Speaker 1: I gotta tell you today today, what could I like
Speaker 1: in this too? My button bar is so amazing today,
Speaker 1: My stack is amazing today. And you know, I really
Speaker 1: have to do a lot of work for it. But
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. You still got to cobble it together,
Speaker 1: refine it, and deliver it. But and I was thinking,
Speaker 1: I was remembering back Ross, did you I don't know
Speaker 1: how it worked for your fam? How many kids were
Speaker 1: in your family? Again? We had four in mine? How many?
Speaker 2: Me and my two older sisters. But my sister Debbie
Speaker 2: was pretty much out of the house most Well, there's
Speaker 2: a ten year difference between the.
Speaker 1: Two, right, that's right, that's right, Okay, all right, So
Speaker 1: we had we had a thing. It was very rare
Speaker 1: that it actually worked. So my mom, you know, she
Speaker 1: had to take the kids to the grocery store. There
Speaker 1: was an incentive promise, and that is, if everyone behaves themselves,
Speaker 1: and it was a team effort. So if somebody put
Speaker 1: a jelly donut and their foot locker, we're all doing
Speaker 1: push ups. Okay, so but if everybody behaves themselves. And now,
Speaker 1: as an adult, I realized this, and my mom had
Speaker 1: the money in her budget, which she probably normally didn't,
Speaker 1: but on the very rare occasion that all the pieces
Speaker 1: fell into line, my mom had a couple extra dollars.
Speaker 1: Everyone absolutely behaved themselves. There was no cutting corners. There
Speaker 1: was a possibility to check out that from that rack,
Speaker 1: that last rack that they had a DJ's Foods, which
Speaker 1: was the big grocery store in Buffalo. They we had
Speaker 1: an IgA as well, but we went to DJs. If
Speaker 1: that happened, she may say, you may pick one thing
Speaker 1: in reference to the candy bars. Oh you're like rich,
Speaker 1: what dude. If it happened once every few months, I'd
Speaker 1: be surprised because we just couldn't. We're just you know,
Speaker 1: we're all hyped up running around, and then you usually
Speaker 1: got in trouble trying to enforce because like one of
Speaker 1: my sisters would be like, I'll misbehave if you don't
Speaker 1: give me party, like absolutely diabolical stuff. So then you're
Speaker 1: trying to enforce it as the older one, and my
Speaker 1: mom knew what was up. Now we're under the don't
Speaker 1: touch anything, don't look at anything rule. Oh yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: That was part of the first part where you've got
Speaker 1: to behave yourself. So there is no standing in the
Speaker 1: next to the cereals, you know, holding the box that
Speaker 1: was That was an instafoul. You're ejected from the game
Speaker 1: and everyone else suffers. That's how I feel today. I
Speaker 1: feel like, although there was there was the one crazy
Speaker 1: incident where my sister, overwhelmed with the decision, did not
Speaker 1: in a timely manner select and my mom stone cold
Speaker 1: said all right, time's up, No treat dude, Dude, ain't
Speaker 1: doing that again. No, no, that never happened, although I
Speaker 1: did get barred from candy access over the normal incident.
Speaker 1: One of my sisters got a kitten for Christmas, and
Speaker 1: I decided I was gonna name it normal. Do you
Speaker 1: get the reference? By the way, that was the that
Speaker 1: was Garfield's other cat, the one he kept trying to
Speaker 1: mail to Abu Dhabi, right along with Odie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So I thought it'd be funny and she did not
Speaker 1: think it was funny. And by the way, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be on my side. Do you know what she wanted
Speaker 1: to name the cat? Ikabad? I know you got a Nope, yeah,
Speaker 1: we do a beef going back to like ninety three. Nope, yeah, Look,
Speaker 1: Ross just got triggered man that was his rival school
Speaker 1: there where everything was uh, candy cane and candy canes
Speaker 1: and roses over there, man, let's see here. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and I was successful, and then we would we would.
Speaker 1: I could get little pieces of cheese, she couldn't see them,
Speaker 1: and I'd say normal, and then the cat would come
Speaker 1: over because it knew I had cheese, which I don't
Speaker 1: know do that, but and then she'd start crying. And
Speaker 1: by the way, the cat ended up being named normal.
Speaker 1: So I won, but I got a lot of trouble
Speaker 1: over that. So with that in mind, I don't know
Speaker 1: where to start today, all that childhood memory, because every
Speaker 1: day I say, it's a crazy day. What happened yesterday,
Speaker 1: and the information that was coming out yesterday, and the response,
Speaker 1: the insta response on a Wednesday in the middle of
Speaker 1: the day for the Democrats to get a bunch of
Speaker 1: people marching around downtown Raleigh man protesting Musk protesting Trump.
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised, but what was going on yesterday, what
Speaker 1: was going on yesterday is essentially all of these things,
Speaker 1: whether they are things that reward donors, whether they are
Speaker 1: things that keep people in line because somebody in the
Speaker 1: intelligence community or somebody in the political community can be like, well, look,
Speaker 1: you don't want to vote that way. I think people
Speaker 1: need to know about the three million dollar kickback to
Speaker 1: your charity. Blah blah blah. Right, all of those things
Speaker 1: rather than being continued to be used. But you ever
Speaker 1: wonder why members of the different political parties will only
Speaker 1: torch each other so far. Sometimes it's because the other
Speaker 1: guy's got something. All of those things, so much of
Speaker 1: it tied to programs like USAID. They just put it
Speaker 1: out there. They just came out figuratively with pieces of
Speaker 1: paper with all this stuff and then threw it on
Speaker 1: stage like a bachelor party at a strip club, and
Speaker 1: you're making it rain and it's just there and everyone
Speaker 1: can see it. Politico Politico didn't make payroll yesterday. They
Speaker 1: say it was a tech glitch. I'll let you decide
Speaker 1: the amount of money that was going to play, and
Speaker 1: this is how it would go. It would go for
Speaker 1: digital subscriptions, a lot of it, not all of it,
Speaker 1: a lot of it. Now there's a lot of money
Speaker 1: too through USA that is that was through advertising campaigns,
Speaker 1: PSA campaigns, things like that. So you know there's a
Speaker 1: lot of media outlets will be on that list, but
Speaker 1: you got to look and see what they were doing
Speaker 1: with it and how it was with Politico. They were
Speaker 1: buying digital subscriptions and not a few eight million dollars worth,
Speaker 1: so that I guess people within the office who were
Speaker 1: over trying to get their transgender opera and Colombia up
Speaker 1: and running have access to Politico is it and they'll
Speaker 1: just say, well, it's for resources and periodicals and stuff.
Speaker 1: Now everybody knows what's up there. If I want a
Speaker 1: story off Politico, if I want to read a story
Speaker 1: off Politico, it's very easy for me to do it.
Speaker 1: I don't have a subscription, and if there is a subscription,
Speaker 1: chances are somebody has written a story about the story
Speaker 1: that has the details, or there's there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: websites where you can go and just drop the r
Speaker 1: L in and then see it, or half the time
Speaker 1: if you just click reader view you can see it. No,
Speaker 1: that's how you launder eight million dollars. In the opinion
Speaker 1: of many people myself kind of included, and it was
Speaker 1: just hit after hit after hit. By the way, do
Speaker 1: you know where the Doge team is today? Where his
Speaker 1: we got we need a name for the for this.
Speaker 1: You know, this group of six dudes with their laptops
Speaker 1: and their zin man, you know, like elliot Ness had
Speaker 1: the Untouchables. Wait, we need a name for these dude.
Speaker 1: How about Uncrustables. They're young, the possibilities. Some of them
Speaker 1: don't eat crust. I don't know. I'll work on something.
Speaker 1: But they're at National Institute of Health today. And if
Speaker 1: you think that the kick and the screaming was crazy
Speaker 1: yesterday day, holy cow man, it's just gonna get worse.
Speaker 1: And everyone who's shown up to pro understand what you're protesting.
Speaker 1: You're protesting this and over on Blue Sky. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've got a sense of what the what
Speaker 1: people are saying over on Blue Sky. Let me let
Speaker 1: me help you out. You have, and not just on
Speaker 1: Blue Sky, on Twitter and others. You have a bunch
Speaker 1: of people that have been convinced that the reason the
Speaker 1: Musk and his team were there using read only basically,
Speaker 1: you know, they're not altering code, according to the White House,
Speaker 1: but rather just looking at what's there and then going, hey,
Speaker 1: look at this. They there, they were convinced that they
Speaker 1: were stealing people's bank accounts. And because that's what Democrat
Speaker 1: politicians were feeding them yesterday, screw reaming their head off.
Speaker 1: You got to Al Green down there trying, oh we
Speaker 1: gotta we got here, we go with this againuys, to
Speaker 1: it not rise that the movement to impeach the president
Speaker 1: has begun?
Speaker 3: Okay, guys, to announce that I will bring articles of
Speaker 3: impeachments against the president.
Speaker 1: You will for destardly deeds proposed? Wait, wait, bastardly deeds?
Speaker 1: Do we know how much they cost? Ross? Do you
Speaker 1: how much the dastardly deeds were. I would hope that
Speaker 1: we were able to get a cheap, cheap price on him,
Speaker 1: and they were done as such, and destinardly deeds done
Speaker 1: dirt cheap. I think Ross cut that part off. All right,
Speaker 1: So we got we're gonna go through impeachment. Chuck Schumer's
Speaker 1: up there. He didn't have props yesterday, but he's doing
Speaker 1: his thing. Everyone is losing their mind because if anyone
Speaker 1: even the people march around downtown Raleigh yesterday for a moment,
Speaker 1: we're intellectually honest and just look back and went, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: we spent and I'm not Let me let me share
Speaker 1: a number with you. This is one of my favorite
Speaker 1: little stories from yesterday, Ross, how much do you think
Speaker 1: the us AID in total spent attempting to get American well,
Speaker 1: not just Americans, I believe, yeah, not just Americans, but
Speaker 1: primarily Americans to eat less pizza, either by force or
Speaker 1: by appealing to them. How much how many tax dollars
Speaker 1: do you think USAID spent in the last last administration,
Speaker 1: last five years, last five years to get people to
Speaker 1: not eat pizza up to an including pressuring lawmakers to
Speaker 1: change laws like in New York where they're getting rid
Speaker 1: of coal fired pizza because they don't like it. In
Speaker 1: your food pyramid, how many of your dollars do you
Speaker 1: think we're spent attacking pizza?
Speaker 2: Well, first off, this sounds like treason, but I would
Speaker 2: probably at at least a mill right, a million.
Speaker 1: One hundred million, yes, one hundred hundred million, yes, to
Speaker 1: attack pizza. So if it's trees and it's like super treason.
Speaker 2: At that point, it's just the Democrat Party and these
Speaker 2: people protesting downtown are they're becoming more and more the
Speaker 2: party of or well like they're they're irrelevant and because
Speaker 2: the reason is they keep protesting things that when the
Speaker 2: average person hears them, right, they say that makes sense,
Speaker 2: and they say that that makes right, right, right, But
Speaker 2: you hear like, you know, hey, we're cutting all of
Speaker 2: this funding for these programs that are ridiculous. And the
Speaker 2: average person says, yeah, that makes sense. I understand that.
Speaker 2: Don't do that. And then you have these other people
Speaker 2: that are just protesting it, and you're protesting it just
Speaker 2: because you're used to protesting whatever is against Trump. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're I saw somebody write on excid it made sense.
Speaker 2: It was like the Democrat Party is. They aren't like
Speaker 2: dogs chasing cars now, they're dogs chasing like giant, huge parades.
Speaker 2: You know, because most people are going along with it,
Speaker 2: going yeah, this is good stuff that we're doing it.
Speaker 2: But you're down there protesting like delusional cult idiots. Oh
Speaker 2: I like this, You're ready the Musketeers?
Speaker 1: What do you think of that? Love it?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 1: We'll go with Musketeers. Well done? Person who's send me
Speaker 1: that email? All right? So yeah, no, no, no, no, you're
Speaker 1: absolutely right, like you're never stopping to see that that's
Speaker 1: not a Ford escort year after anymore. That's something different.
Speaker 1: And you're and and by the way, you're also never
Speaker 1: like consulting people around you, you're just assuming that others
Speaker 1: peeling off your ideology. You go, wait a second, did
Speaker 1: you look at some of this stuff? What do you do?
Speaker 2: And once again, and they're calling him a threat to democracy.
Speaker 2: The guy that won the popular vote is the threat
Speaker 2: to democracy.
Speaker 1: That's insane. Which didn't it all lead to probably helping
Speaker 1: somebody or somebody's shoot at him or attempt to shoot
Speaker 1: at him. The threat to democracy is a pretty and
Speaker 1: and and just to show you how serious they are,
Speaker 1: they they were supposed to have a big rally. I
Speaker 1: think I just saw this this morning. Where is this?
Speaker 1: Oh man, did already opened it? Damn it, damnit, damn it?
Speaker 1: All right, I gotta find it. They're supposed to have
Speaker 1: a big rally over here. It is okay to protest
Speaker 1: literally Hitler and literally I guess unelected Hitler. All right,
Speaker 1: So when was this supposed to pay? So this was
Speaker 1: supposed to be last night? Ross did you see video
Speaker 1: of the rally last night to protest literally Hitler? You
Speaker 1: know I missed it? I did? I missed it? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's because they canceled it because it was it
Speaker 1: was too cold, So it was it was in a
Speaker 1: low forties man, forties, right, you can't stop Hitler or
Speaker 1: when it's you know, when you need gloves, right, who
Speaker 1: would do that battle of the bulge? They were like
Speaker 1: a little nippy out, yeah, put it off, think right,
Speaker 1: put it off.
Speaker 2: Jeez man, well lot of class, Like, what are you protesting?
Speaker 2: It makes absolutely no sense. You're just protesting the protest
Speaker 2: because that's your normal.
Speaker 1: Would you do? That's why I had to go to
Speaker 1: Bluesky and figure out, Like, I guess if you're dumb
Speaker 1: enough to think that Elon just stole your bank account,
Speaker 1: I'd be pretty upset. Right, people you trust I don't
Speaker 1: know why you trust them have told you that he's
Speaker 1: there and they plugged in and they stole all your
Speaker 1: money and they're going to use it. I don't know
Speaker 1: for what, but like and you're you're mad as hell
Speaker 1: and you're not gonna take it. Well, that's all right,
Speaker 1: okay whatever. That's the other thing.
Speaker 2: They're like, oh my god, there's people in government that
Speaker 2: have your social Security number in your your banking information.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Really, how many times do we have
Speaker 2: to see in the news that there's some sort of
Speaker 2: three letter agency that where that was all the information
Speaker 2: of your personal information was stolen by China.
Speaker 4: Whoop.
Speaker 1: See all the time. It happens all the time. I was.
Speaker 1: I was. I was given free UH monitoring software which
Speaker 1: I never used. And by the way, the IRIS has
Speaker 1: all your information. They have they just sent it to
Speaker 1: him last week. What are you going to do with it.
Speaker 1: I don't have my retire I don't get a big return.
Speaker 1: I managed mine, okay, but I like a little. I
Speaker 1: like to get the smallest check where somebody had to
Speaker 1: do something, even though it's probably a computer.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: One time I got the State of North Carolina to
Speaker 1: send me an eight dollar return. So ah, life goals anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's due. I haven't got into the audio, but like
Speaker 1: that's just setting the scene. And then while all of
Speaker 1: this is going on, and it would be an amazing,
Speaker 1: insane show. Anyway. I saw some things yesterday that just
Speaker 1: we got some audio. Ross has been giggling for twenty
Speaker 1: four hours. I can't wait to play the audio he's
Speaker 1: so excited about. And then I found the most amazing
Speaker 1: woman trying to really help pact to day and get
Speaker 1: their crap together. People are people are making fun of her.
Speaker 1: She's got a dream man, she's got a dream. She
Speaker 1: might also have been disappeared already. I don't know. We'll
Speaker 1: find out together coming up in And also Stephen Kent
Speaker 1: will join us at eight oh five, So lots to
Speaker 1: get to KCO Day radio program. Hang on. They have
Speaker 1: their media outlets, there are, but not all are created equal.
Speaker 1: There are influencers. Like we were just talking off the air,
Speaker 1: what happens when you find out assistin or somebody's up there.
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be that surprising because remember with
Speaker 1: some of the Tides Foundation stuff. And also if you're
Speaker 1: a celebrity, if you're a celebrity in Hollywood and your
Speaker 1: name was utilized for some campaign as part of a
Speaker 1: USAID program, all you're going to say is, look, somebody
Speaker 1: approached and they said, hey, do you want equality and
Speaker 1: a million dollars and I said yes. You said, you're
Speaker 1: going to have a hard time there with the Politico
Speaker 1: sold eight million dollars of an intangible object, which is
Speaker 1: how I would pay somebody off if I didn't want
Speaker 1: it to look like a payoff. So that then comes
Speaker 1: down the media outlet to go, like if if I
Speaker 1: was political and I said ross right in the US government.
Speaker 1: I said, Ross, I want to pay you eight million dollars,
Speaker 1: so you push propaganda on your Twitch channel. As broadcast,
Speaker 1: you're going to buy eight million subs? Yeah, those say
Speaker 1: in this scenario, I offered to do that, but you
Speaker 1: have to pitch propaganda as a responsible broadcaster. You would
Speaker 1: say I would feel dirty about that.
Speaker 2: But if I woke up and I was like, somebody
Speaker 2: buy eight million subs and is it's something this thing
Speaker 2: called USA, It'd be like, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: I'm retiring. But I was pissed off. They didn't give
Speaker 1: me any money.
Speaker 2: You guys, you bastards could buy one sub. You could
Speaker 2: have got to my Twitch channel by one sub.
Speaker 1: You have some guy who likes potatoes who buy subs
Speaker 1: for everybody.
Speaker 2: I've seen that, but this is it makes sense too.
Speaker 2: Like you were seeing like you know, when they were
Speaker 2: sending like Ben Stiller and like these people to Ukraine
Speaker 2: and it turns out where they were like four million
Speaker 2: dollars you know, through the USA.
Speaker 1: To go there again, they'll claim that they thought it
Speaker 1: was USO. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It does make you want though, because remember when Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris breaked in like one point five billion in like
Speaker 2: a week, and everybody was like, wow, how how did
Speaker 2: that happen? Well, maybe we should thought that a bit more.
Speaker 1: Well, that goes into that goes into that act blue
Speaker 1: stuff where you saw like remember the video or reporter
Speaker 1: I think it was the local report it was it
Speaker 1: was the dude. It was the J six reporter Stephen Horn, Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had some videos out there where he went to
Speaker 1: this dude's house in Raleigh, I think. And the guy
Speaker 1: lives in I'm not knocking on the dude, but he
Speaker 1: lives in a you know, a pretty small apartment. Like, hey,
Speaker 1: by the way, did you donate seven hundred times to
Speaker 1: a tune of like fifteen thousand Democratic candidates? And I
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm sorry, do you see the apartment
Speaker 1: I'm living in? Right? I think that that has the
Speaker 1: potential for a huge scandal because that's how you would
Speaker 1: funnel money in. You'd have a bunch of small donations,
Speaker 1: you'd use an active name. It's it's largely why people
Speaker 1: think they send those five dollars things out. If you're
Speaker 1: a five dollars donator, you're probably not one hundred dollars donator.
Speaker 1: So they can add a few other things there and
Speaker 1: put it in the records under your name. That's what
Speaker 1: people are accusing them of doing. And that is how
Speaker 1: you would acquire that much money if there wasn't popular
Speaker 1: support for the person. You just get the big money
Speaker 1: people and then split it up. How deep are we
Speaker 1: going to go on this? Man? Meanwhile, it is just crazy.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you it's just for me. It's an inkind
Speaker 1: donation to the radio show. All right, I got to
Speaker 1: play this cut ross and ever laughing after the show.
Speaker 1: We didn't get to this yesterday. So Trump is the
Speaker 1: woman is a reporter from Afghanistan. I don't know what capacity.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's TV or newspaper or what
Speaker 1: Trump is. He cann be funny, bro. So she asked
Speaker 1: a question. He can't understand what she's asking. So listen
Speaker 1: to how he handled.
Speaker 6: Go ahead.
Speaker 7: As an expectations from you, do you have any plan
Speaker 7: to change Afghanistan situation? Are you able to recognize Taliban?
Speaker 7: Because I'm an upgun journalist, up and suffer woman, Any
Speaker 7: comment about Afghanist unless your future plant what a gun people? Actually?
Speaker 1: Now, let me say this, I can kind of hear
Speaker 1: what she's asking, and obviously this is not her first language.
Speaker 1: I'm not knocking on her for it. She's asking a
Speaker 1: broader question like are you planning on doing anything in Afghanistan?
Speaker 1: She asked a couple of specific points, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of hard to hear. She's quiet, and I had to
Speaker 1: listen to it a couple of times. But that's the
Speaker 1: gist of it. Unfortunately, I don't think Trump picked up
Speaker 1: on the gys have a little.
Speaker 6: Hard time understanding you. Where are you from? Actually it's
Speaker 6: a beautiful voice and a beautiful accent. The only problem
Speaker 6: is I can't understand the word you're saying. But I
Speaker 6: just say this, good luck, living.
Speaker 1: Dude, love for hours. I just opened it yesterday, like
Speaker 1: three in the afternoon. Wait wait, wait was it this part?
Speaker 6: The only problem is I can't understand the word you're saying.
Speaker 1: Or was it the living peace? It's a thank you,
Speaker 1: living piece or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's so great because it's so relatable, right, So it's
Speaker 2: very relatable, like how many times have you we've all
Speaker 2: at some point spoken to somebody and they've had a
Speaker 2: thick accent and you've had no idea what the person said,
Speaker 2: and you want to say to the person. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I have no idea what you just said.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, dude. This is the whole This is
Speaker 1: the whole journey losing learning the second language right because
Speaker 1: people what happens is you are comfortable enough and they
Speaker 1: interpret that you're you're like for me, it's Spanish. They
Speaker 1: interpret that my Spanish is good enough because I can
Speaker 1: handle a lot of the formal greetings in the early part.
Speaker 1: And then they get into something and I am lost
Speaker 1: because and usually it's because they're speaking too fast, so
Speaker 1: I have to make a decision in my head where
Speaker 1: I'm begging for keywords trying to together what they're saying,
Speaker 1: or if I politely nod.
Speaker 2: It's And you don't have to be somebody from a
Speaker 2: different country. The first time I met, the first time
Speaker 2: I went to Tennessee to visit Marky's family. We drove
Speaker 2: away from Atlanta and we went to the country.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, our grandfather was sitting on the porch and got
Speaker 2: your rest his soul and he like, I'm not hail
Speaker 2: and I'm making him sound caging, but he did. He's like,
Speaker 2: he said it like three or four times, and I
Speaker 2: finally said, I'm like I don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 2: And Mark, he's like, how do you like those hills?
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, they're beautiful. That's the gras like, I
Speaker 2: don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 1: Shalom, dude. If Trump had said shalom fell out.
Speaker 2: The woman when he's complimenting her voice, he's like, you
Speaker 2: have a beautiful voice at very different when you look
Speaker 2: at her. She's looking at him with her hands out
Speaker 2: and like the prayer type, you know, symbol like oh
Speaker 2: my god, thank you so much. And then he says
Speaker 2: that part and all of them around her like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, I can't believe he just said that. But
Speaker 2: that's why people like him because he's so completely honest.
Speaker 2: He's not going to be su man. He's not going
Speaker 2: to be like no, no, But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: He is going to be su if he thinks there's
Speaker 1: a business reason. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah? Sure,
Speaker 1: Like and people try to go, oh, well that's you know,
Speaker 1: look at the stuff where he's he's you know, he
Speaker 1: low balled him on an off where he did all
Speaker 1: this like he's what when you say he's honest, it's
Speaker 1: honest in the sense that if you understand him. That's
Speaker 1: how we act.
Speaker 2: But especially after four years of Biden, where everything was
Speaker 2: scripted or he wouldn't show up and everything was planned
Speaker 2: and rehearsed, and he had a fake oval office to
Speaker 2: finally have somebody in there who's actually taking questions, and
Speaker 2: when they don't understand, he could have smiled and just
Speaker 2: give him some weird generic but he's like, I don't
Speaker 2: know what you're saying.
Speaker 1: What you normally say that situation was. You know, that's
Speaker 1: a good question me. I'm going to talk to my
Speaker 1: staff and I'm want to give you a specific answer,
Speaker 1: so let me get back to you. That's exactly how
Speaker 1: you handle it. When you hear a politician say it,
Speaker 1: it's largely because they don't have an answer. That's how
Speaker 1: they deflect it. Because now you're off the camera and
Speaker 1: if you get back to him, great, If you don't,
Speaker 1: nobody will probably ever hear about it. But no, he's just.
Speaker 6: Like, the only problem is I can't understand the word
Speaker 6: you're saying.
Speaker 1: Living peace. Sorry, that's great. It's his delivery too.
Speaker 2: It's the same way when he was I remember there
Speaker 2: was a moment when he was in the garbage truck
Speaker 2: at the airport. Yeah, And it was the way that
Speaker 2: the fo that it was framed, and he was in
Speaker 2: the center of the frame and he had his.
Speaker 1: Arm at the door, and he just goes, how do
Speaker 1: you like my truck? And it was just the delivery
Speaker 1: of it. He's a funny dude. Now, if you hate him,
Speaker 1: he's not. If you hate him, he's not. And that's unfortunate.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I think like you could look
Speaker 2: at that and be like, that's funny. Just the delivery
Speaker 2: of the line, how you like my truck? It's funny, dude.
Speaker 1: I think Joe Biden trying to call a dude fats
Speaker 1: and then try to fight him as funny. That's how
Speaker 1: cynical I am. Except with that I realized it's like
Speaker 1: cope mechanism for you know, what's going on with him.
Speaker 1: So then it becomes a little sad. But now Trump's
Speaker 1: just like, I don't know what you're saying, lady, but
Speaker 1: you're saying it. Well, so it's very beautiful. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: And remember this guy's being accused of espionage. He's being
Speaker 1: it and and it's by the way, do you know
Speaker 1: how he built doge? It's actually brilliant. He's got some
Speaker 1: really smart people around him. He didn't DOZE is not
Speaker 1: a thing that didn't exist and then just existed. DOGE
Speaker 1: is literally an it audit agency that was constructed by
Speaker 1: the Obama administration. It had a different name, but it
Speaker 1: had the same acronym, so he just repurposed it. So
Speaker 1: everyone running around going, he just created this thing. It's
Speaker 1: probably not no, this is a thing that Obama created
Speaker 1: that roughly did the same. They obviously just didn't do it,
Speaker 1: and it even has the same acronym. They just changed
Speaker 1: the words.
Speaker 2: That's even more infuriating because they had the way to
Speaker 2: do this, they just didn't want to. They're just like,
Speaker 2: you know, we could go in and find all this waste,
Speaker 2: but you know we're not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Nope. So like I do you guys are Democrats are
Speaker 1: screwed on this? And let's I mean, I'm sure they
Speaker 1: can find a judge to you know, stick it up
Speaker 1: for a little while. But like, they didn't recreate. They
Speaker 1: created something that Congress already funded and knew that they
Speaker 1: were funding. And even though the executive branchs could move
Speaker 1: money around, they knew about this. They just were never
Speaker 1: scared of it because they didn't do it. Dude, it's
Speaker 1: gonna I I texted Ross yesterday. I came to a
Speaker 1: realization yesterday, and I hope I'm wrong. There are so
Speaker 1: many people's boxes about to get gored, where their livelihood
Speaker 1: is is threatened and or is probably going away, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to figure out how to lean into
Speaker 1: this drift in the private sector without getting government thrown
Speaker 1: their way some other new thing where they're able to
Speaker 1: squirrel dollars. You'll never tamp it all down or go
Speaker 1: out and get a normal job. There are so many
Speaker 1: people who are so convinced that they're saving the world
Speaker 1: with this stuff because it's supported all of this. They
Speaker 1: had a dude I mentioned they had a dude who
Speaker 1: was He got like a million dollars for all these
Speaker 1: different crazy projects like getting a third gender put on
Speaker 1: the Indonesian ballot or something. And there's this a whole
Speaker 1: list of colle He had it on his LinkedIn and
Speaker 1: it was like nine hundred and fifty eight million we
Speaker 1: paid him. He's he's just the project guy going to
Speaker 1: Guatemala to do expand LGBT political stuff. A lot of
Speaker 1: it's LGBT, some of its social you know, more more
Speaker 1: social justice. But he's just one dude. That dude is
Speaker 1: what's he going to do? And and so my fear
Speaker 1: is as you go through all these departments, somebody's gonna snap. Bro,
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna and I don't like to use the term
Speaker 1: go postal. There's just too many people. And that's what
Speaker 1: I'm fearful over. I'm not talking about some high level
Speaker 1: espionage thing or a member of Congress tries to hire
Speaker 1: a hit man at hitman dot com and it's a
Speaker 1: national scandal. I mean some guy who worked in one
Speaker 1: of these made up fields, whose department and a whole
Speaker 1: program just got eighty six and there's no real world
Speaker 1: application for what they do. Sitting there going what do
Speaker 1: I got to lose? That's what I'm fearful of. You
Speaker 1: couldn't have enough protection around basically anybody in this administration
Speaker 1: right now, let alone just taking it out on people
Speaker 1: at their office. And again, I hope I'm wrong, but
Speaker 1: the more insane stuff that just keeps coming to light,
Speaker 1: the more I'm thinking that it's a possibility some lunatic
Speaker 1: tried to jump over the White House fence yesterday. He
Speaker 1: wasn't very good at it, and he kind of announced
Speaker 1: it to everybody's like, hey watch this. He didn't say
Speaker 1: hold my beer. And then he got to the top
Speaker 1: of the fence, got tyed. He got a couple of
Speaker 1: those times wrapped up in his pants. They broke away,
Speaker 1: which I'm a little concerned about, and then he climbed down.
Speaker 1: And by the time he climbed down, he was just
Speaker 1: dogpiled by Capital Security there, White House Security, and Secret Service.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know exactly what his motives. Do
Speaker 1: we know anything more about that?
Speaker 4: Dude?
Speaker 1: Did you see any follow up? I didn't see any
Speaker 1: follow up on him, but he wasn't going to get
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 6: The only which is I can't understand the word you're saying.
Speaker 1: See what's going on here? That's on the bud bar forever? Yep, dude.
Speaker 1: If that guy had screened Leroy Jenkins, it would have
Speaker 1: been funnier. Oh, it would have been amazing. Right, Sorry,
Speaker 1: that's one of my one nerd callback I know. All right,
Speaker 1: six forty eight KCODA radio program. U want to grab
Speaker 1: a quick called Janet? What's up?
Speaker 8: Hey, Casey? I was just calling by a couple of things. Actually,
Speaker 8: never underestimate the stupidity of a liberal. When Trump returned
Speaker 8: the power to decide for abortion over to the people,
Speaker 8: they're representatives had them believe in the abortion was banned,
Speaker 8: they bought hook, climb and sinker even though they were
Speaker 8: just handed a gift. That's the first thing. The second
Speaker 8: thing they guy that those guys, Yeah, I think unfunded
Speaker 8: the Unpungibles fits better because it just fits in so
Speaker 8: many ways.
Speaker 1: And I like it with the Untouchables reference. I think
Speaker 1: Musketeers is good. Also the bobs for fans of office space.
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, well well we'll stick them all in
Speaker 1: rotation Janet, So okay, all right, all right, I appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and we will take a break because just when all
Speaker 1: of this is going on and it would be more
Speaker 1: than enough for show, for any show, I get. I
Speaker 1: see this insane video of this woman over in Pakistan
Speaker 1: and it's it's a car, it's a it's a it's
Speaker 1: a car wreck. Then a train comes along and then
Speaker 1: a seven thirty seven lands on the like it's just
Speaker 1: in every twist and turn is is just insane. A
Speaker 1: call we got just a couple of minutes. Yes, Jamal
Speaker 1: be in ecstasy this week.
Speaker 4: You might say, you know what, Casey, I won't tell
Speaker 4: you like this because this is really scary. This USAA
Speaker 4: we have found out, of course they said was the CIA.
Speaker 4: It's money for them to be able to carry projects,
Speaker 4: you know, stuff like that overseas. But what we're finding
Speaker 4: out the fundeling money back here to America and they're
Speaker 4: funneling it back to back a particular political cause. Will
Speaker 4: we find out the more Elon Musk and these people did,
Speaker 4: Leticia James, Fennie Willis, Alvin Bragg. Will we find out
Speaker 4: they got money from them to investigate Trump? I have
Speaker 4: never seen a Democrat party just go ballistic like this.
Speaker 4: I mean, and I've seen them usually they're ballistic, but
Speaker 4: it gets the focused.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when a when a party is going ballistic, there
Speaker 1: is a cause and there's a reason. This is just
Speaker 1: this is just thrashing your legs in a tantrum right now,
Speaker 1: and it's.
Speaker 4: Very they're trying to stop it. Casey, everything, because here's
Speaker 4: what happened, especially that thing with political You also find
Speaker 4: out Chelsea Clinton got eighty four million dollars run in the.
Speaker 1: World broadcast week, but isn't every day. So we have
Speaker 1: just a cornucopia of insane stories and fines with the
Speaker 1: the USAID Office being laid bare, and you're finding things
Speaker 1: like eight million dollars in digital subscriptions to Politico. Let's see,
Speaker 1: Associated Press has been getting millions and associated Press is
Speaker 1: much scarier. And here's why. And again, media outlets, you
Speaker 1: got to figure out what the money's going for, right
Speaker 1: is it? Was it ad campaigns? Was it PSA stuff
Speaker 1: where they just running spots as an in kind donation.
Speaker 1: I know our company does a bunch of that. I
Speaker 1: don't know, Maybe maybe there's some stuff there. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but Ross and I didn't get a check, and we're
Speaker 1: very very upset about it. It's like everyone was in
Speaker 1: on this gravy train. Man. I was actually impressed they
Speaker 1: were able to rapidly assemble a bunch of protesters downtown
Speaker 1: and Raleigh, and I would be very curious of whatever
Speaker 1: that mailing list is right for your rapid response team.
Speaker 1: Of how many of those folks who normally would have
Speaker 1: shown up down there with their septum piercing and their
Speaker 1: sign had an inkling of what was going on and
Speaker 1: go you know, I'm gonna sit this one out. That
Speaker 1: would be very interesting to know, because like that's the problem.
Speaker 1: That's why there's so much tantrum. That's why everyone's freaking
Speaker 1: out because it's not just one thing. It's a thousand
Speaker 1: things and it will be more than a thousand as
Speaker 1: we dig through this, and you can't plug that many
Speaker 1: holes in the dyke, so to speak. That's why they're
Speaker 1: freaking out. So the amount of don't care and look
Speaker 1: the other way that is required of you to mobilize
Speaker 1: on behalf of this is very telling. So all of
Speaker 1: that's going on, I could do nine shows with that.
Speaker 1: But then I see this. This is a thing that's happening.
Speaker 1: This is my new favorite soap opera. This is the
Speaker 1: car crash where the plane landed on top and then
Speaker 1: somehow a train got there. You can't look away from.
Speaker 1: So this woman is a she's from New York, right,
Speaker 1: she's got she's very brash, got that very New York delivery.
Speaker 1: She went online and she found some they call him
Speaker 1: a teenager. He's an adult teenager, but something like eighteen
Speaker 1: year old, nineteen year old guy over in Pakistan, and
Speaker 1: she fell in love with him and wanted to marry him.
Speaker 1: So she got on a plane from New York, went
Speaker 1: to Pakistan, went to the family. The family is like
Speaker 1: aw hell no, and in fact, she they like locked
Speaker 1: her out, called authority. She camped in front of the
Speaker 1: house the family. In the middle of the night, left
Speaker 1: somewhere and she decided to start holding press conferences in
Speaker 1: Pakistan with her New York attitude. And in the video
Speaker 1: you see there's a couple things. One you see her
Speaker 1: kind of outside and she's got like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: twenty thirty Pakistani dudes standing behind her. Most of them
Speaker 1: are young, but there's one elder who's next do her,
Speaker 1: and he also, I believe, is trying to interpret, so
Speaker 1: he obviously speaks English and he's trying to interpret, and
Speaker 1: she's facing a camera and she's like, she just goes
Speaker 1: off on this tangent. I'm gonna play for you. And
Speaker 1: then there's a second part of the video where now
Speaker 1: a bunch of media and you know, when the media
Speaker 1: gets there and you have that seeing where the person
Speaker 1: talking has like ten different microphones with all the different
Speaker 1: logo things on them. There's an official name, but you
Speaker 1: know the logo things, so you know, like she's being
Speaker 1: interviewed postgame at the NBA Finals. It's crazy. And I'll
Speaker 1: walk you through what she does. Help me to understand
Speaker 1: how this woman's still alive. I don't want anything bad
Speaker 1: to happen to her, and I actually think she's probably
Speaker 1: got some mental issues. But holy hell, I was not
Speaker 1: prepared for this. All right. So this is the outside scene,
Speaker 1: and the person she's belittling is this elder, which culturally
Speaker 1: not a and a man. There are all men there
Speaker 1: and she's a woman. And it's in Pakistan. So you
Speaker 1: understand the dynamic there. Wait for it if you haven't
Speaker 1: heard it. It's far worse than you think. Here we go.
Speaker 9: That's it.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's it. Yes, Yes, I'm maybe dynamic too much.
Speaker 9: It's not listen, I'm not sitting down. My plan is
Speaker 9: to reconstruct this whole country.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 9: I'm asking for one hundred K or more. I need
Speaker 9: twenty k by this week, okay, in my pockets in cash. Okay,
Speaker 9: that's a demand to the government. The government is gonna
Speaker 9: fix up these buildings, fix up the sheets, and clean
Speaker 9: up these streets. It's ridiculous out here. I do not
Speaker 9: like it, Okay, I would love for you guys to
Speaker 9: please understand that Pakistan is in need of new buses,
Speaker 9: new calves, new cars. Please listen to what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: My name is on Nija Ahmit, please understand. Thank you
Speaker 9: very much, have a nice day.
Speaker 1: What the hell is going on.
Speaker 4: You?
Speaker 1: And the look on their faces like I'm because you
Speaker 1: know this doesn't happen in Pakistan. Some woman doesn't show up,
Speaker 1: or a bunch of dudes are let alone a guy
Speaker 1: who's clearly trying to help because he's trying to translated.
Speaker 1: She keeps telling him to shut up as he's translating,
Speaker 1: like they can't fathom the audacity of a woman doing that.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying the attitude is correct. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: that's the reality. It's Pakistan, man, and she's making so
Speaker 1: she's sitting there. She can't get her teen hubby and
Speaker 1: his family. I can't imagine why they fled obviously, and
Speaker 1: then she starts demand, is that your country sucks? Give
Speaker 1: me money? I need twenty k in my pocket by
Speaker 1: what this weekend or whatever she said, machin't done. She'd
Speaker 1: been doing that. She's been holding press conferences.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, I'll Peter's get by to have yes said.
Speaker 9: I hope you're saying the right things, Okay, Like I said,
Speaker 9: Pakistani to be reconstructed the right way? Do you hand me? Guys,
Speaker 9: make sure y'all get this on your camera. I'm married
Speaker 9: to Nidell Hamed. I'm on Nija Hamed. We are moving
Speaker 9: to Dubais very soon. We're gonna have our baby and Dubai.
Speaker 1: It's private.
Speaker 9: I'm Muslim, and it's against my religion to tell y'all
Speaker 9: my business. Have a nice.
Speaker 1: Day, woman. I don't think anything is in your religion,
Speaker 1: your personality, or anything else makes you not tell your business.
Speaker 1: Let's just be honest, because all you're doing is holding
Speaker 1: press con and so that's horrific. But then, and I
Speaker 1: want you to understand what she's doing. So remember the
Speaker 1: microphone array I talked about. That's in front of somebody
Speaker 1: who's doing one of these press conferences. She randomly picks
Speaker 1: one up, sticks her arm out to the reporters trying
Speaker 1: to ask her questions. Who are Pakistani reporters? Their Pakistani's
Speaker 1: in Pakistan? They live there, and tries to turn the
Speaker 1: interview on them, and then tells them to get out again.
Speaker 1: I don't know how she's a lot.
Speaker 9: I'm not talking unless y'all giving me land and two
Speaker 9: thousand or more.
Speaker 1: Every week.
Speaker 9: You hear me, I'm getting my Pakistani passport and Pakistani
Speaker 9: I D I'm getting it.
Speaker 1: Do y'all agree? Business? What talk?
Speaker 9: I'm getting one?
Speaker 1: Do you have one?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 10: You do?
Speaker 1: Yeah? He's a Pakistani dude in Pakistan.
Speaker 9: I don't live here. I'm chilling, are you? There's none
Speaker 9: of your business. Now go home.
Speaker 1: You're at a press conference, you're sitting there, take it,
Speaker 1: take it.
Speaker 9: If you haven't find him.
Speaker 1: What do you have?
Speaker 9: Back that up?
Speaker 1: But I'm trying to decide who is worse at diplomatic
Speaker 1: relations during travel? This woman or remember that lunatic who
Speaker 1: was running around South Korea dry humping memorials to comfort women.
Speaker 1: Who is that dude's name? He's in jail. He's in jail,
Speaker 1: isn't he? Whoever that That TikTok influencer was like, I
Speaker 1: can't fathom how she's running around Pakistan doing this, screaming
Speaker 1: at the men over there.
Speaker 2: It's probably because it's like an oddity. They're like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, we have a sassy black American woman here
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. We've never seen one before
Speaker 2: where it's crazy, like.
Speaker 1: I mean, they look surprised. Yeah, especially in the first
Speaker 1: one with the younger dude sitting there in the they're
Speaker 1: all wearing that same soccer jersey, Like, what is happening? What?
Speaker 1: What is this again? I only thing to happen to
Speaker 1: this woman. I'm just baffled.
Speaker 2: Nothing has I think if she was like, you know,
Speaker 2: touching somebody or doing something physical or crossing the line
Speaker 2: that way, you might have seen a different sort of reaction.
Speaker 1: But they're just sitting back being like, listen to this
Speaker 1: woman talks. She's nuts. Yeah, maybe there's making videos for
Speaker 1: their friends. You won't believe it. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't believe it. That's why the wildest pieces of
Speaker 1: video I've seen in forever, and I get to do
Speaker 1: a show on a morning where we not only have
Speaker 1: that woman, we also have Trump.
Speaker 6: The only probably is I can't understand the word you're saying.
Speaker 1: It's a good day to be me. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: You got to watch the video too. You just have
Speaker 1: to watch everybody reacting to it. But kind of not.
Speaker 2: I have a feeling, like I said, like if she
Speaker 2: was throwing hands or something or getting physical. They'd treat
Speaker 2: her like that dude that would try this rob the
Speaker 2: convenience store, remember with the garbage.
Speaker 1: With the sticks and the sticks, yeah yeah, the pain sticks.
Speaker 1: I'd be different. I love other guy film. It's too like, no, no,
Speaker 1: don't do that. And then they start getting them good
Speaker 1: and he's like yeah yeah I keep doing that, yeah
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah hit him again. So yeah, I was
Speaker 1: on team Stick the entire time. Yeah, no, I was
Speaker 1: big stick enthusiast. All right, seven eighteen, Hang on the
Speaker 1: crazy lady over in Pakistan holding press conferences that I
Speaker 1: I again, how nothing's happened to her? Don't know, and
Speaker 1: hopefully nothing does. But uh, it is Super Bowl week,
Speaker 1: so you got media day, you got all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and dude, they are rolling the chiefs. First of all,
Speaker 1: I think we played the Kelsey audio yesterday. If we didn't,
Speaker 1: here we go. Here is a reporter who I assume
Speaker 1: immediately had his credential revoked because remember the NFL just
Speaker 1: throw you out. They threw Portnoy out and then they
Speaker 1: comically threw him out again. When he showed up, he
Speaker 1: got a ticket or a fake ridiculous mustache and then
Speaker 1: they found him in the crowd somewhere and Goodell literally
Speaker 1: had him thrown out of the stadium. So he pretended
Speaker 1: to weekend to Bernie's it. It's a hilarious video if
Speaker 1: you've never seen it. So some guy asked Travis Kelcey
Speaker 1: this question, Travis, Travis, what do you love more Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift or Phantom fifteen yard roughing the passer penalties in
Speaker 1: the playoffs? It's a cute question. Anybody else? He goes
Speaker 1: a good question, anybody else? And it's interesting. You could
Speaker 1: tell he was a little irritated by it. The difference
Speaker 1: was I like, they hit Mahomes too, and Mahomes I'll
Speaker 1: get to his credit. He kind of chuckles and then deflects,
Speaker 1: here's that, Africk Patrick. For your whole career, you have
Speaker 1: had so many great people help you win. So who
Speaker 1: is your favorite? Ref He's your favorite?
Speaker 4: All do the best? They call? Well there the game?
Speaker 1: Is there one that you give a Christmas card to
Speaker 1: you every year? Possibly my teammates and that you're trying
Speaker 1: to figure it out, which, by the way, is the
Speaker 1: exact right way to handle that. If you're Mahomes right,
Speaker 1: we agree, Ross who even doesn't like the chiefs. You
Speaker 1: agree that if if a PR person was in his ear,
Speaker 1: that's how we talked you.
Speaker 2: I think they're under like directions to answer that way,
Speaker 2: to behave this way.
Speaker 1: You just they're expecting it. Just don't allow them to
Speaker 1: hook you into it, right, Yeah, one hundred percent, although look,
Speaker 1: not all the questions are that. And again the fact
Speaker 1: that that's the same dude, right, clearly it sounds like
Speaker 1: the same dude. You know, there's some other stuff. And
Speaker 1: I thought this was a classy answer by Kelsey because
Speaker 1: this is now the other side of the gotcha reporting. Right,
Speaker 1: Trump's going to be at the Super Bowl. Tell us
Speaker 1: how much you hate them? Right, That's what they're That's
Speaker 1: what they're trying to tee up, right, So they hit Kelsey.
Speaker 10: It's a great honor, I think, you know, no matter
Speaker 10: who the president is.
Speaker 3: I know, I'm excited because it's the biggest game of my.
Speaker 1: Life, you know, and having a question there, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the best country in the world again, right answer.
Speaker 1: They So kudos to the the whoever their PR person is,
Speaker 1: who's probably talking to the players and just reminding them
Speaker 1: of this stuff. That's how you handle it. So you
Speaker 1: know that obviously will continue to be up in the
Speaker 1: news cycle. But we got so much more speaking of
Speaker 1: the in fact. Okay, so we have a couple Lovit cuts.
Speaker 1: We'll get to those. The Nancy Nancy Mayce just given
Speaker 1: zero FS during her committee hearing yesterday is crazy. Listen
Speaker 1: to this, by the way, listen to this.
Speaker 8: The gentle lady has used a phrase.
Speaker 1: Right, So there's another member of Congress who's very upset
Speaker 1: because Nancy Mayce used a phrase.
Speaker 11: The gentle lady has used a phrase that is considered
Speaker 11: a slur in.
Speaker 8: The LGBTQ community and the transgender community.
Speaker 6: Let me please finish without an interruption.
Speaker 1: And tranny, tranny, tranny, I don't really care. You want
Speaker 1: penises and women's bathrooms and I'm not gonna have it, no,
Speaker 1: thank you. Everything's on fire. I just I'm really curious
Speaker 1: because there's the whole nerd component, obviously to what's going
Speaker 1: on with the the Musketeers or whatever we're calling this
Speaker 1: group of basically kids that are putting on display all
Speaker 1: of this stuff we're talking about. I was I was
Speaker 1: drilling down Ross. Do you know that there is literally
Speaker 1: a version of Politico Access, which is a business license,
Speaker 1: so it could be like for a whole division that
Speaker 1: is a thirty four thousand dollars membership fee annually.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was reading about that yesterday because I was like,
Speaker 2: I don't understand the math.
Speaker 1: Here, right, how's this happened? Two hundred and thirty six
Speaker 1: premium level subscriptions averaging thirty four thousand. I'm assuming that
Speaker 1: these are in the same way that like, my company
Speaker 1: may get a subscription for all of its workers to
Speaker 1: a particular periodical that's what we're talking about. And they
Speaker 1: had two hundred and thirty six, So two hundred thirty
Speaker 1: six I'm assuming different agencies, organizations and groups. Eight point
Speaker 1: one million make it make sense? You can't. You can
Speaker 1: just run around with signs going dots dot. They're they're
Speaker 1: destroying democracy. This is honestly, this is almost unrecoverable, at
Speaker 1: least within a generation. And I have seen some that
Speaker 1: are willing to really kind of try to duck this issue,
Speaker 1: which is probably good advice because you're not going to
Speaker 1: be able to debate it out. But you've had members
Speaker 1: of Congress that have been trying to do like a
Speaker 1: twenty four hour filibuster and they do like two or
Speaker 1: three hours they tag out to their buddy and then
Speaker 1: they go on like Instagram those videos going. My voice hurts,
Speaker 1: but it's what we have to do. Yeah, because the
Speaker 1: bottom has fallen out.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It makes you realize like the protesters paid for the
Speaker 2: pundit's paid for, the social media commenters paid for the party,
Speaker 2: paid for the propaganda, like all of it, it's all
Speaker 2: paid for.
Speaker 1: It's so real. It's so third world man, it is,
Speaker 1: and it's like in it. But it hurts. But it
Speaker 1: makes sense, right, it does make sense one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: But it hurts because even though you knew to some extent,
Speaker 1: even if it's just favoritism based on political ideo, like
Speaker 1: you knew what was happening, to see it so corporate
Speaker 1: right in the way that it's going shows you how
Speaker 1: it shows you how fragile what we have here, because
Speaker 1: it is so different, how fragile it is.
Speaker 2: I mean for years, right, we've seen this where something
Speaker 2: will come out and then you have all the networks
Speaker 2: or whatever, these publications, the talking points, all the things,
Speaker 2: and you're like, how is this post? When was when
Speaker 2: were the talking points then out? And they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: you're crazy, that's not happening. Well, apparently they're all in
Speaker 2: the payroll.
Speaker 1: So it's the wholesale desolation of traditional media or who
Speaker 1: was considered, you know, the the media of record, and
Speaker 1: of course people going in there, because here's how you
Speaker 1: get it. You get somebody who goes into government service, right,
Speaker 1: and they look at they look at it, and they go, well,
Speaker 1: look i'm doing this. I'm not making as much money
Speaker 1: as I think I should be making, so I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna get a little here. And then another person go,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a little here, and how about I
Speaker 1: parlay this gig and me and about four others will
Speaker 1: pitch some sort of proposal and now we're directors for
Speaker 1: this thing and we'll get a little here. But it's fun.
Speaker 1: And then you do that times one hundred thousand. That's
Speaker 1: how you get here. Everybody. Everybody's stealing a little candy
Speaker 1: out of the friez, you know, a little other people's
Speaker 1: lunch out of the break room.
Speaker 2: It also explain so to some extent, like like political polling,
Speaker 2: because you got to realize Politico and Reuters and these.
Speaker 1: Eight that's what that's why I said, it's especially injurious
Speaker 1: not just polling You're absolutely right, but there is there
Speaker 1: are very few news outlets, smaller news outlets in the country.
Speaker 1: They are not AP members. When I was doing news,
Speaker 1: we were in Minnesota, we were AP news, right, you know.
Speaker 2: That's that's that's where you would go go to, yeah
Speaker 2: for like your.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how we'd bill our newscast for any state
Speaker 1: wider national stuff to couple our local coverage.
Speaker 2: But do you see these polling that would come out,
Speaker 2: like you know, Harris plus eight plus six plus seven.
Speaker 2: You're like, where are these people getting their numbers from?
Speaker 2: These can't be real. And then you'd have like outliers.
Speaker 2: They'd we call it like Rasmussen or Atlas, which actually
Speaker 2: ended up being the most accurate, And you're like, well,
Speaker 2: these people are crazy. Those are fringe.
Speaker 1: It's it's a wholesale. And I know some people go,
Speaker 1: I knew it all along. No, no, no, no, But
Speaker 1: you didn't. You thought it. Now you know it. See
Speaker 1: that's the difference, Right, you thought it and you were right,
Speaker 1: but now you know it, and it's worse somehow if
Speaker 1: you had any positive if you weren't fully gone in mind.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of these shows like the old cheater Show,
Speaker 2: remember the Cheater Show, or like I think she's cheating, right,
Speaker 2: and they would they would actually see the evidence.
Speaker 1: It's even worse, right, And every one of those women
Speaker 1: is like I like to have sex and parking lots
Speaker 1: with bright lights around it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, every single
Speaker 1: one of them. Not at all stage. No, it's worse,
Speaker 1: it's worse. And then you start going, how do you
Speaker 1: fix it? Sure, you go ahead and purge all of it,
Speaker 1: but how do you fix it? And then you see
Speaker 1: these Let me just read you because I retweeted this
Speaker 1: this morning mostly to mock this dude, but you know,
Speaker 1: I saw a thousand of these tweets yesterday and they
Speaker 1: all kind of worded like this, The richest man on
Speaker 1: Earth is dismantling the organization that feeds the poorest children
Speaker 1: on earth. Right. That was the talking point that went out.
Speaker 1: There's nothing in that that's accurate. Right. The perception was
Speaker 1: you're feeding kids. Less than ten percent of the money
Speaker 1: was getting to people on the ground, and a lot
Speaker 1: of it wasn't feeding kids, right. It was putting you know,
Speaker 1: plays together, or trying to get gender options put on ballots, right,
Speaker 1: or enriching people like Ibraham Kendy the Boston University who,
Speaker 1: by the way, I guess he's leaving Boston University. They're
Speaker 1: cashing out on that dude. He's out because it's been revealed. Man,
Speaker 1: and everybody's scrambling to not to pretend like they were
Speaker 1: not part of the problem. But everyone was feeding at
Speaker 1: the trough. But the problem is there's too many stories
Speaker 1: coming out too fast to do anything about it. So
Speaker 1: all you can do is threaten lawsuits, have your little filibuster,
Speaker 1: put tweets out. And by the way, that dude who
Speaker 1: tweeted that Mohammed Sofa, I just the first thing I
Speaker 1: do is and you should do this. If you see
Speaker 1: a tweet like that, go click on their bio CEO
Speaker 1: Diplomat Relations Main Representative United Nations ECOSOC Council and accredited
Speaker 1: UN GENEVA office. That dude clearly was feeding at the trough,
Speaker 1: or at least he's feeding at ud trough. That is
Speaker 1: similar to what is being undone the US version of
Speaker 1: it every single time. And I posted a nice photo
Speaker 1: above him of some terrorists in a tent with USA
Speaker 1: logoing on at holding a rocket launcher, probably getting ready
Speaker 1: to fire that at American troops or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is where we are and it's damning and it's depressing,
Speaker 1: but it's necessary. So we truck on. All right, Carolyn Leavett,
Speaker 1: she's doing her part White House press conference yesterday. Here
Speaker 1: we go.
Speaker 12: Have you heard that type of violent, enticing rhetoric from
Speaker 12: our side of the isle from Republican leaders on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 1: She's talking about Trump's destroying democracy, They're starving kids, they're
Speaker 1: killing old people. That kind of rhetoric.
Speaker 12: If you heard that type of violent, enticing rhetoric from
Speaker 12: our side of the isle from Republican leaders on Capitol Hill,
Speaker 12: I think there would be a lot more outrage in
Speaker 12: this room today. It's unacceptable the comments that have been
Speaker 12: made by these Democrat leaders, and frankly, they don't even
Speaker 12: know what they're talking about. Because President Trump was an
Speaker 12: elected with a mandate from the American people to make
Speaker 12: this government more efficient.
Speaker 3: He campaigned across this country with Elon musk vowing that
Speaker 3: Elon was going to head up the Department of Government Efficiency,
Speaker 3: and the two of them, with a great team around them,
Speaker 3: were going to look at the receipts of this federal
Speaker 3: government and insure it's accountable to American taxpayers. That's all
Speaker 3: that is happening here.
Speaker 1: And for Democrat officials.
Speaker 12: To incite violence and encourage Americans to take to the
Speaker 12: streets is incredibly alarming, and they should be held accountable
Speaker 12: for that rhetoric.
Speaker 1: It's it's and and and it's it's not going to
Speaker 1: end right. There are there are many that will go
Speaker 1: down with this ship, and and they will find different
Speaker 1: ways to go ahead and inject themselves and do things.
Speaker 1: But she's right, there's is there a person who was
Speaker 1: paying the least amount of attention to the election that
Speaker 1: didn't think, if you elect Trump, you're getting elon in
Speaker 1: this jiha too, and and divorce yourself of the individual politics.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a president so rapidly promises kept.
Speaker 2: Now, listen, I voted for that. That's like what I
Speaker 2: voted for, But I did not expect it to be
Speaker 2: this amazing. Like, Okay, you wanted Mayham, but I wanted
Speaker 2: the guy from Argentinea're ripping the stuff off the board.
Speaker 1: And yelling outside out or yeah yeah, outside, get out,
Speaker 1: get out, get out. Yeah that's what you want. But
Speaker 1: this is that on steroids, man, And she didn't leave
Speaker 1: Politico alone.
Speaker 12: So upon coming out here to the briefing room, I
Speaker 12: was made aware of the funding from.
Speaker 1: You got to understand Politico, I think sits in the
Speaker 1: second row. They're right up there, So she's doing this
Speaker 1: to their.
Speaker 12: Face from USAID to media outlets, including Politico, who I
Speaker 12: know has a seat in this room. And I can
Speaker 12: confirm that the more than eight million taxpayer dollars that
Speaker 12: have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the
Speaker 12: American taxpayer's dying will no longer be happening. The DOGE
Speaker 12: team is working on canceling those payments. Now again, this
Speaker 12: is a whole of government effort to ensure that we
Speaker 12: are going line by line when it comes to the
Speaker 12: federal of government's books, and this president and his team
Speaker 12: are are making decisions across the board on do these
Speaker 12: receipts serve the interests of the American people. Is this
Speaker 12: a good use of the American taxpayers money? If it
Speaker 12: is not, that funding will no longer be sent abroad
Speaker 12: and American taxpayers will see significant savings because of that effort.
Speaker 1: The worst out of the world yesterday had to be
Speaker 1: the cleaning crew of the White House Press briefing room
Speaker 1: having to get all the brown stains out of the
Speaker 1: chairs cuz they were squirming. Man, they were squirming. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get raised agic to make you square.
Speaker 11: Very very very eloquent there with that well visual thanks,
Speaker 11: that was very eloquent.
Speaker 1: Very you just got you imagine I saw it being
Speaker 1: there in the second row and they're like, by the way,
Speaker 1: they bought eight million of subscriptions to your outlet. What
Speaker 1: do you think about that? You just got to sit there?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, how to go now?
Speaker 11: Yesterday we talked about this anomaly, like most of us
Speaker 11: ended up in the forties. Yesterday the high Greensborough at
Speaker 11: the airport, the triad twelve thirty eight in the morning
Speaker 11: was fifty three forties in the afternoon, and Raleigh was
Speaker 11: fifty five. But that happened at six minutes after midnight.
Speaker 11: And now that northeast flow is done or more south southwest,
Speaker 11: and we've got a front to the west of us
Speaker 11: actually producing showers and thundershit hours just getting ready to
Speaker 11: come into the northern Wilkes and Yatkin counties, and it'll
Speaker 11: start trying to get south and east as we go
Speaker 11: through today. Milder weather that's kind of the headline. Mid
Speaker 11: upper sixties, a passing shower, thundershower this morning. Then I
Speaker 11: think we actually get some sun this afternoon, that we'll
Speaker 11: have another chance of showers, maybe an isolated storm tonight,
Speaker 11: load to mid fifties. Tomorrow probably the best day of
Speaker 11: the next couple, as sun's going to be back mid
Speaker 11: upper sixties, and then we'll have a chance of rain
Speaker 11: for Saturday, with temperatures back into the lo to mid fifties,
Speaker 11: so we will get a little bit coore. But Sunday
Speaker 11: looks good, lots of sunshine near seventy, and next week
Speaker 11: looks unsettled. I would prep next week as cool and
Speaker 11: kind of rainy. There's multiple systems, multiple week areas of
Speaker 11: low pressure. They're gonna race across the country. There'll be
Speaker 11: wintery precip to the north. We'll have chili rain here
Speaker 11: and that chili rain in the forecast each day next week.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't look great next week. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: Well the fund's over, thank you, sir, appreciate that. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, talk to you in an hour. And I
Speaker 1: can't get over this pot ross. Did you see the
Speaker 1: photo of the terrorists and the you said tent with
Speaker 1: their rocket launcher. I mean, it just encapsulates all of this.
Speaker 1: Although I would say this, can you imagine having to
Speaker 1: make your G hot video and get a sunburn? Is
Speaker 1: it a rocket launcher for the children?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I probably will be pointed a children, But like,
Speaker 1: can you imagine you're making your G hot video? You're like, ah,
Speaker 1: the virgins are gonna be mine, here we go and
Speaker 1: you get a sunburn? No, you said, I said, no,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna allow that.
Speaker 10: I don't get your thoughts to the one thing that
Speaker 10: nobody's really talking about is you know they're talking about
Speaker 10: how the Democrats are losing in their mind.
Speaker 4: Well, all this stuff didn't.
Speaker 10: Get passed by just the Democrats, and the Republicans are
Speaker 10: sitting on their hands not saying anything. I think Trump's
Speaker 10: problem is he can't say anything, but he can't do
Speaker 10: anything to the Republicans right now because it needs their
Speaker 10: vote to get Sack to Pans.
Speaker 1: Well, but he doesn't have to. But here's what I like,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to. Yes, you're absolutely right. Are there
Speaker 1: gonna be Republicans attached this one hundred percent? One hundred
Speaker 1: thousand percent and it'll be a combination of things get
Speaker 1: that get passed, or people availing themselves of various things
Speaker 1: there for political purposes. The Republicans are just doing what
Speaker 1: the Democrats, if they would, if they were smart, would do.
Speaker 1: Like the Democrats are leaning into this and that just
Speaker 1: drives the news cycle. The Republicans are gonna sit there
Speaker 1: and hope they would get burned. But if they were
Speaker 1: doing this, then they should so.
Speaker 10: Yeah, if the Republicans are the Homer sense the meme
Speaker 10: where he disappears into the bush.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, but I don't know it's going to be enough, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's going to be enough. So
Speaker 1: we shall we shall see. So all right, thanks for
Speaker 1: the call there, Anthony. Let's see here. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna play this audio for you real quick,
Speaker 1: and then we'll chat with Stephen Kent coming up at
Speaker 1: eighth five and Political. Even while this is going on,
Speaker 1: Now you have to understand who you're dealing with, Like
Speaker 1: the people of Political are not Musk fans, sure is
Speaker 1: heck not Trump fans, and they're not quiet. Everything we
Speaker 1: do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day,
Speaker 1: or what the Political co founders saying, like we are
Speaker 1: the media. You are the media. My message to Elon
Speaker 1: Musk is both, you're not the media. You having god nasty, you,
Speaker 1: having a blue check mark, a Twitter handle in three
Speaker 1: hundred words of cleverness doesn't make you a reporter. You
Speaker 1: don't do that by popping off on Twitter. You don't
Speaker 1: do that by having an opinion. You'd do it by
Speaker 1: doing the hard work. I mean, just in retrospect, you
Speaker 1: can't tell me this, dude. And no, they were getting
Speaker 1: eight million and subs either from the FEDS. There's no
Speaker 1: way even if you just saw a report you went, really, really,
Speaker 1: that's happening. If it wasn't even discussed, he knew, and
Speaker 1: he still sat up there in seven and he doesn't care.
Speaker 1: And then they yesterday, in the middle of all this,
Speaker 1: they were continuing to run headlines like one of the
Speaker 1: things Trump signed you yesterday was the no women in
Speaker 1: men's sports or no men in women's sports. I don't
Speaker 1: remember what it's called. But and Politico's headline was Trump
Speaker 1: to sign order that could bar trans women from US
Speaker 1: Olympic participation. Trans women are not barred from Olympic their participation.
Speaker 1: They're barred from competing in the women's categories since they
Speaker 1: are biologically male. So even with their death spasm here is,
Speaker 1: they were getting absolutely outed yesterday, they were still writing
Speaker 1: garbage headlines because they can't help themselves. They absolutely can't
Speaker 1: help themselves. ESPN, same deal. ESPN's out there and they're like,
Speaker 1: what do they use assigned it birth? Because here here
Speaker 1: it is the majority of people are done with all
Speaker 1: of this DODA radio programs. So it is that normal
Speaker 1: time of the week when we welcome in our official
Speaker 1: nerd correspondent, Stephen Kent, and we talk about Hollywood stuff
Speaker 1: and we'll do a little of that and you know,
Speaker 1: the the intersection of pop culture, sports, politics and the
Speaker 1: nerd component. But I'm telling you nerds haven't had a
Speaker 1: bigger week than they're having right now. Stephen Kent joining
Speaker 1: us Steven a ragtag group of zin and I'm assuming
Speaker 1: extreme Mountain Dew enthusiasts with laptops are completely turning all
Speaker 1: of the US government, our current news cycle in politics
Speaker 1: upside down and correct me if I'm wrong. I got
Speaker 1: a feeling these dudes aren't even that political, and they're
Speaker 1: just seeing this as another big project they can tackle.
Speaker 1: So what's going on maman.
Speaker 5: I mean I think, like you said, Zen Mountain Dew,
Speaker 5: they're probably all substackers and have Twitch channels like Ross.
Speaker 5: So you know this is this is a pretty pretty
Speaker 5: weird time to be in Washington, d C. When you've
Speaker 5: got a bunch of like you said, Zen adult zoomer
Speaker 5: is going through your paperwork and trying to find out
Speaker 5: where your money's been going. This has been pretty devastating
Speaker 5: for for the different agencies and for Politico. Man may
Speaker 5: have had quite a week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Politico. And and there's gonna be a bunch coming out.
Speaker 1: Uh you didn't get any You getn't any Patreon dollars?
Speaker 1: Did you? Are you cheesed? Are you mad?
Speaker 4: You know? I didn't.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to tell everybody this, but uh, you know,
Speaker 5: us ai d has been giving at least forty thousand.
Speaker 13: Dollars a year or two my geeky Stoics substack at
Speaker 13: geekstoics dot com. All yeah, all about stoicism, philosophy and
Speaker 13: nerd culture. Pretty exciting. But that's going to be going
Speaker 13: away now thanks to thanks to elon.
Speaker 1: What a bad man, oh man, you get a grind
Speaker 1: that's very upsetting. So but like the and and there
Speaker 1: they went him impeached. El Green was doing that yesterday.
Speaker 1: But like, Wired, why are what was your like? What
Speaker 1: is Wired magazine? Isn't it? Isn't it about computers and stuff?
Speaker 1: Why are they literally doxing these guys?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Wired is a tech and culture outlet,
Speaker 5: and they're pretty influential in tech spaces. But you know,
Speaker 5: their bias has always been sort of looking at tech
Speaker 5: and culture from a pretty far left perspective, and they've
Speaker 5: made hay out of drawing attention to these young hires
Speaker 5: working around Elon Musk and doing these audits. It's obviously
Speaker 5: completely hypocritical. Most of Washington, DC is a bunch of
Speaker 5: twenty something year olds who are actually running the government
Speaker 5: while they're older colleagues are sort of kicking back and
Speaker 5: taking time to relax and let the interns do the work.
Speaker 5: So it's just it's a weird double standard. There's nothing
Speaker 5: to be said about a twenty five year old doing audits.
Speaker 5: This is how things work. Most of Congress is actually run.
Speaker 13: By the aids.
Speaker 5: The deals struck between congressmen are usually put together by
Speaker 5: their twenty two year older twenty six year old Staffersation.
Speaker 1: And the executive orders of the last presidency were probably
Speaker 1: assembled by twenty somethings.
Speaker 5: Including I mean, it's actually like, yeah, no joking. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's very likely that much of the presidenting has been
Speaker 5: getting done by White House aids and their late twenties,
Speaker 5: early thirties for the past three years, which is pretty alarming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is it worse than you thought?
Speaker 5: You know, it probably is worse than I thought. I mean,
Speaker 5: I've been looking over the numbers for kind of USAID
Speaker 5: and then just general government spending on things like you know,
Speaker 5: Politico Pro subscriptions, you know, so kind of what's happened is.
Speaker 1: They're a thirty four thousand dollars tier if I want
Speaker 1: to subscribe to your is that is that what the fo?
Speaker 1: You have a forty thousand dollars tier? Is that what
Speaker 1: that is?
Speaker 5: I never I never thought to offer a thirty thousand
Speaker 5: dollars tier for exclusive access to the paywaled content of
Speaker 5: geeky Stokes, But now I know that there.
Speaker 4: Might be a case for it.
Speaker 5: I will say, the paywald content for stuff like Politico Pro,
Speaker 5: it's really really, really valuable if you live and work
Speaker 5: in Washington, d C. I know this will blow the
Speaker 5: minds of people who aren't anywhere near the swamp. But
Speaker 5: the kind of information email access, the numbers that you
Speaker 5: can see about different agencies and congressional offices that are
Speaker 5: available through these services are really really valuable. But the
Speaker 5: numbers are just going to look really bad on the outside. Now,
Speaker 5: the fact that USAID, you know, a humanitarian agency by
Speaker 5: and large, is paying for these subscriptions to the tune
Speaker 5: of forty four thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: That's not going to look good.
Speaker 5: But that multiple million dollar is really looking at all
Speaker 5: government subscriptions to Politico pro, and I think it is inappropriate.
Speaker 1: No, two hundred and sixty five or two hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty three, I think is the number they actually outline
Speaker 1: individual transactions. So yeah, yeah, And to your point considering
Speaker 1: the agency, like, here's the thing, if the Democrat Senate
Speaker 1: Senate to whatever their pack is, whatever the big Senate
Speaker 1: pack is for the Democrat or the Republicans, if they
Speaker 1: want to spend forty thousand on political nobody cares. Even
Speaker 1: though in a way, if you're a voter, you might
Speaker 1: care because you probably contributed event if you support that party.
Speaker 1: But some dude who's making nine hundred and sixty eight
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to get an extra gender added to the
Speaker 1: Indonesian election, the Guatemalan election, assembling transgender operas in Colombia,
Speaker 1: the very and this is one dude who just went
Speaker 1: dark on his LinkedIn. He doesn't need that political subscription.
Speaker 1: So that's where it starts feeling like this is feeding
Speaker 1: the beast. It's an intangible thing where you can funnel money.
Speaker 1: This is where it starts looking money laundry, if that's
Speaker 1: such a word, yeah, very much.
Speaker 5: And it also it has to play a role in
Speaker 5: influence when it comes to media coverage. I mean just
Speaker 5: thinking about how the Department of Energy they extended a
Speaker 5: politico pro contract in June twenty twenty four years four
Speaker 5: hundred thousand dollars. When you think about these media organizations
Speaker 5: you have to pay all these journalists, and subscriptions and
Speaker 5: patronage from the government is going to be part of
Speaker 5: how they hire journalists to then cover the government. It's
Speaker 5: impossible for there not to be a consideration later on.
Speaker 5: And well, we don't want to tick off the secretary
Speaker 5: of the Department of Energy because she could pull a
Speaker 5: four hundred thousand dollars contract, which is the salary of
Speaker 5: the four journalists who cover the DOE. There's no way
Speaker 5: to get around this. And as someone who has used
Speaker 5: these subscriptions most of my professional life, you use them sparsely.
Speaker 5: They're very, very valuable, and they do bring in actual value,
Speaker 5: but you don't use them every single day. And so
Speaker 5: I think a lot of these things happen on autopilot.
Speaker 5: And you just are spending hundreds and hundreds of thousands
Speaker 5: of dollars on autopilot renewing contracts without even thinking about it.
Speaker 5: And this is the swamp ladies and gentlemen. It's money
Speaker 5: being spent and patroned out to people who are always
Speaker 5: expecting it to come in, and nobody ever audits it
Speaker 5: and says no more, we're not doing this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we deal with the snarl light. I had
Speaker 1: I had a charge here two weeks ago for go Daddy,
Speaker 1: and I had to yeah. And then I remembered I
Speaker 1: because I own I like I own my name as
Speaker 1: U r L. Because you should just do that. If
Speaker 1: you do anything, public can get it, get a hold
Speaker 1: of it. But I and then I bought a couple
Speaker 1: other I forgot they were there, so I got nick
Speaker 1: for like twenty two dollars. Right, this is this is
Speaker 1: just government version of it. In a lot of cases,
Speaker 1: it's just that subscription you didn't cancel. But it's it's
Speaker 1: more than that because it's also the reason you did
Speaker 1: it in the first place. Which it's one thing to
Speaker 1: say that we need the data. I don't believe it's
Speaker 1: as pure all of those motives. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of it's like, oh, hey, my buddy, and as a journalists,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I support your endeavor. Here, let me buy
Speaker 1: a subscription. It's a lot like Bezos saying here's a
Speaker 1: million for your inauguration fund. Everyone knows what's up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and there's no way to get around how bad
Speaker 5: of a look this is for the media and Democrats
Speaker 5: who are outside the USAID headquarters and defending Politico and
Speaker 5: all these organizations with all their might. They don't stick
Speaker 5: up for everyday Americans like they love sticking up for
Speaker 5: federal agencies. You know, this is the same group of
Speaker 5: people who in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one rushed through
Speaker 5: the American Rescue Plan of Joe Biden, which sicked the
Speaker 5: IRS on people who use VENMO for more than six
Speaker 5: hundred dollars in transfers a year. I mean you have
Speaker 5: to now be in good with the irs if you've
Speaker 5: had six hundred dollars of transfers on Venmo and PayPal.
Speaker 5: They come after everyday people, your listeners for nothing. But
Speaker 5: they are outraised when someone tries to audit a federal
Speaker 5: agency and say, no, you can't have a four hundred
Speaker 5: thousand dollars contract for Politico.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again they spend one hundred there's one hundred million.
Speaker 1: This is do you follow a chef?
Speaker 8: Grule?
Speaker 1: Is that how you say his name on Twitter?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Okay, he's a he's an interesting follow Andrew Gruhle. He's
Speaker 1: a chef, but he's a restaurant owner in California, and
Speaker 1: he's he's long ago become sick of all of cal
Speaker 1: news bureaucracy in the politics at large, and so he's
Speaker 1: a very interesting to follow. And so he went through
Speaker 1: because he's got time, I guess, And he was able
Speaker 1: to locate one hundred million over the last five years
Speaker 1: that has been spent in some capacity to either push
Speaker 1: for laws successfully in some cases like in New York
Speaker 1: where they're getting rid of the coal fired pizza ovens,
Speaker 1: but attacking pizza. They spend one hundred million dollars either
Speaker 1: trying to get laws passed, some successfully to make it
Speaker 1: harder to get pizza. This was a nutrition initiative, or
Speaker 1: to essentially try to shame you out of eating pizza.
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, if there is a more unifying thing,
Speaker 1: one hundred million of my dollars to tell me not
Speaker 1: to eat pizza is a big screw you man. And
Speaker 1: I feel like that's got across political boundaries.
Speaker 5: I mean, it certainly has to a lot of these
Speaker 5: same international organizations that are pushing these kinds of ideas
Speaker 5: throughout all these different agencies and media are the same
Speaker 5: people who are supporting the World Health Organization trying to
Speaker 5: make the entire world give up their their beer, their wine, their.
Speaker 4: Their alcohol of any kind. I mean, we just have.
Speaker 5: This very toxic relationship with all of these different international
Speaker 5: orgs who are trying to change culture top to bottom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's the CIA component there as well, you
Speaker 1: know which by which we know the CIA had with
Speaker 1: the Pakistan vaccine drive, which was more about them trying
Speaker 1: to get genetic data, not just to see who was
Speaker 1: in that compound with bin laden, but really map the
Speaker 1: Middle East, and I understand the reasoning. They want it
Speaker 1: all right, so here is somebody we have data on
Speaker 1: this wanted terrorists and we have a familial connection, and
Speaker 1: now that will help. But they did it under the
Speaker 1: guise of a vaccine program, which undermines legitimate medical programs.
Speaker 1: Like it's all so messy, and so Mike is considering
Speaker 1: all the ox is getting gord, whether it's three letter agencies,
Speaker 1: your local politician, activists who found themselves these push gigs.
Speaker 1: My concern is like, somebody's going to go postal man,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what it looks like because this
Speaker 1: is so effectively laying it out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I do worry about that. I do believe that
Speaker 5: somebody is going to go postal here. And this is
Speaker 5: a radical, radical change in Washington, d C. This is
Speaker 5: what we're seeing what was promised in twenty sixteen with
Speaker 5: Drain the Swamp. This is it's actually finally happening. And
Speaker 5: to to go back real quick to your point about
Speaker 5: the CIA and agencies overseas that do humanitarian work. I've
Speaker 5: talked to you on this show about the new Showtime
Speaker 5: series that just finished its first series a season, The
Speaker 5: Agency starring Michael Fastbender. Yeah, this is a this is
Speaker 5: a CIA thriller that has a lot to do if Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, maneuvering on the African continent in Ukraine, and
Speaker 5: you know that there's a main character of the show
Speaker 5: who is undercover CIA acting as a humanitarian doctor on
Speaker 5: the warfront in Ukraine and carrying out operations against the
Speaker 5: Russians out of a hospital wearing you know, nurse scrubs.
Speaker 5: And this is actually how it works, and it puts
Speaker 5: real humanitarian agencies in danger when intelligence agencies are using
Speaker 5: things like the USAID and vaccine drives to push foreign
Speaker 5: policy agendas, because then those people all become suspects to
Speaker 5: our enemies and people do less good and that's not
Speaker 5: how we should be doing business.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there are you can't, I believe, correct me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, but you can't. There are some big
Speaker 1: AID agencies where if you worked for the federal US government,
Speaker 1: you can't work for that agency if you ever worked.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, Now it puts the target on everybody's back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just like, I'm sorry, we can't hire you
Speaker 1: even if because you worked in Washington, even in probably
Speaker 1: a mundane capacity. They're just they don't want those beams crossing.
Speaker 5: And I am now I mean if if yeah, I mean,
Speaker 5: if you're going to take a job on the front
Speaker 5: in Ukraine and they see in your background any sort
Speaker 5: of Russian officer or agencies that you worked in Washington, DC,
Speaker 5: that you lived in northern Virginia, they're going to think
Speaker 5: that this person is probably an asset and you're going
Speaker 5: to be under extra scrutiny as well as your entire team.
Speaker 5: And you just make this point in general to say
Speaker 5: that the USAID is what their critics say they are.
Speaker 5: They are a front group for intelligence operations and foreign
Speaker 5: policy work by the deep state, and they do things
Speaker 5: that on paper are good, but this is not the
Speaker 5: way that we should be doing the work of intelligence
Speaker 5: and foreign policy.
Speaker 1: I got two minutes left. I got to pivot to
Speaker 1: this because it comes down to does this hasten others
Speaker 1: kind of trying to divorce themselves of this, which I
Speaker 1: can I think it does right because nobody wants to
Speaker 1: get tangled in this. So the oscars are you following
Speaker 1: this where you have a quote prominent actors who are
Speaker 1: trying to organize this picture about the transgender cartel leader,
Speaker 1: which I want the thing to be called El Chopo,
Speaker 1: but I missed out to win all thirteen nominated categories.
Speaker 1: To send a message to Trump, you want to talk
Speaker 1: about seppuku via the oscars? What are these folks doing?
Speaker 1: By the way, the record holder is eleven for three
Speaker 1: different films. Thirteen would be the new record. You think
Speaker 1: they'll actually do that? Do you think they'll be that
Speaker 1: dumb to alienate more of their audience?
Speaker 5: Are we talking about Amelia Perez?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Do you think they'll do it? Because they're lobbying
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 5: Of course they'll do it, Casey, are you crazy?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Man, And it will be beating out ben Her Titanic
Speaker 1: and Return of the King, which currently hold the record
Speaker 1: for eleven wins. We'll see. We got about a month
Speaker 1: to go. But and Ross is busy that day. He
Speaker 1: told me he's not be able to watch it. So
Speaker 1: you're going to be our oscar guy. Okay, sorry, I
Speaker 1: can't wait falls to you all right, there you go,
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