Nov. 6, 2025

Yes, We Clone: Brady’s Dog, Mamdani’s Win & Trump’s Cage Match

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Zohran Mamdani makes history as New York’s first Muslim mayor, Tom Brady clones his dog because of course he does, and President Trump decides to celebrate his eightieth birthday with a UFC fight on the White House lawn. From politics to pets to the Octagon, it’s another totally normal week in America.

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Caalaruga shark media from Washington, DC, where you don't have

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money for food, but at least there's an octagon. This

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is ballot and Tom Brady has discovered cloning. What could

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go wrong? Let's hit this. I'm Patrick Guttfield. Zoran Mandani

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just became New York City's first Muslim mayor and the

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highest ranking Muslim elected official in American history. He's thirty

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four years old, a self described democratic socialist, and he

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won by doing something politicians are told never to do.

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He was completely himself. Mamdani visited more than fifty mosques

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during the campaign. He prayed while fasting for Ramadan. He

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talked openly about his faith and his immigrant background, and

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he coined the term halal flation while talking to food

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cart vendors about rising prices. If you can win New

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York by inventing economic jargon at a gyro stand, you

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deserve to run the place. His platform was all about affordability,

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labor rights, and taking on corporate power. Basically, he looked

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at New York City rents and said this is insane,

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and voters responded. Finally, someone said it revolutionary stuff. The

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campaign got nasty. Opponents accused him of sympathizing with Hamas

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and being unpatriotic. The attacks crossed into outright islamophobia. Republican

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Congresswoman Elise Stephanie called him a Jihattist candidate for mayor.

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Real subtle, Elise, very measured political discourse. But here's what

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Mamdani did. He didn't back down. He addressed the bigotry

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head on, talked about his own experiences with discrimination, and

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kept campaigning. Turns out, voters appreciated someone who dealt with

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the attacks instead of cowering from them. More than two

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decades after nine to eleven, an attack that fundamentally changed

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how Muslims are viewed in America, especially in New York.

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The city just elected a Muslim mayor. The same city

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that became ground zero is now led by someone who

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had to explain his beard wasn't manipulated to look more

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threatening in campaign photos. Yes, that actually happened. A super

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pack supporting Andrew Cuomo put out a flyer that appeared

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to darken and lengthened Mamdanni's beard, very normal campaign tactics.

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Donald Trump called Mam Donnie a radical and a communist.

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Then Trump endorsed Cuomo and threatened to withhold federal funds

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from New York if Mam Donni won. Mam Donni won anyway,

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with more than fifty percent of the vote. He beat

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a former governor from a political dynasty. In his victory speech,

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he wished Cuomo well in private life and promised never

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to say his name again, which he immediately violated by

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saying it while promising not to. But the gesture was there.

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So New York just made history. The city that never

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sleeps just elected its youngest mayor in over a century,

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its first Muslim mayor, and its first South Asian mayor,

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and he did it by talking about Halal Flachon and

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refusing to apologize for who he is. Tom Brady's new dog, Juny,

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is a clone of his old dog Lua. The former

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quarterback actually cloned his pet, and sources say Bill Belichick

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has already called to ask if they can do the

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same thing with Tom Brady announced this Tuesday, the same

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day that Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company he's an investor in,

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revealed its acquiring Viagin Pets and Equine. Viagin is the

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company that previously cloned dogs for Barbara Streisand and Paris Hilton. Apparently,

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when you're rich and famous, grief looks different. Most people

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get a sympathy card. Celebrities get a genetically identical replacement.

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Lua was a pit bull mix that Brady shared with

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his ex wife, Giselle Bunchen and their children. She died

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in December twenty twenty three. Before she died, Brady had

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scientists collect a blood sample. Then they used it to

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create Juni, who is genetically identical to Lua. Brady called

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it non invasive cloning technology through a simple blood draw. Simple,

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just like getting your cholesterol checked, except at the end

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you get a puppy that's identical to your dead dog.

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Super normal stuff. He released a statement saying the company

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gave my family a second chance with the clone of

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our beloved dog, a second chance. Tom Brady cannot accept

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that anything ends. Seven Super Bowl rings weren't enough. Playing

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until he was forty five wasn't enough. Now even his

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dog gets overtime. Bill Belichick, currently coaching at North Carolina

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and experiencing what experts call a complete disaster, reportedly wants

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to know if the technology works on quarterbacks. His team

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is two to nine. He's probably watching this news thinking

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can we get twenty twenty seven Tom, or even twenty

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fifteen Tom. I'll take twenty eleven Tom. At this point,

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Colossal Biosciences is the same company trying to bring back

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extinct animals. In April, they announced they'd created three dire

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wolf pups. In September they said they're making progress on

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bringing back the Dodo bird. These people look at extinction

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and say challenge accepted, which explains why they had no

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problem helping Tom Brady, who famously doesn't understand the concept

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of finished. Here's what's wild. Juny is genetically identical to Lua,

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but she's not actually Lua. She's a different dog with

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the same DNA, different experiences, different personality. To put this

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in simple terms, imagine Tom Brady on the jets. He

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might look the same, but the outcome would be vastly different.

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President Trump is hosting a UFC fight on the White

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House lawn for his eightieth birthday, and yes, it will

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be televised. According to Variety, Trump and UFC CEO Dana

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White will be spearheading the telecast themselves on June fourteenth,

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twenty twenty six. The event is officially part of the

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two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration of American Independence, but

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the timing Trump's milestone birthday is purely coincidental. I'm sure.

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Here's how the evening will work. Dignitaries arrive for dinner,

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then everyone heads outside to watch people punch each other

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in an octagon set up on the White House lawn.

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Nothing says Happy birthday, mister President quite like a cage

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fighting next to the rose garden. The broadcast is part

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of a seven point seven billion dollar deal between UFC

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and Paramount. Paramount is now owned by David Ellison, whose father,

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Larry Ellison, is a Trump ally and also happens to

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be worth multiple billions of dollars. David Ellison has been

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making changes since taking over in August. He says he

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wants less elitist coverage on Paramount's networks, including CBS News.

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So far that's meant mass layoffs and high profile departures.

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He also appointed Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press

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and someone you might call Maga Curius, as editor in

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chief of CBS News. So to recap, a billionaire's son

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bought a media company, installed new leadership, and the first

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major event is broadcasting the President's Birthday Party UFC fight

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from the White House lawn. The Founding Fathers would be

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so confused. They'd also be confused that portions of today's

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show were made with the help of AI, since they

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didn't have AI back then, and they wouldn't know what

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that is.