Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Halper. And I'm Matt Taivi. How are you doing Katie? Good you. I'm good. I'm keeping it up. I'm I'm I'm as ignorant this week as I was lost. Oh great. Our viewers are going to be so glad to hear that. I know. I know. I I like basically just found out that we're Cubos erupting or we're invading or something. But that's not going to stop me from having

opinions. I don't like I know something about it. Right. I mean, Cuba is fairly easy. You know, US denies role in problems. Pretends like it's all the Cuban government fail to mention that there's an embargo, which is especially relevant right now. Well, you'll weigh in on this later. I will. That's right. Yes, that's that's because that's my segment actually. Oh, it is. Yeah. Yeah. I did not know that. I barely knew that myself. So. And I just want to apologize.

Everyone I'm having some tech issues. So you're going to see there's a kind of Blair witch almost quality to to my setup. My usual good camera isn't working. It's kind of cool. It's it's almost like you're giving off some kind of weird energy that's affecting everybody's vision. Like you personally, not your camera. Right. I. Yeah, it's a genus. It's better than a what. Okay. It is better than I predict it will be in our future interview with our two guests Kevin, Gastola, journalist Kevin, Gastola. Shadowproof and the on

authorize disclosure podcasts as well as Gabriel Shipton the brother of Julian Asson, I'd like that that. That was like that way. That was good, right. Yeah. So it's not that we already taped that interview. Because of course we do everything and sequentially. Yeah.

sequentially right. So, but I'm getting the sense that maybe just maybe part of that interview will be worse in terms of the video quality. Then now because I'll have forgotten this trick that I realized, which is that you you turn off the touch.

I'm gonna shut my thing and zoom. Anyway, a lot of fourth wall stuff here, guys. Right. Yeah, exactly. Like who knows what will happen, but that that's one of the possibilities. Right. Yeah. You want to bet some money on it. Obviously, I'm betting that it will happen.

You're betting that it will happen. I'll take a parlay and maybe you can do like a. You know, some kind of some kind of.

What's the world looking for? Oh, this is good. This is this week in Matt at rapidly aging. Yeah, this is this is this is Matt waking up at 338 in the morning today. So.

You have a segment. Yes, that among other things. Yeah. Yeah. Fire alarm dog. Yeah. No. The dogs that off the fire alarm.

Yeah. Just lots of stuff. Actually, not not one of them involved a child this morning, but yeah, I got up early in the morning. That's opening back to sleep. So anyway, for me in the morning, which is like seven.

That's extremely early for you. Yeah. Yeah. But we had to for well, just in case maybe you had to do an interview of some kind. Right. So now we're really pushing this sequential thing. It's like not only an interview after, but we're gonna book the person right before this.

Who knows who it could be. Right. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So we're going to try to do something that we almost never do on the show, which is.

Interview somebody as we're doing the the for food groups. Yeah. So we're going to start adding beefing up the concept a little bit.

So we might as well just get to it. Yeah, we might as well get to it. So Dem suck Republican suck. You know, we're it is not terrible. Yeah. So let's start with Dem suck.

There's a lot to do. And I actually feel bad that I'm focusing on this because there are really important stories. But I think we'll be able to thread the needle with some of them.

I don't think this is an unimportant story. You know what you're right. It's a funny story and people go after us for focusing ever focusing on the Biden's.

Because you know what this is a hashtag, but Trump segment or hashtag, but Trump, but, but Trump's kids. So there's a corruption story or you know what, why call it corruption story. Let's just call it an artistic entrepreneurial story, which is that Hunter Biden is.

Did you know this method? He's actually an artist. I did know that. Yeah. Okay. I didn't know that until very, very recently. So I didn't know that until recently. No. Right. Okay. Got it. Yeah.

So you're going on sale and at a, at a New York City gallery. And this is causing a bit of an ethics stir. And the way that actually, okay, go ahead. Yes.

Or it isn't. Is that that's kind of the problem. Yeah.

Well, the New York Post considers it an ethical problem, but not just that. Actually, Obama's person. Shauve was also critical of it. Obama's own ethics person.

The reason people are critical of it is they think it's, you know, kind of a conflict of interest, I guess, for the Biden. He's making a lot of, I mean, to me, it's very on brand. This is just Hunter Biden's going to Hunter Biden. But I guess people are upset about it.

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