Speaker 1: Let's keep it going with the calls via discord, which we do on Fridays.
You can join the Discord for free at David Pakman dot com slash discord. Let's go to
Gabe from North Carolina. Gabe, welcome to the program. What is on your mind today?
Gabe, please accept my invitation to chat.
And last chance for Gabe. Welcome. Speaker 3: And you can hear me.
Speaker 1: Yes, now I can. Speaker 3: Okay. How you doing? Just
a quick question. All those remixes you have on like when we're waiting
for Twitch? Yep. Like when you're waiting for, like, how do I get those remixes? Can
you put those on Apple Music or Spotify? Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. So do I have news
for you? Let me look at my calendar here. Hold on a second. When is this?
Um, I have a date. Where? The album. Okay. We're scheduled to start preorders of the
album. It's going to be free, by the way. So when we say preorders, it's just sort of like to say,
Hey, deliver the album to me on the release date. August 16th album preorder will start,
and then August 23rd. The idea was August 23rd is the day of the first Republican debate.
So I'll likely be streaming the debate. That is the album release date Wednesday,
August 23rd. The biggest hits from the remixes that the audience has made are
going to be on iTunes, Apple Music, all of those platforms. August 23rd is the big day.
Speaker 3: Awesome. I appreciate that. And those things are awesome. I go to
the gym and listen to those things because they make me laugh while I'm working out.
Speaker 1: Is there a particular song that really pumps you up when you're working out?
Speaker 3: If the one yesterday, it was the one where you lose that guy you did an interview with
and you just said something so stupid about the whole Israel of Palestine. Oh, Patrick.
Speaker 1: That David Patrick. But yeah, him. Speaker 3: That really had me going yesterday.
Speaker 1: That's a hell of a song. That's from Bongo Boy. He's the one who made that one.
Speaker 3: Awesome. Yeah. Look, I appreciate it, sir. I love the show.
And subscribe for a few months now. I get all my news from you. I don't watch any
mainstream news anymore, so. Well, listen, just. Speaker 1: Remember, I love what you're saying,
but I always am super upfront. I don't do news. I do commentary. So I do think if
you want to be informed, add some, you know, ADD, Associated Press, Reuters,
etc. to your media diet to fill in you. Nobody should only be listening to me. Unlike the right
wingers who claim to have all the answers. I don't claim that. Dead with peace and love.
Speaker 3: That's true. I appreciate that. Speaker 1: Gabe from North Carolina. Great
to hear from you. Wow, what a day. What a day of phone calls. A lot of these are going well,
too. Very well. Let's go to Boris in Denver. Boris, welcome to the David Pakman Show.
Speaker 3: Hey, David. Jeremy. Speaker 1: Yes, I can.
Speaker 3: Okay, cool. I don't think I've seen you comment on this yet, but I was reading about
the upcoming presidential elections in Argentina, and I've been seeing that like in the aftermath of
the recent economic crisis there with the leftist party being in power, that the far right party has
gained a lot of traction in the polling and it's looking pretty tight. I was wondering, like, what
was your outlook on the upcoming election there? Speaker 1: I've not been following it as closely
as I would like just because I've had my hands full between the book and the show and the baby
and travel and all these different things. That being said, my audience knows I am not a Christina
guy. So. So, you know, just the entire Kirchner movement is not for me. There's this kind of
bonkers guy, Melaye, who is now shown up on to the scene and he's getting some attention. I'm not I'm
not a fan of his either. So, listen, the situation in Argentina is a mess. I am not as informed
as I should be to to make a more definitive declaration. But neither the Kirchner people
nor Melaye are my cup of tea, if I can say that. Speaker 3: Okay. No, that's cool. I guess so.
Yeah. Broadly speaking, though, I was just wondering about this trend that I've noticed
where it seems like the sort of populist left has had a lot of success in South America. We've seen
like they won the presidential elections in Peru, they won recently in Colombia
and I believe Bolivia and several and, you know, Lula coming back in Brazil. Yeah,
they've had a lot of success in South America. But it seems like the, you know, their populist
fascist. Right. Seems to be really ascendant. On the contrary, in Europe, where, you know,
you have Christine Lagarde and in Italy, France is apparently getting closer to like electing,
um, you know, a far right candidate in their upcoming elections. And and I think, you know,
you have Hungary and some other places. Do you know like any reason for that dichotomy,
like why the populist left is more successful in South America but.
Speaker 1: So a couple of different things because first of all, it's not Christine Lagarde in Italy.
It's Giorgia Meloni. Very important. Speaker 3: Oh, sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We don't want to assail the character unnecessarily of Christine Lagarde,
although we could assail her character in other ways if we wanted. Listen, here's the thing.
South America and Europe, totally different circumstances, totally different political
animals, culturally, extraordinarily different. The the what we've seen in Europe in terms of
the rise of the authoritarian right has mirrored the rise of Trump in the United States. A lot of
it has been sort of happening under the similar auspices and circumstances in Latin America. It's
a very different situation. The relationship of Latin America to North America in Europe is
very different than the relationship between the United States and Europe. And so circumstances are
just different. Everything is different. So it's not a shock to me that we've seen very different
trends in each. Speaker 3:
Yeah. Okay. Nice for you to saying. I was just curious, like what we can learn from maybe, like,
the success of the the West End. Not that all of these leftist leaders in South and Latin America
are great, but some of the successes from them, like in being able to like defeat the far right.
Yeah, I think that's dangerous. Here's here's the. Speaker 1: Thing. For me, it's a very cautionary
tale both in Europe and Latin America, because as everybody knows, I'm not an authoritarian,
authoritarian, fascist right winger. I also am not a Castro, Maduro, Chavez type guy. I think
these are just the other side of the authoritarian strongman coin from someone like Trump. They talk
about poverty reduction in social programs, but to the extent that they implement them,
they often do so for their own benefit and the benefit of their friends. Doesn't mean
they don't do some good things like reducing hunger or things that are to be applauded. But
I see in general this populist rhetoric used to win elections by left and right. I see it as a
cautionary tale. Speaker 3:
Okay. Now, that's fair. All right. Well, I appreciate you taking my call. Good talking.
Speaker 1: All right, Boris from Denver. Great to hear from you