Speaker 1: Let's get to this week's mailbag. You can email in info at David Pakman dot com. Also
random youtube posts comments rather or reddit posts or whatever else might end up being featured
in this segment. And no shortage of different topics to look at many substantive, which I know
many of you have been saying, David, I prefer the substantive emails and comments that you display.
We have quite a mix today, that's for sure. Jamie wrote in, Jamie says, Hey, David, I don't usually
write in, but I just had to after this. I watch your content regularly and so your videos show
up in my recommendation feed on YouTube. One clip that you posted earlier today, this was last late
last week was soaking wet. Trump Explodes Walks Out of Piers Morgan interview. But the phrasing of
soaking wet Trump explodes brings a very different mental image to mind. This happened in another
one of your segments when you were commenting on Trump's religiosity, where you said, I don't think
Trump has ever gotten on his knees for Jesus, which again brings a very different mental image
to mind. If it's intentional, I love it. But if it's not, I thought I would let you know. Now,
Jamie, we know exactly what we're doing. We know exactly what we're doing. And I absolutely love
love this email. This this is on this email is genius on about three or four different levels.
And I couldn't thank you enough for it, Jamie. But yes, no, those the titles are not an accident.
Then go from Norway wrote in and WinCo says David, first off, great show. I'm a loyal listener and
subscriber and American expat living in Norway. Can you speak? I know, by the way, I know the
term expat is very controversial with some in our audience, but I'm reading the email as written.
Can you spare a minute to explain why some people refer to Ukraine as Ukraine and others as
though Ukraine? Many thanks and keep up the great work. I seriously appreciate
your insight on current events. So the Ukraine is a reference to the Soviet era
where when you say the Ukraine, you're sort of saying the borderlands. And so the reason that
I don't say the Ukraine and I understand it's really not correct to say the Ukraine anymore
is that the country as it exists today, as an independent country,
at least for now, we'll see what Putin gets away with is that it's it's the country, Ukraine.
If we say the Ukraine, it would be sort of like saying the outskirts or the borderlands of the
Soviet Union rather than an independent country. And those are the historical origins of that.
I say Ukraine, I believe it is correct to say Ukraine. Brian Rhoden This is so funny. You guys
will understand why in a second. Brian says, Hey, David, I'm Brian from Toronto. I love the show.
The other day you mentioned your agent and you had a discussion on getting a package
to send to CNN Plus. But you were thinking it's a poor idea. Correct me if I'm wrong, however,
I think it would be a great move. CNN Plus is likely under immense pressure right now. You
could have a great opportunity to bring success to the platform, demonstrate the proven content,
make changes from the inside. Plus, the contracts they're giving out aren't too bad either. You can
negotiate from a place of power as your numbers are already proven. CNN Plus has since shut down
like as as quickly as I told the story to the audience. Wow. CNN Plus isn't doing great.
They're only getting about 10,000 viewers a day. We get way more than that. And it's like
also lame that my agent and I didn't even think to send a proposal to them,
in part because I don't want to have 20 bosses. It's more more about that. Brian's like, No, it
might be a good idea. And in the three days since there's been an announcement that CNN Plus is just
shutting down and that's the right decision, and it is a humiliating expenditure of money
for nothing to show for it. I know I've said this before. Many of you are probably getting tired
if CNN took a fraction of what they spent on CNN Plus and just said, hey, we're going to pick the
top ten like YouTube and podcast shows in the political space. And we're going to give them
a fraction of the money just to, like, buy ads on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. The return on
investment would have been dramatically better, dramatically better. But sadly, Brian, there's
no more conversation to have because CNN Plus is going bye bye. Kevin wrote in about Trump 2024.
Kevin says, I doubt that Trump runs in 2024. He will blame health or claim it won't be a fair
election. Trump is too big of a coward to risk losing again. I do think it would be interesting
to have a debate between two people that have been president. A normal debate, the candidates
answer as to what they would do. This debate, each candidate has an actual record. I completely agree
that a debate. Now, is it true we think about that? Has there ever been a debate between.
I think that's probably true, but I'd have to actually look at the history books on that.
But let's assume it's true that Biden versus Trump would be the first the campaign
where both candidates have been president. I think that would be interesting. But I also
I mean, listen, to be honest, I worry if Trump runs and is the Republican nominee. I worry that
he wins and that it's a really bad four years for the planet and for the country and for so
many different people. So my preference would be that Trump not even run. It's not that I'm
scared of Trump. I think the risk is the same with DeSantis. And by the way,
I think the Santos would be more dangerous because the Santos is less incompetent. But my preference
would be that both options in 2024 aren't as bad as Trump, and Trump is starting to mention health,
and that's not something he previously did. So Kevin may be on to something there. Next message
is from Ross. Ross continues to wait, I guess, for the big smoking gun revelation about 2020.
Ross says Biden can't even get ten people at a rally. Everyone knows the Dems and dark money
along with Republican RINO's rigged the election. It will come out in due time. My question now for
the it's eventually going to come out people is to say how long is it going to take? We are now
4 to 6. We're 18 months now beyond the 2020 election. Hard to believe, but we are
and we still have no evidence of the fraud that they are convinced exists. So with peace and love
and respect and honesty, I want to know how long is it going to take? Ross Let me know.
Chicken wrote in about food shortages and said this summer, this is a prediction, I guess, from
chicken this summer when you can't afford food or there is no food. We'll all be laughing at you.
Liberals are the Capitol are real Nazis. Liberals are the Ku Klux Klan.
Check your history if you can read losers with a Capital L. Listen. I mean, this is
I'm going to ignore the innuendo and the ad hominem. I just have a different opinion. I've
been researching the possibility of food shortages for, you know, ten days now and did a story on it
for you guys last week. I believe there will be some products with limited availability.
You know, if you're obsessed with if you're obsessed with a certain freezer waffle,
you might have to choose a different freezer waffle regionally and sporadically.
But there aren't going to be shortages of any food group for sure, based on everything I'm reading.
Maybe I'm wrong. You know, we don't have to call people Nazis to say I have a different
opinion. I just think chicken is wrong here. Harrison wrote in about book banning and says,
Liberate this. This is a genius. This is genius. If it weren't so dangerous, this would be genius,
Harrison says. Liberals are for banning books just as much as conservatives. Any serious
liberal doesn't want public school teachers teaching lessons from the Bible. You know
what? Harrison That's right. And it's not about banning the Bible. It's that we have separation
of church and state. Public schools are funded by property taxes and other funds from states,
meaning that there has to be separation between church and state. You can't have a public school
where everybody goes of no religion and of any religion and say, We're going to
teach the Bible here. Now, if you want to have a comparative religion class in a public school and
maybe some high schools have such classes using religious texts, they're not to teach them as true
substance, but to teach what is in them and say, Here's what the Old Testament Hebrew Bible says.
Here's what the New Testament says. Here's the Koran. Here's the Spaghetti Monster thing,
and here's the Greek stuff. You could do that in comparative religion as a history class of sorts.
But no, it's it's against the law to teach lessons from the Bible, as in, here's what we learn from
the story of Noah's Ark. Here is what we learn about homosexuality or whether you should eat
shrimp or and that is against the law. You can't do that. So, yes. Harrison People who follow the
law are against that. Groucho wrote in and says the internet was and is way too much for low
intelligence folks. Most of these people are holed away in the same small town they were born in.
Completely terrified of leaving. No. Now they have all this crazy info from snake oil salesman
at their fingertips, and it has kicked their paranoia into overdrive. You're you're basically
describing the way reactionary politics works. I mean, Groucho's using provocative language,
but Groucho is completely correct. You have sheltered people who, through a combination
of a lack of economic means in some cases, and bad parenting. And, you know, I mean,
we got to kind of tell it like it is. People end up extraordinarily sheltered
and then they are targeted with fear based rhetoric and they fall for it. And then they go on
Facebook and they post it. And then that creates this echo chamber and filter bubble where they
get more of the same stuff. Next thing you know, you're drinking urine. You know, that's it's a sad
reality. But Groucho is spot on. And lastly, Terry says David Pakman will support the war
until the last Ukrainian is dead. The war pig pacman is so brave. I actually don't know where
this is coming from, but the last week or so, I've been getting more and more comments and questions
that seem to assume I support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I've never said anything
to suggest that. I obviously don't support the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and quite frankly,
I would love for people to knock it off because it's just a waste of time. I don't support the
Russian invasion of Ukraine, so I don't know why you would come to me and tell me that I do.
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