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Let's kick things off with some news about cryptocurrency. Historically, it's the best investment if you're looking to have your money stolen by a guy whose mattress is 100% for sure on the floor. But now there's one less place for Americans to trade it. This morning, another major blow to the cryptocurrency industry. As the leader of the world's largest crypto exchange, Change pleads guilty to multiple US violations, including money laundering. The feds accused Binance and its CEO, Changpengzhou, of processing more than 100,000 transactions by child abusers, cyber criminals, and even terrorists Of course, Jau has agreed to pay more than $4 billion in fines and step down as CEO, and Binance will no longer do business within the US. What? No, you're telling me that crypto The crypto guy was shady?

The crypto guy was shady? That's so weird.

But he was so nice when he sold me the weapons on the black market.

I'm shocked. You know, there is that one thing that you always say.

Oh, That's right. The one thing. What is it? Oh, everyone in crypto is shady. Have you ever talked to someone who's into crypto and thought to yourself, Wow, what an outstanding human citizen. I I definitely would prefer talking to them rather than shooting myself in the face. But yes, Binance is going to have to shut down in the US, which could jeopardize any American who has money there. To be fair, if you're a non-criminal who's lost money in this, that's on you. Because at this point, investing in crypto is like playing R. Kelly at your wedding. You should know it's not a good choice.

Yeah. Dezia, I got to say, I saw this coming from a mile away. I knew this company sounded fishy from the moment I heard its name.

The name Binance alone, it sounds like a four-year-old trying to say finance.

It sounds like a woke economics course at Oberland. I haven't really picked a currency. I'm more financial.

Basically, a guy with a fake mustache trying to get away with something. Are you guys doing finance? What? No, we do Binance with money.

No, thank you. I'm going to leave my money in the real banks where nothing bad ever happens. Moving on to President Biden. Polls show that he's not doing well with young people who apparently find him sus, mid, and deficient in Riz. All words, I, a young person, know quite well. But Biden has a new policy to win them back.

Biden administration wants to eliminate so-called cord cutting fees. It would be done through a new proposed rule from the SEC, which would require are cable and satellite TV operators to get rid of those early termination fees for subscribers. The agency says those fees really limit a customer's ability to choose the service they want.

Okay, so Biden wants to make it easier for people to cancel cable? This is a bad idea.

I am not just saying that because we're on cable.

No, absolutely not. You're saying it because cable is the lifeblood of the American experience. Cable is about family, tradition.

The Bible, the Constitution.

Yeah, 401k's for the on-air host. We get that, right? Yeah, we do. We do. Nice.

But these fees are essential. I mean, we can't just get rid of them.

No, maybe we even double them.

Yeah, or canceling cable should just be illegal. Maybe the death penalty, is that too much?

It's not too much. Definitely not too much.

I don't even think we should be talking about this right now.

I don't think we should talk about it either. Let's move on. Okay, let's move on to some public safety news.

Recent studies show that women are more likely to be hurt in car crashes. Jordan, the reason is obvious.

Women are bad drivers. What you said It's what you said. It's sexism.

Yeah, sexism. Now the auto industry is finally starting to do something about it.

When it comes to designing crash test dummies, researchers say it's time to get smarter. This is the average female. Engineers in Sweden have developed a dummy based on a woman's body.

More narrow shoulder area and a wider hip area.

It's also lighter and has a lower center of gravity. All things experts say are important to consider when testing collisions at high speeds.

Wow, what a surprise. The cars are designed to be safe for crash test dummies, and the dummies designed to represent men's bodies. Although, to be fair, it's not just the dummies. The study also revealed that right before a crash, men tense up while women usually whisper, Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I will say I'm glad they're finally making changes to the dummies. But if we were worried about accuracy, let's go all the way with this. Why not fill the car with half-eaten takeout containers and a hockey stick that was left in the back seat for the last three months, no matter how many times you told them to bring it in the house? Let's see what happens when that hits a wall at 60 miles an hour. Sorry, Jordan. It's been a tough week. No worries.

Thanks again for driving me to hockey practice.

Yeah, no problem. So thanks to the scientists. And congrats on designing a mannequin that men won't dream about having sex with.

Right, right, right. Totally, totally, definitely. So spot on, spot on, spot on, spot on. Can we move on, please? Yeah. Great.

I'm Ira Madison III. And I'm Louis Fertell. This year, we're excited to bring you new episodes of Keep It covering the Holy Trinity of Awards season, Emmys, Grammys, and the granddaddy of them all, the Oscars. It's like the Super Bowl for Hollywood, but with more sequins and fewer concussions.

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Our guest tonight is a former prosecutor and veteran serving his first term in Congress. He represents North Carolina's 14th Congress district, and he's running for attorney general in North Carolina.

Please welcome Democratic Representative Jeff Jackson. Hot crowd.

Hot crowd.

Congressman Jackson, thank you for being here.

Thank you.

We're so excited to have you. You are an incredibly successful politician, but most people know you from your TikTok videos. You do these incredible explainers that distill down pretty complex issues in a in a really clear, digestible way. Is the intent to simplify these issues for people and get that engagement, or are you really just posting foot pics?

Every consultant in DC told me to go the foot direction. I said that's not what I'm about.

No. You're a hands guy? We know you are. I love a good hand, TikTok. Show me that, that Vogue era. Give me some of this. Let's see those nails then. Lauren Bolbert had a great hands video a few months ago. Great. Is that what you're talking about?

I'm a kitchen table guy.

Right.

I have a kitchen table. I put a camera on the other side. I look into it, I say, Here's the most interesting thing that happened to me in Congress this week. Then I posted to a bunch of different social media platforms. I have been really surprised by the level of interest in this political environment where everyone is yelling at each other all the time. To be able to speak in a normal tone of voice and try to convey some of the complexity and some of the nuance that there would be broad interest for that, I think is really encouraging. I think it's a good sign.

I know. I feel the platforms that we have our conversations on dictate the types of conversations we have. Tiktok is a short attention span platform. What does it say about our democracy that this is where the conversations are happening?

I've been surprised. I wouldn't have expected I post to TikTok, but also Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, the place where most people view is TikTok. When I'm home in my district, constituents come up and they say, Hey, I appreciate what you posted on TikTok. I would not have predicted that. I will tell you I've I have 760,000 some odd constituents. My sense is about 300,000 of them are on TikTok. No. I know TikTok's got all kinds of issues, but I think that reaching my constituents where they are is also something of real value. It should be normal and expected that your elected officials try and use social media to keep you posted about what they're doing. It should be part of our job.

You think... Sure. You think, though, half of your constituents are on TikTok. How many high How old girls do you have in your district?

I've got a lot of young people, but look, there are people of all ages on all of these social media platforms, and every once in a while, you meet a grandma who comes up and says, I really love you on TikTok. So Usually, they mention Facebook, but sometimes TikTok.

You were talking about some of the issues with TikTok. Nikki Haley has just openly spoken about banning TikTok and the security concerns. Do you have those concerns?

Yeah, those concerns are all legit. Look, I have a phone that has one app on it, and that app is TikTok, and that's how I handle that.

That's because you fear what could happen. Because the overall threat is that essentially the Chinese government has access to your information and can influence the discourse because of it.

Those are all absolutely credible concerns. As long as roughly half of my constituents are there, I'm going to try and use it for good and keep them posted about what I'm doing.

I want to talk about some of the people you work with. You called out on your famous TikTok videos that a lot of the people in Congress, you sense, are faking this outrage, that what we're seeing at home is essentially a bunch of people faking it. Who would you put on blast? Who are you talking about?

It doesn't rhyme with Schmarjorie, Schmailer, Schmie. All I will say is this, it's not George Santos.

He's not faking it?

Never a false word from that gentleman. I'll tell you this. I've been in committees and I have watched when the camera turns on, people's personalities change completely right before your eyes. It's really jarring. It is a literal theater, and you've got a handful of people there who are in competition with each other every day to be the most outrageous, which is why it feels like when you look at Congress, they're on this escalator that's just increasingly crazy and angry. It's because they're playing a very specific game to try and get the attention of a very specific group of people. And it's awful and exhausting. Most of the people up there aren't playing that game. The people we keep getting served up, they're playing the Outrage Olympics every day. That's how they treat their job in Congress as the daily tryouts for the Outrage Olympics.

I find it interesting because you have found this success. You don't seem like the outrage guy.

You always seem like you're at an even five.

You got a Nice dad energy.

Good dad. I'm not going to drink with you, but I will pick you up if you drink too much.

Yes, I will. No questions asked. Give me a call, right?

I'm that guy.

Yeah. Why do you think...

Let me say something else. I think right now, that's the dad America needs.

I could also say a tipsy uncle who could whip this country back into shape.

We're dangerously close to that.

Yeah, it's just like, uncle is going to turn on us. We better shape up.

What does boil your blood? Does anything get you going?

Outright political corruption. For example, For example, my state, North Carolina, a horrible history with gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is just letting politicians draw their own districts, because when you do that, they're all going to cheat. My party, when my party had the ability to draw the districts of North Carolina, they always cheated. When I was in the state legislature, the first bill I ever filed was to end gerrymandering, and they sent it to a committee that hasn't met in 20 years. We can't let politicians draw their own districts because they screw the voters every single time No more gerrymandering across the entire country. Sure. Yeah.

Gerrymandering is a huge issue, but how do we fix this cancer on political discourse? How do you solve that?

Don't vote for anyone who isn't explicitly committed to independent redistricting. Independent redistricting is how you solve gerrymandering. If there is any elected official or a candidate who says, Well, I don't know if I'm forward, maybe, maybe not, we should just have a bright line. Jerrymandering Jerrymandering is unethical. There is never a defense for drawing districts to favor one party or the other. Don't vote for anyone who would ever engage in that behavior. That's how we solve it.

You've been in Congress for about 11 months now, and you're planning on getting gerrymandered out, and you're running for attorney general, attorneys general?

It's attorneys general. It's very awkward. Why is that?

Could you do an explainer on why it's attorneys general?

And short TikTok length because it's easier to understand. Also, I think I would get bored for more than 30 seconds of that.

It's a bad decision that someone made a long time ago.

Oh, okay.

You're welcome. We don't have a shortage of those.

But even your This is the role that you're running for right now, would you be able to address gerrymandering?

Absolutely. Look, the attorney general's job is standing up for people. It's the opposite of what you see a lot of in Congress. It's not about the theatrics. It's not about the left or the right. It's just about doing what's right, standing up against political corruption, against business corruption, especially when consumers are getting screwed, and organized crime. We got a huge fentanyl problem in North Carolina. We got it across the entire country. The attorney general gets to be directly involved in handling all of that. It's a really wonderful job.

Wow.

Well, thank you for coming on with us. You seem like the perfect guy for the job, that's for sure. Give it up for Representative Jackson.

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