1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael 2 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: Vari show is on the air. 3 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 2: Don't you think so, CNN? 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 3: Don't you think so? 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 2: What do you say that they probably do at this 6 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:24,119 Speaker 2: point after going through it for years with me being 7 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 2: hit Solomdi albag Daddy, the Arad nuclear threat wept out, 8 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:33,160 Speaker 2: don't you think? And then you just had Venezuela. Don't 9 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 2: you think, she says CNN. Do you think they take 10 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 2: you a threat? 11 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:37,239 Speaker 3: Seriously? 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 2: What do you say they do after all of the 13 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,840 Speaker 2: things we've What a stupid question. 14 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 4: Last night, the United States brought the world's number one 15 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 4: terrorist leader to justice. 16 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 5: Taboo a car albug Dati is dead. 17 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 4: He was the founder and leader of Ices, the most 18 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 4: ruthless and violent organization anywhere in the world. US Special 19 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 4: Operations Forces executed a dangerous and daring nighttime rate in 20 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 4: northwestern Syria and accomplished their mission and grand style. The 21 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 4: US personnel were incredible. I got to watch much in 22 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 4: my direction. 23 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 6: The United States Armed Forces conducted an extraordinary military operation 24 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 6: in the capital of Venezuela to bring outlaw dictator Nicholas 25 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 6: Maduro to justice. This was one of the most stunning, 26 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 6: effective and powerful displays of American military might and competence. 27 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 3: In American history. 28 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 5: I think Iran's been very nasty with their words, with 29 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 5: their mouth. They got the hell knocked out of them, 30 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 5: and they I don't think they know it, you know, 31 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 5: I actually don't think they know they really do. 32 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 3: All things are conjob. We have a lot of conjobs 33 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 3: going on. But Iran was beating up very badly. 34 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 5: For good reason, we cannot have them have a nuclear weapon. 35 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 3: But they still talk about enrichment. I mean, who would 36 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 3: do that. You just come out of something that's. 37 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 5: So bad and they talk about we want to continue enrichment. 38 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 5: Who would say that? How stupid can you be to 39 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 5: say that? So we're not going to allow that to happen. 40 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 5: We're not allowing that to happen. 41 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 3: Next segment, we will talk to Professor Josh Blackman, an 42 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 3: expert on the United States Supreme Court. You'll see him 43 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 3: quoted far and wide. He is an expert not just 44 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,079 Speaker 3: on the law, but on the personalities and how they 45 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 3: are most likely to rule given their background, history, experience, 46 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 3: and he is he's kind of perceived sort of like, 47 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 3: you know, some other guy might be a stock picker. 48 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 3: Somebody else might you who's gonna who to bet on 49 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:06,639 Speaker 3: with Draft Kings or one of those sites. He does 50 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 3: that with the Supreme Court because of his vast knowledge 51 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 3: on the Supreme Court. One of the issues we're going 52 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 3: to talk about a case it's being that the hearings 53 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 3: are going on now is boys in Girls sports. And 54 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 3: it's crazy that here we are in America having to 55 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 3: debate this, but this is what we're debating now. You know, 56 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 3: can you can you try to run over an ice agent? 57 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 3: And does he have any ability to defend himself? You know, 58 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 3: these sorts of things are the freakish internal civil war 59 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 3: to which we have been relegated And we didn't choose 60 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 3: this fight. The Left chose this fight. This is exactly 61 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 3: what they want. It breaks my heart to hear people 62 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 3: tell me on a daily basis that they're they're frustrated 63 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 3: by what's going on, uh, and they just want it 64 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 3: to end and can't we all just get along? And 65 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 3: it's sort of like somebody it's like a battered wife. 66 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 3: If she can just cook his meals better, if she 67 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 3: can just be sexier, if she can just give him 68 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 3: what he wants more often, if she could just never 69 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 3: ever talk back to him, or question him, or just 70 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 3: make him happy. If she can just do that, then 71 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 3: he won't beat her anymore. Well, that's not realistic. It's 72 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 3: not your fault that they're doing this. But it is 73 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 3: our country. It's your country, it's my country, and we're 74 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 3: not going to let them destroy it. And if we 75 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 3: have to fight them for it, then so be it. 76 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 3: Will fight them and we'll win. And that's what I 77 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 3: don't think they understood. When the Japanese leadership considered invading 78 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,359 Speaker 3: the United States, it was famously set at the cabinet meeting, 79 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 3: you will wake a sleeping giant. They have more guns 80 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 3: than people. You do not want the American people engaged 81 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 3: in this war. Let's fight them over here, military to military. 82 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 3: You do not want those people the citizenry. The last 83 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 3: time that was tried to English ended up tucking tail 84 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 3: and running and they became a country independent. Let's not 85 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 3: get ourselves over our skis on that issue. That would 86 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 3: not be a great idea. So we'll talk about the 87 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 3: Supreme Court. That'll be in the next segment. We'll talk 88 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 3: about what a primary is and is not, why we 89 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 3: have primaries. I want to draw your attention to the 90 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 3: fact that we are entering primary season. It's in March 91 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 3: in Texas. You'll have to check your primary schedulist to win. 92 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 3: Each state holds their own primaries, and that is the 93 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 3: moment where you choose which candidate will go against the 94 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 3: Democrats in November. And I am here to tell you 95 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 3: that I will be supporting the Republicans against the Democrats 96 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 3: come November. But championships are won at spring training. Championships 97 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 3: are one before you ever take the field, because you 98 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 3: put the best players on the field. A lot of 99 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 3: people have been convinced the Democrats are evil. All we 100 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 3: have to do is keep beating them. That's true, you 101 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 3: do have to keep beating them, but with whom? What 102 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 3: if the candidates you're working so hard for some of 103 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 3: them ain't a dime's worth the difference in the Democrats. 104 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 3: And people will tell me, well, that's okay, it doesn't matter. 105 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 3: It damn sure matters. And I'm going to tell you 106 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 3: why it matters. When you put Republicans in office like 107 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 3: Dan Crenshaw, like John Cornyn, like Mitch McConnell, like Liz Cheney, 108 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:42,160 Speaker 3: when you put Republicans in office that betray our principles, 109 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:48,840 Speaker 3: that voters, Republican voters, middle of the line voters who 110 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 3: voted Republican to change this country. When they see Republicans 111 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 3: acting just like democrats, you know what they do, They 112 00:06:55,400 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 3: stay home. Trump's great contribution in twenty sixteen was to 113 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 3: tell those people, no, no, no, I'm not like the 114 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 3: other politicians. I'll ruffle feathers. I'll go there and do it. 115 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 3: And damnity did this. This is the Michael Varie Show. Yeah, 116 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 3: that's one parent. As you know, we have three branches 117 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 3: in our government. It's what establishes our checksymbalances system that works. 118 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 3: It's rather brilliantly devised. To imagine that you're in the 119 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 3: last quarter of the eighteenth century, the late seventeen hundreds. 120 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 3: When you devise a system that two hundred and fifty 121 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 3: years later still works. People love to tell you that 122 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 3: the system doesn't work. Everybody thinks the system is well, 123 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 3: show me a better system, Show me a better system. 124 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 3: It's brilliant, it's beautiful. So we have a legislative branch 125 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 3: with the upper and lower the House and the Senate. 126 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 3: They write the laws. Then you have an executive branch 127 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 3: and enforces the laws. And then you have a judicial 128 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 3: branch that interprets the actions of the writing of the 129 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 3: laws and the enforcement of the laws. And that's how 130 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 3: it works. Supreme Court in the news today in a 131 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 3: big way. Professor Josh Blackman is our guest. He has 132 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 3: his one year old son in the back seat as 133 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 3: he does this. 134 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 7: No, one year, one month, one month. 135 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 3: I thought he was a year, he's a month old. 136 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 3: How many do you have? Now? 137 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 7: This is David number three? 138 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 3: How are we going to do? 139 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 7: I'll see. I thought we were done it too, but 140 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 7: you know, things happening. 141 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 3: You're going forth and multiplying. 142 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 7: Uh, you know, I love my family very much. 143 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 3: What does mama think about all this? 144 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 7: She thinks you're done? 145 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 3: They often do, and things happened. Did you really put 146 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 3: NPR before me? Did you really do an NPR interview 147 00:08:57,559 --> 00:08:59,559 Speaker 3: before me? 148 00:08:58,320 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 7: They? 149 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 3: I just want people to know. 150 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 7: Michael text me says, can you come on in twenty minute? 151 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 7: That's how Michael roles. 152 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 3: I normally don't give you that much. Tom all right, 153 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,959 Speaker 3: the Supreme Court all day today. I know that as 154 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 3: our nation's Supreme Court expert, Josh Blackman, the man who 155 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 3: knows more about Supreme Court than anyone. That's why He's 156 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 3: quoted far and wide, Fox News and everywhere else. He 157 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 3: is the expert on all things Supreme Court today. One 158 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 3: of the big cases that we're hearing arguments on is 159 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 3: boys in women's sports. Give us kind of an overview 160 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 3: of this right. 161 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 7: So this is an issue that would be unthinkable when 162 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 7: you and I were in school. It's could you allow 163 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 7: biological males compete in female athletics if they undergo certain 164 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 7: kinds of foremone therapy, other testosterone suppression, and so on. 165 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,439 Speaker 7: Believe it or not, Idaho tried to ban biological males 166 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 7: and female sports, and the Court Appeals in ninth Sirpuit, 167 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 7: which is in California, says no, you can't do that, 168 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 7: but I'm constitutional. And then West Virginia also try to 169 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 7: exclude transgender athletes, and the transgender athletes student said no, 170 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:07,559 Speaker 7: that that violates federal civil rights laws. So it's really 171 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 7: kind of a case they couldn't imagined. You know, I've 172 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 7: been listening now for almost three hours, Michael at the 173 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 7: Supreme Court this morning. The justices, I think you're grappling 174 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 7: with it. I think ultimately the uh, the transgender the 175 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,199 Speaker 7: trans athletes lose this one. But I think they're really 176 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 7: sort of struggling with how to deal with this issue. 177 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 7: You know, one of the examples was, you know, men 178 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 7: are better than them at chess. If you all the 179 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 7: grand masters in the world, you know there they tend 180 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 7: to all be men. Could you exclude uh uh, you know, 181 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 7: transgender athletes from a chess competition, and you know there's 182 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 7: some hard, sort of borderline issues. But the fact here 183 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 7: is it's a tiny percentage of athletes or transgender and 184 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 7: if the state wants to make a rule that says 185 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 7: the rule is male versus female, that's probably a good 186 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 7: enough rule to go forward. If a few athletes are excluded, 187 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 7: that might, you know, upset some people, but that's not 188 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 7: going to be a violation the US Constitution. 189 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 3: I think most people find it creepy. I think most 190 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 3: of Middle America says it's just weird. But what's the 191 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 3: actual basis, not enough people are harmed doesn't seem to 192 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 3: be a good enough reason. 193 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I think the rationale is the state wants 194 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 7: the rule that's easy to administer. I mean, if you 195 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 7: want to gainst the science, you'd actually see checker testoster 196 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 7: on a fairly regular basis and Frankly, most high schools 197 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 7: don't have the budget and the protocal to do that. 198 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,319 Speaker 7: So the the optimal generalized rule, if you're born biologically 199 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 7: e mail, you can't participate, period and that that's a rule. 200 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 7: It might affect a fairly small percentage of athletes, but 201 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,959 Speaker 7: it's but it's you know, as I might say, it's 202 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 7: good enough for government work. The government doesn't have to 203 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 7: act with perfect one hundred percent solution. Ninety nine percent 204 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 7: is sufficient. 205 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 3: Law school is thirty years ago from me. You're a professor, 206 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 3: but remind me, tell me if I'm right. The real 207 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 3: question here isn't is it constitutional or not? The question 208 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 3: is does a governing body have the authority to write 209 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 3: a law? Is it sufficient? Narrowly, Taylor, does it have 210 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 3: a real purpose, not just to discriminate or be mean? 211 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 3: And is it based in part a power that they 212 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 3: would have. And assuming those things to be the case, 213 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 3: it really doesn't matter what the law is. Is that 214 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 3: fair to say, yeah, that's right? 215 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 7: I mean, there's certain things that the government has to 216 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 7: be very careful, like race, for example, there are really 217 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 7: not many good reasons to stuff with people based on race. 218 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 7: The Court's that for gender, ender you need a pretty 219 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 7: good reason. But as long as you have a good reason, 220 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 7: that's enough. And here the reason is to level the 221 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,719 Speaker 7: playing field due to the inherent biological advantages. And that's 222 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 7: probably good enough for ractionale for this rule. You know, 223 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 7: it wouldn't say, oh, we want schood girls from math 224 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 7: clash something of that. 225 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 3: That's that's not going to fly. 226 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 7: It's the specific biology aspect. It's not about well, there's 227 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 7: not about persecut and transgender people that the law isn't 228 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 7: targeting them. It's targeting people have an unhare of biological advantage. 229 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 3: The Professor Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of 230 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 3: the Law, as our guest, birthright citizenship is before the court. 231 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 3: What do we need to know there? 232 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 7: So this case we argue at some point probably in 233 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 7: March or April or my son's getting flussy. 234 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:04,959 Speaker 3: Speaking birthright he was. 235 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 7: So the issue here is whether Trump can deny certain 236 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,959 Speaker 7: birth documents to the children of your legal alien. This 237 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 7: is an issue that people sort of thought was settled 238 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 7: because for about one hundred years the executive branches said, yes, 239 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,559 Speaker 7: we will treat the children of those on iheior. 240 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 3: Legally as US citizens. 241 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 7: The Streame Court has decided cases in the past, which 242 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:29,320 Speaker 7: is a related issue. If you have a child of 243 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 7: an immigrant, but let's say you're in a green cars 244 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 7: sort of work fees, are you a citizen? The Court 245 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 7: has never directly addressed whether the children of illegal aliens 246 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,319 Speaker 7: or themseelf citizens. I don't think this argument goes Trump's way. 247 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,959 Speaker 7: I think Trump loses this one big lea. If I 248 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 7: could say, and I think we're going to have a 249 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 7: rule that you know, Michael, if you don't like what 250 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 7: the Streme Court says, we can amend the Constitution. And 251 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 7: I think there actually might be a good number of 252 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 7: states who would favor eliminating birthright citizenship. In most countries 253 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 7: in Europe you don't have. In some Latin Erican countries 254 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 7: you don't have it. It's not guaranteed. And given thoughts immigration, 255 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:05,959 Speaker 7: now maybe the question is this something for the comp 256 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 7: social Amendment process. 257 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 3: So another example of something with the best of intentions 258 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 3: that certain people abuse and then you have to go 259 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 3: changing it because of the abuse. No good deed goes unpunished. 260 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 3: And finally, the president's power to fire the FTC Commissioner 261 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 3: lots of challenges to the power of the president and 262 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 3: his ability to exercise those thoughts on that case. 263 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 2: Right. 264 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 7: So, back in the New Deal, SDR tried to fire 265 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 7: a commissioner of the FDC, the Federal Trade Commission, and 266 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 7: the Streme Court said, no, FDR, you can't do this 267 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 7: has too much power for you, Congress piece, we will 268 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 7: protect these people. Trump's like, all right, FDR tried to 269 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 7: he lost, let me try it again. Now it's going 270 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 7: for Trump though, is the Streme Court has sort of 271 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 7: chipped away those New Deal presidents from the Roosevelt era. 272 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 7: I think Trump actually wins US one. And as my 273 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 7: son is saying, it's been a very sad day for 274 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 7: the SEC commissioner when he loses, I'm sorry. 275 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 3: Do you think they will uphold the power of the president. 276 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 5: Think? 277 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 2: Yeah. 278 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 7: I think the cort upholds Trump's start to fire the commissioner. 279 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 3: If he can't fire the commissioner, who could He's the 280 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 3: head of the executive branch and do lee election? 281 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 7: No one, that's the point. If Trump lacks the power 282 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 7: to firement, will then the BAC serve out their tenure 283 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 7: unless they basically break the law to engage with some 284 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 7: sort of you know, misconduct. They're there for the full term. 285 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 3: Professor Josh Blackman is always a pleasure to take care 286 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 3: of your one month old. Thank you brother, Thank you, sir. 287 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 3: We talked about birthright citizenship for Professor Blackmen, the issue 288 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 3: of who can come to this country and live here. 289 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 3: We're the only country in the world debating this. Every 290 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 3: other country understands. You can't be invaded by foreign people. 291 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 3: You won't be a country anymore. The invaders think it's 292 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 3: a great idea, And what we have now is invaders 293 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 3: who are living here going no, no, no, we can just 294 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 3: stay here. No you don't, you don't live here. This 295 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 3: is not your country. Go back to your country. And 296 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 3: then they cry, they threaten you, they fall over, they protest, 297 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 3: they smashed up. Whatever it takes, well, whatever it takes 298 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 3: is what we have to do. May sixth, nineteen ninety 299 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 3: five was a special day for two reasons. First of all, 300 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 3: our creative director Jim Mudd was married to his wife, 301 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 3: and I kid you not, this is her name. How 302 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 3: awesome is this? Not a stage name, real name. Her 303 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 3: name is Dusty. His last name is Mud. She took 304 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 3: his name. Her name is Dusty Mud. Now how awesome 305 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 3: is that? Can you imagine when she calls clients on 306 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 3: the phone. Hi, this is Dusty Mud with okay, okay, go, 307 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 3: what's really your name? No, no, it's Dusty Mud, your 308 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 3: real name. Not No, no, it's Dusty Mud. If she 309 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 3: was to have a singing career, she's guaranteed at least 310 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 3: one number one song, just because it's a great it's 311 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 3: such a great name. Second reason, it was the same 312 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 3: day that President Clinton gave his national radio address on 313 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 3: illegal aliens. This was a Democrat saying these words just 314 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 3: thirty years ago. Our nation was built by immigrants. 315 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 8: People from every region of the world have made lasting 316 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 8: and important contributions to our society. We support legal immigration, 317 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,640 Speaker 8: but we won't tolerate immigration by people whose first act 318 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 8: is to break the law as they enter our country. 319 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 8: We must continue to do everything we can to strengthen 320 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 8: our borders, enforce our laws, and remove illegal aliens from 321 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 8: our country. As I said in my State of the 322 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 8: Union address, we are a nation of immigrants, but we're 323 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 8: also a nation of laws. And it is wrong and 324 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 8: ultimately self defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit 325 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 8: the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have 326 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,400 Speaker 8: seen in recent years. Now, let me talk a little 327 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 8: bit about increasing deportations. Our plan will triple the number 328 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 8: of criminal and other deportable aliens deported since nineteen ninety three. 329 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:44,120 Speaker 8: Every day, illegal aliens show up in court who are charged. 330 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 8: Some are guilty, and surely some are innocent. Some go 331 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 8: to jail and some don't. But they're all illegal aliens. 332 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 8: Whether they're innocent or guilty of the crimes they're charged 333 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 8: with in courts, they're still here illegally, and they should 334 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 8: be sent out of the country. If their sentenced to jail, 335 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 8: they should go to jail. But then after their terms over, 336 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 8: they should be removed from the United States. And when 337 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 8: there's a plea bargain, I want deportation to be part 338 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 8: of the deal. It simply doesn't make any sense for 339 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 8: us to have illegal aliens in our custody, in our 340 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 8: courts and then let them go back to living here 341 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 8: Illegallya's what wait. 342 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 3: What, mister President Monica, get out of the way. The 343 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 3: man is talking. Could you move off of could you 344 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,160 Speaker 3: get off of him for a minute? My goodness, can 345 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 3: you rewind ramon about twenty seconds. Let's hear that line again. 346 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 8: Fual aliens in our custody, in our courts and then 347 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,399 Speaker 8: let them go back to living here illegally. 348 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:46,199 Speaker 3: That's wrong and we should stop him. We have to 349 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 3: face the. 350 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,919 Speaker 8: Fact that we've got another big problem, and that is 351 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 8: the backlag. There is actually a backlog in the deportation 352 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 8: of illegal aliens of over one hundred thousand. That's one 353 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 8: hundred thousand people we have identified where still awaiting the 354 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 8: completion of their deportation hearings. I have instructed the Justice 355 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 8: Department to get rid of this back law. If it 356 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 8: takes extra judges, we'll ask Congress for the money to 357 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 8: get them. We cannot justify a continuing to have this 358 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 8: large number of the legal aliens in our country simply 359 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,640 Speaker 8: because our courts system won't process them. 360 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,120 Speaker 3: We also have hundreds of thousands of people. 361 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 8: Who have been ordered to leave our country who then 362 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 8: disappear back into the population. I have instructed the Justice Department, 363 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 8: and particularly the Immigration and Naturalization Service to come up 364 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 8: with a plan in which we can cooperate with the 365 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 8: States to identify these people and move them out as well. 366 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 8: Our country was built by immigrants, but it was built 367 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 8: also by people who obeyed the law. We must be 368 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 8: able to control our borders. We must uphold respect for 369 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 8: our laws. We're cracking down on this huge problem we 370 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 8: found when I got here, and we're going to keep 371 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 8: working at it until we do much much better. 372 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 3: Thanks for listening. When you studying things like this, it's 373 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:07,919 Speaker 3: very important that you understand context. You cannot simply listen 374 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 3: to that speech in the abstract. So let's dig. In 375 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 3: May sixth, nineteen ninety five, what has happened? President Trump 376 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 3: is elected. President Clinton is elected the first week of 377 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 3: November nineteen ninety two. He beats George Bush, George W. Bush, 378 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,399 Speaker 3: George H. W. Bush, and Ross Perrot. Perou getting in 379 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 3: the race and peel off twenty percent of Bush's voters. 380 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 3: Meant that a scandal ridden president who was wounded came 381 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 3: out of a very weak primary. Do you remember who 382 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 3: he beat? Paul Songus, a former senator from Massachusetts that 383 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 3: nobody knew. He called himself the comeback kid. But it 384 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 3: wasn't ever really a race. Nobody wanted to run in 385 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 3: ninety two. They wanted to wait till ninety six because 386 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 3: George H. W. Bush was sitting on a ninety two 387 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 3: percent approval rating. We'd never seen a president, a sitting 388 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,120 Speaker 3: president with that kind of approval rating, so nobody wanted 389 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 3: to run against him and get burned, so they were 390 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 3: all keeping their powder dry. The strongest candidate at the 391 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 3: time was Mario Cuomo out of New York. But there 392 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 3: were two problems. Number one, he wanted to be president 393 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,360 Speaker 3: and knew or felt that wouldn't be the best year 394 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 3: for him to run. And secondly, he had mafia ties 395 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 3: and he really didn't want those coming out. So Clinton wins, 396 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:30,399 Speaker 3: and he has a very very aggressive agenda. And what 397 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 3: happens two years in the same thing that happened to 398 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 3: him two years into being governor of Arkansas. He tried 399 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,040 Speaker 3: to bring too many changes too fast that were out 400 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 3: front of or behind or to the side of however 401 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 3: you want to define it. I don't want to color 402 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 3: the language. He tried to do things that were not popular. 403 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 3: He talked about an assault weapons. Man, what's an assault weapon? Well, 404 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,400 Speaker 3: they didn't know. How do you define that. The problem 405 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 3: is a lot of people would say, yeah, we don't 406 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 3: need to have assault weapons in the hands of everyday citizens, 407 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 3: and then you find out that the gun you own 408 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 3: gets classified as an assault weapon. That's where they get 409 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:08,120 Speaker 3: you in trouble. So that freaked people out. And that's 410 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 3: when Charlton Heston said, from my cold dead hands, you're 411 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 3: not prying my gun away from me, and Nuke Gingrich 412 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 3: swept to part power first time in forty years. The 413 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 3: Democrats had taken over the House. The Republicans had taken 414 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 3: over the House. Nineteen ninety four the contract with America 415 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:32,119 Speaker 3: reasonable government, less paperwork, a less punitive government, a kinder, 416 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 3: gentler irs. So Clinton had an hillary Care, which was 417 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:41,400 Speaker 3: the precursor to Obamacare. So nineteen ninety four's election returns, 418 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,919 Speaker 3: the mid term returns were a wake up call to 419 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 3: Bill Clinton. And now he's got two years to run 420 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 3: for president. So turn the calendar to nineteen ninety five. 421 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 3: He's now having to deal with this upstart Speaker of 422 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 3: the House who's very smart, Newke Gingrich with a brand 423 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:05,879 Speaker 3: new and he's worried. And so he realizes, we let 424 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 3: them see our liberal side. We pandered to the liberals. 425 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,439 Speaker 3: We cannot do that. We've got to move back to 426 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 3: the center. So a couple months later, he gives a 427 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,880 Speaker 3: speech and says, hey, working class white people who abandoned 428 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 3: me during the midterms, I know that illegal aliens are 429 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 3: bad for you and bad for this country, and we're 430 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 3: going to do something about it. And that's exactly what 431 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 3: he did, as you will see in the next segment. 432 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 3: When Democrats need to win, we needed to win elections, 433 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 3: they came back to the middle and said, yeah, we 434 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 3: agree with you. Illegal immigration's bad for this country. The 435 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 3: problem is the sorels crowd, the activist crowd, that too 436 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,439 Speaker 3: many illegals got here. They passed a critical mass. Democrats 437 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,119 Speaker 3: can't go back on illegal immigration now, and they're in 438 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:56,400 Speaker 3: a real pick. The Michael Berry shows a shot on 439 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 3: the screen today on President Trump touring a a Ford 440 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 3: motor plant and he's walking toward the camera. He's wearing 441 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 3: that black trench coat. It's kind of been his signature 442 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 3: for a long time. Very New York high finance guy. 443 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 3: And he's got some plant workers beside him, or guys 444 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 3: that are pretending to be plant workers but are actually executives. 445 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 3: It's such a good look. Optics are so important that 446 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 3: visual shows people that, no matter what else is going on, 447 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 3: he is still mindful of people who punch a clock 448 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:49,439 Speaker 3: and work in a warehouse, on an assembly line, on 449 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 3: a construction site. We've never had a president who quite 450 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 3: understood that the way he does. And we've never had 451 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:02,640 Speaker 3: a Republican president who drew working class votes the way 452 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 3: he does. You know, when you look at the numbers, 453 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 3: President Trump does not do well with people with PhDs. 454 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 3: He does better, but also poorly. With people with masters. 455 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 3: He does better, but also poorly with people with a 456 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 3: college degree. There is such a split in this country 457 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 3: between I hate the word educated, but between the college 458 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,919 Speaker 3: degree crowd and the non college degree crowd. I'd give 459 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 3: you a great example. Had a group of guys over 460 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 3: within the last ten days or so, and we're sitting 461 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 3: around smoking cigars around an outdoor fire pit, and it 462 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 3: was you Northeasterners are going to laugh, but it was 463 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 3: cold for us, you know, ninety I'm just kidding. It 464 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 3: was I don't know, in the forties, and that's cold 465 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 3: for us. And I get it, I know, y'all. Are 466 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 3: you know that? To you, i'd be out in short. Okay, 467 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 3: I got it. But that's perfect sitting around the fire 468 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 3: in the backyard weather. And what I love to do 469 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 3: is pull together people from different backgrounds. Secret service agent, FBA, 470 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 3: police officer, CEO of a company, billionaire, entrepreneur, journalist, investigative 471 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 3: reporter Ramon. I'm not sure what he was doing there, 472 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:33,440 Speaker 3: but builder lawyers, and it's fascinating to me to see 473 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 3: how they interact, what kind of questions they have for 474 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 3: each other, and the chemistry of such an interaction is 475 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 3: really cool because it's to use the lestern. It's a 476 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 3: safe space for people. You know, when you go out 477 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 3: in public, you have to be careful what you say. 478 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:48,639 Speaker 3: You might offend somebody. A lot of people look at 479 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 3: the world that way. But they're in my backyard and 480 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 3: they know me, and they know this is a no 481 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 3: judgment zone. So you can ask somebody, Hey, I'm curious, 482 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 3: you're black, do you agree with so and so? And 483 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 3: those questions are asked. You know, your first generation Mexican, 484 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 3: do you think that? And so people feel very comfortable 485 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 3: in this zone, and I enjoy that. There was a 486 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 3: conversation about professional football last night that Houston Texans won 487 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 3: the playoff game in Pittsburgh on the road, and it's 488 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 3: a big deal for Houston Texans fans. Houston had the 489 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,880 Speaker 3: Oilers forever. The Oilers Bud Adams up and moved to Nashville, 490 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 3: so Houston didn't have a team for a couple of 491 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 3: years and then started with a new team. So the 492 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:43,679 Speaker 3: Oilers were going and now the Texans are here and 493 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,159 Speaker 3: it's been rough going, although they've been pretty good the 494 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 3: last few years, not great, but good, and this city 495 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 3: is desperate for a winner. The Rockets are good. Astros 496 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 3: have been very good, one of the best teams in 497 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 3: baseball and the most fun teams in baseball to watch. 498 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 3: And now hater will say things, but we don't care 499 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 3: about the haters anyway, something happened Texas foot Texas college 500 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 3: football was very good this year. You know the University 501 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 3: of Texas who started the season at ranked number one. 502 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 3: You had Texas Tech who had their best season ever. 503 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,200 Speaker 3: They got to buy in the first round of college playoffs, 504 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 3: which turns out to be a bad thing. Texas A 505 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,159 Speaker 3: and M made the playoffs, had their best season in 506 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 3: a long time, and undefeated all the way till they 507 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,360 Speaker 3: played ut and lose, but still got into a very 508 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 3: tough competitive playoff system. University of Houston had a great season, 509 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 3: beat LSU in the bowl game, so TCU won their 510 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 3: bowl game. So this was a good year for college 511 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 3: football and my favorite year of college football in a 512 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 3: long time. And somewhere along the way, we were over 513 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 3: here side talking to college football and somebody said, hey, 514 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 3: where's my Texans fans? And there were three or four 515 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 3: guys who said, they're huge Texans fans. They have season tickets, 516 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 3: they take their kids, and the other there was another 517 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,719 Speaker 3: group of people. There were twelve to fourteen people at 518 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 3: this point. People are coming and going throughout the course 519 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 3: of the evening, and there were several who said, I 520 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 3: don't watch Texans anymore, I don't watch pro football anymore. 521 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 3: But those guys were all college football fans. The Texans 522 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 3: fans were only very passive or in passing fans of 523 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 3: college football. And I don't know what made me think 524 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 3: of it. A couple days later, I recreated that conversation 525 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 3: in my head and I was explaining to my wife, 526 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 3: and I said, something hit me. The people who did 527 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 3: not go to college, they're financially successful, but they didn't 528 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 3: go to college. They're big Texans fans. They're professional football fans. 529 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 3: One of them has a suite. The others have season tickets, 530 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 3: nice season tickets have from the beginning. They are super 531 00:29:55,600 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 3: fans of the professional football team. The other guys who 532 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 3: went to college had deep connections to their college, their university. 533 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 3: They met their wife there, they met their future business partner. There, 534 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 3: they started the study of the subject that would become engineering, 535 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 3: that would be their career. They still wear the colors 536 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,040 Speaker 3: of University of Texas or Texas A and M, the 537 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 3: way people in Alabama do with Auburn in the Crimson Tide, 538 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 3: or LSU in Louisiana, or we could go on and 539 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 3: on and on Oklahoma in Oklahoma. And I realized that 540 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 3: right there before us were twelve to fourteen different guys, 541 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 3: depending on the moment, because people are coming and going, 542 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 3: who probably all voted for Trump, I would assume, but 543 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 3: maybe not, who shared certain values, who had a lot 544 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 3: in common, But there was a rift between and it 545 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 3: was a cultural rift, socioeconomic rift. Now, the guys that 546 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 3: had the Texans tickets, some of those were richer than 547 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 3: the guys who were into college football. But it was 548 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 3: just one of the many cuts, one of the many 549 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 3: chasms in society, one of the different ways that your 550 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 3: opinion of things can be shaped in a way that 551 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 3: is based on your experience that you don't even realize 552 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 3: is happening. Not one of the people who said they 553 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 3: were big college football fans had failed to go to college, 554 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 3: and not one of the people who was a big 555 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 3: Texans fan had not gone to college. So people were 556 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:46,000 Speaker 3: predictable in their likes and dislikes without even realizing that 557 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 3: that experience had shaped that. You don't need to send 558 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 3: me an email going Michael, I might not have gone 559 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 3: to college if I've done pretty good for off sale. 560 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 3: In fact, I like the text. It's not a judgment. 561 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 3: Everybody thinks that when I make a statement if a 562 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 3: person weighs seven hundred pounds they're fat, it's not a judgment. 563 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 3: If we study what they're eating to understand the caloric content, 564 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 3: it's not a judgment. Don't get yourself wound up in it. 565 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 3: We're gonna have conversations where we observe things and we're 566 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 3: not even sure what to make of that, but we're 567 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 3: going to observe it. And I did observe that, and 568 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 3: I find that fascinating. And if you want to add 569 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 3: to that conversation, my conversation is all. If my door 570 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 3: is always open, go to Michael Berryshow dot com. Send 571 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 3: me an email. I'll read them all.