1
00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:06,240
Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

2
00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:10,640
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm.

3
00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:18,200
Speaker 2: Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.

4
00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,600
Speaker 3: The departments do not have any clue where the dollars

5
00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,639
Speaker 3: are going. How many audits has the Pentagon failed?

6
00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:32,680
Speaker 2: Who has any idea?

7
00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:35,880
Speaker 3: How much waste and abuse there is in the trillions

8
00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:39,120
Speaker 3: of dollars spent by the federal government. This government is

9
00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,560
Speaker 3: not watching how your dollars are being spent. And President

10
00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:46,520
Speaker 3: Trump has commissioned Elon and vi Veik and many others

11
00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,040
Speaker 3: across the government to get to the bottom of this,

12
00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,280
Speaker 3: so the money that you earn as an American citizen

13
00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:56,520
Speaker 3: will be jealously treasured and guarded and not wasted any longer.

14
00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:00,080
Speaker 4: That's Stephen Miller, who is going to be the Deputy

15
00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,200
Speaker 4: something or other. What did he get named to.

16
00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,600
Speaker 1: The other day, I can't remember. He's one of the

17
00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:07,080
Speaker 1: chief advisors certainly.

18
00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the Trump administration talking about DOJE the Department

19
00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,920
Speaker 4: of Government Excess or expenditures or waste or whatever efficiency

20
00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:15,960
Speaker 4: efficiency there you go.

21
00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's funny.

22
00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,480
Speaker 1: There's a couple of things he said there that if

23
00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,200
Speaker 1: you stop and think about it. And one of my

24
00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:30,240
Speaker 1: themes lately has been number one, cut the crap, which

25
00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,720
Speaker 1: is closely related to my other theme, remember your first principles.

26
00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:39,560
Speaker 1: What are we doing here? Let's start at the beginning.

27
00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,560
Speaker 1: And if you get down the road two, three, four

28
00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,960
Speaker 1: priorities and those priorities start to interfere with and damage

29
00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,520
Speaker 1: your first principle what you are here to do, you

30
00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:53,520
Speaker 1: need to take serious look at whether you've you've been

31
00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,960
Speaker 1: led as strike anyway, Having said that, Miller pointing out

32
00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,280
Speaker 1: that this enormous, incredibly expensive enterprise that is the federal

33
00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,280
Speaker 1: government is practically never subjected to.

34
00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:06,640
Speaker 2: Any sort of analysis.

35
00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:12,760
Speaker 1: Assessing efficiency and waste and effectiveness and the idea that

36
00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:19,600
Speaker 1: something this incredibly expensive would exist without like serious safeguards

37
00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,680
Speaker 1: and rein ends and fail safes.

38
00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:23,440
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

39
00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:28,320
Speaker 1: Every American citizen should be familiar with the yearly audit

40
00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,320
Speaker 1: that's done on the federal government and like weight with

41
00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,480
Speaker 1: baited breath to see what it would yield.

42
00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:34,760
Speaker 2: But no, it's the opposite.

43
00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:40,359
Speaker 4: Nobody even asks the question, right, which is crazy and

44
00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:41,239
Speaker 4: oh yeah.

45
00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,840
Speaker 1: And and incredibly expensive, Thank you very much. As text,

46
00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:46,680
Speaker 1: you know, the deadlines approach.

47
00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:48,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was disappointed.

48
00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:49,919
Speaker 4: I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts the

49
00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,280
Speaker 4: other day and they are really yucking it up about

50
00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,520
Speaker 4: how unlikely it is that Elon and Vivek can make

51
00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:00,360
Speaker 4: any real difference on this, since the big drive of

52
00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,240
Speaker 4: our financial problems are the big entitlements and nobody's going

53
00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,919
Speaker 4: to touch those. They can save maybe two hundred and

54
00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,280
Speaker 4: fifty billion dollars a year out of this. After that,

55
00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,440
Speaker 4: it's gonna be hard, Like, that's nothing like. That's the

56
00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,920
Speaker 4: fact that every cent I ever pay in tax, my

57
00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,960
Speaker 4: whole life gets wasted, and you could stop that from happening.

58
00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:23,480
Speaker 2: Is not worth doing? Is I find offensive? Yeah? It is.

59
00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,239
Speaker 1: And even more than that, because you're one hundred percent

60
00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:30,400
Speaker 1: right Elon once again, is his idea, his philosophy of

61
00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:31,919
Speaker 1: fail fast and learn faster.

62
00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,600
Speaker 2: If this, excuse me, if this.

63
00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:42,200
Speaker 1: Effort the Doge thing, if indeed it yields some decent

64
00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,240
Speaker 1: results in the discretionary part of the budget, which is,

65
00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,040
Speaker 1: you know, I can't remember a third of it or

66
00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:51,040
Speaker 1: something like that, and that, and then people talk about

67
00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,600
Speaker 1: and it becomes household knowledge that well, they can only

68
00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,480
Speaker 1: do so much because most of our government is actually

69
00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:58,760
Speaker 1: all these programs.

70
00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,240
Speaker 2: You've heard about that would be enormous. It's important, sure

71
00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:02,080
Speaker 2: and educational.

72
00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,520
Speaker 1: Ninety percent of Americans could not tell you that, or

73
00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,960
Speaker 1: or seventy five percent something like that. So anyway, I

74
00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:11,480
Speaker 1: just I like the effort to please do it, even

75
00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,200
Speaker 1: if you fail completely, at least YOUT tried. Anyway, A

76
00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,840
Speaker 1: couple of interesting things about the size of the federal

77
00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,960
Speaker 1: workforce and the sprawling federal government. I found this interesting.

78
00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:23,960
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk tweeted this the other day. Did you know

79
00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,480
Speaker 1: that eighty five percent of the federal workforce works from

80
00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:28,640
Speaker 1: home and only have to come in one day a

81
00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,400
Speaker 1: month on any given day, Only seventeen percent of the

82
00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,160
Speaker 1: federal workforces in a federal office building. Blah blah blah.

83
00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:35,520
Speaker 1: And I read that and I thought, wait a minute,

84
00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,000
Speaker 1: is that right. No, it's not right, it's not right.

85
00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,680
Speaker 1: According to the OMB, and they're fairly accurate, about half

86
00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,839
Speaker 1: of federal workers are eligible for telework, and of those

87
00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,800
Speaker 1: about sixty percent of the work is actually performed at

88
00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,640
Speaker 1: a job site. So if you can do basic methods,

89
00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,400
Speaker 1: probably around twenty percent of the federal government that is

90
00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,480
Speaker 1: working remotely with god knows what level of efficiency or accountability.

91
00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,040
Speaker 2: But but again, you don't need to go with.

92
00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:07,200
Speaker 1: The wild, extraordinary and inaccurate number to say, okay, maybe

93
00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,600
Speaker 1: we start there. And I brought that up not to

94
00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,200
Speaker 1: undermine my own point, but just to point out, and

95
00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,480
Speaker 1: we struggle with this every day. There's so much out

96
00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,480
Speaker 1: there that is untrue, but it's so good you want

97
00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,040
Speaker 1: to believe it. So you just have to beware of

98
00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,359
Speaker 1: that sort of thing in today's information environment. But this

99
00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,479
Speaker 1: from Wall Street Journal two point three million jobs the

100
00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:35,520
Speaker 1: federal workforce in charts, and they go through the various hirings,

101
00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:42,239
Speaker 1: growth and reduction in federal workforce the last four presidential administrations.

102
00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,479
Speaker 1: And it's interesting the Democrats definitely grew it way more

103
00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,240
Speaker 1: than the Republicans.

104
00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:50,720
Speaker 2: Year over year, but the.

105
00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,640
Speaker 1: Republicans grew at times too, depending on their needs Worth

106
00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:59,480
Speaker 1: mentioning seventy percent of civilian workers are in military related agencies.

107
00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,120
Speaker 1: Seventy percent. I did not know that, wow, And are

108
00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:04,000
Speaker 1: they needed.

109
00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:06,200
Speaker 2: Right? Right?

110
00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,760
Speaker 1: And it's difficult to get out get through this topic

111
00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,280
Speaker 1: without you know, throwing in a million talent tangents. But

112
00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,000
Speaker 1: as I've said for a long time, we need to

113
00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:20,240
Speaker 1: have respect for our military, particularly our fighting.

114
00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:20,479
Speaker 2: Men and women.

115
00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,920
Speaker 4: We do not need worship of our military, because if

116
00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,719
Speaker 4: you're worshiping the military and worshiping the Pentagon, you're not

117
00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,400
Speaker 4: constantly calling to calling for them to account for every

118
00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:33,400
Speaker 4: dollar they spend.

119
00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,560
Speaker 2: And it's an enormous budget we need to.

120
00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can get a lot closer to worship for

121
00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:43,680
Speaker 4: our people in uniform, but no, well, I guess they

122
00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,640
Speaker 4: all wear uniforms, are fighting people. But no need to

123
00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,840
Speaker 4: for the bureocracy at all. It's no different than any

124
00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:50,400
Speaker 4: other bureaucracy.

125
00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:53,480
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, and it's subject to the iron law

126
00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,480
Speaker 1: of bureaucracy. But the Journal points out that two point

127
00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,360
Speaker 1: three million Americans who worked directly for the federal government,

128
00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,200
Speaker 1: less than two percent of the total US workforce. And

129
00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,560
Speaker 1: you think, well, that's not that significant. It's every dollar

130
00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:10,840
Speaker 1: of your federal taxes except the ones that go to entitlements.

131
00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, as long as the money's coming out of

132
00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,760
Speaker 1: my paycheck, I care. They work as everything from nurses

133
00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,680
Speaker 1: and FA hospitals and park rangers and Yellowstone to guards

134
00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,120
Speaker 1: and federal prisons, and the nineteen employees of the Nuclear

135
00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:27,040
Speaker 1: Waste Technical Review Board about eighty percent of them actually

136
00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:31,120
Speaker 1: work outside of Washington, d C. I thought that was interesting.

137
00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:38,480
Speaker 4: It is amazing that we don't value our tax money more,

138
00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:41,920
Speaker 4: as you already said. But so you go to work

139
00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:45,400
Speaker 4: every single day and you make a living and the

140
00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,040
Speaker 4: government takes a big chunk of it, and you don't

141
00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:49,840
Speaker 4: pay attention.

142
00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:51,360
Speaker 2: To how they spend it. They just waste it. They

143
00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:53,760
Speaker 2: waste a lot of it. We should be outraged at that.

144
00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,960
Speaker 4: Don't take my money if you're not going to spend

145
00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,480
Speaker 4: it on something that I want or care about.

146
00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so much being.

147
00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,239
Speaker 1: Our brilliant plan we came up with a few years ago.

148
00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,320
Speaker 1: And this could be assigned at random because it doesn't matter,

149
00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,679
Speaker 1: and that would be an accurate way to do it. Anyway,

150
00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:16,360
Speaker 1: you get a notice with your federal taxes at the

151
00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,480
Speaker 1: end of every year on your final W two you

152
00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,520
Speaker 1: paid what ten thousand dollars one hundred thousand dollars eight

153
00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:27,040
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars in federal income taxes, and it would

154
00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:30,360
Speaker 1: say you built one one hundredth of this bridge, or

155
00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,600
Speaker 1: you every single dollar you paid went to the Department

156
00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:37,640
Speaker 1: of wasting your money on education or something like that,

157
00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:41,880
Speaker 1: and everybody and that way, everybody would think wow, wow,

158
00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,720
Speaker 1: that or you know, a bridge is practically universally understood

159
00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:49,840
Speaker 1: and accepted. But wait a second, this went to the

160
00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,640
Speaker 1: Department of the whatever the hell the Department of the

161
00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:56,040
Speaker 1: Interior all of my tax money for their programs supporting

162
00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:57,679
Speaker 1: indigenous art programs.

163
00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:01,800
Speaker 4: Right, Oh okay, what is that program? How does it work?

164
00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,280
Speaker 4: I wonder what their budget is? Is that money wasted?

165
00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:06,880
Speaker 4: Is it just given out to cronies?

166
00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,120
Speaker 1: And everybody would have a personal stake, But anyway, I

167
00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:10,600
Speaker 1: don't want to get hung up on that as much

168
00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:14,120
Speaker 1: as I enjoy the discussion. Roughly seventy percent of civilian

169
00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:19,000
Speaker 1: roles or military or security related agencies VA. The VA

170
00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,440
Speaker 1: has the most civilian workers because it operates hundreds of

171
00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:27,400
Speaker 1: hospitals and clinics. Homeland Security is now the third largest.

172
00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,000
Speaker 1: Education department is the smallest, has forty four hundred and

173
00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,000
Speaker 1: twenty five workers, easily shut down it should not exist,

174
00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:38,400
Speaker 1: which we'll talk about later on. Let's see, Yeah, that's

175
00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,720
Speaker 1: kind of interesting. You got any other justice apartment has

176
00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:46,640
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventeen thousand employees civilian employees?

177
00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:49,439
Speaker 2: Anyway we could get deep.

178
00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,840
Speaker 4: Could they operates just fine? With ten percent fewer than that?

179
00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,199
Speaker 4: I would guess that they could.

180
00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:59,280
Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, probably so I thought this was great Breitbart

181
00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,320
Speaker 1: reporting the Knagon failed at seventh audit in a row,

182
00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,079
Speaker 1: failing to account for it's more than eight hundred and

183
00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,560
Speaker 1: twenty four billion dollar budget in twenty twenty four.

184
00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,680
Speaker 4: Do you remember that there's a famous John Stewart clip

185
00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,680
Speaker 4: about that several years back where he grilled somebody on

186
00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:17,480
Speaker 4: a stage from the Pentagon about the Pentagon failing their

187
00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:20,080
Speaker 4: audit and where did those money go in? And the

188
00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,440
Speaker 4: person that ran it didn't have any idea. They don't

189
00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,160
Speaker 4: care because there's no public there's no political pressure on

190
00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,880
Speaker 4: them to pay attention to where the money goes.

191
00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:29,360
Speaker 2: Zero.

192
00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:38,960
Speaker 1: So the DoD's Office of Inspector General, the DODIG yeah yeaoh,

193
00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:43,040
Speaker 1: said auditors quote could not obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence

194
00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:46,400
Speaker 1: to support an opinion. The audit, performed by an independent

195
00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,839
Speaker 1: public accounting firm, looked at twenty seven different DoD components,

196
00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,800
Speaker 1: and in a statement, the Inspector General, Robert Storch, said,

197
00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:57,560
Speaker 1: there's been little progress since two thousand and five, almost

198
00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:58,680
Speaker 1: twenty years ago.

199
00:10:59,520 --> 00:10:59,840
Speaker 2: Quote.

200
00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,720
Speaker 1: Although the DoD made some progress in improving financial management

201
00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:07,040
Speaker 1: during the fiscal year of financial audit statements blah, many

202
00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:10,160
Speaker 1: of it's identified weaknesses have not improved since two thousand

203
00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:10,600
Speaker 1: and five.

204
00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:19,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess you just accept that we do get

205
00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,360
Speaker 4: the government we deserve and people don't care. Of course,

206
00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:23,000
Speaker 4: part of the reason, well, I was going to say,

207
00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,679
Speaker 4: part of the reason is half the country doesn't pay

208
00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,040
Speaker 4: federal taxes, so they don't have.

209
00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:27,719
Speaker 2: Any reason to care.

210
00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,520
Speaker 4: But the half that does pay taxes doesn't care much either,

211
00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:34,800
Speaker 4: because there's not supporting any party that's super fiscally concerned.

212
00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,400
Speaker 1: So if that was discouraging, some encouragement coming up in

213
00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,560
Speaker 1: a minute, The cheat sheet for the DOGE people where

214
00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,600
Speaker 1: to look at first. I think you'll enjoy this afterword

215
00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,440
Speaker 1: from our friends. It's simply Save Home Security best deal

216
00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:51,319
Speaker 1: of the year. It's spectacularly it's spectacular rather sixty percent

217
00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,680
Speaker 1: off new simply safe security system, their best deal of

218
00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,400
Speaker 1: the year, sixty percent off, and it includes this incredible

219
00:11:58,440 --> 00:11:59,640
Speaker 1: technology they've been working on.

220
00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a new active guard outdoor protection. So old

221
00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,240
Speaker 4: security system to only take action once somebody's already inside

222
00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:08,839
Speaker 4: your home, that's too late. This changes the game by

223
00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,480
Speaker 4: preventing crime before it happens. They catch people lurking around

224
00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:16,520
Speaker 4: acting suspiciously, can identify potential criminals and getting on it

225
00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:17,000
Speaker 4: right away.

226
00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:21,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's ai baby, really interesting and there's no long

227
00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,079
Speaker 1: term contracts, no cancelation fee, and it's about a buck

228
00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:25,480
Speaker 1: a day for all this protection.

229
00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,760
Speaker 2: Compare that to your old security system that was hundreds

230
00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:30,200
Speaker 2: of dollars a month. It was awful.

231
00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:33,360
Speaker 1: Simply Safe is giving our listeners exclusive access to their

232
00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:37,040
Speaker 1: early Black Friday sale this week. Gets sixty percent off

233
00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,880
Speaker 1: any new system with select professional monitoring plans. This is

234
00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,760
Speaker 1: the best offer of the year. Simplysafe dot com slash armstrong.

235
00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,560
Speaker 1: Go to simplysafe dot com slash armstrong. There's no safe

236
00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,840
Speaker 1: like simply Safe. Why don't we do the doze cheat

237
00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:51,680
Speaker 1: sheet after a quick break?

238
00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:53,520
Speaker 2: Diari Just see there was amount.

239
00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,959
Speaker 4: There was a cyber truck in Trump's motorcade yesterday going

240
00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,120
Speaker 4: over to the rocket launch first time ever. So the

241
00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,160
Speaker 4: Biden administration who tried to pretend that Tesla doesn't exist

242
00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,720
Speaker 4: because they're not part of the auto workers' union. Trump

243
00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,600
Speaker 4: is embracing, of course, the only successful really electric car

244
00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:13,560
Speaker 4: company in history. Boy, politics makes for strange bedfellows all

245
00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,319
Speaker 4: the way around. We got a lot more on the

246
00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:21,559
Speaker 4: way to stay here. Biden said yes to the rockets

247
00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,120
Speaker 4: and today has said yes to landmines, two things that

248
00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:28,600
Speaker 4: had been no goes in Ukraine up until this week.

249
00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:29,560
Speaker 2: More on that later.

250
00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,679
Speaker 1: And the first sexually confused oddball has been elected to

251
00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:38,520
Speaker 1: Congress some transgender person, So now there'll be Willie's in

252
00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,280
Speaker 1: the women's bathroom and folks are not happy, but it

253
00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:42,559
Speaker 1: we'll discuss that as well.

254
00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:44,640
Speaker 2: With us love.

255
00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:48,720
Speaker 1: Andy Kessler columnist, He wrote, what the Doge people should

256
00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:51,880
Speaker 1: look at first, We're talking about these sprawling, obscene federal

257
00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,400
Speaker 1: budget and all of our tax dollars, and like the

258
00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:59,000
Speaker 1: California homeless programs, nobody even asks the question if if

259
00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:00,520
Speaker 1: any of this stuff is working.

260
00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:02,560
Speaker 2: Not only can they not answer.

261
00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:05,640
Speaker 4: The question, nobody asks the question. So we need to

262
00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:10,440
Speaker 4: hone in on efficiency and not squandering people's damn money.

263
00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:13,240
Speaker 1: And it's amazing that more people aren't fired up about this.

264
00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:18,320
Speaker 1: I just I think they're defeated. Anyway, Andy says, here's

265
00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:21,240
Speaker 1: a handy cheat sheet on how mister Musk can toss

266
00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,720
Speaker 1: shrinker squeeze departments, commissions and agencies, the FTC, the Federal

267
00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:27,760
Speaker 1: Trade Commission, toss it the current FTC under Lena Khan

268
00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:30,320
Speaker 1: is a worse record than the Chicago White Sox. The

269
00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,680
Speaker 1: FTC already splits anti trust cases with the Justice Department,

270
00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,600
Speaker 1: so move a few pro consumer competition lawyers there and

271
00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:38,880
Speaker 1: then shudder it. The FCC.

272
00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:39,760
Speaker 2: Toss it.

273
00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:43,120
Speaker 1: The FCC caused the dot com boom and bust. Net

274
00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:46,360
Speaker 1: neutrality killed the broadband in Europe. It was still reinstated

275
00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:50,120
Speaker 1: here under the Biden administration. Three economists in a back

276
00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,200
Speaker 1: room can create and maintain a set of rules to

277
00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:53,600
Speaker 1: keep access competitive.

278
00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:55,760
Speaker 2: Toss it. So don't need the FCC at all.

279
00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,840
Speaker 4: No, no, Well, we're in the business regulated by it,

280
00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,800
Speaker 4: and I have seen no use for it.

281
00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:06,040
Speaker 2: Security is and Exchange Commission. Toss it. The SEC missed the.

282
00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:09,560
Speaker 1: Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, allowed crypto and spack, pump and dumps,

283
00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,680
Speaker 1: missed the FTX fiasco. Free trading requires setting and enforcing

284
00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:18,680
Speaker 1: simple rules. Could be not my area of expertise. US

285
00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,920
Speaker 1: Department of Agriculture toss it. This will end finally, end

286
00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,560
Speaker 1: corn subsidies for Iowa. We can move food stamp administrators

287
00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,640
Speaker 1: in funding to the States. The Department of Agriculture is

288
00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:34,400
Speaker 1: a gigantic bureaucracy and quite socialist right exactly, all those

289
00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,480
Speaker 1: free meals for everybody all the time. Now that's the

290
00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:41,160
Speaker 1: Department of Agriculture who voted on this. You're no longer

291
00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,360
Speaker 1: in charge of feeding your children. The government will do

292
00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,760
Speaker 1: you for do it for you. That won't cause massive

293
00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:53,960
Speaker 1: societal sociological change. Interesting Federal Reserve shrinket. The Central Bank

294
00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:57,320
Speaker 1: missed Biden inflation. Dart throwers could do better than its

295
00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:03,120
Speaker 1: four hundred PhDs cut its funding dart throwers. I love

296
00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:08,800
Speaker 1: that the Defense Department squeeze it reallocate spending the drones, ships,

297
00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:12,400
Speaker 1: and defense systems such as Patriot missiles. Anti missile defenses

298
00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,560
Speaker 1: can be a giant export business as well. US Postal

299
00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:20,040
Speaker 1: Service toss it and its monopoly on first and third

300
00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:23,000
Speaker 1: class mail go private. Amazon trucks already come to most

301
00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:29,120
Speaker 1: neighborhoods every day. My neighborhood. Between Amazon and UPS and

302
00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:34,360
Speaker 1: FedEx and a couple of other lesser players, they're omnipresent.

303
00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:37,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, to come to the drivers.

304
00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:42,360
Speaker 1: Hey Joe, hey Jim, Yeah, others to toss. Fracking happened

305
00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,280
Speaker 1: despite the Energy Department, do we need it? Trump tariffs

306
00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,000
Speaker 1: will curtail imports so we can shrink the Import Export

307
00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,479
Speaker 1: Bank by at least half, close the Small Business Administration,

308
00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:53,120
Speaker 1: and what does the Commerce.

309
00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:56,640
Speaker 2: Department even do? Even more?

310
00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,960
Speaker 1: To toss the Labor Department union puppets, that is abs,

311
00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,040
Speaker 1: It's a lutely true.

312
00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,520
Speaker 2: Shrink it by eighty percent. I know they have important work.

313
00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:05,000
Speaker 2: Shrink it.

314
00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,399
Speaker 4: I know I'd be accused of being an ignoramis by

315
00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:09,520
Speaker 4: people who know more about this, But got I feel

316
00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:11,480
Speaker 4: like you could get rid of so much of the

317
00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,439
Speaker 4: government and everything would just be fine.

318
00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,640
Speaker 1: A few more, even more to toss Labor Department, union puppets,

319
00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,840
Speaker 1: Transportation Department, it's mileage and electric vehicle mandates killed Detroit,

320
00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:26,359
Speaker 1: although Miss d Musk may want to run the department himself.

321
00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:31,040
Speaker 1: The EPA reduce its carbon footprint housing in urban developments,

322
00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:35,560
Speaker 1: not the seventies anymore, get rid of it. Interior outsource

323
00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,360
Speaker 1: the parks to Disney. No, they're too much into grooming

324
00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:42,200
Speaker 1: right now. Veterans affairs, can't they use the same hospitals

325
00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:43,919
Speaker 1: as the rest of us, no matter who pays.

326
00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:46,600
Speaker 2: That's an interesting question.

327
00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:50,040
Speaker 1: I would not be too smug about that, since our

328
00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:54,000
Speaker 1: veterans deserve the care they are promised. But the idea

329
00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:57,240
Speaker 1: that you get a voucher and can use it anywhere

330
00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,520
Speaker 1: you want, as opposed to waiting fifteen months for appointment

331
00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,520
Speaker 1: at a VA hospital. I'm fully in favor of that.

332
00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:06,200
Speaker 1: More competition, more.

333
00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:11,639
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, we're gonna have our first trans congress person.

334
00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:13,720
Speaker 2: How they're going to handle the bathrooms, among other things.

335
00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:18,399
Speaker 5: And restaurant chain I Hop announced this week that it

336
00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,960
Speaker 5: is the official breakfast partner of Xbox, while waffle House

337
00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,240
Speaker 5: remains the official breakfast partner of meth.

338
00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,280
Speaker 2: I used to throw my headphones on. Was it funny?

339
00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:32,840
Speaker 4: I just go to waffle House a lot, and I

340
00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,000
Speaker 4: was not on meth. I was just drunk, like a

341
00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,600
Speaker 4: lot of the other people. Just good old fashioned drunk.

342
00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,760
Speaker 4: Criticizing my hobbies is good old fashioned, run of the

343
00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,040
Speaker 4: mill drunk. It doesn't have to be meth. Yes, Katie, good.

344
00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,080
Speaker 6: Time killer waffle House fights on YouTube?

345
00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,800
Speaker 2: Oh really? Oh yeah?

346
00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:54,919
Speaker 4: Sh everywhere, way way more entertaining than Tyson Jake paul I.

347
00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,679
Speaker 4: Honest to god, I have seen a half dozen at

348
00:18:57,760 --> 00:18:59,760
Speaker 4: least really good waffle House fights.

349
00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:04,480
Speaker 2: With my own eyes. So back in the day, that's

350
00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:05,120
Speaker 2: your new thing.

351
00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:09,919
Speaker 1: You become like the Joe Rogan of wildlhouse fights like

352
00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:15,080
Speaker 1: the Well, he's the MMA announcer and you know, kind

353
00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:18,440
Speaker 1: of an impresario and all. I don't know exactly how

354
00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,480
Speaker 1: you turn that into an online empire, but it's doable.

355
00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:27,600
Speaker 4: Have you seen the trailer for the new Martin Scorsese project, Uh,

356
00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:28,359
Speaker 4: what is it again?

357
00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:29,480
Speaker 2: The Saints?

358
00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:30,280
Speaker 1: Oh?

359
00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:31,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah I have.

360
00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:39,000
Speaker 4: It's a series or several episodes, four different religious saints,

361
00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:42,280
Speaker 4: Joan of Arc, John the Baptist, and then two others

362
00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:45,560
Speaker 4: that I didn't quite know as well. But anyway, it

363
00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:51,840
Speaker 4: looks like, well, it's Martin Scorsese level depiction of what

364
00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:54,239
Speaker 4: it was like for Joan of Arc to uh, you know,

365
00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:58,720
Speaker 4: be what she was and lead crusaders against what she

366
00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,160
Speaker 4: thought were evil doers and be he caught and tortured

367
00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:02,159
Speaker 4: and burn at the steak.

368
00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:07,800
Speaker 2: Hey, in all your Scorsese glory, it looks pretty dramatic. Yeah.

369
00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,520
Speaker 1: The John the Baptist one is super intriguing. Yeah, yeah,

370
00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:12,080
Speaker 1: no kidding, but they all look interesting.

371
00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:16,280
Speaker 2: I'll check that out. Yeah why not? Why not?

372
00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:18,080
Speaker 4: Uh?

373
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:19,320
Speaker 2: What was I going to say?

374
00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:20,960
Speaker 1: I had something I wanted to bring up real quickly,

375
00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:22,680
Speaker 1: and it flitted out of my mind because I'm old

376
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:23,720
Speaker 1: and easily distracted.

377
00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:26,239
Speaker 4: Happy birthday to Joe Biden. I just saw up on

378
00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,439
Speaker 4: some news thing where it said Joe Biden is the

379
00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:34,160
Speaker 4: oldest president to ever be in office. Exclamation point. That's

380
00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,560
Speaker 4: kind of a weird thing to have an exclamation point about,

381
00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,720
Speaker 4: given the fact that he's quitting because he's so old.

382
00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,760
Speaker 4: I mean, right, you just emphasized the thing that drove

383
00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,320
Speaker 4: him out of office with an exclamation point, like yay.

384
00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,240
Speaker 2: I thought that was what had driven out of office.

385
00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,320
Speaker 1: And he was so delusional he tried to run for

386
00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:53,240
Speaker 1: president again in his own party.

387
00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:54,040
Speaker 2: After he got a.

388
00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,760
Speaker 1: Certain amount down the road, said Joe, you can't do this.

389
00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:01,080
Speaker 1: You're too senile. So yeah, it's a little uncomfortable.

390
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,600
Speaker 4: At the G twenty after some big gathering they had today,

391
00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:09,960
Speaker 4: he took no questions and all the other leaders did,

392
00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 4: and was pointed out yesterday he has not taken a

393
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:18,200
Speaker 4: question or said anything since the election. Oh wow at all.

394
00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 4: I wonder if he's going to write it clear to

395
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:21,240
Speaker 4: January twenty of like that.

396
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,359
Speaker 2: Well, and do we have to clip We had it

397
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:23,800
Speaker 2: the other day.

398
00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:25,280
Speaker 1: We didn't use it where they were trying to take

399
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:27,560
Speaker 1: some sort of group picture, but he'd wandered off behind

400
00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:29,960
Speaker 1: a palm tree and they couldn't find him or something.

401
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,160
Speaker 2: It happens. Yeah, well, yeah he's old.

402
00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,120
Speaker 1: He's very very old in senile but just great for

403
00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,200
Speaker 1: another term. As recently as four or five months ago, anyway,

404
00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:43,680
Speaker 1: AW came across piece speaking of Joe Rogan about the left.

405
00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,359
Speaker 1: Keeps saying this is kind of a hot topic in

406
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,359
Speaker 1: you know, online lefty circles. We need our own Joe

407
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 1: Rogan that would win the next election, and why there's

408
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 1: never going to be one.

409
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,960
Speaker 2: But I thought this was this was overly interesting.

410
00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,600
Speaker 4: A very popular podcaster, from what I understand, does he

411
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 4: need at an explanation at this point?

412
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 2: I don't know either. I'm not equivaling with you. I

413
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:05,639
Speaker 2: just I wonder.

414
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, yeah, super super popular podcaster, has these like

415
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,080
Speaker 1: three hour long conversations with interesting thinkers.

416
00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 2: Many of them are very very out of the box.

417
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 2: But more on that to come.

418
00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,080
Speaker 4: You know, Joe Rogan almost certainly doesn't need any sort

419
00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:23,359
Speaker 4: of introduction, since any grown up who takes in spoken

420
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,720
Speaker 4: word has at least heard of him. And when I

421
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 4: did career day at my son's high school the other day,

422
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,440
Speaker 4: that was one of the few people I could mention

423
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 4: that the fourteen to seventeen year olds had heard of

424
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,560
Speaker 4: and they all recognized the name Joe Rogan as children.

425
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:38,680
Speaker 2: And that's something. Now.

426
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:44,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly and seriously, you need to recalibrate now and again.

427
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:50,879
Speaker 1: ABC News, ABC Nightly News needs more of an explanation

428
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:52,200
Speaker 1: for a lot of humanity.

429
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,320
Speaker 2: Absolutely, the Big Podcast.

430
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 1: Absolutely, So before we get to the Joe Rogan thing,

431
00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 1: which I think you'll find interesting, I was reading a

432
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 1: great piece that I mentioned about how the University of

433
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 1: North Carolina has started a new college within the university,

434
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,359
Speaker 1: which is kind of a big tent that has colleges

435
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 1: underneath it, quote unquote, but it's all about free exchange

436
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 1: of ideas and balanced faculty and no censoring of controversial opinions.

437
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 1: It's a return to academic freedom and it's wonderful. But

438
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:28,640
Speaker 1: the guy who wrote the article and I could talk

439
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 1: all day about the main point of the article, but

440
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:31,679
Speaker 1: this was kind.

441
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,119
Speaker 2: Of just thrown in in the middle.

442
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 1: He mentions that a friend, a professor of literature at

443
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 1: an elite university, recently observed something he's noticed about his

444
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,920
Speaker 1: students over a couple of decades. They seem to think

445
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 1: of social and political problems as simply matters of good

446
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 1: and evil. Good people take the right view, people take

447
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 1: the wrong view. Does that remind you of how you

448
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,639
Speaker 1: were treated when your brother in law found out you

449
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 1: voted for Trump? I mean, for instance, anyway, he says,

450
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,399
Speaker 1: he writes, I like it to Menisianism, the third century

451
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 1: philosophy holding that the world consists of spirit good and

452
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 1: matter evil. But anyway, this this guy they're quoting, he mentions,

453
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:17,160
Speaker 1: uh Plato and he bray Hebraic law, it's all about

454
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 1: there's good and evil. But that dualism, it's a constant

455
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 1: temptation in human affairs, but it has been heightened in

456
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 1: recent decades. Social media is a great ratchet. There's a

457
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:35,919
Speaker 1: like button and a dislike button. No, maybe button, But

458
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 1: he says, the youngsters have now increasingly seen the world in.

459
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 2: That dualistic way.

460
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 1: Not, oh interesting, you see the world differently than I do?

461
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: Or gosh, I wonder if my idea and your idea

462
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,919
Speaker 1: overlap in a way we can talk about which is

463
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 1: the way mankind moves forward? No, it's all good and evil.

464
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 4: Or even that I'm sixty four, you're seventy thirty. On

465
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 4: this topic, right, that's just not allowed.

466
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 1: And who it was, said James Lindsey, who pointed out

467
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: first of all that no, it wasn't.

468
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 2: It was.

469
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 1: But Jonathan Hyde, who talked about how the most savage attacks.

470
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:21,360
Speaker 2: Are within your bubble.

471
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 1: If you're in a college student liberal bubble and you

472
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,639
Speaker 1: say you know that conservative speaker, you know whoever it

473
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 1: might be who came to campus, I don't think it

474
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: would do any harm to hear him out. You will

475
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 1: be savagely attacked within your circle.

476
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:40,880
Speaker 2: And that's the worst censorship.

477
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 4: Sure, plus with the fact that you care what those

478
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 4: people think. You don't care if you're being attacked by

479
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 4: the other side, but if you're attacked by your own

480
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,880
Speaker 4: friends or bosses or teachers, you know that's uncomfortable.

481
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll quickly be kicked into submission.

482
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 1: So Rich Lowry, who's a terrific writer, wrote a piece

483
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 1: for The New York Post there's a reason progressives don't

484
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: have their own Joe Rogan, because that's been kind of

485
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: a big conversation lately in circle.

486
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 4: It's hilarious the idea that came out of the election

487
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 4: that the left doesn't have enough of the media.

488
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 1: What are you talking about you're right, you really ought

489
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 1: to take a moment to smell the roses of the hilarity.

490
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 2: Of that notion.

491
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: We need, we need liberal media to fight back. What Yeah,

492
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 1: it's hilarious. And what a Lowry's questions is, could the

493
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: left really tolerate its own Joe Rogan or is that anyway?

494
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: Let me skip ahead to the Okay.

495
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 2: So.

496
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: Early missed all Ellie Mistall of the left wing nation

497
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: declared liberals need to build their own Joe Rogan. I

498
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: remember Air America, that great experiment in liberal talk radio

499
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 1: that we saw and some of our sister stations took

500
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: part in, and the company invested in a place came

501
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: and it went. But Lowry rights progressives are correct about

502
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,919
Speaker 1: the power of you know, podcasters, the bro podcasters, the

503
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 1: new media, the intellectual dark web, whatever you want to

504
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: call it. But they don't understand how thoroughly anathema of

505
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: their ideology and cultural sensibility are to this kind of programming.

506
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,120
Speaker 1: This is the point they could, like the Hairs campaign,

507
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: have a billion dollars to spend and still not be

508
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: able to create one semi popular bro podcaster. How is

509
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,239
Speaker 1: the Party of Policing what people say, to ensure that

510
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,719
Speaker 1: the discussion always stays within a narrow set of guardrails,

511
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 1: going to create or even tolerate the free wheelingly heterodox

512
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: media voices if they did, If the left did manage

513
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: to create a progressive Joe broken in a lab, as

514
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: soon as he said something controversial out in the wild,

515
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: he'd be anesthetized and subject to cancellation or anathematized, which

516
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,719
Speaker 1: is word I don't often see. That's exactly what happened

517
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: to well Joe Rogan. Before he was a Trump bro,

518
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: he was a Bernie bro. He's socially liberal, he's mocked

519
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 1: religion and is in no way a traditional Republican. But

520
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: the left turned on him with a vengeance because he

521
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: expressed controversial views on COVID and had a rogue rolist

522
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: virologist on the show.

523
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 2: As we did too. That's good. They don't get it

524
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 2: over here.

525
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: We disagree with each other all the time, and it's okay,

526
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: and it's interesting and it's fun and we learn and

527
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 1: we grow big.

528
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 2: Popular talk shows.

529
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: Even though you know, as we've joked for the longest time,

530
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: we get done with a segment and get a dozen

531
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: emails saying you suck. I'll never listen to you again.

532
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: You're too pro Trump and you suck. I'll never listen

533
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: to you again. You're too anti Trump based on the

534
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: same you know, screed. But that's fine. That's how you

535
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: get what we do, so good luck. Grow it in

536
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: a lab ye far lefties.

537
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 4: Speaking of the COVID views some people had, I came

538
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 4: across this tweet yesterday, a bit of a throwback. Just

539
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 4: remember the government did more to stop the distribution of

540
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 4: ivermectin and hydrochloro queen than it did to stop the

541
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 4: distribution of fentanyl.

542
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 2: It does feel that way, doesn't it That.

543
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 4: There was more of an uprise of making sure nobody

544
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 4: took ivervectin or that hydro chloro queen stuff that Trump

545
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 4: talked about van fentanyl.

546
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: If you want to talk about marshaling up public opinion

547
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: to resist something.

548
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 2: And they creating fear around it.

549
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if it's literally true with the

550
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: DEA and the border patrol and stuff like that, but

551
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: now I see the point absolutely.

552
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 4: Another tweet I came across that I liked prank idea

553
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 4: give every person access to all the information in the world,

554
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 4: but don't teach them how to discern what's true.

555
00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 2: Ooh, I get it, I get it. Ooh oh.

556
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 1: So coming up, there's a poor, confused individual calls themselves

557
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: transgender elected to Congress, and a number of the ladies

558
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: in Congress are saying, don't want no wangs in our

559
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 1: locker rooms, et cetera. Are audio sheets here that have

560
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: all the clips that we might play.

561
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 2: During the show today.

562
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: That section cleverly labeled by Mike Hanson has no trans

563
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: in the cane, new transgender congress person. That controversy coming

564
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: up a little later on.

565
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, the rubber is going to meet the road on

566
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 4: the whole bathroom thing. They're gonna have to figure something out.

567
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 4: It might end up being the national policy.

568
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 2: Yep. That on the way Congress.

569
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 5: I'man Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, defending legislation

570
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 5: she introduced to try to change House rules to prohibit

571
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 5: transgender women and girls from using women's bathrooms and.

572
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 2: Facility on Capitol Hill. This is less than two.

573
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 5: Months before Congresswoman elects Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender

574
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 5: person ever elected to Congress, is scheduled to be sworn

575
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 5: into office.

576
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 7: It is you know, it's just disgusting. I don't understand

577
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 7: why Republicans are so obsessed with people's private parts. She's

578
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 7: going to do these exams herself. I mean, it is absurd.

579
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 7: We have real work to do here in the United

580
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 7: States Congress.

581
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 2: I think it's a very bigoted approach to the issue.

582
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 2: For a newbody in this.

583
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: Place is threatened by whatever bathroom an margin member from

584
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 1: Delaware chooses.

585
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 2: To walk into.

586
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: All right, So it's Republicans that are obsessed with people's genitals,

587
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: and that's a bigoted approach, says a man. No one

588
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: is threatened by a sponse in the girls room. Thank

589
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: you for pronouncing that and lecturing those stupid women to

590
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: keep their mouths shut. That's Representative Adam Smith of Washington. What.

591
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 4: First of all, I can't believe there'd be a very

592
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 4: large percentage of women nationwide who are okay with you know,

593
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 4: call yourself what you want, but if you have a

594
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,479
Speaker 4: penis being in the women's restroom, I gotta believe that

595
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 4: polls pretty overwhelmingly one direction, so to speak.

596
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 2: What I tried so hard? Wow? Really did wow? Katie?

597
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 2: Feel free to weigh in if you want.

598
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 4: I mean, you're a woman always does it bother you

599
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 4: to be in a women's room to know there's a

600
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 4: guy next door.

601
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 6: One hundred and fifty percent without a doubt, because you

602
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 6: don't know if that is a person who is actually

603
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 6: mentally ill dealing with this whole trans thing, or if

604
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 6: it's a predator in the women's restroom where guys usually

605
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 6: do not belong. As far as I know.

606
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 4: I suppose the I'm trying to steal man the other side,

607
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 4: I suppose the arment would be, well, you do know

608
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 4: who this person is. It's a not just anybody can

609
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 4: go into the congressional bathrooms and there's just one person,

610
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 4: you know, the an elected congress person.

611
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 2: They're not some.

612
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 4: You know, nobody predator that you have to wonder about, right,

613
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 4: I was speaking just in general.

614
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, but.

615
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, but again, I tell you what, Let's let this

616
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: dude in because he's wearing a dress and says he's

617
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: a girl. Now, so hey, come on, girls, just shut

618
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: up and take it. You don't want to be a bigot.

619
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 2: Do you know? I'm with JK. Rowling and other people.

620
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: No women's spaces are for women, period end of sentence.

621
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: And the Wall Street Journal, of all places, the journalists

622
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 1: uh Kathy Stetchferic and Xavier Xavier Martinez falling into the

623
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: trap that so many people do using the terminology of

624
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: radical gender theory in this article, you know, it would

625
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: prevent people whose birth sex was designated as male.

626
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 2: No, it wasn't designated, it was observed if.

627
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: You produce sperm your male, If you produce ov eggs,

628
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: you're a female period. And again, you want to present

629
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: any way you want, that's fine, but don't fall into

630
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: the trap of using the radical lefts terminology.

631
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 4: What bathroom do you want this person to use?

632
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: Well, that's where you get into if you're going to

633
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: go down the road as far as okay, transgender is

634
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 1: a thing as opposed to for you know a lot

635
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: of human history that was an issue to be worked out.

636
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: You got to go with likex one little unisex restroom

637
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: like you see in all the airports.

638
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, well that's what's going to happen. I was

639
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 4: going to say, I know how this is going to

640
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 4: be solved. All the bathrooms are going to be you know,

641
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 4: one whole bathrooms.

642
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 2: That's that's what sucks.

643
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 4: So instead of having a bathroom where you can have

644
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 4: eight guys going there at once and speed things up.

645
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 4: You have to have everything be unit sex and one

646
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 4: person at a time. And that's why it is that

647
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 4: your Starbucks, er McDonald's, or your library are wherever you go.

648
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,720
Speaker 2: That's how they get around this problem and don't get sued.

649
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: So Nancy Mace of South Carolina proposed a resolution to

650
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,439
Speaker 1: prohibit House lawmakers and employees quote from using single sex

651
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex quote.

652
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: Biological men do not belong in private women's faces, period.

653
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 2: Period. I'm such a zealot on this topic.

654
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: I don't even use the term biological men because that

655
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,280
Speaker 1: employer implies that there are other.

656
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 2: Sorts of men. There aren't.

657
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 1: It's there are men and there are women. Of course,

658
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: it's defined by biology. There's no need to say that.

659
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 4: Well, they're going to solve this by going gender neutral bathrooms,

660
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,479
Speaker 4: So you can use whatever bathroom you want. And then girls, good, good,

661
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 4: get you get to enjoy the filthy filthy.

662
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 6: Uh.

663
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 4: Male, Now you're used to clean bathrooms because you girls

664
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 4: are cleaner. Now you get to enjoy dirty bathrooms because

665
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 4: there's gonna be guys going in your bathroom.

666
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 2: Uh sweet.

667
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: Marjorie MTG is down with Nancy May saying women in

668
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 1: women's bathrooms period. I'm glad this discussion is going to

669
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: be had.

670
00:35:58,360 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 2: I'll just say that. Yeah.

671
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 4: Like I said, I think I think I know how

672
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 4: they're gonna solve it. It's gonna be the way they solved

673
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 4: it a most of the places I go, and it

674
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 4: sucks because it's just harder to get into the bathroom now.

675
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 4: They won't eliminate bathrooms like they've done a lot of

676
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,280
Speaker 4: places I go where they just plane eliminate the bathroom

677
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 4: to stay away from the from room. Armstrong and Getty