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I'm Michael Knowles no longer able to sleep 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.080 at night because the co host of this show is 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:41.159 going to take away everybody's social security, so says the 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:46.000 leader of the formerly free World. Senator What say you? Well, 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:47.839 you know, I will say the White House this week 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:54.240 noted and designated it as Elder Abuse Day, and I 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.680 guess I do have to apologize because apparently I'm interfering 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:03.039 with Joe Biden's naptime. You know, it really is amazing 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.680 that the kind of fearmongering that the White House does. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.320 You remember years ago the Democrats ran ads of Paul 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.760 Ryan literally pushing Granny off the cliff. So now he's 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.120 standing at the aflcio saying Cruise wants to end the 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:22.200 social security I mean, look, let's be honest. Who has 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:29.240 hurt seniors more in the past twenty years than Joseph 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:36.760 Robinette Biden Junior. You got nine percent inflation, food prices skyrocketing, 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:42.320 healthcare skyrocketing, electricity skyrocketing, gas skyrocketing. Seniors are getting screwed. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.440 The only one who can compete with Joe Biden for 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:49.120 screwing seniors is Jimmy Carter. And so what does he do? 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:54.679 He fearmongers, He suggests, Look, so security is a bedrock 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.839 of our country. Ain't nobody messing with it? He knows that, 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.560 but he can't run on his record, so he's got 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:06.440 to scare people. And I'm sorry that that that that 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.560 Joe Biden is finding it hard to sleep at night. 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.359 Someone once told me in politics many years ago that 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.360 the only thing worse than being talked about is not 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.160 being talked about. And I assume that principle is in 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:21.120 play here. It's interesting that Biden, while he's making this 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.640 desperate plea in what seems to be a very unfavorable 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.880 year for Democrats, he's going after you. Yeah, I will say, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.400 I guess I'm kind of flattered that that. Apparently I'm 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.000 not just maga, I am ultraumaga like and just to 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.159 say that's a point of clarification, your Senator, you worked 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.040 very well with Donald Trump. Obviously, you guys worked very 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.560 well together during the administration. But I seem to recall 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:49.040 that you were the man's chief primary rival. If I've 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.719 already going to describe someone as ultraumaga, doesn't that seem 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.520 a little bit strange to describe the guy's primary rival 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:59.800 that way. So look, Biden gets confused sometimes, and I'm 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:01.640 not sure he knows what any of these words mean. 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.920 I mean Biden literally he was elected to the Senate 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:10.080 in nineteen seventy two. When Joe Biden was first elected 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.720 to the Senate, I was one and a half years old. Yeah, 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:18.760 so I understand how he remembers back to the false 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:22.080 campaigns Democrats of ron way back when you know what 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.720 Biden said, Ronald Reagan was going to take away so Security. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.200 I mean, Biden has been saying that line for a 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:32.040 long time, for literally the entirety of my life and 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.320 for about double the entirety of years. That's a good, 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.120 good point, actually, and Reagan had two terms didn't take 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.119 away social Security. It did strike me when he said 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:44.360 that as just a kind of tired old line. Maybe 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.480 it would have worked in twenty ten or twenty twelve. 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.680 But you know, even his talking points they seemed to 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.000 be a little dated at this point, but it wasn't 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:56.000 just a Biden senator. You know I do not speak Spanish. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.680 You know this. You have spoken Spanish to me. I 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.040 have responded by asking you where the library is. That 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.440 is the extent of my Spanish. But from what I 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:08.160 could make out, it sounds as though the President of Mexico, 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:14.760 mister Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, does not like you very much. 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:48.360 It's a senior endo game insist la protejo qua nicaraguezuela 0:08:48.760 --> 0:09:05.400 restaurants amarco no lo covin us for Florida Republican and 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:16.120 see peror no solos. His sister senior Roo view Albertido Republican, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:31.080 it ta Cruz Chamberti Republican t curus, while the Crusado 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:46.160 solo protejo dictadas see Okay permidi an arcotrafico que Domina 0:09:49.720 --> 0:10:05.520 territorial de Mexicogo senior the Cruz Marco MBI. Also, I 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.160 could make out about one phrase their senator. The phrase 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.920 was ted Cruz. Ted Cruz kept coming coming up, So 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.200 if you wouldn't mind I know you're a little more 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.600 fluent than I am. What did the president of Mexico 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.079 say about you? And why is he so angry with you? 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:22.760 So I will say that that is one of the 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.720 most bizarre press conferences I've ever seen, because you've got 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.200 a Mexican reporter who asked him a question about Marco 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:33.000 Rubio and and am Low says, I'm sorry, who is 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:34.679 this Rubio guy? I don't know who he is and 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.480 and and the reporter says, oh, he's the senator from Florida. 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.400 And he goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, they're three of them, 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.120 three of the Cubans but ted Cruz. And it's the 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.679 most bizarre thing because the reporter asked about Rubio, and 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.840 am Low responds by attacking me, and I mean, going 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:57.360 off on a screed, attacking me. And it's really bizarre. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.760 So the reason am Loo is is so worked up 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.439 is that a a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, I 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.720 pointed out that Mexico has had a horrific record under 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:11.320 AMLO's presidency of allowing journalists to be murdered, and we're 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:15.960 seeing historic levels of the drug cartels murdering journalists. If 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.280 a journalist darres Cover the drug cartels and cover their 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:23.280 murdering and murder and extortion and crimes. They're killing them 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.480 and AMLO's turning a blind eye. And what's fascinating about 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:32.480 this exchange. So Rubio had tweeted about AMLO's support for Cuba, 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.880 Nicaragua and Venezuela and dictators, and actually Amlo doesn't mind that. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.719 He's like, yeah, yeah, forget about the dictators. Cruz is 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.679 saying I'm turning a blind eye to the drug cartels. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.199 And what he says there is show me the proof. 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.800 And he actually goes on later in that press conference 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.680 to say I have the proof. I have the proof 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:55.439 that Cruise is on the take from the supporters of 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.800 gun rights. And so he goes on this whole thing about, 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.040 you know, Cruz refuses to ban guns. You know what, 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.640 am low damned straight, I refuse to ban guns. We 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.199 have this thing in the United States called the Second Amendment, 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.960 the right to keep in bear arms. You don't want 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.559 your citizens to be able to defend themselves from the 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:19.280 drug cartels that that are terrorizing innocent Mexican citizens. And 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.199 instead of responding to the substance, instead of having a 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:26.839 government that actually takes steps to protect freedom of the press, 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:31.319 to protect journalists, to stand up to the criminals. Instead, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:36.520 you know, Amlow seems very very dismayed it uh, you know, 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.040 to quote Shakespeare mean thinks she doth protest too much. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.200 I just love that he has that nickname am Low. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.160 He's sort of like j Low with the Andreas Manuel 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.760 Lopez overdo. That's very impressive. And when you've got two 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:53.920 world leaders, both in North America attacking you. You've got 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.240 Biden going after you and then the speckless guy down 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:00.400 in Mexico, I suppose that means you're probably doing something right. Look, 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.559 I'm just waiting for Justin Trudeau. I want the trifecta. 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:08.160 Come on, man, the Canadian truckers were right. Let's see 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.080 if Trudeau rises to the occasion. Now, Justin Trudeau knows 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.920 a thing or two about Cuba and Cubans, according to rumors, 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.199 but who knows. Maybe we can discuss that on a 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.920 future podcast. I do have to talk about one of Michael. 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.760 I'm not going to ask you who's your daddy. That's true, 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.040 as Telemachus says, it's a wise man knows his own father, 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.080 and certainly that's true. Up in America's hat as well. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.240 But closer to home, there is another group that's going 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.880 after you. That would be, of course, the media and 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.920 the Congressional Democrats. And really, I suppose I'm repeating myself 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:48.480 in the January sixth committee because you have been such 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:52.320 a target of this whole thing. What is your take 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:56.079 on the January sixth hearings? You know, Pelosi really gave 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:00.719 up the game when the committee was being four And 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.720 typically in a committee you have a roughly equal number 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.760 of Democrats and Republicans. The majority party typically has one 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.560 or two more, but it's about equal, and the majority 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.040 party doesn't get to pick the other parties members that 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:21.360 are on it. And so Kevin McCarthy selected several people, 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:25.640 including Jim Jordan and Nancy Pelosi said no, no, we 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.080 don't want real Republicans, we don't want actually people who 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:34.480 will ask questions. Instead, she picked she picked Liz Cheney 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.560 and Adam Kinzinger because they both decided they're not Republicans 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.520 anymore and their agenda is the same, which is to 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.920 attack all the Republicans just like Pelosi's is right, and 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.120 you know, I gotta say so as you walk down 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.320 the hall, this is the only question that reporters want 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.040 to ask, and they're they're asking it constantly, and I 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:52.640 just laughed. They're like, are you going to watch it? 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.000 I'm like, why would I watch this? I don't watch 0:14:55.520 --> 0:15:01.640 the Democratic National Conventions convention every four years. That is 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.960 a multi day political campaign ad. It is designed to 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:07.760 be propaganda, and I get it. They can have their 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:13.920 campaign ads, but it's not actual factual inquiry. And if 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.320 it were, look if you want to ascertain what's going on, 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.680 if you look at congressional hearings that go somewhere, you 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.760 have cross examination, you have scrutiny. You have if a 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.600 particular witness comes in and makes a charge, there's all 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:32.680 these allegations that are made. You actually have someone challenge 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:37.240 the credibility of the witness. Press on engage. Cross examination 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:42.320 is a powerful tool for ferreting out truth. But for example, 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:47.400 this kangaroo chord has zero interest in Nancy Pelosi's culpability 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:53.560 on January sixth with stopping a sufficient law enforcement presence, 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:58.000 stopping a sufficient effort to stop the riot that happened 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.600 because she said, in her words, was bad optics. They 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.720 don't want to talk about that because that's inconsistent with 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.720 their political narrative. I think it makes a lot of 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.360 reporters really excited, but but I don't think it's going 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:14.560 to change any voters mind anywhere in America. And by 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:19.080 the way, the New York Times, there's an old line 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:22.320 that a gaff is when someone in Washington accidentally tells 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.720 the truth. All right, The New York Times let the 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:27.840 cat out of the bag when they ran as a 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:33.520 headline January sixth Committee hearings present opportunity for Democrats to 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:38.120 change the mid term narrative. Well, that's obviously what they 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:43.720 want to do. I think it has failed badly so far, 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:45.800 and I think it's going to continue to fail. Do 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.920 you think Pelosi made a mistake kicking Jordan and Banks 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.000 and the real Republicans off the committee? That is, if 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.440 you do think, because if they were on the committee, 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.320 presumably the Republicans would be more engaged, you'd have the relling, 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.600 there would be a reason to tune in. I think 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.720 it was stupid to kick off the real Republicans. It 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:12.360 look even from a perspective of of TV. Let's say 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.879 you let's say you're a Nancy Pelosi and you're not 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:20.720 interested in truth you are interested in nyeballs and frankly, 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.240 the clash of seeing Jordan R. Banks go at it 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:31.200 with with with the witnesses makes good TV. That conflict 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.880 would cause some people possibly to give a flip about 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.760 what's going on. This is right now, a bunch of 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.960 Democrats talking to a bunch of Democrats. It's it's MSNBC. 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.320 This is like a panel of MSNBC talking heads sitting 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.320 down and going Trump is terrible. Yes, Trump is terrible, 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:52.560 though I agree, Oh definitely, uh huh, and like that's 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.879 boring and not news, like we know you think that. 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.159 It was not lost on us that you don't have 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.760 the Donald Trump swimsuit calendar up on your wall. We 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:07.600 got that. I think it was a bad strategic and 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:14.000 tactical mistake for Pelosi to throw the Republicans selected by 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.679 the Republicans off the committee because, just like The New 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.879 York Times, it said the quiet part out loud. It 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:26.320 made it obvious we are telling a story complete with 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.680 our Hollywood producer, and we don't want anyone telling any 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.399 different stories than the story we want to tell. And 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.040 just look at the coverage. I think the Times example 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.240 is a great, great point here. The New York Times 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.359 is covering the coverage. The New York Times is covering 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:43.280 the way they want to shift the narrative. But there's 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.720 there's no actual news happening, and so it just doesn't 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:51.200 seem politically urgent. Well, and Michael, an easy way to 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.000 understand how ludicrous it is what the Democrats are doing 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:58.639 is just to flip the premise. Imagine if Donald Trump 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:03.080 held an inquiry onto what happened on January sixth, and 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:07.240 it was just Trump. To be honest, would the press 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:11.359 give it any credibility? Of course not, But to be honest, 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:13.480 if you wanted to have something, you would want to 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.879 have both parties. You would want to have free speech, 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:17.800 you would want to have conflict, you would want to 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:22.920 have debate. That's the method for ascertaining truth. Nobody in 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:27.240 the press would give any credibility to a purely republican 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.560 assessment of January sixth or anything else. I mean, I mean, 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:37.080 whatever you talk about. A purely republican assessment gets no credibility. 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.960 And that's not crazy because we have a partisan system. 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.960 Both parties want to advance their narrative. And if you're 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:49.440 an intelligent voter, look as a consumer of news. I 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:52.760 don't just read right wing news right I read left 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:54.480 wing news too, and I try to figure out the 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:58.879 truth somewhere in the middle. When the Democrats and the 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:06.520 corporate media are only spewing their propaganda. You know, it's 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:11.680 transparent to everyone. Now, speaking of Nancy Pelosi's missteps and 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:17.040 transparency and other trans issues, Nancy Pelosi made a claim 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:21.640 this past week on a television show that I will 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:25.720 admit I don't regularly watch. She gave her theory on 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:30.080 what America is all about. I'll give it to you 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:34.000 in her own words. Please give a warm drag race. 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:40.400 Welcome Nancy Pelosi, Welcome back, my honor to be here. 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.399 Your freedom of expression of yourselves in drag is what 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:49.840 America is all about. Senator, I'm not a graduate of 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.760 Harvard Law School. I've never clerked for the Supreme Court. 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.800 I'm not a member of the United States Senate. In 0:20:55.920 --> 0:21:02.399 your estimation, is transvestiism what America is all about? You know, 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:04.720 I kind of think Nancy may have missed some days 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:08.879 in American history, Like, look, you you got a right 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:11.120 to dress up anyway you want. That's great to knock 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:16.560 yourself out, but the idea, yeah, the last pod we did, 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:23.120 we talked about the drag show for kids in Dallas. Yeah, 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:30.640 this is another example of the Democratic Party going so extreme. Like, look, 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:33.720 if people want to dress in drag, that's fine. I'm 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.879 quite libertarian about do what you want to do. But 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:39.720 to claim that's what America is all about. I look, 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.800 I get it. The founding fathers did wear wigs, so 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:45.760 she does have a point there they were wearing wigs. 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:48.200 But but I'm not sure that's what Washington and Jefferson 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:55.159 were doing. But but it's it is such the dominant 0:21:55.320 --> 0:22:00.760 the the left wing culture war is the Democrat Party. 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:07.120 You know, there was a It's just it is who 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:10.520 they are and what they're driven by, and they keep going. 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:14.879 It's not accurate to say that's what America is all about, 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:17.360 but it is accurate to say that's what today's Democrat 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:20.320 Party is all about. I at least understand that the 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:24.479 Democrats are making this philosophical claim that this is at 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:26.800 least what the country should be all about. What I 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:30.560 don't understand is how can Pelosi with a straight face 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:36.520 make the historical claim that transvestiism, which was illegal, by 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:38.840 the way, in lots of America throughout parts of the 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:42.400 nineteenth century in San Francisco, of all places, which has 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:44.800 not exactly been promoted. I don't think it was part 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:47.360 of the Shining City on a Hill speech. I don't 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:50.359 think Governor Bradford was writing about his you know, great 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:54.040 passion for cross dressing. How do you make the historic 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:57.399 claim that actually, America, it's not about apple pie or 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:00.320 freedom or going west young man. No, No, it's about 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:03.920 dressing up like a lady. Well, and there's a richer irony. 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:11.119 So she did. She has a tiny leg to stand 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:14.240 on in that she starts off by saying freedom of expression. 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:17.520 And you can make an argument that freedom of expression 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:21.200 is what America is all about. But the irony is 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:24.560 Nancy Pelosi doesn't believe in freedom of expression, like today's 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:28.080 Democrat Party has abandoned free speech. So she literally means 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:31.080 only if you want to dress up as a woman, 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:34.360 he's what America is all about. But if you want 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:36.440 to make a movie asking what is a woman? That 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:39.080 is not what America is all about. So so she 0:23:40.119 --> 0:23:44.440 it is quite amazing. You know, Nancy Pelosi leads a 0:23:44.600 --> 0:23:48.520 Democrat party that wants big tech to censor that that 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:52.720 that wants views that they disagree with. Silence that's wants 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:57.280 to ban conservative speakers from campus. So I'm glad she's 0:23:57.320 --> 0:24:00.440 acknowledging freedom of expression is important. But you know, I 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:04.719 wish there were Democrats in Congress that still believe that. Oh, 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:08.280 of course, because when Pelosi uses the phrase freedom of expression, 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:11.520 and really it's it's true of democrats broadly. All they 0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:15.440 really seem to mean is replacing our taboos with their taboos, 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:19.080 and replacing our standards with their standards. There's this major 0:24:19.160 --> 0:24:22.760 Supreme Court case of a high school football coach who 0:24:22.920 --> 0:24:26.480 just said a prayer on his knee by himself alone 0:24:27.000 --> 0:24:30.720 on the football field after the games, and the school 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:33.879 fired him for it. They were they were so angry 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:36.760 at this individual act of expression. So I don't think 0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:40.560 Pelosi is defending that. But but to your point, they're 0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:43.119 only defending this sort of thing. And actually it ties 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:45.680 right in with the big story out of Hollywood, which 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:47.280 is that there's a new movie. It's a new toy 0:24:47.400 --> 0:24:50.959 story movie about Buzz light Year, and for some reason, 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:55.240 Disney felt it was very very important to include lesbian 0:24:55.480 --> 0:25:01.159 toys kissing in the Buzz Lightyear movie. Meanwhile, they fire 0:25:01.280 --> 0:25:04.159 Tim Allen, who originated the role of buzz Lightyear. They 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:08.560 replace him with Frankly, probably a more expensive actor. What 0:25:08.760 --> 0:25:11.199 is going on? Do our kids? Is it so important 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:14.879 that our kids see lesbian toys? Smooch? Well, I gotta say, Michael, 0:25:14.920 --> 0:25:19.639 I think it is remarkable that the Verdict podcast seems 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:23.960 to be driving Hollywood's agenda. Um. You and I sat 0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:26.560 at the University of Alabama for our live campus tour 0:25:27.440 --> 0:25:32.040 and we were talking about woke Disney, and I observed, 0:25:32.119 --> 0:25:35.080 I said, look, these these lunatics. They want to see 0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:38.600 Mickey and Pluto going at it and and and the 0:25:39.000 --> 0:25:41.879 press lost their mind. And then what do they do? 0:25:42.160 --> 0:25:45.159 Boom the next movie they come out buzz Lightyear. What 0:25:45.320 --> 0:25:49.440 do we need? We need lesbian toys? Now? Never mind 0:25:49.560 --> 0:25:53.080 that the last time I checked, most toys are kind 0:25:53.119 --> 0:25:57.200