1 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: Live from ball hartbare and the Crossroads of America. It's 2 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 1: Tony Katz today. 3 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 2: Welcobout and everybody to Tony Kats today. 4 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 3: Tony Cats is out. 5 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 2: Today, back next week. I'm Kira Davis filling in for Tony. 6 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 2: I'm coming to live from sunny southern California. 7 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 3: And you want to know more about me, to go 8 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 3: to my ex profile. 9 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 2: On ond X. 10 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 3: Obviously a real Kira Davis. That's kay I A. 11 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:44,919 Speaker 2: I was sort of reading through. I'm always, you know, 12 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 2: trolling XS in the break and something interesting to me 13 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 2: here in California, which I think needs to happen. 14 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 3: And this is another reason. 15 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:00,279 Speaker 2: Why I feel very strongly that this is the year, 16 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 2: well six is the election cycle we flip California. 17 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 3: Either the governor's office or some other state offices. We're 18 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 3: not going to flip the legislature because. 19 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 2: It's overwhelmingly Democrat. I know you've been hearing about this 20 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:22,559 Speaker 2: jerrymandering talk going on here. We're in a jerrymandering battle 21 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 2: with another state. Makes no sense to me. 22 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 3: Is absolutely ridiculous. 23 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 2: But here we are the governor who's was threatening to 24 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,680 Speaker 2: circumvent the Californian constitution. Right now we have a commission, 25 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 2: a bipartisan I don't I think they are appointed, but 26 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 2: they're appointed according to party, a bipartisan commission for redrawing 27 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 2: district lines. It only redraws every so often. So we 28 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 2: would have to have a special election, put a measure 29 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 2: on the ballot to temporarily disband that that commission and 30 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 2: then hand the re districting over toblic over to the legislature. 31 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 3: And then Governor Nuisance plans for the. 32 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 2: Legislature to re district to Jerrymander out five more Republican 33 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:17,959 Speaker 2: seats in response to the five Republican seats that Texas. 34 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 3: Is threatening to read to Jerrymander. 35 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 2: Okay, so right now in the state Assembly, if the 36 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,639 Speaker 2: Assembly and the Senate. In the state Senate, we have 37 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:41,799 Speaker 2: forty five Democrats and nine Republicans. They want to reduce 38 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 2: that number down to four four Republicans that were to 39 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: represent the forty percent of Republican voters in the state. 40 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 2: We have forty half of the voters in the state 41 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 2: are Republican. Everyone did you know that half the voters 42 00:02:55,560 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 2: in the state are Republican and or others. We have 43 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 2: the votes to win, we don't have the political power 44 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 2: So this is why I brought all this up because 45 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 2: I think it's very interesting. 46 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 3: I think I may have said this to you guys yesterday, but. 47 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 2: Pay attention to who Trump is appointing in DC. 48 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 3: Are you noticing how many California people are there. He's 49 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 3: coming for us. 50 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 2: He's coming for California because he knows what people like 51 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 2: me have known for many years. 52 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 3: Even Tony, he used to live here, That's where I 53 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 3: first met. 54 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 2: We've known for decades, which is we're not gonna win 55 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 2: anything if we can't clean up the voter rolls. If 56 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 2: we can't address the voter corruption in California, it's going 57 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 2: to spread to the rest of the nation. We gave 58 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 2: you mail in ballots, we gave you the jungle primary system. 59 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 3: We gave you. 60 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 2: Adam Shift and Nancy Pelosi. We gave you all of 61 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 2: the ridiculous transgender law. 62 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 3: That's us, right, all the rot, all the. 63 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 2: Sewage seeps out of California. Sorry about that. Some of 64 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 2: us are trying our best to fix that. But so 65 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:13,119 Speaker 2: Trump recognizes that California is a huge problem as we 66 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 2: try to prepare this country for the Golden Age, and 67 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 2: so he's appointed especially the d DOJ Harmeat Dylan, who is 68 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 2: a civil rights attorney and a rock star here in California. 69 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 3: She was a co chair of the Republican Party for 70 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 3: a while. 71 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 2: But also she's prosecuting almost every Her law firm has 72 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 2: been prosecuting almost every major civil rights conservative civil rights 73 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 2: case going on in this country for the last four 74 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 2: or five years. She worked on the President's team, of course, 75 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 2: So she's at the DOJ. And guy named Michael Gates 76 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 2: from Huntingdam Beach, he's at the DOJ some other lower 77 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 2: level people, but in the DOJ they've gone out there. 78 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 2: So Trump is what I'm saying, Trump is front loading 79 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 2: the DOJ with California people. Why because our electoral system 80 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 2: is the key to keeping America on a forward trajectory. 81 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 3: We have to wrestle back this system. 82 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 2: So today harmeet Dylan at the DJ or excuse me, 83 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 2: Pam Bondi uh. The AG released the statement saying that 84 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 2: they are now requesting the voter roles from all of 85 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 2: the swing states. 86 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 3: We're next caw, They've. 87 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 2: Already also already requested California voter roles. They want to 88 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 2: scour the voter roles for non citizen voters. Okay, So her. 89 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 2: So Pam Bonnie put that out. Excuse me, she put 90 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 2: that out yesterday. And the Saint Paul, Saint Paul Minneapolis 91 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 2: in Minnesota government announced yesterday they had a hack and 92 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 2: they had to shut all their voting systems down. Oh 93 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 2: you know who announced it, some small some Somalie, because 94 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 2: they're all Smalie that run the local government there. When 95 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 2: I'm looking at what's going on in New York City 96 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 2: with this Mom Donnie character, and I'm looking at this 97 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:12,359 Speaker 2: smally guy who's you know, making a play for mayor 98 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 2: of Minneapolis, and I'm looking at how the Somalies were 99 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 2: shipped in to Minnesota to take over that state through 100 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 2: the Twin Cities, and they basically have. 101 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 3: And I'm looking at the mosque. 102 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 2: The idea of this is Sharia town going up in Texas. 103 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 2: I'm looking at our cities La San Francisco, Austin, falling apart, crumbling, 104 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 2: are great American cities. And I'm thinking to myself, folks, 105 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,359 Speaker 2: why are we putting up with this? Why are we 106 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 2: just assuming that we have to leave these cities to 107 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,599 Speaker 2: their own devices, that we just have to accept that 108 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 2: this is the way it is. 109 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 3: The cities do it this way, and the rest of 110 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 3: us do it that way. 111 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:56,719 Speaker 2: I think that we have done ourselves a great detriment. Again, 112 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 2: the story that I'm going to read to you next hour, 113 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 2: I think it's a story where we should all memorize. 114 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 3: We should tell it over and over again to our kids. 115 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 2: It should be ingrained, it should be tattooed on the 116 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 2: American heart. We don't put up with corruption, and when 117 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 2: we've had enough, we will get crazy. We need to 118 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 2: be reminded of and indoctrinated into our revolutionary spirit. I 119 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 2: don't think, ladies and gentlemen, that it is appropriate, nor 120 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 2: is it acceptable, Conservatives and Republicans, for you to say 121 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 2: the cities are lost. That's a defeatist attitude. That's a 122 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 2: loser attitude. That's a fail of failure attitude. It's a 123 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 2: position of failure. It's what's gotten California into this mess, 124 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 2: right because Republicans kept retreating and retreating and retreating to 125 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 2: the red areas. All right, we lost San Francisco, Okayla 126 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 2: San Diego? All right, Well we just have to put 127 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 2: up with it the way it is. And now, look, 128 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 2: we live. We live in tyranny here in California. We 129 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 2: live in an autocratic society, we have one party rule 130 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 2: and they do whatever they want. 131 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what we vote. 132 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:19,679 Speaker 2: You know that we have voted to strengthen the death 133 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 2: penalty three times in the last twenty years in California. 134 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 2: Three times, every time the death penalty question has been 135 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 2: on the ballot, we have voted for it. 136 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 3: We voted to keep it back when I was first 137 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:34,319 Speaker 3: moving here, I think it almost twenty years ago, we 138 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:35,319 Speaker 3: voted to keep it. 139 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 2: Then we voted to it to cut the red tape 140 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 2: from it, and then we so reduce the number of 141 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 2: years someone sits on death row and the number of 142 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 2: appeals that they get. We voted to speed up the process. 143 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 2: Guess what, we don't have the death penalty in California. 144 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 2: We do, but the government, the governor, suspended it. So 145 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 2: it doesn't matter how we vote here right now. That 146 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 2: is tyranny. 147 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:10,079 Speaker 3: So I know a lot of you have to go, well, 148 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 3: just leave, just leave, Okay, yeah, I get it. Just leave. 149 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 2: A lot of my friends have a lot of people 150 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 2: are leaving. Maybe someday I will too. 151 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 3: I don't know. 152 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 2: That's not for me to say right now, because when 153 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 2: you know, I don't go anywhere until God says go, 154 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:21,719 Speaker 2: He'll open a. 155 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 3: Door and then there'll be time to go. I will 156 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 3: not go one second sooner. That's dangerous. 157 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:27,559 Speaker 2: So this is where I am, this is where I live, 158 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 2: and this is where I've raised my kids, so it's 159 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 2: their home. You better hope I stay here because listen, 160 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,199 Speaker 2: what happens here is not isolated. 161 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 3: Is coming to you, has already come to you. Newsom 162 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 3: is running for president. It's way more serious than you 163 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 3: guys think. I get it. We were ripe for ridicule. 164 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 3: I gah. I don't want to grudge anyone. 165 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,439 Speaker 2: They're good fun, but you know, go easy on people 166 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 2: like me because we're really trying. 167 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 3: We're not just trying to save ourselves. 168 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 2: We're trying to save you because this is coming to 169 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 2: the rest of America. I love this country too much 170 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 2: to abandon this fight. All right, let's take a break. 171 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 2: I'm Kia Davis filling in for Tony Kats and you 172 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:08,239 Speaker 2: are listening to Tony Kats today. Welcome back, everybody, Tony 173 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 2: Katz Today. 174 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 3: Tony is out this Friday, August first. Don't worry. 175 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 2: I'm Kia Davis guiding you into the weekend. I hope 176 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 2: you've got some good plans. I'm laughing because. 177 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 3: Let's just go. Let's just take a victory lap here. 178 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 2: Another wind just came across the wires as we were 179 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 2: in the break. Everybody, the wins just keep on coming. 180 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 2: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting PBS is shutting down operations 181 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 2: after losing federal funding. Here's a statement from the Corporation 182 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 2: from Public Broadcasting dated today. 183 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 3: August first, Just now. 184 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 2: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced today that it will 185 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 2: begin in orderly wind down of its operations following the 186 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 2: passage of Recisions Package and the release of the Senate 187 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:08,559 Speaker 2: Appropriations Committee YadA, YadA. For nearly sixty years, cpp has 188 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 2: carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a 189 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:18,319 Speaker 2: trusted public media system that excuse me, that one chokes 190 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 2: me up, a bit that informs, educates, and serves communities 191 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 2: across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, 192 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 2: CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, 193 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:37,239 Speaker 2: cultural program and essential services for Americans in every community. 194 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 2: Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called 195 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 2: rowe and psitioned Congress to preserve federal funding, for CTP, 196 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 2: we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations, 197 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 2: said the President. 198 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 3: And CEO, Patricia Harrison. 199 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 2: Why are there so many frigging women running things? Stop 200 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 2: putting women in charge of every thing. 201 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 3: I know Trump has so many women too. I just. 202 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 2: Anyways, I really feel like it's part of our problem 203 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 2: because women are nurturers and we're feelers, and we have 204 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 2: lots of great qualities that you know, that make us 205 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 2: great leaders in different aspects of society. 206 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong, I love leading people, but uh, 207 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 3: I don't. 208 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:29,439 Speaker 2: Know that we should be leading like really established institutions, 209 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 2: or like police precincts, or uh, you know, entire government departments. 210 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 3: I don't know. Let me stop now before I dig 211 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 3: the hole any further. Oh right. 212 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 2: CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting 213 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 2: our partners through the transition with transparency and care. 214 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 3: So there you have it. 215 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 2: I think I'm not sure if I read this to 216 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 2: you yesterday or on another show, maybe that I did 217 00:12:55,120 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 2: last week. But NPR and PBS have been experiencing records 218 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 2: donations in the last week, record donation to the tune 219 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:11,959 Speaker 2: of tens of millions of dollars. Why can't PBS make 220 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 2: that work? Why do they have to close? Why can't 221 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 2: they just draw down? You know, why can't they just. 222 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 3: Get skinnier? Right, we'll operate. 223 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 2: We believe in the mission, so we'll we're we're going 224 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 2: to continue this mission, but. 225 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 3: We're going to operate on an entirely donated dollar. 226 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,679 Speaker 2: But this just goes back to the whole grant I 227 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:42,679 Speaker 2: did before the break about the system and how democrats, 228 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 2: you know, they they the system is broken when it's 229 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 2: not working for them. And what working for them means 230 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,199 Speaker 2: that they get to steal our money and not be 231 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 2: held accountable for anything and. 232 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:54,080 Speaker 3: Do whatever they want, whenever they want. 233 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 2: And then you saw right there in the statement PBS 234 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 2: even a lot of people think they hear PBS, so 235 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:02,959 Speaker 2: they hear MPR, and they think there's a radio station, 236 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 2: a TV station in DC where all this stuff comes from. 237 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 3: And it's not. It's just a bunch of administrators there. 238 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 3: That's all they do. They all they. 239 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:14,559 Speaker 2: Do is hand out the grant money to local stations 240 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:16,079 Speaker 2: that are already doing that work. 241 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 3: Those stations aren't going anywhere. 242 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 2: Your local PBS station can still be on the air 243 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 2: they're just gonna have to do it with donations or 244 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 2: state brands, or they're gonna have to go to a 245 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 2: capitalist model, which is perfectly acceptable. And you know, I 246 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 2: think there are I don't understand the obsession with public media. 247 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 3: I really don't. I think it's nostalgia, That's what I think. 248 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 3: I think it's nostalgia. 249 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 2: I think there's a bunch of people, like even the 250 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 2: people who defend down. Talking to my friend the other day, 251 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 2: he's like in his thirties, this is in his mid thirties. 252 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 2: He was like, I just feel really strongly about PVS. 253 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 2: I think it's really important. I'm like, when's the last 254 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 2: time you've watched TBS? You watch PBS? No, when have 255 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 2: you ever watched He's a millennial, he was watching YouTube. 256 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 3: He didn't even watch Sesame Street on PPS. So I 257 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 3: know these. 258 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 2: People funding it have a sense of nostalgia about it, 259 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 2: these people who are But it's all anyway, it's a 260 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 2: victory lap. This is what I'm saying, complete and total victory. 261 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 2: This is how it's done. 262 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 3: Folks. 263 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 2: We should never allow our governments ever again to tell 264 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 2: us that something can't be done. You can do anything, 265 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 2: and guess what the Democrats do they do anything they want. 266 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 2: They don't go, oh, it's too crazy to completely overhaul 267 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 2: the healthcare system with Obamacare. 268 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 3: They just did it. And that's what the Trump administration 269 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 3: is doing. They're just doing it so we can no longer. 270 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 2: I think it's irresponsible to rest in this idea that well, 271 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 2: there's just corruption and there's nothing that can be done. 272 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 3: And I get it, like I am an eternal optimist. 273 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 2: Which there's two parts of me, the born curmudgeon and 274 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 2: the eternal uh, the eternal optimist. But I think I'm 275 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 2: a curmudgeon because I'm so hopeful right and then I 276 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 2: get disappointed and that makes me curmudgeonly. 277 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 3: They work in tandem. 278 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 2: But I just I think, I really, I'm not just 279 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 2: being hopeful here. I feel strongly about this. It's not 280 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 2: the time to pull back and say throw up our 281 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 2: hands and go, wow, we can't doage, couldn't do the 282 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 2: whole job. Therefore it's a failure. No, you keep pushing 283 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 2: forward and you double down. We're winning. We are winning 284 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 2: despite all of the other distractions. Trump announced yesterday that 285 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 2: he is rented He's building a ballroom for the White House. 286 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 2: It's going to be two hundred million dollars, going to 287 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 2: pay for it with his own money and donations from supporters. 288 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 2: Building a big, golden Marlago type ballroom. 289 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 3: I did not know that the White House doesn't have 290 00:16:58,800 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 3: a ballroom. 291 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 2: They have a meeting room, a reception room that they 292 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 2: use and then they build tents outside. 293 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 3: And it's ridiculous. 294 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 2: The White House of the United States should have an 295 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 2: opulent ballroom. 296 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 3: And this is what I love about Trump. He gets optics. 297 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 3: That's what mar a Lago is. 298 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 2: I'm reading the Art of the deal right now, and 299 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 2: you read that, you're going to understand everything Trump's doing. 300 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 3: They'll change how you think about everything. I promise. 301 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 2: Someone suggested it to me and they were right. It 302 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 2: changed how I think about everything. But he talks about 303 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:33,640 Speaker 2: how he bought mar Alago in the eighties for five 304 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 2: million dollars or whatever. 305 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 3: It was just a building. It is a mansion. 306 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:42,640 Speaker 2: But he thought this is too beautiful to just make 307 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 2: into just a regular other home, a regular other mansion 308 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 2: in Florida. 309 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 3: It needs to be. 310 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 2: Like the Palaces of Versailles. It should be a stately 311 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 2: place where you welcome in all of the statesmen and 312 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,439 Speaker 2: all of the businessmen, and all of the people, and 313 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 2: you build a golf course and you throw lavish parties. 314 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 2: It might seem wasteful to the American eye because we 315 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:12,719 Speaker 2: argued to seeing our elitist politicians waste money and opulence. 316 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 2: But there's something different about Trump. He gets the power 317 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 2: of spectacle, of spectacle, and he understands. 318 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 3: To our American minds that might look tacky. 319 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 2: But to the minds of people in other cultures, particularly 320 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 2: the leaders in other cultures, it's impressive. Have you ever 321 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,399 Speaker 2: seen how europe rich Europeans dress and decorate their homes. 322 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:41,679 Speaker 3: It's gaudy, it's it's horrible, you know. 323 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 2: You go to Europe and the rich people in Europe 324 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 2: are it's just a different kind of class, you know. 325 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 3: But that's what they like. 326 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 2: They like the big showy things, especially Eastern Europeans like 327 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 2: the big, gaudy things and the big showy thing. Trump 328 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 2: gets that because what it says is you're dealing with 329 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:01,880 Speaker 2: influence here. So no, the world leaders and the influencers 330 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 2: of the world should not be trudging over the White House. 331 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 3: Launch to go to dinner in a tent. 332 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 2: They should walk into the most spectacular ballroom they've ever seen. 333 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 2: They should eat the best food, sit in the best chairs, 334 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 2: and listen to the best music. 335 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 3: Because that's a representation of what America is. 336 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 2: It says we're powerful for winners, and you want to 337 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 2: work with us. 338 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 3: I love our president. All right, let's take another break. 339 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:30,679 Speaker 2: I'm here David's billing in for Tony kat and this 340 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 2: is Tony Kats Today. Welcome back everybody, Tony Katz today. 341 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 2: I'm just jamming out here from Huey Lewis and the News. Yeah, 342 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:46,640 Speaker 2: I'm so jed X. 343 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 3: Reading through X as we're in the break on this 344 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 3: lovely story from Australia. 345 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 2: In order to cut down on Third World immigrants stabbing 346 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:03,160 Speaker 2: people with machetes, Australia has set up machete drop boxes. 347 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 2: It's funny, but this is where the Democrats would take 348 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 2: us if they had the power. If we did not 349 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 2: have the constitution and those willing to defend it standing 350 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 2: in between us and the Democrat Party, this is where 351 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 2: we would be. I just saw video of Idris Elba. 352 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 2: You all know Idris Elba, the very handsome actor, British actor. 353 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 2: He is advocating for safety in the UK and as 354 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 2: you know, even though they have very strict gun laws. 355 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:43,120 Speaker 2: They have a huge violent violence problem. Gosh, that's so crazy. 356 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 2: How could that be they banned all the guns. Anyways, 357 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 2: I saw a clip of him. It was a legit clip. 358 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 2: I had to check if it was Ai, but it 359 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 2: was a legitimate clip of him saying of him advocating 360 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 2: for taking the tips off kitchen. 361 00:20:58,520 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 3: Knives and butter knives. 362 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 2: He says, we don't need to produce knives with tips. 363 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 3: Even a butter knife, this is his word. 364 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 2: Even a butter knife can be a weapon and you 365 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 2: can still cut with a blunt end. 366 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 3: That's what they're that's where they're at now. 367 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 2: They're advocating for taking the tip off your knife instead 368 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 2: of just arresting criminals. Europe is a cautionary tale for us, y'all. 369 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 2: That's a cautionary tale. I am addicted to European TikTok. 370 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 2: I say TikTok, but it's I don't use TikTok. It's 371 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:43,640 Speaker 2: usually what migrates over to Instagram. Nevertheless, I get in 372 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 2: these rabbit holes every night when I'm doom scrolling, and 373 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 2: I see a lot of the videos coming out of Europe, 374 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,679 Speaker 2: and I follow a lot of their regular content creators 375 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,679 Speaker 2: and there is a civil war brewing there, and I 376 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 2: don't see how. 377 00:21:58,359 --> 00:21:59,959 Speaker 3: It gets fixed without civil war. 378 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 2: And I'm actually kind of concerned that we're getting to 379 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 2: that point here in the US. I'm not sure that 380 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 2: our electoral system can protect us against the scourge of. 381 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 3: Islam. 382 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,159 Speaker 2: I don't like saying radicalism because there are certainly people 383 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 2: in the Muslim community who are just you know, they're 384 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 2: Muslim by culture, they're Muslim, you know, but they're they're 385 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 2: just regular people and trying to live their lives. 386 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 3: I get that. I'm not talking about individuals. 387 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 2: But the religion of a whole is not as a whole, 388 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 2: is not compatible with Western society, and certainly not American society. 389 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 2: And we're not at the point that Europe is at. 390 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 2: But Europe but they don't have I think they're at 391 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 2: the point there where the majority of European citizens are 392 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 2: They're over it. 393 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 3: They're completely over it. 394 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 2: They no longer want the experiment, they no longer care 395 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,400 Speaker 2: about being That's why the UK has all these laws now, 396 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 2: these censorship laws, because people don't care anymore. The people 397 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 2: were censoring themselves for the last decades, because that's how 398 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:09,919 Speaker 2: brainwashing works. They censored themselves due to societal pressure, but 399 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 2: after a while people didn't care, and especially after the 400 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 2: election of Donald Trump, people got hope, they got bold, 401 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 2: so then they. 402 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 3: Have to make these laws. But I think the majority 403 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 3: of people in Europe are over it, and. 404 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 2: I just don't see how any of it changes without 405 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 2: armed rebellion, not in Europe. 406 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,159 Speaker 3: I think that's where they're at, at. 407 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 2: Least if the images I'm seeing out coming out of 408 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 2: there are even somewhat true. 409 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,120 Speaker 3: Our media is not reporting about what's happening. Even Fox News, 410 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:41,640 Speaker 3: you can go to Fox. 411 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,640 Speaker 2: They're not really reporting, but they're they're marching the citizens, 412 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 2: not the Free Palestine weirdos. The citizens are actually out 413 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 2: there marching daily. They are under assault. It is an invasion. 414 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 2: There is no other way you can frame it. There 415 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:05,439 Speaker 2: they're bringing in busloads of male Muslim immigrants and giving 416 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,959 Speaker 2: them housing, medicare, and schooling for their children if they 417 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 2: have to have children with them, or any children that 418 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 2: they create while they're in the country, and people are 419 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 2: getting pushed out, I guess I don't have to continue 420 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:25,919 Speaker 2: beating this dead horse. I just think that if we 421 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 2: keep going on this road, this is where we're gonna 422 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 2: end up. This is why, my friends, our Second Amendment 423 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 2: is the most important amendment and it must be defended. 424 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 3: At all costs, at all costs. 425 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 2: And what Trump is doing, what the Supreme Court is doing, 426 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 2: I mean, these are gonna have ripple effects. This is 427 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 2: why I think I was saying this yesterday. This is 428 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 2: why I'm really excited like Trump is not. Yes, there's challenges. Yes, 429 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:56,959 Speaker 2: some things are not going as great as Trump is 430 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,959 Speaker 2: trying to make it seem. They revised the job now 431 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 2: or surprise diffriends. 432 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:03,400 Speaker 3: It went way down. 433 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 2: I think from one hundred and thirty nine thousand jobs 434 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 2: added in May to fourteen thousand or nineteen thousand. So 435 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 2: obviously our government is still wonking with their stats. But 436 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 2: there's you know, negative things to report on. But at 437 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 2: the end of the day, what Trump is doing is 438 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 2: he's setting us up. He's setting us up to continue 439 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 2: winning when he is long gone. And that's going to 440 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 2: mean shifting the entire culture because we're gonna have to 441 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 2: police ourselves when Trump is cut, We're gonna have to 442 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 2: police ourselves. 443 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 3: We're not gonna have that great leader. 444 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,919 Speaker 2: Maybe God will raise up someone else who has that 445 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 2: same kind of leadership quality that gets things done. 446 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 3: I kind of think those guys. 447 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,679 Speaker 2: Are once in a lifetime, so we're gonna have to 448 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 2: police ourselves. So Trump is setting us up to change 449 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 2: the culture, to bring back American exceptionalism, to train our 450 00:25:55,480 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 2: kids that way, to you know, even building them in 451 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,920 Speaker 2: the White House. It's it's it's sending a message. That's 452 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 2: what mar al Lago, mar A Lago is versa. 453 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 3: He goes home. 454 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 2: Every weekend or every other weekend, he goes home to 455 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 2: mar A Lago, and he holds court. 456 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 3: Every world leader has been in mar Alago. 457 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 2: Every world leader that talks to us has been in 458 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 2: mar Alago when he won, before he took office. 459 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 3: Where'd everybody go mar al Lago? Where justin Trudeau go 460 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 3: mar A Lago. He kissed the ring. 461 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:35,199 Speaker 2: And it's not just about the opulence. It's about what 462 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 2: it says about power. And Trump gets that. So even 463 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 2: though for me I find all the gold embellishments and everything, 464 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 2: I find that gaudy because it's not my taste. 465 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 3: I get the specter of it. I get why. There's 466 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 3: a great book. 467 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,119 Speaker 2: George Washington wrote an etiquette book at fourteen. It's called 468 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 2: It's called Rules for Civility. I think he wrote it 469 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 2: at fourteen. He's got a lot of great it's just 470 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,959 Speaker 2: a it's just a listical basically of how to conduct 471 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:09,199 Speaker 2: yourself publicly. He talks a lot about about the importance 472 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 2: of grandeur. 473 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,160 Speaker 3: Now, he wasn't an opulent guy. 474 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 2: I mean, he lived, he was wealthy, but he didn't 475 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 2: like a lot of spectacle. He's he's a pretty simple, 476 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 2: simplistic man. This is part of his issue with leading 477 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:25,960 Speaker 2: this ragtag band of farmers and you know, lower class people. 478 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,439 Speaker 2: It's he just he didn't have a whole lot of 479 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 2: personality apparently, and he uh, he just didn't like nonsense. 480 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 3: He didn't like a lot of nonsense. But he does 481 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 3: say in that book, even. 482 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 2: At fourteen, that they're that there is certain value to 483 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 2: dressing a certain way, to holding certain manners, to giving 484 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,399 Speaker 2: your guests the best of what you have to offer, 485 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 2: the best seat, the best meal, the best wine. 486 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 3: Because it sets you up. 487 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:57,679 Speaker 2: As somebody who is worthy of being listened to and 488 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:02,640 Speaker 2: someone who understands the value you the value of value. 489 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 3: To put it in cryptic terms, but this is what 490 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:09,400 Speaker 3: Trump is doing. 491 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 2: There was a time when America on the world stage 492 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,920 Speaker 2: really was the most envied in every respect, in every aspect, 493 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 2: and the world has spent the last twenty to thirty 494 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 2: years training itself to believe that we're the problem in 495 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 2: the world. So we've got to rehabilitate that damage that 496 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 2: the left has done. The regular people love us, right, 497 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 2: but it's the institutions we need to repair our image 498 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 2: with the leaders who are influential. So I love that 499 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 2: Trump is doing a the giant flagpole in front of 500 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 2: the White House that he paid for himself, again. 501 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 3: Something he can afford to do. 502 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 2: This is the advantage of having billionaires in government. There's disadvantages, 503 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 2: but one of the advantages is they can do things 504 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 2: with their own money and they don't have to We 505 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 2: don't have to worry about them being bribed. They've already 506 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 2: got enough money. All right, let's see what we got 507 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 2: coming up here. I want to all right, I'll save 508 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 2: this story for next hour. All right, let's just go 509 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 2: ahead and take a break and we'll. 510 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 3: Come back with much more. 511 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 2: I'm Cura Davis filling in for Tony Katz, and this 512 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 2: is Tony Katz today. Welcome back everybody to Tony Kats today. 513 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 2: I'm Kura Davis filling in for Tony Katz, I'll be 514 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,960 Speaker 2: back next week. Follow me on ex that real curate Davis. 515 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 2: Go sign up for my subtack just Kia Davis dot 516 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 2: substack dot com. 517 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 3: Just Hera Davis. Just go to subsec and search just 518 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 3: Hea Davis and you'll find me. Uh. 519 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 2: I saw this tweet from this ex post from Pete 520 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 2: Texcept posted about fifty minutes ago. It is a repost 521 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 2: of a true social post from the President Donald J. 522 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 2: Trump says, based on the highly provocative statements from the 523 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 2: former President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev, who is now the 524 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 2: Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, 525 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 2: I have ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in 526 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 2: the appropriate regions just in case these foolish and implanmatary statements. 527 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 2: Flammatory statements are more than just that. Words are very 528 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 2: important and can often lead to unintended consequences. I hope 529 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 2: this will not be one of those instances. Kind thank 530 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 2: you for your attention to this matter. Or I want 531 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 2: to caution I want I want to say this is 532 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:26,160 Speaker 2: something I've been thinking about. I want to caution everybody 533 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 2: from getting too nervous. I definitely don't think you should 534 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 2: ignore everything, but it might feel like some some things 535 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 2: are falling apart. Right now, the Epstein files the revised 536 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 2: job numbers. Again, that might be left over deep state weirdness, 537 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 2: like we got to get to a place where we 538 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 2: can trust the numbers, the governments putting out the revised 539 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 2: job numbers. Now Russia is safer rattling. They've been talking 540 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 2: about nuclear warfare. That's never a good thing. And then 541 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 2: what's going on in Oz and then with Russia and 542 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 2: Ukraine and all of that, it can feel like maybe 543 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 2: there was so much winning going on that maybe it 544 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 2: can feel like, oh, our things started to fall apart. No, 545 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 2: this is what the work looks like. All right, we 546 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 2: are only this is month eight, right, we're moving in 547 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 2: the month eight of the administration. All right, we're we 548 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 2: don't even have a year under our belt. And the 549 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 2: Trump administration has fundamentally changed everything, But that doesn't mean 550 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 2: that they've changed everyone. And there's still a lot of 551 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 2: work to be done. And as these deep state ideas 552 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 2: and actors get rooted out, yeah, they're gonna kick off 553 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 2: a fuss. They're not going quietly. Excuse me, they're not 554 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 2: going quietly. They're not gonna go without a fight. This 555 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,480 Speaker 2: is their entire bag, do you know what I mean? 556 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 2: This is their entire gig. I talked earlier about how 557 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 2: the reason why Kamala Harris can't just go away and 558 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 2: enjoy her money is because this is who she is, 559 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 2: all of our validations wrapped up in politics and her 560 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:19,000 Speaker 2: political career and political advancement. So, uh, yeah, these people 561 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 2: are gonna go easily. Of course they're gonna be. They're 562 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 2: gonna they're gonna be toddlers about it. They're gonna pitch 563 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 2: a fit. We are taking everything from them. Do you 564 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 2: understand They've been funding everything BBS, media matters, political, like 565 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,480 Speaker 2: all of these NGOs, The government has been funding their 566 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 2: entire lives. They're not just gonna give that up easily. 567 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 2: They're still the Bidens. Are still trotting poor old Joe 568 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 2: out there. I never thought I feel bad for him, 569 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 2: but I do. They're still trotting him out why they 570 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 2: need money. They need money. They're not going quietly, So 571 00:32:58,320 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 2: obviously it's. 572 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:05,080 Speaker 3: Gonna be there's going to be growing pain. I'll put 573 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 3: it that way. 574 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:10,600 Speaker 2: Not to diminish this idea of nuclear winter as growing pain. 575 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 2: What I'm saying is that everyone's still testing our limits. 576 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 2: Everyone's still seeing how far Trump can go. A lot 577 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,120 Speaker 2: of these people aren't sure what the situation on the 578 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 2: ground here in the US is. They have their intelligence 579 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,760 Speaker 2: reports and maybe even their intelligence officers and spies here, 580 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 2: but those people, it's really hard for them to be 581 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,440 Speaker 2: a part of the culture. They're not quite sure what's 582 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,600 Speaker 2: going on with our media. They're not sure how much 583 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 2: of the media complex they have left. 584 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 3: To push their story. 585 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 2: They're unsure of everything, and they're pushing the boundaries. This 586 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 2: is why Trump can't blink. If Trump is saying he's 587 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 2: sending two nuclear submarines to park it near Russia, he 588 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,720 Speaker 2: can't blink on that. We can't just be like, well, 589 00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 2: maybe we need to talk about drawing down our clear weapons. No, 590 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 2: it's a show of strength, just like that ballroom talking, 591 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 2: just real quickly before we break for the next hour. 592 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 2: Yesterday the President brought that the UH presidential Fitness Test. 593 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,360 Speaker 3: Now, I'm Canadian, I was born and raised Canadian. I 594 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 3: did one year of school middle school in the United States, 595 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,360 Speaker 3: ironically in Washington, DC. In Washington, d C. Proper not 596 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:32,920 Speaker 3: on the outfit in the city. UH a fascinating experience. Anyways, 597 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:36,240 Speaker 3: the president. 598 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,080 Speaker 2: But most of you remember though, we had the Presidential 599 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:39,680 Speaker 2: Fitness Test. 600 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,000 Speaker 3: I do remember taking this test. It was a big 601 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:42,759 Speaker 3: deal every year. 602 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:42,960 Speaker 1: You know. 603 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,920 Speaker 2: It was in the gym class. You had your little charts. 604 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 2: You know, you had to do your sit up, your 605 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,279 Speaker 2: pull up, your push ups. I never did enough because 606 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:50,480 Speaker 2: I wasn't a very athletic. 607 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:52,400 Speaker 3: Uh. 608 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 2: It was stressful, you know for those of us who 609 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,360 Speaker 2: weren't in peak physical condition or were already getting picked 610 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,480 Speaker 2: on every day by the people around us, it was stressful. 611 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,160 Speaker 2: Well we did it, presence bringing it back. Why is 612 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:09,839 Speaker 2: that important? It doesn't have any policy significance, But what 613 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,320 Speaker 2: it has significance for is the future. 614 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,400 Speaker 3: It sets us up for an attitude. It sets up 615 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:16,560 Speaker 3: the culture of America. 616 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,759 Speaker 2: We care about your fitness, We care about the health 617 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,799 Speaker 2: of our children and nie things are important for our 618 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:26,279 Speaker 2: natural identity and safety. All of this stuff matters. We'll 619 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 2: bring it down a little bit more when we get back. 620 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,879 Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere. I'm Kia Davis filling in for Tony 621 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,080 Speaker 2: Kats and visits Tonycat today.