WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.399 --> 00:00:03.600 Yes, you are connected, and thank you for coming by. 2 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:07.000 Welcome to the Big Radio Show. It is Friday. Today 3 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:11.439 is the thirtieth day of May two thousand and twenty five. 4 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:15.359 My name is Tom Sullivan. So we've got a lot 5 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:18.679 to talk. We got a little bit more on Elon Musk, 6 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:23.839 We've got on tariffs, and we got to score in Louisiana. 7 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:25.800 There's still two on the run out of the ten 8 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:27.039 that got out of prison. 9 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:28.879 Aderback. 10 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:34.719 Oh look, who's here. We were going to hold back 11 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:38.200 on all the goodbye stuff, but UCLA docs on the 12 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:43.479 line and you're out saving lives. I can't keep you 13 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:49.079 sitting around, Hello Doc. I mean it's one thing more 14 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:52.079 one thing if you're just shuffling papers. 15 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:54.399 But I mean you got you know, you got people 16 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:56.479 to save. So how you been. 17 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:04.120 I'm doing very well, man. I'm gonna miss you well. 18 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:05.680 Likewise likewise. 19 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:09.200 I was just thinking back, just to let you know 20 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:11.760 real quick. I was thinking back. I think you said 21 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:13.799 a couple of few months back that you've been in 22 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:15.599 New York for like thirteen years? Is that right? 23 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:24.400 Starting my nineteenth nineteen Oh okay, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, my. 24 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:27.040 Gosh, okay. Because I was sitting back and I go, 25 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:29.760 I've been listening to you way longer than I really thought. 26 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:31.799 I know, I started tweeting at you in twenty one, 27 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:35.319 but I remember, I think this is right. Weren't you 28 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:37.640 talking about when you were back here in California? You're 29 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:40.439 talking about running for Congress Lawson Well. 30 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:47.359 I was asked twice on two different occasions, I forget. 31 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:53.599 One of them was Congressman John Doolittle was retiring and 32 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:55.680 they asked me to run for his seat. And there 33 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:59.159 was another can't remember there was another congressman that was 34 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:02.719 a Republican that was that was also stepping down or something. 35 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:05.920 So I was asked twice to do it, and it 36 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:08.759 was an honor, uh. And they came in with all 37 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:11.719 the stats about the polling and how much easy it 38 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:14.520 would be to win and all that, and I looked. 39 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:15.479 I went to. 40 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:19.560 A guy who has who was a chief of staff 41 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:23.000 for a senator in Washington, and I knew the guy, 42 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:25.560 and I called him up and I went over to 43 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:28.800 his office and he said, oh, Tom, you're gonna love it. 44 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:30.400 You go in there and I'll tell you what. You 45 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:32.960 battle all day long and you're figure in everything else, 46 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:34.560 and you do this and you fight with that, and 47 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:37.639 you fight. And I just thought to myself, the last 48 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:39.960 thing I mean he taught, he didn't realize he was 49 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:42.879 trying to talk me into it. And that was when 50 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:44.680 I said, there's no way. 51 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:45.560 I don't. 52 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:48.280 I don't know how it is for you. I mean, 53 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:50.719 you deal with a lot of people in a hospital, 54 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.360 all kinds, but you don't. I don't like working where 55 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:59.120 there's backstabbers and people that are trying to step on you. 56 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:02.400 And I like working with the people I work with 57 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:06.879 because they're they're like they're like extended family. So I said, 58 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:09.360 I said, no, thank you. I don't want to do 59 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:11.840 that for a living good God, getting up every day 60 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:15.319 and go fight with people. So I said, no, thank you. 61 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:16.240 Politician. 62 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:19.560 Yeah, well, I don't know. 63 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:23.039 I see some of them come out of that operation 64 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:24.280 pretty darn wealthy. 65 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:25.400 So I'm going. 66 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:30.400 You like the current guy running in the White House. 67 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:30.840 You just. 68 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:35.319 Yes, I could have the I could have the Sullivan 69 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:36.120 mean coin. 70 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:41.400 Why not? Geez hey. 71 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:43.120 So I just want to let you know I'm gonna 72 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:45.039 have to now that you're gone, I'm gonna have to 73 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:47.400 take out the AM radio part of my car because 74 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:53.120 you're the only guy I listened to you on the radio. Well, 75 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:56.520 you know what, I do have one more elve story 76 00:03:56.560 --> 00:03:59.360 for you since you're talking about him real quick. Yeah, 77 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.159 I so you know I bought I bought the I 78 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:05.479 bought the Model Esque for my wife. So I can't 79 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:10.000 remember exactly when this this happened, but so I was 80 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:11.639 I was driving on the weekend. I went to a 81 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:14.599 store and I was using the app to open the doors, 82 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:17.040 to open the trunk, and this guy comes up behind 83 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:20.800 me and he goes, oh, he goes, youge got one 84 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:23.959 of those fancy cars, don't you? And I go I 85 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:25.800 turn around. I suddenly gonna give this guy a compliment, 86 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:28.399 and he goes, but I bet he can't drive through water, right, 87 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:31.360 he can't do that? And he was talking about did 88 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:34.360 you ever see that? It was right after the storm 89 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:37.519 in Florida last year there was a garage cam and 90 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:40.399 it showed a Tesla and it caught on fire because 91 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:41.199 see why I got. 92 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:41.519 Inside of it. 93 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:44.920 Oh yeah, yes, yeah yeah. 94 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:48.920 So this this this guy was a Trump supporter and 95 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:52.040 he was a He was accosting me and the last 96 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:53.759 thing he said to me was, you know what, I 97 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:56.199 can't stand you rich liberals. And I had to let 98 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:57.399 him know that I wasn't liberal. 99 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:03.439 Yeah, I I've had two near misses where I had 100 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:07.680 two people, you know, kind of kind of approaching the 101 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:11.639 car giving me like a franatic look and like they 102 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:13.920 were coming to do something that wasn't going to be good, 103 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:16.000 and I just pushed the gas pedal down and got 104 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:18.839 the heck out of there. So it really, it really 105 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:23.279 does baffle me that people can be that psychologically disturbed 106 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:27.439 to where their politics affects your private property. 107 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:28.480 What did you do? 108 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:31.959 Yeah? Nothing, Yeah, exactly. Well that's that's why I don't 109 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:33.600 put anything in my house. I don't pen anything in 110 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:35.720 my car. Did you never know what people are gonna do? 111 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:41.399 So true. I'm letting you know I am really going 112 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:41.839 to miss you. 113 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:42.120 Tom. 114 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:45.040 You're a great guy. I think you're like really super honest. 115 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:47.279 And I was like, I don't know how you're gonna 116 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:49.639 work on the how the podcasting is gonna work, because 117 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:51.519 that's actually how I listened to you most of the 118 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:54.160 time because I'm so busy, likes the. 119 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:58.480 Night so perfect. So the way the way I say hey, hey, hey. 120 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:02.120 Doc, the way I set this up was, if you 121 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:05.120 know where that button is that you pushed it? Listen 122 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:09.439 to my show on a podcast now that has been 123 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:13.680 transferred as of last night, So you push the button 124 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:17.240 and instead of connecting to this show, it will connect 125 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:21.160 to the new podcast. So there's nothing for you to change. 126 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:26.199 You don't have to change a thing us. Well, I'm 127 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:29.079 going to start the podcast. If everything works technically, it 128 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:35.079 should be on Monday. Oh yeah, yeah, I was talking 129 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:38.600 talking to Q yesterday about it. I'm thinking, well, i'll 130 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:47.480 probably record some time around three o'clock Eastern, which is 131 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:50.720 when this show starts, and it has most of the 132 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:53.319 news of the day. I mean, there's stuff that happens afterwards, 133 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:56.519 but the bulk of stuff has happened usually by this time, 134 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:01.279 and that will give me what I need. Oh, can't 135 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:01.600 do it. 136 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:02.839 I don't know. 137 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:05.199 You're not gonna do it every day obviously, No. 138 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:07.160 Yeah, i am, but it's gonna be. 139 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:08.600 I'm going to try to get it to the point 140 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:11.040 where it's it's different every day news of the day. 141 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:17.240 Maybe on Monday and Wednesday, I'll do Financial Friday. On Friday, 142 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:20.000 I'm going to try and get some interview stuff done today. 143 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:20.839 Yeah. 144 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:25.680 Actually, yeah, well I'm gonna try and bring that back 145 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:28.600 and then Tuesdays and Thursdays if I can. It just 146 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:32.519 depends upon finding the people I want to talk to 147 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.079 and having their schedules fit with my schedules, and then 148 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:39.120 do do interviews with some interesting people. Mix it in 149 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:43.319 there so it'll be it'll be different every day hopefully. 150 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:44.120 Very good. 151 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:45.360 Yeah, very good. 152 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:49.480 Well, one last one last thing, please this this loot 153 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:53.079 between twelve and three. I'm just gonna ask one favor. 154 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:58.600 Don't have the guy the former sheriff of Sacramento who 155 00:07:58.639 --> 00:07:59.920 fills in for you every now and then. 156 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:05.759 First of all, I have no I have no input 157 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:08.120 on what people are going to do around the country, 158 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:12.319 but there's going to be there's no there's no one replacement. 159 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:15.600 Every station is kind of have to go find somebody 160 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:19.079 else to start on Monday, so they'll they'll pick whoever. 161 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:21.279 You know, you're not going to go on. 162 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:23.560 Vacation for like a couple of months, man. 163 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:28.560 No, I don't know. I've I'm not no. 164 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:33.279 I think I just you know, it's it's like it's like, 165 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:35.799 you know, keep getting back on the horse. I mean, 166 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:37.559 it's I got to keep going. I'm going If I 167 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:39.799 if I stop, I don't know what I would do. 168 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:43.480 I'm not a workaholic. But I like what I do 169 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:48.200 and I I'll see. I mean, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. 170 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:49.840 This is all brand new for me. 171 00:08:49.919 --> 00:08:50.120 Man. 172 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:53.799 I'm I may get tired of it right away. I 173 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:56.799 may want to do to a day, I may want 174 00:08:56.799 --> 00:08:59.240 to do one a month. I don't know. I'm I'm 175 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:02.080 I'm going to feel that. We'll see how it goes well. 176 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:04.480 Personally, I think you should stay on the radio till 177 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:06.639 your flat line. But that's my personal. 178 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:12.360 Well, Okay, I appreciate it. I appreciate it, and. 179 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:14.799 If I and if I will be there. 180 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:15.679 If I ever need. 181 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:18.080 I had told you I had my first surgery ever 182 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:21.960 last summer. I had a hernia thing and uh yeah, 183 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.759 And I told I told the surgeon what you said, 184 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:29.399 no mesh, and uh yeah. He looked at me and 185 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:33.000 the kind of smiles I said that comes from a surgeon, 186 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:37.200 U c l A. So he uh Anyway, So hopefully 187 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:39.200 I don't need your services in the future. 188 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:42.320 But if I did, no give a call. 189 00:09:42.679 --> 00:09:46.320 I tell everybody that, everybody that that finds out what 190 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:52.919 I do, I tell them you really don't want my services. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 191 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:55.360 I'm more. I'm more of a curbside guy, like, you know, 192 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:57.399 I'll give you like some advice, but really you don't 193 00:09:57.399 --> 00:09:58.559 want to be on the other end of my knife. 194 00:09:58.600 --> 00:09:59.320 It's not good for you. 195 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:02.840 Well, I I keep I keep rooting for I'm all 196 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:06.840 upset about to cut back on medical research because I 197 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:09.799 uh have been for a long time promoting the fact 198 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:13.399 that I hope the researchers out there figure out a 199 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:16.480 way to cure as of all of our illnesses and 200 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:20.679 diseases and injuries without a knife. I mean there's a 201 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:24.600 lot of stuff, you know where they have what is it, uh, 202 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:29.519 kidney stones that they can bust away with sonars things 203 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:30.559 like that, and I'm going. 204 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:32.720 To yeah, that sounds great. 205 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:37.720 No knives, Yeah, yeah, sonic there's a sonic there's Sonic 206 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:42.399 Wave now for pathectomies, there's really they're like no, there's 207 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:44.399 a lot of yeah, yeah, there's a lot of cold 208 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:47.639 knife procedures, a lot of like later procedures where there's 209 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:50.559 like literally like you know, maybe like a couple of 210 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:53.039 million liters of blood is lost. So, I mean, the 211 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:57.480 cervical front is really improving quite dramatically, and I don't 212 00:10:57.519 --> 00:10:59.240 know how AI is gonna be integrated in that, but 213 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.039 I think it's going to be promising, but like you know, 214 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:03.879 I've only got like another ten years left. 215 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:05.320 Well, I. 216 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:09.519 Was talking to a friend of mine who's an MD, 217 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:12.759 and I said to him, I said, are you worried 218 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:18.279 about AI? And he said, no, not yet, But he 219 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.399 was telling me that if you're a radiologist, he says 220 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:25.840 that AI is doing most of that and the human 221 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:29.240 kind of double checks the AI. But I said, so 222 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.960 there's still a human involved, and he goes, yeah, So 223 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.720 if I was if I was a young med student 224 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:37.399 and I'm trying to figure out what specialty I want, 225 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:39.919 I think I would stay far away from radiology. 226 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:44.039 I mean that machine could do that. 227 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:50.279 Surgery is probably still, like I think the best, so 228 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:51.000 I mean, you know. 229 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:53.559 Yeah, but but even so, what was the thing you 230 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:56.120 told me about the robotic stuff that you guys use. 231 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:02.240 What's the name of that thing? Yeah, so it's. 232 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:03.759 Yeah, there's a lot of other there's a lot of 233 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:07.159 other robots out right now. There's there's one of my 234 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:10.480 mentors from Texas is a I named pass Away. Well, 235 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:13.279 while back with doctor uh doctor debate, he came out 236 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:16.200 with a bunch of like heart transplant. 237 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:21.960 Uh oh, yeah, that's what he's famous for. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 238 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:25.279 oh man, I've looked at the clock. Hey, UCLA doc 239 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:29.120 as always. Uh, I've always appreciated your calls, but I 240 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:30.000 do have to run. 241 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:30.519 Thank you. 242 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:34.519 Well, I spent three hours a day talking about something. 243 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:36.000 That's why we listen to you. 244 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:41.840 Well, another ten minutes goes by, and yet another lawsuit 245 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:43.360 against Donald Trump. 246 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:44.919 This time it's PBS. 247 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.919 Uh, PBS is suing Donald Trump or his executive order 248 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:55.559 to cut funding for PBS. And if we look, we 249 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:58.279 can argue about a lot of stuff. But I think 250 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.000 if we were in a room trying to figure out 251 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:03.320 what to cut and what not to cut, I think 252 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:07.320 most of us would say cut PBS. Now, I have nothing, 253 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:12.600 I have no gripes about PBS. First television job I 254 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:16.480 did was for PBS. But that yeah, no, that was 255 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:20.679 a long time ago. But I uh, why should they 256 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:30.960 get government money? NBC doesn't, MSNBC doesn't, Fox doesn't, CNN doesn't. 257 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:36.080 Why do they get special treatment? I'm baffled by that. 258 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:39.799 Back to the phones eight five five two nine, five 259 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:44.120 sixty six hundred, Oh, Kurt and Reno, Kurt, thank you 260 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:45.360 for waiting. What's going on? 261 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:52.279 Okay, we're back. Yeah, I have a few more ideas 262 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:54.000 on how to cut down on. 263 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:55.279 Our government expenses. 264 00:13:55.759 --> 00:14:00.759 How about government employees, non elected only work for the 265 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:04.240 government for twenty five years total. I don't care if 266 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:07.799 you work for the military for fifteen or in another branch. 267 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:11.120 You get twenty five years and you're done working for 268 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:11.799 the government. 269 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:14.679 And then on why would you limit why would you 270 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:18.200 why would you limit their tenure at that point that 271 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:20.559 they know they should be good at what they. 272 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:26.279 Do well, the way I see it and have been 273 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:31.720 around it, they become less efficient and less effective well, 274 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:34.679 and fire them up in their pay grades and fire them. 275 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:39.200 You I want an example of a federal government employee 276 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:41.039 who has been fired just. 277 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:46.080 A second, let me look, uh huh uh huh uh huh. 278 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:47.080 I can't find any. 279 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:52.200 Yeah, you're right, yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go. It's 280 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:55.279 not possible. But you know, that would be a way 281 00:14:55.399 --> 00:15:00.240 to save some money out there. But you know, as 282 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:04.320 we started the conversation a while back, if we go 283 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:07.559 back to the nineties and say, okay, this is what 284 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:13.320 you have to do for your level of employees nineteen 285 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:17.600 ninety six level, boom, anybody that's above you know, after 286 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:23.240 that goes away. 287 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:30.039 The whole government employment system needs to be completely shredded 288 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:34.399 and done away with. They should be no different than 289 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:37.720 you or me or anybody else going out into the 290 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:42.639 marketplace and offering your services in return for pay. 291 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:45.879 Period. That's it. Period. 292 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:51.360 I don't understand all this job protection stuff. You either 293 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:53.960 do what the person who gives you the money to 294 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:57.360 accomplish them. They don't like what you're doing, they should 295 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:58.960 be able to let you go, and if you don't 296 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:01.360 like them, you should be able will to leave, no 297 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:03.200 problem anyway. 298 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:08.480 The whole thing needs to be Yeah, I get. 299 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:11.240 It's my two cents and I wish you well and 300 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:12.919 you stage. 301 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:13.279 Of your life. 302 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:15.720 Thank you, Kurt. I appreciate the call. 303 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:21.960 Let's oh Angelo, Hi Angela, what's going on today? 304 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:23.519 Hey? 305 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:25.679 Tom? How's it going? Really going to miss you? 306 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:25.960 Man? 307 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:28.399 You always answer my calls and you always take the 308 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:31.720 hard questions no matter what, Dude, you are the only 309 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:32.679 one in this world. 310 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:32.919 Man. 311 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:35.279 You are made to Tom. But I have a hard 312 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:38.720 question too about the FBI. Ye was running I'm Margaret, 313 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:41.039 I'm margat for days man, and he was running that 314 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:43.600 we're going to dismantle the FBI because it's corrupt. And 315 00:16:43.639 --> 00:16:46.200 you know, since the beginning of it, jed Or Hoover. 316 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:48.240 They put him in charge, and it was corrupt from 317 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:51.559 day one. Now they were talking about dismantling and shutting 318 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:54.200 it down. But all they're doing is closing one building 319 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:56.679 is just to send the people to another building. And 320 00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:59.039 I think they were probably lying talking about shutting down 321 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:00.879 the FBI, because I don't think he said down. Don'd 322 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:03.039 you even any think they had the ability to do that. 323 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:04.880 So I was just thinking, what do you think about 324 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:07.680 the FBI being so corrupt and should it be closed 325 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:10.440 down and a new system be put in or what 326 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:11.240 do you think? 327 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:15.839 Well, the building was one of the issues in Cash Betel, 328 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:19.920 who's now the director. I saw something the other day 329 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:24.200 where they have steel cables to hold concrete in the 330 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:28.559 ceiling from falling down. I mean, it's the building is 331 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:33.759 a disaster. So what he said was I think he 332 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:39.160 had fifteen thousand people working in the FBI headquarters in Washington. 333 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:44.359 This past week he already dispatched. I think fifteen hundred 334 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:47.240 ten percent of them have already been sent out to 335 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:50.880 other offices. And that was his whole thing, was why 336 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:52.680 we don't need all these people here. They need to 337 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:56.759 go out and be cops and go find bank robbers 338 00:17:56.799 --> 00:17:59.960 and other people out that commit federal crimes out there. 339 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:05.839 So he's doing that. I think he's an honest man. 340 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:09.680 I really do. Walter Isaacson. I like Walter. He's the 341 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:15.039 author of a bunch of bios. He did Steve Jobs, 342 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:17.599 sat down with Steve Jobs and spend a lot of 343 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:20.200 time with Steve Jobs to do the book on him. 344 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:24.000 He also spent a lot of time with Elon doing 345 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:28.279 the book about him. And this is Walter's assessment of 346 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:30.839 Elon working for the federal government. 347 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:34.079 Throughout the book. You see this happening over and over 348 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:37.200 again and the book, whether it's him taking over Twitter 349 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:40.839 or dealing with Tesla's crisis or SpaceX, you see that 350 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:45.279 all in intensity. But the main difference, Dana, as I said, 351 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:49.480 you know early on when this happened, is he owns 352 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:53.240 Tesla pretty much, so he owns SpaceX. He can do 353 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:56.119 things like say, hey, let's do this radical thing with 354 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:58.960 the Raptor engine where it's leaking, or take off the 355 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:02.319 heat shieldet rid of these servers in Twitter, and sometimes 356 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:03.960 it works, sometimes he doesn't, but. 357 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:04.640 He's all in. 358 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:08.000 You can't do that in government because he doesn't own 359 00:19:08.039 --> 00:19:09.000 the federal government. 360 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:11.599 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 361 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:15.319 But he also said it wasn't true that Elon got 362 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:16.920 involved to help his companies. 363 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:20.039 I think he gets angry at some of the attacks 364 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:22.559 on him, But one of the things people said that 365 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:24.880 was totally untrue is that he went into government to 366 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:27.559 help his companies or that it was going to improve 367 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:32.119 Tesla's No. I mean, it was definitely not done, and 368 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:35.319 it certainly didn't turn out to work to help the 369 00:19:35.359 --> 00:19:38.480 share price of his companies or anything else. He did 370 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:41.079 it because he had this all in intensity, and what 371 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:44.400 you saw in both the CBS interviews and the Washington 372 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:48.759 Post interviews is a deep frustration that there's something in 373 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:52.640 Washington and in the federal government that's not going to 374 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:56.599 make serious cuts. He's upset that the cuts weren't in 375 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:59.119 this great, big, beautiful bill, which, as you know, it 376 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:01.920 can't really be. You have to have a recision bill. 377 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:03.000 It's a technical thing. 378 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:03.720 Uh. 379 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:06.519 President will send a recision bill, but I bet you 380 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:09.599 a lot of those things won't be voted on, even 381 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:12.960 by Republicans in the House. So he is frustrated that 382 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:15.680 even the Republicans in the House, in the Senate and 383 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:19.079 House have been captured by Washington interests. 384 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:24.160 Yeah, so he's he gave it a shot, but I 385 00:20:24.200 --> 00:20:30.240 think he's he's admitted worse than he ever imagined. Chuck 386 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:33.480 in California, Hey Chuck, welcome, what's going on? 387 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:37.400 Hey Tom, Good afternoons, Good afternoon. Three things. I want 388 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:40.559 to thank you for Number one, just all the time 389 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:45.519 you've spent with terrific. Number two, thank you for alluding 390 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:54.200 us to the C minus students and I was being generous. 391 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:58.680 And thanks for telling us about the fasting on the 392 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:00.400 freeway and how to stay out of it. 393 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:06.359 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, fabulous advice. 394 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:11.160 But actually what I'm calling about is, you know somebody 395 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:13.519 called it earlier and said, well, just tell everybody to 396 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:16.559 call it in the department heads to cut ten percent. Yeah, 397 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:19.359 I mean that's kind of where Elon was, you know, 398 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:24.200 and it's like you were just discussing Walt from Walter. 399 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:28.160 You know, they found out you just can't say do that. 400 00:21:28.839 --> 00:21:31.559 I think you got to offer these guys big money 401 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:35.279