11-12-24 - 9am - Headlines and Aspen Ski Company

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Michael, you forgot the fact that Jack Smith's wife
wrote Michelle Obama's book.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Oh yeah, have a good day. Yeah, you're right. So
let me finish real quickly the appointments so far, and
then I want to go to the lesson that dragon's
been trying to shove down our throats all day. This
idea that if you're now, I think you have to
be smart in business and politics. You have to be

(00:29):
smart in business and in government. You just have to
be smart. Let's just put it that way. You don't
want a bunch of dummies like we've had the past.
By the way, dragons, have you seen the video of
Joe walking on the beach with Jill from yesterday? No,
should I be worried? I have you finished your breakfast?

(00:53):
I have? Okay, I want you to go watch it.
It is incredibly sad, and then it's incredibly maddening because
doctor Jill Biden completely ignores him. This guy is struggling

(01:14):
to make it from wherever they were back to the
house or something. He is horribly struggling to walk in
the sand.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, I think he should be walking in sand to
begin with, but I expected.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
It any moment for him to trip and fall and
just land right face right down on the sand. And
then I watched it a couple of times, and then
I started watching her. She's completely oblivious to the difficulties
he's having.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
What I mean, he's got a very difficult robotic gait
to begin with, and now you put it on a shifty,
sandy surface.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yes, does she even take his hand? Does she take
his show his arm or any nothing. Now, maybe they
haven't agreement that. Hey, when we're being you know, public,
don't don't don't emphasize the fact that I'm about to
follow my face. But anyway, we've spent four years of

(02:10):
idiots running the government. Alejandro Majorca is good grief, uh me,
all of them, Pete Budajig. Come on. So now Trump's
making these nominations, announcing these nominations. He hasn't really made
the nominations yet. And I'm already starting to get this

(02:36):
feeling from from this audience, from the people that I
follow and that I respond to me on X and
uh in the text messages, all the inputs that I
get that some people are happy, they're mad, they're worried,
they're indifferent. I mean, I'm getting all range of emotions.

(02:56):
And I do think that Rex Tillerson is is the classic.
I mean, he has an impressive resume. I mean, this
guy is an incredibly smart businessman. He was an utter
failure as the Secretary of State, and I think that
Trump learned from that, and it's easier to learn when

(03:18):
you do you ever take moments of reflection? Do you ever,
whether it's meditation or it's just you know, like with
me walks with the dog without earbuds in my ears
to just think, do you ever just stop and think?
I think it's it's a lost art. People are just
constantly reacting, reacting, reacting as opposed to sometimes stop and

(03:42):
just think about it. Can you know, contemplate, contemplate your
own navel for a while. You might come up with
something really wise.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
I think the four years in the wilderness for Trump,
he did a lot of contemplation. And I think now
he's looking for people that, yes, have a combination of
both government experience and are smart and are loyal and
are going to and have indicated a willingness or past

(04:11):
actions to implement the agenda that we've been like to dimplement.
And I think he's being very smart about it now.
In anticipation of Trump's victory, all of these different organizations
in DC, political nonprofits, others, everything you can imagine. They

(04:32):
all came up with their own slate of suggesting candidates
for all these key jobs. But each one represented their
version as the one true individual or group of individuals
for the make America Great Again movement. But none of
those groups actually held and don't hold any claim over

(04:57):
those decisions of who's going to get appointed, because it
always comes down to what does the boss want. It
was one of the things that my first day in DC,
you know, the first or second day, I go over
to the White House to meet with Al Gonzalez, who

(05:25):
majorly disappointed me by coming out in support of Kamala Harris.
I think that Al Gonzalez is one of the smartest
individuals I've known in my entire life, really smart, but
for him to come out and publicly endorse Kamala Harris

(05:46):
was like a gut punch to me. But in that
first meeting, I go to the West Wing, go upstairs,
sit in his office, and because we had known each
other during the campaign, you know, we high five each
other and we're all excited, you know, and isn't this cool?

(06:09):
And man, we got a lot of work to do.
And then al you know, he came round his desk
and sat across on the couch across the table from
me and said, now I got to get serious. Okay,
get serious, And he starts going through some of the vetting, like,
is there anything in your background that, if it became public,

(06:31):
could be an embarrassment to the president? No, nothing that
I know of. I mean, I'm sure I've done stupid stuff,
but nothing that's earth shattering. And are you willing to
implement the boss's policies regardless of whether you agree with
the policy or not. And I kind of looked at

(06:53):
him like, serious, you're really asking me that question, because
it's my assumption that that's what we're here to do,
and that if I have a disagreement with him, that
if that, if I'm asked to give my opinion, I'll
give my opinion. Or if you know, it comes up
and I have a chance to do that, I'll do that.
But yet, when he makes a decision, that's what you do.

(07:18):
It always comes down to what does the boss want.
To this point, what the boss seems to want is
to pull from this broad spectrum of the party that
he has now expanded to the point of it has
electoral dominance. It is the new Republican Party. We finally

(07:44):
got what we wanted. Now. If any of you have
ever been involved in a startup venture, know that there
are stops and starts, There are little fens, there are
little bumps in the road, and you learn to either
go over the bump or around the bump, or you

(08:05):
tear up the bump. I mean, you know, there's speed
bumps everywhere, and there will be in this administration too.
And I guess I'm just trying to warn you that
there will be some eyebrow raising choices by the end
of the day, whatever the end of the day is
for this process. But so far, this is an indication

(08:28):
that Trump is bringing in qualified grown ups, not just
listening to whoever will be as big as fan Boy,
not just listening to anybody who's gonna kiss his ass.
And I think that again goes back to Susie Wilds,
and I think that's all the good thing. I think
it's a really good thing. When we had the decision

(08:53):
come down from Judge Murshawn that he was delaying any
sentencing or any for the proceedings in the New York
hush money case. I thought that that was for the
next four years. The Fox News ran a chairon that
says he's postponed it till a week till the nineteenth,

(09:15):
a week from today. So I don't know. I really
don't know what's going on. But with regard to reading
the headlines, driving, what was your admonition.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
To us, make sure you consider the source and make
sure you read those words very carefully and like expecting to,
you know, things like that. Because we were talking about
Christy Nomer or I can't remember, but a lot of.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
People we were talking about Christy No.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, a lot of the outlets were saying expected to
except for one saying yep, this is the pick.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
So during the break, I'm digging around to see if
I can find anything about Christy No. So the first
place I go to is the Wall Street Journal. Here's
the headline, verbatim. I'm gonna read you the headline. The
sub Trump picks Christinome to be Homeland Security Secretary. Sounds

(10:06):
official South Dakota governor will play a crucial role in
implementing his border policies. Doub official first sentence, first paragraph,
President elect Donald Trump has chosen has chosen South Dakota
Governor Christinom to lead the Department of Homeland Security COMMA.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
There's no question about it.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Now, according to people familiar with the matter.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
A Trump. Now let's skip to the third paragraph. So
now you've got to scroll. You actually have to take
your fingers and scroll to the third paragraph. A Trump
transitioned spokeswoman and a spokesman for NOME did not immediately
respond to requests for comment. CNN earlier reported that Trump
had chosen Nome. Trump has already made several other picks

(10:57):
for key positions in his administration. Have confirmed blah blah blah.
In other words, the Wall Street Journal misleading headline wouldn't
dream of it.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
If people don't not trust the media by now, depending
on whatever whatever source you're looking at, there's distrust everywhere.
There has to be. If you don't by now, you're
not paying. You're paying, you're paying.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Right, you're dead, you're brain dead. But think about it.
It took me to the third paragraph. I mean I
actually know the first paragraph when it said, according to
people familiar with the matter, now that could mean that
somebody from the transition team said something. But then you

(11:45):
finally get to the third paragraph and you get oh,
but a Trump transition spokeswoman and a spokesman for No
did not immediate respond to request for comment, so they've
not made it official. So the admonition that and someone
said this on X yesterday, everybody just chill out, and

(12:07):
unless it comes from Trump himself on truth social or
X or a public release, a PR statement, don't believe
it until it's official. Because everybody wants to work for Trump.

(12:28):
I'd venture to say that most every Republican probably wants
to work for Trump. But it's not official till it's official.
And so here's just it's just a great lesson. They
go on to talk about how you know what her
job would be at DHS, her a little bit of

(12:53):
a biography Trump. As Trump was weighing who he would
choose to be his running mate. No One came under
cicism when she had revealed in a book that she
had shot a poorly behaved family dog on the farm.
She represented her state in Congress for eight years before
becoming governor. Has proven to be a vocal Trump supporter.

(13:13):
He will never stop fighting for US blah. Blah blah
blah blah blah blah. Just goes to show you never know.
It's not over until it is over. It's not over
until it is finished. I told you earlier that Washington
Post had a story about if you want to leave

(13:34):
the country, hears how to do it. And they give
an example of some woman that runs an expat program
and she got more business in two days than she'd
gotten in two months. Well, the Washington Post has finally
announced after their refusal to endorse a candidate, to endorse
Kamala Harrison particular, and the editor and publisher and a

(13:57):
bunch of other people resigned. The reporters were all going strike. Well,
the Washington Post has announced a return to office mandate
for employees for a reaction. There's a reaction signaling a
shift from pandemic era remote work practices. There's a memo
that was issued by the chief executive officer, William Lewis.

(14:20):
All staff are expected to resume in office work five
days a week by June second, twenty twenty five. Let's
see November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June. It's
just under seven months away. Really, what kind of Management's

(14:41):
that you got to come back to the office five
days a week, but she got seven months to get
ready for it. Maybe I'm just a giant. Ah, I
might have given you two weeks. What'd be you? Dragon?
I mean you and I never we we always had
to be here. But what did they get? Didn't they

(15:04):
get a couple of weeks notice or something? A couple
of weeks? Yeah? Yeah, we are really good when we
are working together in person. Now. That's similar to Amazon,
whose CEO Andy Jesse highlighted how in person work enhanced
the speedy decision making and cultural retention, which is incredibly important.

(15:26):
The policy shift of the post arrives at a time
of internal unrest. Jeff Bezos's previous decision to seize presidential
candidate endorsements by the paper led to all these subscription cancelations.
I want to how many of those? There were a
few people. I told you that the president of the

(15:47):
Emmys used to be a staffer for Senator Landrew from Louisiana.
He's a he's a sort of a friend of mine.
He's a diehard liberal. He's the president. He runs the Emmys. Uh,
he announced big on Facebook. I canceled my subscription to
the Washington Post. I need to go look up and

(16:08):
see if he's announced that he has gone back and
renewed his subscription to the Washington Post. I can't believe
that we're at the stage where we're still trying to
figure out whether we should come back to work or not.
H reports indicate also that there's a significant upheaval within

(16:32):
the FBI following Trump's victory. George Hill, who's a former
FBI was a blower, claims that a bunch of senior
executives are hastily seeking retirement. I wonder why personnel are
stunned and shell shocked. Maybe Christopher Ray to offer his resignation,

(16:57):
but Donald Trump put in his new put in a
new FBI direct. I don't know how much time right
he has on this appointment. He could ask for his resignation,
and I think he should, Mike.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
It just goes to show how absolutely disgusting the Democrats
are and that they'll use anything to come after the Republics.
Everybody knows these trials are a total sham. It's a joke.
Let's move on with correcting the country and fixing the country.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
My goodness, I'm not quite sure what the point was
the talk back. Does there have to be a point?

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yes, I actually listened to them. The trials are a sham.
And but we I'll just say this to irritate people.
We must make sure that we do everything we can
so that this never happens again. No lawfare is a

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horrible corrosive. It really destroys the republic.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
I would argue for the talk beat that he just left.
I mean, I'm assuming he's referring to the whole Trump
trials and everything. But well, if we're just gonna let
by guns be by guns and forget about the whole
Trump stuff, can be said said the same thing about
the other side. Well, let's just forget about the whole
Biden stuff. Do you want that? Do you want to

(18:38):
forget about both sides? Is that what you're you're implying there,
mister talkbacker, Let's just move No, I'm curious about how
the talkbacker feels about that, because if that's what he's
referring to, let's forget about the whole Trump stuff and
move forward. Okay, Well, it can't always work the way
that you want it to. If that's the way you

(18:59):
want it, and it it's gonna have to go the
other way too.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah. And the bad thing is we can't, uh, we
can't just move on from the Trump stuff because it's
still ongoing. That's the problem. Uh. I'm gonna do something
local for a moment. Uh see Glenn Glenn Beaton. You

(19:24):
ever heard Glenn Beaton? He describes himself as where was it?
Where did I find his? He describes himself as something
like to the effect as a cancel a canceled commentator
for the Aspen Times. Now, if you get canceled by

(19:47):
the Aspen Times, that tells me that either you were
well you can't be too crazy to be a commentator
for the Aspen Times, or you may have been too moderate,
which is you know that means you were just kind
of like ration, or you may have been like a
flaming conservative. I don't know. I'm not sure because I
don't know mister Beacon beaten, beaten at all. But he

(20:08):
has a story. He's written a column Aspen Skiing Company
joins the Resistance, and I found it fascinating because it
revolves around a memo that the CEO of Aspen Ski
Ski Company ski COO is called, uh Jeff Booch Heister

(20:31):
or something like that is the CEO, and he sent
a memo to all the employees that work can operate
the skiing operations of Aspen and snow Mass and marked
it for internal distribution only. Now, anytime I shouldn't say anytime,
but many times that our CEO has you know, distributed

(20:56):
an email for internal distribution only or for you know,
for internal use only or whatever, It's always ended up
in the trade magazines. It's almost always don't if if
you're a CEO and you don't want something to become public,
I'm not even sure you can do is can you

(21:17):
do a zoom or a team's call and prohibit anybody
from recording it? I'm noting sure you could do that.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Because it notifies you if somebody is recording if they're.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Saying, but they notify it if if they're recording it
on the app on the application, But it wouldn't prevent
me from sitting at home and just turning on my
phone and just recording the conversation on.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
My phone or external software like an OBS or something.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you use OBS or Odyssey or anything
and just record it that way. So I'm not sure
that there's any way to keep anything private unless you
just go individuals individual But even then somebody's gonna go
leak it out. But when you put on the memo
for internal distribution only, you know there's going to be
somebody who's going to release the email, in this case
the memo. So think about Aspen, he writes. You know,

(22:07):
everybody knows that Aspen is rich and liberal. The billionaires
crowded out the millionaires decades ago. What passes for thinking
by think tanks like the Aspen Institute is the notion
that balance means hard leftists like Madeline Albright and Jonathan
cape Part on one side, and social and soft lefties
like David Brooks and this Cheney on the other. Years ago,

(22:30):
Ski Code decried Trump's enforcement of American's immigration laws. Enforcement
of those duly enacted laws, they declared was an American. Hmmm.
I wonder if they think that enforced the immigration laws
is an American because the Aspen Ski Company probably uses
a lot of illegal aliens, low paid, low skilled workers.

(22:53):
I don't know, just curious. The memo from the see
to the employees begins by owning, quote the gravity of
what just occurred, what happened did they did a chairlift crash?
Did did it? Did it? Did? Did somebody fall off
a chair? Did the snowmokey machine machines not work? What? What?

(23:18):
What happened? What happened? Oh last Tuesday? Well, actually the
CEO spells it out. The spen Ski company self declared
values with which he contends over half of American His

(23:38):
half of the country is openly at odds are as
follows equality, democracy, civility, compassion, tolerance, sustainability, open mindedness, gratitude, freedom, integrity,
and justice. You know, I'm not sure I disagree with

(24:00):
any of those other than democracy, because I think equality
is a good trait. Civility is good. I think people
should be compassionate. You should have some level of tolerance.
You shouldn't tolerate everything, but you should have some level
of tolerance for some things. Sustainability, man, I really don't
care about sustainability. Open mindedness. I think you should be

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open minded as yet still be a critical thinker. You
should be a grateful person. Freedom is incredibly important to me.
Integrity and justice are important to me. So I would
say that some of my values are actually in line
with the Aspen Ski Companies values, But Apparently that's not

(24:42):
what he means. Huh, he says, he writes. He fails
to explain how an open election, an open election in
which a candidate won a majority of both the peace
planned the electoral college is anti democratic. Perhaps he meant

(25:04):
anti democrat. Oh, and intolerance with no sense of irony
or self awareness. The CEO of Skigo, the leader of
a prominent company offering services to the public with the
power to fire employees, declares to those employees that half
the country with whose votes he disagrees are intolerant, and

(25:25):
then he muses this the CEO does. Clearly the approach
of trying to model speak aggressively and teach others is
not sufficient. What the Democrats were trying to teach us
something They did speak aggressively. They've acted aggressively. Almost sounds

(25:50):
kind of threatening, doesn't it. So the Aspen Ski company
is all upset because the election of Donald Trump apparently
represents a triumph of well, let's just go through theirs
rather than the equality. Trump is inequality rather than democracy.

(26:12):
Trump is anti democracy rather than civility. He's in civil
rather than compassion, tolerance, sustainability, He's in civil, unsustainable, and
closed minded, he's ungrateful. Instead of freedom, integrity, and justice,
he's for tyranny and injustice. Now, I don't know how

(26:36):
when you have an open election in which a candidate
won a majority of both the people and the electoral college,
I don't know how that's anidemocratic and intolerance really, So,
if you're going to go ski at Aspen, maybe when
you get ready to get on the lift, or maybe

(26:57):
even at the parking lot, before you can even part,
may we see your papers? Please? May we see your
voting record. We need to know who you voted for
before you can ski at Aspen or not. These people
are nuts, they're absolutely nuts. Show us your papers, show

(27:20):
us your voter registration, tell us how you voted, because
we don't like you in Aspen. Now that it should
not come as a shock to anybody that lives in
Colorado or any of you Texans that you get on
your private jets and fly up to Aspen, or anything
you in Hollywood that fly into Aspen. You already know

(27:42):
that us rubes that don't go to Aspen, well, we're
just rubes and we voted for Donald Trump, and we
know we're not welcome, and we can't afford it anyway.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
For all the whiners on TikTok and on X like Motley,
you said, don't go away, man, just go away, ye
go away.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
So the COP twenty nine, the big conference on the climate,
is taking place right now, and here's what we can
expect tomorrow. I want to talk a little bit about
Trump's climate agenda and what he ought to be doing
on that. So there's a little tease for tomorrow. But

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they decided to listen to somebody that thinks that they
know best how to handle the climate.

Speaker 5 (28:34):
All right, Thank you everyone, Good afternoon, and welcome to
the press conference of Africa Climate Action Initiative and the
True Animal Protein Price Coalition. I'm honored here today to
share this table with my colleagues Turnto Mgannggu from Macaya
and Saballejaye from GAME. And I'm also honored here today
to share my art declaration on making you pollute your

(28:55):
pay and ensuring it just transition by pricing agricultural emissions to.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Ensure a just transition away from animal protein through pricing mechanisms.
But what he really means is taxing mechanism.

Speaker 5 (29:11):
And this declaration is supported by the Equatorial by the
countries of Ectorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo in Nigeria
as well as Uganda.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Oh well, I mean as long as they are for it.
I mean those starving people, they don't need no staking
animal protein? Do they then just live off the grubs
they did go to the ground.

Speaker 5 (29:30):
And this coalition of NGOs of who's most.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Noted, Oh, a coalition of NGOs, A coalition of Communists
and Marxist.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
We are Flande's Treaty Resilient forty and Youth and Environment Europe.
And these are our demands.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
These are our demands. We have demands.

Speaker 5 (29:49):
We believe that COP twenty nine U and F Triple
C conferences thereafter can only be successful if the closing
statement includes transitioning away from animal protein over consumption according
to national or global dietary guidelines like implementing greenhouse gas
emission pricing mechanisms in agrey foods systems. Furthermore, it should

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urge the EU Commission, OEC countries and China to lead
the way towards harmonized qreenhouse gas emission pricing systems in
category food.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Do you think China? Do you thinking really gives a rats?
Ask about what this Yahoo.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
PREENI you sell you what he thinks over consumption is Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
By the way, what is over consumption? Is that a
double cheeseburger or a single cheese burger?

Speaker 1 (30:36):
I mean, are we talking one hundred grams of protein
today or two hundred grams of protein?

Speaker 5 (30:39):
Well?

Speaker 2 (30:40):
I think in terms of more of just one patty
or triple patties, That's what I think, or do I
think of? You know, a twelve ounce fl a or
an eight ounce l a. May do you think in
terms of a sixteen ounce demo.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
Finally, it urges the use of at least twenty percent
all of these revenues off both mentioned pricing mechanisms to
finance the loss and damage hult oh.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
We want you to take twenty percent of these finmoce
mechanisms and give them to our NGOs money laundering.

Speaker 5 (31:09):
And this declaration goes twofold. It then tries to counter
the overconsumption and the axis consumption of animal proteins in.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Did you say equitable consumption? I think he may have said,
goes twofold.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
It then tries to counter the overconsumption and the axis
consumption of animal proteins in countries across the globe as
well as fixed the shortage of climate finance, especially concerning
the Loss and Damage Fund. So why is this important?
You can see by this map that global meat consumption
is characterized by great discrepancy. This discrepancy is as follow us.

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Developing countries eat only twenty six point six kilograms per
capita a year on average of global meat of meat
consumption OCD consumes seventy one point four in China sixty
two kilograms.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Those damn Chinese reading too much pork, too many pork wandons,
too many pork gioza.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
Furthermore, the trend is also worrying, where the global bird
size is trended to increase in thirty seven to forty
six percent until twenty fifty. This means that our current
food systems are incompatible with the Paris climb in the courts.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Oh well, sucks to be you. I ain't giving up
my meat and I'll over consume if I want to