WEBVTT - The Economic Landscape: A Deep Dive into Energy and Affordability 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.880 Our two Sean Hannity show told free it is eight 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:04.800 hundred and nine point one Sean, if you want to 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:09.360 be a part of the program. It is frustrating to 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:15.360 me in terms of, you know, the Democrats trying to 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:20.360 push this narrative of vote affordability when they made everything 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:22.880 worse in terms of the economy. But you know, that's 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.239 who they are, that's what they do. And of course 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:30.080 the ultimate goals to persuade you to rely on them, 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.120 depend on them for every want, need, desire you have 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.559 in life. They will take away all of your fears, 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:41.320 all of your anxiety, the stress of life to go out, 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:45.879 work hard, dig deep, produce on your own. And it 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.320 gets frustrating. And then the big lie is that, you know, 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:54.920 Biden said earlier this week, which is unbelievable, that we 0:00:55.560 --> 0:01:00.320 lowered the price of everything. No, but if you paid 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.520 for gas, you saw how high gas prices went. You 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.760 saw how inflation went to nine plus percent. Uh, you know, 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:12.319 decades high numbers. Home prices you know, went up a 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:17.120 whopping thirty eight percent. We have a home crisis affordability 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.560 issue in large part because of the unvetted illegals that 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:27.080 came into the country and they were competing for you know, apartments, 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:31.360 and in terms of you know, demand increased significantly and 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.840 as a result, that raised prices. You know, supply and 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:39.399 demand crisscross and that dictates the price, and grocery prices 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:40.240 went through the roof. 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:40.800 You know. 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:44.920 The President addressed this, he said, I inherited the mess 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.640 from the Biden administration. He's right, the highest gas prices 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.560 in our country ever that we've ever seen. And he's right, 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:56.360 he said, affordability thirteen months ago was an unmitigated disaster, 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.440 and now things are coming down. Prices are coming down, 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:05.560 energy prices, oil prices, gas prices the lowest in five years, 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:10.120 inflation the lowest in five years. And the stock market, 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:14.240 for those of you that use that as a barometer, okay, 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.480 it hit an all time record high again yesterday, I 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.320 think like the forty fifth record high under Donald Trump. 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.160 And he's asking, when am I going to get credit 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:27.360 for anything? No inflation. The greatest economy now is emerging, 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.200 and when you factor in all that we have talked 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.200 about on this program, and a lot of that has 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:38.840 to do with trillions of dollars in manufacturing, which also 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.600 is good for national security because we will produce our 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:46.280 own pharmaceuticals, will produce our own semiconductor chips. We're bringing 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:50.720 back automobile manufacturing. And the President has opened up energy 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.679 dominant policies, which we already see are seeing an impact 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.080 on because of the low price of energy in the country. 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.760 That's the lifeblood of the world's economy. It's incredible, and 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:05.000 you know, the President saying when will people understand what 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.120 is happening. I think people will begin to see it 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:12.120 in the new year. And while Scott Bessen, the Treasury Secretary, 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.680 thinks that this is, you know, probably going to hit 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:19.359 or infuse the bloodstream of our economy sometime by the 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.200 end of the first quarter of next year, I think 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.440 it's probably the end of the second quarter if what 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.760 Reagan and Trump did in their respective times in office 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:32.280 previously are any indication. And I think that it's just 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.600 frustrating because if you improve the economy by twenty percent, 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.160 and the president before you reduce the economy and growth, etc. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:44.400 By forty six percent, it's it's hard to get credit 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.400 when people are still underwater from where they initially were, 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:52.680 and that gets frustrating for people. And I totally understand it. Anyway, 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:56.160 here is the Energy Secretary Chris Wright talking about the 0:03:56.200 --> 0:04:00.680 success of the president's energy policies in the first ten months. 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.120 Pay attention to this because this is the lifeblood of 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.720 the world's economy. This is what every single family is 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:08.480 impacted by. 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:14.280 The biggest determinant of the price of energy is politicians, 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:19.599 political leaders and policies. That's what drives energy prices. Under 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.760 your leadership, what we've seen in the United States is 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.960 just a steady drop in the price of gasoline, a 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.760 huge consumer costs for Americans, as you mentioned early on, 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:34.080 well below three dollars a gallon right now and trending downwards. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.040 There are a number of stations in the heartland of 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:42.159 America with dollars ninety nine signs flying two day. That's 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:47.160 simply impossible without the leadership and changes you've brought. 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:47.520 Now. 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.159 Of course, you can go to California, where the average 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.880 price of gasoline is between four point fifty and five 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:57.440 dollars a gallon two day in California. That's just bad 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:02.840 political leaders there and bad Paul Season. California taxes and 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:04.400 taxes taxes they. 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:08.640 Charging gasoline are just insane. 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.919 Terrible, And electricity prices is a very parallel story, but 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.640 it's a it's a bigger moving ship, so the changes 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.760 are a little bit slower. But Americans are outraged at, 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.640 you know, a roughly thirty percent rise in the average 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.400 price of electricity across this country. But everything we are 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.880 doing together is going to reverse that, not just stop 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:32.640 the rises, but start a downward trajectory and electricity prices. 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.320 We're going to stop closing power plants. We've already done that, 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.800 of course, stop closing the coal power plants and natural 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.440 gas plants that were shut down. You've got over thirty 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:45.480 gigawatts of generators just sitting there today not allowed to run. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:45.640 Well. 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.120 Of course, we're fixing that immediately. 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.760 All right. So gas prices now plunge to no multi 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.880 year low, and they are trending lower. Here to discuss 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.120 all of this, Tim Stewart. He's the president of the 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:01.400 US Petroleum and Gas Group. Dannuel Turner is the founder 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:05.920 executive director of Power of the Future, a national nonprofit organization. 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:10.000 They advocate for American energy jobs. Those are high paying 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:14.880 career jobs. Faith Burns is a fellow for energy policy 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.520 at Americans for Prosperity and at the federal level. She 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:23.560 served as a Legislative Council on a US Senate staff 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:27.039 handling of energy and environmental issues. Welcome all three of you. 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.880 Let me say, Daniel, I'll start with you. I mean, 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.960 this is a dramatic This will have a dramatic impact 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.559 long term on the economy. I think people do feel 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.120 it in the short term, unless you live in California 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:45.080 where you're still paying four dollars plus at gallina gasoline. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.120 Yeah, oh absolutely, and seawan in addition to run and 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.200 power the future. I have a sheep and cattle farm 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.720 in Shenandoah, Virginia, and so one of the things that 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.800 people complain about are the price of beef, for example, 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.960 And I tell people all the time, you know, the 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.880 beef you're eating today on Ada ridge in America is 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.839 four years old, and that beef for that cow was 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.479 fattened on grain that was harvested at seven dollars a 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.200 gallon diesel into the Biden administration, so it took four 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:14.240 years for beef prices to actually be felt. Now gas 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.720 is getting cheap, diesel is getting cheap, and so you 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.880 will see food prices come down, but it takes a 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.080 little while for that to be felt in the market. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:25.480 And that's what happens when you tinker with energy outside 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.120 of your wheelhouse. And that's what the Biden administration did, 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.680 and President Trump is catching the blame for it. 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.600 Yeah, good point. Let's get your take, Tim Stewart. 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.560 Five gris Daniel. You know, Sean, compared to two thousand 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.200 and eight, that percentage of household costs on energy is 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.040 decreased by ten percent. That's because of the shale revolution. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.160 What that's done is overall, it saved American families I 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.480 think probably twenty five dollars a year for family at 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:55.400 four in energy costs that had been limited a reduced 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:59.040 over time, again thanks to the shale revolution. But as 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.040 you know, four years ago, go like Dan. You know, 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.640 I come from a ranching family as well. Four years 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.200 ago my brothers were paying seven and eight dollars per 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:12.080 gallon per diesel based on COVID and then the Biden 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:16.720 administration horrible energy policies that constrained the refining and the 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.520 production and the use of fossil fuels. We're finally catching 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.080 up to that. But he's exactly right. We're paying the 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.920 price now, American shilpaining the price now of bad ideas 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.800 and decisions were made four years ago. 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.480 You know, and faith when you really look at it, 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:37.080 I mean, people don't fully understand the impact on their lives. 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.559 That means it costs less to heat and cool your 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.240 home in the winter in summertime. That means that when 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.840 you get on a commercial airliner and they're paying less 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.640 per gallon a lot less per gallon for jet fuel. 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:55.000 That means airlines can lower prices and offer discount prices. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.600 That means less money for you to get back and 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:01.560 forth to work if you're community every day. So I 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.520 mean it impacts every aspect of our life. That also means, 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.040 you know, whatever you're paying in your house, you know, 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.880 for gas oil, whatever you happen to use, that is 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.000 going to be like a massive tax cut for most families. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.360 You're exactly right, and I would echo what the two 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.160 gentlemen have said before me, and I would always also 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.640 point to what you had indicated previously that President Trump 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.120 had a mess to dig out from, and we don't 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:30.040 need to underestimate the gravity of the mess he had 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.600 to dig out from. And from day one, his policies 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.280 have been to unleash domestic energy production, and that's what 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.400 has been occurring every day since his administration has been 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:41.920 in office. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.200 Oh, I agree with all of that. Look, you're advocating 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.720 for American energy jobs. We had a program on this. 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.240 We did something when we had the last energy boom 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:56.920 during the last Trump administration, is we partnered with energy 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:02.400 companies in North Dakota, in Oklahoma, in Texas, and we 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:06.359 would put out there that the jobs that were available 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.480 for people if they were willing to, you know, move 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.840 and get up and change their lives a little bit 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.920 because they want an opportunity. But at that time, they 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.640 were paying people that they would train to be truck 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.200 drivers or to work in the oil fields. You know, 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.439 they start them close to one hundred grand a year 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.280 while they were training them. All the overtime they can 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:30.120 handle often housing them. And it helped people go from 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.840 thirty forty thousand dollars a year dead end jobs where 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.600 they couldn't make ends meet into a point where they 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.240 could buy their own home and get a nice pickup 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.840 truck or whatever they wanted to drive, and it would 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.600 transform their lives. Tim, let me get your thoughts on it. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:47.120 Yeah, the USO and the industry supports three point six 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.760 million jobs. It's almost a half a trillion dollars in 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.800 GDP to the economy. And you're exactly right. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:55.120 This is this is not. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.320 This is These are jobs that cut all across the 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:04.960 education spectrum and all across socio economic value, the socio 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:09.480 economic families, and frankly in rural communities. You know, I 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.240 spent let's spend my weekends. I'm from Utah. Originally there's 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:16.080 a little town called Richmond, Utah, populations three thousand, and 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.560 I was talking to somebody. I asked what they were doing, 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.600 and he says, well, I work for the Island gas industry. 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.920 And he added little that little town in Richmond, Utah 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.160 runs a two hundred and fifty million dollar a year 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:30.120 business in Texas that he manages out of Utah, and 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.360 that what that business is is in the construction industry, 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.000 building pipelines and fences and roads and sheds for the 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.400 Island gas industry. It's astounding the supply chain, in the 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:43.360 reach of the of the employment capacity of our industry 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:47.839 all across the country, in the states and in communities 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.920 of different sizes. It's something that we're really really proud. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:55.040 Of now that the President Daniel has has put these 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:59.000 jobs online gotten these policies in place. He's basically said 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:05.240 that companies that means oil, gas, coal to go, you're 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.719 not being regulated and you don't have the you know, 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:13.680 the the high heel of government on your neck preventing 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:18.319 you from growth. What does that mean for job creation 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.240 for Americans? Again going back to, you know, partnering with 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.640 energy companies around the country and high paying career jobs 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.120 that they will train you in. And that was transforming 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.760 lives at the time, and I'm hoping that we might 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:32.800 be able to do it again. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.960 Absolutely, And it shows the power of freedom and free markets. 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.040 And President Trump believes in that. It was not very 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.400 long ago that you had Democrats like Elizabeth Warren and 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:47.360 Bernie Sanders hauling all the oil and gas executives before them, 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:52.040 screaming at them about price gouging and profiteering and greed. Suddenly, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.480 no one's greedy anymore, right, The oil and gas industry 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.160 is now a bunch of devout Christians all of a sudden. Well, no, 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.360 nothing has changed, right. What's changes that there isn't It 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.679 is allowing freedom to operate. And when you allow freedom 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.280 to operate in free markets, you get more of a 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.040 product at a lower price point for a greater number 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.520 of people, and all those accusations of greed, all that 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.960 was was deflecting for the fact that Biden's policies were 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.760 a boot on the neck of the Indiator disaster. 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:24.160 Right, Yeah, and everybody suffered. Last word, faith Burns will 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:24.600 give it to you. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:25.199 Yeah. 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.559 Well, first of all, everybody doesn't need a PhD. There 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.920 is still a place in the American economy for folks, 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.400 men and women to go out and work with their 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:36.839 hands and work hard. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.920 And make a decent living. And President Trump is providing 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:41.439 the opportunity for folks to do that. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.280 All right, Daniel Turner, Faith Burns, and Tim Stewart, thank 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:46.960 you all for being with us. We'll talk more on 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:48.480 this on the other side. We'll get to more of 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.520 your calls this Friday eight hundred. You know, I'm going 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.840 to tell you some things that really really pissed me 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.160 off of us. I'm in a bad mood today in 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.760 case I could hardly tell Yeah, what do you mean 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.199 you could hardly? What does that mean? You always say 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.560 I like when you're mad. I like when you're pissed off, 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.960 you do a better show. It's you pissed off. Good 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.880 pissed off last segment too. I'm gonna tell you why, 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.959 because I'm sick and tired. You know, gas prices were 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.440 nearly five freaking dollars a gallon, and nobody even notices. 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.960 Oh geez, But it's below two dollars, you know in 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.240 some cases, in some states, it's below two dollars a 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:27.360 gallon of gasoline in freaking Colorado, who whatever expect Colorado? 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.800 You know it's below if no, the dollar sixty nine 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.040 a gallon is low in some places, you know. But 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.200 now we have the average price of gas. He used 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.440 to be under Biden, over four bucks a gallon. Now 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.640 it's below three dollars a gallon. That is a massive, 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:48.040 massive drop. That's a massive tax cuts for people. That's 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:52.760 thirty seven states, and it's below two dollars and seventy 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:56.400 five cents a gallon in twenty two states, and below 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.240 two hundred two dollars and fifty cents a gallon in 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.760 five states, and below two dollars a gallon in four states. Thanks, 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.280 the only thing, and I'm paying next to nothing. I 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.480 have one gas powered vehicle, and I have a Tesla. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.880 And for a while I thought, oh, this is an 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.960 added benefit although you still use energy to power up 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:16.800 your tesla. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.920 Well, yeah, because we need fossil fuels to fuel the electric, 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.640 which most of our go green folks out there don't 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.360 actually understand. You think you're going electric, lovely, good for you, 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.200 plug in all you like, but at the end of 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.480 the day, it's still fossil fuels that are powering your 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.480 electric all right. 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:36.080 So I saved one cut for you just because I 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.120 wanted you to be in as foul and I shouldn't 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.760 be this way we're heading into the holidays, but for 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.200 you to be in a foul mood too. It's Gavin 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:50.080 Newsome talking about trans and I am telling you, I 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:54.120 promise you if he does become the Democratic nominee in 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:58.520 twenty twenty eight, he's going to regret saying this. 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.920 Contradictions that I think I can explain. Perhaps evolutions we 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.560 didn't get into transports. That's an issue no one wants 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.680 to hear about because eighty percent of the people listening 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.960 disagree with my position on this. But it comes from 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:15.000 my heart, not just my head. It wasn't a political evolution. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:19.280 Its being that I don't think it's fair. I want 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.200 to see trans kids. I have a trans god son. 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.360 There's no governance sign more pro trans legislation than I have, 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:25.880 and no one has been a stronger advocate for the 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:30.320 LGBT into meter. But you have to accommodate the reality 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.720 of those whose rights are being taken away as we 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.280 advance the rights of the trans community in terms of 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.600 the fairness of athletic competition. 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.960 Okay, if he wants to run on that in a 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:43.840 national election, let him run on it. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:44.440 See. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.080 I think right now he's in at the point where 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:52.120 he wants this nomination so bad he will say anything 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.640 to get it, and he knows that if he wants 0:16:54.680 --> 0:17:00.520 to get it, he has to go hardcore leftist radical 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:06.720 extremists to satiate the insanity of the base of the 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:07.720 Democratic Party. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:08.040 Yeah. 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.640 Well, I mean I think the larger picture, and you're 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.119 saying it in a roundabout way because you're polite. I'm not. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.000 I can't stand him. I don't like anything about him 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.600 is that he doesn't have any strong positions. Oh I 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.040 hate him absolutely. Oh yeah, I got a hate list. 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.600 Absolutely all of us have fallen short, you know, and 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:27.080 no exception. 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:30.680 Talked that length on this program. How you've become a Christian. 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.159 First of all, I did not become a Christian. I 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:37.000 have always been a Catholic. Then I went non denominational. 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:38.439 Now I'm a Catholic. 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.960 Your faith, When did you go back to being a 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:42.840 Catholic again? 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:44.080 About four years? 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.440 Ex news long, about four years. 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:49.160 I just like the Mass. 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:50.359 I like the structure. 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.120 I'm a big fan, still super close to Pastor Tim, 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:54.480 love him, love his church. 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.560 But I loved the structure. That's what it was. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.720 Yeah, listen, I didn't like you know, it didn't blend. No, 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.640 I decided I wanted to be a Catholic again. That's 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:05.200 what I'm doing. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:06.719 I like it, big fan. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:10.240 Of can't stand the Pope. I know, I do love 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.320 I'm a Catholic, but I can't stand the Pope. I can't. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.120 I bash him every day as much as I can 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.359 can't stand them the bishops do. They can all go 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:18.240 fly a kite. 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.200 Listen. The Mass to me is beautiful, it really exactly. 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:27.280 It is okay and communion. When you talk about you know, 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.920 the Last Supper and Jesus, you know, broke the bread, 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.840 blessed it gave thanks. You know, take this all of 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:36.880 you and eat from it. This is my body which 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.520 will be given up for you. And after supper he 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.080 took the cup again. He gave thanks, some praise. He 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.400 gave the cup to his disciples, and he said, take 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.040 this all of you, and drink from it. This is 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:51.040 the cup of my blood, the new and everlasting Covenant, 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.640 and it will be shed for you and for all 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.760 men for the forgiveness of sins. That part is beautiful. 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:01.959 What bothers me about the Catholic Church is that it 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:07.159 has institutionalized and never dealt with the corruption. It was 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:12.480 on a great parish level, the diocese level. The priest knew, 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:18.360 bishops knew, cardinals knew, Rome knew, and they never did 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:23.240 anything about it, and they never ended it. And I 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:25.840 take issue with the idea of that priests can't be married. 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.439 And that may sound hannay, you're gone liberal on us. 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:32.119 No I haven't, because eleven of the twelve apostles that 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.880 Jesus chose ended up being married. Eleven of the twelve. 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:39.439 I'm not saying that this is a perfect, perfect, you know, 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.639 religion by any means, but when it comes. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.760 To it, first eleven hundred years of that church, maybe 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:50.440 twelve hundred, my math is offul little. They allowed priests 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:54.119 to marry and the only reason they changed it was 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:59.639 financial for fear of losing property in the case of 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:03.080 a pri getting divorced. Am I factually accurate or not 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:03.920 you are. 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.359 I don't have anything to say as far as what 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.320 has happened in the history of Catholicism or what has 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:13.000 happened with the church. The Church has a history of pedophilia, 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.600 but there are plenty of other religions that do as well. 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:20.040 The problem is that the Catholic Church and the people 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.840 that run the Catholic Church, it's a corporation. They have charities, 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:27.040 they're stiphoning money, they're allocating money to the things that 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.359 they're both. You know, their parishioners do not believe in 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:32.640 including me. But I go to a certain parish here. 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.040 I really like the way they run their church. I 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.880 like what they do in their community. They're conservative, they're 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:41.240 not liberal, and we believe in the Bible. We follow 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:43.760 the Bible, we read the Bible, we have the Gospel. 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:48.200 It's a very nice service, and they are not beholden 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:51.760 to the liberal ideology of Pope Leo and the bishops, 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:52.440 which I love. 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:57.240 All right. Now, now that we got Linda's religious issues resolved, 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:00.000 let's get to our busy phones A nine bowl one. 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:02.080 Shawn is on number. If you want to be a 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:05.640 part of the program. Chris in South Carolina? What's up, Chris? 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:06.960 How are you glad you called Sar? 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:13.400 I'm doing pretty good. First, I'm calling Aaron amazing everything 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:14.040 that you're doing. 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:16.200 But I just want to get right to the topic 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:18.040 about the trans issues. 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.240 Do you agree with Gavin Newsom partly? 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:22.240 Partly? 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:24.600 Partly? You partly agree with them? Okay? 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:30.720 Explain the questions that I have is why every team 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:38.800 has equipment managers or support staff, the water boys, the 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:44.320 towel boys, the ball boys, the bat boys, the kids 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:47.680 that sit on the side of the tennis matches that 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:51.040 catch the balls. Why can the trans people not be 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:56.520 allowed to be quote unquote on the team, but only 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.120 relegated to those positions. 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:03.399 I don't even want to discriminate in any way in 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:07.880 terms of if people are trends. I think I think 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:12.440