WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.839 --> 00:00:07.280 Well whiskey, come and take my pay the moneys my ry. 2 00:00:07.799 --> 00:00:12.240 Oh why why think alone when you can drink it all? 3 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:16.399 In with Ricochet's three Whiskey Happy Hour, join your bartenders, 4 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:21.480 Steve Hayward, John You, and the international woman of Mystery, Lucretia. 5 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:28.719 Where this lapstappen live? It ain't you easy on the 6 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:30.039 should tap? 7 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:31.199 Got agive me. 8 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:32.840 And let that whiskey blow. 9 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:36.079 Well, hi everybody, and welcome to the three Whiskey Happy 10 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:38.719 Hour or one Whiskey Short This week, though John u 11 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:40.439 is away traveling. 12 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:41.439 So it's just me and Lucretia. 13 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:44.719 Although we're gonna change things up a bit later in 14 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:47.359 this episode. I'm gonna drop in an interview I did 15 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:51.520 recently with Robert Brice, the Great Energy Guru. So today 16 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:54.200 I am mostly just gonna ask what's on Lucretia's mind. 17 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:58.600 I'm gonna take a chance and react to it. But 18 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:00.759 first of all, how are you, dear? How has this 19 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:01.560 week been for you? 20 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:04.239 I've had better. I'll just leave it at that. 21 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:09.079 Well, okay, that's it. Don't be so cheerful for everybody. 22 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:10.239 Now. 23 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:12.280 It's been another week where I can't keep up. 24 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:14.400 I mean, I keep trying to chase, after this, that 25 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:17.280 and the other thing, and things changed too fast, and 26 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:19.159 I've been on the move too. It's the last week 27 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:22.959 of classes, so at final exams essays to grade. Commencement 28 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:25.319 was Friday morning, so I was in my robe and 29 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:29.120 my gown and in my hat and all that. The regalia, 30 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:30.640 that's what we're supposed to call it, right, I was 31 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.560 in all that. So any case, I'm behind on things. 32 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:36.680 What's on your mind this week? 33 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:40.040 So, okay, you accuse me of being all grumpy, I'm 34 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:42.840 going to start off with a happy story. What I 35 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:46.239 think you ought to be a happy story. So while 36 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:50.280 then Holland and the other scumbag Democrats are traveling down 37 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:53.439 to El Salvador to worry about a wife beating sex 38 00:01:53.519 --> 00:02:02.000 trafficking gang banger. The Amish who are interesting because for 39 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:04.480 the first time they really came out and forced to vote. 40 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:08.120 Thanks to our friend Scott Pressler otherwise known as the Persistence, 41 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:11.280 got them to vote to make them realize what it 42 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:15.199 is they are missing out on in terms of, you know, 43 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:18.039 protecting what they care about in the religious freedom. That 44 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:22.000 he convinced them that Trump was actually in favor of 45 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:29.479 their of religious freedom. Anyway, they've gone down in force. Thousand, 46 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:33.159 at least a thousand of them have just moved to 47 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:40.199 down to North Carolina to help try to rebuild small 48 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:44.719 towns that are more or less being ignored by by 49 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:48.400 the government, even by Trump and whatever it is that 50 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:51.159 is left of FEMA after Doge. I'm not really quite 51 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:55.960 sure even North Carolina Governor to some extent, they're just 52 00:02:56.360 --> 00:02:59.759 they're just not paying any attention to these small towns 53 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:04.680 that are just hopelessly devastated from Hurricane Helen, and they're 54 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:08.280 just volunteering their time to build the rebuild the town. 55 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:12.879 Well, so that this now suddenly I understand a question 56 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:16.000 I got this morning when I was doing a Ricochet podcast. 57 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:17.560 It was came in from a listener and I didn't 58 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:20.199 I mean, I thought I understood it, but I didn't, 59 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:24.039 because it made reference to thousands of volunteers coming to 60 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:27.000 rural North Carolina to help rebuilding towns, and then asked, 61 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:29.680 is there anything like that going on in Los Angeles 62 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:34.719 in the aftermath of the terrible fires there? And I'm thinking, oh, now, 63 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:36.960 I'm thinking it must have been at least partially in 64 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:39.159 reference to the story you're bringing up. By the way, 65 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:43.120 what connects these two I think is this. There was 66 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:45.240 a story in the news I did catch sometime this 67 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:49.159 week that a saw mill at the communal saw mill 68 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:51.039 at the Amish have in one of their communities in 69 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:54.000 what Pennsylvania, Ohio wherever burned down. 70 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:57.319 And they rebuilt the whole thing in four days. 71 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:00.280 And by the way, I don't I you know, the 72 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:03.039 almost don't use technology. I'm not sure if their sawmills 73 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:06.560 are all hand tools or whether they might allow a power. 74 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:06.840 So I don't know. 75 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:11.159 But the point is is they do very sophisticated, would 76 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:14.680 work have for centuries, right, But the fact that the 77 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:19.000 damage can rebuild a large structure that is industrial and 78 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:21.879 from their point of view, in four days, I should 79 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:24.240 tell us something about what's wrong with the world. And 80 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:26.839 so what I told the listener on Ricochet was well 81 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:29.519 as far as I know, And last I checked ten 82 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:33.000 days ago, the Greater Los Angeles area had issued all 83 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:38.240 of four permits four to rebuild houses that have burned down. 84 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:41.279 But meanwhile, I said, volunteers, forget it. They won't let 85 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:44.360 any volunteers in to help with the demolition work. I 86 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:47.600 was in a part of Pasadena up by the mountains, 87 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:49.759 middle of the week, and I saw lots and lots 88 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:52.800 of burned out houses where nothing's happened, nothing's been demolished. 89 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:56.160 And here we are three months into all this. And 90 00:04:56.439 --> 00:05:01.120 I understand there are some legitimate health concerns and potentially 91 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:04.240 toxic residue in some of these sites, but for goodness sake, 92 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:07.399 we ought to have some common sense here and either 93 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:10.839 allow volunteers, expedite the process, speed things up. 94 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:13.240 I don't know what, but it is ridiculous. The Amish 95 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:15.600 wouldn't what to do. They'd have la up and going again. 96 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:19.040 We'd need probably all the Amish to do it such 97 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:21.639 a big area. But right we can learn a few 98 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:23.199 things because I don't think they go through a long 99 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:24.279 permit review process. 100 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:25.240 When the Amish rebuilds. 101 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:29.639 They don't. And I suppose it's true that those small 102 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:32.240 towns in North Carolina are being ignored to such an 103 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:34.560 extent that they're actually not having to deal with those 104 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:37.560 kinds of things. But I sort of want to go 105 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:40.360 one step deeper than all of that to Steve. I mean, 106 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:44.439 it's true enough that they're building those tiny houses, you know, 107 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:46.439 to get people out of tents, the ones that they 108 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:48.680 can put it very very quickly and get people with 109 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:52.600 a roof over their heads. In the meantime, Democrats again 110 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:56.439 are worrying about gang bangers, due process and all that 111 00:05:56.519 --> 00:06:01.439 other nonsense. But why these people doing it? And I'm 112 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:06.240 going to quote one person, a volunteer said, our hearts 113 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:09.000 just felt drawn to come and help people in this area. 114 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:12.240 It fills my heart with joy watching people getting their 115 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:16.240 lives back again. So they're doing it out of the 116 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:20.399 you know, my fundamental belief the most important virtue is gratitude. 117 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:23.279 They're actually doing it out of a sense of gratitude 118 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:27.399 for what they have and helping their fellow not even 119 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:30.519 you know, the Amish live quite a ways away from 120 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:35.120 North Carolina, so they have to be experienced some experiencing, 121 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:40.199 if not hardship, at least some inconveniences themselves. But it's 122 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:43.800 just a wonderful story. I wish we saw more of 123 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.519 those things. And you know, we could have a long discussion. 124 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:49.319 We've had this discussion before about why it is that 125 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:55.439 faith based organizations not being subsidized by the federal government 126 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:58.959 are actually the best way to get charity work done, 127 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:01.199 to get you know, to to fix the homeless problem. 128 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:05.040 So because they can do so with a view to 129 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:07.959 the virtues that are necessary to make it work. Well, 130 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:10.519 they're not in it for the money, all of all 131 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:12.920 of those other things. Anyway, does my feel good story 132 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:13.360 of the week? 133 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:14.680 Yeah, well I can add to that that. 134 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:16.680 I think, you know, there are two or three sort 135 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:19.480 of I think big topics just generally floating in the 136 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:21.959 world that nobody, nobody in the media ever bought us 137 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:24.879 to even inquire about. And I think there are several 138 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:28.680 books can be written about faith based organizations, people like 139 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:31.560 the AMIGE. I mean, I remember hearing some stories about 140 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:34.199 faith based groups that went to New Orleans after Katrina, 141 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:36.759 which is what twenty years ago now, and it was 142 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:39.519 a mixed experience because they were trying to these are 143 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:41.439 sort of more conventional, you know, not the amass are 144 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:44.360 pretty unconventional. Let us just stipulate that, right, that's not 145 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:47.959 a controversial statement. But they tried to do things within 146 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:50.560 the system, you know, go through the permitent planning process, 147 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:53.560 and it was very frustrating because you know, New Orleans 148 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:56.600 is pretty corrupt as we know. But I do think 149 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:58.759 that somebody could write some great books about that. We 150 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:01.040 hear people talk talk about it a lot, but I 151 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:03.360 think the stories it could be told and data to 152 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:06.279 be gathered for the social scientists would be quite remarkable. 153 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:09.560 And related to that, yeah, I might say the flip 154 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.560 side of the story. As you know, I have heard 155 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:15.360 just over the years, I've heard stories of people who 156 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:19.279 got out of college. They're all idealistic liberals, they studied 157 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:22.480 social work, they went to work for the social service bureaucracy. 158 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:25.480 To make a long story short, they ended up raging 159 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:29.560 conservatives from the experience because they saw how horrible their 160 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:33.519 bureaucracy is. They saw how the welfare state actually degrades 161 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:35.720 the very people that are trying to help. And I've 162 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:37.679 thought there'd be a great book to be written about 163 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:40.960 disaffected social workers because I think their stories would be 164 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:43.639 extraordinary and added out all up, and the people who 165 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:46.600 stay behind are just time servers. And you know, I 166 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:48.279 don't need to say more about that. I think everyone 167 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:50.840 understands the point of that. But like I say, I've 168 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:53.320 heard enough of those stories to think that would make 169 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:56.159 a great book. So pair those together, real social work 170 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:58.679 by people who actually have their heads on straight, because 171 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:02.759 the other heads looking above and the dysfunctional social work 172 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:04.360 of our bureaucratic welfare state. 173 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:07.759 Yes, okay, you can talk about that forever. Okay, my 174 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:12.000 worst story of the week, and this one's tough, really tough. 175 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:18.240 Probably hmm. I'm probably going to go with the Supreme 176 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:22.080 Court oral arguments that happened this week out of a 177 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:28.039 case out of Maryland where parents were having to go 178 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:34.200 to the Supreme Court to have the right to pull 179 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:39.879 their children out of school. And these were pre kindergarten 180 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:43.159 through the fifth grade age school children in public schools 181 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:52.639 to when the English classes were teaching puppy pride, and 182 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:57.799 basically they had literature. And you can't see my scare 183 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:01.879 scare quotes, but I definitely mean that in scare quotes, 184 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:10.919 literature that promotes the idea of transsexuality, trans identity, whatever, 185 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:16.720 mental illness, and it's grooming children to take a three 186 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:21.759 year old and teach them about leather and domination. And 187 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:26.519 everybody heard the story. But the thing that I told Steve, 188 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:28.120 if I'd have had time this week, I would have 189 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:30.960 written a through the looking glass story Nixie and I 190 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:33.039 looking out the window at the snow, but I live 191 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:36.279 in Arizona, so there's no snow. But my kitten becomes 192 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:38.480 the Red Queen and I become the white Queen and 193 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:41.399 lo and behold, we live in this world where instead 194 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:43.480 of the Supreme Court saying what the hell is wrong 195 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:47.480 with you, school board members thinking that you should somehow 196 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:52.440 bring this filth, in this smut into the classroom. Why 197 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:54.799 aren't you teaching English? Why? Real English? Why aren't you 198 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:58.159 teaching reading, math? All the skills that students no longer 199 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:01.279 have when they go to public schools. We're talking about 200 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:04.919 whether or not parents have a right to pull their 201 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:07.879 children out of school to be notified in for the 202 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:09.720 first place, and then to pull their children out of 203 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:15.759 school when they're going to be taught lessons about transsexual identity. Well, 204 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:20.080 world do we live in, Steve Well, I mean through 205 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:20.919 the looking glass? 206 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:24.000 Yeah, well, now, I mean two or three observations. One is, 207 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:27.080 this case came out of Montgomery County, Maryland. And for 208 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:30.440 listeners who don't know Montgomery County is it's very left. 209 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.120 It's very rich left, it's very elite left. It's it's 210 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:37.960 Marin County, it's Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's places like that. And 211 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:40.039 the fact that the case came out of there, and 212 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:41.480 by the way, isn't one of the parties. It's a 213 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:44.080 like mock mood versus school district or something like that. 214 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:49.879 I think there's a population of Ethiopian, right, I hope 215 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:52.000 I don't get it wrong. I think it's Ethiopian Christians, 216 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:57.759 and then I forget about Muslims also exactly, not exclusively. 217 00:11:57.879 --> 00:12:00.600 They make the group of parents that right. 218 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:04.679 And I actually remember talking to some Montgomery County parent 219 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:07.000 and some Zoom meeting I was on too, three four 220 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:09.200 years ago, and like you know, these things are crazy here. 221 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:11.519 And remember point number two. 222 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:14.240 Just a point of fact is there had been an 223 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:17.200 opt out and the county had sought to end it. 224 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:18.559 And that's what brought the case along. 225 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:20.600 Right, So at the county, the school board, well the 226 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:21.320 school board. 227 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:22.519 But I think it might have been the county. I'm 228 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:23.919 not sure it was the county school board or what. 229 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:28.960 But anyway, well, so what happens is what became clear 230 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:31.440 in the oral argument, which I only heard some snippets of, 231 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:35.519 is that the justices, especially Justice Gorsicic, who you might 232 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:37.360 thought would be the weakest on this since he did 233 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:40.960 that crazy Bosstoc decision, he clearly had read these books 234 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:44.360 and was asking the lawyers defending it about details from 235 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:47.320 the books by the way. Did any news reporter ever 236 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:49.799 read the books and report the content of the No, 237 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:51.840 of course not. There were no news reports about that, 238 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:54.919 and that was much more embarrassing for the people trying 239 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:57.360 to defend it. It was pretty clear they had an 240 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:00.320 awkward case to make, and Gorstich actually was Kavanaugh who said, 241 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:02.720 you have a tough case to make, don't you write it? 242 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:06.919 Well? They even got Alina Kagan, who's the only really 243 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:09.639 truly intelligent person on the liberal side of the court, 244 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:13.240 to come out in favor, saying essentially that you don't 245 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:17.799 have to be apparent with religious convictions to find this offensive. Yeah, 246 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:21.960 the right to opt your child child out of this shit. 247 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:26.399 What I heard them say that she said seemed pretty strong. 248 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:32.080 But the most amazing part of all of it was KITTENINGI. 249 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:34.759 I knew you were going to go there next, said moron. 250 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:37.600 And you know what. One of my more popular tweets 251 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.279 on x was that, what is it you would expect 252 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:44.639 from a person whose only qualifications for the court were 253 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:47.080 the color of her skin and the number of chromosomes. 254 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:52.279 I mean, we know that was why she was appointed. 255 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:56.480 We have seen the effects of her idiocy because she 256 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:59.799 was the court's affirmative action appointment with you know, but 257 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:03.360 what she said is actually, in some ways even more 258 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:05.759 appalling than the fact that she's even on the court. 259 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:10.000 And that is that, well, if they don't like it, 260 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:13.399 they can take their kids somewhere else. In other words, 261 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:17.919 all of a sudden, Kteenji is in favor of school choice. 262 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:21.720 Oh that's what I wanted to notice about it, because 263 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:24.440 you know the Edgocrats, they hate school choice. 264 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:26.080 They also hate homeschooling. 265 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:29.039 And I think even more I think Jackson said your 266 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:31.279 parents could homeschool their kids. Well, that's not going to 267 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:36.120 go down well with Randy Winegarten. Would you say Randy 268 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:38.039 Winegarten for us, because I'll bet you'll do it well. 269 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:40.960 No, I don't call her Randy Winegarten. I call her 270 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:43.480 the world's worst female impersonator. 271 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:48.279 I should have guessed. I thought you were gonna get Randyer. 272 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:51.919 So anyway, Yeah, No, I think that shows you how confused, 273 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:54.399 to put it mildly, Justice Jackson. 274 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:57.320 Is confused, is a nice way to put it. Steve, 275 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:01.000 I know, well, I'm blazing more is more like it. 276 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:05.679 I'm in a good mood, as I often am on 277 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:07.759 a Friday evening, even though I haven't got my whiskey 278 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:09.360 out yet because I'm running behind. 279 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:13.480 Well, all right, because you're traveling, Steve, I do want 280 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.559 to really quickly as our friend. I want to because 281 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:18.480 I think it would hurt his feelings if we didn't 282 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:20.919 at least bring it up. Our good friend, John, whom 283 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:25.000 we missed terribly is was not able to join us 284 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:29.200 today but because of scheduling conflicts. But he did have 285 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:31.120 a piece in the New York Post. I posted it 286 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:34.039 on x It's already gotten a lot of good feedback 287 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:41.679 Steve about the Supreme Court agreeing to hear the birthright 288 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:47.279 citizenship universal injunction appeal of the Supreme ecume of the 289 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:51.240 Trump administration. The reason it's interesting he doesn't go into 290 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:56.480 any of the facts of the case around birthright citizenship itself. 291 00:15:57.879 --> 00:16:04.080 John does not. What he does is explain in both constitutional, legal, 292 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:07.879 and I would say even political terms to a great extent, 293 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:12.080 why it is that judges should not federal district court 294 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:17.039 judges should not be issuing these injunctions, these universal or 295 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:21.080 national injunctions, that there's no basis for them in the Constitution. 296 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:27.000 That and I will anticipate the end of it for everybody. 297 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:29.799 But I do encourage maybe Steve can even link to 298 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:33.039 it all notes. I encourage people to read it because 299 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:36.440 it will explain things in it in a nice simple way. 300 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:39.000 Because I get a lot of questions about this, Steve, 301 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:41.440 why can they do this? How can they do this? Well, 302 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:44.799 according to John, they can't. But it also explains what's 303 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:47.879 going to be happening when the Court issues a decision 304 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:50.320 about this in May, and how far it is the 305 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:53.679 Court is likely to go. They're not likely necessarily to 306 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:57.639 take on the birthright citizenship case on the merits of 307 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:00.440 that particular question, but they are likely to take on 308 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:06.599 the case of the universal injunction that stopped the Trumpet 309 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:14.599 administration's enforcement of not recognizing birthright citizenship by not issuing passports, 310 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:20.359 et cetera, across the whole the whole nation. And you know, 311 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:25.440 if it's gotten out of hand, yes, absolutely gotten out 312 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:27.680 of hand. We did have one more case. I should 313 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:29.519 mention really quickly that you may or may not have 314 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:31.680 the time to pay a lot of attention to Steve 315 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:38.799 about the executive order mandating that that you have to 316 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:44.400 in federal elections. You have to ascertain the whether or 317 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:49.799 not a registrate registrant at a registrant is a citizen 318 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:52.720 of the United States, and they actually got not only 319 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:57.799 a lefty liberal federal court judge to issue an injunction, 320 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:01.640 but also actually a Trumpet administration excuse me, a Trump 321 00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:06.440 appointee judge, and hers was entirely procedural. They want to 322 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:10.680 mention that there's more than one person out there, arguing 323 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:13.920 that this is a typical forty chess on Trump's part, 324 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:16.880 because even though they expected this kind of thing. Of course, 325 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:22.200 Democrats want illegals to vote, they want illegals to be 326 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:28.000 counted in the census. We all understand that this puts 327 00:18:28.039 --> 00:18:32.359 the pressure back on Congress to do something. In Congress, 328 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:35.119 this ability to do something about this is a little 329 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:38.559 bit limited to by the fact that the Constitution still 330 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:41.920 leaves voter requirements, voter all of the things that have 331 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:44.200 to do with voting, even in federal elections up to 332 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:47.599 the state legislatures to decide. But under the fifteenth Amendment, 333 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:53.880 I think we've seen evidence that Congress can issue certain 334 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:58.359 laws pursuant to the enforcement clause of the fifteenth Amendment, 335 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:01.039 and maybe this is something that they can do there, 336 00:19:01.160 --> 00:19:04.759 certainly to keep citizens from non citizens from voting in 337 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:07.720 elections seems to me to be within the purview of 338 00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:09.599 enforcing FIFE. 339 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:12.359 But yeah, I mean it looks like I mean, even 340 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:15.279 if the birth rights citizenship case and then the voting 341 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:20.160 rights uh citizen case you mentioned, even if they're purely procedural, 342 00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:23.640 they then set up an enforcement action that will force 343 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:25.559 the courts to have to take it up on the merits. 344 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:26.720 And maybe that's next term. 345 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:28.640 But you follow what I'm saying, right is, you know 346 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:31.200 they have to say no, a judge couldn't issue an 347 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:34.559 injunction against this, Uh, we can't, you know. And then 348 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:39.279 the Trump administration actually refuses to issue citizenship to someone 349 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:43.480 an illegal alien born here or born to illegal aliens here, 350 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:46.559 and then that person sues and then they have to 351 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:47.400 rule on the question. 352 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:49.400 So you know, I don't know. 353 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:51.039 That's unfortunately the way things go. 354 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:53.640 Uh. 355 00:19:54.599 --> 00:19:55.240 I wish things. 356 00:19:55.400 --> 00:19:57.440 I wish things could go faster and let me do 357 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:00.279 it this way. One thing that trump men is stration 358 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:03.279 did late in the week was declare that they want 359 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:07.039 to have a procedure in place to grant permits for 360 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:12.240 the opening of new minds and mine processing and essentially 361 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:16.759 refining industrial operations. Permits that would be granted within twenty. 362 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:19.039 Eight days of initial application. 363 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:21.960 Specifically for raw rare earth minerals. 364 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:24.200 I'm not sure if it's rare. I think it's a 365 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:26.160 lot of stuff rare earth minerals, oil and gas. I 366 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:28.160 think it's that runs across the board. They're going to 367 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:30.960 emphasize rare earth minerals. But the point is is that normally, 368 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:33.640 you know, if you said twenty eight months, people would say, wow, 369 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:37.960 that's optimistic. Twenty eight days is astounding, and I think 370 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:40.200 I'm going to use that as our excuse to segue 371 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:43.799 to my conversation. I did a few weeks back with 372 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:47.440 my favorite energy guru, who is Robert Brice. And I'm 373 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:49.440 sure many of our listeners may know of him or 374 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:52.279 read his work or maybe even read his substack. But 375 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:55.680 I always have fun talking with Robert, and he shovels 376 00:20:55.720 --> 00:20:57.839 out some good dirt on the left on our conversation. 377 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:58.720 So let's break here. 378 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:00.559 We'll talk to Robert for the little bit, and then 379 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:02.039 we will come back at the end, you and I 380 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:08.400 and do some of our usual ending for volities. Well, Robert, 381 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:12.000 before we get onto the latest news and energy, I 382 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:13.599 do want to do a bit of origin story because 383 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:15.799 I'm not sure, just like it. And you have an 384 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:19.480 interesting background sure, which I think is just fun. I 385 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:22.000 mean I know bits and pieces of it. But born 386 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:25.200 and raised in Oklahoma, that's right, But then college in Texas. 387 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:29.720 But tell us a little bit about how you got 388 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:33.000 into a journalism and then be energy. Sure. 389 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:38.000 Well, Tulsa is my hometown, born and raised, long and 390 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:41.039 deep roots in Oklahoma on my mother and my father's side. 391 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:42.799 Proud to be from Oklahoma. 392 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:47.160 You know, I thought about why I became a journalist, 393 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:48.799 why I became a reporter, and a long time ago. 394 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:53.400 I well, as a very brief bit of backstory, I 395 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:54.400 always read the newspaper. 396 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:56.640 When I was a kid. We took two in Tulsa. 397 00:21:56.680 --> 00:21:58.680 At that time when I was growing up, there were 398 00:21:58.680 --> 00:22:01.200 two newspapers. There was a morning paper in an afternoon paper. 399 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:03.440 The tuls Tribune was the afternoon paper, and when the 400 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:05.920 morning paper was the Tulsa World, And my folks took 401 00:22:05.960 --> 00:22:07.920