Hello, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of You're Wrong with Molly Hemingway
and me David Harsani. As always, if you have email for the show,
please email us at radio at the Federalist for your complaints or your praise
or whatever. How are you doing, Molly, I'm doing great. Great
to see you. It's great to see you as well. I think we
should get right into it. There's a lot going on this morning Wednesday morning,
James Comer of the and I'm going to get it wrong, but the
Oversight Committee on Accountability or whatever it's called, that is investigating Biden family dealings,
or at least a thirty five or thirty six page report detailing how the
Biden emily made us just a slew of deals using a bunch of shell corporations
twelve different banks. Because obviously, if your business is above board, that's
how you do it, that's how you bring foreign cash into the family business.
And I thought it was Listen. I don't think there's any smoking gun
of criminality, but I just simply don't understand. I'd like to kick it
off this way. I simply don't understand or can't think of any plausible reason
anyone in the world. What's in the Biden family millions of dollars that do
not begin with the words influence peddling. Yeah, So last week we talked
about this whistleblower that was being taken very seriously by Senator James Senator Chuck Grassley
and Representative James Comer, who said that the FBI had a report of bribery
involving Joe Biden and a foreign entity. And people ask Grassley like, do
you know if this is true one hundred percent that this bribery happened? He
said, no, I know that the you know, I know that we
have a whistleblower saying that the FBI has information and that, you know,
we need to know more about what they did, if anything, to act
on that information. But if you took a step back and just thought,
okay, Joe Biden entered government famously as a you know, he would always
say he was like an everyday man, he was not wealthy, and he's
now a multimillionaire. How did that happen? How does it? You know,
you don't actually make that much money being a representative or a vice president
or a senator. It's it's not a bad living, But it's not like
you become a multi millionaire kind of living. So how did he make his
money? How did he go from being poor too extremely wealthy? And the
same question could be asked of many other politicians, but the normal journalistic curiosity
should be, Okay, how did this happen? How did it happened that
for like a few hundred years, if you became president, you frequently left
office more poor than you went in. And now the only person for whom
that's happened since like Harry Truman or something, if even that is Donald Trump?
Like, how does everybody get wealthy by serving in government? Well,
let's I'm answering your question. I'm answering your question with a question, but
like, well, that's a good question, and that's a good question for
frankly for a many senators, Right, how did you become rich? Here?
But I just quickly want to take a step back and say that today
George Santos, the obscure nut job from New York, was the the the
indicted on I forgot how many counts of all kinds of stuff, including lying
to the House of Representatives and stuff like that. I don't know, you
know, maybe maybe he's guilty of all these things. Maybe it's not,
but that is the top story on every single Legacy media website right now,
huge caps above the fold, many different stories. So no, I don't
think just in your question it was something about why you know that journalistic curiosity
would lead you to to be curious about how the president became rich and how
you know about this family business. But there will not be any curiosity there.
Just real quick on the George Santos thing. I think it's clear everyone
knows George Santos lies even more than the average politician, but he's still a
piker compared to Joe Biden. Why is Joe Biden allowed to be president with
no you know, there's no scrutiny of all of the lies that he has
told for decades, Like George Santos didn't do anything that Joe Biden didn't do,
like far better, far longer, and with far more repercussions, Like
why is this even He's completely inconsequential congressman, he doesn't even sit on a
committee. No one takes him serio. This is not I mean, it's
a story's a congress I'm not saying, don't cover it I'm just saying it's
not should not be your lead story. Your lead story should be that the
president of the United States his family was involved in decades in a business that
pedaled his influence. I mean that's oh yeah, so I'm sorry, just
just to answer the question. Yeah, nobody is giving Hunter Biden money for
his business acumen. Nobody is giving him money for his wise sense about matters,
Nobody is giving Hunter Biden money for his prudence. The man, you
know, many sympathies for anyone like him who's dealing with lifelong addiction, but
he's a crackhead who makes bad decisions every day with alarming frequency, whether they
involve prostitutes or guns, or drugs or anything else. Like, nobody in
the world is giving Hunter Biden money in any legitimate way. So just the
fact that he's the money bag man for the Biden family business tells you a
lot about the object, which is of course, to influence pedal as you
say, Learning that there were shell companies set up to sort of funnel and
hide this money is an explosive story given that the central figure of the Biden
family business, particularly after the death of Boe Biden, is and has always
been. Joe Biden, the current President of the United States, and a
media complex that went crazy over every single false claim made as it relates to
the info op that we call the Russia collusion hoax, being like, oh,
I think the big story today is a backbench nothing person member of Congress
who we all know as a liar, but not as bad as Joe Biden
lying and being indicted by a high politicized Department of Justice to avoid talking about
the big press conference today like it's just insane. Well, and yeah,
so here's something we do know. We already know for sure that Joe Biden
has lied about knowing what his son was up to. That we know,
and he has lied consistently about it for almost a decade. Now that's one
if I'm a real journalist. Here's what I'm curious about. Did Joe Biden
benefit from this relationship? Did he know? We already have tons of circumstantial
evidence that yes, he did. We have texts from Hunter Biden saying they
was giving fifty percent of his salary to Joe Biden for many, many years.
We have someone on the record who says that he was the big man
in the emails and texts that the big guy, big guy, and that
he I forget, did they say temper for the big guy? Now?
Wouldn't If this was any Republican Mitt Romney to Donald Trump, would the media
not be sending teams of investigators scouring through every kind of financial record that exists
related to Biden, be looking to see if he benefited. I think they
would. I don't know, if a corrupt Yeah, yeah, if any.
If it were any Republican, the corporate media would have already won like
three years worth of Pulitzers for how long they had been spending investigating it.
If it were any conservative Republican like Mitch McConnell himself, would be calling for
that person to step down, so or any effective I should say Republican.
Now here's the thing, though, I don't you don't you think, because
there's so much noise in politics these days, and the media obviously is plays,
uh, you know, defense for the Biden administration, that you're going
to need to come up with some piece of evidence in some way that connects
Joe Biden to this money. You have to show that he benefited personally,
even though obviously every single person is in his entire family is making money on
this. He is benefiting probably anyway. But don't you think that you need
something more than what was presented today? Well, I think that there is
a lot of foreign elections. Oh well, I don't even know if elections
can be affected anymore, because we just have ballot harvesting operations. We don't
have elections in any conventional sense where you persuade and you pick based on the
quality of the candidate or anybody. Rephrase if I may, do you think
that public perceptions of Joe Biden will change unless there is so? I would
say based on okay, sorry, sorry for speaking over there, but based
on what we already know, public perceptions should have wildly changed. The problem
is not that there isn't enough information to change perceptions. There's way more than
enough, Like there was more than enough before the twenty election when the Senate
had that report come out showing all of the different foreign officials that had paid
huge sums of cash to noted crackhead hunter Biden used based on government documentation or
you know, based on the Hunter Biden laptop where he sort of confesses to
all the crimes or videotapes the evidence of them, like all of this should
have been enough to change perceptions. But I'm not sure the New York Times
will even cover any part of this. There's probably no group of people on
Earth less informed than a vigorous New York Times reader. They don't reveal anything
about whistleblowers. They don't reveal anything about information ops, you know, like
if the CIA is more than information op, you know, like, they
don't. They don't tell their readers. They just give them this like very
narrow, provincial view of reality, and they ruthlessly hide any information that might
pierce their bubble. So it's not the information that's out there, it's about
the distribution methods right now. Yeah, I agree, But still I think
that at some point there is there are events that can happen, or there
is evidence, you know, when you have irrefutable evidence of something that is
almost impossible for even news organizations to ignore. And I think that they need
a piece of evidence like that, and we'll see if that happens. But
my god, I mean, can you I hate formulating it this way,
but I just can't imagine the coverage or what would be going on today.
This was someone a Republican, I mean, can you imagine Rond Santos was
involved in his family involved in something like this, what would happen? I
mean, it would be a nuclear bomb. The media would only be talking
about it. But we're talking about the Santos today, So anything else on
that, I have to be honest with you. The report just came out,
so I haven't like read through the whole thing, but these were just
some highlights. I saw the Romanian businessman that Hunter Biden was dealing with,
who stopped dealing with him exactly the moment that Joe Biden was doingable. I
would just say, I know, I know everyone's like obsessed with the Biden
family because they're the ones in power right now, but I really do think
this is a much bigger issue, and I want to just like put a
point on that thing I said about how presidents get wealthier, like Barack Obama
is obscenely wealthy, and prior to entering government, he was a community service
person. We have a major problem in this country with people going into government
work and becoming millionaires and billionaires, and that's like everyone, it's everyone,
and it's almost everyone. Like Nancy Pelosi is unspeakably wealthy. She should not
be given her position, but she is, and so the Biden family is
notable kind of for how brazen they are in this influenced pedaling scheme and how
but like the Clinton family very notoriously not wealthy when they entered their government service,
and they set up a money laundering foundation for the purpose of peddling influence
on the in the anticipation that Hillary Clinton would become president, and that totally
dried up the moment it was clear that she was not going to be president,
which is sort of proof of the corruption. And the one guy who
didn't is the guy who like started out a multi billionaire and left office poorer
and more persecuted. I would rather, I mean, I would rather have
people who lose money because of how of the quality of their decision making than
this disgusting racket with foreign entities and wars and money laundering and whether or not
it's legal or not, and I think it's frequently not legal. Actually it
is gross and disgusting an ethical. One of my unpopular opinions is that I
actually don't mind rich people going into politics because they were less likely to be
to care about, you know, to be bribed or manipulated by by or
Lord by big, big dollars because they already have them. Um, I
mean, I don't think that's what about my idea that the moment you get
elected to Congress, you just get huge piles of cash and access to ladies
and drugs. Just you don't have to do anything to get this. You
just get it by virtue of coming in, and then you don't have to
sell the Ted Kennedy act. Yeah, I mean, and wait, who
was the guy he did the sandwich with? Remember the senator he did the
lady sandwich with? Yeah? Connecticut. Yeah, that's fine. Those guys
are great, right Connecticut, And I know Ted Kennedy is not from Connecticut.
Really gives us some of the worst senator is imaginable in history. But
it's because Connecticut people, These Yankees are the worst people in the country.
Just kidding. I was hoping to get some hate mail from people from Connecticuts.
It's true. But listen, I mean, obviously that's not across the
board. Plenty of their plenty of wealthy people are also corrupt. It's just
it's very difficult to govern this sort of thing because you can get a book
deal, right, and you make three million bucks just because you are a
senator or whatever they get. I'm sure they get huge advances. So that's
that's one way these people become rich. I guess the stock trading, though,
is something else where you know, they're essentially they're essentially getting insider information
on a lot of things or affecting policy that's going to affect industries. Which
incidentally, every single person on the Judiciary Committee who claims that Clarence Thomas and
Neil Gore such are corrupt, did you know what I mean? They were
selling and buying and trading stock on issues that they were headling or pushing or
passing legislation on. So clearly a responsible behavior and corrupt behavior. And on
that, no, let us go to more irresponsible behavior. And I just
want to talk. I don't have much to say on this. You might
have more to say. But what's going on at the border, which is
basically anarchy or worse than anarchy based, I don't even know what to call
it. It's just another form of corruption. One of the you know,
I'm pretty libertarian in general, one of the one of the jobs of the
government, of the federal government that is clear, is to protect the sovereignty
of a nation. And when you don't have a border, you're not a
sovereign nation anymore. You're essentially being invaded. I am very pro immigration.
I want it to be hand. I want to let people in that we
want in when we decide that they can come in in an orderly fashion.
And what's going on now because of I don't know, withdrawal of Title forty
seven, which made it easier to kick people out, there's just a bum
rush on the border. It's it's unprecedented. What's going on down there.
Yeah, it actually heard that this. I mean, it's more than six
million illegal immigrant entries since Biden took office. And someone was saying the other
night, this isn't just like the worst in American history or modern history,
it's the worst in world history in terms of invasion of foreigners illegally into a
country. Um. I saw that the Babylon Bee had Did you see it
was title forty seven. I is at the right number, it's title forty
two two. I apologize. It's really important to get that right. The
Babylon Bee had something that I wanted. I wanted to look up the headline.
Sorry, Um, I liked this Babylon Bee headline which said majorcas heads
to border to fire starter pistol pistol when the title forty two expires, Um,
yeah, it's it's kind of it's it's kind of crazy, but like
it's intentional. Joe Biden while he was running for office. The actual increase
in numbers started while he was running for office, like even I should say
after he was elected, before he was inaugurated, because he had been so
clear that he planned to tear down every protection of the border that Trump had
put in place, that he wanted people to come illegally. And you know,
whether it was Emily Jasinski and Chris or In, John Davidson in their
documentary on Cartel Country or other evidence, you have people at the border saying,
we believe Joe Biden wants us to come in here illegally, and that's
the that's like the whole point of this, and it is so what's happening
is expected. I don't think these like you know, he sort of said,
I'll send a few troops down there to help keep the peace, probably
just as it's overrun. They don't want, you know, people being killed
in the crush of just wide open borders. But the American people have longe
did a secure border. People in both parties actually, and they have not
gotten good results from either party. Usually you'll have like both parties, but
particularly the Republican Party give amazing lip service to the idea that they want to
have a sovereign nation with a border that's real, but they don't actually do
anything to accomplish that, or they do very little to accomplish that. And
it was a big reason why Donald Trump won the primary in twenty sixteen.
It was a big reason why he won the general election in twenty sixteen.
I do think it's a big issue, but it's also like, we're literally
six million people into this. Yeah, I totally agree. In fact,
I think it was the leading reason Donald Trump won the election. It's a
difficult issue to pull because people don't want to sound like they're bigoted or xenophobic,
so they don't tell you what they But I think wanting an order,
wanting order at the border is something that probably most to Americans want. Here's
another problem. I think that sometimes people who are more liberal and immigration don't
understand when you have this kind of anarchy, it undermines trust in the entire
immigration system and it turns people against all kinds of immigration. So because they
see this illegality, they start to conflate. Because Democrats conflated like illegal immigration
with normal immigration, and that happens. Secondly, I have a personal problem
with this because my parents were immigrants and it took them a very long time
to get here. It took them, they followed the laws and they became
citizens the right way. Just people just cut cut the line. I know
that's a cliche, but there are millions. No, it's infuriating. My
brother's wife is an immigrant, and the amount of work and time and effort
and money that went into having this happen legally and properly, it was a
lot. And so I you know, I know that they feel very frustrated
at people who their first act as American is to break the law about what
it means to be in here. And just because someone is in proximity to
your order does not mean that they should just be able to come here in
ahead of someone else from some other place. Like why I want to bring
people and who immigrate here from Nigeria, from Slovenia, from wherever, and
have this this culture where we invite people from all of the world. When
you have one area just coming into another area of our country. That's that's
that's a recipe for complete disaster. Never works, has never worked in world
history. So there's also just the human rights catastrophe. Yeah, you know,
I know people's terrible about that, as much they should. But the
amount of like sex trafficking and sex abuse, right violence, not just that,
but what kind of the cartels are controlling this? I'm sorry, sorry
interrupted you, but what kind of life does someone who's here illegally really have?
I mean, it's not the real it's not a proper America in life.
It's just bad for immigrants, it's bad for everyone. Listen, I
get it. I know why they're trying what they're trying to escape, and
I don't blame people for trying to do it, but we can't can't allow
it anyway, and no one seems to care. You're one hundred percent right.
They think these are future Democrat voters, and they do it on purpose.
I used to not believe that. I completely believe it now. There's
just no other reason this can happen. So anyway, let me let me
just say that. So another top, Are you ready to move on?
I am all right, let's talk about the debt ceiling. Yeah, So,
as you know, a dystopian future awaits us in mere mere weeks if
we do not, you know, lift the debt ceiling without any preconditions,
as Joe Biden says, well, we'll be foraging for our food soon and
staying alive with spears and so on. This happens all the time. So
I think a lot of younger people don't realize that this kind of scaremongering has
gone on on numerous occasions, you know, during the Obama years especially,
and then none of that's actually going to happen. But here's the thing.
Joe Biden refuses to negotiate at all on the debt ceiling, and that kind
of maximalist position was constantly covered as complete obstructionism. When Republicans are supposedly doing
it now, it's not covered in that way. In fact, I would
just want to read you a line from the New York Times editorial on this.
The New York Times says that the Republicans should trust Joe Biden lift the
debt ceiling and then trust that Joe Biden will deal with spending it. Something
to time, which made me laugh out loud. Can you imagine the writing
that I'm not even exaggerating. They call that a reasonable path to resolve this.
Then they write this line that made me laugh. The Times contends that
it is not a useful meg, that the debt ceiling is not a useful
mechanism for preventing the federal government from living beyond its mean, when that is
literally what the laws pass to do. It reminded me of this line in
Love and Death Woy Allen movie where on his honeymoon night, Baris is married
to this woman named Sonja, and he, you know, in their honeymoon
bed. He makes his move and the woman says, not here, not
now, not here, Like this is literally the best time to negotiate future
spending. The you know, they say, you know, we must pay
our bills. Yeah, but no one's going to keep giving you lines of
credit and loans. If you're compounding unsustainable debt. This is the time to
do it. It's never going to be done. Another with a literal of
a president who said these words the three point five trillion dollar Billy pass that
cost zero dollars. He is not a whiz with numbers we have There is
no other time to have this negotiation. But now, so I have to
say, I think Kevin McCarthy has done I am not a huge fan or
any think but I think he's done an amazing job pulling together everyone to pass
a bill, which, incidentally, these people ignore, Hold on one second,
I know you had something to say. Here's the line of the New
York Times story, will Republicans pass a bill to lift a debt ceiling?
They did? Yes, they did already. This is what I'm saying the
New York there's no one less informed than a New York Times reader. A
faithful New York Times reader, Korean Gene Pierre said that they have to go,
that the Congress needs to go to what is it normal order or whatever,
which he doesn't realize means that the Senate needs, Democrats need to pass
a bill, Policans pass a bill anyway. It's just infuriating. So I
do find it interesting that Joe Biden completely has completely botched this. So his
whole I refuse to talk to Republican strategy was based on a theory, a
not completely unreasonable theory, incidentally, that there was no way they could get
a bill to increase the debt limit past and Kevin McCarthy, and this was
the conventional wisdom in DC. There's no way you can get this rabble of
Republicans, which include actual conservatives like Chip Roy and people who are weird,
those who seek after CNN acclaim like Nancy Mace or something. I don't know,
you know, like all these different people, how are they going to
agree on a bill? And in part because of that like ridiculous fight at
the beginning over who would become speaker and what concessions were made. This is
a very tight Republican conference. They all kind of understand that they hang er
not together, and they're really doing a great job of working together. And
Kevin McCarthy does this like impossible thing with a margin of just a tiny,
tiny, you know, count them on one hand majority and passes this.
So Joe Biden had spent months upon months upon months saying there's no way they're
going to pass a bill. So I'm just gonna like call their bluff.
Well, they called his bluff. And then at the same time they called
his bluff, Janet Yellen came out and said, I know we've all been
thinking. July one is when we start to default it's actually June one.
So now he has like no time at all, and he totally screwed himself
out of whatever time he had. Do you remember Chuck Schumer every day with
tweet this snarky tweet out like McCarthy, where's your plan? Like, where's
your plan? Where's your plan? You know, I can't negotiate, you
haven't given us specifics. So now he has a plan and Chuck Schumer goes
silent. He won't even negotiate at all on anything. Speaking of the Senate,
we should also give props to a few of this sent well, you
know, forty of the senators. Mike Lee organized an effort like this all
kind of gets Kevin McCarthy did amazing work. The Republicans in the House did
amazing work. But it isn't gonna matter if the Republicans in the Senate say,
like get scared and say, okay, well we're just going to pass
something, you know, with no conditions, because then it kind of puts
the Republicans in the House back on their feet. So Mike Lee organized as
a letter with more than forty one signatories, forty one being the magic number.
I don't remember how many of these like forty three or something saying that
they do not support the Chuck Schumer Joe Biden approach, which gives them enough
leverage to mean that everyone has to get to the table and start talking about
how they're going to do this. So not just good work by the Republican
majority in the House, but good work by the Mike Lee led minority in
the Senate. A little weird that we didn't hear more from Mitch McConnell leading
this, given that he's ostensible. I know he's still recovering from his fall
or stroke or whatever it is that he had, but he's ostensibly the leader
of the minority. But good work on the conservatives for getting that letter together.
And obviously, I'm sure Republicans shouldn't expect that they're going to win.
Obviously that House bill is not going to go through. But it didn't make
me laugh. And just to go back to the Times editorial again, they
call what McCarthy has done their deep cuts. He cuts going back to twenty
twenty two baseline spending. Oh that's brutal, Yes, I mean it is
brutal, and then obvious no cuts actually moving forward, but one percent yearly
you know, spending caps. And then also I love this from investments and
they want to Repulicans want to cut investments and tax enforcements, by which they
mean eighty thousand new IRS, cops monitoring your venmo can for six hundred dollars,
and green and green energy stuff. And obviously some of that isn't going
to happen, and maybe in the end none of it is going to happen.
I don't know, But right now I think the Policans are playing it
well. Um Joe bidden refuses to negotiate. They had some meeting yesterday and
you know, they've gotten them nowhere, so we'll see. I mean,
I've heard that the economy is going to sink when we don't pay our bills
about a million times in my life, and it never happens because no one's
going to let that happen. Okay. But having said that, a lot
of US power is based on us being us having the reserve currency for the
world, and we're still you know, I don't think there's a huge threat
for someone else taking us over on that in the near term. But a
lot of that is based on our you know, on people's confidence that we
will pay our debt, and the more that we exploit that confidence, the
worst it is for us. And also the more we use our dollar for
political reasons, the less less desirable it is. You know, it's based
on its stability and it's neutrality. And we've done things recently like basically like
kicking Russia off the US dollar, which makes people just see how easy it
is to play politics with that. It makes them seek out other reserve currency.
Yeah, but inflation, the inflation we're seeing doesn't help the dollar,
right, And if we cut some spending and pass this pass a bill to
raise the debt limit a responsible way, then the Fed might not have to
raise rates for instance, and you know, to just the entire economy will
be more sounded. There was a Wall Street journal piece on this, but
anyway, it's it's it's a pretty boring topic for most Americans. It looks
like maybe even you're falling asleep right now. I just want to talk about
the other big news in Congress. With this, the Republicans in the House
were able to reveal that the CIA helped run the infoop against the American people
surprise of claiming that the that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. They
had called a few people to testify and in that in those depositions, they
learned that like one of the signatories to the letter said that the way he
learned about the letter was that the CIA official in charge of approving a book
he had written, you know, said to him that they would like his
signature on the letter. And there are that's just speaking again of like things
that would be explosive if they involved the Trump administration. This would have been
leading to immediate impeachment proceedings obviously, or there's a lot of claims that you
know, that people that the people in who signed on to the letter,
which was obviously used during an election to suppress a story that would have hurt
one of the candidates. So it was clearly meant even in its present form,
and even if we bought every argument they're giving, still corrupt in my
view. But there's an email from one from a CIA employee saying that he
admitting that he shared shared the contents of the letter with the Biden campaign.
That is complete with someone connected to the Biden campaign, which is completely corrupt
behavior for the CIA, which should not be involved in elections at all.
And neither should people we place our trust and to defend the country all the
signature. Well, do I have bad news for you, David Herson.
I think that might be the job description of the CIA at this point.
But no one's going to believe these people. Something terrible is going to happen
in this world at some point. It always does, and no one is
going to believe what these people say about it. That is that is the
probably the worst part of this in my view, might already be getting there.
But I just want to also point out one of the people who is
organizing this letter specifically said the purpose was to was to affect, yeah,
to affect the election, to interfere in a debate where it was going to
be brought up. And the letter was like very craftily written in that CIA
kind of way. But that our intelligence agencies ran an info up against the
American people for the purpose of subverting democracy, as they always say, is
horrific. We are in this place right now. It's really like crazy when
you hear, you know, some of these people talking about the evils that
are in other regimes which are evil. You know, you'd see China as
this type of info up against is people. Russia does this type of info
up. One of the reasons why we are able to take on adversaries like
China is because we should have some kind of moral authority about how we don't
do this against the people, or that we don't suppress news information in the
way that they do. But nobody seems to care about that. Yeah,
truth is now it just hit me that, I mean, they've been CIA
fbis have been doing this forever. You know, JOHNSONBJ had the CIA spying
on the Goldwater campaign. You know what I mean, Like, this is
not new. I think that there's a level of transparency because of the maybe
the Internet or more whistleblowers that lets us know that this is happening, or
maybe it's just more obvious and they're more brazen than ever about it. I
don't know, but it is just such corrupt behavior and it's really should be
distressing to most Americans. But the problem is that have to people don't care
because it's helping their side and that's that. So anyway, so all that
good news, how about we do some culture great. I have to make
an correction. It's embarrassing, but I have to make a correction. Someone
pointed this out to me or maybe laugh. Last week you were talking about
how you're reading the Bible, and you were up to Leviticus, I believe,
and I said, whoa, you know, John, that's you know,
as Joshua made an appearance yet or whatever. But I have to say
I just met like in the arc of the historical story. I realized I
promised that the story of Joshua's told in the Book of Joshua the Leviticus,
but so I wanted to make that correction. A few people send me emails
on that. Did you see how much feedback we got on this Bible reading
journey? I'm on, Yeah, it was amazing. Yeah, I love
it. Well, I will say, since you, since you brought it
up. I had just started Leviticus last week when we talked. I finished
Leviticus, and now I'm like thirteen chapters into Numbers, which someone told me,
like, numbers is brutal, Numbers is amazing. I also like really
enjoyed Leviticus, which I'd always I'd always kind of just associated with like do
this, don't do that, but I found it to be really interesting and
Numbers has personally been helpful. I have all these notes I keep on thinking
like, oh, I gotta tell David when we do the podcast about this
passage or this passage. But there are these little like hidden things that have
been valuable to me, just even like where I am this is. This
is a stupid example, and I'm kind of embarrassed, but you know,
the Israelites are completely complaining every thirty seconds, like they can't handle any hardship,
and they immediately start grumbling and they're like, we're just going to go
back to Egypt and be slaves under brutal tyranny because we don't know where our
food is coming from next. And Moses keeps like throwing up his hands and
being like how like how did I get these people? They are the worst.
He's kind of mediating between them, and you know, God's like I
hate these people, and they're like we hate God, and He's like,
could you all calm down? But at one point he says something like why
don't you just kill me? Because I can't? To God, like why
don't you just let me die? Because I cannot handle this? And God
gives him seventy elders to help. And I was experiencing something similar. It's
very similar to Moses. You know, I'm very Moses like, but no,
I was just feeling like completely overwhelmed and I couldn't handle a thing.
I was like, oh right, you can delegate things to other people and
just a little. I'm mostly getting really big spiritual things out of this about
salvation and seeing how many things point to Christ. But even sometimes I'm getting
Mark. When I told him this, He's like, oh, yes,
noted self help book numbers. That's kind of It's also just also helping me
with management. I don't know. It's funny. On the As a Jew,
I can talk about this. Really. I think about the Jews complaining
a lot. There's this Colin Quinn as a comedian and he has this great
special where he goes through all the ethnicities of New York and talks about their
stereotypes and stuff, and he talks about the Jews so how dramatic they are
about everything. So you'll be like, how was traffic, I'll murder or
like, you know, he was murder. It's the worst thing ever.
And this is how I talk, you know a little bit. So I
just I always hear them in with a New York accent. In the Bible
when they're complaining about like stuff, you know, but yeah, yeah,
I think you know, you know, you're reading through the Bible and discussing
would make it. I know you're too busy for it, but it's kind
of thing that would make for fun podcast, you know what I mean,
like talking about the Bible. I think there is a guy that like good
looking priest Catholic priest guy. Do you know I'm talking about Mike maybe or
something. I don't know. My Roman Catholic girlfriends always call good looking Roman
Catholic priests father what a waste? So I always just call it like they're
all interchangeable for me. If they're good, I'm like, oh, it's
a father. What a waste? This one guy, he is like a
chise, old features and blue eyes. He's like a very popular guy.
I think he's one of the most popular podcasts out there. He does like
Bible in a day, and I think he reads through the whole thing.
By the way, at Bedford's wedding, he had a really good priest who
preached really well, and he was Roman Catholic, and even the Roman Catholics
were out there joking like what's this guy doing? Like we don't get good
sermons. His sermon was not just good, it was theologically accurate. It
quoted scripture accurately and in proper context. Like, it was so good,
and everyone there was just really loving what he had to say about marriage,
and it was very surprising. I'm not going to get involved in this because
I feel like you just insulted Catholics in your own special way. But I'll
stay out of that argument. I'm not here for the theology anyway. Yeah,
I did get it also, like people had some really good suggestions on
some books and some podcasts on it. I'm trying to just kind of get
through this, but but I do think that would be kind of interesting.
We should see if there's someone else who would want to do that kind of
podcast. Maybe I don't know if this would work, but maybe uh a,
you know, someone of the Catholic persuasions Lutheran. I was thinking Hans
Feeney, like a Lutheran pastor. That'd be fun. Okay, great,
I'll let him know that he's been he's been volunt told he'll be doing storming
during the podcast, which is a weird. Now that idea sucks. Now,
what else did I do? I watched I so, I've been watching
some older shows that I'd probably spoken about rewatching, but I did decide.
I was sitting there and I was reading Some Peace, and I read that
Martin score. One of Martin Scorsese's favorite movies was The Searchers with John Wayne.
So I decided to give it a shot. And I just hate old
movies so much. There's some it's a john Fordvie movie. It's got some
beautiful I can tell that technically it's better than most movies of the fifties or
maybe early sixties. But what is the what is the plot of this one?
I think I saw so John Wayne is the Fellowship Confederate so juror who
comes back home to a ranch out in um like Arizona, I think,
or something like that in the desert. I'm always like, what are they
doing on these ranches where nothing grows but that they have no cattle? But
and then Comanche Indians, Well, should I spoil the movie? Would commence?
Indians do something terrible and he goes out for revenge. And it's and
it's it's actually has it's it's complex in certain ways. It's just the acting
is just so artificial somehow that it's just so not naturalistic the way people speak,
is that the right way to put it. That it's hard for me
to watch these old movies. It was okay, it's like a ninety five
on Rotten Tomatoes. It's like beloved. It's on like numerous lists for the
greatest movie of all time. Someone, okay, so I want to see
this if I haven't seen it already. Um, I love john Ford.
And someone recommended that you watch that you watch Jury Duty. Did you see
that email? I've had two people now recommend that. Yeah, and I
watched funny trailer for it and I actually laughed out loud a few times.
So I tried to get Mark Hemingway to agree to it, but he hasn't
agreed yet, so please send your emails to him. I am a big
skeptic of the jury system. I think juries are just terrible. I tell
you the story about how it was on Jury Dirty many years ago, and
they made me the foreman because I was wearing glasses. I looked smart.
That's what this woman Doris told me. Basically, I was on the jury
with unemployed government workers at the time. I was the only one who actually
had to leave their job to get on the jury, and I had to
convince this jury not to like they just ignored the law completely. It was
completely emotion based. I don't know if others have had this experience, but
it was one of the key moments of my life where I turned against democracy
itself because I was like, we cannot trust people with serious issues like this
I had. I served on a federal jury on a conspiracy to commit mail
fraud trial and it was long and arduous, and I really got a lot
out of it and enjoyed my fellow jury members. And at the end when
we had that initial vote about whether to convict or not, I was one
of the people who voted not to convict, but I was in a minority.
I think there were how many people's twelve right, because it was like
eight to four or something like that, and they were so polite and respectful
with the four of us that they had to get over to their side that
I really just appreciated that, and there was no rushing and we all ended
up having a unanimous verdict. And perhaps I just had a bad experience,
or perhaps maybe DC has a higher quality of person than New York, where
where I bet you I can get any jury to convict a conservative of anything.
I was just thinking about that with back to the Joe Biden thing when
you were when we were talking about him, there's that line about how someone
said, like, if Donald Trump shot someone on Fifth ave and his fans
wouldn't care whatever, And I was like, I think Joe Biden literally literally
could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. The New York Times wouldn't cover it.
The rest of the media would contextualize it. It would be a one day
story and we'd be done. I mean so many times, you know you're
looking for districts or whatever where you're going to get juries that are emotionally or
ideologically favorable to you, Right, that just shows you that the jury system
has big problems. Like I would always have it, what's it called.
I would always want a bench trial, not a jury trial. If I
was innocent. If I was guilty, I would want a jury trial.
I just want a good defense attorney, no matter what. But I saw
this woman. She's a journalist and I think she's in Kansas City now,
but she used to be at the Washington Post and maybe also the New York
Times. I don't remember her name, and she was mocking the idea that
maybe Donald Trump doesn't get a fair trial in New York. She's like,
you mean to tell me he can't get a fair trial in this city of
his birth, the city where he made all his money. It's like,
maybe you're too stupid to be in journalism. Although apparently not. Okay,
there's a little bit of a class thing they are just quickly. Trump is
not from Manhattan. He is from Queens. I'm just saying, having been
born there myself, I think that people underestimate the differences between someone who is
from Queens, place that has looked down upon, or when I was growing
up into Manhattan. But anyway, you were about just even if he had
been brought up in Manhattan and was one of them, that would almost make
the class trader ship yeah, even worse. Like the problem with rule of
law in New York City is not the people charged, it's the new mindset
on the left that if you don't like someone, that means that they should
go to prison. Like quickly, who nesque thing. I am not saying
that Donald Trump grew up in a working class environment. I'm just saying that
the way he speaks and stuff is very Queens, not New York. Um,
you're going to say something about something you saw or yeah. So I
went to a concert and my church that was wonderful. Our choir performed Farre's
Requiem Mass. It was just absolutely magnificent, and they also had a few
other pieces that were that were great. Quite the eclectic concert going menu like
you'll one day you're like, I'm watching the Dead, I'm going to go
see that dead Kennedy is at d n DC And the next day you're like,
I saw the church. Do you know a Bach? Whatever? You
know? So I found that, By the way, my church does a
cantata every single Sunday. So Johann Sebastian Bach composed cantatas for every Sunday of
the church here. We do one every I mean at least one, we
do one every Sunday. It's just amazing. Our choir is a volunteer choir.
We have a professional canter who leads us. But it's just magnificent.
We have these musically talented people who attend our church, who participate, and
I'm so we're so blessed. And I will also say that one of the
members of this choir was wondering if there would be a mention of the far
A Requiem Mass during the podcast. So apparently someone listens to us in the
church choir by how many people listen to us you walk around, you are
at an end event, and someone's like, you said, you know some
thrower where aligne? I said, and they will mention it, and that
freaks me out. I should I should worry about or I should be more
vigilant about the things that I say. Okay. So the other thing is
that we watched for our family movie night somewhere in time. Oh my gosh,
I'd love that movie when I was young. That's with Christopher Reeve.
Is that the one with Christopher Reeve? Yes, Oh my gosh, Yes,
that's funny. That's what my brother said when I told him we watched
it. So I remember that my mom was obsessed with this movie, so
I thought it would be you know, okay to watch it. And as
soon as it starts, Mark was going to leave and just go read.
But he saw that the guy who wrote the screenplay I would say, like
Richard Matheson or something like that, was also the guy who wrote I Am
Legend. And he's like, oh oh, he wrote a vampire movie,
like, maybe this will be okay, and it won't be just like a
romantic film or whatever. I am legend is more than just a vampire movie.
The original book is really out there and crazy, but go on,
Well, the movie did not meet with Mark Hemingway's to light, so he
just kept on watching it. Mystery Science Theater three thousand style the entire time,
stripping on everything, you know, joking about the ridiculosity of the time
travel you know approach, and we're basically, the writers are basically like,
we don't know how we're going to get them to time travel. We're just
gonna like make something that's the stupidest way to do it, and that's going
to be the way. I love that movie. When I saw it most
must have been thirty five years ago. I love them. I love the
music for the score, and everything is great. But then at the end
they had we were watching on DVD. We're getting really into tangible media these
days, so we're watching on DVD and at the end they had like extras,
and one of the extras they had is that there's a somewhere in time
fan club that has its own magazine that is still in print, I believe,
and they have written like published like twelve hundred pages of Somewhere in Time
material you can join. You can go to Mackinaw Island and take Somewhere in
Time tours to this day. And we were all just like laughing so hard
because it's such a weird fan club or appreciation society is actually what they call
themselves. But also I need to tell my moms so she can join,
because she probably would want too. You know, I loved and still probably
loved time travel movies. They're ridiculous. And there was another movie around that
time called Time After Time. Did you ever see it? I don't know
who's in it, so it's like Malcolm McDowell is in it and this other
British actor I don't remember his name, and it's Jack the Ripper isn't alive.
And he gets into a time machine and goes to contemporary San Francisco and
H. G. Wells, Oh, he steals H. G. Wells
as time machine and goes into the future and H. G. Wells follows
him there and it's like they're chasing each other through time. I'm not terrible
trouble with time travel movies because I overthink them. So like in Somewhere in
Time, the Jane Seymour character in real time is an old lady who says
to a young man, come back to me, and that's Christopher Reeve,
And then like through some weird chain of events, he discovers his picture.
He wants to go visit that person back in time. He realizes it's the
woman who came forward, But like what started the whole thing? How did
it start? And Mark's like, you're not supposed to ask these kinds of
questions, Like you're not supposed to think, like what was the first thing
that happened? If they're in some weird time travel loop. When I was
nine and I saw back to the future whenever that was you know how they're
in the DeLorean, like it'll just take off and then like come back on
the same street but in a different time. I would always think, as
I was crossing the street, like what if the DeLorean chooses right now to
cross this street and him I just have stupid obsessions with the time travel.
I liked them when I was young, but actually I don't really love them
now. They're usually quite lazy and they don't make any sense at all that
in any way. So there, it's just a way to put people out
of time, right, and that's supposed to be either interesting or funny.
But this one was a love story, right, I mean it's like eternal
love, right. Jane Moore in it or something. She's so pretty,
isn't she. I loved that. Yeah, um yeah, James Seymour and
Christopher Reeves is a very handsome man, and Christopher Plumbers in it too,
oh he yeah, as a bad guy kind of. So um. Interstellar
is a movie that deals with the manipulation of time, like all Christopher Nolan
films. Yeah, and I liked how that was handled. I liked how
it was sort of about love that wasn't terrible, love existing across time and
generations. Tenant made no sense, right, No, I don't. I
don't know. I couldn't. I'm an old lady, so I couldn't hear
it. I was like, why is it so loud? But they're speaking
so quietly With my glasses, I could do it. That's like all the
fancy surrounds sound and just like regular sound that could just like tell me what's
going on. But I watched TV with subtitles all the time. Now I
don't know what I read movies. Um. I did see another movie called
to Rome with Love, which is a Woody Allen movie. I had one
of the few I hadn't seen it. It was pretty good. It's got
Roberto Benini in it or whatever. Do you know that guy's funny. So
that's all I have. I did one one quick complaint before we left.
It's Mother's Day Sunday. Yes, remember their moms. When you go to
a store to buy a Mother's Day card, there was so much writing in
these cards. There were literally cards I pick up that have like three pages
of poetry and stuff like that. Isn't it complete? It's not even your
words? Like why would someone buy a card like that? About a card
that said my mom's not listening to About a card that says you were right
on the front and is about everything? And then it started out, you
buy your mom a card. Now I got to buy everybody who's a mother
a card. That's ridiculous. Basically, Yeah, I don't know. I'm
not into things like that. I don't. I genuinely believe every day is
Mother's Day, Like my children are so wonderful. I would want a card,
but like, not anything else. My mom doesn't need anything. Some
women really need a lot. But I don't know. Just remember to appreciate
your mom's I remember when I got pregnant with my first I called my mom
and I said, I'm sorry, Like I just all of a sudden realized
about the decades of trauma I had put her through. My wife and I
have a good relationship. I'm just like, buy whatever you want for Mother's
Day, and I just buy something I want for Father's Day. This way
you get what you want and there's no concusion. So romantic, David,
that's really great. I'm a terrible gift giver. I have no I only
know how to buy people books or records. I literally my consciousness does not
band passed. I don't know what else to buy someone. Maybe yo,
come at I don't even know. Like I'm like, is this going to
be a terrible gift or not? I don't know. And in the end,
you just end up insulting people with bad guests. So it's not really
worth that bird bird feeder. We already have a bird feeder. I sent
you another al picture last Yeah, right, um concerts, I did go
see the ia yas last week after we taped it was fantastic. Um,
we've gotten a ticket to take our daughter. Had I told you this?
Our daughter really likes the AA yeahs. So we got a ticket, and
then, like the day before, she said that she didn't think she could
go because she had to study for an exam. So Mark and I are
raising a very lame person who's responsible and does not go to rock concerts so
she can study for tests. That's great. I mean I would have lied
to my parents even if I had to stay home and study out alide and
said no, I got it all done, no big deal, and then
I would have just dealt with the consequences later. Is a better person than
I am. It's the only way to go. I have to say.
I'm not going to put another yeah yes song, says our outro, for
two weeks in a row, so we're gonna have to come up with another
song for okay. All right, Well thanks for is that it? Do
we have anything else going on culturally? All right? Well, we'll be
back next week with more culture and more politics. Until then, be lovers
of freedom and anxious for the pray