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Christopher Bedford. He's a contributor with us at The Federalist, and he's wearing
one half of a tracksuit because it's March, and that means he's ready for
Saint Patrick's Day. Even though it's not even the same week as Saint Patrick's
Day, Chris is celebrating. I've been I've actually been working on my Saint
Patrick's Say mix for some time now because it's not surprise because I get to
Saint Patrick says this year. Sarah's being pretty generous about it. I get
a Saturday throw a party, yeah, and then Sunday where we don't throw
a party. I take Christopher to the eight am Mass and then the nine
am pub and he's with he gets to come with me and Gray and whoever
else comes until Sarah picks him up in time for lunch. We should specify
that Christopher is your little guy and not your three years old. Well,
what's funny is it's it sounded almost like you were referring to yourself and you
had some sort of personality disorder. Multiple personality Christopher, Yes, so to
be very clear, you were talking about someone else. Now it is state
at the Union Day here in Washington, d C. Meaning streets are closed
and it is maddening. You can probably tell I just had this experience driving
around Capitol Hill, Chris. I'm glad. I'm glad you got caught in
traffick. Yeah, well that's a Chris was alerting some friends of ours that
traffic was really bad, and you found the last week. I was like,
I was sitting for an hour in traffic in DC and you were like,
fact check false. I just drove right through. But I think it
was you described the location of the traffic incorrectly, So I think it was
your fault. That aside. Stay of the Union Day here in Washington,
d C. It's lovely. It's like sixty five degrees and Joe Biden is
prepared to address the nation tonight. Chris, and what we've heard so far,
what are they going to give him? This is actually a very interesting
question, I think because it's obviously something I think that's obviously something a lot
of presidents throughout history. It's like, it's not tell us to point out
how many pills and other uppers and downers and this and that. American presidents
have been on and they have their own personal doctor takes care of them like
a rock star. Yeah. But whatever that doctors giving him lasts about half
the length yes, bad cocaine. I think half the length of time it's
supposed to last. You see it, like he comes out and it's like
ba ba ba by like some in a college bar, coming out of the
bathroom and being like and then it starts to the kind of slow down and
just slumping us to go back for some mark, like starts a puzzle and
then just trails off. Yeah, it's it's really wild. It's not working.
I mean, based on how long it lasted for his I need to
come out and address the fact that the special prosecutor, a special investigator,
found that I was too senile to stand trial. He came out to the
press conference. It was one of the most important ones he's ever done.
And it lasted less time than it takes for the average US president to enter
and get to the podium in the State of the Union. Because it's not
Remember, it's not just he walks out like he normally does. He does
this like you know, shuffle over the stage and just reads off of something
for an hour. It's like fifteen minutes of greeting senators and congressmen and shaking
hands and recognizing people, yeah, and talking to living people, not people
who are dead. And then you get down there and then they have to
wait till the applause stops, and Democrats are talking about how Republicans are probably
going to try and trip them up because they wanted to go out, they
wanted to go off script because he can't, and they want to show the
American people that he can't. And I actually, I think that would be
pretty funny. So I have right in front of me the Axios pre well,
let's just say the Axios State of the Union teas, which is clearly
informed by conversations with the White House. And this is what typically the White
House brings reporters in before a State of the Union. Usually that's another preday
though right either way. So President Biden will use Tonight's Say of the Union
Addressed to admit that prices are still too high in some areas, but argue
things were worse under former President Trump. That's according to the White House Chief
of Staff in an interview with Axios, and Axos continues, this is like
pepsi arguing against coke, Like you're not. You shouldn't have to spend so
much of your State of the Union in your final year before the election talking
about the other guy, Biden and what could well be the most important speech
of his presidency. The article continues, aims to project fighting optimism to an
audience with plenty of doubts about the nation's vigor and of that of the eighty
one year old presidents. Biden needs a cure for what some advisors call quote
trump amnesia, the notion that the chaos and unpopularity of Trump's presidency has receded
from some voters memories nearly four years on, well completely has I mean,
did you see the SNL Shang Gis skit with the Trump sneakers? Yes,
now that's just one of like a thousand and one examples of the social stigma
they try to stigmatize going outside, not wearing a mask, not using their
proper pronouns, liking Donald Trump to such a level. And I think it's
the fevers really started to break where a lot of people are saying, well,
I mean, I think it's okay to be open. You have celebrities
and comedians coming out and saying this guy. You got rappers talking about it.
I mean, the stigma that they've tried to attach, like you are
a bad person if you like Donald Trump, it just doesn't it doesn't fit.
The whole narrative's falling apart. And just to try and be like Donald
Trump is evil. I mean you think I've asked some of my friends this,
Some of my friends who don't work in politics as went to high school
with, So do you guys remember why Trump was so bad in the first
place? And they're like, ah, it's hot on the border, none
of it works, it's it's it's it was meaningless. Stories there were constantly
ginned up. It's funny. Uh Ben had an interesting point in his column
this morning about how the Democrats were talking about how bad needs to create some
breathing space. Ben dominant, Yeah, yeah, and he's like a man
of Trumpet says Trump. People have said that there would have been a whole
segment in them Miss NBC about how Hitler needed Liebenstrom because it and you're trying
to think back of the scandals of the Trump administration. They were that stupid
over and over again, and no one remembers oh leyden Thrown. That's what
you were trying to say, Yeah, Laban's realm. I'm sorry, I'm
talking to Wisconsinate. I was trying to translate from Chris so wow, I
got dark. Uh you're talking about living living space, yes, yes,
living room so yes. I thought that point from Ben was very interesting.
And Eddie Scary, who was actually sitting right next to us and was on
this podcast, is very weak. My colleague Overrette, the Federalist, he
said, he sent a really interesting and I just think actually very dark.
I'm trying to pull it up right now, a very dark. Yeah.
This was also in the Axios point, so the American Dream. Biden addition,
he tweets quote just a little bit of leftover money. And this is
also in the Axios piece because right after the quote unquote breathing room point,
they specify as this is a quote from Jeff Science, the White House Chief
of staff, quote just a little bit of leftover money at the end of
the month. That's what their quote unquote breathing room. Not Laban's realm,
but breathing room is defined as and Chris that actually struck me as almost European
right, that if you're redefining the American dream not to be sort of the
sky is the limit upward mobility, but quote just a little left over at
the end of the month. What for Netflix. I mean it's a bleak
I mean that seems to me to be a very bleak concession and the whole
But it's not just Biden. I mean that seems to be a very bleak
concession from the left, that this is something that they forwardly told a news
organization that is a very bleak vision for the American dream, and that was
in the context of talking about optimism and vigor. Yeah it's it's Jimmy Carter
esque. Yes, yeah, it's it's not a good moment and the whole
thing. Reading through it, reading through their talking points this morning, and
reading through some of the columns about it, I was destruct with how this
White House is once again about messaging. That's all they can think in terms
of is messaging with the TikTokers they bring in, the influencers, the pronouns,
the virtue signaling, the signs, the rainbow lights. Everything that they're
doing is just about how do we message this better? And they can't come
to grips with the reality that their policies are awful. You can't message a
border that's been taken over. You can't message your way to the fact that
anyone entering DC recognizes that the local homeless shelter has been turned into a refugee
camp. You can't message your way out of the fact that people can't find
work. That Yeah, sure there are a lot of jobs that there,
jobs that are being taken up largely by immigrants. But if you're a white
guy in your fifties or sixties and you got laid off the last two years,
your chances of being hired in the last two two or three years are
extremely low. So, well, this is I was actually just going to
mention. This is the Bernie Sanders quote to Jeff Sener the Washington Post about
Biden in the State of the Union. Bernie Sanders says the bubble is extraordinary.
Democrats seem to think, many of them that only if we can explain
all that we have accomplished the Lord. Yes, it sounds just like you.
It's exactly right, But that ignores the pain the ordinary people are now
experiencing. And this is your point that this Biden administration and the broader Democratic
Party and actually the sort of Beltways inability to understand why Americans feel badly about
the economy. Paul Krugman writing, this is all just vibes. This is
not, you know, real sacky. On MSNBC immigration, Yeah, talking
like I love in Virginia, a lot of people care about immigration. Oh
it was bad, Yeah, that was really really bad. Stephen Miller came
out with some points first, like a quarter of Virginia residents at this point
are foreign are the children and six I think one of six are foreign born
in like a quarter are the children of immigrants or immigrants themselves, and twever
on northern Virginia. It's it's a it's a massively changing state. And for
her to I don't know where part of Virginia she must live in, maybe
or May which is extremely insulated. You're go into my neighborhood it's like a
time machine back to nineteen ninety five. People are nice, they fly the
America. The only only place to fly is like the not the American flag
is the town hall, which right now actually has a WHW. Well,
last month they flew the black Power flag. It was not a single American
flag at the Alexandria town Hall. It was like twenty Black Power flags.
Well, so actually, also Stephen Miller was talking about this, like in
the context of how MS thirteen has a very big presence in northern Virginia.
Just in the last couple of weeks there was a murder child. There's a
murder of a child by someone who who is not here legally. To your
point, Chris, the resettlement of migrants has absolutely affected northern Virginia because people
were busted into Washington, d c. And then are being moved into these
different spaces. There are legitimate problems, they're not These are not problems of
xenophobia. There are legitimate economic problems. There are legitimate problems in the schools.
These things are very real for people. And if you're repeatedly telling them
that a either they aren't seeing what they're seeing with their eyes or they what
they're feeling based on what they're seeing is racism. You're not gonna have a
lot of success convincing them everything is fine. Yeah, it's not about messaging,
they think, just like Bernie, Just like Bernie Senders said, it's
about a lot more just messaging is about the actual pain and people are feeling.
So I don't think. I don't think. I think he's gonna being
the messages what ahead of us today. I don't see him. It's past
his bedtime. It's not like they can just I bet they would love to
tell people, hey, no applause this time. Well just let them get
through it. But you saw that Mike Johnson said that to Republicans, right,
Mike Johnson is, so this is from the Hill. I pulled this,
call me out. I've messed something. I brought my computer today so
it makes it easier for me to just flip through the different stories I wanted
to talk about. Speaker Mike Johnson is urging GOP lawmakers to maintain decorum when
President Biden delivers the State of the Union address Thursday night. After Republicans had
a number of outbursts during last year's speech. Johnson made the request during a
closed door GOP conference meeting Wednesday morning. Three Republican lawmakers who attended the gathering
told The Hill quote, decorum is the order of the day, Johnson told
members. According to one lawmakers, one lawmaker he said, we should carry
ourselves with good decorum. Another member said, what do you think about that,
Chris nuts? Really? I think nuts to that? Really? Yeah,
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at see Pelosi tearing the state of the Union in half, you had people
refusing to Democrats refuse to stand in applaud for the highest rate of black employment
that the United States has seen in modern times. No, it's stupid,
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Are you following the recall Charles Allen stuff here in DC? Yes?
I believe. I donated to the recall Charles Allan campaign. So you kind
of think. You look around DC and this is a city that probably peaked
in twenty nineteen. It was really nice. Everything was moving in the right
direction. Crime was down, gentrification projects, we're moving forward. There are
some areas of the city that were seriously neglected, but they've been they were
working on it. Everything was moving in the right direction. And everything is
completely backslided to the point right now where we've got a higher crime rate than
Baltimore, which is insane. I am shocks to hear. It was still
incredibly high real estate values, unlike Baltimore. We could buy a mansion for
less money than it takes to furnish it. Well. I was just talking
to someone about that yesterday. In fact, there's some beautiful homes in Baltimore.
The problem is here in Baltimore. But now we're in DC and the
recall Charles Allen efforts brought out a lot of Republicans, a lot of Democrats,
a lot of folks who are working from all sides of the aisle on
this thing. In the vitriol from local activists on Twitter, the local hill
Is Home account posting people's home addresses who had these signs out front, and
it's kind of shocking because I was out there. I don't know what for
some reason, I was traveling for work, so I was on Twitter,
which is like a dark place to be in life, yes, and were
responding to some of these people who were saying, what's wrong with DC,
and well, my family got run out, there's a kid was shot on
my block. There was thirty shots fired over the weekend. Last weekend,
there were thirty shots f all like within the two block radius on Independence Avenue
in Washington, DC, the nation's capital, a walk from the Capitol,
and they're all just saying that, they're basically saying that I'm an awful person
for noticing this, and how dare I like the American left here in d
C is viciously, viciously defending rot and decay, yes, and murder and
anti social activity, like defending it, like jealously defending the way if somebody
they were acting like if someone had insulted my wife on Twitter completely unjustly,
was how they were defending crime and decay an urban blight, and uh man,
I'm just sick of all this talk like, oh, we just need
to bring America together. No, screw them, like, screw them all.
This actually reminds me a lot of the controversy that swirled around Tucker last
week, when well, in the last couple of weeks, Tucker created controversy.
It sounds a news cursed on Twitter today, I saw that it was
yesterday, Actually was yesterday. I saw it this morn, So yeah,
I was kind of surprised by that. Actually, but Eddie WOWI ed our
colleague Eddy just had some sort of video playing. I don't know what it
was, but I assumed that it was Tucker probably anyway. But so the
controversy swirling around Tucker where what he was saying in the Moscow subway station was
this is a country that doesn't have the resources of our own. And by
the way, he agreed with Lex Friedman that he probably could have said it
better, and I agree with that very strongly. I think the messaging could
have been different, it could have been better. But he was saying,
this is a country that doesn't have the resources our own, and they have
beautiful, clean subway stations, like we can do both. And he repeatedly
said to Lex Freedman, like I know that because I've seen it. I
lived in the country when we did have both. But somewhere along the way
we decided we didn't want both. That it was the cost of freedom,
the literal price of freedom, as John's Stewart said, to have urine soaked
public transportation cities that are dirty and disgusting. That's the little price of freedom.
And it's a decision we made. Yeah, it's conscious. It's a
caustious decision. Our city is not going through the Great Depression, it's comitting
suicide. These are active policies that were put forward by people like Charles Allen
to destroy the city, and they're viciously defending it. And it's not spreading
equity, it's spreading harm. Well, no, it is. It is
spreading equity right like it's it's spreading. What it's trying to do is bring
everybody except the very, very very tippy top into It reminds me of this
is a tangent. It reminds me of what they did to us in high
school when they changed the grading system some progressive teachers at my public school district
in suburban kind of suburban Milwaukee, I don't even know. But in Waukeshall,
Wisconsin, we'll just leave it at that, Waukesha, the County of
Waukesha. It took a long time to get to. I'm still not even
there really, Waukershaw County, they tried a new grading system that basically moved
everybody into the middle. So it was a way to avoid strategymation. Yes,
it was a way to avoid stratification, so you were failing less and
rewarding less, and the grading was basically just concentrating everyone in the middle.
And it really sucked. Nobody liked it, nobody was happy with it.
I know that that's happened in different places around the country too. Listeners probably
have had experiences with that, But it's sort of the same philosophy of what's
happening economically, it's like we will protect although with one caveat, which is
that they're going to protect the very, very wealthy, and that's how you
end up with oligarchy. And DC's kind of got that. DC's got a
lot more tension than most American cities do, a lot of racial tension in
this city in the first place, because there is basically permanent black underclass in
DC with a completely transient white population that is come from the ivy leagues and
from this and that who move here and you know, by their NAT's cap
and get a million dollar house in the Hill, and like, there's just
not a lot of mixing. It's not like a Nashville or some other cities
where people all grow up together. People are from the city. Well,
one thing, back to the point about decorum. You say, we live
in a post decorum country, and I think that's very interesting. Here's Tim
Burchett talking to the Hill. He said about heckling Biden. Will they do
it? Somebody asked me that earlier, and I said, does the Baptist
Church get a bus? Of course they will, because he's going to say
some very offensive things. He's gonna attack us. I think we just need
to try to be a little classy consider where we're at. Let the other
side do that. You know, they did it to Trump and nobody said
boo. But when we do it, we're going to get made an example
of it. Really interesting there where he says, of course they will quote
because he's gonna say some very offensive things. Yeah, right, right,
And I guess Chris, you've been covering Zis yes, right, will remember
the speech in Philadelphia? Yeah, I do. I mean basically opening that
ultra maga umbrella and putting all of the deplorables under it. I mean saying
that people's people deserve to be surveilled people, I mean Catholic churches on his
watch, and the FBI even like that, aside the demonization of fellow Americans
side, just when you have the reality of a completely it seems like it
even seems strange to be going through these motions and asking about the decorum,
but like going through the motion of the State of the Union treating it like
a totally normal quote unquote reset in an election year, it's just bizarre.
I mean, we've had so many what millions of people just walk into the
country who will be here in all like worldhood and meanwhile they're purp walking a
blazer reporter in an orange schumpsuit. Definitely, we have people who will be
here indefinitely, living in the shadows, in debt to cartels. It's a
nightmare. And this is to the tune of millions of people on his watch.
We have a hot war in the Middle East, we have a hot
war in Ukraine. It's not about to get better, by the way in
the Middle East, and it's not about to get better in Ukraine. It
just and I know we've had obviously very difficult moments in State of the Union
addresses before, but Chris, I mean, there's something unprecedented. I think
about living in a country where this is a president who believes that young children
should be able to pursue changes to their biological sex, who has allowed millions
of people to walk in with very little criticism from the media until right now.
And that will be an issue in the United States in terms of security.
I mean, you saw the sixty minutes footage of Chinese nationals literally flooding
through the wall in certain sections, like going through what of the wall,
the barbed wire coming. I mean, it's just it feels strange. Yeah,
you're gonna watch. I'm gonna watch. You have to watch. Yeah,
yeah, Sarah wants to do a dry night tonight. That's gonna be
tough. Oh yeah, during the scene. Did you watch Super Tuesday?
I did. I didn't watch it. I didn't watch a second of it,
not one really second. I mean the coverage. Well, you saw
Rachel Matdow, so you did watch that. I saw that on the internet
the next morning, Jensaki and Rachel Mattow and Joy and Reid laughing. Because
Virginia shares a border with West Virginia. That's why people are concerned about immigration.
Those toothless West Virginians. They are just affecting Virginians to be xenophobic.
I did watch The Bachelor. Oh yeah, Maria, that was a surprise.
Well, don't spoil it for people who didn't watch The bachel on Monday.
Don't do that. Four days later, I listen. I don't watch
The Bachelor. I watched like one season, like ten years ago, because
my roommates at the time wanted me to watch it. But I'm pretty sure
a lot of people DVR it or watch it on streamers like on the weekends.
Big mistake, big misske. He can't be doing that. The podcast,
the Twitter spoils it. The podcast, the Twitter, So we should
address Do you know who's giving the Republican response? Some woman? Yeah?
Do you know who it is? Now? It's Katie Britt. Chris's face
right now is totally blank. Longtime staffer to, longtime staffer to Richard Shelby
of Alabama. Oh yeah, the future of the Republican Party is Richard Shelby
staffers. Is she in Congress from one? Wait, I'm actually surprised that
you don't have a strong opinion on Katie Britt. Nope. So she's first
term Republican center from Alabama. She was Richard Richard Shelby's chief of staff for
a very long time. Shelby was a longtime Democrat turned Republican as the South
started to sort of shift, and was basically one of the most centrist,
one of the most moderate Republicans that you could imagine, and by the Senate
standards. So that's really saying something and has been really remade. Obviously,
she's running, and she was running in Alabama, and you know that's a
state right now that's very different from when Richard Shelby initially ran so and ran
over the course of his career. So a maga firebrand, I mean,
I think was the way that she was branded by her campaign. She's very
smart by her campaign by the Republican Party. So it's no surprise at all
that they chose her to deliver the response. They really want her to look
like the face of the Republican Party her husband played for. I'm going to
get this wrong or Alabama listeners are going to kill me. It was either
Forbama or Auburn. I forget which one. Alabama listeners are going to go
nuts. But anyway, all this is to say Katie Britt is I don't
want to cast dis versions here because I also don't think we've seen quite enough
of her as a senator. Oh that is this of her? You have
seen none? I'm just wondering, team coach. Yeah, yeah, how
substantive? Same? How how substantive? Uh? The policy part of the
Katie Britt is meaning on conservative sort of priorities as opposed to the sort of
old school Chamber of Commerce priorities that I think Richard Shelby like very much represented.
She's she's young, she's very pretty, so I get why Republicans are
going with her. She's she's articulate. She sounds great when she talks.
I sound like Joe Biden talking about Barack Obama. What did he say?
Was articulate? Oh? Was so bad? So bad? Harry Reid had
some great quotes to like, he's clean, He's clean. Yeah he did.
I forgot that in peace. So anyway, that's the Republican response to
the say the Union or watching the Tucker response. The Tucker reponse is live.
Yes, we watched it. It was a weird clip they posted.
But he's gonna be live, And you know, I'm actually really excited about
that because I'm glad that Tucker took the time he needed to not have to
answer to his Fox overlords and just fill every single show with like forty five
second interviews with different personalities. But it's much better now to actually see him
re engaging in some of the news of the day. And he just opened
a beer. That's what everyone heard. Okay, it's a soda water.
He wants everyone to know it's not a beer, it's a soda water.
Although it's pretty, he's a light. It's a bad life. I'd like
to see him re engaging. I mean Republicans have kind of Republican politicians have
completely lost what they're supposed to think. Without Tucker, they're yelling at them.
Yea, yeah, that's good. I mean, don't believe the bs.
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Britain, a statement, the Republican Party is the party of hardworking parents and
families. I'm looking forward to putting this critical perspective front and center. There's
no doubt that President Bidensfield presidency has made America weaker and more vulnerable at every
turn. At this decisive moment in our country's history, it's time for the
next generation to step up and preserve the American dream for our children and our
grandchildren. I will say saying the Republican Party is the party of hard working
parents and families, same as opposed to the evil already of college educated white
women trying to destroy the West. I think that's actually saying parents and families.
I think actually is good messaging. Yeah, I agree, And I
understand where Mike Johnson is coming from on the question of decorum, because this
is I don't know if I brought this up on the show when you were
here or not, but Sam Goodldeg is a lobbyist and did a really interesting
actually report showing that the lowest income districts have people associated with the populist caucuses,
whether it's Justice Democrats or the Freedom Caucus. The highest income caucuses,
you know, the districts are on average or higher income, are like the
moderate no labels caucuses, the you know, let's all work this out type
of caucuses. But all that is to say, you know, typically you
see Freedom Caucus or on the left like Justice Stems or even but that's not
even true, because Nancy Pelosi herself what tore up the freaking speech, did
her little sarcastic clap and was applauded all over the media for and was treated
not like she had been breaching to corum. And that's where you get Freedom
Caucus members hooping and hollering, or ex Freedom Caucus members or adjacent an annoying
soccer mom screaming at the ref. Yeah, and so it's like they're channeling
something that's really real. I don't disagree with that. I also think Tim
Burchett is right that the rules are different for Republicans, and uh, you
know, if if in an election year you want to look like you're better
than Democrats, maybe there's something to that. I don't know. I don't
have a hard position in the argument, because on the one hand, I
think the House of Representatives should be representative, and I think if you represent
a district that you know is being flooded to the point of daily danger on
the border in Texas, maybe you do want to hoop and holler. I
mean, I want to see some hoop and holler. I can tell you
do You're in You're halfway in a track. I want to see senators fighting
on the floor of the US Senate with knes. I want to, you
know, make America great. Do you want that as old men just weigh
on on each other with the canes? Yeah, that happened on the floora
Senate. No, I know, but you want us to go back to
the cane whaling, just beating on each other like it like every every once,
every once in a while, like a South Korean Senate brawl will just
erupted and go viral, just like eighty guys just wailing on each other when
men were men. No good stuff, Well, actually there is. I've
been watching Canadian Parliament clips because my YouTube algorithm has been delivering them to me,
which sounds like three minutes of hell. But actually my algorithms are so
screwed up to because I watched to completion this video of these very fat women
touring Disney World and giving advice like this came up in my algarithm like a
month ago. Parks. Yeah, talking about how which restaurants have have chairs
that don't have arms, like and I afford it. It's like twenty people.
It's like the funniest thing I've ever seen, and now it is Instagram
thinks that I'm just like really interested in fat content, like just and also
it's like it's like very fat people dancing. And also the worst thing is
Instagram thinks sound like a Disney adult. Yes, I get a lot of
Disney content. Now I'm like no, no, no, no no,
I just thought that was funny. This is one hundred percent your fault because
I was scrolling Instagram like three days ago and plus sized parks came up and
I immediately sent it to people, being like, this is one of the
saddest things I have ever seen. And the one game the whole waye there,
Sarah's like you're an awful person. The one thing that actually I was
like, they're they're looking for restaurants that have chairs without arms, Like that
really struck me, Like this is not this is not worth but this is
not worth having to think down to the restaurants with chairs, like, don't
normalize this, because that is making people's lives miserable, just blasting around Disney
World, Like there's so many obvious reasons that you know being sick is bad,
but even the less obvious ones like which chairs you consider this is this
is not worth normalizing. I don't know, I got like it's just like
really out of fashion right now. But I just kind of have this attitude
that like, extremely fat people are funny. But that's not new. Yeah,
that's as old as it gets. That's supposed to do anymore, not
supposed to like you're not supposed to get a tuba and like follow the fact
and the grocery around them boom boom. Because it's stigma and stigma it needs
to be combatd at every turn. Unless it's stigmatizing perfectly normal Christian beliefs,
then stigma is exactly the culture of shame. It's just for different things we
do. We do have a culture of shame. All right, Christopher Bedford,
you deserve shame and a beer. I want to grab one of those
beers that I got. Okay, you're very polarizing with the listenership. You
know that, right, you know that. No. I assume that there's
people who love me and people who fear how much they love me. They
is two camps. You're one or the other. All right, Christopher Bedford,
thank you so much for stopping by today's edition of Federal Austradio Hour.
Thanks for having me. You are so welcomed. I already checked out.
Sorry, okay, we'll be back soon with more. Until then, be
lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray.