Speaker 1: A leader in Germany, is one of the five who
Speaker 1: sat there during Trump's first term when he said, Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what y'all shouldn't do. You shouldn't just have Russia,
Speaker 1: you know, meeting your energy needs, because if something goes
Speaker 1: sideways and you're closing all these coal plants and then
Speaker 1: it's just Russia, you guys are gonna look dumb and
Speaker 1: things are gonna get expensive and it's gonna suck. And
Speaker 1: one of the people laughing at that table is essentially
Speaker 1: the Adam Schiff of Germany. Okay, that's the dude. Days
Speaker 1: out of the German election, this is getting absolutely Oh
Speaker 1: what what jd Vance is doing? And I and and
Speaker 1: here's the thing I don't welcome in some isolationist way.
Speaker 1: I just it's it's just been so long, so uh.
Speaker 1: Jd Vance and as well as Pete Haig Seth obviously
Speaker 1: is Defense Secretary, you know, really on the European tour,
Speaker 1: and of course Vance gave the speech to their face
Speaker 1: was just like, hey, probably shouldn't throw people in jail
Speaker 1: for memes. That's kind of dumb. We don't like that.
Speaker 1: And everyone's like, ah, he went in there and he
Speaker 1: what did I see like him too, showing up at
Speaker 1: his best friend's birthday party and making a scene. No,
Speaker 1: that was literally a discussion about defense and security stuff.
Speaker 1: So one that was there too, you guys, including the wait,
Speaker 1: what is she from Finland or something? The the time,
Speaker 1: the really thin chick who's like, oh, we're gonna We're
Speaker 1: gonna shut down the X. Right, you and your cohorts
Speaker 1: have your defense essentially subsidized by the United States. And
Speaker 1: it's more so than that. It also is the pillar
Speaker 1: of industry and commerce in several European cities, not just
Speaker 1: in Germany. In Spain we have a huge, huge bait
Speaker 1: was it Roda Roda whatever? It is huge basis over
Speaker 1: in Europe. And so you sit there and and and
Speaker 1: you watched an interview in Jade. Vance is like, hey man,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things we're giving a lot
Speaker 1: of thought to is is the is the whole part
Speaker 1: where you guys are willing to throw people in jail
Speaker 1: for memes and and you know our values here is
Speaker 1: the United States of America. Well, why why would you
Speaker 1: do that? And he says this days ahead of the
Speaker 1: German election.
Speaker 2: I might point out Germany's entire defense is subsidized by
Speaker 2: the American taxpayer. There are thousands upon thousands of American
Speaker 2: troops in Germany today. Do you think that the American
Speaker 2: taxpayer is going to stand for that? If you get
Speaker 2: thrown in jail in Germany for posting a mean tweet.
Speaker 3: Of course they're not right.
Speaker 2: So the point that I try to make to our
Speaker 2: European friends, and I think that there are friends I
Speaker 2: believe that I know President Trump does, is that friendship
Speaker 2: is based on shared values. You do not have shared values.
Speaker 2: If you're jailing people for saying we should close down
Speaker 2: our border, you don't have shared values. If you cancel
Speaker 2: elections because you don't like the result, and that happened
Speaker 2: in Romania, you don't have You do not have shared
Speaker 2: values if you're so afraid of your own people that
Speaker 2: you silence them and shut them up.
Speaker 1: So let's have shared values.
Speaker 2: Let's defend the democracy, let's have free expression, not just
Speaker 2: in the United States but all over the Western world.
Speaker 2: That is the path to strong alliances in Europe.
Speaker 1: That is, by the way, the level of hand grenade.
Speaker 1: He just rolled into the room with that, And I
Speaker 1: know people are like, oh, why would you, why are
Speaker 1: you upset? In the Apple card because for too long
Speaker 1: everything's been allowed to progress to where it is. Right.
Speaker 1: The idea that the US you want to be friends
Speaker 1: with the US, and we, in a limited way want
Speaker 1: to be friends with you turned into we essentially, you know,
Speaker 1: we fund two thirds of NATO, which is essentially the
Speaker 1: Europeans Defense system. So they're able to you know, take
Speaker 1: their funding, their money within their particular economies and then
Speaker 1: spend it on other stuff. And don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: there are strategic alliances the US has to have and
Speaker 1: with the threat of China and Russia where it is,
Speaker 1: you know, there needs to be forward deployed areas in
Speaker 1: the world. I understand that, and we have long standing partnerships,
Speaker 1: a lot of which were born out of World War Two,
Speaker 1: which are strategically advantageous. Germany houses what it's not just
Speaker 1: one base, it's like seven or something, and it's huge
Speaker 1: for a couple of the big German cities. It's it
Speaker 1: probably would destabilize the economy of the regions if the
Speaker 1: US just left. And so they're sitting out there and jd.
Speaker 1: Vance says that, and this is the part that's hard
Speaker 1: to watch. Now you're seeing these German politics, Like within
Speaker 1: a day, they're like, oh no, don't you won't you
Speaker 1: miss our strudle. You're gonna miss our strudle. You know
Speaker 1: what to go anywhere? Dude, that that put the fear
Speaker 1: of God into him, because now you've got to pay
Speaker 1: for your own stuff and you gotta eat all that
Speaker 1: strudle too. Uh and uh. The financial impact of that
Speaker 1: is wild man. And then of course that opens up
Speaker 1: the next layer of people criticizing like, oh, well, you're
Speaker 1: just you know, you're now you're just gonna use the
Speaker 1: European nations like puppets. Well they don't have to be,
Speaker 1: and you're not using them like puppets. You're just saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm the you know, I'm the the alpha in the room.
Speaker 1: Show me a little respect. And we've just we've just
Speaker 1: gone that little bit too far, and we we have
Speaker 1: been hesitant, always hesitant to go hey, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: we got to eat too. And so it feels really
Speaker 1: uncomfortable that you're doing it now. But she didn't do
Speaker 1: it forever. It's the the in the same way that
Speaker 1: and I don't know if this is their master plan.
Speaker 1: If it is one, it's going to be an ugly ride.
Speaker 1: And I don't know that you get there. But it
Speaker 1: used to be the US didn't have federal income text,
Speaker 1: but we still had stuff, not as much stuff, but
Speaker 1: we had stuff. So how did we have stuff? We
Speaker 1: had stuff because anyone who wanted to do business in
Speaker 1: the United States, with the world's richest economy and chose
Speaker 1: to tarif US, we tiff them. That's it. There's a
Speaker 1: cost of doing business. It's a it's a cover charge
Speaker 1: at the hot barrow. Okay, you got a great band inside.
Speaker 1: That's what we used to do. And then we didn't,
Speaker 1: and then we we migrated to this other thing. Well,
Speaker 1: coming out of Europe and coming out of World War two.
Speaker 1: And that's not to say that we're not going to
Speaker 1: have bases in places where people clearly don't align with
Speaker 1: our values. Turkey clearly doesn't align with our values. However,
Speaker 1: there is a lot of strategic importance there. Okay, So
Speaker 1: that's simple. And when you're and when you're dealing in
Speaker 1: this world with countries like Russia and China, let me
Speaker 1: just stick with China for a moment, you realize that
Speaker 1: China thinks all of that is China, right. This is
Speaker 1: what people fail to understand China, and within the Communist Party,
Speaker 1: which is China, thinks that's all China. When I say
Speaker 1: that's all China, I mean Koreas, Philippines, they think that's
Speaker 1: all them. Probably Vietnam that's them. They think that's all China.
Speaker 1: And that's the way that it should be. All those
Speaker 1: stupid little islands that they essentially dumped on very fragile,
Speaker 1: ecologically fragile coral reefs. So go, oh, look, we got
Speaker 1: islands that's ours two and then two hundred and ten
Speaker 1: miles around it, which is just an insane, weird number
Speaker 1: they thought up. And if Europe wants to go at
Speaker 1: that alone and not to mention Ross, Hey, do you
Speaker 1: know what happens when Europe's just left to their own
Speaker 1: devices historically? Have you ever seen any of this? You
Speaker 1: ever looked at any of this little research? But you're
Speaker 1: what the European countries like to do.
Speaker 3: They like to kill each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they got beef, bro, they got beef, and
Speaker 1: a lot of it's resource based. Look, I understand times
Speaker 1: are different and things are new, but yeah, the very
Speaker 1: basic ask that if we're going to essential structure and
Speaker 1: stabilize part of your economy that you don't sit there
Speaker 1: at the UN delegation. We're all sitting around talking about
Speaker 1: us like it's you know, the mean girls club at lunch.
Speaker 3: Right, and you can we can if listen if we're there.
Speaker 3: They're like, oh, we don't want you here, you know,
Speaker 3: you mind your own business. So we're like, we're gonna leave,
Speaker 3: and they're like, oh, well, now you don't care about Europe.
Speaker 3: We can't win, and they're they're spoiled and they're entitled.
Speaker 3: They really are. They Oh, we have our healthcare system. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because we're paying for all of your defense. Correct, you're
Speaker 3: the world's upcut. Sorry, that's what it is. So you
Speaker 3: can choose to be a partner in it. And Germany
Speaker 3: obviously has a lot of innovators. They have business aptitude,
Speaker 3: They know how to make money.
Speaker 1: They know how to build things, they know how to
Speaker 1: uh mobilize. Okay, right, So is is that a strategic
Speaker 1: partnership or is it? Oh that soldier, Yeah, he made
Speaker 1: a mean tweet and it happens to be married to
Speaker 1: a German citizen because he's been stationed there for three
Speaker 1: years or whatever, and we're gonna make his life. Hell,
Speaker 1: what do you want to do. And so now you're
Speaker 1: seeing these these German politicians, especially ahead of election, because
Speaker 1: this is stuff that resonates with people. If you live
Speaker 1: near one any one of those US military installations, you
Speaker 1: know somebody who works there. I promise you, I promise you,
Speaker 1: that entire region around Ramstein and whatnot, that whole like
Speaker 1: that would devastate. How many of you listening military have
Speaker 1: been stationed there? What would that look like with no
Speaker 1: Americans there other than you know, either random tourists or whatever.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be really interesting. Then they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: the US is meddling in there. You guys literally wrote
Speaker 1: in your stupid Der Spiegel or whatever. The thing is, right,
Speaker 1: we talked about it on the air, where you essentially
Speaker 1: took a united stance within the German media that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is essentially Hitler, which is which is really rich
Speaker 1: considering where it's coming from. And all he's saying. He's
Speaker 1: not saying he wants to do anything too, He's just like, well, look,
Speaker 1: if you don't, if you don't like us, we'll go
Speaker 1: eat at another table. It's your choice, and I'm here
Speaker 1: for it. I'm gonna be watching that all day, all right,
Speaker 1: coming up on the show, Representative Crockett, the gift that
Speaker 1: keeps on giving. We'll do that. There's a new FBI chief.
Speaker 1: Holy cow, there's not enough popcorn Germany. Do you guys
Speaker 1: make pop You don't make popcorn? That's too bad because
Speaker 1: where I need a lot of popcorn, A lot, a
Speaker 1: lot of it. And I'll explain slowly as the morning unfolds.
Speaker 1: Plus we'll chat with Pete Callender. That's at eight oh
Speaker 1: five stick around case O Day Radio program phone number
Speaker 1: eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
Speaker 1: So what do we do? Do we jailed the US
Speaker 1: hockey team? Or are we good they win?
Speaker 3: Last night?
Speaker 1: I don't want to go all Ouda and Kusa and
Speaker 1: all that crazy You remember all that crazy crap that
Speaker 1: came out what Saddam's kids were up to and managing
Speaker 1: a RAX Olympic team like you didn't want to lose.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately though in the the Gang of four or whatever,
Speaker 1: I don't evenmember what is technically the name of this tournament?
Speaker 1: Four nations? Okay, all right, so US Canada last night
Speaker 1: who we beat? Remember three to one the other night?
Speaker 1: This was the final though bracketed through and uh it
Speaker 1: took over time. Canada got it done three to two.
Speaker 1: So good, good game there. I'll tell you. The redeeming
Speaker 1: thing is, uh Trudeau tried to make this like his win,
Speaker 1: and even Canadians who seem to be very like nationalized
Speaker 1: and upset with the US are also like, uh, now
Speaker 1: you suck too, This isn't for you. Shut up. So
Speaker 1: that's fun to watch. Yeah, the Four Nations face off tournament,
Speaker 1: which they did. This is instead of the All Star
Speaker 1: this is NHL's All Star, which, by the way, I'm
Speaker 1: sure the ratings just killed and definitely surpassed what the
Speaker 1: NBA put up the other day. But yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what it was. It was good. It was a good
Speaker 1: hockey match if you watched it, and that's good, and
Speaker 1: that's fine that they went ahead and won. It's fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have the Stanley Cups. That's what counts.
Speaker 1: But okay, all right, everyone had a good time. And
Speaker 1: you know what, it had been a while, like really,
Speaker 1: Ross and I we got kind of screwed on this whole,
Speaker 1: like we don't remember how good it probably felt with
Speaker 1: the miracle on ice right where you really had that rival.
Speaker 1: We got whiffs of it in the Olympics. Do you
Speaker 1: remember when they tried to like jazz up figure skating
Speaker 1: and we go against Russia on the Winter Olympics. Even then,
Speaker 1: we weren't sitting there figuring out where our Cold War
Speaker 1: bunkers were for when the nukes came. Like that was
Speaker 1: you had real skin in the game, and we just
Speaker 1: haven't had anything like that in forever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what did we have? We egypped? We got like
Speaker 3: Nancy Kerrigan versus like a sona by Yule or something.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I'm not knocking on their talent, but I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, back in the day, we'd go against Russia
Speaker 1: because the other thing was we're racing them to the moon.
Speaker 3: Right, it wasn't say it wasn't like the evil Empire?
Speaker 1: Yeah? How good did that have to feel? Lake Placid? Right,
Speaker 1: that's where that happened.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: Oh oh So having a little bit of that put
Speaker 1: it onto a sporting event. Oh, I'm here for it,
Speaker 1: and that's great. Congratulations they they went, they and you
Speaker 1: know what they should do well in hockey? That cat
Speaker 1: patl trending. I'm sure that's positive. What's this other thing,
Speaker 1: Luigi list Ross? What do we think a Luigi list
Speaker 1: is because that's another thing trending is that people like
Speaker 1: to play Mario Brothers.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, that's a Nintendo switch thing.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't have a switch, so I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have known. Okay, so why are the fifty one senators
Speaker 1: and Kosh Patel this fifty one centators have voted for
Speaker 1: Mikosh Patel on it.
Speaker 3: It's like a Mario Kart tournament.
Speaker 1: Oh, they're all going to do a tournament. Because some
Speaker 1: would look at that, I don't let me get my
Speaker 1: little tinfoil ad here. Some would look at that and
Speaker 1: be like, I think that's you saying that they should
Speaker 1: be killed, maybe shot in the back of midtown Manhattan
Speaker 1: at o dark thirty in the morning. So I'm glad
Speaker 1: that's going well for you. For you, Oh, some of these,
Speaker 1: some of these posts, where's the restaurantant? Some hold on?
Speaker 1: One of these is my favorite absolute face.
Speaker 3: They're all in.
Speaker 1: Basically, they're like, ah, if you go to a restaurant,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be, you know, like there's gonna be suddenly
Speaker 1: spy devices everywhere. They're gonna be listening to you. But
Speaker 1: what do you not understand? Why you have jd Vance,
Speaker 1: who's literally sitting there. We played the audio, and it's
Speaker 1: talking about the idea that maybe if somebody says something online,
Speaker 1: you don't throw them in jail. That's kind of seemingly
Speaker 1: a plank of this administration. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know this. So then to imagine that it's all to
Speaker 1: do that is on a little project e ee, just
Speaker 1: to me. So I'm gonna I'm gonna think the worst
Speaker 1: about that whole Luichi list thing. I can't find the
Speaker 1: restaurant one. You get the gist. Ah, here we go,
Speaker 1: wait a month until you suddenly find yourself looking around
Speaker 1: in a restaurant to make sure no one overhears what
Speaker 1: you're saying, or when you're conversations with neighbors dwindle, dwindled
Speaker 1: to pleasantries about the weather. It's only just begun again.
Speaker 1: What you're talking about is an atmosphere that existed and
Speaker 1: most recently existed in Eastern European former Russian nation, Communist nations. Okay, right,
Speaker 1: it's still happening in the Belarus today where they would
Speaker 1: essentially they would they would deputize your neighbor to tattle
Speaker 1: on you, and your neighbor would do it, not necessarily
Speaker 1: because they wanted you to go to the Gulag, but
Speaker 1: they realized that they didn't give up some names and
Speaker 1: some information, they wouldn't look loyal to the party, and
Speaker 1: so they literally make stuff up about people. That's why.
Speaker 1: That's how you got neighbors, nobody trusting anybody, and it's
Speaker 1: it's not a sustainable system. And that's what you wanted
Speaker 1: right when you're cheering on the whole. Hey, we need
Speaker 1: you know what we need. We need a group of
Speaker 1: theater kids to decide what can and can't be said
Speaker 1: on the internet. We need to do. So what that
Speaker 1: guy's pug did a Nazi salute. Let's throw them in jail. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's that's all the things that you championed. And what
Speaker 1: you think Patel's gonna go in and do the thing
Speaker 1: that you secretly wanted to do.
Speaker 3: Right away?
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I guess I shouldn't use
Speaker 1: my real name on social media? Is that what this
Speaker 1: has come to? Your name is hot COADMD dot bluesky.
Speaker 1: I'm not finding your address with that. What are you
Speaker 1: talking about? And nobody else cares? You have thirty five
Speaker 1: people that follow you, Nobody cares. So you know, that's
Speaker 1: the real irony here. You're gonna run around and you're
Speaker 1: posting things like Luigi list and you know, they're essentially
Speaker 1: saying that fifty one senators and an FBI director now
Speaker 1: have to be murdered, and probably nothing will happen because
Speaker 1: they realize what affeckless loser you are. Ain't no guy
Speaker 1: with thirty five followers gonna do something until you go
Speaker 1: to hitman dot com like all the rest of those idiots,
Speaker 1: and then you're one of my stories. Yeah, you're you're
Speaker 1: gonna be just fine. Ah, what a day?
Speaker 3: What a day?
Speaker 1: What a day. I'll tell you something. The worst of
Speaker 1: the days with kash Patel in there, and that's Adam
Speaker 1: schiff Man. Remember Adam schiff and I just does not
Speaker 1: get enough press coverage. Adam schiff was removed from his
Speaker 1: committee assignments and formally censured by the House of Representatives
Speaker 1: at the time he's now a senator because they basically said,
Speaker 1: you lie, nobody trusts you, we can't have you with
Speaker 1: the ability to literally access classified information. This isn't happening anymore.
Speaker 1: And he absolutely melted it down when they did that. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a lot more there and Kash Battel has made
Speaker 1: no bones about the fact that Adam Schiff there there,
Speaker 1: you know there possibly could be some other stuff. So
Speaker 1: this is literally his worst nightmare.
Speaker 5: This is someone we cannot trust. This is someone who
Speaker 5: lacks the character to do this job, someone who lacks
Speaker 5: the integrity to do this job. We know that our
Speaker 5: Republican colleagues know that the only qualification cash Battel has
Speaker 5: to be FBI director is that when everyone else in
Speaker 5: the first Trump administration said no, I won't do that
Speaker 5: that crosses moral, ethical, and legal lines, cash Battel said,
Speaker 5: sign me up. In the first Trump administration, as we
Speaker 5: are seeing in the second, you rise to the level
Speaker 5: of your sickophancye. And no one is a bigger or
Speaker 5: a dangerous sick ephent than cash Battel. This political hack
Speaker 5: does not deserve to be in this building. He can't
Speaker 5: do the job. He won't protect the public. He will
Speaker 5: misuse the resources of the bureau. He will weaponize it
Speaker 5: against the President's political opponents, rather than the protecting the
Speaker 5: safety the public safety of the American people.
Speaker 1: Dude, you got thrown off all your committees. Nobody trusts you.
Speaker 1: They didn't even make a big stink on the Democrat side.
Speaker 1: Ada hemmdon had And there's the audio where they're like
Speaker 1: during the A and A thing and we were screaming
Speaker 1: like idiots. They didn't really mount anything. You know why,
Speaker 1: because it was indefensible the stuff you were doing. You
Speaker 1: told everybody point blank that there was evidence, you had
Speaker 1: seen it, and it would come out that Trump colluded
Speaker 1: with Russia, which was a big charge. You said that
Speaker 1: evidence existed, and then you didn't even have the You
Speaker 1: didn't even pretend like some of the other evidence was
Speaker 1: just your misinterpretation. It just never existed clearly. And all
Speaker 1: the shenanigans around how that whole committee ran. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: watching this guy be nervous makes my absolute day because
Speaker 1: he's not even making typical Adam Schiff arguments. He's throwing
Speaker 1: everything he's got. This was prior to the vote, and
Speaker 1: it did no good.
Speaker 6: Adam Schiff is the worst criminal in Congress in the
Speaker 6: LAS two.
Speaker 1: Hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 7: And Walbrits broke.
Speaker 6: That we're going to talk about right now is Adam
Speaker 6: Schiff met with a whistle blower. Adam Schiff went to
Speaker 6: the podium day after day after day saying I know
Speaker 6: nothing about this. We're not going to discuss it. We're
Speaker 6: going to protect it. And then he Adam Schiff led
Speaker 6: the prosecution of the impeachment trial in the Senate of
Speaker 6: President Donald Trump, talk about someone who was conflicted out
Speaker 6: of the game because he was part of the hoax
Speaker 6: that brought Tromela in, manufactured that false accusation, and then
Speaker 6: pedaled it out to the world. And he continued, you know,
Speaker 6: not surprising. He's lied about almost everything in his life,
Speaker 6: but now he lied just to set up a presidential peachment.
Speaker 6: And that's what I was talking about, these disinformation campaigns.
Speaker 7: And then he.
Speaker 6: Should be investigated because he lied to the world about
Speaker 6: his interactions with Charmela, who is a whistleblower. And I
Speaker 6: can't stress it enough. That started a presidential impeachment.
Speaker 1: And and and ended up what was the final costs
Speaker 1: and the Mueller thing. The Mueller thing was that fifty
Speaker 1: some million dollars And that's what not to mention the instability,
Speaker 1: the lies, the amount of money that people surrounding Trump
Speaker 1: ended up having to spend to defend themselves. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: should be nervous. And your buddy with his all white
Speaker 1: little beach club mister Whitehouse or whatever up there with
Speaker 1: his all white club that he was, you know, like
Speaker 1: to go to because you know it's just whites. Ugh,
Speaker 1: no pores, no colored people, no, none of that. Just yeah, whites,
Speaker 1: white House. It's in your name, bro, it's in your name.
Speaker 1: This guy, you're the moral compass. You're out there standing
Speaker 1: next to shift. Nobody's listening to you.
Speaker 3: Krashptel Mark, my words will cause evil in this building
Speaker 3: behind us, and Republicans who vote for him will rue
Speaker 3: that day.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're ross. Did you see any
Speaker 1: ruin on the Republican front yesterday after this? I didn't
Speaker 1: see any ruing. Maybe the ruin starts later. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think it was delayed because of the snow.
Speaker 1: Oh they put the ruin of it because the that's
Speaker 1: you know, that would make sense. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff that was put off. But I'm assuming Lincoln's not
Speaker 1: in school today, so why should he also be ruining.
Speaker 1: That's that's a fair point. So, oh, what a good day.
Speaker 1: I know we didn't win the hockey thing, but I'll
Speaker 1: take this as the consolation prize. Six forty five. Hang on,
Speaker 1: that is not why he quote swapped out the resolute
Speaker 1: desk because he thought there was a booger on it.
Speaker 1: And I know, you know, this is New York Post.
Speaker 1: They know that the thing is being refurbished. It literally
Speaker 1: was discussed. They go through, right. You gotta, you know,
Speaker 1: make sure that the how old is that thing? Been
Speaker 1: around a bit so they'll go through and they'll refurbish it.
Speaker 1: You gotta put the secret map pieces back in the
Speaker 1: secret drawers.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: You get that thing loaded for bear. The desk which
Speaker 1: was first utilized in the White House actually by John F. Kennedy.
Speaker 1: I realized it was the first also utilized by Jimmy Carter,
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden than Trump. Now they're
Speaker 1: they're just temporarily replaced. It's fine. I got another desk
Speaker 1: in there. He's got room to work the die coke
Speaker 1: buttons where it needs to be. This is not a
Speaker 1: big deal and it's not over a booger. Okay, let's see.
Speaker 1: I hope there's a little more history here. When was
Speaker 1: it actually because people think that the White House always
Speaker 1: had this thing, but actually one of the railroad companies
Speaker 1: had it from like the eighteen fifties or something. All right, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: here we go. Okay, all right, so I wanted to
Speaker 1: be clear here. All right, So the initial desk was
Speaker 1: built the eighteen fifties, and then what then became the
Speaker 1: updated version of the resolute desk was, oh President Hayes
Speaker 1: eighteen eighty when the HMS resolute part, Like that part
Speaker 1: is true, that's what the desk is made out of,
Speaker 1: presented by Queen Victoria at the time. So yeah, they're
Speaker 1: just there. They'll buff it up as long as they
Speaker 1: don't get that lady who they hired to restore that
Speaker 1: Jesus photo to do it, remember that painting disaster. I
Speaker 1: think it'll be okay, but I don't think that's accurate.
Speaker 1: All right, How are we feeling about the James Bond franchise?
Speaker 1: By the way, So, and I wonder what the dollar amount.
Speaker 1: It had to be huge, because you know, the family
Speaker 1: members of the author of the James Bond books have
Speaker 1: always always been there exerting creative control. Anything that you
Speaker 1: wanted to do with James Bond, you had to go
Speaker 1: through the family, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli or whatever. And
Speaker 1: and for the first time ever, the family has signed
Speaker 1: over creative control to Jeff Bezos, and if you remember,
Speaker 1: Amazon went and paid an ungodly sum. I don't remember
Speaker 1: what it was. It was like in the it was
Speaker 1: like a billion dollars or something right to the family
Speaker 1: of Tolkien so that they could expand on that. And
Speaker 1: we saw how that worked out like that. That turned
Speaker 1: into a bit of a dud there. So I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people are nervous what they're going to
Speaker 1: do with it. I I look, do I think that
Speaker 1: they're gonna do with it? Doing with the Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: Superstar and they're gonna get the black queer female actress
Speaker 1: from the Ariana Grande weird videos? No, I wonder if
Speaker 1: he doesn't put himself in this. Have you seen have
Speaker 1: you seen Bezos man? Like he's just like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Ross and Edward discussing this off the air. So you
Speaker 1: don't think he's on steroids. You just think that like
Speaker 1: this is this is his jam.
Speaker 3: It amazes me to me. And you see this a
Speaker 3: lot like there are people that don't go to the gym,
Speaker 3: and I have like they assume that anybody that makes
Speaker 3: gains at the gym, or that gets in shape or
Speaker 3: on steroids, the dude is not on steroids. He looks
Speaker 3: like somebody. He looks like somebody that Yeah, he looks
Speaker 3: like somebody that started focusing on his body and caring
Speaker 3: about his health because he can't because he's a billionaire
Speaker 3: now and.
Speaker 1: He's got a metabolicist and a nutritionist and right he's
Speaker 1: spending the money. It's just the line is steroids.
Speaker 3: Do you see the same thing online about RFK Junior
Speaker 3: where you have like people like, oh, he's on steroids
Speaker 3: because he can he can be press And it's like, no,
Speaker 3: it looks like somebody who's like focused on his health
Speaker 3: and you can't. But he has the time to do
Speaker 3: it now, so you have the time to invest and
Speaker 3: go to the gym, and now he looks healthy.
Speaker 1: Well he's got he's got a yacht with a Chase
Speaker 1: yacht the size of a yacht.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it has a gym on it as well.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's got several gyms probably. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: no question there. But also I wonder if that like,
Speaker 1: what is that fascination with some of these billionaires, you know,
Speaker 1: like Zuckerberg, He's like I'm surfing and fighting mma now right,
Speaker 1: and and so and that's fine if he wants to
Speaker 1: go ahead and do that. I wonder that if the
Speaker 1: next James Bond is a bald dude from Seattle. Maybe
Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah, So they're they're gonna go
Speaker 1: forward with Amazon MGM Studios, just Prime Videos, main main
Speaker 1: deal there, and they have creative control, which is a
Speaker 1: very different situation. So I don't know what all they're
Speaker 1: gonna do with it. Let's see here. I was hoping
Speaker 1: to find numbers on the actual deal, but I have
Speaker 1: not seen those. All told, the Bond franchise has earned
Speaker 1: more than seven billion since nineteen sixty two. Do you
Speaker 1: know Ross? Do you know what the first James Bond
Speaker 1: film was? Nineteen sixty two? Sean Connery obviously doctor No.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and this goes back to books, obviously it
Speaker 1: is nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 3: Yes, It is funny how yesterday there was like a
Speaker 3: feeling online where everybody was like, James Bond is dead.
Speaker 1: I don't know it's dead. I think they're just looking
Speaker 1: at what Amazon did with the Tolkien stuff.
Speaker 3: So fine, like people can see what's coming and they're like,
Speaker 3: oh man, it sucks, or.
Speaker 1: Maybe they learned their lesson from that. Maybe they went,
Speaker 1: you know, with every you know, with everything kind of
Speaker 1: backing off in Disney, backing off a little. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: Bezios looks at it and goes, look, I just I
Speaker 1: just flushed all that money, that Tolkien money down the toilet.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should not turn this thing into a you know,
Speaker 1: a leftist passion project and just have James Bond run
Speaker 1: around killing people.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: I mean, if he does it correctly, right with the
Speaker 3: current climate, it's a it's a windfall. It should be
Speaker 3: a financial windfall if you do it correctly.
Speaker 1: I fail, Yes, one hundred percent. And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: We don't even have to get bogged. Because they were
Speaker 1: talking about like, well, what if Idris Elba plays James
Speaker 1: Bond they have a black Nobody cares like that's it
Speaker 1: was the part where you're like, James Bond is a
Speaker 1: woman now where because that's not James Bond, Because James Bond.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this bit of a
Speaker 1: woman iSER. All right, So look, I don't know. This
Speaker 1: is the first time I've seen it stated by I
Speaker 1: guess a secondary source if you want to call it that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Trump administration's trying to do this.
Speaker 1: But if they are, holy crap. All right. So I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier in the show that one of the things
Speaker 1: that used to be a thing here in the United
Speaker 1: States is that most of the federal government's obligations. Now
Speaker 1: we clearly we don't spend the same at the federal
Speaker 1: level that we do now that we did you know,
Speaker 1: at any other point in our country. Right, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a much bigger, much bigger set of spending priorities,
Speaker 1: although it is being whittled down. And so the way
Speaker 1: that we would do that is the majority of it
Speaker 1: literally was paid for by other governments and other consumers
Speaker 1: and other companies in the form of tariffs. People wanted
Speaker 1: to do business, and they still do. They want to
Speaker 1: do business because there's just so much damn money here, okay,
Speaker 1: And so the price of doing business was some of
Speaker 1: your products are going to be tariffed. That's before you
Speaker 1: got into the matching side of it. Now, if you
Speaker 1: want to tear of us, we're gonna we would tear
Speaker 1: af you equally. Sometimes we would overteariff, but we didn't
Speaker 1: have a federal income tax. And then one day for
Speaker 1: uh and and I've seen a lot of the arguments
Speaker 1: as to how it transitioned to it, and there is
Speaker 1: some argument about how you could probably never go back
Speaker 1: to just tariffs because you know what, because if you're
Speaker 1: just tariffs and then the thing that happened with the
Speaker 1: COVID happens, what does that do for the US economy.
Speaker 1: It's it's a nightmare. That being said, that kind of
Speaker 1: feels like what they're trying to do. That's what's so
Speaker 1: crazy to me. That feels exactly what they are trying
Speaker 1: to do. And it's not just me saying it. Howard
Speaker 1: Lutnik the the Commerce Secretary, right, so he's on Jesse
Speaker 1: Waters primetime. So when they're not showing you know, Jamal
Speaker 1: videos s he Waters is getting down to it with
Speaker 1: the Commerce Secretary, and Lutnick says this.
Speaker 8: And our objective under Donald Trump is to balance this budget.
Speaker 8: And I'm telling you you watch it, We're gonna do it.
Speaker 9: If you get savings from these doze cuts, are you
Speaker 9: going to give any of this back to the American people.
Speaker 1: We keep hearing about these doze dividends.
Speaker 8: Well, think about it. Donald Trump announces the External Revenue Service,
Speaker 8: and his goal is very simple, to abolish His goal
Speaker 8: is to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and let all
Speaker 8: the outsiders pay.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what he's saying is the thing I just said.
Speaker 1: And that's the Commerce secretary. So his goal is to
Speaker 1: abolish the IRS, which would essentially abolish the federal income
Speaker 1: tax or maybe there would be some variation, and let
Speaker 1: the tariffs pay.
Speaker 3: I feel like the Randy Morrish computer meme.
Speaker 1: I can't describe that on the air. I can't describe
Speaker 1: that on the air. This is like sur he's having
Speaker 1: a really a good time in this computer.
Speaker 3: You feel like like libertarian Christmas. Yeah, we've said this
Speaker 3: for a long time, like, you know, abolish the Department
Speaker 3: of Education, audit the FED, get rid of that, get
Speaker 3: rid of the kind of you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: as it like it would never happen. And now you
Speaker 3: actually have these proposals, and it's like, what is happening here?
Speaker 3: It's amazing.
Speaker 1: Well and and and and I find myself and people
Speaker 1: should you should find yourself. And I see folks will
Speaker 1: air this on social media and everyone will get you
Speaker 1: can't screw this up right, For the reasons I just
Speaker 1: explained to you, if you transition the revenues that are
Speaker 1: derived that are utilized to fun federal programs, and and
Speaker 1: you want to take it back to what it used
Speaker 1: to be. You have to recognize the possibility that something
Speaker 1: like COVID could really check that up. So you gotta
Speaker 1: have a plan for that. And so maybe you don't
Speaker 1: do the whole thing, and you'd also have to shrink
Speaker 1: government a lot. That is correct, and that is the
Speaker 1: other That is the other aspect of this, because if
Speaker 1: you go if you roll into another COVID and you
Speaker 1: have all of the liabilities that you have, and a
Speaker 1: lot of these liabilities ain't going to go nowhere right
Speaker 1: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. You can't just wipe it off
Speaker 1: the books. People lose their crap, and frankly, there's too
Speaker 1: many people invested. And even if you if you try
Speaker 1: to do things like it just the age for relevance,
Speaker 1: you got to phase it in over ten years. So
Speaker 1: these are all big conversations. So you can't just go
Speaker 1: out and blow it up for this purpose of blowing
Speaker 1: it up, as good as that may sound or feel.
Speaker 3: You can't, like people are saying that. You see people
Speaker 3: saying they're like, oh, well, you know, you need that
Speaker 3: revenue or these or these other agencies, these government departments
Speaker 3: would have to close. And then you have other people
Speaker 3: that are like, you're starting to get it, Yeah, you're
Speaker 3: starting to get it.
Speaker 1: So it's a combination of all of these things. But
Speaker 1: you have to figure out for the things that you
Speaker 1: deem essential for the federal government. But by reorgining the system,
Speaker 1: it really hamstrings the ability of if a Democrat gets
Speaker 1: in there, to just go all right, you know, do
Speaker 1: the Thano snap of the fingers. Only this doesn't kill
Speaker 1: half the people. It brings back all the stuff that
Speaker 1: they cut. If you've restructured the revenue system, that makes
Speaker 1: things incredibly interesting. And of course everyone's screaming bloody murder.
Speaker 1: They wheel Jasmine Crockett out there. She doesn't want you
Speaker 1: to have your five thousand dollars rebate check. Now here's
Speaker 1: the thing. We talked about this yesterday, this Doge dividend thing.
Speaker 1: It sounds nice, but it's probably not the best way
Speaker 1: to go about this because ultimately it's already tax money
Speaker 1: you have. You know, you got a credit card bill,
Speaker 1: you got to pay that, and yeah, well there is
Speaker 1: the initial stimulation of spending. It really doesn't do anything
Speaker 1: in the grand scheme of things, when you're attempting to
Speaker 1: right size the government, it could actually complicate complim compliment,
Speaker 1: say compliment a complication eat things. But the more the
Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett hates something, the more I wanted.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 6: President Trump says he likes the idea of giving some
Speaker 6: of the savings from DOGE back to Americans as kind
Speaker 6: of a dividend.
Speaker 10: Would you support that, Listen, he's just telling a lie.
Speaker 10: He's not the one that had anything to do with
Speaker 10: the twelve hundred dollars refunds that people had during the
Speaker 10: midst of COVID. That was done by a Democratic House
Speaker 10: and Democratic Senate. Right now, what they're going to do
Speaker 10: is say, hey, we want to give you a refund,
Speaker 10: but Congress won't let us because they already know that
Speaker 10: there's just no money for that. The only reason that
Speaker 10: those refunds came before was because we were living in
Speaker 10: different times. This was a time in which hopefully we
Speaker 10: won't ever go through again. We had a once in
Speaker 10: a lifetime pandemic. The bad part is that I don't
Speaker 10: know if it's once in a lifetime because we know
Speaker 10: that Ebola, unfortunately was detected right here in New York
Speaker 10: here recently. And if we continue down this road of
Speaker 10: getting rid of scientists or deciding that we don't want
Speaker 10: to rely on experts as relates to what they're telling
Speaker 10: us to do, or we don't want to deal with
Speaker 10: vaccines and medicine in this country, then we may be
Speaker 10: facing not only our next pandemic, but our next two
Speaker 10: to three or four pandemics because of their incompetence. So, no,
Speaker 10: we are not in the business of giving out money.
Speaker 10: And honestly, I don't know what five thousand dollars will
Speaker 10: do for you.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, let me just and this is
Speaker 1: really the key thing.
Speaker 10: So no, we are not in the business of giving
Speaker 10: out money, and honestly, I don't know what five thousand
Speaker 10: dollars will do for you.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. It's not that she's bring It's
Speaker 1: not the most insane thing she's ever said. Right, she's
Speaker 1: doing it from a parson standpoint. But as soon as
Speaker 1: you turn to me after just glorifying the twelve hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: which was rot with all sorts of fraud, which probably
Speaker 1: nobody will be punning. I know that they got some folks,
Speaker 1: but nobody really up there that facilitated this. Nothing's going
Speaker 1: to happen. That being said, you tell people that five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars won't do anything for them, and I don't
Speaker 1: know that that's going to be a winning message for
Speaker 1: you if you want to talk about the complexities of
Speaker 1: you know what, maybe we should spend that money on.
Speaker 1: But that's not what she's advocating. And for you to
Speaker 1: say this is not what we do, it is what
Speaker 1: you do. It is literally what democrats do. Hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: student loans, you don't want to pay those, vote for us.
Speaker 3: I know it's silly, but five thousand dollars to a
Speaker 3: lot of people, it's like life changing, absolutely, like it's
Speaker 3: except it's not really usually, but you know what it
Speaker 3: can't be if you're responsible with your money, like to
Speaker 3: have that in the bank. It's a feeling of security,
Speaker 3: even if it is sort of an illusion, like mentally,
Speaker 3: it's like a big deal, like it can be life
Speaker 3: changing where you're not stressing as much. But if I
Speaker 3: had to choose between the five thousand dollars from nodes
Speaker 3: or whatever, or like say, abolishing the income tax, I
Speaker 3: would in the irs, I would choose abolishing the income
Speaker 3: tax and the irs, and that is something. Listen, if
Speaker 3: you take the average person who doesn't pay any attention
Speaker 3: to politics and suddenly they're looking at their paycheck and
Speaker 3: that income tax is gone, that's going to make a
Speaker 3: big impact in difference. Like that is something people are
Speaker 3: gonna notice. And then if you have another administration come in,
Speaker 3: say the Democrats win the White House and they come
Speaker 3: back in and they say, you know, we're going to
Speaker 3: try to put that all back in and take that
Speaker 3: money away from you. How do you think that's gonna go?
Speaker 1: Well, no, that's it. That's why. That's the whole thing
Speaker 1: where once you've put something in, it's almost impossible to
Speaker 1: get rid of it because then the other side, the
Speaker 1: opponents just go, oh, you want to steal.
Speaker 3: This from Yeah, people will be rioting in the streets
Speaker 3: be like, no, I have this money and now you're
Speaker 3: taking it all back away from me, Like that's kafe
Speaker 3: changing for me.
Speaker 1: So it appeals to the highest common denominator like people
Speaker 1: who may get it and are running the math on
Speaker 1: the end, but it also appeals to it and I
Speaker 1: don't mean this in a negative way. The least the
Speaker 1: people who are at least plugged into the whole process,
Speaker 1: who are just looking at those dollars, right, Yeah, And
Speaker 1: that's the difference when they're there or when they're not.
Speaker 3: And actually being able to save money for once, like
Speaker 3: put money in the bank. Because there are people that
Speaker 3: do have Listen, there are people that no matter what
Speaker 3: you give them, right, you see this with the lottery
Speaker 3: all the time, the money's going to go through the
Speaker 3: fingers and they're not gonna be able to save or
Speaker 3: make anything from it. But there are a lot of
Speaker 3: people that do want to be responsible and they do
Speaker 3: want to save, but they can't in the under the
Speaker 3: current system, it's almost impossible to save money.
Speaker 1: So now, and and and the other thing is too,
Speaker 1: what is that due to prices? You can't Again, this
Speaker 1: is why you have to think all this stuff out.
Speaker 1: What does that due to prices? If everybody now has
Speaker 1: what is the what's the mean average actual paid tax rates?
Speaker 1: Still it's always around eighteen percent. We and people this
Speaker 1: is what people don't understand. I see them posting memes
Speaker 1: like we need to go back to the nineteen forties
Speaker 1: when the marginal tax rate for top earners was ninety percent.
Speaker 1: Nobody paid that even then. Even then, through the various
Speaker 1: laws and loopholes and ride offs and everything. It's still around.
Speaker 1: It always is around eighteen percent. We don't get away
Speaker 1: from it. So let's call it twenty percent for you know,
Speaker 1: something to do twenty percent, you get twenty percent more
Speaker 1: spending power instantly. What does that do to prices? Now?
Speaker 1: People go, well, it shouldn't affect it because it's with
Speaker 1: the bs. You know, that's not how the markets work.
Speaker 1: What does that do. Let's say they chew up half
Speaker 1: of it, so everything's ten percent more. But it's a
Speaker 1: readjustment to everything going on in the economy. Man, to
Speaker 1: readjustment to a lot of things. It also would adjust
Speaker 1: how you negotiate with your employer. So you got to
Speaker 1: get this stuff right. But any transition, it's going to
Speaker 1: get ugly. And that's because you're going to have people
Speaker 1: that are throwing stuff out. Who was the Florida congressman?
Speaker 4: What was he for?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he posted this yesterday. This is how blatantly
Speaker 1: they're willing to lie to you. So he posteddic what
Speaker 1: is the rationale other than making life more difficult for seniors?
Speaker 1: And he posted this little graphic and it says Medicare
Speaker 1: will no longer cover telehealth services as of April first,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and he posts that out there and
Speaker 1: people look at that, They're like, oh my god, Trump's
Speaker 1: cutting telehealth for seniors. Some senior and needs medical cares
Speaker 1: in their home and they can't access telehealth because Trump's cuts. No,
Speaker 1: this is a blatant lie. The telehealth services are an
Speaker 1: expanded version of it, which you can argue should be permanent,
Speaker 1: but are not. In fact. Rokanna, the congressman from Florida,
Speaker 1: knows this. Why because he was one of the people
Speaker 1: who voted for the bill that literally sunset this March
Speaker 1: thirty first. He voted for a bill that would stop
Speaker 1: this March thirty first, and he knows that, but he
Speaker 1: put this out anyway. And I'm glad to see this
Speaker 1: in community notes that have finally attached to this. This
Speaker 1: was expanded. This was part of the American Relief Act.
Speaker 1: Kanna voted for it. Everybody knows this. Trump isn't He
Speaker 1: hasn't touched any of this.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have to.
Speaker 1: It's it's going by by all on its own, and
Speaker 1: it's not all of telehealth. There's still lots of telehealth
Speaker 1: that's available where it makes sense. This was a much
Speaker 1: more expanded version, and a version I might add that's
Speaker 1: not being utilized in the same way that it was
Speaker 1: because seniors have a lot of time, they're willing to
Speaker 1: slept down, and they want to see an actual doctor,
Speaker 1: especially if you're an older person. This is not how
Speaker 1: you think medicine happens, some of it. Yeah, but you
Speaker 1: want to be able to show the doctor that weird
Speaker 1: thing on your leg? What is that? Even so, they're
Speaker 1: going to throw everything they can think of in this
Speaker 1: direction to the freak out if that's what they're good
Speaker 1: they're going after. This is going to be a huge hole.
Speaker 3: I can't even imagine the freak out on the left
Speaker 3: if that were to happen, Like, I can't even because
Speaker 3: and the reason for the freak out would be the
Speaker 3: party cannot survive without that revenue. They need those programs
Speaker 3: to survive and especial that control.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to force people to adopt You're insane thing.
Speaker 3: Right, and especially like the people that you're saying you're
Speaker 3: trying to help with your programs, which are not right,
Speaker 3: You're just putting them in an endless cycle of being
Speaker 3: dependent upon you. The people suddenly that you apparently are
Speaker 3: trying to help, are going to see all this extra
Speaker 3: income and they'll be like, wow, this is actually the
Speaker 3: I don't need eighteen dollars an hour. You know, you
Speaker 3: don't need to raise the minimum wage now because now
Speaker 3: I can survive on what I'm making because you're not
Speaker 3: taking most of it.
Speaker 1: Well at first, again, you get the right size of
Speaker 1: the economy because businesses out you don't have to call
Speaker 1: agreed businesses out there are going to with while they
Speaker 1: won't be as negatively impacted by the salary requirements, there's
Speaker 1: always the part where consumers there's going to be a
Speaker 1: number where enough consumers will pay that versus won't, and
Speaker 1: that's where you have to get your pricing right. And
Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah, you know, eventually a lot of uncomfortable
Speaker 1: conversations come up, but once you're in the thing, it's
Speaker 1: really hard to get out of the thing. And to
Speaker 1: Ross's points, that's where they would then have to go, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna you know, that money that you just all
Speaker 1: of a sudden have and now you're spending, whether it's
Speaker 1: on stupid stuff or smart stuff, Yeah, we're gonna need that. Again,
Speaker 1: It's like, well, hold on the tariff's not bringing the money,
Speaker 1: or they're not people who want to do business here
Speaker 1: in the US because I see all the products there. Well,
Speaker 1: that's not the right way to do it. And then
Speaker 1: they have to make that argument again, and they can't
Speaker 1: use postwar rebuilding to essentially do that transition so that
Speaker 1: people don't line about it because everything's so great, which
Speaker 1: is a lot of what was accomplished. All right, well,
Speaker 1: that's not the only legislative news. Apparently some people are
Speaker 1: surprised that a member of the Senate's not running again. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll get to that. Pete Counter will join
Speaker 1: us at eight oh five, and oh so much more
Speaker 1: coming up here on the Cacoday Radio program. The amount
Speaker 1: of articles news articles over the life last month basically
Speaker 1: it's been what a month, right was it twenty first today? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but a month. I read them and I'll see like
Speaker 1: a screenshot or something like in a tweet, or they'll
Speaker 1: put a quote in there and I'm like, that's not
Speaker 1: let's end the article. That's an onion article. And then
Speaker 1: I'll read it and I'm like, oh my gosh, that's real.
Speaker 1: And then you have to figure out, well, what was
Speaker 1: the point you were trying to make What what were
Speaker 1: you doing here? So the Washington Post ran an article
Speaker 1: yesterday long lines and canceled rentals, firings, bring blah blah blah. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So basically what they did is they went around through
Speaker 1: the National park system and also for a service, and
Speaker 1: they highlighted not just you know, numbers like one hundred
Speaker 1: park rangers or fifty smoke jumpers or any They they
Speaker 1: went and they on a in a individual level. They
Speaker 1: wanted to humanize in personal lies, people who may be
Speaker 1: impacted by these cuts. And then they wrote this down.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I don't have beef with this dude,
Speaker 1: And honestly, I actually kind of understand that you probably
Speaker 1: want somebody who's in charge of this part of things
Speaker 1: for the Park Service. The problem is apparently he's the
Speaker 1: only dude. So I'm gonna read this verbatim so you
Speaker 1: don't think that I'm juicing this article. You ready. At
Speaker 1: California's Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only
Speaker 1: locksmith on staff on Friday. He is the sole employee
Speaker 1: with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue
Speaker 1: visitors from locked restrooms and I don't want to limit
Speaker 1: because he does more than that. I'm gonna read some
Speaker 1: is that a problem. I've been to Yosemite. I think
Speaker 1: I use the bathroom there, I don't think I almost
Speaker 1: locked myself in it. And I've used a lot of backcountry,
Speaker 1: you know what you would call backcountry, which is an
Speaker 1: actual designation for various Forest Service cabins. Right. I've been
Speaker 1: privileged enough because my uncle was He was a criminal
Speaker 1: investigator for Yellowstone Park, so I, as a kid, got
Speaker 1: to stay in one of those backcountry cabins the Yellowstone
Speaker 1: is known for that the rangers use, and they have
Speaker 1: these amazing log books, kind of like if you hike
Speaker 1: the app trail right, and you can see all the
Speaker 1: people that went through there. I've stayed. I've stayed in
Speaker 1: a backcountry cabin there that literally a vice president of
Speaker 1: the United States was in there. I can't remember which
Speaker 1: one it was who had stayed there. And there you
Speaker 1: go and you find his paragraph and his signature. It's
Speaker 1: so cool. Man. But I don't think my uncle Brian's
Speaker 1: alone with the keys, so I don't know what's all
Speaker 1: on this. But so you're the key master, bro, Like,
Speaker 1: do we have a Goser. Is there a Gozer Ross?
Speaker 1: Do we know who Gozer is for the National Park Service?
Speaker 1: Because we should figure out because the key master and
Speaker 1: Goeser get together, some stuff's going down. I don't know
Speaker 1: if y'all know this. There is a concept in business,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if this is the technical name,
Speaker 1: but you'll quickly realize what it is. And it's the
Speaker 1: hit by a bus thing, all right, the hit by
Speaker 1: a bus theory, paradigm, whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 1: And it goes like this. If you run a business,
Speaker 1: and a government is a business. National parks are a business.
Speaker 1: iHeartMedia is the business. Right, that's the business. Ross and
Speaker 1: hire in the business that you're going to this morning,
Speaker 1: whether you own the business or you work at the business, whatever,
Speaker 1: that's a business. One of the things that structurally is
Speaker 1: problematic is to create an environment where a necessary and
Speaker 1: bathrooms I guess are kind of necessary, especially if people
Speaker 1: are trapped in them, but a necessary component, even one
Speaker 1: that seems a bit innocuous, is only doable by one person,
Speaker 1: is a really bad idea because what happens, ready if
Speaker 1: they get hit by a bus. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the buses did, but the buses are doing the heavy
Speaker 1: lifting here. So if Bob is the only guy who
Speaker 1: can do this thing, and if this thing isn't done,
Speaker 1: all of your other stuff, even your more skilled workers
Speaker 1: and everything else grinds to a halt because Bob got
Speaker 1: hit by a bus. You don't do that. And anyone
Speaker 1: who's ever run a business knows this, knows that in perils.
Speaker 1: It's like, I'll give you an example with us, when
Speaker 1: we transition employees and there's not somebody else in the
Speaker 1: building who knows how to run the board for this show.
Speaker 1: That weighs heavily on my mind because Ross might get
Speaker 1: hit by a bus.
Speaker 3: Throne or who the hell knows that a lot of
Speaker 3: people don't understand, and like, you see this sometimes and
Speaker 3: we have to take days off and people are like,
Speaker 3: if I'm sick, there's not going to be a show
Speaker 3: because there's no one else that can do this job.
Speaker 3: And it's happened, It's happened before, and you're like, well,
Speaker 3: why isn't there a best you know, how come you
Speaker 3: don't have like a fill in host? You can have
Speaker 3: like a filling host instead of like a you know,
Speaker 3: running melle and not how that works it's because there's
Speaker 3: if I'm not here, it cannot be done.
Speaker 1: He's a magician. Now, it's not to say that he
Speaker 1: can't the people. You know, people remember the days of
Speaker 1: Brian the bad board op and port driver having to
Speaker 1: come in here and all that. But but what I'm
Speaker 1: saying is it's a situation that is easily identifiable, and
Speaker 1: so it makes good business sense to make sure that
Speaker 1: more than one person can do it. So the if
Speaker 1: a person's hit by a bus, so if you only
Speaker 1: have one person and I'm gonna read the they're gonna
Speaker 1: read the second part of this. This is literally the
Speaker 1: quote from the dude. He goes, we have Federal Court
Speaker 1: Administrative Building's toilets, closets, gun saves. A guy's name is
Speaker 1: Vince by the way, which sounds like the dude who's
Speaker 1: the key master.
Speaker 3: Yeah you should be vince Y.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And again, I got no beef with Vince and
Speaker 1: I I I understand what he's saying. Uh and and
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, I think that one of the things
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna see some course correcting and some
Speaker 1: of what is happening here, because it really is uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's buckshot at this point with a modified choke,
Speaker 1: and and you got to right size it. But uh so,
Speaker 1: Vince says, quote, we have all these things. We have
Speaker 1: endless things that need to be secured in various forms,
Speaker 1: And I am the sole keeper of the keys, the
Speaker 1: one that makes the keys, the one that fixes the locks,
Speaker 1: installs the locks, and has all that knowledge of the
Speaker 1: security behind the park. It's a critical role. Again, Like
Speaker 1: it makes that that logistically makes sense. You got to
Speaker 1: have somebody who understands because there's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: you got to lock up and unlock, and early idiots
Speaker 1: locked themselves in bathrooms shouldn't do that. That being said,
Speaker 1: having one dude, that first line reads like he's about
Speaker 1: to give you a quest. Right, He's like some character
Speaker 1: in Ross's video game you just clicked on. He's like,
Speaker 1: we have endless things that need to be secured. I
Speaker 1: am the sole keeper of the keys.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: That's a dude you're spending man on. Right, he came
Speaker 1: across that guy in a video game. That's the guy
Speaker 1: who gives you the next thing.
Speaker 3: Right something cool. Yeah, yeah, I'm the sole keeper the
Speaker 3: magic rings or something. Yeah, yeah, you're getting.
Speaker 1: Some for your effort. Oh, you gotta slay this thing.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll go slay this thing. What do I get? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's part of an armor build. I'm on it. Let's
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if you ever play the game
Speaker 3: like that where you accidentally, like you know, in the
Speaker 3: video game, not in real life. I don't want what's
Speaker 3: his name, Vince?
Speaker 1: Vince.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want anything tragic to happen Evince. But
Speaker 3: like in a video game, if you accidentally murder said person,
Speaker 3: you can completely destroy your playthrough because now you're screwed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta go back to your save point and
Speaker 1: start that thing again. And then just because you're obstinate,
Speaker 1: you kill Vince again. Right, because you're an a hole. Again,
Speaker 1: we're in video game mode, right, I want those keys.
Speaker 1: Go on, man, I don't have to go over the
Speaker 1: other thing all the way over there and do that
Speaker 1: just for the thing. Give me the thing. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so again I need to know who goes Er is,
Speaker 1: so those two don't get together. But also I don't
Speaker 1: think that's the win. You thought it was, Washington Post,
Speaker 1: What the hell are you talking about? Oh, here's what
Speaker 1: I know. It's way too dangerous to go questing for
Speaker 1: keys though, because then you have to go out on
Speaker 1: the roads. And I was looking at a roadmap yesterday
Speaker 1: of like all the winter accidents and various fun stuff,
Speaker 1: and it was a layover of the triangle and they
Speaker 1: put up these little on rio. They put up these
Speaker 1: little orange cones, but they're kind of brown. And when
Speaker 1: you looked at the map, and I sent this to Ross,
Speaker 1: it looks like the poop map from San Francisco. That's
Speaker 1: how badly y'all were driving yesterday. I know raced age
Speaker 1: to blame for this, but yeah, you didn't have to
Speaker 1: go out and prove him right. I did it right, dude,
Speaker 1: that was crazy. I look at this map, I'm like,
Speaker 1: where should you not go? Everywhere? You should not drive everywhere?
Speaker 1: So and it looked like the San Francis. Do you
Speaker 1: ever see the map where they were charting the San
Speaker 1: Francisco poop incidents and the whole city was just brown? No,
Speaker 1: I'm gladly I missed that one indistinguishable. Yeah, and who knows,
Speaker 1: maybe they were pooping in the in people's where the
Speaker 1: snow is and that's what the acts.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, so could you make this not a
Speaker 1: thing anymore though, that'd be great.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this morning it sounds and looks like there's still uh,
Speaker 7: some problems with with ice with a weather advisory that
Speaker 7: it's just for that reason. There's nothing coming out of
Speaker 7: the sky. It's already from the damage done, especially as
Speaker 7: you go north northeast where some of the heavier snow fell.
Speaker 7: But better day's case are ahead. Low forties today, teens.
Speaker 7: Tonight's another cold night, A lots of sunshine around though today,
Speaker 7: so anything that's left probably goes away.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 7: Maybe there'll be another refreeze tonight. I hope not. But
Speaker 7: some of those side streets and shaded areas that had
Speaker 7: snow sometimes that snow doesn't go away even with forty
Speaker 7: degree temperatures. If you had a couple of inches, load
Speaker 7: of mid forties tomorrow with increasing clouds on Sunday, we'll
Speaker 7: get into the fifties. Sixties next week through midwek Next
Speaker 7: week actually looks real nice, probably on either side of
Speaker 7: sixty Monday, load of mid sixties on Tuesday and Wednesday,
Speaker 7: with plenty of sunshine.
Speaker 3: Late week.
Speaker 7: There's another front coming in, so we'll worry about that
Speaker 7: next week, but right now everything looking good.
Speaker 4: Stuff.
Speaker 7: Dealing with some icy spots this morning and maybe again
Speaker 7: tomorrow mornings as temperatures once again we down well below
Speaker 7: freezing so cold, but retreating getting back above normal next week.
Speaker 7: So looking better, feeling better too.
Speaker 1: Right there you go. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Speaker 1: All right, exactly, yeah, appreciate it, all right, Race agic
Speaker 1: there from the Weather Channel, coming up eight oh five calendar.
Speaker 3: Harboringer just sent me a text message. He says, the
Speaker 3: obvious solution is the fire old the busters.
Speaker 1: What what oh? Oh, I see what you did there? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this is why you gotta have follow through
Speaker 1: on this, right, dude, This is this is what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. You gotta have It feels good to go
Speaker 1: in and just swing the wrecking ball, but you gotta
Speaker 1: know what you're doing, or you know, stave Puff Marshmallow
Speaker 1: or or the dude in the painting. You don't want
Speaker 1: any of this. Vigo. You don't want Vigo. All right,
Speaker 1: hang on, we'll be back. That was the Trump said, Hey,
Speaker 1: if you don't release the hostages by Saturday, everything's on
Speaker 1: the table. We talked to Senator bud about it, and
Speaker 1: they really didn't get into it. However, however, because they
Speaker 1: did at least say that they had a process for
Speaker 1: the release. Here we found out what we assumed was
Speaker 1: the case. In this case, the woman with her two
Speaker 1: kids is dead, and a lot of people speculated that,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, did you guys see any of
Speaker 1: the and over ceremony. I didn't want to call it
Speaker 1: that because a ceremony would imbue some sort of respectfulness
Speaker 1: and somber moments, and it wasn't any of that. They
Speaker 1: had a damn pep rally. So Hamas had a pep
Speaker 1: rally complete with like a parade. They had people with
Speaker 1: flags who were cheering, They had a bunch of music,
Speaker 1: and then they were offloading these coffins of these individuals.
Speaker 1: And then we found out and it's now confirmed. I
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure it was confirmed before I got
Speaker 1: into this. One of them wasn't even the hostage in
Speaker 1: this case, I guess the mother there with the two kids.
Speaker 1: According to authorities, they believe it to be a random
Speaker 1: gossen woman, which now I'm wondering they just have a
Speaker 1: body or they go grease somebody, like, ah, we need
Speaker 1: a body, let's go and get in here about the
Speaker 1: right size. The amount of disrespect that was going on
Speaker 1: during that whole thing was to send a message. Then
Speaker 1: you had a in Tel Aviv, you had a bombing there,
Speaker 1: and then they found out that they're just giving you
Speaker 1: random bodies man like, don't I don't understand the endgame.
Speaker 1: Do you think that Trump gives zero f's? Do you
Speaker 1: think the Israelis give zero fs about coming in there
Speaker 1: and just turning it into the uh, you know, the
Speaker 1: New Beachfront destination. Did you see how people reacted to
Speaker 1: it when you were screaming, oh, they're calling for genocide.
Speaker 1: Do you see how little anybody cared because they're just done?
Speaker 1: You know why, because they see an opportunity for the
Speaker 1: US in their you know, to stand back and the
Speaker 1: Israelis to do this thing that a lot of people
Speaker 1: in the Middle East, a lot of people in the world.
Speaker 1: If you got them in a room drunk and they
Speaker 1: told them that there was no tape running, right, they'd
Speaker 1: probably go, yeah, it's gonna be for the best. I
Speaker 1: don't know that that's necessarily the case. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: exude the attitude that people have. That's why people don't
Speaker 1: care they're just done. Most of the most of the
Speaker 1: countries in the Middle East want nothing to do with Hamas,
Speaker 1: i e. The Palestinians, but Hamas specifically, because Hamas is
Speaker 1: always growing stuff up. It's like that, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like you're you're you're already doing your criminal stuff. And
Speaker 1: you got the guy who's standing out there counting stacks
Speaker 1: of hundros smoking a joint outside the gate. When the
Speaker 1: cops drive by, You're like, what is this idiot doing?
Speaker 1: That's a mass And so when the world, the world
Speaker 1: collectively didn't go well, wouldn't be the worst idea to
Speaker 1: turn that into a beach resort. That gave you no
Speaker 1: pause and you started stuffing random bodies and you had
Speaker 1: a pep rally funeral handover thing. It's gonna get ugly
Speaker 1: over there, and there will be the perfunctory oh how
Speaker 1: could this happen? And then you know, oh, let's put
Speaker 1: it with security council. Well, by the way, we said,
Speaker 1: we don't want to be on the security council anymore.
Speaker 1: So did they? Your heavy handedness has led to this,
Speaker 1: And secretly they kind of won it. They just won't
Speaker 1: tell you that. And so holding this ceremony again. I
Speaker 1: hate to use that word. The way that you did
Speaker 1: yesterday just hastens that. And I don't look forward to it.
Speaker 1: I don't look forward to any of it. But the
Speaker 1: world's pretty much told you that they think it's kind
Speaker 1: of a necessity because you're being an a hole. And
Speaker 1: before they would be like, ah, he's an ahole, but
Speaker 1: he's lovable ahole, And now they're just like, he's an
Speaker 1: a hole all the time. Why are you always an
Speaker 1: a hole? I'm gonna go get some coffee. Whatever happens happens.
Speaker 1: That's what's happening right now. And I don't know where
Speaker 1: it takes us, but we will. We will find out.
Speaker 1: And uh, why anyone's surprised by this, I don't know.
Speaker 11: Seven times a fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the
Speaker 11: Senate every day in between, I've been humbled by the
Speaker 11: trust they placed in me. Okay, all right, Mitch, come on,
Speaker 11: you get the business right here?
Speaker 1: You got this? Oh, I accidentally clicked pause.
Speaker 3: Ross.
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell that I actually clicked pause because it
Speaker 1: was Mitch McConnell. Sometimes he clicks our commonwealth as the
Speaker 1: honor of the lifetime. Uh, huh oh oh, I accidentally
Speaker 1: clicked pause. Again. It's hard because again you can't tell
Speaker 1: if it's him or it's me at the button fingers Eighth,
Speaker 1: It is Friday after a beautiful three day week that
Speaker 1: then turned into snow. I don't know how bad it
Speaker 1: is in Charlotte, but our radio buddy to the South
Speaker 1: peek calendar mid days WBTU. All right, are you in
Speaker 1: an igloo? What'd you guys get down there?
Speaker 4: We got the normal stuff, you know, some these and
Speaker 4: then satan slushy of like the wintry mix, and then
Speaker 4: it was all.
Speaker 1: The full drove and stuff right, and then.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah it's and you know there there are a
Speaker 4: couple of things like number one, we should not we
Speaker 4: should like the South gets ripped on by people who
Speaker 4: are from you know, up north, and they're like, oh,
Speaker 4: you guys don't know how to handle this, you know.
Speaker 4: And look, I would oppose any kind of ramping up
Speaker 4: of the purchasing of snowplows and you know, the kind
Speaker 4: of response equipment that the Northeast gets, because we don't
Speaker 4: get this very often. Number one. Number two, this is
Speaker 4: not like what you get up in the Northeast. Okay,
Speaker 4: up there it's snow, and here it's this satan slushie
Speaker 4: of ice and snow and rain and it all gets
Speaker 4: mixed in together and then it all freezes. And no,
Speaker 4: just because you can drive well in the snow doesn't
Speaker 4: mean you can drive well on ice, because nobody can
Speaker 4: drive well on ice except Zamboni's that's it. So no,
Speaker 4: you're not. You're not superior to.
Speaker 1: Good Like I'm good. Yeah, I'm pretty good, though, you're pretty.
Speaker 4: Good on ice. But he got skates or butt skates
Speaker 4: or something on the.
Speaker 1: I used to have studded tires that I put on
Speaker 1: in the winter, right, like that was real deal stuff.
Speaker 1: And I agree with you, we don't need to go
Speaker 1: knocking this stuff out. But I saw a I saw
Speaker 1: like a map of all of the different accidents yesterday
Speaker 1: around the Triangle, and I had like a little orange
Speaker 1: brown cone for it, and I thought I was looking
Speaker 1: at the San Francisco poop map. You ever see the
Speaker 1: San Francisco poop map? Right, somebody mapped all the poops
Speaker 1: and that's that was essentially the roads around the Triangle yesterday.
Speaker 1: Because people are dumb.
Speaker 4: Well, yes, I mean, okay, of course people are dumb.
Speaker 4: But also this idea like only Southerners are getting in
Speaker 4: accidents in these ice storms is absurd. How many of
Speaker 4: these people are coming, for example, you know from up
Speaker 4: north or out west. They don't have experience driving in
Speaker 4: these icy conditions. And so like we just like what
Speaker 4: I learned, and I'm originally from New York, so I
Speaker 4: can trash all of the people who come down here,
Speaker 4: like I drove so much better up there. I first
Speaker 4: learned to drive. My first driving experience after I got
Speaker 4: my learner's permit was in an icy parking lot. You
Speaker 4: and I can tell you, like, unless you've got the
Speaker 4: studded tires, there's nothing really you can do when your
Speaker 4: car hits ice except to, you know, wait for the
Speaker 4: skid to end, basically. And a lot of people come
Speaker 4: down here and they drive like it's snow and then
Speaker 4: they get into accidents too. So there's a reason why
Speaker 4: when the ice starts coming down, people are like, you
Speaker 4: know what, let's just take the day off and that's okay,
Speaker 4: Like that's all right to take the day off and say, hey,
Speaker 4: you know what, mother nature wants us to work from
Speaker 4: home today.
Speaker 1: And you know what, it also would probably eliminate the
Speaker 1: possibility of Gozer teaming up with the key Master and
Speaker 1: unleashing all the healthscape in the sewers of New York. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the key Master, which was until recently apparently a dude
Speaker 1: who worked at Yosemite. How many people are locking that?
Speaker 1: We were just talking about this, so the audience is
Speaker 1: up on this. How many I grew up next to
Speaker 1: a national park. You might have heard of You ever
Speaker 1: heard of Yellowstone? Pete? You're here? Yeah?
Speaker 4: From the TV show?
Speaker 1: No, I see what you did there? A lot of
Speaker 1: people do that. No, it's it's from the It's from
Speaker 1: the Kennedy the rough Rider dude. So yeah, I and
Speaker 1: I had relatives Clinton. My uncle was the chief law
Speaker 1: enforcement officer for Yellowstone National Park for quite a few years,
Speaker 1: and I had the privilege of actually staying in those
Speaker 1: back country cabins with him on a couple of trips there.
Speaker 1: I did see where a dude got eaten by a
Speaker 1: bear once, and I saw app Uh. I never saw
Speaker 1: a tourist locked in a bathroom. Is that the win?
Speaker 1: The Washington Post thought it was trying to go and individualize,
Speaker 1: and I have no By the way, I have nothing
Speaker 1: against Vince. Of course his name's Vince. By the way,
Speaker 1: I have nothing against this guy, and it is true.
Speaker 1: There's there's a lot of stuff you got to lock
Speaker 1: and unlock. We have it with the app, you know,
Speaker 1: with the people who walk the trail, they use those
Speaker 1: out shelters. You have to have people a minute. But
Speaker 1: it's the fallacy that in business you would never allow
Speaker 1: where if one guy, even if it's kind of a
Speaker 1: menial thing, can shut down your entire operation. You would
Speaker 1: never have that because what if he gets hit by
Speaker 1: a bus? Is essentially the quagmire there.
Speaker 4: Right, It's like building a depth star and having one
Speaker 4: single vent weak spot. You know that you could just
Speaker 4: shoot them a sizable.
Speaker 1: It's just a sizeable womp rat. I don't understand what
Speaker 1: the problem is. What are we doing? This is insanity,
Speaker 1: This is.
Speaker 4: No What this is called is malicious compliance. Correct, malicious compliance.
Speaker 4: It's the same thing they did. And for those who
Speaker 4: were not paying any attention to politics or something back
Speaker 4: in the day when there was the government shut down
Speaker 4: under the Obama administration. Uh, and we were yeah, and
Speaker 4: we were treated to the spectacle of them like roping
Speaker 4: off old faithful. You know, don't look at the guysner,
Speaker 4: you're not allowed to look or Mount Rushmore. They closed
Speaker 4: the side of a road where people would pull off
Speaker 4: and take pictures of Mount Rushmore and yeah, yeah, like
Speaker 4: you're not allowed to look at this. And then of
Speaker 4: course they shut down the World War Two Veterans Memorial,
Speaker 4: and then the and then you know, the point were
Speaker 4: running up there. Literally it's right, it's some statues on
Speaker 4: a sidewalk basically, and you're you're you're roping. It took
Speaker 4: more money and personnel to put up all the barriers,
Speaker 4: which of course were completely deconstructed in rapid fashioned by
Speaker 4: the World War Two veterans who stormed beaches at Normandy.
Speaker 4: Do you think your gates are going to stop them
Speaker 4: from getting into their memorial?
Speaker 1: And of course you have a thing for that, don't
Speaker 1: they the enemy line? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the way. For example, like am I to
Speaker 4: believe that nobody else at Yosemite has any keys? It's
Speaker 4: just this one guy. And if you know it's the
Speaker 4: one guy, why do you fire him? Right, Yosemite's got
Speaker 4: four hundred and fifty something employees, why would you fire
Speaker 4: that one guy? Or at the Grand Canyon where they're like,
Speaker 4: we didn't have enough personnel to let people in through
Speaker 4: the south Gate, which is like the most popular, like
Speaker 4: ninety percent of the traffic comes in there. So they said, hey,
Speaker 4: you know what, let's really stick it to the people
Speaker 4: and to Trump, and we're going to fire everybody that
Speaker 4: was working in the south Gate or we'll move resources
Speaker 4: away from there to make them feel the pain. And
Speaker 4: this is malicious compliance. It's the same thing that they
Speaker 4: did with like we're gonna take off all of the
Speaker 4: books from the shelves that have anything to do with
Speaker 4: you know, the Tuskegee Airmen, like now.
Speaker 1: And then they show the empty shelves photos. I saw
Speaker 1: that on Twitter and then we I was just talking
Speaker 1: about this with schools man because you know, White County's like, hey, anyway,
Speaker 1: I guess we touched on this, so like, hey, you
Speaker 1: know what we need. We need some money for like
Speaker 1: AC units and air filtration. People like wait a sec
Speaker 1: hold on, ye hold up just a minute. Didn't we
Speaker 1: do this? And and they're like off, you know, And
Speaker 1: then I have covered school districts up to it and
Speaker 1: having to go and I'm sure you've done it in
Speaker 1: your news capacity. I just have to go to the
Speaker 1: school board meetings and sit there, oh yeah, and just
Speaker 1: stick a chopstick in both ears and eyes. Man. And
Speaker 1: it's because it's so inane, it's so repetitive. But I'll
Speaker 1: tell you the thing that I saw every year is
Speaker 1: when they thought the voters weren't going to support a
Speaker 1: bond or they're gonna have to raise it, they would
Speaker 1: come up with a contingency plan. All right, so the
Speaker 1: voters don't vote for this, what are we going to
Speaker 1: do for the cuts? And then they would be like,
Speaker 1: all right, what's the most painful visible thing we can threaten.
Speaker 1: They'd be like, all right, well, we're not gonna kids
Speaker 1: aren't gonna have to have We're gonna chop all their
Speaker 1: heads off if you do it right. And then that's
Speaker 1: what they would put out there, and I would be
Speaker 1: seething at the little media section there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Buses, extracurricular activities, sports, right, both are the things
Speaker 4: they cut first and they threaten parents with in order
Speaker 4: to shake them down to extort the additional revenue out
Speaker 4: of them, rather than cutting anything else, like, well, we've
Speaker 4: cut to the bone everywhere else we possibly can cut.
Speaker 4: So if you don't approve this, we're gonna have to
Speaker 4: cut your buses up in New York, all of the
Speaker 4: the budgets would go to voters every year. The voters
Speaker 4: would vote on the local school budgets. And this with
Speaker 4: the I learned the lesson when I was in high school.
Speaker 4: I was covering school board meetings in high school and
Speaker 4: go into those meetings then, and this was the game
Speaker 4: they play. I know it, and I spent another decade
Speaker 4: doing it in Charlotte Meck. And this is the game,
Speaker 4: and it is malicious compliance. They make the taxpayers feel
Speaker 4: the pain so they can get more money to do
Speaker 4: other stuff that they want to do. They never go
Speaker 4: back to a zero based budget. They never zero things
Speaker 4: out and look to see are we spending this in
Speaker 4: the appropriate way. Never, it's always just continuation budgets after
Speaker 4: continuation budgets.
Speaker 1: The did we We're gonna probably stick on this topic
Speaker 1: because there's like three different scenarios, this transitionary thing, and
Speaker 1: this is I'm going to play the Commerce Secretary's audio.
Speaker 1: This is the thing. I thought, you wouldn't it be
Speaker 1: crazy if Trump tried to do this? But he wouldn't
Speaker 1: do this. And that was where we we go back
Speaker 1: to where the way that he used to be where
Speaker 1: the federal government was largely funded, not completely, but largely
Speaker 1: funded by tariffs and various other Basically, if people wanted
Speaker 1: to do business with us, because it's pretty good to
Speaker 1: do business in the US, revenue would be derived and
Speaker 1: that would fund things. Then we went to this federal
Speaker 1: income tax, and the craziest thing to do would be like, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe we should go back to the other thing. Surely
Speaker 1: they wouldn't do that.
Speaker 8: And then Lutnick said that our objective under Donald Trump
Speaker 8: is to balance this budget. And I'm telling you you
Speaker 8: watch it, We're going to do it.
Speaker 9: If you get savings from these doze cuts. Are you
Speaker 9: going to give any of this back to the American
Speaker 9: people we keep hearing about these doze dividends?
Speaker 8: Well, think about it. Donald Trump announces the external Revenue Service,
Speaker 8: and his goal is very simple, to abolish.
Speaker 4: His goal is to abolish.
Speaker 8: The internal revenue service and let all the outsiders pay.
Speaker 1: All right, So he's talking about that, that's what he's saying.
Speaker 1: He's saying, we'll go back to the way that it
Speaker 1: used to be. Holy crap, is that doable? What a
Speaker 1: position the Dems would be in, because then they have
Speaker 1: to explain to people who suddenly have twenty percent well
Speaker 1: or was the mean effective rately eighteen percent? That people
Speaker 1: actually have twenty percent more money, and you have to
Speaker 1: go explain to them why you don't think they should
Speaker 1: have that. But also I don't know how that tracks
Speaker 1: in an economy that could be impacted like by COVID.
Speaker 1: COVID would devastate a tariff on the economy. So I'm
Speaker 1: sure you've given this some thought. What do you think?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, now, look the biggest problem here I actually
Speaker 4: have not, but I know this is an idea that
Speaker 4: gets kicked around inside mainly conservative circles.
Speaker 1: So let the libertarian like convey yeah, yeah, basically.
Speaker 4: Yes and so. And it's because yes, this was at
Speaker 4: the founding of the nation. This was how they did. Now,
Speaker 4: they did do protection as tariffs on what they called
Speaker 4: infant industries to protect them as they were starting up.
Speaker 4: But the idea was, yeah, you fund the government, which
Speaker 4: was obviously much much smaller at the time with these
Speaker 4: with this, with the tariff model. Now the challenge is
Speaker 4: going to be big accounting because there is a massive
Speaker 4: industry I think turbo tax.
Speaker 1: What's the green guys, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they spend yeah, yeah, tons of money
Speaker 4: lobbying for the preservation of the system. They do not
Speaker 4: want a simplified tax code. A simplified tax code means
Speaker 4: fewer people need their services, fewer people need accountants to
Speaker 4: do their taxes. So there's a there's a massive lobbying
Speaker 4: effort against anything that would eliminate the income tax on
Speaker 4: just like those grounds. Then you layer in the fact
Speaker 4: that the left, you know, sees a penny, wants to
Speaker 4: spend a penny, and so they they kind of count
Speaker 4: all of the income generated in the private sector as
Speaker 4: you know, available for the taking. It's just a matter
Speaker 4: of how you want to do it. So they're going
Speaker 4: to be against it. But to your question, I don't
Speaker 4: know how you make an argument except for, oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: we're going to have no money, the sky is going
Speaker 4: to fall, catastrophe, which is what we saw in North Carolina.
Speaker 4: You'll recall when you know, organizations like the Budget and
Speaker 4: Tax Center whatever they call themselves, they you know, had
Speaker 4: all of these dire predictions. When the Republicans took over,
Speaker 4: and guys like Bob Rouchow State Cenator were like, I
Speaker 4: want to get the income tax to zero. And they're like,
Speaker 4: you're going to bankrupt the state. And what have we
Speaker 4: seen under Republican tax reform? We've seen surpluses, right that
Speaker 4: nobody like that, Right that nobody that nobody thought we
Speaker 4: could achieve and we could not with the tax structure
Speaker 4: being what it was. But when you allow people to
Speaker 4: keep their own money, they engage in more economic activity
Speaker 4: that generates more sales tax revenue and that goes to
Speaker 4: the state caffers. So yeah, I mean it, it does
Speaker 4: make sense that you know that growth solves a lot
Speaker 4: of these types of financial problems.
Speaker 1: For states, and it's it is remarkably more un How
Speaker 1: do I say it's unundoable? Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Like the Democrats can't just because they can't come in
Speaker 1: if they seize the White House next and go everything
Speaker 1: Trump did is done. If you've viewed this transition, But damn,
Speaker 1: it's going to be ugly. It's going to be ugly man.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Now, yeah, I don't know if it can completely
Speaker 4: go away. You've got also the constitutional you know, sure amendments.
Speaker 1: And so you have obligations like you know, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare,
Speaker 1: things like that. Yes, they didn't exist at the transitionary time,
Speaker 1: So I don't.
Speaker 4: Did you hear by the way, where they were like,
Speaker 4: we don't have Elon Musk lied about these hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty year olds on Social Security getting benefits. They're not
Speaker 4: really there. It's just a coding error that different to
Speaker 4: the original date. Yeah, and cobol or whatever. This program
Speaker 4: like I haven't been in use anywhere. Oh and by
Speaker 4: the way, it's probably a bunch of like uh uh,
Speaker 4: you know, just people that we don't have their information,
Speaker 4: so we're giving them money instead. But they're not one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty. And I'm like, that's not a good answer.
Speaker 1: No, it's not a number they don't have. They don't
Speaker 1: have trackability. It's in the trillions. It's like a savisible
Speaker 1: part of our uh our our our our deficit there. Yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: there's so many things I want to get into. Vance
Speaker 1: over in Germany. German elections about ready to go, and
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, you guys don't believe in free speech,
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Speaker 1: to watch this. I like Scrudel, So yeah, when all right, dude,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to We'll have to do this next week,
Speaker 1: all right. Peak calendar. I do appreciate it, my man. Uh,
Speaker 1: thinking from a fire hose every day, all right. And
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