 So, there was a terrific article in Politico back in 2017 why Republicans can't find the big voter fraud conspiracy. So, all this discussion about vote fraud has been going on since the National Voter Registration Act passed in 1993, which eased up voting. And it's part of a long disagreement between the two major American political parties. So, the American Democratic Party really got its origins with Andrew Jackson in the 1820s. The modern-day Republican Party got its origins in the 1850s. But even back then, there were controversies between the two parties about voter fraud or voter registration or how easy do you want to make it for people to register to vote? So, there was James Madison Porter. He was Secretary for War in the 1840s. He lived from 1793 to 1862. And he was a conservative. He was on the side of the proto-Republican party. And he notes that one of the leading characteristics of distinction between the two great and leading political parties of this country when we had parties formed on principle was the fact that the federal party, meaning the proto-Republican party, was for restraining the right of suffrage, right? Wanted to restrict the vote. And by contrast, Democrats wanted to make the vote as easy as possible. So, modern political distinctions got their shape with the Democrats, with the French parliament at the end of the 18th century. So, parties that supported the king sat to his right. Parties that did not support the king sat to his left. But there are more fundamental distinctions that go back to, you know, thousands of years. And those are essentially the differences between left. Do you prioritize hierarchy or do you prioritize equality? How easy should it be to S-post? Says Elliot Blatt. Oh ho, Loponius Meridius Maximus is here. I know people can't wait to talk about vote fraud. And I've got an inspiring story for you coming up. How a Montana mom became a leader in fighting anti-Semitism. We're talking about the heroic Tanya Gush. Oh, I forgot to send the invite to do it. As soon as Doovid gets here, we're going to talk about the Tanya Gush story. So, let me pull it together here. I was saying, I probably should take a break first, but let me just get this thought out. Listen to this headline. Bar Mitzvah Tudor, guilty in molestation. Now, I've got to tell you something. I'm a Bar Mitzvah boy. And you take these Bar Mitzvah lessons. I was tutored in Bar Mitzvah. Are you alone with the gun? Yeah, sometimes. Yes, yes you are. I had only wished my tutor would have blown me. I'd rather be blown. Get out of here, Howard. I'd rather be blown by an old rabbi than sit there and learn this fucking... I mean, this Hebrew... It would have been so traumatizing to you to look down and see that going on. Robin, my rabbi was as heinous as could be. The guy who taught me my Haftora smelled. He was a big, thick thick guy with two different ones. I would rather they pulled my pants down and suck me up and sit there and learn this Hebrew, which I have never used. No one ever taught me how to translate it. It was the biggest waste of my time reciting this what they call a Haftora in Hebrew. It was like learning Klingon. Learning Klingon would have been more useful because Klingon, at least I could get on the radio and impress you with. I could, you know, say, hey, I'm going to speak Klingon now. You would sit there and go, hey, that's pretty cool. It was a ridiculous thing. I spent years of my life studying this Torah, but not in English, in Hebrew, that I don't speak. And to have the dried-out, bearded lips of a rabbi wrapped around my cock would have been preferable. That's what I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. Don't let me have that. Blow me off my arms. If you dare. Least you've gotten this, you know you won't be affected if you do. Let me tell you one thing. I'd rather blow you than try to teach you Hebrew. Exactly, I mean, it's just unbelievable. I mean, so anyway, Bar Mitzvah, a tutor, took to Stan to deny molesting teens, but he didn't convince a Brooklyn judge who convicted him of sexually abusing two victims. Jonah Weinberg, he was equated to eight other towns including a felony, but still faces up to 31 towns. I wish he would blow me 31 times as long as I did not to learn that thing. 31, that's Money Bastard. My God, heaven. At least I would have been up to something interesting. room except that they have to do that while he was of course he has to do it while the lesson because you have to learn it how people will get wise that he's not really teaching what does that mean what use is that to me I had to learn that song and those words for two years with no vowels in these weird letters well and it makes no sense well blowjob from the rabbi okay at least makes me interesting you know why something going on to get to Hebrew school if I was a student I would have begged them to blow me do anything to get this boredom over with wine burger social worker was found guilty molesting one boy in his home and a synagogue ritual bath I would have loved a bath and the other in a van and he used and the yeshiva stairwell well you didn't tell me it was romantic that's right you wish a guy would give you a bath how come these guys are so gentle with young boys let's have a guy bathe you and it sounds like your teacher never took a bath oh yeah you have no idea the original battle I swear to God okay let's let's get serious here let's cool it with the anti-semitism we'll keep an eye on the tiger woods story apparently he was going at a high rate of knots about 7 12 a.m. when he rolled his car in palace birdies suffered leg injuries and we'll keep an eye on this story apparently early word is that alcohol was not involved anyway I'm I'm enjoying this Lorraine Maniti book the myth of voter fraud there's just so much to learn here federal monitoring of elections been around since the reconstruction period usually being directed toward defending constitutionally protected voting rights minority groups of the polls alright press one in the chart if you come to this show primarily for information press two in the chart if you come to the show primarily for entertainment press three if you primarily come to the show for spiritual wisdom and press four in the chat if you primarily come to this live stream for the community so for the vast majority of Americans committing an act of voter fraud so forging a voter registration card stealing an identity to vote more than once to knowingly vote illegally is even more irrational than the individual act of voting what would an individual voter on their own get out of committing an election crime the incentives to cast an illegal ballot need to be pretty high to risk a felony conviction and five years in jail so when I talk to people who believe in massive amounts of voter fraud at least the possibility of massive amounts of voter fraud in the 2020 election they understand that people don't do this primarily on an individual basis because they understand that the incentives are strongly against people committing voter fraud for an individual right so on the downside if you get caught you get you can get a felony conviction five years in prison on the upside your one vote may sway an election but your one vote's almost never going to sway an election all right Leponius Maximus Meridius Ford reads yet another book you're saying that I need to go to podcasting school Leponius because that's what it feels like to me I think you want to send me to pod school I mean that's just welcome that's just what I'm hearing hello and welcome to the show today I'm going to be talking about how to be a great co-host I am training a bunch of people at the moment in how to do co-hosted shows and I'm picking up a lot of things that people are doing that I thought it might be really useful to share so that if you are getting into a co-hosted show you can just be as killer a co-host as possible so let's kick it off one of the first things that you need to do if you are going to be in a co-hosted show is that you must always turn up prepared even if your co-host is going to be running the content of the show or even if you break your show up into little segments and your co-host run some segments and you run others anything that your co-host has responsibility for you need to still be fully briefed on if you are learning about things from scratch when you are actually recording it's going to be a lot harder for you to chip in with anything useful it will also be quite nerve-wracking for you because if you are learning things in the moment as the mics alive you are trusting your brain to work overtime to come up with things in the moment that will add value it is much easier to think about those things ahead of time have a whole bunch of bullet point things that you can throw into the conversation and then if things happen naturally or something pops into your head oh yeah press five if you come to the show primarily to hear Luke read books aloud okay so there are all sorts of people making bank right hosts are tapping pros to polish their podcast the pandemic has been a boon for services aimed at fledgling shows hosts are tapping pros to polish their podcasts the pandemic has been a boon for services aimed at fledgling shows by am cadet photographs by lila on the tulip arane for the wall street journal february 23rd 2021 10 a.m eastern time a net perell knows that anyone with a laptop at a microphone can produce their own podcast at home the manhattan doula tried a few years ago recording a pop culture show with her niece it lasted four episodes so last year in launching a more ambitious effort an interview podcast featuring people of color working in the birthing world she decided to get help most weeks she goes to gotham podcast studio in manhattan to record her hour-long the clear birth podcast with a guest the studio charges her about $400 for each episode to handle the production recording editing at digital distribution no drop in the bucket miss perell who works full-time running her doula business says she'd rather invest the money than spend time producing a podcast and though it's been slow to take off getting 40 downloads an episode the show has produced several new clients not to mention new connections with guests i'm talking with the people i want to meet miss perell says last year the number of podcasts available online through services such as apple podcasts and Spotify more than doubled to 1.7 million according to chartable a manhattan-based podcast reach and engagement measurement service and that in turn has spurred huge demand for services aimed at helping ordinary people become the next joe rogan here in new york city where 25 percent of the world's top 100 podcasts are produced according to chartable fledgling hosts are ponying up for podcasting consulting and coaching services okay so this reminds me when i came to los angeles in march end of march like march 30th of 1994 and my previous girlfriend used to work at the forward modeling agency so she told me oh you should get into modeling so i was i was 27 i mean i think i i think i still had it i mean i i don't like to i don't like to boast but i mean you can judge for yourself like i thought oh maybe you know my girlfriend like she she knew every every inch of me maybe she spotted some hidden talent i never really thought about being an actor or model so i moved to los angeles and i knew i needed to get a job so i pick up the la weekly i look at the help wanted and uh it's dominated by people apparently they want actors and models so i was like oh bloody hell 40 40 40 is going to be an actor and a model so i thought i'd check it out and uh that there are all these ads like promising you know wonderful wonderful ways to expand your launch your acting you know modeling career so i i i landed an agent debbie durkin and uh this was really exciting and okay it had the downside she wanted me to take these expensive glasses that would be like $2,500 for like a two-day intensive but it was really intense so i think they might have got my money's worth she sent me out on about 20 auditions i even got one call back uh i didn't land anything through her but i kind of got to experience hollywood and it's just so erotically charged it was very exciting after six years on my sick bed i figured i should i should at least try to do the very opposite of what i was doing before i got sick so prior to getting sick i was studying calculus getting getting ready for for a degree in economics and so i thought oh acting modeling that's the opposite of studying calculus and and apparently there was a big demand in japan for models and okay i wasn't the most in shape you know i'd been lying in bed for six years but i still had that raw animal charisma and so i'd go to these auditions right sign up for these classes that they promised all these wonderful things i was i was living out of this car this 1977 dust and station wagon but i had towels so i was able to put up towels on against all the windows and get to know the los angeles ladies a little bit better in the intimacy the peace and the quiet of this 1977 dust and station wagon that was very exciting and i i kind of realized that i was being scammed like part of me was saying hey you're being scammed i remember i paid five hundred dollars for one consultation with the manager and uh when i caught him up he said well if you want to know my credentials look me up here i am in profile in life magazine so he was like the real deal so in retrospect i realized that i was essentially paying for a dream like i was paying for people to enable my fantasy so just like pod school right this is the money is in selling people the dream of being podcast stars right so i was paying for the dream i was paying for the the delusion of being a star and so i think most of the people here are paying for uh pod pod school they're getting taken not the pod school who's australian you know the australian host got a lovely accent not that particular pod school she's the best believe me the very best in sessions at podcast studios and hiring freelance editors in their efforts to break through while anyone can produce a podcast at home for free these independent creators are spending anywhere from hundreds to one thousand dollars plus to produce each episode the market is vast because it includes well just about everyone with a mouth dan bobcough an executive producer of podcasts at oxios who teaches a podcasting and storytelling intensive class at nyu school of professional studies says he's been offering the non-credit seven hundred forty nine dollars course six times a year to meet demand from people ranging from college students to retirees students have included a professor launching a science show and a dentist planning a politics podcast i love the class because it's so diverse in every sense of the term mr bobcough says matt peters co-founder and co-owner of gotham podcast studio launched the business in 2017 after failing to find a place to record his own martial arts podcast has since outgrown its base three times and now has a half dozen competitors in manhattan while it's possible to record a decent sounding show at home with a one hundred fifty dollars setup it's not so easy in noisy new york city that's one of the things we bank on mr peters says in rural idaho this wouldn't work basic studio time starts at sixty dollars an hour mr peters says there currently are more than one hundred podcasts recording episodes as venue including five fellows hosting a three-hour podcast about shoes and a jewish nonprofit producing schmaltzy a food show mr peters also is seeing more demand for production packages charging one thousand dollars an episode for a soup to nut service that offers everything from guestbooking to transcription so i went to one of those like shared working spaces and uh they had they had like a podcasting studio i didn't expect that you could i think just for like four hundred five hundred a month you could hang out in the in the hangout space at one of those you know we work operations and look really cool you got a complimentary breakfast and coffee or day and you could be up you know high overlooking beautiful west los angeles and i think the prices started about five hundred dollars a month just to hang out there and then you could have your own small office and then you could rent and use the podcasting studio so this is this is a real thing apparently clients include a long island nursing home and a motivational speaker what do these people have in common everyone wants to make money he says good luck with that the interactive advertising bureau a digital ad marketing industry group projects the sector earned just under one billion dollars in ad revenue last year that works out to roughly five hundred fifty dollars for each podcast most earned nothing on the other hand view of the million plus podcasts available online represents serious efforts only 25 percent of new shows make it past the 10 episode mark says dave zorov co-founder and ceo of chartable the majority are people in their basement just trying it out he says it's like blogs back in the day and for those producing a quality consistent show the economics aren't as daunting as one might imagine advertising sponsors typically pay 25 to 35 dollars for every 1000 downloads assuming two ads for each episode a solo podcast are producing a weekly show okay so i usually average about you know two downloads but what about my plays i get 50 60 plays on my my podcast the mp3 version so i mean are they using downloads as shorthand for plays because i don't do so well with the downloads though could earn a six-figure income off an audience of 50 000 it's also possible for a podcast with an even smaller reach to pay handsomely if it targets the right niche says mathu passi a podcast consultant based in cherry hill new jersey some of his clients which include local financial advisors doctors and lawyers charge advertisers more than 500 dollars for 1000 downloads mr passi says demand okay so at that rate i could probably make about 50 cents per per advertiser per episode right so there's this really good pod school so it's got tons of free podcasts online rachel corbett here ozzy lady that was unexpected great you can add that in but you've also got all of these things written down all of these things that you've already spoken about that means you're never going to be thrown the ball and drop it or have your co-host talking about something and slowly getting to the end of their point and you're sitting there thinking holy crap i have to say something in a second and there is nothing but blank space and a tumbleweed going through my head right now being prepared is not just respectful for your co-host and helpful for them it's also helpful for you because there is no worse feeling than crapping your daks behind the microphone thinking oh my god i've got nothing to add it just gives you a security blanket that means that you can have the confidence to really be there in the moment be present be listening to your co-host and go off on any tangents that present themselves because you've always got the security blanket of that preparation to go back to it will make you a much better performer it will make you more confident it will also make you a much better person to work with from a co-host perspective because you're like oh gosh this person always has something to bring to the table they never leave me hanging they always pick up the ball that's really essential to a good dynamic on a show so make sure that you are prepared so you've always got something to bring just be mindful of not going too over the top with the preparation so with some people that i work with i'll often find that i'll get them to prepare something and then they'll come into the studio and they will have practiced almost word for word what they're going to say so i'll say this and then you say this and then i'll say this and then you'll say that this is a really difficult way to jump into okay i've never had a co-host is that uh that degree of prepared all right what is borderline personality disorder you may be asking personality disorder is like i'll probably mess it up so bpd is something that a lot of us struggle with we may have been told by one person that we're diagnosed with it or we have bpd like symptoms and a lot of us just wonder what the heck does that mean and if i do have it why is there be like it's such a bad thing right now just to give you a little background on what borderline personality disorder is is it's really in my opinion it's our mind's way of coping with things and i'm going to read to you a little bit from the dsm so that you know when someone says you may have bpd like symptoms or you actually have bpd what they're really talking about okay and i'll try to make this very clear and concise because a lot of times people throw words around that don't really pertain to us and i want you to i want to make sure you understand what bpd really is so the dsm states that we have to have five or more of the following and this is the older dsm because a new one isn't quite out yet so um when the new one comes out i'll get it and then we'll see if there's any changes but i don't think there is to this so the first one and the one i've talked about before in another one of my videos is frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandon it and this was in my theory of abandonment um video and this one's probably the most common that i see in borderline patients but like i said you have to have five or more that's only one the second a pattern of unstable or intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation now in the therapy okay so my experience with borderline is everything's fine and then suddenly out of the blue the other party the borderline just gets this massive shame attack which they can't handle and so they translated into anger and rage so everything's going along going along that boom and you have no idea what you did but somehow something you said or did or some memory or something flashed upon her and so the women get this much more than men the other party suddenly gets overwhelmed by such a high amount of rage and anxiety that they lash out so a lot of people when they're distressed when they're struggling when they're hurting when they're in pain when their life doesn't work they can't just sit and handle the pain the distress the anxiety they have to lash out and so borderline is when it's just unpredictable something comes along that triggers such a rush of shame that they can't handle it so you can measure your maturity by how much distress how much stress how much anxiety and suffering you can handle without lashing out at yourself or others okay well we talk about it people putting us on a pedestal or throwing us under the bus so you either love me or you just hate my guts and you wish i go away right it's that okay so this is like many of the people who come into my chat one day they love me one day they hate me so they they oscillate between uh putting me on a pedestal and putting me in the trash heap so this is true for for many of my viewers up and down and that's usually what people will notice first is that because they're in relationships with you so if you're hating them and loving them in two days they're like you know yes it can overlap with npd but uh npd is narcissistic personality disorder and what it has in common with narcissistic personality disorder is this tendency to idealize and then devalue to oscillate between idealize and devalue but with with borderline personality disorder you have no doubt that you're dealing with someone who's very sick so narcissists by and large they they are able to function in the real world but borderline personalities they just have such enormous attacks of shame and then they lash out with enormous amounts of anger so borderlines tend to have much less control of themselves than narcissists and that can be really hard now the third one is identity disturbance markedly and persistently unstable self image or sense of self okay so narcissists don't have identity disturbance they don't have this markedly and persistently unstable self image or sense of self now we're all like well wow well that applies to a lot of people and that's why you have to have at least five of these but i think that that one point is why it's so linked to eating disorders okay because we don't think very highly of ourselves we have a very distorted vision of who we are and what we're about and that can lead to a lot of other things like like eating disorders right then the next one is impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging this could be anything from spending habits like we'll go on spending sprees or it could be set yeah so all the borderlines i've known have been women and they're pretty much all being hot most of them but some of them they they present perfectly normal but they can't sustain relationships and you can go on a date to three dates but it's it's only when she starts spending extensive amounts of time with them that this this rage and rage at others rage at themselves because they're overwhelmed by shame will just start showing up sex where we have sex with a bunch of different strangers and it's not really we're not safe about it and we just act impulsively right it can be any kind of thing like that i think in here they say yeah substance abuse reckless driving binge eating right so women who who give it away fairly easily usually mentally ill so slots disproportionate amount of borderline personality disorder of the personality disorders so again connected to eating disorders right then the next one the fifth one is recurrent suicidal behavior gestures or threats or self-mutilating behavior now okay so narcissists don't uh generally have recurrent suicidal behavior so this is another distinction between borderline personality and narcissists this was my frustration with a new dsm because self-mutilating behavior or self-harm doesn't just occur when we have borderline personality disorder but the dsm only puts it in here so we'll work on that right but a lot of us struggle with suicide and i find with my borderline patients many of them use suicide and suicidal ideation as a way to work on that abandonment because they're afraid someone's going to run away so then we act out and we say well i'm going to commit suicide or i'm hurt myself and and that gets people back in our lives right and that makes sense i can see the connection can't you so that's kind of how that's used the sixth thing is so the borderlines i've no intend to have a lot of std's they tend to slotted out over the weekend often they they make a lot of bad decisions in their sex life uh they most of them have tended to be pretty attractive and you wouldn't know that they were losers just on their immediate appearance effective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood so this is like okay effective instability means they're all over the place emotionally that the one minute they're giggling the next minute they're crying next minute they're filled with rage next minute they're withdrawn and uh they usually kicked off into the more reactive parts of their personality either lashing out at themselves or others when they get such an amount of shame they can't handle so until maybe the last three or four years i would get persistent shame attacks i would i remember something i said or did and i just felt horrible and i just wanted to shrink or interacting with a certain person thinking about a certain person talking to certain people people throwing certain things in my face and i become overwhelmed by shame you're intensely irritable or anxiety and it's usually it lasts for a couple hours so our mood is just unstable it's all over the place i might be really happy one minute and really mad inside the next it's like ah it's all over and it feels really crazy so that but it doesn't usually last more than a couple hours at the most a day if it lasts longer than that then it might be bipolar which i'll talk about in another video let's not get distracted okay on to the next one so number seven is chronic feelings of emptiness now we're all thinking well shit katie i feel like that that's me oh but remember we've got five of these and you may feel like a lot of these pertain to you and i can really connect with that and that's why you may have heard oh you have borderline tendencies or borderline like symptoms right because we don't meet all criteria so that was the seventh there's two more i'm almost done now the eighth is inappropriate intense anger or difficulty controlling anger now this is that i feel like a lot of these kind of go hand in hand but with the eating disorders and self-harm you know how i just talked about in my ptsd video how we're anger out or we're anger in well this is saying that we have inappropriate intense anger so we really don't have a place to put it and we don't really know why it's there but we feel it and it's bad and blah you know so that's another way it relates and the last one is transient stress related paranoia or paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms now that also kind of goes in line with my okay and this is not part of narcissistic personality these so there are a lot of different symptoms here quite different from narcissism and histrionic personality disorder ptsd video because remember how i talked about the ways that we kind of deal with a situation and some of us can actually dissociate like i'm trying to think of what i even talked about my binge when i talk about binging and bulimia when you're kind of an out-of-body experience like i can't handle this i'm stepping out and you're like what so porn stars tend to disassociate uh almost all porn stars were sexually abused as kids they learned to disassociate during sex so that they can put on a performance because it's not really them it's this entirely different character and they kind of float out of their bodies while you know 16 dudes in a row are pronging them so porn stars a lot of troubled women have a dissociative disorder where they kind of leave their bodies and this enables them to be be slots watch yourself doing stuff that's kind of what this association is because we are too intense everything is too intense that we can't even be present like fully present in the in the moment okay so that's what borderline personality disorder is and you can see how it ties into our self-harm behaviors and our eating disorder but remember we have to meet five of those criteria to be properly diagnosed and we may go in and out we may meet some sometimes and some not the other times but that gives you an idea of what it is now the dirty little secret of therapy and kind of something that i think is really important for you to know and i i feel like many therapists might be like well thank god somebody's finally telling people this because i know a lot of you tell me all the time yeah i keep getting passed around and people will say i don't really deal with that and and we don't know what to do we're like well holy moly i've been looking for therapy forever and i finally get to see somebody and then you're like i don't see you great thanks for nothing right and it's really frustrating and that can happen a lot and that even perpetuates our struggle with abandonment if we are bordering right we're like holy moly so why does that happen why why do we feel like we're so like the black sheep and that's really