All right. Welcome to the revolution. Always, of course, clarify that it's a peaceful, nonviolent revolution. We're trying to get our democracy back. We're trying to do a lot of, seemingly impossible things. [00:00:15] Unite the left and the right on the things we agree on, which is, recapturing our government, for the American people and not for the donor class, the corporate or the foreign government donor class. So, we've been doing projects here. This is the third day, and we're trying to accomplish things one by one. [00:00:31] One of the things that we're working on is a bill that would lower drug prices. It was an executive order of Donald Trump, a bill proposed by Ro Khanna, who's a progressive in Congress. So the left and the right working together there, he's only got five co-sponsors on the bill at this point, and we got to about 100 co-sponsors. [00:00:48] It would be tremendous momentum, to introduce the legislation. So we want to get folks on the left and the right asking the Republican and Democratic congressmen to join it, but neither one of them has an excuse not to join it. So we wanted to start with Mark because he's one of the most reliable [00:01:05] progressives in Congress. And so we asked you guys to reach out to him politely, earlier in the show. I read to you guys that over, now, probably over 400 TYT viewers have reached out to Mark Pocan, and we got word here at TYT that Mark [00:01:21] Pocan is now looking into the bill. God that's awesome. Look, we haven't he hasn't signed on as a co-sponsor yet. But you got his attention. I mean, what did I tell you step by step? Okay. So it's there's a long way from we got one congressman's attention [00:01:38] to 100 co-sponsors to passing the bill to having lower drug prices. But but the path to get there to that final result is exactly this path. And so, man, we're going to do some fireworks the first time a congressman [00:01:53] signs on, let alone the second time. If this thing starts to get momentum, there'll be come a day when I get on here and I say, Congressman 17, 18, 19 and 20. Signed on today. Right. So the fact that you guys got his attention and he reached out and said, [00:02:09] yes, we're now looking at it. We hadn't seen it before. Now we're taking a look to see if we like it. Yes, yes. That's part of the reason we call it operation Hope. Okay. Love you guys. Now a bunch of you wrote in with excellent suggestions on top of that. [00:02:26] So I'm going to read you again. More interactive. Now read you a bunch of the things you wrote in and tell you why. I think they're good ideas and what else we can do with them. Okay. So first let's go to another update here. People like, [00:02:44] Sandra, Sue Kira and his husband. That's funny. Ray. Ray, to name a few. Sent in, different websites that are tracking the Palestinians who have been killed. Because that's the second issue. Can we stop the genocide? Can we? [00:03:00] And if you think it's over because of that peace deal. Israel's got another thought coming for you. Okay. I've never seen them agree to not violate a ceasefire. And and we think they're going to keep going. But on top of that, we think that we're enabling Israel to do [00:03:16] a lot of wrong things by funding them. We think we should stop the funding. Anyways, you guys wrote in with sites like Al Jazeera and The Guardian that have names of Palestinians who have been killed. So, so far, no photos, but but names. So that's a start. [00:03:32] So. Oh, here we go. Oh, those are the names from, that are on Al Jazeera. So, Thank you. This is what we mean by crowdsourcing. Could we have looked up and found out that Al Jazeera has those names? Yes. But in order for us to look up everything, it would require an enormous amount [00:03:50] of manpower, staffing and resources. Instead, you guys find it for us. We do it as a community. We do it as a group. And again, we've got left and right working on this now. So that's over 34,000 people killed. But that's because that was about a year ago, if I'm not mistaken. [00:04:07] And so now, of course, unfortunately, there's a lot more people, that are on that list. Okay, so that's a beginning. That's a beginning. We talk about how we could take Henry job and maybe, start with that. And Jack Callahan, one of our longtime viewers and one of the stalwarts [00:04:23] of operation Hope, found a bio of hers. Now, again, like I said, we're starting easy with Mark Pocan on the health care issue. On and Henry job on the the kids of Gaza one because that was findable but great. Wonderful. Jack. [00:04:38] Nice job on that I love it. So we're on the board in a couple of different ways now. Let's go to Joey Chan, he says. Long time viewer of the show. I want to help with the Kids of gaza.com website data engineer and application developer with a strong foundation in front end and back end technologies i.e. [00:04:53] Data analytics and web development design. I found data on all casualties in Gaza for infants, children, women and men. I can sort and organize the data to focus just on the infants and children. An idea I have for the website is to create a memorial wall [00:05:08] or a scrolling wall, where names of all the children stream by on the website in memory of the children's lives lost. Beautiful. Joey chan. That's it. Now, could I create that site on my own? Oh hell no. No way. In fact, if I asked like, folks to do it internally, [00:05:25] that would take us a long time. I bet you could do it way easier and quicker than us, so that would be amazing. So we got Kids of gaza.com. And so I want folks to talk here and to us and to each other. So I want to let you know, first of all we've got, as I told you, [00:05:41] if you want to email us and a lot of people have done this and appreciate it, it's a good way to communicate hope. At com that's an email you can use hope at com but also So now we are directing people for suggestions to Titcomb ideas. [00:06:01] Now why is Titcomb ideas a good place to do it too? Because when you send an email, we get it and we read it and we, you know, try to use it if it if it's great, amazing, etc. But if you do it at Titcomb ideas, then other people can chime in because then [00:06:20] everybody gets to see it, not just us. Right? And then I hope that people will build upon the good ideas as we go forward. So, now an anonymous member who's been watching for 15 years wrote in with this, by the way, before I go to that again, Joey, if you manage to do that website, [00:06:38] which I believe you can and I look, I, for example, I know nothing about AI, but can we use AI these days to gather that information? We always need fact checkers because we never want to put out something that isn't true. And what? We'll get to fact checkers later. [00:06:54] First, let's start to build it. If you build it. Bit of an American hero. Right. So, now. So this anonymous member of TYT says I'm a broke freelance motorcycle mechanic. Last summer, though, I sold a motorcycle to my d-bag of a rep, Tim Wahlberg. [00:07:10] I've loosely kept in contact with him, mainly due to my connection to the bike. We've never talked politics. I've done my best to avoid it. I think he's slimy, but I'm friendly to him. I keep thinking that I might somehow be able to use that connection for some sort of good, some sort of good, though I think the H.R. 3093 bill might be something I could mention [00:07:28] maybe nudge him towards, since it's a Trump executive order. If I were to try to keep this connection, I would be for motorcycles on the surface, but having the goal of actually trying to influence him in some way, I could, with that in mind, does it have any advice or ideas on how I can approach this? Something good has to come from selling this guy my dad's motorcycle, right? [00:07:46] Thank you in advance for any thoughts or help you can provide. Keep kicking ass S and let's save this effin country. Okay, so I love the question. Love the thought. Yes, definitely. Look guys, normally in order to talk to a national politician, you have [00:08:02] to have at at a minimum of $5,000. Check. They don't talk to constituents at all anymore. They have staffers underneath the staffers, underneath the staffers that talk to the constituents and the voters. But the congressman, do you know, they spent 30 to 70% of their time making [00:08:20] phone calls, begging people for donations? And if you give them a big donation, then they're like, oh, yeah, absolutely, sir. No question. You know, 5000 is a starter. But, you know, when you get to the big pharma level, AIPAC level, etc., then we're in the billions. [00:08:36] So but you have a connection that others don't. So yes, definitely use it. Look be friendly. And you're asking him, oh my God, did you see, by the way, you can say a couple of congressmen. And remember, three out of the five co-sponsors are Republicans. [00:08:54] Ana Paula Luna, is one of the sponsors. And another deep right winger is a Gibbs who's I read it to you guys on another show, is one of the sponsors. So you can say, hey, it's a Trump executive order. Yeah. On lowering drug prices. [00:09:09] I'm really impressed by Trump for proposing this, and it's great to see it as a bill. You know, what do you think? Do you are you going to get on board with it? And so look, what's the worst that could happen? No. Or he blows you off or he doesn't, you know, give you a positive answer. [00:09:28] Brother, you got the best shot of any of us, right? So now we can call into his office, and we have. And you're seeing some bit of success with, Mark Buchanan on that. But if you got a direct contact, definitely go for it. You're a hero for just trying. If you manage to connect. And he signs on. [00:09:45] Oh, hero of heroes. So look, this is not a left wing thing. This is right and left. So let's go. And if and I was going to say if you like your Republican congressman, now you're on the left. So you don't like your Republican congressman. [00:10:01] But these days do Republicans like the Republican congressman? Do Democrats like the Democratic congressman? Not often. Right. All right. But excellent. I loved, that, you wrote in. Oh, and they have a nice little tight live glasses that they made. [00:10:19] Can we see that? I love how creative you guys are, too. That's perfect. Beautiful. Thank you. All right. Jasmine wrote in, writing, I think this is the poll Jake was talking about. It states that opinions of 90% of Americans have no impact on politicians. So a bunch of you wrote in, trying to find that magical poll. [00:10:37] So I'm going to tell you more about that in a second. The poll that I saw, I'm positive I saw it. I quoted it one time and I just can't find it on Google. Is do you think that politicians serve their donors or voters? And 93% said donors. Okay, but it doesn't matter because you guys found [00:10:53] so many other polls and studies. So the one that she found is actually one that's also in my book. But I wanted to remind you of it because really, guys, remember the health care and the Gaza one are just starter issues. I mean, again, if we win there, it's amazing. [00:11:09] Imagine we lower drug prices for all Americans with the greatest thing any of us have ever done. You could retire off that, right. But even so, that's a starter for actually getting the American people back in charge of their government actually having a democracy, [00:11:24] a republic, instead of what we have now, which is corporate rule and foreign government rule. So in this case, this study was amazing. They studied and this is pre Citizens United. That's why I always tell you guys actually they started legalizing bribery in 76 and 78 and two Supreme Court decisions. [00:11:40] So Princeton and Northwestern professors studied 2000 pieces of legislation over 20 years of American politics. And they found, that they asked they tried [00:11:56] to find did the bottom 90%. That's 99 out of ten of us have any effect on bills in America? Like and here's what the gilens and page perspective in politics says, quote, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule near zero, [00:12:18] statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. So 90% of us don't matter at all. They studied a giant number of bills, and no matter what we did. [00:12:33] The. It's not that we can't get a bill passed, as I mentioned yesterday. John Stuart got a bill passed from the outside. And these days, nobody's passing anything on the inside that helps us at all. That's why we're trying to do this and pass it from the outside. Jon Stewart did it for first responders at nine over 11. And now you look at it, [00:12:51] if you choose the insider strategy and a lot of people go, oh no, I'm going to go inside and then I'm going to work from the inside and then I'm going to eventually no, it never turned nothing. They never wind up doing anything. Nancy Pelosi says, oh, I have a poster for Universal Health Care in my in my basement from the from 30 years ago. [00:13:08] Well, then why didn't you ever do anything about it? Because the insiders take the money, they gobble it up, and then they serve those donors. They don't serve us. And you see it here? 0%. No effect at all. That's exactly what we have to change. That's the biggest issue of all. [00:13:24] Get money out of politics and get our government back. This is from a while back, but I'm going to read you these stats because they're amazing. To give you a sense of how deep this problem goes. And then I'm going to read more of your suggestions. And then if you write in today, I'll read some of those as well. [00:13:40] So in in just a five year period, 200 of the most politically active companies in the US spent $5.8 billion trying to influence politicians. So this represents us to the great video about this [00:13:55] and a little bit of a presentation. And this website is theirs. So wow. $5.8 billion. Now, do you think business interests throw away $5.8 billion? Or do they look like they're obsessed with money and they would never throw it away? They view that $5.8 billion as an investment. [00:14:13] Now you guys want to guess guess it in your head. How much did they get back for that $5.8 billion? In our crooked politicians. Now, if they got less than 5.8 billion, it turns out to be a bad investment. [00:14:28] If they got 6 billion back, oh, my God, they made $200 million. That would be a fantastic investment, right? Well, on 5.8 billion, you know, you want a little bit better return. Imagine if they doubled it and they had like got like $11 billion back. [00:14:44] Wow. Okay. So what did they get back? Just those 200 companies. $4.4 trillion. Guys, this is the great American robbery. [00:14:59] Money in politics is all about robbing us blind. And that's why they do the culture war stuff. And I know some of you get upset. No, I care a lot about the culture wars, and that's. Those things are really important. Look, I'm not saying that things, those aren't important. And we can continue to fight over those things. [00:15:15] But when we fight over those things and don't focus on what matters the most. Oh, the donor class loves it. They love it so much, they're like, yes, fight, fight, fight, fight. And don't notice that we just robbed you of $4.4 trillion. [00:15:30] And that was from a while back. This robbery has been going on for a long time. They've robbed us of tens of trillions of dollars. So now last two amazing stats from there. And then we'll go back to your suggestions. Okay. Do you want to know. [00:15:46] So the donors that people, that the politicians listen to most I said 5000 earlier, the ones past 10,000 are the are the people who run our government basically. Right. They give money to politicians. They the politicians work for them. So what what percentage of Americans give more than $10,000 to politicians? [00:16:05] Do you think the top 1% right now, the top 0.1% know 0.0 2%. That's who runs this country? 99.98% of us don't control a damn thing. Okay, but let's be more specific, okay? And will be more generous. [00:16:24] So I'm sorry, it was 0.05%. I want to be accurate. 0.05%. Give that. Now, this one is the one that you can't argue with. Two thirds of all political donations come from just 0.2% of Americans. [00:16:43] So two thirds of the money that controls the politicians comes from them. So. So if you're being generous, you, you get to a number where 99.8%. It's a little bit higher than the number I gave you before. 99.8% of us no power, 0.2%. [00:17:01] All the power. Okay, now, others wrote in as well. Okay. Here, let me read. Actually, somebody from Twitch right now. And then I'm going to go back to good suggestions as well. Itchy brother Dragon said Jackson's Tight is friends with MTG. Does it make sense to reach out to MTG and get her on board [00:17:18] with the prescription bill, or would it be ill advised timing wise? Oh, such a good question. First of all, I don't know that we're friends with Marjorie Taylor Greene, but I do know she's of course been on a couple of times. And you know what? That's such a good suggestion because she's the one that just said, [00:17:36] hey, I don't want our premiums doubling. The Democrats are right about that. So there she is, caring about health care and caring about prices, and she's going in a more populist direction. So. All right. [00:17:53] Damn it. Now you're going to put work on me. Okay. Yesterday, I said I'd reach out to a couple of organizations. We'll do that next week. About the The Kids of Gaza project. I will try to reach out to Representative Green. Brother, based on your suggestion. [00:18:09] Marjorie Taylor Green comes on this show and says she's on board for this bill. Nice job, nice job. Let's see what happens. Okay. All right. Oh, look at all these beautiful people. I didn't ask for this, but this amazing lady AF box sent in five [00:18:26] Young Turks memberships on YouTube. And Fat Sater gifted ten. You guys are amazing. David Rodriguez says Pokemon is a decent man, I like him. Okay. Oh, this is another good idea. Good point. Sneer three zero says. How about we apply pressure to Josh Hawley because he's running scared right now. [00:18:44] We need anything and everything to help him with his next campaign. And he said he's no longer taking donor money. It's true. Josh Hawley not taking corporate PAC money anymore, which is a bit shocking. So that's not a bad idea at all. The only issue there is it's it's not in the Senate yet. [00:19:00] So he's in the Senate. This bill is in the House. It has to pass the House. Then it goes to the Senate, then it goes to Trump. But if once it if it passes the House, it is going to have so much momentum because then the whole country at that point will have known, [00:19:17] oh my God, the American people rose up together, demanded this bill, and somehow magically got it passed by Congress by by the House. Then if the senators don't vote for it, they're going to seem like giant sellouts. So if we get to that point, it's going to be a titanic clash [00:19:35] and I'm going to love to see it. But so we're going to have to save Holly for later. But he could come in handy on other things. And make sense. Amy Megginson says, I watched Tucker Carlson with Tim Burchett today. Burchett mentioned how sick of the corruption in DC he is. [00:19:51] Maybe we can do a letter campaign for him. He's a Tennessee Republican. He doesn't take corporate donations. Boom. There you go. Okay. Let's try Burchett. So, I mean, look, I suggest that procaine you said suggest Burchett. You have a good reason for doing that. Burchett sometimes drives me crazy, but that's because I'm on the left [00:20:08] and he's on the right. But that's okay. We're uniting here, so I'll try. Marjorie Taylor Greene, you guys, can someone find Burchett social media and his email for his office? Send it in while we're doing the show live. [00:20:23] We got a couple minutes here, and I'll read it out to everyone. And again, we're not bothering people. We're not harassing them. We're politely asking them. This is a Trump executive order on lowering drug prices. If you're not taking corporate PAC money and you're a populist [00:20:40] and you're a Republican, this should be a no brainer for you. No brainer. So politely ask him to sign on to this bill that is verbatim Trump's executive order on lowering drug prices. Okay, now let me get to other wonderful suggestions that you guys sent in [00:20:56] over the last couple of days. Kezia Bush said, about the children in Gaza. Oh, she's doing one every day. She's taking a picture or a video of children in Gaza. And then on top of that, she says, what she does is I say, I'm saying she. [00:21:13] But honestly sorry because I don't know the gender. I'm not familiar with the name. But anyway, this person says, she they then ask our taxpayer dollars did that and she does it once a day or not ask, but says, look, [00:21:30] if all of us did that, by the way, you found a picture or video that I'm trying to do, like basically on a larger scale and kids of Gaza or whatever site you guys build, that would be great. But if you do it on your own and you ask or you tell people, you know, that our [00:21:46] tax dollars did that, that's beautiful. Because we want people to wake up to the fact that they're taking money out of our paychecks, sending it to Israel to commit a genocide. It's not about Israel, guys. If any country was doing that, getting money from us and then committing a genocide, I'd be furious, no matter who they did it to, or who they were. [00:22:07] Jonathan McKinney had a fun idea. It's like, look, the lobbyists run all of Washington. Why don't we have lobbyists? Like, we kind of create a lobbyist for the people. And Wolfpack does this in a sense. It's all volunteers. Their site is fight corruption us, and their only goal is getting money [00:22:24] out of politics and saving this country. I love that you can join them as well. And but he's saying get the people's lobbyists. I'm not sure how we're going to do that, but I kind of love that idea. Richard Ojeda is running for office. [00:22:43] Rebellion PACs helping him now. He's a Democrat. He's a huge populist. Got into trouble the other day for being overly populist a bunch of years ago. But anyways, Ojeda has an awesome idea. He's like, we should do body cams on lobbyists. [00:23:01] Oh, that'll get no votes in Washington because no, no, no, no, we would never want the American people finding out what we're talking about behind closed doors when the money is being exchanged. So but the people's lobbyist is a great idea, I don't. [00:23:16] Okay. So if someone has an idea of how we make the people's lobbyists happen, writing about that, you could write in, as I said, ideas. That's a discussion board or hope at Titcomb. All right. Oh, and then, Doreen Shaffer had this another powerful idea, that if [00:23:37] once we have the kids of Gaza's photos, we could send it out to our representatives or our senators or whoever it might be, and then each of us can begin to kind of adopt the kids symbolically and say, hey, this is a kid that for the kids who are alive in Gaza [00:23:56] that I adopted, symbolically. And can you make sure that we don't send money that winds up killing you or killing her? That's super powerful. So we're going to again, we're trying to catalog these. [00:24:14] We're trying to keep this in mind for how we do it. But I told you, you guys would have better ideas than me. So all this is great. Sarah Perez wrote in. And by the way, guys, when you write in, if you don't want your name like the other guy did with anonymous, Just say don't read my name or leave your name out. [00:24:33] They pointed out, not only are we having all these kids that are killed, 20,000 kids killed in Gaza, but according to Brown University's Costs of War project, we've already sent Israel $21.7 billion in the middle of the genocide. [00:24:49] And so she did a calculation. It basically costs us $1 million for every kid we killed. So American citizens had to pay $1 million per dead kid. [00:25:04] That's another one that's super powerful. Sarah Koenig volunteered as a professional photographer. Wang Jun also wrote in about that earlier. He's a great TYT member, so if we need that, we could contact you guys, Constantine and other great TYT member wrote in. [00:25:20] He's got a background in web development, so he might be able to help us. And then he had a good idea about he was talking about his pastor, actually. Constantine. That triggered a different idea for me. You know what? I think that, this one's on me, and it really. I don't know how you guys can help, but actually, a lot of you, I say a lot of. [00:25:37] I have no idea, but I assume some of you are Muslim American out there. I assume that all the religions and backgrounds are out there. I would love for Muslim Americans to start visiting churches on Sunday. First of all, tell them you're coming. [00:25:52] Don't just show up, okay, but have the mosques leader reach out to the churches leader and say, hey, you know what? Jesus is a holy prophet to us in Islam, and we want to share, you know, a day with you guys, and we wanted to, come to one of your sermons, come to one of your, you know, churches and, and just [00:26:11] get to know our neighbors and interact. I bet that would do a world of good if if Muslims in all the different communities they are in, they are in, in America, organized trips to churches with respect and love and warmth. I think would make it a huge difference. So. But one idea at a time. [00:26:31] Okay, but thank you for triggering that idea. Appreciate it. Pavan. Madame Sethi wrote in about how she loves the, Again, I shouldn't assume that they love the populist plank. And, thank you for that again. [00:26:48] Populist plank is awesome. And, but, let's try these two. And then eventually we definitely want to push the populist plank, too. And now I see my list here. Andy Biggs is, the other conservative who signed on, [00:27:05] to the to the lowering drug prices bill. All right, last couple of comments here, and then I will give, members the story of the day. And here we go. Brendan Jones, thank you for gifting five Young Turks memberships and says, [00:27:22] Jenk, your energy is contagious. I mean, God help you, but. Okay. Thank you for saying that. Pessimistic progressive on Titcomb. You should reach out to Rashida Tlaib about this. She could contact her constituents, about family members. [00:27:38] That's about the kids of Gaza. Another good idea. I got to be honest with you. Reaching Rashida Tlaib is incredibly difficult. I don't know why, but it is. I could reach Marjorie Taylor Greene easier than I could reach Rashida Tlaib, which is super weird, but it is what it is. [00:27:56] Sutton writes in open source development is one of the best parts of the internet, and I'd bet dollars to donuts. There are plenty of developers in the community willing to contribute to building websites or other tools. Well, Sutton, that's kind of what I'm hoping for. I don't know exactly how to effectuate that. [00:28:11] And so but again, we're all learning and doing this together. So if you have an idea on how to reach those folks and then we can connect them with the website we're doing and and they could open source it. Great. Wonderful. [00:28:27] Then we can build another site and another site on the different issues and start to get some momentum. So again, right in either at Titcomb or Hope at Titcomb. Oh, here we go. [00:28:43] Finally we found it eclectic. Nice job. Okay. He found the poll. A majority say their views, are left out of the political process. An overwhelming 93% of respondents believe that elected officials listen more to deep [00:29:00] pocketed donors than regular voters. Republicans express more cynicism. Only 5% of Republican respondents believe regular voters are heard more by their elected leaders. See, I told the left, you look, I know they went for Trump. And on on the left, we we we don't think Trump's the right guy, etc., but they [00:29:19] actually did want to drain the swamp. The politicians are full of crap, but why would the voters not want to drain the swamp? Why would they be pro corruption? No, that's for the politicians and the media. The actual voters. Republican and Democrat hate corruption. And you see that the Republicans hate it even more than Democrats do [00:29:36] when it comes to the voters. But by the way, it's 5% for one and 7% for the other. Who believes that the politicians are actually representing us? But I'm even still amazed by that, really. There's 7% of us overall who think the politicians are like, oh my God, [00:29:51] I can't wait to represent the voters. Oh no, no, I don't care about the money. Maybe that's the 7% that's in mainstream media. Eclectic. Thank you for finding that poll. Kara, please grab that poll for us because I want to be able to site it at all times. [00:30:09] Okay. And I eclectic wrote in I like that opening of welcome to the Revolution. Well, that is kind of what we're trying to do here. A political, peaceful one. All right, guys, so I think that's a lot of progress for a couple of days. So I love it. [00:30:26] Imagine I come back on Friday and we got Pokemon and Birkett and Marjorie Taylor Greene on at some point next week. Again, I don't want to over promise. We're just at the beginning, but it's a beautiful day that we're trying. And so for all of you out there with hope in your hearts [00:30:41] that came here to try, love you. All right. For the members, we got a fun story today for you guys, I promised. Oh, boy. My legendary circumcision story. So if you haven't heard that one, it's a doozy. Having nothing to do with any of this. Okay. [00:30:57] That's it. But it is a fun one. All right. If you want to be a member that has, again, nothing to do with the operation. Hope you can hit the join button below on YouTube or TikTok. All right. Much love guys. I'll see the members in a second. [00:32:47] All right. If you're a long time TYT member, you would have. You might have heard this story of the day, but for those of you who are new or haven't heard it before, buckle up. Brace for impact. So, you know, I was going to say among Muslims and I'm pretty sure that's true. [00:33:03] But, you know, the Muslim experience is so different throughout the world. Did you know not a single top five most populous Listen, I'm saying it wrong anyway. [00:33:19] Muslim country, most populated Muslim countries in the world. Not any of them are in the Middle East. The top five are all outside the Middle East. So number one is Indonesia. Most amount of Muslims in there. Number two is Pakistan. Number three is India. Believe it or not, I forget if number four [00:33:39] is Bangladesh and number five is Nigeria. So none of them are in the Middle East. So why do why are Americans. No. Only, only associate Muslims with the Middle East. Because Israel needed to conquer a lot of the Middle East. So they say Muslims, Arabs, Muslims, Muslims, Muslims. [00:33:57] Nobody's talking about Muslims in Indonesia. There's more Muslims there than anywhere, right? So we're like and by the way, it's not just Israel. - There's also oil in the Middle East. - So, oh, we gotta attack them. - Take their oil, take their oil. - Right. So an Indonesian culture is so different than Turkish culture [00:34:13] or Afghan culture or Egyptian culture. So tons of different countries. And by the way, there's tons of German Muslims and Muslims and Kazakhstan is a hugely Muslim, etc. So there's 1.6 billion folks. So they all have slightly different cultures. [00:34:29] So in my culture and Turkish culture, you get you don't get circumcised at birth. There's like, a rite of passage ritual, kind of like a bar mitzvah or a quinceanera. You know, all the different cultures have different, [00:34:44] rites of passage for girls and boys. And in the case of Turks and Muslims in Turkey, you get circumcision around six years old, and at around six years old, you feel it and you remember it. [00:35:00] So we have and you have a party around it. And yes, and this is super strange. I know people get freaked out by it. But don't think that I wasn't freaked out by it. I grew up in Turkey and I didn't like it either. I was also very surprised by it. Right? [00:35:16] So they're like, okay, we're going to get you're going to get circumcised. I'm like, what's that? And they're like, well, and then they explain what it is. I'm like, okay. You know, as a six year old kid, you don't know what's going to happen. So then we go to this doctor's, place to do it. [00:35:31] And they invited a lot of family and friends, and I'm like, and what are they up to? Turns out we're doing it in the backyard, and the family and friends are watching. Every piece of this was as surprising to me as it is to you. [00:35:46] Okay. And so then this doctor was supposed to be a famous circumciser, which is already hilarious, right? And he then comes in and he goes, okay, everybody's watching and they put you in an outfit because it's supposed to make you feel better. It's like a cape with like, like little, almost like a bespectacled cape [00:36:06] and a little hat and stuff. I gotta find that picture for you guys and show it to you. And he goes, do you want to do your own? Painkiller shot. And I'm like, no, I'm six. I was rational even back then. I'm like, why would I do it? [00:36:24] You're the doctor. Isn't that that's like kind of an important thing, right? He's like, no, no, don't worry about it. It'll be fun. Everybody will get to see it. It's fun when the kid does it, like fun for you, maybe. Anyways, he put it and then I press down. That's my rough recollection of it. And I was like, oh yeah, yeah. [00:36:40] All right. So then they say, my parents say, all right, look, we're going to go on a fun trip. We're going to go to where we grew up, which is in southeastern Turkey. Kilis, which is near Gaziantep, which is a kind of a larger, city down there. [00:36:56] Like whenever I run into Syrians, I say, oh, my parents were kind of from Antep. They're like, antep, we love Antep. We go buy dried vegetables and fruits there. Okay. God bless. Anyways, we go down there and I'm in the Cape and I'm in the hat [00:37:11] and I'm already feeling Goofy. Then I meet Ali. There's a cute little sheep that they got down there, and we start. I started playing around with Ali. I'm like, oh, well, this is kind of fun. Not, you know, like, at least fun. And then they come and they slit his throat. [00:37:27] I'm like, no, no. It turns out Ali was a present for food that night. Okay, look, there's a nice side to this story. I know it sounds really bad, but the real reason they do the sacrifice is so they can, feed the poor. So the family takes a small part of, the lamb. [00:37:46] And by the way, the lamb is cut in a halal way. I don't know if it matters, but same thing for kosher. Halal, basically. So they they do do it even though it looked gruesome to me. But they do do it in a way that is, apparently the least [00:38:02] painful way or whatever. And then they take the majority of the food that comes from that. And we all eat lamb, it's in the gyros, etc., and they give it to the poor. If you've ever been to a mosque, they'll talk your ear off for 45 minutes straight about how you got to help the poor. You got to help the needy. You got to feed the needy. [00:38:18] You got to feed the poor. You got to clothe them. You got to help them. So that's the beautiful part about Islam. So they did that. And then later that night everybody was eating Ali. And they're like, do you want some? I'm like, no, I do not. No I'm good. They're like, we got it. No. Nope I'm good, I'm good. [00:38:35] You know, I haven't eaten chunks of lamb ever since. I don't think it's because I was traumatized. It's hard to traumatize me. I usually traumatize others anyways. But since then, I've tried it. I just don't like it. [00:38:50] But I do like lamb and gyros, to be fair. So isn't it amazing the different cultures that folks have? So when it came to my son, what did I do? I don't think I've ever told. Maybe I told it once. So, of course I waited till he was 16. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. [00:39:09] No, I was like, the doctor was like, do you want to do the circumcision now? And and then I think my wife asked, or do you want to wait? Like, tradition? I'm like, no, no, no, no, no waiting, no waiting I don't some traditions are beautiful and awesome, some. A little less so. Let's go do it now. And so we did. [00:39:26] And then we gave him some Tylenol and I'm kidding. He's fine. He's fine. Believe it or not, we did a circumcision when he was a baby, like most people do, and he didn't get autism. So there RFK Jr. Okay. All right guys, much love I know, wacky, wild story. [00:39:44] Probably a couple of you have heard it a number of times. Anyways, we're going to see you on Monday. This is when apparently I go bye bye. [00:40:03] Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.