1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Good morning. 2 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:01,560 Speaker 2: Down on me. 3 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 1: I've met my grandpa's house in Miomi, at my grand 4 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: grand grandpa's house in Wyoming. Correct, Okay, well, good gragon. 5 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: We got mail. We're going to talk about the the 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:24,280 Speaker 1: the shut down, how it ended at two thirty Eastern 7 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: time this morning. But before we get to that, we 8 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 1: got mail. Uh Mike Michael. 9 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 3: Michael, Yes, thank you so much for that, Michael Michael. 10 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: Parentheses, Headmaster, Goober in charge parentheses, acronym hmgic close parentheses 11 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: and dragon redbeard close parentheses Again. Walking through dollar Tree 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: the other day, I came across these, and of course 13 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: I could not not buy them. A little double negative 14 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: there from one goober to two others. I you enjoy them. 15 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: Thanks for keeping us Guober's laughing, thinking and tuning in. 16 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: Signed David Guber number six month two five. 17 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 3: So well, don't leave us in suspense. 18 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: David sent us two boxes of peanut covered tampax or 19 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: chocolate covered tam tax peanuts or something gooers, Goobers, milk, chocolate, 20 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: dry roasted peanuts. No artificial flavors or colors. That's good. 21 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 1: Let's see what the sugar content is all of it. 22 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: Let's see serving size three tablespoons. I don't know if 23 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: that would be because I know I don't have any 24 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 1: but d in a tablespoon? How carefully you could pile 25 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 1: a tablespoon. 26 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 3: I'm sure there's a weight on there. 27 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see amount preserving one hundred and eighty cawlories. 28 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: There are Oh, there's some fiber in here, one gram 29 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: of fiber. 30 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 3: Well, that's the peanut, I think you think. 31 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: So you probably wonder if is it a smooth peanut 32 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: or crunchy peanut? Do you think? 33 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 4: Oh, come on, they're actual peanuts. I got a stupid question, 34 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 4: is that? 35 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 3: Michael? 36 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: The same stupid question was brought up yesterday about whether 37 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: it's creamy or crunchy peanut? 38 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 3: Butter crunchy? 39 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: So wrong? Total total sugars fourteen, including thirteen grams of 40 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: added sugars twenty six more than a quarter percent twenty 41 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 1: six percent sugar. But that's all right, we don't care, 42 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: and the boxes are sealed. However, David the Goober also 43 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: included his receipts. Oh, so now we know what let 44 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 1: me know the cost. So now we can compare the 45 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: cost of two boxes of goobers shipped, the cost of 46 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 1: the shipping and the time of the shipping and the time. 47 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: I assume you found these out on the desk this morning, correct? Yeah, okay, 48 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: so so you must have come in last night, sure, 49 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: because nobody picks up the bail at six o'clock in 50 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: the morning, so they must have come in last night. 51 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: But let's see on what day? Is this on March eleven? 52 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: And they were mailed on March eleven, which means they 53 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: were delivered on March twenty. 54 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 4: Six maybe, and if they could have been sitting in 55 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 4: the mail room for whoever knows how long. 56 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 1: True, but they were delivered to us correct two weeks later, correct, 57 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: fifteen days later. By the way, the expiration date on 58 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 1: these I checked that also, uh, nine August twenty twenty six, 59 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: so we got some time. 60 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:27,359 Speaker 3: Oh beautiful. 61 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: Now. Gina asked if I was going to eat these, 62 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: and I said, well, of course, I'm gonna eat they. 63 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: Saying that somebody sends me. 64 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 3: A listener food. 65 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: A listener food not gonna happen. 66 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 3: It is sealed. It is sealed. That's kind of a bit. 67 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: I can't find any I'd have to get the magnifying 68 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: glass out because you might my stibidizing see squat today. 69 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 4: I haven't held them yet. Are they I guess I 70 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 4: can see that they're in the box. But is there 71 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 4: that celefane plastic wrap? 72 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: No, but the box itself is sealed on the end. Oh, 73 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: and I don't see any puncture holes anywhere, so they're 74 00:03:57,640 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: probably you know, they'll probably say, and by the way, 75 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: anybody would anybody would send us a where did it go? 76 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: They would send us a card that says, Mike or Michael, 77 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,839 Speaker 1: you know they got to beat they got I don't 78 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: think their assassins. And then I also think they're probably 79 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: trustworthy based on what they bought. So they're two separate receipts. 80 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: I don't know why. Two separate receipts. Oh wait a minute, 81 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Oh, two separate receipts. So he's been 82 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 1: holding one of these. So have ay receipt here for 83 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: two twenty five twenty six. February twenty five, twenty six, 84 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: and there was a box of Goober's theater box three 85 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: point five to something. And I maybe I don't know 86 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: what if that means quantity won at a dollar twenty 87 00:04:54,120 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: five on February twenty five. So now I'm becoming I'm 88 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: becoming suspect. You bought one box on February twenty five, 89 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: then you bought another box on March eleven. 90 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 4: Well, you see, they were all sold out, so he 91 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 4: grabbed the last one and then had to go. 92 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: Were always trying to rationalize everything in life, aren't you? 93 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 4: Because they didn't want to just get goobers for me. 94 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 4: They wanted to get some googers for you too. 95 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: So let's go back to the February twenty five. We 96 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: bought a kitchen tools mini silicone all right, uh Wiley Wallaby, 97 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: black licorice, the Goober's theater box, smoked Gouda shells and cheese. 98 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: Uh something, Oh a Mazda Tostada spray bottle with triggers. 99 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: And he paid four cents for a bag fee? Oh man, 100 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: oh bag fe four cents. Reason customer brought bag. 101 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 4: Wait wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, 102 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 4: this is not cool. 103 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:12,799 Speaker 3: You brought there? 104 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: You reading for the receipt. Bag fee four cents total zero. Reason. 105 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: Customer brought bag. Blow that hang on, don't don't quit 106 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,359 Speaker 1: interrupting me. Shut it, let me start over again. Bag 107 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:36,919 Speaker 1: fee quantity zero price four cents total zero reason. Customer 108 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: brought bag directly blow that bag tax six cents, zero 109 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 1: charge reason customer brought bag. So we're breaking out the 110 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: bag the ten cent bag fee between a bag fee 111 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: and a bag tax. I hate this state. 112 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 3: Wait wait, wait, did we vote on a tax? 113 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 1: I never remember voting. Maybe we did, I don't remember. 114 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:06,479 Speaker 1: I know that if we did, I voted. 115 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 4: No because that's why they called it a fee because 116 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 4: they were going to get around the taxing for bags. 117 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 3: So it's fantastic. 118 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 4: But his time zero, So he didn't pay for any 119 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 4: of those things because he did bring in his bag. 120 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 3: Just list. 121 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: This is why lawyers pay attention to details. I just 122 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 1: glossed over these receipts earlier because I thought it would 123 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: be funny to you knows everything else he bought. And 124 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 1: so then I go through here. Now, bag fee four cents, 125 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: bag tax six cents. They actually accounted for it on 126 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: the receipt and with so so what I don't understand 127 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: why you would even put that into the point of 128 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: sale device machine. 129 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 4: Probably because they have to do something on their back 130 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 4: end that separates out the fee from the tax. 131 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: But he didn't. 132 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 4: But he was never charged, but if he was, it 133 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 4: would still it would be there. 134 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: So some if it was, it be there. He did not, 135 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: because it says reason that there's a zero charge is 136 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: that he brought his own bag. 137 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 4: Because the clerk had to type in something in order 138 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 4: so that they didn't put in a See. 139 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: Okay, so let's think about the absurdity of that, because 140 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: that means that now this is how intrusive the freaking 141 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: government is in this state. You have to so I 142 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,119 Speaker 1: So you're telling me if I go to the Dollar 143 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: Tree at seventy five to ten South Guartral Road, that's 144 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 1: over on Southland somewhere, isn't it Dartreil, isn't Gartreil over on? Yeah, 145 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: it's way over there somewhere. Uh. So you're telling me 146 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: that the state of Colorado is now requiring or maybe 147 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: this is just their own internal auditing. But still you 148 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: bring your own bag. They still have to put into 149 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: the pos that there's a bag fee of four sins. 150 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: We're blocking a charge of that because and the reason 151 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:55,559 Speaker 1: it's put in a reason customer brought bag and then 152 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: the bag tax six scinths. We don't charge that. You 153 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: have to put in a reason because the customer brought back. 154 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 1: Now I know that you're now when you're scanning. You know, 155 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: you're just scanning the UPC codes, right, but now you 156 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: it is there, you have to put something. You have 157 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: to do manually, something to indicate that there's no bag 158 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: fee or tax on this transaction because the customer brought 159 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: their own bag. If the customer brought their own bag, 160 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: whe'd you have to count for anything. This is an 161 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: extra staff that that clerk had to take to account 162 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: for zero revenue or zero tax or fee. God, I 163 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: really do hate the people health to Colorado State Capital. 164 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 4: That might be a business management decision for that one 165 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 4: that they have to pay. 166 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,559 Speaker 1: What are you doing? You're trying to rationalize? 167 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 4: Well, as a family of business owners, Yes, I can 168 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 4: I can see as to why that would need to 169 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 4: be that that on every transaction you need to show 170 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 4: whether or not they brought in bags or not, so 171 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 4: that they would have to put in something whether or 172 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 4: not they brought in their own bags, so they had 173 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 4: put in zero bags and then the computer does the 174 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 4: line items itself, or they did yes bags and the 175 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 4: computer still does the lineup. 176 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: And to my point, why are they having to do 177 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: that because the State of Colorado is requiring them on 178 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: every single transaction to account for why or why not 179 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: a bag fee and a bag tax were not collected. Yes, 180 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,719 Speaker 1: I renew my objection. I despise the people of the 181 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 1: Colorado Polup Bureau. Now, so he spent the dollar twenty five. 182 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: So he spent two dollars and fifty cents to buy 183 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: these two boxes of goobers. And whatever the card costs 184 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: you supposed to each paid. Oh boy, you would take 185 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,199 Speaker 1: a while. Guess I believe I saw it. 186 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 2: Saw it? 187 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, eight dollars eighty five cents. 188 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 3: As I said, it's higher than what you think you did. 189 00:10:53,240 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 1: Eight dollars five cents to send. I Gene's gonna think 190 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: I'm crazy, but I will. I'll study the box. You know, 191 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 1: come on, we If you can't trust to googer, whom 192 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: the hell can you trust? And he puts the receipts 193 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 1: in to show that, you know, he didn't cheat on 194 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:14,599 Speaker 1: the he didn't do like you and just use a 195 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 1: bag and walk out. You know, I choose I choose 196 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: no bags. You know, he actually said I brought my 197 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: own bag. He's a good citizen. Of course, he's a 198 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 1: good citizen because he listened to this program. And by 199 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 1: the way, he bought two of them. He didn't buy 200 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: one just for me, he bought he bought an extra 201 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: one for you. 202 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 3: If he didn't buy one just for me, and he 203 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 3: bought an extra one for you. 204 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:39,679 Speaker 1: Then we get two postcards addressed to both of us, 205 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: M Brown and d Redbeard. 206 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 4: Well, real quick, real quick, I'm sorry, I just I 207 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 4: just perused over to the text line three three one 208 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 4: all yes Mike or Michael when you texted, and this 209 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 4: are the keywords girl imposter, ha ha ha o g 210 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 4: girl dad. 211 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 3: Oh really that wasn't a girl a girl dad? 212 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: So someone's using a little ai to fake who could 213 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: just be a real little child there. Yeah, it could 214 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: be anybody else. Whoever that was. Thanks for listening, and 215 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy your time with your grandfather. 216 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 4: And stop torturing your children that you're listening to this show. 217 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 3: Okay, now we continue with. 218 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 1: Okay, Well, thank you mister producer for allowing me to continue. 219 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 3: Your name's on the show time as we'll do something here. 220 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: Uh that's the mb M b W BW what mb 221 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:43,079 Speaker 1: and BW, b W b W or b W twenty 222 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:48,080 Speaker 1: seven February twenty six. Where's the other one? Fourteen oh, 223 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,719 Speaker 1: this other one was fourteen March. I don't know from 224 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: the same people. 225 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 4: Sorry, and I have to go back one more to 226 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 4: the text line. It just came through Mike. It's three 227 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 4: three one three three zero three one oh three Mike 228 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 4: or Michael or Michael or Michael the keywords over there 229 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:07,839 Speaker 4: Mike justin f YI. According to USPS, they were delivered 230 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 4: two weeks ago Friday. I take I take a dragon's explanation. 231 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 4: I didn't want to just send one box. Uh wait, 232 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 4: I paid the bag fee. No, no, you didn't pay it. 233 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,679 Speaker 1: They didn't pay a bag Feeah yeah, they they charged 234 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: itemized it out but you were You did not were charged. 235 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:32,439 Speaker 1: And the reason was because you brought your own bag, 236 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 1: because you're a good citizen. I'm pissed off because the company, 237 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:42,079 Speaker 1: the Dollar Tree, was required to account for a bag 238 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: fee and a bag tax that you did not pay 239 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:49,719 Speaker 1: because you brought your own bag. It's just it's surreal, absurd. 240 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: It's like if those a holes out there, as a 241 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 1: pollp buer understood the cost to a small I know 242 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 1: Dollar Tree is a giant chain. I told get that, 243 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: but think about that clerk having to input that information 244 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: because somewhere in corporate they have to account for that 245 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: kind of bull crap. I mean, it's totally absurd. But 246 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 1: can I get to the postcards? I suppose so MB 247 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 1: and BW. I have no idea who BW is Dragon 248 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: Red Beer, b Bret. Oh, here you go. Now you 249 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: got it, finally got it, finally got it finally. 250 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 3: As you look. 251 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: I know it takes me a little while, but I 252 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: finally got it. There just a lawyer. For some reason, 253 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: this something ohs this made me think of the punch 254 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: the monkey host. He sounds like the little girl. He 255 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 1: sounded like when he saw a roach. If you give 256 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 1: out your address more often, you may get more uh brought. Oh, 257 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 1: you may get more bought, but never sent postcards aka 258 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: roach man. The address for postcards is forty six ninety 259 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: five South Monaco, Denver, Colorado, eight O two three seven. 260 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: Might put Sweet four hundred or just put you know, 261 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: eight fifty k away, but street addresses forty six ninety 262 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: five South Monaco, Denver, Colorado, eight zero two three seven. 263 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: And it's a photo. I'm not quite sure if it 264 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: says on the back what it is Hell's Canyon on 265 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: the Snake River and there's some people down on the 266 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: river getting ready to do some floating down the river. 267 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 1: The other one comes to us. It's a bald eagle 268 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: and it comes from the not from but it's of 269 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 1: or a postcard. Academy Art and Frame Company, seventy five 270 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: sixty North Academy, Colorado Springs atle nine to two Ozero. 271 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: We haven't seen you in a while. We love to 272 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 1: help with your next framing projects. Will bring this card 273 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: in with your next visit. Received. I want to hold 274 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: this card is if I took it in because I 275 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 1: have a map that I've purchased that I need, but 276 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: I need I need archival framing on this map, which 277 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: is going to cost me in an arm and a leg, 278 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 1: and I'm not sure they probably do that. 279 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 3: Finally bought a map? You finally bought a map. 280 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: I bought a map that I would love to hang 281 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: in here, but it is it is fetus wall right here. 282 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 1: The map that I purchased is seven seven feet wide? 283 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: What and maybe six feet tall? 284 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 2: What? 285 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: Yes? 286 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 3: I bought Ain't nobody gonna let you put that up 287 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 3: in here? 288 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: I bought a I casually mentioned, I let me tell 289 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: you this. I'll tell the story you look quickly on 290 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: the other side, and then we wait. Then I want 291 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: to get to well, it's Friday, I really care what. 292 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: I don't really care what. We get to leave it 293 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 1: to Mike or Michael to waste twenty five minutes of 294 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: my morning talking about somebody's grocery receipt. Wow, you learned something. 295 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: You learn that we have a bag fee and a 296 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: bag tax, and even if you bring your own bag, 297 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: at least at the Dollar Tree store, they still have 298 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 1: to account for the fact that you brought your own 299 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: freaking bag. Unbelievable. I there are not enough ways for 300 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 1: me to despise the people at the Colorado Polup Bureau, 301 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 1: Jared Polis, all of them Democrats, a pox on all 302 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,199 Speaker 1: of you speaking of it. So let's let's get to 303 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: let's get to the shutdown. So I you know, I 304 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: go to bed usual time last night, and I wake 305 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,959 Speaker 1: up this morning. The first thing I hear is all 306 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: the Republicans have they've completely caved. Well, let me tell 307 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,640 Speaker 1: you the set up that nobody's telling you completely. It's 308 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,119 Speaker 1: not all good news. Don't think I'm gonna sit here 309 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:47,680 Speaker 1: and cover for the Republicans, because that ain't happening. This 310 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: is not just a shutdown story. It's a forty two 311 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: day standoff rooted in a specific triggering event. It was 312 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 1: precipitated by the fatal shootings of two protests, Renee Good 313 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: and Alex Pretty by ice officers in Minneapolis way back 314 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: in January. That became the Democrats political hill to die on. 315 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,680 Speaker 1: No more eyes funding without some sort of reform guardrails. 316 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: You have to understand that context or you're going to 317 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: misread every move that followed after that. TSA absences reached 318 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: forty percent at some airports, and more than four hundred 319 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 1: and eighty TSA officers agents quit during the shutdown. That's 320 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: not a rounding error. That's a structural workforce bleed, and 321 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 1: that is going to take the look. You're not going 322 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 1: to wake up today and find out that, oh, the 323 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: airports are back to normal. It's going to take months 324 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 1: to reverse even after you know, finding resumes and getting 325 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: people trained and getting them back into the into the workforce. 326 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: So the spring break timing made it a nightly news 327 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,640 Speaker 1: visual gift for the Democrats. All those airport lines furious 328 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: travelers missed flights. Why did it You would think that 329 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,879 Speaker 1: those lines would make that a horrible noose around the 330 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: neck of the Democrats. But it did not, and why 331 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:15,360 Speaker 1: because the cabal made sure that when they showed that, 332 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 1: they talked about how the Democrats were trying to get 333 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 1: reform of ICE because Ice agstic, because they're the stoppo. Right, 334 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 1: So who won this? Here's the here's what I think 335 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 1: is the honest scorecard. Let's talk about the Democrats spend first, 336 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: and why it's mostly noise. Schumer apparently went to the 337 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: floor immediately in declared victory, calling Ice a rogue and 338 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:43,159 Speaker 1: deadly militia. That's pretty classy, isn't it, and then claiming 339 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: Democrats held the line. Now, he's not entirely wrong on 340 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:51,640 Speaker 1: the optics. The Democrats did block ICE funding. They can 341 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,880 Speaker 1: run that clip now in every twenty twenty six mid 342 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: term political ad. But here's where Schumer convenely left the out. 343 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 1: What got passed does not include any of the demands 344 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 1: that the Democrats made trying to limit the tactics of ICE. 345 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 1: There are no warrant requirements, there's no mask prohibition for 346 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,919 Speaker 1: ICE agents, there's no policy concession whatsoever. They got a 347 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 1: funding split, they did not get a policy win. So 348 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: that's the Democrat the Republican position, and I think it's 349 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: actually a little unlittled, not much, but a little more 350 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: defensible than it looks. Republicans had already remembered they had 351 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: already pre funded immigration enforcement through the OBBBA, the One 352 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: Big Beautiful Bill, because they anticipated this fight. Thune said. 353 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 1: The good news is we anticipated this a year ago. Now. 354 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: As much as I despise John fun, that's not spend 355 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 1: that strategy. ICE did not go dark. Ice never went dark, 356 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: But unlike the TSA officer, ICE agents continue to get 357 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 1: their paychecks during the shutdown as a result of about 358 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,160 Speaker 1: seventy five billion dollars provided by the One Big Beautiful Bill, 359 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:17,679 Speaker 1: the enforcement mission of ICE never stopped. In addition to that, 360 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: Republicans are looking to fund ICE through the party line 361 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: budget reconciliation process, meaning fifty one votes, no filibuster, no 362 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:30,680 Speaker 1: Democrat leverage. Democrats burn their only hostage, and they failed 363 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: to collect any ransom for it. But there are some 364 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 1: real vulnerabilities, and this is where it gets problematic. Republicans 365 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: have an actual problem because the reconciliation path for ICE 366 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:48,359 Speaker 1: funding is going to get messy. Reconciliation but it simply 367 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: is a procedural, legislative vehicle, and it has very strict rules. 368 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: You can't just stuff anything into it that you want to. Now, 369 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: if the Senate Parliamentarian rules that ICE operational funding doesn't 370 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 1: qualify under the Bird rule, which is reconciliation, then Republicans 371 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: are going to be back at the table and they 372 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,920 Speaker 1: won't have any leverage, and the Democrats are going to 373 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: feel emboldened. You're going to watch that space very very carefully. 374 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: Democrats have an actual problem. They established a precedent that 375 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:25,359 Speaker 1: they will hold security agencies, ICE TSA, anybody has anything 376 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 1: to do with security of this nation, they will hold 377 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: them hostage to extract policy concessions from law enforcement. Now 378 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: that may sound great if you're sitting in a Senate 379 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:41,199 Speaker 1: Democrat caucus meeting, it works terribly in a general election 380 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: swing district, say in Pennsylvania or Michigan, assuming that Republicans 381 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 1: are smart enough to draw that comparison. The shutdown lasted 382 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: forty two days. Is left airports across the country is 383 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: staffing shortages. Voters in those airports do not care about 384 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: the meaning Apple is shooting when they're missing a connecting 385 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: flight or their luggage is in Atlanta, or the kids 386 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 1: can't get off the spring break, or they don't know 387 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: where they hell the kids are. And there's a wrinkle 388 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,440 Speaker 1: that nobody is talking about, or at least maybe they are, 389 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 1: but they weren't by the time I got into the studio. 390 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: It's not done now because of how this passed in 391 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: the Senate, the measure now has to go back to 392 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: the House and it faces future and uncertain future in 393 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 1: the House. Now. Speaker Johnson has already come out and 394 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 1: said that this is shameful to fail to fund the 395 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: agency as a whole. Well, recall, the Speaker has a 396 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 1: razor within majority, and he has a right flank that 397 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:50,119 Speaker 1: will view any deal that excludes ICE as a capitulation. 398 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: For example, with the House Freedom Caucus members torpedo. This 399 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 1: everything goes back to square one, except now the Senate 400 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: has already moved and now Shift will blame back, the 401 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: Shift blamee will move back to the House Republicans, and 402 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: now you're going to have an intra party Republican civil 403 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: war that I don't think anybody in the Republican Party 404 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:14,159 Speaker 1: wants to have on camera during spring break. This is 405 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: utter insanity. The way we do business in this country. 406 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 1: And again, I'm not a guy that sits here and 407 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: in clamors for bipartisanship. If the principle is correct, stand 408 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 1: on the principle. But here's where I still I can't 409 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: move forward without saying this about John Thune. Could have 410 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 1: been inflated because what are we talking about today? We're 411 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 1: talking about funding of ice. What does this have to 412 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 1: do with the Save Act? Not a damn thing. 413 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:46,120 Speaker 3: Nothing. 414 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:51,439 Speaker 1: That's still sitting there as another nuclear bomb ready to 415 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:56,919 Speaker 1: go off. Now let's get to the Trump factory. Trump 416 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 1: announced on truth Social that he was directing his newly 417 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 1: a Homeland Security Secretary, Mark Wayne Mullen, that which comedian 418 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 1: was it? I forget which commedy made a joke about 419 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 1: Mark Wayne Mullen being a plumber? Oh made? Oh, now 420 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,640 Speaker 1: we have a plumber running, you know, domestic national security issues. 421 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: He doesn't understand that the reason Mark Wayne Mullen is 422 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 1: a plumber is because his father was a plumber got ill. 423 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 1: The business was flailing, if not failing, Mark Wayne Mullen 424 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 1: steps it in, steps in, takes it over, and builds 425 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 1: it into the largest plumbing business in the entire state 426 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 1: of Oklahoma. In addition, to all the other businesses that 427 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 1: he has. He is an incredibly successful businessman. And I 428 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 1: find it absolutely absurd and indspicable that Jimmy Kimmel or 429 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: whoever it was, he's just a plumber. Really, that plumber 430 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 1: has more skills and abilities than you do, mister comedian. 431 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 1: And it's rig time. 432 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 3: Good morning, Michael and Dragon Dragon. 433 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 2: I just want you to know that crunchy peanut butter 434 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:17,360 Speaker 2: is a processed food which has not been wholly processed, 435 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:22,479 Speaker 2: and which is sold as a novelty to rubes. It 436 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 2: might also qualify as a whole food since it is 437 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 2: not wholly processed. I'm not sure about that. 438 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 4: But it is by far the superior food because it's delicious. 439 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 1: Crunchy peanut butter tastes just like peanut butter because it's 440 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 1: nothing but peanuts and peanut butter. I think the only 441 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 1: reason you differentiate between the two is the texture. It's 442 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 1: the texture that you're attracted to, not the actual but 443 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: you get the same you we just are focused on 444 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 1: the texture, not the flavor. 445 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 4: You want a Snickers bar without peanuts in there, that's 446 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 4: not a Snickers. 447 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: Bars, a Snickers bar on it, that's not a payday 448 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,680 Speaker 1: sometimes you're just the dumbest dumb ass I think I've 449 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 1: ever met. 450 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 3: You want a box of goobers with no peanuts? 451 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,159 Speaker 1: Come on, it wouldn't be goobers. It just be chocolate, 452 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,199 Speaker 1: little chocolate mints or something. I don't know what it 453 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: would be. They wouldn't call them goobers. Holy cow Trump 454 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,879 Speaker 1: the Trump factor. So Trump announced on truth Social that 455 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 1: he was going to direct Homeland Security Secretary Mullen to 456 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 1: quote immediately pay our TSA agents in order to address 457 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 1: this emergency situation. Now, the sequence is what matters. Trump 458 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: moved first. Now, we could argue all day long about 459 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 1: whether he has the authority of the president to order 460 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: the Secretary of Homeland Security to pay the TSA agents 461 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 1: with an appropriate congressional authorization and appropriation. Now that they 462 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 1: have the Office of Management budget has the ability to 463 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: move money around once it's been appropriated to DHS. They 464 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: can move money around within DHS. So he may have 465 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 1: been able to do that, but I don't care. I'm 466 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,360 Speaker 1: not going to dig into it. But it's the sequence. 467 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: It's the order that matters. Trump moved first, and then 468 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 1: the Senate just several hours later made their vote that 469 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:34,679 Speaker 1: gives Trump the ability to claim that he saw the 470 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: airport crisis without owning the ICE funding gap, for Trump 471 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: is a clean exit from the visual even if the 472 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 1: policy architecture is still unresolved. You've got to give him 473 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: credit for that. Now, whether that was planned or accidental, 474 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't care, but the optics of 475 00:28:55,880 --> 00:29:01,160 Speaker 1: it puts him squarely as yeah, touchdown for me, screw you, guys. 476 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 1: So the bottom line is, is really this the news. 477 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 1: There's several newsletters out there floating around the you know, 478 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 1: the Morning punch Bowl and others framing this as a wash. 479 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,719 Speaker 1: Well that's largely correct, but it under sells the Republican 480 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 1: structural advantage. The Democrats got the optings. They can say 481 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: they refuse to fund Trump's deportation force, that militia. Republicans 482 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 1: got the substance. ICE never stopped operating, enforcement continues unterrupted, 483 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 1: and the path to full funding requires zero Democrat votes. 484 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: Now that's a big ass assumption, because when I say 485 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: the full funding for ICE requires zero Democrat votes, makes 486 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 1: a an assumption. And what happens when you when you 487 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: make an assumption, when you assume, you make an ass 488 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: out of you. And that assumption is that the parliamentarian 489 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 1: will approve reconciliation with ICE funding. Since it's operational, I 490 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: think the likelihood is there's at least an even chance 491 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: that it will meet the reconciliation requirements under the Bird rule. 492 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 1: So the shutdown is ending on Republican terms, but dressed 493 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 1: up in Democrat press releases. Now here's the tell, here's 494 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 1: what you really ought to pay attention to. As most 495 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 1: of these inside the beltwagh newsletters and papers. I haven't 496 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 1: checked today's Washington Post, but I've looked at Politico, I've 497 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: looked at punch Bowl. I've looked at all of them 498 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 1: this morning. Neither shut neither Schumer nor Thune, neither one 499 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 1: spiking the football when both sides claim victory, but no 500 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: one's celebrating what that says. What that is in DC terms, 501 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 1: nobody got what they really wanted, and everybody's hoping that 502 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: the base meaning Republicans for the Republicans and the Democrat 503 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: voters from the Democrats that they don't really read the 504 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 1: fine print. So we spent forty two days and we 505 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 1: actually moved the football where or since we're in baseball season, 506 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: we don't even get a base hit. We pretty much 507 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: got the status quo. It's just that now TSA is 508 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 1: getting paid and they have now weaponized out. Now you 509 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: can have two thoughts. I've got two conflicting thoughts in 510 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 1: my head. I've explained that we don't need TSA. We 511 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: can get rid of TSA, and we can go to 512 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: and we can have we can have private security at 513 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 1: the airports, which I think would be much more efficient, 514 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: much more effective. We already have clear and Congress has 515 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 1: already allowed that, and Congress could mandate that. But I 516 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 1: don't think that we should weaponize people that I think 517 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 1: are ineffective, that are there for a security reason. I 518 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 1: don't think Democrats should have done that. I think that's 519 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 1: horrific and that leads to really bad results down the road. 520 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: But nobody cares about that. Now. One last thing about 521 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 1: the bags. I can't let go of the bags because 522 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 1: we have a text message five nine one six rites Michaely. 523 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 1: In fairness, it was school children in Colorado and around 524 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 1: the country that wanted to ban plastic bags to save 525 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 1: the environment. You on. My response to that is who 526 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,720 Speaker 1: gives the rats ass? I don't care what the children want. 527 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 1: The children don't vote and children are not in charge. 528 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: They don't get to make those decisions. Whether we're going 529 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 1: to have a bag tax, or we're gonna ban plastic 530 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,200 Speaker 1: bags or not. That's a decision to have for adults 531 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 1: to make, not for a bunch of rug rats that 532 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 1: are being indoctrinated by a bunch of public school teachers 533 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 1: that the world's coming to an end because your parents 534 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 1: use plastic bags. Screw the children, that's my response.