October 10, 2025 • 44 mins
Ep. 304 - Borders for Thee, but Not for Me
One survived Arctic warfare training in polar bear territory, the other made it through a Milan fashion show featuring Meryl Streep. Together, Brad and David have faced danger in the face and lived to tell the tale. Back stateside, the real entertainment begins. From "Trump 2028" hats to AI-generated sombreros on congressional leaders, the President's trolling game reaches operatic heights. Ultimately, JD Vance acts as mediator and offers a ceasefire agreement: no more sombrero memes if Democrats vote to reopen the government.
Then Pope Francis, speaking from his impenetrable fortress guarded by Swiss pikemen where your huddled masses definitely aren't welcome, lectures America about the audacity of monitoring its borders. The verdict? If you lock your doors at night, you don't get to demand a nation leave its borders unguarded. If you don't live here, your opinion is as worthless as a Vatican visitor's pass.
One survived Arctic warfare training in polar bear territory, the other made it through a Milan fashion show featuring Meryl Streep. Together, Brad and David have faced danger in the face and lived to tell the tale. Back stateside, the real entertainment begins. From "Trump 2028" hats to AI-generated sombreros on congressional leaders, the President's trolling game reaches operatic heights. Ultimately, JD Vance acts as mediator and offers a ceasefire agreement: no more sombrero memes if Democrats vote to reopen the government.
Then Pope Francis, speaking from his impenetrable fortress guarded by Swiss pikemen where your huddled masses definitely aren't welcome, lectures America about the audacity of monitoring its borders. The verdict? If you lock your doors at night, you don't get to demand a nation leave its borders unguarded. If you don't live here, your opinion is as worthless as a Vatican visitor's pass.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
In these bleak days, humanity is at a breaking point.
Economies are tanking, the woke mob is canceling everything, and
the little guy who's just trying to run a small
business is getting screwed from both ends. But not all
is lost. Amidst the chaos, two men offer up their
(00:26):
voices in the darkness, dropping two thousand pounds laser guided
truth bombs on today's lunacy, introducing the Sirens of Sanity,
David Pridham and l Bradley Sheaf.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Reaper, a pen and Brain. Well, there it is Brad
that's from the Trump band with Trump and the head
of the omb on an instrument, and then there's vance
Is apparently on the drums, and then there's a couple
of skeletons playing guitars. But I mean, this is AI
(01:09):
is taking music making to the next level. Forget Taylor
Swift and her Yeah, she's got a new album out,
and from what I understand and what I've read in
the New York posts, so it must be true. You know,
there are several songs that are dedicated to Travis Kelcey's manhood.
So I would rather listen to Donald Trump any day
of the week. I mean, it's just fantastic, and this
(01:29):
music is catching.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm gonna have to take a look at this. I
have not seen this. I'm excited about it. But I
can join you in stating that I would rather listen
to the Grim Reaper himself play almost any song than
have to even catch a snippet of a song that
Taylor Swift is singing about Travis Kelsey's manhood.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So, yeah, you don't want to amen nothing.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
You don't do that.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's not good. Yeah, I have a lot of this
stuff going on in my life now that the Trump
administrator again, I supported it. So you know that you
know Nate I do. Did I tell you he's dating? Well,
hold on, I want to use my words carefully. He's
involved with a Brazilian girl. Oh you didn't know this, buddy.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I can't tell you the last time I saw Nate.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I mean, it was clearly your house, but it was
the old house, and so that has been a long time.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
It's been a long time since I've seen Nate.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, we are going to have an intervention with him
at some point when you get your your ass back
up here. But he's he's in some sort of a
transactional relationship with a Brazilian who's illegal.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Of course, transactional. That's an interesting word that you would
select to describe a relationship.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I can't really at this point and be a hypocrite
if I said, well, you know, maybe we should change
the immigration laws for Nate's girlfriend Plinka. I think it's Plinka.
Is it Plinka? Such her name? Something something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
There's like a sound effect like something that he was
like if you dropped a nickel.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
This is all this is all stuff. Now I'm opening
the kimono. I don't know if I should have said that,
but I did. You know? This is the this is podcast.
This is the reason all those Swedes turned in. By
the way, Brad, this is the reason right here. That's true.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
It's information wildly popular in places that I find. No man, No,
I mean, you can't say you find Sweden morally repugnant?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Oh you can't. Can you have?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I don't know that I have. They have a great
bikini team.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You've never been to Sweden, you know what I have?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And I was having this conversation because Christa is her
her ethnic background to Swedish, and she has a sister
in law married to her brother who is a dual
citizen off the boat.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Swedish wait sister is married to her own brother.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Law.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well, then maybe they do. I've never again, I've never
been to Sweden.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
But in this case it is a sister in law,
not her blood sister, who is married to her blood brother,
and she is Swedish and has a house in Sweden,
and they go to Sweden all the time.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
And we've been in binding to go. I've been in
Norway when I was in the military.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
We did some training there, but I've never been to Sweden,
so i cannot comment in the first hand about Sweden.
I'm not even sure how we got on to Sweden.
Weren't we talking about Don Meredith?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Don Meredith and then yeah, a bunch of other stuff.
But yeah, So again I'm not supporting illegal illegally entering
this country. I think it's it's wrong. I think you
should go through the proper channels and get knocked up
and married and then see what I did. Now, in
the Norway training, did you did did they allow you
to kill people over there?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I don't know the answer to that. I did not
kill anyone over there. There was no there was no combat.
We did some very rigorous Arctic warfare training that was
oftentimes miserable, cold, very cold.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
We had to ski with all of our equipment on into.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
A whole in the sea ice above the Arctic Circle
and then get yourself through that and take all your
stuff off and start a fire and dry your stuff and.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You go under the ice. Yeah. It was yeah, Well
you get up there, you don't go no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
They cut a hole and it's a certain size because
your skis have to span it. And then you purposefully,
you put on all your Sunday go to me and
like you're, you know, going into combat, and you ski
through into this hole. Book you you drop into the hole?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You do? You do?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Not?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
If you go under the ice, you got real problems.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
The intention is not to go into the ice, but
then you have to get yourself out of there. So
I have to use your skis, get to the you know,
sort of the edge of the hole, span the hole,
do a pull up with all your weg gear on
while you're freezing to death, and then get it all
off and get it dried out. It was universally miserable,
and you also have to carry your rifle all the
time and I thought that was curious. When I first
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got there, I was like, well, okay, I mean it's
just just you know, you just want to make sure
we know how to carry a rifle.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I kind of know how to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And the answer there was no, there are polar bears
everywhere and they will hunt you, and if you don't
have your rifle, you could well just wind up being
eaten by a polar bear. And that didn't sound good either,
And so I did carry my rifle everywhere I went
during that training evolution, and you know, to kind of
close the loop on that did not ever have to
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shoot at a polar bear.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Which is good. Liam Neeson, Right, Liam.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Neeson, Liam Neeson shot a polar bear.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You never saw that movie, I don't think.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
So.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
There's a movie where he's on a plane with a
bunch of people that are working at some Alaskan rig
and it's like it's like a little like ten people
on and he crashes in the middle of Alaska in
winter and then they're they're stalked by a polar bear
and he kills it. That's the currently that will happen.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I did not realize until this was obviously many years ago.
When I was younger, stronger, perhaps.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Dumber, so much younger than.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Today subject myself to these things. But I was explained
to by a very nice Norwegian ranger that polar bears
are one of the very few animals on Earth that
will actively hunt a human. And you know, you're sort
of out of luck, Like if a polar bear is
hunting you, even if you're armed. They're huge animals, and
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even if you are armed with a rifle, your odds
of survival are are low.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You have to shoot them right between the eyes, right.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I believe so you would have to, and probably more
than once.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I mean, they're very, very large animals, and they move
very quickly over the ground. And so while as most Americans,
I think I could be wrong about this because most Americans,
I had this sort of cutesy perception of a polar bear,
you know, these big, white, fuzzy fun Yeah, yeah, exactly
animals that drink Coca Cola, apparently, because you see those
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commercials all the time and they look to be fun.
In fact, they're terrifying and you need to stay away
from them.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
So, yeah, there's your polar bear tip of the week.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
On The Sheaf Show, I can't. Like I, I haven't
been skiing and god knows how long. But even when
we came up to visit you in Colorado and the
girls went skiing and I just kind of stood off
to the side with Noah and then we went on
that ski, I was still looking for that hat. If
you could go back up there and get the Noah hat,
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that would be great. That's still sitting up there frozen
with Hans solo. But no I could. I had to.
I had a tough time just standing in boots. The
thought of skiing into a hole in the ice and
and doing anything other than becoming food. It's just it
is mind boggling to me. That's that's not I don't
even know how to do it. I don't even know.
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But you know, I'm not going in the no one,
it's it's not gonna be good for anyone if I
go in the ice except someone that has an insurance
policy out of me. That's the only Uh. My wife
would do. My wife would do.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Uh wife and my wife both are perverse motivated to
kill us. Yeah, and I'd never lose sight of that.
Like I sleep with one eye open. I mean, I
know what's going on yeah. My wife asked me when
we were going.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Back to Japan, like I bet she did, yeah, longingly,
but no, So we went to we went to Italy.
Going to Italy was very nice. We did. We stay
up in Lake Como, which is just beautiful, just spectacular.
And the people in Italy it's like going to Ireland.
They're just the nicest people in the world. And uh,
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very very nice. And my wife got tickets. This is
one of the reasons she she uh wanted to fly
over there. She got tickets given to her by a
company to go to a fashion show. So we go
to this fashion show and you know, you and me
at these fashion shows. I stopped going to the ones
she goes to in New York because I don't fit in.
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I don't fit in the seats, the seats are small.
This is Milan, This isn't We went to Milan. Yeah,
for the that's like the that's like the Mecca fashion right,
And that's the story. I have this this thing. It
was you ever hear of Dultchain and Gabana. It's a
fashion brand. Okay, so em knows the director of something
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over there, and so they've been offering her tickets to
a show for like five years and we never go
because you didn't like to fly. And this year they said, look,
we're having a big show. This is the last time
we can offer you tickets and we'll just take you
off the list if you're not going to ever go.
And so she got up the consumption. She said, yeah,
we're gonna go. And then she asked me and I said, yeah,
you know, it's our anniversary. If that's what you want
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to do, I'll go do that with you. And then
you know you in return, you can sit there at
eight o'clock at night on Sunday while I watched the
Patriots on a laptop and scream out the window until
like Como, as they score forty two points against the
path there, that'll be a fair trade off.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
And so but we can agree with that, by the way,
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, yeah, especially when the fashion show was early, right
when you got there pretty much because you go over
with you get it behind you. I put on a
suit and just into this thing. You know, every it's
an absolute clown show. But you pull it up to this.
I've never experienced this, my love. You're pulling up to
this thing, and remember by us open tennis story I do,
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but three times as many people, all paparazzi and fans
waiting for people to go into this thing. Right, and
you're supposed to get dropped off at the front door.
You couldn't get within three blocks of the place. So
we have to get out of the car and start
walking three blocks away. And there are different checkpoints where
there are security, and there are tons of people and
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just and then you finally get to the entrance and
you go in and it's literally the most ridiculous group
of people on the planet.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
So, buddy, let me back you up to little bit
here is I'm trying to get myself in your headspace.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Are you going into a luck theater?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Are you going into like, you know, like you would
go to see an opera or a play. Is it
that kind of venue or are you just walking into
like a large open room where do they do these things?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
It's like a it's it's called a theater. And if
you walk into it, there is a runway right down
the middle with like two levels, and then on either
side they are like bleacher seats, so you've got maybe
ten rows of bleacher seats. And so we're, you know,
we're walking around taking pictures and they make you they
make you sit down in the seats are even though
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they were bench seats, so they weren't as bad as
some of the you know, so some of the other thing.
I stopped going to the New York because they have
the little tiny, petite chairs that I'm not I don't
fit on and I don't want to. I don't want
people touching me or I don't want that. So but
this is like the bleep, but the police like going
to like a Yankees game.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
You're sitting out like a right bleachers sort.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of maybe a Yankees gaming like the nineteen thirties, okay,
because there's no leg rooms so your feet fit. And
then there's a board with the next bleacher, so your
knees and you're sitting there and you're maybe the seat
is maybe six inches off the ground if it's that,
so your knees are like after about twenty minutes are aching.
And so I go there and I'm standing up right,
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there's nothing going on. Everyone's milling about, people have m
sits in her seat. I'm on the end. Thank god.
If I was on the end, I probably would have
just said, you know, we're not going to watch the
pictory getting out of here and not turning any of this.
But I'm standing up and this woman from behind me goes,
do you mind, do you mind sit sit so we
can see, and I'm like, looking at her, I'm like, lady,
it hasn't started yet. I'm like you. I'm like, I'm like,
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you want me to sit and hurt my knee? I can't,
don't want to put my feet. I was like you
got was like, okay, okay, we'll sit down. And so
that you sit there and there's still nothing going on.
There's no need to sit down that early. And then
it's often nothing to see, nothing to see, and then
it starts and at the very last second, you know,
Meryl Streep, sure, she's just just the worst. She walks
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in and sits right in the center. And because they're filming,
apparently in this thing Devil Wears product Too, which is
a movie, right, So they are filming this and she
comes in and you're going to be in the movie. No.
I mean maybe if they panned to me, they probably should.
I didn't sign anything. I didn't get you know, it'd
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be nice, you're already.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
A member of the SAG. It doesn't matter I.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Am for this show, and I was recognized by a
lot of people in the streets. But then they start
the show and these women start walking down the aisle.
And the only show I've been to was the one
with the small seats, and in that one, it was like,
you know, a good cross section of America. You had
guys who've been working out maybe eighteen nineteen hours a day,
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and then you had really petite women but bigger women. Right.
This other thing that I went to was just bizarre.
This thing is like a traditional, I guess fashion show
where all these women like, yeah, God bless them. I
don't know what, if anything, they're eating, but their legs
are like pencils.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
All of them all on heroin. I mean they're all
eat celery and that's all on heroin.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean there were and you were seeing this up
close because we're like five rowers up in these freaking bleachers,
and I'm like, you've got to be like you can
just pick one and this another like six feet that
you can pick them up with your hand, one hand
and just kind of toss them across. Not that you
want to do that, but you could if you wanted to.
And I'm just saying. I said to my wife, I said, well,
what I've never I've literally never seen anything like this before.
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I have never except for you know when you were
young and you would watch the cartoons and then they'd
break in with that video of the starving kids in Africa. Yes,
that's what it looks like. I swear to God, that's
what it looks like like. And in like sixty heels,
like crazy heels, and these outfits that you wouldn't wish
on your worst enemy, like you just wouldn't. No one wouldn't,
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you would would And these poor girls need a meal,
and none of that's coming mm hm. So that's my
that's my right down that.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Well, buddy, I I I here's to extend your rant
a little bit. So I mean none, none of what
you've said based on my you know, occasionally you see
on TV, you know, commercial or something that purports to
be a fashion show, and.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
That's kind of what was in my head.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
That's why I asked you, right, is that there's a
runway and people are sitting to the sides of it,
and you know, you have these emaciated you know, they're
typically beautiful in the sense that you know they have
very pretty faces, and you know their statuesque I guess,
but you they don't look normal, right like you would
not if you saw a runway model walking down the street,
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you would be concerned for their health, right.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Like if someone didn't say, oh, don't worry, they're a
runway model.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
They're supposed to look like that, and you just saw
them walking down the street, you would be concerned for
their health. And then they're wearing outfits. And this is
and this is the key thing. That's what I want
to ask you about. And you perhaps don't know, but
maybe am do. To my knowledge, the outfits that get
worn in a fashion show are never seen being worn
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anywhere else, right Like, even in a high fashioned area
like Milan, you don't see those outfits.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
So I have a two part question.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Good parts, what are they.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
For?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Like if you're not like theoretically, the idea, at least
in my mind, is I'm demonstrating the things I'm offering
for sale, and you know, would perhaps like to encourage
others to make clothes. It looks like this because I
think they look good and they should be popular, and
so here they are. And then you sitting in the
stands you're supposed to say, oh, yeah, no, I like that.
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I'm going to see if I can buy one of those.
But that doesn't happen, right, So you don't have that.
And then the second part of the question is if
the clothes that we actually wear are not displayed in
a fashion show, you know, like jeans and a T shirt,
where do those clothes come from, right, Because if they're
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not being designed, Like if designers design clothes.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Like you see in a fashion show and then no one.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Wears them, who designed the clothes that people actually wear?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
And why is there not a show for that?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I have no idea. I don't know any of that.
The only thing I know about the designers of this
thing is that at the very end, and this thing
lasted like twenty minutes to a half hour something like that.
But the only thing I know is that at the
at the end, these two guys came out and they
were they were bald dressed at mister, I don't know
what their name, I don't know what their name, I
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don't know, but they came out at the top of
the stage. They don't even walk down and they just
kind of gave like the Mussolini wave and walked like
like they were just so not going to be bothered
with anyone in that crowd, like just you know, the
Mussolini wave. It just like whatever could you know, like
that type of thing. So those people, But the outfits
range from big shaggy coats that you would like you'd
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expect to see at like some sort of a swap meet,
you know, or the flea market, and then like pajamas
would like bling on them, like some Corski crystals on
them and stuff that you know. I think my daughter,
my ten year old daughter would love. But you know,
and my understanding is these are all like one off
pieces that they're selling. So I don't know. I think
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it's something people like. I don't know. I just don't know.
It's just it's you get in there, and then you
have to then to get out, right, to get out,
you have to go outside, and then there's still the
proper azzi everywhere. We had to walk about half a
mile to get to a place where we could be
picked up. Now, the good news is we found a
place called Pasta Fresca. Now at this point it's three
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thirty four in the afternoon and everything in Italy, I
guess shuts down between three and seven from lunch to dinner,
but Pasta Fresca was open. We sat down at Pasta
Fresca and I had a basket of bread and some
tortal leading that was just out of this world. And
so that was a glass of red wine. And it's
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so that worked out.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
So this wasn't an evening event.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
This was you went to this in the in the afternoon,
two in the afternoon.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Huh, I wouldn't. I wouldn't have guessed that either.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
They do that to annoy people so that you know,
you basically have to drive around this ridiculous traffic in
this tourist area of Milan.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
But at the end of the day, it's it's a
feel good story because you found Pasasta fresca, you got bread,
you got tortolini.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Was the totalina like a red sauce. What are we
talking about here?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
It was in a red sauce. It was like a
light light red sauce. It might have been a pestos. No,
there was agli tel in a pesta sauce. That was
good too. But then we went to we went back
to the Lake Como. It's a hour and a half away.
It was very nice and like, I have this thing
now where I'll have a glass of wine. And then
I think to myself and apparently, and you've seen me,
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I think you would agree that i'd become the funniest
person in the room. So we go to dinner that
night and it's our anniversary dinner, and our waiter is
he looks like he's maybe one hundred pounds soaking wet.
He's got a bunch of he's got a bunch of
acne on his face, he's got these big, big rimmed
glasses and black black hair, and he is wearing an
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ill fitted tuxedo. And the kid's like, I'm going to
be taking care of you tonight and this and that,
and I said, listen, I said, just right off the shoot,
if you could please bring me an ashtray for my
wife because she she's kind of hooked on her pipe
and she likes to just light it up the beginning
of the meal and she won't stop. And my wife
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looks at me and she's like why, why, Why would
you say? And I literally said that's the joke I
used throughout the trip, including on the airplane, and it
just she gets more annoyed every time I say it,
so I keep saying it, thinking maybe at some point
she'll find the humor, and it never. By the third day,
she just said that you're gonna You're just gonna stop.
That's no one finds that funny, no one. These people
don't even understand what you're saying. And like, the little
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guy comes out with a little tiny astray and walks
over the balcony and puts it on the balcony and
he basically set in Italian you can smoke your pipe.
You can smoke your pipe out here. But she's like,
that's just not that's not funny. She said, that's not
She's like that what is funny? But I said, you
don't see the humor in this, that this guy is
bringing you an astray and you don't smoke. And she's
like no, She's like what why wouldn't that even And
(22:31):
I'm like, but but look at him. He's She's like,
he doesn't even understand what you're saying. I said, but
you do, so you should get the deaf fiarsars that
in your pipe and smoke it.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
So But anyway, long, long and short was a good,
good trip. We made it home alive and uh, and
I did say to you Monday, I'm taking my mom
to the doctor up in Cape Cod's. When you're like
the two and a half hour drive, she calls me
up and she's like, look, I need to get to
So I need someone who's drive me to the doctor.
Even though she's she's driving and everything. That's like she
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said this back thing she got here in June, pulled
her back lifting her carry on off the plane and
has not I've seen her once since then. Once when
we went down there that week we were in the Cape.
She won't come up. And so and every time I say,
well come down, it's something going on. So she once
to go to the doctor. And she lives My brother
lives in the house with her. And so I said, well,
(23:25):
Monday is really tough because Emma had an appointment and
then the kids I do drop offs and pickups, and
it's the first day back of a work week and
this and that, and so I said, well, i'd have
to move. I have to figure out who's going to
pick up Noah and who's going to pick up the
other two and uh, and so I could do it
(23:46):
if you need me there, I could do it. I'm like,
but what what about my what about my brother who
lives loves right there? And she's she literally becomes indignant,
and she goes he works, he has a job.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
In joxtaposition to you, I presume. I mean that's how
I immediately flew off the handle at that point.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It's uh but uh yeah, I'm like, well, wait, what
do you mean he has it? I know he hasn't,
but yeah, so and so I moved everything, and so
we're gonna go do.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
That, take her to the doctor. Well, I hope she's okay.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah, I mean she's she's going to be. But then
I told her, I said, listen, here's the here's the
trade off. I'm gonna come up there with my wife
on Monday. We're gonna take you to lunch. And she's like, oh,
I don't have an appetite. I've already sent her food.
I said, we're gonna take you to lun you're gonna eat,
we'll go to the doctor. Get this figured out. And
then I said, in two weeks, i'm gonna come back
and I'm gonna get you and you're gonna come to
the house. You're gonna stay here for a week. And
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she's like, well, I couldn't possibly do that. I said,
well why not? Why why not? And uh so that's
that's what's gonna happen. So that could be, you know,
the police may be called for that.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
But that's probably you need to get her down there
and get an eyeball on her.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, well she's last time. I so she's just tottering
around the house and yeah, talking about the church, and
she goes to goes to church, she goes to the store,
she goes to ptah. But anyway, it's just I don't
you know. The goodness is she's never gonna listen to
this because she can't work that phone of hers.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
That's true. Yeah, so you don't have to.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, anything in the digital universe is is you know,
sort of beyond the grasp.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
It's a grandpawreving in that that digital clock. It's just
never gonna, never, gonna, never gonna hit. So what's going
on in the world? The government is shut down? M
and uh Trump question is has anyone noticed I have died?
I have no, But I haven't gone to a national park.
Have they shut down the Rockies?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Uh no, The Rockies appear to be open for business.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I I'm looking at you know, obviously a very small
section of them now. And I don't see, you know,
any barricades or anything up, so I think they're okay.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
That's good. Yeah, I don't really know. You know what's amazing.
You get all these people in Washington and they can't
even manage to keep the government open, and they're just
it sucks so bad, it sucks so bad, it's awful.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
But and then the Democrat, you know, Trump starts sending
out I don't know if you saw this, but you
can't listen. Listen, you just can't make it up. I mean,
it is some of the most hysterical stuff I've ever seen.
He's he had have you seen any of the coverage
on this? No, So he has the two leaders that
he has the four John Thune and Johnson the Republicans,
(26:31):
and then he had Schumer and Jeffreys, the Democratic leaders
of the House and Senate, and all four of them
into the Oval office before the shutdown to talk about this.
They get in there and the desk, Trump's desk has
four Trump twenty twenty eight hats on them, big, big,
you know, red hats with white lettering Trump twenty twenty
eight and He's positioned them so they're like right next
(26:52):
to all these people, and so they start taking pictures.
These people start taking pictures of Schumer and Jeffries with
those hats like right next to him, and Trump is
just terms. Trump is just laughing away, laughing away. And
then Trump offered them and they had like the TV
people in there, and he offered them, said, do you
want to take some hats? These are some hats we
had made up for the twenty eight campaign, and just
(27:12):
clearly effing with them, just clear and Shober just goes
off on this rant about how Trump can't run again,
and it's a you know, it's this and that. And
then after the meeting, they go right out to the
White House and go to the podium, you know, a
little podium out in the in the driveway there, and
they start talking about it's all Trump's fault and he's
he's doing the hats and everything. So then Trump gets
a picture of somebody to get a picture of this thing,
(27:34):
and they create a video where they were talking but
you couldn't hear what they were saying. And then suddenly
a sombrero appears on Jefferys' hat head with a with
a big, big handlebar mustache and he's just talking like
and then Trump comes out of the background with a
sombrero on a and a and a trumpet and like,
(27:56):
and it's just like the shoer's shut down at the
bottom of the thing. So he puts that thing out there,
and Jeffery sees it, and he immediately goes to the
podium and he in in the capitol and he says
it is racist. This just shouldn't of course, it shouldn't
be allowed to racist. So then jd Vance is having
a press jd Vance, I'm just telling you, is h hysterical.
(28:20):
Is absolutely hysterical. And they asked him about it. The
first question is, what do you about this meme with
the sobrone. J d Vance is like, yeah, I I
saw that. He said the president likes to joke. That
was a joke. He likes to lighten the mood. He
was lightening the mood. But that he said something to
the effect of, but if it will help the Democrats
agree to reopen the government, we will agree that if
(28:42):
they vote to reopen the government, there'll be no more
sombrero memes. And all the reporters started laughing and I
mean Jdvance is a national treasure. I mean, can we
agree on that?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Probably? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I mean the guy I had never heard of him
before he was selected as Trump's running mate. But my wife,
God bless her. I mean, sometimes she surprises me. Says, oh, no,
I know who that is. And I said, you do?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Why?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Why? Why do you know that? And she read his book,
which I think is something like He'll Billy hill Billy
Ology eulogy, Yeah, something to do with Hillbilly's and she
said it was very good and very enlightening, and that
she really liked him, and that, you know, she hoped
he was the vice president and lo and.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Behold, my friend, he is in fact the vice president.
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
He's absolutely, absolutely fantastic. And there's a He's gonna he's
gonna pusts in another video where he took he used
AI to enhance the uh the hats. You can see
the hats on the desk, but he throws it onto
Jeffrey's head and it lands right in his head and
then Trump just laughs at him. I mean, first of all,
(29:57):
whoever's doing their their little memes is it's it's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Yeah, I mean I just.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I mean, on the one hand, it is the government,
it needs to be working, and you know, it's potentially
not a laughing matter. But on the other hand, I
always find that injecting humor into a situation is a
good thing. Yeah, but you're not going to get a laugh.
I mean, there's such prigs. They're such self important jackass
(30:29):
prigs that you know, you're not going to get a
laugh at any of these people.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
It's funny, I mean, it's it's actually funny. Yeah, it's
not racist. But he posted another one today where, you know,
because he said, look, the one thing about the shutdown
he's going to do is he's going to use it
as an opportunity to to start pairing more federal workers
(30:53):
and eliminating more positions. And so he posted a grim
Reaper thing where he's dressed like Vault the More from
the you know, the the Harry Potter and he's in
the middle and he's got this black cloak on, and
he's got like a bell and one in a wand
and the other and he's got these two You can't
even make it. I can I send this picture that
(31:14):
you can't even make There are these two. God, what
appeared to be like grim reapers, and they one as
a guitar and one's playing a drum set. I'm just
never saying anything like I've never seen anything like this.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Well it's like a band.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
It's like a band. And he's maybe he's the conductor.
Maybe he's just through the conductor. I know he's got
this bell, but it's it's fantastic. Look at this thing.
It's just it's he can't make it up. You can't
make it up. But I mean, look, we're getting what
we paid for here.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Well that's true.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
I mean, again, as I believe it was a Democrat
who first said it. Elections have consequences, and so you know,
I mean, Trump is doing certainly what he believes he
was elected to do.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
So then he took shimmer the other day. He's got
he's literally got the Wall of Presidents where he's got
all the photos and paintings of the presidents down that
quarter in the White House, and he takes some I
thought this was true, but he's the picture of Biden
is literally the auto pen. He's literally got a photo
of an autopen up and Joe Biden's name on it.
(32:24):
I swear to God he has his picture twice around,
his Obama's picture and everything, and then he's got the
picture of the auto pen in the White House Presidential
Gallery for Biden. I mean, you can't make it up again.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
I well know, you can't make it up. Maybe you
wouldn't want to, I don't know, but I mean it
is Trump.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Believes in his heart of hearts, Okay, I mean, I
honestly don't think that this is I mean, obviously there's
a ton of camp and put on around this situation,
but I believe that he believes in his heart of
hearts that the government is a ripoff of the American people.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
That there are you know, just.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Untold thousands of government jobs that shouldn't be, jobs that
are not being productive for the American people. That there
are you know, eight dozens potentially of whole departments of
the government that that don't need to exist, shouldn't exist,
and are not productive for the American people. And he
(33:26):
believes that now given that he's the president and therefore
in charge of the executive branch, right there are no
real congressional departments of the government or judicial departments of
the government, right, I mean, the Congress has its support
and you know, et cetera, et cetera. But it's all
focused on just making the Congress run. Congress doesn't have
departments that serve the American people directly. Neither does the
(33:50):
judicial branch, right, I mean, the US court system has
you know, administrative troops and all those sorts of things
to make it run, but they don't have departments that
directly serve the American people.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Beyond the court system.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
More Congress beyond you know, supposedly drafting and voting on
in passing legislation, which.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
They don't do anymore.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
But so all of that, all the departments that you
think of as being the government, right, you know, the
excuse me, the Social Security Department, or the Department of Defense,
or the Justice Department or whatever, you know, parks and
recreation whatever, those are all part.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Of the executive.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Branch of the government, and therefore they fall under the
presidency and he manages them, and they are funded through Congress,
but they are operated by the executive branch, and by
virtue of that, we're going to find out if Trump
is right, right, I mean, I know, there's much weeping
and gnashing of teeth about the shutdown of the government
(34:49):
and I am certain that there will be some inconveniences
as a result of that for the general American public.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
But we'll find out.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I know for a fact that there are many people
who are like, oh no, I'm not going to get
and that is unfortunate. But it happens in private industry
as well. When you know companies have to downsize, then
people don't get paid and you don't hear anyone wailing
away at that fact.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Right, that is a fact of business.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
When you are an employee in the private sector, if
your company is not doing well and or you are
individually not being productive, then you lose your job and
you don't get a paycheck. And that same thing, that
same principle should certainly be true of the government that
serves the rest of the people.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
So as Trump goes.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Through as the hatchet man or the grim reaper, who
or whoever he is is, you know, especially given his personality,
is he likely to swing his metaphorical scythe more broadly
than perhaps he should? Yes, right, I mean I think
on that question, there will be departments and individuals who
(35:56):
you know, are done away with in terms of departments,
or lose their jobs in terms of people who perhaps
should not.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
We are going to find that out.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
But I am sick of people acting like the government
is a jobs program. And if you have a government job,
you are absolutely entitled to your power.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I'm not entitled to mine. You're not entitled to yours.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
If we screw up the business we own, we will
stop getting paid. And for everybody but a government employee,
that is true. If you suck at your job, you
will lose your job. If your business stinks, the business.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Will go under, and everybody will lose their job.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
If you're not productively providing something that the market wants,
you're out. That's true of everybody but government employees. And
it should be true of government employees. And we should
want a chief executive who understands that. Now, again, the
chief executive we have happens to be Donald Trump. Donald
(36:55):
Trump is nothing if not the walking embodiment of hyperbole.
And so he will certainly do this, not as precisely
or well as it could be done, but the fact
that he is doing it is one, absolutely his right.
He's the president, he runs the executive branch. And two
it needs to be done. Anybody who thinks there's not
(37:18):
just an incredible amount of fraud, waste, and abuse in
the US government is either living under a rock or
is the victim of a false narrative or creating a
false narrative.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
The stuff like this needs to happen in the government.
If you're not being productive for the American people, you
should lose your job and then you can go out
like everybody else and get a private sector job and work.
That's what you can do. That's what you do. That's
what I do. That's what our very wonderful producer Jared does.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
He works, and.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
If he sucks, we're going to fire him and he's
not going to get paid. And that's the way my
brother's brother does. Your brother has a job. He can't
take your mom to the doctor. He has a job.
He's not working for the government.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
He has a job.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Yeah, it's you know. And the thing is what we're
even talking about is like, I think the resolution the
funding resolutions for two months. I think it's literally for
two months. I mean it's not it's not We're gonna
have the same conversation by the end of the year, sure,
of course. I mean it's just a bit. It's astounding.
You can't make it up. But anyway, I mean, we'll see.
(38:22):
And then there was a little thing with the Pope too.
I noticed the Pope came out and he criticized the
administration's immigration policy. And then Trump posted a picture of
himself in a pope gear.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
If you see this photo, oh gear, buddy, I let
me ask you this.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
So, I mean, God blessed the boe.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
He's an American and he's the bo Fine, But what
is the criticism of the immigration policy?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
I love?
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I mean, at least people inside this country who are
critical of Trump's immigration policy, which, near as I can tell,
is just to have an immigration policy, right, because under
Biden we didn't have it with just everybody came in.
And if you are so far on the left that
(39:13):
you think that's fine and a good thing, that you know,
we should just accept all comers. And I presume I'm
going to give you if you're in that category, I'm
going to give you the benefit of the doubt and
say you have a very generous heart, and you feel
sorry for folks who are living, you know, elsewhere in poverty,
and that they probably have a better opportunity here. And
(39:34):
then you can back up your position, which is otherwise
just poorly.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Founded, right.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
I mean, I agree that there are many people on
the planet who are miserable, but we cannot take care
of all of them.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Here.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
You will back that up by saying, well, we don't
have enough people to do these jobs. Anyway, I've heard
that a million times. Here's what you need to understand.
Everybody coming across the border is not someone who.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Is living in poverty and just looking for better opportunity.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
I would agree that there should be a mechanism by
which the United States of America, as a global leader,
works diligently to take care of as many people as
we can.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
I would agree with that.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
But I will also tell you, having you know, previously
worked in this business and maintaining relationships with people who
currently work in this business, that the number of legitimately
dangerous criminals and terrorists who waltzed across the border is
incredibly high. Like, take whatever number you think that is
(40:34):
and multiply it by at least ten. And now we
have to try and track and find and keep an
eye on all these people.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Okay, So in addition.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
To all of the you know, abused personages coming from
other countries who hopefully find a better life here. We
have opened ourselves up to the kind of attacks that
could actually bring this country down and then make it
so that no one can live here. That is a
real legitimate threat that apparently no one wants to talk about.
(41:05):
So even if you live inside this country and you're
whining about having an immigration policy monitoring the people we
let into our country, fine, you live here, you at
least have a voice.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
But anyone from outside this country who.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
Wants to say no, the United States shouldn't have an
immigration policy.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Can suck it.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Do you know who has probably the most rigorous quote
unquote immigration policy on the planet.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
The Vatican.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Have you ever tried to get in there?
Speaker 4 (41:39):
You can't just walk in the Vatican. You can't just
walk into where the pope.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
So the Pope is sitting nice and securely surrounded by
the Swiss guards in a place no one can get.
He effectively lives in a fortress, and he's got the
temerity to say that while I live in this fortress
and I you know everyone who's in here, and know
you can't come, and your poor family can't come, and
(42:04):
your single mothers can't come.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
The Vatican's not doing any of that.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
You can't do that here in my country, he's got
the temerity to say, But in your country, you should
just do away with all borders and act like I
don't know, it's just one giant free for all and
everybody should get to come f those people, right. I
mean again, I don't agree with the people who think
we shouldn't have an immigration policy who live here. But
(42:29):
at least if you live here, you're talking about your
own country and you have a vote. If you don't
live in this country, you can suck it, because I
guarantee you your country has an immigration policy and your
household does you know what? Here's the microcosm example. If
you own a home then and you're not opening you're
not just not only leaving the doors unlocked, you're taking
(42:51):
the doors off the hinges. You have no doors to
your household. You are saying anyone who wants to come
in my household and enjoy my stuff is entitled to
do it.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
If you are that.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Person that I will listen to you say that a
country should not have an immigration policy, But if you
are not, if you have doors on your house, and
especially if you lock those doors and don't allow anyone
who wants to come in to come in, then you
are a hypocrite and you can suck it.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Yeah, No, I think that's I think that's right. I
think that's right. The pope, the pope is you know,
I think he's a progressive pope. But I and again,
I think what you're saying is Trump should be pope.
And I'm not saying that's that's wrong. I'm just I'm
not sure of the process to get there. I don't
know how you get Well, he's got the guarb. I mean,
(43:42):
I've sent a picture of you. He's got the hat.
So that's something someone must have given him that hat.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
You know, again, in the Catholic Church, the point to
your your hat is the more important you are.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
And that's the point he had. And he and again,
you don't just go buy this at the five and dime, right,
this is a a hat.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Well, buddy, I mean, I I again, sort of we've
done it. We've done what we came to do. We
had Trump is the grim Reaper, we had Trump is
the Pope. We had Trump toss at hats and the
government is shut down. We've addressed that, We've addressed immigration,
we have nailed down the fact that just incontrovertibly, your
(44:18):
brother has a job and cannot be disturbed, whereas you
are apparently not gainfully employed and available for duty at
any point at any time.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
And that's certainly true here on this very fine program.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
You are generally available, and we're going to prove that
by coming right back here next week on IP frequently.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
This has been IP frequently, once again clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
You're welcome
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I'm gonna have to take a look at this. I
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I can't tell you the last time I saw Nate.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I mean, it was clearly your house, but it was
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It's been a long time since I've seen Nate.
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Speaker 3 (02:39):
Of course, transactional. That's an interesting word that you would
select to describe a relationship.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I can't really at this point and be a hypocrite
if I said, well, you know, maybe we should change
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I don't know that I have. They have a great
bikini team.
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You've never been to Sweden, you know what I have?
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But in this case it is a sister in law,
not her blood sister, who is married to her blood brother,
and she is Swedish and has a house in Sweden,
and they go to Sweden all the time.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
And we've been in binding to go. I've been in
Norway when I was in the military.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
We did some training there, but I've never been to Sweden,
so i cannot comment in the first hand about Sweden.
I'm not even sure how we got on to Sweden.
Weren't we talking about Don Meredith?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Don Meredith and then yeah, a bunch of other stuff.
But yeah, So again I'm not supporting illegal illegally entering
this country. I think it's it's wrong. I think you
should go through the proper channels and get knocked up
and married and then see what I did. Now, in
the Norway training, did you did did they allow you
to kill people over there?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I don't know the answer to that. I did not
kill anyone over there. There was no there was no combat.
We did some very rigorous Arctic warfare training that was
oftentimes miserable, cold, very cold.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
We had to ski with all of our equipment on into.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
A whole in the sea ice above the Arctic Circle
and then get yourself through that and take all your
stuff off and start a fire and dry your stuff and.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You go under the ice. Yeah. It was yeah, Well
you get up there, you don't go no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
They cut a hole and it's a certain size because
your skis have to span it. And then you purposefully,
you put on all your Sunday go to me and
like you're, you know, going into combat, and you ski
through into this hole. Book you you drop into the hole?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You do? You do?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Not?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
If you go under the ice, you got real problems.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
The intention is not to go into the ice, but
then you have to get yourself out of there. So
I have to use your skis, get to the you know,
sort of the edge of the hole, span the hole,
do a pull up with all your weg gear on
while you're freezing to death, and then get it all
off and get it dried out. It was universally miserable,
and you also have to carry your rifle all the
time and I thought that was curious. When I first
(05:53):
got there, I was like, well, okay, I mean it's
just just you know, you just want to make sure
we know how to carry a rifle.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I kind of know how to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And the answer there was no, there are polar bears
everywhere and they will hunt you, and if you don't
have your rifle, you could well just wind up being
eaten by a polar bear. And that didn't sound good either,
And so I did carry my rifle everywhere I went
during that training evolution, and you know, to kind of
close the loop on that did not ever have to
(06:19):
shoot at a polar bear.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Which is good. Liam Neeson, Right, Liam.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Neeson, Liam Neeson shot a polar bear.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You never saw that movie, I don't think.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
So.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
There's a movie where he's on a plane with a
bunch of people that are working at some Alaskan rig
and it's like it's like a little like ten people
on and he crashes in the middle of Alaska in
winter and then they're they're stalked by a polar bear
and he kills it. That's the currently that will happen.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I did not realize until this was obviously many years ago.
When I was younger, stronger, perhaps.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Dumber, so much younger than.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Today subject myself to these things. But I was explained
to by a very nice Norwegian ranger that polar bears
are one of the very few animals on Earth that
will actively hunt a human. And you know, you're sort
of out of luck, Like if a polar bear is
hunting you, even if you're armed. They're huge animals, and
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even if you are armed with a rifle, your odds
of survival are are low.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You have to shoot them right between the eyes, right.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I believe so you would have to, and probably more
than once.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I mean, they're very, very large animals, and they move
very quickly over the ground. And so while as most Americans,
I think I could be wrong about this because most Americans,
I had this sort of cutesy perception of a polar bear,
you know, these big, white, fuzzy fun Yeah, yeah, exactly
animals that drink Coca Cola, apparently, because you see those
(07:54):
commercials all the time and they look to be fun.
In fact, they're terrifying and you need to stay away
from them.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
So, yeah, there's your polar bear tip of the week.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
On The Sheaf Show, I can't. Like I, I haven't
been skiing and god knows how long. But even when
we came up to visit you in Colorado and the
girls went skiing and I just kind of stood off
to the side with Noah and then we went on
that ski, I was still looking for that hat. If
you could go back up there and get the Noah hat,
(08:25):
that would be great. That's still sitting up there frozen
with Hans solo. But no I could. I had to.
I had a tough time just standing in boots. The
thought of skiing into a hole in the ice and
and doing anything other than becoming food. It's just it
is mind boggling to me. That's that's not I don't
even know how to do it. I don't even know.
(08:46):
But you know, I'm not going in the no one,
it's it's not gonna be good for anyone if I
go in the ice except someone that has an insurance
policy out of me. That's the only Uh. My wife
would do. My wife would do.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Uh wife and my wife both are perverse motivated to
kill us. Yeah, and I'd never lose sight of that.
Like I sleep with one eye open. I mean, I
know what's going on yeah. My wife asked me when
we were going.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Back to Japan, like I bet she did, yeah, longingly,
but no, So we went to we went to Italy.
Going to Italy was very nice. We did. We stay
up in Lake Como, which is just beautiful, just spectacular.
And the people in Italy it's like going to Ireland.
They're just the nicest people in the world. And uh,
(09:31):
very very nice. And my wife got tickets. This is
one of the reasons she she uh wanted to fly
over there. She got tickets given to her by a
company to go to a fashion show. So we go
to this fashion show and you know, you and me
at these fashion shows. I stopped going to the ones
she goes to in New York because I don't fit in.
(09:53):
I don't fit in the seats, the seats are small.
This is Milan, This isn't We went to Milan. Yeah,
for the that's like the that's like the Mecca fashion right,
And that's the story. I have this this thing. It
was you ever hear of Dultchain and Gabana. It's a
fashion brand. Okay, so em knows the director of something
(10:14):
over there, and so they've been offering her tickets to
a show for like five years and we never go
because you didn't like to fly. And this year they said, look,
we're having a big show. This is the last time
we can offer you tickets and we'll just take you
off the list if you're not going to ever go.
And so she got up the consumption. She said, yeah,
we're gonna go. And then she asked me and I said, yeah,
you know, it's our anniversary. If that's what you want
(10:34):
to do, I'll go do that with you. And then
you know you in return, you can sit there at
eight o'clock at night on Sunday while I watched the
Patriots on a laptop and scream out the window until
like Como, as they score forty two points against the
path there, that'll be a fair trade off.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
And so but we can agree with that, by the way,
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, yeah, especially when the fashion show was early, right
when you got there pretty much because you go over
with you get it behind you. I put on a
suit and just into this thing. You know, every it's
an absolute clown show. But you pull it up to this.
I've never experienced this, my love. You're pulling up to
this thing, and remember by us open tennis story I do,
(11:11):
but three times as many people, all paparazzi and fans
waiting for people to go into this thing. Right, and
you're supposed to get dropped off at the front door.
You couldn't get within three blocks of the place. So
we have to get out of the car and start
walking three blocks away. And there are different checkpoints where
there are security, and there are tons of people and
(11:35):
just and then you finally get to the entrance and
you go in and it's literally the most ridiculous group
of people on the planet.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
So, buddy, let me back you up to little bit
here is I'm trying to get myself in your headspace.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Are you going into a luck theater?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Are you going into like, you know, like you would
go to see an opera or a play. Is it
that kind of venue or are you just walking into
like a large open room where do they do these things?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
It's like a it's it's called a theater. And if
you walk into it, there is a runway right down
the middle with like two levels, and then on either
side they are like bleacher seats, so you've got maybe
ten rows of bleacher seats. And so we're, you know,
we're walking around taking pictures and they make you they
make you sit down in the seats are even though
(12:24):
they were bench seats, so they weren't as bad as
some of the you know, so some of the other thing.
I stopped going to the New York because they have
the little tiny, petite chairs that I'm not I don't
fit on and I don't want to. I don't want
people touching me or I don't want that. So but
this is like the bleep, but the police like going
to like a Yankees game.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
You're sitting out like a right bleachers sort.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of maybe a Yankees gaming like the nineteen thirties, okay,
because there's no leg rooms so your feet fit. And
then there's a board with the next bleacher, so your
knees and you're sitting there and you're maybe the seat
is maybe six inches off the ground if it's that,
so your knees are like after about twenty minutes are aching.
And so I go there and I'm standing up right,
(13:05):
there's nothing going on. Everyone's milling about, people have m
sits in her seat. I'm on the end. Thank god.
If I was on the end, I probably would have
just said, you know, we're not going to watch the
pictory getting out of here and not turning any of this.
But I'm standing up and this woman from behind me goes,
do you mind, do you mind sit sit so we
can see, and I'm like, looking at her, I'm like, lady,
it hasn't started yet. I'm like you. I'm like, I'm like,
(13:28):
you want me to sit and hurt my knee? I can't,
don't want to put my feet. I was like you
got was like, okay, okay, we'll sit down. And so
that you sit there and there's still nothing going on.
There's no need to sit down that early. And then
it's often nothing to see, nothing to see, and then
it starts and at the very last second, you know,
Meryl Streep, sure, she's just just the worst. She walks
(13:53):
in and sits right in the center. And because they're filming,
apparently in this thing Devil Wears product Too, which is
a movie, right, So they are filming this and she
comes in and you're going to be in the movie. No.
I mean maybe if they panned to me, they probably should.
I didn't sign anything. I didn't get you know, it'd
(14:14):
be nice, you're already.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
A member of the SAG. It doesn't matter I.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Am for this show, and I was recognized by a
lot of people in the streets. But then they start
the show and these women start walking down the aisle.
And the only show I've been to was the one
with the small seats, and in that one, it was like,
you know, a good cross section of America. You had
guys who've been working out maybe eighteen nineteen hours a day,
(14:39):
and then you had really petite women but bigger women. Right.
This other thing that I went to was just bizarre.
This thing is like a traditional, I guess fashion show
where all these women like, yeah, God bless them. I
don't know what, if anything, they're eating, but their legs
are like pencils.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
All of them all on heroin. I mean they're all
eat celery and that's all on heroin.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean there were and you were seeing this up
close because we're like five rowers up in these freaking bleachers,
and I'm like, you've got to be like you can
just pick one and this another like six feet that
you can pick them up with your hand, one hand
and just kind of toss them across. Not that you
want to do that, but you could if you wanted to.
And I'm just saying. I said to my wife, I said, well,
what I've never I've literally never seen anything like this before.
(15:26):
I have never except for you know when you were
young and you would watch the cartoons and then they'd
break in with that video of the starving kids in Africa. Yes,
that's what it looks like. I swear to God, that's
what it looks like like. And in like sixty heels,
like crazy heels, and these outfits that you wouldn't wish
on your worst enemy, like you just wouldn't. No one wouldn't,
(15:50):
you would would And these poor girls need a meal,
and none of that's coming mm hm. So that's my
that's my right down that.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Well, buddy, I I I here's to extend your rant
a little bit. So I mean none, none of what
you've said based on my you know, occasionally you see
on TV, you know, commercial or something that purports to
be a fashion show, and.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
That's kind of what was in my head.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
That's why I asked you, right, is that there's a
runway and people are sitting to the sides of it,
and you know, you have these emaciated you know, they're
typically beautiful in the sense that you know they have
very pretty faces, and you know their statuesque I guess,
but you they don't look normal, right like you would
not if you saw a runway model walking down the street,
(16:40):
you would be concerned for their health, right.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Like if someone didn't say, oh, don't worry, they're a
runway model.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
They're supposed to look like that, and you just saw
them walking down the street, you would be concerned for
their health. And then they're wearing outfits. And this is
and this is the key thing. That's what I want
to ask you about. And you perhaps don't know, but
maybe am do. To my knowledge, the outfits that get
worn in a fashion show are never seen being worn
(17:12):
anywhere else, right Like, even in a high fashioned area
like Milan, you don't see those outfits.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
So I have a two part question.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Good parts, what are they.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
For?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Like if you're not like theoretically, the idea, at least
in my mind, is I'm demonstrating the things I'm offering
for sale, and you know, would perhaps like to encourage
others to make clothes. It looks like this because I
think they look good and they should be popular, and
so here they are. And then you sitting in the
stands you're supposed to say, oh, yeah, no, I like that.
(17:46):
I'm going to see if I can buy one of those.
But that doesn't happen, right, So you don't have that.
And then the second part of the question is if
the clothes that we actually wear are not displayed in
a fashion show, you know, like jeans and a T shirt,
where do those clothes come from, right, Because if they're
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not being designed, Like if designers design clothes.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Like you see in a fashion show and then no one.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Wears them, who designed the clothes that people actually wear?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
And why is there not a show for that?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I have no idea. I don't know any of that.
The only thing I know about the designers of this
thing is that at the very end, and this thing
lasted like twenty minutes to a half hour something like that.
But the only thing I know is that at the
at the end, these two guys came out and they
were they were bald dressed at mister, I don't know
what their name, I don't know what their name, I
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don't know, but they came out at the top of
the stage. They don't even walk down and they just
kind of gave like the Mussolini wave and walked like
like they were just so not going to be bothered
with anyone in that crowd, like just you know, the
Mussolini wave. It just like whatever could you know, like
that type of thing. So those people, But the outfits
range from big shaggy coats that you would like you'd
(19:05):
expect to see at like some sort of a swap meet,
you know, or the flea market, and then like pajamas
would like bling on them, like some Corski crystals on
them and stuff that you know. I think my daughter,
my ten year old daughter would love. But you know,
and my understanding is these are all like one off
pieces that they're selling. So I don't know. I think
(19:27):
it's something people like. I don't know. I just don't know.
It's just it's you get in there, and then you
have to then to get out, right, to get out,
you have to go outside, and then there's still the
proper azzi everywhere. We had to walk about half a
mile to get to a place where we could be
picked up. Now, the good news is we found a
place called Pasta Fresca. Now at this point it's three
(19:48):
thirty four in the afternoon and everything in Italy, I
guess shuts down between three and seven from lunch to dinner,
but Pasta Fresca was open. We sat down at Pasta
Fresca and I had a basket of bread and some
tortal leading that was just out of this world. And
so that was a glass of red wine. And it's
(20:10):
so that worked out.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
So this wasn't an evening event.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
This was you went to this in the in the afternoon,
two in the afternoon.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Huh, I wouldn't. I wouldn't have guessed that either.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
They do that to annoy people so that you know,
you basically have to drive around this ridiculous traffic in
this tourist area of Milan.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
But at the end of the day, it's it's a
feel good story because you found Pasasta fresca, you got bread,
you got tortolini.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Was the totalina like a red sauce. What are we
talking about here?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
It was in a red sauce. It was like a
light light red sauce. It might have been a pestos. No,
there was agli tel in a pesta sauce. That was
good too. But then we went to we went back
to the Lake Como. It's a hour and a half away.
It was very nice and like, I have this thing
now where I'll have a glass of wine. And then
I think to myself and apparently, and you've seen me,
(21:01):
I think you would agree that i'd become the funniest
person in the room. So we go to dinner that
night and it's our anniversary dinner, and our waiter is
he looks like he's maybe one hundred pounds soaking wet.
He's got a bunch of he's got a bunch of
acne on his face, he's got these big, big rimmed
glasses and black black hair, and he is wearing an
(21:25):
ill fitted tuxedo. And the kid's like, I'm going to
be taking care of you tonight and this and that,
and I said, listen, I said, just right off the shoot,
if you could please bring me an ashtray for my
wife because she she's kind of hooked on her pipe
and she likes to just light it up the beginning
of the meal and she won't stop. And my wife
(21:47):
looks at me and she's like why, why, Why would
you say? And I literally said that's the joke I
used throughout the trip, including on the airplane, and it
just she gets more annoyed every time I say it,
so I keep saying it, thinking maybe at some point
she'll find the humor, and it never. By the third day,
she just said that you're gonna You're just gonna stop.
That's no one finds that funny, no one. These people
don't even understand what you're saying. And like, the little
(22:10):
guy comes out with a little tiny astray and walks
over the balcony and puts it on the balcony and
he basically set in Italian you can smoke your pipe.
You can smoke your pipe out here. But she's like,
that's just not that's not funny. She said, that's not
She's like that what is funny? But I said, you
don't see the humor in this, that this guy is
bringing you an astray and you don't smoke. And she's
like no, She's like what why wouldn't that even And
(22:31):
I'm like, but but look at him. He's She's like,
he doesn't even understand what you're saying. I said, but
you do, so you should get the deaf fiarsars that
in your pipe and smoke it.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
So But anyway, long, long and short was a good,
good trip. We made it home alive and uh, and
I did say to you Monday, I'm taking my mom
to the doctor up in Cape Cod's. When you're like
the two and a half hour drive, she calls me
up and she's like, look, I need to get to
So I need someone who's drive me to the doctor.
Even though she's she's driving and everything. That's like she
(23:04):
said this back thing she got here in June, pulled
her back lifting her carry on off the plane and
has not I've seen her once since then. Once when
we went down there that week we were in the Cape.
She won't come up. And so and every time I say,
well come down, it's something going on. So she once
to go to the doctor. And she lives My brother
lives in the house with her. And so I said, well,
(23:25):
Monday is really tough because Emma had an appointment and
then the kids I do drop offs and pickups, and
it's the first day back of a work week and
this and that, and so I said, well, i'd have
to move. I have to figure out who's going to
pick up Noah and who's going to pick up the
other two and uh, and so I could do it
(23:46):
if you need me there, I could do it. I'm like,
but what what about my what about my brother who
lives loves right there? And she's she literally becomes indignant,
and she goes he works, he has a job.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
In joxtaposition to you, I presume. I mean that's how
I immediately flew off the handle at that point.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It's uh but uh yeah, I'm like, well, wait, what
do you mean he has it? I know he hasn't,
but yeah, so and so I moved everything, and so
we're gonna go do.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
That, take her to the doctor. Well, I hope she's okay.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah, I mean she's she's going to be. But then
I told her, I said, listen, here's the here's the
trade off. I'm gonna come up there with my wife
on Monday. We're gonna take you to lunch. And she's like, oh,
I don't have an appetite. I've already sent her food.
I said, we're gonna take you to lun you're gonna eat,
we'll go to the doctor. Get this figured out. And
then I said, in two weeks, i'm gonna come back
and I'm gonna get you and you're gonna come to
the house. You're gonna stay here for a week. And
(24:44):
she's like, well, I couldn't possibly do that. I said,
well why not? Why why not? And uh so that's
that's what's gonna happen. So that could be, you know,
the police may be called for that.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
But that's probably you need to get her down there
and get an eyeball on her.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, well she's last time. I so she's just tottering
around the house and yeah, talking about the church, and
she goes to goes to church, she goes to the store,
she goes to ptah. But anyway, it's just I don't
you know. The goodness is she's never gonna listen to
this because she can't work that phone of hers.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
That's true. Yeah, so you don't have to.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, anything in the digital universe is is you know,
sort of beyond the grasp.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
It's a grandpawreving in that that digital clock. It's just
never gonna, never, gonna, never gonna hit. So what's going
on in the world? The government is shut down? M
and uh Trump question is has anyone noticed I have died?
I have no, But I haven't gone to a national park.
Have they shut down the Rockies?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Uh no, The Rockies appear to be open for business.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I I'm looking at you know, obviously a very small
section of them now. And I don't see, you know,
any barricades or anything up, so I think they're okay.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
That's good. Yeah, I don't really know. You know what's amazing.
You get all these people in Washington and they can't
even manage to keep the government open, and they're just
it sucks so bad, it sucks so bad, it's awful.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
But and then the Democrat, you know, Trump starts sending
out I don't know if you saw this, but you
can't listen. Listen, you just can't make it up. I mean,
it is some of the most hysterical stuff I've ever seen.
He's he had have you seen any of the coverage
on this? No, So he has the two leaders that
he has the four John Thune and Johnson the Republicans,
(26:31):
and then he had Schumer and Jeffreys, the Democratic leaders
of the House and Senate, and all four of them
into the Oval office before the shutdown to talk about this.
They get in there and the desk, Trump's desk has
four Trump twenty twenty eight hats on them, big, big,
you know, red hats with white lettering Trump twenty twenty
eight and He's positioned them so they're like right next
(26:52):
to all these people, and so they start taking pictures.
These people start taking pictures of Schumer and Jeffries with
those hats like right next to him, and Trump is
just terms. Trump is just laughing away, laughing away. And
then Trump offered them and they had like the TV
people in there, and he offered them, said, do you
want to take some hats? These are some hats we
had made up for the twenty eight campaign, and just
(27:12):
clearly effing with them, just clear and Shober just goes
off on this rant about how Trump can't run again,
and it's a you know, it's this and that. And
then after the meeting, they go right out to the
White House and go to the podium, you know, a
little podium out in the in the driveway there, and
they start talking about it's all Trump's fault and he's
he's doing the hats and everything. So then Trump gets
a picture of somebody to get a picture of this thing,
(27:34):
and they create a video where they were talking but
you couldn't hear what they were saying. And then suddenly
a sombrero appears on Jefferys' hat head with a with
a big, big handlebar mustache and he's just talking like
and then Trump comes out of the background with a
sombrero on a and a and a trumpet and like,
(27:56):
and it's just like the shoer's shut down at the
bottom of the thing. So he puts that thing out there,
and Jeffery sees it, and he immediately goes to the
podium and he in in the capitol and he says
it is racist. This just shouldn't of course, it shouldn't
be allowed to racist. So then jd Vance is having
a press jd Vance, I'm just telling you, is h hysterical.
(28:20):
Is absolutely hysterical. And they asked him about it. The
first question is, what do you about this meme with
the sobrone. J d Vance is like, yeah, I I
saw that. He said the president likes to joke. That
was a joke. He likes to lighten the mood. He
was lightening the mood. But that he said something to
the effect of, but if it will help the Democrats
agree to reopen the government, we will agree that if
(28:42):
they vote to reopen the government, there'll be no more
sombrero memes. And all the reporters started laughing and I
mean Jdvance is a national treasure. I mean, can we
agree on that?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Probably? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I mean the guy I had never heard of him
before he was selected as Trump's running mate. But my wife,
God bless her. I mean, sometimes she surprises me. Says, oh, no,
I know who that is. And I said, you do?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Why?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Why? Why do you know that? And she read his book,
which I think is something like He'll Billy hill Billy
Ology eulogy, Yeah, something to do with Hillbilly's and she
said it was very good and very enlightening, and that
she really liked him, and that, you know, she hoped
he was the vice president and lo and.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Behold, my friend, he is in fact the vice president.
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
He's absolutely, absolutely fantastic. And there's a He's gonna he's
gonna pusts in another video where he took he used
AI to enhance the uh the hats. You can see
the hats on the desk, but he throws it onto
Jeffrey's head and it lands right in his head and
then Trump just laughs at him. I mean, first of all,
(29:57):
whoever's doing their their little memes is it's it's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Yeah, I mean I just.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I mean, on the one hand, it is the government,
it needs to be working, and you know, it's potentially
not a laughing matter. But on the other hand, I
always find that injecting humor into a situation is a
good thing. Yeah, but you're not going to get a laugh.
I mean, there's such prigs. They're such self important jackass
(30:29):
prigs that you know, you're not going to get a
laugh at any of these people.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
It's funny, I mean, it's it's actually funny. Yeah, it's
not racist. But he posted another one today where, you know,
because he said, look, the one thing about the shutdown
he's going to do is he's going to use it
as an opportunity to to start pairing more federal workers
(30:53):
and eliminating more positions. And so he posted a grim
Reaper thing where he's dressed like Vault the More from
the you know, the the Harry Potter and he's in
the middle and he's got this black cloak on, and
he's got like a bell and one in a wand
and the other and he's got these two You can't
even make it. I can I send this picture that
(31:14):
you can't even make There are these two. God, what
appeared to be like grim reapers, and they one as
a guitar and one's playing a drum set. I'm just
never saying anything like I've never seen anything like this.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Well it's like a band.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
It's like a band. And he's maybe he's the conductor.
Maybe he's just through the conductor. I know he's got
this bell, but it's it's fantastic. Look at this thing.
It's just it's he can't make it up. You can't
make it up. But I mean, look, we're getting what
we paid for here.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Well that's true.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
I mean, again, as I believe it was a Democrat
who first said it. Elections have consequences, and so you know,
I mean, Trump is doing certainly what he believes he
was elected to do.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
So then he took shimmer the other day. He's got
he's literally got the Wall of Presidents where he's got
all the photos and paintings of the presidents down that
quarter in the White House, and he takes some I
thought this was true, but he's the picture of Biden
is literally the auto pen. He's literally got a photo
of an autopen up and Joe Biden's name on it.
(32:24):
I swear to God he has his picture twice around,
his Obama's picture and everything, and then he's got the
picture of the auto pen in the White House Presidential
Gallery for Biden. I mean, you can't make it up again.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
I well know, you can't make it up. Maybe you
wouldn't want to, I don't know, but I mean it
is Trump.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Believes in his heart of hearts, Okay, I mean, I
honestly don't think that this is I mean, obviously there's
a ton of camp and put on around this situation,
but I believe that he believes in his heart of
hearts that the government is a ripoff of the American people.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
That there are you know, just.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Untold thousands of government jobs that shouldn't be, jobs that
are not being productive for the American people. That there
are you know, eight dozens potentially of whole departments of
the government that that don't need to exist, shouldn't exist,
and are not productive for the American people. And he
(33:26):
believes that now given that he's the president and therefore
in charge of the executive branch, right there are no
real congressional departments of the government or judicial departments of
the government, right, I mean, the Congress has its support
and you know, et cetera, et cetera. But it's all
focused on just making the Congress run. Congress doesn't have
departments that serve the American people directly. Neither does the
(33:50):
judicial branch, right, I mean, the US court system has
you know, administrative troops and all those sorts of things
to make it run, but they don't have departments that
directly serve the American people.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Beyond the court system.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
More Congress beyond you know, supposedly drafting and voting on
in passing legislation, which.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
They don't do anymore.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
But so all of that, all the departments that you
think of as being the government, right, you know, the
excuse me, the Social Security Department, or the Department of Defense,
or the Justice Department or whatever, you know, parks and
recreation whatever, those are all part.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Of the executive.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Branch of the government, and therefore they fall under the
presidency and he manages them, and they are funded through Congress,
but they are operated by the executive branch, and by
virtue of that, we're going to find out if Trump
is right, right, I mean, I know, there's much weeping
and gnashing of teeth about the shutdown of the government
(34:49):
and I am certain that there will be some inconveniences
as a result of that for the general American public.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
But we'll find out.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I know for a fact that there are many people
who are like, oh no, I'm not going to get
and that is unfortunate. But it happens in private industry
as well. When you know companies have to downsize, then
people don't get paid and you don't hear anyone wailing
away at that fact.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Right, that is a fact of business.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
When you are an employee in the private sector, if
your company is not doing well and or you are
individually not being productive, then you lose your job and
you don't get a paycheck. And that same thing, that
same principle should certainly be true of the government that
serves the rest of the people.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
So as Trump goes.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Through as the hatchet man or the grim reaper, who
or whoever he is is, you know, especially given his personality,
is he likely to swing his metaphorical scythe more broadly
than perhaps he should? Yes, right, I mean I think
on that question, there will be departments and individuals who
(35:56):
you know, are done away with in terms of departments,
or lose their jobs in terms of people who perhaps
should not.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
We are going to find that out.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
But I am sick of people acting like the government
is a jobs program. And if you have a government job,
you are absolutely entitled to your power.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I'm not entitled to mine. You're not entitled to yours.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
If we screw up the business we own, we will
stop getting paid. And for everybody but a government employee,
that is true. If you suck at your job, you
will lose your job. If your business stinks, the business.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Will go under, and everybody will lose their job.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
If you're not productively providing something that the market wants,
you're out. That's true of everybody but government employees. And
it should be true of government employees. And we should
want a chief executive who understands that. Now, again, the
chief executive we have happens to be Donald Trump. Donald
(36:55):
Trump is nothing if not the walking embodiment of hyperbole.
And so he will certainly do this, not as precisely
or well as it could be done, but the fact
that he is doing it is one, absolutely his right.
He's the president, he runs the executive branch. And two
it needs to be done. Anybody who thinks there's not
(37:18):
just an incredible amount of fraud, waste, and abuse in
the US government is either living under a rock or
is the victim of a false narrative or creating a
false narrative.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
The stuff like this needs to happen in the government.
If you're not being productive for the American people, you
should lose your job and then you can go out
like everybody else and get a private sector job and work.
That's what you can do. That's what you do. That's
what I do. That's what our very wonderful producer Jared does.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
He works, and.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
If he sucks, we're going to fire him and he's
not going to get paid. And that's the way my
brother's brother does. Your brother has a job. He can't
take your mom to the doctor. He has a job.
He's not working for the government.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
He has a job.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Yeah, it's you know. And the thing is what we're
even talking about is like, I think the resolution the
funding resolutions for two months. I think it's literally for
two months. I mean it's not it's not We're gonna
have the same conversation by the end of the year, sure,
of course. I mean it's just a bit. It's astounding.
You can't make it up. But anyway, I mean, we'll see.
(38:22):
And then there was a little thing with the Pope too.
I noticed the Pope came out and he criticized the
administration's immigration policy. And then Trump posted a picture of
himself in a pope gear.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
If you see this photo, oh gear, buddy, I let
me ask you this.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
So, I mean, God blessed the boe.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
He's an American and he's the bo Fine, But what
is the criticism of the immigration policy?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
I love?
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I mean, at least people inside this country who are
critical of Trump's immigration policy, which, near as I can tell,
is just to have an immigration policy, right, because under
Biden we didn't have it with just everybody came in.
And if you are so far on the left that
(39:13):
you think that's fine and a good thing, that you know,
we should just accept all comers. And I presume I'm
going to give you if you're in that category, I'm
going to give you the benefit of the doubt and
say you have a very generous heart, and you feel
sorry for folks who are living, you know, elsewhere in poverty,
and that they probably have a better opportunity here. And
(39:34):
then you can back up your position, which is otherwise
just poorly.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Founded, right.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
I mean, I agree that there are many people on
the planet who are miserable, but we cannot take care
of all of them.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Here.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
You will back that up by saying, well, we don't
have enough people to do these jobs. Anyway, I've heard
that a million times. Here's what you need to understand.
Everybody coming across the border is not someone who.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Is living in poverty and just looking for better opportunity.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
I would agree that there should be a mechanism by
which the United States of America, as a global leader,
works diligently to take care of as many people as
we can.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
I would agree with that.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
But I will also tell you, having you know, previously
worked in this business and maintaining relationships with people who
currently work in this business, that the number of legitimately
dangerous criminals and terrorists who waltzed across the border is
incredibly high. Like, take whatever number you think that is
(40:34):
and multiply it by at least ten. And now we
have to try and track and find and keep an
eye on all these people.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Okay, So in addition.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
To all of the you know, abused personages coming from
other countries who hopefully find a better life here. We
have opened ourselves up to the kind of attacks that
could actually bring this country down and then make it
so that no one can live here. That is a
real legitimate threat that apparently no one wants to talk about.
(41:05):
So even if you live inside this country and you're
whining about having an immigration policy monitoring the people we
let into our country, fine, you live here, you at
least have a voice.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
But anyone from outside this country who.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
Wants to say no, the United States shouldn't have an
immigration policy.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Can suck it.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Do you know who has probably the most rigorous quote
unquote immigration policy on the planet.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
The Vatican.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Have you ever tried to get in there?
Speaker 4 (41:39):
You can't just walk in the Vatican. You can't just
walk into where the pope.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
So the Pope is sitting nice and securely surrounded by
the Swiss guards in a place no one can get.
He effectively lives in a fortress, and he's got the
temerity to say that while I live in this fortress
and I you know everyone who's in here, and know
you can't come, and your poor family can't come, and
(42:04):
your single mothers can't come.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
The Vatican's not doing any of that.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
You can't do that here in my country, he's got
the temerity to say, But in your country, you should
just do away with all borders and act like I
don't know, it's just one giant free for all and
everybody should get to come f those people, right. I
mean again, I don't agree with the people who think
we shouldn't have an immigration policy who live here. But
(42:29):
at least if you live here, you're talking about your
own country and you have a vote. If you don't
live in this country, you can suck it, because I
guarantee you your country has an immigration policy and your
household does you know what? Here's the microcosm example. If
you own a home then and you're not opening you're
not just not only leaving the doors unlocked, you're taking
(42:51):
the doors off the hinges. You have no doors to
your household. You are saying anyone who wants to come
in my household and enjoy my stuff is entitled to
do it.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
If you are that.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Person that I will listen to you say that a
country should not have an immigration policy, But if you
are not, if you have doors on your house, and
especially if you lock those doors and don't allow anyone
who wants to come in to come in, then you
are a hypocrite and you can suck it.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Yeah, No, I think that's I think that's right. I
think that's right. The pope, the pope is you know,
I think he's a progressive pope. But I and again,
I think what you're saying is Trump should be pope.
And I'm not saying that's that's wrong. I'm just I'm
not sure of the process to get there. I don't
know how you get Well, he's got the guarb. I mean,
(43:42):
I've sent a picture of you. He's got the hat.
So that's something someone must have given him that hat.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
You know, again, in the Catholic Church, the point to
your your hat is the more important you are.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
And that's the point he had. And he and again,
you don't just go buy this at the five and dime, right,
this is a a hat.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Well, buddy, I mean, I I again, sort of we've
done it. We've done what we came to do. We
had Trump is the grim Reaper, we had Trump is
the Pope. We had Trump toss at hats and the
government is shut down. We've addressed that, We've addressed immigration,
we have nailed down the fact that just incontrovertibly, your
(44:18):
brother has a job and cannot be disturbed, whereas you
are apparently not gainfully employed and available for duty at
any point at any time.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
And that's certainly true here on this very fine program.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
You are generally available, and we're going to prove that
by coming right back here next week on IP frequently.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
This has been IP frequently, once again clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
You're welcome
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