Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna share a version of this story
Speaker 1: because I just I started laughing, just started laughing when
Speaker 1: it was said to me, so good morning. And I
Speaker 1: guess if you listen to the show, you probably realize
Speaker 1: that next week I am, I'm headed to Ashville and
Speaker 1: we're gonna be Now we're broadcasting on Ashville because we
Speaker 1: have an iHeart location in Ashville, so it's not just
Speaker 1: about Ashville, but it's about western North Carolina. And I
Speaker 1: got this idea months ago where I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to friends of mine, I'm talking to listeners,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to different people, and one of their driving
Speaker 1: concerns is they every year as a family, this time
Speaker 1: of the year, right between Memorial Day and Labor Day,
Speaker 1: which is official to a North Carolina vacation season, they
Speaker 1: you know, they do a mountain trip, they go to
Speaker 1: Banner Elk, or they go to Ashville, or they go
Speaker 1: to a want to Noah or Grandfather or Sparta or
Speaker 1: ash County or whatever it is. Right and following what
Speaker 1: happened with Hurricane, you know, Hurricane Helen, are we going
Speaker 1: to be able to do that this year? And that's
Speaker 1: a debt. Look that's a death nail for people trying
Speaker 1: to get back on their feet out there, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: And so I said, I told our management. I said,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to Western North Carolina and I'm
Speaker 1: going to broadcast a whole week out there. Right. That was?
Speaker 1: That was It's literally my idea, right not. I don't
Speaker 1: mean that in a smug way, but I just mean that,
Speaker 1: like nobody within management knew that that was the thing
Speaker 1: that I wanted to do. And they tend to let
Speaker 1: Ross and I do most of the things that we
Speaker 1: want to do because we do a good job for them,
Speaker 1: and we'll leave it at that. So I'm setting all
Speaker 1: this up. I'm getting it all ready, and on Saturday,
Speaker 1: I have to go to iHeart Charlotte, right our our
Speaker 1: radio cluster there, and then I am off to Asheville,
Speaker 1: just because I got to pick up equipment and stuff
Speaker 1: for the broadcast. But you don't need to know that,
Speaker 1: all right. So I'm talking to somebody in Ashville yesterday
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, so i'll be up Saturday or
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna have dinner with some folks that
Speaker 1: I know up there, and I'll be up Saturday. And
Speaker 1: this is literally literally the statement that said, as you know,
Speaker 1: my concern on Saturday is Randy Wayingarten's group. Yes, the
Speaker 1: Teachers' Union lady has organized something called the No King,
Speaker 1: No Kings something stupid whatever, right, And it's just that
Speaker 1: I hate Trump rally and they're doing it like all
Speaker 1: across the US a bunch of different cities. Now I
Speaker 1: don't know what the turnout's going to be. I saw
Speaker 1: some rallies yesterday where like five people showed up looking
Speaker 1: at you downtown Raleigh, and so I don't know, but
Speaker 1: like the thing that makes me go is that Charlotte
Speaker 1: and Ashville and Raleigh and you know, the Triad are
Speaker 1: all on this list. And the last thing that I
Speaker 1: want to deal with when I'm just trying to get
Speaker 1: to Ashville on Saturday is moonbats. Like I don't want
Speaker 1: to deal with your crap. And so it was kind
Speaker 1: of left unsaid. And somebody said to me yesterday and
Speaker 1: I had to I had to not start laughing, was oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: so when you come into town, just so you know,
Speaker 1: they're having like a party downtown or something. So at
Speaker 1: the hotel I'm staying at, which is the Hey at
Speaker 1: Parks it's a very nice hotel right downtown. Uh, and
Speaker 1: there there are sponsor for this uh, this event just
Speaker 1: full disclosure. There is like right downtown. It's you know
Speaker 1: where it is Ross It's it's the hotel I was
Speaker 1: staying at when the giant homeless person attacked me with
Speaker 1: their cigarette. It's literally that one. But they said, I
Speaker 1: think there's a party downtown, and I'm just like, I
Speaker 1: don't think that counts as a party. Have you seen
Speaker 1: the party footage out of Los Angeles? Right, because you've
Speaker 1: been dubbing in audio, you've seen some of that party
Speaker 1: footage now you have seen tons of it. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks like a good party. So they're gonna have
Speaker 1: like a big party downtown when you're there. Huh.
Speaker 2: I get maybe it's for me, I don't know, hippies
Speaker 2: and masks with bear mace or something like, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a good time.
Speaker 1: How do you party? Do you not party with hippies
Speaker 1: and masks with bear mace? I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just let's just start laughing. You
Speaker 1: might want to bring like an actual mace. Oh that's
Speaker 1: a good point. Yeah, what's it imbued with? Should I
Speaker 1: go with cold acid, fire, holy on a mace. Let
Speaker 1: me just tell you, man, Yeah, it's gonna like a
Speaker 1: faith build Yeah yeah, yeah. So it's a party downtown. Uh,
Speaker 1: which I here's the weird part. I'm actually excited. I like,
Speaker 1: I dude, one of my favorite things ever was running
Speaker 1: with the protesters, you know, like it's Pamploma and the bulls,
Speaker 1: like because they're just such lunatics. Man. Well, and it's
Speaker 1: crazy because you have like a personally, a perfectly reasonable
Speaker 1: person and if it's too if it's out of control,
Speaker 1: there will be the moment when the reasonable person meaning
Speaker 1: like we have different political ideas whatever, where they where
Speaker 1: they go the hell did I show up to? Because
Speaker 1: they see they see the people around them acting like,
Speaker 1: you know, criminals, lunatics. So super I don't want the
Speaker 1: party in Charlotte because I just got to get in there,
Speaker 1: grab what I need and you know, head head to Ashville.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to deal with that. But like
Speaker 1: ash Ashville party might be fun. I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be fun and that anyone's reasonable and
Speaker 1: a lot of people just get very annoyed by it.
Speaker 1: But like the stuff, they'll tell you is is wild,
Speaker 1: although nowadays you have too many, too many people out
Speaker 1: there try to trigger them for video, so I think
Speaker 1: they're probably a little more hostile. But we'll see. I'll
Speaker 1: report back to you. But it's not a party. It's
Speaker 1: it's not a party. I'm just telling you.
Speaker 2: It's like so funny, like it's like a street festival
Speaker 2: or like a fast market or something.
Speaker 1: You know, Oh yeah, go down. All they got to do.
Speaker 1: They got all the breweries are going to be there.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a you do tastings and stuff. Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's and it's Asheville. So guaranteed some lunatics will roll out.
Speaker 1: Now I can't decide if I want it to be
Speaker 1: the younger I actually I know I can't decide. I
Speaker 1: want it to be the younger lunatics, not the AARP
Speaker 1: meeting that for whatever reason, these anti Trump protests have
Speaker 1: turned into. But I will find out. We'll find out.
Speaker 1: But that's next week, so just hold on for that.
Speaker 1: You know what it is, you know what it is.
Speaker 1: It's going to be exuberance, That's what it'll be. It'll be.
Speaker 1: And I have to remember this, Nancy Pelosi schooled me.
Speaker 1: In fact, let me let me have Nancy Pelosi school
Speaker 1: all of you.
Speaker 3: When and I say this as a former party two,
Speaker 3: when there is a gathering, a large gathering of people,
Speaker 3: the anarchists see it as an opportunity and they move in.
Speaker 3: So always have to be careful whether you see a
Speaker 3: burned car or broken window or whatever it is. It
Speaker 3: may be the exuberance of the moment, but it may
Speaker 3: be the anarchist setting in. I heard one of the
Speaker 3: former police chiefs of Los Angeles speak about this on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Ross have you have? Have you ever exhubed so hard
Speaker 1: that your car caught fire? You know, I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. You've never exubed? Is that hard?
Speaker 1: I'm no, I don't think I have. Okay, maybe I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try it hard enough. Yeah, well you're not partied enough.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's what's going on here. So all right.
Speaker 1: So Nancy Pelosi, who, by the way, you don't even
Speaker 1: have to mess with her audio anymore to make her
Speaker 1: sound like something's going on right. By the way, she
Speaker 1: she made a trade yesterday, just killed it at the
Speaker 1: stock market. I followed that Pelosi tracker. They have a
Speaker 1: Pelosi investment Tracker account. You should follow that anyway. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it might be a crime, but it might just be
Speaker 1: the exuberance of the moment. And if you exube too hard,
Speaker 1: your car will burst into flames. Its gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of exuber inso Nashville, that's what I heard. Well,
Speaker 1: and Charlotte and Raleigh and the Triad, Yeah, they're exhubing
Speaker 1: all over the state. Man, you better be ready. And
Speaker 1: as you know, a vehicle that is wrapped as a
Speaker 1: media vehicle is not literally a target. So at least
Speaker 1: you don't have Rush Limbaugh's big head on it. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, because I'm gonna grab one of the
Speaker 1: Charlotte vehicles and might drive that up because I need
Speaker 1: a larger suv, And so I don't know how it's wrapped.
Speaker 1: To be cross with you. It could be Rush Limbaugh's head.
Speaker 1: And then I end up like you in the MLK
Speaker 1: day parade over in Durham, harassing people who march with
Speaker 1: the King. So, and for those who don't know this story,
Speaker 1: or Ross and our former program director had our station
Speaker 1: vehicle in the MLK eight parade over in Durham and
Speaker 1: it didn't go. Well, Yeah, that was the old rap
Speaker 1: that had like Rush Limba's big head on it. It was
Speaker 1: the van. It wasn't even the suv with yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was the van. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't think and I think it was just Rush Limbaugh.
Speaker 2: I don't think like it was Handedy or Beck or anything.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was maybe they're like tying.
Speaker 1: Or remember what we had on that. So but it
Speaker 1: didn't matter at that point. The message is out there
Speaker 1: and uh, you're driving or Brian's driving. No, I was driving,
Speaker 1: and Brian was throwing candy out the window in people's faces.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like you said, the MLK Junior parade.
Speaker 2: And so he's throwing candy out and it hits some
Speaker 2: old guy right in the face, leg in the face,
Speaker 2: and the crowd turns on the van and they were
Speaker 2: already kind of like, you know, weird with the van anyway,
Speaker 2: right right, yeah, you know, because the Originallymba's big head
Speaker 2: is like being you know, driven down Durham whatever. So
Speaker 2: it hits this old guy in the head and you
Speaker 2: can just see like a switch in his head, you know,
Speaker 2: and he just goes, I must wait the king and
Speaker 2: they picked up their candy off the ground. And start
Speaker 2: throwing it at the van in the side of the van.
Speaker 2: It sounds like it's getting hit with hail.
Speaker 1: It's a poor gunshot.
Speaker 2: Or yeah, Brian's just like go, go, go like that,
Speaker 2: and he's like ducking under the window because the candy
Speaker 2: starts flying into the van to hitting the van.
Speaker 1: And I hadn't done it. We just leave the parade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got home celebrated enough. Mark, He's like, you're home early.
Speaker 1: How'd it go? Yeah? Did you tell her about the party? Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was so much exuberance at the time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: We had to leave it one more time. Nancy tell us.
Speaker 3: Again when and I say this as a former party chair,
Speaker 3: when there is a gathering, a large gathering of people,
Speaker 3: the anarchists see it as an opportunity and they move in.
Speaker 1: By the way, I will say this, that is that
Speaker 1: might be one of the most that part right there
Speaker 1: might be one of the most honest things I've ever
Speaker 1: heard her say, because she's not inaccurate.
Speaker 2: I was thinking the same thing, and she actually sounds
Speaker 2: pretty coherent compared to pass cuts, especially compared to like
Speaker 2: what you're saying, like Maxim Waters yesterday at least Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 2: She seems like she's there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'll give you that. In fact, put the
Speaker 1: Maxine door slam audio up. I'll probably play that again.
Speaker 1: So she's right, right, because looks as funny as it
Speaker 1: is to go. You know, it's just a bunch of
Speaker 1: criminals gathering. A lot of people come out there. They
Speaker 1: don't have the intention of I don't know, threatening to
Speaker 1: murder a woman with her babies. Well they throw bottles
Speaker 1: at her like that's but you know, you get swept
Speaker 1: up in the moment because the exuberance. And she's right,
Speaker 1: you have a core group of people who utilize this
Speaker 1: to carry out they're much more vibe form of protest
Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, like trying to get a Democrat
Speaker 1: to admit that has not been easy, so I will
Speaker 1: give her credit for that. However, this is where we
Speaker 1: go off.
Speaker 3: The rails, so always have to be careful whether you
Speaker 3: see a burned car or broken window or whatever it is.
Speaker 3: It may be the exuberance of the moment, but it
Speaker 3: may be the anarchist setting in. I heard one of
Speaker 3: the former police chiefs of Los Angeles speak about this
Speaker 3: on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, great, So that's where we go off
Speaker 1: the rails because she's like, it may be anarch, it
Speaker 1: may be criminals, or it may just be the exuberance
Speaker 1: of the moment. And I'm like, the first one's correct,
Speaker 1: what the hell is the second one. Cars don't just
Speaker 1: spontaneously combust when people are exuberant, like, somebody's gotta light that.
Speaker 1: Somebody's got to make the decision that we're gonna to
Speaker 1: light this thing on fire. Unless there's very rare occasions
Speaker 1: where a car will actually catch fire when you don't
Speaker 1: mean it to, depending on what kind of engine you have. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's a thing that diesel engines can do where they
Speaker 1: start cycling and they can't stop, and you got it.
Speaker 1: The trick is you got to cut off oxygen to
Speaker 1: them where it will it will just perpetually turn into
Speaker 1: a thing where the engine literally converst into flames. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a very rare thing. And if you don't
Speaker 1: drive a diesel, you don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 1: And frankly, if you drive a modern diesel, you really
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about it. But you've got to
Speaker 1: get old diesel engine, specifically an old diesel tractor engine,
Speaker 1: it can start spinning wildly out of control, and at
Speaker 1: that point, again you have to you gotta cut oxygen.
Speaker 1: It's called a right, you called a runaway. But diesel
Speaker 1: people know what I'm talking about. So the engine essentially,
Speaker 1: the engine will continue to cycle and the RPMs will
Speaker 1: build and you're not giving it any fuel. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of issues contamination of the fuel. It could
Speaker 1: be an intake issue, but it's so rare that almost
Speaker 1: nobody will deal with this in their lifetime. I have
Speaker 1: had to deal with it with a tractor, and if
Speaker 1: you throw a rag over the air intake, it'll it'll
Speaker 1: solve itself. Right. If it can't get oxygen in there,
Speaker 1: that's it. But Nancy Pelosi doesn't know this. It's not
Speaker 1: a thing that she's ever had to deal with, so
Speaker 1: she won't have to worry about it. So while the
Speaker 1: first part is reasonable that you got to watch out
Speaker 1: because ne'er do wells will get in there and then
Speaker 1: they'll start doing crimes and stuff, the second parts arguably
Speaker 1: insane because exuberance has never burned. Twenty two way mos
Speaker 1: or whatever the number was that they came up with yesterday. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, So there you go. Now we all learned
Speaker 1: about diesel runaways. Very exciting. That's what this show is education,
Speaker 1: and we'll be back. Apparently there's a pee Wee Herman documentary.
Speaker 1: It's two parts. It's on HBO Max. So that's it.
Speaker 1: It's called pee Wee as himself. And well, I shouldn't
Speaker 1: say it's a peeweeedy, it's a Paul Rubins documentary, right,
Speaker 1: because that's who Peewee is and pee Wee is one
Speaker 1: of these first This is so in the wheelhouse of
Speaker 1: my childhood and Ross's childhood because it's just the age
Speaker 1: and easily pee Wee's Big Adventure was probably one of
Speaker 1: the i'll say top ten most watched and rewatched movies
Speaker 1: of my childhood. Uh yeah, I would rank it easily
Speaker 1: one of the top you know, five movies to Camp
Speaker 1: was a couple of the earnest movies. Pee Wee's Big
Speaker 1: Adventure watched them one hundred times as a kid. It's
Speaker 1: no question. So the document the documentary's pretty good, is
Speaker 1: what Ross is saying. Yeah, but you only watched half
Speaker 1: of it, right, You watched first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we watched the first episode. Yep, we've learned we've
Speaker 2: learned a lot about Paul Rubins. Yeah, would you learn
Speaker 2: I don't want to spoil anything.
Speaker 1: Well no, no, no. The so the pee Wee's Big Adventure,
Speaker 1: This is a fascinating story. So they didn't think the
Speaker 1: movie was going to do anything.
Speaker 2: No, they thought it was going to bomb. They released
Speaker 2: it in like you know, three Cities and Opening Night.
Speaker 2: But he got the support of MTV and you know,
Speaker 2: celebrities and stuff that have known him. It's crazy how
Speaker 2: he came up with the character, how he sort of
Speaker 2: and you see.
Speaker 1: This a lot of people don't know if Phil Hartman
Speaker 1: was kind of his writing partner. Yeah, they were friends
Speaker 1: at the Groundlings. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So they talk about how they came up with the
Speaker 2: concept of the idea. The idea like it was gonna
Speaker 2: be completely different movie. He wanted to be like a
Speaker 2: there was this movie with Hayley Mills called Pollyanna. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he wanted it to be like a male version of that,
Speaker 2: where like pee Wee gets oh no, gets injured and
Speaker 2: he loses the ability to walk and it was dies
Speaker 2: and he like comes dark, yeah, and he like rehabilitates
Speaker 2: and becomes a better person. And while they're writing this movie.
Speaker 2: They're really struggling writing this movie. Him and Phil Hartman.
Speaker 2: There was another guy too, I don't remember his name, sorry,
Speaker 2: guy on the lot of Warner Brothers at the time.
Speaker 2: Everybody's riding bikes back and forth like to where it
Speaker 2: was just a thing they did. Yeah, yeah, and it
Speaker 2: was pissed off because he didn't have his own bike.
Speaker 2: And one day he opened the door to where they
Speaker 2: were writing the movie and outside was you know, it
Speaker 2: was the bike, but it was like an orange version
Speaker 2: of the bike from the movie. Okay, and you know
Speaker 2: it said to pee Wee Herman and he said, from
Speaker 2: there the movie just came to him, like the movie
Speaker 2: just pours, and.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it worked.
Speaker 2: And you can probably relate to this. Sometimes in like
Speaker 2: a creative field, when you have a good idea, it
Speaker 2: just sort of happens. Yes, it's best not but if
Speaker 2: you sit down try to force an idea, it's not
Speaker 2: gonna be as good as the idea just sort of
Speaker 2: like comes to you and you hear like musicians say
Speaker 2: this too, like the song just came out of me,
Speaker 2: Like the lyrics just came out of me, and like
Speaker 2: they wrote the movie like super fast once they realized
Speaker 2: what it was.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean to make this all about us,
Speaker 1: but the stuff that you guys probably think is the
Speaker 1: funniest we do on the show, Ross and I don't.
Speaker 1: We don't pre create it. I don't know how to
Speaker 1: describe it. Like it just it just vibes, man. So
Speaker 1: just so that's what Ross is talking. It just vibes.
Speaker 1: You just realize this is funny and we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: going with They wanted the Gimes. It works sometimes it don't,
Speaker 1: so they wanted to give him a different director. He
Speaker 1: chose Tim Burton. It was Tim Burton's first movie, but
Speaker 1: it cost it that worked out for him.
Speaker 2: It cost them six million dollars to make that movie
Speaker 2: and it ended up grossing like forty two million or
Speaker 2: something like forty seven for I just looked.
Speaker 1: It up, so this is just the US gross. It
Speaker 1: ended up grossing forty one million during its initial theatrical
Speaker 1: run on a six million dollar budget. So yeah, pretty
Speaker 1: obviously nowadays movies are stupid.
Speaker 2: But but it's also one of these things where like
Speaker 2: he created a character and like an you know, alter ego,
Speaker 2: this persona that he sort.
Speaker 1: Of got, like.
Speaker 2: You know, he created no, no, no, no, but he
Speaker 2: was trashed in the character that he created that made
Speaker 2: him gave him the fame exactly.
Speaker 1: That's the thing, look, Ernest p. Warrel, yep, right, that's
Speaker 1: and and by the way, it doesn't sound like he
Speaker 1: appreciated that very.
Speaker 2: Much, but he was saying that, you know, like with
Speaker 2: the movie with Pee Wee's Big Adventure, he was kind
Speaker 2: of upset that he didn't get like the credit he
Speaker 2: deserved because he wrote the movie with Phil Hartman, and
Speaker 2: he said on you know, it said pee Wee her
Speaker 2: you know when. So the credits start rolling and it says,
Speaker 2: because he made pee Wee Herman as if pee Wee
Speaker 2: Herman was a real character, It's like performance are like
Speaker 2: Andy Kaufman, right, like, this is a real guy. His
Speaker 2: name is pee Wee and that's who I am. And
Speaker 2: I don't do I don't I don't do interviews as
Speaker 2: Paul Rubins, right.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 2: So the credits are rolling and it says pee Wee
Speaker 2: Herman as himself, and then it says who wrote the
Speaker 2: movie and it says, you know, Phil Hartman, Paul Rubins
Speaker 2: and the other guy that I can't remember. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: And guy's listening like a pistop at you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's cash and checks. He's fine. But he realized
Speaker 1: like people didn't know who Paul Rubins was, Like they
Speaker 1: didn't know that he wrote the movie. No, I think really,
Speaker 1: I think people picked up on his name with the
Speaker 1: theater incident, which is unfortunate. Right, That's when everything sort
Speaker 1: of like came to light, Right, Yeah, yeah, what's crazy
Speaker 1: about a character too or an actor like this? Pee
Speaker 1: wee Herman went to And I didn't know this was
Speaker 1: a thing until I went to school in California, and
Speaker 1: you know, now you're in the college culture there. Some
Speaker 1: people talk about it. So when when we think of
Speaker 1: like famous acting schools, what's the one in New York
Speaker 1: that everybody knows Julliard Julliard? Right, Oh, this this person
Speaker 1: went to Julliard. Pee Wee Herman essentially went to Juilliard.
Speaker 1: He went to what's called cal Arts, which is like
Speaker 1: it's if you don't go to Juilliard and you're a
Speaker 1: famous actor, you probably went to cal Arts. But like
Speaker 1: famous dramatic actor.
Speaker 2: And because he went there and he like everything is unfit.
Speaker 2: There's so much early footage of him that he tried
Speaker 2: keep keeping hidden for a long time, like different roles
Speaker 2: he was in and a lot of the reasons he
Speaker 2: was trying to keep that hidden is spoiler beginning of
Speaker 2: the movie. You know, if you don't know the history
Speaker 2: of Paul Rubins and Super Gay. Oh yeah ye, so
Speaker 2: a lot of these role like he was a straight
Speaker 2: up like drag queen like most of the early Dad doesn't.
Speaker 1: Work in eighties nineties kids television.
Speaker 2: But he decided along the way that he was going
Speaker 2: to become pee wee Herman, and he had to completely
Speaker 2: separate himself from you know, you know, if his sexuality
Speaker 2: was public, he believed that his career wouldn't have had
Speaker 2: the trajectory that it had. He might yeah right, it's
Speaker 2: probably right. Yeah, So, I mean he had to hide,
Speaker 2: Like he said, he was trapped in this persona like
Speaker 2: I'm pee wee Herman now all the time I was.
Speaker 1: And this is going back to Ernest and some of
Speaker 1: this others. It's like, it's got to be frustrating because
Speaker 1: you want more latitude to be creative. But I bet
Speaker 1: those checks were nice, you know what I'm saying. Ernest
Speaker 1: also went to Juilliard. People don't you go to Juilliard colts, No, Earnest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this is the point that I'm making. So
Speaker 1: like you see that and you think of the silliness
Speaker 1: of the characters, right or the kids focus, But then
Speaker 1: you realize like they were doing they were doing Shakespeare
Speaker 1: for their mid terms.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: There was a photo of Paul Rubins in a in
Speaker 2: a play or whatever, or in a performance at school
Speaker 2: as Jesus on the Cross, as Jesus in the play. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's not something that I thought i'd ever see.
Speaker 1: No, that's it.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 1: This is why I always find it fascinating. And we
Speaker 1: talk about, well this this really goofy actor went to
Speaker 1: Juilliard or went to CalArts. Yeah, or there's a school
Speaker 1: in London, I can't remember the name of it. Which
Speaker 1: you are like hardcore acting dramatic. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I remember like seeing a video of a you know,
Speaker 2: Jimfarni r Ernest right, yeah, playing it was like Hamlet
Speaker 2: or Macbeth or something.
Speaker 1: Holding the skull.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and look some people embrace it. Dan Whitney, who
Speaker 1: might so the guy used to host a radio show
Speaker 1: that was literally his roommate when they were starting out
Speaker 1: in comedy. If you don't know who Dan Whitney is
Speaker 1: I promise you do. His name is Larry the Cable Guy,
Speaker 1: which was a small part of his act where he
Speaker 1: pretended to be the cable guy. So you have this
Speaker 1: comedian his name is Dan Whitney. He's doing his you know,
Speaker 1: he's trying to cut it, he's trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1: And then so as part of a forty five minute set,
Speaker 1: he's got five minutes where he pretends to be this
Speaker 1: cable guy character. Now he's Dan the Cable Guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's done right, that's it to go up.
Speaker 2: And Paul Rumans just embraced it. He's like, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna try to be serious actor anymore. I Am going
Speaker 2: to be pee Wee Herman. And he said one of
Speaker 2: his biggest heroes was Andy Warhol because of you know,
Speaker 2: the performance art sort of thing. And that's and he
Speaker 2: said one of the biggest, most surreal moments of his
Speaker 2: life is he was performing this Too Dio tour before
Speaker 2: he filmed Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Even wrote it, and
Speaker 2: one of the people that showed up to watch it
Speaker 2: was Andy Warhol. He's just like, you know, he wants
Speaker 2: to have this conversation with Andy, like Hey, I'm a
Speaker 2: performance artist too. You know, I'm not really pee I'm
Speaker 2: Paul Rubins, but like he's pee Wee. Yeah, I made
Speaker 2: the decision. I'm just going to be pee Wee, and
Speaker 2: I'm going to be the best pee Wee I can be,
Speaker 2: and it's going to be real successful.
Speaker 1: Hold on, somebody send me an email. I it was
Speaker 1: pee Wee a child per No, I don't. That was
Speaker 1: not part of it. Somebody just send me an email.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't remember any kids stuff with pee Wee. No,
Speaker 1: there's nothing about that. No, he went to he literally
Speaker 1: went to an adult He went to a porn theater
Speaker 1: and there was an incident, which is still really questionable.
Speaker 1: You know, you probably. I'm just saying like people would remember, no,
Speaker 1: remember when that happened.
Speaker 2: When they hit the news, it was like it was
Speaker 2: imagine like you know Captain Kangaroo where mister Rogers gets
Speaker 2: caught at a CD movie theater.
Speaker 1: It was like, wow, he had the incident with mister
Speaker 1: green jeans. So it was a little before a time. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it was a dude. The idea that a kid's a
Speaker 1: kid's television show star was at a theater with his
Speaker 1: pants down, dude. You couldn't write a more eighties nineties
Speaker 1: sensational story, you know what I'm saying. I remember that.
Speaker 2: I remember that happening, and it was like such a
Speaker 2: shocking thing because kids loved Pee Wee Herman. Every kid
Speaker 2: did the Pee Wee Herman dance and loved that movie
Speaker 2: and watched that movie a million times. And then he
Speaker 2: disappeared after that like you didn't hear anything because it
Speaker 2: was a huge scandal, right, And the next time I
Speaker 2: remember him popping up was in the movie blow At
Speaker 2: Johnny Depp where he played like the the Dealer, but
Speaker 2: he was in there credited as Paul Rubins. He was
Speaker 2: in that movie is Paul Rubins, And it's the first
Speaker 2: time I saw him not as pee Wee Herman.
Speaker 1: It was shocking. It was like, this is the real guy.
Speaker 1: What's the mister green Jeans? And so see guy? All right?
Speaker 1: So Hugh Branham I think was the actor's name of
Speaker 1: playing mister Green Jean. So it wasn't true. But the
Speaker 1: when he died, he died of natural causes. Just if
Speaker 1: we're jumping the way back machine, so he died of
Speaker 1: he was on Captain Kangaroo mister Green. He died of
Speaker 1: natural causes, and it turned into this rumor that he
Speaker 1: killed himself, which he didn't, but yet that was I
Speaker 1: remember being taught that he killed himself. He didn't kill himself.
Speaker 1: He just he was in his seventies. He just died.
Speaker 1: It happens. And and then that turned into a thing
Speaker 1: and there you know, there's been other stuff like that
Speaker 1: where remember the remember the thing with the Blues Clues
Speaker 1: guy where they're like, oh, he's doing Heroin.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, and he was just tired of filming in
Speaker 2: front of a blue screen and he was like, I
Speaker 2: feel like I'm living in a swimming pool.
Speaker 1: I need to leave. Yeah. So, but it's the idea
Speaker 1: that like, for whatever reason, if it's a kid show,
Speaker 1: we like make up the worst version of what happened.
Speaker 1: Some guy in his seventies just dies of natural causes,
Speaker 1: which again, it happens, man, it happens. But they're like, ah, right, murdered,
Speaker 1: he killed himself. Or the Blues Clues he's on Heroin
Speaker 1: banging hookers bh bah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So it was like.
Speaker 1: And it's like that guys just burnt out, man, just
Speaker 1: leave them alone. Oh jeez. All right, So anyway, so
Speaker 1: you recommend the all of this to say you recommend
Speaker 1: the I mean, if you grew up loving Pee Wee herman,
Speaker 1: you should probably watch it, but just be aware. Wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, does you find his bike or you know what.
Speaker 1: I don't want to spoil it. I don't want to
Speaker 1: spoil man. I gotta know, I gotta know. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm putting that on the list for the weekend. They'll
Speaker 1: give me something to do while the party's going on outside.
Speaker 1: So weird waited oh to say that. All right, coming
Speaker 1: up on the show, out, let me do this. We'll
Speaker 1: hit a break. I'll give you a run down here
Speaker 1: in just a moment. We have we have the congressman today,
Speaker 1: right we should yeah, yeah, okay, all right, so uh
Speaker 1: we will. We'll be chatting with Congressman Brad Not that'll
Speaker 1: be coming up at eighth five. Lots to get to
Speaker 1: hang out. Listeners have co signed your recommendation here. They
Speaker 1: watched the peewee thing and they thought it was pretty good.
Speaker 1: So just checking my email here, Oh somebody's oh wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, somebody's upset because I said banging. Okay, all right, well,
Speaker 1: what what do you want me to say? Carousing with
Speaker 1: ladies of the evening. I mean I'm trying to I'm
Speaker 1: trying to explain a narrative that people understand. So I'm
Speaker 1: sorry I use the term hookers. Whatever you're offended by,
Speaker 1: I should have said hookers and blow. You're absolutely right,
Speaker 1: that's wrong. People. Man, Oh, do you tune into the
Speaker 1: show for niceties or do you tune in because you
Speaker 1: want to be entertained? Are you not entertained?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not gonna lie though. The beginning, Like
Speaker 2: watching the beginning of that Paul Rubens documentary, I was
Speaker 2: a little like surprised, like like you said, so.
Speaker 1: Just no, just just in in the sheer gayness of
Speaker 1: Paul Rubens, right.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, it's it's out there, like you know, they're
Speaker 2: not going to hide anything, and this is like, what
Speaker 2: is it? What is I guess I always knew he
Speaker 2: was gay, So it's so funny because you know, I
Speaker 2: don't care, but it's some one of those things like
Speaker 2: in retrospect you look back and you're like, well, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, did you see how nice that suit was?
Speaker 1: Clearly gay? What is wrong? But it was such a
Speaker 1: surprise at the time, like it was a scandal when
Speaker 1: he was like, what are you talking about? Yeah, because
Speaker 1: we're eleven, right, right, right, we're eleven or whatever. That
Speaker 1: When did that movie come out? Hold on, I think
Speaker 1: it came out nineteen eighty eight maybe, yeah, I got it.
Speaker 1: I hold out here in front of me. Uh eighty No,
Speaker 1: it came out in eighty five. Wow, I had no idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you me or five or whatever. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was good. I just we've talked about this on
Speaker 1: the show. Large Marge was the most terrifying thing in
Speaker 1: my childhood up to that point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's a it's like a Tim Burton moment
Speaker 2: now that you go back and look at it, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's so like, wow, you know clay mation when her
Speaker 2: face transforms driving that eighteen that's hor terrifying. After yeah,
Speaker 2: terrifying as a kid.
Speaker 1: I I remember that it literally turned into like it
Speaker 1: cost me sleep. I played it for Lincoln because and
Speaker 1: and so it gets how old was he? It was
Speaker 1: like like a year or two years ago. Oh, so
Speaker 1: I'm playing it for him and we get to the
Speaker 1: large March scene and I'm so excited. I'm so excited,
Speaker 1: so I'm not even looking at the screen. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at him with my eyes open and like, because you're scared,
Speaker 1: ready to go, ready to go where? And he thought
Speaker 1: it was the funniest thing on the planet.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 2: He just bursts out into laughter and he watched it
Speaker 2: over and over again. I'm like, no, you're supposed to
Speaker 2: be scared, terrified. You gotta have buddy weird, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, this was daddy's this was daddy's death.
Speaker 1: And he's just like, he's like, ah, it's so funny.
Speaker 1: They're just like they're like Vietnam vets. Now it's just
Speaker 1: the crap. They can access us just a thousand yards
Speaker 1: stare on your kid? What a what a better time
Speaker 1: when the large march thing could be the worst thing
Speaker 1: in your life? You know, it's weird too, ross. I
Speaker 1: saw the Senator Bud posted a picture he flew on
Speaker 1: Air Force one yesterday. He was I think he was
Speaker 1: on Air Force one when we did the interview. Did
Speaker 1: you hear how his audio sounded a little weird yet
Speaker 1: what a jerk? And he didn't mention it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he was technically on, but I saw the
Speaker 1: timeline of when there was some pictures posted on social media.
Speaker 1: I think he might have been on Air Force one.
Speaker 1: How do you not say anything nice? I want you
Speaker 1: to go steal something for me that says air Force
Speaker 1: one on it. That's what it was. He knew i'd
Speaker 1: put him, I'd try to put him up to something. So, dude,
Speaker 1: if I let me just explain Ross, if you're on
Speaker 1: air Force one and you're calling people, are you leaving
Speaker 1: that out? No, it's the first thing I'm saying, Hi
Speaker 1: from Air Force one. You're not gonna believe where I
Speaker 1: am right now? Yeah? Wait, hold on, let me hit
Speaker 1: a button. Ah, look at that. Oh I just duke
Speaker 1: something right, or you know, whatever you do when you're
Speaker 1: on Air Force one. I don't know. I've never been
Speaker 1: on Air Force one. I have been in Trump's plane.
Speaker 1: I will say that on the ground he led some
Speaker 1: journalists up on his plane, so I have peered inside
Speaker 1: Trump Force one. That being said, dude, if I'm on
Speaker 1: Air Force one, I'm calling everybody. I'm not video calling
Speaker 1: everybody because like they're not gonna believe it. Oh, sure
Speaker 1: you are. No, I'm on Air Force one. So next
Speaker 1: time we have him on, remind me to chastise him.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so they so Trump was down at Fort Bragg.
Speaker 1: We've got the big missile parade coming up this weekend.
Speaker 1: I'm calling it missile parade, even though there's probably no missiles.
Speaker 1: And let me just say this one. I want to
Speaker 1: throw the phone number anyone who was at the Trump
Speaker 1: thing that's listening from Brag. I'd love to get your impression.
Speaker 1: So eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven
Speaker 1: four eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven
Speaker 1: four Where yet, if you were on BRAG yesterday and
Speaker 1: you went to the Trump event, love your first person
Speaker 1: how that went. Here's what I realized. You all must
Speaker 1: have hated Biden, bro Like watching the reaction to Trump
Speaker 1: just doing all of his stuff yesterday and watching our
Speaker 1: soldiers react to Trump, like you can just tell when
Speaker 1: people are vibing. You must have hated Biden, and all
Speaker 1: of it is, oh, we're going to change the name
Speaker 1: and no like that. That must have just stuck in
Speaker 1: your craw And I am so sorry for that, because
Speaker 1: you're out here doing a job which may include you
Speaker 1: literally given your life for this country and you had
Speaker 1: to deal with with Joe Biden. Trump was an absolute
Speaker 1: rock star yesterday, absolute rock star. Listen to this for
Speaker 1: a little breaking news.
Speaker 7: We are also going to be restoring the names to
Speaker 7: Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Brooker, Fort Polk, Fort.
Speaker 1: Ab Hill, and Ford Robert E.
Speaker 7: Lee.
Speaker 1: We won a lot of battles out of those forts.
Speaker 1: It's no time to change. And then Trump at the end,
Speaker 1: do we not. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't send it
Speaker 1: to you, dude. There's also at the end he starts
Speaker 1: doing the dance. So he's playing the you know, he's
Speaker 1: playing the music and he's doing the Trump dance with
Speaker 1: the arms out to the side, and the troops are
Speaker 1: losing it. Man, they're losing it. They love this guy,
Speaker 1: Pete Haig Seth. He's talking about, you know, lethality, and
Speaker 1: it's it's an applause line.
Speaker 6: So at the Defense Department, we're doing three critical things
Speaker 6: at his direction. Number one, we're restoring the warrior ethos.
Speaker 6: We're getting back to basics, standards, accountability, readiness, training, war fighting, lethality.
Speaker 1: We're not a college or a university. We're not interested in.
Speaker 6: Your woke garbage and your political correctness.
Speaker 1: Listen to them. They got no time for that. Having
Speaker 1: to sit there with Joe Biden rambling and then falling
Speaker 1: off stage or whatever the hell. I don't know that
Speaker 1: he spoke at brag, but the fact that he wouldn't
Speaker 1: acknowledge it as brag but rather vove for liberty.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: No, those soldiers on Brag yesterday, they love these guys.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's one or two who doesn't. But for
Speaker 1: the most part, like that's the mindset, man, And this
Speaker 1: is this is why it's so important. And just to
Speaker 1: be abundantly clear, I never served in the military, so
Speaker 1: I'm only this is why I invite you guys to
Speaker 1: call in and tell me if I'm wrong. But like,
Speaker 1: just the vibe there, just the mindset that you have
Speaker 1: to have. I got a lot of friends who did.
Speaker 1: I got a lot of family members who did. Served
Speaker 1: and literally served entire careers of the military. I've told
Speaker 1: you my cousin did twenty He ended up doing like
Speaker 1: twenty six years or something because he kept getting talked
Speaker 1: into it. He retired at the highest rank achievable for
Speaker 1: an enlisted member of the Army all right, commands was
Speaker 1: a command sergeant major. I probably apologized, I'm screwing this up.
Speaker 1: Like he gave his life to the military and the
Speaker 1: mindset of people like my cousin and and and friends
Speaker 1: of mine, whether it's Marines or air Force or whatever.
Speaker 1: It is, right, it's it's it's it's clear that the
Speaker 1: very same mindset that they operate on a day to
Speaker 1: day basis is not a Joe Biden mindset. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: dancing they were going berserk, man. But I am curious
Speaker 1: if any of our listeners, and I'm sure there are
Speaker 1: some eight eight eight nine three four. Oh good, okay,
Speaker 1: we got some folks here a right, eight eight eight
Speaker 1: nine three four seven eight seven four just the clips
Speaker 1: I saw looked the electric yesterday. And I'm so happy
Speaker 1: for you guys, because I can't imagine signing a contract
Speaker 1: saying that I can essentially be cannon fodder and then
Speaker 1: having to do that for a guy who disrespects me.
Speaker 1: So I'm so happy for our listeners down at Bragg
Speaker 1: or Le June or you know, Seymour or wherever you're
Speaker 1: working for. A dude who seems to respect you will
Speaker 1: give you the acknowledgment that you're deserved. I love that
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, Hey, Greg, what's up?
Speaker 5: Good morning?
Speaker 1: How are you okay? See, I'm good, sir. So you
Speaker 1: were at the You're at the big Shindy yesterday. How'd
Speaker 1: that go?
Speaker 8: It was phenomenal. I'm not military, My dad was a
Speaker 8: marine and I loved Trump attended it and uh last
Speaker 8: minute signed up and walking through. There was plenty of security,
Speaker 8: of course, but the flyover in the beginning, watching two
Speaker 8: helicopters come in, you weren't sure which one was on
Speaker 8: President Trump was riding on, but you got to come in.
Speaker 1: Hold on, sir, you're telling me he rolled in on
Speaker 1: a helo.
Speaker 8: Uh no, what I can't think of what they call it, uh,
Speaker 8: Air Force two or whatever the helicopter is they flying on?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Marine one one.
Speaker 8: There were actually two of them, so you really didn't
Speaker 8: know which one.
Speaker 1: He was on, right, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, there's actually I
Speaker 1: think there's four of them total, but yeah, yeah, they
Speaker 1: fly multiples for yeah.
Speaker 8: And then when they right and say he was coming out,
Speaker 8: they did a fly over. There was like maybe I
Speaker 8: would say seven or eight apache seven eight black Hawks
Speaker 8: and two Chinooks flying him one by one.
Speaker 5: Behind each other.
Speaker 8: It was phenomenal. And uh, I think that the military
Speaker 8: presidence and not and then other people like the wives
Speaker 8: and kids. It was it was just a phenomena show.
Speaker 8: They had all kinds of weaponry out there that they
Speaker 8: use a combat battle. And Uh, the one thing that
Speaker 8: I think, the one thing that I loved that they
Speaker 8: said was President Trump announced that if we can waste
Speaker 8: money the way we waste money, that he's going to
Speaker 8: give the military a raise. And it went berserk when
Speaker 8: they did that.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it was not going to be a fan
Speaker 1: of that, all right, Greg with the exactly appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Look at that Ross. If you run for president and
Speaker 1: you win, you can go everywhere on Earwolf, so as
Speaker 1: it should be.
Speaker 2: I I was looking for the audio, can't find it
Speaker 2: because you were talking about, you know how what was
Speaker 2: it like when Biden was there, like the difference, and
Speaker 2: I was thinking about the day after the election, or
Speaker 2: maybe it was the day of Ye then the first
Speaker 2: results came in. Do you remember the audio we had?
Speaker 2: And I think we played it live on here, So
Speaker 2: I can't find it in the system where it was
Speaker 2: the Military academy and they said the loud speakers that
Speaker 2: Trump had won, and the entire place erupts. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: it's because it's at night, so they're doing the announcement. Well,
Speaker 2: they're all you know they're all bunked up, right, and
Speaker 2: they say over the loud speaker, the winner of the
Speaker 2: election is you know, Donald J. Trump, and they they
Speaker 2: go crazy, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was, it was it was the Army cat
Speaker 1: it was Yes, it was West Point. Yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: that absolutely. Yeah, big fans of that. So Joe Sett
Speaker 1: good morning, what's up?
Speaker 9: Good morning. I was there yesterday as well. I was
Speaker 9: not on the base when when Air Force one flew in,
Speaker 9: so I got to see that that flew over exactly
Speaker 9: where I was, which is always amazing to see that, right,
Speaker 9: It was great, and Trump is amazing. He is such
Speaker 9: an amazing speaker. We got to see they had on
Speaker 9: the screens when the paratroopers were jumping, so we got
Speaker 9: to see that, and I mean that was unreal just
Speaker 9: to see all. I think I don't remember. I think
Speaker 9: he said it was like six hundred that jumped. I
Speaker 9: think you got something like that in his speech.
Speaker 1: That's that's what Bragg's there for, is paratroopers.
Speaker 9: It was amazing. And then the only thing that I
Speaker 9: was a little disappointed in was the energy. The energy
Speaker 9: was it what I thought it was? I mean, it
Speaker 9: was hot and we were all like melting out there.
Speaker 9: But I still don't think it was that. And I
Speaker 9: don't know if it was because I was expecting the
Speaker 9: energy that I saw on TV whenever I watched his
Speaker 9: rallies when he was running, and this was a completely.
Speaker 1: Different dynamic too, obviously, right right, that's that's your boss
Speaker 1: where versus howe it is, that's you know, that's the
Speaker 1: president there. So I don't take anything away. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: saw people that were happy that heg seth and Trump,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, and like the mindset and that's that's what
Speaker 1: I want for people who signed up to serve this country.
Speaker 9: And I got to tell you that, yeah, the the
Speaker 9: the for the civilians that were on there, there was
Speaker 9: quite a variety of different ethnicities. So when the media
Speaker 9: tries to say that, you know, there are certain ethnicities
Speaker 9: that you know are anti Trump, there was a variety
Speaker 9: of folks they are. So that was that was really
Speaker 9: nice to see as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they saw the video and that's you know, that
Speaker 1: is the military. The military is not a homogeneous group
Speaker 1: of white people. And I saw folks of all shades
Speaker 1: that were dancing around when he was dancing and cheering
Speaker 1: and yeah, and so I thought it was great. All right, Joset,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the call this morning.
Speaker 3: Be that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's what I want for our military
Speaker 1: because God knows what we're going to ask of them.
Speaker 1: I hope we don't have to ask anything of them,
Speaker 1: but if we do, you want it to be somebody
Speaker 1: who they that they like that they'll follow into battle.
Speaker 1: Not really obviously Trump's not going to battle, and go
Speaker 1: ahead and make your bone spurs joke. I don't care.
Speaker 1: My point is that I did not see that enthusiasm
Speaker 1: with Biden and and and people with in the military
Speaker 1: that I talked to were genuinely concerned with what they
Speaker 1: saw going on with all the DEI stuff and everything there.
Speaker 1: Like they couldn't they couldn't understand how this is helping
Speaker 1: them complete whatever their mission is, right, And the recruitment
Speaker 1: numbers showed that correct. Yes, yeah, people who were of
Speaker 1: a military mindset went nah, nah, I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 2: The whole focus on we need Dee in the military
Speaker 2: to me is like super weird anyway, because like this
Speaker 2: is you're talking about the ultimate meritocracy, right.
Speaker 1: And everyone look with all of its bruises and blemishes.
Speaker 1: I understand that I've talked to enough military people that
Speaker 1: being said, you're right, it is merit, right, And of
Speaker 1: course what does your CEO think of you is what
Speaker 1: matters within the military, right.
Speaker 2: And of course there's gonna be like politics involved when
Speaker 2: it comes to you know, and everything there is, but
Speaker 2: like the top military brass and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's the sense everybody is an equal footing.
Speaker 2: You get off the bus right right, they're gonna scream
Speaker 2: at you, They're gonna shave your head, and on and
Speaker 2: on and on. I mean everybody is treated the same,
Speaker 2: that's the point, right, and they all and the end
Speaker 2: result is you're turning out, you know, one of the
Speaker 2: most badass killing machines on the planet to defend the country.
Speaker 1: That not one of the the yes, yeah, the the
Speaker 1: this whole Russ and I have a discussion before the
Speaker 1: show whereas people are trying to reshape World War two.
Speaker 1: You've probably seen this like, oh, Russia won World War two.
Speaker 2: Right, because Trump was saying that yesterday. You know, if
Speaker 2: it was you'd always speak in German. And you see
Speaker 2: these people from Europe on social media and they're like,
Speaker 2: you know, why do Americans say that they didn't win
Speaker 2: the war. The Soviet Union won the war. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, counterpoint, we did yeah, two and oh
Speaker 2: undefeated world wars.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But and here's the thing, And not to diminish
Speaker 1: the job that Russia did, but you know, they throw
Speaker 1: out will Russia suffered the most casualties, Yes, but like
Speaker 1: eighty percent of them are on Russian soil, right, defen,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking away and the fact that Russia had
Speaker 1: at that secondary front so that we could move through
Speaker 1: Europe was wildly important. But what did Russia do about Japan?
Speaker 1: What do they do?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 1: The first thing we did we conquered Japan is we
Speaker 1: made a point to Russia wanted Japan, I don't know,
Speaker 1: or they wanted the North Islands, and we literally were like, no,
Speaker 1: you can't. By the way we did the thing. That's
Speaker 1: why we're here. Who the hell are you? You could
Speaker 1: go ahead fact check me, go ahead and look this
Speaker 1: stuff up. I'm a huge nerd on this stuff. So
Speaker 1: I don't want to diminish the fact that Russia absolutely
Speaker 1: helped win the war, but you weren't winning that thing
Speaker 1: without us. That's it. I'm pausing for dramatic effect. That's it.
Speaker 1: US doesn't show up. You don't win that war, not
Speaker 1: in the way that we understand it today. Right. And
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for if they weren't speaking German, they'd
Speaker 1: be speaking Russian. Right, Yeah, Russia, Russia's big thing after
Speaker 1: the wars. They wanted to gobble up a lot of
Speaker 1: this stuff and turn it into Russia.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: And you know, the US had decided after what happened
Speaker 1: with World War One, and you know, this is when
Speaker 1: we first had the idea that this is when nation
Speaker 1: building kind of turned into a thing. But we looked
Speaker 1: and we realized that after World War One, because we
Speaker 1: had so thoroughly humiliated the Germans, which was the main
Speaker 1: motivator for Hitler. I don't know if you guys know this.
Speaker 1: That was the thing that stuck in his craw that
Speaker 1: we had to do things a little different. That's why
Speaker 1: we were the top allied commander US US US US US.
Speaker 1: So take a victory lap. We'll be back. I'm going
Speaker 1: to need you. Can you do an educated guess? Because
Speaker 1: I can't. It's it's paywolled, so I can't see the results.
Speaker 1: So we'll have to guess. All right, you ready, do Americans.
Speaker 1: This is from News and Observer. Do Americans support or
Speaker 1: oppose Ice? Here's what a poll found amid LA protesters,
Speaker 1: So if you had to, we don't know the results
Speaker 1: because again it's paywolled. Actually let me click see.
Speaker 2: Right, So I'm gonna I guess the guy with the
Speaker 2: ski mask on the motorcycle holding the Mexican flag while
Speaker 2: everything burns behind him like a Michael Bay Yeah, yes,
Speaker 2: does not support ICE. Oh wow, Okay, However, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say the average person outside of LA does.
Speaker 1: Well. Remember this was a poll of protests, right. I
Speaker 1: just thought i'd throw the second part out there. Yeah yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's like it's like going to a comic conomy being like,
Speaker 1: is sci fi cool? What do you think?
Speaker 6: Er?
Speaker 1: What do you think of manga?
Speaker 2: It's like the pole we had from NPR talking about
Speaker 2: or what was it the member they oh, they don't
Speaker 2: want to cut public funding for right?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah, yeah, No, VPR did a poll about whether
Speaker 1: PBS should be right, Yeah, Overwhelmingly they did not think
Speaker 1: PBS should be cut, by the way, shocking in that
Speaker 1: pole there, but no, no, no, this is worse because
Speaker 1: it's not it's not who's doing the poll. It's who
Speaker 1: they're pulling, right, It's like it's like going to brag, yes, Sdaron,
Speaker 1: like do you like Trump? BurrH All right, hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, oh no, oh no oh. I was able
Speaker 1: to get the dumbers. All right. What percentage of the
Speaker 1: protest Actually, I'm surprised by this. What percentage do you
Speaker 1: think has a negative opinion of ice among the LA protesters?
Speaker 1: Because you were shocked, I'm going to say, like fifty
Speaker 1: two eight? Oh wow, so but like so wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: so there's nineteen percent of the people burning things down
Speaker 1: like ice? Is that what I'm doing? You know what
Speaker 1: it is? It's the exuberance of the moment. Oh, that's
Speaker 1: a very good point. Thank you, Nancy, appreciate that. In
Speaker 1: case you guys didn't hear, here is Nancy Pelosi yesterday.
Speaker 3: When and I say this as a former party chair,
Speaker 3: when there is a gathering, a large gathering of people,
Speaker 3: anarchists see it as an opportunity and they moved in.
Speaker 3: So always have to be careful whether you see a
Speaker 3: burned car or broken window or whatever it is. It
Speaker 3: may be the exuberance of the moment, but it may
Speaker 3: be the anarchist setting in. I heard one of the
Speaker 3: former police chiefs of Los Angeles speak about this on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Right, So, for those of you who've never exzubed to
Speaker 1: the max, apparently if you exube hard enough, things burst
Speaker 1: into flames and sushi does your joints get looted? Did
Speaker 1: you see that? That was the weirdest thing. Yes, say,
Speaker 1: they looted a sushi restaurant. What what did you? What
Speaker 1: did you take? California rolls? Probably sushi is so good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a California caro. Give me a fatty tuna
Speaker 1: all day, spicy fatty tune. Oh yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I went through a gas station sushi phase for a while.
Speaker 2: Like if I stopped in and there were live yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm still here.
Speaker 1: Okay, good for you, man, You're probably probably nothing can
Speaker 1: kill you now.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: The funny thing is the first time I had sushi
Speaker 2: was gas station sushi. I was like, I'll try this
Speaker 2: out on and try sushi, and I was like, this
Speaker 2: is so good. And then somebody took me. I think
Speaker 2: it was a Randy. She took me to like an
Speaker 2: actual sushi place, and I was like Blue.
Speaker 1: Girl program director again, blew my mind. Yeah, Randy will
Speaker 1: always be the person who had to go. I literally
Speaker 1: had to go to the emergency room for do you
Speaker 1: remember do you remember her going away party? I do, yes? Okay,
Speaker 1: So we started it at Seaboard, right, one of the
Speaker 1: restaurants at Seaboard, I can remember which one it was, whatever,
Speaker 1: the seafood place was down there at the time, and
Speaker 1: then a bunch of us went to and Randy's a
Speaker 1: girl by the way, just so we're so we're clear here.
Speaker 1: So she was she was program director for the station
Speaker 1: that Ross used to work on, and she was headed
Speaker 1: to Florida. I still does she still? I kimember she
Speaker 1: still worked for the company. She worked for a different,
Speaker 1: different compan but she left. She's doing her own voice
Speaker 1: over now.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: I always like so so somehow and I'm not sure
Speaker 1: exactly how it happened. I remember, this is the first
Speaker 1: time I met your wife too, And where did we go?
Speaker 6: Go?
Speaker 1: Ahead? Tell them the Foxy Lady. The Foxy Lady, which
Speaker 1: if you're listening to this and you're like, what is that?
Speaker 1: The Foxy Lady was a gentleman's club in a trailer,
Speaker 1: I'm going to repeat that it was a gentleman's club
Speaker 1: in a double wide trailer, so it was super classy.
Speaker 1: And there is a row of high stools as far
Speaker 1: away from the stage as you can go because everyone's
Speaker 1: weirded out because you're there with coworkers, right, And I
Speaker 1: don't even know how did we end up there, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know, but there was probably like fifteen
Speaker 1: of us that went over there. So there's these high
Speaker 1: stools that sat at the very back of the bar,
Speaker 1: and we're all kind of sitting on there talking to
Speaker 1: each other. We're having a good time whatever, and the
Speaker 1: dancers come over and they're like, you know, they're trying
Speaker 1: to get you to go get a private dance, and
Speaker 1: so this girl is like working the ropeline of all
Speaker 1: of us sitting there, and we're like, we're not we're
Speaker 1: not into it because we're all just talking to each
Speaker 1: other and it's a work thing whatever. And this dancer
Speaker 1: like hops up on the you know, it's like a
Speaker 1: high barstool, so it has like the foot rest thing there.
Speaker 1: So she hops up with her giant like plastic heels
Speaker 1: and I'm wearing sandals, don't judge, because I didn't know
Speaker 1: we were going here, and she hops up and she
Speaker 1: took she puts the heel of the plastic stripper shoe
Speaker 1: through the top of my foot. It drew blood, and
Speaker 1: whoever I was talking to was like, you might need
Speaker 1: a tetanus, Like we're in a double wide trailer. I need,
Speaker 1: so I want.
Speaker 10: I went.
Speaker 1: I ended up going to the urgent care over at
Speaker 1: the Duke Hospital there on wake Forest. And what was
Speaker 1: worse is when I explained to the I think it
Speaker 1: was a PA that I talked to what happened, she
Speaker 1: clearly told the rest of the medical staff, who thought
Speaker 1: it was hilarious. I was there, I was there. My
Speaker 1: injury was stripper heel through the top of my foot.
Speaker 1: Because like, way too many medical professionals came into my
Speaker 1: room to hear the story like it was. Arguably it
Speaker 1: was way too many, because that's you know, that's not
Speaker 1: normally what you get in that situation, because they're like
Speaker 1: triage and they're trying to figure out what everyone's doing,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, yeah, no, stripper heel injury. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what happens. They ended up giving me the tennis
Speaker 1: and they cleaned it up, but whatever, But yeah, I went.
Speaker 1: I went to the hospital for her going away party.
Speaker 1: And I had been Raleigh like five minutes, like it was.
Speaker 1: That was really early in the show history, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe been a Raleigh for like a year tops,
Speaker 1: and now it's like fifteen. But yeah, yeah, so I
Speaker 1: I literally have a stripper heel scar on my foot.
Speaker 1: It's very faint, but it's a great story. So anyway,
Speaker 1: they pulled the protesters in Los Angeles and they all
Speaker 1: hate Ice. So that's that's the point there. And you
Speaker 1: would notice that if you watch the video. Of course,
Speaker 1: if you watch the videos, though, Brian Stilter will be
Speaker 1: mad at you. This is really important, So if you
Speaker 1: watch the videos, Brian Stelter has some advice for you.
Speaker 10: We all live on our phones these days, we're all
Speaker 10: scrolling through social media. You've got to be careful at
Speaker 10: a delicate moment like this to look at the time stams,
Speaker 10: look at the dates, look at when things are actually
Speaker 10: posted and if they're really from the situation they're purporting
Speaker 10: to be a lot of these algorithms are servicing hours
Speaker 10: old or even days old content. So you might be
Speaker 10: looking at a video of something wondering what's happening in
Speaker 10: LA it's actually from two days ago and that's you know,
Speaker 10: it only matters because it can give people a false
Speaker 10: impression of what's actually happening at a moment of unrest.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you watch any of the videos and
Speaker 1: you see I don't know all the waymos on fire,
Speaker 1: which you need to remember is the Weymo fires are
Speaker 1: so two days ago.
Speaker 2: But it's just the complete irony of what he's saying there,
Speaker 2: Like he's talking about can you believe you know, on
Speaker 2: social media they're going to just replay old footage over
Speaker 2: and over and over and over again. Yeah, And you
Speaker 2: might think that, and then you have like, well what
Speaker 2: about January sixth, dude, or what about Like that's what
Speaker 2: you do?
Speaker 1: You literally do that.
Speaker 2: You'll speaking to you'll you'll play the same video on
Speaker 2: loop over and over again, and you'll bring in different
Speaker 2: experts saying the exact same thing. Right, twenty four to seven,
Speaker 2: you're literally on the twenty four seven you just describe yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he means the other guys, but the other guys.
Speaker 1: It's worse though, because there are always a few days
Speaker 1: behind social media. I never one thousand percent, man thousand.
Speaker 5: What is this?
Speaker 1: Oh all right? I got some good emails coming all right, Well,
Speaker 1: well we'll do this. We'll do phone calls and uh
Speaker 1: a few I got some more audio and then uh
Speaker 1: we'll talk to the congressman at eight o five. So uh,
Speaker 1: let's get raced agic from the weather channel here. Ye,
Speaker 1: what up? Are you doing? Much? All right? How are
Speaker 1: you you guys gonna sign that corner that the packers
Speaker 1: just released or are you guys just gonna let everyone
Speaker 1: throw on you this year? Oh, we'll just let everyone
Speaker 1: throw on us this year? Why not? Yeah, it's the
Speaker 1: Vikings plan.
Speaker 11: So well, I mean, is there really a shutdown corner
Speaker 11: in the NFL anymore?
Speaker 1: If he's healthy, Yes, but the problem is he's not healthy.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's all it's all geared toward creating more offense.
Speaker 11: And I'm a defensive guy myself, but I'd rather see
Speaker 11: more defense at offense.
Speaker 1: But he been taking that helmet away. Yeah, in the
Speaker 1: in the five years or whatever he's going to Packers,
Speaker 1: he probably was like justin Jefferson's going in the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame, and this guy really because we he just
Speaker 1: torched him twice a year. I appreciate that. But yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll see what's almost weatherwise as we know tomorrow the
Speaker 1: US Open starts.
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, tomorrow the US Open, and yeah, things are
Speaker 11: going to be okay, maybe a little wet weather for
Speaker 11: Pittsburgh over the upcoming weekend, but it looks like it,
Speaker 11: uh maybe scattered around.
Speaker 1: Same thing on Friday. Green speeds at sixteen? Is that fast? Bro?
Speaker 5: What you know him?
Speaker 6: Not?
Speaker 1: Listen, Alane, that's in sixteen is insane? I have no
Speaker 1: idea what that normal golf? You got a brush up,
Speaker 1: You've got a green speed of eleven or cook? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm cooked at eleven. O. We went sixteen. Good for you.
Speaker 1: You ought to be entertained. We should. We should go
Speaker 1: out sometime. I'm a bad golfer. Bad me too. You
Speaker 1: and me both worse than you. I promise, I promise,
Speaker 1: well clearly because you don't know anything about not much
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 11: So you're supposed to hit the ball right, Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 11: that's supposed to hit it straight.
Speaker 1: Check out. Oh it does not start on Yeah. But anyway,
Speaker 1: good golf day today, good outdoor day. No mention of rain.
Speaker 11: Yesterday actually had a couple of storms. They were isolated,
Speaker 11: as we expected. That produced a little wind and hail
Speaker 11: in the state, but there was only three of them.
Speaker 11: One came into Stanley County of some hale, so it
Speaker 11: was out there today, no low to mid eighties, probably
Speaker 11: everybody close to eighty five. Tonight in the sixties, and
Speaker 11: tomorrow afternoon just hitting miss storms mid to upper eighties,
Speaker 11: and then Friday will have a chance showers with thunderstorms continue.
Speaker 11: We get back into this kind of scattered clusters of
Speaker 11: storms from time to time coming in for Friday. In
Speaker 11: the upcoming weekend, especially during the afternoon hours, it's gonna
Speaker 11: be warm, humid, this boundary kind of meandering around, probably
Speaker 11: middle upper eighties, and with enough sunshine one of those
Speaker 11: days we could actually hit ninety degrees too.
Speaker 1: So it looks like we'll.
Speaker 11: Get back to some wet weather slowly today, no tomorrow maybe,
Speaker 11: and as we look ahead toward Friday in the upcoming weekend,
Speaker 11: a little better chance. But now not outlooked any day
Speaker 11: for any severe weather on Friday and tomorrow, just general
Speaker 11: kind of thunderstorms around, so not expecting damage you winter, hell,
Speaker 11: at least doesn't look like it at this time.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well, we'll see you see what's up
Speaker 1: in an hour. Thank you, sir, appreciate it. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: and it is seven forty eight. Hang on ipid fire
Speaker 1: these phone calls because we're gonna chat with the congressman
Speaker 1: here in the next segment. So everybody's got like a
Speaker 1: minute and a half, two minutes, let's do this thing.
Speaker 1: What's up, Hey, Anthony? How you doing? I'm no good?
Speaker 5: How you doing?
Speaker 1: Pretty good? Sir?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 1: What you got?
Speaker 5: So you're talking about the foxy Lady that At another
Speaker 5: time in my life, I used to live in Greensboro
Speaker 5: and down by the airport down there to Pimont Airport,
Speaker 5: there's a place called used to be a place called
Speaker 5: south Side Jars, and I think it used to be
Speaker 5: like a Taco bell or something because the DJ booth
Speaker 5: was the uh was the draft.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 5: It was a really small point.
Speaker 1: Our studios are now in High Point in Greensboro, but
Speaker 1: we used to be just south on the on the
Speaker 1: airport freeway there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I used to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I used to get off when you get off
Speaker 1: the exit there, there's like nine strip clubs or something
Speaker 1: over on the right side.
Speaker 4: It's yeah, I know.
Speaker 5: We used to. We used to take care of your
Speaker 5: your studios there. Spoke to in down there and all
Speaker 5: your towers and stuff all the other.
Speaker 1: Oh cool cool, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a place that uh.
Speaker 5: I think it's a Taco Bell some type of fast
Speaker 5: restaurant they have and also there no uh.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean, sir, don't be a perv. So,
Speaker 1: like you know, I'm always creeked out when they serve
Speaker 1: food anyway, but the fact that they might have chiloopas
Speaker 1: actually intrigues me. All right, thanks for the call there, Ross,
Speaker 1: you want to go to the former Taco Bell Strip club?
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: I love things that used to be other things. Do
Speaker 1: you know how many buildings used to be pizza huts?
Speaker 1: Remember the old pizza hut buildings that are now like
Speaker 1: pawn shop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can't hide it now. Everybody knows that
Speaker 2: was a pizza hut, like everybody absolutely. And that's when
Speaker 2: pizza hut was the bomb. Buffet pizza hut. Like, if
Speaker 2: you're young, you don't even know pizza hut.
Speaker 1: Buffet pizza hut back in the day. Was that was
Speaker 1: like that was going to dinner at the White House.
Speaker 1: You gotta you don't even understand when we were a kid,
Speaker 1: if we got to go to buffet pizza hut. Yes, buffet,
Speaker 1: Pizza Hut. Look it up, it's a thing. Mark, what's
Speaker 1: up readings?
Speaker 5: Hey? Yeah, yeah, I was telling Ross four seven. I
Speaker 5: didn't know you changed your name because it was a
Speaker 5: very energetic young lady. Stay tuned for the Casey Odea Show.
Speaker 1: What is it was?
Speaker 4: Oday?
Speaker 5: I'm wrong?
Speaker 1: What is going on? For those who don't know yesterday?
Speaker 1: We have this spot this hour of the case the
Speaker 1: Odeal Show is sponsored by wind Donation. Why just total
Speaker 1: disrespect man, And now you're telling but you're telling me
Speaker 1: it's something different.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, well I didn't hear the l I said
Speaker 5: it was just the Odea like I was saying. It
Speaker 5: might be AI reading it because they have a tendency
Speaker 5: to read all the vowels and pronounce them.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well some we call a dub center. But all right, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and you know it is so easy to prep a
Speaker 1: talk show in today's current environment. To help us slice
Speaker 1: some of these stories is Congressman Brad Nod who joins us,
Speaker 1: how you doing today, sir? What's going on?
Speaker 4: Good morning, Kathy.
Speaker 1: It's good to be here.
Speaker 4: I hope that you're doing well.
Speaker 1: Well. I'm not in downto having lost singage lists so
Speaker 1: that probably that probably increases is help me understand something.
Speaker 1: And I add, we were chatting with your colleague, Senator
Speaker 1: Budd yesterday and I asked him the same question. Explained,
Speaker 1: explain to me your colleagues from the other side of
Speaker 1: the aisle their strategy in embracing what's going on in
Speaker 1: LA because I don't understand it. Man, this was like
Speaker 1: political suicide to me. But maybe you have some insights
Speaker 1: since you swimming it up there in DC.
Speaker 4: It's a great question, Katie, and I think that it's
Speaker 4: a it's a fairly uncomfortable truth to acknowledge. But I
Speaker 4: think many on the other side advocate and defend the
Speaker 4: mass migration into the country, and that's their entire political platform.
Speaker 4: I mean, you look at what Biden Harris did. They truly,
Speaker 4: this is not hyperbole. They truly fought to allow and
Speaker 4: to facilitate the mass migration into the country. You have
Speaker 4: Democrat mayor, you have Democrat governors all over the country,
Speaker 4: even some of North Carolina, to adopt this sanctuary mentality
Speaker 4: and sanctuary policy, and for them to to acknowledge it's
Speaker 4: a problem when undermined their entire platform and their entire
Speaker 4: goal politically and they just.
Speaker 1: But they just got clicked in a presidential election over
Speaker 1: this issue, right.
Speaker 4: Well, yes and no, I mean that that is that
Speaker 4: is true in the short term, but in the long term,
Speaker 4: we have another census coming up and apportionment counts illegal immigrants,
Speaker 4: and if you start to facilitate, you know, the mass
Speaker 4: removal of illegal immigrant criminals, that's what we're talking about here.
Speaker 4: The ICE officials wanted to remove people who are in
Speaker 4: custody in California, and that's what triggered these riots. It's
Speaker 4: outrageous and uh to to even facilitate that would potentially
Speaker 4: remove individuals who are going to be counted and a
Speaker 4: portion for electoral purposes in the Electoral College, the House
Speaker 4: of Representatives, the allocation of fadual resources, so on and
Speaker 4: so forth. And so yes, they got beat in this
Speaker 4: last election, but they are very much working towards trying
Speaker 4: to take back the House of Representatives, trying to take
Speaker 4: back the White House and the Senate. And if that happens,
Speaker 4: we're going to see exactly what Biden and Harris built
Speaker 4: for four years restart. And I think they're trying to
Speaker 4: play the long game here. There's no defense for it,
Speaker 4: it's dangerous, it's deranged, it hurts the country. But what
Speaker 4: they're doing defive logic, and there's only one explanation. They
Speaker 4: believe it will benefit them politically to have more illegal
Speaker 4: aliens in the country, and that's what they're fighting for.
Speaker 1: So, like, I'm always fascinated by the way that you
Speaker 1: all interact with each other up there with the cameras.
Speaker 1: Aren't on right?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: Where it's like, because I'm sure that there are people
Speaker 1: on the left side of the aisle that you probably
Speaker 1: count amongst as friends, right, or at least people that
Speaker 1: you feel you can have a conversation with.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: If the kid are so likely, will they privately admit
Speaker 1: that this is a doomed voyage or I mean, how
Speaker 1: does that work?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: It's one of those things, Kasey, where the party itself
Speaker 4: has drifted so far to the left that the Bill
Speaker 4: Clinton Democrat is an endangered species right the America first,
Speaker 4: the realist, the we need to protect American citizens, need
Speaker 4: to protect Americans pocketbooks, me to protect American budgets, death
Speaker 4: and all that stuff that is gone and right now
Speaker 4: the Democratic Party in public is anti Trump with everything
Speaker 4: that they have.
Speaker 5: If Trump is for it.
Speaker 4: They are viscerally against it. And that is actually fairly uniform.
Speaker 4: There's a real hatred across every every elected official and
Speaker 4: the Democratic side up here that that really really has
Speaker 4: a dane for President Trump. There are some who very
Speaker 4: much loads the fact that the Democratic Party has lurched
Speaker 4: so far to the left. I don't want to out them,
Speaker 4: so to.
Speaker 1: Speak, but there's something are probably in purple districts too, so.
Speaker 4: Well, yes and no, I mean there are some who
Speaker 4: come from blue districts who are very pro business, who
Speaker 4: have great histories with you know, whether it's family businesses
Speaker 4: or their own businesses, et cetera. And and they're they're
Speaker 4: very much you know, they're they're liberal in a classical sense.
Speaker 4: They're not leftists. But you look at Gavin Newsom, for instance,
Speaker 4: he knows better, but he is trying to to skate
Speaker 4: that line of catering to the radical left, which is
Speaker 4: now becoming the majority of the party, appealing to big money,
Speaker 4: you know, the tech industry and so forth, and chart
Speaker 4: of course to the White House. He is so politically ambitious.
Speaker 4: And he came out a few months ago, what did
Speaker 4: he say? He said, men and women's sports has no
Speaker 4: place in America.
Speaker 1: Well, he's already rightwa washing we're calling it.
Speaker 4: We're calling it already, He's already walking that back because
Speaker 4: it incensed the left. He made claims illegal immigrants should
Speaker 4: not be prioritized over American citizens or illegaland well, he's
Speaker 4: walking that back, and he is going to war. Literally,
Speaker 4: he is burning down his cities to protect those who
Speaker 4: are here illegally. And uh, it's unbelievably disheartening because it's
Speaker 4: a huge problem. And basically what we're seeing is unless
Speaker 4: the Republicans can lead, which is what we're doing, unless
Speaker 4: the Republicans can maintain power, it is going to be
Speaker 4: an open border boondoggle that will destroy this country. And
Speaker 4: the Democrats are they are committing themselves to the open
Speaker 4: border policies of Biden Harris and the places like Manhattan,
Speaker 4: the places like California, and it's very, very dangerous, and
Speaker 4: I wish they would change course. Just because you're anti
Speaker 4: illegal immigrant does not mean you're anti immigrant. They blur
Speaker 4: those minds to capslcate Republicans and it's not true.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Doug yet, Yeah, well, are you comfortable with
Speaker 1: the way that Trump's been handling this with the National
Speaker 1: Guard thing, right, you would think that I am eventually
Speaker 1: doing you know, the Lincoln suspending previous corps. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just crazy. And then but also bringing in the
Speaker 1: war dogs for twenty nine palms. That's a thing, man,
Speaker 1: That's a wild thing. So are you comfortable with everything?
Speaker 4: I'll say this. You know, the left is scurrying right
Speaker 4: now because they don't have a winning message right now
Speaker 4: with Los Angeles, and they're saying that President Trump started this. Well,
Speaker 4: that is an absolute lie. That city was on fire
Speaker 4: before President Trump ever ever decided to send into National Guard.
Speaker 4: Their local leaders could have put this down their local leaders.
Speaker 4: If the local leaders in California mayor Basque governs and
Speaker 4: so on had handed over criminal illegals, those who are
Speaker 4: in their custody and here illegally, there would be no riots.
Speaker 4: It's outrage And when you just put yourself in the
Speaker 4: law abiding American citizens of Los Angeles who are losing businesses,
Speaker 4: losing cars, having their public safety threatened. It is the
Speaker 4: duty of the federal government when you have such such
Speaker 4: derelict officials in mayor baths and so forth, it's the
Speaker 4: duty to protect Americans and the California government top to
Speaker 4: bottom has abandoned Americans. And you know, I applaud President Trump.
Speaker 4: He is basically saying to the rest of the world,
Speaker 4: you cannot come here to pillage this country. You cannot
Speaker 4: come here outside of our laws. You cannot come here
Speaker 4: and walk all over the American people and the American
Speaker 4: generosity without consequences. And that's something that is offensive to
Speaker 4: Democrats apparently. And you know, if I were an American
Speaker 4: business owner in Los Angeles, I would be thanking the
Speaker 4: Lord that President Trump is protecting me in my country,
Speaker 4: because the local officials there are not.
Speaker 1: They looted a sushi shop, which I don't even understand
Speaker 1: what you think you're accomplishing there. I have seen video
Speaker 1: of both the President of Mexico and the governor of
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember what this. I think it might
Speaker 1: be the state of Chihuahua, which is one of the
Speaker 1: states of Mexico, who are saying things like, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, go ahead and rally. I mean, they're encouraging
Speaker 1: people to gather and protest in the US. The governor guy,
Speaker 1: he said that we should build the wall, but based
Speaker 1: on the eighteen thirties map, which is crazy because in
Speaker 1: the eighteen thirties they were part of Spain. They weren't
Speaker 1: even their own country. But if you go to Mexico
Speaker 1: and attempt to protest as a US citizen, they instead
Speaker 1: to port you. It's literally in their constitution that foreign
Speaker 1: agents can't protest. So like this thing has gone international, man,
Speaker 1: and we're talking about taxing remittances and things like that,
Speaker 1: There's going to be some punishment for them.
Speaker 4: One thing that no one talked about is how the
Speaker 4: illegal immigrant population in the United States there are portions
Speaker 4: in it that are part of the most sophisticated criminal
Speaker 4: enterprises in the world, whether it's terrorism, narco trafficking, human traffing.
Speaker 4: These are sophisticated bodies. And those sophisticated bodies control various
Speaker 4: portions of South America, and they control various portions of
Speaker 4: the Mexican government. And one of the things that the
Speaker 4: Mexican government has turned a blind eye to is cartel
Speaker 4: activity in the United States. Why have they turned a
Speaker 4: blind eye to it? Why do they encourage it? Why
Speaker 4: are they now stepping.
Speaker 1: The second largest GDP remittances and moneys back from Mexican
Speaker 1: citizens is the second largest part of their GDP.
Speaker 4: Exactly, they are enriching themselves at our expense because of
Speaker 4: their own greed. They are selling your neighbors Heroin, sentinel, guns, fexlats,
Speaker 4: et cetera to make themselves money. And the Mexican government
Speaker 4: has supported it. And they won't say that explicitly, but
Speaker 4: they're turning a blind eye to it. And when you
Speaker 4: start to choke off the money, they get furious. And
Speaker 4: it has to stop. It absolutely has to stop. And
Speaker 4: President Trump is not going to tolerate that. It's been
Speaker 4: happening for years. When I was prosecuting organized crime, every
Speaker 4: one of the organized crime entities that we prosecute sent
Speaker 4: money overseas or to countries south of the border. Again,
Speaker 4: this is a pillaging effort of the American country and
Speaker 4: we have to stand together and stop it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And by the way, I would encourage people who
Speaker 1: just heard me say that it's the second largest part
Speaker 1: of money coming into Mexico as part of their GDP
Speaker 1: look that up. It's true. It goes agriculture and then
Speaker 1: moneies that flow in via remittances as well as out
Speaker 1: quote unquote outside business.
Speaker 4: Yeah, who controlled most of the agriculture casey, I mean
Speaker 4: the car sales controlled much of that. I mean the
Speaker 4: car sales control. I don't want to say it's a
Speaker 4: full Marco state, but it's getting awfully closed. And when
Speaker 4: you start to like we're getting great attention them, that's
Speaker 4: that's what inflamed attentions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no question, All right, let me let me hit
Speaker 1: on a couple other things that are not Los Angeles
Speaker 1: on fire, big beautiful bill? Do you think it's a
Speaker 1: big beautiful bill. The Senate's going to do what they're
Speaker 1: going to do. We talked with budd yesterday and obviously
Speaker 1: there's going to make some changes there. But clearly there
Speaker 1: is a divide based on the whole Trump elon thing
Speaker 1: that we saw. And I'm curious what you think of that.
Speaker 1: Are are you down with it? What do you want
Speaker 1: to see?
Speaker 4: I will I will say this, No one has claimed
Speaker 4: this bill is perfect. We have just a few seats
Speaker 4: in the House. One of the people in our house,
Speaker 4: in the House Republican Caucus, Casey, are representing districts that
Speaker 4: Kamala Harris won by five points. And when you have
Speaker 4: as a small margin, you know, if I were riding
Speaker 4: this bill alone and I was the only person who
Speaker 4: col decided it would look very different. But what we
Speaker 4: do have is a bill that is unbelievably profound in
Speaker 4: its conservative achievements. It is I disagree with Elon Musk
Speaker 4: that it is a spending bill. It is not a
Speaker 4: spending bill. The budget reconciliation process is something that has
Speaker 4: to be essentially a wash. We have cut, we have reallocated.
Speaker 4: The only thing that we are increasing the dollars for
Speaker 4: is border enforcement. Immigration enforcement, our ice officers, our border patrol,
Speaker 4: so on and so forth. That is the big boost.
Speaker 4: Law enforcement dollars is where we have increased money. But
Speaker 4: when you look at the broader picture here, it is
Speaker 4: an immigration bill, it is it is a an energy bill.
Speaker 4: We have gutted the ability of future administrations to to
Speaker 4: stop exploration, to stop natural gas development, to stop oral development.
Speaker 4: And it's taxes. If we do not pass this bill,
Speaker 4: there will be five trillion dollars of immediate and direct
Speaker 4: taxes levied on the American people.
Speaker 8: We can't have that.
Speaker 4: And it's not tax cut bill. We are keeping the
Speaker 4: rates the same. We are incentivizing reinvestment into our local communities,
Speaker 4: into our businesses. So it is taxes, it is energy,
Speaker 4: and it is it is immigration and these things. If
Speaker 4: the alternative to not passing this bill is drastic, it
Speaker 4: would be a recession or worse, there wouldn't be funding
Speaker 4: to protect the home land. Energy would would Energy costs
Speaker 4: will continue to skyrocket. And I'll say this very important
Speaker 4: point to mister Musk and anyone else who is listening.
Speaker 4: This is not the last reconciliation bill that we can achieve.
Speaker 4: We can start working right away on another one we have.
Speaker 4: You know, we we've made tremendous strides in this bill.
Speaker 4: We are we are saving a trillion six, minimum a
Speaker 4: trillion six over the next ten years. If we go
Speaker 4: forward and say we want to do another reconciliation bill,
Speaker 4: will we tighten up budgets further? You know what we
Speaker 4: can do just that. So all of this hysteria that
Speaker 4: this is a sellout, this is a spending that's that
Speaker 4: is not true. Do not listen to that. We are
Speaker 4: utilizing the levers. We have to achieve the most conservative
Speaker 4: results we can and the and the bill does. It
Speaker 4: has mendous components. Again, whether it's taxes, private sector investment,
Speaker 4: whatever it is, there are wonderful things there.
Speaker 1: The other criticism, let me just throw this at the
Speaker 1: other criticism here is you guys should make permanent more
Speaker 1: of the executive orders. The Trump's like, you know, why
Speaker 1: are we not solidifying the executive order stuff within this bill?
Speaker 1: So what do you say to that?
Speaker 4: Well, that's another That's another thing that has irritated me.
Speaker 4: There have been a lot of people who have said, like,
Speaker 4: they take the recisions, the recisions are the Doge cuts.
Speaker 4: Why are we not passing these things? Well, it's that
Speaker 4: has served as either a demonstration of ignorance or political opportunism.
Speaker 4: If it's political opportunism, shame on my colleagues. If it's ignorance,
Speaker 4: I can understand it. Because recisions packages have to originate
Speaker 4: from the White House. We cannot codify the the the
Speaker 4: Doge cuts unless we are sent those cuts in a
Speaker 4: legislative package by the White House. So, you know, Mike Johnson,
Speaker 4: let me shore the listeners to the Speaker of the House.
Speaker 4: He will sign and push for every cut that the
Speaker 4: White House sends us. They and their own prerogative, in
Speaker 4: their own calculus, have said, we are going to push
Speaker 4: reconciliation to prevent five trillion dollars in taxes and to
Speaker 4: secure our border.
Speaker 1: And our homeland.
Speaker 4: Once we get that ball moving, we will start to
Speaker 4: go through in earnest every week if we need to,
Speaker 4: with one recision package after the next one. And the
Speaker 4: first recision package will be voted on this week because
Speaker 4: the White House sent a sent it to us, I
Speaker 4: believe last Friday. So that's that's point number one in
Speaker 4: terms of the executive board. I'll do ten seconds. The
Speaker 4: executive orders we are going to we are gonna put
Speaker 4: them individually in statutes or they're probably fifty that are
Speaker 4: in the reconciliation package that we sent over to the Senate.
Speaker 4: So we're we're keeping track.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, and we'll see what the Senate looks like
Speaker 1: coming back on the main bill. All right, Congressman, I
Speaker 1: appreciate it this morning. We'll talk soon, okay, Thanks, Jakie,
Speaker 1: all right, and will be right back. Hang on.