1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:03,319 Speaker 1: So it's Friday. That means it's a wise council day, 2 00:00:03,319 --> 00:00:05,960 and on finances, there's no other wise council I would 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:09,160 ever consult in Zach Abraham, chief investment officer Bow Capital Management, 4 00:00:09,199 --> 00:00:10,560 so much to ask him about. We're going to talk 5 00:00:10,599 --> 00:00:15,039 about the big bulbous bill that Elon Musk does not like, 6 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:19,399 and we'll do that with Zach Abraham courtesy of course 7 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:21,679 of God's Almighty. 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 2: But Todd Herman show is one disapproved by big pharma 9 00:00:28,519 --> 00:00:35,719 technocrats in Tyrone sabran Where from the high mountains of 10 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:40,799 Free America, here's the Emerald city exile. 11 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: Todd Herman. Today is the day the Lord has made, 12 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,799 and these are the times to which God has decided 13 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,039 we shall live. Zach Abraham joins us, brother, welcome back. 14 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:55,439 Speaker 3: Good to be back, man. How are you you know? 15 00:00:56,119 --> 00:01:00,679 Speaker 1: I dislike days where I know I'm going to anger 16 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:05,480 members of the podcast family by talking about President Trump's 17 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:08,359 big beautiful bill. But I'm having the same right now 18 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:10,640 facial response, you are you just put your hands in 19 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:12,920 your face. I just did too. I don't want to 20 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,239 have this conversation. I don't want to say these things, 21 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,079 but I'm very sorry. I stand with Elon Musk and 22 00:01:19,079 --> 00:01:22,719 Thomas Massey on the Big Bulbous Bill, and I want 23 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,719 to make clear President Trump's job and maybe it's probably 24 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,680 not as it's ten million times harder than mine. It's 25 00:01:29,719 --> 00:01:33,319 probably eight point five million times harder than yours. So 26 00:01:33,439 --> 00:01:35,280 I think we can all recognize that he has to 27 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:39,040 get a budget passed. There's the pragmatism of DC. But Zach, 28 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,079 look at this video and then I'm going to turn 29 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,799 to you to defend us continuing to be forced to 30 00:01:43,799 --> 00:01:46,760 spend money on this. It's time to finally on there. 31 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 3: Allen's Ma's over. It's uncanny. 32 00:01:55,359 --> 00:02:00,319 Speaker 4: Ellen looked just like Jonathan van Ness that is, can. 33 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 5: Find this Elmo cookie? Are you ready to see my 34 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:13,039 monster piece? Mama Bear some Runway music please, people and 35 00:02:13,159 --> 00:02:16,039 monsters alike. A round of applause for the not too 36 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:17,879 Late shows newest nonster. 37 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:23,759 Speaker 1: Allan money taken at the point of a gun from 38 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:30,840 us to that and Republicans. Zach can't agree to take 39 00:02:30,879 --> 00:02:33,639 the tax money out of that, so your job to defend. 40 00:02:33,319 --> 00:02:45,439 Speaker 3: It the defense rest Look you can't And this, yeah, 41 00:02:47,199 --> 00:02:49,639 I mean I could try to act like I'm surprised, 42 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,599 because I'm not. Because usually I would say like eight 43 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:57,319 times out of ten when I get your show sheet notes, Yeah, 44 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,479 it's usually stuff that I want to talk about too, right, 45 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,240 I feel like we're usually on the same page. And 46 00:03:04,319 --> 00:03:06,759 so this one, you know, when I was driving in 47 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,680 this morning thinking about doing this, that this was front 48 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,439 and center of my mind too. And this goes back 49 00:03:13,479 --> 00:03:16,120 to I think a couple things are happening right now. 50 00:03:17,439 --> 00:03:21,759 First of all, I think that the messaging surrounding the 51 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:25,520 budget and surrounding the debt and the deficit I think 52 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:28,280 has been wrong from the very beginning. And I said 53 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:32,280 this back when when the administration first took power and 54 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,479 we were talking about deficits and what I thought that 55 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,960 they should be doing. And the reason I thought it 56 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,560 was really important is because for you to tackle this 57 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,680 deficit issue when the deficit and what people have to 58 00:03:45,759 --> 00:03:49,319 understand is that when the deficit gets this large as 59 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,960 a percentage of the economy, hey it you would think 60 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,599 that because the spending levels are so large, it's easy 61 00:03:56,639 --> 00:03:59,439 to cut, and it is. There's obviously a lot of 62 00:03:59,479 --> 00:04:03,400 froth there that you can cut. The problem is is 63 00:04:03,439 --> 00:04:06,840 that you're at seven percent of the economy. Is your 64 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,319 deficit not a traditional two and a half to three. 65 00:04:09,879 --> 00:04:13,000 So what does that mean. That means that every dollar 66 00:04:13,199 --> 00:04:16,839 in reduction in spending or bringing down the deficit has 67 00:04:16,879 --> 00:04:22,279 a greater negative economic feedback right feedback loop. And so 68 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,680 the only way to tackle this in modern day America 69 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,120 where we're at, because I do believe that we have 70 00:04:30,199 --> 00:04:36,120 reached that point that Tyler talked about. I can't remember 71 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,480 the exact time, but I believe it was somewhere in 72 00:04:38,519 --> 00:04:43,839 the early eighteen hundreds, fairly soon after the formation of 73 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,319 our government in seventeen seventy six. But he said that 74 00:04:48,079 --> 00:04:51,279 he referenced America as the great experiment that will last. 75 00:04:51,759 --> 00:04:53,720 And a lot of people botch this quote. It was 76 00:04:53,759 --> 00:04:56,079 not said by Franklin, it was not said by Alexi 77 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,600 to tofil It was said by Tyler. And what he 78 00:04:58,639 --> 00:05:02,199 said was this great experiment will ask until the populace 79 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:05,759 realizes that they can vote themselves large as the state treasury. 80 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,079 And I think that's a problem with where we're at, 81 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,600 and meaning, you know, everybody, oh, yeah, we got to 82 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,560 cut spending, we got to cut cut the deficit. But 83 00:05:14,959 --> 00:05:16,959 then you get down into specific since well, not in 84 00:05:16,959 --> 00:05:20,120 my backyard. I'm going to defend my constituents. Right. So 85 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,680 that's why I said from the very beginning when we 86 00:05:22,759 --> 00:05:26,839 talk about tackling the deficit at this point, the only 87 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:29,680 shot you've got to do it that's politically viable, meaning 88 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:31,399 do it in such a way that you don't get 89 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,519 you know, an eighty or seventy percent majority Democrats in 90 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,560 the Congress. Yeah, you've got to do it over time. 91 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,959 You've got to make these cuts over the long run. 92 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:43,639 You need to pull some down. I think the goal 93 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,240 probably should have been to keep the deficit flat for 94 00:05:47,319 --> 00:05:51,360 a period of time. And would you like to you know, 95 00:05:51,399 --> 00:05:53,639 when Trump came out and said we're going to cut 96 00:05:53,399 --> 00:05:56,519 the deficit by we're going to balance the budget, right, 97 00:05:56,759 --> 00:06:00,959 do I wish we were there? Absolutely? But when government 98 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,399 spending is at that level, when you've got GDP at 99 00:06:04,439 --> 00:06:07,000 twenty seven trillion dollars and you've got a government budget 100 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,519 that's going to top seven trillion, right, you've got to 101 00:06:10,639 --> 00:06:15,800 anticipate the negative economic feedback that is going to come 102 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,319 from those cuts. And you've also got to be honest 103 00:06:18,319 --> 00:06:20,959 about the fact that you're in that period of time 104 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,160 where everybody is voting themselves large as the state treasury. 105 00:06:24,519 --> 00:06:27,160 So you got to keep the economy rolling. You can't 106 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,279 crush things, but you've got to tackle that dead over time. 107 00:06:30,399 --> 00:06:34,079 And this is exactly what I was afraid of. I 108 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,120 think what happened, pot is I think they got in 109 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,120 there thinking that they, you know, with the best of intentions, 110 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:41,839 and they started realizing, wait a second, if we cut this, 111 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:45,439 it's going to be political suicide and there's not also 112 00:06:45,639 --> 00:06:50,199 going to be immediate positive economic you know, reverberations and 113 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,839 results that we can lean back on. Right, It's going 114 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:55,079 to be painful. 115 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: Okay, But okay, you're saying something so very very important, 116 00:07:00,399 --> 00:07:02,439 So I want to step back. I wanted to slow 117 00:07:02,519 --> 00:07:05,040 down and dig into this because what you're saying is 118 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:09,120 important as well, because this is something that people who 119 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,040 love President Trump, and there's a lot of people in 120 00:07:11,079 --> 00:07:15,079 the podcast family, they dearly, dearly, dearly dearly love the man, 121 00:07:16,319 --> 00:07:19,240 and I want to make sure everyone understands he's not 122 00:07:19,759 --> 00:07:23,319 going to rescue us. I mean, he can't rescue himself. 123 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,199 We can't rescue ourselves. We should not be placing our 124 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:30,079 hope in this temple. But what you're saying now adds 125 00:07:30,079 --> 00:07:32,319 a complexity to this that I don't think it's enough attention. 126 00:07:32,439 --> 00:07:34,959 So let's dig into that in just a second. This 127 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:36,759 just came to me. It's just just thinking about one 128 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:38,759 of the new things we're getting to do with the program. 129 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,279 I'm so jazzed about this. We're getting a chance to 130 00:07:42,279 --> 00:07:46,639 help change Hollywood. You know the Rotten Tomatoes scores. It's famous. 131 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:48,800 Like you go see the Rotten Tomatoes reviews and the 132 00:07:48,839 --> 00:07:51,399 people always say this is a great movie, and the 133 00:07:51,439 --> 00:07:54,000 critics always say it's bad. Like the Snow White flick. 134 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,639 People said this sucks, and they actually started putting up 135 00:07:58,639 --> 00:08:02,279 fake reviews. You'd see them that the same verbatim reviews 136 00:08:02,319 --> 00:08:05,480 about Snow White. We have a chance to do this, 137 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:08,839 but prior to the movies getting made. This is so important. 138 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,879 Angel Studios has opened the door to Hollywood for us. 139 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:16,279 When you become an Angel's Premium Angel Studios Premium Guild member, 140 00:08:16,639 --> 00:08:20,680 you get thumbs up thumbs down privileges on the movies 141 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,279 they make and distribute in the stories they tell. That's insane, 142 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,480 and they've made some great movies. You know Sound of Freedom. 143 00:08:27,519 --> 00:08:29,439 They weren't supposed to get that one into the theaters, 144 00:08:29,439 --> 00:08:31,399 and somehow they did. I think God made sure that 145 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:33,879 happened and it just came out with this incredible movie 146 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:36,879 called The King of Kings. It's an animated feature that 147 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:39,879 shows the life of Jesus Christ and how that life 148 00:08:40,039 --> 00:08:45,120 changed a annoying braddy little boy into someone who loved Jesus. 149 00:08:45,159 --> 00:08:48,679 And it's framed as Charles Dickens. In the animated story, 150 00:08:48,799 --> 00:08:51,759 Charles Dickens is the dad telling his story the Life 151 00:08:51,759 --> 00:08:54,919 of Our Lord that Dickens wrote, and it's great for families. 152 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:55,559 Speaker 3: We loved it. 153 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: Here's how this all works. When you go to angel 154 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,559 dot com slash Todd, they're gonna join our one million 155 00:09:00,639 --> 00:09:05,919 Americans who get thumbs up thumbs down. We vote. When 156 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,039 we say yes to a film, they make it, they 157 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:13,080 distribute it. We help run Hollywood. When you do this, 158 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,559 you also get to watch King of Kings immediately that's 159 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,440 not available anywhere else. You get to stream all the 160 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:20,840 fan curated shows and movies. You get two free tickets 161 00:09:20,879 --> 00:09:24,559 to every Angel Studio theatrical release. So Angel Studios, they've 162 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:27,720 opened the door. Let's put our money where our hearts are. 163 00:09:27,919 --> 00:09:30,320 Let's go change culture by changing Hollywood. It's Angel dot 164 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:37,000 Com slash Todd. So Zach, this sounds like someone comes 165 00:09:37,039 --> 00:09:41,080 off surgery, okay, And they're on oxygen, and they're on 166 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:44,279 one hundred percent oxygen, and eventually they're on eighty percent 167 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:48,320 oxygen and then forty percent. That's a crucial point. If 168 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,320 they never get off that forty percent oxygen, they never 169 00:09:51,399 --> 00:09:54,120 take that thing out of their nose, they could be 170 00:09:54,159 --> 00:09:56,519 trapped for life on this, right, and so they want 171 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,360 to off that immediately. You have people who try to 172 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:01,440 and smoke bit by bit by bit, but they just 173 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,240 can't get up that last little bit. They can't wake 174 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,639 up without it, they can't function without it. You're telling 175 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:11,320 me government spending has become such a big part of 176 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,639 our economic activity that the Gordian knot we've put around 177 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:20,320 our own necks is that cutting government spending will cut 178 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:21,519 our economy. 179 00:10:22,879 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 3: Adds one hundred percent in the immediate in the immediate future. Okay, 180 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,960 So what you and I both know, and guys, I 181 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,200 am not advocating for permanently higher government spending to boost 182 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:40,240 the economy because it's that's fake, right, It's fake growth 183 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:42,600 because you're spending money, you don't have the juice an economy. 184 00:10:43,519 --> 00:10:45,840 What I've equated it too is it's like you know, 185 00:10:45,919 --> 00:10:48,679 taking an old burnout four cylinder engine and pumping a 186 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:50,720 bunch of nitrous through it and going, oh, look, you 187 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:52,360 know we got a V eight on our hands. Well, no, 188 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:57,480 you don't, right, you know, you don't. Right, It's that 189 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:01,840 that's temporary and it's juice. But but yeah, you have 190 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,200 to when you're seven percent of GDP. I mean, but 191 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:07,919 they put it in perspective. And I've said this before, 192 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,240 but I think people need to keep these numbers in mind. 193 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:13,200 We all went through the financial crisis of eight o nine. 194 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:18,080 That whole miserable experience was a three point eight percent 195 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:23,639 reduction in GDP. Okay, so think about this. So you're 196 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:27,720 running seven percent deficits right now. To get down to 197 00:11:27,919 --> 00:11:30,240 three percent deficits we're on which you are on the 198 00:11:30,399 --> 00:11:35,039 high side of normal. That amount of cutting is four 199 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:41,320 percent of the entire economy. So that so to get 200 00:11:41,399 --> 00:11:44,639 back to a balanced budget, you're talking about an economic 201 00:11:44,759 --> 00:11:48,759 contraction that is on par, if not slightly greater than 202 00:11:48,759 --> 00:11:53,200 the financial crisis. So my point is not that it's 203 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:57,399 impossible to tackle. My point is that I think the 204 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:01,879 Trump administration came in and I don't think Trump or 205 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:06,360 the advisor's closest to him were fully aware of you know, 206 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:10,480 the total, you know, just just the the vastness of 207 00:12:10,519 --> 00:12:15,559 the issue. And eventually, if you cut that spending, the 208 00:12:16,399 --> 00:12:20,360 eventually our economy will be better for it. Private market 209 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:23,039 will come in and fill that gap. But it takes time. 210 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:27,559 And that's the that's one of the very nefarious and 211 00:12:27,639 --> 00:12:32,039 deleterious parts about going down this printed money path because 212 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,960 the impact is instant, right, it doesn't take twenty four 213 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:37,960 months to get up, and you're just shoving money around, 214 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,200 giving it to everybody. Everybody, Oh, mark it up, great, 215 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:44,360 unemployment back, you know, it's which is which is great, okay, 216 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,519 but it's not real. And so the further you drift, 217 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:49,840 And that's the problem with deficits is it's like anything 218 00:12:49,879 --> 00:12:53,279 in life, it's like sin, right, Like the longer you go. 219 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:55,720 I remember in our Bible study, we had a we 220 00:12:55,759 --> 00:12:58,200 had a guy there that was a test pilot for 221 00:12:59,039 --> 00:13:04,000 Boeing and he talked about how, you know, flying in 222 00:13:04,039 --> 00:13:07,960 airplanes a lot like managing your life. Co pilot the 223 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,399 co pilot systems they have in there or the automatic 224 00:13:10,399 --> 00:13:14,000 pilot right that you know systems they have in there. 225 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,159 It doesn't make these big course corrections to keep the 226 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,559 plane on the right track. What it's doing is is 227 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:23,360 making little, constant corrections, right, little and they're painless. You 228 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:25,279 barely even feel them. If you're sitting in the airplane, right, 229 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,559 you can't even tell. And it's just little course corrections. 230 00:13:27,799 --> 00:13:30,039 And that's the way our lives should be to avoid 231 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:33,600 those big penal things. But the longer we drift off course, 232 00:13:33,919 --> 00:13:36,879 the more painful back course correction is, the more air 233 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,080 speed we lose getting back on track, the longer the 234 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:44,120 flight takes. And the same is true on the fiscal side, right, 235 00:13:44,159 --> 00:13:48,080 the bigger the imbalances get. Here's here's the scary part, Todd. 236 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:52,440 If you go into recession now, you're not looking at 237 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,799 a seven percent deficit, yeare, You're probably looking at ten 238 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,200 to ten to twelve, right, to put that in perspective, 239 00:13:59,279 --> 00:14:05,440 Brazil's it. So I mean it, it's go time. And 240 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:09,759 that's what I totally understand what Trump's up against, and 241 00:14:09,799 --> 00:14:12,080 so I'm not at all bashing him either. This is 242 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,440 a complicated issue and it's not just dis ease like 243 00:14:15,519 --> 00:14:17,639 you could just cut the spending. But then the question 244 00:14:17,759 --> 00:14:20,240 is is who's going to get elected next time? Right? 245 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:22,519 Speaker 1: Did they just the people come back and plug it 246 00:14:22,559 --> 00:14:25,480 back in right. So Cyce Lewis said, you reminded me 247 00:14:25,519 --> 00:14:28,120 of something My wife got discreated and it hangs in 248 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,679 our bedroom wall. Is from C. S. Lewis and mere Christianity. 249 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,960 Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is 250 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,080 why the little decisions you and I make every day 251 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:40,559 are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today 252 00:14:40,679 --> 00:14:43,080 is to capture of a strategic point from which a 253 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,159 few months later you may be able to go on 254 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:49,679 to victories you never dreamed of. And apparently trivial indulgence 255 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:52,679 in lust or anger today is the loss of a 256 00:14:52,759 --> 00:14:55,399 ridge or a railway line or bridgehead from which the 257 00:14:55,519 --> 00:14:59,639 enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible. So some are 258 00:14:59,639 --> 00:15:02,720 a long line. We took government spending that we have 259 00:15:02,759 --> 00:15:05,600 to spend, okay, so we have to protect our borders, 260 00:15:06,159 --> 00:15:09,159 We have to fund our military. We have to pay 261 00:15:09,159 --> 00:15:11,639 our government employees for their work. All you know, it's 262 00:15:11,679 --> 00:15:15,039 audible work. They deserve a paycheck. And I think you 263 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:16,960 know Satan looks at that, looks at the structure of 264 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:21,360 the United States. We are this unique experiment in self governance. 265 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,720 We recognize in our founding documents that God Almighty gave 266 00:15:25,799 --> 00:15:28,519 us rights unalienable by the governments. That had to really 267 00:15:28,519 --> 00:15:32,759 anger Satan because we recognize God's majesty, his power. There's 268 00:15:32,799 --> 00:15:36,159 religious liberty here like never before. So he can take 269 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,000 something like that. He can't invent, so he can distort, 270 00:15:39,039 --> 00:15:42,480 he can depress, he can distract. Oh, government spending, that's good, 271 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,799 you should do more, right, And there's that famous line 272 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:52,960 from Johnson talking about the welfare program. President Johnson, you know, 273 00:15:53,799 --> 00:15:56,960 let me feed those N word people, you know, more 274 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,120 and more welfare, and I'll have the N word population 275 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,639 out of the Democrat parties hands. And there are entire 276 00:16:02,679 --> 00:16:05,600 populations of people who've been content to believing the only 277 00:16:05,639 --> 00:16:07,039 way they can have a fruitful life is with the 278 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:10,440 government check from a kind, kind woman like Hillary Clinton 279 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,320 who loves them deeply and dearly and can't stop thinking 280 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:15,879 about them all the time. So that that started on 281 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:20,679 an individual level, and then you had the disaster of well, 282 00:16:20,679 --> 00:16:23,320 but if the black father goes to work, the welfare 283 00:16:23,399 --> 00:16:26,279 is gone and you broke up the black families. You 284 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,480 have government spending in all the schools, et cetera. So 285 00:16:29,559 --> 00:16:36,639 now you're saying that that horrible phrase welfare queen. Our 286 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:38,240 country is a bunch of welfare queens. 287 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and and the way you can tell like, 288 00:16:45,039 --> 00:16:47,759 let's let's let's get down to brass tacks. Okay, all right, 289 00:16:47,799 --> 00:16:51,879 So when we're talking budget, we got to look at. 290 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: A pen and paper coming out. 291 00:16:53,759 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta go. We gotta look at medicare yep, 292 00:16:58,039 --> 00:17:01,519 we got to look at social security, right, yep, we 293 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,920 got to look at national defense, and then we got 294 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,640 to look at interest on the debt. Okay. The reason 295 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:12,960 I point those out is because without significant congressional action, 296 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:17,799 unprecedented congressional action, actually, you're not going to touch any 297 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:20,599 of that spending. Okay. And that spending, I believe is 298 00:17:20,599 --> 00:17:24,799 about eighty five percent of the budget. So right, so 299 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,880 you what you're dealing with? Now, does that mean there 300 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:30,880 aren't aren't other things we have to fund? No, of 301 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:33,079 course there are things that we have to fund outside 302 00:17:33,079 --> 00:17:36,839 of that. My point is until we're prepared to tackle 303 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,519 those four things, everything else is nonsense. 304 00:17:39,599 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 1: Okay, I agree, totally. What then, let me offer this 305 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:50,400 that that video clip we're paid, we played puppets who 306 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:54,119 are grooming kids into backing a non biblical belief about 307 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:59,599 human sexuality. They can't cut that thinking about cutting it. 308 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,920 Lindsey Graham just spent four hundred and eleven thousand, six 309 00:18:04,039 --> 00:18:08,400 hundred and thirty four dollars for hotel stays in Ukraine. 310 00:18:11,079 --> 00:18:18,279 Our money. Lindsey Graham's a multimillionaire as a senator, he 311 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:22,400 was a jag officer in the Navy. He was a lawyer. 312 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:24,480 We can't cut that. 313 00:18:26,319 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 3: Now, no, I no, no, So I know you want 314 00:18:29,519 --> 00:18:31,640 that cuts yeah, yo, heck yeah. 315 00:18:31,839 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: I'm saying I don't know about you. And maybe this 316 00:18:34,319 --> 00:18:38,119 is different at Bulwark. I'm guessing it's not. But if 317 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,440 an expense sheet came across your wife's desk for one 318 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,759 of your guys who went, let's say, to an industry 319 00:18:44,759 --> 00:18:46,519 event on your behalf to go learn some of the 320 00:18:46,519 --> 00:18:49,640 new things in the industry, and came back and presented 321 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,559 to you a four hundred and eleven thousand, six hundred 322 00:18:52,599 --> 00:18:57,319 and thirty four dollars bill for a hotel stay, they 323 00:18:57,359 --> 00:18:58,960 might not work there very long. 324 00:19:00,319 --> 00:19:00,519 Speaker 2: Well. 325 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 3: Either that or I'd promote him because I just think 326 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,200 it was such a hilarious joke. I'd just be like, 327 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:07,720 you got me. That's a good joke. That's a good one. 328 00:19:07,759 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you got Papa laughing. 329 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:11,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, why don't you and the wife or the kids 330 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:13,839 come over for dinner to night? Are you? Are you gonna? 331 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:18,720 But are you gonna pay me back? This guy's got 332 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:22,200 all the jokes. Yeah, I mean yeah, no, and and 333 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,079 and and that's and that's where I was. So that's 334 00:19:25,079 --> 00:19:27,160 why I was so grossed out by all the criticism 335 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,279 against DOAGE, because I'm just sitting there going, hey, so guys, 336 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:35,160 when spending is out of control, you don't get it 337 00:19:35,319 --> 00:19:39,640 under control by laughing at and minimizing the discovery of 338 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,480 waste and fraud, right like, that's that's called the low 339 00:19:42,519 --> 00:19:45,440 hanging fruit. That's actually exactly where you should. 340 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:49,559 Speaker 1: Write, right right, like, like a third of our money 341 00:19:49,599 --> 00:19:52,480 that goes to the treasury, we will never know where 342 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:52,759 it went. 343 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 3: Do you know that? 344 00:19:55,039 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 1: That should have caused an atomic explosion of morality in Washington, DC, 345 00:20:01,079 --> 00:20:05,359 where heads exploded and everybody said no, right now, all 346 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,519 government spending is tracked or it does not go through 347 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,880 the treasury. Is to deny any spending that does not 348 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,240 have a tracking code to it, and we're going to 349 00:20:15,279 --> 00:20:17,920 pay a bounty to people who can't find it. With 350 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,920 this stuff, That's what I mean. Those that because I'm 351 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:22,440 want to go through the debt clock because in our 352 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:27,319 conversation here, I'm looking at these numbers US federal debt 353 00:20:27,319 --> 00:20:30,160 to GDP ratio. Let's look at this together in a second. 354 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,640 Nineteen sixty, nineteen eighty, two thousand and twenty twenty five. 355 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:35,920 Let's look at this together in just a second. And 356 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,759 let me tell you this. You've been around me and 357 00:20:37,799 --> 00:20:39,680 you got we've been friends for a good long number 358 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:41,559 of years. You've been on the show countless times. You're 359 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:46,240 indispensable duror success. Would you regard me as pretty obsessive 360 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:48,640 about what I eat and drink and how I exercise 361 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:49,319 and track all that? 362 00:20:51,759 --> 00:20:53,559 Speaker 3: I mean, I think Attila the Hunt would call you. 363 00:20:55,359 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, I found out I have insulin resistance. Really, isn't 364 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:00,720 it crazy? 365 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,400 Speaker 3: Yeah? I've never a millionaires. I never to guess that. 366 00:21:04,559 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: So you I think briefly met my friend Ben, who 367 00:21:08,079 --> 00:21:12,400 is a younger, faster, stronger, better looking, better Christian, better 368 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:16,359 man than me, and he just disclosed to me he 369 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:17,599 has insulin resistance. 370 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,400 Speaker 3: So yeah that he doesn't look at either. 371 00:21:20,519 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 1: Okay, so we're both in the like pre diabetic state, 372 00:21:24,319 --> 00:21:26,960 which is bizarre. And I was talking to my doctor 373 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,720 who's actually his doctor. She checks my hormones every quarter 374 00:21:30,319 --> 00:21:34,119 and she said, yeah, it's It's not horrible, but it's there. 375 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:35,920 And she and I were talking about the fact that 376 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,960 I don't eat enough plants because I eat so many 377 00:21:38,039 --> 00:21:40,039 supplements and meat, and I have three hundred and sixty 378 00:21:40,039 --> 00:21:42,880 grams of protein every day. So it was so funny 379 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:44,920 because I'm sitting there. This is a biptomizer story. I 380 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,279 was sitting there and I had barbering breaks, like oh, 381 00:21:48,279 --> 00:21:50,200 hold on, hold on second, hold a second, and I 382 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:51,759 got this out and I showed it to her and 383 00:21:51,799 --> 00:21:53,440 she goes, she read it. 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All right, the national debts 413 00:23:22,559 --> 00:23:26,680 the official numbers thirty six trillion, nine hundred and twenty 414 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,359 nine billion, two hundred and twenty two million, three hundred 415 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,880 and sixty eight thousand, nine hundred and twenty five dollars. 416 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,319 Debt per taxpayer three hundred and twenty three thousand and 417 00:23:35,319 --> 00:23:37,200 fifty one dollars. Here's the numbers. I wanted to look 418 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,599 at US federal debt to GDP ratio nineteen sixty fifty 419 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,680 two point eight nineteen eighty thirty four point five, nine 420 00:23:45,079 --> 00:23:47,839 two thousand. It's fifty seven point sixty five right now, 421 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:52,079 it's one hundred and twenty two point nine to one percent. 422 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:59,480 That's federal debt to GDP ratio, Zach. If that reaches 423 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:04,079 two hundred pre we don't come back. 424 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:12,759 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, what's more concerning about it is it opens 425 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:18,480 up really Pandora's box, meaning you know, nobody really knows 426 00:24:18,519 --> 00:24:21,640 what the world looks like in that scenario. They you know, 427 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,680 you're gonna have prognosticate, well, a dollar you're gonna collap like, Look, 428 00:24:25,799 --> 00:24:28,359 it's not that simple and It's not that simple, because 429 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,480 the dollar is the world reserve currency, and people are like, 430 00:24:31,519 --> 00:24:35,440 you're gonna lose reserve status. You're like, again, not that simple, guys. 431 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,640 These things just don't happen in vacuums, right, Like, meaning, 432 00:24:40,319 --> 00:24:45,480 these things are usually accompanied by wars, revolutions. You know, 433 00:24:45,519 --> 00:24:48,799 it's you don't you know, I'm not I'm obviously not 434 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,559 wishing any of these things. I just history is really 435 00:24:51,599 --> 00:24:55,240 replete with these examples, and it doesn't end well, it 436 00:24:55,279 --> 00:24:57,240 doesn't end well. And then, like you said, I mean, 437 00:24:57,559 --> 00:25:00,279 there really is no thirty eighth parallel because these things 438 00:25:00,319 --> 00:25:03,839 are so nuanced, and there's there's there's so there's there's 439 00:25:03,839 --> 00:25:09,519 so much to them. But you know, at rest assured 440 00:25:09,559 --> 00:25:11,119 at one hundred and twenty two, one hundred and twenty 441 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,240 three percent debt to GDP and I and I think 442 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,960 the other thing to point out too, that's not a 443 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,319 that's not a high water mark. And what I mean 444 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,359 by that is we're not at the bottom of a 445 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,799 recession right now. Right. I would be far less concerned 446 00:25:23,799 --> 00:25:26,960 about that debt to GDP number if we had nine 447 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,559 percent unemployment and we were just exiting a really nasty recession, 448 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:37,680 right The problem is is you've got record tax receipts record. Okay, 449 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,240 so it's not going to get better from here, right, 450 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,079 Like it's the there's no natural tension that's going to 451 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,640 ease in this situation if you continue on the path 452 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,480 you're on, right, Like, there's the the so the new 453 00:25:51,559 --> 00:25:53,480 sole only gets tighter from here. Yeah, you know, like 454 00:25:53,519 --> 00:25:55,319 I said, you go into recession and those numbers are 455 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,680 going to get worse in a hurry, you know, because 456 00:25:57,799 --> 00:26:00,279 then you're then you're gonna have soaring debt because that's 457 00:26:00,279 --> 00:26:03,319 not gonna slow down in a lot of ways, it'll 458 00:26:03,319 --> 00:26:05,720 pick up because you and I know both know what's 459 00:26:05,759 --> 00:26:08,279 going to happen. You go into a nasty recession. What 460 00:26:08,319 --> 00:26:10,680 are they gonna do. They're gonna do the compassionate thing. 461 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,440 They're gonna print more money, right, so then you've got 462 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,599 a reduction in GDP and an increase in government spending 463 00:26:16,599 --> 00:26:17,240 at the same time. 464 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:23,599 Speaker 1: If you if you're Tom Steyer, who is a guy 465 00:26:23,599 --> 00:26:25,880 who doesn't dig America that much, or George Cerros who 466 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,000 openly hates American says it needs to be taken down 467 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,200 a few notches, is there a way you could short 468 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:35,599 America like in terms of shorting US as a stock, 469 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:36,519 if you look at US. 470 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:40,079 Speaker 3: As a stock, yeah, yeah, the way you short it 471 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:44,799 is to be long China. Oh so yeah, Chinese investments. 472 00:26:46,319 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 1: Okay, so long China is shorting America? 473 00:26:49,079 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean over yeah, over the long like over 474 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,480 a longer run. I'm not advising anybody go out and 475 00:26:55,519 --> 00:26:57,440 do that right now, put that trade on right, right, 476 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,400 But what I'm saying is yes, effectively right, so meaning 477 00:27:01,599 --> 00:27:05,400 somebody's system has to give here at some point. 478 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 1: So could we go figure out where the bets are 479 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:12,079 lined up in terms of when the big crash comes, 480 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,759 if it comes. I mean that would take a lot 481 00:27:14,759 --> 00:27:18,279 of work, but I imagine you could find that, couldn't you. 482 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:23,079 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, if you look at the you could. 483 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,000 The problem is is that a lot of those bets 484 00:27:25,079 --> 00:27:28,039 right now before those situations happen, look relatively small. If 485 00:27:28,039 --> 00:27:31,079 you're talking like big short bets and things like that, yeah, 486 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,240 but if you're talking about China, yeah, I mean you 487 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,279 can go. Look. I mean, go look at how active 488 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,440 Alex Soros has been investing over in China, right, go 489 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,480 look at go look at Larry Fink and the black 490 00:27:41,559 --> 00:27:44,960 Rocks of the world. Right, look at you know, even 491 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,640 I don't think he's nearly as bad of a guy 492 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,160 at all, But you don't go look at Ray Dalio's 493 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:55,319 advocacy for investment in China. Yeah, and and they're never 494 00:27:55,400 --> 00:28:00,000 gonna say this, but look that they see economic opportunity 495 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,240 in China, and anybody that looks and knows anything can 496 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,319 But the other part of that trade is that is 497 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:11,079 a trade that is simultaneously a hedge against the US 498 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,839 not being the top dog anymore. That's one hundred percent 499 00:28:13,839 --> 00:28:15,559 of motivator buying that trade. 500 00:28:15,559 --> 00:28:19,039 Speaker 1: Okay, And I just want people to know that there 501 00:28:19,039 --> 00:28:20,799 are those forces that are lining up for that, and 502 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,240 they may be making a bed when this happens. You 503 00:28:23,279 --> 00:28:27,079 can watch China move into gold, you can watch China 504 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:33,079 move into fresh water. You can see China buying American farmland. 505 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,359 I don't know if you saw this. Cash Patel just 506 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,079 said sort of a kind of a funny, goofy sort 507 00:28:39,119 --> 00:28:42,160 of thing. They've arrested a couple of Chinese nationals in 508 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:47,799 our country who had brought in a biotoxin that can 509 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,559 poison wheats and grains and make people very very sick 510 00:28:51,599 --> 00:28:54,680 from eating wheat grain. Barley just brought it into America. 511 00:28:54,839 --> 00:28:58,279 Speaker 3: Just so, I mean, are they are they staying with 512 00:28:58,319 --> 00:29:04,559 Anthony Fauci? Okay, I mean it's probably guys he was funding, right, 513 00:29:04,599 --> 00:29:05,599 I would think, well. 514 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: Yes, I mean I am science itself, all right. I 515 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,599 want to play for you something Elon said, and then 516 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,680 I want to ask you the following question. I'll give 517 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,480 your heads up. Now, what was the most important thing 518 00:29:15,519 --> 00:29:19,559 that Doge found? And what's the most if you if 519 00:29:19,599 --> 00:29:23,119 you were sitting with the Republican Congress and having gone 520 00:29:23,119 --> 00:29:26,440 through all the pragmatism, all the value providers today, and 521 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:31,039 there's one thing they have to do based upon what 522 00:29:31,079 --> 00:29:33,720 we learned from Doge. I want you to answer that. 523 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,559 And Zach and I are going to be getting more 524 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,759 different planes, which sucks, but we're going to be down 525 00:29:39,799 --> 00:29:42,039 in Port of Art to Mexico, down at renew Healthcare 526 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:47,119 and I'm not this time. Actually, actually I take that back. 527 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,039 I am going to get a treatment, not stem cells 528 00:29:50,039 --> 00:29:52,559 this time. I'm getting m N treatment which is going 529 00:29:52,599 --> 00:29:56,480 to help me with my metabolism, boost and energy. It 530 00:29:56,519 --> 00:29:59,519 gets rid of inflammation. This is just an IV. I'm 531 00:29:59,519 --> 00:30:01,119 going to get that. Zach is I don't want to 532 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,000 violate hippos. So you know the thing you're getting done 533 00:30:05,039 --> 00:30:07,079 to your ears and so you look more like a 534 00:30:07,079 --> 00:30:10,839 back creature that's on you. So don't actually do that. 535 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,240 You should get the heart screening, but I think your heart. 536 00:30:13,279 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 3: So I'm getting a septum piercing. That's yeah. 537 00:30:18,079 --> 00:30:19,759 Speaker 1: They do that with the stem cells too. Then you 538 00:30:19,759 --> 00:30:21,440 grow second nose that through your sceptum. 539 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:22,559 Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. 540 00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 1: So they and I can't wait. I want to be 541 00:30:24,519 --> 00:30:26,640 there when you see their lab. By the way, this 542 00:30:26,759 --> 00:30:30,319 is a mind blower. They're located next door literally share 543 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,759 an office with or a building with a world class 544 00:30:33,799 --> 00:30:36,799 hospital there. This matters because they take them biblical cords 545 00:30:37,319 --> 00:30:40,839 from women they've paid for their entire pregnancy. They track 546 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,119 their health before and after. They take those ubilical cords 547 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,880 down to their lab and they never leave. They reject 548 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,079 eighty percent of the ones they get because they are 549 00:30:50,519 --> 00:30:52,640 insane about quality. I didn't tell you this, but there 550 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,599 was We have a mutual friend that he's a client 551 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,720 of yours, friend of mine, and they were doing treatment 552 00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,839 one day. They're down there for a couple of weeks 553 00:31:00,839 --> 00:31:03,480 and they called and or texted and said, hey, we 554 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,039 were testing the stem cells this morning. They're not reactive enough. 555 00:31:06,119 --> 00:31:10,000 Let's reschedule for it tomorrow. And they could have injected 556 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,759 them and it wouldn't have harmed her at all. They 557 00:31:12,839 --> 00:31:15,680 just wouldn't have done their job. So they admitted that 558 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,519 that is such high class ethics. So this will be 559 00:31:18,519 --> 00:31:20,359 the first time. I'm not getting stem cell treatment there, 560 00:31:20,359 --> 00:31:22,119 but I think I'm going to get the heart screening. 561 00:31:23,039 --> 00:31:24,759 And I don't think I have any problem with my heart. 562 00:31:24,759 --> 00:31:27,319 But I've seen worldcath athletes go down there and ended 563 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,119 up like finding out they needed open heart surgery. You 564 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:31,920 can go down and get the stem cells that helped 565 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,240 solve arthritis that you're told can't be solved. It can 566 00:31:34,279 --> 00:31:37,079 help you avoid surgeries you're told you can't avoid. There 567 00:31:37,079 --> 00:31:39,960 are things like aesthetic treatments instead of getting botox, which 568 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,440 is cal toxin in your face. Stem cells actually bring 569 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,119 back the cells. It can actually solve male pattern baldness, 570 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:51,559 even female baldness because again it rejuvenates the actual tissue. Okay, 571 00:31:51,559 --> 00:31:53,519 it's not hair plugs. I've had those and I don't 572 00:31:53,519 --> 00:31:56,279 ever want those again. So go to renew dot Healthcare. 573 00:31:56,319 --> 00:31:59,240 It's e n ue dot Healthcare, and please tell them 574 00:31:59,279 --> 00:32:01,240 are part of the Todd Herm Show family, and I'm 575 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,000 looking into that. I don't know if you saw this, 576 00:32:03,039 --> 00:32:05,359 but they can grow that second arm on your back 577 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,079 or the third arm. That's it's expensive, but I think 578 00:32:09,079 --> 00:32:09,880 that'd be worthwhile. 579 00:32:10,599 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be very handy. Right, that's my day. 580 00:32:16,759 --> 00:32:17,839 That's my dad joke of the day. 581 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 1: But to boom boom, Zach Abraham, everybody, all right, here's 582 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:24,359 what Elon must have. Now note this, here's Elon on 583 00:32:24,599 --> 00:32:28,279 CBS News one of their morning shows. And Zach. Notice 584 00:32:28,319 --> 00:32:31,400 they're not attacking Elon Musk anymore. 585 00:32:31,799 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 6: So you know, I was like disappointed to see the 586 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:41,960 massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget depths that 587 00:32:42,079 --> 00:32:44,720 not doesn't decrease it, and that reminds the work that 588 00:32:44,759 --> 00:32:45,720 the Noche team is doing. 589 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,720 Speaker 1: I actually thought that when this big, beautiful bill came along. 590 00:32:48,759 --> 00:32:51,839 I mean, like everything he's done on Doge gets wiped 591 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:52,799 out in the first year. 592 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,680 Speaker 6: I think, I think a bill can be can be 593 00:32:55,799 --> 00:32:57,480 can be big or it can be beautiful. 594 00:32:58,519 --> 00:33:01,640 Speaker 1: But I don't know if it could be both. Why 595 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:02,880 do you think they're treating him so nice? 596 00:33:03,839 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 3: Oh well, because what he's saying now doesn't go one 597 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,720 hundred percent in line with Trump. And I was looking 598 00:33:10,759 --> 00:33:13,000 at that last night because you look and hear the 599 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,480 headlines and it's, you know, the end of the romance 600 00:33:17,599 --> 00:33:20,319 and they're at war. And then you read the details 601 00:33:20,359 --> 00:33:22,079 of what Musk said and you're like, well, he didn't 602 00:33:22,119 --> 00:33:25,359 say anything, like he's just expressing an opinion, like you 603 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,119 know what I mean, Like, he didn't say anything vile 604 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:28,880 about Trump, He didn't turn his back on im. He 605 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:32,039 didn't say he's a bad guy. I think he's being honest, 606 00:33:32,079 --> 00:33:35,279 and I think he's saying what Republicans are afraid to say. 607 00:33:35,319 --> 00:33:40,319 And yeah, I mean the bill. Yeah. Now here's the 608 00:33:40,359 --> 00:33:42,680 other thing I think is unfair about this process is 609 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,839 whatever bill he passes has to get through Congress, right, 610 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,480 so the constraints of that. I think the people that 611 00:33:51,519 --> 00:33:55,039 are being hard on Trump aren't being fair about that, 612 00:33:55,279 --> 00:33:58,759 which is, hey, guys, you know, I can design the 613 00:33:58,759 --> 00:34:02,960 most idealistic, conservative friendly, deficit reducing bill in history, but 614 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,680 if nobody votes for it, what does it matter? 615 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:10,159 Speaker 1: Right? Right? So I have Yeah, So let me offer 616 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:12,960 what I think was the most important discovery from Ditch. 617 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,599 And I've already mentioned one, and that's that our money 618 00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:19,000 was not being tracked. That's pretty stink and important. Nothing 619 00:34:19,039 --> 00:34:20,719 we can do about that now other than make sure 620 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,079 it's tracked on a go forward basis. I would say 621 00:34:23,079 --> 00:34:27,880 it's this. The structure of USAID was designed to launder money, 622 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,400 so you can have pseudo cia ops, but it's all political. 623 00:34:34,119 --> 00:34:36,119 All of it was political. Yeah, there's some things where 624 00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:38,280 we've fed people praise gods, and we can do that, 625 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,440 and we should do that to some degree. But here's 626 00:34:42,599 --> 00:34:46,519 my solution to this stuff. Like the NGOs who were 627 00:34:46,599 --> 00:34:50,880 destabilizing America and they were bringing elections and they were 628 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,960 paying for the bricks at the protests and they're still 629 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:57,239 doing that. They were funding fake Christian churches one hundred 630 00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,400 percent of revenues coming to heretical churches that aren't the 631 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:01,960 least bit Christian baith to call them that. We were 632 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,800 forced to pay for those things. Here's my solution. You 633 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:10,960 take one dollar in government money. You are a subject 634 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:18,480 to Foier requests. We own your emails, your communication, and 635 00:35:18,599 --> 00:35:21,639 any act to try to get around that, such as 636 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:26,840 communicating off of company email, that's a felony. Every time 637 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,679 that happens, that's a felony. So choose Hey, Harvard you 638 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:36,000 want our money, sweet, take it. We citizen journalists and 639 00:35:36,039 --> 00:35:39,440 others we get to do foyas. You try to dodge 640 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,840 the foyas. It's a felony for every time you've done it. 641 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,079 Because I think then that's one way to bring sunlight 642 00:35:45,119 --> 00:35:47,440 to this where it's very difficult to take money out 643 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,079 of politics, particularly given what you've talked about today that 644 00:35:50,119 --> 00:35:54,000 our nation is sadly addicted to government spending. That would 645 00:35:54,039 --> 00:35:56,960 be me seeing the most important thing is the degree 646 00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:01,639 of infrastructure fraud and fraud invites and encouraged by infrastructure 647 00:36:01,639 --> 00:36:03,920 and hidden by infrastructure. So that's my way around it. 648 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,480 That's what I think is most important. What about you 649 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:05,960 in terms of. 650 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:11,239 Speaker 3: DOCH So it's not going to show up as a 651 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:15,079 line item, you know that. And it got brushed over 652 00:36:15,119 --> 00:36:18,360 by the media, of course, just because the size of it. 653 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,920 It wasn't it wasn't significant in terms of size. But 654 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,559 I think it was the revelations and the and the 655 00:36:24,559 --> 00:36:26,119 proof that we got that came out of the U. S. 656 00:36:26,159 --> 00:36:26,360 Speaker 2: A I. 657 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:34,119 Speaker 3: D Deal. And now unfortunately we have a I'm gonna 658 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,480 talk about our media, but an extraordinarily broken media, and 659 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,760 and the right things don't get functioned, or the right 660 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:41,760 things don't get discussed and brought to light. We all 661 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:46,159 know that. But to me, the revolution, the revelations and 662 00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:47,800 at U S A I. D. And some of the 663 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,559 most egregious ones were the money that the Soros Foundation 664 00:36:50,679 --> 00:36:57,320 received to fund the undermining of our national judicial system. 665 00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,519 And what I mean People are like, oh, that's a 666 00:36:59,559 --> 00:37:02,800 political valuation. No it isn't. If you go listen to 667 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,880 what that part of the Soros Foundation was trying to do, 668 00:37:06,199 --> 00:37:09,639 that that branch of open border society was trying to do. 669 00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:15,000 Is it was purposefully trying to get elected prosecutors and 670 00:37:15,159 --> 00:37:19,159 judges that did not adhere to the constitution, right right, 671 00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:24,960 So what we were using tax payer dollars to fund 672 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:31,199 a private institution that is overtly and admittedly trying to 673 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:36,039 undermine our judicial system, right Like, No, that is so 674 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:40,079 crazy to me. And how that isn't a scandal is 675 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,519 just beyond me. It's true and it's not true. Yeah, yeah, 676 00:37:44,559 --> 00:37:51,000 it was. It's treason at the very least, right, what 677 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,559 the what's the other one. I was looking this up 678 00:37:54,559 --> 00:37:56,599 the other day. Different you got treason and then you've 679 00:37:56,599 --> 00:38:01,599 got seditions, sedition. Yeah, at the very least it's sedition, 680 00:38:02,679 --> 00:38:06,920 and and the fact that that doesn't get mentioned, right, 681 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:11,400 the fact that nobody talks about like Fauci, that we 682 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,639 all know him lying under oath, and I know that's 683 00:38:13,679 --> 00:38:16,280 not part of DOJ. But the things that are most 684 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:21,400 concerning to me is that when we find this corruption 685 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,880 and this criminality that is undeniable, right, smoking gun after 686 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:30,800 smoking gun, and for political reasons, nobody cares. And that 687 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,000 that to me is the scariest thing, because when the populace, 688 00:38:34,039 --> 00:38:36,599 when we get to a point where as long as 689 00:38:36,639 --> 00:38:39,039 I'm giving getting my government cheese and as long as 690 00:38:39,079 --> 00:38:42,079 I'm getting mine, I don't care what kind of criminality 691 00:38:42,119 --> 00:38:44,559 is going on behind the scenes. You know, it's it's 692 00:38:44,599 --> 00:38:48,440 it's hard to rescue drowning men. It's almost impossible to 693 00:38:48,519 --> 00:38:51,559 rescue drowning men that don't want to be rescued. And 694 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,840 that's I fear, that's where we're at. 695 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,480 Speaker 1: I agree, And they take Kuma Abadin, now divorced from 696 00:38:57,519 --> 00:39:01,199 Anthony wiener Uh and with al sorrows, and New York 697 00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:05,639 Magazine runs this power picture of them lounging on this 698 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,679 you know, high rooftop overlooking the new hipster village of 699 00:39:08,679 --> 00:39:14,239 Brooklyn and obviously wagging it interfaces. Right, they're power couple, 700 00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,199 and nothing you can do about it, and he should 701 00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,119 be at the least the thing that should happen is 702 00:39:19,119 --> 00:39:22,480 he should be deported. So that's a depressing thing. You 703 00:39:22,559 --> 00:39:26,280 shared something on Twitter that speaks to a human spirit 704 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,519 that there's still good people. I was thinking of the 705 00:39:28,519 --> 00:39:31,440 Willy Wonka thing, Alex, You'll have to talk with this. 706 00:39:32,039 --> 00:39:34,920 Into the dark world, the light shines, remember that. At 707 00:39:35,159 --> 00:39:37,199 the end of We've looked it up and grabbed that. 708 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:43,039 It's the closing scene. It's Gene Hackman and Willy Willy 709 00:39:43,079 --> 00:39:47,360 Wonka's in the chocolate factory and Charlie returns the Everlasting Gobstopper, 710 00:39:48,119 --> 00:39:50,920 and there's that moment because because Gene Wilder has done 711 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:54,000 this thing and you stole from me, and it says 712 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:59,199 in paragraph four, sub section C mark D, line four, 713 00:40:00,039 --> 00:40:03,320 can I say shame on you, sir, and and let's 714 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,519 go Charlie or yeah, let's let's go. Yeah, let's go Charlie. 715 00:40:06,519 --> 00:40:09,480 He's a crook. We'll take this cop stopper and they 716 00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,719 start heading out and Gene Hackman turns around to his 717 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,159 desk and Alex to pull this video here in for 718 00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,920 seconds and so I'll bring that back. But then there's 719 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,320 this moment and it has to do not with chocolate, 720 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,239 but with something else that happened to you and your son. 721 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:25,639 Speaking of chocolates, there is a bone Frog coffee and 722 00:40:25,679 --> 00:40:28,159 it's a blend of bone Frog that my wife really loves. 723 00:40:28,199 --> 00:40:32,360 It's an Irish blend, Irish true and this is my 724 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,519 wife's favorite blend of the bone Frog far as I know, 725 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,039 and it is it has a chocolate taste to it, 726 00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:41,559 and it is a special blend that Tim helped create. 727 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,119 Tim is a retired Navy seal, did three tours on 728 00:40:45,119 --> 00:40:47,480 her behalf as a medic of the seal teams, and 729 00:40:47,559 --> 00:40:50,440 he really likes his Irish background. And he created a 730 00:40:50,559 --> 00:40:54,320 Celtic cross that's the same cross that Pete hegseth Ward. 731 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,880 It turns out that's a historical cross. I thought it 732 00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,480 was just this big white supremacist thing. Turns out it's historical. 733 00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:03,480 It was on the cover of the funeral thing for 734 00:41:03,519 --> 00:41:07,440 a Jimmy Carter. It's on the floor of the National Cathedral. 735 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:09,639 But this is a very special one because it also 736 00:41:09,679 --> 00:41:12,960 brings into this the Navy seals and Tim ofcourse, loves 737 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,679 the seals, loves the herestory as a warrior. So try 738 00:41:15,679 --> 00:41:18,280 this Irish True. Go to Bonefrog Coffee dot com slash 739 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,559 Todd's promo code tod to get ten percent off your 740 00:41:20,599 --> 00:41:23,639 first purchase, fifteen percent off subscription coffee. And don't think 741 00:41:23,679 --> 00:41:25,760 Tim mikes a coffee his own. He's actually mentored by 742 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,239 a guy named Dave Stewart who invented a little company 743 00:41:28,679 --> 00:41:31,199 called Seattle's Best Coffee that got so big that he 744 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,320 forced Howard Schultz at Starbucks to buy him. It's a 745 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:37,079 Bonefrog Coffee dot Com slash todd promo code Todd. It's 746 00:41:37,079 --> 00:41:40,039 called Irish True. So Alex is going to work finding 747 00:41:40,079 --> 00:41:42,559 this video and what is it there? Are you kidding me? 748 00:41:42,599 --> 00:41:43,000 Speaker 3: You got it? 749 00:41:43,559 --> 00:41:46,159 Speaker 1: Oh, he's putting it in right now. So I'll pay 750 00:41:46,159 --> 00:41:48,559 that off in a second. But this happens at a 751 00:41:48,599 --> 00:41:51,960 baseball game and you you called this out on Twitter. 752 00:41:52,039 --> 00:41:55,079 It's Julio Rodriguez, you wrote is a class act. This 753 00:41:55,159 --> 00:41:57,440 kid remember that small interaction for the rest of his life. 754 00:41:57,559 --> 00:42:00,400 You had a comment on top of that. Here's what happens, 755 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:02,800 little boy. 756 00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:10,280 Speaker 7: He's outside the dugout, He's got a ball, gets Julia 757 00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:15,280 Rodriguez's attention, and Hulu Ruggers. 758 00:42:15,519 --> 00:42:18,960 Speaker 4: Signs the ball, but the boy speaks to him and 759 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:25,920 he says, pardon me what and he comes back, comes 760 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,719 back over with the fist bump. Took time out of 761 00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:30,960 his day to do this and did it with joy. 762 00:42:31,679 --> 00:42:34,719 And you said something that was really really cool, and 763 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:35,639 you made a comment on this. 764 00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:37,400 Speaker 1: So tell your story about Huli Rodriguez. 765 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:42,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so funny. Stories that we were sitting 766 00:42:42,199 --> 00:42:45,440 right there. So my son was actually in the same seat. 767 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,719 We were a row up and people were gone, nobody 768 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:49,000 was in that seat, and so he asked me if 769 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,360 he could get up in that chair. Yeah, and I said, yeah, sure, 770 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,199 hop in there. And so he's kind of just you know, 771 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:56,559 really great spot you can got to hang out. Look 772 00:42:56,559 --> 00:42:59,559 in the dugout and I look down in between innings 773 00:42:59,559 --> 00:43:02,119 and Julie standing there on the stairs and he just 774 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,280 strikes up a conversation with him. Your son then, yeah, 775 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,440 right in the middle game, and my son's eight years old, 776 00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:12,039 time right, and he started pointing out other guys and 777 00:43:12,079 --> 00:43:14,320 pulling other guys into the conversation. This is in the 778 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,559 middle of the game, Right in the middle of the game. 779 00:43:17,039 --> 00:43:19,119 And every time he came in out of the dugout, 780 00:43:19,159 --> 00:43:21,679 he's fist bumping my kid the whole time, and they're 781 00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:23,920 chatting it up and I'm standing behind him watching and 782 00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,119 Julio kind of looks back at me and gives me 783 00:43:26,159 --> 00:43:29,559 the nod and the wink with a smile. And you 784 00:43:29,679 --> 00:43:32,039 just sat there and watched it, and you went, God 785 00:43:32,159 --> 00:43:35,960 darn it, there's somebody that really appreciates the platform they've 786 00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,159 been given and sees the little kids and does it 787 00:43:39,199 --> 00:43:42,280 with a smile on his face. It was just it's 788 00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,039 one of you know, it was just it was just 789 00:43:44,079 --> 00:43:45,760 a class act and it was one of those things 790 00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:47,559 you sit and it warms your heart because you sit 791 00:43:47,559 --> 00:43:49,559 there and go, my son is going to remember that 792 00:43:49,639 --> 00:43:52,199 for the rest of his life. And it was just 793 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,079 it was just so neat to watch. And then he 794 00:43:54,119 --> 00:43:56,280 got the other players fist bumping him and you know, 795 00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,159 my kid, he thought he'd died and gone to heaven. 796 00:43:58,199 --> 00:43:59,679 It was it was really cool to see. 797 00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,880 Speaker 1: We were in West Seattle once, my daughter and I 798 00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,599 when she was speed skating and I'd been riding the 799 00:44:05,639 --> 00:44:08,760 bike and she'd been skating, and this is back when 800 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:12,480 she was you know, going up to compete for national 801 00:44:12,519 --> 00:44:16,320 championships since a little kid, but on this really killer team. 802 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:18,840 So she had these amazing speed skates and they're like 803 00:44:19,039 --> 00:44:22,960 ten millimeter wheels and maybe twelve and they're big, four 804 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,199 of them on our skates, bigger than her feet, you know. 805 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:27,880 And so we've been skating West Seattle, which is this 806 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,199 beautiful place, even in the fallen country of Seattle. It's 807 00:44:30,199 --> 00:44:32,519 this amazing view of downtown Sattle. You're across the water 808 00:44:32,559 --> 00:44:35,880 from downtown Seattle. And we skated up to where Salties 809 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:37,719 is at and there's a there was I think it's 810 00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,199 still there. There's another restaurant there that's a fish restaurant, 811 00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,480 but it's kind of like a fish fry place, you know, 812 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,960 more casual. We skate up and we get in line, 813 00:44:47,079 --> 00:44:49,400 and she's on her skates, you know, and I'm walking 814 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,599 because I parked my bike. And there's a guy in 815 00:44:51,599 --> 00:44:55,639 front of us and he's buying food. He turns around 816 00:44:55,639 --> 00:44:59,920 and sees my daughter skates. He goes, dude, those are bad. 817 00:45:01,119 --> 00:45:03,519 We see those, and he's looking at him and he 818 00:45:03,519 --> 00:45:05,079 looks at me dead. You mind if I touch those, 819 00:45:05,119 --> 00:45:06,960 I go, it's up to her. He mind, have a 820 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,119 touch your skates and he's down, he's touch her skates. 821 00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,800 How fast can he go on these? She goes, oh, 822 00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,679 I don't know. I said, well, actually on the way over, 823 00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:15,920 she was going about forty one miles an hour. Dude 824 00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:19,519 what like? Gives her the fist bump and stuff, and 825 00:45:19,519 --> 00:45:22,039 he goes, you guys eat here. Yeah, we gets on me. 826 00:45:22,079 --> 00:45:25,519 It's on me. Let me buy And my daughter looks 827 00:45:25,519 --> 00:45:27,960 at me panicked. I go, I think mister Vedder has 828 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:33,360 the money, no kid, And I said, I think mister Vetterer. Yeah, 829 00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:34,320 I think mister Vetder. 830 00:45:34,159 --> 00:45:34,800 Speaker 3: Can afford this. 831 00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,480 Speaker 1: So he purchased this food for us and gave my 832 00:45:38,599 --> 00:45:42,039 daughter a high five. And and I didn't ask for picture. 833 00:45:42,079 --> 00:45:45,079 I should have shook my hands, said hey, you know, 834 00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,800 I call you. He goes absolutely said always love the 835 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,559 music man, thank you, and that was really cool. And 836 00:45:50,639 --> 00:45:53,639 so he sat down. My daughter goes, who you knew 837 00:45:53,639 --> 00:45:57,840 his name? Yeah, he's the lead singer of Pearl Jam. 838 00:45:58,360 --> 00:45:59,199 Speaker 3: He's kind of big deal. 839 00:45:59,559 --> 00:46:04,079 Speaker 1: She goes, but he's nice. Yeah, And I mean that 840 00:46:04,119 --> 00:46:06,679 spoke a lot about Eddie, who's a freaky you know, 841 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:08,400 Champagne socialist, et cetera. 842 00:46:08,519 --> 00:46:11,440 Speaker 3: But that was her boy. I taught. This is and 843 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:13,679 this is why I make it a very clear point. 844 00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:16,199 Whenever I get stopped by a young kid in the 845 00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,719 airport that's a big fan and Know Your Risk podcast, 846 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,880 I never, I never don't take the time for the kids. 847 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:26,360 I don't ever do it. 848 00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:32,440 Speaker 1: I saw once Karl Malone at a mall in Utah 849 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,880 and he was in a store buying like three sets 850 00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:39,519 of custom sunglasses, and a kid came up to him 851 00:46:39,519 --> 00:46:41,800 and said, mister Malone, I love you in the Utah 852 00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:46,719 Jazz Can you sign monograph? No Ah, No, but just 853 00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:48,559 because my shirt. No, no, no, don't bother me. 854 00:46:48,559 --> 00:46:49,000 Speaker 3: Don't bother me. 855 00:46:49,039 --> 00:46:52,159 Speaker 1: I'm not working right now. And he didn't see me there. 856 00:46:52,159 --> 00:46:53,679 He didn't see me there. I got to do this 857 00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,480 later at the radio station. I got to do this. 858 00:46:55,559 --> 00:46:59,039 I love this moment. So I'm in the bathroom and 859 00:46:59,119 --> 00:47:01,639 we had a sport station, we had our talk station, 860 00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:04,639 and we had a music station in that building. So 861 00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:10,920 I'm in the little common kitchenette area and the sports hosts, 862 00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:12,760 a guy did not get along with comes in. He goes, Hey, 863 00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:14,440 if you're curious why no one's listening to your show 864 00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,920 this morning. I've got this guy on mine and it's 865 00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:20,079 Karmelone and I shook his hand and go, Todd Herman, 866 00:47:20,159 --> 00:47:22,320 nice to meet. She goes, Karl Malonago, what do you do? 867 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,039 He goes, I played basketball? I go, oh, well you 868 00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:33,280 University of Utah? No, Utah Jazz? 869 00:47:33,679 --> 00:47:33,840 Speaker 3: Oh? 870 00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:38,880 Speaker 1: Is that a local club? Just playing it like completely straight? 871 00:47:39,599 --> 00:47:42,000 And I'm told and I learned later that they spent 872 00:47:42,039 --> 00:47:44,519 like the first fifteen minutes talking about me. 873 00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,119 Speaker 3: You know, I have another one that people should know 874 00:47:49,159 --> 00:47:51,639 about to really quick. Yeah, and a bit of an 875 00:47:51,679 --> 00:47:54,840 American hero athletically. But Michael Phelps. I was lucky enough 876 00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,480 to play around of golf with him. And the amount 877 00:47:57,639 --> 00:48:01,960 of time and the amount of inconvenience that guy went 878 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,639 through to sign autographs for people, and I know because 879 00:48:05,639 --> 00:48:09,519 it slowed our group down all day long. It was 880 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,880 just impressive. And the guy tried not to turn down anybody. 881 00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,480 And he is exactly what you'd hoped he'd be behind 882 00:48:17,519 --> 00:48:22,239 the scenes, just another class act. And he got mobbed. 883 00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,119 I mean, I've never been around fame like that. We 884 00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:27,559 had to do a human role to get him to 885 00:48:27,599 --> 00:48:31,320 an outhouse. Amazing. Yeah, And he just couldn't have been 886 00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:31,880 better about it. 887 00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,920 Speaker 1: Man, that's really cool. This is the moment Alex went 888 00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:34,559 and grabbed this. 889 00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:39,840 Speaker 3: So shines a good deed. You know, weary world, and. 890 00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:41,440 Speaker 1: You can go see the rest of them. Run Zach, 891 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,000 You remember that in that movie, that scene. 892 00:48:43,039 --> 00:48:46,159 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, hundred percent of that one. 893 00:48:46,199 --> 00:48:48,679 Speaker 1: I read that book to my daughter and the book 894 00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:52,400 is significantly different in some ways. But when Charlie got 895 00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,840 his golden ticket, I remember my daughter. We were in Virginia. 896 00:48:55,079 --> 00:48:57,079 She's jumping up on the up and down in the bed. 897 00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,679 He got the tickets, he got the take one of 898 00:49:00,679 --> 00:49:03,119 my favorite parenting moments. Always good to have you on 899 00:49:03,159 --> 00:49:05,760 the show. Brother, and gosh, next time I see you, 900 00:49:06,199 --> 00:49:08,599 I'll be coming to as we say, as I say 901 00:49:08,599 --> 00:49:11,800 in the South. I learned this in Mississippi. I'm gonna 902 00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:13,320 come hug your neck. Did you know they say that? 903 00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:16,559 Speaker 3: No, I didn't know that. I'm gonna I'm gonna use 904 00:49:16,559 --> 00:49:17,000 that though. 905 00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:20,440 Speaker 1: Might actually not gonna touch your neck. But all this 906 00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,440 is the Totter Show. Please go, be well, be strong, 907 00:49:23,599 --> 00:49:26,079 be kind, and please make every effort to walk in 908 00:49:26,119 --> 00:49:26,920 the light of Christ.