1 00:00:17,519 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: And we are back with another edition of the Federalist 2 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,440 Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondent at the 3 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:28,160 Federalist and your experienced Shirpa on today's quest for Knowledge. 4 00:00:28,519 --> 00:00:31,120 As always, you can email the show at radio at 5 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:35,280 the Federalist dot com, follow us on x at FDR LST, 6 00:00:35,759 --> 00:00:38,560 make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast, and 7 00:00:38,799 --> 00:00:42,759 of course to the premium version of our website as well. 8 00:00:43,359 --> 00:00:47,840 Our guest today is Representative Tim Birch at Republican, representing 9 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:53,479 the great State of Tennessee, the second congressional district they'rein. 10 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,719 We have so much to talk about, from the doge, 11 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:05,840 to rogue hoards to one of the most outstanding comebacks 12 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:10,239 to one of those leftist weasels out there that I 13 00:01:10,239 --> 00:01:14,959 think I've ever heard, the great hot Pocket comeback, and 14 00:01:15,079 --> 00:01:17,040 we have a chance we're going to talk about that 15 00:01:17,239 --> 00:01:20,959 as well on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. 16 00:01:21,159 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 2: Sir, thank you so much for joining us. It's always 17 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,280 a pleasure. Hey, I'm honored, thank you for having me on. Brother. 18 00:01:26,719 --> 00:01:30,159 Speaker 1: We're going to get to that hot Pocket comeback. I 19 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,079 love it, and we're going to have to play a 20 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,719 clip here before the end of this podcast, But let 21 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:41,319 us begin with what has been a whirlwind the first 22 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:46,159 as we talk now almost one hundred days, it's amazing 23 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,040 to think how much has happened in the first three 24 00:01:49,079 --> 00:01:53,159 months of the Trump administration. Time to do a little 25 00:01:53,159 --> 00:01:56,159 reflection here as we get too close to the first 26 00:01:56,239 --> 00:01:57,920 one hundred days. What do you think so far? 27 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 3: I think Resident was doing what he said he was 28 00:02:01,159 --> 00:02:05,719 going to do, and I would remind my fellow congressmen 29 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,159 and women that we need to get on the stick. 30 00:02:09,439 --> 00:02:13,039 He was elected with what I thought was a fairly 31 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,520 comfortable majority, but Congress was not. 32 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 2: And the reason Congress was not was that we did not. 33 00:02:20,759 --> 00:02:29,159 Speaker 3: Wholeheartedly endorse his agenda locking the border down, less government, cut, cut, cut, 34 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:34,280 and and I'm afraid that that's that's that's why we 35 00:02:34,319 --> 00:02:38,360 have a three person majority and and not something that's 36 00:02:38,439 --> 00:02:42,319 really overwhelming that we can brag about. 37 00:02:42,439 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 2: So I'm. 38 00:02:45,199 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 3: I'm excited and pleased with what President Trump's doing, but 39 00:02:49,719 --> 00:02:55,039 I'm I'm a little I'm a little. I guess mythed 40 00:02:55,199 --> 00:02:58,400 would be a light. I wake up in the morning 41 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,400 and think how mad I am. I really think we 42 00:03:01,479 --> 00:03:04,520 need to start how to find some of these Trump 43 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:08,080 initiatives and maybe move it past the courts if we 44 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,840 were to do that. So, I don't know, we'll see 45 00:03:10,879 --> 00:03:17,199 what happens. I'm a little I'm still leaning positive. I'm 46 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,719 just upset at us for not doing more to back 47 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:21,479 this president. 48 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,319 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're just more than three months into it, and again, 49 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:29,479 it's been an ambitious agenda. But do you fear that 50 00:03:29,599 --> 00:03:35,599 if you're Republican colleagues, many of them certainly like to 51 00:03:35,639 --> 00:03:38,919 identify themselves as conservatives, if they don't get on board 52 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:43,199 with this agenda, you could pay the price, certainly in 53 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,159 the House, if not the Senate in twenty twenty six. 54 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,319 Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I fear we could lose our country. I 55 00:03:49,319 --> 00:03:52,599 feel like we've been given an opportunity and we need 56 00:03:52,639 --> 00:03:54,120 to grasp that opportunity. 57 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:59,199 Speaker 2: I don't I just don't think President Trump can do 58 00:03:59,240 --> 00:03:59,840 it alone. 59 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:07,439 Speaker 3: And I remain well, I remain angry that we've had 60 00:04:07,439 --> 00:04:09,719 these hearings, you know, and I'm sure we'll write a 61 00:04:09,759 --> 00:04:14,199 lot of strong letters, but it remains to be seen 62 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,360 that we haven't followed through with our end of the bargain. 63 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:17,879 Speaker 2: You know. 64 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 3: Case in point, I have a piece of legislation dealing 65 00:04:20,759 --> 00:04:24,720 with the Taliban. We're sending them about forty million dollars 66 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,759 a week, as it turns out, through various means, and 67 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,560 the NGOs and the United Nations are all tied up 68 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:31,879 in it. 69 00:04:32,879 --> 00:04:35,879 Speaker 2: And it's documented. It's been documented even the. 70 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 3: Let's see, even the State Department have verification for them 71 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:50,480 from a five or six page document that was once classified. 72 00:04:50,519 --> 00:04:53,879 Speaker 2: Now it's unclassified. And here we are. 73 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,319 Speaker 3: I'm into this single year and we haven't Last year, 74 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,480 I believe I passed it in the House and couldn't 75 00:04:59,519 --> 00:05:03,879 get sent up sponsors. And now I'm back again. It's 76 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:08,120 even stronger this go around. Now we have Senator she 77 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:12,839 He's taking it on, who's a former Navy seal, and 78 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:18,160 Tommy Tubberbil as well has embraced it. So I'm looking 79 00:05:18,199 --> 00:05:21,160 forward to getting that thing through Congress, and it's past 80 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:25,360 our committee. But why are we delaying? Why are we delayed? 81 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 2: You know we're waiting on staff. It's just to me, 82 00:05:29,519 --> 00:05:30,439 that is the sewer. 83 00:05:30,639 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 3: You know, everyone's called a swamp, and I'm quick to 84 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:34,759 note that it's not a swamp. 85 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 2: It's a sewer. A swamp is something God created. 86 00:05:37,959 --> 00:05:40,319 Speaker 3: That's pretty cool actually, if you see it in its 87 00:05:40,399 --> 00:05:44,120 natural state, It filters water, it allows for animals to feed, 88 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,680 it's a breeding ground for frogs and fish and all 89 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:48,519 this other stuff. 90 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:50,759 Speaker 2: But Washington d C. Is man made. 91 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 3: It is a sewer. No oxygen flows into it, no daylight. 92 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 2: That's why you have. 93 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 3: What's called anaerobic decomposition, the horrible smell when you go 94 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,600 by sewing treatment plant, and that's the absence of oxygen. 95 00:06:02,959 --> 00:06:04,959 Speaker 2: So that's what Washington DC is. 96 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 3: And when I hear a chairman, and I've heard them 97 00:06:06,879 --> 00:06:10,319 say in both parties, we can't do that. Staff won't 98 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:16,040 allow it. Staff won't allow it. How does that even 99 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:20,040 figure in? We didn't elect staff, We elected the congressman 100 00:06:20,079 --> 00:06:20,839 and the senators. 101 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:23,079 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you're absolutely right. 102 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: Why do Republicans have to defer to staff the same 103 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:36,759 way that the executive branch had long deferred to bureaucrats 104 00:06:37,439 --> 00:06:42,000 in the center? Here acrats unelected bureaucrats. But are Republicans 105 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,600 in the House doing the same thing, Yes, sir. 106 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 3: Yes, or we are and we have a history of that, 107 00:06:47,199 --> 00:06:49,879 and it's it's just. 108 00:06:51,519 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 2: It's a bud. I don't know what else. 109 00:06:54,639 --> 00:06:58,079 Speaker 3: It is awful and we got to change, and America 110 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,720 elected us to change, and that gumment. We're going to 111 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:06,040 have to. But in the way, how do we do that? 112 00:07:06,079 --> 00:07:08,199 We got to put It's kind of like Hollywood. Hollywood 113 00:07:08,199 --> 00:07:10,920 will put out good family values movies if we put 114 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,079 pressure on them. And TV shows, I mean Andy Griffiths Show, 115 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:18,240 for goodness sakes, it was, it was one of it's one. 116 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 2: Of the greatest shows. 117 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 3: It's traditional values, it's it's in one hundred and thirty 118 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:23,399 different languages, I. 119 00:07:23,319 --> 00:07:26,439 Speaker 2: Think, all over the world, and everybody loves it. 120 00:07:26,519 --> 00:07:29,399 Speaker 3: Yeah, you can just you can name an episode, and 121 00:07:29,519 --> 00:07:31,480 I mean there's you know, there's any I'm a member 122 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:35,319 of the Andy griff Is coming like an honorary member. 123 00:07:35,079 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 2: Of their club. 124 00:07:36,279 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: But they but I like you so much more now. 125 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,720 I liked you before. I like you so much more now. 126 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,680 There's an expression and you'll know this right away from 127 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,639 Barney Fiffe that them instantly comes to mind, and it's 128 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,959 and it involves your work with the Doge Subcommittee. It 129 00:07:53,079 --> 00:07:56,519 involves the need to get a handle on this sewer. 130 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:00,720 It is nipp it, nipp it, nipp it in the butt. Yeah, 131 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:04,639 and you're right. I mean again, we're less than one 132 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,040 hundred days in, but there's not a lot of nipping 133 00:08:07,079 --> 00:08:08,560 of that bud going. 134 00:08:08,639 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 2: It seems to. 135 00:08:09,519 --> 00:08:12,279 Speaker 3: And I told President Trump in our last conversation that 136 00:08:12,279 --> 00:08:15,160 that that's my biggest fear. Under one hundred and fifty days, 137 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,000 we're going to lose our guts. And we got to 138 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,839 start cardifying these things. You know, we I always say 139 00:08:21,879 --> 00:08:25,079 with those post offices that will name them aren't going 140 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:26,959 to name themselves. You know, we got to get back 141 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,160 to work and that. You know, it's just it's just 142 00:08:30,199 --> 00:08:34,720 so many missed opportunities. The NPR bill, MPR. You know, 143 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:38,279 they came before our Doze sub committee. I told somebody 144 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,519 used to think Marjorie Taylor Green was a friend of mine. 145 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:42,480 Then she put me on her Doze committee, and I 146 00:08:42,519 --> 00:08:45,840 was like, oh man, but it's because it just it 147 00:08:45,879 --> 00:08:47,600 to me. It's I'm going to have to I'm gonna 148 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:49,399 have to get a counselor after this thing, all the 149 00:08:49,519 --> 00:08:50,840 all the garbage. 150 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 2: That we found out. She does an excellent job at 151 00:08:53,399 --> 00:08:54,000 tearing it too. 152 00:08:54,159 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 3: She's got incredible patience, more than I do with us 153 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,320 and with the Democrats as well. But but just imagine 154 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:03,960 all the crazy stuff. 155 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 2: Then n p R. I asked this question. 156 00:09:06,519 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 3: Because I heard it on there there I actually heard 157 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,399 it with my own two ears, and and then we 158 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:14,120 documented when it was and who said it. But I said, 159 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:18,679 you know, there was one of the posts asked somebody else, 160 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,120 what is your definition of propaganda? And the and the 161 00:09:22,159 --> 00:09:26,320 other other person said leaguering wood singing God Bless the USA, 162 00:09:26,399 --> 00:09:29,159 And that's what your tax dollars are paying for. Now 163 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,799 we're not telling them to stop. This isn't a first 164 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,000 This is a First Amendment issue in the fact that 165 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:36,159 they can say whatever they want, but that again, I 166 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,279 don't have to pay for it, and and we're borrowing 167 00:09:39,279 --> 00:09:42,120 the money to do it at that So at some 168 00:09:42,279 --> 00:09:45,039 point we've got to say enough is enough, man. 169 00:09:45,159 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 2: We have got. 170 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 3: To to cut with all this nonsense. And until we 171 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,879 we should have had a bill drawn up. We had 172 00:09:53,919 --> 00:09:57,799 so much publicity, good positive vibes coming off all that. 173 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:02,039 Speaker 2: And what do we do. Where's the bill where? 174 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,399 Speaker 3: You know, I've proposed one, other people have yet, Oh 175 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:06,639 it's it's in committee. 176 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 2: Well, the staff's working on it, you know. No, let's 177 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:11,080 get it going. 178 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,159 Speaker 3: Pelosi can move a bill, change it and get it 179 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:16,879 on the floor to spend the rule I said. They 180 00:10:16,879 --> 00:10:19,039 did with the transportation bill, one of the largest spending 181 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,000 bills of all time. We passed a probably a pretty 182 00:10:22,039 --> 00:10:25,960 bad bill, and then they took it, rewrote it, and 183 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,159 in her office with the lobbyists, brought it to the floor, 184 00:10:29,399 --> 00:10:33,279 largest spending bill in the history of Congress, and they 185 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:36,519 passed it. No debate on the floor, no ability to 186 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,080 put amendments on it. 187 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:40,159 Speaker 2: And that's how it ended up. 188 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:44,639 Speaker 3: And it was a huge liberal wish list. Fifteen percent 189 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:49,440 of it dealt with what you would consider traditional transportation. Well, 190 00:10:49,519 --> 00:10:54,360 eighty five percent, this billion dollar plus bill dealt with 191 00:10:54,440 --> 00:11:01,679 woke policy changes, DNI all behind yeah, out of the country, 192 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:07,679 crazy spending, and that's you know, that's what we're fighting against. 193 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:13,159 But don't think for a second that people in our 194 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:15,919 party aren't an O'reagan said, never say anything bad, whatever, 195 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:20,480 eleventh commandment. But the truth is that we're to blame 196 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:22,320 for this as much as anybody else. 197 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 2: We are in power. 198 00:11:23,759 --> 00:11:26,639 Speaker 3: Now, why are we not changing this? Why are we 199 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:31,399 still allowing stock trades among members of Congress? You know, 200 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:36,039 I have a my eleven thousand dollars portfolio is managed 201 00:11:36,039 --> 00:11:38,759 by my buddy, Tommy Siler. I've got a little mutual fund. 202 00:11:38,919 --> 00:11:41,919 That's what we should not know individual stocks. That's crooked 203 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:44,399 as a dog's leg. You know it, and I know it. 204 00:11:46,039 --> 00:11:49,600 When we sent our missile defense system Ukraine, I haven't 205 00:11:49,639 --> 00:11:52,240 voted for one red cent, but it doesn't matter. But 206 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:57,480 when we did that, we we had to replenish ours 207 00:11:57,799 --> 00:12:00,480 with a no bid contract. And I don't fault the 208 00:12:00,519 --> 00:12:05,519 missile contractors, but everybody, you know, and by knit it, 209 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,720 by executive order of all things. But guess what the 210 00:12:08,759 --> 00:12:11,440 people on that committee that would add knowledge of that. 211 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,039 Speaker 2: Apparently a lot of them, is. 212 00:12:14,039 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 3: My understanding, a lot of them had stopped in that 213 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,440 company and they made a lot of money. 214 00:12:19,799 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: They did make a lot of money. They did make 215 00:12:21,519 --> 00:12:24,039 a lot of money. And then of course they're quick 216 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:29,039 to point their fingers at you know, the trade wars 217 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,639 and that the tariff wars and all of those battles 218 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:37,080 with Trump trying to do what former administrations have failed 219 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,879 to do, and that is to bring back a level 220 00:12:39,919 --> 00:12:44,159 playing field, to establish a level playing field after this 221 00:12:44,639 --> 00:12:50,480 country and its citizens have been absolutely screwed by this 222 00:12:50,639 --> 00:12:54,360 trade deficit for years and years and years. And then 223 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:58,080 they say, well, his friends are making a boatload of money. 224 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,200 How can they do that with a straight face? While 225 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:06,519 while we know of the reports about members of Congress 226 00:13:06,639 --> 00:13:10,840 making a mint on what certainly appears to a lot 227 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:12,399 of Americans as insider trading. 228 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 3: Well, I agreed, and that's the reason Trump didn't ask 229 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:21,799 permission for what we did with China on those terraffs 230 00:13:22,039 --> 00:13:24,120 because he knew, he knew Congress didn't have the guts 231 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:28,000 to do it. Look, we have sold this country out. 232 00:13:28,519 --> 00:13:32,960 Congress has Congress is the problem. Congress and our national 233 00:13:33,039 --> 00:13:36,799 chambers and commerce have sold us out. Very immigration rule 234 00:13:36,799 --> 00:13:38,879 and law we've ever tried to pass that would have 235 00:13:38,919 --> 00:13:42,159 helped us. The Chamber of Commerce have killed it because 236 00:13:42,159 --> 00:13:43,679 they want that free slave labor. 237 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 2: But the truth is on the tariffs we had. 238 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 3: For instance, I'll give you an example, what the Chinese 239 00:13:52,759 --> 00:13:55,639 are doing. Everybody knows they're buying farm land. They're buying 240 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:58,759 up land near military installations. Why haven't we stopped that? 241 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,919 Why have we not stopped They own commissaries in our 242 00:14:02,919 --> 00:14:04,360 military installations. 243 00:14:04,799 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 2: Now you ask yourself, well, what's that? 244 00:14:06,279 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 3: Who cares? They're selling stick of gum or a co cola, 245 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,039 a gi No. They have the credit cards, they know 246 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,799 who's there, they know which military installation they're a part of. 247 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 2: They know which apparatus. 248 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 3: Say, you have a bunch of pilots coming into a 249 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:23,840 base and there all of a sudden, they start, you know, 250 00:14:23,879 --> 00:14:26,279 they're at the commissary buying a sandwich or you know, 251 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,480 a sweatshirt for their girlfriend or whoever. 252 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:33,039 Speaker 2: And they got their credit card numbers. 253 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 3: They know who they are, and they know that they're 254 00:14:35,759 --> 00:14:39,200 flying a certain plane, and then they know where they're at, 255 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,840 and then that gives the Chinese an indicator of what's 256 00:14:41,879 --> 00:14:46,440 going on and where we are militarily. It's just, you know, 257 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,360 they flew a night a balloon over our country, nineteen 258 00:14:49,399 --> 00:14:53,639 fifties technology, and they were taking some pictures. But the 259 00:14:53,679 --> 00:14:57,799 reality was they were looking at our reaction time and 260 00:14:57,840 --> 00:14:59,919 what we were going to do and what are react 261 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,600 And our reaction was was that we did nothing. Our 262 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:10,039 press popod it, our military let it fly, and our 263 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:14,120 president probably stillen he probably still doesn't know that thing 264 00:15:14,159 --> 00:15:14,679 flew over. 265 00:15:15,279 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 2: So a lot of things happened, and we just got 266 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:19,840 to be aware. 267 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,519 Speaker 4: The argument of Wall Street versus Main Street is a 268 00:15:27,639 --> 00:15:30,960 pile of nonsense. The watch Dot on Wall Street podcast 269 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,960 with Chris Markowski. Every day Chris helps unpack the connection 270 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,840 between politics and the economy and how it affects your wallet. 271 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,679 The stock market was all over the place due to 272 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,639 the expected tariffs, and guess what, Wall Street still made money. 273 00:15:43,759 --> 00:15:47,159 Mom and pop stores weren't even affected. Whether it's happening 274 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:49,720 in DC or down on Wall Street, it's affecting you financially. 275 00:15:49,759 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 2: Be informed. 276 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,519 Speaker 4: Check out the Watchdot on Wall Street podcast with Chris 277 00:15:52,519 --> 00:15:55,480 Markowski on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. 278 00:15:59,080 --> 00:15:59,879 Speaker 2: And Joe Biden. 279 00:16:00,039 --> 00:16:03,879 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's defense, he does really seem to enjoy balloons 280 00:16:03,919 --> 00:16:04,679 and ice cream. 281 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:06,519 Speaker 2: He does so. 282 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 3: He could not find the self serve ice cream machine 283 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:10,440 in the White House. 284 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: So no, that's problematic. You'll have to go on a 285 00:16:13,279 --> 00:16:16,559 Disney cruise for that. I'm afraid you mentioned what you 286 00:16:16,639 --> 00:16:19,919 just talked about. In fact, you were on Fox Business 287 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,080 recently you said this, Let me give you the three 288 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:27,879 words that I think sum it all up. We are compromised. 289 00:16:27,919 --> 00:16:30,799 You said, if you wrote a book about DC, that's 290 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:35,919 what the title would be. But how much how deep 291 00:16:36,039 --> 00:16:39,519 does this go? Based on the intelligence that you have received? 292 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:43,799 How deep does it go? Thanks in large part to 293 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,480 the deep state and to the Biden administration and all 294 00:16:47,519 --> 00:16:50,440 of the failures they're in over the previous four years. 295 00:16:50,799 --> 00:16:52,399 Speaker 3: He goes as deep as you want it to go, 296 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:54,039 and as deep as they wanted to go. 297 00:16:54,159 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 2: And here's how it works. 298 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, you're watching a committee chairman that can't that literally 299 00:17:01,159 --> 00:17:05,000 can't feed themselves almost We've had one that was like that, 300 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:09,200 and that ended up going into a mental institute or 301 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,880 institute for those that have Alzheimer's. And she was chairman 302 00:17:14,039 --> 00:17:18,799 of our appropriations committee, and she remained chairman while she 303 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:22,880 was in that institution. Yet the staff kept running, it 304 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,359 kept running the office. Because the staff draws an income 305 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,119 from these things. I mean, that's their livelihood. And they're 306 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:33,319 not making twenty five thousand dollars a year. Some of 307 00:17:33,319 --> 00:17:35,480 them were making a heck of a lot. Have We 308 00:17:35,559 --> 00:17:40,599 had committees that have over fifty staff members. So I 309 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:42,680 was in there counting the picture one day and I 310 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:45,519 looked at ours and we had fifty and the Democrats 311 00:17:45,559 --> 00:17:51,680 had had had a few less because they're in the minority. 312 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:55,559 But when it turns, it'll turn when we're you know, 313 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,640 if we're in the minority, we'll have a few less 314 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,240 and they'll have a few more. But how this is 315 00:18:01,279 --> 00:18:05,839 how easy it works. You have a lobbyist hired by 316 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:09,440 indirectly by the Chinese. There's all these rules and regulations 317 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:11,759 that they know how to get around it. So they 318 00:18:11,839 --> 00:18:17,079 hire a lobbyist who's friendly with a committee or has 319 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:20,680 actually worked on that committee. That's generally worse. They work 320 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,440 on the committee, and then they get hired pay two 321 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:27,079 hundred two thousand, you know, to manage a committee more 322 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,319 or less, and they know two or three of the 323 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:33,799 key people on there and think me as an aspiring legislator, 324 00:18:33,839 --> 00:18:37,839 I propose legislation that says things like, hey, we're not 325 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,319 going to sell our genetic material to the to the 326 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:47,480 Chinese communists that are genetic information from the you know, 327 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:50,680 like these ancestry dot com things should take a swab 328 00:18:50,759 --> 00:18:53,680 and you send it off to them. And all they're 329 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:59,759 doing is creating a genome. They're creating a pattern of 330 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,799 say they want to stop American females of child bearing 331 00:19:04,839 --> 00:19:08,160 ages from being able to bear children, which is something 332 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:13,200 they'd actually worked on the Chinese have. And so now 333 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:20,079 we're fighting this lobbyist who is hired by these groups 334 00:19:21,559 --> 00:19:25,039 to go in and lobby an individual that would oversee 335 00:19:25,079 --> 00:19:28,599 that in the committee, and they delay, delay, they send 336 00:19:28,599 --> 00:19:31,119 it back to the legal folks to rewrite it, and they, oh, 337 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,519 we can't do that, we can't do this, we can't 338 00:19:33,559 --> 00:19:36,079 do that, and you eventually you end up with a 339 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,599 reporting mill that does absolutely nothing. 340 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,559 Speaker 2: And that's where we're at. That is where we're at 341 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:43,440 as a country, as a congress. 342 00:19:44,759 --> 00:19:47,640 Speaker 3: I told somebody, I said, we must have we must 343 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:49,480 have a warehouse like they show in the end the 344 00:19:49,559 --> 00:19:52,359 remember Raiders of Lost Art at the end they said, 345 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:52,880 we've got our. 346 00:19:52,839 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 2: Top the boxes. 347 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I suspect we've got a warehouse there of 348 00:19:57,079 --> 00:20:00,200 just congressional reports that they're going to make a sport 349 00:20:00,279 --> 00:20:05,160 to Congress. And it just it blows my mind the 350 00:20:05,279 --> 00:20:08,480 number of bills that we have there are reports, and 351 00:20:08,519 --> 00:20:11,039 I think America needs to wake up and realize what 352 00:20:11,079 --> 00:20:12,240 the heck that's about. 353 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 2: So it's it's it's definitely not sustainable. It is not. 354 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:19,359 Speaker 1: In fact, I want to I want to read a 355 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,920 quote here momentarily and get your perspective on it, because 356 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:27,720 it's a quote from you on this very topic. Our 357 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:31,440 guest today is Representative Tim Burchett, Republican, representing the Great 358 00:20:31,519 --> 00:20:36,440 State of Tennessee's second Congressional District. You said this early 359 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:40,559 on in Trump two point zero, you said you're going 360 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,799 to see a paper trail come back to Washington, d C. 361 00:20:44,319 --> 00:20:46,920 That's why a lot of people are nervous going to 362 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,319 see a lot of retirements. They are stealing from the 363 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:57,440 American people and got caught after your frustrations in this 364 00:20:57,559 --> 00:21:01,480 first one hundred days of the Trump administration, How do 365 00:21:01,519 --> 00:21:06,400 you feel about that, about the reckoning the accountability, is 366 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,839 it still coming. I know folks are still nervous and 367 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:10,920 should be nervous. 368 00:21:11,759 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 3: I don't have a lot of faith in that lady 369 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:15,960 who's supposed to over and she showed her true colors. 370 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,400 I think with the Epstein files what's her name? 371 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 2: Oh? Oh? 372 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 3: And the reporter on that No, no, not the reporter, 373 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,200 the lady that works for the administration, the attorney. 374 00:21:34,559 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 2: What's her name, oh, Attorney General Pam BONDI yeah, I 375 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:41,440 don't have a lot of her brother I really don't. Really. Yeah. 376 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,759 Speaker 1: I think that showed pretty much where she was at. 377 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,079 I think that was a I think that was a debacle. 378 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:50,599 I think she has handled other things very well. I 379 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:54,519 think there are some issues with the oversight of the FBI. 380 00:21:55,799 --> 00:21:59,559 We're still seeing problems there but no. 381 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,519 Speaker 2: Go ahead. I mean, you don't have to see. How 382 00:22:02,599 --> 00:22:03,799 much have faith in her? 383 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 3: I want to see it, and I hope she proves 384 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,480 me wrong, but I want to see people in the 385 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:12,359 handcuffs that should have never the epsteam thing. Just I 386 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:16,000 thought that looked bad. And I don't blame Trump. I 387 00:22:16,079 --> 00:22:16,720 blame her. 388 00:22:17,319 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 2: She should have never. 389 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,559 Speaker 3: She got way out of the pastor skis and uh, 390 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,319 and it was amateur hour having all those portfolios out 391 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:30,079 to those kids that were influencers. 392 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, how many different influencers does it take 393 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,759 to have a batched release. 394 00:22:36,319 --> 00:22:37,079 Speaker 2: Of this report? 395 00:22:37,279 --> 00:22:40,519 Speaker 3: And she and they put great effort into it, and 396 00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:43,920 it was all stuff that was already out apparently. 397 00:22:43,839 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 2: And so I just the whole thing to me, just 398 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:50,079 and and I. 399 00:22:50,039 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 3: Just don't see I don't I don't see that rectifying itself. 400 00:22:54,759 --> 00:22:57,319 Speaker 2: And that's disappointing to me. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm not 401 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:58,000 an attorney. 402 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 3: I know it takes time to build case, but but 403 00:23:02,279 --> 00:23:03,880 how much more of this are we going to take? 404 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,799 Speaker 1: But you were hope, you were hopeful at that time 405 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:12,039 with these nominees who were to become to a Secretary 406 00:23:12,039 --> 00:23:13,960 of State. So I guess that's that's a good question. 407 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:20,279 What's your grade on you know the key uh secretaries, 408 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,200 the key department heads. Right, yeah, I'd still give it 409 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,119 an A. I think e p A. 410 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,079 Speaker 3: He's a buddy of mine out in Congress with him. 411 00:23:29,079 --> 00:23:32,920 He's a straight shooter. He's going to be great. Lee's Elden. 412 00:23:33,559 --> 00:23:38,839 He is incredible and he's I'm a fan of these 413 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,119 uh you know, I think on down the line, I 414 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,440 think that's why the critics are hammering him so hard. 415 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,240 It is because I think there I ain't like Head said, 416 00:23:49,319 --> 00:23:52,359 he's catching a lot of grief, but the reality there 417 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,799 is a probably messed up. I don't think it's anything 418 00:23:55,839 --> 00:23:59,039 that got out that isn't you know. I always tell 419 00:23:59,079 --> 00:24:00,920 people when you go into the skiff. I remember I 420 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,440 went in. I was late to the skiff meeting, and 421 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,440 I leaned over this old Democrat. 422 00:24:05,079 --> 00:24:06,279 Speaker 2: And I said, let me get this straight. 423 00:24:06,559 --> 00:24:09,519 Speaker 3: I said, if I'm late again, I could probably just 424 00:24:09,599 --> 00:24:12,119 catch this on CNN in about thirty minutes, you know, 425 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,359 the skiff and with her getting a top secret he 426 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,759 was in there and all these others and he leaned 427 00:24:17,759 --> 00:24:22,319 over to us Tim probably in about fifteen minutes, and 428 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:26,039 I was, you know, I remember walking out one time 429 00:24:26,039 --> 00:24:30,279 when I was first elected, maybe one of my first 430 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,319 or second times being in the skiff, and I honored 431 00:24:33,319 --> 00:24:35,759 that stuff. I mean, I take that stuff serious, and 432 00:24:36,559 --> 00:24:39,319 I remember good. I remember a reporter came up to 433 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:43,559 me and she was a pretty lady and she was, wow, commersman, you. 434 00:24:43,519 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 2: Really really hitting it off big here. And I looked at. 435 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 3: Her and she started compliment me on something and I said, ma'am, 436 00:24:51,519 --> 00:24:54,400 I said, I may be up here just a year. 437 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,000 I said, but I was born at not not last night. 438 00:24:57,039 --> 00:24:58,759 I've been in this game a long time. I know 439 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,319 exactly what you're doing. And she's like what, And I said, 440 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,799 you just buttered me up. And I'm going to tell 441 00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:06,640 you what I just came out of that meeting in 442 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,519 and she goes and she turned literally saw a Democrat 443 00:25:11,799 --> 00:25:14,240 that she knew and hollered at him and they went 444 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,799 down the fire exit or the exit, you know, one 445 00:25:17,839 --> 00:25:21,559 of the egsits, you know, it was down a stairway, 446 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:23,039 and they still. 447 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,359 Speaker 2: Have a quiet conversation about here. 448 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,839 Speaker 3: She knew she wasn't going to get it from Tim Bartchett, 449 00:25:27,839 --> 00:25:30,640 but she found her a willing Democrat to get it from. 450 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:35,079 Speaker 1: And I never, never, ever underestimate the shamelessness of the 451 00:25:35,079 --> 00:25:39,920 corporate media. Oh they're trying to get a scoop. 452 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, you're knowing to the least least area 453 00:25:43,279 --> 00:25:45,799 of resistance. And I was a resistance and I was 454 00:25:45,839 --> 00:25:47,160 not the least at that point. 455 00:25:47,559 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 2: I never would be. But anyway, I. 456 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,119 Speaker 3: Just that goes back to my crooked as a dog's 457 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,599 legs statement. The whole thing is we got to start. 458 00:25:57,079 --> 00:26:01,200 We got to start holding people accountable, and that's contained Democrats, 459 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,200 because what we're doing now is not working. 460 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 2: It is not working. 461 00:26:04,759 --> 00:26:09,759 Speaker 1: Speaking of that corporate media, you know, there was I 462 00:26:09,799 --> 00:26:13,519 think some good indication by the election of Donald Trump 463 00:26:14,279 --> 00:26:19,200 for a second term in November and by Republicans holding 464 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,960 on to the House and taking back the Senate. I 465 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:24,960 think there was a good body of evidence to show 466 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,759 the irrelevance of the corporate accomplice media in this country 467 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,720 is what we're seeing in their resistance two point zero. 468 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,200 The you know, really just the death rattle of in 469 00:26:37,279 --> 00:26:42,279 irrelevant corporate media that is doing everything that it can 470 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,720 just to hold on, throwing everything that it always does 471 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,119 at Donald Trump and the mega movement. 472 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,279 Speaker 3: I think so I was shocked to see on CNN 473 00:26:53,319 --> 00:26:56,000 the other day they said that I think fifty five 474 00:26:56,079 --> 00:26:59,480 or fifty six percent of the population agree. I saw 475 00:26:59,519 --> 00:27:02,559 this more than once on seeing end that that President 476 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,799 Trump's doing the right thing about immigration and that went 477 00:27:05,839 --> 00:27:09,839 from thirty four percent back a little while ago, and 478 00:27:10,039 --> 00:27:13,599 just the credible turnaround, and just how the Democrats, you know, 479 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,359 they're I don't know where they're doing their polling, I said, 480 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,920 I think I was on Box yesterday and I said, 481 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,000 I think they're doing their polling in a federal penitentiary 482 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,720 or something, asking gang members, you know what the opinion 483 00:27:25,759 --> 00:27:26,480 of gangsters? 484 00:27:26,559 --> 00:27:30,039 Speaker 2: Again, it is their constituency. Well, yeah, I. 485 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,880 Speaker 3: Guess it is, but it's, uh, it just doesn't make 486 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,039 a whole lot of sense to me. Well, I think 487 00:27:35,079 --> 00:27:38,200 I understand. I think their corporate masters, the big the 488 00:27:38,279 --> 00:27:41,920 big money billionaires that backed them, give them their agenda 489 00:27:42,039 --> 00:27:45,640 to the DNC through their contacts there, and that's how 490 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,160 they do it. You know, it's you know, their polling 491 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,759 data is very secured. I always used to say, would 492 00:27:50,759 --> 00:27:53,160 you rather I remember this, Maidy said they wanted an 493 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,599 income tax in Tennessee, which is crazy. 494 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 2: I said, what do they do? 495 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 3: They said, would you rather have a flanning hot poker stuck, 496 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,839 you know, in one of your orifices, or would you 497 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,000 rather a state income tax? Well, fifty two percent of 498 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,519 the population favored an income tax, you know. But but 499 00:28:10,799 --> 00:28:13,119 it turned out I found out. I asked, I started 500 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,720 asking questions. Everybody's like, oh, you're going to fold. We 501 00:28:15,759 --> 00:28:17,920 have to fold up their ten on this one. We're sung, 502 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,119 I said, I said, let me ask you a question. 503 00:28:20,279 --> 00:28:23,400 I said, where did you poll? And they did and 504 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,559 it was in an area where people inner city and 505 00:28:25,799 --> 00:28:29,759 honestly don't. They don't pay taxes. They pay sales tax, 506 00:28:29,799 --> 00:28:32,000 but not federal income tax. And I said, what time 507 00:28:32,079 --> 00:28:33,960 did you poll? And I said, what do you mean? 508 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,920 I said, what time of day did you poll? And 509 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,319 they came and hauled around. It turned out they polled 510 00:28:38,319 --> 00:28:42,480 about twelve thirty in the afternoon at home and that 511 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:47,279 was back before cell phones were prevalent. But ask yourself, 512 00:28:47,319 --> 00:28:51,279 you know, who's at home at twelve thirty and who 513 00:28:51,319 --> 00:28:54,000 doesn't and somebody that obviously doesn't pay taxes. I mean, 514 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,480 it was scared. It was completely scared. And we found 515 00:28:56,519 --> 00:28:59,039 the district where it was. It was in inner city area, 516 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:00,680 you know, but doesn't matter. 517 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 1: But that congressman, I can tell you, in these these 518 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,960 weird times in which we live, where the left keeps 519 00:29:08,079 --> 00:29:12,680 pushing inclusion on everybody, they'll get to a point where 520 00:29:13,039 --> 00:29:15,480 maybe they're already there where they say, the people who 521 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,640 enjoy a good hot poker in an orifice, you know, 522 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:23,200 they should be included as well. We've reached the hot 523 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:27,480 poker in the orifice inclusion zone. Now, yeah, I guess so. 524 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:32,079 But they you know that's that hasn't hit East Tennessee yet. 525 00:29:32,319 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 3: You know, these issues they choose to the beaches, they 526 00:29:36,119 --> 00:29:39,039 down and you know men in dresses, you know, competing 527 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,519 against your daughter. Yeah, the same guy they want to 528 00:29:42,519 --> 00:29:45,160 be able to undress in front of your daughter in 529 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,400 a in a uh, in a locker room. If they 530 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,440 were to do that same stunt out in front of 531 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,599 your wife and or daughter out on the street corner, uh, 532 00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,960 expose themselves, they would be arrested, right and he said 533 00:30:00,119 --> 00:30:01,119 closures saying. 534 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,079 Speaker 1: And rightfully so on the sides of the coin. But 535 00:30:04,119 --> 00:30:05,640 that brings up a very good point. I want to 536 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:09,079 get your take on this because it is amazing to 537 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:14,759 see the left Democrats double down, first of all, on wasteful, 538 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,599 criminally wasteful spending. You're dealing with that in the Dose 539 00:30:17,799 --> 00:30:23,880 sub committee. And then see them rally around hardened, violent 540 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:29,599 criminal illegal immigrants, see them rally around people on terrorist 541 00:30:29,799 --> 00:30:32,680 watch list. For the love of God and all of 542 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,160 their due process? Where were these folks? And I want 543 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:36,440 to get you to take on us, where were these 544 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,720 folks about due process? After January sixth when they were 545 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:47,240 locking up Americans after protesting at the capitol, some of 546 00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:51,400 them just going on parade at the Capitol, locking them 547 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,519 up without their due process, without them being charged at all. 548 00:30:55,559 --> 00:30:59,400 These are American citizens. What's your thought on that? That's 549 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,519 a double stay and they're allowed to do it. And 550 00:31:01,559 --> 00:31:03,240 now they're all hollering that we want. 551 00:31:03,119 --> 00:31:05,559 Speaker 3: To shut the courts down because the courts have just 552 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,680 completely sold out. I always I talk about it. There's 553 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,559 a family named Corkern here in town. They're a pretty 554 00:31:15,519 --> 00:31:19,559 well established known family and their son was killed behind 555 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:24,079 illegal and I always say, where was that kid's Where 556 00:31:24,119 --> 00:31:27,279 was that kid's constitutional right? And the guy had been 557 00:31:27,279 --> 00:31:31,720 here for ten years to you know, and it just 558 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,720 it's a double standard. And I just don't I tell 559 00:31:35,759 --> 00:31:38,519 somebody they must be they're doing business with the devil 560 00:31:38,799 --> 00:31:40,599 because this is just not right. 561 00:31:40,759 --> 00:31:42,119 Speaker 2: America does not get this. 562 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,759 Speaker 3: And why the Republican Party doesn't seize upon this stuff 563 00:31:45,799 --> 00:31:50,079 and start passing legislation to enforce this, to enforce our 564 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:54,880 beliefs and to stop theirs, to me, is just beyond belief. 565 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:56,920 I just don't get it. It goes back to my 566 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:01,000 compromise statement earlier. And I just don't know where it's 567 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,279 going to end. Brother, I really don't. I just I 568 00:32:04,319 --> 00:32:07,799 hate the one thing I hate in politics and in 569 00:32:07,839 --> 00:32:11,400 life and in business and sports anything else is a 570 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,960 missed opportunity, and we are just being given an opportunity. 571 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,279 I keep thinking God's just reaching out to help us, 572 00:32:19,279 --> 00:32:20,680 and we're swapping his hand away. 573 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 2: You know. 574 00:32:21,759 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 3: It's like the old farmer falling off an old ten 575 00:32:24,559 --> 00:32:26,720 ruth and he's up there on the ladder and. 576 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 2: He's got his little bib overalls on and he's like. 577 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 3: Lord, help me, help me, Lord, And then a nail, 578 00:32:32,839 --> 00:32:36,119 a nail catches his overalls and he's like, never mind, Lord, 579 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:36,680 I got it. 580 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,119 Speaker 2: You know, maybe God put that nail there. 581 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,519 Speaker 3: But and I just think, you know, when President Trump 582 00:32:43,559 --> 00:32:46,240 got shot, I mean, that thing been an inch more 583 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,480 to the right we'd be talking about Kamala Harris as 584 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,079 our president, and we would be we would have rapidly 585 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:59,039 approaching losing our republic. And and so I just think 586 00:32:59,079 --> 00:33:01,440 we just got to quit swatt in God's hand away. 587 00:33:02,039 --> 00:33:05,519 And this is an incredible opportunity for this awful behavior 588 00:33:05,519 --> 00:33:08,839 by the Democrats to seize it. And until we do, 589 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,519 and I think history will not be kind to us 590 00:33:12,839 --> 00:33:16,680 because we were given that opportunity and we did not 591 00:33:16,839 --> 00:33:17,240 take it. 592 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 2: I think it's a good way to put it. 593 00:33:19,039 --> 00:33:24,079 Speaker 1: I think that fighting back as you have done is critical, 594 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,119 and I think a lot of Americans are. But I 595 00:33:26,119 --> 00:33:28,799 think a lot of Americans get tired. I understand the 596 00:33:28,839 --> 00:33:34,839 fatigue you you did not recently when one of these 597 00:33:35,599 --> 00:33:42,119 these leftist supplicants came up to you and asked you 598 00:33:42,119 --> 00:33:44,920 you know, it was it was clear this was a 599 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,079 you know, a plant sort of hit job. As you 600 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,519 were where you were in d C at the time, 601 00:33:51,559 --> 00:33:54,880 walking around and this is this is this audio. Here 602 00:33:55,039 --> 00:34:01,680 is compliments of what is it? The off topic show? 603 00:34:01,799 --> 00:34:03,960 They got this clip and I just want to play this. 604 00:34:04,119 --> 00:34:05,440 I'm not sure if you can hear this, but I'm 605 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:11,280 going to play it back. Some leftist walks up to 606 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:16,639 you and starts getting into you about Trump. Here's the audio. 607 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:22,239 Your comeback is absolutely awesome. Let's take a listen. 608 00:34:22,039 --> 00:34:25,400 Speaker 2: To this, Harry. 609 00:34:25,559 --> 00:34:28,519 Speaker 4: Do you trust Trump's national security team to keep our 610 00:34:28,559 --> 00:34:30,119 war plans top secret? 611 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 3: Do you trust your mother every night to fix your 612 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,880 hot pockets and make sure your game always turned on? 613 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 1: The hot pocket comeback? Oh my gosh, that was fantastic. 614 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:49,000 The guy is asking you, I think it's a guy. 615 00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:54,880 He is. He's asking you about signal Gate, you know, 616 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:59,599 which is another device of the corporate media pounding on 617 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:04,960 this story. You know, because you had a leftist reporter 618 00:35:05,159 --> 00:35:10,000 who mistakenly gets on this call before a very important 619 00:35:10,079 --> 00:35:10,960 military mission. 620 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,119 Speaker 3: Now, I know that was a setup. That was a setup, 621 00:35:14,119 --> 00:35:19,159 absolute setup. Yes we might not know, yeah, but I 622 00:35:19,159 --> 00:35:22,000 think we will know. I've been informed that it was 623 00:35:22,039 --> 00:35:25,679 a complete and total setup. But immediately, when this guy 624 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,679 is asking you, you feel safe. You know this what 625 00:35:29,119 --> 00:35:32,360 a BS line of questioning. You know that it's what 626 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,000 he's what he's trying to accomplish. 627 00:35:34,079 --> 00:35:39,119 Speaker 2: Here you say about his mother making him a hot pocket. 628 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 1: Now, if I'm the people behind the hot pocket franchise, 629 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:47,960 I'm running this clip left and right what did you 630 00:35:48,159 --> 00:35:51,320 just bam, just dismiss this guy for what it was. 631 00:35:51,599 --> 00:35:54,599 Speaker 2: But you've seen a lot of this, have you not? Yeah? 632 00:35:54,679 --> 00:35:58,559 Speaker 3: Yeah, that video on just on my Twitter alone, er 633 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,639 E said over. I think it's up to seven million views. 634 00:36:01,679 --> 00:36:04,320 And I don't I don't know the the website where 635 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,480 you got that from, but it's it's going crazy viral 636 00:36:07,559 --> 00:36:09,719 around the count around the world. I was walking to 637 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,239 an airport, UH policeman walking. I thought he was like 638 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,800 my security because I've had a few death threats right 639 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,519 now and he but he wasn't. He just thought he said, 640 00:36:18,639 --> 00:36:21,360 my kids showed me that hot pockets thing, and I 641 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,239 just thought that it was it was a black fellow, 642 00:36:23,639 --> 00:36:25,679 and he was an officer, and it was just a. 643 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:27,360 Speaker 2: Super super nice guy. 644 00:36:27,519 --> 00:36:30,039 Speaker 3: And I've come to learn about his family and we 645 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,519 become friends talk when I see him. But he grabbed 646 00:36:33,519 --> 00:36:36,039 me on that thing, and and he just thought that 647 00:36:36,159 --> 00:36:38,679 was the greatest thing. And I've been you know, I 648 00:36:38,679 --> 00:36:41,400 can't tell you, I've been everywhere. Everywhere I've gone. I 649 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,840 was in I was with my my friend guy Reaesentler, 650 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:50,599 up in UH, let's see where it's at Philadelphia and UH, 651 00:36:50,679 --> 00:36:53,119 and somebody grabbed me in the motel lobby and started 652 00:36:53,159 --> 00:36:54,000 talking to me about it. 653 00:36:54,079 --> 00:36:56,800 Speaker 2: I mean, it's just I can't tell you. But that guy. 654 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:57,719 Let me tell you. That guy. 655 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,679 Speaker 3: Guy is he's he's called a tracker. He paid by 656 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:05,559 the Democrat Party. And what he does, he's a private contractor. 657 00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:10,519 He just submits them videos and then they they you know, 658 00:37:10,559 --> 00:37:14,880 they pay him accordingly. And he I got him one 659 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,079 time I told him something about is I needed welding 660 00:37:17,079 --> 00:37:19,840 noggles because his legs were so white. And then one 661 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:21,960 time he asked me if I thought it was legit 662 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,800 but president doing something, and I said, I don't think 663 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,960 it's legitimate that you wear black suns with short pants 664 00:37:28,039 --> 00:37:28,440 or something. 665 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:28,880 Speaker 2: I don't know. 666 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,880 Speaker 3: And that one got about three or four million views. 667 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,119 But this one, it was crazy, you know, because I 668 00:37:33,199 --> 00:37:36,360 had it. I had a guy, a guy sent it 669 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,159 to me who was I said, did you get that? 670 00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,320 And he goes, yeah, I got it, and I said, 671 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,440 we'll send that to me, and so he did. 672 00:37:42,679 --> 00:37:43,480 Speaker 2: And I held on. 673 00:37:43,519 --> 00:37:45,920 Speaker 3: To it for a day or so or a couple 674 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:47,639 of days, and I didn't I didn't put it out. 675 00:37:47,639 --> 00:37:49,239 Speaker 2: I didn't think much of it. You know, you just 676 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:49,639 never know. 677 00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:51,119 Speaker 3: And I thought, well, I was a little bit harsh 678 00:37:51,199 --> 00:37:53,559 to that guy, and then I thought, what the heck 679 00:37:53,599 --> 00:37:54,440 can I put it out? 680 00:37:54,559 --> 00:37:57,199 Speaker 2: And then you know, and then I'm glad. 681 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,559 Speaker 1: I'm glad you did to the entertainment of so many people. 682 00:38:00,559 --> 00:38:03,039 But do you have do you have any concerns, any 683 00:38:03,079 --> 00:38:06,559 misgivings that this poor young fellas sitting there in his 684 00:38:06,559 --> 00:38:11,400 mom's basement getting ready for his dungeons and dragon camp, 685 00:38:11,679 --> 00:38:15,440 coming out and eating eating a fresh hot pocket and 686 00:38:15,599 --> 00:38:18,719 just saying, you know, boy, that representative temper. 687 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:19,960 Speaker 2: It sure was mean to me. 688 00:38:20,559 --> 00:38:23,079 Speaker 3: Yeah, I always think, is that is that backpack as 689 00:38:23,119 --> 00:38:24,840 he got a satchel charge in it? Is he going 690 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:26,760 to put a forty five out and put a bullet 691 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:28,800 in my head? Because it is Washington, they see the 692 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,000 only people that carry guns up there in the criminals 693 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,280 and the police, right and and so at all and 694 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,559 all in all seriousness, you're right, Yeah, Well, I mean 695 00:38:36,559 --> 00:38:38,920 I have one lady with purple hair who comes out 696 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,119 and just hollers at me all the time about uh, 697 00:38:42,679 --> 00:38:47,639 supporting Israel and the peace, letting Hamas and all this stuff. 698 00:38:47,679 --> 00:38:51,280 And I always try a reminder that Jesus was a Jew, 699 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,679 and she always says, oh, that's different, and I say, no, 700 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:54,199 it isn't. 701 00:38:54,559 --> 00:38:56,639 Speaker 2: But you know, I got a bunch of them. They 702 00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:58,800 just they they're paid to hate on me. 703 00:38:59,039 --> 00:39:03,400 Speaker 3: And it's it's day to day cavenge because as somebody 704 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,039 even accused me of setting that up that was some 705 00:39:06,159 --> 00:39:09,639 Republican operative and then you know, I had a it 706 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,440 was that script and all this right now, it's just 707 00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:14,519 I had to say it is from the heart. 708 00:39:15,079 --> 00:39:18,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, I put it out. It's everybody. 709 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,960 Speaker 3: It's amazing though, it is amazing how much that has gotten, 710 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,760 how many views that's gotten, and. 711 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:26,719 Speaker 2: The people that talk about it. 712 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,239 Speaker 3: My wife is telling me people send it to her 713 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:30,559 from all over the country. 714 00:39:31,039 --> 00:39:32,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're right. 715 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,599 Speaker 1: I mean there's there's that, and you know it's it's 716 00:39:35,599 --> 00:39:39,480 a hilarious exchange, but there is the seriousness. I mean, 717 00:39:39,519 --> 00:39:43,559 you've you've been the victim of squatting, you have as 718 00:39:43,559 --> 00:39:46,400 you mentioned, death threats. I mean, this is what's happening. 719 00:39:46,639 --> 00:39:49,159 And think about what's going on with President Trump and 720 00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:53,880 Vice President Vance and you know, in cabinet members, we 721 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:57,760 are the poll out showing that fifty five percent of 722 00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,320 people who lean left say there are some instances where 723 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,760 it's okay to to assassinate the President of the United 724 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:10,320 States if his name is Donald Trump to Elon Musk, yeah, 725 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,920 let me let me tell you about my my swatting incident, 726 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:13,800 if that's okay. 727 00:40:14,199 --> 00:40:18,440 Speaker 3: I had a I had a uh that was on 728 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,880 a Monday morning and I was going to the airport. 729 00:40:22,159 --> 00:40:24,760 Speaker 2: I was with my wife. She was we're down to 730 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:25,599 two vehicles. 731 00:40:25,639 --> 00:40:28,480 Speaker 3: Now I'm not one of the more wealthier members of Congress, 732 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,920 but uh. And and that that vehicles transmissions about to 733 00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:36,000 go out. Anybody's listening from Chevrolet as you're like to 734 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,079 talk to you about your tehooe transmissions. But anyway, so 735 00:40:39,159 --> 00:40:42,559 I'm but I'm not better. But anyways, I'm driving and 736 00:40:42,599 --> 00:40:45,119 I'm going up the hill. I remember, and I get 737 00:40:45,159 --> 00:40:49,679 this calling, this law enforcement. I say hello, he's a congresson. 738 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:51,639 I said where are you And I told him and 739 00:40:51,679 --> 00:40:54,360 they said, well good. I said, why is good? He said, well, 740 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:58,119 we got a call that you're that there's a pipe 741 00:40:58,119 --> 00:41:03,519 bomb in your mailbox. And I said, oh, man, I said, 742 00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:05,719 I said, I need to turn a car ring And no, 743 00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:07,760 we don't want you to. You stay where you're at 744 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:09,960 and said the fbis on the way. We're going to 745 00:41:10,039 --> 00:41:12,840 be there and I said, and I said, okay, I said, 746 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,519 well man, and so I had a family member that 747 00:41:16,599 --> 00:41:18,480 was here, and that bothered me if they were going 748 00:41:18,639 --> 00:41:22,199 to get the mail, but that could have been awful. 749 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:24,760 And I said, and they said, well, they're on top 750 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,400 of it. I said, but here's the problem. So we 751 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:32,239 got the call through another agency. They got it on Friday, 752 00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:36,880 and it went to spam and I was like, what, wow. 753 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:38,639 Speaker 2: And so. 754 00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,679 Speaker 3: We don't most the mail we gets jump mail, so 755 00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:45,679 it's we don't. 756 00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:46,960 Speaker 2: We don't check it every day. 757 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,920 Speaker 3: I guess we should, but you know, we get the 758 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,800 packages like everybody else does. That's how we we uh 759 00:41:54,119 --> 00:41:55,159 attend the commerce. 760 00:41:55,559 --> 00:41:59,159 Speaker 2: So I was really getting disgusted over it. 761 00:41:59,199 --> 00:42:01,920 Speaker 3: And it was just just a comedy of errors from 762 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,000 there on, and an FBI finally showed up. 763 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,119 Speaker 2: They show up pretty quick. Actually, they bought the street off. 764 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,960 Speaker 3: And and and did what they had to do. I 765 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,920 watched it on video actually, and uh, and so it 766 00:42:14,559 --> 00:42:20,000 but that that's serious. That is serious, And yet the 767 00:42:20,119 --> 00:42:22,119 FBI has not figured out who's doing that. 768 00:42:22,679 --> 00:42:25,559 Speaker 2: And that bothers me a lot. That bothers me a lot. 769 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:27,840 I can understand, you know. 770 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:32,280 Speaker 3: And I got family, I got I spent I don't know, 771 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:36,760 fifty or sixty thousand dollars just on security for our 772 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:42,440 farm alone, just for you know, parameter motion detectors filming. 773 00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,920 Speaker 2: I mean, it's more stuff than my wife. 774 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,360 Speaker 3: Every time I tell home, there's something new and she's 775 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,360 showing me some new detection we've gotten. 776 00:42:51,679 --> 00:42:52,800 Speaker 2: But it's it's serious. 777 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,039 Speaker 3: It's not it's not even the way it was when 778 00:42:55,039 --> 00:42:56,239 I first got to Congress. 779 00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:58,800 Speaker 2: It is just it's it's it's and. 780 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,760 Speaker 3: Martin Taylor Green, I guess she leads Congress with the 781 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,320 number of death. 782 00:43:04,159 --> 00:43:04,599 Speaker 2: Threats, you know. 783 00:43:04,639 --> 00:43:08,239 Speaker 3: And then the cop got somebody got killed that was 784 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,000 rushing to her house, and uh. 785 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,119 Speaker 2: And you know, and the way they they do. 786 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,360 Speaker 3: The first time I was swatted, they said that they 787 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:21,840 send an email out to the police and other people 788 00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:25,719 and said, hey, I'm having an affair with somebody and 789 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:29,519 I've shot and killed their husband. I've got the wife, 790 00:43:30,039 --> 00:43:33,360 you know, tied up here in the house, and you know, 791 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,079 and then and so the police get that and then 792 00:43:36,119 --> 00:43:39,360 they come rushing in. You know, Thank goodness, I've got 793 00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:44,039 you know, I wasn't the one time. This is crazy. 794 00:43:44,079 --> 00:43:46,239 This is the one time. My wife and daughter. Now 795 00:43:47,079 --> 00:43:50,679 we're ALKI at a nice sit down dinner. We usually 796 00:43:50,679 --> 00:43:52,519 go down here to the Mexan, which I love, is 797 00:43:52,519 --> 00:43:55,440 our Mexican restaurant. It's attached to an Exon, so I 798 00:43:55,480 --> 00:44:03,719 called it the Mexon. But the enchiladas are four days. 799 00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, but so is the and so is the window wash. 800 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,880 Yeah yeah, it's it's good too, but the I was. 801 00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:15,079 Speaker 3: I met Jeff Bezos at the inauguration and he thought 802 00:44:15,119 --> 00:44:17,119 I was just an old country bumk until I showed him, 803 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,079 you know, I am a car hard on because it's 804 00:44:19,119 --> 00:44:20,679 cold up there, and I pulled it back and showed 805 00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:22,639 him my pen and told I was convers says, Okay. 806 00:44:22,639 --> 00:44:23,440 Speaker 2: We talked fortt a. 807 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,559 Speaker 3: While and I invited him to Knoxville and I said, 808 00:44:26,599 --> 00:44:27,519 but bring a check. 809 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:28,320 Speaker 2: Book, and he said, why is that? 810 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,679 Speaker 3: I said, because to Mexican they went up seven dollars 811 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:31,880 under margaritas. 812 00:44:32,079 --> 00:44:34,079 Speaker 2: Oh. He thought that's the funnies step kind of thing. 813 00:44:35,199 --> 00:44:37,800 Speaker 3: But anyway, uh, you know what they're trying to do 814 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:39,679 is get somebody killed, because you're going to have a 815 00:44:39,679 --> 00:44:42,760 police officer he doesn't recognize that that's Tim Merchant's address, 816 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,880 and they're going to come in here and and I'm 817 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,440 and and somebody starts knocking down my dad come door, 818 00:44:49,039 --> 00:44:52,199 and it's it's not going to end pretty. I'm a 819 00:44:52,199 --> 00:44:55,159 big I love the First Amendment, but I carried the 820 00:44:55,199 --> 00:44:56,960 Second Amendment with me at all times. 821 00:44:58,079 --> 00:44:59,559 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm ready. 822 00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,079 Speaker 1: I'm this day and age, and this day and age 823 00:45:02,119 --> 00:45:04,440 you have to and you're right, but that's not the 824 00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,679 First Amendments. That's the commission of a crime, and that's 825 00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:10,039 what's the definitionion of a crime. That's what we're seeing. 826 00:45:10,119 --> 00:45:13,280 We're seeing all of that violence coming in from the left, 827 00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:19,840 you know, the coexist, the tolerance group, but it's it's 828 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,920 only getting worse. But the fight, as you mentioned, is 829 00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,360 so important. You've been extremely generous with your time. I'll 830 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,960 ask you this final question for you. Sure we're near 831 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,760 the first hundred days. You gave us your thoughts on 832 00:45:32,679 --> 00:45:34,840 where we're at so far. Where do you see us 833 00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:36,159 going in the year ahead? 834 00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,719 Speaker 3: America's once want their pieces in thirty minutes or less, 835 00:45:41,079 --> 00:45:43,639 and that's about our attention, Stan, and I'm guilty of 836 00:45:43,639 --> 00:45:47,519 that as well. I'm afraid we're going to start, we're 837 00:45:47,559 --> 00:45:52,760 going to start neutralizing ourselves and not moving ahead if 838 00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,960 we're not careful. Unless that can change if the American 839 00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:02,400 public starts holding us accountable. We have presentatives. They go 840 00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:04,880 home and they throw out the red meat, and they 841 00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,519 talk about all this stuff, and then they don't do 842 00:46:08,559 --> 00:46:11,280 a dad dumn thing about it. They don't propose legislation, 843 00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:14,000 they don't fight to get their legislation for the committee, 844 00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:19,440 and then they they basically water stuff down at the 845 00:46:19,519 --> 00:46:24,639 request of lobbyist or staffers. And you mean I'm fighting 846 00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,679 fighting them, like on the bill like my Taliban bill, 847 00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:31,440 of course, and then the bill on the genetic material. 848 00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,639 Speaker 2: The lobbyists hate that bill and for good reason. 849 00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:41,039 Speaker 3: So if we do not hold our like I said, 850 00:46:41,039 --> 00:46:45,280 we hold Hollywood accountable, and they'll do the right thing occasionally, 851 00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:49,000 but if we do not hold Washington accountable, it will not. 852 00:46:49,079 --> 00:46:49,840 Speaker 2: Do the right thing. 853 00:46:50,119 --> 00:46:51,800 Speaker 3: And it is a day to day it's not a 854 00:46:52,599 --> 00:46:56,880 every two years check up. Because of selection time you 855 00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,400 start get your kids or your grandkids show you how 856 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:02,280 to use that that them computer, and start start watching 857 00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,480 the votes and start asking questions about that legislation. 858 00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:06,599 Speaker 2: Yeah. 859 00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:08,480 Speaker 1: Well, at the end of the day, it's the republic 860 00:47:08,519 --> 00:47:11,840 that's at stake, and it truly is. That's not an overstatement, 861 00:47:12,559 --> 00:47:15,159 by the way, how are the hot pockets at the Mexan. 862 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,559 Speaker 2: You know what, I'm honestly never eaten a hot pocket. 863 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,480 Speaker 3: And I posted on my ex account a buddy of mine, 864 00:47:22,599 --> 00:47:24,840 Kim Eisenberg, she's a realtor here in town. I was 865 00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:31,000 speaking at the Women's the Republican Women's Club at buddy's 866 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,159 banquet hall yesterday and she's Jewish and she brought me 867 00:47:34,199 --> 00:47:36,039 a hot pockets thing and said, you know how hard 868 00:47:36,079 --> 00:47:38,239 it was fine to find a hot pocket that didn't 869 00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,800 have pork in it. And I was like, And so 870 00:47:41,199 --> 00:47:43,360 there's a picture of me on my ex account at 871 00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:48,000 Tim Burchett posing with me and her. And we both 872 00:47:48,039 --> 00:47:50,079 grew up in the West Deals together. We on the 873 00:47:50,079 --> 00:47:52,079 tough street to West Deals, as I like to say, 874 00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:56,079 in the western Ooxville. And she's a lifelong friend. But 875 00:47:56,159 --> 00:47:58,000 she brought me that and we post for a picture. 876 00:47:58,039 --> 00:47:59,719 I thought, that's the funniest eat of them thing, because 877 00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:04,480 I've never pocket. I know the good folks. 878 00:48:04,679 --> 00:48:07,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I know the good folks at the makers 879 00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:11,199 of hot pocket. They pride themselves on kosher products of course. 880 00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:12,079 Speaker 2: Yeah. 881 00:48:13,039 --> 00:48:15,599 Speaker 1: Well, as I said, we had much to talk about, 882 00:48:15,639 --> 00:48:18,519 and I think we got most of it done. I 883 00:48:18,559 --> 00:48:20,920 want to wish you the very best moving forward in 884 00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:22,679 the work that you're doing, and I want to wish 885 00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:26,360 you God's protection as you do it. This is these 886 00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,280 are difficult times, no doubt about it. Thanks to my 887 00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:33,639 guest today, Representative Tim Burchett, Republican representing the Great State 888 00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:37,519 of Tennessee's second Congressional District, you've been listening to another 889 00:48:37,639 --> 00:48:40,679 edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, Senior 890 00:48:40,679 --> 00:48:44,199 Elections correspondent at the Federalist. We'll be back soon with more. 891 00:48:44,599 --> 00:48:48,440 Until then, stay lovers of freedom and anxious for the frame. 892 00:48:55,199 --> 00:48:57,440 Speaker 2: Earn the fameboys reason. 893 00:49:00,199 --> 00:49:01,800 Speaker 3: And then it faded away. 894 00:49:06,039 --> 00:49:06,079 Speaker 4: M