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Well Whiskey Coming Fame by Paine Don't
You Let Me Go? From Powerline blog

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dot com and produced by Ricochet dot
Com. This is the three Whiskey Happy

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Hour with your bartenders Steve Hayward,
John You and power Lines International Woman of

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Mystery Lucresia's Gotta give me that whiskey
blow. Where you're being in lost,

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down and low well, Well,
listeners, you'll be happy to know that

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I finally today went through my abusive
conduct training mandated online session by the University

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of California, better known to the
wider world as Lucretia's how to Manual.

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Hi Lucresia, Hi John, how
are you guys? By the way,

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John, Lucretia told me before we
came on air that she has had her

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three whiskies already, so she's going
to be Oh my god, I've been

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more one of those days, John. I did not get to spend my

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evening with eighty delightful Korean women.
I just I just saw Lucreasa drinks straight

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from the bottle. I don't know
what that was. Whiskies now looks like

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it's just a mineral water or something. It is, It's too It was

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my It is my mother's eighty fifth
birthday, so I took her and eight

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of her friends out to dinner tonight, all of whom are I think above

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the age of seventy five, all
of whom go to the same Episcopal church,

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and I think all but one of
them live in the same retirement home.

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Altogether. It's so awesome. I
think, like retire. I'm ready

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to move into retirement home. I
mean, I've been staying there the last

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few days. It's like college,
but just everyone's fifty years older. You're

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you're in a dorm. There's food, there's like there's a dorm mess.

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There's food, there's like a little
gym. You're all roughly the same age,

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you know, there's activities. It's
I was like, where do I

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sign up? I love. You
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done for you. I love.
It's just like going to college again.

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Yeah, there was this little thing
in college dorms like guys and girls.

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You know. Oh, they don't
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That's true, they don't. No, I don't. So we are

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individual apartments there each separate individual apartments, no shared bathrooms like in college.

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I will tell you that my best
friend from Iowa, from Mason City,

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Iowa, put her mom in an
assisted living kind of place, and her

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next door neighbor, her next door
neighbor was her so her mom's there.

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Her next door neighbor was a girl
she went to kindergarten with. Wow,

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for those of us who've lived so
many different plays, says, that's just

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isn't that the most amazing thing?
That is amazing? Yeah, I can't

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believe there isn't a sitcom of this, John, I mean, it's perfect

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material for Okay, I never watched
Golden Girls, but wasn't that Like I

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don't know, I didn't either.
I mean I never did either. Even

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though you look, Picard has become
like a retirement home in space because there

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they still got the same actors from
the next generation doing a series right now,

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because they're all decrepit. It's they're
all it's like the shuffle to the

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Facer Banks, like watching like watching
the Whore the Rolling Stones. Yeah,

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yeah, right, you know Emerson, Laken and Balmer as I good,

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well, it was too easy,
all right? Back back to abusive conduct

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training. You know what I have
to say, I don't you haven't done

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it yet, John, I didn't
know that. Did you know that abusive

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conduct is bad? I was informed
this today doing this online training a unit.

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I had no idea that abusive conduct
was bad. Good news from Lucretia,

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though. It turns out that making
unpopular statements about controversial issues is okay.

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So yeah, no, it's not
well, yeah no, I was

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just telling Steve right before you came
on, John, that I started my

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first, my very first meeting this
morning by saying, oh, welcome to

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the United States of Chikida. Nobody
laughed except my good friend who's Scottish and

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gay and conservative, and he thought
it was hilarious that nobody else either got

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it or laughed about it, because
I'm sure they're When you get up to

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speak at the fact, when means
to people just start recording you on their

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phone. Oh absolutely automatically, Are
you kidding? Which actually is good for

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me. It's all for me because
everything I say is actually, you know,

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legitimate, but they want to make
it. Do you know how many

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times I've been reported to the Diversity
Inclusion and Equity Committee, aren't you No,

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I'm not. I know I'm the
title nine officer or you're the title

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nine office, but I'm not on
the committee. Um, and the committee

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hates me, and they're anyway enough
for that enough that I don't abuse anybody.

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I'm a very kind person, as
you all know, because of the

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way I treat Steve. I'm a
very kind person. Now. By the

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way, there is some bad news
for you, Lucretia in the abusive Training

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conduct, which is uh, it
is not allowed to make egregious comments about

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a person's lifestyle. So we have
to go easy on John for his whole

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make rib fascination. Apparently I knew
I was being abused. You make fun

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of John. I don't if John
wants to eat spam and his mcgribb sand

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which is I don't care. Yeah, especially if you can. If you

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can eat like John does and look
like John does, and food relativist,

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you're a food relative and I'm actually
I'm just envious John. If I ate

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like you do, I'd be five
hundred pounds. You just look great,

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no matter what you do. Ask
because he's a young guy and we're old,

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you know, Yeah, that's part
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was his age, I couldn't meet
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this business, which is slightly more
serious, is it's pretty clear that all

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the I mean, I'm sure,
Lucretia, you probably been through these two.

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Maybe university where you are uses the
Saint vendor. But obviously there's a

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huge, thriving, probably high price
consulting industry that prepares these online units.

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One thing I noticed is I'm listening
to I took the voice option because I

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wanted to hear it's like a multitask
and do other things while getting through the

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time they require to sit there through
these things, And I'm listening along and

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the person saying and then suddenly they
drop in University of California and the voice

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is the same. But it was
clear there was a discontinuity in the in

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the tape. In other words,
there was a placeholder to drop in the

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local university which has paid big money
for these things. It's such a racket,

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that's all I want to guess.
Now, why are we in that

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racket? I No, we definitely
could do this better, right, all

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right, enough of that nonsense,
and I've got three or four other ones

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to do. There's the never mind, there is some whiskey news. You

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know, we have been falling down
on the job keeping up with whiskey news.

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I learned this week that there,
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twenty fifteen, the American Single Malt
Whiskey Commission. And I was worried that

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this was like a you know,
like the Orange Marketing Board goes back to

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the New Deal. It isn't a
government thing. It's entirely private, apparently

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formed by the industry. I'm not
sure how they can call themselves a commission

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because that sounds like government, doesn't
it, like, you know, form

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a legal authority. And essentially what
they're trying to do is have harmonized or

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consistent standards for what counts as a
single mult American whiskey has to be made

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one place fireball John pre mixed cocktails, no, right, yeah, And

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that all sounds fine. If the
industry wants to do that, it's probably

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mine. I did notice on their
list, though, John, there is

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a single Monk whiskey maker in Alameda, you know, not far from Oh

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yeah, I've heard of this,
Yeah, not far from us. Yeah,

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And it makes something called Saint George
lock twenty two aged and apple brandy

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casks. They've been round since the
year two thousands, so we might have

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to give that a try. And
something I propose from this two field trips

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for me and Steve to visit the
distillery in Alameda, and then we sneak

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Lucretia into the annual Convention of Diversity
Training video makers. Did you imagine undercover

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undercover? It'll be like a Project
Veritas. So the big thing in my

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household has been the discussion of the
fact that you can that there's now one

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step beyond chat GPT where you can
buy text, not not texting, but

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text on your computer describe. I
say, I want to describe my my

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study here, and I want to
describe the fireplace and this and that and

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then my dog, and I can
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this version of AI that is so
sophisticated you can, in fact make that

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turn into a total what's it called
computer generated CGI CGI movie just by writing

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text into your computer. This new
artificial intelligence can do all of that.

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So I think we should do that
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instruction video. Don't you imagine what
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should be very much along the lines
of a more sophisticated version of that old

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Tom Brady Um sexual harassment tape that
sn now used to do, where you

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know, the ugly guy says something
innocuous to the girl and she files a

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complaint against him, and then Tom
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his crotch and your face and oh, of course I'll go out with you.

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Yeah, And the punchline is,
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don't be ugly um. Basically a
week our video could just be Lucretia reading

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the Declaration of Independence. Yes,
yeah, don't get me started on revolution

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tonight, John, you'll be sorry. Oh that's actually a possible item on

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our list of topics tonight. I
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actually turn to uh real issues.
Uh, there's a whole lot of things

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in the news. Obviously, there's
the list them here, and get to

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I think our first topic that's being
somewhat neglected. Okay, there's a Trump

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indictment. We talked about that last
week, but there's more to say.

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The shooting in Tennessee. A couple
of observations have been made about that.

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John, you mentioned that the Columbia
Law School students seem to have a case

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of Stanford Law and being or behaving
badly. Um, that's where maybe bringing

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up the sense why are you list
these because we'll trying to get well,

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we'll try to get to these after
the main subject. I just want to

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play them out there. And of
course we have a new feature Listeners.

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Starting this week, we're going to
have Lucretia's Stupid Person of the Week awarded.

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It's a tough one this week.
I just want to tell you,

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but look, I thought we ought
to start off and spend a good deal

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of time and well, I think
is one of the biggest stories going on

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right now that has gotten some attention, but deserves more, and I think

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it deserves our concentrated analysis, and
that is the fuss in Israel over judicial

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reform. So Israel has a supreme
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of Justice. And I think there
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this is quite significant. One,
there's the merits of the issue. The

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constitutionalism of Israel is peculiar and I
think defective, but it does have some

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parallels to some defects of our own
judicial politics in America. Second, the

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politics of it not only internally to
Israel, which we can break out into

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its parts. But also there's an
international demand. I mean, you know,

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Joe Biden has stuck his nose in
the middle of this, saying,

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you know, Net and Yahoo in
the ruling government is is raw and it

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should change course. I mean,
how often do we stick our nose into

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the constitutional deliberations of another country like
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very often? Quite well, all
that just did. I mean, there's

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talk about whether our State Department,
whether certain American NGOs is they're called,

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have been agitating for some of these
massive street protests. So there's those two

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parts are quite ominous, and I'm
barely scratched the surface here on either one

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of those. So let me add
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background. On the substance of it. First of all, I don't sure

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how many of our listeners know that
Israel does not have a written constitution.

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That's one of the only went three
or four countries that doesn't. I was

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gonna say, now, how many
countries actually do have a written constitution?

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Most they now, yes, yes, yeah, it. What Israel does

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have is what they call basic laws, which is kind of the way Germany

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stumbled their way to a constitutional order
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Germany and but the basic law is
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by a majority vote in the Knnesset, their parliament. So it's kind of

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a copy of the British system,
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the British concutions and the common law. Right, they'll say that they're kind

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of based on common law, but
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the second point, which is their
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power over the years with doctrines,
very expansive judicial doctrines that sound kind of

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like the abuses of our fourteenth Amendment. It's very activist court. They decide

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a lot of political questions. I
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mad at our courts sometimes for getting
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has gotten much more aggressive, and
they have no case in controversy rule correct,

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that's right. They have very expansive
standing rules and they can sort of

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take things up on their own.
They have a what sounds like our version

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of a compelling state interests doctrine accepted
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You know, as everyone knows,
our justices federal judges appointed by the President,

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confirmed by the Senate. It's not
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the judges and judges of the High
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They have a committee that is dominated
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successors with some outside input from a
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but they dominate the proceeding. They
have the votes. And I mean,

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imagine if we let our Supreme Court
justices pick their successors. I'm okay

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with Clarence Thomas R. Yeah,
I get that too. But in other

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words, it's a largely self Sorry
Steve, I know I interrupted it,

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but I have to interrupt one more
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the left in that regard. I
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institution of American government, to revolve
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and if it, if it destroys
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long as I get what I want, Okay, Yeah, all right,

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Right, Well, finally, for
Now this links up to the first one.

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The Israeli political system is pretty dysfunctional. You know, they have proportional

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representation in the Knesset, but this
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You know, first past the post
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things in Israel. If you get
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John, it's four or five percent, you get seats in the Knesset.

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You have these minor parties who have
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you know that makes the Cannesse.
It's somewhat dysfunctional. It causes problems for

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the cabinet, and the court has
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of Richard Neely's books in the nineteen
eighties. I don't know ever came across

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him. Johnny's forgotten now, but
he was the chief Justice of the West

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Virginia Supreme Court. Naturally I got
to meet him if times. You wrote

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a book in the mid eighties called
Why Courts Governed America? And his basic

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answer was because the rest of the
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can see the argument there, and
there's some truth to that. But that's

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really true. In Israel, the
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as the second branch or the second
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sort of institutional excuse me, and
constitutional structure of the and political structure of

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the controversy. But then there's the
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these huge demonstrations in the streets,
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You heard that some reservist in the
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our weekly reserved duty and other things
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is really depends on for readiness and
so forth. And behind all this is

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conservative forces in demographic and other reasons
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the Labor Party has almost disappeared.
The Labor Party which dominated Israeli politics for

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what more than thirty years, and
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lot of kids, and the reverse
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thought was going to deliver them majorities
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the right leaning parties, the demographic
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future. And so part of what's
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the Israeli left is digging in its
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like the Federalists in eighteen oh one. I think I think there is a

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parallel there, right, Yeah,
no, I think that's wait at that's

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said point number one, point number
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way, the argument they don't use
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to recreate that dynamic, because,
by the way, what's being proposed to

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change how the court has come posed
and so forth entirely harmonious with the basic

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laws of Israel. They're you know, unwritten constitution. But they're trying to

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draw parallel to court packing with Roosevelt
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proposal was entirely constitutional but unacceptable politically. They're trying to duplicate that. But

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these protests are happening in the street
um and the possible international involvement of including

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the President Biden. I see this
as the forces of the administrative states circling

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the wagons against a quite justified attack
on their presumptions on their power base and

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so forth. So that's bo.
There's a lot there, but I think

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let's have another forty five minutes of
setting up the question, all right.

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Also, who wants to go first? John's been taking notes. I'm gonna

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I'm not sure about the politics of
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At least. One is this shows
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written constitution. So that's the basic
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They have this idea that the court
construct can strike down, but it goes

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beyond unconstitutional. They even think that
the Supreme Court that can stop what it

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considers unreasonable quote unquote unreasonable actions of
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to office, not just justices.
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It can attempt to block the appointment
of a cabinet mister, because they

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find that candidate unreasonable. But the
problem is not judicial review per se.

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The problem is that the judicial review
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so there's no anchor. Plus,
and this goes to Lucretia's point. Don't

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they have standing? Don't they have
you know, don't they require certain questions

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to be asked. It's also this
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cases or controversies between parties over the
meaning of the written constitution. So what

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you have instead, then is this
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that they are protecting democracy trademark from
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since you haven't written down the constitution, there's no source of a legitimate authority

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that undergird's judicial review. So I
think that's worse than cooper versus erin you

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know, at least even in coopery, we can have an argument about is

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this the right meaning of right the
equal protection Constitution? Yet? Right who?

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And why does each branch of government
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it? The problem I think that
the Supreme Israel and the lawyers don't want

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the problem is they don't want to
written constitution because if you've ever written constitution,

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the judiciary cannot actually lay claim to
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here. So that's a major constitution
issues in terms of design. I actually

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think that what the yah Who's party
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not going to have a written constitution. If all that the legist the courts

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here are is interpreting basic laws which
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Parliament overrule a Supreme Court decision?
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They never had a founding moment where
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of the entire Israeli people. And
I don't see why it's unreasonable then to

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also say, well, if all
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and we can overrule, why can't
we have a political process for picking the

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judges too? Right, all they
wanted to do, I mean the idea

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that the judges and the Bar Association
would be right the people who are and

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law professors are on that committee too, I think that picks the judges.

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Yes, so it's this weird.
It's weird. This is weird combination where

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the judges are openly political. So
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pretending that they're sort of picking a
bureaucratic judge based on merit in some way,

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based on some kind of non political
professional standards. So it seems to

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me that until you have ever written
constitution. Then it is politics and policy

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they're doing. They should be subject
to overworld by parliament, and that yahoo

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and the rust of the political process
should have the major saying who sits on

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that bench. It seems perfectly for
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It seems perfectly reasonable to me.
But of course, the point is

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that the Israeli Supreme Court is very
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it were not, we would not
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We would And as long as it
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I think from our own experience,
we have to see that whenever judicial true

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judicial activism, however you want to
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progressive in nature, right, That's
the whole point of activism is to be

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progressive the living constitution or the living
non constitution. We want to make sure

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there is a body that is not
constrained by institutions and constitutions, that can

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see to it that our policy preferences
are ideological preferences, are put into law,

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put into practice, put into policy. And that's what I think is

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most instructive about what's happening in Israel
is how very very close it is to

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what we are seeing happen today in
the United States. And it's across the

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board, not just our Supreme Court. Of course, everybody's upset now with

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our own Supreme Court because of Dabs
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no longer a complete bastion of the
left. And if it's not going to

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be a bastion of the left,
why on earth would we continue to support

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it? Right? And I think
Israel is in the same situation. They've

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just got a much much more corrupt
sort of system to work with, much

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more easily to manipulate, and no
option as the way at least you guys

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described it for fixing it easily without
uh, you know, short of outside

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interference by Natanya who our parliament or
whatever. You know, we fixed our

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own constant Supreme Court by changing who
was appointed to it. It took a

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long time, and a lot of
people committed to it. A very long

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time, and a very lot of
people committed to it. And we put

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people on that court we thought would
be good and they weren't and they made

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things worse. And so I mean, it took a very long time in

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America, it doesn't seem like in
Israel there's any hope for that. So

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the Kristia has your view that if
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Katangi Brown Jackson, there would be
out of here. But Katangi Brown

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Jackson was the leader of the Israeli
Supreme Court. Now you're saying there wouldn't

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be all this fuss and bother because
the liberals are only upset because it's conservatives

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are trying to contain a liberal judiciary. Flip it around, and then all

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the media scholars of Bide administration perfectly
happy, happy with a right a liberal

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activist Israeli judiciary or American judiciary.
Yes, but the moment it became if

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we actually sent Clarence Thomas over to
take over the Israeli Supreme Court, I

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don't think he's Jewish. I actually
believe he's Catholic like me. But if

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he were Jewish and they sent him
over to Israel and he took over the

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Supreme Court, and then he chose
the people who would follow him, I

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don't imagine that the Biden administration we
would be supporting the protesters. There's I

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heard somebody today on the radio say, stop calling it hypocrisy on the part

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of the left. Stop calling it
hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is not hypocrisy is a

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means, It is just part of
the game plan. It is not the

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goal. They are after power,
power, simply speaking, and hypocrisy means

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nothing to them. You can't do
what Steve likes to do, and I

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always kind of give him a hard
time even though I agree with him.

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Oh what if what if we substituted
think about maybe the Tennessee instance, What

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if we said that this was a
white ring, white right wing proud boy,

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probably right who had committed these We
know what, how how very different

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this all would be. That's I
mean, it's trite, not that he's

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not that when Steve says he didn't
say that, but things like that,

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he's not absolutely correct. But it
doesn't even matter because the left is not

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embarrassed by hypocrisy. It's just a
method. The same way in Israel,

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if if that was a conservative Supreme
Court, there would not be those protests,

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and our Biden administration wouldn't be supporting
the protesters. It's nothing about institutions.

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Well, in one other point of
Christian made, which is something I've

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thought about. I even wrote a
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There he ever paid attention to.
No, it's no, you didn't

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know. You don't even pretend I
don't. I know there's this to me

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there. I share her view that
there's this kind of international progressive movement.

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It's not just an American thing.
In fact that you could say the genesis

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of it comes from Europe and it's
come here. It's also come to Israel.

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Yeah, from you know, from
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But it is this idea and the
book I read this was it was

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just fundamentally inconsistent with American constitutionalism.
But the idea is just like we see

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domestically, you're seeing it Israel,
you see it internationally. It's this idea

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that modern life is too difficult,
that questions are too hard to leave up

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to the people, that we have
to appoint experts. In this case,

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he is really judiciary, not the
condescent, which, for all all the

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faults that has that Steve mentioned,
is like a here parliamentary system, right

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really, I mean it is a
very dem majoritarian democratic system. And actually

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the Israeli judiciary, being a progressive, doesn't want decision social policy and decisions

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made by an elected body, because
they're too crass and vulgar. They think

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they know best, and so the
progressive elites should answer all the questions.

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And the further removed from the democratic
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an international movement in a way.
Yeah, many years ago, when I

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was an undergraduate student, I had
a professor who had been an admiral m

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in the navy, you know,
blah blah blah, and he was supposedly

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a conservative, and he, I
mean, I remember him saying that we

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shouldn't be Why would we support Israel? Why? Why why would American foreign

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policy support Israel all the all they
bring to the table or oranges. So

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I went to my mentor, who
you both know, and I said,

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this doesn't make any sense to me. Why you know, why why do

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conservatives dislike dislike Israel? And then
then bigger conversation was why are Jews liberal?

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Why are they progressive? And that's
getting to what this is how the

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conversation went. What you just said
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the answer is that there's something about
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and because progressivism is in fact the
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the hierarchy, and progressivism is the
orthodoxy. You find many American Jews,

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and now what we're seeing, of
course, are more and more Israeli Jews

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reaching out and finding comfort, not
in what's actually in their interest, you

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know, against Iran all these things, but looking for that comforting orthodox.

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See that's not a religious orthodoxy,
now, of course, it's a secular

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Orthodoxy. I don't know if there's
anything to that, but I've thought about

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it for forty years and a lot
of times it provides an answer to me

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that when I can't figure it out
any other way. I know, we

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have a lot of really excellent,
very very intelligent Jewish listeners, so I'm

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interested if they want to provide some
comments. Not saying every Jew thinks it's

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late, but so I'm not Jewish, although Koreans are sometimes called the Jews

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of Asia. But yeah, I
don't know if you've read that. It

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really so, I know if you've
read this book, you know, the

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famous put Hearts book Wired Jews so
liberal, And he doesn't attach it to

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any of this. He think it's
because Jews has still have a fear of

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fundamentalist Christians, and so as in
his arguments, as fundamentalist Christians became a

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bigger part of the Republican Party,
and I became very conservative. Jews moved

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and he asked because he says something
like Nixon got something like forty four percent

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of the Jewish vote, So he
was wondering, why has that fallen so

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steeply? Uh, you know,
I just as just I've always wanted to.

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I've always talked with friends about writing
a book called why are Asians so

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stupid? Because because Asians are really
good and lots of stuff. Asians are

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right right, but they vote against
their self interest, which is the American

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interest all the time. Yeah.
In fact, I believe in the last

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polls I saw Asians voted more liberal
than Jews. Asians are Um, yeah,

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00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:41.880
they actually showed the lowest movement.
I think Black and Hispanics actually moved

407
00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:48.359
more towards Trump in the last election
than Asians did. I can't explain why

408
00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:51.680
are they so dumb? Well,
I'm not good at taking tests, but

409
00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:55.640
yeah, which we're gonna get rid
of. Well, I mean I think

410
00:31:55.680 --> 00:32:00.519
that's changing. But we'll see um
on certain particular issues, it's aging gray

411
00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:05.640
fast like Prop sixteen to roll back
affirmative action, Asians against it. They

412
00:32:05.640 --> 00:32:09.640
crime crime against what's his name,
the boutine. They're the ones who got

413
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:14.720
bootine we called boutine, that's right
in Francisco. And and also to boot

414
00:32:14.759 --> 00:32:19.799
out the three crazy members of the
school board. So they're also more educated

415
00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:22.759
in the universities are the most destructive
force in society, I think right now.

416
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:27.079
So I think that might explain some
of it. Yeah, I mean

417
00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:30.279
that's what some people think. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what the

418
00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:32.960
fallout is from the Harvard UNC cases
if those cases go as we hope.

419
00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:39.279
Look, the sort of you know, ethnic voting loyalty has long been a

420
00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:43.720
puzzle. I mean it was more
than fifty years ago, more than that

421
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:46.359
now. I think it was Milton
himmel Farm, you know, Gertrude's brother.

422
00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:50.039
I gather who's sad. I think
it was him. Maybe it's pot

423
00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:52.640
Hearts, but I think it was
Meriton himmel Farm, who was supposedly sad

424
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:58.240
in the fifties. Jews live like
Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans. I

425
00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:00.759
always thought was a great block.
Yeah, that's some parts, that's part.

426
00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:04.400
Yeah, so I wrote, I'll
tell you sorry. I wrote a

427
00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:07.559
piece for a newspaper about why the
Asians vote Democratic, and I said,

428
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:13.119
to take off on the line.
I said, uh, Asians are rich

429
00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:17.920
like Episcopalians. Um, there they
have the the there they have the morals

430
00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:22.920
of Mormons. But they vote like
Puerto Ricans. Yeah, And so the

431
00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:27.880
editor of my piece maybe stripped that
line out as too offensive. Of course,

432
00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:32.599
although it's it's not entirely I don't
think it's entirely true that that Asians

433
00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:37.160
are all I mean a lot of
them. There are a lot of sort

434
00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:39.400
of you know, working class Asians
around, a lot of the recent immigrants.

435
00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:45.160
And also, again, what do
we classifies Asians at one point thirty

436
00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:52.279
or whatever it's called. Yeah that
yeah, at one point. And this

437
00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:54.640
is true. I think in the
eighties, at one point in California,

438
00:33:54.799 --> 00:34:00.680
somebody figured out that something like seventy
five percent of the independent donut shops in

439
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:05.519
California were owned and run by Cambodians
who arrived very recently. It was the

440
00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:13.559
thing. They all independent and U
and Chinese food shops. Yeah, okay,

441
00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:17.760
to be like five of those in
the little town I lived in California

442
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:21.599
by the way. But by the
way. The other thing is a lot

443
00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:27.239
of the motels in California were run
not just by Indians, but Indians from

444
00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:30.559
a single province in India because it
was part of the dias for they all.

445
00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:35.360
Someone came first and said, this
motel business is a great business.

446
00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:37.320
The rest of the people in the
province probably hate that guy now and they

447
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:42.679
all know each other and fly.
But let me go back to something John

448
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:44.760
said for just a mean I know
you probably want to move on, see,

449
00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:51.400
but the cares. Yeah. I
know, the comment about Evangelical Christians,

450
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:54.440
whatever you want to say, being
the enemies of Jews. I think

451
00:34:55.519 --> 00:35:00.400
I could have understood that maybe thirty
five forty year years ago, but I

452
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:04.400
don't think it's true today. Let
me go back to thirty five. I

453
00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:07.880
have a really good friend who is
who's Jewish, who his first wife was

454
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:10.800
Catholic, and he and I were
sitting laughing about it one day. He's

455
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:15.920
a great guy, and he said
when he went to meet his future ex

456
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:21.559
wife's parents for the first time,
he walked in the door, she introduced

457
00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:27.079
him, and the mom says,
honey, make sure you hide the nails

458
00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:34.960
and the hammer. Oh God,
what a great guy. My friend is

459
00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:37.719
that he laughed about it and moved
on and actually married the woman. But

460
00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:45.760
anyway, so that was not necessarily
uncommon a long time ago. What I

461
00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:52.599
find today is the most support for
Israel, for sure, in amongst very

462
00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:57.960
right wing Christians. Am I wrong
on that sentiment, No, it was

463
00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.840
so. I mean, I've been
around some it's been a few years ago

464
00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:06.199
now, but some pretty left wing
Jews who are strong historical Zionists, strong

465
00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:08.440
supporters of the State of Israel.
They all hate Net and Yahoo. So

466
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:13.960
they're deeply conflicted about things right and
I think, and by the way,

467
00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:15.599
they're usually then incoherent, didn't know
what they were, didn't know what to

468
00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:19.400
do. It was. It was
really kind of startling. So, John,

469
00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:22.400
you mentioned Nixon doing well. I
don't remember the Nixon figures. Well,

470
00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:24.079
Nixon did well with everybody in seventy
two, But in nineteen eighty,

471
00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:29.639
a close election some ways, Reagan
got almost forty percent of the Jewish vote,

472
00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:32.800
also very high. And that's because
the Carter administration had been so openly

473
00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:37.519
hostile to Israel. I'm wondering about
the current moment. I mean, the

474
00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:42.920
Democrats are so openly hostile the Israel. Well exactly. I say, I've

475
00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:46.840
had a long head of theory that
Joe Biden is a closet anti semit and

476
00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:51.760
you can and this goes back a
long way. So, first of all,

477
00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:55.880
publicly you can find on YouTube Manacham
began at a hearing in the Senate

478
00:36:55.960 --> 00:37:00.119
sometime in the eighties and his Prime
Minister and Biden's after him about you know,

479
00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:04.639
you take all this American aid and
yet you're you know, you're mean

480
00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:07.440
the Palestinians and Bagan he was a
tough guy. I mean, Reagan isn't

481
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:10.159
here for h much. Nobody did. But Bacon says, keep your money.

482
00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:13.320
We don't need your money. You
know, you know, I'm only

483
00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:16.280
government a self interested you know,
really publicly, Ah, now, behind

484
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:20.039
closed doors. I was told by
someone who was a top aide to Bob

485
00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:22.559
Dole about the same time they were
a private meeting a handful of senators in

486
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:28.760
Bagon doesn't agree with you, what
I don't agree with you? Oh you're

487
00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:32.599
doing that whole business right. They're
in they're in this meeting with uh And

488
00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:36.880
it might have been one of those
nice Senate cloak rooms of the fireplace going

489
00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:39.079
and there's you know, six or
eight senators and Biden gets into it again

490
00:37:39.159 --> 00:37:45.440
with Bagan. I'm told by this
aid to Dole and I forget exactly what

491
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:49.599
Biden said, but whatever it did
is set off Bagan and something about the

492
00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:53.559
Holocaust that maybe Biden. You can
imagine Biden being the morony is even back

493
00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:59.079
then saying, you know what you're
doing the Palestinians in Lebanon and elsewhere,

494
00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:02.199
is you know, a model to
day Holocaust, and began snaps at him

495
00:38:02.199 --> 00:38:05.480
and says, don't you talk to
me about a Holocaust? Is you know

496
00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:08.400
when my people were being you know, exterminated by the Germans, what were

497
00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:13.119
you doing? You and you and
your family were sitting around your fireplaces in

498
00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:16.360
Pennsylvania doing nothing. I mean,
he got right into his face about it,

499
00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:20.760
and I kind of thought, you
know, whatever else, Joe Biden,

500
00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:22.519
maybe I'll but he didn't like all
that, and I'll bet he filed

501
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:25.840
that away. And now it is
his revenge and he doesn't like net and

502
00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:30.960
Yahoo any better. And for him
for Biden to say publicly what he's been

503
00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:37.159
saying about this is absolutely outrageous.
Talk about not respecting another country's sovereignty.

504
00:38:37.639 --> 00:38:42.199
Aside from the merits of any of
the issues, and the Obama administration interfering

505
00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:45.039
with the Net and Yahoo election last
time. I mean, they're all despicable

506
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:49.239
pieces of you know what. I'm
so done with them. I'm so done

507
00:38:49.239 --> 00:38:52.039
with them. I'm so done with
them. I can't even tell you.

508
00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:55.480
But I think I do want to
move on. I think I think what

509
00:38:55.559 --> 00:38:59.239
has happened though, is a defeat
for Net and Yahoo and the reformers this

510
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:02.840
week. I think they're well,
let's have discussions, and I suspect that's

511
00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:07.280
going to mean they've lost. Is
my unfortunate prediction and things. Oh well,

512
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:10.679
this is bad, too bad,
not good. Yeah, they have

513
00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:15.760
a lot of forces a raid against
them right now, yes, yeah,

514
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:21.000
yeah, okay, all right,
any last words on this? No,

515
00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:24.159
all right, no move on,
Steve. Well, okay, so,

516
00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:30.079
uh, you know, somebody said
I thought it was brilliant Trump really should

517
00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:32.920
have shot somebody on Fifth Avenue because
Alvin Bragg never would have indubted in for

518
00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:38.199
that. You know, I'm a
look like a point that I can't laugh

519
00:39:38.239 --> 00:39:43.320
about this anymore. I mean,
it's this is serious, John. You

520
00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:46.239
know, we've had we've jokingly talked
about whether or not we should be at

521
00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:51.760
the point of revolution. But a
couple of weeks ago, when this was

522
00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:53.880
or whatever it was a week ago, when this is sort of starting to

523
00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:59.159
bubble up to the surface, you
did have Democrats who are willing to come

524
00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:02.039
out and say this would be a
bad idea, etc. Etc. Since

525
00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:07.039
yes, well, this will be
on set. So since Thursday, when

526
00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:12.400
this announcement came out, you haven't
seen a single prominent Democrat willing to come

527
00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:19.239
out and say this is this is
banana republic stuff, this is ridiculous,

528
00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:22.679
this is you know, you don't
have to like Trump. You've heard a

529
00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:25.000
lot of Republicans with that kind of
wishy washy I don't like Trump, but

530
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:29.880
this is bad, you'd think Democrats. But they can't do that anymore.

531
00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:36.639
They simply cannot. And the fact
that we're actually talking about this ridiculous indictment

532
00:40:36.679 --> 00:40:40.639
and what is it, thirty charges
and you know what I hear all the

533
00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:44.559
time, I'll finish this and then
you guys can come in, you know,

534
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:46.880
all the time twenty four hours of
coverage of this. At least now

535
00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:51.679
that you know this is good for
Trump. Let's see, he made one

536
00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:57.800
hundred million dollars since the announcement of
the indictment. Hold on, I got

537
00:40:57.800 --> 00:41:02.440
to get the right. The windfall
for the stock price of Digital World Acquisition

538
00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:07.840
Corps, which closed at thirteen oh
six on Thursday, was trading as high

539
00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:12.599
as fourteen forty four today or Friday, excuse me. During Wall Street session,

540
00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:20.000
Trump and his Technology Media Technology Group
owned seventy three point three million shares

541
00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:24.800
at thirteen dollars a share, ticking
up to fourteen forty four a share,

542
00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:34.000
the value as Trump's steak jumped more
than one hundred million dollars overnight. Okay,

543
00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:37.840
but all you know, and then
there was an entire thing all day

544
00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:42.079
long about how does this affect the
twenty twenty four election. I get it,

545
00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:45.360
it does, It's obvious. But
what we really should be talking about

546
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:49.440
is what we used to know as
a country committed to the rule of law

547
00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:53.599
has turned into Chiquita Banana Republic.
And there's no doubt about it. I

548
00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:59.199
mean, when I make that joke, I'm yes, Well, you know,

549
00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:02.519
as a sort of a dabbler and
game theory, I think we need

550
00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:07.920
some district attorney in Idaho to bring
charges right away against Hunter Biden, maybe

551
00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:09.719
Joe Biden. I mean, I
don't know. I mean the point is

552
00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:15.119
go ahead. Sorry, So here's
here's your I'm gonna shock the both of

553
00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:20.599
you by this. I am absolutely
conflicted. There's nothing I despise worse than

554
00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:25.079
the Mitt Romney gentleman of the world
who are just a little too squishy and

555
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:30.239
nice to want to bring the fight
where it needs to be. But we

556
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:35.480
are so far beyond this being just
a political battle where you do get out

557
00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:42.599
under under cover of the institutions,
and we are we have destroyed the institutions.

558
00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:47.280
Do we want our side to come
out and say, Okay, all

559
00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:52.760
all bets are off. We're gonna
indict Hunter. We're gonna indict Nancy Pelosi.

560
00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:55.400
We're gonna indict Joe Biden. We're
gonna indict every single one of the

561
00:42:55.519 --> 00:43:01.840
We're gonna indict Mitch McConnell. We're
gonna indict on and on and on right,

562
00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:06.199
and we're gonna do it. We're
gonna put every single one of those

563
00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:08.119
people in jail, and we are
going to we are going to turn politics

564
00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:13.559
into We're going to turn the judicial
system into a political tool against our enemies,

565
00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:16.360
and we are going to fight it
just as much as the left does

566
00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:20.920
I'm not prepared to do that,
guys, and I want to fight more

567
00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:24.960
than anybody, you know. I
don't know what even to say about it.

568
00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:30.239
It's so awful the position we're in. So John, you're always my

569
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:37.719
squish on this. What do you
think? Well, first, my hope

570
00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:42.599
is that the federal courts. Oh
my god, is that a real AR

571
00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:51.519
fifteen one of her weapons? Yeah? Okay, that's any badger from Yes,

572
00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:53.719
it's real. For what for my
friends out there who know about guns?

573
00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:58.440
And it's right next to me.
In case when my call for revolution

574
00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:01.960
on this podcast actually ends up with
the FBI and the ADF at my door,

575
00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:08.239
I'm not going easy kidding the FCC
sending people after you after I will

576
00:44:08.280 --> 00:44:14.960
not go gently the night. So
here's my hope. My hope is that

577
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:20.400
the federal courts actually will intervene either
the Supreme hopefully the Supreme Court to put

578
00:44:20.440 --> 00:44:24.840
a stop to this. And here's
why. Is because because it's so political,

579
00:44:25.039 --> 00:44:28.760
because the case is so weak,
and we can have an argument where

580
00:44:28.760 --> 00:44:32.199
there are other investigations and the trump
which are more deserving or more weighty in

581
00:44:32.280 --> 00:44:37.840
the reserves around work, more important
and weighty. But this is so a

582
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:40.440
little bit of evidence. Right,
Yeah, this is so frivolous and trivial

583
00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:47.039
that Bragg is I think the DA
in New York. Bragg has got to

584
00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:52.320
twist the law so far that he's
violing the Constitution. So I wrote a

585
00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:54.840
piece this week about this, saying
there's actually within all this, I think

586
00:44:54.840 --> 00:45:01.079
a Trump get out of jail free
cart, which is remember, Bragg has

587
00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:06.880
already missed the two year time clock
he had on bringing this case. You

588
00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:09.320
only have two years after the commission
of a misdemeanor in New York to bring

589
00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:15.760
the case. He missed that by
five years. But he supposedly so yeah,

590
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:19.599
no, not outvating it. But
he's also arguing that because Trump was

591
00:45:19.599 --> 00:45:24.280
out of the jurisdiction, um that
allows him to extend, extend the statue

592
00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:28.360
of limitations. Of course, Trump
was out of the jurisdiction because he happened

593
00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:32.920
to be in Washington, d C. Command. Also, he came back

594
00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:36.480
to the jurisdiction all the time.
I mean, it wasn't like he didn't

595
00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:38.760
come back to New York City.
Yeah. So, you know, but

596
00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:43.199
to try to elevate it into a
federal felony, you know, because it's

597
00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:47.719
a campaign finance violation, it's actually
unconstitutional my view, I think the Supreme

598
00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:54.880
Court has said only federal prosecutors can
enforce federal law. State prosecutors like Bragg

599
00:45:55.280 --> 00:46:00.000
are not allowed to enforce further law
because they can't be controlled by the executive

600
00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:05.760
branch. You can't fire Bragg for
misinterpreting and misapplying federal law. And that's

601
00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:13.360
the only way the executive branch makes
sure that they interpret and enforce federal statutes

602
00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:17.199
in a uniform manner. If Justice
Scalia took a case about this called Prince

603
00:46:17.320 --> 00:46:22.280
and he made this clear in the
opinion, and then to put the flip

604
00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:23.920
side on it, I mean,
I think the three of US don't like

605
00:46:24.039 --> 00:46:30.559
the outcome of this case Arizona versus
US, where Arizona made it a state

606
00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:34.880
crime to violate federal immigration law,
right, they made it a misdemeanor in

607
00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:38.599
fact, and the Court said,
no, states can't try to enforce federal

608
00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:45.559
law by dragging it in to state
law because that undermines executive control over federal

609
00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:52.599
So it seems to me Bragg's prosecution
actually violates that fundamental principle. Maybe Trump

610
00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:57.400
will have to take a year or
longer to get that issue to the US

611
00:46:57.480 --> 00:47:01.280
Supreme Court. But God seems to
me that the federal courts will will have

612
00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:06.599
to stop this prosecution and then but
right like, but what it has done

613
00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:13.000
is it does provide Trump with the
golden opportunity because he's correct in this moment

614
00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:16.760
that all these prosecutions are politicized against
him, and that we're huns and they're

615
00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:22.280
not really prosecutors fairly and equally enforcing
the law. They're just like um,

616
00:47:23.199 --> 00:47:28.360
the guy Barria who was the head
of the Secret Service under Stalin, who

617
00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:31.400
said show me the man and I'll
show you the crime, rather than what

618
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:37.000
a prosecutor. That's fundamentally against the
norms of prosecution. Remember what Nancy Pelosi

619
00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:42.400
said. I know Steve wasn't way
in, but just really quickly, Nancy

620
00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:45.039
Pelosi tweets out, well, at
least Trump has a chance to prove his

621
00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:52.880
innocence in court. Was that amazing? Yeah? Look, the deep cynic

622
00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:55.480
in me thinks there's two two sides. Having just said game three a minute

623
00:47:55.480 --> 00:48:00.440
ago, the deep synic in me
thinks that who knows whether bag was consulted

624
00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:05.159
or advised by Democrats up the food
chain. This is a good idea.

625
00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:09.480
It's a bad idea, but the
cynic in me says a lot of Pelosi

626
00:48:09.960 --> 00:48:15.880
they're hoping for, I think riots, violence, bad behavior, so they

627
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:21.760
can say CC it's January sixth all
over again. It's those mega extremist insurrectionists.

628
00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:25.039
And it wouldn't surprise me if you
know, some ANTIFA cells are ginned

629
00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:28.639
up to try and make that happen
on the other side of the street.

630
00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:31.119
If I'm Trump, I think to
your point, John, that this is

631
00:48:31.159 --> 00:48:37.320
all politicized prosecution. It's it might
be in his cynical and short term interest

632
00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:42.039
to play along with it rather than
appeal right away to whatever the first supposedly

633
00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:45.079
going to show up on Tuesday,
right showing up to surrender himself. Yeah,

634
00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:47.639
I think he likes to play that
out rather than because I mean,

635
00:48:47.679 --> 00:48:52.400
I don't know. I could see
a federal judge this weekend doing what you

636
00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:54.440
say, John, striking down this
and then it has to go up to

637
00:48:54.519 --> 00:48:57.840
and I think, by the way, the appeal sports would hear it very

638
00:48:57.840 --> 00:49:01.199
fast. For the obvious reason that
you wish to be gore in two thousand.

639
00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:04.800
There's an urgency to it. You
want to get this cleared away before

640
00:49:05.199 --> 00:49:07.360
an honest to god presidential election campaign
starts. But I think Trump might want

641
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:10.320
to play it out for his own
reason. Yeah, can I add this?

642
00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:15.400
Two mochia valiant thoughts occurred to me. One is Trump may not mind

643
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:19.320
this, right, it might be
a golden opportunity because he's done well when

644
00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:22.000
he's the victim, as he's been
here, the subject of two and failed

645
00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:27.280
impeachments, the subject of the failed
Muller probe, this subject of the failed

646
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:34.199
Russia hoax. Right, this is
another opportunity. If you guys were saying

647
00:49:34.280 --> 00:49:38.639
last podcast episode, he's back around
fifty percent now of the primary Republican primary

648
00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:43.239
voters. He's gained like ten points
or something in the last week or two

649
00:49:43.679 --> 00:49:46.519
or the last month because of all
this. The other machiavellian pointy, I

650
00:49:46.559 --> 00:49:52.440
wonder what you guys think about this
is what if Bragg or as advisors are

651
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:55.800
being very machiavellian. They think that
if Trump wins, Biden will win.

652
00:49:57.400 --> 00:50:00.920
If Trump becomes a nominee, that
means Biden. So me, is this

653
00:50:00.039 --> 00:50:07.360
not some kind of secret double jiu
jitsu by the Democrats to basically make sure

654
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:09.880
that Trump wins the nomination. So
because they're confident they can beat them.

655
00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:15.119
They'd rather run against Trump than against
a Sanus. It seems to me an

656
00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:22.599
other, But I think that there
might be a slightly less comprehensive way to

657
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:24.599
look at that. I guess it
might be the way to say it,

658
00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:29.719
and that is that what are we
talking about right now? We're not talking

659
00:50:29.760 --> 00:50:36.639
about how pathetic Biden is, How
is foreign policy as an unmitigated disaster,

660
00:50:36.719 --> 00:50:42.960
how his economic policy is an unmitigated
disaster. How you know there's all of

661
00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:46.800
these problems at the Biden administration,
the border on and on and on,

662
00:50:47.559 --> 00:50:52.559
another trained derailment in Minnesota, which
is not a flyover state. It is

663
00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:55.400
a flyover state, but it's not
a left it's not a right wing state.

664
00:50:55.719 --> 00:51:00.320
There's all of these problems that if
people were actually paying attention end to

665
00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:02.800
what was going on in the Biden
administration, it's coming out, how it's

666
00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:08.599
coming out about hunters, coming out
about Biden Comber's investigations in the House.

667
00:51:09.679 --> 00:51:15.440
The CDC said today that they're not
going to force little children to get the

668
00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:20.519
COVID vaccine. People start to realize
that this whole thing has been a skim

669
00:51:20.639 --> 00:51:23.760
There's just everything. But what are
we talking about we're talking about Trump.

670
00:51:24.519 --> 00:51:29.840
Yeah, so Trump seven. This
is a this is a good point.

671
00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:34.320
I wonder if this will reach a
point of diminishing returns. But right now,

672
00:51:35.320 --> 00:51:38.559
Biden's poll ratings have fallen back to
the lowest ever as a general approval

673
00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:42.639
and on specific issues, they're just
in the basement, you know, immigration,

674
00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:46.039
economy, all the rest. And
it's true that the Marlago raid last

675
00:51:46.079 --> 00:51:50.719
summer got the heat off of Biden
for a while. That was not accidental,

676
00:51:50.840 --> 00:51:52.239
I think in a lot of ways. So how long can you keep

677
00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:54.480
doing all that, especially if,
as I think, we're going to have

678
00:51:54.519 --> 00:52:00.039
a recession here in six months.
So, yeah, that's right. I

679
00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:04.199
think they want to. You can
tell by reading excuse me, I'm still

680
00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:07.079
fighting off a bug. You can
tell by reading the leftist press, the

681
00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:10.039
New Republic, the Nation, the
Washington Post. They're terrified of the Santists

682
00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:14.320
because they recognize that, you know, he's a competent guy, he's young,

683
00:52:14.440 --> 00:52:17.000
he's vigorous, you can serve two
terms, et cetera. Okay,

684
00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:22.760
Well, the worst thing that could
happen, though, would be for Trump

685
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:30.800
and de Santists to stop being enemies
and at least to be cooperative like happened

686
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:35.280
today when descantists came out in support
of Trump. So so it just shows

687
00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:38.079
you how stupid the left is really
when it comes down to it. But

688
00:52:38.599 --> 00:52:43.079
I do think that, you know, they assumed that they could get people

689
00:52:43.119 --> 00:52:46.199
to stop thinking about everything that's bad
the problem I have. I'll be honest

690
00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:50.480
with you though, guys, I
don't want to talk about the politics of

691
00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:53.599
it. I want to talk about
how truly evil this whole thing is.

692
00:52:54.360 --> 00:53:00.800
Um And maybe the other thing I'll
mention that the Trump indictment took off of

693
00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:07.559
the national news was the the Democrats
reaction to the Tennessee shootings. I was

694
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:09.559
just going to bring our tell you, but I wanted to make sure that

695
00:53:09.639 --> 00:53:14.679
you saw that connection. I mean, when when the Democrats come out and

696
00:53:14.760 --> 00:53:21.400
say, let's feel sorry for transgender
people who are being whatever after they've killed,

697
00:53:21.480 --> 00:53:27.840
after a transgender freak, mental mentally
ill freak decides to go into a

698
00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:34.440
Christian school and kill children, and
what does the stupid mop head piece of

699
00:53:34.519 --> 00:53:38.920
you know what, what's her name
again, John Paulsier whatever, sarta what's

700
00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:45.480
her name? Never mind? She
says, you know, we trans Yeah,

701
00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:50.400
that's it. Transgender people are under
attack everywhere. Well, first of

702
00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:53.239
all, transgender people should be under
attack. Let's stop praising these people.

703
00:53:53.280 --> 00:53:57.960
They're mentally ill freaks. Let's stop
encouraging them. Let's stop doing all of

704
00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:00.719
those things. Let's get the entire
country behind a movement that says no more

705
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:06.960
transgender celebration and worship and feel sorry
for the poor, pathetic things that can't

706
00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:08.760
seem to get beyond it. That's
where we ought to be, That's my

707
00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:15.079
opinion, and that's the last thing
they want. Well, I think there's,

708
00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:17.480
first of all, two observations.
One, you'll notice that for the

709
00:54:17.559 --> 00:54:22.079
media, the biggest dilemma of all
this wasn't the gun issue again, it

710
00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:27.440
was what gender do we use for
this person? They use either none or

711
00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:34.800
they bury it to the twentieth paragraph
in New York Times. Second, a

712
00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:38.280
bunch of activists, I'm not sure
how transgender. I'll just put to a

713
00:54:38.360 --> 00:54:44.480
transgender activists storm to Tennessee State legislature
late in the week because they were debating

714
00:54:44.519 --> 00:54:50.199
something germane to all this, and
they talked about seven victims in the school

715
00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:53.559
shooting. In other words, they
were counting the shooter as a victim.

716
00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:58.039
Yea brother, Yeah, so now
you know, I don't know. I

717
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.159
oh, I know. I keep
wondering if we have not possibly seen a

718
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:08.440
turning point here in this whole business. Scarce the left more than you can

719
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:13.280
imagine. Of course, this is
this is, of course, I'd like

720
00:55:13.320 --> 00:55:15.159
to say, it's the epitome of
everything they've been working for. But but

721
00:55:15.239 --> 00:55:22.559
as soon as we've become completely accepting
of transgenders and celebrating them and insisting that

722
00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:25.360
every child has to have the option
of becoming transgender without their parents' knowledge,

723
00:55:25.480 --> 00:55:30.159
we will then move on, I'm
sure, to bestiality. Oh well,

724
00:55:30.199 --> 00:55:35.199
you know, well you remember from
the eighties, I guess this brief flurry

725
00:55:35.239 --> 00:55:38.760
about the I think they still exist. The Man Boy Love Association never called

726
00:55:39.119 --> 00:55:45.639
nas Namba. Yeah, the enamel
these are yea. They made the ex

727
00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:46.800
flash in the eighties about you know, we got to get rid of the

728
00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:51.800
age of consent, and this is
coming back here and there right for real,

729
00:55:52.280 --> 00:55:55.360
here and there, Steve, what
are you talking about? It is

730
00:55:55.480 --> 00:55:59.639
If you are not embracing it,
you are a bigot. Yeah, of

731
00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:02.519
course, I mean there was I
know I talked about this once before,

732
00:56:02.559 --> 00:56:07.440
but that professor from wherever I mean, I shouldn't be surprised, because professors

733
00:56:07.480 --> 00:56:10.639
are the most despicable peace pole on
the planet next to leftist governmenting people.

734
00:56:10.679 --> 00:56:15.599
But anyway, who says, why
do we why? Why do we think

735
00:56:15.639 --> 00:56:21.840
there's something wrong with an adult forcing
a child to have sex with him or

736
00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:25.840
her? Yeah, if he or
she doesn't want to. We make children

737
00:56:25.960 --> 00:56:30.440
do things all the time. We
make a brother go visit, go to

738
00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:37.280
his sister's dance recital. Yeah,
I know that wasn't what was forcing them

739
00:56:37.360 --> 00:56:40.800
to have sex with you? Yeah. John doesn't even have a John.

740
00:56:42.079 --> 00:56:45.760
John's frozen. He has no comment
to that. I think he's been oblivious

741
00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:49.679
to that. There really are serious
people trying to mainstream pedophilia. Yeah,

742
00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:54.360
yeah, I never heard of this
before. It's crazy, really, And

743
00:56:54.519 --> 00:56:59.199
you live in the Bay Area,
which I know. And that's part of

744
00:56:59.280 --> 00:57:01.920
my theory on that. The way
that the left gets away with this stuff

745
00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:07.559
is that they actually keep it from
most people who have common sense and good

746
00:57:07.639 --> 00:57:14.039
judgment. They you know that unless
you really are willing to dig and find

747
00:57:14.119 --> 00:57:17.400
this out, or I guess look
at the new things I do, you

748
00:57:17.760 --> 00:57:22.679
will never see it. I do
think, I think, well, I

749
00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:27.400
do think we should draw a distinction
that has been erased between you know,

750
00:57:27.480 --> 00:57:30.760
I talk about because because you know, I know three or four people who

751
00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:36.480
are many years ago before this became
a big thing. Who did They went

752
00:57:36.599 --> 00:57:39.559
the whole what do you say,
the full monty, They had gender reassignment

753
00:57:39.719 --> 00:57:44.440
surgery. They went to Bangkok to
do it right, well, Belgium or

754
00:57:45.199 --> 00:57:47.360
Denmark in the nineties, right.
One of them, of course, is

755
00:57:47.400 --> 00:57:52.599
the famous economist, dear Dr McCloskey. And the point is, I like

756
00:57:52.719 --> 00:57:54.960
to make a joke, except there's
a serious point behind it. This whole

757
00:57:55.000 --> 00:58:00.159
business today reminds me of the joke
about the the bag in an egg's breakfast.

758
00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:05.920
The chicken is involved, but the
pig is committed, right you So,

759
00:58:06.119 --> 00:58:08.440
you know you had the swimmer Leah
Thomas who shows up in the girl's

760
00:58:08.519 --> 00:58:14.199
locker room with a penis still attached
to him, right at least JAREDR.

761
00:58:14.280 --> 00:58:19.840
McCloskey and Trere For other transgender people
I know, actually they didn't call themselves

762
00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:23.280
transgender. They switched sexes. Yeah. Right, And so now we're saying,

763
00:58:23.320 --> 00:58:25.400
oh, if you think you're a
girl, you can be a girl.

764
00:58:25.480 --> 00:58:30.039
Here we're giving some drugs. We
have done these bruthome surgeries. And

765
00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:32.559
you know, I can think of
the case of the young think of the

766
00:58:32.679 --> 00:58:37.159
young actress Ellen Page has become Elliot
Page. How many roles has Elliott Page

767
00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:45.159
gotten since she he did that?
I think zero. Okay, now we're

768
00:58:45.280 --> 00:58:47.599
now we're in this through a netherland
where you can just declare yourself to be

769
00:58:47.639 --> 00:58:54.480
a woman without committing to actually or
vice versa, without committing to actual technologies

770
00:58:54.480 --> 00:58:58.039
of modern medicine, and make it
possible to actually, as I put it,

771
00:58:58.159 --> 00:59:00.559
switched teams. I do think that's
the problematic. But you know,

772
00:59:00.880 --> 00:59:04.719
the three or four that I know, or by the way, or conservatives

773
00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:07.960
or libertarians at least um and by
the way, the ones I know and

774
00:59:08.039 --> 00:59:12.440
I have talked to, they hate
all this stuff. They hate the ide

775
00:59:12.559 --> 00:59:15.039
politics of it, they hate the
bathroom with certainness of it. And they

776
00:59:15.079 --> 00:59:17.400
all say, no, these people
are crazy, and they're making my life

777
00:59:17.440 --> 00:59:22.400
more difficult because you know, okay, enough of a sermon, all that.

778
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:28.159
We're in a no man's land about
that, literally, but we're not

779
00:59:28.360 --> 00:59:34.079
in. What this is is a
further attempt by the left to deny that

780
00:59:34.440 --> 00:59:38.159
nature has anything to tell us about
how we ought to live our lives and

781
00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:43.760
and you know, um, we
can be God's we. We are not

782
00:59:44.159 --> 00:59:46.760
tied to whatever it is that we
were born to be. We can be

783
00:59:46.920 --> 00:59:52.159
anything we want to be. We
don't, we are not even we are

784
00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:58.639
not even limited by our physical bodies
that we were born with, that that

785
00:59:58.760 --> 01:00:02.960
have always been under stood to be
tied with our identity as human beings and

786
01:00:04.079 --> 01:00:08.199
then as members of a sex mother's
women, fathers men. Sure, there

787
01:00:08.239 --> 01:00:14.000
have always been people who've fallen outside
of those and I'm not the person who

788
01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:17.480
says we should hate those people,
we should discriminate against those people, none

789
01:00:17.519 --> 01:00:24.079
of that. But where we are
now is celebrating and encouraging every person,

790
01:00:24.320 --> 01:00:30.639
especially those who are mentally disturbed already, to think about what your gender identity

791
01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:36.679
is, and then encouraging that whole
pathway down mental illness and celebrating it.

792
01:00:36.760 --> 01:00:40.119
I mean, even think about Fetterman. Fetterman, instead of being the subject

793
01:00:40.159 --> 01:00:45.360
of ridicule for not sort of saying
I have severe depression, I'm going to

794
01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:50.360
resign. Oh, what a brave
human beings. There's something brave about him.

795
01:00:50.559 --> 01:00:54.000
You shouldn't be in power if you're
mentally ill, you should resign.

796
01:00:54.960 --> 01:00:59.079
And it's not that we're going to
get anybody better than fetterman because you know

797
01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:04.880
about that. But but why are
we celebrating people being mentally ill? Well,

798
01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:08.880
maybe that's just another form of human
existence. It's say what's normal?

799
01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:14.639
It all sorts of nonsense. I
don't I don't think it's necessary to default

800
01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:19.119
damarily to mental illness or something.
Sure, but you know, I mean,

801
01:01:19.199 --> 01:01:22.039
I don't know. I thought Bill
Maher of all people, at a

802
01:01:22.079 --> 01:01:23.159
good take on this a few months
ago where he said, you know,

803
01:01:23.400 --> 01:01:27.480
when I was ten years old,
I wanted to be a pirate. Thank

804
01:01:27.559 --> 01:01:30.119
god nobody pulled out an eye and
cut off a leg because I could be

805
01:01:30.159 --> 01:01:34.039
a pirate. But that leads to
a second and related point, which is,

806
01:01:34.360 --> 01:01:38.599
uh, no one seems to notice
how it is a curious thing we

807
01:01:38.679 --> 01:01:43.079
now no longer can define what a
woman is. We don't say that about

808
01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:46.960
a man, right. Why is
it that it's that the confusion about definitions

809
01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:53.519
and understanding of gender roles is overwhelmingly
weighted to one of the biological sexes and

810
01:01:53.679 --> 01:01:57.039
not to the male side. We
don't we don't have a confusion about what

811
01:01:57.039 --> 01:02:00.119
a man is, only maybe because
the question hasn't come up. Well,

812
01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:05.719
I'm raising it right now. Today
I heard that they asked some some archaeology

813
01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:13.000
professor at Pittsburgh, Yes, at
Universe at Pittsburgh's John if if a hundred

814
01:02:13.079 --> 01:02:16.360
years from now they'd be able to
dig up human beings and tell the difference

815
01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:19.599
between men and women. And he
said, of course, not well by

816
01:02:19.639 --> 01:02:22.519
their bones, by their moment their
bones. Yeah right, he said,

817
01:02:22.559 --> 01:02:25.840
no, there's no difference. There's
no skeletal difference between men and women.

818
01:02:25.960 --> 01:02:30.840
And he knows that from one hundred
and fifty years of one hundred and from

819
01:02:30.880 --> 01:02:36.760
studying one hundred and fifty years of
archaeological digs. Apparently the audience they just

820
01:02:36.920 --> 01:02:38.679
laughed. His students just laughed,
and he was very offended by it.

821
01:02:39.119 --> 01:02:45.159
Right, that's what that Yeah,
that's what you have to do in order

822
01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:47.840
to buy into this nonsense. You're
right, Steve. I know I know

823
01:02:47.960 --> 01:02:52.760
people who are I guess you would
call it transgender. Um transsexual used to

824
01:02:52.800 --> 01:02:58.800
be the word sexual. Yeah right, People people who put I know people

825
01:02:58.800 --> 01:03:01.599
who dress up. You know,
Okay, I don't hate any of those

826
01:03:01.679 --> 01:03:05.679
people. I don't want to see
them stone to death, nothing like that,

827
01:03:05.960 --> 01:03:09.519
but I don't want to celebrate that
as a normal lifestyle. I'm sorry

828
01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:14.159
because once we do. I mean, it's just I sent you guys the

829
01:03:14.239 --> 01:03:17.079
bishop's statement on it. Look,
we love everybody. Everybody's a sinner,

830
01:03:17.199 --> 01:03:22.519
everybody, nobody's perfect. But what
we don't do is embrace the sin,

831
01:03:22.639 --> 01:03:27.039
which is what they're asking us to
do. Yeah, we accept people for

832
01:03:27.119 --> 01:03:30.079
who they are. We don't celebrate
what's wrong with them. All right,

833
01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:35.639
Sorry, we're about we're about to
run long. Let's just try and do

834
01:03:36.199 --> 01:03:38.960
one or two more things. One
is John you mentioned and I took note

835
01:03:39.000 --> 01:03:44.519
of this too. The Census Bureau
under Biden is thinking of asking question and

836
01:03:44.679 --> 01:03:50.360
next census as to whether someone is
a descendant of slaves. Now, I

837
01:03:50.440 --> 01:03:52.840
don't know. I like data and
stuff, but it's self reporting. People

838
01:03:52.920 --> 01:03:57.119
can lie or not know. But
the other thing is, wasn't take me

839
01:03:57.199 --> 01:04:00.639
back here. Didn't the Trump administration
get in all kinds of alboth for wanting

840
01:04:00.639 --> 01:04:03.320
to ask a census question about citizenship
status and the court said they couldn't do

841
01:04:03.400 --> 01:04:06.360
it. Remind me about this,
Yeah, no, no, that's right.

842
01:04:06.519 --> 01:04:13.239
There was a question about whether the
Census Department under Trump could add this

843
01:04:13.480 --> 01:04:17.440
question about citizenship and I don't know, Well, the courts said they tried

844
01:04:17.480 --> 01:04:24.000
to do it too quickly and they
didn't and so yeah, mystery procedures.

845
01:04:24.599 --> 01:04:28.360
I don't really see why, as
you say, Steve, I don't see

846
01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:30.280
why the government shouldn't want to know
things. If there are facts, why

847
01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:34.400
can't you ask. That's why I've
always thought conservatives went too far when they

848
01:04:34.480 --> 01:04:39.079
said, well, color blind constitution, the government shouldn't he been able to

849
01:04:39.119 --> 01:04:43.559
ask your race on you know,
things like driver's licenses, census forms and

850
01:04:43.679 --> 01:04:45.519
so on. I don't see why
we shouldn't have more data if we could

851
01:04:45.559 --> 01:04:50.679
find it. But I think the
reason why this is a weird and concerning

852
01:04:50.760 --> 01:04:56.280
question is for putside all the verifiability
issues, is why does the government want

853
01:04:56.320 --> 01:05:00.159
to know? And it's easy they
want to know because they're, you know,

854
01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:02.719
gearing up for some kind of reparations. Oh well, I'm coming to

855
01:05:02.840 --> 01:05:08.199
that idea, right, or some
kind of you know, trying to target

856
01:05:08.480 --> 01:05:14.119
remedies in some way, even though
right this is generations ago, and the

857
01:05:14.199 --> 01:05:17.719
Supreme Court has said trying to cure
jet you know, discrimination acre generations ago

858
01:05:17.880 --> 01:05:24.559
does not justify to being conscious of
race to give out benefits now, But

859
01:05:24.679 --> 01:05:27.719
then why else does the government really
want to know the answer to this question.

860
01:05:28.079 --> 01:05:30.880
Well, okay, so let me
separate two questions here. I'm an

861
01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:34.119
old fashioned original and ten fundamentalists.
The Census should be a half a page

862
01:05:34.159 --> 01:05:38.000
long where do you live? So
you can count up how many people live

863
01:05:38.039 --> 01:05:42.239
in that area for enumeration purposes and
stop there. If you want data,

864
01:05:42.280 --> 01:05:45.880
And I'm a data may even too. We have all kinds of other survey

865
01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:48.920
techniques to get good data. There's
the American Housing Survey done twice a decade.

866
01:05:49.000 --> 01:05:54.199
There's other surveys the government does,
probably more accurate in some ways because,

867
01:05:54.239 --> 01:05:57.360
by the way, talk to someone
who's ever been a census worker,

868
01:05:58.000 --> 01:06:00.559
you know, goes door to door
to try and get the people out responded.

869
01:06:00.199 --> 01:06:04.920
I think the data error in the
Census is massive. Okay, I've

870
01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:08.679
lied on the Census a few times
just to script their data because I'm honory

871
01:06:08.719 --> 01:06:11.159
about it. Is. When I've
gotten a long form, I've gotten a

872
01:06:11.199 --> 01:06:15.079
long form a couple of times.
The right um a question about that?

873
01:06:15.559 --> 01:06:19.559
Sure, So if they ask actually
asked the question about whether or not your

874
01:06:19.639 --> 01:06:23.639
your ancestors who were a slave,
do I have to answer honestly and say

875
01:06:23.719 --> 01:06:29.679
that my ancestor was Robert E.
Lee. Oh, let's see, that

876
01:06:29.679 --> 01:06:31.559
would be the follow up question.
See, so John mentioned, isn't this

877
01:06:31.719 --> 01:06:34.599
I might have ancestors that were slaves
too, that would be interesting. Huh

878
01:06:34.800 --> 01:06:38.199
yeah, Well, you know we
turned out that was it. Is it

879
01:06:38.320 --> 01:06:42.199
Camela Harris? Oh no, it
was Angela Davis who had ancestors who came

880
01:06:42.199 --> 01:06:46.280
over on the Mayflower and who and
then Kamela Harris has got ancestors who owned

881
01:06:46.320 --> 01:06:49.239
slaves. It's just a god awful
mess, right, as you'd expect in

882
01:06:49.559 --> 01:06:56.239
like real human life. Mentioned that
question too. Did you are you descended

883
01:06:56.280 --> 01:07:00.519
people owned slaves? Yeah? Yeah, just you you walked away, John,

884
01:07:00.599 --> 01:07:02.000
But I am, in fact a
descendant of Robert E. Lee.

885
01:07:02.519 --> 01:07:09.239
Yeah, that's her middle name.
That's my middle name, like my mother's,

886
01:07:09.320 --> 01:07:13.159
my grandmother's, my great grandmothers,
and my great great grandmother's. So

887
01:07:13.360 --> 01:07:15.920
you mentioned the reparations question, John, I'll just say this for now.

888
01:07:15.280 --> 01:07:20.400
Let's see how this unfolds in California. So the latest development for listeners who

889
01:07:20.440 --> 01:07:25.480
may not follow this is California's some
of the advocates saying, hey, you

890
01:07:25.519 --> 01:07:30.719
know, it should be eight hundred
billion dollars for blacks in California at the

891
01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:33.519
Yeah, no, it's a ridiculous
number. Meanwhile, I happen to notice

892
01:07:33.519 --> 01:07:36.599
an article in the Atlantic this week
by Emma Maris, who's an environmental writer

893
01:07:36.719 --> 01:07:39.920
I know slightly. I think she's
pretty. She's a liberal, but a

894
01:07:40.039 --> 01:07:44.000
smart one descents in the party anyway. She raised an interesting question, says,

895
01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:46.800
you know, for almost twenty years
now, the rich Western countries have

896
01:07:46.920 --> 01:07:51.800
been promising and developing world one hundred
billion dollars a year in climate aid climate

897
01:07:51.920 --> 01:07:55.960
reparation. She called him, Yes, how much have we actually delivered?

898
01:07:56.000 --> 01:08:00.480
The numbers close to zero? So
I think we would help being I would

899
01:08:00.519 --> 01:08:02.360
hope it be negative. Yeah,
well, yes, yeah, yeah,

900
01:08:03.320 --> 01:08:06.599
I mean I'm right now, I'm
laying down a marker that you know,

901
01:08:08.079 --> 01:08:11.079
Newsome and California and other places are
going to say, yes, we all

902
01:08:11.119 --> 01:08:14.400
these reparations, we think the figure
should be X, will pay it when

903
01:08:14.519 --> 01:08:16.600
we can, and that when we
handled her out to be never, which

904
01:08:16.640 --> 01:08:19.760
is gonna make the whole problem worse. That's my expectation right now. It's

905
01:08:19.760 --> 01:08:24.239
gonna be like the climate racket,
only worse. I still don't see how

906
01:08:24.319 --> 01:08:28.159
California, which was the most racially
progressive state in the Union, for many

907
01:08:28.239 --> 01:08:32.600
decades was free northern state where if
you read this, Jesus sounds like blacks

908
01:08:32.760 --> 01:08:38.680
came to America. I came to
California during the periodist segregation to get away

909
01:08:38.760 --> 01:08:43.520
from segregation to a place was a
much more stree open How the hell is

910
01:08:43.600 --> 01:08:48.560
California? Yeah, responsible anyway for
reparations for sleep. You are giving credence

911
01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:54.960
as if there's some logic or rationality
to any of this by by making that

912
01:08:55.159 --> 01:09:00.720
argument. Just stop right now,
all right, we we're gonna draw to

913
01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:02.039
the end here. We're gonna have
to skip over Columbia law students, and

914
01:09:02.199 --> 01:09:05.479
being Stanford law students, we're gonna
to skip over. I would love to

915
01:09:05.520 --> 01:09:08.960
do this, but Lucretia will be
board and annoyed with me if I bring

916
01:09:09.079 --> 01:09:15.760
up the baseball rules changes as a
metaphor for failed government regulation. And what's

917
01:09:15.880 --> 01:09:20.079
that Lucretia showing us on the screen
about? You know, the make baseball

918
01:09:20.239 --> 01:09:25.039
more exciting. Pitchers who violate the
pitch clock will be dropped into a pit

919
01:09:25.199 --> 01:09:29.960
of alligators. It's down here.
This should be a really exciting new wrinkle

920
01:09:30.039 --> 01:09:34.039
to the game. Major League Baseball
Commissioner Bob whatever's name is every Major League

921
01:09:34.079 --> 01:09:41.000
Baseballpark has been retrofitted to feature an
alligator pit located directly underneath the pitchers mound.

922
01:09:41.000 --> 01:09:44.520
If the pitch clock reaches all zeros, an MLB official position in the

923
01:09:44.600 --> 01:09:49.359
press box will pull a comedian a
comedically large lever, opening up a trapdoor

924
01:09:49.399 --> 01:09:55.199
and sending the offending picture directly into
the waiting jaws of the gators for the

925
01:09:55.359 --> 01:09:59.560
delight of the spectators. Now,
then I'd watch baseball under those circumstances.

926
01:09:59.760 --> 01:10:01.800
Well, I have long said that
if baseball were any slower, it would

927
01:10:01.800 --> 01:10:04.720
be farming. But it's not the
pitch clock that bothers me. It's some

928
01:10:04.760 --> 01:10:10.800
other rules. But I'm gonna skip
over that because even though I never heard

929
01:10:10.840 --> 01:10:14.319
of it, he just says everybody
should pitch like Bob Gibson. But you

930
01:10:14.359 --> 01:10:16.600
have to be an old timer to
remember Bob Gibson. All right, all

931
01:10:16.680 --> 01:10:19.880
right, John, you have to
have your Camela Harrisism of the Week.

932
01:10:19.920 --> 01:10:25.760
But first, our new feature is
Lucretia's Stupid Person of the Week because you

933
01:10:25.800 --> 01:10:29.960
know so many people that. I
mean, my nominee was Joe Manchin for

934
01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:31.880
his stupid op ed in the Wall
Street Journal that shows what a fool and

935
01:10:31.960 --> 01:10:34.960
the nave he is, but that
would be my nominee. But but but

936
01:10:35.119 --> 01:10:41.520
you're the you're the official, stupid
designated lucretia because John told me I was

937
01:10:41.600 --> 01:10:47.199
gonna there were gonna be sanctions and
limits on my choices, including ever choose

938
01:10:47.279 --> 01:10:55.039
one Biden administration official. So I
have to you couldn't make it, McConnell.

939
01:10:55.920 --> 01:11:00.439
No, I'm gonna go. I'm
gonna go parochial here and actually go

940
01:11:00.600 --> 01:11:09.520
with Governor Hobbs press secretary who after
the Tennessee the tragic shooting in Tennessee,

941
01:11:10.119 --> 01:11:15.359
published a picture. I think it's
Gina Rowlands holding a couple of pistols right

942
01:11:15.479 --> 01:11:21.399
and left hand, and the caption
said, us when we see transphobes.

943
01:11:21.920 --> 01:11:27.640
Yeah. Now, the best comment
I forget who said it was Okay,

944
01:11:27.720 --> 01:11:33.880
So this is Katie hobbs number one
spokesperson, but she's the she's the measured

945
01:11:34.199 --> 01:11:38.880
moderate person. And Katie Hobbs was
a crazy one. I will tell you

946
01:11:39.039 --> 01:11:44.680
that this disgusting excuse for a human
being actually did resign because there really wasn't

947
01:11:44.760 --> 01:11:46.560
much choice, but they tried to
keep her around for a while. So

948
01:11:46.680 --> 01:11:49.159
she gets my moron of the Week
because, first of all, I am

949
01:11:49.239 --> 01:11:53.960
not afraid of a single damn trans
person. I am not a phobe.

950
01:11:54.359 --> 01:12:00.199
I don't that's such a stupid term, homophobic, transphobic. We're not afraid.

951
01:12:00.479 --> 01:12:04.600
We just don't want to embrace and
celebrate your choices. Leave us alone.

952
01:12:04.640 --> 01:12:09.319
We'll leave you alone. Okay,
So that's my first moron of the

953
01:12:09.399 --> 01:12:14.399
week. There were so many choose
from Nancy Pelosi's um now wait, no,

954
01:12:15.079 --> 01:12:17.720
sorry, sorry, I just have
to say second place for Nancy Pelosi's

955
01:12:17.840 --> 01:12:23.199
propose innocence. But yeah, Nancy
Pelosi's like shooting fish in a barrel.

956
01:12:23.880 --> 01:12:27.239
Everything she says is stupid and moronics. So that's not really fair. This

957
01:12:27.359 --> 01:12:30.359
one came out of you know,
this one was at least a little obscure.

958
01:12:30.520 --> 01:12:32.319
So go ahead, don't let me. I get to finish with my

959
01:12:32.520 --> 01:12:35.319
Bible Ambia the week too, But
i'ma let jog go first. Yeah,

960
01:12:35.399 --> 01:12:38.800
do what your campbell is an Africa, isn't she? So I don't know,

961
01:12:39.279 --> 01:12:42.319
go ahead, and John, So
at first, I think we're gonna

962
01:12:42.439 --> 01:12:46.319
keep doing this new feature. Lucretia
has to put put together a list of

963
01:12:46.439 --> 01:12:55.399
people who she would always pick every
week if we didn't exclude them, who

964
01:12:55.479 --> 01:13:02.920
she could always go to exactly Okay. So the second thing is she Harris

965
01:13:03.039 --> 01:13:09.039
was in Africa and actually didn't see
any good quotes from her, although there

966
01:13:09.039 --> 01:13:14.199
were. There was a great story
in the post of quotes by other Democrats

967
01:13:14.239 --> 01:13:18.840
saying, how can we recreate this
great Africa atmosphere back in the United States

968
01:13:18.920 --> 01:13:23.640
where Kamala Harris has been doing so
well? Of course, obviously I think

969
01:13:23.680 --> 01:13:26.600
one reason why is because no one's
been paying any attention over what she's doing

970
01:13:26.600 --> 01:13:30.119
in Africa. But anyway, so
I actually found good commualism. Yeah,

971
01:13:30.119 --> 01:13:34.279
nobody cares, so she's so I
found a pretty good communism. I can't

972
01:13:34.319 --> 01:13:41.359
believe escape my notice before. And
so this one comes from a quote from

973
01:13:41.479 --> 01:13:48.800
last year after she was done touring
a high school in Louisiana. Quote,

974
01:13:49.720 --> 01:13:54.560
the governor and I, we were
all doing a tour of the library here

975
01:13:54.920 --> 01:13:59.680
and talking about the significance of the
passage of time, right, the significance

976
01:13:59.720 --> 01:14:01.880
of the passage of time. So
when you think about it, there was

977
01:14:01.960 --> 01:14:06.600
great significance to the passage of time
in terms of what we need to do

978
01:14:06.880 --> 01:14:11.720
to lay these wires, what we
need to do create these jobs. And

979
01:14:11.760 --> 01:14:15.479
there are such great significance too.
You guys did the passage of time when

980
01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:19.439
we think about a day in the
life of our children. Wait a minute,

981
01:14:19.439 --> 01:14:24.760
didn't you already make that same stupid
thing in another context of a year

982
01:14:24.800 --> 01:14:29.880
ago. I think that's the passage, but we just haven't. We haven't

983
01:14:29.960 --> 01:14:32.119
used it in the show yet,
so I had to bring up this is

984
01:14:32.680 --> 01:14:36.760
considered by some the best stuff.
Can I also make one small comments,

985
01:14:36.760 --> 01:14:44.319
So people compare Kamal Harris to the
TV show Veep, which I haven't watched,

986
01:14:44.640 --> 01:14:47.000
but which I didn't realize is that
TV show VIEP was based on this

987
01:14:47.159 --> 01:14:51.960
British show which I've just finished watching, which is hilarious called The Thick of

988
01:14:53.039 --> 01:14:56.560
It. Have you I have watched
several episodes. Yeah, it's genius.

989
01:14:56.600 --> 01:15:00.399
Oh my god, this is one
of the best political comedies I ever seen.

990
01:15:00.840 --> 01:15:04.640
So this, I guess, was
the twenty first century version of Yes,

991
01:15:04.800 --> 01:15:10.319
Minister. Yes. Oh my god, I can't believe how funny this

992
01:15:10.479 --> 01:15:13.960
was and how I didn't know about
it. Say the name Agin Johns of

993
01:15:14.079 --> 01:15:16.800
The Thick of It, and it's
kind of like a modern version of Yes

994
01:15:16.880 --> 01:15:24.439
Minister, and Lucresia appears in it. In the guise of the number one

995
01:15:24.560 --> 01:15:30.239
political consultant who his name is Malcolm
Tucker. Just remember that. Yeah,

996
01:15:30.399 --> 01:15:33.199
Crisa as Malcolm Tucker. I mean
no, but this was like, oh

997
01:15:33.319 --> 01:15:38.840
my god, they nailed Lucresia in
this show. She is in anyways the

998
01:15:38.960 --> 01:15:43.199
star of the show. But Malcolm
Tucker I really like being best done and

999
01:15:43.319 --> 01:15:48.079
better. Yeah, well, there's
true. I think by the way,

1000
01:15:48.199 --> 01:15:53.039
John, I think some of that
show is done improv style. Yes,

1001
01:15:53.359 --> 01:15:56.439
that's right. I think any percent
of it is written and in the rest

1002
01:15:56.479 --> 01:16:00.319
of which. So there's a guy
who's the basically the head enforcer, the

1003
01:16:00.439 --> 01:16:05.520
Lucretia figure, who goes on the
most epic rants, filled with cursing and

1004
01:16:05.680 --> 01:16:12.000
abuse of people for being politically stupid. It's just it's beautiful. Watch it.

1005
01:16:13.159 --> 01:16:15.600
Oh yeah, you should, absolutely
if it is genius stuff. Yeah.

1006
01:16:15.920 --> 01:16:20.720
So John has the tough task of
trying to find a decent commualism every

1007
01:16:20.760 --> 01:16:27.920
week because they have been keeping her
under wraps by the absolutely have even Biden.

1008
01:16:27.960 --> 01:16:30.560
They've been keeping under wraps because why
would they let either one of those

1009
01:16:30.640 --> 01:16:34.359
two out there to make the usual
idiots out of themselves when the whole thing

1010
01:16:34.479 --> 01:16:40.359
is dominated by the Trump indictment.
But so so I have the opposite problem,

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which is the Morons of the Week
and the Babylon Bee headline of the

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week. It's impossible to choose the
best one, but probably my favorite is

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the new Chinese military training video where
the Chinese military just learns how to shout

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the wrong pronouns at American soldiers.
I guess sounds good, all right,

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Which one of you guys is going
to send us out with the official salutations?

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Always drink your whiskey, neat.
Yeah, let's go Brandon, I

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was pointing at John for him to
finish. Oh, and let's go Brandon.

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Oh random, have a wonderful week
by everybody. We'll see you next

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week, and hopefully I will be
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the conversation.