Trump Talk: Gaza/AI/Elon

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I a memory. Thanks for tuning in. My cohort today
happens to be the one and only Scott Board. He's Scott.
Does anybody called you Scotty V? Yes, because that sounds
just like a great name.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah. And my favorite person who calls me Scotty V
is my friend andres a very thick Colombian accent. Scot
TV school TV. I hear Scotti V. I hear Andreas saying.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
It, I love it TV H And as a musician,
Scotty be a great musician name.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, I wish, I wish I were even a decent
musician to use that.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Because that means a great name. Just imagine that on
a marquee Scotty Bee Emery s nah. Okay, but E
songer probably would be better for a musician, Yeah, E
song Yeah it's still If I was a rapper, that'd
be great.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I was gonna say, you sound like a member of
the Beastie Boys.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, that'd have been sick. Yeah, Scotty V. Kenny G.
That kind of goes together a little bit. Anyway. I
appreciate you being in here with me today.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Thanks for letting me hang out.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Cash contest. I'm I'm on a drought, and.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, don't take it personally. There's eight hundred and fifty
radio stations playing this contest every single hour.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
It takes so much pride and having the ability to win.
And Cat's won twice in the last two days and
the Wolf just one an hour ago. So you know,
I'm sorry. I'm doing the best that I can.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
We're getting some love in the four to h two.
It's time to come around here to eleven ten.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
And that's what I'm saying. So there we go. We're
enjoying ourselves every step of the way. And I just
want to quick shout out to everybody who has been
interacting with us today or not today, but throughout the
last couple of weeks about some of the big things
that are happening in Donald Trump's beginning of his presidency.
And it's almost very difficult to just keep track of
everything that's happening. And if you'll note, a couple of

(01:54):
days ago, we spent a ton of time talking about
what in the world does Hamas think Donald Trump's going
to do or not do by saying, oh, yeah, well,
we're not actually going to release those hostages on time.
Sorry about you. Well, apparently that has changed. Tamas says,
now we are going to release We're gonna get back
on schedule, release three nominees and or three hostages from

(02:18):
our custody, and then you will hold up your endo
the bargain, and that's all good. We're good, We're okay.
I wonder how much of this is performative. I wonder
how much of it is something that we need to

(02:39):
note for future use. We have heard from Donald Trump
and people around him about Gaza, specifically the Jordanian King
Abdullah the Second earlier this week, says he welcomes Donald
Trump coming in and trying to create a more peaceful
experience here. Scott, I haven't had a chance to talk
to you about this. How do you feel about America

(03:02):
going from America First just a few weeks ago to now,
all of a sudden, we're talking about a long term
plan to kind of help rebuild and kind of modernize
what we know the Gaza strip.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
As we're talking about it, I don't think it's gonna happen.
I think, alike a lot of first drafts that come
flying out of Trump's mouth, it's a negotiation starting point.
So when he says twenty five percent tariff. He wants
something else. When he says, yeah, America is gonna hang
out and we're gonna help basically take over Gaza and

(03:37):
put in a beautiful strip. It's gonna be an incredible
strip Trump golf courses and casinos. And he didn't want
to do that part of it. Yeah, heah, I don't
think that's what he wants. If you listen to what
else he says after that, He's like, we got to
get these Palestinian refugees, and he's he doesn't care about
the peace loving Palestinians. He doesn't care where they live.

(04:01):
They can live wherever they can. They can hang out
in the Lincoln bedroom. The peace loving people of that
land can live wherever they want. He wants Hamas and
Hesba Llah, these terrorists out of that area, away from Israel,
making life every single day right across the street a
living hell for the good Israeli people of Israel. So

(04:23):
he said, I want Jordan and Egypt to take them in,
and Jordan and Egypt said we don't want these guys.
So then he had a nice meeting with the Duce,
King of Dullah the Second of Jordan and Deuce the
Deuce King of Dulah, the Deuce, he came out and said,
mister Trump is a peace loving man. He helped with

(04:44):
the ceasefire in Gaza, and we had a constructive conversation.
I don't think Jordan and Egypt certainly don't want America
in the Gaza strip. That's that's to now next time
they attack Israel. Now they're really attacking him America. So
what they want, what Trump wants is get the terrorists

(05:05):
under control. You deal with that, it's your problem, and
then America doesn't have to be there. We'll let you
guys figure out how this looks.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
So you don't think Abdullah or the Deuce, as you
mentioned him being, you don't think that he actually wants
Donald Trump in the United States of America to be
hands on in the region.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
He doesn't want them anywhere near there. So and Trump,
I don't know that he wants to go spend a
bunch of money in Gaza. That seems like a very
Untrumpian thing.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
I was going to say that kind of goes against
everything that we had talked about.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
He wants to protect Israel and it's up to Jordan
and Egypt to control some of the bad actors in
that region.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
You get like Lebanon on the phone.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Ranon is not going to play cut her, cut her
better better Yemen, no so, but now they're not gonna
they're not gonna play with us. But Egypt and Jordan
have a lot of influence and they're much more friendly
to him America.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Fair enough, fair enough. What about the Saudi Arabians. There's
been enough money on golf leagues, you'd think that they
could help us out with some of this stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
I think Saudi Arabia, and like the United Arab Emirates,
I think they really want to be Switzerland right now.
They're like, look, just leave us alone. We'll leave you alone.
We've just we're just rolling in money. We don't know
what to do with all this money.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Saudi Arabia just bought the Royal Rumble for next year.
They did The Royal Rumble is going to take place
in Saudi Arabia next year. I'm gonna have to wake
up at nine am to watch the Royal Rumble next year.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
No, nine am. The f seems like a weird time
for wrestling.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Though, That's what I'm saying. Like the riod really need
like and they're just like, here's fifty million dollars, here's
our deposit, and the world Wrestling entertainment people are like, yes,
we're going to riot.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
They don't know what to do with that much money. Well,
that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Why can't they just like, hey, Saudi Arabia, like hey,
let's be friends. You're stealing our wrestling events. You're stealing
our like at least you could just, you know, help
make this area somewhat civilized. You doing it to your
own cities. Can you help all over here just a
little bit. I don't want to criticize Saudi Arabia. I
like my head, fair enough, fair enough? Hey, I what

(07:15):
do they call it? Is a sports washing or something
of just like they're using what we are passionate about
as a way to try to mend the fence of
what we think of them. Because I don't know, they
had some guys that were connected to their country and
their government, you know, create terrorist attacks on our nation
and others over you know, decades.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, I don't know that they had some guys. I
don't know, but they they were kind of they didn't
do anything to prevent it, you know, for whatever. All
I know is in the last couple of years. They've
ruined my PGA tour. I'm a professional golf fan like
you're a wrestling fan, and they decimated the PGA Tour,
completely ruined it. So I'm not real happy with Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
They played in Riod. Did you see that? Live was
in Riod last weekend and they was all night golf, golf.
They did night golf, and I was like, this is
the most sacrilegious thing. I'm going to talk to Scott Vore.
He's about it, and he's going to say this. They're
playing loud music in the in nighttime in Saudi Arabia
with half of the top fifty golfers in the world.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
I'm sorry to bring it up. I don't like anything
about it. I don't know when it's on, I don't
know whose team whoever's on, I don't like the music.
I am just if you need me, I'll be over here. Aging.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
He doesn't like the shorts either. Short, just terrible, just terrible.
It's two sixteen.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
He got thoughts on what Hamas is doing and not
doing in this region. We'd love to hear from yet
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five five, eight, eleven ten. Thank you for listening to
our show today on news Radio eleven ten. KFA b
Emery's song Hey, I I usually have when Matt's here,
I make him play guessing games with me too.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Sometimes my guesses have to be as bad as Matts. No,
he's his his awful.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah. But here is the question is how many executive
orders has Donald Trump signed since he was inaugurated on
the twentieth twenty seven? Sixty four?

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Really? Six y four? I thought you met in the
last hour.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
I mean a sixty four. That's a big number.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, I can't stand it, but this is how the
game is played. I don't like stuff going on with
nil and some other stuff, but that's how the game
is played. I don't like that Nebraska is one of
only two states that proportions it's electoral college votes. Everyone
should do it the way Nebraska does. But agreed, but
they're not going to. So we should adapt to what

(09:40):
they're doing because that's how the game is played. And
I wish Congress would maybe grow a spine and put
forth some bills and vote on some stuff make it
more official, but no one does that. So this is
how the game is played. Don't hate the player, hate
the game.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Well you just did. That was pretty epic because all
of those things are seeming things that could change one
way or the other. But it just seems like there's
a sense of, well, this is just what it is now.
That can't be healthy for us just to kind of
surrender our principles just because we feel like, well, this
is just the way it is now.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
You can probably look at the sixty four executive orders. Yeah,
and they probably nullify sixty four executive orders signed by
the last president, which probably nullified sixty four executive orders
signed by the previous president who's also now the current president,
which probably nullified sixty four pennanaphone executive orders from President

(10:36):
Obama who became the king of this.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Oh boy, yeah, now that you mentioned it, Well, then
that's the thing. Biden undid a bunch of Trump stuff.
Trump's doing undoing a bunch of Biden stuff. Kind of
makes you wonder, just what can actual progress ever be
made if we're doing it this way, you know, like
I don't I don't understand, you know, we Teddy Roosevelt,

(11:00):
he was really the king of the executive order. If
you go back and look at Teddy Roosevelt statistics. I
mean that guy wanted to work with no one really.
Oh yeah, yeah, I'll see if I can't find that number.
Didn't know that how many executive orders? Did?

Speaker 2 (11:16):
And I love Teddy Roosevelt.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Oh yeah, we put him on a big mountain, didn't.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
We well put himself on a big mountain. He was.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
He was the Trump of his time. One thousand and
eighty one.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
How many did Obama do need?

Speaker 1 (11:30):
One thousand and eighty one? That's crazy Obama Obama. Oh
oh no, I'm working on it. Hold that thought.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, but Teddy Roosevelt was the Trump of his time.
He's like, we're going to take that mountain and we're
going to put some of the greatest presidents up there.
We got room for three of all, we have room
for a fourth. Who should be wedged in here? Who
should be stuck? You know? Coming off of Washington's had
like a congenital twin with a mustache. Yeah, you guys

(12:04):
want to do that to me?

Speaker 3 (12:05):
That's fine, glasses just right.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
I didn't expect any of that, Thanks guys.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
To seventy seven on Obama by the way, really, oh
my gosh, I thought it was four times that many.
It was four times that many for Teddy. So yeah, yeah,
that's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy if you're wondering just why
we're at it. Trump his first term to twenty.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Trump's on pace to two. He's going to seven hundred.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
He's gonna he's gonna pass his first his first term. Yeah,
so seventy two of the two twenty were revoked by Biden.
So that answers your question. Of the two hundred and
twenty executive orders Donald Trump did, about a third of
them were immediately removed by Joe Biden when he got
into office. That was seventy two of them. So, yeah,
we are we are playing some level of political warfare

(12:53):
using executive orders. And I was under the impression that
pardons were what the real, uh full on power of
the president was being shown. And we have, you know,
controversial pardons all the time, but I feel like executive
orders are kind of inching their way into Okay, so
how much power does the president actually have to do
things without Congress's approval?

Speaker 2 (13:13):
If my math is right, Trump is on pace for
four four and thirty seven executive orders. Take that, Teddy, Now,
I don't think he's going to do that at the
clip he's done over the last three weeks, but.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
The lot, oh my yeah, at two twenty the first
four years. I mean, he's definitely on pace to beat
that by like June, like right now, right, so we'll see.
The American Presidency Project, by the way, has given a
list of the most executive orders of all time for
each president. I have them all right in front of

(13:49):
me right now. How many do you think George Washington.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Did just for none?

Speaker 3 (13:54):
Eight okay eight for instance, at but he didn't want
to be a king, you know.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
We had to undo all these.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Oh wait, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James
Monroe and John Quincy Adams. So the next five presidents
combined did ten. So this was not a thing that
was total combined. The first guy to go over one
hundred was Ulysses S. Grant, who was the eighteenth President
of the United States two hundred and seventeen, two hundred

(14:25):
and seventeen. This was a guy that was an incredible
the battlefield general himself, Grover Cleveland did over two hundred.
Benjamin Harrison one hundred and forty three in his four years.
I mean, nothing compares to when Teddy Roosevelt did one
thousand and eighty one, like that changed everything.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
When did Teddy Roosevelt do the executive order to call
it the Gulf of America?

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeh, then yeah, did the memo didn't get passed to
the textbook makers of his time? I think?

Speaker 2 (14:54):
But yeah, wonder is you talk about stuff that your
President Washington did not.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Did they re aim the Gulf of America or anything
for that matter, right, Like do they even care about that?
By the way, Woodrow Wilson one thousand, eight hundred and three. Wow,
one eight hundred and three. That's averaging two to twenty
five a year. Calvin Coolidge of all people twelve hundred

(15:19):
and three, Herbert Hoover one thousand and three, and then
FDR three thousand, seven hundred and twenty one, and nobody
has approached a thousand cents.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
So well, those guys were those guys were dealing with
some stuff.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah, that's a that's the worst possible part of American
one to the Great Depression, could you imagine, right, Yeah,
Like you have a world war and then another World
war and in between it like the worst depression economically.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Ever, I couldn't imagine a great depression. The great depression
is what do you mean? I got to go find
my password for one of my eighty seven streaming services?

Speaker 3 (15:53):
What's the password for this? Why do I have to
put this in every three months? Real first world problems,
these doubles.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
I'm with you, especially now that YouTube TV is standing
to lose CBS right before March madness starts.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Sounds like someone's trying to get paid.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
I'm, I'm, I'm. You're right. By Saturday, they're going to
have it resolved and somebody's going to have something.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
I was going to tell you about this poll that
I was leading into, but I got distracted because of
the executive voter thing I brought up. But you know what,
I'll tell you about the poll coming up. You stick
with us. We got a lot of fun coming up
here as well. On news Radio eleven ten, kfab Emri
Sunger started by saying, Donald Trump's already signed sixty four
or so executive orders. Now, part two of the guessing

(16:41):
game that I was going to play with you, Scott,
is how many people, on percentage wise do you think
actually have approved what Donald Trump has done for the
first three plus weeks of his presidency.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
I know he's got the highest approval ratings that he's ever.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Had that would be accurate.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Fifty Are we over fifty percent?

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Well, one of them is CBS News does have over
fifty percent approval rating. It's fifty three, which is I mean,
like that fifty three is oodles better than like the
thirty one thirty or so that Biden was kind of
rolling with toward the end of his term, right.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
So, I thought he was clinging to twenty mid twenties
on his way up.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Maybe he had gotten that low. Yeah. Now the National
Survey also conducted by AARP I don't know who aarpre
is asking for their opinion on this, but they have
him at forty eight hire people, Yeah, all the older
generations for sure, forty eight percent approval and forty seven disapproval.
Could you imagine telling somebody four years ago that Donald

(17:41):
Trump will be president again one day and have positive
approval ratings versus negative approval ratings at this point in time,
could you imagine somebody coming up to you and walking
up to you and saying, hey, by the way, guess
what Donald Trump actually is going to be more popular
than he ever was, like four years into the future.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Let me tell you my track record on Donald Trump.
Trump's not gonna run. This is back in twenty fourteen, fifteen.
Trump's not gonna run. Well, I guess he's gonna run.
He's gonna run, but he's probably gonna drop out before
the nomination. He's not gonna make it through the primary.
Oh he got the nomination, Well, he's not gonna win
the Oh he won the election, all right. Well, and
and I've been wrong about him every step because, like

(18:24):
you're saying, I had a hard time believing that the
American people would go this direction, and especially Republicans in
a primary, because they were like, all right, Mitt Romney's
a good candidate. John McCain seems like kind of a
fun choice. But he's say fun, Bob Dole. You know,
this is not exactly the nomination that would give us

(18:46):
Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
Not a lot of excitement in there. What's interesting is
they had plenty of those types of guys too. I
mean Scott Walker, I remember being you know, that was
the guy that everybody thought was gonna win. That he
dropped out before anybody else really did. I mean, he
saw his reproval ratings tank when Donald Trump's personality started
to steal the stage. And then you know, Marco Rubio

(19:10):
and Ted Cruz were a little bit more of a
old school suit and tie feel of Jeff Bush. Yeah. Yeah,
those guys ran Paul a little bit, right. He has
that Paul thing going on that makes him a little
bit more eclectic than the others. But this guy was
so different. And I remember I was at an event
in small town, Iowa that I was covering for the

(19:30):
news and it was a Donald Trump event. I saw
the big bus that was there and I was like, Oh,
this is kind of a big deal. He's really doing this.
I think he was like tenth in the polling at
that point. This was like right before he started catching fire.
And he's in this little small auditorium at oscar Loosa
High School and I was there and I saw how

(19:51):
many people were there. They couldn't fit them all. They
moved a bunch of them into the neighboring school auditorium
and he was just going to come say hi into
that room. They were able to like pipe in the
audio or something. Every time he said something. I was
kind of like, man, people reacting to this, like there's
something legitimate here that they actually like, This isn't a
joke to them anymore. And I told my dad this,

(20:15):
and my dad I never really quite nailed down exactly
what his political feelings are, but I tended to think
that he was more conservative. But I told him, I
think there's something here, and he was like you, it's like,
there's just no way that a guy like that is
going to win a primary. I still don't think he
was going to even make it to the Iowa caucus.

(20:36):
And it just never sew years beforehand. It was Mitt Romney. Yeah,
just like the and this is nothing most boring type
of person.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
And Romney and Trump are such different people. Yeah, Trump
immediately got He certainly has the name recognition, He's got
the star power having been on television as The Apprentice,
the celebrity Apprentice, so got that attention. I think now
he's office again because people understood, like what his policies
were when he was in office, what happened after he

(21:07):
was in office, and now they want that again. And
he's just he I mean, you look at what's happened
in the last twenty four days. It's been twenty four days.
Since he was sworn in. And it's amazing the clip
at which we're finding not only the stuff he's doing,
to finding out stuff about like limestone minds where they
have to lower down an elevator shaft, anyone's resignation papers.

(21:30):
We got to do this manually and all this stuff.
This is insane.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
I look at this from again. This is just a
guy who is in his early to mid thirties who
has voted in like four presidential elections. I don't have
the kind of track record history of my parents or
people their age, but in the last ten years, Donald
Trump went from just media mogul, you know, famous TV

(21:59):
guy who has movie cameos, to all of a sudden,
he's I mean, he's people are more passionate about him
as a politician than any actual legitimate politician ever before,
ever in the history of the world, except maybe Washington.
I would be like the one guy that I would say,
in a democratic society who's had the popularity but we

(22:20):
really hadn't established anything yet. Nobody has been this like
anti or four collectively and polarizing, and now like in
this second act essentially of him as an executive in
our government, he's more popular than he was at the beginning,
before we knew everything. It's crazy to me that this
is where we're at right now.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
I bet G. W. Bush's popularity ratings after nine to eleven,
we're probably really high. Obviously Reagan had no problem in
eighty four. I mean, we've had popular politicians. Sure, oh no,
one thought Obama was probably going to lose that twenty
twelve election. We've had popular politicians. But to what you
said to launch this conversation, could you have imagined four

(23:01):
years ago and everyone, you know you hated his guts
protests in the streets every other Tuesday, just because for
him to get reelected and have this kind of popularity
is amazing. What was that ai AARP number you gave?
Do you still have that?

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, it's.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
From AARP registered members pulled by that organization AARP for
better or worse whatever, They just tend to lean more left,
forty eight percent from the AARP, higher than his disapproval writing, Yeah,
that's amazing. Yeah, it's pretty wild to think about it.
And I was also fairly curious how much of this

(23:37):
is just newness?

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Right? Like when you get a new person into office,
it's not necessarily about the things that they're doing as
much as they're just different than the guy who was
there before. Well, the answer to that question is I
was able to pull up a few of the different
polls of the first, you know, six months or so
of the Joe Biden presidency, and I know that a
lot happened post the first six months of the Biden presidency,

(24:01):
but again, it was just the change that I think
a lot of people are just like, yeah, I want
change here. Change is good. And it was still in COVID,
and I was looking at this Joe Biden actually did
have a positive approval rating. He was in about the
fifty four to fifty six percent range through the first
six months of his presidency, and obviously, as we talked about,

(24:24):
that would deteriorate pretty regularly as we got into twenty
twenty one, the Afghanistan thing happened. Of course, people were
getting very antsy about COVID nineteen throughout twenty twenty one
as well, and why we were still doing the things
that we were doing. And then of course the economics
or Biden nomics as he liked to call it, which
are actually just decimating people's wallets and bank accounts It's

(24:49):
going to be interesting to see if Donald Trump can
maintain this kind of approval for longer than three to
six months, when certainly people will be like, Okay, the
newness has worn off, the honeymoon phase, resolver, now what
are you doing for me? Kind of thing, and trying
to avoid major, major things happening that would be viewed
as a negative on his situation. Curtis is on a

(25:10):
phone line four h two five five, eight eleven ten.
Welcome to the show, Curtis. What do you think?

Speaker 4 (25:14):
Hey, Amery say, I just want to tell my story.
I'll make it as quick as I can about when
I saw Donald Trump announced that he was gonna run
for president. It's really interesting. I'm sitting there at home
with my baby son and all, and then seeing it
or a Nazie Fox is like, oh, we're gonna have
a major announcement about Donald Trump. So I knew what

(25:34):
was coming, and I was My opinion of him was
not a good one at first because of the Apprentice
and all the year fired stuff. Well, then he came
down the escalator. I'm like, this is gonna be funny.
Well then he starts talking, and after ten minutes I'm like, okay,
you know whatever. You know, he's making a good pitch.

(25:56):
After twenty minutes, he really got my attention. After forty
five minutes, like, this guy is making a lot of
sense right now.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
This all happened in one day for you.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
And it all happened in one day. I went from
thinking he was a joke, and by the by the
time he was done with his spiel, I thought to myself,
I think this guy has a real shot to be
the next president.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
You know.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Well, it's the crazy thing is if you just start
listening to somebody that you think you won't agree with,
or that you have no idea, how interesting, how quickly
your brain kind of operates is still saying, actually, wait
a second, hold the phone. I might actually agree with
some of this stuff. It's pretty fast.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
And I agreed with what he said.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
And here we are, Courtisy, He's the president twice. Pretty crazy, right.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
Yea, Yeah, thanks, I just wanted to tell my story.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah no, and I appreciate that. Buddy. Thanks for listening
to our show today. It is two forty six. We'll
come back. We got more for you and a lot
of fun coming up in the three black hour. Stay
tuned on news radio eleven ten Kfab em Ry's songer,
I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind
of a big deal.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Out on news radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Did have an email from Doug who says Trump's first
term was NonStop defense. Every announcement was bombarded with endless
hatred of how horrible the ideas were. Now I feel
Trump's playing pure offense. He's out there throwing I don't
know what that's supposed to be, but he's doing all
this good stuff and he's letting his team play defense.

(27:31):
And Doug says, I think it's a smart strategy because
he'll never let them get on the field. It's a
good point because you have to remember, right, there was
just backlash of the fact that Donald Trump got elected,
more so than I think anything he planned to do
policy wise. But that's just politics. Let's be realistic. After that, though,

(27:51):
and we started to kind of dig into what it
all meant. And then he lost the twenty twenty election,
and we know what obviously happened after that when people
got to see what the alternative was and they saw
how it and this is why candidates matter. I don't
even think as much as we say, oh, well, policy matters,

(28:12):
principles matter. You're seeing people in government that were Democrats
flipped to the Republican side quickly. This isn't like Tulci Gabbard.
For the most part, she kind of did one step
at a time. She was a Democrat and then she
jumped to independent and then she kind of was like,
I'm going to back the Republican Party. Oh, i am
going to jump on Donald Trump's, you know, on the

(28:35):
Trump train. Not a decade ago, in twenty sixteen, she
was going on social media and saying, I am endorsing
Bernie Sanders for president. Hillary Clinton is trying to steal
this primary season away from him to take the nomination.
They are changing the rules as we go, and that
we could all see it happening if you weren't in

(28:57):
the Democratic Party. Tulsi Gabbard was less than a decade
ago talking about all of the great things that Bernie
Sanders had idea wise and less than a decade later
because of I think the candidates that were around her,
and also the fact that okay, yeah, I'm actually seeing
the light here a little bit on conservative politics. You're

(29:17):
seeing her RFK Junior, You've had people like Mansion and
Kirsten Cinema who were sitting Democrats in the Senate changed
their political affiliations essentially on the fly. And so I
really am a strong believer that people can change how
they feel about different policies as time goes on, legitimately,

(29:37):
not just to be, you know, like in caucus with
the right people, or to try to get power. I
do not believe Tulca Gabbert started following Donald Trump because
she wanted a job in the government. I do not
believe that. But what I do believe is that candidates matter.
If a better person than Joe Biden at eighty years
old was inaugurated into the White House and had a
little bit of energy, no matter what the the principles were,

(30:01):
it would have been an easier sell to the American public.
But when you had a bumbling, stumbling, aging old man
who was old enough to be a lot of first
time voter's great grandfather, makes a very difficult selling point
for people in the follow up election, especially when he
can't remember anything that he's trying to say in front

(30:24):
of a live microphone. You're seeing Donald Trump log hours
of TV time, You're hearing a lot of the audio.
I play it every day. He did another big Q
and A at the White House today, He's answering questions
to the media. The transparency is through the roof, not
just with him, but it's to trickle down to all
of his cabinet members who have already been confirmed this
stuff matters. We were not getting any of that in

(30:46):
the previous administration. I think that is a massive positive
as well now. So to wrap up this conversation of
why Donald Trump's approval ratings might be better than they were,
you know, in his first term. Besides, it's just having
the comparison to what the other side may look like.
I think the answer for the Republicans to avoid this

(31:07):
from happening in twenty eight or heck even in twenty
six in the midterms is you have to maintain control
of the narrative. You have to explain why certain things
are coming up in why you believe certain things should
be happening. That goes with foreign policy, that goes with
the border, that goes with our money and the economics.
You have to explain all of these things one by

(31:27):
one with as absolute transparency, and then maybe when it
comes to the midterm elections and it comes to twenty
twenty eight and a new person has to run for office,
You're not going to have this kind of backlash of well,
we want change, we want something new, And there's not
that fatigue that there was very quickly with the Biden administration.
We're paying attention, we're waiting for Donald Trump. He's got

(31:49):
another dignitary that has made a trip into into the
White House and it is the Prime Minister of India,
Rendra Modi is there at the White House. Again. I
can't remember a time where this many things in people
were all like conglomerting and congregating into the periphery of

(32:14):
the American government. This is crazy. Am I missing something
in previous American history? In three and a half weeks,
there's been this many people of foreign nations that have
had at least conversations with our current president about things
that are happening in the world. And also he's having
the time to sign, you know, a few score executive

(32:36):
orders while at the same time he's trying to get
all of his committee or his cabinet all confirmed, which
is happening one at a time. Toltally Gaberdin and R. F.
Cage and you're both now in the cabinet, Like, is
this unprecedented what we're seeing here?

Speaker 2 (32:52):
I can't think, having been on the radio covering presidents
since shortly after Clinton was in office, maybe maybe right
before his second term, I think is when I started
in radio. Anyway, it's a long time ago, and I've
never seen anyone get to work like this. Now. Put
yourself in Trump's wing tips. He's got people actively trying

(33:14):
to assassinate him, including the entire nation of Iran. You
don't think that maybe he's like, guys, we might want
to hurry this up. There's no telling, We have no
guarantee of tomorrow. That's especially true for me. Let's get
this stuff done. I think he is incredibly motivated, and
I think he's having fun.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
I do think, I definitely think he's having fun. Yeah,
the whole assassination thing, it's kind of a dark way
to look at this, but it's well pretty on it.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
I mean, you just gotta put yourself in his shoes.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
That's and with Congred, like there's no doubt that you know,
like you really feel super duper confident that you're gonna
have majorities in both chambers in twenty six, Like, no,
you can't drag your feet in all this. His history
is not on your side that you're gonna get, you know,
more than two years with a full Republican majority in

(34:03):
Congress along with the you know, executive branch. So anyway,
now Rendra Modi is there. He has been the Prime
Minister of India, by the way, for over a decade.
So this is an important world leader who is also there. India.
How do they rank on our priority list? I mean,

(34:24):
they are an incredibly highly populated place, A lot of
people live there, a lot of stuff happens there, certainly,
but you don't really hear of them as you know,
being directly connected to people whom we have very strong
opinions about.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Now, India keeps their nose clean unless you're Pakistan. Than
India and Pakistan end up having some problems with each
other every decade or so. We don't want that to happen.
India is an incredible trade partner, yes, and a very
interesting and developed nation that has really big Western leanings.

(34:59):
So India, he is a good partner. India is a
good friend. And yeah, I don't know what Trump's angle
would be to get anything done with the Prime Minister
of India. But it's an interesting partnership certainly.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Well, you mentioned trade, and it's interesting because today was
the big reciprocal tariff you know, signing thing. In the
explanation of exactly how that all goes down and the
tariffs with the Chinese, you talk about tariffs that were
threatened upon Canada and Mexico and also Panama. We are
clear on the Panama part because the canal is officially

(35:37):
ours to navigate in again Mexico and Canada. It's not
until early March that we have now a deadline of
when those are going to start, based on you know,
continuing negotiations on both sides. The Chinese one is still
in play. But this is kind of an interesting day
to be talking about a big time trade partner being
in the White House on a day that Donald Trump

(35:59):
has directed its trade officials to study a lot of
these retaliatory tariffs on these partners around the world. And
I don't know how quickly he's going to be able
to deduce which partners need what tariffs. But India being
is it the most populated I think it's the most
populated country in the world right now, it's close between
them in China, but over a billion people live there.

(36:21):
It's insane how many people live in these countries. And
like you said, because of that relationship, there is a
lot of financial gain or loss if you don't get
that done or you don't have that relationship done properly.
So we'll see. It depends on exactly what they think

(36:43):
in how much money or how many countries there would
be potential tariffs for speaking of India. Before I moved
too far off the subject, I saw a study that
was done earlier today. Do you know do you trust AI?
Are you an AI guy? We haven't talked about this.
Do you use AI for anything?

Speaker 2 (37:01):
I want to say that I trust AI completely because
when the robots take over, I want to be in
their good graces. But I don't use AI for anything.
I'm still working on I Oh good, Oh that's good.
I need to remember that one. Yeah, that's ah. Got
to remember that well. I ask because here's guessing game.

(37:22):
Part two is.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
What do you think the percentage of adults in America
who trust artificial intelligence? Single digits? It actually is thirty
two percent. Thirty two percent trust artificial intelligence.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
I think AI manipulated that, well, what do you think
do you think India is on the terms of the
Because this was a survey that was done tens of
thousands of people were asked over I think twenty eight
countries or something like that, like thirty two thousand people
in twenty eight countries were asked do you trust artificial intelligence?

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Two percent of the United States respondent said I do.
The other sixty eight said I don't or I'm not sure.
How many percentage do you think India said?

Speaker 2 (38:09):
I think that it's a nation that holds more old
world value, so I would think it would be lower.
But I'm afraid that you're gonna surprise me with this
number seventy seven world Why, I don't know. It didn't
elaborate why they were that high. I'm just I'm telling
you what the study says. And I'll get more into

(38:31):
this because I think it is important because the United
States there is this kind of just weird like I'm
not sure this is good where we're going with artificial intelligence.
While Trump, like the first full day he was in office,
made this huge announcement on the infrastructure of artificial intelligence
and how he wants these companies that he's partnering with
and enabling them to invest hundreds of billions of dollars

(38:52):
into the AI infrastructure, while a week later you had
Deepseek all of a sudden explode onto the scene for
a fraction of the cost. And it does basically everything
chat GPT can do. It creates this very interesting dichotomy
of what each society really thinks the future of AI is.
I think I figured it out. A lot of people

(39:12):
in India, especially young people just like those of us
who grew up in Omaha and in the nineties worked
at telemarketing. A lot of people in India end up
doing a lot of tech support and taking a lot
of those customer service calls at Indian call centers around
the world. So they've got to deal with Americans yelling
at them, going.

Speaker 6 (39:30):
I can't understand you. Mind you speak English, I am
speaking English. I can't understand you. Get your supervisor, hey know,
don't Are you gonna fix my computer or not. They're
yelling at these people, and they're like, you know what,
if AI wants to come in here and we could
have artificial intelligence takeover my job and deal with these idiots,
I am all for it.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
And now that I thought of that. I'm surprised it's
not higher than seventy seven percent. That is so I
didn't even think about that.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
But you know what, that makes total sense because they
have just been exposed to it for probably longer and
in a lot of different ways, and that leads to
the seventy seven percent line. I will get to more
of this because there are other countries that I find
fascinating in this list from the Edelman Trust Barometer, and
we'll talk about that next year on news radio eleven
ten kfab and telling artificial intelligence. I use it a lot?

(40:19):
Is that bad to admit? Honestly? Like I don't. I
do a lot of things on my own. But if
I'm like thinking, can I get can you give me
a couple of synonyms or use this kind of word
in a sentence so I know I'm using it right,
or I need help with this email I don't exactly
know how to word it. Can you help me with that?
It does a good job I think of kind of
managing that. And sometimes you know when I need like

(40:41):
a news story, like if there's a new story that
I am confused by, which happens a lot more than
i'd like to admit I use artificial intelligence both. I
usually use rock or on X or CHAGBT and basically
let it explain it to me like I'm a I'm
a five year old. I mean not literally, because it

(41:01):
actually literally will explain it to you like you're a
five year old. Usually I'm just like, can you break
this down into bullet points for me? And it does
a great job of doing that. I like it, Am
I weird? Is that what you ask it to do?
Like I do?

Speaker 2 (41:14):
Explain the Russian invasion of Ukraine to me like I'm
a five year old.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Yeah, I could do that right now, and I could say, well, sweetie,
yeah it does like it actually does explain the Russia
invasion of Ukraine like I'm a five year old.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
A five year old though, Ye see, if I'm artificial intelligence,
I'm saying, why don't you go outside and play? You
don't need to be worried about the geopolitical tensions of
the Soviet block.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
Well, you didn't ask you IGBT this, so here's what
it said, just for the record. Okay. Imagine you have
a big playground where all the kids play. One day,
a big kid named Russia wants to take some of
the toys from a smaller kid named Ukraine. Ukraine says, no,
these are mine, but Russia still tries to take them.
Other kids in the playground, like the US and Europe
see this happening and say, hey, that's not fair, and

(42:05):
some of them give Ukraine help like food and toys,
but they don't want to get into this big fight
with Russia. Ukraine is trying really hard to keep all
of its toys and it's space on the playground, and
the fight has been going on for a long time.
People are hoping one day it stops and everyone can
play nicely again.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
That's actually fantastic.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
I thought it.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
I do it like I was waiting to see what
they're gonna say about America's involvement. America is giving up
a lot of toys.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
And America has no toys left.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
And that that first kid was like, hey, if you
want to come over here and we can beat this
bully right now. No no, no, no no, why don't
you keep doing it. We'll keep giving you toys. We
got lots of toys.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
I got another playground I can just go to.

Speaker 5 (42:44):
You know.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
It's like I'll keep FedExing you my toys just you know, like, yeah, no,
but yeah, I could do that if you want me
to make a I've asked it to make me an
all star team of basketball players from the nineteen fifties.
And you can actually engage it in conversation. It's like, well,
why is George Yardley not on this team? Like, well,
George Yardley could take this guy's spot, but this is
what you might be losing if we do that. And
I'm like, well, what if I want a better defensive player?

(43:06):
And they'll be like, well, we could do that, but
which guy do you want? And I mean, you can
talk to this thing and it like entertains you, it
informs you. You can use it for all sorts of
different stuff.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
I was on the radio a couple of years ago
when they had the app where you could talk to
historical figures, and.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Oh yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
I think we were asking Benjamin Franklin why he killed JFK,
and Ben Franklin was trying to tell me that he
did not kill JFK. In fact, they were not alive
at the same time. And I'm typing back that sounds
like something someone who killed JFK would say, I did
not kill JFK. Pretty strong protestation.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Yeah, and you don't want to know something. This is
why AI should be existing for us to be able
to do this ridiculous stupid stuff. No, but anyway, I
mentioned that, and this is why I use it, and
I not just to entertain myself, but to you know,
keep myself informed. I don't say talk to me like
I'm a five year old. I say, basically, just give
me some bullet points and it will do that. US,
though very low on this list of AI trust, just

(44:08):
thirty two percent. Only Germany listed is lower on this
list from the countries that got over one thousand respondents,
twenty nine percent of Germans, I mentioned, seventy seven percent
of Indian people and people from India are trusting of
AI technology. And you made a great point as to
why that may be. It's, you know, very much like

(44:29):
kind of what they do a lot of time is
working with computers, it these call centers. They would be
very I mean very well versed in what artificial intelligence
is at this current state. Is it a cultural thing?
You might ask yourself. Seventy two percent of China, for instance,
also trusts AI. I think that's more maybe their government

(44:49):
telling them what to think. But you know, I could
be wrong. Mexico, though, fifty five percent of people in
Mexico trust artificial intelligence, while only thirty eight percent of Japan.
Japan and China are like the opposite end of the spectrum.
The US and Mexico are opposite into the spectrum. This
isn't a Western Hemisphere versus Eastern Hemisphere thing. This is
just maybe exposure and what people have been used to

(45:11):
over the years, and maybe just a lack of understanding
of what a I can do, because I still talk
to people who think, hey, I is gonna kill us
all like you.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
The people in Mexico trust AI corumba. Matt, Matt will
be bad. Matt Matt.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
I'm usually like, usually it's Matt that does that, and
I have no problem, just like like I a Matt
joke worked his way into the show on a day
Matt is not here.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
It's just filling in for Matt and doing everything Matt
would do.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
That is tough. That was a tough one anyway. Elman
Trust Barometer did this survey. By the way, thirty two
thousand adults abouts twenty eight countries responded to this, and yeah,
pretty interesting. Only a third of United States adults trust
artificial intelligence. Maybe that number will grow. What will it
take for it to grow? Time will tell. But under
Donald Trump's watch, he certainly is hoping that in structure

(46:00):
continues to improve. It is four twenty seven. We'll get
to what the Democrats are saying about Elon Musk and
have some fun with you here on news radio eleven
ten Kfab Scott ev Scott Voorhees alongside. Always appreciative of
you helping me out. Pleasure Elon Musk. I didn't get
a chance to talk to you about this either. Is
Elon Musk doing a job that you think is good?

(46:21):
Are you weirded out a little bit by how like
into like how in the weeds of the government that
he seems to be after you know, so many years
being just this kind of real genius Edison type.

Speaker 5 (46:34):
No.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
I think he's really enjoying this opportunity to go in
there and find some of these things that you hear
about over the years. I talked with the Senator Jony
Arns this morning on kfab's Morning News, and she said,
every year come out with this report and say, hey,
why are we doing this? Why are we spending money
on that, and no one cares. No president, no body

(46:55):
of government efficiency ever looks into it. We just hear
about it. If people on social media, you go, that's crazy.
You know, what do you mean? You guys are studying
the mating habits of moths, you know, or whatever the heck,
and we'd spend bazillions of dollars on it and nothing
ever happens. This is a chance for them to get
in there and see what happens. And this idea that
you know he's got his fingers in the US Treasury

(47:17):
personal private information, Well, guess who else has your private information?
The irs. I didn't elect those guys. They weren't approved
by Congress. I don't know who they are, but I
guarantee there's a better chance that they might steal or
misuse your private information than Elon Musk. I don't think
that he needs my social Security number or the eighty

(47:38):
four dollars he can extract from my bank account. I
think he's doing all right. I think he's just really
kind of enjoying this work. He's a tinkerer. You don't
get to build rockets and these these under sea boats
that can go to the depths of the ocean and
all the rest and the Tesla cars are these weird

(47:58):
looking truck that he has here, don't You don't build
this stuff unless you're a tinkerer, and I think tinkering
right now.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
He's like, it's the next challenge to tackle and he's
been given an opportunity to do that. And you saw
what happened with X with Twitter. He gets Twitter and
immediately slices like ninety percent of the staff down immediately,
and they had some growing pains from that point, but
he was just like, we could do more stuff better

(48:26):
with less people. And it's not about just giving people
jobs that aren't necessary. It's just about how can we
be as efficient and functional as possible.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Before Elon Musk came on Twitter, I would post a
tweet and it would have to go down this elevator
shaft into a limestone mine and then someone would have
to process it and have to go into before it
could even go online. It would take months. It was
incredibly inefficient.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
Mm's that has something else on that. But I'm always
interested in how the reaction of the other side is
going to take on this, because you would think all
of this makes sense Elon Musk. Of course, this is
a guy that has a history of building incredible businesses
with these fantastical ideas. Like I mentioned, If you go

(49:14):
back and read about Thomas Edison and his inventions and
like all the different things that he tried to create.
At the time frame, he was considered this incredibly forward thinker,
and I think there has been some revisionist history and
how influential he may have been because there were some
contemporaries that didn't get the kind of shine and that
Edison got. Elon Musk is that guy right now, and

(49:34):
there are a lot of people that are upset he's
not on their side, first of all, but they're also
upset that he has all this access, that he's going
to have the ability to be in the ear of
the President, in the executive Branch and Congress and tell
them what is or isn't working, and he's got the
weight of his entire resume that they'll listen to him
and say, okay, well, if he thinks that we don't

(49:55):
need this, then there's a good chance that we just
don't need this. Phone lines are open in four h two, five,
five to eleven ten, and Lisa is there welcome to
the show. Lisa, what do you think about this?

Speaker 5 (50:05):
I think that you guys are full, completely full of
crap me. So where you would you like me to start?
First of all, there is a federal law, privacy law
that even if I want to share my information from
one government entity to another government entity, I need to
sign something same that I approve that they gets my information.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Okay, but what exact information are you talking about.

Speaker 5 (50:33):
Lisa, I don't can remember how many kids I have,
what my kids who are in college, my bank account numbers,
my routing numbers.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
Okay, so all that stuff that you give to the
irs already, like the.

Speaker 5 (50:48):
Irs, the people who have access are very minimal. And
the people and the people that have that I've given
permission to have that.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
But you don't have a choice, Lisa, I hate to
tell you, like, there's no like you have to do that.
Everybody has to do that.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
Like that's okay, But the people who have access to
that critical information have had a background check. Elon Musk
was being investigated by fourteen different entities of our government.
If the guy that's being investigated by fourteen entities of
our government is all of sudden has access to all

(51:24):
of it, and then you're then you see President Trump,
who's supposed to be the president in the Oval office,
having whatever press conference, and he says, well, I really,
you know, I don't talk to Elon much. I really
don't know much what he's doing. Well, if he doesn't
know how much what he's doing, says, where are the

(51:44):
checks and balances? And I would like to also make
the point that this money was already passed by the
people that we voted on and put in office. So
if they're spending the money inappropriately, then isn't it the
the facto way fixing that is you vote for somebody
different because you don't think they're putting the right spending
in the Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
So so, Lisa, I think your heart's in the right place.
Even if you said I was full of crap, it
hurt my feelings, but well I wasn't done yet. Easy
take it easy, Uh, well I was. All I was
going to say is that Elon can't actually do anything. Okay,
So he's got access to where money's going from different entities,

(52:24):
as you have previously mentioned, he doesn't have personal access
to like the stuff the irs does, but he can't
actually fire anybody he can't end anything. All he can
do is suggest to the people in the elected positions
that you just mentioned. They're the ones that can take
his word under advisement and make those determinations themselves, or

(52:46):
they can say, elon, I don't think that's a good idea.
I think we're going to keep that one. They're the
ones that actually pull the trigger on that stuff. So
he actually can't do anything. He doesn't really have the
power to do that.

Speaker 5 (52:57):
Then accounts initially, well, the.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Federal government is trying to freeze accounts of certain entities
that they think are not using money, that they're using
money in ways that they were not appropriated to do,
so that that is what they're attempting to do, even
though a federal judges said you cannot do that right now.

Speaker 7 (53:17):
Yes, if you present, if you present, okay, then why
haven't Why have they not come out and said, hey,
here specifically what we found and this is why we're
just going to shut down.

Speaker 8 (53:31):
The whole system.

Speaker 5 (53:32):
So to be fair, remember the first excuse that they
used when the Medicare and Medicaid and all the systems
went down and unemployment was delayed by two or three
ks in Nebraska, because that comes from a grant, part
of a federal grant. So when they shut down all
of those things, the President of the United States came
out and used the basis of doing that was because

(53:53):
we were sending fifty million dollars worth of condom abos
who eventually used them to make bombs.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
So that was.

Speaker 5 (54:01):
His whole reasoning that they rose this, chose all of
these all of these accounts.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
Yeah, it was so.

Speaker 5 (54:08):
It was so that we eventually found out was absolutely
not true.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
Well, but Lisa, it was an example. It wasn't the
only reason, but it was an example that was certainly
sensationalized to get headlines and get people talking. I will
agree with you on that. But one of the things
that I just want us to understand is like there
is checks and balances with this. There is a process
Elon is functioning in kind of a renamed thing that

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President Obama actually started. I think actually Clinton may have
started it, but Obama had one of these as well.
There have been like governmental purges under democratic governments as well.
It's just that Donald Trump is doing this and it's
Elon Musk doing this, and because of the news and
the sensationalizing of a lot of this stuff. It is
looking like a completely different thing than what Obama did

(54:56):
ten years ago, or or.

Speaker 5 (54:58):
Could it be, because it looks like they're going in
with a sledgehammer to everything. If you can you explain
to me, though, how you can say that that you're
you're reasonably going through things when you're going at the
speed of light. They're not. They're not pinpointing things. They're
not bringing any any particular thing to anybody's attention besides

(55:19):
things that have been that Eli Musk has tweeted out
after he changed to Harry Balls. I mean, like, if
you if you think that people are supposed to just
say this is normal, I don't understand that, because if
you were, if you were methodically looking at this stuff,
they has already been you know, approved and and you know,

(55:42):
written up by our Congress and.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
Approved by I would like a previous a previous congress.
But yes, a previous congress though, yes, but but yes.

Speaker 5 (55:51):
Go ahead, who was in charge of the previous congress.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
The previous president and the people that were.

Speaker 5 (55:55):
There and not no, no, no, we're talking about the
spending bills. We're not talking about the president who signs it.
Once they agree on it. I'm talking about who writes
the budget.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
Okay, yeah, it was that the House of Representatives and Senate.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Yeah okay.

Speaker 5 (56:08):
And you said it's a different Congress, but the previous
Congress was controlled by what Republicans are Democrats Republicans? Okay,
So I don't so that this is what I'm saying
you guys, you're there. It feels like to me it's
a switching bit because if it's the Republicans who who
who produced the budget and ran Congress, and it was

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the Republicans in the last Congress and the Republicans in
this Congress, and they're the ones who control the spending
in the Congress at the moment, then really what you're
going through is saying that the Republican Congress passed a
bunch of stuff but nobody.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Likes well, and Lisa, it's a good point. All I'm
saying is, look, if we can just like compartmentalize it
a little further than what we have so far. Elon
is looking in the people, the teenage wiz kids or
whatever that people keep talking about. They're looking at the
fire of the things that all of these entities are.
They are apportion money for certain things. The freezing isn't

(57:08):
to end the program. It's too let's stop spending money
until we know where all of the money is supposed
to go. That was the plight I think initially of
what he was doing. Lisa. I'm running a low on time,
so let me just finish my point real quick before
I give you the last word. I like when you
look at that point. Then he takes the information in
which they get and then once they learn that, and

(57:30):
I agree, they're going very quickly. There are questions as
to how much they have thoroughly gone through a lot
of this stuff, but Congress will be the ones that
have to enact whatever they whatever changes that you'll see,
including the Department of Education or USA.

Speaker 5 (57:45):
Can I make one important point, okay, thirty seconds pay
that they're not cutting VA finding that is not true.
My friend has worked for the VA for twenty years.
She is a social worker that places homeless Vietnam vets
and shelter or homes. They have told her that if
she doesn't report in to work that she will lose
her job. The problem is is they used to work

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out of the county schedule building that no longer exists.
They don't have offices to go to. These people know that,
so it's either irresponsible that they're closing shutting all this
stuff down without even knowing the facts. Where my friend
keeps saying, she keeps sending emails, Okay, please tell me
the address you'd like me to show up, there is
no address. These people don't have a place to go

(58:30):
and clock in. So when they say we're not cutting
the things, they're either nefariously doing it knowing that the
all of these people do not these remote people because
during COVID they found out it was more effective, efficient,
and it was cheaper if you want to get rid
of the fat. They don't have a place to go.
Believe are these VA programs are being cut and being effected.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
Oh yeah, Lisa, I really appreciate your thoughts and I'll
wrap this up, but thank you for calling, and I
appreciate your passion today. Very interesting stuff. Just to answer
that question, that's something we need to watch. We need
to pay attention to that because there is I think
there's a bit of a disconnect in what is being
required by the new executive branch while they're trying to
buy people out and what kind of responsibilities those people

(59:16):
may have and where they're going. So I'm up in
to talk to anybody, whether they agree or disagree with
our conversations today, four forty seven. If you'd like to
call four h two five, five, eight eleven ten, Doug's
on the phone line. Welcome Doug. What's on your mind
about this?

Speaker 5 (59:30):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (59:31):
You know, Lisa says that she thinks she obviously knows
a lot, but.

Speaker 4 (59:37):
Look at what we've done.

Speaker 8 (59:38):
They haven't made a budget, they haven't done a true
approchations bills and how many years twenty?

Speaker 1 (59:45):
Yeah, a lot of can kicking going on there.

Speaker 5 (59:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (59:48):
We have an omnibus bill every year and it's five
or ten people behindglores closed doors that makes the bill
up and then it's given and if it's Republicans don't
vote for it, they're criticized for closing the government down.
But if they now you're saying, well, well they voted

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for all this sport, Well, then you know what we
need to do. Let's change the law and make it
so that before it gets voted on it, let's go
to the people and they list out every agency and
what the money is used for in every agency, and
then everybody can call their congressman and say, you know what,

(01:00:30):
you need to line item and get rid of all
of this.

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
Stuff because this isn't needed.

Speaker 8 (01:00:36):
Why are we looking at this because if we can't
return she said, just like she's saying, they voted for it, Well,
why did they vote for it? Yeah, it's because they're
not doing their job.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
It's interesting, man. I appreciate the call.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
Doug.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
By the way, thanks for listening to us. I think
that the sentiment that he's on isn't wrong at all.
I do think that they're is It's a little more
complex than that because of all the legal eaes you
have to get into with a lot of these bills.
I'd love for it to be as simple as me
being able to, you know, read through one hundred pages

(01:01:11):
of what exactly is in stuff. But when it's like
fourteen hundred pages that you have to kind of get
through to understand what is being spent, and then all
the backroom deals that the two sides make is like, well,
if you're going to put this in about the southern border,
I'm putting this in to give money to Ukraine. That
kind of thing to get anything done. That's just partisan politics.
In the United States of America in twenty twenty five.
That's just an unfortunate reality in which we live in.

(01:01:35):
With that all being said, when you have the opportunity
to try to trim the fat and be a little
bit more efficient on the like an entire level of
federal operations, you got to take this opportunity to do it.
Elon himself has said he wants DOZE to be extinct,
essentially expire in the middle of next calendar year. Let's

(01:01:55):
give him and his team plenty of time to try
to get all of the facts about what is or
is it happening properly or efficiently in our government and
get that executed. Now, the state of Iowa. I know
that we're in Nebraska right now, but the state of
Iowa next door. A lot of people in Iowa listening
to me, their government has been doing a lot of
this stuff a long time. Their governor, KEM Reynolds has
straight up said, yeah, we've been basically doing doge before

(01:02:18):
doge was a thing. They've had a surplus in their
government for the last few years. The taxpayers are benefiting
from that. In the state of Iowa's state income taxes
are much lower than they were even five years ago,
so it's just something to keep in mind. It is
something that can be done, and if it's done well,
you won't have to go back and try to refix
anything because you don't have to make new departments just

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to address problems that don't exist. We'll a head to
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