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Speaker 2: Here it is a Thursday morning, May fifteenth, as we
Speaker 2: basically start the show after Handle on the news.
Speaker 1: Sorry about that.
Speaker 2: Governor Gavin Newsom super I would say super liberal, not
Speaker 2: crazy liberal, but pretty liberal.
Speaker 1: A little slick for me, definitely.
Speaker 2: Everything he is doing now is anticipation of his run
Speaker 2: for the nomination of the presidency in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: There's very little doubt about that. So we start with
Speaker 2: that premise. Now let's move to another premise. I'm going
Speaker 2: to connect the two. Pardon me, and it is it's
Speaker 2: tough being poor in the United States. Not easy, it's
Speaker 2: tough being poor in many parts of the United States.
Speaker 2: If you're going to be poor, probably California is the
Speaker 2: best place to do it, especially if you are an
Speaker 2: undocumented person and you've got some medical issues going on.
Speaker 2: And why well, because Governor Newsom and California being the
Speaker 2: first date offering free medical to everyone who can't afford it,
Speaker 2: including undocumented. You can't ask ge do you have your
Speaker 2: papers or not? And the problem is is that's breaking
Speaker 2: the state. We just don't have the money to pay
Speaker 2: for it, and someone's got to give. So are you
Speaker 2: going to not give free medical to American citizens or
Speaker 2: people who are here legally?
Speaker 1: Are you going to.
Speaker 2: Include illegal immigrants to the point where illegal doesn't even
Speaker 2: matter anymore? And there are a lot of people who
Speaker 2: argue there's no such thing as illegal, it doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: The concept is irrelevant.
Speaker 2: Vicenti Fox, when he was president of Mexico, said it perfectly.
Speaker 2: The line between the United States and Mexico is just
Speaker 2: that a line. The two countries are really one country
Speaker 2: when he was referring to immigration going north like crazy,
Speaker 2: because it's only a line in the sand, like when
Speaker 2: you go to Nevada, when you go to Arizona and
Speaker 2: you're now entering Nevada, it's a line.
Speaker 1: It's just it's a billboard, and that's it.
Speaker 2: There's no difference in terms of traveling back and forth.
Speaker 2: So what the governor has done is said, Okay, we
Speaker 2: really can't afford to give medical care underdic medical which
Speaker 2: is our version of basically Medicare or Medicaid, which is
Speaker 2: a federal government. We have our version in California called
Speaker 2: a medical and the premise is poor people get free
Speaker 2: medical if you can't afford it, if you're below the
Speaker 2: poverty line or whatever that line is, you get free
Speaker 2: medical and included everybody. Well, there ain't enough money for
Speaker 2: everybody now, so where do you cut it? Well, I'll
Speaker 2: tell you where now Newsom is cutting it, and that's
Speaker 2: at the line of illegal immigration, which by the way,
Speaker 2: is pretty popular today. You know there are illegal immigration.
Speaker 2: First of all, it is both a legitimate issue. It's
Speaker 2: also an issue that is there just for public consumption,
Speaker 2: and it's a scapegoating issue. Truly, illegal immigrants are getting
Speaker 2: the brunt of the blame for almost everything. Look at
Speaker 2: the ads that they're running right now. Nao, what's her
Speaker 2: face the Department of Homeland Security. What's her name, Christy Naomi.
Speaker 2: I'm very bad with names, but Christine there, it is
Speaker 2: Christine Olam and she is talking about the horrors of
Speaker 2: illegal immigration, and she mentions three horrible crimes were committed
Speaker 2: by illegals and therefore we should kick all of them
Speaker 2: out and you've got to get out of here. And
Speaker 2: I mean, just all in all, I mean there's a
Speaker 2: lot of scapegoating, escapegoating going on. So what the governor
Speaker 2: did yesterday is he came up with his budget which
Speaker 2: cuts medical payments to illegal immigrants. Now there are different
Speaker 2: kinds of illegal immigrants, well, at least financially and at
Speaker 2: least age wise. Okay, the first time illegal immigrants were
Speaker 2: given the right to have health care covered by the state,
Speaker 2: it was Jerry Brown actually did it, but it was
Speaker 2: only for kids.
Speaker 1: That was in the seventies, and then.
Speaker 2: It became for people fifty years and older, and now
Speaker 2: it's everybody, including the undocumented.
Speaker 1: Well guess what those days are a changing for.
Speaker 2: Both political reasons because again, and I'm a cynic when
Speaker 2: it comes not that I'm in general not a cynic anyway,
Speaker 2: but when it comes to Newsom, I think he is
Speaker 2: as sleazy a politician as is out there. I mean,
Speaker 2: everything he now does is anticipation of his rent for president.
Speaker 1: I'm convinced of that, and.
Speaker 2: So politically it makes more sense because he has to
Speaker 2: move towards the middle. He has to now look at
Speaker 2: all the voters. And the easiest political path is to say,
Speaker 2: if we have to cut, let's cut and not affect
Speaker 2: people who are here legally American citizens who pay the taxes,
Speaker 2: Because the argument is illegal aliens don't pay taxes, which
Speaker 2: is a crock.
Speaker 1: Of course they do.
Speaker 2: And so we have a new budget, and why are
Speaker 2: we going broke? Well, the state goes up and down.
Speaker 2: Because that's the other thing about California. The state of California,
Speaker 2: its revenue is based primarily on income taxes, state income tax.
Speaker 1: A lot of states don't have in KIP tax at all.
Speaker 2: I mean, you go to the state of Washington, you
Speaker 2: go to Nevada, you go to Florida.
Speaker 1: There's also sing as income tax.
Speaker 2: Well, California not only has income tax the highest in
Speaker 2: the country, but it relies on that income tax for
Speaker 2: the majority of its revenue. And here's the problem with
Speaker 2: relying on income tax when you have a graduated tax system,
Speaker 2: which we do, is that the wealthier people pay the taxes.
Speaker 2: That's the reality. This myth about the middle class paying
Speaker 2: the taxes. The middle class doesn't pay the taxes. It's
Speaker 2: the wealthy that pay the taxes. Now, whether you agree
Speaker 2: with it or not, different issue. But if the wealthier
Speaker 2: paying the taxes, how do the wealthy do financially? Well,
Speaker 2: when the economy is up, they make a lot more money.
Speaker 2: The wealthy are not at an hourly they're on investments.
Speaker 2: There are high paid jobs. And when the economy does great,
Speaker 2: they do great, they make more money and the state
Speaker 2: gets more money. When the economy doesn't do great, they
Speaker 2: make less money. Investments are worth less. Incomes drop, which
Speaker 2: means there's less money for California.
Speaker 1: And it is so volatile in this state that from.
Speaker 2: Year to year you really don't know. We are at
Speaker 2: the vagaries of the market. We are at the vaguers
Speaker 2: vagaries of the economy more so than any other state.
Speaker 1: So now we're in.
Speaker 2: A position where, oh, we're looking at deficits of tens
Speaker 2: of billions of dollars. You know, we were in surplus
Speaker 2: twenty five billion dollars a few years ago, annual surplus
Speaker 2: of twenty five billion dollars. Well, those days have changed,
Speaker 2: and so illegal immigrants are going to get nailed on this.
Speaker 2: You're not going to see them get free healthcare. Then
Speaker 2: the issue, of course becomes free. I happen to believe
Speaker 2: in socialized medicine, you know that. And frankly, oh, I
Speaker 2: just had an experience with and we were in Italy
Speaker 2: and she had an issue going on, she had some
Speaker 2: breathing issues, and we went right to the emergency room.
Speaker 2: Non citizens, right, we're on American passports. They didn't ask
Speaker 2: if we're here legally or not legally. They went ahead
Speaker 2: and did the treatment. It was first class, world class medicine.
Speaker 1: And I'm on the way out.
Speaker 2: I'm taking out my credit card and I say, so,
Speaker 2: where do I pay?
Speaker 1: You don't pay.
Speaker 2: We don't have a mechanism for you to pay. We
Speaker 2: do it through taxes. Different model, different system, different model.
Speaker 2: All right, here's the story I want to share with you.
Speaker 2: And this has to do with parental leave. And that's
Speaker 2: going back to what I said before. Some places, the
Speaker 2: United States is not the greatest place in the world
Speaker 2: in certain areas. Okay, I'm not an exceptionalist. So and
Speaker 2: you they have the greatest country in the world. Okay, yes,
Speaker 2: now in terms of medical care and maybe not so
Speaker 2: much in terms of the the entire concept of parental.
Speaker 1: Leave, not so much. You go to Europe, you go
Speaker 1: to Scandinavia.
Speaker 2: Do you know that in Sweden and Norway parents can
Speaker 2: get a year off with pay.
Speaker 1: When a newborn comes into the what comes into their family,
Speaker 1: and that's both mother and father.
Speaker 2: And pay for a new baby coming in an adoptive baby.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter well here in California and here in
Speaker 1: the United States not so much.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now, teachers are in a different category. State employees
Speaker 2: are in a different category than private sector employees. In California,
Speaker 2: the employees do not have access to the state's paid
Speaker 2: family leave or state disability insurance program. They're on their
Speaker 2: own program. Also, teachers don't pay in Social Security. It's
Speaker 2: a different program they have. Now, keep in mind, seventy
Speaker 2: three percent of teachers are women, which means that a
Speaker 2: whole lot more of them are having babies. Then in
Speaker 2: areas where there's a lot of men, we're talking about
Speaker 2: parental leave, we're talking about maturity leave. Now, teachers' jobs
Speaker 2: are protected for twelve weeks, can't get canned. But a
Speaker 2: lot of people can't afford to take those twelve weeks
Speaker 2: because the jobs are protected, but they are not paid for.
Speaker 2: So what the teachers do is plan a pregnancy around
Speaker 2: summer vacation, because if they take off during the year,
Speaker 2: right non summer, they're basically having a baby when it's
Speaker 2: not summer.
Speaker 1: They have to go through their sick leaf as part
Speaker 1: of it. It's just this.
Speaker 2: Weird loophole, and one English teacher said, it seems a
Speaker 2: crazy time to have reproductive choice around your work schedule.
Speaker 2: So a new resolution was passed by the LA Unified
Speaker 2: School District Board this week unanimously, and it's going to
Speaker 2: bolster paid family leave for teachers and other district workers
Speaker 2: and improve parental support in trying to attempt to make
Speaker 2: LAUSD a quote district of choice.
Speaker 1: What does that mean, Well, so people can teach.
Speaker 2: So the school board actually has teachers that want to
Speaker 2: come to LAUSD. Now you can go to other school
Speaker 2: districts where teachers get sixty seventy eighty thousand dollars a
Speaker 2: year and have great benefits, not so much LA Unified.
Speaker 2: So these bills have passed. What they're trying to do
Speaker 2: is make up for that. There were two bills that
Speaker 2: would have given paid family leave by the way at
Speaker 2: birth in the state. The first one was passed vetoed
Speaker 2: by Jerry Brown when he was governor in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2: The second one passed in twenty nineteen, vetoed by Gavin
Speaker 2: Newsom because he cited costs. There's a third one now
Speaker 2: going through the Assembly. So what the bill is saying,
Speaker 2: this is the package that there's two issues, the state
Speaker 2: issue in LA unified both of them working in concert,
Speaker 2: and this is my fun one. The bill going through
Speaker 2: is called Parental Package LAUSD as an equitable Employer of
Speaker 2: Choice for Thriving Families and the acronym for that cleverly
Speaker 2: enough is Eketif boy, they're clever, aren't they?
Speaker 1: Wow? Not bad?
Speaker 2: And what it includes is infertility support services, fair enough,
Speaker 2: paid time off, childcare, lactation spaces.
Speaker 1: Now what am I missing here? Amy?
Speaker 2: And aren't lactation spaces basically between your waist and your neck?
Speaker 1: And they have to define that in the law. I
Speaker 1: think they mean a place. The place go oh oh,
Speaker 1: okay said that private place? Got it all right?
Speaker 2: I knew that something wrong there when I read that,
Speaker 2: And so you know, I get so confused sometimes.
Speaker 1: That breast can do that to you. I can do
Speaker 1: at a time too. That's the other thing. You've ever seen.
Speaker 2: A bar misfit with conjoined twins. They use a bra
Speaker 2: as a Yamaica. Oh I got plenty more, I bet
Speaker 2: you do. Anyway, bottom line is teachers get screwed. Parents
Speaker 2: get screwed because we don't have the concept of paid
Speaker 2: family leave, which we should have but the costs again,
Speaker 2: the costs become astronomical. You can't have it all, and
Speaker 2: we want it all. So we just have this entire
Speaker 2: litany of what we have to spend money on, what
Speaker 2: we want to spend Bunney want money on.
Speaker 1: It's not easy. So this one is new.
Speaker 2: This is going to be paid pregnancy leave, and it's
Speaker 2: it's a good thing if.
Speaker 1: You're a parent.
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Speaker 2: introduce you to a gentleman by the name of Travis Chock.
Speaker 2: And first of all, Travis, thanks for taking the time.
Speaker 3: Always appreciated, No, really appreciate you guys having made this
Speaker 3: is super exciting.
Speaker 1: Yeah as well, you should.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is and I didn't know about this until
Speaker 2: number one I read about it. Oh, by the way,
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Speaker 2: And I didn't know much about baseballism at all until
Speaker 2: Cono and and and my producer, the producer Cono, our
Speaker 2: board operator. Just love what you do, and especially CONO
Speaker 2: have gotten very involved in quote the business of baseballism,
Speaker 2: or at least buying from your company. Explain what this is,
Speaker 2: because you know baseball is that's a weird name for
Speaker 2: a company.
Speaker 3: So we are a baseball lifestyle title brand that allows
Speaker 3: fans to kind of give an outlet to what they
Speaker 3: wear and show their passion for the game. So I
Speaker 3: slogan is Bill Football Players one by all, We're a
Speaker 3: baseball inspired lifestyle brand.
Speaker 2: Okay, so what does that mean? Just clothing is what
Speaker 2: you offer? Do you do anything else? Do you do jerseys?
Speaker 1: Pants? I mean normal clothing, hoodies, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're you know, we're T shirts, hoodies, you know, Polos, caps, shorts,
Speaker 3: jogger as well. We like to call ourselves like the
Speaker 3: Lula element of baseball okay, and.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming obviously you have licensing with all of Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball.
Speaker 1: I would I would.
Speaker 3: Guess that, yes, we got the major League license, I
Speaker 3: want to say, four years ago.
Speaker 1: Okay. How difficult was that?
Speaker 3: It was a process. It was also, you know, a
Speaker 3: decision making a thing by us because we were a
Speaker 3: brand that was for the love of the game, and
Speaker 3: we didn't know if we wanted to go to the
Speaker 3: MLB route. But as you know, we grew bigger, we
Speaker 3: kind of warmed up to the idea because we saw
Speaker 3: that people were buying our stuff from different regions and
Speaker 3: they had the passion for Major League Baseball. So we
Speaker 3: just had to pull the trigger.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, all right, let's start about how
Speaker 2: I start talking about how this started, because that's a
Speaker 2: whole story onto itself. I know, you and a bunch
Speaker 2: of buddies. Let's just go through from the beginning. How
Speaker 2: did baseballsm come to be?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a pretty wild story. So myself and three
Speaker 3: other teammates we started a youth based camp at University
Speaker 3: Oregon and we played college baseball there and we started
Speaker 3: a youth baseball camp. I didn't know what we wanted
Speaker 3: to call it, but I was looking online trying to
Speaker 3: find domains, and I found that the domain baseballism dot
Speaker 3: com was not taken, so we went with that name
Speaker 3: for the camp name. We ran the camp for two
Speaker 3: years out of college, and then we went our separate
Speaker 3: ways and I was coaching. I had another friend who
Speaker 3: was a lawyer, and other guy was a finance manager,
Speaker 3: and another guy was in sports sales. But everywhere we
Speaker 3: went we would wear our old camp shirt and people
Speaker 3: would ask us, where'd you get that shirt? Where'd you
Speaker 3: get that shirt? So I made a run of shirts.
Speaker 3: So this was in twenty and twelve. I made a
Speaker 3: run of shirts. They sold out in a week at
Speaker 3: the baseball academy I was working at and I said, guys,
Speaker 3: I think we got something here. Let's try to relaunch
Speaker 3: this thing as a clothing brand. So we launched our
Speaker 3: website in twenty thirteen as baseballs in dot Com. Kind
Speaker 3: of rebranded ourselves from a camp to a lifestyle parle brand,
Speaker 3: and it's been pretty crazy ever since. So we went
Speaker 3: from a youth baseball camp to one of the largest
Speaker 3: baseball parl brands country.
Speaker 2: So when I think in terms of a sports branded
Speaker 2: clothing line. I'm thinking uniforms. I'm thinking straight out jerseys
Speaker 2: and caps. This goes beyond that in that you're talking
Speaker 2: about what sports wear and jerseys in addition to jerseys,
Speaker 2: but also jacket sweater.
Speaker 1: Is that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we that was one of the biggest challenges
Speaker 3: for us as we started our company is that people
Speaker 3: would come into our store and be like, can I
Speaker 3: get a helmet? Can I get a bat Can I
Speaker 3: get a pair of batticcles? And like, we don't do that.
Speaker 3: You know, we we stay off the field for the
Speaker 3: most part. The only main piece of a pair that
Speaker 3: we sell those on the field is the baseball cap.
Speaker 3: But we wanted something that we could wear around, you know,
Speaker 3: around town, out to dinner that made us feel like,
Speaker 3: I still feel like baseball people, even though we didn't
Speaker 3: play the game anymore, in a subtle way. And so
Speaker 3: that's kind of how Baseballism was born, is like I
Speaker 3: used to wear you know, Polo, I used to wear LACA,
Speaker 3: and I looked up those logos and I don't play polo,
Speaker 3: I don't play tennis. I want to represent baseball. And
Speaker 3: so we wanted to go that route of just being
Speaker 3: a brand that baseball people could wear and express their
Speaker 3: love for the game without you know, wearing a jersey,
Speaker 3: you know, or wearing like, you know, an obnoxious MLB
Speaker 3: shirt or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how what's your price point for this stuff? Where
Speaker 2: would you put yourself in the expense list?
Speaker 3: I would say we're high qualities, so we're in upper middle.
Speaker 3: Our T shirts are anywhere from twenty nine to forty dollars,
Speaker 3: and our hoodies are from sixty to ninety five dollars.
Speaker 2: And how much are your clothing actually is license and
Speaker 2: has names of teams on there or Major League Baseball MLB.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if anybody does that, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean so, I mean, we didn't start MLB
Speaker 3: licensing until twenty twenty one, so I want to say
Speaker 3: right now, it's kind of like a growing part of
Speaker 3: our business. It's maybe five to ten percent of our
Speaker 3: business is MLB licensed stuff on the ret This is
Speaker 3: just lifestyle stuff, our own.
Speaker 1: Brand in line got it all right? What a story?
Speaker 2: I love it, Travis, Thanks for spending time with us. Also,
Speaker 2: people want to get hold of you. It's baseballism dot com.
Speaker 1: It's that simple, right.
Speaker 3: Baseballism dot com. We got something for you if you
Speaker 3: love the game.
Speaker 1: Take care, greatly appreciated, Take care, Travis. Great story, Thank
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Speaker 1: Okay, now here's a fun topic.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I love this when I first saw it,
Speaker 2: and that has to do with a Katari jet. It's
Speaker 2: a seven forty seven Dash eight. It's four hundred million bucks.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw a pick of it.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a nice plane to have. It's about
Speaker 2: as high end as you can go. Four hundred million dollars,
Speaker 2: you know. I don't know what they normally go for
Speaker 2: retail price, the seven forty sevens. I'm assuming they go
Speaker 2: up a bit if you like put in tinted windows
Speaker 2: or put really new.
Speaker 1: Rims, you know, on the wheels, they can go up
Speaker 1: a little bit, but for the most part, this is
Speaker 1: about as high end as you can get.
Speaker 2: So what the Katari government, actually the royal family of
Speaker 2: the Qatar is doing is there they want to donate
Speaker 2: it to the president, not specifically, but it's going to
Speaker 2: the way it's worked out or the way Trump has
Speaker 2: is going to be donated to the Pentagon, and then
Speaker 2: when he is out of office, it goes to the
Speaker 2: Presidential Library.
Speaker 1: Okay, that gets kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: And the reason is it's going to be a temporary
Speaker 2: Air Force one because you have the two new ones
Speaker 2: that are now being built. First of all, you know
Speaker 2: how old Air Force one is right now, it's forty
Speaker 2: years old. Look at the cockpit, it's all analog. It's
Speaker 2: you don't see TV screens in the cockpit. You see dials.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is that old.
Speaker 2: And when you look at the kitchen, which is you know,
Speaker 2: it's a small kitchen for the airplane where they actually cook.
Speaker 1: What you do is you see wear and tear.
Speaker 2: You see the stainless steel, for example, has marks on
Speaker 2: where it's been rubbed away.
Speaker 1: For all of the years that it's been being used.
Speaker 2: It's it's I mean, it's maintained beautifully I mean, there's
Speaker 2: no question to his safety.
Speaker 1: But it's just old.
Speaker 2: And so there are two new ones that are being built.
Speaker 2: Interesting story about President Trump and Boeing. The first two
Speaker 2: were going to be built, and the President canceled it
Speaker 2: because Boeing wanted too much money.
Speaker 1: And then he just canceled the order.
Speaker 2: And then they found a couple of seven forty sevens
Speaker 2: in a boneyard, which Trump bought for a lot less money.
Speaker 1: It's a great story.
Speaker 2: That now went back to Boeing to be re retrofitted
Speaker 2: as air Force one. Well, air Force one is a
Speaker 2: flying white house, communications, anti missile defenses.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is pretty nuts.
Speaker 2: So let's say you spend three hundred and fifty million
Speaker 2: dollars for a seven forty seven right off the rack,
Speaker 2: it's going to cost another two billion dollars to retrofit it.
Speaker 2: They take it down to the studs, they rewire the
Speaker 2: entire airplane with hard wiring in case there's a nuclear blast.
Speaker 2: That doesn't, you know, blow up the airplane. It's the
Speaker 2: anti radiation so it still works. I mean, this is
Speaker 2: crazy stuff. Boeing is way behind. Boeing is way over,
Speaker 2: way overrun on its cost, which was I believe a
Speaker 2: fixed costs and so now they've lost a couple of
Speaker 2: billion dollars on it.
Speaker 1: And then the issue, because the practical issue.
Speaker 2: You take an airplane, you spend two years retrofitting it
Speaker 2: for a temporary Air Force one at the cost of
Speaker 2: billions of dollars, at least hundreds of millions of dollars,
Speaker 2: while the other two are being built right now. There's
Speaker 2: two coming online. There's always two air Force ones. There's
Speaker 2: air Force one and then there's Force one one A
Speaker 2: because there's always a backup, and both fly incidentally to
Speaker 2: wherever the president goes. Can you imagine how much that costs?
Speaker 2: And we'll never know how much that costs because it's
Speaker 2: under the air Force. They don't give you the budget
Speaker 2: of what we as taxpayer spend.
Speaker 1: For this stuff.
Speaker 2: And so just the practical application of this. So some
Speaker 2: of his staunchius supporters in Congress going, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: this is a foreign government giving the US an airplane
Speaker 2: that is going to be used as Air Force one. G.
Speaker 2: You think that's a good idea. And a lot of
Speaker 2: people say, no, why don't we keep it in house?
Speaker 2: Now a foreign Now it's not I want to bring
Speaker 2: that down to reality because it's not wasn't.
Speaker 1: Built and cutter.
Speaker 2: It was built by Boeing, so it was bought from Boeing.
Speaker 2: If it's going to be retrofitted, it'll be retrofitted by Boeing.
Speaker 2: So as far as anybody outside of the United States
Speaker 2: physically working on an employment, it's all going to be
Speaker 2: US workers. But just the very concept of the Katari
Speaker 2: government giving an airplane like this and then there's all
Speaker 2: kinds of legal issues. Can the president on behalf of
Speaker 2: the country accept it?
Speaker 1: I think so.
Speaker 2: I think the government can accept gifts and use those gifts,
Speaker 2: and the government can give.
Speaker 1: Whatever equipment it has. Does it all the time.
Speaker 2: The LAPD got all kinds of used military equipment for
Speaker 2: a period of time. A lot of that goes confiscated
Speaker 2: drug for example. Money can go to various police departments.
Speaker 1: Happens all the time.
Speaker 2: It's just the it's just it's mind boggling that. Can
Speaker 2: you imagine if Joe Biden had done this and cut
Speaker 2: a deal with a foreign government for a donation of
Speaker 2: a jet for Air Force one until ours are being
Speaker 2: the new ones being retrofitted, they'd go nuts, They would
Speaker 2: go out of their minds.
Speaker 1: The Republicans, they'd be frothing at the mouth.
Speaker 2: And this one, you know, we have to see if
Speaker 2: it's legal or not. But I think this one, this
Speaker 2: one may be a line too far, or a bridge
Speaker 2: too high, or water under the bridge at the tip
Speaker 2: of the barrel.
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