Episode 191: The Unfriendly Skies! Will Trump Really Accept A Plane From Qatar? The Fallout For The War On Terror & Beyond!

💥 In This Episode:

🌸 Happy Mother’s Day to Krysty!

• Mark kicks things off by honoring Krysty in his own… unique way.
• Let’s just say calling your wife a “beast” on Mother’s Day isn’t exactly Hallmark material.
• Ava and Ella jump in to share their love for their mom—and yes, there are some laughs along the way!

✈️ Trump Accepts Presidential Jet from Qatar—Good Idea or Bad Optics?

• The Trump Administration’s acceptance of a luxury aircraft from the Qatari government has tongues wagging.
• Mark breaks down what it means politically, diplomatically, and why this move may come with more baggage than legroom.

👩‍⚕️ New Surgeon General Nominee Casey Means—Disruptor or DOA?

• Health disruptor Dr. Casey Means has been nominated for Surgeon General, with a focus on radical reform in healthcare outcomes.
• But will she even get confirmed? We break down the odds—and the obstacles.

🧱 John Fetterman Smeared by His Own Party

• Senator John Fetterman is being thrown under the bus by Democrats after breaking from the party line on Israel and border security.
• We expose the media hit job and party betrayal now targeting the very senator they once defended at all costs.
• This is politics at its ugliest—and we lay it all out.

🚢 America Needs Icebreakers—We Found the Solution

• The U.S. desperately needs new icebreaking ships—and we found the team who can deliver.
• Innovation meets national security in this fascinating deep dive.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
okay, no doubt about a podcast.
Yeah, keep it underneath, elselet's keep this thing going,
keep the groove going.
Ella joining us running theones and twos yes this afternoon
mother's day, christy.
Happy mother's day, seriouslywell, thank you you are an
absolute beast when it comes tobeing a mom.
I mean, there's no doubt aboutthat.
So I appreciate being called abeast when it comes to being a

(00:24):
mom.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I mean there's no doubt about that, so I
appreciate being called a beastwhen it comes to motherhood,
that is in the nicest possiblesense.
Is it Because every woman wantsto be called a beast?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
What is wrong with my coloring?
Look at the coloring on mycamera.
What do you think is going onwith that?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, you guys turned it off and it looks like it's
not white balance, because lookat the blue sign it does look
like it's not.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
We don't we?
These are auto white balancingcameras.
Ella get in there and shut thisthing down, shut me down.
We cannot have that.
That was, that was a roughstart.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Are we going to read?

Speaker 1 (00:54):
No, we're not going to read.
This is a mother's dayextravaganza and we're just
plowing forward.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Are you calling me a beast of motherhood?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, no, you are, and that was it.
That was very complimentary,all right.
So this is pretty rough.
I'm going blue ski.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Okay, maybe it's time for a new camera.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Oh yeah, that's a good call.
I can't even get you a new, newchair.
Look at all the duct tape onChristie's chair.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Continuing to represent.
I thought for Mother's Day.
You, no, we had other plants.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Okay, I see, we got you something else which I think
is a great present.
Actually use it every singleday.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Well, you're acting like you don't know what it is.
You were there when we gave itto you, were you not?
Are you okay?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
I don't know what we're doing right now, so what
do you mean?
You?

Speaker 1 (01:37):
think we're going to play like a game, where it's
like gift.
We got Christy a new coffeemaker.
Slash espresso maker, slashmilk, uh for author.
Yes, and so we'll see how itworks.
Here's the problem when youhave an old school coffee maker

(01:57):
which you had for a long time,you learn how to use it when the
new guy comes in it'scomplicated, it's like a new
relationship.
You're just like.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
I don't know if I can do this I know Cause I was like
, listen, mine was pretty basic.
You just put the coffee and thewater in and you hit the start
button.
This is like fancy.
It is, and I'm not like a superfancy kind of person.
So I'm like now we have to reada manual.
That's tough, like I'm not sureI can handle that right now.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
I get it, not the operation around here At like 5
am.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
what I don't have time to do is think 0500.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
0500.
That's it, it's not hard, it'sthe same.
It's the same up until noon.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
It's not the same Like right now the clock says
like 1347 on it right now.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Right, because it's 147 in the afternoon.
I'm like what am I supposed todo to have you do a little extra
math?
So a couple of quick things onwhat we're going to do.
We'll have some viewer emailsreal quickly.
We got some great response fromthe episode on the conclave and
then we're going to talk about.
I think one of the big issueswe're going to see explode here

(02:53):
in the next couple of days isthis Trump plane thing.
We're going to talk about that.
We're also going to get into abunch of different angles here
on this plane thing, and thenwe're also going to talk about
the fact that we are going outthere and we are going to end up
getting some icebreakers fromFinland.
We're going to talk about that,which sounds crazy, but it's
pretty cool stuff.

(03:13):
Rfk Jr going after trying tofigure out the root causes of
autism.
He's getting pushback on that.
His new surgeon general nomineeis getting some pushback, but
we're going to hear from her,which should be interesting as
well.
We're going to talk about theeconomy just a bit.
And John Fetterman, you want totalk about a party that is

(03:34):
turned on, one of their ownRight.
You should see the headlines onJohn Fetterman and in the
coordinated media attacksagainst somebody who in all
reality, has shown some realsanity here.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's why they want to get him out.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Well, let's be honest , yeah, and the reality is you
know he's no republican andnever will be now, but but he
has been really sane on somestuff and does exactly what you
should do go issue by issue andassess what's going on here, and
sometimes, if you don't fallright in line with your party,
it's not that big a deal.
You're going to survive.
But they're going after him ina massive way.
We'll talk about that.
And then we're also going totalk about, of course, our

(04:08):
Finland icebreakers and thensome Mother's Day stuff, when
Ava's going to step in with Ella, okay, and give a tribute Well,
not really a tribute to you butwe're going to talk about you.
I'm still here, my tributeusually is when you passed on,
but we'll do all that.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
So, go.
Go Okay, fire off, right, allright.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
We had a show about the conclave, yeah.
So we got quite a bit offeedback from you guys on Father
Carney that showed up on ourshow, which was great, he just
showed up.
He just showed up.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh, Father Carney's out front again.
Let's bring him in.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, let's bring him in, he's fun.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
He's a fun guy, he is great.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Even though we all know who the Pope is.
Now go back and watch theepisode, because Father Carney
is great.
He just has some really goodinsight on he does.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Of course, we want you to ignore the part where we
said there's no way there'sgoing to be an American Pope.
Well, I didn't say that For therecord.
I didn't say it, I did.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well, if it helps you , there hasn't been an American
Pope in like 1,500 years, orever really.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
I don't think ever right, Never yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Never, and I think the Pope's been around for like
1,600, 1,800 years or somethingto that degree.
So okay, this first one comes infrom Melba Ortiz and she said
love this show and Father Carney.
Priests like him are a big pullfor the Catholic Church.
He isn't afraid to laugh.
Preach the word of God.
Mark's research on the WallStreet Journal article was so
right on.
I also appreciate theProtestant's viewpoint and
questions.
Oh, Lord.

(05:27):
I'm sorry.
I like that.
I'm the Protestant, by the way,I'm just the Protestant.
So great to hear peopleactually discussing with an open
mind what a treat, theProtestant viewpoint.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
You're not the Protestant.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
I took that, as I was from the Protestant.
We like to hear from theProtestant also known as Christy
.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
No, no, we like to hear from the Protestant also
known as.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Christy, no, no, I just read that so sorry, that's
so funny.
So sorry, melba, I appreciateyou writing in for sure.
Okay, kent Kelly says greatshow.
As a Protestant, I had no cluehow the conclave works.
Nice to get some education.
Father John Carney is a funnyguy.
Yep, he certainly is.
We Whittle said such a greatshow as a Church of Christ
member.
This was such great insightinto the Catholic Church.
I enjoyed listening to FatherCarney.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yes, yeah, very cool.
I mean, and that's part of thereason we thought you know,
whether you're Catholic or not,who the Pope is and what
direction the Pope takes.
Catholic Church really doesmatter, and so we think it's
important.
And, of course, some of thecoverage on this and Robert
Prevost was was eventuallychosen, of course, and now we
refer to him as pope leo the14th, but he grew up in chicago

(06:29):
and so that'll be, that'll be.
But sent spent a lot of time incentral america.
Very much has some of thosethreads, that that come from
francis to some degree, and hiscaring for, for those who are,
who are, you know, downtroddenand disenfranchised, which I
think in a pope is always good.
And then there's someindication he may be a little
more of a doctrinaire than maybePope Francis was.

(06:51):
We'll see, who really knows.
Pretty early still to say that,yeah, but it does appear there's
a lot of optimism, and I thinkthere should be optimism.
I think it's great to see thisand I think it'll be interesting
when he comes to America, whichI hope he does.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Okay, yeah, and that was him.
By the way, the video we justshowed was him praying this
morning, or his morning time forthe first time as Pope.
Apparently he did a live prayerin front of the masses today,
so that was pulled from that aswell.
But it was interesting to hearScott Jennings talk a little bit
about the Pope on CNN today.
I think he does a good job andhe's also a Protestant.

(07:23):
It sounds like, I believe,based on this, a little bit of
this conversation.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
I think that you know , I think you trying to claim
Scott Jennings is probablyinappropriate.
I'm not really claiminganything, but here's what I can
tell you Scott Jennings' wife isCatholic.
We can say that for sure.
Oh, so you're okay.
So you're claiming that thatwas said?

Speaker 2 (07:40):
But he said, I'm a man of faith.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Right.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
I'm just doing deductive reasoning guys.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
I totally understand.
I know you Protestants thinkyou're the only other religion
besides Catholicism on theChristian side, which is not
true.
All right, so let's go aheadand listen to what Scott
Jennings has to say.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Number one I agree with the president.
I think it's amazing that wehave an American pope, and,
whether he has said certainthings that I may or may not
agree with politically, it'sgreat for the United States of
America because I think thechurch here is growing, and I
think it would be amazing if hecame back to the United States
and had a massive rally inChicago and allowed all these
Catholics and Christians to comeand celebrate the fact that we

(08:15):
have a growing faith communityin the United States.
That's number one.
Number two I think it's reallyhard to apply American political
constructs to everything.
You know if you believe what theCatholics and the Cardinals
believe, the Holy Spirit guidedthem to pick this Pope.
Am I right, father?
That is true.
They didn't pick him because hewrote an op-ed or retweeted
something.
They picked him because theHoly Spirit guides the Cardinals

(08:36):
to the correct answer on who'sgoing to lead the church and
who's going to be the heir to StPeter, and so I think that's
very good.
For a non-Catholic Well, mywife's Catholic I just think we
have to respect that, and I'm aperson of faith and a Christian
and I think we have to respectthe divine intervention.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, very wise, very wise and very cool, I think,
yeah, excellent stuff, and sowe'll see, we'll see how
everything was shocking you guys.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
I mean, I mean, I would love father carney's.
Did you write father carneyabout?
Yeah, we tried it afterwards onthe fact that this was the
first american that was chosen,because, honestly, we thought
pizza balla had a real shot.
And so I'm just curious, likewhat was his take on the fact
that an american was actuallychosen?

Speaker 1 (09:23):
I think he was as shocked as anybody was in that
case.
But what he also said wasyou're not going to see and I
hope I'm not speaking out ofturn for Father Carney, but what
he effectively said was you'renot going to see the Pope, you
know, jump in and Americanizethe papacy, like it's just not
what he's going to do.
So he definitely is a man ofthe world now, has spent a lot

(09:43):
of time outside this country.
So, yes, he was born here and Ithink he may have some
sensibilities, you know thatmake some sense to Americans.
But I think, as Scott Jenningsmentions, like trying to fit him
into, he's a super, you know,conservative or he's a super
progressive pope or anythingelse.
Probably will be very difficultto do and so.
But he was shocked that it wasan American.
But at the same time, don'texpect the papacy to be

(10:06):
Americanized.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
It will, it will not be Well, and even I think that
was proof of when his firstwords to speak out was in Latin,
I believe in Spanish.
I believe he did not speakanything with English at this
point.
So I think that goes to whatyou're saying.
Well, a lot of these guys areamazing.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, no, it is, and you're right, I have not even
heard him speak in English yetpublicly.
And I'm sure he will, I mean,which will be a very effective
tool.
By the way, in this country aswell it will be when he comes
here and he speaks in English.
I think that will be a veryeffective tool, because
sometimes it's hard to be in alot of the all the popes speak
English, but it English, butit's, you know, can be a little

(10:47):
more broken than he will be.
So I do think that's also ahelp.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
It's, it's a little point of connection that isn't a
huge deal by any stretch, butsee if he is as politically uh,
verbal as some of the last.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Well, yeah, and Pope Francis was on the immigration
issue.
I think he was very andobviously came in coming at a
very different perspective thanI think a lot of Americans do,
so that you're right.
That will be interesting and Ithink it would be wise not to
get in the middle of thesepolitical things, and I bet he
doesn't necessarily hope.
But we'll see.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Okay, we'll watch on that All right.
So obviously made major newsnationally and it did make some
regional news as well.
But this big drug bust, thelargest drug bust in the history
right now for fentanyl bust,especially pam bondy coming out
doing a press conferencebasically saying, hey, we
brought in the biggest uh drugbust so far, and it includes

(11:34):
states of new mexico, utah and,I believe, arizona.
I think those are the majorstates that were involved in
this so kind of an interestingum situation when it came to
that, with that happening here.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, I mean, it's something we've all known that
the cartels are operating in theSouthwest in a significant way,
and so if you're going to breakthe back of the fentanyl trade
in the United States, you'regoing to have to go after the
cartels in the Southwest.
And that's exactly whathappened here, and here's some
of what Pam Bondi had to sayright after that happened.

Speaker 9 (12:25):
Multi-agency operation led by DEA with our
local5 kilos of fentanyl,including an astounding
approximately 3 million fentanylpills the largest seizure in
our nation's history.
These are the pills in the bagsright there, the main bottom

(12:49):
right, the head of thisorganization, sinaloa
organization, here in thecountry illegally.
Six of these guys and womenhere in the country illegally.
His name is Alberto SalazarAmaya illegally.
His name is Alberto SalazarAmaya.
He is the leader and he wasliving in Salem Oregon.
With him they got millions ofdollars, cash, cars, but the

(13:18):
drugs were in Albuquerque,phoenix and Utah.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
That's how insulated these drug dealer cartel leaders
make themselves these drugdealer cartel leaders make
themselves Okay, so just, and Ithink this is just one of those
issues where largely the countryas a whole agrees that we have
to, you know, open up and do itas necessary to get these people
out, obviously, and to shutthese things down.
We also need to cooperate withMexico.
I mean, they desperately needtheir help in this process.

(13:43):
And so I think, going forward,the big story here is going to
be what kind of cooperation dowe get?
And if we don't get thenecessary amount of cooperation,
how much?
Do we just come in and say, ok,we're going to bigfoot these
drug labs in Mexico and go afterthem?
I don't know, we'll see whathappens, but a lot of this gets
all wrapped into a bunch ofdifferent things, including
tariffs and everything else,where you go and sit down with
Mexico and say, okay, look,here's what we have to do.

(14:03):
And I think, by the way, chinais part of this too which is hey
, stop producing this garbagethat gets sent here.
And if you won't do that, okay,then it's go time.
And I do think there's going tobe some buckling there, because
I think China that's an easygive for China.
China can easily just say, okay, yeah, we don't care about that

(14:26):
.
And the reality is China maycare that maybe the best things
in the world aren't happeninghere If they get a chance to
help, along with the fentanyl inthis country, I think they've
kind of turned either a blindeye to it at the most charitable
explanation, or they've beenmore than willing to watch it
happen.
And we have to go to them andsay shut it down, go to Mexico,
shut it down.
And then those are some of thethings that need to happen.
And those will all be tied into what happens with the economy

(14:48):
and what happens to tariffs.
Actually it's all kind oftogether.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Well, and Bondi did give credit to the state of New
Mexico or to the DEA here in NewMexico.
The feds here that helped, andso, just for clarity of purposes
, this was New Mexico, colorado,nevada, utah, oregon and
Arizona.
I just want to make sure thatit was a multi-effort across all
states.
There were six that were hereillegally.
That she definitely has made amention of that.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Well and this is one of the points we've made for a
long time is when, when you talkabout having the feds involved
in working with state and localgroups and then you see your own
state leaders come out and saywe don't, we don't want to work
with the feds on stuff, stop it,stop.
I mean, this is the kind ofthing you prevent from happening
if you don't do that.
So you know, these are thesorts of things that you got to
cooperate and keep people safeand stop with the politics.

(15:36):
Just drop the politics and, bythe way, it will help both
parties if you drop the politicson this.
Yeah, yeah, just enough of it.
Don't, don't sweat it.
All right, speaking of politics, we have a couple of tweets of
the day.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, this first one comes in from Jim Townsend, um
JT, as we call him, jt.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Senator from Artesia.
Okay, well, he's not JustinTimberlake, but Jimmy Townsend.
Okay, he's a good guy.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
He says Albuquerque public schools just passed a
record $2.2 billion budget, witha declining student population,
which equates to roughly$31,000 per student.
They have consistentlyhorrendous.
They have consistentlyhorrendous performance, and who
should be held responsible?
Actually, this was also in thepaper, I believe too, and
somebody did the mathdifferently there and said it
was even more than that.

(16:15):
They're spending about $35,000per student right now, so this
one gets the second quote of theday.
I thought this came in from Ron.
Yeah, he was also also the catman.
He says.
Well, actually the annualtuition for Albuquerque Academy
is $30,000 a year.
Parents would be able to affordall the private school in town
and get a bigger bang for theirchild's education for that
amount of money.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
And it's just such a good point because really what
many people have been asking foris if we're going to take all
this money, why don't you allowpeople educational choice?
Because you are takingespecially low-income families
and telling them you're going tothese failing schools too bad
for you, because it's not goingto affect the families that are
rich and that can send theirkids to the academy.
It doesn't affect them.

(16:55):
They're still going to be rich.
But it's the other kids whohave to go to school day in and
day out at schools that arefailing them and the cost is
astronomical.
So why do we keep doing this?

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Well, you have teachers unions which step in
and they lock, stock and barrel,control the messaging for the
Democrats in this state, and Ithink the Democrats would do
really well to say wait a minute, we are failing our kids, we're
failing democratic kids,republican kids, independent
kids 51st in education at thispoint, and they say that in
Florida, when they were notdoing so well, when they allowed

(17:27):
student choice or school choice, it really did help improve the
numbers across the board,because nothing like some
competition among schools toactually show up and do the
right thing for their studentsto increase, you know,
transparency for students andtheir parents actually.
So they improve their scoresNow they have some of the best
schools in the country becauseof allowing that.

(17:48):
So I'm not sure how, what thebig fear is, other than what you
said, which is teachers.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Well, I know exactly what the big fear is that once
you start allowing educationalchoice, the death grip that the
unions have on education is gone, and then there's a real
competition and there's a realpush for results.
And guess who wins?
The kids.
But it's never been about thekids with these unions it's not,
and they've proven that.
So step up.
But this is on leaders to stepup and say we're going to break

(18:15):
the old mold because it does notwork.
They're breaking it in Arizona.
Your school choice is acrossthe board in Arizona.
It's changing.
And again, if every state aroundus allows this school choice
Utah allowing school choice,texas allowing school choice
that happens.
What happens to families?
They leave the families thatcan do All right, that's, that's
a great in a truism.
All the way around If they can,they will, they'll be gone.

(18:38):
And so, again, this does nothelp us.
It's the same thing we talkabout with government overreach
and making doing businessimpossible.
People that can will leave.
They just don't want to dealwith it.
They want their kids educatedwell, they don't want crime.
We are in a competitive worldand if we as a state don't
realize that and we just decide,oh, we're just going to
continue to pour money into thisand fistful after fistful, and

(19:02):
then you get no results again.
You're going to continue tostruggle, and so nothing changes
until we have leaders who havethe guts to stand up and say we
want to fix the problem, andinstead of keeping the same
ridiculous system in place thatlines the pockets of the same
union leaders.
It's that simple.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Okay, but we'll see.
We'll continue to follow alittle bit about this Changes
with the Department of Education.
Obviously we're prettypassionate about that as well,
so we'll continue to follow someof that on the federal level
what that looks like for thestate of New Mexico in
particular.
So we'll keep you posted onthat as well as things come out
on that.
All right, let's talk moreabout the news of the week on
the national front.
Okay, this whole Trump jetstory, cause I'm a little

(19:42):
confused I'm hoping you can kindof enlighten me on.
There's all this like rumblingsof Trump getting help from a
foreign country for a new airforce, one plane, and that this
might not be the best idea.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Well, yeah, so let's start with ABC, and how?
So this gets back to mediaframing too, right Cause we're
going to take the same story andlook at it from two different
angles, okay, meaning ABC on oneangle and then we'll look at
another angle on this story aswell, from the wall street
journal.
So let's start with theheadline in ABC.
It says Trump administrationpoised to accept palace in the
sky as a gift for Trump fromQatar.

(20:18):
Sources say Okay, so we'll justread a little bit of this
article for you.
And it is not a flatteringpicture, no surprise ABC taking
every shot that they can.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
And what may the most , in what may be the most
valuable gift ever extended tothe United States from a foreign
government.
The Trump administration ispreparing to accept a super
luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jetfrom the Royal family of Qatar,
a gift that is to be availablefor use by President Donald
Trump as the new Air Force Oneuntil shortly before he leaves
office, at which time ownershipof the plane will be transferred

(20:49):
to the Trump PresidentialLibrary Foundation.
Sources familiar with theproposed arrangement told ABC
News.
The gift is expected to beannounced next week when Trump
visits Qatar which is actuallythis week on the first foreign
trip of his second term.
According to sources familiarwith the plans, this week, okay,
on the first foreign trip ofhis second term, according to
sources familiar with the plans,trump toured the plane, which
is so opulently configured it isknown as a flying palace while

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it was parked at the West Palmbeach international airport in
February.
And then it goes on to say thehighly unusual, unprecedented
arrangement is sure to raisequestions about whether it's
legal for Trump's administrationand ultimately, the Trump
presidential library foundationto accept such a valuable gift
from a foreign power.
Anticipating those questions,sources told ABC News that

(21:31):
lawyers for the White HouseCouncils of Office and the
Department of Justice drafted ananalysis for Defense Secretary
Pete Hegseth, concluding that itis legal for the Department of
Defense to accept the aircraftas a gift and later turn it over
to the Trump Library, and thatit does not violate laws against
bribery or the Constitution'sprohibition of any US government

(21:51):
official accepting gifts fromany king, prince or foreign
state.
Now here's a pic of this plane.
Here's some pictures of thisplane.
I want you to see this if you'retuning in and watching us today
on YouTube, there's a pictureof this plane.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
It's 747.
Good looking plane.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Okay, and then look in the inside here.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, that's a little , that's strong.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
That's a.
It's a little.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
I wouldn't have gone with the with the Royal blue
like that it is a bold.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
it's a bold statement .

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah, there's some bold statements happening in a
variety of places.
Okay, so if you read at, you'relike, oh my gosh, what is
happening here?
I cannot believe this.
And so then we go to the wallstreet journal, which says Trump
wants a new air force, one sobadly he's refurbishing a Qatari
plane.
Okay, so that's sounds a littledifferent right out of the
chute.
Here it says frustrated bydelays on Boeing's work to

(22:35):
deliver a new air force one, theTrump uh, trump commissioned a
smaller defense contractor toready an interim presidential
plane by year's end, said peoplewith knowledge of the situation
.
That framing is completelydifferent.
So what the framing of the WallStreet Journal article says is
wait a minute.
Boeing was supposed to have anew Air Force One, which I
believe we've had.
The current Air Force Ones,which there are two of them, I

(22:58):
think since the Bushadministration, the first Bush.
So they are old planes thathave a lot of years on now they
they refurbish the engines allthe time and do stuff like that,
but still these are planes thathave in airframes that have
been around for for 30, 40 years.
Okay, so trump set all this up,tried to get boeing to do it.
There have been all thesedelays, cost overruns.

(23:20):
The cost for this project isover three, three billion
dollars holy cow for two planes,right, and they're paying $400
million or not paying $400million.
The value on the other plane isabout $400 million, so it's not
nearly that high.
And it says Boeing willcontinue plugging away on a pair
of Air Force One replacementjets which have fallen so far
behind that the Trumpadministration may not get to

(23:41):
fly them while in office.
The US government hascommissioned L3 Harris an
overhaul of the Boeing 747formerly used by the Qatari
government.
The Melbourne, florida-basedcompany is tasked with
retrofitting the plane withcertain specialized systems to
transform the luxury aircraftinto a presidential jet.

(24:02):
Okay, and it says Trump wantsto have the plane available to
use as early as the fall.
Some people have said he hasregularly asked for updates.
On April 18th, the CEO of Boeingcame to the Oval Office and met
with Trump, and people familiarwith the meeting said the White
House and Boeing and L3 Harrisdeclined to comment.
Okay, so that's a totallydifferent framing of everything

(24:24):
here.
But I have to say I don't lovethis at all for Trump.
I just don't think it's a goodidea.
I think Qatar is a country tobe charitable, that has a
complicated history withterrorism, and I don't think
it's a good idea.
I don't think the president ofthe United States of America
should be flying around in agift from another country.
We have the resources in thiscountry to refurbish Air Force

(24:48):
One or move things along withAir Force One.
There are other solutions tothis.
It's a terrible look.
And for him to go and fly thisand then move it into his
presidential library anotherterrible look.
This is an unnecessaryself-owned goal that you don't
need to be defending.
I don't think it's smart.
I don't think the Trumpadministration should do it.
You have enough battles, enoughimportant issues.

(25:09):
Stop spending the politicalcapital on something this inane
and stupid.
Keep flying the current AirForce One.
It's a pretty sweet plane.
Get the other one going and getit going as quickly as you
possibly can working with Boeing.
You've got a contract withBoeing.
You can't go and pull up stakeson that because it's going to
start you all over again.
By the way, by having bothplanes done, they won't be both

(25:32):
done until 2035.
Holy cow.
Ludicrous.
I know it's ludicrous.

Speaker 8 (25:35):
So, 10 years.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
So this really gets to go through at least two
presidents before these.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
I mean absolutely Right.
Exactly, you'll go through thepresident Trump and whoever
could follow him for eight yearsbefore both planes are ready.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
I know this is going to be a crazy question, maybe
dumb, I don't know.
I'm just going to throw thisout there.
I remember Trump specificallytalking about how he liked to
fly on his own plane during thecampaign, like when he was
campaigning because he just kindof bragged about his own fleet

(26:08):
of planes or whatever.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Is that?
Is there just no way one of hisown personal planes could be
outfitted to be air force one?
Is that just not possible?
Yeah, and I think part of theproblem they have right now is
with the two planes that arestill active.
They spend so much time workingon them because they're just
limping them along thatoftentimes they're not.
They're not available.
Oh, I also worry that if youget a plane from foreign
government, how do you know Imean, I get that they'll go
through and check it but, still,it scares me a little bit.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Oh, it totally scares me I thought that was the first
thing I'm like are we in a goodrelationship with Qatar?
Like I don't even know.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Oh, there's a good relationship, but, at the same
time, there is history of Qatarsupporting terrorism in a
horrendous way Like act, likethere's no way around it.
So you gotta be really carefulwith this stuff.
Plus, a gift like that doesn'tlook good.
I don't know if it's legal ornot I'm not a lawyer but it just
doesn't look good.
What are you doing?
Go focus on things that areimportant, not on stuff like

(26:53):
this, and so, to me, this isgoing to blow up.
It's going to be everywhere thisweek, because Trump's going to
Qatar, so if he goes and acceptsthis thing and he flies around
in this thing like it's AirForce One, I just think it is a.
It is one of those things thatI think is just such a diversion
from things that real Americanscare about, and it's a bad look
, and if he keeps going with it,it will hurt him.

(27:15):
There's no, there's no good wayaround it, and so all the time
they spend working on this planeapparently, though, it is a
real concern, like it's costinga ton of money, and so you got
to lean on Boeing, and again hesaid the president sent Elon
Musk to Boeing to say what isgoing on and how many of the
delays that we have are delaysthat we can work around and that

(27:35):
we can speed up, and how manyof them are just inherent delays
that you can do nothing about?
And I think, from what theyfound, there's a lot of you can
do nothing about some of thisstuff.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
I wonder what it is.
That's all they're going to get.
Well, Matt Whitlock, he hadsome choice words about this a
little bit.
He said if we are going afterschools like Harvard for not
allowing anti-Semitism on theircampuses, seems we should also
be taking a tougher line againstthe foreign government's
funding anti-Semitism onAmerican college campuses like
Qatar.
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's goingto come back.

(28:07):
At least he's going to takemore hits about this than we
need to even be focusing on.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Oh, it's ridiculous.
It really is.
It's a stupid cell phone goal.
He should stop it.
But we'll see.
Now there are plenty of peopleonline that are defending it.
Oh, no enough.
I mean, this is just not.
I don't think it's somethingyou defend.
I don't think something youdon't do.
But, speaking of air travel,Sean Duffy went on the morning
shows and the head oftransportation this is this is

(28:32):
scary.
He's talking about howantiquated our airports and our
systems are of communication atour airports, especially Newark,
is terrible and they are havingto tackle this.
But for those of us who fly alot, it's like you just look at
this and think, as bad as someof this stuff has been recently,
it probably should have been awhole lot worse.

(28:53):
So here's what Sean Duffy said.

Speaker 6 (28:55):
What we have is you can't snap your fingers and fix
it right.
It takes time to build theinfrastructure and I say it's
going to be three to four yearsto build it all.
But we're going to focus onNewark first.
We're going to start to seeNewark be far, far more
resilient in the near term.
But air traffic controllerswere 3000 short on air traffic

(29:17):
control.
I can't snap my fingers andbring in these highly skilled
air traffic controllers.
All of this is going to taketime.
So the key here is we have tostart.
We have to begin the process offixing the system.
I can't say in two weeks I canhave it fixed.
That's not the space that wedeal with.
But I'm going to tell you weare going to begin and in the
months and years ahead we'regoing to see real results.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Really really good messaging, really smart
messaging.
Properly set the expectation.
Don't get into it.
Was this been a nightmare fromblah blah blah?
You know all this reaction.
We know that over a long timewe have not taken the technology
necessary and implemented itwith our airports and with our
air traffic controllers.
And, by the way, he went on inthe interview to say they didn't
fire a bunch of air trafficcontrollers.

(29:59):
It never happened.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Right.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
So, and that's absolutely true, and they need
more.
So if you want to, you want agood job, a good government job
that's going to pay you well andthat you will always have that
job.
If you're competent, go in andbe be an air traffic controller.
We need them Right, and sothey're going to fix these
things, but it's going to takethree or four years to do that.
Newark's one of the points onthis, but it was good to hear

(30:20):
and I think he's a really goodmessenger for a lot of things
they need to do.
Obviously, he's got abackground, and an interesting
background as Congressman, andthen he was I was the on it was
on a reality show and yeah he's,but he's a super, he's
effective communicator and Ijust liked the way he set the
proper expectation and then saidhere's where we're going.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Well, and I think we'll see more of him, just
because, honestly, with how manythings have happened to the
situation I mean, since he tookthe first day I think it was his
first day in the office is whenthat helicopter and plane crash
happened in DC, and this guyhas been running and gunning
since then.
So hopefully he gets somefooting underneath him and he
can get some processes in placeand so he can start talking
about exactly what they're gonnabe doing, along with these

(30:59):
hires, because I think you haveNewark.
I don't remember how longNewark was shut down, but it was
a long time and it impactedthousands of travelers.
So it's important that weactually get ahead of this at
this point.
Yep, okay, casey means the newnominee for surgeon general, I
think.
Do you think her confirmationis going to be controversial?
Do you think it's going to?

(31:19):
She's going to just see, justgo right through, or do you
think that we're going to seethis kind of getting somewhat
controversial on her?

Speaker 1 (31:26):
You know the answer to that question.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
I think it's going to be highly controversial.
Absolutely, Because now she myunderstanding is Robert F
Kennedy is the one that puts herup for this right.
No, President Trump does.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
But I do think you'd go to RFK Jr and say what do you
think?
And I think this was anabsolute stamp of approval from
him.
This doesn't happen without himsaying, yeah, that's a good
call let's do this one.
Yeah, absolutely so.
I think there's definiteconsultation, but make no
mistake this Trump's appointment.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
OK and she's definitely gotten in the
limelight in the last couple ofyears with her book.
With her, you know, she's doinga lot of public speaking with
her and her brother, who'vereally tried to like really blow
things out and talk aboutAmerican health.
How dangerous things are thefact that we're not unified in
healthcare.
One person's focusing on thispart of the body, this person's
focusing on this part of thebody and this person over here

(32:17):
is doing something like this andit's not streamlined where
they're having conversationsabout fixing the whole problem
that's going on with somebody.
I thought that was reallyfascinating because she talked
about.
You know you get somebody.
When she was a surgeon she'slike you know I could keep
fixing what was broken in thecertain areas of somebody, like
they had issues going on, butunless I can talk to this doctor
over here that's treating herfor this A, b, c and D, we're

(32:39):
missing a step here in themedical practice.
She also has been very, veryforward in talking about how
nutrition is a massive issuethat's not really being
addressed in medical school orbeing addressed with the
American public as far as healthconcerns go.
So I think she's a fascinatingchoice.
Here's a little clip of hertalking about why some of these

(33:00):
things really have to startchanging here.

Speaker 8 (33:03):
You know.
If they knew everything, thenwhy would we be spending $4.5
trillion per year on health carecosts, and life expectancy is
going down in the United States.
Why are 80% of health carecosts going towards chronic
illnesses that are rooted indiet and lifestyle?
Yet at the vast majority ofAmerican medical schools,
doctors in training are nottaking a single nutrition course
, and so you have to ask thesequestions.

(33:24):
If we were crushing it, wewould not be spending 2x every
other country in the entireworld and have the lowest life
expectancy of any developedcountry in the entire world.
We are the sickest of the top11 high-income countries in the
world.
We have the highest infant andmaternal mortality rates and our
life expectancy is 10 yearsless than our friends in Japan
and Switzerland Right now,according to the Journal of

(33:47):
American Medical Association,the average American man in
America age 73 is their lifeexpectancy.
It is 83 in Japan andSwitzerland.
This is something we should allbe outraged about, and only one
party in our election cycle thisyear was talking about chronic
illness.
The words chronic illness, asfar as I know, never came out of

(34:08):
the Harris campaign's mouth,and I think that was a real
misstep, because Americans are,I think, tired of being gaslit
about the fact that there's nota problem right now and we look
around us and we know there is.
And Trump has asked RFK to dothree simple things.
He's asked to get thecorruption out of the US health

(34:30):
agencies, produce uncompromised,evidence-based research for our
health guidelines and reversethe trends of the chronic
disease epidemic in two yearsfor children and adults, so that
we can show up for our 250thanniversary of America stronger
than ever.
That sounds pretty good to me.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Very effective communicator, obviously, and she
was a surgeon at Stanford andtop of her class and very smart.
So I think she gets through.
There's no doubt I think shegets through.
I don't think she ends up, youknow, you know, getting hung out
to dry, but but it's veryinteresting and we'll see how it
goes.
And but but this whole thingwith RFK Jr he's he's been a

(35:11):
lightning rod, he continues tobe a lightning rod and this past
week he came out and he talkedabout really pushing hard to try
to find exactly what the causeof autism is.
And it's always interesting tome and, I have to say, kind of
infuriating in some ways whenyou read some of the pushback on
him, with people who almostseem like they don't want to

(35:32):
move forward with this and findout what's going on which is
weird yeah.
And I don't and I don't and Ihate to say that that's true
because I don't know that it'strue.
I'm hoping that they they maynot like his approach or
whatever, but the fact that wehave no clue at all what's
afflicting so many of our kidsand obviously our family cares a
great deal about, to findautism's causes in a few months
is jarring and unrealistic.
That's because it appears toignore decades of science

(36:13):
linking 200 genes that play arole and the quest to understand
differences inside the brainthat can be present at birth,
and the quote is this can bepresent at birth, and the quote
is this virtually all theevidence in the field suggests
that, whatever the cause ofautism, there's going to be
multiple causes.
It's not going to be a singlecause.
They all affect how the fetalbrain develops, said longtime

(36:33):
autism researcher, david Amaralof the UC Davis mind Institute.
Yeah, I get all that.
I mean we, we get that.
It may be complicated, but butit's.
But it's almost like let's justmake this difficult, let's make
this difficult and we'reprobably not going to be able to
do it.
Enough.
People have heard enough ofthat, and I get that.
This doctor, david Amaral, hasgiven his life to this and I

(36:55):
think he knows more than any ofus know put together.
But at the same time, we needsomeone who's going to get on
board, shake things up and belike what is really going on
here.
And I think, as he continuallytries to shake out things here,
you see plenty of people thatjust don't want the apple cart
upset, and I'm and I'm wonderingwhy.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Well, because I think it's going to come down on
things like does it haveanything to do with vaccines?
Does it have to do with ourfood supply?
Does it have to do with, youknow, things that are given to a
mother during pregnancy?
I mean, it's been a questionI've had for a long time.
I think what's important is,and what's always been alarming
to me is, you have one in 36children now that are on autism
spectrum.
Okay, one in 36 children.
We have to have theconversation.

(37:35):
We have to at least be willingto say we're going to
investigate this, we're going tosee what some of the causes
might be.
Let's figure that out.
Let's go in and do someresearch and allow that
conversation to happen.
I think the snuffing out of it,the making especially mothers,
feel like you know, I can'tbelieve.
You're accusing this, thisproduct or this thing or this

(37:56):
vaccine or this food as causingthe autism, when you have no
proof of that.
Well, why don't we start liketurning everything upside down
and finding out actually what itis?
Now I am surprised that he saidhe believes he's going to have
answers by September on this.
I hope that's true.
I hope that he's got answers bySeptember.
I'm going to tell you this is mypersonal opinion.
If he can find answers bySeptember, then they've already

(38:18):
known, because I think it'spretty hard to figure out a
disease and all its backup andwhat's causing it within a few
short months.
So to me, I think he must havea radar on something or multiple
things that he believes couldbe the cause of this, and
because to put that kind oftimeline forward, that seems
pretty bold to me that he'ssaying that.
So to me I just it's my ownopinion, but I think he must

(38:41):
have some insight on what hethinks is actually causing all
of this.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Well, and he talks about being aggressive, and some
of this has to do with research.
The other quote with this isKennedy on Wednesday announced
the National Institutes ofHealth would create a new
database to uncover the rootcauses of autism and other
chronic disease by mergingMedicaid and Medicare insurance
claims with electronic medicalrecords and other data.
He has cited rising autismrates as the evidence of an

(39:06):
epidemic, of a preventabledisease caused by the sort of
environmental exposure, by somesort of environmental exposure,
and some of the answers will begiven by September.
So that's exactly what you'retalking about.
So we'll see.
We'll see what happens with it.
But I just think him upsettingthe apple cart and this whole
thing.
Well, the experts say that youshouldn't be doing this Enough.

(39:27):
Who cares?
I mean, honestly, there areplenty of experts all over the
map here.
There are a lot of smart people.
I don't have any idea whatthey're going to come up with,
but to hear as a parent of achild that's been through the
ringer with this, I think whatyou get frustrated at is the
expert who tells you to calmdown and don't worry about it,
right, or we're taking care ofthis.
You're taking care of nothing.

(39:47):
Yeah, I mean you don't have anyanswers on anything.
So let's at least try to startto figure some of this stuff out
, so we'll see what happens.
All right, all right.
Also a big week for the tariffdeals.
Last week we had a tariff dealwith the UK, we continue into
negotiations with China rightnow, and so on CNN this morning,
chris Sununu was the formergovernor of the state of New

(40:09):
Hampshire and he talked aboutthe fact that the Trump
administration has a prettytight window here to kind of
settle things down on tariffs sothat then the focus can turn to
a bill to cut taxes and let theeconomy really start making
some progress.

Speaker 5 (40:23):
Yeah, the clock is definitely ticking.
I think they got two months atmost, maybe even it's more like
six weeks.
So they have to start puttingthese deals together and give a
couple of things the marketconfidence to know that there's
a pathway here.
And the UK agreement, whilevery general in broad strokes,
definitely sets the groundworkfor some of the future
agreements there.
I think we got to see some morein Asia and I'll let the

(40:45):
ambassador speak to that.
You know what's happening inVietnam and Japan and those
other countries.
But yeah, a lot of thesebusiness owners have about a
month to two months of inventorybefore the true inflationary
effects of this could hit andthat could be a few percent up
and a tick up or empty shelves.
I think empty shelves are thebigger fear right now If you see
Target or Walmart going without.
So the China piece at the endof this is really, really

(41:08):
important.
It sounds like they made someheadway yesterday, but they got
about six weeks to really givethe market and some of these
small businesses confidence thatit's not going to drag them
down.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah, and I think some of the issue, the China
stuff, where there's been talkthat they are going to bring
those rates back down again, atleast somewhat.
So we'll see what ends uphappening with that.
Remember, the China stuff iscomplex because you have a
country in China that steals ourintellectual property
constantly and turns it aroundand sells it back into this
country.
That's got to stop.
I mean, you have access tomarkets where China just unloads

(41:38):
all their goods into ourmarkets and then we're prevented
from going into theirs.
They take all our stuff andthen we can't, we have no
ability to go and have anyredress against that country or
individuals in that country whorip us off.
So it's going to be a complexdeal with China here, but it is
important, and if you startlistening to people who are on

(41:58):
the ground in some of theseports, they're like there are
not many boats coming in.
This really is happening and sothis is going to be a face-off
that's likely to continue tointensify over the next few
weeks as well, and there has tobe a reset.
You got to have the guts to seeit through and fix what happens
here Now.
Is this the right approach?
That can be argued.
We've said on this show fromthe very beginning excuse me, we

(42:20):
don't really know because we'renot economists and we're not
experts on tariffs, but butthere has to be a reset.
Everybody knows that and that'shappening right now and the
question is what's the resultand what, eventually, is the
type of deal that they reach?

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Okay, well, we were following our own campaign in
2022.
However, another popularcampaign that was happening at
that time was Fetterman and DrOz.
Okay in Pennsylvania for theSenate position.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
That was yeah.
Was it 2022?

Speaker 2 (42:48):
Yeah, it was 2022, right, and so we were kind of
shocked because, if you back upand if you recall a little bit,
fetterman had a stroke shortlybefore the election and there
was this big question of can hereally still be the guy that
they put up, right?
Can he still do the job?
Basically, is he in a healthsituation where he can take this
on?
And that was the question.
A lot of Republicans were likewhoa, whoa, whoa, we cannot

(43:11):
elect John Fetterman, right?
This should not happen.
So now Fetterman's been in theSenate for a while.
He has said some crazy things.
He's said some I can't believeI'm saying this but some smart
things, right, we've put him onour show quite a bit because
he's kind of shocked us withsome of the common sense
knowledge that he has shown.
Now what's interesting is hisown party is basically not

(43:33):
supporting him so much anymore.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
So we, we as Republicans I remember back to
this race in 2022, he really didstruggle right after the right
after his stroke and it was sadto watch in the, in the thought
a lot of us said and we said iton this show after was that he
should not be elected to theSenate.
But then he recovers and andreally he's doing much better.

(43:56):
Now, right, he's doing muchbetter and Republicans are like
you know, he's done a prettygood job.
He made a great comeback.
It's a great story and he'sdone a good job.
And now the Democrats are likeno, now that he's recovered, we
need him out.
We need him out.
We don't need this guy thinkingfor himself.
We don't need this guy usinghis own gut to make these
decisions.
And using his own gut to makethese decisions.

(44:19):
And I will tell you what'samazing is is you look up the
headlines I mean, let's just dosix headlines because you can
just read them off and this isan unbelievable coordinated hit
job.
If you wonder about the mediaand their ability to drive a
message, well, when they gettheir marching orders, they are
direct, they are detailed andthey are in unison.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Okay.
Well, this first one comes in.
It says John Fetterman reactsto concerns regarding his health
fitness for office.
Okay, Okay, Then we got here.
Cnn says Fetterman vows to stayin Senate dismissing questions
over fitness to serve.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
Again, no fitness to serve problems when he came in
and really was still mentallystruggling Nothing Now he's
doing fine, you see or hear andreally was still mentally
struggling.

Speaker 8 (45:00):
Nothing Now he's doing fine, you hear him do an
interview.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
You're like yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
He's recovered, totally recovered Right, and now
, all of a sudden, we got theproblems.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Okay.
New York Times says formerFetterman aide expressed concern
to doctor about Senator'smental health Ridiculous.
Okay, okay, here's another one.
There are reportedly seriousconcerns about John Fetterman's
health following his stroke, andit's not looking good.
Of course it's not looking good.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
He's fine now standing up for Israel and doing
what he thinks is best.
Now we've got to put a stop tothis.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Here we go again.
Here's another one.
Fetterman calls bombshellreport about his health a hit
piece, but won't say if he'staking his meds.
That's awful, god, that's justawful.
And then finally here theindependent.
He needs to resign.
Democrats react with quietshock to damning John Fetterman
profile.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
This is disgusting.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
It is disgusting, it's so coordinated that it's at
least he's a guy that I thinkwe disagree on some of his
stances on things.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
He will never be a Republican.
So for those Republicans outthere, no, no, no will never be
a Republican, no.
So for those Republicans outthere like, oh, maybe he comes
out no, no, no, no.
John Fetterman is a liberal guy, which is fine, but he's also
somebody who, especially on alot of these issues, like some
of the Middle East issues,immigration has been completely
sane and it's like, yeah, I mean, get it.
You're a free thinker who seesinformation and then decides to

(46:15):
go in the direction that youdecide to go.
And in fact, there areRepublican senators who are
standing up for him saying, hey,look, this guy's doing a good
job.
Axios article says GOP ralliesaround embattled Democrat
Senator John Fetterman and it'sinteresting because there's a
trio of Republican senators cameto the defense of their
Democratic colleague JohnFetterman on Friday, accusing

(46:36):
the media of a smear campaign.
Clearly, that's exactly what'shappened.
When you've heard and readthose headlines, it's unusual to
see this level of publicdefense of a member of the
opposing party, but the GOP'sdistrust and distaste of the
media is superseding politicaldifferences.
That's exactly right.
You've got three of thesesenators in there Dave McCormick

(46:57):
from his own state, which Ithink is super smart.
I think Dave McCormick comingout and saying this is
ridiculous and it's unfair andunjust is exactly what you
should do as a US senator ifthat's happening to one of your
colleagues, and even if they'rein the other party and so you
know he had his comments.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
He said stop these vicious personal attacks against
Senator Fetterman, his wife andhis health.
He is authentic, decent,principled and a fighter.
These disgraceful smearsagainst him are not the John
that I know and respect.
Then we have Senator Tom Cottonfrom Arkansas, also a
Republican.
He's called Fetterman, a decentand genuine guy, and goes on to
say the radical left issmearing him with dishonest,

(47:36):
vicious attacks because he'spro-Israel and they only want
reliable anti-Israel politicians.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
I think this is especially and Cotton's great.
But McCormick, here is what Ireally like, and on two
different levels.
One on a human level, wherehe's just like come on, stop
trying to destroy this guy'slife, you're awful for doing it
and you should be ashamed ofyourself.
But number two, evenpolitically, if I'm advising
McCormick, this is fantasticReach across the aisle and

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defend your colleague who's fromthe other party.
It is not going to hurt you.
No one in your own party is madat you about it.
And on the other side, there areDemocrats going to see this and
like Fetterman and Fetterman,by the way, his numbers in
Pennsylvania are very good.
So it turns out that this sortof thing works thinking for

(48:24):
yourself and not being a robotwho's who's either anti-Israel
or just doing whatever he's told.
They wanted someone to be arobot for them.
They wanted someone who theycould spoon feed votes to and he
would do exactly what he wanted.
Well, early on it looked likethat could be possible, but then
, lo and behold, by God's grace,john Fetterman gets better.
John Fetterman thinks forhimself and John Fetterman's his
own man.
So everybody who thought theywere going to get a senator who

(48:46):
they could just manipulate arewrong, too bad.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
Yeah, okay, so now you've been waiting to talk
about these icebreakers.
I don't know anything reallyabout this, so I want to let you
go ahead and lead the way onthis ice breaker story it's a
very complicated story.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
It's very complicated .
I don't know if I should evenshare this boat and paint.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
That's what I read.
Well, yeah, yeah, partially,it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
All right, so we don't have a production ability
to make ice breaking ships likethe fins do.
Okay, the finland isunbelievable at this.
All right, and and so they.
They dominate the Arctic as faras that goes.
And so Trump wants to go toFinland and say, look, we need
you to build us a bunch oficebreakers, because if you are

(49:28):
going to have a real presence inthe Arctic, you have to be able
to cut through the ice.
Like that's how it works andit's, it was just fascinating.
So I start reading this in thewall street journal and I was
just thrilled by it.
Now, and it's, it was justfascinating.
So I start reading this in thewall street journal, and I was
just thrilled by it.
Now, of course, I love winter.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
So I do love the ice I just got any winter.
It's like, hey, let's move toAntarctic soon, like you'd be in
Antarctica, but maybe Finland,you'd be like, let's go to
Finland.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
I think I'd be more of a.
I think Norway would be abetter, because the fjords and
things like that Finland's alittle.
I don't know about thetopography, I'm not as into it
as much, but here's what theysay.
They say smashing ice isstraightforward, except when it
comes when it is more than 10feet thick and you're using a
ship, even one designed for thejob.
If an icebreaker's hull is thewrong shape and it bends but

(50:11):
doesn't break without the rightpaint, the ship grates against
the ice like sandpaper paint.
The ship grates against the icelike sandpaper.
Spin the propellers too fast ortoo slow, and deflected chunks
of subsea ice can make the shipreverberate like a gong.
Knowledge of the pitfalls likethese is why Finland has helped
design and build around 80% ofthe world's icebreakers.

(50:32):
Finns say they can churn outicebreakers more quickly and
cheaply than anyone else,putting them in prime position
as countries race for access tothe arctic's thawing seas.
Now, by the way, let's.
I had to then go and find oneright, so I look at, so let's go
here's a look at the finnishicebreaker and it's, uh, pretty
cool stuff as it as it comesthrough here and it's a good

(50:56):
looking icebreaker.
I'm just going to tell youright now.
This thing is good, saysicebreakers are purpose built,
which drives up costs.
Only a few are producedworldwide annually.
They can last half a century.
So once you get one, they go 50years on.
These things, right, they'reamazing, and most countries know
how evaporates in thegeneration or so between the new
ships.

(51:16):
So that's interesting.
They last so long that onceyour country builds one,
everybody who built it dies bythe time you need another one.
Wow.
So you don't know the detailsand all the information on it.
This is a great example of howtrade is really critical, right,
because you go find somethinglike this and say, all right,
the Finnish build ouricebreakers and they build

(51:38):
whatever we need.
I don't know how many we'regoing to need.
I think they want 10 orsomething like that from them
which we're going to need, butit's amazing stuff.
So it's just one of thosereally cool things and I so.
So I looked at the article.
I was just fascinated and I waslike it's one of those articles

(52:02):
and, when it was done, wantreally slick paint, I don't know
.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Well, they said they don't want it to be like
sandpaper yeah if you have thewrong paint.
Paint it's like sand yeah paper, but anyway, okay.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Well, it's time for a little tribute, is it not, ava?

Speaker 2 (52:11):
it is.

Speaker 11 (52:12):
Thanks for joining us.
By the way, thanks for cominghere.
I'm on the show now.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
Yeah, we are doing a little.
It's not really a tribute, asmuch as we just wanted to tell
mom how much we appreciate heron this Mother's Day.

Speaker 11 (52:22):
That's why we're here.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Yes, it is, it is.
So I want to do a couple ofthings.
First of all, I want to playthe first video, because this
video is very much your mom, andshe sent me this today.
Okay, and it's a lot of moms Iknow which.
When you, when you ask mom whatshe wants to do for Mother's
Day, what does she usually say?

Speaker 11 (52:41):
I just want my kids to get along.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
I want world peace.

Speaker 11 (52:45):
I want this house to be clean.
I want us to have dinner as afamily.
I just want us all to be notfighting and not yelling at each
other?

Speaker 1 (52:53):
Are we fighting and yelling at each other?

Speaker 2 (52:55):
No, but that's what she says Mainly aimed at you two
girls.
Just for that's what she said,right, okay, so, mainly aimed at
you, two girls, yeah, so reallyis that true, though?

Speaker 1 (53:01):
So Christy sends this clip, which is hilarious.

Speaker 12 (53:06):
The thing for Mother's Day.
All that I really want is likea break because I'm tired, I
don't want to do anything or goanywhere unless it's like really
nice out.
I want to do something.
So you know, it might justdepend on the day.
I just want a nap and a littlebit of space, but not too much
space.
Might just depend on the hour.
You know, kind of feel me out,but not too much.
Give me space.
Um, really don't make a big dealout of it.

(53:26):
Just like a little bit of adeal, not a huge deal, just the
right amount, a deal.
I really don't need much.
I don't even need like gifts, Ijust need a card along with
like a little gift, just likethe right size.
Gift doesn't have to be a lot,you know I need everybody
together and happy, but not tooclose.
Like I said, just a little bitof space.
I'd like to maybe go on a walk,but I need all attitudes to be
like agreeable to that walk andI know you can't like control
attitudes, but I'd like you to.

(53:47):
I'm kidding, but I'm not.
I just want it to be like areally nice day, but not too
much pressure, just like theperfect day, but it doesn't have
to be.
It's just another day and Idon't care.
I care a lot, but I don'treally care that much, I'm just
tired.
You know, like I said, I justappreciate you guys.
I need you to appreciate me,that's it, that's all.
And don't worry about flowers,but I, I will worry about them.
If they don't come, I will cry.
If they do come, I will cry.

(54:07):
I'm kidding, you're going tocry, we're all going to cry.
Not a big deal, remember it.
Want anything, but everything,so okay.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
That's Taylor Wolf.
She's a writer and I justthought she's hilarious and she
put it.
I mean, it's true, there's alot, a lot of like you know, hey
, what are we doing for Mother'sDay?
Well, we kind of.
I mean, I'm going to just addthis little note we want you to
come up with the idea of whatwe're doing for Mother's Day.
Yeah, good point, like the factthat we make all the decisions
all the time like we havedecision fatigue.

(54:39):
I think, at the end of the day,if I'm you know, we, we make up
what's for dinner, what we'redoing, kids schedules, all those
things.
So we just, we just want youguys to actually come up with
what the plan is for mother'sday.
That's my opinion.

Speaker 4 (54:51):
Okay, okay, okay, so else what would you like to say
to your mom on this Mother's Dayfor the unbelievable work she
does in defense of yourexistence?
Thank you.
And happy Mother's Day.
Thank you.
Ella.

Speaker 6 (55:04):
Yeah, well.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
I think Mother's Day is great.
I feel like you, really.
I feel like Mother's Day is theday where the mom makes the
decision, Not because, no, notbecause we like need you to, but
because a lot of the time, youknow you're making the plan for
the things that we all need toget done.

Speaker 6 (55:22):
But wouldn't you?

Speaker 4 (55:22):
rather make the plan for the things that you want to
do.
Yeah, there we go so that wedon't make you go to the zoo or
something.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
Yeah, we're like hey, let's go see the polar bears.
You're like I hate zoos.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
We're like well, we love them but you asked us to
make the plan.

Speaker 11 (55:37):
Well, like zoos.
So then you want to like nobodylikes.
What I should ask is like Ilove dad and I, we love it, you?

Speaker 2 (55:41):
guys should ask your moms at home.
If you're listening, you should.
You should know what your momlikes and what she doesn't like,
and if you don't know that, youshould ask that before mother's
day, just a fresh tip Okay.
Like we know you like to ski,you like the mountains, you like

(56:03):
being outside.
I know your favorite foods, Iknow your favorite running shoe,
I know what you like to wear.
I know a lot about you.
I know what kind of car youlike.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
I literally could name a million things.

Speaker 11 (56:06):
I know that you like right.
Could you do the same?
Yes, you think, yeah.
Okay, what's mom's favoritecolor?

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Uh green.
She doesn't necessarily have afavorite color but it's green.

Speaker 11 (56:19):
It's green.
Green, orange blue, it's green.
What's her favorite?
You like skiing?

Speaker 1 (56:21):
What does mom like?
I think your mom likes goingand buying stuff at stores that
other people have owned beforeand that it's in there.

Speaker 12 (56:32):
Antiquing.

Speaker 11 (56:34):
I like the antique.
What's her favorite food?

Speaker 1 (56:37):
I don't know that she has a favorite food.
Do you have a favorite food?
Probably sushi I was going toguess sushi.
What's your favorite flower?
White roses.

Speaker 11 (56:48):
Good job and we did get you those.
I know I love those.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
And we also got you a coffee maker, we're all very
excited about that.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
We're going to go make espressos as soon as the
show is over.
That's all we're going to do Iagree.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
All right, ava.
Thoughts on mom.

Speaker 11 (57:04):
Thoughts on mom.
Well, I would say I'm a big fanof mom in general.
Thank you, Ava.
I'm a big fan of, and I haveone kind of.
When I turned 11, I was reallyobsessed with Harry Potter, yes,
and mom threw this crazy HarryPotter-themed birthday party.

(57:27):
It was the best.
We went to the mall, to thiscandy store, to get a bunch of
candy for the candy store theyhave in Harry Potter and we all
got Hogwarts letters and wedecorated journals and we got
got sorted into houses and therewere candles hanging from the
ceiling.
It was really cool and I lovedit and it just reminded me of
all the work that you do for us.
It's really helpful.
I love it.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
And don't forget, we sent everybody a little owl with
their invitation.

Speaker 11 (57:50):
Everybody got an owl .
We all went door to door anddropped them off and gave them a
letter and we were like you'regoing to Hogwarts.

Speaker 9 (57:54):
AKA Ava's birthday party.

Speaker 11 (57:56):
It was awesome, I loved it, and then I really did,
though for a while, believegenuinely that someone was going
to come for me and take me toHogwarts.
I waited and I was devastatedwhen it didn't happen.
Sorry, but we digress.
That's how realistic it was.
Okay, it's cause.
That's how much I bought intoit.
Okay, uh, so yeah, just wantedto say thank you and I love you
and you're, you're the best.
Oh, thanks you guys.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
Yes, and I love you and you're the best.
Thanks you guys.
Yes, you are the best.
You are a tremendous mother tothe girls and a great wife.
It really is hard because youdo so much and a lot of it goes
unnoticed until you make itreally noticed.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
I don't even know what that means.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
I don't even know what that means.
That's like a backhandedcompliment guys.
It was intended to be.
It was a to be Shocker.
You toil in quiet obscurityuntil you don't, but it is so
great.
It's funny too, because whenyou end up getting married, you
don't know how great a mom yourwife is going to be, because

(58:56):
you're like, well, this could goone of two ways With a guy too,
what kind of husband, and thenwhat kind of father wife is
going to be.
Because you're like, well, thiscould go one of two ways with a
with a guy too, like, how, whatkind of husband, and then what
kind of father are they going tobe?
And we, we got so lucky to haveyou as as our, as their mother
and my wife, so we are sothankful for that.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
And we love you very much.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
No, we don't deserve it, but we got it.
But here's what.
Here's what you deserve.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
You, mr T, singing a song about mothers.
Oh, yes, I do Absolutely.
Who doesn't deserve?
This on Mother's Day Becausehe's great.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
That's why here comes Mr T at you on Mother's Day.
I always love her, my mother.

Speaker 10 (59:28):
So treat her right.
Treat her right.
M is for the moan and themiserable groan from the pain
that she felt when I was born.
O is for the oven with theburning heat where she stood

(59:52):
making sure I had something toeat.
T is for the time that shestayed up at night and took my
temperature when I wasn'tfeeling right, Anxious for the
hard-earned money she spent tokeep clothes on my back and try
to pay the rent.
Ears every wrinkle I put on herface and every worry that I

(01:00:14):
caused when I stayed out late.
The last letter R's that shetaught me respect and for the
room up in heaven that I calledwhen I stayed out late.
The last letter R's that shetaught me respect and for the
room up in heaven that I knowshe'll get Okay, who knew that,
mr T sang?

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
I didn't know that either.

Speaker 11 (01:00:28):
I don't think he really was singing.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Oh, that was definitely him Well no, I'm
saying he wasn't singing.

Speaker 10 (01:00:34):
He wasn't singing, he was just talking.
That's how he talked.

Speaker 4 (01:00:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's definitely how he talks, so I
want you to just celebrate.
I don't know who Mr T is Rocky,he's in Rocky.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
Yeah, he was a Rocky's opponent in Rocky three.
Uh otherwise known as CleverLang.

Speaker 4 (01:00:48):
Yeah, no, I have no idea who that is.

Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
Yeah, called the A-Team.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Yeah, the A-Team.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
BA Baracus, it was fantastic.
All right yeah.
Actor, Legendary for the Mohawk.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
I can't believe you don't remember from Rocky,
because you guys were obsessedwith Rocky.
Yeah, Rocky III was not on mylist.

Speaker 11 (01:01:05):
Rocky III was like kind of flew under our radar.

Speaker 9 (01:01:08):
There was Rockies I, ii and IV.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
And those were the ones that you really liked, come
on.

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
We may have to redo that Maybe for Father's Day.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
I have a tiger.
That's where I have the tigers,yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
That one, I thought that was Rocky 4.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
I thought that was Rocky 1.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Okay, we got to wrap this up.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
We have gone off the rails on this conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
But hey, seriously, happy Mother's Day and happy
Mother's Day to all of you outthere, happy Mother's Day.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
To just hit the subscribe button on the YouTube
channel.
It means a great deal to us.
So, seriously, if you'relistening to us on YouTube, hit
that subscribe button, please,please, please.
That'd be the best Mother's Daygift that you could give us.
Thanks so much.

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