Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, you talk about having the thing for redheads. What
do you think happens when you have a woman who
has very very light blonde hair but has a temperament
of a red head here playing with dynamite, and that
describes my wife to a t. He guys have a
great day and a fantastic weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I think that's what they refer to as strawberry blonde.
So you got more blonde than red and there, but
still yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
And I think once again this is proof that no
matter what you and I plan on any given day,
the one thing that is such a throwaway becomes the
one thing that those goobers glom onto.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
And because I was looking through the text messages, there's
a dozen text messages about redhead.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Why don't we just start, you.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Know, we need one of those big like riffle things,
you know, the big bins where you put the you
know your names in, spin it around and we'll just
we'll just have words on it, just random words out
of the dictionary and just pull it out and just
you know, redhead and that's the word of the day,
and just see what people do with it.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That actually sounds very fun.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We should totally do.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
We We We'll get Joe out here Joel's bodega, to
come up with find because he finds those like he
found the stupid things to dispense the candy he's gonna
start giving away out there. Maybe he can find us
one of those little spinning things. And we'll just randomly
get words out of the dictionary and that's the word
of the day, and see what people come up with.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Right randomword generator dot com. I put it in donor,
donor donor. The word of the day is donor or redhead. See,
we can't do that. It's gonna be one word. So
today that's so today the day is redhead, redhead or
By Monday, we'll completely forget that we've set this up.
(02:07):
But you know, unless a talkback or a text message
reminds us Monday morning, and then we can definitely find
a word of the day for you guys to golom onto.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
So do you remember, how do I want to? Washington?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
D C?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Is unlike you know, so many so many American cities
are are all homogenized. I was thinking about this the
other day, Like I mentioned something about driving back from
last Saturday. It was driving back down south on the
(02:48):
twenty five around seventieth or so and looking at the
Denver skyline and then noticing how dirty everything was. But
one of the things that I did not mention when
I was looking at the Denver skyline was one how
much it had changed over the thirty or forty years
(03:11):
that I've been here, and how much it is ubiquitous.
And every metropolitan area has a central business district that
is pretty much the same. There are the you know,
the mid level not even skyscrapers, but the multi story
(03:34):
business buildings that kind of surround the periphery of it.
And then as you get tighter and tighter into the CBD,
it then gets you know, then you start getting the skyscrapers,
and then over time that spreads out and becomes larger
and larger, and then you know, you know by just
looking at a city that there's a mall somewhere. There
are commercial areas, there's residential areas, and even within the
(03:57):
residential areas, there are the poor neighborhoods, and there the
middle class neighborhoods. They are the older neighborhoods. In the
newer neighborhoods there are those spots of commercial development everywhere,
and then there's the culture of a city. And I
would describe Denver's culture as being, in no particular order,
(04:22):
sports oriented, outdoor oriented, marijuana, traffic, climate, weather, misperception. People
think Denver's in the mountains. There is the brown cloud.
There's everything that makes Denver unique, yet it's the same
(04:47):
as everywhere else because everything I just described about Denver
can also be described about any other city in the country,
with maybe a few exceptions. Maybe you know, maybe there's
a city, there's a metropolitan area that has all of
those things, except they don't have the sports culture that
we have in this city because you don't have every possible,
(05:11):
you know, professional sports team that you can have.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Then there's Washington, d C. And Washington d C.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And I'm talking specifically about the District of Columbia. I'm
not talking about Arlington or Alexandria. I'm not talking about
any of the environs. I'm not talking even about Bethesda.
I'm talking about the District of Columbia is unlike any
other city. It's unlike any other city because it is
(05:47):
all politics, all the time.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
And even though it has all of.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The superficial similarities homogeny. Like any other city, if you
go into Arlington, you'll find or Tyson's Corner, you'll find
a gigantic mall that has both really all the high
end stores. You'll be there be an Aramis, and then
there'll be uh, you know, one of those knick knack
(06:14):
stores where you can buy I can't think of the
name of it, but you go in, you can buy
every kind of piece of of cosmetic jewelry you could
possibly imagine. It's got both all spectrums of retail. It
has really nice developed commercial areas. It's got all the
(06:35):
neighborhoods that you can imagine. Old Town Alexandria has got
all the history in it, all of that.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
And then within the district itself, though you have the
Washington Post, w M A L, the local v news.
It'd be like the equivalent of KOA. And you've got
you've got the networks, the cable channels, You've got c Span,
(07:04):
and then you have all of the political publications. You've
got the National Journal, You've got Politico, You've got the
clipping services that provide all of the and trust me,
it's not just government officials that get the clipping service.
If you're a contractor, if you're a consulting firm, you
(07:24):
get the clipping services for all of the different subjects
that your consulting firm is involved in. And everybody reads
and does all of the same thing. Then you've got
Georgetown and every you know, Georgetown, the hoity toity, you know,
the politicians that well, the wealthy politicians will live in Georgetown,
and then the politicians that are you know, bachelors or
(07:47):
they just they've got a different life back in their
home state versus their life they have in DC. And
I'm thinking particularly about Chuck Schumer. So Chuck Schumer, I'm
not sure whether he's the owner or somebody else is
the owner, but they have a town home in DC
northeast or maybe southeast. I think it's southeast, and they
all these senators share it. And their lives are solely
(08:10):
around politics, always politics, and so everybody's always looking to
climb the ladder. They're always worried that they might be
the next target of some you know, Washington Post story
that will destroy their career, or they're all hoping that
they'll be the next subject of a Washington Post profile
(08:32):
that will elevate them where the National Journal will pick
up and do a story about them. I mean, for example,
I'll you know, to this now I've got a copy
of it. So weren't my archives where it was the
top one hundred? I think it was National Journal did
the top one hundred most influential members of the Bush
(08:53):
in DC and they were all members obviously involved in
the I shouldn't say all. I don't think it was
just Bush administration. The one had her most influential political
people in Washington, d C. And I made the list
and it was like big time, you know, wow, big time.
And of course then everybody talks about it. Everybody sees you.
You're out to dinner, you go to a meeting, everybody's
(09:15):
all I see you made the list. Wow, yeah, it's
that's all it is. And then there's the Kennedy Center,
and the Kennedy Center is where you go to ce
and be seen. Of course you go because you want
to see whatever, you know, performance or concert or whatever's
going on. And then if you get to be if
(09:36):
you have access to the presidential in the balcony, in
the presidential suite, well that's even better because then everybody
wants to.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
See who's seen, who's sitting in the presidential.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Suite, And of course, yeah, of course I took advantage
of that and took the family and some friends and
we all sat in the presidential suite.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And everybody turns around, looks who's up there to die,
who's up there.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
When? And I think it's such a Kennedy Center is
such a microcosm of how people live their lives in DC.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
So the John F.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, that's the official name.
Luckily known as the Kennedy Center, it has set an
all time public attendance record since Donald Trump named Rick
Grennell the executive director, and Trump himself named himself as
(10:41):
chairman of the board, and estimated eleven thousand people attended
the Earth to Space arts breaking the sky fireworks displayed.
It was held on the grounds of the Kennedy Center.
Back in March twenty nine, the vice president of public Relations,
(11:02):
Roma Darov said it was wonderful to have so many
new visitors at the Kennedy Center for.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
The Childgwow, queens, Kings.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I'm not questious it's Asian. I think it's Chilgow Quong's
fireworks Showcase. We look forward to their return for more
wonderful programming soon. Everyone is welcome here. Now, what's the
point of this Because all of the Hollywood celebrities, all
the New York theater socialites, the Washington Post, all of
(11:39):
the political newspapers absolutely denounced Trump's takeover the Kennedy Center,
and then everybody announced what just like they announced that
if Donald Trump wins the election, I'm moving out of
the country.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I'm moving to Canada.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I'm moving to France, or Rosie o'donnald, I'm moving to Ireland.
By the way, I think she actually did before the election,
but be that as a may She now claims that
she left the US and she's so much happier, but
I don't think she really is. So they all denounce,
and they all announced the boycott that they're not they're
(12:17):
no longer to go to the Kennedy Center. And that's
the buzz around d c Oh, trust me on this one, Senators, congressmen,
people in the deep state, bureaucrats, the social lightes, everybody
in DC is, oh my god, Orange man bad has
taken over the Kennedy Center and it's just going to
fall into disrepair. It's it's like they thought the Kennedy
(12:39):
Senator Senator was going to become this abandoned warehouse that
eventually the homeless would take over. There would be tenths
camping out on the on the grounds, and that you
would have to have, you know again, Book of Eli
kind of an apocalyptic city within the confines of d C.
And nobody was going to go. And part of that
(13:01):
was the reason. Part of the reason for that was
that Trump and the administration contended that the Kennedy Center
had become overly leftists. All the programming had become woke,
and it was turning off all the regular tourists and
all the other attendees. And it was actually and factually
it was it was reducing the number of guests that
(13:21):
would go to the concerts, the operas, the musical and
theater performances. All the things happened at the Kennedy Center.
But then just the opposite happened. The fireworks show saw
a crowd of seventy six percent first time attendees. Now
(13:43):
that's a really positive sign for the Kennedy Center, which,
like any other theater or opera venue Broadway in New
York anywhere, including here and downtown Denver. They've all struggled
post COVID nineteen pandemic in getting people to come back
to the theater, to come back to these cultural centers.
(14:04):
And I just found it hilarious when I saw this
story last night that the Kennedy Center was now breaking
records Orange Man Bad. You know that there are two
conversations going on inside the Beltway right now. I can't
(14:24):
believe that people are going, well, you know who it is.
It's just those rubes from out of town. They were
here for the cherry Blossom festival, which was a blot
last week or week before, so they're here for the
cherry blossom festival. So just those rubes that showed up
from you know, Denver, decided to go to the Kimney
Center because it was fireworks, and they all went to
set out because the weather was really nice during cherry blossom, which.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Is as isn't always, and so they all wanted.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
To show up and go because who knows, maybe Trump
will show up. So that was one conversation, and then
the other conversation was, see, we told you it's all
Trump all the time, So just make note that whatever
you hear coming out of DC is going to be
(15:11):
skewed because there's no middle ground. I well, the middle
ground is right here. I didn't care that Trump took
over the Kennedy Center. It's actually in a state of disrepair.
It does need some remodeling and post COVID, it really
(15:31):
has suffered from a lack of attendance. And now we're
seeing that Trump comes in. Now Rick Grennell, I don't
know Rick Grennell personally. What I know of him is
what I've read about him, and what I've seen him
do is as the I think it was ambassador to
Germany for a while, stuff that he has done for
the first Trump administration. And oh, by the way, he
(15:53):
happens to be gay, so that you know, that adds
to it. So some people are pissed off about that,
and some people are happy about it. I'm like, who
cares what his sexual preference is. If he can do
the job, he can do the job. Well, apparently he's
doing the job. And it's the Trump effect. I find
it absolutely because you know that the people who would
(16:16):
normally want to be seen at the Kennedy Center are
now afraid to be seen at the Kennedy Center because well,
Trump's in charge, Orange Man Bad and the exact opposite
is happening, which I find hilarious. Speaking of Trump, this
(16:39):
is you know, Trump's been facing this defamation lawsuit because
he made statements about the Central Park five.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
A federal judge yesterday determined that the defamation lawsuit can proceed.
Philadelphia based Federal District Judge Wendy Beetlestone Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice ruled
that the claims that were presented showed enough evidence to
overcome emotion for some rejudgment and allowed the case to advance.
(17:17):
It was started back in October by five individuals who
were convicted in nineteen eighty They were convicted in nineteen
eighty nine of brutally attacking and sexually assaulting a female
jogger in Central Park, the Central Park Five. They were
exonerated in two thousand and two after a confession by
another guy accompanied by DNA evidence that linked the other
(17:38):
guy to the victim's sexual assault, but it remains unclear
whether others, including the Central Park five, might have played
a role in the attack prior to the sexual assault
that she suffered. Now, the victim remains convinced the woman
who was sexually assaulted, that more than one person was involved.
(18:00):
But the cops and the prosecutors keep defending their case
against the Central Park five, but the legal action claims
that Trump made faults and damaging statements about the group.
Trump advocated for the death penalty for the guys, and
during the campaign, he asserted that the five had confessed
to the murder. I claimed that they denied, but Judge
(18:23):
Beatlestone believes that an objective assessment would classify Trump's statement
is fault.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
So the case is going to go forward, the law
fair continues.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Is the point, you know, Michael, I'm often a redhead.
Donor call your fault redbeard.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You were the one that decided to try and describe
what you thought Alexa looked like. I just added on
as to what she actually looked like.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
No, you just said, you know, you said something to
the effect that she's a read.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I can't help it, but I've got something about redheads,
something to that effect.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, and I do admire a redhead for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
My ex wife was a redhead.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Oh I don't remember that.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah, the yeah, oh well, you know, I subscribe downstowns
the downstairs the lesbian prostitute to bank robbert.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Yeah, redhead saying that all are.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Not even insinuating any of that. But you know, it's
just the one that I know.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
If you, if you use liberal logic, if if your
ex wife the bank robber, and the lesbian prostitute, lesbian
prostitute is a redhead, therefore, all therefore all read according
to liberal.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Logic, specifically a lesbian prostitute, but left me for another woman,
which qualified for another left me for a woman who
was qualifier lesbian and prostitute.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
A lesbian and a prostitute, those are all three separate things, correct,
and a red head accordey of liberal logic. All redheads,
therefore are bank robbers, lesbians and what was the third.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
One, ptitute prostitutes.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
There's so many wonderful things that I can't keep them
all in my head. Wonderful thing, wonderful things what liberal logic?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
She fits, she fits four different identity politics categories. She's
the perfect She's the perfect liberal.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
If you want to be two out of the three,
that's great, that's fine, go ahead. You're not harming anybody,
but the bank robbingy thing that's.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Stretch too far from me.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Was it armed robbery? She was just the getaway driver.
She never went into the bank.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Oh okay, but was it a an armed robbery.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
With airsoft beaty guns?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yep? Was it Denver one of the soldier huh, Bolder, Boulder.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, there's the story in the Boulder Daily Camera or whatever.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
They were the three to two one or the one
two three bandits or something. Yeah, I can't I can't
even remember anymore. It was fifteen years ago. Wow, yeah,
three two one bandits one two three bandits or something.
You can you can look it up.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So and so after that experience with Redhead, uh huh, Yeah,
you decided to go still with red heads.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah they're still hot.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Well, but you decided to go with another redhead.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
This is Redbeard's more of a brown head.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I kind of well, maybe it was because you were
sitting together. It's just a reflection.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yeah, yeah, it's probably, but I saw.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
It more slightly slighter ready, But you went right back
to the same thing, just opposite, the total opposite.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Dumb. You learned your.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Lesson, you know, I talk about how well you've abdicated
our compassion to the government and how we expect government
to take care of everything that's you know, wrong, our health, well,
just everything. Doris Kerns Goodwes, who is an amazing historian.
(22:16):
I've read many of her books. She's written some really
incredible books. But she's a hardcore lefty. She was on
and I think she's becoming even more of a hardcore
core lefty the older that she gets. You know, typically
the older you get, the more conservative you get. Well,
I think if you start out as a lefty, the
older you get, the more hardcore lefty you become. She
(22:37):
was on Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough yesterday and I
found her talking about this, and I will it proves
my point.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Republicans now, and I've been talking about this for the
past couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I'm not just saying this again.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
This is not Monday Morning quarterbacking, but Republicans are setting
themselves up for a terrible political fall when they're pushing
tax cuts, a continuation of tax cuts for the richest billionaires,
for millionaires, for multinational corporations, you name it.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
And what is their answer to that?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
You know, can me just pause for a moment. That's
such a trope and it's so untrue. In fact, Trump
just this week when asked, you know, whether you would
be willing to increase taxes on the wealthy of the wealthiest,
the top, you know, ten percent of the top one percent,
(23:47):
would you be willing to do that?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah? Why not?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
But I want tax cuts for everybody. But if you know, if, if, if,
what it takes is we're going to take the top,
you know, ten percent of the top one percent and
have you know a bazillionaire search arge or something, then
I consider.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
It cutting medicaid with absolutely. I guess no no idea
that that's going to impact disproportionately voters in their own states.
Voters in red state America vote rural voters. You know,
it kind of reminds me of you know, FDR and
(24:28):
the New Deal. My my mom and her family were
raised in Dalton, Georgia and Rome, Georgia and the depths
of the Great Depression. FDR was responsible for them getting
through the worst of the Depression. And now you have
rural America suffering again, rural hospitals under attack.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
And I have to interject again, if if you've read
The Forgotten Man, then you will understand that what FDR's
new deal did was actually pro long the Great Depression.
But that is so counterintuitive and this narrative that FDR
saved the nation from the Depression, that the facts on
(25:12):
the ground had become so buried that nobody ever, ever,
ever accepts.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
That closing down. Over the past ten years, up to
fifty percent of children get their primary health care from Medicaid,
so many parents and grandparents go into nursing homes that
are funded by Medicaid. Like hospitals are going to be
shutting down. That will require people to take an ambulance
(25:41):
like forty to fifty miles to the nearest rural hospital.
Talk about this choice is that Republicans in the House
and senator making that are setting up their constituents to
suffer and also going I think just politically, it's got
(26:02):
a backfire.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Now, let's just soak in for a moment what Scarborough
has just said. How did we get to that point
where what was it fifty percent of children are on Medicare,
Medicaid or something that rural hospitals have kind of disappeared
and now you have to take an ambulance forty or
(26:24):
fifty miles to get to a hospital that you know,
all of these elderly people are in nursing homes and
they're being paid for by many How do we get
to that point?
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Well, we.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
To go back to and I'm only gonna say the
word once, going back to the tariff battle we're going through.
We we destroyed the middle class in this country. And
then once we destroyed the middle class in this country,
we then advocated our compassion for the course of the
poor to the middle class, and we made them dependent
(27:02):
upon government programs. And how do we make them dependent
upon government programs? Because we decided that we're going to, uh,
you know, we're going to do implement this Social Security
program and so then people start seeing that as their
retirement program and they think that's what they're going to
retire on. They then don't care about long term you know,
(27:26):
healthcare or disability insurance or anything else, because well, I've
got Medicare and Medicaid, that's it don't take care of me.
And if I have to go to a nursing home,
then that's you know, that'll law get paid for.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
And so we.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Create these programs which create the dependency, and then it
just log rolls and snowballs. And becomes bigger and bigger
and bigger toward it just takes over the entire country,
which is, when you think about it, that's the socialist
utopia that the Democrats have always dreamed about. So we're
on the verge of that at the time that Trump
(27:57):
is trying to well, this can do nothing but result
in the ultimate destruction of our country, so let's try
to reverse it. But Scarborough's other point is we've gotten
to this point and don't they realize, meaning us that
(28:17):
wherever and this is what Doris Kerns good Ones is
going to tell you after the break, is that, yeah,
we've done all of these things and now the people
that have been elected to turn it around don't realize that.
Oh here's the effect it's going to have. But don't forget.
(28:42):
We got to this point because they were trying to
impose a socialist utopia upon the nation and they have
pretty much succeeded. And Dors Kurns good Ones makes my point.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Next Dragon Donor red hair looked really nice today?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Always does.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I hate all of you, just hate all of you.
So Joe Scarborough yesterday morning stets up an entire list
of things that government has the federal government in particular,
although they often fund state government to implement the programs
(29:26):
like Medicare and medicaid that have now overtaken most of
our society, most of the way we live, so that
we've become fully dependent upon the federal government for most
of the stuff that previous to this new socialist utopia
that we're moving into, we would have been responsible for ourselves.
(29:48):
And he turns to Doris Kern's good one after summing
it all up and says.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Setting up their constituents to suffer, and also going, I
think just politically, it's got a.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Backfire, you know, really it's a fundamental choice about what
is the role of government. And you're right in bringing
up FDR. I mean he set forth for a generation,
really the idea that government had to step in when
certain things were necessary to keep the people going, to
find them jobs, a safety net, unemployment insurance, none of
(30:22):
those things.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Were all of those Now think about that that FDR
felt like it was necessary to step in to provide
all those things for people to get them going. And
it proves my point that once you start that government program,
it's never going to go away. It's always going to
grow and metastasize. It's going to get bigger and bigger
(30:43):
and have more and more control over your life. She
doesn't realize that by pointing out what she just said,
she's confirming my thesis that government programs never go away,
they always grow, metastasize, and they make people dependent upon them.
So when Trump comes along and says, we've got to
(31:05):
re engineer, we got to redo all of this because
it's unsustainable.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Or available originally in nineteen thirty three when he came in,
and what we've seen for the last couple of months
really is a whole attack on what the federal government
role should be.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
A whole attack on what the federal government role should be.
That is exactly right. This is what we're going through
because we know the founding fathers knew that the federal
government had to be of limited and enumerated powers, and
by taking on all this other stuff, whether it was
(31:44):
Alexander Hamilton or any of the other founders, that going
into debt to do all of this stuff was completely unsustainable.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
But how does she rationalize it?
Speaker 7 (31:55):
All the people who've been taken away from their jobs.
Even in my area of history, I mean, government has
been a sponsor for historical sites in states. They've been
responsible for a National History Day, which for fifty years
has brought five hundred thousand kids to compete in a contest.
Just what you want kids to do to learn about history?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
They have to take?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, you want indoctrination.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
The topic like the Birmingham demonstrations when Bullcannor went against
the peaceful marchers.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
With hoses and dogs, and it.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
Brought about eventually firing the conscience of the people, and
it brought about the Civil Rights Act. You know, one
of the things that the president is talking about is
we need achievements. We need not negative things. We need
to have positive things about American history. But all the
achievements of American history have come through struggle, the civil
rights struggle, the women's struggle, the gay right struggle. That's
(32:49):
how we want to teach kids about history. And this
National History Program just one example of what's going on
on my front. I wake up every morning worrying about
what's going to happen to my history today. Is that
for for these fifty years, it's taught kids critical thinking,
has taught them empathy, has taught them how to look
at the past. From primary sources just what you want,
not just memorization. And that's one thing that's going on.
(33:11):
At the same time, we're taking away government jobs from
civil service. At the same time, all of you saying,
what's what's going on now in rural areas.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
But I think we're.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
Finally seeing in those town halls, in those protests that
we've seen over the weekends, people from all areas where
the federal government's role is being cut back are being
hurt by this and they're speaking out. And that's how
change takes place.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
In our famure.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
So wherever the federal government role has been cut back,
people from all areas have been hurt. You know, when
you analyze that statement, what she's really saying is the government,
the federal government has become some has become so omnipotent,
(33:56):
so overbearing, so involved in every aspect of our lives
that as we recognize that it's not sustainable and we
start trying to cut it back so that we can
have a growing economy as opposed to a stagnant economy.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
How people are going.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
To get hurt, that's the fact of life. But they
don't want to deal with the hurt. They want to
gloss over them. They want to, They want everybody to
be in the comfortable blanket, the electrical, warm blanket of
the government taking care of everything.
Yeah, you talk about having the thing for redheads. What
do you think happens when you have a woman who
has very very light blonde hair but has a temperament
of a red head here playing with dynamite, and that
describes my wife to a t. He guys have a
great day and a fantastic weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I think that's what they refer to as strawberry blonde.
So you got more blonde than red and there, but
still yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
And I think once again this is proof that no
matter what you and I plan on any given day,
the one thing that is such a throwaway becomes the
one thing that those goobers glom onto.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
And because I was looking through the text messages, there's
a dozen text messages about redhead.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Why don't we just start, you.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Know, we need one of those big like riffle things,
you know, the big bins where you put the you
know your names in, spin it around and we'll just
we'll just have words on it, just random words out
of the dictionary and just pull it out and just
you know, redhead and that's the word of the day,
and just see what people do with it.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That actually sounds very fun.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We should totally do.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
We We We'll get Joe out here Joel's bodega, to
come up with find because he finds those like he
found the stupid things to dispense the candy he's gonna
start giving away out there. Maybe he can find us
one of those little spinning things. And we'll just randomly
get words out of the dictionary and that's the word
of the day, and see what people come up with.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Right randomword generator dot com. I put it in donor,
donor donor. The word of the day is donor or redhead. See,
we can't do that. It's gonna be one word. So
today that's so today the day is redhead, redhead or
By Monday, we'll completely forget that we've set this up.
(02:07):
But you know, unless a talkback or a text message
reminds us Monday morning, and then we can definitely find
a word of the day for you guys to golom onto.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
So do you remember, how do I want to? Washington?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
D C?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Is unlike you know, so many so many American cities
are are all homogenized. I was thinking about this the
other day, Like I mentioned something about driving back from
last Saturday. It was driving back down south on the
(02:48):
twenty five around seventieth or so and looking at the
Denver skyline and then noticing how dirty everything was. But
one of the things that I did not mention when
I was looking at the Denver skyline was one how
much it had changed over the thirty or forty years
(03:11):
that I've been here, and how much it is ubiquitous.
And every metropolitan area has a central business district that
is pretty much the same. There are the you know,
the mid level not even skyscrapers, but the multi story
(03:34):
business buildings that kind of surround the periphery of it.
And then as you get tighter and tighter into the CBD,
it then gets you know, then you start getting the skyscrapers,
and then over time that spreads out and becomes larger
and larger, and then you know, you know by just
looking at a city that there's a mall somewhere. There
are commercial areas, there's residential areas, and even within the
(03:57):
residential areas, there are the poor neighborhoods, and there the
middle class neighborhoods. They are the older neighborhoods. In the
newer neighborhoods there are those spots of commercial development everywhere,
and then there's the culture of a city. And I
would describe Denver's culture as being, in no particular order,
(04:22):
sports oriented, outdoor oriented, marijuana, traffic, climate, weather, misperception. People
think Denver's in the mountains. There is the brown cloud.
There's everything that makes Denver unique, yet it's the same
(04:47):
as everywhere else because everything I just described about Denver
can also be described about any other city in the country,
with maybe a few exceptions. Maybe you know, maybe there's
a city, there's a metropolitan area that has all of
those things, except they don't have the sports culture that
we have in this city because you don't have every possible,
(05:11):
you know, professional sports team that you can have.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Then there's Washington, d C. And Washington d C.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And I'm talking specifically about the District of Columbia. I'm
not talking about Arlington or Alexandria. I'm not talking about
any of the environs. I'm not talking even about Bethesda.
I'm talking about the District of Columbia is unlike any
other city. It's unlike any other city because it is
(05:47):
all politics, all the time.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
And even though it has all of.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The superficial similarities homogeny. Like any other city, if you
go into Arlington, you'll find or Tyson's Corner, you'll find
a gigantic mall that has both really all the high
end stores. You'll be there be an Aramis, and then
there'll be uh, you know, one of those knick knack
(06:14):
stores where you can buy I can't think of the
name of it, but you go in, you can buy
every kind of piece of of cosmetic jewelry you could
possibly imagine. It's got both all spectrums of retail. It
has really nice developed commercial areas. It's got all the
(06:35):
neighborhoods that you can imagine. Old Town Alexandria has got
all the history in it, all of that.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
And then within the district itself, though you have the
Washington Post, w M A L, the local v news.
It'd be like the equivalent of KOA. And you've got
you've got the networks, the cable channels, You've got c Span,
(07:04):
and then you have all of the political publications. You've
got the National Journal, You've got Politico, You've got the
clipping services that provide all of the and trust me,
it's not just government officials that get the clipping service.
If you're a contractor, if you're a consulting firm, you
(07:24):
get the clipping services for all of the different subjects
that your consulting firm is involved in. And everybody reads
and does all of the same thing. Then you've got
Georgetown and every you know, Georgetown, the hoity toity, you know,
the politicians that well, the wealthy politicians will live in Georgetown,
and then the politicians that are you know, bachelors or
(07:47):
they just they've got a different life back in their
home state versus their life they have in DC. And
I'm thinking particularly about Chuck Schumer. So Chuck Schumer, I'm
not sure whether he's the owner or somebody else is
the owner, but they have a town home in DC
northeast or maybe southeast. I think it's southeast, and they
all these senators share it. And their lives are solely
(08:10):
around politics, always politics, and so everybody's always looking to
climb the ladder. They're always worried that they might be
the next target of some you know, Washington Post story
that will destroy their career, or they're all hoping that
they'll be the next subject of a Washington Post profile
(08:32):
that will elevate them where the National Journal will pick
up and do a story about them. I mean, for example,
I'll you know, to this now I've got a copy
of it. So weren't my archives where it was the
top one hundred? I think it was National Journal did
the top one hundred most influential members of the Bush
(08:53):
in DC and they were all members obviously involved in
the I shouldn't say all. I don't think it was
just Bush administration. The one had her most influential political
people in Washington, d C. And I made the list
and it was like big time, you know, wow, big time.
And of course then everybody talks about it. Everybody sees you.
You're out to dinner, you go to a meeting, everybody's
(09:15):
all I see you made the list. Wow, yeah, it's
that's all it is. And then there's the Kennedy Center,
and the Kennedy Center is where you go to ce
and be seen. Of course you go because you want
to see whatever, you know, performance or concert or whatever's
going on. And then if you get to be if
(09:36):
you have access to the presidential in the balcony, in
the presidential suite, well that's even better because then everybody
wants to.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
See who's seen, who's sitting in the presidential.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Suite, And of course, yeah, of course I took advantage
of that and took the family and some friends and
we all sat in the presidential suite.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And everybody turns around, looks who's up there to die,
who's up there.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
When? And I think it's such a Kennedy Center is
such a microcosm of how people live their lives in DC.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
So the John F.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, that's the official name.
Luckily known as the Kennedy Center, it has set an
all time public attendance record since Donald Trump named Rick
Grennell the executive director, and Trump himself named himself as
(10:41):
chairman of the board, and estimated eleven thousand people attended
the Earth to Space arts breaking the sky fireworks displayed.
It was held on the grounds of the Kennedy Center.
Back in March twenty nine, the vice president of public Relations,
(11:02):
Roma Darov said it was wonderful to have so many
new visitors at the Kennedy Center for.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
The Childgwow, queens, Kings.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I'm not questious it's Asian. I think it's Chilgow Quong's
fireworks Showcase. We look forward to their return for more
wonderful programming soon. Everyone is welcome here. Now, what's the
point of this Because all of the Hollywood celebrities, all
the New York theater socialites, the Washington Post, all of
(11:39):
the political newspapers absolutely denounced Trump's takeover the Kennedy Center,
and then everybody announced what just like they announced that
if Donald Trump wins the election, I'm moving out of
the country.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I'm moving to Canada.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I'm moving to France, or Rosie o'donnald, I'm moving to Ireland.
By the way, I think she actually did before the election,
but be that as a may She now claims that
she left the US and she's so much happier, but
I don't think she really is. So they all denounce,
and they all announced the boycott that they're not they're
(12:17):
no longer to go to the Kennedy Center. And that's
the buzz around d c Oh, trust me on this one, Senators, congressmen,
people in the deep state, bureaucrats, the social lightes, everybody
in DC is, oh my god, Orange man bad has
taken over the Kennedy Center and it's just going to
fall into disrepair. It's it's like they thought the Kennedy
(12:39):
Senator Senator was going to become this abandoned warehouse that
eventually the homeless would take over. There would be tenths
camping out on the on the grounds, and that you
would have to have, you know again, Book of Eli
kind of an apocalyptic city within the confines of d C.
And nobody was going to go. And part of that
(13:01):
was the reason. Part of the reason for that was
that Trump and the administration contended that the Kennedy Center
had become overly leftists. All the programming had become woke,
and it was turning off all the regular tourists and
all the other attendees. And it was actually and factually
it was it was reducing the number of guests that
(13:21):
would go to the concerts, the operas, the musical and
theater performances. All the things happened at the Kennedy Center.
But then just the opposite happened. The fireworks show saw
a crowd of seventy six percent first time attendees. Now
(13:43):
that's a really positive sign for the Kennedy Center, which,
like any other theater or opera venue Broadway in New
York anywhere, including here and downtown Denver. They've all struggled
post COVID nineteen pandemic in getting people to come back
to the theater, to come back to these cultural centers.
(14:04):
And I just found it hilarious when I saw this
story last night that the Kennedy Center was now breaking
records Orange Man Bad. You know that there are two
conversations going on inside the Beltway right now. I can't
(14:24):
believe that people are going, well, you know who it is.
It's just those rubes from out of town. They were
here for the cherry Blossom festival, which was a blot
last week or week before, so they're here for the
cherry blossom festival. So just those rubes that showed up
from you know, Denver, decided to go to the Kimney
Center because it was fireworks, and they all went to
set out because the weather was really nice during cherry blossom, which.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Is as isn't always, and so they all wanted.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
To show up and go because who knows, maybe Trump
will show up. So that was one conversation, and then
the other conversation was, see, we told you it's all
Trump all the time, So just make note that whatever
you hear coming out of DC is going to be
(15:11):
skewed because there's no middle ground. I well, the middle
ground is right here. I didn't care that Trump took
over the Kennedy Center. It's actually in a state of disrepair.
It does need some remodeling and post COVID, it really
(15:31):
has suffered from a lack of attendance. And now we're
seeing that Trump comes in. Now Rick Grennell, I don't
know Rick Grennell personally. What I know of him is
what I've read about him, and what I've seen him
do is as the I think it was ambassador to
Germany for a while, stuff that he has done for
the first Trump administration. And oh, by the way, he
(15:53):
happens to be gay, so that you know, that adds
to it. So some people are pissed off about that,
and some people are happy about it. I'm like, who
cares what his sexual preference is. If he can do
the job, he can do the job. Well, apparently he's
doing the job. And it's the Trump effect. I find
it absolutely because you know that the people who would
(16:16):
normally want to be seen at the Kennedy Center are
now afraid to be seen at the Kennedy Center because well,
Trump's in charge, Orange Man Bad and the exact opposite
is happening, which I find hilarious. Speaking of Trump, this
(16:39):
is you know, Trump's been facing this defamation lawsuit because
he made statements about the Central Park five.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
A federal judge yesterday determined that the defamation lawsuit can proceed.
Philadelphia based Federal District Judge Wendy Beetlestone Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice ruled
that the claims that were presented showed enough evidence to
overcome emotion for some rejudgment and allowed the case to advance.
(17:17):
It was started back in October by five individuals who
were convicted in nineteen eighty They were convicted in nineteen
eighty nine of brutally attacking and sexually assaulting a female
jogger in Central Park, the Central Park Five. They were
exonerated in two thousand and two after a confession by
another guy accompanied by DNA evidence that linked the other
(17:38):
guy to the victim's sexual assault, but it remains unclear
whether others, including the Central Park five, might have played
a role in the attack prior to the sexual assault
that she suffered. Now, the victim remains convinced the woman
who was sexually assaulted, that more than one person was involved.
(18:00):
But the cops and the prosecutors keep defending their case
against the Central Park five, but the legal action claims
that Trump made faults and damaging statements about the group.
Trump advocated for the death penalty for the guys, and
during the campaign, he asserted that the five had confessed
to the murder. I claimed that they denied, but Judge
(18:23):
Beatlestone believes that an objective assessment would classify Trump's statement
is fault.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
So the case is going to go forward, the law
fair continues.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Is the point, you know, Michael, I'm often a redhead.
Donor call your fault redbeard.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You were the one that decided to try and describe
what you thought Alexa looked like. I just added on
as to what she actually looked like.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
No, you just said, you know, you said something to
the effect that she's a read.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I can't help it, but I've got something about redheads,
something to that effect.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, and I do admire a redhead for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
My ex wife was a redhead.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Oh I don't remember that.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah, the yeah, oh well, you know, I subscribe downstowns
the downstairs the lesbian prostitute to bank robbert.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Yeah, redhead saying that all are.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Not even insinuating any of that. But you know, it's
just the one that I know.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
If you, if you use liberal logic, if if your
ex wife the bank robber, and the lesbian prostitute, lesbian
prostitute is a redhead, therefore, all therefore all read according
to liberal.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Logic, specifically a lesbian prostitute, but left me for another woman,
which qualified for another left me for a woman who
was qualifier lesbian and prostitute.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
A lesbian and a prostitute, those are all three separate things, correct,
and a red head accordey of liberal logic. All redheads,
therefore are bank robbers, lesbians and what was the third.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
One, ptitute prostitutes.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
There's so many wonderful things that I can't keep them
all in my head. Wonderful thing, wonderful things what liberal logic?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
She fits, she fits four different identity politics categories. She's
the perfect She's the perfect liberal.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
If you want to be two out of the three,
that's great, that's fine, go ahead. You're not harming anybody,
but the bank robbingy thing that's.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Stretch too far from me.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Was it armed robbery? She was just the getaway driver.
She never went into the bank.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Oh okay, but was it a an armed robbery.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
With airsoft beaty guns?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yep? Was it Denver one of the soldier huh, Bolder, Boulder.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, there's the story in the Boulder Daily Camera or whatever.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
They were the three to two one or the one
two three bandits or something. Yeah, I can't I can't
even remember anymore. It was fifteen years ago. Wow, yeah,
three two one bandits one two three bandits or something.
You can you can look it up.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So and so after that experience with Redhead, uh huh, Yeah,
you decided to go still with red heads.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah they're still hot.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Well, but you decided to go with another redhead.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
This is Redbeard's more of a brown head.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I kind of well, maybe it was because you were
sitting together. It's just a reflection.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yeah, yeah, it's probably, but I saw.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
It more slightly slighter ready, But you went right back
to the same thing, just opposite, the total opposite.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Dumb. You learned your.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Lesson, you know, I talk about how well you've abdicated
our compassion to the government and how we expect government
to take care of everything that's you know, wrong, our health, well,
just everything. Doris Kerns Goodwes, who is an amazing historian.
(22:16):
I've read many of her books. She's written some really
incredible books. But she's a hardcore lefty. She was on
and I think she's becoming even more of a hardcore
core lefty the older that she gets. You know, typically
the older you get, the more conservative you get. Well,
I think if you start out as a lefty, the
older you get, the more hardcore lefty you become. She
(22:37):
was on Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough yesterday and I
found her talking about this, and I will it proves
my point.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Republicans now, and I've been talking about this for the
past couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I'm not just saying this again.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
This is not Monday Morning quarterbacking, but Republicans are setting
themselves up for a terrible political fall when they're pushing
tax cuts, a continuation of tax cuts for the richest billionaires,
for millionaires, for multinational corporations, you name it.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
And what is their answer to that?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
You know, can me just pause for a moment. That's
such a trope and it's so untrue. In fact, Trump
just this week when asked, you know, whether you would
be willing to increase taxes on the wealthy of the wealthiest,
the top, you know, ten percent of the top one percent,
(23:47):
would you be willing to do that?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah? Why not?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
But I want tax cuts for everybody. But if you know, if, if, if,
what it takes is we're going to take the top,
you know, ten percent of the top one percent and
have you know a bazillionaire search arge or something, then
I consider.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
It cutting medicaid with absolutely. I guess no no idea
that that's going to impact disproportionately voters in their own states.
Voters in red state America vote rural voters. You know,
it kind of reminds me of you know, FDR and
(24:28):
the New Deal. My my mom and her family were
raised in Dalton, Georgia and Rome, Georgia and the depths
of the Great Depression. FDR was responsible for them getting
through the worst of the Depression. And now you have
rural America suffering again, rural hospitals under attack.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
And I have to interject again, if if you've read
The Forgotten Man, then you will understand that what FDR's
new deal did was actually pro long the Great Depression.
But that is so counterintuitive and this narrative that FDR
saved the nation from the Depression, that the facts on
(25:12):
the ground had become so buried that nobody ever, ever,
ever accepts.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
That closing down. Over the past ten years, up to
fifty percent of children get their primary health care from Medicaid,
so many parents and grandparents go into nursing homes that
are funded by Medicaid. Like hospitals are going to be
shutting down. That will require people to take an ambulance
(25:41):
like forty to fifty miles to the nearest rural hospital.
Talk about this choice is that Republicans in the House
and senator making that are setting up their constituents to
suffer and also going I think just politically, it's got
(26:02):
a backfire.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Now, let's just soak in for a moment what Scarborough
has just said. How did we get to that point
where what was it fifty percent of children are on Medicare,
Medicaid or something that rural hospitals have kind of disappeared
and now you have to take an ambulance forty or
(26:24):
fifty miles to get to a hospital that you know,
all of these elderly people are in nursing homes and
they're being paid for by many How do we get
to that point?
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Well, we.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
To go back to and I'm only gonna say the
word once, going back to the tariff battle we're going through.
We we destroyed the middle class in this country. And
then once we destroyed the middle class in this country,
we then advocated our compassion for the course of the
poor to the middle class, and we made them dependent
(27:02):
upon government programs. And how do we make them dependent
upon government programs? Because we decided that we're going to, uh,
you know, we're going to do implement this Social Security
program and so then people start seeing that as their
retirement program and they think that's what they're going to
retire on. They then don't care about long term you know,
(27:26):
healthcare or disability insurance or anything else, because well, I've
got Medicare and Medicaid, that's it don't take care of me.
And if I have to go to a nursing home,
then that's you know, that'll law get paid for.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
And so we.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Create these programs which create the dependency, and then it
just log rolls and snowballs. And becomes bigger and bigger
and bigger toward it just takes over the entire country,
which is, when you think about it, that's the socialist
utopia that the Democrats have always dreamed about. So we're
on the verge of that at the time that Trump
(27:57):
is trying to well, this can do nothing but result
in the ultimate destruction of our country, so let's try
to reverse it. But Scarborough's other point is we've gotten
to this point and don't they realize, meaning us that
(28:17):
wherever and this is what Doris Kerns good Ones is
going to tell you after the break, is that, yeah,
we've done all of these things and now the people
that have been elected to turn it around don't realize that.
Oh here's the effect it's going to have. But don't forget.
(28:42):
We got to this point because they were trying to
impose a socialist utopia upon the nation and they have
pretty much succeeded. And Dors Kurns good Ones makes my point.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Next Dragon Donor red hair looked really nice today?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Always does.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I hate all of you, just hate all of you.
So Joe Scarborough yesterday morning stets up an entire list
of things that government has the federal government in particular,
although they often fund state government to implement the programs
(29:26):
like Medicare and medicaid that have now overtaken most of
our society, most of the way we live, so that
we've become fully dependent upon the federal government for most
of the stuff that previous to this new socialist utopia
that we're moving into, we would have been responsible for ourselves.
(29:48):
And he turns to Doris Kern's good one after summing
it all up and says.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Setting up their constituents to suffer, and also going, I
think just politically, it's got a.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Backfire, you know, really it's a fundamental choice about what
is the role of government. And you're right in bringing
up FDR. I mean he set forth for a generation,
really the idea that government had to step in when
certain things were necessary to keep the people going, to
find them jobs, a safety net, unemployment insurance, none of
(30:22):
those things.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Were all of those Now think about that that FDR
felt like it was necessary to step in to provide
all those things for people to get them going. And
it proves my point that once you start that government program,
it's never going to go away. It's always going to
grow and metastasize. It's going to get bigger and bigger
(30:43):
and have more and more control over your life. She
doesn't realize that by pointing out what she just said,
she's confirming my thesis that government programs never go away,
they always grow, metastasize, and they make people dependent upon them.
So when Trump comes along and says, we've got to
(31:05):
re engineer, we got to redo all of this because
it's unsustainable.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Or available originally in nineteen thirty three when he came in,
and what we've seen for the last couple of months
really is a whole attack on what the federal government
role should be.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
A whole attack on what the federal government role should be.
That is exactly right. This is what we're going through
because we know the founding fathers knew that the federal
government had to be of limited and enumerated powers, and
by taking on all this other stuff, whether it was
(31:44):
Alexander Hamilton or any of the other founders, that going
into debt to do all of this stuff was completely unsustainable.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
But how does she rationalize it?
Speaker 7 (31:55):
All the people who've been taken away from their jobs.
Even in my area of history, I mean, government has
been a sponsor for historical sites in states. They've been
responsible for a National History Day, which for fifty years
has brought five hundred thousand kids to compete in a contest.
Just what you want kids to do to learn about history?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
They have to take?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, you want indoctrination.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
The topic like the Birmingham demonstrations when Bullcannor went against
the peaceful marchers.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
With hoses and dogs, and it.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
Brought about eventually firing the conscience of the people, and
it brought about the Civil Rights Act. You know, one
of the things that the president is talking about is
we need achievements. We need not negative things. We need
to have positive things about American history. But all the
achievements of American history have come through struggle, the civil
rights struggle, the women's struggle, the gay right struggle. That's
(32:49):
how we want to teach kids about history. And this
National History Program just one example of what's going on
on my front. I wake up every morning worrying about
what's going to happen to my history today. Is that
for for these fifty years, it's taught kids critical thinking,
has taught them empathy, has taught them how to look
at the past. From primary sources just what you want,
not just memorization. And that's one thing that's going on.
(33:11):
At the same time, we're taking away government jobs from
civil service. At the same time, all of you saying,
what's what's going on now in rural areas.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
But I think we're.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
Finally seeing in those town halls, in those protests that
we've seen over the weekends, people from all areas where
the federal government's role is being cut back are being
hurt by this and they're speaking out. And that's how
change takes place.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
In our famure.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
So wherever the federal government role has been cut back,
people from all areas have been hurt. You know, when
you analyze that statement, what she's really saying is the government,
the federal government has become some has become so omnipotent,
(33:56):
so overbearing, so involved in every aspect of our lives
that as we recognize that it's not sustainable and we
start trying to cut it back so that we can
have a growing economy as opposed to a stagnant economy.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
How people are going.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
To get hurt, that's the fact of life. But they
don't want to deal with the hurt. They want to
gloss over them. They want to, They want everybody to
be in the comfortable blanket, the electrical, warm blanket of
the government taking care of everything.
Popular Podcasts
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.