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Speaker 2: The Democratic Party is in absolute disarray right now, and
Speaker 2: part of this has to do with the leadership. And
Speaker 2: I'm going to point at Chuck Schumer on this one.
Speaker 2: Let me come back to this. We had the showdown
Speaker 2: on Friday. When Bill got done with the show on Friday,
Speaker 2: Ann reached out and she said, Hey, you're in on Monday.
Speaker 2: What do you want Bill to tease over the weekend?
Speaker 2: I said, an, I really don't know. I mean, for
Speaker 2: Pete's sake, we don't have any ideas the is the
Speaker 2: government going to be open or we're gonna go through
Speaker 2: a shutdown. We don't know if if we're going to
Speaker 2: have a new tariffs. We don't know what's going on
Speaker 2: now over the weekend. What do we do? We started
Speaker 2: bombing and Yemen. We did not shut down the government,
Speaker 2: but then we sent Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador
Speaker 2: and a judge said don't and Trump said, they're already
Speaker 2: in the air. And the l Salvadorian president he tweeted,
Speaker 2: oops too late, oopsie, too late. So how would we
Speaker 2: have predicted any of that. Literally, the only thing that
Speaker 2: we thought might happen is the potential for US shutdown.
Speaker 2: That's what we were watching on Friday. Things happen so
Speaker 2: fast right now in this fire hose of chaos, the
Speaker 2: Democrats can't keep up. And so while the Democrats are
Speaker 2: trying to figure out are we mad about the shutdown
Speaker 2: or are we mad that we didn't shut down? As
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer last week said we're going to shut down
Speaker 2: the government because we're not going to allow a Trump
Speaker 2: to cherry pick what he wants to spend money on,
Speaker 2: and then later says, I've decided we have to do
Speaker 2: this because it would be worse. Well, why didn't you
Speaker 2: think that on Tuesday or Wednesday? Right, So he reverses course,
Speaker 2: and so you had people that were rallying around Schumer
Speaker 2: to begin with, and they went, all, right, Chuck, we're
Speaker 2: in this. We love that you're fighting. And then on
Speaker 2: Friday he says, nope, not. In the meantime, the government
Speaker 2: didn't shut down. There was no shutdown. If the government
Speaker 2: had shut down, the Democrats would have been blamed. And
Speaker 2: in the past, when the government shuts down, the majority
Speaker 2: of people, partisanship aside because you're going to have you're
Speaker 2: gonna have people on the right that are always going
Speaker 2: to blame the left and people on the left that
Speaker 2: are always gonna blame the right. But in the past,
Speaker 2: when the government has shut down, the majority of people
Speaker 2: have blamed the Republicans. The Republicans are the ones that
Speaker 2: have held the financing of the country hostage to try
Speaker 2: to get what they can. That's happened in the past.
Speaker 2: The Democrats were at the point where they could and
Speaker 2: the Republicans challenged them to do it, and they did not,
Speaker 2: which has got a lot of Democrat rank and file angry.
Speaker 2: They said, this was our chance to do what the
Speaker 2: Republicans have been doing to us. That's what they thought.
Speaker 2: But what happened was the Republicans put them at a spot.
Speaker 2: The Republicans dared them. They said, go ahead, look like
Speaker 2: the party that's going to shut things down. We're the
Speaker 2: party that's enacting tariffs, we're the party that's deporting people
Speaker 2: all over the place. But you're going to be the
Speaker 2: party that shuts things down. And so Schumer said, no
Speaker 2: any bails, and he says, we've got to support this now.
Speaker 2: Behind the scenes, all they needed were what seven. I
Speaker 2: think democratic votes in order to overcome a filibuster, and
Speaker 2: so I think Schumer probably did the math on that
Speaker 2: and he said, all right, they've got seven. I'm going
Speaker 2: to look like the guy who loses this. If if
Speaker 2: I have seven defectors who aren't listening to leadership and
Speaker 2: vote with the Republicans to keep the government open, I'm
Speaker 2: going to look like I lose. Instead, what Schumer did
Speaker 2: is he said, uh, okay, I am supporting it. Look,
Speaker 2: they did what I wanted. So he's trying to save face.
Speaker 2: But it was too late. He was just too late.
Speaker 2: And so now the Democrats don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2: They don't have any idea where they go from here,
Speaker 2: and they can't keep up with this fire hose of
Speaker 2: chaos that's coming out of the White House. They can't
Speaker 2: do it all they know. The unifying message the Democrats
Speaker 2: have right now nationwide is they don't like Trump. They
Speaker 2: don't like Elon Musk. That's it. What to know about it.
Speaker 2: They're confused. Bill Deblasio was on News Nation, former New
Speaker 2: York City mayor Democrat, and he was asked about what's
Speaker 2: going on with democratic issues, and he seemed bewildered as well.
Speaker 3: Former Democratic mayor of New York City Builds A Blasio mayor.
Speaker 3: Your party in DC deeply divided over this government funding bill.
Speaker 4: How did Democrats now move forward?
Speaker 5: Well, Hannah, we've got issues, so we have some real
Speaker 5: things to resolve. But I also want to say, this
Speaker 5: was a kind of impossible choice.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest about it.
Speaker 5: As a result the election, we were dealing with the
Speaker 5: Senate reality where it was going to be a bad
Speaker 5: outcome no matter what. Now, where was the mistake? I
Speaker 5: would say it was in not setting the stage properly.
Speaker 2: Before I continue here. One of the terms that you
Speaker 2: hear used all the time, which is true but tends
Speaker 2: to be used as an insult, is that elections have consequences.
Speaker 2: And so what happens is Democrats don't get what they want.
Speaker 2: We're seeing everything going on with Trump, and the Republicans
Speaker 2: will say, see, well, elections have consequences. You lost, right,
Speaker 2: But then the Democrats are also saying this because you're
Speaker 2: seeing a number of Trump voters getting doged. Those of course,
Speaker 2: are making headlines because it's an easy headline for clickbait,
Speaker 2: and so the Democrats are saying, oh, well, you fool around,
Speaker 2: you find out elections have consequences. So everybody likes to
Speaker 2: use that back and forth. Elections have consequences. I hate
Speaker 2: the smugness of today's politicians.
Speaker 5: This is where the Democrat leadership has said, Hey, everyone,
Speaker 5: this is what we're really dealing with, and if we're
Speaker 5: going to make this compromise choice to buy into this bill,
Speaker 5: it's simply so we can live to fight another day.
Speaker 5: And it's because we want to keep all the pressure
Speaker 5: on Donald Trump and Elon Musk for what they're doing
Speaker 5: to this country, what they're doing to the economy, what
Speaker 5: they're doing to working people. That would have been a
Speaker 5: coherent message to get people ready for sort of the
Speaker 5: shock of having to accept this thing.
Speaker 2: Look, this has happened. Now.
Speaker 5: Now the real question is can Democrats get back on
Speaker 5: the offensive because there's a lot to work with and
Speaker 5: I think a lot of Americans think what Trump and
Speaker 5: Musk are doing is extreme. So I chopped this one
Speaker 5: up to it really is. It's a bad situation, but
Speaker 5: it's one we got to put past us and now
Speaker 5: get on the offensive.
Speaker 2: All right, So build a Blasio, former New York City
Speaker 2: mayor and Democrat who says, let's just put it behind us,
Speaker 2: let's focus on what's in front of us. The truth is,
Speaker 2: you can't keep up. You cannot keep up. And this
Speaker 2: is where the Democrats have no idea what they like
Speaker 2: and don't like, which is why the latest polling you
Speaker 2: maybe have seen this came out late last week. The
Speaker 2: latest polling the Democratic Party is a new low. The
Speaker 2: reason it has a new low is not because suddenly
Speaker 2: everyone's become a Republican. The Republicans would want you to
Speaker 2: think that everyone the country is shifting in their direction.
Speaker 2: But the reason the Democratic Party has such a low
Speaker 2: approval rating right now is because the Democrats don't know
Speaker 2: what they want. And so how do you say, yes,
Speaker 2: I like this when they don't know what they like?
Speaker 2: Right now, they don't have any idea and leadership is
Speaker 2: they're trying to read the tea leaves pick a direction
Speaker 2: instead of picking a direction and sticking to it. They're
Speaker 2: not in Meanwhile, it just makes them look like they're
Speaker 2: the most incoherent party. But that fire hose of chaos continues,
Speaker 2: that's not going to stop. In fact, the latest from
Speaker 2: the White House, you can't possibly keep up with everything
Speaker 2: that's going on the latest from the White House is
Speaker 2: that presidential orders not issued by Trump are are void, void, vacant,
Speaker 2: and of no further effect. My god, the twisted web
Speaker 2: we weave. Pardon me.
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Speaker 2: What is it this year? You're rooting for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: in the March badness. We'll see, we'll see how they fare,
Speaker 2: but you got them slided. Is like a four seed
Speaker 2: in the college basketball tournament. Verio, go Dodgers, Go Dodgers.
Speaker 2: True sports fan to the bone on that one. All right,
Speaker 2: the President is saying, uh, pardon me. Friends. So you
Speaker 2: will recall that the president took office and the first
Speaker 2: thing he did was one of the first things he did,
Speaker 2: of course, was pardon all of the J six tourists.
Speaker 2: You can't call them rioters. They were just simply taking
Speaker 2: a tour of the Capitol building. And as with most tourists,
Speaker 2: they then occupied other people's offices and desks, and they,
Speaker 2: like most tourists do, wiped feces on the walls. One
Speaker 2: has to wonder if they came prepared with feces or
Speaker 2: if they were manufactured on site. We don't know. That
Speaker 2: was never in the news reports. But just the same
Speaker 2: they were pardoned. What about all those pardons that Biden
Speaker 2: put out right before he got out the door, If
Speaker 2: you will recall, he was preemptively pardoning his whole family, Fauci, Congress,
Speaker 2: everyone that Trump said I'm gonna go after them during
Speaker 2: the campaign, and then after the campaign Biden said, which
Speaker 2: translates to you all get pardons. It was bidence. Now
Speaker 2: President Trump says, no countcies a.
Speaker 7: President Trump doubling down over the weekend on his claim
Speaker 7: that his predecessor Joe Biden used an auto pen to
Speaker 7: add his signature to crucial documents.
Speaker 2: Oh, President's hate when you learn this one simple hack
Speaker 2: to undo everything.
Speaker 7: Mills Hayes is here with us this morning. So Mills
Speaker 7: described this to us. What exactly is an autopen and
Speaker 7: is there any evidence that President Biden was heavily relying
Speaker 7: on one like President Trump claims?
Speaker 2: It's from News Nation the I want to give them credit.
Speaker 3: Well, good morning, Marky, happy to be back here. And
Speaker 3: autopin is a device that replicates someone's signature. It's something
Speaker 3: that celebrities often used to sign autographs for fans, and
Speaker 3: it provides an identical signature every single time, like almost
Speaker 3: a stamp. It's common knowledge that presidents use the device
Speaker 3: to Harry Truman believed to be the first US president
Speaker 3: to do so almost one hundred years ago, but the
Speaker 3: White House doesn't exactly broadcast that they're doing it. For
Speaker 3: obvious reasons. The issue here, according to President Trump, is
Speaker 3: how much his predecessor was allegedly relying on it, and
Speaker 3: overnight the President upping the antique, posting that the pardon
Speaker 3: signed by President Biden our quote hereby declared void, vacant,
Speaker 3: and of no further force or effect because of the
Speaker 3: fact that they were done by autopin.
Speaker 2: Oh, who knew this thing that we've been using for
Speaker 2: the last seventy years, come to find out totally illegal.
Speaker 2: That's no one ever thought to challenge this in the past.
Speaker 2: We just learned that it's totally illegal, and that anything
Speaker 2: Biden did is now undone, and there it is anything
Speaker 2: that was signed with autopen undone. So sid, what are
Speaker 2: we gonna take back? Now? We're going to take back
Speaker 2: the pardons. What we're gonna do, We're gonna undo the
Speaker 2: Chips Act. Is that right? We're gonna undo a stimulus package.
Speaker 2: Do we all owe the government now at twelve hundred dollars? Check?
Speaker 2: What are we doing? What are we undoing? Now, we're
Speaker 2: just gonna undo everything. It's not really how it works.
Speaker 3: In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them, he continues.
Speaker 3: Those on the Unselect Committee, referring to the House committee
Speaker 3: that investigated January sixth should quote fully understand that they
Speaker 3: are subject to investigation at the highest level.
Speaker 2: Okay, so now we're gonna investigate former congress persons and
Speaker 2: current congress persons for investigating the former now current President Trump.
Speaker 2: This is fun.
Speaker 3: The fact is that they were probably responsible for the
Speaker 3: documents that were signed on their behalf without their knowledge
Speaker 3: or consent. This claim originated from the Hairritage Foundation's Oversight project.
Speaker 3: They highlighted signatures from pardons that the president signed, including
Speaker 3: those for Anthony Fauci, Mark Milly, and the January sixth Committee.
Speaker 3: They alleged the signatures are identical, suggesting the use of
Speaker 3: an autopen. They contrasted those signatures with the one announcing
Speaker 3: Biden's withdrawal from the twenty twenty four presidential race, which
Speaker 3: they say is noticeably different. The president suggested on truth
Speaker 3: social quote. The person who was the real president during
Speaker 3: the Biden years was the person who controlled the autopen.
Speaker 3: He's what President Trump first said about the clean one Friday.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we all crooked. Joe Biden got us into a.
Speaker 8: Real mess with Russia and everything else. He did, frankly,
Speaker 8: but he didn't know about it, and he generally speaking
Speaker 8: signed it with autopen. So how would he know that autopen.
Speaker 2: Is a big deal.
Speaker 8: Ninety nine percent of the time I say do it,
Speaker 8: but they come up and I sign it. But you
Speaker 8: don't use auto pen. It's number one, is disrespectful to
Speaker 8: the office.
Speaker 2: You get the feeling that's going to come back because
Speaker 2: right now people are scouring everything Trumps ever signed to
Speaker 2: try to figure out if they're identical signature so they
Speaker 2: can nail him for using the auto pen and asking
Speaker 2: him then it was disrespectful to the office, which, of
Speaker 2: course the Press Secretary will spin and say no, it's
Speaker 2: only disrespectful when Biden does it. Yeah. Will he then
Speaker 2: use the auto pen when he pardons George Floyd's killer? What? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Prominent supporters President Trump, led by podcaster real life podcaster
Speaker 2: Ben Shapiro, feeling a major push to pardon Derek Chauvin,
Speaker 2: the white former Minnesota police officer convicted of killing George
Speaker 2: Floyd in twenty twenty. So they continue to push this
Speaker 2: whole pardon Chauven, and he says that the Shapiro says
Speaker 2: that he has hopes that Chauven would be more easily
Speaker 2: would be easily excuse me, would more easily be able
Speaker 2: to win early release. At some point, if Trump wipes
Speaker 2: away the federal conviction, he would of course still have
Speaker 2: the state conviction. So uh, Biden pardons void, vacant, and
Speaker 2: of no further effect. But Trump pardons could go to
Speaker 2: the white cop that killed the black guy that set
Speaker 2: off race riots across the country. This is fun. The
Speaker 2: madness continues, only this time we actually knew it was coming.
Speaker 2: March Madness. Good news for California schools. Both the men's
Speaker 2: and women's sides will tell you what they are next.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people. I talked with the people yesterday.
Speaker 2: I do a show on Sunday afternoons, and I was
Speaker 2: talking with people and they were saying, Wow, I was
Speaker 2: really excited about the LA Marathon. I was so excited
Speaker 2: to see an American win the LA Marathon and it
Speaker 2: was They said, dude, were you watching the LA Marathon?
Speaker 2: And I had to be honest, doesn't sound terrible, no,
Speaker 2: because I was watching college basketball. The greatest two days
Speaker 2: in American sports are this Thursday and Friday. And I've
Speaker 2: had this argument with people before and they go, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: it's wild Card weekend of the the NFL. They love that.
Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong, those are great two big football fans,
Speaker 2: the biggest sport in America. But for absolute engagement from
Speaker 2: non fans, for the chaos that is almost planned, there's
Speaker 2: a reason they call it madness, and that is that
Speaker 2: as you watch on Thursday and Friday, you're gonna have
Speaker 2: teams from places you've never heard of before. I did
Speaker 2: this amy to be fair. I know you're not a
Speaker 2: big college basketball fan, but I was asking the Weekend
Speaker 2: tech Raoul, who is a sports fan? And I said, Row,
Speaker 2: where is Lipscomb University? I don't know. We don't have
Speaker 2: any idea. There's schools you've never heard of that suddenly
Speaker 2: are making national attention. An's gonna jump in here and
Speaker 2: tell me that she went to Lipscomb. No she didn't.
Speaker 4: Are they underdogs? I'm going to root for him. I
Speaker 4: would like to root for the underdog.
Speaker 2: They are underdogs against the Cyclones of Iowa State. So
Speaker 2: let's go Lipscomb. Let's do it right. California school is
Speaker 2: pretty well represented.
Speaker 4: It'd be hard to have a cheerleading team for that.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what hold on? What is their
Speaker 2: Uh have to figure out what their mascot is, lipsm University.
Speaker 2: I bet Lipscomb University is being googled today more than
Speaker 2: it ever has ever. Uh, it's in Nashville.
Speaker 4: It's uh, Lou the Bison.
Speaker 2: Is It's the Bison.
Speaker 4: He's a cute mascot.
Speaker 2: Did you say that you knew the name of the Bison,
Speaker 2: Lou Lou?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh all right, Well go Lipscomb. Well done. I'm making
Speaker 2: it in there, Bison. So I love that you You
Speaker 2: hear about these schools you've never otherwise heard of, and uh,
Speaker 2: and then you always root for these underdogs and you
Speaker 2: just go, this is the year here. Let's go Saint
Speaker 2: Francis anyway. Uh, California school is pretty well represented. I
Speaker 2: think we've got San Diego State is in U see
Speaker 2: San Diego.
Speaker 4: Are you talking about the men's or the women's Now,
Speaker 4: I'm talking.
Speaker 2: About the men's. We're gonna get the women's here in
Speaker 2: a second, because I know that they're even better representative
Speaker 2: the yeah, way better. But let's let's I know, women's
Speaker 2: ratings are up, but men's ratings are gonna be bigger.
Speaker 2: So we're just gonna focus on that here for for
Speaker 2: just a moment, and then we'll give the women their due.
Speaker 2: Uh but yeah, UCLA is in there, so anyway, good
Speaker 2: representation from the California schools. All right, go to the
Speaker 2: women's the women's bracket because two number one seeds from
Speaker 2: Southern California, right, this is big lely. So you've got
Speaker 2: USC and UCLA. And USC says that they feel slighted
Speaker 2: because they they got the fourth number one seed and
Speaker 2: they said that they should have been ranked higher. They
Speaker 2: say they feel disrespect due by being there. But yeah,
Speaker 2: UCLA's the number one overall seed, which is pretty great.
Speaker 2: And then us C gets the They also get a
Speaker 2: number one seed, but it's the fourth seed, so fourth
Speaker 2: number one. I don't know, it gets confusing fast, but
Speaker 2: really well represented on the women's side, especially with those
Speaker 2: two number one teams. Who's your money on? Are you
Speaker 2: going to do a bracket Amy King? Yeah, San Diego's
Speaker 2: in there too.
Speaker 4: No, because if I do, I don't know enough about it.
Speaker 4: My bradnet gets busted in the first round. It's just
Speaker 4: throwing money away.
Speaker 2: Everybody gets busted in the first round.
Speaker 4: No, I want to do it. I only want to
Speaker 4: do it if I can win.
Speaker 2: So here's a couple of things. First of all, all
Speaker 2: offices should be sponsoring their own bracket challenge. And I know,
Speaker 2: productivity drops and all that other crap, but it builds.
Speaker 2: It builds morale, It builds camaraderie. It's great. Put together
Speaker 2: a little prize doesn't have to be much, maybe some
Speaker 2: you know, little finger traps or some post it notes
Speaker 2: from lumin industry, something of the sort. Just put it
Speaker 2: all together, some sort of a prize and it builds morale.
Speaker 2: That's great. If you have never picked a bracket before,
Speaker 2: you always hear these stories about people basing it on
Speaker 2: the mascots, like the lou the Bison from Lipscomb, or
Speaker 2: the color of the jerseys. I told the story yesterday.
Speaker 2: A few years back. My wife, she didn't win it,
Speaker 2: but she did a lot better than me. She chose
Speaker 2: based on serial killers, so she filled out what she
Speaker 2: called the most evil bracket. And so my wife went
Speaker 2: through and she watches a lot of this investigation, Discovery
Speaker 2: and all these other true crime shows. And my wife
Speaker 2: went through and she said, okay, if this school, you
Speaker 2: know where where are the worst serial killers, the most
Speaker 2: prolific serial killers and what school are they near? And
Speaker 2: I can't remember. That may have been the year that
Speaker 2: Wichita did really well. And she was like, well, BTK,
Speaker 2: he's from Wichita. So she chose Wichita to to go
Speaker 2: a lot farther than most people thought, and they they did.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then she would she would choose these other schools
Speaker 2: at California schools well represented obviously a lot of serial
Speaker 2: killers from here, Wisconsin and ed Geen, and then you've
Speaker 2: got these others. Florida had this one and that one.
Speaker 2: And then I go, okay, well, what are you gonna
Speaker 2: do with Ted Bundy, because you know he was he
Speaker 2: was uh, he was a serial killer in a number
Speaker 2: of states. Shes as well, I'm gonna see Florida's gonna
Speaker 2: do really well. Anyway, my wife ended up finishing I
Speaker 2: think third that year based on what schools were closest
Speaker 2: to the worst serial killers. That was her, That was
Speaker 2: her bracket. That it was at that moment that I
Speaker 2: was the most turned on I've ever been and the
Speaker 2: most terrified of my wife that I've ever been. So
Speaker 2: two things worked into that one. Just thoughts. I think
Speaker 2: call it a waste of money if you want. I
Speaker 2: think it's fun building around Amy. I think you should
Speaker 2: do a bracket. You could be the only one that
Speaker 2: picks lips come. I could they earned their the way
Speaker 2: le sco lips come. Let's go. Speaking of bison, it
Speaker 2: is a Wild Kingdom and influencers are being questioned by
Speaker 2: Australia over their treatment of wombats. If you haven't heard,
Speaker 2: you've got to hear this one. It is the most
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five story I think maybe ever. That's next.
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Speaker 2: How about a Wild Kingdom? Sad news? You heard Amy
Speaker 2: King talking about this? Jackie in Shadow, have a dead
Speaker 2: bird in the nest and a sad update.
Speaker 9: This morning, friends of Big Bear Valley have confirmed that
Speaker 9: the eaglet missing since Thursday night has died.
Speaker 4: They say, it.
Speaker 2: Wasn't really missing, It was just kind of in the nest,
Speaker 2: hard to see.
Speaker 9: It did not make it through the snowstorm that hit
Speaker 9: the area last week. However, they do not know how
Speaker 9: it died or which eglit it was, as they were
Speaker 9: all similar in size. The good news is that the
Speaker 9: two remaining that you see there, the Eaglitz, are doing well.
Speaker 9: Jackie and Shadow have them on a very steady diet
Speaker 9: of fish and birds.
Speaker 2: All right, Amy, do you think that the Shadow looks
Speaker 2: at Jackie and says you did this? It was on
Speaker 2: your watch?
Speaker 4: No? No, do not be mean about our eagles. Oh,
Speaker 4: we're obsessed with them here. I know what is up
Speaker 4: with that, because it's the coolest thing to watch. And
Speaker 4: even though it's very sad that we lost one of them,
Speaker 4: it actually probably increases the chances that the other two
Speaker 4: will survive.
Speaker 2: How's that is, mom? Not to bring enough food?
Speaker 4: Well, they're actually they have their own fishing pond a
Speaker 4: big bear lake, which is great. They've got a massive
Speaker 4: pile of carcasses right now. But because as they get larger,
Speaker 4: they can't completely cover the birds, and so a couple
Speaker 4: of years ago, I'm sure I'm not sure, if it
Speaker 4: was the year that Spirit was born. But once they
Speaker 4: get too big, the parents can't cover them completely. And
Speaker 4: if they get a real bad cold storm, a snowstorm
Speaker 4: or a rainstorm, yeah, they're not waterproof yet because they
Speaker 4: don't have all their feathers, so they can get hypothermia
Speaker 4: and they can die. That happened a couple of years
Speaker 4: ago to one of them. One of them made it,
Speaker 4: one of them didn't, because they can't completely cover them.
Speaker 2: Didn't you say I was listening to your news. Didn't
Speaker 2: you say that the odds of survival are already only
Speaker 2: fifty percent? So help me understand, yes, because I'm trying
Speaker 2: to figure out the odds here, and I'm not a
Speaker 2: I'm not a big gambler. So they they had a
Speaker 2: couple last year that didn't make it because the eggs
Speaker 2: got stolen by ravens or something.
Speaker 4: Right, No, the eggs never hatched last year.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, was it the year before that they got stolen?
Speaker 2: I thought Ravens took one of them.
Speaker 4: They did, Okay, they did, so so far?
Speaker 2: How many how many eaglets have Jackie in Shadow actually
Speaker 2: put out there?
Speaker 4: Total? I think it's like, I think it's fourteen ish.
Speaker 2: How many have survived?
Speaker 4: Not that many, there was. I only know because I
Speaker 4: didn't start watching them till like three or four years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I've only seen two. Yeah, so the last couple
Speaker 4: of years they haven't had any. They haven't had any
Speaker 4: make it the last couple of time.
Speaker 2: Okay, So if the odds are fifty percent, we got
Speaker 2: two that are in the nest still. Of the three,
Speaker 2: one didn't make it already. So the two that are
Speaker 2: still in there, if we're just playing the odds, we
Speaker 2: would think that they're they're going to survive then in
Speaker 2: order to offset the other what do you say, like
Speaker 2: a Baker's dozen't that didn't.
Speaker 4: Let's hope. So no, the Baker's doesn't that did. They've
Speaker 4: been they've had this nest for like ten years. I mean,
Speaker 4: if anybody, if anybody from Friends of Big Bear Valley
Speaker 4: are listening, can correct me. But yeah, they've had the
Speaker 4: same nest for a very long time. And it's just
Speaker 4: it's so fun to watch them.
Speaker 2: They're just it is fun.
Speaker 4: They're great parents, they take care of their babies. It's
Speaker 4: fun to watch the little kids.
Speaker 2: It is a little bit we though, I actually think
Speaker 2: that we watched these these birds, and we assign a
Speaker 2: certain value to their lives over the values of other lives.
Speaker 2: For instance, you just mentioned that there are a lot
Speaker 2: of carcasses stacking up at the nest.
Speaker 4: We were talking about that last week, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: What if there had been a fish camera in that
Speaker 2: lake at Big Bear that was following this little family
Speaker 2: of fish and it was talking about how these fish
Speaker 2: came from little eggs and there their chances of survival
Speaker 2: are so minimal and it's so scary and all this stuff.
Speaker 2: And then one day, all of a sudden, one of
Speaker 2: those fish get snagged by a bird and ripped out
Speaker 2: so it can go feed its kids. We go, oh,
Speaker 2: my goodness, I can't believe this happened to that fish.
Speaker 2: I feel so terrible. I'm heartbroken for the fish family.
Speaker 4: The fish are not majestic and they are not our
Speaker 4: national bird. Okay, and eagles are very impressed. I mean
Speaker 4: they're big, they're like this big, they're like three feet tall.
Speaker 2: I agree with you.
Speaker 4: They're incredibly beautiful because they were endangered and they've they're
Speaker 4: fighting their way back from near extinction. Okay, it's a
Speaker 4: beautiful story.
Speaker 2: It is a beautiful story. Just strange that you picked
Speaker 2: that animal over all the other animals.
Speaker 4: Well, it just happens to have a camera on it.
Speaker 4: We don't have a camera on the fish.
Speaker 2: Gotta put a camera on the fish. There you go,
Speaker 2: all right, who's standing up for the fish? Nobody? Who's
Speaker 2: standing up for the wombats. Imagine you're in Australia and
Speaker 2: some American comes through and starts jacking with your wombats.
Speaker 2: That'd be like an Aussie coming through here and start
Speaker 2: and messing with Jackie in Shadow. You would not put
Speaker 2: up with it. Just quart a baby wombat.
Speaker 10: This video, shared widely on social media, appears to show
Speaker 10: American tourist Sam Jones picking up and running away with
Speaker 10: a wild baby wombat in Australia as its mother chases
Speaker 10: after her distressed.
Speaker 4: Let's let him go.
Speaker 2: I think the first time I sold this video, I
Speaker 2: felt rage, and.
Speaker 4: You know, just it means anger for what she's done.
Speaker 2: Wombats are protected, Yeah, Amy, Imagine if somebody went and
Speaker 2: took one of those little chicklets out of the Jackie
Speaker 2: in Shadows nest and started running away with it, you
Speaker 2: would be raged in rage, wouldn't you be? Less? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 2: but that influencer would get clicks. That's what they want.
Speaker 10: Now the country is examining her visa to see if
Speaker 10: she's breached its conditions.
Speaker 8: Is just an outrage.
Speaker 2: Is there a condition on the visa don't mess with
Speaker 2: a wombat?
Speaker 8: And you know, I suggest to this so called influencer,
Speaker 8: maybe she might try some other Australian animals take a
Speaker 8: baby crocodile.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm just imagining if this were all about
Speaker 2: our eagles, and Amy had to give the commentary because
Speaker 2: Amy would say, I would suggest that this Australian so
Speaker 2: called influence here try some of our other American animals
Speaker 2: try to snag a baby Kodiak bear. That's what you
Speaker 2: would do. You'd go and I hope you die.
Speaker 4: Oh and here here's a rattlesnake for you.
Speaker 2: That's perfect. That's excellent, that's outstanding. I love it. I
Speaker 2: love that we've become so vindictive. We just want to
Speaker 2: see humans die because they did something to animals. We
Speaker 2: have chosen the hierarchy of species and we have not
Speaker 2: placed ourselves atop that hierarchy any longer. That's where we
Speaker 2: are now with humanity. And I've been being completely honest.
Speaker 2: I kind of agree, I do all right. Life is expensive,
Speaker 2: just how expensive? So expensive that we have now started
Speaker 2: training our border patrol to start keeping an eye out
Speaker 2: for this, and they're finding more of it than they
Speaker 2: are fentanyl. I'll tell you what that is next.
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