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As you know, the minute we start, we don't do anything ever.
We don't even think about doing anything until we first fulfill the top priority, which is introducing our canine co-host.
And tonight we have Juno sitting there in Victor's lap.
And then here we have Kuma, who's a little bit agitated.
He was very calm right until we started, and then he started just walking around.
Kuma.
Yeah, it's a stage fright, Glenn.
Yeah, exactly.
And he wants to make sure he's in every camera angle.
So that's that.
And then last, we have...
End least.
I don't want to say, but not least, because it's not true, but I don't want to say end least, because it's rude, is Victor Puget, my co-host, the show's director.
I am back.
I've been away for two weeks on vacation, as I'm sure you've suffered a great deal.
I know.
I had to do these shows by myself.
Thankfully, I'm here.
I'm back.
It's good to be back.
Do you want to say where you went?
It's good to be on vacation.
I went to the Amazon.
Something Joe Biden and I have in common.
Did you see him wandering around in there?
Yeah, I was in that same place where he did that conference.
It was really good.
He really came back very enthusiastic and recommended that everyone who can go see the Brazilian Amazon do so.
It's really one of the great Uh, places on Earth.
Yeah, and that, uh, also applies to everyone who's watching, so...
Yeah, no, that's what I, that's what I was talking to.
It's really nice.
Who do you think I was talking to?
Uh, to me, I mean, to the dogs, of course.
No, yeah.
I was like, yeah, picture things of any of you who can have a chance.
Uh, yeah, so, anyway, why don't we, we have a lot of questions.
We have.
We do have.
I just want to get your, your reaction to something, because, uh, as you know, Rio, uh, It was kind of in the middle of the big thing recently with the G20 summit.
A lot of...
All world leaders came through in general.
The city was pretty...
Not all, but the G20. Yeah, the very poor ones.
China, India, Saudi Arabia, the US, Great Britain.
Yeah.
France.
France.
They were all around Rio.
The city was pretty crazy.
I can only imagine how...
It must be to live in D.C. Where, like, this sort of stuff happens all the time.
But I guess, like, when it happens all the time, the city's somewhat ready for it.
It just threw the city out of whack.
But it was good.
We all had fun.
People from Rio, not us, because we're...
People were really excited.
Like, they would see Macron walking around on the beach in shorts.
He would stop and take selfies.
I mean, Macron really knows how to play the game.
Yeah, no, he's a good politician.
He knows.
He was, like, jogging, talking to people.
Just loving the beach, talking to every, like...
You know, vendor, street vendor.
People love McCormick.
Yeah, exactly, because of that.
That was very true.
Anyways, but...
G20, all the leaders, as always with these things, there's a big photo with all the leaders.
People noticed that Joe Biden, as well as some other people, weren't.
No, just Joe Biden.
Basically, traditionally, the G20 leaders, all 20 of them, take a group photo, as you might expect when they go to these events.
That's the one thing they got to do.
They took one and everybody was in the photo, the 19 leaders, and the one that was missing was Joe Biden.
And he had previously given this bizarre press conference, for those of you who didn't know that we were just referencing, where he was speaking in the Amazon, in the middle of the Amazon at a podium to a press conference.
And then once he was done, he turned around and just started walking aimlessly into the Because, you know, when he gives those press conferences in the White House, when he's done, he just, like, turns around and walks back to that back room.
I think he thought he was in the White House.
I think there was probably a way back for him there.
You know, it's just so weird to walk into the woods.
They're just like...
Especially because of the way he walks.
If it had been more purposeful, you'd be like, oh, there must be a place.
But he was just like an old man lost in the forest.
So anyway, there was a New York Times article on this.
Yeah, so they did a group photo in...
I think a very well-placed photo showing the wonders of Rio.
And, you know, Joe Biden wasn't there.
So, of course, the New York Times went to ask about this.
So I'm going to quote the New York Times now.
Well, they asked the Brazilian minister, right?
Around what is it?
No, but they asked the government.
They asked the minister.
They looked for an official question, like submitted an official question.
And then the Ministry of Communications for the Brazilian government, who It's like the press office.
Yeah, the person who would answer officially for that explained why Joe Biden was not in the force.
I'm quoting from New York Times now.
Back in Rio on Tuesday, world leaders gathered for another group photo, this time ensuring that Mr. Biden would be in the picture.
That's why the leaders had not waited for Mr. Biden the first time.
Paulo Pimenta, Brazil's Minister of Communications, said Brazilians prioritize punctuality.
When it's time, it's time, Mr. Pimenta said on Tuesday.
The reason this is the funniest thing ever, the funniest thing is Brazil is basically the least punctual place ever.
I've ever been in.
It's less punctual and organized in Italy.
I always call it the anti-Germany.
I did a book tour once in Germany.
When you do a book tour, what happens is you can stay in your hotel and then you have in conference rooms.
They just have one media person after the next come in and interview you or on video or by print.
Your publisher stacks these one after the next because you only have a day or two in Berlin and then you're on to the next city.
And Sometimes I would go up to my room if I had like 15 minutes between interviews, like not very, you know, punctual myself, especially after living in prison.
And if I was, I'm not joking, if I was 60 seconds late, they would send up the woman, she'd be like, bang on my door.
And she'd be like, Glenn?
Mr. Greenwald?
Mr. Greenwald?
It's time to go.
We have to go.
We must go.
And it was like, the interview was like 12.15.
This was like 12.16.
So Germany, everything was like, when it's time, it's time.
In Germany, Brazil is the anti-Germany.
And I actually learned, and something I hated at first and then learned to love, which is that nothing, not only does nothing storm in time here, But if you get to somewhere 45 minutes after the scheduled time, you're considered impolitely early.
Yeah, I mean...
Things are not supposed to start...
If you say, like, oh, yeah, just come over at 7, and then you do come over to my place at 7, I'm going to be showering.
I know, I know.
I had some...
About two weeks ago, someone was supposed to come over at a specific time.
And of course, once that time got there, I was wandering around.
It was nowhere near ready.
And they got there on the dot.
I was so angry.
I was like, this is so rude.
Who gets there on the dot?
That's the Brazilian way of thinking.
So to hear him justify why they omitted Joe Biden from the photo...
They could have just had anything else.
Like, he just said, oh, you know, like...
The president of Vietnam needed to run up, and that's why we needed to gather food.
Like, whatever.
Just, like, Brazilians are punctual.
I know, it'd be like saying, you know, in the United States, like, Americans hate fast food, or Americans hate consumption.
We Italians, we do not like to be loud.
We don't like corruption, we don't like being loud, we don't like the lack of organization.
I know, it's just so funny.
The fact that he could say that with a straight face through time, like, oh, he was a minute late, and here in Brazil, we Brazilians are globally known.
When it's time, it's time.
And that was a color shock for me when I moved abroad, when I went to live in Singapore.
And I discovered that there was a difference between saying 1 and saying 115. Because for me, it's like, yeah, 1, 115, it's all the same.
It's all like...
Before 1.30.
Yeah, there's this phrase, like, whenever you're late and you get really late, like 20, 25 minutes, 30 minutes late, and it's really like a doctor's appointment where you're expected to show up a little bit more reasonably, less late, and then someone will text you and say, where are you?
Are you coming?
And then there's this phrase in Portuguese, isto chegando, which is very ambiguous.
It just means, like, yeah, I'm getting there.
But it could mean, like, two minutes, it could mean, like, 15 minutes, it could mean an hour.
Like, yeah, I'm getting there.
So yeah, that was amusing.
Alright, so we have questions from listeners?
We do have.
The first one, question one, comes from May4679, and the question is, what are your thoughts on the shutting down of InfoWars?
I think...
That the case that was brought against Alex Jones and Infowars for defamation, intentional inflection of emotional distress, was on its merits reasonable and valid.
Because Alex Jones did essentially not just say that Sandy Hook It was staged.
He accused the parents of feigning grief when, in fact, they were participants in this fake event that was designed to generate opposition to guns.
That was what Alex Jones said.
And as a result, Alex Jones has a huge audience.
He did and still does.
I mean, people have been listening to him for years.
They really trust him.
And these parents got tons of death threats.
It upended their lives at a time when they were dealing with the This incomprehensible grief of losing a five-year-old or a six-year-old because they got murdered by a gun in school.
So I don't find the case itself to be outrageous.
I can understand that case.
I think even Alex Jones admits that what he did was wrong and it was a bad mistake.
I interviewed him about that.
And there was a documentary about that where he talked at length about why he thinks it's a mistake, why he regrets it.
But...
This judgment of in excess of a billion dollars.
Do you know how rare it is for even megacorporations when they get found guilty or found liable of doing something extremely destructive?
Would ever have a judgment in excess of a billion dollars?
It's so clearly an abuse of the justice system to try and forever destroy someone who for a long time has had a big impact in a way that the establishment hates.
He was a major voice in helping Donald Trump win the 2016 election, the 2016 primary.
He put him on his show all the time.
He had a gigantic audience.
This is somebody they wanted to destroy for a long time.
And the fact that they ruined him, they ruined him.
With a judgment that never would have happened had he not been who he is and not had the political ideology he has, it's just another case of extreme weaponization of the justice system as a way of crushing dissent.
And that's going to happen more and more.
This is the kind of strategy that they're using to bring civil liability against people who are dissidents to bankrupt them if they can't put them in jail because of the First Amendment.
All right.
Second question, which is not so much a question, but more of a comment, comes from Jorah.
The Lofredo interview was the best Locals content ever.
What a great interview.
I mean, I don't even know how you could respond to that, but...
Well, the thing is, like, the thing about...
I think we've ended up putting it on the Rumble page as well.
We did, we did.
We put it on Locals first.
Yeah, everywhere now.
Yeah, and I think we've had him on our show.
We had him on our show previously.
We had him on before about his reporting about when he used to be the people who wouldn't let the settler movement that was blocking a truck to get into Gaza.
They would take their kids and teach their kids.
And his reporting has been pretty extraordinary.
I mean, you go to Israel right now, it's basically like martial law.
Israel, the Israeli media is under full censorship.
No Israeli media outlet can publish anything about Gaza, about Lebanon, about the war, criticizing Netanyahu without getting the permission of censorship.
people are getting arrested in droves for like social media posts if any of the arab israeli citizens express any kind of sympathy for the people of gaza they get investigated they get their lives ruined there was actually an article in the new york times about this 24 year old girl who is an it grew up in her life in israel as an arab israeli citizen arab israeli and because of like two or three posts she was expelled from her school She was prosecuted.
She was detained.
She was accused of terrorism.
It's considered a terrorism offense.
So there's no liberty in Israel to speak of, basically.
And he has been wandering around just doing dangerous reporting.
To his great credit, that's designed to show a lot of the steeder sides of Israel that don't get normally shown.
And if you're doing that, you have to know that Israelis are a really authoritarian government, to put that mildly.
You have to know if you're doing that, there's a risk that you're going to get.
You're not going to be well treated.
And I think the only reason why that interview was so – why it resonated so much is because it's not just that he got arrested for his journalism.
It's that his journalism has been so great.
He's, I think, very articulate about his journalism.
You can see how sincere he is.
There's no drama to it.
There's no I got purply to it.
He just told the story of what happened, and it's so jarring that they would do that to an American journalist, because as I kept thinking, if they're doing that to an American journalist, not just arresting them, but psychologically, you know, harming them and torturing them, imagine what they're doing to Palestinians inside those dungeons.
Yeah.
And I think the fact that, like, a lot of his reporting is also, like...
Just opening the camera, like in Israel, and just letting, like, just showing what's, like, he doesn't need to, like, you know, he doesn't do, like, undercover stuff.
He doesn't pretend to be, you know, doing something.
He just goes and interviews.
And it's amazing what people are saying.
It's pretty crazy.
And it just, we often say that, like, you can find honest reporting in Israeli media much more so than in American media, when they're reporting about the war in Gaza and all this stuff.
Which I think is a damning condemnation of American media that is operating outside any constraints of official censorship, but it's still not telling the story.
Oh, you're like, Herod and other Israeli media constantly publish arguments about whether there are war crimes, whether it's genocide.
Calling it genocide is...
It does get done.
It's still...
Like, most Israelis, even ones who hate NetNahu, are in general supportive of the war.
They're angry about this war crimes accusation.
But they, in the Israeli media, are much more willing to express severe criticism of the Israeli government, the Israeli war, than you would ever hear in a mainstream American media.
All right.
Question three comes from Mind Critter.
What do you think about forcing presidential candidates to reveal their potential cabinet nominations before being elected?
Wouldn't it be great if more debates could be held between secretaries of state, etc.?
Yeah, it's an interesting idea.
Actually, it is true that who you select says a great deal about the kind of government that you intend to construct.
I do think There'd probably be an argument that it's so premature for us to select without having one.
But you could almost see, I don't know if a law, but like a practice where people say who their attorney general would be, who their secretary of defense would be, who their secretary of state would be, who their chief of staff would be, who their national security advisor would be, who their secretary of treasury would be.
Like, that would be a very meaningful way of evaluating candidates.
And in the case of Trump, it would have told a lot about what kind of government he intends to pursue.
Yeah, I guess the...
And same with Kamala.
Like, the illusion of what the Democratic Party probably pretended is would have been completely undermined...
Had she been forced to identify the people from Goldman Sachs or from think tanks?
Or even who would be like Secretary of State?
Who would be Attorney General?
No, that's what I mean.
They would come from big law firms of the kind that's who would be Attorney General or prosecutors.
Or she'd need to tell, are you going to keep Lena Kahn or not?
Right, exactly.
I suppose during the campaign, a lot of these decisions aren't made and you have to not reveal, I guess, It would be hard to make it mandatory.
You know, like, you're promising three different groups that they're going to get to nominate the Secretary of State, and of course, like...
Well, that's why the campaigns would never want to do it.
Exactly.
It's just you would...
Because they want to be as unspecific as possible.
I mean, Kamala Harris' entire campaign, at its core, was driven by the overarching objective of never committing to anything specific.
Right.
Which turned out not to be an effective strategy.
Especially when someone just floats into the consciousness of the electorate four months before an election, does no campaigning, never gets any votes.
You can imagine a scenario in which the same switch happens with the same amount of time, but it's a person who's like...
Charismatic and confident.
Delineating what they like.
I'm going to do this.
This is what's going to be different.
But not saying ideologically, just someone with his level of self-possession, self-belief.
This is what I'm going to do.
This is what I'm not going to do.
She always seems so petrified.
And this is true for most Democrats, I think.
as attorney general.
Yeah.
at the difference between and the people like Donald movement who are very agr almost shameless.
You know if they get wildly attacked taboos and conventional w institutions.
Trump reali he won in 2016.
He never in his character and that new ethos that for better positions.
That's how and I think Dave was making this point quite importantly and effectively that the biggest benefit of Trump is that he has broken so many long standing institutions beginning with the corporate They just got exposed as having no relevance, no connection to what people are thinking.
It was a paper tiger all along.
Paper Tiger all along.
Exactly.
But Democrats are such institutionalists.
They're afraid of the paper tiger.
That's their bread and butter.
That's where they live.
They need praise from the New York Times.
They want the tiger not to be made out of paper.
Right.
Exactly.
Also, these are the institutions that matter in their circles.
You need praise from CNN. If CNN criticized you, or the New York Times editorially condemned you...
That would be shameful.
They hate that.
Everybody would judge you.
There are Democrats who are more self-confident, have more self-belief.
The problem with Kamala Harris is that the reason she just never felt comfortable in public is because She was a fraud all along when she became vice president.
There are certain things that she knows really well.
Like, she's been a prosecutor her whole life.
She knows how to question witnesses, like in a Senate Judiciary hearing.
She knows criminal justice.
That's what she knows.
Maybe that's about it.
So when you're vice president, you have to pretend that you're like a world leader.
And she had no idea.
The fear was not that she would offend people and said she would get exposed.
Even whatever ideas she might have had, she had to put eight blockers in her brain so that she wouldn't even accidentally expose any of them.
Every time she was speaking, she was careful not to really say anything.
That's why I should go these insane conceit sentences.
Because, oh my god, I'm about to say something.
Then you have to...
Create, you know, sub-causes and clauses about like...
Or just be super ambiguous and refuse to answer.
I think that's like...
There was a lot of real energy behind her initial emergence because what polls were showing is that people just wanted something different than two old men who had both been president, Trump and Biden.
So she had that opportunity.
She did very well in the debate.
She became a better speaker.
So she had the opportunity to have people...
She kind of got past that Like, am I presidential enough?
Sort of, those tasks.
And so I think people were, oh, no.
I think everybody was like, okay, she seems confident.
So now the question is, who is she?
What does she believe?
What is her thing?
What is she going to do?
And that's the question they...
A skilled politician can evade a question and not have you realize they're evading the question.
She would be so blatant.
They would say, were Americans better off four years ago or today?
That was the first question of the debate.
She's like, look, I grew up in a middle class.
And then he says right away, it's no like there's no cleanness to it.
There's no like coolness to it.
It's just it's so blunt, the evasion.
And people heard it so much.
They're like, I have no idea who she is.
I just don't trust her.
Whereas Trump is very clear about what he wants to do.
Yeah, I think.
Yeah.
Also, the fact that they were trying to run the resistance campaign again, in which the whole idea was that they don't really need to defy what they're for because what they're against is enough.
Right.
I mean, they did that in 2016 and lost.
And I think they thought, because all their media outlets were constantly telling them.
I don't know if you saw it.
You guys may not have seen either.
But there's a really good-- I've been waiting for this to happen.
They've done these before in prior elections, where they do the trajectory of the mood and demeanor of cable shows that are covering the election.
So there's one really good one with the Young Turks in 2016, where they started off so certain Hillary was going to win.
And then as things go on, they're starting to get more doubts, more doubts.
And then they reach the point where they actually think she's not going to win.
And then they have to accept it.
And then they break down.
It's really funny to watch that trajectory.
Yeah, like a montage of the lowlights they have.
So, they did one with MSNBC, and it's about a 30-minute clip, but it's incredibly entertaining, but also revealing.
The first...
I would say 12 to 15 minutes.
So like a little bit before the polls close and then once the polls started closing an hour and two hours into the night.
Everything they were saying was designed to lead people to believe that Kamala was winning, that all the signs were really good.
There were huge lines in the colleges, the liberal colleges, where huge numbers of young people turned out.
There were immense lines in urban areas.
All of this turned out to be totally false, and a lot of the young people who voted at colleges voted for Trump.
But they were telling their audience constantly because they believed there was no way that Trump could win because in their world, even though he won in 2016 before people really understood him, now January 6th has happened and that's like the worst, darkest day in our history.
And Trump is a convicted felon, and he's facing felony charges because he had these documents in Mar-a-Lago, and they walked themselves up into such a lather, such a frenzy over this that they could not conceive that people didn't see things the same way.
And so even though the polls were showing that it was a close election, everybody was saying it's a good close election, Intuitively, they just did not believe it was possible for Trump to win because they did not believe it was possible that anybody other than a bunch of racist white men Would dare to go vote for Trump to the point where, like, even they were saying at the beginning, there were a bunch of them saying this, that, like, this election is going to be the rising up of white women.
White women are going to finally realize that if they vote Republican, they're trading away their own rights.
And instead of doing what their husbands tell them to do, which was a big ad that they ran to encourage people to women to vote differently than their husband and hide it.
That women were finally going to rise up in sisterhood and empathize with black women and Latino women finally and vote for Kamala as a kind of solidarity movement of women.
And the idea that people think that way, the idea that that was going to happen turned out to be completely false.
They had no...
Finger on the pulse of how people think because they're so cloistered.
And that's why their audience disappeared, because they've been led to believe so many things over so many years.
Robert Mueller's going to frog Mark Trump out of the White House.
They all believe that.
None of it happens.
It's the people who are excited about the campaign events with Liz Cheney.
Like, who is this for?
It's for the five people who care about this stuff and watch the show.
Yeah, who go on their shows.
And nobody else.
Nobody.
Like, who thought that campaign would lose?
Anyways.
Yeah.
Imagine how out of touch you have to be to think that Liz Cheney is a campaign asset.
Not just an asset, but the one to feature in the closing weeks of the campaign.
She's also enforcing us, amongst other things.
That would be one thing.
It was the main feature.
Also, there were so many things.
They sent Obama to Philadelphia.
They sent Hakeem Jeffries to...
Speak to black men as though Obama, who gets off his yacht, who gets off the yacht of Richard Branson, or like out of his Martha Vineyard estate, and he goes to Philadelphia.
So he understands what black men in Philadelphia, like working class black men, are thinking and feeling, as though he's a credible voice to like speak to them or for them.
And he just floats in...
And his, like, expensive suit tells them if you're reluctant to vote for Kamala, it's obviously because you have deep-seated misogyny and you need to get over it.
Then he, like, gets back on his jet.
Or they send Bill Clinton to Michigan and they're like, look, I know that you think that the war in Israel, the war guys is wrong, but you're totally wrong.
I'm going to tell you the real story about why Israel is right about everything.
They just drag out these completely out of touch, like, political elites and multimillionaires, all the stuff with Oprah and Beyonce, Taylor Swift.
Like, the idea that that was effective, they tried it all in 2016. Like, I envision this being, like, one prong of your campaign, like, among other things, we've got celebrities.
Like, it was the only thing that, anyways, when the election has been too long, I've been out of the game for a while, I just needed to get it out of my city, but it was crazy.
Anyways, it almost seemed like they were trying to lose...
But they weren't.
But if they were, that would be the campaign you would run.
They would have done very well.
The last question comes from Coctwas.
Actually, I'm just going to...
It's already on the screen, but I'm going to rephrase it, okay, Glenn?
No, you can read it.
You can read it.
You're going to have to fool it.
How do you manage to have everything, Glenn?
No, you can read the question as it is.
Hey Glenn, on a personal note, what does your daily routine look like?
How do you stay so productive and avoid procrastination and also keep yourself so handsome and all that stuff?
It's funny because I don't think I'm so productive.
I do think I was more productive for a lot of different reasons.
I don't prioritize work and productivity as much as I did for a long time in my life for a lot of personal reasons.
Also, I have, you know, my kids that I'm raising by myself, and that takes a lot of energy and attention, and we have a lot of, you know, like, nonprofits and the Dave Miranda Institute that take up a lot of my time as well.
So, you know, sometimes I get angry that I haven't written a book since 2021 or that, like, I don't write enough columns for Folia, which is the largest newspaper in Brazil with which I'm a columnist where I can just write a column whenever I want.
I don't write as many articles as I wish I could, so I sometimes don't feel like I am productive.
Like, why am I not as productive as I've been?
But obviously doing a show essentially five nights a week and having to do a bunch of other adjacent responsibilities, like going on other shows and traveling and sometimes writing, you know, it does consume a lot of energy.
This show, people warned me, like Tucker warned me, Laura Ingram warned me.
If you're going to do a five-night-a-week show, you better be prepared to realize that it's going to consume all of your time.
That's true for that.
That's not true for me.
They are not me.
What I try and do is, given that we go late, and by the time we get home, it's midnight, because we're two hours ahead of the East Coast right now.
Usually, we're ahead an hour.
I try and sleep a little bit late, and then not...
Awaken and get up and running with work.
I try and give myself a few hours of relaxed time, slow time, exercise, play tennis or go to the gym, just to not have my work day start at 9am and then not be done until 11 or 12 at midnight.
You have to work to create that buffer.
I also think when reading the news is part of your work and, you know, Reading the news is always coming at you.
Now it's very hard to switch off sometimes.
Yeah.
The kind of classical standard activity for the United States and the suburbs in the morning is you would wake up and get your newspaper and read it before work.
My biggest boomer thing is that I wake up in the morning and I read the paper.
You get the print edition?
I read the print edition on my tablet.
Not the website.
Yeah, no, I go through the pages of the printed edition.
Right.
Because I do think, actually, you'll notice if you go through a newspaper in its actual form, you'll end up reading a lot of articles because they're in front of you that you wouldn't choose to click on.
And also, it gives, like, sometimes when it's just a bunch of links, like, it has no content.
You have a sense of, like, hierarchy and, like, you know, someone thought about, like, what is the most important thing instead of just, like...
Right, you find things in the middle that are really long that have a headline that you would never have clicked on but then you read it and you're glad you did.
And obviously, as you were saying, when your work is related to the news, Even just reading the newspaper already gets your brain going about, oh.
I wake up in the morning and I'm sitting at my breakfast table, drinking coffee and reading the news.
Like, am I working?
You know what I mean?
Right, right.
Exactly, exactly.
And that's why, like I said, I think it's important to make sure that you just purposely structure that first part of your day, given how long you're going to go at night.
Where you're not working.
And I do a lot more to reserve weekends.
I'm much more careful and resolute about taking real vacations, which for 10 years I never did.
So I just try and have a more balanced sense of priority.
I also think the fact that I worked with you before you started doing the show and saw how you worked then.
It was hard for all of us, I think, during the show and having solid, ironclad commitment every night, whereas before the time, things were a lot looser.
Yeah, like we published when we wanted to publish.
I mean, you did start with me at the...
Start just a little bit before the insane, intense.
It was crazy.
Brazil reporting that freed Lula, and there was no balance at all.
We were every day, day and night.
And the image of reading the news in the morning and nowhere to be working, that was like...
Oh, yeah.
They were talking about us.
Yeah, exactly.
Those kinds of things, and that went on for years.
Yeah, so it was very hard to get the discipline of having to be here at this time.
But it's good.
It's good because now for the first time, I think, in your life, mine in a few years, but I imagine the first time of your life, you have this time that you've got to be working, but the corollary of that, that you have a time that you're not working.
Like in the morning, you're not.
Right, it gives you more of a structure.
And in some way that can be imprisoning, but in other ways it can be liberating.
Yeah.
And also, you know, you come to the studio, you don't work from home anymore.
So I guess when you're home...
Right, you have some separation as well.
There's some separation.
Yeah.
Look, at the end of the day, if your quote-unquote work is coming into a studio, preparing a program, talking about things that you're interested in, you probably shouldn't be complaining.
Yeah.
But since the question was raised...
You know, which was like, how do you do your day to be so productive?
And I was saying, like, sometimes it's hard to be as productive as I wish I could be.
I was answering just for that reason.
But, you know, this is work, but it's the kind of work that even if we weren't doing it for work, we'd probably still be doing it anyway.
So that's a huge, yeah, you'd be reading the news, you'd want to talk about it.
You know, one of the major reasons I started writing was because I just had things I had to get out.
And I just wanted a platform to be heard, to be able to talk about them and be heard.
All right, so very little actionable advice, I'm afraid.
Oh, I didn't give any...
I thought I gave good advice about the morning.
Yeah, that is true.
Just not to wake up and just go running.
Like, give yourself, like, a time to just...
Or if you work up in the morning, you wake up, go to work, but have the time at night to go online.
Like, have a time where you're not working.
Totally, that's important.
All right, that's a good note to end.
The dogs are always working.
They're all very calm, though they're on the floor.
So, as always, we want to thank you so much for making this show possible.
Coleman was walking around with a full, uncapped water bottle.
Oh, and making a lot of noise with it.
It's got no lid.
It's full of water.
And he didn't seem to have spilled anything, no.
He's very elegant and very careful.
Look at that.
Look at that.
How he carries it.
He's so responsible.
We're just playing with fire now.
All right.
So thank you guys so much for being members here, for participating in the program.
It really means a lot to us in every way.
I wasn't here on Tuesday because I did Tucker's show.
So for those of you who haven't watched it, I recommend it.
I think it ended up just because of the way Tucker and I speak.
Even outside of cameras, we speak that way.
Some independent show you might have heard of.
Tucker Carlson's show, yeah.
Interestingly, it's like sometimes supplants Joe Rogan's show as the most watched or listened to podcast.
And then it has, like, multiple platforms where it appears, like Twitter and YouTube, and so it's very, very consequential in terms of its impact and reach.
I think it's more, I think Joe Rogan's number, I mean, I don't claim any special insight into his numbers, it's just my impressions.
It fluctuates a lot with the guest.
He has a pretty well audience, no matter who the guest is, but obviously some guests attract more.
But Tucker's the same thing.
Just because people watched him every night on Fox, and a lot of people only watched him on Fox because they understood that he was doing something heterodox and different and a little bit more substantive than the common Fox fare.
And so those people left with Tucker...
And his following is very loyal and huge as well globally.
So the opportunity to just be able to provide free-flowing analysis for two hours or so on the topics I care about most is definitely one that I value.
All right.
Good night, everybody.
Thank you so much.
We will see you tomorrow night on the live show back Tuesday and Thursday next week.
