1 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, lock and load from 2 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 2: In terms of the security of our home, there have 4 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 2: been a number of attacks. The ISIS inspired bombing attempt 5 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 2: in New York City outside mom Donnie's house, a shooting 6 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 2: target at an ROTC class at Old Dominion, and on 7 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 2: and on and on. Meanwhile, the Department of Home and 8 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,560 Speaker 2: Security is still shut down because Senate Democrats are blocking 9 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 2: the funding bill over the Trump administration's immigration cro crackdown. 10 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 2: Given the security concerns you've just expressed, and given the 11 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 2: fact that that honestly Secretary Nome has been fired Tom 12 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 2: Holman took over from Greg Navino unknom in Minnesota, you 13 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 2: could argue Democrats won the debate. Isn't it time for 14 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 2: Democrats to reopen and rEFInd DHS. 15 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 3: So, first of all, Democrats have tried multiple times to 16 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 3: try to get tsa SISA, the Coastguard funded. Republicans have 17 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 3: refused time and time again to fund. 18 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: They want the whole agency. Fund want the whole agency. 19 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 3: ICE is still out there doing reckless things in communities. 20 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 3: ICE is still arresting and detaining American citizens. 21 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,960 Speaker 4: Here, I do have to ask you just finally about 22 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 4: this partial government shutdown, DHS not being funded for a 23 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 4: month now. Just this week we saw terror attacks in 24 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:40,199 Speaker 4: West Bloomfield, Michigan. In Norfolk, Virginia. This morning, the CEOs 25 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 4: of the nation's major airlines and cargo carriers have written 26 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 4: a letter to Congress calling for them to end the shutdown, 27 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 4: talking about the importance of American security in the airways. 28 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 4: Is it responsible for Democrats to hold up DHS funding 29 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 4: with the threat of terror attacks looming. 30 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: During this conflict? 31 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 5: As you know, we offered vote after vote, resolution after resolution, 32 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,239 Speaker 5: even as recently as this week to reopen those agencies 33 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 5: to fund them, and the Republicans voted it down. 34 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:11,839 Speaker 6: Yes. 35 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,799 Speaker 7: The video shows people taking cover inside a ball as 36 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 7: a gunman fired shots toward them from the window of 37 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 7: an suv. Then the police said he parked and got 38 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:26,519 Speaker 7: out with a rifle and started firing again. Within less 39 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 7: than a minute, three police officers patrolling the busy entertainment 40 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 7: district shot and killed the gunman. Paramedics immediately started trying 41 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:35,799 Speaker 7: to say the lives of the nineteen people shot. Two 42 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 7: of them died, three more were in critical condition. 43 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 8: Muhammad al kuse has been booked into the Tarran County 44 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 8: Jail in charge with making terroristic threats at the state level. 45 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 1: According to Department of Homeland Security. 46 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 8: He was arrested after posting a video on TikTok saying 47 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 8: he was building a bomb to explode in the Fort 48 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 8: Worth area. 49 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: Not as you mentioned the fact. 50 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 9: Happy Monday by one, not to mention the fact that 51 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 9: there are long lines at airports in the country. Houston 52 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 9: experienced over four hour lines a few days ago to 53 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 9: get through TSA. Austin then had and I think this 54 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 9: is going to be sort of a downstream problem, or 55 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:22,799 Speaker 9: Austin would have been upstream in that sense. They had 56 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 9: long lines at the Austin airport because you don't have 57 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 9: enough TSA agents to handle the crowds at spring break 58 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 9: and a lot of people travel when their kids are. 59 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: Out of school. And so here we are. 60 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 9: We'll become a country that cannot provide basic, very basic services. 61 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 9: If we're going to mandate as a government, the elected 62 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 9: officials of you and me, that before you can get 63 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 9: on a plane, we're going to have a government agency 64 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 9: that's going to run you through a scanner and run 65 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 9: your stuff through and review it. And we have our 66 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 9: elected officials have done that. I've not heard a huge 67 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 9: hue and cry to do away with TSA, although for 68 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 9: the record, I want to I want to privatize that. 69 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 9: We can disagree, but just telling you that's where I am. 70 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 9: But if you're going to have a government agency do it, 71 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 9: because Lord knows government agencies are so efficient, then you've 72 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 9: got to fund that. Well, the Democrats hold up the funding, 73 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 9: and the Republicans say, hey, look, it's a blame game. 74 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 9: Republicans go, look, they're not funding DHS. The Democrats say, 75 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 9: as you just heard, no, no, we're willing to fund 76 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 9: that little thing right over there, but only if we 77 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 9: can defund ice. So the Democrats are holding up the 78 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 9: funding for TSA agents for instance. They are no, no, no, no, 79 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 9: We're willing to give it if we can do this 80 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 9: over here. And so it's a game, and it's a 81 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 9: game that where you suffering the pain of ours at 82 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 9: the airport is not a glitch. It's not a bug 83 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 9: in the system. It's in the design. They want you 84 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:35,039 Speaker 9: to suffer. Oh Mike, well come on now, now you 85 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 9: just playing party pology. Look, the Republicans make me more 86 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 9: mad than Democrats. If you want the honest truth, they do. 87 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: They do. 88 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 9: The John Thuns and the John Cornyns and the Lindsey 89 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 9: Grahamnesty watch betwirl Daddy. They they're disgusting to me. And 90 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 9: for that matter, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski and Bill Cassidy, 91 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 9: they're disgusting to me, Mitch McConnell. But what we're seeing 92 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 9: here is a game that the Democrats are playing to 93 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 9: try to shame Trump and get you to blame Trump, because, 94 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 9: let's be honest, most people don't know the names of 95 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 9: the senators and congressman. They just don't. Who are the 96 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 9: two senators from Missouri? Can you name one of them? 97 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 9: Who are the two senators from Mississippi? Can you name 98 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 9: one of them? You can name John Kennedy from Louisiana. 99 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 9: Because he spends all his time coming up with little, 100 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 9: little clever quotes, and so everybody thinks he's great because 101 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 9: he has a little clever quotes. Nobody ever bothers to 102 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 9: look and see that how often he stabs us in 103 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 9: the back on the Maga agenda and the real conservative 104 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 9: agenda because he's got a good quote and he enjoys that. 105 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: He's he's real clever that way, he's got kind of a. 106 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 9: Kind of a mincing or Oscar Wilde way with a 107 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 9: good Bonemont and that that's that's a skill. 108 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 1: I mean, it is a skill. But in any case, 109 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: we're going to talk about that. 110 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 9: But first we're going to talk about President Trump's chief 111 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 9: of staff and some bad news that emerged today about her. 112 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 9: The President went to truth Social. 113 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: To make that announcement. 114 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 9: We'll start with that story and then the DHS, and 115 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 9: then we've got a great New Orleans story for you 116 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 9: about a neutral rat that you're going to love to 117 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 9: hang around later in the show. The President Trump took 118 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 9: to social media today. Truth social, which is which is 119 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 9: his preferred means. I don't know anybody, and I'm not 120 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 9: trying to run down truth Social. I don't know anybody 121 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 9: who's on true social for any reason other than to 122 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 9: read his uh, to read his posts, and then someone 123 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 9: takes his posts and puts some on Twitter where everybody 124 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 9: else is. Again, I don't have any If I say 125 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 9: something like that, people always want to read into it 126 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 9: that ah, he doesn't. 127 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: Like, so I don't care. 128 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 9: I'm just saying I don't know the purpose of truth 129 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 9: social other than the President posting tweets there, But listen, uh, 130 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 9: I didn't know what the term cis gender meant, you know, 131 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 9: three or four years after it was being used. 132 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: I didn't know what base meant. 133 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 9: I tend not to keep up with a lot of 134 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 9: kind of pop culture y type stuff, so there may 135 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,559 Speaker 9: be a lot of people on true social I didn't 136 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 9: know what a Kim trail was for ten years after 137 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 9: I heard people talking about it. I just didn't know. 138 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 9: You Okay, yeah, that's It's not something I follow. But 139 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 9: if it is something you follow, so be it. I'm 140 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 9: just telling you I'm not usually at the forefront of 141 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 9: pop culture phenomena, not something I pride myself on. So 142 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 9: isn't it posted this earlier today? Susie Wiles, that's his 143 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,559 Speaker 9: chief of staff. Susie Wiles is an incredible chief of staff, 144 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 9: a great person and one of the strongest people I know. 145 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 9: When Donald Trump refers to someone as being strong the 146 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 9: opposite of week, that is his highest compliment. 147 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: It's just revealing about how his mind works. 148 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 9: The President likes strength, he likes toughness, he likes you know, 149 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 9: extroverted personalities, firm negotiators, big talkers, lots of those are 150 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 9: things that are important to him. Everybody has things that 151 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 9: are important to them that are different. That's a little 152 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 9: different than your traditional kind of Mike pince Mitt, Romney. 153 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:50,839 Speaker 1: George H. W. 154 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:55,559 Speaker 9: Bush Republican where they talk about honor and integrity. 155 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: It's different. 156 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 9: I'm not saying one is better than the other, but 157 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 9: it is a different Those guys are not the type 158 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 9: to start deporting people, for instance, because that wouldn't be 159 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 9: seen as honorable, that would upset people. 160 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: Feelings would be hurt. 161 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 9: Trump tends to be more results oriented and fearless. And 162 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 9: you know, look, people say to me every day, I 163 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,200 Speaker 9: like Trump, I just wish he wouldn't do this, this, 164 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 9: and this, to which I say, that's like saying I 165 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,960 Speaker 9: really liked Fernando Vealezuela, I just wish he wasn't left handed. Well, 166 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,079 Speaker 9: that's who and what he is. You're not going to 167 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 9: change that. Well, Fernando Vealezuela reference, where did that come from? 168 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 9: That one season? The screwball, the pop belly, the pop mace, 169 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 9: pop mark face, and the shooting his eyes up to 170 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 9: the moon just as he as he kicked up his leg. 171 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,599 Speaker 9: That that one year that he had the most amazing 172 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:02,079 Speaker 9: run was was special, But in any case, the point 173 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 9: is Trump is Trump. You don't get to have Trump 174 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:08,679 Speaker 9: be Trump seventy percent of the time and the other 175 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 9: thirty he's not. He's who he is, and he's not 176 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 9: gonna change, and you're not gonna make him change. That's 177 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 9: just something you're gonna have to You're gonna have to 178 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 9: deal with and decide whether you like it or you don't. So, 179 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 9: he writes, Susie Wilds is an incredible chief of staff, 180 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 9: a great person and one of the strongest people I know. 181 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 9: But unfortunately she has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. 182 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 9: Early stage is good because the earlier you catch breast cancer, 183 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 9: as I understand. 184 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: It, the better likelihood you beat it. 185 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 9: And breast cancer and prostate cancer are two forms of 186 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 9: cancer that our medical establishment has managed to figure out 187 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 9: how to diagnose and treat, which is a good thing 188 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 9: and well another subject from the day. Ann has decided 189 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:01,199 Speaker 9: to take on this challenge immediately, so she's going to 190 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 9: undergo treatment for breast cancer. 191 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 1: She's his chief of staff as opposed to waiting. 192 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 9: She has a fantastic medical team and her prognosis is 193 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 9: excellent exclamation mark. During the treatment period, she will be 194 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 9: spending virtually full time at the White House, which makes me, 195 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 9: as President, very happy. 196 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 1: Exclamation mark. Her strength. 197 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 9: Strength is capitalized there, and I don't think by accident. 198 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 9: Her strength and her commitment commitment is capitalized as well, 199 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:38,839 Speaker 9: suggesting that these are very important traits the president. Her 200 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 9: strength and her commitment to continue doing the job she 201 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 9: loves and does so well while undergoing treatment tells you 202 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 9: everything you need to know about her. Susie, as one 203 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 9: of my closest and most important advisors, is tough and 204 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 9: deeply committed to serving the American people. She will soon 205 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 9: be better than ever. Milania and I are with her 206 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 9: in every way, and we look forward to working with 207 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 9: Susie on the many big and wonderful things that are 208 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 9: happening for the benefit of our country. President Donald Jay Trump, 209 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 9: he does not say thank you for your attention to 210 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,199 Speaker 9: this matter. She's kind of disappointing because I always enjoy 211 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 9: when he says something, and I'm starting to think that 212 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 9: that's intended tongue in cheek, because sometimes he'll say something that's. 213 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: Kind of offhanded. 214 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 9: Or cheeky, and then he will say thank you for 215 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 9: your attention to this matter. Like I'm going to blow 216 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 9: ran up and leave it in smithereens, and you know, 217 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 9: just something kind of real silly for the president to say, 218 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,679 Speaker 9: kind of over the top, as Rush would say, tongue 219 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 9: planted firmly in cheek. And then he'll at the end 220 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 9: of it, thank you for your attention to this matter. 221 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 9: He did not say that here, which means that this 222 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 9: is not a joking matter. Your chief of staff has 223 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:02,679 Speaker 9: breast cancer. So I don't feel the need to offer 224 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:07,680 Speaker 9: my personal opinion of every bit of news. Some people do, 225 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 9: and sometimes listeners will get mad at you. You need 226 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 9: to have an opinion on that and state it publicly, 227 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 9: so it's on the record. 228 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 1: That's dumb. I actually think there's too much of that. 229 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 9: There are many times that Trump does something that I 230 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 9: thoroughly disagree with and I don't express it, not because 231 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 9: it'll make some of you mad. 232 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 1: That doesn't bother me, but because. 233 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 9: I don't think my opinion on the matter particularly matters, 234 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 9: because it's not important that I offer. Hey, maybe this 235 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 9: is the wrong course on something he does or says. 236 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 9: I just don't need to do that. It doesn't happen 237 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 9: a lot. Honestly, it doesn't happen that much. But it 238 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 9: does happen. I will say this about Susie Wiles. I 239 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 9: am not a fan. I think that she is responsible. 240 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 9: I know she's responsible for Pam Bondi, who I think 241 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 9: has been an absolute, as the President would say, disaster, 242 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 9: not about her but his word. 243 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 1: I think she's been a disaster. I think. 244 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 9: Trying to drag the president into the John Cornyn thing 245 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 9: absolute disaster. And she's responsible for those things. But my 246 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 9: understanding is the Ledger would have her to the positive 247 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 9: that she gets things done. She's very solid, she's very 248 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 9: good at what she does, and the President clearly relies 249 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 9: on her so to the extent that he feels like 250 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 9: he needs her to do his job. 251 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: My prayers for him and her. 252 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 9: I don't want anybody who's serving this country to get sick, 253 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 9: certainly not breast cancer. 254 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: So prayers for Susie Wilson. 255 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 9: Heavy eighty fourth birthday to the great Jerry Jeff Walker, 256 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 9: the late, unfortunately the late great Jerry Jeff Walker. 257 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: And those of you who are. 258 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 9: Of the sub genre country Texas red dirt music fan 259 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 9: ondis who are right now screaming at the microphone Czarre, 260 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 9: that's a Guy Clark song, not a Jerry Jeff Walker 261 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 9: song Number one. Ramone picks the music, and even when 262 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 9: I make a request for the music and someone complains 263 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 9: or whatever, I just blame it on Ramone, the breason 264 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 9: that delegateds you got someone else responsible. Number two, This 265 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 9: actually was Ramone's choice. We did play Jerry Jeff Walker 266 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 9: tunes all morning on the Morning show today, it being 267 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 9: his eighty fourth birthday. Number three. I would argue that 268 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 9: that's a good choice from him because it's not only 269 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 9: things that Jerry Jeff wrote and sang. It can be 270 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 9: things that he just sang, and we get to set 271 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 9: our own rules. But number four, that song was written 272 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 9: by Guy Clark in nineteen seventy. You're right, Guy Clark 273 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 9: did not first record that he wrote it. It was 274 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 9: handed to Jerry Jeff. They have a similar writing style. 275 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 9: Jerry Jeff recorded it nineteen seventy two the Jerry Jeff 276 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 9: Walker album. It barely cracked the top one hundred, but 277 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,880 Speaker 9: for a country song relatively independent artists, that's a big deal. 278 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 9: In seventy three, Guy Clark would go back, as often 279 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 9: happens with songwriters, and record that song himself. In seventy 280 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 9: five on his debut album Old Number One, which, by 281 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 9: the way, you didn't ask me for musical recommendations, and 282 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:35,880 Speaker 9: I rarely give them. 283 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 1: We play stuff we like. 284 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 9: But if you want to learn a little something about 285 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,120 Speaker 9: singer songwriters, you're not going to hear pretty voices. 286 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 1: You're not going to hear, you know, great arrangements. 287 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 9: But if you want great storytelling Old Number one guy Clark, 288 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 9: you will. You'll think me later. Obviously Steve Earrol recorded 289 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 9: it later. And Ryan Bingham, who's had a bit of 290 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 9: a boost to his singer songwriter career because he's one 291 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 9: of the actors on Yellowstone. 292 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: Would you say he's a star on Yellowstone? I don't 293 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 1: know that. 294 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 9: I mean somebody that likes him to go, yeah, he's 295 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:16,959 Speaker 9: a star, But I don't know that he's a star 296 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 9: on Yellowstone. I think he's a part of Yellowstone. Democrats 297 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 9: still holding up funding for the Department of Homeland Security 298 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 9: as a way to protect one of their large voting blocks, 299 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 9: illegal aliens. Once you understand that without illegal aliens, Democrats 300 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 9: can't compete nationally. They cannot. They probably wouldn't win California, 301 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 9: believe it or not. They certainly wouldn't win Illinois. They 302 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 9: could never compete in Texas. But what we're learning you 303 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 9: look at the case of the Somalis in Minnesota, is 304 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 9: that there has been an invasion of our country by foreigners, 305 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 9: legal and illegal, and of various statuses and visas, and 306 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 9: the idea that just everybody can cast a vote because 307 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 9: you happen to be on American soil or you know, 308 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 9: you could be dead mail in voting. 309 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: You know what I read, I'm going to find it. 310 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 1: There was a great quote about that, but shoot, who 311 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: said that. 312 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 10: I know. 313 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 1: I took a screenshot of it. 314 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 9: I'll find it was a great quote about about elections 315 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:35,159 Speaker 9: and the like that I thought might have been. 316 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 1: Might have been interesting there. All right, we'll come back 317 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 1: to that. 318 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:49,719 Speaker 9: The CEOs of ten major US airlines are demanding that 319 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 9: Congress end a funding standoff and pay tsa workers. What 320 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 9: you've got to do is put pressure on the Democrat 321 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 9: that they they relent, and the pain has to go 322 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 9: from the consumer, the airline passenger, and the airline because 323 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 9: people are going to blame the airlines for this, and 324 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 9: they're going to stop flying. They're going to drive instead, 325 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 9: And you've got to pass that paint. You've got to 326 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 9: defer that pain. Deflect that pain back on Congress because 327 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:28,119 Speaker 9: that's the only thing they understand. The problem is you 328 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 9: have a media that won't, that won't demand that they 329 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 9: do something about it. 330 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 1: So here is the story from CBS News. 331 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 10: The CEOs of ten major US airlines are demanding Congress 332 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 10: and a funding standoff and pay its TSA workers. In 333 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 10: a letter, they claim ninety three percent of Americans support 334 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 10: paying aviation workers during government shutdowns. CBS is Tim McNicholas 335 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 10: is at Newark International with the latest developments. 336 00:20:56,520 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: Ten Daika people are waiting hours to get. 337 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 6: Through security at some airports, and TSA officers say they're 338 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 6: struggling to pay their bills. 339 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 1: Those airline ceo is. 340 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 6: Describe it as unacceptable, and many travelers agreed. TSA staffing 341 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 6: challenges are colliding with a spring break travel rush, made 342 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 6: even worse by a weekend snowstorm in the Midwest. 343 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:23,640 Speaker 1: Absolute mayhem if you estimated. 344 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,439 Speaker 6: More than three hundred TSA officers have resigned since the 345 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 6: partial shutdown started, and unscheduled absences have doubled, according to 346 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 6: the federal government. President Trump blamed the funding laps on 347 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 6: Democrats who refused to approve the Department of Homeland Securities 348 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,199 Speaker 6: budget unless GOP lawmakers and the White House agree to 349 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 6: changes to ICE, including requirements for agents to wear IDs 350 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 6: and remove their masts. 351 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:48,680 Speaker 1: Get these guys paid. 352 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 6: Chris Sanunu is the CEO of Airlines for America, the 353 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:56,159 Speaker 6: trade group that represents the airlines, urging Congress to act. 354 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 1: Please pay these employees. 355 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,440 Speaker 6: Have your political fights on the side, but don't drag 356 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 6: down the entire traveling American public. 357 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: Because of it. 358 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 6: The TSA says it's adjusting operations to deal with the 359 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 6: staff in constraints. 360 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 1: I think the longer it. 361 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 2: Goes, more and more tso it's all we'll call out 362 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 2: and not show up for. 363 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:23,440 Speaker 6: A union representative for forty five thousand TSA officers tells 364 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 6: us that some officers are picking up second jobs and 365 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 6: even selling plasma to make ends meet. He says officers 366 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 6: are tired of being quote political pawns in the middle 367 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:34,160 Speaker 6: of a tug of war. 368 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:40,359 Speaker 9: This is dysfunctional. This cannot continue. This cannot continue. I 369 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,640 Speaker 9: can't tell you how many people I know that vote Democrat. 370 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 9: And by the way, I'm not in love with the 371 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 9: Republican Party and the Republicans up there, and be clear 372 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 9: on that. But how many people will say, well, well Trump, 373 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:54,679 Speaker 9: he's orange. Okay, Democrats are shutting down the airport, but 374 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 9: Trump Trump's aren't you know what. 375 00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:57,880 Speaker 1: Sit at the. 376 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 9: Airport for five hours and be bothered Trump having orange skin. 377 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 1: Okay, that's you're the idiot. Okay, you're the idiot. 378 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 9: You're so convinced that anybody who supports Trump is in 379 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 9: a cult, and that Trump is evil and that Trump's 380 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 9: language is harsh. 381 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 1: Sit at the airport. 382 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 9: For five hours, just like the Democrats wanted you to. 383 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 1: You sheep, you stupid sheep. 384 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 9: People need to make informed decisions, and you're giving them 385 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,920 Speaker 9: the in Michael Berry, because you're a public Paul. 386 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:38,119 Speaker 1: Revere to ring in the warning though, same for you. 387 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 1: New Jersey Democrat Corey Booker. 388 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 9: Who I wonder if Corey Booker and Lindsey Graham ever 389 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 9: travel on the same flight. I wonder if they ever 390 00:23:50,400 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 9: borrow the CHRISTI nom SKYBD. That'd be interesting to know, 391 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 9: wouldn't it. New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker was on CNN 392 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 9: with Jake Tapper when he was asked about Democrats blocking 393 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 9: the funding bill for TSA. 394 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 1: And here's what old Corey said in. 395 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 2: Terms of the security of her home. There have been 396 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 2: a number of attacks. The ISIS inspired bombing attempt in 397 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 2: New York City outside mom Donnie's house, a shooting target 398 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 2: at an ROTC class at Old Dominion, and on and 399 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,679 Speaker 2: on and on. Meanwhile, the Department of Home and Security 400 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,359 Speaker 2: is still shut down because Senate Democrats are blocking the 401 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 2: funding bill over the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Given the 402 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 2: security concerns he just expressed, and given the fact that 403 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 2: honestly Secretary Noome has been fired. Tom Holman took over 404 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 2: from Greg Navino a Nome in Minnesota, you could argue 405 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 2: Democrats won the debate. Isn't it time for Democrats to 406 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 2: reopen and refund DHS. 407 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 3: So, first of all, Democrats have tried multiple times to 408 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 3: try to get tsa SISA, the Coastguard funded. Republicans have 409 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 3: refused time and time again to fund They want the 410 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 3: whole agency. Fund want the whole agency. ICE is still 411 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 3: out there doing reckless things in communities. ICE is still 412 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:14,400 Speaker 3: arresting and detaining American citizens. ICE is still having unmasked 413 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 3: people jumped out of unmarked cars, abducting people from the streets, 414 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 3: barreling into homes, even Americans, even veterans are being swept 415 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 3: up in ices chaos. I will not approve another dollar 416 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,160 Speaker 3: for ICE given all that they're doing. But we should 417 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,919 Speaker 3: be funding those TSA agents and keep us safe SISA Coastguard, 418 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 3: and for Republicans who refuse to do it is unacceptable, 419 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 3: all right, Senator Corey Booker, And I'll think one last 420 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 3: point is important, Jake. They have cut the people out 421 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 3: of FBI and other agencies that should be protecting our 422 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 3: home land. This is a president is not keeping America safer. 423 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 3: He's making it more dangerous, having lawless people in our 424 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 3: communities doing wawless things. And his operations overseas for the 425 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,159 Speaker 3: things that he's doing there not to be debated in 426 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 3: Congress is outrageous. And this is what the work of 427 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,639 Speaker 3: this week in Congress is going to be, focusing it 428 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 3: back on the people's concerns public safety and the rising costs. 429 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: That is called gaslighting. 430 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,359 Speaker 9: Now, if you're wondering where that term comes from and 431 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 9: how that term just came into common currency, common parlance, 432 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 9: you really have to watch this movie. It's kind of 433 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,360 Speaker 9: like The Handmaid's Tells, one of those things that got 434 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 9: talked about so much that you had to go watch 435 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 9: the thing. You really have to read Atlas Shrugged, and 436 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:38,679 Speaker 9: you should read The fountain Head while you're at it, 437 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,880 Speaker 9: because there are so many You really have to read 438 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 9: nineteen eighty four in order to understand most of the 439 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 9: political commentary you're going to read today. You have to 440 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,159 Speaker 9: read nineteen eighty four. And if you say, well, I 441 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 9: ain't much of a reader, Michael, I didn't read in school. 442 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 9: Reading is overrated. It's not a difficult skill. It doesn't 443 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:12,160 Speaker 9: make you smart. I see people now like The Lotus 444 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:16,239 Speaker 9: or White Lotus or whatever the movie series was. The 445 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 9: girls sit at the pool with the book because that's 446 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 9: supposed to make them look smart, serious, but they never 447 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 9: actually turn the pages. They just sit there with the book. 448 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 9: Is a problem, and people think that someone who's reading 449 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 9: is really smart. 450 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 1: This is silly. Let me just say this as a 451 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 1: guy who loves to read. 452 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,239 Speaker 9: Because my mother, who never went to college, loved to 453 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:39,199 Speaker 9: read and shared that passion for me. Stop thinking of 454 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,160 Speaker 9: reading as some intellectual pursuit. 455 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: It's not. 456 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 9: Reading is a means of communication. You might spend a 457 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 9: lot of time talking on the phone, you might spend 458 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 9: a lot of time texting. Do you know that when 459 00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 9: someone sends you a response text you are reading, I know, 460 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 9: not real highbrow stuff because they're not sending you real 461 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 9: highbrow stuff. Okay, but the written word is just another 462 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 9: means of communicating a lot of our folks need to 463 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 9: get a lot of people period, need to get over 464 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 9: the barrier that somehow reading is really difficult. When I 465 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 9: was a kid, there was a TV campaign that reading 466 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 9: is fundamental, and the NBA picked it up, and it is. 467 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: It is. 468 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 9: My mother would have sitting next to her little my 469 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 9: parents had like a lot of folks that were you know, 470 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 9: seventies eighties years old. They would she would have you know, 471 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 9: her little knit, crocheted, whatever it is, little blanket. She 472 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 9: would sit over her, and they'd sit in the chair. 473 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 9: She had her chair and he had his chair, you know, 474 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 9: little ways across the living room and a lamp so 475 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 9: that she could read. And she'd have five or six 476 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 9: books because she would read so much that she'd finish 477 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 9: a book and literally just moved out of the way 478 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:07,320 Speaker 9: start on the next one. 479 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 1: And I enjoyed that. 480 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 9: I appreciated that because I always knew, you know, it'd 481 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 9: be seven o'clock at night and I'd think, uh, it's 482 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 9: just finishing the show. 483 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 1: What am I going to do? And I could? Oh, 484 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 1: I just send my mom a book she loves to read. 485 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 9: You need to read a couple of things to really 486 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 9: understand the commentary and mindset, because to say that something 487 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 9: is Orwellian is shorthand for a very complicated or very 488 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 9: very far flown concept. But for anyone who has read 489 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,680 Speaker 9: nineteen eighty four, because if you read nineteen eighty four, 490 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 9: you'll read animal four, You'll keep reading, So I don't 491 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 9: have to tell you all that. But if you read 492 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 9: nineteen eighty four, everything will make sense everything that people 493 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 9: are talking about. You'll understand when something is Orwellian or 494 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 9: big brother, or you'll understand a lot of these concepts. 495 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 9: And you'll say, wait a second. This was written in 496 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 9: nineteen forty eight about the forthcoming. Thirty six years later, 497 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 9: he just inverted the numbers forty eight to eighty four. 498 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 9: You'll say, what is saying? This is almost one hundred 499 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 9: years old? They've been playing this game for that long. Oh, 500 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 9: they've been playing this game longer than that. They've been 501 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,600 Speaker 9: playing this game a very very long time. And that 502 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 9: was actually modeled on the Soviet government, not ours. But 503 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 9: you'll start seeing things that you go, well, so back 504 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 9: to it. There's a movie that came out in nineteen 505 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 9: forty four called Gaslight, and you get the term gaslighting 506 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 9: from that. And just even if you don't find the 507 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 9: movie to be as fascinating as Indiana Jones or whatever 508 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 9: car movies you or whatever, just watch it so that 509 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 9: you understand. It is the idea that you do something 510 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 9: right in front of someone and then they go, hey, 511 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 9: you're doing this and you say no, I'm not. 512 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 1: And then if you just. 513 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 9: Keep saying it with firmness, eventually they either believe you 514 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 9: or they go crazy. Is the point of the movie. 515 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 9: That's what's happening. The American people are not willing. We 516 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 9: don't trust our government, nor should we. But because we 517 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 9: don't trust our government, and we've learned not to trust 518 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 9: our government, and I give Donald Trump a lot of 519 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 9: credit for that, because. 520 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 1: We've learned do not trust those bastards. They're liars. 521 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 9: They lie, They lie for the sport of it, but 522 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 9: they lie to enrich themselves and to grow their own power. 523 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 9: And so when Corey Booker says, yes, it's the Republican's fault, 524 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 9: and even Jake Tapper says, hey, it looks to me 525 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 9: like y'all are the ones holding it up. The Republicans fault, 526 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 9: and you either believe it or you don't. And our 527 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 9: politics have become so tribal that there are people who 528 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 9: are Democrats who hate Trump that if they know that 529 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 9: the Democrats are holding it up and they go, they'll 530 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 9: repeat this. This just gives them fodder to go off 531 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 9: and go, yeah, it's Republicans volume, And there are a 532 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 9: lot of people 533 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 1: Who are not very smart, and they'll believe it.