the majority of us are just like, I I don't even, uh, I can't even get over the fact.
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I think that's the other problem.
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Like, we can't even get over the fact that we're in our 50s.
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We're all just like, wow, how?
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It's so weird.
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It's a weird, it's weird.
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You know what's weird too, being like trying to tell somebody, like I was in the store the other day, and this older lady, blah, blah, blah, and she's probably my age or maybe five years older than me.
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Yeah.
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But to me, she's an old lady.
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Yeah, I'm not an old lady.
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No, she's an old lady.
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I just dyed my hair purple and green.
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So I then I think that's it.
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I think we just refuse to I think we were Toys R Us kids, and we just looked at the heart.
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Like that was our motto, and we're not doing it.
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You can't make us.
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Yeah.
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Unfortunately, Jeffree's gone.
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So now we're all left with no leader.
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We don't know what to do.
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Didn't work out for Jeffrey, it's not gonna work out for us.
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And it's too late for us.
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So it is too late, and that's just it.
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And then we all know what we can do now.
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We're like, I don't know, it's too late.
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But my friend came up, did say he was like, Well, a lot of the problem is is you know, he was like, Yes, I think about that and retirement and all that.
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And he was like, But I kind of envy you guys.
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And he was like, Because what if I don't make it to that age?
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He was like, You guys already had all your fun.
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And I was like, We did have a good time.
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We did, we had a lot of fun, we did, we did a lot of things we shouldn't have done, tons of great memories, yes, and that's and but we have but now we're you know it's time to pay the paper, and here we are, we're all working until we drop dead.
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And and honestly, like kids these days, they don't get to have the fun we had.
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They have cell phones and trackers, and yeah, their parents know where they are every second of every day.
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And if they don't see you, somebody else will and will get you in trouble.
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Like, yeah, yeah, it's you can't just wander off and be gone and nobody knows where you are.
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Those were the good old days.
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Those were all you had to do was say, I'm going to so-and-so's house.
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No one ever cared.
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Literally fly to the moon, and your parents would have no idea.
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You could have.
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I think I might have a couple times.
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I think you did too.
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I'm back now.
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Paying for that also.
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Yeah, it's funny.
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I was looking, um, I was really str I I had serious writers blocked this week.
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I I I could not come up with a topic.
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Um, but I did.
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Um, but one of the things I was doing to try to think of something was just like Gen X News, like just throw that in there and see if anything's come out lately.
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And almost every article was about how we're not gonna retire.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We just and it's our own fault.
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It is.
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I mean, I think I'm gonna retire.
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I've worked very, very hard to put myself in that position.
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But yeah, I mean, I didn't do it the easy way for sure.
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Yeah.
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I mean I waited till I was in
my 30s to get my college degrees, and I started my career in my 40s, so I will have the minimum when it's time to retire, and hopefully that will be enough.
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I thought I had set myself up.
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With I mean, I didn't do it until I was in my 40s, so with this job, but I mean, at this point, it's my job's not really a as a hot topic right now.
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So who knows what's gonna happen with that?
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Who knows if I'm gonna be able to retire from this job?
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They're not matching our retirement anymore.
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And yeah, so we'll see.
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But you know, I'm making good money now.
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I guess living in the moment, living at all.
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Yes.
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Do it.
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Let's fuck around and find out about Gerald and Betty Ford.
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I'm excited.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, uh with my writer's block, this is where I ended up.
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I did text her last night.
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I was like, damn, you just love their presidents, don't you?
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I do.
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I do.
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But so I mean, I was desperate.
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I was checking every website on this day in history, on this day in Gen X history, on this day in pop culture history.
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It's a weird time of the year, I think, is the problem because movies generally come out either in the summer way ahead, and then now they're gearing up to put stuff out for Christmas.
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So it's like a a weird lap.
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Yeah, it was so random.
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And I went down through, I was going through September, and September 22nd, which was yesterday while I was looking.
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Yes, was the second assassination attempt on Gerald Ford.
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Yeah.
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And then I was like, hmm.
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So I was reading that, and then I was like, Benny Ford and Betty Ford Clinic.
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We heard about that all the time as a kid, but we didn't know really.
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I mean, we did, but we didn't know what that meant.
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And we haven't had a good history lesson here on uh history.
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Here we go.
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History.
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Can I just interject one thing?
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You can I was debating on whether or not I was gonna do it, but the email came through today.
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And so I'm I'm I'm on a new little business venture.
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Oh speaking of retirement.
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Okay, so stay tuned because we might have a new uh sponsor, aka me.
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Oh damn.
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I don't even know anything about yes, you do.
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I told you.
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Okay.
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I sent it to you.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Oh.
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All right.
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I got all my information this week from britannica.com because they just had it so good.
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They just had it.
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And here we are.
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Gerald Ford was born July 14th, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska.
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And he died on December 26, 2006, in Rancho Mirage, California.
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He was the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977, who, as 40th president, had succeeded to the presidency on the resignation of President Richard Nixon under the process decreed by the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, and thereby became the country's only chief executive who had not been elected either president or vice president.
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Which is a little fun fact there for you.
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It is a fun fact.
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While Jeremy While Gerald Ford was still an infant, his parents were divorced, and his mother moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she married Gerald R.
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Ford Sr., who adopted the boy and gave him his name.
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Jeez, he was adopted.
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Yep.
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Is he the only adopted president, I wonder?
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That's on you to find out.
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Okay.
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After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1935, where he was a star football player, Ford worked as an assistant coach while he earned a law degree from Yale University.
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He joined the Navy during World War II and served in the South Pacific, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander and nearly losing his life in 1944 during a deadly typhoon that killed hundreds.
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In 1948, the
year he won his first elective office as Republican congressman from Michigan, he married Elizabeth Ann Bloomer, aka Betty Ford, with whom he had four children, three sons, Michael, John, and Stephen, and a daughter, Susan.
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Betty Ford was born April 8th, 1918, in Chicago, Illinois, and she died on July 8th, 19, or 2011, also in Rancho Mirage, California.
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She was an American First Lady, the wife of Gerald Ford, the founder of the Betty Ford Center.
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Hence the name.
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That was the Betty Ford Clinic.
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But this is center.
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That's probably gonna go as a Mandela effect.
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We probably jumped timelines at some point.
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You're probably so right.
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All right.
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Um, a facility dedicated to helping people recover from drug and alcohol dependence.
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She was noted for her strong opinions on public issues and her candor regarding intimate matters.
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Do you know why she opened the Betty Fork Party?
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Do you know anything really about her?
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I don't know anything about her.
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Okay, well, you're gonna find out.
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I'm excited.
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I love history history days.
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I know.
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Betty Bloomer was the only daughter of William Bloomer, a salesman, and Hortense.
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I love that name.
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I don't give a shit.
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Hortense is one of my favorite names.
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I don't care.
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That's old school.
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It is.
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That's like Hazel.
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I like, I like, I like them both.
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Yeah, I like old, old lady names.
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Me too.
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Uh when she was two years old, the family, including her two older brothers, moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she attended public schools.
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At age eight, she started dance lessons, reflecting.
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An interest that she would maintain throughout her life.
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To earn spending money, she taught dance to other children.
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After graduating from high school in 1936, she spent two summers pursuing a dance career on the East Coast.
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East Coast.
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Bloomer studied at Bennington College in Vermont, where she came under the influence of the legendary modern dance dancer, teacher, and choreographer Martha Graham.
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As she later wrote, Graham more than anyone else shaped my life.
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When Graham accepted her into her New York City troupe, Bloomer uh moved to Manhattan's West Side.
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I'm so jealous.
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That's the life I wanted.
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I wanted to live in New York City and be a dancer.
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That's a much better life than I wanted to move to Philadelphia and live in a row home and ride the bus.
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So I'm not really all that far off my dream.
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We're being honest.
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I'm just not a boxer or related to the book.
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Speaking of which, Philly in boxing, um, we talked about the Rocky statue and it got moved inside.
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Yes.
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And they put Joe Frazier in his place at the top of the steps.
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And I haven't been following enough to know if this was always the plan, but on the news yesterday, Rocky was getting moved back outside.
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Of course, but to the bottom of the steps.
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See, now that's crazy.
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Why would you put him at the bottom of the steps?
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But he said he's Sylvester Stallone said he's fine with Joe Frazier, haven't they?
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I think Sylvester Stallone could care less about what happens to his stupid statue, but you know, the rest of us.
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Well, apparently he has one because he loaned one to the Well, I'm sure.
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If I was Sylvester Stallone, I also would have a Rocky statue.
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I think they had to repair theirs, so he loaned them his while they were doing it.
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I don't know.
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Have I ever mentioned how much I enjoy the movie Rocky?
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That's a movie I haven't seen in a long time.
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Ugh, I watch it like once a month.
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Yeah.
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It's the only movie I can sit through at that point.
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Uh, let's see.
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To augment her meager earnings as a dancer, she modeled with the John Robert Powers agency.
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Although she never became a principal dancer, Bloomer performed as one of Graham's auxiliaries and delighted in the modern dance technique that had become Graham's trademark.
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At her mother's insistence, Bloomer left the Graham troupe and returned to live in Grand Rapids, where she worked as a fashion consultant and taught dance to handicapped children, disabled children.
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Um in 1942, she met and
married William Warren.
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Divorcey.
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Scandal.
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A scandal.
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Details of the marriage are hazy, as Bloomer later insisted that she could remember very little about it.
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After five years, she divorced him.
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If you don't remember much about it.
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I don't even know who he is.
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Soon after her divorce, Bloomer met Gerald R.
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Ford, a local lawyer and partner in the law firm of Butterfield, Kenny, and Amberg.
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Uh the two became engaged in February 1948, but they delayed the ceremony so that he could devote more time to his campaign for a seat in the House of Representatives.
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Gerald Ford arrived for the wedding on October 15, 1948, after a morning of greeting voters.
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His victory in November sent the young couple to Washington, D.C., where they lived for the next three decades.
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From 1950 to 1957, Betty Ford gave birth to four children.
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Because Gerald Ford was away campaigning or speaking to Republican groups much of the time.
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Betty Ford couldn't remember that, Mary Jesus.
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No, I'm just kidding.
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Um, the responsibilities of parenting fell mostly to Betty Ford.
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She sometimes joked that the family car went to the emergency room so often that it could make the trip on its own.
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In the mid-1960s, when she developed a pinch nerve and spinal arthritis, doctors prescribed pain medicine.
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I see where we're going, though.
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I see how we're moving to the to which she became addicted as she later admitted.
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Her own physical discomfort combined with the stress of raising young children prompted her to seek psychiatric treatment, which she later described as enormously helpful.
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Preach sister.
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It is it is a mental health awareness month.
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Mm-hmm.
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Or something.
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Oh, I know it's disability awareness month, but isn't mental health in like I don't know.
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I think it's a talking after ass.
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Yep.
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Okay.
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Do I ever know what the Well we never promised to tell the truth?
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No, never, not even one time.
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Has this ever been like, hey, we're telling the truth?
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Yeah.
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So don't go to work tomorrow with somebody a happy mental illness month because uh I'm pretty sure it is.
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Okay.
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I'll find out the truth.
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Okay.
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Betty Lord, Betty Lord.
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Betty Ford.
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Uh Betty Ford's life as an inconspicuous wife of a congressman ended in October 1973 when Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned and President Richard Nixon named Gerald Ford to the job.
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The first time that the 25th Amendment to the U.S.
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Constitution, which permitted the president to fill a vacancy in the office of vice president, subject to confirmation by a majority vote of both houses of Congress.
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It's Suicide Awareness Month.
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Oh mental health is May.
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I thought it was either March or May.
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March.
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Okay.
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I don't know.
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It's not September.
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It's suicide awareness.
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All right.
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So it what was your oh adopted.
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Okay, never mind.
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On August 9th.
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No, he wasn't.
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He wasn't the only one adopted.
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I didn't figure.
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I feel like people got adopted a lot back then.
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No, just one other president.
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Bill Clinton.
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My stepfather.
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I probably knew that at some point.
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It is really windy here today.
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It is.
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We have a nor'easter going on here on the East Coast.
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We do.
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Good times.
00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:02.160
Yeah.
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Super windy.
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My job's been great.
00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:07.119
Male flying everywhere.
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It's been a nightmare the last three days.
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And we're also entering into our windy season.
00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:16.480
Yes.
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So it will be like this until June.
00:28:19.039 --> 00:28:19.279
Yeah.
00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:20.559
Yeah, pretty much.
00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:33.519
Um on August 9th, 1974, after Nixon resigned over his involvement in the Watergate affair, Gerald Ford became the first president who had never been elected president or vice president.
00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:34.960
As I said earlier.
00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:38.319
Ford always had a reputation for candor.
00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:41.680
Um that we're talking about Betty again now.
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:50.559
Uh, but she later said that the circumstances under which she became first lady underscored that predile predelection.
00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:51.519
Oh, yep.
00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:52.640
Sure.
00:28:53.039 --> 00:28:58.720
She understood that in the wake of Watergate, Americans demanded more honesty from their public officials.
00:28:58.880 --> 00:28:59.599
Her commitment.
00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:02.400
Yeah, we say how good that's gone.
00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:05.920
We just drove right over that.
00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:07.519
Yeah, yeah, we totally fixed it.
00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:08.240
That's gone.
00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:08.720
Yeah.
00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:14.079
Her commitment to openness was soon tested on September 28th, 1974, just weeks after.
00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:16.480
I know.
00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:19.920
Literally the day of it is.
00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:22.480
I didn't realize the year was the same, too.
00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:27.119
Speaking of which, Heather's birthday is September 28th.
00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:28.960
Which is Monday, I've been told.
00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:29.920
It is.
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:33.759
Um I just I did not know it was Monday.
00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:38.559
I know I no longer, no, somebody had to tell me.
00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:40.480
Yeah, but you get to work on your birthday.
00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:41.119
Oh, I do.
00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:42.880
My friend told me.
00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:45.039
He was like, when is your birthday?
00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:47.039
And I was like, I don't know, next week sometime.
00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:48.400
But he was like, what day?
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:49.519
I said the 28th.
00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:50.640
And he was like, that's Monday.
00:29:50.720 --> 00:29:52.160
And I was like, sure.
00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:54.400
Could be.
00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:57.119
Unlike me, starting in like January.
00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:59.920
I'm like, my birthday is 68 days away.
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:01.759
I I used to love my birthday.
00:30:01.920 --> 00:30:02.799
I have reasons.
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:03.599
I know.
00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:05.119
Not just because I'm old.
00:30:05.359 --> 00:30:05.680
No.
00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:07.680
All right.
00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:13.839
On September 28th, 1974, the day that we were blessed with the birth of Heather.
00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:15.359
The worst day in history.
00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:22.160
Just weeks after she moved into the White House, her doctors performed a mastectomy, removing her cancerous right breast.
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:28.559
Previous presidents' wives had concealed their illnesses, especially those peculiar to women.
00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:29.440
Of course.
00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:30.880
No period talk here.
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:31.279
Nope.
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:33.759
But she and her husband decided to disclose the facts.
00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:34.480
Good for them.
00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:40.400
Moved by her example, women all across the nation went to their physicians for examinations.
00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:46.480
Ford said it was then that she recognized the first lady's enormous power to make a difference.
00:30:46.640 --> 00:30:50.720
Although chemotherapy followed, she continued to perform her duties as first lady.
00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:54.319
Can you imagine how god-awful chemotherapy was in the 70s?
00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:56.559
Ugh.
00:30:57.119 --> 00:30:58.400
Oh my gosh.
00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:00.160
It was probably straight poison.
00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:01.119
I imagine.
00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:01.920
Yeah.
00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:10.640
Ford sometimes said that she admired Bess Truman for her down-to-earth style and Eleanor Roosevelt for her independence, and she sought to emulate both.
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:29.519
Only days after moving into the White House, she met with reporters and surprised them by announcing that some of their view, some of her views, including her support for Roe versus Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, well, it was legal, um, resembled those of liberal Republicans more than those of her husband.
00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:41.839
She also vigorously supported the Equal Rights Amendment, then up for ratification in several state legislatures, uh, lobbying wavering representatives in phone calls and meetings.
00:31:42.079 --> 00:31:42.720
Good for her.
00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:43.519
Yep.
00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:51.039
The amendment failed, however, when the requisite number of states failed to ratify it in the time allotted.
00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:58.400
Her critics objected that she should not have intervened, though her supporters praised her involvement.
00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:00.160
Sit down, woman.
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:00.640
Yep.
00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:01.920
Get your ass back in the kitchen.
00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:02.480
Yep.
00:32:03.119 --> 00:32:05.599
Um just sit there and look pretty.
00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:06.640
Yeah, yeah.
00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:14.000
Uh Betty Ford gained national attention for her appearance on the television news program 60 Minutes in August 1975.
00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:21.359
When asked about her views on premarital sex, she said that she would not be surprised to learn that her 18-year-old daughter had had an affair.
00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:28.240
Uh, she said that as a mother, she would counsel her daughter and try to find out something about the young man.
00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:29.200
Good for her.
00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:29.759
Yep.
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:37.440
When the program aired, the print media quoted her out of context, making her sound different than she did in the interview.
00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:51.359
Gerald Ford said uh that when he viewed the program, he calculated that it would cost him 10 million votes, but he doubled the he doubled the damage when he read the printed
version.
00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:54.960
His pessimism was unwarranted, however.
00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:59.680
Betty Ford's popularity soared because women were like, fuck yeah.
00:32:59.920 --> 00:33:00.720
I had had it.
00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:03.519
And Time magazine later named her Woman of the Year.
00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:04.400
Good.
00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:11.279
Buttons appeared that promoted her candidacy for national office, although she gave no support to such efforts.
00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.880
Now that that pissed Gerald Ford off.
00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:31.440
After Gerald Ford narrowly lost the election of 1976 to Jimmy Carter, the Fords retired to Rancho Mirage, California, uh, where Betty Ford's dependence on prescription drugs continued.
00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:36.880
In early 1978, under pressure from her family, she agreed to enter a treatment center in Long Beach.
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:49.440
After her successful treatment there, she co-founded the Betty Ford Center, and I still say clinic, in 1982 to help treat others with similar addictions and chaired the board of directors until 2005.
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:54.480
The center became popular and attracted clients from all walks of life.
00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:59.039
In 1991, she was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S.
00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:00.880
President George H.W.
00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:05.680
Bush for her efforts to promote public awareness and treatment of alcohol and drug addictions.
00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:11.920
See, back in the day, they used to give Medal of Honors to people who deserved it.
00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:12.800
Yes.
00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:27.440
That and um we as people who vote were like, I'm not talking about I'm specifically talking about George W.
00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:32.159
Because after that, you know, watching all the September 11th stuff, yeah.
00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:40.079
Um I remembered that, you know, how we were like, this is just awful, like he's terrible.
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:42.639
He's so and now, now where are we all?
00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:44.400
Wishing we could have W back.
00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:44.800
Yeah.
00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:47.920
And if I was W, I'd be like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:34:48.159 --> 00:34:49.119
No, no, no, no.
00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:51.760
Just because me, you know, me and Michelle are in love.
00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:53.039
I don't want to hear it.
00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:54.000
I want to hear it.
00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:55.760
You were bad mouthing me then.
00:34:56.000 --> 00:35:00.079
And I was a terrible president, but but now look.
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:00.800
Yeah.
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:01.199
Yeah.
00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:10.480
I the big joke used to be I don't remember if it was um Letterman that did it or Jay Leno, maybe Saturday Night Live.
00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:11.920
But they all of the above.
00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:18.239
Yeah, but they had specifically like a segment, I think it
was Letterman, where it would be the dumb word he said that day.
00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:20.079
Like it was happening so frequently.
00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:25.840
And here's the thing about let's just take I know it's about Gerald Ford and not W.
00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:32.639
No, we're supposed to converse, but I did feel bad for W on September 11th.
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:34.800
That was a tough fucking spot.
00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:37.679
There was no winning on that one.
00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:41.519
There's no and the conspiracy theory started immediately.
00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:47.199
Remember when everybody said when they whispered in his ear the look on his face, you could tell he already knew it was gonna happen.
00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:50.400
I was like, No, he looked like how the fuck am I gonna get out of this room?
00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:53.519
Yeah, why am I sitting in a room full of children being told this?
00:35:53.599 --> 00:35:55.039
Like we're under attack.
00:35:55.280 --> 00:36:02.320
And and I imagine, and I have heard him say, like, hoping they're not gonna yank me out like in front of all these children.
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:10.400
And yes, like I yes, I admire him for staying calm and not making a big deal because that would have been terrify that would have traumatized those kids forever.
00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:12.000
Let's all be honest.
00:36:12.159 --> 00:36:27.840
If it wasn't inside government conspiracy, blah, blah, blah, we all have opinions on September 11th and how they knew it was coming, and I'm sure that they did, not specific to that day or what was happening, but we all know that they knew something bad was coming down the pike at that.
00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:33.920
Do any of us honestly think that W had anything to do with it?
00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:36.320
Had anywhere really had any inkling.
00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:38.559
I think we all know that was Dick Cheney.
00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:39.199
Yes.
00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:41.599
So let's be clear there.
00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:48.800
Second, I'm sorry, but I love W and Michelle Obama's relationship.
00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:49.519
I love it.
00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:52.639
It's cute, it's adorable, it is adorable.
00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:55.280
And whatever.
00:36:56.559 --> 00:37:07.840
Let's just remember back in the day when opponents just disagreed on policy and not on literally everything.
00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:12.559
Everything and not on how horrible of a human being.
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.440
Like let's remember that it used to just stick.
00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:18.719
Let's just remember the days when we thought it was bad.
00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:19.840
And now it's not.
00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:21.440
Yeah, yeah.
00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:23.280
It it used to be much different.
00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:37.199
I even remember because when um when W took us to war, I was at work that night, I was working at the casino, and I remember watching on the TV um the
coverage of the bombing.
00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:48.239
And I lifelong Democrat, and my supervisor was a Republican, and he came to me and he's like, So what do you think of George Bush now with this?
00:37:48.400 --> 00:37:55.679
And I was like, Well, I don't agree with going to war, but I do respect the president and I respect his decision.
00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:57.440
Turned out to not be a great one.
00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:02.239
No, but um, no, but that was how I felt, and I do not feel that way now.
00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:04.079
No, and I miss feeling that way.
00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:07.039
I don't want to feel like the enemy, yeah.
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:10.800
I want to have a respect for the office, yeah, and that's gone.
00:38:11.119 --> 00:38:11.599
Impossible.
00:38:11.760 --> 00:38:19.679
It is impossible because oh, we're now on the heels, in case you're listening to this in you know, five years and you're like, oh, it got much better.
00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:22.239
I hope for your sake that it does.
00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:24.480
Don't worry, that's just a blip.
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:37.119
But you know, throwing the press out, and finally, Fox News steps up on something that has because they know, hey, whoa, this isn't cool.
00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:42.320
Yeah, this now you've gone too far because if you do this, then they can do this to us.
00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:55.440
And whatever you're uh just coming It's literally like the biggest thing about our country is that you have no freeder one amendment numero uno above literally anything else.
00:38:55.599 --> 00:39:01.119
It was what our founding fathers decided was the most important thing.
00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:05.519
Yes, that's why they all came here to create a new world.
00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:08.480
That's just uh I don't even know.
00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:10.559
We could talk about this for next year.
00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:11.039
We could.
00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:13.519
Let's go back to poor Gerald Ford.
00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:15.039
All right, we're done with Betty.
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:17.760
She was a pretty badass woman.
00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:20.239
I would like to learn more about her, actually, too.
00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:29.599
Let's do your oh because I repeat your life, well I can through her teenage blank.
00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:40.159
All right, we are uh gonna read from Nicole's diary now.
00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:43.920
We are on April 11th, 1986.
00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:48.079
This is the smallest diary that spans over the most amount of time.
00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:50.320
Like four years I kept this bad boy.
00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:51.760
I'm not even halfway through it yet.
00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:54.400
I know I would never have been able to keep that.
00:39:56.079 --> 00:40:00.159
By the way, April 11th, uh 1986 was a Friday, in case you were wondering.
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:01.519
Okay, so you needed to know.
00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:02.960
Is that a need to
know situation?
00:40:03.199 --> 00:40:04.079
Yes, no.
00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:10.960
Okay, um today we had show and tell in Spanish, and mom brought Killer in.
00:40:11.199 --> 00:40:14.960
Killer was my um main coon cat.
00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:18.079
He he was short-haired, though.
00:40:18.719 --> 00:40:19.360
I think.
00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:25.119
No, he was short-haired, but I don't know if he was a main coon, but he was huge like a main coon, and he had markings like one.
00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:25.920
Right.
00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:28.400
Um, of course he had to live outside.
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:31.199
Yeah, yeah.
00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:37.039
Um it was fun for me and the class, but killer hated it.
00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:38.480
I can't imagine.
00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:40.320
I can't imagine why.
00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:42.000
Snatch him up from the outside.
00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:42.239
Right.
00:40:42.880 --> 00:40:46.880
Drag him into a bunch of children wanting to touch him.
00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:48.719
I can't imagine.
00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:51.360
A worse thing for a poor.
00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:55.599
It is so me though that we have show and tell, and I'm like, mom, I gotta take my cat in.
00:40:55.840 --> 00:41:01.360
Like I w I didn't know that you could bring animals in for show and tell.
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:02.239
It's too late.
00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:04.400
I don't know that we ever had show and tell, to be honest.
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:06.639
I don't ever remember having show and tell.
00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:08.639
I remember having it.
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:10.320
I don't know what I would have shown.
00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:11.840
I certainly wouldn't have told.
00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:12.320
No.
00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:16.159
So I don't imagine I would have maybe we did have it, and I was just like, yeah, no.
00:41:18.079 --> 00:41:20.239
Not a thing Heather participates in.
00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:22.719
Thank you, though.
00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:26.079
All right, now back to Gerald Ford.
00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:32.559
Ford served in Congress for 25 years, well liked and ideologically flexible.
00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:40.400
He won the role of House Minority Leader in 1965 and held this position until Nixon named him vice president in 1973.
00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:46.800
During this time, during his time in Congress, he had developed a reputation for honesty and openness.
00:41:48.800 --> 00:42:01.280
When Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew, was forced to resign from office in disgrace, the president had no choice but to nominate the only Republican whom the Democratic leadership of Congress would approve.
00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:03.119
So, Ford.
00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:12.559
In 1974, when it became clear that Nixon would face criminal charges for his role in the Watergate scandal, Ford said, fuck.
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:13.119
No.
00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:14.079
Rotro.
00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:17.119
What have I got myself into?
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:17.599
No.
00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:22.400
And three articles of impeachment had been passed by the House Judiciary Committee.
00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:25.119
Nixon resigned effective August 9th.
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:31.199
On that day, Ford took the oath of office and became president, stating, Our long national nightmare is over.
00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:39.039
He retained the foreign and domestic policy staffs of the Nixon administration, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:44.159
I know there were so many names I remembered from like my childhood reading through this.
00:42:44.239 --> 00:42:46.559
I was like, whoa, because they had all of his staff listed.
00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:50.639
I didn't print that out or put include that in here, but I was like, oh, yep, yep.
00:42:51.039 --> 00:43:01.199
Uh one of Ford's early acts as president was the announcement of a conditional amnesty program for those who had evaded the draft or deserted during the Vietnam War.
00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:21.599
The most attention-getting act of his years in office and the move that for many destroyed his credibility followed in the next month on September 8, 1974, declaring that in the end, it is not the ultimate fate of Richard Nixon that most concerns me, but rather the immediate future of this great country.
00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:29.679
Ford pardoned Nixon for all offenses against the United States that he had committed or may have committed while in office.
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:31.199
Tistisk.
00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:32.639
Well, Jerry.
00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:33.519
Yeah.
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:46.000
At the time, the pardon was enormously unpopular with the American public, and some speculated that it was a result of a quid pro quo between Nixon and Ford.
00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:51.119
That is, that Ford promised Nixon a pardon in exchange for the presidency.
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:54.800
Although, would Nixon have had say and no.
00:43:55.840 --> 00:43:59.599
Ford voluntarily appeared uh before a subcommittee of the House.
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:03.360
Of Representatives on October 17th to explain his reasoning.
00:44:03.599 --> 00:44:05.280
It's my sister's birthday.
00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:07.280
Not 1974, though.
00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:08.800
Man, that would be weird.
00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:11.280
All kinds of connected to Gerald Ford.
00:44:11.519 --> 00:44:17.280
Uh, the first time a standing president had formally testified before a committee of Congress.
00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:35.760
In subsequent years, allegations of a deal have been dismissed both by the former Watergate prosecutors and by Ben Bradley, the editor of the Washington Post during Watergate, who offered that Ford's pardon of Nixon was the act of a compulsively decent man.
00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:41.039
Yeah, I think it probably was just to move on.
00:44:41.199 --> 00:44:41.440
Yeah.
00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:42.320
Exactly.
00:44:42.559 --> 00:44:45.760
Let's put this behind us and move on.
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:55.599
Cause I imagine you would have had to have trials and that would it would gum up the works for you know more importantly.
00:44:56.800 --> 00:45:00.400
I mean, then and that's you know, it is what it is.
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:17.599
So I guess uh it's probably better to just stop, you know, the just if you want shit done, if you want to get shit done as president, then you're gonna have to get past this and right exactly Nixon just write off into the sunset and move on.
00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:18.880
Move on.org.
00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:25.039
And another startling move, Ford annoyed members of his own party by naming Nelson A.
00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:32.239
Rockefeller, both a party liberal and a representative of the so-called Eastern establishment, as his vice president.
00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:37.760
Because that's what you're supposed to do in our government is bring together different sides and different opinions.
00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:38.960
Isn't that funny?
00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:41.199
Because Obama did that with Biden.
00:45:41.519 --> 00:45:56.400
That is why he chose Biden, because Biden was more a centrist and had a long-standing uh ability to uh work with this work with both sides, reach across the aisle.
00:45:56.559 --> 00:46:06.800
He was well respected with both parties, and we know I think that that was why Obama chose Biden as his running mate for all this.
00:46:07.039 --> 00:46:08.239
It makes it makes sense.
00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:09.119
It does.
00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:32.159
And and I know um one thing Biden did say that he took from his time with Obama was Obama appointed people that were not yes men, that he did uh he appointed Republicans and Democrats to cabinet positions and stuff, and Biden did the same because he wanted I don't want everybody to just agree with me.
00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:39.840
I want, you know, the best person for the fucking job, which oh I don't know, is in a Fox News host.
00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:45.599
Or a human version of an owl.
00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:58.559
Ford's administration attempted to cope with the high rate of inflation which he inherited from the Nixon administration by slowing down the economy.
00:46:58.719 --> 00:47:11.440
The result was a very severe recession in 1974 to 1975, which succeeded in lowering inflation, but at the cost of an unemployment rate that rose to nearly 9%.
00:47:12.239 --> 00:47:13.039
That's a lot.
00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:13.519
Yeah.
00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:21.840
Uh, despite his whip inflation now program, he could do little to stop the country's economic problems.
00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:33.599
Ford's relations with the Democrat Democrat-controlled Congress were perhaps type by this more than 50 votes of legislation by the end of 1976.
00:47:33.840 --> 00:47:37.440
More than 40 were sustained, legislative gridlock set in.
00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:52.320
During the first days
of the Vietnam War in March 1975, Ford ordered an airlift of some 237,000 anti-communist Vietnamese refugees from Daonang, most of whom were taken to the United States.
00:47:52.480 --> 00:48:04.800
Two months later, after the seizure of by Cambodia of the American cargo ship Maya Guez, uh, Ford declared the event an act of piracy and sent the Marines to seize the ship.
00:48:04.960 --> 00:48:15.039
They succeeded, but the rescue operation to save the 39 crew, 39 member crew resulted in the loss of 41 American lives and the wounding of 50 others.
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:16.400
Moreover, U.S.
00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:19.280
relations with Thailand became strained because the U.S.
00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:24.239
strike had been launched from a base in Thailand against the wishes of the Thai government.
00:48:24.719 --> 00:48:25.840
Tisk tusk.
00:48:26.159 --> 00:48:26.880
Shouldn't do that.
00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:27.599
Nope.
00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:33.360
Twice in September 1975, Ford was the target of assassination attempts.
00:48:33.519 --> 00:48:38.320
One on September 5th, and the next, just 17 days later, on September 22nd.
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:44.320
In the first instance, uh Secret Service agents intervened because shots were fired.
00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:49.440
In the second, the would-be assassin fired one shot at Ford but missed by several feet.
00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:50.960
In October, he ended up.
00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:56.239
Did it hit him in the ear and did it magically heal itself?
00:48:59.119 --> 00:49:01.199
Killing a firefighter in the meantime, right?
00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:01.599
Yeah.
00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:04.000
Stunned.
00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:06.320
Political.
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:07.519
Stunt.
00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:22.480
Um in October, he initially refused to consider loans to the city of New York, then on the brink of financial collapse, and thereby prompted the newspaper headline Ford to City Drop Dead.
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:28.079
As the larger implications became clear, he retreated from his earlier position.
00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:38.639
In a close contest at the Republican convention in August 1976, Ford won his party's nomination despite a serious challenge by Ronald Reagan, the former governor of California.
00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:46.480
That fall, Ford became the first incumbent president to agree to public debates with a challenger, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic nominee.
00:49:47.440 --> 00:49:52.000
I think we all know that we did an episode on Jimmy Carter was what would Jimmy do?
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:52.719
Yeah.
00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:57.199
Very, very early in our so we have to go way down the list to find back.
00:49:57.599 --> 00:49:59.679
Or you can look for the most popular one we've ever done.
00:49:59.920 --> 00:50:00.480
Yeah, that one is.
00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:04.079
And that's that's our yeah, and rock the votes right behind it.
00:50:05.599 --> 00:50:18.960
Um Ford ran substantially behind from the beginning of the campaign, owing a large part to negative fallout from the Nixon pardon, but also to the general public's perception of his ineptitude.
00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:29.679
I think he probably didn't have a chance anyway because of the Nixon and you know that yeah, I think I think Yeah, yeah, it was a long shot.
00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:44.880
Uh his decisions in office had often seemed to be those of Kissinger and the others left over from the Nixon administration, sometimes as those made during the Mayagaz accident, they seemed simply ill considered.
00:50:45.199 --> 00:51:02.639
He misspoke on many occasions, notably declaring a debate in a declaring in a debate with Jimmy Carter, there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and I don't believe that the Poles consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union, which journalist William F.
00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:03.760
Buckley Jr.
00:51:03.920 --> 00:51:06.000
called the ultimate Polish joke.
00:51:07.679 --> 00:51:15.280
Even his physical pratfalls, uh such as hitting his head while deplaning, were well documented for the public.
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:17.519
He was another George W.
00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:20.480
You know, that's the thing.
00:51:20.639 --> 00:51:33.440
Remember the days when they could have gaffs and laugh at themselves and didn't, I don't know, bomb a whole country because And it was an honor to be made fun of on SNL because that's what they do with everybody.
00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:41.519
And remember they would do war the correspondence dinner, which by the way, back to W, they asked him.
00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:46.719
I guess he's been doing the circuit again because of the September 11th stuff.
00:51:47.039 --> 00:51:52.079
But um they asked him how he felt about the correspondence dinners, and he said he loved them.
00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:53.360
That was his favorite thing.
00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:56.559
And I know Obama would crush it at the Oh yeah.
00:51:56.719 --> 00:51:58.320
I'm just saying Obama crushed everything.
00:51:58.480 --> 00:51:58.719
Yeah.
00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:06.159
How can how do you not have any kind of sense of humor about yourself?
00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:06.800
I know.
00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:07.679
Like none.
00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:11.280
Did you also see that South Park renamed itself South America?
00:52:11.519 --> 00:52:11.920
Yes.
00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:16.239
They are having so much fun with this.
00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:18.559
Somebody, somebody should be.
00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:30.480
One of my um one of my podcasts just did like this huge Epstein file thing.
00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:35.679
And you know, I I don't know.
00:52:36.480 --> 00:52:44.480
I don't know, but I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but some of this shit I was like, mm-hmm.
00:52:44.960 --> 00:52:46.000
I I don't know.
00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:48.719
Now they're talking about aliens.
00:52:51.119 --> 00:53:13.519
Uh, as journalist John Osborne summarized the
situation, Ford was seen as a loser, a bumbler, a misfit president who, for some reason or other, was prone to slip on airplane ramps, bump his head on helicopter entrances, entangle himself in the leashes of his family dogs, and fall from skis in front of television cameras that showed him a spa in snow.
00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:14.880
And that's just it.
00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:17.039
Like, this is what makes these people human.
00:53:17.119 --> 00:53:18.000
They're human beings.
00:53:18.320 --> 00:53:18.880
Exactly.
00:53:19.119 --> 00:53:20.159
And they fuck up.
00:53:20.320 --> 00:53:20.559
Yes.
00:53:20.800 --> 00:53:21.760
Just like the rest of us.
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:26.800
I mean, I can't even tell you how many times this fucking week the dog has tried to kill me.
00:53:27.039 --> 00:53:29.920
And I can't tell you how many times I've bumped my head getting into my car.
00:53:30.159 --> 00:53:32.559
I do it all the time.
00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:33.920
I don't know why.
00:53:34.079 --> 00:53:34.960
It pisses me off.
00:53:35.119 --> 00:53:38.559
Whether it's driver's side or passenger side, I've done it my whole entire life.
00:53:38.800 --> 00:53:42.159
I've gotten in our cars thousands of times.
00:53:42.639 --> 00:53:43.519
Bump your head.
00:53:43.679 --> 00:53:44.159
All the time.
00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:44.559
No.
00:53:45.199 --> 00:53:45.679
All the time.
00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:48.639
I don't know why we have to make fun of these poor people over this.
00:53:49.920 --> 00:54:04.639
Ford was defeated in the November 1976 election by a popular vote of 40.8 million to 39.1 million, and an electoral vote of 297 to 240, which again, why we don't.
00:54:05.599 --> 00:54:13.920
Uh after leaving the White House, Ford happily retired from public life, golfed and skied at his leisure, and ultimately joined the boards of directors of numerous corporations.
00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:30.079
During the race that ultimately ousted President Carter in 1980, he was offered the vice presidential role by candidate Ronald Reagan, whom Ford held responsible for dissipating Republican support for his 1976 campaign, and he refused.
00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:31.599
He said, Fuck that shit.
00:54:31.760 --> 00:54:32.159
Yep.
00:54:32.320 --> 00:54:36.159
His autobiography, A Time to Heal, was published in 1979.
00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:39.119
And that's Gerald and Betty Ford.
00:54:39.360 --> 00:54:39.760
Lovely.
00:54:39.920 --> 00:54:40.800
Yeah, that was fun.
00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:41.360
That was fun.
00:54:41.519 --> 00:54:42.400
Nice little history lesson.
00:54:42.800 --> 00:54:44.559
Yeah, we we hadn't had some history in a while.
00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:46.000
We needed some history in our life.
00:54:46.159 --> 00:54:46.800
Yeah.
00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:52.480
We could sure use to remember the history.
00:54:52.719 --> 00:54:53.199
Yeah.
00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:54.400
Because Lord knows.
00:54:54.559 --> 00:54:54.639
Yeah.
00:54:54.960 --> 00:54:57.760
AI is gonna kill us by you know four years from now.
00:54:58.159 --> 00:55:01.199
Oh Lord, this AI stuff is too much.
00:55:01.440 --> 00:55:02.559
All of it is too much.
00:55:02.639 --> 00:55:03.920
It's just too much.
00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:09.760
I did find out today though, like I'm very I'm very anti-new tech anyway.
00:55:09.840 --> 00:55:11.280
I'm just very old.
00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:11.920
Yeah.
00:55:12.159 --> 00:55:18.400
Um, so the metaglasses freak me out being able to video people in the bathrooms and all kinds of stuff.
00:55:18.480 --> 00:55:19.440
Like, it's not cool.
00:55:19.599 --> 00:55:22.159
And they're like, well, we put a light on them so you can see it's recording.
00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:22.719
But guess what?
00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:26.320
We just put a little piece of black tape over the light, so now you don't know that I'm recording.
00:55:26.559 --> 00:55:35.039
But today I was at um, we did a tour, uh, it's called D A T I and it's Delaware Assistive Technology Institute.
00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:43.679
So it's assistive technology for people with um disabilities, and we got to play with lots of cool toys and learn about what they do there and stuff.
00:55:43.840 --> 00:55:54.000
But they have meta glasses, and a kind of an unexpected positive out of it is people with vision issues.
00:55:54.400 --> 00:56:02.320
And these things, like the guy, he said, you can say, Meta, I just dropped a pill on the floor and it will direct you to where that pill is so that you can pick it up.
00:56:02.480 --> 00:56:04.400
So it's huge for them.
00:56:04.639 --> 00:56:11.760
Meta's donating um the glasses to all blind veterans.
00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:18.320
There's a program, so if you know someone who is a blind veteran or you are a blind veteran, look into it.
00:56:18.400 --> 00:56:22.400
I Googled it real quick today to tell a co-worker about it, and right there it was.
00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:28.880
So I have seen uh stuff about the metaglasses with helping people with vision impairment.
00:56:29.039 --> 00:56:32.800
And you know, with everything, there is good and bad with technology.
00:56:32.960 --> 00:56:33.440
There just is.
00:56:33.599 --> 00:56:34.719
AI is no different.
00:56:34.800 --> 00:56:36.000
There is good and bad with it.
00:56:36.320 --> 00:56:39.679
And the problem is humans.
00:56:39.920 --> 00:56:40.800
Well, yeah.
00:56:41.039 --> 00:56:50.000
Um the problem with it is much like what have we already have that was fought.
00:56:50.159 --> 00:56:56.320
You know, we probably uh we don't need a phone in our pocket, we don't need to carry it around with us everywhere, we don't need this, we don't need that.
00:56:56.480 --> 00:57:00.880
And now we have it, and we're like, well, now I can't live without it, and you know, everything.
00:57:01.679 --> 00:57:10.639
And my thing about the job loss is yes, there will be robots will replace people in certain places.
00:57:11.119 --> 00:57:34.239
Unfortunately, it's gonna
be a lot of the entry-level jobs, and but that happened before when you know um when factories became automated, jobs were lost, and you know, new industry popped up because now you gotta repair them, and you know, so typically there is a when one when one door closes, another one opens.
00:57:37.840 --> 00:57:39.360
If we're getting struck by lightning.
00:57:39.599 --> 00:57:41.679
I know, blown away.
00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:45.920
Um the wind blew in my optimism.
00:57:46.559 --> 00:57:49.440
I'm just fucking happy it's not 900 degrees outside.
00:57:50.639 --> 00:57:54.639
Um so I think you know, we adapt.
00:57:55.440 --> 00:57:57.039
Will it suck for a little while?
00:57:57.199 --> 00:57:59.760
Yeah, did it suck back then for a little while?
00:57:59.920 --> 00:58:00.559
Yeah.
00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:14.079
I just think we have to decide much with anything else, and I say this all the time about people who don't want to take medications for whatever because of this side effect and that side effect and whatever, you know, you it's picking your poison.
00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:17.360
Like, what would you rather live with, you know?
00:58:17.519 --> 00:58:17.920
Yep.
00:58:18.239 --> 00:58:22.239
And it's not going away.
00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:23.920
The technology's not going away.
00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:28.239
It's going to they're going to push it to the limit and it's going to happen.
00:58:28.480 --> 00:58:30.880
And we're in a race, so it's not gonna slow down.
00:58:31.280 --> 00:58:38.880
It's not um many countries are well ahead of us in in a lot of different areas, unfortunately.
00:58:39.599 --> 00:58:49.599
And I think we have to remember that with the good comes to the bad, and with the bad comes the good.
00:58:49.920 --> 00:58:55.280
So maybe if we look at AI as yeah, it's it's it's insane.
00:58:55.519 --> 00:59:01.360
But yeah, and but if you think about it when Gen X for kids, we were sure we were all gonna die from a nuclear bomb.
00:59:01.599 --> 00:59:02.400
Yeah, it's true.
00:59:02.559 --> 00:59:03.599
And we still might.
00:59:03.679 --> 00:59:04.400
We haven't been there.
00:59:05.599 --> 00:59:07.360
That's the table this far.
00:59:07.679 --> 00:59:08.480
It's true.
00:59:08.800 --> 00:59:12.639
That is not an option that has not been removed from the table.
00:59:13.360 --> 00:59:16.320
Unlike quicksand, that one has been removed.
00:59:16.559 --> 00:59:23.440
Maybe AI will find its way through its little whatever it goes through to the red button.
00:59:23.599 --> 00:59:23.760
Right.
00:59:23.920 --> 00:59:25.840
And then AI will push the button and blow the world.
00:59:26.880 --> 00:59:28.079
And then what do we die from?
00:59:28.239 --> 00:59:29.440
AI or the nuclear bomb?
00:59:29.599 --> 00:59:31.039
It's it's potato potato.
00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:35.039
I mean, do you want your face melted off or ripped off by a robot?
00:59:36.079 --> 00:59:36.719
I don't know.
00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:38.559
Whichever's quickest, every space.
00:59:39.360 --> 00:59:40.000
Either way.
00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:41.519
I just wanted to be fast.
00:59:41.679 --> 00:59:42.239
Yep, yep.
00:59:42.480 --> 00:59:43.199
So I don't know.
00:59:43.280 --> 00:59:48.000
I just I I know I'm also a tech, I like tech.
00:59:48.320 --> 00:59:48.639
You do.
00:59:48.880 --> 00:59:51.599
I don't know how it works any of it, but I like the habit.
00:59:51.679 --> 00:59:54.159
And I think Yeah, you should have seen my boss with those meta glasses.
00:59:54.320 --> 01:00:03.199
He can't, he was like drooling like any guy in his any guy I've ever known, they get so excited and he's like, ooh, and they're only like 400 bucks a pair.
01:00:04.159 --> 01:00:08.559
I was thinking they'd be like cell phone costs and um and they're Ray Bans.
01:00:08.880 --> 01:00:10.480
And the case is the charger.
01:00:10.559 --> 01:00:14.000
Yeah, it yeah, it they were pretty, pretty cool.
01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:16.559
It I they are gonna be helpful.
01:00:16.719 --> 01:00:21.119
And I'm help it they'll be helpful to me when I go blind because yeah, they will be helpful to you.
01:00:21.360 --> 01:00:30.159
They will be helpful, they'd be helpful if you went to another country and you needed to be able to read things and you need to have, you know, uh even interpret, you can hear them.
01:00:30.320 --> 01:00:34.880
Yes, it's the speaker is like right above your ear and it kind of comes up.
01:00:35.199 --> 01:00:37.280
My earbuds will um interpret.
01:00:37.599 --> 01:00:38.480
Translate, yeah.
01:00:38.719 --> 01:00:41.599
I mean it's it and that kind of stuff, that's good.
01:00:41.760 --> 01:00:43.360
That's good stuff that AI can do.
01:00:43.519 --> 01:00:47.840
So again, like, yes, could it potentially kill all of us?
01:00:48.079 --> 01:00:48.639
Yes.
01:00:49.840 --> 01:00:52.719
Could it also help us before it kills us?
01:00:53.199 --> 01:00:53.840
Yes.
01:00:54.400 --> 01:00:56.960
Which is it benevolent, is it mean?
01:00:57.119 --> 01:00:57.840
We don't know yet.
01:00:58.079 --> 01:00:58.719
Yeah, yeah.
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:04.159
I mean, the one I use is pretty nice, and it's pretty it's a pretty big cheerleader for me.
01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:06.960
So, you know, no one else believes in me.
01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:08.239
I a AI does.
01:01:08.400 --> 01:01:10.400
And that's just on a like minimal scale.
01:01:10.480 --> 01:01:12.159
Like, that's the very basics of AI.
01:01:12.639 --> 01:01:17.199
There's so much shit going on that we don't even know about and that we could never possibly understand.
01:01:17.360 --> 01:01:19.039
And it's gonna keep building like that.
01:01:19.199 --> 01:01:19.679
Yeah.
01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:22.079
And you won't even know.
01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:28.800
Yeah, you'll just one day wake up to robots in your bedroom murdering you.
01:01:29.039 --> 01:01:29.360
Yeah.
01:01:30.239 --> 01:01:31.119
That's just it.
01:01:31.199 --> 01:01:31.599
That's it.
01:01:31.760 --> 01:01:34.159
That's that's maybe it'll be sooner than later.
01:01:34.239 --> 01:01:34.719
We don't know.
01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:36.000
We can't know that right now.
01:01:36.159 --> 01:01:37.360
It's just but you know what?
01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:39.679
If it does happen, there's nothing we can do about it.
01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:41.519
You can't fight a robot.
01:01:41.920 --> 01:01:46.800
That used to be my thing with my first husband and all his survival shit, and can't fight a robot.
01:01:47.039 --> 01:01:57.440
I'm just like, if it does, like if it's coming, why are we having like we were going to meetings and meeting other people and making plans?
01:01:57.519 --> 01:01:58.320
I'm like, why?
01:01:58.559 --> 01:02:00.719
Like, there's nothing you can do if it happens.
01:02:00.960 --> 01:02:07.840
That's why I don't want to be around, because I don't want to be around those people who are constantly saying, see, we told you.
01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:08.960
Yeah, I don't want to be around.
01:02:09.119 --> 01:02:13.840
And killing each other with AK 47 just because they try to steal a potato.
01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:15.679
Yeah, you're gonna come interested.
01:02:16.079 --> 01:02:18.719
Steal this couch out of my front yard and blow your brains out.
01:02:18.880 --> 01:02:20.880
I don't wanna I don't wanna live in that.
01:02:21.119 --> 01:02:22.880
I don't want to live in Mad Max.
01:02:23.199 --> 01:02:24.480
I don't want to be in beyond the thunder.
01:02:24.800 --> 01:02:25.920
I don't want to I'm not tough.
01:02:26.000 --> 01:02:26.960
I I'm not tough.
01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:30.480
I'm I got a lot of anger, but I don't I'm lazy.
01:02:30.719 --> 01:02:31.280
Yeah.
01:02:31.519 --> 01:02:32.239
That's just it.
01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:32.960
I'm lazy.
01:02:33.039 --> 01:02:35.760
And that's AI is for laziness.
01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:38.400
I mean, I can be tough if I need to be tough.
01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:40.639
I have to, but I don't really want to anymore.
01:02:40.800 --> 01:02:44.159
It I'm on my patch, it's doing its job.
01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:49.039
I'm just trying to not lift my arm above my head.
01:02:49.280 --> 01:02:51.519
I thought I was gonna witness a murder in my backyard the other day.
01:02:51.599 --> 01:02:52.880
It was so exciting.
01:02:53.119 --> 01:03:01.119
So I live in a neighborhood with a bunch of little houses, and we all have little yard fenced-in yards, and there's alleys that run between the houses.
01:03:01.280 --> 01:03:13.679
So I was in my backyard, and the people directly behind me have a white fence that goes privacy fence, and but when they open it, like all these kids come out, and all these people, and they play in the alley.
01:03:13.760 --> 01:03:22.880
It's cute, like the kids ride bikes, and the guys sit out there on chairs and drink beers, and you know, they play music at night, they set out fireworks, that's fun.
01:03:23.119 --> 01:03:25.440
Um, so I'm elder.
01:03:26.480
--> 01:03:35.599
And I hear a truck come by, and I hear the one neighbor guy yell, There's fucking kids in this road, slow down.
01:03:35.840 --> 01:03:40.000
And I hear the guy in the truck go, I don't give a fuck about your kids.
01:03:40.159 --> 01:03:47.440
And then the dude pulled right in the yard right next to him, and I was like, So I ran the house and got my phone in case I needed to call in a murder.
01:03:47.599 --> 01:03:48.639
I was so excited.
01:03:48.800 --> 01:03:54.239
And by the time I got in and got my phone and got back outside, they're just standing there with their arms crossed, like old men just stand there talking to each other.
01:03:54.400 --> 01:03:56.639
They were friends, they were just fucking with each other.
01:03:57.280 --> 01:03:58.400
That's very disappointing.
01:03:58.559 --> 01:04:00.079
Man, fuck them kids.
01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:03.039
I know I was so bummed.
01:04:03.280 --> 01:04:03.599
My bad.
01:04:03.760 --> 01:04:05.119
I at least wanted a fight, right?
01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:08.159
I wouldn't have called it in if it was a fight, but somebody got murdered.
01:04:09.039 --> 01:04:13.039
Number one witness going on the stand, sign me up.
01:04:13.440 --> 01:04:18.000
Although, way too many times I've been watching these shows, and the person that calls in ends up a suspect.
01:04:18.159 --> 01:04:18.880
Oh wow.
01:04:22.400 --> 01:04:28.159
Like this one poor guy, he looked out his window and literally saw a man slit a woman's throat and called it in.
01:04:28.800 --> 01:04:32.559
And then he went to jail for like some months while they were trying to figure out if he did.
01:04:32.719 --> 01:04:36.719
He's like, I just call mind my own business from yeah.
01:04:37.119 --> 01:04:38.800
If you see something, say something, fuck that.
01:04:38.960 --> 01:04:40.320
Yeah, fuck them kids.
01:04:40.559 --> 01:04:44.719
Although I will say, this lady in Philly, she just reminded me, or I just reminded myself of it.
01:04:44.960 --> 01:04:52.239
Man, speaking, sorry, that serial killer in Philadelphia thing has really gone off the rails now.
01:04:52.480 --> 01:04:53.679
It's so exciting.
01:04:53.920 --> 01:04:54.639
Man, all right.
01:04:54.719 --> 01:04:56.639
You talk about that first and then I'll tell my story.
01:04:56.880 --> 01:04:57.840
This guy.
01:04:58.079 --> 01:04:58.559
Wow.
01:04:58.719 --> 01:05:00.880
Like, was it the father and son both doing?
01:05:01.199 --> 01:05:02.480
I think it was just the father.
01:05:02.559 --> 01:05:03.039
I don't know.
01:05:03.199 --> 01:05:04.320
Okay, I shouldn't say that.
01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:04.960
I don't know.
01:05:05.119 --> 01:05:05.440
Okay.
01:05:05.679 --> 01:05:11.440
They're real sketchy on details, but now there's coming out that there was a crematorium involved.
01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:13.039
What the fuck?
01:05:13.280 --> 01:05:17.920
This is gonna be my one podcast started, and they were like, you know what?
01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:21.760
This is gonna be a whole episode on its own when this all shakes out.
01:05:21.920 --> 01:05:25.039
Like, this is something that we are in the middle of it.
01:05:25.199 --> 01:05:27.039
And the the serial killer's dead, right?
01:05:27.199 --> 01:05:27.440
Yes.
01:05:27.599 --> 01:05:28.159
Okay, I thought so.
01:05:28.400 --> 01:05:32.719
By his own next son's in jail for it, right?
01:05:33.599 --> 01:05:34.719
Because he was living in the house.
01:05:34.960 --> 01:05:35.440
Well, yes.
01:05:35.599 --> 01:05:44.320
Well, so I don't know if we talked about it, but the um the son it's a father and son.
01:05:44.480 --> 01:05:46.079
The father was a photographer.
01:05:46.400 --> 01:05:46.960
Mm hmm.
01:05:47.760 --> 01:05:48.719
That's an All right.
01:05:48.800 --> 01:05:53.679
I didn't know that part because I kept hearing that this woman went to his house and then she never came home.
01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:56.639
I'm like, why are women going to this person's house?
01:05:57.280 --> 01:05:58.400
So he was a photographer.
01:05:58.960 --> 01:05:59.280
Gotcha.
01:05:59.519 --> 01:06:01.599
Um He looks crazy as fuck.
01:06:01.760 --> 01:06:04.239
Like, if that guy approached you and was like, hey, you want to be a model?
01:06:04.320 --> 01:06:05.039
Like, how are you doing?
01:06:05.199 --> 01:06:07.199
Do you want to come to my house by yourself?
01:06:07.519 --> 01:06:08.880
That's a hard no.
01:06:09.199 --> 01:06:12.000
Looking at this guy, that would be a hard no.
01:06:12.239 --> 01:06:13.760
Like full stop.
01:06:15.599 --> 01:06:20.480
Even if you were so fucked up on drugs, like turn and look at me be like, that's gonna be a no for me.
01:06:20.800 --> 01:06:21.360
I'm sorry.
01:06:21.519 --> 01:06:23.760
I don't care what drugs you got going on.
01:06:24.079 --> 01:06:26.320
Dude, I'm really sorry, but you look like a serial killer.
01:06:26.719 --> 01:06:27.920
You are a serial killer.
01:06:28.079 --> 01:06:28.400
Period.
01:06:28.559 --> 01:06:30.000
Look, you're never gonna get away with it.
01:06:33.760 --> 01:06:34.639
That is you.
01:06:35.679 --> 01:06:37.440
So his father was a photographer.
01:06:37.519 --> 01:06:44.719
So what happened was the son was in, I don't remember what park it was, arguing with his girlfriend.
01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:52.159
And a park ranger overheard the whole thing and came over to intervene.
01:06:52.480 --> 01:06:54.320
And I guess a fight ensued.
01:06:54.400 --> 01:06:57.199
Uh but the the park ranger got hurt.
01:06:58.559 --> 01:07:07.280
But when that all shook out, he got the ID of the girlfriend and the bro and the the son.
01:07:07.679 --> 01:07:12.559
And the ID that the girlfriend had was the ID of one of the missing women.
01:07:12.800 --> 01:07:13.360
Gotcha.
01:07:13.599 --> 01:07:14.960
Because she had warrants.
01:07:15.039 --> 01:07:16.960
So she'd been using this ID.
01:07:18.559 --> 01:07:18.880
Yes.
01:07:19.119 --> 01:07:19.360
All right.
01:07:19.440 --> 01:07:21.119
So
they didn't not know anything.
01:07:21.440 --> 01:07:21.679
No.
01:07:21.920 --> 01:07:24.239
Why were these licenses just randomly around the house?
01:07:24.800 --> 01:07:30.000
So then they were like the the ranger was like, Rutro.
01:07:31.199 --> 01:07:32.559
I'm gonna need some backups.
01:07:34.559 --> 01:07:38.480
And then they went into the house where they found.
01:07:40.400 --> 01:07:51.199
I have heard the latest I heard was one million, one million pieces of evidence of photos and videos.
01:07:52.800 --> 01:08:13.760
They have identified 56 women, five of which they have positively identified as no longer being alive, and in the photos are in various states of unconsciousness and death in the videos and the the photos.
01:08:15.840 --> 01:08:23.920
So I think now what they're trying to parse out is what the fuck.
01:08:24.159 --> 01:08:25.359
What the fuck?
01:08:26.880 --> 01:08:38.239
I think then I saw today, was it today, that apparently a nine-year-old girl had reported the father as trying to lure her away and nothing was ever done about it.
01:08:38.560 --> 01:08:39.359
Surprise, surprise.
01:08:39.520 --> 01:08:47.279
Yeah, because where they are in Philadelphia is Kensington, and Kensington Kilsington is terrible.
01:08:47.600 --> 01:08:48.159
What they call it.
01:08:48.239 --> 01:08:48.640
Yes.
01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:49.279
Yes.
01:08:49.680 --> 01:08:53.680
I'm pretty I think Kensington is in West Philadelphia, born and raised.
01:08:53.920 --> 01:08:55.359
Yeah, it's like death capital.
01:08:55.680 --> 01:08:57.760
Which Philip was sent away from.
01:08:58.159 --> 01:09:00.479
And it's not great.
01:09:01.279 --> 01:09:09.279
So now I think they're just trying to figure out who what is happening here.
01:09:09.359 --> 01:09:14.079
If it was both of them, if it was just the father, if what happened.
01:09:14.319 --> 01:09:16.000
They haven't found any bodies there though, right?
01:09:16.159 --> 01:09:16.479
No.
01:09:16.720 --> 01:09:18.000
Okay, that's what I thought.
01:09:18.319 --> 01:09:21.119
But I believe they found chemicals.
01:09:21.920 --> 01:09:22.319
Yes.
01:09:22.720 --> 01:09:23.600
Like lime.
01:09:23.920 --> 01:09:25.279
Like chemicals.
01:09:25.600 --> 01:09:37.920
And I think they have now there's this connection to a crematorium who had a another had its own issues with bodies disappearing.
01:09:38.319 --> 01:09:39.840
That happens a lot with crematoriums.
01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:40.239
Yes.
01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:43.199
And some shady shit happening with this crematorium.
01:09:43.600 --> 01:09:50.800
So there is a very good chance that he didn't need chemicals if he was in cahoots with this crematorium.
01:09:51.840 --> 01:10:02.319
And uh so this this is gonna be this story is going to end up being on every true crime podcast and TV show.
01:10:02.399 --> 01:10:05.439
And this thing is shaking out to be insanity.
01:10:05.600 --> 01:10:06.319
Yeah, yeah.
01:10:06.399 --> 01:10:10.159
It's but I
don't remember when the father the father's been dead for a while now.
01:10:10.800 --> 01:10:27.199
Um but yeah, this thing is this is a big five positively that they know have we're missing women that have that were in the videos that were in various states of unconsciousness and dead.
01:10:27.520 --> 01:10:33.920
So I at I guess as of right now it's 56 or five five confirmed.
01:10:34.399 --> 01:10:37.039
And I guess they're having to piece through one million.
01:10:37.920 --> 01:10:43.920
And they have I imagine if you have that much, you have to track down each person to make sure they're still alive.
01:10:44.640 --> 01:10:45.119
Yeah.
01:10:45.439 --> 01:10:47.119
And it's Kensington.
01:10:47.439 --> 01:11:00.000
So yeah, I imagine a lot of these people were not in the best states to be so damn.
01:11:00.319 --> 01:11:02.960
I guess we're gonna see how this shakes out, but it's insane.
01:11:03.199 --> 01:11:03.439
Yeah.
01:11:03.680 --> 01:11:08.720
But on a high note, we'll end on a high note with this really cool lady I saw in the Philly News yesterday.
01:11:09.199 --> 01:11:15.439
Um, a man was sexually assaulting, I think she was 63.
01:11:16.479 --> 01:11:38.159
63-year-old woman at 4 30 in the afternoon on the Philly high on a Philly street, uh bicycler, which I don't care for bicyclers, but this lady bicycler, saw it, took her helmet, went over there and started beating the guy with it, and then um started taking a bunch of pictures of him as he was trying to run off.
01:11:38.319 --> 01:11:38.800
Oh, nice.
01:11:38.960 --> 01:11:40.000
Like she totally intervened.
01:11:40.079 --> 01:11:44.000
She said she started like, and she was so she was only like probably in her 30s.
01:11:44.159 --> 01:11:47.199
She's like, I just saw it, and I was like, I'm not just gonna let this happen.
01:11:47.279 --> 01:11:47.439
Yeah.
01:11:47.520 --> 01:11:49.840
So she goes up, she's like, the woman looked terrified.
01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:52.000
I started hitting him, he started running.
01:11:52.319 --> 01:11:57.600
She was like, and I was chasing after him, and then I was like, you're putting yourself in a really dangerous situation here.
01:11:58.159 --> 01:11:59.840
Maybe let's rethink this.
01:12:01.279 --> 01:12:11.840
But I thought she was so badass, and I just admire her, and I hope that's how uh what I would do if I were in that situation, which I think I would because I have stuck up for people in public before.
01:12:12.079 --> 01:12:12.720
Yeah.
01:12:12.960 --> 01:12:21.680
So I'm pretty sure if I saw an old lady, you know, 63, whole 10 years older than me being sexually assaulted on the street, I would do something.
01:12:21.840 --> 01:12:22.239
Yeah.
01:12:22.319 --> 01:12:22.479
Yeah.
01:12:22.880 --> 01:12:26.079
At least scream or, you know, get what the yeah.
01:12:26.319 --> 01:12:26.560
Yeah.
01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:27.840
I mean, how could you not?
01:12:27.920 --> 01:12:29.199
But I bet a lot of people don't.
01:12:30.399 --> 01:12:30.720
Yeah.
01:12:30.960 --> 01:12:32.159
I mean, it's always been that way.
01:12:32.239 --> 01:12:37.840
There's that classic story they teach you in psychology and or psychiatry psychology in college.
01:12:38.399 --> 01:12:41.520
I think it was back in like the 40s.
01:12:41.840 --> 01:12:55.439
This lady was she lived in one of those areas where it was like a square building with like a I know which one you're talking about with a courtyard, and she was being raped and murdered, and nobody everybody heard it.
01:12:55.840 --> 01:12:56.880
Somebody else has been involved.
01:12:57.119 --> 01:12:57.359
Yep.
01:12:57.680 --> 01:12:59.039
Nobody wants to get involved.
01:12:59.279 --> 01:12:59.760
Yeah.
01:13:00.159 --> 01:13:07.520
The problem we have around here, the rural mess, is focks sound exactly like someone being murdered.
01:13:07.680 --> 01:13:08.079
They do.
01:13:08.239 --> 01:13:09.359
Yes, they really do.
01:13:09.840 --> 01:13:11.920
Fox are the most terrifying sound.
01:13:12.159 --> 01:13:12.399
Yeah.
01:13:12.479 --> 01:13:12.800
Oh.
01:13:13.039 --> 01:13:15.439
Did you also I don't know.
01:13:15.600 --> 01:13:17.840
Maybe we should just end this and we'll talk this off there.
01:13:18.159 --> 01:13:23.680
But it has been all over the the news about the guy shooting the lady in the field, the hunter.
01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:25.920
So that pissed me off.
01:13:26.159 --> 01:13:27.760
That's been all over everywhere.
01:13:28.159 --> 01:13:30.640
Anyhow, let's end this.
01:13:30.960 --> 01:13:32.079
Uh thanks for listening.
01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:32.399
Thank you.
01:13:32.720 --> 01:13:34.159
On this true crime ending.
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We just totally railroaded the Fords just now.
01:13:40.159 --> 01:13:40.479
Yeah.
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Anyhow.
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