I Welcome, everyone, and welcome to Progressive Discussions. I'm your host, James P. Madonna. I've seen on the web, I've been doing this since, well, not counting video since the, I'd say the, the, the, the, the, the turn of the decade, the probably around 2000. Okay. And as far as podcast go, audio podcast. And then I started doing the progressive internet talk shows starting out on 2007. So I guess I started before or around the date, which, well, not the date, but the year that the date that will live in infamy, the second date that will live in infamy, which is today, September 11th. And I believe it occurred in 2001. Correct me, people, if I'm wrong. So that's about the same, the time I started with the podcast, with my late grade, original co-host and mentor and the managing editor of newsletter senses, the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman. May he rest in peace. Brilliant man. I started with him. Today is September 11th, 2022. The second date that will live in infamy. It's Sunday, Sunday afternoon. And here in Northeastern New Jersey, it's raining all day, which is fine as long as it knocks the temperature down. And I love the, the dismo foggy gothic look. Reminds me of my favorite season of the year, autumn and my favorite fun holidays, all Hallows Eve, all souls day, followed by September 2nd, the day of the dead. And then there is Thanksgiving, very enjoyable holidays. October is my favorite time of the year. Not, not counting the beautiful foliage, which is simply green leaves slowly dying. Believe it or not, that's why they turn those beautiful colors. And then the winds of November come early and the foliage starts to fall off. They dry and fall off the trees. Anyway, I'm going to do a 21 bell salute to the more than 3000 innocent victims of the tragic day of September 11th. Okay. I just want to say hello to one of our good friends, Mr. Bart Robinson. Hey, Bart. Hey, my friend, I'm in line at all these and it's raining.  Good to see you. Yeah, it's, you know, rain, well, rain was hitting a friend of mine who lives in Tijuana, Mexico and the San Diego area simply because they got hit with a Pacific Ocean hurricane that made its way up Baja, traveling north. And hopefully it'll help break the horrible heat wave and drought that's taken place in California right now. It's really a state of emergency, I would say, thanks to the greedy right wing politicians and their big oil oligarch responsible for climate change. Well, anyway, I'll try to make this a good show. A good show. I'll do my best. So how is everyone doing this weekend? Autumn is September 21st. I think the season's changed on the 21st. They call that the, well, there's the vernal equinox and then there's another equinox. I'm trying to think, well, anyway, the only one I remember is the vernal equinox and they're all equinoxes when the seasons change, which usually occurs on the 21st. First day of autumn is September 21st. First day of winter is December 21st. The first day of spring is March 21st and the first day of summer as well as the longest day of the year, which I can never understand, is June 21st. You would think the longest day of the year would be in the middle of summer, but it's really not. So that's it. I'm going to start off the show by saying something. First, I will quote President Joe Biden and then I will make a comment that was made that I think is very accurate and correct. Joe Biden says, quote, we are still at our core of democracy, exclamation point, uncork. Joe Biden, we are still at our core of democracy. Now, the correction for Mr. Joe Biden is if that's the case, then why do general election debates only have two parties and why is your party fighting in court to keep third parties off ballots? If it's so much of a democracy, how come the third party is kept off ballots? Well, and you're fighting in court to keep the third party off ballots. I thought the freedom of democracy meant that Americans are entitled to have options. You would think so, but not so, not so. I mean, but I do have good news and maybe it's a start. This November, the state of Georgia will have the Green Party on the ballot. So seven lucky bells of happiness and good luck to the Green Party, which happens to be the only existing, existing, real, progressive people's party.   Please. Okay. Go back. All right. We'll go to the next subject.  Nope. He can't touch it. He is infringing on our First Amendment rights more than ever before, Mark Zuckerberg, more than ever before it's getting worse and worse. And he does own Instagram, but he's doing it very heavily on Facebook itself, involving not my groups, but involving my pages. I guess it involves everyone else's pages because he constantly changes the program, the format for the pages. Not that he changes it for the better and makes improvements. He does it for the sake of change to display his obsession with control.  It's really horrible. All the glitches that I encounter dealing with my progressive discussions Facebook page and the other page I have, which is New Age mysticism and healing. It's incredible. But luckily, progressive discussions happens to be on YouTube, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, and now TikTok. I'm happy. I'm happy about that.  I'm going to have to open a share screen so I can share it with you. Here you go. Most celebrities in California are now catching a lot of heat for wasting huge amounts of water at their gigantic mansions, of course. And it's leading to backlash because we're still dealing with a very serious historic drought. But should we be mad at them or is there someone else to blame? We'll get to that in just a moment. But first, here are the details. Comedian Kevin Hart, for instance, two of the Kardashian sisters, actor Sylvester Stallone and NBA player Dwayne Wade were among some of the biggest violators of their local water restrictions in Southern California as the state experiences its third year in a drought. So look, if you have a massive property with landscaping, of course, it's going to cost a lot of money to maintain it. It's going to cost, or it's going to lead to a lot of water usage to keep that landscaping intact. And I think that's what's going on here. The celebrities were among the more than 2,000 customers who recently were issued notices of exceedance by the Las Virginas Municipal Water District, indicating that they had surpassed 150% of their monthly water budgets at least four times since the agency declared a drought emergency at the end of last year. So I think it's important to understand what the drought emergency entails, what the restrictions are.  And I know that after spending a ton of money on rose bushes for my mother's garden, they're now all gone. So Las Virginas on June 1st, I don't live in Las Virginas, by the way, but this impacts a lot of people in Los Angeles County. Las Virginas on June 1st imposed severe Stage 3 restrictions in an effort to achieve an unprecedented 50% reduction in consumption due to a water shortage emergency. The rules limit outdoor watering to one day per week with only eight minutes per station on the designated day. So Las Virginas serves some of the fanciest and richest people, it's a wealthy area. And among the addresses that received notices was an $18 million Hidden Hills property listed under the name of former NBA star Dwayne Wade that exceeded its allocated water budget in June by more than 1400% or 90,000 gallons. That was actually an improvement over May when the property exceeded its budget by 489,000 gallons more than any other customer. They claim that they had an issue with their pool, which is why their water consumption was so high, but they're getting it fixed, and they're also implementing other safeguards to prevent excessive water use. And we have other examples, but John, I wanted to give you a chance to jump in as someone who cares deeply and talks regularly about climate change and the impact that it has on droughts and things like that. Well, of course, these celebrities are doing this because after all, they're better than us. They're more important than us regular folks. Instead of issuing warnings, when are they going to slap them with fines? Why? Because they're multi-millionaires many times over. And of course, the NBA star cares the least, obviously, because it's probably a young guy playing in the NBA, and young people that are wealthy and perhaps famous, well, they just got to have what they got to have. I continue. Well, I have to say that I'm disappointed because a couple of years ago when celebrities were singing Imagine, I began to think that they were in it with us, that they wanted to be a part of the solution. But it turns out, oh no, we're peasants, and their imperial manners need to be green and luscious as we're losing our damn rose bushes, okay?  I don't know. Look, if they can get away with it because the law isn't particularly stringent and the fines aren't severe, then they're going to continue to do it. And because they're rich, if the fines aren't proportional to your income, then you're just going to pay the fine. It's a cost of doing gardening business, or filling your pool, or your many hot tubs, or God knows what else they do with water. But this is serious. This is an area where I think public shaming potentially could help. Not specifically because a few celebrities using too much water is the core issue with water use in California. That's definitely not the case. But if it gets people to start thinking about what our use and how severe it is, I think that's important. I think this is something that we need to be talking about more often, whether it's focusing on some celebrities or there was a great episode of John Oliver's show like a month ago about the Colorado River. We need to start to get ready and the popular consciousness for this issue because it's only going to get worse from here on out. And while those water restrictions right now might seem severe, imagine in 10 years or in 20 years if we don't take this seriously. We live in LA. This is not an area that is by nature supposed to have millions and millions of people living in it. We have by force temporarily made that possible. But it's only going to sustain for so long unless we find ways to be way more careful with energy use, with water use and all of that. So let's talk about what the penalties are because I agree with you in that it's not high enough for incredibly wealthy people for it to really make a difference. For them, I think it would make a huge difference for ordinary people, especially in Los Angeles where the cost of living is astronomical. But the penalties include an additional charge of up to $10 per water unit based on how many times customers exceed their water budgets. Those who receive a third or subsequent penalty will have to install and this is like my worst nightmare, a flow restriction device. Okay, the reason why I say it's my worst nightmare is because... Oh no. Can we just acknowledge that, yeah, okay, these are rich people so I know that no one's crying a river for them. I totally get that. Well, I'll say something that would make me shiver my timbers. I'll tell you right now, water flow restriction. I despise low flow shower heads. I despise it. I specifically have a high volume, super strong imported from Italy, high volume shower head. Now let's see what Anna says. But residents in California, meaning just normal people, including celebrities, I'm including them in this group of normal people, non-business water use, let's just put it that way. Accounts for 10% of the water use in the state, 10%. A total of 10%. I just want you to really take that in, okay? And when the state government tells you or the local government tells you as an individual that they're going to restrict the flow of water to you if you use a little too much, it's a little infuriating when you look at the agriculture industry in California and find out that they account for 40% of the water usage. And so you have companies like Nestle selling water from California to other states bottled water, okay? You have almond farmers who farm almonds here in California that takes up a lot of water. And they actually export a lot of that product to Asian countries, in particular China. And so it's a big business. And so water use when it comes to that, why is that not the primary focus? So, yes, I think that there could be a lot of water waste when it comes to these massive estates that these celebrities own. But my concern, as is always the case with climate action, is this overwhelming focus on individuals as opposed to industries that are contributing to waste, contributing to climate change, contributing to the drought. Those are the issues that I have. Yeah, I think that's fair. And look, this is hardly the first time that we've talked specifically about Nestle's abuse of water here in California. You're totally right. I think that it's important for people to be a part of the solution because I believe that's important. It has an outsized effect beyond the actual contribution. I think it can lead to people prioritizing these issues when making political decisions, including which candidates to support and all that. But I definitely agree that it's also used by the other side, corporations as a dodge to get people to believe falsely that it is primarily on them. At the same time, I would not worry about the celebrities. I do not believe anyone is putting a flow limiter on Sylvester Stallone's pipes. I don't think he's ever going to go to fill his pool and it's going to take six months or anything. I'm not worried about the celebrities. I'm worried about them doing it to us, like normal. Yeah, no, I think that that's totally fair. And look, the longer we wait in doing the far more numerically significant regulations of corporations, the more likely it is that there's going to be more stringent regulations on regular people. Yep. One final thing I wanted to show you because this graphic really did blow my mind. It shows you the agriculture industry and what uses up the most water. And the top water user, alfalfa crops. So in California, the country's largest producer of alfalfa, roughly 70% of the state's crop gets used by dairy cows. So beef cattle also consume increasing amounts of alfalfa to increase their fat content right before slaughter. Yeah, I blame the cows. They're greedy, honestly. I think that they're screwing us over and they need to be stopped.  But anyway, it's a good thing there are carnivores to eat the cows because that's the only thing they're going to stop them from eating more alfalfa. And drink the milk, right? Because these are dairy cows and all that. These are the conclusions I've come to. These are the conclusions. With that information, what you made? Us, lower 98% of the population, after all, we don't count. We don't matter. We never mattered. Since 1776, your precious founding fathers were wealthy real estate tycoons that own plantations and slaves, by the way. And the only people that could really vote are rich white men, which included the founding fathers. So yeah, we don't count. Now, these companies are like Anna, because Barry mentioned Nestles, taking California water, bottling it and selling it outside of California, right? And then almond growers exporting California almonds all over, using a lot of water. Now, getting to alfalfa, did you know that alfalfa, it's funny that all the alfalfa is going to livestock when it should be going to us. Alfalfa, which is a member of the legume family, beans, peas, lentils, has the longest root system of any plant on earth, which can tap into deep earth minerals. And the alfalfa is self fertilizing. Okay, does not need to be fertilized by the farmer. You're self fertilizing. It's a perennial. It keeps coming back. And it happens to be, let me think, it happens to be the second most nutritious land food, land plant on earth, second to moringa, second to the moringa tree. That's how great alfalfa is. And all those young alfalfa grass, when it sprouts, not the sprouts people put in their salad, but when it becomes a grass, when it becomes a young alfalfa grass, that grass can be juiced, freeze dried into a fine powder and sold for people to put in their smoothies, you know, possibly combine it with moringa powder, super high nutrition. It really is super high nutrition. The only people that can't consume alfalfa are people with lupus, autoimmune disease, lupus erythematosis, discord lupus of the skin. It flares up the lupus conditioning. But like I said before, 98% is we don't count. Okay, let's see what we've got here. All right, let's go here and see if this is an article or a video. No, it's an article. So I have to do some extra work here, but it's a serious topic. I just had it. Excuse me, people. Let's try this again. Now we're here. Okay, this has to do with U.S. See, they're forcing their advertisement on me. U.S. rents hit a record high for the 17th month in a row by Anna Baney from CNN Business August 24, 2022. Oh, there is a video here. That's great to hear. Four millions of Americans paying rent means a balancing act. I pay it every month. I don't pay it on time. I pay it when I get it. Earlene Braggs and her two kids have been in the Chicago apartment for a little more than three years. She says she's making more money than she ever has, but it doesn't feel like it. It basically seems like those little stimulus checks that they gave us, they basically collected it all back. Sometimes I have to not do one thing or not pay something in the full amount just to make sure something else is covered in there, catch up on that the next round. She's not alone either. Across the United States, inflation is at its highest levels in four decades as rents have hit record highs this year, and mortgages have seen week to week increases not seen since the 80s. According to a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, more than 10 million renters say they're not caught up on rent as of March, the highest proportion in black communities, where it's over one in five renters. Down from peak pandemic levels, but still higher than all other racial demographics, and as federal rental aid stemming from the pandemic begins to run out, it could get worse. I don't even know how people are surviving in some situations. The inflation has constantly been going up. That hasn't stopped. And this year, we say that we hit the sky, but it rages have not went up with those, which means it's not just rent. Marielle Vaughn took public transport almost 15 miles just to get free food. It's crazy. Everything is up high.  Rents rising plus added costs from inflation for many have disrupted what were hard earned solutions from a pandemic. It's seeing the impact that has had on people who we have helped stabilize. It has been a challenge to have to shift that again, right? Your food cost is up. How do we re-budget that? That has been the biggest challenge. In addition to the volume, the increase in volume we've seen in the last in the last few weeks. This is my room. For many families, the challenge comes from keeping up. I'm gonna cry. To feel my take up is $80. When I first bought my truck, the fill up was $43. Everything is going straight to bills. And like everything is a bill, bill, bill, bill. I mean, I just feel like I'd be Robin Peter to pay Paul, you know. And for Braggs, making ends meet is as much about her audience as it is a payment on the first of the month. Just driving day to day to make sure that they find, let them see how hard they might work so that they can know that when they get older, you know that hey, it's one no joke. My mom did this all by herself. Because it's just me and them. Forget about the American dream.  The American dream was only meant to be for the rich. I mean, I know that we look at landlords as being greedy and heartless and have the mentality of a corporate American CEO. But I think it's much higher than that. I think because of our corrupt politics that caused this inflation to begin with, that it's hitting landlords very hard. Therefore, they turn around and have to pass the course onto the tenant. And if the tenant doesn't make a living wage with good benefits, they can't pay this rent. And how many Americans really do make a living wage? No, they don't come close. They don't come close. And $15 an hour, by time it becomes a reality for a minimum wage, the course of living would have far surpassed $15 an hour. It's not going to work, even with a married couple making $15 an hour won't work. So forget about the American dream. People do not have much or any surplus cash to enjoy life. They really don't. So more people, anyway, people must be very busy. They must be very busy today on 9 11th. 9 11th. Okay, let me get back to, all right, let me try this out. As requested, the chair to screen. As requested, the DOJ has now released a mostly unredacted version of the affidavit explaining the rationale for raiding Mar-a-Lago several weeks ago. There is still a significant amount that has not been revealed. Although even inside of the affidavit, the explanation as to what sections would need to remain redacted, it's actually pretty interesting too. And we're going to dive into all of the details. But first of all, we found out that 14 of the 15 boxes that were retrieved from Trump earlier this year by the National Archives and Record Administration contained nearly 200 documents with classification markings. And we now have more granularity about how classified they were. There were 67 confidential documents, 92 secret documents, and 25 top secret documents. Now, these are obviously very important legally, but also these are these are important pieces of documentation. So you'll be shocked to find out that they were unfolded, intermixed with other records, and otherwise unproperly identified. They were just thrown about and mixed in with other things. So as we've talked about along the ways, we've got more details. Trump cared so much about these documents that he was willing to break the law to keep them, to obstruct an investigation to hold on to them, even after he had handed back hundreds of other classified documents. And yet cared so little that he just left them mixed with post-it notes and recipes and stuff, I guess. But anyway, that's the first bit of information we have. We also know about why they were so worried about obstruction as well as a number of other details that we'll get into. But Cenk, first of all, what do you think about them releasing it off of David? Yeah, of course, it wasn't going to help Trump. And he's going to do it and release it. And then they're about to release it. Don't do it. Don't do it, okay? I'm really worried about it. Okay, so we know, we know you've knuckled it. Look, I'm not exaggerating.  So you thought they wouldn't be missing top secret nuclear documents. The government would just wouldn't be missing it. And then when you realize they were missing it and they asked you three different times, you thought you could still hide it from them, even though they knew you had it.  And then on the last day, you realize, oh no, that's not going to help me. Guys, he's just unbelievably unfathomably unintelligent. Look, if he wasn't born into a $413 million wealth, you know, take this in a lot of ways, maybe people get offended or whatever, but right wing, left wing, but he'd be at a street corner somewhere, okay? And he'd be mumbling about the same things. And he'd say, no, Obama's parents are doing it. Right?  Yeah, I mean, also just reading about how he handled documents generally when they weren't ripped up and flushed in the toilet at the White House and the Oval Office, it was also, apparently he would take them out and show them two different diplomats, like show and tell. This is a Washington Post reported that, I believe, and then the last couple of days. And also, he didn't have respect for the documents in the Oval Office itself, so he'd be like, yeah, we'll put this one there, we'll put that one there. Again, this is a man who's never gone to the library, has never had to check out a book or look through a magazine or an article and then realize he can't actually take that stuff home, the periodicals, they stay there, that kind of thing. Obviously, doesn't know the Dewey Decimal System. Neither do a lot of our viewers from the Gen Z era, but no. So yeah, I think it's good they released it, I just wanted to say that. I think it is good they released it given the fact that it's a former president. I don't think they're trying to appease Republicans, I think they know they'll never do that, and we know they'll never do that. And from reading it, it seems like, yeah, these are the potential violations of the sections regarding classified documents or other documents, not just classified documents that you cannot remove. That could face charges, you could face charges for doing. So I'm glad they did it, it does nothing seems insanely crazy, it's just backing up what we've already known. Yeah, yeah, John, one more thing before you tell us the rest of the story. Well, first I realized, this might be the first plausible defense of Donald Trump, that he's so dumb that he thought it was like coloring books or something. Like he thought, no, I mean the nuclear secrets, of course I could take them home. Top secret, it doesn't matter, I was once president, that means I own America, and I own everything. That's not implausible, because there's no reason to take them home other than to sell them, period, period, period.  And then the Oval Office, to be fair to him, Francesca, you say, oh yeah, he would dump things in the toilet after ripping them. Maybe he thought that's what the Oval Office was. Just a giant toilet. Yeah, I mean, shaped like one.  That's the other potential explanation as to why he'd want to have them other than potentially selling them, literally just to have them, because there isn't. He wants to have them. He wants to show them off. He wants to know that they're there. Possession for possession's sake seems like, I think a very plausible reason why someone who believes that one billion dollars isn't enough and you need more billions of dollars, I'll never understand that way of thinking, but I think it tracks for him. But there were several things, first of all, that were not in this disclosed affidavit. No more information about the exact content of the documents, including as to whether anything had anything to do with nuclear weapons or energy production or anything like that. We don't know. But what we do know are something having to do with why they felt they needed to raid Mar-a-Lago and why some parts of the affidavit remain redacted. I think both of those parts are interesting. So they said in the affidavit, there's probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified national defense intelligence or that are presidential records subject to record retention requirements currently remain at the premises. There's also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises. So there they're not specific about what do they mean that there's evidence of obstruction. But that was one of the reasons they felt they needed to go. They do say that they had earlier received the written statement signed by at least one Trump lawyer back on June 3rd saying that to the best of their knowledge, there had been a search of Mar-a-Lago and all classified material sought in a prior subpoena had already been returned. That statement, they say, along with visuals from surveillance camera footage of the property that federal officials captured and witness interviews were said to be part of the concerns among investigators about obstruction. So they had signed a statement saying, we searched, we have nothing else. And yet they had surveillance camera footage, as well as witnesses, a testing of the fact that there were still documents there, then that could potentially count as obstruction. The lawyer's legal statements were literally attempting to obstruct further investigation in this area. And it's also another reason why Trump might have thought he could take the documents because I'm president, I could do whatever. But the lawyers knew that he couldn't. They knew that it was illegal and they repeatedly lied about the existence of the documents to the DOJ. But in addition to that, you also have why so much of the document is still redacted. And that's pretty interesting. They say the materials the government marked for redaction must remain sealed to protect the safety and privacy of a significant number of civilian witnesses. So significant number of witnesses, in addition to law enforcement personnel, as well as to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation and to avoid disclosure of grand jury material in violation of the federal rules of criminal procedure. So they obviously want to protect the identity of law enforcement personnel, but they don't just have a witness. It's not just Jared. It's a significant number of witnesses. And they go on to say there's very good reason to believe that if those people were identified or if even information about them was made clear, they could be identified. And then there would be witness tampering and threats potentially that would hamper the investigation going forward. Yeah, they're treating him pretty much like a mob boss because that's kind of what he is. Their government is significantly worried that the former president of the United States would harm civilian witnesses against them or his supporters would. That's where we are today in America. And 40% of the country goes, oh, yeah, baby. Yeah. Like, they're odd for that. And they, like, there's nothing you could say to convince them.  Because she pretended that she was a Rothschild. Which it doesn't even make any sense because she said her name was Anna Del Rothschild. That's not even a Rothschild. That's a Del Rothschild. And of course, you just let her walk in.  She had the laser, the space laser was like, do you want to take a look and see how it works?  Let her. Right? And so, look, but to be fair to Trump, another one of our viewers, T-Pain89 on Twitch, came up with another plausible theory why he might have had these top secret documents if it wasn't to steal them and to sell them. He said he stole the new codes to nuke the hurricanes. Hashtag, stop the madness. And Florida does get hurricanes and you think it was a good idea to nuke hurricanes. So, but do it together.  Thanks for watching The Young Turks. I really appreciate it. Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. You'll get to interact with us more. Well, Trump will go down in history as a person known out of infamy, not necessarily not a day of infamy, but maybe when he was sworn in when he started his presidential administration that that could be considered a day in infamy. So, we have three days of infamy connected to the United States. Incredible. Three days of infamy. All right, let's see what we've got here. Well, Trump in his lawyer. They make me go through the whole process here at StreamYard. Trump again. Here we go. Trump and his lawyers appear to have accidentally admitted that Trump broke the law by removing classified documents from the White House. Now, how, how did he accidentally concede? Well, a story that we reported recently, Trump's legal team had filed a motion on Monday of this week arguing to the court that they should appoint a so-called special master to determine which materials the DOJ can review as evidence due to executive privilege. So he's claiming executive privilege. But there is something that you can kind of extrapolate from the lawsuit and the way it's worded. The argument from Trump that some of the documents are subject to executive privilege protections indicates that those documents are official records that he is not authorized to keep and should have turned over to the National Archives at the end of the administration. The motion in that regard appeared to concede that Trump violated one of the criminal statutes listed on the warrant used by the FBI to search the former president's Mar-Lago resort. And that's 18 USC 2071 concerning the unlawful removal of government records. And experts argue that he's acknowledging this in that these documents are in his possession. And that he has this claim of executive privilege with these sensitive documents. And so in a sense, him filing the lawsuit can be used as a piece of evidence against him, which I think is just super fascinating. Yeah, one of the things I think is most amazing is that like in every step along this way, we've gradually every few days gotten a little bit more information about exactly what the DOJ is planning exactly what Trump had. The process and timeline of how different sets of documents including classified documents were transferred back to the government. And all along that everyone except for Trump and his team, although apparently pretty much Trump. Some of this information literally only he personally went through these boxes and all that. They're at least claiming now that he almost single-handedly had knowledge about a number of these documents. And it was not even allowing aides to look into some of these boxes. So he knew all along exactly what he had. We've all been trying to keep up in some cases speculate. And along the way, there have been so many things thrown out that have just mysteriously vanished along the way explanations that tried to get out ahead of what the DOJ was going to do. So remember when like the FBI was totally going to be planting things? What happened to that? Trump himself, by the way, was saying that he knew all along exactly what he had. And when he would come out and say they might plant things at that point, we had to consider, well, okay, they're probably not going to do that. But what if he has nothing? That is going to seem really suspicious. But he knew exactly what he had. He knew that he had literally boxes and boxes and boxes, hundreds of classified documents. And he lied. The right-wing media picked it up. They ran with it gladly. There's been no self-reflection since then. Like, oh, geez, we really got ahead of ourselves on the whole FBI's definitely planting nuclear documents stuff. And now not only there was nothing of that, but the fact that he's admitting that he had it, he's admitting that he transferred back some classified documents seven months ago and then willingly chose to hold on to hundreds more. Like, he can claim that this is political, that they wouldn't have done this against another figure, and that's non-falsifiable. But he can't claim that he didn't break the law. The only question at this point is, will there be any consequences for it? But we already know that he broke the law literally hundreds of times. Yeah, no, you're exactly right. And the initial talking point of, oh, the FBI is planting evidence at Mar-a-Lago was automatically and simultaneously contradicted with Trump also alleging that he had declassified the documents. So it was like, but so did the FBI plant evidence or did you just declassify the documents and were supposed to forget that you said that there was planted evidence? Like, none of it made sense. Did he not have anything?  Or does it not even matter because he can automatically, after the fact, declassify it? Like, it's very much like the January 6 people. Yes. Petriotic, except at the same time they were in Tifa depends on any given moment. He loves them, but they were traitors. They were leftists. They can have their cake and eat it simultaneously, like the exact same moment. You gotta give Trump and his team a little bit of credit because they definitely give their supporters options. It's like a buffet of talking points. And they get to a cherry pick, whichever one they want to use to minimize the seriousness of what's really happening here. What he did was illegal. What he did was take incredibly sensitive, top secret, classified documents out of the White House. And he took it home with him in an insecure place. Like a place where insecure might not be the right word, unsecure, where someone can easily get access to it. Like there's surveillance footage. Yeah, just like walking. Well, yeah, that's true.  But nonetheless, I just think, as I've said a million times before, for me, I look, I don't really care if it's a Democrat or Republican. I do care about ensuring that everyone is treated equally by our justice system. So if someone in government is breaking the law, they should be prosecuted. And everything that we're reading indicates that the DOJ gave Trump so much leeway. I mean, this has been going on well before we found out about it. And it's like, just please give us the documents. Please, please just give us the documents. They show up in January. He gives them the boxes. Then they find out through an FBI informant, no, there's more. So they start negotiating with him in May. And then finally they go over there in June. They retrieve more documents. They find out there's more because also there is a paper trail. It's not like it's impossible to find out that there are more classified documents missing. And they gave Trump two months to comply. And he wouldn't. So they did the raid. And that's the way it worked out.  He broke the law. And he is now suffering the consequences because despite all the leeway he was given, leeway that we would not be given as ordinary people, he just wouldn't comply. He thinks he's above the law. He never thinks he's going to suffer consequences.  It could be that he's completely guilty of everything he's accused of. He doesn't spend a single day behind bars. That's how justice works in this country. And it's pretty gross. Yeah, we have to engage in this regulation we always do. Will there be consequences? Not is there justification for consequences because it seems indisputable that at this point they are. That he definitely took the documents. He knowingly withheld incredibly sensitive documents after multiple warnings not to. By withholding them, he definitely obstructed the investigation into those documents. These facts are simply indisputable. And the fact that we can say them, and we know that the right will never accept those things. Even though if Hillary Clinton had taken a classified post-it note, I mean, it would be the only thing that you heard about for 10 years. We're held hostage by their unreasonableness. And even like the commentators who are weighing in on this now, the main counter argument to there being legal consequences is, I don't know, these people are crazy. And so if they do anything to Trump, then God only knows what these people are going to do. Well, crazy is going to be crazy. The question is, how often in the past has judicially appeasing Donald Trump helped America or the American people? How many crimes did he get free already? And did that ever satiate him? Was he ever satisfied? You can't placate him. It only emboldens him.  They're gonna do that either way at this point. Totally. And not only does it fail to appease Trump, it sends a terrible message to Trump and to any future administration that might consider engaging in criminality. Why wouldn't you if you know that there really won't be consequences in the end despite overwhelming evidence? Okay, we'll do a great job, young Turks do. True progressives representing the underground real progressive media. Okay, let us go back and see. I know we have more. Okay, let us do, oh, let's try this one.  Can you run a moment while I share the screen? And here we go. Tucker Carlson, here we go. The real threat to human civilization is not global warming. It never was global warming. The real threat to people is global cooling, otherwise known as winter. That was Tucker Carlson pretending as if no, we should actually be concerned about global cooling, which is why the Mendenhall Glacier has been melting, which is why the sea level has been rising because of the ice caps melting.  Climate change is here. We see it all the time. We see it every day. To the point, by the way, where even Republican voters are acknowledging that it is in fact very real. What's amazing about Tucker Carlson is he stuck in the early 2000s when Republicans were still in denial about the existence of climate change. But here we are, Tucker Carlson. I mean, Bush wanted no child left behind, but what happened to Tucker? What happened to Tucker? He lost his mind. That's what happened to Tucker. His brain cells got fried for Tucker. Well, at least Fox News has him. Nobody else would take him. Oh, I would just like to say that I'm very happy. I salute you. Chris Cuomo will be starting his new job at News Nation. Yes, the News Nation Network, starting, I believe it's October 3rd, the beginning of October. He starts his first show of his first season with a new company, News Nation. I'm very happy for him. I've been watching his videos, both promotional videos and personal videos over on Instagram. I'm really very happy for him. From what I understand, he has a lot more freedom to say what he needs to say on News Nation. And I just want to ring some bells for Mr. Chris Cuomo, the younger brother of former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was screwed by the politically correct neo-liberals, who was a state attorney general, the woman, screwed him over, who was their word against his word. There was no concrete evidence. He should not have resigned.  He should have quit the Democrat Party. See what the Democrat Party did to him? Neoliberalism, the same thing they did to the leader of all progressives, as far as I know, Bernie Sanders.  It was very obvious. He did not leave the party and stay on the ballot as a progressive independent, or just simply joined a Green Party. No, he didn't do that. He listened to Democrats and he endorsed Joe Biden. And in the first time he got screwed, he endorsed Hillary Clinton. He listened to the Democrats. He was brainwashed by the Democrats. And the same politically correct neo-liberalism screwed over Andrew Cuomo. That's a single man just trying to meet a girl because he didn't have a girlfriend.  A single straight heterosexual white Caucasian male trying to find a new girlfriend. Heaven forbid.   Okay, let me, I'm winding down, well I guess you would call it winding down towards the last few or several. Let me try this one. Well first, let me see if it's an article. An article. I got off easy so far, but not anymore. No, no videos here, but this is exciting. This article is worth talking about. It's very quiet today, maybe because it is 9-11. Okay folks, this is about, this is really exciting. Scientists grow synthetic embryo with brain and beating heart without eggs or sperm. Now many of you people, regardless of what political ideology you're from or religious upbringing, many of you people would scoff at this article and call it a Frankenstein mad science, but there's a very positive outcome of this type of science, so-called mad science as you might call it. All right, there's an image of it. Scientists from the University of Cambridge have created model embryos from mouse stem cells that form a brain, a beating heart, and the foundations of all other organs of the body. It represents a new avenue for recreating the first stages of life. The team of researchers led by Professor Magdalena Zernika Gets developed the embryo model without eggs or sperm. Instead, they use stem cells, the body's master cells, which can develop into almost any cell type in the body by guiding the three types of stem cells found in early mammalian, that means mammal development to the point where they started interacting. The researchers mimicked natural process in the lab. The scientists were able to get the stem cells to talk to each other by inducing the expression of a particular set of genes and establishing a unique environment for their interactions. Okay, here's a quote from Magdalena Zernika Gets. It's just unbelievable that we've got this far. This has been the dream of our community for years and major focus of our work for a decade. And finally, we've done it. The stem cells self-organize into structures that progress through the successful developmental stages until they had beating hearts and the foundations of the brain. They also had the yolk sac where the embryo develops and gets nutrients from in its first weeks. Unlike other synthetic embryos, the Cambridge develop models reached a point where the entire brain, including the anterior portion, began to develop. This is a further point in development that has been achieved in any other stem cell derived model. According to the team, their results could help researchers understand why some embryos fail while others go on to develop into a healthy pregnancy. In addition, the results could be used to guide the repair and development of synthetic human organs for transplantation. And this is what, this is the point I brought up folks at the beginning of this article. This is exactly what's on my mind. The study, which is the result of more than a decade of research that progressively led to more and more complex embryo-like structures was reported on August 25th, 2022 in the journal Nature. There you go. Well, what could happen with a mouse embryo? I mean, with a mouse stem cell could happen with a human. They're both mammals. There you go. Incredible. Incredible. Is that, this is Professor Zernika Getz, Magdalena Zernika Getz, University of Cambridge. All right. And I congratulate her and her team. This is, I mean, who knows? She might get to receive a Nobel Prize for this. She deserves it. Just think of it. All the people that are on long waiting lists to receive organ transplants where they have to wait for a compatible organ from a human being that has sadly passed away. The organ has to be compatible with them in terms of blood type, maybe other factors. And they're on this long waiting list. And when they finally receive that kidney or kidneys that are a perfect match for them, guess what? Because it comes from another human being because of the DNA, whatever. They have to take anti-rejection drug for the rest of their life. They have to take an anti-rejection drug.  But in this case, an organ can easily be grown for the individual that needs a transplant, easily be grown. And they will not need to take an anti-rejection drug. Now, how exciting is that?  Okay. Got some great material here on September 11, 2022. Let's see how many I went through so far. Oh, here's a chiseless hall of shame.  This is a car dealer in Ontario, Canada that blatantly is dishonest and doesn't care. And doesn't care if he's exposed. No shame. No remorse. Okay, here we go. Did you do anything wrong? No, I didn't do anything wrong, but now it's in the process. Diana Reed's Hyundai is missing something required on every Canadian vehicle, something stolen while in the care of the Orangeville Hyundai dealership owned by Phil Richards. It's out of our control. We don't control that. The Reed's family out on their own. She only has herself to blame for that. The vehicle needed a new alternator was towed in because it wouldn't run. And while waiting for that part over the weekend at the dealership, the vehicle's catalytic converter was stolen. Forty-fingered air cruise. What a target. The phone message from the dealership pointed out it's not the first time they've been hit. We've seen this about five months ago. We have unfortunately about three taken as well.  And as daughter Jamie Lee says, the repair will be expensive. They said it would be around $2,000 before installation. That's a lot of money for an item that was not necessary. Absolutely. She and her mom were told it's their responsibility to pay for the replacement. It's pretty hard to stop a thief that wants to steal something.  The Hyundai dealership has no gates or barriers, even though its customers' cars have been hit before. What about security video? I think it's pretty bad on their part. They should have security so that they can watch, make sure that the cars are broken into. Her daughter agreed and told the owner in person. He told me to get out. And the police were called eventually. Richard says he did call police. Did you threaten anybody? Her behavior? She was aggressive and she did threaten a lawyer. Since when is mentioning a lawyer a threat? Jamie Lee posted her experience on Facebook. More than others, they might not want to take vehicles here. It was her demeanor. Is everything on that Facebook post correct? Absolutely correct. Your company's not going to do anything to pay for the cost of what happened to her mom's vehicle in your care. That's correct. Based on her behavior and how she went about it. Sean O'Shea Global News, Orangeville, Ontario. So because someone is standing up for themselves and doing the right thing by telling him that he really lacks integrity and honesty and the customer in this case is the victim and he has contempt for his customers. Because of that, he calls the police and does not want to do anything to solve the issue because he did not like her attitude. Her attitude as a consumer that spoke up for herself.  Doesn't care. He's very nonchalant and the way he trivialized the fact that things have been stolen from his dealership and obviously he acts like he doesn't care. And because she stood up for herself, he called the police which is not, she did not threaten him by mentioning the word lawyer. That is not a physical threat that deserves a call to the police. This dealership is our newest inductee into the Chisler's Hall of Shame. Let me check this one out. Hopefully it's not long. If it is long, if it is long, then we'll just watch a portion of it. Ah, good morning my dear Masumi. Good morning. Good morning and happy Monday to you. Ah, let me get through this video and then I will send you the information that I mentioned. But yes, good morning and happy Monday to you. It is now 5.25 a.m. Monday in Tokyo. Bear with me. Stay right there. Ah, gents, there is nothing more beautiful than an old womanist living the last 40 years of their lives in regret and crying themselves to sleep at night when the consequences of I don't need a man and strong and independent comes knocking at their doors. I revel in their pain and sorrow because when they were in their prime they had no problem treating men like garbage and telling us how useless and less than we are.  So my brothers, today I found an article about a womanist who has led thousands if not millions of women down the path of self-destruction only to have regretted living the life she encouraged. Shout out to the tribe of men for posting this video so I will give my take on it. And before I dive into the video, I will say that for the men who have no interest in marriage and relationships, you have to thank womanism.  We would literally have to sign our freedom and future empire away just to bust one nasty nut. So womanism, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for allowing women to be out here in these streets dishing out peace sleeve like we're at the homeless shelter.  Isn't it a beautiful thing? So let's dive into the article. The title of the article is, SEGS and the city writer Candace Bushnell age 60 admit she regrets choosing a career over having children as she is now truly alone. Gents, doesn't that sound like music to your ears? Don't you feel like just dancing when she says she's truly alone? I feel so happy right now just to know that men win in the end. Yes, brothers, men will win in the end. As long as we focus on ourselves, on the grind and stay away from committing to these cream goblers, we can get the peace, quiet and freedom we want. Gents, this is a small win for men and we are going to hear more and more stories of lonely older XX regretting sipping a woman as Kool-Aid. What a time to be alive. Let's dive in. Her bestselling book and the racy TV series it inspired taught a generation of women that they could have it all. But SEGS and the city creator Candace Bushnell 60 have admitted that she regrets choosing a career over having children as she is now truly alone. The TV series starts Sarah Jessica Parker as a writer in New York who famously chooses her independence over motherhood. Ms. Bushnell divorced her husband, ballet dancer Charles Askegard in 2012 and said it made her realize the importance of starting a family. The former SEGS columnist was worth around 18 million pounds, told The Sunday Times, when I was in my 30s and 40s, I didn't think about it. Then when I got divorced and I was in my 50s, I started to see the impact of not having children and of truly being alone. I do see that people with children have an anchor in a way that people who have no kids don't. Speaking to The Sunday Times magazine, Candace explained that she didn't feel like dating after her 2012 divorce from her husband of 10 years to ballet dancer Charles Askegard. All right gents, the one thing with modern women or women overall is the fact that they weren't blessed with long-term planning or vision. So you're telling me that after four decades, she still didn't see the implications of what not having a child could have on the remainder of her life. I mean, I want to know how drunk-off womanism cool age you have to be to realize that if you don't have kids, you're likely to end up lonely, especially if you don't have a man. And it's not like your kids will be with you throughout their adulthood. But when they have kids, you can have your grandkids to keep you company. If not, then it's cats and boxwine for the last 40 years of these women's lives. But they subscribe to womanism instead of the gents and this is the result they have to show. Cat foods and boxwines. I feel nothing for them because they chose this. The struggle didn't choose them. They chose the struggle. And this woman has money. What about the other women who are broke and don't have a man or kids to help and support them? It's game over. And it is what it is. They had decades to get a man to settle down with and build a legacy. But nope, some of them didn't need a man. And others busted up their families to go ride the carousel and escape the patriarchy. So you think I'll care about what happens to them?  That's how I see it. And remember, she's the one who filed for divorce, not her husband. So have no shred of sympathy for this woman. Anyways, let's continue. Moving to Connecticut after her divorce, she admitted she went without sags for five years. It's not that long when you get to my age. I know women who have gone longer, she said. BS.  There's no way she went five years and got no salami the entire time. There's just no way. Do you guys believe she actually went five years without getting stretched out by chat? I don't believe that, but let's continue. The writer, who has now returned to New York, lives between your partner's penthouse suite on the Upper East Side and House in the Hamptons. However, okay, what this, what this pretty much talks about are the modern women affected by feminism, the sexual revolution, and the hell and girly brown of cosmopolitan and old man hating lesbians that convinced women to put a man and family way on the back burner, actually put them in a closet up on a top shelf and pursue a career. And these women were encouraged to act like men or they were encouraged to act like men and to be obsessed with equality. Well, it backfired. Make a long story short, it backfired and they got screwed out of a family life. When they decided it's time to have a family and back off from their career and retire and so on and so forth. And now they're women who have a high mileage, very high mileage, you know what I mean? Track record, they have money, but they're lower in the sexual market value, even though they did delusionally think they're 21 years old. So that's what it's all about, you know, but that's another talk show. That is another talk show. Hold on, please. Let me check some out. Oh, man. I'm sneezing. Maybe it's ragweed perhaps. Phew. Fluffer nutter, marshmallow fluff and lots of peanut butter. Question mark. I'm just giving my sister a sarcastic, funny answer. That's a very old commercial. Anyway, they canceled my Saturday appointment and made it for Monday at 6 p.m. Oh, man. Okay. Let me get back to something. Okay. Instruction above. Instruction is above. Do not open up the YouTube channel. So let me, I know I am down to, I am down to good old Jesse Ventura, Governor Jesse Ventura, former governor of the state of Minnesota and professional Hall of Fame, professional wrestling legend, two very hard hitting videos by Jesse Ventura and they will be the last serious topics for the show here at September 11, September 11, 2022. Okay. That is the link above where it says stream yard. So anyway, how is everyone doing? Very quiet. Very, very, very quiet this September 11th on this September 11, 2022 on progressive discussions. Anyway, hold on. Give me a brief moment. Very brief. Okay. I'm back. So I might as well go to Jesse Ventura. Hi everybody, Jesse, the body Ventura, Governor Jesse Ventura. Today I want to do a message to Marjorie Taylor Greene. I happen to see where she gave her assessment of solar energy. Can we just say thank God for air conditioning? Let's talk about refrigerators. I personally like my refrigerator. I know you all like yours. What about washing machines and dryers? Lord, please God, don't make me screw up clothes in a bucket and have to hang them out on the line when we switch over to wind turbines and solar panels. I'm going to be really pissed off about that. See you later at night. I don't want to have to go to bed when the sun sets. All of this is absolutely insane. Well, I want Marjorie. It's time, Marjorie, for you to go to school. Tune in to die first, then quit because I'll explain it to you. I got two homes now, one in Mexico, one here in the United States, that are both powered by solar. I have a washing machine that I can use at any time. I have stereos. I have televisions. They all work. And in fact, it goes beyond that, Marjorie. I power my two cars from the sun also. I have two Teslas, one for my wife, one for me. And we both power them by the sun through solar power. So please, Marjorie, if you're going to open your big gap and talk about something, try to educate yourself, maybe live with solar power for a little bit to learn more about it before you speak about it. Because I have everything Marjorie in my home, probably more than even you have. And I'm powered completely by solar. It doesn't cost me a dime for the electricity in my home. And guess what? If it goes to $5 a gallon, I don't have to pay that no more. I drive by the gas station. Why? Because I'm powered by solar power from the sun, Marjorie, the sun. You don't have to drill for it. And they told us, Marjorie, believe it or not, it's going to last us for a billion years. That's even longer, maybe, than you're going to live. Marjorie Taylor Greene is dumber than a bag of rocks. There's no doubt about that. Dumber than a bag of rocks. Okay, one more. We have one more. Just even two of that. Right. Okay, we bring him up. The one last series, well, the one last series article backslash video of the show. Man, I can't get over how quiet it is. Drinking the Kool-Aid by Jesse Ventura. Let's see how we do. Here we go. Hi, Governor Ventura here. Die first, then quit. I'll tell you today, I'm going to talk to a group of people out there, I hope some of them get this. And these are the voters out there in the United States of America who are still supporting Donald Trump and want to see him run for president in 2024 and run again. I hope some of these people tune in to die first, then quit and hear my message to them. Years ago, there was this minister out in California by the name of Jim Jones. Jim Jones thought he was being persecuted just like Donald Trump thinks he's being persecuted.  And they believed he was being persecuted by the United States government just as they are. And he ran him off to Guyana, foreign country, South America, thinking they were going to some paradise down there to live forever and ever, amen, because they felt they were persecuted by the government and the people of the United States of America. Sound familiar, Trumpies? Does that message ring a bell with you? And eventually, what did they do? He convinced them to drink the Kool-Aid, the poison. That's where the term came from. And hundreds of them killed themselves because this guy asked them to do it. Somebody accepted the bullshit to the point where they drank poison and Kool-Aid and committed suicide at the behest of this demagogue leader, Jim Jones, who I believe you could substitute the name Donald Trump for. And it just seems to me we're repeating ourselves again. We got another demagogue out there who's even got more people under his thumb who will follow him blindly no matter what he does. And his latest escapade now is he says if he gets elected again, he's going to pardon all the people that took part in the January 6th insurrection to attempt a coup d'etat to overthrow our constitution and overthrow our government and put him in as an authoritarian, almost dictator. Well, for all you Trump people, I want you to know I've lived through this before, this whole scenario. I'm of an age now where I've lived through many things and I'm seeing them again. And what I'm seeing here is something I live through. I deployed overseas in the Navy. My second deployment, I spent months in the country of the Philippines. And they were ruled supposedly elected over there by the name of Ferdinand Marcos. I saw this guy and how he operated in the Philippines under authoritarian rule. They weren't allowed to speak in public or criticize him in any way, shape, or form, or they mysteriously disappeared or went to prison or all sorts of things like that. But the good thing that came out of the Marcus authoritarian dictatorship of the Philippines was the Philippine people eventually prevailed. And how did they prevail? Not with violence. They prevailed at the ballot box. They prevailed non-violently and got rid of authoritarian Ferdinand Marcos. So for all you people out there that cling to the hopes that Trump will regain power and who sit behind and look at him as the leader of our country, I know it's difficult to look at history because to follow Trump you obviously don't. But I'm asking you, look at history, read about Ferdinand Marcos, and decide is that what you want the United States to be, which is what Trump is gunning for. A Supreme Court falling under authoritarian dictator, a Congress falling under an authoritarian dictator, because that's who you have in Donald Trump. Can't you people see that? You notice when he talks about things, it's my military, my generals, my country. It isn't ours, it's my. Think about that all you Trumpies for a minute. Think about it hard. Thanks. All right, Jesse Ventura, I salute you on September 11, 2022. I want to say hello, good morning to Masumi from outside of Tokyo, Japan. Good morning to Masumi, her first time on the show. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. My name is Masumi. It's great. It's wonderful having you and you have a very nice white background. I like that. Yeah. Sorry, I've never experienced until now. Oh, you mean live stream, live stream. Yeah. That's good. I'm very happy to have you here. I know you said, you said hello on the other live stream shows. You sent greetings by typing.  And Masumi, for those that are not familiar with her, she operates her own salon where she takes care of women's needs, you know, facials, eyelash work, things like that. Not cosmetology. Yeah, I guess a salon, a salon that caters to women.  I go to vaccine number four. No, not vaccine. Removing hair, removing women's hair, body hair. Oh, I see you. Yeah. Hold on, let me send you. Sorry, I'm nervous now. Yeah. It's the first time. I know. Yeah. Moving, removing women's hair, body hair. Okay, check the, check the, check the whatsapp. I didn't see what, but anyway, I know you, you have to, you're working today in the salon, right? Later? Yes, yes. My work is from 10 o'clock a.m. 10 a.m. And how many customers you have today? Today is for customers. Wow. You have, you have a busy day. You have a very busy day today. I like to, yeah. My customers like to be beautiful. Yeah, I know. And you're, you're there, you're the specialists to help them become beautiful. Within reason.  You cannot perform miracles. Yeah. Hold on. Yes. I'm not, you're gonna laugh.  Yeah. Yeah. Here we go. Yeah. Every day is enjoying. I like my work. That's good. That's good.  You have four customers. I guess. Yes. My customer is capricious always. They, they all in the same time of day or they, the appointment is spread far apart. Yeah.  I am going to spin the wheel. You're gonna laugh now. You're gonna make a mistake. Yeah. Ah, boy. Yeah. All right. Here we go. Let me spin it again. Yeah. Thank you. Well, since it's so quiet, how many people are attending special events this Sunday like barbecues where it's not raining? Anybody out there attending special barbecues? It's really nobody, really nobody's around.  And if you want, you can type. Oh, type? Type. If you want, if you feel, if you feel more comfortable. I don't understand what type to do. Oh, okay. No problem. Yeah. All right. Um, let me spin the wheel. Yeah, I'm experienced like this. I've never experienced.  I think go out too. Nutrition. Nutrition. Um, yeah. Well, the most important thing about the nutrition today is detoxification. Detoxification is most important to everybody and then antioxidants. So I will, I will leave it at that for everyone. So how is your car? How is the crown? Yeah, it's your garage. Oh, it's in the garage? Garage? No. Yeah. What do you have? I like crown, Toyota crown. I like. Yeah. My crown, my crown, my crown. Yeah, always. Yeah. You have rental car now? Yeah. Yeah. I'm using my car. Yeah. Yeah, and go to a place. Oh, so the crown, oh, you have the Toyota crown or you're using rental car now? No, no, no, no. I bought, I bought my car.   Huh? Yeah. It's pain sometimes. So I go to hospital someday. You're going to go soon, but not, not, you haven't, you haven't been there in a while, right? You've been a long time since then? Yes, yes. Maybe I go to one time in a week. Once, once a week you go to for treatment? Yes, yes. Yeah. Yeah.  Yeah. It's a, I was car accident to one year ago due to car accident. So you have, you have lawsuit? Yeah. One year ago.  Yes, yes, yes. Seat belt, good, good. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know what? It's, it's, you have used, you had your seat belt down, that's very important. And you have a good lawyer? Yes, yes, yes. I'm having a good tour earlier. Good. I'm happy, I'm happy to hear that. Yeah.  Yeah. The handbag. You sell it? Handbag? Oh, it was very cheap.  Oh, a little.  Right? Or you should. It's 16,000. No. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, I'm nervous. Oh, so they, I know, I know you're nervous. Yeah. I could tell. Yeah.  Say, I know it's worth more money. Give me more money. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. Six, six, fifteen. So your daughter. Hundred, hundred dollars. 1600? Yeah. Wow. That's how much Louis Vuitton is, huh? Yeah. It's, it was very cheap. So. Wow. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't. Yeah. I don't realize they're that expensive, the designer handbag. Yes. Le Vuitton is very expensive. Um, when more, more than Gucci, more, more money than Gucci? No, no, Louis Vuitton. Louis Vuitton. And your daughter, that's why your daughter says, don't sell it, keep it, keep it, keep the handbag. My daughter's not interesting about, about to brand back. She's not interested in designer handbags. Yes. Yes. Oh boy. Yeah. So she said to, uh, as you like always. Well, uh, yeah, you're going to see your family in, um, next month, October. Yes. Yes. I'm going to next month through my daughter's house. But I can't stay my daughter's house because, uh, this room is small. It's too small. Yeah, I know. You, you have to get a hotel. But, but your daughter can bring her son to the hotel and stay with you in the hotel. Yes. I booked hotel. Yeah. Yeah. Now, I know you have to, I know you have to have breakfast, have coffee, get ready, and then get ready for, to go to work. Yes. Yes. Today. No.  Say hello to your daughter in Japanese? Mm-hmm. Would you like? Yes. Uh, no, no. You don't want to talk Japanese? Yes. She's working every day. So very busy. She's very busy all day.  If you want to say hello to your friends and your daughter and say, talk to them in Japanese, would you like to do that? Yeah. Okay, here, talk to your friends and daughter in Japanese right now. Oh, no? Yeah. Yeah. She is very busy. I can't do that. Yeah, but she can, she can watch the, you can show her the, the video. Maybe she's preparing for go to work now. So very busy now. Yeah, I mean, uh, when she's home, you can show her the video. Oh, maybe, uh, since we'll watch this later. Okay. We'll go ahead, talk to your daughter and your friends in Japanese. Say hi. Oh, but I sit to only daughter. Okay. Yeah. No Japanese. You don't want to say, you don't want to talk to her in Japanese? Yeah. Yeah. I say, maybe I say my friends. All right, go ahead. Yeah. Talk to your friends. Yes, yes. It's, my friends are sleeping now, maybe. Forget it. Forget it. Yeah, I'll send you a message later. So, um, yeah, I'll send you a message later.  Um, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. English conversation is very difficult to about. That's why I say before, before you leave to get ready for work. Yes. Yes. You can, on the video, on the show, you can talk to your, your friends and your daughter in Japanese and then they can watch the show. Yeah. Later. Yes. Yes. I'm going to say about that. All right. Go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Earlier. Okay. You don't want to, you don't want to talk to Japanese. Okay. All right. Yeah. Okay.  That's it. The only, it's only me and you in the show. So I'm going to, I'm going to end the show soon. Ah, yes, yes. And then I'll go, yeah, I'll go inside, you know. Yeah. I see you inside. Oh, okay. I will go out now. Okay. Okay. All right. Okay. I have to prepare. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Bye-bye. Thank you. Bye-bye. Thank you. Bye-bye. Okay. Thank you everyone for joining me on progressive discussions for, during September 11th, 2022. I assume everyone is somewhere. I don't know where they are, but they're somewhere. So, uh, and that should be it. I was going to spin the wheel again, but I think that we should keep the show very low key, like it's been. This is, but then again, it's, it's a memorial show to honor and to mourn the death of over 3,000 innocent people for 9-11. So, those, those that are just checking out my show today for the first time, it's usually a lot more lively and funny than it was today. So, thank you, everyone, and I'll see you next time.


A major contribution toward the rehabilitation of amputees is made by the physical therapy section. Let's follow some new patients in the early stages of treatment. One concern of the physical therapist is that of maintaining normal joint range of motion of the remaining lower extremity joints. This is accomplished by strict adherence to proper bed positioning and through the use of active range of motion exercises. A hip flexion, abduction, external rotation contracture is typical in the above knee amputee. With the pelvis level, the above knee stump should be positioned in abduction and extension. This can best be accomplished with the amputee lying prone. Active exercises to the hip extensors and hip adductors help to maintain muscle tone. Full excursion of hip abduction and flexion is delayed until the severed muscle groups have sufficiently reattached. The below knee stump should be maintained in extension. Quadriceps setting exercises aid in maintaining full knee extension. Avoidance of prolonged periods of sitting or the use of pillows is important in preventing the development of muscular imbalance and subsequent joint contractures. Proper stump bandaging is necessary for shaping and shrinking the stump before the artificial limb is fitted. Stump bandaging should be started early and be continued until the prosthesis is used throughout the day. For the above the knee amputee, the side lying position allows the stump to be wrapped in extension to aid in preventing a hip flexion contracture. A six-inch bandage is anchored about the waist, providing a base for additional bandages. Two four-inch bandages with recurrent and spiral turns are used to shape the stump. Firm pressure is applied throughout the process. With slightly more pressure exerted distally than proximally, an adductor roll causes improper fitting of the stump into the prosthesis, an effective method of preventing the development of an adductor roll is to wrap the hip spica high into the groin. This is the most critical aspect of wrapping the above the knee stump. The final bandage is crossed posteriorly to maintain hip extension and pinned to prevent slipping. In wrapping the below the knee stump, two four-inch bandages can be used. One bandage is started by making three recurrent turns. These are anchored by spiral rather than circular turns to avoid choking of the stump. The second bandage utilizes recurrence from the lateral to the medial aspects of the stump. The bandage is secured above the knee and should include the femoral condyles as these are contained within the patellar tendon bearing prosthesis. An automobile accident necessitated the amputation of this patient's left lower extremity above the knee and his right lower extremity below the knee. He now wears a quadrilateral total contact suction socket prosthesis on the left leg and a patellar tendon bearing prosthesis on the right. The program of mat exercises is used before the patient is to be fitted with his prosthesis. Such a program helps to improve strength, coordination, balance and endurance of the involved extremities and the body as a whole. The hip abductors may be shortened and weakened if there is a typical contracture of the above the knee stump. This strengthening exercise may prevent a gluteus medius limp. Strengthening of the hip abductors assists in preventing the abducted posture of the above the knee stump. The hip extensors are vital in prosthetic control. Such an exercise may also prevent a hip flexion contracture. Exercises for both trunk and hip extensors afford a general reconditioning activity which can be done independently. Ball balancing enhances body balance and coordination and helps to develop a kinesthetic awareness of an altered center of gravity. By placing the below the knee stump against the ball for resistance to the hamstrings, the patient finds another means of exercising independently. This is an important factor when designing a mat program for a group of amputees. The development of the upper extremities through weight lifting techniques is an important part of the amputee's pre-prostatic program. Pushups are initiated as a pre-crutch training activity. The ability to maintain balance can be improved by resisting attempts to shift the trunk beyond its base of support. Ball throwing and catching with deliberate efforts to throw the patient off balance also improve trunk stability. Functional activities which will help the patient to become independent are emphasized from the beginning of the mat program. Here the amputee learns to get from the mat to the wheelchair unassisted. As the condition of the stump improves, mechanical pulley resistance may be utilized to assist in developing muscle strength. The progressive resistance exercise method, as described by DeLorm, is utilized here in exercising the gluteus medius muscle. Resistance to the gluteus maximus is given within the range in which it is required to be used in the above the knee prosthesis. In addition to quadriceps resistive exercises, special emphasis is given to hamstring strengthening because of the importance of this muscle group in the use of the patellar tendon bearing prosthesis. Good care of the stump's skin is a vital part of rehabilitation and can prevent many complications which might delay continued use of the prosthesis by the patient. A daily routine of stump cleansing with a good white soap is important. The stump should be thoroughly rinsed. Proper drying will prevent irritation and maceration of the skin. Stump cleansing at night rather than in the morning will eliminate the possibility of damp skin sticking to the prosthesis which tends to cause skin irritation. Since the socket of the artificial limb may itself produce a skin disorder, cleansing of the socket is as important as care of the stump. Cleaning the valve's seat will help prevent air leakage. Dirt or powder in the valve will result in a poorly maintained vacuum. Depressing the spring allows for thorough cleansing of the valve and rubber gasket. This is the quadrilateral total contact suction socket prosthesis. It contains a constant friction knee joint which can readily be adjusted. The ischial seat provides the major weight bearing area. This is the medial brim. The anterior medial corner of which is the channel for the adductor longus and grassless muscles. The scarpus bulge and the high anterior and lateral walls provide the necessary stability to force the stump back onto the ischial seat. With the patellar tendon bearing prosthesis, the weight is born at the midpoint of the patellar tendon. The popliteal bulge forces the stump forward onto the weight bearing surface. The socket is set in approximately 15 degrees of knee flexion. Initially, the prosthesis contains an adjustable shank which allows periodic realignments to be made before fitting the patient with the final prosthesis. Both limbs are fitted with a solid ankle cushion heel foot or sash foot. Prior to evaluation of the fit of the artificial limb, the patient is assisted in putting the stump into the prosthesis with a silk stocking. The stump must make total contact with the wall of the prosthesis. The adductor longus muscles should fit into the adductor channel for proper rotation alignment. The pubic ramus is checked for proper length of the medial wall of the prosthesis. Firmness of the skin above the prosthesis implies adequate seating of the stump. Level hips indicate appropriate length of the prosthesis. The tuberosity of the ischium should ride on the ischial seat. The anterior brim of the above the knee prosthesis should not contact the anterior superior spine of the ilium in forward bending of the trunk. The upper brim of the pateller tendon bearing prosthesis bisects the patella, utilizing the cuff suspension to help maintain the knee inflection and to suspend the prosthesis itself. The cuff suspension should be taught in standing. When sitting, the cuff suspension should be relaxed. Choking of the below the knee stump occurs. If the posterior wall of the prosthesis is too high, the constant friction of this knee unit is inadequate because it permits excessive freedom of the knee. The mechanical friction of the knee unit is constant, but adjustable. The friction may be increased or decreased by adjustment with an allen wrench. Adequate friction is essential for knee stability in the stance phase and proper timing in the swing phase. Here the patient applies his own prosthesis. A stump sock is used for the pateller tendon bearing prosthesis. Talcum powder is needed in applying the suction socket prosthesis when the stump itself perspires freely or is unusually flat. The stocking should be placed high on the stump to prevent an excessive roll of flesh above the brim of the prosthesis after its application. Note the pumping action at the hip and the steady pull on the stocking to assist in getting the stump into the prosthesis. The valve should be well seated. Early gait training activities are concerned with learning to balance on the prosthetic legs. With the pelvis and shoulders level, the patient shifts his weight laterally first with and then without hands and progresses to balancing on one prosthetic leg. Forward and backward shifting of weight is practiced. The patient advances to shifting his entire body weight onto the forward leg, stepping through with the opposite leg. In using the above-the-knee prosthesis, the patient must learn two basic skills. First, he must learn to swing the prosthesis and time the swing so that complete knee extension comes just at heel strike. Second, he must learn to lock the knee joint by extending the hip. There are also two basic skills to be mastered with the pateller tendon bearing prosthesis. Controlled knee flexion from heel strike to foot flat must first be practiced. With the foot flat as a base of support, controlled knee extension as the body weight is shifted over, the extremity is then practiced. Ball throwing develops balance. Early recognition and correction of some of the more common gait deviations is necessary before a habit pattern is established. The causes can be many and complete evaluation requires the clinic team approach. One of the most frequently seen gait faults in the above-knee amputee is lateral trunk bending toward the amputated side. It is often caused by weakened or shortened hip abductors and may be anticipated when the patient has a very short stump. Another common gait fault is heel whip. The lateral heel whip in this instance is related to improper rotation alignment of the above-knee prosthesis as it was put on. The hip is often flexed excessively to clear the prosthetic foot. Circumduction of the prosthesis implies that the limb may be too long. Abduction of the prosthetic leg may represent an effort to avoid full weight bearing on the prosthetic side. This fault may be partially corrected by line walking to force weight bearing on the offending side. Unequal step length is a common problem which ordinarily can be corrected by training. One frequent mistake in using the patellar tendon bearing prosthesis is hyper extension of the knee at heel strike. It is more often seen in amputees who have previously worn a conventional below-the-knee prosthesis. Hyper extension of the knee can be related to failure to decelerate the lower leg by hamstring contraction. The correct relationship of the prosthesis to the femur at heel strike is approximately 10 degrees of flexion. Properly done, the knee should remain flexed from heel strike through mid-stance. The patient begins ambulation out of the parallel bars with the four-point crutch gate. The two-point gate is a natural progression as balance improves. Finally, the cane may be used for walking on level surfaces. When walking on inclines, the patient takes a shorter step with the above-the-knee prosthesis. In ascending ramps, this short step compensates for the limited dorsiflexion of the foot. In descending ramps, the shortened step prevents buckling of the knee as weight is born on the above-the-knee prosthesis. At first, the bilateral amputee can be taught to get into and out of a chair by pivoting, as might a paraplegic. The knee of the suction socket prosthesis is locked by contracting the hip extensors. The amputee soon sits in the more conventional manner with less hand assistance and less attention to his disability. As falls happen suddenly, the amputee should be prepared to discard the crutches, break the fall with his hands, and roll with the fall. In rising, the prosthetic left knee must be stable. One crutch is used for support. Stair activities begin with hand rail assistance. Control descent is affected one step at a time by the right knee joint. In ascending, again the right quadriceps provides the muscular power for elevation. In observing the patient and stair activities, one can readily note the advantages of having an intact knee joint. The patient demonstrates the progression in which he learned to negotiate stairs. These advanced functional skills require time and sustained effort on the amputee's part. And much depends upon the individual patient's motivation. Every service on the rehabilitation team played an important role in returning this man to duty. The officer conducting this briefing is continuing to fill an important role in the defense of our nation.