WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.359 Tuesday edition of the show. I'm your host for the 2 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:05.360 next three hours, Mandy Coddle. I'm joined today in the 3 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:08.439 control room by Zach Seegers in for A Rod, who 4 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:11.599 is at the super Bowl right now. Now you can 5 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:14.679 hit that air horn. Yeah, I'm excited to be here. 6 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:18.239 Thanks again. Yes, A Rod will be on the show 7 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:20.320 a little bit later. But we've had a lot of 8 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:22.359 stuff to talk about. Oh crime, Andy, hang on, my 9 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:24.679 computer just did something weird. We've got a lot of 10 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:27.160 stuff to talk about, so let's jump to the blog, 11 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:31.559 which you can easily find by going to mandy'sblog dot com. 12 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:35.039 That's mandy'sblog dot com. Once you get to the AAA page, 13 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:38.280 you can look for latest posts. If you go later 14 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:40.119 in the day to look at the blog, you're gonna 15 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:41.920 have to scroll over a little bit because we also 16 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:45.479 upload all the podcasts on the latest post scroll which 17 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:48.640 I hate, but they didn't ask me. So you got 18 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:49.840 to go to the latest posts and look for the 19 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:54.000 headline that says two four twenty four blog AI avatars 20 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:57.719 and Canada and Mexico Cave. Click on that, and here 21 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:00.479 are the headlines you will find within as. 22 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:02.359 Listening office atlin ergon all with ships and climmas and 23 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:03.560 say that's a press plan. 24 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:09.359 Today on the blog, our Futurist is talking avatars about 25 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:12.359 that swastika window? Can you sure of the music down 26 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:15.879 to say here? Yeah? Both Canada and Mexico crumble? What 27 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:20.359 are the values of Colorado? Representative Crow Denversity Council didn't 28 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:24.319 override Johnston's veto this King super strike already feels different. 29 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:28.480 Adam Frisch is deied out of the DNC race. A 30 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:32.359 challenger has declared for the eighth Congressional district. Senator Faith 31 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:36.879 Winters apologizes. Joe Biden gets an agent financial advice from 32 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:41.599 people who made mistakes. Johnston supporters madd he's not fixing homelessness. 33 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:46.319 This washbark shooter doesn't seem very stable. Democrats lose their 34 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:50.200 minds over USA and El Paso. Democratic ad Vice chair 35 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:55.400 urges violence. Jimmy Sangenberger beats the dead horse. Wikipedia bands 36 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:59.560 conservative sources one of my guilty pleasure Internet things. Time 37 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:03.519 to play for the Greeley Stampede, y'all, Buffy is coming back. 38 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:07.319 The Fantastic Four is back. That time Robin Williams was 39 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:09.639 on Whose line is it anyway? And just like that 40 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:13.520 the first transaction actress gets shoved aside is the Department 41 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:16.639 of Education on the way out, pets doing dumb stuff 42 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:20.400 people tweet about, and now British kids try American serial 43 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:27.479 one more. AOC says Elon Musk is stupid. Those are 44 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:31.039 the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And 45 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:35.520 yes indeed, my friends, Yes indeed. And I'm just gonna 46 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:38.639 start the show by playing this snippet. Can I have 47 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:42.400 my audio please zact for my computer. I just want 48 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:48.319 you to hear Representative Alexandria Acossio Cortes, who before getting 49 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:51.719 elected to Congress was a bartender. Now there's nothing wrong 50 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:54.960 with bartending. I paid my way through college as a bartender. 51 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:59.199 But it's not like she had some great career doing 52 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:02.360 important things before she got into Congress. But listen to 53 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:05.199 what she has to say about Elon Musk. 54 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:10.240 The suit is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires 55 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:16.840 I have ever met or seen our witness, which you know, 56 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:19.599 you can probably even glean that from watching these people 57 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:19.960 on TV. 58 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:26.319 Anyways, all anyways, she says, which is grammatically incorrect. After 59 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:29.319 she talks about Elon Musk being an unintelligent millionaire. But 60 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:30.439 I'll let her finish. 61 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:33.599 That is to say, is that they don't do their homework. 62 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:38.520 Clearly like they're putting nineteen year olds in at the Treasury. 63 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:41.479 This suit is not smart, and. 64 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:46.680 The danger is not in the lack of intelligence and 65 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:51.400 the lack of expertise that Elon has. I mean, the 66 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:56.120 skuy is one of the most morally vacant but also. 67 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:03.039 Just least knowledgeable about. 68 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:05.319 These systems that we really know of. 69 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:10.599 Now. My question is isn't that what we signed up for? 70 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:13.680 By the way, one of the nineteen year olds that 71 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:18.959 she's disparaging created an AI computer program that was able 72 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:23.839 to take severely burned ancient scrolls from Pompeii. You remember 73 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:26.279 the volcano and Pompey. You've heard about this. So they 74 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:28.920 had they found these ancient scrolls and they were burned 75 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:31.000 so badly that they could not in any way, shape 76 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:35.079 or form unroll them. So using an AI program, this 77 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:38.839 nineteen year old that she says is not intelligent enough 78 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:41.160 to manage the federal government stuff that he's doing now, 79 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:44.639 actually came up with a computer program that, using a 80 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:49.120 CT scan of the scrolls, used an AI program that 81 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:53.240 actually sort of digitally unrolled them so they could be 82 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:58.879 read for the first time. And former bartender Alexandria Acossio 83 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:04.439 Cortes is disparaging this young man's intelligence because he is 84 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:07.439 only nineteen. Kind of rich from someone who got into 85 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:11.120 Congress when she was barely out of college. Just mearely, 86 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:16.879 you guys, what's happening right now watching the left wing 87 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:22.959 meltdown over USAAID. USAID is an organization that was supposed 88 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:29.600 to fund programs in developing nations around the world to 89 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:34.560 help them become more than a developing nation. Right in theory. 90 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:36.639 In theory, it sounds great, right, it sounds like, you 91 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:39.199 know what, what if we went into these African countries 92 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:41.480 and we set up clean water systems and we help 93 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:46.120 people have access to a decent amount of medical care 94 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:49.680 and things like that. USAID, if it was just doing that, 95 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:52.040 nobody would talking about getting rid of it. But what 96 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:57.639 they've done instead is become a basically a slush fund 97 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:01.600 for mostly left wing causes, not all left wing causes, 98 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:05.439 but mostly left wing causes. And some of the stuff 99 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:08.639 that our tech, my tax dollars, Zach's tax dollars went 100 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:12.800 for is insane. I'm sure you've heard about the Peruvian 101 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:17.079 trans comic book that we paid for, or the thirty 102 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:20.279 nine thousand dollars we invested in an opera about gay 103 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:24.439 people in some other country. I mean, the lists that 104 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:26.560 we're starting to see of the things that they have 105 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:31.759 funded has gone well beyond anything that any American would go. Yeah, 106 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:34.720 I think my money should go for that, But because 107 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:38.399 it is a slush fund for left wing causes and 108 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:44.639 left wing people. By the way USAID's budget, a vast 109 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:49.959 majority of it is just salaries and entertainment, not a 110 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:52.519 vast majority of about fifty five sixty percent. That was 111 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:56.240 the last number I saw yesterday. We can absolutely do 112 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.439 without this organization with no problem. It's Zach, are you 113 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:01.879 gonna be up to find out that we're not funding 114 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.079 any more comic books for trans people? 115 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:05.000 No? 116 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:08.680 That seems Uh, that doesn't seem it seems absurd, doesn't. Yeah, 117 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:11.600 it seems absurd, And yet we've been we've been doing that, 118 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:17.879 but they're freaking the blank out. I did not. I 119 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:21.079 almost say it. I I almost started, but I didn't. 120 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:26.519 I didn't. So, Uh, it's been it's been fascinating to 121 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:33.920 see just how reliant on the federal government all of 122 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:37.160 these left wingers are Now I've already known this, You've 123 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:39.319 already known this, but the fact that so many people 124 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:42.680 at the local level are freaking out about this, of 125 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:45.839 all things, you guys, I just want to make sure 126 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:52.040 everybody in this listening audience understands. Inflation occurs because the 127 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:55.480 Federal Reserve, in an effort to allow the federal government 128 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:58.439 to keep barring way more money and spending way more 129 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:01.439 money than they're bringing in, they just flood the market 130 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:05.519 with new currency, and in doing so, they dilute the 131 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:09.959 value of your dollar. Right, I saw I had I 132 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:14.759 actually I retweeted it on x Thomas Massey explaining the 133 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:18.040 concept of dilution, and he took a glass of iced tea, 134 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:20.879 and then he took a picture of water, and he 135 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:23.439 poured the water into the half glass of iced tea 136 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:25.959 and he said, look, you can now see it's diluted. 137 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:30.240 When you add more money to the circulation of money, 138 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:36.639 every dollar has less value. So we are seeing prices 139 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:39.200 still twenty percent higher than they were a few years ago. 140 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:42.080 So we could pay for a comic book for trans 141 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:42.840 people in Peru. 142 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:43.679 That's how I. 143 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:46.360 Want you to think about this stuff. This isn't an 144 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:50.200 abstract number. This is not an abstract bit of spending. 145 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:54.159 This isn't some kind of you know, hard to understand thing. 146 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:58.279 We have a crisis with our budget. We have a 147 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:01.799 crisis with our debt, We have a crisis with our 148 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:06.240 ongoing massive spending that we have no business making. And 149 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:09.279 for everybody who says it, ll EUS eight is less 150 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:12.360 than one percent of the total federal budget. It's such 151 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:16.000 a drop in the bucket situation. You know what, one 152 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:20.480 percent plus one percent plus one percent and pretty soon 153 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:24.559 you're talking serious money. So don't give me the l 154 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:26.840 It's so small. We should be worried about it. We 155 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:29.759 should be worried about all of it. And the fact 156 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:32.559 that there are a bunch of young guys who are 157 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:35.840 some of the best programmers in the world who are 158 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:39.480 trying to make the federal government more efficient and more effective. 159 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:44.919 I am down with it, Mark me down. And Alexandria A. 160 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:50.360 Cassio Cortes has has a lot of cojones to talk 161 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:53.960 about how they don't have enough experience. She's in freaking Congress, 162 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:58.039 and she's an idiot talk about lack of experience for 163 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:01.879 the job. But shit, doesn't this tell you everything you 164 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:04.600 need to know about these organizations. Doesn't it tell you 165 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:09.559 that we can absolutely live without it? Doesn't it tell you? 166 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:12.200 And you, guys, we haven't begun to see the effect 167 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:16.799 of these sort of slash and burn tactics. I just 168 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:19.919 saw on x that a thousand people at the EPA 169 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:22.200 were told that they were being let go, But I 170 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:24.200 don't know if that's fact or not. I just saw 171 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.720 one tweet, and I don't know if that's accurate because 172 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:29.919 the show started and I couldn't look it up. So 173 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:33.440 all of these cuts, everything that's happening right now signals 174 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:35.159 to the rest of the world that the United States 175 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:38.679 of America is finally serious about spending and that here's 176 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:40.879 what happens after that. People look at our debt, the 177 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:42.799 debt that we still have to buy because we've still 178 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:45.440 got this massive budget deficit. We look at that, and 179 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:48.440 all of a sudden, people investors say, well, maybe their 180 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:52.039 debt is okay, maybe their treasury bonds are all right. 181 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:57.519 And as soon as treasury brond yields dip, that means 182 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:02.639 mortgage rates dip. And I'm telling you right now, the 183 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:09.200 housing market is primed for an explosion because everybody's sitting 184 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:11.919 on the sidelines waiting for interest rates to go down. 185 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:14.159 I'm just gonna say it again, if you are ready 186 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:17.200 to buy a house, do not wait until interest rates 187 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:19.799 go down, because it's gonna be a feeding frenzy out 188 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:21.720 there and you're gonna end up getting into bidding wars 189 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:24.039 for houses that you could have bought for seventy five 190 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.919 thousand dollars less if you had just bought them. Now, 191 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.679 buy the house, marry the house, date the rate. It's 192 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:35.440 an old adage, but it's very true. I fully believe 193 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:38.360 that when these things happen, when the market starts to 194 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:41.600 respond to the kind of cuts that we are seeing now, 195 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:45.399 And granted they're insignificant in the total picture, but they 196 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:49.799 are cuts. They're real, live government cuts, which is something 197 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:53.279 I've never seen in my lifetime. Whenever they talk about quote, 198 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:56.279 cutting the budget, they don't cut the budget. They may 199 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:00.600 cut the amount that the budget increases, they don't ever 200 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:03.399 cut the budget. They never have a smaller number the 201 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:06.600 next year than they had the year before. And all 202 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:09.320 the politicians like to walk around and go, oh, we 203 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:12.000 had to and we're seeing it in Colorado right now. 204 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:17.039 Colorado is poor, mouthing everywhere right now. Oh, because of tabor, 205 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:19.960 and because of this, we're gonna have to cut We're 206 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:23.279 slashing the budget. We have to save six hundred and 207 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:28.080 eighty five million dollars. We don't know what we're gonna do. 208 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:32.480 You know what? They in Colorado at least effectively dropped 209 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:35.840 our oil and gas production thirty percent. That means the 210 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:38.399 tax revenues from oil and gas, one of our most 211 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:43.080 productive industries when it comes to tax revenue, is cut 212 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:44.960 by thirty percent. Now you're gonna turn around, tell me 213 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:47.639 it's my fault and I have to make it the difference. 214 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:53.840 No thank you, no thank you. Are borrowing along with 215 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:55.559 the inflation is a tax on the poor. It's a 216 00:12:55.639 --> 00:13:00.320 tax on everyone. Inflation is the hidden tax. That's the reality. 217 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:04.440 So when you see all of these people apoplectic about 218 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:08.679 cutting aid for people around the world that none of 219 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:10.919 us would think was worthy. And by the way, don't 220 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:14.679 even get me started on the corruption. Okay, there is 221 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:19.120 a woman on x and I've got to find her 222 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:21.679 page really quickly because I want to give you her name. 223 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.519 I just started following her and all she does is 224 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:32.120 crunch spreadsheets and go through all of these pseudo government organizations. 225 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:39.360 It's called data Republican, meaning data data Republican all one word, 226 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:42.960 and all she does is crunch the numbers of federal 227 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:45.840 government spending. I just saw one about grants to night 228 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:51.279 Roby that went through right before Biden left office. Do 229 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:54.320 we even know where that money is going? No offense 230 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:56.399 is to the African continent. But if you want to 231 00:13:56.440 --> 00:14:00.919 see where they're as a general rule has so much 232 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:03.840 corruption in it and we're just shoveling money at them. 233 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:06.200 I did see a very interesting response video on x 234 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:09.159 as well from a young African woman who said, you 235 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:11.720 guys say you want to break the shackles of colonialism, 236 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:14.120 then why are you freaking out when the white man 237 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:16.399 isn't giving us more money? And I was like, that's 238 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:19.600 kind of a good point there, young lady. She pointed 239 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:22.240 out that the money rarely goes to the services that 240 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:24.759 it's promised to. It gets caught up in the bureaucracy 241 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:27.080 and the corruption and skimmed off the top, and it 242 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:29.559 never actually gets to the people that it's supposed to 243 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:32.200 get to. And do you think the USAID organization is 244 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:36.720 checking that? No? No, Once they give the money away, 245 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:40.799 it's gone because they get to be Santa Claus. I mean, 246 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:42.919 wouldn't you love a job where your job was to 247 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:47.519 give away money? Sign me up. Oh wait, even better, 248 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:51.440 I'm giving away somebody else's money. Heck yeah, I'm in 249 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:58.279 one hundred percent. So it is Uh, it is just 250 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:02.639 fascinating to watch everybody lose their minds. I guess a 251 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:05.279 bunch of Democrats showed up at the USAID office, where 252 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:07.559 they are not allowed to be because they were told 253 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:11.080 to stay out of the office, and decided to storm 254 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:14.000 the building. I've got it now. Yeah, they broke into 255 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:17.159 the building without permission. Yeah, they're breaking in It looks 256 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:22.480 very insurrection y, extremely insurrectiony. I sure hope these people 257 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:25.480 get two to five years in jail for breaking into 258 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:27.320 a building that they didn't have permission to be in. 259 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:33.200 Super insurrection me. I mean, I understand people fighting for 260 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:37.399 their jobs, I get it. But if I were a 261 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:40.519 federal employee working with one of these agencies, I'd already 262 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:42.840 be looking for another job because if it doesn't happen today, 263 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:45.840 it's gonna happen and they're gonna starve you to death. Now, 264 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:49.200 one thing I will say, the Republicans in the House 265 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:54.679 of Representatives better get moving because all of this stuff 266 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:57.679 that Trump is doing, if it's not codified into law, 267 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:00.919 it will all be undone in the next you know, 268 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:06.600 a non Republican presidential cycle, all of it. And so 269 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:10.480 Congress has a lot of work to do, and Congress 270 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:13.399 has a lot of things to get working on. It's 271 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:14.960 going to be challenging to get some of them done. 272 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:19.080 There's some scuttle butt on the street because you know, 273 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:21.960 I love scuttle butt. Scuttle butt on the street about 274 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:27.039 Trump having an executive order that would require the Department 275 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:29.559 of Education head who has not been confirmed yet. He 276 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:32.639 has nominated Linda McMahon and she has not had a 277 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:35.960 confirmation hearing. He is going to order her to come 278 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:40.080 up with a plan to unwind the Department of Education entirely. 279 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:43.720 Everything of value in the Department of Education can be 280 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:46.799 moved to another department. But most of what the Department 281 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:51.480 of Education has done is oversee a massive collapse of 282 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:55.559 our educational system throughout the country where our kids cannot 283 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:58.360 read on grade level, like we're in a third world country. 284 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:00.840 You know, Back when I was a kid in the seventies, 285 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:03.600 we used to have these reports because there was a 286 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:07.200 whole plan called RIFF Reading is Fundamental? Was that gone 287 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:10.440 before you were a kid, Zach, you've ever heard of 288 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:13.359 rith The Reading is Fundamental? So that was the seventies, 289 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:16.319 and we used to get these reports from around the 290 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:18.319 world and you get a report and I'm not even kidding. 291 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:22.279 One of them was like Bolivia. In Bolivia, only twenty 292 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:25.640 percent of Bolivian's are literate. And I don't know if 293 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:27.920 that stat is exactly correct, but it was, you know, 294 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:30.119 it was along those and we would all be like, oh, 295 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:33.440 oh my gosh, that's terrible. Now we are giving Bolivia 296 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:37.480 a run for its money. We're graduating kids from high 297 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:41.440 school that don't even have a basic level of reading comprehension. 298 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:44.759 And that, my friends, is what the Department of Education 299 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:48.599 is overseen. Has there ever been a bigger failure of 300 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:53.160 a department than the Department of Education? I don't think so. 301 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:54.839 So all of this, I get up every morning and 302 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:56.519 I sit down at the computer and I'm like, Okay, Trump, 303 00:17:56.599 --> 00:17:58.880 what you do now? And not in a bad way. 304 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:00.400 I'm just saying, what do I have to wrap my 305 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:04.200 head around before noon? Because everything is happening so fast. 306 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:07.839 I'm actually okay with it when we get back. First 307 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.440 of all, we have a big day to day. We've 308 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:13.880 got Thomas Frye coming up. He is our futurist. I 309 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:16.599 want you to go to our website though, before Thomas 310 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:18.960 comes on, and check out his two videos. One of 311 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:22.039 them is about the founders of Silicon Valley, Super interesting 312 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:23.960 run the way. I didn't know anything about it at 313 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:26.640 all until I watch this video, and then one about 314 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:29.359 whether robots have the right to defend themselves. But what 315 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:34.160 you're watching in this video is Thomas himself or should 316 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:38.839 I say Thomas not himself. I'll explain when Thomas comes 317 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:41.319 on at one o'clock. When we get back. I have 318 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:45.279 an update from the swastika Windows situation. I got a 319 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:49.319 message back, Zach from the property manager. I will give 320 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:52.119 you an update on that, but it's not gonna be 321 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:54.559 as easy as you think it's going to be. We'll 322 00:18:54.599 --> 00:19:08.880 talk about that after this. EPA tells one thousand employees 323 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:13.079 that they may or may not be retained. They may 324 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:16.640 be subject to immediate firing. That email was sent by 325 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:21.839 EPA Mission support official Kimberly Patrick. Notifies impacted employees that 326 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:25.559 they are likely on a probationary or trial period. As 327 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:28.680 a probationary trial period employee, the agency has the right 328 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:34.559 to immediately terminate you. There are fifteen thousand employees in 329 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:38.160 the EPA, and the EPA folks are screaming already, or 330 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:43.240 at least the union leadership is screaming already, and they're 331 00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:45.440 basically saying, if you fire these people, we're all going 332 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:48.240 to drink out of lead filled pipes and things of 333 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:51.240 that nature. See. The problem with that argument is that 334 00:19:51.319 --> 00:19:54.880 is a legitimate function of the EPA, right to monitor 335 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:58.519 drinking water, legitimate function, and yet they failed at it 336 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:01.200 over and over and over again. And in the meantime, 337 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:06.000 they have over extended their own power so far that 338 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:08.839 they want to come and have say over the puddles 339 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:12.119 that form in your yard. Thankfully that was overturned by 340 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:15.160 the courts, but they have overreached. And this is what 341 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:16.640 all of this is about. I want to read this 342 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:18.240 text message, and I promise I'm gonna give you an 343 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:20.200 update on the Swaska thing. But I got a really 344 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:23.400 good text that I want to respond to. It says Mandy, 345 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:25.400 I don't have a problem with getting rid of USA, 346 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:29.000 the Department of Education, etc. I'm good with cutting most 347 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:31.680 of the federal budgetment, However, what is your take on 348 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:35.480 how it's being done? Seems like a reach for executive 349 00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:38.480 branch to go about it in the way they are authoritarian, 350 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:40.880 which I don't want either side to have this much power. 351 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:43.240 This would have been better if they simply did their 352 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:46.039 assessments of the spending now and then tell Congress what 353 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:47.880 bill Trump would be willing to sign, and if they 354 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:51.079 don't listen, he just vetos the spending bill. Would like 355 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:54.720 your analysis on this things. How has that worked out 356 00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:58.000 in prior years? And I'm being genuine because I've been 357 00:20:58.039 --> 00:21:01.839 alive for fifty five years, and since Ronald Reagan took 358 00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:04.440 over in the nineteen eighties, after the period of terrible 359 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:06.960 inflation and gas price and just a real mess of 360 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:10.119 an economy, the debt has been growing at a very 361 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:13.119 quick rate. Well, it really started when Richard Nixon took 362 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:15.279 us off the gold standard, because then once we have 363 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:17.880 fiat currency, we can say it's worth whatever we want, right, 364 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:19.599 so we can spend s Ben's Ben's men's spend and 365 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:22.039 not have to worry about that pesky gold standard. There 366 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:25.039 was really raining us in before that. So since then 367 00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:30.200 the debt has exploded, and I've heard Republicans, I've heard 368 00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:32.640 them talking for years about we're really going to go 369 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:35.160 at it nuke Kingrich had a little bit of success 370 00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:38.799 with Bill Clinton with a Republican Congress where they managed 371 00:21:38.839 --> 00:21:43.759 to balance the budget in seven years, and then what 372 00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:45.559 happened right after that, We went right back to the 373 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:48.559 drunken monkey spending because the size of government is so 374 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:52.880 large that it's just going to continue feeding itself. One 375 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:56.359 thing I think Donald Trump learned last time is that 376 00:21:57.160 --> 00:22:02.559 government per normal is ineffective for what he's trying to do. Now. 377 00:22:02.599 --> 00:22:04.680 I've said over and over again, all of this stuff 378 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:07.880 can be undone in the next administration very easily. And 379 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:10.720 the real kicker here about Trump and everybody on the 380 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:13.319 left saying things like he doesn't have the power to 381 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:17.839 do this. Congress over the last forty years has abdicated 382 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:22.240 more or abdicated more and more of their responsibilities to 383 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:26.720 the president. They've given the president's much more power, mostly 384 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:30.680 when the Democratic presidents were in power. Well, guess what, 385 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:33.640 you don't get to pick all the time who's president. 386 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:36.920 And guess what, Now there's a guy you don't like 387 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:40.400 wielding all of that power that Congress ceded to the 388 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:43.319 office of the President of the United States, and he's 389 00:22:43.400 --> 00:22:47.519 damn sure going to use it. I think that he 390 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:50.759 looked at the landscape of DC and how business is done, 391 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:55.160 and decided that the best play was shock and awe 392 00:22:55.359 --> 00:22:57.720 to do as much as he could and then see 393 00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:01.319 what sticks, see what Congress has the stones to get passed. 394 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:05.160 So I wish there was another way. I wish, like you, 395 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:08.920 that we could have had a slow and normal conversation 396 00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:11.440 like you know you have about your budget at home. 397 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:13.440 I wish we could have done all of that. I 398 00:23:13.480 --> 00:23:16.039 wish we could have been doing that all along. But unfortunately, 399 00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:19.079 the members of Congress are so invested in making sure 400 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:21.759 that their districts get the gravy and that their donors 401 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:25.319