1 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:22,039 We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm em Elijah Shensky, 2 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,719 culture editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the 3 00:00:24,719 --> 00:00:28,519 show at radio at the Federalist dot com, follow us on Twitter at fdr 4 00:00:28,679 --> 00:00:33,159 LST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts into the premium version 5 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:38,119 of our website as well. I'm joined from a very smoggy district of Columbia 6 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:43,920 with Christopher Bedford, Executive editor over at the Common Sense Society. Chris, 7 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,759 welcome. It's a big blace, Oh big b that's right, and that 8 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:53,799 reminds me actually shout out to listener Gregory that if you do have questions, 9 00:00:54,079 --> 00:00:57,920 concerns, fair enough, comments, whatever, send them to radio at the 10 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:02,000 Federalist dot com. And since it's summer and Chris is a fairly laid back 11 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,560 guy in the summer, he's wearing a polo right now, drinking water, 12 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,280 not rum like he was a couple of weeks ago, we'll do a little 13 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,840 ask Me Anything episode in a couple of weeks. So go ahead and shoot 14 00:01:11,879 --> 00:01:15,760 your questions, comments, especially your concerns, over to radio at the Federalist 15 00:01:15,799 --> 00:01:18,719 dot Com. We'll get them answered. I we're a polo in the Winner 16 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:23,760 from New England. Yes, that's right, Chris. Uh. This is 17 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,519 the sort of way that we do these podcasts. Sit down in these great 18 00:01:26,599 --> 00:01:30,359 leather chairs that we have at the Federalist HQ and just say, hey, 19 00:01:30,359 --> 00:01:33,040 what do you want to talk about? And Chris said, you wanted to 20 00:01:33,079 --> 00:01:38,079 talk about the orange smog that is enveloping the East coast of the United States 21 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,879 of America. We pro smog. Um, I'm pro. I'm pro the 22 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,719 smell of the smog. It smells like a campfire. It's so much I 23 00:01:46,719 --> 00:01:49,680 can't fire, you can't quite get away from right, and that wants to 24 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,400 kill you. The people of California have got to be just kind of rolling 25 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,719 their eyes at this, because you've been at the Santa Barbara drying fire season 26 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,640 and you feel like you've got your real sick by day two. It's absolutely 27 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:05,319 awful. This is significantly better that I'm been driving with my windows down, 28 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,280 although this morning I started to get a little more painful. It's funny that 29 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,919 the masks are back, truly they are. Yeah. One of my friend's 30 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:15,520 clients, she's bragging sheets. She went down, she got a mask, 31 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:19,039 and then she went back to get some more masks for her mother. Taking 32 00:02:19,039 --> 00:02:21,960 care of your elderly mother. Fine, by then the mask price had doubled. 33 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,439 There's another I mean, there's another run on the masks. It's funny, 34 00:02:25,439 --> 00:02:29,479 though, I wonder because now we're sitting here in Capitol Hill and all 35 00:02:29,479 --> 00:02:31,840 these old staffers are going by with their masks on and everything. How many 36 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:36,599 of them didn't We're like, hey, everything's fine in these Palestine go back 37 00:02:36,599 --> 00:02:38,400 to your homes. That toxic smell in the air, They're like, and 38 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:44,639 they're had an absolute fit and a panic over some burning trees from Canada. 39 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:49,120 Yeah, and it's all being tied into the global warming climate change narrative whatever 40 00:02:49,159 --> 00:02:53,159 they decide to call it on a given day. But in California, it's 41 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,639 kind of an interesting comparison because California really has only itself to blame. It 42 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:04,039 has the chronism of PGNI, it has the stirred idiotic attempt to marry cronyism 43 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:08,960 with environmentalism wachronism. Environmental is more of the same thing, well, not 44 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:14,759 in theory but in practice. In reality, true environmentalism has never been tried. 45 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:20,919 These people make billions, Like I've always kind of giggled. The Republican 46 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:27,159 governors go down for like accepting Rolox watches or like getting perks at the club, 47 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,439 Like that's their kind of bribery. I mean, Democrats strike billion dollar 48 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:36,280 deals. I mean, have you seen the Sarah Bedford just wrote about this 49 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:40,879 cut my eye. But the changing to the electric school bus fleetes? Oh 50 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:46,479 yeah, one of the schools don't have enough drivers to take to drive all 51 00:03:46,479 --> 00:03:50,000 their buses. And now a lot of these school districts across the country are 52 00:03:50,039 --> 00:03:53,960 getting twice as many electric buses as they had diesel buses, which means that 53 00:03:54,039 --> 00:03:59,560 they just sit and rot because they don't actually need them. But somebody, 54 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,840 somebody, a little some electric school bus company just made a lot of money. 55 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,759 Oh it's a racket. Here's I mean. I know it's not Christmas 56 00:04:05,759 --> 00:04:10,000 time, and it's not the airing of the grievances, But why don't school 57 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,759 buses have seat belts? And why are we spending money on electric school buses 58 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,480 and putting on seat belts on the school buses. I only say because I 59 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:23,480 was having this conversation recently for some unknown reason, but with a school child. 60 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:28,800 No, but I look back and I'm like, it was incredibly dangerous 61 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:35,879 to be just barreling through, you know, the streets of Wisconsin with kids 62 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:41,879 just hopped up on sugar, bopping around the bus, no seat belts. 63 00:04:42,399 --> 00:04:44,920 This is part of the American Why there was a kid on my school bus 64 00:04:44,959 --> 00:04:48,519 who threw himself out the window when the bus was stopped. Was it was 65 00:04:48,959 --> 00:04:57,720 awesome? That came must something famous forever. Yeah, it just ram well, 66 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,680 the school bus route was delayed quite a after that. The bus driver 67 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:05,000 really had to put the screws and turn the screws to us. You see 68 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,360 a lot of those yellow slips or pink slips. Yeah, bus driver Bob, 69 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,439 who was a great guy with an incredible amount of patience, but sometimes 70 00:05:12,439 --> 00:05:15,920 he would lose it. And my gosh, I mean just being driving a 71 00:05:15,959 --> 00:05:17,920 car. We've got like three or four kids in it. I can't imagine 72 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:21,319 Yeah, driving it with like thirty kids. You're not allowed to spank. 73 00:05:21,439 --> 00:05:25,439 No, it's bizarre. And so why don't they Why aren't they in seatbelts? 74 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,879 I don't know. But all that is to say, the smog reminds 75 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,879 me of one of I think the best explanations for why the media is so 76 00:05:32,959 --> 00:05:36,639 messed up, which is if you think of when it's snowing in New York 77 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:42,399 City. There's a blizzard in New York City. Suddenly the blizzard is national 78 00:05:42,639 --> 00:05:46,000 news everywhere. It's like winter weather has taken a turn. And the people 79 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:50,120 in Minnesota are like, yeah, man, this is like our fifth blizzard 80 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:56,560 of being like what are you talking about? And it's a little self absorbed. 81 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,319 Yeah, with the smog. It's funny, how because in New York 82 00:05:59,319 --> 00:06:01,399 City, actually it's actually worse than it is here in DC. The pictures 83 00:06:01,439 --> 00:06:05,519 are unbelievable, although Chris has said he was crossing Memorial Bridge coming from Virginia 84 00:06:05,639 --> 00:06:10,399 and you could barely see the outlines the National Mall, the Lincoln Memorial, 85 00:06:10,439 --> 00:06:14,120 the Washington Monument be barely. They were almost invisible this morning over the river, 86 00:06:14,399 --> 00:06:16,920 right. I almost I'm going to drive out there just to see that 87 00:06:16,959 --> 00:06:19,399 because it sounds pretty incredible. Actually, well, the sun is going to 88 00:06:19,519 --> 00:06:24,639 keep on burning it off. We've been getting there. I think up north 89 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,439 from the pictures I've seen, the sun is still just really just a bright 90 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:31,279 orange ball like in the distance it's but here it's hot enough, it's been 91 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:35,720 burning it off. It's I mean, I heard that it was supposed to 92 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,399 burn off by this weekend. But we'll see, we'll see. Anyways, 93 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:46,079 the point is it's just funny how little care goes into actual like environmental disasters 94 00:06:46,319 --> 00:06:50,959 or wildfires or tornadoes or the things around the country. But man, this 95 00:06:51,079 --> 00:06:54,519 is topic number one. I mean, we're talking about it. We're talking 96 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,600 about it. Well, this is one of the I think interesting things about 97 00:06:59,759 --> 00:07:02,040 the daily media conversation. It's gonna be like, really thirty thousand foot And 98 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,079 remember when Elon went on Rogan Show and smoked a joint and that became a 99 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:10,879 meme. That's what I'm doing right now. I'm channeling Elon taking a puff 100 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:18,439 but gonna drop no, no, no, But but it is something we 101 00:07:19,199 --> 00:07:23,920 lose complete perspective, and I think especially at for instance, I saw an 102 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:28,879 axeos today, a graphic about how the summer is getting warmer all over the 103 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:33,560 country, and it had little orange squares yellow squares, and I looked at 104 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,439 the fine print. You know, if it was yellow, it was a 105 00:07:36,519 --> 00:07:40,720 less severe warming over the course of X years, and if it was closer 106 00:07:40,759 --> 00:07:44,079 to red, it was more severe warming in that region of the country. 107 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:48,360 And I looked at the fine print and it was only since nineteen seventy. 108 00:07:48,759 --> 00:07:53,879 It was from nineteen seventy to twenty twenty two, and it's like, do 109 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:58,800 you realize the Earth is so much older than and you're a little like, 110 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:03,399 fifty year warm trend has basically nothing to do with this broader narrative that you're 111 00:08:03,439 --> 00:08:07,959 trying to tie it into. It's a useless piece of information unless you're looking 112 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,600 at it over the course of you know, it's a bigger sign of global 113 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:18,120 warming than a number of controlled blazes getting out of control in Canada this week. 114 00:08:18,639 --> 00:08:20,720 There you go, it's like a variant. It's an amazing My favorite 115 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:26,680 global warming media clip of all time. I was still a waiter old glory 116 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:31,240 resting piece barbecue joint and that's where I went for my twenty first birthday. 117 00:08:31,439 --> 00:08:37,320 Good for you. The Badges were playing. We were watching the the earthquake 118 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,240 that set off the Tudle wave in Japan. Yes, and that took out 119 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:41,879 the nuclear actor and it was freaky. We were watching it in live time 120 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:50,919 for months. Yeah, we were watching it live as the helicopters above filming, 121 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:52,120 and you were seeing people trying to drive out of the way, and 122 00:08:52,159 --> 00:08:56,519 like we were watching this real life massacre. Is awful. And one of 123 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:00,559 the reporters goes, of course, we'll see incidents like this increase as Global 124 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:05,000 Woman continues. And I'm sitting there going, I'm not going to say that. 125 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,879 The word I use it's a earthquake. Yeah, what do you? 126 00:09:09,159 --> 00:09:11,759 And no one challenged them. No one was like, what are you? 127 00:09:11,799 --> 00:09:16,360 What are you talking about? How stupid is that? Um? Now, 128 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:18,639 I guess we're living in the smog. This is our new realities, is 129 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:20,399 Global Woman. And maybe he's think about what's gonna happen when the elstone goes 130 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:26,080 off. It's gonna be awesome. That's coming up, isn't it. It's 131 00:09:26,399 --> 00:09:31,440 positively next century or something comes soon enough. We're not scientists. We are, 132 00:09:31,519 --> 00:09:35,639 well in some ways we are. We are scientists. We're political scientists. 133 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,679 But I see they think speaking of Actually, I got the message this 134 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,000 morning. You should be wearing a mask, according to experts, and I 135 00:09:43,039 --> 00:09:48,559 thought, fool me once, fool me once the dump saying Chris is gonna 136 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:56,879 start like cleaning his best to side of things like installing installation. I've already 137 00:09:56,879 --> 00:09:58,320 done that. Breathe it all in. I've already done that. If if 138 00:09:58,399 --> 00:10:01,919 I have that gene where you get cancer, from inhale and asbestos that I'm 139 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,240 going to get it because I didn't. I didn't learn about that until, 140 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,679 like I've already cleared a bunch of asbestos in the old house. But the 141 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:15,120 funny thing is, like you're wearing a mask because the sky is filled with 142 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:18,639 smoke. It's like a significantly better reason to wear masks or during COVID. 143 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:22,960 But but I'm still not going to do it, because I'm definitely not gonna 144 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,360 do that, Like I had to do that so much, I refuse now. 145 00:10:26,519 --> 00:10:30,039 No I a bubonic plague could be sweeping through DC, and I'd be 146 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:33,320 like, I'm not listening to that fauci jerk again. No shot, No 147 00:10:33,399 --> 00:10:37,200 I passed. I passed a dog park on the way here, where all 148 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,279 of the people take their like massive dogs that live in studio apartments just to 149 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:46,039 feel like a dog for ten minutes a day. And I was thinking about 150 00:10:46,039 --> 00:10:50,759 this as I was watching all of these you know, urban libs with their 151 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,320 masks on, just like I think they might be right this time, But 152 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:01,200 you're not gonna see me in one of those things. The phrase and ninety 153 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:05,879 five is permanently out of my book O Commie face Diaper off your face. 154 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:09,679 Yeah, it doesn't matter what's going. Yeah, if you're clearing asbestos, 155 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,480 you're not wearing a mask anymore, because we know what that means. When 156 00:11:13,519 --> 00:11:16,720 John Nuto, Davidson and I had to travel through before the twenty twenty elections, 157 00:11:16,759 --> 00:11:22,720 we were in Minneapolis, I think, and actually we just got in 158 00:11:22,759 --> 00:11:26,000 those constant maybe Okay, anyways, we're leaving a bar. We had to 159 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,159 wear a mask inside. As we're leaving the bar, t and I said, 160 00:11:28,159 --> 00:11:31,039 oh, make sure you take that off. Of course we're going to 161 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:35,840 take it off so people will yell at you. And I walked outside at 162 00:11:35,879 --> 00:11:37,440 one time and I'd forgotten to take it off right away, and some woman 163 00:11:37,519 --> 00:11:41,879 screams, get that commie diaper off your face, And I was like, 164 00:11:41,919 --> 00:11:43,240 it was so refreshing. It must have been in a good bar to be 165 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,240 No, it's just like a random, nice area I was. I pulled 166 00:11:46,279 --> 00:11:48,799 off the masks, and of course then she smiled and said thank you, 167 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,480 And it was the exact opposite of everything you get in DC. Put on 168 00:11:52,519 --> 00:12:00,200 your mask. Yeah, it's I've been watching a season of TV that was 169 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,720 taped. Also, Molly and David do a weekly podcast called You're Wrong on 170 00:12:03,759 --> 00:12:07,240 Wednesdays where they share what they've watched on television. And I was thinking, 171 00:12:07,279 --> 00:12:09,639 well, Chris and I could do that, and then I thought, oh 172 00:12:09,759 --> 00:12:13,759 no, no, I don't want to hear what Chris is watching on television. 173 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,720 I'm reading the book right now called In the Heart of the Heart of 174 00:12:16,039 --> 00:12:20,159 Europe. Yeah, it's about five hundred pages on the Holy Roman Empire. 175 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:22,799 We can talk about that. Yeah, this is where I was afraid that 176 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,039 I actually heard from someone the other day. I forget in what context. 177 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:31,399 It was out of absolutely nowhere, someone just being like, hey, let's 178 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:33,799 talk about the Thirty Years War. And I was like, oh boy, 179 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,639 this is a podcast joke. Someone someone's trolling me because they take Bedford's side 180 00:12:37,639 --> 00:12:43,360 and the Thirty Years War. It's because it's becoming a meta thirty Years War 181 00:12:43,399 --> 00:12:46,200 of its own. We're about three years into the war over your love of 182 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:52,279 the thirties future. All right, So moving right along. Did you see 183 00:12:52,279 --> 00:12:58,279 everything that went down this week with Chris Christy? Did you see that maybe 184 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:03,200 the former president's memes? Oh? Yeah, and it was funny because incredible. 185 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:09,000 So Sarah had gone on to do a segment with Cavudo. Cavudo is 186 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:13,600 super anti fat shaming. Cavudo also thinks he's fat, which is kind of 187 00:13:13,639 --> 00:13:16,240 crazy, Like he's very self deprecating. He's like, as a fat person, 188 00:13:16,279 --> 00:13:18,080 I'm sitting there being like, you're not. You're like one third the 189 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:24,279 size of the average grocery store shopper. But but this whole segment, are 190 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:28,360 people gonna make Chris Christie's weight an issue? And Sarah's probably was? I 191 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,960 mean they probably shouldn't. I mean, he's like, it doesn't really make 192 00:13:31,039 --> 00:13:37,320 much sense. But Donald Trump, so we absolutely will. Roger Roger Stone 193 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:41,000 coming out there and being like Chris Christie should run, No, like seriously, 194 00:13:41,159 --> 00:13:43,320 not for office, he should run. And then Trump's buffet, I 195 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,159 mean, I mean it's stupid. The funny thing is this is a Trump 196 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:52,200 is so great at they're a comparable size. It's true. So Donald Trump 197 00:13:52,279 --> 00:13:56,559 is not a string bo string being. He's a big dude. He just 198 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:58,840 wears a big blue coat. Yeah, he knows how to hide it. 199 00:14:00,039 --> 00:14:03,000 Yeah when you see him like a golfing in a white polo, he carries 200 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,080 it well well, I mean I mean he did, he does, and 201 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:11,120 it makes sense obviously, like sitting down and eating his McDonald's diet is like 202 00:14:11,159 --> 00:14:15,120 that Chris Christie buys for him. Wasn't that like a It's like a Maggie 203 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:20,080 Haberman report from like twenty him that he made. He'd like emasculated Chris Christie 204 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:24,679 by making him pick up as McDonald's for him. So, but eating eating 205 00:14:24,919 --> 00:14:28,720 donald RUMs McDonald's diet is like the journalistic equivalent of drinking Churchill's daily in tank, 206 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:31,279 Like somebody does it have a couple years, Like I'm gonna drink as 207 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:35,159 much as Churchill did in the day and they just end up wasted and sad 208 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,080 and the story is kind of stilly. Yeah, that's it. I feel 209 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,720 like the same thing would happen from ms McDonald's. So I choose your vices. 210 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,720 It's fine. I just it was obvious it was going to come back. 211 00:14:41,759 --> 00:14:46,000 Here's a question, who does that convince? Like if you look at 212 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:52,240 nineteenth century and early twentieth century circus freaks, people paid money to see the 213 00:14:52,279 --> 00:14:56,519 fat man and they are smaller than the average person squeezing by you on your 214 00:14:56,559 --> 00:15:01,759 airplane. Yeah, it's wild like America. So Chris Donald Trump goes out 215 00:15:01,759 --> 00:15:03,919 there and calls him fat share like it's people are gonna laugh, But it's 216 00:15:03,919 --> 00:15:07,120 not going to change the voters in Iowa, New Hampshire. These aren't exactly 217 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:11,480 like high gym attending places. I mean, I don't think Trump is worried 218 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,080 about changing Heartsea mionds in Iowa and Hampshire when it comes well, when it 219 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,200 comes to Chris Christie, I don't think he's genuinely threatened by um. Like 220 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:24,720 the electoral prospects of Chris Christie. No, Christie went in on Jared Kushner 221 00:15:24,879 --> 00:15:28,960 and Ivanka Trump for like this is in his He does a rollout in New 222 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,320 Hampshire. I think it was on Tuesday night where I compared it to like 223 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,360 it was like watching a middle school theater teacher. He was being he was 224 00:15:35,519 --> 00:15:39,480 it was sad. It was like he was this eighties hair metal band where 225 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:43,679 everyone's you know, now seventy five years old and still trying to make the 226 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:48,080 magic happen on you know, county fair tours and he gets in you know, 227 00:15:48,279 --> 00:15:52,519 voters faces like he was, you know, like it was twenty ten 228 00:15:52,559 --> 00:15:54,039 again or two thousand and nine or wherever he first, you know, sort 229 00:15:54,039 --> 00:15:58,000 of virul His chance to run was in twenty twelve, Yeah, and he 230 00:15:58,039 --> 00:16:00,000 didn't. Yeah, he waited his turn. This is like the warning to 231 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,600 Ron De Santis. Like Chris Christie was fresh and people liked him, and 232 00:16:03,639 --> 00:16:07,960 instead he stepped aside and waited his turn, and then he ran. A 233 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,000 couple of years later, he was amired in corruption. His act had gotten 234 00:16:11,519 --> 00:16:15,679 had gotten old, Yeah, really old, just yelling at people. And 235 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:18,039 I mean the time it's just crossed. For me was that awesome video of 236 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:22,120 him was holding an ice cream cone in the boardwalk and yelling at some tourists 237 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:26,559 who was just amazing. It's like, it's funny hed the oh yeah forclosures. 238 00:16:26,919 --> 00:16:30,960 Yeah, so its time had passed. I think you know the person 239 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,159 that Donald Trump should be most worried about. It's Mike Pence. Well so, 240 00:16:36,279 --> 00:16:38,720 Mike Pence. Within twenty four hours of Christie's announcement, Mike Pence rolled 241 00:16:38,759 --> 00:16:42,440 out his twenty twenty four campaign, which everyone obviously knew was happening. This 242 00:16:42,519 --> 00:16:47,279 last weekend really did feel like the kickoff to the twenty twenty four president jackh 243 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:52,759 logo looks more fresh, Mike pence Is logo. You know, it looks 244 00:16:52,639 --> 00:16:56,600 it actually kind of reminds me of the Reagan seventy six, you know what 245 00:16:56,679 --> 00:17:03,360 I'm talking about. The Regan seventy six. It looks small, sim I'll 246 00:17:03,399 --> 00:17:07,319 google it. Well we talk, I mean, and and his his line 247 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,960 oaths kept, that's the Pence line. He kept his oath. Yeah, 248 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:17,440 it's just I don't understand the Republican Party. I get what Chris Chris he's 249 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:21,960 doing. It's he's just going to be a human torpedo for Donald Trump. 250 00:17:22,039 --> 00:17:25,000 That's it's a comic cause. It's a comic cause mission. And so that's 251 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:29,519 why he's going in on Kusher and Ivanka corruption with the Saudis. And I 252 00:17:29,599 --> 00:17:33,880 just actually do find that interesting because no other candidate in the race is going 253 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,880 to attack Trump from the sort of like corruption line, which is one place 254 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:45,680 where if the rest of the candidates weren't so such swamp creatures, Trump would 255 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,799 actually be vulnerable. But that's always been baked into the Trump cake, right 256 00:17:48,839 --> 00:17:52,319 like he knows, like he says, I alone can fix it, like 257 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:55,559 he knows. This is the first time ever, so he's got a six 258 00:17:55,640 --> 00:18:00,079 year headstart on every other candidate, effectively as being the line in the zoo. 259 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:06,920 Now for the first time, he's got a sitting governor who's in the 260 00:18:07,079 --> 00:18:10,680 same political vein as he is. Who's going to be coming at him from 261 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,960 the right, and so far Trump's defenses of himself are and that is kind 262 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:18,200 of look at the Reagan logo, thank you. So far, Trump's attacks 263 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:22,720 back on Christie have on DeSantis have been, hey, your anti abortion and 264 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:26,880 you opened up Florida during COVID. Cuomo did a better job, which is 265 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,480 like ridiculous attacks. So I wonder how that we're ask going to go. 266 00:18:30,039 --> 00:18:32,359 And then you've got Chris Christie coming in and be like, yeah, I 267 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:36,519 know, you came to drain the swamp, and then you put Christiernavanka in 268 00:18:36,559 --> 00:18:37,920 charge of a bunch of things. Yeah, I mean they were, they 269 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:45,839 were impressively. Tillerson, yeah, oh my gosh. They Jared was annoyingly 270 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:52,480 not annoyingly surprisingly effective on some of the Middle East deals that he was able 271 00:18:52,519 --> 00:18:55,720 to pull off, which really surprised me. But in general, I mean 272 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:57,319 they him and Chris Christie were just going back and forth and kind of their 273 00:18:57,319 --> 00:19:02,640 corrupt politics. Christie had had a transition team ready to go, and Jared 274 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:06,039 came in and scrambled the whole thing and got rid of it. And we 275 00:19:06,079 --> 00:19:07,960 saw, we saw the effects. I mean, I was willing maybe to 276 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,559 believe, Okay, Chris Christie had stocked this with a bunch of bushy people 277 00:19:11,599 --> 00:19:15,599 who are going to undermine the Trump agenda. But we saw the Trump administration 278 00:19:15,599 --> 00:19:18,559 played up for four years. It was a bunch of bushy people trying to 279 00:19:18,599 --> 00:19:22,640 undermine the Trump agenda, mixed with a rotating cast of television characters who would 280 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,960 like flame in and flame out. It was. It's amazing how much that 281 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:30,799 administration accomplished given how corrupt and stupid it was. Imagine if it had been 282 00:19:30,839 --> 00:19:36,480 like imagine, if he'd had like the bush level competence people on his team, 283 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,480 this one would have steam rolled. They would they would have really more 284 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:44,680 more, They would have transformed America a great deal more than they already did. 285 00:19:44,799 --> 00:19:47,519 But I think that's really the desantist argument. And what's interesting to me 286 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:52,279 is that you don't see a similar argument. I don't know ifs interesting is 287 00:19:52,279 --> 00:19:55,480 the right word, because it's not surprising, but I mean, I think 288 00:19:55,519 --> 00:19:59,680 you can make that argument in theory as as Mike Penn, s Nicky Haley, 289 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:02,640 and Tim Scott. Mike Pence's argument is I did in January six you 290 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,839 guys, yeah, he has been That's his argument, Like I didn't. 291 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,920 I was there, but I didn't do it well. He both kept. 292 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:15,440 He gave more money to your creed. He kept more money. I was 293 00:20:15,519 --> 00:20:22,160 kept. He came out and yeah, his line is basically like, I 294 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,759 think we accomplished a lot. But the time I'm paraphrasing him, but it's 295 00:20:25,759 --> 00:20:29,359 it's a different moment, and a different moment requires a different leader. That's 296 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,839 like the message that he rolled out and Vane the Middle East was kept. 297 00:20:33,799 --> 00:20:38,000 And in all seriousness, though I really don't. I mean, I do 298 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:47,039 understand it, because if you're not willing to um ideologically financially commit to the 299 00:20:47,799 --> 00:20:52,079 agenda of like a drain, a genuine drain the swamp adrenda meaning like schedule 300 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:56,880 F like make it easier to get all all of these to trim the actually 301 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,799 trim the bureaucracy. Um, I shouldn't say trim, I should say what's 302 00:21:00,799 --> 00:21:06,920 the what's a better word like shatter? Yeah, if you're not willing to 303 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:08,799 immediately take those kinds of steps, and that's what I think. We talked 304 00:21:08,799 --> 00:21:11,599 about this a little bit last week, Like the conservative movement in DC looks 305 00:21:11,599 --> 00:21:15,559 at the Trump administration and said, if the conservative movement had handed this man 306 00:21:15,599 --> 00:21:18,960 a blueprint like Leonard Leo did what judges, but like a blueprint for the 307 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:26,640 executive branch because he's just brash. Donald Trump he like what could have happened, 308 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:30,720 like what could have been? And Ronda Santis, I think is running 309 00:21:30,759 --> 00:21:36,240 on that type of vision. And I think Donald Trump when he you know, 310 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:40,519 when he's reading speeches that have been written for him, um has that 311 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:45,240 like level of awareness that that's what would need to happen immediately and another administration. 312 00:21:45,319 --> 00:21:52,880 But it's honestly mystifying to me that Tim Scott, Nicky Haley and Mike 313 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,000 Pence. I'm probably forgetting someone too, but I mean, it's not it's 314 00:21:56,039 --> 00:22:02,039 not surprising, it's not unexpected, but there really isn't opening for someone to 315 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:07,799 It doesn't make any sense that we're talking about the CIA interfering in the presidential 316 00:22:07,799 --> 00:22:12,400 election, as Sean Davis reported for US by facilitating signatures on that letter, 317 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:17,160 the Hunter Biden Laptop is disinformation letter. They all knew that it was false. 318 00:22:18,039 --> 00:22:19,559 It doesn't make any sense to me that you're coming out here and just 319 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,799 being like, hey, it's twenty twelve. We can smile and win people's 320 00:22:23,839 --> 00:22:30,000 hearts and minds and just keep on chugging, like what, it's insane. 321 00:22:30,319 --> 00:22:33,200 Yeah. I was having a discussion with somebody yesterday who follows politics pretty closely 322 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:37,720 I think mortal rotarian than I am, but said that they were they were 323 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,759 actually kind of thinking they're it's going to vote for Tim Scott that because he 324 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,240 had done so well on the view, He's answered a lot of questions. 325 00:22:45,279 --> 00:22:48,400 He says he was fabulous. Yeah, he did. He did a great 326 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:53,799 job. And I said, but listen, Tim Scott is a great messenger. 327 00:22:55,039 --> 00:22:57,519 Tim Scott someone who want to be maybe out there, maybe as a 328 00:22:57,599 --> 00:23:02,559 vice president for sure, someone who can take these issues on in a society 329 00:23:02,599 --> 00:23:04,440 where you're only allowed to speak to certain issues if you're black, or if 330 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,599 you're a woman, or if you're not allowed to talk about it otherwise. 331 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,319 He's a great person and he's and he's shown some cards to that. Like 332 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:15,160 what what big fights? What what massive fights have ever seen him take part 333 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,319 in? Like what's his big legislative achievement? It's people out of prisons, 334 00:23:18,839 --> 00:23:22,680 opportunities, arms and letting people out of prison. How would I wonder how 335 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,920 you feel about that? And here's a question, like Tim Scott, great 336 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,960 leader of a Free America. Sure, but it's Tim Scott, the wartime 337 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,240 conciery that you want. Is Tim Scott the guy who's gonna like, we're 338 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,519 firing every general who's over three stars, We're leaving them of duty and changing 339 00:23:36,519 --> 00:23:38,920 the Pentagon completely? In any political promotions right now, is he going to 340 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,799 be the guy who says we're cutting into this breacracy? Is he gonna Is 341 00:23:42,799 --> 00:23:45,200 he gonna be the guy who says, no, I'm getting rid of your 342 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:49,799 FBI leadership or DC office. There's no way he's that dude. So or 343 00:23:49,839 --> 00:23:55,400 stop transing the kids, like, let's dismantle the Department of Education. Yeah, 344 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,599 and you're under your We're going to go after the insurance companies that back 345 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,880 this, and we're gonna go after the doctors that do these surgeries. We're 346 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:07,039 gonna launch investigations like that angry guy over at the Daily wiretist did, Matt 347 00:24:07,039 --> 00:24:10,920 Walsh. We're gonna just have a book producer call up and get twenty two 348 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,920 minutes to get approved for having their testicles removed into surgery. Yep, twenty 349 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,000 two minutes. They said. We're gonna like, Okay, we're gonna start 350 00:24:17,039 --> 00:24:18,599 doing cold calls around the country, and we're gonna hold doctors accountable, were 351 00:24:18,599 --> 00:24:22,160 gonna hold insurance companies accountable. We're going to sue people, We're gonna put 352 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,079 people in prison. Jim Scuts not that dude. I don't think Donald Trump 353 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:26,599 is either, but he is on a host of other issues, Like I 354 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,640 kind of think the Santus is. The sants totally is. And I want 355 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:34,240 to look at the Vivic Ramaswamy Ramaswamy who's like, oh, I just don't 356 00:24:34,319 --> 00:24:37,079 like I agree with the Sanus, but I don't like his book bands, 357 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:41,039 which is a totally stupid phrase to use, idiot and say, Okay, 358 00:24:41,079 --> 00:24:45,680 what is your plan for when teachers are handing pennography to children? Yep? 359 00:24:45,759 --> 00:24:48,200 What's your plan? Yep? I don't want to band books? Why not? 360 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,480 Yep, We're not banning them. You just can't give him the children. 361 00:24:51,519 --> 00:24:53,960 What's your what's your plan for teachers lying to children about their gender and 362 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,400 spreading mental illness? What's your what's your idela for that is keeping Playboy out 363 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:03,680 of middle school library as a book band? Remotely of some of this stuff 364 00:25:03,799 --> 00:25:08,759 was or as like intentionally harmful, remember their instruction manuals. They're still Playboy 365 00:25:08,799 --> 00:25:11,359 from my friend's dad. Of course it was fine. But then like my 366 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:15,440 other friend's dad was a wild man. He had like the hustler and the 367 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,200 penthouse stuff was gross. We were like twelve, like, oh my gosh, 368 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,400 this is awful. That is the worst, and I swore off women 369 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:27,599 forever after them. Yes, yes, but no, this is like Mike 370 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,799 Penn, Snicky Hilly Tim Scott are all running in like the carpool lane, 371 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:38,559 thinking that if they are mild mannered enough, they're all in the carpool lane. 372 00:25:38,599 --> 00:25:42,160 If they're if they're mild mannered enough. Um and Donald Trump, you 373 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:47,160 know, gets kamikaze by Chris Christie and the Stanzas isn't as strong as people 374 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:51,960 think he is, then they'll like. But it's it's an insane strategy because 375 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:56,640 you're all splitting this same demographic. None of you are going to peel any 376 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,079 of those voters away from Donald Trump. All on the sane none of them 377 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:00,880 are on the popular slag except for Trump and ascentis or all on the donor 378 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,599 lanes, which makes me wandered, Like cool Chris, Chris, the awesome 379 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,400 plan. Can you get on the debate stage or are you gonna be at 380 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,400 the kids table. Well last week it was anst you had to be pulling 381 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,119 on what an average of one percent to get on the debate stage one forty 382 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:19,759 thousand different donors. I guess it's doable. Not the highest threshold, no, 383 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:22,079 yeah, so, And that's fine, by the way, because the 384 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:26,599 Democrats are under they're in real trouble because they won't for instance, let RFK 385 00:26:26,759 --> 00:26:30,240 Junior and Marian Williamson debate Joe Biden and now you which is funny because, 386 00:26:30,279 --> 00:26:36,000 by the way, RFK Junior is twenty percent. Yes, so's he's pulling 387 00:26:36,039 --> 00:26:38,720 as well against Biden, as to Santus is against Trump and no one must 388 00:26:38,839 --> 00:26:41,319 talking about it. And he's done it entirely with podcasts. You've got no 389 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,519 advercause it at all, and he could barely even speak, and he's still 390 00:26:45,519 --> 00:26:48,319 done it with podcasts. So this is why I actually think the Republican's low 391 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,799 threshold, like actually rethinking it. I don't think it's the dumbest thing in 392 00:26:51,799 --> 00:26:56,720 the world, because the appearance of being a gatekeeper has done so much more 393 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,480 harms to the DNC than they even realize it has given, and so much 394 00:27:00,519 --> 00:27:04,160 fodder to Marion Williamson, Bernie Sanders M RFK Junior. Now, over the 395 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:08,559 course of years, it has stewed so much distrust and voters with voters that 396 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,640 you like they now have. This was also an Axios this morning. UM. 397 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,960 I think it's David Sachs, one of the other guys from all In 398 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,920 people in Silicon Valley, putting a ton of money behind RFK Junior as one 399 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:27,119 of the Allen guys smash the technocrats to make to force a debate, like 400 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,519 it's not even that they necessarily want RFK ju Neied to be president. They 401 00:27:30,559 --> 00:27:34,319 have so much money they're putting it behind him to force the DNC to have 402 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:41,240 Joe Biden debate RFK Jr. Marion Williamson and yeah, moderated, but then 403 00:27:41,319 --> 00:27:45,839 you maybe have the possibility that Biden looks so weak that and I don't know 404 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,759 if this is what they're thinking, but it's just a theory that you know, 405 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:56,400 Gavin Newsome or someone else jumps in um late and after that first debate, 406 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,359 if if Biden can't make his way through it, which he can because 407 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,920 they you know, hop them up on stuff like somehow it all works out 408 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,400 for an hour and then he goes back to bed. M that's I mean, 409 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,119 that's a the RNC should be glad that it's not facing a situation like 410 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,480 that at the very least. Yeah, I mean, and it will be 411 00:28:15,519 --> 00:28:18,039 more interesting. I'm looking forward to the melee I'm looking at. I mean, 412 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:22,319 the bad news is the next president in the States is probably not going 413 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:26,160 to save the country. But the good news is, like the next presidented 414 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:30,279 States couldn't save the country almost they'd have to, they'd have to take some 415 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,319 they'd have to really kind of change the parameters of the job and do things 416 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:37,920 that are that everyone will call him precedented in order to really have any kind 417 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,680 of impact. And even then, who knows, because the left keeps on 418 00:28:41,759 --> 00:28:45,960 marching out, what are they going to do about the smog? Has anyone 419 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:52,519 else round to Santis in Vay, Canada? Okay? So actually is it 420 00:28:52,559 --> 00:28:56,440 the worst idea? My cousin who's now in Poland this military base for to 421 00:28:56,559 --> 00:29:00,359 kind of Russia, what was sent to and he's in the army, was 422 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,720 in Canada a few years ago to help put their firefighters. Like we did. 423 00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:07,880 We did stend up troops and I think six hundred or so troops just 424 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,640 got stent up, which is my gosh, what a cruddy post. Yeah, 425 00:29:11,039 --> 00:29:15,200 because you're sitting on there, probably wearing some kind of gas mask, 426 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,960 I'm not sure. And you're just digging trenches, is what I'm in, 427 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,640 moving boxes and moving sandbags. Like firefighting. Wild firefighting stinks. Have a 428 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,319 friend who does it in Washington State. And you know there's there are all 429 00:29:26,319 --> 00:29:30,000 those cool moments like we're going to jump out of a helicopter. Awesome, 430 00:29:30,079 --> 00:29:33,799 like it's really cool video. It's pretty dangerous though, extremely dangerous because after 431 00:29:33,839 --> 00:29:37,160 that cool video of you jumping up, you're in the middle of the forest 432 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,599 fire yea, and the rest of your day is like breathing garbage one hundred 433 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,400 and twenty degree weather, one hundred and fifty degree weather. Well, digging, 434 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,039 Yeah, it's a tough, tough work. Not my ideal way to 435 00:29:48,039 --> 00:29:52,279 spend I think I was like not a hard dude. Yeah, in college 436 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,160 he was kind of dorky. I was shocked and I bumped him to it, 437 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,680 and he was always like really fancy and stuff prissy and I bumped into 438 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,319 him at a bar and I'm like, what are you doing? M hm. 439 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,839 So I gotta or firefighter wild fighter in Washington States. See this is 440 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:17,599 fascinating because one of my most um annoying and foulk conservative ideas is like actually 441 00:30:18,119 --> 00:30:26,119 revamping FDR Civilian Conservation Corps for like lost American zoomers and millennials right now, 442 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:33,039 to give them a way to like actually do things that matter. I was 443 00:30:33,079 --> 00:30:37,279 at a campsite recently that had these beautiful pavilions built by the Civilian Conservation Corps. 444 00:30:37,599 --> 00:30:41,599 Um they're still standing, corus. Oh my gosh. A lot of 445 00:30:41,599 --> 00:30:47,880 them are also redone by Obama's Obama's stimulus, like a lot of that stuff. 446 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:49,000 Yeah, yeah, I don't think that, you know, do you 447 00:30:49,039 --> 00:30:52,039 know how to who came up with a pretty solid plan for taking the like 448 00:30:52,640 --> 00:31:00,079 a feat lazy intellectuals and teaching them how to work. Now, Okay, 449 00:30:59,799 --> 00:31:03,720 I was afraid you were going to say something worse pulp just killed them. 450 00:31:03,799 --> 00:31:07,119 Yeah. Well, actually, you know, it's it's hard to be worse 451 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:14,519 than mau um. Yeah it is. But although percentage wise pulsation cord like 452 00:31:14,559 --> 00:31:17,119 requires these people being out there to go be willing to work, they don't 453 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:18,319 even like they don't even like to shop at a store. I know, 454 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,839 I know, I know. But my idea is a voluntary one just not 455 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:30,759 maoist in that sense, if only Mao had it starts as voluntary. It 456 00:31:30,839 --> 00:31:33,160 starts as voluntary. It is probably one of the worst podcast episodes we have 457 00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:40,119 ever done. Start with smog and with Mao high note. Yeah, Spike 458 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,039 the football, call it a day. Run, Let's go have a beer. 459 00:31:44,519 --> 00:31:52,160 Over with the Over with the Capitol Hill friends. Chris just staring at 460 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,160 me, So I've got them. Okay, Well, then you've been listening 461 00:31:55,160 --> 00:32:00,559 to another list radio hour. I'm Emily Joshinsky contratory here at the Federalist, 462 00:32:00,599 --> 00:32:05,359 joined today by Christopher Bedford, executive editor over at the Common Sense Society B 463 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,039 Big B. Send questions in for us if you if you remember radio at 464 00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:13,240 the Federalist dot com. We'll be back soon with more. Until then, 465 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:32,920 be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray.