WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:04.559 Attention. You're listening to the Tod Huff radio show, America's home for Conservative 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:08.800 not bitter Talk Radio. Be advised that the content of this program has been 3 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:12.519 documented to prevent and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:33.320 to the rights. Here's your conservative but not bitter host, Todd Huff. 5 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:41.640 All right, my friends, you have tuned in to America's home for conservative 6 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:46.000 not bitter talk. We got lots to get to today. Excuse me. 7 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:53.200 Email, you know the routine. Email Todd at Toddhoffshow dot com. Can 8 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:58.679 also connect with us on well via text three one seven, two one zero 9 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:03.560 twenty eight thirty. Also connect with us on social media. I don't talk 10 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:11.439 about that too much because well, the lunatics, the radicals running those channels, 11 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:17.000 they don't do us any favors by that. They are not helpful to 12 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:21.280 conservatives. But you can follow us there and I like to connect with people, 13 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:25.920 but again, they definitely do not want us to be able to get 14 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:30.640 the message out there Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Folks were even on TikTok. 15 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:36.640 Todd Huff Show is the handle on all of those platforms. It is 16 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:41.159 good to be here today, and I want to talk really about what is 17 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:49.640 going on now the next phase here of the battle for the speaker, battle 18 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:53.319 for the Speaker of the House. As you know, and as we've discussed, 19 00:01:53.959 --> 00:02:01.680 Kevin McCarthy has been removed as Speaker of the House of Representatives. And 20 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:08.120 now we are beginning or resuming, or however you want to look at this 21 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:17.240 starting afresh with picking a new Speaker of the House of Representatives. So I 22 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:22.159 want to do a couple of things today. First of all, there was 23 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:25.479 a bit of a clown show on Fox News. I've got this audio that 24 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:32.840 I'm going to play a little bit of Brian Killmead on Fox and Friends interviewing 25 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:38.639 Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee. And I got to tell you, Brian kill 26 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:44.919 Mead, I've got no words for it. I have no words for the 27 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:52.280 clown show that Brian Killmead created in this interview. I mean, it is 28 00:02:52.560 --> 00:03:02.039 absolutely absurd, ridiculous, rude, just terrible. I don't understand. I 29 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:13.240 don't understand why people like Brian Kilmead, why he is so utterly embarrassed by 30 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:16.639 what's going on in the House of Representatives. I actually would be embarrassed by 31 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:23.199 his behavior. That's what's embarrassing. My goodness, I've interviewed him on here 32 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:27.800 before. I well, I won't talk about that, but you know, 33 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:34.159 I just I just do not I don't understand this. I just the level 34 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:40.199 of angst and animosity and hatred that he showed towards Representative Tim Burchett. And 35 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:45.080 by the way, I know many of you listening to my voice today in 36 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:51.599 the Knoxville, Tennessee area, this is your representative. So I want to 37 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:57.199 talk about that. I want to talk about how some people are more concerned 38 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:01.360 with how things appear than with actually how things are are and focusing on doing 39 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:05.840 the next best thing, the right thing, so much as they can discern 40 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:13.879 that and try to take the step to do the right thing. Also want 41 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:17.560 to play a little bit, a little bit of That's what I want to 42 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:25.240 do first here. Representative Matt Gates, of course, from the great State 43 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:30.720 of Florida, has nominated Donald Trump for Speaker of the House. Trump has 44 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:35.680 said, I love folks, I know, I know that this is a 45 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:40.120 lot for some of you. I know, I get it. I'm not 46 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:46.560 telling you to like it. What I'm telling you is that in order to 47 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:50.639 fix the mess that we have, this is going it requires there to be 48 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:58.560 an uncomfortable period. I mean, think of any an uncomfortable, uncomfortable period 49 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:01.399 of time, a transition, a time to fight back. I mean, 50 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:10.439 my goodness, this is this is the only way. And when anytime we 51 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:14.199 get to the next step, right, the next step, well, next 52 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:17.600 time we'll do this, or next time we'll do that. And then we 53 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:26.720 don't because we flinch, because we lose at the proverbial game of chicken, 54 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:33.360 and we just allow, we just allow the radical left and the weak, 55 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:40.199 feckless leaders in the Republican Party to continue the status quo. And we talked 56 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:45.639 about the status quo yesterday or the day before, and the status quo is 57 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:49.439 what takes us. The status quo is what has taken us to this point. 58 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:54.920 The status quo has brought us here. Donald Trump did not bring us 59 00:05:54.920 --> 00:06:00.319 here. Donald Trump exposed and highlighted some of the status quote behavior that has 60 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:05.800 been happening, some of these things that have been happening right there for anyone 61 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:09.759 to see who cared to pay attention. But some of this has been happening 62 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:15.800 behind closed doors. But the end result is that it has hurt and harmed 63 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:21.560 the American people. And so I just look. This whole notion of Trump 64 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:27.879 being speaker, I know is a ton is a lot for someone some people 65 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:31.879 to deal with. But there's a part of me, there's a part of 66 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:38.480 me that thinks this would be the most awesome thing I've ever seen, especially 67 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:42.079 in an election year. I just and part of me thinks, too, 68 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:46.160 make these Republicans vote on this, because I'm telling you, in the majority, 69 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:51.720 perhaps the vast majority of cases, those that do not support a speaker 70 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:56.120 Trump. And I'm look, I want to say these things with not coming 71 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:00.560 on and saying I'm endorsing the idea. I just think that there's some some 72 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:04.000 good that can come from it. There may be some some other negatives that 73 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:09.959 I'm just not mentioning at the moment. I'm just saying, I'm saying that 74 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:15.920 as far as controlling the narrative, ramping up what the next election needs to 75 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:21.920 be about, focusing on what the House should be doing, regardless of what 76 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:28.519 the Senate does, regardless of what Biden does, differentiating us from the left, 77 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:35.600 forcing the hand, forcing these Republicans who are often weak and not what 78 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:40.959 I want to say, not principled, right, They're just they're there to 79 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:46.439 just get by with the bare minimum forcing them to play their hand, forcing 80 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:53.079 them to either continue to move in a direction to clean up the corruption, 81 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:56.800 to rein in the spending, to balance the budgets, to put pressure on 82 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:03.360 them in that way, or to expose them for who they really are. 83 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:09.360 I see, and again I know that there would be drama and tweets and 84 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:16.319 truth social posts and probably things press conferences like the Speaker of the House has 85 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:20.519 never had before in the history of the House of Representatives. I get all 86 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.199 of that, But if you look at people, the people that are well, 87 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:28.000 I did see Mike Pence. And by the way, I've got again 88 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:31.639 the stack of stuff on our website has a link to a lot of things. 89 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:35.200 In fact, there's a link to NBC News, which again enter that 90 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:41.200 site at your own risk, but it is there. It's kind of a 91 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:46.120 live feed where there's updates on the battle for the Speaker of the House. 92 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:54.080 In there you'll find links or parts of the story about Pence being quote deeply 93 00:08:54.320 --> 00:09:03.360 disappointed that Kevin McCarthy was removed as Speaker, or Pence saying, for example, 94 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:07.799 that this whole notion of Trump being Speaker of the House is Trump inserting 95 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:11.039 himself. I feel like other people brought it up. It's one of the 96 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:16.559 first things that crossed my mind once I heard that Speaker McCarthy had actually been 97 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:22.759 ousted as the speaker. Of course, anyway, Trump has been official Trump 98 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:28.080 has been officially nominated. Now you might be wondering if you've not followed politics 99 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:33.039 for a long or maybe this again we're in unchartered waters. But you can 100 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:37.639 actually have a Speaker of the House. Well, there's debate on this. 101 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:45.399 There is debate on this. It doesn't specifically state in the Constitution that the 102 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:50.200 House the Speaker of the House be a an active member of the House. 103 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:54.919 It doesn't specify that this is long This by the way, just like all 104 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:58.320 the stuff that happened leading up, well that happened actually in twenty twenty one 105 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:05.080 on January or sixth, and all the things that well, that people wanted 106 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:11.919 Pence to do to reject the electoral votes of certain states because of questions about 107 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:18.240 the integrity of their states particular elections. That had been something that was not 108 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:22.080 dreamed up by the Trump campaign or the Trump administration. That was something that 109 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:28.840 people had spoken about and conjectured conjectured about for a long time. Right, 110 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:37.440 they were postulating theories and formulating opinions and everything else, having these discussions and 111 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:43.879 so forth about what would happen in the event that the vice President of the 112 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:48.879 United States found reason to not accept some of the electors. This was not 113 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:54.759 just made up on the spot. It might have only been in academic circles, 114 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:58.879 but it was something that was discussed. I remember some of these discussions 115 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:05.080 in college or what have you, just in some of our exchanges or you 116 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:11.000 know, when people would point out something in conversation. I don't know if 117 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:13.919 it was in class, but I just remember some of these with folks that 118 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:20.840 studied and found an interest in these things. Just like that is the case. 119 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:26.960 It has long since been debated, or it seems to be the case 120 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:30.960 that you don't have to be a member of the House to be the Speaker 121 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:35.559 of the House. At least it does not specify that explicitly in the Constitution. 122 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:39.919 So that's where this Trump nomination can potentially come into play. So time 123 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:43.279 out is in order. I want to play this sound bite now, but 124 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:48.200 I'm going to try to keep us on schedule today. So what I'm going 125 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:52.279 to do is I'm actually early, my goodness, actually a couple seconds early 126 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:56.759 here. So what I'm going to do is when we get back from the 127 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:01.519 break, I want to play Matt Gates from the floor of the House nominating 128 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:05.480 President Trump, and I just want you to listen to what he says. 129 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:09.799 I know that some people don't have the stomach for this. I know that 130 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:15.480 some people think, can't we just get along again? I challenge that behavior, 131 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:20.240 that thinking. I believe that if that is your thinking, or if 132 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:24.000 you know people that have that thinking, I think that that really needs to 133 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:30.919 be questioned and challenged because because of my friends, this is the course that 134 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.200 we are on. The course that we are on has been preset, It 135 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:41.519 has been programmed into the GPS of the metaphorical controls of this jet, if 136 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:46.840 you will, in an analogy, the direction that this jet is taking us, 137 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:52.240 or the car that we're in, is taking us towards larger governments, 138 00:12:52.360 --> 00:13:01.639 larger deficits, less freedom, less opportunity, more tearing things that are not 139 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:07.480 in the Constitution. That is where our destination is programmed. In order to 140 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:15.120 change that, we're going to have to eventually engage in a fight and hold 141 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:22.519 people accountable who refuse to change the coordinates that had been programmed into the GPS. 142 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:28.639 Kevin McCarthy did not program the GPS in this metaphor, in this analogy. 143 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:35.360 He did not program it to direct us to a place that was actually 144 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:41.519 on the path to trying to rein in the mess that government has created for 145 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:48.279 its citizens, for its taxpayers, for the listeners in this audience. And 146 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:54.720 so I mean he has to go. I don't see the problem here. 147 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:58.639 It doesn't bother me, it doesn't embarrass me. I don't even that doesn't 148 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:03.279 even cross my mind. I think about what is best, how do we 149 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:05.960 get from where we are to where we need to be. And it's clear 150 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:13.039 to me that that did not involve former Speaker McCarthy. So I want to 151 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:16.480 place Gates's nomination of Trump on the other side of the break. Get to 152 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:20.639 a lot of other things, including text messages I got from one of you. 153 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:24.960 I want to address those. Time permitting here today, So we'll take 154 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:28.399 a time out. My friends, you're listening here to conservative not bitter talk. 155 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:31.480 I am your host, the one, the only Tod huff back in 156 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:52.799 a minute, welcome back to my friends. So here is Matt Gates on 157 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:58.559 the floor of the House of Representatives, nominating for Speaker of the House one 158 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.399 Donald Jay Trump. I want to well, I want you to to hear 159 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:13.000 this. It's interesting. I think that this could actually do a whole lot 160 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:20.639 of well, I don't know. I just think that Trump pushed these folks 161 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:26.679 to do the things that they should have been doing all along. And I 162 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:33.200 just there's something about this that I would love tremendously. I'm not suggesting it 163 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:37.759 should actually be done, but I am saying. I am saying that, 164 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:41.879 man, just as I think about all of the positive things that could come 165 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:48.120 from this, including just setting the course of the House of Representatives, helping 166 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:54.759 differentiate between what this country would do under the leadership of someone like Trump versus 167 00:15:54.759 --> 00:16:00.039 the leadership of someone like Biden. By the way, did you see Biden? 168 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:06.440 Now, Biden has suddenly realized that he can actually create something along the 169 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:10.679 southern border, not a wall, as Oz has pointed out to me, 170 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:15.639 A barrier. They tell the American people. They've told the American people that 171 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:22.120 they have had to suspend or just overrule laws twenty six or twenty four laws 172 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:30.039 so that they can finish building a section of the barrier. Not the wall, 173 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:33.919 no, no, no, A barrier that resembles a wall along the 174 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:41.120 southern border in a particular particular part of Texas. But that's not how that 175 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:42.320 works. By the way, funding had been approved for this. I don't 176 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:45.960 want to get into that, but I'm just saying it's ironic that when you 177 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:53.679 start to see the removal of the Speaker of the House and now movement towards 178 00:16:55.639 --> 00:17:03.680 who knows, someone who may be a little bit more aggressive, a little 179 00:17:03.680 --> 00:17:08.920 bit less forgiving and graceful to the left for their behavior and so forth. 180 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:15.400 I'm not saying vindictive, but I am saying folks that may actually try to 181 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:18.119 hold them accountable for all the corruption and nonsense has been going on. Someone 182 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:22.240 maybe like Jim Jordan, I don't know who knows, maybe someone like Trump 183 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:29.279 anyway, but here is Trump being nominated. Here's Trump being nominated for Speaker 184 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:36.400 of the House by one Matt Gates. Why did that not hold on? 185 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:42.839 Here? I literally just had this queued up position of Speaker of the House. 186 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:45.279 Here we go, Sorry about that? Well, here we go? 187 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:49.200 What purpose ses A gentleman from Florida rides to place a name and nomination for 188 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:53.480 the position of Speaker of the House. The gentleman is recognized, my friends, 189 00:17:53.519 --> 00:18:00.720 When Donald Trump was president, taxes were cut, regulations or slashed. 190 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:07.720 Energy was abundant, wages were rising, capital was returning from overseas to fund 191 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:11.640 the dreams and ambitions of our fellow Americans, and the economy was roaring. 192 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:18.480 What a contrast to what we have seen from this administration now. And so 193 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:22.440 I rise to nominate Donald Trump for the position of Speaker of the House. 194 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:26.519 And for all of the vitriol that we hear from the media and at times 195 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:32.319 the left, there were great moments of bipartisanship under the Trump presidency, and 196 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:37.440 the Democrat nominee for Speaker knows that well because he led valiantly on the efforts 197 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:41.119 for criminal justice reform, and I was honored to join him. And I 198 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:44.799 know, no matter who's sitting in that speaker chair, we got a lot 199 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:47.759 of work to do on that very issue. We took a first step, 200 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:51.160 but there's a second step and a third step to take, and I'm glad 201 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:53.839 that we were able to work with President Trump, with Republicans, and with 202 00:18:53.960 --> 00:19:00.119 Democrats to provide real outcomes for Americans, to create greater prosperity and more opportunity. 203 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:06.319 I also care deeply about President Trump's focus on our nation's veterans. It 204 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:11.559 seemed for far too long on the campaign trail, veterans were disregarded, forgotten 205 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:15.480 about. When we would get elected to office, their issues would not always 206 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:21.200 rise and get center stage. But we were able to pass veterans accountability measures. 207 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:25.039 We were able to actually get people fired at the VA when weren't doing 208 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:30.279 their job. What a great thing that would be to extend and continue and 209 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:36.079 to continue to nourish. President Trump oriented our views on trade so that we 210 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:41.400 actually put the American people first, not foreign interests abroad or special interests here 211 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:47.279 at home. President Trump knew that we had to confront China, that China 212 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:51.599 had already engaged. So that's you get an idea. He also calls out 213 00:19:51.680 --> 00:20:00.119 corruption in this address where he nominates Trump as Speaker of the House. It's 214 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:04.319 interesting, and I tell you what, I tell you what Trump's Trump can 215 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:11.160 get a lot more votes for speaker than a lot of people realize. Trump 216 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:15.279 can get a lot of a lot more votes. I don't know that he 217 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:18.880 can. I don't know he might be able to get enough votes. He 218 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:26.839 might not. But it is an interesting thing to think about because because I 219 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:32.640 mean, it matters what is happening in this country, and you know, 220 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:40.000 there's there's so many different things to talk about in relation to this. But 221 00:20:40.119 --> 00:20:42.279 one of the things I just I don't have a lot of time here. 222 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:48.920 One of the things I do want to get to. I'm looking at the 223 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:52.240 clock. One of the things I do want to get to is a little 224 00:20:52.279 --> 00:20:56.400 bit of this what I'm calling a clown show, because that's what I see 225 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:03.319 it as a clown show. Brian Kilmeade interviewing representative Tim Burchett from the Knoxville, 226 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:11.440 Tennessee area, and I mean, it's a terrible interview. Brian Killmeade 227 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:18.920 comes off like an absolute jerk in this interview. I don't know what else 228 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:26.519 to say about this, and he I just I think he's he's utterly embarrassed, 229 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:33.440 and I think, look as what really quickly? When I first, 230 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.279 I shouldn't say first, when when I started doing this show a couple of 231 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:44.920 years in, I had a conversation with someone in the industry who actually had 232 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:48.319 some really nice and humble you know, I was humbled by the nice things 233 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:52.480 he had to say about our program. This is several years ago, and 234 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:56.640 one of the questions he asked me he asked me, would you ever consider 235 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:03.000 moving to New York? Is what he said to me, and I said 236 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:06.880 to him, I did too, I said no, and I did follow 237 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:10.119 that up with a well, I would like to at least know what the 238 00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:15.359 opportunity is first, But I don't want to go to New not that there's 239 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:18.359 anything. I think New York is an amazing city, but I think that 240 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:25.920 one of the benefits that come from living in the Heartland and living in the 241 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:33.559 Midwest, living in Flyover Country, living in small town USA, semi rural. 242 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:37.559 I've been to rural America. We're not quite rural, but what's not 243 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:41.440 You don't have to go too far for me to get fairly rural. But 244 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:45.240 then there's really rural outs out western places and so forth. But I just, 245 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:49.400 you know, I think when you're in these big cities, you think 246 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:55.319 about things differently. I think sometimes, not always, there's always exceptions. 247 00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:56.440 And I think those of you that are in cities and know what I mean, 248 00:22:57.519 --> 00:23:03.839 you have people who and I'm not saying I'm not saying this directly to 249 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:07.640 kill me, so please don't put words in my mouth, but you have 250 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:15.440 people who maybe sometimes overthink these these things, or they're too concerned about what 251 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:21.240 other people think of them, or, in some cases the worst case scenario, 252 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:26.119 you have what my dad used to call over educated idiots who overthink things 253 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:33.680 to the point that they look pastous the obvious solution and kill me. In 254 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:37.640 this interview, came across not just as a jerk, but as somebody that 255 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:41.359 just didn't make any sense to me. And I'm gonna play a little bit 256 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:47.079 of it. I can't play the whole thing. But he's embarrassed. He 257 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:52.400 seems overly concerned with the appearance of something rather than just finding someone who can 258 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:56.559 actually lead this party, lead this country, lead the House of Representatives, 259 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:00.920 and do the work that needs to be done. It's it's not enough for 260 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:06.160 someone to have an arm by the who cares? Who cares what the letter 261 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:11.559 next to the name is. If the result is the same. Now you 262 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:14.480 can say, well, of course, Speaker Pelosi took us further left. 263 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:19.119 That's right. But in another sense, McCarthy and the rhinos like him have 264 00:24:19.240 --> 00:24:25.200 not done anything to move the needle outside of the pressure put on them by 265 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:29.920 Trump. It just has not happened. It hasn't happened. And really quickly, 266 00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:30.960 I'll tell you a story I think I've showed it on here before. 267 00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:36.559 It reminds me of a disagreement I had with with our youth pastor, a 268 00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:37.519 friend of mine years in years, there's a long time ago. This is 269 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:42.240 twenty some years ago, and I remember he was talking to our students and 270 00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:48.599 he was talking to them about the importance of showing people your faith. And 271 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:51.720 look, I don't you know, I don't make any bones about the fact 272 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:56.039 that I'm a follower of Jesus. And but I'm not a follow This is 273 00:24:56.079 --> 00:25:00.200 the important part. I'm not. I'm not a follower to show any one 274 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:04.680 about it. I'm a person that's old school in the sense that you do 275 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:12.440 you live by faith as a follower of Jesus, and you communicate that as 276 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:15.480 clearly as you can, but you don't focus on how it appears. I 277 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:19.880 think that that is such a detrimental thing. Instead of putting all this focus 278 00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:23.839 on thinking how does it look to somebody else, why don't I focus on 279 00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:30.240 doing the right thing? Doing the right thing, and then when asked about 280 00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:34.440 it, try to communicate clearly why I'm doing that thing. See, leaders 281 00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:38.119 identify the path that people need to go down, that we need to go 282 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:44.839 down and then they inspire others to join them on that path. And the 283 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:49.359 problem in DC, the problem in many places, the problems in some businesses 284 00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:55.720 and some churches, and some communities and some families, comes from this idea 285 00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:59.640 that says, you know, I got to pay my dues, I've got 286 00:25:59.680 --> 00:26:03.480 to way my turn, and then when I get my turn, it's my 287 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:07.839 turn. My my mind. No, leadership isn't about telling people you're the 288 00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:14.200 boss. Leadership is about having people who are actually following the person who's the 289 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:18.119 leader. I remember saying this in the past and positions that I had running 290 00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:21.799 a nonprofit. If you have to tell people you're the boss, you're not. 291 00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:26.240 Now I get a boss can say I'm the boss. Da da da 292 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:27.799 da da. But maybe it's more appropriately said, if you have to tell 293 00:26:27.799 --> 00:26:30.720 people that you're the leader, you're not, you might be the boss. 294 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:34.400 That's probably the better way to say that. Let me let me withdraw that 295 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:37.880 first statement and let me say, if you have to tell people you're the 296 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:42.599 leader, you're not. And so all this protesting about McCarthy is saying he 297 00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:49.599 should be the leader. He's bemoaning the fact that Democrats joined or Republicans joined 298 00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:56.240 Democrats and ousting him. He's been whining and saying that the republic the majority 299 00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:59.039 party, get to pick the speaker. No, actually, if you read 300 00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:02.599 the Constitution, the majority of the House picks the speaker. The founders, 301 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:07.160 by the way, were not fans of political parties. They saw them as 302 00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:10.759 a necessary evil. I guess, in fact, they've got a story in 303 00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:14.000 the stack of stuff on that. Anyway, So I want to play a 304 00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:17.200 little bit of this interview Brian kill me. It's not an interview, it's 305 00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:21.160 a it's a I mean, he's he's just roasting the guy, except for 306 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:25.039 it's not funny. He's trying to take him down. I just it's just 307 00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:30.960 it's pathetic. It really is. It really is absolutely pathetic. And I'm 308 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:32.720 gonna play it on the other side of the break. But our timeouts in 309 00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:33.920 order, my friends sit tight. You're listening to conservative, not been a 310 00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:52.000 talking to her. Who's tat huff back in just a minute. Back. 311 00:27:52.440 --> 00:28:00.000 Excuse me, my friends, I tell you this fall weather gets me every 312 00:27:59.799 --> 00:28:06.559 every every year. We're gonna do our best to stave off any problems with 313 00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:11.799 the vocals, but it hits me from time to time. So I want 314 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:17.319 to get to this interview, and I can't play the whole thing obviously. 315 00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:21.039 I mean, it's it's bad, it's really bad. It's poorly done, 316 00:28:21.079 --> 00:28:27.079 it's unprofessional. I just think it's absolute tone deafness. I don't understand why 317 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:33.039 someone is so embarrassed about the speaker being removed. It's much more embarrassing to 318 00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:37.400 me that we have thirty three trillion dollars in debt. It's much more I'm 319 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:42.039 not embarrassed, it's much more problematic. It's much more troubling to me to 320 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:48.000 think that we have legitimate problems along the southern border, to think that we're 321 00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:56.880 i mean, just creating massive adding to massive deficits and spending, and the 322 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:02.039 problem in Ukraine, the problems with a lie integrity, if I'm even allowed 323 00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:04.799 to say that, the attacks on the Second Amendment, those things are much 324 00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:11.680 more problematic to me than a little a little disagreement over who should be leading 325 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:18.000 the party. Again, if McCarthy wanted to lead the party, if McCarthy 326 00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:21.000 wanted to lead the House, he could have he could have done that. 327 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.240 But instead we're on the same trajectory that we have been. I just I 328 00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:33.759 just don't honestly have much sympathy I mean, I just I don't really care 329 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:38.839 about the whole situation. And I understand if people disagree, that's that's fine. 330 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:45.119 But the idea that somehow things we are are being handled appropriately, or 331 00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:51.319 that we're setting ourselves up for success in how we're leading and doing things in 332 00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:53.599 the House of Representatives, I mean, it's just it's it's crazy talk to 333 00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:59.640 me. It's exactly what is wrong with this country. As I said back 334 00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:04.839 in two down since sixteen when Trump started running and the Republicans were talking about 335 00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:14.160 various candidates running for office and so forth. The problem sorry about that. 336 00:30:14.519 --> 00:30:19.000 I got it cued up and I came on live there. But anyway, 337 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:25.559 the problem was is that Republicans are either not conservative enough, or so they 338 00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:27.519 get in, they go out and they get elected in fundraised, and then 339 00:30:27.559 --> 00:30:33.160 they get into DC and they don't actually do what they told us, or 340 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:36.880 they're just whimps. And you could say one of those things is directly tied 341 00:30:36.920 --> 00:30:40.400 to the other, and maybe it is, maybe it is sometimes or a 342 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:47.319 lot of times, but the whimpiness factor is not something that Trump had, 343 00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:52.480 and it's what a lot of Republicans do have. And it's candidly annoying as 344 00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:59.400 heck to me. So anyway, we've actually tried to well the House. 345 00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:03.000 Some of these Republicans have actually tried to do something about it. And so 346 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:07.119 Brian kill Me has representative Tim Burchett on from Tennessee outside of the Knoxville area, 347 00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:11.839 And I just want you to listen to this exchange. Do you think 348 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:14.839 he's going to do for the Republican Party and chances of holding on to leadership 349 00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:18.720 and the majority when it looks like you're having You're the ring leader of a 350 00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.680 circus led by Matt Gates who likes to blow things up, but not for 351 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:25.960 any new ideas. Are you happy at following Matt Gates? Is that your 352 00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:29.519 leader? A stupid question, Matt Gates, I made my own decision. 353 00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:32.559 I didn't ask me. But if Matt Gates didn't challenge, you weren't going 354 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:37.000 to challenge? Do what If Matt Gates didn't stand up, you weren't going 355 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:38.440 to challenge you? Know what? I believe, I believe I would have 356 00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:42.920 come on and there. Well, please, you're praying about it one minute. 357 00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:48.960 The next minute you're going to lead an insurgency, leading insurgency kill me 358 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.599 one minute? How you're going to vote with Matt Gates and the next minute 359 00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:57.400 you're going to lead an insurgency. You're going to surgency. Answer to everything, 360 00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:00.240 No, I have it, I have it a opinion about what's going 361 00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:04.279 on? Do you have an opinion too? And you talk over me every 362 00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:08.039 time I does? Sorry makes your point. The point is thirty three trillion 363 00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:14.079 dollars in the towns. This speaker was woefully, woefully lacking in leadership skills. 364 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:16.920 He always plays to blame somewhere else. America is going to be better 365 00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:22.799 off with new leadership. Who is it? But who cares? Possibly it 366 00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:25.319 could be State Scalise, It could be Sonic, could be Rocket Williams out 367 00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:31.039 of Texas. Yes, it could be Jim Jordan. So they all supported 368 00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:35.400 They all supported Kevin McCarthy, including the most conservative guy I know, Jim 369 00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:37.119 Jordan. Okay, Brian kill me. I can't take this well. I 370 00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:42.039 guess I should play the rest of what he's saying smarter than Jim Jordan and 371 00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:47.200 the two hundred and ten plus Why are you smarter? What a stupid, 372 00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:55.079 eightyoddic moronic question, What a clown show, What an absolute disgrace. And 373 00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:59.160 I know many of you I don't watch five. I never really. I 374 00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:04.319 mean, I've said on here. Fox came to our house and did an 375 00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:14.119 interview several years ago, and they were fantastic. They were fantastic people, 376 00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:20.279 the producer, the cameraman, the the journalist. They were It was great, 377 00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:24.839 It was absolutely great. But Fox is not this bastion of conservatism. 378 00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:30.000 Fox. You can see this is what Fox is. Fox is. Fox 379 00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:39.319 is elitist New York moderate Republicans. Brian Kilmead shouting over members of Congress in 380 00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:46.039 an interview. What is this? How juvenile and childish and pathetic. I 381 00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:52.119 don't know who finds this appealing. Kill Mead can think whatever he wants, 382 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:58.759 can think whatever he wants, but this behavior is just absolutely pathetic. And 383 00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:01.079 by the way, what's this talk about, Oh, are you smarter than 384 00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:06.720 What's it got to do with being smarter than Jim Jordan. I don't like 385 00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:14.000 the leadership, Brian Killmead that Kevin McCarthy displayed. I think that we can 386 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:19.679 find someone better. I think that the decisions he made has put this country 387 00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:23.639 on a path that is unsustainable. I think that is a lot more serious 388 00:34:24.119 --> 00:34:29.760 than whatever you're outraged about, because now we have to find a new leader 389 00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:36.719 when when when cry me a river tough guy. This is pathetic and embarrassing 390 00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:43.840 and juvenile and stupid. And you can think that my opinion is wrong on 391 00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:50.159 this, but this approach, there's nothing of substance here calling him stupid. 392 00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:53.280 Then he actually says, you know, Jim Jordan didn't join you. Well, 393 00:34:53.920 --> 00:34:58.519 I don't know, Brian, did you notice that Jim Jordan has now 394 00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:05.199 considered running for the Speaker of the House. You see he's open to that, 395 00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:09.519 but he didn't vote to oust Kevin McCarthy. See how these things aren't 396 00:35:09.559 --> 00:35:15.199 necessarily mutually exclusive, See how they can actually one doesn't necessarily determine the fate 397 00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:21.519 of the other. It seems to me, Brian Kilmead, that that's the 398 00:35:21.719 --> 00:35:25.719 erroneous thinking here to think that just because someone doesn't want to vote to oust 399 00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:30.400 the speaker, that they won't run if there is a vacancy. The thinking 400 00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:35.719 here is just I I don't know, I don't know. Does it does 401 00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:40.079 it get filtered out when you when you leave the land of common sense? 402 00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:44.320 I don't know, I don't know. But none of this makes any sense. 403 00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:46.599 And it was again, I don't care so much about the opinion I 404 00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:53.199 care about the condescending behavior, the shouting over the guy, the the accusation 405 00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:58.760 that he's stupid. Give me a break. This is this pathetic stuff. 406 00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:02.960 Anyway, That's only about half of the clip. 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I don't know if I if we ever start 424 00:37:55.199 --> 00:37:58.719 doing interviews, I can promise you they won't be like that. It's just 425 00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:01.840 embarrassing. It's pathetic, it's not well done, it's not respectful. It 426 00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:06.880 does nothing of any benefit whatsoever. And I've got to get time out, 427 00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:08.000 my friends. You're listening to conservative, not better talk. I'm your host, 428 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:27.079 Todt huff back in a minute, Welcome back, my friends. So 429 00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:30.119 I got so many other things I wanted to get to today, but we're 430 00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:34.880 simply out of time. I did mention I didn't mention earlier that Biden has 431 00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:39.519 now somehow found that he has the authority to continue building a wall, or 432 00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:44.599 excuse me, a barrier that should not be confused with the wall. By 433 00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:49.119 the way, walls have never let me down, believe it or not every 434 00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:52.360 day I have broadcast to you, I have done so from within the confines 435 00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:58.400 of walls. The ceiling has never collapsed on me. I've always had to 436 00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:00.400 use a door to get out of the wall. It's remarkable, really, 437 00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:06.360 if you stop and think about it. But Biden's finally found that he can 438 00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:08.719 do something about border security, and he acts like he's got to move heaven 439 00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:14.039 and earth to do it, when in reality he's had that authority all along. 440 00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:15.599 So all sorts of games are being played there. We've won the issue, 441 00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:19.440 by the way on illegal immigration. I wrote about that in the column 442 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:21.840 this week, but I've got to go. Thanks so much for listening. 443 00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:22.679 Have a great weekend. SDG.