Jan. 29, 2025

RFK Jr.'s WILD Senate Hearing & The Great Gulf Coast Shrimp SCAM!

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Robert F Kennedy Jr. gets grilled harder than imported shrimp as he tries convincing senators he's not anti-vaccine, while restaurants across the Gulf Coast are caught serving up seafood lies! Plus, we've got Paul Pelosi making thirty-eight million dollars disappear faster than his wife can say "I know nothing about those trades!" It's an all-you-can-eat buffet of political shenanigans and seafood switcheroos!

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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From Washington, DC, where RFK Junior is getting deep fried

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in his confirmation hearing to the Gulf of America coast

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where restaurants are serving fake local shrimp.

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This is ballot, that's right.

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But hey, at least Paul Pelosi is getting rich. Let's

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hit this. Here's a major story coming out of Silicon

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Valley today that has Congress and Wall Street buzzing. Paul Pelosi,

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husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, appears to have

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managed to unload thirty eight million dollars in tech stocks,

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including in Vidia, right before a massive market crash.

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Talk about timing now.

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I don't want to suggest anything improper here, but isn't

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it amazing how Paul Pelosi just happened to sell these

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stocks right before in Vidia took a nose dive. According

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to SEC filings, he dumped twenty four million dollars in

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Apple stocks and five million Nvidia on New Year's Eve.

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That's like canceling your beach vacation the day before a

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hurricane hits.

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Just remarkable timing.

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His spokesperson says Nancy had no knowledge of the trades,

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which makes total sense. I mean, who among US doesn't

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make multimillion dollar financial decisions without mentioning it to our spouse. Honey,

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I sold thirty eight million in stocks today. Oh that's nice, dear.

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Can you pass the salt? And let's talk about these

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call options he bought weeks later. For those who don't

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know what those are, they're basically like gambling, but with

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fancier paperwork. It's like saying, I bet you five million

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dollars this stock goes up, instead of I bet you

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five bucks the Jets lose again. AOC went on John

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Stewart's show to call this out, saying people can see

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right through it, and she's right. This is about as

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subtle as showing up to a poker game wearing night

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vision goggles. But hey, at least ninety seven other lawmakers

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are doing it too, because nothing says healthy democracy like

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your representatives playing the stock market with a cheat code.

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It's like they're all standing around the roulette table with

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X ray vision while we're out here trying to read

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the financial tea leaves on Reddit. The best part, all

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of this is technically legal, which really makes you wonder

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who wrote those rules.

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Oh wait.

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In a Senate confirmation hearing, today that can only be

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described as a masterclass in backpedaling.

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Robert F.

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Kennedy Junior tried to convince everyone that he's not anti vaccine,

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you know, despite spending the last decade being anti vaccine. Kennedy,

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who Trump nominated to run Health and Human Services, sat

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there with a straight face and said, I am neither

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anti vaccine nor anti industry, which is like guy Fiery

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claiming he's never been to Flavor Town. When Senator Bennett

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asked him about claiming lyme disease was an endeered bioweapon,

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Kennedy's response was basically, oh, yeah, I probably did say that.

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That's not exactly a confidence inspiring answer from someone trying

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to run American health care. It's like interviewing a babysitter

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who says, yeah, I probably did tell the kids the

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monster under the bed was real. The highlight came when

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Kennedy tried dancing around his past statements about COVID nineteen

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being engineered to spare certain ethnic groups.

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He claimed he was.

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Just quoting a study, a study that, surprise, surprise, says

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nothing of the sort. And then there's the abortion issue.

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When asked about his complete one hundred and eighty degree

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turn on abortion rights. Kennedy kept repeating every abortion is

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a tragedy like a broken record. Senator Hassan asked him

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point blank when he decided to sell out his values

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for power. His response, I serve at the pleasure of

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the president. That's politicians speak for. I'll believe whatever keeps

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me employed. Meanwhile, twenty four thousand health professionals signed and

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a letter basically saying, please, for the love of science,

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don't put this man in charge of our nation's health.

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When that many doctors agree on something, maybe we should listen.

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That's like twenty four thousand meter rologists telling you to

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bring an umbrella and you deciding to go swimming instead.

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Trump's out here claiming we sent fifty million dollars worth

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of condoms to Gaza, which would be quite the care

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package if it were true. But according to actual data,

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you know those pesky things called facts, us AID sent

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sixty point eight million dollars in contraceptives around the world,

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with most of it going to Africa and the Middle East.

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The entire region got less than forty six thousand dollars

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worth of contraceptives. All of it went to Jordan, not Gaza.

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Zero zilch nada. That's like claiming your neighbor ordered a

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thousand pizzas when they actually just got a side salad.

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You've got to appreciate the irony here. Trump's statement is

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about as act curate as claiming maraa Lago is a

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humble cottage.

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You know what's happening.

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At restaurants across the Gulf coast a massive case of

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seafood catfishing. New studies just revealed that restaurants are serving

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up imported shrimp while claiming it's fresh from the Gulf

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of Mexico, I mean America. It's like the maritime version

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of putting a designer label on a swap meat handbag.

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The numbers are mind boggling.

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In Tampa Bay, ninety six percent of restaurants tested, we're

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passing off foreign shrimp as local Gulf of America shrimp.

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That means out of forty four restaurants tested, only two

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were actually.

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Serving the real deal. Two.

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You've got better odds of finding an honest politician than

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finding actual Gulf of America shrimp. And Tampa and it's

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not just Florida. In Biloxi, eighty two percent of restaurants

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were playing seafood Switcheroot Galveston fifty nine percent. Even in

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Baton Rouge, more than one in four restaurants were serving

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up imported shrimp with a side of lies. Now some

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brave souls in Louisiana and Alabama are fighting back. They

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passed laws saying restaurants have to tell you where their

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shrimp actually came from. Revolutionary concept, right telling customers the truth.

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What's next restaurants admitting their housemade desserts came from Costco.

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The best part, scientists developed this new test that can

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tell you where a shrimp's really from in two hours.

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It's like CSI Seafood Edition. Before this, it took five

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days to figure out if your shrimp was local or not.

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By then, you've already eaten the evidence and posted it

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on Instagram with hashtag fresh seafood.

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Here's a pro tip.

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Next time you're at a coastal restaurant bragging about their

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fresh golf shrimp, asked to see the box that came in.

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If the server starts sweating more than a shrimp at

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a crawfish boil, you might want to reconsider your order.

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Portions of today's show were not made with the help

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of any inside information from Nancy Pelosi.

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Definitely not, but we did use AI