WEBVTT - Who Decides Our Elections 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:04.320 Jesse Kelly show. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:06.320 Let's have some. 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:12.520 Fun on a Wednesday hopday. 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:15.440 Life is freaking grand. 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.639 Put a smile on your face. We have crested the 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.680 hump of the week and it's all down heel from gear. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.920 We have such a big show today. 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:29.200 It's one of those things. I'm about to tease a 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:31.160 lot of things, and I'm not. 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.800 Making any promises that I'm getting to everything. Here's what 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:39.160 we're gonna do. I am reluctantly because of a conversation 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.199 I had this morning with a congressman. I am reluctantly 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:46.000 going to talk about the Epstein stuff from yesterday, and 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.920 then I'm moving on. I honestly don't even feel like it, 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:50.879 but I feel the need to tell you what I 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.920 know and just express something, and then we're gonna move on. 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.560 Hopefully that'll just be a few minutes, maybe a couple segments, 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:00.720 I don't know. We're gonna talk more about affordability. We're 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.840 going to talk about the Communists being after your children. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.320 Will of course set aside sometime to make fun of 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:12.399 Michelle Obama tracking down all these poor illegal slave kids 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.399 in the country. A woman got set on fire in 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:20.240 Chicago by a repeat felon emails, so much more coming 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:24.160 up tonight on the world famous Jesse Kelly Show. Now, 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.360 I'm going to read you something. I am not going 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:31.840 to tell you who it's from because I was not 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.240 given permission to do so. And that's just the way 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:41.160 it's going to be. A sitting member of Congress. I 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:47.280 was texting with this guy today and he was disheartened 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:52.880 beyond belief. This guy is one of the good ones. 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.720 And contrary to what you and I like to believe, 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:59.160 sometimes there are some really solid people there. They're just 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.440 like you, they're just like me. They want to save 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:07.120 the country, they're there to do some good. And he 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.760 sounded close to retirement. I'll be honest with you, that's 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.000 how crushed he was. In fact, I probably don't need 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.960 to read it exactly what was he crushed about, because 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:17.919 you know, we had that big Epstein vote last night. 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.120 It was something like four hundred and twenty seven to one. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.160 We had the big Epstein vote. The House voted, hey, 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.440 release the files. The Senate voted okay, okay, sounds good. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:31.440 So what's the problem. Well, let me walk you through 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.440 this in case you've kind of been out of the news. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:37.679 There was a congresswoman by the name of Stacy Plasket. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.079 She's a congresswoman from the Virgin Islands. I know, it's weird, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:46.720 It's okay. Well, Democrats thought they were going to hurt 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.560 Trump and hurt Republicans with the release of all this 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:55.720 Epstein stuff. But it turns out that Stacey Plasket was 0:02:55.919 --> 0:03:01.440 so close with Jeffrey Epstein that while she was having 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:05.200 a meeting, a committee meeting meeting, she's interrogating someone, someone's 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:06.840 standing in front of sitting in front of her, and 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:11.680 she's asking them questions under oath. Epstein is texting her 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:13.839 the questions to ask. 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.959 The person during the committee meeting. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.720 Now, I know multiple members of Congress and I don't 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.239 know of one of them who would. Now I've never 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.520 done it, but who would text me back during a 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:28.040 committee meeting. Maybe they would, I don't know, but that's 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:32.080 kind of business time. So as all this stuff gets 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:39.400 laid out, Stacey Plaskett doesn't look that great. Democrats look terrible. 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.120 It's now the story of the day. Here was her 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:43.000 and I got a. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:48.760 Text from Jeffrey Epstein, who at the time was my constituent, 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:53.240 who was not public knowledge at that time that he 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.440 was under federal investigation. 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.280 It was already knowledge, there was public knowledge that he 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.360 was a criminal, and who. 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:02.760 Was sharing information with me? 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.920 Okay, well that's a lot obviously, because so now she 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.400 looks bad. She has to defend herself. But it's not 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.320 really defensible what happened. And remember this is not my opinion. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.840 These are black and white things. This happened Democrats, because 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.799 they're communists, and all that matters is the revolution quickly 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.920 locked shields and attempted to defend her. Here was Jamie Raskal. 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.480 Well, they want to give them another headline, which is 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.880 that they've arraigned a Democratic member for taking a phone 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:32.160 call from her constituent, Jeffrey Epstein, in the middle of 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.280 a hearing. And of course I don't think there's any 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:39.000 rule here against taking phone calls in a hearing. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:45.520 Right, Grijalva, she's a new member of Congress, said this. 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:49.400 I know she's a Democratic colleague was texting with a 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.760 sexual predator in twenty nineteen. 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.960 Yeah, I think it's important for us to understand what 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.560 that whole transaction was. Having been able to see just 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.600 what happened been with my colleague and an attempt to 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.720 censure him in Chewey Garcia. I know that, like most 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:09.520 of the time, when you hear one little snippet of 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.840 what happened, it's not the full story, and you don't 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:12.520 have the full. 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:16.120 Story it just obviously, as you can figure out, they 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.920 were trying to censure her, essentially punish her for this 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:24.400 egregious thing that she did. Democrats are stopping it. Okay, 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:30.120 Jasmine Crockett went so far? Is to just tell a 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:34.000 gigantic lie. Remember, as you know, communists lie about everything 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.839 all the time, not just small little eyes not shading 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.559 the truth. They will look at a body of water 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.920 and tell you, well, the water is not wet. All 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:49.039 that matters is the revolution. So they will tell gigantic, 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.240 verifiable lies to your face and repeat them over and 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:58.200 over and over again without the slightest moral hesitation, because 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:02.239 their morality doesn't in any way the morality of human beings. 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.600 Here is Jasmine Crockett keep in mind, as she reads 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:11.200 this list aloud, the Jeffrey Epstein's she's discussing, none of 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.479 them are the Jeffrey Epstein. They all just share the 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.920 same name. So it's just a gigantic life. 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:22.240 Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein, 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:26.040 as I had my team digg in very quickly, Mett Romney, 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:34.719 the NRCC, Lee Zelden, George bush Win, read McCain, Palin, 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.880 Rick Lazio. I just want to be clear. If this 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:40.920 is the standard that we gonna make, just know we're 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.480 gonna expose it all. And just know that the FEC 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.240 filings they are available for everybody to review. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.480 It's a lie. She knows it's a lie. She knows 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.520 your liberal and Peggy is dumb enough to believe the lie. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.880 So that's why they tell it big gigantic lies, outright lies, 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.039 verifiable lies, easily verifiable life. You knew it was a lie. 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.640 You paid attention to the news about eight hours ago. 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:04.520 Verifiable line. 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.960 All right, Why. 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:12.000 Did the vote to censure Stacey Plasket to punish her 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:12.880 for what she did? 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:17.840 Why did the vote fail? Well, it failed because. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:24.040 Because we have a problem in our midst Corey Mills 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:25.360 is a congressman from Florida. 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:26.560 You can do your own research. 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.720 It's he's got all kinds of controversies around him, not 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.400 not one, multiple multiple. It's it's ugly. The financial stuff. 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:40.800 It's just it's really really bad. And it failed because 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:46.440 Republican leadership cut a deal with Democrat leadership that essentially 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:52.920 went something like this, hey don't punish Stacey Plasket and 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:58.040 we won't punish Corey Mills. Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee, 0:07:58.280 --> 0:07:59.640 one of the good ones. No he's not the one 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:03.040 I was with. The audio is a little fuzzy, said this. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:04.520 He just exposed it all. 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.440 So it failed. And what they did was they cut 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:07.840 a deal. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.760 They cut a deal on another on an ethics barred 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:16.080 on a Republican and that's just wrong. If did everybody 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.640 own just stand on their own, if they were truly, 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:20.720 we don't care whose party. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.680 Tim Burchett exposed it. Anna Pauline A Luna, another one 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:25.400 of the good ones. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:27.280 She said it, and I was wondering if the Speaker 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.800 of the House of Representatives can explain why leadership on 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.200 both sides, both Democrat and Republican, are cutting back end 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.160 deals to cover up public corruption in the House of 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.000 Representatives from both Republican and Democrat members of Congress. 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.160 The General Lady has not stated a popular a proper 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.920 parliamentary inquiry very much, but I think. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.000 The American people know what happened. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:45.280 Tonight. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.520 Text I got this morning from one of the good ones, 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.240 one of the boy boy do we need him there? 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.600 Texts me, and he says right out three words. 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:00.880 I hate it. Here's a man I knew. He's not 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:01.560 the look. 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.199 He's not one of these where your emotions on your sleeves, 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:05.840 touchy feely guys. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:07.280 Oh that's four words. 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.839 Shut up, Chris, I went to community college. One of 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.400 those words can, but whatever, we don't need you counting numbers. 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:15.439 I hate it here, he. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:21.120 Says, we went back and forth. Hey, what's wrong? He 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.600 is there to drain the swamp, to save the country, 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:32.800 and to have our own GOP leadership torpedo. A vote 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.840 to censure an evil communists was about enough to have 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.720 him put in his retirement papers and not run for reelection. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.600 Spend my morning, well not my morning, spend probably twenty 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.880 minutes trying to talk him off the ledge. Think I 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.200 successfully did, but spent quite a while this morning trying 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:50.880 to talk him. 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:51.400 Off the ledge. 0:09:53.640 --> 0:10:01.280 Let's talk about Washington, DC, politics, life, America, good people 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.640 before we move on to so many other things. Let's talk, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.720 shall we? All the Epstein stuff got voted yesterday, released 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.360 the files, and then of course they came out already 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.200 and said, well, we have to redact some things for 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:19.400 national security reasons, which of course begs the question would 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.520 why would why would there be national security reasons for 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:28.240 Jeffrey Epstein's files? Anyway, setting outside, they failed to censure 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:33.040 Stacey Plasket, who was texting with Jeffrey Epstein during a 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:37.160 committee meeting. Democrats are knee deep involved in the Epstein stuff, 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.359 and they failed to center Stacey Plasket because Republican leadership 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.760 cut a deal with Democrat leadership. We'll protect our guy, 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.160 you protect your girl. We'll all work out well. And 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:51.760 the good ones are mad about it. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:53.280 And I was wondering if the Speaker of the House 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.120 of Representatives can explain why leadership on both sides, both 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.480 Democrat and Republican, are cutting back end deals to cover 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.600 up public corruption and the House of Reps presentatives from 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.640 both Republican and Democrat members of Congress. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.800 General Lady has not stated to popular a proper parliamentary 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:09.079 inquiry very much. 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:10.959 But I think the American people know what happened tonight. 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.040 They do, and this is the kind of thing that 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:20.319 doesn't just dishearten the good people in Washington, DC. You've 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.079 seen these moments before. If you've been paying attention for 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:27.480 long enough, so have I. You've had these moments, these 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:32.480 moments where you almost slump your shoulders and say, man, 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:39.600 screw this, it's not even worth it. I'm done with politics. 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.600 That screw them all. I'm not even voting anymore. But 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.720 if you've said things like this, I want you to 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:47.319 know something. 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:50.840 I have to I get it. 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:56.120 I have had multiple moments in my roughly twenty year 0:11:56.200 --> 0:12:00.679 involvement in politics where I have sumped my shoulders and said, 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:04.080 you know what, Man, screw this. I'm going to go 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.640 back to just watching football on the weekends and just 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.040 not ever turning on the news, and I'll just be 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.679 a dumb normy who doesn't participate in my country. I 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.640 don't care anymore. It's worthless that I want to do 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.520 an attempt to encourage you with something though. Before we 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.679 move on and we're going to talk about affordability and 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:24.880 the education system and everything else, we have all cond 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:25.680 of stuff to get to. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.319 I wanted to encourage you with. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:34.200 This that that is exactly what the evil, evil people 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:38.280 in this country want. In fact, lots of the time, 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:43.200 that's the purpose of it. Have you ever heard of 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:48.319 Tokyo Rose. Maybe you have, maybe you haven't. But Tokyo Rose, 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:53.640 she was a woman. She would come on over the air. 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:58.280 During World War II, our troops would be out on 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.120 ships in the Pacific, or occasionally, if you got your 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.440 hands on a radio, you'd be on land. Let's say 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.280 you're in Okinawa, you're in Guadalcanal. You're a marine, you're 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:14.160 a sailor. You've watched your friends die, You're going through hell, 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:20.000 and you're looking for any kind of an escape. You 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.360 can only smoke so many cigarettes, you can only talk 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.360 about so many girls and food and things like that. 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:30.920 Back home, you're always looking for an escape. And music. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:37.000 Music is one of those very powerful things. Music creates 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:42.240 feelings in people. I know you've experienced it, even if 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.480 you didn't necessarily know what was happening. If you listen 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.800 to music that's upbeat, you're going to get more upbeat 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.800 and feel good. If you listen to music that's sad, 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.840 everybody hurts, you're going to be more sad. Women will 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.480 do this. Ob does this. If you want to have 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.520 a good cry, if you're already sad, you turn on 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:00.560 sad music. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:01.520 And just wade into it. 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.120 Right, I do the opposite, but whatever to each his own. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:10.680 Music is powerful. It creates feelings in people. Japan understood 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:17.160 the power of not just music, of demoralization. So what 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:21.200 they did was this, They would put out music over 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.800 the airwaves. Japan did this music's coming out over the airwaves? 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:29.080 What kind of music? All the popular music of the day, 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.920 All the music back in the day, back in the 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.280 forties that the troops would be listening to if they 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.640 were at the drive in movie theater with their girlfriend 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.120 back home, that they'd. 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:40.280 Be listening to in a bar. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.280 That all the music that you would want to hear 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:47.160 if you're a nineteen twenty year old man. Japan grabbed 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:51.680 it and played it. But in between the music, in 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.600 between the music, Tokyo Rose would come on the air 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:59.120 and she would say things like, hey, oh, you Marines 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.640 getting ready to en invade Okinawa tomorrow. I want you 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.200 to know you're all going to die. We've already made 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:10.120 plans to kill every one of you. Your mom back 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.680 home is going to get a letter over and over 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:19.640 and over and over and over again. Why well, to 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:26.120 demoralize the other side is more powerful than you can imagine. 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:31.720 And evil people know it, and evil people will use 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:35.640 it to their advantage. Don't let them get you down, 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:41.360 even on bad nights where you find out corrupt GOP 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:46.200 leadership cut a corrupt deal with Democrat leadership. So a 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:51.080 corrupt GOP congressman and a corrupt Democrat congresswoman would not 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:55.080 find themselves in serious trouble, even on days like that, 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.360 when your shoulders slump over and you say, screw this, 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:02.440 I'm watching the game and I'm out of politics. Take 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.000 a day if you need it, take a breath, eat 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:10.400 a pizza, then get back on your horse. Don't let 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.640 don't let them get you down. It's verbatim what I 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:17.360 told that congressman who was ready to retire this morning. 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:23.000 Don't let the bad guys demoralize you. It is the 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:28.240 Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful Wednesday. I'll hobday so 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.960 before we get to the affordability stuff in the news 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:35.120 and things like that. So I'm doing a little self experiment. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.400 I teased it before the show, and Jewish producer Chris 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.600 was really mad that I wouldn't expand. So I'm gonna 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.000 go ahead and tell you, Chris. At the same time, 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.360 I'm telling all of the United States of America. Even 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.360 though I'm warning you right now this is the dumbest, 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:54.040 most pointless thing in the world. It fascinates me. The 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.400 human mind fascinates me. What makes people tick? Doesn't it 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.640 fascinate you? Not just that people do? 0:16:59.760 --> 0:16:59.920 Think? 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.000 Why do they do things? What drives people to do things? 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.760 And we've had to talk before about a candy dish. 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:12.320 It secretary has a candy dish there, and we've joked 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:16.360 about it's always the three Musketeers left because it sucks. 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:20.600 And people will tell you it doesn't suck, but it 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:25.199 doesn't lie. The candy dish doesn't lie. When people have options, 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:30.880 they don't choose three Musketeers. I I know we're about 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:32.880 to talk about affordability, so I don't want to rub 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.920 my wealth in anyone's face. But I don't just have 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:42.040 one highlighter here at the studio. We buy the five 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:48.160 pack of highlighters here, five different colors. In case you're 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.480 curious what I do with them. I try to make 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:55.360 connections in my mind between stories and audio and things 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:57.439 like that, So I highlight things just so what pops 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.760 into my head. Trying to do a better show anyway, 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:06.280 Wealthy five pack of highlighters. The first time we got 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:10.960 a five pack of highlighters, the yellow ran out right away. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:16.040 Why I'm used to yellow highlighters. It was always the 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.080 one I grabbed first. Whatever the biggest thing was, the 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.880 thing I had to highlight the most, I went yellow. 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:28.040 Now I've moved on. Now, in an effort to save money, 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:33.520 I'm trying to evenly distribute my highlighter usage. But I 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:37.399 don't track it. I just try to grab a different 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.919 one for a different story or a different topic. I 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.159 have a pink one, a green one, a yellow one, 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.199 a blue one, and an orange one in front of me. 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.320 If you're watching, Yes, that's a chalk bottle that I 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:53.480 keep them in. Which one's going to run out first? 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:58.399 I don't know, Chris says yellow. Still, I don't know. 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:04.960 And what does it say about my mind if one 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:08.440 has a bunch left and the other one runs out first. 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:13.160 Maybe nothing. Maybe there's some psychiatrist nerd listening who will 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.520 understand there's some meaning behind it. But one's gonna run 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.320 out first, Chris, And I'm gonna be curious as to 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:24.360 why what, Chris, I was right that this was stupid. 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.960 I warned you it was stupid. Okay, I warned you 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.439 that it was stupid. I can't help myself. I have 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.600 stupid things that run through my head. Let's talk about 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:36.600 something horrible, then, Chris, we'll talk about something important and horrible. Look, no, no, 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.120 you did it. You don't want to talk about stupid. 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:43.560 Then let's talk about real stuff. How about this one Marist? Now, 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:47.119 Marist is a polling company I should clarify, and a 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:47.680 bad one. 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.520 I want to make sure I'm clear about this, A 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:51.960 bad one. 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:56.240 Don't do the extremely dumbed down thing we do on 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.160 the right. And every time there's a poll you see 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.840 that you don't like, say all the polls lie. We 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:03.880 do that every time. And then when we see when 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.160 we like, say oh that's a good pollster. No, there 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.480 are good pollsters and there are bad posters. Depending on 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.480 the methodology, how many people are pull the questions they asked? 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:18.200 Who you actually asked? What percentage of Republicans, what percentage 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.440 of Democrats? There are good pollsters, there are bad posters, 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:26.240 and there are sometimes really reputable good pollsters who have 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:28.040 polls that don't make us. 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.800 Feel very good because we're not doing very good. 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:35.600 I know where you stand politically, and you obviously know 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.840 where I stand politically. We have to get past that 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:41.600 and figure out what's going to win or lose elections. 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:45.040 So again, back to this poster. Who's a bad poster? 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.359 I want to clarify they legitimate. Marist is legitimately not 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:53.760 a great poster. But they ran a poll on something 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:58.200 called the generic ballot. Now that is something maybe you've 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:00.080 heard of before. Let me pause because I want to 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.439 explain what that actually means. A generic ballot. What in 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:08.639 the world is a generic ballot? You call somebody someone 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:12.199 actually answers and chooses to answer your questions, and you 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:17.960 simply say, hey, who do you trust more on the economy, 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.480 the border, or if you want to go super generic 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:25.000 with the generic ballot, you say, who are you going 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:28.800 to vote for in the midterms? Which party do you 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:34.240 like more? Way generic Marist Again, admittedly a bad polster 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:39.520 just did one. They have Democrats up fourteen points in 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:44.960 the generic ballot. Stop for a second. You are correct 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:51.760 that that's a bad polster. Even a bad polster is 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:56.159 probably not off that far. But let's let's let's build 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:59.800 in for the fact that Marist sucks. You know what, 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:02.480 it's way builded in. Let's cut that number in half. 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:07.200 Let's say seven points. That's a lot. 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:09.720 All right, that's a lot. 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:19.280 Why why are we looking at an ugly midterm? Have 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:26.280 you bought berger lately? Have you bought anything? I look, 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:31.000 here's here's a story. It's not it's not huge, but 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:35.760 Fox business hidden cost of home ownership jumps, tightening the 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:40.439 squeeze on buyers. Now what hidden costs? Well, there are 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:42.920 all kinds of costs that come with owning a home, 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:45.400 but I have one that's near and dear to my heart. 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:47.359 In fact, we got an email someone else just went 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:51.080 through the same thing our AC went out. And I'm 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:54.360 sure this is a complete coincidence. Our AC went out. 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:58.119 This is last summer, about five minutes after the warranty expired. 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:01.679 So too bad, so said, you have to buy an 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:07.080 entirely new air conditioning system for the house. The last 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:10.160 air conditioning system I had to buy in my life 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:12.880 was years and years and years ago. I admit that 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:16.480 years ago. And I don't remember the sizes and brands. 0:23:16.520 --> 0:23:18.640 I know there were different ones, but it was four 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:23.080 thousand dollars. That's a lot of money. This film was 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:28.280 nine when he gave me the price. Of course, I 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:32.600 tried to remain calm. I said, I'm going to get 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:35.919 another opinion, and I did. Actually, I got two other opinions, 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:42.440 and they were all roughly the same. Life is expensive now, 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:45.199 very very expensive. 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:45.400 Now. 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:49.879 Now I didn't get that that nine thousand dollars bill 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:55.119 and say that's ridiculous. I'm voting for Democrats. But of 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:56.720 course I would never do that, and you would never 0:23:56.720 --> 0:23:58.679 do that. I'm not saying that. I'm not putting that 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:01.639 on you at all. You're not an You understand there 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:03.920 are all kinds of things that go behind that. I 0:24:04.520 --> 0:24:06.760 know you get it, then I get it. It would 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:08.679 never occur to me. I was mad for a variety 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:10.880