The Charlie Kirk Show, February 10, 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, the Charlie Kirk show starts. Now seen ye look

(00:24):
at finally two second pick up a disase. It's a desoon.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Is well.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
We continue to see here is the idea that rogue
bureaucrats who are elected by no one, who answered to
no one, who have lifetime tenured jobs, who we will
be told, can never be fired, which of course is
not true. That the power has been cemented and accumulated
for years, whether if he with the Treasury bureaucrats, or

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the FBI bureaucrats, the CIA bureaucrats, or the USCID bureaucrats,
with this unelected shadow force that is running our government
and running our country, Donald Trump is engaging in the
most important restoration of democracy in over a century by
saying that we are going to restore powers to the
people through their elected president and his appointed officers. That

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is the only way we can have true democracy in
this country.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Early Saturday, a judge agreed with them to restrict Elon
Musk and his Government Efficiency Team DOGE from accessing Treasury
Department payment and data systems.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
They said there was a risk of.

Speaker 6 (01:59):
Irreparable home What do you make of that and does
that slow you down.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
On what you want to know.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
I disagree with one hundred percent. I think it's crazy,
and we have to solve the efficiency problem. We have
to solve the fraud, waste, abuse, or the things that
have gone into the government. You take a look at
the USAID, the kind of fraud in there. The news
money is going well, we're talking about hundreds of millions
of dollars of money that's going to places where it

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shouldn't be going.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
Where if I.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Read a list, you'd say, this is ridiculous. And you've
read the same lists and there are many that you
haven't even seen. It's crazy, it's a big scam.

Speaker 7 (02:32):
Can you give more specifics about who's there right now,
what crimes have they committed, and how long you're going
to betake them. So there are several planes that have
transported individuals to the base and they are in the
system and the facilities that you know a lot of
our worst first jominals have been incarcerated for many years.

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These individuals are the worst of the worst that we
pulled off of our streets.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
So I got.

Speaker 7 (02:57):
Murderers, rapists that when I was there, I was able
to watch one of the flights landing in them on
motibout fifteen different of these criminals, those were mainly child pedophiles,
those that were out there trafficking children, trafficking drugs and
were pulled off of our streets.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
Employed at this facility.

Speaker 8 (03:13):
We begin with President Trump's historic overhaul of the federal
government that is proceeding at an unprecedented pace and scale.
The President has tasked Elon Musk, the world's richest man,
was carrying out his mission, and now Musk and his
team of young tech engineers have inserted themselves into at
least seventeen federal agencies.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
According to The New York.

Speaker 8 (03:35):
Times, our CBS full finds that a majority of Americans
fifty three percent, approve of the job he's doing.

Speaker 7 (03:42):
That's a better approval number than he ever reached during
his first term in the White House.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
What's driving this?

Speaker 5 (03:48):
I will keep it simple, Margaret.

Speaker 9 (03:50):
He is doing, in the eyes of the public, what
he said he would do in the campaign.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
There's political value in that.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
In fact, seventy percent of people say he's doing what
he promised.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
That's whether they approve of him or not.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
I would say this, we have to come together, but
did come together. There's only one thing that's going to do,
and that's a massive success. Success will bring the country together.

Speaker 10 (04:15):
Listen, I think this is the most serious constitution what
crisis their country has faced, certainly since Watergate. The president
is attempting to seize control of power and for corrupt purposes.
The president wants to be able to decide how and
where money is spent so that he can reward his
political friends, he can punish his political enemies. That is

(04:36):
the evisceration of democracy.

Speaker 11 (04:38):
Yeah, I mean, what we are witnessing is a constitutional crisis.
We are seeing an executive branch that has decided that
they are no longer going to abide by the Constitution,
in honoring Congress's role in the creation of the agencies,
in their role in the siding where money is allocated.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
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Speaker 12 (05:26):
Okay, everybody, radio stations across the country honored to be
with you as always happy Monday.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
There is a lot happening.

Speaker 12 (05:33):
We're not going to lead with the Super Bowl news,
which was largely unwatchable. And I think we all agree
that halftime show was awful. It was terrible the Super Bowl.
I'm curious to see the viewership numbers, but I can't
imagine that it was good. Yeah, Blake says in the

(05:53):
chat Charlie, that was extremely watchable. I enjoyed watching every
second of that. I don't know if he's talking about
the game or if he's talking about the halftime show.
Both is what he said. Yeah, not Oh, he slept
through halftime. Look, it is good for the Kansas City
faithful to be humbled a little bit, good for a
little bit of humility.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
It's enough.

Speaker 12 (06:15):
I mean, winning three super Bowls in a row. Look,
us Bears fans, we get to a super Bowl once
every thirty years.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
We get to a super Bowl.

Speaker 12 (06:25):
Last time the Bears were in a super Bowl, I
think Blake proved me wrong on this. I think it
was two thousand and eight. No, No were in a
Super Bowl, lost to the Indianapolis Colts. We won a
super Bowl in nineteen eighty five. Bears folklore is two
thousand and six season.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Thank you, Blake.

Speaker 12 (06:38):
We're living on the energy of the nineteen eighty five still.
If you look at Super Bowl commercials, they still have ditka,
you know, like dressed up. I mean, it's just living
on the fumes of nineteen eighty five, I could say. So,
we're not going to talk too much about the Super Bowl. Instead,
I want to zero in on what's happening with DOGE
and whether or not it's popular. Doge is forcing a

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major constitutional issue. Now I wouldn't call it a crisis,
but it certainly is forcing front and center whether or
not the executive branch has the power to allocate resources
of their choosing to faithfully exercise the laws, the vesting
clause now the Article two. Supremacists, which we have been

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mentioning many times on this program, are not happy with this.
People like Chris Murphy, people like elan Omar. They live
to protect the federal bureaucracy. They exist to protect the
standing army. The federal bureaucracy has so many separate and
different components. It is far more entrenched than people realize.

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It is the technocratic class. No one elected these people,
no one knows who they are. They are unaccountable and
they have unchecked amounts of power. So the question remains,
do we have any ability to rein them in or
do we serve at the pleasure of the bureaucracy. Dwight

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the Eisenhower warned about this in his exit address, and
most people think about the military industrial complex, but that
was only one component of Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address.
Dwighton Eisenhower, of course, was the head of the Allied Forces.
The Allied Supreme Forces also warned extensively of a unelected, technocratic,

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scientific elite running the country. Who is sovereign is the
fundamental question. Elon Omar believes that we're in the midst
of a constitutional crisis, and she isn't totally wrong. I
wouldn't use the word crisis, but it is the greatest
constitutional question since Woodrow Wilson. We are in this question

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of what constantitutes to the federal government, how many branches,
who is in charge, who gets the consent of the governor?

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Who is the sovereign? Let's play cut twelve.

Speaker 11 (09:12):
Yeah, I mean, what we are witnessing is a constitutional crisis.
We are seeing an executive branch that has decided that
they are no longer going to abide by the Constitution
in honoring Congress's role in the creation of the agencies,
in their role in the citing where money is allocated.

Speaker 12 (09:34):
You see, this is Article one supremacy. We have been
hypnotized to believe that only the legislative branch has power. No,
it is designed so that there's tension between the branches.
The executive branch can tell the first branch to go
pound sand, and then the third branch will hopefully reconcile
the differences. Here is Chris Murphy saying, this is one

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of the most constitutional crises the countries of our face.
I think it is the greatest constitutional question in one
hundred years. But it is all based on this idea
that there is a small group of elites that know
what is better for you than you do. That there
is a technocratic class, the managers, the desk workers, and
they will remain permanent regardless of who is in control.

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They will remain in power regardless of who is elected.
They want to turn the presidency into a ceremonial job
that cuts ribbons, takes pictures, gets people that win Super
Bowls to come and visit the White House, Thanks so
much for playing.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
That's it.

Speaker 12 (10:38):
That's what they want the presidency to be. Ceremonial in nature.
Let's play cut thirteen.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Listen.

Speaker 10 (10:47):
I think this is the most serious cons crisis the
country has faced, certainly since Watergate.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
The president is.

Speaker 10 (10:52):
Attempting to seize control of power and for corrupt purposes.
The president wants to be able to decide how and
where money is spend so that he can reward his
political friends, he can punish his political enemies. That is
the evisceration of democracy.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, hold on a second.

Speaker 12 (11:11):
The American people voted for Donald Trump and the presidency.
The executive branch is an equal branch to your branch,
Chris Murphy, so he can tell you could tell the
legislative branch, no.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
I'm not going to spend this.

Speaker 12 (11:22):
And then the Empowerment Act issue comes front and center.
And that is why RUSS vote matters so much. And
the Supreme Court is going to have to think deeply
about this is can the executive branch say no to
appropriated money? What are the limitations of that? I don't
even know the answer. The Empowerment Act is this question

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which I think we need to just put down a flag,
and this needs to be the fight in front of us.
It is the existential question in front of us is
that can the executive branch the presidency challenge and send
money back to Congress if they don't want to spend it.
I want you to think about if the answer is no.
If the answer is no, then the Presidency is subservient to.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
The House and the Senate.

Speaker 12 (12:13):
We have been telling our kids our entire life. They
are equal branches. They are equal branches. Stephen Miller perfectly
addressed this in his interview with Maria Barbiomo play cut forty.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
What we continue to see here is the idea that
rogue bureacrats who are elected by no one, who answered
to no one, who have lifetime tenured jobs, who we
will be told can never be fired, which of course
is not true. That the power has been cemented and
accumulated for years, whether it be with the Treasury bureaucrats,

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or the FBI bureaucrats, or the CIA bureaucrats, or the
USCID bureaucrats. With this unelected shadow force that is running
our government and running our country, Donald Trump is engaging
in the most important comordant restoration of democracy in over
a century by saying that we are going to restore
powers to the people through their elected president and his

(13:11):
appointed officers. That is the only way we can have
true democracy in this country.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
This is exactly right.

Speaker 12 (13:18):
When Chris Murphy says democracy, he means technocratic oligarchy. When
Stephen Miller says it again, I don't like the word democracy,
but let's just play it.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Out for what it means.

Speaker 12 (13:26):
He means will the American people that consent to the government.
He means that you are in charge of your government.
He means that you get to call the shots. That's
what Stephen Miller means, and he's exactly what the people want.
The people get. Now, if Chris Murphy and elon Omar
are correct, I want you to play that out to
its furthest possible conclusion. It means that we have one

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branch of government, not three.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
It means that.

Speaker 12 (13:54):
Article two means absolutely nothing. They're supposed to be fights
between the branches. There's supposed to be feuds between the branches.
The founders spoke about this, and we have weakened the
executive branch so significantly. We have dulled the impact of
the executive branch tremendously and it is the will of

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the people that matters most. And we are seeing in
great detail this constitutional question finally play out. And they
also are arguing that the fourth branch of government is
superior branch not even outlined in the Constitution. And they're
saying that the fourth branch, which isn't in the Constitution,

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is in charge of the president, which is in the constitution. This, everybody,
is the most exciting, high stakes constitutional fight in a century.

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Speaker 2 (17:28):
Okay, everybody, welcome back.

Speaker 12 (17:29):
Email us Freedom at Charliekirk dot com and subscribe to
the Charlie Kirkshow podcast. Understand that at the height of
what they call democracy is to make elections irrelevant. Real
democracy is bureaucrats calling all the shops. What they say,
because they're experts by democracy, they mean, give us power

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and you guys sit down and shut up. The last
time a federal purge was tried was actually during the
Eisenhower administration, and they said, oh, you're purging all these communists.
They're trying to reckon back to this, But it was
Eisenhower in his farewell address who.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Warned about this.

Speaker 12 (18:04):
Now people know about the military industrial complex component of
this speech, what you forget about is the unelected, technocratic
scientific elite. This is Dwight the Eisenhower who warned us,
and his warning has now come to surface. This is
the fight that he predicted. Is it the people or
is it the technocrats? Is it the people or is

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it the scientific elite? Is the same people that said
six feet to slow the spread, the same people that
try to require you to take a vaccine that you
didn't need.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Play cut thirty nine.

Speaker 14 (18:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
I holding scientific research and discovery and respect as we should,
we must also be alerted to the equal and opposite
danger that public policy could itself become the captive of
a scientific technological elite. Is the Tasco statesmanship to move

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to balance and to integrate please another, forces new and old,
within the principles of our democratic system, ever aiming toward
the supreme goals of our free society.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
I mean, this is so prescient. He saw this entire
fight coming.

Speaker 12 (19:21):
He saw the forces that were gathering beneath the serpent,
beneath the surface.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
This was a.

Speaker 12 (19:28):
Largely subterranean threat. And with every new department that we approved,
Department of Education, Health and Human Services, we strengthen this
unelected scientific managerial leape. It is the cult of the managers,
mid level managers. They're not overly imposing. When you meet them,
you'll never know their names. They don't work necessarily very hard,

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but they slow down the spirit of America. They waste
a lot of money. And I'm not even saying they're
evil people. Faucis of the world are a separate category.
But these are the enforcers of the regime. And it
really makes you wonder who won the Cold War. This

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is a very Soviet style way of running your government, bureaucratic,
entrench centralized, lethargic. It is the malaise of the bureaucratic class.
And for decades we have ignored this problem. For decades,
we've acted as if we've had a president and we didn't.

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And that is why when Joe Biden was basically brain
dead the last two years of his presidency, things continued
to move on because he didn't actually have duties or responsibilities.
It was senior White House staff, it was middle management workers.
People would say, who was running the country. It's never
been the president. Donald Trump tried to exert this power

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in his first term, and as you remember, he was
attacked from every possible direction that Barack Obama was a
ceremonial president and he enjoyed it. He was able to
do his March Madness picks. He was able to kind
of go to the oscars, be a popular guy. That's
what they want the presidency to be. Celebrity, nice, smile,

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good to the media, say a couple things, not an
ultimate decision maker. They want to turn the presidency into
the King of England has a lot of history but
no actual power.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
They want to turn the.

Speaker 12 (21:34):
Presidency into the monarchy of Europe. Oh remember when the
queen or the king ruled over these lands. And instead
their version is the cass Sunsteen model of government is
that there will be conference rooms of people that know
better than you. And by definition, this belief system, this

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version of government minimizes the citizen. The bigger the government,
the smaller the citizen. As Dennis Prager would always say,
but you can't have big government without big bureaucracy. Bureaucracy
is the middle fat of government. It is the beer belly,
very hard to get rid of. It is sluggishly annoying,

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against all of your aims and your ambitions, and it
works against what Alexander Hamilton would talk about in the
federalist papers. I think Federalist seventy of that mistaken the
energetic executive. If you want a executive with energy and
spunk and vigor and spirit and vitality, how are you
supposed to do that if you have this permanent bureaucracy.
And the permanent bureaucracy, which we used to call the

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deep state, but it is better described as the administrative state,
is against almost every single objective of the current administration.
And the example this weekend was from the Treasury Department.
An activist judge did more power to bureaucracy than actually
Scott Besson. Who is in charge is the fundamental question,

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who is sovereign? This is why citizens we need to
step up and continue to stay in the game.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Mark Halpern joins us next, Welcome back to.

Speaker 15 (23:20):
This Real America's Voice news break. I'm Terrence Bates. We
appreciate you being along for the ride. We are monitoring
breaking news related to the cease fire deal between Israel
and Hamas. Hamas is accusing its Jewish neighbors of breaking
the terms of that peace agreement.

Speaker 16 (23:34):
As a result, the Muslim terror group.

Speaker 15 (23:36):
Is postponing a planned hostage release that was set for
this coming Saturday. In a post on x, Hamas says
the release is being pushed back until further notice. In response,
Israel's defense minister is instructing the country's military to quote
prepare at the highest level of alert for any possible.

Speaker 16 (23:53):
Scenario in Gaza.

Speaker 15 (23:55):
He also describes the postponement as a complete violation of
the ceasefire agreement and the deal to release the hostages.
Seventy nine people taken on October seventh remaining captivity in Gaza.
Only twenty are scheduled to be released during the current
phase of the ceasefire. President Trump's cabinet will likely continue
to fill out this week, and Tulci Gabbart are as

(24:17):
Tulsi Gabbert and Robert F.

Speaker 16 (24:18):
Kennedy Jr. Are expected to be confirmed.

Speaker 15 (24:21):
Gabbert, who is President Trump's pick to be the next
Director of National Intelligence, will face a cloture vote this evening.
Her nomination is expected to make it to the full
Senate floor for a full confirmation vote tomorrow. The former
Hawaii Democrat will likely win confirmation despite potential defections from
Senators John Curtis of Utah and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

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McConnell is also expected to vote no on RFK Jr.
Who will likely face a confirmation vote before the full Senate.

Speaker 16 (24:49):
In the coming days as well.

Speaker 15 (24:51):
The preliminary cloture process is also underway to bring a
Senate floor confirmation vote for Agriculture Secretary pick Brooke Rollins,
Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnik, and President Trump's choice to
head up the Small Business Administration, Kelly Leffler. Plus Thursday,
the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on Cash
Betel as FBI director. And while President Trump was scoring

(25:14):
touchdowns in big plays on Sunday, House Speaker Mike Johnson
was scrambling and punting while attending the Super Bowl in
his home state, the Louisiana Republican admitting he and his
Republican colleagues in the House may be forced to delay
bringing a draft of a funding bill to the floor.
That one big, beautiful bill, as President Trump has described,
it would include money for everything from border security to

(25:36):
tax reform. Johnson says the details of the spending bill
are still.

Speaker 16 (25:40):
Being worked out. That's a great teke of your headlines.
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Speaker 2 (27:25):
Mark, welcome back to the program.

Speaker 17 (27:28):
Very nice to be here, although Charlie got admit I
almost canceled for two reasons.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Do you want to know what they are?

Speaker 14 (27:32):
Yes? You do?

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Oh boy, here we go.

Speaker 17 (27:34):
Number one, Yes, he still haven't come on two way.
And number two, there is a new glowing profile of
you in the.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Fake news New York Times today.

Speaker 17 (27:44):
So how can I trust you when you are like
giving unlimited access to the New York Times.

Speaker 12 (27:50):
It's very questionable US people people seem to like that article.
But yes, anyway, so Mark, Yes, thank you Mark for that.
And so Mark, I have several questions. I want to
start with this CBS report that shows that President Trump's
approval rating seems to be rather significant for him, for

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him and for other presidents.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
How does this compare with his first term?

Speaker 12 (28:15):
And can you give us some presidential history and perspective?
How do approval ratings tend to trend the first six
months one hundred days of a presidency. Give us some perspective,
because from my recollection, they start high and then they
tend to taper.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (28:31):
Look, this is Donald Trump's high point in most polls
compared to his first term.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
But this is such an unusual situation.

Speaker 17 (28:39):
It's in some ways a second term, But of course,
in some ways it's the first term, the energy, the mandate,
the fact that he won the popular vote this time
but not the first time. Most people who run for
president and win twice do worse the second time. Trump
did better the second time. Okay, So more of a mandate,
more four years off to think about how to do

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the job, more activity. You think about the early days
of the second Obama term or the second Bush term,
or the second Biden term or second Clinton term. What
wasn't like to this at all? So when I talk
to Democrats strategist about why Donald Trump is doing well,
why the voters like him, or I look at the data,
it's pretty clear he's being active, he's being authentic, and

(29:23):
he's being very getting very much of the attention the
three a's, So I'm not surprised as numbers are where
they are. I wonder if they can go higher or
if he's at his ceiling. But I think the key
to why he's doing well compared to a lot of
second term presidents is something that the press is probably
think the press has gotten the most wrong about Donald
Trump for a decade now. His agenda is popular, not everything,

(29:45):
but most of what he's done for the first three
weeks past seventy thirty, it's very popular. If people were
just going on his policies, his approval rating would be
even higher.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
So I'm not surprised.

Speaker 17 (29:55):
And again it's such it's apples to tangerines compared to
a normal second term that it's hard to put these
numbers in context. What we can say is they're higher
than most second term presidents at this phase, and they're
certainly higher than Donald Trump was in term one.

Speaker 12 (30:12):
So, and this is an important point. What typically starts
to creator approval ratings. Biden started pretty high and then
it just went down and never recovered. The economy is
obviously a major one, or one could say a scandal.
The President Trump is operating at such a rapid pace.
Even for him, it's hard to even be able to

(30:33):
have the media apparatus or his opposition emphasize and focus.
Let me ask you this way, Mark, have his critics
decided on the best way to define and oppose this
now three week old presidency.

Speaker 17 (30:49):
Right, So, Biden's numbers went down after Afghanistan and never recovered.
You could call that a scandal or just an example
of mass and competence, and it was in the context
of what people were already sensing about the incompetence of
wrong handed policy on immigration. I think the Democrats have
not settled on three things. You say, have their side
had to respond? I think there are three elements to responding.
One is who are the people? Who are the personalities?

(31:11):
You can't fight a personality like Donald Trump, with Ken
Martin the new chair of the Democratic Party, right, it's
gonna have to be some one or two big personalities.
Second is what are the issues. There's a rough consensus.
I think that people think the best issue for them
is cuts in programs that benefit the middle class and
working class people at the expense of tax cuts for

(31:33):
the wealthiest. I think that's the theme they want, But
there's a number of complexities with that. From a practical
point of view we can talk about. And the last
thing is where's it going to be right? You'd think, well,
the DNC, Chuck Schumer, Haikim Jeffries, maybe some of the
prominent Democratic governors. But what I heard this weekend in
my reporting, and I wrote about this a little bit
in the newsletter today, is the grassroots says, you know

(31:55):
what we can't rely on those institutions.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
They have no clue what they're doing.

Speaker 17 (31:59):
They don't have the energy, of the vitality or the
verve to go after Donald Trump. So they're thinking more,
where's our tea party? And I say this again sometimes
I kid you, I'm not kidding about this. Where's our
Charlie Kirk. Where's our guy who or gal who's on
the email and texting every minute, who has a huge
platform and a huge megaphone, but also is out there
engaging like voter registration and organizing an activism. They're trying

(32:23):
to find that. And you hear that from some of
the donors too. They're saying, why should I write a
check to the DNC or to Corey Booker when I
don't think those folks have an idea of how to
stot Trump. Where's my Charlie Kirk of the left that
I could write a check to to start something that's
got energy and newness and digital vitality.

Speaker 12 (32:43):
I will accept that praise and thank you, and I
don't want to dive too deep into that, but it
does seem as if from an ecosystem standpoint, there has
been a lack of let's just say, political entrepreneurs on
the left. I don't know if that's the right way
toward it. Is that a fair assessment? I mean again,
I don't. I don't want to get too high on

(33:03):
my own supply. Yeah, but no, I know you, I
know you don't.

Speaker 17 (33:06):
And I'm not, I'm not. I'm I'm speaking objectively. And
the New York Times story I joked about it. It
validates what some people on the left are now seeing,
which is you and you know Steve Bannon, who could
put be put in this category. There's some others. It's
a different model. You think about Rachel Maddow where you
think about uh, those those what are those bros called
Pod Save America pods?

Speaker 2 (33:28):
They're doing content.

Speaker 17 (33:29):
They're doing a content and they're doing events to make money.
Like you know, you do those two things too, but
they're not doing the other stuff you do and Steve does,
and some other folks on the right do and and
that's not a small thing. It's the combination. Entrepreneurship is
the right word, I think. And they don't have that
and and and the other problem they have is you

(33:51):
all have a huge head start. And I guarantee you
if there were some liberal entrepreneur Charlie Kirk analog on
the left. I guarantee you that person would face a
lot of scrutiny and a lot of friction and tax
on the sidewalk in front of them as they tried
to get a running start. It's very difficult. Nobody really
impeded the Tea party on the left. They didn't see

(34:13):
it coming, they didn't take it seriously. So they face
a challenge not only to identify the people who have
the multidisciplinary abilities that you have. And again, I happen
to be talking to you, but I would say this
to anyone.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
I just said it on.

Speaker 17 (34:25):
Two Way a few minutes ago. I'd say it to anybody.
They don't have that person. And again, launching is quite
difficult and part of the challenges you know as a
student of this. They still have CBS News, they still
have the Washington Post, even though those places are diminished,
and even though those places are in some ways being
a little bit fairer to the right than they've been historically,

(34:47):
it's very difficult to find the incentives that you found
and others found to rise up and say we need
all new forms of things. And of course rush Limbaugh
and talk radio did this before you did. You stand
on their shoulders. It's easier to get that energy, that vitality,
that determination, and to find a market when when you

(35:08):
see out there, well half the country's got their market.
It's a supposedly fair media and they're there. So if
you're trying to launch Charlie Kirk of the left, you're
competing with the Washington Post, and that's the hard thing
to compete with because they've got a big head start.

Speaker 12 (35:25):
That's a really smart point and it's something that Rush
would talk about. May he rest in peace a lot
which is where is left wing talk radio? And one
of his theories was that I got nothing but content
because I just criticized the media all day long. He says,
I'm just I'm responding to their stuff all day long.
And so I guess there could be a left wing
equivalent that responds to shows like ours, and there are

(35:47):
people that try to do that, but it just doesn't
it doesn't have the same sort of fly because again,
you're responding to kind of upstart, grassroots types, whereas we
you know, we're responding to palation that regime, multi billion
dollar media.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Is that right?

Speaker 14 (36:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (36:04):
Yeah, with declined but still huge audiences. And whose and
whose you know, whose corruptness is manifest to tens of
millions of Americans because of their the combination of bias
and denial. And again, the same organizations that denied for
many years Joe Biden's loss of mental acuity, who denied

(36:29):
the plane as the nose on your face reality of
Biden inc Those same organizations are covering the Trump White House.
Those same organizations are covering the fights.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
On Capitol Hill.

Speaker 17 (36:41):
Not just the same organizations, many of the same people.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
And so you cannot be it is not a symmetrical thing.

Speaker 17 (36:49):
They have some asymmetrical advantages because they've got the establishment
media what I call the dominant media, But the right
has some asymmetrical advantages because, as you said, you all
as rushed it can play all off of it, and
that's an extremely valuable thing.

Speaker 12 (37:05):
So, Mark, I want to get into another element of
the story here, and first compliment you. You were one of
the few people that said that Trump was likely to
have his entire cabinet confirmed, and you said that for
the entire time that it was advantaged Trump, and people
said no way, as Bobby Kennedy and get through. So
I don't want to pop the champagne yet from our side,
but it looks as if this is almost a certainty.

(37:27):
But one minute, mark, and then we'll keep you after
the break. Why do you think that is? Why do
you think that he was successful in this even though
he chose some rather unconventional picks.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
By Washington d C standards.

Speaker 17 (37:40):
Three things fidelity to President Trump and a belief that
he must get off to a fast start, and he's
entitled to his picks. Two is the tactical strength of
the teams around the controversial nominees, whether it's heg Seth
or Gabbard or Kennedy. Very good teams of so called
shirpa's communications inside politics, knowing that you and others could

(38:02):
pressure these wavering senators in a way once you're activated
that would really impact them. And then lastly is the
is the performance of the nominees themselves. I think Haig
said in particular, saved himself by going out there and
making the case. And I think, hey, Kennedy and gathering
as well. So I'd say those three reasons.

Speaker 12 (38:23):
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So I love having Mark on the program because he
has incredible historical context of a couple decades of covering this. So, Mark,
have we ever seen anything in the modern era similar
to Doge? And how do you think this is going
to play out? I know that is a very difficult question.

(41:47):
It's a speculative question. But why don't you instead say
what are you seeing that might lead you to believe
a certain conclusion is inevitable? Because we've never quite seen
the world's richest man come in as an SGE is
special government employee and deploy some of his super geniuses
to fix the government. It's unlike anything ever seen. Mark
your take on Dosh.

Speaker 17 (42:09):
We could do three hours on the ways that it
is unprecedented, not just Musk's involvement, but the way it's
being done, the uh, the scope and scale of the ambition,
the speed with which it's being done. So there's lots
that's unprecedented here. I think that it's great to talk
about cutting spending, and there's no doubt that it's irresponsible
to future generations to run a debt and depicit like this.

(42:31):
Here's some realities. You can't either cut or tax your
way out of debt and depicit. You have to have
robust economic growth three four or five percent. Some people
say that's impossible. I say it'd be better be possible.
So that's the key is the policies are going to
lead to more growth if you want to reduce debt
and depicit, But spending cuts are important.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
I think Democrats have.

Speaker 17 (42:52):
Made a huge mistake saying, oh, it's only twenty five thousand,
or it's only twenty six million. I think taxpayers feel
like every dollar is precious, particular things exactly it goes
if it goes for fancy subscriptions to something called politico
pro or some sort of play, regardless of whether it's
a copic they disagree with.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
So I think they're on the right track there.

Speaker 17 (43:14):
But the reality is you cannot cut spending that doesn't
affect people, and I think they continue to talk about
it as cuts as opposed to restraining the rate of growth.
I think it's eventually they'll get around to doing that.
But where the money is is in social security.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Medicare, and medicaid.

Speaker 17 (43:29):
You could cut every bit of discretionary spending, even cut
some defense spending, with most Republicans wanted don't want to do,
you will not get to the point where you'll see
significant deficit reduction. So I hope that Republicans and Democrats
join together to say these programs are invaluable and the
way to save them not destroy the programs. The way

(43:49):
to save them is to find ways to make them
more efficient, to find cost savings, to do things like say, really,
rich people, maybe you shouldn't get the same Social Security
benefits as other people. Those are the steps they haven't taken.
So while it's great that they're looking to cut a
little bit here and a little bit there, and I
think that's right, although there needs to be scrutiny about
whether they're doing it legally and whether they're doing it

(44:10):
in ways that might cut programs that are worthwhile. I
think the big question is can they actually make a
dent in the deficit by going where the money is, which, again,
is in these programs the President Trump has vowed not
to touch.

Speaker 12 (44:26):
Let's talk about the political dynamic here as we close.
Does it present an opportunity for more of the Bernie
Sanders Elizabeth Warren wing of the party to say, look,
this is the oligarchy we've been warning you again about
to kind of have this left wing populism have a
resurgence within the Democrat Party that has been quite muted.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
Since Joe Biden became president.

Speaker 17 (44:50):
Again, as I said before, I think you're right that
that theme could get more traction with certain parts of
the country, but they don't want to be a party
that only is as broadly as appealing as with Warren,
because that's not a majority party. That's a party with
tens of thousands of really passionate people, but it's not
a majority party. And so I think what you're seeing
is the Democrats trying to figure out, how do you

(45:11):
take those themes that might be subscribed to by the
squad and might even be subscribed to by Mark Kelly
and more moderate Democrats and have a spokesperson who can
kind of knit it all together in a critique. They
don't have that yet, and they don't have the grassroots
organization yet, they have the embers, the green.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Shoots of that. So I think there's no doubt that.

Speaker 17 (45:32):
Those themes are where the Democrats currently are putting their energy.
But I think it's going to have to be broader
than Elizabeth Warren wing of the party or it will
not will not win the midterms.

Speaker 12 (45:43):
My message to conservatives is we have to operate. Is
if they're going to figure this out. They're going to
figure it out. They're not dumb. They'll adjust. They might
not be there yet, but we got to step on
the gas and you have to act as if your
opponent is going to be the most formidable. Yeah, they
might be in the wilderness right now, and they might
be disorganized, they might be demoralized, but understand, they have

(46:04):
a lot of money, a lot of experience, a lot
of former presidents. I think they're going to I think
they're going to reorganize, and we have to act as if. Mark,
thank you so much to way. I'll just say, real quick,
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Speaker 15 (47:18):
Welcome back to this Real America's Voice news break. I'm
Terrence Bates. Strokes can be debilitating in life altering. While
recent medical advancements have improved recovery tremendously if the onset
of stroke is caught in the first few hours, the
ailment still affects about eight hundred thousand people every year
and it accounts for some fifty six billion dollars in

(47:39):
related expenses like healthcare, medication, and sick leave, among other things.
My next guest has some ideas on how to improve
or avoid stroke or improve.

Speaker 16 (47:48):
Your recovery if it does happen.

Speaker 15 (47:50):
John Jubilee, from founder of Energized Health. Welcome, well, thank you, Terren.
It's great to be here. Always good to have you.
So let's talk about the foundations of stroke. What sorts
of things can you do?

Speaker 16 (48:02):
Are you encouraging people to do to ward off stroke?

Speaker 9 (48:07):
Well, Terrence, I'm going to share with people something they
probably have never heard about strokes. But you know, once
somebody gets a stroke, if you actually look at the MRI.
There's a little black dot on the brain. It's sort
of like when a light bulb goes out and it
has that little, you know, black dot in the area
of the filament that broke. And that's actually what happens

(48:29):
in the brain. Terrence is is there's a disconnect of
one of the neurotransmitters you know, in the brain. It's
just a little bit of a It's it's literally like
a light bulb popping in the brain. And what causes
that is two things. The root cause of a stroke
is there's dehydration in the brain and so the filament

(48:51):
it's like the filament of the light bulb, it gets
a little bit brittle and so it loses its elasticity,
and p it's lacking sodium.

Speaker 18 (49:03):
There's a low amount of sodium.

Speaker 9 (49:05):
A lot of people that have strokes are on low sodium,
low sodium, low salt diets. And one of the main
nutrients of the human brain is sodium. It has to
have a healthy amount of sodium and potassium and hydration.
That's the way to avoid a stroke so that you
never have to worry about getting one.

Speaker 15 (49:27):
And unfortunately, it seems as I've been reading sometimes the
various medications we're on can take some of that sodium
ount of our body or help bring on stroke.

Speaker 18 (49:35):
Is that right, Well, it actually is.

Speaker 9 (49:38):
You know, if you look at the or listen to
all these commercials for all of the drugs that people
are on, a lot of times one of the side
effects of a medication will be may cause a stroke,
may cause a stroke, may cause a stroke, may cause
a stroke. And the reason it does cause a stroke
is because it is it's dehydrating us at the saiular level,

(50:00):
and absolutely it is flushing out our healthy sodium out
of our body.

Speaker 18 (50:06):
Think about this for a minute terms.

Speaker 9 (50:07):
For people, you know, in nature, the ocean is so
healthy and full of you know, tens of thousands of
life forms in the ocean. Do you know that the
saline you know oceans? Of course, people know if you've
ever drank ocean water, you know accidentally, no one drinks
it on purpose.

Speaker 18 (50:25):
But there's a lot of salt in that water.

Speaker 9 (50:27):
And we're supposed to be the same consistency in our
body as the ocean. We're supposed to have a lot
of healthy salt in our body.

Speaker 15 (50:39):
So talk about some of the things that you've done
in working with people who may be trying to recover
them from stroke in order to help them really get back.

Speaker 16 (50:46):
To who they once were. Maybe.

Speaker 9 (50:47):
Yeah, Well the great news is I'll just tell you
one quick story. There was a gentleman, you know, he
was about seventy years old. His daughter brought him to
us and he was completely paralyzed on the right side,
and you know, thought he was going to be in that.

Speaker 18 (51:00):
Wheelchair for the rest of his life.

Speaker 9 (51:02):
But we just put him on our sellular health protocol
to push that healthy hydration into the cells, to get
his healthy sodium levels back to what God created him
to be. And not only Terrence did he have a
absolute full recovery, you know, but he was better than
he was twenty years before the stroke. And he actually

(51:23):
decided to go live his lifetime dream. He bought a boat.
He put it in a slip in Florida, and Terrence,
he didn't even use the game plank. He's jumping over
the rail of his boat. And I know because I
went and had dinner with him on his boat and
I had to jump over the rail. But it was
so fun to see he had a full recovery. And

(51:46):
you can recover from a stroke if you just get
your cellular hydration and get your sodium levels where they're
supposed to be.

Speaker 15 (51:53):
So my takeaway is joint energized health and buy a boat.
That's my takeaway forget everything else you said by first.

Speaker 18 (51:58):
Hey, that's said so much.

Speaker 9 (52:00):
Get the boat and don't worry about you know what, Really,
Jared's people that do energize hell to worry about having
a stroke because you're never going to be low on
your inter salar hydration.

Speaker 12 (52:10):
They're saying, right, Okay, everybody, welcome back. Email us is
always freedom at Charliekirk dot com. Joining us now is
Senator Rick Scott from the great State of Florida. Senator,

(52:34):
thank you for taking the time. As always, we have
this standing appointment on Monday. You are doing a wonderful job.
I'm in the State of Florida right now, and I
hope you are too, because it's just a great spot.

Speaker 19 (52:44):
If not, so here I go back. I go back
in about an hour. And we you know, we're working
onize confirmations and these nominations to getting done, so we
have to be there to move the process along because
the Democrats keep trying to block it.

Speaker 12 (52:57):
Yeah, so tell us about that. What exactly are the
Democrats able to do? Can you explain this because our
audience gets a little impatient.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
As they should.

Speaker 12 (53:04):
They say, we have a majority, Why do we have
to wait for these guys for cabinet officials?

Speaker 2 (53:10):
What gives? Explain it please to our audience.

Speaker 20 (53:13):
Well, first off, here's what's frustrating.

Speaker 19 (53:15):
We've have thirteen nominees done this time Obama had twenty six.
So what's happened is they can slow the process down
by requiring us to make to have a vote on
every procedural move you can imagine they are. They're also
requiring us to use the entire thirty hours of debate
time for every cabinet member, which they are.

Speaker 20 (53:36):
So you know we're of course.

Speaker 19 (53:38):
We have to stay there, we have to work weekends,
we have to get these things done. This tonight we're
going to be doing the confirmation for Tulsa Gabbert and
then once we get her finished, which will be either
tomorrow or winstay, we'll go to Robert Kennedy.

Speaker 20 (53:53):
So I'm optimistic that.

Speaker 19 (53:54):
We're going to get enough votes to get everybody through,
But you know, be vocal till you're year senators. You
know how much you care about these individuals because they'll
increase the odds that they'll vote for them.

Speaker 12 (54:06):
So so, Senator, when is it worth saying, okay, we
need to we need to change the Senate rules. I mean,
at what point do we get there? Because we are
now three weeks into the presidency. I know that's a
tough question, and I know that it comes with a
lot of weight, but we're three weeks in and we
still do not have a Secretary of Commerce. We still
do not have and by the way, just so everyone

(54:28):
in this understands, we don't have any of the deputy
positions either. We're talking about deputy positions that need to
be Senate confirmed. This is, this is they are not
good actors. I know we have no ambassadors. So so, Senator,
they're trying to steal Trump's for a second term.

Speaker 19 (54:44):
Well, what they're trying to do is trying to make
sure he didn't win. I mean he won, he got
a mandate. So so what we have to do is
we have to keep staying up there and eventually, I
believe what's going to happen is the Democrats will finally relent.
Although there they are Elon Musk is doing is just
destroying them. The fact that he's showing this unbelievable abuse.

(55:08):
I heard there was a tweet this morning that just
last week over fifty million dollars was sent from FEMA
to hotel to New York City.

Speaker 20 (55:15):
This has got to stop.

Speaker 19 (55:18):
So he's finding this, he's what he did by you know,
we're getting rid of the USAID. How could any Americans say, oh,
that was a good use of American money what the
USAID was doing.

Speaker 20 (55:28):
So Trump's right.

Speaker 19 (55:30):
We've got to go through every line in the budget.
I did it was governor. There's four that own the
lines of the budget in Florida. I went through every year,
every line. We had a written purpose. That's how we
balance the budget. Trump is committed to balancing the budget.

Speaker 20 (55:41):
So we're going to keep working on these nominations, but
we also have to get this budget in line.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Yes we do.

Speaker 12 (55:47):
Senator, I'd like you to comment on doge, which I
know is a new concept in DC to actually try
and save money. You've been a wonderful fiscal hawk, which
I really appreciate about you. You ran a great ship
in Florida and have been trying to do the same
in DC. The federal budget has grown from nearly four
trillion dollars a year to over six and a half
trillion dollars a year for no good reason over the

(56:08):
last couple of years. What is your response to, for example,
Senator Chris Murphy, Chris Murphy says, we're in the midst
of a constitutional crisis. I want to play this and
get your response to your colleague. Play cut thirteen police listen.

Speaker 10 (56:21):
I think this is the most serious con crisis the
country has faced, certainly since Watergate. The president is attempting
to seize control of power and for corrupt purposes. The
president wants to be able to decide how and where
money is spent so that he can reward his political friends,
he can punish his political enemies. That is the evisceration

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of democracy.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
Your response to the fellow senator, I.

Speaker 19 (56:48):
Mean he's completely full of it. I mean, here, Donald
Trump was elected. He has a mandate to start watching
how the money's being spent. I mean, Christomurphy, I don't
know what he's talking about. We should watch how we
spend every dollar. That's exactly what Trump is doing. That's
what Elon Musk is doing. He's showing us the unbelievable

(57:09):
abuse there is in the system. He's not doing is
to help a poltical ally or hurt somebody else.

Speaker 20 (57:16):
He's saying, do you want to waste money? You know
anywhere in the world.

Speaker 19 (57:21):
I mean some of the things that the USAD was
spending money, it makes no sense.

Speaker 20 (57:24):
So that's he's doing.

Speaker 19 (57:25):
Trump's doing what he should be doing, and he's talking
about what's important to the American public, balance a budget.
So I'm very appreciable what everybody adoes's doing. I appreciate
what Elon Musk is doing. We've got to go through
every line. We got to get all this money out. Think, Charlie,
think about this. In the last five years, we've had
a two percent increase in population and a fifty three
percent increase in spending. If we went back to spending

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five years ago, we would balance the budget. We would
balance the budget. That means interestates will come down, that
means inflation will go away.

Speaker 20 (57:55):
We can do that. We should be doing that right now.

Speaker 12 (58:00):
So, Senator, the Markeup process is very important. There are
some reports here if I could read from you from
I think it was the Hill dot Com this weekend.
Let me get this and I think it's very important.
Is that this it's actually yeah, the Hill dot com.
Hill leadership now admits it is planning an extension of
the CR through September twenty fifth, which means that Trump's

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first year of his second term it would actually be
Biden's budget. Is that necessary to get to the reconciliation bill?

Speaker 2 (58:34):
And please explain this.

Speaker 19 (58:36):
Well, what we have is we have one or two
or three recreation bills. So with that, what the first
one that we're talking about in the Senate is we
would fund the border so Trump can for sure secure
the border, which is doing everything he can.

Speaker 20 (58:51):
Number two, there's a military spending we need to do.

Speaker 19 (58:54):
And number three then we start the process to extend
the Trump tax cuts. That would probably be done a
little bit later, maybe April, May, June, or July something
like that. In the meantime, government gets shut down March
fourteenth if we don't continue our government funding.

Speaker 20 (59:09):
So the right thing to do is it would be
to go back.

Speaker 19 (59:12):
And balance a budget right now, but it's very difficult
to do that because we need sixty votes to be
able to do the continuous whatever we're going to do,
typically on a continued resolution.

Speaker 20 (59:22):
You have this big blowout spending.

Speaker 19 (59:25):
Fortunately, we're not talking about a big blowout spending bill now.

Speaker 20 (59:28):
They're talking about continuing.

Speaker 19 (59:29):
The existing which is better than eight thousand earmarks, which
is what they've been doing every year since I've been
up here, and everything under the sun that somebody wants.

Speaker 20 (59:40):
So right now we start the reconciliation process in the Senate.

Speaker 19 (59:45):
We are working on what we're going to do on
March fourteenth. Even though it's not the best thing, it's
probably the only way we get sixty votes to get
something done is the continued resolution, where we don't increase
the spending. Then we can go with our reconciliation and
cut spending as quickly as we can. We have we
have two million dollars of things that we can cut
spending on. We need to cut two trillion dollars and

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we can do.

Speaker 12 (01:00:08):
That, and it is we have to we have to
first freeze all of this spending. Is well, it is
such an exorbitant amount of overspending, isn't it, Senator, And.

Speaker 20 (01:00:20):
I mean it's it's unbelievable.

Speaker 19 (01:00:22):
Think about so two percent increase in population fifty three
percent increase in spending.

Speaker 20 (01:00:28):
I mean, that just doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 19 (01:00:30):
Why why can you balance your budget? Businesses are successful
to balance their budget. I was able to do it
when I was governor of Florida. Now they had not
done it but once in forty years before I became government.
But why are states willing to do it and our
federal government can't. It's because people don't want to. They
don't want to stop spending.

Speaker 20 (01:00:48):
They want to just.

Speaker 19 (01:00:48):
Give away free money because this sounds really good and
somebody will say something nice about you.

Speaker 20 (01:00:52):
But this is your money. This is not free money.
This is your money.

Speaker 19 (01:00:56):
It's going to be You're going to pay it an
increase debt with interest expense, or to pay and hire
taxes and fees.

Speaker 5 (01:01:02):
That's wrong.

Speaker 20 (01:01:02):
It's not fair to the American public.

Speaker 19 (01:01:04):
So we've got thirty six trillion dollars with a debt.
If we balance a budget, guess what, we wouldn't even
have to worry about it debt seal an increase. But
you could do what I did when I was governor Florida.
We could pay start pain off debt. I was governor,
I paid off at third of the state debt. We
could do that at the federal level, and we should
be doing that we have to do that someday.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
Senator, Please stay right there.

Speaker 12 (01:01:23):
I'd love to keep you out for another segment really quick,
and just ask you about the CFPB, which has been
I think an unconstitutional project for quite some time. Let's
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We need more like him, and I'm hopeful that we are.
We are progressing in that direction. Senator Rick Scott continues
after the break.

Speaker 5 (01:03:06):
Democracy lives in light.

Speaker 12 (01:03:09):
Charlie Kirks, Okay, everybody, email us is always Freedom at
Charliekirk dot com and subscribe to our podcast. I want
to play one of our campus videos and anticipation of
us coming back on campus starting next week.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Play cut forty four. What is a woman?

Speaker 18 (01:03:29):
That's a stupid question, Ques, What.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Is a woman? It's not a trick question. What is
a woman?

Speaker 12 (01:03:38):
You can't answer the question with the questions, Yeah, define
the woman without saying woman in social you're in college,
paying for an education. What is a woman?

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
You don't need media training. It's not a trick What
is a woman? You can't answer the question.

Speaker 12 (01:04:05):
It's the college kids of America going one hundreds of
thousands of dollars.

Speaker 14 (01:04:08):
In a debt.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
You think it's a trick question when you ask them
what a woman?

Speaker 5 (01:04:15):
That and more?

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
We are returning next week.

Speaker 12 (01:04:18):
I can't tell you the campus yet, but the campus
fund is returning.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
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Speaker 12 (01:04:24):
Email me Freedom at Charliekirk dot com and subscribe to
our podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
Stay right there, Okay, everybody, welcome back.

Speaker 12 (01:04:43):
Email us is always Freedom at Charliekirk dot com. Senator
Scott is with us. Senator I believe you are co
sponsoring at your aunt. You have this bill with Senator
Cruz on the CFPB. What is the CFPB? What is
the history and why should we defund it?

Speaker 19 (01:04:58):
Well, fur Cho, I think what should do on college
emphasis has to be about It has to be a
lot of fun to ask ask them simple questions.

Speaker 20 (01:05:04):
But let's see at PB.

Speaker 19 (01:05:06):
Who I've met one person in the entire country that said, boy,
I'm excited.

Speaker 20 (01:05:10):
Because we have the CFPBU.

Speaker 19 (01:05:12):
So it's just it's just money to go harass Americans.
They harassed Meridians. It's just it's his money to harass.
I mean, guess what Trump is doing the right thing.
I mean, he's done so many things, but shutting down
this CFP B would be a fascint. It would be
unbelievably important to help build our economy.

Speaker 20 (01:05:31):
So I'm on a bill with Ted Cruz, who's the
lead on it, to get rid of it.

Speaker 19 (01:05:35):
But look at what Trump's done, what He's been in
an office for three weeks for this, get rid of USA.

Speaker 20 (01:05:40):
I D get rid of CFPB.

Speaker 19 (01:05:41):
He's got what nine Americans back from Hamas Televan Maduro.
Maduro's taking people back kind of see Colombia's taking people back.

Speaker 20 (01:05:50):
The border is secure. I mean, this is three weeks.

Speaker 19 (01:05:53):
Just think of what's going to happen in the next
a little less than four years now.

Speaker 12 (01:05:59):
So each what's happening here with the CFPB over the
last couple of years has been remarkable, and was it
ever given original Congressional charter.

Speaker 19 (01:06:10):
My understanding is not and guess what, they can shut
it down because they can decide not to ask for
money from the Federal Reserve.

Speaker 20 (01:06:18):
So it's not constitutional. It should never be there.

Speaker 19 (01:06:23):
And the Trump administration figure this is al Russ Vote
is going to make sure it doesn't continue in existence.

Speaker 12 (01:06:29):
What is the significance of having Russ vote as omb director.
He's now been sentate confirmed, every Republican voted for him.
What do you hope he'll accomplish as Office of Management
budget director.

Speaker 20 (01:06:41):
He's going to.

Speaker 19 (01:06:42):
Bring common sense to the budget. He's going to look
at every dime. He's going to work with Elon Musk,
He's going to work with other cabinet members, and they're
going to figure out where all those savings are. He
has had this job before, so he's he's got a
lot of knowledge. He's a smart guy, he's fearless. He's
going to have Trump's back and they're going to figure
out how to balance his budget and get this wasteful

(01:07:04):
spending under control.

Speaker 20 (01:07:05):
So I'm really excited about Rush Vote.

Speaker 19 (01:07:07):
I've had the optertnoon working with him when he was
in the White House the first time and then the
last four years while Biden's been in office, so I
think he's going to do a fabulo's job. And then
Dan Bishop is going to be number two there. Dan
used to be in the House and they're both fiscal
hawks and they know it's your money.

Speaker 12 (01:07:24):
In closing here, Senator, the legislative priorities seem to be
on one bill versus two bill, two bills, any other
legislative fights that you want our audience to be aware
of bills that you are trying to advance that are
of great significance or of weight, especially in this once
in a many lifetimes opportunity that we have.

Speaker 14 (01:07:47):
Well.

Speaker 20 (01:07:47):
Number one, we have to balance the budget, all right.

Speaker 19 (01:07:50):
Number two, we have to do everything we can to
get China under control. I mean, they want to destroy
our way of life. They're killing Americans with Finnel. They're
building the military to be able to defeat us. On
top that, we've got to support democracies and fight against
the dictatorships in anywhere in the world, but especially here
close to home and close to Florida in the Southern hemisphere.

(01:08:11):
Then I'm excited about RFK. But what he's going to
come in and make him He's going to make us
healthy again, instead of the healthier system makes money off
of you getting sick.

Speaker 20 (01:08:19):
He's going to try to make.

Speaker 19 (01:08:20):
Sure people stay healthy so you can go agency by agency.
We're going to make sure we're independent from the standpoint
of oil. We're not going to have bad food that
we're eating. I mean, there's so many exciting things going on.

Speaker 12 (01:08:34):
Senator, thank you for your leadership, Thank you for your time.
Much more to discuss at another time. Every Monday we
have Senator Rick Scott on the program. Honored for that,
and thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Senator. Every other Monday, thank you. I'll take you every
Monday if you want to come for the.

Speaker 12 (01:08:50):
Record, I'll take Senator Scott as much as we can
have them. Look, everybody, are we are at the front edge,
the cutting edge, the tip of the spear of reclamation
of our government. This is one of the more unlikely
things ever to live through. The cycle of nations is
usually once a republic is loss that does not come back.
We are questioning that we save America has done exceptional, unlikely,

(01:09:14):
unique things before. Why can't we restore it? Why can't
we give a voice back to the people. We are
a special nation. What's really crazy is how you look
at the stakes around us and how we were providentially established.
We were at the abyss. We all dodged a bullet

(01:09:36):
when President Donald Trump's life was spared. And President Trump
is fighting so hard.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
Every day he is, he is working his tailoff.

Speaker 12 (01:09:47):
I had the opportunity to see him over the weekend
at mar A Lago and up until midnight, he is working,
He's doing meetings, he's signing documents.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
I mean, he is just a beast working for you.

Speaker 12 (01:09:58):
By the way, for the American people, every single moment,
they can't keep up.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
They can't keep up with this machine.

Speaker 12 (01:10:05):
And the shock and awe is going to continue, and
the Democrats are still trying to process all of this
asymmetric warfare. Senator Mike Lee from Utah joins US next
email US Freedom at Charliekirk dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 16 (01:10:32):
Welcome back to this Real America's Voice news break. I'm
Terrence Bates.

Speaker 15 (01:10:36):
We are monitoring breaking news related to the cease fire
deal between Israel and Amas. Hamas is accusing its Jewish
neighbors of breaking the terms of the current peace agreement.
As a result, the Muslim terror group postponing a plan
hostage release set for this Saturday. In a post on
x Hamas says the release is being pushed back until
further notice. In response, Israel's Defense minister is instructing the

(01:10:59):
country's military to quote prepare at the highest level of
alert for any possible scenario in Gaza. He also describes
the postponement as a complete violation of the cease fire
agreement and the deal to release the hostages. Seventy nine
people taken on October seventh remaining captivity in Gaza. Only
twenty are scheduled to be released during the current phase

(01:11:21):
of the ceasefire agreement. The Commander in Chief making headlines
this morning for signing a proclamation declaring February ninth the
first ever Gulf of America Day.

Speaker 18 (01:11:31):
He made the move.

Speaker 15 (01:11:32):
Onboard Air Force one while flying over the Gulf Sunday.
He also used the fairly short plane ride from Florida
to New Orleans to preview new tariffs set to be
unveiled today, as well as to detail his plan for Gaza.

Speaker 18 (01:11:45):
If any Steele coming.

Speaker 13 (01:11:46):
Into the United States is going to have.

Speaker 17 (01:11:49):
A twenty five percent alumer imperii.

Speaker 4 (01:11:55):
Percent, I'm permitted to buying and owning gush.

Speaker 18 (01:12:02):
As far as US rebuilding it.

Speaker 13 (01:12:04):
We may give it to other states in.

Speaker 18 (01:12:06):
The Middle East to build sections of it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
Other people may do it through.

Speaker 4 (01:12:10):
Our auspices, but we're committed to owning it, taking it,
and making sure that Hamas says it, we're back.

Speaker 15 (01:12:19):
The President going on to say he plans to unveil
a detailed plan for reciprocal trade tariffs with various US
trade partners later this week. Make sure to stay tuned
to Real America's Voice for full coverage of.

Speaker 16 (01:12:31):
The president's plans.

Speaker 15 (01:12:33):
And while President Trump was scoring touchdowns and big plays
on Sunday, he'll speaking Mike Johnson scrambling and punting while
attending the Super Bowl in his home state, the Louisiana
Republican admitting that he and his Republican colleagues in the
House may be forced to delay bringing a draft of
a funding bill to the House floor. That one big,
beautiful bill, as President Trump has described, it would include

(01:12:54):
money for everything from border security to tax reform.

Speaker 16 (01:12:58):
That's a preteicular abil.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
Waking up.

Speaker 5 (01:13:10):
Who woke?

Speaker 17 (01:13:11):
You should get over that quick, One brainwashed radical at
a time.

Speaker 16 (01:13:14):
That's enough.

Speaker 5 (01:13:15):
It's the Charlie Kirk show.

Speaker 12 (01:13:18):
We would get to my patriots supply in a minute,
but first, Senator Michaelee, Senator, thank you for taking the time.
Senator from Utah does an excellent job. This is a
good Senator hour. For the record, here on the Charlie
Kirk Show, we had Senator Scott. Now Senator Lee, Senator Lee,
I'm going to start about our good friend Cash Pattel,
the Democrats doing everything they can to stop Cash Pattel
from becoming FBI director. Where does his let's just say,

(01:13:41):
his status hold as.

Speaker 13 (01:13:43):
Of right now, Cash Ptel has got to get confirmed,
and he will get confirmed if the American people needed.
You haven't had a chance to watch it. Take a
look at Cash Hotel's Judiciary Committee hearing. It was six
hours of pure cash badassory. As I'd like to say,

(01:14:04):
I don't think I've ever seen a nominee with so
many headwinds come out of his hearings so masterfully, looking,
so good, in such good shape. It's everything Adham they had,
and every single time he proved up to the task.
Every FBI director I've questioned since I've been in the
Senate has led me astray in one way or another.

(01:14:27):
On issues like fives seven oh two domestic surveillance.

Speaker 14 (01:14:30):
Cash called the truth.

Speaker 13 (01:14:32):
That, by the way, is why the deep state doesn't
like him. That, by the way, is why there has
been so much opposition to Cash.

Speaker 14 (01:14:40):
But the truth is he's going to get confirmed this week.

Speaker 13 (01:14:43):
On Thursday. We're going to hold his vote in the
Judiciary Committee. The Judiciary Committee has some procedures that are
somewhat unique, and those procedures can make it time consuming
to get out of there, but we'll get them out
of committee on Thursday. Once that happens, we'll rush into
the floor, and within a few days, probably early next week,
he'll be sworn in as the FBI director.

Speaker 14 (01:15:04):
I'm confident of that.

Speaker 12 (01:15:07):
So, since him being sworn in as FBI Director, what
will that mean substantively of changes at the bureau. What
are the major changes that we can expect from the FBI.

Speaker 13 (01:15:20):
Well, first of all, you're going to have somebody in
there who is skeptical of government, which is exactly what
we need in government generally and in FBI in particular.
So I think you're going to see a different approach
taken toward five seven zero two. I think you're going
to see more strict procedures in place.

Speaker 14 (01:15:37):
I think you're going to have an.

Speaker 13 (01:15:39):
FBI that is focused on investigating crime rather than investigating
enemies of the sitting regime. And that's been one of
the problems that we've had at this entity. As a
former federal prosecutor, myself and Cash has the same distinction
on that front. Both see that the FBI is this

(01:16:03):
long revered institution whose reputation has sadly been tarnished by
people who have wanted to make the FBI much more
about political espionage, much more about being a political advantage
for the deep state and for the Democratic Party.

Speaker 14 (01:16:20):
That will be no more.

Speaker 13 (01:16:21):
And I think you'll see changes right away that will
reflect those things.

Speaker 12 (01:16:26):
And this is one of the more important fights in
front of us. We never thought we'd be able to
get Cash battel as being FBI director. Seeing the powers
to be consolidated around him has been very promising. This
story from CBS News, Justice Department agrees to not publicly
revealed names of FBI agents who worked on January six cases. Initially,

(01:16:48):
the FBI handed over employee identification numbers of five thousand people.
Did we really have five thousand people centatively working on
January six cases. How many pedophiles, child sex traffickers, murderers
went free because we did not have agents allocated towards
those cases senatorly.

Speaker 14 (01:17:08):
Certainly makes a personal wonder.

Speaker 13 (01:17:10):
Look, we have those numbers that have been released about
the sheer number of the very substantial percentage of the
FBI's agents that we're working on January sixth related matters. Now,
what we don't know, what I haven't seen yet, is
the extent to which those people were working entirely or

(01:17:31):
mostly or predominantly significantly on January six cases. To whatever
degree you had most of those people doing most of
their work on January six cases, that to me suggests
that there were a lot of other things that went uninvestigated,
crimes that went unsolved and unpunished and unproven in the
court of law. But like I say, we don't have

(01:17:54):
all those numbers. It is significant that they spent as
much time as they did, devoted as many members of
their team as they did to this, given that it
was one day reflecting one incident. There are lots of
crimes going on at the United States at any given time.
It does concern me that they put as many resources

(01:18:16):
into this one as they did, just as they did
put a lot of resources into looking at concerned parents
who show up at school board meetings as if they
have to be presumed as some sort of threat to
our domestic national security.

Speaker 12 (01:18:33):
So, Senator, the opportunity cost of an FBI that has
been thwarted is remarkable. Other implications of having Cash Battel
will also be depoliticizing the lawfare and getting to make
sure that President Trump is not a victim of a
Russia Gate two point zero. We want the FBI focused

(01:18:53):
on terrorist sleeper cells versus January sixth protesters, very very simple.
In addition, Senator, it looks as if Tulci Gabbard is
likely to be confirmed as the next Director of National Intelligence,
your reaction to that, and the significance of having.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
Her at D and I.

Speaker 13 (01:19:11):
This is also significant because much like Cash Ptel, Fulsy
Gabbert is someone who the Deep State loads, the Dee
State has a sort of a sworn vengeance to retaliate
against and to prevent from getting into positions like these ones.

Speaker 14 (01:19:29):
And yet Tulsy Gabbert, like Cash Catel.

Speaker 13 (01:19:32):
Is about to get confirmed and it couldn't happen a
moment too soon. This is not happening a moment too soon.
We need both of these people in those positions.

Speaker 12 (01:19:42):
The Senate right now seems to be stalled by a
lot of Democrat obstructionism. What do you recommend to try
to give President Trump his cabinet as quickly as possible?

Speaker 13 (01:19:56):
Look in the Senate, A lot of what happened is
kind of a.

Speaker 14 (01:20:01):
Race against the clock.

Speaker 13 (01:20:04):
The best way to move things forward is to exhaust
those who are trying to slow the process down. I
think the longer the hours, the longer the weeks that
we can work, even working through weekends or when necessary,
when the Democrats are dragging their feet and help work wonders.
Nothing sharpens the mind and enhances the willingness of a

(01:20:26):
recalcitrant senator or one.

Speaker 14 (01:20:28):
Who's helped vent on using the Senate rules to prolong
the process needlessly.

Speaker 13 (01:20:34):
Nothing will sharpen the mind quite like saying, Okay, you
feel that strongly about it, you're going to stay up
late nights, and for that matter, you're going to have
to stay here through weekends in order to get this done.
The more we can do that, the better off we
will be, and the faster we'll get Trump's picks confirmed.

Speaker 12 (01:20:52):
Senator Lee, you've floated out an idea of having former
Representative Ron Paul for the chair of the Federal Reserve.
Why why tell us about why Ron Paul.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
Would be the perfect chair of the Federal Reserve.

Speaker 13 (01:21:09):
But the very same reason that I think Cash to
Tell and Kelsey Gabbert are exceptionally well suited to lead
the FBI and to serve as the Director of National Intelligence,
I'd love to see Ron.

Speaker 14 (01:21:20):
Paul having the Federal Reserve.

Speaker 13 (01:21:23):
The reason is he's a long time skeptic of that
very institution. He has seen and has been one who
is commented early and often about the problems with the
Federal Reserve, about how the Federal Reserve perpetuates the growth
of big government, about how the Federal Reserve has slowly
eaten away at the purchasing power of every paycheck that

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you have and.

Speaker 2 (01:21:48):
The value of every dollar.

Speaker 13 (01:21:51):
The Federal Reserve, through it's so called dual mandate, where
it's supposed to at once looked out to make sure
that we control inflation simultaneously maintain full employment. Those things
are often in opposit with each other, and so every
single time it sort of leans into the second part
of the mandate into full employment.

Speaker 14 (01:22:12):
Which results in more and more inflation.

Speaker 13 (01:22:14):
Look, inflation is something that you can handle really well
if you're rich. In fact, a lot of bridge people
get far richer during periods of inflation. It's an America's
hard working for middle class who get screwed with all that.
And that's one of the reasons why we need reformers.
And I would love to see Ron Paul in a position.

Speaker 14 (01:22:32):
Like that one.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
Senator.

Speaker 12 (01:22:35):
Also this weekend, there was a breathtaking decision by a
New York judge, Paul Engelmayer, who just forbade all political
and pointees, including Scott Besson, from accessing the Department of
Treasury data, all based on a blue and non conspiracy theorist.
His theory couldn't be challenged because the order was ex parte,

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meaning that Trump's lawyers wouldn't warned and couldn't weigh in.
Only democratics orney generals were allowed to argue. Center this
bag is a deeper point, which is the power of
the unelected bureaucracy, this fourth branch government.

Speaker 2 (01:23:08):
Something I know you deeply care about.

Speaker 12 (01:23:11):
Your reaction on this injunction and the looming constitutional question
in front of us.

Speaker 14 (01:23:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:23:17):
What bothers me most about this is that what Judge
Paul Engelmayer did in New York, you know, forhibiting these
political appointees, including Treasury Secretary Scott Vessant, from accessing Treasury
Department data things a real problem.

Speaker 12 (01:23:31):
You know.

Speaker 14 (01:23:32):
Our constitution sets out a system in which.

Speaker 13 (01:23:35):
The President nominates and with advice and consent from the Senate,
meaning the confirmation of the Senate, may appoint these officials,
including the Secretary of the Treasury. If a can we
follow the process after we doly elected president and a
Senate and the Senate confirms that Treasury secretary, if that

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person may still this easily to.

Speaker 14 (01:24:01):
One order saying you can't deal with this. Only the
deep state folks can do it.

Speaker 13 (01:24:06):
Only the sort of permanent personnel as they like to
think of themselves, may access this data that is necessary
to do so much of what the Treasury Department does.
Then we've got a real problem, and the American people
are no longer in.

Speaker 14 (01:24:22):
Charge of their own governments. I mean our ARTI that eyset.

Speaker 13 (01:24:25):
The progressive mindset loves the bureaucred loves the expert and
hates the voter.

Speaker 12 (01:24:34):
I'm expecting some judge from the Northern Mariana Islands to
do an injunction against President Trump's diet coke button.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
So you can't do that.

Speaker 12 (01:24:43):
It's not constitutional to have a diet coke button to
be able to have it whenever you want. I mean,
at this point, we have the entire presidency that could
be held subservient by the unelected bureaucracy. Senator, Thank you
so much, excellent as always, talked to you soon.

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Thanks so much, Charley, good to be with you.

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that's super Bowl? Was it me or just felt a
little anti climactic? Let me just kind of air some
my agreements. Is Number one? What was with the lower third?

(01:29:02):
Do you know what I'm saying, Andrew? The Philadelphia little
lower third? The scoreboard? It looked as if someone made it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
In clip art.

Speaker 12 (01:29:09):
Do you know usually they have all these opulent, elaborate
I didn't like it. I know that we've all agreed
as a society, no one took a vote that after
trying to the left and trying to the right, and
trying to the upper left and the right, that the
bottom is the best. I just I thought it was
very underwhelming. I will say I think Andrew think of
bringing this up. I think tom Brady did great. I

(01:29:31):
thought tom Brady was a ten. I thought Tom Brady
was a ten. I thought tom Brady was way better
than I anticipated. And dare I say, I thought Tom
Brady was even better than Tony Romo.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
I know Tony Romo is you know.

Speaker 12 (01:29:45):
I think Tony Roma gets a lot of he gets
a lot of mixed reaction.

Speaker 2 (01:29:48):
I thought Tom was terrific.

Speaker 12 (01:29:50):
I've always been a huge Tom Brady fan, but he
just seemed as if he was having fun. He was
having a blast, and I think Tom Brady was also
enjoying it because he was like, haha, Mahomes, you're not
the goat. And he obviously channeled a lot of his
Super Bowl experiences. But look, that's not easy. You gotta
be honest, Like doing color commentary without a lot of

(01:30:12):
experience on that, that's not easy. I thought Tom Brady
crushed it. I thought he did very well. Over one
hundred plus million people were watching. Can I also just
mention the commercials were terrible. I thought they were so underwhelming,
And I thought the best commercial was the food Conspiracy one,
the Matthew McConaughey.

Speaker 2 (01:30:33):
Do you know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 12 (01:30:34):
I thought that was the best one because it also
had the Bears in it. But the greatest moment of
the Super Bowl to Great Daisy in Emma's delight was one. Finally,
I don't know if Taylor Swift has ever gotten booed
about time. Taylor Swift had no idea what was happening
after getting booed one shown on the jumbo tron play
cut forty one. Oh they're booing her, And I love

(01:31:09):
when she says.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
Like, what is going on?

Speaker 12 (01:31:11):
She's never been booed in her life, and look, I
just I think it's well deserved. She went after Maga
and endorsed Joe Biden, and she's not exactly in favorable
company there. Let's put fifty six up there.

Speaker 2 (01:31:28):
This is the meme. It's pretty good.

Speaker 12 (01:31:35):
President Trump got applauded. Look, regardless your opinions on Taylor Swift,
it was a fun moment, but it really represented a
cultural shift. Represented a cultural shift where President Trump gets
roaring applause and Taylor Swift not as much. Here's President
Trump getting applauded Cut forty two. And then there was

(01:32:06):
this Nike ad saying that women were oppressed.

Speaker 2 (01:32:10):
Overall.

Speaker 12 (01:32:11):
I will say though, that the advertisements were probably more
pro American, more pro family, and a little less woke
than I would have anticipated in previous years. But it
just seems like the spark in the creativity was largely
missing from them. You could see them clearly trying to signal,
but a lot of the ads were just bland. They

(01:32:32):
weren't boundary pushing, they weren't that entertaining.

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
Some of them. I even said, I said, I know
that ad. They run that on your team.

Speaker 12 (01:32:40):
It's the McConaughey Salesforce at They've run that many times.
And you know, they say that the super Bowl reflects
kind of where American culture is. And here's the best
summary I could I could give. We're we are in
We are in progress of exercising the woke, but we're
not there yet. We're in progress of expelling it from

(01:33:02):
our system, but we're not there yet. The vibe ship
is clear, but we still have a lot of work
to do. And by the way, so many of the
ads were released before the Super Bowl, so it wasn't
excited to watch it for the first time like it
used to be. But I mean, if I was a
marketing agent, I would I would release it ahead of
time because you get all these extra views and then
you get the views of the Super Bowl. So releasing
ahead of time I think is actually super smart. Overall,

(01:33:26):
I was thrilled to see the Kansas City Chiefs lose.
I hate to say it. I like Mahomes. I think
he's a great guy. I like Harrison Butker got to
know him. But seeing the Philadelphia again, I'm not exactly
an Eagles fan. I think they burnt Philly to a crisp.
There's gonna have to be like a rebuilding plan, a
national stimulus plan. I think FEMA is going to have

(01:33:47):
to visit Philly after what happened last night. But I
was happiest of all for Jalen Hurts. Jalen Hurts in
twenty eighteen, I remember he was bench in the middle
of the National Championship. We're two Attaga Bayola over and
then he ended up having to transfer to Oklahoma. He
never gave up. He fought for every inch. I've been
following his career for years. People thought he was no

(01:34:07):
good and now he is Super Bowl MVP and Super
Bowl Champion and they can never take that away from him.

Speaker 2 (01:34:13):
God bless you guys. We'll see you tomorrow.

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