10-3-25 - 7am - Superintendent Lies and Shutting Down the Government

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael, I wouldn't mind getting tax credits. That's money left
in my pocket. But the problem is that doesn't mean
that the government's going to spend less. So if we
could get tax credits for things that may or may
not be good or okay from the year of the environment,

(00:22):
and still get.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
The government to spend less money, then it's win win.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
But I know that won't happen.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, you just you just walked yourself right out of
your own argument. And in addition to that, the other
thing that struck me. And I'm not picking on what
I am picking on you because you left the talk back.
But you want tax credits that benefit you. You want a
tax credit. Let's say that you you want Let's say

(00:50):
you're a you're a hunter, you're a you're you'd love
to fly fish, So you want tax credits to go
buy some new fishing gear and gear at Cabela's or
wherever you wherever you get you know, or of us,
wherever you go. You want stuff. You see, everybody wants
their stuff for themselves. I'm not saying I'm any different.

(01:14):
Would I take a tax credit for whatever? Yeah, give
me a tax credit for something, But that's not how
we should be operating tax credits. All these tax incentives
are all ultimately geared toward special interests, and or they're

(01:35):
geared towards some objective in trying to get you to
change your behavior. And I don't want government influencing my
behavior or the marketplace. Leave me alone. And in fact,
your your conflicting ideas. Oh, you'd love a tax credit

(01:55):
for something you like, at the same time you want
the government to reduced spending. You're asking the government to
reduce spending. At the same time that you for whatever
it is that you prefer, you want to pay less taxes.
You can't have both. I mean, I guess you could
have both, but eventually you will not have any government
at all, and that'll be anaurchy, and well then that
there's the end of civilization. So be careful what you

(02:19):
wish for. I don't I wouldn't mind paying a reasonable
amount of taxes. If I saw our for example, let's
start at the top, if I saw the federal government
cutting out all the craft that we spend money on.
The federal government shouldn't be spending money on and we
actually were, you know, truly giving the weaponry that our

(02:43):
military needs to defend ourselves. I don't want to get
off on this tangent here too much, but one reason
why I think that Trump is beginning to kind of
focus on South America is have they given up on
the Indo Pacific? Have they given up on Eastern Europe?
Can we not fight? Are we incapable of fighting a

(03:07):
world war? My gut tells me we might be incapable now,
much like in World War Two. We might be able
to ramp up quickly enough that we could eventually overcome it.
But wouldn't you rather be ahead of the curve when
World War three starts, as opposed to being behind the curve?

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Well?

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Why are we behind the curve? Because, as I pointed
out earlier, fifty percent of our budget's going to income
redistribution transfer programs. We shouldn't be doing that. I'm never
going to get the amount of money either that I've
paid directly into Social Security, or if I had been

(03:49):
required to take that and put that into a private
investment account, just into Dow Jones Industrial average, I would
have been so much better off and would be able
to withdraw so much much more than I'll ever get
paid from Social Security. We do things back assward and
why do we do them because this Willem was some
free money. Oh it drives me nuts. The other thing

(04:12):
that drives me nuts is this situation in des Moines
with the des Moines Independent School District. I know it's
an old story, but I don't want to let this
story die because I've been trying to figure out how
did this happen? If if you've ever had a child
in school, or you currently have grandchildren in school, or

(04:33):
you just care about where your tax dollars go, aren't
you asking yourself why is this story dying off? And
why don't we know more about how this guy got hired?
How did we hire? How did the des Moines Public
schools hire a superintendent who had a criminal record, was
in the country illegally? And their only response is will

(04:57):
we hired a company to do it, and he filled
out all the EY requirements and he had a social
Security number and he had a driver's license, so that
was good enough. You didn't like check around to see
did you what was your work history? Did you work at.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Any other schools?

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Were you a superintendent or a principal or even a
classroom teacher somewhere? Were you a counselor somewhere. Well, I
would put it this way, sanctuary city and sanctuary state,
just sanctuary policies in general usually get defended as because
they're compassionate, they're humane. It's designed to shield all those

(05:35):
vulnerable illegal aliens from the heavy hand of the federal
government enforcing the law. The doctor Ian Roberts, the superintendent
in question here, an armed and dangerous fugitive that managed
to run Iowa's largest school district, actually reveals the lethal
downside of those kinds of policies. The scandal demonstrates not

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merely a breakdown at the local level, but it's a
much larger systemic failure that has been encouraged and sustained
by Democrat controlled jurisdictions there refuse to safeguard their communities
against fraud, crime, and corruption. Consider the most basic question
about citizenship. I listened to a totally irrelevant there was

(06:22):
a thing on my ex timeline yesterday from Tucker Carlson
about Israel, and he was on his rant about Israel again,
and it kind of drives me crazy, But trying to
listen to it with a nuanced, critical thinking mind. He
made some really good points about American citizenship. And so

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let's first consider the most basic question of citizenship. If
you live in a Democrat controlled state, here, you're simply
asked to affirm your eligibility to vote, no verification. Show
us your birth certificate, show us your green car, show

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us you know that you actually and even beyond just
citizenship of the United States of America, show me that
you're a citizen of the state in which you're going
to vote. And then show me proof that you're a
citizen of that precinct in which you're going to vote,
or that congressional district, whether or state or federal, you know,
representative district, so that we know you're actually voting where

(07:27):
you're supposed to vote. I live in Douglas County. I
should not be voting for representatives unless they happen to
be you know, crossover the districts, crossover county lines. I
shouldn't be voting for somebody that lives in Larimer County.
To give an example where it couldn't possibly be true,
I should not be voting for a state rep or
a county commissioner in Larimer County when I live in

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Douglas County. So there's no verification, and then we never reconcile.
In this day and age, when we have we're building
billions of dollars worth of data centers for artificial intelligence,

(08:10):
When we have government agencies at.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
The federal, state, and local level who all.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Have massive databases about our lives, you would be when
I sometimes stop and just think about the amount of
information because of my background that the federal government has
about me.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
It's absolutely overwhelming.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
When when I started law school, you have I don't
know whether this is still true or not, but at
the time I started law school, I had to register
with the Bar Association because if they were going they
assumed that, you know, I might eventually graduate, which was
maybe kind of iffy with me, and that I might

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kind of my might actually pass the bar exam, which
maybe might have been iffy with me. Absolutely was not
iffy at all, and so the Bar Association required for
me to submit an entire document about my background, including fingerprints,

(09:17):
had to go to local sheriff's office have my fingerprints done.
And so that was kind of my first FORAY, not
even counting my bursts if they get but that was
my first kind of cognizant foray into oh, my privacy.
I'm really giving up a lot of information here. And
then I get to you know, I get to the
federal government and because of my clearances, now they've got everything.

(09:40):
They got my type. It starts with tax returns going
back ten years places I've lived for the previous ten
or fifteen years, and then you know, lists of neighbors,
and then when the FBI does a full field background check,
they actually go talk to neighbors. We had people call
us and say, are you in trouble? The FBI just

(10:01):
came to our door asking about you know, when you
lived across the street from US fifteen twenty years ago,
did they see me? Did you see anything suspicious? Did
they have wild parties where there were their drug exchanges
in the middle of the night. I mean, that's literally
what they do. And they go back a long time.

(10:21):
But let's think about just voting citizenship. All these databases.
You're in a database somewhere unless you're well. Even Ted
Kazinski was on a database, So the Unit bomber was
in a database somewhere. Voter rolls are never reconciled or

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compared to or cross checked whatever verb you want to use.
With immigration, records. So Ian Roberts, a non citizen that
had an active removal order, registered to vote in Maryland.
Don't even don't even get to Iowa yet. He registered
to vote in Maryland. And you know what, he is

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still well, at least as of yesterday, he's still on
the voter rolls in Maryland. The Department of Justice is
currently suing Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire,
and Pennsylvania, all trying to compel them to.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Clean up their voter rolls.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
And there is opposition to the DOJS simply saying to
those states, they all say it to Colorado, they all
to say it to every state. I don't care whether
you're a red state or a blue state, unless you're
already actively doing it, we should clean the voter rolls.
If I don't vote. Quite frankly, i'd make it pretty tight.

(11:44):
If I don't vote for a calendar year in any
election anywhere in Colorado. I ought to be removed.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
I know, votings are right, but with that right comes responsibilities.
And what you ought to do is you ought to
be required if you're not going to exercise that right
to vote, then we're going to take you off the roll.
And if you decide some point that you decide, oh,
I got to go vote against Donald Trump because he's
Satan incarnate, then you ought to be required to go reregister,

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some actual responsibility to exercise that precious right of citizenship
that gives you the right to vote. But the refusal
to cross check against dhs ICE and the US Citizenship
and Information Services databases, that's not accidental. That is a

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deliberate thing that the federal government does because that undermines
election integrity and allows Democrats to cheat. So citizenship, nobody
ever thought, Okay, you're registered vote in Maryland.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Have you voted?

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Uh, maybe we ought to go check your criminal records
in Maryland. No such thing, But now let's go to
that cind of swerves us into law enforcement itself. Now,
Ian Roberts has claimed publicly he was charged with fourth
degree gun possession, but he says that it was related

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to a deer hunting trip. Then why was he arrested
by the New York Port Authority. I don't think as
many times as I've been at the headquarters of the
New York Port Authority, I've used New York Port Authority
infrastructure like the triborough Bridge or the Lincoln Tunnel.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
I've never seen a deer. I've never seen a deer in.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Mintown, Manhattan or Lower Manhattan. I've never seen a deer
on the triborough Bridge. The official records of arrest have
since been sealed by a New York State judge. So
now his narrative about a hunting trip, well, that adds
even more doubt to it. But at a minimum, he

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was a prohibitive person under federal law from possessing a gun,
which makes it a felony for him to own or
possess a firearm. Now, had the cops run his name
against or the school had asked the local law enforcement,
he would you run his name against federal databases, they
might have discovered his deportation order and his illegal presence
in the country. But no sanctuary policies encourage and in

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some places require cops to look the other way and
absolutely not cooperate under threat of getting terminated or disciplined.
If you do somehow cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, that
paves his way to continue his fraudulent career. And of course,

(14:45):
a school board who is hell bent on showing their
DEI you know qualities. Do you think they're going to
go do that?

Speaker 4 (14:56):
Of course not.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
But again, I think the most obvious element of this
story is not the failure of voter rolls or law enforcement,
because those are bad. It's the institutional collapse of vetting
at the highest levels of public education. Turns out he
was recruited by JG Consultant. That is a firm that

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specializes in superintendent searches. He was vetted by Baker EU Banks,
a background check firm led by form Miss America KEM Cockerham.
Both firms signed off on Roberts. Both recommended him to
run the Des Moines Independent School District. The school board,
chaired by a woman who once served as Michelle Obama's

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chief of staff. Yes, I've confirmed that is true, and
was a senior advisor to President Obama, actually interviewed Roberts
alongside some other candidates, and in the end they voted
unanimously to appoint him as being superintendent.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
How how.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
A simple Google search reveals he never earned a legitimate
doctoral degree from an accredited university. A single phone call
to a place called Morgan State University would have confirmed
the fraud and even more damning. His prior school district
in Pennsylvania settled more than four hundred thousand dollars in

(16:18):
lawsuits involving his staff the same month he resigned and
assume the new position in Iowa. Did G JG Consulting
inform the board about those lawsuits? If so, then why
did the board proceed? And if not, how could a
so called professional recruitment firm failed to disclose such a
glaring red flag? Now the board new Roberts had played

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guilty to a gun charge just the year before. They
also permitted him to change district rules to allow the
hiring of employees with criminal records, including firearm offenses. Did
they not think it's strange that their superintendent carried a
loaded gun, a prohibited blade, and thousands of dollars a
cab school of property. That's not trivial. Those are significant oversights.

(17:05):
Do you want your kid?

Speaker 4 (17:06):
You know? I guess The point is this.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
The blame obviously lays with the school board, federal officials,
a whole plethora of people, ultimately responsibility with people that
don't get involved in their local school districts, People that
may have gone to a school board meeting and seen
the three Kenna just being interviewed, and looked at that
guy and said, I need to know more about that guy.

Speaker 5 (17:32):
There's something fishing, Michael ed you're pointing out this morning.
People make stuff up on their resumes, and they outright why.
My uncle, for example, worked at Cornell University for years
in epidemiology, and the director of his program, years after
he was appointed, was found to have made up a

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whole bunch of fraudulent.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
Claims on his resume.

Speaker 5 (17:57):
Unfortunately, Yes it.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
Happened, Yes, it happens.

Speaker 6 (18:04):
Oh, even look at what's her face from Harvard that
had to step down to the plagiarism.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (18:08):
It's not lying on the redsime, but you're still lying
about what you did, so it still happens.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
I was just looking because I had a text message.
Let me pull it the text messages. Michael, you cannot
completely discount the story about deer hunting. There was a
dead bear in Manhattan. Had you think for just a second,

(18:38):
do you remember the story dragons Cuomo thing right? No,
it was a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Yes, Remember he
had killed a bear and decided to dump it, and
he had it in his trunk or something decided to
dump it in Central Park and make it look like
it was a bicycle accident or whatever. Yeah, yeah, so yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
We'll old bear hunting and deer hunting.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Well, let's let's put on let's put on our camouflage,
let's put our rifles over our shoulders, and let's go
walking through Central Park and let's see how long it takes.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
Before we get surrounded by a bunch of yaws.

Speaker 6 (19:18):
For argument's sake, here though, I have seen deer here
in the Tech Center.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
Oh we see deer and stuff in our neighborhood all
the time. So middle nowhere hunt's ranch. I'm not about
the ndisposed location.

Speaker 6 (19:32):
When you're thinking about the Tech Center, you're not really
thinking about well.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Except you know.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Here's Here's why I'm never surprised by it, because of
all the green space and open space. They just start
wandering around and next they know they know, they're they're
over at Venus trying to get a little good of
Italian food.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
So yeah, I'm surprised by that in the least.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
The thing about intentionally shutting down the government as this happened,
Oh my gosh, did you make it in Okay today, Dragon,
I'm really worried about Italy Okay. I yesterday I was,
you know, we had I had a scheduled dinner last
night with a friend of mine who lives way up north,

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so we were going to meet.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
We met. Oh, Dragon, you love this.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
We went to Bastions, the steakhouse over in Colfax, like
Colfax and Madison, that area. You remember how the Sixteenth
Street mall was a complete disaster for businesses because it
took so long. It was just a complete construction. Yeah, fiasco.
You should see Colfax right now.

Speaker 6 (20:32):
Oh it's just as bad.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Oh, it's horrible, worse even I think it's probably worse
because some of the cross streets you can actually make
a turn on. Some of the cross streets you can't
make turns on. And when I made the reservation at
the steakhouse, there was a pop up window. They gave
very specific constructions about how to approach the restaurant to

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get into the parking lot.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
That's sad. It's beautiful, but sad.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
I got there a little early, so I kind of
walked around the block up and down just to kind
of look at cole facts. It's a freaking disaster. I
feel sorry for all those businesses and why they do.
Why we do construction work the way we do construction
work in Colorado, I'll never understand, and I still don't understand.

(21:21):
I think I've may have had some engineers which tells
me that they really didn't explain it. Engineers try to
explain to me why we don't do work at night.
Like most states, you'll see them working on highways with
the gigantic floodlights and they're working twenty four hours a day,
seven days a week. But in Colorado we never do that.
We could do that along coal facts, and in fact,

(21:43):
that might help reduce crime along coal facts. If we
had gigantic you know, flood lights all up and down,
working twenty four hours, seven days a week, it might
reduce the crime, might push them out somewhere else. I
wouldn't say, to eliminate the crime, and we'll just push
them somewhere else. Back to shutting down the government, you
got to be successful when you shut down the government.
You got to put two things together, in events, a

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valid fact based reason for shutting it down in the
first place, and then a fully develid plan for getting
out of it at the end of the day, we
plan to get into it, a reason to get into it,
and then a plan to get out of it.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
Now, as we've now found.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Out the really hard way, Chuckie Schumer had neither item
in hand when he single handedly chose to shut it
down at midnight on this past Tuesday. Hell, the demanded
Democrats didn't even possess an approof set of joint talking
points that they had done in conjunction with their toadies
in the media so they could go out and recite

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them like a bunch of brain dead ottomans that they
truly are.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Instead, they've been all over the place.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Not even Schumer's been able to lay out a single
valid reason for doing what he's done. So we've got
this prey tofectless Democrat senators like Jean Shaheehan and Corey
Booker just flaying on live TV as the CNN and
the MSNB host MSNBC hosts and the hostesses who so

(23:09):
desperately want to provide them cover sit there as confused
as the viewers are about what the hell are the
Democrats even trying to accomplish here. I mentioned Janine Shaheen
because that SoundBite we played yesterday is still so freaking hilarious.
I've never heard any Democrat talks about how they want
to provide healthcare to illegal aliens. Well, and the host

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on Fox and Friends says, I'm glad, I'm glad you
said that. Let's roll the tape, and I played the
tape for you yesterday where at that presidential debate in
twenty twenty, there's like ten or fifteen, twenty of them
on the stand and the question is how many of you,
for each every one of you who have a healthcare plan,
would provide healthcare to illegal aliens? And they all throw

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their hand up, including old Sleepy Joe, and they go
straight to Pete Buddhajig and say, Pete, explain to us
why you want to do this all because I'm compassionate,
I care about people. And then the best part was
Shaheen comes back and says, well, I never said I
said it. Why you just said you've never heard any

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Democrat say it? And he just showed you ten or
twenty democrats that said it. So the day long episode
of Messaging Chaos that I listened to yesterday doing show
prep led directly to MSNBC having an appearance by that snooty,

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dim wooded Rhode Island Senator Sheldon white House, who is
only largely more intelligent than the near total dumb ass
Hawaiian Senator Maysie Herono, and he had this to say
with Oh, what's this kid's Chris Hayes.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
The conversation on.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
The Senate floor is, well, let's negotiate on that, because
we know we need to move on that, because our
people are going to get hurt on that. But we'd
rather negotiate with you after you've given away your leverage.
So this whole shutdown, this whole trunk Republican shutdown, is
really boiling down to them wanting to solve the problem

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that we want to solve, but do it in a
couple of days or a couple of weeks when we've
given up our negotiating leverage. I don't think that's the
kind of position that you can long stand on.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
I'm just giving your time to think that through. Don't
get hung up on the word levreach Bregan.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Do you have any leverage in your life? Do you
have any leveraging or do you have any leverage.

Speaker 6 (25:50):
Or tons of leverage?

Speaker 4 (25:51):
Did I see your leverage. Can I see it? Sometimes?

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Your collection of leaverage for Democrats as a party, that
brief How long was that? That was? Seconds? That thirty
five seconds? I think brilliantly illustrates why Senator white House
manages to always kind of stand out as probably the

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very least effective spokesman for their party, which is saying
a lot, since the Democrat Senate Caucus is not exactly
home to a bunch of you know, Einstein's, I mean,
Amy Klobisher is probably the best they have so far,
so the bar really isn't getting much lower anyway. The
first thing to highlight is white House is white House's

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use of our people. He uses our people to describe
this sliver of US residents that he and his fellow
Dufis Democrats are actually concerned about in all of this. Now,
I don't know about you, but I am old enough
to remember when members of the United States Senate we're

(26:56):
supposed to care about what's best for all Americans those days,
And in fact I don't remember, but I study history,
and I know when the United States Senate was supposed
to be concerned mostly about their states, not individuals in
their state, but their state government. Because Remember, we are

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the United States of America, like Joe Biden used to
say all the time, and the Senate was supposed to
represent the states at the federal level. But anyway, remember
those days when they either one of those days. Now, yeah,
they didn't mean in the first place, but they less
felt a need to maintain the pretense when they were
making a media appearance.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
But not anymore.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
The Damns this meant the last half century doing everything
that they can through identity politics, to balkanize this country
into a disunified array of competing interest groups and are
now proud to only care about our people and both
about it on some sort of well, some sort of
national TV program as presented by MSNBC. But it's actually

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worse than that, because when you really understand what this
humor shutdown is all about, you know that it's really
about Democrats desire to keep providing free healthcare benefits to
illegal aliens. Remember I walked through yesterday section by section
of the law in the one big beautiful bill that
eliminated that, And that's what they're trying to get back to.

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In other words, when White House refers to our people,
he's really not talking about a sliver of United States citizens.
He's talking about illegal aliens, those people that his political
party has spent the last twenty years trying to replace
actual Americans with. It is a monstrous bit of momentary

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honesty from that raging buffoon that I just want you
to remember that. I don't thinkbody else's because it or not.
And leaverage twice, I've never heard anybody in my entire
life pronounce leverage as one who oftentimes is going one

(29:12):
hundred miles an hour and mispronounces a word. I don't
think I've ever used leaverage in place of leverage.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
Michael, I wish you wouldn't make light of the government
shut down.

Speaker 6 (29:23):
It's very serious.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
Thousands of people are dying. I died. It was horrible.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
When you leave a talk back and you tell us
that you've died. We're sad to hear that, but we're
always curious about.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
How how it details details.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
We need details. We know you got thirty seconds. You
have to be succinct, but we went to details because
they're so important. Did you find that audio?

Speaker 6 (29:53):
I found a different one that I'm not satisfied with,
but it was the leaveradge has been used multiple times
in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Oh okay, both
Johnny Depp Jack Sparrow and Orlando Broom's character.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
They're just screaming out leverage, and they mean leverage.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
It was one of the times that the Jack was
trapped in one of the cells and the Will Turner,
the Orlando Bloom characters is like, Yeah, with the proper
amount of leverage, we can get you out of this cell.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
So are we then to assume that one of two
things could have occurred. Sheldon Whitehouse is just number than
a box of rocks and doesn't know how to pronounce
the word leverage, or he's a freaking United States senator
who's so consumed with Pirates of the Caribbean that that's
embedded in his brain and he thinks that's how you
pronounced leverage.

Speaker 6 (30:40):
I mean, Kieren Knightley is pretty hot. M Kieran Knightley
is pretty hot.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Well, I didn't say anything about that. I'm just saying that,
you know, that's well for us senator, but it probably is.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
The latter.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
He's just enamored and so he can't he can't get
away from it. There was something called the re Yawed
Comedy Festival. It's held in Saudi Arabia. He was held
from September twenty six goes on through October ninth at
Boulevard City in Riyad. Fifty of the world's top comedians,
including Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Bill Berr, Tom Segura, Pete Davidson,

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and a lot of others, make the first event of
this scope in the Kingdom. It's the centerpiece of Saudi
Arabia's Vision twenty thirty, led by Prince MBS Mohammed Ben Salomon,
because he wants to diversify the country's economy beyond oil
and foster a more open cultural environment. That's great Dave Chappelle,

(31:39):
though I think man I like Dave Chappelle, and I
enjoy watching his routines. They're very politically incorrect. Addressing an
audience of six thousand people, I don't know how much
you got paid. I heard that one one second tier
comedian got paid like three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. Now,

(32:00):
I'm sure that's in addition to expenses, Chappelle joked. Right now,
in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie
Kirk that you'll get canceled. I don't know if that's true,
but I am going to find out. He then added pointedly,
it's easier to talk here than it is in America.
But he didn't stop there. He mused about his own reputation,

(32:22):
saying that when he gets back home, he fears they're
going to do something to me so that I can't
say what I want to say. That's the quote from
the New York Times. Here's where it gets controversial. But
I'll tell you why it gets controversial on net. I'm
obviously out of time because you hear the music too