1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: A public school superintendent faces deportation, the Secretary of War 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:08,080 dishes out some long overdue fat shaming, and a preview 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,960 of the most important cases about to be argued before 4 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:14,279 the US Supreme Court. All that and more on the 5 00:00:14,359 --> 00:00:30,399 Kylie Cast. Hi, everybody, and welcome to the Kylie Cast. 6 00:00:30,519 --> 00:00:34,000 I am Kylie Griswold, Managing editor at The Federalist. Please 7 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:36,920 like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and if 8 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,079 you're just listening to the show, be sure to go 9 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,880 check out the full video version on my personal YouTube 10 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:45,399 channel or the Federalist channel on Rumble, and then like 11 00:00:45,439 --> 00:00:48,039 and subscribe there too. If you'd like to email the show, 12 00:00:48,079 --> 00:00:50,759 you can do so at radio at the Federalist dot com. 13 00:00:50,759 --> 00:00:52,920 I would love to hear from you. A couple of 14 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,640 crazy and seemingly unrelated stories have my attention this week, 15 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,759 but it turns out they are not completely disconnected. First 16 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:03,880 is it's the absolutely insane case of Ian Roberts, an 17 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:07,120 a legal immigrant who somehow became the superintendent of Des 18 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,480 Moines Public Schools, which is the largest school district in Iowa. 19 00:01:11,719 --> 00:01:16,280 Roberts was arrested by Immigration and Customs enforcement on Friday, 20 00:01:16,599 --> 00:01:20,200 and the details of the case are truly wild. According 21 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,760 to Ice, Roberts came to the US in nineteen ninety 22 00:01:23,879 --> 00:01:27,319 nine on a student visa, so more than twenty five 23 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,079 years ago. Fast forward to twenty twenty and he becomes 24 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,400 the superintendent of a school district in Pennsylvania. That was 25 00:01:34,439 --> 00:01:37,560 also the year he was charged with illegal weapons possession 26 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,640 because he had a firearm. Even though people here without 27 00:01:40,719 --> 00:01:44,040 legal status can't legally possess a gun or ammo, it's 28 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,040 against federal law. So he works in this Pennsylvania district 29 00:01:47,079 --> 00:01:50,319 for about three years, and then in twenty twenty three, 30 00:01:50,439 --> 00:01:53,640 he was secretly elected behind closed doors to be the 31 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:57,760 first person of color to lead the Des Moines School District. 32 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,319 This is despite the fact that he's in al legal 33 00:02:00,359 --> 00:02:04,319 immigrant without work authorization. Mind you, the Des Moin district 34 00:02:04,359 --> 00:02:07,959 contains more than thirty thousand students, so, in other words, 35 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:11,000 tens of thousands of students were under the care and 36 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,479 direction of an illegal alien. So finally, in May of 37 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,360 last year, an immigration judge decides he's got to go 38 00:02:18,759 --> 00:02:23,000 gives him a final deportation order. Then this past Friday, 39 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,039 officers find Roberts in his vehicle. They approach the car 40 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:31,280 and he speeds away to evade arrest. Later, they find 41 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:35,439 the abandoned car, which was a school district supplied vehicle 42 00:02:35,719 --> 00:02:39,000 by the way, and they arrest Roberts, who, despite his 43 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,280 prior weapons charge, was in possession once again of a 44 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:46,240 loaded handgun, a hunting knife, and three grand in cash. 45 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,400 An Ice Field Office director said it best. He said, quote, 46 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,280 this suspect was arrested in possession of a loaded weapon 47 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:56,080 in a vehicle provided by Des Moines Public Schools after 48 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,800 fleeing federal law enforcement. He went on to say, how 49 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,800 this illegal alien went hired without work authorization, a final 50 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,120 order of removal and a prior weapons charge is beyond 51 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:10,360 comprehension and should alarm the parents of that school district 52 00:03:10,599 --> 00:03:14,840 couldn't agree more. And yet reportedly thousands of people have 53 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:18,439 shown up in protest outside the detention facility where Roberts 54 00:03:18,479 --> 00:03:22,919 is being held. Absolutely insane. This is today's Democrat party, 55 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,280 not protesting on behalf of the kids and parents who 56 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,360 got completely scammed by Ian Roberts, but on behalf of 57 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:33,840 the illegal alien con man. Anyway, we'll come back to Roberts. Meanwhile, 58 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,000 another horrific story caught my attention this week. And that 59 00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:41,280 was the murder of Logan Federico, a twenty two year 60 00:03:41,319 --> 00:03:44,159 old college student who was shot to death during a 61 00:03:44,199 --> 00:03:48,080 burglary in South Carolina earlier this year. Just awful. And 62 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,080 as if the details of the crime itself weren't bad enough, 63 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:56,599 the suspect, thirty year old Alexander Dickey, had reportedly already 64 00:03:56,599 --> 00:04:02,680 been arrested thirty nine times and had twenty five felonies. 65 00:04:02,919 --> 00:04:06,520 Here's Logan's dad recounting the details of his daughter's death 66 00:04:06,879 --> 00:04:10,360 in a now viral clip before the North Carolina House 67 00:04:10,439 --> 00:04:12,879 Judiciary Subcommittee meeting this week. 68 00:04:13,159 --> 00:04:13,919 Speaker 2: Think about your. 69 00:04:13,879 --> 00:04:15,879 Speaker 3: Child coming home from a night out with their friends, 70 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:21,800 laying down, going to sleep, feeling somebody come in the 71 00:04:21,879 --> 00:04:23,319 room and wake them. 72 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:25,959 Speaker 2: And drag her out. 73 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 3: Of bed, naked, forced on her knees with her hands 74 00:04:32,399 --> 00:04:39,240 over her head, begging for her life, begging for her hero. 75 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 2: Her father me, that couldn't be there. 76 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 3: She was five foot three, she weighed one hundred and 77 00:04:47,199 --> 00:04:48,240 fifteen pounds. 78 00:04:50,639 --> 00:04:57,160 Speaker 2: Bang dead gone. 79 00:04:57,399 --> 00:05:03,879 Speaker 3: Why because Alexander Devonte Dickey, who was arrested thirty nine 80 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:13,279 goddamn times twenty five felonies, was on the street. How 81 00:05:13,319 --> 00:05:17,439 about that? How good are we doing? For our family. 82 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:22,439 How good are you doing for your kids? He should 83 00:05:22,439 --> 00:05:24,519 have been in jail for over one hundred and forty 84 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,079 years for all the crimes he committed. You know how 85 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,600 much time he's spent in prison, a little over six 86 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,439 hundred days in ten years. 87 00:05:33,639 --> 00:05:35,319 Speaker 2: He's only thirty years old. 88 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 3: He was committing two point sixty five crimes a year 89 00:05:40,439 --> 00:05:44,240 since he was fifteen years old. But nobody could figure 90 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:48,399 out that he couldn't be rehabilitated. Well, you'd have to 91 00:05:48,439 --> 00:05:52,319 put him in prison to see if he could be rehabilitated. 92 00:05:53,199 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 2: Isn't that the idea of prison. 93 00:05:55,879 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 3: You need to fight for the rest of our children 94 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:04,040 to the innocence and stop protecting the people that keep 95 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:09,600 taking them from us. Please, you have the power. We 96 00:06:09,759 --> 00:06:12,000 put you in the power to do what you have 97 00:06:12,079 --> 00:06:17,040 to do. We're asking you, we're begging you all to 98 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:25,519 stop this. Thirty nine crimes in ten years, twenty five felonies. 99 00:06:26,879 --> 00:06:30,040 Can anybody they hear explain to me, well, how possibly 100 00:06:30,079 --> 00:06:33,959 he could be on the street, possibly be on the street, 101 00:06:33,959 --> 00:06:38,319 How is it possible? And that curer criminal an hour later, 102 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:44,279 went on a spending spree with her debit card. When 103 00:06:44,319 --> 00:06:46,639 they saw his face on a video. They didn't have 104 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,360 to do a check. He was arrested so many times. 105 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,240 I knew who he was, they knew exactly where to 106 00:06:52,279 --> 00:07:00,680 go get him. Pathetic, Absolutely pathetic that I'm here today. 107 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 1: So both of these stories, the story of Ian Roberts 108 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,199 and the story of the murder of Logan Federico, are 109 00:07:07,319 --> 00:07:10,759 shocking and awful for very different reasons. The story of 110 00:07:10,839 --> 00:07:14,000 Logan Federico's murder is shocking for what it exposes about 111 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:19,079 the abject failure of law enforcement, the courts, and soft 112 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,680 on crime nonsense that we have allowed to fester in 113 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,680 this country now for years. The Ian Roberts story is 114 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,800 shocking for what it exposes about the rot within this 115 00:07:27,879 --> 00:07:31,720 country's broken and corrupt education system, as well as the 116 00:07:31,759 --> 00:07:35,360 failures of decades of bad immigration policy, the effects of 117 00:07:35,399 --> 00:07:37,800 which we're just barely beginning to root out. I mean, 118 00:07:37,959 --> 00:07:40,879 Roberts has been in this country since nineteen ninety nine 119 00:07:41,199 --> 00:07:44,600 and has been at the helm of public school districts 120 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:49,399 as an illegal immigrant without work authorization four years. But 121 00:07:49,959 --> 00:07:53,680 there is one major thing both these stories have in common, 122 00:07:54,199 --> 00:07:58,000 and that's that they both occurred in deep red states. 123 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,680 Republicans have controlled the governorship the State Senate and the 124 00:08:02,759 --> 00:08:06,439 State House in Iowa for nine years almost a decade, 125 00:08:06,839 --> 00:08:12,279 and in South Carolina for twenty three years twenty three. 126 00:08:12,319 --> 00:08:15,879 There is no reason why any judge who contributed to 127 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,839 Alexander Dickie being out on the street after dozens of 128 00:08:19,959 --> 00:08:23,439 serious arrests and felonies shouldn't be impeached by the Republican 129 00:08:23,519 --> 00:08:27,120 controlled state House and Senate. If the problem turned out 130 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,199 to be as some reports indicate that for some reason 131 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,279 Dicky's fingerprints weren't taken or recorded as they should have been, 132 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,200 then the law enforcement personnel involved in NAS grew up 133 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,000 should resign or be fired. And all of this is 134 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,879 ultimately the result of a soft on crime ethos where 135 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:47,120 the criminal justice system is turned into a revolving door 136 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:51,559 of violent repeat offenders that officials get lulled into releasing 137 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:57,440 thanks to ridiculous rehabilitative and restorative justice rhetoric that's at 138 00:08:57,519 --> 00:09:00,320 the expense of law abiding Americans who just want to 139 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,919 work and play and sleep without fear of being gunned 140 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:07,080 down for no reason. Any systems that focus on restorative 141 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:11,759 and rehabilitative justice cannot do so at the expense of 142 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,279 law abiding Americans. We cannot have Red states with deadly 143 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,799 levels of incompetence like this. The Trump administration is obviously 144 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,279 already cracking down on the third world blue cities like 145 00:09:23,399 --> 00:09:27,159 d C and Portland, where violent crime is through the roof, 146 00:09:27,399 --> 00:09:30,360 but we also can't let repeat offenders through the cracks 147 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,519 and tolerate incompetence like this in red states either, even 148 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:36,480 if it is less frequently as for Ian Roberts. This 149 00:09:36,519 --> 00:09:39,279 should put to bed any and all criticism of Trump's 150 00:09:39,279 --> 00:09:42,840 push to shutter the Department of Education. What an absolute 151 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,399 sham of a bureaucracy. But also, how on earth does 152 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:51,720 a Republican trifecta state like Iowa not vet immigration status 153 00:09:51,759 --> 00:09:58,720 before hiring government employees. This is absolute insanity. Federalist executive 154 00:09:58,799 --> 00:10:01,799 editor Joy Pullman right, and a piece this week quote 155 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,559 public documents show Roberts made many outrageous and contradictory claims 156 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,840 about his history that should have prompted due diligence from 157 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:14,200 numerous US education employers, including that he worked on a 158 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:19,360 security detail for Queen Elizabeth. In just the last five years, 159 00:10:19,879 --> 00:10:23,440 Roberts built American taxpayers out of more than one million 160 00:10:23,639 --> 00:10:28,559 dollars in superintendent salaries plus four hundred thousand dollars to 161 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,919 settle three lawsuits accusing him of hiring women over men 162 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,720 while leading a Pennsylvania school system. That district could not 163 00:10:35,879 --> 00:10:39,440 verify his credentials, but still paid him one hundred and 164 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,840 eighty three thousand dollars per year, plus benefits for three 165 00:10:44,159 --> 00:10:49,039 years end quote failures, failures, and more failures. You know self, 166 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:53,440 government requires just that that we can govern ourselves. And 167 00:10:53,519 --> 00:10:56,679 moments like these where beautiful young women are murdered by 168 00:10:56,799 --> 00:10:59,200 violent repeat criminals who never should have been out on 169 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,519 the street, and illegal aliens with criminal charges and no 170 00:11:02,799 --> 00:11:06,559 work authorization are elevated to the highest ranks of a 171 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:10,639 government education system, really call into question whether we're capable 172 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:15,159 of governing ourselves. Democrats might reliably suck at governing, but 173 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,759 incompetent Republicans need a better pitch to the American people 174 00:11:18,879 --> 00:11:22,399 than well, we're not Democrats. That's the Kamala Harris way 175 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:23,120 of campaigning. 176 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I'm obviously not Joe Biden, and so 177 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,360 that would be one change services. But also I think 178 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:34,840 it's important to say with you twenty eight days ago, 179 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:35,960 I'm not Donald Trump. 180 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,639 Speaker 1: We've got to do better than that. If you cannot 181 00:11:38,919 --> 00:11:43,159 safeguard your state's resources and your constituent's most basic rights 182 00:11:43,159 --> 00:11:46,279 and freedoms, then by all means give your seat to 183 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:55,600 someone who will all right. Next up. Secretary of War 184 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,639 Pete Hegseth had a message for military leaders this week. 185 00:11:59,039 --> 00:12:02,679 He convened of them at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, 186 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,919 on Tuesday, and his speech was refreshing, to say the least. 187 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 5: When it comes to combat arms units, and there are 188 00:12:09,639 --> 00:12:13,879 many different stripes across our joint force, the era of 189 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:20,720 politically correct, overly sensitive, don't hurt anyone's feelings. Leadership ends 190 00:12:21,399 --> 00:12:25,039 right now. For too long, we've promoted too many uniform 191 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:29,960 leaders for the wrong reasons, based on their race, based 192 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:34,200 on gender quotas, based on historic so called firsts. This 193 00:12:34,279 --> 00:12:37,639 administration has done a great deal from day one to 194 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:42,559 remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological garbage 195 00:12:42,759 --> 00:12:44,440 that had infected our department. 196 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 2: To rip out the politics. 197 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,759 Speaker 5: But when it comes to any job that requires physical 198 00:12:50,879 --> 00:12:54,279 power to perform in combat, those physical standards must be 199 00:12:54,519 --> 00:12:58,720 high and gender neutral. If women can make it excellent, 200 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,960 If not, it is what it is. If that means 201 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,039 no women qualify for some combat. 202 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 2: Jobs, so be it. 203 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 5: It's tiring to look out at combat formations or really 204 00:13:09,039 --> 00:13:14,639 any formation and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable 205 00:13:14,639 --> 00:13:16,679 to see fat generals and admirals in the wholes of 206 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,840 the Pentagon and leading commands around the country, in the world. 207 00:13:19,879 --> 00:13:20,679 Speaker 2: It's a bad look. 208 00:13:21,039 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: Among other things, he condemned DEI. He stressed peace through strength. 209 00:13:25,759 --> 00:13:28,000 He said, it's time to make our allies share the 210 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,000 burden of defending the free world. It's about time and 211 00:13:31,159 --> 00:13:33,240 emphasize that personnel is policy. 212 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:33,919 Speaker 2: Quote. 213 00:13:34,279 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes and dresses, no 214 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:42,759 more climate change worship, no more division distraction or gender delusions, 215 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,519 no more debris. As I've said before, and we'll say again, 216 00:13:46,919 --> 00:13:49,799 we are done with that. To say it was a 217 00:13:49,879 --> 00:13:53,360 dramatic improvement in messaging from the previous administration is the 218 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:57,720 understatement of the century. Joining me now to discuss pete 219 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:02,639 Hegseth's speech and more is Fedalist staff writer Sean Fleetwood, 220 00:14:02,639 --> 00:14:05,960 who has an excellent piece today on the site about 221 00:14:06,039 --> 00:14:10,200 the military called it turns out the military's Biden era 222 00:14:10,399 --> 00:14:15,279 recruitment crisis was a leadership problem after all. Sean, thanks 223 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:16,960 so much for joining me today. It's great to see you. 224 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,039 Speaker 6: Thanks for having me, Kage, It's great to be here. 225 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: Awesome. Yeah, always a pleasure. I'm so curious you watched 226 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,879 the Pete heggsas speech, as did I. What stood out 227 00:14:27,919 --> 00:14:28,720 to you most from it? 228 00:14:28,759 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 6: There was plenty there, Yeah, I mean, I definitely would 229 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,799 say it's a lot different than the typical speeches that 230 00:14:35,879 --> 00:14:40,000 you'll hear from past defense are now war secretaries, but 231 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,039 different in a good way. I mean, he went up 232 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,919 there and just told it like it was highlighted so 233 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,480 many of the existing problems that have been in the 234 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,759 Defense department in the Pentagon for many, many years, under 235 00:14:50,799 --> 00:14:54,759 many different presidents. You've seen the pushing of this radical 236 00:14:54,840 --> 00:15:00,840 Dei ideology, this focus on personal identity over efficiency and lethality. 237 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:04,480 He talked about the need of just basic physical mental 238 00:15:04,519 --> 00:15:08,120 fitness standards, making sure that our troops and that includes 239 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,279 officers in generals are just up to par and making 240 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,559 sure that they are actually fit and able to serve 241 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,639 in our forces. And it's not every day that you 242 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:20,759 see the war secretary tell the generals to their face 243 00:15:20,879 --> 00:15:23,799 like you can't be fat to be in the military. 244 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,919 That was pretty great, But I mean, it was just 245 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,759 the type of boldness that's been so lacking and do 246 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,240 D leadership in the past. Just really needing to get 247 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:36,279 our military back on track and correcting a lot of 248 00:15:36,279 --> 00:15:40,799 the long standing issues that we've been seeing over prior generations. Yeah. 249 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,759 Speaker 1: Absolutely, It's one thing to hear Pete Hegseth say something 250 00:15:43,799 --> 00:15:47,240 like fit not fat in in a workout video with 251 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:49,679 RFK Junior. It's another thing to see him gather all 252 00:15:49,679 --> 00:15:51,759 of the generals in the same room and tell them, hey, 253 00:15:51,799 --> 00:15:54,480 you need to be fit not fat. That was definitely 254 00:15:54,559 --> 00:15:58,840 a change of tune from previous administrations. To put it mildly, 255 00:16:00,279 --> 00:16:02,360 you write in your piece that as of this week, 256 00:16:02,399 --> 00:16:05,320 actually the Marine Corps has hit its recruiting target for 257 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,639 the year, which follows on the heels of the Army, 258 00:16:08,679 --> 00:16:10,879 the Navy, and the Air Force all hitting their goals 259 00:16:10,919 --> 00:16:14,159 even ahead of schedule, which of course was not the 260 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,799 case under the Biden presidency, even though, as you point 261 00:16:17,799 --> 00:16:22,120 out in your piece, during that administration, many traditional standards 262 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:25,000 were actually relaxed, so it should have been easier for 263 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:29,120 them to hit their recruiting targets. What changed in that regard? 264 00:16:29,159 --> 00:16:31,159 Why are we suddenly hitting our goals. 265 00:16:32,879 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 6: Gee, I wonder what changed between last year. This the 266 00:16:37,639 --> 00:16:41,279 most amazing thing about this entire crisis, because it really 267 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:43,600 was a crisis. I mean, you can't bring in enough 268 00:16:43,639 --> 00:16:46,720 young men and I guess you could say women to 269 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:50,399 our forces. I mean, that's a major problem for all 270 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,559 kinds of national security reasons. But the most amazing part 271 00:16:53,559 --> 00:16:56,320 has been watching the media and the Democrats twist themselves 272 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:00,919 into pretzels blaming everything except the leadership issue. They'll say 273 00:17:00,919 --> 00:17:04,000 it was COVID, They'll say it was the declining mental 274 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,759 and physical health of our youth. They'll say it was 275 00:17:06,799 --> 00:17:09,440 a competitive job market. And those latter two are just 276 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,720 issues that predated COVID that made it more difficult for 277 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,440 the military to bring in new talent. But leadership matters 278 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:18,720 at the end of the day. Leadership absolutely matters. And 279 00:17:18,759 --> 00:17:22,559 when you see a president that is pushing this racist 280 00:17:22,559 --> 00:17:26,640 dei ideology, that is kicking troops out of the military 281 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:30,519 for not getting an experimental vaccine, that is repeatedly looking 282 00:17:30,559 --> 00:17:34,160 at his watch as the bodies of thirteen American soldiers 283 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:37,039 that he got killed in Afghanistan are coming down the 284 00:17:37,079 --> 00:17:40,680 tarmac and flag draped coffins that stuff matters. Young people 285 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:42,920 look at that, and that is not going to encourage 286 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:44,960 them to serve in the military. And so when you 287 00:17:45,079 --> 00:17:47,599 have a president like Donald Trump, when you have a 288 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,240 war secretary like Pete Hegseth, people who actually show that 289 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,799 they have genuine care for the well being of our 290 00:17:53,839 --> 00:17:57,480 troops and our service members, and people who understand that 291 00:17:57,519 --> 00:18:00,240 the purpose of the military is to protect to the 292 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,279 American homeland, that that's the number one and only priority 293 00:18:03,319 --> 00:18:07,200 of our military is to win wars. That stuff matters 294 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,720 to people who are making big career decisions and looking 295 00:18:10,759 --> 00:18:12,759 and seeing if they want to serve in the military. 296 00:18:13,039 --> 00:18:15,400 And what I think was the most distressing part under 297 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:19,440 the Biden presidency was you had grandparents and fathers who 298 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:22,200 are saying, I don't want my grandkids or my kids 299 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,920 to serve in this military because that's not the military 300 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:27,799 that I served in. It's just this left wing social 301 00:18:27,839 --> 00:18:32,079 experiment that's pushing this leftist dogma and telling patriotic Americans 302 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:35,839 of all backgrounds that, sorry, if you love your country, 303 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,000 if you have conservative mainstream beliefs, you're not welcome here. 304 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:41,599 And so I think now that we've kind of gotten 305 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,039 back on course, that's why you're seeing such a massive 306 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,920 spike in recruitment months ahead of schedule for several of 307 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:51,920 the branches. And why the media refuses to acknowledge that 308 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,400 the failures of Joe Biden and the people in his 309 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:56,839 administration have wrought on the military. 310 00:18:57,519 --> 00:19:01,880 Speaker 1: You write in your piece, from the very beginning, the 311 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:06,119 Biden Pentagon's message to patriotic Americans was clear, You're not 312 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:10,359 welcome here. Can you explain some of the ways that 313 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:14,240 the Biden administration seemingly actually tried to weed conservatives out 314 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:15,000 of the military. 315 00:19:16,519 --> 00:19:18,559 Speaker 6: Yeah, So, one of the first things that the DoD 316 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,640 did when the Biden administration came into power was it 317 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,839 issued a stand down order on rooting out so called 318 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,519 extremism within the military. And keep in mind, this was 319 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,640 right after the whole January sixth stuff, and you had 320 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,240 some veterans and service members that were involved in the 321 00:19:33,279 --> 00:19:36,880 protests and demonstrations in DC, and so really that was 322 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,720 used as the kind of the prerequisite to go after 323 00:19:39,799 --> 00:19:43,319 these mainstream conservative thoughts within the military. And I actually 324 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:46,240 think that there was a university era in Arizona that 325 00:19:46,279 --> 00:19:50,880 had done a study on the efficiency of this effort 326 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,519 to root out so called extremism and it basically turned 327 00:19:53,599 --> 00:19:57,000 up nothing. And then you also had later on in 328 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:01,799 the administration, of course, the COVID shotman, which now Secretary 329 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:05,720 Hegseth has said is unlawful, and the DoD Or Department 330 00:20:05,759 --> 00:20:07,799 of War, I should say, is making efforts to bring 331 00:20:07,839 --> 00:20:10,079 some of those people back into service. But there were 332 00:20:10,079 --> 00:20:13,039 over eighty four hundred service members that were fired for 333 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:18,279 declining to get this experimental injection. That the administration barely 334 00:20:18,319 --> 00:20:22,720 made any medical or religious exemptions, granted any of those exemptions, 335 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:24,880 and the very few that they did grant were of 336 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,880 people mostly who are just leaving the service anyways, who 337 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,279 were on their way out the door. And so that 338 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,519 was I think kind of those key moments that showed 339 00:20:34,079 --> 00:20:37,400 the Biden administration saying, Okay, who's really going to stand 340 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:39,880 up for what's true, who's really going to stand up 341 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,519 for the constitution? And those are the people that we 342 00:20:42,599 --> 00:20:44,880 need to kind of shuffle out the door so that 343 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,599 we have a military that is more than willing to 344 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,880 just be basically yes men and do whatever we order 345 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,680 them to do. And of course there's a certain allegiance 346 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,039 that you've of course pledged when you go into the military. 347 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,200 And obeying orders, but you also have an obligation to 348 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,680 the Constitution and to the American people, and I think 349 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,759 that that obligation is something that they were definitely trying 350 00:21:04,759 --> 00:21:07,240 to shatter with these type of various efforts. 351 00:21:08,319 --> 00:21:13,319 Speaker 1: Yeah, and if I'm not mistaken, during the Trump administration 352 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:20,000 this current one, didn't they reinstate members of the military 353 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,720 who had been dismissed over the COVID vaccine will or 354 00:21:22,759 --> 00:21:27,759 the COVID shot as with their rank and backpay. Wasn't 355 00:21:27,799 --> 00:21:30,880 that part of the Trump's Trump administration's efforts. 356 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 6: Correct, So that was one of the executive orders that 357 00:21:33,759 --> 00:21:36,920 President Trumpet issued when we came back into office. Hag 358 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,559 Seth has issued a couple of memoranda to kind of 359 00:21:39,599 --> 00:21:42,160 further that along. But then you've been getting some reports 360 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,759 from outlets like The Daily Caller about some of the 361 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:47,640 I guess slow walking that we're seeing among the Pentagon 362 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,480 bureaucracy to get these people fully reinstated. So it's still 363 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,519 an ongoing process. I know that some veterans had recently 364 00:21:54,559 --> 00:21:57,160 just met with heg Seth and other officials at the 365 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:00,480 Department of War involved in the reinstatement process. Hopefully we 366 00:22:00,519 --> 00:22:02,559 can get that sped up and get these people fully 367 00:22:02,599 --> 00:22:04,960 reinstated and with the full back pain and everything. 368 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,079 Speaker 1: Yeah, super important, But just such a contrast between the 369 00:22:08,079 --> 00:22:11,200 two administrations, Like you know, as you say, you're not 370 00:22:11,319 --> 00:22:15,240 welcome here. What an obvious obvious contrast between the two. 371 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 7: Are we in a labor force participation disaster? 372 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:23,519 Speaker 2: The Watch Doot on Wall. 373 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,640 Speaker 7: Street podcast with Chris Markowski. Every day, Chris helps unpack 374 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,039 the connection between politics and the economy and how it 375 00:22:29,039 --> 00:22:32,240 affects your wallet. In nineteen fifty, eighty seven percent of 376 00:22:32,279 --> 00:22:35,359 men were in the labor force nineteen eighty seventy eight percent. 377 00:22:35,519 --> 00:22:39,119 Now we're down to just sixty six percent. Think about that. 378 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,519 Government handouts and giveaways are not helping. Whether it's happening 379 00:22:42,519 --> 00:22:45,039 in DC or down on Wall Street, it's affecting you financially. 380 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 6: Be informed. 381 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:47,839 Speaker 7: Check out the Watchdot on Wall Street podcast with Chris 382 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,440 Markowski on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. 383 00:22:57,079 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: As I'm sure you saw, the media reacted to heg 384 00:23:00,519 --> 00:23:04,640 Seth's speech almost immediately, as did the armchair pundits on 385 00:23:04,799 --> 00:23:09,160 Twitter with cries of racism and sexism. Specifically, Oh, Pete 386 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,240 Hegseth is banning women from the military. Oh, this is 387 00:23:12,279 --> 00:23:15,279 the worst thing that's ever happened. Everything's racist, everything's awful. 388 00:23:16,319 --> 00:23:21,119 One of them was journalist John Harwood, who had this 389 00:23:21,319 --> 00:23:23,079 lovely tweet that I'm going to put up for you 390 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:26,680 all to see. Pete Hegseth has made clear that if 391 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,200 he had his way, the US military would have no 392 00:23:29,319 --> 00:23:34,519 blacks and leadership positions and no women at all, which 393 00:23:34,559 --> 00:23:37,680 is interesting because heg Seth actually said that people who 394 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,279 are too fat and lazy to fight in combat also 395 00:23:40,319 --> 00:23:44,680 aren't fit to be military leaders. So it's interesting that 396 00:23:44,839 --> 00:23:48,839 journalists would interpret this as black Americans and women. Kind 397 00:23:48,839 --> 00:23:51,119 of seems like if there's any racism here, it might 398 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,160 be coming from the other side. Shot in your thoughts 399 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:54,480 on this. 400 00:23:55,519 --> 00:23:57,599 Speaker 6: I have a lot of thoughts, A lot of things 401 00:23:57,599 --> 00:24:00,680 probably aren't printable or can be said on this podcast. 402 00:24:01,759 --> 00:24:05,319 But if I'm not mistaken John Harwood, like he like 403 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,599 what's the word, he like oversaw a Republican presidential debate, 404 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,400 like he moderated debate. If I'm not mistaken, like that's 405 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:17,880 who this guy is. I mean, it's just completely ludicrous 406 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,079 and such a disservice to all Americans who serve in 407 00:24:21,079 --> 00:24:23,880 the military. I mean, if you're an American in the 408 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:28,000 military who's not white, why would you want DEI policy? 409 00:24:28,079 --> 00:24:30,880 Why would you want these types of racial quotas. If 410 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,440 you're getting a promotion, and you're getting promoted to a 411 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,000 colonel or whatever rank, can you honestly say, like, yes, 412 00:24:37,039 --> 00:24:38,839 I got this based on the merits. I know that 413 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,960 I got this based on the merits, And now you're 414 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,440 putting those types of service members in a position where 415 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,839 they have to wonder, did I get this because of 416 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,000 my meritocracy, because of my efforts, because of the hard 417 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,839 work and years of service that I put in, Or 418 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,319 is it because the bureaucrats at the top and the 419 00:24:53,319 --> 00:24:56,119 woke generals want to check some sort of box here. 420 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,920 It's just just complete disservice to everyone around. But of course, 421 00:25:00,039 --> 00:25:02,480 people like John Harwood don't think about that, because all 422 00:25:02,519 --> 00:25:05,960 they care about is fulfilling this leftist dogma, this leftist 423 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,400 ideology that they are so wholly devoted to. And at 424 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,680 the end of the day, our military suffers because. 425 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 1: Of it, Yes, absolutely, as it does when we lower 426 00:25:15,599 --> 00:25:18,039 physical standards as well. I would love to hear your 427 00:25:18,079 --> 00:25:23,039 reaction to Hegseth just mentioning that, like the military is 428 00:25:23,079 --> 00:25:26,359 going back to one standard for combat, but for people 429 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,559 who will be in combat, no more of this like 430 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,920 one standard for women, one standard for men, to make 431 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,200 sure that women can be admitted into combat. What do 432 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:34,799 you think about that? 433 00:25:36,279 --> 00:25:39,559 Speaker 6: It's great. I absolutely love it. The idea of women 434 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,559 in combat is actually a relatively new phenomenon. It was 435 00:25:42,599 --> 00:25:46,519 actually something that was instituted during the Obama administration, so 436 00:25:46,559 --> 00:25:48,920 it hasn't been around long. But what we've seen has 437 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,680 not shown that it has improved the efficiency or lethality 438 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,119 of the military at all. I believe the Marine Corps 439 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,480 did a study under the Obama administration comparing an all 440 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,079 male unit to a mixed sex unit, and the all 441 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:04,079 male unit vastly outperformed the mixed sex unit. And so 442 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,160 the message from head Seth and the Trump administration is 443 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,920 we're going to have one set of standards for everybody, 444 00:26:10,519 --> 00:26:12,680 at all male standards, and if you can't meet that, 445 00:26:12,839 --> 00:26:15,720 then you're not qualified. It's that simple. And I think 446 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,119 that that's so long overdue, because again, the Left has 447 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,839 made the Pentagon the military this social experiment that they've 448 00:26:22,839 --> 00:26:25,720 been trying out for several years now, and they're more 449 00:26:25,759 --> 00:26:28,920 focused on checking boxes than they are about fulfilling the 450 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,400 number one mission of the military, which is to win 451 00:26:31,519 --> 00:26:34,920 wars and to protect the American homeland. And the thing 452 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,039 about the military is it's supposed to be discriminatory. It's 453 00:26:38,079 --> 00:26:40,279 not for everyone. It's not for the weak carded or 454 00:26:40,319 --> 00:26:43,680 the weak minded. It's for strong capable individuals who have 455 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,200 an interest in serving their country and who need to 456 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,279 be the strongest to serve their country. Because these people 457 00:26:49,319 --> 00:26:52,200 protect us every day. They protect our freedoms, the ability 458 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,119 for us to have this conversation right now, and so 459 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,440 if you want to maintain those freedoms, you need the 460 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,880 best in, the brightest, and the strongest and have clean, 461 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,079 efficient one standard for everybody is the only way that 462 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:04,519 you're going. 463 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:04,839 Speaker 2: To get that. 464 00:27:05,519 --> 00:27:07,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's so cool, especially just when you put 465 00:27:07,599 --> 00:27:10,680 it in the context of this isn't just a military 466 00:27:10,839 --> 00:27:14,680 specific recognition of biological reality. This is something that we're 467 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,960 seeing across the board of the administration where it's just, 468 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,000 you know, going back to the basics, boys and girls 469 00:27:19,039 --> 00:27:21,720 are different. They're they're capable of doing different things. They're 470 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,440 capable of doing some of the same things, but like 471 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,839 these are just fundamental, immutable truths and it's so refreshing 472 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,519 to finally see people in leadership who who are willing 473 00:27:30,559 --> 00:27:32,720 to just come out and say, hey, boys and girls 474 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,839 are different. You know, if women can meet these standards, 475 00:27:34,839 --> 00:27:38,720 that's amazing. We're not intentionally discriminating against women, but we 476 00:27:38,759 --> 00:27:41,519 need to we need to maintain a standard of physical 477 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,400 ability here and if women can't meet it while then 478 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,519 they just they can't. They can't be in combat in 479 00:27:47,559 --> 00:27:52,400 this way, so super refreshing. I also loved hearing Pete 480 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:57,480 Hegseth just just put to bed this stupid mantra that 481 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,160 we heard throughout the whole prior administration and continue to 482 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,680 hear from Democrats on the regular, which is diversity is 483 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:09,960 our strength. That is the most meaningless, stupid, counterproductive phrase 484 00:28:10,319 --> 00:28:13,720 maybe ever. And just to hear heg Seth say no, 485 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:18,079 diversity isn't our strength. Unity is our strength. That was 486 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,079 just such a breath of fresh air to hear from 487 00:28:21,079 --> 00:28:21,839 this administration. 488 00:28:23,519 --> 00:28:26,039 Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, the idea that diversity is our strength 489 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,079 doesn't really sit well when you're in the middle of 490 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,839 a battlefield and getting shot out by the enemy and 491 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,440 you're sitting next to someone who's having a mental breakdown 492 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,799 and they don't know what gender they are and can't 493 00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:39,440 figure out any of that stuff. I mean, when stuff 494 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,119 like that was being perpetrated by the Biden administration and 495 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,160 actively pushed like let's have all these pride events, let's 496 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,759 celebrate gender identity and all of these great wonderful things. 497 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,000 I mean, China and Russia and all of our adversaries 498 00:28:52,079 --> 00:28:54,319 just laugh at us. I mean these people, I mean, 499 00:28:54,319 --> 00:28:57,039 as egregious in you know, communists and horrible as these 500 00:28:57,039 --> 00:29:00,279 countries are, they actually understand that in order to win 501 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,640 these worldwide geopolitical conflicts, you need to have a strong military. 502 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,440 And that doesn't mean diversity is your strength. That means 503 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,960 finding the best, most capable warriors you can to uphold 504 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,200 your national priorities, and so the idea of diversity is 505 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,279 our strength. I absolutely agree. It's the stupidest thing that 506 00:29:17,319 --> 00:29:20,240 anyone could dream up, especially when it comes to the military. 507 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 2: Yeah. 508 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 1: Absolutely, It is really so crazy because under the previous administration, 509 00:29:25,279 --> 00:29:28,000 I think we were just bombarded with so much reality 510 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,039 denial and just like stupid platitudes like that that meant 511 00:29:31,079 --> 00:29:34,000 nothing and were just totally totally opposite to what is 512 00:29:34,039 --> 00:29:37,440 true and good, and to the point where there would 513 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:42,240 be like tiktoks for recruiting people to the military. And 514 00:29:42,279 --> 00:29:44,920 it's a service member who's also a drag queen who's 515 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:50,039 going from their uniform to their drag uniform whatever dumb 516 00:29:50,079 --> 00:29:52,720 like full makeup and the hair and all the rest, 517 00:29:53,359 --> 00:29:56,680 and that was supposed to recruit people to the military 518 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,839 or be like a sanctioned thing, like how do these 519 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,400 will not get in trouble for doing this? I think 520 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,200 it was actively encouraged. Now looking back on that from 521 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,400 where we are now, where you have Pete Hegseth saying 522 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:11,559 no fatties, no beardos, no climate alarmism, priorities, all of 523 00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:13,839 this stuff that you know under the Biden administration that 524 00:30:13,839 --> 00:30:15,759 feels like a fever dream. Now it is so crazy 525 00:30:15,799 --> 00:30:18,119 that we actually lived through that insanity. And it's just 526 00:30:18,119 --> 00:30:19,680 so cool that we now have a Department of a 527 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:23,160 War that is focusing on fighting wars or being prepared 528 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:24,079 to fight wars. 529 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 6: So cool. 530 00:30:24,759 --> 00:30:28,319 Speaker 1: So I want to change gears a little bit. Sean 531 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,039 to the Supreme Court, you also have a great piece 532 00:30:32,079 --> 00:30:34,160 on the Federalist this week that everyone should go and 533 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,200 check out. We have oral arguments coming up for the 534 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,799 next Supreme Court term. Go read Sean's piece, The Federalist's 535 00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:45,680 Guide to the twenty twenty five Supreme Court term. Sean, 536 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,240 can you please preview what you think will be the 537 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,599 three most important cases at the Supreme Court this term. 538 00:30:54,079 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 6: Yeah, we got a lot of great issues before the 539 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,279 Supreme Court this year, as we always do. One of 540 00:30:59,319 --> 00:31:01,400 the most prominent cases, I would say is a case 541 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,960 called Childs b. Salazar. This is about a woman named 542 00:31:05,039 --> 00:31:08,559 Kaylee Chiles. She's a Colorado resident, a Christian, and she's 543 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,599 a counselor, and she often meets clients who are dealing 544 00:31:11,599 --> 00:31:15,759 with things like trauma, addiction, and also issues related to 545 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:20,400 sexual orientation, so called gender identity, gender dysphoria, that type 546 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,319 of stuff. Well, in twenty nineteen, the state of Colorado 547 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:29,759 passed a law that prohibited so called conversion therapy for minors, 548 00:31:29,839 --> 00:31:34,000 and so this basically prohibited Childs from fulfilling her obligations 549 00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:37,000 as a counselor and helping children who are dealing with 550 00:31:37,039 --> 00:31:40,359 these issues related to sexuality and helping them come to 551 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,000 a biblical understanding of these issues and gender and stuff 552 00:31:44,039 --> 00:31:46,559 like that. And so in twenty twenty two, she filed 553 00:31:46,559 --> 00:31:49,799 a lawsuit alleging that the statute in question violates her 554 00:31:49,799 --> 00:31:53,359 First Amendment rights to free speech. The Tenth Circuit had 555 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:58,000 ruled against her in I believe twenty twenty three, twenty 556 00:31:58,079 --> 00:32:00,799 twenty four. I'm having trouble remembering the year, but the 557 00:32:00,839 --> 00:32:03,559 Supreme Court announced earlier this year in March that it 558 00:32:03,599 --> 00:32:05,799 would be taking up the case. That'll be one of 559 00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:07,759 the first or arguments that we have. I believe it's 560 00:32:07,799 --> 00:32:11,039 taking place next week for the Supreme Court. Then you 561 00:32:11,039 --> 00:32:14,119 also have a case called Louisiana versus KLA. This is 562 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,079 a case that dates back to twenty twenty two when 563 00:32:17,119 --> 00:32:20,279 the state of Louisiana passed a congressional map with a 564 00:32:20,319 --> 00:32:25,839 single black majority district Federal A group of plaintiffs, excuse me, 565 00:32:26,319 --> 00:32:29,599 had filed a lawsuit immediately after, represented by left wing 566 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,160 groups like the ACLU, and they alleged that this new 567 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,559 map violated Section two of the Voting Rights Act, which 568 00:32:36,559 --> 00:32:39,200 basically says you can't discriminate on the basis of race 569 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,200 in the voting context, and that the new map dilutes 570 00:32:42,279 --> 00:32:45,319 the voting power of Black Americans. And so a district 571 00:32:45,319 --> 00:32:47,920 court judge comes out places an injunction that pauses that 572 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,799 decision and orders the state to redraw the map. The 573 00:32:50,839 --> 00:32:55,440 Supreme Court steps in blocks that injunction temporarily. Litigation continues 574 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,400 in the case, and the state ends up drawing a 575 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,200 new map, this time with the second black majority district. 576 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,319 A different group of plaintiffs sue, this time alleging that 577 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,559 the state unlawfully prioritized race in the creation of the map, 578 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,960 and they alleged that it violates the Fourteenth Amendments Equal 579 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,240 Protection clause. A separate district court comes out and issues 580 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,839 an injunction blocking enforcement of this map, and ultimately the 581 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,559 Supreme Court paused that and ended up taking up the case. 582 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,799 So what you have here in this situation is kind 583 00:33:24,799 --> 00:33:27,039 of this quandary that states have been put in where 584 00:33:27,319 --> 00:33:30,119 if you take race into consideration too much in the 585 00:33:30,119 --> 00:33:33,519 redistricting process, you're going to be sued under the Fourteenth Amendment. 586 00:33:33,799 --> 00:33:36,200 But if you don't take race into consideration enough in 587 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,880 the redistricting process, you're still going to be sued. This 588 00:33:39,119 --> 00:33:41,359 just this time it's under Section two of the VRA. 589 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,519 And so what the Supreme Court hopefully is going to 590 00:33:44,559 --> 00:33:49,480 address is whether race is permissible in the redistricting process, 591 00:33:49,759 --> 00:33:53,200 whether it violates the fourteenth and fifteenth Amendments. This is 592 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,640 an issue that's been plaguing the lower judiciary for decades. 593 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,400 It's an issue that Justice Clarence Thomas has been shouting 594 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,799 about in his opinions for quite some time. So hopefully 595 00:34:02,839 --> 00:34:05,519 the Supreme Court will finally put this issue to bed 596 00:34:05,559 --> 00:34:06,279 once and for all. 597 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, and Sean, you would know because you live to 598 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,719 read Clarence Thomas shouting in his descents. 599 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,880 Speaker 6: I listen, Clarence. If you're out there, you want to 600 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:19,800 grab lunch sometime, I'll shamelessly ask you to. I'm always free. 601 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,760 Speaker 1: Clarence's biggest fan right here on the Kylie Cast to 602 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:28,119 Day Sean. There is also there's also a case at 603 00:34:28,119 --> 00:34:32,480 the court this term Trump be Slaughter, which could call 604 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,360 something called Humphrey's executor into question. Can you explain for 605 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,639 us that case and also why Humphrey's executor is important 606 00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:40,199 what it means. 607 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,000 Speaker 6: Yeah, So this is a case that actually kind of 608 00:34:44,039 --> 00:34:47,679 heated up in the past two weeks. So President Trump 609 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,719 earlier this year had fired Rebecca Slaughter. She's a Democrat 610 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,960 member of the Federal Trade Commission, and she ensued over 611 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,119 her firing. District Court judge placed an injunction on that decision, 612 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,320 basically allowing her to keep her job, and the Supreme 613 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:06,079 Court granted a request from the Trump administration last week 614 00:35:06,159 --> 00:35:10,280 or the week prior temporarily staying that injunction. But they 615 00:35:10,559 --> 00:35:13,039 also announced that they would be taking up this case 616 00:35:13,119 --> 00:35:15,800 on the merits and hearing oral arguments later this year, 617 00:35:16,159 --> 00:35:18,320 and one of the most notable questions that they asked 618 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:23,880 the litigants to address was whether Humphrey's executor should be overturned. So, 619 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,519 Humphrey's Executor is a case that dates back almost one 620 00:35:26,559 --> 00:35:30,480 hundred years to the early nineteen thirties when President Herbert Hoover, 621 00:35:30,559 --> 00:35:34,159 a Republican, nominated William Humphrey to serve as a member 622 00:35:34,159 --> 00:35:37,480 of the Federal Trade Commission. Humphrey was confirmed by the Senate. 623 00:35:37,519 --> 00:35:40,159 I believe it's a full seven year term. And then 624 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,480 FDR comes into office, who is a Democrat, and he 625 00:35:43,519 --> 00:35:48,079 asks Humphrey to resign, and Humphrey says no, and FDR 626 00:35:48,159 --> 00:35:51,599 ultimately ends up firing him. Now, there was a legislation 627 00:35:51,639 --> 00:35:54,559 that Congress had passed at that time called the FTC Act, 628 00:35:54,559 --> 00:35:58,440 which basically attempted to constrain the ability of presidents to 629 00:35:58,559 --> 00:36:02,639 fire executive officials like Humphrey. So it basically said you 630 00:36:02,639 --> 00:36:06,480 can only fire these certain officials for these very specific reasons. 631 00:36:07,119 --> 00:36:10,639 And so Humphrey had died shortly after FDR fired him, 632 00:36:10,639 --> 00:36:12,480 which is really a heck of a way to go. 633 00:36:15,159 --> 00:36:19,199 But his estate, his executor sued on his behalf and 634 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:24,599 he claimed that Humphrey was unlawfully terminated and basically challenging 635 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,679 the executive power of the president to do this. Well, 636 00:36:28,679 --> 00:36:30,800 the case makes its way up to the Supreme Court, 637 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,719 and in nineteen thirty five, the justices and a unanimous 638 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,599 decision ruled against Roosevelt, and they basically say that the 639 00:36:37,639 --> 00:36:40,800 provisions of the FTC Act are constitutional and that the 640 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,440 firing of Humphrey was in fact unlawful. And so what 641 00:36:44,519 --> 00:36:48,000 this ruling basically did was it constrained the ability and 642 00:36:48,079 --> 00:36:50,920 kind of took away powers of the president to have 643 00:36:51,079 --> 00:36:55,079 full oversight of what have now been dubbed independent agencies 644 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,159 and basically helped birth what is now known as the 645 00:36:58,199 --> 00:37:01,559 administrative state is kind of de facto fourth branch of 646 00:37:01,599 --> 00:37:04,840 government that kind of operates outside of the confines of 647 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,079 the Constitution and the traditional role of separation of powers. 648 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:10,599 And so I think what the Court is signaling by 649 00:37:10,639 --> 00:37:12,360 agreeing to take up this case is that they are 650 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:16,159 finally willing to definitively strike down Humphrey's executor and kind 651 00:37:16,159 --> 00:37:18,679 of return the powers that the Court in the nineteen 652 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,400 thirties had taken away from the President and kind of 653 00:37:21,519 --> 00:37:24,360 moving us back towards a system of proper separation of 654 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,639 powers of our Constitution had established. 655 00:37:27,599 --> 00:37:30,880 Speaker 1: Right right, because the administration, the administrative state isn't just 656 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:36,599 outside the three branches of government that the Constitution establishes, 657 00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,280 it's also outside of the accountability of the American people. 658 00:37:40,599 --> 00:37:43,880 If an elected official cannot get rid of somebody who 659 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,000 is technically under their purview, then who exactly are they 660 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,400 accountable to? Certainly not the American people in that case. 661 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,559 It's just this sprawling bureaucracy that doesn't have to really 662 00:37:52,599 --> 00:37:57,159 answer for anything if they're not firable. Which this is 663 00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,679 not the only case this term that deals with a 664 00:38:00,119 --> 00:38:04,960 gruntled Trump fired person. We also have Trump versus Cook, 665 00:38:05,199 --> 00:38:07,599 which is another case coming down in another Trump case 666 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:11,679 actually might be a pair of cases related to Trump's tariffs. So, Sean, 667 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:13,159 I don't know if you have anything interesting to say 668 00:38:13,159 --> 00:38:15,280 about either of those cases. But lots of Trump related 669 00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:16,119 cases this term. 670 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,840 Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure. There the pair of cases I believe 671 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,320 it's called Learning Resources Inc. Versus Trump, and then Vos 672 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,679 Solutions versus Trump. Those will deal with the president's tariff 673 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,239 power under a federal law and whether he has the 674 00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:33,199 power to kind of universally implement these tariffs. And then 675 00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,000 Trump v. Cook, which centers on the president's firing of 676 00:38:36,079 --> 00:38:39,199 the Federal Governor Board member Lisa Cook, who is a 677 00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,840 Democrat appointee. But all of both of those cases are 678 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,920 kind of all of these cases center around what's known 679 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,280 as the emergency docket, which if I could just kind 680 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,960 of address what exactly that is, because I think the 681 00:38:52,039 --> 00:38:55,440 media have done such a you know, to give them credit, 682 00:38:55,559 --> 00:39:00,199 a good job of sowing disinformation on this issue. The 683 00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:06,119 Supreme the only thing, absolutely so. There are two key 684 00:39:06,199 --> 00:39:08,559 tracks that cases take to get to the Supreme Court. 685 00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:10,559 The first is called the merits docket, which is the 686 00:39:10,559 --> 00:39:13,480 more traditional way the cases make their way to the court, 687 00:39:13,559 --> 00:39:16,480 which is they are fully the case is fully litigated 688 00:39:16,519 --> 00:39:19,239 at the trial or district court level, they're fully litigated 689 00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:21,320 at the appellate level, and then either one of the 690 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,119 parties can decide to petition the Supreme Court to take 691 00:39:24,199 --> 00:39:26,559 up the case. You need at least four justices to 692 00:39:26,599 --> 00:39:28,639 agree to hear a case. The court can decide whether 693 00:39:28,679 --> 00:39:30,320 they take it up or not. And so that's the 694 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,320 more traditional route. The emergency docket is a bit different, 695 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,719 and so I guess using the administration is the best 696 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,400 way to do this. You will have let's say the 697 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,440 Trump administration orders a certain policy or fires a certain 698 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:46,800 official that immediately gets challenged, and the plaintiff requests the 699 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,119 district court to place an injunction on that decision. The 700 00:39:50,119 --> 00:39:53,199 district court grants the injunction, and the Trump administration wants 701 00:39:53,199 --> 00:39:55,440 to appeal to the appellate level, you know, to have 702 00:39:55,519 --> 00:39:58,480 them pause that. If the appeals court rejects that motion, 703 00:39:58,599 --> 00:40:01,440 they can then appeal to the Supreme Court's emergency docket. 704 00:40:01,639 --> 00:40:04,280 And at that point, the Supreme Court can decide whether 705 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,840 they want to pause that injunction thereby granting the administration 706 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,599 or party's request, or they can deny it and allow 707 00:40:10,639 --> 00:40:13,400 that injunction to remain in place. And so what we've 708 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,719 seen in a lot of these cases, not all, but 709 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,159 a lot of them is the Supreme Court will in 710 00:40:18,159 --> 00:40:21,960 fact issue a temporary stay on those lower court injunctions. 711 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,079 It's not a final ruling on the merits of the case. 712 00:40:25,199 --> 00:40:28,599 It is simply a temporary pause on that specific court 713 00:40:28,639 --> 00:40:32,519 action while litigation on the merits of the issue percolate 714 00:40:32,599 --> 00:40:35,519 and continue throughout the lower judiciary. So the issue and 715 00:40:35,559 --> 00:40:37,840 the merits of the issue might ultimately come back up 716 00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,840 to the Supreme Court. But the Supreme Court is basically 717 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,639 saying in that moment that this specific court action, we 718 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,039 believe that the party that made the request to pause 719 00:40:47,079 --> 00:40:50,199 it has shown that they will be irreparably harmed if 720 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,599 the injunction, if the injunction is allowed to stay, and 721 00:40:53,639 --> 00:40:55,719 that they will likely succeed on the merits of the case. 722 00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,320 So again, it's not a definitive final ruling on the 723 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,480 legal issue at question. It is simply a temporary or 724 00:41:01,519 --> 00:41:05,360 interim is Justice Kavinall likes to call it court action 725 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,119 to allow the case to fully litigate throughout the lower judiciary. 726 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,000 Speaker 1: Very helpful. Thank you for correcting the media's disinformation here 727 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,880 on the Kylie cast. You heard it here. No, this 728 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,320 is all super helpful and Sean readers should definitely check 729 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,840 out your piece for more helpful information about these cases. 730 00:41:22,039 --> 00:41:26,280 The Federalists guide to the twenty twenty five Supreme Court term. 731 00:41:26,519 --> 00:41:28,440 Before I let you go, Sean just in the last 732 00:41:28,639 --> 00:41:32,719 minute here, you are not for listeners who don't know this. 733 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:37,079 You are not only the resident Clarence Thomas fanboy, but 734 00:41:37,159 --> 00:41:41,199 you are also the Federalist's office quote in chief. So 735 00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,519 I have not been able to do a culture cut 736 00:41:44,519 --> 00:41:46,440 on the Kylie Cast in the past few weeks because 737 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,079 there's just been so much news that we have to 738 00:41:48,079 --> 00:41:50,760 get to. I likely won't get to a culture segment 739 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:52,719 today either, so I just have to ask you, as 740 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,440 the office quoter in chief on staff, have you watched 741 00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:57,239 the paper yet? 742 00:41:58,599 --> 00:42:01,320 Speaker 6: I have not. It is on my to watch list. 743 00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,800 I've been kind of busy finishing out watching New Girl, 744 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,280 which I had recently gotten into. The first four seasons 745 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,280 are great, but the last couple are kind of slow 746 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,719 for me. Don't really do it for me. But yeah, 747 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,400 I haven't watched the Paper yet. I'm kind of hesitant to. 748 00:42:16,599 --> 00:42:18,920 But I did tell one of our colleagues that I 749 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,119 would watch it and write a review on. 750 00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,400 Speaker 1: It, so I am excited to see it. 751 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:27,760 Speaker 6: Stay tuned at the Federalists for my likely negative reviews. 752 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,920 Speaker 1: I do have to say, and maybe it's just because 753 00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:36,519 I went in with the lowest expectations imaginable, but I 754 00:42:36,559 --> 00:42:39,039 have really enjoyed the paper. I finished it a night 755 00:42:39,119 --> 00:42:42,920 or two ago, and I was pleasantly surprised. It's definitely 756 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,360 a different pace than The Office because the lead characters 757 00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:48,079 are not quite a Michael Scott character, so it doesn't 758 00:42:48,079 --> 00:42:50,679 have that, you know, there is no Michael and Dwight 759 00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,360 to keep the clip going quite as quite as fast 760 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,880 as The Office. But it was not nearly as woke 761 00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,840 as I thought it would be, despite how I thought 762 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:00,639 they were about to set up some of the characters. 763 00:43:01,039 --> 00:43:04,400 And it was shockingly funny, Like it had me laughing 764 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,480 out loud at numerous points, and after watching the preview 765 00:43:07,519 --> 00:43:10,119 for it, I really really had very low expectations, but 766 00:43:10,159 --> 00:43:12,119 I thoroughly enjoyed it. My husband and I both did 767 00:43:13,039 --> 00:43:14,679 tons of fun. You should definitely watch it. And there's 768 00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:18,199 like a few little nuggets where they reference the Office 769 00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:21,280 through Oscar. Not to spoil anything, but if you should. 770 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:25,679 Now everyone knows already that Oscars in it, but those 771 00:43:25,679 --> 00:43:27,840 were like a little hokey and cheesy, but also kind 772 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:29,480 of cute. It's like Okay, this is a beloved show, 773 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,920 so it's okay to reference it. But beyond that, truly 774 00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:34,239 very fun show. So I'm curious to hear if your 775 00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,440 review matches mine or if you're gonna just be way 776 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:40,000 harsher on it than I was. But I thoroughly enjoyed it. Yeah, 777 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:41,519 and I love to hear that you're watching New Girl too, 778 00:43:41,519 --> 00:43:44,039 because Jess is the worst part of that show. The 779 00:43:44,079 --> 00:43:46,159 boys are where it's at. The boys are the reason 780 00:43:46,199 --> 00:43:46,880 to watch New Girl. 781 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:47,239 Speaker 2: Yeah. 782 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, cool. Well, I look forward to hearing your review. 783 00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:53,920 Show the best character, yeah, hands down, hands down the 784 00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:59,440 best character. Nick is a close second, so yes, yeah, well, Sean, 785 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,320 thanks so much for joining me. We are all, I 786 00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,920 think I can speak for all of our listeners and readers. 787 00:44:04,039 --> 00:44:07,079 We are all waiting with beta breath for your paper review. 788 00:44:07,599 --> 00:44:10,199 But everyone, please go check out Sean's recent piece on 789 00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:14,159 the military. Let me see here once again that title is. 790 00:44:14,199 --> 00:44:16,880 It turns out the military's Biden ra Or recruitment crisis 791 00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:20,159 was a leadership problem after all, and his piece The 792 00:44:20,159 --> 00:44:23,800 Federalist's Guide to the twenty twenty five Supreme Court Term. 793 00:44:24,119 --> 00:44:27,239 Thanks so much for being here, Sean. Thanks for having Katy, 794 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:35,119 great to see you all right. That's all for me today. 795 00:44:35,199 --> 00:44:37,400 Thank you all so much for tuning into this week's 796 00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:40,280 episode of The Kylie Cast. Once again, please like and 797 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,280 subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and I'll be right 798 00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,760 back here next week with more. Until then, just remember 799 00:44:47,039 --> 00:44:55,920 the truth hurts, but it won't kill you