1 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:18,039 Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of You Were Wrong with Molly Hemming 2 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:20,679 Wing and David Harsani. Just a reminder, if you'd like to email the 3 00:00:20,719 --> 00:00:24,879 show, please do so at radio at the Federalist dot com. And if 4 00:00:24,879 --> 00:00:27,280 you enjoy the work we do here at the Federalist, you can show your 5 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:31,960 support by visiting our website and joining the Federalist Community for an ad free website 6 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,079 experience and access to exclusive content you don't want to miss. Exactly, David, 7 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,320 it's four dollars a month. It helps us a great deal, and 8 00:00:40,359 --> 00:00:46,320 we love having you with us in the fight. So Federalist Community great. 9 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:52,520 So this week, Molly, the big news, I'd guess was the testimony 10 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:56,920 of was it three college presidents or four? I forget, but it was 11 00:00:57,039 --> 00:01:06,079 Harvard Penn mit yep, yeah, and they gave some interesting answers to some 12 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:11,920 questions about anti Semitism and genocide and things like that, basically speaking their truth 13 00:01:12,079 --> 00:01:22,599 and contextualizing genocide and giving answers that were morally unclear, opaque, morally opaque, 14 00:01:22,599 --> 00:01:25,959 I would say, right, and one of them stepped down pens Well 15 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,280 president, I mean, yeah, okay, so at least Stephonic was doing 16 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:33,879 kind of the final round of questioning and just ask them if a pretty easy 17 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:41,239 question I think to answer clearly, which was about whether calls for genocide violates 18 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:49,079 their campus code of conduct. And the context here is that we have universities 19 00:01:49,079 --> 00:01:52,239 that have not been places for free speech for quite some time. I mean, 20 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:59,359 we've had now decades of people being disinvited from speaking at campuses if they 21 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,239 say things like men are men and women are women, or if they have 22 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:07,800 views done like not redefining marriage to include same sex couples, or if they're 23 00:02:07,919 --> 00:02:14,919 like free market, you know, like any view mildly not on the left 24 00:02:15,039 --> 00:02:19,800 has been one that is pretty much banned from campus. You look at like 25 00:02:20,599 --> 00:02:23,759 what's happening with faculty, and they're overwhelmingly not just left but far left, 26 00:02:23,879 --> 00:02:29,599 and it's like a very hostile home for conservative students and faculty, and so 27 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:31,960 like, that's the context in which the question is asked, like are you 28 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,759 okay with? And then, of course the more immediate context being that we 29 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:40,879 have all these campus protests calling for genocide of Jewish students or Jews, and 30 00:02:42,439 --> 00:02:47,159 so least dephonic is like does this violate your campus code of conduct? And 31 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:53,319 all of these women because of course they're women, because now with DEI everyone 32 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:59,199 had to like get rid of any male headship of universities or whatever. They 33 00:02:59,199 --> 00:03:01,800 are all like it depends on the context, and they all like seem to 34 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,319 think it was a really crafty way to answer it. I'm sure they were 35 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,000 coached to answer things this way by their high powered law firm. But it 36 00:03:09,039 --> 00:03:13,240 went over horribly because people are like, wait, what, Like you can 37 00:03:13,319 --> 00:03:16,120 call for the murder of a class of people and be okay as long as 38 00:03:16,159 --> 00:03:23,240 it's Jews, because we know you can't even say things like pronouns are sex 39 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:28,800 and number specific like that will get you murdered on a campus. So what 40 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,960 happens when you call for murder on a campus? And they just handled it 41 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:38,080 really horribly. We should point out they didn't say, you know, let's 42 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:42,800 say there's an argument over some chant like from the River to the Sea. 43 00:03:42,919 --> 00:03:46,159 Like they didn't say, talk about that specific chant. They just said, 44 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:51,360 if there is someone speaking, you know, chanting or whatever, protesting with 45 00:03:51,479 --> 00:03:54,800 genocidal or about genocide, is that a problem. They couldn't answer it straight 46 00:03:54,879 --> 00:03:58,879 because of all that stuff. But I think you got to the heart of 47 00:03:58,879 --> 00:04:00,719 the matter, is that The biggest lie here to begin with is that there 48 00:04:00,759 --> 00:04:05,080 is free speech on campus, especially at elite universities. It doesn't exist. 49 00:04:05,879 --> 00:04:13,159 And they've been professors and students who think that we have been grandfathered out. 50 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,199 And then, you know, initially and then you just kept you know, 51 00:04:16,199 --> 00:04:21,959 these schools kept hiring freaking the most radical extremists and pseudo intellectual people other than 52 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:26,560 in STEM programs. I guess, so maybe even there and now there is 53 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,720 no free speech on campus. Is only free speech for extremists essentially, like 54 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,439 you mentioned, so so you know, I was thinking deeply in you do 55 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:39,839 as well. I know about the free speech issue here, but really I 56 00:04:39,879 --> 00:04:43,759 feel like that's red herring in a way because there is no free speech. 57 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,480 So like, let's get yeah. Yeah. David Sachs had a great tweet 58 00:04:46,519 --> 00:04:48,800 where he said, like, some people think this is about free speech, 59 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:53,920 and some people think it's about double standards. He said, university presidents are 60 00:04:53,959 --> 00:04:58,439 not and have not defended free speech recently, but they do defend double standards. 61 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:00,959 So I think this is an art argument about double standards. And so 62 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,600 I thought, you know, like, yeah, let's not pretend that they 63 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:09,240 in any way and any way care about free speech. I do actually believe 64 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,759 in free speech, and I do think it's like kind of scary how some 65 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:16,319 of these people, in light of these anti Israeli protests, have been pushing 66 00:05:16,519 --> 00:05:23,480 against free speech. Like it's a difficult thing to balance. Yeah, I 67 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,959 mean I slightly disagree with some people on that end, and maybe I disagree 68 00:05:26,959 --> 00:05:30,120 with you. I don't know. It's that I think some of this is 69 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,519 targeted harassment, and I don't think a private institution has to allow that sort 70 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,800 of thing to go on. You know, if someone's actually celebrating murder, 71 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:42,000 for instance, it is free speech, of course as far as the state 72 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,879 goes. But I'm not sure that it's academic speech or like. It's very 73 00:05:45,879 --> 00:05:48,160 difficult though to say what is what? So I would always err on the 74 00:05:48,199 --> 00:05:53,319 side of letting people speak, but the problem is, like people can't speak, 75 00:05:53,399 --> 00:05:57,000 like you know, I was giving this example of double standards, like 76 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,720 imagine if there was a march for Intefata it's gay culture or something like, 77 00:06:00,759 --> 00:06:03,399 it would not happen. The school will not allow it. No one would 78 00:06:03,399 --> 00:06:05,519 allow it, right, But then I'm like, why am I even coming 79 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,839 up with an example that's so outrageous? I should just come up with example 80 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:13,560 of someone saying that we actually have to only to biological sexist right, like 81 00:06:13,639 --> 00:06:18,959 even the most hapid position there is not you know, you're not free to 82 00:06:19,199 --> 00:06:26,519 really say it even but then take it further. Even just basic conservative ideas 83 00:06:26,639 --> 00:06:30,360 are not allowed on campus. They should be. So I wrote about this 84 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:31,639 today, but you remember, I don't know if you remember, but maybe 85 00:06:31,639 --> 00:06:36,279 two decades ago, even fifteen years ago, I don't remember when Colorado University 86 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:42,199 of Colorado and Boulder, like go on, well, I'm a monern yeah, 87 00:06:42,519 --> 00:06:45,759 wanted put out the word that they were trying to hire a professor of 88 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:50,839 conservative thought. Right. I found that so funny because the ideas they're talking 89 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:56,399 about conservative thought should be embedded in like numerous disciplines already at the school, 90 00:06:56,759 --> 00:07:01,319 right, but they treat it like this exotic idea that in my column I 91 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:06,040 say, it's like teaching Zoroastrianism or something, you know, outlandish, like 92 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:10,759 it's a it's a separate ideal. So the very idea that you have to 93 00:07:10,759 --> 00:07:15,120 find a person to teach conservative thought, which why we're talking about Western civilizational 94 00:07:15,199 --> 00:07:18,759 thought right, is insane already. So anyway, the lie at the heart 95 00:07:18,759 --> 00:07:21,439 of this whole thing is that there is any free speech in these schools. 96 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:26,279 It's not even it's past the double standard. It's just it's just a complete 97 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:30,639 lie. I think. So where do we go from here? I mean, 98 00:07:30,199 --> 00:07:34,360 so let's first, actually I wanted to mention so then I'm not sure 99 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:41,279 who broke the store originally, but we found out that the Harvard president gone, 100 00:07:41,439 --> 00:07:44,199 yeah, I think we should like the backup is that a bunch of 101 00:07:44,279 --> 00:07:47,959 donors who were totally fine with all the bad things happening on campus for the 102 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:53,519 last you know, forty sixty years, particularly the last five years with BLM 103 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:59,000 riots and things like that, and just completely embracing race identitarianism and all that. 104 00:07:59,439 --> 00:08:05,040 They getting upset about the support for anti Israeli an anti Jewish stuff going 105 00:08:05,079 --> 00:08:09,720 on, and so they launched a big campaign of donors like, we're going 106 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,439 to stop giving you money to destroy this country because you've gone too far. 107 00:08:13,519 --> 00:08:18,959 Finally, and at university at U Penn, they did oust the president there. 108 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,519 She was forced out, which was kind of shocking because she had very 109 00:08:22,519 --> 00:08:24,759 good ties with the donors, but they forced her out. And so then 110 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,600 it was like, okay, well, let's like also get this Claudine Gay 111 00:08:28,959 --> 00:08:33,080 the president of Harvard University. She should go, and she should go because 112 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:41,679 she's incompetent. And it turns out she's like a rampant plagiarist. But they 113 00:08:41,519 --> 00:08:45,799 came out like strongly behind her and they were like, we love her. 114 00:08:45,879 --> 00:08:48,600 She's the most amazing person ever. We're not going anywhere. And I have 115 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:56,279 to admit I love this outcome. What do you think, h Well, 116 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:00,960 well, it just shows the rod in the school because she's like a lot 117 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:05,559 of times there are accusations of plagiarism, and I'm I don't like it at 118 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:09,919 all, but sometimes people are just kind of transposing basic facts from one place 119 00:09:09,919 --> 00:09:13,600 to the other. But these instances, many of them were actual ideas and 120 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,960 arguments, you know, I'm saying. So they are really bad in my 121 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,159 opinion, not all of them. Yeah, I'm glad you say that. 122 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,919 Sometimes I'll read these stories about plagiarism and I'm like, it'll be like they 123 00:09:24,039 --> 00:09:28,879 said the such and such battle began in fifteen sixteen, and you see this 124 00:09:28,039 --> 00:09:33,000 other thing says the such and such battle began in fifteen sixteen as well, 125 00:09:33,039 --> 00:09:35,200 and it's like maybe they just both wrote the same thing, because it's just 126 00:09:35,279 --> 00:09:39,480 a fact and how many ways can you say a fact. It's very difficult 127 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:43,360 to be creative in that way. Like, so what I you know, 128 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,519 so I my citations, Like in my book, I do every word. 129 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,720 I like, I'm citing it because I don't want to make a mistake. 130 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:54,000 But a lot of this is just ginned up against people. But in this 131 00:09:54,039 --> 00:09:58,159 case, I don't think that that's true. I think she broke And this 132 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:03,720 was like taking phrases that seemed pretty unique to the scholarship. So I was 133 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:05,960 looking at the ones that involved Carol Swain, doctor Carol Swain, who's this 134 00:10:07,399 --> 00:10:15,440 black conservative law prof at Bandy and also political science professor. She's a really 135 00:10:15,919 --> 00:10:20,000 interesting academic. And I find it funny actually that Clouding and Gay was stealing 136 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,039 her work. But there were yeah, and it wasn't just like particular phrases, 137 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:26,480 it was concepts and things like that. It looked really bad. And 138 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:28,679 one of the other people who she had stolen from also was like, yeah, 139 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:33,919 this is not cool what happened here. It is no there is no 140 00:10:33,159 --> 00:10:39,879 question that this is a violation of Harvard's Code of Conduct on academic rigor, 141 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:45,080 and they have in fact expelled students over stuff like this. And so I 142 00:10:45,159 --> 00:10:50,440 just find it funny, like it's just so humiliating that Harvard has. Oh 143 00:10:50,519 --> 00:10:56,200 also in addition to plagiarism, she hasn't really published much, so she's got 144 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:01,759 a very thin like publication track record probably like about where mine is in terms 145 00:11:01,759 --> 00:11:07,320 of academic stuff. And she became the president of Harvard University, and also 146 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:11,039 it turned out it wasn't her own stuff, and nobody thinks she's there because 147 00:11:11,039 --> 00:11:13,960 like she deserves to be there. She also was like a super big proponent 148 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:20,320 of racism during the during the BLM era, and like calling for racist practices 149 00:11:20,519 --> 00:11:24,879 at Harvard. So I want I want that like strung around their necks and 150 00:11:24,919 --> 00:11:31,039 that they have to deal with that every day they've got an incompetent racist thief 151 00:11:31,639 --> 00:11:35,240 as their president. Like good, everyone should know that Harvard is a place 152 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:41,600 for incompetent racist thieves. Yeah, I mean it should be destroyed. I 153 00:11:41,879 --> 00:11:45,559 you know, sometimes when we do this podcast, I realized why I became 154 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,240 a writer, because I like to organize my thoughts before they come out. 155 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,919 So I just want to take a step back and talk about a little bit 156 00:11:50,919 --> 00:11:52,480 about how you were saying. You know that all of a sudden, these 157 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,200 people are mad because essentially they're going after Jewish people, which is true. 158 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:01,399 I think that when people are going after you, crystallizes, sometimes crystallizes the 159 00:12:01,399 --> 00:12:05,879 world for you if we're going after them before. But go on. But 160 00:12:05,399 --> 00:12:07,480 I also think a lot of people are like, yeah, there are some 161 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:13,240 wacky folks at these schools teaching wacky things, like they're not important, but 162 00:12:13,279 --> 00:12:16,919 they've become very important because look at the people they produce, who are going 163 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:20,600 into journalism, we're going into government, who're going into academics themselves. Like 164 00:12:20,879 --> 00:12:28,200 it's this self perpetuating nut so pseudo intellectual stuff, Like sometimes I go onto 165 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:30,879 a professor's page who has written something weird on Twitter. I'm like, I 166 00:12:30,919 --> 00:12:33,840 can't believe someone's teaching this. This is not a real subject. There's no 167 00:12:33,919 --> 00:12:39,879 intellectual rigor here. This is just all made up. So I think that 168 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:45,039 a lot of people are willing to overlook that stuff, and now they realize 169 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:48,639 that that has become so, you know, so prevalent in schools. But 170 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,679 also I do laugh and I wrote about this that people pretend that this just 171 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:58,000 like snuck up on like William Buckley or got a man at Yale in nineteen 172 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:03,240 fifty one talking about this and closing a The American Mind, which was this 173 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,120 massive bestseller in the eighties, talked about what was going on here, one 174 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,120 of the lions. The first line in the book is there is one thing 175 00:13:09,159 --> 00:13:13,120 a professor can be absolutely certain of. Almost every student entering the university believes 176 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,720 or says he believes that truth is relative. And I laughed at that because 177 00:13:18,639 --> 00:13:22,559 President Gay is statement apologizing for this. She said, my truth, and 178 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:28,679 my truth is the crystallization of the idea that truth obviously is relative. So 179 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:31,360 it made me laugh that she was probably a student when Harold Bloom wrote that 180 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:35,639 book, and I firmly believed that of all of the bad things she's done, 181 00:13:35,879 --> 00:13:41,759 stealing other people's work, racism, incompetence, her uttering the phrase my 182 00:13:41,879 --> 00:13:46,039 truth was actually the number one reason why she should be fired. Yeah, 183 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:50,720 no one, no one teaching in a college. Same mind. Jim Greevy, 184 00:13:50,879 --> 00:13:54,279 Yeah, Gay Governor Jersey, Yeah he was. He was found out 185 00:13:54,559 --> 00:14:01,159 for sexually assaulting a bunch of his staff, which comes to crazy stories there 186 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:03,759 and how he did that while he was married and his wife was pregnant, 187 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:11,559 and he I think also involved like financial improprieties and other things like that I 188 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,559 actually don't remember the precise details, so we should look them up. But 189 00:14:15,879 --> 00:14:20,840 he came out and he's like in all sorts of trouble for these problems that 190 00:14:20,879 --> 00:14:24,279 he's caused. And he said, my truth is that I'm a gay American. 191 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,480 It's like, hey, buddy's being gay. I mean you have to 192 00:14:28,519 --> 00:14:33,039 assault the staff? Is that really the issue here? 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Check out the Watchdot on Wall Street 202 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,440 podcast with Chris Markowski on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. 203 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:18,600 Uh, one more thing, Wait there's yeah, yeah, sorry the 204 00:15:18,639 --> 00:15:22,320 club. Oh this is kind of random, but I was thinking about how 205 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:28,960 the reputation of Harvard has seriously been diminished in my mind since I was young. 206 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,559 So when you're young, and I grew up out west, so I 207 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:33,799 didn't really know that much about Ivy League schools or anything. But you know, 208 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,279 it seems like Harvard was what you'd put in you'd read in like a 209 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,279 young adult book about like that's a good school to go to, you know, 210 00:15:39,879 --> 00:15:43,440 and Harvard lot that's a good school to go to. Somehow, even 211 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:50,679 though all of the universities are really corrupted by these bad ideas, you could 212 00:15:50,759 --> 00:15:54,519 still I feel like, get maybe a good education at Yale or Princeton. 213 00:15:54,559 --> 00:15:58,960 I feel like Harvard's really just like slumming it and just like on fumes from 214 00:16:00,039 --> 00:16:04,799 it's previous reputation. And that's why I really love that Claudine Gay is their 215 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:10,720 president. It just kind of you get to see how weak it is and 216 00:16:10,759 --> 00:16:15,600 how no offense to anybody who went there or is planning on going, But 217 00:16:15,639 --> 00:16:19,720 it's like you're really just going there for the name, right, considering the 218 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,360 people I see you've gone many of the people I've seen have gone there. 219 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:29,360 They do produce credentialed nitwits, right, But I'm sure there are programs there 220 00:16:29,399 --> 00:16:33,120 that are still you know, have good rigor and all that. But the 221 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:37,480 reason all this matters, I mean, I think it matters, is that 222 00:16:37,559 --> 00:16:41,879 these schools, as you sort of allude to there, still matter in society. 223 00:16:41,919 --> 00:16:45,960 They produce our leaders and you know, the people run things, and 224 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:51,559 if it's just another institution that we can't trust. So I mentioned I went 225 00:16:51,559 --> 00:16:55,279 to University of Colorado, and I think I put this in our staff chat, 226 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,840 how embarrassing it is that the University of Colorado is not really a great 227 00:16:57,879 --> 00:17:04,319 school by any measure. Our most famous alum are Trey Parker and Matt Stone, 228 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:11,720 you know, not considered giants in the academic community. We did also 229 00:17:11,759 --> 00:17:15,359 have Byron Wizard White. I like him a lot, great Supreme Court justice, 230 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:21,200 but like that's it, and so I have no standing to talk about 231 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:26,480 anything. It Also, our football team's motto is we Come, and which 232 00:17:26,519 --> 00:17:32,119 you know for university, having a grammatical error in your motto is just also 233 00:17:32,279 --> 00:17:41,599 very embarrassing. So I couldn't come from like lower academic situation here. But 234 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:45,480 I will say that partly because of that, I always imagine that people who 235 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:51,680 went to actual good universities or who I just assumed the world was full of 236 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:55,759 really smart people, And then the higher I get in life in terms of 237 00:17:55,799 --> 00:17:59,920 my career, in encountering some of these people. It is true I have 238 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,359 I've met or studied some really really bright people, But the vast majority of 239 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:08,720 people who go to these elite institutions or run our country or run different industries, 240 00:18:10,079 --> 00:18:14,519 I'm sometimes struck by how much less smart they are than what I imagined 241 00:18:14,599 --> 00:18:18,480 people in those positions would be when I was younger. I completely agree. 242 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,480 The more I think social media has a lot to do with it, the 243 00:18:22,519 --> 00:18:26,400 more we see what these people know and are about, and the more we 244 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:30,440 realize that mostly many of them are idiots. I hate to pick on one 245 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,799 person, but I'll never forget. I had joined an editorial board at the 246 00:18:33,839 --> 00:18:37,240 Denver Post for the first time in Diana to get came in to speak. 247 00:18:37,599 --> 00:18:41,279 This was like the she replaced Pat Schroeder. Yes, this was the first 248 00:18:41,319 --> 00:18:45,400 like really a congress person I think I ever met. And after that meeting, 249 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:48,960 I'm like, my god, she's not bright. And I can't believe 250 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:52,920 this is a person who's like on committees running things, running my life. 251 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:59,240 Even and more politicians I met, the more horrified I was the people running 252 00:18:59,279 --> 00:19:00,960 things. And I don't think it was always that way. I think, 253 00:19:02,279 --> 00:19:04,000 listen, going to like an elite school, there's probably you know, you 254 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,559 make connections, you know, your bred to lead and all that, or 255 00:19:07,599 --> 00:19:11,920 at least it used to be. But you know, like, I think 256 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,680 this is right, But to like graduate the theological schools like Yale or whatever, 257 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:18,200 you used to have to know like ancient Greek, ancient you know, 258 00:19:18,799 --> 00:19:23,400 Hebrew and in Latin. And now I think I don't think that that's the 259 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,519 case anymore. And I think because we treat people like they're not as smart 260 00:19:26,559 --> 00:19:30,480 as they can be, we get these kind of leaders. But anyway, 261 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,640 I don't I think there are great state schools out there. There are all 262 00:19:34,759 --> 00:19:38,480 kinds of good places to go and to get degrees. Journalism schools a joke, 263 00:19:38,559 --> 00:19:41,880 But there are you know, stem programs out there that are probably madder 264 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:45,920 and are great and all that. I don't know anymore. I don't know. 265 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:48,480 I don't know who to trust. Like I sometimes I'm like, are 266 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:52,160 the people like engineers are the people building our bridges? This stupid too, 267 00:19:52,279 --> 00:19:55,240 like do they? I mean, we're going to be in real trouble one 268 00:19:55,279 --> 00:19:57,559 day when planes start falling out of the sky because we've been giving degrees out 269 00:19:57,599 --> 00:20:03,279 like candy. So I don't know. I don't know. But these schools 270 00:20:03,279 --> 00:20:06,559 still matter, So I don't know. Tax the endowments give it, give 271 00:20:06,559 --> 00:20:11,680 it to trade schools, create you know, better schools elsewhere. My trade 272 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,160 Parker matt Stone School does have an improving football program, so we do have 273 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:21,680 that going with. Is that the Deion Sanderson primetime Sanders. Haven't they been 274 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:26,640 bad lately though I think they started out strong. No, we have been 275 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,680 horrific in recent years. We went one and eleven. I mean this year 276 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,160 though didn't and then this I don't know how many games we ended up winning, 277 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:37,160 but it wasn't really sounds silly, but like it was about just like 278 00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:41,960 taking a program that was dead and trying to build it up. And so 279 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,799 I don't know how many games we want. It might have been as few 280 00:20:44,839 --> 00:20:48,200 as four, as many as six, but like more than that, we 281 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,440 turned the program around and we're ready for next year. See you is a 282 00:20:52,559 --> 00:20:57,000 nice school. It's a beautiful campus. It's in the most ridiculously communistic town 283 00:20:57,279 --> 00:21:00,000 on Earth, probably or one of them. Though. I love Boulder, 284 00:21:00,839 --> 00:21:04,160 yeah, nor time there. So my brother and sister went to Boulder. 285 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,200 I didn't even I didn't even make it there. I was at CU Denver. 286 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,920 I will say i'd been very familiar with Boulder though that the school is 287 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:18,519 less communist than the town. Yes, absolutely, the town is so bad, 288 00:21:18,599 --> 00:21:22,279 like the mayor. The town is Menshevik and the school is Bolshevik basically, 289 00:21:22,559 --> 00:21:26,559 Okay. I think when I was going to school there, the mayor 290 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,279 was an actual abortionist. Oh yeah, and she was the one who wanted 291 00:21:30,279 --> 00:21:34,640 to import homeless people. These things are like totally normal now, but back 292 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,359 in the nineties it seemed absurd. She wanted to import homeless people because she 293 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:44,480 felt that like Boulder could handle more of a homeless population. And you know, 294 00:21:44,559 --> 00:21:47,640 the number one thing to know about Boulder is that it's in the foothills 295 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:52,039 of Colorado and that it gets very cold there. There's a reason why unless 296 00:21:52,039 --> 00:21:57,559 you import homelessness, you're not going to have a huge portion of your city 297 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:03,279 being home. It's also not exactly a or town, like it's expensive to 298 00:22:03,319 --> 00:22:06,799 live there. For the most part. I think I always think about my 299 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,119 strategy if I ever end up on the streets, and definitely one of my 300 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,039 strategies would be to go to a warm climate, you know, like our 301 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:17,079 temperate climate. I think California has a big homeless population for a reason. 302 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:21,000 You can kind of live on the straight year round. How do you think 303 00:22:21,039 --> 00:22:26,240 about this? How I am constantly thinking about like absurd things, like every 304 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,279 time I go over a bridge, I'm like, remember the fourteenth Street bridge. 305 00:22:29,279 --> 00:22:30,400 How plane went into the bridge. I think I've told you this before, 306 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,799 Like the plane went into the bridge in the eighties or something and a 307 00:22:34,839 --> 00:22:37,799 bunch of people like fell off the bridge into the icy water. So I 308 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:42,319 constantly think about things like if a plane hit this bridge and I went into 309 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,880 the water, what would be my strategy for survival? And how would I 310 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,720 get the kids out of the backseat? Like I don't really need to waste 311 00:22:49,759 --> 00:22:53,440 time thinking about it, but I do. Anyway, Wait, what was 312 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:57,799 my other thing? I was just like homelessness? So warm? So yeah, 313 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:03,079 warm climate. And then thenly go to like Santa Barbara, you know, 314 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:07,960 go where there's money, because it's just it's more efficient to get a 315 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:12,160 big like someone might casually give you one hundred dollars bill as opposed to being 316 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,480 in a really poor part of town where you're getting like coinage. You could 317 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,640 do some busking. Is that what it's called? And I think my problem 318 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,480 is I have no skills there, but I will put that into my things. 319 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,920 I think about that I don't need to. I think about what I'm 320 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:27,640 going to do when I'm canceled and I have to get a real job somewhere. 321 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,880 So sometimes I'm like, I have no real skills, but I can 322 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,039 be like a Walmart greeter or the guy who checks the thing that when you 323 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:41,079 leave the receipt, I love you. You would be the worst Walmart greeter 324 00:23:41,799 --> 00:23:48,039 in history. And I say this as someone who not surprisingly has not only 325 00:23:48,079 --> 00:23:51,119 have I thought about being a Walmart greeter, I'd say it's my dream job. 326 00:23:51,839 --> 00:23:56,680 I think about all the time leaving this place and moving to Montana and 327 00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:00,240 working as a Walmart greeter. That's like my shink for law. I think 328 00:24:00,279 --> 00:24:04,759 I could be the no nonsense checking out person at a supermarket. That would 329 00:24:04,759 --> 00:24:08,799 be more my speed, right than greeting people because I don't talk to strangers. 330 00:24:10,839 --> 00:24:14,799 When a few years ago, so this this town, as we say, 331 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:18,039 is kind of a nightmare place, and there's so much pressure to conform 332 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,960 to the group think of the town. And it started getting really personal with 333 00:24:23,039 --> 00:24:26,920 some of you know, like Marx friends. They really didn't like that my 334 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:33,759 politics were different, and I felt nervous about it, about getting canceled or 335 00:24:33,759 --> 00:24:38,319 you know, that the forces would get so intense against us that it would 336 00:24:38,319 --> 00:24:41,640 cause us, like our family problems. And I love my husband so much 337 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,359 because he was like, Okay, well, if something happens, we you 338 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,000 know, moved to Midwest and we become Walmart greets or whatever. And it 339 00:24:49,039 --> 00:24:52,720 was like a very nice thing to say, like, we're going to be 340 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,920 fine no matter what, no matter how horrible these people get. Yeah, 341 00:24:57,559 --> 00:25:00,440 that's nice. I think that too. I'm like, that wouldn't be a 342 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,759 bad life. I mean, I have to cut back on some stuff, 343 00:25:03,759 --> 00:25:07,039 but otherwise it would be fine. All right. That was a week comingway 344 00:25:07,039 --> 00:25:12,640 would be a very bad Walmart greater too. You would just grunt, you'd 345 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:17,240 be annoyed that people didn't already know well, people came in. He'd be 346 00:25:17,319 --> 00:25:22,039 like yeah, he'd be yelling at them. I love it, all right. 347 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,240 I don't even like to go into Walmart. I find that place insufferable. 348 00:25:27,279 --> 00:25:30,240 But anyway, I don't want to. Let's not go there anymore. 349 00:25:30,319 --> 00:25:36,680 Let's talk now about Let's talk about Hunter and Biden. So again I have 350 00:25:36,799 --> 00:25:42,920 to there's so much going on, but Hunter Biden today was supposed to appear 351 00:25:44,759 --> 00:25:48,160 or was Yeah, he's supposed to be here in front of in a public 352 00:25:48,839 --> 00:25:52,359 was it once? You explain it? Please? Well, there's so much 353 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,759 going on with Hunter. I feel like we want to just like quickly mention 354 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:02,440 that he was indicted in the Central District, California over some of his tax 355 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:08,079 evasion and tax fraud issues there. He also has this situation in Delaware for 356 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:15,160 gun related charges, and this week his attorneys tried to get those dismissed on 357 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,519 the grounds that they had a plea deal and like a what is a pre 358 00:26:18,599 --> 00:26:22,519 arraignment or the diversion program that they'd already agreed to. I think actually that's 359 00:26:22,559 --> 00:26:26,559 a stronger case than people realize, So I'll be curious to see how that 360 00:26:26,599 --> 00:26:32,839 goes. You have the just general situation that our Department of Justice has worked 361 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:37,160 very hard to be as easy as possible on a seemingly like career criminal, 362 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,720 the guy does things that if you or I did, there would be lights 363 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,799 out, and they wait like many many years to investigate and oh, whoops, 364 00:26:45,839 --> 00:26:51,200 the statute of limitations is expired, and they're just like so gentle like 365 00:26:51,599 --> 00:26:57,119 clearly ran an international foreign agent kind of a scheme, or I should say, 366 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:02,920 his family's business is to take money from foreigners in exchange for goods they 367 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:08,400 can get from the US or from US people, And they never even looked 368 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,839 into the FARA violations. He wasn't even registered as a foreign agent, you 369 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:17,759 know. So it's like that's the context. But there's this whole Biden family 370 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:23,960 business that nobody even tries to explain what it is other than you give money 371 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:30,319 to one of like a dozen Biden family members through two dozen shell companies in 372 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:38,079 exchange for things we don't even entirely know. And this type of influence pedaling 373 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:45,200 is very, very serious. It's certainly much more serious than what Congress went 374 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,599 after Bill Clinton for or what they went after Donald Trump for, regardless of 375 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,519 whether you think those men were in a center guilty of what was being alleged. 376 00:27:52,839 --> 00:27:56,920 This is much more serious. So it's part of the investigation into the 377 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:03,000 Biden family business influence pedaling business. Congress wanted to sit down with Hunter for 378 00:28:03,079 --> 00:28:08,079 a deposition, not in front of the cameras. So the important thing there 379 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,319 is that when you do it in public, it just becomes this like clownish 380 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:15,759 circus exercise of grand standing on both sides, and you don't really get answers 381 00:28:15,799 --> 00:28:18,839 because everyone's like playing for the clip that they can put in their campaign ad 382 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:23,400 or put on TV that night, as opposed to a private deposition where you 383 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:30,480 have legit people like lawyers for the congressman asking questions that get at the heart 384 00:28:30,519 --> 00:28:33,680 of what's going on and you have to answer it truthfully, and so you 385 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,720 can't play games. And Hunter was like, I'll do it publicly, I'll 386 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:38,559 do the circus, but I'm not going to do it privately, and they 387 00:28:38,559 --> 00:28:41,240 were like, oh, it's not actually up to you. You have to 388 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,960 do it, were demanding this, and so today he went out in front 389 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,359 of Congress and he said like, basically, he's done nothing wrong, that 390 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:55,319 he's this poor, poor addict, and so like, you know, gosh, 391 00:28:55,359 --> 00:28:56,759 it's just so awful. He's this addict. So there's nothing you can 392 00:28:56,799 --> 00:29:00,960 really do to him. And the Republicans are mean because they're making his addiction 393 00:29:02,039 --> 00:29:04,480 a problem. So it was like quite the performance for someone who claims to 394 00:29:04,519 --> 00:29:08,799 be a recovered addict, much more of like what you would associate with a 395 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:15,920 currently in the throes of addiction addict. But that brings us up to speak 396 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:21,279 for today, I think, so let's unpack a little bit. So today 397 00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:25,119 he gave a spoke to the press. He said, they've ridiculed my struggle 398 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,720 with addiction. Hunter that said this, they belittled my recovery, and they've 399 00:29:27,759 --> 00:29:33,920 tried to dehumanize me. And we should stress this is not First of all, 400 00:29:34,039 --> 00:29:40,319 jails are strewn with people who have addiction problems, who have personal problems. 401 00:29:40,559 --> 00:29:42,400 It doesn't give you the right to break the law, doesn't give you 402 00:29:42,599 --> 00:29:48,119 right to the right to write off hookers on your expenses, on your taxes 403 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,519 and so on. It doesn't give you a right to be a criminal. 404 00:29:51,559 --> 00:29:53,000 But then he said, or do you have something to add to that? 405 00:29:55,359 --> 00:30:00,000 Just that Ron Johnson had a really great line this week about how people should 406 00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:04,319 did not feel sorry for Hunter Biden that the human trafficking like he did sex, 407 00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:07,759 He was involved in sex trafficking. He was like paying women for sex 408 00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:11,599 and doing all this kind of stuff. And it was like to the tune 409 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:15,400 of six hundred dollars a day, and nobody ever thinks about the women that 410 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:19,200 are trafficked into these types of situations, Like nobody feels sorry for those poor 411 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,279 women. They just are like, Oh, you're supposed to feel sorry for 412 00:30:22,359 --> 00:30:25,920 Hunter Biden, an incredibly wealthy and by the way, how did he get 413 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,039 so wealthy? It's again kind of weird, you know, an incredibly wealthy 414 00:30:29,079 --> 00:30:33,440 man who was the bag man for his family's influence pedaling scheme. Like that's 415 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:37,359 what you're supposed to feel sorry for, not the not his own children who 416 00:30:37,359 --> 00:30:41,119 he kind of like didn't take care of through his addiction, or the scores 417 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:45,559 of women who were abused. Like it's just like he's such a He's the 418 00:30:45,599 --> 00:30:51,039 type of person liberals or progressives are constantly complaining about. He's completely privileged, 419 00:30:51,119 --> 00:30:53,440 and he thought that he could just do whatever he wanted with anyone he felt 420 00:30:53,480 --> 00:31:00,000 like, you know, but it should be stressed. He started this business 421 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,720 before any of that happened, before his brother died, and he continued to 422 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,839 cheat on his taxes after he was supposedly had straightened out his life and gotten 423 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,920 remarried and all that stuff that's important to remember. Not that it's an excuse 424 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:18,839 anyway, but I wanted to so Actually it's a really good that's a good 425 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:25,079 point. The indictment in California made it clear that what they were charging in 426 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:30,400 terms of the intentional tax evasion was occurring after he claimed he got sober, 427 00:31:30,519 --> 00:31:33,079 and not that it's okay to do it when you're not sober. No one's 428 00:31:33,119 --> 00:31:37,359 making him take you know, smoke, crack or anything like that. I 429 00:31:37,359 --> 00:31:40,160 mean, you know, yeah, I always thought that was weird. Like 430 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,920 I always feel like sometimes our criminal justice system acts like being drunk is a 431 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,599 get out of jail free card or something like, yeah, I did a 432 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,599 dui, but like because I was drunk, I wasn't in charge of my 433 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,880 or I crashed in this car, but I was drunk. It's like, 434 00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:56,480 well, that's your second problem, you know. In the seventies, for 435 00:31:56,799 --> 00:32:00,960 you got yourself in that situation. In the seventies, lawyers would actually make 436 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,640 the case, like in vehicular manslaughter cases, that they were drunk so they 437 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,119 weren't really didn't know what they were doing, which it seems to be, 438 00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:13,039 you know, is not like you say, it's a secondary thing that you're 439 00:32:13,079 --> 00:32:19,759 doing wrong. But yeah, do you know any recovered addicts for addicts in 440 00:32:19,799 --> 00:32:24,640 recovery, YEP. So I have a lot of admiration for people who overcome 441 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:30,480 addiction and a lot of sympathy for people who are in the throes of it 442 00:32:30,519 --> 00:32:36,200 because it's just seems awful and I'm very But there's a thing one of the 443 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:42,079 one of the things I kind of love about recovers people in recovery is how 444 00:32:42,119 --> 00:32:45,759 honest they are and how willing they are to see their own flaws. Like 445 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:50,079 our culture is one where we're constantly pointing out what other people have done wrong, 446 00:32:50,119 --> 00:32:52,680 and we make ourselves out to be the hero of every story, or 447 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,559 we make ourselves out to be the victim, and nobody else is the victim, 448 00:32:55,200 --> 00:33:00,640 but my friends and family members, who are you know, in some 449 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:06,000 stage of recovery, Like pretty early on, most programs kind of require you 450 00:33:06,039 --> 00:33:09,319 to be really honest about how bad you've been, and that if you can 451 00:33:09,319 --> 00:33:14,480 make it through that process of what you coming to terms with what you've put 452 00:33:14,519 --> 00:33:17,519 other people through, you just have like a lifelong humility for a lot of 453 00:33:17,559 --> 00:33:23,200 these people. And I hope that Hunter can get to that stage at some 454 00:33:23,319 --> 00:33:28,559 point, And I know, it's hard to do it while all these other 455 00:33:28,599 --> 00:33:32,599 things are involved, but he doesn't seem anywhere near that stage. Yeah, 456 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:36,240 the people, I know, I know. One thing that they don't do 457 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:42,359 is they don't make excuses for the things they've done wrong outside of the addiction 458 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,799 itself, meaning like they're not going to say, oh, yeah, you 459 00:33:44,839 --> 00:33:46,599 know, I crashed the car intough Tree and it was because I was drunk. 460 00:33:46,599 --> 00:33:50,000 They're going to say it was my fault for getting drunk and doing it 461 00:33:50,119 --> 00:33:51,640 or whatever. You know, I made that up. But you know what 462 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,480 I'm saying. They don't hide behind the addiction, which is what he seems 463 00:33:54,519 --> 00:33:58,880 to be doing here. Maybe it's just a legal Maybe it's just a legal 464 00:33:59,279 --> 00:34:00,880 maneuver for him to do this. I don't know, and I don't really 465 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,559 care because, like you have said and I have written, it is not 466 00:34:04,839 --> 00:34:07,280 about him really. I mean, it is about him because he is the 467 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:13,760 he is the nexus between all the wrongdoing, but it's not like I don't 468 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:15,559 you know, I hope he pays for his crimes, but it's not really 469 00:34:15,559 --> 00:34:23,360 about him. It's about Joe. And it is clear that the tax violate 470 00:34:23,559 --> 00:34:28,559 the tax the nine and nine things that they were going after him for in 471 00:34:28,559 --> 00:34:35,119 the nine instances purposely circumvent any kind of investigation that would head or lead to 472 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:39,280 having Joe Biden sit down and under oath explain anything about the business that he 473 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:45,559 was clearly involved in. Do you agree, Oh, it's shocking given how 474 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:47,320 much this was. I mean, like there's a little bit of allusion to 475 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,199 some of it, right, Like there's a mention of the brief my funding 476 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:52,840 and whatnot. But yeah, they go That's what I'm saying. People are 477 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,719 like, oh, the Department of Justice is finally going after him, not 478 00:34:55,800 --> 00:35:00,519 really, Like if it were someone who had once met Donald Trump, this 479 00:35:00,559 --> 00:35:04,079 person would be spending the life of their the rest of their life in prison, 480 00:35:04,199 --> 00:35:07,360 with all of their assets taken from them and everybody they know destroyed. 481 00:35:07,559 --> 00:35:14,880 So no, they're not really going after him. But the way of trying 482 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,519 to make this be about Hunter, I mean, Hunter is a very salacious 483 00:35:16,559 --> 00:35:21,679 character, that is true, and he was key along with James, Joe's 484 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,119 brother, they're kind of like the top two people in the family business. 485 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:28,239 But there are so many other people, Like I was reading this story at 486 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:32,400 real clear politics that everyone should read about Sarah Biden. I think her name 487 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:37,719 is was James's wife. And you know how like one of the one of 488 00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:43,239 the pieces of evidence of Joe Biden financially benefiting from the family business is a 489 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:49,800 like check for a loan repayment, they claim, And nobody's ever shown evidence 490 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,280 like nobody's ever shown evidence that a loan was made from Joe to James and 491 00:35:54,320 --> 00:36:00,159 Sarah. Nobody ever explained how Joe would have the money to lend to James 492 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:06,760 or Sarah. There's no like, no document suggesting there really was alone. 493 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,000 But maybe there was a loan, who knows. But this story was about 494 00:36:10,199 --> 00:36:19,960 involving how James and Sarah, I think, owed this Delaware car person, 495 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:27,719 like an auto seller person, some money and then he got a contract for 496 00:36:28,159 --> 00:36:34,639 to build something outside of Kiev, Ukraine. It's like, oh, that's 497 00:36:34,679 --> 00:36:38,440 an interesting thing here that we have Joe Biden, the point man of Ukraine, 498 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:44,000 and Hunter Biden, the Barisma board member, despite having no experience as 499 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,159 a board member, is an energy executive or anything, and then like a 500 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:55,719 loane involving Joe's brother and claims about loan repayment after the guy who they owe 501 00:36:55,760 --> 00:37:00,639 money to gets like a sweetheart deal in Ukraine, and it was like the 502 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:05,920 level of stuff we have to work with here, of real stuff as opposed 503 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,800 to imagine trips to Moscow and you're a nation on beds and stuff like, 504 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:14,159 the real stuff we have to work with here is like unbelievable, and all 505 00:37:14,199 --> 00:37:17,360 of our corporate bad are just running complete interference on it. It's just a 506 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:23,039 few things on that one. In every story we keep hearing how there is 507 00:37:23,079 --> 00:37:29,760 no evidence that Joe Biden directly benefited from any of this. First of all, 508 00:37:30,039 --> 00:37:32,920 as you just mentioned, that's not exactly true. There's plenty of circumstantial 509 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:39,760 and real evidence that he did. But also it doesn't matter if I am 510 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:45,880 corrupt and I only enrich my kids and my family and my brother and my 511 00:37:45,079 --> 00:37:50,719 daughter. You know what I'm saying, that's still corruption. You're helping people 512 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,840 in your family around you. Money is fungible. They can help you in 513 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:59,519 ways that are you know, that circumvent you know, obvious ways to do 514 00:37:59,599 --> 00:38:04,800 that. But secondly, also he lied about this from the beginning, in 515 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:12,599 ways that are not are obvious and direct lives, and he lied about so 516 00:38:12,639 --> 00:38:16,280 he was forging. He's bragged about it, forging our policy in Ukraine, 517 00:38:16,519 --> 00:38:21,880 while at the same time lying that he knows nothing about his son's business there, 518 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,840 but helping that business now, at the very least, that's a massive 519 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:30,440 conflict of interest and it should really be a very big topic. At most, 520 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:34,960 it's corrupt, like there's too many, too much happenstance here that helps 521 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,199 the business for people not to be investigated by the way. A new version 522 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:43,760 of the relationship of Joe Biden to the family business came out today, So 523 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,360 Hunter Biden said, my father, let me be really, really really clear, 524 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:51,800 My father has never been financially involved in my business. So do you 525 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,000 remember at first it was I literally don't even know what my son does for 526 00:38:54,039 --> 00:38:58,239 a living. I've never talked with him about a single thing. And it's 527 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,320 a disgusting lie. I'm going to take you out back and beat you up 528 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:05,360 if you say I knew anything. And then you've got like photos and testimony 529 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,079 of people being like, oh, yeah, we were on the phone with 530 00:39:07,119 --> 00:39:09,000 Joe all the time, or oh yeah, Joe had to clear this before 531 00:39:09,079 --> 00:39:12,840 I joined this, you know, as a high level exec or, like 532 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:17,519 Joe clearly knew about the business, or Joe met them at a cafe Milana 533 00:39:17,599 --> 00:39:22,639 or whatever place. So then it was then it was like, okay, 534 00:39:22,679 --> 00:39:24,199 well, obviously he loves his son. You know who, by the way, 535 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,199 is an addict. Did you know he was an addict? And if 536 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,760 you say anything against an addict, you're a bad person. And so he 537 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,840 just was like loving and supporting his son as any father would. It was 538 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,960 like, oh, okay, so your story's changing. And then it was 539 00:39:36,039 --> 00:39:38,960 like, I've never financially benefited. And then last week it went back to 540 00:39:39,039 --> 00:39:44,039 Joe saying he never knew anything about the business. Yeah, and then today 541 00:39:44,159 --> 00:39:45,480 it's like, oh, well, he's never financially involved. It's like, 542 00:39:46,119 --> 00:39:51,559 oh, well, we've already got financial involvement of some kind. You know, 543 00:39:51,599 --> 00:40:00,320 they're checks, there are like his address being listed in documents. Just 544 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:04,519 the simple fact he brought Hunter Biden over on a plane when he was vice 545 00:40:04,519 --> 00:40:07,400 president to China to meet with people who he then set up a firm with. 546 00:40:08,599 --> 00:40:14,079 Like I'm sorry, Joe Biden. Joe met that person, said hello 547 00:40:14,119 --> 00:40:15,800 to that person, I cof you with that person, wrote a letter recommendation 548 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:20,480 for that person's child to go to college. Like that is you don't if 549 00:40:20,559 --> 00:40:22,719 your vice president, you just don't do things like that for no. I 550 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,880 mean, you know, let me ask you at the or let me just 551 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:30,079 say, at the very least, this is something that is more than you 552 00:40:30,119 --> 00:40:32,239 know, no evidence, there's no evidence, there's no evidence. It's constantly 553 00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:36,239 what they're saying in the media when there is tons of evidence that they just 554 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,559 don't want to look into. Let me quickly just jump to one other thing 555 00:40:39,679 --> 00:40:45,119 related to this. So it looks like the House is going to whatever, 556 00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:49,440 formulize or I forget the word for it, the impeachment process and so on. 557 00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,800 I think there's enough for impeachment. I saw some Democrats today said that 558 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:59,079 there's no there's no evidence that there's a crime committed by Joe Biden. Do 559 00:40:59,119 --> 00:41:00,719 we have to go through all that there was no there was no evidence that 560 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:07,280 Donald Trump committed any crime in a phone call. He could still still impeach 561 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,760 him. There's no evidence that Bill Clinton did anything criminal, and you could 562 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:15,079 still impeach him. But more than that, do you think politically, what 563 00:41:15,119 --> 00:41:19,719 do you think about going I mean, Joe Biden's so unpopular, I feel 564 00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:23,559 like Republicans should slim sit there and stew in it. I don't know, 565 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:31,000 I feel like there are a million things that are worth impeaching Joe Biden over 566 00:41:32,039 --> 00:41:37,000 and to not do it, like to sort of play along with the previous 567 00:41:37,039 --> 00:41:40,320 impeachments, and you had like a bunch of Republicans playing along with it, 568 00:41:40,519 --> 00:41:46,960 which is really shameful and why that party is disgusting and evil, Sorry, 569 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:52,239 disgusting and awful. I should say to not go after Like this is a 570 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,440 guy who on his first day in office said I'm going to destroy the sovereignty 571 00:41:55,559 --> 00:42:02,519 of the country and open the floodgates to an invasion of illegal immigrants unknown in 572 00:42:02,559 --> 00:42:07,280 the history of mankind. Like to me, that seems impeachable. I also 573 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:12,880 think that's criminal, Like it's just a violation or it's so important that you 574 00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,599 as a country have borders, that's like kind of what being a country is. 575 00:42:16,039 --> 00:42:21,880 And he campaigned by saying he would do it. Then he did it, 576 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:30,320 and it's been really bad for the country and it's shocking and it's unconstitutional, 577 00:42:30,599 --> 00:42:32,920 you know some of this stuff, And that alone, to me, 578 00:42:34,039 --> 00:42:37,599 seems worthy of impeachment. Here's another thing that like this is like on the 579 00:42:37,639 --> 00:42:44,519 other range of policy because it's not really a policy thing. But he keeps 580 00:42:44,519 --> 00:42:51,960 telling people his son died in the Iraq War. That's shameful, shameful, 581 00:42:52,039 --> 00:43:00,960 there were thousands of American families who lost men and some women in the Iraq 582 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:06,119 War, like who actually lost their sons, their husbands, their fathers. 583 00:43:06,159 --> 00:43:09,280 There are real Americans, like thousands of them, and he keeps going out 584 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:15,000 there and falsely claiming that his son died in the Iraq War. I think, 585 00:43:15,079 --> 00:43:21,960 like it's disgusting. Just compare like calling Vladimir Voldemirt's Zelenski and being like, 586 00:43:22,039 --> 00:43:24,840 hey, we think that we think there's some stuff here that should be 587 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:30,039 looked into, and that's true, and you get like impeached over that versus 588 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,599 my son died in the Iraq War. Like. I know you can think 589 00:43:32,639 --> 00:43:37,199 like all politicians lie or whatever, but to me, there's just something really 590 00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,719 really gross about that. So, like from the open border all the way 591 00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:44,760 down to just lying about the circumstances of your son's death, I think they 592 00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:49,400 are like a thousand things you could impeach him for. So I don't know, 593 00:43:49,679 --> 00:43:52,800 I don't know if it's I think it should have been done like years 594 00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:58,840 ago, basically, but I believe that almost every president of the modern age 595 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,679 deserves to be has deserve to be impeached. So you don't have to convince 596 00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:07,000 me on that I think he should be impeached. The thing for me is 597 00:44:07,039 --> 00:44:12,719 about the lying, is that it is all of all politicians lie for political 598 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,039 reasons. But I think Joe Biden actually is some kind of mental problem where 599 00:44:15,559 --> 00:44:22,119 George Santo's like a problem even in a way worse. Like yeah, because 600 00:44:22,519 --> 00:44:27,079 the George Santos thing actually kind of makes rational sense to me. He's just 601 00:44:27,159 --> 00:44:30,840 kind of a huckster, whereas Biden, I think, believes these things. 602 00:44:30,199 --> 00:44:34,639 He's lied about almost everything in his life. There's never been a person like 603 00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:38,119 him in the presidency who has lied the way he has. And yet what 604 00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:42,519 my point here is that but yet the media and a lot of people have, 605 00:44:43,039 --> 00:44:46,800 and he himself has cultivated this image of being an honest, straightforward moderate, 606 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:51,079 you know, every man from Scranton and all that, which is not 607 00:44:51,199 --> 00:44:52,880 who he is. He's actually a really bad person. He's always been a 608 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,960 bad person, from the time he was saying that he didn't want his kids 609 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,440 to grow up in a racial jungle and supporting segregation and Senate to today. 610 00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:06,079 He's always been a bad guy. And yet you know, they call like 611 00:45:06,159 --> 00:45:08,039 he's a devout Catholic in New York Times. You know, and stuff like 612 00:45:08,119 --> 00:45:13,360 that, and meanwhile he is takes the most extreme abortion position. Now I'm 613 00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,119 not I think that position's wrong and all that, but it's a lie to 614 00:45:16,119 --> 00:45:20,239 say that he's a devout Catholic. There's no devout Catholic who takes that position. 615 00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:22,880 So I don't know, I just find it. I find him creepy 616 00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:29,039 and weird, and I kind of always have and you know, I don't 617 00:45:29,039 --> 00:45:30,800 know, maybe it's finally going to catch up to him because as you see, 618 00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:37,360 his popularity numbers are just I don't know that you can get lower than 619 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:42,000 where he is in the sense that there's always going to be some partisans who 620 00:45:42,159 --> 00:45:47,159 support you. But it's a pretty bad position. So oh yeah, this 621 00:45:47,159 --> 00:45:50,679 is what I wanted to talk about one quick thing. So the gun charges 622 00:45:52,920 --> 00:46:02,639 that he's facing are really important because Hunter Biden in court is arguing right now 623 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,920 that his Second Amendment rights have been undermined, which is just there is I 624 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:12,559 don't know what to call it, schadenfreud, karma justice, you know, 625 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:22,519 because he might actually overturn. So this is kind of complicated. But when 626 00:46:22,559 --> 00:46:24,400 you were getting a gun, you have a background check, you have to 627 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:30,519 answer a question, do you have you used drugs, and we now know 628 00:46:30,679 --> 00:46:34,760 that, according to his book, he was still using crack when he filled 629 00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:38,480 out that form and got his handgun. That goes with you can go to 630 00:46:38,559 --> 00:46:42,440 jail for fifteen years for lying about that. But in my view, that's 631 00:46:42,519 --> 00:46:46,000 unconstitutional. First of all, it undermines the Fifth Amendment by incriminating yourself. 632 00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:52,880 Secondly, the uh marijuana is illegal federally. People states just ignore it, 633 00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,840 but then sometimes they don't ignore it. When it comes to you wanting to 634 00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:59,840 buy a gun, then all of a sudden it matters that it's a what 635 00:47:00,079 --> 00:47:02,519 is it called up? What is it called? The classification says, yeah, 636 00:47:02,519 --> 00:47:06,079 it's like the Schedule one or whatever, like one of the worst drugs. 637 00:47:06,119 --> 00:47:10,679 So anyway, sorry, it's a little bit confusing. But he will 638 00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:15,639 he is challenging this law, and I believe that if it goes to the 639 00:47:15,639 --> 00:47:17,400 Supreme Court, he's going to win. So it would there would be it 640 00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:23,280 would it would warm my heart to know that punter Biden would be undermining the 641 00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:30,639 Democrats' efforts to take guns away from people in through state laws. So but 642 00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:34,559 that's happening too. Anyway, Let's move on to a new topic this week. 643 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:39,400 Joe Biden basically came out very hard against Israel, said that Benjamin Notatayah, 644 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:45,519 who needed to dissolve his far right government. It's funny how these people 645 00:47:45,599 --> 00:47:49,440 love democracy, but when people they don't like are elected, then Benjamin Notatayaho 646 00:47:49,559 --> 00:47:52,840 in a foreign country. By the way, when people interfere in our elections 647 00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,800 from foreign countries, everyone has a meltdown. But Joe Biden can tell a 648 00:47:55,960 --> 00:48:00,679 democratic country to just dissolve their government because he's decided I did so and get 649 00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:04,199 rid of them. Listen, it's a parliamentary system and the only way you 650 00:48:04,199 --> 00:48:07,920 can govern in that country is to have some weirdo parties of the fringe within 651 00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:12,440 your you know, within your governing coalition. So it is what it is. 652 00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,719 But in any event, and then he's claimed that Israel was just indiscriminately 653 00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:20,119 bombing in Gaza, which is a lie. Now he's doing this because he 654 00:48:20,199 --> 00:48:23,960 needs to shore up some of his votes. It tells you a lot about 655 00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:27,800 those voters that you have to be pro Hamas to get them on board. 656 00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:31,639 But it is what it is. And yet at the same listen, that 657 00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:37,880 is harsher language than he has ever used against Iran, which kidnaps Americans, 658 00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:43,480 which uh, you know, kills Americans and it is and then you know 659 00:48:43,519 --> 00:48:50,159 what, really to contrast all that, Zelensky was in town from Ukraine and 660 00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:52,360 oh my god, the king of the world he was treated. So, 661 00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,199 you know, do you think Joe Biden would ever go out there and say, 662 00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:59,239 you need to do something about your corruption problem in that country? Because 663 00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:01,159 I hate to break the news to everyone, but Israel is a far freer 664 00:49:01,199 --> 00:49:07,360 country than Ukraine has ever been for one single day, far less corrupt and 665 00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:12,400 in my view, you know, or more moral democracy. But yeah, 666 00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:15,960 look at how Zelenski's treated. On the same day he's saying this about Benjamin 667 00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:20,679 Netsan Yahoo. So if I can just go back to the Israel thing first, 668 00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:24,320 I do think the US really does have a strong alliance with Israel, 669 00:49:24,679 --> 00:49:30,119 and we also contribute a lot financially and militarily to their security. Something like 670 00:49:30,159 --> 00:49:36,159 a horrible I don't think like it's completely how do I say, I don't 671 00:49:36,199 --> 00:49:39,039 think it's necessarily wrong to weigh in on how they should be doing things. 672 00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:44,880 I just don't think in this particular case it's the best strategic approach and it 673 00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:47,679 should not involve their domestic political situation like if you're going to weigh in, 674 00:49:49,519 --> 00:49:53,480 weigh in on a big national security sort of way, not in a here's 675 00:49:53,559 --> 00:49:57,480 who we think you should be electing in your next elections or how you should 676 00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:00,199 be running your next election. I just quickly say I agree that America has 677 00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:04,920 a stake in Israel's security, so they should be able to say, listen, 678 00:50:05,039 --> 00:50:07,519 we don't want you using the iron door. We don't want you to 679 00:50:07,519 --> 00:50:10,400 do it lousing missiles against the Yemen or something. But to say that a 680 00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:15,440 government that is elected by the people should be dissolved because you don't like what 681 00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:17,760 they want done, that's completely out of line. I don't care how much 682 00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:21,639 way be able to take their money away, then take there, or Sam, 683 00:50:21,679 --> 00:50:22,920 we're going to take your money away. If this is the government you 684 00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:27,199 have, you have every right to say that we do. But you know, 685 00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:30,760 but let me just say, when we're giving Pakistan money, he doesn't 686 00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:35,719 say anything. There's a military dictatorship running that country, they have nuclear weapons, 687 00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,159 or many other countries. But it's just somehow they hate Natanyahu, who's 688 00:50:39,159 --> 00:50:43,000 going to be gone soon anyway, because this was under his watch. But 689 00:50:43,079 --> 00:50:46,159 it's just there's just this hatred for Israel and they treat it like it's some 690 00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:52,079 kind of crazed, violent, you know, autocracy, which is just a 691 00:50:52,119 --> 00:50:58,920 fantasy of the left in this country. AnyWho, Again, I feel like 692 00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:06,880 the US saved the day at the UN on the resolution demanding a ceasefire in 693 00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,679 Israel. Doesn't save the day. I mean, does I think that it's 694 00:51:10,079 --> 00:51:14,239 Israel really appreciates America's support. But do you think that the UN has any 695 00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,000 power to tell Israel what they should be doing. They don't. You can 696 00:51:16,079 --> 00:51:20,519 vote any way. You feel like Israel's going to do what it has to 697 00:51:20,559 --> 00:51:22,760 do. UN has no power of the United States or Israel. I mean, 698 00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:27,519 yes, international support is important and they're going to lose it, but 699 00:51:27,639 --> 00:51:30,480 I think they need to do what they need to do anyway. Well, 700 00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:34,159 you've been speaking of meddling though, Like I keep on, just I cannot 701 00:51:34,159 --> 00:51:39,880 believe the situation with Ukraine, where if you go back again decades, people 702 00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:45,559 could see that with the disillusion of the Soviet Union, the one big area 703 00:51:45,559 --> 00:51:49,800 that was going to be a problem was Ukraine. And you had a debate 704 00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,159 about whether the thing to do was to sort of like make it a vassal 705 00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:59,440 country of the United States, or whether to like be fiercely strategically neutral buffer 706 00:51:59,519 --> 00:52:05,239 between NATO and Russia, and the people who wanted it to be like a 707 00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:08,400 little like outpost of the US or whatever where we could do things like run 708 00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:13,559 their elections or depose people we didn't want and like funnel a bunch of money 709 00:52:13,559 --> 00:52:16,320 through there through ngngos and stuff. Those people won, and the people who 710 00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:20,360 said that was the bad idea were like, someday Russia is going to invade 711 00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:22,840 this country because of how you're handling this, and they were. They were 712 00:52:23,679 --> 00:52:29,480 vindicated in that claim. So it just seems awful to me what we've done 713 00:52:29,519 --> 00:52:34,639 here. We have basically encouraged Ukraine into hostility, into a position where they 714 00:52:34,639 --> 00:52:39,360 were vulnerable to an invasion awful as it is from Russia. And then as 715 00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:44,440 it's happening, we're like, we're willing to fight this to the last Ukrainian 716 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:50,320 And you have so many Ukrainians dying and being injured. Yeah, you have 717 00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,440 a lot of Russians dying and being injured too, But like they just kind 718 00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:57,400 of build it into their calculus that they're going to they have like a lower 719 00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:01,119 regard for human life or something like. They have a long track record of 720 00:53:01,159 --> 00:53:07,440 throwing bodies at military problems, and everyone claimed that this was going to be 721 00:53:07,519 --> 00:53:13,320 like a really awesome easy war and that we were going to repel Russia and 722 00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:15,880 that we were there were to be destroyed financially. Not only were we going 723 00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:19,920 to win, we were going to destroy Russia. And instead you've got you 724 00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:24,719 know, Vladimir Putin hanging out in Saudi Arabia and the UAE and like being 725 00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:31,480 totally fine economically and withstanding everything, and meanwhile there's still no strategy for victory 726 00:53:31,559 --> 00:53:36,960 in Ukraine, people saying, like I saw that, Jake Sullivan or someone 727 00:53:37,039 --> 00:53:40,039 was like, oh no, Anthony Blinkoln was like, Ukraine has gained back 728 00:53:42,119 --> 00:53:45,119 much of the land that Russia took, and it was like, that's just 729 00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:49,639 not true. It's just not true. Like we've spent a lot of money, 730 00:53:50,039 --> 00:53:55,599 a lot of resources. It is a total slog. Russia has managed 731 00:53:55,599 --> 00:54:00,840 some pretty big gains and they seem well positioned going forward, and we're just 732 00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:05,840 still like with no plan, no strategy, no idea. We're just like 733 00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,039 basically encouraging Ukraine to keep going. And then we also say like, oh, 734 00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:12,679 it's their idea to do this, it's their idea to lose all of 735 00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:15,760 their men and have them all be injured and die. It's like, well, 736 00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:21,199 we're heavily involved there, like very heavily involved. It's not totally their 737 00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:24,840 idea. And also it's like a lot of our money. So Zelenski comes 738 00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:30,320 over says, we need to give more money. Everyone in DC is sorry, 739 00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:32,800 I'm a little all over the place here because I have so many different 740 00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:37,400 thoughts on it. But everyone in DC seems really jazzed to give Ukraine money. 741 00:54:37,679 --> 00:54:43,760 But the American people aren't so jazzed. And so the military industrial complex 742 00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:47,079 came up with this great idea, which was, we will pretend to care 743 00:54:47,159 --> 00:54:52,840 about the US border for a few weeks here, put in some stuff that 744 00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:57,039 we claim will somehow secure the border, even though nobody thinks it will secure 745 00:54:57,039 --> 00:55:00,960 the border, will actually just make it sort of easier to process the like 746 00:55:00,079 --> 00:55:05,320 all the illegal immigrants coming through. And then in exchange for pretending to care 747 00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,800 about the border, the idiots and the Republican Party will agree to more funding 748 00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:12,760 for Ukraine, even though we don't have any plan or strategy with what to 749 00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:17,719 do there. Yeah, I mean, the border stuff shouldn't even have to 750 00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:22,440 be contingent on anything. It is the number one job of the federal government 751 00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:24,440 to protect the borders of their country and make you know, to keep their 752 00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:30,920 country a soffer a nation like you know again, you know it shouldn't even 753 00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:32,760 have to be tied to this. I you know, when it comes to 754 00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:36,639 Ukraine, I have an idealistic view of these things, and then I have 755 00:55:36,679 --> 00:55:38,960 a realistic view of these things. You're not going to beat Russia. It's 756 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:43,840 a nuclear power. You can repel it so long, and the end you're 757 00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:46,599 going to end up losing. You know, you can end up losing. 758 00:55:47,119 --> 00:55:51,840 So I don't know. I'm not an expert. Yeah, one more thing. 759 00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:54,000 I read this thing by Fiona Hill, who like is all the neo 760 00:55:54,079 --> 00:56:00,679 kon's favorite favorite person. You might remember her from her testimony that like Russia 761 00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:02,599 collusion was kind of real, but she was like a Trump person, but 762 00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:07,440 she testified against him during impeachment. She was like, Ukraine is the most 763 00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:10,840 perfect, wonderful place in the world, and Russia actually is it is totally 764 00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:15,079 meddling in our elections, and all the like resistance people were like, yay, 765 00:56:15,159 --> 00:56:19,000 we love Fiona Hill. Anyway, I saw a bunch of people being 766 00:56:19,039 --> 00:56:22,239 like this is such a brilliant interview with her and over at Politico, and 767 00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:27,719 so I read it and it was like, the only reason people are opposed 768 00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:32,079 to limitless funding in Ukraine is because Republicans don't want Biden to have a win. 769 00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:37,960 I don't. The thing is, I don't know what a win looks 770 00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:42,920 like anymore. I just say, that's the level of intelligence going on. 771 00:56:43,039 --> 00:56:46,920 This is like their brightest star. And she thinks the reason why people oppose 772 00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:53,760 war without strategy, war without like metrics for success, with like no goal 773 00:56:54,159 --> 00:57:00,800 that makes sense in sight, is because of petty partisan politics. That's idiotic, 774 00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:05,679 and that's like the level of intelligence we're dealing with. And to have 775 00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:07,960 the media. Albeit I was making this point last and on Twitter, but 776 00:57:08,039 --> 00:57:14,119 you know, in Eisenhower's original in one of his drafts for his farewell address, 777 00:57:14,159 --> 00:57:19,800 where he coins the term military industrial complex, he had it written military 778 00:57:20,159 --> 00:57:24,599 industrial Congressional complex. And I actually like that term because it really does show 779 00:57:25,119 --> 00:57:30,840 the key role that Congress plays. But I also wanted to have the media 780 00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:34,599 in there because it's you think, like, how do we keep getting these 781 00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:38,519 long wars that aren't going well that we can our national security, that are 782 00:57:38,559 --> 00:57:43,920 not fought in our national interest When so many Americans oppose them, and yes, 783 00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:47,599 there is this military industrial complex. It couldn't work without corporate media as 784 00:57:49,239 --> 00:57:57,000 complete subservience to this complex like they are. You could almost say like that's 785 00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:59,960 what their job is is to keep this going. And so they just reach 786 00:58:00,119 --> 00:58:02,920 gurgitate what these you know, what Fiona Hill is saying and what other people 787 00:58:04,159 --> 00:58:07,639 They just regurgitate it. They don't ask tough questions, like to me, 788 00:58:08,159 --> 00:58:10,079 a good question would be like, so, how are you going to win 789 00:58:10,119 --> 00:58:15,719 against a nuclear superpower? Like how's that going to happen? But I'd be 790 00:58:15,719 --> 00:58:17,400 At the same time, they tell us that Ukraine's doing so well on a 791 00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:22,360 repelled Russia on one hand. On the other hand, they keep saying we're 792 00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:27,000 going to be in this until Ukrainians win. What does that mean? Are 793 00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,519 they going to take back Crimea? Are they going to go to Moscow? 794 00:58:30,639 --> 00:58:35,159 Like I don't understand. I can never understand. It's again very opaque at 795 00:58:35,199 --> 00:58:37,039 the endgame, and I think that we should be pushing people to come to 796 00:58:37,039 --> 00:58:42,320 some resolution here. Oh, David, you thought that was a good question, 797 00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:45,760 but really you just don't want Joe Biden to have a victory. Yeah, 798 00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:52,119 that's what Fiona Hill says, sorry, I do not like Joe Biden, 799 00:58:52,199 --> 00:58:54,360 but I think, you know, stopping a war is a victory I 800 00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:59,559 could support him in, and I don't really understand. You know, if 801 00:58:59,559 --> 00:59:02,039 anything, you could argue that he keeps his going because it helps him somehow 802 00:59:02,079 --> 00:59:06,400 politically. You know, that's the whole point of the complex. Oh. 803 00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:09,960 Also, I love that they actually did this messaging where they're like, Okay, 804 00:59:10,239 --> 00:59:15,599 our critics accuse us of only doing this to basically make money for the 805 00:59:15,599 --> 00:59:21,079 military industrial complex. What if we admitted they were right and then pointed out 806 00:59:21,079 --> 00:59:25,400 that some of these military industrial complex places exist in red states. You had 807 00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:30,519 like this widespread campaign of people being like, actually, when you spend all 808 00:59:30,559 --> 00:59:37,639 of these trillions of dollars, you're really helping yourself. I have no problem 809 00:59:37,719 --> 00:59:40,760 spending trillions of dollars on our military, but I do have a problem with 810 00:59:42,079 --> 00:59:45,760 fueling a war that's going no place. So wait, so you think like 811 00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:47,840 the three trillion in Afghanistan was a good amount of money spent, You're okay 812 00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:52,159 with the lives lost and what we got as an outcome of that. No, 813 00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:55,760 because idealistically it didn't. But a plant in Ohio did, alright? 814 00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:59,360 With some of that. Sorry, that's fine. The thing is I don't 815 00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:02,519 have a problem spent. That's one of the things I think government should be 816 01:00:02,519 --> 01:00:07,960 spending on money is making a strong, averting war and all of that. 817 01:00:07,679 --> 01:00:10,119 So I don't like to use that kind of language. But all I'm saying 818 01:00:10,199 --> 01:00:15,760 is that I just there is no endgame. We need an endgame. This 819 01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:19,639 is a complicated situation. There are many Russians living in these places. It's 820 01:00:19,719 --> 01:00:23,400 not you know, there's an ethnic civil war going on in these places, 821 01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:28,559 and we just treat it like it's just this simplistic thing with like Hitler invading 822 01:00:28,599 --> 01:00:32,000 Poland or something where it's it's not. It's much more complicated. It's its 823 01:00:32,119 --> 01:00:36,519 history goes further back. And I'm happy to help Ukraine fight a war, 824 01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:39,519 but we need to know when it ends or where it goes. Like let 825 01:00:39,559 --> 01:00:43,079 me give you a quick example. With Israel, I know exactly what they 826 01:00:43,119 --> 01:00:45,559 want. I don't know you I know what victory looks like in Israel. 827 01:00:45,599 --> 01:00:50,079 I do not know what victory looks like in you know, Ukraine. So 828 01:00:50,119 --> 01:00:53,159 people always tend to support wars right when they begin, and then it peters 829 01:00:53,199 --> 01:00:57,960 off after time. I was but I think you're absolutely right. Like people 830 01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:01,519 saw what happened on October seventh. They understand that you need to eradicate Hamas 831 01:01:01,639 --> 01:01:07,639 because they're doing these horrific things and that's like not tenable, and so it 832 01:01:07,679 --> 01:01:12,920 makes sense and like almostn't even need to articulate what the plan is because it's 833 01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:15,440 so obvious. You go in and you kill all the people who did this 834 01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:19,760 to you and who supported that. The day after this war is over in 835 01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,320 Europe, Putin will still be there or someone like him who you have to 836 01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:25,960 live next to and deal with. Right, So I don't I still don't 837 01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:30,320 get the how this ends. I've asked people, they'll tell me when Ukraine 838 01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:32,760 gets back, Well, it's territory, but everyone keeps telling me they already 839 01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:36,440 did that, they already repelled them, They we already taken back most of 840 01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:38,559 their territory. So I don't know. And then I just want to also 841 01:01:38,599 --> 01:01:45,400 say, yes, I think Americans support a strong defense and they're willing to 842 01:01:45,639 --> 01:01:49,880 spend a lot of money and lose lives in defense of the Country's why you 843 01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:54,199 have to be like really good about knowing when and where to fight. And 844 01:01:54,239 --> 01:01:59,239 not only is this never been communicated as being like a key part of our 845 01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:04,440 national interest. There are things that are happening globally that we're not able to 846 01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:07,519 pay attention to, or we're not able to focus on because we're so diverted 847 01:02:07,599 --> 01:02:10,199 on something that doesn't even make any sense. And we've been doing this for 848 01:02:10,239 --> 01:02:15,320 a long time. It's just like what we did in Afghanistan definitely a just 849 01:02:15,639 --> 01:02:19,119 war, but then we like stay for twenty years and then it ends up 850 01:02:19,159 --> 01:02:22,039 not like the last seventeen years didn't really make a ton of sense, or 851 01:02:22,679 --> 01:02:29,519 the war in Iraq was sold on a false basis, which is very very 852 01:02:29,519 --> 01:02:34,480 bad to do to the public because like they were willing to trust these people 853 01:02:34,559 --> 01:02:37,119 that they thought were totally trustworthy about why we were fighting that more and why 854 01:02:37,159 --> 01:02:40,239 it made sense, and then as it all kind of fell apart, there 855 01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:45,000 weren't mea kopa's from these people. They just like went out and started doing 856 01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:49,079 the next war, and whether it's like involvement in Libya or a thousand other 857 01:02:49,119 --> 01:02:51,800 places, it's again the same people now being like, Okay, we're going 858 01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:54,840 to do in Ukraine kind of like stuff that was similar to what we're doing 859 01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:59,079 in Iraq, Like it's so alid democracy building, like it's all these like 860 01:02:59,159 --> 01:03:04,280 weird phrases that they use to justify and people have learned that they aren't the 861 01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:09,880 most trustworthy people. And there are real problems, whether it is Iran or 862 01:03:10,159 --> 01:03:14,519 China or you know, things that we need to be paying attention to and 863 01:03:14,559 --> 01:03:17,880 thinking through very strategically and building up towards you know, as a matter of 864 01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:22,280 deterrence or otherwise, and that just can't happen when we're doing this kind of 865 01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:27,800 idiotic approach here. Yeah, I think, you know, obviously, in 866 01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:30,480 Afghanist any Rock, the main problem for me was the nation building part where 867 01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:36,480 we died needlessly to uphold basically in Afghanist Curia Law and any Rock. I'm 868 01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,360 not sure what, but I would say that I think that we tend to 869 01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:43,159 shy away from using force when we should. You know, when Huti rebels 870 01:03:43,159 --> 01:03:46,400 of Iran or firing missiles at American ships, we should punish them severely for 871 01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:50,000 that, and it wouldn't happen again. Oh, not take them off the 872 01:03:50,079 --> 01:03:52,440 terrorists list like Biden did ye? Or not take them out? So I 873 01:03:52,599 --> 01:03:57,639 I you know, I am. I am not against using military force when 874 01:03:57,679 --> 01:04:00,800 we need it and using it overwhelmingly. I just think that we should be 875 01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:04,360 careful how we do it and what we do it for. Actually, so 876 01:04:04,639 --> 01:04:09,199 what you just said I think is key. I think Americans are more than 877 01:04:09,320 --> 01:04:13,960 fine with using force for a strategic aim, and if anything, they would 878 01:04:14,039 --> 01:04:18,400 like more of that. Like when you have a conflict, you go in 879 01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:24,039 hard and heavy and you do it and then you get out. The military 880 01:04:24,079 --> 01:04:27,880 industrial complex doesn't make as much money that way, like they make money through 881 01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:33,320 these long decades long wars where you can have like a certain expectation of the 882 01:04:33,639 --> 01:04:38,679 money coming in the year after year. If your strategy is just to like 883 01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:42,480 take out the guy who's taking out the Americans, you know, like SOLEMANI, 884 01:04:43,599 --> 01:04:45,840 and you just do it and then you're out, that's not a lot 885 01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:49,599 of money for the military industrial complex. And that's the whole the thing Eisenhower 886 01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:55,360 was warning about. We are living, you know, quite fully in that 887 01:04:55,679 --> 01:04:59,920 nightmare scenario that he was talking about, and it doesn't serve the national nan 888 01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:03,920 interest. I just feel I don't want to get into a big argument with 889 01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:08,760 you, but I just feel sometimes there's a bit of conspiratorial thinking behind the 890 01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:15,039 military industrial Dwight Eisenhower is a I don't but I think that the way it's 891 01:05:15,079 --> 01:05:18,400 been take what he said has been taken sometimes does. Now I'm not saying 892 01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:25,400 that that these you know that the military industry doesn't make a lot of money 893 01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:28,599 and benefit from wars like this. It does, But we're the ones who 894 01:05:28,639 --> 01:05:31,760 elect these people who who send money to Ukraine. Right. You could very 895 01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:35,519 easily elect other people and they wouldn't do it. Right, And it's not 896 01:05:35,559 --> 01:05:42,679 like the military the industrial military industry wouldn't make tons of money anyway, even 897 01:05:42,679 --> 01:05:45,039 if these wars going weren't going on. I mean, they get a lot 898 01:05:45,039 --> 01:05:49,079 of funding even when things aren't going on for all kinds of you know projects. 899 01:05:49,239 --> 01:05:53,639 I'm not saying it's not true that maybe a lot of some people involved 900 01:05:53,639 --> 01:05:57,360 in that are are for it. But I don't think Mitch McConnell and some 901 01:05:57,519 --> 01:06:01,480 Democratic center, I can't think cares that the you know, military military industry 902 01:06:01,559 --> 01:06:04,320 is making tons of money or not. I mean I think that they blow 903 01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:08,079 you, David, this is good for the world, because that's their viewpoint 904 01:06:08,159 --> 01:06:12,320 is kind of a neo con viewpoint. I don't know what is meant by 905 01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:16,400 conspiracy in this case. Like to me, it's kind of the so again, 906 01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:19,119 in the Eisenhower speech. One of the things he says is like, 907 01:06:19,199 --> 01:06:24,559 whether it's witting or unwitting, we're building up this complex. So to me, 908 01:06:24,679 --> 01:06:26,840 that's how I view it, which is not so much a conspiracy. 909 01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:29,000 It's sort of like, these are things that happen. And so to give 910 01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:31,559 an example of how it happens, where it's very difficult to get away from 911 01:06:31,599 --> 01:06:38,920 this, we have like a House of Representatives where each member is representing so 912 01:06:39,119 --> 01:06:43,800 many people it's absurd and so not like how it was when we when we 913 01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:46,840 founded this country. And so you know, it's become a much more prestige 914 01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:50,840 position kind of to be a House member, and it's very difficult to win 915 01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:56,719 reelection, and it takes a lot of money. And so yes, absolutely 916 01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:01,400 different industries are financing these campaigns in a way that might be at odds with 917 01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:05,599 what the actual people want in it that they could convey, like doesn't really 918 01:07:05,639 --> 01:07:10,719 seem like whether you're a Republican or Democrat, that what you want as a 919 01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:15,119 person is getting like the kind of hearing you might want in the House of 920 01:07:15,159 --> 01:07:18,320 Representatives. And I think part of it is that they're representing so many people 921 01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:21,599 and it's so expensive to do campaigns, so it's not like a conspiracy so 922 01:07:21,679 --> 01:07:27,599 much as like systemic problems that lead to an alienation between Washington, d C. 923 01:07:28,199 --> 01:07:32,000 And the people. I'm just a lot of people who use that phrase 924 01:07:32,039 --> 01:07:35,239 though, make it sound like there's this star chamber where people sit around a 925 01:07:35,239 --> 01:07:38,719 table like we're going to start a war and make lots of money. I 926 01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:43,360 think it's far more complex than that. And you know, I just do. 927 01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:46,440 I mean, Europeans are part of this as well. For instance, 928 01:07:46,559 --> 01:07:48,800 Germans are part of it, French are part of it. You know. 929 01:07:49,159 --> 01:07:55,079 It's it's more complicated than that. But and that's a real thing that happened, 930 01:07:55,559 --> 01:07:58,920 and countries get to fight back. Like how much we want to help 931 01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:00,719 those countries is a different story. But I don't think this is some kind 932 01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:05,760 of even again that like the whole situation in Ukraine is to me part of 933 01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:11,719 this story as well, because it became this country where you could sort of 934 01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:16,079 like the incompetent children of politicians could go over and be part of non governmental 935 01:08:16,159 --> 01:08:21,600 organizations and make a lot of money or be part of the money flow, 936 01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:24,880 you know, because we were spending so much money in Ukraine, you could 937 01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:29,279 I don't know, get a job as a Barisma board member getting a million 938 01:08:29,399 --> 01:08:34,680 dollars a year even though you were completely unqualified for it. It's all part 939 01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:41,279 of this like system that has been built up where a lot of people can 940 01:08:41,319 --> 01:08:46,199 benefit from, like yeah, just this flow of money between us and other 941 01:08:46,239 --> 01:08:51,319 countries. And so it's complicated. But I don't think it's like a I 942 01:08:51,319 --> 01:08:55,359 don't. I don't think it's like an X files conspiracy theory. I think 943 01:08:55,359 --> 01:08:59,279 it's just like now, life has gotten really complicated. I agree. I'm 944 01:08:59,319 --> 01:09:03,239 just saying that there is sometimes a conspiratorial element about war. I think that 945 01:09:03,319 --> 01:09:09,039 people now have after Iraq and all the things they live through that I just 946 01:09:09,079 --> 01:09:12,840 think that things are more complicated. I'm not saying that there's yeah, oh 947 01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,079 sorry, no, no remember that. Did you read that email? Or 948 01:09:15,079 --> 01:09:17,520 who said you interrupt me all the time? Yeah, I'm sorry, No, 949 01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:21,159 you don't. I'm just joking. I think we interrupt each other equally, 950 01:09:21,319 --> 01:09:25,199 So I don't. I don't mind if you interrupt me at all. 951 01:09:25,239 --> 01:09:32,800 But there is something that's happening in my getting. There's something that's happening in 952 01:09:32,840 --> 01:09:39,039 my city that is somehow related to this, I feel like. So I 953 01:09:39,119 --> 01:09:42,560 live in Alexandria, Virginia, which is just outside of Washington, d C. 954 01:09:42,680 --> 01:09:45,600 It's actually part of what used to be Washington d C. You know, 955 01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:48,840 Virginia had gave part of DC and Maryland gave part, and then they 956 01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:51,960 gave the Virginia part back because they were like, the federal government will never 957 01:09:53,079 --> 01:09:57,680 need so much space as we have here. So we're in that part of 958 01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:01,960 what used to be DC, and we have like a completely communist population. 959 01:10:02,079 --> 01:10:09,239 Of course, and we recently had this issue where they wanted to basically get 960 01:10:09,319 --> 01:10:15,079 rid of zoning for single family house neighborhoods, and it was, you know, 961 01:10:15,159 --> 01:10:18,439 kind of shoved through, but it had a lot of support. It 962 01:10:18,479 --> 01:10:21,319 had a lot of opposition from people who live here, but it also had 963 01:10:21,319 --> 01:10:26,600 a lot of support, particularly from the left. Like the next day, 964 01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:33,680 the Washington Post breaks the news that complete shock to everybody. They're moving the 965 01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:41,119 capitals and the Wizards to Alexandria. And I mean it's all done. Technically, 966 01:10:41,199 --> 01:10:43,600 is not done, like technically maybe there need to be some votes on 967 01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:45,880 this, but like they've got the plan, they've got the location, they've 968 01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:48,800 got like what it's going to look like interior, What it's going to look 969 01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:54,239 like xterior, What it's going to look like traffic for you guys. So 970 01:10:54,279 --> 01:10:57,760 it's not that that I find interesting. What I find interesting is it was 971 01:10:57,800 --> 01:11:02,479 a secret until like yesterday the Washington Post broke the news, and today our 972 01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:10,079 communist mayor Justin Wilson and our Republican Governor Glenn youngkin like held hands and announced 973 01:11:10,079 --> 01:11:14,760 that this like amazing thing is happening. And I don't totally have a problem 974 01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:18,000 with this, Like it's interesting to me that it's happening, but I don't 975 01:11:18,039 --> 01:11:20,520 totally have a problem with it, Like it will be a nightmare of traffic 976 01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:24,600 wise, but I told Mark, I was like, it does kind of 977 01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:30,159 seem like an attack on democracy, like nobody had any idea, and it's 978 01:11:30,199 --> 01:11:35,000 going to fundamentally change everyone's lives in real and meaningful ways, like traffic is 979 01:11:35,039 --> 01:11:39,159 the thing you deal with every day, and it's going to be a disaster. 980 01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:43,119 It's also going to like affect the people of DC because DC is a 981 01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:47,439 Donald Trump had a word for it, so a bad place. It's become 982 01:11:47,439 --> 01:11:50,239 a really bad place to be. Well, can I quickly just say so 983 01:11:50,319 --> 01:11:53,840 they play they used to play. I forget what it's called the arena, 984 01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:56,920 but it was in Chinatown or that's where they are now. Yeah, yeah, 985 01:11:56,960 --> 01:11:59,119 and it was a here. I haven't been there in a while. 986 01:11:59,119 --> 01:12:03,239 That crime is just like outlandish now there, I mean it was getting nicer. 987 01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:05,920 I don't know what's happened, you know. Yeah, I mean, 988 01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:09,800 I'm so old and they've lived in DC for so long that to me, 989 01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:13,880 it just more seems like we're getting back to that nineties era of crime rather 990 01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:17,840 than it's like reaching horrific heights never before seen. But it's an un fun 991 01:12:17,880 --> 01:12:24,640 place to be. DC is grimy, it's dirty, it's like not it's 992 01:12:25,199 --> 01:12:29,680 trying the Boulder Colorado approach of importing homeless people. Like it's just it's a 993 01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:34,760 mess. It's not fun. And taking the Wizards and the Caps out of 994 01:12:34,840 --> 01:12:41,560 DC could be very very very bad for DC, Like it could. It 995 01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:44,880 might, it might really hurt them economically. And my point is just like 996 01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:47,239 it affects so many people, and it was just like decided from on high, 997 01:12:48,079 --> 01:12:51,920 the oligarchs and the politicians. They just took care of everything and then 998 01:12:51,920 --> 01:12:55,920 they just announced it and there's like nothing you can do. And I don't 999 01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:59,520 even really care about this, but like it seems like these things happen over 1000 01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:02,680 and over and over and over again, whether it's moving an arena or fighting 1001 01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:06,119 a war, it's like decided apart from you, and you don't get to, 1002 01:13:06,920 --> 01:13:10,359 like even if you think you get to weigh in, you don't really 1003 01:13:10,439 --> 01:13:14,039 get to weigh in. Like it's all it's all just kind of get that 1004 01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:17,239 you could vote against the mayor who was part of this if you want it, 1005 01:13:17,279 --> 01:13:21,479 but he'll win, right, So yeah, but anyway, you know, 1006 01:13:21,560 --> 01:13:28,960 the thing is yeah, yeah, but they're also on my list serves. 1007 01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:31,640 People are melting down, and in some cases it's the same people who 1008 01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:38,279 were all for destroying zoning for single family housing are now like completely on the 1009 01:13:38,319 --> 01:13:42,159 other side. They're appalled, and they're a guest and they're just like venting 1010 01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:46,399 with rage about everything, and they keep on attacking Trump voters, And I 1011 01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:50,239 kind of want to like weigh in, Like I'm always just staying very quiet 1012 01:13:50,279 --> 01:13:54,159 on these lists, but I wouldn't be, like, so, notice the 1013 01:13:54,199 --> 01:13:58,279 bigotry against the Trump voters, Like they're blaming Trump voters. We have no 1014 01:13:58,279 --> 01:14:01,359 Trump voters other than me. That includes everyone in my house probably, So 1015 01:14:03,239 --> 01:14:09,159 it's just kind of funny how they're surprised they're not blaming the Russians. I 1016 01:14:09,199 --> 01:14:12,760 bet they will. That would be another approach I could take, is just 1017 01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:15,800 just to insert that in there too. I think it's the Russians. There 1018 01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:19,359 are a vetch Gan who plays for the Capitals is a Putin fan. So 1019 01:14:20,199 --> 01:14:24,000 you know, oh, that actually explains one of these notes, which I'm 1020 01:14:24,039 --> 01:14:30,079 going to read. Hold on, go on, that's the Nexus Capitals used 1021 01:14:30,079 --> 01:14:32,319 to play in Landover, Maryland, you know, years ago. I don't 1022 01:14:32,359 --> 01:14:35,880 know when they moved into town. I think the Wizards also are the Bullets, 1023 01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:39,199 which is such a better name. We're out there. I think you're 1024 01:14:39,239 --> 01:14:43,880 not supposed to mention exactly, you know, notes from the list. But 1025 01:14:44,279 --> 01:14:46,840 someone says, on the bright side, the influx of Trump voters in their 1026 01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:51,840 o Vegekin jerseys will surely get us our much needed widening of the scooter lanes. 1027 01:14:54,319 --> 01:14:55,880 I was like, I don't even get what that means. But now 1028 01:14:55,880 --> 01:15:00,199 you kind of explained, like the people on the left are bitterly clinging their 1029 01:15:00,239 --> 01:15:03,520 Russian inclusion conspiracy theories, like they still think that the twenty sixteen election was 1030 01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:09,279 stolen by a Vegkin and Putin or whatever, And so it comes out in 1031 01:15:09,359 --> 01:15:14,399 these notes on the lists. I don't think. Having lived in the area, 1032 01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:17,640 I'm pretty sure there aren't a ton of Republicans there in general, like 1033 01:15:17,720 --> 01:15:23,479 a lot of Avechkin fans are probably Democrats. Actually, I was like, 1034 01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:29,119 okay, I don't quite get what this insult is. And also a bunch 1035 01:15:29,159 --> 01:15:32,079 of the Federalist staff are on scooters, so maybe I was like, hmm, 1036 01:15:32,439 --> 01:15:38,600 there are scooters like a Republican thing. I don't know, so weird. 1037 01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:44,800 Anyway, Well, I'm sorry to hear that for you. I will 1038 01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:46,159 say one thing. Since you mentioned something about where you live, I want 1039 01:15:46,159 --> 01:15:49,199 to mention that where I live in Williamsburg, Virginia, they had the second 1040 01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:53,920 Sunday festival where they didn't light the Manora that I was so upset about last 1041 01:15:53,960 --> 01:15:58,920 week. It rained all over the festival, so I would like, I 1042 01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:00,920 will show you what are you talking about. God, it was the Rothschild's 1043 01:16:01,159 --> 01:16:06,800 weather machine that we have the Jews have, and next Sunday after that it's 1044 01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:11,920 going to do the same thing again. They don't pull it together. But 1045 01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:14,920 there was I want to say, there was a lighting at William and Mary 1046 01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:17,960 Campus and hundreds of people showed up. I wasn't there, but I heard 1047 01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:23,840 it was very beautiful and nice. And so that's that. You want to 1048 01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:28,199 talk about culture. I don't have anything. You have zero things. Oh 1049 01:16:28,239 --> 01:16:31,439 my gosh, it's all on me. I have three things. I watched 1050 01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:34,760 an old movie, La Confidential, which every time I watch I love. 1051 01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:39,960 Have you seen it? Yeah, it's good. I got the name of 1052 01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:44,800 the author, Elmore, not Elmore Leonard. Anyway. I watched a movie 1053 01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:49,359 from nineteen seventy three or two called The Offence with Sean Connery. Have you 1054 01:16:49,399 --> 01:16:56,079 ever heard of this? No? But I want to. So it was 1055 01:16:56,119 --> 01:17:01,319 a very weird and James Elroy James elbra right. It was directed by Sidney 1056 01:17:01,399 --> 01:17:05,479 Lumey, who did likes a bunch of good seventies movies. I think Dog 1057 01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:09,880 Day Afternoon and stuff later on, if I'm right about that. So it's 1058 01:17:09,880 --> 01:17:15,199 about a detective and it's not really a spoiler to say he kills a person 1059 01:17:15,279 --> 01:17:21,720 that he's alleged child molester who he is hasn't police custody as a detective, 1060 01:17:23,079 --> 01:17:27,680 and it goes through, it works its way backward to that point and it's 1061 01:17:27,760 --> 01:17:30,680 just this very weird, interesting movie. It's on Amazon, So I would 1062 01:17:30,159 --> 01:17:35,039 people are interested, I would suggest they watch it. And then I watched 1063 01:17:35,239 --> 01:17:42,399 only yesterday, I think it was released on Netflix, a documentary about Tom 1064 01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:46,239 Wolfe called Radical Wolf. And I don't know if you're a Tom wolf fan 1065 01:17:46,399 --> 01:17:54,399 or not, but I am, even though I don't love him as much 1066 01:17:54,399 --> 01:17:58,039 as people might assume that I would. Sometimes they assume I'm a massive fan. 1067 01:17:58,079 --> 01:18:00,279 I'm actually a bigger fan of Gayta Lee's who I think was a little 1068 01:18:00,319 --> 01:18:05,000 more interesting books, but in that new journalism genre. But it is actually 1069 01:18:05,079 --> 01:18:09,439 quite good. It's got John Hamm reading from his books. They go through 1070 01:18:10,199 --> 01:18:14,000 a bunch of you know, his writing. They kind of gloss over his 1071 01:18:14,199 --> 01:18:16,920 conservatism, and again I don't think he was like a political conservative. Is 1072 01:18:17,039 --> 01:18:23,199 just a person who went after the sacred cows of the left, you know, 1073 01:18:23,239 --> 01:18:28,039 and poked his figure in the eye of sort of liberals. And so 1074 01:18:28,119 --> 01:18:30,479 it was just interesting. I learned a little bit more about his family life, 1075 01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,359 you know, of his long term marriage and stuff. I didn't really 1076 01:18:33,399 --> 01:18:38,800 know about his personal life as much. I thought that was a nice documentary 1077 01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:42,560 for anyone who's interested in that. I do love the book Bonfire the Vanities. 1078 01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:46,159 I don't think a book has captures New York in the eighties quite like 1079 01:18:46,239 --> 01:18:48,920 that book. I mean, it's just I just love that book. The 1080 01:18:48,960 --> 01:18:53,319 movie is terrible, but I still even like the movie because I like the 1081 01:18:53,319 --> 01:18:58,760 book that much. So anyway, that's all I have and you have literally 1082 01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:02,239 nothing. What was Where can you see a Radical Wolf? Netflix? I 1083 01:19:02,279 --> 01:19:04,960 believe? Okay, I might check that out. Yeah, no, I 1084 01:19:05,039 --> 01:19:11,680 haven't. I did go caroling on Saturday with my church and that was fun, 1085 01:19:11,880 --> 01:19:17,439 and we visited people who are unable to leave their homes to come to 1086 01:19:17,560 --> 01:19:21,680 church, and one of them is like my really really really good friend who 1087 01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:26,520 I've been friends with for a long time, and it was really great to 1088 01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:31,640 see her. But she unfortunately like does not she's dealing with pretty severe memory 1089 01:19:31,840 --> 01:19:42,439 loss. Yeah, and and yet she's just so lovely, like she's so 1090 01:19:42,600 --> 01:19:46,960 much the same person she always was. She just doesn't remember who people are 1091 01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:55,479 elderly. Oh yeah, she's like ninety plus she's awesome, awesome lady, 1092 01:19:56,319 --> 01:19:59,479 and I love her. So that was that was like the highlight of my 1093 01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:02,119 week that I got to see her. Okay, that's very nice. I 1094 01:20:02,159 --> 01:20:05,000 hope people will join us next week when we come back. Until them be 1095 01:20:05,039 --> 01:20:13,239 lovers of freedom and anxious for the friend having that train I'll go Kaine Casey 1096 01:20:13,439 --> 01:20:15,920 Jones. You been what Jos