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Speaker 1: Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of Your Wrong

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with Molly Henmingway, editor in chief of The Federalist, and

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David Harsani, senior writer at The Washington Examiner. If you'd

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like to email us, please do so at radio at

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the Federalist dot com. We love to hear from you. Molly.

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You're in Colorado this week at home state. Is it

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for pleasure or work?

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Speaker 2: It's for the funeral of my uncle. I mentioned a

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couple of weeks ago to that side, so it's just

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a quick visit out here for that.

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Speaker 1: Sorry to hear condolences. Let's jump in and start talking

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about the National Guard being deployed to the war zone.

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The dystopian hellhole of Washington, DC. What do you make

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of it? Like, obviously I think that you know, I

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don't live in DC anymore, but I do visit on occasion,

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and to me, it does seem like the place has

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gone downhill, starting with Union Station, which was once a

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pretty vibrant sort of place. I think bookstores and all

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kinds of shops and a lot of people around to

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a place now that's kind of like a little scary sometimes,

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especially if you're there certain parts a day. But then

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even when you go outside, just it's just not the

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same place. I don't think. I don't talk about crime

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stats in a minute, but anyway, do you think it

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needs the National Guard to be fixed? What do you

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make of the whole thing?

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Speaker 2: So I have lived. I lived in DC proper for

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fifteen years, and then we moved just outside of DC,

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and I still work in d C most days. And

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one of the things I thought was really interesting is

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that when I first moved to Washington, d C. I

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lived at tenth and D Northeast in Washington and there

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was a drug dealer who lived on my block, and

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he also was a pimp. And let me just back

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up because to me this is somehow relevant. But like

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the day we moved in, my roommate and I were

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asked by the police if they could rent out the

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basement of our they could sublet the basement of our

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place so that they could monitor the drug dealer. And

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I did not know much about how crime works, but

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we knew enough to say no to that. And the

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drug dealer was a colorful person on the block, but

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like always took care of people who did not snitch.

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I'm not saying I wouldn't have snitched if I'd seen

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something actually wrong, but he was pretty discreet anyway. That summer,

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the National Guard were at the corner of our house

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every single weekend, and it became kind of funny for

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us and my roommate and I have pictures of ourselves

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wearing like really short skirts, sitting on the military vehicles

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with the cute National guardsmen and we would just like

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go talk to them because they were young men. And

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so the idea that everyone's like freaking out about this

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right now, I'm like, we've done this before, and by

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the way, we've done it before, and it's had positive results.

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Like the early aughts to mid aughts of the two thousands,

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like those were very fun years, I think, to be

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out in some ways, like it just seemed like we

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got a handle on the crime. And when I was

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first married and living in DC, our house was robbed

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and we came home and you know, so like things

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were stolen, including my camera that had my pictures of

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my honeymoon on it that I had yet to get developed,

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and my computer and my laptop some other things like that,

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and the cops first of all had no interest in

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coming over. Finally, someone came over, and then their recommendation

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to us was that we take our time and go

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to pawnshops and see if anyone had sold the computers

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and camera there. So that wasn't great. And then I mean,

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I just want to say I genuinely loved a lot

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of what I experienced living in Washington, DC. I always

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lived on Capitol Hill. It was a nice, nice ish neighborhood,

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had good friends, loved the walkability, very easy with our

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young children. And then my husband once intervened. Some youths

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were trying to harass someone coming out of the Metro

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and my husband tried to intervene to help, and three

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kids were attacking him and I think one of them

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broke his tooth or something. And again, like the police

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had zero interest in any of this. They just never

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cared about anything unless it was like a full on murder.

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My friend Caroline had her car stolen seven times, my

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husband had his car stolen two times. Anyway, that was

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like in the good days of DC. And when I

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see all these reporters being like DC is the most idyllic,

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eden like paradise that ever existed, and I'm like, I

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am so happy for you that you get to experience

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that because I wasn't making the money to live in

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Georgetown or wherever you know all the wealthy white people live,

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and so I never got that experience. I got like

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the car car getting stolen experience.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when I lived in DC, I lived up in

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like Cleveland Park, I guess, or Cathedral Heights, I don't

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know what it's called. But it was pretty nice up there,

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and I didn't really have to worry much about crime.

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But I will say that I wanted to say something

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about this that maybe is not what people like to hear.

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But growing up in New York, I used to go

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into the city all the time, and it was during

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the late eighties and nineties when things were at their worst,

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like the murder I had the high and murder rate,

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which like three thousand murders or something happened like nineteen

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one or something like that, And it was a lot

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of the risk factor and the grittiness added to the appeal.

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When you're a young person, right, there's a kind of

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anarchy of the city that you like. But if you

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were living there and you have kids and stuff like that,

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quality of life matter is far more than that aspect

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of things, and New York got a lot better. I

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think they're also probably going somewhat downhill.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: People have been complaining about New York all the time,

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and every time I'm up there for Fox. You know,

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here from people don't take the subway and I do.

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And I'm not saying I haven't had some bad stuff

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happen up there too, Like a couple of years ago,

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I remember coming out of the subway and there was

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just a man covered in blood threatening people, and I

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was like, this is not good.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying I haven't seen stuff like that, or

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that their homeless situation isn't very bad, or that they

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don't also have bad crime. But I'm far more scared

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to just be walking around casually in DC than New York,

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which I do. You know, I feel fine doing.

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Speaker 1: Wait, when you live in a city, you sort of

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get used to that and you know what to do

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or where to be blocks not to walk DC that

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the violence used to be really compartmentalized, I guess to

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certain areas. I don't know if that's still the case,

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but anyway, it's clear to me, Like so it's everyone

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points out, Hey, the crime where it's down. Violent crime

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is down in DC, murders down in DC. But I

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think there are other aspects of this. It's like, it's

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not just the murder, right, it's being harassed by you know,

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mentally ill people for instance, or that there's a homelessness problem,

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there's quality of life ish or the litter I see

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now that wasn't there before. It's just like indicative of

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something that's going on. It doesn't mean, you know, there's murder.

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It's not the only I think statistic that matters. And

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in another way, when I tell people, and I have

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made this argument, like when they complain about city life

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that it used to be far worse in the seventies

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or far worse in the nineties, it doesn't really matter

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to someone today, Right, That doesn't mean that there should

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be any of that going on in your city, and

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it's completely legitimate to complain about it and want it fixed.

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And I used to think this about in New York

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as well. When Rudy Giuliani before nine to eleven, you know,

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his poll numbers were always you know, really low. But

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city were happy that it was being cleaned up and

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the broken windows policy was in place. So I don't

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know if like the National Guard is the way to

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fix this that maybe just temporarily, but I would love

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for it not to be the answer.

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Speaker 2: I think part of the problem is that Mariel Bowser,

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our mayor, is a proponent of protecting criminals more than

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their victims. And we saw this mostly happen during the

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BLM riots, which is funny. Do you remember that Trump

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was blamed for tear gassing BLM rioters at the White House. Yeah,

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by the way, he was blamed for this in part

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by Muriel Bowser, who opened up the Democratic National Convention

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in twenty twenty by saying it when in fact she

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was the one who had tear gas BLM writers. But

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she was also the person who painted the like defund

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the police BLM stuff out in front of the White House.

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She was all in on all of the worst ideas

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of the BLM movement, and she continues to care more

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about again the criminals and protecting them and making sure

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they're okay then worrying about the crimes that are being committed.

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And this is a particular issue in DC because I think,

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unlike a lot of cities, or compared to a lot

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of cities, we have far more youth crime, which is

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difficult to deal with, right, youth crime because people aren't

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you know, there's like less that you can do to

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go Like there was a couple of years ago, I

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think at fourteen year old girl and a fifteen year

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old girl who murdered a man while carjacking. I know

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they're like, just don't worry about carjacking. Well, carjacking can

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be horrible. They murdered an immigrant man who was an

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uber driver and it was horrible. But they're youth, so

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what can you really do? And according to these people,

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the police union has been screaming from the rooftops that

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they're not getting the support they need. They're actually in

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favor of this national Guard move. You also have had things,

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by the way, because you mentioned crime stats and how

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people feel, and I do think that's actually important. A

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lot of things are not recorded as crimes. Like I

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say this as someone who has tried to report crimes,

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my car broken into, I reported it, but they didn't

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record it, you know what I mean? Like what is

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a crime stat and just I think it was this

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year or late last year one of the police commanders

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in d C was fired for juking the stats, and

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the police union's defense was they all do it. So

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I would encourage everyone to not just autistically hold to

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police stats as a determination of what's going on in

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because if you're not arresting people that doesn't

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show up in stats, it doesn't mean there is no criminality, right,

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kind of been something of a societal breakdown where you

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have a lot of especially in DC. I hear I

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don't live there, but that there are gangs of youths

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sort of running around knowing that they're not going to

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be arrested, harassing people, are engaging in petty crimes and

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stuff like that, which in the long run might lead

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to more serious crimes by those young people, right if

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they're left unchecked to act that way.

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Speaker 2: So I just want to take a step back to

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and talk about the response to restoring order in the country.

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And for me, this does go back to twenty twenty

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when the BLM riots start and I was horrified by

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how people responded to it, as if as if it

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were fine or justified or The er example of this

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is when Tom Cotton says that we should restore order

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in our nation's great cities. The New York Times practically

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imploded over it. They could not believe that they published

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someone saying something that a majority of Americans agreed with

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that the National Guard should be brought into restore order.

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Now you can disagree with that, that's fine. I don't

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you know. I'm not saying that it's the right position

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or not. It's a majority of America and help position,

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and for good reason, our cities were in flames DC.

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I saw this reporter saying, the only crime I've ever

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witnessed in Washington, DC have been done January sixth, when

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Grandma's violently entered the Capitol. And I'm like, so, you

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weren't here in twenty twenty when the whole city was

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on fire, you know, when sixty cops were attacked by

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BLM writers and had to go to the hospital, or when, yeah,

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when they set Saint John's Church across from the White

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House on fire, in addition to all sorts of other buildings,

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and it was just chaos and like graffiti everywhere, and

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windows smashed and looting like you weren't here for that,

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and that was happening in every city. And when people

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wanted to restore order, they were bullied against it by

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these you know. And again we have to remember corporations

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spent one hundred billion dollars to support BLM. It was

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very difficult to do anything right because corporations, our media,

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and the BLM movement itself were all working in tandem

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with the Democrat Party actually too and some Republicans like

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Mitt Romney to make it so that you couldn't do

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anything to restore order. And our cities really deteriorated from

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that and the COVID shutdowns. And if you want to

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be a great country, you have to you have to

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have good cities, I think, and our cities have been

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historically great, and some of them still are. And I

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want people to care and I want them to not

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be held hostage by these left wing people who have

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horrible ideas about governance.

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Speaker 1: And just a quick note on how cities will manipulate

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their crime statistics is that quite often in DC and

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source prosecutors, they will all the often downgrade felonies to

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misdemeanors to make them seem non violent. And if you

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do that, the crime stats are going to look a

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lot better. I just want to also go back to

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another thing you said about BLM and how the New

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York Times basically had a break down when con wrote

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that column. Let's not forget that. What's her name, Hannah Nicole,

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Hannah Jones. I think she said that destroying property was

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not violence. I'm saying stealing was not violence. Things that

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could be replaced or not violence. And I don't like

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talking about myself, but growing up, my dad at a

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store and was robbed, right and they took everything. It

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was a jewelry shop by gunpoint, right, So he lost

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a lot of property that had long, long term effects

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for him. He had worked years to build that up.

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Do I'm saying, like the people who pretend that destruction

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of property is nothing because there's insurance or whatever, these

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basically socialists say this quite often don't understand and how

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how that can affect a family, communities, things like that.

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So that was really offensive to me because rioting is

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violence and it doesn't matter if there's insurance or not.

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But you're right, I said that the COVID is when

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the societal breakdown started. But BLM, I mean there were

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large parts of cities that were burnt down in Saint

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Louis and elsewhere where small business owners were truly affected

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and hurt. And it seems like since then things haven't

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gotten no one. The cities haven't recovered from those riots,

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which were the most expensive per capita riots to happen

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in the United States ever, more than the sixties riots,

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more than any other riot.

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Speaker 2: And yet it's millions of dollars in damage, and again

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corporations rewarded that with billions of dollars of support. I

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love this. By the way, I just want to do

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a side note. All these corporations are now like meeting

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with conservatives or meeting with other people saying like, Okay,

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we think maybe we got a little out over our

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skis on some previous stuff when we joined forces to

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finance the people who seek your destruction, and so we

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just wanted to say sorry. And so Claremont Institute has

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a great database that shows what each corporation gave to

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BLM and associated movements. By the way, the number one

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thing BLM was trying to raise money for interestingly enough, transactivism.

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Trans people are always thinking, oh, black people being killed

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by police is the big issue of our time. Even

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night they were doing prolema stuff and transactivism and corporations

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were like, could we give you one hundred million dollars please?

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Would that appease you? Anyway? I go and I look

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in their database and I see how much they have

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given to left wing causes that seek the country's destruction,

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and I'm like, okay, so that was the amount that

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you now regret, So what are you going to give

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to the other side? And they're like, oh, we weren't

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talking about money. We thought that if we met with

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you and said sorry, that that would be sufficient. So offensive.

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Speaker 1: It was like the Major League Baseball having its All

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Star Game in Atlanta, like nothing happened this year?

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Speaker 1: It should be noted as well, that the entire BLM

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movement was tethered to a string of fictitious racist events,

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none of which actually happened in the way that they

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had been depicted by either the media or activists.

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Speaker 2: Right, So the whole BLM movement started in Ferguson, Missouri,

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when there was the guy who we were told had

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said hands up, don't shoot, and that he was this

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innocent victim of police violence. And then the real story

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turned out that he'd been on a campaign of violence.

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He never said hands up, don't shoot, and he reached

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for the gun of the police officer, at which point

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he got shot. So that type of fictitious story, Is

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that what you're saying?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and many others similar similar Okay, well we'll see

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what happens. I think the National Guard is a bit

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of theater, to be honest with you. I just don't

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think that that's a real way to fix the city

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in the long term. And I wonder if there needs

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to be more done, you know, with DC in the

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sense of taking away more of its power. It has

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never been able to govern itself. I mean, it had

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a crack addicted, prostitute chasing mayor, which is fine, I guess,

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but then you realized it by far he came out

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of jail, is weird.

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Speaker 2: When I first moved to d C, he was mayor again,

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I think, or he was elected soon thereafter, so he'd

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already been to prison. He was set up. He had

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a famous that famous quote, and yeah, I thought that

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he was an example of everything that was bad with

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democratic governance. And then I realized he was the best

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mayor we ever had. Probably there was another good one

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in the early aughts, and he she I can't even

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remember what was. I just remember they were like good

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and they were quickly run out of town because their

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whole thing was that they were going to clean up

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our schools. And DC spends more money per student than

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any other school district in the country with the worst

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or among the worst results, and the mayor was trying

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to clean that up. And so the teachers' union's all

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organized to oust him. Remember it was Michelle, Michelle Ree I.

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Speaker 1: Think was the She was the person. Yeah, so I

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just hit me. I saw a reporter. I don't I

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remember the reporter on the specific numbers, But essentially the

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argument was that DC had been losing money because of

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Congress had taken away some of its funding, right, and

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that that was the reason that they couldn't police correctly

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in all of that. Meanwhile, so I look into this,

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and the number per cap at a spending of through

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taxation and other programs and everything of a DC resident

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is higher than almost any city on Earth, like it

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is through the roof. So that excuse is just completely preposterous.

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Let's talk about Let's switch topics, if you're ready, and

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talk about Donald trump meeting of Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Now,

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I'm going to challenge you slightly here and say that

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we did a lot of talking about Biden's policy towards

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Ukraine and how we were enmeshed in this war and

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how we were part of this war. But doesn't seem

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to me in many ways, Donald Trump has been pretty

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hard on Putin, and he has not extricated us from

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this in any way really. I mean occasionally you'll hear

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them say something thing. I think Vance the other day

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said we can't fund it forever or something along those lines.

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So how do you feel about how Trump has sort

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of handled the Ukrainian situation from your perspective?

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Speaker 2: So when during the campaign he said that that war

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would end within twenty four hours of him taking office,

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and we are more than six months in, right, and

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it is it's still going on. So it's you know, yes,

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in the first two hundred days of this administration, and well, yeah,

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it'll be it'll be six months here soon, not yet.

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I guess that a lot has been done that a

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lot of global unrest has probably been viewed as more

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time sensitive. But he was pretty clear in his campaign

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that he would work to achieve a like a negotiated

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settlement very quickly. Now, you had that whole situation where

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Zelenski blew it up quite publicly in the White House

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when he was fighting with the White House. But I

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think they still gave more stuff afterwards. You've seen a

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little bit of pullback, well or even you know, more

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than a little from some people who are in the administration,

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but it's still going. So having said all that, and

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with the disappointment that it's still all going at great

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cost and expense of lives and taxpayer dollars and all

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that and destruction of Ukraine, I am glad that they

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are talking like they're going to be talking on Friday.

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That's good. It's always good to talk. I'm not one

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of those people who's like, it's bad to talk to

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your enemies. It's good to talk find out more liked

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when Reagan did it. You know, you don't know how

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these things are going to go always, and it might

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not be that you get resolution immediately or soon thereafter,

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but it will put hopefully people on the paths resolution.

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first administration they're worse. Some meetings that involved Putin and

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Trump and CNN and the Washington Post the New York

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Times made those meetings be about the fake and delusional

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Russia collusion hoax. So you could not really have meaningful,

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peaceful discussions between Trump and Putin without that hysteria. And

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now that only the most bitter clingers hold to that,

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I think they can actually just meet as world leaders

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without all of that distraction.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's all fine. It just if you

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meet with someone. Obviously, when world leaders meet, expectations are high,

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and he called it a feeling out meeting. It just

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seems like to me that Putin has said things that

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tells me that he's not ready for any kind of

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real negotiation. He says he wants, you know, he'll stop

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the war tomorrow if he gets east pieces of eastern Ukraine,

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and maybe that's going to be the end of this.

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But I think that only becomes the end of it

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if we stop funding Ukraine and it collapses in this war,

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which did not happen so far. So I don't know.

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I mean, I don't know what to make of but

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I think it's cool that they're meeting in Alaska. I

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don't know why, you know, I like these like high

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level meetings meeting in Iceland, with Reagan meeting in Alaska here,

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so it'll be interesting.

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Speaker 2: I was just thinking how cool it is that we

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have Alaska. I mean, it is so close to Russia.

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It's just a couple miles away from from Russia. There's

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that there are those two islands that are right across

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from each other. We hold one and they hold the

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bigger one. So I do also like that it's a

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meeting in Alaska, a great state. I do think that

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this is another thing where what we were told about

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this war being false hurts negotiations. The idea that Russia

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and Ukraine would have a conflict if they didn't get

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along well is not something that we were all surprised

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by when Russia invaded Ukraine. This was something that during

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the George W. George H. W. Bush administration, you had

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really great minds talking about how Ukraine absolutely had to

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be neutral between the West and Russia or else it

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would get invaded by Russia. And that's because the eastern

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part in particular of Ukraine, which is historically, you know,

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Russian speaking and all that is also the means by

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which the shipping routes work for Russia from US much

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of the world. And so when Russia invades and everyone's

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aghast and they start saying stuff like Zelensky's going to

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win this war, which by the way, I've literally never

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heard a single person explain how that would happen, and

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I've asked them all. Then they're like, if we just

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give them enough money for enough years, they're going to

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win the war, which was just not even really true,

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because Russia has all these other means by which it

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can survive and in some cases even thrive. And so

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I think the more honest people are about the high

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probability that a settlement will involve Russia keeping the areas

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that it has conquered and held for years, I think,

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or coming up with some explanation that works beyond that

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that's not literally every man, woman and child in America

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goes to nuclear war against Russia, Like that's what doesn't

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seem like a reason. But if someone has a reasonable

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solution other than that, they should probably have mentioned it

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before it did.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean the way you frame that is like

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they're both at fault for this equally. Just because as

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Russian speakers in Ukraine doesn't mean that Russians get to invade.

480
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There's a large Hungarian population in Romania doesn't mean Hunger

481
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gets Sentanks in and take it. And the way they win.

482
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It's like saying Vietnam can't win the Vietnam War because

483
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the United States has nuclear weapons. Well, it can be

484
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a stalemate for long enough that Russia gets sick and

485
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tired of losing treasure and people and all that. Now,

486
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obviously Ukraine can't do that on its own, either could Vietnam.

487
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And it's you know, you need China, you need Russia,

488
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et cetera. But I'm just saying, I mean they could

489
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be a stalemate for another ten years. I mean that

490
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could happen Putin.

491
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Speaker 2: Yeah, actually that I should I should say that is

492
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probably the best argument of the people who want to

493
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have a long war there would be if we do

494
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it long enough, and we finance it for long enough,

495
00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:14,640
it could weaken Putin and he could get replaced with

496
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someone else who we think would be better.

497
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Speaker 1: I don't know, you make me laugh. You're so funny.

498
00:27:18,799 --> 00:27:22,119
People who want a long war there who started this

499
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war Putin did. I don't want a long war there,

500
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but I also don't want to let him just do

501
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what he wants to do in Europe. I don't want

502
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a long war. I wish it would stop tomorrow and

503
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Putin would withdraw US troops. I don't know how well,

504
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since this is going to be fixed, Ukraine's just going

505
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to have to give up a large chunk of his

506
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country because there's a Russian minority which was sent there

507
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to colonize that area by the Russians. They already have crimea,

508
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so they has shipping.

509
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's like okay. First off, I never said that

510
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because people speak Russian and Ukraine that Putin gets to

511
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invade Ukraine. I never said that. What I said was

512
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that George H. W. Bush's policy advisors warned that Ukraine

513
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had to stay neutral or they would risk invasion from Russia.

514
00:28:04,079 --> 00:28:06,720
That's not saying that Russia should invade. That's not saying

515
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it's a good idea for Russia to invade. I really

516
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do not think these people wanted Russia to invade. In fact,

517
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I think that's why they were saying, we have to

518
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be careful with how we manage this. And I actually

519
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,240
don't totally blame Ukraine, although it is a very corrupt

520
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,039
country and everyone knew that and admitted that until a

521
00:28:24,039 --> 00:28:26,920
couple of years ago. I blame the United States for

522
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,799
how they made Ukraine be like a vassal for the

523
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purpose of poking at Russia. I don't think that was

524
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a good idea. I think the decades of that have

525
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,880
shown to be a failure. I really do not like

526
00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:43,880
all of the stuff that our deep states deep state

527
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,359
agencies were doing there, all the money that we have

528
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,880
funneled through there, all the way that our elites have

529
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,799
had family members make money there, Hunter Biden being a

530
00:28:51,839 --> 00:28:55,720
great example. I think it's all very very corrupt, and

531
00:28:55,759 --> 00:28:58,799
it has led to this horrific tragedy, which is a

532
00:28:58,839 --> 00:29:04,200
lot of people being killed, a great architecture being destroyed,

533
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,759
institutions being destroyed. We've now had years of no freedom

534
00:29:08,759 --> 00:29:12,000
of religion, no freedom of speech, no elections. Like it's

535
00:29:12,039 --> 00:29:17,880
a very bad situation, and it grieves me, Like the

536
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whole thing is I wish people cared more about all

537
00:29:20,279 --> 00:29:22,640
the destruction, all the loss of men, what that does

538
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:27,640
to family formation, Like war is not cheerful, and we

539
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,200
shouldn't just act like it's no big deal. So even

540
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that what I'm admitting, it's a good argument. If we

541
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do this long enough, then we can weaken Russian and

542
00:29:36,359 --> 00:29:38,440
we can weaken Putin, and we can get someone in

543
00:29:38,519 --> 00:29:41,880
we like more than Putin. But even that comes at

544
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,960
a very very very high cost, not not even mentioning

545
00:29:46,039 --> 00:29:48,880
the taxpayer funding, Like it's a really big cost.

546
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Speaker 1: War always has a high cost, right, sometimes it needs

547
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to be fought. I mean everyone does this. I mean,

548
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a lot of people do this. They blame Ukraine. We

549
00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:01,279
meddled Western agents. These medaled there, but the Russians were

550
00:30:01,319 --> 00:30:04,519
meddling too, and the Russians had corrupt governments installed in

551
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,799
Ukraine as well, and that I think had the West

552
00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:10,720
worried in a lot of ways. It wasn't like it's

553
00:30:10,839 --> 00:30:14,720
one side's fault there. Did Ukraine give up its nuclear

554
00:30:14,759 --> 00:30:18,759
weapons after the fall Soviet Union to gain its independence?

555
00:30:18,839 --> 00:30:21,799
It did that, And I think Russia has been more

556
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,039
prone to break these agreements, including the invasion of Crimea,

557
00:30:25,079 --> 00:30:27,839
which had nothing. I think there was a Russian government

558
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,319
installed at the time where pro Russia government in Ukraine

559
00:30:30,319 --> 00:30:33,920
at the time. I don't remember all the specifics, but anyway, whatever,

560
00:30:34,119 --> 00:30:36,480
needless to say, I hope that it ends in a way.

561
00:30:37,559 --> 00:30:39,400
I hope that the war ends, I mean, but I

562
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:43,000
don't think that. But I also like the Ukrainian surrender.

563
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Speaker 2: I would say I would like it to end on

564
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:49,480
as favorable terms for Ukraine as possible. Yes, And I

565
00:30:49,559 --> 00:30:52,680
worry that the most favorablele were when Russia came in

566
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and did not take Kiev like that was awesome, because

567
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they tried much to a lot of people surprise. That

568
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,319
was great. But does there need to be another high

569
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:08,240
point like that before there can be a negotiated settlement,

570
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some show of strength. I don't know.

571
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Speaker 1: I think the Ukrainians outperformed expectations greatly so far, but

572
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I wish.

573
00:31:16,119 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 2: We later learned was all because we were doing everything.

574
00:31:18,559 --> 00:31:23,799
Speaker 1: Because yeah, we help them. I mean. I also I

575
00:31:23,839 --> 00:31:26,400
am not against the idea that I think Vance brought

576
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,200
up recently that Europeans need to take on a bigger

577
00:31:29,279 --> 00:31:32,279
chunk of the of the of the funding and the military,

578
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,519
you know, funding for this war that they I would say,

579
00:31:36,559 --> 00:31:39,240
the EU almost unanimously sports except for a few countries

580
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:47,279
like Hunger. So let's move on now to the Bureau

581
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of Labor Statistics. So this isn't as sexy a topic.

582
00:31:51,319 --> 00:31:55,880
But last week I believe the president fired the commissioner Erica.

583
00:31:56,839 --> 00:31:57,559
I don't even know.

584
00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 2: Who end BLS commissioner.

585
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: Was, who was voted on almost unanimously the Republicans as

586
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:09,160
well in Congress, but because he said it was the revision,

587
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,680
you know, the revisions were rigged and fake and all

588
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:18,000
of that. And yesterday he named is the Heritage Foundation. Yeah,

589
00:32:18,559 --> 00:32:22,519
was with the Heritage Foundation. Now I I think we're

590
00:32:22,559 --> 00:32:25,599
going to disagree, but I just thought that was a

591
00:32:25,599 --> 00:32:26,839
Banana Republic move.

592
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Speaker 2: It is.

593
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Speaker 1: I don't think that the BLS is partisan at all.

594
00:32:33,559 --> 00:32:35,279
I think that most of the number I mean, I

595
00:32:35,359 --> 00:32:39,799
know that the numbers are plugged in to existing systems

596
00:32:39,799 --> 00:32:43,160
that have been around for a while. There are constantly

597
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,880
big revisions. The biggest revision happened under Obama nine hundred

598
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:52,839
thousand jobs or whatever it was. And I know that

599
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,599
people get mad that there are big revisions or that

600
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there are revisions, but that's part of the process. Is

601
00:32:58,519 --> 00:33:01,799
almost every kind of pulling down, you have revisions afterwards,

602
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:06,279
especially economic data. Here. The problem is that a lot

603
00:33:06,319 --> 00:33:11,519
of the small businesses do not answer the polling until

604
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after the deadline, and those revisions have to be made later.

605
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There's a two month window to do it. By the

606
00:33:18,559 --> 00:33:21,359
time you do those revisions, it's pretty on spot with

607
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,640
other polling done by ADP and others. Not always perfectly,

608
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,920
but it gives you a good reflection of what's going

609
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,559
on in the economy. The idea that a thousand people

610
00:33:32,559 --> 00:33:35,640
involved in this our own cocoots with fake numbers and

611
00:33:35,839 --> 00:33:38,559
fake this, or that the commissioner can change those numbers

612
00:33:39,279 --> 00:33:41,680
is just not true. Now, is the system in need

613
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,799
of reform? Probably we do need reform there. Not that

614
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,400
I don't think it's going to fix things exactly. You're

615
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,759
still going to have revisions. But the idea that it's fake,

616
00:33:49,799 --> 00:33:51,720
the idea that's part is and I just think is

617
00:33:51,759 --> 00:33:53,599
not true.

618
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Speaker 2: I agree with you that the firing of Erica can

619
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:06,960
talk for her or whatever her name was, was not good. Sorry,

620
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,679
it was not the way you want to see that done.

621
00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:11,039
My thing is I don't understand whether it him fire

622
00:34:11,079 --> 00:34:13,360
her on day one and put in someone more in

623
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:17,559
line with their thinking, or do it midway through one

624
00:34:17,599 --> 00:34:20,480
of the monthly reports so as opposed to in response

625
00:34:20,519 --> 00:34:23,920
to what was viewed as a weak jobs report, which

626
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,559
makes it seem, as you said, like total banana Republic. Ye.

627
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,000
But I do not think that that woman deserved to

628
00:34:30,079 --> 00:34:33,559
keep her job. I think that the BLS data collection

629
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,480
has been a joke for a long time, and that

630
00:34:36,599 --> 00:34:38,800
when you're dealing with something like that, you need to,

631
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:40,840
as the head of an agency, do what it takes

632
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,880
to fix it. And it's not that they denied that

633
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,239
their data collection was getting worse over time. They admitted that.

634
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,599
But you also need to do something about it with

635
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,599
marcuts relying so much on this information. For me, it's

636
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:58,800
less about whether it was partisan, although I do worry

637
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:00,400
about that, and that there have been a lot critics

638
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:08,400
who worry about artisan game playing and giving a week

639
00:35:08,519 --> 00:35:10,760
report to people at a time when they are looking

640
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,760
for a rate cut from the FED or something can

641
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:18,400
be very helpful for the political prospects of a given politician,

642
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:23,559
and not doing that can work the opposite right by

643
00:35:23,559 --> 00:35:26,239
the way, that was my side note too. If Trump

644
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,119
keeps pressuring the FED to be more responsive to what

645
00:35:29,159 --> 00:35:31,079
he thinks is a weak economy, I don't even know

646
00:35:31,119 --> 00:35:33,360
why he's upset when these numbers come out weak, because

647
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,840
it should help with the pressure on the FED. But

648
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,800
that's a side note. But they have had a lot

649
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:43,920
of problems at BLS, including leaks of information that can

650
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:48,559
lead to market changing results, the very bad data collection

651
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:55,000
that also negatively impacts the way the market operates because

652
00:35:55,039 --> 00:35:58,239
of just how cartoonishly bad it is. It's not like

653
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,880
they're off by ten thousand, you're twenty thousand. Sometimes they're

654
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,639
off by like close to a million in a year,

655
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,480
and so when that's happening, you need to do something

656
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:11,199
to fix it. So I don't know a ton about

657
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,519
EJ and Tony at the Heritage Foundation other than he's

658
00:36:14,559 --> 00:36:17,280
been probably the most prominent critic of them not making

659
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,400
the changes they need to to improve the agency, and

660
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,440
so that might be a good pick for that reason.

661
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Speaker 1: Well, just give you some numbers. I actually think that

662
00:36:28,519 --> 00:36:31,519
in this position you should be seeking out people who

663
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,719
who are have aren't partisan at all, you know, I mean,

664
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,599
that's just what I think. But the revision statements since

665
00:36:39,679 --> 00:36:43,079
COVID have dropped from sixty percent to forty three percent.

666
00:36:43,679 --> 00:36:46,719
So the forty three percent of businesses report on time,

667
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,000
usually all many small businesses. The larger ones know what

668
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,480
they're doing, you know, have a better sense of the

669
00:36:52,519 --> 00:36:57,480
long term aspects. So because of this number was probably

670
00:36:57,599 --> 00:36:59,880
due to terror of people not knowing what was going

671
00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:02,679
on with towers and also deportations, which it is what

672
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:06,280
it is. I mean, you can explain to people that

673
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,519
that was going to happen. See what happens in the future.

674
00:37:09,559 --> 00:37:12,320
But obviously they need reform with tracking. They have problems

675
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,400
with tracking and the movement of workers, with deaths, new businesses,

676
00:37:15,519 --> 00:37:18,280
growing sectors, so on. I'm not sure how you're going

677
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,960
to do that. But here's what I want to say.

678
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,360
This commissioner and the last commissioner have both requested funding

679
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,760
to do the reforms they have actually and I never

680
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:31,119
say that it's taken a hit on funding. You can't

681
00:37:31,159 --> 00:37:36,199
just on the fly reform how you collect information that easily.

682
00:37:36,519 --> 00:37:38,159
I don't know that this new guy is going to

683
00:37:38,159 --> 00:37:41,239
be able to do that either. So now you've given

684
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,880
it the you've created the perception that he's going to

685
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:45,679
give Trump the numbers he wants to see. I just

686
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:49,239
think that's problematic for us in trusting one of the

687
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,159
few things I think government should actually be doing, giving

688
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:56,480
us economic data that only they can collect, you know,

689
00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,159
or they can collect effectively. Let's say, But anyway, we'll

690
00:38:00,159 --> 00:38:04,320
see what happens. If people don't trust BLS, then some

691
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,320
private company's going to end up doing a better job

692
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,039
ADP whatever it is, and people will trust that. All right,

693
00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:14,000
let's move on. Let's go back to Russia Gate again,

694
00:38:14,119 --> 00:38:16,159
or what we're calling it, Abomba Gate. I don't even know,

695
00:38:16,559 --> 00:38:20,119
but we now know, or we as you'll explain, we

696
00:38:20,159 --> 00:38:23,840
did know that there was a whistleblower during the whole

697
00:38:24,039 --> 00:38:27,519
sort of the height of the hysteria, right, who was

698
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,280
telling the FBI that Adam Schiff was approving the leaking

699
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,400
of classified information, probably in a very framed in a

700
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,559
way that made it seem much worse than it was

701
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,760
the whole time, which is a crime.

702
00:38:43,039 --> 00:38:49,639
Speaker 2: So yes, last night cash Ptel declassified some information and

703
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,719
released it showing that a career intelligence officer who was

704
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,840
working for the Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee

705
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,840
on Intelligence had from more than a decade warned the

706
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:05,280
FBI beginning in two thousand and seven, by the way,

707
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,599
that Adam Schiff was approving the leaking of classified information.

708
00:39:10,119 --> 00:39:15,159
And this whistleblower actually gave details into how he was

709
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:20,400
doing this, you know, quite explicit details. And he it's

710
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,599
funny because he described himself as a friend to shift

711
00:39:23,679 --> 00:39:25,639
he was working for the Democrats, but he was very

712
00:39:25,679 --> 00:39:30,199
concerned about this unethical, illegal, and in his words, treasonous

713
00:39:30,639 --> 00:39:37,320
leaking of information. And yeah, it's just interesting. I mean,

714
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:41,519
it's not so frustrating. As someone who's covered this for

715
00:39:41,559 --> 00:39:44,800
a long time, there is nothing surprising about learning that

716
00:39:45,599 --> 00:39:49,239
the details of how Schiff authorized leaks of classified information

717
00:39:49,679 --> 00:39:52,239
to help him politically and to harm his political opponents.

718
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,480
That's not surprising. I joke about it all the time.

719
00:39:54,559 --> 00:39:59,079
You know. There was this great story that CNN ran

720
00:39:59,159 --> 00:40:01,000
that we like to talk about out where they said

721
00:40:01,039 --> 00:40:04,400
that there was explosive evidence held by the House Permanent

722
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:08,360
Select Committee on Intelligence that Donald Trump Junior had gotten

723
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:12,440
advanced notice of WikiLeaks and that showed that he was

724
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,880
colluding with the Russians to steal the twenty sixteen election.

725
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:19,199
And they had two anonymous sources who said this, and

726
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,840
both of them confirmed that everything that CNN was saying

727
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,920
was true. And then Kendelanian NBC said he also was

728
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:31,079
confirming CNN's report independently, which is my favorite. You can't

729
00:40:31,199 --> 00:40:34,000
confirm an anonymous report independently because how do you know

730
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,159
that it's not just the same two anonymous sources, So

731
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,400
you're more like repeating it rather than confirming it. And

732
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,599
then it turned out that both of those sources had

733
00:40:42,639 --> 00:40:45,039
somehow misread the date on the email, and instead of

734
00:40:45,039 --> 00:40:48,880
it being advanced notice of WikiLeaks for Don Junior, it

735
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,000
was after the fact, Hey did you see this WikiLeaks

736
00:40:52,039 --> 00:40:55,360
thing from a rando in California who just happened to

737
00:40:55,360 --> 00:41:00,679
get Donald Trump Junior's public email address? Always joked that

738
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,320
the two sources were Adam Schiff and Adam Schiff's mother.

739
00:41:03,679 --> 00:41:06,360
You know, that's how like obvious it is that he's leaked.

740
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,960
I have written stories about all the leaks coming from

741
00:41:10,039 --> 00:41:12,679
him or his people, but getting the details on how

742
00:41:13,039 --> 00:41:21,039
is very interesting. And so that's where it happened. Now.

743
00:41:21,039 --> 00:41:23,800
What I also found interesting about this is that I

744
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,400
wrote about this. I didn't have all of this declassified information,

745
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,440
but I wrote about this in December of last year

746
00:41:31,519 --> 00:41:35,320
in my piece called three Russia hoax Bombshells Hidden in

747
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:40,639
the Inspector General report on DOJ's surveillance of Congress, And

748
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,559
so this was it's just so annoying. The Inspector General

749
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:48,519
is like the HR Department of the government. You know,

750
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:50,480
if you go to them and you say something bad

751
00:41:50,559 --> 00:41:54,320
is happening at your company, they're not actually going to

752
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:55,760
help you. They're just going to try to do what

753
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,760
it takes to help the company you work for. That's

754
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,239
how I kind of view that Inspector General. It's not

755
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,239
like they won't be somewhat honest about what's going on,

756
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,599
but they always downplay it and they make it seem

757
00:42:05,639 --> 00:42:10,800
not as bad. But last year twenty twenty four, the

758
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:14,199
Inspector General released a report about leaks that had happened

759
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:18,119
in twenty seventeen. Nothing gets past these guys. They just

760
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:22,239
move at the speed of light, right, And they knew

761
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,760
that there had been leaks of classified information to the

762
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:29,480
Washington Post and the New York Times. And the one

763
00:42:29,519 --> 00:42:32,639
of the Washington Post stories was from April twenty seventeen.

764
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:37,480
It was by Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett, and Adam Entus,

765
00:42:37,599 --> 00:42:40,760
and it said that the DOJ had gotten a warrant

766
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,719
to spy on Carter Page. And even at that time

767
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,840
when I wrote that up, I wrote it up as

768
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,239
evidence of how the DOJ was completely out of control

769
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:54,280
and was trafficking in this delusional Steele dossier. But if

770
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,320
you go back to twenty seventeen, that was still at

771
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,559
the height of people pretending to believe or claiming to

772
00:42:59,559 --> 00:43:02,960
believe believing that the Steele dossier was accurate and that

773
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,840
it was really telling details about Trump colluding with Russia,

774
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:13,320
and they got a Pulitzer Prize for that. But hidden

775
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:17,320
in that report investigating that leak, I saw that a

776
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:21,360
Democrat staffer on the Congressional Committee had voluntarily told the

777
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:25,840
FBI that he suspected two members of Congress, as well

778
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,320
as a few staffers, of being involved in the leaking

779
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:33,159
of this classified information. And it didn't say who this

780
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:37,920
whistleblower was his committee, who were the members of Congress,

781
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,079
But I had already deduced from other stories that were

782
00:43:41,079 --> 00:43:43,559
written by The New York Times that the two were

783
00:43:43,639 --> 00:43:48,360
Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell. And I don't know, I'm

784
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,400
just kind of pleased with myself for figuring all of

785
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,840
this out before it became big news last night or

786
00:43:54,079 --> 00:43:54,480
this week.

787
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: A great journalistic habit is to read full read reports

788
00:44:00,039 --> 00:44:02,960
when they come out, fully with a dendum and all that,

789
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:04,519
and you find a lot of things in it. That's

790
00:44:04,519 --> 00:44:07,079
something I was taught a long time ago, which I

791
00:44:07,199 --> 00:44:09,519
have stopped doing because I'm too old, too long did

792
00:44:09,559 --> 00:44:11,800
not read, but well, it still works.

793
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 2: I did that with all of these Tulsea Gabbard and

794
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:15,960
John Ratcliffe things, and there's so much in there. I

795
00:44:16,079 --> 00:44:18,199
just want to give an example of this too, though.

796
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:22,000
According to the IG, the whistleblower told the FBI that

797
00:44:22,079 --> 00:44:26,880
he suspected that Schiff had previously leaked classified information or

798
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,800
maybe that's fall well, and that schiff wanted to influence

799
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,639
public opinion via the release of classified information. Oh sorry,

800
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,039
suspected that Number one had previously lead classified information and

801
00:44:36,079 --> 00:44:38,679
that Member two wanted to influence public opinion via the

802
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:43,039
release of information. But it hides all these details that

803
00:44:43,079 --> 00:44:46,280
came out through cash ptel's declassification of the document, where

804
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:50,840
it's in like explicit detail. This member talked to this

805
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:54,000
staff member and suggested this way to get the information out.

806
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:56,440
And it's what I hate about IG reports. And then

807
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,679
when it does come out, people go, oh, it's old news.

808
00:44:58,679 --> 00:45:01,079
We already had this release in an report, but it

809
00:45:01,119 --> 00:45:05,119
was buried so dryly in the body of the report

810
00:45:05,159 --> 00:45:07,920
that only four people read it, and only one of

811
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,280
those even understood what it meant. Do you know what

812
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:10,639
I mean?

813
00:45:11,119 --> 00:45:13,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course I know what you mean a lot

814
00:45:13,599 --> 00:45:15,920
of euphemisms in them, and you know, I mean, you

815
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,760
would think that if some journalists who did have access

816
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:23,719
to or you know, had originally reported these stories saw

817
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:27,519
that they would be really interested in who that person was.

818
00:45:27,559 --> 00:45:29,960
And yet I don't think anyone was. You probably wanted

819
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,519
the only people to write about it, if not the

820
00:45:31,519 --> 00:45:32,559
only person back then.

821
00:45:32,599 --> 00:45:35,280
Speaker 2: I assume I was just going to say that the

822
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,119
same IG report, I had a piece on the three bombshells,

823
00:45:38,119 --> 00:45:40,599
and the second bombshell was that one staffer was suspected

824
00:45:40,639 --> 00:45:46,840
of talking to three reporters who published classified info. And

825
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,000
what enraged me about that part was that they kind

826
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,239
of had him dead to rights and yet they never prosecuted,

827
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,280
Like there's only so much you can do, even with

828
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,559
like a very like here you have a Democrat staffer

829
00:45:56,639 --> 00:46:00,159
who's friends with Shiff giving the FBI the goods, and

830
00:46:00,159 --> 00:46:01,519
the FBI is like, well, we're not going to do

831
00:46:01,559 --> 00:46:04,239
anything about it. But if some like Rando invents a

832
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:08,280
fake story about Donald Trump and hookers and stuff, they're like, oh,

833
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,679
We've got to actually investigate the entire Republican Party over this.

834
00:46:12,159 --> 00:46:15,079
And it's that problem that our FBI is so full

835
00:46:15,159 --> 00:46:19,599
of people, or like so under the control of people

836
00:46:19,599 --> 00:46:22,719
who are so unethical. It makes it very depressing, Like

837
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:24,639
how are you going to do anything to fight that? Anyway,

838
00:46:24,639 --> 00:46:25,840
I'll stop talking about it now.

839
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,320
Speaker 1: Isn't Schiff also under investigation by the DOJ from mortgage

840
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:31,079
fraud or something?

841
00:46:31,559 --> 00:46:34,199
Speaker 2: Yeah? He and Tish James, I think, which is so

842
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:39,199
interesting because they said that when Donald Trump put up

843
00:46:39,199 --> 00:46:42,559
his collateral for his loan that he repaid in full

844
00:46:42,599 --> 00:46:45,079
to the happiness of his bank, that that was mortgage

845
00:46:45,119 --> 00:46:49,440
fraud that required full on prosecution. And then to find

846
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:53,559
out that Tis James has been claiming multiple addresses as

847
00:46:53,599 --> 00:46:56,280
her primary residence and Adam Schiff has done it. I mean,

848
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,480
I don't I don't think that Donald Trump should have

849
00:46:59,519 --> 00:47:02,840
been charged, not with a crime that he didn't commit.

850
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,360
I think that's horrible. But if the people who are

851
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,400
charging him with a crime he didn't commit are actually

852
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:12,679
committing the crime, they definitely need to be prosecuted.

853
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:18,599
Speaker 1: Right well, I mean, the alleged crime that Donald Trump had,

854
00:47:19,039 --> 00:47:23,039
you know, overestimating the worth of your property or whatever

855
00:47:23,039 --> 00:47:26,400
it was, is something that almost every American tries to

856
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:28,840
do all the time. It's not I mean, you can

857
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,320
go after anyone you want and say that that's true

858
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,519
and find a jury in a state like New York

859
00:47:33,599 --> 00:47:37,199
and go after your political enemies, but mortgage, the mortgage

860
00:47:37,199 --> 00:47:39,400
fraud that they're involved in is actually a much more

861
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:43,000
explicit breaking of the law. I think, right that you're

862
00:47:43,039 --> 00:47:45,760
trying to essentially avoid taxation, they're.

863
00:47:45,559 --> 00:47:48,599
Speaker 2: Claiming multiple places as their primary residence, or they're claiming

864
00:47:48,599 --> 00:47:51,280
primary residents in a state, like an Adam Shift's case.

865
00:47:51,519 --> 00:47:54,360
He's he claims primary residence I think in multiple ones,

866
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:56,559
but one of them was in Maryland, a state that

867
00:47:56,599 --> 00:48:00,519
he does not represent in Congress. He's a senator from California. Yeah,

868
00:48:00,559 --> 00:48:04,119
so he was claiming to be a California resident for

869
00:48:04,159 --> 00:48:07,599
the purpose of being a senator from there while claiming

870
00:48:07,639 --> 00:48:08,960
his primary residence elsewhere.

871
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:12,159
Speaker 1: Has anyone gone through every single person in Congress to

872
00:48:12,159 --> 00:48:14,320
see where they claim their primary residence? That might be

873
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:15,320
a good story right there.

874
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:16,639
Speaker 2: I don't know, and I think it does kind of

875
00:48:16,639 --> 00:48:19,199
depend too on what your state laws are for this too.

876
00:48:19,159 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 1: Right right? So, okay, are you ready to talk about culture?

877
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:26,559
Speaker 2: Sure?

878
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,800
Speaker 1: I don't have much, but I want to say something

879
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:32,400
here about an emailer?

880
00:48:34,119 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 2: Was that not the most amazing? Which one are you

881
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:36,880
going to talk about?

882
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: The International house Hunters?

883
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,760
Speaker 2: Well, I couldn't believe that. I was so excited. We

884
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:41,880
got good email this week.

885
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's from it from It's from someone named Ryan.

886
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:46,639
I don't I'm not going to give away his last name,

887
00:48:46,639 --> 00:48:50,159
but he so. I am an avid watcher of International

888
00:48:50,159 --> 00:48:54,079
House Hunters. I actually this morning watched an episode I

889
00:48:54,079 --> 00:48:58,320
am a big fan, and he and his he and

890
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:02,079
his family had I'm not sure if they moved to

891
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:05,079
Italy or they have bought a house in Italy or something,

892
00:49:05,079 --> 00:49:08,079
but he gave me this I think ten bullet points

893
00:49:08,119 --> 00:49:12,000
about how the whole show is fake, how it's all manipulated,

894
00:49:12,159 --> 00:49:14,159
how they say they know the house they're going to buy,

895
00:49:14,199 --> 00:49:15,880
that they do all the legwork. I forgot what it

896
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,800
all was, but I still watch it, but now I

897
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,800
watch it as more of fiction than a reality show.

898
00:49:23,519 --> 00:49:25,800
But I appreciated that email very much, so thank you.

899
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,519
Speaker 2: You're underselling how amazing this email was. Can I can

900
00:49:29,519 --> 00:49:30,239
we read it? Or no?

901
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 1: Yeah?

902
00:49:32,039 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 2: Did you say not to share it?

903
00:49:33,559 --> 00:49:36,119
Speaker 1: No? He didn't. Let's go through some of it. So

904
00:49:39,559 --> 00:49:42,280
one of the houses we pretended to look at belong

905
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:49,519
to the real estateation, so essentially they look at houses

906
00:49:49,559 --> 00:49:52,079
that aren't for sale quite often to give the illusion

907
00:49:52,119 --> 00:49:55,159
of choice. He says that if you watch the show,

908
00:49:55,199 --> 00:49:57,719
you'll understand this stuff. But the rental prices they gave

909
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,559
were completely made up in each episode. There's always, like

910
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,760
not always, but often one lower end price, one right

911
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,039
on the button, and one a little more. You know.

912
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:11,280
That's how they often do it. They often give or

913
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:14,639
always give, actually a map of the city, except a

914
00:50:14,679 --> 00:50:17,199
cartoonish version of the map, and then they pin where

915
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:21,679
the home is in the neighborhoodies. That's just random, completely random, right.

916
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:24,039
Speaker 2: The actual house was outside of town, but they printed

917
00:50:24,079 --> 00:50:26,559
it in a random place on the town mount.

918
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 1: And the producers coax the couple to argue about stuff

919
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:36,519
and disagree with each other for added drama.

920
00:50:36,599 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 2: In one scene filmed with a GoPro on the dash,

921
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:41,039
it looks like we're pulling up to a house in

922
00:50:41,079 --> 00:50:43,880
the real estate agent's Fiat five hundred. In reality, we

923
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,239
were driving in circles in a parking lot nowhere near

924
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,800
the house in a rented Fiat five hundred, pretending to

925
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:50,239
look out the window at the house.

926
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:52,760
Speaker 1: I like this. On one day, the cameraman got drunk

927
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,440
at lunch. I forgot to put the memory card in

928
00:50:54,519 --> 00:50:56,480
the camera. A few weeks after the shoot, the production

929
00:50:56,519 --> 00:50:58,880
company emailed us to say they had come back for

930
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,760
pickup shots and sent six hours of raw footage to

931
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:04,000
watch so we could put everything back where it appeared

932
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:05,880
in the video for continuity.

933
00:51:06,599 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 2: And then they're paid like next to nothing for this,

934
00:51:09,679 --> 00:51:11,719
for all of this drama.

935
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 1: I still like it, you know. My assumption is I

936
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:18,800
still like watching it. My assumption here is that sometimes

937
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:20,760
they fake it when they have to to make it.

938
00:51:21,559 --> 00:51:23,960
You drop into a city, there's not always things available

939
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,360
that you're asking for this or that, so they fake

940
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:28,719
it in different ways. I'm sure they do this on

941
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,599
house Hunters Regular house Hunters as well, which I find

942
00:51:31,639 --> 00:51:33,800
so boring because they just go to some suburb like

943
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:37,840
it all looks the same, you know, and yeah, whereas

944
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:41,119
here they're in like you know, they're in Malmo, Sweden,

945
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,119
or you know, the Cambodia. It's just interesting to see

946
00:51:44,119 --> 00:51:46,719
those places. Anyway, that was a great email, so I

947
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:52,800
appreciate Ryan. Other than that, I don't have much, I

948
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:56,760
have to be honest. I'm rewatching the show Peaky Blinders,

949
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:59,920
which I only saw over years and segments and kind

950
00:51:59,920 --> 00:52:02,119
of I just wanted to watch it from beginning ten. Now.

951
00:52:03,199 --> 00:52:06,800
It's violent, it's you know, sexual content and all that,

952
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:10,119
but it is the so stylized in a way that

953
00:52:10,199 --> 00:52:12,719
I love. The music's fantastic, a lot of nick A

954
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,199
p J. Harvey, like you know. And then Black Sabbath

955
00:52:15,199 --> 00:52:19,920
comes on because this happens in Birmingham and so anachronistic music.

956
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:23,480
Is that the way to put it? And you know,

957
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,400
it's a mob story and it's pretty good. I like it.

958
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:28,960
I'm you know, I just I think there's sixty Oh

959
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,559
there's a movie coming out. So they ended in the

960
00:52:31,599 --> 00:52:33,599
next year, there's a movie coming out. What's his name?

961
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:37,639
Speaker 2: I love him so weird and right, yeah, yeah, I

962
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:39,039
was an interview with him.

963
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:41,760
Speaker 1: Yeah he is. He's an exotic look but you know,

964
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,320
he's the most normal guy. He got married like twenty

965
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,039
something years ago, he has two kids. He's almost never

966
00:52:48,079 --> 00:52:50,239
in the news, doesn't like to give interviews. There used

967
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:53,239
to be a meme like disappointed Cillian Murphy or something,

968
00:52:53,519 --> 00:52:55,679
and they asked him what he thought about the meme

969
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:57,199
and he goes like, what the hell is a meme?

970
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,400
Like he has no social media, he doesn't know anything it.

971
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:03,599
So I just think that guy's a fantastic actor. But

972
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:05,840
also Tom Hardy's in it, you know, for some of

973
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:09,440
the seasons, and he is just great. Anyway, good show.

974
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:10,960
I'm sure a lot of people have seen it, But

975
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:12,639
if you haven't and you're like that sort of thing,

976
00:53:12,679 --> 00:53:13,800
I would recommend it.

977
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 2: Okay, Well I have seen nothing, Okay, I have been

978
00:53:21,039 --> 00:53:27,119
extremely busy, and I went to sort of I want to.

979
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:31,480
It wasn't like a bachelorette party, but a weekend gathering

980
00:53:31,599 --> 00:53:34,159
for friends of a really good friend of mine who's

981
00:53:34,159 --> 00:53:37,400
getting married here in a few weeks. And we went

982
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,679
out to the eastern shore of Maryland and it was

983
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,519
lovely and just a very nice time. I was thinking

984
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:46,079
while being there, just how great it is to sometimes

985
00:53:46,119 --> 00:53:53,159
have women only outings and lots has been, lots has

986
00:53:53,519 --> 00:53:56,519
lots have Oh my gosh. Much has been written about

987
00:53:56,639 --> 00:53:59,360
how we've had a decline of male only spaces or

988
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:03,480
female only spaces, but there's just something so great. And

989
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,039
also I have been blessed with very good friends who

990
00:54:07,039 --> 00:54:10,039
they themselves have very good friends, and so none of

991
00:54:10,039 --> 00:54:14,159
the stereotypical downsides of being in a single sex space.

992
00:54:14,199 --> 00:54:15,840
But it was just really fun to get together and

993
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:19,400
get this woman ready to be married. It was great.

994
00:54:20,039 --> 00:54:23,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nice. It's always nice to see old friends.

995
00:54:24,639 --> 00:54:26,400
I did go out to the beach the other day

996
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,320
of Virginia Beach. Have you ever been out there? Yes,

997
00:54:29,679 --> 00:54:31,800
it's pretty nice. I like it.

998
00:54:33,119 --> 00:54:37,519
Speaker 2: I was once the the maid of honor for a

999
00:54:37,559 --> 00:54:40,400
wedding where it was just four of us out there

1000
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:41,760
on the beach and it was beautiful.

1001
00:54:42,519 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's quite nice. All right, that's it. That's all

1002
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:46,599
I could come up with.

1003
00:54:46,679 --> 00:54:48,599
Speaker 2: Okay, sorry, I'm really going to work on more I did.

1004
00:54:49,079 --> 00:54:51,800
I've been trying to do this audiobook things. I do.

1005
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:54,880
Have lots of time when I'm traveling, like on a plane,

1006
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:58,239
where it might be better to listen than to read.

1007
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:01,159
Like I'm moving, so I can't like hold a book there.

1008
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:05,199
And I downloaded a book my husband's been talking about,

1009
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:09,519
which is All the King's Men, which he loved, so

1010
00:55:09,599 --> 00:55:11,519
I was gonna listen to it on my flight out

1011
00:55:11,559 --> 00:55:14,079
to Colorado, but instead I just listened to a bunch

1012
00:55:14,119 --> 00:55:17,079
of Issues, etc. Podcasts. I was catching up on a

1013
00:55:17,079 --> 00:55:22,280
bunch of those, which is my favorite podcast. So that's all. Sorry.

1014
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,320
Speaker 1: Robert Penwarren wrote that novel, right, and I've never read

1015
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:26,840
anything else he's writen. I just want to talk about

1016
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,320
All the kings Men for a minute. It is one

1017
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:35,039
of the greatest books about politics and human nature ever written.

1018
00:55:35,039 --> 00:55:38,840
My husband says it is about it. It essentially dives

1019
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:42,880
into like populism in a way, and how politics corrupts,

1020
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:48,440
corrupts even the best person it's just such a beautiful

1021
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,239
and fantastic book. I have to just mention that my

1022
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:54,480
person I worked with years ago on the Denver editorial board,

1023
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,159
I think he teaches a journalism at See You Now.

1024
00:55:56,199 --> 00:55:58,360
His name is Chuck Plunkett. It was his favorite book

1025
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,320
and he made me read it essentially, and I've I

1026
00:56:01,519 --> 00:56:04,880
just have read it numerous times since then. I would mention,

1027
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:06,760
I'd like to mention actually a book I have. It's

1028
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:09,159
a new that I started reading the other day. It's

1029
00:56:09,159 --> 00:56:14,800
a new uh. It's a new biography on Buckley by

1030
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,239
Sam Tannan House. It is a huge book. I think

1031
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:19,760
he's been working on it for a decade or whatever.

1032
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:27,079
I'm slightly I have slight unease knowing tann and Houses.

1033
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,760
He's he's a liberal, right, so I'm slightly worried about that.

1034
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:34,920
But so far it's been it seems very well done,

1035
00:56:35,039 --> 00:56:36,760
and you know, it's a big book.

1036
00:56:37,559 --> 00:56:37,679
Speaker 2: Uh.

1037
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:39,679
Speaker 1: Okay. I think I think that I.

1038
00:56:39,599 --> 00:56:41,679
Speaker 2: Read a bunch of reviews of that book that were

1039
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,159
very critical and said he kind of missed the forest

1040
00:56:44,199 --> 00:56:46,679
for the trees really, and so I don't know if

1041
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:48,760
I will read it or not. I might. I think

1042
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:53,039
I might be speaking on this topic later this fall,

1043
00:56:53,039 --> 00:56:55,800
so I might I might have to read it, but

1044
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:59,079
I just think it's also kind of like a sad

1045
00:56:59,159 --> 00:57:02,599
poetic thing that he chose Sam Tennenhouse as his biographer

1046
00:57:04,159 --> 00:57:10,239
and probably could have chosen a better person to do it,

1047
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,000
and maybe someone who understood the good of what he

1048
00:57:13,159 --> 00:57:15,440
was doing for the conservative movement that might have actually

1049
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:20,840
been better than someone hostile. Yeah, So I forgot to

1050
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:22,719
mention that when I was at this girl's weekend, we

1051
00:57:22,719 --> 00:57:25,880
were in this town called Easton, Maryland, which is just beautiful.

1052
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:27,079
Speaker 1: I've been there, Yeah, it's nice.

1053
00:57:27,119 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's really getting even better. I think they

1054
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:33,000
had some investment from people maybe who were from there,

1055
00:57:33,039 --> 00:57:35,440
but it's returned in COVID and so they're really nice

1056
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:38,280
restaurants and really nice champagne bar and you know, just

1057
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:42,119
stuff like that. But I went into a record store there.

1058
00:57:42,199 --> 00:57:45,199
There are a few record stores there, and the proprietor

1059
00:57:45,199 --> 00:57:46,760
of the record store, like the moment I walked in,

1060
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:49,360
he was like, you're Molly Hemingway. This is so exciting

1061
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:53,280
blah blah blah, and so I was like not expecting

1062
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:54,719
that in a record store, and it was a good one.

1063
00:57:54,719 --> 00:57:57,159
I don't remember the name of it. I'm sorry.

1064
00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:00,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, I must live there. I tried. I was looking

1065
00:58:00,599 --> 00:58:04,440
to maybe live there a few years ago. I moved there. Yeah,

1066
00:58:04,519 --> 00:58:05,039
that's what I was.

1067
00:58:05,119 --> 00:58:08,199
Speaker 2: Kind of thinking. Yeah, but that traffic over the bridge

1068
00:58:08,239 --> 00:58:11,519
is awful. Anyway. I got a Beach Boys Christmas album

1069
00:58:12,079 --> 00:58:14,320
and a duplicate of a Prints album I had that

1070
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:16,280
I need to get a better cover.

1071
00:58:16,159 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 1: For just very quickly. It's so boring. But I moved

1072
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:22,159
my office in my house and I got this, like

1073
00:58:22,199 --> 00:58:24,440
the shelving for all my records, and I'm going through

1074
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:28,039
them and cataloging them on discog, and I realized that

1075
00:58:28,079 --> 00:58:30,559
I have doubles of like twenty records. I mean, I

1076
00:58:30,599 --> 00:58:33,159
never even you know, I really have to keep track

1077
00:58:33,199 --> 00:58:34,880
of this because I'm wasting a lot of money.

1078
00:58:35,559 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 2: This is my This is the entire reason why I

1079
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:40,880
started putting everything into discogs was so that I would

1080
00:58:41,039 --> 00:58:46,320
not have duplicates. I kept buying albums that I thought

1081
00:58:46,519 --> 00:58:48,639
i'd only listen to a friends' houses, and really I

1082
00:58:48,639 --> 00:58:50,400
had them myself, which is also an indication that I

1083
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,519
have too many albums. But I really like that. I

1084
00:58:52,559 --> 00:58:55,280
also like seeing the value of what I have, which

1085
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:58,880
discog shows you what it has sold for recently, and

1086
00:58:59,079 --> 00:59:02,280
you can you know that doesn't. I like an album

1087
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:04,480
because I like it, but it is also good to

1088
00:59:04,559 --> 00:59:06,639
know the value of the collection. Or sometimes I get

1089
00:59:06,719 --> 00:59:09,599
albums from other people and I will look at it

1090
00:59:09,599 --> 00:59:11,679
and I'll be like, oh wow, this prog rock album

1091
00:59:11,719 --> 00:59:14,239
is worth like one hundred and fifty dollars. Most albums,

1092
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:16,800
even if they're quote unquote valuable, would be like twenty dollars.

1093
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:19,920
So yeah, you have a few. They're just like super

1094
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:21,519
Sonic on their value.

1095
00:59:21,639 --> 00:59:23,519
Speaker 1: And when I started putting them in, I would just

1096
00:59:23,559 --> 00:59:25,480
throw them in. I'd say that's my album, and I

1097
00:59:25,559 --> 00:59:27,559
do the original and it'll tell me it's worth like

1098
00:59:27,559 --> 00:59:29,559
five hundred dollars. When I have some kind of like

1099
00:59:30,199 --> 00:59:33,679
yeah yeah. So lately I've been better with that because

1100
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:35,840
it's telling me my album collection is worth like one

1101
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:38,519
hundred thousand, which is not true, not even close, but

1102
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:43,760
getting yeah, no, no, that's it's because like you know,

1103
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:46,400
I'll have a claim to have an original of something

1104
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:51,440
that's been a reprinted. But anyway, so guess what, Molly,

1105
00:59:51,519 --> 00:59:54,880
I got a I got a catalog here that someone

1106
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:58,400
sent me. So when you review books and things like that.

1107
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:01,440
You'll get the cat log for the winter books that

1108
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:04,280
are coming at and right, here is a new book

1109
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:08,760
by Molly Emingway. Oh yes, yes, I see the cover here.

1110
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:12,559
It's called Alito, the Justice who reshaped the Supreme Court

1111
01:00:12,559 --> 01:00:18,159
and restored the Constitution. So that's exciting, which is really interesting.

1112
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:20,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, can you take a picture and send it to me?

1113
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:26,599
Speaker 1: You don't know what you can, Well, you must have

1114
01:00:26,599 --> 01:00:29,159
gone through the cover. That process is always harrowing for

1115
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:32,880
me with the books I've written. Because you're saying no,

1116
01:00:35,039 --> 01:00:37,440
they'll send me something. I'm like, no, no, no, no,

1117
01:00:38,599 --> 01:00:39,320
it's a good cover.

1118
01:00:40,559 --> 01:00:41,039
Speaker 2: Awesome.

1119
01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:43,559
Speaker 1: I suspect you could probably go on Amazon now or

1120
01:00:43,599 --> 01:00:45,280
wherever and pre order it if you wanted to.

1121
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:48,119
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can. I will definitely make

1122
01:00:48,119 --> 01:00:51,840
an announcement and I will definitely be pushing everybody to

1123
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:55,559
buy as many copies as I can. But also I

1124
01:00:55,599 --> 01:00:58,639
saw that Justice Alito will have a book out next

1125
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:01,719
year as well, like Minds coming out in the spring

1126
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:05,239
in or April, I think, and his is coming out later.

1127
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:09,079
But next year is also his twentieth anniversary on the Court,

1128
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:12,719
and so there are various legal societies are doing things

1129
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:15,360
to commemorate that too. So even though this book took

1130
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:17,320
me longer than I would have liked to get done,

1131
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:20,199
it's coming out at exactly the right time for the

1132
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:21,159
Year of Aledo.

1133
01:01:22,159 --> 01:01:25,280
Speaker 1: The year of Aledo, if I remember correctly, when he

1134
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:28,519
was first the expectations of Aledo were not that he

1135
01:01:28,519 --> 01:01:31,039
would be this kind of leading conservative on the core

1136
01:01:31,119 --> 01:01:32,960
when he was first named, right, I mean, I think

1137
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:34,920
maybe even there were some reservations of at him. I

1138
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:35,880
don't remember exactly.

1139
01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:38,079
Speaker 2: No, I don't think. I actually think people always think.

1140
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:40,679
I don't think people realized he would be the giant

1141
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:43,480
that he became. But people had the expectation that he

1142
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:46,039
would be good because he'd been on a lower fort

1143
01:01:46,119 --> 01:01:48,400
for so long. It had been just solid, like there

1144
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,440
was never a there was never like a what was

1145
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:53,079
he thinking here kind of decision. He was just super

1146
01:01:53,119 --> 01:01:56,280
solid but super quiet. So people did not think that

1147
01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:58,800
he would become the author of all of these like

1148
01:01:58,880 --> 01:01:59,960
major opinions and all that.

1149
01:02:00,719 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 1: Not great. Well, I look forward to reading it. Yeah,

1150
01:02:04,239 --> 01:02:06,199
I'm sure we'll talk about it in the future, maybe

1151
01:02:06,199 --> 01:02:08,760
even next week when we'll be back. Until then, your

1152
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:10,280
lovers are for the