Speaker 1: Kevin Kylie knows that this is not what you want.
Speaker 1: He knows that it is deeply unpopular. He knows that
Speaker 1: it hurts the people of fulsome. But he is not
Speaker 1: there to serve working families. He is there to serve
Speaker 1: himself and the billionaire class that put him there.
Speaker 2: Well, missus, Kylie, I think some of your constituents have
Speaker 2: a message for you. Don't vote to give tax breaks
Speaker 2: to billionaires and cut programs that the working class of
Speaker 2: this country desperately needs.
Speaker 3: Now, I wish we could talk to this Kevin Kylie person,
Speaker 3: but he's probably busy giving a foot rub to some
Speaker 3: oligarch right now.
Speaker 4: Oh, I tell you what typical of former English high
Speaker 4: school teachers. Kevin Kylie has become an unrecognizable monster, apparently,
Speaker 4: according to AC and Bernie. And we'll talk to the
Speaker 4: monster now. Congressman Kevin Coley of California's third district, Kevin,
Speaker 4: how are you, sir?
Speaker 5: I'm doing well. So nice of you to welcome me
Speaker 5: to your program, despite you know what you've heard from
Speaker 5: our friends Bernie and AOC.
Speaker 3: There, you're currently on your hands and knees serving as
Speaker 3: a footstool for an oligarch.
Speaker 5: Oh, my god, this is crazy. Did you see she
Speaker 5: flies first class for this fight oligarchy tour?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Right, right, seriously, And Kevin, you're not going to blow
Speaker 4: your own horn, but if you if you knew Kevin
Speaker 4: a former high school teacher, son of a teacher, who
Speaker 4: believes in fiscal responsibility, educational choice, you know, American values,
Speaker 4: to call him some sort of lackey for oligarchs is hilarious.
Speaker 4: But how would you respond to the screeds that you've heard?
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, where do I even begin? Well, for
Speaker 5: one thing, you know, I actually told both of them
Speaker 5: and I said, look, I'll debate you while you're in
Speaker 5: town if you want. But no, they much prefer to
Speaker 5: just stand out behind a telefronk and attack me from
Speaker 5: there than actually try to defend their ideas. But it's
Speaker 5: like when you look at what they advocate for. Okay,
Speaker 5: they want their socialists. They have a socialist vision for America.
Speaker 5: They believe in open borders, they believe in defunding the police.
Speaker 5: They believe in essentially attacking and effectively abolishing small businesses
Speaker 5: or at least making life miserable for them. These ideas
Speaker 5: have actually been implemented in the very states that they visited.
Speaker 5: In California, no more so than in places like San Francisco,
Speaker 5: or in Oakland or some Los Angeles, So we don't
Speaker 5: have to theorize about what the consequences are. We can
Speaker 5: see it in the real world that many Californians have
Speaker 5: had to live with, and what are the consequences we
Speaker 5: have at of control crime and homelessness and poverty, and
Speaker 5: ironically enough inequality. California has one of the most is
Speaker 5: one of the most highest inequality states in the entire country.
Speaker 5: So I'd say, just look at the reality that we have. Fortunately,
Speaker 5: I happen to represent an area where we do things differently,
Speaker 5: and precisely because of that, we've managed to maintain in
Speaker 5: a much higher quality of life than the rest of California.
Speaker 3: That's quite a crowd they drew, though enthusiastic crowd, as
Speaker 3: Burnie always does. You know, there's just enough chunk of
Speaker 3: people that buy that whole socialist vision that show up
Speaker 3: and cheer like crazy, and I can't. So they're trying
Speaker 3: to do what Trump did, where he would go into
Speaker 3: blue areas and draw a big crowd of excited conservatives
Speaker 3: that don't feel represented in that area and then call
Speaker 3: out the local person and then make a lot of
Speaker 3: news that way. So I guess that's the whole point
Speaker 3: is to get you to respond. I don't see how
Speaker 3: it benefits them exactly though.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know, And you don't know how many
Speaker 5: people come from, you know, the localaria and how our
Speaker 5: people come from, and so you know, look, I feel like,
Speaker 5: you know, people want to go and participate in that.
Speaker 5: I think it's fine. I think that people of whatever
Speaker 5: viewpoint they are is, whether you're far left, communists or
Speaker 5: wherever you are on the spectrum, I think it's it's
Speaker 5: a healthy thing to be an active participant in the
Speaker 5: political process. It just so happens that the ideas that
Speaker 5: ms Ocassio Cortes and Senator Standards are espousing are completely disastrous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, So you know, the Trump example is he's
Speaker 3: going around the country touting something that is majority mostly
Speaker 3: things that were majority popular or close to go ahead
Speaker 3: and nominate Bernie Ocassio Cortez. The lose forty eight states,
Speaker 3: So go ahead, you know, get as much attention.
Speaker 5: As you want, exactly. So, I mean, honestly, I think
Speaker 5: it's a great thing in the sense that they're providing
Speaker 5: a very clear contrast that we have a choice between
Speaker 5: radical socialism, which has failed disastrously everywhere it's been tried,
Speaker 5: including in places like San Francisco, or a return of
Speaker 5: the common sense that is sweeping the country right now
Speaker 5: and that is desperately needed in California.
Speaker 4: Congressman Kevin kyleie on the line serves California's third district
Speaker 4: to a very sane quadrant of California, not far from
Speaker 4: the radio ranch at all. So, Kevin, I love the
Speaker 4: point you made about the income inequality in California, and
Speaker 4: it brought to mind a couple of stories I've heard
Speaker 4: from friends who are small business people and or would
Speaker 4: be small business people who tried to get something started
Speaker 4: that would employ people, and they'reby feed and clothe them
Speaker 4: and educate their children, and the bureaucrats extorted them for
Speaker 4: either just exhorbitant amounts of money and permit fees and
Speaker 4: that sort of thing, or the paperwork was so dizzying
Speaker 4: it just discouraged them from doing it at all.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's right, exactly, And it's terrible at the state
Speaker 5: level in California. And then you go to places like
Speaker 5: Los Angeles, or San Francisco or Oakland, and then you
Speaker 5: pile on the bureaufracy there. And it's why so many
Speaker 5: small businesses are I mean, people in every community in
Speaker 5: California can tell you their favorite restaurant had to shutdown
Speaker 5: or their favorite small business had to shutdown. It's why
Speaker 5: you look at San Francisco, they've been leaving in droves.
Speaker 5: And you know, California also has the highest level of
Speaker 5: real poverty of every state in the country. Think about that.
Speaker 5: We've had one party rule for a long long time,
Speaker 5: Gavin Newsom and the supermajority legislature, and they've produced the
Speaker 5: highest poverty rate in the United States.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that that's quite a stat say that again,
Speaker 3: so I fully understand it.
Speaker 5: California has the highest poverty rate in the United States
Speaker 5: when you factor in the cost of living.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 5: That is sort of the one verdict for what these
Speaker 5: policies give you is they give you precisely the opposite
Speaker 5: of what Bernie and AOC are.
Speaker 4: Promising do some twenty twenty eight. Who's with me, so, Kevin,
Speaker 4: We've had an extended discussion over the last couple of
Speaker 4: days about the situation in American education K through PhD.
Speaker 4: And it's our belief that it's it's a huge challenge
Speaker 4: for the United States that so many of our educational
Speaker 4: institutions are teaching our kids to despise their country and
Speaker 4: Western civilization and that sort of thing. It's awful. You
Speaker 4: come from an education background, I know it's near and
Speaker 4: dear to your heart. Do you have any thoughts on
Speaker 4: how do we restore some semblance excuse me, of academic
Speaker 4: freedom without taking away academic freedom by you know, heavy
Speaker 4: handed mandates on college. Is that something you think about much?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's a great question. And you know, of
Speaker 5: course this is all coming to a head with this
Speaker 5: showdown between the administration and Harvard, But you know, we
Speaker 5: need to think about what exactly happened on that campus
Speaker 5: and a number of other campuses across this country. You
Speaker 5: had this absolutely abhorrent explosion in anti semitism. This isn't
Speaker 5: like some small thing that went wrong. It's one of
Speaker 5: the world's most abhorrent, recrograde, ancient prejudices that suddenly sprang
Speaker 5: to life in this horrifying way, that threatened the safety
Speaker 5: of students. That they took over buildings, they shut down campuses, essentially, essentially,
Speaker 5: people didn't feel safe on campus. And so I think
Speaker 5: that that has led many people to ask what has
Speaker 5: gone so incredibly wrong on these campuses. And it's not
Speaker 5: the sort of thing that the administration is saying where
Speaker 5: you can just have some whatever, some focus group, some passport,
Speaker 5: some committee that says, okay, well we'll try to do
Speaker 5: a little bit better. No, this is exposed something that
Speaker 5: is fundamentally wrong, problems that are deeply rooted in the
Speaker 5: culture of academia that frankly have in some cases been
Speaker 5: incubated at our universities and then spread throughout the country.
Speaker 5: And so I think that there this is a time
Speaker 5: where we need to demand fundamental reforms precisely to assure
Speaker 5: things like academic freedom. Because remember, even before the horrifying
Speaker 5: scenes we've seen over the last year and a half, Harvard,
Speaker 5: just to take that as an example, again, was the
Speaker 5: very worst college in the entire country when it came
Speaker 5: to protecting free speech. There was a survey one hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty one colleges. They ranked them, how good are
Speaker 5: you at actually allowing free speech? Protecting the First Amendment?
Speaker 5: Harvard was dead. Last I forgot heard that two hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty one.
Speaker 3: That's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we'll have to schedule a time to
Speaker 4: talk at greater length about this because again I think
Speaker 4: it may be the most important problem facing the United States.
Speaker 4: But you're right, we need to call it out, raise awareness,
Speaker 4: enforce the laws as they stand, and just chip away
Speaker 4: at the deal.
Speaker 3: Go back to making coffee for the oligarchs, and we'll
Speaker 3: let you go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's the monster described by AOC and Bernie. I
Speaker 4: hope your children weren't frightened. Rhetoric, Kevin Kylie always always
Speaker 4: great to talk. Keep fighting a good fight.
Speaker 5: You bet, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3: So my joke about he was on his hands and
Speaker 3: knees as a footstool for an oligarch. The reason, the
Speaker 3: reason that popped into my head. I was reading this
Speaker 3: book yesterday and I won't get bogged down on what
Speaker 3: it is, but it was about the elite private schools
Speaker 3: in England in the early twentieth century, and we talked
Speaker 3: about this before. Christopher Hitchins writes about how brutal they were.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just it's amazing. I mean, if you
Speaker 3: were rich, you sent your kid to the hardest to
Speaker 3: get in school, gonna be raped or fondled, beaten with
Speaker 3: no repercussions from bullies, all kinds of horrible things. Anyway,
Speaker 3: at length, I was talking about the he went to
Speaker 3: one of your super fancy private schools. I mean, he
Speaker 3: was like your upper crust of England, and the headmaster,
Speaker 3: the guy who ran the school there, his wife would
Speaker 3: make two of the kids get on their hands and
Speaker 3: knees as a footstool for an evening at the school.
Speaker 3: Good work if you can get Oh my god, wow,
Speaker 3: isn't that crazy?
Speaker 4: Wow? That you know? Oh boy, I would love to
Speaker 4: talk to some some Brits about how that fits into
Speaker 4: the overall British vibe, you know, the culture. And because
Speaker 4: that's so abhorrent.
Speaker 3: Rich if you were rich, you sent your kids off
Speaker 3: to be abused, and everybody knew it. It was because
Speaker 3: most of them went to the same school. You went
Speaker 3: to the school and were abused, and then you send
Speaker 3: your kid to the same school to be abused.
Speaker 4: Right, it would become an obedient cog who repressed his
Speaker 4: feelings and behaved in a very British way. How That's
Speaker 4: what I was driving at. And there's actually some great
Speaker 4: pop music about this sort of thing, whether it's Pink
Speaker 4: Floyd's Another Break in the Wall Part two or Bloody
Speaker 4: Well right the Super Tramp classic about the British schooling
Speaker 4: system and how utterly dehumanizing it was intentionally.
Speaker 3: Wow, So they didn't come out of those schools, and
Speaker 3: thank God. One thing I'm never gonna do is have
Speaker 3: my kid go to some place like that.
Speaker 4: No, I did the opposite. Yeah, it's interesting and it's
Speaker 4: remarkably different than the American spirit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd say she would make a couple of kids
Speaker 3: get on their hands knees, so she'd use them most
Speaker 3: for a footstool in her evenings.
Speaker 4: That is, that'd just be weird. I'm not sure I
Speaker 4: want a human footstool. I mean, even if one were
Speaker 4: offered to me, I'm not sure I would take you
Speaker 4: up on the office.
Speaker 3: I agree, I wouldn't feel right about it. It takes
Speaker 3: it takes a certain personality to be okay with that. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: I will use you's furniture.
Speaker 4: Sure, don't get any ideas, Jack, I'm not coming in
Speaker 4: the studio.
Speaker 3: We got more in the ways there, arm Trong, Hey,