Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna be a little salty for reasons. Reasons.
Speaker 2: I'm sure some of you, if you have listened to
Speaker 2: the show for any length of time, probably realize I'm
Speaker 2: a really really pouring my efforts into Bundesliga. Now, Oh,
Speaker 2: son of a oh, I hate our system sometimes, come on,
Speaker 2: there we go every single day. Man, all right, I
Speaker 2: have I have a confession to make. I have, for
Speaker 2: as long as I can remember, taking an active interest
Speaker 2: in football. And I thought I knew about it because
Speaker 2: I did play some football.
Speaker 1: In high school too, And I get I don't know.
Speaker 2: What a throw looks like. I guess apparently I have
Speaker 2: no idea. And if any of you watch the game
Speaker 2: last night, the Vikings getting that touchdown, the defensive touchdown
Speaker 2: in the second quarter call back over what apparently was
Speaker 2: mysteriously a throw, I don't know if that would have
Speaker 2: changed it, but it definitely would have been a momentum thing.
Speaker 2: But then I started. You go as a fan into
Speaker 2: your dark place, man, like it's something clicked yesterday. And
Speaker 2: if you're one of those who's a little conspiratorial thinks.
Speaker 1: Maybe the NFL might want.
Speaker 2: To exert control over a you know, their biggest moneymaker
Speaker 2: of the year. Those thoughts creep into your head. Who
Speaker 2: did we put ross? Do you know who we played
Speaker 2: last night? You know which team we played last night?
Speaker 2: The Vikings? You played the Rams of the ram Okay,
Speaker 2: where are.
Speaker 3: The Rams out of I believe it's a Californa you oh,
Speaker 3: but northern California or I know, southern southern San Diego.
Speaker 1: No, San Diego, San Diego.
Speaker 3: Further further south, I believe, yeah, further Mexico. No, no, nope,
Speaker 3: somewhere in the middle. There's sort of oh.
Speaker 1: South of north, north of Sandy, I got you, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's l a.
Speaker 2: Oh, I see, I see Okay. Where were the Saints
Speaker 2: from the year the Year of Katrina?
Speaker 3: I believe that's the New Orleans Saints?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, knowledge who Dad? Where that?
Speaker 3: Where dad at? That is south of bon tomp Okay?
Speaker 1: All right, all right? Who nine to eleven? Nine to eleven?
Speaker 1: Right now? Who won the Super Bowl right after nine eleven?
Speaker 1: Do we know.
Speaker 3: That was the Patriots? Right?
Speaker 1: Oh? Wow, that's strange.
Speaker 2: Where were what city had two of their flights connected
Speaker 2: to it that we're used on nine to eleven?
Speaker 3: Do you uh?
Speaker 1: Oh? What city. Was that to Massachusetts somewhere. I'm not saying,
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering.
Speaker 3: Listen, man, football is stupid.
Speaker 1: Just ah, But is it rigged? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: Now we lost the Rams during the regular season whatever,
Speaker 2: but now obviously things have changed. The game was played
Speaker 2: in Phoenix, although when I say Phoenix, people get mad,
Speaker 2: they go Glendale. Glendale's just it's a suburb of Phoenix.
Speaker 2: So do you know the name of the stadium in
Speaker 2: Phoenix that they play in? State Farm Insurance Stadium. So
Speaker 2: that's there's a little bit of irony there, just with
Speaker 2: what's going on. But and La is the number two
Speaker 2: media markets. Oh thrower still out there?
Speaker 1: AnyWho? There we go. I don't know, one and done
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't know what we do with that. Man,
Speaker 1: very very depressing there.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, this seating makes no sense because I
Speaker 3: was checking it out last night and I'm like, I
Speaker 3: don't understand that you guys were seated lower than the Rams, right,
Speaker 3: weren't you like the fifth seed or something and they
Speaker 3: were the fourth?
Speaker 1: Well, we didn't win our division. It's so dumb, though
Speaker 1: we were a wildcard.
Speaker 3: It's just so dumb.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, I don't disagree. And then there's
Speaker 2: actually been worse. There was a fifteen team, a fourteen
Speaker 2: win team that had to play a seeded like.
Speaker 1: Five hundred team.
Speaker 2: I mean that's just you know, because you win your division,
Speaker 2: those are the top seeds, and then obviously the wildcart
Speaker 2: comes in there. I don't have an objection to playing
Speaker 2: the Rams. It just I bet they do really good
Speaker 2: next week.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: If my theory holds it, I don't know, maybe not,
Speaker 2: maybe this want to give him an extra week, but
Speaker 2: it's frustrated. And then we scored nine points in our
Speaker 2: last two games, although arguably that touched it. We got
Speaker 2: robbed on that touchdown. I set ross the video so
Speaker 2: you watch the videos.
Speaker 1: I look like a throw to you.
Speaker 3: No, no, it does not look like any incomplete pass
Speaker 3: if anything. I mean, it looks like a fumble. Looks
Speaker 3: like if you could maybe argue for intentional grounding, but
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 1: And I was willing to entertain that. But if you
Speaker 1: look at it slow his it looks.
Speaker 2: Like the ball is moving in his hands, So I
Speaker 2: think him extending his arm is about trying to regain
Speaker 2: control of that ball.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: And I don't even blame Stafford for you know, the
Speaker 2: whole theater part of it, where's like always throwing, Like
Speaker 2: I understand the players are going to do it, but
Speaker 2: it's not up to the players.
Speaker 1: It's up to the referees.
Speaker 2: And you had the two Manning brothers and UNC head
Speaker 2: coach Bill Belichick. If you watched their version of it,
Speaker 2: the Manning cast like they don't think it's a and
Speaker 2: I would argue that the Mannings might be experts on this.
Speaker 2: Belichick doesn't either. But you know, let's let's let's go
Speaker 2: with the two guys who threw the ball their entire
Speaker 2: lives and they're like, what is going on?
Speaker 1: Man? So all right? Said to get that that off
Speaker 1: the chest. It's all rigged. And if LA wins the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl this year, I wouldn't be surprised or the
Speaker 1: very least my Now.
Speaker 2: I will say this, there is there is a slight
Speaker 2: moment of relief on one issue, and that's our issue.
Speaker 1: Ross Like I now, that's not going to come to
Speaker 1: pass this year. Like we we mentioned this on the show,
Speaker 1: there was a real nightmare scenario if the Vikings bills
Speaker 1: are in a super Bowl about you hate that, but
Speaker 1: at least the one team who hadn't won would urge.
Speaker 1: Would have been the upside there.
Speaker 2: But now, all right, I am. I'm gonna be magnanimous.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be like a somebody pulling out of the primaries.
Speaker 2: I'm backing you guys. Okay, unless you don't want me
Speaker 2: to because you think I'm cursed, And then.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. I I mean, I didn't feel good
Speaker 3: about this past week. I will keup on Sunday the
Speaker 3: game you're ill mood. I woke up and Mark, he's like,
Speaker 3: what's wrong. I'm like, we're losing today, but thank god
Speaker 3: you were the first game, Yeah, one o'clock game. And
Speaker 3: then so as soon as they won, people are like, oh,
Speaker 3: you have to be so excited. I'm like, the Ravens
Speaker 3: are gonna kill us.
Speaker 1: No, he's just stressing for next week.
Speaker 2: And you know, and that's the other thing too, if
Speaker 2: you want to, you want to kind of look at
Speaker 2: this stuff.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: That's not to say that both the Bills and Ravens
Speaker 2: didn't earn a spot in the playoffs. I want to
Speaker 2: be a montently clear here, but do you understand how
Speaker 2: excite did probably sexually. The NFL head offices that the
Speaker 2: Ravens and Alan basically, yeah, these two quarterbacks have to
Speaker 2: face each other.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be an amazing game. Marky's like, you know,
Speaker 3: why are you so? You know, She's like, you're manifesting
Speaker 3: this negativity with your two Wait hold on, man, what
Speaker 3: a big It's a big thing now. Manifesting, Well, there's
Speaker 3: two types.
Speaker 2: There's legitimate, like manifesting is a legitimate thing and it's
Speaker 2: about instilling spirits, you know, and I'm Catholic and all
Speaker 2: of that. And then there's the weird TikTok girls. You're like,
Speaker 2: you can manifest money. So your wife's talking about the
Speaker 2: normal one, I hope.
Speaker 3: Well, like law of attraction type stuff, which is fine.
Speaker 3: That's yes. This goes back to like Oprah and the
Speaker 3: Secret like decades ago and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: Manifestation though, is like a big thing now, like like
Speaker 3: you said, the zoomer is on TikTok and stuff where
Speaker 3: they think it's a genie, where it's gonna sit around.
Speaker 2: There's are different Yeah, I need a new Porsche. Let's
Speaker 2: manifest a Porsche.
Speaker 3: Why are you so negative, and I'm like, I've been
Speaker 3: following this team since nineteen eighty five, right for me
Speaker 3: to be negative of The Bills were up twenty one
Speaker 3: to seven in the fourth quarter the other day against
Speaker 3: the Broncos, and I'm sitting there at home and I'm like,
Speaker 3: we're gonna lose. We're gonna lose. So and people are like,
Speaker 3: why are you saying that. I'm like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: because there's a history of them blow, you know, losing
Speaker 3: games they should win in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just a history there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: they are now.
Speaker 3: You know, Derreck Henry's coming in the the MVP for
Speaker 3: the Rams or for the for the Ravens. Yeah, he's
Speaker 3: the big he's there, big MVP player.
Speaker 2: Did you see him push that Steelers player in the
Speaker 2: helmet and he and the guy went flying Like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: He's amazing. He's a take. You ever see his numbers
Speaker 3: out of like high school in college? Just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: No, I've seen that video.
Speaker 2: There's a video that was going around of him in
Speaker 2: a high school game and it looks like he looks
Speaker 2: now and then the kids all look like freshmen, right,
Speaker 2: and he's just he's doing whatever he wants.
Speaker 1: He's not even he's running, but then he's just kind
Speaker 1: of like.
Speaker 3: Look, get these numbers. It's like, yo, these aren't the
Speaker 3: actual but it's like, you know, Dereck Henry ran for
Speaker 3: twenty thousand ours is freshman year. Yeah, it's just it's.
Speaker 1: Crazy, man, absolutely nuts.
Speaker 2: All Right, Well, like I'm not gonna make the whole
Speaker 2: show about this, but I will wine from time to time.
Speaker 2: You've been warned coming up on the show. A couple
Speaker 2: things going on today. Well, on the show, we have
Speaker 2: Senator Ted Budd joining us. That'll be at eighth five,
Speaker 2: and definitely got to talk about this insanity with the
Speaker 2: hotel rooms and FEMA and basically kicking people out at
Speaker 2: the hundred and seven day mark. While the President of
Speaker 2: the United States is saying one hundred and eighty days,
Speaker 2: California gets a hundred.
Speaker 1: In fact, Ross we put that cut back up.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna need that for Ted, Yeah, spare no expense,
Speaker 2: and in that literally says covering all temporary housing for
Speaker 2: one hundred eighty days while in North Carolina in a snowstorm,
Speaker 2: FEMA was like you're out, you done, and it you
Speaker 2: literally you had you had Governor Stein, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: I will give him credit here it appeared that he
Speaker 2: was very involved in attempting to make this happen. Arguably
Speaker 2: though it's Stein's own party doing this, and so uh
Speaker 2: and then Senator bud Uh, couple congressmen, uh, some local
Speaker 2: you know, some local politicians here in North Carolina having
Speaker 2: to use all of their rolodexes to extend for a
Speaker 2: few days until the FEMA office could be opened so
Speaker 2: people didn't get thrown out in the middle of the weekend.
Speaker 2: Sheer insanity. And I'm telling you, this is burnt down week. Okay,
Speaker 2: this is burn it down week?
Speaker 1: What do I mean by that?
Speaker 2: This is you thought some of these things they're doing
Speaker 2: here at the end, he just did more student loan
Speaker 2: forgiveness yesterday. They're throwing everything. They put the jack Smith
Speaker 2: report out yesterday, and already Blue Sky and those lunatics
Speaker 2: over there have decided that everything in there, including what
Speaker 2: is largely an opinion, the whole thing is basically an opinion.
Speaker 1: You don't know. And when you're talking about something that
Speaker 1: is within.
Speaker 2: Our judiciary, we require that it be adjudicated under the
Speaker 2: rules right and in abiding with the Constitution to assume
Speaker 2: somebody's guilt, Like, that's why I have to throw the
Speaker 2: word alleged in when somebody is alleged to do it
Speaker 2: and say things like if it's true and they're convicted.
Speaker 1: Straight to the wood chipper.
Speaker 2: Because I even I recognize that you have to do that,
Speaker 2: and me having an opinion as a guy on the
Speaker 2: radio is not a jury of my peers or a
Speaker 2: judge ruling on something within abiding by the constitutional rules.
Speaker 2: And so they put they put there, So I'm curious
Speaker 2: his opinion on that as well.
Speaker 1: So, but yeah, this is there's gonna be a crazy week.
Speaker 2: I am convinced now that this reports out that and
Speaker 2: Jack Smith resigned, I am convinced that Biden is going
Speaker 2: to issue those pardons and Jack Smith will be one
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 1: I am one hundred percent convinced.
Speaker 2: And I hope I'm wrong, but I think they're coming,
Speaker 2: and I don't not just for him, probably I don't
Speaker 2: know if it'll be Michael Cohen, but probably Cheney, probably
Speaker 2: the now soon to be senator probably from California, Adam
Speaker 2: Schiff or is he senator now I can't remember.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is right, he's the Yes, he is, Like
Speaker 1: what are we doing here.
Speaker 2: That's I think that's coming down the pipe here in
Speaker 2: the last days, and I wonder if Biden will even
Speaker 2: though he did.
Speaker 1: It all right, uh so uh.
Speaker 2: In addition to that, we do we do have we
Speaker 2: have some fire updates out in California. Joe Biden gave
Speaker 2: his kind of farewell press or speech thing yesterday.
Speaker 1: He's got one more, I think, But.
Speaker 2: He said something so insane in it though, like don't
Speaker 2: I don't know if he injected it in there, because
Speaker 2: I can't believe a competent person who likely wrote that
Speaker 2: would include it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense to me. I'll play that
Speaker 1: audio before you coming up, just just you know, we'd
Speaker 1: be all over the place. That's how we'll do it today. Anyway,
Speaker 1: It is a six twenty one hang.
Speaker 2: On, you want to talk about any of these stories
Speaker 2: we got we're getting into and this is one of
Speaker 2: the other things we're going to talk to as Ted
Speaker 2: Buda about Senator bud. Here we go with the confirmation
Speaker 2: hearings and judging by Chuck Schumer basically taking to the
Speaker 2: well of the Senate and talking about how Pete Hegseth
Speaker 2: is literally satan. Today you should be interesting because he's up.
Speaker 2: He's up first, there's Tulsia for well, anyway, he's up today,
Speaker 2: and you know there this is this is I think
Speaker 2: haig Seth and to some extent, Kash Patel, but I
Speaker 2: think heg Seth more. So, you know, they always they
Speaker 2: have to go. This is the this is the politics
Speaker 2: of it. Even though the Republicans did they did they
Speaker 2: get any of Biden's cabinets? Uh appoint hees kicked? I
Speaker 2: can't remember they did with Obama and I can't remember
Speaker 2: what the one with Obama. They were an absolute lunatic,
Speaker 2: but I don't remember the reason for it. But it's like,
Speaker 2: this is how, this is scalps.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is what this is. This is the this
Speaker 1: is scalps. That's what they're looking for.
Speaker 2: And so Schumer's on there and they've identified that heg
Speaker 2: Seth is prop because you want to you want the
Speaker 2: easiest path, you think, but you also want the biggest buck.
Speaker 1: So to speak, or the you know, the biggest kill.
Speaker 2: This is his head's on a wall for them, and
Speaker 2: the Secretary of Defense is a pretty pretty big thing here.
Speaker 2: What was Russ You were telling me something? The Iran thing,
Speaker 2: I hadn't heard that. Where did you hear that? Or
Speaker 2: where'd you read that?
Speaker 1: Do you remember? Uh?
Speaker 3: You know, what's his name, John Halpernan?
Speaker 1: He was that's right, Yeah, this is insane. Listen to this.
Speaker 3: He was doing an interview. I can't remember who it was,
Speaker 3: but it was some of you blue check interview, So
Speaker 3: I mean he was he was talking and remember Alpernan
Speaker 3: was the guy that was dropping all of the correct
Speaker 3: election information correct yes, before the vote tallies and stuff.
Speaker 3: He was saying he heard from his person that the
Speaker 3: Biden administration was planning on doing a military strike and
Speaker 3: Iran's nuclear basis, like nuclear.
Speaker 1: Facilities, starting World War three.
Speaker 3: This is what they wanted to do before they left,
Speaker 3: but apparently they were talked out of it by the
Speaker 3: incoming Trump administration.
Speaker 1: And thank god for that.
Speaker 2: Actually, look, I don't get wrong, I you know, we
Speaker 2: the way that we've attacked Iran's stuff, I clearly Israel
Speaker 2: in the US came up with that worm, remember the
Speaker 2: worm that basically took everything offline for like a year
Speaker 2: and a half.
Speaker 1: That was probably on us and good for us.
Speaker 2: And uh oh in the sticky bombs where Masad literally
Speaker 2: like they're in Iran and they're on motorcycles. And if
Speaker 2: there's a vehicle transporting one of these the nuke scientists there,
Speaker 2: they ride alongside and stick a bomb to the vehicle
Speaker 2: and kill them. They've they've done it several times. But
Speaker 2: you literally and also how does that work when you're
Speaker 2: hitting a nuclear facility? Like what is you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying? Does that turn it into Chernobyl? I'm not
Speaker 2: a nuclear see would you check and see if I'm
Speaker 2: a nuclear scientist? R US is going to look into
Speaker 2: that real quick. So I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: How this works.
Speaker 3: You let me check on that.
Speaker 1: No, you're not.
Speaker 2: I am not okay, And I don't know is there
Speaker 2: a nuclear scientists listening? How would that work? Because I mean,
Speaker 2: do you hit it with a nuke? Do you hit
Speaker 2: it with the moab or whatever? That thing is the
Speaker 2: mother of all bombs? Do you have to get those
Speaker 2: bunker busters? Because it's kind of built into a mountain.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that looks like. And I and
Speaker 2: then after you hit it, is there radiation issues? Does
Speaker 2: it get in the wind, does it impact I don't
Speaker 2: know China and points eastward? I don't even know the
Speaker 2: main direct because they got those mountains right there, So
Speaker 2: I don't even know what the windflow is out of there.
Speaker 1: Usually I don't.
Speaker 2: Know, but it sounds it sounds like a horrible idea.
Speaker 2: That don't get me wrong. If there's anyone who needs
Speaker 2: their butt handed to them, it's Iran, right, as it
Speaker 2: pertains to a lot of the current conflicts, because they
Speaker 2: generally sit back. Sometimes they involved, but they've mostly fund
Speaker 2: this stuff, right, all of these you know, the hooties
Speaker 2: down there ye taking pot shots at ships Hezbollah before
Speaker 2: they got their butt handed to them. And like there's
Speaker 2: like sixteen proxies or something that Iran uses in North
Speaker 2: Africa and the Middle East, and I think they even
Speaker 2: have a proxy in Indonesia, right, And Iran funds this
Speaker 2: in the in the same way that we're essentially running
Speaker 2: a proxy war with Russia by feeding all this money
Speaker 2: to uh to Ukraine, and I don't get me wrong,
Speaker 2: using other people who are willing to do it, so
Speaker 2: it doesn't put Americans at risk, not just not necessarily
Speaker 2: just for big stuff, but for little stuff, like I
Speaker 2: understand it. That seems kind of smart to me. We
Speaker 2: got the tech, you got the guys willing to rush
Speaker 2: the beach. Let's do this, but a full scale blow
Speaker 2: it to Smitherings likely a massive escalation. Can you imagine
Speaker 2: handing that off to a dude you're when you're in
Speaker 2: office for the last few days, and I'm glad.
Speaker 1: That they're talking to him. You know that.
Speaker 2: You know that Kamala Harris didn't has has decided not
Speaker 2: to invite jd Vance. Now Trump didn't invite Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: So I'm not going to sit here and defend any
Speaker 2: of it, but I when I saw that, I'm glad
Speaker 2: that at least somebody in the Biden administration is listening
Speaker 2: to the incoming administration on this, right on this, So
Speaker 2: that's that's kind of terrifying.
Speaker 1: Actually, all right, let's turn over. Let me get over
Speaker 1: into some of this stuff.
Speaker 2: There was a report out yesterday and New York Post
Speaker 2: is almost unreadable some days. There was a report yesterday,
Speaker 2: and of course, you know, I blocked so many accounts
Speaker 2: on Twitter. Now it's just crazy, you know why, because
Speaker 2: I want I need to have information that is, I
Speaker 2: still have to check it, but I've wasted so much
Speaker 2: time where people will write something that's clearly not true.
Speaker 2: They have nothing to back it and it gets a
Speaker 2: little juice, or they post screenshot. I understand why people
Speaker 2: post screenshots of articles, because you're getting punished posting links,
Speaker 2: and it's an algorithmic thing. I understand it. But when
Speaker 2: you post a screenshot and you don't include the source
Speaker 2: or the date on it, I just assume it's not true.
Speaker 2: Even if it is, even if I know it to
Speaker 2: be true, I get annoyed.
Speaker 1: So and I like to.
Speaker 2: Use Twitter x whatever as a little bit of a
Speaker 2: show prep tool. I think it's very effective for that.
Speaker 2: So when the ben Affleck story was floating around yesterday,
Speaker 2: it was just wild Man, all right. So ben Affleck
Speaker 2: received a visit from FBI agents. One of the things
Speaker 2: that the FBI is looking into right now is who's
Speaker 2: drone that was that the super Scooper hit. Right Remember,
Speaker 2: one of the one of the dump planes, which is
Speaker 2: very cool by the way, watching that thing work, hit
Speaker 2: a drone and it put a big old hole in
Speaker 2: one of the and part of it and they landed
Speaker 2: it safely. But obviously that's a big deal. So the
Speaker 2: FBI is trying to figure out whose drone it was,
Speaker 2: and so them going to ben afflex house yesterday along
Speaker 2: with LAPD. People just decided that Ben att it must
Speaker 2: have been Ben Affleck drone. And I'm like, what Timeline
Speaker 2: am I living in Don't get me wrong, it's a possibility.
Speaker 2: He's got he's got apposable thumbs, I mean, but no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: there them deciding that must mean Ben Affleck drone was
Speaker 2: the one that got hit was kind of crazy. Now,
Speaker 2: this is the statement from FBI members of the FBI's
Speaker 2: Ground Intercept Task Force or conducting activity in the areas
Speaker 2: of the Palisades Fire relative to unauthorized drone activity. Agents
Speaker 2: in our local partners may be visible through the area,
Speaker 2: including at various residences for this reason.
Speaker 1: And and so here's the thing.
Speaker 2: They weren't at Affleck's house for this because they thought
Speaker 2: he was flying a drone. The reason they're going to
Speaker 2: these celebrities houses or these big these big houses, at
Speaker 2: least the ones still standing, is because they know that
Speaker 2: Ben Affleck probably has fifty thousand cameras on every inch
Speaker 2: of his property. You got that kind of money, and
Speaker 2: you live in LA where you know they they rob
Speaker 2: rich athletes and rappers houses. And we've had a couple
Speaker 2: of high pro actors have had their houses robbed, right,
Speaker 2: do you remember who Joe Burrow? Remember Joe Burrow had
Speaker 2: that smoke show chick just hanging out of his house
Speaker 2: and he's and and he said one of the reasons
Speaker 2: is whenever he's playing, somebody's in his house because they go, oh,
Speaker 2: that guy's on the field right now, I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: rob his house. So they were they're asking for CCTV footage.
Speaker 2: So if you saw that story, that's the official statement
Speaker 2: from FBI. FBI agents were at Affleck's house to see
Speaker 2: if he had CCTV footage of the private drone because
Speaker 2: the area it was right up kind of above his house.
Speaker 2: So let's try to you know, let's let's let's plug
Speaker 2: a little logic in here, shall we, uh before, Like
Speaker 2: I don't don't got beef with Ben Affleck either way,
Speaker 2: but kind of like a lot of movies he's in.
Speaker 2: But man, people were just running with this. You want crazy,
Speaker 2: there's buckets of crazy. You don't need to make stuff up.
Speaker 1: Like, listen to.
Speaker 4: This what they're dealing with here in Altadena. They noted
Speaker 4: here that there are several people that are facing charges
Speaker 4: in connection to looting incidents. That happened out here in Altadena,
Speaker 4: and he noted one in particular that they've people went
Speaker 4: into two different homes and Matt at one point, he says,
Speaker 4: they stole an Emmy award from someone. I mean, is
Speaker 4: this is just so offensive to people here who are
Speaker 4: just literally picking up the mess of their lives.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm not justifying louting. I don't know that
Speaker 2: an Emmy award.
Speaker 5: Is.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be a little classism here, like I'm sure
Speaker 2: the I'm sure the Academy will send you another one.
Speaker 2: I'm also right is there's an Emmy Award winner in
Speaker 2: the Emmy Award winner and Alta Dina too. That was
Speaker 2: interesting to me if you know anything about the different
Speaker 2: neighborhoods in LA. But yeah, so somebody got their Emmy story.
Speaker 3: It sounds sad and it sounds desperate, and it's just
Speaker 3: it's gross to me that you're gonna go in the
Speaker 3: news and ask for them like, oh, I lost my Listen.
Speaker 3: I don't want to make this about me, but when
Speaker 3: I won this award right here that I'm holding the
Speaker 3: best radio personality you want that? Ye?
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you win that?
Speaker 3: This is twenty twenty three now this year was a
Speaker 3: second which is still great. Which which place did you get?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 3: Anywayway, this was the year that I won at twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three when this was stolen for me? Do you
Speaker 3: remember me talking about it? Did I bring it up?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: I did not. I did what anybody would do, Okay.
Speaker 3: I became a creature of the night, okay, And I
Speaker 3: got my vengeance and I found who stole it from
Speaker 3: me legal shadow stuff and put them in a barrel
Speaker 3: and I dumped them in the ocean. And did I
Speaker 3: talk about this?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 3: Did I bring it up on the show?
Speaker 1: Meat?
Speaker 3: I did not because it's incredibly illegal and I don't
Speaker 3: want to face legal repercussions. But the fact is, listen,
Speaker 3: yeah right, I got my vengeance in this life and
Speaker 3: the next I did what any man would do. And
Speaker 3: I didn't make it about me because that's not what
Speaker 3: I do. So for these people to go in the
Speaker 3: news and gravel right like children, it's gross and it's
Speaker 3: the professional is person whoever reported it? Oh they stole Miami,
Speaker 3: find that person, put them in a barrel and throw
Speaker 3: them in the ocean.
Speaker 2: That's what we do, all right, So rosson Team Vigilanti gotcha, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you may have to like, yeah, there's some stuff
Speaker 2: going on there where they are catching some looters, but
Speaker 2: the like the reports.
Speaker 1: Of how widespread it is there, the majority of people
Speaker 1: are going to get away with it.
Speaker 3: It's just so gross. It's gross. Stop making it about yourself, Okay,
Speaker 3: and your award. Nobody cares creature.
Speaker 1: That happened to you.
Speaker 2: Will they will the magazine that you got your award from,
Speaker 2: Will they give you another one?
Speaker 1: No? I did.
Speaker 3: They didn't have to. I found out my own.
Speaker 1: I see, Oh you got because because I'm an adult.
Speaker 1: Oh that's is that? Is that blood on it? What
Speaker 1: is that? Okay? Right, ketchup? I'm sure it's just ketchup.
Speaker 3: You know it is Hollywood, their weaklings.
Speaker 2: Well, look all your all the security cameras in the
Speaker 2: world ain't gonna do nothing for you. When mall the
Speaker 2: powers out and the law enforcement is stretched to the
Speaker 2: point that you don't even see him. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: a looter's paradise. Obviously, these natural disasters. It's why in Florida,
Speaker 2: every time there's a hurricane coming, right, they got they
Speaker 2: got police up until the last minute, banging around wherever
Speaker 2: the hurricane's coming, because in those last few hours, just
Speaker 2: dudes in vans just driving around doing stuff, looting stores, homes, whatever,
Speaker 2: whatever they can get a hold of. And they they
Speaker 2: really are the lowest of the low. So you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm good with what Ross allegedly did.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say alleged. I don't want Tom using
Speaker 1: it against you, but I think.
Speaker 3: People understand I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Now there was some charging going on. We
Speaker 1: got this.
Speaker 7: Fourth incident is an arson incident in which Jose Horado
Speaker 7: Escobar has been charged.
Speaker 5: We have that.
Speaker 1: This is, by the way, I want to point out,
Speaker 1: this is not the dude with the flamethrower who they arrested.
Speaker 1: This is a different dude.
Speaker 2: The dude with the flame thrower still not charged with anything,
Speaker 2: even though he had a flame thrower and was visibly
Speaker 2: lighting fires in front of like six witnesses who then
Speaker 2: apprehended him. This is a different dude that ready.
Speaker 7: This is an incident that occurred in Azusa, where mister
Speaker 7: Escobar has been charged with three different arson charges. He
Speaker 7: is looking at nine years in state prison. This is
Speaker 7: arson that occurred at Pioneer Park in the city of Azusa.
Speaker 7: It was investigated by the Azuza Police Department, who acted
Speaker 7: very effectively and very efficiently in apprehending mister Escobar. Mister
Speaker 7: Escobar as well has been now he's been charged, but
Speaker 7: he has set for arraiment today. So again, with respect
Speaker 7: to all these charges, as I said before, these charges
Speaker 7: are not evident and they are presumed innocent until proving
Speaker 7: guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Speaker 1: You know, and to this guy.
Speaker 2: For this guy, he's just very lucky that all he
Speaker 2: did is in the middle of what may turn out
Speaker 2: to be the most financially devastating wildfire season in California's history.
Speaker 2: He was only starting fires, and he didn't do something
Speaker 2: crazy like.
Speaker 1: Non violently walk through.
Speaker 2: An open door into the US Capitol or he might
Speaker 2: be facing like real time double digits man, But no,
Speaker 2: he's Max Senten's nine years started with three fires, one
Speaker 2: of which, now I didn't start one of the three
Speaker 2: big ones.
Speaker 3: But you need the help, man. Can you imagine if
Speaker 3: he had tried to walk away with electurn or something?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, did he no do we know? Oh?
Speaker 1: Send an oscar sticking out of his pocket? What is that?
Speaker 2: So yeah, so there you go and again the dude
Speaker 2: with the flamethrower. They'll prior release that guy this week.
Speaker 2: The only reason he was being old is for a
Speaker 2: probation violation. And you know California is just going to
Speaker 2: turn him on that.
Speaker 3: You see, Joe Dirt did a post. David Spade posted
Speaker 3: a thing. He's like giving away like five thousand dollars
Speaker 3: to anyone that could turn in like potential arsonists to
Speaker 3: the police. Good because he was talking about, Hey, they
Speaker 3: arrested this guy with a flamethrower and they let him go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he just said, ros, it's just because he
Speaker 2: had a flamethrow and was lighting stuff on fire.
Speaker 1: You don't know that he's an arsonist. Bigot. Ross is
Speaker 1: a bigot. Uh what's this? And I got new guys
Speaker 1: telling me, oh, wow, okay, all right.
Speaker 2: It was an Intel officer back in the seventies, uranium
Speaker 2: production comes to a screeching, effing halt, and he said
Speaker 2: that is an Intel briefing quote. Yeah, it probably does,
Speaker 2: but that's not what I'm asking about. I'm sure we could.
Speaker 2: I'm sure we got a bomb big enough to make
Speaker 2: them stop doing it at that location. But then what
Speaker 2: happens is there radiation fallout. Do we have like a
Speaker 2: new no go to your noble zone. That's what I'm wondering,
Speaker 2: even if you hit it with a traditional weapon instead
Speaker 2: of an atomic weapon. And I don't know the answer
Speaker 2: to that, but no, I'm I'm I'm I'm glad that
Speaker 2: we're not gonna do that this week. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: let's take a break. We'll be right back. I'm doing
Speaker 2: something right now because I just realized I want to
Speaker 2: get the get it up on Twitter as well. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna and and for the if you don't do the Twitter,
Speaker 2: that's fine, you can. You can go to our website
Speaker 2: for this. So we have an event or I have
Speaker 2: an event ross. You're welcome to come if you want.
Speaker 2: But and this is really cool, so you know, you know,
Speaker 2: I like the bourbon tastings, and thank you to buy
Speaker 2: the way to those of you who came out to
Speaker 2: our events here several months ago, both in Greensboro and Raleigh.
Speaker 1: Good events. Had fun.
Speaker 2: And there's a really really big, high end one of
Speaker 2: these that takes place and it's like a little little
Speaker 2: weekend vacation and it's coming up on the twenty fifth
Speaker 2: and it's in Beaufort, North Carolina, at the Beaufort Hotel.
Speaker 2: And for those of you who've ever been to Beaufort
Speaker 2: or the hotel or that the restaurant they have, the
Speaker 2: thirty thirty four degrees is awesome. And so I'm going
Speaker 2: to be down hosting this event and I'd like you
Speaker 2: to come. And so I'm gonna we'll get to tweeted
Speaker 2: out a link there. You can also go to the website.
Speaker 2: I believe we're giving away a ticket too. You can
Speaker 2: check that out on the website. But I so this
Speaker 2: is going to have like the top dogs from Woodford Reserve,
Speaker 2: Ezra Brooks Wilderness Trail which makes some really good bourbons,
Speaker 2: and Maker's Mark which has a huge collection of really
Speaker 2: great bourbons. And I remember I mentioned the restaurant. It's
Speaker 2: thirty four degrees North is the name of the restaurant.
Speaker 2: The food is amazing. They might have the best and
Speaker 2: I know somebody'd argue they probably at least they have
Speaker 2: the best shrimp and grits I think I've ever tasted,
Speaker 2: because I've eaten there before. So but this whole thing,
Speaker 2: We're talking four course dinner, the whiskey cocktails, the tasting
Speaker 2: everything and there'll be a much of prizes and giveaways.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a big deal.
Speaker 2: But also let's take a little vacation. Come on, this
Speaker 2: snow sucks. I know this weekend coming up, probably gonna
Speaker 2: do this again. This is the weekend after Saturday, January
Speaker 2: twenty fifth.
Speaker 1: And it's it's gonna be at.
Speaker 2: Six and then you know, get a room and come
Speaker 2: hang out, or maybe you know, let's let's let's get
Speaker 2: a Raleigh Greensboro contingent on down to the Beaufort Hotel
Speaker 2: and if you've never been there, If you've never been
Speaker 2: to Beaufort, it's really cool city.
Speaker 1: There are trying to remember the name of the fishing outfit.
Speaker 1: I went out of there. Anyway, A lot of fun with.
Speaker 2: Those guys was years and years ago, so that was
Speaker 2: my first visits. This is like when I first moved
Speaker 2: to North Carolina. It was one of the first cities
Speaker 2: I went out and hung out in and went fishing
Speaker 2: and did some stuff.
Speaker 1: And so I'm super happy that we're going to be
Speaker 1: able to do this.
Speaker 2: So if you're a fan of the Bourbons, of the
Speaker 2: whiskies and really good food, that's it's going to be
Speaker 2: all included. In one ticket, So you want to check
Speaker 2: that out, but book in advance. I'm going to put
Speaker 2: the link out, or you can go to the Beaufort
Speaker 2: Hotel's website or to thirty four degrees North Restaurant dot
Speaker 2: com or just Google and go there. They have it
Speaker 2: on both their pages. And like I said, we have
Speaker 2: information and a giveaway we're doing surrounding that on the
Speaker 2: website Caseyonthradio dot com. You can search it when you
Speaker 2: get on there, or if you let you know. We
Speaker 2: had a little slider thing which keeps loading previews of stuff.
Speaker 2: It's it's in there. I can't remember what it is
Speaker 2: in the rotation, but you'll find it. Just sit on
Speaker 2: there for thirty seconds. But yeah, let's do this thing.
Speaker 2: I am super pumped and I'm so glad that we're
Speaker 2: gonna be getting to do that. And they have a
Speaker 2: special room rate. So if you think, oh, they're gonna
Speaker 2: get me be down there for this event, they got
Speaker 2: a special room rate. I believe it's for under one
Speaker 2: hundred bucks. And this is a really nice hotel. So
Speaker 2: we're really let's pack it up so that we can
Speaker 2: do many, many more of these. But yeah, wantn't you
Speaker 2: take a trip two weekends from now down to the coast.
Speaker 2: You know, may little couples get away, come down just
Speaker 2: to get some great food, something to eat, and you know,
Speaker 2: see what Chef Lopez has for you down there.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very cool.
Speaker 2: I will continue to shamelessly pimp this up until up
Speaker 2: until the event or the Beaufort Hotel tells me that
Speaker 2: all the tickets are sold, so check check that out,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna I'll tweet out the details here when
Speaker 2: I go to go to break. I wanted to fix
Speaker 2: something on it to make sure there was no confusion.
Speaker 2: All right, seven eleven, Good morning. We'll get a few
Speaker 2: other things to get into. A reminder that Senator Ted
Speaker 2: budd is going to be joining us coming up at
Speaker 2: eight oh five, and we got lots to get into.
Speaker 2: We got confirmation hearings today, We've got just you know,
Speaker 2: the general insanity of why we need a US senator,
Speaker 2: a governor, and a congressman to not have North Carolinians
Speaker 2: freeze to death on the same day that the President
Speaker 2: of the United States said this.
Speaker 8: This morning, during to the magnitude of disaster, I was
Speaker 8: talking with the governor. He requested if I could increase
Speaker 8: the federal funding that was authorized under this legislation for
Speaker 8: from seventy five percent to ninety percent. We're increasing it
Speaker 8: to one hundred percent of all the costs to be
Speaker 8: covered by the federal government for both the fire MANAGEMENTSISSUS
Speaker 8: grants and the elements of what they call the disaster declaration.
Speaker 8: So today I'm announcing that the federal government will cover
Speaker 8: one hundred percent of the cost for one and eighty days,
Speaker 8: just going to pay for things like the briand hazard
Speaker 8: material removal, temporary shelters, first responders, salaries, and all necessary
Speaker 8: measures to protect life and property.
Speaker 2: All right, So, and the key thing in there that
Speaker 2: he said was temporary shelters, and that's what we're talking
Speaker 2: about here. And I just this is this is one
Speaker 2: of those stories where I hate how we've gotten as
Speaker 2: a country because this is easy.
Speaker 1: This is easy math. Right.
Speaker 2: You can the day he said that was one hundred
Speaker 2: and I literally ran the math one hundred and seven
Speaker 2: days from Helene when he said that. So North Carolina
Speaker 2: is well within the one hundred and eighty day window,
Speaker 2: and FEMA was was, you know, was was going to
Speaker 2: toss them out. So it's easy math to understand and
Speaker 2: to openly wonder why is it different, and the amount
Speaker 2: of men told gymnastics I watched from people trying to
Speaker 2: justify this difference. Well, that's yes, because the governor didn't
Speaker 2: request it, right, No, he did right. And by the way,
Speaker 2: the governor you're referring to as a Democrat, it's mostly lunatics. Obviously,
Speaker 2: it's not really people in North Carolina. The whole lot
Speaker 2: of people have probably never been to North Carolina who
Speaker 2: you don't think they think they know everything. But it
Speaker 2: shouldn't be this hard. And what I want to hear
Speaker 2: from the Senator today and again he seemingly was kind
Speaker 2: of one of the lynchpins in at least cheating him along,
Speaker 2: is next week. This needs fixed and we need to
Speaker 2: limp out this week right. One of the first if
Speaker 2: Trump needs a list of things to do on his
Speaker 2: first day, and I hope that the Senator and the
Speaker 2: rest of our delegation in North Carolina can can get
Speaker 2: the ear of Trump or his people. One of the
Speaker 2: first things, which I think would be super non controversial
Speaker 2: that he needs to do as an executive order is
Speaker 2: order that FEMA mirror what Biden just gave to California.
Speaker 2: Would that be so controversial? Say, hey, if you're gonna
Speaker 2: do one hundred and eighty days and you're gonna pay
Speaker 2: every cent of it for California, could you give could
Speaker 2: you give North Carolina up, you know Carolinians up to
Speaker 2: that that one hundred and eighty days. And I understand
Speaker 2: that that's not going to fix everybody. You got bigger
Speaker 2: issues with FEMA. They've still not put I think it's
Speaker 2: less than one hundred. It's in like the nineties. Of
Speaker 2: the temporary.
Speaker 1: Houses, the little houses we.
Speaker 2: Were talking about sitting in Hickory, they got less than
Speaker 2: one hundred. Yeah, five thousand families that are in some
Speaker 2: some level of displacement. May not be permanent. They just
Speaker 2: got to get their home fixed. But a lot of
Speaker 2: this stuff is they're not going back to that home.
Speaker 1: It doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 2: This is easy to solve, and I'm so glad we
Speaker 2: have the Senator coming on to talk about this today.
Speaker 2: And now here's my question for you. Oh wait, hold on,
Speaker 2: I did get an email here by somebody I trust
Speaker 2: on the whole should we blow up Iran's nuke facility?
Speaker 2: Let me read this because it actually makes sense, and
Speaker 2: this is somebody who has a lot of experience with
Speaker 2: the nukes, all right, So because I asked, because there
Speaker 2: was a report that one of the things the Biden
Speaker 2: administration was toying with is blowing that Iran nuke facility
Speaker 2: to smithereens, which, don't get me wrong, would feel good
Speaker 2: until you realize that it might just be the kickoff
Speaker 2: to World War three, although it would look a little different.
Speaker 2: It would basically be all of the Middle East versus
Speaker 2: the US and Israel. Maybe not all the Middle East,
Speaker 2: but you know, they have I talked about all these
Speaker 2: proxies they have, they got footholds in all of these places,
Speaker 2: and if they're able to convince people to attack America already.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got bad idea.
Speaker 2: But then I was like, what happens when you blow
Speaker 2: up a nuke facility with a nuke or if you
Speaker 2: just blow it up with traditional explosives, and what does
Speaker 2: that look like?
Speaker 1: Is Chernobyl all over again?
Speaker 2: And he said, short answer, it's deep underground, so low risk.
Speaker 2: You would not have a nuclear yield, just whatever conventional
Speaker 2: explosive material.
Speaker 1: This is terrifying. You have no many you have no idea.
Speaker 2: How many times there have been explosions where nukes are
Speaker 2: present and no yield. Well, there's nukes present, but there's
Speaker 2: also like the uranium and riching process.
Speaker 1: That's what I was more thinking about.
Speaker 2: If there's nukes present, I wonder when they're actually if
Speaker 2: they have one done, then it would be sitting there.
Speaker 1: Probably not.
Speaker 2: However, there is always a risk of radioactive material like
Speaker 2: a big dirty bomb, so you know, basically it would
Speaker 2: probably mostly just screw Iranians. So and this is the
Speaker 2: part that makes sense, and that is I knew this,
Speaker 2: and I forgot to think about it when we had
Speaker 2: when we launch in nuke.
Speaker 1: Where does it explode?
Speaker 3: Where?
Speaker 1: Where?
Speaker 2: Where is the actual detonation. It's not that it's not
Speaker 2: on the ground. They they blow him up at a
Speaker 2: predetermined elevation altitude, so it maximizes what it's able to do.
Speaker 2: So in this case, if it's underground and you're shooting
Speaker 2: stud like a bunker buster that goes in there underground,
Speaker 2: essentially the facilities design, which is a containment design anyway,
Speaker 2: because of what they're doing in there, it also helps
Speaker 2: you from not making the part of the world uninhabitable. So,
Speaker 2: but it sounds like they're not going to do that,
Speaker 2: but I don't know, maybe he falls into the button.
Speaker 1: Or something, so he's probably not that easy. But you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So, uh yeah, that's uh a lot of crazy, terrifying
Speaker 2: stuff going on today. Let's let's turn to this though.
Speaker 2: And uh I found myself asking this yesterday with a
Speaker 2: little bit of nostalgia. Would you say, I don't think
Speaker 2: it's arguable? Would you say that the fo right after
Speaker 2: election Day till now has been remarkably less crazy than
Speaker 2: the first time Trump got elected. I mean, don't get
Speaker 2: me wrong, there's some big stuff. This Jack Smith report
Speaker 2: was a final kneecapping. It's it was one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: It's almost one hundred percent speculator. Well it is because
Speaker 2: he wasn't convicted of it.
Speaker 1: It's but it's speculative, right.
Speaker 2: Either're just saying Jack Smith thinks he could do this,
Speaker 2: and that's gonna be enough for the media to run with.
Speaker 2: And that's going to be most of your news cycle today.
Speaker 2: But like I'm talking the really crazy stories and things
Speaker 2: that happened, are you gonna miss a little of it?
Speaker 2: Not the insane protesters, not the violence, not that, but
Speaker 2: like a little a little part of me, it was
Speaker 2: so easy putting prep together in the open from the
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen election through pretty much his whole term, like
Speaker 2: every day it.
Speaker 1: Was something that was just so insane. You're like, there's
Speaker 1: no way that's real.
Speaker 2: And then you realize. You go to the website because
Speaker 2: you always got to check this stuff. If you just
Speaker 2: see a screenshot or you see somebody mentioning, go to
Speaker 2: the website and check it, go.
Speaker 1: See what exactly it is.
Speaker 2: And it was like every day we had two or
Speaker 2: three of those in the stack, just crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: Like let me give you an example. This is from Slate.
Speaker 2: All right, this is January thirteenth, twenty twenty seven. So
Speaker 2: this is a story they wrote essentially, you know, less
Speaker 2: than a week in front or a week out from
Speaker 2: the inauguration.
Speaker 1: Slate okay, which I believe is owned by MSNBC, right
Speaker 1: or NBC do they still own Slate?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 2: Whatever, looking for a book to help resist Trump? Try
Speaker 2: this gay immigrant Muslim furry romance. I'm gonna miss some
Speaker 2: of this stuff. So my question is are they just
Speaker 2: holding off or it is are we gonna are we
Speaker 2: gonna be right back into this dumpster fire with like
Speaker 2: this is the craziest, and then there's the accusatory. It's
Speaker 2: nothing like it was before, and it clearly is, and
Speaker 2: I think self preservation might play.
Speaker 3: I think there's like a few reasons for that. I
Speaker 3: think one, Biden sucks so much that a lot of
Speaker 3: people crossed over and voted for Trump, right, and then
Speaker 3: so that's number two. Trump won the popular vote. It's
Speaker 3: different this time. And I think I think the cultural
Speaker 3: pendulum has swung as well. Where we're going there super
Speaker 3: far left now more to the center, to the right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I and and maybe they haven't changed ideologically, but
Speaker 1: they realized it didn't do any good, right, And so
Speaker 1: there's this.
Speaker 3: Even how many of these things, how many of these
Speaker 3: publications or outlets are now out of business? With the
Speaker 3: Washington Post.
Speaker 2: Washington Post, you saw the trap the web traffic number, Yeah,
Speaker 2: story yesterday.
Speaker 1: So if you.
Speaker 2: Don't know, since the twenty twenty one to today, they
Speaker 2: went from twenty five million average weekly impressions to four
Speaker 2: million at Washington Post. Oh and Jen Rubin quit and
Speaker 2: she's starting her own thing, which I'm sure will be
Speaker 2: just as unhinged. It's like, clearly and she quit over
Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos. Now clearly you're never going to change a
Speaker 2: Jen Rubin. She has a permanent case of teds. It's
Speaker 2: just there. You'd never get rid of it. And there's
Speaker 2: a lot of them in the media like that. But
Speaker 2: the I'm talking about the mushy media middle where they
Speaker 2: probably don't like Trump, but they also were looking at
Speaker 2: it going, you know, I don't want to lose my job.
Speaker 2: You know, I kind of like getting a paycheck and
Speaker 2: I like this high profile position I have, so you know,
Speaker 2: maybe we won't go as bonkers.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: It's not to say like the Peter Strokes of the
Speaker 3: world still aren't there, because they definitely.
Speaker 2: Are hundred percent and look, Trump's never gonna be able
Speaker 2: to purge them all out of the government. So you know,
Speaker 2: just that dream right there, that dream's not going to happen,
Speaker 2: but he's seemingly taking necessary steps to at least mitigate
Speaker 2: the damage that can be done in there.
Speaker 1: And there's other things. There's other indicators. Carrie Underwood was
Speaker 1: announced to singing at the thing. Do you remember last
Speaker 1: inauguration where any musical artist was basically told you be
Speaker 1: canceled if you showed up to the event. You think
Speaker 1: Carrie Underwood's concerned about that. No, I think the village
Speaker 1: people are concerned. No, so yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 2: I think it has swung, and I think all that
Speaker 2: there's a thousand little indicators and this is one of them.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to miss these types of headlines. We'll
Speaker 1: be back.
Speaker 2: If you're new around here, you don't particularly have a
Speaker 2: good grasp on all the coastal cities. Yet there is
Speaker 2: a there's Beaufort, and there's Beaufort, Okay, and ones in
Speaker 2: North Carolina that's Beaufort, and then ones in South Carolina
Speaker 2: that's Beaufort. And yes they look exactly the same. Yes
Speaker 2: they both have hotels with their name in them. But
Speaker 2: we're in the North Carolina one. And I did tweet
Speaker 2: the link out for you right there. Love it even
Speaker 2: if you don't want to go share it for me, Okay,
Speaker 2: because I want to have a packed house, but I
Speaker 2: want you to go.
Speaker 1: Let's go down and do this thing. We'll find dining.
Speaker 1: We'll stare out over the water there. You know, it
Speaker 1: might be a cigar. It could happen. I just think
Speaker 1: sometime happen.
Speaker 2: At the fact, I just got some great ones yesterday,
Speaker 2: like a little uh a couple of really good ones.
Speaker 1: I rarely smoke cigars, so like, if.
Speaker 2: I smoke one a month, especially if it's not really
Speaker 2: golf season, I'd be pretty surprised. But this is exactly
Speaker 2: the thing, right, chill out there on the waterfront and
Speaker 2: do that after a delicious dinner. So yeah, make sure
Speaker 2: you book the North Carolina one. But like I said,
Speaker 2: I've linked you to the event thing for you there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine one of our poor listeners, it's so excited,
Speaker 2: is driving down there.
Speaker 1: And Beufort's like way down there, it's way almost into Georgia, man,
Speaker 1: and you gotta cut over that big bridge like that
Speaker 1: would be Nope, I don't want any of that. I
Speaker 1: don't want one of our showing.
Speaker 2: So, uh, you know, really South you know what that is.
Speaker 2: That's called that South Carolina stolen valor. That's what I
Speaker 2: can just start that fight now to go to the
Speaker 2: correct one. Okay, but yeah, please please please come on down,
Speaker 2: you know, get a room, get some food, we'll have
Speaker 2: some fun.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Let me get back to this trying to clear up
Speaker 2: confusion there. This is this is I don't know if
Speaker 2: this is brilliant or desperate. So MSNBC has announced.
Speaker 1: A very special, uh, very special scheduling update.
Speaker 2: Rachel Maddow is coming back five nights a week because
Speaker 2: y'all can't get enough of her, So the network announced
Speaker 2: that mon on Monday that Maddow will lead the coverage
Speaker 2: of the inauguration. Now to rot Ross mentioned this earlier.
Speaker 2: She this is the woman who, after Trump's first inauguration
Speaker 2: turned to the camera with a straight face and argued
Speaker 2: that essentially he just gave a Hitler speech.
Speaker 1: Okay, it was.
Speaker 2: It was just evil, apparently more evil than Joe Biden's
Speaker 2: red light comedy thing. But yeah, so she's like, that
Speaker 2: was the most evil thing I ever heard. And honestly,
Speaker 2: I remember listening to Trump's speech and going, that was
Speaker 2: a lot more restrained than I thought he was going
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 1: And it was. And also it was kind of humanizing.
Speaker 2: Because I think a lot of people, except in situations
Speaker 2: where reporters were running things, probably never.
Speaker 1: Watched a Trump's speech.
Speaker 2: They just saw little snippets, you know, things like that,
Speaker 2: and they formed their opinions. So if they actually tune
Speaker 2: in to watch it, then I don't know that it
Speaker 2: probably changed opinions in the long run.
Speaker 1: It seems to him.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you're gonna stick Maddow on there to lead
Speaker 2: the coverage. Who is insane when it comes to Trump,
Speaker 2: another permanent case of TDS. Well, I don't understand the
Speaker 2: logic there, because you remember MSNBC and CNN and Jeff
Speaker 2: Bezos and the La Times guy, they all they're all
Speaker 2: reading the rite on the wall, and that's why they
Speaker 2: were making changes, trying to save this, you know, the
Speaker 2: sinking ships that are their businesses. And yet bringing mad
Speaker 2: Ow back and now matt Ou it will be somewhat temporary.
Speaker 2: By the way, she only hosts Mondays now in case
Speaker 2: you don't know what she's doing, So she just does Mondays.
Speaker 2: So January January, you know, twentieth, and then she will
Speaker 2: she will do five nights a week for the first
Speaker 2: hundred days, so I guess end of April.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 2: I mean, but if you're trying to soften your thing
Speaker 2: bringing mad Ow back while she may.
Speaker 1: Be tested and she probably polls pretty.
Speaker 2: Well among the core MSNBC people, I don't know how
Speaker 2: you think that's a good thing. I mean, look what
Speaker 2: the look at the neutering they did with their morning
Speaker 2: show there where they went and literally, we're trying to
Speaker 2: meet with Trump. By the way, John Fetterman met with
Speaker 2: Trump yesterday and Trump was tweeting nice things about him, said,
Speaker 2: you know, he seems like.
Speaker 1: A reasonable dude. So like, you know, people are going
Speaker 1: out of their their way to do these things. And
Speaker 1: then MSNBC is like that, let's double down on the
Speaker 1: insanity that killed all of our ratings.
Speaker 3: Fetterman is so funny. Fatterman is a funny dude. Do
Speaker 3: you hear him say he was gonna meet with Trump
Speaker 3: to become the Pope of Greenland? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I did see that.
Speaker 2: And then the reporter for a moment like doesn't know
Speaker 2: what to say, and he kind of like lets her
Speaker 2: know he's joking. But yeah, man, no, I did see that. Yes,
Speaker 2: the mad out thing is is is a return to
Speaker 2: the insanity. But you know, look there's you want the
Speaker 2: biggest here, let me give you the the.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that, and I love this headline.
Speaker 2: By the way, this might be the largest indicator that
Speaker 2: as a party, the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: Learned nothing from this election.
Speaker 2: And it's this right here. Here's the headline. DNC taps
Speaker 2: Harris's viral wizards for new social media push. I'm like,
Speaker 2: who are the viral wizards? And then I realize what
Speaker 2: they're talking about. They're talking about these twelve women all
Speaker 2: I think the oldest is twenty five and like two
Speaker 2: dudes who ran the Kamala hq social media account. If
Speaker 2: if you've somehow forgotten in this short period since they
Speaker 2: scrapped it, that might have been the most wrong, dishonest
Speaker 2: propagandist account to ever exist on Twitter. And I don't
Speaker 2: say that lightly, at least not from an orientity.
Speaker 3: I've never encountered another account on social media and all
Speaker 3: the time doing this job that is so obviously over
Speaker 3: the top blatant, like Joseph Geerbel's type stuff where they
Speaker 3: would take a segment of a Trump speech, like three
Speaker 3: or three seconds of it. They would take the original video,
Speaker 3: they would cut just that three seconds, they would post it,
Speaker 3: and then they would write something completely different.
Speaker 1: That he was talking about.
Speaker 2: You know, you're because I want to I want to
Speaker 2: accentuate what Ross is saying. You know, Aaron Rupar, you
Speaker 2: get the joke with you got rupart. Ruper's thing was
Speaker 2: at least he would tell you the topic, but he
Speaker 2: would leave out context, which is which is blatantly dishonest.
Speaker 2: What Ross is saying is true. They would take a
Speaker 2: speech where he's talking about hot dogs or something. Was
Speaker 2: it hot dog, there was a there was a food
Speaker 2: one they did that was just crazy. He was talking
Speaker 2: about food and they somehow spun it as he was
Speaker 2: talking about immigrants.
Speaker 3: Just blatant lies, blatant, over the top obvious lies to
Speaker 3: anyone paying attention who was seen the entire video. And
Speaker 3: it's not like this accidentally happens, because when you're in
Speaker 3: charge of a social media account like this, you got
Speaker 3: to have the original video. You've got to watch it,
Speaker 3: you see it, you got to cut out the section
Speaker 3: you want, you got to post it, make your own
Speaker 3: original post, and then you've got to write out what
Speaker 3: you want to write. And I even, like I said,
Speaker 3: just if there's ever a reason for community notes, it
Speaker 3: was this account just an evil, dirty line account.
Speaker 2: And those are the wizards, by the way, doing that,
Speaker 2: And those are who the DNC just hired to do
Speaker 2: their social media. I mean, it's so insane.
Speaker 1: I don't even know.
Speaker 2: I like I to fail upwards. And the only thing
Speaker 2: that makes sense is they so effectively sold their souls
Speaker 2: because you have to sell your soul to do that,
Speaker 2: even if you think they probably thought they were in
Speaker 2: the right, because this comes down to, hey, whatever, we
Speaker 2: have to know what we have to do it. If
Speaker 2: you're willing to sell your soul, then you're gonna you're
Speaker 2: gonna fail up as long as the party continues to
Speaker 2: embrace that.
Speaker 3: They thought they had, They thought they had the moral
Speaker 3: high ground, and they became what they were trying to
Speaker 3: fight against. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, and I kind of hope David Hogg is the
Speaker 2: did he make Do they have a vote on that yet?
Speaker 2: Did you say they want to make him vice chair
Speaker 2: of the party or something?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tim Wallas, I think said he wanted that to happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tim Walls came out. Yeah, he said he met
Speaker 2: with him and he likes him and all that stuff. So, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, if like that should be the death
Speaker 2: nail if Tim Walls likes you.
Speaker 3: But the other thing was like, when it comes to
Speaker 3: the success in social media, the Kamala HQ account failed
Speaker 3: in comparison to the Trump war Room account, which remember
Speaker 3: you had the two side by side comparisons of who
Speaker 3: ran those accounts.
Speaker 1: The Trump a couple of accounts, and it was like
Speaker 1: three dudes.
Speaker 3: And then you had the Kamala HQ account, which well,
Speaker 3: like you said, it was like a bunch of you know.
Speaker 1: Fifteen yeah, twelve women, fifteen three men.
Speaker 3: And but the numbers compared like side by side, the
Speaker 3: two accounts, the two different campaign accounts, like the Trump
Speaker 3: warrim account just blew them out of the water.
Speaker 1: And they were clear and each kind of comment.
Speaker 2: HQ was clearly washing the replies to right, so you
Speaker 2: can you can high replies. And by the way, you
Speaker 2: can tell also if replies are hidden because there's a
Speaker 2: little thing.
Speaker 1: That pops a little little box thing there.
Speaker 2: Uh so, because I would look at one of their
Speaker 2: things and it would be so insanely wrong, you know
Speaker 2: how you go to the comments to restore your own sanity.
Speaker 2: On some tweets you're like, oh please God, let people
Speaker 2: have you know, understand that this is not real. And
Speaker 2: like the first like the most comments, it was like,
Speaker 2: remember the cras and Steins were clearly manipulating the algorithm
Speaker 2: so they could be the first Trump post every time
Speaker 2: like they were. They'll never admit it, but they obviously were.
Speaker 2: It was clear that you cause you couldn't get six
Speaker 2: thousand likes in twelve seconds. Okay, was it was just garbage.
Speaker 2: What they would do is I'd see something insane, I'd
Speaker 2: scroll down the account and like the first ten comments
Speaker 2: are like, yeah, this is correct and what a monster?
Speaker 2: And then like finally you find somebody down there and
Speaker 2: I'm like, there's no way, not on Twitter where a high.
Speaker 1: Profile account like this.
Speaker 2: It kept getting served into my algorithm where people were
Speaker 2: not pouncing, as the media says. But no, now they
Speaker 2: got cool new jobs. So and they're going to be essentially,
Speaker 2: they're going to be the pitbull attack dogs of social
Speaker 2: media for the DNC on Trump.
Speaker 1: So expect that.
Speaker 2: Expect somehow the things you hear then from the official
Speaker 2: party stuff and the DNC and the various packs to
Speaker 2: be far more dishonest.
Speaker 1: That's why I asked, what's this going to look like?
Speaker 1: All right, let me do this.
Speaker 2: Seven forty six, here's another ken boone from the Weather
Speaker 2: Channel today who we got That was a Jeff Jeff
Speaker 2: mar That's right. Yeah, I get confused because you guys
Speaker 2: are splitting it up this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, be here tomorrow and then can take.
Speaker 2: Some Yeah, but here's another guy I can ask what
Speaker 2: to expect except in this case winter weather.
Speaker 1: So what are we doing now?
Speaker 9: Yeah, we've got high pressure and control and it's going
Speaker 9: to be drying cold as you make way out this morning.
Speaker 9: We're in the thirties right now, eventually headed to forty
Speaker 9: five with sunshine. Fortunately, winds will be on the light side,
Speaker 9: and then clear tonight, the load dripping down into the
Speaker 9: low twenties. Tomorrow even colder thirty nine the high with sunshine.
Speaker 9: We'll have the other direction with some more sun Thursday
Speaker 9: and hit forty seven into the low fifties with the
Speaker 9: sunny sky Friday, and then a wet started the weekend
Speaker 9: with some showers into Saturday, and behind you're fifty two
Speaker 9: fifty three Sundays, that rain moves out and then another
Speaker 9: blast of cold air early next week with his and
Speaker 9: the load to mid thirties as we make our way
Speaker 9: into Sunday night, and it looks like early next week
Speaker 9: we'll be dealing with some cold weather as well. So
Speaker 9: overall pretty cold stretch of January weather here the next
Speaker 9: several days.
Speaker 2: All right, and it's Jeff Mars fault everybody, So it
Speaker 2: is all right, thank you, sir. We'll talk at an
Speaker 2: hour coming up. Senator Ted Buddell join us at eight
Speaker 2: oh five. We've got lots to get into with him. Janet,
Speaker 2: you are up first. Thanks for hanging on.
Speaker 6: What's up, Katy? My freaking a head is exploding. I
Speaker 6: don't even have to contain myself this morning. We're out
Speaker 6: here with a tent and seven hundred dollars and Ben Affleck.
Speaker 6: California is the biggest mood on the planet, which would
Speaker 6: be completely dead without the rest of America supporting. They're sorry,
Speaker 6: but gets everything paid for. It's everybody in North Carolina
Speaker 6: is not conservative permanently from this point forward. You're a
Speaker 6: freaking idiot.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, and and it's it's like it's being
Speaker 2: argued by people, and it's like this isn't even a part.
Speaker 2: I mean, eventually it's gonna have partisan reaction, but it's
Speaker 2: like simple math. One hundred and eighty days, one hundred
Speaker 2: and seven days, what are we doing?
Speaker 1: This is right?
Speaker 6: I say, I say North Carolina. I say North Carolina
Speaker 6: gathers itself and goes and takes our stuff from California
Speaker 6: that the government has granted because California has been given
Speaker 6: a number, California has been given everything for literally decades,
Speaker 6: they've not it, did one thing er to support themselves,
Speaker 6: and now again they're mentioned off of the rest of
Speaker 6: the country for what and our our representative the one
Speaker 6: person that starts to give a crap. I'm on board.
Speaker 1: I swear, I'm I'm scared you're gonna swear, and I
Speaker 1: don't want you to swear, so I feel, but I am.
Speaker 1: Don't let it. Don't let it.
Speaker 2: Just But when you when you're talking to somebody who's
Speaker 2: not convinced there's the problem, all you need to know
Speaker 2: is one hundred and seven and one and eighty okay,
Speaker 2: And we need to simplify this because you're right, and
Speaker 2: thanks for the call. It needs to per It needs
Speaker 2: to cross into people's brains and go no, that's not right.
Speaker 2: A segment right here, because I got so much on
Speaker 2: my plate. Let's welcome in, Senator Ted Budd. How are
Speaker 2: you doing this morning, sir?
Speaker 5: So great, Casey, good morning.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna we're gonna go a little rapid fire today, sir,
Speaker 2: because there's just so much going on and I want
Speaker 2: to safety win.
Speaker 5: Do we not do when do we not do rapid fire?
Speaker 2: Well, it's gonna be And also on cheese because the
Speaker 2: Vikings can't win a playoff game.
Speaker 1: But that's I won't take out on you. It's heartbreaking. Man.
Speaker 2: Speaking of heartbreaking, we make this subtle transition. I am,
Speaker 2: and people are. They're so angry. And then the cherry
Speaker 2: on top after a weekend of you, your staff, other
Speaker 2: elected officials, members of Congress, even.
Speaker 1: The new governor having to.
Speaker 2: The idea that a sitting senator and members of Congress
Speaker 2: and a governor have to beg FEMA not to throw
Speaker 2: people out of hotels.
Speaker 1: On the stay.
Speaker 2: On the one hundred and seventh day after the hurricane,
Speaker 2: and on the same day, the President of the United
Speaker 2: States says explicitly the California including temporary shelter, will get
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty days fully funded.
Speaker 1: Make it make sense to me, Senator, It doesn't.
Speaker 5: It doesn't. It's just incompetency and it's on its way
Speaker 5: out the door. Look, they were going to kick people
Speaker 5: out on January eleventh, I mean, right in the middle
Speaker 5: of the snow, coming in the coldest part of the winter,
Speaker 5: and shot, I don't know, it may get colder. And
Speaker 5: then okay, they graciously gave us twenty four hours. Pat
Speaker 5: Harrigan new representative is doing a great job. We teamed up,
Speaker 5: you know, to say, hey, you got to give us longer.
Speaker 5: They gave us till January fourteenth to day, and then
Speaker 5: we pushed again and we said, hey, that's not long enough.
Speaker 5: And now we got into the Trump administration. So we
Speaker 5: got to the twenty fifth.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you admitted that was yeah. I follow up, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: So now we're going to be making decisions under a
Speaker 5: new administration. And President Trump and I went to swann
Speaker 5: Andoa together and I've been there multiple times. We got him.
Speaker 5: We wanted to get a windows like, please during the campaign,
Speaker 5: pay attention to this, but let's just come in when
Speaker 5: it's not a distraction to the place. And he was very,
Speaker 5: very respectful. This guy's a he's a member, he's a
Speaker 5: builder in this case, he's a rebuilder, and he's going
Speaker 5: to be there for western North Carolina. People are like, oh, no,
Speaker 5: nobody's going to vote because they're you know, they've been
Speaker 5: kicked out of their homes and you got one hundred
Speaker 5: thousand homes you know, damaged to destroyd and people, I
Speaker 5: mean they crawl hoover stumps and mud slides and broken
Speaker 5: Glass to come and vote for President Trump out West.
Speaker 5: These people are tough, they're very resilient, but they just
Speaker 5: need the government for once to be on their side.
Speaker 5: And I'll tell you what, when I'm out there, Casey,
Speaker 5: their number one concern is, please don't forget us. Now.
Speaker 5: The news media is going to focus on different crises
Speaker 5: around the world and different things, but I'm not forgetting
Speaker 5: about these folks. It's insane what's happened out there and
Speaker 5: the incompetency of the current administration. We just have to
Speaker 5: stay on them.
Speaker 2: And you mentioned you mentioned my one thing, and I'm
Speaker 2: glad we're getting into the Trump administration. I need you,
Speaker 2: and I think you realize this, and the people in
Speaker 2: Western I need you and the rest of this delegation
Speaker 2: to have this should be a day one Trump thing.
Speaker 2: The very easy thing is to extend it to one
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty days to match California. That should be
Speaker 2: that should be an exist I don't know that it
Speaker 2: has to be an executive order. Should be a thing
Speaker 2: that he does on the first day or at least
Speaker 2: by the twenty fifth. Is is that a possibility? Can
Speaker 2: we make that happen?
Speaker 5: That's totally reasonable. But now, when Trump was in the
Speaker 5: All Senators all Republican Senators meeting last week, the question
Speaker 5: on the table was what can we do to be
Speaker 5: most helpful to you? And he said, by far, it's
Speaker 5: getting my administration confirmed. And that's what we're doing starting today.
Speaker 5: This is day one of the hearings. I think there's
Speaker 5: like fifteen of them this week. I don't think there's
Speaker 5: been a FEMA person tapped yet. Now they'll have a
Speaker 5: landing team that comes in starts operating with acting administrator's
Speaker 5: day one, so we'll be ready to go. But that's
Speaker 5: a very reasonable request.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's and I think it's the least you can do.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you a question. That's good because
Speaker 2: you're going to transition where I'm transitioning. I saw Chuck
Speaker 2: Schumer talking about how hag Seth is literally Satan, so
Speaker 2: that should be interesting later. Are you on board with
Speaker 2: all the nominees? Is there people that you've met with
Speaker 2: that really really impressed you?
Speaker 1: Is there any concerns you have? Where are you at in.
Speaker 5: Their own right or impressive individuals? I mean there's some,
Speaker 5: I agree, more are you know different as you know
Speaker 5: a small business owner? I might have different policies, but
Speaker 5: I have asked him, like you take like Bobby Kennedy's
Speaker 5: coming through. I'm going like, look, you've got a history
Speaker 5: of not being pro life. I'm pro life. He says,
Speaker 5: I'm one hundred percent going to be with the Trump administration,
Speaker 5: which is pro life. I'm like, Okay, you just changed
Speaker 5: your tune to line up with Trump in his administration.
Speaker 5: That's great.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: Then we got today. I'm on the Armed Services Committee.
Speaker 5: Pete Haig Seth will have his hearing today. Democrats are
Speaker 5: going to come out. Elizabeth Warren put out this ten
Speaker 5: page letter. I mean, I don't know if you've seen that,
Speaker 5: but it's very insightful if you want to look at it.
Speaker 5: It's a public document. People can pull it up and
Speaker 5: just got question after questions, your question that tells you
Speaker 5: how the Democrats are going to go after him today.
Speaker 5: This is a guy. Remember when you look at November
Speaker 5: fifth and what happened. The American people were tired of
Speaker 5: business as usual. That's why they re elected President Trump
Speaker 5: as a forty seventh president. Not just electoral votes, not
Speaker 5: just but they also overwhelmingly the popular vote. So I mean,
Speaker 5: he crushed it. And people are saying, I'm sick of
Speaker 5: how what we've see in the last four years bid
Speaker 5: the administration was a mistake. Let's fix this, and Trump picked
Speaker 5: people to do just that, not do business as usual.
Speaker 5: Let's root out the deep state. Let's make sure that
Speaker 5: we're focused on lethality and we're focused on given the
Speaker 5: right weapons we need and not on wokeness in the military.
Speaker 5: And that's what Pete hagg Seth will do. And that's
Speaker 5: what we're going to focus on today, at least in
Speaker 5: the questions that I get to ask him, right, But.
Speaker 2: The people there are people who are going to be
Speaker 2: sitting on the other side for today, who, among other things,
Speaker 2: accused Haig Seth of having a Nazi tattoo a Jerusalem cross, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, was on the cover sheet of Jimmy
Speaker 2: Carter's funeral program.
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, hilarius, did you see Mike tweets Mike Lee's
Speaker 5: tweet and has said it's amazing that these folks are
Speaker 5: such Pete hagg Seth fans, you know at the National Cathedral.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but is it gonna go Is this going to
Speaker 2: be Kavanaugh all over again? Minus the dude walking around
Speaker 2: addressed as a giant condom. I mean, is are you
Speaker 2: gonna have protesters? Are you guys anticipating protesters?
Speaker 5: I don't think they're gonna I mean there may be
Speaker 5: a few. And there's a there's a heightened security, uh
Speaker 5: situation in DC all the way from January sixth, all
Speaker 5: the way through you know, after the inauguration. So everything's
Speaker 5: kind of technically right now.
Speaker 2: I'm talking in the gallery like we saw with Kavanaugh,
Speaker 2: where they take well, it.
Speaker 5: Won't be in the gallery, it'll be in the hearing room.
Speaker 5: So are there going to be some outbursts? Sure, you know,
Speaker 5: but we're just gonna you know, steady ahead, Let's ask
Speaker 5: the real questions. Let's talk about competency in the role.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about lethality, his policies, and what he's going
Speaker 5: to do as sect up. I think he's going to
Speaker 5: do a great job. Like this man is well educated,
Speaker 5: he's a decorated veteran, he's a combat warrior, he's he's
Speaker 5: the right kind of guy. And I've known him for
Speaker 5: years prior to even coming in my office to talk
Speaker 5: about being potential sect down. But let's get this guy
Speaker 5: confirmed and let's get down of business.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I thought they liked people with
Speaker 2: multiple Ivy League degrees.
Speaker 1: I guess now they changed.
Speaker 5: Their mind starting with Trump in twenty sixteen, because I mean,
Speaker 5: that guy went to Wharton.
Speaker 1: You know, you've been pretty good smart guy.
Speaker 2: Oh, I got a buddy who went to Wharton. He's
Speaker 2: a pretty smart dude too, So pretty good school.
Speaker 5: How about that state now?
Speaker 1: He No, no, no, I'm just a woted to be fair.
Speaker 2: He went to Wharton for his cod But no. So
Speaker 2: let me transition into.
Speaker 1: This though the how do I ask this? Do you
Speaker 1: think we were.
Speaker 2: Having a discussion about the media earlier and how like
Speaker 2: remember the really really insane like resist Trump with this gay,
Speaker 2: furry Muslim immigrant book, which is an actual headline from Slate.
Speaker 2: Like that insanity, that part of the insanity, the nonviolent
Speaker 2: part of the just lunatics.
Speaker 1: I'm a little nostalgic for it.
Speaker 2: I don't feel that vibe this time time with a
Speaker 2: lot of protesters in media. Maybe they're beat down a
Speaker 2: little and maybe it's just self preservation. Do you think
Speaker 2: that translates to your colleagues on the other side or
Speaker 2: are they going to do everything that you guys normally
Speaker 2: do with I don't know, you know, to really ramp
Speaker 2: this up or do you think they're going to have
Speaker 2: to be more tempered as well?
Speaker 5: Well, time will tell, And I think it's kind of
Speaker 5: like the old if you can't beat them, to join them.
Speaker 5: And let me give you a case in point, the
Speaker 5: Lake and Riley Act, which was something I've worked on
Speaker 5: and co led this with Senator Katie Britt from Alabama,
Speaker 5: and this is about preventing tragedies for illegals who do
Speaker 5: minor crimes, making sure that they're detained so they don't
Speaker 5: go on to commit horrendous crimes like we saw with
Speaker 5: lacoln Riley's murder. Okay, we had eighty four excuse me,
Speaker 5: I think it was eighty nine total votes, So what
Speaker 5: are that twenty thirty Democrats that or forty Democrats that
Speaker 5: joined us.
Speaker 2: On that initial mine nine Democrats who voted against it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean just a smidgeen of Democrats that
Speaker 5: voted against it. And that's like your most radical leftist ones,
Speaker 5: and so I'm like, what's happening. They obviously saw that
Speaker 5: what they've done for the last four years and then
Speaker 5: the six and the four years prior to that, resisting
Speaker 5: Donald Trump did not work because now he's coming back
Speaker 5: into office, so they've got to change their tune. So
Speaker 5: I only have one example with the one bill that
Speaker 5: we've really worked on moving here with Lake and Riley
Speaker 5: and I happened to be co lead on this bill,
Speaker 5: and all of a sudden they're joining us. Now, let's
Speaker 5: see what happens in the coming days as we're working
Speaker 5: on real amendments to this. Are they going to try
Speaker 5: to put poison pills? Are they going to try to
Speaker 5: kill it? I don't know, but yeah, I sure hope
Speaker 5: we get this thing. I get this thing somehow, but
Speaker 5: I don't know what it's going to look like. And
Speaker 5: it's certainly a different tune than we saw in the
Speaker 5: last eight years.
Speaker 2: This is this is what I'm talking about, because I
Speaker 2: got you know, I get press released is that Ted
Speaker 2: budd voted against children's cancer research and the you know,
Speaker 2: the stuff that was in the omnibus bill, which I'm
Speaker 2: convinced is the only reason they put it in there
Speaker 2: is they could run give me a stupid press release
Speaker 2: that somehow Republicans are against children or want children to
Speaker 2: have cancer. I mean, it's just so low, it's just
Speaker 2: so low. And we'll wait and see. I do have
Speaker 2: a question, and I'm curious. I'm not even going to
Speaker 2: set it up.
Speaker 1: What do you make of the Jack Smith Report?
Speaker 5: I haven't gone in and read it yet, but I know,
Speaker 5: I mean, his whole has just been destroyed, and it's
Speaker 5: not going to make a difference when he puts it
Speaker 5: out there. You know you want these things contained because
Speaker 5: it's just not helpful. He goes at it with implicit bias,
Speaker 5: and then it gets released. It's for those who hate Trump,
Speaker 5: it's going to say, well, I told you so, and
Speaker 5: for us who really don't care and know he came
Speaker 5: at it with bias to begin with and was trying
Speaker 5: to manufacture a case, then we still believe that. So
Speaker 5: it's not going to make a hill of beans worth
Speaker 5: the difference.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about what's going on in California specifically. There
Speaker 2: are people within your own party who I've seen suggest
Speaker 2: and I don't think that Mike Johnson was suggesting what
Speaker 2: they're accusing him of, but that basically the California shouldn't
Speaker 2: get any money unless they agreed to do a bunch
Speaker 2: of Republican stuff with their government there. And I don't
Speaker 2: know that that works out for you guys. But I
Speaker 2: remember when the Biden administration was allocating dollars to ports
Speaker 2: right and we were having like port issues after COVID
Speaker 2: and they restricted most of the spending to green improvements.
Speaker 2: Is that the middle ground where you guys can maybe say, hey,
Speaker 2: you do need to make some changes, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: turn into it looking like the Republicans are holding money hostage,
Speaker 2: Like give me that.
Speaker 1: What your thoughts on that?
Speaker 2: Because I think that that is where people are going
Speaker 2: to accuse you guys of Well, I.
Speaker 5: Just want to begin with those who have family and friends.
Speaker 5: I mean, you don't have to go too far before
Speaker 5: you know somebody that had a home or had a
Speaker 5: relative or family or friends out there. So it is
Speaker 5: heartbreaking regard, even if you're frustrated like you and like me,
Speaker 5: with the layers and layers in decades of accumulating California stupidity.
Speaker 5: Even if you're frustrated about that, you can't help but
Speaker 5: be heartbroken with the lives lost and the property damage
Speaker 5: out there. And it's truly beautiful.
Speaker 1: If you lived there. I lived there for you. I
Speaker 1: went to college. Man.
Speaker 2: My cousin still lives out there. He was a little
Speaker 2: north of the fire. But it's insane, man, it's insane.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I've got extended family out there to
Speaker 5: the south of it. But it's heartbreaking. And then you
Speaker 5: look at these people that don't have insurance, like you
Speaker 5: understand living in western North Carolina not having flood insurance
Speaker 5: because you're like fifty feet above the flood waters. And
Speaker 5: then all of a sudden, you know, you have a
Speaker 5: geo event that changes the course of a river, you know,
Speaker 5: a thousand year flood that's different than price controls and horror,
Speaker 5: you know, not doing controlled prescribed burns which would have
Speaker 5: eliminated this, not allowing people one of these lands to
Speaker 5: remediate the forest so that you don't have these problems,
Speaker 5: these layers and layers of environmental policy. We got to
Speaker 5: get to the real issue here, because I don't think
Speaker 5: that you need all Americans who are just trying to
Speaker 5: live their lives and force trillions of dollars of recovery
Speaker 5: in California on them as a result of the stupidity.
Speaker 5: This could have been prevented. This is layers and layers
Speaker 5: of bad policy, bad environmentalism, bad leadership, and we got it.
Speaker 5: We're going to do something. I don't know what that
Speaker 5: is now, but they have got to make a change
Speaker 5: because we can't allow stupidity and to be financed by
Speaker 5: the rest of America.
Speaker 1: So you can, you can, you really can?
Speaker 2: You put conditions on it, because remember they passed a
Speaker 2: proposition ten years ago in California build reservoirs and then
Speaker 2: didn't build any Right, they're.
Speaker 5: Still doing an environmental study after environmental study. Look, I
Speaker 5: think I can't speak for you, Casey, but I think
Speaker 5: you want clean air, you want clean water, you want
Speaker 5: us to take care of our forest. Absolutely, we want
Speaker 5: to do that. But what they've done, they they've ultimately
Speaker 5: ended up being anti human in the accumulation of their
Speaker 5: bad policies and bad leadership. And you're seeing anti human
Speaker 5: happening right now with these at least three wildfires that
Speaker 5: are raging notch could have been prevented with good policies.
Speaker 5: So where the line is, let's get this thing, let's
Speaker 5: get this fire put out, and then let's figure it
Speaker 5: out under the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: It tells me they also don't believe the climate change
Speaker 2: stuff that they're constantly on because now he believed that
Speaker 2: you would mitigate we mitigate in live. I mean that's
Speaker 2: what we do, and they didn't mitigate at all.
Speaker 1: It's wild.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Steven Moore puts out a good daily email and
Speaker 5: he put in headlines from Los Angeles and this was
Speaker 5: from the nineteen thirties and it talked about fire raging. Right,
Speaker 5: this is all pre climate change stuff in ideology. Pre
Speaker 5: I means, did you have on the road in nineteen
Speaker 5: thirty how many factories? Not that many, But it's a
Speaker 5: you know, fire rages in California. But it's a headline
Speaker 5: out there and it's from Climate Depot. But again, it's
Speaker 5: not about climate change. The climate is changing, but is
Speaker 5: it demand made? That's the issue, A tiny, tiny bit.
Speaker 5: We've made it much better than had we not engaged
Speaker 5: our resources with technology like we've done over the past
Speaker 5: one hundred years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, sat, I appreciate the time.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I was reading yesterday and it
Speaker 2: was Washington posted there's less fire wildfire activity in the
Speaker 2: world now than ever before. So just something to think about.
Speaker 2: It's just that we can see it now. So I
Speaker 2: got it, more us against it.
Speaker 1: I have five seconds. I'm sorry, senator, but let's talk
Speaker 1: soon again. Okay, got it, see it all right,