1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: The Night Michael Brown joins me here the former FEMA 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: director talk. 3 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 2: Show host Michael Brown. 4 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job 5 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: the Weekend with Michael Brown. Hey broadcasting life from Denver, Colorado. 6 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: You've joined the Weekend with Michael Brown, and I'm really 7 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: glad that you've done that. Happy, happy to have you 8 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: joining the program today. You know that we have rules 9 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 1: of engagement. 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I want to talk out a little bit. 26 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: I talked about a little bit about this Friday on 27 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: the Weekday program, but I've since seen a story and 28 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: we've had a couple of sound bites come out about 29 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: the Nobel Peace Prize, and you know, there was anybody, 30 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: I come on, let's be honest, anybody who thinks that 31 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: they have accomplished something in the world of physics or chemistry, 32 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: or peace or anything else, and you get mentioned as 33 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: that it is human nature for people to think for themselves. 34 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: That would be really kind of cool. Yeah, I'd kind 35 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: of liket to that'd be I'd like to win that. 36 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: So you know that all the nominees for all these categories, 37 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: whether they win or not. I mean, come on, you're 38 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: you're in the Miss America pageant. Do they still have 39 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: that You're in the Miss America Pageant? You know you 40 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: got your swimsuit, you got you know, you answered the 41 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: question not like an airhead. You actually answer the question 42 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: with you know, a cogent thought. And so you're thinking, no, 43 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: maybe I make it to the top ten. Oh, I 44 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: don't want to get Miss Congeniality because I mean, you're 45 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: not going to anything else. I just means you're the 46 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: nicest person. You really want to win. You want to 47 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: be in this next Miss America. It's human nature to 48 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 1: want to do that. So there's no question in my 49 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:19,920 Speaker 1: mind that Donald Trump probably thought to himself and he 50 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: and Maloney probably talked about it late at night if 51 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: she wasn't on the phone with Vladimir Putin talking about 52 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: the kids. But I digress that they may have talked about, 53 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: you know, it'd be really cool. We can go to 54 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: Oslo and we can you know, we can excerpt where 55 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: is it? Is it Oslo? Anyway wherever they give the award, 56 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 1: and it'll be cool. We could pick up you know, 57 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: what is it a million bucks or something that they get, 58 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: and he could use that to put into the fund 59 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,679 Speaker 1: for his library, because he doesn't need the money. He'd 60 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: use it for his library or something. So you know 61 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 1: that that's what was going on. But now there were 62 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: some logistical problems, and that is that the deadline had 63 00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: passed but for pH nominees. But I suppose the Nobel 64 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: Committee could have done anything they wanted to do. I 65 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: mean It's not like there's some law that says you 66 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: have to do it this way. So if they wanted to, 67 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: you know, you know, swerve around and give it to 68 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: Trump instead of giving it to Ms Maschado, they could 69 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: have done that, but they weren't. And I think Trump 70 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: and his heart of hearts knew that. I think we 71 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: all knew that. And that's not to say he's not 72 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: precluded from getting it next year. I mean, we're just 73 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: in the first phase of the entire agreement about the 74 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: settlement between Hamas, the Arab Nations, and Israel, and if 75 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: that really pans out as they all hope that it 76 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: will pan out, they really will be a monumental thing. Although, 77 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: as I explained yesterday on the weekday program, Don't hold 78 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: your breath. So I wasn't really going to talk much 79 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: about the Nobel Peace Price that they except I ran 80 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: across the story about a kid that lived in Venezuela 81 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: and Maria Corina Machado. He had an encounter with her. 82 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: The story goes like this, I was fourteen, So this 83 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: is a teenager. How many teenagers in this country? You 84 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: are you gonna do what I'm just about to describe. 85 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: I want you to think about it. You have a 86 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: teenage kid at home, you have a fourteen year at home, 87 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: ask yourself. I hope you know if I had a 88 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:27,799 Speaker 1: fourteen year old kid that's been a thousand years ago. 89 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: If I had a fourteen year old kid, I hope 90 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: they would do something like this. He says. I was 91 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: fourteen when I clambered onto a boulder along Caracas's friend 92 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 1: Sincesco for Hardle Highway while people called Piedro della Libertad 93 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: the Liberty Rock, and spoke at about a government that 94 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: had just ignored a referendum tyranny to me, he says, 95 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 1: was more than a buzzword. To my astonishment, a woman 96 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: that I did not know yet, Maria Karina, help me 97 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 1: climb the rock with her megaphone, so she apparently handed 98 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: him a megaphone, he says. I spoke of unifying as 99 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,919 Speaker 1: a sea of flags from rival parties fluttered before me. 100 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 2: He says. 101 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: Most of the people in the crowd dismissed Maria. Then 102 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: a woman who once called Chevez Hugo Chavez, the previous 103 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: dictator of Venezuela before Maduro came on the scene. She 104 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: had once called Chevez a thief to his face. Now 105 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: that takes him some guts. A dictator who could just 106 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: have you disappeared at any moment. Yes, she called him 107 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: a thief to his face. Too brash, too ideological, too 108 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: direct for the choreography of Venezuelan politics. The old hands 109 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: said she could never reach the people, that she lacked 110 00:05:55,960 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 1: the soothing tones, the feigned humility, the convenience and ambiguity 111 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: that defined our politicians. As a young member in the 112 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: National Assembly, she always got sidelined. She was too elegant, 113 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:14,359 Speaker 1: too upperclassed, a sophrina, as Caro gossips like to say, 114 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: the visuwailan equivalent of a valley girl. How could a 115 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: man from the hills of Batar ever vote for her? 116 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: She doesn't even have quote the cajones, they said, hmm, 117 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 1: I guess they must have been wrong. It's those people 118 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: that you always least expected, that come out of from nowhere, 119 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 1: and you think they're too hoity toity, or oh they're 120 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: not quite smart enough, or all they don't have the experience. 121 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: Those are always the most dangerous ones because we always 122 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: underestimate them. And to you know, well, not today, but 123 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: yesterday we have another active vindication, and that active indication 124 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: is that the Nobel Committee awarded Maria Herna Karina Machado 125 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: the Nobel Peace Prize, citing her quote tireless work promoting 126 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, Venezuela and her 127 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from the 128 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: dictatorship to democracy amid threats, bands and intimidation. She stayed 129 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: the course. She refused. They offered her to go, We'll 130 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: let you leave the country. You can go live in 131 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: the United States or Spain or wherever you want to go. 132 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: You can go live in exile if you want to. 133 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: She refused to do so, Unlike a lot of the 134 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: men you know who once praised her for having the cohones. 135 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: She was barred from appearing on any ballot, but she 136 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: led her movement to victory through someone else, which I 137 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: love that part of it because I always think, yeah, 138 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: and you should think about this too whenever you see 139 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: whether it's Donald Trump, or for that matter, was Joe Biden. 140 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: I mean, think about all the people behind the scenes 141 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,679 Speaker 1: of Joe Biden that were really running things well while 142 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: Trump is really running things. The energizer Bunny doesn't stop. Nonetheless, 143 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: I can tell you from having worked in the White 144 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: House myself, that there are all these staffers, and there's 145 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: usually a key three or four members of the staff, 146 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: including a first lady. And I think Malania probably does 147 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: have a lot of influence over Donald Trump. There's always 148 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: somebody else that's really making you better than what you are. 149 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 1: And so what Maria did was she led her movement 150 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 1: for freedom to victory through Edmuno Gonzales, winning more than 151 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: seventy percent of the vote. This is the election that 152 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: got stolen by Maduro. She's now in hiding. She continues 153 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: to labor with unbroken discipline toward what she he eventually wants, 154 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: which is a peaceful transfer of power to mister Gonzalez, 155 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: who actually won the election. So what are people here 156 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: and around the world saying about her winning this Nobel 157 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: Peace Prize. I want you to hear what they say, 158 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: but I also want you to hear what she says. 159 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: This is a woman who truly understands her power, her influence, 160 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 1: and she knows how to use it. It's the weekend 161 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: of Michael Brown. 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We're talking about the Nobel Peace 171 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: Prize and Maria Karina Michada, who won the prize instead 172 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. Why even talk about this because people 173 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,679 Speaker 1: are upset that Donald Trump didn't win. So who cares 174 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: about this? I care about it because this woman personifies, 175 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: for the first time in a long time, exactly the 176 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: kind of person that should be winning the Nobel Peace Prize. 177 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: I mean, compare and contrast what she's doing, which I'll 178 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: explain to you in just a minute, compared to what 179 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 1: Barack Coussein Obama did. Barack Causseana Obama got elected president 180 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: and bam, let's give him the Nobel Peace Prize. What 181 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:46,199 Speaker 1: you winning change the face of Jill international pop politics? No, 182 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: the Nobel Peace Prize in that regard is a broken prize. 183 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: But they may have redeemed themselves ever so slightly, not completely, 184 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: but ever so slightly this award. Now, I know that 185 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: a lot of people say that it's skeptical, you know, 186 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:12,679 Speaker 1: they call her when puzzling, particularly when they watched Trump, 187 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 1: who is mediating a ceasefire in the Middle East. But 188 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: here's a woman who refused to go into exile, although 189 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: many other Venezuelans have done so. Now she isn't hiding, though, 190 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: but she continues to work with unbroken discipline. She continues 191 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: to push for a peaceful transfer of power in her 192 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: native country, just like she supported that fourteen year old 193 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: boy who a decade ago climbed a rock and asked, 194 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: you know, for let we've got to push Chavez out. 195 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 1: I understand the complaints, and one can certainly hope that 196 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: when peace materializes in the Middle East, and that if 197 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,559 Speaker 1: this plan goes through and they actually stick to the plan, 198 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: that not just that, but all the other wise seven 199 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:12,239 Speaker 1: eight or nine wars that he has stopped and negotiated 200 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 1: pieces piece with. I think Trump will get his Nobel 201 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 1: Peace Prize. But don't dismiss Machado's recognition because to do so. 202 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 1: I think it's just it's wrong headed. And I know 203 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: that we have a certain pride, and particularly those of 204 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: us who support Donald Trump in many ways, really want 205 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: to see him win the Peace Prize, considering everything that 206 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: he's done, considering the versiarly nothing that Brack Cussein Obama did. 207 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: Obama bombed every freaking country you can probably possibly imagine 208 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: during his eight years in office. Trump, Oh, that's right, 209 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 1: he did bomb somebody. Yeah, he told the Iranians stop 210 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 1: building unuclear weapons and if you don't, I'm gonna bomb 211 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:07,560 Speaker 1: the crap out of you. And I'm gonna give you 212 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 1: what forty eight hours, seventy two hours, whatever it was. 213 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 1: And they didn't do it, So wambam done. I think 214 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,479 Speaker 1: there's a huge difference when you give someone the opportunity 215 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: to change your ways and they don't do it. I 216 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: think these and there are online you'll find attempts to 217 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: make Maria Machado appears a figure that opposes Trump. Well, really, 218 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,319 Speaker 1: is that what you think, because hang on to your hats, 219 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: because you're gonna find out in just a minute that's 220 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 1: not that's not at all what she thinks. And of 221 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 1: course you're going to attack the prize itself if you 222 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: want to. Senator Mike Lee, the senior senator from Utah, 223 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 1: said that, you know, apparently the Nobel Peace Prize isn't 224 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: about delivering peace anymore. In eighteen ninety five, when Alfred Nobel, 225 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: the inventor of dynamite, who created these Nobel Prizes, he 226 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: defined the Peace Award as recognition for those who have 227 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,959 Speaker 1: accomplished quote the most or the best work for fraternity 228 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,680 Speaker 1: between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies, 229 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,959 Speaker 1: and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. Well, 230 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: by that particular reading, there are very few modern laureates 231 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 1: that really qualify. But then the Committee long a long 232 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: time ago, widened its understanding of peace to include those 233 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: who wage domestic campaigns rather than just diplomatic campaigns. Poland's 234 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 1: like Willensa, America's Martin Luther King Junior, Miah mars Ang 235 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: soun Senki. Their prizes honored movements, not treaties, conviction, not 236 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: real politics. So criticizing the prize itself, now, that's it's 237 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 1: it's logic, and I happen to share that logic. But 238 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: what makes little sense to me is dismissing Mischado's fight 239 00:14:56,040 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: Hers two is a movement civil, disciplined and the idea 240 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: that peace is not merely the end of the conflict, 241 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 1: but the beginning of freedom. She is what we would 242 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: call in our country, a freedom fighter, but beyond that, 243 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: as she hides in an undisclosed location, hiding in Venezuela's 244 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 1: separated from her family, continuing to do what she can 245 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 1: to push to overturn this stolen election, you would think 246 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: that many of us understand what stolen elections are about, 247 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: and we would honor her now. Her struggles not always 248 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: been peaceful. She's called from marches and assemblies even when 249 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 1: a lot of Venezuelans understandably chased, they really chafed at 250 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: the limits of nonviolence. I mean, when you're having to 251 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: break into a zoo to find an animal to eat 252 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: because you're starving at death, you really don't care about peace. 253 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: You care about survival. So her prize is not a consolation, 254 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 1: it's actually deserved. And if you think that she doesn't 255 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: recognize that, take a listen, because she does. 256 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 2: Madia, welcome, congratulations and tell our viewers why you decided 257 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 2: to dedicate this award to President Donald Trump. Thank you 258 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 2: very much, Rachel and to all of you or what 259 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 2: you have done for Venezuela. And they decided to dedicate 260 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 2: it to President Trump because he deserves it, because not 261 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 2: only has he been involved in only a few months 262 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 2: in solving eight wars, but his actions have been decisive 263 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 2: to have Venezuela now at the first hold of freedom 264 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 2: after twenty six years of tyranny that had destroyed the 265 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 2: lives of millions of Venezuela, to stabilized region and undermine 266 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 2: investigutions in the United States because of in Venezuela as 267 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 2: a safe heaven of the enemies of the United States 268 00:16:55,640 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 2: and using our territory and our resources to her the 269 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 2: American people and American institutions is certainly a threat to 270 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 2: the national security of the United States and the security 271 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 2: of the hemisphere. The President Trump has been very clear 272 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 2: courageous in terms of dismantling this criminal structure on behalf 273 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 2: of the Manezuelan people. I reaffirmed our gratitude and our 274 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,679 Speaker 2: commitment to this cast for the whole America. So I 275 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:29,159 Speaker 2: insist he deserves it, and we are very proud to 276 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 2: be working at this moment with all these allies for 277 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:35,919 Speaker 2: this huge resolution. 278 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:41,159 Speaker 1: Wow, that's pretty impressive, isn't it, in hiding in Venezuela 279 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: and saying I'm accepting it in honor of Donald Trump. 280 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 1: Thank you, Maria, god speed. It's a Weekend with Michael Brown. 281 00:17:49,560 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: Hang type will be right back. Good night. Michael Brown joins. 282 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:03,880 Speaker 2: Me here, the former FEMA director of talk show host 283 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 2: Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing a heck of 284 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 2: a job the Weekend with Michael Brown. 285 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:11,359 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to 286 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: have you with me. I really do appreciate you tuning 287 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: in text line as always as open on your MESSI 288 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 1: jap the numbers three three, one zero three. He used 289 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 1: the keyword Mike or Michael. Be sure and follow me 290 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: on x at Michael Brown Usa. I want to go 291 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: off my rundown, off my notes about what I wanted 292 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:34,400 Speaker 1: to do, and I want to go to a text 293 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:36,919 Speaker 1: message because it raises a really good point that I 294 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: want to address. And it's interesting that I get this 295 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: text message today because watching the news last night, I 296 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:49,159 Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily thinking about this particular individual, obviously, but I 297 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: was thinking about, this is what we need to have done. 298 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: But Republicans are utterly failing to point out why we 299 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:03,399 Speaker 1: are having a government shut down and why what the 300 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 1: President is doing is kind of ripping the band aid off, 301 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: and that's necessary so that the wound can get some 302 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 1: fresh air and start to heal. Goober number four sixty 303 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:21,719 Speaker 1: seven nine Rights Michael. I love what the Trump administration 304 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:24,919 Speaker 1: has been doing so far in this second term. I 305 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 1: love everything in all caps, but there's still one problem 306 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 1: that isn't going away. Inflation. I'm being forced to sell 307 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: my house after twenty six years. I bought it with 308 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 1: a VA Home loan in nineteen ninety nine. I thought 309 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 1: I'd live there until I moved on to Heaven. I'm 310 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 1: fifty six years old, disabled and it's physically and mentally difficult, 311 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: but I am determined to make apartment living the best 312 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: I can for my wife and kids. Making the best 313 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 1: of a bad situation is as American as apple pie. 314 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 1: People are hurting from this relentless inflation. I'd like to 315 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: see more effort from President Trump in addressing it. First, 316 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: my heart goes out to you, and I know this 317 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,919 Speaker 1: is not comforting, but you're not the only one. A 318 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 1: lot of people are going through the same thing. And yes, 319 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 1: inflation is still high, prices are still high. But something's 320 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 1: being done, but we're not articulating it, we're not spelling 321 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:31,119 Speaker 1: it out. And that is the reason the government is 322 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: shut down is because the House of Representatives, along with 323 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 1: Democrat votes, voted what's called a clean continuing resolution, meaning 324 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: that and continuing resolution just means we're going to continue 325 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 1: to spend what your current levels are. This is just 326 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:55,119 Speaker 1: a basically an appropriations bill, except it's a resolution and 327 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 1: it just says to all the government agencies and departments, 328 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:03,399 Speaker 1: continue to spend under your current budget authority until we 329 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:07,919 Speaker 1: either pass a budget or we reach another deadline and 330 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 1: pass another cr What Republicans are just well, I can't 331 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: put all the blame on them because the cabal will 332 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: obviously distort the message and won't say the things that 333 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: I'm about to say. I don't like continuing resolutions because 334 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 1: it means that Congress is not doing its job. But 335 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: let's think about what Congress's job should be. Congress's job 336 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 1: should be looking at the current level of spending on everything, defense, entitlements, 337 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:54,160 Speaker 1: discretionary spending, foreign aid, domestic aid, everything you can possibly imagine, 338 00:21:55,080 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: and say it's too much. Higher spending and excessive government 339 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: spending is the equivalent of a tax, and that tax 340 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 1: comes in the form of higher prices and higher inflation 341 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: because all of that money that is pulled out of 342 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 1: the private sector is money that can't go into a 343 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 1: company trying to expand and maybe trying to grow its 344 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: business buying more capital, equipment, or hiring more employees or 345 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: opening more remote locations. No, that money instead has to 346 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: go to taxes. Now, the company doesn't pay the taxes. 347 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: You pay those taxes because the company figures in its 348 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 1: pricing for whatever product or service it provides, whatever our 349 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,440 Speaker 1: corporate tax is going to be. Okay, we got to 350 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: build that into the price of the widget or the 351 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 1: service that we provide. So you and I pay that tax, 352 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: and then because we don't have enough tax revenue coming in, 353 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:59,399 Speaker 1: we then borrow. That's a debt that we owe, and 354 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 1: the are and our grandchildren. I'm afraid to see that 355 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 1: our great great grandchildren are going to owe thirty seven 356 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 1: trillion dollars in debt. Do you know that now? Just 357 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 1: to pay the interest on that damn credit card is 358 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 1: equal to half the federal budget. So if you put 359 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 1: you know, whatever you paid in taxes this year. Theoretically, 360 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:21,679 Speaker 1: half of what you paid in taxes didn't go to 361 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: buy a new tank. It didn't go buy it didn't 362 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: go to help somebody in a disaster area. It went 363 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 1: to pay interest on a credit card. Now, Democrats in 364 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 1: the Senate, we only need five. Three have crossed over. 365 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: We need two now in order to invoke cloture and 366 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: stop the debate. Chuck Schumer and his Marxist gang want 367 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: to renegotiate and add more than a trillion dollars to 368 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:01,199 Speaker 1: an already bloated federal budget. Now, I know you may 369 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: have heard some senator say that, But now we're all 370 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: down in the weeds about are we going to do 371 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,120 Speaker 1: this subsidy or that subsidy, or we are we really 372 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: paying or not paying for illegal aliens to have health insurance? 373 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Set all of 374 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: that aside for a moment and just realize that whatever 375 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: we're spending on, we're spending too much money. We have 376 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,640 Speaker 1: a spending problem, and we have a bloated federal government. 377 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: I don't like it when people lose jobs. I just don't. 378 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: I don't like it. I know that it's disruptive. It 379 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: causes panic and worry, and then people have to figure out, Okay, 380 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 1: what am I gonna do? How am I gonna live? 381 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,159 Speaker 1: You know? And change? Change is not easy for people. 382 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: But now they have to make a lot of changes. 383 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: Maybe they have to downsize. This person's having to sell 384 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:55,119 Speaker 1: their home after twenty six years. But what's happening, and 385 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:59,400 Speaker 1: Trump's being vilified for it is. And I know sometimes 386 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: this language is probably a little two course and that 387 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 1: doesn't help matters. I might be a little more diplomatic, 388 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 1: or maybe I wouldn't be. But when you consider the 389 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,399 Speaker 1: number of federal workers that we have, we could probably 390 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: eliminate a third of them and still get everything done. 391 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: I know if companies looks around in the studio I'm 392 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 1: working in, I know of companies that have, over the 393 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: course of three or four years since emerging from a 394 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: Chapter eleven bankruptcy, have continued to lay off people, trying 395 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: to streamline their operations in order to maintain profitability and 396 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: stay on the air. Now, I don't like it when 397 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 1: some of my coworkers lose their jobs, but I also 398 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,399 Speaker 1: understand that it happens sometimes. But why is it that 399 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: we have some sort of sanqulsanct attitude toward a federal 400 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,240 Speaker 1: employee and that we can't do anything and we can't 401 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: try to reduce the size of the federal government. That 402 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: is exactly what we're trying to do. And the dumbasses 403 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: that work in Congress, both in Republican and Democrat, because 404 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: Republicans want to increase spending two, don't recognize that what 405 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,679 Speaker 1: they're doing is they're destroying the people who work in 406 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,919 Speaker 1: this country and the people who produce the income to 407 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: pay all of their bills, including their salaries. This thing. 408 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,919 Speaker 1: This When I was watching the news last night, I 409 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: had to bite my lip because they kept talking about, oh, well, 410 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 1: you know we're going to lose you know, these federal 411 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 1: workers and some people are getting getting they're getting riffed, 412 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: they're getting furloughed, and you would think that it was 413 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 1: the end of civilization. I want to take every member 414 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 1: of the cabal, every reporter, every news station, every radio station, 415 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: and just shake the crap out of them and say 416 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 1: look around. There are private companies all the time that 417 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 1: do this. This is nothing new. It's not pleasant. I've 418 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: had to fire people and it's not pleasant at all. 419 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:54,640 Speaker 1: But you have to stay in business. And the federal government, 420 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,360 Speaker 1: its business is not just continuing to add on more 421 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: and more programs and do more or more stuff, but 422 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 1: to become leaner, meaner, more efficient, and do more with less, 423 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: just like the private sector does. That thirty eight trillion dollars. 424 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,399 Speaker 1: I don't know if this is actually correct or not. 425 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:19,880 Speaker 1: I haven't done the calculation, but that amounts to we're 426 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 1: close to or maybe we've already exceeded that. The national debt, 427 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 1: which is a common We have a budget deficit every year, 428 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,640 Speaker 1: which means that we spend more than we bring in 429 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: on a year to year basis. So the money that 430 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,879 Speaker 1: we borrow during that budget year gets added to the debt. 431 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 1: So if we have a three trillion dollar when I 432 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 1: say we have a four trillion dollar budget, but we 433 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,959 Speaker 1: get three trillion dollars in tax revenues, so then we 434 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: borrow a trillion dollars, that trillion dollar deficit for that 435 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 1: fiscal year gets added to the national debt. That national 436 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,959 Speaker 1: debt is somewhere now between thirty seven and thirty nine 437 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:01,400 Speaker 1: trillion dollars, which according to one story I read, if 438 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,400 Speaker 1: it was correct, amounts to more than one hundred thousand 439 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 1: dollars for every single person in this country. Could you 440 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,159 Speaker 1: write a check today for one hundred thousand dollars to 441 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 1: eliminate the national debt. No, if the yahoo's inside the 442 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: Beltway continue to spend, we can't call them drunken sailors anymore. 443 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,880 Speaker 1: Because when drunken sailors run out of money, they quit spending. 444 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: They stumble off out into the street outside the bar, 445 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 1: and then somebody come to the other buddy's pick them up, 446 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 1: and they go back to the barracks. So you can't 447 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: say they're spending like drunken sailors. Like that used to 448 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: be the old phrase. And Republicans are as complicit in 449 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 1: this as Democrats. And right now, this struggle that is 450 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: going on is so that Trump can start trying to 451 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: impose some fiscal discipline. Now, don't get me wrong, there 452 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 1: are times when Trump spends money that I just shake 453 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: my head and I'm like, why are you doing that? 454 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: We are addicted to government spending, and it's not just 455 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 1: at the federal level, it's at every single level yet 456 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,479 Speaker 1: any time, and this is where I'll defend them all 457 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: to some degree, defend the politicians because when they try 458 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 1: to start trying to reduce or at least trying to 459 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 1: maybe maybe not increase spending, maybe just level it off 460 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: and say, okay, let's just stop borrowing more, let's just 461 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: stay where we are. Even if you do that, they 462 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 1: get vilified. Oh my god, you don't care about grandma. 463 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 1: You don't care about well. You know what, if you 464 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 1: really cared about grandma, you would reform social Security. Now, 465 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 1: you might grandfather grandmother in so that nothing changes for her. 466 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 1: But for the people coming up into the labor force, 467 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 1: you might give them different options where you might change 468 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 1: the rules for them to to be participating in something 469 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: like social Security. So we at some point have got 470 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 1: to cut the spending otherwise, otherwise we're doomed. On that note, 471 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: it's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Hang tight, I'll be 472 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 1: right back. Welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. 473 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 1: Glad to have you with me. Text Lines always opened 474 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: three three one zero three on your message app. Keyword 475 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 1: Mike or Michael TMA or AMA, tell me anything, ask 476 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: me anything, be here and follow me on X at 477 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 1: Michael Brown USA. Here's how deficits contribute to inflation. So 478 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: there's short, I mean, there's all sorts of factors. It's 479 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 1: a very complex relationship, but in the short there's short 480 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 1: term pressure because in the short term deficits add pressure 481 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:56,480 Speaker 1: to inflation through increased demand. So when government and set 482 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 1: aside from when borrowing, but when the government sends, if 483 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: there are any constraints on the supply side of whatever 484 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 1: goods or services that people are trying to consume, the 485 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: government spending eats up whatever that is, or it provides 486 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 1: more money into the money supply, and then that money 487 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: supply because if it's increase, it's it's like when you 488 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 1: subsidize higher education. So when higher when institutions of higher 489 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 1: education know that the governments can provide all these student loans, 490 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: so anybody can get a student loan, and anybody can 491 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 1: have whatever money they need to go pay for their tuition, 492 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: that increase in the money supply for tuition increases the 493 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 1: price of tuition because that increased money supply is an 494 00:31:55,920 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 1: incentive for the people that provide the product, in this 495 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: case higher education, to raise the prices because they know 496 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,959 Speaker 1: that there's more money out there for people to afford it. 497 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 1: So that budget deficit, all that extra spending adds to 498 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:22,840 Speaker 1: the deficit I mean adds to inflation. There's also the 499 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:27,480 Speaker 1: problem of long term pressure. Because a large and persistent 500 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: deficit like we have now increases the national debt, that 501 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 1: itself puts upward pressure on inflation and on interest rates 502 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,360 Speaker 1: over the long term. And when the interest rates increase, 503 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,960 Speaker 1: the cost to service the national debt also increases, and 504 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,880 Speaker 1: that makes it even worse on the yearly budget deficit. Now, 505 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 1: Power reduced the federal reserve rate by twenty five basis points, 506 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 1: so that helped lower our borrowing costs a little bit. 507 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 1: But what does Congress then do spent more money. So 508 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 1: it's like, oh, we're going to lower the rate on 509 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 1: your credit card from you know, twenty nine point five 510 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 1: percent to twenty five percent. And instead of saying, oh, 511 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,800 Speaker 1: I can save some money, you go, oh, well, I 512 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 1: can go borrow some more money. Now it's insanity, utter insanity. 513 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: You go back to the nineteen nineties, the last time 514 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: we actually had a balanced budget. Congress recognized that as 515 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 1: long as we kept it balanced and we had we 516 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 1: had the revenues coming in to cover expenditures and we 517 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 1: weren't borrowing, none of those pressures increased. And inflation is 518 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 1: influenced by a lot of factors. It's a complex issue 519 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 1: that's influenced by government spending and fiscal policy, and deficits 520 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,320 Speaker 1: do have an impact over the long term, but they 521 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: are just one piece of this entire economic puzzle. Fiscal 522 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,959 Speaker 1: policy sees the other. And if our fiscal policy is 523 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: to spend more, to borrow more, so when the Federal 524 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 1: Reserve says, okay, we're going to loan you a bazillion dollars, 525 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 1: then they print a bazillion dollars, which increases the money supply, 526 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 1: which does something else which is still inflationary, but you 527 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,839 Speaker 1: don't think about it being inflationary. Gold has hit four 528 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,400 Speaker 1: thousand dollars an ounce. I'm not sure what it is today, 529 00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 1: but do you think gold really increased in value to 530 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,000 Speaker 1: four thousand dollars per ounce? Or do you think the 531 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: value of your dollar decreased because of all the deficit spending. 532 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 1: So the dollar bill that you have in your pocket 533 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,680 Speaker 1: is now worth I'm just going to pull a number 534 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 1: out of my butt. It's now only worth, say, seventy 535 00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:48,759 Speaker 1: five cents. So it takes more of those dollars to 536 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 1: buy gold, or it takes more dollars to pay your rent. 537 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,320 Speaker 1: It takes more buck dollars to fill the car with gas, 538 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 1: it takes more dollars to pay your insurance premium, and 539 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,680 Speaker 1: the same time, that takes more dollars to do that. 540 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 1: Because there's so much money flowing around in the economy, 541 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 1: then the price is increase. It's just this, It's just 542 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 1: imagine one of those snow globes and you shake it up. 543 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,080 Speaker 1: All of those factors in there is what's causing inflation. 544 00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: And so when we come along and we get a 545 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:26,480 Speaker 1: government shut down, that's an opportunity for the executive branch, 546 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:28,880 Speaker 1: and quite frankly, it's opportunity for Congress, but I have 547 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 1: zero confidence in Congress. It's an opportunity for the executive 548 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 1: branch to say, oh, we're gonna riff some people, We're 549 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,120 Speaker 1: gonna shut down some offices, we're gonna shut down some programs, 550 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,719 Speaker 1: and by doing that we will at least maybe not 551 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:48,800 Speaker 1: lower the total cost of government, that we might lower 552 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,319 Speaker 1: the increase in the cost of government. Either way, I'd 553 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,080 Speaker 1: be happy. I'd prefer to lower the overall cost of government. 554 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 1: But instead of having the government increase from a bazillion 555 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,920 Speaker 1: dollars to bazillion times too I'd be happy if we 556 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,600 Speaker 1: just kept a bazillion dollars for the next ten years. 557 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,239 Speaker 1: That would give some security to the market, that would 558 00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,960 Speaker 1: give some stability to the dollar. That means we could 559 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: quit increasing our borrowing every year, and that might start 560 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 1: bringing down prices. So when you hear the cabal and 561 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:28,520 Speaker 1: you hear Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffreys talk about because 562 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,960 Speaker 1: it doesn't make any difference who shut down it is. 563 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,920 Speaker 1: What really matters is what are Democrats wanting in exchange 564 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,720 Speaker 1: for opening the government. They're wanting to spend a trillion 565 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:45,240 Speaker 1: dollars more than they've already approved in prior continuing resolutions, 566 00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 1: and that will add to inflation, that will once again 567 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,359 Speaker 1: increase the money supply because of the borrowing, and make 568 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,760 Speaker 1: matters even worse. So for that, if you're losing your home, 569 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,799 Speaker 1: my heart goes to you. I'll be right back