Hello, everyone, Welcome back to a new episode of You're Wrong with David
Harsani and Molly Hemingway. Molly, how's it going. It's going great.
I tried to lift my voice a little higher, pretend that that's how I
speak in real life, when I'm pretty monotone in my delivery. Anyway,
I had a split second decision, like do I mention that I got three
hours of sleep last night, that I'm exhausted, that in fact, you
know I'm not operating at one hundred percent, or do I just say everything's
great. Your eighty percent is like every normal person's Hunter Forscentum. We talk
about sleep a lot on this podcast about the lack of sleep. I slept
actually pretty well, so I'm good. I'm still operating at eighty percent.
So anyway, this week, the big story, or one of the big
stories was and listen, I said, I don't really know anything. You
know what happened, and I don't dive into these things, but Tucker Carlson
being fired or leaving or let go or whatever happened from Fox complete shock to
me. I'm a big fan of his, even though I disagree with a
lot of his recent populous turn. I just think he is a super talented
guy. I know he's going to do something incredible. I know him for
a pretty long time. I'm not, you know, friends with him,
like we don't hang out, but I do know him, and he blurred
my first book back in like two thousand and eight. I used to be
a massive fan of his writing at Talk magazine and other places, and I
just think he's a talented, interesting guy and he's going to do fine.
Yeah. Well, I don't really know anything about the Departure despite being a
contributor there, but I am a huge fan of Tuckers and pretty much across
the board. Like his magazine writing is some of the best magazine article writing
that you will ever find. And he's kind of good at everything he does,
which is very frustrating to seem to observe. You know. His TV
show has been just fascinating to watch, and like you it's not like I
agree with everything that's on there, or even about everything about the approach,
but just so much fun to watch and so much to learn and being introduced
to so many interesting thinkers. You know, a lot of what happens in
the media is just kind of like the same stuff, and it's been it's
been fun to be introduced, you know, whether in his digital or TV
platforms to new things. There's something else I was going to say. Oh,
and he's also just like an incredibly nice guy, which you're alluding to,
but yeah, I mean every interaction I've had with him, he's been
so generous. Obviously, he's a big name, and he doesn't need to
spend his time, you know, helping me or dealing with me, and
the way he doesn't he does. He's generous with his time and he's a
good He's a good man, which you would never know from the sort of
you know, vitriolic, sort of nasty way that some people portray him.
But he's not like that in real life at all. He's a really nice
guy. At least in my interactions he has been. Yeah, he's and
not just a good man with people that are not his closest friends and family,
but a really good family man. And that's one of the things I've
been disappointed by in Washington, DC as you meet all these people and they
might even be public talkers about family values, and they're not living their lives
in a way that is honorable. Tucker Tucker lives his life in a very
honorable way. I mean he would he would tell you he's a big sinner
or something like that. But he's happily married. He's a very good father.
He's a very attentive husband and father, and I respect that more than
you know, any political posture or anything else. So it's really yeah,
sorry, he's really easy to talk to, right you're interrupting you last thing.
I'll say that like us who are not easy to talk to. Apparently.
No, Actually, you remind you remind at least the way I interact
with you reminds you of how easy because it was. I remember first meeting
you, and right away we were we could talk right right away. It
was easy for us to have a conversation. Was it because I was like,
oh my gosh, I'm your biggest fan and I've read everything you've written,
and You're like, I can talk to this lady. She's okay,
this is my kind of person. I remember, do you remember where we
first met? It was around the corner from the Heritage Foundation at that coffee
shop. Really, I don't I have a bad memory. Yeah no,
But anyway, I don't want to go down memory lane. But I will
say that. You know, I'm just gonna say that Tucker had me to
do, you know, doing one of those hour interviews he did on Fox
Nation my book You're a Trash, and it was maybe the best interview I
had for the It was the best interview. It was just so easy and
effortless to talk to him about it. And you know, it's funny about
him. When I did an interview on his show years ago from my gun
book, I thought it was going to be one of these like softball interviews,
and right away he was asking me tough questions. But if you have
a book, you want those questions. It's you like, want to push
back, you want to make your argument, and he, uh, let
me do that. And you know, I was appreciative anyway, that's all.
Sorry to interrupt you. That's it. That's it. Let's move on.
But to talk about oh wait, I want to say one of the
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I had the privilege and honor of
attending the Heritage Foundation's fiftieth anniversary gala in Washington, DC on Friday of last
week, and I got to know I was there earlier in the day because
I was moderating a panel discussion that was really The panelists were very interesting.
We were immediately followed by Ron DeSantis, who gave one of the best policy
speeches I've ever listened to, you particularly in substance and just a track record
of accomplishment that was really cool. And then that evening there was this huge
gala like Dirk's Bentley was playing there twenty five hundred people, and Tucker Carlson
gave the keynote, and I would highly encourage everyone to listen to his speech,
which I've now listened to three times, once in person and twice on
a rewatch. And he did it with no notes, and it's not political.
It's really about good versus evil and the importance of love. And it
was great and it was a real experience to be there. The room was
just electrified by the whole evening and his speech really being a culmination of that.
And it was also about like the importance of bravery and courage and speaking
the truth even when there are tough consequences for that, and I have found
it very inspirational and everyone, almost everyone I've talked to who was there has
said likewise. And you know, people who've been watching and listening, I
saw the YouTube link had been watched like more than a million times, so
clearly it's resonating with others. I would just say again, if you haven't
watched it, or even if you have watched it, again noted and I
have not watched it. Okay, so let's move on. I wanted to
talk if you're cool with that, a effort, an effort that's going on
on the left. I think it's been going on a long time, and
you actually wrote a book about it, about the delegitimization of the Supreme Court,
the attacks on the personal, attacks on justices who to some extent or
the other, but in general uphold the Constitution, which is to say,
limit the power of the state. And that is what I think at least
that progressives and leftists are most upset about when it comes to the Supreme Court.
So in this effort to delegitimize, usually it's done on the front end.
You know, happened with Clarence Thomas, and I certainly happened with Brett
Kavanaugh. And now they've come up with a new thing, which is to
delegitimize people on the court by creating these stories and perceptions that they're unethical people
on the court, that they're making money off decisions, that they have conflicts
of interest. And I'm talking about Clarence Thomas and now Neil Gorsuch. So
the Pro public A piece on Clarence Thomas, I think we talked about it
a few weeks ago, made it seem like he basically was taking bribes from
Harlan Crow, this big donor. And now there's a new story in Politico
and I can't pronounce her name written by Heide Do you know how to pronounce
her last name? Chris Bola Risola, who I think I can't really even
call her a journalist. I mean, she's so obviously transparently partisan. She
was part of the Kavanaugh smears that she spread. But she was also part
of the hydroxy chlora queen thing during COVID where she made it seem like it
was rice in or something and had that story about the person the woman and
her husband who drank the stuff that was her as well in the fish tank.
I don't remember want to go into it. But anyway, this new
story Gorsa, she says it's so convoluted. But let's just say that there's
a form that these Supreme Court justices fill out that lists all their income,
so stocks, sales, And there was a sale of a house that such
co owned. He owned twenty percent of it, and he did not mention
in the disclosure form on you know who he sold it to. And it
happened to be this big lawyer in Colorado, was a CEO with this big
law firm that's involved in cases. So I dug into every single Supreme Court
disclosure form and on the column where it says who you sold your stuff too,
literally, not one justice has ever even put a notation in that column.
Then I went and looked at twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. I went
through year after year after year, and not a single notation. This is
unmentioned in the political piece, meaning that she created a new standard for Neil
Gore such that had not existed on anyone. Then she wrote that he didn't
even mention he was part of this group and what they were selling, which
on the first page of disclosure either she didn't see it or she lied it
says Walden Group LLC or whatever the company's name was, and then the words
mountain property, which is exactly what he sold, and then specifically listed what
it was, but she created this perception that he had been bought by this
guy who's a liberal by the way, who gives money to all liberal big
Democrats owner And now, of course the left wing runs with it, and
they just pretend that he has bought, that Clarence Thomas has bought and it's
just so, it's it's it's so. It just never would have happened,
even twenty years ago, that the media would have allowed a story like that.
I'm not saying they didn't want to smear people. I'm not saying that
they didn't. But the shoddy work, the lack of sourcing, the inability
to read a simple disclosure form or lie about it is so transparent. And
all the journalists retweet this story, by the way, they're not like,
oh, I'm embarrassed by this kind of reporting. You know, all the
big political journalists retweeted this, and I don't know if anything I just made
you said made sense because it's kind of a convoluted story. But it is,
of course as usual as every week I'm infuriated something. Well, it's
good for people to understand and be able to recognize when they're in the midst
of an information operation, And for some reason it makes me think back to
the twenty sixteen campaign. There was this debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
where she really worked hard to insert and into an answer something that wasn't like
completely relevant about a woman named Alicia Machado I think it was, and how
Donald Trump had been mean to her. And then immediately as the debate ended,
there were these like glossy, high color photo spreads of Alicia Machado and
her story of how Donald Trump, when he ran some pageant or something,
had been mean to her about her weight, and just I realized, this
is like far afield from the account port But I just want to point out
that if you actually go back and watch what happened at the time, it
is true that this woman was was some pageant winner, and that she had
packed on quite a few pounds, and that there was it had become a
little bit of a public problem, and Donald Trump actually was like really kind
about it. He talked about how everyone's a little overweight or a lot of
people struggle with their weight, and how she had a busy schedule and stuff,
and so like she was going to get more time to be able to
focus on working out or something like that, and so you know, the
type of thing that could be construed thirty years later is like the worst thing
ever, but actually was pretty kind. The CNN report on it was like
this fatty boom Ba Laddie thinks she could be a beauty queen, but she's
a porker, so she can't be. I mean, it was actually really
funny report. Again, something you couldn't do now, so compared to what
was happening in the media, Donald Trump was really nice. But mainly the
point is that this woman was this was being used as an info op to
see this idea that Donald Trump mistreated women and so like left out of the
story was that she was like engaged to a drug cartel leader or something like
that. I don't remember what the details were. Who among us has not
had I have not fallen in love with people who maybe shouldn't them. Okay,
So my point just being this is so obviously an info op that you'd
have to be an idiot to not recognize it. You've got the slow drip,
You've got the pro publica, the leftist the leftist corporate media outlet,
or the leftist media outlet that sort of runs democratic smears. You've got known
dem propagandist like Heidi Prisbala. And by the way, there's like an entire
chapter about how much she messed up one of the stories on the you know,
the Cabina smear operation that the Left ran. So now you've got her
going and I just assumed the drip will continue and that it will be focused.
You know, they're they're clearly focused on attacking the legitimacy of the court.
They know that appetite for falsely accusing good men of rape is a a
low right now, so they're going for some other thing to attack the legitimacy
of the court. And they are well coordinated, they're well funded, they
control the corporate media, and so they're sort of able to just have this
go out. The reality is too that you know, I know of at
least two Democrat appointed justices who have had to amend their financial disclosure forms because
they you know, they fuilled it out to their best of their ability,
but it was not completely accurate. There was the situation where the Katangi Brown
Jackson had to amend like twelve years I think of reporting from from when she
was on the Lower Court. She forgot to include her husband's income or something
like that. So this is this type of like financial reporting is important for
the judiciary, and if people want to actually deal with it in good faith,
that's fine, but this is clearly just a spare campaign. Well yeah,
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few things to say. One is is this it's that? Can I even
say this? Well, first of all, let me take a step back
and just say that, in neither the Clarence Thomas story nor the Neil Gore
such story does either story provide any evidence or proof or even a hint of
either of those men justices cheam their philosophical approach to the law to help anyone
like so it is, it's just you know what, David, Yeah,
of course, who's someone who I would have thought I was more in alignment
with than any of the other justices before a few years ago did have that
extremely indefensible Bostock opinions. So maybe we should see if there's some secret,
Yeah, Donor who was like, buddy, I'll make you wealthy for life
if you go against everything you believe in and destroy jurisprudence in America with this
insane opinion. It's amazing, though, how they'll they'll rag on these justices
for being fascist and bought and conservative and republican, but then they'll do something
that lives like and they'll ignore it like like you know, like they like
now all of us. So why why would these justices help democrats? Because
I think I don't know. I'm not saying their opinions are ones I agree
with all the time. I'm not a lawyer, but I would say that
they're all principal people. Certainly Clarence Thomas and Neil gar such seemed like principal
people to me. But anyway, the point is is that they don't.
There's no evidence that any conflict of interest made them change their views on stuff.
But more than that is like what you mentioned, how this is such
a sophisticated operation. One story. You know, these stories will be thrown
out there and then immediately they're embedded in the rhetoric of the times. Let
me read you a quick lead. Senators Angus King and Lisa Murkowski have introduced
a bipartisan bill. One Republican Lisa Murkowski who was not the Republican nominee from
Alaska this year. So that noted Republican stalwart Lisa Murkowski who didn't vote for
Brett Kavanaugh. That one, right, that Republican. Okay, yeah,
I've introduced an used the Bartis Bipartisan Bill to require the Supreme Court to create
a new code of conduct for itself after pro public Are revealed that Conservative Justice
Clarence Thomas failed to disclose luxury trips he accepted from Texas billionaire Horland Crowe.
First of all, he doesn't, there is no law regulations, doesn't have
to. Yeah, he does not even have to. But the way that
this is framed, of course, is that he has gotten away with something
that he did something he shouldn't have done, which none of that is true,
but you see how it's embedded. And by the way, any Republican
who signs onto this bill is basically abetting the delegitimization of the Court. There
is nothing unethical going on at all. And by the way, you have
no constitutional power, Senate to tell the Supreme Court how to conduct its own
business. Zero nut. Yeah, well, they should read the Constitution,
which is something I doubt le Simurkowski has ever done, but certainly not recently.
And no Republican who aids and abets what was done to Brett Kavanaugh should
really have anything to say about the judiciary at all. If the Senate had
the ethics of Clarence Thomas, then the United States would be a far better
place than it is right now. That's the truth. Yeah, all right,
I think you're angry about multiple things. That's the only one, really,
Okay, I can think of this week. Actually, are you excited
about Joe Biden running for president? He announced that. Excellent segue, excellent
segue. You're professional, I am, I am. I am not excited,
obviously. I think he is one of just a terrible president, both
in an ideological and philosophical sense, but also in a competency sense. You
know, I just don't think he's up for the job in any way.
I can't believe he's running, but I mean obviously expected it. I don't
think there's anyone better for Democrats to run right now, and I just assumed
he would run. This is what his whole life has been about. I
do kind of like how RFK Junior running kind of forced him to declare early,
Like didn't he say earlier he wasn't going to run until the fall or
an end of summer or something like that. But he wants to keep everybody
else out of the pool, so he's like announcing a bit early. Is
anyone else running? Act? I think seems to me that Gavin Newsom is
sniffing around there. I think that's a good time as governor of California.
I think he and others, he and others overrate the appeal of Gavin Newsom
in general, especially in states like Pennsylvania or even you know, Michigan,
in places like that. Anyway. I mean, I I think that Joe
Biden's going to have a listen. Anyone who thinks just because you're a bad
president, you're not going to be president again, is fooling themselves. Incumbents
having an immense advantage when running he is. It wouldn't surprise me if he
won a second term, no matter who he ran against. But he's not
going to be able to hide in abasement, probably not going to be able
to hide in the basement this time. He's probably going to have to be
more engaged, and that is a grueling campaign. So I do wonder or
maybe Americans won't care that he is not up for it. I don't know
really anymore, but it's going to be the dynamics of twenty twenty four going
to be very different. No matter that's you know, the santist Trump,
whoever is going to run against him. I think it's going to be a
lot harder for it, right, Like, it's much easier to run me.
Wow, if you elect me, you will have a calm relief from
the chaos of the Trump era. Even if Trump was great on the economy
and foreign policy, you'll be relieved from tweets or whatever. And then to
do that same campaign four years later when it's like, okay, the economies
and the crapper foreign policies and nightmare we're on the brink of World War three
potentially. I've got the inflation that Biden has helped exacerbate, no border that
he intentionally tore down like day one, no energy independence, and in fact,
a war on energy like it's much hard to remember. Like there were
little issues that played a big role in certain states, like Trump said that
he thought Biden would go to war on energy, and the media and other
Democrats said that's a bald faced lie. No one cares more about oil than
Joe Biden, you know, and they helped him get that message out.
It mattered in the close states like Pennsylvania. It's really going to be hard
to say that you support oil after you've done what you've done. Yeah,
but I don't know how much it matters because we just have ballot operations that
they've got a really good ballot operation, so they'll probably just carry him or
someone else across the finish line and it won't matter what people want. I
think it's that's part of it. I also think there's just more hardening of
partisan tribalism in the sense that people aren't very are reluctant not to vote for
people in their party, and it's just really difficult to move people. That's
why you really have to get people out to vote. Obviously, I did
read that Biden is going to make abortion the central campaign abortion access the central
issue of his campaign nationally, and maybe this is a contrarian view of mine.
I don't know if you agree, but I think the Democrat this idea
that abortion is such an anchor for the Republican Party is just a complete myth,
complete myth. I don't buy it. I mean, I get a
lot of blowback when I make this argument, but I don't see the evidence
that that's true. I just, first of all, I don't think abortions
the top issue or anywhere close for most people who vote on national elections.
I think that once states settle in unfortunately many states just have abortion on demand
told birth, that's not really going to be an issue that propels them in
any real way. I don't know. I actually think that so long as
Republicans don't talk about it, it's a great issue for Democrats to focus on.
Again, they have the complete support of the blood thirstiest group in human
history, which is our corporate media. Like that group loves killing babies more
than it loves anything else in the world. So they've got the complete,
like almost like possessed support of corporate media, and they have all their little
like base voters that they want to excite to run these ballot operations. And
you've got a Republican party that's like, maybe if we don't talk about it,
it will be okay. If you actually look at American opinion, Republicans
are clearly on the side of American opinion. Americans want at least some protection
for unborn children at some point in the pregnancy, and Democrats want abortion on
demand through all nine months of pregnancy. Some even want it after birth,
which is not technically abortion, but you get the point. So this should
be an easy This should be like a slam dunk easy thing to handle,
even with our corrupt media. But it's not going to be handled if you
don't talk about it, if you don't message it, if you don't put
anything close to the money that Democrats are putting into it. Like some of
these abortion issues you've got, you've got pro lifers outspent by the people who
support killing onboard children in the MOOM like fifteen to one, like you're not
going to win when you've got that kind of disparity. So I don't actually
think it's crazy for Biden to focus on it. It is utterly insane that
people like Mitch McConnell and other leaders of the Republican Party are like, please
don't talk about it. We just wish you would not talk about it.
That's so insane. Is to be almost like criminal misconduct and leadership of a
party. And I think Trump also, I didn't I don't remember exactly what
he said, and it was like talking about how it's only a state based
issue, which is a fundamental misreading of the Alito opinion, which merely accurately
notes that there's no abortion right in the Constitution and it's returned to the people,
whether at the local, state, or federal level. No, I
agree with all that. I wrote a column last week about how you're only
going to win this if you stop being cowards on the issue. But I
do want to say, even if every American thought that abortion was fine and
it was a losing issue, that doesn't make it any more less odious or
my position more and moral anyway. So I think you have to start from
the position that you have the principled correct position and that even if people disagreed
with you, you can convince them that they're wrong. We have stopped trying
to convince people that or I hate to use the word, but educate them
on like how many Democrats are How many voters know that Democrats are pro abortion
from until birth for any reason? Yeah? How they funded by the state.
They don't know because the media lies about it constantly. So Republicans need
to pour tons of money into races to let them know to reform them.
I also love what you said about doing things not based on polling but leadership.
And this is something the two front runners for the nomination, and really
Trump is like so far ahead that it's not even close at this point.
But Trump and Decantists both are kind of derided as having populist rhetoric, and
they certainly do, but they have shown leadership on issues where they didn't have
the majority of the people behind them when they began. And Decantists had a
line about this in his speech at Heritage on Friday, about leading people rather
than just responding to like misinformed polls. And you even take something like understanding
the threat post by China at the time that Donald Trump was saying this,
I don't know what the polling numbers were, but like inside DC, it
was considered absolute anathema, and now it's kind of conventional wisdom. Like people
have different debates about how to handle it, but everyone kind of agrees China
is a threat that needs to be managed there. It needs to be issues
here. And he didn't do that by polling the green rooms at newsrooms.
He did it by leading people to a better understanding. And likewise, I
think Rond de Sciantists has shown real courage and leadership going against what we're probably
polls showing no support for ending lockdowns or even whatever these like crazy poles were
showing at the time, and I think that that is also so it's important
to do it on principle and then encounterintuitively, ignoring the polls and leading people
is actually good politics too. Absolutely one thing on abortion poles, they're garbage.
Most of them are complete garbage. The questions are garbage. They usually
ask things like do you support abortion access or something? What the what?
What is this abortion access? Like it's such a weird it's like such a
nice euphemism for like, do you think life should be ended violently in the
womb after it has begun. Not even that nobody would do a poll question
like that, And it's actually more accurate and clear than the whatever this euphemism
is about access, which is just a land parent, a freaking talking point
nobody, nobody, no self respecting person should use. Do you support a
reproductive justice? Yeah? No, that that's true, that euphemisms are ridiculous.
But beyond that, there are no parameter useful parameters in a poll like
that. What does that tell us? Lots of people support abortion access to
six weeks, let's say, but men, no book, very few people
support it at the end of pregnancy, and yet they clod in. But
anyway, that's what I'm saying. So those poles are garbage. And again,
like you said, I think that to Santa signing the six week ban
won't hurt him in poles in Florida, And I am not against him taking
a thoughtful kind of political approach to abortion, like you know, he can
say. Listen, I'm pro life. I believe life begins, you know,
at deception, But I realize that not everyone's there. You notice how
everyone always has to evolve to the pro abortion but no one ever evolves to
the life position. But he has to say, I'm going to wait for
America to bob and we if we do it on the state level, now
that's fine. I think Florida's ready for that. Maybe New York's not,
but they will be one day. Whatever. I don't know. I'm all
for incrementally getting where you want. The left always incrementally gets there. They
pass giant bill and then they make that the new baseline. Then they lose,
you know whatever, but they're always moving forward. And Republicans don't fight
like that. Publican senators complete cowards on this issue because they look at Poles
and it And I wrote this in the column, no one's more horror.
No one was more horrified of dobb than Dobbs and the Republican Party, you
know what I mean. It's sure they were horrified that they'd actually have to
do something because for years you could take the pro life position and every voter
knew you wouldn't actually do anything because there there is Row. Well Row is
now gone, and you have to do something. It's mind boggling that they
have not come up with a coherent, uh your message or a compelling message
or a message that lets people know what democrats are really about. Anyway.
I think one other week we talked about this and I mentioned all the politicians
who have signed six week bands or fifteen week bands where one races like JD
vance in formal you know purple states that you know Ohio was a purple state
only. How many years ago Florida was a state only? How many you
can you can change these states by being you know, smart on these issues.
Anyway, I don't even know why I'm hey politicians so much, but
I don't get any opportunities to say nice things about Nicki Haley. And I
noticed this week she had always been kind of um she identified as pro life,
but it she almost like spoke it as a second language. And this
week she she had some really good remarks and it kind of kind of alonglines
what you're saying. And she compared it to how she got rid of the
Confederate flag it's state capital or whatever, how to like move people along,
and she really leaned into being pro life, and it was nice to see.
Yeah, it's nice to see that. Yeah. I mentioned that,
you know, when the media talks about someone who becomes a pro life they've
evolved, they've seen the light, you know. But the other way,
they're always regressive when they become pro pro choice choice I mean, yeah,
which I hate that term as well. That term itself is a euphemism pro
choice, you know. But I don't want to get into all that.
But I just think, and as you know, I'm a secular person.
I grew up in a liberal place. I am, you know. I
think that there's a rational not just a religious but a rational, compelling argument
made for to protect life. It's like the one of the most important things
we can do, the most moral things we can do. And I just
don't understand why why some of these people as such cowards. So it's good
to know that Nicky Haley made a good argument. She's evolving in a very
nice way. I like your terms evolving to an enlightened opinion. You can
tell, it's funny. You can tell when someone takes a position that's a
second language to them, like on guns or something or what's that guy's name
is, running back Ramaswami. Yeah, I feel like he speaks populism as
a second language. So I'm just gonna say something. I actually just kind
of enjoy him, meaning I pause when he's talking. I kind of want
to hear what he has to say. Definitely someone I don't agree with on
everything, and sometimes I think he has more confidence in what he's saying than
actual support, like ideological support for what he's saying. But I'm usually annoyed
by people who run for president who have no chance, like Asa Hutchinson.
But there's something I don't know. I'm just kind of interested to see what
happens with this dude. Yeah, I don't think. I mean, I
don't know. I wish that he had some kind of policy idea that was
out, you know, different than what everyone else was sort of saying,
and that he pushed that more and that it was something innovative. But I
don't really feel like that's I do think his personal knowledge of woke corporatism and
his opposition to say, his like knowledgeable opposition to same is interesting. Yeah,
the rest of the By the way, this always reminds me that I
always thought Andrew Yang must be some like billionaire who was retired early as a
young person and running for president, and that this sort of made his candidacy
makes sense. And then he had that debate where he said that he was
having trouble paying for health insurance. I know I've said this before, and
it was the most alarming thing I've ever heard in a debate, because I
was like, why in the h double hockey sticks is this guy on stage?
He's poor? Yeah, where you come from. I have an elitist
outlook on something, and that's people run for office. I've said this before
on the show. You need to be the bare minimum is being more successful
than I am. Like, I'm a middling human being in the world.
I am not super. You know, I'm just right out there getting I'm
just getting by and all that. Fine, But you need to be more
successful than I am, because if you're not, that means you've done something
in your life that is wrong. You know what I'm saying that you're simply
not prepared for adulthood in any real way. I was speaking of adulthood,
you know, I was speaking with my wife and I realize I'm just a
fifteen year old boy in a fifty three year old man's spot. Because here
are the things that I do. I just bought a guitar yesterday, buy
records, I have a book, I ride my bike, Like all the
things I do. You are you basically sound like my husband? But do
you not enjoy your life? I absolutely love my life every day. I'm
like, I am the luckiest person. I mean, if you asked me
when I was fifteen year old, like what do you want to do when
you're fifty three, and I'd be like, I want to ride my bike
records. I feel like a fourteen year old boy because I find offensive jokes
funny, like about human you know, human liquids or whatever. Like I
I like laugh at stupid jokes. And I find women and their bodies to
be utterly fascinating, Like nothing makes me so happy. It seem like a
beautiful woman walk down the street. I think I'm a fourteen year old boy
right Probably Also the TV shows I watch, I just the dumbest things,
you know, so and I wonder if that's a problem. This is for
another podcast. It's good, this is an hour show, but I just
want to say, I wonder if that's the problem. Our lives in many
ways are so good. And I'm not saying everyone lives a life like me,
but I noticed that a lot of older men my age do things that
I would not have seen my grandfather do For instance, my grandfather wore a
fedora, you know what I mean, like he was an adult. He
looked like he was fifty when he was thirty, you know what I mean.
But I'm like, you know, I'm at shorts and sandal that's a
flip flops, you know, and stuff like that. So I just maybe
we're too immature anyway, that's for another. I have to think that through
good that you just threw that out, you know, to the to the
world. Maybe well a perfect segue. Maybe people can mail us on that,
and you know where they can do that at radio at the Federalist dot
com. Just radio at the Federalist dot com. So have you did you
do any cultural stuff this week you want to discuss with the group? Yes,
two things. One I went to well I already mentioned the Heritage gala,
which was very fun. And Dirk Spentley is that his name? Did
just make that up? You know the country music start the I literally definitely
would not know about the country. Okay, it was great, It was
good. He had like a bunch of guitarists. It was really fun.
So and then the next night I went to the M eighty three concert do
you know that band Amy three. I do not. It's more like a
French dude. And I think there are other people who play with him.
And I really like m At three. I've loved so many of their albums.
The most recent album is weak and kind of ugly, and I was
really thinking a lot about Tucker's speech where he talked about the fruits of good
versus the fruits of evil and how good produces beauty and evil produces ugliness and
chaos and disorder, and it was just interesting. Like this album, the
I think, like the image for it is like kind of a monster on
the cover, and it's very ugly, and the music is very much less
good than the previous albums. And the concert also was not great, and
it was partly not great because it was based on that album, but the
crowd seemed just kind of annoying to me. It was a very seemed like
a drug fueled crowd, and I did not enjoy that. And I had
gone to the Anthem, which is this venue in DC a few months prior
to see Arcade Fire and it was exactly the opposite. It was just like
an amazing concert. The vibe was so strong. Regina whatever her name is,
who's like in the band, was just like vibing with the crowd,
and it was it was like great, and this one was less good.
So I have another thing really quickly. Yeah, I have a friend who's
just reading through scripture and she's always talking about it, and so I had
wanted to do it during Lent, to just kind of do much more scripture
study. And then I got really really sick, to the point that it
was just putting me behind on everything. And a listener said that I had
been given a Lenten discipline by being sick, like the external gift of this
sickness was itself a spiritual discipline. And when I thought about it that way,
I realized the whole point of spiritual discipline is to kind of make your
faith stronger and just help you with your path of being a Christian. And
it provoked in me this desire to go ahead and do what I was wanting
to do at the beginning of Lent. And so I just started at Genesis
one. And I have read a lot of scripture. I'm Lutheran. We
do nothing but read scripture. Like every service is a lot of different big
chunks of passages of scripture. We do Bible study. I read devotional books
where you go through different books of the Bible, but like I hadn't really
just sat down and read it straight through. And I've been doing a combination
of reading it with my Lutheran study Bible notes and then also just reading it
like a book, kind of like I'm if I'm in a car, i
just read it on my phone, and if I'm at home, I read
it with my study Bible, which has really interesting notes. David Harsani,
this Book of Genesis read like a book. Is the most interesting book I've
ever read. Like it was amazing and I just finished, Oh my gosh.
The ending. The ending is this verse knows about how you know what
you meant for evil God meant for good. And I'd always understood that verse
and I've always you know, I don't, like ef ever had any confusion
about it. But having it in the context of this story of the generations
and how God is protecting his people and preserving them through all of these all
of this craziness, it was riveting and it's so deepened my understanding of life
as a Christian. And I started Exodus, and that's off to a great
start as well, and I'm just so excited and it's like I've finally I
finally hit the age where like this is what I get to do, and
I'm so excited, like I can't wait to get back to the next chapter
to read the next part. That's fascinating. Do you know what I did
the other day? I was in Walmart, which at place I hate,
and I saw a T shirt that's is y'all need Jesus? And I bought
it, Yes, of an honor of the rest of the Federalist staff and
especially Sean Davis, who keeps saying everyone needs to find Jesus. So every
time I Duke Gutfeld and they're talking about some like a horrible thing, I
always my response that I always want to say, but I keep it together,
is y'all need Jesus like you are. You all need Jesus. Because
you know, my position is that we need a far more religious people and
that we're great because we were religious. I had a lot to do with
our success, especially Protestantis from my Catholic friends. I'm very you know,
it's a beautiful religion as well. But um so I think I want to
spread the message, not for me personally, but for the rest of you,
you'll get there. I'm so excited. I can't wait for that to
happen. But anyway, um no, I think that's it. It's m
maybe three and the Book of Genesis, so I doesn't have to say too
sorry Genesis. I think I mentioned before that when I saw The Godfather in
my twenties, I was babysitting for some friends kids and I watched The Godfather,
and then the next day at church, I was telling everybody that The
Godfather is a very good movie. And my husband will never let me live
this down. That I was trying to tell people, like decades after the
fact, to see a movie that everybody knows is really good. That's how
I feel about Genesis. I'm like, have you did you know what happened
there? Like it's amazing, And I'm telling my kids, and my kids
are very well read, like this is crazy. It's like, what happened
here? It's so cool. Anyway, So I have to say, though,
you do you rediscover things, not just biblical things, but just movies,
novels, and you read them at a different age and it has a
completely different effect on you. So you know, I'd always said I wanted
to go to Revelation when I was older, and I'm now older, so
that's that's going to be the ending of this. I'm so sorry to interrupt
you now now are our co worker? I think Sean Davis mentioned the Book
of Daniel. We were having some some kind of discussion and I had really
just read some of it, and it's like this spooky, crazy book,
you know, and you're like, this is I went to Yeshiva and all
lad and it just didn't come off that way when I was fourteen, you
know what I mean? But now I like, this book is scary,
so so I get it. I'm actually reading a book called Who Wrote the
Bible, which is fascinating about the Jewish, about Tatar itself, but also
other Jewish books, and she tries to piece together the sort of historical backing
of it, which I'm a big fan of. But I did not.
My cultural menu is not as high brow as that. This week it's I
watched John mulvaney, the comedian. I didn't love it. Now, you
know, he obviously he's had problems. He divorced his wife, he was
he had a big drug problem, and it's about that journey. Um,
but as my wife pointed out, you know, he's a little it seemed
to me as well that he's a little still taken with the drug lifestyle,
like it's funny. Then he makes fun of himself for being a drug addict,
but he still sort of treated it as like this cool counter lifestyle,
you know what I mean, Like there was just this is just me being
an old, middle aged man with kids who doesn't want my kids to do
drugs and stuff. But the tone of it still just what I probably would
have found it a lot funnier if I was like thirty five, you know
what I mean. M Yeah, no, I know exactly what you mean,
But I still was it funny otherwise, Yeah, there are funny parts
to it. He's a he's funny, and I didn't love all of it,
but it's like not as funny as his older stuff that I watched,
but it's still worth watching if you're a fan of his comedy in general.
Yeah. The other thing I watched is called Personality Crisis. Have you heard
of this? Aout? This documentary co directed by Martin Scorsese of David Johansson,
who was a member of the New York Dolls in the early seventies,
transgressive band, like you know, the dress like women a kind of but
they didn't really act like women or want people to think they were women,
so it's a little different. They played this sort of garage rock. It
was amazing. But David Johansson then put out so albums that were sort of
been like an icon in New York, like rock Circles, and then he
was Buster Poindexter, which most people know him as he's saying hot, Hot,
Hot that song, and so what he does that that's a alter ego
or a you know, altered a personality, but he what he did in
this show. So it's kind of like a concert at a Carlisle Hotel in
New York and they go through his life story he was born and Stanton and
all that, and he sings David Johansson's songs in the persona of Buster Poindexter.
So anyway, if you're into that sort of thing, it was it
was okay and interesting. And I would say anything Martin Scorsese does has a
sort of like high level of quality to it. And he did the Dylan
biography and The Stones, but a documentary in the Stones documentary, and this
is in a similar vein. That's all I have. Okay, great,
all right everyone, we'll be back next week. The lovers of freedom,
then anxious freed of fret,