s, treat them. But I'm telling you, it happens when they're... When they're 13 and 14. That's when they... By the time they're 20, everybody knows. Yeah, they're adults now. But when they're 13 and 14, you gotta start... Like, again, I'm not saying when they're 14 to start smoking pot with them, but know that at 15 or 16, or probably a little older, high school, I said, whatever age that is. They're drinking. That doesn't mean you have to drink with them. But you gotta start, you know, you gotta start understanding, unless you want them to be bored out of their minds at family functions. Yeah, don't... You gotta treat them like adults. You gotta start going into that area. Is that you? Does that make... So the answer to that is, when your son wanted to partake and he was in college, I was like, you know what? I'm not his dad. Let him... I don't mind. Yeah. Now, if he was younger, there might be an age where I would go, no, no, no, you can't. I can't. If you do that when I'm not around, that's your thing. No, there would be an age where I would step in as an authority figure. But I remember, like, when my niece and nephew came to visit me, my sister-in-law goes, please, Todd, make sure they brush their teeth at night. I go, no. No, I won't. I don't care. I'm their uncle.  Not, don't care. Make sure they... I don't care, Meryl. I'll make sure that they're, you know, safe and they're, they're, they're, they're, you know, got a comfortable bed, but I don't care if they brush their teeth. You are in Lake Tahoe. And now they have... You're in Lake Tahoe. I am in Lake Tahoe. Are you working for Howie Nave? I am working at the Improv at, at Harris, at Harvey's. And I am on the 20th... Whatever the top floor is here, overlooking the lake, it's the most majestic thing to wake up to. Literally, I look out my window and there are the lake with the mountains with smell all over them. Just beautiful. You know, one of my listeners, Jonathan Alper. I met him. Jonathan Alper. Do you listen? Is he a listener? No, no, no, but I like his name. I was, I was working Harvey's. I was at Lake Tahoe. A member, he contacted me. He was one of the listeners to this podcast. This must have been five years ago. And I remember sitting at Harvey's and he wrote to me, I know you. I listened to your podcast. I know exactly who you are. That's one of the great things about podcasts. You can connect with people remotely, right? Yeah, it is. It, look, it constantly... You know what? I've said this and I think I might have said it on your show before. Here's what I think podcasting did. You know, people love, I don't connect them, people love stand-up comedy because it is amazing.  And that doesn't mean it's going to be great all the time, but that's why when it's good, Eddie Pepitone could not do his stand-up comedy. Or if we go back to people like George Carlin or Lenny Bruce or whoever it is, Mitch Hedberg, if they had to get, even from other smart people, forget about getting notes from people that aren't smart. Let's say you get notes from brilliant people. We still wouldn't have Rodney, we wouldn't have Mitch, we wouldn't have any of those comedians because that takes one person going out there and writing, directing, starring.  And I think that's what attracted me to stand-up comedy. It's just so much one person's vision. So the way you, how can you make radio that enjoyable? Well, in podcasting. Podcasting gave radio the purity of stand-up. And that's, and by the way, this is a little bit dickish of me for all those suits over the years because the suits and radio were always worse, I think. I would go to a number one station in a town and go, hey, when you're number one for eight years, did the suits lay off of you? They go, you'd think. So for them to wonder, I would imagine this is a suit talking about, you know, being the, you know, an executive at a radio station going, you know what, I'm not saying those morning guys don't have talent, but you know, if we weren't around, you know, we serve our purpose. Well, guess what? I think podcasting proved you didn't. Because the question is, what would happen if you took radio and got rid of all the suits? I think we just witnessed it. I think we witnessed it. The most miraculous thing that ever happened to radio. And I think that's why podcasting is so, because you get to direct and write and you do everything you want to do. There's nobody telling you what to do. And it's just pure stand-up. And of course, it's going to be, you know, that's why I love it. When did you and Jimmy start the podcast? Because we just had Keith and the girl. Do you know Keith and the girl? Yes. They celebrated their 12th anniversary of podcasting in 2005. They started in 2005. That's I think. When did Pardo start? Because I always know Pardo was the first person. Like that's who in the comedy community, Pardo. And he started, he had to start 2005. And people were listening and they were listening on an iPod, I guess, right? Is that or an MP3 player? You know, that's a good question. You're right. Because it didn't go right to your cell phone, but probably your iPod. They would download the, you know, never not funny. But I, so I don't, what was the question you asked? The question is, when did you start podcasting? You started with Jimmy Dore. Well, I started with Jimmy and Steph. And, and we, and I guess maybe you're right about 2009. And then we did that for, I don't know how many years. It must have been 2008 or 2007. It probably was. It probably was. That sounds, yeah, because I remember, yeah, yeah, you're probably right. When did you think, when did you notice that it was beginning to affect your stand-up? That's a good question. I hope it's not boring for you. Then don't answer it. Um, just let's, let's just acknowledge that I asked a good question and move on. Thank you. I'm gonna bow. I'm gonna bow. That was a great question, David. I'll work backwards. Now I will add, I will, I'll start where we're at now and then I'll go back to why even a year into it, it was helpful. Now, if I do a show and I go, I always ask two questions. How many podcast people are here? And they get a round of applause. It gives me a pulse. And how many getting high with dog people are here. Because I notice a lot come out from that. And I can tell you something, getting, getting Doug Benson fans, they're, they're great. They get comedy. They, they don't yell. They get, they, they're just great. They're really everything you want as an audience. So there's always a lot of his people.  It's, it's a lot of fun. But when it comes to drawing people to a comedy club, I noticed that if I do like comedy bang bang, you know, the Jimmy Pardo show, comedy bang bang, Jimmy Pardo show, and maybe getting Doug with high, it, a lot more people show up there because they're comedy fans. But when I started, I would ask how many people are here from the podcast? How many podcast listeners are here in a room that holds like 280 or something, 300? And maybe 20 people would applaud, 25. That's great. That's, that's amazing. But that's a big deal because you, because that affects the audience. There's three, there's three people there. There's six people there. There's a couple there that listens. There's a couple there that listens. There's a couple over there that listens. There's another two over there. And that really, even at 20 people, you know, you would go, that really helps the show because there's 20 people that really get into you, you know.  I'll be like, how many podcast people here? 50, maybe a Saturday night. There'll be 75 out of 300. That's a lot. And now it's grown. That's amazing. That's, that's, you know, that's why, that's why I don't really charge for the podcast because sometimes I'll put a show on the, on the, on my website. Or what am I saying? On my, on my, on my page because like Andy kindler sat in when I was out of town. No, no pod. I'm the only podcast person like, you know, the old tonight shows where they'd have somebody sit in. I've had like, well, you did one of my shows where I wasn't there with, with Daniel Kino. You were the guest. I have guest hosts. Oh, you do. Okay. Cool. So you know what, I think I got the idea from you. The more I think about it, the more I read it. I think it's fun. I think it's fun to be out of town, let someone else be the guest host or maybe let Daniel Kino guest host and then see what they do with that vehicle.  But I, I forget what I was gonna say. Well, just the, the impact that it has on your standup, it, it, it's a great way for people who, who love you to get to know you better in a safe environment without, you know, with that, where you can control the dynamics, where you can go. Right, right. Because, you know, sometimes you get cornered and you go, I gotta go. That's my, my dream, my dream would be to be not, not what I'd be happy with my dream if I could wave a magic wand. I don't want, look, if, you know, I'm, I'm in the process right now. I have a show that we shot the pilot. It's called camping with Todd. And yeah, it's exactly what it's, so I take people for one night. We already had the tent set up and the fire was ready.  I think the part of camping that is so amazing is sitting around a crackling fire in the middle of the night. No phone, no, no TV, no internet.  I think the part that sucks about camping, he is the chopping of the wood and the setting above the tent. But the camping is so special, you're willing to do all the groundwork because what you end up is this very special thing. So we thought, well, don't make it.   So we had all the tents set up. We had the firewood chopped. We still made dinner around a fire. We still hung around a fire. We still had a musical performance at the end. So right now I'm trying to sell that pilot called Camping with Todd.  No, you're not lazy. I'm not. I love to stand up. You're shiftless. You're shiftless. I don't want to, look, here you'll get my point in a second. I really, I don't really want the work probably of shooting a show once a week, let alone five nights a week, like guys like John Stewart. But to me, my dream career would be almost like Lewis Black had segments on the Daily Show and through some other vehicles, but didn't have the responsibility maybe of his own show every week, but could go around working theaters in a tour bus. So my dream would be to have a tour bus. I tour around doing my stand-up and in the back we have the podcast studio and we do the podcast from the tour bus. I would, I would love that life. You like to travel. You like the road. You always have like the road. I like the tour bus. I like the tour bus. I like to do stand-up. The tour bus eliminates any negative part of traveling. You know, the tour bus to me is like you get into a bus.   And then you wake up in Portland. Your eyes open up and you're in Portland. There's no downpour. There's no negative. You know, even the guys that fly private planes, which is a nice life, they still got to get up in the morning. They still got to go, you know, get on the plane. Yeah, it's easier than going to a national airport. But to me, the tour bus life is, you bring your comedian friend or two with you. You know, that's what I want so bad. You've done that with some other people. Yeah. I've done that with other people. And how many? Matter of fact, I'm, go ahead. Go ahead. Well, I think with the question you're going to ask, I think when you're in a band in the early stages of your career and you're in a tour bus and there's 15 people, no, that gets a little much. But when I was on a tour bus with like David Cross or Louis CK over the years, actually Mike Berbiglia was the first person that ever brought me on a tour bus. Um, you, uh, there's five people, four sometimes. So you have your own room. You know, you have, you have an area. Sometimes there's two bathrooms. So to do a tour when there's four or five people on a bus, matter of fact, I'm getting ready to do a tour with Daniel Tosh. Well, we'll have two tour buses and I've never done that before. So I think that should be a lot of fun. And is there a shower? Yeah, but you know, the thing is when you're, when you're doing the tour bus thing, you, I, by the way, I didn't know any of this. I always pictured everybody slept on the tour bus. And there are times when people do that. But when you're sort of going with someone that, you know, they're, they're making enough money where they can do it right. The tour bus would pull into the hotel. Now, if it was like seven in the morning or eight that we got there, sometimes they'd let you finish out your sleep in the bus.   So you knew that we're probably at our, but you finish out your sleep.   So you just sort of get off the bus, whatever time it is, your luggage is in your room. So well, even if you're only there for the day, you get to get out of the bus, have a real shower. So that's the way most of the tours I've been with, like Louis CK, like, you know, we, we had hotels everywhere we went. And what about the weather? What about the weather? Hold on, the only, the only person that didn't take the hotel room most of the time was me. Because I thought, you know, I'm on the road a lot. I can always bring people back to my hotel room. That's fun.  Like that was like ridiculous. The weather, like, you know what, we lucked out. That's a good question. We never really dealt with, with, you know, bad weather. So we lucked out. I get a little worried about the fog.  I'm worried. Call me. We just have a, go ahead. No, I was, go ahead. We had a bus driver once he would go, I remember him going, I was making coffee and he goes, hey, you're mine. You know, she was a super nice guy. I was like, he goes, you mind getting me a cup of coffee? And we're like, I don't like the fact the bus driver's drinking coffee. Is he, you know, if he's fighting, sleeping. And you go right out. I mean, when you, the show's over, you get on the bus. Well, there, there's so many scenarios. If it's a short trip, sometimes they will say they'll, the bus driver sleeps. Like the bus driver takes you where you gotta go and then he parks the bus somewhere and then he, sometimes it's at the venue. That's the best way. But sometimes then he'll go to sleep. He'll, you know, he'll find, you know, he'll have a hotel for him. He sleeps all day. That's why he can drive through the night. And then sometimes at the end of the show, if it's a long run, when the minute the show's over, they'll say, let's get on the bus and we get going. Well, then you'll watch a movie. You know, you'll watch a movie, you hang out for three or four hours. But there were runs where it's a short run. So go out after the show. Go out after the show, have fun. And then at one in the morning, we meet at the bus and then we go. And then, yeah, you go right on. I have never been unhappy on a train. Me neither. Never. I keep thinking, to me, a train is like nitrous oxide. I, when I used to do nitrous oxide, I'd say to my friends, tell me the most. No, shut. I, laughing gas. Oh, okay, okay. I used to say, okay, tell me something really depressing while I'm on this. And they'd say, you're David Feldman. And it didn't work. And I just started laughing. And the same thing, if I'm on a train, I think if I just lived on a train, I would, I think I'd be incapable of anxiety or depression. When you're, What do you think it is?   I run on adrenaline. I like to keep moving. I like, I have attention deficit disorder, I guess in a way, not really, but you can just. What does whirling dervish mean? A whirling dervish. What does that mean? It was a, it's become an idiom. But at one time there was a sect of Muslims who would get so worked up through the chanting and the praying, they would spin and whirl. Hence the name. You know, I think I could get it. I think I could get into that.  So when you're on the bus, I mean, can you bomb one night, get on the bus and be okay? I mean, I think that's the same as if you're not on a bus. You get to the point where, you know, it's funny because one of the, this kid that works on the podcast, his name is Aaron Simon, and he's like 18 years old and he just helps out, but he also started doing stand-up comedy.  You never like it, but you have to go out. He was bombing and then when he bombed, he would want to go, it bombs a strong word, but you know, not to have to set. He wanted, he would go right home. And I said, I did this same thing when I started, I would, if I had a set, I didn't like, I'd go right home.  So I said, the next time you have a set, you don't like, try going out because I think you might find that it changes your life.  You're doing, you know, especially if I'm torn with someone else, what am I doing 20 minutes? I can, you know, usually do pretty good. Where are you next week? Next week, I have a, I don't usually do like two days, two days, two days. I like to go to a club, spend the week there. I go in a night early. I might say, I go to clubs the night early. You know what? Do sometimes two nights early, pure joy.  But, um, as we get a close to what I love, but this week I'm in Tahoe till Monday. Then I go with David Spade to Denver for two days. Then we go to Chicago for two days. And then I go to Las Vegas for two days with Daniel Tosh. So that's my next week. That's great.  The idea of showing up two days early for a gig. Well, most of the time it's always a day early, but once in a blue moon, like if it's D.C., something great about getting into a city. First of all, you leave the day of no show. What a beautiful day of traveling.  And then the next day, you don't even have a show. But, um, so sometimes it's two days, but mostly it's just one day.   I think that that is just not my makeup. I wish it were the idea. Well, I just, it's not in me to be able to go in. Can I get something? Yeah. It's not, I think we just, it's in our DNA where we will just relax in other areas. I wish I could relax and be normal. And I'm not. But in that sense, I figured it out. Go in early, enjoy it. And I stopped, by the way, there are times if something I'm going on in LA, I have to be back for an audition, but that's no more because I don't really go in auditions anymore. But when I did, um, yeah, I would have to, you know, I have to be back early on Monday. So, but I stopped leaving early if I have shows and Sunday I'm flying back to LA. I used to get a, of course, don't get a six o'clock in the morning flight, but I used to get a 12 o'clock in the afternoon flight.   I leave at five at night. That way when it's Saturday night, I'm hanging out with everybody, having a good time and it hits midnight, I'm not like, uh, you start thinking, I got to get up early tomorrow. So I get in a day early and I leave very late the next day.  One time I, some of them, I saw the comedians talking about comedy and they say you have to be, you know, I knew that if you were a little off kill, you became a better, you were a better comedian. Like even when I was like 20, I knew that like, and I knew that like my, I come from a normal family and you know, I'm not an alcoholic. So I said to this other comedian, I think Steve Shaper and I go, I feel like I won't be a good comedian because I'm so nor, I'm too normal.  I go, I'm not, I'm not. He goes, Todd, no, you are anything but normal. Just cause you're not an alcoholic and you have a good family. I go, that's the best news I ever got. How abnormal am I? He goes, Todd, you're really abnormal. I go, yes, yes. I was so happy.  He goes, I think it's funny. You think you're normal. He goes, why don't you try telling the crowd that after you do 40 minutes of comedy? Tell them how normal you are. I never thought. And I was like, the best news I ever got. Two things before you go. And I'm going to keep it short because I'd like you to come back more often. Sometimes I go long and then you go, all right, that was another year. So I'd like to be able to have you back more often. I have two final points. Well, you were texting me. You were texting me the other day and that's it. Because today had something to do, but I could have moved it anywhere. So when you were texting me and you had me laughing, I just moved what I was going to do today until tomorrow because the names you were dropping and you're like, I was like, oh, I got to talk to Dave because I haven't talked to him in a while. I miss you, buddy. I'm in New York. And two, two quick questions. Gary Mann, who was a big shot over at Comedy Central, and we know him from the days when he booked us all on the, was it not Star Trek, Star Search? Star Search and everything. Gary brought, you know, he was actually brought, brought us in on a lot of stuff. The sweetest man in the world and comics owe him a great debt of gratitude. My memory of going to Montreal in the early 90s for the first time was you creating these scenes in another country. Do you remember what you used to do to Gary, man? I thought this was the funniest thing. I used to... Gary? Yes, I know exactly what... Matter of fact, I'll tell you what it is and I'll say something funny Gary did when they brought me up to the Aspen Comedy Festival. Oh, by the way, I didn't smoke pot then, except once in a while. Like once a month maybe back then. And I used to get high and listen to what anybody told me to do because I never had that experience. So it started one day, Gary was coming out of the Acme or the Improv in LA and I was at the car getting my car and I went, I'm going to move my phone away from my mouth to do the bit what I would do. Or it started at the Improv restaurant. I was sitting there at the restaurant, that's where it started. At the Improv restaurant, I'm sitting at the table and I go, where's my waiter? I'm Carrie Man, goddammit. I can't believe I have my waiter in here.  So Gary would get mortified and our joke was nobody really went home and went, hey, Gary, man, is he rude? I mean, I don't know him, but I heard him at the restaurant. He was saying it's Gary, man. He wanted to know where his waiter was. Then I see him a week later. I couldn't stop doing it. I was leaving the Acme Comedy Club or the Acme Theater. He's waiting for his car. I start yelling, I'm Gary, man. Where's my car? I'm Gary, man. And I think Gary loved it and hated it. He always had a good sense of humor about it. So he brought me, when they invited me to the Acme Comedy Festival, literally my manager calls me and he goes, Todd, do you know what's in your contract? I go, what? He goes, that you can't do that bit. And you know what? I understood. I really did. So I didn't hear to it. But then we're at the festival and Dave Rath goes, we were the Comedy Central had a party. You know, like different people would have different parties at different Thursdays, Comedy Central throwing a party. And there was food, but it wasn't as much food as we wanted. You know, like, so Dave Rath goes, get up on that chair and start yelling, listen, we appreciate the party, but we want a guy serving a car. We want a carved roast beef.  Come on, you make a lot of money.  We're not picking together some finger foods that are going around. But how many of those do you have to get the food yourself? Put some legitimate food out. Even if it's one guy carving a roast beef with Kaiser rolls. Put something out next year. And then I'm up on a chair doing this. And then I have a realization. You know, in the pot lessons a little, and now you're aware of how they're throwing a party. I'm not spending any money on a party. How rude it was. And I was like, I would genuinely get mortified. Like, am I just being a dick? And I would get down off the chair and like, go, I think I don't think that was a good idea. And Dave would be like, it's fine. Everybody's laughing. But that was, is that what you're talking about? Well, you know, I'm not going to ask you whether or not this is true or false because I have one other question I want to ask you about. So I'm just going to. Well, I want, I want you to ask me. Don't tell me whether or not it's if it's correct. This is what I remember from the Montreal Comedy Festival. This was what I was told that in customs, as you were arriving in Montreal, you screamed at the Montreal immigration that you were Gary Mann, and you don't need to show your passport. And there is a teeny bit. Don't ruin it for me. Don't ruin it. OK, OK. Don't ruin it. The story I had heard. This goes back, I think it was 93 or 94, that you created an incident in Montreal at the airport saying that you didn't have to show your passport or your work papers because you were Gary Mann. Hey, I'm going to, I'm going to leave it lay. I'm going to let it lay. You're requested. Finally, I saw Michael Coman. Michael Coman, one of the great comedy writers of all time. He created Nathan for you. I think he's over at SNL now. I mean, it's just a great, brilliant. No, he's it. He might, you know, I live with Michael. That's what I was going to ask you. This is why this was my question. So he has a baby. And I said, yeah, they had a little. Yeah.  So you want to fast forward 30 years to see how it turns out. What what's inside of this muffin? What's whatever this and, but then you don't want to lose this baby.  Who who are you? What are you going to become? Who are you? Who are you? There was a time when you, Steve Rosenthal and Mike Coman were babies in Los Angeles and you live together. And I think that is the most incongruous group of humanity. The three of you living together. You bring that up because I was probably 29, but those guys were, Steve was like 20. Mike Coman was like, I think when I met Mike doing stand-up he was 18. And we got this house. It was a really cool house, but I could see even at that age what it could do to make it great.  Mike had a friend that wasn't a comedian, also that lived there. So it was me, Steve Rosenthal, Mike Coman, and James, and James Milton. And it was this big house. He wrote Paradise Lost, right? James Milton. Six, no, no, different James. No, I don't even know that. I don't know you. But it was a big house with that four bed, four bathrooms and six bedrooms. And we made it really cool. Like it ended up, I put a little work into it. And we made it really cool.  But those guys were really young. And I came home after an audition. This is how Todd's coma got started. And I said, I don't want to go on any auditions anymore. And Mike Coman goes, maybe you could play a guy in a coma. Now, he said it jokingly. But I went, whoa. Now, when it came time to who got the creative credit, Mike was really cool. He goes, yeah, I said it sarcastically, but I would have never followed through. So he just stepped back at having the creep, you know, even though he was his idea.  So we set up, like, we're going to do this as a show. So we started like, you know, we set up a bank account. And that's where we got money from. And we started casting people. And we got Ben Stiller. And then once we got Ben Stiller, it was a little easier to get other people. Now, keep in mind, we were going to do it at the Comedy Central Workspace or the HBO Workspace. So I was at the workspace going to lay in a bed. And they were going to, anything that had to do with me, they would have to roll in pre-shot clips. Because that's the show. Like, Sarah Silverman would come by and go, oh, me and Todd used to date. Oh, he was fun, but he had a temper. The lights in the theater went down and up on this mammoth screen would be the dream sequence. That's how you had to do it live. If it was a TV show, obviously, there had been more creative ways. And then we got Herb Albert, who played a nurse, who denied Herb Albert. Yeah, the musician, the musician, who, and then, and then we got, the thing, Herb Albert. Herb Albert played a nurse. And now his scenes were live, because he was a nurse in the little, we made like a fake hospital room stage. What year was this? This was, I only really can tell you, what year did something about Mary came out? Because it was like a year after that. Wow. So, 90 something, 93. No, no, no, no. So, no, that was like late 90s. Oh, oh, I'm sorry, late 90s. I'm, I apologize. Right, right, right, right. And it was Morris Albert. Feelings, nothing more than feelings. And so then we got Herb Albert played at Ben Stiller. He was in the live show, like he was there. He was in the dream sequence. Jesus. So Ben Stiller was a dream sequence, like, you know, in the live show, we got a letter from Ben. That's how we went into it. Hey, me and Todd used to be roommates. You know, Todd, we really was a creative atmosphere and then the lights went lower. And it was a pre-shot thing with Fred Willow, with Ben Stiller. Fred Willard, we ended up just getting, you know, I think it was such a weird show, it was easy to explain to people. Wait, the guys in a coma never gets out of bed and people come by and they tell stories about them. Fred Willard played the doctor who knew everything about everything. Like he knew about guitars, he knew about cars. The only thing he was shady about was medical stuff. And Jimmy Pardo played my brother and they did the whole show. They cast it and they put it together and they wrote it and they directed, you know, everybody that had to do bits in the show and then, like, we ask people that we go, well, what do we do if they say yes? You don't want to have somebody say yes and then you don't need them. And we said, we'll find something.  So Ray Romano did this thing when the show was over and everyone was leaving the theater. He came up on the screen and went, come on, somebody buy this. This is a good show. And he did it from the set of Everybody Loves Raymond, like you could see in the background. They went over there with a little handheld camera and they, and my manager was Duncan Strauss, who was so supportive. And you know what, we never sold it, but Sarah Silverman, a lot of times she'll say, you know what, you should bring that back. That could sell now because your past is endless. Like if the Rolling Stones come by or whoever, you know, Nathaniel Radcliffe comes by, how did you know Todd? That's what the family wants to know. Oh, Todd was my drummer, but the problem was he had a real temper. And then there's, you can, and you can go endless. She said, and the reason she thinks that would be a good show for me is someone that doesn't, I don't want to come in seven days a week and learn lines. You just do pre-shot sketches. So for every show, you're just doing the pre-shot sketches. And so that was Todd's comment. That was a long answer to you mentioning Mike Coleman, but you know, he was like 18 or 19 then.  And, you know, we're still very close. And same thing with me and Steve. And Rosenthal's a genius. Rosenthal plays the piano. He edits. He writes. He's amazing. He really is. And he's doing great. He's a profession. He's, you know, a successful editor in New York City. And he's doing great. And so is Mike doing awesome. And James Milton, even though he wasn't a comedian or an actor, he was just Mike's friend from USC, still talk to him. And yeah, they were, they were really special days in that house over on Canyon Drive, behind Gelsen supermarket in Los, I guess you could say Los Filos there. Yeah. Hey, do you have your phone in front of you? Yeah, I do. I sent you a text once you read it. Hold on. By the way, we've been talking for a while. I know. I know. Tell you the truth. It's a good thing because I picked it up. This is not going well. He goes, he goes, he goes, this is not going well. Pick it up. A Todd Glass. How do people find you on Twitter, Facebook, Friendster, Myspace? They'll figure it out. Is there a website? I do have a website. Matter of fact, Computer King, Speller with a K, they just redid it and they did an awesome job. But mostly my podcast. And I tweet when I'm in the mood, but mostly my podcast every week. The Todd Glass show. I say you're going to listen once. You probably won't like it. But if you give it three or four shows, it might grow on you. Yeah. It's hysterical. And it, and I wouldn't be doing a podcast if it weren't for Todd Glass and Jimmy Dorre. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. We, uh, you speak to Jimmy at all and Jimmy. I haven't spoken to Jimmy. Won't return my calls. Well, you probably did something rude to him. Why don't you apologize? I'm sorry, Jimmy. There you go. But, uh, this was fun. You know, I'm here. I don't have a shuttle nine. So like doing this actually helped pass the time. Who's your opening act? I'm here with Caleb Sign. And it's a really funny comedian out of Atlanta. And he's, he, this is one of those shows where it really helps to bring a comedian that you get along with real well, because you're going to spend, you know, a lot of time. It's not like there's anything to do, but really hang out in the hotel, you know. So, uh, I brought Caleb and he's a really funny guy. And he, he's in LA now. He just did a really good, he had a good, uh, he was on Conan and had really good set on Conan O'Brien a few months ago. And that's it. All right. Have fun. Get my love to Howie Nave. Thank you, Todd Glass. Now your wife, you killed her, right? Yeah, I'm the stop tape. Yeah, I killed her. Good, good, good, good, good. Howie Klein joins us. He's the founder and treasurer of the Blue America Pack, which raises money for progressive candidates around the country. And everybody should go to his Down with Tyranny blog. Down with Tyranny is a great source of information. Today we're going to talk about the former mayor of Stockton. And we're going to talk about Donald Trump's name being used in China properly. I know it's a toilet in China, but apparently more than just a toilet. Hello, Howie Klein. Tell me about the mayor of Stockton, the former mayor of Stockton. Right. The former mayor of Stockton was beaten by a guy who's now the youngest mayor of a mid-sized city. This city is, I think, 350,000 people in it. So it's the ninth biggest city in California. And the kid who won, Michael Tubbs, was a Bernie fanatic. So when Bernie went up and down the Central Valley of California, campaigning in the primary, this guy, Michael Tubbs, who's very well-spoken and eloquent, would introduce him.  He was on the city council. He beat a Republican incumbent in Stockton to get on the city council. And then he ran for mayor against the incumbent in this last November. And the mayor at the time is a guy named Anthony Silva. So Anthony Silva, the name might ring a bell for some people. And there are some reasons for that. There aren't that many mayors of cities of that size that are Republicans, for one thing, especially in California. I mean, after all, Stockton is in the Central Valley, but it's not that far from San Francisco. And in fact, some people commute into San Francisco to long commute, but people do it. In any case, Silva was... Well, let me start before I tell you what... Well, I'll just tell you the ending. Is he a Republican? And I'll go back into what happened. He's a Republican, right? We again, Silva got arrested at the San Francisco International Airport when he was returning, I think, from China. And he's in jail now. Now I'll go into why that's important and what that's all about. It was from Columbia. He was returning from Columbia. Oh, from Columbia? Oh, Jesus. So in any case, Silva was not a very good mayor. He was, aside from being a Republican, he went out of his way to antagonize the LGBT community. He was very, very anti-gay. He would do crazy things like have city council meetings in this mega church where they used to preach against gay people. And he would keep doing things to antagonize gays, little things, but he would do them constantly. So he was unpopular with the community. And Republicans don't usually go out of their way to do that unless they're trying to call attention to themselves as being anti-gay for a reason. And more often than not, that reason is because they are closeted, which is it turns out he was. So a couple of years ago, in 2015, a young boy turns up shot and killed. I think he was 13, a 13-year-old boy shot and killed. So the police do an investigation. This is the big, big news in town that this young boy got killed. And then they find lo and behold, he was killed with the mayor's gun. Mayor Silva's gun was the weapon that killed the young boy. So the police, we now find out, had filed a report that Silva was not cooperative in their investigation. They didn't arrest him. His claim was that he had lost the gun and forgot to tell the police that he lost the gun. Because in California, if you have a registered gun and it's stolen, he said it was stolen. That's right. You have to report that to the police. And he forgot to do that, he said. Okay, so they let him go. They let the mayor go without anything further. Then a year later, he got in real trouble. And the real, this was, aside from being mayor, he was the president of the chief executive officer of the Stockton Kids Club. And he was having or luring or having or something underage boys over to his apartment and he would take them up to his bedroom and get them drunk, 16-year-old boys generally, and then film them playing strip poker. So there have been no charges that, at least the public, that he was actually doing anything more with them than giving them alcohol and filming them. But I think that that's yet to come out. And I think the pattern of that kind of thing is that it will come out. So he was arrested this weekend on all sorts of charges, like extortion and money, all money-related things. And they threw him in jail. Normally when someone gets thrown in jail on those kinds of white-collar crimes, even if they're serious white-collar crimes, they get a reasonable bail. He was given a million-dollar bail. Now, that's not reasonable. I mean, that's immense. That means you're staying in jail. And then his lawyer went to the judge and he said, hey, this isn't fair and I want a reduction in bail. And his lawyer was told, no, we disguise a danger. Now, you're not in a danger because you're an extortionist.   So that's why he's in jail and that's why he's sitting there today. And have they discovered who the murderer is? Well, he's the murderer, but they haven't discovered it yet because that's yet to be investigated. In other words, that's an old case where they gave the mayor of the city, i.e. their boss, more or less, a pass. The only thing that the police had put on the record was that he was uncooperative. So now I think they will do a real investigation to see if he murdered this kid, which from me looking at it, from the outside looking in, it looks like he did murder the kid. We don't know that yet, but if I had a bet money on it, I would bet money that he murdered the kid.  In fact, in 2004, he had a run-in that didn't come out until just recently when he was the water polo coach. And he was doing the same thing, getting boys drunk, again underage boys, getting them drunk and filming them. Well, there isn't a normal thing. You don't do that. But then he has to it was doing. Then he has to it was a wrestling coach and he was fondling and in other ways having sexual relationships with teenagers under 18, which is illegal. And even though that isn't what he wound up getting charged with, then he has to it is rotting in jail right now because of that. I mean, they went after him on financial things because it's too embarrassing for society for to have the speaker of the house in jail for having sex with young boys. Same thing with this guy. He's in jail for extortion and things like that rather than for fondling and having sex with young boys. But we'll see if they let that stuff come out. There's a good chance that they'll do with him what they did with Hastert, which has let him plead guilty to the financial stuff in return for not bringing up all the real crime, which is the rape of children. We've talked about this before vis-a-vis... Yes, it's a Republican illness. Mitch McConnell. I want to save Mitch McConnell for the... That's the dessert because I said to some... The thing is with Mitch McConnell, there's no indication that he likes underage boys.  I never heard of him going for underage boys. So underage, that's a whole different situation. When you're getting involved with boys between 13 and 16, these aren't necessarily people who can make informed decisions, especially when you're getting them drunk. And that's a much, much, much more serious crime than just being a Republican closet queen. I mean, Mitch McConnell's just a closet case. He should be ashamed of it. He should come out and be who he really is, but he won't. But it's not a crime to do what he does. What this guy Silver did, allegedly, is obviously a crime. Even if it's just what he's already been charged with, which is getting these 16-year-old boys drunk and filming them, that's a crime. You had said on the show that McConnell had an incident when he was in the Army. Yes. Would you like to help me remember that? Well, I barely remember it myself in the details, but I actually talked to that guy. But basically, McConnell was a young guy himself at the time. He was, I think, a lieutenant. He was only in the Army for a week or two, and he was fondling this kid. When I say kid, I don't know, 20-year-old kid. And he got reported up the chain, and he got asked to leave the Army. And is it an open secret in D.C. that Mitch McConnell is in the closet? Yes. It was an open secret that Denny Haster was in the closet for decades. In other words, quote, everybody knew. Everyone in Congress knew it was no secret that Mark Foley was both in the closet and having sex with the Pages. I mean, when he was, that whole scandal about the Pages, people in Congress, not every person in Congress, but many people in Congress in both parties, were very aware that he was doing that. I mean, he was getting caught. He was an alcoholic, and he was getting caught doing stuff with young boys, many of whom complained. They complained to their fathers. I mean, who were the Pages? The Pages are the sons and daughters, although in Foley's case, it was about the sons of big Republican donors. So here's this guy. He gives lots and lots of money to some Republican in a backwater district in Louisiana. This is a natural story.  And the son goes off to Washington. And there's a committee that's supposed to take care of these kids and watch out for their welfare. And the kid is apparently a nice-looking guy, and he catches Foley's eye. And sure enough, Foley's like climbing in the window of the dormitory with a ladder drunk. And some of these boys complained, including this particular boy from Louisiana. They complained. They went and told their father they can't sit down. And the father went to the congressman that gave him the job. And the congressman went to Hastert and Hastert did everything he could to cover it up.  So these kinds of things are known. And it's not, I mean, to me, the tragedy of this particular one was that Rahm Emanuel was on that committee that was supposed to be taking care of this kind of stuff. So he was very aware of it as well. He was the chairman of the DCCCC at the time, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and he figured if he didn't blow the whistle on Foley, until it was too late for the Republicans to take him off the ballot, then he would be able to have a Democrat run and beat Foley. Even though Foley wouldn't be running, Foley's name would still be on the ballot. And that's what Rahm did. So the day after it was too late to get the name off, one day after it was too late to get the Republican name off the ballot, that's when Rahm blew the whistle and leaked it out to the media that Foley was fooling around with the pages. But he knew that.  It says here that Mitch McConnell, during his last year in law school, joined the U.S. Army Reserve in Louisville, Kentucky. After five weeks, he received an honorable discharge for medical reasons. He had optic neuritis. He had a problem with his lenses. He had an eye for men, apparently. That was five weeks he survived. He was very close with John Sherman Cooper. Who at the time was the senator from Kentucky, who gave Mitch McConnell a job. And he was able to get the records changed to this optic neuritis or whatever instead of fondling young boys, young men. The reason I bring this up is we now have Vladimir Putin calling the shots in D.C. And we have this new WikiLeaks dump telling us that the CIA can spy on all of us just through our Samsung television. How much is Vladimir Putin controlling McConnell and Ryan? What does he have on McConnell and Ryan? Or is that just my smoking something? He has anything on any of those people. I mean, I literally don't know. I mean, so maybe he has something on them or maybe he doesn't. I have no idea, like zero. We know who he does have something on, which is Donald Trump. But would that explain the behavior of the Republican Party under Trump? Could it be possible that Vladimir Putin has stuff on McConnell and McConnell? I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I literally don't know.  He tries to pretend that he's straight. And but it's not a secret.  Even people in his own state are aware. You know, I guess if you live in some hollow in the appellations, you might not be aware of it. But I think savvy voters all over Kentucky are pretty aware that there are and have been for decades, very, very strong rumors. I mean, if you tell people that you saw Mitch McConnell driving around Pickle Park in Louisville, they'll just laugh and they know what you're talking about. Pickle Park? Pickle Park, where he goes to pick up pickles. He picked a peck of pickles peppers. Yeah, so I want to get to Trump in a second. But that's kind of why he's successful because he has that secret. There are predators in politics who go out of their way to find somebody who's in the closet and then they move them ahead because they can control them. Yeah, I mean, that's a possibility. You know, he did. I've never heard any and I've paid attention. I've never heard of him doing anything illegal. Would there be shame? Would there be shame like Lindsey Graham? Yeah, he also doesn't do anything illegal. So it's a different situation. When you get a Mark Foley or like the guy like this guy, Anthony Silva, it's a different thing when they're doing illegal stuff. You wind up in jail for that. So that's when you could really bribe somebody or blackmail somebody, I should say. But for all I know, from what I know, I should say, McConnell is into mature men who can make up their own decisions about what they want to do.  Right. Well, I believe Hastert became Speaker of the House, not in spite of the pedophilia, but because of it. I think Delay, you know what? You're right. That's a good point. And that was Tom Delay's doing. I mean, Tom Delay would have been and should have been really Speaker, but he became the majority leader and he needed someone who wasn't as venal as him as the face of the party as Speaker. And he gave that job to Hastert and you're right, he was able to control Hastert because he was certainly aware that Hastert was not just a closet case, but also had a predilection towards underage boys. Trump, are you enjoying this? This is a ground game. This is, he's not going away. This is, we're in for four years of this, right? And are you enjoying this or are you just terrified? Are you depressed by this? How is this affecting? You know, the interesting question, David, and I think that, and I'm hearing this everywhere, still anecdotal, but there are a lot of people who are extremely disturbed by this. People go to psychiatrists, people are turning to drugs and alcohol. I've seen people myself who I know who I've never seen depressed like this. A friend of mine committed suicide on Friday night. I'm sorry. I'm telling you, this is not just coincidental. Their people are so depressed and nervous and uptight about Trump. And that's really something that's happening nationally. In fact, I read something the other day, that woman from Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski or something. She was talking about that as well. I think that he's got the whole country on edge and I'm not one of them. I'm not, I don't feel disturbed by him. Well, he's a terrorist in the true definition of terrorism because what he's doing, for example, to the Mexican undocumented workers is kind of what, it's a little different, but it's kind of what Obama did. But Obama did it surreptitiously. Trump is doing it inelegantly. And by doing it so ham-fistedly, he's creating terror. The number... No, no, there is a big difference. Obama really was going after criminals. Trump says that, but he's not. I live in Los Angeles. I know what he's doing. He is going after anyone at all, almost randomly. Anybody for any reason who is from Mexico or Central America, you have to, you know, they just round you up and then you have to prove that you belong here. I mean, it's very, very different from what he said he would do, which is basically what Obama was doing. And I think most Americans feel that it would be a boon to the country for the president, the chief law enforcement officer of the country, to get criminals, real criminals out of the country. That's a good thing, I think in the minds of most Americans. Now, there are a lot of people who don't agree with what I just said, but if you have a gang member who is shooting and selling drugs and things like that, and you can get them out out out of the country, I think that a lot of people would approve of that. That isn't what Trump is doing.  Okay, well, that's yeah, you know, parking tickets are illegal, so I guess technically it's come some kind of a criminal, not a real criminal. And that isn't, you know, that's not what people want. People, if you go after a murderer and deport a murderer, no one's going to really complain about that much. But a guy with traffic tickets who's been here for 30 years and has a family here and has a job, that's horrific. Yeah, we want them to go after MS-13, not a 13-year-old girl. I've asked this of every guest on my show this week, ICE. You were the first one, the first guest, to almost cry over what they're doing to the Latino, Hispanic population in Los Angeles. At what point do you stop blaming only Trump and start blaming people who work at ICE? To me, I just think back at, you know, I think back to Hitler. He couldn't have done anything himself. It was all the people around him and it went all through society. And when I get really, really, I mean, certainly anyone who's working for Trump is guilty. I imagine in my revelry that someday they'll all be on trial in the Nuremberg kind of trial. Anyone who's in this cabinet, anyone who's a close advisor. And sometimes when I get really nuts, I think every voter should be asked, did you vote for Trump and hooked up to a lie detector? And if they voted for Trump, they should lose their right to vote until they take, at least until they take a civics class. My daughter has taught me about white privilege. I never understood, you know, she taught me what checking your privilege means. How old is she? She's in her 20s. Okay. And she would say, check your privilege. And I checked my privilege. And I want to ask you to talk to my listeners about checking their privilege. If you are an American citizen listening to this show, if you don't have a criminal record, if you pay your taxes and there's nothing on your computer, you have checked your privilege, what is your obligation then when it comes to people who work for ICE and the police?  What is your obligation? Well, let's, let's, for people to think about this, let's go back to another age and take it away from where we are right now. You're in Amsterdam in 1942. The Germans are starting to round up Jews, your neighbors. What is your obligation at that point? Is your obligation to take a Jewish family in and hide them? Or is your obligation to, you know, wear a virtual blindfold and not see what's going on? Yeah. Do you have a family? You need to protect your own, how about your own family?  I mean, that's real. You know, and what, and what about ICE? You know, keep the names for later.  What do you mean keep, what do you mean keep the names for later? Keep the names of the, of the, of the ICE agents so that they can be tried in the future. Are they committing crimes? I mean, when you say keep the names. Aren't, aren't.  I mean, who's taking these jobs? Are there decent people working at ICE? I'm sure there are. Are there monks working at ICE who love that, that Trump is doing this?  You bet there are. Right. In Los Angeles, I used to give the police a hard time.  And they'd say, why are you doing this? And I would say because I'm not a criminal. I'm not an alcoholic. I pay my taxes. If not me, then who? A lot of my listeners don't pay their taxes. They, they owe money to the IRS or they may be married. Well, if they're married to an undocumented worker, the worker would be an American citizen. But a lot of people are on the fringes and don't have the privilege to speak out.  You have an obligation right now to speak out. You cannot remain silent right now. I understand why certain people don't speak out.  But people have an obligation right now. All the time, you know, various people who fit the description that you just gave. And we'll ask them, for example, to do a guest post on my blog. And they'll say, they'd like, you know, maybe they have a great idea. And they tell me this great idea. And I said, why don't you write that up as a guest post? And they'll say, I don't know, you know, I don't want to make any trouble with Trump. I mean, you never know what's going to happen. And they're literally envisioning a knock on the door in the middle of the night.  I mean, yes, by in theory you are. But what's the reality of some cop who thinks he's, you know, who believes everything that Trump says and thinks he's saving the country, taking out a gun and shooting you in the head in self-defense? Well, about, oh, I don't know, when was 9-11? 2001. So it's 2017. That would make it about 16, 15 years ago, the Patriot Act got passed. And we started putting people in Gitmo. And then all of a sudden, Obama used drones to kill American citizens. And a lot of us thought, well, yeah, there's no habeas corpus, but they're terrorists.  They're American citizens, but not really. They're doing something bad. It's not going to happen. It's not a slippery slope. I think Americans are waking up to the slippery slope, right? Some, absolutely. But, you know, Al Iwaki was doing something bad, and he was in doing it in Yemen. And he's, you know, chose to be on the battlefield. Right. But they killed, they just killed his little hero. They killed his daughter just now. I don't think they aim for his daughter. They, you know, when you say that Obama was killing American citizens, okay, those three were American citizens, you're right. But he's not sending drone strikes into Columbus, Ohio to do that.  And I'm sure I know a lot of people who absolutely feel that way. But like I said, it's different when we're talking about an active participant on an active battlefield that is in a war with the United States, whether that war should be happening or not is another question. But, you know, there is a war that the U.S. is fighting in Yemen. An undeclared war that they are not asking us to fight for them. Well, there are Americans over there who are fighting. But the Houthis, I mean, it's not as though the people of Yemen have asked us to come and get involved. Well, it depends how you define the people of Yemen. Right? I mean, you know, these quote, legitimate government very much wants us to fight over there. But how legitimate is the legitimate government? Not very. Let's turn to China. The name Trump is synonymous with toilet in China. There's some copyright infringement going on in China. Tell me about the Trump name in China. Well, wait, you tell me about this toilet thing you mentioned it twice. And I think you're referring to something specific that I don't know about. Oh, there's a Trump brand of toilets. It's been around. I think I don't have the article in front of me, but it's like Trump Tuan. And they have been the leading maker of Chinese toilet for 30 years. It's pronounced Trump. Trump's lawyers for years have been trying to get them to change their name. They have not won. The Trump people have not been able to get the company to change their name. So, you know, David, that's extremely interesting, especially in light of some news that came out today. Today, or yesterday, AP reported that Trump had asked for, I think it was the 38 trademark trademarks for like Trump hotels, Trump salons, Trump golf course, Trump this, Trump that, all these different branded things he can do, restaurants, retail stores, tons of different things, as well as services like real estate and brokerage. And China approved this in record time and without interfering. I mean, lawyers who who I read about it in the AP story said they've never seen anything like this before. I mean, China really, you know, put you through a lot before you get this stuff. But with Trump, they just rubber stamped it right through.  And suddenly there's like he's Trump massage parlors, Trump's spas and Trump escorts, which reminded me of Trump's very, very big modeling agency, Trump model management or something in New York, which has always been very, very, very well-sourced. There have always been very well-sourced rumors that it was a front for an escort service and a prostitution ring. One of Trump's biggest supporters, financial supporters, Sheldon Adelson, runs a series, according to a court case, runs a series of brothels in South China around Macau, where he's the sort of gambling king of Macau.  And that's not the kind of brothels that Adelson is running in Macau. He's running high-end brothels with, you know, lovely women, some from China and some from other places that they bring in. And you're not buying them for $2 an hour. You're buying them for hundreds of dollars an hour. Any from Slovenia? I'm sure. It's always been a good place for that kind of thing. So now Trump can do it. He can open up casinos. He can open up hotels, massage parlors. I mean, this is unbelievable to me. I mean, this just happened. This happened yesterday. This is the president of the United States we're talking about. He literally asked and received a trademark to open a massage parlor in China. That doesn't mean he's going to do it while he's president, but he got them to agree to it while he's president. And then when he's not president, presumably in four years or in two years or whenever it is that he's not president anymore, he can open up his, you know, you can go to the Trump restaurant, the Trump hotel, Trump massage parlor, Trump spa, and Trump hooker. Well, if, yeah, tell me about Azerbaijan. You were there and you say Rachel Maddow got something wrong. How can Rachel ever get anything wrong? Isn't that great? Sometimes she does, but she doesn't always have great researchers. Some of them are. Some of them aren't. This particular story the other day that she did on Baku, the capital and the only real city in Azerbaijan, she got, she was completely sourced from a story in, in the New Yorker. So, you know, she, she made no bones about that. In fact, she had the author on as her second segment. Her first segment was about the story. And then the second segment was an interview with the author. So she wasn't hiding that she got her whole story from him. But he, he, and he was in Baku as was I. Now he talked to different people than I talked to, and he didn't get all his facts right. So how do I know that some of his facts are wrong? Well, the, the matter of fact, Trump tower in Baku, the, the, the hotel that he built with like sort of the head of the Azerbaijan mafia, uh, who was being financed by the, the, um, um, revolutionary guards of, of Iran, that hotel he claimed never opened. And in fact, it did open. It opened only for a few days. So the scandal in Baku when I was there was that they went and they hired the best people from all of the high end hotels. So they would go like to the four seasons, for example, and the flame hotels and all these great hotels in Baku, Baku is a wealthy educated country. It's very, very rich from oil and, um, and the people, uh, you know, it's not like some back, it's a Muslim country, but it's not in any way backward. It's a very, very modern people are very well educated. They're very with it. Everybody's got an iPhone. Everybody's got their own personal computer. It's in, you know, in Baku. I shouldn't say everybody. That's not fair. You can't even say that about the United States, but certainly the middle class is very much, and it's a middle class city and the middle class is sort of connected to the same, the same wavelength that we're connected to here in the US. And even though it's a Muslim city, a Muslim country, it's very secular. So, um, you know, we may hear be, we may be Jewish, we may be Christian, we may be Catholic, whatever we are, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we're, you know, some kind of a fanatic and it's the same thing there.  So, um, in any case, they, so they went, they went to all these hotels and they hired the best people and the way they were able to do that was by paying them, uh, I think it was six months in advance. So they paid very high salaries and they paid it in advance. They had lots and lots of cash and the hotel didn't ever have their grand opening that they had, they were planning. That didn't happen, but they did have an opening. They were selling rooms. You could go to hotels.com in those days and, and, and, um, you know, check out a room. I mean, purchase a room, uh, that you can't anymore because, because the partners, and this is the part that Rachel got right, the partner, uh, the Mamedovs, one of the most powerful, corrupt families. It's like the Al Capones. In fact, uh, uh, I think, I think it was Mother Jones. One, it was some magazine did a story on them and they called it the Corleones of the Caucasus. This is a, this is the most powerful, corrupt mafia family in Azerbaijan and they were money laundering for, um, the, the a revolutionary guard of Iran and there were, there were weapons involved and there were export, there were things that had to do with North Korean missile projects. I mean, this was a, a real nightmare and, and here's Trump in the middle of it.   He's never in business with upright, uh, standard, normal, uh, good citizens. He's always in, in, in business with gangsters, always, everywhere, no exceptions. And I witnessed it myself when I was in Azerbaijan and once he started shooting his mouth off about Muslims, the people there were very hip to it. They understood exactly what he was saying. They understood he was talking about them and that was the end of his place. It closed down in less than a week. Uh, it was completely boycotted by everybody and no one wanted anything to do with it. So when we went there, he had this gigantic chump tower in the middle of nowhere in the city. It wasn't where any of the other good hotels were. Uh, and glittery and, and glitzy and, uh, kind of ridiculous looking and, and shuttered this closed down and not long after the Mamadou's set it on fire and tried to burn it down so they could, they could collect the insurance. So that didn't work. Still sitting there closed. And I mean, when we were there in June, they were talking about, you know, trying to get somebody else to, uh, buy the property and change the name from Trump tower.  They were paying him $2.8 million a year. Uh, not just for the use of the name. I mean, the Trump, the Trump family was very, very involved with this. Ivanka had just been in, uh, in Baku just before we got there. And she was, you know, micromanaging everything like the color of the carpeting and what kind of lens to use and all this kind of stuff. Uh, and they were, and they pay a fee to, to the Trump organization for those services. So in like 10 years, when all the files are open, we're going to, we're going to discover that Putin thought, eh, you know, we'll run Trump for president. I'll help him. Trump thought, I'll, you know, I'll, I'll take their help.  Right. I mean, they didn't follow any campaign finance laws because they figured they weren't going to make it to the Oval Office, right? I think that that's correct. I don't know about the Putin stuff. I mean, that's yet to, that we're yet to find out what's, what's real and what's not about that. Oh, I mean, I, my gut tells me that there was Putin involvement, but I don't know that. I mean, I, I feel it, but I don't know it. It's the plot to the producers, essentially. Right. They thought they could run. Yes, that's right. The worst possible candidate and have some fun. Anyway, Howie Klein, thank you so much. You are the, to remind you, Howie, sometimes you forget, you're the founder and treasurer of the Blue America pack, which raises money for progressive candidates. Is there a candidate you guys are getting behind right now? I know there are a couple special elections coming up. Yes, we're, we're into, uh, John, uh, off off in, uh, in Georgia today on my blog, if you've got it down with tyranny.com, you can read a, um, a, a special guest, um, post by a young guy who is a cancer specialist, a very, you know, not just a doctor. He's a great doctor, but aside from that, he's a, one of the primary researchers, one, one of just 10 in the whole country, working on, um, these rare lymphoma diseases that, um, and I know that because he, as it just turned out, he worked with my doctor and there were, there were like eight of them. And she's here in Los Angeles. He's in, in Houston. So in any case, he's running for Congress now and he did a, uh, a story for us about why this new, uh, Ryan, uh, repeal and replace bill for Obamacare is such a catastrophe. He talks about it from the point of view of doctors. In fact, you and I never got to talk about it, but, uh, people should be aware that the AMA, which has always been very anti-Obamacare and very pro-Republican came out today saying that this replacement is a disaster and they're against it. So both the American Medical Association, basically a Republican organization and the American Hospital Association, both of them have come out strongly against this replacement, which looks like it'll fail. Anyway, let's talk next week. Yes, sir. Thank you, Howie. Well, thank you. Bye. Bye.


Hi everyone, Joe for jazfyscasebrakes.com coming at you with 2017 Panini prism football four box Random team break number one and four blaster boxes. So not hobby boxes, but blaster boxes No vet commons ship and obviously we're chasing the home silvers PSA 10s go for over $8,000 Wild big thanks to these folks for getting into the action from Bradley all the way down to Matt and everybody in between All 32 teams are in Good luck. It's a pretty decent draft class too. So not to achieve so the most but some other teams too They're pretty good three and a five eight times four names and teams one two three four five six seven and Once more yet eighth and final time once more after eight. We got Kang down to Brandon All right, three and a five eight times for the teams to Seven and eighth and final time after eight we've got the ATL Falcons down to the shy town Bears if you can't read the randomizer because it's blurry Matt try setting your Your quality settings to the highest quality possible I think we go 720p 60 frames All right So we've got Kang with the Falcons Brandon with the Titans Bradley with the Giants Corey with the Saints Matthew with the Jets David Oh with the Panthers Dylan with the Broncos Walter with the Washington a football team Jay with the Colts Matthew with the Browns Stephen with the Seahawks Hunter with the Cowboys and look at that Kenny With the Kansas City Chiefs. Good luck Alifonzo with the Rams Matt with the Texans Michael with the Bengals Cohen with the Lions J with the Chargers Michael with the Vikings Alifonzo with the Buccaneers James with the Dolphins J with my Raiders Walter obviously you'll get Oakland Raider stuff Walter with the Bills Ryan with the Cardinals Matt with the Eagles Michael with the Niners John with the Packers Michael with the Patriots Deena with the Steelers John McCall with the Jaguars Tyler with the Ravens and Brandon with the Chicago Bears All right, so let's get all this on one screen and while you're considering trades and alphabetized by team name while you're considering trades This 2017 break is from a fresh case So let's bring this back out over here There it is 2017. We're doing blaster. I yeah 2017 four box blaster pop this open All right So here you have one two three four and And five rows of four one two three four and five So we're gonna roll the diet and if I roll a six, I'll just roll again and it's three So one one two three, so it's the middle row right here Bam You can kind of see right here that I grabbed the middle row All right, let's flip back to Let's flip back to this screen over here any trades Cowboy any cowboys fans hunters asking maybe the cowboys up for trade There's one autograph from memory Billy card per box Should be pretty interesting jets for cowboys perhaps Washington and the Bills Walt has the Bills and Washington football team up for trade All right, maybe I'll pause the video and we'll give people a little bit of time to talk about some trades And when we come back, we'll see if there's any trades and then the break stick around All right, welcome back folks as you can see right there. There was a deal done between Matt and Walter so Walter is now out of the jet spot Right here. So we'll put tea there for trade Matthew is Now with the Washington football team right there there you go put a tea next to there for trade So we know who draws first blood in that trade if any so let's print and rip Good luck. Will we find a Mahomes rookie silver? That would be awfully nice Out of a blaster break out of four boxes Of a blaster break that'd be pretty awesome So here's the first print out right the fresh print out right here hot off the presses What's that? What do you mean? They're all silver are all rookie silver. Let's find some just Mahomes is that Find some the homes is some Tyler Brenner. What's going on? All right, let's roll good luck everybody There's Elijah McGuire Brian Hoyer Buda Baker for the Cardinals the Elijah McGuire goes to the Jets by the way, that's for Walter and Zay Jones it there's a Marlon Humphrey right here is a Jones Premier jerseys rally going to the bills bills edition for Walter Buffalo Marlin Humphrey for Tyler s and Buda Baker for Ryan Kason and the Cardinals Is John Brown disco Cardinals Juju Smith Schuster rookie introductions and a Jamal Adams disco parallel Or bubbles or whatever you want. I think one or the other that's for the Steelers Dean There's Josh Malone for the bangles Carson Wentz disco Josh Reynolds silver rookie silver for the Rams. That'll be for Alifanso There's Deonta Foreman Premier jerseys rally Going out to Going out to Matt Staley and the Texans. There's our Darius Stewart for the Jets And there's Evan Ingram disco right there and that's for Bradley and the Giants All right next two boxes. Oh Yeah, yeah, yeah, we had it was a Christmas party Remember folks you can bookmark that schedule that's in the chat as well as As well as pinned in the chat Tyler if you had that bookmark you would have you would have seen that There was a holiday party and then Jason went back online later And then was on for a few more hours after the party Yes, because those are considered parallels not Commons John Beck Someone what yeah, we actually did have a lot of prizes Matt H someone won a $200 gift card To anything in the store at Jaspies That's pretty cool. I Want a I want a fair a mini Theragun Which was great to massage my Legs after leg day TJ Logan So yeah, this will this will ship and Amara Darba will ship to Gotta check the schedule Tyler Brenner that that's where all the info is updated You can bookmark that too folks and behind Elijah hood. I have no idea what he's doing now. There's Josh Reynolds relic Sean, what did you what did you win yesterday? Both oh right you got the waffle maker. That's the white elephant waffle maker. There's Elijah hood Bluetooth No, it's canceling head for oh, yeah, those are like the Sony Bluetooth noise canceling headphones. They're pretty nice There's Davis web for the Giants as Isaiah Ford Theoretic tack McKinley the real popular item in the the white elephant Adam was Was the mini fridge that holds like six six cans of six pack basically Return of the Mac Mac Hollins Mac Hollins relic going to the fly Eagles fly Matt H Adam St. Ange wants waffles with the Chargers low in the middle of it when he visits Sean Yeah Sean jaspy is down Adam. There's Gerald Everett Silver Extended at a invite extents you to Adam. There's Malik Hooker disco and there you go ladies and gentlemen No Mahomes yet, but another four boxes are up on jaspy's case breaks calm. Let's keep hunting for Patrick Mahomes Thanks for watching. I'm Joe for jaspy's case breaks calm. See you next time


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Arshad and I am going to help you with the following question which says solve the equation 21x square minus 28x plus 10 is equal to 0. Now a quadratic equation is of the form ax square plus bx plus c is equal to 0 where a is not equal to 0 and the solution of this equation is given by x is equal to minus b plus minus u to the power b square minus 4ac upon 2a. So these are some ideas which we are going to use to solve the above problem. So this is our key idea. Let us now begin with the solution and the given equation is 21x square minus 28x plus 10 is equal to 0. On comparing it with the general form of the quadratic equation we find here a is equal to 21, b is equal to minus 28 and c is equal to 10. Let us first find out the value of b square minus 4ac to find the solution. b square minus 4ac is equal to 28, the negative sign 4 square minus 4 into 8 as 21 into c just 10 which is further equal to 28 into 28 is 784 minus into minus is plus and minus 840 is equal to minus 56. Now minus 56 can be written as 56 into minus 1 and minus 1 is iota square so 56 iota square and thus root over b square minus 4ac is equal to root over 56 iota square which can be written as 2 root over 14 iota. Now let us find the solutions which are given by x is equal to minus b plus minus root over b square minus 4ac upon 2a. Now b is minus 28 plus minus root over b square minus 4ac is 2 root over 14 iota upon 2 into 21 which is equal to 28 plus minus 2 root over 14 iota upon 2 into 21 and now taking 2 common from the numerator we have 2 into 14 plus minus root over 14 iota upon 2 into 21 and now canceling the common multiples we have 14 plus minus root over 14 iota upon 21 and now separating the real and imaginary parts we have 14 upon 21 plus minus root over 14 upon 21 iota and thus the solution of the given equation is 14 upon 21 plus minus root over 14 upon 21 iota. So this completes the solution hope you enjoyed it take care and have a good day.


Hi everyone, Joe, for jaspyscasebreaks.com, coming at you with 2020 Panini Gold Standard Football. 4 box, pick your team number 18, the final 4 boxes of that case that we popped open earlier today. Big thank you to all of these lovely people for getting into the action. Let's not break 17, come on man. Did I write 17 on all of these? Did I even upload this random number block randomizer? Come on, Joe. Sloppy today. I already uploaded break 17. So let me upload the, it is my Monday, folks, sorry, maybe a tiny bit of slack, but this is not excusable. Alright, so I'm uploading the number block right now. I don't have to monetize it, and then it is correct, it says break 18. I've fixed the spreadsheet as well, and then we'll flip back to it, I'll show you it to you again actually, there it is right there, now it's 18. Alright, once again, here are the folks in break 18. We already did 17. So thanks again, I'm Joseph with Last Bot Mojo and the Steelers, I know, just lost a bit of the force. Talk to me Obi-Wan. Alright, we got these guys right here too, thank you. So this is a number block, so it's a number block break only for those teams, and just for break 18. Let me set that aside right here, alright. Good luck everybody. We've got four boxes of the case that we popped, we've got a blank card to hide the hits a little bit, there's Gronk, Gronk to 210, 2 to 10, 2 out of 10, words. That goes to Ian with the buccaneers. The other base card is John Greenard to 75, that'll be for Houston, that'll be for Ark and the Texans. We've got Mother Load, David Montgomery, 126 out of 199 for Chicago Allen with Da Bears. Here's Joe, he needs a JuJu Smith Schuster, Les Claypool, I don't think Les Claypool's in this set. Maybe Chase, what if Les Claypool was in this, on the Steelers checklist, 246 out of 249, triple relic, all blue horseshoes. Michael Pittman Jr., Jonathan Taylor and Jacob Eason. Jason K. with the blue horseshoes. Now we've got Herb, I thought it was going to be an autograph for a second, newly minted Justin Herbert, 33 out of 49, Chargers 3 is going to be Rory on this list. Back here is Buffalo, Isaiah Hodgins to 299, Buffalo Gold, Gold Standard, Buffalo Gold, one of my favorite slot machines, Adam with the Bills. And we've got Brandon Ayak, 45 out of 49, Niners are a number block team, Niners 5, goes to John L., next box, CJ Sports Card, do you think the Steelers go an 11-0 on Thursday? No, I think they actually lose that matchup to the Ravens and then maybe win out the rest of the way. There's Cooper Cup to 75, that'll be for the Rams, that'll be for Adam, Oliver says yes, Frost Blacklock will hide the hits, there's Golden Pairs, Jacobi Risset and T.Y. Hilton, 163 out of 199, Jason K. with the Colts, I think they lose the, I know, that's probably what would happen, they'll end up losing to like the Jets, they'll just fall asleep, they'll just kind of take their eye off the ball a little bit and go with, it's hard to go 16 though, it's hard to go on 16, speaking to the Jets. Someone's going to stumble into a loss and someone's going to stumble into a win. Meekle Hardman Jr., 103 out of 199, that'll be for the Chiefs, John with the Chiefs. We got Dwayne Haskins, some good looking color in there, that's 19 out of 199, nice mother load for Washington, Adam Cupperman with the Washington football team. We got Jared Pinckney, Atlanta to 149, oh, to 199, that'll be for Alan and the ATL and back here we've got, there it is, Ryan Harreld was like, where's our two, where's Tua or Love or Jalen, got to find one of them in here, you got him. Jersey and Gold, Inc. autograph 12 out of 49 for Ryan Harreld and the Dolphins, he bought the Dolphins straight up, so that kind of worked out, Ryan, Ryan was like, hey, can you take out the, can you take out the Dolphins in the number block so I can buy them straight up in the previous break, that would have not, that would have not worked out. There's Ross Blacklock again, thanks for his help, Texans art, all right, two boxes to go. Yeah, what was up with that, Riffer? I wasn't actually watching the game, was he playing that poorly? It's got to be the long-term answer though in Miami, yeah, I know, I saw that, but I didn't see why, oh, he was just getting, he was getting killed, like he was getting sacked a lot, oh, because their line couldn't hold up and they benched him. There's Josh Ushi for the Patriots, that'll be Patriots 6, that'll be for Gary, behind Alshon Jeffery, is Gold Rush Mark Ingram, 155 to 199, that'll be for the Baltimore number block team, that'll be Baltimore 5 right there, so it's 155, we go by that digit right there, going to, going to John, we got Jalen Rhaegor for the Fly Eagles Fly, Ryan Harold, 182 out of 225, we got poor Joe Burrow, newly minted 225, he's going to have, he's going to have a newly minted knee, unfortunately, hopefully he comes back strong, that'll be the Bengals number block, 194 out of 225, Cincinnati 4 is going to be for Gary, we got Josh Kelly, 50 out of 199, Chargers 0 is going to be for John as well, John L, 5-0 out of 199, there's Jordan Love, Jersey and autograph, man, this break going well for Ryan Harold with the Green Bay Packers, well another guy, another one of the guys he was looking for, there's Alshon Jeffery, 97 out of 99, I'll take it he says, and the final box, and it looks like we got some points hiding in there, we got Curtis Weaver to 75, Mike Singletary Relic, I want winners, I want players that want to win, 59 out of 199 for Allen and Da Bears, we got DK Metcalf and Russell Wilson, golden pair, 69, nice, out of 199, Seattle, Russell with the Seahawks, Russell getting Russell, little Russell Russell mojo, turned out to be a pretty good pair actually, we've got a Dual Relic, newly minted, Tyler Johnson, Kee Sean Vaughn, 009 out of 249 for Ian and the Buccaneers, the points will randomize to one person, that's 600 points, that's a decent amount of points too, and the last hit is DeAndre Swift, two-color Dual Relic, 58 out of 99, a quick hit for Jason Kee and the Detroit Lions, and there you go boys and girls, there's Harrison Smith right there to 99, alright, and now let's randomize the 600 points to one person in the break, you know what, I'll randomize the teams, if it lands on a number block, then I'll randomize the names of the number blocks to see who gets the points, so let's get the list of teams, let's roll it, let's randomize it, four and a four, hard eight, so if the team that lands on top is a number block team, they'll randomize names in the number block and we'll use the same dice roll, eight, four and a four, eight times, one, two, and eighth and final time, after eight times we've got, congrats to the Bengals, which I think are a number block team, they are, so now let's grab the names in the number block and see who gets it, so once again, four and a four, eight times, name on top, after eight, one, two, and eighth and final time, name on top is Dave, Rob, there you go Dave, I don't know if I called your number too often during the break, but you got 600 points, which is actually a decent amount of points, and should, they actually do sell for a decent amount in the secondary market, or what packs, sparkle packs, speckle packs, they've got some sort of exclusive pack on there that actually has some nice hits, so people have been either buying those up or been using them, so there you go, 600 points going your way Dave. I'm Joe for jaspeyscasebreaks.com, thanks for watching everyone, I'll see you next time for the next break, bye bye.


DJ, it seems like you've just carried over your success last year offensively to this year four hits tonight What do you think allows you to be so incredibly consistent in the better response? You know just I feel pretty locked in right now Just part of a really good lineup and I'm just trying to do my part to get on base and because in the past if I get On base, I feel like I feel like we're in a good shape to score runs So, you know just trying to be tough on the pitchers and get on base We'll take another There is any Marley Rivera go ahead DJ when you won the batting title title in 2016. Did you feel the same way that you do at the plate now? Um, I don't know. It's early in the season. There's a lot of baseball to be played, but You know, I definitely definitely have the same type of confidence for sure and and the results are are following as well And did you someone is you know the batting obviously what it's gonna be But when someone becomes a batting champion this season, is that a worthy title given the fact that this is a 60 game season? Is it valid? Yeah, I think all the awards are valid. I mean You know, we're all kind of playing in the same You know situations so, you know, I think there will obviously be some surprises and but there is every year So, you know, I don't think it's discredited at all just because it's 60 games James Wagner, go ahead. You have the next question Yeah, I know under your teammate Charlie Blackman is hitting over 400 to you was talking about like What it would mean to do that over a full season But have you thought of that? Like what do you think about it in 460 in season? Would that even be possible that someone would like to do? Um, I think it's possible I you know, I'm definitely not focused on that baseball is way too hard to try to do that But I think it's possible. I think it's possible for someone like that, too You know, I like I said, I think it's gonna be You know in two months of baseball, there's gonna be some some eye-popping stats I think and a lot of surprises. So I guess that is the fun part of the 60 games for sure Bruce Beck go ahead and unmute you have the next question DJ, do you ever surprise yourself? Yeah, I think so I don't know. I you know, I work really hard. I try to put myself in the best spots to succeed So when success happens You know, you know, I Don't say I expect it, but I also am prepared and I expect to succeed But sometimes you just kind of look back after a certain period of time and definitely You know, you definitely like why you know, I you know Can't believe I did that or that but like I said, you know I just try to work hard and put myself in you know in good positions