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So first, uh, first thing, before I play 10 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:37,159 this next clip, I apologize. 11 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 2: I know. 12 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,679 Speaker 1: What this is going to do to people, and so 13 00:00:43,719 --> 00:00:46,320 I'm sorry for that reaction. I'm sorry for the response 14 00:00:46,359 --> 00:00:49,880 that you are probably going to have, but if I 15 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,039 had to hear it, I feel like you should too. 16 00:00:56,039 --> 00:00:57,640 But that's all right, So I'll just I'll just say that. 17 00:00:57,719 --> 00:01:00,799 Let me just and then I'll preface this. There are 18 00:01:00,799 --> 00:01:06,120 a lot of government union workers that are upset, that 19 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:12,280 are worried, and I understand why, probably for the first 20 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:17,920 time ever, you're worried about being fired. And that is 21 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,680 something that people in the private sector, and specifically, by 22 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,280 the way, in the radio industry, we live with this 23 00:01:24,359 --> 00:01:30,040 every day. I've been let go from two different radio jobs, 24 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,040 both for budgetary reasons. Never anything I did it was budgetary. 25 00:01:34,079 --> 00:01:36,640 They didn't have the money to pay for enough people, 26 00:01:37,079 --> 00:01:39,799 or so they determined, and so they had to fire people. 27 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,599 And I was on the chopping block. So it has 28 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:49,719 happened to me twice. So I understand. I totally understand. 29 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,280 And a lot of people in the private sector work 30 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:58,519 every single day with the knowledge that if the boss 31 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:03,719 doesn't like their performance, they will be fired. And it's 32 00:02:03,719 --> 00:02:06,519 a heck of a motivation to keep doing good work 33 00:02:06,519 --> 00:02:10,919 and to show up on time, you know, shower before 34 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,639 you come to the office, actually come to the office, 35 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,199 like that kind of stuff, Like to listen to what 36 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,400 your boss is telling you to do because you want 37 00:02:19,439 --> 00:02:22,159 to keep your job. It's not to say everybody's just 38 00:02:22,199 --> 00:02:24,080 doing it to keep their job, you know. Obviously people 39 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,599 have good work ethic and all of that. But people 40 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,039 in the private sector live with this sort of democles, 41 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:34,159 if you will, all the time hovering above them, and 42 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,840 they somehow manage to not have mental breakdowns or write 43 00:02:39,879 --> 00:02:43,960 really terrible protest songs. But I understand this is new 44 00:02:44,039 --> 00:02:47,520 territory for a lot of federal employees, union employees that 45 00:02:47,599 --> 00:02:50,439 have never had to worry about this before, so I 46 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:57,240 guess they can be forgiven for this. Oh which side. 47 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 3: Are you whish? 48 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 4: Are you on? 49 00:03:02,199 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 3: Me? Which side are you on? 50 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: Which side are you on? 51 00:03:08,719 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 5: We'll fight on against Josh. We'll fight me on mess 52 00:03:15,439 --> 00:03:20,159 No wa lanscap within our walls. We'll fight from down 53 00:03:20,319 --> 00:03:21,560 to duscap. 54 00:03:22,439 --> 00:03:25,159 Speaker 3: Which side are you on? 55 00:03:25,719 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 6: Which side are you on? 56 00:03:28,599 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 3: Me? Which side are you on? Which side are you on? 57 00:03:34,919 --> 00:03:37,840 Trump's counting for our unions. 58 00:03:38,199 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: He wants us out to fame. 59 00:03:41,439 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 3: He wants us to bow to him, But we want 60 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:51,680 him in jail. Oh which side are you on? Which 61 00:03:51,759 --> 00:03:56,560 side are you on? Tell me which side are you on? 62 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,120 Which side are you on? 63 00:04:00,439 --> 00:04:05,599 Speaker 5: They say in the capital city they no neutrals? 64 00:04:05,719 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 6: Fag you're reader. 65 00:04:08,039 --> 00:04:12,599 Speaker 5: With the union or a scavvy musk plood hound? 66 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 4: Which shide are you on? Which side are you on? 67 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 7: Me? 68 00:04:20,199 --> 00:04:22,959 Speaker 3: Which side are you on? 69 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:24,079 Speaker 4: They shide? 70 00:04:24,199 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 6: Are you all? 71 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 3: More time? 72 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 5: Don't take that government buy, don't listen to Trump slides, 73 00:04:32,399 --> 00:04:37,959 house workers having got a chance unless three organized? 74 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 3: No, which side are you all? Which side are you 75 00:04:43,759 --> 00:04:50,079 all are? Which side are you on? Which side are 76 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,279 you not? 77 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 4: Yours? 78 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:00,199 Speaker 1: Not yours? And if I was thinking about being on 79 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:05,839 your side. I'm not after that, they actually gave them 80 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,879 stage time. They performed that in front of a crowd 81 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:15,240 in the cold protesting. Well, you heard Musk and Trump 82 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,160 and scabs. I hadn't heard people use the word scab 83 00:05:19,199 --> 00:05:24,959 onun ironically since like the NFL strike back and like 84 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,120 what was it the eighties or something the nineties, I 85 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:36,920 don't know, like who uses that term anymore. Trump wants 86 00:05:36,959 --> 00:05:43,000 you to fail, and you want him in jail. Okay, 87 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,519 So I feel like there's a bit of a disproportionality 88 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:53,560 there in who's the villain? You know, like you're trying 89 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,839 to do stuff that's been identified as connected to, if 90 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:02,160 not directly related to, waste, traud and abuse. So Trump 91 00:06:02,199 --> 00:06:05,839 wants you to fail in that, and your response is 92 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,279 incarcerate him for the rest of his life. That's the 93 00:06:10,079 --> 00:06:12,160 because he's old, he's you know, you throw him in jail. 94 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:17,959 He's so again, Like I feel like I feel like 95 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 you might have a touch of the TDS, just to 96 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:25,040 touch a smidge maybe now, I don't know. Some of 97 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:31,639 these people did seem to be a bit old. I 98 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:36,480 kind of feel like they are longing or not well, 99 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,560 they would very much have loved to have been alive 100 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,879 during the sixties. You know, I get that sense. In fact, 101 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:45,839 I get that sense with a lot of people that 102 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:50,639 do the protest marching. You know, they they plagiarize the 103 00:06:50,759 --> 00:06:55,079 chance Who's street R Street? You know, one, two, three, four, 104 00:06:55,199 --> 00:06:56,959 we don't want your war like all of that stuff. 105 00:06:56,959 --> 00:07:02,879 They just they rip off the flower Power general, they 106 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,920 rip them off and use their slogans and stuff. And 107 00:07:04,959 --> 00:07:06,920 this is another tactic that I have seen these little 108 00:07:06,959 --> 00:07:12,160 protest songs. But they're not They're not They're not good. 109 00:07:13,079 --> 00:07:19,480 These are not good protest songs. I don't know Peter 110 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:24,879 Paul and Mary and Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, although he'd 111 00:07:24,879 --> 00:07:32,600 always reject that that mantle your song stinks, Man and 112 00:07:32,759 --> 00:07:37,240 women or however you identify your song is terrible. It's 113 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:41,920 just terrible. And I don't know if you're winning. Actually, 114 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,199 I know you're not winning any converse. There is not 115 00:07:44,279 --> 00:07:48,879 a single person that sees you marching on some random 116 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:54,199 government edifice and says, wait, wait, wait, let me hear 117 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,240 their song. And then after hearing that, they're like, you 118 00:07:57,319 --> 00:08:02,399 know what, now I'm with you. I wasn't really decided. 119 00:08:02,439 --> 00:08:05,480 I was undecided before. But now that I've heard your song, 120 00:08:06,519 --> 00:08:10,040 now I'm on board. I don't think there's anybody. The 121 00:08:10,079 --> 00:08:12,600 only people that are going to compliment them on that 122 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,680 tune are already in their camp, and I suspect they're 123 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,920 complimenting them just to be nice. You know. It's like, oh, 124 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,600 you did a great job, don't give them the mic again, 125 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,079 you know. But this has been going on for a while. 126 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:28,639 I've seen this for like fifteen years or so. Like 127 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,879 up in Asheville, they had the green grannies. They used 128 00:08:32,879 --> 00:08:35,759 to do stupid songs. We sawt it the Moral Monday Marching, 129 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,840 the Momo, the Moral Monday Movement, the mo Momo that 130 00:08:39,879 --> 00:08:43,519 would march on Raleigh State Capitol, and they had these 131 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,399 grannies that were singing there. And again they were all 132 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:51,720 like these either leftover or wanna be flower Power protests singers, 133 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:57,000 and they take songs and they change the lyrics so 134 00:08:57,039 --> 00:09:01,159 they don't even make up their own melodies. There's just plagiarists. 135 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,840 They're like weird Al Yankovic. That's I mean, that is 136 00:09:04,879 --> 00:09:07,919 the equivalent. They are the protest equivalent of Weird Al. 137 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,399 So I don't know the name of this group because 138 00:09:12,399 --> 00:09:16,080 you know, they always name themselves. They always come up 139 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:19,679 with some you know, clever quote unquote name. I don't 140 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:23,120 know the name, but they are apparently federal unionized workers 141 00:09:23,919 --> 00:09:27,879 trying to woo us with song. All right, if you're 142 00:09:27,919 --> 00:09:29,679 listening to this show, you know I try to keep 143 00:09:29,759 --> 00:09:31,480 up with all sorts of current events, and I know 144 00:09:31,519 --> 00:09:33,919 you do too. And you've probably heard me say get 145 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,919 your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how 146 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:40,559 you detect media bias, which is why I've been so 147 00:09:40,639 --> 00:09:44,879 impressed with ground News. It's an app, and it's a website, 148 00:09:44,919 --> 00:09:47,360 and it combines news from around the world in one 149 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,840 place so you can compare coverage and verify information. You 150 00:09:50,879 --> 00:09:54,440 can check it out at check dot ground, dot news 151 00:09:54,919 --> 00:09:58,039 slash pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. 152 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:00,720 I started using ground News a few months ago and 153 00:10:00,879 --> 00:10:03,440 more recently chose to work with them as an affiliate 154 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:06,799 because it lets me see clearly how stories get covered 155 00:10:06,879 --> 00:10:09,799 and by whom. The blind spot feature shows you which 156 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,679 stories get ignored by the left and the right. See 157 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:17,759 for yourself check dot ground, dot news slash pete. Subscribe 158 00:10:17,799 --> 00:10:20,120 through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off any 159 00:10:20,159 --> 00:10:23,600 subscription I use the vantage plan to get unlimited access 160 00:10:23,639 --> 00:10:27,279 to every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, 161 00:10:27,279 --> 00:10:29,639 but it also supports ground News as they make the 162 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:34,080 media landscape more transparent. Jason says, Pete, I wish you 163 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:35,759 could play the clip of the woman who said we 164 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:38,639 need to bleep Trump. I cannot play that clip because 165 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:43,080 she says the word, which is weird. Think she was like, 166 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,039 you know, we need to defeat him. Maybe she wanted 167 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:48,519 to say something more violent or whatever, but she she 168 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:54,600 settled on the F word there, which sends a different message, right, 169 00:10:54,919 --> 00:10:59,559 not one of hatred but one of lust. So I 170 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,320 don't Yeah, they're just they're they're going to little nuts. 171 00:11:03,919 --> 00:11:07,120 Seth says, I can't wait to see the federal protesters 172 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:11,840 during Super BOWLS sixties halftime show. Surely they will surely 173 00:11:11,879 --> 00:11:18,000 give Kendrick Lamar a run for his money. That's yeah. 174 00:11:18,039 --> 00:11:21,399 I did not understand anything at the Super Bowl Licks 175 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:32,960 halftime show, but that's what lax. Super Bowl licks right? Anyway? 176 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:40,440 Are they singing on taxpayer time? Pete wants to know 177 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,080 if they are, can't Trump fire them as Reagan did 178 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:48,679 the air traffic control folks. Yeah, I don't know, but yeah, 179 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,159 that's a good question. But those are union workers. Did 180 00:11:52,159 --> 00:11:56,720 they all take time off in order to go protest, 181 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:58,600 to go march or was it after hours? I don't know, 182 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:06,120 Dave says, Pete Seeger or Woody Guthrie. She isn't. No, 183 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:13,720 that's true. Tim says, yikes, that was like being waterboarded. 184 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,279 It is obvious they will never win. On the voice, 185 00:12:19,279 --> 00:12:22,159 Jeff says, Sweet mother of all that is holy? Where 186 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:28,000 is Simon Cowell when you need him? Jordan wanted me 187 00:12:28,039 --> 00:12:31,440 to cut it off. Jordan, I think it's important to 188 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:34,919 know the people that we are dealing with, you know, 189 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,759 And if people complain too much about me playing it, 190 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,320 I will play it again, okay, because I am that 191 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:47,480 kind of I'm that kind of guy. James says. Can 192 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,919 we invite those folks to tour the mine where the 193 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,159 government records are stored and then just cut the cord 194 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:55,440 on the elevator. Oh yeah, we'll send it back down 195 00:12:55,519 --> 00:12:58,960 for you. Don't worry, nah, just yeah, just look for 196 00:12:59,039 --> 00:13:07,360 some Manila and they may have the key code. Greg says, 197 00:13:07,399 --> 00:13:11,000 please never play that again. There is a reason I 198 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,480 haven't heard it yet. Just kidding. Great show, but seriously, 199 00:13:14,519 --> 00:13:20,039 don't play it again, and let's see here. On Twitter, 200 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:27,360 the reaction has been pretty similar. At Patriot Girl says, 201 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:29,240 thank you very much, Pete. Now I have that horrible 202 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:31,279 song stuck in my head like an earworm. 203 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:32,559 Speaker 2: J R. 204 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: Ewing says the same thing, which is weird. I thought 205 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,879 he got shot. I can't get that song out of 206 00:13:36,919 --> 00:13:40,240 my head now. Moral Compass says, in that song, is 207 00:13:40,279 --> 00:13:45,080 that somebody screaming kill me in the background. No, they're 208 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:49,759 not saying kill me. They're saying, tell me, tell me 209 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,679 which side are you on? Hey, tell me which that's 210 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:57,679 what he's doing. He's making it his own. Um No, 211 00:13:57,799 --> 00:13:59,679 they're not saying kill me. But maybe I'm just hearing 212 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:04,840 what I'm want to hear this. Adam says that sounds 213 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,639 like a Hunger Games knockoff, Hunger Games theme knock off. 214 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:10,960 Oh I don't know. Is that I don't know my 215 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:16,759 Hunger Games tunes. I do know the wave though, she 216 00:14:16,759 --> 00:14:19,519 she like does the three fingers salute or something up there. 217 00:14:20,399 --> 00:14:25,080 Jonathan says, uh no, sir, you constantly say that you 218 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,960 watch and listen so we don't have to. Now you're 219 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:36,159 going against the grain there, buddy, that's actually true. Uh 220 00:14:36,639 --> 00:14:39,080 Now that you got me. That is true. I do 221 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:43,840 say that. I say I watch so you don't have 222 00:14:43,919 --> 00:14:47,600 to because I am a giver. But I kind of 223 00:14:47,679 --> 00:14:50,559 gave you the song too, so I kind of feel 224 00:14:50,559 --> 00:14:54,279 like it might cancel out, but I do. I can 225 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,840 understand why people would be annoyed or upset that I 226 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:03,200 have broken the comp so I apologize for doing that. 227 00:15:07,399 --> 00:15:09,679 Let me see here, I don't know. This is from Dave. 228 00:15:10,279 --> 00:15:12,360 It's a Pete tweet saying I don't know about that 229 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,159 whole mind thing where they're keeping all of the all 230 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,840 of the retirement packages down in the mine. But I 231 00:15:18,879 --> 00:15:22,200 went to local Social Security office to apply for Medicare 232 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:27,679 and Social Security after Thanksgiving because my military retirement insurance 233 00:15:27,679 --> 00:15:30,480 requires me to be on Medicare to continue to receive 234 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:37,200 all went well I got here is I got my 235 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:40,919 first Social Security payment January eighth. Medicare cards came soon thereafter. 236 00:15:41,039 --> 00:15:44,399 Turned sixty five on December fourth, so basically a month behind. 237 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:50,360 I expected longer because government, so I was surprised. I 238 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:54,840 got a passport in less than six months. So I 239 00:15:54,879 --> 00:15:57,000 was pleasantly surprised to that. 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The experts at Creative Video conveniently located in 260 00:17:03,559 --> 00:17:06,400 mint Hill right off I four eighty five and online 261 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:10,079 at create a Video dot Com. Pete at the Pete 262 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,960 Calener Show. Is the email I got one from Thomas 263 00:17:13,559 --> 00:17:18,359 regarding the which side are you on? He's giving us 264 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,960 a rating of the song hard to listen to, Easy 265 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,440 to Trump dance to. I give it a seventy eight. 266 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:29,319 Good show. Thanks there he's got I do wish I 267 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:33,960 had the gong though, yes, Dennis, I think it was. 268 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:38,680 Kevin says, while I am a little concerned about letting 269 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:43,359 a billionaire cut spending in the US government, Elon Musk 270 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,960 has no power to cut spending. He's not cutting spending. 271 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,720 He's going in. He's leading a team that's going in 272 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:57,079 and identifying these basic things like hey, you should code 273 00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:00,680 this stuff so we know where the money's going. But 274 00:18:00,759 --> 00:18:04,519 this stuff goes through all of the various departments. That's 275 00:18:04,759 --> 00:18:10,039 that he's dispatched his team into that whatever decisions are 276 00:18:10,039 --> 00:18:12,400 going to be made are going to be made at 277 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:18,200 the secretary level, you know, Marco Rubio, Scott Bessend, like, 278 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:19,720 those are the people that are going to be making 279 00:18:19,759 --> 00:18:23,680 any decisions inside of the executive branch where they have 280 00:18:23,799 --> 00:18:26,759 the power to do so. And in fact, Trump was 281 00:18:26,799 --> 00:18:29,720 asked about this the Congressional Authority. I'll play that sound 282 00:18:29,759 --> 00:18:33,759 bite in a minute. But back to Kevin's email, he says, 283 00:18:33,759 --> 00:18:36,279 there could be a conflict of interest in some area. 284 00:18:39,759 --> 00:18:42,559 What you just said makes sense. What US citizen has 285 00:18:42,599 --> 00:18:45,440 the most to lose if the US government goes bankrupt, 286 00:18:46,039 --> 00:18:49,920 Elon Musk, his businesses will lose hundreds of billions. He 287 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,440 is taking action, I feel like for the American people, 288 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,920 but that's not the only reason. He's doing this for 289 00:18:55,119 --> 00:19:01,079 himself too. Okay, Yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine with that. 290 00:19:01,519 --> 00:19:04,559 Like I really, I don't care. It doesn't matter to 291 00:19:04,599 --> 00:19:07,200 me if he's trying to protect his wealth because in 292 00:19:07,279 --> 00:19:09,720 doing so, he'll be protecting all of ours too, and 293 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:17,400 the financial solvency of our nation. So I'm yeah, like, 294 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:22,640 I'm don't I'm not dissuaded off of this now. I 295 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,839 will say this. There's another clip here. I got a 296 00:19:24,839 --> 00:19:28,160 couple more to run through from this media availability at 297 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:32,440 the Oval Office yesterday that the media that was there, 298 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,759 they seem to be a bit discombobulated by the lack 299 00:19:36,799 --> 00:19:41,400 of gatekeeping or as they phrase it, you know, transparency. 300 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,960 We want transparency and what must then lays out is 301 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,000 the way that this is being done transparently? 302 00:19:49,279 --> 00:19:51,160 Speaker 8: What are the checks and balances that are in place 303 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,680 to ensure that there's accountability and transparency. 304 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,640 Speaker 9: Well, we actually are trying to be as transparent as possible. 305 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,359 In fact, our actions repost, our actions to the DOGE 306 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:05,920 handle on x and to the Courage website, so all 307 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,240 of our actions we are maximally transparent. 308 00:20:08,319 --> 00:20:08,640 Speaker 4: Effect. 309 00:20:08,799 --> 00:20:11,079 Speaker 9: I don't think there's been I don't know of a 310 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,359 case that we're at organization has been more transparent than 311 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:19,559 the DOGE organization. And so, you know, and the kind 312 00:20:19,559 --> 00:20:22,000 of things we're doing are I think very very simple 313 00:20:22,039 --> 00:20:23,200 and basic that they're not. 314 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:24,279 Speaker 4: We're you know. 315 00:20:24,279 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 9: What I mentioned brings for example about Treasury just making 316 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,720 sure that that payments that go out tax para money 317 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:33,000 that goes out is categorized correctly, that that that the 318 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:37,000 payment is explained, that organizations that do not pay list 319 00:20:37,039 --> 00:20:39,599 which are takes a lot to get there, that actually 320 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:43,000 are not paid, which currently they are paid. These these 321 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,640 are these are not individual judgment decisions. These about simply 322 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,519 having sensible checks and balances in the system itself right 323 00:20:49,599 --> 00:20:50,240 to ensure. 324 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,640 Speaker 4: That tax paramney is sped well. 325 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:53,799 Speaker 9: So it's got likely with like say a contract for 326 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,079 some company of mine at all. 327 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 8: But if there is a conflicment of interest when it 328 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,839 comes to you yourself, for instance, you were billions of 329 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:04,039 dollars in federal contracts when it comes to the Pentagon 330 00:21:04,079 --> 00:21:06,519 for instance, which the President I know has directed you 331 00:21:06,559 --> 00:21:09,480 to look into. Are you policing yourself and that is 332 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:12,640 there any sort of accountability check and balance in place 333 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,759 that would provide any transparency for the different people. 334 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,279 Speaker 4: Well, all of our actions are are fully public. 335 00:21:19,599 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 9: So if you see anything you say like, wait a second, hey, 336 00:21:22,039 --> 00:21:24,480 you know what that doesn't that seems like maybe that's 337 00:21:24,839 --> 00:21:27,799 you know that there's a conflict there. It's felt like 338 00:21:27,799 --> 00:21:29,400 people are going to be shy about saying that. They'll 339 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,799 say it immediately, you know you yourself, yes, but it 340 00:21:34,319 --> 00:21:38,079 transparency is what builds trust, not simply somebody asserting trust, 341 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,839 somebody saying they're trustworthy, but transparency so you can see 342 00:21:41,839 --> 00:21:44,240 everything that's going on, and you can see am I 343 00:21:44,319 --> 00:21:46,440 doing something that benefits one of my companies or not. 344 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 2: It's totally obvious, and we thought that we would not 345 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,319 let him do that segment or look in that area 346 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:57,039 if we thought there was a lack of transparency or 347 00:21:57,039 --> 00:21:59,880 a conflict of interest, and we watched that. 348 00:22:00,079 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 7: Also, here's a big businessman. He's a successful guy. That's 349 00:22:03,519 --> 00:22:06,480 why we want him doing this. We don't want an 350 00:22:06,559 --> 00:22:08,000 unsuccessful guy doing this. 351 00:22:08,759 --> 00:22:11,640 Speaker 1: Right. Trump then said he was elected to root out 352 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,000 the waste, fraud, and abuse. He says the total could 353 00:22:14,039 --> 00:22:16,960 actually be somewhere around one trillion dollars. 354 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 6: That will have quite an impact on the budget. 355 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 7: And you'll go to a judge with a handpick of judge, 356 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,839 and he has certain leanings. I'm not knocking anybody for that, 357 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,440 but he has certain leanings, and he wants us to 358 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:31,160 stop looking. 359 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,839 Speaker 6: How do you stop looking? I mean, we've already found it. 360 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,039 Speaker 7: We have a case in New York where a hotel 361 00:22:38,079 --> 00:22:41,440 has paid fifty nine million dollars fifty nine million because 362 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:47,319 of because its housing migrants, illegal migrants, all illegal, I. 363 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,319 Speaker 9: Believe, and they were being paid twice the normal room 364 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:50,680 rate at a hundre percent ocupancy. 365 00:22:50,799 --> 00:22:52,079 Speaker 4: Unbelievable. 366 00:22:53,039 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: It's a racket. It's a racket, he says. And then 367 00:22:58,759 --> 00:23:02,240 there are the kickbacks. Here's a great idea, how about 368 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,519 making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway 369 00:23:05,519 --> 00:23:07,960 in Western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the 370 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,240 mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. 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You would think that 390 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:21,599 for people that are clamoring for accountability when it comes 391 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,720 to Elon Musk would pay a little attention to the 392 00:24:25,759 --> 00:24:28,720 fact that Musk and his team are bringing transparency and 393 00:24:28,759 --> 00:24:33,960 accountability to the federal government. Right Like, you're running around 394 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,839 like who's accountable? Who's accountable for this? And he's saying, Hey, 395 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,640 I've got like tens of billions, hundreds of billions, maybe 396 00:24:40,759 --> 00:24:45,119 up to a trillion dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse. 397 00:24:46,279 --> 00:24:49,079 Somebody should be held accountable for this. There needs to 398 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:52,240 be greater transparency in the spend, in the spending items. 399 00:24:53,279 --> 00:24:55,440 And they just keep saying, what about your accountability? It 400 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,200 reminds me of Ember when Mitt Romney like what about 401 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:02,680 your gaps? What about your gas? Like what are you doing? 402 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:07,039 I know you're running propaganda for the opposition anyway. So 403 00:25:07,559 --> 00:25:11,920 here is another clip from this press availability at the 404 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:16,079 Oval office where they talk about what is probably the 405 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:19,519 case here is that there may be kickbacks going on, but. 406 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,319 Speaker 7: We're talking about tens of billions of dollars that we've 407 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:27,680 already found. And now a judge is an activist. Judge 408 00:25:28,839 --> 00:25:31,720 wants to try and stop us from doing this, and 409 00:25:31,759 --> 00:25:33,720 why would they want to do that. I campaign on this. 410 00:25:33,839 --> 00:25:35,839 I can't paign to the fact that I said government 411 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,599 is corrupt, and it is very corrupt. 412 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 6: It's very very it's also foolish. 413 00:25:42,799 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 7: As an example, a man has a contract for three 414 00:25:45,039 --> 00:25:48,680 months and the contract ends, but they keep paying him 415 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,799 for the next twenty years, you know, because nobody ends 416 00:25:50,799 --> 00:25:51,240 a contract. 417 00:25:51,279 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 6: You get a lot of that. You have a contract 418 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,680 that's a three month contract. 419 00:25:56,519 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 7: Now, normally, if you're in a small in all fairness, 420 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,279 it's the size of this thing is so big. But 421 00:26:02,519 --> 00:26:05,680 if you have a contract and you're in a regular business, 422 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,559 you end the contract in three much you know, it's 423 00:26:07,559 --> 00:26:11,279 a consultant. Here's a contract for three months, but it 424 00:26:11,279 --> 00:26:14,599 goes on for twenty years. And the guy doesn't say 425 00:26:14,599 --> 00:26:16,359 that he got money for twenty years. You know, they 426 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,839 don't say it. They just keep getting checks a month 427 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,680 after month. And you have various things like that, and 428 00:26:21,759 --> 00:26:24,920 even much worse than that, actually much worse. And I 429 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,119 guess you call that incompetence. Maybe it could be corruption. 430 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,119 It could be a deals made on both sides. You know, 431 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,160 where I get some money he kicks. I think he 432 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,279 has a lot of kickback here. I see a lot 433 00:26:35,279 --> 00:26:38,720 of kickback here at kick tremendous kickback because nobody could 434 00:26:38,759 --> 00:26:40,880 be so stupid to give out some of these contracts. 435 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:42,680 Speaker 6: So he has to get a kickback there. 436 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,559 Speaker 1: You go, that's possible too. And as they're saying this, 437 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,359 the media is more focused on what if you have 438 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,359 a potential conflict of interest? What about you? Like, are 439 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,200 you listening to the things that he is saying to 440 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,200 you right now? Musk said, there are two ingredients to 441 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,839 cut the budget deficit maybe in half. 442 00:27:01,599 --> 00:27:07,559 Speaker 4: Here, competence and caring. And if you add competence and caring, 443 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,440 you'll cut the budget depth SIT in half. 444 00:27:10,519 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 9: And and and I fully expect to be scrutinized and 445 00:27:13,759 --> 00:27:17,519 get you a daily productology exam. Basically my sols camp 446 00:27:17,519 --> 00:27:20,759 out there. So it's not like I think I can 447 00:27:20,799 --> 00:27:24,480 get away with something. I'll be scrutinized non stop. And 448 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,279 but with support of the president, we can we can 449 00:27:27,319 --> 00:27:29,559 cut the budget depth SIT in half from two trillion 450 00:27:29,599 --> 00:27:33,480 to one. And then with deregulation because there's a lot 451 00:27:33,519 --> 00:27:37,960 of sort of regulations that don't ultimately serve the public good. 452 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:40,799 Speaker 4: We need to free free the builders of America to build. 453 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,519 Speaker 9: And if we do that, that means I think can 454 00:27:44,559 --> 00:27:47,559 get the economic growth to be maybe three four percent, 455 00:27:47,599 --> 00:27:50,079 maybe five percent. And that means if you can get 456 00:27:50,079 --> 00:27:52,039 a trillion dollars of economic growth and you cut the 457 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:57,039 budget deficit by a trillion between now and next year, 458 00:27:57,319 --> 00:28:01,759 there is no inflation. There's no inflation twenty And if 459 00:28:01,759 --> 00:28:03,960 the government is not borrowing as much, it means. 460 00:28:03,799 --> 00:28:05,079 Speaker 4: That interest costs a client. 461 00:28:05,519 --> 00:28:09,279 Speaker 9: So everyone's the mortgage, the car payment, their credit card bills, 462 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,839 and their student debt, the multi payments drought. 463 00:28:14,599 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 4: That's a fantastic scenario for the average American. 464 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,160 Speaker 1: Right, Why are you fighting us on this? This is 465 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,839 a good thing for people. Trump said, if he needs 466 00:28:25,839 --> 00:28:28,119 a vote of Congress, he thinks he'll get the vote. 467 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,880 But he asked why Congress or that judge or any 468 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,599 of the judges would try to prevent them from finding 469 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,880 all this fraud. But he says if a judge does 470 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,799 block the efforts, he said he will abide the court order. 471 00:28:42,359 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 6: Well, I always abide by the court, and then I'll 472 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:45,200 have to appeal it. 473 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 7: But then what he's done is he slowed down the momentum, 474 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,759 and it gives crooked people more time to cover up 475 00:28:51,759 --> 00:28:52,240 the books. 476 00:28:53,279 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 6: You know, if a person's crooked and they get caught, other. 477 00:28:56,319 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 7: People see that, and all of a sudden it becomes 478 00:28:58,799 --> 00:29:02,839 harder later on. Yeah, the answer is I always abide 479 00:29:02,839 --> 00:29:05,920 by the courts, always abide by it, and will appeal. 480 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 6: But appeals take a long time. 481 00:29:08,319 --> 00:29:10,559 Speaker 7: And I would hope that a judge, if you go 482 00:29:10,599 --> 00:29:14,240 into a judge and you show them, here's a corrupt situation. 483 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,160 We have a check to be sent, but we found 484 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,559 it to be corrupt. Do you want us to send 485 00:29:19,599 --> 00:29:22,119 this corrupt check to a person or do you want 486 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:23,799 us not to give it and give it back to 487 00:29:23,839 --> 00:29:26,759 the taxpayer. I would hope a judge would say, don't 488 00:29:26,799 --> 00:29:27,960 send it, give it back. 489 00:29:27,759 --> 00:29:28,519 Speaker 4: To the taxpayer. 490 00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 9: Yeah, if I can ask that, what we're finding is 491 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,200 actly a bunch of the fort is not even going 492 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:33,920 to Americans. 493 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 4: So I think we all. 494 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,319 Speaker 9: Agree that if there's going to be should at least 495 00:29:37,359 --> 00:29:39,640 go to Americans. Yes, but a bunch of the board 496 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:41,880 rings that are operating in the United States and taking 497 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,039 advantage of federal government especially in the entitlements programs, are 498 00:29:45,079 --> 00:29:47,880 actually foreign fraud rings. They're operating in other countries and 499 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:49,960 actually exporting money to other countries. 500 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:52,079 Speaker 4: We should stop that. 501 00:29:53,039 --> 00:29:58,039 Speaker 1: I agree, we should stop that. If there's going to 502 00:29:58,079 --> 00:30:03,599 be fraud, let it be for Americaans. Fraud for America's 503 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:12,640 for Americans first. Right Again, I don't understand why Democrats 504 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:18,640 insist on taking the losing side in a rational, moral, fiscal, 505 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:27,480 prudent argument. And also the polling is against them on this. 506 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:31,319 This need or desire to just find the worst position 507 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,240 to take and then to rush headlong to take it. 508 00:30:34,559 --> 00:30:36,799 I don't understand it. I don't get it. Do you 509 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,880 want to keep losing? Or did you think that the 510 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,400 administrative state was going to be there forever and it 511 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,119 didn't really matter to you, Like eventually you get back in, 512 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,440 but in the meantime you'll make bank. Was that the idea? 513 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,160 By the way, I now see reports of two of 514 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,000 the judges involved, two judges involved in different cases here 515 00:30:56,039 --> 00:30:59,799 that have issued these temporary restraining orders. Both of them 516 00:30:59,839 --> 00:31:04,880 have wives that work for nonprofits that get USAID money. 517 00:31:05,359 --> 00:31:09,119 I'm sure it's just a coincidence. Thuff, all right, that'll 518 00:31:09,119 --> 00:31:11,799 do it. For this episode. 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