Jim Jordan 5-20-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome in, Thank you for listening. Mark Blazer,
Chuck Douglas. How's the uh? How's the foot? Everything good?
I mean better than you know. Yes, you're on the correct.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Direction, about down so yeah swelling, Yeah it's good man. Yeah,
we're about there.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
That's outstanding.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I've got the regular tennis shoes on today without much misery.
So that's good.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Because before it would be like trying to put how
did they put that? It's ten pounds of crap and
a five pound bag. Yep is the way that that
would feel when you're trying to stuff your foot, you're
swollen foot into a tennis shoe. Yeah, that makes it
tough when you don't have any normal shoes that are

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that size for just such an emergency.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Who would right, Well, no normal feet or that side,
that's the problem.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
They weren't quite nutty professor, remember when his feet like
exploded up.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
But the lip was still my favorite that body. Remind
remember Bill Cosby going to the ennist. I'm look smell
of them. I'm sorry, would you say? Coming right out
of my mind my mouth, that's what that money and

(01:24):
just always pops into my head while I think of
that visual.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
You know also from that movie. It's so funny when
he goes that strike too. Remember what say, dude, Stone
does that to me and like to his mom. He'll
just out of nowhere, I'll do something. He'll be like,
now that strike too. You know he'll get and I
start laughing. I'm actually halfway mad at something. Then I
start laughing. I'm like, you got me.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
But but that's one of the lines in our houses.
Now that strike too.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
That's how you know you truly enjoyed a movie when
just random lines from the scraps in your head.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Dude, that's that is a That is a cinema masterpiece.
He is a There are certain movies Eddie Murphy has done.
He was a national treasure man.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I'm serious.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
He came up with some fantastic concept for some really
really funny movies.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
And that one is his take on it. Well, that
was Jerry Lewis first correct, Yes, not a professor.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
So and I will never ever ever understand Jerry Lewis.
I will never understand why France held him in such
a treasure. Jerry Lewis with Dean Martin, it was a
great pair. I love the Martin Lewis combination. But Jerry
lewis on his own. I never except for The King
of Comedy, where he played a dramatic role and he
was amazing in that. But as a comedian, I never

(02:39):
I never.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Lighty.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Oh my god, couldn't stand that.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
It's like nails on chalkboard.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, it's like, oh yeah, that voice was like, So,
the average US adult is paying over one thousand dollars
a year for subscriptions.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Congressman Jim Jordan will join us here momentarily. By the way,
it is live radio, and he's run a little bit behind.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
He's got to finish filling out his subscriptions for this year.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Here he is actually I see him calling.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
But the average adult's paying over one thousand dollars a
year for subscriptions. We're talking gym membership's meal kit deliveries
are included in this. And as I'm reading this, I thought,
wait a minute, are they talking about are they going
to get to And they did because I was like,
I thought streaming would be at the kind of the
top of things.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
And it is.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Streaming services lit well to the top of the list,
with sixty one percent paying for Netflix, Hulu and other.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
TV streaming services. It's worse for gen Z.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
They're shelling out two seventy two a year on unused
or or forgotten different types of subscriptions. So you're paying
for stuff. We've talked about that. I've I've done that
where I'm paying for a streaming service and I'm like,
the kids will go, do we have that?

Speaker 3 (03:58):
And I'm like, I don't know. I think we do.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, I know. And then just had to pop up
on my Facebook last night Peacock for twenty nine to
ninety five for a year. Yeah, as much as I
hate Peacock, I'm thinking about doing it just in case
O Issue puts another game on Peacock this season, just
to leave it.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, well you don't want to.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
I mean, it's it stings enough when you have to
pay for an OSU game.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
I'm just I'm so sick of paying for I'm paying
more for subscriptions that I ever paid for cable. I
understand we had to get Congress on that they could
do something.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Congressman Jim Jordan's joining us. Now, Hey, can we get
you No.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
I'm glad you're laughing at this, because you have to
laugh to keep from crying. Quite frankly, if you're in,
aren't you some of these days?

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Well, it's it's funny because I saw something on our bill,
this on our credit card. They're like, what a roku?
Major League? I like, we didn't buy any major league
baseball thing? I don't. I don't. I don't get that either.
So it's interesting you're talking about what. I'm trying to
figure that one out. I just have to grand some
of our bill and see it.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
And then also when you see something like that, if
you start investigating, good luck, you're gonna need You're gonna
have to open a whole investigation.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
I'm not kidding.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's like I've I've started looking into those and not
only going am I paying for this?

Speaker 3 (05:07):
But then I start thinking to myself, how do I
cancel this? And good luck figuring that out? Good luck man.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah, it's like and you're not allowed to have a
congressial investigation.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Like, oh that's funny. Oh oh, you're cutting out a
little bit. Are you still there?

Speaker 4 (05:30):
I am?

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Oh there, wait, I'm here.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Okay, that's a government messing with the sales signal.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
They don't want they don't want you to be on
with us, Congressman. They're like you can't be on that show. No,
they're scrambling your signal. Yeah, anyway, that's what we were.
We were kind of shooting the stuff here and talking
about some of the Americans are spending over one thousand
dollars a year on subscriptions, and I got to tell
you I'm not to that point.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yet anywhere on the list. By the way, no magazines
are not.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
See we're stupid. We don't even read anymore, not even magazines.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
I guess not.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
I guess not, man, I guess not. Let's get to
some more serious stuff. But yeah, we were just kind
of doing that until you gave us a ring, Congressman.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
So this big beautiful bill I saw.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
I think it was earlier when you said why did
Democrats hate this so much?

Speaker 3 (06:20):
And that was for me very poignant. I was like, yeah,
why do they hate this?

Speaker 1 (06:25):
That tells us all we need to know that it's
probably full of everything that we should have.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Right because it cut taxes, it secures the border, and
it says to able bodies adults in our welfare system,
you should have to work. It just requires where tho.
Those are fundamental principles of our party. Until the Democrats
hate it because it's a Republican bill that does what
we said we're going to do, is consistent with the
core principles of our party has always had. But you know,

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the left is the left, and they don't like it.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Hey, I saw Speaker Johnson said he wanted to get
this wrapped up by a Memorial Day. Then I saw
earlier today that was maybe yesterday, and I think I
saw earlier today. Now it's moved to he wanted to
get it wrapped up by the middle of July. Does
that sound right? I mean I love that and okay, yeah,
so expounded.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yeah, our our goal is the figures in clarag goals,
try to get it done before Memorial Day out of
the how okay, then you got the you know, we
got the back can modal legislative process here, so you
got the Senate and then the hopeful of the Senate
can get it done by j life force. So I
think we can because again, if we don't do this,
I've always thought the key point was if we don't
get this done, taxes go up in the families. We

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get the privilege of representing, and again that is a
core Republican principle we believe in letting moms and dads
keep more of their money to spend on their goals
and dreams and in example. So I think in the
end that's what motivates us to get this done. I'm
hopeful we get it through the House this week and
then then the Senate can get.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
To work on So Senator Warren was saying, she tweeted
fourteen million people will lose healthcare to give billionaires another
tax break, and I you know the thing that I get.
And I was even when we were talking about how
you were going to come on later, it was earlier
in the show.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
I was even saying to Chuck.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
I'm like, why is it they are allowed to tweet
out stuff like that that is not true? Why why
is it they put that stuff out there? And unfortunately,
that's talking points for mindless, brainless people on the left
who are out there at a water cooler and wherever
complaining and and and you know, arguing with other people

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who have facts and receipts, and she puts that stuff
out there.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
That crap is out there constantly. That is irritating.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
You know, yeah, it's and it's not accurate, as you
point out, the truth is, and you know, as conservatives,
we want to reduce the deficit, we want to get
the budget under control. But this this deal over the
ten year timeframe, it only it only reduces the rate
of growth. And remember that's important. The budgets still going

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to grow. Theyre's still going to go up. It only
reduces the projected rate of growth by two percent. And Difficultsy,
we're splashing, we're cutting. Frankly, a lot of the folks
I get to proven of representing are like, that's all
your cousin Jordan, that's all you're doing. What the heck? So?
So the left is just not being accurate. Again, That's
why I think we have to lean into this and

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start talking about the things it does that are consistent
with the principles that we've all got elected to get accomplished,
cutting taxes, to turn the border and requiring work.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Hey, how is this the Biden cancer diagnosis?

Speaker 1 (09:24):
First of all, clearly awful that this is happening as
far as the timing goes, and you know it was
all on displays mental decline. Look, none of us who
have been following along here were surprised when you know,
those tapes were released from the Robert her interview from
October of twenty three.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
It's been on full display.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
And you know it was transcripts that were altered at
that point too, I mean the ones that were even
released from back then. As far as this is a
full blown cover up and as far as that goes,
I don't know how this moves forward with you know,
investigations or anything like that, but hopefully these people are
going to be held accountable because this has become this

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has become a cover up, and people are saying, now
who was running the government? People want to know that
the auto pen stuff. People want to know because I
saw Representative Comer was saying that he has some names
with regard to the autopin stuff. That all of this
whole house of cards is tumbling, it's falling down now.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yeah. And of course we've you know, we've all had
a family member who's had to deal with with cancer
and our heart goes out to the Biden family, uh
with this with this latest diagnosis. But but you're right,
we shouldn't be surprised that they lied to us about
his mental accunity because that the Left is light to
us about everything else they lied to us about Bengazi.
They light to us about Russia collusion. They lied to
us about the Hunter Biden laptop, They lied to us

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about COVID means. The light here is about parents and
school board means. They lied to us about Catholics who
are pro life and call them extremely means like they've
lied to us all the time. So it shouldn't shouldn't
surprise us that, oh shazam, they did it again. But
I do think it's frustrating when you think about, you know,
who was actually making decisions in the last in the
past four years in the Biden administration. And maybe the

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real takeaway is thank the Good Lord for the grace
he's shown in our country that quite of the president
not really up to the task, we still got through it.
Now we got President Trump in there.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, you know, I've got to ask you, sir, and
I brought this up in the past, is there are
any conversation about a conservative Republican propaganda machine to answer
the crap that comes out of people like Warren's now,
Because I mean, look, it's an eleven hundred page bill.
They don't even know what's in it yet they've got
to sit down and read it. The last time a

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work requirement was brought into play, I believe was under
a Democrat, Bill Clinton, So that should be a badge
of courage and honor for them. And the fact that, Okay,
you may lose six hundred dollars a year in food
stamp benefits, but if your income in your household is
going up somewhere between four and twelve five hundred dollars
a year, doesn't that offset that. We need somebody that

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says that repeatedly and just hammers that kind of stuff in.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Work requirements are good in some that they treat taxpayers
with respect. They're good for the economy. You got people
working and helping our economy. But most importantly, work requirements
are good for the recipients because it gets them the
skills that they need to get to a better position,
which is what you were just pointing out. And that
used to just be like common sense stuff for everyone,

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and I think it still is with most Americans, just
not with the Democrats.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
In congress Man, you're you're actually it's about two full
time jobs that you're working right now, Congressman. And we
can't thank you enough for taking a few minutes to
hang with us, mare, because I know you got a
lot going on, so we appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Thanks Congressman.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah, thank you, guys, thank you, absolutely.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
You too.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
They can lie in political advertising. The courts have already
ruled that. But see, I don't consider when you are
discussing policy and its effect on society, you should not
be able to walk away unscathed, lie through your teeth,
make up crap.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Right.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
There should be repercussions for that.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
That's the thing that I'm talking about. If there's one
little teeny shred of some sort of truth in there,
that's how they that's what they hang their hat on.
They go, well, it's not all the way, but you
know some of you know, that's that's where they get
away with it. But you're right, the blatant it turns
into a blatant lie once it's you know, the light
is shone on it so brightly, and then they're just

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all they're on to the next thing at that point.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
So you're right. It is incredibly irritating.