January 27, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- What has Eric Holder been up to & new Dungeons & Dragons rules...
- Joe Getty's horrific confession
- Congressman Kevin Kiley, who serves California's 3rd district, talks to A&G
- A slice of life with Jack
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Yetty. A
new study suggests that people can live longer by eating
oatmeal for breakfast. No, that was hilarious. I feel the
(00:35):
same way a lot about a lot of health recommendations. No,
no Ah. The host for Saturday Night Live and musical
guest was Timothy Shallomey, who plays Bob Dylan in the
movie And Henry and I went to see that movie
on Saturday Night, and I want to talk about that
a little bit later. It's one of your Best Picture nominees,
nominated for eight Oscars, and I got some thoughts also
(01:00):
later this hour, I've decided, I haven't decided.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
A good book informs us that confession is good for
the soul. I need to confess a terrible thing, embarrassing.
I will feel the weight of society's disapproval, but I
need it. I need it to reform. So stay with us.
There you go, shocking, shocking admission. You need to feel
the weight of society's disapproval.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Awesome. Uh got a tear in your pants. Society wants
your pants. Intact, We're gonna talk to one of our
favorite Republican politicians who was there when Trump and Gavin
got together in California on Friday, and that happened after
we got off the air, so let's get an update
on that later this hour.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So just touching on a couple of news stories, a
headful of news stories worth mentioning. I would love to
go in depth into some DEI stories, but that would
take at least the whole segment. But I'll just give
you a little tease for later. You remember Old a Colder,
don't you? Of course, So Mama's Attorney General. Do you
know what he's been up too?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Lately?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
He's been making up to twenty three hundred dollars an
hour for his law firm to do civil rights audits,
in other words, to make sure your.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
DEI is deie enough.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And now with this giant rollback, he and others are
scrambling to figure out how they will next scam money
off of unsuspecting corporate heads.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
He's getting moneyway how much an hour.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Up to twenty three hundred dollars an hour. Woo as
a diversity civil rights auditor whatever the hell that is.
You know, it's amazing, and you almost have to credit them,
because if you're not yet hipped to this DEI is
not about diversity, it's about takeover. It's a neo Marxist
plot to take over institutions by calling everybody a racist
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and calling them into submission. It's a credit to them.
As a capitalist. I must admit how they're all getting
rich even as they're trying to get Marxism going.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You almost have to tip your big furry.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Russian hat to them that they're managing to have it
both ways. It's pretty impressive. The Columbia negotiation. Did you
follow that? Over the weekend? Columbia said they would not
take their criminals back, and Trump threatened them with giant,
crippling tariffs, the ejection of their diplomats.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
What else.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
There are a whole bunch of different threats. And the
communists literally he was a communist activist as a younger man.
President of Columbia back down said we would be delighted
to welcome the countrymen back into the bosom of Columbia.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Actually offered to send their planes up here to get them. Yeah,
you can use our military planes whatever, you'd like to.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Do, mister President, would just be marve with us, so
feel free. But they're all sorts of stories about DEI
and how it's being rolled back, and there's some hardcore
you know, people hanging on, and there are also some
going further, like the game Dungeons of Dragons has announced
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for the first time in a very long time a decade,
some new rules, which include.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh, D and D has new rules. Geeks, listen up.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
They are no longer going to use the term race
to differentiate between the different sort of beings in there.
They're going to use species instead, all right, And some
character traits have been divorced from biological identity. A mountain
dwarf is no longer inherently brawny and durable, and a
high elf is no longer intelligent and dexterous by definition.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
God, I'll tell you what, Thank God, my son is
through his D and D stage. When he was doing
Dungeons and Dragons and wanted me to play with him
all the time, like to get him ready for his
big Saturday match. Gody, you talk about something I struggling
to even go along with enough as a parent. That
was rough. Oh, not your groove huh oh my god,
(04:59):
dang it. And the number of like grown men who
are so into that. Fine, you know, I got mend
to stuff you wouldn't like either, but whoo.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, I think it's a lot of It's like a
lot of things in life. Like you know, golf is
more fun when you get kinda good at it because
you just don't have to struggle with everything nearly so much.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
But no, no, I don't think so. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I just I don't care if the Mountain Dwarf kicks
the high Elf in his magical nutsack.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I just don't care, I know. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
In other news, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back the
Keystone x L pipeline. Danielle Smith, who is a bit
of a cutie and is the premiere of Alberta, Canada,
said the other day she would like to restart conversations
with the Trump administration about reapproving the football that's been
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the political football been kicked back and forth, that is
the Keystone XL oil pipeline. And she says, hey, there's
no reason not to hook this thing up and get
the oil flowing, especially because if you dig into it
as we have and many of you have through the years.
It's a great idea. It is better for the environment.
It's just doubling.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Down on fossil fuels, and that's why the activists were
against it.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
We're gonna be using fossil fuels for generations, friends, generations more,
barring some sort of completely unforeseen splitting the quirk technology
that's coming down the road.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So I'd love to see that happen. If fusion gets going, fine,
we'll stop using fossil fuels. But until then, I didn't
catch this last week, and neither did a lot of
people because things were coming so fast and furious. You
really couldn't keep up with everything that was happening in
the first one hundred hours of the Trump administration. But
Matt Taiebe a journalist we follow a definite lefty, but
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not what would you call people like this like him
and Bill Maher, they're good old fashioned liberal Democrats but
not progressives. Liberal but not progressives. Maybe fair enough that
Tidy has two million Twitter followers. Anyway, he tweeted out
lost him at the controversies of the week Last week
was the fact that the new administration mandated a sweeping
probe of the entire intelligence community. If things coalesce according
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to my understanding, and he's a good reporter, something like
a second Church Committee's company coming, it will be a
fascinating year. The Church Committee which looked into the CEI,
FBI and everything like that in the seventies, looking back
on the abuses of the sixties in the early seventies,
like a real big, thorough hey what are we doing
and are we okay with this? And Tybee thinks that
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that's going to happen again, which might be overdue. Yeah,
I think that sort of thing is an absolute requirement,
given the fact that an intelligence agency is a very
uncomfortable reality in an open society. I'm not saying it's
unnecessary or shouldn't exist, or shouldn't spy or engage in
whatever nefarious activities they do, but it is absolutely the
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sort of thing you have to watch very very carefully
in a free society.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
So I welcome that. I love Matt Tybee. He's brilliant,
he's funny, he's insightful. But if you ask him, hey,
how is that ham sandwich you had for lunch? He
would write you five thousand words. Y Jack here more
into fashion than I do. But Kashmir is out Kashmeir.
You might as well be wearing cotton, you plebeian. The
new fashion brag for men yak really, yes, everybody laughs.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
At the yak.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Why it's a big fuzzy beast, and it's fun to
say the name. Say it with me, Yack.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Where does evidently, where does Kashmir come from? I have
one kashmere jacket. I don't know whe Kashmere comes from.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Another funny animal, the goat, A special sort of goat. Yeah,
the Kashmere goat, I believe. And if I'm wrong, please
write a scathing email. I'm wearing an Illinois hoodie. Okay,
I what the latest fashion brag is?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I just I would you know what I'm excited about,
and I was trying to explain this to my kids
is the return of man made fabrics being popular. So
Joe and I are old enough that we grew up
in the seventies where everybody was wearing you know, polyester
and nylon and all that sort of stuff. But then
it became very uncool and you had to wear cotton.
And it's been cotton for a very long time now.
(09:10):
Back the advantages of the man made polyester stuff. They
don't wrinkle, they don't shrink, they don't fade the same way.
It's just I mean, there's a lot of advantages. I
don't know why we gave up on it back in
the day, but I'm happy that it's back. And like,
my son wears lots of stuff that would have been
forbidden when I was a young, cool person.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
You know what's interesting is in the world of golf.
I know one guy is a good friend, the terrific guy.
He insists on wearing cotton shirts. He is the only one.
He is one of like five people on earth. It's
all about the synthetics. Yeah, they just breathe, they keep
their shapes, they stay cleaner in the rest of it.
But they're not made of yak. Jack, the lumbering bovine
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that grunts rather than moves in the wilds of the
Tibetan Plateau, evidently puts out very very very soft hair
oven into your two hundred and forty nine dollars brown
yak shirt is the sort of thing you're supposed to
brag about. Or here's a gorgeous gray, nine and ninety
eight dollars kashmere shirt. A thousand dollars shirt. It better
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read bulletproof anyway, if you like to brag about stuff.
It's yak, Yes, Katie.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Well, I mean, do these shirts look any different from
like a normal shirt would I'm trying to picture. Is
this like a big fashion statement or is it just
the material that we're talking about? Probably both.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It looks like something you would get from ll Bean
to wear in New Hampshire between October and March. Okay,
it just looks like a nice warm over shirt.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
My cashmere suit jacket that was insanely expensive if I
had paid full price. I bought it used. You can
wad it up in a ball and use it for
a pillow and then just unladd it and it looks
exactly the same, which is pretty handy. I find that
is amazing. Find out to be a nice trait of
the whole thing. When Jack, when.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Jack shops for clothes, he sees this.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
That'll double as betting. First. Yeah, if I'm on the
Amtrak and I'm hammered out of my mind, this lip
and make this a pillow. Every sport coat is also
a pillow. Yes, well, I used to have to plan
ahead like that, and it would have been very handy.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So I need to make a shocking confession for which
I will be mocked and be rated, and I can
take it.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And we need to nail down is the Barack Obama
Jennifer Aniston rumor. I don't think we can nail down
if it's true or not. But does it have much
are many people talking about this. I've comeing across several places.
Katie's not in her head. Yes, it's a thing. You
two are working that desk and you can have it. Oh,
you gotta admit. That would be a big deal. That
would be a big deal. The Obamba was splitting up
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and him getting with Jennifer anistons be wise. That would
be an al timer. H. Yeah, that would be huge.
Trump would comment on it by Oh, that'd be good stuff.
You would comment on it a lot. Oh and also
just a long leg mac. He is that he is,
That's what she practically right. He's irresistible.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Plus we're going to be talking of the fabulous Kevin Kylie,
Republican Congressman from California at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
About Trump meeting with Gavin and whatnot. All on the
way stay here. Things moved so fast in the news
world now. Trump coming to California and meeting with Gavin
seems like it was two months ago, but it was Friday,
and it happened after we got off the air, and
I don't really know how it went down.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So we're going to talk to somebody who was there. Yes, indeed,
the fabulous Kevin Kylie. Plus I want to talk to
him about some of the immigration stuff and the executive
orders and the rest of it. Here. He is a
rising star in conservative politics and he deserves it a
lot of good stuff to get to this hour in
the next couple hours, hope you can stay around. We
had a conversation last week that I was very uncomfortable
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with and I felt very guilty about it because I
can seal to a truth during the conversation, confession being
good for the soul.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I am here to confess it.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
But like all good confessions, they work best in a
multiple choice format. And so I'm gonna give you multiple choices.
But to up the anti, to up the ante, each
of the choices will get successively more evil. Oh boy,
and you have to choose which one I am actually
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guilty of.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I'm so comfortable right now, a I.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Joe geddy have a second wife across town, with whom
I have two children. She is in a legal alien
and I keep her in line by threatening her with deportation.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
What's what's okay? What's striking about this is you clearly
didn't do that, but you're going up the worse. They're
gonna get worse.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yes, yes, okay. Anybody want to go for a or
you want to go on, you want to roll the dice? Anybody, Michael,
Clearly that's not true. Okay, all right, b I am
now a half been for thirty years an active member
of the American Communist Party, and have been working to
subvert the Constitution with every ounce of my energy, up
to and including acts of violence and sabotage.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So I think I think you've laid a really good
premise here, because you've got two very bad choices obviously
not true. Whatever something? What are all did you do?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Are they?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Am I gonna want to associate with you after this?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I don't know, Comrade.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Perhaps again from a conversation last week in which I
concealed the truth or possibility. See, I had never seen
Gladiator until this weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Oh wow, whoa you saw the movie? Gladiator My secret shame.
Gladiator one. You remembered it along with every conversation. Are
you not entertained? Hall grow I assume you went along
with the facts because I watch it with my son
Henry a couple of week back before we went to
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Gladiator two. He loved it and it reminded me how
much great it was, and I said it might be
in my top three movies of all time. And I
did not at that moment revealed, you know, I've never
seen that movie. Wow, that was good because I knew
the derision that would rain down upon Were you probably
okay twenty years ago? Yeah, you were in the middle
of raising kids, so no, of course you didn't see
that movie because I had a house full of babies,
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including a one year old. Yeah, I didn't see anything
between I don't know whatever years twenty ten and like
a year ago.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I am impressed, Joe, because you carried on a full
blown conversation about that movie as if you it was
one of your favorites.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Well, you know, I read a lot, so I pick
up clues from the you know, contexts and stuff like that.
But you know, Jack, you make a good point. I
remember roughly when the movie came out. Hey, dude, you
got to see this is great. It's an unbelievable movie.
Great guy villain. It's like two and a half hours long,
and I'm my Responso's chance, right, Yeah, two and a
half hours of entertainment.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Or if I'm gonna have a couple two three hours,
I'm gonna spend it silently staring at a screen when
you can hang out with your wife or doing something.
I mean, yeah, not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Well, And as it turns out, it's an amazing act,
you know, a piece of cinematic art. It's also an
absolutely heartbreaking story of a father's loss. And so no,
I wasn't really in the mood for that, but it's
it's brilliant.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Now I got to see the second one, although you
told me there's a bunch of gender bending madness.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, second one is good, but it's not the work
of art that the first one is. And nobody could
do what Russell Crowe did. I don't know what magic
he had there, but it was something. Can you tell
me you like Gladiator movies? God, speaking of heartrending makes
you miserable. We saw a preview Friday, night at the
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Dylan movie. I want to talk about later. Why would
you want to go to this movie? It's supposed to
make you scared and miserable, But talk about that later.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Is it for people who haven't fully engaged in life
and they need to experience those things?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Vicarious? That's what I was actually wondering. We're gonna talk
with Kevin Kylie, one of our favorite politicians about all
the big things that are going on. Stay with it,
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
As far as the first week is going on, I'm
told that from Republicans, not only on Trump's team but
also on Capitol Hill, promises made, promises kept. They're very
thrilled with how this first week went.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
From terminating federal diversity programs to deporting immigrants on military aircraft.
President Trump aggressively begins his first week back in office
with a blitz of executive action.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Oh my god, that's scary music thing with Martha Ratt.
It's from terminating the doing away with diversity in America. Yeah,
ending DEI. Yeah, a lot of people are in favor
of that.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Military airplanes and up blitz Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It gets y. Yes, practically everybody is in favor of
booting out the illegal criminals, So why are you using
your scary music.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Indeed, let's talk about that in other matters with Kevin Kylie,
who serves California's third district in the House of Representatives.
Kevin's bio points out that he is dedicated to using
his position to promote fiscally sound policies to reduce our inflation,
increased choice in education, responsibly manage our public lands, to
preserve our beautiful for us, and prevent catastrophic wildfires, and
we will get to that TopKing.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Indeed, Kevin, how are you, sir? Doing well?
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Thank you very much. Good to be with you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Excellent and likewise, it's good to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
So your take on the first week the Trump administration
and specifically the scary, scary deportations that Martha Raddott seemed
so concerned.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
About, Well, I mean, you know, he is fulfilling his promises,
and I don't think anyone should be at all surprised.
It's not like he was ambiguous about the change that
he thought the country needed. And you know, when you
look at the situation at the border, the absolute disaster
of the last four years, the president was very clear
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that we need a clean break, we need a You said,
we need to prioritize on border security once again, and
that's a big reason why he was elected, and so
he has not wasted any time and fulfilling that promise
and bringing some sanity back to US immigration policy.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
And sanity is a great word for it, because it's
it's as if we've been in some sort of dream
or a fond because it's not like the immigration policy
was I don't know, the corporate tax rate ought to
be changed by two percent because that would yield a
better curve indicator of blah blah blah. No, we were
permitting illegal aliens who'd committed crimes to stay here for
reasons nobody can can explain.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It was crazy, that's right.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
I mean, the numbers are just so far beyond anything
we had ever seen before in terms of the millions
and millions of people that are allowed to just walk
right in without any understanding on our part of who
they even were. Folks were on the terrorists watch list
we know got in and California, of course, is that
it made things even worse by saying, come on here,
you get free health care, a sanctuary state. So we'll
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do everything we possibly can to interfere with federal immigration enforcement. So,
you know, the Trump administration has come in and I
think with an understanding of how much a damage there
was to undo. And that's why I think they've been
acting with this sense of urgency and have not been
at all hesitant to you know, restore some common sense
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to our policies.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So you're a California congressman. California's had the worst disaster
in its state's history. We were making a lot out
of the drama on Friday before Trump got here, that
Gavin Newsom had been reaching out to Trump, not hearing
from Trump. Trump was going to Land, there was no
scheduled meeting, then Gavin was going to show up there
and try to meet. How do you think that whole
thing played out, and what's your take on all that?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Well, I think that the President was incredibly gracious. You know,
Gavin Newsom. Since the moment that Trump was first elected,
I mean probably even before that, Newsom has you know,
basically spent you know, the majority of his time or
a good amount of his time taunting President Trump, trying
to you know, build his own national profile by going
after President Trump. It's been one stunt after another, and
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so you know, the President has every reason to not
have particularly warm feelings towards Gavin Newsom, not to mention
the fact that Gavin Newsom has been absolutely destroying so
many things in California, the largest state in the country,
and that's caused a lot of problems for the federal
government as well. So you know, when you saw on
Newsom there kind of standing awkwardly on the tarmac waiting
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for the president, you know, you wouldn't have been surprised,
maybe if the President had been a little cold towards him,
but he wasn't. He said, I want to work with you.
This is important for us to work together to fix this,
fixes to get help to folks who need it, and
so I thought he was very gracious. But the important
thing is that we need to make sure that we
enact the sort of policy changes for California that are
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going to be necessary to make sure that these things
don't keep happening again.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Read my mind, I was just going to say, you
know us, we're more than willing to make an ideological
point and try to pitch it to the good people,
but we also just try to understand what's actually going on?
And you know, in that spirit, how could policy have
yielded a different outcome in the disastrous La fires? What
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went wrong that? I mean, mother nature is going to
do what mother nature does. But what did human beings
get wrong?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well, what didn't they get wrong? I mean, it's probably
the better question.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
When you look at the way California has managed its
forests and managed its water supply, it is just the
exact opposite of what both science and common sense say
that we ought to do. And so, you know, our
forests are just staggeringly overgrown, millions of acres with so
much fuel out there that turn them into tinderboxes. And
a big reason for that is not only the Gavin
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Newsom actually cut the fire prevention budget, but we have
these just crazy laws that stop us from removing trees,
from removing vegetation, from clearing out areas around power lines
and everything else. And you know, they even had one
project in the Tabanga Canyon where they were trying to
update these one hundred year old wooden power lines and
with fire resistant material, and the California Coastal Commission came
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in and said, no, stop, that there's a rare plant
around here, you're not allowed to do it. And so
then when it comes to water, you know, we haven't
built new water in this state in decades, really the
state water storage that is, since the State Water Project,
as the President has talked about, we have these just
absolutely mind boggling laws and regulations that will require water
to be diverted and sent to the ocean. I mean,
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we have more than enough water that comes to us
by the grace of God, but we just wasted. And
so those are the two sort of key policy areas
that we saw play out in the LA fires when
we saw obviously the conflagrations themselves, and then the ability
inability to respond to them with the immediacy that was
required because of water not coming out of fire hydrants
reservoirs that were empty. So, you know, a lot of
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us have been talking about these things for a long time,
and in fact, my district has suffered several truly catastrophic
wildfires as well. But now just the sheer shock and
scale of these fires has really captured the world's attention.
Hopefully this can be a turning point where we start
doing things in a more sensible way.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
We really enjoyed last week. I was trying to find
the actual tweet, but I can't find it from.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Gavin Newsom where he talked about we're getting rid of
regular the regulatory red tape and the bureaucratic mess so
that you can, uh, hello, why only now.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
California finishes fiftieth out of fifty every single year and
all kinds of business friendliness? Why is it okay now?
Why wouldn't it have been okay before?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
That's such a great point, you know, why hasn't he
made it a priority for actual prevention. It's great that,
you know, we can maybe we'll see what he's actually doing,
but it'd be nice if he had bought ahead a
little bit and said, maybe we should do these things
in order to prevent fires from actually happening.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And you know what's worse is.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
That he actually had been going around in the first
early years of his governorship saying, oh, yeah, I'm doing
all this forest prevention work, We're doing all this fire
mitigation work. And then someone looked at it was actually
Capital Public Radio, the MPR affiliate. They did an investigation
and found that he was completely making this up, that
he was exaggerating the work they were doing by a
factor of seven. They said it was a staggering six
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hundred and ninety percent, that he exaggerated the work that
was being done. And again, this isn't shouldn't have come
as a surprise that this is a major risk, because
we've even we've had fires, catastrophic fires, again and again
and again in this state, and unfortunately it's cost us
so much in terms of loss of life, of property,
in terms of the insurance crisis that has absolutely spun
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out of me.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I hate, I hate, but I found his tweet, and
I just know you you'd like it so much.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
His actual tweet, Goodbye red tape, Goodbye bureaucratic nonsense.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
What my god, nonsense?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Are you kidding me? This is his own bureaucracy, right,
You've been in charge, your party has been in charge
of the state for forever. Goodbye bureaucratic nonsense. Oh my god,
I have the balls to say that.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Unbelievable, Not to mention she's been governor for but over
six years now.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
And by the way, it's not goodbye.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
I don't know what he's actually doing. I've seen he's
suspended a fews, but these are only temporary suspensions.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
But they're not going goodbye.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
If you wanted to go goodbye, then that would require
him to actually be proactive, have legislation and work with
the legislature.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Humankind has never seen a politician run against their own
record like Kevin Clewson would have to.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Kamala Harris was a good warm up act.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Yeah, because everyone now recognizes how terrible the record was,
so he has no choice. And it's on every issue.
By the way, as you mentioned, California's lawns and so
many things like I get homelessness Newsom. I think we
recently hit the twenty year anniversary of Newsom's tenure planned
and homelessness in California.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
So every year he.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Gets Center tells it's homelesses in California. It's such a disgrace.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
It's the Probowl.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
No one is more responsible for the homeless crisis we
have in California.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
The way you put it is exactly right.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
It's like he has this habit of continually running against
his own record because that's really the only option he
has available.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
We need to talk more about that sometime down the road.
We know you're pressed for time, but just real quickly,
the Republican Caucus in the House of representatives a fairly
narrow majority. What are the top priorities we ought to
be looking for?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Well, I mean there's there's a lot.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
We actually are meeting at the conference today and President
Trump is joining us, and we're sort of laying out
what the next few months are going to look like.
And so we have this opportunity with what's called the
budget reconciliation process where you can actually get a lot
of big ticket items done at once. And so I'd
say the big three right now are Number one is
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the border. We will obviously the President taking an executive action,
but we want to put those changes into statute as well,
so a future Joe Biden Ormorcus or whoever couldn't come
in and put our country through again what we just
went through. Second thing is the economy is getting common
sense regulatory reform and promoting energy independence and other tools
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we can use to drive down costs and revitalize the economy.
And then three is probably the tax pops that we
need to extend from twenty seventeen and do so in
a way I'm working on to see that actually California
gets so much needed tax really.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Finally, Kevin Kylie represents the California's third district. Kevin, always
a pleasure to keep fighting, a good fight. We'll talk
again soon.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Well do, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
You know, there are a couple of things that may
have gone by so quickly people didn't catch them or
didn't fully comprehend them. First of all, the utility company said, hey,
these old, antiquated wooden poles are going to snap in
a high wind, and if they do, the power lines
are going to ignite all the brush and it's going
to burn all these people out of our homes, out
of their homes. And the California Coastal Commission, which is
(28:52):
as close to a monarchy as exists in the United States,
that they said, no, you cannot, for there is the
besotted that grows in abundance. There your poles, and we
will not have you stepping up on them. And so
they could not replace the poles. That's insanity.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Second, is it really is crazy? The environmental wackos are wackos. Yeah,
it's the same thing with why the Santa Cruz Pier
got washed away because for years and years and years
they've been they've been known. They got to shore up
that really old historic landmark. But there's some sort of
(29:29):
special clam or something that was on there, barnacle and
it's just nuts. Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And then the controlled burns. I've seen the statistics. If
the forestry experts came in and said, hey, this forest,
the undergrowth is way too thick. This is a tinder box.
It's going to go kurk bluey. We need to do
a controlled burn to make sure it doesn't. If there
is no dispute, it takes you something like four years,
three and a half, four years to get an approval
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for that, if the experts say it.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
If the environmental.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Wacka doos come along and say, put the tough to
dead mouse, it'll take nine years in California to do
what the forestry experts say.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Must be good bye red tape, goodbye bureaucratic nonsense.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
And finally, how do you have the nerve to say.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
That he's got balls like coconuts like you just said,
Sorry for the frank talk, folks.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Well you gotta do something about all these homeless.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Wait whoa wait wait, just crazy. And then finally we
need to do this. This must be archie hot make mayorcus,
a term that is used for generations to describe a
useless piece of garbage.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
There you go. Is that Bossire still giving you a hell? Oh? Yeah,
my god? What a mayork is he is? Yeah? Make
it a slur gotta be Come on, folks, join with us.
I'm pretty unhappy that it looks like China's got a
great AI thing going, much better than we thought. It
(31:04):
really has an effect on the stock market today. Maybe
we'll talk about that more later. And a bunch of stuff.
Stay here. I've got a busy day Monday and Tuesday,
Wednesday and so on. Are they going to try the
two person again? You know they will. They're three for
three and fourth down in this half. Do push from behind?
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Then?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I thank you? Got it?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
The crowd here the far side, Jodd says, first down
the way he's stepping into.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
The near side. They're both moving it back. They had
it easily over. They brought it back quite a bit. Well,
that was either the refs or favoring the Kansas City
chiefs as a lot of the country things or not.
I don't know why don't. I gave up on complaining
about calls many many years ago because it doesn't get
(31:52):
me anywhere either side. So there you go, Ken say
Chiefs are going back to the super Bowl. It's one
of the toughest things to do in the world of sports.
A spot to football properly when he got a huge
pile of body. I never understood how they do it.
I've never understood how it's their best, guess. And then
a lot of the other calls the interference. You could
call interference every damn time if you wanted to, or
(32:14):
I don't know. In this situation, I don't like that
call because it's crucial, and so you let it go
and just let him play. Jim that sort of thing.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
He's got hold of both of his arms, but he
needs to let the other guy play.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
So this story and that I'm going to try to
tell very carefully so as not to damage our career
or come off as an a hole, I guess. So.
I don't talk politics at home very much with my kids,
believe it or not. I don't know if it's because
I do it on the radio so much. I talk
(32:51):
about how much I don't like government a lot, But
I don't talk about cultural issues hardly at all for
some reason. And maybe I should, I don't, maybe I
should more. I don't know. I don't. I don't talk
about cultural issues much at all. I do talk about
wasteful spending and the really boring stuff that the kids
hate hearing on a regular basis. Ye roll, I know it.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
Well.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Uh but we were in a uh an environment, a
for profit environment in where in which one of the
employees that we were dealing with, I'm trying to be
very vague, here was a transman or trans woman. I
never can tell which which is it? What they were before,
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what the person was before that you it's what the
person is now now.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Theoretically, okay, so it'd be I don't play that game
at all.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
It would be a person who was at one point
felt they were a woman or were declared a woman,
and now they feel they're a man. I guess it
was was a was a woman with a beard. It
was a woman with a quite a beard, clearly a woman,
but a beard. And my kids were ooped out by
it and didn't want to go there anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
And natural reaction, it would seems.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
The only thing I can think of, because I've never
talked about that sort of stuff at all at our house,
and they just have a natural and I just wondered
about that. So that you haven't, it would appear just
natural human reaction. You're kind of off put by a
woman with a beard, and I wondered, I don't know
where that comes from, but one am I am? I
(34:29):
supposed to convince them, no, no, no, we're gonna keep
coming to this establishment because that's okay and your weird
feelings are somehow wrong. Right.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Well, that's what the you know, radical left has been
pitching for a very long time.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I think it is worth noting that the radical left
believes they have to indoctrinate children from a very very
young age to lose that negative reaction.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
That's why they do it, because you know, they have to.
I guess the question would be, is there something unique
about my kids or is that a normal reaction? Normal?
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same way a lot about a lot of health recommendations. No,
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guest was Timothy Shallomey, who plays Bob Dylan in the
movie And Henry and I went to see that movie
on Saturday Night, and I want to talk about that
a little bit later. It's one of your Best Picture nominees,
nominated for eight Oscars, and I got some thoughts also
(01:00):
later this hour, I've decided, I haven't decided.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
A good book informs us that confession is good for
the soul. I need to confess a terrible thing, embarrassing.
I will feel the weight of society's disapproval, but I
need it. I need it to reform. So stay with us.
There you go, shocking, shocking admission. You need to feel
the weight of society's disapproval.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Awesome. Uh got a tear in your pants. Society wants
your pants. Intact, We're gonna talk to one of our
favorite Republican politicians who was there when Trump and Gavin
got together in California on Friday, and that happened after
we got off the air, so let's get an update
on that later this hour.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So just touching on a couple of news stories, a
headful of news stories worth mentioning. I would love to
go in depth into some DEI stories, but that would
take at least the whole segment. But I'll just give
you a little tease for later. You remember Old a Colder,
don't you? Of course, So Mama's Attorney General. Do you
know what he's been up too?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Lately?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
He's been making up to twenty three hundred dollars an
hour for his law firm to do civil rights audits,
in other words, to make sure your.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
DEI is deie enough.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And now with this giant rollback, he and others are
scrambling to figure out how they will next scam money
off of unsuspecting corporate heads.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
He's getting moneyway how much an hour.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Up to twenty three hundred dollars an hour. Woo as
a diversity civil rights auditor whatever the hell that is.
You know, it's amazing, and you almost have to credit them,
because if you're not yet hipped to this DEI is
not about diversity, it's about takeover. It's a neo Marxist
plot to take over institutions by calling everybody a racist
(02:48):
and calling them into submission. It's a credit to them.
As a capitalist. I must admit how they're all getting
rich even as they're trying to get Marxism going.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You almost have to tip your big furry.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Russian hat to them that they're managing to have it
both ways. It's pretty impressive. The Columbia negotiation. Did you
follow that? Over the weekend? Columbia said they would not
take their criminals back, and Trump threatened them with giant,
crippling tariffs, the ejection of their diplomats.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
What else.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
There are a whole bunch of different threats. And the
communists literally he was a communist activist as a younger man.
President of Columbia back down said we would be delighted
to welcome the countrymen back into the bosom of Columbia.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Actually offered to send their planes up here to get them. Yeah,
you can use our military planes whatever, you'd like to.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Do, mister President, would just be marve with us, so
feel free. But they're all sorts of stories about DEI
and how it's being rolled back, and there's some hardcore
you know, people hanging on, and there are also some
going further, like the game Dungeons of Dragons has announced
(04:04):
for the first time in a very long time a decade,
some new rules, which include.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh, D and D has new rules. Geeks, listen up.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
They are no longer going to use the term race
to differentiate between the different sort of beings in there.
They're going to use species instead, all right, And some
character traits have been divorced from biological identity. A mountain
dwarf is no longer inherently brawny and durable, and a
high elf is no longer intelligent and dexterous by definition.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
God, I'll tell you what, Thank God, my son is
through his D and D stage. When he was doing
Dungeons and Dragons and wanted me to play with him
all the time, like to get him ready for his
big Saturday match. Gody, you talk about something I struggling
to even go along with enough as a parent. That
was rough. Oh, not your groove huh oh my god,
(04:59):
dang it. And the number of like grown men who
are so into that. Fine, you know, I got mend
to stuff you wouldn't like either, but whoo.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, I think it's a lot of It's like a
lot of things in life. Like you know, golf is
more fun when you get kinda good at it because
you just don't have to struggle with everything nearly so much.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
But no, no, I don't think so. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I just I don't care if the Mountain Dwarf kicks
the high Elf in his magical nutsack.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I just don't care, I know. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
In other news, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back the
Keystone x L pipeline. Danielle Smith, who is a bit
of a cutie and is the premiere of Alberta, Canada,
said the other day she would like to restart conversations
with the Trump administration about reapproving the football that's been
(05:50):
the political football been kicked back and forth, that is
the Keystone XL oil pipeline. And she says, hey, there's
no reason not to hook this thing up and get
the oil flowing, especially because if you dig into it
as we have and many of you have through the years.
It's a great idea. It is better for the environment.
It's just doubling.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Down on fossil fuels, and that's why the activists were
against it.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
We're gonna be using fossil fuels for generations, friends, generations more,
barring some sort of completely unforeseen splitting the quirk technology
that's coming down the road.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So I'd love to see that happen. If fusion gets going, fine,
we'll stop using fossil fuels. But until then, I didn't
catch this last week, and neither did a lot of
people because things were coming so fast and furious. You
really couldn't keep up with everything that was happening in
the first one hundred hours of the Trump administration. But
Matt Taiebe a journalist we follow a definite lefty, but
(06:48):
not what would you call people like this like him
and Bill Maher, they're good old fashioned liberal Democrats but
not progressives. Liberal but not progressives. Maybe fair enough that
Tidy has two million Twitter followers. Anyway, he tweeted out
lost him at the controversies of the week Last week
was the fact that the new administration mandated a sweeping
probe of the entire intelligence community. If things coalesce according
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to my understanding, and he's a good reporter, something like
a second Church Committee's company coming, it will be a
fascinating year. The Church Committee which looked into the CEI,
FBI and everything like that in the seventies, looking back
on the abuses of the sixties in the early seventies,
like a real big, thorough hey what are we doing
and are we okay with this? And Tybee thinks that
(07:33):
that's going to happen again, which might be overdue. Yeah,
I think that sort of thing is an absolute requirement,
given the fact that an intelligence agency is a very
uncomfortable reality in an open society. I'm not saying it's
unnecessary or shouldn't exist, or shouldn't spy or engage in
whatever nefarious activities they do, but it is absolutely the
(07:55):
sort of thing you have to watch very very carefully
in a free society.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
So I welcome that. I love Matt Tybee. He's brilliant,
he's funny, he's insightful. But if you ask him, hey,
how is that ham sandwich you had for lunch? He
would write you five thousand words. Y Jack here more
into fashion than I do. But Kashmir is out Kashmeir.
You might as well be wearing cotton, you plebeian. The
new fashion brag for men yak really, yes, everybody laughs.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
At the yak.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Why it's a big fuzzy beast, and it's fun to
say the name. Say it with me, Yack.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Where does evidently, where does Kashmir come from? I have
one kashmere jacket. I don't know whe Kashmere comes from.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Another funny animal, the goat, A special sort of goat. Yeah,
the Kashmere goat, I believe. And if I'm wrong, please
write a scathing email. I'm wearing an Illinois hoodie. Okay,
I what the latest fashion brag is?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I just I would you know what I'm excited about,
and I was trying to explain this to my kids
is the return of man made fabrics being popular. So
Joe and I are old enough that we grew up
in the seventies where everybody was wearing you know, polyester
and nylon and all that sort of stuff. But then
it became very uncool and you had to wear cotton.
And it's been cotton for a very long time now.
(09:10):
Back the advantages of the man made polyester stuff. They
don't wrinkle, they don't shrink, they don't fade the same way.
It's just I mean, there's a lot of advantages. I
don't know why we gave up on it back in
the day, but I'm happy that it's back. And like,
my son wears lots of stuff that would have been
forbidden when I was a young, cool person.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
You know what's interesting is in the world of golf.
I know one guy is a good friend, the terrific guy.
He insists on wearing cotton shirts. He is the only one.
He is one of like five people on earth. It's
all about the synthetics. Yeah, they just breathe, they keep
their shapes, they stay cleaner in the rest of it.
But they're not made of yak. Jack, the lumbering bovine
(09:53):
that grunts rather than moves in the wilds of the
Tibetan Plateau, evidently puts out very very very soft hair
oven into your two hundred and forty nine dollars brown
yak shirt is the sort of thing you're supposed to
brag about. Or here's a gorgeous gray, nine and ninety
eight dollars kashmere shirt. A thousand dollars shirt. It better
(10:19):
read bulletproof anyway, if you like to brag about stuff.
It's yak, Yes, Katie.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Well, I mean, do these shirts look any different from
like a normal shirt would I'm trying to picture. Is
this like a big fashion statement or is it just
the material that we're talking about? Probably both.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It looks like something you would get from ll Bean
to wear in New Hampshire between October and March. Okay,
it just looks like a nice warm over shirt.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
My cashmere suit jacket that was insanely expensive if I
had paid full price. I bought it used. You can
wad it up in a ball and use it for
a pillow and then just unladd it and it looks
exactly the same, which is pretty handy. I find that
is amazing. Find out to be a nice trait of
the whole thing. When Jack, when.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Jack shops for clothes, he sees this.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
That'll double as betting. First. Yeah, if I'm on the
Amtrak and I'm hammered out of my mind, this lip
and make this a pillow. Every sport coat is also
a pillow. Yes, well, I used to have to plan
ahead like that, and it would have been very handy.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So I need to make a shocking confession for which
I will be mocked and be rated, and I can
take it.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And we need to nail down is the Barack Obama
Jennifer Aniston rumor. I don't think we can nail down
if it's true or not. But does it have much
are many people talking about this. I've comeing across several places.
Katie's not in her head. Yes, it's a thing. You
two are working that desk and you can have it. Oh,
you gotta admit. That would be a big deal. That
would be a big deal. The Obamba was splitting up
(11:51):
and him getting with Jennifer anistons be wise. That would
be an al timer. H. Yeah, that would be huge.
Trump would comment on it by Oh, that'd be good stuff.
You would comment on it a lot. Oh and also
just a long leg mac. He is that he is,
That's what she practically right. He's irresistible.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Plus we're going to be talking of the fabulous Kevin Kylie,
Republican Congressman from California at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
About Trump meeting with Gavin and whatnot. All on the
way stay here. Things moved so fast in the news
world now. Trump coming to California and meeting with Gavin
seems like it was two months ago, but it was Friday,
and it happened after we got off the air, and
I don't really know how it went down.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So we're going to talk to somebody who was there. Yes, indeed,
the fabulous Kevin Kylie. Plus I want to talk to
him about some of the immigration stuff and the executive
orders and the rest of it. Here. He is a
rising star in conservative politics and he deserves it a
lot of good stuff to get to this hour in
the next couple hours, hope you can stay around. We
had a conversation last week that I was very uncomfortable
(12:55):
with and I felt very guilty about it because I
can seal to a truth during the conversation, confession being
good for the soul.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I am here to confess it.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
But like all good confessions, they work best in a
multiple choice format. And so I'm gonna give you multiple choices.
But to up the anti, to up the ante, each
of the choices will get successively more evil. Oh boy,
and you have to choose which one I am actually
(13:26):
guilty of.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I'm so comfortable right now, a I.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Joe geddy have a second wife across town, with whom
I have two children. She is in a legal alien
and I keep her in line by threatening her with deportation.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
What's what's okay? What's striking about this is you clearly
didn't do that, but you're going up the worse. They're
gonna get worse.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yes, yes, okay. Anybody want to go for a or
you want to go on, you want to roll the dice? Anybody, Michael,
Clearly that's not true. Okay, all right, b I am
now a half been for thirty years an active member
of the American Communist Party, and have been working to
subvert the Constitution with every ounce of my energy, up
to and including acts of violence and sabotage.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So I think I think you've laid a really good
premise here, because you've got two very bad choices obviously
not true. Whatever something? What are all did you do?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Are they?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Am I gonna want to associate with you after this?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I don't know, Comrade.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Perhaps again from a conversation last week in which I
concealed the truth or possibility. See, I had never seen
Gladiator until this weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Oh wow, whoa you saw the movie? Gladiator My secret shame.
Gladiator one. You remembered it along with every conversation. Are
you not entertained? Hall grow I assume you went along
with the facts because I watch it with my son
Henry a couple of week back before we went to
(15:01):
Gladiator two. He loved it and it reminded me how
much great it was, and I said it might be
in my top three movies of all time. And I
did not at that moment revealed, you know, I've never
seen that movie. Wow, that was good because I knew
the derision that would rain down upon Were you probably
okay twenty years ago? Yeah, you were in the middle
of raising kids, so no, of course you didn't see
that movie because I had a house full of babies,
(15:22):
including a one year old. Yeah, I didn't see anything
between I don't know whatever years twenty ten and like
a year ago.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I am impressed, Joe, because you carried on a full
blown conversation about that movie as if you it was
one of your favorites.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Well, you know, I read a lot, so I pick
up clues from the you know, contexts and stuff like that.
But you know, Jack, you make a good point. I
remember roughly when the movie came out. Hey, dude, you
got to see this is great. It's an unbelievable movie.
Great guy villain. It's like two and a half hours long,
and I'm my Responso's chance, right, Yeah, two and a
half hours of entertainment.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Or if I'm gonna have a couple two three hours,
I'm gonna spend it silently staring at a screen when
you can hang out with your wife or doing something.
I mean, yeah, not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Well, And as it turns out, it's an amazing act,
you know, a piece of cinematic art. It's also an
absolutely heartbreaking story of a father's loss. And so no,
I wasn't really in the mood for that, but it's
it's brilliant.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Now I got to see the second one, although you
told me there's a bunch of gender bending madness.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, second one is good, but it's not the work
of art that the first one is. And nobody could
do what Russell Crowe did. I don't know what magic
he had there, but it was something. Can you tell
me you like Gladiator movies? God, speaking of heartrending makes
you miserable. We saw a preview Friday, night at the
(16:50):
Dylan movie. I want to talk about later. Why would
you want to go to this movie? It's supposed to
make you scared and miserable, But talk about that later.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Is it for people who haven't fully engaged in life
and they need to experience those things?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Vicarious? That's what I was actually wondering. We're gonna talk
with Kevin Kylie, one of our favorite politicians about all
the big things that are going on. Stay with it,
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
As far as the first week is going on, I'm
told that from Republicans, not only on Trump's team but
also on Capitol Hill, promises made, promises kept. They're very
thrilled with how this first week went.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
From terminating federal diversity programs to deporting immigrants on military aircraft.
President Trump aggressively begins his first week back in office
with a blitz of executive action.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Oh my god, that's scary music thing with Martha Ratt.
It's from terminating the doing away with diversity in America. Yeah,
ending DEI. Yeah, a lot of people are in favor
of that.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Military airplanes and up blitz Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It gets y. Yes, practically everybody is in favor of
booting out the illegal criminals, So why are you using
your scary music.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Indeed, let's talk about that in other matters with Kevin Kylie,
who serves California's third district in the House of Representatives.
Kevin's bio points out that he is dedicated to using
his position to promote fiscally sound policies to reduce our inflation,
increased choice in education, responsibly manage our public lands, to
preserve our beautiful for us, and prevent catastrophic wildfires, and
we will get to that TopKing.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Indeed, Kevin, how are you, sir? Doing well?
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Thank you very much. Good to be with you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Excellent and likewise, it's good to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
So your take on the first week the Trump administration
and specifically the scary, scary deportations that Martha Raddott seemed
so concerned.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
About, Well, I mean, you know, he is fulfilling his promises,
and I don't think anyone should be at all surprised.
It's not like he was ambiguous about the change that
he thought the country needed. And you know, when you
look at the situation at the border, the absolute disaster
of the last four years, the president was very clear
(18:58):
that we need a clean break, we need a You said,
we need to prioritize on border security once again, and
that's a big reason why he was elected, and so
he has not wasted any time and fulfilling that promise
and bringing some sanity back to US immigration policy.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
And sanity is a great word for it, because it's
it's as if we've been in some sort of dream
or a fond because it's not like the immigration policy
was I don't know, the corporate tax rate ought to
be changed by two percent because that would yield a
better curve indicator of blah blah blah. No, we were
permitting illegal aliens who'd committed crimes to stay here for
reasons nobody can can explain.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It was crazy, that's right.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
I mean, the numbers are just so far beyond anything
we had ever seen before in terms of the millions
and millions of people that are allowed to just walk
right in without any understanding on our part of who
they even were. Folks were on the terrorists watch list
we know got in and California, of course, is that
it made things even worse by saying, come on here,
you get free health care, a sanctuary state. So we'll
(20:01):
do everything we possibly can to interfere with federal immigration enforcement. So,
you know, the Trump administration has come in and I
think with an understanding of how much a damage there
was to undo. And that's why I think they've been
acting with this sense of urgency and have not been
at all hesitant to you know, restore some common sense
(20:23):
to our policies.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So you're a California congressman. California's had the worst disaster
in its state's history. We were making a lot out
of the drama on Friday before Trump got here, that
Gavin Newsom had been reaching out to Trump, not hearing
from Trump. Trump was going to Land, there was no
scheduled meeting, then Gavin was going to show up there
and try to meet. How do you think that whole
thing played out, and what's your take on all that?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Well, I think that the President was incredibly gracious. You know,
Gavin Newsom. Since the moment that Trump was first elected,
I mean probably even before that, Newsom has you know,
basically spent you know, the majority of his time or
a good amount of his time taunting President Trump, trying
to you know, build his own national profile by going
after President Trump. It's been one stunt after another, and
(21:11):
so you know, the President has every reason to not
have particularly warm feelings towards Gavin Newsom, not to mention
the fact that Gavin Newsom has been absolutely destroying so
many things in California, the largest state in the country,
and that's caused a lot of problems for the federal
government as well. So you know, when you saw on
Newsom there kind of standing awkwardly on the tarmac waiting
(21:34):
for the president, you know, you wouldn't have been surprised,
maybe if the President had been a little cold towards him,
but he wasn't. He said, I want to work with you.
This is important for us to work together to fix this,
fixes to get help to folks who need it, and
so I thought he was very gracious. But the important
thing is that we need to make sure that we
enact the sort of policy changes for California that are
(21:56):
going to be necessary to make sure that these things
don't keep happening again.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Read my mind, I was just going to say, you
know us, we're more than willing to make an ideological
point and try to pitch it to the good people,
but we also just try to understand what's actually going on?
And you know, in that spirit, how could policy have
yielded a different outcome in the disastrous La fires? What
(22:20):
went wrong that? I mean, mother nature is going to
do what mother nature does. But what did human beings
get wrong?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well, what didn't they get wrong? I mean, it's probably
the better question.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
When you look at the way California has managed its
forests and managed its water supply, it is just the
exact opposite of what both science and common sense say
that we ought to do. And so, you know, our
forests are just staggeringly overgrown, millions of acres with so
much fuel out there that turn them into tinderboxes. And
a big reason for that is not only the Gavin
(22:53):
Newsom actually cut the fire prevention budget, but we have
these just crazy laws that stop us from removing trees,
from removing vegetation, from clearing out areas around power lines
and everything else. And you know, they even had one
project in the Tabanga Canyon where they were trying to
update these one hundred year old wooden power lines and
with fire resistant material, and the California Coastal Commission came
(23:14):
in and said, no, stop, that there's a rare plant
around here, you're not allowed to do it. And so
then when it comes to water, you know, we haven't
built new water in this state in decades, really the
state water storage that is, since the State Water Project,
as the President has talked about, we have these just
absolutely mind boggling laws and regulations that will require water
to be diverted and sent to the ocean. I mean,
(23:35):
we have more than enough water that comes to us
by the grace of God, but we just wasted. And
so those are the two sort of key policy areas
that we saw play out in the LA fires when
we saw obviously the conflagrations themselves, and then the ability
inability to respond to them with the immediacy that was
required because of water not coming out of fire hydrants
reservoirs that were empty. So, you know, a lot of
(23:57):
us have been talking about these things for a long time,
and in fact, my district has suffered several truly catastrophic
wildfires as well. But now just the sheer shock and
scale of these fires has really captured the world's attention.
Hopefully this can be a turning point where we start
doing things in a more sensible way.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
We really enjoyed last week. I was trying to find
the actual tweet, but I can't find it from.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Gavin Newsom where he talked about we're getting rid of
regular the regulatory red tape and the bureaucratic mess so
that you can, uh, hello, why only now.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
California finishes fiftieth out of fifty every single year and
all kinds of business friendliness? Why is it okay now?
Why wouldn't it have been okay before?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
That's such a great point, you know, why hasn't he
made it a priority for actual prevention. It's great that,
you know, we can maybe we'll see what he's actually doing,
but it'd be nice if he had bought ahead a
little bit and said, maybe we should do these things
in order to prevent fires from actually happening.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And you know what's worse is.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
That he actually had been going around in the first
early years of his governorship saying, oh, yeah, I'm doing
all this forest prevention work, We're doing all this fire
mitigation work. And then someone looked at it was actually
Capital Public Radio, the MPR affiliate. They did an investigation
and found that he was completely making this up, that
he was exaggerating the work they were doing by a
factor of seven. They said it was a staggering six
(25:18):
hundred and ninety percent, that he exaggerated the work that
was being done. And again, this isn't shouldn't have come
as a surprise that this is a major risk, because
we've even we've had fires, catastrophic fires, again and again
and again in this state, and unfortunately it's cost us
so much in terms of loss of life, of property,
in terms of the insurance crisis that has absolutely spun
(25:39):
out of me.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I hate, I hate, but I found his tweet, and
I just know you you'd like it so much.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
His actual tweet, Goodbye red tape, Goodbye bureaucratic nonsense.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
What my god, nonsense?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Are you kidding me? This is his own bureaucracy, right,
You've been in charge, your party has been in charge
of the state for forever. Goodbye bureaucratic nonsense. Oh my god,
I have the balls to say that.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Unbelievable, Not to mention she's been governor for but over
six years now.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
And by the way, it's not goodbye.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
I don't know what he's actually doing. I've seen he's
suspended a fews, but these are only temporary suspensions.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
But they're not going goodbye.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
If you wanted to go goodbye, then that would require
him to actually be proactive, have legislation and work with
the legislature.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Humankind has never seen a politician run against their own
record like Kevin Clewson would have to.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Kamala Harris was a good warm up act.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Yeah, because everyone now recognizes how terrible the record was,
so he has no choice. And it's on every issue.
By the way, as you mentioned, California's lawns and so
many things like I get homelessness Newsom. I think we
recently hit the twenty year anniversary of Newsom's tenure planned
and homelessness in California.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
So every year he.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Gets Center tells it's homelesses in California. It's such a disgrace.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
It's the Probowl.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
No one is more responsible for the homeless crisis we
have in California.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
The way you put it is exactly right.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
It's like he has this habit of continually running against
his own record because that's really the only option he
has available.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
We need to talk more about that sometime down the road.
We know you're pressed for time, but just real quickly,
the Republican Caucus in the House of representatives a fairly
narrow majority. What are the top priorities we ought to
be looking for?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Well, I mean there's there's a lot.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
We actually are meeting at the conference today and President
Trump is joining us, and we're sort of laying out
what the next few months are going to look like.
And so we have this opportunity with what's called the
budget reconciliation process where you can actually get a lot
of big ticket items done at once. And so I'd
say the big three right now are Number one is
(27:46):
the border. We will obviously the President taking an executive action,
but we want to put those changes into statute as well,
so a future Joe Biden Ormorcus or whoever couldn't come
in and put our country through again what we just
went through. Second thing is the economy is getting common
sense regulatory reform and promoting energy independence and other tools
(28:08):
we can use to drive down costs and revitalize the economy.
And then three is probably the tax pops that we
need to extend from twenty seventeen and do so in
a way I'm working on to see that actually California
gets so much needed tax really.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Finally, Kevin Kylie represents the California's third district. Kevin, always
a pleasure to keep fighting, a good fight. We'll talk
again soon.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Well do, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
You know, there are a couple of things that may
have gone by so quickly people didn't catch them or
didn't fully comprehend them. First of all, the utility company said, hey,
these old, antiquated wooden poles are going to snap in
a high wind, and if they do, the power lines
are going to ignite all the brush and it's going
to burn all these people out of our homes, out
of their homes. And the California Coastal Commission, which is
(28:52):
as close to a monarchy as exists in the United States,
that they said, no, you cannot, for there is the
besotted that grows in abundance. There your poles, and we
will not have you stepping up on them. And so
they could not replace the poles. That's insanity.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Second, is it really is crazy? The environmental wackos are wackos. Yeah,
it's the same thing with why the Santa Cruz Pier
got washed away because for years and years and years
they've been they've been known. They got to shore up
that really old historic landmark. But there's some sort of
(29:29):
special clam or something that was on there, barnacle and
it's just nuts. Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And then the controlled burns. I've seen the statistics. If
the forestry experts came in and said, hey, this forest,
the undergrowth is way too thick. This is a tinder box.
It's going to go kurk bluey. We need to do
a controlled burn to make sure it doesn't. If there
is no dispute, it takes you something like four years,
three and a half, four years to get an approval
(29:55):
for that, if the experts say it.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
If the environmental.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Wacka doos come along and say, put the tough to
dead mouse, it'll take nine years in California to do
what the forestry experts say.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Must be good bye red tape, goodbye bureaucratic nonsense.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
And finally, how do you have the nerve to say.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
That he's got balls like coconuts like you just said,
Sorry for the frank talk, folks.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Well you gotta do something about all these homeless.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Wait whoa wait wait, just crazy. And then finally we
need to do this. This must be archie hot make mayorcus,
a term that is used for generations to describe a
useless piece of garbage.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
There you go. Is that Bossire still giving you a hell? Oh? Yeah,
my god? What a mayork is he is? Yeah? Make
it a slur gotta be Come on, folks, join with us.
I'm pretty unhappy that it looks like China's got a
great AI thing going, much better than we thought. It
(31:04):
really has an effect on the stock market today. Maybe
we'll talk about that more later. And a bunch of stuff.
Stay here. I've got a busy day Monday and Tuesday,
Wednesday and so on. Are they going to try the
two person again? You know they will. They're three for
three and fourth down in this half. Do push from behind?
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Then?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I thank you? Got it?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
The crowd here the far side, Jodd says, first down
the way he's stepping into.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
The near side. They're both moving it back. They had
it easily over. They brought it back quite a bit. Well,
that was either the refs or favoring the Kansas City
chiefs as a lot of the country things or not.
I don't know why don't. I gave up on complaining
about calls many many years ago because it doesn't get
(31:52):
me anywhere either side. So there you go, Ken say
Chiefs are going back to the super Bowl. It's one
of the toughest things to do in the world of sports.
A spot to football properly when he got a huge
pile of body. I never understood how they do it.
I've never understood how it's their best, guess. And then
a lot of the other calls the interference. You could
call interference every damn time if you wanted to, or
(32:14):
I don't know. In this situation, I don't like that
call because it's crucial, and so you let it go
and just let him play. Jim that sort of thing.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
He's got hold of both of his arms, but he
needs to let the other guy play.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
So this story and that I'm going to try to
tell very carefully so as not to damage our career
or come off as an a hole, I guess. So.
I don't talk politics at home very much with my kids,
believe it or not. I don't know if it's because
I do it on the radio so much. I talk
(32:51):
about how much I don't like government a lot, But
I don't talk about cultural issues hardly at all for
some reason. And maybe I should, I don't, maybe I
should more. I don't know. I don't. I don't talk
about cultural issues much at all. I do talk about
wasteful spending and the really boring stuff that the kids
hate hearing on a regular basis. Ye roll, I know it.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
Well.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Uh but we were in a uh an environment, a
for profit environment in where in which one of the
employees that we were dealing with, I'm trying to be
very vague, here was a transman or trans woman. I
never can tell which which is it? What they were before,
(33:34):
what the person was before that you it's what the
person is now now.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Theoretically, okay, so it'd be I don't play that game
at all.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
It would be a person who was at one point
felt they were a woman or were declared a woman,
and now they feel they're a man. I guess it
was was a was a woman with a beard. It
was a woman with a quite a beard, clearly a woman,
but a beard. And my kids were ooped out by
it and didn't want to go there anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
And natural reaction, it would seems.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
The only thing I can think of, because I've never
talked about that sort of stuff at all at our house,
and they just have a natural and I just wondered
about that. So that you haven't, it would appear just
natural human reaction. You're kind of off put by a
woman with a beard, and I wondered, I don't know
where that comes from, but one am I am? I
(34:29):
supposed to convince them, no, no, no, we're gonna keep
coming to this establishment because that's okay and your weird
feelings are somehow wrong. Right.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Well, that's what the you know, radical left has been
pitching for a very long time.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I think it is worth noting that the radical left
believes they have to indoctrinate children from a very very
young age to lose that negative reaction.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
That's why they do it, because you know, they have to.
I guess the question would be, is there something unique
about my kids or is that a normal reaction? Normal?
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