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Well, where's the cackle? Wedid it. We did it. Joe,
You're gonna be the next president ofthe United States. Did we do

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something yesterday to not offend the audience? Did we do something yesterday that they
actually uh liked or something? Imean, what's I feel like I'm in
some sort of you know, alternateuniverse or something. I'll be completely honest
here, I'm staring at the talkbackscreen right now, and I do see

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one that was left for Joe Pegsat eight thirty last night, and then
a couple more for be Large onanother station. And that's that's all I'm
seeing here within the past twelve hours. Yeah, So the one for Joe
Pegs, I think is for PAGsbecause normally when talkbacks outside of the show

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are left, they say Mike orMichael or Drake or things of that.
Now, and this one for PAGsis just loser, loser, loser,
So it could be for us,well, I seriously doubt because how could
anybody in the right mind associate theword loser with either you or me or

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this program. Yeah, it hadit had to be for PAGs. As
much as I love PAGs, ithad to be for PAGs. You know,
I'll send PAGs a text message herein a minute and time out.
How sorry we are that, youknow when the stations is you know that
somebody had to say that. Butyou know sometimes you know DC's happened.
So but but that's it. SoI mean, if if we don't if

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we don't get anything, well,it causes me to be you know,
my my pos, my tabs,I'm gonna I'm going to rearrange because if
you're going to do that to us, then I'm going to do this to
you, all of you that youknow you're waking up getting ready to go

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to work. You you know,in fact, Dragon I this morning we're
talking about how much uh a certainnot an an individual makes, but we
were talking about how much uh sayit, for example, a manager at
a McDonald's might make or something.And we were talking we were just talking

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about salaries in kind of general,not not in depth, but just kind
of in passing and yesterday kind ofout of public radio. Now again this
is one of those stories where youknow something and I Congress does this on
purpose. Congress will inside a giganticspending bill slip two or three sentences that

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nobody in the media, nobody inthe press, nobody in the cabal,
nobody unless unless, and I'm notgoing to do it. I'm not going
to read a thousand or a twothousand page on the misspending bill. I
have other sources where people will gopick things through. But the way legislation
is written, it is so difficultto read because you have to have in

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front of you at least a coupleof laptops or a laptop and a tablet
or something. So as it sayssub section B twelve, paragraph A two
of Public Law number twenty twosh ninetyseven six, which is difficult to find

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because most lawyers are accustomed to lookingunder looking for law under statute. Well,
these are public laws. Public lawsare statutes, but they're actually the
original bill. And so they willgo in and they will change an original
bill, which is you know,then thrown into the to the Federal Statutes,

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to the US Code annotated, andso then it's it's just it's a
convoluted process to find what that onesentence means. Well, there was also
and remember Congress makes its own rules, rules for decorum, rules for spending,

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and by spending, I mean youknow, office expenditures. What is
you know, what you can spendyour office allowance on, not on And
by the way that that office allowanceis part of the appropriations process. So
when they appropriate bills for Congress itself. Now most people don't think about this
because they think about when Congress spendsmoney, they're spending money on other stuff.

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But remember, Congress is is thisentity, an organization within itself,
which requires staff, it has overhead. It's just like a business, except
it's a clearly bankrupt business. It'sa business that has no morals whatsoever.
It's a business that doesn't produce anygoods or services that anybody wants except for

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the members themselves. It's like thisself little, self contained universe, and
this self contained universe requires money.So they make all of the rules for
how they can spend money, andthen they appropriate the money so that they
can spend that money on themselves,some of which I think is legitimate.

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I'm not gonna sit here and bashevery dollar that Congress spends on itself.
I will abash in some cases thedollar amount. For example, I think
congressional salaries at one hundred and seventyfour five hundred dollars a year or whatever
it is, one hundred and seventyfour thousand, Just just round it up
to one hundred and seventy four thousand. I think that's outrageous. How many

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of you out there make one hundredand seventy four thousand dollars? Raise your
hand and you make a one hundredand sevent It's kind of like teacher salaries.
You know, it drives me nutsabout teacher salaries. Well, you
know, teachers only make X.Yeah, and teachers only work one hundred
and eighty days a year. Teachersonly work you know, they've got two
three months of vacation, they've gotdays off for this, and that they've

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got holidays. I mean, Imean, you know, I'm happy that
Tamber has all this time off.But don't bitch at me about I'm not
referring to Tamra. Don't bitch atme about how much money you make as
a teacher when And teachers can,if they so choose, they can take
second jobs and they can make evenmore money at the second job. So

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Congress that if we're lucky, worksa solid three days a week. Otherwise
they're out back in the district,you know, campaigning and asking for more
money so they can get re electedso they can pay themselves more money.
Well, they made a rule changelast year that allows them. Now I

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just want you to think about this. That allows members of Congress, who
already make one hundred and seventy fourthousand dollars a year, allows them to
be reimbursed for their lodging and foodcosts while they are working at their site,

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which is Washington, d C.Most of them, in fact,
I would say ninety percent of them. There are a few members of Congress
who actually than their offices. Andit's fairly easy to do because there are
the Congress's main office that the officethey worked out of is fairly large,

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even for members of the House.Now members the Senate, it's palatial,
but members of the House, it'sstill large. It's it's it's a much
larger than anybody any office that anybodyin this building has. And this is
a for profit business. It's they'rethey're actually larger than many of the offices
over here that I'm looking at,where they're paying, you know, an

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exorbitant amount of money for rent,and they they pay extra be up on
the on the top floor. Theypay extra to to look over on the
on the front range to have theiroffice faced westward. They pay a premium
for that. Members of the House, members of both House and the Senate,
I don't know. I don't knowif any Senate members. Maybe some

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do, but House members in particular, even though they make the same amount
of money, they choose to livein their offices. Now, what they
can do is they can go downstairsto the gym, which is solely members
only. They can shave and showerand get dressed and do everything. They

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can keep clothes in a closet,want it, they can live. They
can live right there and not putout a dime. Then there are others,
and this is probably a little morecommon. There are others who will
rent and they will maybe one person, And I always think about Chuck Schumer.

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Chuck Schumer, who's been in Congresssince dirt was invented, has a
house, a row house on CapitolHill, d C Southeast and it's one
of these old kind of Victorian homesthat has you know, like four floors
upstairs and then it has a basementand they remodel it and then they rent

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it out to other members. Sofour or five members of Congress, or
four or five members of the USSenate, Republicans and Democrats alike. They
com mingle, they'll com mingle,and they will live together in this house.
And let's say that Chuck bought thehouse. Chuck buys the house,
so he charges everybody else's rent,and he's probably making money on it,

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and the members who are paying rentare probably actually saving money. So that's
the second form of housing in Congress. And then there's the other form,
and that's the Nancy Pelosis of theworld, who are already millionaires. So
they live in Georgetown, where theylive in DC Northwest, they live somewhere,

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they live up where Obama lives,they live up in Colorama. And
so they live in these areas wherethey have gorgeous homes. Or they might
live out in the Birds, theymight live out in Alexandria, they might
live in old town somewhere, andso they have a they might have a
mortgage, or they might have justbought the house out right, but nonetheless

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they have their own living space.I think I've covered every kind of housing
arrangement that I can think of.And well, then there are those who
who may just live in hotels.They go to Marriott, they go to
Hyatt, they go to someplace,and they cut a deal that hey,

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I'd like to be able to justhave a room and just you know,
live here, and they'll tell them, you know, a monthly rate and
they'll just live there a month aftermonth. They changed a rule that allows
them to be reimbursed for lodging andfood costs. So now think about the
guys the or the gals. Theguys are the goals that are renting from

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Chuck Schumer. Now they can bereimbursed for the cost of that race.
Now think about the fact that,well, you know, you got to
eat right now, the taxpayers alreadyprovide a taxpayer subsidized cafeteria for them to
eat in. In fact, theyhave their own exclusive cafeteria. And then

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there are the public cafeterias in thebasement of the capitol. There are cafeterias
in the basement of all the officebuildings, and there are some members only
sections, but all of that foodis subsidized, and so it's a very
cheap place to eat in DC.In fact, tourist hint, if you're

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willing to go through all the securityto get into one of the Senate Office
Buildings of the House Office buildings,and you're there with your family, just
go eat in cafeteria. Might aswell. You're paying for it, so
you might as well go have acheap meal there, although I actually I
would truly advise against that because thereare just too many wonderful places to eat
in DC. This change was madeby the Democrats in the waning weeks of

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thee hundred and seventeenth Congress. Nearlyevery member takes advantage of this. It's
called the member's representational allowance. Theirrepresentational allowance. Well, we're now giving
them an allowance to do their job, which is to represent us. They're

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already making one hundred and seventy fourthousand dollars a year. Now. Don't
get me wrong, I know thatthis is an easy thing to bitch about,
but I want to make it realfor you, because this is about
these ruling elite elitists that bitch andmoan that. You know, their campaigns

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or their office will pay for theirairplane airfare to fly back and forth to
the streets. Their their campaigns willpay for their transportation while they're in the
district. They don't really have anypersonal expenses. They choose to run for

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these positions knowing how much money itmakes. And I know that it is
if you live in d C,for example, you work now if you
work in and when I say dC, I'm talking about the district and
its environs. I'm talking about theburbs to the suburbs. So if you
if you work in DC, Marylandor Virginia, if if you don't make

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a lot of money, then youlive quite a ways out in a place
that you can afford, and thenyou commute in. Some people drive to
a parking ride and then they jumpon the metro and then they take the
train into their into their work work, you know, like normal people,
like everybody does. So when theymake one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars

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a year, I recognize that DCis one of the more expensive places to
live. However, as I justdescribed all those different living arrangements that brings
down the cost of them living inDCPR colorat NPR CPR reports The funding comes

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out of what's known as their membersRepresentational Allowance, which supports their official and
representational duties from staff salaries and travelto office rent and mailings to constituents.
The MRA, the members representational allowanceis a fixed amount, so lawmakers have
to weigh any living expense reimbursements againstother uses of the fund. So the

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New York Times estimates that if ifa member took full advantage of the new
rule, it could put thirty fourthousand dollars back into their pockets thereby these
are my words, not the NewYork Times, thereby making their total income
in excess of two hundred thousand dollarsa year for a job that they sought

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and for a job that they appliedfor, and you dumbasses voted for them.
And now they are bitching and moaningabout how much money you have to
spend now now that the rule haschanged and they can be reimbursed with some
of these expenses. What do youthink the Colorado delegation did well? The

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Colorado Colorado delegation, just like allof the other delegations and all the other
states, took advantage of it.Well, I got the receipts. You

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offended us by not listening to Dragon'sinstructions on Thursday and Friday to watch the
entire Princess Bride in one sitting.Did you do what he asked. No,
he told the listeners you would watchthe Princess Bride, but you only
watched thirty minutes of it on Fridaynight. Right, that's why we're ticked.

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Well, two things. You wantto play lawyer with me, Let's
get it on. I go checkthe record. I never promised to watch
it in one sitting. Never didthose words pass my lips whatsoever. So
I have started fulfilling my obligation,which is watched the movie. So I

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think that's just a lousy excuse foryou guys, failing to live up to
your end of the bargain. Didyou watch any more of it? No?
Just for favorite reference to all thePrincess brad fans out there, he
hasn't even made it to the fireswamp yet. Okay, so that's my
next objective, is to make itto the fire swamp just a few minutes

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away, if I understand correct.Well, listen in Battle of Wits,
you know, just incremental, Okay, you know, gonna make it,
gotta make it. So we're talkingabout this new rule that allows members of
Congress to be reimbursed for some oftheir living expenses while they're at their place

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of work, doing their job.Now here's what Diana to get the Dean
of the color Yeah, I thinkshe's the dean of the Colorado delegation.
I think she's been around the longest. Now here's what she said. Members
of Congress need to cover additional livingexpenses, such as housing, food,

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and utilities when they are in Washingtonand official business. Congress recently started a
similar program to help member members payfor these necessary expenses while the House is
in session. The program listen tothis. If you don't scream at however,

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you're listening to me right now,Shame on you. Diana Deguett says
this program to reimburse members for theseliving expenses is especially important now as the
cost of living continues to rise asit has for the past thirty years.

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Diana, bite my ass. Whoit is most responsible for the right the
rapid rise in the cost of livingin this country? Oh? Yes,
the United States Congress, which capitulatedto Joe Biden and passed all the trillions
of dollars that's still being thrown intothe economy right now. Diana, I

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have lost a lot of respect foryou today. I know you and I
are completely on different sides of theissues. But I actually had some respect
until you said that there are peopleright now. Listen to me, Diana.
There are people right now that arestruggling to pay the groceries for their
kids. There are people that arestruggling to pay their rent, their mortgage.

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And you know why, because youpeople spend all of this money cow
telling to all of your special interests, all your green energy boondoggles, and
now we're paying the price for it, and you're whining like a little me,
me, me me, you knowwhat, bite me, Damn.
I get sick of this. Howdare you? How dare you say to

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this country? How dare you sayto your constituents who are suffering the ills
of illegal immigration, don't have enoughcops on the street, have really crappy
streets and potholes and everything else becausewe can't afford stuff. People can't afford
things, and you're whining. Rarelydo I get this wound up, But

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I know. When I stopped themat the McDonald's today, I actually asked
the woman who handed me my dietcoach because it was like a swarm of
homeless. The McDonald's over here opensat five am. I was probably pulling
through the drive through about five tenam, and there was a swarm of

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homeless people going into the McDonald's.And I asked the woman, who's obviously
a man and try, I said, so do you have all these homeless
people show up? All these Andshe rolled her eyes and she's like,
yeah, every morning, man,we open the doors, they just start
swarming in. Diana de Gett,listen to yourself. The program is especially

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important now as the cost of livingcontinues to rise. I want you to
come and face the single mom who'strying to feed her children. I want
you to come and walk to thehard working husband that maybe has two jobs,
maybe mom's got a job too,because they're trying to make ends meet

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because of what you do. Andthen you have the audacity to say,
well, we need this money becausethe cost of living continues to rise.
I guess I get so wound upabout this because having having been in that

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bubble, they do not give arat's ass about you. They do not
care about you. They only,oh, well, our cost of living
is increasing, so we need someextra money to help pay for it.
Well, what about the people outhere? Why don't you reduce regulations?
Why don't you cut out the governmentspending. Why don't you let this economy

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flourish like it was before before youguys took control of it. Sorry for
yelling, but I can't. Ijust cannot express how much disdain I have
for that kind of attitude when Iknow people personally that are struggling, when

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I know people who are barely youknow, stupid America. Not stupid,
but the American financing spots right talkabout people are paying for groceries and stuff
and putting them on their credit card. That is the truth. And then
you bitch and moan about, ohman, my living expenses are high.
When I go to my job inDC where I make one hundred and seventy

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four thousand dollars a year, hereare the numbers. And again I apology,
I I but you know what,no, screw it. I do
not apologize for yelling. I don'tapologize in the least for yelling people like
Diana Degat, Jason Crowe, BennyPeterson, Miss Carave, Djogu, No

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Goose, Doug Lamborn, Lollenbobert.And I can't. I cannot throw in
ken Buck because he didn't take anyof this money but the rest of them,
Democrats and Republicans, shame and shameupon you. We need the money
because our living expenses are high.Once you figure it out, once you

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cut your expenses, once, onceyou do what the average American has to
do in this country. But no, you can pick the pockets of everybody
out there on the twenty five inthe seventy right now, there's going to
work trying to do everything they canto pay their bills. And you have
the audacity to say that you youcan't even imagine what the words are in

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my head right now that i'd liketo use right now about what you said
Jason Crow. Now, I don'tknow how much Jason Crow makes because he's
a former military guy, so heprobably has a military retirement too. Jason
Crow took twenty thousand, eight hundredand twenty dollars. How many of you
would like to have just an extratwenty thousand, eight hundred twenty dollars to

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cover some of your living expenses?Raise your hands. Britney Peterson took eighteen
thousand, six hundred and sixty sixdollars Diana to get Diana to get who's
you know. I don't know howI don't know whether Diana and her husband
have a house in DC or not. Frankly, I don't care. I

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had Agat took fifteen thousand, ninehundred and sixty nine dollars. Yadira Caraveo
took fifteen thousand and forty two dollars. Joan de Goose only took four thousand,
five hundred and forty one dollars.Now, I say, only forty
thousand, five hundred and forty onedollars compared to twenty thousand from Jason Crowe,
and I even talked about the Republicans. Yet at least Joan Gooz only

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took forty five hundred dollars. Butstill, how many of you could use
an extra forty five hundred dollars rightnow just to pay for your living expenses?
Republicans are leaches to Doug Lamborne toppedthe chart twenty one thousand, five

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hundred and forty three dollars. DougLamborne, who wisely is leaving, took
twenty one thousand, five hundred fortythree dollars from the US Treasury because he
had additional living expenses. Lauren Boberttook fourteen thousand, four hundred eight dollars.

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I didn't add it up. Let'ssee twenty thirty eight, fifty three,
sixty eight, seventy two, ninetythree, and for over over one
hundred thousand dollars, well over onehundred grand. You know, the next

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time that you see any of thesecritters out in the wild, you got
to ask him why are you takingwhat? Why are you taking this money?
Ask him? You'll just ask himpoint blank, how much do you
make annually in salary? Now,let me let me say something right now.

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In case you think that I'm upsetabout this because they make one hundred
and seventy four thousand dollars a year, I'm not jealous about that. Trust
me. I'm not jealous about theirone hundred and seventy four thousand dollars a
year. That's not the issue withme at all. Trust me on that

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one. You want to look atmy tax return, I'm not jealous.
What I'm angry about is it's ludicrousmembers of Congress need to cover additional living

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expenses such as housing, food,and utilities, when they are in Washington
on an official business. Wait aminute, when you're in Washington on official
business? You mean when you're inWashington doing your job, and the program
is especially important now as the costof living continues to rise. Let's take

(29:06):
a break probase if a diet coke, which, by the way, the
diet coke, the two diet cokesthat I got today, because you know,
you buy one, you get onefor a buck. I pay for
that myself. I didn't ask anyof you to pay for it, not
one dime. And you know what, let me remind you again, I'm

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not jealous in the least about howmuch money they make. Good morning,
Michael and Drag and Colleen here fromNorth Dakota. I just want to thank
you for yelling because I believe itis what the majority of US Americans would
like to do right now, butdon't have that voice like you have,
So thank you for doing it forus. You're welcome. I just feel

(29:52):
like that it's I just think it'shorrible radio. But I just look,
I've always told you till I've alwaystold you that I'll never come on this
program and not tell you how Ireally feel about something, and this one,
this one, I can't. Ijust can't tell you how much this
irritates me because I see it inthis building I don't have to look very

(30:19):
far to see people struggling financially.I've struggled financially personally in my life,
and I know what that's like andhaving having made that kind of salary.
Although again I emphasize, I'm notjealous about their current salary, do not

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get Don't get me wrong. I'mnot yelling and mad because I'm jealous because
they make one hundred and seventy fourthousand dollars. Listen to sweetheart, you
can go take that one hundred andseventy four thousand dollars. You keep that
all, keep mine. Okay,I'm quite happy with what I'm making.
I'm much happier about what I'm making. But sit there and have the audacity

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to take more money from you,or from your children, or your grandchildren,
your great grandchildren, or for thatmatter, continue us on this path
of financial destruction because they're a bunchof whiny little bitches about how much money
I ain't gonna spend this on housingand stuff. Well, you know what

(31:27):
you wanted, the job. Suckit up, buttercup, figure out a
way to make a mends meet,just like your constituents are trying to do
every single day, and then donot bitching me about the cost of living
when the cost of living is outrageouslyhigh right now because of your very own

(31:48):
actions and Google number forty five twelve. Let me use your your text me
to yell about something else, Goodman, number forty five twelve, what rights
Mike? Well, Now, ifwe fund living expenses of Congress, doesn't

(32:09):
that make them less likely to takemoney from special interests organizations, making them
susceptible to their influences. Oh mygod, no, man, no,
it just makes it easier for them. They're never going to stop taking money
from special interests until we outlaw it. And by the way, then somebody,

(32:35):
oh, Michael, don't Goodman fiftyfive sixty six. Don't they get
some sort of discount for transportation airfareto and from DC while in office?
Yeah, there are special government fairsthat they get. But let me tell
you it's even worse than that.Not only do they get government contracted rates,
but part of their part of theircurrent office expenses are to pay for

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some of their airfare back to theirdistricts. And if they don't have any
office expense money to do it,then they have money from their campaign to
pay for that because they can comeback. It's just like the president.
President flies on Air Force one.It's really a campaign stop to come to

(33:20):
Denver. But while he's in Denver, he presents a rubber check to Mike
Johnston. Now it's official business,so now the campaign doesn't have to worry
about paying for it. So theycome back to the district, they go
to a rubber chicken dinner somewhere,a campaign expense. It's a big giant
Maffias scam. And then they thinkthat well, they know, they know

(33:50):
that none of you will bitch aboutit, will you? Oh, you're
mad about it, just like Iam. How many are you gonna pick
up the phone and call? Howyou know? And even then, what
good will that do
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