1 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:21,280 Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of You're Wrong with David 2 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:26,359 Harsani and Molly Hemingway. Molly, how's it going. It's going great. 3 00:00:28,239 --> 00:00:32,600 I tried to lift my voice a little higher, pretend that that's how I 4 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,679 speak in real life, when I'm pretty monotone in my delivery. Anyway, 5 00:00:36,719 --> 00:00:40,359 I had a split second decision, like do I mention that I got three 6 00:00:40,399 --> 00:00:45,399 hours of sleep last night, that I'm exhausted, that in fact, you 7 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,560 know I'm not operating at one hundred percent, or do I just say everything's 8 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:57,600 great. Your eighty percent is like every normal person's Hunter Forscentum. We talk 9 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:03,000 about sleep a lot on this podcast about the lack of sleep. I slept 10 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,200 actually pretty well, so I'm good. I'm still operating at eighty percent. 11 00:01:08,599 --> 00:01:12,719 So anyway, this week, the big story, or one of the big 12 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:18,560 stories was and listen, I said, I don't really know anything. You 13 00:01:18,599 --> 00:01:21,799 know what happened, and I don't dive into these things, but Tucker Carlson 14 00:01:21,879 --> 00:01:26,120 being fired or leaving or let go or whatever happened from Fox complete shock to 15 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:30,120 me. I'm a big fan of his, even though I disagree with a 16 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,920 lot of his recent populous turn. I just think he is a super talented 17 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:37,200 guy. I know he's going to do something incredible. I know him for 18 00:01:37,239 --> 00:01:38,480 a pretty long time. I'm not, you know, friends with him, 19 00:01:38,519 --> 00:01:42,719 like we don't hang out, but I do know him, and he blurred 20 00:01:42,799 --> 00:01:45,359 my first book back in like two thousand and eight. I used to be 21 00:01:45,439 --> 00:01:49,359 a massive fan of his writing at Talk magazine and other places, and I 22 00:01:49,439 --> 00:01:53,159 just think he's a talented, interesting guy and he's going to do fine. 23 00:01:55,040 --> 00:02:01,280 Yeah. Well, I don't really know anything about the Departure despite being a 24 00:02:01,319 --> 00:02:07,879 contributor there, but I am a huge fan of Tuckers and pretty much across 25 00:02:07,919 --> 00:02:14,360 the board. Like his magazine writing is some of the best magazine article writing 26 00:02:14,439 --> 00:02:17,639 that you will ever find. And he's kind of good at everything he does, 27 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:23,360 which is very frustrating to seem to observe. You know. His TV 28 00:02:23,439 --> 00:02:28,360 show has been just fascinating to watch, and like you it's not like I 29 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,159 agree with everything that's on there, or even about everything about the approach, 30 00:02:31,479 --> 00:02:38,520 but just so much fun to watch and so much to learn and being introduced 31 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:43,719 to so many interesting thinkers. You know, a lot of what happens in 32 00:02:43,759 --> 00:02:46,560 the media is just kind of like the same stuff, and it's been it's 33 00:02:46,599 --> 00:02:51,639 been fun to be introduced, you know, whether in his digital or TV 34 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,479 platforms to new things. There's something else I was going to say. Oh, 35 00:02:55,479 --> 00:03:00,120 and he's also just like an incredibly nice guy, which you're alluding to, 36 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:05,479 but yeah, I mean every interaction I've had with him, he's been 37 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,400 so generous. Obviously, he's a big name, and he doesn't need to 38 00:03:08,439 --> 00:03:14,439 spend his time, you know, helping me or dealing with me, and 39 00:03:14,479 --> 00:03:15,879 the way he doesn't he does. He's generous with his time and he's a 40 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:21,360 good He's a good man, which you would never know from the sort of 41 00:03:22,039 --> 00:03:25,560 you know, vitriolic, sort of nasty way that some people portray him. 42 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:29,280 But he's not like that in real life at all. He's a really nice 43 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,840 guy. At least in my interactions he has been. Yeah, he's and 44 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:39,199 not just a good man with people that are not his closest friends and family, 45 00:03:39,599 --> 00:03:44,319 but a really good family man. And that's one of the things I've 46 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,560 been disappointed by in Washington, DC as you meet all these people and they 47 00:03:46,639 --> 00:03:53,759 might even be public talkers about family values, and they're not living their lives 48 00:03:53,759 --> 00:03:58,199 in a way that is honorable. Tucker Tucker lives his life in a very 49 00:03:58,199 --> 00:04:00,879 honorable way. I mean he would he would tell you he's a big sinner 50 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,879 or something like that. But he's happily married. He's a very good father. 51 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:10,960 He's a very attentive husband and father, and I respect that more than 52 00:04:11,919 --> 00:04:15,839 you know, any political posture or anything else. So it's really yeah, 53 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:21,720 sorry, he's really easy to talk to, right you're interrupting you last thing. 54 00:04:21,759 --> 00:04:26,319 I'll say that like us who are not easy to talk to. Apparently. 55 00:04:26,519 --> 00:04:30,240 No, Actually, you remind you remind at least the way I interact 56 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:32,199 with you reminds you of how easy because it was. I remember first meeting 57 00:04:32,199 --> 00:04:34,879 you, and right away we were we could talk right right away. It 58 00:04:34,959 --> 00:04:39,680 was easy for us to have a conversation. Was it because I was like, 59 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,399 oh my gosh, I'm your biggest fan and I've read everything you've written, 60 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,279 and You're like, I can talk to this lady. She's okay, 61 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,160 this is my kind of person. I remember, do you remember where we 62 00:04:49,199 --> 00:04:55,360 first met? It was around the corner from the Heritage Foundation at that coffee 63 00:04:55,360 --> 00:05:00,399 shop. Really, I don't I have a bad memory. Yeah no, 64 00:05:00,519 --> 00:05:03,959 But anyway, I don't want to go down memory lane. But I will 65 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:08,079 say that. You know, I'm just gonna say that Tucker had me to 66 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,920 do, you know, doing one of those hour interviews he did on Fox 67 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,319 Nation my book You're a Trash, and it was maybe the best interview I 68 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:17,040 had for the It was the best interview. It was just so easy and 69 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,639 effortless to talk to him about it. And you know, it's funny about 70 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,720 him. When I did an interview on his show years ago from my gun 71 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:28,000 book, I thought it was going to be one of these like softball interviews, 72 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,279 and right away he was asking me tough questions. But if you have 73 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,519 a book, you want those questions. It's you like, want to push 74 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,639 back, you want to make your argument, and he, uh, let 75 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,079 me do that. And you know, I was appreciative anyway, that's all. 76 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:45,399 Sorry to interrupt you. That's it. That's it. Let's move on. 77 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,199 But to talk about oh wait, I want to say one of the 78 00:05:48,319 --> 00:05:53,560 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I had the privilege and honor of 79 00:05:53,600 --> 00:06:00,560 attending the Heritage Foundation's fiftieth anniversary gala in Washington, DC on Friday of last 80 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,519 week, and I got to know I was there earlier in the day because 81 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:09,920 I was moderating a panel discussion that was really The panelists were very interesting. 82 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:14,959 We were immediately followed by Ron DeSantis, who gave one of the best policy 83 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:20,759 speeches I've ever listened to, you particularly in substance and just a track record 84 00:06:20,759 --> 00:06:26,959 of accomplishment that was really cool. And then that evening there was this huge 85 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:32,720 gala like Dirk's Bentley was playing there twenty five hundred people, and Tucker Carlson 86 00:06:32,759 --> 00:06:41,680 gave the keynote, and I would highly encourage everyone to listen to his speech, 87 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:45,720 which I've now listened to three times, once in person and twice on 88 00:06:46,639 --> 00:06:50,360 a rewatch. And he did it with no notes, and it's not political. 89 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:59,240 It's really about good versus evil and the importance of love. And it 90 00:06:59,319 --> 00:07:01,800 was great and it was a real experience to be there. The room was 91 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:09,120 just electrified by the whole evening and his speech really being a culmination of that. 92 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:14,319 And it was also about like the importance of bravery and courage and speaking 93 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,639 the truth even when there are tough consequences for that, and I have found 94 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:24,079 it very inspirational and everyone, almost everyone I've talked to who was there has 95 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:29,160 said likewise. And you know, people who've been watching and listening, I 96 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,600 saw the YouTube link had been watched like more than a million times, so 97 00:07:32,639 --> 00:07:36,600 clearly it's resonating with others. I would just say again, if you haven't 98 00:07:36,839 --> 00:07:42,959 watched it, or even if you have watched it, again noted and I 99 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:50,199 have not watched it. Okay, so let's move on. I wanted to 100 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:58,519 talk if you're cool with that, a effort, an effort that's going on 101 00:07:58,519 --> 00:08:00,240 on the left. I think it's been going on a long time, and 102 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,720 you actually wrote a book about it, about the delegitimization of the Supreme Court, 103 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:13,800 the attacks on the personal, attacks on justices who to some extent or 104 00:08:13,839 --> 00:08:16,720 the other, but in general uphold the Constitution, which is to say, 105 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,040 limit the power of the state. And that is what I think at least 106 00:08:20,079 --> 00:08:24,480 that progressives and leftists are most upset about when it comes to the Supreme Court. 107 00:08:24,519 --> 00:08:26,680 So in this effort to delegitimize, usually it's done on the front end. 108 00:08:26,839 --> 00:08:31,639 You know, happened with Clarence Thomas, and I certainly happened with Brett 109 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,559 Kavanaugh. And now they've come up with a new thing, which is to 110 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:43,559 delegitimize people on the court by creating these stories and perceptions that they're unethical people 111 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:46,960 on the court, that they're making money off decisions, that they have conflicts 112 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,360 of interest. And I'm talking about Clarence Thomas and now Neil Gorsuch. So 113 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:56,120 the Pro public A piece on Clarence Thomas, I think we talked about it 114 00:08:56,159 --> 00:09:01,360 a few weeks ago, made it seem like he basically was taking bribes from 115 00:09:01,399 --> 00:09:05,759 Harlan Crow, this big donor. And now there's a new story in Politico 116 00:09:05,879 --> 00:09:09,440 and I can't pronounce her name written by Heide Do you know how to pronounce 117 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:16,720 her last name? Chris Bola Risola, who I think I can't really even 118 00:09:16,759 --> 00:09:20,320 call her a journalist. I mean, she's so obviously transparently partisan. She 119 00:09:20,399 --> 00:09:24,320 was part of the Kavanaugh smears that she spread. But she was also part 120 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:30,200 of the hydroxy chlora queen thing during COVID where she made it seem like it 121 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,279 was rice in or something and had that story about the person the woman and 122 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:39,399 her husband who drank the stuff that was her as well in the fish tank. 123 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,759 I don't remember want to go into it. But anyway, this new 124 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:48,279 story Gorsa, she says it's so convoluted. But let's just say that there's 125 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:54,879 a form that these Supreme Court justices fill out that lists all their income, 126 00:09:54,080 --> 00:10:00,279 so stocks, sales, And there was a sale of a house that such 127 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,480 co owned. He owned twenty percent of it, and he did not mention 128 00:10:03,759 --> 00:10:07,440 in the disclosure form on you know who he sold it to. And it 129 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:11,759 happened to be this big lawyer in Colorado, was a CEO with this big 130 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:16,440 law firm that's involved in cases. So I dug into every single Supreme Court 131 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,639 disclosure form and on the column where it says who you sold your stuff too, 132 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:30,159 literally, not one justice has ever even put a notation in that column. 133 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,480 Then I went and looked at twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. I went 134 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:37,559 through year after year after year, and not a single notation. This is 135 00:10:37,639 --> 00:10:41,440 unmentioned in the political piece, meaning that she created a new standard for Neil 136 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:46,919 Gore such that had not existed on anyone. Then she wrote that he didn't 137 00:10:46,919 --> 00:10:50,240 even mention he was part of this group and what they were selling, which 138 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:54,360 on the first page of disclosure either she didn't see it or she lied it 139 00:10:54,519 --> 00:10:58,360 says Walden Group LLC or whatever the company's name was, and then the words 140 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:05,879 mountain property, which is exactly what he sold, and then specifically listed what 141 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:09,399 it was, but she created this perception that he had been bought by this 142 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:15,320 guy who's a liberal by the way, who gives money to all liberal big 143 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,320 Democrats owner And now, of course the left wing runs with it, and 144 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:22,440 they just pretend that he has bought, that Clarence Thomas has bought and it's 145 00:11:22,519 --> 00:11:28,759 just so, it's it's it's so. It just never would have happened, 146 00:11:28,759 --> 00:11:31,679 even twenty years ago, that the media would have allowed a story like that. 147 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:33,120 I'm not saying they didn't want to smear people. I'm not saying that 148 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:37,879 they didn't. But the shoddy work, the lack of sourcing, the inability 149 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,879 to read a simple disclosure form or lie about it is so transparent. And 150 00:11:43,039 --> 00:11:46,799 all the journalists retweet this story, by the way, they're not like, 151 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:48,559 oh, I'm embarrassed by this kind of reporting. You know, all the 152 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,720 big political journalists retweeted this, and I don't know if anything I just made 153 00:11:52,879 --> 00:11:56,879 you said made sense because it's kind of a convoluted story. But it is, 154 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:01,279 of course as usual as every week I'm infuriated something. Well, it's 155 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:05,919 good for people to understand and be able to recognize when they're in the midst 156 00:12:07,039 --> 00:12:11,600 of an information operation, And for some reason it makes me think back to 157 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:18,279 the twenty sixteen campaign. There was this debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump 158 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:24,840 where she really worked hard to insert and into an answer something that wasn't like 159 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:31,759 completely relevant about a woman named Alicia Machado I think it was, and how 160 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,919 Donald Trump had been mean to her. And then immediately as the debate ended, 161 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:41,600 there were these like glossy, high color photo spreads of Alicia Machado and 162 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:46,600 her story of how Donald Trump, when he ran some pageant or something, 163 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:52,840 had been mean to her about her weight, and just I realized, this 164 00:12:52,919 --> 00:12:54,559 is like far afield from the account port But I just want to point out 165 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:58,840 that if you actually go back and watch what happened at the time, it 166 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,960 is true that this woman was was some pageant winner, and that she had 167 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:05,240 packed on quite a few pounds, and that there was it had become a 168 00:13:05,279 --> 00:13:09,639 little bit of a public problem, and Donald Trump actually was like really kind 169 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,039 about it. He talked about how everyone's a little overweight or a lot of 170 00:13:13,039 --> 00:13:18,759 people struggle with their weight, and how she had a busy schedule and stuff, 171 00:13:18,799 --> 00:13:20,240 and so like she was going to get more time to be able to 172 00:13:20,279 --> 00:13:24,759 focus on working out or something like that, and so you know, the 173 00:13:24,919 --> 00:13:28,519 type of thing that could be construed thirty years later is like the worst thing 174 00:13:28,519 --> 00:13:33,080 ever, but actually was pretty kind. The CNN report on it was like 175 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:37,840 this fatty boom Ba Laddie thinks she could be a beauty queen, but she's 176 00:13:37,879 --> 00:13:41,320 a porker, so she can't be. I mean, it was actually really 177 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:45,039 funny report. Again, something you couldn't do now, so compared to what 178 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,720 was happening in the media, Donald Trump was really nice. But mainly the 179 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:52,200 point is that this woman was this was being used as an info op to 180 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,120 see this idea that Donald Trump mistreated women and so like left out of the 181 00:13:56,159 --> 00:14:03,200 story was that she was like engaged to a drug cartel leader or something like 182 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:09,759 that. I don't remember what the details were. Who among us has not 183 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,639 had I have not fallen in love with people who maybe shouldn't them. Okay, 184 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:18,840 So my point just being this is so obviously an info op that you'd 185 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,279 have to be an idiot to not recognize it. You've got the slow drip, 186 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:26,919 You've got the pro publica, the leftist the leftist corporate media outlet, 187 00:14:26,039 --> 00:14:31,320 or the leftist media outlet that sort of runs democratic smears. You've got known 188 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:35,360 dem propagandist like Heidi Prisbala. And by the way, there's like an entire 189 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,480 chapter about how much she messed up one of the stories on the you know, 190 00:14:39,759 --> 00:14:45,279 the Cabina smear operation that the Left ran. So now you've got her 191 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:50,200 going and I just assumed the drip will continue and that it will be focused. 192 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:54,519 You know, they're they're clearly focused on attacking the legitimacy of the court. 193 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:00,039 They know that appetite for falsely accusing good men of rape is a a 194 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,240 low right now, so they're going for some other thing to attack the legitimacy 195 00:15:03,279 --> 00:15:09,000 of the court. And they are well coordinated, they're well funded, they 196 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,279 control the corporate media, and so they're sort of able to just have this 197 00:15:11,399 --> 00:15:16,519 go out. The reality is too that you know, I know of at 198 00:15:16,559 --> 00:15:22,559 least two Democrat appointed justices who have had to amend their financial disclosure forms because 199 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,480 they you know, they fuilled it out to their best of their ability, 200 00:15:26,519 --> 00:15:33,919 but it was not completely accurate. There was the situation where the Katangi Brown 201 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:39,519 Jackson had to amend like twelve years I think of reporting from from when she 202 00:15:39,559 --> 00:15:43,480 was on the Lower Court. She forgot to include her husband's income or something 203 00:15:43,519 --> 00:15:46,879 like that. So this is this type of like financial reporting is important for 204 00:15:48,519 --> 00:15:52,600 the judiciary, and if people want to actually deal with it in good faith, 205 00:15:52,879 --> 00:16:00,919 that's fine, but this is clearly just a spare campaign. Well yeah, 206 00:16:02,159 --> 00:16:06,120 the Watchdolt on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski. Every day Chris helps 207 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,840 unpack the connection between politics and the economy and how it affects your wallet. 208 00:16:08,879 --> 00:16:14,399 How much is the mainstream media incohoots with the Biden administration? Since when did 209 00:16:14,399 --> 00:16:18,240 the media care so much about catching leakers? Is that their job? Should 210 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,919 they be asking more questions instead of being another wing of the White House. 211 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,279 Whether it's happening in DC or down on Wall Street, it's affecting you financially. 212 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,639 Be informed. Check out the Watchdought on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski 213 00:16:27,679 --> 00:16:36,120 on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. I have a 214 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:40,759 few things to say. One is is this it's that? Can I even 215 00:16:40,919 --> 00:16:42,799 say this? Well, first of all, let me take a step back 216 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:47,960 and just say that, in neither the Clarence Thomas story nor the Neil Gore 217 00:16:48,039 --> 00:16:56,039 such story does either story provide any evidence or proof or even a hint of 218 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:03,759 either of those men justices cheam their philosophical approach to the law to help anyone 219 00:17:03,919 --> 00:17:07,440 like so it is, it's just you know what, David, Yeah, 220 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,799 of course, who's someone who I would have thought I was more in alignment 221 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:14,839 with than any of the other justices before a few years ago did have that 222 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:21,200 extremely indefensible Bostock opinions. So maybe we should see if there's some secret, 223 00:17:21,759 --> 00:17:25,359 Yeah, Donor who was like, buddy, I'll make you wealthy for life 224 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:29,160 if you go against everything you believe in and destroy jurisprudence in America with this 225 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:33,440 insane opinion. It's amazing, though, how they'll they'll rag on these justices 226 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:37,759 for being fascist and bought and conservative and republican, but then they'll do something 227 00:17:37,839 --> 00:17:42,000 that lives like and they'll ignore it like like you know, like they like 228 00:17:42,079 --> 00:17:47,160 now all of us. So why why would these justices help democrats? Because 229 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,480 I think I don't know. I'm not saying their opinions are ones I agree 230 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,039 with all the time. I'm not a lawyer, but I would say that 231 00:17:52,079 --> 00:17:56,119 they're all principal people. Certainly Clarence Thomas and Neil gar such seemed like principal 232 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,680 people to me. But anyway, the point is is that they don't. 233 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,319 There's no evidence that any conflict of interest made them change their views on stuff. 234 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:06,960 But more than that is like what you mentioned, how this is such 235 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:11,039 a sophisticated operation. One story. You know, these stories will be thrown 236 00:18:11,079 --> 00:18:17,240 out there and then immediately they're embedded in the rhetoric of the times. Let 237 00:18:17,279 --> 00:18:22,400 me read you a quick lead. Senators Angus King and Lisa Murkowski have introduced 238 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:29,240 a bipartisan bill. One Republican Lisa Murkowski who was not the Republican nominee from 239 00:18:29,279 --> 00:18:34,799 Alaska this year. So that noted Republican stalwart Lisa Murkowski who didn't vote for 240 00:18:34,839 --> 00:18:40,039 Brett Kavanaugh. That one, right, that Republican. Okay, yeah, 241 00:18:40,519 --> 00:18:45,079 I've introduced an used the Bartis Bipartisan Bill to require the Supreme Court to create 242 00:18:45,079 --> 00:18:49,559 a new code of conduct for itself after pro public Are revealed that Conservative Justice 243 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:55,440 Clarence Thomas failed to disclose luxury trips he accepted from Texas billionaire Horland Crowe. 244 00:18:55,720 --> 00:19:00,400 First of all, he doesn't, there is no law regulations, doesn't have 245 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,720 to. Yeah, he does not even have to. But the way that 246 00:19:03,759 --> 00:19:06,599 this is framed, of course, is that he has gotten away with something 247 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:08,599 that he did something he shouldn't have done, which none of that is true, 248 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,839 but you see how it's embedded. And by the way, any Republican 249 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:17,279 who signs onto this bill is basically abetting the delegitimization of the Court. There 250 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:21,680 is nothing unethical going on at all. And by the way, you have 251 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,960 no constitutional power, Senate to tell the Supreme Court how to conduct its own 252 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,400 business. Zero nut. Yeah, well, they should read the Constitution, 253 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:33,319 which is something I doubt le Simurkowski has ever done, but certainly not recently. 254 00:19:33,559 --> 00:19:38,799 And no Republican who aids and abets what was done to Brett Kavanaugh should 255 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,599 really have anything to say about the judiciary at all. If the Senate had 256 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,079 the ethics of Clarence Thomas, then the United States would be a far better 257 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:52,640 place than it is right now. That's the truth. Yeah, all right, 258 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:56,400 I think you're angry about multiple things. That's the only one, really, 259 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:00,960 Okay, I can think of this week. Actually, are you excited 260 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,160 about Joe Biden running for president? He announced that. Excellent segue, excellent 261 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:11,400 segue. You're professional, I am, I am. I am not excited, 262 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:15,440 obviously. I think he is one of just a terrible president, both 263 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:22,160 in an ideological and philosophical sense, but also in a competency sense. You 264 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:23,240 know, I just don't think he's up for the job in any way. 265 00:20:23,279 --> 00:20:27,200 I can't believe he's running, but I mean obviously expected it. I don't 266 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:33,839 think there's anyone better for Democrats to run right now, and I just assumed 267 00:20:33,839 --> 00:20:36,319 he would run. This is what his whole life has been about. I 268 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:40,599 do kind of like how RFK Junior running kind of forced him to declare early, 269 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:44,240 Like didn't he say earlier he wasn't going to run until the fall or 270 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:47,720 an end of summer or something like that. But he wants to keep everybody 271 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,599 else out of the pool, so he's like announcing a bit early. Is 272 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:56,519 anyone else running? Act? I think seems to me that Gavin Newsom is 273 00:20:56,519 --> 00:21:03,480 sniffing around there. I think that's a good time as governor of California. 274 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:11,880 I think he and others, he and others overrate the appeal of Gavin Newsom 275 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:17,559 in general, especially in states like Pennsylvania or even you know, Michigan, 276 00:21:17,559 --> 00:21:21,680 in places like that. Anyway. I mean, I I think that Joe 277 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:26,160 Biden's going to have a listen. Anyone who thinks just because you're a bad 278 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,359 president, you're not going to be president again, is fooling themselves. Incumbents 279 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:36,799 having an immense advantage when running he is. It wouldn't surprise me if he 280 00:21:36,799 --> 00:21:40,680 won a second term, no matter who he ran against. But he's not 281 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:42,319 going to be able to hide in abasement, probably not going to be able 282 00:21:42,319 --> 00:21:45,480 to hide in the basement this time. He's probably going to have to be 283 00:21:45,759 --> 00:21:51,400 more engaged, and that is a grueling campaign. So I do wonder or 284 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,160 maybe Americans won't care that he is not up for it. I don't know 285 00:21:53,319 --> 00:21:57,799 really anymore, but it's going to be the dynamics of twenty twenty four going 286 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,440 to be very different. No matter that's you know, the santist Trump, 287 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:03,359 whoever is going to run against him. I think it's going to be a 288 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:04,720 lot harder for it, right, Like, it's much easier to run me. 289 00:22:06,519 --> 00:22:11,119 Wow, if you elect me, you will have a calm relief from 290 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:15,400 the chaos of the Trump era. Even if Trump was great on the economy 291 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:21,880 and foreign policy, you'll be relieved from tweets or whatever. And then to 292 00:22:22,079 --> 00:22:26,400 do that same campaign four years later when it's like, okay, the economies 293 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:30,200 and the crapper foreign policies and nightmare we're on the brink of World War three 294 00:22:30,279 --> 00:22:36,680 potentially. I've got the inflation that Biden has helped exacerbate, no border that 295 00:22:36,799 --> 00:22:41,599 he intentionally tore down like day one, no energy independence, and in fact, 296 00:22:41,599 --> 00:22:44,039 a war on energy like it's much hard to remember. Like there were 297 00:22:44,039 --> 00:22:48,400 little issues that played a big role in certain states, like Trump said that 298 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:55,160 he thought Biden would go to war on energy, and the media and other 299 00:22:55,240 --> 00:23:00,240 Democrats said that's a bald faced lie. No one cares more about oil than 300 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,400 Joe Biden, you know, and they helped him get that message out. 301 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,799 It mattered in the close states like Pennsylvania. It's really going to be hard 302 00:23:07,839 --> 00:23:15,119 to say that you support oil after you've done what you've done. Yeah, 303 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,480 but I don't know how much it matters because we just have ballot operations that 304 00:23:18,519 --> 00:23:22,240 they've got a really good ballot operation, so they'll probably just carry him or 305 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:26,000 someone else across the finish line and it won't matter what people want. I 306 00:23:26,039 --> 00:23:30,079 think it's that's part of it. I also think there's just more hardening of 307 00:23:30,799 --> 00:23:37,160 partisan tribalism in the sense that people aren't very are reluctant not to vote for 308 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,720 people in their party, and it's just really difficult to move people. That's 309 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:45,079 why you really have to get people out to vote. Obviously, I did 310 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:49,920 read that Biden is going to make abortion the central campaign abortion access the central 311 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:56,039 issue of his campaign nationally, and maybe this is a contrarian view of mine. 312 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,519 I don't know if you agree, but I think the Democrat this idea 313 00:23:59,559 --> 00:24:03,519 that abortion is such an anchor for the Republican Party is just a complete myth, 314 00:24:03,079 --> 00:24:06,640 complete myth. I don't buy it. I mean, I get a 315 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,359 lot of blowback when I make this argument, but I don't see the evidence 316 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:11,759 that that's true. I just, first of all, I don't think abortions 317 00:24:11,799 --> 00:24:15,519 the top issue or anywhere close for most people who vote on national elections. 318 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:22,559 I think that once states settle in unfortunately many states just have abortion on demand 319 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:27,279 told birth, that's not really going to be an issue that propels them in 320 00:24:27,319 --> 00:24:32,359 any real way. I don't know. I actually think that so long as 321 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:37,519 Republicans don't talk about it, it's a great issue for Democrats to focus on. 322 00:24:37,599 --> 00:24:41,400 Again, they have the complete support of the blood thirstiest group in human 323 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,960 history, which is our corporate media. Like that group loves killing babies more 324 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,440 than it loves anything else in the world. So they've got the complete, 325 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:56,039 like almost like possessed support of corporate media, and they have all their little 326 00:24:56,079 --> 00:25:00,839 like base voters that they want to excite to run these ballot operations. And 327 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,839 you've got a Republican party that's like, maybe if we don't talk about it, 328 00:25:03,839 --> 00:25:07,039 it will be okay. If you actually look at American opinion, Republicans 329 00:25:07,079 --> 00:25:11,759 are clearly on the side of American opinion. Americans want at least some protection 330 00:25:11,799 --> 00:25:17,240 for unborn children at some point in the pregnancy, and Democrats want abortion on 331 00:25:17,279 --> 00:25:19,839 demand through all nine months of pregnancy. Some even want it after birth, 332 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,880 which is not technically abortion, but you get the point. So this should 333 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:29,559 be an easy This should be like a slam dunk easy thing to handle, 334 00:25:29,759 --> 00:25:33,440 even with our corrupt media. But it's not going to be handled if you 335 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,359 don't talk about it, if you don't message it, if you don't put 336 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,640 anything close to the money that Democrats are putting into it. Like some of 337 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:45,319 these abortion issues you've got, you've got pro lifers outspent by the people who 338 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,960 support killing onboard children in the MOOM like fifteen to one, like you're not 339 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,079 going to win when you've got that kind of disparity. So I don't actually 340 00:25:52,079 --> 00:25:57,599 think it's crazy for Biden to focus on it. It is utterly insane that 341 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:02,519 people like Mitch McConnell and other leaders of the Republican Party are like, please 342 00:26:02,599 --> 00:26:04,519 don't talk about it. We just wish you would not talk about it. 343 00:26:04,599 --> 00:26:08,880 That's so insane. Is to be almost like criminal misconduct and leadership of a 344 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,400 party. And I think Trump also, I didn't I don't remember exactly what 345 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:17,240 he said, and it was like talking about how it's only a state based 346 00:26:17,279 --> 00:26:22,519 issue, which is a fundamental misreading of the Alito opinion, which merely accurately 347 00:26:22,559 --> 00:26:26,519 notes that there's no abortion right in the Constitution and it's returned to the people, 348 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,880 whether at the local, state, or federal level. No, I 349 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,880 agree with all that. I wrote a column last week about how you're only 350 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,279 going to win this if you stop being cowards on the issue. But I 351 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,160 do want to say, even if every American thought that abortion was fine and 352 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:45,240 it was a losing issue, that doesn't make it any more less odious or 353 00:26:45,319 --> 00:26:48,599 my position more and moral anyway. So I think you have to start from 354 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,880 the position that you have the principled correct position and that even if people disagreed 355 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,279 with you, you can convince them that they're wrong. We have stopped trying 356 00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:02,720 to convince people that or I hate to use the word, but educate them 357 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:07,480 on like how many Democrats are How many voters know that Democrats are pro abortion 358 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:14,160 from until birth for any reason? Yeah? How they funded by the state. 359 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,559 They don't know because the media lies about it constantly. So Republicans need 360 00:27:17,599 --> 00:27:22,559 to pour tons of money into races to let them know to reform them. 361 00:27:22,839 --> 00:27:26,680 I also love what you said about doing things not based on polling but leadership. 362 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,559 And this is something the two front runners for the nomination, and really 363 00:27:30,599 --> 00:27:33,880 Trump is like so far ahead that it's not even close at this point. 364 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:41,039 But Trump and Decantists both are kind of derided as having populist rhetoric, and 365 00:27:41,079 --> 00:27:45,279 they certainly do, but they have shown leadership on issues where they didn't have 366 00:27:45,559 --> 00:27:49,559 the majority of the people behind them when they began. And Decantists had a 367 00:27:49,599 --> 00:27:55,640 line about this in his speech at Heritage on Friday, about leading people rather 368 00:27:55,680 --> 00:28:00,519 than just responding to like misinformed polls. And you even take something like understanding 369 00:28:00,559 --> 00:28:04,759 the threat post by China at the time that Donald Trump was saying this, 370 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,839 I don't know what the polling numbers were, but like inside DC, it 371 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:17,240 was considered absolute anathema, and now it's kind of conventional wisdom. Like people 372 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:21,160 have different debates about how to handle it, but everyone kind of agrees China 373 00:28:21,279 --> 00:28:23,039 is a threat that needs to be managed there. It needs to be issues 374 00:28:23,079 --> 00:28:30,119 here. And he didn't do that by polling the green rooms at newsrooms. 375 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,599 He did it by leading people to a better understanding. And likewise, I 376 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,960 think Rond de Sciantists has shown real courage and leadership going against what we're probably 377 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:47,400 polls showing no support for ending lockdowns or even whatever these like crazy poles were 378 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:52,079 showing at the time, and I think that that is also so it's important 379 00:28:52,079 --> 00:28:56,160 to do it on principle and then encounterintuitively, ignoring the polls and leading people 380 00:28:56,319 --> 00:29:03,319 is actually good politics too. Absolutely one thing on abortion poles, they're garbage. 381 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,720 Most of them are complete garbage. The questions are garbage. They usually 382 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,920 ask things like do you support abortion access or something? What the what? 383 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,720 What is this abortion access? Like it's such a weird it's like such a 384 00:29:14,839 --> 00:29:18,599 nice euphemism for like, do you think life should be ended violently in the 385 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,759 womb after it has begun. Not even that nobody would do a poll question 386 00:29:22,799 --> 00:29:26,720 like that, And it's actually more accurate and clear than the whatever this euphemism 387 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,640 is about access, which is just a land parent, a freaking talking point 388 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:36,039 nobody, nobody, no self respecting person should use. Do you support a 389 00:29:36,079 --> 00:29:40,000 reproductive justice? Yeah? No, that that's true, that euphemisms are ridiculous. 390 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,599 But beyond that, there are no parameter useful parameters in a poll like 391 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:48,319 that. What does that tell us? Lots of people support abortion access to 392 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,160 six weeks, let's say, but men, no book, very few people 393 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,200 support it at the end of pregnancy, and yet they clod in. But 394 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,920 anyway, that's what I'm saying. So those poles are garbage. And again, 395 00:29:59,039 --> 00:30:00,720 like you said, I think that to Santa signing the six week ban 396 00:30:02,839 --> 00:30:07,240 won't hurt him in poles in Florida, And I am not against him taking 397 00:30:07,559 --> 00:30:11,519 a thoughtful kind of political approach to abortion, like you know, he can 398 00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:15,319 say. Listen, I'm pro life. I believe life begins, you know, 399 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,519 at deception, But I realize that not everyone's there. You notice how 400 00:30:19,519 --> 00:30:23,079 everyone always has to evolve to the pro abortion but no one ever evolves to 401 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,960 the life position. But he has to say, I'm going to wait for 402 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,559 America to bob and we if we do it on the state level, now 403 00:30:29,599 --> 00:30:32,519 that's fine. I think Florida's ready for that. Maybe New York's not, 404 00:30:32,599 --> 00:30:34,880 but they will be one day. Whatever. I don't know. I'm all 405 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:40,680 for incrementally getting where you want. The left always incrementally gets there. They 406 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,920 pass giant bill and then they make that the new baseline. Then they lose, 407 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,000 you know whatever, but they're always moving forward. And Republicans don't fight 408 00:30:48,039 --> 00:30:51,720 like that. Publican senators complete cowards on this issue because they look at Poles 409 00:30:51,799 --> 00:30:55,039 and it And I wrote this in the column, no one's more horror. 410 00:30:55,119 --> 00:30:57,400 No one was more horrified of dobb than Dobbs and the Republican Party, you 411 00:30:57,519 --> 00:31:00,759 know what I mean. It's sure they were horrified that they'd actually have to 412 00:31:00,799 --> 00:31:06,079 do something because for years you could take the pro life position and every voter 413 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,160 knew you wouldn't actually do anything because there there is Row. Well Row is 414 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,839 now gone, and you have to do something. It's mind boggling that they 415 00:31:12,839 --> 00:31:18,920 have not come up with a coherent, uh your message or a compelling message 416 00:31:19,119 --> 00:31:23,319 or a message that lets people know what democrats are really about. Anyway. 417 00:31:25,079 --> 00:31:27,720 I think one other week we talked about this and I mentioned all the politicians 418 00:31:27,759 --> 00:31:33,559 who have signed six week bands or fifteen week bands where one races like JD 419 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:38,039 vance in formal you know purple states that you know Ohio was a purple state 420 00:31:38,039 --> 00:31:41,880 only. How many years ago Florida was a state only? How many you 421 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,119 can you can change these states by being you know, smart on these issues. 422 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,720 Anyway, I don't even know why I'm hey politicians so much, but 423 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,599 I don't get any opportunities to say nice things about Nicki Haley. And I 424 00:31:53,720 --> 00:32:00,440 noticed this week she had always been kind of um she identified as pro life, 425 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,160 but it she almost like spoke it as a second language. And this 426 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:08,640 week she she had some really good remarks and it kind of kind of alonglines 427 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,319 what you're saying. And she compared it to how she got rid of the 428 00:32:12,319 --> 00:32:15,079 Confederate flag it's state capital or whatever, how to like move people along, 429 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:20,640 and she really leaned into being pro life, and it was nice to see. 430 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,240 Yeah, it's nice to see that. Yeah. I mentioned that, 431 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,640 you know, when the media talks about someone who becomes a pro life they've 432 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,920 evolved, they've seen the light, you know. But the other way, 433 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:36,519 they're always regressive when they become pro pro choice choice I mean, yeah, 434 00:32:36,519 --> 00:32:39,039 which I hate that term as well. That term itself is a euphemism pro 435 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:43,279 choice, you know. But I don't want to get into all that. 436 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,920 But I just think, and as you know, I'm a secular person. 437 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:51,799 I grew up in a liberal place. I am, you know. I 438 00:32:51,839 --> 00:32:55,880 think that there's a rational not just a religious but a rational, compelling argument 439 00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:00,720 made for to protect life. It's like the one of the most important things 440 00:33:00,799 --> 00:33:02,039 we can do, the most moral things we can do. And I just 441 00:33:02,119 --> 00:33:06,599 don't understand why why some of these people as such cowards. So it's good 442 00:33:06,599 --> 00:33:10,359 to know that Nicky Haley made a good argument. She's evolving in a very 443 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:16,079 nice way. I like your terms evolving to an enlightened opinion. You can 444 00:33:16,119 --> 00:33:20,519 tell, it's funny. You can tell when someone takes a position that's a 445 00:33:20,559 --> 00:33:24,240 second language to them, like on guns or something or what's that guy's name 446 00:33:24,319 --> 00:33:30,200 is, running back Ramaswami. Yeah, I feel like he speaks populism as 447 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:35,559 a second language. So I'm just gonna say something. I actually just kind 448 00:33:35,559 --> 00:33:39,279 of enjoy him, meaning I pause when he's talking. I kind of want 449 00:33:39,279 --> 00:33:42,880 to hear what he has to say. Definitely someone I don't agree with on 450 00:33:43,319 --> 00:33:46,400 everything, and sometimes I think he has more confidence in what he's saying than 451 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:52,400 actual support, like ideological support for what he's saying. But I'm usually annoyed 452 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:57,200 by people who run for president who have no chance, like Asa Hutchinson. 453 00:33:57,359 --> 00:34:01,519 But there's something I don't know. I'm just kind of interested to see what 454 00:34:01,559 --> 00:34:05,839 happens with this dude. Yeah, I don't think. I mean, I 455 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:10,760 don't know. I wish that he had some kind of policy idea that was 456 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,760 out, you know, different than what everyone else was sort of saying, 457 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:19,440 and that he pushed that more and that it was something innovative. But I 458 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:24,480 don't really feel like that's I do think his personal knowledge of woke corporatism and 459 00:34:24,599 --> 00:34:31,360 his opposition to say, his like knowledgeable opposition to same is interesting. Yeah, 460 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,079 the rest of the By the way, this always reminds me that I 461 00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:38,840 always thought Andrew Yang must be some like billionaire who was retired early as a 462 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:45,039 young person and running for president, and that this sort of made his candidacy 463 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:46,960 makes sense. And then he had that debate where he said that he was 464 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,960 having trouble paying for health insurance. I know I've said this before, and 465 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:52,960 it was the most alarming thing I've ever heard in a debate, because I 466 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:58,000 was like, why in the h double hockey sticks is this guy on stage? 467 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:02,920 He's poor? Yeah, where you come from. I have an elitist 468 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:07,840 outlook on something, and that's people run for office. I've said this before 469 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,239 on the show. You need to be the bare minimum is being more successful 470 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:14,440 than I am. Like, I'm a middling human being in the world. 471 00:35:15,039 --> 00:35:16,960 I am not super. You know, I'm just right out there getting I'm 472 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,679 just getting by and all that. Fine, But you need to be more 473 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:22,679 successful than I am, because if you're not, that means you've done something 474 00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:27,559 in your life that is wrong. You know what I'm saying that you're simply 475 00:35:27,599 --> 00:35:31,360 not prepared for adulthood in any real way. I was speaking of adulthood, 476 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,400 you know, I was speaking with my wife and I realize I'm just a 477 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,960 fifteen year old boy in a fifty three year old man's spot. Because here 478 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:42,239 are the things that I do. I just bought a guitar yesterday, buy 479 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,519 records, I have a book, I ride my bike, Like all the 480 00:35:45,639 --> 00:35:49,920 things I do. You are you basically sound like my husband? But do 481 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,639 you not enjoy your life? I absolutely love my life every day. I'm 482 00:35:52,679 --> 00:35:54,840 like, I am the luckiest person. I mean, if you asked me 483 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,760 when I was fifteen year old, like what do you want to do when 484 00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,960 you're fifty three, and I'd be like, I want to ride my bike 485 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:05,280 records. I feel like a fourteen year old boy because I find offensive jokes 486 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,440 funny, like about human you know, human liquids or whatever. Like I 487 00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:15,800 I like laugh at stupid jokes. And I find women and their bodies to 488 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,400 be utterly fascinating, Like nothing makes me so happy. It seem like a 489 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,239 beautiful woman walk down the street. I think I'm a fourteen year old boy 490 00:36:22,559 --> 00:36:29,880 right Probably Also the TV shows I watch, I just the dumbest things, 491 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,719 you know, so and I wonder if that's a problem. This is for 492 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,639 another podcast. It's good, this is an hour show, but I just 493 00:36:35,679 --> 00:36:37,320 want to say, I wonder if that's the problem. Our lives in many 494 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,320 ways are so good. And I'm not saying everyone lives a life like me, 495 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:45,039 but I noticed that a lot of older men my age do things that 496 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,719 I would not have seen my grandfather do For instance, my grandfather wore a 497 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,599 fedora, you know what I mean, like he was an adult. He 498 00:36:51,639 --> 00:36:53,079 looked like he was fifty when he was thirty, you know what I mean. 499 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:57,760 But I'm like, you know, I'm at shorts and sandal that's a 500 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,840 flip flops, you know, and stuff like that. So I just maybe 501 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,440 we're too immature anyway, that's for another. I have to think that through 502 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,199 good that you just threw that out, you know, to the to the 503 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:13,360 world. Maybe well a perfect segue. Maybe people can mail us on that, 504 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,480 and you know where they can do that at radio at the Federalist dot 505 00:37:17,519 --> 00:37:22,119 com. Just radio at the Federalist dot com. So have you did you 506 00:37:22,519 --> 00:37:28,760 do any cultural stuff this week you want to discuss with the group? Yes, 507 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,800 two things. One I went to well I already mentioned the Heritage gala, 508 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:37,239 which was very fun. And Dirk Spentley is that his name? Did 509 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,039 just make that up? You know the country music start the I literally definitely 510 00:37:40,079 --> 00:37:43,559 would not know about the country. Okay, it was great, It was 511 00:37:43,639 --> 00:37:45,760 good. He had like a bunch of guitarists. It was really fun. 512 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:51,159 So and then the next night I went to the M eighty three concert do 513 00:37:51,199 --> 00:37:53,639 you know that band Amy three. I do not. It's more like a 514 00:37:53,679 --> 00:37:57,519 French dude. And I think there are other people who play with him. 515 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,639 And I really like m At three. I've loved so many of their albums. 516 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:07,880 The most recent album is weak and kind of ugly, and I was 517 00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:13,440 really thinking a lot about Tucker's speech where he talked about the fruits of good 518 00:38:13,559 --> 00:38:19,559 versus the fruits of evil and how good produces beauty and evil produces ugliness and 519 00:38:19,639 --> 00:38:22,039 chaos and disorder, and it was just interesting. Like this album, the 520 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,119 I think, like the image for it is like kind of a monster on 521 00:38:25,159 --> 00:38:30,199 the cover, and it's very ugly, and the music is very much less 522 00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:34,960 good than the previous albums. And the concert also was not great, and 523 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,559 it was partly not great because it was based on that album, but the 524 00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:46,039 crowd seemed just kind of annoying to me. It was a very seemed like 525 00:38:46,119 --> 00:38:52,360 a drug fueled crowd, and I did not enjoy that. And I had 526 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,400 gone to the Anthem, which is this venue in DC a few months prior 527 00:38:55,519 --> 00:39:00,199 to see Arcade Fire and it was exactly the opposite. It was just like 528 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:05,119 an amazing concert. The vibe was so strong. Regina whatever her name is, 529 00:39:05,119 --> 00:39:07,199 who's like in the band, was just like vibing with the crowd, 530 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:12,320 and it was it was like great, and this one was less good. 531 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:17,199 So I have another thing really quickly. Yeah, I have a friend who's 532 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:22,039 just reading through scripture and she's always talking about it, and so I had 533 00:39:22,119 --> 00:39:25,000 wanted to do it during Lent, to just kind of do much more scripture 534 00:39:25,039 --> 00:39:28,679 study. And then I got really really sick, to the point that it 535 00:39:28,679 --> 00:39:34,480 was just putting me behind on everything. And a listener said that I had 536 00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:42,239 been given a Lenten discipline by being sick, like the external gift of this 537 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:47,159 sickness was itself a spiritual discipline. And when I thought about it that way, 538 00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:52,239 I realized the whole point of spiritual discipline is to kind of make your 539 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:58,760 faith stronger and just help you with your path of being a Christian. And 540 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:05,159 it provoked in me this desire to go ahead and do what I was wanting 541 00:40:05,159 --> 00:40:07,559 to do at the beginning of Lent. And so I just started at Genesis 542 00:40:07,639 --> 00:40:12,000 one. And I have read a lot of scripture. I'm Lutheran. We 543 00:40:12,119 --> 00:40:15,880 do nothing but read scripture. Like every service is a lot of different big 544 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,840 chunks of passages of scripture. We do Bible study. I read devotional books 545 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,760 where you go through different books of the Bible, but like I hadn't really 546 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:27,400 just sat down and read it straight through. And I've been doing a combination 547 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:31,239 of reading it with my Lutheran study Bible notes and then also just reading it 548 00:40:31,639 --> 00:40:36,360 like a book, kind of like I'm if I'm in a car, i 549 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:37,880 just read it on my phone, and if I'm at home, I read 550 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:43,480 it with my study Bible, which has really interesting notes. David Harsani, 551 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:51,559 this Book of Genesis read like a book. Is the most interesting book I've 552 00:40:51,559 --> 00:40:54,920 ever read. Like it was amazing and I just finished, Oh my gosh. 553 00:40:54,960 --> 00:41:05,719 The ending. The ending is this verse knows about how you know what 554 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:10,519 you meant for evil God meant for good. And I'd always understood that verse 555 00:41:10,559 --> 00:41:14,960 and I've always you know, I don't, like ef ever had any confusion 556 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:20,199 about it. But having it in the context of this story of the generations 557 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:25,679 and how God is protecting his people and preserving them through all of these all 558 00:41:25,679 --> 00:41:32,599 of this craziness, it was riveting and it's so deepened my understanding of life 559 00:41:32,599 --> 00:41:37,599 as a Christian. And I started Exodus, and that's off to a great 560 00:41:37,639 --> 00:41:40,559 start as well, and I'm just so excited and it's like I've finally I 561 00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:45,519 finally hit the age where like this is what I get to do, and 562 00:41:45,559 --> 00:41:47,920 I'm so excited, like I can't wait to get back to the next chapter 563 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,480 to read the next part. That's fascinating. Do you know what I did 564 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,159 the other day? I was in Walmart, which at place I hate, 565 00:41:57,599 --> 00:42:02,960 and I saw a T shirt that's is y'all need Jesus? And I bought 566 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:08,519 it, Yes, of an honor of the rest of the Federalist staff and 567 00:42:08,639 --> 00:42:14,079 especially Sean Davis, who keeps saying everyone needs to find Jesus. So every 568 00:42:14,119 --> 00:42:17,360 time I Duke Gutfeld and they're talking about some like a horrible thing, I 569 00:42:17,519 --> 00:42:22,039 always my response that I always want to say, but I keep it together, 570 00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,639 is y'all need Jesus like you are. You all need Jesus. Because 571 00:42:25,679 --> 00:42:31,679 you know, my position is that we need a far more religious people and 572 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:36,039 that we're great because we were religious. I had a lot to do with 573 00:42:36,079 --> 00:42:43,079 our success, especially Protestantis from my Catholic friends. I'm very you know, 574 00:42:43,079 --> 00:42:45,760 it's a beautiful religion as well. But um so I think I want to 575 00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:49,719 spread the message, not for me personally, but for the rest of you, 576 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,760 you'll get there. I'm so excited. I can't wait for that to 577 00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,719 happen. But anyway, um no, I think that's it. It's m 578 00:42:55,760 --> 00:43:00,840 maybe three and the Book of Genesis, so I doesn't have to say too 579 00:43:01,159 --> 00:43:07,360 sorry Genesis. I think I mentioned before that when I saw The Godfather in 580 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:12,400 my twenties, I was babysitting for some friends kids and I watched The Godfather, 581 00:43:12,519 --> 00:43:15,360 and then the next day at church, I was telling everybody that The 582 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:19,599 Godfather is a very good movie. And my husband will never let me live 583 00:43:19,639 --> 00:43:22,320 this down. That I was trying to tell people, like decades after the 584 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,400 fact, to see a movie that everybody knows is really good. That's how 585 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:28,960 I feel about Genesis. I'm like, have you did you know what happened 586 00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,360 there? Like it's amazing, And I'm telling my kids, and my kids 587 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:36,119 are very well read, like this is crazy. It's like, what happened 588 00:43:36,119 --> 00:43:38,039 here? It's so cool. Anyway, So I have to say, though, 589 00:43:38,079 --> 00:43:43,400 you do you rediscover things, not just biblical things, but just movies, 590 00:43:43,639 --> 00:43:45,840 novels, and you read them at a different age and it has a 591 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:50,840 completely different effect on you. So you know, I'd always said I wanted 592 00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,119 to go to Revelation when I was older, and I'm now older, so 593 00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:57,159 that's that's going to be the ending of this. I'm so sorry to interrupt 594 00:43:57,159 --> 00:44:00,960 you now now are our co worker? I think Sean Davis mentioned the Book 595 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:04,159 of Daniel. We were having some some kind of discussion and I had really 596 00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,039 just read some of it, and it's like this spooky, crazy book, 597 00:44:07,119 --> 00:44:10,239 you know, and you're like, this is I went to Yeshiva and all 598 00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:14,079 lad and it just didn't come off that way when I was fourteen, you 599 00:44:14,119 --> 00:44:15,719 know what I mean? But now I like, this book is scary, 600 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,760 so so I get it. I'm actually reading a book called Who Wrote the 601 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,480 Bible, which is fascinating about the Jewish, about Tatar itself, but also 602 00:44:23,679 --> 00:44:28,760 other Jewish books, and she tries to piece together the sort of historical backing 603 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,480 of it, which I'm a big fan of. But I did not. 604 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:37,960 My cultural menu is not as high brow as that. This week it's I 605 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:45,360 watched John mulvaney, the comedian. I didn't love it. Now, you 606 00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:49,039 know, he obviously he's had problems. He divorced his wife, he was 607 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,760 he had a big drug problem, and it's about that journey. Um, 608 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,159 but as my wife pointed out, you know, he's a little it seemed 609 00:44:57,199 --> 00:45:00,239 to me as well that he's a little still taken with the drug lifestyle, 610 00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:04,360 like it's funny. Then he makes fun of himself for being a drug addict, 611 00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:07,840 but he still sort of treated it as like this cool counter lifestyle, 612 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,719 you know what I mean, Like there was just this is just me being 613 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:15,280 an old, middle aged man with kids who doesn't want my kids to do 614 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:19,039 drugs and stuff. But the tone of it still just what I probably would 615 00:45:19,039 --> 00:45:21,639 have found it a lot funnier if I was like thirty five, you know 616 00:45:21,639 --> 00:45:23,960 what I mean. M Yeah, no, I know exactly what you mean, 617 00:45:24,039 --> 00:45:29,960 But I still was it funny otherwise, Yeah, there are funny parts 618 00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:32,199 to it. He's a he's funny, and I didn't love all of it, 619 00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:36,760 but it's like not as funny as his older stuff that I watched, 620 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:38,920 but it's still worth watching if you're a fan of his comedy in general. 621 00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:43,800 Yeah. The other thing I watched is called Personality Crisis. Have you heard 622 00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:49,760 of this? Aout? This documentary co directed by Martin Scorsese of David Johansson, 623 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:52,800 who was a member of the New York Dolls in the early seventies, 624 00:45:52,960 --> 00:46:00,239 transgressive band, like you know, the dress like women a kind of but 625 00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,199 they didn't really act like women or want people to think they were women, 626 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:06,960 so it's a little different. They played this sort of garage rock. It 627 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,000 was amazing. But David Johansson then put out so albums that were sort of 628 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:14,639 been like an icon in New York, like rock Circles, and then he 629 00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,000 was Buster Poindexter, which most people know him as he's saying hot, Hot, 630 00:46:17,039 --> 00:46:22,320 Hot that song, and so what he does that that's a alter ego 631 00:46:22,519 --> 00:46:25,159 or a you know, altered a personality, but he what he did in 632 00:46:25,199 --> 00:46:29,719 this show. So it's kind of like a concert at a Carlisle Hotel in 633 00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:31,639 New York and they go through his life story he was born and Stanton and 634 00:46:31,679 --> 00:46:39,440 all that, and he sings David Johansson's songs in the persona of Buster Poindexter. 635 00:46:39,599 --> 00:46:44,079 So anyway, if you're into that sort of thing, it was it 636 00:46:44,159 --> 00:46:46,440 was okay and interesting. And I would say anything Martin Scorsese does has a 637 00:46:46,599 --> 00:46:50,920 sort of like high level of quality to it. And he did the Dylan 638 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,239 biography and The Stones, but a documentary in the Stones documentary, and this 639 00:46:54,360 --> 00:47:00,079 is in a similar vein. That's all I have. Okay, great, 640 00:47:01,159 --> 00:47:05,239 all right everyone, we'll be back next week. The lovers of freedom, 641 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:06,400 then anxious freed of fret,