Friday-2-21-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A leader in Germany, is one of the five who
sat there during Trump's first term when he said, Hey,
you know what y'all shouldn't do. You shouldn't just have Russia,
you know, meeting your energy needs, because if something goes
sideways and you're closing all these coal plants and then
it's just Russia, you guys are gonna look dumb and

(00:22):
things are gonna get expensive and it's gonna suck. And
one of the people laughing at that table is essentially
the Adam Schiff of Germany. Okay, that's the dude. Days
out of the German election, this is getting absolutely Oh
what what jd Vance is doing? And I and and
here's the thing I don't welcome in some isolationist way.

(00:48):
I just it's it's just been so long, so uh.
Jd Vance and as well as Pete Haig Seth obviously
is Defense Secretary, you know, really on the European tour,
and of course Vance gave the speech to their face
was just like, hey, probably shouldn't throw people in jail

(01:09):
for memes. That's kind of dumb. We don't like that.
And everyone's like, ah, he went in there and he
what did I see like him too, showing up at
his best friend's birthday party and making a scene. No,
that was literally a discussion about defense and security stuff.
So one that was there too, you guys, including the wait,

(01:36):
what is she from Finland or something? The the time,
the really thin chick who's like, oh, we're gonna We're
gonna shut down the X. Right, you and your cohorts
have your defense essentially subsidized by the United States. And
it's more so than that. It also is the pillar

(01:57):
of industry and commerce in several European cities, not just
in Germany. In Spain we have a huge, huge bait
was it Roda Roda whatever? It is huge basis over
in Europe. And so you sit there and and and
you watched an interview in Jade. Vance is like, hey man,

(02:20):
you know, one of the things we're giving a lot
of thought to is is the is the whole part
where you guys are willing to throw people in jail
for memes and and you know our values here is
the United States of America. Well, why why would you
do that? And he says this days ahead of the

(02:42):
German election.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I might point out Germany's entire defense is subsidized by
the American taxpayer. There are thousands upon thousands of American
troops in Germany today. Do you think that the American
taxpayer is going to stand for that? If you get
thrown in jail in Germany for posting a mean tweet.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Of course they're not right.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
So the point that I try to make to our
European friends, and I think that there are friends I
believe that I know President Trump does, is that friendship
is based on shared values. You do not have shared values.
If you're jailing people for saying we should close down
our border, you don't have shared values. If you cancel
elections because you don't like the result, and that happened

(03:25):
in Romania, you don't have You do not have shared
values if you're so afraid of your own people that
you silence them and shut them up.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
So let's have shared values.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Let's defend the democracy, let's have free expression, not just
in the United States but all over the Western world.
That is the path to strong alliances in Europe.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
That is, by the way, the level of hand grenade.
He just rolled into the room with that, And I
know people are like, oh, why would you, why are
you upset? In the Apple card because for too long
everything's been allowed to progress to where it is. Right.
The idea that the US you want to be friends
with the US, and we, in a limited way want

(04:06):
to be friends with you turned into we essentially, you know,
we fund two thirds of NATO, which is essentially the
Europeans Defense system. So they're able to you know, take
their funding, their money within their particular economies and then
spend it on other stuff. And don't get me wrong,

(04:28):
there are strategic alliances the US has to have and
with the threat of China and Russia where it is,
you know, there needs to be forward deployed areas in
the world. I understand that, and we have long standing partnerships,
a lot of which were born out of World War Two,
which are strategically advantageous. Germany houses what it's not just

(04:53):
one base, it's like seven or something, and it's huge
for a couple of the big German cities. It's it
probably would destabilize the economy of the regions if the
US just left. And so they're sitting out there and jd.
Vance says that, and this is the part that's hard
to watch. Now you're seeing these German politics, Like within

(05:15):
a day, they're like, oh no, don't you won't you
miss our strudle. You're gonna miss our strudle. You know
what to go anywhere? Dude, that that put the fear
of God into him, because now you've got to pay
for your own stuff and you gotta eat all that
strudle too. Uh and uh. The financial impact of that

(05:38):
is wild man. And then of course that opens up
the next layer of people criticizing like, oh, well, you're
just you know, you're now you're just gonna use the
European nations like puppets. Well they don't have to be,
and you're not using them like puppets. You're just saying, hey,
I'm the you know, I'm the the alpha in the room.
Show me a little respect. And we've just we've just

(06:01):
gone that little bit too far, and we we have
been hesitant, always hesitant to go hey, no, no, no, no,
we got to eat too. And so it feels really
uncomfortable that you're doing it now. But she didn't do
it forever. It's the the in the same way that
and I don't know if this is their master plan.

(06:22):
If it is one, it's going to be an ugly ride.
And I don't know that you get there. But it
used to be the US didn't have federal income text,
but we still had stuff, not as much stuff, but
we had stuff. So how did we have stuff? We
had stuff because anyone who wanted to do business in
the United States, with the world's richest economy and chose

(06:48):
to tarif US, we tiff them. That's it. There's a
cost of doing business. It's a it's a cover charge
at the hot barrow. Okay, you got a great band inside.
That's what we used to do. And then we didn't,
and then we we migrated to this other thing. Well,
coming out of Europe and coming out of World War two.

(07:09):
And that's not to say that we're not going to
have bases in places where people clearly don't align with
our values. Turkey clearly doesn't align with our values. However,
there is a lot of strategic importance there. Okay, So
that's simple. And when you're and when you're dealing in

(07:31):
this world with countries like Russia and China, let me
just stick with China for a moment, you realize that
China thinks all of that is China, right. This is
what people fail to understand China, and within the Communist Party,
which is China, thinks that's all China. When I say

(07:51):
that's all China, I mean Koreas, Philippines, they think that's
all them. Probably Vietnam that's them. They think that's all China.
And that's the way that it should be. All those
stupid little islands that they essentially dumped on very fragile,
ecologically fragile coral reefs. So go, oh, look, we got

(08:15):
islands that's ours two and then two hundred and ten
miles around it, which is just an insane, weird number
they thought up. And if Europe wants to go at
that alone and not to mention Ross, Hey, do you
know what happens when Europe's just left to their own
devices historically? Have you ever seen any of this? You
ever looked at any of this little research? But you're

(08:37):
what the European countries like to do.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
They like to kill each other.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah, they got beef, bro, they got beef, and
a lot of it's resource based. Look, I understand times
are different and things are new, but yeah, the very
basic ask that if we're going to essential structure and
stabilize part of your economy that you don't sit there

(09:05):
at the UN delegation. We're all sitting around talking about
us like it's you know, the mean girls club at lunch.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
Right, and you can we can if listen if we're there.
They're like, oh, we don't want you here, you know,
you mind your own business. So we're like, we're gonna leave,
and they're like, oh, well, now you don't care about Europe.
We can't win, and they're they're spoiled and they're entitled.
They really are. They Oh, we have our healthcare system. Yeah,
because we're paying for all of your defense. Correct, you're
the world's upcut. Sorry, that's what it is. So you

(09:35):
can choose to be a partner in it. And Germany
obviously has a lot of innovators. They have business aptitude,
They know how to make money.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
They know how to build things, they know how to
uh mobilize. Okay, right, So is is that a strategic
partnership or is it? Oh that soldier, Yeah, he made
a mean tweet and it happens to be married to
a German citizen because he's been stationed there for three
years or whatever, and we're gonna make his life. Hell,

(10:05):
what do you want to do. And so now you're
seeing these these German politicians, especially ahead of election, because
this is stuff that resonates with people. If you live
near one any one of those US military installations, you
know somebody who works there. I promise you, I promise you,

(10:25):
that entire region around Ramstein and whatnot, that whole like
that would devastate. How many of you listening military have
been stationed there? What would that look like with no
Americans there other than you know, either random tourists or whatever.
So it's gonna be really interesting. Then they're like, oh,

(10:46):
the US is meddling in there. You guys literally wrote
in your stupid Der Spiegel or whatever. The thing is, right,
we talked about it on the air, where you essentially
took a united stance within the German media that Donald
Trump is essentially Hitler, which is which is really rich
considering where it's coming from. And all he's saying. He's

(11:08):
not saying he wants to do anything too, He's just like, well, look,
if you don't, if you don't like us, we'll go
eat at another table. It's your choice, and I'm here
for it. I'm gonna be watching that all day, all right,
coming up on the show, Representative Crockett, the gift that

(11:28):
keeps on giving. We'll do that. There's a new FBI chief.
Holy cow, there's not enough popcorn Germany. Do you guys
make pop You don't make popcorn? That's too bad because
where I need a lot of popcorn, A lot, a
lot of it. And I'll explain slowly as the morning unfolds.

(11:49):
Plus we'll chat with Pete Callender. That's at eight oh
five stick around case O Day Radio program phone number
eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
So what do we do? Do we jailed the US
hockey team? Or are we good they win?

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Last night?

Speaker 1 (12:05):
I don't want to go all Ouda and Kusa and
all that crazy You remember all that crazy crap that
came out what Saddam's kids were up to and managing
a RAX Olympic team like you didn't want to lose.
Unfortunately though in the the Gang of four or whatever,
I don't evenmember what is technically the name of this tournament?

(12:26):
Four nations? Okay, all right, so US Canada last night
who we beat? Remember three to one the other night?
This was the final though bracketed through and uh it
took over time. Canada got it done three to two.
So good, good game there. I'll tell you. The redeeming
thing is, uh Trudeau tried to make this like his win,

(12:51):
and even Canadians who seem to be very like nationalized
and upset with the US are also like, uh, now
you suck too, This isn't for you. Shut up. So
that's fun to watch. Yeah, the Four Nations face off tournament,
which they did. This is instead of the All Star

(13:11):
this is NHL's All Star, which, by the way, I'm
sure the ratings just killed and definitely surpassed what the
NBA put up the other day. But yeah, you know
what it was. It was good. It was a good
hockey match if you watched it, and that's good, and
that's fine that they went ahead and won. It's fun.

(13:32):
I mean, we have the Stanley Cups. That's what counts.
But okay, all right, everyone had a good time. And
you know what, it had been a while, like really,
Ross and I we got kind of screwed on this whole,
like we don't remember how good it probably felt with
the miracle on ice right where you really had that rival.

(13:55):
We got whiffs of it in the Olympics. Do you
remember when they tried to like jazz up figure skating
and we go against Russia on the Winter Olympics. Even then,
we weren't sitting there figuring out where our Cold War
bunkers were for when the nukes came. Like that was
you had real skin in the game, and we just
haven't had anything like that in forever.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, what did we have? We egypped? We got like
Nancy Kerrigan versus like a sona by Yule or something.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yes, and I'm not knocking on their talent, but I'm like,
you know, back in the day, we'd go against Russia
because the other thing was we're racing them to the moon.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Right, it wasn't say it wasn't like the evil Empire?

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah? How good did that have to feel? Lake Placid? Right,
that's where that happened.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Right.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Oh oh So having a little bit of that put
it onto a sporting event. Oh, I'm here for it,
and that's great. Congratulations they they went, they and you
know what they should do well in hockey? That cat
patl trending. I'm sure that's positive. What's this other thing,

(15:03):
Luigi list Ross? What do we think a Luigi list
is because that's another thing trending is that people like
to play Mario Brothers.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Yeah no, that's a Nintendo switch thing.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Oh no, I don't have a switch, so I wouldn't
have known. Okay, so why are the fifty one senators
and Kosh Patel this fifty one centators have voted for
Mikosh Patel on it.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
It's like a Mario Kart tournament.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Oh, they're all going to do a tournament. Because some
would look at that, I don't let me get my
little tinfoil ad here. Some would look at that and
be like, I think that's you saying that they should
be killed, maybe shot in the back of midtown Manhattan
at o dark thirty in the morning. So I'm glad
that's going well for you. For you, Oh, some of these,

(15:53):
some of these posts, where's the restaurantant? Some hold on?
One of these is my favorite absolute face.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
They're all in.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
Basically, they're like, ah, if you go to a restaurant,
they're gonna be, you know, like there's gonna be suddenly
spy devices everywhere. They're gonna be listening to you. But
what do you not understand? Why you have jd Vance,
who's literally sitting there. We played the audio, and it's
talking about the idea that maybe if somebody says something online,
you don't throw them in jail. That's kind of seemingly

(16:26):
a plank of this administration. I don't know if you
know this. So then to imagine that it's all to
do that is on a little project e ee, just
to me. So I'm gonna I'm gonna think the worst
about that whole Luichi list thing. I can't find the

(16:48):
restaurant one. You get the gist. Ah, here we go,
wait a month until you suddenly find yourself looking around
in a restaurant to make sure no one overhears what
you're saying, or when you're conversations with neighbors dwindle, dwindled
to pleasantries about the weather. It's only just begun again.

(17:08):
What you're talking about is an atmosphere that existed and
most recently existed in Eastern European former Russian nation, Communist nations. Okay, right,
it's still happening in the Belarus today where they would
essentially they would they would deputize your neighbor to tattle

(17:32):
on you, and your neighbor would do it, not necessarily
because they wanted you to go to the Gulag, but
they realized that they didn't give up some names and
some information, they wouldn't look loyal to the party, and
so they literally make stuff up about people. That's why.
That's how you got neighbors, nobody trusting anybody, and it's
it's not a sustainable system. And that's what you wanted

(17:56):
right when you're cheering on the whole. Hey, we need
you know what we need. We need a group of
theater kids to decide what can and can't be said
on the internet. We need to do. So what that
guy's pug did a Nazi salute. Let's throw them in jail. Hey,
that's that's all the things that you championed. And what

(18:17):
you think Patel's gonna go in and do the thing
that you secretly wanted to do.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
Right away?

Speaker 1 (18:25):
I don't know about that. I guess I shouldn't use
my real name on social media? Is that what this
has come to? Your name is hot COADMD dot bluesky.
I'm not finding your address with that. What are you
talking about? And nobody else cares? You have thirty five
people that follow you, Nobody cares. So you know, that's

(18:49):
the real irony here. You're gonna run around and you're
posting things like Luigi list and you know, they're essentially
saying that fifty one senators and an FBI director now
have to be murdered, and probably nothing will happen because
they realize what affeckless loser you are. Ain't no guy
with thirty five followers gonna do something until you go

(19:15):
to hitman dot com like all the rest of those idiots,
and then you're one of my stories. Yeah, you're you're
gonna be just fine. Ah, what a day?

Speaker 3 (19:26):
What a day?

Speaker 1 (19:26):
What a day. I'll tell you something. The worst of
the days with kash Patel in there, and that's Adam
schiff Man. Remember Adam schiff and I just does not
get enough press coverage. Adam schiff was removed from his
committee assignments and formally censured by the House of Representatives
at the time he's now a senator because they basically said,

(19:48):
you lie, nobody trusts you, we can't have you with
the ability to literally access classified information. This isn't happening anymore.
And he absolutely melted it down when they did that. Well,
there's a lot more there and Kash Battel has made
no bones about the fact that Adam Schiff there there,

(20:09):
you know there possibly could be some other stuff. So
this is literally his worst nightmare.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
This is someone we cannot trust. This is someone who
lacks the character to do this job, someone who lacks
the integrity to do this job. We know that our
Republican colleagues know that the only qualification cash Battel has
to be FBI director is that when everyone else in
the first Trump administration said no, I won't do that

(20:37):
that crosses moral, ethical, and legal lines, cash Battel said,
sign me up. In the first Trump administration, as we
are seeing in the second, you rise to the level
of your sickophancye. And no one is a bigger or
a dangerous sick ephent than cash Battel. This political hack
does not deserve to be in this building. He can't

(21:00):
do the job. He won't protect the public. He will
misuse the resources of the bureau. He will weaponize it
against the President's political opponents, rather than the protecting the
safety the public safety of the American people.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Dude, you got thrown off all your committees. Nobody trusts you.
They didn't even make a big stink on the Democrat side.
Ada hemmdon had And there's the audio where they're like
during the A and A thing and we were screaming
like idiots. They didn't really mount anything. You know why,
because it was indefensible the stuff you were doing. You
told everybody point blank that there was evidence, you had

(21:38):
seen it, and it would come out that Trump colluded
with Russia, which was a big charge. You said that
evidence existed, and then you didn't even have the You
didn't even pretend like some of the other evidence was
just your misinterpretation. It just never existed clearly. And all

(22:00):
the shenanigans around how that whole committee ran. Yeah, I
watching this guy be nervous makes my absolute day because
he's not even making typical Adam Schiff arguments. He's throwing
everything he's got. This was prior to the vote, and
it did no good.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
Adam Schiff is the worst criminal in Congress in the
LAS two.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Hundred and fifty years.

Speaker 7 (22:24):
And Walbrits broke.

Speaker 6 (22:25):
That we're going to talk about right now is Adam
Schiff met with a whistle blower. Adam Schiff went to
the podium day after day after day saying I know
nothing about this. We're not going to discuss it. We're
going to protect it. And then he Adam Schiff led
the prosecution of the impeachment trial in the Senate of
President Donald Trump, talk about someone who was conflicted out

(22:47):
of the game because he was part of the hoax
that brought Tromela in, manufactured that false accusation, and then
pedaled it out to the world. And he continued, you know,
not surprising. He's lied about almost everything in his life,
but now he lied just to set up a presidential peachment.
And that's what I was talking about, these disinformation campaigns.

Speaker 7 (23:07):
And then he.

Speaker 6 (23:07):
Should be investigated because he lied to the world about
his interactions with Charmela, who is a whistleblower. And I
can't stress it enough. That started a presidential impeachment.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
And and and ended up what was the final costs
and the Mueller thing. The Mueller thing was that fifty
some million dollars And that's what not to mention the instability,
the lies, the amount of money that people surrounding Trump
ended up having to spend to defend themselves. Yeah, you

(23:40):
should be nervous. And your buddy with his all white
little beach club mister Whitehouse or whatever up there with
his all white club that he was, you know, like
to go to because you know it's just whites. Ugh,
no pores, no colored people, no, none of that. Just yeah, whites,
white House. It's in your name, bro, it's in your name.

(24:03):
This guy, you're the moral compass. You're out there standing
next to shift. Nobody's listening to you.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
Krashptel Mark, my words will cause evil in this building
behind us, and Republicans who vote for him will rue
that day.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
I don't know if they're ross. Did you see any
ruin on the Republican front yesterday after this? I didn't
see any ruing. Maybe the ruin starts later. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
I think it was delayed because of the snow.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Oh they put the ruin of it because the that's
you know, that would make sense. There's a lot of
stuff that was put off. But I'm assuming Lincoln's not
in school today, so why should he also be ruining.
That's that's a fair point. So, oh, what a good day.
I know we didn't win the hockey thing, but I'll
take this as the consolation prize. Six forty five. Hang on,

(24:51):
that is not why he quote swapped out the resolute
desk because he thought there was a booger on it.
And I know, you know, this is New York Post.
They know that the thing is being refurbished. It literally
was discussed. They go through, right. You gotta, you know,
make sure that the how old is that thing? Been

(25:12):
around a bit so they'll go through and they'll refurbish it.
You gotta put the secret map pieces back in the
secret drawers.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
You know.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
You get that thing loaded for bear. The desk which
was first utilized in the White House actually by John F. Kennedy.
I realized it was the first also utilized by Jimmy Carter,
Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden than Trump. Now they're
they're just temporarily replaced. It's fine. I got another desk

(25:44):
in there. He's got room to work the die coke
buttons where it needs to be. This is not a
big deal and it's not over a booger. Okay, let's see.
I hope there's a little more history here. When was
it actually because people think that the White House always

(26:04):
had this thing, but actually one of the railroad companies
had it from like the eighteen fifties or something. All right, no, no, no,
here we go. Okay, all right, so I wanted to
be clear here. All right, So the initial desk was
built the eighteen fifties, and then what then became the
updated version of the resolute desk was, oh President Hayes

(26:28):
eighteen eighty when the HMS resolute part, Like that part
is true, that's what the desk is made out of,
presented by Queen Victoria at the time. So yeah, they're
just there. They'll buff it up as long as they
don't get that lady who they hired to restore that
Jesus photo to do it, remember that painting disaster. I

(26:49):
think it'll be okay, but I don't think that's accurate.
All right, How are we feeling about the James Bond franchise?
By the way, So, and I wonder what the dollar amount.
It had to be huge, because you know, the family
members of the author of the James Bond books have

(27:10):
always always been there exerting creative control. Anything that you
wanted to do with James Bond, you had to go
through the family, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli or whatever. And
and for the first time ever, the family has signed
over creative control to Jeff Bezos, and if you remember,

(27:35):
Amazon went and paid an ungodly sum. I don't remember
what it was. It was like in the it was
like a billion dollars or something right to the family
of Tolkien so that they could expand on that. And
we saw how that worked out like that. That turned
into a bit of a dud there. So I think
a lot of people are nervous what they're going to

(27:56):
do with it. I I look, do I think that
they're gonna do with it? Doing with the Jesus Christ
Superstar and they're gonna get the black queer female actress
from the Ariana Grande weird videos? No, I wonder if
he doesn't put himself in this. Have you seen have
you seen Bezos man? Like he's just like, I don't know,

(28:18):
Ross and Edward discussing this off the air. So you
don't think he's on steroids. You just think that like
this is this is his jam.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
It amazes me to me. And you see this a
lot like there are people that don't go to the gym,
and I have like they assume that anybody that makes
gains at the gym, or that gets in shape or
on steroids, the dude is not on steroids. He looks
like somebody. He looks like somebody that Yeah, he looks
like somebody that started focusing on his body and caring
about his health because he can't because he's a billionaire

(28:45):
now and.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
He's got a metabolicist and a nutritionist and right he's
spending the money. It's just the line is steroids.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
Do you see the same thing online about RFK Junior
where you have like people like, oh, he's on steroids
because he can he can be press And it's like, no,
it looks like somebody who's like focused on his health
and you can't. But he has the time to do
it now, so you have the time to invest and
go to the gym, and now he looks healthy.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Well he's got he's got a yacht with a Chase
yacht the size of a yacht.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
I'm sure it has a gym on it as well.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
I'm sure he's got several gyms probably. Yeah, yeah, no,
no question there. But also I wonder if that like,
what is that fascination with some of these billionaires, you know,
like Zuckerberg, He's like I'm surfing and fighting mma now right,
and and so and that's fine if he wants to
go ahead and do that. I wonder that if the
next James Bond is a bald dude from Seattle. Maybe

(29:41):
I don't know, but yeah, So they're they're gonna go
forward with Amazon MGM Studios, just Prime Videos, main main
deal there, and they have creative control, which is a
very different situation. So I don't know what all they're
gonna do with it. Let's see here. I was hoping
to find numbers on the actual deal, but I have

(30:04):
not seen those. All told, the Bond franchise has earned
more than seven billion since nineteen sixty two. Do you
know Ross? Do you know what the first James Bond
film was? Nineteen sixty two? Sean Connery obviously doctor No.
So yeah, and this goes back to books, obviously it

(30:27):
is nineteen fifty three.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
Yes, It is funny how yesterday there was like a
feeling online where everybody was like, James Bond is dead.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
I don't know it's dead. I think they're just looking
at what Amazon did with the Tolkien stuff.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
So fine, like people can see what's coming and they're like,
oh man, it sucks, or.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Maybe they learned their lesson from that. Maybe they went,
you know, with every you know, with everything kind of
backing off in Disney, backing off a little. Maybe maybe
Bezios looks at it and goes, look, I just I
just flushed all that money, that Tolkien money down the toilet.
Maybe we should not turn this thing into a you know,

(31:06):
a leftist passion project and just have James Bond run
around killing people.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
No.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
I mean, if he does it correctly, right with the
current climate, it's a it's a windfall. It should be
a financial windfall if you do it correctly.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
I fail, Yes, one hundred percent. And here's the thing.
We don't even have to get bogged. Because they were
talking about like, well, what if Idris Elba plays James
Bond they have a black Nobody cares like that's it
was the part where you're like, James Bond is a
woman now where because that's not James Bond, Because James Bond.
I don't know if you know this bit of a
woman iSER. All right, So look, I don't know. This

(31:41):
is the first time I've seen it stated by I
guess a secondary source if you want to call it that.
I don't know if the Trump administration's trying to do this.
But if they are, holy crap. All right. So I
mentioned earlier in the show that one of the things

(32:03):
that used to be a thing here in the United
States is that most of the federal government's obligations. Now
we clearly we don't spend the same at the federal
level that we do now that we did you know,
at any other point in our country. Right, there's a
there's a much bigger, much bigger set of spending priorities,

(32:27):
although it is being whittled down. And so the way
that we would do that is the majority of it
literally was paid for by other governments and other consumers
and other companies in the form of tariffs. People wanted
to do business, and they still do. They want to
do business because there's just so much damn money here, okay,

(32:50):
And so the price of doing business was some of
your products are going to be tariffed. That's before you
got into the matching side of it. Now, if you
want to tear of us, we're gonna we would tear
af you equally. Sometimes we would overteariff, but we didn't
have a federal income tax. And then one day for
uh and and I've seen a lot of the arguments

(33:11):
as to how it transitioned to it, and there is
some argument about how you could probably never go back
to just tariffs because you know what, because if you're
just tariffs and then the thing that happened with the
COVID happens, what does that do for the US economy.
It's it's a nightmare. That being said, that kind of

(33:33):
feels like what they're trying to do. That's what's so
crazy to me. That feels exactly what they are trying
to do. And it's not just me saying it. Howard
Lutnik the the Commerce Secretary, right, so he's on Jesse
Waters primetime. So when they're not showing you know, Jamal

(33:58):
videos s he Waters is getting down to it with
the Commerce Secretary, and Lutnick says this.

Speaker 8 (34:04):
And our objective under Donald Trump is to balance this budget.
And I'm telling you you watch it, We're gonna do it.

Speaker 9 (34:11):
If you get savings from these doze cuts, are you
going to give any of this back to the American people.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
We keep hearing about these doze dividends.

Speaker 8 (34:19):
Well, think about it. Donald Trump announces the External Revenue Service,
and his goal is very simple, to abolish His goal
is to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and let all
the outsiders pay.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Okay, so what he's saying is the thing I just said.
And that's the Commerce secretary. So his goal is to
abolish the IRS, which would essentially abolish the federal income
tax or maybe there would be some variation, and let
the tariffs pay.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
I feel like the Randy Morrish computer meme.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
I can't describe that on the air. I can't describe
that on the air. This is like sur he's having
a really a good time in this computer.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
You feel like like libertarian Christmas. Yeah, we've said this
for a long time, like, you know, abolish the Department
of Education, audit the FED, get rid of that, get
rid of the kind of you know what I'm saying,
as it like it would never happen. And now you
actually have these proposals, and it's like, what is happening here?
It's amazing.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Well and and and and I find myself and people
should you should find yourself. And I see folks will
air this on social media and everyone will get you
can't screw this up right, For the reasons I just
explained to you, if you transition the revenues that are
derived that are utilized to fun federal programs, and and

(35:43):
you want to take it back to what it used
to be. You have to recognize the possibility that something
like COVID could really check that up. So you gotta
have a plan for that. And so maybe you don't
do the whole thing, and you'd also have to shrink
government a lot. That is correct, and that is the
other That is the other aspect of this, because if
you go if you roll into another COVID and you

(36:03):
have all of the liabilities that you have, and a
lot of these liabilities ain't going to go nowhere right
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. You can't just wipe it off
the books. People lose their crap, and frankly, there's too
many people invested. And even if you if you try
to do things like it just the age for relevance,
you got to phase it in over ten years. So

(36:25):
these are all big conversations. So you can't just go
out and blow it up for this purpose of blowing
it up, as good as that may sound or feel.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
You can't, like people are saying that. You see people
saying they're like, oh, well, you know, you need that
revenue or these or these other agencies, these government departments
would have to close. And then you have other people
that are like, you're starting to get it, Yeah, you're
starting to get it.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
So it's a combination of all of these things. But
you have to figure out for the things that you
deem essential for the federal government. But by reorgining the system,
it really hamstrings the ability of if a Democrat gets
in there, to just go all right, you know, do
the Thano snap of the fingers. Only this doesn't kill

(37:06):
half the people. It brings back all the stuff that
they cut. If you've restructured the revenue system, that makes
things incredibly interesting. And of course everyone's screaming bloody murder.
They wheel Jasmine Crockett out there. She doesn't want you
to have your five thousand dollars rebate check. Now here's

(37:28):
the thing. We talked about this yesterday, this Doge dividend thing.
It sounds nice, but it's probably not the best way
to go about this because ultimately it's already tax money
you have. You know, you got a credit card bill,
you got to pay that, and yeah, well there is
the initial stimulation of spending. It really doesn't do anything

(37:50):
in the grand scheme of things, when you're attempting to
right size the government, it could actually complicate complim compliment,
say compliment a complication eat things. But the more the
Jasmine Crockett hates something, the more I wanted.

Speaker 8 (38:06):
Now.

Speaker 6 (38:06):
President Trump says he likes the idea of giving some
of the savings from DOGE back to Americans as kind
of a dividend.

Speaker 10 (38:12):
Would you support that, Listen, he's just telling a lie.
He's not the one that had anything to do with
the twelve hundred dollars refunds that people had during the
midst of COVID. That was done by a Democratic House
and Democratic Senate. Right now, what they're going to do
is say, hey, we want to give you a refund,
but Congress won't let us because they already know that

(38:34):
there's just no money for that. The only reason that
those refunds came before was because we were living in
different times. This was a time in which hopefully we
won't ever go through again. We had a once in
a lifetime pandemic. The bad part is that I don't
know if it's once in a lifetime because we know
that Ebola, unfortunately was detected right here in New York

(38:55):
here recently. And if we continue down this road of
getting rid of scientists or deciding that we don't want
to rely on experts as relates to what they're telling
us to do, or we don't want to deal with
vaccines and medicine in this country, then we may be
facing not only our next pandemic, but our next two
to three or four pandemics because of their incompetence. So, no,

(39:17):
we are not in the business of giving out money.
And honestly, I don't know what five thousand dollars will
do for you.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
All right, all right, let me just and this is
really the key thing.

Speaker 10 (39:28):
So no, we are not in the business of giving
out money, and honestly, I don't know what five thousand
dollars will do for you.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
And here's the thing. It's not that she's bring It's
not the most insane thing she's ever said. Right, she's
doing it from a parson standpoint. But as soon as
you turn to me after just glorifying the twelve hundred dollars,
which was rot with all sorts of fraud, which probably
nobody will be punning. I know that they got some folks,

(39:57):
but nobody really up there that facilitated this. Nothing's going
to happen. That being said, you tell people that five
thousand dollars won't do anything for them, and I don't
know that that's going to be a winning message for
you if you want to talk about the complexities of
you know what, maybe we should spend that money on.
But that's not what she's advocating. And for you to

(40:18):
say this is not what we do, it is what
you do. It is literally what democrats do. Hey, yeah,
student loans, you don't want to pay those, vote for us.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
I know it's silly, but five thousand dollars to a
lot of people, it's like life changing, absolutely, like it's
except it's not really usually, but you know what it
can't be if you're responsible with your money, like to
have that in the bank. It's a feeling of security,
even if it is sort of an illusion, like mentally,
it's like a big deal, like it can be life
changing where you're not stressing as much. But if I
had to choose between the five thousand dollars from nodes
or whatever, or like say, abolishing the income tax, I

(40:51):
would in the irs, I would choose abolishing the income
tax and the irs, and that is something. Listen, if
you take the average person who doesn't pay any attention
to politics and suddenly they're looking at their paycheck and
that income tax is gone, that's going to make a
big impact in difference. Like that is something people are
gonna notice. And then if you have another administration come in,
say the Democrats win the White House and they come
back in and they say, you know, we're going to

(41:12):
try to put that all back in and take that
money away from you. How do you think that's gonna go?

Speaker 1 (41:17):
Well, no, that's it. That's why. That's the whole thing
where once you've put something in, it's almost impossible to
get rid of it because then the other side, the
opponents just go, oh, you want to steal.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
This from Yeah, people will be rioting in the streets
be like, no, I have this money and now you're
taking it all back away from me, Like that's kafe
changing for me.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
So it appeals to the highest common denominator like people
who may get it and are running the math on
the end, but it also appeals to it and I
don't mean this in a negative way. The least the
people who are at least plugged into the whole process,
who are just looking at those dollars, right, Yeah, And
that's the difference when they're there or when they're not.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
And actually being able to save money for once, like
put money in the bank. Because there are people that
do have Listen, there are people that no matter what
you give them, right, you see this with the lottery
all the time, the money's going to go through the
fingers and they're not gonna be able to save or
make anything from it. But there are a lot of
people that do want to be responsible and they do
want to save, but they can't in the under the
current system, it's almost impossible to save money.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
So now, and and and the other thing is too,
what is that due to prices? You can't Again, this
is why you have to think all this stuff out.
What does that due to prices? If everybody now has
what is the what's the mean average actual paid tax rates?
Still it's always around eighteen percent. We and people this

(42:33):
is what people don't understand. I see them posting memes
like we need to go back to the nineteen forties
when the marginal tax rate for top earners was ninety percent.
Nobody paid that even then. Even then, through the various
laws and loopholes and ride offs and everything. It's still around.
It always is around eighteen percent. We don't get away

(42:53):
from it. So let's call it twenty percent for you know,
something to do twenty percent, you get twenty percent more
spending power instantly. What does that do to prices? Now?
People go, well, it shouldn't affect it because it's with
the bs. You know, that's not how the markets work.
What does that do. Let's say they chew up half

(43:17):
of it, so everything's ten percent more. But it's a
readjustment to everything going on in the economy. Man, to
readjustment to a lot of things. It also would adjust
how you negotiate with your employer. So you got to
get this stuff right. But any transition, it's going to

(43:39):
get ugly. And that's because you're going to have people
that are throwing stuff out. Who was the Florida congressman?

Speaker 4 (43:44):
What was he for?

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Oh yeah, he posted this yesterday. This is how blatantly
they're willing to lie to you. So he posteddic what
is the rationale other than making life more difficult for seniors?
And he posted this little graphic and it says Medicare
will no longer cover telehealth services as of April first,
twenty twenty five, and he posts that out there and
people look at that, They're like, oh my god, Trump's

(44:06):
cutting telehealth for seniors. Some senior and needs medical cares
in their home and they can't access telehealth because Trump's cuts. No,
this is a blatant lie. The telehealth services are an
expanded version of it, which you can argue should be permanent,
but are not. In fact. Rokanna, the congressman from Florida,

(44:28):
knows this. Why because he was one of the people
who voted for the bill that literally sunset this March
thirty first. He voted for a bill that would stop
this March thirty first, and he knows that, but he
put this out anyway. And I'm glad to see this
in community notes that have finally attached to this. This

(44:50):
was expanded. This was part of the American Relief Act.
Kanna voted for it. Everybody knows this. Trump isn't He
hasn't touched any of this.

Speaker 3 (44:59):
He doesn't have to.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
It's it's going by by all on its own, and
it's not all of telehealth. There's still lots of telehealth
that's available where it makes sense. This was a much
more expanded version, and a version I might add that's
not being utilized in the same way that it was
because seniors have a lot of time, they're willing to
slept down, and they want to see an actual doctor,

(45:23):
especially if you're an older person. This is not how
you think medicine happens, some of it. Yeah, but you
want to be able to show the doctor that weird
thing on your leg? What is that? Even so, they're
going to throw everything they can think of in this
direction to the freak out if that's what they're good

(45:44):
they're going after. This is going to be a huge hole.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
I can't even imagine the freak out on the left
if that were to happen, Like, I can't even because
and the reason for the freak out would be the
party cannot survive without that revenue. They need those programs
to survive and especial that control.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Yeah, you have to force people to adopt You're insane thing.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Right, and especially like the people that you're saying you're
trying to help with your programs, which are not right,
You're just putting them in an endless cycle of being
dependent upon you. The people suddenly that you apparently are
trying to help, are going to see all this extra
income and they'll be like, wow, this is actually the
I don't need eighteen dollars an hour. You know, you
don't need to raise the minimum wage now because now

(46:24):
I can survive on what I'm making because you're not
taking most of it.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Well at first, again, you get the right size of
the economy because businesses out you don't have to call
agreed businesses out there are going to with while they
won't be as negatively impacted by the salary requirements, there's
always the part where consumers there's going to be a
number where enough consumers will pay that versus won't, and

(46:49):
that's where you have to get your pricing right. And
so yeah, yeah, you know, eventually a lot of uncomfortable
conversations come up, but once you're in the thing, it's
really hard to get out of the thing. And to
Ross's points, that's where they would then have to go, Yeah,
we're gonna you know, that money that you just all

(47:09):
of a sudden have and now you're spending, whether it's
on stupid stuff or smart stuff, Yeah, we're gonna need that. Again,
It's like, well, hold on the tariff's not bringing the money,
or they're not people who want to do business here
in the US because I see all the products there. Well,
that's not the right way to do it. And then
they have to make that argument again, and they can't
use postwar rebuilding to essentially do that transition so that

(47:32):
people don't line about it because everything's so great, which
is a lot of what was accomplished. All right, well,
that's not the only legislative news. Apparently some people are
surprised that a member of the Senate's not running again. Okay,
all right, we'll get to that. Pete Counter will join
us at eight oh five, and oh so much more

(47:52):
coming up here on the Cacoday Radio program. The amount
of articles news articles over the life last month basically
it's been what a month, right was it twenty first today? Yeah,
but a month. I read them and I'll see like
a screenshot or something like in a tweet, or they'll
put a quote in there and I'm like, that's not

(48:14):
let's end the article. That's an onion article. And then
I'll read it and I'm like, oh my gosh, that's real.
And then you have to figure out, well, what was
the point you were trying to make What what were
you doing here? So the Washington Post ran an article
yesterday long lines and canceled rentals, firings, bring blah blah blah. Anyway,

(48:36):
So basically what they did is they went around through
the National park system and also for a service, and
they highlighted not just you know, numbers like one hundred
park rangers or fifty smoke jumpers or any They they
went and they on a in a individual level. They

(48:57):
wanted to humanize in personal lies, people who may be
impacted by these cuts. And then they wrote this down.
And by the way, I don't have beef with this dude,
And honestly, I actually kind of understand that you probably
want somebody who's in charge of this part of things

(49:18):
for the Park Service. The problem is apparently he's the
only dude. So I'm gonna read this verbatim so you
don't think that I'm juicing this article. You ready. At
California's Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only
locksmith on staff on Friday. He is the sole employee

(49:40):
with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue
visitors from locked restrooms and I don't want to limit
because he does more than that. I'm gonna read some
is that a problem. I've been to Yosemite. I think
I use the bathroom there, I don't think I almost

(50:02):
locked myself in it. And I've used a lot of backcountry,
you know what you would call backcountry, which is an
actual designation for various Forest Service cabins. Right. I've been
privileged enough because my uncle was He was a criminal
investigator for Yellowstone Park, so I, as a kid, got

(50:25):
to stay in one of those backcountry cabins the Yellowstone
is known for that the rangers use, and they have
these amazing log books, kind of like if you hike
the app trail right, and you can see all the
people that went through there. I've stayed. I've stayed in
a backcountry cabin there that literally a vice president of
the United States was in there. I can't remember which
one it was who had stayed there. And there you

(50:48):
go and you find his paragraph and his signature. It's
so cool. Man. But I don't think my uncle Brian's
alone with the keys, so I don't know what's all
on this. But so you're the key master, bro, Like,
do we have a Goser. Is there a Gozer Ross?
Do we know who Gozer is for the National Park Service?
Because we should figure out because the key master and

(51:08):
Goeser get together, some stuff's going down. I don't know
if y'all know this. There is a concept in business,
and I don't know if this is the technical name,
but you'll quickly realize what it is. And it's the
hit by a bus thing, all right, the hit by
a bus theory, paradigm, whatever you want to call it,

(51:29):
And it goes like this. If you run a business,
and a government is a business. National parks are a business.
iHeartMedia is the business. Right, that's the business. Ross and
hire in the business that you're going to this morning,
whether you own the business or you work at the business, whatever,
that's a business. One of the things that structurally is

(51:51):
problematic is to create an environment where a necessary and
bathrooms I guess are kind of necessary, especially if people
are trapped in them, but a necessary component, even one
that seems a bit innocuous, is only doable by one person,
is a really bad idea because what happens, ready if

(52:12):
they get hit by a bus. I don't know what
the buses did, but the buses are doing the heavy
lifting here. So if Bob is the only guy who
can do this thing, and if this thing isn't done,
all of your other stuff, even your more skilled workers
and everything else grinds to a halt because Bob got
hit by a bus. You don't do that. And anyone

(52:33):
who's ever run a business knows this, knows that in perils.
It's like, I'll give you an example with us, when
we transition employees and there's not somebody else in the
building who knows how to run the board for this show.
That weighs heavily on my mind because Ross might get

(52:53):
hit by a bus.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
Throne or who the hell knows that a lot of
people don't understand, and like, you see this sometimes and
we have to take days off and people are like,
if I'm sick, there's not going to be a show
because there's no one else that can do this job.
And it's happened, It's happened before, and you're like, well,
why isn't there a best you know, how come you
don't have like a fill in host? You can have
like a filling host instead of like a you know,

(53:18):
running melle and not how that works it's because there's
if I'm not here, it cannot be done.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
He's a magician. Now, it's not to say that he
can't the people. You know, people remember the days of
Brian the bad board op and port driver having to
come in here and all that. But but what I'm
saying is it's a situation that is easily identifiable, and
so it makes good business sense to make sure that
more than one person can do it. So the if

(53:47):
a person's hit by a bus, so if you only
have one person and I'm gonna read the they're gonna
read the second part of this. This is literally the
quote from the dude. He goes, we have Federal Court
Administrative Building's toilets, closets, gun saves. A guy's name is
Vince by the way, which sounds like the dude who's

(54:08):
the key master.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
Yeah you should be vince Y.

Speaker 4 (54:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
Yeah, And again, I got no beef with Vince and
I I I understand what he's saying. Uh and and
and quite frankly, I think that one of the things
you're gonna you're gonna see some course correcting and some
of what is happening here, because it really is uh,
you know, it's buckshot at this point with a modified choke,
and and you got to right size it. But uh so,

(54:32):
Vince says, quote, we have all these things. We have
endless things that need to be secured in various forms,
And I am the sole keeper of the keys, the
one that makes the keys, the one that fixes the locks,
installs the locks, and has all that knowledge of the
security behind the park. It's a critical role. Again, Like

(54:52):
it makes that that logistically makes sense. You got to
have somebody who understands because there's a lot of stuff
you got to lock up and unlock, and early idiots
locked themselves in bathrooms shouldn't do that. That being said,
having one dude, that first line reads like he's about
to give you a quest. Right, He's like some character

(55:13):
in Ross's video game you just clicked on. He's like,
we have endless things that need to be secured. I
am the sole keeper of the keys.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
Right.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
That's a dude you're spending man on. Right, he came
across that guy in a video game. That's the guy
who gives you the next thing.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
Right something cool. Yeah, yeah, I'm the sole keeper the
magic rings or something. Yeah, yeah, you're getting.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Some for your effort. Oh, you gotta slay this thing.
All right, I'll go slay this thing. What do I get? Oh,
it's part of an armor build. I'm on it. Let's
do it.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
And I don't know if you ever play the game
like that where you accidentally, like you know, in the
video game, not in real life. I don't want what's
his name, Vince?

Speaker 1 (55:46):
Vince.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
Yeah, I don't want anything tragic to happen Evince. But
like in a video game, if you accidentally murder said person,
you can completely destroy your playthrough because now you're screwed.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Yeah, you gotta go back to your save point and
start that thing again. And then just because you're obstinate,
you kill Vince again. Right, because you're an a hole. Again,
we're in video game mode, right, I want those keys.
Go on, man, I don't have to go over the
other thing all the way over there and do that
just for the thing. Give me the thing. So yeah,

(56:18):
so again I need to know who goes Er is,
so those two don't get together. But also I don't
think that's the win. You thought it was, Washington Post,
What the hell are you talking about? Oh, here's what
I know. It's way too dangerous to go questing for
keys though, because then you have to go out on
the roads. And I was looking at a roadmap yesterday
of like all the winter accidents and various fun stuff,

(56:42):
and it was a layover of the triangle and they
put up these little on rio. They put up these
little orange cones, but they're kind of brown. And when
you looked at the map, and I sent this to Ross,
it looks like the poop map from San Francisco. That's
how badly y'all were driving yesterday. I know raced age
to blame for this, but yeah, you didn't have to

(57:05):
go out and prove him right. I did it right, dude,
that was crazy. I look at this map, I'm like,
where should you not go? Everywhere? You should not drive everywhere?
So and it looked like the San Francis. Do you
ever see the map where they were charting the San
Francisco poop incidents and the whole city was just brown? No,
I'm gladly I missed that one indistinguishable. Yeah, and who knows,

(57:27):
maybe they were pooping in the in people's where the
snow is and that's what the acts.

Speaker 7 (57:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
I don't know, so could you make this not a
thing anymore though, that'd be great.

Speaker 7 (57:37):
Yeah, this morning it sounds and looks like there's still uh,
some problems with with ice with a weather advisory that
it's just for that reason. There's nothing coming out of
the sky. It's already from the damage done, especially as
you go north northeast where some of the heavier snow fell.
But better day's case are ahead. Low forties today, teens.

(57:57):
Tonight's another cold night, A lots of sunshine around though today,
so anything that's left probably goes away.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (58:04):
Maybe there'll be another refreeze tonight. I hope not. But
some of those side streets and shaded areas that had
snow sometimes that snow doesn't go away even with forty
degree temperatures. If you had a couple of inches, load
of mid forties tomorrow with increasing clouds on Sunday, we'll
get into the fifties. Sixties next week through midwek Next
week actually looks real nice, probably on either side of
sixty Monday, load of mid sixties on Tuesday and Wednesday,

(58:26):
with plenty of sunshine.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
Late week.

Speaker 7 (58:28):
There's another front coming in, so we'll worry about that
next week, but right now everything looking good.

Speaker 4 (58:32):
Stuff.

Speaker 7 (58:32):
Dealing with some icy spots this morning and maybe again
tomorrow mornings as temperatures once again we down well below
freezing so cold, but retreating getting back above normal next week.
So looking better, feeling better too.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
Right there you go. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
All right, exactly, yeah, appreciate it, all right, Race agic
there from the Weather Channel, coming up eight oh five calendar.

Speaker 3 (58:55):
Harboringer just sent me a text message. He says, the
obvious solution is the fire old the busters.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
What what oh? Oh, I see what you did there? Yeah,
I mean this is why you gotta have follow through
on this, right, dude, This is this is what I'm
talking about. You gotta have It feels good to go
in and just swing the wrecking ball, but you gotta
know what you're doing, or you know, stave Puff Marshmallow
or or the dude in the painting. You don't want

(59:24):
any of this. Vigo. You don't want Vigo. All right,
hang on, we'll be back. That was the Trump said, Hey,
if you don't release the hostages by Saturday, everything's on
the table. We talked to Senator bud about it, and
they really didn't get into it. However, however, because they
did at least say that they had a process for

(59:45):
the release. Here we found out what we assumed was
the case. In this case, the woman with her two
kids is dead, and a lot of people speculated that,
but I don't know, did you guys see any of
the and over ceremony. I didn't want to call it
that because a ceremony would imbue some sort of respectfulness

(01:00:07):
and somber moments, and it wasn't any of that. They
had a damn pep rally. So Hamas had a pep
rally complete with like a parade. They had people with
flags who were cheering, They had a bunch of music,
and then they were offloading these coffins of these individuals.

(01:00:32):
And then we found out and it's now confirmed. I
wanted to make sure it was confirmed before I got
into this. One of them wasn't even the hostage in
this case, I guess the mother there with the two kids.
According to authorities, they believe it to be a random
gossen woman, which now I'm wondering they just have a

(01:00:54):
body or they go grease somebody, like, ah, we need
a body, let's go and get in here about the
right size. The amount of disrespect that was going on
during that whole thing was to send a message. Then
you had a in Tel Aviv, you had a bombing there,
and then they found out that they're just giving you
random bodies man like, don't I don't understand the endgame.

(01:01:19):
Do you think that Trump gives zero f's? Do you
think the Israelis give zero fs about coming in there
and just turning it into the uh, you know, the
New Beachfront destination. Did you see how people reacted to
it when you were screaming, oh, they're calling for genocide.
Do you see how little anybody cared because they're just done?

(01:01:42):
You know why, because they see an opportunity for the
US in their you know, to stand back and the
Israelis to do this thing that a lot of people
in the Middle East, a lot of people in the world.
If you got them in a room drunk and they
told them that there was no tape running, right, they'd
probably go, yeah, it's gonna be for the best. I

(01:02:06):
don't know that that's necessarily the case. I'm trying to
exude the attitude that people have. That's why people don't
care they're just done. Most of the most of the
countries in the Middle East want nothing to do with Hamas,
i e. The Palestinians, but Hamas specifically, because Hamas is
always growing stuff up. It's like that, you know, it's

(01:02:26):
like you're you're you're already doing your criminal stuff. And
you got the guy who's standing out there counting stacks
of hundros smoking a joint outside the gate. When the
cops drive by, You're like, what is this idiot doing?
That's a mass And so when the world, the world
collectively didn't go well, wouldn't be the worst idea to
turn that into a beach resort. That gave you no

(01:02:48):
pause and you started stuffing random bodies and you had
a pep rally funeral handover thing. It's gonna get ugly
over there, and there will be the perfunctory oh how
could this happen? And then you know, oh, let's put
it with security council. Well, by the way, we said,
we don't want to be on the security council anymore.

(01:03:09):
So did they? Your heavy handedness has led to this,
And secretly they kind of won it. They just won't
tell you that. And so holding this ceremony again. I
hate to use that word. The way that you did
yesterday just hastens that. And I don't look forward to it.

(01:03:35):
I don't look forward to any of it. But the
world's pretty much told you that they think it's kind
of a necessity because you're being an a hole. And
before they would be like, ah, he's an ahole, but
he's lovable ahole, And now they're just like, he's an
a hole all the time. Why are you always an
a hole? I'm gonna go get some coffee. Whatever happens happens.
That's what's happening right now. And I don't know where

(01:03:59):
it takes us, but we will. We will find out.
And uh, why anyone's surprised by this, I don't know.

Speaker 11 (01:04:07):
Seven times a fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the
Senate every day in between, I've been humbled by the
trust they placed in me. Okay, all right, Mitch, come on,
you get the business right here?

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
You got this? Oh, I accidentally clicked pause.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
I couldn't tell that I actually clicked pause because it
was Mitch McConnell. Sometimes he clicks our commonwealth as the
honor of the lifetime. Uh, huh oh oh, I accidentally
clicked pause. Again. It's hard because again you can't tell
if it's him or it's me at the button fingers Eighth,

(01:04:54):
It is Friday after a beautiful three day week that
then turned into snow. I don't know how bad it
is in Charlotte, but our radio buddy to the South
peek calendar mid days WBTU. All right, are you in
an igloo? What'd you guys get down there?

Speaker 4 (01:05:11):
We got the normal stuff, you know, some these and
then satan slushy of like the wintry mix, and then
it was all.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
The full drove and stuff right, and then.

Speaker 4 (01:05:24):
Yeah, yeah it's and you know there there are a
couple of things like number one, we should not we
should like the South gets ripped on by people who
are from you know, up north, and they're like, oh,
you guys don't know how to handle this, you know.
And look, I would oppose any kind of ramping up

(01:05:44):
of the purchasing of snowplows and you know, the kind
of response equipment that the Northeast gets, because we don't
get this very often. Number one. Number two, this is
not like what you get up in the Northeast. Okay,
up there it's snow, and here it's this satan slushie
of ice and snow and rain and it all gets

(01:06:07):
mixed in together and then it all freezes. And no,
just because you can drive well in the snow doesn't
mean you can drive well on ice, because nobody can
drive well on ice except Zamboni's that's it. So no,
you're not. You're not superior to.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
Good Like I'm good. Yeah, I'm pretty good, though, you're pretty.

Speaker 4 (01:06:25):
Good on ice. But he got skates or butt skates
or something on the.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
I used to have studded tires that I put on
in the winter, right, like that was real deal stuff.
And I agree with you, we don't need to go
knocking this stuff out. But I saw a I saw
like a map of all of the different accidents yesterday
around the Triangle, and I had like a little orange
brown cone for it, and I thought I was looking

(01:06:51):
at the San Francisco poop map. You ever see the
San Francisco poop map? Right, somebody mapped all the poops
and that's that was essentially the roads around the Triangle yesterday.
Because people are dumb.

Speaker 4 (01:07:05):
Well, yes, I mean, okay, of course people are dumb.
But also this idea like only Southerners are getting in
accidents in these ice storms is absurd. How many of
these people are coming, for example, you know from up
north or out west. They don't have experience driving in
these icy conditions. And so like we just like what

(01:07:26):
I learned, and I'm originally from New York, so I
can trash all of the people who come down here,
like I drove so much better up there. I first
learned to drive. My first driving experience after I got
my learner's permit was in an icy parking lot. You
and I can tell you, like, unless you've got the
studded tires, there's nothing really you can do when your
car hits ice except to, you know, wait for the

(01:07:48):
skid to end, basically. And a lot of people come
down here and they drive like it's snow and then
they get into accidents too. So there's a reason why
when the ice starts coming down, people are like, you
know what, let's just take the day off and that's okay,
Like that's all right to take the day off and say, hey,
you know what, mother nature wants us to work from
home today.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
And you know what, it also would probably eliminate the
possibility of Gozer teaming up with the key Master and
unleashing all the healthscape in the sewers of New York. Yeah,
the key Master, which was until recently apparently a dude
who worked at Yosemite. How many people are locking that?
We were just talking about this, so the audience is

(01:08:30):
up on this. How many I grew up next to
a national park. You might have heard of You ever
heard of Yellowstone? Pete? You're here? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:08:40):
From the TV show?

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
No, I see what you did there? A lot of
people do that. No, it's it's from the It's from
the Kennedy the rough Rider dude. So yeah, I and
I had relatives Clinton. My uncle was the chief law
enforcement officer for Yellowstone National Park for quite a few years,
and I had the privilege of actually staying in those
back country cabins with him on a couple of trips there.

(01:09:07):
I did see where a dude got eaten by a
bear once, and I saw app Uh. I never saw
a tourist locked in a bathroom. Is that the win?
The Washington Post thought it was trying to go and individualize,
and I have no By the way, I have nothing
against Vince. Of course his name's Vince. By the way,
I have nothing against this guy, and it is true.

(01:09:29):
There's there's a lot of stuff you got to lock
and unlock. We have it with the app, you know,
with the people who walk the trail, they use those
out shelters. You have to have people a minute. But
it's the fallacy that in business you would never allow
where if one guy, even if it's kind of a
menial thing, can shut down your entire operation. You would
never have that because what if he gets hit by

(01:09:51):
a bus? Is essentially the quagmire there.

Speaker 4 (01:09:55):
Right, It's like building a depth star and having one
single vent weak spot. You know that you could just
shoot them a sizable.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
It's just a sizeable womp rat. I don't understand what
the problem is. What are we doing? This is insanity,
This is.

Speaker 4 (01:10:12):
No What this is called is malicious compliance. Correct, malicious compliance.
It's the same thing they did. And for those who
were not paying any attention to politics or something back
in the day when there was the government shut down
under the Obama administration. Uh, and we were yeah, and
we were treated to the spectacle of them like roping

(01:10:35):
off old faithful. You know, don't look at the guysner,
you're not allowed to look or Mount Rushmore. They closed
the side of a road where people would pull off
and take pictures of Mount Rushmore and yeah, yeah, like
you're not allowed to look at this. And then of
course they shut down the World War Two Veterans Memorial,
and then the and then you know, the point were

(01:10:57):
running up there. Literally it's right, it's some statues on
a sidewalk basically, and you're you're you're roping. It took
more money and personnel to put up all the barriers,
which of course were completely deconstructed in rapid fashioned by
the World War Two veterans who stormed beaches at Normandy.
Do you think your gates are going to stop them

(01:11:18):
from getting into their memorial?

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
And of course you have a thing for that, don't
they the enemy line? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:11:25):
Yeah, it's the way. For example, like am I to
believe that nobody else at Yosemite has any keys? It's
just this one guy. And if you know it's the
one guy, why do you fire him? Right, Yosemite's got
four hundred and fifty something employees, why would you fire
that one guy? Or at the Grand Canyon where they're like,

(01:11:46):
we didn't have enough personnel to let people in through
the south Gate, which is like the most popular, like
ninety percent of the traffic comes in there. So they said, hey,
you know what, let's really stick it to the people
and to Trump, and we're going to fire everybody that
was working in the south Gate or we'll move resources
away from there to make them feel the pain. And
this is malicious compliance. It's the same thing that they

(01:12:07):
did with like we're gonna take off all of the
books from the shelves that have anything to do with
you know, the Tuskegee Airmen, like now.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
And then they show the empty shelves photos. I saw
that on Twitter and then we I was just talking
about this with schools man because you know, White County's like, hey, anyway,
I guess we touched on this, so like, hey, you
know what we need. We need some money for like
AC units and air filtration. People like wait a sec
hold on, ye hold up just a minute. Didn't we

(01:12:36):
do this? And and they're like off, you know, And
then I have covered school districts up to it and
having to go and I'm sure you've done it in
your news capacity. I just have to go to the
school board meetings and sit there, oh yeah, and just
stick a chopstick in both ears and eyes. Man. And
it's because it's so inane, it's so repetitive. But I'll
tell you the thing that I saw every year is

(01:12:59):
when they thought the voters weren't going to support a
bond or they're gonna have to raise it, they would
come up with a contingency plan. All right, so the
voters don't vote for this, what are we going to
do for the cuts? And then they would be like,
all right, what's the most painful visible thing we can threaten.
They'd be like, all right, well, we're not gonna kids
aren't gonna have to have We're gonna chop all their

(01:13:19):
heads off if you do it right. And then that's
what they would put out there, and I would be
seething at the little media section there.

Speaker 4 (01:13:27):
Yeah, Buses, extracurricular activities, sports, right, both are the things
they cut first and they threaten parents with in order
to shake them down to extort the additional revenue out
of them, rather than cutting anything else, like, well, we've
cut to the bone everywhere else we possibly can cut.

(01:13:48):
So if you don't approve this, we're gonna have to
cut your buses up in New York, all of the
the budgets would go to voters every year. The voters
would vote on the local school budgets. And this with
the I learned the lesson when I was in high school.
I was covering school board meetings in high school and
go into those meetings then, and this was the game
they play. I know it, and I spent another decade

(01:14:09):
doing it in Charlotte Meck. And this is the game,
and it is malicious compliance. They make the taxpayers feel
the pain so they can get more money to do
other stuff that they want to do. They never go
back to a zero based budget. They never zero things
out and look to see are we spending this in
the appropriate way. Never, it's always just continuation budgets after

(01:14:33):
continuation budgets.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
The did we We're gonna probably stick on this topic
because there's like three different scenarios, this transitionary thing, and
this is I'm going to play the Commerce Secretary's audio.
This is the thing. I thought, you wouldn't it be
crazy if Trump tried to do this? But he wouldn't
do this. And that was where we we go back

(01:14:55):
to where the way that he used to be where
the federal government was largely funded, not completely, but largely
funded by tariffs and various other Basically, if people wanted
to do business with us, because it's pretty good to
do business in the US, revenue would be derived and
that would fund things. Then we went to this federal
income tax, and the craziest thing to do would be like, hey,

(01:15:18):
maybe we should go back to the other thing. Surely
they wouldn't do that.

Speaker 8 (01:15:21):
And then Lutnick said that our objective under Donald Trump
is to balance this budget. And I'm telling you you
watch it, We're going to do it.

Speaker 9 (01:15:28):
If you get savings from these doze cuts. Are you
going to give any of this back to the American
people we keep hearing about these doze dividends?

Speaker 8 (01:15:37):
Well, think about it. Donald Trump announces the external Revenue Service,
and his goal is very simple, to abolish.

Speaker 4 (01:15:44):
His goal is to abolish.

Speaker 8 (01:15:46):
The internal revenue service and let all the outsiders pay.

Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
All right, So he's talking about that, that's what he's saying.
He's saying, we'll go back to the way that it
used to be. Holy crap, is that doable? What a
position the Dems would be in, because then they have
to explain to people who suddenly have twenty percent well
or was the mean effective rately eighteen percent? That people
actually have twenty percent more money, and you have to

(01:16:13):
go explain to them why you don't think they should
have that. But also I don't know how that tracks
in an economy that could be impacted like by COVID.
COVID would devastate a tariff on the economy. So I'm
sure you've given this some thought. What do you think?

Speaker 4 (01:16:26):
Oh yeah, now, look the biggest problem here I actually
have not, but I know this is an idea that
gets kicked around inside mainly conservative circles.

Speaker 1 (01:16:36):
So let the libertarian like convey yeah, yeah, basically.

Speaker 4 (01:16:40):
Yes and so. And it's because yes, this was at
the founding of the nation. This was how they did. Now,
they did do protection as tariffs on what they called
infant industries to protect them as they were starting up.
But the idea was, yeah, you fund the government, which
was obviously much much smaller at the time with these
with this, with the tariff model. Now the challenge is

(01:17:03):
going to be big accounting because there is a massive
industry I think turbo tax.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
What's the green guys, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:17:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they spend yeah, yeah, tons of money
lobbying for the preservation of the system. They do not
want a simplified tax code. A simplified tax code means
fewer people need their services, fewer people need accountants to
do their taxes. So there's a there's a massive lobbying

(01:17:38):
effort against anything that would eliminate the income tax on
just like those grounds. Then you layer in the fact
that the left, you know, sees a penny, wants to
spend a penny, and so they they kind of count
all of the income generated in the private sector as
you know, available for the taking. It's just a matter

(01:17:59):
of how you want to do it. So they're going
to be against it. But to your question, I don't
know how you make an argument except for, oh my gosh,
we're going to have no money, the sky is going
to fall, catastrophe, which is what we saw in North Carolina.
You'll recall when you know, organizations like the Budget and
Tax Center whatever they call themselves, they you know, had

(01:18:22):
all of these dire predictions. When the Republicans took over,
and guys like Bob Rouchow State Cenator were like, I
want to get the income tax to zero. And they're like,
you're going to bankrupt the state. And what have we
seen under Republican tax reform? We've seen surpluses, right that
nobody like that, Right that nobody that nobody thought we

(01:18:43):
could achieve and we could not with the tax structure
being what it was. But when you allow people to
keep their own money, they engage in more economic activity
that generates more sales tax revenue and that goes to
the state caffers. So yeah, I mean it, it does
make sense that you know that growth solves a lot

(01:19:04):
of these types of financial problems.

Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
For states, and it's it is remarkably more un How
do I say it's unundoable? Do you know what I'm saying?
Like the Democrats can't just because they can't come in
if they seize the White House next and go everything
Trump did is done. If you've viewed this transition, But damn,
it's going to be ugly. It's going to be ugly man.

Speaker 4 (01:19:27):
Yeah. Now, yeah, I don't know if it can completely
go away. You've got also the constitutional you know, sure amendments.

Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
And so you have obligations like you know, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare,
things like that. Yes, they didn't exist at the transitionary time,
So I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:19:45):
Did you hear by the way, where they were like,
we don't have Elon Musk lied about these hundred and
fifty year olds on Social Security getting benefits. They're not
really there. It's just a coding error that different to
the original date. Yeah, and cobol or whatever. This program
like I haven't been in use anywhere. Oh and by
the way, it's probably a bunch of like uh uh,
you know, just people that we don't have their information,

(01:20:06):
so we're giving them money instead. But they're not one
hundred and fifty. And I'm like, that's not a good answer.

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
No, it's not a number they don't have. They don't
have trackability. It's in the trillions. It's like a savisible
part of our uh our our our our deficit there. Yeah, dude,
there's so many things I want to get into. Vance
over in Germany. German elections about ready to go, and
they're like, hey, you guys don't believe in free speech,
maybe we shouldn't be there. And now they're all like, oh,
but you're gonna miss our scrudle, Like it's really fun

(01:20:33):
to watch this. I like Scrudel, So yeah, when all right, dude,
we're gonna have to We'll have to do this next week,
all right. Peak calendar. I do appreciate it, my man. Uh,
thinking from a fire hose every day, all right. And
then stay safe out there, don't drive around idiots. There's
more than enough, all right. So Peak calendar there mid days, WBT,

(01:20:56):
you can catch them on the iHeartRadio app. Yeah, and
even get into the Germany stuff. There's just so much
going on, so we'll try to put a bow on
it here in the last half hour Phone number eight
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