Episode 195: Slap Heard 'Round the World. Plus, Scott Pelley Loses It In Front Of College Students

🔥 In This Episode:

👋 Did Macron’s Wife Really Slap Him?

• A viral video appears to show French President Emmanuel Macron getting slapped by his wife—and we’re here to break it down.
• Mark and Krysty hilariously weigh in on marital “love taps”, and let’s just say it sparks one of the most entertaining segments yet.

💸 The “Big Beautiful” Budget Bill Struggles Through Congress

• As President Trump tries to push his budget bill across the finish line, the political messaging war between Republicans and Democrats heats up.
• Mark analyzes the rhetoric from both sides—and what’s really behind the political war.

🌍 Trump Calls Out Putin—What Comes Next?

• President Trump finally blasts Vladimir Putin over Russia’s continued attacks on Ukraine.
• We say it’s about time—but now the question is: what action will follow the words?

📣 Scott Pelley’s Commencement Meltdown

• CBS’s Scott Pelley loses it during his Wake Forest commencement speech, sounding more like a political activist than a journalist.
• Mark and Krysty roast Pelley’s bizarre speech and ask how far the media will go to destroy their own credibility.

🎈 Cutting NOAA Weather Balloons? Big Mistake.

• The Trump administration may be cutting back on NOAA’s weather balloon program—and Mark, as a meteorologist, explains why this is a dangerous and shortsighted move.
• Weather forecasting depends on balloon data—and cutting these launches could seriously affect forecast accuracy..

🧨 ANTIFA’s Latest Attack in Seattle + Mayor Harrell’s Shocking Response

• ANTIFA launched another violent protest in Seattle, and the police have had enough.
• But guess who the mayor sides with? Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell once again backs the wrong side, and Mark breaks down why his poor leadership puts law-abiding citizens in danger.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 2 (00:07):
all right, here we go .
It is memorial day, take two.
You didn't see the first takeand you never will.
It's, it's gonna go, it's, yeah, it's, it's going.
It's going deep into thearchives of the show.
Trust us when we say, yeah, uh,but here we go.
So let's get to a variety ofthings, kind of a an eclectic
mix on the show today.
We'll have some comments, right, we'll talk a little bit about

(00:29):
Ava's plans.
I'll talk just briefly aboutMemorial Day and some of the
importance there, and then somewild video on Macron getting off
a flight to I think this was inVietnam and he and his wife
getting off the plane, maybehaving a little tussle a little
situation.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Well, she had to set him straight.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
She really did.
And then Trump talking aboutthe budget and will there be
Medicaid cuts?
And this is something we'vetalked about forever and they
continue to battle that out.
We'll go through that.
Putin is unloading on Ukrainenow again and Trump seems to
finally maybe be waking up tothat and seeing what's going on
with that.
And then we'll talk about themedia, and Scott Pelley is very

(01:11):
upset with how things are goingright now for the media.
He's upset that things aren'tgoing well for the media.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
I'm so sorry, 60 minutes I know it's hard, it's
really hard.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
And then we'll go through that and then a couple
other big stories here.
We're going to get into someweather talk, which I know
you're going to enjoy A storyout of Seattle where Antifa goes
after some Christian protestersand the mayor of Seattle weighs
in for Antifa.
What a shocker Right that is inthat particular case.
And then we'll also talk abouta supplement that maybe you

(01:40):
should be taking potentially,okay.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
All right, well, let's get into our comments
right off the top and then we'lldive right into some of these
shows and some of these articles.
The first one comes in fromPatricia and she says loved your
show today.
As usual, keep up the good work.
I was interested in Jeff Tucker.
I still hang on to myAlbuquerque Journal, even if
they're way too leftist.
This was in regards to theepisode we just had.
If you've missed that one wehad on the former editorial

(02:05):
opinion editor.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Right, yeah, that's close, yeah something like that,
something like that.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Jeff Tucker and he came on.
We talked about a bunch ofdifferent things breaking in the
news world, so to speak, aswell as the governor's race.
Wait, you guys had a prettyheavy discussion on the
governor's race and on themayor's race.
So if you miss that episode,definitely go check that one out
, because it's prettyinteresting.
I think.
A couple of newsies in here andeverybody talking about that,
so okay, and then we have thisone coming in from Big D.

(02:31):
It says I heard Sam Bregman onthe radio yesterday giving us a
laundry list of everything he'sgoing to fix, how he's going to
fix New Mexico.
The only problem is it's thesame list MLG gave us.
Sam is not the guy to begovernor.
He's a lawyer.
Deb Haaland is not the personto be governor.
She has no qualifications.
Greg Hall has the best trackrecord to be an effective
governor, but the Democratswon't vote for him.

(02:53):
Looks like New Mexico will bestaying in last place for the
rest of her life, Jeez Big D.
Big D, that's a little heavy andI hope you're not right, big D.
I hope that we are.
You know we talked about in thelast show that we're seeing
more and more the state shiftingkind of the focus more to the
red side of things, you know,kind of trying to slide back,
maybe more to like a moderatemiddle.

(03:15):
I mean that would be even if wegot more to like a purple side
of the state.
I think it could benefit a lotof us just with trying to get
our crime down and our gettingsome jobs back here to the state
and and then lifting oureducation.
I think these are the bigpriorities, they've been the big
priorities and I think wereally hope to see somebody that
can really take those issues onwell in the state has always

(03:37):
been served better when you havea mixed representation, whether
it be in congress or governoror whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I I just think that when you slide too far, you end
up in a situation where it doesnot serve the people of the
state very well.
I mean, you see that, you seethe problems that we're having
right now, and part of thereason for that is there's no
accountability.
So if you're on the side thatnever has to account or be
regulated by snapback from thevoters, that's a problem,
because people overreach.

(04:02):
Human nature is to overreachand you see it in some red
states, you see it in bluestates all the time, where you
get that overreach and all of asudden it becomes a real issue,
and I think in this state it'sbecome an issue.
There's no question.
Will it change in thegovernor's race?
Who knows?
Obviously there are going to bemore people getting into the
race than what you've seen sofar.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
So it is not early.
It's still very understand howearly it is oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Nobody wants to run for a year and a half or two
years for governor.
I mean, it's just crazy.
Now you see some of theDemocrats jump out.
Deb Haaland's rationale fordoing that is she wants to take
all the money.
So if she can take all themoney, she's going to try to
stomp everybody out that way,and she has raised a ton of
money already.
She's also blown a ton of moneyalready, which is not a good
sign, but we'll see.
So yeah, and with Jeff Tuckerwe did definitely disagree on
the Bregman thing, which is, youknow, he thinks he's got a

(04:52):
chance and and at this point,unless Deb Haaland lets him, he
does not.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Okay.
So again, if you want to hearmore about that conversation
that Mark and Jeff had, it gotyou know interesting and kind of
spicy, so go back and listen tothat episode if you're
interested in that at all.
We'll keep our eyes on that.
But a long ways to go untilthis governor's race and, as
Mark and I have said, reallywe're going to be focusing a lot
of paying attention to themayor's race here, in Bernalillo
County, because BernalilloCounty is one of the biggest

(05:17):
counties that determine thestatewide races.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
It is the biggest.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
And so when you have that and we have a lot of
personal experience with that wekind of stay a little bit more
tempered in our opinions.
When you watch, you have towatch the Berlioz County races
go and can a Republican win asmayor?
It's a huge deal If we could getanother Republican mayor in the
seat.
We'll see if that happens andobviously we've said that we are

(05:43):
supporting Darren white in thisrace and, uh, we feel like he's
the guy that can get it done,so we'll keep our eyes on that,
but that's obviously the nextbig race that's coming our
direction.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
No question.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Okay, last comment.
This actually came in the formof a letter with a package,
which is what you're wearingtoday.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
You're dim looking shirt.
This is nice.
I love shirts like this, aswe've talked about.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yes, you're definitely the rep.
All the school sports yeah, Ilove it Across the state.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
So usually if you go to some of these small towns,
especially small towns like aWalmart or a CVS or something
like that, you'll go in andyou'll see, they'll have like
the high school shirt.
See, they'll have like the highschool shirt.
I've got carlsbad, got roswell,we've got artesia.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
We've now got deming, so we appreciate this.
Now you're up representingdenning.
Yeah, thank you, morris wilcox.
He actually dropped this offfor you and some flowers for me,
which was super kind, thank you.
Thank you, mr wilcox, that wasvery kind, but he just said an
appreciation for the no doubtabout a podcast.
I just really enjoy the podcast.
Keep up the good work.
And he's visiting family inAlbuquerque and wanted to give
you that shirt, mark.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
So like he wanted you to, represent it.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
So anyway, and he didn't want me to feel left out,
and he also saidcongratulations to our high
school graduate.
It is Ava's last show heretoday for probably at least the
next month or so, yes, as she isleaving Tuesday for DC and then
DC to Africa to do a missiontrip that is right.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
I will be in the Ivory Coast from June 2nd to
June 26th.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Okay, what are you guys doing?

Speaker 4 (07:11):
So I'll be doing outreach at their university to
just like encourage people toresearch the gospel and stuff
like that.
And then we'll be spending sometime at an orphanage as well.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Okay, you excited or Very excited.
Okay, we're ready.
Yes, Okay, not nervous.
A little bit.
Yeah Well, that's good.
It's good to be nervous alittle bit.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
It's the longest that Ava's been away from home.
It'll be a month.
And she's going to be clearacross the world.
So I'm a little nervous if Ishe's more reserved than I am.
I'm just going to put it outthere.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
I'm incredibly nervous.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
I'm excited for you, ava.
I think it's going to be agreat experience for you and I
think it's always good for ourkids to get out and see the
world and see how life isoutside of the small little
existence that you guys kind oflive in, the bubble that you
live in.
So I'm proud of you.
I know it's going to be reallygood.
We got you the internationalphone plan, so you have no
excuse not to call me.
I have 250 minutes of callingtime.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Okay, okay, so really roughly 10 minutes a day.
If she called us every day, ifshe called us every day.
Yeah, that's not a lot of timeat all.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
I know, I understand that, but I don't know if you're
going to want to call us everyday.
Anyway, you may be like I'mbusy, right?

Speaker 2 (08:20):
now, yeah, I'm busy.
I'm busy here, I better keeptrack of my minutes.
We'll figure it out.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
We'll have to figure that off off camera.
Don't worry about that rightnow, let's go through it right
now.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Let's go through the system we're going to use to
tally Ava's minutes on theVerizon plan.
But anyways, it'll be goodIt'll be good, and she's excited
about that Absolutely.
But back in the producing chair, that's right.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Her favorite thing, okay.
So obviously Memorial Dayweekend and I have to, you know,
we want to give a tip of thecap and say you know it's, it's
a big deal, and I thinksometimes it just gets.
It gets thrown into like, hey,let's have a barbecue, and then
that's all the Memorial Daybecomes and I'm like no, no, no,
no.
I love history.
I want to make sure that we'relike spreading the word about
what this is, and I found thisarticle that was talking about

(09:03):
10 surprising facts aboutMemorial Day.
Obviously, I'm not going to gothrough all of them, but I
thought that some of these werereally interesting.
Originally, it was calledDecoration Day.
Did you know that, ava?
Were you aware of that?
I was not aware of DecorationDay.
Okay, see, so there's a littlething.
You're going to learn a littlesomething new.
Memorial Day technicallystarted after the Civil War in
1865.
It was called Decoration Daybecause they went and they put

(09:25):
wreaths flower wreaths over thegraves of soldiers that had been
killed in the Civil War.
Also, that's the reason theypicked May, because that's when
the flowers were blooming sothey could put the actual
wreaths on the gravestones atthat time.
Yeah, a little tough to do thatin February.
Yeah, it doesn't mark aparticular war or a battle or
anything like that which some ofus, I think, kind of thought of
.
And then I thought this wasinteresting too American

(09:46):
Memorial Day, very differentthan how the Europeans represent
their Memorial Days.
They're very somber on November11th, on their day of memory.
Here we have barbecuesapparently, and so it's kind of
a different kind of thing withthat.
And then, also interesting Ithought that I pulled out of
this was how a presidentcelebrates Memorial Day.

(10:07):
However, the president's officereally dictates how we celebrate
.
It's kind of through apolitical lens, so to speak, is
how they kind of framed it inthis thing and basically it was
talking about in 1888, thepresident, grover Cleveland.
He was criticized for goingfishing on Memorial Day, and
then in 1911, that was the firstIndy 500 was held on Memorial

(10:29):
Day and that was also kind ofshunned upon.
So Trump this year, to hiscredit, has said you know,
really, this act of remembranceright is supposed to take place
at 3 pm your local time.
He's asked for, like a prayer,to be held locally.
I mean, whoever is doing youknow your prayers.
He's asked for a prayer to beheld locally, whoever's doing
your prayers?
And then he said obviously canwe fly our flags half-mast, at
least through noon, as respectfor those who have given their

(10:51):
lives in service.
So anyway, I just kind ofthought it was interesting.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
I thought it was neat things to learn the prayers for
all the fallen soldiers andtheir families who really they
are the sacrificial party towhat has been the best
experiment in freedom in thehistory of the world.
And it and it's.
We can't forget that and andbut it's just one of those days

(11:14):
it's important to remember, it'simportant to pray, and I think
it's important to pray for God'sblessings to continue over this
country that we can be acountry of that leads to more
peace and more freedom in theworld.
That's right you know, and thenthat's not a given, given what
we're going to talk about withRussia.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Right, it is most definitely not a given, and it
is important that our militaryare not only respected and built
up but also remembered fortheir acts of service.
And so I just you know we havea lot of military friends and
you know we just want to saythank you to those of you who
are serving or are veterans outthere.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Thanks so much for your service and for those, and
when's Veterans Day.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Veterans Day is in November.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
November yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
So that's a little bit different, because that's
when you honor the veterans.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
No, no, no, no question.
Yes, the active.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Memorial.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Day, just as a little tip.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Ava, just so you know this too Memorial Day is to
remember those who have died inservice, where Veterans Day is
to remember all, all veterans,and so I thought that was kind
of nice that we coulddistinguish between that we have
a picture here from.
Decoration Day 1999.
Should I put that up?

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, sure, let's see it.
Why not?
Let's see it there she isDecoration Day.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
I believe those were women that were making the
wreaths and children.
Those do appear to be women.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Wow, that is a lot of flowers just off to the side.
They're being discarded.
They didn't make the main.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Well, the side, like they're, they're being discarded
.
Like they didn't make the main.
Well, no, they were sewingtogether the wreaths.
I believe is what the captionsaid, but I cut the.
I cut the caption off, but atthe time it was this group that
got together and they weresewing wreaths of flowers
together, okay, so yeah, it'sgot a long history.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I just wanted us to to mention it so no, very as you
make those hot dogs andhamburgers, knowing what,
knowing really what it's allabout yeah, yeah, you know, I
know you're the big, big fan ofthe hot dog and uh, you guys
gonna grill those babies up.
I'm the only one in the familywho's even ellie used to love
hot dogs not anymore well, shejust gave up beef and pork yeah,
that's so that, and they may behot dogs, may be beef and pork

(12:56):
we're just not really sure.
Okay, so let's go to this.
This is the story that's sortof taking over x right now, and
it's taking over some of thenews sites as well.
Emmanuel Macron and his wifehold on a second.
Ava and his wife get off aplane in Vietnam.
Right as the door opens, you'llsee Macron's head snap back

(13:18):
because his wife is kind ofpushing his face.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
She's had enough of him, I think at this point.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Whatever?

Speaker 3 (13:23):
just came out of his mouth prior.
She was not happy with that.
She's had enough of him, Ithink at this point.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Whatever just came out of his mouth prior.
It was not good.
She's not having it and she's.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
you know, she's quite a bit older than him, so she is
like quite a bit.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah, she was his teacher, right.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah, I believe she was his teacher.
I think it's a 30 year age gapor something.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
All right chrome boom .

Speaker 3 (13:49):
He just gets this and he's like, oh hey, how you
doing the door's open uh, it's aslow-mo version of it.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
This is crazy.
Yeah, here's the slow-moversion, and you'll see him just
kind of she puts both hands.
Both hands on the mug, boom,and then enough of that.
I don't know what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
Oh, hey, everybody my wife does this all the time.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
It's totally normal and then they start to get off
the plane and she does not.
He kind of offers his arm her.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
He does offer his arm and she is not having it.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
And she's like no, don't need your arm, I got both.
I got both mitts on your, onyour mug and we don't need to do
this.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
And so then she's handing the arm out.
She's like, no, I'm not.
She's like no, I'm good.
Thank you, I can walk downthese stairs by myself.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Thank you.
Basically said it was just ajoke and uh, it just does not
look like a joke it was not ajoke.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yes, I mean as much, as sometimes I've wanted to like
wring your neck right, I tendto a not do that for right.
Well, most times yeah mosttimes yeah and then b I can't
imagine just taking my hands andjust pushing your face and like
being like enough like don'tknow more words I don't, I don't
know that that's.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
I mean, you've punched me but not.
But you know what I mean.
Like you like punch.
You know what I mean Like youpunch me in the shoulder.

Speaker 7 (14:50):
Like you're playing.
It's not like I've never been,like we're in a heated fight and
I deck you.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
That doesn't happen, no no, I totally agree with you,
but we'll be sitting there.
Sometimes You'll be like oh mygosh, and then you just go boom
like that, like that's a normal,like you see that all the time,
right you don't see, like bothhands to the face, like that's a
a very, uh, kind of an intensething to have happen.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
It almost feels like and not that you would should do
this to a kid, don't get mewrong but it felt very like
maternal, like you're a bad boyand that came.
You should have said that andlike, like, really like it was.
It was like what came out ofyour mouth is what I have a
problem with right now.
Right.
And I think if, like, let's say,you and I were on that plane
and we were cracking a joke andI punched you and then I was
like, oh my gosh, we saw thatthe world just saw that, right,

(15:33):
we would be laughing.
Right and I would be takingyour arm coming down that and
punching you again Like as a youknow, to make sure we knew
around yeah she is like I am noteven touching you right now.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
She's furious no, and then if we were walking down,
what I would be doing is beinglike help me she's got me.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
I can't get away from well, it does shed some light,
because I guarantee you that'snot the only time.
She's probably done that well,it is wild.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
So it's like what do you make of it?
I guess they'll just sweep itunder the rug, but it is.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
It is just odd to watch yeah, when you have a, a
very public leader, his wife,basically saying no, you shush,
you shush right now, sir youshush in the most aggressive way
I can tell you to show ohthere's no doubt.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
And when he looks and sees, oh my gosh, the door is
open and you see the expressionon his face of like abject
horror right, and he's thinkingoh boy, we're gonna have to
answer for this one and thenanswer for this one, and then
they had captured it on video.
So I don't this one again.
It's probably something they'rejust going to not address.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
How would you address this?
I said something really stupid.
My wife got upset and shereacted Like I just I mean it's
obvious, I think, to anybodythat is watching.
He obviously said something inthat moment Because, to go right
for his mouth, yeah.
Like that was to me.
I'm just looking at her going.
She doesn't like what he justsaid.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
So whatever he just said, she's not having it.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
And I'm not giving her an excuse, but I'm just
saying that that is my breakdown.
From 10,000 feet away, this iskind of what I'm I'm guessing.
Yeah, no, agre, agreed, agreed,Okay, all right.
So we leave that and we go backdomestic.
Trump and the House have cometo an agreement.
They've passed the budget bill,the big beautiful bill, which
is going to have to be changedin the Senate, and then they
have to go back and re-vote onit, right?
So that's how this works.
So the House will pass aversion, the Senate will pass a
version and they do what'scalled reconciliation, where
they take them both and theyturn them into one bill and they

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have to vote again, right, forthe final time.
So the question in all of thisis what's going to happen with
Medicaid?
There are a lot of people whoare saying there are going to be
Medicaid cuts, and if you're onthe Democratic side, you're
coming in saying there are goingto be Medicaid cuts.
Well, republicans, for theirpart, are saying look, we're

(17:49):
cutting the waste, fraud andabuse.
So you're right, we're going tostop wasting money and we're
going to stop giving Medicaidbenefits to people who do not
qualify, and so this is a toughplace to be if you're a
Republican, because making thatpoint to be able to say, look,
all we're really doing here ismaking sure that people that
should get Medicaid get it.
We're not cutting theirbenefits at all.
So you got to walk that line.
You got to be able to say, well, we're cutting out the waste,
fraud and abuse, but we're goingto keep everybody else's
benefits.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
And it might require more finalizing that.
You might have to prove thatyou deserve to have Medicaid or
should be on Medicaid.
I'm guessing.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Oh, and there's work, there's talk of work
requirements, things like that.
So let's get to this sound alittle bit.
It's interesting.
A little bit of Trump, a littlebit of Speaker Johnson
answering back against.
Hey look, you know there's,there are accusations that
you're going to cut Medicaid.
Speaker Johnson says no, we arenot.
And so does the president.

Speaker 8 (18:30):
Americans will in fact, lose their insurance
coverage because of the changesthis bill makes to Medicaid.
So how do you reconcile thatwith what President Trump said?

Speaker 9 (18:38):
We're not changing Medicaid and we're not changing
Medicare and we're not changingMedicare.
And we're not changing SocialSecurity Can you guarantee that
your voters, your supporters inthe election.
Working class voters will notlose health insurance under this
bill.
Oh, they won't lose healthinsurance.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
It's directly in line with what the president said.
I've said the same.
We are not cutting Medicaid inthis package.
The numbers of Americans whoare affected are those that are
entwined in our work toeliminate fraud, waste and abuse
.
Medicaid is not intended fornon-US citizens.
It's intended for the mostvulnerable populations of
Americans, which is pregnantwomen and young single mothers,

(19:14):
the disabled, the elderly.
They are protected in whatwe're doing because we're
preserving the resources forthose who need it most.

Speaker 8 (19:21):
So 1.4 million people in your home state of Louisiana
, are on Medicaid.
More than 800,000 receive SNAPbenefits, also known as food
stamps.
Is it your contention that ifany of those Louisianans lose
their benefits, it's becausethey shouldn't have been
receiving them, because theywere committing waste, fraud or
abuse?

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, look, my district, as every district in
America, has people who are onthe program, who shouldn't.
And when you're talking about Ikeep using this example a young
, able bodied man with nodependents, there's no reason he
should not be working.
We are the party about that.
That supports human dignity,and we find purpose and dignity
in our work, okay.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
So that is the fine line they have to walk, which,
politically, it's easier to beon the side of you're cutting
Medicaid, right, it's an easier,simpler argument to make, but
you also on the side of whereSpeaker Johnson is.
What they have going for themis people do support the fact
that people here illegallyshould not be receiving those
benefits.
Those numbers are 60-30,roughly okay.

(20:21):
So they are on the right sideof that issue with the public,
and so they're going to continueto make that point and continue
to push this out.
So Tapper gives them theDemocratic talking point, saying
you're cutting, and he's sayingno, we're not, we're getting
rid of people who should not bethere.
And plus and he makes the verygood point and it's something
Republicans have been talkingabout for a long time, even with
the shift in the party andeverything else the thought

(20:41):
process that you should have towork if you can.
That's a very simple and, again,a type of approach and a policy
that most people support.
So they have underpinnings ofsupport for what they're doing.
But it is always tricky whenyou're getting into this world
of yes, they are going to cutquite a bit of money out of the

(21:02):
budget, a trillion dollars outof the budget is what they're
going to try to do through waste, fraud and abuse here.
So and we've talked about allthat it's definitely different,
though, than if you have asituation where you're just
going to clean, cut things right.
You're just going to say we'regoing to cut the overall expense
.
What they're going to try to dohere is get rid of that waste
fraud and abuse.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
I think you even see people here in our, in our state
who are just going out with themessage of oh, they're going to
cut your Medicaid, Like that isstill what they're pushing
right.
And trying to rise the fear up.
You know, let's raise the fearup for everybody and get them
really nervous that their theirbenefits are going to get cut.
I mean, we have one of thelargest welfare dependent states
Medicaid dependent states inthe country, so that fear goes
instant.
If you are a single mom whorequires this, or you're elderly

(21:50):
and you need these benefits,these cuts should not be
impacting those folks andinstead of kind of clarifying
that message, saying, hey, theremight be a step you have to
take now to prove who you are,because we want to make sure
that you continue to get yourbenefits, that's the missing
link of the message that I thinkis going to need to be put out
there, whether they do it or not, to inform people.

(22:11):
We'll have to wait and see, butI would love to see the media
show up and say, hey, let'sreally.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Do you really think the media is going to do that?
I don't, which is why.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
I'm trying to do, we're trying to do it because I
think I mean, I hope that.
I hope that legitimate casesdon't get their benefits cut.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
No, and that's one of the things that will be
interesting, because there willbe trolling around to try to
find anybody any normal Americanwho had their benefits cut.
But I think broadly, what helpsyou in this argument if you're
Johnson and if you're Trump andif you're Thune in the Senate is
your argument is over time thiswill wear well, and the reason
it will wear well is becausemost everybody will still get

(22:46):
their benefits, so it will nothave traction.
The whole Medicaid cut thingwill be a talking point for now,
but over time they won'tactually be cut right.
The people that will be cut outwill be those who should not
have it in the first place.
That will be a better long-termpolicy that will wear fairly
well.
But in the near term.
That's what's tricky and Ithink that's why they want to

(23:07):
pass this bill and get thingsgoing, because you need time
between passing this bill andyour next election to show
what's garbage and what isn't.
Because if you back up tooclose to the election, even if
you pass what you want, peopleare still.
The fear mongering is going tokeep going and it's going to
grow.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
It's going to grow versus giving it time for the
reality to set in, right,absolutely okay.
Well, speaking of reality, Ithink maybe trump's finally
found some reality.
When it comes to putin, I mean,I'm not sure why he was, I
don't know.
I don't know if he thought thathis relationship with with
putin was so strong that hewould say whatever and putin
would be on.
Yeah, I think he was a littlemisled in his own world,
thinking that was going tohappen.
Obviously, putin is a crazy,insane guy and he's going to do

(23:50):
whatever he feels like he'sgoing to do, regardless of who's
president, and I think it's.
You know, Trump basically hashad his fill of it by now.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Well, right.
And the question then becomeswhat do you do about it?
So let's listen to what he saysfirst and then try and
speculate a little bit, as we doso.
Well, uh, speculate, that is uhon what?
What the us may do with ukraine.
So here's what trump had to say.
I think this was actuallysunday.
Here's what trump had to sayabout putin yeah, I'll give you
an update.

Speaker 9 (24:16):
I'm not happy with what putin's doing.
He's killing a lot of peopleand I don't know what the hell
happened, to put.
I've known him a long time,always gotten along with him,
but he's sending rockets intocities and killing people and I
don't like it at all.
Okay, we're in the middle oftalking and he's shooting
rockets into Kiev and othercities.
I don't like it at all.

(24:37):
The Press President what do youwant to do about that?
I'm surprised.
I'm very surprised.
We'll see what we're going todo.
What am I going to tell you?
You're the fake news, aren'tyou?
You're totally fake.
Any other questions?
I don't like what Putin isdoing, not even a little bit.
He's killing people andsomething happened to this guy
and I don't like it.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Okay, so that's the classic Trump.
It's the classic Trump response.
Like classic, it's a classictrump response like you think,
I'm gonna tell you my plans youthink I'm gonna tell you fake
news.
I'm not gonna tell you nothing,you know, it's just like oh
it's classic, but.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
But you know so.
But this is the leastsurprising development, I'm
sorry.
I think the whole thoughtprocess during the election
where trump's like we're gonnashut this thing down, on day one
it's gonna stop, yeah, no, it'snot.
No, it isn't.
And so the real question thenbecomes what are you going to do
about it?
So you're going to obviouslyprobably would be my guess
They'll tighten sanctions onRussia, try to choke off the
monetary supply that allows themto keep their war fighting

(25:33):
machine going.
So you can do that to somedegree.
Okay, you can't totally shutdown Russia's, you know, oil
sales and things like that.
It's just very difficult to do.
They'll find ways around it andways to fund their government,
but not only that.
The question then becomes whatdo you do for arms sales and
arms shipments to Ukraine?
Do you ramp those back up again?
Do you go back in and sort ofyou don't have to do everything

(25:54):
that Biden did or whatever else,but do you have to go with more
of the approach of okay, ifyou're going to keep doing this,
then we're going to make thisvery painful for you.
Going to keep doing this, thenwe're going to make this very
painful for you.
There's no other way around it.
You're just going tocontinually, you know, try to
eliminate Ukraine.
We're not going to let you dothat.
We're not going to let you gointo Ukraine any more than you
have.
I would certainly hope.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Yeah, I mean, I just think you have to take, you have
to stop this, because if Russiaand China are partnering up
which that is some theories,right?
Is that they're going to be outthere to conquer the world?
We definitely have to supportUkraine on this situation and I,
you know there are plenty ofRepublicans who don't want any
part of that.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
I understand.
We're just fine letting Russiaroll all the way through Ukraine
.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Well, fine with it Well.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
I'm not, we're not, but there are.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
I'm not because I think Russia if you think Russia
is going to stop with Ukraine,they're not.
They're not.
And so I think when you have adictator like Putin that's out
of control and just continues tothrow rockets when they're
trying to have peace negotiationconversations, obviously he's
saying he's giving the middlefinger to those peace
negotiations by just launchingrockets into these villages and

(26:56):
towns and killing people duringpeace negotiations.
So again, I'm not sure if Putinand Trump had some relationship
that at one point Trump thoughtI have more clout with this guy
Hold on, though, agreed, buthow many presidents have
incorrectly assessed VladimirPutin?

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Going back to George W Bush saying he looked in his
eyes right and saw an honorableman or whatever it was.
And then you have Obama like,hey, give me a little more time,
putin, I'll have a little moreflexibility.
He actually said that toMedvedev, but still, the point
being the point that there'sbeen an incorrect assessment of
Putin for a long time, and soreally the proof is in the

(27:38):
pudding with him and what he'sdone and how he's been,
basically, since he was elected,he's been a dictator, and so
he's actually elected, I thinkfreely, the first time around,
but then you know, since thenit's, it's crazy.
So you look at where he is andthis is just not surprising.
So the question becomes andjust what do you do?

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Well, people, I'm sorry, people show you who they
are.
I mean, it's the same advice Igive to our kids.
Right, like people will, cantell you one thing, but when you
their actions contradict thatcompletely, you need to believe
who they show you, that they arethe very first time that they
show it to you, because they'renot changing.
And Putin's not changing, Imean, I think he is, he is, he
is all in the way he's going tobe in, unless something comes

(28:15):
back to him that's going to hurthim personally or is maybe his
country.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
I don't know, I don't know.
Yeah, I can't assess him.
I like I don't know, yeah, Ican't assess him, I don't know,
I don't know him but I do knowthat he shows you exactly who he
is.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Well, no, it's not good.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
No, there's no question, and they've been
incredibly aggressive in thatarea of the world.
So we'll see what happens.
But this whole thought that youknow they're going to get a
great peace deal and it's allgoing to stop and everything
else, it's not, but I thinkTrump was surprised by it, at
least to some degree, it seems.

(28:46):
So we'll see.
All right, the falloutcontinues over original sin as
well, and so that book obviouslytalking about what Joe Biden
was suffering while he waspresident and really even before
he became president, and that'ssome of the details that have
come out to that as far back as2017, there were some.
There were some real concernsout there from some people
around him, and now on CNN,they're going back and forth on
what happened, what was going onhere, and Scott Jennings brings

(29:08):
up an interesting point, whichis the thing that we're not
talking about.
It may end up being the sourceof congressional hearings.
If there are going to becongressional hearings, this is
what they're going to be about,and that is who is actually
running the country.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
I do think there were some things that happened in
2020, 2021, 2022 thatRepublicans at the time were
saying maybe we ought to take alook at this and not a lot of
people wanted to listentruthfully.
So that's number one.
Number two I think a lot ofpeople have looked at this as a
campaign issue.
My takeaway and reaction to allthis the entire time has been

(29:43):
he was the president and thisone comment in the book about
how you know, there was sort ofa group of unelected people that
were serving as a board thatwas running the country, and he
was at best a senior member ofthe board.
That's not exactly what it saysin the Constitution.
No, and that's from a cabinetsecretary, and I mean that this

(30:04):
is not what you sign up for whenyou vote for the president of
the United States, and it callsinto question who was running
the country on a day to daybasis, where the policy
decisions actually flowing fromthe president.
And what responsibility doesthe Congress have now to go back
in time and say were thesedecisions legitimately made by
the president of the UnitedStates?

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, which is again the biggest political
controversy of our lifetimes,and it's not close.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Well, and all the things that have come out with
the auto pen, right who?

Speaker 2 (30:33):
was behind the auto pen signatures?
Same thing.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Who allowed a lot of these policies to take place,
the pardons that came in.
How much did Biden actuallyknow who?
Who actually had the the autopin, who was in charge of it?
And I think they should findthat out.
I feel like that should be acongressional hearing and I
think that there should be stepsthat are taken.
You don't take that.
It feels like.
It feels like a bat, like amovie where we're like we're

(30:55):
going to manipulate everybodyinto believing that this guy is
still, you know, weekend atBernie's, he's fine,
everything's great, andmeanwhile, like we're pulling
out of Afghanistan, we're doingall these you know big measures.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Right Country Incorrectly Opening a border
Right.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Just these.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
No, there's no doubt.
Yeah, no, agreed.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
And so it is.
I think it is.
There's so much more to thisthan just hey, he stayed in, he
stayed in too long real election.
Give me a break.
That's the least of ourconcerns.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
No, that's absolutely true, and I think the
Democratic Party would be wellserved to actually participate
in that Right and to say, OK,what happened here it can never
happen again.
Because then it actually givesthem a little veneer of saying,
OK, we get it Like we got tomake sure this doesn't happen
again, versus continually tryingto stop investigating it,
Because if you do that then youlook like you want to do it
again or you'll do whatever youhave to again, I think that's a

(31:45):
terrible mistake and you can'tfix that trust right Until you
admit, wait a minute, we had aproblem here and so I think
they'd be well-served to standup and say let's investigate
this, find out who was runningthe country.
And again, I think, if I'm onthe Democratic side, I don't
want to do it for years.
So I try to cooperate, maybe inthe short term, and get some
information out there and thensay we've learned, we're going

(32:06):
to pivot and try to rebuildyourself.
But if you continually havethis approach of, oh, nothing to
see here or it's no big deal,let's move on, we're looking
forward, I think you can't lookforward and repair your image.
You have to turn back, addressand then try to pivot and look
forward.
And they're trying to do it,schumer's trying to do it, a lot
of the leadership's trying todo it.
And as long as you have notaddressed those issues and sat

(32:27):
down and said, look, this wasreally bad, this was really bad
and we cannot ever allow this tohappen again, then you can't
actually move forward.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Well, and you know, you wonder, especially with the
pardons that's're finding outmore and more about things that
he was part of right.
I just think I want thosepeople held accountable.
Also an interesting insightthat I listened to on a

(32:54):
different show they were talkingabout well, hunter Biden, maybe
a bigger one, well, yeah.
Hunter Biden?
Definitely.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Just think about all the or maybe not bigger than I
don't know whatever, but butyeah, they should still be
explored, because if it's HunterBiden with the auto pin
pardoning himself.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
I'm sorry, but like that seems that's crazy, and
that's that's not.
That's not okay.
Now, the other interestingthing that I heard about on a
different show was them talkingabout hey, are we really going
to be exposing these, these um,cabinet secretaries?
Because these cabinetsecretaries potentially might
run for higher office down theroad, and if they were part of
this conspiracy, basically, thenshould they have the ability to

(33:30):
run for office down the downthe pike, and it's just one of
those things that I think weneed to be transparent.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
The cabinet secretaries, that's just the
structure of the governmentdoesn't work that way.
Right, like, like PeteButtigieg, being, you know,
secretary of transportation,isn't making the call on who
gets pardoned.
Do you know what I mean?
Like he's not right in there.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
All I'm saying is we need to know who was.
I understand that.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
I totally understand that, but I'm just saying that
the point about the cabinetsecretaries is ancillary, in my
opinion, simply because the waythe executive branch is
structured, the people who trulycould be running the government
are not the cabinet secretaries.
In most cases, it's going to be.
Now.
You could theoretically havemore power at state and defense
than you know, but in thisparticular case I think you're

(34:13):
talking about chief of staff.
You know people like that thatyou have the spouse of the
president Like.
Those are the people to me thatwere a special advisor to the
president, people like that thatcan have a very, very strong
role, much more so than someonewhose responsibilities are laid
out within the Constitution andalso laid out within their

(34:34):
particular areas of interest,like different cabinet
secretaries.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Okay, well, that's great if they actually stuck to
those roles that theConstitution lays out.
They actually stuck to thoseroles that the constitution lays
out.
If they overstepped and theyoverplayed their hand and they
did things or made decisionsthat they had no constitutional
right to do so, then those,those steps should be
backtracked and, I think, andremoved.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Well, that's fine, but I'm just saying that you're
going to find.
I think what you'll find isit's the people surrounding them
, the Donlins of the world, the,the rachettis of the world,
those are the people that thatwill have had.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
You just say run, run , chatties.
Are you just mispronouncing?

Speaker 2 (35:05):
rachetti rachetti I think it's steve rachetti.
Are we back?
Okay, we're back we're back ithappened.
See, that's that was hold onabe, look up, is it steve
rachetti?
Am I right on that, uh?
R-i-c-h-e-t--i.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
I'm just waiting, because we've been called all
kinds of names.
Like you know, you kind ofpeople guess at how they say our
name a lot, yeah, so I was justlike what did you just say?
So now we're guessing SteveRicchetti.
It looks like, oh, ricchetti.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Yeah, I think it's for Shetty?

Speaker 3 (35:48):
No, is it, rick Eddie ?
No, it's for Shetty.
It's for Shetty, it's forShetty, it's two.
C's so yeah, so I was right.
So yeah, so, anyway.
So that guy, that guy rightthere, he could have been doing
Americans.
I don't care what side of partyyou're on, you need to know
that you got to build trustagain, yeah.
Like in the part both partiesshould want that, quite frankly.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
No, I agree.
I think it would help Democratsto do it actually.
Yeah, it'd be good.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Okay, so this one I clipped for today.
Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes.
Take his personal feelingstowards Trump and the
administration and everythingout there in a commencement
address at Wake ForestUniversity this past weekend and

(36:27):
it feels like a rant instead ofa commencement address.
So let's play it and then I'llget your reaction to it.

Speaker 7 (36:36):
This moment, this morning.
Our sacred rule of law is underattack, Journalism is under
attack, universities are underattack, freedom of speech is
under attack and insidious fearis reaching through our schools,

(37:03):
our businesses, our homes andinto our private thoughts the
fear to speak.
In America.
In America, power can rewritehistory with grotesque, false

(37:26):
narratives.
They can make criminals heroesand heroes criminals.
Power can change the definitionof the words we use to describe
reality.
Diversity is now described asillegal.
Equity is to be shunned.

(37:49):
Inclusion is a dirty word.
This is an old playbook, myfriends.
There's nothing new in this.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
Okay.
So I feel like he just it felta little unhinged, quite frankly
, especially for a collegecommencement address.
I felt like you had anopportunity to invoke wisdom and
encouragement as people walkout the door, instead of just
basically like going on somesort of agenda rant, which is
what you're in the hot water for, to start with at CBS, is that

(38:23):
you're, you have an agenda andthat's what you've been
promoting for the last six years, and then you go out and send
one person out there from yournetwork and this is what you do
with that time.
I just feel like, yeah, youabsolutely redefined words for
the American people, and what isa woman?
I mean all kinds of things,right, like we could go on and
on and on about that.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Yeah, the whole way we use language has been
co-opted, but he doesn'tunderstand the irony of what
he's saying.

Speaker 7 (38:48):
Right.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
He doesn't understand that he is doing the very
things he's railing against.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
And he's like there's no more freedom of speech.
No, there's no freedom of like,you coming after like and
saying how much you hateterrorists.
What does he mean about there'sno freedom of speech?
What he's talking, well, all Ican think of, is he's upset
about the fact that you knowyou've got people that are going
to be not allowed to come tocollege campuses and be
anti-american and be trying torise up revolutionary type

(39:13):
atmosphere on college campuses.
That's not free.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
Yeah, that is right, but what he fails to recognize
in that whole thing is you don'thave a right to come to this
country and rip this country andtry to create issues and be an
anti-Semitic dirt ball on yourcampus and try to stop Jewish
students from going to class.
I mean you know.
But then he also talks aboutbeing able to have free speech
when, when, what?
Literally, we had digitalcompanies and companies from

(39:40):
Facebook all the way to Twitterat the time, censoring speech.
What is he talking about?
And suddenly, now that that's aproblem, but he didn't seem to
have a problem with it before,when it was actually happening.
I think he is a great exampleof why the media is so broken.
Is is they wonder why theydon't have any trust?
Is because he goes out and hesounds like an activist.
That's what he sounds like.

(40:01):
He sounds like an activist forone side.
So then you say, well, whydidn't the media see this Biden
problem?
Here's why Because Scott Pelleyis looking over the operation,
and if you think Scott Pelley isa decent arbiter of what's
right and what should be done,clearly listening to this, no,
he's not.
He's an activist.
And so he sees Biden and goes.
I got it.

(40:21):
However, I got to help him.
I'm going to do it.
That's the last thing you wantfrom your media organizations.
You want them to be able tolook things and properly address
the situation and make lifemiserable for power.
They're good at making lifemiserable for Trump and I have
no problem with that.
I have no problem with themedia making the president's
life miserable.
My problem is they didn't makeBiden's life miserable.

(40:42):
And when they didn't, whathappened?
We were taken advantage of by asituation with somebody who was
taken advantage of by his ownfamily Biden, right, and you had
a media organizations who werejust like let's let it go, let's
let it ride.
And so this guy, in the fullbuffoonery of him in his
commencement address, trying tosay that now free speech is gone

(41:04):
, now the media is under attack,now diversity, equity,
inclusion is under attack.
I mean all of this stuff.
As you look at it, he is justabsolutely off the charts, an
activist, and it just takes thereputation of something like 60
Minutes.
Remember, he was the CBSEvening news anchor for a decade
, right, and so now you knewwhat you were dealing with.

(41:26):
Could you imagine waltercronkite standing up and giving
that same thing.
You would not see that.
You just wouldn't see it now.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
You would have probably seen it with dan rather
dan rather, and tom brokawwould have had no problem.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
I don't know that brokaw would no problem telling
you I don't know that Brokawwould do that.
I don't know that Brokaw woulddo that.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
But anyway he might.
Don't get me wrong, brokaw'ssomeone of the left as well, but
you have to be able to assessthese things Clearly.
He can't.
I mean, he's just gone over thetop.
So I just think this justfurther erodes a media that has
proven they have no interest inholding power to account.
In fact, they'll subjugatethemselves to power if they
believe the power backs up theirpriors, and that's the perfect

(42:05):
example of it.
Scott Pelley is the poster boy,for I will let you do what you
want as long as I think you'redoing it for my side, and if
you're not, well then I'm goingto accuse you of everything
possible and that the world iscoming to an end because of your
leadership, because I don'tlike you politically.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
Right when I think you want to build trust I don't
care if it's with the media orif it's a business or whatever
it is.
If you want to rebuild trustwith whoever you're trying to
reach the public, or employeesor whatever you have to take
some culpability in how thingsfell apart.
When you see him come up thereand just keep on this rant,
you're like he's still.
He feels like everything he'sdone was perfectly fine and that

(42:43):
there is no culpability, and sotherefore, I think, as a viewer
, you're the.
I would hope that people arelike well then, you haven't
learned anything Right andyou're going to repeat history
and you're going to lie to theAmerican public again because
it's going to serve you.
Whatever it did I mean, that'sthe bottom line of that um
original sin book is whatever ittook to make sure trump could
not be in office, even if itjeopardized you as a journalist,

(43:06):
you told yourself he's adictator.
This is better that I'm doingthis for the american public and
instead of doing your actualjob, which is, straight up, just
let's tell everybody the factsand keep our opinion out of it
yeah so I don't know.
I just think this guy to mehasn't learned anything Well,
not even not learning.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
It just is.
It takes his own company'sbrand and further erodes it.
I mean, he just sounds like afool, and I think that's the
problem with this, and it alsois.
At the end of the day, it's theends justify the means.
That's what they've all beendoing.
They've all said, whatever ittakes, the ends are going to
justify the means, and they werewrong.

(43:43):
They did not, and the endsended up leading or really the
means ended up leading to theend, meaning that by ignoring
all of this for as long as theydid, they assured it would
happen.
They assured Trump would bepresident again by the way.
They acted, and Scott Pelley iscontinuing to do that.

(44:04):
All right.
So there are some issues.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
We've got some quick little weather story here Now I
don't want you to lose focus.
Ok, I'll try to.
You know, maybe Ava can playsome.
Play some upbeat musicunderneath this and I can, then
I'll stay awake.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
Well, here's, here's one of the issues.
So we're we're starting, see,here is NOAA's had to cut some
of their weather data gatheringafter layoffs here.
So let me just read you alittle portion of this.
So, twice a day, the NationalWeather Service offices around
the country send up balloonswith radio signs on them that
basically tell you thecomposition of the atmosphere

(44:34):
temperature at certain levels,moisture at certain levels.
What it helps you to do is andthe reason these radio sounds
are so important is because ittells you basically where do we
start the modeling process?
Right, like how much moistureis in the air right now.
And then, as models project out, they need accurate information
for what the process looks likeright now.

(44:55):
So the models take all this datafrom all these different
balloons.
We do it in Albuquerque twice aday.
It happens at roughly 6 am androughly 6 pm.
Okay, so twice a day, that'swhen the balloons go up, and so
the models take all thisinformation and they push out
data, and they push outforecasts that go out, you know,

(45:15):
a day, three days, seven days,14 days, and longer range models
go even further than that.
So you have to have the rightinformation.
So the fewer of theseradiosondes that you send up,
the less information you have.
And so, as we go to 17,.
Ava, here's a graph of how manytimes they have missed sending
up radiosondes recently and youcould see January, you know,

(45:38):
never really missed very manyand then you see more and more.
We're seeing more of theseweather balloon launches being
missed.
This is a big deal and it needsto be fixed because, over time,
if you do not have the data youneed, your forecasting will
deteriorate because you don'thave a baseline on what's
happening in the atmosphere.
It's it's like saying if youyou know, if you don't really

(45:58):
know exactly what ingredients gointo a recipe, then your recipe
is going to be off right.
So you've got to know theproper level of each ingredient,
because if you don't, you can'tmodel it all right, and so this
needs to change.
They need to make sure they'regetting all of these weather
balloons up twice a day whenthey need to.
It's critical.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
Okay, so obviously then putting some news together
on this, hopefully kind of, Iguess, shed some light on it.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Well, we'll see.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
Yeah, we'll see what happens, and I'm sure Noah has
reached back out right to thegovernment and said hey, listen,
these cuts are detrimental,yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
And again, how much of this is temporary, how much
of it, you know, settles itselfback out again, we don't know.
But this is the sort of thingthat does need to get on the
radar theoretically and then beaddressed, because it's
something you just can't ignoreand say, oh, it's not going to
be a big deal, it's no problem.
No, it's a big deal.
You've got to have the rightmodel data and you have to
initialize it the right way.
Okay, Okay Well some crazinessup in Seattle.

(47:01):
I mean, I'm not sure we shouldbe surprised anymore.
I mean, I feel like seattle'sfallen off the planet.
Oh, it's, yeah, right behindportland, right, I think?
Uh, let's take a look.
This is some of the video thatwas from saturday in seattle,
and this is actually so.
There was a protest, uh, from achristian organization a couple
christian organizations at apark in seattle, and then Antifa
showed up and started gettingviolent, and so the Seattle

(47:22):
police, to their credit, steppedin and were like no, we're not
doing this, you're not going toattack these people who are
peacefully protesting on theother side of the park.
So they stood in and they saidlet's get some arrests.
They arrested 23 Antifa membersthat were involved in this.
Ok, but what you see now isthis massive divide between

(47:43):
police officers who have beenunder attack in the city of
Seattle for literally half adecade Right, I mean, at least,
probably really longer than that, but but, but in a very serious
way over the past.
You know the, the chop and allthat stuff.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
I mean, Seattle is like the epitome of defund the
police.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Oh, absolutely, I mean you've got some great
police and they've had a consentdecree there from the DOJ, just
like we had here.
Like all those dissent, consentdecrees end up being a disaster
because crime skyrockets,police are are not able to do
their job, and this has justbeen a nightmare.
So at the park here eventuallythey arrested about 23 people

(48:21):
and then the police put out apress release here, which was
really interesting.
So I just want you to read alittle bit of that, just a few
paragraphs of what they said.
And really what the policeofficers are trying to say here
is you know, we can't do ourjobs because of the way things
have gone here.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
So here's some of what they said Public safety in
the city of Seattle continues tobe politicized and violent.
Antifa criminals once againdominate Seattle's public safety
conversation with their insaneuse of political violence.
This is Seattle's public safetypolitical reality.
Over 700 police officers havefled the city in the past decade
.
This is due to the publicsafety political decisions by

(49:00):
our elected leaders, activistpressure and for their lack of
action against Antifa criminals,who continue to dictate public
safety political terms.
The remaining police officersin this city are tired.
Our community is tired.
This is Seattle's public safetypolitical reality.
Yeah, I mean, that'sunbelievable.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
If you go out and just see who who wrote it out,
and it was from this, I believeit's their police officers guild
who wrote this.
Yeah, I mean that'sunbelievable.
Go out and just see who wroteit out, and it was from this, I
believe it's their policeofficers guild who wrote this,
yeah.
So this is basically the policeofficers saying, through their
own representation, saying we'redone here, we can't handle this
Right.
And here's a great example ofwhat they're talking about.
So all of this goes down You'vegot 23 people arrested.

(49:37):
You've got people that are youknow that are that are taking
part, this Christian grouptaking part in a protest that
did not get violent on theirside Not at all.
They got the proper permitting,they did exactly what they
should do.
So, of course, the mayor ofSeattle came out and ripped
Antifa.
Oh no, he didn't.
The Seattle mayor condemnsChristian concert as a far right
rally after Antifa militantsstaged a violent protest.

(50:00):
Just listen to this guy'sstatement and it is unbelievable
.
And it is the mayor and it'sMayor, bruce Harrell, and he
released this statement.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
Seattle is proud of our reputation as a welcoming,
inclusive city for LGBTQ andcommunities, and we stand with
our trans neighbors when theyface bigotry and injustice.
Today's far-right rally washeld here for this very reason.

(50:33):
Okay, so this guy goes outtriumph by demonstrating our
values through our words andpeaceful protest.
We lose our voice when this isdisrupted by violence, chaos and
confusion.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Okay, so this guy goes out and sides with Antifa,
basically and, by the way, scottPelley, this sure seems like a
turning upside down of language,where bad is good and good is
bad.
But either way, I'm sure we'lldeal with that another time.
But this is why police officersin Seattle are beside
themselves and have don't knowwhere to go and what to do.
Because you have leadershipquote leadership like this guy,

(51:05):
mayor Harrell, who is a completeand utter joke.
I mean, he really is.
He's a.
He's a complete joke and hegoes and sides with the people
who are getting violent.
And if he thinks he, by one ofhis perfunctory sentences, we
lose our voice when we getviolent.
You are absolutely supportingthem, you're supporting their
actions and, by the way, yougovern that city, you give them
the green light to go out and dowhatever they want, because

(51:28):
they know they will never trulybe punished for it.
Yes, they will be arrested, afew of them.
They'll get right back out anddo whatever they want to do, and
that's how societies break down.
When you have one set of rulesfor people who are absolutely
breaking the law and trying tointimidate and you side with
them, it's unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
Right, and you know just a little bit more
information about what theChristians were trying to do.
They were having a rally aboutdon't mess with our kids.
That's kind of the whole pointof it where they were their
parents.
I have enough of this happeningin the school systems.
They're tired of the agenda.
They want their voices to beheard.
Parents want their rights backas parents, and they did this in
a very, like you said,nonviolent fashion.

(52:08):
They went about it in all thosesteps that the city required
and Antifa came at them withviolent attacks.
So again, and then you have amayor.
That's an idiot.
It's just like well, whatever,I'm going to take the side of of
the violent offenders.
Yeah, it's terrible, no wonderSeattle's going, you know, to
hell in a handbasket, along withPortland and see in San
Francisco.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
And it's all the same thing.
It's all the same mess, and so.

Speaker 3 (52:29):
I'm just like when are you going to wake up and
recognize that this is wherethis is going?
Okay, last story we take a lotof supplements in our family,
like we are the supplementfamily.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Your drink every morning has no less than seven
things in it.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
Oh, there's more than that.
I take probably 10 supplementsin a cup that I shake, goodness
gracious.
Then I also have liquidsupplements in a separate glass,
and then don't forget mymethylene blue that I continue
to take.
So, I take a lot of varioussupplements, right yeah, Welcome
to getting older.
But one of the supplements thatyou and I actually agree on-
right, we do.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Yeah, we don't.
We don't take the samesupplements.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
No, because you take disgusting tasting jellied
versions of this and I take aflavorless powder version of it
is creatine.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
And creatine is really becoming more and more
popular.
We've taken creatine for years,but um it's kind of the way.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Just for the record, what they're showing you here is
protein powder.
Okay, this picture, uh, thatcomes from the wall street
journal.
That's protein powder, notcreatine.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
Nobody is taking that much creatine is usually just a
clear or a white powder.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
It's whatever color it is, you need just a little
bit of it Like you do not need.
You know a massive scoop of itwhich is clearly protein powder
there, but anyway, so thisthey're they're saying in this,
in this article.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
They're saying creatine is all the rage, but
should you take it, the popularworkout supplement could be good
for bone, brain and musclehealth, and that is you know.
It's basically um expected tobe grow in the supplement market
by 4.20 or $4.2 billion.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
It's massive and originally so what you take it
for is what creatine helps youdo and creatine is found in
things like red meat, okay, andit helps you build muscle and
what it allows you for sort ofan extra gear when you're
lifting.
In other words, if you'relifting weights and you decide
you know you could do maybe sixsets, so you got a 20 pound
dumbbell on each side, whateverand you're just you know you're
doing your flies or whatever itis, and you take creatine.

(54:23):
The thought process is, maybeyou can do another one or two
and that allows you to continueto build extra muscle.
And in building that extramuscle, it helps your bones and
and and one of the reasons wetake it is because there is some
indication that it could wellhelp with cognitive decline.
In other words, you knowarresting cognitive decline if
you have some, so that's part ofit as well.
And also for women.

(54:43):
The impact on women forcreatine is interesting.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
And they mentioned that in poll.
Quote four on this.
Well, it says here.
Let me get to it really fast.
Most of the research oncreatine was conducted in men,
but now researchers are tryingto learn more about how creatine
can affect women.
Women produce 20 to 30% lesscreatine than men, so creatine
in combination with resistancetraining can help postmenopausal
women maintain bone density arecent study found.

(55:09):
So bone density is also supposedto help with sleep.
It's supposed to be anantidepressant.
There's supposed to be lots ofit, and then obviously just
memory fog.
It's supposed to kind of helpyou not have as much memory fog
right or brain fog.
So memory fog it's supposed tokind of help you not have as
much memory fog, right, or brainfog.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
So, speaking of memory fog yeah, that was I mean
I want to say we've got a realfog work in here.
You're just in the middle ofthe fog Clearly, the creatine is
totally working.
Yeah.
So it may not work for Christy,but it could work for you.
So, anyway, one of those thingsto think about.
If you're interested in it, Ithink it's worth taking.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
Well, yeah, and I think it's interesting because
most women my age and older.
The big fear is that we startto lose our muscle mass.
As we get older, it's harderfor us to build and keep muscle
mass, and creatine is one ofthose supplements that can
actually help you keep yourmuscle on.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
Right, and even for men too, keeping muscle mass is
now more and more thought of asreally critical, really critical
to your health.
It really critical, reallycritical to your health.
And and just getting out thereand lifting and doing things
that that you know, you may havethought before oh, I don't want
to go to the gym, just lift,you know, kind of thing like,
but that's not, that's notreally what the big benefit is.
The big benefit is, for yourhealth wise, going forward in

(56:10):
grip strength.
Like they say that one of thereal key things here is how
strong is your grip and the moreweight you lift and things like
that that you're involved in.
That helps your grip strengthand grip strength is directly
correlated with your healthlater in life.
That the stronger you are inyour grip, the more important
that is for you going forward.
So just something to thinkabout.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
Little things to think about.
Okay, that's our little tip fortoday.
Oh, and by the way.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
I think, coming up on Wednesday we will have a story
about another environmentalboard regulation they're trying
to sneak through other than theheat scare or whatever.
Yeah, not only heat scare 2025.
Yeah, uh, we are still lookingat the possibility to raise gas
prices 30 to 40 cents a gallon,which could happen with the
stroke of a pen and as part of alaw that was passed and as part

(56:52):
of the environmental boardtrying to execute on that law,
and we'll have that coming up onWednesday.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
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