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SLAP the Power
SLAP the Power - a dynamic new show from SLAP the Network that aims to weave artistry into advocacy through the raw power of music, comedy, movies, visual arts, and beyond.
Hosted by world touring musicians Rick Barrio Dill (@rickbarriodill @vintagetrouble) and Aja Nikiya (@compassioncurator), join them as team with musicians, comedians, actors and artists of all angles and try to chop up some of todays most troubling topics, but with a fat side of chocolate cake and incredible silliness.
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Musk Madness, Poker Legends, and Political Satire Unleashed
Is Elon Musk really just the DeLorean of our times? Join us for a rollercoaster episode as we take a playful swipe at some of the biggest personalities in politics and tech. We kick things off with a humorous look at Norman Chad's legendary status before diving into the curious world of political priorities during the early days of the Trump administration. With a satirical slant, we ponder why leaders dream of space escapades while the world's mundane issues grow like weeds. Throw in a peculiar tale of Musk gifting a Tesla Cybertruck and the ensuing debate over its potential uses, and you've got a recipe for chaos and comedy.
Our journey doesn't stop there. We bring on the legendary poker commentator Norman Chad, whose wit and candor add a special flair to our exploration of poker and gambling. The guests share their insider stories, revealing the stark contrasts between the old guard of poker players and the new generation fueled by online strategy. As we navigate the cultural significance of poker and debate the emotional highs and lows, Chad’s amusing anecdotes and insights capture the unique allure of the game and its intertwined history with American culture.
In our final act, we tackle the ego-driven escapades of Elon Musk and Donald Trump, analyzing their larger-than-life personas through a lens of humor and critique. We explore Musk's social quirks and Trump’s grand gestures with religious texts, all while highlighting the spectacle of political dynasties and their potential impact on America's future. All the while, we invite you to engage with us on social media, share your thoughts, and perhaps even join us on the show. This episode promises a lively blend of comedy, satire, and critical examination that will leave you entertained and eager for more.
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Speaker 2:All right, the world may not need another podcast, but it could definitely use a slap. That's right. Welcome to Slap the Power, the show where we bring together artists who use their powers for progress. I am Rick Barrio-Dill.
Speaker 3:And I am Asia Nakia, On the show today. The start of the Trump administration so many, so many things to say, so many inauguration moments to go through.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and also a little later TikTok's temporary grift, I mean sorry, ban. Who else felt the rug pull? Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 3:Commander in chief. That's it, yes, commander in chief. We have so much to break down, from the inauguration day moments to first orders and all of the pardons in the new administration.
Speaker 2:Plenty of takes are out there. On this all over you come to slap the power for is the different take. I'm going to lay one on you that you probably haven't heard of.
Speaker 3:All right, go for it.
Speaker 2:Make sure to tip your president on the way out. The government, it's just it's all for sale, it's okay. And people are like, oh well, it's always been for sale. Look at Joe Biden and all this stuff. Yeah, joe didn't do a lot of great stuff on the way out, but man, there is just no hiding it how much it's for sale and it's so gross. I'm trying to approach this with an open heart, which is just dumb, because we've gone through this before. We know what we're going to get, what got done in 100 executive orders that helps anyone other than billionaires Right, and it's like what is everyone excited about?
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I tried going through the list of all the absolute ludicrous 50 to 100 years backward movements that were made yesterday, and not one of them benefits any part of humanity. So I'm just like what are we excited?
Speaker 2:like, yeah, I don't what's what's also. I mean, there's so many things to go over, like we can get trivial, like why he didn't have his hand on the bible and oh yeah, we know that one he will spontaneously combust I would believe he could blow up in flames.
Speaker 3:I mean, he's already red and orange to begin with.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but the declaring two genders. I had our, our, um, our amazing uh security here. Uh, tim, big tim he was. He asked me on the way out last night. He was like what do you think about trump saying that? And I was just like I it's all bullshit, nothing moving forward. Can you trust? Or only look at it through the lens of how it helps billionaires? It's just where we're at. It's no longer that we strive to help people. These people aren't striving to be better, they're striving to make enough money so that the problems don't affect them including, you know, moving to mars, if all yeah, yeah, like it's just so ridiculous.
Speaker 3:It's just ridiculous in all capacity.
Speaker 2:How about planting a flag in the Palisade talking about going to Mars and shit? Man, it's so frustrating. You're head of a government efficiency agency and you're going to just siphon the money over to do you know shit as anything else other than taking care of stuff at home.
Speaker 3:And I mean even what he was saying with the ceasefire and the Gaza comments. It was just one blow after another. Yesterday, talking about how beautiful the land is there and all the things we can do with the Gaza Strip because it's on the water. That's not new, though.
Speaker 2:I mean, we're literally talking about that's not new.
Speaker 3:No, yeah, no but did he think yesterday was the day to?
Speaker 2:well it is because he's got him, he, he, he says he has a mandate, which he doesn't. He only won by 200 and some thousand votes across a couple of states. When you, electorally, also more people are unhappy with him today a lot more than we're on election day, doesn't help us. Now the issue is not chasing around all the ridiculous stuff that he's going to come out of his mouth. It is trying to find where the kernel of truth is, because there's always some kind of small kernel of truth and all the batshit crazy things he said. Did he, did he, you know? Did he stop the war in ukraine on day one? You know? No, still going on. Um, there's just so many things that are going to be going back against his word. I think the two genders thing, it's so funny, because what does that do? What does that do what? Yeah, you know what does that do other than it satisfies the base? Yeah, and I think the most egregious thing that is done is the pardoning of the J6 violent criminals. There's even an argument to be had.
Speaker 2:A new york times did a good piece on a guy who had left the country after january 6th to avoid being arrested because he thought that president trump would win and president trump's been saying he would pardon him. So he just stayed out of the country until trump got elected and now he's coming back. Now his story is fascinating in that he was there, he got caught up in it, he got swept up in it and if there's a thousand people or whatever 900 of them, sure yeah. But the oath keepers and all these people that were planning this for months and had tactical weapons and injured police officers some police officers got killed and everything those guys are walking free. And the problem is he just took a whiz over the rule of law, just took a big piss on the rule of law.
Speaker 2:That is what hurts the most. But to be honest, I mean, once the Supreme Court immunity decision went down, we knew he was going to do this. Anyway, it just should not stop it. It's not okay, it's not normal and it's not acceptable that there is no rule of law in this situation. That's what hurts. I think so much about the January 6th. You know the violent criminals, you know, and it also says that you know. So now anybody who works in a president's orbit, do whatever the you want.
Speaker 2:I'll pardon you on the way out exactly and if that's the case, you know we are that's that's, you know that's fascism. Congratulations here we are yeah, we said we, you know it was like, oh, fashion, blah, blah, blah. But no, if you gotta, if you gotta, pay a million dollars to, to, to bend the knee and be there so you can curry favor. Uh, it's. Yeah, it's been going on for a while, but it's the, it's, it's all the other stuff, it's the, yeah, it's just so much.
Speaker 3:It was like one, just I, I, I just had to stop looking at some point. I mean it was like the Paris Agreement down the drain. World Health Organization, down the drain, yeah, why.
Speaker 2:Just to be one could make a credible argument that he doesn't want to make America great again. I mean, he certainly wants to make money. It's all a grift, but that's nothing new either. The problem is there's no governing in any of this. That's what you're there to do. You're not there to make millions. You're not there to mint a truck a meme coin. You're not in the executive office to mint a meme coin. It's so bananas that that is like we're here.
Speaker 2:The guy that tried to overthrow it and it was eerie. I heard on psa uh, this morning which, by the way, that was or I that joke. Make sure to tip your president on the way out. That was. That was love. It is an amazing, but it's an amazing. It's the truth. That's what the balls were. Tip your president on the way out. This is fucking mob shit. So stupid.
Speaker 2:But the WHO? Why, you know, other than to prove you know, last time, what he did on day one in 2017 was got rid of the pandemic response team on day one. What went wrong from that? Nothing. Everything was great. What went wrong from that? Nothing, everything was great. What went wrong? Yeah, no, the deportations and the detentions and the and I love it too.
Speaker 2:How many people are just fucking idiots online because they think that because he wrote something down on a piece of paper and signed it with his stupid Ronald McDonald signature, that it means you can clean? You can't wipe the constitution. You can't wipe a sentence out of the constitution with an executive order. So, birthright citizenship, you're going to have to keep going on that one. I'm sure they will. But they're coming after gay marriage. They, you know. They're coming after trans people and everything, and it's just, it's nothing to help people. No, I saw that eggs are all my eggs, in a lot of places are approaching 175 or 150. We'll have to like double check that, whatever, but I don't know. It's a laundry list of things and we can't chase it around. It's just when we're. We're a show that's based on trying to find some good stuff and on this show, this particular episode, we can't lie to you. We're not going to lie to you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's not a lot of good. There wasn't a lot of good.
Speaker 2:I really struggled.
Speaker 3:No, I couldn't find anything good for this week.
Speaker 2:You got Mr Bear Carcass coming in and he's going to replace the WHO with you know, I don't know probably with I don't know probably who knows, you can put some telling everybody to fix their ails with Windex or something like that I don't know.
Speaker 3:Pour bleach on everything. That'll be the next one.
Speaker 2:It's hard to get away from this, but it blows my mind that they're asking us to act like the Elon thing. Everybody saw it. You know he's a Yahtzee it's cool man. And his response wasn't no, I'm not a Yahtzee. His response was that the Hitler stuff that he gets from the left is tiring. That's not a denial, bro, you know what I'm saying. And just own it. Just own it. It's too. It's so on the nose. You're you know, and it's you did.
Speaker 3:You saw everyone oh, yeah, and and the, the, the excuses were amazing. Yeah, I think my favorite one was that he was holding his heart, which he doesn't have one. Let's just's just start there, so you can't hold your heart. It's like the Iron man from Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 4:Yeah yeah yeah, but he has more feelings than him.
Speaker 3:But anyways, I digress, you cannot say that he was holding his heart and giving it to the people with such force and such an erratic like that kind of power movement had nothing to do with love.
Speaker 2:And I'm just not buying it for not even one half of a second. No, and he's chasing everybody around. He's like look how much I skate around the edge instead of being a man and just owning it. You're Yahtzee man, it's all right, just own it. But what kills me is it's not Yahtzee, it's Roman Bro the Yahtzee stole it's Roman Bro. The Roman the Yahtzee stole it from the Roman. Stop it.
Speaker 3:It's just obnoxious. Yeah, stop it. He just wants to see how much he can push, because he's him and he can get away with it, and he's like, oh well it's just yeah, I have a desk at the White House and I'm just oh, I'm only flirting with Yahtzeeism. It's like no man, you guys are we got it.
Speaker 2:You're fascists. Yeah, we got it.
Speaker 3:No it was disgusting. Just own it, just be a man and own it All, right, yeah, and then yeah.
Speaker 4:So I'm just thinking I'll ask you, so I'll be like yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's right. We were talking earlier about Elon and the Yahtzee salute and all that stuff about Elon and the Yahtzee salute and all that stuff, but you actually came into close contact with the Fuhrer, didn't you?
Speaker 5:Yes, can I?
Speaker 2:say that? Can I get away with saying that? Probably Okay.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, so you know, some of the rescue groups that were working together got wind of Elon coming out to a very specific In the Palisades, in the Palisades when you were working. Yes, where I was working To come and visit.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Now, I'm moving around. You know, we get a call, we get an emergency, we're moving around, yeah.
Speaker 2:I've seen you in your wheelchair. Man, it's a.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's really fast. So I was not present for the gifting, but Elon decided to give one of the rescuers on the ground one of those Tesla trucks.
Speaker 2:Oh, the Cybertruck. Yep, just hand it over, it's a Yahtzee sled. Yeah, yeah, it's the new word. It really the new word, it's really should just say yahtzee sled. Now my first thought was like what the hell man? Actually it's just a douchebag lot. Yahtzee sled, yeah I digress.
Speaker 3:It's like one of those things. It's like. It's like when I hear about you know, rescue world is interesting, but when you've been working for free for like 25 years and then something like that happens, you're like damn wish it was me right no, sure ebay works, you sure eBay works.
Speaker 2:It'd be nice to get it because, whatever, I would have just taken it and sold it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then donated all the money to my rescue animal. Yeah, yeah, so that would have been a much better use of them driving around that vehicle and what it stands for.
Speaker 2:So, it was just interesting, you know, do you remember, remember there was something along? It was so, um, it was just interesting. Do you remember, remember there was something along? I it was like remember because it got, it was made famous in back to the future. But the DeLorean, the cyber truck, reminds me of the DeLorean, like it's just, it's held together. It looks like it's held together with like duct tape and promises.
Speaker 3:I find it very ugly.
Speaker 2:To be honest, like I don't like the design, I don't see how, 10 years from now, we're not looking back and saying, woof yahtzee, sled man.
Speaker 3:You should have seen that coming, because it seems ugly ass car, it seems obvious it just seems so obvious, you know I just it's supposed like. I don't know if it's supposed to look like a military, like one of those military tanks that has like the, I think yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 2:I'm a tough guy with my, but you don't look tough.
Speaker 3:No, he's not, I don't think it looks tough at all.
Speaker 2:No, he's not tough.
Speaker 3:And from his punk ass.
Speaker 2:I'm good.
Speaker 3:Keep the Tesla.
Speaker 4:I'll pass.
Speaker 3:I'll just keep working saving dogs and cats, and if somebody else wants to donate us a vehicle, I'm still going to sell it, no, but donate a, of course, if it's a nice vehicle that I can use to save animals in.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, we'll add it to the fleet.
Speaker 3:But I definitely don't need a Tesla truck that I probably can't fit even one crate in, so I Did he donate it entirely.
Speaker 2:Entirely. Yeah, he donated it entirely, which is cool. Look, shout out, look, any generosity appreciated. And again, we put this at the top of the show. We're just reacting to what you guys do, not what you're trying to. Not react to as much as what you say, but we have a new policy around here Anytime you're laughing, all right. I don't know if you got the memo, but anytime you see one of those, from now on you're supposed to scream Yahtzee. Okay.
Speaker 3:Why did I have to move to LA, where there's like one per five cars?
Speaker 2:Yahtzee, that's the new thing. Remember it used to be punch bug when you were a kid. Now you get to actually yeah there's no cool.
Speaker 3:Now you get to zieg heil and say, yahtzee, it's not like the Jeep thing. You know where they give each other little cute ducks. Yeah, you get to zieg heil and say, yahtzee, it's not like the Jeep thing you know no, no, no when they give each other little cute ducks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you know, hey, anyway. Anyway, we digress, yeah, get on with it, all right, and we've got to move on to more of the grift, because it's all grift all day TikTok, we all got swept up into it and we thought it was going to be banned and all this shit only for it to be something, only for it to be a PR stunt for the dear leader. Yeah, he saved, dear leader, I know the dear leader has taken care of us.
Speaker 3:He has saved us from TikTok the one thing he did good is TikTok?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, but that's it. It's like what? No, no, no. But look, this is the guy that said it was a national security threat. He's the guy. I love it. He puts out fires, that he himself starts yeah. And this is just another one, and because seeing the TikTok CEO there, just like with all the ass kissing that was going on, it's just so much ass kissing that was going on, it's just yeah, it's so gross, it's just so gross, god.
Speaker 2:And the tiktok thing reminded me of the kavanaugh hearings when it came right back and you saw the thanks to the dear leader who has the biggest On earth, by the way, and shoots holes in one every time. He golfs, only holes in ones, as a matter of fact. That's all he shoots, you know, but I have to say, the greatest.
Speaker 3:This is what every great dictator no, it's sure. It's dictator. This is what they do. Yeah, they create a fire. Yeah, they fix it yeah. And then the people are like Thank you, Thank you leader, Thank you leader. The propaganda and mass manipulation is just appalling, and I was just watching it. As soon as I saw the little message ding on my TikTok, that was like oh, we're so thankful for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2:I'm like what it was right then that I knew that it was a grift and you know what, that it was a grift and you know what, that morning of Christine Blase Ford, I think, was her name on the Kavanaugh hearings and I think we even talked about this Like it was her hearings about a credible rape allegation. And there were plenty more women that FBI just conveniently, under Trump, didn't look into for kavanaugh's uh, confirmation hearing. But in the morning she was speaking and it was really only the democrats that got to talk and ask her and stuff like that, and we had listened to something that was a credible, this woman was speaking credibly and we were like, oh, my god, this might be a situation where this person is going to be held accountable and oh, I don't know, maybe they won't get confirmed as a justice. And they took a break and by 10.30 am Pacific, it was like the fascists had it. It was like, oh, the fix was in.
Speaker 2:Oh, the fix was in this was never going to be a legitimate confirmation hearing in. This was never going to be a legitimate confirmation hearing and we as voters were never going to get an actual, real, clear look at, uh, credible allegations against um, a now supreme court justice, and that's what this felt like to me. When the rug pulled out, it was like, ah, the fix was in the whole time yeah and it's just so depressing.
Speaker 3:I don't know it is, you know I mean, I don't know, to just go back to the tiktok real quick I you know this isn't really our wheelhouse. I feel that we may need some perspective from our gen z correspondent yeah, this is definitely a gen z alley.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I wonder where he is, though last, I don't know.
Speaker 3:I always have to click my heels three times and and he just pops up. You know.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 3:All right, let's do it.
Speaker 2:All right. One, two, three. All right, that was fast. That's so cool, asher.
Speaker 3:Asher, I mean how did you? Get those on there. I'm pretty sure I saw that.
Speaker 2:All right, our Gen Z correspondent, mr Asher Freidberg, all right, go ahead. Fill us in First reactions to TikTok being unavailable, go.
Speaker 5:Oh my God. So it was a weird night for Gen Z just overall. I mean because, first off, it was not supposed to take place that soon. It was supposed to be a planning on taking an opportunity to download all their favorite stuff, whether it's like a recipe or your own original content that you might not have somewhere, or if you're someone like me who your job relies on TikTok. It was scary, so it was a lot, and people were also all caught off guard by the initial message that we had when you first go on to TikTok, where it's like we are thankful that President Trump promises to bring back TikTok yeah, we talked about that, dear leader.
Speaker 2:Dear leader, we are thankful that President Trump promises to bring back TikTok.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we talked about that. Yeah, dear leader. Yeah, dear leader. Yeah, yeah, a lot of us, I would say a lot of us, saw right through that. I would hope so, a lot of us, I hope. A lot of people on TikTok right now are. You know? A trend I'm at least seeing is a lot of people being like we still don't like you Trump.
Speaker 4:We didn't do it. We know what you're doing.
Speaker 5:And there's even some meme formats coming out now, people parodying the message that went out. There was a funny AMC Stubs one I saw, where it was like AMC Stubs will be unavailable in the United States because not enough of you saw the Robbie Williams Monkey man movie Stuff like that. What does that mean? Do you know the Robbie Williams movie? No, oh gosh, there's a Monkey man movie. It's called Better man and Robbie Williams. It's a biopic but he's a CGI monkey, oh wow, and it's apparently really good, but no one's seeing it because no one knows who Robbie Williams is in the US, was it, monkey?
Speaker 2:Man?
Speaker 5:Was Dev Patel's movie. That's Dev Patel, but they're calling it the Monkey man movie, by the way.
Speaker 2:One of the best movies of last year hands down Like.
Speaker 5:John Wick right.
Speaker 2:Like harder than John Wick. I got to see that and Dev Patel did the whole thing, did part of it during COVID and he's just a badass Like he's director and he's acting in it and everything. But yeah, I don't. With regards to TikTok, I mean, obviously, who knows, I don't know if this is permanent. It's just, it's just a lot of hocus pocus, right, because how can the supreme court days before unanimously say this ban needs to go through? And then, well, I guess we answered it at the top of the a block too, which is it's not a good faith argument anymore and you don't believe. If you don't have rule of law, then things like this are just going to happen and it's just all bullshit. And if, hopefully, we're out, you're on the good side of that shitstorm.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hopefully at least you have an umbrella to protect you from the shitstorm. It's raining shit. It's raining. Go to our merch store. We're selling shitstorm umbrellas. Speaking of Gen Z, what is going on? There's a meme coin, it seems, dropping out of mar-a-lago like every 12 hours, right, and they're all. It's so like gross do. What's the feel? What's your feel on the ground? As far as genzy, who do deal in a lot of crypto and meme coins and stuff like that, what's your take on that?
Speaker 5:well, me personally. I am not in the crypto scene. I don't fully understand crypto, but for my generation, a lot of people are investing. Yeah, a lot of people are putting their money in because On DJT or whatever, yeah and I don't even think everyone doing it is a necessary supporter of Donald Trump.
Speaker 2:No, it's just trying to make money.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it years just for some reason. And look, as soon as Trump won the election, it went up to like $30. Not that that's a huge difference. But if you have a lot of money invested, I mean if you want to take advantage of Trump's win, I mean it's a way to do it.
Speaker 2:Just be careful, because what it really is is a vehicle for money laundering, yeah right. So just be careful, because you're going to get it's going to get pulled, the rug's going to get pulled, it's just a matter of when.
Speaker 5:I haven't seen any kind of meme coin. That's done well, I mean with the Tua coin or with the. Oh my God, there was another one. That just happened, a really bad one.
Speaker 2:There's a bunch of them. There's the Melania one.
Speaker 3:Yes, the Melania coin. Okay, wait, it's a crazy time.
Speaker 5:I mean, look, some of Gen Z has even decided to purposely go to Red Note and other apps that are very affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party. Yeah, it's kind of crazy that people are like well, the logic behind it is that people were pissed at the US for banning TikTok, for saying that may or may not be spying on us.
Speaker 2:We don't quite know, we have a hunch, yeah, but they're like fine, if you're gonna take away tiktok, we're going to an app that's definitely having us be spied on I know we talked about that on the show last week where it was like that seemed like I, I mean, I, I mad, mad respect to gen z and even like gen a getting in on that game right now and stuff like that, but the practical realities of it, like you said, for people that count on it for their job and things like that it is, you know, it's just kind of. It's just like it was so flippant and then it was such a, it was just such a like a scam that it was just feels gross.
Speaker 5:I would completely agree.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, well, thank you, asher. I appreciate the update Coming up after the break. The one and only, Mr Norman Chad.
Speaker 1:Gambling is part of the culture of America. Gambling is part of the culture of America since even before we were America. I'm Norman Chadd. I know gambling. I've played blackjack and poker. I've bet sports and horse races. I've even hit the slot machines at a Pahrump Nevada 7-Eleven. You say gambling, I say gambling mad. So join me on Gambling Mad with Norman Chadd. Wherever you find your podcasts, follow us on socials at Gambling Mad Show or at Gambling Mad, norman Chad at YouTube, joining us for the interview today.
Speaker 2:He's a legend of the poker world, a World Series of Poker commentator for years, decades and, more importantly, he's a brilliant writer, a humorist and he is the host of Gambling Mad, with Norman Chad In studio today. Mr Norman Chad, thanks for being here, norm, a pleasure.
Speaker 3:You seem so excited.
Speaker 2:You seem so excited.
Speaker 1:Well, when I agreed it had been broached to me as like guy's night out.
Speaker 3:And now.
Speaker 1:I've sat down and it's you know, I've got the lady over here, so Gotcha.
Speaker 3:I mean, like just you know, I'm not even here. All right, that's good.
Speaker 2:Let's go. No, norm, I appreciate having you on the show. We've been working together full disclosure with Gambling Mad now for seven or eight months. I tell this story a lot. When I was in college I didn't like poker but somebody turned on ESPN and they had on the World Series of Poker and it was because of this person in the background, this commentator that was just making fun of everybody, like just going in and just making fun of everybody, and I was like I love this guy. I had no idea that we'd be working together later in life and it's always been curious to me how did you get in to poker commentating and that side of the field.
Speaker 1:Well, I started playing poker. Actually, I was a cesarean birth. There's a little difficulty on the delivery so I was in the maternity ward a little longer than expected, like usually there for a day or two. I was there for three weeks there's a lot of rows of babies and I started playing liar's poker, which you do with dollar bills, like I didn't know how to play actual poker, but with a dollar bill.
Speaker 1:We started playing dollar bills and that got me into poker. And then I played a lot in college and when I moved to Los Angeles I started to better to do because I was between marriages and it was also open 24 hours. It just seemed to me like it was a resting spot for anybody who had no life or was having difficulties in their life. You know, if you lost your job, you're going through a divorce. Just go to the cart room. It's open 24-7. Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's how I feel about casinos right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like Same concept. Yeah, yeah, you know they never close. You know they are cleaned more often than 7-Elevens. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:True, the bathrooms are usually pretty good, actually they're pretty good in Las Vegas. Yeah, and keep the drinks fun.
Speaker 2:Not in Los Angeles casinos.
Speaker 1:No, no in Hollywood Park.
Speaker 2:Casino.
Speaker 1:We always talk home casino. We talk about you know, don't touch anything.
Speaker 1:Wear a hazmat suit if you can, sure, and always with the doors, with your elbows it's a tough place, yeah but yeah, I started playing at hollywood park and I was doing other work for espn and they were going to be doing poker at an extended version for the first time ever 20 years ago and they asked me to consult with the production company because they thought I was more of a poker person than I was. And I really, really wasn't. I wasn't a poker professional, I was just playing on weekends. So I consulted with this production company for months and then they asked me if I wanted to do the poker commentary, which I thought they were joking about, and they said no, we're not going to hire an ex-jock poker pro to do it, and I'd never met them. They said you make us laugh in for a few days.
Speaker 1:And I did think about it for a few days and I asked my best friend about it. He said what's to think about? I said it's poker on TV. What is that? It's old men throwing chips into the middle of the table. And my friend Vinny said yeah, but you don't have much of a career right now.
Speaker 2:I said you know, let poker, you were a columnist.
Speaker 1:And after poker. Yeah, I've always been a sports columnist, a sports writer, and I started writing a sports column at a very young age. I got lucky. So I wrote a sports column for 35 years until the pandemic I ended it. So I was always writing a sports column, but not a regular sports column, like most sports columns go to games and they write about the games. I indeed, was sitting at home just making jokes about what was going on in the sports culture, because it was an oversized, ridiculous culture. Very easy, when that carnival was passing by my front door, to go, hey look, how stupid that is. That's all I did. And now in poker I go hey look, how stupid that is. So I essentially made the transition from just the couch to the poker table saying the same stuff. Amazing.
Speaker 2:And what's great is, I know, if you don't make fun of somebody in a room, you don't like them, so usually it's a sign of affection with you, which is a lost art. It was a different time, say 25 years ago, when you could comment and it wasn't such a politically correct climate. You know that it is now. Who was your, were your influences from a, you know, a comedic standpoint, a writing standpoint, and then also, have you had to curtail that over the years or you've just sort of changed mediums and venues?
Speaker 1:You know, on the politically correct thing you got to be more careful the past five years. Yeah, that doesn't affect me that much. On the comedy level, I was a failed stand-up comic when I came out of college. For two years I just wasn't very good and I stopped doing it because I was going to get married and wanted to have an income for my wife while we were married, until she wanted to divorce me. So I provided that income by doing newspapers full-time. But comedy-wise and I used to study comics. I liked the ones who were. It's much harder and much, much rarer to find somebody who's doing political humor.
Speaker 1:It's a really obviously always offending half the people, as we now know more than ever. Sure, so when I was in high school and college and I'm watching tapes of Mort Saul and Lenny Bruce, and then George Carlin, when he, you know, he was a regular lounge guy and he did like a 180. Yeah, and said I just don't want to be telling mother-in-law jokes, let's talk about the world, yeah, so those guys and Carlin had a remarkable career. I mean, he set a high bar for like 50 years, yeah, and he's talking about what's going on in the culture. So those are the guys I most respected and relevant today.
Speaker 2:So much of what he said today was prescient they're starting a new George.
Speaker 1:I think his daughter, kelly, has something to do about it. They're starting a new George Carlin YouTube where they're going over his old bits and stuff he said 50 years ago, 30 years ago, 15 years ago, all relevant to this moment. All the time he was right more than he was wrong. So that was fun. When I moved into poker, poker's changed a lot even before you get politically correct the poker crowd. When I started 22 years ago, this was essentially pre-online poker, which which grew with when I started to do it. Yeah, just coincidentally so, the old, the other poker players used to have much more of a history, much more of a storyline. Older they might have been lawyers, engineers, full-time gamblers. And the new generation of poker that came in when I started to do it were guys who played online from the time they were 16 years old. They just were in front of a computer. You know, like this dame over here.
Speaker 4:She just buries herself in the damn computer all day.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, and if Jesus walked by and said hi to her, she'd go yeah, good, you wouldn't see it. And oh my.
Speaker 4:God, I miss Jesus, why?
Speaker 1:Because she's playing Angry Birds. You don't play Angry Birds on there All the time, all the time. But the new group was harder to talk about because they didn't have any history.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know everybody's got a story or their phones. Since they're 16 years old, they hadn't been out and about Plus. They look at the game differently. So when I'm broadcasting and I'm talking about a story or somebody's jacket or something, they are much more dialed into the strategy and the analytics and all that. So they don't connect with me and I don't connect with them, which has been difficult.
Speaker 2:What's the craziest thing that you've seen as of late, or what probably sticks out in your mind the most?
Speaker 1:Well, we've had people cry at the table, which happens. There is crying in poker because the emotions can get high. But what always amazes me about most of them, especially the ones who are just pure gamblers and those are the ones that Dora Brunson used to talk about you essentially have no respect for money, yeah, so they're willing to go to the nosebleed stakes, they're willing to go from penthouse to outhouse, be rich, be poor. They don't know how much a loaf of bread costs in the market. They haven't been in the market for 20 years and just I was always amazed at how much gamble they have in them.
Speaker 1:You know a lot of the poker players like to play golf. They gamble like to play golf. They gamble for high stakes on the golf course, even when they're playing in a poker tournament in which the buy-in wasn't that much. They'll do what we call prop bets, which they're betting on which cards are going to come out onto the board. They're going to be more red or more black, and while they can be playing a $1,500 tournament and they're paying $1,000 every time the flop comes out of three cards, they're betting $1,000 on I got red, you got black, and if it's all black or all red. That's 5K instead of 1K, so the fact that their mentality can be just into that while they're supposed to be playing at the highest level of their game just always amazes me. That that's just the way their brain functions.
Speaker 3:I feel like it's like it reminds me of the kids when I was in school that were like I bet you can't. They had to just have a bet on everything, or I dare you to. They just have that mentality where they constantly have to be in competition. They constantly have to figure out a way to be on top or or win something like there's.
Speaker 1:There's something about that so there's two things you just mentioned by accident that are very smart. One is that a lot of these guys always have to be in action, as you just mentioned. That gets their adrenaline flowing. And the reason gambling is a difficult addiction, as with narcotics is you get a high from a certain narcotic or a certain gambling and then to reach that same high you have to keep going up higher. You have to get it in yeah.
Speaker 1:And so they go above their head and that's a problem, as it is with drugs. So they always have to be in action. Like you said, they will bet on anything.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They'll bet on traffic signals changing and if there's going to be more than odd number of people who come across the crosswalk signal over that, or an even number during the 15 seconds that they can cross Stuff like that, they need the action. That's the first thing. And the second thing, as you mentioned, is they're incredibly competitive. A lot of them often come from sports, where they had an injury where they couldn't play anymore or their career was over. And to keep fulfilling that competitive nature, well, you move into poker or golf or something like that.
Speaker 1:That makes sense and poker you can play year-round, you know, and the weather doesn't make a difference. So they're both action junkies and they're very, very competitive.
Speaker 2:You know it's a stressful world, especially we talk about. Poker. Rooms are always open and things like that during the fires out here. You know, and you know the poker room's still going. You know it's like people lose their house. Go play poker.
Speaker 1:Probably you're not even making that up. Literally we counted in my game I play, which dozens and dozens of people play, but we had 17 regulars in that game. Four lost their homes in the fire and two were playing in the game the next day.
Speaker 2:Wow, wow and one of them said where else am I going to go? Well, fair, that's a fair point, sure.
Speaker 1:And the other one it was our regular day and he said I come in. So yeah, what compels you to write? You think I've always been. I felt bad because my parents used to say go out and play with the kids. You know, go play kickball, go play soft. I said I like to observe more than I like to participate, which is not a good way to go through life, by the way you're always on the sideline but, you know that's why I used to love I could sit in a cafe and movies have done versions of this and I think what's the current therapy show?
Speaker 1:Shrinking they do something that I've been doing my whole life. They sit in the train station and they watch the people on the other side. What does he do for a living?
Speaker 5:What do you think this guy's from? I can send the cafe all day.
Speaker 2:I love doing that.
Speaker 3:I love doing that, I do it in the car right at home, we do it here because we have the windows out to Wilshire, Everybody that walks by we're like let me tell you about this guy, problems all around me and I did a rant once on you know, like I didn't even have to have a broken leg at the time.
Speaker 1:But I'm on a broken leg and I'm on a scooter and crutches and I'm second in line at the grocery store and they open up the next register as I'm walking over there on crutches, you know three people race in front of me from back of the line and I go what the f? I mean? You know we're living in a society. How can you just butt in front of somebody who's on crutches?
Speaker 3:So that stuff always occurs to me and it's not healthy and that's why when my wife, my current wife and final wife Glad you were specific about that, yeah we agreed it's till death.
Speaker 1:do us part. So we will kill each other before we divorce each other Before we divorce.
Speaker 3:I like that Okay.
Speaker 1:But when she sent me the therapy for the first time five or six years ago and he taught me cognitive behavioral therapy, because I told him this happens, that happens he said, okay, what do you got to do? Stop right there, because these are all just moments that are. And he taught me how to then think of something positive, bright. It can be something from when you're five years old, it can be your favorite ice cream flavor, but get that out. But that's what always drives my anger and writing and whatever it is, it's just sort of again the absurdity and a lot of times the injustice of the carousel around us as it's gotten worse and worse, just in America, with just a lot of injustice.
Speaker 2:It is a challenging time that we're walking into, but at the same time, plenty of material right. I mean it, just it's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I again like. For instance, people told Stephen Colbert, who I watched a lot during the first Trump presidency, that maybe he's happy that he's coming back because it's more material. Stephen Colbert has actually got a good heart, whether you think he's funny or not, I find him funny.
Speaker 1:But he said no, this is worse. I would prefer not to have this cathartic experience. I prefer not to. I switched over to Blue Sky for a while instead of X, and I'm on both. But X and Blue Sky are just like Fox News and MSNBC, so there's just two bubbles now online that are equivalent to the cable bubbles. That doesn't help us at all. So we've got to get out of the bubble. Everything is not fight to the death argument. There's nuances and sometimes you disagree with somebody, and it goes that way. It's the way it always was. It goes that way for a while and maybe it'll come back your way. You fight for what you think is right, but now it's. I'm right, you're wrong and you are an idiot. I'm right, you're wrong and you're a moron.
Speaker 2:You're a radical leftist.
Speaker 1:They just call you names instead of coming back with arguments.
Speaker 2:by the way, what do you think about stripping the CDC and leaving the WHO and stuff like that?
Speaker 3:And the Paris Agreement.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what do you think about the Paris Agreement he said he was going to do and everything? What I'm concerned about is, on day one, obama left him, in 2017, a pandemic response 800 page pandemic response outline and he got rid of it on day one and, uh, we know we don't have to guess what happened. We know what happened and the mismanagement of things. I'm curious, because that one was that the fact that he's stripping all the language he's, he's pulling the ability for the scientists at the cdc and stuff to tell us about bird flu to tell us about and then you have um, you know dude who puts bear carcass on roof, you know, as a potential for our health and human services, when, at the same time, we're not allowed to actually hear from science that isn't bought and sold somewhere. What do you think about that? Where we're at with that?
Speaker 1:Well, this is actually worse than the pandemic response to me, and it's kind of hard to be worse than the pandemic response, right. First of all with the Paris Climate Agreement that we've pulled out of. There's four nations in the world who aren't part of it. It doesn't matter what the other three nations are. There's 190 nations that said, yeah, this is probably a problem. And there's us and three others that say no, we're not going to do it. That's probably a bad sign.
Speaker 2:It's Yemen, I put Okay, I don't want you to do not taint Yemen. That's true. All I was saying is we're in with Yemen, who have given the middle finger to climate change, right?
Speaker 1:Yes, Okay, so let's just go on this thing that you just Shout out to Yemen. You can't convince people to follow science anymore. No, when it came to the pandemic, there was an evenly divided scientific community. Let's say, about masking and vaccines Okay, I'll give it that. And my point was well, we don't know which way is right. Yeah, okay, I'll give it that. And my point was well, we don't know which way is right. Yeah, but if you're, if we're wrong, let's say, take the masks off and don't vaccine. And it costs people's lives, I'm willing to wear, I don't want to wear a mask. Right, it's uncomfortable, I don't want it. But I'm going to wear a mask for a week, a month, three, four months, whatever, because we don't know which way is correct. Yeah, the people on the other side, they label you the worst things in the world. Yeah, that was a 50-50 split. Yeah, and I say you give the benefit of the doubt to saving lives. Yeah, okay, with the climate change, this is, you know, an existential threat to the planet.
Speaker 3:First of all, 95% or more of serious scientists believe that there's a threat right now and the plant will go away.
Speaker 1:So again, if you're in doubt, let's just say it was 50-50.
Speaker 4:This isn't even 50-50. This is 95-50.
Speaker 1:So I've got to give the planet the benefit of the doubt, Even if we're wrong. I'm sorry the businesses are going to have to pay more for this. It's just insane. It's insane. It is insane, but it's a me-first attitude and I'm not gonna pay this and my well, it's gonna happen down the road, but it's bullshit anyway it won't affect me, yeah, so it just kills me that.
Speaker 2:That's the attitude we were all tripping over the um, feeling it in the bottom of my heart, man feeling it in the bottom of my heart right and and it would be so much better if you just own it instead of gaslighting everybody and acting like you're not doing what we know you're doing. When you kind of saw what was going on and then the reactions from everybody online about oh well, it's just roman, salute, you know, which is the? You know at all. That's what it. What was your take on that when you saw the sort of feedback and everything on it?
Speaker 1:you know it's weird. You know elon and this is the understanding of the year you know he's a weird fish. Yeah, he's tough to to pin down on the fact that obviously he has incredible skills business wise, science wise and otherwise that are incredible, that have made him the richest man in the world as far as that went. And I have so many problems with Elon, and again he's got some autistic tendencies. So people, some people are arguing. And again he's got some autistic tendencies. So people, some people are arguing. Again there was a childlike way of expressing himself. He's socially awkward, All that's true. So I wasn't sure what it was. Except, you know, it came, it was bang bang. It wasn't. You know a more casual one, it was bang bang.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he says he's a Jew at heart. He came out after he was a Jew at heart, so maybe you're a Jew-otsy.
Speaker 3:Never heard of a combo that's a new one.
Speaker 2:It is a new combo.
Speaker 1:Like a Labradoodle. You're a Jew-otsy, you're on both sides of the fence. I have so many problems with Elon, that that thing and the fact that he's decided that he's king of the world and he's just entering every Western democracy saying, all right, that person's got to go. You know we're supporting this. You know who, by the way, would have the ego to think, whether you have money or not, that I'm going to decide what Germany should do, what the UK should do what Canada should do.
Speaker 3:Well, that's that false superiority complex that they all have.
Speaker 2:When it gets to that point, there's no bigger dopamine hit. Yeah, there's no stopping you at that point.
Speaker 3:Your way is right. No one can stop you. You have all the money to back you, you have all the brains to back you. But there should be, but there's no rules in place anymore. There's no laws that prevent this or help us in any case. But I feel like there should be some global, you know law that states that you can't control the whole world people, but he's gonna try. No, oh yeah, there's.
Speaker 1:There's no law that you can stop somebody like that, no so so I know some of my some, some jewish friends of mine who know elon, say, trust me, he's not anti-semitic. I think he is, uh, but you don't, you know, you never know. He say, trust me, he's not anti-Semitic. I think he is, but you never know, he's not a Nazi, he's not anti-Semitic. I said, okay, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt there. How about if he's a megalomaniac who believes he should.
Speaker 3:He's a megalomaniac.
Speaker 1:Yeah, You're going to deny that, that he should have power over everything that's happening just because he has, he has, you know he's so I, I, it's hard for me to sympathize with Elon, even in this thing, and I'll just leave it at. Maybe he's a. Jew a Juwazzi and what did you think about when Mr Trump didn't touch the Bible?
Speaker 3:Okay, First of all, the Bible. A lot of hand gestures going on here, but I want to know about this one.
Speaker 1:The Bible caught a break. I don't think you want, I don't think you want Donald Trump touching anything.
Speaker 3:That's a fair point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3:They might have to like republish all of that.
Speaker 1:Speaking of hazmat suits, you know it was amazing when he started selling the Trump Bibles last year. And when he's been interviewed about the Bible being one of his favorite, just some of the greatest sound clips of him interviewing about the Bible's one of his favorite books, yeah, and so, without even trying to do a gotcha moment, so what's, let's say, one of your favorite portions? What's your favorite?
Speaker 1:Oh, there's so much good stuff in there. Of course he say any one thing, but you know, I don't know. Maybe when Amos and Andy came down the mountain, but he's never read the Bible Of course not, it just cracked me up that again it became a big deal that he didn't touch the Bible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you know, when he was at a ceremony in Israel, maybe commemorating some of the hostages that had passed away, that they found their dead? And he was over there on one of his trips that had passed away that they found their dead? He was over there on one of his trips and they had him looking at a Torah the holy, and he asked the rabbi, do you want me to sign it, the whole? Do you want me to sign it? Oh, no, we're good, we're good, we're good. President Trump, he shows Because he knows that if he signs a Torah, I mean, that's on eBay within a week and somebody's making money.
Speaker 3:But again, it's the audacity, the ego to think that you like. Who are you to sign a Torah that's by the way, asia.
Speaker 1:The worst thing about that is, besides the fact that this whole thing, if you take out, you know a leader from Al-Qaeda or something, there's somebody else who's going to replace them. That has the same main site and we have tens of millions of real Trumpers now, but just his family alone. Because I've always complained about the political dynasties, I want to go away. I want the Kennedys to go away, I want the Bushes to go away. I want the Klins to go away. Do you know, sitting in the on-deck circle swinging that bat is Don Jr.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:Don Jr is going to step up big time and that's another generation of Trump and I have no doubt he'll run for president in 32, 36, whatever. Yeah, okay, so yeah, it's the audacity they all have, they somehow, when you see Don Jr interviewed on anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I, when you see Don Jr interviewed on anything, there's an arrogance and I know best and you don't, and you go how, why, and all you were just handed stuff down.
Speaker 2:Before we let you go, it's a segment that we call Don't Tweet Me this Way.
Speaker 3:We basically just pulled some favorite tweets off your page, yeah from people off your Twitter page. Just a few, a few favorites.
Speaker 2:This is from Norman Chad. Norman Chad, my man Elon Musk, not only follows one of the most racist accounts on X, he also is one of the two paid subscribers to get extra content. That's a good bit. That's a good line $5 a month buys you more racism. What a bargain.
Speaker 1:Okay, by the way, is $5 a month buys you more racism. What a bargain. Okay, by the way, is $5 a month to get extra content from that particular person Extra racism, right.
Speaker 2:But Mickey Terp replied back you're still alive, you know.
Speaker 1:Mickey, that one's really supposed to cut close to home, yeah yeah. Oh yeah, you had your 15 minutes in 1985. Yeah, I never thought about you again. What do you they love to go with? Yeah, yeah, you're still alive. At least does it in three words yeah, good for mickey, good for mickey.
Speaker 3:Good for victory this one is is great. You responded to dear joe biden allow me to say your hateful ancient senile ass one more time and you said positive and beautiful content keeps flowing on to X Like polychlorinated bifinil down a sewer drain and the response from Riley Sampson keep crying, sissy.
Speaker 1:Oh, keep crying, sissy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I feel, like you get called a sissy. Quite a bit you get called. This is a common theme here.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, by the way, that was the positive and beautiful thing is, whatever the Biden thing I was citing, that somebody wrote was in the first 24 hours after Elon had asked and he broke his own rule within 24 minutes. I want more beautiful, positive, informative content on this platform. Yeah, positive informative content on this platform, and then I mean he's still out there. So anyway, yeah, if you, they question. If you are a man, they question your manhood if they disagree with you Sissy is one of the nicer words they use. That's true.
Speaker 3:Sissy is kind of like kind, you know. Yeah, oh.
Speaker 1:I never knew. I had to look up the word cuck about two years ago. I never knew the word cuck. Everyone was calling me a cuck. They used to call me a tool.
Speaker 2:I went from a tool to a cuck. Well, let me do this one. This is Norman Chad Time for another edition of Trump Tittle Tattle, where we break down all the damage being done by President-elect Donald Trump this week. Billy the Kid 17, hits back and says Norman Chad, the communist little twat.
Speaker 3:Twat See twat is a great word, twat is a good one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know they got you on three counts there the communist, the little and the twat. That's a triple banger, you don't see twat a lot.
Speaker 3:And this is from Chris22730890. You know, that's when you've got, like you know.
Speaker 2:There's no chance. That's a Russian bot. There's no chance.
Speaker 3:That's a Russian bot, zero chance that's a Russian bot, no chance, and I love that they used a little Charlie Brown symbol.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's cool too. It's cute.
Speaker 3:And they're holding a gas can and lighting something up, so I think it's a safe bet. You and Donald Trump have a few things in common. I am sure your mitts are small. Multiple divorces, popular catch with small hands Phrases from 20 years ago. You're definitely funnier.
Speaker 1:I wonder if he knows your name or if he's ever tweeted about you.
Speaker 3:He does not know my name. They're giving you a lot of credit here, though he does not know my name.
Speaker 1:I don't think he's ever tweeted about me.
Speaker 5:Yeah, there is a compliment in there. There was in there. That's what I'm saying. He said I was fun.
Speaker 1:I think Donald Trump is accidentally funnier than almost any of us.
Speaker 2:He really is he really is?
Speaker 1:Let me relate to you. Yeah, because when I in the earlier kinder gentler time, before the internet, people used to write letters to the editor or they would write you personally. So when I was writing a column in the late 1980s at the Washington Post, I received a letter. Remember someone since had a letter. It's a lot harder than sitting in your pajamas and going. You're a little what-a-twot.
Speaker 1:Boom, yeah, yeah, yeah so easy yeah, you've got to find a pen paper, write it out or type it out, get an envelope, get a stamp and they'll go take it to the mailbox. By the way, the guy had a return address, oh shit, which again. So he wasn't anonymous because this was there was like rules back then. Okay, it's a whole different ballgame then, and this was the greatest critical letter I ever received from a reader, and it goes from zero to 60 in a hurry. Okay, he was unhappy with my work. Norman, does your HMO cover the bad back you undoubtedly have from bending over every morning to suck your own that I went into my assistant sports center. My boss wasn't there. Hire this guy. It's really brilliant writing.
Speaker 2:It's incredible writing.
Speaker 5:Do you?
Speaker 2:understand, he got a beginning middle and end.
Speaker 3:here I mean the efficiency and the wordplay immediately.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, it's actually really fucking brilliant.
Speaker 3:I'd hire him, let it in. I mean the efficiency and the wordplay immediately.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, it's actually really fucking brilliant, I'd hire him.
Speaker 1:I'm in. I say that Unfortunately, I've lost the letter which I had in a box.
Speaker 3:Oh wow, I always wrote it down, you frame it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would frame it.
Speaker 3:I can't believe I still don't have it. I hope this guy shows up on one day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm here for it. Definitely. Have you seen Roseanne Barr's rap video.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was one of those things where you can't unsee once you see it and, by the way, I was going to turn it off after 10 seconds.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But it was just like a volcanic tornado, like just twisting me in and down, yeah, and I couldn't turn it off. Did you watch it? We did.
Speaker 3:We did yeah.
Speaker 2:It was painful in a sense. Well, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's painful. In that I love it, because they're dunking on liberals right and so this is the time. Go for it, dunk all over liberals. I get it, but I don't think any of this gloating is going to age well in a real, consequential way, and that's where I don't. When it starts to matter, I don't know. Shame, left the building a long time ago. So when that actually matters, I don't know, but I that's the only part of it where it's like wow, I hope there's going to be a bad look for a lot of people.
Speaker 1:It should be and there should be bad karma there. It's the old thing about. You won the election, so why are you gloating this way and why are you a sore winner, sore loser? We understand Sore winner is really a bad look, yeah, but it's the way of the world. Now I mean, it's just, it's just incredible.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I just wonder like what kind of um casting uh director they went through for because so, so I so like you. After like 10 seconds I was just gonna like I I was, I was over it. It was so hideous and hein, I really didn't want to watch it anymore. But what was even more interesting to me was to look at the people in the background and I went face to face and if I had to be a nice person right now, I would say such a beautiful mix of Americans on that video.
Speaker 2:Norman Chad. Make sure to check Gambling Mad with Norman Chad everywhere you find your podcasts, and thank you so much for sitting with us. This was an absolute joy. Yeah, it was a pleasure.
Speaker 4:Join me Sasha Peters on Women in the New Season 2, where we bear it all except for our bodies. Leave that to your imagination. My wish for women is that we strip away the fear of judgment and really embrace the full spectrum of who we are. I don't know if you were coming to terms with being pregnant on the show. Yeah, I think she was a little depressed. Let's live boldly and openly and change the narratives that define us. I called my doctor. I'm like I want to drive my car through a brick wall. We deserve it and there's no better time than now.
Speaker 2:Let's get out of our comfort zone and get down to the bottom of who we are. All right, god love Mr Norman Chad. He's you know. Like I said, he's one of my favorite dudes.
Speaker 3:He's just comedy hour. It's brilliant.
Speaker 2:If he doesn't make fun of you, he doesn't like you. Which.
Speaker 3:I learned very quickly on day one. Yeah sure he did a lot of making fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's still making fun of Asher.
Speaker 3:That's why he loves me. No, totally.
Speaker 2:He never stops, I know. So, all right, we lied. We do have some good news. Several weeks later, la fires are still burning in places, but the good news is we're making excellent progress.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah, I mean we have been doing, you know, we've been working the fires pretty much since day one. You know which we mentioned on the last show evacuations, doing rescues. It's still very rough out there, but I mean we've had some great successes with, you know, know, rescues, people being reunited to their um you know, for loved ones um so there's.
Speaker 3:So there's some good stuff going on, you know yeah um, and then we also had, you know, just aside from the fires, you know, shelters are getting more crowded. A lot's going on in the shelter world right now, um, in trying to move dogs and make space for some of the fire. You you know, dogs that are coming in, ones that are being surrendered. So we had two dogs, bluey and Marble, that were both found themselves on the euthanasia list and we were able to get them and I actually sent them to a friend in Vegas and they're doing like marvelous right now.
Speaker 4:So yeah, what kind, what kind of dogs?
Speaker 3:Well, so Marble is kind of dogs. Well, so marble is this really cute little aussie. Yeah, and bluey is like a tiny little pocket pity. She was from a hoarding case, um, but just just to see, like I mean, we're gonna show some footage of these guys because when you see them in their kennel yeah and then you see them like not even 12 hours later yeah in my friend's house.
Speaker 3:They're just playing with toys and like they just look, like they're laughing and you know, know, just the happiest little beings ever, even though they were mortified, sitting at the shelter. And it just every single time. It just always makes me think of if we just gave them a chance if we just give these scared little babies a chance.
Speaker 3:you know, people pass them all the time in the shelter because they look scared, they look fearful, they look like they could be aggressive. You get them out of those shelter doors and immediately it's like yeah, voila, yeah, so, yeah, so it was really, really exciting. We also got noah, our little handicap pup, a wheelchair and he has just been flying.
Speaker 3:Hey, he is like cruising. I mean, literally, you guys are going to die when you see this video that we're going to put in the show. He is just vroom, vrooming all over town like like speeding down the sidewalk. And it's just possibly the greatest thing ever. I think I have to watch that video at least three times a day.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 3:And then I'm happy.
Speaker 2:Nice, you know, we'll put it on our, on our tech yeah.
Speaker 3:On our socials and uh.
Speaker 2:You don't want to miss it and, as always you know, make sure to check out Compassion Kind for the most updates as well. More good news actually is the LA Kings are showing their gratitude for the badass MFs at the LA Fire.
Speaker 3:Department. Yeah, I love it. I mean just putting the logo center right in front showing their respect. You know, giving them props. I mean, the LA firefighters have been kicking ass the last two weeks. I have had the pleasure and the honor of working with them in the field and I will say I have not had one bad experience, that's amazing. Not one. Yeah, always nice, always checking in.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Doing the most extras. I mean we've, you know, exchanged phone numbers to check on houses with animals. They really have been instrumental in all the rescue efforts that we've been doing.
Speaker 2:That's amazing. That's amazing. Before we get out of here, buy Popular Demand. I love it. Two scams and a slap. Today I'm in the hot seat again. I think Asia's undefeated and I don't think I've won. I don't think I've won one yet. So we're going to try. Today might be the day. Today might be the day. We'll see, We'll see.
Speaker 3:These are some good ones. Give it to me.
Speaker 5:I'm going to get it, I'm going to pick it.
Speaker 2:So the deal is. I don't know which one of these is true, and you, the listener, don't either, but Asia does, and lay it on me what First local woman wins lottery twice in one week and attributes this luck to daily sock puppet conversations? I mean, I have so many questions about lucky sock puppets, but go ahead. Okay, got it.
Speaker 3:Okay. Next up, we have a mother that delivers two babies from two separate uteruses in two days. Last but not least, that's interesting, okay. City introduces a pet tax to fund public parks, sparking outrage and an epic dog parade wait a minute.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, I have so many questions, so, uh, which one of these is? So there's two scams in here and one slap, I think. I'm going to say I think the dog parade sounds like a scam.
Speaker 3:Correct. Oh, look at me You're doing good. I'm halfway, you're like 50-50.
Speaker 2:All right, but I do have questions about but the dog parade, but put a pin in that. But a dog parade like put a pin in that, and I think the real one is the lady with two utes.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Good job, look at me, look at you winning Two utes, yes.
Speaker 2:That's a please don't at me on this. That is a my Cousin Vinny joke that I threw in because I'm a wordsmith. No, because uterus is just an odd thing to say. I thought utes, no disrespect to uteruses women anywhere.
Speaker 3:Uteruses are amazing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, two different uteruses over two days.
Speaker 3:Yes, she has a rare condition where she had two separate operating uteruses yeah, and got pregnant and instead of twins coming from one uterus, which is the normal yeah um, there's like a 0.03 percent of having babies like this. That's crazy, so just crazy. A medical marvel. Yeah, both babies are good, both babies are healthy and it was just an interesting like two, two, two, you know you know Two days apart, two uteruses, two babies, and that was it Two Utes, two Utes my cousin Vinny.
Speaker 3:I didn't even know you could have two uteruses. I didn't know you could have two Utes.
Speaker 2:Well, congratulations to both the kids and to me and to you for getting it right.
Speaker 3:What 12-1? 12 to one, 12 to one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have the whole year to catch up. You do, but every win is a win, that's right. Every win is a win. So stay tuned and see if I keep getting my butt kicked. But, um, all right, you the listener to slap the power. Thank you guys so much.
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