11-10-25 - 9am - NEW/OLD Station and The Shutdown is Over?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Kaylee, Brannie and Dragon. Michael says, go here
dot com has not changed.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
It has not changed, sweetheart, It hasn't changed at all.
And in fact, I checked it just last night and
it does redirect to the right page. So that's working
pretty well. And so here we go, Dragon, here we go.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Big question. Did a lot of the old stories carry over?
Is it a blank slate?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I know, it looked like some of the old stories
actually carried over. Excellent, Yeah, so I but a couple
of things that we got to correct. And I was
going to start off this morning just go flambam right
into a news story. But I looked at ross left
the text lineup and you just heard the intro, and
there were a couple of elements to that. So I thought,

(00:45):
maybe what we should do rather than just jump right
into a story, maybe I'll do a little housekeeping, just
so you'll understand a little bit about how we do
this program, because this ain't your typical grandfather's program. It's
not it's not your mother in law's program either. In fact,
we're not quite sure who's program. All we know is
it's me and Dragon. So sorry, yeah, yeah, uh, by

(01:07):
the way, that voice you just heard is Dragon Red Beer,
my executive producer. You know they put the titled executive
on front of producer. But it doesn't mean you get
any more money. You just get the same old crap
you've always gotten.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
So dang it.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry to tell you that. It was
December twenty eight, two thousand and seven. You know what
that date was, Dragon twelve, twenty eight oh seven, December
twent It was the first time I sat in this studio,
which I think was a Saturday. So I've gone full
circle and I'm now on all three talk stations in Denver,

(01:42):
so Monday through Friday. I now do this program on
the original Blowtorch here in Colorado, where I started almost
twenty years ago. Then I do a nationally syndicated program
which is also an iHeart product Premier Radio Networks, which
I've been doing for I don't know, it seems like
four years or maybe five year Now I lose track
of time. You'll soon learn that those of you who

(02:03):
are new to me and those of you who are
carrying over from the old program know that I can
flate time horribly. So who knows, it may have been
twenty years I don't remember, but whatever it is. So
on Saturday, I do a nationally syndicated program, the Weekend
with Michael Brown. That program is carried by around three
hundred and fifty affiliates around the country. It originates over

(02:26):
on Freedom ninety three, seven AM, seven sixty across the Hall.
And of course I'm actually still on six point thirty
K how because they rebroadcast the National Program on Sunday,
So I'm on all three talk stations in Denver, and
I'm really happy to do that.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, is that something to be excited for?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, much like you don't get paid extra, well, I
sort of get paid extra because of the National Program
on the weekend, but because k Howe carries it over
on this on Sunday, I don't get paid any extra
for that. So and I haven't seen my new contract
for this. Men who knows. I mean, maybe I gotta
pay deduction for.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
All I know.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Are you working for the government again and you're not
getting paid right now?

Speaker 4 (03:05):
They couldn't well know that that's gonna change.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
The change that's gonna change.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
It's gonna change.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
I will tell you this this, as I said, this
is not your usual talk show. It's not your grandfather's
your mother in law, it's not your sisters, it's not
your brother. It's our show, and we do things a
little differently talkbacks. Did you hear the talk back from
that young that little girl. She's up in Alaska. Her
father worked, Uh, well, I shouldn't say worked, he was

(03:32):
an intern.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah. Sure.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Welcome to KLA, Brownie and Dragon. Michael says, Go here
dot com has not changed.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Michael says, go here dot com is our official website
that you can go where you can find stories that
Dragon posts curses.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Go here dot com.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
You'll also find links to the podcast, although you can
subscribe to the podcast wherever. Whatever your podcast app is,
it doesn't make any different. Wherever podcasts are available, just
search for the Situation with Michael Brown. That's the name
of this program, the Situation with Michael Brown, and that
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(04:17):
plus the weekend program, so you get six days of
Michael Brown. Imagine that. And then when you do that,
when you hit that subscribe button, be sure to leave
a five star review.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
I know everybody asked for that, and I'm just telling
him to do it.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Regardless whether you think it's five stars or one star,
just leave a five star review, because that's how you
beat the algorithms. You beat the algorithms by having the
number of reviews and then five star reviews, and that
helps spread that podcast even further, which I'm happy to
say is one of the largest podcasts in the building. Then,
in the rules of engagement to get played every day,

(04:53):
it basically is, if you want to tell me anything TMA,
you want to ask me anything A, you do that
through the text line. Our text line is different than
everybody else's and the reason for that is because of
the nationally syndicated program we need one single text line
for all of the programs. That number is three three
one zero three. You might as well just put it

(05:15):
in your phone right now on your messy j app, whatever
message app you use. You might as well just plug
in three three one zero.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Three and you have to text Mike or Michael or
Mike or Michael and then your message.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yes, keyword Mike or Michael or Mike, Michael or Michael
or Michael and or Michael or Michael or Michael or
Michael or Mike. And by the way, Mike is an
M I K E. And Michael is in my c
h E E l uh. Do you think we is
that enough groundwork? Can I get actually get to doing
what I want to do?

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Did we talk about the talkbacks yet?

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (05:49):
No, we talk back.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Why don't you describe the talkbacks because you're the one
that has There is a how long ago my heart
start talkbacks?

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Uh, it's been that three, four or five years something
like yeah, something that we have no clue, but it's
been a long time, Like Michael, I canflate time. I
have really no idea. Then yesterday it could have been
three years ago. I'm not real sure.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
And talkbacks are very important to this program and for
the new listeners the old listeners, and I do mean
old listeners. The old listeners will explain to you why
they're important because I came in here every day with
it's not formally a rundown. Everything is contained in a
notebook and on my laptop, and it used to be

(06:30):
on the screen, but since we only have one computer
screen and not two.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
To go ahead and start bitching about that now, Grass,
that's right.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Sometimes a talkback can add to the content, it can
detract from the content, and sometimes it can cause me
to chase a squirrel. I've been known, much like my dogs,
to like to chase squirrels. So what would you add
about talkbacks.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well, while you're listening live to eight fifty KOs on
the iHeart radio app, you can there's that little red
microphone button near the top of the screen. You have
thirty When you hit that button, you have a thirty
seconds to leave a voicemail, so to speak. And you know,
leave us a compliment, will leave me a compliment. Don't
leave Michael a compliment and complain about Michael being over here,
and you could completely derail the show, just as Michael

(07:19):
just stated. So where the iHeart app when you're listening
live to koa little red microphone button, tap that and
you can leave a thirty second voicemail.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
I'll talk back then, I And truthfully, I have no
influence control, nor do I want any influence or control
over what talk max get played or they don't get played.
Dragon is just passive aggressive enough that if he knows
that I'm right in the middle of something really important
and we got a break, and he's trying to derail me,

(07:49):
which he tries to do because he tries to bring
the quality of the program down to the lowest common
denominator in order to fit with well you, because you
know some of you are part of the lowest common denominator.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
I e. Think earballs. Michael misspoke once upon a time
talking about either his ears or his eyes. I don't
recall which, but he said earballs. So that took off
on the talkbacks, so it.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Went ever an ever an ever, ad nauseum.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Then if you subscribe to the podcast, you will be
that is a separate download that you will get in
the podcast, you will get a collection of all of
the talkbacks that were that day.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Do you know how many we had for today this morning?

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Will be at least two dozen when I got here
this morning, So twenty four.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Some talkbacks plus the ones that we'll get throughout the
day to day, and those will get compiled into a
separate upload on the on the podcast machine.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Clearly, we're not gonna be able to play, you know,
twenty four plus talkbacks that wouldn't take up an entire segment.
And you know, frankly, we don't want to hear Michael,
but I don't think we want to hear twenty four
different talkbacks to fill up twenty something minutes.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
That's right, he will soon.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
You will soon find that the talkbacks are a very passive,
aggressive way to deal with the program.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
So have at it. Have fun. We don't care.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
We're both passive regress even so just hold on to
your horses and here we go. So let's go ahead
and get started. And by the way, a reminder, the
text line is different. Come on, it's different. Three three
one zero three.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
You should be.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Taking out your iPhone, or if you're not enough to
have an Android, you should take out whatever, or maybe
you've got to if you ever rote a rey dial,
then we can't help you.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Shot that down in your big chief tablet, the exact
zero three.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Three three one zero three.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
The word is Mike or Michael or Mike or Michael,
Mike or Michael.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
All right, that's enough, shut up, that's enough. That's it.
That's it.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
This is why we have people the good Googer listeners
do rules of engagement rather than us, because we'll drone on.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
I'm not about this for the next three hours.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Right, So when we have we have the rules of
engagement that play at the top of the hour, that's
about a minute. But when you and I get to
talking about it. It's been almost ten I don't know
how long.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
I did the morning the Morning Drive program over on
k on Kow. I don't know how long I did it,
but I did it long enough that I was pretty
excited this weekend to be moving back over here to
the blowtorch, back to where I started. And so I was.
I was determined because normally I get up at four
am every morning in order to get ready to come

(10:22):
in here and do that morning drive program. Last night,
I managed to stay in bed or stay awake and
not go to bed until eight thirty pm.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Yeah, I know, I was living it up. And I
noticed that.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
The wife, Tamra, kept kind of looking over his shoulder
in front of the couch, like.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Aren't you going to bed?

Speaker 3 (10:42):
What are you still doing here?

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Didn't you get out of here? I guess I get
some things I want to watch, like why don't you
go to bed?

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Get out here? Get out of here? So I managed
to wait in late thirty and then I have to
confess I really did. I kind of woked up at
four o'clock, was curious what time it was, looked at
the clock, realized it was four o'clock, rolled right back
over it, right back to sleep oo and then around
five something, I don't know what it was, Well, it
was a little before that, because it's just before you

(11:08):
sent me the text message. I woke up and thought,
you know what I'm gonna I'm not going to get
up until five thirty. Actually it turned out to be
five seventeen because I just couldn't resist. But what was
great about it was this morning. I have already I've
done some additional show prep. I've caught up on the
stories I had ready last night. I've revamped to them

(11:29):
a little bit. I've already taken the dogs on a
I've been a two mile walk this morning. I've done
all of that, and I've already had one diet coke,
so I'm fully caffeinated, and I've got the second diet coke.
In fact, I threw them off at McDonald's because I
didn't recognize the person at the McDonald's drive through this morning.
I'm like, who the hell are you? And they were
like looking at me, like well, why should we treat you?

Speaker 4 (11:49):
Say?

Speaker 2 (11:50):
And and I'm like, you should know who I am
because I used to be here every morning at you know,
five am, getting a diet coke. Come on shows, show
some love to me. But anyway, I got the diet
coke and I'm ready to rock and rolls. We're gonna
get started. And Dragon will have to remind me because
this isn't I've looked at this book so many times.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
It's the same right here now it is the same.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
But it's just gonna it's gonna be all right, Say,
don't wory about it. Well, you have to whisper in
my ear if I'm droning. If I'm droning on, which
I never do, droning on, you're droning on your mental health,
My mental health, all of our mental health, particularly in
this modern world where we just can consistently and constantly

(12:32):
just inundated. I think our our mental health is directly
linked to our ability to avoid reading too much into
the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows.
For example, when when we won the big election like
we did in November of twenty twenty four and Trump
became president, and shocker of shocker, we beat Kamala Harris

(12:54):
in her one hundred and seven days of spending a billion.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
Dollars and barely getting anywhere.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
You've got to understand that the Democrats are going to
come back with a plan, and that plan is the
keyword for that plan is going to be resist. And
so you can't rest on your laurels indefinitely. Conversely, when
you get mud stomped, when you get your when they

(13:20):
grabbed you by the by your hair and smash your
face in the mud, kind of like the Republicans have
got last Tuesday in some of the most and what
I would call some of the most predictable election results
in modern history. In fact, I think it was last Saturday,
I went through the Virginia and New Jersey races and

(13:42):
pointed out so again another reason to download the podcast.
If you want to understand the history of the elections
in New Jersey and in Virginia, go listen to I
think it was the first hour of the podcast on Saturday.
When you understand the history of the elections in those states, it.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
Really is one.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
The outcome on November four was predictable, and it's got
to be kept in a proper perspective. And that is why,
like somebody that deals with a bad hangover, which I
don't often do but have been known to do at times,
we did an election autopsy, an election autopsy of what

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took place.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
Now, nobody likes to lose.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
But the reality is that Republicans have neglected New York
City for more than a century. New Jersey Virginia have
a blue lean. In fact, I really believe that they're
truly blue. They're not purple. They had become blue light Colorado,
truly blue. And that blueness gets exacerbated by the population density.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
That you have in those two states.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Really lacks election laws, and those lacks election laws in
New Jersey and Virginia. I'm a shocker New Jersey, right
didn't the Senator Menendez just isne in prison for Oh
you're from the UAE. Yeah, I'll take some gold bars
in exchange for a vote on this or that. Oh
you got a really nice roll lex for me, all
take that too. So anyway, he's off in jail. That's
that's New Jersey in a nutshell right there. So you've

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got population density, you have locks of election laws allow
for massive leads accumulated through mail in balloting and mail
or ballot harvesting. And in the case of Virginia, there
is a huge reliance upon the growth and sustainment of
the federal government, and that is what drives northern Virginia politics.

(15:40):
If you look at the northern counties of Virginia, Alexandria, Arlington,
you look at Tyson's Corner, all of that area in
northern Virginia, that's where all of the contractors live, and
all those contractors do work for the federal government, and
it's a revolving door. They're in and out all of
the time. Want of better Republican outcomes, you'd have to

(16:03):
wish for a Democrat president. Based upon more than five
decades fifty years of off year election trends, twelve the
last thirteen gubernatory elections in Virginia had been won by
the party not in the White House, the only exception
being a two point five percent margin race back in

(16:23):
twenty thirteen, when you had a libertarian sitting on a
six point five percent of the total vote. The Republican side,
as is standard in the online era that we now
live in, has been dooming and glooming for six seven days.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Now.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Meanwhile, I wake up and find out that Pennsylvania Senator
John Fetterman has actually been pretty consistent for the entire
shutdown and probably is now on the verge of getting
exiled from his own party. If not sometime soon, then
probably by the twenty twenty eight primary, in which he's
going to be attacked from his left field by a

(17:03):
bunch of radicals who can't read the cards on the
Trump Eric Keystone. Now that appears the shutdown is Mike
might and I'm gonna I want to emphasize Mike. I'll
explain to why in just a minute. Then Fetterman's wisdom
will be apparent again when we get back. I'm gonna
tell you exactly what he said after the Senate vote

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to end the film, but not to reopen, but simply
to end the debate to invoke cloture.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
That's next.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
Hey, this is Matt Nervada.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
And how the.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
Book to Night the stage And I only have thirty
seconds with the.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Heady Sorry, gosh, I wish we'd had five more minutes
of that one. Yeah, that was great. The by the way,
thank you for pointing out. We'll find out whether or
not management's listening this morning.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
Dragon.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Apparently the number on the website for the text line
is incorrect. Huh, it's three three one zero three. So
if you know if Tepper, Jojo or anybody happens to
be listening, you might want to reach out to OI
and change the text line to the proper number three
three one zero three. Keyword Michael, Michael.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
I was at one last meeting this past Friday with
Tepper about the whole all the changes and everything. Because
I'm on both shows. I need to be very very
vigilant on both shows, which should be a first. Well,
I'm going to quit paying attention to you here in
just a few minutes. I just want to make sure
things get started right and make sure you take the
forty five at forty five when you're supposed to take
the forty five, uh, said Tipper said, He's like, I'm

(18:54):
not waking up early for.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
This, of course not.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
And then we get this text too from the from
the other text line, which I'm not going to give
out the number because the correct numbers three three one
zero three.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
Dragon.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'm so sorry to say I will believe I will
be leaving the show. I have never been a Michael
Brown fan. His voice and delivery is annoying and egotistical. True,
I hear rush Limbaugh when he speaks.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
I'm disappointed.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Now, don't give him a cut?

Speaker 2 (19:25):
What what what goober number, I can't read the number
because the numbers are so small here. It looks like
seven to one sixty five or something. What what that
goober failed to realize is he just blew my ego up,
you know, ten times the size.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
Of the studio. All I hear is Rush Limbaugh. I'll
take that.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
In fact, I'll copy that particular text and use it
in contract negotiations. So they'll they'll learn. They'll learn, they'll
learn sometime. So back to this vote. The New York
Times this morning comes out with a story about Fetterman,
and he's apparently written a book, and the book I
forget the name of the title, the title of the book,

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but in it he talks about after he had the
stroke back when he was running for senate for the
you know, running initially for senate, he actually thought and
was hoping he could die, and he also wished that
he had quit the race. And while I love some
of the things that John Fetterman says, I still recognize

(20:24):
that he is and always will be a Democrat. And
so John Fetterman is while he while Republicans can get
all excited, because holy cow, listen, John Fetterman's out there
talking and he's bucking Senator Schumer and he's going to
you know, he's voted to open the government again. He's
rejoined us. Calm down, Calm down. Yes, Fetterman's wisdom will

(20:50):
appear occasionally here or there. Here's what he said after
the Senate vote, which was sixty to forty to reopen.
He said, after forty days, as it can assistant voice
against shutting our government down, I voted yes for the
fifteenth time to reopen. I'm so sorry to our military,
snap recipients, government workers, and Capitol police who have not

(21:11):
been paid in weeks. It should never have come to this,
and it shouldn't have the Continuing Resolution which they voted
to end the debate. Now, remember this vote, the sixty
to forty vote, does not reopen the government. All it
does is it stops the debate. It's a technical term

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is it invotes cloture, which means they can now proceed
on a vote on the Continuing Resolution, the same cr
that was voted on by the House way back well
several months ago, and that was presented to the Senate.
So all they've done overnight, which they did late Sunday,

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was they finally got to the sixty votes and those
Those Democrats who joined Fetterman include Catherine Cortez Masto from Nevada,
Jackie Rosen of Nevada, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Janine Shaheen
of New Hampshire, Maggie Hassen of New Hampshire, Tim Kane
of Virginia, and Angus Keane of Maine, who's technically an
independent but he cautiouses with the Democrats. Now, including Fetterman,

(22:19):
five of those eight have battleground state worries to contend with.
So the longer this went on, if you're in a
battleground state, if you live in New Hampshire, Nevada, Illinois, Virginia,
you start to worry that your vote's going to costume
the next election. So pure unadulterated political politics says, you

(22:42):
know what, maybe reach the point where I gotti, I've
got to give in. And the thing that I would
emphasize is simply this, if you're all wound up in
that crazy debate about whose fault is this, why do
we do this? And is it Republican's fault? Is a
democrats fault? It's clearly the Democrat because all Republicans continue

(23:02):
to vote for it, including doctor Senator Ran Paul. So
when all Republicans are voting for something and a group
of Democrats are voting against something, thence the Democrats that
are causing the government to shut down. That's not trying
to be partisan. That's simply math, simply math.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
When you take.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Those eight battleground states that they have to worry about,
take Fetterment. Since Fetterman was elected in twenty twenty two
by reasonably comfortable but not a stiff four point nine
percent margin, Pennsylvania has drifted four point three percent toward
Republicans by registration.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (23:45):
That's the net gain of nearly three hundred and eighty
thousand Republican registrations in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
And trust me, on Capitol Hill, having.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Been there myself, I can tell you that is exactly
what they're concerned about. Nearly every on Capitol Hill. Well
I shouldn't even say nearly everybody. I think everybody on
Capitol Hill, unless she happened to be a tourist, is
a political creature who knows how to read the room,
or they have staffers if you're too stupid to read

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the room. Then those senators or members of Congress doesn't
make any difference which one.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
They have staffers that know how to read the room.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
And their number one focus is always to get re elected.
And every time they tell you otherwise, I'm telling you
they're lying. Now, Fetterman seat's going to be up in
a presidential year next time around. And he just saw
Bob Casey Lew's thanks to Donald Trump's coat tails, despite

(24:44):
every effort to achieve them, cheat enough to try to
keep Dave McCormick out of the Senate. So what's the deal?
What's the deal that we have now reached with I
should need to let me rephrase that that's incorrect, assuming
that which they have, they've ended debate and now they
have a clean resolution in front of them. What does

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it do if they were to pass that, because that's
another hurdle, which we'll get to in a minute. It
would fund the government through January thirty. First, it promises
to vote on Obamacare subsidies, which later in the program
I went to explain in detail what those subsidies are
because the cabal. Maybe I should explain to the new

(25:29):
listeners what the cabal is. Yes, and actually we'll do
that after the break.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
I'll be right, Mack.

Speaker 6 (25:35):
My dad used to use the term earballs all the time.
My dad was a tail gunner on a bomber. Earballs
are rubber balls on a string that you would stick
in your ears before you put your ear musks on
to keep you from going completely deaf while you're fired

(25:57):
in a fifty caliber.

Speaker 7 (26:00):
Good morning, Michael and Dragon. Well, hey, Dragon, that koa
microphone doing wonders man sounding great on a Monday morning.
And Michael, don't worry about it. Maybe it just hasn't
adjusted to your voice yet. Have a great day.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Probably not, probably not, but you know, I'll demand that
it get in here and fix it or something, and
of course that'll take us another six months.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
So yeah, I wouldn't worry about it too yet I have.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
That's the right care about working TV. Working TVs. Working
TV's are workering blinds. And actually this is pretty clean
in here too, not bad at all. So now that
they've voted to stop the debate, what does that mean?
That is in the continuing resolution that if they ever
actually get to a vote on that, what would that
do but fund the government all the way through this

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coming January thirty first, Wow, and they will have this
fight all over again.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
Won't that be fantastic?

Speaker 2 (26:52):
It promises to vote on the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare.
They're going to vote on that some time in December,
you know, before they go on Christmas vacation for six weeks.
Then it would reverse all the mass layoffs the federal workers,
all the riffs since October one, so those that got
riff will come back to work. They will probably get

(27:13):
back pay. It will provide now this I find these
two interesting. It will provide full year funding for veterans affairs.
It will provide full year funding for the Department of AGS.
So that means that the SNAP program, the Supplemental Nutritional
Assistance program, the food stamps will additionally get funded for
a full year. And then nobody ever talks about this,

(27:37):
but they just funded themselves for a full year two.
So that means the legislative branch, because now we can
we can all rest and sleep well knowing that Congress
has paid themselves and their staffers and all their perks
and everything else that's going to be fully funded for
a year. So can we sing a hallelujah course for them?

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That though, is essentially the same one that was on
the table before the shutdown went in effect on October first,
and that's what Democrats walked away from. So when you
just look at reactions that I heard this morning, including
Congressman Roe Conna calling on Chuck Schumer to be replaced
as the Senate Democrat leader, and all the other online

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mountdowns that you can find, I think it's pretty safe
to say that President Trump came out on top of
the shutdown deal, especially after talking about shaking up medical
reimbursements and building out tariff dividends yesterday, which, by the way,
I think is a crazy idea. Don't get me wrong.
You'll soon find that, while yes I am a conservative,

(28:41):
and yes I do believe in conservative politics, I am
willing to criticize Donald Trump when I think he's doing
something that is insane or wrong or just illogical. And
one of those would.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
Be passing out two thousand dollars checks.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Based on the tariff income. So he did come out
on top government funding through January thirty first, and then
you'll stick around and we'll have the same fight again
January thirty first, partial funding guaranteed through the end of
the fiscal year in twenty twenty six and then of
a February one shut down. So they've tried to put
some sort of writer in there. They would say, even

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if we have a fight come or January thirty, first,
we will continue to fund everything through the end of
the current fiscal year that we are in. The mass
layoffs of all the federal workers in October one that
gets reversed, and the remainder of the deal that was
on the table prior to the shutdown.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
So now the Democrats who.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Just caved on the shutdown deal or at least shutting
down debate, will get another opportunity to shut down the
government at the end of January. And I'll bet you
anything anything you want to bet that they won't. Yeah,
you didn't see that coming, did you. I don't think
they will, particularly giving how this one ended up. It's

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gone over very poorly with everybody on the online left.
The radicals in the Democrat Party, which make up the
majority of the Democrat Party, are now really really ticked off.
And in fact, over on one site, these Democrats voted
the strip millions of Americans of their healthcare primary, every

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single one of them. Dick Derwin, Maggie Hassan, Angus King,
Catherine Cortez, Tim Kaine, Jeans Ying, John Vetterman, Jackie Rosen. Now,
did you see the play this week? Did you see
how this really went? Because for all of those who
kept wanting to play the blame game, when you have

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Republicans in the House and Democrats in the House vote
for the continuing Resolution which kept spending at the Biden
era levels, and then that goes to the Senate, and
the Senate rather than just voting on it, cannot shut
down debate because one one Democrat or two Democrats doesn't

(31:06):
make any difference that I want a filibuster. Now, that
doesn't mean they have to stand up and they have
to keep, you know, speaking. It simply means that, oh
what they have to do is just tell and then
everything just comes to a grinding halt until last night.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Hey, welcome to the situation. Michael Brown. Glad to have
you guys with me on this side of the aisle.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
It's the text line numbers three three, one zero three
keyword Michael, Michael. When we get back, I'll tell you
why I call you guys goobers. You might get a
kick out of it. I'll be right back