It's no secret. I eat at restaurants, just like everyone else. Penny and I really love a nice night out together. But how do we go out on the town without going off the plan? Turns out a lot of people want to know. So today I'm here to answer a really common question. How can I eat at restaurants on the plant paradox plan? The answer, it's not always easy, but it doesn't have to be hard.    So what's the secret to enjoying a nice night out without destroying your health? First, do your research ahead of time by going online and reading menus. If you're picking a restaurant, look for one that's got lots of leafy greens and it lists its sources for meat and seafood. Avoid heavily starchy foods and most of all, try to avoid menus that say no changes or substitutions. Chances are they won't be the most flexible if you need to say, I'll have the dressing off the salad. And whether or not you're picking the restaurant, skim the menu to figure out what you do and don't want to eat. If you plan to go in with a game plan and some thoughts about what you're going to order, you're less likely to give into temptation. Now, once you've picked a restaurant and nailed down a couple of options for ordering, the next step becomes before you leave for dinner. And it's actually pretty easy. All you've got to do is have a little snack. Nothing crazy. I'm talking about a tablespoon or two of nuts just enough to take the edge off so you don't get to the restaurant's stomach growling. Smell all that great food and forget your plan. Trust me, it happens, which is why I suggest cutting those cravings off at the pass and nuts are just the thing. Now, next up, when you get to the restaurant, drink a big glass of water and tell the waiter not to bring the bread. It's a huge temptation you don't need. Then go ahead and order. If everybody's getting an appetizer and you don't want to say, no, get a nice salad with olive oil, vinegar, and a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese. It's something most places will have.  Just confirm with the restaurant that they're cooking with oils like avocado oil or olive oil, not lectin-loaded canola oil. And do your best to skip dessert. I know how tempting it is. And just enjoy a nice espresso instead or a decaffeinated espresso. Now, what can you do if you simply can't find an ideal restaurant where the meat is sustainably sourced, the cheese is European, and the menu is rich in greens? You do your best and focus on doing 80% right. Luckily, most restaurants, yes, even fast food restaurants, have salads on the menu. So there's always a nice, easy option. And go ahead, pay extra for the avocado. It's great for you and filling too. Just make sure your salad doesn't have a lot of high lectin, high sugar add-ins like dried fruit, croutons, or tomatoes. If you're out and just not feeling salad, try making a meal of side dishes. I've made entire meals with the roasted Brussels sprouts and sauteed spinach on the sides menu. They're actually remarkably filling. If you're at a place where you're worried about the portions, especially the portions of things like meat, which we way too much of, don't even look at the entrees. Order off the appetizer menu instead. Chances are you'll get just the amount of meat and seafood that you need. So that plus a nice salad, it will fill you up with no problem. If you're at a place where everything's served with vegetables and potatoes, ask if they can skip the potatoes and double the veggies. Most restaurants will actually do it without blinking an eye. And let's say you end up in that scary situation where your all-time favorite indulgent food is on the menu. Say a melt-in-your-mouth chocolate souffle or the best bread you've ever had. You know what? That's when you see if a friend will order it and if they'll be nice enough to let you have a bite or two. But just a bite or two. Heck, I even sometimes have the bread when I'm in France or Italy but just a little bit. And the next day after a big meal, skip breakfast and maybe skip lunch too. Think of it as an intermittent fasting reset for your system. And when you do break that fast, break fast, get it, make it a nice bowl of leafy greens covered in olive oil. Your gut will thank you. Because I'm Dr. Stephen Gundry and I'm always looking out for you even when you're out on the town.


Boo! Bill, get away from me! Babe, guess what time it is? Stop, it's not any time to do anything. Guess what time it is? I'm not looking forward to this. What is going on? What is going on? Our last video. No, no, no. Two videos ago. Two videos ago, seeing if you noticed the video bump, I said that this gives 30,000 likes. We're gonna give it a try. That's what today is. What is going on? Today is the day. The video got 30,000 likes in less than two days. You really wanted to see me get my eyebrow. Okay, so I don't want to do this, especially because this girl is doing it. But we're doing it right now, and we asked you to vote in the comments, left eye or right eye. And I saw a bunch of each, but I did see more right eyes. So we're gonna be shaving a slit in my right eye right here. I'm Marvel Squad. Get ready. This bunch is so funny. And Mariah doesn't know how to cut here. She doesn't know how to do that. Yes, I do. I'm gonna give you a nice slit.  Did you want to do that? I'm screwed.  No, I don't want to. We're only doing this because that video got 30,000 likes for our Marvel Squad. I'm gonna make sure you don't cut my whole eyebrow off. Okay. I'm about to give him a nice eyebrow slit. Why don't you start having a little more confidence? I'm scared. I'm literally looking scared. No, you need to have some more confidence. Marvel Squad's getting nervous right now. Everyone watching right now, they're all sitting back laughing. They're waiting for you to mess up. I'm gonna do it right here. This is it. I'm gonna do it right now. I'm very nervous. I'm excited. And do not know what to expect. We're only doing this for our Marvel Squad. I don't back down to a challenge. The fact that you guys got that video to 30,000 likes in two days is freaking crazy. But first, you need to go get my eyebrow thing. It's actually the thing that I shave my face with, but it has like an adapter, so it's in the room. Okay. In the room? Plugged in. Okay. Yeah. I'm scared. It's by my bad in there, okay? I'm gonna be pranking Mariah today. As you can see by the title, I'm super late for this. And it's gonna be crazy, so... Got it? Yeah. Can you go get some water? Sure. Thank you. Oh, a cup of water from the fridge. Okay. Not a water bottle. Okay. Thank you, because it's colder. All right. So as you can see by the title, like I was saying, I'm gonna be flashing my girlfriend today, all right? So obviously I'm gonna wait till Mariah is done cutting my eyebrow because I don't want to flash her in here. And then her, like, get, like, freaked out and, like, shave my whole freaking eyebrow off, but I am gonna be flashing her right here. I'm just gonna be going like this and she's gonna be, like, confused. She's gonna be so confused. I don't know what she's gonna do.  So now that she knows we're filming, she's gonna freak out. So wish me luck. Mom's got to listen to me before we start this video. If we get this to 35,000 likes, 35,000 likes, we are gonna give Mariah an eyebrow slit. She never, never would cut her eyebrows, but we will do it if you get this video there. So let's see if you guys can do it. Get ready and wish me luck. I'm so lit for this video. But I'm not lit for my eyebrow being cut. Are you coming? I think she's coming up. Babe? Are you coming? She's snacking down there. Come on. Again, we got to get this over with. I should be nervous. I'm gonna be cutting her eyebrow. 35,000 likes on this video. We're gonna do something, alright? Nothing you should know yet. Leave me nothing I should know yet. Okay, let me just show you how this works. So this type of razor, you're gonna have to shave my eyebrow like this. Okay, so just on a slant? On a slant. Which eyebrow? This up please. I'm really nervous I might be. Marvel Squad, wish you luck. I don't even want to look right now. You have to come on this side. You can come on this side if you want. The moment of truth. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Stop, stop. Let me just build. No, you don't hold it like that.  Let's see this edge. Okay. That's all that you wanted to touch. Oh my God. Like that? Yes. Don't make it huge. Put your hand down. Don't make it huge. Otherwise I will literally break up with you. I'm gonna break up with you. It will go back. No, alright, let's get that. Okay, you're not the one that has to live with it. No. Please let me be. Let me be. Let me be. No, no, no, no, no, no. No. What are you doing? You moved your eye, Bill. Attempt number two. Stop. Don't move, please. Don't move. Okay.  I felt hair drop. Wait. Hold on. That is the wrong spot. That is too far down. Oh, we have to finish this. They got the video to 30K likes, babe. Okay. Oh, she did it. Oh my gosh. Guys, if you cannot tell, hold on. Look at this. She literally cut that. I did a good job. You know I did. It was not that good. You know I did a good job. Mariah, oh my God. This is for you guys. I hope you enjoyed me getting an eyebrow slit. Literally, that was crazy. How do you just do that? We're filming. I'm gonna put a towel on because I'm gonna take a shower after this. No, you're literally flashing me while we're on. Look, it's getting you hyped. Are you trying to turn me on or something? No, it's getting you hyped for the video. No, it's not getting me hyped. We need to be hyped for our brow squat. We're filming, Bill. Do you want me to do it again? No. Why are you doing it on film, Bill? Hold on. Let's finish the beginning of my eyebrow slit. But yeah, I cannot believe why do you look like that? Because I'm really confusing why you're legit just flashing. I needed you to pump up your mood, Mariah. That doesn't need to pump up my mood. See, look, your mood is not where it is. I can do it again. That's the mood that Mariah Squad needs. I can do it again. All right, Mariah Squad. Fun of me. No, I'm not making fun of you. Are you trying to turn me on or something? Because we're in the middle of filming. No, I'm getting your blood pumping. My blood's pumping. This is the wrong time. We're in the middle of filming. I know. Look at it. You're so hyped now, and our Mariah Squad needs that hypness. They need to get a good laugh in the day. Do you think I'm gonna put that on camera? No. Bill, no! No! Bill, stop! What? Bill, please tuck that away. Why don't you look at me? Look at me. Babe. What is the point of that? To get your mood hyped up, because look at you now. It was already hyped up. All right, can we actually film? We need to film. We've been recording forever.  I'm sorry. That isn't my fault. Flashing me. Why are you doing that? To get your mood better. All right, so, Mariah Squad. You told me to get my mood better. My mood is already better. I know you like it. So it's okay. All right, so thank you so much, Mariah, for screwing up my eyebrow. I don't think it looks terrible. Comment down below how you think my eyebrow turned out. And we're gonna be reading that because I want to see what you guys think if it's good enough. I didn't realize I did too- You said right here at the end. No, you're never touching my clippers again. Stop looking at me. I'm just kidding. Why are your pants off? I want it to flash you. Do you want me to do it again? No. I'm gonna keep doing it unless your mood is happy. I am happy, we're filming this.  It's not gonna hype me up. Stop. Woo! I'm not looking. I hope you're pleased by that. Woo! I want you to be hyped for our Mariah Squad. No, I am hyped. Bill, you are so fine. Oh my God. But like, this isn't the time. You just say I'm fine. Maybe after the camera flashed me. You're fine. You can flash me, but not right now. You're fine. Okay, I'm sorry. I was trying a new technique. Okay, because our Mariah Squad- A new technique of what? Laughin' and havin' fun. Yeah, but we're gonna have to cut all that out. This is like telling it to be flashing me. I know.  Mama Squad, thank you so much for watching this freaking eyebrow cut session. Mariah, look happy. Look happy. I thought that was gonna be good. I can't look happy when your pants are literally off right now. All right. Do you want me to drop the whole towel? No. Please don't do that. I don't even have to wear the towel. Honestly. I'm going to be getting out of this bathroom now because I'm scared to be in the same room with this thing and Mariah in it. I'm not a good job for it, not being. I'm never like, oh. What? Can I try on you? No! Are you funny? Do you need to put your hand in it? Do you need to put your hand in it? It looks like every time I... No. Do you realize every time I flash you... I'm not going to take away your pants like that, it's weird. Okay, sassy girl.  And then every time I don't, you're like, eh. So maybe I should just fill them with my pants off now. No, please. Please put your pants on. Fine. Before we leave the bathroom, I did want to tell you. I told the Marvel Squad, if this video gets to 35K likes, we can give you an eyebrow slit.  How do you feel about that? I'll do it for the Marvel Squad. I just see it, no way. I will do it. That is on camera. Is that a pinky promise? Oh! Guys, if this video gets to 35K likes, hold on, hold on. Before I even get there, Mariah. Is that my reward for something? That is, that's a little reward. But I just wanted to tell you that literally, I did not think you were going to say yes to that eyebrow slit. I was pranking you this entire time. Because remember when you did the video of you flashing me? Yeah. I'm doing that video right now. Oh my, you're annoying. Hold on, hold on. I was wondering why you were just pulling down your pants on camera. Oh my gosh. No, this is all going in there. Everything.  Guys, I literally got this girl so good but the reason I wanted to end the prank there was because I did not think you were going to say yes to getting an eyebrow slit. I'll do it for the Marvel Squad. I think that would be kind of cool for at least. Oh my gosh.  Yeah, I'll do it. You better make sure you don't mess it up for me though.  Okay? I could easily do it to someone else. Well, now I know that I could, now I'm going to do it. Now I'm going to do it. No, you didn't even do it right. Because I didn't think you would be able to give me a tutorial. Oh my gosh. Jesus. Jesus. Lord, let the demons out of here. But anyway, thank you guys so much for watching. Get this video to 35,000 likes and we are going to be giving my girlfriend an eyebrow slit. It's going to look better than this. Shaving my girlfriend's eyebrow off to see how she reacts. But anyways, I did not want to flash you while you were cutting my eyebrow because I told the Marvel Squad I didn't want you to accidentally get like, oh my god, and accidentally shave my eye. Yeah, thank God you didn't do that. Let's get this video again. I'm sorry, I'm going to say it more than once to 35,000 likes because I very much- I will legit do an eyebrow slit if you guys do that. I cannot believe she actually said yes. I was just proposing the idea in the intro, but now she confirmed it and is on camera. She pinky promised it.  Next video. Maybe not next video, but whenever it does hit 35,000 likes, that video after. Yes. Okay. I cannot wait. Because we just filmed a morning routine. Yes. Going up on Wednesday. So get hyped. Our morning couples routine is going up on Wednesday. Make sure you guys are going in there and hyping it up. It is super lit and we cannot wait for you to see that. So make sure to have your post notifications on after you subscribe to our channel so you get notified every time we post. Every single time we post. Because you're not going to want to miss out on the next couple videos. They're going to be lit. Also, I want to give a huge shout out to all of our people right here. Thank you so much for supporting us. Thank you so much for supporting us. We do have to give our end of video post notifications. Shout out. Today's post notifications shout out goes to Summer Brown. So, Ethy, at the end of the last video, we did a two truths in what line from Mariah this time. She said she played hockey before. She got a car crash and then she has a twin sister. So there was one lie out of those. I do have a twin sister. I did get in a car crash. Sadly. Sadly I did. So shout out to Summer Brown. Summer Brown got it right and let me just say 90% of the people that were guessing it said that hockey was a lie. So you already knew. You guys were. You guys already knew. But at the end of that every single video, for those who are supported that watch our videos all the way through, just like you, we ask you a question. Today's question is When did you guys subscribe to our channel and become a Marvel Squad family? When did you become part of the family? We want to know. Did you subscribe today? Did you subscribe a year ago last month? We want to know. So comment that on everything and commenting back to a lot of you guys. So we cannot wait to read those and we literally love you for watching this video. Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you guys in the next video. But until then. Peace. 35,000 likes when we're shaving your eyebrows so. You got it. You got that right. I don't know if it's going to happen but. It's going to happen. We'll see you soon.


As we keep the Lenten journey, we follow Jesus in the way of the cross, sustained by the Scriptures and moving towards Holy Week as we follow through the purposes of God. Matthew's Gospel chapter 4 verses 1 to 4. Then Jesus was led out into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tested by the devil. He fasted for 40 days and 40 nights and at the end of it was famished. Then the tempter approached him, if you really are God's Son, he said, tell these stones to become bread. The Bible says, replied Jesus, that it takes more than bread to keep you alive.  The story of Jesus being tempted in the wilderness has traditionally been part of the church's observance of Lent, the season of which this is the first Sunday. Jesus immediately after his baptism, when he's heard the voice from heaven saying, you are my son, my beloved one, Jesus is then tested. As the letter of James says, and as the letter of Peter says, first letter of Peter says, in the beginning of both those letters, don't be surprised when you're tested. It's rather like when you're at school, when you learn a new lesson and then the teacher says, we're going to have a test on this next time round to make sure it's really gone in. So Jesus is going to be tested. Is he really going to trust that he is in fact God's Son, God's beloved on whom his favour rests? Is he going to go the way that God, his Father, is showing him the way of bringing the kingdom in God's way rather than the world's way? And so the testing comes first in the form of this challenge. If you really are God's Son, surely he doesn't want you to be famished with hunger. Surely you'd be much better having something to eat and being able to get on with your work. And Jesus replies with words from Scripture, words from Deuteronomy chapter 8, because what Jesus is doing is as it were going through the story of Israel in the wilderness. Jesus is the one who is embodying the New Exodus. He's the one who is bringing about the restoration of the people of God. And so Jesus spending 40 days in the wilderness is like Israel spending 40 years in the wilderness. And during that time, Israel was constantly being taught to rely on God's provision, but was constantly grumbling because it wasn't going the way that it seemed it should have done. So Jesus is succeeding where Israel failed. That is part of the whole message, actually, of Matthew's gospel as of so much of the New Testament. And so Jesus, in replying with this verse from Deuteronomy, is emphasizing his utter trust on God, his Father, a trust which we see going all the way through to the moment where on the cross itself, he cries out in pain, my God, why did you abandon me? But he still cries to God, the God of the Psalms there, Psalm 22, my God, my God, why did you abandon me? Jesus' whole life was utterly dependent on God and that dependence was something that was tested to the limit in the wilderness. And as Christians have read the story of Jesus being tested, tempted in the wilderness, it's no surprise that people have looked at this story as a model for our own testing. There's an old Jewish saying which says, my child, if you come to serve the Lord, prepare your soul for testing. Don't imagine you can sail into this project of being a Christian, of living a Christian life without any challenge, without any difficulty, without any times when you find yourself saying, maybe I made a terrible mistake, maybe it's not true after all, maybe there isn't a God, maybe he doesn't love me, whatever it may be.  And my experience is anything to go by, they often get harder as we go on. We meet one challenge and as happened with Jesus himself, the reward for getting one thing right is you get another challenge and then another. And though Matthew has formalized Jesus' testings into this moment at the beginning of his ministry, there are all sorts of signs that there were further testings which went on throughout, as every time he was announcing the kingdom in a synagogue or on the streets, there were people shouting at him and plotting against him and so on. Until finally, in Matthew's Gospel, this is very clear, in finally, as Jesus is arrested and tried and taken to the cross, it's as though all the testing comes rushing back and the people who are mocking him as he is hanging on the cross are echoing the words of the tempter here.  And the answer in Matthew's Gospel and all through is, no, it's because he is the Son of God that he must stay on the cross. And again and again, as we follow Jesus, we have to cling on to this. It's because we are actually in the right place that these temptations, these times of testing are coming upon us. It's not pleasant, it's not easy. We have to cling on to the scriptural story, following Jesus in the way that he has led us. My child, if you come to serve the Lord, prepare your soul for testing. Take Jesus as the model and follow him, whatever it costs and wherever he leads. And so we pray, gracious Father, as you allow us to be tested, don't let us be tested beyond our ability. Give us the will, give us the scripture, give us the resources to meet the testing, to meet the temptation and to follow and be faithful as Jesus was himself. Amen. How is this passage speaking to you? Let us know in the comments, like and subscribe or check out our other videos.


Say you see a new clip all the time. Now this is two days ago. We posted just not saying nothing. Say listen, this is two days ago. Listen, listen, listen. You can't start nothing with me in the side when we stop. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no. You can't, yeah, yeah, you can't, you can't start a motherfucking thing with me and say enough is enough.  Uh-oh, motherfuck. Oh, no. No. I ain't letting go. No, you, no, no, no.   Say it, man. Yeah, man. Yeah, man. Yeah, man. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101. 101. Yeah, we gonna talk. Let me get into this, Adam. Here he is on the West Coast. Uh-oh, he want you to know that we gonna come to the front. And I like the way, I like the way no jumper slides in there. Watch this. I can sit here and go back and forth with the nigger, bro. But why? Wait a minute, I wanna pull it back. Here we go. And do we have the clip pulled up? Hey, we're gonna play the clip up. They couldn't get the outfit. They couldn't get the stuff together. We seen it. What we talking about?  Man, we ain't talking about that. You know what? I made him go get his daddy. I could sit here and go back and forth with the nigger, bro. But why are you beefing with a 50-year-old man from Texas who's got one eye? Bro, bro, bro, yeah. Bro, this is the thing, man. Well, he has two eyes, but one's fake. He has two eyes in the way of the ADS teeth. Yeah. And I'm not about to diss the Boss Talk niggers either. You feel me?   Bro, I see a new switch. I see a new switch. Yeah, he say he see a new clip all the time. Now, this is two days ago. We posted just not saying nothing. Say listen, just two days ago. Listen, listen, listen. You can't start nothing with me in the side when we stop. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no. You can't start a motherfucking thing with me and say enough is enough. If you got me in the headlock and I say, OK, man, I quit, I can't breathe, I can't breathe. And you let me go. And I turn around and get you in the headlock. And you say, I quit, I can't breathe. Uh-uh, motherfucker. Uh-uh. Nah. Uh-uh. Nah. Uh-uh. I ain't letting you go. No, you know. Mother.  Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Yeah. Got me out here, boy. I almost squeezed some more. But hey, man. Yeah.  Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. We might do this to the end of the year. We don't know yet. No, nigga. You got the bigger platform. Now you know we can stop. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Just mighty and like big and big and big. Big and big. Yeah. Yeah. No. You don't get to decide how this ended. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.  Say we know what your woman like. Real Isle ain't what she into. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Adam 22 Real Isle ain't what your woman into. Nigga, Nigga, no. Nigga, Ray Charles, Ray Charles had plenty of holes. Yeah, he did. Ray Charles can fill a hole in his soul.  Boy, that nigga that tripped out.  Oh, thank you. Hold on. Hey, you heard the boy to death, baby. Yeah, they called her a cry like she never said my name. Oh, man, they said they done with it. They don't, why don't they stop? We can't quit. Why don't they just, why don't they stop? I'm like, man, come on, man. Y'all, y'all mention the name and then y'all call that man out, then when he got a dress and y'all don't wanna do it no more. I made him go get his daddy. Boy, you sure did. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I made him go get his. The boy had to go get his pops, man. He ain't know where in the world I'm gonna bring my daddy or walk my daddy in. Here you go.  We're talking about it. They did. We had no backlash. Really, nobody did. It ain't nobody, nobody hit me. Our fans, our fans. He said our grandfathers and I don't feel like the no jumper squad has lost a much fandom to Charleston White. Charleston White has people watching them. Custerson White. I think, I think even Custerson's fans were probably out to acknowledge that we're behaving a little bit more right now. Oh, now you want to- Custerson, he's mad at me. You feel me? He cyclops to me now. Can we really believe anything A.D. say after the third time changing back and forth like he's doing? Well, first time in a minute. Well- They're like the E going back and forth. Hold on, hold on, hold on. We can settle all this now. I still got that whole saying, well, I just wanna talk to him. Yeah. He confessed. He said, listen, I still just wanna talk to him. They still sending subliminal messages. Well, he can still now no jumper say, well, no, he can't come on here. I decided I wasn't going on there five months ago before we got here, white boy. I wasn't going back on my word. And this is why I was never going on there. You like to get niggas on there and don't pay them. Oh. Yeah, all them niggas on there are interns. So they don't get- Man, all them niggas indentured servants. Yeah, them niggas slaves.  Krip Mack, every niggas went on his platform don't get nothing. Wow. Not a thi-thi, not a th-thi-owl. So he pimping? He f-ing him. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha


Well, Republicans are in complete disarray today because they lost the special election in New York's third congressional district, which as you all know, was the seat that belonged to George Santos. So Democrat Tom Swazi won 53.9% to Republican Mazi Pilip, who got 46.1%. Now Swazi was originally the person who represented that district, but he gave up that seat in 2021 to run for governor failed, and then that's what paved the way for George Santos. So this is a victory for Democrats in terms of numbers, but ultimately I think that Republicans are probably going to benefit from his win in the long run, and I'll tell you what I mean by that in a moment, but just in terms of Democrats' likelihood of taking back the House in November, this is a good sign in that regard. But what's funny is the reaction following this election because Republicans are now, I guess, kind of starting to regret expelling George Santos, and George Santos is taunting them in an admittedly hilarious way. So on Twitter he tweeted out minus one, and he added, Hey Americans, please thank these two gems for losing a seat in the House today. Now here's the best part.  I look very much forward to seeing most of you lose due to your absolute hate-filled campaign to remove me from Congress arbitrarily. Oh, come on, man.  Now, as you can see, the only reply came from Andrew Garbarino, who wrote, Sorry New Phone Who It Is. Now you've got to admit that is objectively hilarious. And we all know that George Santos is a petty person, and he wanted this to happen.  He's a Republican, but he wouldn't support the nominee. Now here's why he claims he wouldn't support her. Right now, in my view and in the view of many conservatives, real conservatives here in the district is, there's two Democrats on the ballot. And the option is, do we get a Democrat or a Democrat Republican light version of a Democrat? That's very concerning, because the reality is, if she wins, you add a Democrat seat to Congress that's going to caucus with Republicans, which is very concerning. And of course, referring to the fact that she's still a registered Democrat, I asked her about that. She said the Democratic Party has left her. So are you going to support her? She's still the Republican candidate. Are you going to support her in this race? So I've made it very clear I'm not voting in the race for the simple fact that I will not bring myself to vote for a registered Democrat period. Not in this time and in the time that we're living in. It's just against what I believe in stars politics. Interesting. Now I understand why he's claiming that she is a Democrat light. And it's because she's literally a registered Democrat. So it makes sense in that regard. But when it comes to policy, I mean, it's not like she isn't extreme enough for the GOP. But I think that the dynamic in this race was interesting because the Democrat was more of a Republican light. So if you had your reservations about Mazi because she was still a registered Democrat, well you also have another option in the Democrat who's pretty right wing. In fact, arguably Republican when it comes to policy. So it's, to me, I feel like it comes down to pettiness, right? Like he just doesn't want to support her because if she won, she would be his replacement and it would be a dub for Republicans and kind of validate their decision to expel him. But that didn't happen and he didn't want it to happen because now he gets to kind of go on a victory lap and taunt his former GOP colleagues. Now in the aftermath of this loss for Republicans, Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News reports a healthy round of finger pointing this morning among Republicans here on Capitol Hill this morning about NY3. So far I've heard people say the Nassau County GOP machine is useless after supporting Pilip and Santos. People blame the leadership.  And he adds, oh, and many say that the House Republican shouldn't have expelled Santos. And some Republicans are now publicly expressing regret about the party's decision to ultimately vote to expel him. For example, Republican Mike Collins tweeted, so who still thinks Republican helping Democrats kick out Santos was a good idea? Also, Matt Gaetz took a shot at any Republican who voted to expel Santos for blowing up the GOP majority. And furthermore, LGBTQNation reports also this morning House Republican Whip Steve Scalise reminded everyone on Fox News that he did not support expelling Santos from Congress last year. It was a tough loss last night, he said. Marjorie Green chimed in, quote, whatever you want to say about George Santos, I don't think he should have been expelled. And he was a great Republican vote, said Representative Marjorie Taylor Green. Green also said that Pilip was a horrible candidate and accused her of hating Donald Trump. So lots of cupping and seething. And you love to see it because whenever fascists take L's and cry about it, I think that's a victory for America. But when it comes to this strategy of her kind of straddling the fence and running away from Trump, maybe that did contribute to her loss. Maybe the GOP base was disillusioned. I don't think that it's an absurd argument to make considering the fact that the GOP's base is basically Pro-Maga. They are far-right fascists. And if you run away from him, you're basically running away from the ethos of the GOP party at this point in time, right? But having said that, though, I find it very, I don't know what the right word is because unprincipled doesn't do it justice because that would suggest that Republicans are principled in the first place. But for the Republicans to say, well, we should have kept him despite his criminality because he was another vote, it just kind of shows that they don't care about anything but politics. But for those who forgot, these are just some of the things that George Santos did. 23 charges in total. Embezzlement, wire fraud, money laundering, campaign finance violations. The list goes on. Yet Santos survived not one, but two attempts to expel him, with many members waiting for the House Ethics Committee before taking action. But when the Ethics report was released, it was explosive. There were hotels and taxi bills from Las Vegas charged to his campaign makeup at Sephora, Botox even. Only fans charged to the campaign, too. Only fans is a subscription-based Risqué website, a website that Santos swore he had never heard of in March, four months after his purchases. I just discovered what only fans was about three weeks ago. The damning report turned the tide against Santos in the House. This is bullying. And when it led to another expulsion vote, it was a landslide. Santos seemed relieved to reach an end of his saga in Congress. Tell me what this year has been like for you.  In the most profound way. You did that to yourself, buddy.  You did that. Take responsibility. But he's not going to. But I mean, these crimes, these alleged crimes are very, very serious. Not as serious as Trump's crimes, of course, but nonetheless, still serious. Now, for Republicans to vote on principle to expel him, I think that that's a good thing. The Republicans who did that for once deserve credit for being principled. But now they're thinking, oh, this kind of blew up in our face because we have one last vote. Maybe it was bad. They have no core beliefs. They don't care about the rule of law or the Constitution or the fact that he lied to his constituents. It's all just about political victories for them.  But the whole point of politics, the reason why one in theory gets involved in politics in the first place is to try to improve people's lives. But this is just a game of numbers to them. This is just about making sure that Team Red is in power. And that's it. And I find that so embarrassing, right? Now, I do want to get to Trump's response because he is, he's blaming her refusal to kind of embrace him. He tweeted on Truth Social, Republicans just don't learn. But maybe she was still a Democrat. I have an almost 99% endorsement success rate in primaries and a very good number in the general elections as well. But just watch this very foolish woman, Mazie Melissa Pilip, running in a race where she didn't endorse me and tried to straddle the fence when she would have easily won if she understood anything about modern day politics in America. MAGA, which is most of the Republican Party, stayed home. And it always will unless it is treated with the respect that it deserves. I stayed out of the race. I want to be loved. Give us a real candidate in the district for November. Swazi, I know him well, can be easily beaten. Now, of course, Trump is going to say that because it's an incredibly self-serving argument to say, hey, if you don't embrace me, you're gonna lose. Hey, here's proof of that. So I mean, it makes sense that he would say that. Having said that though, I don't necessarily think that he's wrong because the modern day Republican Party is effectively a cult. So if you refuse to embrace the cult leader, the cult members aren't going to be there to support you. Having said that though, it's not just her refusal to embrace Trump that led to her demise. Republicans did other things to shoot themselves in the foot and they're slowly but surely starting to realize that. And here's them grappling with the reality of their decisions in some interviews that Manu Raju did. If he was found guilty, then yeah, he should remove himself from Congress. And if he wouldn't remove himself, then the chamber would have a responsibility to do that.  A lot of Republicans here are already blaming you guys for pushing out George Santos. What do you say to them? There are a lot of decisions that have occurred these last a couple of months that have shrunk the majority. Perhaps George Santos being honest would have kept one more seat here in Congress. Republicans have got to take advantage of early voting. We can't start so far behind. Trump is the one who has criticized early voting. I mean, are you guys still feeling the ramifications of all that? Well, I think the president understands what we're saying. There's a difference between mail ballots and in-person. And these are certainly conversations we'll have with the president. And that last comment coming from the House GOP's campaign chairman, Richard Hudson, who is part of that effort to try to get the Republican Mazi pill up across the finish line, indicating they're very concerned about the early voting, the lack of early voting among Republican voters costing them the election. Of course, that is a debate over campaign tactics that they may have to have with their party's potential and likely nominee Donald Trump, who has thrown cold water, of course, on mail-in voting, early voting and sorts. But that is one big reason why Republicans are concerned about their prospects in the future. So many issues here, John, about exactly what they need to do differently, but a lot of Republicans agree something needs to change ahead of November. So maybe we expelled Santos too soon. Maybe we shouldn't have told our base that mail-in voting is bad because it's not and it makes it exponentially more convenient for them. So maybe they would likely show up for us if they had other options. There's a lot going on here, right? But I think that's part of it. Another issue is abortion.  And Democrats, for the most part, have been overperforming the polls. So I think that it's a good sign for Biden. And maybe this kind of demonstrates that even if he's behind a little bit, you can expect him to do better in certain states. We'll have to wait and see. I don't wanna draw too many conclusions from this because it's just one district. But when you look at all of these victories that Democrats have been racking up, it does say that they've been overperforming. And I think that that has a lot to do with abortion and the GOP's refusal to embrace early voting and other methods of voting for their own base. Now I do wanna get to the candidates themselves because the dynamics of this race are incredibly bizarre. So first, let's start with Masi Pillop. This is a former paratrooper for the IDF per the Washington Post, quote, Pillop 44 is a mother of seven children who was born in Ethiopia, immigrated to Israel and served in the Israel Defense Forces before relocating to the United States. She has made supporting Israel an opposing illegal immigration key features of her campaign. Yeah, I find this mentality to be incredibly selfish and gross. She is an immigrant running on the demonization of other immigrants. Now sure, she specifically says that she's against illegal immigration, which indicates that she's probably for legal immigration, which she would assume because she's an immigrant herself. The problem though is that the reason why we have so many illegal immigrants in the first place is because our immigration system is broken. But as an immigrant, she's saying, you know what? I don't care, I don't wanna fix it. I just wanna be more mean to immigrants and perpetuity and hope that they don't come.  I got mine, they can stay out. I find that so gross, but here we are. Now also, she is a former IDF soldier, which means you're probably not gonna find someone more raw, raw genocide than that, right? Maybe with the exception of John Fetterman. But she's very, very pro-Israel. Now, you might be relieved after hearing this about her to know that she lost until you learn about the Democrat who might actually literally be worse on all of these issues. The New York Times reports, Swazi's strategy went something like this, challenge Republicans on issues that they usually monopolize, like crime, taxes, and above all, immigration, flash an independent streak and fire up the Democratic base with the tax. In this case, nearly $10 million in ads on the abortion issue and former President Donald J. Trump, the likely Republican nominee for the White House. On Wednesday, even House Speaker Mike Johnson acknowledged that Mr. Swazi's approach had broken through, though he downplayed the significance of the result. Quote, he sounded like a Republican talking about the border and immigration, Mr. Johnson told reporters in the Capitol, because everybody knows that's the top issue. So let's just pause right there. You have Mike Johnson, the Christian nationalist speaker of the House saying this Democrat sounds like a Republican. And Democrats are like, we'll go with that guy. But guess what, it gets even worse because as the Intercept reports, Swazi is backed by the Democratic majority for Israel and is to the right of Joe Biden on the issue. They go on to explain, Swazi bucked President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party leaders when he announced his support for a White House Republican bill that would give additional assistance to Israel. Swazi's conservative backers argued that he has the best shot at winning back the district in helping Democrats regain seats they lost unexpectedly in 2022. Other Democrats, however, are worried that Swazi would vote with Republicans anyway. He has supported positions opposing abortion rights and flirted with conservative positions on issues like criminal justice reform, LGBTQ plus issues and immigration. Swazi's campaign declined support from the left-leaning Working Families Party and sent out mailers picturing him with former New York Republican Representative Peter King. That's a losing strategy for Democrats in the long-term, Bailey said. With the platform Swazi is running on, the Republicans will win even if they lose. So this is not a win for Democrats in actuality. It's a win on paper, but in actuality when it comes to policies which matters the most, this is a victory for Republicans. Now sure, right now, since it's a campaign, he's saying that he supports abortion, but his history is a little bit damning, right? The fact that he's aligned with Republicans not just on economic issues, but social issues should scare Democrats and this should scare everyone who is a left-leaning and even a liberal voter because think about how quickly the Democratic Party is shifting to the right on so many issues. Immigration, Israel. I mean, thankfully, there are people now pushing back, but we have a president in Biden who is to the right of Ronald Reagan when it comes to his position on Israel and sending them weapons. So this is horrifying. And the message that Democrats are going to get from this is we win when we run to the right, when we out-Republican the Republican, which is worrying to me. But to give you a little bit of hope, Swazi got the genocide supporter treatment. So at his victory speech, he was literally protested by ceasefire protesters. You love to see it. That is the treatment that every single supporter of genocide should be given so long as they're in a position of power to do something and don't. But at the end of the day, I mean, I guess you can shock this up to a win for Democrats at least on paper, right? The blue team has another number, which in theory is good for them retaking the House. But long-term, this is more of a victory for Republicans, even if nobody's really acknowledging that now or saying that right now, because he's gonna side with Republicans on a lot of policies, if not most policies. This is another Henry Cuellar, so don't get too excited if you're a progressive, right? But with that being said, I'm still happy that we got this outcome specifically because of how funny it's turning out to be. The fact that it caused so much infighting and disarray within the GOP makes this very, very funny. So I mean, I feel like, you know, even if Mazi Pilip would have won policy-wise, I mean, they're both kind of just gonna be a vote for the GOP, so it doesn't necessarily matter that much. So the fact that we got an outcome that led to so much infighting within the GOP, I guess makes this worthwhile and I guess it's cause for celebration. But at the end of the day, you know, this is not really a win for anyone in particular, except for like just aesthetically speaking, Democrats got another seat. Great, that's a good indication that maybe Biden isn't as bad as the poll say he's doing still. I mean, nobody should be celebrating this because Swazi is not a good guy.