1 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,960 Hello, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of You're Wrong with Molly Hemingway 2 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:26,039 and me David Harsani. As always, if you have email for the show, 3 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:32,039 please email us at radio at the Federalist for your complaints or your praise 4 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,560 or whatever. How are you doing, Molly, I'm doing great. Great 5 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:38,640 to see you. It's great to see you as well. I think we 6 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:44,280 should get right into it. There's a lot going on this morning Wednesday morning, 7 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,359 James Comer of the and I'm going to get it wrong, but the 8 00:00:47,359 --> 00:00:53,759 Oversight Committee on Accountability or whatever it's called, that is investigating Biden family dealings, 9 00:00:53,799 --> 00:00:59,359 or at least a thirty five or thirty six page report detailing how the 10 00:00:59,399 --> 00:01:04,200 Biden emily made us just a slew of deals using a bunch of shell corporations 11 00:01:04,439 --> 00:01:08,959 twelve different banks. Because obviously, if your business is above board, that's 12 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:12,640 how you do it, that's how you bring foreign cash into the family business. 13 00:01:14,079 --> 00:01:18,359 And I thought it was Listen. I don't think there's any smoking gun 14 00:01:18,359 --> 00:01:21,879 of criminality, but I just simply don't understand. I'd like to kick it 15 00:01:21,879 --> 00:01:25,959 off this way. I simply don't understand or can't think of any plausible reason 16 00:01:26,519 --> 00:01:30,560 anyone in the world. What's in the Biden family millions of dollars that do 17 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:36,400 not begin with the words influence peddling. Yeah, So last week we talked 18 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:42,400 about this whistleblower that was being taken very seriously by Senator James Senator Chuck Grassley 19 00:01:42,599 --> 00:01:48,959 and Representative James Comer, who said that the FBI had a report of bribery 20 00:01:49,159 --> 00:01:56,200 involving Joe Biden and a foreign entity. And people ask Grassley like, do 21 00:01:56,239 --> 00:02:00,120 you know if this is true one hundred percent that this bribery happened? He 22 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:01,840 said, no, I know that the you know, I know that we 23 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:07,120 have a whistleblower saying that the FBI has information and that, you know, 24 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,439 we need to know more about what they did, if anything, to act 25 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,639 on that information. But if you took a step back and just thought, 26 00:02:14,039 --> 00:02:21,000 okay, Joe Biden entered government famously as a you know, he would always 27 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,080 say he was like an everyday man, he was not wealthy, and he's 28 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:29,840 now a multimillionaire. How did that happen? How does it? You know, 29 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:35,840 you don't actually make that much money being a representative or a vice president 30 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,199 or a senator. It's it's not a bad living, But it's not like 31 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:43,439 you become a multi millionaire kind of living. So how did he make his 32 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,080 money? How did he go from being poor too extremely wealthy? And the 33 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:54,840 same question could be asked of many other politicians, but the normal journalistic curiosity 34 00:02:54,879 --> 00:03:00,560 should be, Okay, how did this happen? How did it happened that 35 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:05,639 for like a few hundred years, if you became president, you frequently left 36 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,000 office more poor than you went in. And now the only person for whom 37 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:14,800 that's happened since like Harry Truman or something, if even that is Donald Trump? 38 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:22,080 Like, how does everybody get wealthy by serving in government? Well, 39 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:24,639 let's I'm answering your question. I'm answering your question with a question, but 40 00:03:25,879 --> 00:03:30,000 like, well, that's a good question, and that's a good question for 41 00:03:30,479 --> 00:03:35,800 frankly for a many senators, Right, how did you become rich? Here? 42 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,560 But I just quickly want to take a step back and say that today 43 00:03:38,879 --> 00:03:44,199 George Santos, the obscure nut job from New York, was the the the 44 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:49,319 indicted on I forgot how many counts of all kinds of stuff, including lying 45 00:03:49,319 --> 00:03:52,680 to the House of Representatives and stuff like that. I don't know, you 46 00:03:52,719 --> 00:03:54,680 know, maybe maybe he's guilty of all these things. Maybe it's not, 47 00:03:54,759 --> 00:04:00,240 but that is the top story on every single Legacy media website right now, 48 00:04:01,199 --> 00:04:05,680 huge caps above the fold, many different stories. So no, I don't 49 00:04:05,719 --> 00:04:11,960 think just in your question it was something about why you know that journalistic curiosity 50 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:16,560 would lead you to to be curious about how the president became rich and how 51 00:04:16,639 --> 00:04:19,759 you know about this family business. But there will not be any curiosity there. 52 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:25,079 Just real quick on the George Santos thing. I think it's clear everyone 53 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:31,079 knows George Santos lies even more than the average politician, but he's still a 54 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:36,920 piker compared to Joe Biden. Why is Joe Biden allowed to be president with 55 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,920 no you know, there's no scrutiny of all of the lies that he has 56 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,120 told for decades, Like George Santos didn't do anything that Joe Biden didn't do, 57 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:53,480 like far better, far longer, and with far more repercussions, Like 58 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:58,560 why is this even He's completely inconsequential congressman, he doesn't even sit on a 59 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,399 committee. No one takes him serio. This is not I mean, it's 60 00:05:00,399 --> 00:05:02,920 a story's a congress I'm not saying, don't cover it I'm just saying it's 61 00:05:02,959 --> 00:05:05,959 not should not be your lead story. Your lead story should be that the 62 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:12,399 president of the United States his family was involved in decades in a business that 63 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,639 pedaled his influence. I mean that's oh yeah, so I'm sorry, just 64 00:05:15,639 --> 00:05:20,839 just to answer the question. Yeah, nobody is giving Hunter Biden money for 65 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:28,920 his business acumen. Nobody is giving him money for his wise sense about matters, 66 00:05:28,959 --> 00:05:33,040 Nobody is giving Hunter Biden money for his prudence. The man, you 67 00:05:33,079 --> 00:05:39,720 know, many sympathies for anyone like him who's dealing with lifelong addiction, but 68 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:46,279 he's a crackhead who makes bad decisions every day with alarming frequency, whether they 69 00:05:46,319 --> 00:05:51,920 involve prostitutes or guns, or drugs or anything else. Like, nobody in 70 00:05:53,120 --> 00:06:00,839 the world is giving Hunter Biden money in any legitimate way. So just the 71 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,839 fact that he's the money bag man for the Biden family business tells you a 72 00:06:04,879 --> 00:06:11,959 lot about the object, which is of course, to influence pedal as you 73 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,759 say, Learning that there were shell companies set up to sort of funnel and 74 00:06:15,879 --> 00:06:21,040 hide this money is an explosive story given that the central figure of the Biden 75 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:29,160 family business, particularly after the death of Boe Biden, is and has always 76 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:33,160 been. Joe Biden, the current President of the United States, and a 77 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:42,279 media complex that went crazy over every single false claim made as it relates to 78 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:46,600 the info op that we call the Russia collusion hoax, being like, oh, 79 00:06:46,639 --> 00:06:51,920 I think the big story today is a backbench nothing person member of Congress 80 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,839 who we all know as a liar, but not as bad as Joe Biden 81 00:06:56,959 --> 00:07:02,639 lying and being indicted by a high politicized Department of Justice to avoid talking about 82 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:08,560 the big press conference today like it's just insane. Well, and yeah, 83 00:07:08,639 --> 00:07:12,759 so here's something we do know. We already know for sure that Joe Biden 84 00:07:12,839 --> 00:07:15,959 has lied about knowing what his son was up to. That we know, 85 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:20,800 and he has lied consistently about it for almost a decade. Now that's one 86 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:25,680 if I'm a real journalist. Here's what I'm curious about. Did Joe Biden 87 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,279 benefit from this relationship? Did he know? We already have tons of circumstantial 88 00:07:30,279 --> 00:07:33,560 evidence that yes, he did. We have texts from Hunter Biden saying they 89 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:38,519 was giving fifty percent of his salary to Joe Biden for many, many years. 90 00:07:38,759 --> 00:07:42,000 We have someone on the record who says that he was the big man 91 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:46,279 in the emails and texts that the big guy, big guy, and that 92 00:07:46,319 --> 00:07:51,199 he I forget, did they say temper for the big guy? Now? 93 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:57,759 Wouldn't If this was any Republican Mitt Romney to Donald Trump, would the media 94 00:07:57,839 --> 00:08:05,639 not be sending teams of investigators scouring through every kind of financial record that exists 95 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:07,879 related to Biden, be looking to see if he benefited. I think they 96 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:13,079 would. I don't know, if a corrupt Yeah, yeah, if any. 97 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,879 If it were any Republican, the corporate media would have already won like 98 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,839 three years worth of Pulitzers for how long they had been spending investigating it. 99 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,079 If it were any conservative Republican like Mitch McConnell himself, would be calling for 100 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:31,120 that person to step down, so or any effective I should say Republican. 101 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:37,240 Now here's the thing, though, I don't you don't you think, because 102 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:41,080 there's so much noise in politics these days, and the media obviously is plays, 103 00:08:41,399 --> 00:08:43,759 uh, you know, defense for the Biden administration, that you're going 104 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:48,759 to need to come up with some piece of evidence in some way that connects 105 00:08:48,919 --> 00:08:52,919 Joe Biden to this money. You have to show that he benefited personally, 106 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:58,240 even though obviously every single person is in his entire family is making money on 107 00:08:58,279 --> 00:09:03,600 this. He is benefiting probably anyway. But don't you think that you need 108 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:09,480 something more than what was presented today? Well, I think that there is 109 00:09:09,519 --> 00:09:13,840 a lot of foreign elections. Oh well, I don't even know if elections 110 00:09:13,879 --> 00:09:18,519 can be affected anymore, because we just have ballot harvesting operations. We don't 111 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,960 have elections in any conventional sense where you persuade and you pick based on the 112 00:09:24,039 --> 00:09:28,320 quality of the candidate or anybody. Rephrase if I may, do you think 113 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,120 that public perceptions of Joe Biden will change unless there is so? I would 114 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,679 say based on okay, sorry, sorry for speaking over there, but based 115 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:41,120 on what we already know, public perceptions should have wildly changed. The problem 116 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:46,159 is not that there isn't enough information to change perceptions. There's way more than 117 00:09:46,279 --> 00:09:50,360 enough, Like there was more than enough before the twenty election when the Senate 118 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:56,279 had that report come out showing all of the different foreign officials that had paid 119 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:05,120 huge sums of cash to noted crackhead hunter Biden used based on government documentation or 120 00:10:05,279 --> 00:10:09,679 you know, based on the Hunter Biden laptop where he sort of confesses to 121 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,080 all the crimes or videotapes the evidence of them, like all of this should 122 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:18,960 have been enough to change perceptions. But I'm not sure the New York Times 123 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,000 will even cover any part of this. There's probably no group of people on 124 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:28,080 Earth less informed than a vigorous New York Times reader. They don't reveal anything 125 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:33,000 about whistleblowers. They don't reveal anything about information ops, you know, like 126 00:10:33,039 --> 00:10:35,399 if the CIA is more than information op, you know, like, they 127 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:39,320 don't. They don't tell their readers. They just give them this like very 128 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:46,759 narrow, provincial view of reality, and they ruthlessly hide any information that might 129 00:10:46,799 --> 00:10:50,679 pierce their bubble. So it's not the information that's out there, it's about 130 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:56,480 the distribution methods right now. Yeah, I agree, But still I think 131 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:01,000 that at some point there is there are events that can happen, or there 132 00:11:01,159 --> 00:11:05,320 is evidence, you know, when you have irrefutable evidence of something that is 133 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:09,840 almost impossible for even news organizations to ignore. And I think that they need 134 00:11:09,879 --> 00:11:11,440 a piece of evidence like that, and we'll see if that happens. But 135 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:16,559 my god, I mean, can you I hate formulating it this way, 136 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:18,799 but I just can't imagine the coverage or what would be going on today. 137 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:24,320 This was someone a Republican, I mean, can you imagine Rond Santos was 138 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,399 involved in his family involved in something like this, what would happen? I 139 00:11:26,399 --> 00:11:30,279 mean, it would be a nuclear bomb. The media would only be talking 140 00:11:30,279 --> 00:11:35,120 about it. But we're talking about the Santos today, So anything else on 141 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,919 that, I have to be honest with you. The report just came out, 142 00:11:37,919 --> 00:11:41,399 so I haven't like read through the whole thing, but these were just 143 00:11:41,519 --> 00:11:46,000 some highlights. I saw the Romanian businessman that Hunter Biden was dealing with, 144 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,799 who stopped dealing with him exactly the moment that Joe Biden was doingable. I 145 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:52,799 would just say, I know, I know everyone's like obsessed with the Biden 146 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,720 family because they're the ones in power right now, but I really do think 147 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,360 this is a much bigger issue, and I want to just like put a 148 00:12:00,399 --> 00:12:05,240 point on that thing I said about how presidents get wealthier, like Barack Obama 149 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:13,200 is obscenely wealthy, and prior to entering government, he was a community service 150 00:12:13,279 --> 00:12:22,879 person. We have a major problem in this country with people going into government 151 00:12:22,919 --> 00:12:26,720 work and becoming millionaires and billionaires, and that's like everyone, it's everyone, 152 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:35,240 and it's almost everyone. Like Nancy Pelosi is unspeakably wealthy. She should not 153 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:39,440 be given her position, but she is, and so the Biden family is 154 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:46,080 notable kind of for how brazen they are in this influenced pedaling scheme and how 155 00:12:46,039 --> 00:12:56,519 but like the Clinton family very notoriously not wealthy when they entered their government service, 156 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:03,679 and they set up a money laundering foundation for the purpose of peddling influence 157 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:09,720 on the in the anticipation that Hillary Clinton would become president, and that totally 158 00:13:09,799 --> 00:13:11,679 dried up the moment it was clear that she was not going to be president, 159 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:18,960 which is sort of proof of the corruption. And the one guy who 160 00:13:18,039 --> 00:13:24,559 didn't is the guy who like started out a multi billionaire and left office poorer 161 00:13:26,159 --> 00:13:30,799 and more persecuted. I would rather, I mean, I would rather have 162 00:13:30,879 --> 00:13:37,559 people who lose money because of how of the quality of their decision making than 163 00:13:37,919 --> 00:13:46,720 this disgusting racket with foreign entities and wars and money laundering and whether or not 164 00:13:46,799 --> 00:13:50,039 it's legal or not, and I think it's frequently not legal. Actually it 165 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:56,240 is gross and disgusting an ethical. One of my unpopular opinions is that I 166 00:13:56,279 --> 00:14:01,679 actually don't mind rich people going into politics because they were less likely to be 167 00:14:01,039 --> 00:14:05,960 to care about, you know, to be bribed or manipulated by by or 168 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:11,000 Lord by big, big dollars because they already have them. Um, I 169 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,440 mean, I don't think that's what about my idea that the moment you get 170 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:18,159 elected to Congress, you just get huge piles of cash and access to ladies 171 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:22,080 and drugs. Just you don't have to do anything to get this. You 172 00:14:22,159 --> 00:14:26,039 just get it by virtue of coming in, and then you don't have to 173 00:14:26,039 --> 00:14:31,399 sell the Ted Kennedy act. Yeah, I mean, and wait, who 174 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,720 was the guy he did the sandwich with? Remember the senator he did the 175 00:14:35,799 --> 00:14:39,600 lady sandwich with? Yeah? Connecticut. Yeah, that's fine. Those guys 176 00:14:39,639 --> 00:14:45,200 are great, right Connecticut, And I know Ted Kennedy is not from Connecticut. 177 00:14:45,559 --> 00:14:48,320 Really gives us some of the worst senator is imaginable in history. But 178 00:14:48,799 --> 00:14:54,000 it's because Connecticut people, These Yankees are the worst people in the country. 179 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,840 Just kidding. I was hoping to get some hate mail from people from Connecticuts. 180 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,519 It's true. But listen, I mean, obviously that's not across the 181 00:15:01,559 --> 00:15:05,639 board. Plenty of their plenty of wealthy people are also corrupt. It's just 182 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:07,360 it's very difficult to govern this sort of thing because you can get a book 183 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,799 deal, right, and you make three million bucks just because you are a 184 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,480 senator or whatever they get. I'm sure they get huge advances. So that's 185 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,279 that's one way these people become rich. I guess the stock trading, though, 186 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:24,320 is something else where you know, they're essentially they're essentially getting insider information 187 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:28,639 on a lot of things or affecting policy that's going to affect industries. Which 188 00:15:28,679 --> 00:15:33,639 incidentally, every single person on the Judiciary Committee who claims that Clarence Thomas and 189 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:37,559 Neil Gore such are corrupt, did you know what I mean? They were 190 00:15:37,559 --> 00:15:43,960 selling and buying and trading stock on issues that they were headling or pushing or 191 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:50,840 passing legislation on. So clearly a responsible behavior and corrupt behavior. And on 192 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,240 that, no, let us go to more irresponsible behavior. And I just 193 00:15:54,279 --> 00:15:56,519 want to talk. I don't have much to say on this. You might 194 00:15:56,559 --> 00:16:00,360 have more to say. But what's going on at the border, which is 195 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:04,759 basically anarchy or worse than anarchy based, I don't even know what to call 196 00:16:04,799 --> 00:16:07,360 it. It's just another form of corruption. One of the you know, 197 00:16:07,399 --> 00:16:11,200 I'm pretty libertarian in general, one of the one of the jobs of the 198 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:15,799 government, of the federal government that is clear, is to protect the sovereignty 199 00:16:15,799 --> 00:16:18,320 of a nation. And when you don't have a border, you're not a 200 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:23,559 sovereign nation anymore. You're essentially being invaded. I am very pro immigration. 201 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:26,480 I want it to be hand. I want to let people in that we 202 00:16:26,559 --> 00:16:30,279 want in when we decide that they can come in in an orderly fashion. 203 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:36,799 And what's going on now because of I don't know, withdrawal of Title forty 204 00:16:36,799 --> 00:16:41,000 seven, which made it easier to kick people out, there's just a bum 205 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,759 rush on the border. It's it's unprecedented. What's going on down there. 206 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,320 Yeah, it actually heard that this. I mean, it's more than six 207 00:16:48,399 --> 00:16:56,519 million illegal immigrant entries since Biden took office. And someone was saying the other 208 00:16:56,639 --> 00:17:03,240 night, this isn't just like the worst in American history or modern history, 209 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:11,519 it's the worst in world history in terms of invasion of foreigners illegally into a 210 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:18,799 country. Um. I saw that the Babylon Bee had Did you see it 211 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,759 was title forty seven. I is at the right number, it's title forty 212 00:17:22,799 --> 00:17:26,000 two two. I apologize. It's really important to get that right. The 213 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:32,400 Babylon Bee had something that I wanted. I wanted to look up the headline. 214 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:41,960 Sorry, Um, I liked this Babylon Bee headline which said majorcas heads 215 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:49,519 to border to fire starter pistol pistol when the title forty two expires, Um, 216 00:17:52,599 --> 00:17:56,519 yeah, it's it's kind of it's it's kind of crazy, but like 217 00:17:56,240 --> 00:18:03,119 it's intentional. Joe Biden while he was running for office. The actual increase 218 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:07,720 in numbers started while he was running for office, like even I should say 219 00:18:07,039 --> 00:18:11,519 after he was elected, before he was inaugurated, because he had been so 220 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:18,119 clear that he planned to tear down every protection of the border that Trump had 221 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:22,240 put in place, that he wanted people to come illegally. And you know, 222 00:18:22,279 --> 00:18:26,519 whether it was Emily Jasinski and Chris or In, John Davidson in their 223 00:18:26,839 --> 00:18:32,720 documentary on Cartel Country or other evidence, you have people at the border saying, 224 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:37,000 we believe Joe Biden wants us to come in here illegally, and that's 225 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:41,119 the that's like the whole point of this, and it is so what's happening 226 00:18:41,279 --> 00:18:45,799 is expected. I don't think these like you know, he sort of said, 227 00:18:45,839 --> 00:18:48,079 I'll send a few troops down there to help keep the peace, probably 228 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:52,240 just as it's overrun. They don't want, you know, people being killed 229 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:59,880 in the crush of just wide open borders. But the American people have longe 230 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:07,440 did a secure border. People in both parties actually, and they have not 231 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:12,240 gotten good results from either party. Usually you'll have like both parties, but 232 00:19:12,319 --> 00:19:17,720 particularly the Republican Party give amazing lip service to the idea that they want to 233 00:19:17,759 --> 00:19:21,920 have a sovereign nation with a border that's real, but they don't actually do 234 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,359 anything to accomplish that, or they do very little to accomplish that. And 235 00:19:25,759 --> 00:19:29,319 it was a big reason why Donald Trump won the primary in twenty sixteen. 236 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:33,200 It was a big reason why he won the general election in twenty sixteen. 237 00:19:33,079 --> 00:19:37,480 I do think it's a big issue, but it's also like, we're literally 238 00:19:37,559 --> 00:19:42,000 six million people into this. Yeah, I totally agree. In fact, 239 00:19:42,039 --> 00:19:47,920 I think it was the leading reason Donald Trump won the election. It's a 240 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:52,559 difficult issue to pull because people don't want to sound like they're bigoted or xenophobic, 241 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:56,160 so they don't tell you what they But I think wanting an order, 242 00:19:56,519 --> 00:20:02,720 wanting order at the border is something that probably most to Americans want. Here's 243 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:07,079 another problem. I think that sometimes people who are more liberal and immigration don't 244 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:14,400 understand when you have this kind of anarchy, it undermines trust in the entire 245 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,799 immigration system and it turns people against all kinds of immigration. So because they 246 00:20:18,839 --> 00:20:23,279 see this illegality, they start to conflate. Because Democrats conflated like illegal immigration 247 00:20:23,319 --> 00:20:27,599 with normal immigration, and that happens. Secondly, I have a personal problem 248 00:20:27,599 --> 00:20:30,440 with this because my parents were immigrants and it took them a very long time 249 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,319 to get here. It took them, they followed the laws and they became 250 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:37,960 citizens the right way. Just people just cut cut the line. I know 251 00:20:37,039 --> 00:20:40,519 that's a cliche, but there are millions. No, it's infuriating. My 252 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,720 brother's wife is an immigrant, and the amount of work and time and effort 253 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:51,519 and money that went into having this happen legally and properly, it was a 254 00:20:51,599 --> 00:20:56,960 lot. And so I you know, I know that they feel very frustrated 255 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:02,279 at people who their first act as American is to break the law about what 256 00:21:02,319 --> 00:21:04,839 it means to be in here. And just because someone is in proximity to 257 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:11,119 your order does not mean that they should just be able to come here in 258 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,720 ahead of someone else from some other place. Like why I want to bring 259 00:21:14,759 --> 00:21:19,960 people and who immigrate here from Nigeria, from Slovenia, from wherever, and 260 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:26,559 have this this culture where we invite people from all of the world. When 261 00:21:26,559 --> 00:21:30,279 you have one area just coming into another area of our country. That's that's 262 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,359 that's a recipe for complete disaster. Never works, has never worked in world 263 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:41,000 history. So there's also just the human rights catastrophe. Yeah, you know, 264 00:21:41,559 --> 00:21:44,680 I know people's terrible about that, as much they should. But the 265 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:48,960 amount of like sex trafficking and sex abuse, right violence, not just that, 266 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,680 but what kind of the cartels are controlling this? I'm sorry, sorry 267 00:21:52,759 --> 00:21:56,240 interrupted you, but what kind of life does someone who's here illegally really have? 268 00:21:56,359 --> 00:22:00,599 I mean, it's not the real it's not a proper America in life. 269 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,680 It's just bad for immigrants, it's bad for everyone. Listen, I 270 00:22:03,759 --> 00:22:06,559 get it. I know why they're trying what they're trying to escape, and 271 00:22:06,599 --> 00:22:08,480 I don't blame people for trying to do it, but we can't can't allow 272 00:22:08,519 --> 00:22:11,119 it anyway, and no one seems to care. You're one hundred percent right. 273 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:15,440 They think these are future Democrat voters, and they do it on purpose. 274 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,200 I used to not believe that. I completely believe it now. There's 275 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:23,960 just no other reason this can happen. So anyway, let me let me 276 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,960 just say that. So another top, Are you ready to move on? 277 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:32,960 I am all right, let's talk about the debt ceiling. Yeah, So, 278 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:37,960 as you know, a dystopian future awaits us in mere mere weeks if 279 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,200 we do not, you know, lift the debt ceiling without any preconditions, 280 00:22:41,599 --> 00:22:45,240 as Joe Biden says, well, we'll be foraging for our food soon and 281 00:22:47,799 --> 00:22:51,119 staying alive with spears and so on. This happens all the time. So 282 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,240 I think a lot of younger people don't realize that this kind of scaremongering has 283 00:22:53,319 --> 00:22:59,240 gone on on numerous occasions, you know, during the Obama years especially, 284 00:22:59,559 --> 00:23:02,400 and then none of that's actually going to happen. But here's the thing. 285 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:07,160 Joe Biden refuses to negotiate at all on the debt ceiling, and that kind 286 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:15,599 of maximalist position was constantly covered as complete obstructionism. When Republicans are supposedly doing 287 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,559 it now, it's not covered in that way. In fact, I would 288 00:23:18,559 --> 00:23:22,000 just want to read you a line from the New York Times editorial on this. 289 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,440 The New York Times says that the Republicans should trust Joe Biden lift the 290 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,480 debt ceiling and then trust that Joe Biden will deal with spending it. Something 291 00:23:29,599 --> 00:23:32,640 to time, which made me laugh out loud. Can you imagine the writing 292 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:37,480 that I'm not even exaggerating. They call that a reasonable path to resolve this. 293 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,319 Then they write this line that made me laugh. The Times contends that 294 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:45,000 it is not a useful meg, that the debt ceiling is not a useful 295 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:49,480 mechanism for preventing the federal government from living beyond its mean, when that is 296 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:56,000 literally what the laws pass to do. It reminded me of this line in 297 00:23:56,079 --> 00:23:59,759 Love and Death Woy Allen movie where on his honeymoon night, Baris is married 298 00:23:59,759 --> 00:24:03,799 to this woman named Sonja, and he, you know, in their honeymoon 299 00:24:03,839 --> 00:24:10,400 bed. He makes his move and the woman says, not here, not 300 00:24:10,519 --> 00:24:17,839 now, not here, Like this is literally the best time to negotiate future 301 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,440 spending. The you know, they say, you know, we must pay 302 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:22,680 our bills. Yeah, but no one's going to keep giving you lines of 303 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:27,680 credit and loans. If you're compounding unsustainable debt. This is the time to 304 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,759 do it. It's never going to be done. Another with a literal of 305 00:24:30,799 --> 00:24:33,960 a president who said these words the three point five trillion dollar Billy pass that 306 00:24:34,079 --> 00:24:38,079 cost zero dollars. He is not a whiz with numbers we have There is 307 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,880 no other time to have this negotiation. But now, so I have to 308 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,920 say, I think Kevin McCarthy has done I am not a huge fan or 309 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,519 any think but I think he's done an amazing job pulling together everyone to pass 310 00:24:48,559 --> 00:24:52,839 a bill, which, incidentally, these people ignore, Hold on one second, 311 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,079 I know you had something to say. Here's the line of the New 312 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:59,000 York Times story, will Republicans pass a bill to lift a debt ceiling? 313 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:03,759 They did? Yes, they did already. This is what I'm saying the 314 00:25:03,759 --> 00:25:07,200 New York there's no one less informed than a New York Times reader. A 315 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,200 faithful New York Times reader, Korean Gene Pierre said that they have to go, 316 00:25:11,279 --> 00:25:15,559 that the Congress needs to go to what is it normal order or whatever, 317 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,200 which he doesn't realize means that the Senate needs, Democrats need to pass 318 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,799 a bill, Policans pass a bill anyway. It's just infuriating. So I 319 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:30,359 do find it interesting that Joe Biden completely has completely botched this. So his 320 00:25:30,759 --> 00:25:37,519 whole I refuse to talk to Republican strategy was based on a theory, a 321 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,720 not completely unreasonable theory, incidentally, that there was no way they could get 322 00:25:41,759 --> 00:25:48,319 a bill to increase the debt limit past and Kevin McCarthy, and this was 323 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:53,079 the conventional wisdom in DC. There's no way you can get this rabble of 324 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:59,880 Republicans, which include actual conservatives like Chip Roy and people who are weird, 325 00:26:00,039 --> 00:26:03,160 those who seek after CNN acclaim like Nancy Mace or something. I don't know, 326 00:26:03,319 --> 00:26:06,359 you know, like all these different people, how are they going to 327 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:14,079 agree on a bill? And in part because of that like ridiculous fight at 328 00:26:14,079 --> 00:26:17,880 the beginning over who would become speaker and what concessions were made. This is 329 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:22,680 a very tight Republican conference. They all kind of understand that they hang er 330 00:26:22,799 --> 00:26:27,000 not together, and they're really doing a great job of working together. And 331 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:33,319 Kevin McCarthy does this like impossible thing with a margin of just a tiny, 332 00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:40,440 tiny, you know, count them on one hand majority and passes this. 333 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:47,240 So Joe Biden had spent months upon months upon months saying there's no way they're 334 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:51,240 going to pass a bill. So I'm just gonna like call their bluff. 335 00:26:51,519 --> 00:26:53,559 Well, they called his bluff. And then at the same time they called 336 00:26:53,599 --> 00:26:57,200 his bluff, Janet Yellen came out and said, I know we've all been 337 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:02,559 thinking. July one is when we start to default it's actually June one. 338 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,799 So now he has like no time at all, and he totally screwed himself 339 00:27:06,799 --> 00:27:10,359 out of whatever time he had. Do you remember Chuck Schumer every day with 340 00:27:10,759 --> 00:27:14,599 tweet this snarky tweet out like McCarthy, where's your plan? Like, where's 341 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,079 your plan? Where's your plan? You know, I can't negotiate, you 342 00:27:17,079 --> 00:27:19,559 haven't given us specifics. So now he has a plan and Chuck Schumer goes 343 00:27:19,599 --> 00:27:23,880 silent. He won't even negotiate at all on anything. Speaking of the Senate, 344 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:29,119 we should also give props to a few of this sent well, you 345 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:34,119 know, forty of the senators. Mike Lee organized an effort like this all 346 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:38,279 kind of gets Kevin McCarthy did amazing work. The Republicans in the House did 347 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:47,519 amazing work. But it isn't gonna matter if the Republicans in the Senate say, 348 00:27:47,559 --> 00:27:51,039 like get scared and say, okay, well we're just going to pass 349 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,559 something, you know, with no conditions, because then it kind of puts 350 00:27:53,599 --> 00:27:57,119 the Republicans in the House back on their feet. So Mike Lee organized as 351 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:02,480 a letter with more than forty one signatories, forty one being the magic number. 352 00:28:02,519 --> 00:28:06,359 I don't remember how many of these like forty three or something saying that 353 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:11,000 they do not support the Chuck Schumer Joe Biden approach, which gives them enough 354 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:15,359 leverage to mean that everyone has to get to the table and start talking about 355 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,599 how they're going to do this. So not just good work by the Republican 356 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:25,240 majority in the House, but good work by the Mike Lee led minority in 357 00:28:25,279 --> 00:28:29,519 the Senate. A little weird that we didn't hear more from Mitch McConnell leading 358 00:28:29,559 --> 00:28:33,279 this, given that he's ostensible. I know he's still recovering from his fall 359 00:28:33,519 --> 00:28:38,039 or stroke or whatever it is that he had, but he's ostensibly the leader 360 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:44,279 of the minority. But good work on the conservatives for getting that letter together. 361 00:28:45,119 --> 00:28:48,839 And obviously, I'm sure Republicans shouldn't expect that they're going to win. 362 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,839 Obviously that House bill is not going to go through. But it didn't make 363 00:28:52,839 --> 00:28:55,559 me laugh. And just to go back to the Times editorial again, they 364 00:28:55,599 --> 00:29:02,759 call what McCarthy has done their deep cuts. He cuts going back to twenty 365 00:29:02,839 --> 00:29:07,680 twenty two baseline spending. Oh that's brutal, Yes, I mean it is 366 00:29:07,759 --> 00:29:11,640 brutal, and then obvious no cuts actually moving forward, but one percent yearly 367 00:29:14,119 --> 00:29:18,039 you know, spending caps. And then also I love this from investments and 368 00:29:18,079 --> 00:29:22,880 they want to Repulicans want to cut investments and tax enforcements, by which they 369 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,480 mean eighty thousand new IRS, cops monitoring your venmo can for six hundred dollars, 370 00:29:27,759 --> 00:29:32,920 and green and green energy stuff. And obviously some of that isn't going 371 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,240 to happen, and maybe in the end none of it is going to happen. 372 00:29:34,279 --> 00:29:37,759 I don't know, But right now I think the Policans are playing it 373 00:29:37,799 --> 00:29:42,599 well. Um Joe bidden refuses to negotiate. They had some meeting yesterday and 374 00:29:44,119 --> 00:29:47,519 you know, they've gotten them nowhere, so we'll see. I mean, 375 00:29:47,559 --> 00:29:49,440 I've heard that the economy is going to sink when we don't pay our bills 376 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:53,279 about a million times in my life, and it never happens because no one's 377 00:29:53,279 --> 00:29:56,960 going to let that happen. Okay. But having said that, a lot 378 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,480 of US power is based on us being us having the reserve currency for the 379 00:30:00,519 --> 00:30:04,559 world, and we're still you know, I don't think there's a huge threat 380 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:10,119 for someone else taking us over on that in the near term. But a 381 00:30:10,119 --> 00:30:15,200 lot of that is based on our you know, on people's confidence that we 382 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:21,799 will pay our debt, and the more that we exploit that confidence, the 383 00:30:21,839 --> 00:30:25,319 worst it is for us. And also the more we use our dollar for 384 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:30,960 political reasons, the less less desirable it is. You know, it's based 385 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:37,759 on its stability and it's neutrality. And we've done things recently like basically like 386 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:42,599 kicking Russia off the US dollar, which makes people just see how easy it 387 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:48,039 is to play politics with that. It makes them seek out other reserve currency. 388 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,079 Yeah, but inflation, the inflation we're seeing doesn't help the dollar, 389 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:57,200 right, And if we cut some spending and pass this pass a bill to 390 00:30:57,279 --> 00:31:02,680 raise the debt limit a responsible way, then the Fed might not have to 391 00:31:02,759 --> 00:31:04,960 raise rates for instance, and you know, to just the entire economy will 392 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,599 be more sounded. There was a Wall Street journal piece on this, but 393 00:31:08,799 --> 00:31:12,599 anyway, it's it's it's a pretty boring topic for most Americans. It looks 394 00:31:12,599 --> 00:31:17,880 like maybe even you're falling asleep right now. I just want to talk about 395 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:23,640 the other big news in Congress. With this, the Republicans in the House 396 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:30,640 were able to reveal that the CIA helped run the infoop against the American people 397 00:31:30,759 --> 00:31:37,279 surprise of claiming that the that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. They 398 00:31:37,359 --> 00:31:41,960 had called a few people to testify and in that in those depositions, they 399 00:31:41,039 --> 00:31:47,200 learned that like one of the signatories to the letter said that the way he 400 00:31:47,319 --> 00:31:52,359 learned about the letter was that the CIA official in charge of approving a book 401 00:31:52,359 --> 00:31:56,519 he had written, you know, said to him that they would like his 402 00:31:56,599 --> 00:32:02,400 signature on the letter. And there are that's just speaking again of like things 403 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:07,640 that would be explosive if they involved the Trump administration. This would have been 404 00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:15,319 leading to immediate impeachment proceedings obviously, or there's a lot of claims that you 405 00:32:15,359 --> 00:32:20,079 know, that people that the people in who signed on to the letter, 406 00:32:21,079 --> 00:32:27,759 which was obviously used during an election to suppress a story that would have hurt 407 00:32:27,799 --> 00:32:30,480 one of the candidates. So it was clearly meant even in its present form, 408 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:35,599 and even if we bought every argument they're giving, still corrupt in my 409 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:42,000 view. But there's an email from one from a CIA employee saying that he 410 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:47,079 admitting that he shared shared the contents of the letter with the Biden campaign. 411 00:32:47,119 --> 00:32:52,359 That is complete with someone connected to the Biden campaign, which is completely corrupt 412 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,920 behavior for the CIA, which should not be involved in elections at all. 413 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,480 And neither should people we place our trust and to defend the country all the 414 00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:02,200 signature. Well, do I have bad news for you, David Herson. 415 00:33:04,039 --> 00:33:07,279 I think that might be the job description of the CIA at this point. 416 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,319 But no one's going to believe these people. Something terrible is going to happen 417 00:33:09,359 --> 00:33:13,200 in this world at some point. It always does, and no one is 418 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,240 going to believe what these people say about it. That is that is the 419 00:33:15,799 --> 00:33:21,559 probably the worst part of this in my view, might already be getting there. 420 00:33:21,599 --> 00:33:22,279 But I just want to also point out one of the people who is 421 00:33:22,359 --> 00:33:30,759 organizing this letter specifically said the purpose was to was to affect, yeah, 422 00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:34,519 to affect the election, to interfere in a debate where it was going to 423 00:33:34,599 --> 00:33:38,079 be brought up. And the letter was like very craftily written in that CIA 424 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:43,319 kind of way. But that our intelligence agencies ran an info up against the 425 00:33:43,319 --> 00:33:46,799 American people for the purpose of subverting democracy, as they always say, is 426 00:33:47,519 --> 00:33:52,200 horrific. We are in this place right now. It's really like crazy when 427 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,759 you hear, you know, some of these people talking about the evils that 428 00:33:55,799 --> 00:34:00,160 are in other regimes which are evil. You know, you'd see China as 429 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,359 this type of info up against is people. Russia does this type of info 430 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:07,639 up. One of the reasons why we are able to take on adversaries like 431 00:34:08,079 --> 00:34:13,320 China is because we should have some kind of moral authority about how we don't 432 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:17,320 do this against the people, or that we don't suppress news information in the 433 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:22,159 way that they do. But nobody seems to care about that. Yeah, 434 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,599 truth is now it just hit me that, I mean, they've been CIA 435 00:34:25,079 --> 00:34:30,960 fbis have been doing this forever. You know, JOHNSONBJ had the CIA spying 436 00:34:31,039 --> 00:34:35,039 on the Goldwater campaign. You know what I mean, Like, this is 437 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,599 not new. I think that there's a level of transparency because of the maybe 438 00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:43,280 the Internet or more whistleblowers that lets us know that this is happening, or 439 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,360 maybe it's just more obvious and they're more brazen than ever about it. I 440 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:50,639 don't know, but it is just such corrupt behavior and it's really should be 441 00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:52,840 distressing to most Americans. But the problem is that have to people don't care 442 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:58,119 because it's helping their side and that's that. So anyway, so all that 443 00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,800 good news, how about we do some culture great. I have to make 444 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:06,360 an correction. It's embarrassing, but I have to make a correction. Someone 445 00:35:06,639 --> 00:35:09,719 pointed this out to me or maybe laugh. Last week you were talking about 446 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:14,239 how you're reading the Bible, and you were up to Leviticus, I believe, 447 00:35:14,599 --> 00:35:15,719 and I said, whoa, you know, John, that's you know, 448 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,719 as Joshua made an appearance yet or whatever. But I have to say 449 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,639 I just met like in the arc of the historical story. I realized I 450 00:35:23,679 --> 00:35:30,039 promised that the story of Joshua's told in the Book of Joshua the Leviticus, 451 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:34,000 but so I wanted to make that correction. A few people send me emails 452 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,800 on that. Did you see how much feedback we got on this Bible reading 453 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:42,480 journey? I'm on, Yeah, it was amazing. Yeah, I love 454 00:35:42,519 --> 00:35:45,599 it. Well, I will say, since you, since you brought it 455 00:35:45,679 --> 00:35:50,039 up. I had just started Leviticus last week when we talked. I finished 456 00:35:50,159 --> 00:35:54,599 Leviticus, and now I'm like thirteen chapters into Numbers, which someone told me, 457 00:35:54,639 --> 00:36:00,360 like, numbers is brutal, Numbers is amazing. I also like really 458 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,920 enjoyed Leviticus, which I'd always I'd always kind of just associated with like do 459 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:10,400 this, don't do that, but I found it to be really interesting and 460 00:36:10,559 --> 00:36:15,719 Numbers has personally been helpful. I have all these notes I keep on thinking 461 00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:16,920 like, oh, I gotta tell David when we do the podcast about this 462 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:22,760 passage or this passage. But there are these little like hidden things that have 463 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,559 been valuable to me, just even like where I am this is. This 464 00:36:24,599 --> 00:36:29,000 is a stupid example, and I'm kind of embarrassed, but you know, 465 00:36:29,159 --> 00:36:34,840 the Israelites are completely complaining every thirty seconds, like they can't handle any hardship, 466 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,480 and they immediately start grumbling and they're like, we're just going to go 467 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,840 back to Egypt and be slaves under brutal tyranny because we don't know where our 468 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:45,199 food is coming from next. And Moses keeps like throwing up his hands and 469 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:50,039 being like how like how did I get these people? They are the worst. 470 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,599 He's kind of mediating between them, and you know, God's like I 471 00:36:53,639 --> 00:36:57,639 hate these people, and they're like we hate God, and He's like, 472 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,239 could you all calm down? But at one point he says something like why 473 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,400 don't you just kill me? Because I can't? To God, like why 474 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,880 don't you just let me die? Because I cannot handle this? And God 475 00:37:08,119 --> 00:37:17,119 gives him seventy elders to help. And I was experiencing something similar. It's 476 00:37:17,199 --> 00:37:20,719 very similar to Moses. You know, I'm very Moses like, but no, 477 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,800 I was just feeling like completely overwhelmed and I couldn't handle a thing. 478 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:27,280 I was like, oh right, you can delegate things to other people and 479 00:37:27,559 --> 00:37:30,840 just a little. I'm mostly getting really big spiritual things out of this about 480 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:36,320 salvation and seeing how many things point to Christ. But even sometimes I'm getting 481 00:37:37,039 --> 00:37:37,920 Mark. When I told him this, He's like, oh, yes, 482 00:37:38,199 --> 00:37:45,599 noted self help book numbers. That's kind of It's also just also helping me 483 00:37:45,639 --> 00:37:49,400 with management. I don't know. It's funny. On the As a Jew, 484 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,800 I can talk about this. Really. I think about the Jews complaining 485 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,119 a lot. There's this Colin Quinn as a comedian and he has this great 486 00:37:55,480 --> 00:38:00,199 special where he goes through all the ethnicities of New York and talks about their 487 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,960 stereotypes and stuff, and he talks about the Jews so how dramatic they are 488 00:38:04,039 --> 00:38:07,400 about everything. So you'll be like, how was traffic, I'll murder or 489 00:38:07,519 --> 00:38:10,679 like, you know, he was murder. It's the worst thing ever. 490 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:15,800 And this is how I talk, you know a little bit. So I 491 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:17,960 just I always hear them in with a New York accent. In the Bible 492 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,960 when they're complaining about like stuff, you know, but yeah, yeah, 493 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,239 I think you know, you know, you're reading through the Bible and discussing 494 00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,519 would make it. I know you're too busy for it, but it's kind 495 00:38:28,519 --> 00:38:30,599 of thing that would make for fun podcast, you know what I mean, 496 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,920 like talking about the Bible. I think there is a guy that like good 497 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:37,239 looking priest Catholic priest guy. Do you know I'm talking about Mike maybe or 498 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,440 something. I don't know. My Roman Catholic girlfriends always call good looking Roman 499 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:46,119 Catholic priests father what a waste? So I always just call it like they're 500 00:38:46,159 --> 00:38:49,000 all interchangeable for me. If they're good, I'm like, oh, it's 501 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,280 a father. What a waste? This one guy, he is like a 502 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,400 chise, old features and blue eyes. He's like a very popular guy. 503 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,559 I think he's one of the most popular podcasts out there. He does like 504 00:38:55,599 --> 00:38:59,199 Bible in a day, and I think he reads through the whole thing. 505 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:05,360 By the way, at Bedford's wedding, he had a really good priest who 506 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,679 preached really well, and he was Roman Catholic, and even the Roman Catholics 507 00:39:09,679 --> 00:39:14,920 were out there joking like what's this guy doing? Like we don't get good 508 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,599 sermons. His sermon was not just good, it was theologically accurate. It 509 00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:22,039 quoted scripture accurately and in proper context. Like, it was so good, 510 00:39:22,039 --> 00:39:25,559 and everyone there was just really loving what he had to say about marriage, 511 00:39:25,559 --> 00:39:30,199 and it was very surprising. I'm not going to get involved in this because 512 00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:34,920 I feel like you just insulted Catholics in your own special way. But I'll 513 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:42,159 stay out of that argument. I'm not here for the theology anyway. Yeah, 514 00:39:42,199 --> 00:39:44,840 I did get it also, like people had some really good suggestions on 515 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,119 some books and some podcasts on it. I'm trying to just kind of get 516 00:39:47,159 --> 00:39:52,559 through this, but but I do think that would be kind of interesting. 517 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,400 We should see if there's someone else who would want to do that kind of 518 00:39:54,440 --> 00:40:01,119 podcast. Maybe I don't know if this would work, but maybe uh a, 519 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:07,639 you know, someone of the Catholic persuasions Lutheran. I was thinking Hans 520 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:12,760 Feeney, like a Lutheran pastor. That'd be fun. Okay, great, 521 00:40:13,079 --> 00:40:17,079 I'll let him know that he's been he's been volunt told he'll be doing storming 522 00:40:17,159 --> 00:40:22,119 during the podcast, which is a weird. Now that idea sucks. Now, 523 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:29,400 what else did I do? I watched I so, I've been watching 524 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,639 some older shows that I'd probably spoken about rewatching, but I did decide. 525 00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,760 I was sitting there and I was reading Some Peace, and I read that 526 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:40,159 Martin score. One of Martin Scorsese's favorite movies was The Searchers with John Wayne. 527 00:40:40,199 --> 00:40:44,480 So I decided to give it a shot. And I just hate old 528 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,239 movies so much. There's some it's a john Fordvie movie. It's got some 529 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:52,679 beautiful I can tell that technically it's better than most movies of the fifties or 530 00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:54,519 maybe early sixties. But what is the what is the plot of this one? 531 00:40:54,559 --> 00:41:00,639 I think I saw so John Wayne is the Fellowship Confederate so juror who 532 00:41:00,639 --> 00:41:04,840 comes back home to a ranch out in um like Arizona, I think, 533 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:06,840 or something like that in the desert. I'm always like, what are they 534 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,159 doing on these ranches where nothing grows but that they have no cattle? But 535 00:41:10,159 --> 00:41:15,159 and then Comanche Indians, Well, should I spoil the movie? Would commence? 536 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,440 Indians do something terrible and he goes out for revenge. And it's and 537 00:41:17,559 --> 00:41:22,679 it's it's actually has it's it's complex in certain ways. It's just the acting 538 00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:30,519 is just so artificial somehow that it's just so not naturalistic the way people speak, 539 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:32,159 is that the right way to put it. That it's hard for me 540 00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:37,840 to watch these old movies. It was okay, it's like a ninety five 541 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,480 on Rotten Tomatoes. It's like beloved. It's on like numerous lists for the 542 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:44,760 greatest movie of all time. Someone, okay, so I want to see 543 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,440 this if I haven't seen it already. Um, I love john Ford. 544 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:53,760 And someone recommended that you watch that you watch Jury Duty. Did you see 545 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:58,800 that email? I've had two people now recommend that. Yeah, and I 546 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,599 watched funny trailer for it and I actually laughed out loud a few times. 547 00:42:01,599 --> 00:42:06,440 So I tried to get Mark Hemingway to agree to it, but he hasn't 548 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,480 agreed yet, so please send your emails to him. I am a big 549 00:42:08,519 --> 00:42:13,880 skeptic of the jury system. I think juries are just terrible. I tell 550 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,039 you the story about how it was on Jury Dirty many years ago, and 551 00:42:15,079 --> 00:42:20,639 they made me the foreman because I was wearing glasses. I looked smart. 552 00:42:22,199 --> 00:42:28,119 That's what this woman Doris told me. Basically, I was on the jury 553 00:42:28,159 --> 00:42:31,679 with unemployed government workers at the time. I was the only one who actually 554 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:35,400 had to leave their job to get on the jury, and I had to 555 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,800 convince this jury not to like they just ignored the law completely. It was 556 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:43,360 completely emotion based. I don't know if others have had this experience, but 557 00:42:43,519 --> 00:42:46,719 it was one of the key moments of my life where I turned against democracy 558 00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:51,559 itself because I was like, we cannot trust people with serious issues like this 559 00:42:52,519 --> 00:42:55,440 I had. I served on a federal jury on a conspiracy to commit mail 560 00:42:55,519 --> 00:43:01,119 fraud trial and it was long and arduous, and I really got a lot 561 00:43:01,119 --> 00:43:07,079 out of it and enjoyed my fellow jury members. And at the end when 562 00:43:07,119 --> 00:43:12,719 we had that initial vote about whether to convict or not, I was one 563 00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:15,320 of the people who voted not to convict, but I was in a minority. 564 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:19,599 I think there were how many people's twelve right, because it was like 565 00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:23,679 eight to four or something like that, and they were so polite and respectful 566 00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:28,039 with the four of us that they had to get over to their side that 567 00:43:28,159 --> 00:43:32,480 I really just appreciated that, and there was no rushing and we all ended 568 00:43:32,519 --> 00:43:37,639 up having a unanimous verdict. And perhaps I just had a bad experience, 569 00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:43,519 or perhaps maybe DC has a higher quality of person than New York, where 570 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:49,400 where I bet you I can get any jury to convict a conservative of anything. 571 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,280 I was just thinking about that with back to the Joe Biden thing when 572 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:57,480 you were when we were talking about him, there's that line about how someone 573 00:43:57,519 --> 00:44:00,800 said, like, if Donald Trump shot someone on Fifth ave and his fans 574 00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,480 wouldn't care whatever, And I was like, I think Joe Biden literally literally 575 00:44:04,519 --> 00:44:07,239 could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. The New York Times wouldn't cover it. 576 00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:12,320 The rest of the media would contextualize it. It would be a one day 577 00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:15,800 story and we'd be done. I mean so many times, you know you're 578 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:23,000 looking for districts or whatever where you're going to get juries that are emotionally or 579 00:44:23,039 --> 00:44:28,079 ideologically favorable to you, Right, that just shows you that the jury system 580 00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,400 has big problems. Like I would always have it, what's it called. 581 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:34,079 I would always want a bench trial, not a jury trial. If I 582 00:44:34,119 --> 00:44:36,960 was innocent. If I was guilty, I would want a jury trial. 583 00:44:37,079 --> 00:44:40,360 I just want a good defense attorney, no matter what. But I saw 584 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:45,800 this woman. She's a journalist and I think she's in Kansas City now, 585 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:47,519 but she used to be at the Washington Post and maybe also the New York 586 00:44:47,559 --> 00:44:52,800 Times. I don't remember her name, and she was mocking the idea that 587 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,519 maybe Donald Trump doesn't get a fair trial in New York. She's like, 588 00:44:55,599 --> 00:45:00,400 you mean to tell me he can't get a fair trial in this city of 589 00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:04,800 his birth, the city where he made all his money. It's like, 590 00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,719 maybe you're too stupid to be in journalism. Although apparently not. Okay, 591 00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:13,639 there's a little bit of a class thing they are just quickly. Trump is 592 00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,480 not from Manhattan. He is from Queens. I'm just saying, having been 593 00:45:16,519 --> 00:45:22,039 born there myself, I think that people underestimate the differences between someone who is 594 00:45:22,079 --> 00:45:25,960 from Queens, place that has looked down upon, or when I was growing 595 00:45:27,039 --> 00:45:30,440 up into Manhattan. But anyway, you were about just even if he had 596 00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:32,599 been brought up in Manhattan and was one of them, that would almost make 597 00:45:32,639 --> 00:45:37,719 the class trader ship yeah, even worse. Like the problem with rule of 598 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:45,639 law in New York City is not the people charged, it's the new mindset 599 00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:47,480 on the left that if you don't like someone, that means that they should 600 00:45:47,519 --> 00:45:53,559 go to prison. Like quickly, who nesque thing. I am not saying 601 00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:58,360 that Donald Trump grew up in a working class environment. I'm just saying that 602 00:45:58,599 --> 00:46:02,280 the way he speaks and stuff is very Queens, not New York. Um, 603 00:46:04,679 --> 00:46:07,599 you're going to say something about something you saw or yeah. So I 604 00:46:07,639 --> 00:46:15,920 went to a concert and my church that was wonderful. Our choir performed Farre's 605 00:46:15,159 --> 00:46:22,840 Requiem Mass. It was just absolutely magnificent, and they also had a few 606 00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:29,599 other pieces that were that were great. Quite the eclectic concert going menu like 607 00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:31,280 you'll one day you're like, I'm watching the Dead, I'm going to go 608 00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:35,679 see that dead Kennedy is at d n DC And the next day you're like, 609 00:46:36,039 --> 00:46:42,000 I saw the church. Do you know a Bach? Whatever? You 610 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,679 know? So I found that, By the way, my church does a 611 00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:52,880 cantata every single Sunday. So Johann Sebastian Bach composed cantatas for every Sunday of 612 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,639 the church here. We do one every I mean at least one, we 613 00:46:55,719 --> 00:47:02,360 do one every Sunday. It's just amazing. Our choir is a volunteer choir. 614 00:47:02,639 --> 00:47:07,360 We have a professional canter who leads us. But it's just magnificent. 615 00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:14,039 We have these musically talented people who attend our church, who participate, and 616 00:47:14,079 --> 00:47:16,800 I'm so we're so blessed. And I will also say that one of the 617 00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:22,039 members of this choir was wondering if there would be a mention of the far 618 00:47:22,159 --> 00:47:28,880 A Requiem Mass during the podcast. So apparently someone listens to us in the 619 00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:35,320 church choir by how many people listen to us you walk around, you are 620 00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:37,599 at an end event, and someone's like, you said, you know some 621 00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,199 thrower where aligne? I said, and they will mention it, and that 622 00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:44,920 freaks me out. I should I should worry about or I should be more 623 00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:51,639 vigilant about the things that I say. Okay. So the other thing is 624 00:47:51,679 --> 00:47:58,519 that we watched for our family movie night somewhere in time. Oh my gosh, 625 00:47:58,559 --> 00:48:00,199 I'd love that movie when I was young. That's with Christopher Reeve. 626 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:06,280 Is that the one with Christopher Reeve? Yes, Oh my gosh, Yes, 627 00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:07,559 that's funny. That's what my brother said when I told him we watched 628 00:48:07,599 --> 00:48:13,119 it. So I remember that my mom was obsessed with this movie, so 629 00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,320 I thought it would be you know, okay to watch it. And as 630 00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:19,599 soon as it starts, Mark was going to leave and just go read. 631 00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:23,000 But he saw that the guy who wrote the screenplay I would say, like 632 00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:28,840 Richard Matheson or something like that, was also the guy who wrote I Am 633 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,559 Legend. And he's like, oh oh, he wrote a vampire movie, 634 00:48:31,599 --> 00:48:34,840 like, maybe this will be okay, and it won't be just like a 635 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:40,280 romantic film or whatever. I am legend is more than just a vampire movie. 636 00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:45,199 The original book is really out there and crazy, but go on, 637 00:48:45,199 --> 00:48:50,400 Well, the movie did not meet with Mark Hemingway's to light, so he 638 00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,960 just kept on watching it. Mystery Science Theater three thousand style the entire time, 639 00:48:54,360 --> 00:49:01,360 stripping on everything, you know, joking about the ridiculosity of the time 640 00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:07,119 travel you know approach, and we're basically, the writers are basically like, 641 00:49:07,199 --> 00:49:08,559 we don't know how we're going to get them to time travel. We're just 642 00:49:08,599 --> 00:49:13,960 gonna like make something that's the stupidest way to do it, and that's going 643 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,599 to be the way. I love that movie. When I saw it most 644 00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:22,000 must have been thirty five years ago. I love them. I love the 645 00:49:22,079 --> 00:49:25,519 music for the score, and everything is great. But then at the end 646 00:49:25,559 --> 00:49:30,159 they had we were watching on DVD. We're getting really into tangible media these 647 00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:34,519 days, so we're watching on DVD and at the end they had like extras, 648 00:49:34,599 --> 00:49:37,760 and one of the extras they had is that there's a somewhere in time 649 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:44,000 fan club that has its own magazine that is still in print, I believe, 650 00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:50,599 and they have written like published like twelve hundred pages of Somewhere in Time 651 00:49:52,159 --> 00:49:58,400 material you can join. You can go to Mackinaw Island and take Somewhere in 652 00:49:58,519 --> 00:50:04,920 Time tours to this day. And we were all just like laughing so hard 653 00:50:05,039 --> 00:50:10,039 because it's such a weird fan club or appreciation society is actually what they call 654 00:50:10,159 --> 00:50:14,800 themselves. But also I need to tell my moms so she can join, 655 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:20,559 because she probably would want too. You know, I loved and still probably 656 00:50:20,599 --> 00:50:24,239 loved time travel movies. They're ridiculous. And there was another movie around that 657 00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:28,400 time called Time After Time. Did you ever see it? I don't know 658 00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:32,559 who's in it, so it's like Malcolm McDowell is in it and this other 659 00:50:32,599 --> 00:50:39,639 British actor I don't remember his name, and it's Jack the Ripper isn't alive. 660 00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:45,800 And he gets into a time machine and goes to contemporary San Francisco and 661 00:50:45,079 --> 00:50:47,639 H. G. Wells, Oh, he steals H. G. Wells 662 00:50:47,679 --> 00:50:52,599 as time machine and goes into the future and H. G. Wells follows 663 00:50:52,679 --> 00:50:58,559 him there and it's like they're chasing each other through time. I'm not terrible 664 00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:02,920 trouble with time travel movies because I overthink them. So like in Somewhere in 665 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:10,119 Time, the Jane Seymour character in real time is an old lady who says 666 00:51:10,159 --> 00:51:16,440 to a young man, come back to me, and that's Christopher Reeve, 667 00:51:16,559 --> 00:51:22,840 And then like through some weird chain of events, he discovers his picture. 668 00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,599 He wants to go visit that person back in time. He realizes it's the 669 00:51:25,599 --> 00:51:30,320 woman who came forward, But like what started the whole thing? How did 670 00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,639 it start? And Mark's like, you're not supposed to ask these kinds of 671 00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:37,639 questions, Like you're not supposed to think, like what was the first thing 672 00:51:37,679 --> 00:51:40,119 that happened? If they're in some weird time travel loop. When I was 673 00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:45,519 nine and I saw back to the future whenever that was you know how they're 674 00:51:45,519 --> 00:51:49,519 in the DeLorean, like it'll just take off and then like come back on 675 00:51:49,559 --> 00:51:52,719 the same street but in a different time. I would always think, as 676 00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:58,360 I was crossing the street, like what if the DeLorean chooses right now to 677 00:51:58,599 --> 00:52:04,119 cross this street and him I just have stupid obsessions with the time travel. 678 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:06,800 I liked them when I was young, but actually I don't really love them 679 00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,519 now. They're usually quite lazy and they don't make any sense at all that 680 00:52:09,639 --> 00:52:14,280 in any way. So there, it's just a way to put people out 681 00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,199 of time, right, and that's supposed to be either interesting or funny. 682 00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:20,039 But this one was a love story, right, I mean it's like eternal 683 00:52:20,079 --> 00:52:23,440 love, right. Jane Moore in it or something. She's so pretty, 684 00:52:24,079 --> 00:52:29,559 isn't she. I loved that. Yeah, um yeah, James Seymour and 685 00:52:29,639 --> 00:52:35,480 Christopher Reeves is a very handsome man, and Christopher Plumbers in it too, 686 00:52:35,599 --> 00:52:42,519 oh he yeah, as a bad guy kind of. So um. Interstellar 687 00:52:42,679 --> 00:52:46,199 is a movie that deals with the manipulation of time, like all Christopher Nolan 688 00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:49,679 films. Yeah, and I liked how that was handled. I liked how 689 00:52:49,679 --> 00:52:54,280 it was sort of about love that wasn't terrible, love existing across time and 690 00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:59,400 generations. Tenant made no sense, right, No, I don't. I 691 00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:00,639 don't know. I couldn't. I'm an old lady, so I couldn't hear 692 00:53:00,639 --> 00:53:04,159 it. I was like, why is it so loud? But they're speaking 693 00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:09,679 so quietly With my glasses, I could do it. That's like all the 694 00:53:09,679 --> 00:53:14,480 fancy surrounds sound and just like regular sound that could just like tell me what's 695 00:53:14,519 --> 00:53:17,360 going on. But I watched TV with subtitles all the time. Now I 696 00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:22,960 don't know what I read movies. Um. I did see another movie called 697 00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:24,079 to Rome with Love, which is a Woody Allen movie. I had one 698 00:53:24,119 --> 00:53:27,400 of the few I hadn't seen it. It was pretty good. It's got 699 00:53:27,559 --> 00:53:30,599 Roberto Benini in it or whatever. Do you know that guy's funny. So 700 00:53:31,119 --> 00:53:34,639 that's all I have. I did one one quick complaint before we left. 701 00:53:34,679 --> 00:53:38,679 It's Mother's Day Sunday. Yes, remember their moms. When you go to 702 00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:44,400 a store to buy a Mother's Day card, there was so much writing in 703 00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:46,400 these cards. There were literally cards I pick up that have like three pages 704 00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:51,840 of poetry and stuff like that. Isn't it complete? It's not even your 705 00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:54,000 words? Like why would someone buy a card like that? About a card 706 00:53:54,039 --> 00:53:57,920 that said my mom's not listening to About a card that says you were right 707 00:53:58,039 --> 00:54:05,280 on the front and is about everything? And then it started out, you 708 00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:07,079 buy your mom a card. Now I got to buy everybody who's a mother 709 00:54:07,159 --> 00:54:10,639 a card. That's ridiculous. Basically, Yeah, I don't know. I'm 710 00:54:10,639 --> 00:54:15,039 not into things like that. I don't. I genuinely believe every day is 711 00:54:15,119 --> 00:54:21,440 Mother's Day, Like my children are so wonderful. I would want a card, 712 00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,519 but like, not anything else. My mom doesn't need anything. Some 713 00:54:24,559 --> 00:54:28,719 women really need a lot. But I don't know. Just remember to appreciate 714 00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,920 your mom's I remember when I got pregnant with my first I called my mom 715 00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:37,159 and I said, I'm sorry, Like I just all of a sudden realized 716 00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:42,960 about the decades of trauma I had put her through. My wife and I 717 00:54:43,039 --> 00:54:45,280 have a good relationship. I'm just like, buy whatever you want for Mother's 718 00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:47,960 Day, and I just buy something I want for Father's Day. This way 719 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:52,599 you get what you want and there's no concusion. So romantic, David, 720 00:54:52,679 --> 00:54:54,880 that's really great. I'm a terrible gift giver. I have no I only 721 00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:59,679 know how to buy people books or records. I literally my consciousness does not 722 00:55:00,039 --> 00:55:04,000 band passed. I don't know what else to buy someone. Maybe yo, 723 00:55:04,119 --> 00:55:06,559 come at I don't even know. Like I'm like, is this going to 724 00:55:06,599 --> 00:55:07,880 be a terrible gift or not? I don't know. And in the end, 725 00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,840 you just end up insulting people with bad guests. So it's not really 726 00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:17,239 worth that bird bird feeder. We already have a bird feeder. I sent 727 00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:24,719 you another al picture last Yeah, right, um concerts, I did go 728 00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:30,559 see the ia yas last week after we taped it was fantastic. Um, 729 00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:32,760 we've gotten a ticket to take our daughter. Had I told you this? 730 00:55:34,599 --> 00:55:37,400 Our daughter really likes the AA yeahs. So we got a ticket, and 731 00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:42,159 then, like the day before, she said that she didn't think she could 732 00:55:42,159 --> 00:55:46,119 go because she had to study for an exam. So Mark and I are 733 00:55:46,199 --> 00:55:52,559 raising a very lame person who's responsible and does not go to rock concerts so 734 00:55:52,559 --> 00:55:59,039 she can study for tests. That's great. I mean I would have lied 735 00:55:59,079 --> 00:56:00,920 to my parents even if I had to stay home and study out alide and 736 00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:04,320 said no, I got it all done, no big deal, and then 737 00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:07,679 I would have just dealt with the consequences later. Is a better person than 738 00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:10,599 I am. It's the only way to go. I have to say. 739 00:56:10,639 --> 00:56:14,320 I'm not going to put another yeah yes song, says our outro, for 740 00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:15,320 two weeks in a row, so we're gonna have to come up with another 741 00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:22,000 song for okay. All right, Well thanks for is that it? Do 742 00:56:22,079 --> 00:56:27,840 we have anything else going on culturally? All right? Well, we'll be 743 00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:31,400 back next week with more culture and more politics. Until then, be lovers 744 00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:38,719 of freedom and anxious for the pray