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When social media platforms collide with national security concerns, where should we draw the line? Our lively discussion begins with TikTok's unexpected resurrection after a planned shutdown, revealing deeper questions about America's priorities. While we panic over a Chinese-owned app, why do we barely notice that the same nation owns vast swaths of American farmland, properties, and infrastructure?

The conversation shifts to expectations for Trump's administration, where our guest expresses hope for reforms in taxation, healthcare costs, and education. But our hosts challenge these optimistic outlooks, drawing on historical patterns that reveal the gap between campaign promises and governing realities. One host pointedly asks: "If you hold up their resume blindly, what qualifies them for that position?" This ignites a passionate debate about meritocracy versus relationship-based appointments that cuts to the heart of how our government functions.

Perhaps the most thought-provoking moment comes when discussing "America's most hated man" – revealing that Martin Luther King Jr. once held that dubious distinction according to a 1967 poll. This historical perspective casts our current polarization in a new light, suggesting that today's villains might become tomorrow's heroes. Despite sharp disagreements throughout, our conversation concludes with a shared hope for national healing and unity beyond partisan divisions.

Whether you're politically engaged or simply trying to make sense of our divided country, this episode offers authentic perspectives that challenge assumptions across the political spectrum. Subscribe now and join our weekly conversation as we navigate these turbulent times together, always seeking common ground without sacrificing our principles.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
What do you want to do tonight?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
The same thing we do every night.
Pinky, Try to take over theworld.
All right, yo, let's get intoit.
Try to take over the world.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
You're preaching freedom.
Try to take over the world.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
And greatest chaplain in the world, mr Lance O'Neal,
take over the world.
Yo yo yo, what up, world, whatup, what up, what up, what up,
what up.
It is Sunday, 8.30 Eastern.
Do you know where your folksare?
Of course you do.
We are right here with you andthere's no greater place to be

(00:45):
than you with us and us with you.
Once again, it's your boy, kjBradley, and the world's
greatest chaplain, Mr LanceO'Neal.
Chappy, what up.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Hey, how are you, KJ?
Are we having a good week?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh man, it is amazing .
I am excited because tomorrowwe get to celebrate the world's
most hated man, and I am soexcited.
I am so, so excited.
We look forward to this.
What's going on with Elon Even?

Speaker 1 (01:10):
more you think the world's most hated man.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, we got that.
We celebrate the world's mosthated man tomorrow and I am so
excited we got a special guestjoining us today.
You guys have seen her before.
Miss Allie McPherson has joinedus before the election.
For those of you guys who don'tremember her, her and my boy,
elton, had a great, robustconversation that stirred up,
stirred up some, some, somegreat conversation.

(01:35):
But we brought her backpost-election to hear her
thoughts, man, and I can't waitto jump into it.
Chappy, you ready to bring herin?
Yeah, let's go, hailey, what up, girl, how you doing.
It's so good to see you again,hey what's up guys?
hey, I'm good oh man, how has,how has life treated you in

(01:57):
these last what 90 days?

Speaker 3 (02:00):
90 days, very, very good.
We moved into our new home andwe're just trying to get settled
.
And Trump won, so it's good.
Congratulations, all right.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
We got 90 minutes.
We got four topics.
Allie, since you are our guest,I will let you choose.
So I'll give you the topics andthen I'll let you pick.
We'll go topics and then I'lllet you pick.
Um, we'll go.
So we have um depth of tiktok,administrative expectations,
your thoughts on theconfirmation hearings, false
flags and then celebrating themost hated man in america, where

(02:36):
do you want to?
Start good fun times, let'sstart with.
Let's start with tiktok tiktok,here we go all right so, tiktok,
I'll get us kicked off.
So for those of you guys thatdon't know, um, tiktok was
supposed to be dead today.
Um, last night, um, a lot ofpeople went into it and uproar

(02:59):
and panic because they wereunable to, uh, log into their
tiktoks.
And if you tried, you got apretty wonderful note saying
that, due to administrativepolicies, we were unable to
utilize the platform.
But, just like Jesus on EasterSunday with the Easter bunny and
all her wonderful eggs, tiktokwonderfully rose on Sunday

(03:22):
morning and you were able to logback in.
So the beast is back.
I for one am excited because itis one of our most engaging
platforms.
So shout out to our TikTokfamily we are glad to see you
guys back.
What are your thoughts, man?
Are you guys excited thatTikTok's back, or what are your
thoughts, allie?
Why?

Speaker 1 (03:39):
don't you go first?
Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Allie, why don't you go first?
Yeah, I, you know I've got kindof mixed emotions about it
because I think TikTok is very,very good on some points but
there's a lot of crap on TikTok.
So I know my daughter, she youknow she gets on TikTok and she
does.
You know the fun little videosand stuff like that.

(04:04):
And you know every gets ontiktok and she does.
You know the fun little videosand stuff like that.
And, um, you know, every oncein a while something slips in
there that's totally not childappropriate.
So, um, you know I'm good withtiktok.
I think it's fun, it's.
You know, I I didn't want tosee it get banned.
Um, didn't understand the wholething, but I mean it shut down.
We couldn't get on, for up tillwhat?

(04:26):
About three hours ago wecouldn't get on, but but we're
on now.
So I mean I'm good.
I've heard that.
What is it Mr Beast Is it?
Is that his name?
Mr Beast, like has is trying tobuy it.
He put it in or something, yeah,and I was like, hey, so I'm not
sure how to feel about that,but hey, it is what it is, it's

(04:50):
fun.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
You got a couple of guys putting in a couple of bids
.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, my kids were like oh, my 11-year-old told it,
no, he is, he's buying it.
I was like hold on, Let me golook, you got Mr Beast.
I was like hold on, let me golook, you got Mr.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Beast.
Mr Wonderful is putting in acouple of bids.
I put in a $34 bid.
I'll let them talk me up to $42.
But after that I'm out.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
That beat my $12.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
I don't think I can compete too much.
What's your thoughts, Lance?

Speaker 1 (05:22):
I got a couple of thoughts, but I think I'll wait
until the back end on this.
Well on, uh tiktok.
Let's instead of tiktok, let'sfor a minute give a shout out to
ctr media network, who we areactually live on.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
I just checked the site on on on row crew shout out
to our tiktok man.
I'm telling you I gotta getback used to that.
Welcome to our ctr medianetwork family.
This is our second live episodefor our Roku family.
Welcome you guys.
We are definitely glad to be apart of the network and the
family.
We'll get it together, Ipromise you.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
I just We'll give it thumbs up, stars, whatever it is
.
So my thoughts on TikTok Okay,as far as TikTok goes, I'm not a
big TikTok person.
I think I've made a half dozenand they were political and I

(06:17):
got the people yelling at me onone side and the other people
yelling at me on the other.
I did one where somebody cutthat everybody's kind of missing
is that this ban was put inplace and held in place by the
Supreme Court of the UnitedStates, and so if there's a ban
that's put into place, that'stried and upheld, I don't know

(06:39):
how a President Trump orPresident Biden could write just
a piece of paper that says, no,tiktok's good, because the
whole point of it is that it hasto be divested from the
communist Chinese ownership, andso I don't think they've done

(06:59):
that yet, and so I wonder how weget to the point where, ok, it
didn't need to be turned offyesterday, and now it's turned
on today, and it's on with amessage that says, hey, we hope
to keep going because ofPresident Trump.
And I've seen people go oh,look, even TikTok bending over
backwards to work with Trump.
It's like, well, yes, everybodyis, he's the new president, you

(07:22):
don't want to be left out inthe cold.
But at the same time, I doquestion what the mechanisms
involved are.
Because, as somebody whoactually appreciates the
Constitution and tries tounderstand the Constitution, I'm
not sure if the Supreme Courtsays, hey, there's a ban and it
needs to be, and we're going touphold this ban.

(07:42):
Unless you do this and the thishas not been done, I'm not sure
how it stays alive.
And if it gets sold, fine, Idon't care who owns TikTok.
Honestly I texted KJ this acouple of days ago why doesn't
somebody start a new mediaplatform called TikTok and spell

(08:03):
it the right way T-I-C-K,t-o-c-k and go, hey, just come
on over here.
But overall, it's one morething.
I'm sure the kids are goingover to Instagram or I don't
even know there's one redsomething that people are going
over to, which I kind of laughat because it's another

(08:24):
communist based platform.
It's, I'm sorry, chinese basedplatform.
Let me be real clear when I saythat.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah.
We have to we have to becareful with our words.
Um, I'm, I'm a little bit torn.
And then we we've seen with the, the, the SCOTUS and the way
they work, rules have somehowbeen I don't want to say broken,
but they've been massaged.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Ignored.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Your words, not mine.
I am trying to be moreunderstanding going into this
new administration.
I'm sure there's going to besome kind of way that this can
work out.
I don't have an issue with it.
I just think the focus is alittle off right, like we can

(09:17):
say okay, well, tiktok is anational security concern and
it's our highest priority.
And this, that and the other,and I'm like cool, great china
owns what?
380 000 plus acres of farmlandchina?
military bases china owns, youknow, over 20 million properties

(09:41):
across the united states, thiscorporation, but we're worried
about TikTok.
So you know what I'm saying.
I'm kind of like, okay, well,how big of a threat is it?
I get it from a personal datastandpoint, but it's like if
you're going to let them, youknow, if you're going to let
them own the homes and own thefarmland and, you know, be main

(10:05):
investors in in a lot of ourcorporations, what the you know
what's the difference at thispoint.
You know I'm saying it's just abunch of you know, just a bunch
of smoke and mirrors for me andin my opinion, because it's like
, at the end of the day, you'restill.
You know they, they still haveaccess to all our main you know

(10:25):
waterways.
They still have access to allour food sources, all our
infrastructure.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Well, I think that I think the biggest difference is
just simply somebody is somebodydecided to come out and sue,
and that's probably the biggestdifference.
I agree with you as far as thesecurity stuff.
I think it's ridiculous everyday.
But at the same time, peopleare stupid.
And when you have people say Idon't want the government to be

(10:51):
able to track where I am andwhat I'm doing at all times, and
goodness forbid, they're ableto do anything that no people
don't understand, I mean it'sopen source.
If you want to go look up whatthe NSA can do, go look up what
the NSA did.
It's not a surprise whatanybody in this country is doing
.

(11:13):
I find it curious that we'resupposed to be a nation of laws,
but if it doesn't, we can havesomething, go all the way to
Supreme Court and then, if it'signored, so what you have?

(11:34):
Congress.
Let's go back and let's bepolitical for a minute.
We could probably count onmultiple hands between us how
many times Fauci lied while hewas giving testimony to Congress
about multitude of things.
Has he been charged with lyingto Congress?

(11:55):
I'm pretty sure that's againstthe law.
I think it is.
I can't tell you the statute,but everything I've ever been
told is if you get called infront of Congress, you get sworn
in and there are perjury lawsin place, and yet I haven't seen
anybody.
And that's not just Fauci,don't get me wrong, just many,

(12:17):
many people.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
If we ever started to hold account to people who lied
to Congress, we would never getanything done.
I disagree.
It's almost expected to lie toCongress now, even not getting
ahead of ourselves, but evengoing into the confirmation
hearings.
You're almost expected to lieto Congress.
I've never seen, between thisadministration and the last two

(12:41):
administrations we can even goback to the last three
administrations I've never seenso many candidates blatantly
outright lie and pervert thetruth or contort the truth for
confirmation hearings.
Like bro, we got you on tape.
This is Republican and Democrat, both, so I don't want you to
figure I'm picking either side,but for sure they come up there

(13:02):
and just stonewall and be likeoh no, say that like.
But, sir, I have transcriptsand I got you on tape.
And he's like oh well, you, youmisinterpreted what I said.
Like no, you're right here,it's just at this point.
It's like there are no rulesand they're all suddenly
enforced.
Like you know one of what wasone of the, the congressman who
came out and was like he saidsomething about how many, how

(13:24):
many senators have come up hereand voted at night, drunk?
What are you talking about, man?
Are you out of your mind?
Who blatantly said that.
And then he said it as thoughyou know, as though it's like
some we all know.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
I'm like we don't have.
We don't have that on the list.
But this week the, the speakerof the House, came out and he
relayed a story where he went inHe'd been asking for a meeting
with President Biden.
He'd been stonewalled.
He finally kind of forces hisway in, he gets in there and

(13:59):
he's got the VP in there, he'sgot the chief of staff and
finally Biden kind of said hey,you guys need to step out for a
minute.
And they all kind of freakedout and he stepped out.
And then the speaker says youknow, hey, you know what about
liquid natural, liquid naturalgas and this and that and what
you know?
You paused it.
And Biden says no, I didn't.
He says yeah, you did.

(14:25):
He said I never signed that.
He goes, he goes, sir, I canhave your secretary go to.
I promise you.
You signed an executive orderhalting liquefied natural gas to
europe and biden was saying no,I didn't.
Now, one as disturbing as thatstory is why was he holding on
to this story for over a yearnow I get there's some stuff
that you're going.

(14:46):
Well, I I didn't want toembarrass the president, but you
know what?
That's probably informationthat the American people should
have known that the presidentwas either manipulated into
signing an executive order thathad really serious national
security effects, or he was.
He didn't know about it andthey did what Radar used to do
to henry blake and said here,just sign here, sign here, sign

(15:08):
here, sign here, sign herereally.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
And biden said, yeah, okay, trusting his staff I mean
the last three months you'vehad senators come out and openly
a bit that they don't read.
They don't even read the damnbills that come across the board
.
He's like, oh, who has time toread these bills?
Like dude, what the hell?
So to to.
To honestly expect anybody inour legislature, especially our
elected officials, to doanything is I think, ambitious

(15:34):
of us at this point.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
They are just talking .
But that's why you have staff,all right.
So, kj, we've both been in themilitary.
When you get in front of acommander, the first thing he
says is I don't want to know allthat, I don't care about all
that, give me the bluff, give methe bottom line up front.
And if you can't say what thebottom line up front is in 10 to

(15:55):
15 seconds, the commander saysyou know what you can leave.
Go, get your stuff together andthen you can come back Right.
So to me it's much more on thestaff, and I think everybody
that has been around Biden andso you know, even the again to
go back to TikTok, how many ofthese people were told well,
this is what we're actuallydoing, this is what we're, and

(16:19):
the congressmen and they're justlike oh okay, you have to trust
your staff, you have to be ableto rely on people, and I've
been saying this for years.
That is why the swamp is theway it is is because of the
staffs.
It's not necessarily thecongressman that comes in and
gets manipulated by other peoplein Congress, it's.
He gets manipulated by staffand his staff gets manipulated

(16:40):
by the other staff because, like, realistically, whoever's in
charge of the congressionaloffice, like you just said, do
you really think they have thetime to read every single bill
when it's like a budget?
They drop a budget on your deskthat is 4 000 pages and you're
supposed to read that in threedays.
You can't do it.

(17:02):
Yeah, there's a lot of stuffand that's where I go back to.
Kind of the accountability isif TikTok is continuing, it
continues on.
I just look at that and go, ok,I'm fine with it as long as
they have met the standard.
This is the Supreme Court upheldby federal judge.
And don't get me wrong, there'slots of federal judges I

(17:24):
absolutely hate.
I think it's ridiculous when afederal judge can come in and
say, well, I interpret it thisway, and then suddenly it's
screeching halt to the countryfor whatever it is.
I don't want to give an example, necessarily, but I could.
And most of of the time thoseare done when it's somebody

(17:46):
legislating from the bench andand that's why when I hear these
congressmen go back, likeSenator Mike Lee from Utah
saying, look, we need to getback to the legislature doing
his job, they need to be theones who are writing the bills,
writing the laws, and then itgoes to, goes to the president,

(18:06):
he signs it into law and thenthe courts decide is that
constitutional or not?
It's almost like there was anold 70s cartoon talking about
how bills were made, and nowthat doesn't exist anymore.
Yep, that's what money getsinvolved, ollie what do you
think?

Speaker 2 (18:21):
that's what money gets involved, Ali.
What'd you think?

Speaker 3 (18:26):
You know, I think it comes down to I don't, I think
it's been forgotten how thegovernment and how everything is
set up.
Like everybody I've heard somany times, you know you're not
above the law, you're not abovethe law.
It seems like a lot of peopleare above the law, paying people

(18:46):
off.
However that may be, but it's,I don't I.
And then I think the Americanpeople for the most part,
including myself, don't trustthe government period.
Like, even if there is a lawthat's put in, I mean, they're
going to change it to fit whatthey want it to be.
On either side on, you know andI'm just not saying Democrat or

(19:09):
Republican, I think everybodyjust takes little bits and
pieces of the law that theyreally want to enforce and then
they go with that instead of,you know, you know, having the
president sign it, it goes tothe Supreme Court, it goes into
law, just like the same samething.
You know, having the presidentsign it, it goes to the Supreme
Court, it goes into law, justlike the same thing.
You know, as that just came tomy mind, the big government.

(19:30):
Why do we have governors ineach state to govern their state
?
You know?
So I, I don't.
Yeah, I think it comes down totrust.
I think that there's goodpeople on both sides, both
Democrat and Republican, but Ialso believe that it just comes
down to nobody trusts thegovernment anymore, nobody.

(19:52):
You know you can break the lawand nothing's going to happen,
except if you're Trump, thenit's going to go and whatever,
but nothing's going to happen.
You know, like everything thatI go back a little bit, you know
, with Hillary Clinton, you knowit was proven.
She, you know, deleted emails.

(20:13):
Nothing's ever happened.
Nothing's ever happened topeople on either side.
And I think it's a trusting.
I don't trust the government.
My I mean my hopes are a littlebit brighter because I am
thrilled.
You know that Trump won andhe's getting in.
But on the same hand, if hemesses up and he screws up, I

(20:36):
don't have a problem with sayingyou know what?
I made a mistake by voting forhim, but at the time that was my
choice for him, but at the timethat was my choice.
But we just don't trust.
We don't trust Congress, wedon't trust the Senate.
It's everybody.
I think they forget, I thinksenators and congressmen, I

(20:56):
think they forget they were putin by the people and then, once
you get there, you do what youpromise to the people, not what
you want, and I think that'swhat it's turned into and we
need to drain the swamp totallylike start over.
I mean, how do you do that?
You know there's no way to todo that.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yes, there is.
There's a simple way, butnobody wants to do it.
I've put this out before.
All we need to do is all weneed to do is move the federal
government to Wichita, Kansas,and suddenly the swamp will be
drained.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Why does nobody take that seriously?

Speaker 2 (21:37):
What are your expectations?
What are some reasonableexpectations as the new
administration, as 47, takesover and kind of gets his feet
up on the road.
What are some reasonableexpectations that you expect,
you know, from the POTUS and histeam?

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Well, first of all, I go by what he ran on, you know,
I hope that taxes do getlowered.
I hope that the military doesbecome stronger.
I hope that he does take careof our seniors.

(22:15):
You know, as far as you knowmedication goes.
You know that's a big thing forme with my parents, I mean when
they can't, you know, when theycan barely afford food, because
you know my dad's medicationsare $1,300, $1,400, $1,500 a
month and they're on, you know,they're on Medicare.
So I'm hoping there's a whole,you know change in that.

(22:49):
I hope there's a lot of changesin the education system and
what is being taught.
I'm really blessed that mydaughter is in more of a private
school here in Louisiana.
You know where history istaught home ec is taught.
The older kids have to take,you know, tax courses.
They stand and say the Pledgeof Allegiance, they sing the
National Anthem every morning.
It's focused on the educationfor the children, not, you know,

(23:14):
what can the teachers get?
And I'm not putting downteachers because I couldn't be a
teacher nowadays there's no waybut I think the teachers need
to teach.
So, going back, I think theeducation system needs to be um,
something needs to be donethere.
As far as taxes, medicare Um, ohmy gosh, there's so many.

(23:37):
My hopes are very high and myexpectations are very high.
Um, I don't know if that's agood thing or a bad thing.
You know, I might be reallydisappointed, and if I am, then
I'll.
I'll be upfront and honest withit, but I just know that we
can't have what we've had forthe past four years because it's

(24:01):
it has.
For me, it hasn't been good andfor a lot of other people it
hasn't been good.
So really, any change from thelast four years would be awesome
.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
I think Greenland needs to be executed, canada
needs to be pulled in, panamacan okay.
Honestly, as far asexpectations go, for me there's
probably really only one that Ilegitimately hope he and I'm

(24:32):
going to say he in this case,because Trump is responsible for
this the executive branch ofthe president's job has some
specific things in defending theConstitution of the United
States and the sovereignty ofthis country are the two most
important.
They need to secure the bordersin a way that we know who's

(24:54):
coming in, who's going out, andwe need to do something about
the people that are hereillegally.
Now people will say, oh, you'rejust, you're heartless and a
Christian would never.
Jesus was a refugee.
It's like hold on now.
Yeah, so well, you see stufflike that right.

(25:15):
And so I look at it and I sayagain I think the easiest way
would be for the legislature topass a bill that says any
company or individual who hiressomebody who's illegally in this
country, knowingly or not, willbe fined one thousand dollars
per day, per instance.
And okay, all that means is Ibetter be dang sure that who I'm

(25:37):
hiring as a company is herelegally.
And what is the differencebetween that and some guy that's
25 years old and he's broughtup on charges for statutory rape
and he says whoa, whoa, whoa.
She told me she was 19.
And it turns out she was only16.

(25:58):
And what did the court say?
Well, it's your responsibilityto verify how old that person is
.
And even if that person had afake ID, the courts don't care.
The courts are like she was 16.
She lied to you or not.
She was 16.
She couldn't agree to this andso it's on you.

(26:19):
So if you have these companieswho say, well, I didn't know, we
had somebody, I hired somebodywho and again, this isn't just
somebody who came across thesouthern border.
It can be somebody who cameacross the northern borders, can
be somebody who has their visahas expired.
There are ways to do this.
And again, I am fine withimmigration.
I love legal immigration.

(26:41):
Everybody in this country was alegal immigrant, and even the
people who say not NativeAmericans, they were here
originally.
Guess what?
At some point they came acrossthe bridge, the ice bridge.
They came from Asia too.
So at some point everybodymoved somewhere.
There's no such thing as theoriginal Adam and Eve
individuals who they get to layclaim to everything.

(27:03):
Ok, not, not in the legal terms.
I'm not saying anybody who'schristian says there's a real
adam and eve, that's cool.
Hey, I'm religious as well andthat's fine.
What I'm saying is we get tolay legal claim because adam and
eve are going hey look, let'sgo back.
Here's what we figured outwhere the garden of eden is.
It's right here, and now it'smine, because I can trace my
line back to Adam and Eve.
So if you go back far enough,there's always somebody that can

(27:29):
claim the land.
But we are a world that movesforward.
History has always been writtenby the winners.
You have the country and theborders are drawn basically by
the strongest country or at thepoint where the country says, ok

(27:49):
, we've won and we're going tomake a deal.
People forget when people talkabout Mexico and all that the US
not only invaded Mexico, itwent down and basically captured
Mexico City, and then they saidhere's what we're going to do.
You're going to give us thisland up here in exchange.
We're not going to takeeverything, we're going to let
you have Mexico.

(28:10):
Now there was some stuff as faras Europe and all that, but
ultimately that was the case.
The US right now we could haveall of Mexico as part of the
United States.
If, at the time, the governmenthad said that's what we're
going to do.
We conquered you.
It's ours, it was negotiated wehad some you had some
negotiators coming in well, butthat was the thing is.

(28:32):
But as far as might makes right, we had the right to do it and
that's all I'm saying.
So at this point, I would behappy with every.
Every border guard that is onthe border gets a nice little
bump in pay.
I would be happy with areduction in everybody that

(28:53):
works for ICE or Border Patrolthat's in a desk job in DC.
I'd like to see a reduction ofthat force down to about 30%.
And if you want to stay in yourjob, down to about 30%.
And if you want to stay in yourjob, that's fine.
You get to move to Texas,arizona, montana, wherever right

(29:18):
IRS agents.
I'd love to see a slash in theIRS agents.
I don't know.
I think there's something to besaid for a flat tax, but if
you're not going to do a flattax, I think there should be
something as far as the IRSagents go and say all right, for
every person that you auditthat makes less than $50,000 as
an agent, you need to audit twopeople that make more than
$200,000.
So go for the big fish, go getthe corporations.

(29:40):
I just don't know how much ofthis will happen because again,
it has to be the legislature.
Who is really driving the trainhere and 2016,.
The legislature was not MAGA.
They are much more now and soand when I say MAGA, I'm only
saying in support of Trump, I'mnot saying like that.

(30:03):
They are themselves.
You know the MAGA people, but Ithink if you have a traditional
Congress that supports thepresident of their party, I want
to see President Trump over thenext two years, say what are
our 10 most important things?
Let's focus on those 10.

(30:24):
Let's get the, because I thinkI've said before, I think Obama
made a huge, huge mistakebecause he used so much time and
so much political clout onObamacare for the first two
years.
Not only did he have Congress,he had a super majority.
He could have come out.
He could have ratified abortion.
He could have done.
He could have come out.

(30:46):
He could have ratified abortion.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
He could have done.
He could have done almostanything.
No, he couldn't.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
You know, you and I both know good and damn well, he
couldn't have done it well thefact that he could have done
almost anything that democratswere oh, he could have posed
anything.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
But you know, when somebody gets up there and they
start shouting immediately, allright, let's not kid ourselves,
right, we can leave all theoptimism aside.
Even with a damn super friend,super majority, there were still
obstacles, right, and the factthat he had Obamacare passed was

(31:24):
a miracle in itself, and thefact that it took two years to
get passed with the supermajority shows you just how hard
it was to get past.
You had the speaker of thehouse come out and says their
number one, priority one, is tomake sure that he gets not a
single law passed.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
And he was damn near first of all that was.
That was mcconnell.
Well, that was mcconnell afterhe lost this, but that was after
he lost the super majority.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
Let's not wave came in, but let's not act like
mcconnell was not any lesspowerful.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Senator mcconnell and paul ryan were the two most
powerful no, at that point itdidn't matter, kj, when you have
a super majority, you can dothings you can't do the rest of
the time.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Then, lance, why did it take two years to get a bone
care passed, if you could do it?

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Because Democrats didn't back around because they
were looking at all the otherstuff as well they want.
There are certain things youcan do with a super majority you
can override.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Lance, you're full of shit.
With a supermajority Listen,with the supermajority
Republicans got the SCOTUSpushed in two weeks.
Two weeks, you know why?
Because, because, yes, they got.
They got their confirmation.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
No, aj, we're talking about different things here.
Hold on, let's clarify what asupermajority is.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
You're talking about a supermajority.
You're talking about having themajority in both the Senate and
the House.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
No, that's not what a supermajority is.
What are you talking about?
A supermajority is when youhave 60 senators of one party.
Yes, you have the House, youhave the Senate, but the Senate
has to have those 60.
Yes, yes, so Obama is the onlypresident that has had a super
majority in decades.

(33:12):
He's the only one.
Yes, and he was still thwarted.
Why?
Because his own party.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Do you really think the Democrats are that damn
incompetent?
Do you think out of 100?
Years of legislation those fouryears.
They were that grosslyincompetent that they could only
get one piece of legislationpushed.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Hold on.
First of all, it wasn't onlyone piece, it was one major
thing, and what I'm saying isbecause that was such a massive
thing to change to override theway health care worked in
America.
Health care in America is isone of the top, I think, three
industries in the entire country.
Health insurance and when we'reincluding health insurance, all

(34:02):
that because that money'sinvolved and because it's such a
big deal, I think if if Obamahad said, look, he passed it.
He got it with 60 votes in theSenate, all Democrats, zero
Republicans and they passed inthe House and got a zero
Republican support there.
Stuff like that happens.

(34:22):
Right, okay, so he got itpassed.
But what I'm saying is if heand the Democrats had said, all
right, if we have these 10things, what are our 10 biggest
things?
And immediately after twomonths they said, gosh, this
Obamacare thing, I don't know ifwe can get this done.
Let's look at number two.
What's our number?
And I don't know what numbertwo at the time would have been.

(34:44):
Let's look at number three.
Let's do that.
So what I'm saying is I don'tthink Trump can even get this
stuff done very easily unless hehas the Republicans basically
100 percent behind him.
And then, even if that happens,there are certain things that a
Republican Congress will notget behind because it's not in

(35:07):
their own interest.
If you were to say, we aregoing to process a, we're going
to do a flat tax, you wouldnever get it.
We're going to have term limits.
You're never going to get it.
Now, could Obama have gottenterm limits passed?
Let's go with this.
Could Obama have gotten a billpassed, or even a constitutional

(35:31):
amendment, potentially passedin 2010, to have term limits?
I think he could have, exceptthey wouldn't have voted for it.
So, congress, you have the sameproblem with Congress that you
have with everybody else.
They don't care what thepresident says.
They want what's for them.
They want the fact thatanything gets done in America in

(35:55):
Congress is kind of ridiculous,because they're not
representatives.
They're there for themselvesand they're there to get
reelected and to make money andput money in their pockets, and
that's unfortunately, the wayit's gone for now decades.
So do I, but but do I thinkObama could have done more if
he'd come off of Obamacare?

(36:15):
Yes, that said, it didn'thappen, so it doesn't really
matter.
But ultimately, what Trump getsdone, trump is going to need
people like and I am amazed tosay this if you'd asked me to
say this two years ago, I wouldhave said you're crazy.
Trump is going to need peoplelike John Fetterman who go okay,

(36:37):
yeah, hey, let's see if we canactually work together and
figure out some things that'llbe good for the country.
John Fetterman might be thebiggest surprise for me
politically in the last 10 years, like Trump coming in in 2016,.
That really didn't surprise me,because Trump had been talking

(36:57):
about running for president onand off.
Even you know he ran at onepoint in the early 2000s on one
of the minor tickets and didn'tdo anything right.
But for pet for for fettermanto come in, have a stroke, win
and then be the voice of reasonon the side of the democrats.
I I wouldn't have thoughtthere's no way.

(37:18):
I mean, there were some peopleI could have picked.
Betterman, was not it?
So my expectationsrealistically, let's go back to
the original question myexpectations.
I don't have expectations.
If you want to go realistic, Iexpect them to all lie, cheat,
cheat and steal and try to putas much money in their pockets

(37:39):
as they possibly can.
Fair enough, I think that's agood expectation.
Probably be mad.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
I am yeah.
I am yeah.
For the sanity and and sake ofthe conversation, I'm gonna
leave it at that because myexpectations I hope that I am
wrong on every expectation Ihave for the administration.
I just I don't like whenbillionaires and corporate
interests meet a president whois more concerned about ego than

(38:14):
he is about governing andpolicy.
Bad things happen.
We've seen it too many times inour history as a country and I
just I don't like the way thewind is blowing in terms of
policy.
I don't like the rhetoric that'scoming out of the White House.

(38:36):
I don't like the fact thatnothing that they campaigned on
has been spoken about since theelection has been won.
We completely pivoted.
I don't like the fact that thepresident, after winning the
election, came out and blatantlysaid oh shit, hey man, remember
that whole thing about bringinggroceries down.
I don't think we can do that.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Oh yeah, hey, gas prices.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Listen man, I don't have no control over that, if we
get it down great, but that'snot really a priority or concern
of mine.
I'll try.
I mean, I guess I'll try, butyou know what's really a concern
of mine?
I think we should rename theGulf of Mexico to the Gulf of
fucking America, because that'simportant to me.
Since when did he campaign onthat?
I guarantee you had he sat upat a campaign rally and said you

(39:17):
know what?
The first thing I'm going to dois I'm going to change the Gulf
of Mexico to the Gulf ofAmerica.
I wonder how many goddamn voteshe would have got.
Or if he I think a lot.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Oh, I think that would have played right into the
jingoism, oh shit.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
How many people do?

Speaker 1 (39:31):
you think?

Speaker 2 (39:31):
are sitting around.
As I'm sitting down looking atmy grocery bill, while I'm
trying to decide whether I needto buy eggs or I need to buy
insulin, I'm thinking to myself.
You know what's reallyimportant to me right now?
We should rename the Gulf offucking Mexico.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
Jingoism is a huge thing for people.
Hey, yeah, that's something Ican get behind.
Look at how big a fight it wasto rename the army bases.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Yeah, Same reason.
I know my grandma needs herinsulin.
But you know what's moreimportant to me?
We should take back the PanamaCanal.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
The hell with grandma .
Nobody's saying it's the other.
We got bigger priorities.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
The Panama Canal is our priority right now.
The hell with cabin.
You know what?
We don't give a shit.
The hell with cabin.
You know what we don't give ashit about?
No damn cabin.
You know what?
Let that cabin insulin.
They were wrong.
Ok, I know what the people talkabout.
The people are in the Midwest,the people sitting in Ohio and
Wisconsin, when they sit attheir dinner table.
The main thing that they aretalking about at the dinner

(40:36):
table is how we need to annexSpringwood.
That's what.
That's what's important, Right?
Margaret Taylor Greene saidthat her number one priority is
changing the goddamn maps.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
That's the important stuff, because that's what they
ran.
Does it surprise you that shesaid that though?

Speaker 2 (40:52):
It doesn't matter what it does.
I told you I was the trainwreck.
I've been screaming.
I've been screaming from.
I've been screaming from theget-go that this is going to be
a train wreck of epicproportions.
And you know what you did to me?
You laughed in my face and youtold me I was batshit crazy.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Do you remember when we talked about this?
We said what do people talkabout during campaigns?
Whatever they need to to getelected right, so this can't be
a surprise.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
It's not a surprise to me, but I'm saying I hope I'm
wrong for everything I expect.
Because when you have a guylike Elon Musk right, when you
have a guy like Elon Muskthreatening out corporate and I
will tell you, my biggest redflag is in December, when Elon
Musk tweeted out hey, you shouldprobably relook that bill.

(41:43):
And then the damn speaker ofthe House comes out and says,
hey, we should probably relookthat bill.
That's a red fucking flag.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Do you think?
Do you think, that the firsttime the Speaker Johnson was
told maybe you should take asecond look at that bill was him
reading it on X?

Speaker 2 (42:03):
No, no, no, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter, because thedifference between the
difference between Elon Musk andI in the eyes of the government
is he's got a whole hell of alot more influence than I do.
Our positions are still thesame.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Here's.
Here's to me.
This is what's going on.
Trump is using Elon Musk tobasically be his bully pulpit.
Trump can look like the goodguy and say hey look, I'm just
trying to help the Americanpeople, I'm trying to do the
right thing.
He's getting smart, he's going.
I'm going to have somebody elsebe the sledgehammer.
I'm going to have somebody elsekind of be the sledgehammer.
I'm going to have somebody elsebe the bad guy, because I was

(42:40):
the bad guy for four years.
Now.
I could be wrong, but to me itseems like that's very possible.
Now, on the other side of itand you acknowledge this this
has been going on for decades.
You know who was giving moneyto Woodrow Wilson.
We haven't finished that.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Hold tight, you say one and I'll give you an anomaly
.
Then you bring in guys likeZuckerberg.
And then you bring in guys likewhat's your boy over in Africa
sticking people and doingexperiments in the name of
philanthropy?
What's?

Speaker 1 (43:16):
your boy Bill Gates.
They're all falling in line.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
I wonder why that's what I'm saying is what I'm
saying is what I'm saying iswhat my grandmama used to tell
me.
What my grandmama used to tellme is where there's smoke is
usually goddamn lightning.
And when you start getting awhole bunch of billionaires
lining up and they all becomingmighty damn friendly with the
damn presidency up and they allbecoming mighty damn friendly
with the damn presidency- that'sa problem.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
Why do you think they're doing that?
Go through that, KJ.
Why are they getting chummy?
Why do you think?

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Because regulation is about to be.
Listen, we could go backthrough this left and right.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Keep going with that thought.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
We've seen this.
When you have the elite getchummy with the government and
deregulation occurs on a massivelevel, bad things happen for
common people and I hope to GodI'm wrong, because one I don't
want to see people die on amassive level because the
government never really pays out.
It's always oops Right, it'salways oopsie with the common

(44:17):
man.
Hey, sorry man, if only we did,if only we could see this
coming right.
So I hope I'm wrong.
I hope I am so wrong that Ihave to come on here and
apologize for the next fouryears.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
I do.
What deregulation are youworried about that is most
likely to put Americans,american lives, at risk?

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Let's see if I had something.
Let's see if I had something togo back to.
Oh, I do.
Let's see we can go back to 45.
President 45.
Right, he's a fan ofderegulation.
He cut back the DOTtransportation inspection, right
.
And lo and behold, we hadmassive fucking train accidents,
right.
We had the big incident inPennsylvania three times, matter

(45:03):
of fact.
That continued to roll into2020 until the Biden
administration said you knowwhat?
Enough of that shit, start theinspections, right.
Then we had the big foodepidemic.
That happened because they cutback the food inspections, right
For deregulation.
That was only minor, becauseCOVID kind of came in and nipped
a lot of that shit in the bud.
So if you have an unfetteredfour years of deregulations and

(45:25):
no inspections and they say, hey, you don't have to do that,
that's concerning man.
That is concerning to me.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
One of the biggest train disasters we've had in
this country, though, happenedunder the Biden watch two years
in.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah, man you think that shit just automatically
happened.
No, it deregulates.
Yeah, it happened because thepolicies were cut in 45's
administration.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
You said Biden, then came in and put them back in
place.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
Yes, after the train wreck he had to.
But the reason the train wreckhappened is because the
infections were cut in 45's rank.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
Hold on.
If the deregulations were soimportant, why didn't Biden come
in and put them back into placewhen he got in office?

Speaker 2 (46:16):
The same reason you just said, the same reason we
just talked about earlier.
If he has all this other stuffto worry about, that's the last
thing on the line.
And then something happens.
He's like, oh shit, we probablyshould have paid attention,
right?
We can't, we can't excuse guysand then come back and say, oh
well, he should have known.
Well, shit, yeah, he should haveknown, but that probably wasn't
his priority.
A lot of other shit was goingon and it, when b took over, we

(46:37):
were trying to recover from apandemic, so trains were
probably low on the totem poleat that point.
If we're being honest, if we'regoing to look at it fair and
objectively, trains and publictransportation are probably
pretty low on the damn prioritypole when recovering from a
pandemic.
You know what I'm saying.
If we're going to be objectiveabout it, well, sure, yeah.

(46:57):
So so to say, oh well, shit,why didn't he do that?
Well, why he should have knownabout it?
Well, yeah, he probably shouldhave.
And, all things created equal,had he came in with a fair shake
, that probably would have beensomething that the team would
have looked at.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
But KJ I think you're looking at.
I don't think cause and effectis in play here, though.
Because cause and effect is inplay here, though, because if
you have, let's just use justthe rail system.
Let's, let's say just a railsystem.
Let's say the deregulationdoesn't happen.
Okay, can you guarantee to methat if the deregulation didn't
happen, those train accidentsthat you're referencing didn't

(47:33):
happen or wouldn't have happened?
Because when you're talkingabout the rails in America,
you're talking about an entirenetwork that needs trillions of
dollars in upgrades.
You're talking about somethinghas been neglected for decades,
so OK, so you can say, well,it's possible.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
And all it's possible .
But what you don't do is youdon't say, oh well, you don't
take away and say, oh well, it'sgoing to happen anyway.
So we're just not going toexpect it at all, but it's not
not not saying that.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
What I'm saying is the cause and effect is not
necessarily there.
So, as far as you can look atevery presidency and you can
look at issues, right, I lovewhat DeSantis said a couple of
weeks ago when they were talkingto him about the wildfires.
And DeSantis is like look, Iwas told when I first came in as
governor, and it's beenabsolutely true If there's a
natural disaster, you people inthe press are going to

(48:27):
immediately start blaming me,even though I didn't have
anything to do with it.
I didn't start the hurricane.
The governor in California, hedidn't like these fires.
Now there's things we can do asa government that can try to
make things lessen and we cantry to do things that will help
our overall situation.
But overall, things happen,especially with nature.

(48:48):
So when we're looking at someof the stuff that Trump is going
to do, there's going to bestuff that happens, stuff's
going to go wrong over the nextfour years.
I would hope that the thingsthat go wrong it's kind of like
the uh, what was her name?
Lincoln riley that got that gotmurdered?
um, the girl yeah riley wasn'tthat her name?

(49:08):
Link, something like thatanyway.
Do I blame biden for that?
No, do I blame the policies forthat.
I mean, it's possible, butpossible.
But I look at that and gothat's where you have to have
the risk reduction.
And maybe that's what you'resaying is hey, we need
regulation to have riskreduction.
And that would at leastpotentially, if the odds of the

(49:32):
derailing of that train were 70%and after deregulation it went
down to 67 percent, hey, eventhat three percent really
matters.
Certain things I agree with.
It does matter.
You know, illegal immigrants, Ithink on on the right there's
people who say, well, if theseimmigrants weren't here, you

(49:55):
know, none of these crimes wouldhave happened.
You have people on the left say, oh no, there still would have
been these crimes.
And I look at that and go, well, wait a minute, if an illegal
is not here, then that crimewould not have been committed,
point blank.
It just doesn't work like that.
That said, you're never goingto eliminate crime completely.
You're never going to eliminatepeople coming in illegally.
The money's just too too big.
The drugs you're never going toeliminate the drugs until you

(50:18):
make it not economically viableto make it happen.
So as far as everything withTrump goes, and deregulation,
until it doesn't make sensefinancially for people, it's
going to continue to happen.
And if you want to say, likethere are certain things,
deregulation I'm all for.
I don't think anything shouldbe regulated online outside of

(50:42):
children and porn, child porn,some of those things.
If you're an adult, you want togo online and you want to
whatever, go for it, but withkids I think that's where I go
hold on and that's kind of whenwe've talked about the book,
that that's where I go hold on.
And that's kind of when, whenwe've talked about the, the book
banning and I say, look, ifsomebody wants to ban a book in
an elementary school, fine, butyou don't ban it from the County

(51:05):
library because there's there'sa difference.
If, as a parent, I want to goin and show them, um, but a
parent going in and showing aneight year old porn, I think the
parents should be arrested.
So there's just certain thingsthat I think regulation really
needs to be limited.
But the regulation that's inplace needs to be there for a
very specific reason and thatspecific reason should be very

(51:27):
clearly stated to protect thepeople of the United States from
a very specific harm, not justhey, we think this might be kind
of bad, so we're going to havethis law that says whatever,
because then they pick andchoose.
Look at the Biden administration.
They were picking and choosingwith the COVID vaccines.
I just saw a thing today thatsaid the original, one of the
original polio vaccines, acertain brand of polio vaccine.

(51:50):
It killed 25 people.
It was pulled off the market.
A different vaccine 28 peoplepulled off.
And then you get down to wherethe COVID vaccine and you have
literally thousands andthousands of injuries and or
deaths and it really didn't doanything.
Almost every study that'scoming out is saying there was
almost no efficacy.
It basically didn't makeanything if you got COVID, any

(52:13):
less all this stuff, but it'sstill on the market.
Why?
Who was investing?
And that's where I go.
Who was investing and that'swhere I go.
Wait a minute, that's where thegovernment should have gone in.
I'm way more worried about billgates and and fauci having a
cut of pfizer and that vaccinestill being on the market not
only being on the market, peoplepushing for it to be an annual

(52:33):
vaccine.
I haven't let my kids get itand I won't let my kids get it
and I won't let my kids get itso certain things should have
regulation.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
You got to push that back a little bit, though,
because that wasn't, that wasn't, that wasn't.
46 is called, that was 45 iscalled, and his lightning and
his lightning implementations.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
I'm just saying and if and here's the thing if 46
had come out, if 46 and the FDAhad come out six months in and
they said look, the problem iswith the vaccine is that it is
killing people here's thedocumentation I would have been
the first one saying, yeah,trump screwed up.
Yeah, they should have.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
I mean, two wrongs don't make it right, two wrongs
don't make it right.
But we got to.
We got to make sure that weassign the blame appropriately.
Make it right, but we gotta wegotta make sure that we assign
the blame appropriately.
We can't say we can't, we can'tsit back and be like, oh,
there's a lot of people, but no,that wasn't biting, biting,
didn't push that shit throughgovernment it was the government
, but our government killing uson purpose.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
But if you remember biden and the democrats did a
180 on on the covid vaccineswhen it first started going.
You remember nancy plosy?
I will never take a vaccine.
That was authorized bypresident Trump and as soon as
Biden got in place, everybodyneeds to take this vaccine.
It's the greatest thing ever.
I mean it was.
It was all political.
What's the bet that NancyPelosi had money in in Pfizer?

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Everybody had money Like it's the same thing now.
That's why.
That's why I'm against.
That's why I'm against allowingthem to have access to stocks
that they can invest in.
That's dumb Agreed.
But, yeah, all right, so we gotto move on because we are
burning time.
All right, allie, let's talkabout your confirmation hearing,
how you been following alongwith this week's confirmation

(54:14):
hearings Anything stuck out toyou, anything exciting?

Speaker 3 (54:17):
you know, um, I've I've tried to watch as much as I
could and and, to be veryhonest, um, I think it's been
pretty, um, pretty disgusting.
Uh, as far as the democraticquestioning of of um, um, the

(54:38):
candidates you know to, I getquestioning them, but to
question them on a personallevel and attacking their past,
you know mistakes and focusingon that, them, focusing on the
job that they're there, tryingto get a confirmation for.
You know, um, like the Bondigirl Gal I can't think of her

(55:02):
first name all of a sudden, butyou know, and Hexif, like
attacking him for you know anaffair that he had.
And then you read all overFacebook well, I don't want you
know somebody who's going tocheat on their wife to you know,
in this position, and it's likeI bet there's very few

(55:24):
congressmen and people inWashington that haven't cheated,
you know, and so I thought itwas really really messed up.
Honestly, like I don't think youknow, I'm sitting there
listening and I'm listening tothe questions and wanting to get
decent answers and you know, onwhy this person is going to

(55:48):
help, you know, run this countryand make decisions, and I
didn't get it.
It was like there was times insome of these questionings that,
you know it, they were laughingand, uh like, uh, represent
Sheehy.
You know, there was all theselittle jokes and I thought I, I
kept on saying to myself youknow, this shouldn't be a joke

(56:12):
and this shouldn't be.
Um, you know something that anyof us on either side take
lightly.
I mean, these are people thatare being charged, and so I kind
of found it disheartening alittle bit to watch them and I
did turn it off for a bitbecause I'm like this isn't.

(56:33):
I don't think this is how it'ssupposed to be.
This is not.
You know, you got one side overhere, you know, asking
questions and then going.
You know you're a good personand I and dah dah, dah, dah
personally, and then over hereyou're a cheater and I'm like
this isn't a soap opera.

(56:53):
This is the country this is.
We need to take this moreseriously and I watching this
week, I just I didn't see that.
I didn't see anybody reallytaking it seriously and I
honestly felt bad in some casesfor those being questioned.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
I'll tell you though the Secretary of Defense having
an affair does not disqualifyyou, when the vast majority of
people in the military have hadaffairs as well.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
It puts me in line with you.
Yeah, exactly, yeah, I mean,and I'm not trying to Drinking,
and affairs in the military.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Where are my pearls?

Speaker 3 (57:35):
You know and it's like, but you know, they brought
so many people brought that up,and then it was just, I don't
know.
It was like very confusing anddisheartening.
It's like, you know, focus ontheir experience in that job and
what they can do and questions.
And you know, um, then theywere asking questions will you

(57:57):
tell president, president Trump?
No, will you?
And it's like, and they werelike well, we haven't read the
files, we haven't read therecords, but you know, if that
needs to be done, then yes, Ididn't understand that answer.
It was a very one-sidedquestion that would benefit one

(58:21):
side than both.
So it was disheartening to me.
I thought it was kind of joking.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
I didn't watch Bondi, but I read something, so I
don't know if this is true, butit's great if she did.
It said Adam Schiff asked herare you going to investigate me
and somebody else and somebodyelse if President Trump tells
you to?
And she said is there anybodyelse you're telling me I
shouldn't investigate so I canwrite their name down and have

(58:48):
the list?
And I don't think it happened.
I think I read that.
I was like that's hilarious.
I would have loved it if she'dsaid that, because to me the
hearings look, she was none ofthem, none of them got as bad as
the Kavanaugh hearing, and sofor that I'm grateful, because
the Kavanaugh, I thought, was sojust ridiculous.

(59:10):
But as far as, as far as thesehearings, there's not a single
KJ.
And I think we're I think itwas you KJ.
I said that if Matt Gates hadjust decided to stay in, he
would have been fine If he justyeah, if he just said, hey, you
know what, I've been nominated,he would have been fine because

(59:35):
look at Hegseth, everybody was,so it's going to get approved.
And, worst case scenario, Ithink you'd have a situation
where they actually do somethingwith Congress and they do the
recess appointments for anybodyelse that he wants to do.
It would just mean you wouldn'thave somebody in that post for
a little bit.

(59:55):
But overall, I don't know.
I think it's all.
The hearings are what they'veseemed to be for the past,
however long.
They're a way for individualsto get on TV and spotlight and
look how smart I am.
Or or hey, look, I'm going toget my message out.
I'm going to support PresidentTrump, no matter what.

(01:00:15):
Listen to me.
Or hey, I'm somebody who'sagainst me.
So I'm going to make a pointthat sounds really good.
That has nothing to do withanything, it doesn't matter.
I mean most of this stuff, mostof the stuff, it's all
showboating, it's all like ifthis stuff wasn't televised,
nobody would care.
It'd be like oh, did has, hey,did, do we have everybody now?

(01:00:35):
Is everybody approved?
Anybody else we need to worryabout now?
Out now, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
So while I'm all for it, I'm all yeah I was gonna say
, and I heard I can't rememberwho said it they were like um,
you're here because you supporttrump, you're a trump supporter.
And and I was thinking tomyself, yeah, well, yeah, he,
yeah, that's exactly right.

(01:01:01):
They support Trump and they,you know, agree with his
policies and because thosepeople supported him, you know,
or whatever, and I almostthought it was just very comical

(01:01:30):
, almost I didn't feel like itwas something that was happening
.
You know, in Washington thatpeople were taking seriously, it
was just let's go in andsupport an attack, you know,
let's punch.
And I just didn't get it.
And, like you said, lance, youknow, if it wasn't televised,
nobody would listen to it andthe only information anybody

(01:01:53):
would get would be what they geton the news on mainstream media
and who knows?
You know, I just I don't evenunderstand why they do it.
Just let him pick his cabinet,whoever the president Is, and
carry on.
You know, everybody, there'sgoing to be people that Are
going to disagree and agree, andit's not going to make Anything
different.
I just hope for the Best, Iguess.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
So I'm watching, just I'm looking Over there, because
Baltimore and Buffalo Baltimorejust went down scored with 90
Second seconds to go down by two.
Lamar Jackson rolled out, putthe ball into the bread basket
of Andrews and he dropped it.
Baltimore is going to loseunless they get the onside kick,

(01:02:41):
that play.
I feel so bad, mark andrews,that he just dropped a perfect
pass that would have tied thegame.
If he was a soccer player, he'dbe getting death threats, uh,
over the weekend.
So just a little, just I had tohad to say that we can prove
that this is live.
That's kt.

(01:03:01):
Did you have any thoughts?
Did you have any thoughts?
Did you have any thoughts onthe confirmation or it's kind of
like meh just more mediocre,unqualified people getting
pushed through just like and KJ.
That's the thing, like what Aliwas saying about them attacking
personally.
I think if they'd asked whatyour concern with Hegseth would

(01:03:24):
have been, I think that's a muchmore appropriate question.
Well, so go ahead and reiteratewhat you kind of what your
thoughts on that?

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
I don't.
I didn't expect any of hisnominees to get disqualified
unless they do something MattGates is, which is go out and
grandstand as long as they, aslong as they follow the script,
which is shut up and just rideand just you know, go in and
play the game, They'll be fine.
Like I said, the last, over thelast couple of administrations,

(01:03:54):
the confirmation hearings Ithink Kavanaugh was like the
biggest one right where it gotto a point to where people just
want to get in there and make apoint right Like you're not
objective, You're not there tofind out if they're the best
candidate or not.
Your main goal is just to situp there and see if you can get
that gotcha moment right.

(01:04:15):
You want to get that viral clipor that social media clip so
somebody can play your clip onthe news.
Nobody gives a shit aboutwhether this candidate you know
who this candidate is, or whatthey believe in or what their
true values is Right.
We ask dumb ass questions, or?
Or you know who you slept with,or what do you drink?
I don't give a.
I don't give a shit about that.

(01:04:36):
You're a secretary of defense.
I need to know what yourpolicies are.
I want to know what your?
stance on emergencies are.
Those are the questions, as asenator, that I need to care
about, right?
You know what I'm saying, and Idon't think our Congress is at
that point anymore, and that'swhy I said you know, we're too
far gone in there.
I don't believe the SecDefnominee is qualified for the

(01:04:58):
position.
I thought it was a horriblenomination, but I also realized
that he's going to get nominatedeither way, as long as he just
shut the hell up and play along.
But then again, he's just oneof several nominees that are
just absolutely unqualified forthe positions that they're
nominated for and they're goingto get qualified for.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
Well, that goes back to your agent of chaos thing.
That goes back to your agent ofchaos thing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
No, it's easy.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
What I mean is Hegseth is either going to do a
lot of damage in the DOD in ashort amount of time or he's
going to break things loose andpotentially make things better
in a short amount of time.
I don't think there's a lot inbetween.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
I've never seen a segment of people been so
vehemently against DEI and forDEI at the same damn time.
And that's what drives me socrazy about society, right,
you'll have a segment of peopleget up there and champion,
beating themselves on the chest.
We need to be a meritocracy, weneed to have only the best and
brightest and we need to pullourselves up our bootstraps

(01:06:02):
Right brightest.
And we need to pull ourselvesup our bootstraps right and then
turn right around and realizethat the only reason I am in
this position is because of myrelational appropriation to this
guy, right and no other way ifwe were to hold up a blind if we
would hold up a blind resume ofpeak hexed against anybody else

(01:06:23):
in that position.
Right, we took the name and therelationship off and we say here
is a National Guard captain whodeployed to Iraq twice and he
has two combat bronze stars,right, and he was a Fox News
anchor, and that's all theinformation I give you.
And he runs a nonprofit and hegot investigated twice for

(01:06:48):
misappropriating funds in thatnonprofit.
Right, and that's all theinformation I give you.
And we're going to nominate himfor the highest position in our
defense department.
Right, would you vote for himconfidently?
I know you would.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
But that's not dei, that's basically, it's nepotism
basically.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
But whatever the word for no, no, the reason why I
say, the reason why I said dei,because we weaponized the word
dei.
Because we say dei.
The only reason you're a deihire?
Because you're not qualifiedfor that, for that position.
And the only reason you're aDEI hire because you're not
qualified for that position andthe only reason you were placed
in that position is becausesomebody put you there, or else
you wouldn't be there.

(01:07:31):
That's the only reason we useDEI.
Right, we use it because we say, oh, the person is a DEI hire
because had they not been ablack woman or white or whoever,
white woman or whoever, there'sno other way they'd be in that
position, except for the factthat they will put in that
position.
Right.
And if you look at pete heads up, if you look at pete heads up

(01:07:52):
in his resume, he is thedefinition of a dei hire because
his resume is shit.
Twice he was kicked off of.
Twice he was kicked off of anonprofit for mismanaging funds.
Twice, twice he was a fuckingcommander of a National Guard
unit as a captain Major.

(01:08:13):
No, no, he was in a majorposition, but he was a captain.

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
Are you sure I?

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
thought he was a major.
Trust me, I've looked at itseveral times.
This guy, this guy who you'reputting as the sec def, he was
in a major position, right,major position, same thing with
the whole Sergeant Major thing,right, remember, the Sergeant
Major Vice President.

Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
I'm a Sergeant Major.
No, you're not Right, samething.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
So he was a major.
Yeah, you're either a major oryou're not.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
Same thing.
So he was either major or not.
Yeah, he was a major, yeah,he's a major, but he was a cat,
right, oh three, so he's asectarian.
Right now you can say whateverhey man, I want somebody fresh,
I want somebody different, cool,whatever.
But if you hold his resume up,right, and you can say, ok,
we're doing this strictly off ofmeritocracy, there is no way in
hell you can justify this guy'sposition.

(01:09:03):
Right, I'll do you one better.
I'll take your secretary ofhealth.
Right, your secretary of health.
He's going through confirmationhearings next week.
You hold his resume up right,blind resume.
You take that name off.
You tell me what the fuckqualifies the secretary of

(01:09:28):
health for that position.
Not a goddamn thing.
But but we'll say what we'llsay is we have a DEI problem in
this country?
We'll say, we'll say we have aproblem with putting people in
positions that don't qualify.
But then we'll turn right backaround and we'll champion DEI
like it's nothing, because it'sokay when my team does it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
So, KJ, I don't think it's okay either way, but
you're arguing.
Tell me what qualified PeteButtigieg to be the secretary of
the transportation.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Not a damn thing, but that's the whole point.
It's the whole point.
We can't have it both ways.
We can't sit back and beat ourchest and say, oh, I believe in
meritocracy and the best manshould win.
Yada, yada, yada, yada yada.
This is the only way, right?
I think if we would have playeda drinking game for the
confirmation hearing and you letthe sec dev nominee out of his

(01:10:21):
own mouth and we said, everytime he says meritocracy, take a
drink, we'd have passed outabout 45 minutes into it,
knowing good and goddamn well,knowing good and goddamn well,
he hadn't pulled himself up fromhis bootstraps in a very long
fucking time.
But you get what I'm saying,but but we sit back and we sit
back.
This.
But his whole platform is wehave a problem systemically in

(01:10:44):
the, in the armed forces, withpolicies that are, that are
around.
This is why I have a problem,right, because your whole
champion, your whole platform,your whole issue is saying, hey,
we have a policy with peoplebeing in positions that they
don't belong in because offucked up policies, but the only
reason you're in the positionyou're in is because of a fucked

(01:11:06):
up policy.
So then, how can I effectivelytrust you?
How can I trust you?

Speaker 1 (01:11:12):
What policy?
What policy is messed up thatput him in that position?

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
What do you mean?
His, his, his, his woke policy?
Right, his woke policy.
He's saying oh, we got aposition.
His words, where it's got it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
Let me, let me make my point here.
What you just said though, yeah, you're saying he's coming in
and saying the DEI hires in thebook and you said the only
reason that has Hegseth is inthis position is because of a
messed up policy.
Right, the policy that's messedup is the president gets to
nominate whoever he wantsbecause he won the election.
I don't have an issue with that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
But you can't turn right back around and say, ok.
You can't turn right backaround and say, hey, I'm going
to get rid of, I'm going to getrid of the same policy that got
me in a position that I'm in.
That's, that's what.
That's my thing, but it's not.
But it's not.

Speaker 1 (01:11:59):
This is an apple and oranges, this is an apple.
It is because you're talking.
What you said and why Hegsethis in this position is because
of his relationship with Trumpridiculous.

(01:12:24):
Why would trump pick this guy?
He's unqualified.
There's a difference betweenthat and a policy that says if
you have certain things in place, you have to hire a certain
number of people, and hegseth.
One of the things hegseth saidduring the confirmation he said
look, there is no policy.
Okay, there is no policy inplace, that there is an

(01:12:44):
unwritten policy in place.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
That's the same shit that got him put in the position
.
Though, Dude, you're going backand forth.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
The same unwritten policy.
Kj, I'm not, kj, I'm not.
Listen, listen, okay, wow, goahead.
I'm agreeing with you that thereason that Hegseth was in the
place is based on therelationship that he has with
Trump.
Ok, so A battalion commanderand I'm not going to say which
battalion, I'm not going to saywhich commander, any of that.

(01:13:12):
I had a battalion commanderflat out tell me he had to put a
black, an African-Americanfemale because of the choices
he'd already made, because if hedidn't, he was going to get
looked at.
It's not a policy, but it's anunwritten rule in the military

(01:13:34):
right now that if you KJ, I'mtelling you, man, you can shake
your head.

Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
Listen, listen, listen.
As far as Listen, that'sbullshit.
He's as far as that's what?
Listen, that's bullshit.
He could, he could say that,but that's his belief.
That's no different.
That's no different than mecoming in and saying well shit,
I guess I got to hire a whiteguy because my staff's got full.
You know, I got anAfrican-American staff.
That's the difference.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
That's the difference On the other side.
On the other side I askedanother.
I asked I know somebody else,female, female battalion
commander.
Her entire staff was female.
And I asked somebody that wasvery close to her.
I said did she ever feel likeshe had to hire somebody that
was male because she only hadfemales?
And he goes no, that was nevera consideration, because it's

(01:14:19):
the right side of thequote-unquote dei now, but
there's no right side that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
Listen man.
We canI, but there's no rightside.
Listen man, you can't blamepeople for your perceived
fucking guilt.
If you hire an all-white staff,that's your decision as a
command.
Nobody gives a fuck If you comeback and say, well, hey, I
hired five white guys becausethese five white guys averaged
290 on the PT test.
These five white guys shootexpert, as long as you can

(01:14:44):
justify why you have the fivefucking white guys.
But what you can't do andhere's the issue, what you can't
do is you can't say I got fivewhite guys and they're all
fucking fat and they all can'tand they're all on fucking
profile, while you got thesestud ass goddamn lieutenants
sitting on the side.

Speaker 3 (01:15:01):
And that's where the problem comes in.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
But see ass, goddamn lieutenant, sitting on the side,
and that's where the problemcomes in.
But see, that's where theproblem and that's the
information that you missed.
So you'll come back and you'llsay okay, this commander will
come back and say, well, I guessI gotta hire a black guy,
because well, shit, if I don't,somebody, look at me, no asshole
.
What you gotta do is you gottafind the five most qualified
people, and if it just sohappens that all five of them
are white, then the rest of themotherfuckers need to step their
game up.

Speaker 1 (01:15:22):
That's a true marriage.
I will tell you right now thatOER, that officer evaluation
report for that battalioncommander, will say this
battalion commander is notcognizant of the diversity of
his force and that will be abullet point on his evaluation.
Bullshit, that's playing thewhat if game.

(01:15:43):
Not bullshit, that's bullshit.
You can play the what if gameall you want.
It's happening.
That's not happening, okay,that's not happening.
That's not happening.
It's anecdotal, but it'shappening.
It's not happening Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
I mean I'm sure there's instances.
I mean shit, there's instanceshere, there's instances all
around.
But I mean to sit back and say,ok, well, I have to have.
No, no, fuck, you don't.
Because who the fuck's going tosit back and say, ok, I got
five stud commanders in mybattalion and all five of these
white dudes are fucking rocking.
All five of these black dudesare fucking rocking.
Right, all five of thesecommanders are the best of the

(01:16:19):
damn best.
I don't give a shit what you.
You could be goddamn spaceMartians from goddamn Neptune,
right?
I don't care, as long as you,as long as I can look back and
my paperwork says that, hey, whothe fuck you gonna put up?
Because if I put these fivecommanders against your five
commanders, we're coming out ontop any time.
No brigade commander's gonnacome against you.
You can't, because I canquantify it.

(01:16:40):
But what happens is you'll havethat old buddy rope.
Hey man, I know this guy needsit.
Here's what happens.
Oh, this guy needs it.
Oh, don't worry about such andsuch, don't worry about such and
such.

Speaker 1 (01:16:54):
I have to look out for this guy.
Aj, I've lost top blocksbecause of stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
But that's what I'm telling you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
That's not meritocracy though I agree
that's not meritocracy.
Though I agree it's notmeritocracy.
That's my point is it's notmeritocracy, that's the whole
point.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
I'm sorry, allie, we got into a military thing.
Hey, this is fun.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
What's our next one?
What's our last one?
We only have 13 minutes.
What's our?

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
last one.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
We got a little poggy on that.
Yeah, we'll get back to that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Anyway, so tomorrow.
Here's your time to shine.
This is it.
So tomorrow we celebrate theman in America.
I don't know if you guys areexcited, but I'm always excited.
Allie, what are your thoughts.

Speaker 3 (01:17:36):
You know I am excited .
I'm actually extremely excited.
I'll be watching.
You know I have, like I saidbefore, I have the highest hopes
.
I have concerns.
I know that I think it wastoday.
They said they're moving itindoors is so much hate for him

(01:18:08):
and I don't.
I the division of you knowAmerica right now is through
everything from its citizens upto Washington.
It's just so divided and it'ssad and I um, I don't hate him,
but you know, I have know a lotof people that do and that have
nonstop complained and bitchedsince the day you know he was

(01:18:31):
elected and I pray for thiscountry.
I pray for the country, nomatter who the president is,
that all will go well.
But I am very excited.
I honestly believe that we'regoing to see some good changes.
You know, going back to whatyou guys were talking about just
a few minutes ago, and you knowwhen any president runs.

(01:18:53):
You know they do make a lot ofpromises and sometimes I think
you have to take it with a grainof salt that you know, even
though you are the president ofthe United States and you know
one of the most powerful men orwomen in the world, you can't go
in on day one and makeeverything perfect.
It's not going to happen, but Iam very excited, I'm hoping for

(01:19:18):
the best.
Again, I'm the first one thatif it doesn't go the way, I'm
hoping that I will say, hey, youknow what, I made a mistake and
maybe, but I don't think that'sgoing to happen, because if the
other had won I think it wouldI would definitely have a lot

(01:19:44):
more concerns, um, about youknow, the um, the state of the
country.
But, um, I hope it goes safe.
I hope everybody stays safe.
I hope there's no psychotic,idiotic people that causes
problems.
Um, I feel bad.
You know, I think it's kind ofchildish that there's a lot

(01:20:05):
saying that they're not comingout to the inauguration and I
think that the drama that hasunfolded with those that are
participating in theinauguration, the singers, and
the backlash they're getting, Ijust think it all needs to stop.
There's so much crap.
There's so much I hate youbecause you like him and I don't

(01:20:26):
like you because you like her,and it just needs to stop.
You know, I I've told myhusband many times and I've told
my family I wish that we couldhave 9-12 again, and what I mean
by that is.
I don't want 9-11 to happen,ever, ever.
But if you look about how thiscountry was on 9-12, that's what

(01:20:53):
I wished we could go back to.
And you know, everybody just beas one, and I know that's like
this amazing picture in my headunicorns and rainbows and all of
that.
I had unicorns and rainbows andall of that, but I just wish

(01:21:14):
there was something that couldbe done that the division of
this whole country, you know,and the fact celebrating the
most hatred, you know, hated manin America, that's that's kind
of sad when you think about it.
There's never going to beanybody that's going to be fully
happy and and but I'm excited,I'm excited to watch it.
I'm going to be anybody that'sgoing to be fully happy and and
but I'm excited, I'm excited towatch it.
I'm going to be watching it.
I'll probably tear up.
Um, you know, I, I just pray, Ipray, I prayed for the country

(01:21:35):
the last four years that, uh,you know that the right
decisions would be made and thatGod would watch over and
protect us all, the rightdecisions would be made and that
God would watch over andprotect us all.
And I will continue to do thatfor the next four years and pray
for President Trump thatnothing happens to him and that
all this nonsense will just stop.

(01:21:55):
But I'm excited, I'm hoping forthe best changes and, yeah,
that's where I stand on it.
I'm totally excited, 100%.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
Chaffee what you got.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
I don't even know what time the inauguration is at
.
I legitimately do not.
I know it's tomorrow.
I don do not.
I know it's tomorrow, I don'tknow.
I am it's.
I remember when, when theelection happened, I had a
friend who after a couple ofdays she posted something like

(01:22:36):
I'm so depressed after the lastthree days and having to worry
about Trump coming in and blahblah blah and I wrote to her
days and having to worry aboutTrump coming in and blah, blah
blah.
And I wrote to her.
I said if you are thatconcerned and it's affecting
your mental health because apolitician won or lost, you are
too involved and you need tostep back.

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
I read that I laughed , that's true.

Speaker 1 (01:22:57):
Yeah, I don't, I don't care.
I mean, like, realistically,the fact that Trump is coming in
or Harris would have come in,on my day to day stuff probably
doesn't get affected all thatmuch, and being military is
probably more than most, butoverall probably not that much.
Tomorrow's Martin Luther KingJr holiday Great we could be

(01:23:22):
celebrating.
Junior holiday, great we couldbe celebrating.
And so I hope President Trumpmentions that that, for all the
things that King did and for allthe changes and all the
progress we've made in the pastsix years, I hope that on
Tuesday he lays out his agendaand I hope on Wednesday Congress
sits down and starts doingtheir freaking jobs and gets a

(01:23:44):
budget that can be done and thatmoving the next hundred days
means the government is actuallydoing what they're supposed to
be doing.
I hope they go through and theyslash all the red tape that
they can.
That makes sense.
I hope that the Democrats,those that say hey, maybe, maybe

(01:24:15):
now is the time to actuallystart looking at stuff and get
off the, the anti you know the,the I'm blanking on the word
when you're against everythingthe antithesis, maybe we need to
actually start trying to getand I'll tell you what if the
Democrats do that?
I will applaud them, because Ithink there's times that the
Republicans, especially withObama, probably should have done

(01:24:36):
the same thing.
They should have said hey, youknow what?
He won his second term.
We need to get off the fenceand we need to actually let's
get down to governing.
So I hope that happens and Idon't.
I think, actually, in theenvironment we're in, I think
it's possible, because I dothink you're going to see some
people like Fetterman do thatand I think you're going to have
the people like AOC continue tosquawk and not really matter
that much.
But overall, tomorrow's Mondayand it's a federal holiday, and

(01:24:59):
I think I'm more excited thatit's Martin Luther King Jr
holiday than it is inauguration.
I mean, cool, it's theinauguration, I'm excited to get
past it, just because, likewith on Election Day, it was
like oh, finally, ok, we're done, we move on the next one.
Same thing I do.
I have a thought, though.
Let's say, tonight Russialaunches a nuclear weapon at

(01:25:26):
Kiev, who's answering the phonefor that response?
Is it Biden?
Is it someone else?
I'm very curious because we sawthat stuff about Biden moving
out of the White House thisweekend.
But I just I, I think it'sprobably the same person who's
been governing for the past sixmonths, but whoever that

(01:25:50):
committee is, but overall, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
I think it's still got to be Biden man.
I'm excited.
I'm excited.
Every year, we celebrate themost hated man in America in my
house.
So, 1967, a poll.
A poll highlighted that 75percent of Americans decided
that Martin Luther King Jr wasthe most hated man in America,

(01:26:17):
both black and white Americans.
So ever since then since 1967,my family has made a tradition
of celebrating his birthday,which is 15th, but since it
became a national holiday in the80s, the 20th and celebrating
as the most hated man in Americaday, as we like to call it
affectionately, in our, in ourhome.

(01:26:39):
So we will be proudlycelebrating that day with, uh,
with the wife and kids, um, sowe have activities and stuff
planned uh geared towards that.
I will be taking uh the for the46th uh inaugurations approach
and abstaining myself from theinauguration um and the
festivities of such um, nothingpersonal, just something I'm

(01:27:02):
just not interested in.
We got other stuff to do.

Speaker 1 (01:27:10):
I haven't watched an inauguration and I couldn't tell
you the last time I watched one.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
I can tell you, the last time I watched it you want
to take a guess Obama.

Speaker 3 (01:27:18):
Together 2009.

Speaker 2 (01:27:22):
2009 and 2013.
That was the last two, but um,but no, no it's a 13 one also.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, but other than that, um,other than that, I mean, uh, I
wish him well.
I'm excited.
Um, like I said, I'm excitedman, I am hopeful.
Um, I know, we talked aboutoffline, we talked about that
Chappelle monologue, which wasabsolutely phenomenal.
Um, and then this will go intoour final thought.

(01:27:43):
Um, which was absolutelyphenomenal, and then this will
go into our final thought.
I hope the CTR network don'tget mad.
We'll run over a couple ofminutes for our final thoughts,
but I feel it's apropos that weget this out and I'll start
since I already started.
Hey, if you haven't had achance yet, please go check out
that SNL opening monologue fromDave Chappelle.
It was an absolute masterpiece.

(01:28:06):
I know people have their ownthoughts about where SNL has
gone over the years, but I willtell you, by and far, this was a
an absolute masterpiece ofcomedic genius by Dave Chappelle
.
I have thought for years he hadalready ascended to Carlin and
and prior level in terms ofcomedic timing and being one of
the greats, but this was just anabsolute masterclass and it was

(01:28:28):
fantastic.
The points were outstanding.
The commentary was even morepoignant and it wasn't your
typical.
You know I'm on this side and Iblame that side.
It wasn't anything.
It was literally just a feat ofrationalism and I think it kind

(01:28:50):
of touches to the points thatwe touched on today and that's
my final thoughts.
Allie, you want to go next?

Speaker 3 (01:28:58):
Sure, you know, I'll take it, just maybe a slightly
different direction, as my finalthought is you know, I hope we
all come together.
I pray for this country, I prayfor all of us that you know
this new, this next four years,is promising and everybody gets

(01:29:20):
a little bit happier, a littlebit that they need to make their
lives a little bit easier.
And it's a privilege and anhonor, I feel, to be an American
, to be a veteran's wife.
I know what he deals with andgoes through and how much in our
little family we love thiscountry and we love the flag.

(01:29:45):
And I wish the best forPresident Trump.
I wish the best for Biden nowin his health or whatever he
chooses to do, and I think wejust need to start coming
together as Americans and stopthe you're Republican, I'm

(01:30:05):
Democrat and just realize thatwe are one.
And lastly, big time pray forthose in California.
It's a huge mess.
There are brothers and sistersas Americans and we need to pray
for them.
Such a tragedy, such a lossthere and the same with the

(01:30:27):
people in the Carolinas.
You know we need to continue topray for them and hopefully
they get the assistance thatthey need sooner than later, but
we just need to come togetherand stop this nonsense of hate
and get over it and put Godfirst in all of our lives and,
uh, we'll be okay, we'll be okay.
Appreciate you guys for uh,your podcast and letting me be

(01:30:51):
on here and, um, let's do it.
Let's make the next four yearsokay and make it great, maga
whoo what you got well.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
I'm not sure if ctr had a hard cut, because I'm
watching it and I think oh,what'd you get?

Speaker 1 (01:31:08):
Well, I'm not sure if CTR had a hard cut, cause I'm
watching it and I think theyhard cut it, but that's cool.
I will say this Uh, my daughter, I had this up and my daughter
said it says best chaplain inthe world.
Why would you put that?
I said I didn't put it,Somebody else did.
So live up to the.
Live up to the positive labelsthat somebody puts on you and
prove somebody wrong.
If they put a bad label on you,I'll call it that there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:31:31):
Alright, same bet time, same bet channel next week
.
Man, it's been a blessing.
Guys, I'll talk to you guysnext week.

Speaker 1 (01:31:38):
We out.
Bye Jeez man, what do you wantto do tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
The same thing we do every night.
Pinky, Try to take over theworld.
All right, yo, let's get intoit.
Try to take over the world.

Speaker 1 (01:31:56):
You're preaching freedom.

Speaker 2 (01:31:58):
Try to take over the world and greatest chaplain in
the world, mr Lance O'Neill.
Take over the world andchaplain in the world, over the
world, yo yo.
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