March 21, 2025 • 33 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, lucking load.
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The Michael Arry Show is on the air.
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It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking.
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I can feel a good one coming on.
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It's the Michael Berry Show.
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take a guess at all the doer.
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I can feel a good one.
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Any blues I had before go.
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Another working week is over, no chance staying sober.
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I can feel a good one.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I'm coming off.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
In a week.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Man, We're gonna get the feeding ride. We're gonna keep
this fire.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I can feel the break a doll and you.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I can feel a good one.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I'm coming on.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Rebloms in the wreck. I mustang follow us down to leaking.
Didn't have to think about that too long, Skinny diving
in the right moonlight.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
The situation couldn't be more rack.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I can feel a good one coming on. Get We're
gonna get to feel in right.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
We gonna keep this pinty rock until the break.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
No, yeah, I can.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Feel a good one, feel like a good one.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I can feel a good one coming off.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Who Well, the war for the future of America wages on, ye,
and it's a good feeling to get some winds. It
is a good feeling to watch the left vanquished and
brought before us. I see Bernie Sanders on his Oligarchy tour.
(03:07):
It is now Bernie Sanders and AOC who are traveling
the country screeching and I mean screeching, squawking ough nails
on a chalkboard, two cats on a high wire late
at night.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You're trying to sleep.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
And they're getting after it. Oh, it's something, man. It
just blows my mind. How many people email me how
upset they are about it, and I keep telling them,
you're missing the joke. Fella, these are the good old days.
You should be enjoying this.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Drink.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Lap up those liberal tears. You have reduced your enemies
to madness. I'll just read this directly from our research director,
which I never do. This wasn't a story that was
going to make it on the air, but the way
she's written it is so funny.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
She says.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Pooping on Tesla's and other signs of TDS, which is
Trump delusion syndrome, she says, keying and pooping on Tesla's
videos made from inside a car where the feminine appearing
individual screams and cries, shaved heads, and now a full
on naked video struggle session where a quote queer artist
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and educator with Celtic roots end quote, spent thirty five
minutes describing how Trump has irrevocably damaged the arts by
his takeover of the Kennedy Center. Travis Forsyth, the contractor
at the Kennedy Center, posted a video of himself where
he's sitting and then laying in bed naked and advocating
for more drag shows paid for by you and me.
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And he did it in almost Iambic Pentameter. Fort Seyth's
position at Kennedy Center was program director for the Center's
Opera Institute. F Donald Trump and in the Kennedy Center,
this isn't exactly someone you'd want to see naked. He's
kind of scrawny, can I say, manarexi and well somewhat
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limited if you know what I mean. Much of the
post was spent in wondering if he should quit his
job to avoid being associated with the philistine like Trump. However,
he didn't have to wonder for very long. He was
fired by the Kennedy Center on Thursday. So I had
several people ask me when President Trump appointed himself to
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be the head of the Kennedy Center, why would he
do that. He shouldn't be associated with that place. That's
difference between you and him. He doesn't run from the battle.
He runs to it. He's taking over the Kennedy Center.
We're going to change it. We're going to honor people
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who share our values. We're going to honor people for
the right reasons, for true artistic merit.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So the story in the New York Pie, in the
New York.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Post, Kennedy Center contractor fired after posting bizarre naked monologue
bashing President Trump's takeover. F Donald Trump. You can see
the story for yourself. It's on our page if you
get our if you get our blast every day, it's
linked in the Blast today. You can sign up for
that at Michael Berryshow dot com. He says, hold on,
(06:35):
I wanted to see if let's see if I can
find the line he said, Uh, we're all naked. Where
is the line where he says that we're born naked?
And everything after that is drag. So the very act
of wearing clothes itself is draged.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, I can't find it.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
But you know, folks, if you leave New York, LA,
if you leave the big cities in the little section
Hawthorn in Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, if you leave the
actual core of these cities, not even the city itself,
but just his core, there are these areas where are
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these artistic types and corporate types, and they all think
they're very smart, and they all think the rest of
us are idiots.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
They're absolute freak shows.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
And you get outside of that, and ninety seven percent
of America is just looking at these people. You all
need to be in an insane asylum. They're honestly so
whacked out. And to think how many of them. We're
in positions where they're making a lot of money with
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a huge budget, and they're all just sitting around thinking
of the craziest thing they can do. Well, let's put
a visage of Jesus Christ in a fromaldehyde jar with urine.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Okay, all right, so we did that, All right, what
do we do next? I mean, they literally.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Just sit around thinking about what can they do to
upset their parents back home? In Omaha, and what because
that makes them feel alive. You know, look at us,
we're pushing the boundaries. We're the modern day Lenny Bruce,
you're not funny.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Something wong, Well, something must be right. You're listening to
Michael Berry.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
You don't want a thought today, do you know? I've
watched marriages that succeed and watch marriages that fall apart.
I've watched businesses that have grown from a garage to
multi billion, and I've watched businesses that have contracted and
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fallen away with brand equity of fifty years or more.
And I noticed that in all of these cases, I've
seen classrooms where students learn and are excited and what
was the keys line? Education is not filling a bucket,
it's lighting a fire. I've seen kids get so fired
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up over learning, and not just one thing, but lots
of things, engineering and architecture and science and mathematics and literature.
And then I've seen kids that can't understand why they
have to go to a prison every day from eight
to three and you know, get in trouble and have
to be and it's it's the same classrooms, same human being,
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but a very different result. And at the core of
all of that is communication, the ability to communicate.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
It seems so simple, but it's not. In fact, it's
quite difficult.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Actually, communication is so important. On this day in two
thousand and six, Twitter was founded. Who could have foreseen
it would become a two of our government, the deep state.
Tucker Carlson had a very very insightful, insightful commentary on this,
(10:08):
and I'm going to share it with you.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Let's say you were trying to staff a social media site.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Who would you hire.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Well, obviously, since it's a tech business, you would hire
tech people, coders, software engineers to keep the place running.
That you'd hire an administrative staff because you had to
some lawyers, a caterer or a flack or two, maybe
ad interior decorator if you wanted HQ to look good.
But how many spies would you hire? Well, probably none.
Spies have nothing to do with the mission of a
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social media company. They would not be needed, and you
wouldn't hire any opera singers either. Yet for some reason,
Twitter seems to need an awful lot of spies. The
upper ranks of Twitter, we now know, were absolutely loaded
with people who once did intel work for government agencies
At least fifteen of these people, and possibly many more.
Most of them were hired in the wake of Donald
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Trump's election. Now what were these people doing all day
and what was supposedly a social media company. Well that's
the question, isn't it. We know that James Baker came
from the FBI. He's been accused of secretly censoring and
criminating internal files before Elon Musk could release them to
the public. Baker was fired for that. So that's some
of what James Baker was doing at Twitter. But how
about Charles Smith of Twitter's Trust and Safety Department. Smith
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joined Twitter after working at US Cyber Command HM. Or
how about Jeff Tokager, formerly a director of Naval Counterintelligence.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
What was he doing?
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Or Kevin Mcalena or Doug Hunter, Mark Jerezuski or Douglas Turner,
Karen Wallas Russell handar Vincent Lucera. All of these people
once worked for the FBI as well. Their colleague Jeff
Carlton came from the CIA, Patrick Conlin once worked at
the NSSA and so on. And it wasn't just American
intel officers who found a home at Twitter. The company
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hired foreign spies too. In January, Peter Zachco was fired
from his position as Twitter's head of security. Reportedly, Zacho
lost his job because he complained about the level of
control that foreign intelligence agencies had over virtually all of
Twitter's operations. According to Zatco, there were operatives on Twitter's
payroll from other governments, including China and India, and they
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had access to private user data. And those are just
the details that we know about. Elon Musk was asked
recently how many former FBI agents are currently employed by Twitter.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
But he wouldn't say. It's all pretty weird? Could it be, though?
Speaker 7 (12:25):
While the rest of us imagined that Twitter was a
social media site, a placed event about politics and sports
and the Kardashians, could it be that Twitter was actually
maybe primarily a propaganda tool and intelligence gathering apparatus for
a variety of intel agencies.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Well, yes, that's possible, and you.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Can see why various governments would want access to the
information that Twitter had. Keep in mind that Twitter's direct
message to DM feature functioned for many years as a
kind of private text aff for some of the.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
World's most prominent people.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
So if you want to know what high government officials
really thought or if you want to know what well
informed sources were telling reporters off the record, you would
want to see those messages. Did Twitter executives ever share
those dms, those private messages with anyone outside the company
without a warrant? We strongly suspect that they did. The proof,
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of course, resides on Twitter servers, along with a lot else.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Think about it.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
If Twitter has been functioning as an arm of government
intel agencies, and clearly it has been, then its internal
documents will contain information about all kinds of things, not
just about the silencing of Donald Trump, not just about
Tony Fauci's buffoonish lies about the COVID shot. No information
about big history shaping events, the sabotage of Nordstring two,
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for example, the supposed poison gas attacks in Syria, both
of them, the imprisonment of Julie Na Sange why is
he there? The theft of incriminating emails from the DNC,
what was that story? The motive behind the Russian invasion
of Ukraine, and much much more. In other words, Elon
Musk now has control of the most significant trove of
secret information ever to reside in private hands. So far,
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we have not seen much of it, and you have
to wonder why we haven't.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Let's hope that we do.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
And now to get a start as we'll always do
courtesy the greatest executive producer and all the land Chattakoni Nanishi.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Here we can do. I just started rewatching Cojackie, my.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Pausry, I see you near me or any of my
family lead, I'm gonna scatter old braves from here the
way I please.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
How many of you remember from watching Kojack that Telly
Savalis's left index finger is bent down at all times
and stuck in a position to tell.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Your client to have his mouth behave. He's a prime
candidate for a good will cut.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Why he just doesn't have it taken off? Although he
could probably balance things.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
On him with a small voice. Sonny, you're in a
heavyweight division.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
The nine month space saga for NASA ast Butch Wilmore
and Sonny Williams is officially coming to an.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
End and splashdown Crew nine back on Earth on behalf
of SATHEX Welcome Home.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Elon just rescued two astronauts that Biden left floating around
in space for none.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
We have just witnessed one of the greatest moments in
African American history, and all African Americans should be rejoicing.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Houston has on my flab in it.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Talk about this a meth lab under a high end
apartment complex in downtown Houston.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
This is when you miss Marvin's in the.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Marvin Sendler witness targeted attack on a Tesla repair center
in Las Vegas video showing multiple cars inflame.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Man has been arrested in charge with arson after trying
to destroy a Tesla charging station.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Hasla's are being torched across the country.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Dealerships shot up and set on fire. Elon has become
the focal point of that anger for them, and they're
going to bring to bear everything they can. They're going
to terrorize Teslas, They're going to burn charging stations. And
this is why it's going to be important that federal
charges are brought against these people for terrorism.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And that's what it is.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
It's it's a form of economic terrorism.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
How he does the job of being the vice president
differently than Kamala Harris did. And you know, these are
such exciting times to live in if you are a
member of the media or a consumer of the media,
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because it's entertaining engaging, exciting, exhilarating, and there we are
blessed with people with a great deal of talent who've
been put by Donald Trump into positions where their voices
are being heard. So the Mamby Pamby Bush era years,
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the era of the John Bolton's and Bush Cheney, Romney McCain,
you know, Mike Pins.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
We stand very straight.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
We wear bankers suits, navy suits with chalk stripes and
wing tip shoes, and we have our hair cut every week,
and we stand for goodness and reason.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
That's over. We got warriors in there now and I
love it.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
So this is jd Vance talking about with Vince Collianes
talking about how he does the job differently than Kamala
did his VP. How are you doing the job differently
than Kamala did it?
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Well, I don't have, you know, four shots of vodka
before every meeting. That's That's one way I think that
Kamala really tried to bring her herself into the role
is these word salads. And I think that I would
need the help of a lot of alcohol to answer
a question the way that Kamala Harris answered questions. I mean, look, man,
I I don't know my senses, And this is a
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little bit of guesswork. Obviously I don't talk to Kamala
Harris or Joe Biden very often, but my sense is
that there wasn't a level of trust between Biden and Harris,
and so you know that there she was just less
empowered to do her job. And you know, luckily, I'm
in a situation where the president trusts me, where if
he asked me to do something, he believes it's going
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to happen. And obviously, you know, we'll talk about it
and check in. But I feel empowered in a way
that I think a lot of vice presidents haven't been.
But but but that's all in the service of accomplishing
the president's vision, and I think I try to remind
myself of that. You know every single day that the
American people elected Donald J.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Trump to do a job.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
For him to do that job successfully, the people around them,
starting at the top with the vice president, have to
do their jobs well.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
One of the great.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Tragic Greek tragedy dramas to play out during the Patriots
Great Years was that Bill Belichick and Tom Brady did
not like each other or couldn't get along. I think
what started as a working relationship developed over time to
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be a tiresome burden for both of them. And I
don't know how much of that. I think Belichick drove that,
and I don't know how much of that was And
it's easy to just say, well, he was a terrible
coach and Tom Brady's a great guy, because Tom Brady's
a good looking guy, and he went down to Tampa
and won a championship.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Okay, but Tom Brady didn't build those teams.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
And we could spend six months of airtime on a
sports station, twenty four hours a day arguing how much
of the Patriots' phenomenal success like we've never seen before,
how much of that was Tom Brady and how much
of that was the doings of Bill Belichick and the
people he put in place in the way he coached.
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But you cannot deny that Belichick had a huge job,
and that was keeping Tom Brady a team member and
not a diva when the media was telling him how
Grady was, how good he looked, you know, his wife,
you know, he's the greatest, and that affects a lot
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of things. You got to keep him in check on
how much you're going to pay him. You got to
keep him in check on what plays are going to
be called and how he's going to execute them. You're
gonna have to keep him in check when he shows
up to training camp. There are going to be times
that Tom Brady is going to want to make a
decision in Tom Brady's best interest that is not in
the best interest of the team. And as a coach,
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you have to be prepared that when you snap the whip,
he's going to fall into line to some extent. And
I think that's why Nick Saban did not have success
in the pros like he did in college football and
now with the NIL I think that's why Saban got out.
Mac Brown has said it's not fun anymore. I think
that's why that style of coach struggles today. You don't
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see much of that. They call him player coaches. Now
what that means is friend of the player. Hangout buddy.
Maybe they'll want to play for me because I'm a
nice guy and we hang out. But the old days
of the chuck nole Tom Landry, that's gone well. I
think Donald Trump is still built on the mold of
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the tough coach who wants to get other people. Donald
Trump is very persuasive, and he can be persuasive in
different ways, and he can be persuasive in different ways
with the same person. You look at the approach he's
taken with Donald with with Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio.
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He's gone from ridiculing Marco Rubio to lifting him to
the position of Secretary of State. And now Rubio is
in his service and in the nation service, but in
Trump's service, and he's reading from the same music book
that Trump is, and they are in harmony. So one
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of the great challenges, I guess, this is what I'm
trying to say that is going to play out, is
that Trump has to keep his team focused on the
agenda he has laid out. And that is hard enough
to do any time you have a person other than
yourself carrying out your agenda, because maybe they don't work
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as hard as you, maybe they don't think exactly as
the way you do. Maybe they've got personal problems, challenges,
drug addictions, sexual fleeings, drama at home. So he's got
these people, this team, this cabinet of Marvel super heroes,
that he has to keep moving in the same direction,
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and that grows more and more difficult as you get
further into the administration, because you get further away from
their gratitude at you putting them in this position because
you could have put anybody there and closer to them
thinking about what they're going to do next. A lot
of these people want to go on to other jobs
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after Trump, So for a while it behooves them to
be in his service, his loyal service, and be loved
by the voters that might put them in their next position.
But not all of them are going to want to
go into elected office. Some of them are going to
want to cash out. My guess is Marco Rubio was
going to want to cash out after the Secretary of State. Well,
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when that happens, you start, you start that becomes a
trying to love two women's like a ball and chain
Oakridge Boys song. You start serving multiple masters. What I
think is going to be interesting is Trump's leadership style
in the coming months and even years as this thing
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begins to play out.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
And look, this is not unique to Trump.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
The difference between Trump and past presidents is as presidents
have been happy to be the president, put people in
place because that's who they were told to put there.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
And not really worry about him from there.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Trump has a very focused agenda and very clear messaging,
and he wants everybody on the same page at all
times about that messaging. That's why he is so effective,
and it's going to be interesting to watch him be
honest with loosely a Buddhist Michael Berry. Let's start with
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the fact that what Elon Musk is doing with Doge
is very popular. Harry Inton at CNN, reading off a
poll that says fifty four percent of Americans approve of Doge. Now,
you might when you hear that, you might think to yourself,
you know, because because we're accustomed to what a big
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response is being more than fifty four percent, But you're
getting fifty four percent of Americans.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You've got to realize you have to write off.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
About thirty five percent of Americans that whatever you know
is is.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Does chocolate taste good?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Thirty five percent are going to say no, uh, is
America a good place to live? Thirty five percent are
going to say no to whatever whatever the obvious answer is.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
There's thirty five percent that are just whack jobs.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
And so fifty four percent is getting okay, you got
sixty five percent, it's getting you know, almost ninety percent
of what's left from the crazies. You have to take
thirty five forty percent out of everything. Is is Donald
Trump a financially successful businessman? Well, hell, forty five percent
are going to be again, first time it was Trump
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is no. Answer is no. So this is a pretty
amazing fact. And this is what will set our predicate
for the conclusion coming up.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
About when we're talking about the cuts that dog is
bringing about, how are they feeling?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, this to me was one of the more shocking
figures that I saw. Maybe go wait a minute, hold
on one second. Whoa Americans on Trump and Joe's efforts
musc and do dose should influence government spending and operations?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Look at this, fifty four.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Percent the majority say that he and they should. How
about approve of Trump trying to cut staff at government agencies? Again,
you get a majority here fifty one percent. So yeah,
Elon Musk might not be that popular, but these cuts
in the idea of spending cuts at least within the
federal government and cutting at government agencies that actually has
majority support. I was truly surprised by this cap But
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the numbers are the.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Numbers, Well, there is there is a view that cuts
across Democrat and Republican of people thinking that Washington is
too big, bloated federal government, waste, fraud, and abuse. I
mean those are drained the swamp as what people run
on over and over again.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
How do they feel.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
What do they think they're actually cutting?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, what do they think they're actually cutting? Democrats want
to argue that the type of spending that must is
cutting is mainly necessary programs, but that comes in at
just thirty six percent. The wasteful spending actually wins the
plurality here at forty two percent, according to a recent
Washington Post episost Paul, and I think that is the
reason why you see that when it comes to Dusk
and Moje Musk and Doge, you see, in fact, the
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majority believing he should have some influence because they believe
the plurality, believe that he is cutting wasteful spending, not
necessary programs that Democrats are.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
You also have to understand and remember you know this,
but you have to be reminded, we all have to
be reminded that the media is the same media that's
making this point. I can't believe, he says, I was
surprised fifty four percent of people. The reason he was.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Surprised is because he works at CNN. The day after
day is telling people that Trump is failing, Elon is horrible,
that everybody's dying.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
This is terrible.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
So the fact that when you ask the people, hey,
is Trump terrible? Is everyone dying? The fact that over
half of them say no, no, that that's not happening.
What you keep telling me is not true. And that's
what surprises these people. They all live in a bubble.
There's something more to it.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Elon.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
You may be over it because you may think Elon
is overexposed or had people tell me this. You may think, man,
I've had enough of Elon already. Understand this. It's a
big country. People work multiple shifts, they're distracted, they got
a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
You've got to keep telling your story.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Again and again and again and again. And that is
a difficult thing to do. And yet Trump, and yet
Elon is doing it, and Trump is doing it, and
it's exhausting, it's grueling. But here is an example. This
is this is from a few days ago, more than
a few days ago, probably a week ago. Elon was
on Fox and we pulled this audio because this is
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the richest man in the world taking the time to
patiently lay this out to the rest of us out
here who punch of clock raise kids, don't have his
financial bearing, do not have his professional success. But he
understands you've got to keep the American people behind you.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
So demystify this. How do you do it? Okay?
Speaker 10 (29:14):
How big is your team? Where do you recruit most
of them from? And what is it that makes you choose,
you know, the Treasury or Social Security or USAI D
how does it work?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Let the public know?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Please, right, Well, we just basically follow the money.
Speaker 11 (29:31):
You know, we look at the presence executive orders and
we also just follow the money. So we started looking
closely at USID because they were completely violating the presence
executive orders to suspend foreign foreign aid.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
You know's what's called foreignate. But in our view is
a lot of corruption.
Speaker 11 (29:51):
So where we sold there is just a transamount of
money being sent to non governmental organizations. But actually it's
a this, by the way, is I think one of
the biggest sources of board in the world is government
funded non governmental organizations. This is a gigantic fraud loophole
where the government can give money to an NGO and
(30:14):
then that there are no controls o that NGO. So
they've given billions dollars that we estimate tens of billions
of dollars to NGOs that are essentially scams, and right
the way I.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Try to put us up to that, you know, so
I do want to interrupt.
Speaker 10 (30:30):
Secretary of State Rubio has just come out, I think
he tweeted today he is accepted over eighty percent of
your recommendations to shut down in us AI D. So
your review and analysis was spot on.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yes, So I.
Speaker 11 (30:47):
Think when people criticize, say what DOGE is doing, we say, well.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Which parts?
Speaker 11 (30:52):
Specifically, because we put all of the actions of the
dog team on the door dot gov website and on
the DOGE handline x so we post the receipts, so
it's like this, this action has been taken, this action
has been taken. So when when we get criticism, we say, like,
of what of what? Which which line do you disagree with?
(31:14):
Like which which cut? Which cut? Which cost saving do
you disagree with? And people usually can't think.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Of any you know.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So it's transparent line by line.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
It's transparent line by line, which is quite remarkable. Right
and so.
Speaker 11 (31:29):
And then with respect to the Treasury, for example, we
the two main recommendations we UH suggested, which have not
been implemented, was that any payments going out of the Treasury,
especially the Treasury's main payment computer, which is called PAM,
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things like Payments Account Manager or something like that. It's
like almost five trillion a year, so about a billion
an hour, that the payments be coded with the congressional appropriation,
and that there be an explanation.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
For the payment. Very basic stuff.
Speaker 11 (32:07):
And just doing that we estimate will save one hundred
billion dollars a year.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
You're not really let me see if I get this right,
particularly with SO, you're not really changing policy that you're
auditing the fiscal mechanisms to make sure that you know,
from point A gets to point B, and that's where
it's supposed to get to. In some cases it doesn't
get there, or some cases it may go over there.
But that's right. It's not a policy exercise. You're not
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changing laws. You're just doing what any business would do
in a profit and loss audit.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
I think we're really what we're adding here is caring and.
Speaker 11 (32:48):
Competence, and there's a massive amount of fraud of basically
people submitting social spirity numbers for social Security benefits, unemployment,
small business, administration loans, and and medical where where those
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are those are those are fake social screen numbers, so
they're there's where they're sold in somebody else's social screen number,
and we're trying, we're trying to put.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
A stop to all of that.
Speaker 11 (33:16):
And that that's the number which is estimated to be
on the order of ten percent of federal expenditures, which is,
you know, half a half a trillion dollars, a huge number.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
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Speaker 6 (02:40):
Who Well, the war for the future of America wages on, ye,
and it's a good feeling to get some winds. It
is a good feeling to watch the left vanquished and
brought before us. I see Bernie Sanders on his Oligarchy tour.
(03:07):
It is now Bernie Sanders and AOC who are traveling
the country screeching and I mean screeching, squawking ough nails
on a chalkboard, two cats on a high wire late
at night.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You're trying to sleep.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
And they're getting after it. Oh, it's something, man. It
just blows my mind. How many people email me how
upset they are about it, and I keep telling them,
you're missing the joke. Fella, these are the good old days.
You should be enjoying this.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Drink.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Lap up those liberal tears. You have reduced your enemies
to madness. I'll just read this directly from our research director,
which I never do. This wasn't a story that was
going to make it on the air, but the way
she's written it is so funny.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
She says.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Pooping on Tesla's and other signs of TDS, which is
Trump delusion syndrome, she says, keying and pooping on Tesla's
videos made from inside a car where the feminine appearing
individual screams and cries, shaved heads, and now a full
on naked video struggle session where a quote queer artist
(04:34):
and educator with Celtic roots end quote, spent thirty five
minutes describing how Trump has irrevocably damaged the arts by
his takeover of the Kennedy Center. Travis Forsyth, the contractor
at the Kennedy Center, posted a video of himself where
he's sitting and then laying in bed naked and advocating
for more drag shows paid for by you and me.
(04:59):
And he did it in almost Iambic Pentameter. Fort Seyth's
position at Kennedy Center was program director for the Center's
Opera Institute. F Donald Trump and in the Kennedy Center,
this isn't exactly someone you'd want to see naked. He's
kind of scrawny, can I say, manarexi and well somewhat
(05:21):
limited if you know what I mean. Much of the
post was spent in wondering if he should quit his
job to avoid being associated with the philistine like Trump. However,
he didn't have to wonder for very long. He was
fired by the Kennedy Center on Thursday. So I had
several people ask me when President Trump appointed himself to
(05:43):
be the head of the Kennedy Center, why would he
do that. He shouldn't be associated with that place. That's
difference between you and him. He doesn't run from the battle.
He runs to it. He's taking over the Kennedy Center.
We're going to change it. We're going to honor people
(06:03):
who share our values. We're going to honor people for
the right reasons, for true artistic merit.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So the story in the New York Pie, in the
New York.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Post, Kennedy Center contractor fired after posting bizarre naked monologue
bashing President Trump's takeover. F Donald Trump. You can see
the story for yourself. It's on our page if you
get our if you get our blast every day, it's
linked in the Blast today. You can sign up for
that at Michael Berryshow dot com. He says, hold on,
(06:35):
I wanted to see if let's see if I can
find the line he said, Uh, we're all naked. Where
is the line where he says that we're born naked?
And everything after that is drag. So the very act
of wearing clothes itself is draged.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, I can't find it.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
But you know, folks, if you leave New York, LA,
if you leave the big cities in the little section
Hawthorn in Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, if you leave the
actual core of these cities, not even the city itself,
but just his core, there are these areas where are
(07:22):
these artistic types and corporate types, and they all think
they're very smart, and they all think the rest of
us are idiots.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
They're absolute freak shows.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
And you get outside of that, and ninety seven percent
of America is just looking at these people. You all
need to be in an insane asylum. They're honestly so
whacked out. And to think how many of them. We're
in positions where they're making a lot of money with
(07:52):
a huge budget, and they're all just sitting around thinking
of the craziest thing they can do. Well, let's put
a visage of Jesus Christ in a fromaldehyde jar with urine.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Okay, all right, so we did that, All right, what
do we do next? I mean, they literally.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Just sit around thinking about what can they do to
upset their parents back home? In Omaha, and what because
that makes them feel alive. You know, look at us,
we're pushing the boundaries. We're the modern day Lenny Bruce,
you're not funny.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Something wong, Well, something must be right. You're listening to
Michael Berry.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
You don't want a thought today, do you know? I've
watched marriages that succeed and watch marriages that fall apart.
I've watched businesses that have grown from a garage to
multi billion, and I've watched businesses that have contracted and
(08:51):
fallen away with brand equity of fifty years or more.
And I noticed that in all of these cases, I've
seen classrooms where students learn and are excited and what
was the keys line? Education is not filling a bucket,
it's lighting a fire. I've seen kids get so fired
(09:12):
up over learning, and not just one thing, but lots
of things, engineering and architecture and science and mathematics and literature.
And then I've seen kids that can't understand why they
have to go to a prison every day from eight
to three and you know, get in trouble and have
to be and it's it's the same classrooms, same human being,
(09:33):
but a very different result. And at the core of
all of that is communication, the ability to communicate.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
It seems so simple, but it's not. In fact, it's
quite difficult.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Actually, communication is so important. On this day in two
thousand and six, Twitter was founded. Who could have foreseen
it would become a two of our government, the deep state.
Tucker Carlson had a very very insightful, insightful commentary on this,
(10:08):
and I'm going to share it with you.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Let's say you were trying to staff a social media site.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Who would you hire.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Well, obviously, since it's a tech business, you would hire
tech people, coders, software engineers to keep the place running.
That you'd hire an administrative staff because you had to
some lawyers, a caterer or a flack or two, maybe
ad interior decorator if you wanted HQ to look good.
But how many spies would you hire? Well, probably none.
Spies have nothing to do with the mission of a
(10:34):
social media company. They would not be needed, and you
wouldn't hire any opera singers either. Yet for some reason,
Twitter seems to need an awful lot of spies. The
upper ranks of Twitter, we now know, were absolutely loaded
with people who once did intel work for government agencies
At least fifteen of these people, and possibly many more.
Most of them were hired in the wake of Donald
(10:55):
Trump's election. Now what were these people doing all day
and what was supposedly a social media company. Well that's
the question, isn't it. We know that James Baker came
from the FBI. He's been accused of secretly censoring and
criminating internal files before Elon Musk could release them to
the public. Baker was fired for that. So that's some
of what James Baker was doing at Twitter. But how
about Charles Smith of Twitter's Trust and Safety Department. Smith
(11:18):
joined Twitter after working at US Cyber Command HM. Or
how about Jeff Tokager, formerly a director of Naval Counterintelligence.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
What was he doing?
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Or Kevin Mcalena or Doug Hunter, Mark Jerezuski or Douglas Turner,
Karen Wallas Russell handar Vincent Lucera. All of these people
once worked for the FBI as well. Their colleague Jeff
Carlton came from the CIA, Patrick Conlin once worked at
the NSSA and so on. And it wasn't just American
intel officers who found a home at Twitter. The company
(11:50):
hired foreign spies too. In January, Peter Zachco was fired
from his position as Twitter's head of security. Reportedly, Zacho
lost his job because he complained about the level of
control that foreign intelligence agencies had over virtually all of
Twitter's operations. According to Zatco, there were operatives on Twitter's
payroll from other governments, including China and India, and they
(12:11):
had access to private user data. And those are just
the details that we know about. Elon Musk was asked
recently how many former FBI agents are currently employed by Twitter.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
But he wouldn't say. It's all pretty weird? Could it be, though?
Speaker 7 (12:25):
While the rest of us imagined that Twitter was a
social media site, a placed event about politics and sports
and the Kardashians, could it be that Twitter was actually
maybe primarily a propaganda tool and intelligence gathering apparatus for
a variety of intel agencies.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Well, yes, that's possible, and you.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Can see why various governments would want access to the
information that Twitter had. Keep in mind that Twitter's direct
message to DM feature functioned for many years as a
kind of private text aff for some of the.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
World's most prominent people.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
So if you want to know what high government officials
really thought or if you want to know what well
informed sources were telling reporters off the record, you would
want to see those messages. Did Twitter executives ever share
those dms, those private messages with anyone outside the company
without a warrant? We strongly suspect that they did. The proof,
(13:16):
of course, resides on Twitter servers, along with a lot else.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Think about it.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
If Twitter has been functioning as an arm of government
intel agencies, and clearly it has been, then its internal
documents will contain information about all kinds of things, not
just about the silencing of Donald Trump, not just about
Tony Fauci's buffoonish lies about the COVID shot. No information
about big history shaping events, the sabotage of Nordstring two,
(13:42):
for example, the supposed poison gas attacks in Syria, both
of them, the imprisonment of Julie Na Sange why is
he there? The theft of incriminating emails from the DNC,
what was that story? The motive behind the Russian invasion
of Ukraine, and much much more. In other words, Elon
Musk now has control of the most significant trove of
secret information ever to reside in private hands. So far,
(14:05):
we have not seen much of it, and you have
to wonder why we haven't.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Let's hope that we do.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
And now to get a start as we'll always do
courtesy the greatest executive producer and all the land Chattakoni Nanishi.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Here we can do. I just started rewatching Cojackie, my.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Pausry, I see you near me or any of my
family lead, I'm gonna scatter old braves from here the
way I please.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
How many of you remember from watching Kojack that Telly
Savalis's left index finger is bent down at all times
and stuck in a position to tell.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Your client to have his mouth behave. He's a prime
candidate for a good will cut.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Why he just doesn't have it taken off? Although he
could probably balance things.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
On him with a small voice. Sonny, you're in a
heavyweight division.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
The nine month space saga for NASA ast Butch Wilmore
and Sonny Williams is officially coming to an.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
End and splashdown Crew nine back on Earth on behalf
of SATHEX Welcome Home.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Elon just rescued two astronauts that Biden left floating around
in space for none.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
We have just witnessed one of the greatest moments in
African American history, and all African Americans should be rejoicing.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Houston has on my flab in it.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Talk about this a meth lab under a high end
apartment complex in downtown Houston.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
This is when you miss Marvin's in the.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Marvin Sendler witness targeted attack on a Tesla repair center
in Las Vegas video showing multiple cars inflame.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Man has been arrested in charge with arson after trying
to destroy a Tesla charging station.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Hasla's are being torched across the country.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Dealerships shot up and set on fire. Elon has become
the focal point of that anger for them, and they're
going to bring to bear everything they can. They're going
to terrorize Teslas, They're going to burn charging stations. And
this is why it's going to be important that federal
charges are brought against these people for terrorism.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And that's what it is.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
It's it's a form of economic terrorism.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
How he does the job of being the vice president
differently than Kamala Harris did. And you know, these are
such exciting times to live in if you are a
member of the media or a consumer of the media,
(16:41):
because it's entertaining engaging, exciting, exhilarating, and there we are
blessed with people with a great deal of talent who've
been put by Donald Trump into positions where their voices
are being heard. So the Mamby Pamby Bush era years,
(17:03):
the era of the John Bolton's and Bush Cheney, Romney McCain,
you know, Mike Pins.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
We stand very straight.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
We wear bankers suits, navy suits with chalk stripes and
wing tip shoes, and we have our hair cut every week,
and we stand for goodness and reason.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
That's over. We got warriors in there now and I
love it.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
So this is jd Vance talking about with Vince Collianes
talking about how he does the job differently than Kamala
did his VP. How are you doing the job differently
than Kamala did it?
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Well, I don't have, you know, four shots of vodka
before every meeting. That's That's one way I think that
Kamala really tried to bring her herself into the role
is these word salads. And I think that I would
need the help of a lot of alcohol to answer
a question the way that Kamala Harris answered questions. I mean, look, man,
I I don't know my senses, And this is a
(18:02):
little bit of guesswork. Obviously I don't talk to Kamala
Harris or Joe Biden very often, but my sense is
that there wasn't a level of trust between Biden and Harris,
and so you know that there she was just less
empowered to do her job. And you know, luckily, I'm
in a situation where the president trusts me, where if
he asked me to do something, he believes it's going
(18:23):
to happen. And obviously, you know, we'll talk about it
and check in. But I feel empowered in a way
that I think a lot of vice presidents haven't been.
But but but that's all in the service of accomplishing
the president's vision, and I think I try to remind
myself of that. You know every single day that the
American people elected Donald J.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Trump to do a job.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
For him to do that job successfully, the people around them,
starting at the top with the vice president, have to
do their jobs well.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
One of the great.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Tragic Greek tragedy dramas to play out during the Patriots
Great Years was that Bill Belichick and Tom Brady did
not like each other or couldn't get along. I think
what started as a working relationship developed over time to
(19:15):
be a tiresome burden for both of them. And I
don't know how much of that. I think Belichick drove that,
and I don't know how much of that was And
it's easy to just say, well, he was a terrible
coach and Tom Brady's a great guy, because Tom Brady's
a good looking guy, and he went down to Tampa
and won a championship.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Okay, but Tom Brady didn't build those teams.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
And we could spend six months of airtime on a
sports station, twenty four hours a day arguing how much
of the Patriots' phenomenal success like we've never seen before,
how much of that was Tom Brady and how much
of that was the doings of Bill Belichick and the
people he put in place in the way he coached.
(19:55):
But you cannot deny that Belichick had a huge job,
and that was keeping Tom Brady a team member and
not a diva when the media was telling him how
Grady was, how good he looked, you know, his wife,
you know, he's the greatest, and that affects a lot
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of things. You got to keep him in check on
how much you're going to pay him. You got to
keep him in check on what plays are going to
be called and how he's going to execute them. You're
gonna have to keep him in check when he shows
up to training camp. There are going to be times
that Tom Brady is going to want to make a
decision in Tom Brady's best interest that is not in
the best interest of the team. And as a coach,
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you have to be prepared that when you snap the whip,
he's going to fall into line to some extent. And
I think that's why Nick Saban did not have success
in the pros like he did in college football and
now with the NIL I think that's why Saban got out.
Mac Brown has said it's not fun anymore. I think
that's why that style of coach struggles today. You don't
(20:58):
see much of that. They call him player coaches. Now
what that means is friend of the player. Hangout buddy.
Maybe they'll want to play for me because I'm a
nice guy and we hang out. But the old days
of the chuck nole Tom Landry, that's gone well. I
think Donald Trump is still built on the mold of
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the tough coach who wants to get other people. Donald
Trump is very persuasive, and he can be persuasive in
different ways, and he can be persuasive in different ways
with the same person. You look at the approach he's
taken with Donald with with Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio.
(21:39):
He's gone from ridiculing Marco Rubio to lifting him to
the position of Secretary of State. And now Rubio is
in his service and in the nation service, but in
Trump's service, and he's reading from the same music book
that Trump is, and they are in harmony. So one
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of the great challenges, I guess, this is what I'm
trying to say that is going to play out, is
that Trump has to keep his team focused on the
agenda he has laid out. And that is hard enough
to do any time you have a person other than
yourself carrying out your agenda, because maybe they don't work
(22:24):
as hard as you, maybe they don't think exactly as
the way you do. Maybe they've got personal problems, challenges,
drug addictions, sexual fleeings, drama at home. So he's got
these people, this team, this cabinet of Marvel super heroes,
that he has to keep moving in the same direction,
(22:44):
and that grows more and more difficult as you get
further into the administration, because you get further away from
their gratitude at you putting them in this position because
you could have put anybody there and closer to them
thinking about what they're going to do next. A lot
of these people want to go on to other jobs
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after Trump, So for a while it behooves them to
be in his service, his loyal service, and be loved
by the voters that might put them in their next position.
But not all of them are going to want to
go into elected office. Some of them are going to
want to cash out. My guess is Marco Rubio was
going to want to cash out after the Secretary of State. Well,
(23:29):
when that happens, you start, you start that becomes a
trying to love two women's like a ball and chain
Oakridge Boys song. You start serving multiple masters. What I
think is going to be interesting is Trump's leadership style
in the coming months and even years as this thing
(23:52):
begins to play out.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
And look, this is not unique to Trump.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
The difference between Trump and past presidents is as presidents
have been happy to be the president, put people in
place because that's who they were told to put there.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
And not really worry about him from there.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Trump has a very focused agenda and very clear messaging,
and he wants everybody on the same page at all
times about that messaging. That's why he is so effective,
and it's going to be interesting to watch him be
honest with loosely a Buddhist Michael Berry. Let's start with
(24:37):
the fact that what Elon Musk is doing with Doge
is very popular. Harry Inton at CNN, reading off a
poll that says fifty four percent of Americans approve of Doge. Now,
you might when you hear that, you might think to yourself,
you know, because because we're accustomed to what a big
(25:00):
response is being more than fifty four percent, But you're
getting fifty four percent of Americans.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You've got to realize you have to write off.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
About thirty five percent of Americans that whatever you know
is is.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Does chocolate taste good?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Thirty five percent are going to say no, uh, is
America a good place to live? Thirty five percent are
going to say no to whatever whatever the obvious answer is.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
There's thirty five percent that are just whack jobs.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
And so fifty four percent is getting okay, you got
sixty five percent, it's getting you know, almost ninety percent
of what's left from the crazies. You have to take
thirty five forty percent out of everything. Is is Donald
Trump a financially successful businessman? Well, hell, forty five percent
are going to be again, first time it was Trump
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is no. Answer is no. So this is a pretty
amazing fact. And this is what will set our predicate
for the conclusion coming up.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
About when we're talking about the cuts that dog is
bringing about, how are they feeling?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, this to me was one of the more shocking
figures that I saw. Maybe go wait a minute, hold
on one second. Whoa Americans on Trump and Joe's efforts
musc and do dose should influence government spending and operations?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Look at this, fifty four.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Percent the majority say that he and they should. How
about approve of Trump trying to cut staff at government agencies? Again,
you get a majority here fifty one percent. So yeah,
Elon Musk might not be that popular, but these cuts
in the idea of spending cuts at least within the
federal government and cutting at government agencies that actually has
majority support. I was truly surprised by this cap But
(26:39):
the numbers are the.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Numbers, Well, there is there is a view that cuts
across Democrat and Republican of people thinking that Washington is
too big, bloated federal government, waste, fraud, and abuse. I
mean those are drained the swamp as what people run
on over and over again.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
How do they feel.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
What do they think they're actually cutting?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, what do they think they're actually cutting? Democrats want
to argue that the type of spending that must is
cutting is mainly necessary programs, but that comes in at
just thirty six percent. The wasteful spending actually wins the
plurality here at forty two percent, according to a recent
Washington Post episost Paul, and I think that is the
reason why you see that when it comes to Dusk
and Moje Musk and Doge, you see, in fact, the
(27:17):
majority believing he should have some influence because they believe
the plurality, believe that he is cutting wasteful spending, not
necessary programs that Democrats are.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
You also have to understand and remember you know this,
but you have to be reminded, we all have to
be reminded that the media is the same media that's
making this point. I can't believe, he says, I was
surprised fifty four percent of people. The reason he was.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Surprised is because he works at CNN. The day after
day is telling people that Trump is failing, Elon is horrible,
that everybody's dying.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
This is terrible.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
So the fact that when you ask the people, hey,
is Trump terrible? Is everyone dying? The fact that over
half of them say no, no, that that's not happening.
What you keep telling me is not true. And that's
what surprises these people. They all live in a bubble.
There's something more to it.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Elon.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
You may be over it because you may think Elon
is overexposed or had people tell me this. You may think, man,
I've had enough of Elon already. Understand this. It's a
big country. People work multiple shifts, they're distracted, they got
a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
You've got to keep telling your story.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Again and again and again and again. And that is
a difficult thing to do. And yet Trump, and yet
Elon is doing it, and Trump is doing it, and
it's exhausting, it's grueling. But here is an example. This
is this is from a few days ago, more than
a few days ago, probably a week ago. Elon was
on Fox and we pulled this audio because this is
(28:52):
the richest man in the world taking the time to
patiently lay this out to the rest of us out
here who punch of clock raise kids, don't have his
financial bearing, do not have his professional success. But he
understands you've got to keep the American people behind you.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
So demystify this. How do you do it? Okay?
Speaker 10 (29:14):
How big is your team? Where do you recruit most
of them from? And what is it that makes you choose,
you know, the Treasury or Social Security or USAI D
how does it work?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Let the public know?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Please, right, Well, we just basically follow the money.
Speaker 11 (29:31):
You know, we look at the presence executive orders and
we also just follow the money. So we started looking
closely at USID because they were completely violating the presence
executive orders to suspend foreign foreign aid.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
You know's what's called foreignate. But in our view is
a lot of corruption.
Speaker 11 (29:51):
So where we sold there is just a transamount of
money being sent to non governmental organizations. But actually it's
a this, by the way, is I think one of
the biggest sources of board in the world is government
funded non governmental organizations. This is a gigantic fraud loophole
where the government can give money to an NGO and
(30:14):
then that there are no controls o that NGO. So
they've given billions dollars that we estimate tens of billions
of dollars to NGOs that are essentially scams, and right
the way I.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Try to put us up to that, you know, so
I do want to interrupt.
Speaker 10 (30:30):
Secretary of State Rubio has just come out, I think
he tweeted today he is accepted over eighty percent of
your recommendations to shut down in us AI D. So
your review and analysis was spot on.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yes, So I.
Speaker 11 (30:47):
Think when people criticize, say what DOGE is doing, we say, well.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Which parts?
Speaker 11 (30:52):
Specifically, because we put all of the actions of the
dog team on the door dot gov website and on
the DOGE handline x so we post the receipts, so
it's like this, this action has been taken, this action
has been taken. So when when we get criticism, we say, like,
of what of what? Which which line do you disagree with?
(31:14):
Like which which cut? Which cut? Which cost saving do
you disagree with? And people usually can't think.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Of any you know.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So it's transparent line by line.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
It's transparent line by line, which is quite remarkable. Right
and so.
Speaker 11 (31:29):
And then with respect to the Treasury, for example, we
the two main recommendations we UH suggested, which have not
been implemented, was that any payments going out of the Treasury,
especially the Treasury's main payment computer, which is called PAM,
(31:50):
things like Payments Account Manager or something like that. It's
like almost five trillion a year, so about a billion
an hour, that the payments be coded with the congressional appropriation,
and that there be an explanation.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
For the payment. Very basic stuff.
Speaker 11 (32:07):
And just doing that we estimate will save one hundred
billion dollars a year.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
You're not really let me see if I get this right,
particularly with SO, you're not really changing policy that you're
auditing the fiscal mechanisms to make sure that you know,
from point A gets to point B, and that's where
it's supposed to get to. In some cases it doesn't
get there, or some cases it may go over there.
But that's right. It's not a policy exercise. You're not
(32:35):
changing laws. You're just doing what any business would do
in a profit and loss audit.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
I think we're really what we're adding here is caring and.
Speaker 11 (32:48):
Competence, and there's a massive amount of fraud of basically
people submitting social spirity numbers for social Security benefits, unemployment,
small business, administration loans, and and medical where where those
(33:08):
are those are those are fake social screen numbers, so
they're there's where they're sold in somebody else's social screen number,
and we're trying, we're trying to put.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
A stop to all of that.
Speaker 11 (33:16):
And that that's the number which is estimated to be
on the order of ten percent of federal expenditures, which is,
you know, half a half a trillion dollars, a huge number.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
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