WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:03.160 Well whiskey. 2 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:15.439 Coming from Powerline blog dot com and produced by Ricochet 3 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:20.399 dot com. This is the three Whiskey Happy Hour with 4 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:26.120 your bartenders Steve Hayward, John You, and power Lines International 5 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:35.200 Woman of Mystery Lucretiative where You're in love Down. 6 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:42.320 Hello, Welcome everybody to another quiet episode and a three 7 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.479 whiskey happy hour, and nothing at all in politics happened again. 8 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:49.759 We're gonna have to spend the whole time talking about 9 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:58.359 esoteric political theory. No, in fact, in fact, that's all untrue. 10 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:04.599 It's been another crazy week in national politics, and we 11 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:08.640 couldn't have better people to discuss it than my co hosts, 12 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:14.879 Steve Hayward, Hi Steve, Hi, John and the International Woman 13 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:16.680 of Mystery, Lucretia. 14 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:19.359 Hi, Lucretia, Hi John, How are. 15 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:24.000 You what a crazy I spent all day today and 16 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:27.640 yesterday teaching Law of the Sea, believe it or not, 17 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:32.599 so I've missed everything everything. I only am reading the speeches. 18 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:35.840 I've not been watching the DNC. I have been reading 19 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:39.439 the speeches late at night, and I totally missed today's 20 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:42.159 big news, on which we have a three whiskey how 21 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:48.000 happy Hour scoop from Steve Hayward. Well, the RFK drop 22 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:50.239 out of the race and endorsement at Trump. Steve, what 23 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:51.680 is this big scoop. 24 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:51.719 That we have? 25 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:54.400 Well? Maybe, but first of all, John, really, you've been 26 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:56.359 teaching the law of the sea and you heck will 27 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:59.040 be about the Clean Air Act? Are you kidding? Well, 28 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:00.640 I don't think about it. 29 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:02.760 I just want to explain to people I'm out of it. 30 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:06.159 Look what I've been Listeners can't see that I'm holding 31 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:09.680 up Chep Melnick's great book, Regulation of the Courts, The 32 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:11.479 Case of the Clean Air Act. I'm going to like 33 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:14.560 make you read this someday, John, like you know, like 34 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:17.800 Roddy McDowell and clockwork Orange with your aisles peeled open. 35 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:20.599 It's a great look. You know, it's a great book. 36 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:23.360 It is the only book of Chut Melnicks I refuse 37 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:23.919 to read. 38 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:26.159 It's a great book. It was a dissertation. 39 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:28.639 Okay, but you know, by the way, by the way, 40 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:30.560 you're right, Steve, I am or miss. I forgot to 41 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:33.520 ask both of you before we talk about this quiet 42 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:36.039 week in politics. What are you drinking? Steve? 43 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:39.120 Well, you know, it's actually a Friday night for change 44 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:41.719 because we often lose Tuesday. Mark I've got a Telliskir 45 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:43.960 ten year old, which is a you know, isle of 46 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:48.879 sky uh single malt, which I I've been planning for 47 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:51.439 a couple of years now that here in another remote 48 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:55.479 bucolics central coast, I don't have good liquor stores. Well, 49 00:02:56.039 --> 00:03:01.199 I can tell listeners that a fantastic, maybe the greatest 50 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:03.879 liquor store I've ever seen, has opened in Passer Rubbles. 51 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:08.439 It's called Grapes and Grains. And without going through the 52 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:11.199 whole thing about how great it is, they have lucretia. 53 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:13.400 I have to get this for your birthday. They have, 54 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:18.240 for example, a seventy five year old McCallen single malt 55 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:23.360 for sal behind a glass case for eighty nine ninety 56 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:23.960 nine dollars. 57 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:29.759 That's when we went to well, when we stopped in 58 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:34.120 London on our way to join you guys in Milan, 59 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:37.639 that I went to the McCallen store and they had 60 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:41.360 a bunch of really nice bottles behind glass, but that 61 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:44.080 they had like a set I almost want to call it, 62 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:48.280 of different ones. And that the week before the saleswoman 63 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:51.680 said that some rich guy from California had come in 64 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:55.639 and bought two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth one 65 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:57.800 of the sets of all the different bottles of Scotch 66 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:02.319 from the London from Heath Airport. 67 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:03.400 Yeah, it wasn't me. 68 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:07.319 I don't get is Steve's in this great store with 69 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:10.520 eighty nine thousand dollars bottle McCallum and he buys a 70 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:13.680 talliskir tenure, which usually get two for the price of 71 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:19.920 one on Civic Well. 72 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:22.279 I was also getting some I was also getting some 73 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:24.759 Spanish red wine and very fond of that's hard to find. 74 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:29.000 But here's the point for listeners, which is I keep 75 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:31.120 tightening this. But now I think I'm going to try 76 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:34.920 and organize a Ricochet meet up for the Central Coast 77 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:37.360 sometime the next year, and I'm going to see if 78 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:39.720 I can get this store to have a special event 79 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:42.959 for us. Now they won't break out. They have several 80 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:45.920 cases of you know, whiskeys that are anywhere from two 81 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:48.920 to five thousand dollars on their sticker price, and plus 82 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:51.240 stuff that if we pull the too a collection and 83 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:53.959 all that, we might be able to get one bottle. Okay, anyway, 84 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:58.680 So Talian, that's what I'm having, Lucretia, what do you drink? I, on. 85 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:01.199 The other hand, have this great your store a couple 86 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:05.240 hours away from me, which everything is called Costco, And 87 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:09.759 I bought another bottle of the cask of a Monteado 88 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:14.920 and it's lovely, the you know, the the whiskey aged 89 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:18.680 in the cask of a Montiado. So that's what I'm drinking, 90 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:22.319 and it just makes me take one to take revenge 91 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:24.560 on all of my enemies, which I have a lot 92 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:25.199 of lately. 93 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:26.639 That's a lot of booze. 94 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:29.920 A lucky thing. I can buy it at Costco. 95 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:34.199 John One, I am drinking a Costco bottle too. It's 96 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:41.879 a my will It bourbon pot still in the gigantic size. 97 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:44.560 That cool bottle. You know, I bought that once. John. 98 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:46.759 It's good because I like the bottle. 99 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:49.959 Yeah, the bottle is really cool. The bourbon's not bad either. 100 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:52.399 Yeah. 101 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:59.120 So anyway, so let's start with this this week's news. 102 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:04.319 The first, Steve, you promised some kind of scoop or 103 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:10.120 inside story about RFK Junior's decision today to withdraw from 104 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:15.439 the presidential race and to endorse Donald Trump and an 105 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:21.959 in person lollapalooza in Phoenix and Lucretia's neighborhood in Lucretia's 106 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:23.920 back here. They might have been her at her house. 107 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:27.160 She may well have broken this sweet deal. 108 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:28.720 Steve have pictures. 109 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:32.480 Well, there are two steps to this or three steps. Really. 110 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:36.079 Someone who is a listener and reader who I don't 111 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:39.560 know but Bona Five's check out just called me up 112 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:42.560 and to say, look, I just want to tip you off. 113 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:45.560 I've been a volunteer for the Kennedy campaign for several 114 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:49.319 months now in a key Eastern state. And he said, 115 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:51.920 I'm not senior in the thing. But on the other hand, 116 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:54.560 the Kennedy senior people are calling around to all of 117 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:57.720 us saying, I hope you will all please get ready 118 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:00.439 to or consider signing up to join the Trump campaign. 119 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:02.560 And he told me a lot of details. This is 120 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:05.399 really going to happen, is what he told me. And 121 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:08.720 sure enough, it did happen today in two stages, Kennedy 122 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:11.399 gave a speech that look, I've always thought the guy 123 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:15.079 was a clown, demagogue and all kinds of crazy things. 124 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:17.759 But I watched the whole thing today forty five minutes 125 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:22.279 or so, and I found it absolutely riveting. Another part 126 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:24.720 you might quarrel with, although not many, I have to 127 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:27.839 say I was utterly captivated and I thought it went 128 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:30.199 on too long, because I think most speeches go on 129 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:33.839 too long. But he said three things. First, I am 130 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:38.279 absolutely outraged at the way the Democratic Party is anti 131 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:41.160 democratic and is the party of censorship. And he went 132 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:44.360 through all the things that we've talked about a lot. Second, John, 133 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:46.560 and this is the part that you would not have liked. 134 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:49.680 He talked about the Ukraine War and foreign policy, and 135 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:52.199 he says we have to end the neo cons forever wars. 136 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:56.120 And he gave an account of the Ukraine War that 137 00:07:56.439 --> 00:08:02.079 is much closer, shall we say, to Lucretia than yours, surprise, surprise, surprise, 138 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:04.480 although he did it very well, I have to say. 139 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.639 And then third, he talked about the health crisis in America, 140 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:10.800 especially with the children, and obesity and a whole lot 141 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:14.439 of things, leaving out the whole vaccine stuff, where he's 142 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:17.439 been kind of dodgy over the years, and by the way, 143 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:19.040 he said a number of things that I thought were 144 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:21.000 very shrewd. He said, Look, I don't agree with Donald 145 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.839 Trump about a lot of things, but we do agree 146 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:26.839 on some of the most important things, and that's why 147 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:30.040 I'm for him. And you know, we've agreed to disagree 148 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.600 on some things but I'll be in the room. He said. 149 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:34.559 You know, Donald Trump has said I'll be part of 150 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:38.440 his administration. He left it vague, how I have thoughts 151 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:40.840 on that. Okay, he did that, and I thought it 152 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:44.399 was a fantastic speech for someone who's never liked the 153 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:48.399 guy who's turned down two invitations to debate him twenty 154 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:53.159 years ago. And then later in the day he appeared 155 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:55.879 with Trump in I think Phoenix, and they had a 156 00:08:55.960 --> 00:08:59.679 rally with fireworks and all the rest, and Kennedy came 157 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:02.200 up and gave five or six minutes with Trumps standing 158 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:06.000 very patiently at the side. That was fabulous. And I 159 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:08.000 you know, the pole data up to this point all 160 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:12.159 suggests that if Kennedy dropped out, it would help Trump. 161 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:16.039 So there we are. I think it's a master strock 162 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:18.519 on Trump and Kennedy's part. The day after the Democratic 163 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:23.360 Convention ends, and you know, talk about weird things happening 164 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:25.679 this year, this is one of the weirdest ever. 165 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:31.919 By the way, Lucretia, before we turn back, well no, please, Lucretia, 166 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:33.600 go ahead. Then we got to find out did you 167 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:36.159 know Steve slipped in that he was asked to pay 168 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:38.759 RFK Junior and turned it down twice. We got to 169 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:40.000 find out what that's about. 170 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:45.120 About it before John environmental stuff, but remember there used 171 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:51.519 to be a real environmental nut. But so I read 172 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:53.399 the speech, and I'm going to be honest with you. 173 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:56.799 That's much easier for me because I always I have 174 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:01.240 this empathy for people that have uh sort of speech difficulties, 175 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:05.120 and it kind of makes me anxious almost, So I'm 176 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:07.279 much better off reading it. I don't. I don't hold 177 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:10.200 it against him. I don't. It's not problematic or anything. 178 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:12.200 It's just kind of anyway. 179 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:15.720 Have you been hanging around with Steve all these years? 180 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:19.360 Yeah, I know Steve. I'm used to Steve's little flights 181 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:20.679 to fancy. What was I going to say? 182 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:21.080 What was that? 183 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:22.279 What was my next point? 184 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:23.240 What was my next point? 185 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:27.000 But I'm used to it, and Steve told me before 186 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:29.919 when I kind of mentioned that that I that if 187 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:31.879 I listened to RFK long enough I would get used 188 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.240 to that too. But anyway, I will say, I don't 189 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.200 need to add to what Steve said. He said it well. 190 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.440 One of the things that he hinted at at the 191 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:44.399 very end was if nothing else, what this has done, 192 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:48.720 has it has popped the balloon. Sorry, I'm going to 193 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:51.639 mix my metaphors here of the media gasm that was 194 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:55.320 going over the top over calm a Lama ding Dong 195 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:00.000 and her acceptance speech. Right, I mean, we were even. 196 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.919 And though Beyonce did not show up as let's see, 197 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:07.519 as the All Times put it, speculation of a surprise 198 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:12.159 guest Taylor Swift, Beyonce turned out to be nothing but 199 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:21.320 wishful thinking. No matter, Kamala Harris crushed it. Yep, oh God. Anyway, 200 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:23.440 so that you know that went on. But and and 201 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:27.200 they may not spend as much time talking about Trump 202 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:34.279 and RFK, but nevertheless, then the excuse, the expression, narrative 203 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:38.679 has changed somewhat. So that's that's what I'll say about it. 204 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:44.200 You know, I'm trying to concentrate on the things about 205 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:47.039 RFK that I like, and there are some, there are many. 206 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:50.919 I try not to concentrate on the bear and the brainworm. 207 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:55.080 And you know, some of those things that are weird. 208 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:57.120 I mean, they're no worse than the things we know 209 00:11:57.159 --> 00:12:05.440 about walt assistant volunteer coach Waltz. And they brought out players, 210 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:09.360 these these fat out of shape you know the kind 211 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:11.559 of people that democrats love to make fun of who 212 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:15.799 are Republicans. They bring out these football players from nineteen 213 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:21.039 ninety nine to talk about how great assistant volunteer coach 214 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:24.919 Waltz was. Why because they certainly don't want to talk 215 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:30.600 about what Governor Waltz has done, so they have this 216 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:37.159 absolutely fake attempt to make us all think he's a 217 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:41.759 folksy all high school football coach. You took his team 218 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:46.200 to a state championship. Oh my god, I just want 219 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:47.919 to kill people when I hear them talking like that. 220 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:50.759 I hate to be gaslighted so much like that. I'm 221 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:56.279 not that stupid. Maybe fond, but I'm not that stupid anyway. 222 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:58.120 Sorry, So, what effect do you think it'll have on 223 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:02.279 the race? So the story I see say that at 224 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:05.240 one point RFK Junior was pulling around ten percent, but 225 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:08.519 that was before Biden pulled out, and now he was 226 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:11.320 about four percent in the polls. But in a race 227 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:14.799 that could be decided by seventy seventy thousand votes in 228 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:17.320 the right states, could that make a difference. 229 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:21.200 Yes, because it's not four percent in all the states either. 230 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:26.720 It varies, and it also varies to some extent. John 231 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:32.559 about where those votes might go, Well, go ahead, Steve's 232 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:33.840 much better at this. Well. 233 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:37.120 There was an interesting interlude in the speech. Today he 234 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:40.720 has file paperwork to take himself off the ballot in 235 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:44.759 many of the crucial swing states. Some of them he 236 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:46.759 may be locked in. I'm not sure. But he said 237 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:50.240 something very curious. He said, Look, you know, it's possible 238 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:53.080 there could be a two sixty nine two sixty nine 239 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:56.320 tie in the electoral College. This is true, it's realte, 240 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:58.960 but it's possible in that case would go to the 241 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:01.840 House Representatives. And if you know your constitution, you know 242 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:06.519 that the House chooses from the top three vote getters. 243 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:09.240 So he went on to say, so, look, if you're 244 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:12.080 in a deep red state and you're for Trump, or 245 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:14.240 in a deep blue state and you're for Viiden, but 246 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:17.039 you kind of like me, vote for me, because then 247 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:20.360 he would still be alive as a compromise candidate in 248 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:23.679 the House of Representatives if they choose the president. That 249 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:26.559 shows to me that he's you know, he's still in 250 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:29.200 his back of his mind thinks there's some remote you know, 251 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:32.799 what's what's the what's the famous movie scene with you 252 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:34.879 know what's his name? I mean, one in a million, 253 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:37.159 i'd you I still have a chance. Right, he still 254 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:39.360 thinks he has a chance at all, this, which I 255 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:42.320 think is kind of interesting. But look, you have to 256 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:44.840 be a megalomaniac who think you're going to be the 257 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:47.360 president to begin with, and so that comes with the territory. 258 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:51.039 But that was a very interesting argument, I thought. So anyway, 259 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:53.080 so he's going to stay on some ballots and try 260 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:55.320 and get off the others and hope that Trump wins. 261 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.279 But if it's a tie, hey, I'm still here, everybody, 262 00:14:58.320 --> 00:14:59.320 and I could be your president. 263 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:03.320 Said there was some kind of deal with RFK maybe 264 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:06.200 the next Secretary of Health and Human Services, and well 265 00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:07.759 that was charge of all the vaccines. 266 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:11.200 No, well, no, that was implied. I think, uh, I think, 267 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:13.759 I think one of two things will happen. I My 268 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:15.639 own view is, I think it'd be great to make 269 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:21.200 him the White House a Czar of declassification and then 270 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:26.480 declassify the UFO documents that the JFK assassination documents. Oh, John, 271 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:28.840 I mean, will you think about this? I would like 272 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:31.600 to see the redacted parts of the nine to eleven 273 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:35.159 Commission report that we all think, say the Saudi government 274 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:36.879 had a lot to do with the nine to eleven plot. 275 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:39.519 I don't know if that's there, but that's the speculation. Right, 276 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:42.360 maybe you know something about that, and maybe you can't 277 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:43.679 say because they would kill you. 278 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:46.639 Okay, thanks for that. 279 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:48.960 Or to put him in charge of some White House 280 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:52.320 council on looking into health regulations and all the rest 281 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:55.519 of that. H His talk with Trump today was all 282 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:58.279 about we got to get corporations out of By the way, 283 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:01.960 this is conservative regulatory capture language, right, we got. 284 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:03.960 To finish the sentence, Stave, we got to Steve. We 285 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:05.679 got to get the corporations out. 286 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:09.759 Of dominating the regulatory agencies of the federal government. That's 287 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:15.240 that's regulatory capture doctrine that conservatives understood fifty sixty years 288 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:18.000 ago and they've kind of given up that language and 289 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.120 now it's back. Courtesy of r of an unusual. 290 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:26.480 Source heard I heard. I actually couldn't tell who it 291 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:28.840 was because he was kind of a mushmouth, which a 292 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:32.720 lot of Democrats are. On one of the Fox shows 293 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:35.759 that one of the panels they brought together, Uh, they 294 00:16:35.799 --> 00:16:38.720 asked what the question you just asked us, John, which 295 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:40.360 is what do you think this will do for the race? 296 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:43.399 And what did you think about his speech? And you know, 297 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:45.440 most of the most of the panelists had good things 298 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:50.159 to say that whoever the Democrat mushmouth was said, well, 299 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:53.600 you know, his whole talk about censorship was just nonsense, 300 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:58.120 because his complaint was that, uh, you know, he only 301 00:16:58.159 --> 00:17:02.759 had two two interviews on mainstream media out of all 302 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:05.599 the mainstream media, but that they otherwise spend all this 303 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:09.400 time of slamming him, you know, saying these untrue things 304 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:12.680 about him, et cetera, et cetera. It's because he was 305 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:16.319 so unimportant. Why does he think he deserves these, you know, 306 00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:19.000 any more than two interviews, because he was never going 307 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:22.200 to win the presidency. Except you know, the other side 308 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:25.279 of the argument that that RFK made quite rightly was 309 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:28.319 if he wasn't that important, why did they spend so 310 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:34.160 much time and effort trying to demonize him and so forth? 311 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:36.720 And so I think that the only reason I brought 312 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:39.799 that up. Who cares what a stupid mushmouth Democrat says. 313 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:44.240 But I think they're worried, well, except worried about the 314 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:46.079 things he brought up. Sorry, so go ahead. 315 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:49.799 Well he did mention again, you know, he mentioned that 316 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.319 Ross Pereat in nineteen ninety two got something like forty 317 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:58.079 interviews with leading news organizations too, the three major networks 318 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:00.680 and so forth, and he says I got two or 319 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:04.640 almost none, right, and he says that's the media can cooperate. Okay, 320 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:05.480 you get the point. 321 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:09.440 But again, as he pointed out, lots of negative things 322 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:12.799 about him, So if he wasn't important, yeah, why they 323 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.720 ignored There. 324 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:17.680 Was not this attempt by either party the truck to 325 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:20.440 try and block ross Pro's access from the ballot. And 326 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:23.480 he got twenty percent of the vote that year. So yeah, 327 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:24.799 a good point I think he made. 328 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:27.960 So well, it's uh, not exactly the work of the 329 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:29.319 Party of Joy, is it. 330 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:30.640 So? 331 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:32.720 By the way, which is the next topic. 332 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:36.559 But Steve, Well, here's well, I'm anticipating you. I have 333 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:38.880 a summary point that I'm very proud of that Lucretia 334 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:40.759 will be horrified, which is why I want to make it. 335 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:44.079 Of course, Look, they're trying to recreate Obama in two 336 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:48.200 thousand and eight, talk about media gasms, Lucretia, right, And 337 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:51.119 you know people have said this that you know Obama, 338 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:52.880 and I think this is true in a pop culture 339 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:57.079 or pop culture level, Obama was Bulemania, right, people are 340 00:18:57.119 --> 00:19:00.640 crazy for this guy. Well, they're trying to recreate with camel. 341 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:06.680 But I think she's the monkeys. In other words, the monkeys, 342 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:10.400 because people can't see if this is while lucretious stroping 343 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:12.160 the cat that's draped around her. 344 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:16.839 Neck like like blow felled right, more like look, I mean, 345 00:19:16.839 --> 00:19:19.519 in other words, if if Obama can be said to 346 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:23.759 have been Paul McCartney and John Lennon, well Michelle is 347 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:26.920 no better than Mickey Dolan's and Peter Tork right. 348 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:28.759 I mean, it's a it's a pale shadow of the 349 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:29.279 real thing. 350 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:31.440 I have no idea who those people are. 351 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:35.720 Of course you don't. You know, you're young and foolish 352 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:38.000 and all that stuff, but you know they The point 353 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:41.759 is the media. Well, the Monkeys were a total creation 354 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:45.079 of media marketing, whereas. 355 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:46.680 Take advantage of the Beatles creation. 356 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:50.039 They're still playing their songs, Steve. 357 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:54.240 Are they. I don't believer. Yeah, well I'm not a 358 00:19:54.279 --> 00:19:58.039 believer that this will work in twenty twenty four. But okay, 359 00:19:58.079 --> 00:19:59.319 but that's my no. 360 00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:04.519 I mean, now, was seven, I wanted to marry Davy Jones, 361 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:06.839 and then when I was eight I was taller than him. 362 00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:16.400 So let's turn to the next topic, which is, Okay, 363 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:21.680 the other big event was the Democrats formally nominated Kamala Harris. 364 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:24.319 I don't know if you know this. There was a 365 00:20:24.319 --> 00:20:27.400 a session on the last day of the convention on 366 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:29.880 how to pronounce her name Kamala? 367 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:32.880 Did they say Kamala me ding dong No? 368 00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:36.960 I think I saw Steve there trying to throw that in, 369 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:39.839 but he was quickly hustled out of the arena. 370 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:39.400 Yeah. 371 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:43.759 So, what do you guys think about the Democratic Convention? 372 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:45.359 We think first, actually, what do you think of her 373 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:49.480 speech and her the last day which was devoted to 374 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:50.799 her Lucretia. 375 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:54.440 You know, I'm I'm not a good person to ask. 376 00:20:54.519 --> 00:20:57.599 I just find everything about her foul and despicable and 377 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:00.319 disgusting in every other word you can say, I I do. 378 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:06.559 So I'm gonna I'm sorry for this total, total sideline here, 379 00:21:06.599 --> 00:21:09.720 But I've told you guys before that I'm the elector 380 00:21:09.799 --> 00:21:11.599 at my church and if there's a new prese that 381 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:13.960 comes in, he always thanks me. You know, you're the 382 00:21:13.960 --> 00:21:16.160 best lector I've ever heard. Why because I've been a 383 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:19.839 professor for forty years trying to keep students interested in 384 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:22.519 Aristotle in the Federalist papers right when I read them. 385 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:25.359 So I'm good at inflection. I'm good at you know, 386 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:28.799 the just because of practice for a very long time. 387 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:31.440 But not a lot of people are and they don't 388 00:21:31.480 --> 00:21:34.920 really have qualifications. So the advice that are that is 389 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:38.559 given to people who are not necessarily good public readers 390 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:45.119 is just speak very slowly and enansi eight every word, 391 00:21:46.039 --> 00:21:51.000 and you know, the congregation finds that completely annoying. And 392 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:58.720 I had the exact same impression when Commaluma ding Dong 393 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:08.200 talked about how our dreams cackle, cackle, cackle. Uh, you know, 394 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:10.839 it was just really annoying. Now that being said, she 395 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:14.920 didn't lose it. She didn't cackle, she didn't screw up 396 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:18.440 reading the teleprompter, she didn't screw up reading the speech 397 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:20.839 that she did not write, that was written for her. 398 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:25.759 That's you know, that's not uncommon. By the time they 399 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:27.799 got around to her, it was late, same as what 400 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:32.000 happened with Biden. I'm to understand that because it was 401 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:36.960