December 18, 2024 • 9 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Right Brothers deserve every last bit of publicity that
we can give them.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You know what I'm saying, it's a nice day to
remember what they did. Congrats to those guys. Hey think
about all the drone news last week.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Oh you know what, now that we think about it,
drones don't exist without the Right Brothers, So.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Maybe we're not so happy with them.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Oh, come on, drones are better, more good than they
are bad. I think we ought to go back to
the horse and buggy days. Okay, make your uh, just
make the case.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, you know, it makes longer to get places, and
you know, I think that people had less, but we're happier.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Frankly, it's all relative.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
People think that, oh I need the latest gadget, and
I need this, and I need that, and it's gonna
make me happy.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Jim Carrey once said, I wish everyone in the world
could become rich and famous so that they would finally
figure out.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
That doesn't make you happy.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Rich and famous, of course, doesn't make you happy. I mean,
chapel Ron wasn't famous a year and a half ago.
She cares exactly well. My point is that she had
basically a mental breakdown and canceled a bunch of things
that she was supposed to do this year because she
got overwhelmed with everything that was happening to her. Yeah,
come on, of course that's relevant to this conversation. Drones,
(01:18):
you're a drone, drone, on and on and on about
stuff that nobody cares about.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Like, yeah, do you feel better after saying that?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, people are famous, I'd rather Would you rather be
famous for a day? Nope, and have the ability to
get like you couldn't go anywhere because people would recognize you,
but you'd get a lot of money, Like is that
a fair Is that a fair trade off? And then
you could recluse yourself after a while, once you know
you're fifteen minutes is up? Sure?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
How much money? What are we talking? Here'd be a
lot of money.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I mean you have to make money to get famous, right,
even the TikTok Famous people get a lot of money
these days.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I'll take a lot of money any day. Anyone
wants to give me a lot of money, I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Oh, okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Anyway, poll came out from the UH I don't know,
the Monmouth University, And it's maybe not a great day
to bring up polls because Donald Trump is suing the
Des Moines Register over a poll and the questions that
were asked here because we're not talking elections, right, like,
what do you pull people on after an election?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Well, here's what they asked.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
They say, are you excited or optimistic about the new
policies that President elect Trump is claiming to pursue in
his incoming administration? Give me what percentage of people would
say that they are optimistic? Fifty fifty three? Good job
you get how'd you guess? I just kind of based
(02:39):
on the popular voting stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, it's a good one.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Good job. The only uh, the segment of Americans less
optimistic about Trump's second term than they were the first
base from information we have from Monmouth University is Democratic voters.
Only ten percent of those who identified as Democrats are
excited or his or optimistic about his potential policies. What
(03:04):
does that mean?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Is that? Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Is that just man because they're different ideas that are
very different than what generally Democrats would be interested in.
Or is it unhealthy that only ten percent of people
feel like, hey, we actually might get some stuff done here?
You know, this goes like there's a sports analogy here.
The preseason college football rankings had teams like Utah and
(03:29):
Florida State in the top ten or twelve, right, But
when those teams turned out to be dog turd, right,
that hurt everybody in that conference. Because the teams that
ended up good were not in the rankings at the
beginning of the season, they got a lot less leeway,
whereas a team like Notre Dame US ranked top ten
preseason can lose to a Northern Illinois and still have
the respect to stay in the rankings and eventually work
(03:50):
their way back up into the top five. So I
guess my point being here is this administration doomed to
fail to an extent that the opposite side, the opponents,
are so adamantly against everything that is being talked about.
Here is it setting it up for the Democrats, as
has been in American history, the Democrats to regain control
(04:12):
of one of the chambers in twenty six and maybe
all of the chambers by twenty eight. Who knows, what
do you think about this? Because here's in the pit
of my stomach, this is normal. If you're a staunch Democrat,
you shouldn't be excited about Republican agendas. It makes no sense,
like you'd have no backbone if you're a staunch Democrat
and you're like, yeah, I kind of optimistic about what
might happen. No, ten percent might actually be too high.
(04:35):
But at the same time, I might just say I'm
not sure yet, right, because I like to be fair minded.
If if the Democrats won, I would probably say, you know,
I'm not super excited personally about some of the agenda items.
But if things weren't going so well before, like pretty
much everybody seems to agree on, then why the heck
would we be like super pessimistic about the next four years? Like,
(04:58):
was what would go worse other than the fact that
you dislike the guy who's in charge?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Would you rather things go good in your life but
be proven wrong?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Mmmm?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Because I've always I've always been confused by the sentiment
that you know, I mean, you could deeply believe that
they won't right, Okay, my side didn't win, so I
deeply believe things are gonna go poorly. That's right, fine
and good, But you know, would I always want the past?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But do you? Because there are a lot of people
out there that would rather things burn right, they'd rather
things burn so their side can win. I mean, the
Republicans will be accused of this about immigration, illegal immigration.
Remember that there are a lot of people that were
shouting from the rooftops the Republicans are blocking this because
they want to run on illegal immigration. And the Republicans
are like, look, man, you guys have the power right
(05:43):
now with the president, and I say to enforce the
laws that existed before you took office.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Somebody's gonna have to answer this.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And eventually, Joe Biden just said, I'm gonna make a
I'm gonna claim victory by putting in an executive order
about illegal immigration. But Republicans were staunchly accused of trying
to make that as poor of a situation as possible
so they could run on it in the election and
win because they have solutions to fix that problem. That's
(06:11):
part of politics, it really is. And I think people
who care about politics enough that they care more about
their team, if you will, and look at their political
party as their team. Instain of the United States of America.
They're in it for the spectatorship, They're in it for
the talking points, They're in it for the entertainment. They're
in it for something to do. They like volunteering for campaigns.
(06:31):
They like the idea of having some sort of conversation
about power struggle in this country. They don't actually care
about succeeding or how America does when it comes to
just being successful in this world that we live in.
To me, it's a fairly dangerous proposition. That's all I'm
going to say.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
The poll also said, hey, what are you most and
least excited about? Hey, Matt, can you guess what policy
that Americans that we're asking this Monmouth University poll are
least excited for? What are what are all the policies
any any policy that you've heard Donald Trump talk about?
What are they least excited for?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Daylight savings time?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
No, No, that that would be headline news for sure.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
No, it's the uh, it's the tariff agenda idea. Oh yeah, tariffs.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
The responded say forty seven percent think they expect tariffs
to hurt their family. Only twenty three percent say they
think it's actually going to help. So that a lot
of people seem to don't understand how that's going to
help America or their family. And I guess time will
tell if that is specifically implemented. A popular policy on
(07:41):
the other end of that is to eliminate income tax
for certain wages. Forty eight percent say they think that
plan would absolutely help their family, and only fifteen percent
say it would hurt.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
What.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Fifteen percent saying that eliminating income tax for certain wage
is going to hurt your family? What because that's a
little less money that'll go to the government. Give me
a break. You have to be a lefty of the
left y. You have to be the leftiest person I know.
If you go far enough left, you end up going right. Now,
that's what I've heard. That's what I've heard. Because it's
a globe, yeah, circle, yeah left. If you're a super leftist,
(08:14):
you may say, well, I would love to pay more
income tax money on whatever I make money on. How
would that hurt your family, that you're going to lose
income tax for certain wages. That's just being contrarian. That's ridiculous.
I want to meet a person face to face and
say I want to play more taxes.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, get out of here. We live in a three
D world. But there's only two different ways to go
left or right.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I mean, I guess technically you could go up into
super liberalism and like Green Party stuff, or you could
go down, which people would consider to be more libertarianism,
but nobody ever does that because those parties have zero
percent chance of winning anything.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
So, yeah, you're right, it.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Is a three D world, but it's also it's a
three dimensional in some ways and how you can think
within the box of political spectrum. Unfortunately, a vast majority
of Americans, like over ninety percent, mostly identify on a
horizontal scale.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Between the left and the right. It's just part of
the deal.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I guess for twenty actually four eighteen, talk about the
minutes minutes for eighteen. It'll be four twenty soon, and
you stay right there. On news radio eleven ten Kfab
and Rais Songer
The Right Brothers deserve every last bit of publicity that
we can give them.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You know what I'm saying, it's a nice day to
remember what they did. Congrats to those guys. Hey think
about all the drone news last week.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Oh you know what, now that we think about it,
drones don't exist without the Right Brothers, So.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Maybe we're not so happy with them.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Oh, come on, drones are better, more good than they
are bad. I think we ought to go back to
the horse and buggy days. Okay, make your uh, just
make the case.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, you know, it makes longer to get places, and
you know, I think that people had less, but we're happier.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Frankly, it's all relative.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
People think that, oh I need the latest gadget, and
I need this, and I need that, and it's gonna
make me happy.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Jim Carrey once said, I wish everyone in the world
could become rich and famous so that they would finally
figure out.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
That doesn't make you happy.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Rich and famous, of course, doesn't make you happy. I mean,
chapel Ron wasn't famous a year and a half ago.
She cares exactly well. My point is that she had
basically a mental breakdown and canceled a bunch of things
that she was supposed to do this year because she
got overwhelmed with everything that was happening to her. Yeah,
come on, of course that's relevant to this conversation. Drones,
(01:18):
you're a drone, drone, on and on and on about
stuff that nobody cares about.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Like, yeah, do you feel better after saying that?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, people are famous, I'd rather Would you rather be
famous for a day? Nope, and have the ability to
get like you couldn't go anywhere because people would recognize you,
but you'd get a lot of money, Like is that
a fair Is that a fair trade off? And then
you could recluse yourself after a while, once you know
you're fifteen minutes is up? Sure?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
How much money? What are we talking? Here'd be a
lot of money.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I mean you have to make money to get famous, right,
even the TikTok Famous people get a lot of money
these days.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I'll take a lot of money any day. Anyone
wants to give me a lot of money, I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Oh, okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Anyway, poll came out from the UH I don't know,
the Monmouth University, And it's maybe not a great day
to bring up polls because Donald Trump is suing the
Des Moines Register over a poll and the questions that
were asked here because we're not talking elections, right, like,
what do you pull people on after an election?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Well, here's what they asked.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
They say, are you excited or optimistic about the new
policies that President elect Trump is claiming to pursue in
his incoming administration? Give me what percentage of people would
say that they are optimistic? Fifty fifty three? Good job
you get how'd you guess? I just kind of based
(02:39):
on the popular voting stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, it's a good one.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Good job. The only uh, the segment of Americans less
optimistic about Trump's second term than they were the first
base from information we have from Monmouth University is Democratic voters.
Only ten percent of those who identified as Democrats are
excited or his or optimistic about his potential policies. What
(03:04):
does that mean?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Is that? Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Is that just man because they're different ideas that are
very different than what generally Democrats would be interested in.
Or is it unhealthy that only ten percent of people
feel like, hey, we actually might get some stuff done here?
You know, this goes like there's a sports analogy here.
The preseason college football rankings had teams like Utah and
(03:29):
Florida State in the top ten or twelve, right, But
when those teams turned out to be dog turd, right,
that hurt everybody in that conference. Because the teams that
ended up good were not in the rankings at the
beginning of the season, they got a lot less leeway,
whereas a team like Notre Dame US ranked top ten
preseason can lose to a Northern Illinois and still have
the respect to stay in the rankings and eventually work
(03:50):
their way back up into the top five. So I
guess my point being here is this administration doomed to
fail to an extent that the opposite side, the opponents,
are so adamantly against everything that is being talked about.
Here is it setting it up for the Democrats, as
has been in American history, the Democrats to regain control
(04:12):
of one of the chambers in twenty six and maybe
all of the chambers by twenty eight. Who knows, what
do you think about this? Because here's in the pit
of my stomach, this is normal. If you're a staunch Democrat,
you shouldn't be excited about Republican agendas. It makes no sense,
like you'd have no backbone if you're a staunch Democrat
and you're like, yeah, I kind of optimistic about what
might happen. No, ten percent might actually be too high.
(04:35):
But at the same time, I might just say I'm
not sure yet, right, because I like to be fair minded.
If if the Democrats won, I would probably say, you know,
I'm not super excited personally about some of the agenda items.
But if things weren't going so well before, like pretty
much everybody seems to agree on, then why the heck
would we be like super pessimistic about the next four years? Like,
(04:58):
was what would go worse other than the fact that
you dislike the guy who's in charge?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Would you rather things go good in your life but
be proven wrong?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Mmmm?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Because I've always I've always been confused by the sentiment
that you know, I mean, you could deeply believe that
they won't right, Okay, my side didn't win, so I
deeply believe things are gonna go poorly. That's right, fine
and good, But you know, would I always want the past?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But do you? Because there are a lot of people
out there that would rather things burn right, they'd rather
things burn so their side can win. I mean, the
Republicans will be accused of this about immigration, illegal immigration.
Remember that there are a lot of people that were
shouting from the rooftops the Republicans are blocking this because
they want to run on illegal immigration. And the Republicans
are like, look, man, you guys have the power right
(05:43):
now with the president, and I say to enforce the
laws that existed before you took office.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Somebody's gonna have to answer this.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And eventually, Joe Biden just said, I'm gonna make a
I'm gonna claim victory by putting in an executive order
about illegal immigration. But Republicans were staunchly accused of trying
to make that as poor of a situation as possible
so they could run on it in the election and
win because they have solutions to fix that problem. That's
(06:11):
part of politics, it really is. And I think people
who care about politics enough that they care more about
their team, if you will, and look at their political
party as their team. Instain of the United States of America.
They're in it for the spectatorship, They're in it for
the talking points, They're in it for the entertainment. They're
in it for something to do. They like volunteering for campaigns.
(06:31):
They like the idea of having some sort of conversation
about power struggle in this country. They don't actually care
about succeeding or how America does when it comes to
just being successful in this world that we live in.
To me, it's a fairly dangerous proposition. That's all I'm
going to say.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
The poll also said, hey, what are you most and
least excited about? Hey, Matt, can you guess what policy
that Americans that we're asking this Monmouth University poll are
least excited for? What are what are all the policies
any any policy that you've heard Donald Trump talk about?
What are they least excited for?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Daylight savings time?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
No, No, that that would be headline news for sure.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
No, it's the uh, it's the tariff agenda idea. Oh yeah, tariffs.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
The responded say forty seven percent think they expect tariffs
to hurt their family. Only twenty three percent say they
think it's actually going to help. So that a lot
of people seem to don't understand how that's going to
help America or their family. And I guess time will
tell if that is specifically implemented. A popular policy on
(07:41):
the other end of that is to eliminate income tax
for certain wages. Forty eight percent say they think that
plan would absolutely help their family, and only fifteen percent
say it would hurt.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
What.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Fifteen percent saying that eliminating income tax for certain wage
is going to hurt your family? What because that's a
little less money that'll go to the government. Give me
a break. You have to be a lefty of the
left y. You have to be the leftiest person I know.
If you go far enough left, you end up going right. Now,
that's what I've heard. That's what I've heard. Because it's
a globe, yeah, circle, yeah left. If you're a super leftist,
(08:14):
you may say, well, I would love to pay more
income tax money on whatever I make money on. How
would that hurt your family, that you're going to lose
income tax for certain wages. That's just being contrarian. That's ridiculous.
I want to meet a person face to face and
say I want to play more taxes.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, get out of here. We live in a three
D world. But there's only two different ways to go
left or right.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I mean, I guess technically you could go up into
super liberalism and like Green Party stuff, or you could
go down, which people would consider to be more libertarianism,
but nobody ever does that because those parties have zero
percent chance of winning anything.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
So, yeah, you're right, it.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Is a three D world, but it's also it's a
three dimensional in some ways and how you can think
within the box of political spectrum. Unfortunately, a vast majority
of Americans, like over ninety percent, mostly identify on a
horizontal scale.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Between the left and the right. It's just part of
the deal.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I guess for twenty actually four eighteen, talk about the
minutes minutes for eighteen. It'll be four twenty soon, and
you stay right there. On news radio eleven ten Kfab
and Rais Songer
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