1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: Welcome back to a Numbers Game with Ryan Grodoski. Thank 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: you guys for being here. This is a Friday episode. 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: It is an all ask Me Anything episode. I want 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,119 Speaker 1: to hear from you guys this. You know, Buck Sexton 5 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: made this idea for the show. He said, oh, he 6 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: made the whole idea of the show. But he said, 7 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: do you want to ask me anything segment? It will 8 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: be great, and it really has been. I kind of 9 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: get to connect with you guys a little bit considering 10 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: it's just me talking to my computer every day with 11 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: a microphone, and it's just producer, my producer, he Ammy 12 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: Babbel constantly, So it gives me notice that you guys 13 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: are listening and also what you guys want to hear, 14 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 1: what you want to talk about. So, if you want 15 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: to be part of the ask Me Anything segment, email 16 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,639 Speaker 1: me Ryan at Numbers Game Podcast dot com, Ryan at 17 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: Numbers Plural, Numbers Game Podcast dot com. I would love 18 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: to hear from you guys, literally anything on the table, 19 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: as long as it's like PG rated, Yeah, I like 20 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: slightly higher than GE but anything pgy' is a family show. 21 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: I try to keep it easy for everybody. All right, 22 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: First question, comes from Bryan, who's emailed me before. He says, 23 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: on behalf of all Brian's listening to the podcast, I'll 24 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: forgive you for throwing us during our January twenty sixth episode. 25 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: I don't remember that. I do kind of. I mean, 26 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: there is a thing in the country called a Ryan Party. 27 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:14,639 Speaker 1: It's a party for you have to show you already, 28 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: you have to be named Ryan. And I went to 29 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 1: one of them, and I tell you, it was actually 30 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: a lot of fun. It was like, way more fun 31 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: than I thought it would be. But it was the 32 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 1: start channing like f Brian in the whole thing. It's 33 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 1: really it was chaotic, but it was great because every 34 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: Ryan in the country knows that you're called Brian at 35 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,960 Speaker 1: least twenty five thousand times a year. Okay, he says, 36 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 1: in an age where all legislative actions seems to be 37 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: a behold into the great and powerful filibuster, can you 38 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: provide historical context on how the power has evolved? Specifically, 39 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: I like to understand its roots as a Senate agreement 40 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: rather than explicit part of the Constitution. How is his 41 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: mechanics have changed over time and the underlying fear of 42 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: evoking the nuclear option, and please highlight major legislation or 43 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: nominations that have fallen, victim or saved because the filibuster. Okay, 44 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: so I'm not an expert on Senate rules. There's a 45 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: woman named Rachel Bouvard who's brilliant. She is an expert, 46 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: and you could read more of her stuff if you 47 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:09,959 Speaker 1: want to know a lot about the Senate in the philibuster. 48 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,359 Speaker 1: The philibuster actually dates back to very close to the 49 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: beginning of the country in eighteen oh six, but it's 50 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: changed a lot of time since then. The idea of 51 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: cloature was created in nineteen seventeen, and it was to 52 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: allow the end of debate when there was a two 53 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: thirds vote in the Senate, and that was first successfully 54 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: done for actually the Treaty of Versailles back in nineteen nineteen. 55 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: The two thirds rule was changed nineteen seventy five to 56 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,519 Speaker 1: a three fifths rule, so only sixty from sixty seven 57 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 1: to sixty senators because a lot of Southern senators were 58 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: upholding civil rights legislation. In twenty thirteen, Democrats created a 59 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 1: nuclear option for lower court appointments, and then in twenty seventeen, 60 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: republic is extended to the Supreme Court, obviously with Gorsuch. 61 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: So that's how a clature has changed. But another big 62 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: development happened in the seventies, and I think this is 63 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: how this rule change specifically altered the entire filibuster. A 64 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: major practical change occur between nineteen seventy and nineteen seventy two. 65 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: It is called the instruction of the two track system. Previously, 66 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: a filibuster halted all Senate business. You can't do anything 67 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: in the Senate until the filibuster's taken care of, and 68 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: you had to speak openly, and you had to have 69 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: the debate for as long as possible. Now the Senate 70 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: can place a filibuster on a separate track and continue 71 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: to work on other things. This led to the modern 72 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: silent or virtual filibuster, where senators don't have to hold 73 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: the floor endlessly in speeches, they don't have to continue 74 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: onward forever. They can just simply signal the intent to filibuster, 75 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: force a cloture of sixty votes or the bill dies, 76 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: and then just do other work. That really changed the 77 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: relationship with the filibuster and the Senate more than just 78 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 1: the existence of the filibuster, because it's existed before but 79 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: you had to be there, you to be present a debate. 80 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: And as far as legislation has died because of the filibuster, 81 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: it's hard to say which the legislation didn't say, but 82 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 1: legilation has died. There's been a number of immigration legislations 83 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: that didn't even get to a vote because they knew 84 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: they couldn't pass the filibuster threshold. That happened actually quite 85 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: a bit. There was as well a gun control measure recently, 86 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: back when Biden was president. They wanted to pass gun control, 87 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: they couldn't get it pass the filibuster. They wanted to 88 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 1: make a law to allow workers across the country to unionize. 89 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: That you didn't pass the filibuster. And then was the 90 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 1: For the People Act, which would have done many things 91 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: for voting, the ability to vote, but not namely it 92 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: would have banned voter ID picture ID to go vote nationwide. 93 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,359 Speaker 1: All those things did not get passed because there was 94 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: a filibuster. I know a lot of people are skeptical 95 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: of the filibuster because Trump can't get a lot of 96 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 1: his agenda done. What I always emphasis, size two people 97 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: is with the Senate being what it is, even if 98 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: it's fifty three members Republican. Think of all the senators 99 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: who would not be on board with the most base 100 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: part of Trump's agenda. You have Murkowski, you have Curtis 101 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 1: from Utah, you have McConnell from Kentucky, you have Collins 102 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 1: from South Carolina, depending on the issue, and I believe 103 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: there's other people that they don't have to take hard 104 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 1: positions because it's not going to come up for a 105 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 1: vote because the philibuster. In other words, Murkowski and Curtis 106 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: and McConnell save them from having to take on positions 107 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 1: that the people will be revolting over, and that could 108 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 1: be you know, that's both a hit or miss. I mean, 109 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: I don't know. That's kind of how I think of 110 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: it is that we're not going to even if we 111 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: abolish the philibuster, we're not going to get a lot 112 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: of the things we really want. And Democrats will one 113 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 1: hundred percent get all the things that they want because 114 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: they're in lockstep with a lot of these issues as 115 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: Republicans aren't. Okay, well that's that question. Thank you so 116 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 1: much for asking, Brian. Now, next one comes from Holly. Holly, 117 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: I think he's written before. She has said yes, she says, 118 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: thank you for answering the questions I've said in I 119 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 1: appreciate it. Living in Texas, it seems like every day 120 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,799 Speaker 1: there's a story about another generational ranch farmer being sold 121 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: for development. At the risk of sounding like an environmentalist wacko, 122 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: as Russell Lombo would say, what does this mean for 123 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: food production? Where millions of acres are being turned into 124 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: subdivisions and where they're well, the effects start to be felt, 125 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: or maybe they are already are. Also, if you have 126 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: time on how on earth did you end up working 127 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: at Victoria's Secret? Okay, all right, Victoria's Secret. First, I 128 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 1: was eighteen. I needed a job. My cousin was the 129 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 1: store manager, and she hired me. I mean it was 130 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 1: nepotism of the smallest form. I had no experience. I 131 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: needed some kind of a job, and I think I 132 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: was paid five dollars and I want to say twenty 133 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: five cents an hour, and it got bumped up to 134 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: five seventy five while I work there, really making a 135 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: lot of money. But it was a good job. I 136 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 1: learned a lot of different things. The thing that I well, 137 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: the funny story is is that because I worked at 138 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: the Queen Center, Mall in Queens, New York, which is 139 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: a very hub of diversity, a lot of foreign language speakers. 140 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: I had to deal with people who didn't speak English, 141 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: so you like would point them to the dressing room, 142 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: they walk to the corner and start taking our shirts off. 143 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: Like things like that would happen constantly. Also the fact 144 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: that people believe that they would look like the Victoria 145 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: Victoria's Secret model if they wore the clothes, despite being 146 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: significantly larger in non flattering places, or being people of 147 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: particular age where you did not look like Giselle Bunschin, 148 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: even if in your prime you may have. So that 149 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: was it. That was funny. The interesting thing was I 150 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: would be I grew up very much working class, but 151 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: very like Italian working class, very Catholic, Like I did 152 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: not know there were churches. This is how like in 153 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: solarly Catholic I grew up. I did not know that 154 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: there were churches that were not Catholic until I was 155 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: like twenty, because every church around us was Catholic. I 156 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: think we had one evangelical Korean church that I never saw, 157 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: we will walk in. I only ever saw a Catholic church, 158 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: and when I was like twenty I went to I 159 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: was living in Aubany working for the state legislator. Was 160 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: twenty one and I worked and I went to I 161 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: went to church at the corner church. I assumed it 162 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: was just a Catholic church. It was an all black church. 163 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: I said, it must be an all black Catholic church. 164 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: And like, after hour two of the singing, I was like, 165 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: when is the Eucharist? And the lady goes, what's a Eucharist? 166 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: And I was like, I happy to get out of here. 167 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: So I did not have much exposive exposure to people 168 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: who weren't a lot like me. And the thing is 169 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: is that when I worked at Victoria's Secret, a lot 170 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 1: of the people were minorities, almost all women, and from 171 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: a different not just like economic background, because I was 172 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 1: not wealthy. I didn't grow up wealthy at all, but 173 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: from a different position on values and morals. Like there 174 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: was a lot of like twenty year old women who 175 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: were like my age, where they were all single moms. 176 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: A couple of them had husbands or boyfriends in prison. 177 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: A couple of them were like, you know, talking about 178 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: wanting to have another baby with a different baby daddy. 179 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:16,719 Speaker 1: And I would just I came at it from the 180 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: approach that my parents were pushed me and which was 181 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: like can you afford that? Like you're making as much 182 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 1: as me? What do you mean? And that really just 183 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 1: was an interesting cultural clash where I think I learned 184 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: a lot about people in that time frame and what like, 185 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: you know, they would tell me what they were looking 186 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 1: for and like a boyfriend or partner, and it was like, 187 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: you know, must be I'm one woman. I'll never forget it. 188 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: She's like, he's got to be a thug. I was like, 189 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,439 Speaker 1: that's like, not like have a credit score, that's your number? 190 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: Was a thug? That was Victoria's secret. Okay, onto farmers, 191 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: just what you asked about. We have seen the decline 192 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: in farmers happen for decades. Like before I was born, 193 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: before my grandparents born. In nineteen thirty five, there were 194 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 1: six point eight million farms in America. That number hit 195 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: two point two million in nineteen ninety seven, and it 196 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: was consistently two point two million for about two decades. 197 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: And now it's a one point eight sixty five million 198 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: and it's just declining. And a big part of it 199 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: is the farmer population is aging significantly. A lot of 200 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 1: people do not want to go into the agricultural industry. 201 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: It is a tough industry, it's an expensive industry. It 202 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 1: is one where you can make a lot of money. 203 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: At the same time you could have bad season and 204 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: you can lose a lot of money. And it's an 205 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: interest and it's a lifestyle. It's a certain lifestyle that 206 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 1: you know, you're not going to Disney every couple of 207 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: you know, like once like twice a year, like you're not. 208 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: There's no opportunity for that. And I think that fact 209 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:45,559 Speaker 1: that it's an aging population don't want to do with 210 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 1: the industry is what is affecting it. The other thing 211 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: that I would say is is that as far as 212 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: the diversity or our food go and are will, it 213 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:59,199 Speaker 1: will likely increase our dependency on foreign agriculture, which we're 214 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: already seeing. Go to the grocery stores look at blueberries. 215 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not natural in nature to be able 216 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: to buy blueberries and certain times the seasons in the Northeast, 217 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 1: but we have it because of their trade opportunities with 218 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: other countries. And I think that those will probably increase 219 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: as we deplete our own agricultural ability and we'll just 220 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 1: have the super farms. The super gigantic farms produce our 221 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:26,199 Speaker 1: main agricultural products, and some other things might be outsourced. 222 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: Where I think it really affects it is the most 223 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: expensive part of food is transportation. Having an agricultural industry 224 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 1: that is close to locations would reduce prices, but that's 225 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:42,439 Speaker 1: obviously not feasible everywhere, Like Hawaii can't just build farms everywhere, 226 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: and we can't grow bananas we grow in Hawaii everywhere, 227 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: but that would absolutely take a lot of the cost. 228 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 1: I remember, forget it. I was in California last summer and 229 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 1: I saw avocados for like a dollar, which like like 230 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: like ten for like five dollars or over something like that. 231 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,679 Speaker 1: It was like ridiculously cheap because they're produced there, so 232 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: it's better than just I guess going bad in the 233 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 1: fields is getting some money out of it. But that's 234 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 1: what I think about that stuff. It is sad. But 235 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: if you don't like that, I mean part of that 236 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: is because of mass population growth because of immigration. Okay, 237 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: Scott writes Ryan. I think I've listened to every episode 238 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: of your show. Scott. You are a patriot and I've 239 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: learned a lot. Thank you so much. For what you do. 240 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: Hopefully Democrats aren't listening, but Republicans are. It is likely 241 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:24,839 Speaker 1: that no one's listening. I'm just joking. People do listen, 242 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 1: but in my life, I feel like no one's ever listening. 243 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: If you, I have two questions for you. First, can 244 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,439 Speaker 1: you please listen to reluctant radio show and tell me 245 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: if it's as awful as the Christian rock you've been 246 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: listening to for Lent, I will give it a shot. 247 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 1: Here's the thing I like. I play music twenty four 248 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: hours a day, Like there's never a time where music 249 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: is not playing around me. So I knew it would 250 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: be a big sacrifice for Lent to give up music. 251 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: And I really like gospel. I have to be in 252 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: the mood to listen to like traditional like Latin mass music, 253 00:12:57,559 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: or like I have to be in a really contemplative place, 254 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 1: just have it on the background and not even know 255 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 1: what it's on. But like when you're doing things, when 256 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:06,960 Speaker 1: you're going to the gym, you want something a little 257 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: bit more up But I also love gospel music. I 258 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: really really love gospel music. But you want something up beat, 259 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 1: so Christian rock. I was like, maybe I'll find a 260 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: few things there were a couple singers. There's a song 261 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 1: called Cant of My Blessings that was really nice, but 262 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: it was it's very most of it's pretty awful. It's really, really, 263 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: really bad, but I will check that out. Second, if 264 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,959 Speaker 1: John Cornyn is replaced by Ken Paxton, do you think 265 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 1: we'll get a nationwide concealed weapon re recipabilities? And I 266 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: think Cornyn may be a major sho Okay, so we'll 267 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 1: Corny change on gun rights. I don't think so. I 268 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 1: don't think Cornyn wants to. I think Cornyn, if he 269 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: has an issue betrayed voters on would be immigration. And also, 270 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:51,080 Speaker 1: if Cornyn is loses to Ken Paxton, there is no 271 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: way on under the sun. I think that Jonathim brings 272 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 1: up a gun control bill in either a lame duck 273 00:13:58,559 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: or for the end of the year, because there's not 274 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:02,439 Speaker 1: that any days the sentence even working. So I have 275 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 1: a hard hard time thinking that corn And is going 276 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:07,959 Speaker 1: to back a gun control bill in his remaining days 277 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,599 Speaker 1: and it's not going to do much anyway more. Asked me, 278 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:16,959 Speaker 1: anything is coming up? Next? Okay? Next up is a 279 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,959 Speaker 1: question from Jason. He says, Hey, Ryan, love your show 280 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: spent seventy hours a week running truck through the inter 281 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: Mountain West in graves yard shifts. Have a question for 282 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: you to ask me anything segment that sounds like a 283 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: hard job. I'm an adult. I've only known two vice 284 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: presidents to run for president after a successful term the 285 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: elder Bush and Gore didn't pay much attention. But did 286 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 1: they go through a normal primary process or was it 287 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: like an installation like Harris. I didn't include her because 288 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: that was Yes. Also, another note you mentioned on previous 289 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: pods testing about a podcast on true crime, I would 290 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: recommend the High Five murders in Utah. Wasn't around for it, 291 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: but it haunts the people of Utah to this day. 292 00:14:55,880 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: I will check that out. And he goes closing. I 293 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 1: do not know all the Supreme Court justice's names. Yeah, 294 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: I mean they change every once in a while, but 295 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: it's a pretty easy list. There's a couple I've been 296 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 1: there for some time, but I mean you could kind 297 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: of know Alito, Clarence, Thomas, and Roberts. But whatever, I mean, 298 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: deach their own Okay, So for the primary process for 299 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: the past vice presidents who run for president, Yes, they 300 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: did have a normal primary In nineteen eighty eight, George H. W. 301 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: Bush had a primary. He actually lost several states to 302 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: Bob Dole and to Pat Robertson, the pastor who was 303 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: running who didn't think that George H. W. Bush was 304 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: sufficiently Christian enough or part of the Christian right. And 305 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: then the second one was in two thousand, Al goreth 306 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: did have a primary against Bill Bradley, but Gore was 307 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: really liked in the party and so it was Clinton 308 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: towards the end of his second term. He won seventy 309 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: five percent of the vote, so it wasn't an installation. 310 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: There was a primary, but Bradley didn't win any state. 311 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: Score did okay. Next question comes from Dan Hey. Ryan 312 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: loved the show. First HEARDing the Jesse Kelly show. Jesse's 313 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: The Man is so great. It irritates me that Trump 314 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: is using the strategic oil supply to relieve pain of 315 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: the pump right now, especially after Biden deleted a bunch 316 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: of it during his time in office. Do you have 317 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: any insight how much oil reserves we have and how 318 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: much we're supposed to have? Dan, great question, Dan, This 319 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: is something that I actually think about from time to time, 320 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: and it's one of those questions that you put in 321 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 1: the back here and saying I'm going to look this 322 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: up later and then you don't. I was able to 323 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 1: look this up because it was brought to me to 324 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 1: this for this question. So yes, And at the end 325 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three, right before Trump took office, we 326 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: have forty six point four billion barrels of oil. That 327 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: is down from forty eight billion in twenty twenty two. 328 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: As you said, Dan, Joe Biden did release a lot 329 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: of oil during the during the what was it the 330 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: inflationary period to relieve dollars to the pump and didn't 331 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: really do much, but he did release a lot of oil. 332 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: Actually I did not know this, but twenty twenty two 333 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: was the high water mark of the amount of oil 334 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 1: in our reserves, and forty six point four billion is 335 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 1: near the high water mark. We we only don't have 336 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 1: that much as we have right now. From the nineteen 337 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: seventies to the early twenty tens, we only have about 338 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: twenty five billion barrels of oil on reserve. And it 339 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: was really Obama and Trump. Obama than the second term 340 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 1: and Trump in his first term that rapidly increased the number, 341 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: that almost doubled basically the amount of oil we have 342 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 1: in reserve. So we are near the high mark, we're 343 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: not near any low mark, and we have a couple 344 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: of billion barrels to go. I know is concerned, is 345 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 1: concerned of mind too. I did not know that we 346 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: were near historic highs as far as oil goes, and 347 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: that the norm is about twenty to twenty five billion, 348 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 1: and now we are closer to fifty billion than we 349 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: are to twenty five billion. Okay, the next question comes 350 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 1: from Bobby. He writes, Hey, Ryan, second time email or 351 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 1: I love learning about the mechanics of elections, the polling 352 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,719 Speaker 1: and the voter registration that turnout, the messaging, the party apparatus, 353 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 1: the campaign. Instead of a podcast with all the gritty 354 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,439 Speaker 1: details of a murder, how about one of the gritty 355 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 1: details of a campaign. I probably one of the small 356 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,360 Speaker 1: number of people who will be interested and would probably 357 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 1: be a lot of work, So feel free to ignore me. Yeah, 358 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:08,439 Speaker 1: that would be a hard work because a lot of 359 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:11,959 Speaker 1: campaigns are not super exciting. Like there's a lot of 360 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 1: tense moments in a campaign that you feel, you know, 361 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 1: you feel the intensity and you feel like the gravitas 362 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: of it all. I remember like when I worked for 363 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: JD Vance's campaign of the Superpackers campaign back in twenty 364 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 1: twenty two. I remember, you know, we were getting close 365 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: to the primary day and we were waiting for a 366 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,160 Speaker 1: Trump endorsement. We were hearing back and forth, Trump might endorse, 367 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: Trump might endorse, Trump, My endorse and it was good Friday. 368 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:39,440 Speaker 1: I remember, I just came out of mass the stations 369 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 1: of the Cross and I was eating fish and I 370 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 1: look at my phone and like just like it's the 371 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: end of the day. I'm like, it's not gonna happen. 372 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 1: We're not going to get the Trump endorsement. We're going 373 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 1: to go on this primary and just it'll be like 374 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: a nail bier. But you know, it is what it is. 375 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,119 Speaker 1: I completely, completely, you know, said that that's what was 376 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: going to happen. And like seconds later he and door 377 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 1: trumpendors and it was like your phone blows up. And 378 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 1: I called my boss at the time and eat screaming 379 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 1: let's f and go. And it was great. It was 380 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 1: like high highs. And that's the whole thing with campaigns. 381 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: There is no higher moment than an election day with 382 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: the candidate, because you're just like the intensity is almost unspeakable. 383 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: Everything you've worked towards for months is just it could 384 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: end in a second. And I said, campaigns go from 385 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,119 Speaker 1: like you have don't have enough work to do in 386 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: a week to having enough work every week to do 387 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: in a month, and then it's feeling of intensity. Like 388 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: another moment I remember is Brandon Gill I was working 389 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:40,159 Speaker 1: on his campaign was a GC and we're in the 390 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,360 Speaker 1: We're in the room and you know, his wife's there 391 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 1: and the campaign manager and that's just Susan's there and 392 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: we're all just like we're waiting, We're waiting, We're waiting, waiting, 393 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:52,920 Speaker 1: and everyone had the Texas like for the elections website open. 394 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:54,640 Speaker 1: I had the New York Times open, and I don't 395 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: know how the New York Times got the results before 396 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:00,719 Speaker 1: before like everyone else before the bal we updated it 397 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:03,639 Speaker 1: and the New York Times came out. I was like, 398 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: I think he got like fifty five percent with sixty 399 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: percent of the vote, and or something like we're gonna win, 400 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 1: and like the question is like maybe we have a runoff, 401 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 1: but we probably don't. And I remember just bursting out 402 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: just screaming like fifty five percent whatever the number was, 403 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: like sixty percent we won, like it was just and 404 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 1: like the whole room like loses all the air for 405 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: a second and then just explodes and excitement. Like those 406 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 1: kinds of moments are just unimaginable, Like they are unimaginable. 407 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: And also there's like moments and campaigns that are just heartbreaking. 408 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 1: I worked for one guy. I don't want to say 409 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 1: his name because he's extremely litigious. It was a New 410 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 1: Jersey candidate. We had a we had, we had. He 411 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: was a very odd ball guy. He was funny, he 412 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,920 Speaker 1: was very interesting. We worked so hard for him to 413 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 1: get the Republican nomination. He got it, he won the primary, 414 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 1: and then the next day fired us, and that was 415 00:20:56,280 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 1: like devastating, like that that was a sucker punch to 416 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,880 Speaker 1: be fired after we won a primary that no one 417 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 1: thought we were gonna win. So there's a lot of 418 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: there's a million moments like them. I don't think they're 419 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 1: all like gritty. The show Veep is much more accurate 420 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 1: towards what politics is like sometimes than anything else. Okay, 421 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: next question, Karina. Karina says, Hi, I really love your show. 422 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: I love your analysis and the hilarious side comments. I 423 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: live in telling New York, a small town twenty nine 424 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 1: ers south of Syracuse. Syracuse is beautiful. I wanted to 425 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,239 Speaker 1: hear more about why ELISEE Steponic dropped out of the 426 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: governor's race. I know the rumors that Trump didn't want 427 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 1: to endorse, certain she felt betrayed by him. To you 428 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: any other details. Does Trump really think a candidate from 429 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 1: downstate as a better shot and has name recognition and 430 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 1: a big following on social media. I don't think many 431 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 1: people in New York had ever heard of Bruce Blakeman. 432 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 1: He's the Nasau County Counting executive. What would only happen 433 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 1: if hellfree's I'm curious to hear your thoughts, if only 434 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:59,360 Speaker 1: a miracle can put Bruce Blakeman in the governor's mansion. Okay, 435 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: So here's what I've heard about elise Deeponic, and there's 436 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 1: a lot of allegedly starting around so allegedly, at least 437 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,439 Speaker 1: very much was looking at a run for president in 438 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:15,160 Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, and she wanted some foreign policy experience, 439 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: and that's allegedly why she asked for a UN ambassador. 440 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,640 Speaker 1: Now side note, I told Tulcy Gabber that's the job 441 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:24,959 Speaker 1: she should have pursued. Was u an ambassador. But whatever, 442 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: But it's a great gig. You work, and you get 443 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 1: an apartment in New York, you get to take votes 444 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: in basically a delegation that means nothing, and you get 445 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:35,679 Speaker 1: in a New York apartment with an assistant. How we're 446 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: wonderful is that it's a great gig. So she allegedly 447 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 1: wanted to do all those things, and what allegedly happened 448 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: was her political team did not do an efficient job 449 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: picking out a replacement, and in the void of her 450 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 1: picking a replacement or getting a replacement pick that she 451 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 1: and the party would get behind, we had special elections 452 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: where Republicans drastically underperformed and her seat was historically very 453 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 1: wishy washing where she had replaced a Democrat when she 454 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: first was elected, and then secondly, as she did not 455 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 1: make a decision or her team did not make a decision, 456 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: the party became very fragmented, where you had party chairmen 457 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: of the Conservative Party and the Republican Party picking different people, 458 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:22,239 Speaker 1: and it looked like it was going to be a 459 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: battle for the primary, and it was to be a very 460 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:30,399 Speaker 1: very tense and hard fought general, and that's when they 461 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:34,239 Speaker 1: made the move to pull the plug. At least in 462 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 1: my opinion, is a very strong fundraiser. She's a very strong, 463 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 1: very effective and crafty woman. I'm not always been the 464 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: biggest fan of her, but I give credit words due. 465 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:50,439 Speaker 1: She's very effective, very capable, and her how do I 466 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:56,120 Speaker 1: say this, her her announcement for governor was I think 467 00:23:56,119 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 1: it was gonna be a disaster. Stephanic had support to 468 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 1: a nationwide abortion band and New York is just it's 469 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 1: going to be like the end of it. There's no 470 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 1: chance that she's going to make any any any any 471 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 1: ability to win over you know, moderate New Yorkers who 472 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: you know, support abortion. And she had just aligned herself 473 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 1: too close to Trump for New York. And allegedly, the 474 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: rumors that I heard was she was running to raise 475 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: her national profile even more for this alleged run for president. 476 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: One day, it was all about this run for president. 477 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,919 Speaker 1: It was kind of crazy. And this is allegedly what 478 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: people very close to her were saying over and over 479 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 1: and over again. It was very messy. And Trump has 480 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 1: had a relationship with Bruce Blake for decades. He and 481 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: Bruce really do like each other. Bruce is moderate on 482 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 1: multiple issues from a very important Swaying County. I mean, 483 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 1: most of the counties in the southern part of the 484 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: state matter a lot more. And Trump was playing foot 485 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,439 Speaker 1: seat with both of them, saying, I like both, I 486 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,439 Speaker 1: like both, I like both. And then he had that 487 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: pres conmence with Mandannie where he you know, said out 488 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: much he likes Mandani and said that he didn't think 489 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,360 Speaker 1: that he believed and one of least Stephonic was saying 490 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,439 Speaker 1: and at that point it was just basically over. I 491 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 1: think that with her, her chances of a non competitive 492 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 1: primary where she wouldn't spend a lot of money to 493 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:19,120 Speaker 1: raise her profile all went out the window, and yeah, 494 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,439 Speaker 1: would it take a chance? What's his chances? Blakesman has 495 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,439 Speaker 1: got very weak chances. I mean, if he can sort of, 496 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 1: you know, solidify Long Island Republican's dominance on Long Island, 497 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 1: if he can compete in Queens and get a thirty 498 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: five to forty percent in Queens, if he can win, 499 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: if he can continue to build momentum with the Asian 500 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: community and Queens, the Latino community and Queens, the white 501 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: working class in Queens, and keep Staten Island super red, 502 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 1: he'll have a chance to do and perform well The 503 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 1: problem is Upstate is not like it used to be. 504 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: Upstate as much bluer, as more Manhattanites have moved up there, 505 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,399 Speaker 1: and it is less populated than it used to be. 506 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: So the George Bataki roote of getting all these boats 507 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 1: out of upstate New York is just not there anymore. 508 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 1: And that's the problem with it all anyway. But that's 509 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 1: the issue. Okay, one more question coming up and more 510 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:11,159 Speaker 1: ask me anything. Stay tuned, all right, last question on 511 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,640 Speaker 1: they ask me anything, same when this comes to me. Yosef, Yosef, 512 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: thank you for writing, longtime listener, first time caller. A 513 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,400 Speaker 1: lot has been said about jerry mandering on the national level, 514 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 1: and not much been set on the local level, where 515 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: it's arguably been much worse. I'm curious what you think 516 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: about Republican jerrymanners in several states where the Republicans have 517 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,439 Speaker 1: lost popular elections but still won the state legislators in 518 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: the years twenty twelve through twenty twenty two, notably Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, 519 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: North Carolina, and Michigan. I know that Democrats do as 520 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 1: well jerrymander as well, like in Nevada. I know the 521 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: popular vote isn't a pure metric of legislative elections. I 522 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: try to keep an open mind about this stuff, but 523 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: it really feels like Republicans are pushing jerrymandering at least 524 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,359 Speaker 1: as badly as Democrats, if not worse. They are certainly 525 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: not offering any types of solutions. I guess my question 526 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:56,639 Speaker 1: is what do you think is a long term solution 527 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 1: for this type of jerrymandering arms race? That is a 528 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: wonderful question is as I love the show. It as 529 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,679 Speaker 1: some of the unique and rigorous perspective, and I know 530 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 1: that you do a really great job of avoiding political cheerleading. 531 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: Thank you, yoh. So that means a lot to me. 532 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: I really work hard at this show. Okay, so you 533 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: have to remember go back in time two thousand and Yes, 534 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 1: jeremanics existed for decades. Democrats family did in California and 535 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,400 Speaker 1: Texas through the nineteen seventies. Twenty ten was the Tea 536 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 1: party year. So when redistrict happened in twenty twelve, Republicans 537 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: had majorities and in some places super majorities across the country. 538 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,520 Speaker 1: Go back to two thousand and eight and look at 539 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, Democrats had a majority in North Carolina. 540 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 1: They had a majority throughout most of the Deep South. 541 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: They were only one seat away from flipping this Texas 542 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: State House, and twenty ten changed everything. The Tea Party 543 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: election changed at all. And then in twenty twenty a 544 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,199 Speaker 1: couple of states started changing the way they do redistrict 545 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 1: like Michigan as an independent redistrict. Now it's not purely partisan, 546 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: which is why the congressional seats are much more balanced. 547 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,439 Speaker 1: I guess Wisconsin is so funn because I saying it's 548 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,880 Speaker 1: crazy gerrymandered. All the Democrats live in two cities, so 549 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: in order for the Democrats to have more seats, you 550 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: need to cut up those two cities and make those 551 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,159 Speaker 1: cities imbalanced. It's not that's a question of geography for 552 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 1: the congressional races. I know you're asked about state legislative 553 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: but that always annoys me. I'm like you, Yes, to 554 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: get these equally balance, you have to slice cities in half, 555 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: which would that's not the purpose of making districts. Districts 556 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:33,159 Speaker 1: should have both representative political alignment from the state, but 557 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: also have communities of unique and common interests aligned in 558 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: the same district. Right, you don't want to have a 559 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 1: city split and half just because the city is split 560 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: in half. What do I think of Republicans doing in 561 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: the twenty tens in to twenty twenties, It hasn't always 562 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 1: worked out. Remember in Pennsylvania, the judges, which are Democrat, 563 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 1: did strike down Republican gerrymandering in the state legislature, and 564 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: Republicans still won the state Senate. They've lost the state 565 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 1: House by just one vote. In Michigan, they lost the 566 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: state House and state Senate and then they won them 567 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 1: both back, and then in Wisconsin they've held on to 568 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 1: the legislature both times. I mean, you have to go 569 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 1: like it's so difficult. I grew up in a neighborhood 570 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 1: that was very Republican and my district was split. My 571 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: community was split into three different districts for the state House. 572 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 1: So we can never elect a Republican who actually represent us. 573 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: And I understand why political parties do it. And even 574 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 1: when there is independent redistrict and commissions like in New Jersey. 575 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 1: New Jersey has districts that are not even connected by 576 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,960 Speaker 1: land masks, like they just shove part of a district 577 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 1: into another district in order to give a political balance 578 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: in favor of Democrats. There is very little, I believe, 579 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 1: very little things you could do to ever stop jerrymandering. 580 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 1: Make a rule where certain communities have to be paired 581 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 1: together because of commonality, although if their population booms, is 582 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: going to be impossible to do what I believe, and 583 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: I think this is the closest you can get. Well, 584 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 1: there's two things. One this is never going to happen, 585 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: but you can do it. One you could just get 586 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 1: it of districts altogether. You could just have proportional representation. 587 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 1: Right first, thirty five canis in the ballad whoever wins whatever, 588 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: If the Democratic Party gets fifty, Republic gets fifty, Green 589 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 1: gets ten, whatever the cases they get that many seats, 590 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: you could do that. That would end jerrymandering all together 591 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 1: and make it just proportional representation. I don't think anyone's 592 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: proposing that. I think Massachusetts tried it at a one 593 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: time and then Democrats like, wow, we're electing a lot 594 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 1: more Republicans, let's get rid of this. But France did 595 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 1: that one time where they were like proportional representation. They're like, 596 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 1: absolutely not, We're never doing that again. So you could 597 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 1: try that. The state could absolutely try that, And I'm 598 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 1: sure there's some states that may be even interested in 599 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 1: having that kind of conversation. The second thing that you 600 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 1: could do, which is what I believe, and this works 601 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: more in congress than it does for state legislatures because 602 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: they're so much smaller, is you should have a rule 603 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 1: where a county has to be completely encompassed into one 604 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 1: district until the population you fit the population line. So 605 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: if you have four districts or five counties you know, YadA, YadA, YadA, 606 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: that have completely that make up the seven hundred and 607 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: fifty thousand you need for a congressional district or one 608 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 1: hundred thousand for a state legislature or whatever. They have 609 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 1: to be completely encompassed, and you can obviously cut up 610 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 1: a little bit here or there, depending upon if they're 611 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 1: over the population line, but you have to encompass either 612 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: cities together or counties together, and you can't have districts 613 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 1: that run through fifteen different districts. To make it a 614 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: certain way politically, I think that that kind of rule, 615 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 1: of the kind of geography rule would help now would 616 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: always create perfect political balance. Now it wouldn't, but I 617 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 1: think it's the best that we could do, because you 618 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 1: can have or as long as people are going to 619 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 1: be making these decisions, you know, they're going to have 620 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 1: a political bias, and that's it. I think Iowa does 621 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: a great job, Nebraska does a good job, but there's 622 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 1: very very few anyway. All Right, that's the show. Thank 623 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: you guys for listening. I'll be back Monday with great, 624 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 1: great episode about the recording on the Democratic primaries that 625 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: are going on right now and how it's affecting the election, 626 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 1: how outside money is affecting this election. Stay tuned on 627 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 1: money because if you like this episode, you should like 628 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,960 Speaker 1: and subscribe on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, YouTube, wherever 629 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 1: you get this podcast. I'll talk to you guys Monday. 630 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: Have a great weekend.