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Speaker 3: We hope you enjoyed this replay of one of our
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year for some exciting new conversations that we have coming up.
Welcome to another episode of The Chicks on the Right podcast.
We are delighted today to have with us Tim Burchett,
representative from Tennessee's second congressional district.
Speaker 2: Prior to that, he was a mayor of Tennessee Town.
Speaker 3: And today, mister Burchette, you're getting a whole lot of
popularity for your car, heart wearing, dad gum droppin' unfiltered,
sort of straight talking Tennessee swagger. And by the way,
we have a four dad gum minimum on this program.
Speaker 4: I hold you to that.
Speaker 2: Okay, throw that in da.
Speaker 3: We've got a lot of stuff that we want to
ask you about, and I'm sure you've got stuff that
you want to talk about. One of the things that
we see from you on social media a lot is
your frustration.
Speaker 2: Which we get of just the bureaucracy.
Speaker 3: And the red tape and the inefficiency of government, which
makes us want to ask you because you're so close
to it, the things that doge uncovered and is trying
to get fixed. Like, do we as regular pleads have
any hope of feeling some improvement?
Speaker 4: I think we do. But the problem you got is
is that every time we find a way to save it,
somebody finds a way to spend it. I remember announced
in the state legislature in Tennessee, set next to a
Democrat buddy of mine, and he and I had a
bill and it saved five million dollars. That was huge,
And I remembered he says, man, that's a great bill,
And he said this really and it really was a
savings of five million dollars. And he goes, I know
just where I want to spend that's you know, and
that's government. That's both parties. You know, we're talking about
saving billions of dollars, ma'am. We run up at trillion
dollars every hundred days in debt seven years outside the military,
which is a disaster in its own spending the war
pimps over there, we you know, the largest let's see,
the largest single item will be interest. I mean, we
might as well in Knoxville, Tennessee, might as well just
drive down Kingston Pike and my daughter's duly pick up
and just shovel one hundred dollars bills out in the
back of the dad gum thing. And that's that's kind
of where we're at. Yeah, we gotta we gotta start
doing better. I mean Republicans, you know, these so called
fiscal giants, you know, they go home, they go to
their Lincoln Day and now they're Maga Day or Reagan
Day or whatever you want to call it. And I
go to these dad gim things. I go to them
all over the state of Tennessee, and uh, there's Matt
Gates calling me. Let me kill it, let me hey, Matt, Hey,
I'm on Chicks on the Right podcast right now, and
they're and hang on and they said, tell you hello,
I got you on speakers, say hell hello, Matt oh Man.
So you thought you were signing. Yeah, I thought I
was on the view and that and I didn't get nixed.
Wind bags out here yelling at me. People would agree
with you. I need to call you back, brother, I'm sorry,
can I call you back. I love you, buddy, loved
ginger bye. Anyway, that was awesome interview of all kind
of kind of an exclusive area of Tennessee over middle
to See this past week talking to a group of
ladies and dad come, Lona caused me, and I was like,
Luna and she always says, what's up, Virchant? And then
I had her comes out, I'm old and I've got
these crazy hearing ads and I got as I call
him on the blue tooth, and it's like I'm on,
you know, on some drug or something. And so I said,
I said, you know, I keep looking at myself because
I'm so captivating. I think, I think that's really good looking.
Unrealizing it's me and Luna's talking to me, I said, wait, man,
say that again, Lona, and I put her on the
speaker and she goes, what's up, merchant? And that's why
she always she always does her cameos in my videos,
you know, walking off the steps. But anyway, what we're
talking about, I.
Speaker 2: Don't even know what you were talking about. Joe's yeah,
I want.
Speaker 4: To talk to him.
Speaker 2: Is he nice guy?
Speaker 4: Elon's the guy. I mean, I did what he's doing.
But we just don't have the guts to do it, ma'am.
Where are we going to start putting this in the law?
Even the good old boys back in Tennessee and say, hey, Tim,
what are you all going to start codifying that stuff?
And they're right, we got to start and and I
get it. Leadership wants to put it in one beautiful
big bill, you know, and all that, But you know
what elseon's in that one beautiful big bill. What's scared is,
you know, is things that maybe shouldn't be so anyway.
I don't want to know that, but yeah, I want to.
I think we need to. We need to push that.
We go home. That's what I was going to say.
I know where I got that, And then Matt called
me rudely interrupted me. Now we go we go home.
We preached the gospel all the red, mate, and then
we come back up here and we sell y'all down
the road, right, and we do it.
Speaker 2: It's a hot take, and it's.
Speaker 4: A trade off. It is crooked. We are crooked as
a dog's leg. All right. We will pass a tough bill,
and then the Senate will pass a tougher bill. But
guess what they don't line up and they both, oh
the Senate, all that terrible house, in that house, all
that terrible Senate, and then leadership they go off and
drink wine at Kenny bunk Port or something. I don't know,
but they that's the way it works. They're selling us
down the river. America needs to wake up. This is
not a swamp. I hate it when people say this
is a swamp because the reality is a swamp is
something God created and it's actually pretty cool. Swamp is
an ecosystem. Animals thrive there. It actually deilters water, the
cattails they pull out heavy metals. I mean, it's a
cool thing. And this is a sewer. This is a
God created a swamp. Man created a sewer. And the
reason sewers stink is something called getting a little science here.
I don't think I'm educated, but uh, you get the
sulfur smell from sewers because of what's called anaerobic decomposition.
And that means there's no oxygen and there's no sunlight
and it just and that's what the bacteria forms in that.
And that's what Washington, d C. Is. There is no
sunlight up here, there is no oxygen because you've got
a few people in control, and that gum it. When
then when people see this, I know it's going to happen.
Leadership is going to come see me on the house floor.
They did this a while back and they said, Tim Man,
you ken't keep saying that stuff. I said, you mean
that we're crooked, and that you know, to move up
party system, you have to raise money. It has nothing
really to do with your ability and that and that
people were we won't defund a lot of these things
because people's wives and or girlfriends, maybe both of them
work on some of these agencies and boat parties do it?
I said, you mean that? He goes yeah, and he
said and I said, well it's the truth, though, right
And he goes, well, yes, it's the truth. You just
got to quit saying it. And that's that's what we're
up against in America needs to wake the heck up
and start.
Speaker 2: Okay, But we're we're awake. So what are we supposed
to do about it? You're the one that's there, like,
how do we miss ours from here?
Speaker 4: Bust our asshold us accountable in every dad gum boat
and say why do you vote for that? Why is
that that way? Why are you doing that and and
and something else we need to do honestly, we need
to eliminate individual stock trades. We need to own a
mutual fund. My buddy, Tommy Siler and Knoxville manages my
eleven thousand dollars portfolio. It's, you know, mutual, my wife,
But when when that that that that? What's that whales
thing called the unusual whales? I'm looking over here. He
don't know anything. I don't know what anyway. My press guy,
he's new. He doesn't know how to get me just yet.
Don't stop your red quin.
Speaker 2: He just quit him. He's done, he's gone.
Speaker 4: That's gig on campus. Everybody needs that. But you know,
and they print out these things and just show the
top one hundred and I'm and my wife always looks
at him, goes, honey, we need to get a new stockbrecker.
We got to get you at least in the top
hundred of stockings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's got to start. You got to start following
Nancy Pelosi like a lot of.
Speaker 4: Like she's not even number one. I mean yeah, it's
it's it's pretty bad when she's making two or three
hundred percent return, I mean, yeah, a little bit let
me let me tell you how it works. Let me
tell you it works, all right, y'all know I didn't
vote for him over a one red cent for Ukraine.
I think when Zelenski said, you know, he doesn't know
where at least one hundred million dollars of that of
our two one hundred and fifty I mean one hundred
billion of our two hundred and fifty billion that we've
sent over there, I voted for a penny of it.
But when that deal went down and Joe Biden gave
them our missile defense system, well we had to replenish ours,
which we should. We can't be left necked, we can't
air cover. We got to have it. So what ends
up happening is is that lo and behold, we have
to uh, it's a no bid contract for our missile
defense companies, and that we had a multi billion dollars
and guess who owned stock in that members of Congress
and some of them actually bought that stock weeks prior.
So there's there's no reason to trust us either party
on those kind of issues. Need to force those issues.
And another thing you ought to do that gum it
is single issue spending bills for single issue spending bills. Yeah,
my god, you both, Oh, we're gonna vote h this
is for beeding starving children. And you know, like two
dollars in there for feeding in a billion in for
some n g os, right, you know, I mean, do
you honestly think we're spending ten million dollars on circumcisions
in Madagascar? I mean, obviously you're probably voluntary, but still
ten million dollars. It ain't getting there. And and Elon
Musk even said, and I caught him, mister mess he said,
call me Elon. He said, Tim, it's you know, there's
a circuit excuse being, there's a circuitous route and it
goes right back to Congress. And I agree with him
and that it's so change until one of these cats
is let out of your handcuffs. And I don't care
which party, and if it's in our party, I say,
bust them right now.
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Speaker 4: I think Trump went let's look at China first. Trump
went with China first, and he went big, he went bold.
And the reason Trump did that is for why and
members of Congress are already filing bills, Republicans and Democrats,
you know, to take that control back from Trump. And
the reason he did that is because the reason we're
in such a bind with China because Congress sold us out.
They seld us out with the lobbyists. They there's no
reason in the world. The Chinese get this. They owned
property around our military installations, right, yep, we've allowed them
to buy farmland.
Speaker 2: Yeah, around where I live.
Speaker 4: That's bad news. And this is the one that I
find most egregious that nobody's really paying attention to. They
owned some of the commissaries in our military installation. What
what's that, dude? Is that? I mean, they're gonna know
what we bought a stick of gum? No, you run
that at a card. They're gonna know, oh, that's a
lieutenant colonel, he flies a f whatever. And they're going
to know our troop movements. They're going to know our
military installations where they are. And this is the kind
of And they're in our learning institutions, they're in our
research institutions. And they'll tell you, oh no, they're not
in the classified stuff. They're in the stuff over here.
And hey, can you grab me a mountain do? I'm
losing my I'm losing my thought.
Speaker 2: You got to do the deal. You got to do
the deal.
Speaker 4: Don't tell my wife either.
Speaker 1: We want your secrets safe. But that nobody watches the
show your body does.
Speaker 2: It's fine. Two people watch when he's.
Speaker 4: Not in anything. When I was mayor Knox County chief
of staff, who's was my press guide and he's the
chief step of here, but he'd always have a saying
he said, you know, I've never had to tell anybody.
What Tim Burchett really meant to say, was that guyment,
I'm gonna tell you so anyway, So it's it's you know,
we are crooked. Let's just be honest, but let's make
us pass that. Does that gum bill have a builless?
There's no stop trading. I know my buddy Chip Roy
has one that's more bipartisan. You know, he's an attorney.
I'm sure it's a lot more pages. Mine is usually
about half a page with one sentence. It's just the way.
That's the way I roll. So anyway, did you find
me one? Dude?
Speaker 1: Oh thank you for that. That's gonna make That's gonna
make all the difference.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: So, okay, this big beautiful bill there was like I
saw a clip of Mike Johnson saying that it's not
going to be on Trump's dusk until July.
Speaker 2: What are you guys.
Speaker 4: Doing Labor Day? I don't know, it's crazy. What just
ran by me? A Glacier. I mean, this place is
so freaking slow. I've been wanting to do that for
a long time. I've been kind of working before I
got in show ladies. Yet, thank you, here're live. But
the stem. Let's talk a little bit more about the system,
all right. Mike Johnson's got I mean, he's got the
world stacked up against him. First of all, he's an
honest guy. And somebody said, what's the difference to him.
I said, he's honest and he doesn't cheat on his wife.
And somebody said that's a pretty low bar, and I said, well, hell,
you ain't been in Washington very long. I think it's
a great bar. And he's accountable, and he's a Christian
and I get all that, and I mean, you know,
but Jesus didn't ask him to leave the temple that gun.
He threw him out, so and he and Mike realizes that.
To Speaker Johnson, I should say, I don't call him Mike.
That's almost sounds disrespectful. I knew him before he was speaker.
Speaker 2: Actually, I called you Tim.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry that was probably I want you to call
me Tim Carrston, some eighty five year old guy that
ain't heard the gun go off. It's on a walker
up here. We've got a staff. Let's staff. That's what
I want to talk to you about. This is how
stuff happens. I look at committees. I mean, we're the
Party of limited growth, limited government, big growth, limited government.
I look back at one of our committees. We were
doing a photo. You know, you do this committee photo.
And I don't know why. It's not like I'm going
to hang the dad gum thing up on all wall.
I don't get it. But they're big on pictures, document
and stuff. And you got a seventeen year old daughter,
you know I got. I got pictures of everything. You know, yes,
total horses, everything, cats, dogs.
Speaker 2: We won't hear about your donkeys. At some point we're going.
Speaker 4: To give them a minute. But anyway, so I look
back and I start counting the members, start counting as
staff members. I mean, we had close to fifty dad
gum staff members fifty and the Democrats had just as many.
So and then you figure, oh, well, you don't have
to have a crooked you don't have to have a
crooked congressman or senator. You just need a couple of
staff members that control a bill and Yeah. How many
times have I heard a chairman say, you'll read about
this in my book. But how many times have I
heard a chairman say, oh, I couldn't do that. Tim
Staff just wouldn't allow it. Who elected the dad gum?
That is where the problem them lies. Your staff members.
You've got some members, not all of them, The vast
majority of them are super patriotic young people. You've got
some that have been around little while, and you know,
they're the ones you see in the movies. You know
where they're You know, it's not the president meeting with
the lobbyist or whatever having the martini. It's the staff
member's and they go on the codales and they go
on the trips and they get compromised. Let me tell
you how compromising works. It's pretty easy. There's a couple
of different methods. There's one, the old Russian trick called
the honey pots. You're in a you're in a town somewhere,
maybe in overseas, and and they know what you're what
you're into, and maybe some of the tracks.
Speaker 2: Swell do what I said, Eric Swawell?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, Well that's that's old school. Come on, let
Jesse rob this train. All right, I'm gonna let me
get to this. You're from Tennessee, right, You're.
Speaker 2: Yes, I am. I went to University Sessee in Knoxville.
Speaker 4: I did. Yes. No, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I said, you talk about Kingston Pike, and I'm like,
I know exactly what he's talking about.
Speaker 4: I have been there on that road strip. What was
the big honk tonk on the strip when you were there?
Speaker 1: Well, we used to go to the Lap and the library,
and the library was a really great bar that you
could call him. Your parents will be like, what did
you do tonight? You could say, I went to the
library and then it wasn't.
Speaker 4: One of my oldest friend in the world, Scott Davis
on the library brother, Yeah, oh.
Speaker 1: Gosh, one of those, he's one of my Well tell
him that I made a lot of great memories in
that place, because yeah, great.
Speaker 4: Probably lost the memories there too, exactly in the Lap.
Of course, everybody's been the world famous. Laugh. The guy
that owned the Lap was a friend of mine, the
older guy, and he now owns a restaurant down there
on Amory Road near my changed a lot.
Speaker 1: Nosvill has changed a lot over the past twenty five years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Renumberland Avenue is gone as far as I'm conturn. Yeah, anyway,
look into that later anyway. But I digress. Oh yeah, Staff,
So you get the honeypots. You know, you get some
good looking girl walks up and says he's laughing at
your jokes, and you buy her a drink, and next
thing you know, you're in your motel room with her naked.
And then and then they got a picture of you
and they own your ass.
Speaker 2: How often is that happening?
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know. The Russians. They did so much
with the Russians. They called it honeypots. Yeah, you know,
but anyway, let me let me finish here. So I
don't know how much of that happens now. But I
will tell you this. I was on a podcast called
The Bennie Show, and you know, and Benny's kind of
a buddy of mine. He laughs at all my jokes
and gets tickled and says nice things about me. But
he and I talked about that, and people, oh my gosh.
When I told that story, people in Congress just went ballistic.
You know, Oh, I can't believe you said that, Burchante. Okay, well, dude,
if you're not messed around and your wife or your girlfriend,
you don't have to worry about it. They come to
you and you're getting ready to make a key vote,
and then somebody whispers in your ear, Hey, man, how
you going vote on this? I'm come for this thing. Man,
I really was, you're against this? And they said, no,
I can't do that. And then just say, hey, were
you in a motel room with a girl in Kaiwan
or something? And they go, oh yeah, God, oh man,
I don't want that out. And then they say, oh,
it won't get out, dude, just help us with this boat.
Oh yeah, whatever you want. Then they don't want to
own you. They just rent you. And the other way
they do that. And what happened was I was on
the Beni Show and I talked about that. Oh I
got blistered by members of Congress seat I can't believe
you said that. And again I said, if you're not
doing it, don't worry about it. Well, that week, a
prostitution ring was busted in Washington, DC and guess who
they were? Chinese?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: And they released it in the press. There was a
big splash one day and it said there are three
groups of people. Well, they were influential Washingtonians, government contractors,
and elected officials. The next week and you know the
where's the black book? Everybody wants the black book? Next
week the story disappeared. Well, anyway you get powerful people,
the check book comes out and that's and they own
your Okay, the other way to do his jobs. You
don't think the multi billion dollar corporation could not give
some influential person's wife, daughter, son, whatever, a consulting job,
a no show consulting job, and or you know, some court.
And that's why the Democrats fought me last week on
the NNGOS Non Governor Organization when I was trying to
defund the Taliban. They wanted to take the nng O
portion out. We're given the Taliban forty million dollars a week.
We can talk about that later in the show, but
I'm working on that over a year to get that out.
And now I'm just embarrassing people is all I'm doing now.
And I want you to know I'm not suicidal. So
if y'all find me to borrow with fourteen poles in
the back of my head, I did not commit myself.
Speaker 2: We know you are not.
Speaker 1: We absolutely know that I have to ask is there
any hope, like because everything you're saying seems so doom
and gloom.
Speaker 3: Like what what do we What do regular Americans do
with this information?
Speaker 2: I drink well, Like, how are we supposed to react
to that?
Speaker 4: You pray ask God to save our country? Because I
mean literally, it's it's almost demonic. I think that I
got people protesting me in Knoxville, Tennessee that want funding
for all I mean, you know, transgender shows and things
like that, when people are going without food and up
and Upper North Carolina still they don't have electricity or
I think they're getting it hooked up now that Trump
got in office. But after Hurricane Helene, you know, I
just we lose track of things too. Man, it's so
moving so fast. Doze you know the government President Trump
puts these executive orders in and I have a saying
that Americans want their pizzas in thirty minutes or less. Yeah,
that's about our dad gum attention span. Yeah, that's how
we just move on to the next train wreck. Oh,
there's a shiny object over there. When I was mayor
of Knox County, I used to say, there's going to
be another wreck on the interstate tomorrow, guys. And what
that meant was, you know, we're going to catch some
heat today, but tomorrow we're gonna you know, there'll be
something else on another wreck or anything. But but that
is our attention span, and that's that's where we are
as Americans, and we've got to stay focused. We've got
this doze stuff, these cuts electing honorable people. It's got
to happen, and it's got to happen in both parties.
The Democrats have been hijacked. I mean it's almost a
demonic force in my opinion, and some of the things
that they're you know, castrating little boys right, going.
Speaker 2: Down girls, boys and girls.
Speaker 4: Yeah, gang who's actually was in trouble for beating his wife.
I mean she's claiming out it didn't happen, but there's
some pretty damning court events. And in our own state
of Tennessee, he was caught in a van or a
vehicle all in people that were obviously non Americans with
an invalid driver's licensing. I apparently was told told the
Tennessee Highway, and I know the Tennessee how trow I
was a state legislator for sixteen years and work closely
with them and legislation, and they're honorable men and women,
very patriotic, very straight laced kind of folks. And I
can guarantee that was be a real morale killer. When
you had somebody you knew was illegal, you knew was
trafficking people, and they weren't allowed to follow the law.
Speaker 2: I believable.
Speaker 3: So you're not going to Old Salvador with some of
your Democrat colleagues.
Speaker 4: Well, actually, I'm on the El Salvador caucus and the
president down there sent me a message, Matt Gates put
me on that caucus because you know, I like there
no crime stuff. Apparently you like their crimes down ninety
something percent under this game. I mean you, if you
got a if you if you're a gang member, if
you got it written on a tattoo, they believe you
really are and they will lock you up. Yeah. Put
this no nonsense down there. It's not America. I get it.
And uh, but it worked.
Speaker 2: He's what he's done has worked, So that's.
Speaker 4: So far gone, I think.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: It's like Memphis, Tennessee, ma'am. They had a bunch of
shootings there in the last couple of weeks, and you know,
it's just it's just a wild town and sad thing
is all that. You know, a lot of people have left,
and then a lot of good people are stuck there
because they're not financially able to leave and they're just
at the mercy of these gangs and stuff. And we've
got to start addressing that.
Speaker 1: But so do you Is there like, is there a
Democrat or or several Democrats in Congress that you like
or they all pretty much you know, liberal weirdos.
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Speaker 4: WASI Mafooni that's the name I think you used the
head of NAACP. I'm working with him on some stuff
on Africa. I'm worried about the Chinese communist taking over Africa,
and God puts this stuff on my heart. It's not
a it's not gonna help me politically. Nobody gonna vote
for me because of this stuff. But we have we
have programs that we're we're getting they're getting robbed from,
and they're not doing what they're supposed to do in
those areas of Africa there. Let's just talk monetarily. They
have rare earth minerals. There's resources to be developed there.
And the Chinese are going in through the Belton Road
initiative and they what they do is they go in
and say we'll build you a damn we'll build you
an electric plant, and they claim it at half price
or whatever, and then they triple the price. While you're there.
They bankrupt them and they say, oh, what are we
going to do? So well, I'll tell you what. We'll
come in and take it over. But we got to
control it. And then that's the way they do it,
and they're uneducated people and they just take advantage of them.
What I would like to do is there's areas of
the desert there, and there's a process of reclaiming the desert.
Actually it's a it's not overnight, but in five ten
years you see a change and allows them to stay
there and maybe develop agriculture and develop things. I mean,
they're not going to be rocket scientists overnight, but you know,
they're migratory mainly because of wars and community and they've
allowed and the environment is they've destroyed what was once
some fairly lush areas and turned them into deserts. And
we can reclaim those areas. And that's a I don't know.
I'm going to work with some of the folks over
there in the Black Caucus on that. And uh, you know,
I AOC is a friend. I don't agree with her
on anything, yeah.
Speaker 2: Except for the stock stuff, right, because she's a.
Speaker 4: Person that too. She's on that too, yeah, and she's
she's big on that. She sees that in her own
party as well as ours. And uh, and I don't
only enemies I really have up here in my own party.
Speaker 2: That's so interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because yp depose the former speaker, you.
Speaker 2: Do podcasts like this, that's why they don't like it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they don't. They always say, oh, Bertie, you know
you're hugging the camera and all that, like you won't
even go on the camera. You know, they don't know,
they don't do the You know, they all knocked me
at first because of my Twitter things when I walk
off the dad Gum House floor tipped off of some
terrible piece of legislation we just passed, and they're claiming,
you know, they're all going to Stockholm for the Nobel
Peace Bright. Heck, I don't know that Peace Prize is,
but you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, and they
and they talk about this piece of legislation. It's really bogus.
And I busted when I come off the Senate House
floor and and you know, and and bust the senators
or what have you. And they all knocked me my
first couple of years for doing that. And guess what
now they all have Twitter teams or X teams. Is
it that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And we wanna we definitely want to know more
about the donkeys me in particular, because you have one
named Daisy, but you do not have.
Speaker 2: One named mock, So you gotta get on. When are
you gonna balance that out?
Speaker 4: Well, I didn't. I didn't get to name them. Man.
Let me tell you what happens. Here we go. I
love my wife and daughter more than anything, right, So
I get this call one day and we're on boys,
I mean on with face. Yeah, I don't know. I
couldn't think of that, uh FaceTime and uh and that's
never a good sign. That's always uh uh the horse
trailers in a ditch, or I've just met this really
nice state trooper that knows you kind of thing, you know.
And and my daughter's seventeen, so she's driving, so it's
I'm just like, uh, they're in the back of my
buddy's pickup truck, in the back seat, not in the
very back. And I was like, where the heck are y'all?
She goes, Honey, do you know such and such a lady?
And that's that's always a trap. And I really didn't
even know who she was, and honey, I don't know her.
And she said, well, she say she knows you and
cool and she said she's got two donkeys or three donkeys,
excuse me, three minuature donkeys, and one of them she
passed away. And that was really sad. That made me said,
because they get a little sweet person that she was
really old though it wasn't in good shape. And uh
but anyway, so I said, yeah, I said, well, what's
she doing with those donkeys? She said, well, she's giving
them to us? What do you think they What am
I thinking? You're already going to get them? That's a
I know how you women operate. That was a no
win situation.
Speaker 2: It is true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we get better, honey, a Ford or a Chevy
when she I can see a horse salesman in the background.
That's right anyway, all right, honey, and we got sixty acres.
My daughter's a barrel racer. She's won world championship.
Speaker 2: Is a barrel racer.
Speaker 4: That's so cruel.
Speaker 2: Gosh, I'd love to see that. What about how she is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's her sweet horse, Peggy Sue right there.
Speaker 4: That was her first horse.
Speaker 2: That is so neat.
Speaker 4: What a cool thing day. Sue's kind of a she
is kind of I found a little note from Isabel.
Here's food, bro, love you Isabelle. She says, she's anyway,
they call you bro.
Speaker 2: Why do they call us all broy My daughter calls
me bro. She's fifteen.
Speaker 4: Whatever, what's up? Couldn't do something? One time she goes hey,
Boomer and I was like Another time she said, Dad,
those shoes make you look like an old white man.
I said, ding ding, Guess what, honey, your dad is
an old white man. So anyway, anyway, so these dad
come donkeys. I come home on a Thursday and we're
in the big in front of the big field, and
Isabel got them all like they're all it's Daisy, Rose
and Lily and Rose is the one that passed away.
She was the mama sweet. So she was a beautiful.
I loved her. But anyway, Uh, she had them all
on the fence row and like and very feminine color,
uh harnesses or whatever and uh. And I said, what
the heck are y'all doing? And she said, Isabel, shampoo them, baby.
They're living the best life. You know, they're living the
best life. And I was like whatever, and and so
how much that cost? Is said nothing. I was like
a great deal. I love it. So anyway, and then
after the shampoos them all and brushes them all. What
do you think they do? They go roll in the dirt,
even though they're pature donkeys. So so anyway, and and honestly,
I just love those bad gum things. They escape. They
nonsenses really called me last week. Where was I? I
don't know. I was somewhere. I was out of town.
And she said she texted me and said, I was
feeding the horse. I was bringing the horses in. The
donkeys busted out. I'm tired, I'm over it. So I'm thinking,
and I call Isabel. I said, Isabel, where are you? Say?
I'm in the house and go help mom. The dog
keyser out, okay, So she goes out there and then
that I get home either the next night or that
I don't know when. Anyway, So me and Kelly are
talking and she said, did you put the donkeys up?
She says to me, I said, I didn't put the
donkeys up. I told Isabel too, and she goes did she?
And so I text Isabelle. She's out with her boyfriend.
So so I said, well, anyway, and we were getting
ready to eat a pizza. Is warmed up in big
heads and Kelly said, I need a doctor. She's where's
the doctor peppers? And I said, I don't know. I
guess we're out. She goes, I think they're semming the bar,
and I said, you know, I got that hint. So
I go up, walk up to the barn and got
a couple of doctor peppers and uh, and I did
the gentlemanly thing, and there were two. So I brought
them home and I drank water and so Kelly could
have another doctor pepper later or the next day. So
I'm up in the barn and I'm just kind of
walking through. I'm going our cat just had kittens. It's
like a six toed cat. It's the craziest thing. It's
like a catch mit and uh, Isabel calls it Toes
two point zero, but we had toes, but we think
of Coyote eighty. My anyway, has a bunch of cats,
you know, like we need more kittens, like I need
a hole in the head. So I hear this noise,
I'm chinking on the cats and I look over in
the feed room and who's in there. Daisy and Lily
in the daddum feed room. And they've been on the
run for I don't know forty eight hours and they anyway,
so and I was like, what are y'all doing in there?
And they're like, what what, We're not doing anything? And
I said, and I get them out of there, and
I put them in a stall because it's too late.
I did. I was afraid if I try to get
him out, they you know, they might run and I
couldn't get them at night. So anyway, I love them.
They had drum donkeys. They're like therapy, the little feet
they run and donkeys. Crazy cartoon where there's Trek or something,
Shrek what is it Trek?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Shrek with the donkey. Yeah, yeah, he plays the donkey. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I never I never really watched the movie until
you know, I got Isabelle and then I've watched all
that crazy stuff and You're like.
Speaker 2: It's the same thing. It's you're living that life. That's
kind of cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And they and they and they're so smart and
they everything on the hedge rows. Now, I got to
just feed them water. But what do you think we do?
You got this fancy mash that we give to the horses.
It's probably for thoroughbreds or something, but any of my wife,
she really takes care of them. And my daughter. They
take care of those dad come horses and every time
she goes, I made a little mash up for the donkeys.
I'm like, honey, you're freaking bottom feeders, and you know
they are eating I'm dating Kelly's eating the mash. Every
one of our every one of our fence rows is
probably grown up with briars because the dad gum donkeys
don't eat them anymore.
Speaker 1: They don't they have that exactly why would they eat
that donkey?
Speaker 4: Great? I got so many videos of those crazy things.
I'm gonna start putting them out. They're really probable.
Speaker 2: You should. Yeah, we love those we them we have.
Speaker 3: So we heard earlier that you have a vote to
get to what are you guys voting on this afternoon?
Speaker 4: Do you know here it's a vital national emptors like
a post officers and what are you voting on?
Speaker 2: Something important? Something really important.
Speaker 4: I've been in committee all day, so I usually they
come in and brief me on the bills and we decide.
You know here lightly, I've been voting against a lot
of even Republican bills because they're reporting bills. And here's
something else that happens with the sewer of Washington, DC.
Somebody like myself is well intentioned, and you think, gosh,
I got to pass the bill. I gotta pass the bill.
Show back home what I'm doing. And you get the
bill up there and staff has a problem with it,
they said, And what's happened as a lobbyist has got
somebody's ear. Usually, yeah, well let's sh I'll tell you
what we'll do when you to pass this, but let
me let's make it into a reporting bill. So we'll
do the research and report back to Congress and so
then you can really attack it. No, you report it,
it becomes a reporting bill. And y'all ever seen that
movie raiders have lost arc of then where their arc
of the Covenant. They're putting in Our top men are
top men, and they put it in this crazy warehouse.
That's where all our reports are right now, congressional reports.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm surprised it's not in a cave. Usually they're
in caves.
Speaker 4: Two procedural votes, one about tickets for entertainment, and you
know I don't know that. Yeah. I don't always get
upset about these bills, because that's what that is, what
democracy is about. If somebody has an issue in your
district and you're bringing it up. Yeah, you know that's
even though it ticks me off, but somebody is concerned.
They need they.
Speaker 2: Need tickets for entertainment.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm going to read the bill, so Taylor
Swift won't cost one thousand dollars to take it or
something like that.
Speaker 2: Right, that must be what it is.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't step by the leature or watching it right
right right there with you, not that she's a clown,
but I don't quit. He's on me right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, since you're since you're such a straight shooter, can
I have a question that I want an honest answer to.
You've been there since twenty nineteen, so you've been there
long enough to like know where the bathrooms are and
to like figure out where where you are in the
building at any given time. So how much of your
time is spent on actual work versus how much time
you have to spend on getting yourself re elected.
Speaker 4: It's about what you want to do with it. If
you allegedly, if you do enough legislating and taking care
of people that you is that boat.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's about Oh my gosh, Okay.
Speaker 4: I know we're already up till one. This has been fun.
Can we do this again?
Speaker 2: We know we won't ask you yes, known.
Speaker 4: About y'all foreverybody. Yeah, it just depends. Some guys spend
half and half doing it. You know, they got a
million dollar war chests. And the problem I have is
I don't have a lot of billionaires and millionaires that
support me. It's just working people. And it's very tough
on me to be able to do that because my
folks can't you know, right, I can't afford And and
the part of the and part of the scam up
is here up here, is you have to raise so
much money to move up and in power and to
become a chairman. I mean, and it's all legal and
the pressing on it and everybody's in on it, and
so I mean that's crooked, and it is. You know,
we've had literally people that have written checks to become
chairman written individually. They're they're wealthy and I'm not and
I'm not up here. And and honestly, the good old
boys and good old girls the ones that keep me
in Congress, and that's because I can't. Never, I never
they always outspend me, but they never outworked me. Yeah,
and they've flown people up try to run against me
in the primary leadership has in the past, and you know,
they claim they did, but then they come tell me
that they're up there trying to get them to run
against me, and the people have told me that. So
it's just hang on. I'm getting the what Lady Thanky,
I talk too much about crazy stuff that government. Listen,
let's save our country. Pray for our country.
Speaker 2: We'll do it.
Speaker 4: Here's the deal. Here's the deal. I'm goa leave you
with this. This is where America is. We're a farmer
up on a dad gum roof, right tin roof, and
he's got his bib overalls on. You can google that
where if you don't know what that is. Falling off
that roof. He says that government, Lord, save me, save me. Lord.
He's falling back and a nail catches the strap on
his bib overalls and he says, never mind, Lord, I
got it. Well, God put that nail up there, okay, right,
and we and we just we got to quit slap
in God's hand away. He has given us a chance.
He has given us a chance. You know, if people
don't like Trump, I love him I don't take my
daughter's sonny school class. Yeah. I like him in the
White House. Yeah yeah, A friend of mine, you know,
a friend. I mean, he calls, you know, he damn
you know, so I dig that.
Speaker 2: But well, we'd love to having you.
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