Aug 13, 2026 · 19 min · 9 segments
Keeping it up during this break between seasons, we compiled some of our favorite moments from Season One of It’s Open and reorganized them around themes that have cropped up. Over and over again this…
Why do we have billionaires?
I actually don't – like I would really like to have a debate with someone who is pro-billionaire and we should talk about the positive and negative aspects of people being able to have over $1 billion each.
Because if you think about it just logically – All they do with that extra money is buy shit they don't need, more of it, and they used it to control and undermine our democratic process.
So it's a negative, and obviously the money could be used for so many other things like child care and health care and, you know, anyway.
My head explodes.
But we could do that.
Right? I mean, if both parties weren't bought off by the corporations, or at least sizable majorities of each, then we could...
You can tax things at 99%.
You can say, yeah, you can't have that money.
You don't deserve that money.
Because also the
Yeah.
You're always going to have a billion dollars.
So cry me a river.
You've got many, many houses.
You've got boats.
You've got cars.
You've got planes.
You never have to work a day in your life.
You can live off the interest of the money you've already made.
Why do we have billionaires?
I actually don't – like I would really like to have a debate with someone who is pro-billionaire and we should talk about the positive and negative aspects of people being able to have over $1 billion each.
Because if you think about it just logically – All they do with that extra money is buy shit they don't need, more of it, and they used it to control and undermine our democratic process.
So it's a negative, and obviously the money could be used for so many other things like child care and health care and, you know, anyway.
My head explodes.
But we could do that.
Right? I mean, if both parties weren't bought off by the corporations, or at least sizable majorities of each, then we could...
You can tax things at 99%.
You can say, yeah, you can't have that money.
You don't deserve that money.
Because also the
Yeah.
You're always going to have a billion dollars.
So cry me a river.
You've got many, many houses.
You've got boats.
You've got cars.
You've got planes.
You never have to work a day in your life.
You can live off the interest of the money you've already made.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.