We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm em Elijah Shensky,
culture editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the
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of our website as well. I'm joined from a very smoggy district of Columbia
with Christopher Bedford, Executive editor over at the Common Sense Society. Chris,
welcome. It's a big blace, Oh big b that's right, and that
reminds me actually shout out to listener Gregory that if you do have questions,
concerns, fair enough, comments, whatever, send them to radio at the
Federalist dot com. And since it's summer and Chris is a fairly laid back
guy in the summer, he's wearing a polo right now, drinking water,
not rum like he was a couple of weeks ago, we'll do a little
ask Me Anything episode in a couple of weeks. So go ahead and shoot
your questions, comments, especially your concerns, over to radio at the Federalist
dot Com. We'll get them answered. I we're a polo in the Winner
from New England. Yes, that's right, Chris. Uh. This is
the sort of way that we do these podcasts. Sit down in these great
leather chairs that we have at the Federalist HQ and just say, hey,
what do you want to talk about? And Chris said, you wanted to
talk about the orange smog that is enveloping the East coast of the United States
of America. We pro smog. Um, I'm pro. I'm pro the
smell of the smog. It smells like a campfire. It's so much I
can't fire, you can't quite get away from right, and that wants to
kill you. The people of California have got to be just kind of rolling
their eyes at this, because you've been at the Santa Barbara drying fire season
and you feel like you've got your real sick by day two. It's absolutely
awful. This is significantly better that I'm been driving with my windows down,
although this morning I started to get a little more painful. It's funny that
the masks are back, truly they are. Yeah. One of my friend's
clients, she's bragging sheets. She went down, she got a mask,
and then she went back to get some more masks for her mother. Taking
care of your elderly mother. Fine, by then the mask price had doubled.
There's another I mean, there's another run on the masks. It's funny,
though, I wonder because now we're sitting here in Capitol Hill and all
these old staffers are going by with their masks on and everything. How many
of them didn't We're like, hey, everything's fine in these Palestine go back
to your homes. That toxic smell in the air, They're like, and
they're had an absolute fit and a panic over some burning trees from Canada.
Yeah, and it's all being tied into the global warming climate change narrative whatever
they decide to call it on a given day. But in California, it's
kind of an interesting comparison because California really has only itself to blame. It
has the chronism of PGNI, it has the stirred idiotic attempt to marry cronyism
with environmentalism wachronism. Environmental is more of the same thing, well, not
in theory but in practice. In reality, true environmentalism has never been tried.
These people make billions, Like I've always kind of giggled. The Republican
governors go down for like accepting Rolox watches or like getting perks at the club,
Like that's their kind of bribery. I mean, Democrats strike billion dollar
deals. I mean, have you seen the Sarah Bedford just wrote about this
cut my eye. But the changing to the electric school bus fleetes? Oh
yeah, one of the schools don't have enough drivers to take to drive all
their buses. And now a lot of these school districts across the country are
getting twice as many electric buses as they had diesel buses, which means that
they just sit and rot because they don't actually need them. But somebody,
somebody, a little some electric school bus company just made a lot of money.
Oh it's a racket. Here's I mean. I know it's not Christmas
time, and it's not the airing of the grievances, But why don't school
buses have seat belts? And why are we spending money on electric school buses
and putting on seat belts on the school buses. I only say because I
was having this conversation recently for some unknown reason, but with a school child.
No, but I look back and I'm like, it was incredibly dangerous
to be just barreling through, you know, the streets of Wisconsin with kids
just hopped up on sugar, bopping around the bus, no seat belts.
This is part of the American Why there was a kid on my school bus
who threw himself out the window when the bus was stopped. Was it was
awesome? That came must something famous forever. Yeah, it just ram well,
the school bus route was delayed quite a after that. The bus driver
really had to put the screws and turn the screws to us. You see
a lot of those yellow slips or pink slips. Yeah, bus driver Bob,
who was a great guy with an incredible amount of patience, but sometimes
he would lose it. And my gosh, I mean just being driving a
car. We've got like three or four kids in it. I can't imagine
Yeah, driving it with like thirty kids. You're not allowed to spank.
No, it's bizarre. And so why don't they Why aren't they in seatbelts?
I don't know. But all that is to say, the smog reminds
me of one of I think the best explanations for why the media is so
messed up, which is if you think of when it's snowing in New York
City. There's a blizzard in New York City. Suddenly the blizzard is national
news everywhere. It's like winter weather has taken a turn. And the people
in Minnesota are like, yeah, man, this is like our fifth blizzard
of being like what are you talking about? And it's a little self absorbed.
Yeah, with the smog. It's funny, how because in New York
City, actually it's actually worse than it is here in DC. The pictures
are unbelievable, although Chris has said he was crossing Memorial Bridge coming from Virginia
and you could barely see the outlines the National Mall, the Lincoln Memorial,
the Washington Monument be barely. They were almost invisible this morning over the river,
right. I almost I'm going to drive out there just to see that
because it sounds pretty incredible. Actually, well, the sun is going to
keep on burning it off. We've been getting there. I think up north
from the pictures I've seen, the sun is still just really just a bright
orange ball like in the distance it's but here it's hot enough, it's been
burning it off. It's I mean, I heard that it was supposed to
burn off by this weekend. But we'll see, we'll see. Anyways,
the point is it's just funny how little care goes into actual like environmental disasters
or wildfires or tornadoes or the things around the country. But man, this
is topic number one. I mean, we're talking about it. We're talking
about it. Well, this is one of the I think interesting things about
the daily media conversation. It's gonna be like, really thirty thousand foot And
remember when Elon went on Rogan Show and smoked a joint and that became a
meme. That's what I'm doing right now. I'm channeling Elon taking a puff
but gonna drop no, no, no, But but it is something we
lose complete perspective, and I think especially at for instance, I saw an
axeos today, a graphic about how the summer is getting warmer all over the
country, and it had little orange squares yellow squares, and I looked at
the fine print. You know, if it was yellow, it was a
less severe warming over the course of X years, and if it was closer
to red, it was more severe warming in that region of the country.
And I looked at the fine print and it was only since nineteen seventy.
It was from nineteen seventy to twenty twenty two, and it's like, do
you realize the Earth is so much older than and you're a little like,
fifty year warm trend has basically nothing to do with this broader narrative that you're
trying to tie it into. It's a useless piece of information unless you're looking
at it over the course of you know, it's a bigger sign of global
warming than a number of controlled blazes getting out of control in Canada this week.
There you go, it's like a variant. It's an amazing My favorite
global warming media clip of all time. I was still a waiter old glory
resting piece barbecue joint and that's where I went for my twenty first birthday.
Good for you. The Badges were playing. We were watching the the earthquake
that set off the Tudle wave in Japan. Yes, and that took out
the nuclear actor and it was freaky. We were watching it in live time
for months. Yeah, we were watching it live as the helicopters above filming,
and you were seeing people trying to drive out of the way, and
like we were watching this real life massacre. Is awful. And one of
the reporters goes, of course, we'll see incidents like this increase as Global
Woman continues. And I'm sitting there going, I'm not going to say that.
The word I use it's a earthquake. Yeah, what do you?
And no one challenged them. No one was like, what are you?
What are you talking about? How stupid is that? Um? Now,
I guess we're living in the smog. This is our new realities, is
Global Woman. And maybe he's think about what's gonna happen when the elstone goes
off. It's gonna be awesome. That's coming up, isn't it. It's
positively next century or something comes soon enough. We're not scientists. We are,
well in some ways we are. We are scientists. We're political scientists.
But I see they think speaking of Actually, I got the message this
morning. You should be wearing a mask, according to experts, and I
thought, fool me once, fool me once the dump saying Chris is gonna
start like cleaning his best to side of things like installing installation. I've already
done that. Breathe it all in. I've already done that. If if
I have that gene where you get cancer, from inhale and asbestos that I'm
going to get it because I didn't. I didn't learn about that until,
like I've already cleared a bunch of asbestos in the old house. But the
funny thing is, like you're wearing a mask because the sky is filled with
smoke. It's like a significantly better reason to wear masks or during COVID.
But but I'm still not going to do it, because I'm definitely not gonna
do that, Like I had to do that so much, I refuse now.
No I a bubonic plague could be sweeping through DC, and I'd be
like, I'm not listening to that fauci jerk again. No shot, No
I passed. I passed a dog park on the way here, where all
of the people take their like massive dogs that live in studio apartments just to
feel like a dog for ten minutes a day. And I was thinking about
this as I was watching all of these you know, urban libs with their
masks on, just like I think they might be right this time, But
you're not gonna see me in one of those things. The phrase and ninety
five is permanently out of my book O Commie face Diaper off your face.
Yeah, it doesn't matter what's going. Yeah, if you're clearing asbestos,
you're not wearing a mask anymore, because we know what that means. When
John Nuto, Davidson and I had to travel through before the twenty twenty elections,
we were in Minneapolis, I think, and actually we just got in
those constant maybe Okay, anyways, we're leaving a bar. We had to
wear a mask inside. As we're leaving the bar, t and I said,
oh, make sure you take that off. Of course we're going to
take it off so people will yell at you. And I walked outside at
one time and I'd forgotten to take it off right away, and some woman
screams, get that commie diaper off your face, And I was like,
it was so refreshing. It must have been in a good bar to be
No, it's just like a random, nice area I was. I pulled
off the masks, and of course then she smiled and said thank you,
And it was the exact opposite of everything you get in DC. Put on
your mask. Yeah, it's I've been watching a season of TV that was
taped. Also, Molly and David do a weekly podcast called You're Wrong on
Wednesdays where they share what they've watched on television. And I was thinking,
well, Chris and I could do that, and then I thought, oh
no, no, I don't want to hear what Chris is watching on television.
I'm reading the book right now called In the Heart of the Heart of
Europe. Yeah, it's about five hundred pages on the Holy Roman Empire.
We can talk about that. Yeah, this is where I was afraid that
I actually heard from someone the other day. I forget in what context.
It was out of absolutely nowhere, someone just being like, hey, let's
talk about the Thirty Years War. And I was like, oh boy,
this is a podcast joke. Someone someone's trolling me because they take Bedford's side
and the Thirty Years War. It's because it's becoming a meta thirty Years War
of its own. We're about three years into the war over your love of
the thirties future. All right, So moving right along. Did you see
everything that went down this week with Chris Christy? Did you see that maybe
the former president's memes? Oh? Yeah, and it was funny because incredible.
So Sarah had gone on to do a segment with Cavudo. Cavudo is
super anti fat shaming. Cavudo also thinks he's fat, which is kind of
crazy, Like he's very self deprecating. He's like, as a fat person,
I'm sitting there being like, you're not. You're like one third the
size of the average grocery store shopper. But but this whole segment, are
people gonna make Chris Christie's weight an issue? And Sarah's probably was? I
mean they probably shouldn't. I mean, he's like, it doesn't really make
much sense. But Donald Trump, so we absolutely will. Roger Roger Stone
coming out there and being like Chris Christie should run, No, like seriously,
not for office, he should run. And then Trump's buffet, I
mean, I mean it's stupid. The funny thing is this is a Trump
is so great at they're a comparable size. It's true. So Donald Trump
is not a string bo string being. He's a big dude. He just
wears a big blue coat. Yeah, he knows how to hide it.
Yeah when you see him like a golfing in a white polo, he carries
it well well, I mean I mean he did, he does, and
it makes sense obviously, like sitting down and eating his McDonald's diet is like
that Chris Christie buys for him. Wasn't that like a It's like a Maggie
Haberman report from like twenty him that he made. He'd like emasculated Chris Christie
by making him pick up as McDonald's for him. So, but eating eating
donald RUMs McDonald's diet is like the journalistic equivalent of drinking Churchill's daily in tank,
Like somebody does it have a couple years, Like I'm gonna drink as
much as Churchill did in the day and they just end up wasted and sad
and the story is kind of stilly. Yeah, that's it. I feel
like the same thing would happen from ms McDonald's. So I choose your vices.
It's fine. I just it was obvious it was going to come back.
Here's a question, who does that convince? Like if you look at
nineteenth century and early twentieth century circus freaks, people paid money to see the
fat man and they are smaller than the average person squeezing by you on your
airplane. Yeah, it's wild like America. So Chris Donald Trump goes out
there and calls him fat share like it's people are gonna laugh, But it's
not going to change the voters in Iowa, New Hampshire. These aren't exactly
like high gym attending places. I mean, I don't think Trump is worried
about changing Heartsea mionds in Iowa and Hampshire when it comes well, when it
comes to Chris Christie, I don't think he's genuinely threatened by um. Like
the electoral prospects of Chris Christie. No, Christie went in on Jared Kushner
and Ivanka Trump for like this is in his He does a rollout in New
Hampshire. I think it was on Tuesday night where I compared it to like
it was like watching a middle school theater teacher. He was being he was
it was sad. It was like he was this eighties hair metal band where
everyone's you know, now seventy five years old and still trying to make the
magic happen on you know, county fair tours and he gets in you know,
voters faces like he was, you know, like it was twenty ten
again or two thousand and nine or wherever he first, you know, sort
of virul His chance to run was in twenty twelve, Yeah, and he
didn't. Yeah, he waited his turn. This is like the warning to
Ron De Santis. Like Chris Christie was fresh and people liked him, and
instead he stepped aside and waited his turn, and then he ran. A
couple of years later, he was amired in corruption. His act had gotten
had gotten old, Yeah, really old, just yelling at people. And
I mean the time it's just crossed. For me was that awesome video of
him was holding an ice cream cone in the boardwalk and yelling at some tourists
who was just amazing. It's like, it's funny hed the oh yeah forclosures.
Yeah, so its time had passed. I think you know the person
that Donald Trump should be most worried about. It's Mike Pence. Well so,
Mike Pence. Within twenty four hours of Christie's announcement, Mike Pence rolled
out his twenty twenty four campaign, which everyone obviously knew was happening. This
last weekend really did feel like the kickoff to the twenty twenty four president jackh
logo looks more fresh, Mike pence Is logo. You know, it looks
it actually kind of reminds me of the Reagan seventy six, you know what
I'm talking about. The Regan seventy six. It looks small, sim I'll
google it. Well we talk, I mean, and and his his line
oaths kept, that's the Pence line. He kept his oath. Yeah,
it's just I don't understand the Republican Party. I get what Chris Chris he's
doing. It's he's just going to be a human torpedo for Donald Trump.
That's it's a comic cause. It's a comic cause mission. And so that's
why he's going in on Kusher and Ivanka corruption with the Saudis. And I
just actually do find that interesting because no other candidate in the race is going
to attack Trump from the sort of like corruption line, which is one place
where if the rest of the candidates weren't so such swamp creatures, Trump would
actually be vulnerable. But that's always been baked into the Trump cake, right
like he knows, like he says, I alone can fix it, like
he knows. This is the first time ever, so he's got a six
year headstart on every other candidate, effectively as being the line in the zoo.
Now for the first time, he's got a sitting governor who's in the
same political vein as he is. Who's going to be coming at him from
the right, and so far Trump's defenses of himself are and that is kind
of look at the Reagan logo, thank you. So far, Trump's attacks
back on Christie have on DeSantis have been, hey, your anti abortion and
you opened up Florida during COVID. Cuomo did a better job, which is
like ridiculous attacks. So I wonder how that we're ask going to go.
And then you've got Chris Christie coming in and be like, yeah, I
know, you came to drain the swamp, and then you put Christiernavanka in
charge of a bunch of things. Yeah, I mean they were, they
were impressively. Tillerson, yeah, oh my gosh. They Jared was annoyingly
not annoyingly surprisingly effective on some of the Middle East deals that he was able
to pull off, which really surprised me. But in general, I mean
they him and Chris Christie were just going back and forth and kind of their
corrupt politics. Christie had had a transition team ready to go, and Jared
came in and scrambled the whole thing and got rid of it. And we
saw, we saw the effects. I mean, I was willing maybe to
believe, Okay, Chris Christie had stocked this with a bunch of bushy people
who are going to undermine the Trump agenda. But we saw the Trump administration
played up for four years. It was a bunch of bushy people trying to
undermine the Trump agenda, mixed with a rotating cast of television characters who would
like flame in and flame out. It was. It's amazing how much that
administration accomplished given how corrupt and stupid it was. Imagine if it had been
like imagine, if he'd had like the bush level competence people on his team,
this one would have steam rolled. They would they would have really more
more, They would have transformed America a great deal more than they already did.
But I think that's really the desantist argument. And what's interesting to me
is that you don't see a similar argument. I don't know ifs interesting is
the right word, because it's not surprising, but I mean, I think
you can make that argument in theory as as Mike Penn, s Nicky Haley,
and Tim Scott. Mike Pence's argument is I did in January six you
guys, yeah, he has been That's his argument, Like I didn't.
I was there, but I didn't do it well. He both kept.
He gave more money to your creed. He kept more money. I was
kept. He came out and yeah, his line is basically like, I
think we accomplished a lot. But the time I'm paraphrasing him, but it's
it's a different moment, and a different moment requires a different leader. That's
like the message that he rolled out and Vane the Middle East was kept.
And in all seriousness, though I really don't. I mean, I do
understand it, because if you're not willing to um ideologically financially commit to the
agenda of like a drain, a genuine drain the swamp adrenda meaning like schedule
F like make it easier to get all all of these to trim the actually
trim the bureaucracy. Um, I shouldn't say trim, I should say what's
the what's a better word like shatter? Yeah, if you're not willing to
immediately take those kinds of steps, and that's what I think. We talked
about this a little bit last week, Like the conservative movement in DC looks
at the Trump administration and said, if the conservative movement had handed this man
a blueprint like Leonard Leo did what judges, but like a blueprint for the
executive branch because he's just brash. Donald Trump he like what could have happened,
like what could have been? And Ronda Santis, I think is running
on that type of vision. And I think Donald Trump when he you know,
when he's reading speeches that have been written for him, um has that
like level of awareness that that's what would need to happen immediately and another administration.
But it's honestly mystifying to me that Tim Scott, Nicky Haley and Mike
Pence. I'm probably forgetting someone too, but I mean, it's not it's
not surprising, it's not unexpected, but there really isn't opening for someone to
It doesn't make any sense that we're talking about the CIA interfering in the presidential
election, as Sean Davis reported for US by facilitating signatures on that letter,
the Hunter Biden Laptop is disinformation letter. They all knew that it was false.
It doesn't make any sense to me that you're coming out here and just
being like, hey, it's twenty twelve. We can smile and win people's
hearts and minds and just keep on chugging, like what, it's insane.
Yeah. I was having a discussion with somebody yesterday who follows politics pretty closely
I think mortal rotarian than I am, but said that they were they were
actually kind of thinking they're it's going to vote for Tim Scott that because he
had done so well on the view, He's answered a lot of questions.
He says he was fabulous. Yeah, he did. He did a great
job. And I said, but listen, Tim Scott is a great messenger.
Tim Scott someone who want to be maybe out there, maybe as a
vice president for sure, someone who can take these issues on in a society
where you're only allowed to speak to certain issues if you're black, or if
you're a woman, or if you're not allowed to talk about it otherwise.
He's a great person and he's and he's shown some cards to that. Like
what what big fights? What what massive fights have ever seen him take part
in? Like what's his big legislative achievement? It's people out of prisons,
opportunities, arms and letting people out of prison. How would I wonder how
you feel about that? And here's a question, like Tim Scott, great
leader of a Free America. Sure, but it's Tim Scott, the wartime
conciery that you want. Is Tim Scott the guy who's gonna like, we're
firing every general who's over three stars, We're leaving them of duty and changing
the Pentagon completely? In any political promotions right now, is he going to
be the guy who says we're cutting into this breacracy? Is he gonna Is
he gonna be the guy who says, no, I'm getting rid of your
FBI leadership or DC office. There's no way he's that dude. So or
stop transing the kids, like, let's dismantle the Department of Education. Yeah,
and you're under your We're going to go after the insurance companies that back
this, and we're gonna go after the doctors that do these surgeries. We're
gonna launch investigations like that angry guy over at the Daily wiretist did, Matt
Walsh. We're gonna just have a book producer call up and get twenty two
minutes to get approved for having their testicles removed into surgery. Yep, twenty
two minutes. They said. We're gonna like, Okay, we're gonna start
doing cold calls around the country, and we're gonna hold doctors accountable, were
gonna hold insurance companies accountable. We're going to sue people, We're gonna put
people in prison. Jim Scuts not that dude. I don't think Donald Trump
is either, but he is on a host of other issues, Like I
kind of think the Santus is. The sants totally is. And I want
to look at the Vivic Ramaswamy Ramaswamy who's like, oh, I just don't
like I agree with the Sanus, but I don't like his book bands,
which is a totally stupid phrase to use, idiot and say, Okay,
what is your plan for when teachers are handing pennography to children? Yep?
What's your plan? Yep? I don't want to band books? Why not?
Yep, We're not banning them. You just can't give him the children.
What's your what's your plan for teachers lying to children about their gender and
spreading mental illness? What's your what's your idela for that is keeping Playboy out
of middle school library as a book band? Remotely of some of this stuff
was or as like intentionally harmful, remember their instruction manuals. They're still Playboy
from my friend's dad. Of course it was fine. But then like my
other friend's dad was a wild man. He had like the hustler and the
penthouse stuff was gross. We were like twelve, like, oh my gosh,
this is awful. That is the worst, and I swore off women
forever after them. Yes, yes, but no, this is like Mike
Penn, Snicky Hilly Tim Scott are all running in like the carpool lane,
thinking that if they are mild mannered enough, they're all in the carpool lane.
If they're if they're mild mannered enough. Um and Donald Trump, you
know, gets kamikaze by Chris Christie and the Stanzas isn't as strong as people
think he is, then they'll like. But it's it's an insane strategy because
you're all splitting this same demographic. None of you are going to peel any
of those voters away from Donald Trump. All on the sane none of them
are on the popular slag except for Trump and ascentis or all on the donor
lanes, which makes me wandered, Like cool Chris, Chris, the awesome
plan. Can you get on the debate stage or are you gonna be at
the kids table. Well last week it was anst you had to be pulling
on what an average of one percent to get on the debate stage one forty
thousand different donors. I guess it's doable. Not the highest threshold, no,
yeah, so, And that's fine, by the way, because the
Democrats are under they're in real trouble because they won't for instance, let RFK
Junior and Marian Williamson debate Joe Biden and now you which is funny because,
by the way, RFK Junior is twenty percent. Yes, so's he's pulling
as well against Biden, as to Santus is against Trump and no one must
talking about it. And he's done it entirely with podcasts. You've got no
advercause it at all, and he could barely even speak, and he's still
done it with podcasts. So this is why I actually think the Republican's low
threshold, like actually rethinking it. I don't think it's the dumbest thing in
the world, because the appearance of being a gatekeeper has done so much more
harms to the DNC than they even realize it has given, and so much
fodder to Marion Williamson, Bernie Sanders M RFK Junior. Now, over the
course of years, it has stewed so much distrust and voters with voters that
you like they now have. This was also an Axios this morning. UM.
I think it's David Sachs, one of the other guys from all In
people in Silicon Valley, putting a ton of money behind RFK Junior as one
of the Allen guys smash the technocrats to make to force a debate, like
it's not even that they necessarily want RFK ju Neied to be president. They
have so much money they're putting it behind him to force the DNC to have
Joe Biden debate RFK Jr. Marion Williamson and yeah, moderated, but then
you maybe have the possibility that Biden looks so weak that and I don't know
if this is what they're thinking, but it's just a theory that you know,
Gavin Newsome or someone else jumps in um late and after that first debate,
if if Biden can't make his way through it, which he can because
they you know, hop them up on stuff like somehow it all works out
for an hour and then he goes back to bed. M that's I mean,
that's a the RNC should be glad that it's not facing a situation like
that at the very least. Yeah, I mean, and it will be
more interesting. I'm looking forward to the melee I'm looking at. I mean,
the bad news is the next president in the States is probably not going
to save the country. But the good news is, like the next presidented
States couldn't save the country almost they'd have to, they'd have to take some
they'd have to really kind of change the parameters of the job and do things
that are that everyone will call him precedented in order to really have any kind
of impact. And even then, who knows, because the left keeps on
marching out, what are they going to do about the smog? Has anyone
else round to Santis in Vay, Canada? Okay? So actually is it
the worst idea? My cousin who's now in Poland this military base for to
kind of Russia, what was sent to and he's in the army, was
in Canada a few years ago to help put their firefighters. Like we did.
We did stend up troops and I think six hundred or so troops just
got stent up, which is my gosh, what a cruddy post. Yeah,
because you're sitting on there, probably wearing some kind of gas mask,
I'm not sure. And you're just digging trenches, is what I'm in,
moving boxes and moving sandbags. Like firefighting. Wild firefighting stinks. Have a
friend who does it in Washington State. And you know there's there are all
those cool moments like we're going to jump out of a helicopter. Awesome,
like it's really cool video. It's pretty dangerous though, extremely dangerous because after
that cool video of you jumping up, you're in the middle of the forest
fire yea, and the rest of your day is like breathing garbage one hundred
and twenty degree weather, one hundred and fifty degree weather. Well, digging,
Yeah, it's a tough, tough work. Not my ideal way to
spend I think I was like not a hard dude. Yeah, in college
he was kind of dorky. I was shocked and I bumped him to it,
and he was always like really fancy and stuff prissy and I bumped into
him at a bar and I'm like, what are you doing? M hm.
So I gotta or firefighter wild fighter in Washington States. See this is
fascinating because one of my most um annoying and foulk conservative ideas is like actually
revamping FDR Civilian Conservation Corps for like lost American zoomers and millennials right now,
to give them a way to like actually do things that matter. I was
at a campsite recently that had these beautiful pavilions built by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Um they're still standing, corus. Oh my gosh. A lot of
them are also redone by Obama's Obama's stimulus, like a lot of that stuff.
Yeah, yeah, I don't think that, you know, do you
know how to who came up with a pretty solid plan for taking the like
a feat lazy intellectuals and teaching them how to work. Now, Okay,
I was afraid you were going to say something worse pulp just killed them.
Yeah. Well, actually, you know, it's it's hard to be worse
than mau um. Yeah it is. But although percentage wise pulsation cord like
requires these people being out there to go be willing to work, they don't
even like they don't even like to shop at a store. I know,
I know, I know. But my idea is a voluntary one just not
maoist in that sense, if only Mao had it starts as voluntary. It
starts as voluntary. It is probably one of the worst podcast episodes we have
ever done. Start with smog and with Mao high note. Yeah, Spike
the football, call it a day. Run, Let's go have a beer.
Over with the Over with the Capitol Hill friends. Chris just staring at
me, So I've got them. Okay, Well, then you've been listening
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