1 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,600 We're back with another edition of the Federalist School Radio Hour. I'm Emily Dehinci, 2 00:00:20,679 --> 00:00:24,920 culture editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the 3 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,000 show at radio at the Federalist dot com, follow us on Twitter at fdr 4 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:32,359 LST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts and to the premium 5 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:37,000 version of our website as well. The sound of a cold beer being cracked 6 00:00:37,039 --> 00:00:40,479 open can only mean one thing, and that's Christopher Bedford is here from the 7 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:46,119 Common Sense Society. Chris is drinking a crisp Miller Lite which sometimes we call 8 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:50,399 miller Lette in Milwaukee for film Fancy. Chris, welcome back. I'm glad 9 00:00:50,439 --> 00:00:55,359 to be here, and I gratulate you any professionalism on maintaining your opening monologue. 10 00:00:55,359 --> 00:00:58,920 There some of people freak out at the sound. One thing people don't 11 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:03,479 by behind this scenes as we're filming sometimes is that Chris, if I'm talking, 12 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:07,359 will regularly try to distract me was something. Sometimes it's his beer or 13 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:12,280 his rum, which for a while Molly and Mark brought in their basement liquor 14 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:17,719 collection as they were getting rid of it, and Chris just like was pouring 15 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,840 a few inches of rum into a glass every time it came to just a 16 00:01:21,879 --> 00:01:25,359 finger. I don't know about that. But we've got million light today, 17 00:01:25,599 --> 00:01:29,280 which came about because he was looking for water in the fridge. And so 18 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:33,159 one of the reasons I hate going to the Kennedy Center, aside from the 19 00:01:33,159 --> 00:01:38,159 people who go to the Kennedy Center in general, is you can't have a 20 00:01:38,239 --> 00:01:41,719 drink when you're seeing a show. You can, they make you buy one 21 00:01:41,719 --> 00:01:44,319 of the special cups, but you can really Yeah, well, the last 22 00:01:44,359 --> 00:01:47,840 time I was there, which has been a little bit, you couldn't. 23 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:53,959 You had to drink it in the lobby. And so like I like symphony, 24 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:57,879 I like opera, but I never want to be I never want to 25 00:01:57,879 --> 00:02:02,439 watch its feeling like I'm sitting in the worst seat and coach for probably a 26 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:06,920 little bit more than an airplane ticket costs, and I'm unable to even have 27 00:02:06,959 --> 00:02:09,400 a drink, so I would sneak them in because it was dark in there. 28 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:14,400 But one of my friends, Daniel Turner, who's been on this podcast, 29 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:20,759 brought me to see a musical piece where I was unfamiliar with it, 30 00:02:21,199 --> 00:02:23,800 so I didn't know when the pauses were and I was trying to game when 31 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:30,000 the pause and it stopped abruptly and unexpectedly, and it was too late, 32 00:02:30,039 --> 00:02:36,319 and you just heard the snap cracks of my beer and everyone just looked in 33 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:40,159 my direction. And Turner was mortified. And I've missed. Whatever invites he 34 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:45,879 sent me since to join him at the theater have been rerouted in the mail. 35 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:47,479 I've moved a lot, so I don't blame him. You want to 36 00:02:47,479 --> 00:02:52,439 guess the best show that I've ever seen at the Kennedy Center, Tell me 37 00:02:53,240 --> 00:03:00,680 you're gonna love this. The Indigo Girls with the National Symphony Orchestra. My 38 00:03:00,719 --> 00:03:02,319 mom took me to see the Indigo Girls when I was a kid. Your 39 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:06,439 dad, you've told me this story before, Yeah, us all. And 40 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:12,800 my mom was like blissfully unaware of the subculture of like nineties lesbian rock, 41 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:15,840 like the Little a Fair subcult, just didn't know that this was like a 42 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:20,439 thing. Yeah, and we came in. I remember see a nice outdoor 43 00:03:20,439 --> 00:03:23,759 concert on the harbor. My grandfather came and it was it was fine. 44 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,960 It was a good show. Yeah, no, I'm sure it was. 45 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,560 Yeah. You know what's funny is Chris was like, what we're going to 46 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:31,000 talk about today? And I was like, you know, the news cycle 47 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:37,199 which is loaded to the point where it's about to like shatter us all. 48 00:03:37,719 --> 00:03:42,159 And we started this podcast with a couple of minutes on the Kennedy Center and 49 00:03:42,319 --> 00:03:46,639 the Indigo Girls. But meanwhile, there are what four indictments against the former 50 00:03:46,719 --> 00:03:53,039 president, an impeachment inquiry being opened into the current resident, a potential shut 51 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:57,520 down that will happen. There's there's absolutely no do you agree with me on 52 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:59,639 that? I don't think there's any way around the fact that the government is 53 00:03:59,639 --> 00:04:02,080 shutting down. Question now is whether it's September or December. I think it's 54 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,840 going to happen in late September, right around that September three, I hope. 55 00:04:04,879 --> 00:04:10,599 So I hate December shutdowns because then they're like they release these ads like 56 00:04:10,759 --> 00:04:15,800 the Republicans are just just flooded all over his orphanage and all the Christmas presents 57 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,600 were taken away, and Norad cantrac Santa and the children, the son. 58 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:24,839 It's insane. Yeah, I'm a veteran of the first Obama has shutdowns, 59 00:04:24,959 --> 00:04:31,319 Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Mike Lee versus Obama, and even like Joe 60 00:04:31,319 --> 00:04:36,240 Biden fencing off the World War Two monument. Two veterans doesn't come up to 61 00:04:36,319 --> 00:04:43,519 the level of vitra level of pettiness that Obama and his team brought to that 62 00:04:43,639 --> 00:04:46,759 Republican shutdown her Obamacare. They take us back. Actually because I'm not a 63 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:48,480 veteran. I mean it was in DC at the time. It was in 64 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:51,319 school, so you know, Eastern Market. It's still a public area. 65 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:57,360 There's like a turtle playground in a corner of it. They roped it off. 66 00:04:57,879 --> 00:05:01,360 It's just a metal turtle that kids can climb on. In Stanton Park, 67 00:05:01,959 --> 00:05:06,560 not too far from between here and where you live. There's a letterbox 68 00:05:06,639 --> 00:05:12,519 that people can post bulletin boards. They taped it up. On the Cino 69 00:05:12,639 --> 00:05:16,879 Canal bike trail. There are different old fashioned like well leavers. You can 70 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:23,079 pull water out of the well. They took the handles off. There's a 71 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:29,439 road that goes along the mountains West Virginia of Virginia. It's come like the 72 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:34,519 Scenic Highway. It's got a couple of private restaurants the sea. They closed 73 00:05:34,519 --> 00:05:39,879 it. There's a you shall not pass. Yeah, there's a bunch of 74 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,279 like restaurants, like private line restaurants in that place. This is completely screwed. 75 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,560 There's a kayak place where you can rent from in Washington, DC. 76 00:05:46,439 --> 00:05:50,720 It's on the Potomac Riverbridge bouse. Yeah, it's never I talked to the 77 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:57,360 staff there. They've never once seen a park agent until the shutdown and they 78 00:05:57,399 --> 00:05:59,680 came and they said, we have to shut you down because we don't have 79 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:00,959 the man hour to make sure the chopper right and safely there, Like we've 80 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,639 never even seen it before. We didn't even know. They're like, I 81 00:06:03,639 --> 00:06:08,079 guess we're on park land. Shut it down. They were in the middle 82 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:12,480 of roping off the parking lots to Mount Vernon when the staff came out and 83 00:06:12,519 --> 00:06:15,120 said, we're actually owned by the Ladies of Mount Vernon. We're private. 84 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:17,319 You don't own this. And they're like really, like there's a parking lot 85 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,199 like two miles away that you all and like we're gonna go close that they 86 00:06:21,199 --> 00:06:27,839 did. They went off and they close it. There was nothing too petty 87 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,040 that they were unwilling to do, and it was just amazing. There was 88 00:06:31,079 --> 00:06:35,839 as a Capitol Hill Women's List, Serve, the Mom's List, serve Oh 89 00:06:35,879 --> 00:06:39,800 man, my gosh, Like you know how like if you if you like 90 00:06:39,959 --> 00:06:43,879 leave a piece of food in the Amazon and I could eat and like the 91 00:06:43,879 --> 00:06:46,839 band something like if you put children's stuff like I've got I've got a filthy 92 00:06:47,199 --> 00:06:50,279 stroller that's been in my basement and has vomit on it that I don't want 93 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:53,759 anymore, Like someone's on that list service by in a second. It's very 94 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:57,680 active, it's extremely liberal. It can be very catty during COVID. People 95 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,560 are very mean to each other on it. But but they used it to 96 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,680 rebel against this because these agents who like know what had ever seen before was 97 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:08,720 going we're going around, was closing playgrounds and parks. And by the way, 98 00:07:08,759 --> 00:07:13,199 what's funny is people who have the misfortune of living in DC know that 99 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:17,639 there's a constant battle over who's responsible for what. It's like, yeah, 100 00:07:18,279 --> 00:07:24,439 lawn like major parks and thoroughfares and little grass area guss areas will go on 101 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,120 mode for like two years because the city in the National Park Service are fighting 102 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,680 over who's responsible for mowing it. And like sometimes Christmas lights don't go up 103 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,040 because they're like, well, that's not my responsibility. Yeah I'm not allowed 104 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,319 to do that. Homeless camps won't be evicted because each side says it's the 105 00:07:36,319 --> 00:07:42,480 other person's responsibility. But yeah, it's gonna happen at Union station. Yeah, 106 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,959 and during the shutdown, everything belonged to the National Park Service. You've 107 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,399 never seen these cops more active a day in your life than they were, 108 00:07:50,519 --> 00:08:00,000 just taking the taking the water pumps off off of whales to stop people from 109 00:08:00,399 --> 00:08:05,040 so well water. It was little bikers. The reason why I kind of 110 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:05,959 rolled my ass earlier when you say, what do you want to talk about? 111 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,240 Like you want to talk about the coming government shutdown? You want to 112 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:13,439 talk about him Pachbeners like the dit mens. It's so boring, history of 113 00:08:13,519 --> 00:08:18,160 repeating too quickly. Well it's not so on that point. It's it's not 114 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:22,399 boring because actually there was a point made really I think illustrated really well by 115 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,800 Trip Roy of Texas, who was I love that guy. Yeah, so 116 00:08:28,839 --> 00:08:31,200 he was Ted Cruise's chief of staff or so. Someone on Twitter basically was 117 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:35,559 like trying to mock, trying to dunk on Tip Roy by saying, like, 118 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:37,840 oh, yeah, because when you were Ted Cruise of chief chief of 119 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:43,120 staff was another congressman twenty fourteen shut down, like that went so well for 120 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:46,840 you, and I think Chip Roy responded back by pointing, I'm paraphrasing it. 121 00:08:46,879 --> 00:08:52,720 He basically someone pointed out that actually like Republicans did really well after in 122 00:08:52,799 --> 00:08:56,440 Texas after they shut down. They didn't terrible. In Virginia, they lost, 123 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,759 They lost the governor's race and they blamed the shutdown on that, but 124 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,639 they did well elsewhere, and I think that Virginia race would have been going 125 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:05,879 that way anyways, but there's so many federal employees there. Yeah. But 126 00:09:05,919 --> 00:09:11,399 I think this is a really important point because the media will never ever, 127 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:13,960 ever, ever, ever, ever ever, and I could keep going take 128 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:18,840 a Republican side in a shutdown, which means Republicans on the national level are 129 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:26,440 always always going to lose on public opinion and in media coverage on a shutdown. 130 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:31,559 But that is not what matters to Republicans like Chip Roy who have deep 131 00:09:31,639 --> 00:09:37,879 red districts. It just doesn't matter. Their constituents want to see a gutten 132 00:09:37,879 --> 00:09:41,759 more. That's true. Yeah, Yeah, he's not the best example of 133 00:09:41,799 --> 00:09:45,399 a deep red district's brave. Yeah, it doesn't really come up with that 134 00:09:45,519 --> 00:09:48,159 much messaging. I feel like he's he plays Franks fantship a lot. I 135 00:09:48,159 --> 00:09:50,879 feel like I feel bad for his staff. Tectic, Okay, what's the 136 00:09:50,879 --> 00:09:54,080 plan? What are we gonna do? And he's like in the corner office, 137 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,000 like casting bones, like we'll figure it out, Like, don't worry 138 00:09:56,039 --> 00:10:01,799 about it. What was the speaker fight he had where like no one really 139 00:10:01,879 --> 00:10:05,080 knew what exactly the demands were, and like like just watch Tip Roy. 140 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,159 He'll be on the television like five times today and the end of tomorrow afternoon, 141 00:10:09,279 --> 00:10:13,120 like they'll have a set of demands. Right. The point I'm making 142 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,759 is that, you know, in a red district, it doesn't even have 143 00:10:15,799 --> 00:10:18,519 to be a deep red district. Actually, like look at Nancy Mason on 144 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:24,000 impeachment. You know that's fairly Like she's not in a red meat type you 145 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,440 know place she's in like the suburbs of Charleston or Charleston itself. The fairly 146 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:31,120 people are doing okay there. It's not like a populist uh, you know, 147 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:37,679 safe haven. And the difference is right now, Republican voters don't give 148 00:10:37,039 --> 00:10:39,799 Actually I was gonna say, they don't give a damn if the government shuts 149 00:10:39,799 --> 00:10:43,600 out, shuts down. They welcome a government shutdown, which is the exact 150 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:48,120 same dynamic in Obamacare because people felt rightfully that it was railroaded through Congress, 151 00:10:48,159 --> 00:10:52,559 that it wasn't it was not democratic, that it was basically this huge government 152 00:10:52,639 --> 00:10:58,279 takeover that was going over circumventing democratic means as a corporate handout, et cetera, 153 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:03,120 et cetera. You get the whole Popula tea party movement, and they 154 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:07,399 didn't want to see Republicans complicit and finding a government like that program not like 155 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,200 that. But it pushed every single Democrat to go back on the record for 156 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:15,799 their campaign commercials of supporting Obamacare when they were kind of at that point trying 157 00:11:15,799 --> 00:11:18,399 to distance themselves from Obamacare and be like, oh, yeah, that was 158 00:11:18,399 --> 00:11:20,679 three years ago. We're not going to talk about it anymore. It's like, 159 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:22,639 oh, let's talk about it right now. And I think the same 160 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,200 dynamics at play here where the national media is poised to completely miss the moment, 161 00:11:26,519 --> 00:11:30,440 not that that's a surprise to anyone, but not only they're going to 162 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:33,399 completely miss the moment, but they're going to completely misunderstand or be ignorant of 163 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,559 this really important storyline, which is a whole lot of reasonable, decent people 164 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,879 who happen to vote Republican, who happen to be Christian and hate what, 165 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,799 you know, maybe the Biden administration. It's like with Tobberville, Senator Tyberville 166 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:50,600 holding up the Biden Do you think Republican voters want to see Republicans just let 167 00:11:50,639 --> 00:11:54,480 those nominations be rubber Stanfield. The Pentagon is doing what it's doing, that 168 00:11:54,639 --> 00:11:56,559 is on the Biden administration. You can the media is gonna play as an 169 00:11:56,559 --> 00:12:00,559 appetite for fighting. They're gonna blame Tommy Tibberville, but it's not his fault. 170 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,519 The Biden administration rights, but it's the same. I just see it 171 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:07,480 as a very similar dynamic. And it's a really important thing to understand about 172 00:12:07,759 --> 00:12:13,720 Republican voters that the media gets wrong every single time. Why I don't understand 173 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:18,559 why the GOP would even really be entertaining funding the Biden administration's budget or federal 174 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:24,960 government. Well, it's so busily persecuting the nominee for president. Should be 175 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:28,799 like no, I mean that should be the starting point for the Speaker of 176 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,960 the House. Jif Bry is a congressman for Texas, so his thing has 177 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,480 been the border. I think that's a good place to fight too. Oh. 178 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:39,559 I think that's the most And there's a lot of disagreement about this insert 179 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:43,440 of DC Republican circles right now inside baseball question of You know, I've heard 180 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:48,159 from a lot of people that what the kind of grassroots activists, people who 181 00:12:48,159 --> 00:12:50,559 work very closely with those types that would they care about right now? Is 182 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:56,559 the law fair, the corruption, the weaponization of the federal law enforcement FBI 183 00:12:56,799 --> 00:13:00,840 DJ And not that they don't care about the order, of course they do, 184 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:03,960 but that like where impeachment is going to rapid, politicians don't want to 185 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:09,000 tie themselves so closer to Trump. They like, yeah, that's true, 186 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,639 No, it's absolutely true. But also I just from my perspective, immigration 187 00:13:13,799 --> 00:13:20,480 the border is something that has a kind of transpartisan appeal to it, like 188 00:13:20,519 --> 00:13:24,120 it is so morally repugnant, it is so absurd to people, even to 189 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:28,159 Eric Adams at this point. Well, that's why the Biden administration suggested. 190 00:13:28,159 --> 00:13:33,720 I wrote a piece on this over the for the Federals this weekend where the 191 00:13:33,759 --> 00:13:37,399 Biden administration, to saitiate guys like Adams, said well, why don't we 192 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,799 just move the southern borders to Texas northern border. Oh my goshly Okay, 193 00:13:39,799 --> 00:13:43,759 so flesh that point out a little bit. So Eric Adams comes out, 194 00:13:43,799 --> 00:13:50,080 I think on a Wednesday and says one hundred and twenty thousand or so illegal 195 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:56,000 immigrants who've come to New York City since last spring have really overwhelmed. The 196 00:13:56,039 --> 00:14:00,000 social services in New York City is dying now. That is an absolute, 197 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:05,480 aute fraction of what cities and Texas are dealing with with significantly smaller budgets. 198 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:13,360 And also despite the despite their good effort at highlighting this, like thirteen percent 199 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,679 of those illegals were actually bust by the resources of Texas or Florida. Like 200 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:22,559 the governor's doing things, these immigrants are just going there illegals. It's completely 201 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,200 overwhelming and swamping them. So you have the mayor of a blue city coming 202 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:31,720 out and attacking administration essentially over this illegal immigration problem and breaking stuff because it's 203 00:14:31,759 --> 00:14:33,759 really easy to talk about it when you're when you're removed from it, and 204 00:14:33,759 --> 00:14:37,279 it's much harder to live it, and their responses to leak to the La 205 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:41,279 Times published the next day, Well, we're thinking about a remain in Texas 206 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:46,360 policy, which is instead of remain in Mexico, it's like, all right, 207 00:14:46,679 --> 00:14:48,200 you can come to Texas, but not the rest of the country. 208 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:54,279 We have to say in Texas, which is it just cast cast lights and 209 00:14:54,519 --> 00:15:01,720 how wicked they are in this and how machiavellian they're being their immigration policy, 210 00:15:01,759 --> 00:15:07,720 where they know that illegal immigration has a negative policy on welfare cities two days, 211 00:15:07,279 --> 00:15:13,480 has a negative pot has a negative impact on America. 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And so in the same way, 235 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:03,120 except with no justifications of like intellectually morally, in the same way, the 236 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:08,759 Republican base here demands nothing less than obstruction of an evil budget, or a 237 00:17:08,759 --> 00:17:14,799 budget geared towards evil lens, or whatever it is. Their base demands nothing 238 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:19,400 less than what is perceived as a quote humane policy which is objectly inhumane. 239 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,240 Oh yeah, A good thing to draw on that would maybe be like with 240 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:27,200 Republicans and guns, like, if there's something that happens, it's probably gonna 241 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,079 get me some hate mail. No, no, no, I think something 242 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:36,319 happens with guns that you're just not gonna get Republicans support on anything. Really, 243 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:38,519 maybe there'll be a couple of Republicans here they're like Eric Adams Democrats being 244 00:17:38,599 --> 00:17:41,039 like, hold on, we gotta do. Something's got to be done. 245 00:17:41,079 --> 00:17:44,119 I'm not saying that right or wrong. I'm just saying you'll get a few 246 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:48,680 before they're quickly put back in a line by the activists and lobby interests that 247 00:17:48,759 --> 00:17:52,880 support guns, and the voters are like, absolutely not. You won't touch 248 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:56,240 a single thing on the Second Amendment period. This is gospel, This is 249 00:17:56,279 --> 00:18:00,359 this is Republican religion. Democrats have that now with immigration and it's it's a 250 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:04,920 very dangerous place for a political party like the Democrats to be when they've got 251 00:18:06,519 --> 00:18:10,680 much more I think than guns are really with the Second Amendment, which is 252 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,359 also constitutionally shrined, they've got a really big problem on their hands. And 253 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,000 places like Los Angeles and in places like San Francisco to tell us extent, 254 00:18:18,039 --> 00:18:19,559 and in places like New York City, well, and you know, the 255 00:18:19,599 --> 00:18:26,839 big structural difference between guns and immigration is that on guns, the entire popular 256 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:33,359 culture and media is aligned against conservatives, is aligned against the sort of constitutional 257 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:37,279 or let's even say, like civil liberty position on the Second Amendment. And 258 00:18:37,319 --> 00:18:42,119 that's not to say we don't have confinements or constraints on the First Amendment. 259 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:48,839 We have constraints on some civil liberties. And I think Republicans, most Republicans 260 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:55,039 understand that you have to have some restraints on the right to bear Armsani and 261 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:57,720 Sean, I don't think even they would disagree with that. Some I'm not 262 00:18:57,759 --> 00:19:02,000 saying how many, I'm not saying they are for the purposes of this discussion. 263 00:19:02,039 --> 00:19:07,200 But structurally, when you have the entire popular culture and media aligned against 264 00:19:07,279 --> 00:19:12,200 that, it's very different than with immigration. The entire popular culture and media 265 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:18,440 is telling voters on the left something that is not true over and over and 266 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:25,880 over again for for years. So there's just no rational Uh, there's very 267 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:33,279 little sort of like reasonable debate on this until literally until migrants were brought in 268 00:19:33,519 --> 00:19:41,880 mass in mass in New York in DC went on their own accord. Yeah, 269 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,519 that's absolutely true. And even the ones that were bust said sure, 270 00:19:45,039 --> 00:19:48,160 oh, of course, of course, but it took that for them to 271 00:19:48,319 --> 00:19:52,079 like have maybe like just a sintilla. It's visible in DC two. You 272 00:19:52,079 --> 00:19:56,200 can see it. You're you know, you said something the other week about 273 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:00,400 an area of the city where there's always visible homelessness as a whole shelter. 274 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,359 Yes, and you said you noticed like a good chunk of them appeared to 275 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,680 be migrants now And I passed it the other day and was taking a look, 276 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,039 and I was like, yeah, this is you know, it's what 277 00:20:11,079 --> 00:20:14,680 happened to what happened to my tradition. I'm a man of tradition. What 278 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:19,359 happened to the DC ghetto, the DC barrio, that's very different. I 279 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,079 will not be touching that, but I do think it gonna be careful, 280 00:20:22,079 --> 00:20:26,680 because I'll fight some day. These dynamics are completely well. You know, 281 00:20:26,759 --> 00:20:32,640 this is like one of the really we really said things about immigration is how 282 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,359 many people have been hurt in the process, and then how our foreign policy 283 00:20:36,599 --> 00:20:41,920 in Mexico and South America is now basically being held hostage and we actually have 284 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:45,839 to call it the intern for coughing. In turn, Rebecca has been Wow, 285 00:20:47,039 --> 00:20:56,119 it's very rude porter moral turpitude. But our foreign policy is now held 286 00:20:56,160 --> 00:21:02,599 completely hostage to the reality that cartels run Mexico and Central America right now. 287 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:07,240 And people will go back to the CIA and drug policy and Cold war policy. 288 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,799 But like even in the last ten years, our absurd border policy, 289 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:17,559 our absurd policy about like actual humans immigrating, has been like added to that 290 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:22,599 problem in ways that it's almost insurmountable. The federal government issuing Texas to remove 291 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:26,440 the border protections that's put up to try and stop smuggler boats right right, 292 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,839 and they're like there are booties with razor blades on them, and say, 293 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,960 okay, there they're to stop boaters from crossing the Rio Grand illegally. Yeah, 294 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:40,400 with human beings with children. I mean, it's like absurd. So 295 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:45,680 I went fishing with some friends off of Western Canada and the far Western in 296 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,880 Western Canada that you can see the alloted the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. It's 297 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:56,559 really cool, and they're really careful not to cross that border fishing because I 298 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,079 said, the coast guard will be on you and a heartbeat and you're in 299 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,359 a lot of trouble if you if you're fishing in American waters from findian vessel. 300 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,200 So Texas tries to say, maybe we should stop having like fat and 301 00:22:07,279 --> 00:22:11,839 all and human trafficking and weapons coming across the boona and because the federal government 302 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,279 uses to do it. And instead of saying thanks, they said no, 303 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:21,960 stop it deconstructed, deconstructed, It's completely instant. It's cheesecake. It's complete 304 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:26,480 deconstructed cheesecake. They started that a lot on below deck must below deck. 305 00:22:29,079 --> 00:22:33,559 No, you're the word, though, So they're targeting. They're targeting, 306 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:37,319 right, And you know, immigration fights are old in America, Like there's 307 00:22:37,319 --> 00:22:42,000 always been kind of some kind of difficulty around it. People for Jimmy, 308 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:47,519 you know, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clint hide each other and they've always hated 309 00:22:47,559 --> 00:22:49,160 each other. And there was a period of time when like the Unit Party 310 00:22:49,319 --> 00:22:52,440 was completely triumphant, when all all the presidents would like hang out and take 311 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,960 pictures together. Like no one does that anymore now that Trump's been elected. 312 00:22:56,319 --> 00:23:00,799 But they used all hang out times a year or once a year or something, 313 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:06,319 and Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton would like never speak to each other. 314 00:23:06,759 --> 00:23:08,720 If there's pictures of them. They're like standing two feet away from each other. 315 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,839 And I think that the broad assumption was that this was over like Jimmy 316 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:19,039 Carter's a Christian morality guy and Clinton's like, not exactly that. But it 317 00:23:19,039 --> 00:23:23,720 goes back way further to when Clinton was governor of Arkansas. It's his first 318 00:23:23,799 --> 00:23:33,039 term Democrat and Jimmy Carter they have a castro sins over the Merrial boatlift where 319 00:23:33,039 --> 00:23:37,359 he's like, oh, America likes immigrants. Well, I got a bunch 320 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,519 of prisons and mental hospitals. I was going to empty onto your shores and 321 00:23:41,559 --> 00:23:45,079 I'll see if you like that. And Jimmy Carter was like, of course, 322 00:23:45,079 --> 00:23:48,759 we like that. We welcome all people no matter what. Our constitution 323 00:23:48,759 --> 00:23:52,960 and Estates, which was written by Emma Lazarus in the nineteenth century, says 324 00:23:53,759 --> 00:23:57,279 says, send us your mental hospitals and prisons. That's that's fundamental to our 325 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:02,640 being. So I didn't know what this poem on the Statue of Liberty stupid 326 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,279 poem. It's actually a bigger a poem. But the fact that it's like 327 00:24:06,519 --> 00:24:11,200 sent send us your poor tired, your headled masses. The fact that it's 328 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:18,160 like so central to these completely fake histories of America drives me nuts. But 329 00:24:18,279 --> 00:24:22,160 so he has to spread these immigrants out, and Jimmy Carter is like, 330 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:26,920 not very machiavellien. So he says, I got to send a bunch of 331 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,440 them to Arkansas. And the people of Arkansas are not super pumped about this. 332 00:24:30,519 --> 00:24:34,200 So they're like driving around with their guns and there's a big run on 333 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:40,480 guns, and sure enough, there's bunch of disturbances. Jimmy Carter sends in 334 00:24:41,079 --> 00:24:44,680 military to try and keep peace, and there's a prison riot because these guys 335 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,519 are like, wait a second, I'm in America. There's nothing that can 336 00:24:47,599 --> 00:24:49,279 keep me. Like, you've got a policy. The Cubans you make who 337 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:53,279 touched land are free to go anywhere. Why am I in a prison in 338 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:59,079 Arkansas? And so they just leave the prison and they're all chanting and which 339 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,880 they're in the middle Terry can't just shoot them because they're allowed to leave the 340 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:07,680 prison, and Arkansas natives just love citizens just line up with their guns and 341 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,039 there's a standoff that doesn't end until the military starts shooting in the air and 342 00:25:11,079 --> 00:25:15,640 they go back. So this Carter promises Bill Clinton, I'm never going to 343 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,079 do that again, and then like a few months later, he's like, 344 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,759 I gotta send more immigrants to your facility. And Clinton says, can't you 345 00:25:21,799 --> 00:25:23,759 send it to some red state? Like what, like I'm about to lose 346 00:25:23,799 --> 00:25:27,079 this election and you're gonna send more here? And he's like, in order 347 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,519 to build another facility or costs a million dollars, so I have to send 348 00:25:30,519 --> 00:25:36,279 them to your state. Hillary Clinton writes about this and then mamar about how 349 00:25:36,319 --> 00:25:41,039 like terribly Carter screwed them. Did you read Hillary Clinton's memoir memoir? No, 350 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,640 I just read the excerpt set and made my point. Good, Okay. 351 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,240 Bill Clinton complained about this, wrote about this, and his mamar about 352 00:25:48,799 --> 00:25:52,559 this is before you know, immigration was like the central thesis, and the 353 00:25:52,559 --> 00:25:56,920 Democratic Party about how I'm sane this was. And the Republicans just who are 354 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,119 running against him just took footage from this fiery riot. Prison guards said they 355 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,559 reminded him of being in Saigon and just played it over and over again. 356 00:26:04,559 --> 00:26:08,359 And Bill Clinton, you know, barely he ended up scraping by into reelection, 357 00:26:08,799 --> 00:26:12,319 but that would have been the end of his political career, and he 358 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,640 had political considerations. He knew that this was dangerous. Carter knew it was 359 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,160 dangerous. Carter was like, well that would cost a million dollars. He's 360 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:22,079 just like too honest about it, Like we're going to send them to your 361 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:26,519 state. So there's a long history of this being a contentious issue. For 362 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:33,000 Joe Biden to target Texas so openly, it's just it shows where this issue 363 00:26:33,039 --> 00:26:36,799 has gone in the last half century. Yeah, it is interesting because we've 364 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,079 in DC everyone's talking about how Texas perfessionally, we're hearing about how Texas is 365 00:26:41,079 --> 00:26:44,200 on the cusp of being a blue state, and you know it's actually Betso 366 00:26:44,319 --> 00:26:48,720 did come very close to Ted Crews. He came very close to Ted cruise. 367 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,519 And also, by the way, like send all of the Cubans here, 368 00:26:52,559 --> 00:26:59,920 Like it's such a different immigration era now, and I think you still 369 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,079 you know when when John Dane Davidson and I were at the border about a 370 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:07,319 year ago, we talked to this this young Cuban guy I've mentioned before who 371 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:12,000 just the level of love he had for the United States and his like excitement 372 00:27:12,039 --> 00:27:15,920 to assimilate and to be a part of American culture is such a stark contrast. 373 00:27:17,319 --> 00:27:21,920 It was so many great documentary with the Mario boat lifts called scarface. 374 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,799 Where you gonna say anything else or you're just telling us the name of the 375 00:27:26,799 --> 00:27:30,279 documentary. It's a movie, it's not a documentary. The events happen in 376 00:27:30,279 --> 00:27:34,880 real time, al Pacino. It took me a second to get that because 377 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:41,400 your delivery was dead on you to get that. Really, there's a there's 378 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,839 a great documentary. There's so many documentaries now they all have names like scarface. 379 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,759 I also watched tons of documentaries and imbibe them like water, I'm an 380 00:27:52,799 --> 00:27:56,640 airpline documentary guy. Yeah, yeah, that sounds right, But it is 381 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:03,000 like that was a very different time and our kind of immigration policy and our 382 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,759 in North American immigration actually in American immigration period, because it was was protesting 383 00:28:07,799 --> 00:28:11,319 and like immigrants. Yeah, and it was also just like we were all 384 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:17,279 this is like the maybe one of the central themes of what's about to happen 385 00:28:17,319 --> 00:28:22,839 this fall in Congress is just like there was a set there was fundamentally a 386 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,920 love of the country. And that's not to say there weren't, you know, 387 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:33,160 sleeper communist cells and different organizations. A lot of bombs went off in 388 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,000 the seven aies, yeah, different leftist organizations. Yeah, but yeah, 389 00:28:36,039 --> 00:28:41,720 but there was you know, a fundamental love of the country, and immigrants 390 00:28:41,759 --> 00:28:45,279 wanted to assimilate for the most part, and then our culture told them they 391 00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:49,599 didn't have to because we became so self loathing. And now it's just like 392 00:28:51,039 --> 00:28:56,039 on the left, just like we don't we need to what's what we need 393 00:28:56,079 --> 00:29:00,599 to bend the Constitution to our will in order to save the country, because 394 00:29:00,599 --> 00:29:06,359 the country right now is we don't we don't trust voters. If in a 395 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:10,039 matchup between Donald Trump and anyone else, we need to go full law fare 396 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:15,160 because we have this sense of contempt for our fellow Americans. We don't trust 397 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:19,279 them. We need to actually decide this election, not of the battot box, 398 00:29:19,559 --> 00:29:22,680 but with lawfare, because that's the only thing that can be trusted. 399 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,480 The elites can are the only people who can be trusted to a run a 400 00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:32,240 government. They need to be controlling the levers of the bureaucracy. So if 401 00:29:32,279 --> 00:29:36,640 you want, you know, these dirty Republicans to make a budget, we 402 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:41,000 have to fight that at all costs because what we need is paying for abortion, 403 00:29:41,079 --> 00:29:44,839 travel for members of the Department of Defense, for members of the military. 404 00:29:45,359 --> 00:29:48,759 If you disagree with that, like we need a rainbow flag over a 405 00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:52,000 Vatican City. Yes, and we won't stop until we get one. But 406 00:29:52,079 --> 00:29:56,920 I think that's this thing is just like there's elite levels of distrust for their 407 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,519 fellow Americans, whether they're on the left of the right, whether there's sort 408 00:30:00,559 --> 00:30:04,400 of centrist Democrats, whatever it is, they need the control and that's what 409 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:11,359 the fight is this fall. Speaking of centrists met Romney, Oh the news 410 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,519 of the week. If you could only see the smile on Chris's base, 411 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,440 right, Mitt, we hardly knew. Yeah, well, actually, in 412 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,160 some ways that's you know, people when I was growing up, he was 413 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,480 governor of Massachusetts. Oh, that's right, he was your governor. He 414 00:30:26,599 --> 00:30:33,240 fired Whitey's brother, old brother was president of UMass former Speaker of the House, 415 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,519 and he lived to tell the tale. Yeah, of course, no 416 00:30:36,559 --> 00:30:38,799 one's going to touch the ballers, No, but I'm never Romney lived to 417 00:30:38,799 --> 00:30:44,119 tell the tale he fired Whitey's his brother. Turns out that the muscle was 418 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,440 like hanging out in a motel in California somewhere. So Chris is referring to 419 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:51,000 the fact that Senator Romney on Wednesday announced he was not running for president or 420 00:30:51,039 --> 00:30:53,160 not running for his Senate seat. Maybe he's running for President. He said 421 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,519 he's not running for her Senate seat. Why well, he said, I 422 00:30:56,559 --> 00:30:59,839 was just going to say. He couched it in this idea that it's time 423 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:03,400 for new generation of leadership, because by the time he would finish that next 424 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:07,519 Senate term, he would be in his mid eighties. As I think what 425 00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:10,359 he said, and you say whatever you want about Mitt Romney, the man 426 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:15,079 looks good for his age. Some couple hundred millions of dollars will do that 427 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:19,559 for you. But also not drinking and eating salmon with ketchup or whatever the 428 00:31:19,559 --> 00:31:22,839 hell. Hea. Yeah, that was in this new McKay coppin's profile in 429 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:27,680 The Atlantic. They were clearly way too friendly for McKay coppins to be continuing 430 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:32,720 to write about him as though it's some sort of like repertorial repertorial feat at 431 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,720 this point. But that's beside the point. It was, Yeah, McKay 432 00:31:36,759 --> 00:31:47,200 he was good in He was good in the Minions movie. He was a 433 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:52,240 biography of Romney coming out and dropped this excerpt from it to coincide with Romney's 434 00:31:52,279 --> 00:31:55,240 announcement that he wasn't running again. There are all kinds of people I've been 435 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,920 hearing the name Robert O'Brien tossed around for that seat potentially and some other folks, 436 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:02,640 but president, at the end of the day, Mitt Rodney is just 437 00:32:02,759 --> 00:32:07,599 the avatar of everything that's rung up only with the Republican Party, but with 438 00:32:07,599 --> 00:32:10,680 American politics. I think, you know, largely voters have come to understand 439 00:32:10,759 --> 00:32:16,319 that you go through the Great Recession, Occupy Wall Street, and the Republican 440 00:32:16,359 --> 00:32:23,240 Party pushes a private equity baron on Voters's incredible who, by the way Times 441 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:27,640 has gone between being pro life to pro choice, and then when he had 442 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,839 to run for Republican president, not in Massachusetts, about how he had this 443 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,440 like pro life epiphany again. I mean, just good stuff all around. 444 00:32:35,319 --> 00:32:39,200 Yeah, Mit, pro gay, anti gay, Matt was gonna lose reelection, 445 00:32:39,359 --> 00:32:44,880 pro Trump, anti Trump. So I love the picture of him having 446 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:49,519 dinner what Trump. It's one of my favorites. She's so good. He's 447 00:32:49,599 --> 00:32:57,039 just he was the last man in America brave enough to just stand up for 448 00:32:57,519 --> 00:33:04,720 the voiceless donor class, bravely against the voter. And you know there's a 449 00:33:04,799 --> 00:33:09,240 couple like intellectuals who really back this just donor class. Operas in Jonah Goldberg 450 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:15,440 comes to mind to just you know, the Jebs of the world, just 451 00:33:15,519 --> 00:33:20,480 those who were willing to just say no, we are with the donors. 452 00:33:20,519 --> 00:33:22,880 It's the same people who will look at contempt with any Republican who dares to 453 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,359 voice, you know, especially in the House of Representatives where you are supposed 454 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,720 to represent the people who voted you. Who dares to give voice to their 455 00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:34,119 constituents who want a government shutdown or who want an impeachment, they will want 456 00:33:34,119 --> 00:33:37,359 to grow on their House of Representatives balcony. Yes and yeah, yeah, 457 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:42,200 right, and yeah. There was Romney's contempt for jd. Vance. I 458 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,039 think he said, like, there's nobody I disrespect more than jd Vance And 459 00:33:45,079 --> 00:33:50,559 the McKay coppin's piece that ran yesterday, it's just like it's so so so 460 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,480 perfect. It was like he loves hill billiology, but he came to just 461 00:33:52,519 --> 00:33:55,960 see J. D. Vance as this like mindless populist and it is so 462 00:33:57,039 --> 00:34:00,920 perfect because for elites, they love the diagnosis and hillbillyology that is great but 463 00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:07,079 actual like what some Hillbillies might want as a prescription for change that is icky, 464 00:34:07,359 --> 00:34:13,039 like white people are poor and this country that's insane, doesn't give them 465 00:34:13,039 --> 00:34:15,159 a voice, and they like Donald Trumps like, oh my gosh, can 466 00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:17,400 you believe it? But yeah, I mean I think it is. It's 467 00:34:17,559 --> 00:34:22,199 a better not regulate the Chu Chu Trench. The saga or the arc of 468 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:24,320 Mitt Romney's career is a perfect place to close on because, as Michael Brendan 469 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:30,840 already put it in a kind of eulogy for Romney's career, what he fought 470 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:36,559 for a time and again was ethical moral compromises in the service of Mitt Romney 471 00:34:36,559 --> 00:34:38,719 being in power. His morality at the end of the day is that he 472 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:43,360 thinks his morality is the one that deserves to reign, right, Like that 473 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,840 is it is power? Yes, And so that's what is I think on 474 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:51,840 the table this fall. Whether it's impeachment, shut down, border, it's 475 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,039 all about power. Love it all right, I'm gonna go watch Scarface. 476 00:34:55,440 --> 00:35:00,480 Christopher Bedford, the executive editor of at the Common Sense Society, Bad Guy, 477 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:05,639 thank you so much for joining us. Go ahead, you can say 478 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,519 you're welcome. I'm glad to be here. You can listening to another edition 479 00:35:09,519 --> 00:35:13,719 of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Tricianski, culture editor here at the 480 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,719 Federalist. I'll be back soon with that. Until then, belovers of freedom 481 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:22,280 and anxious for the fray base, the fires, and the OZ that you 482 00:35:22,519 --> 00:35:30,480 ball today. Star