Jim Jordan pressed on issues

Jim Jordan pressed on issues

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Thank you for listening. Mark Blazer with Josh C. S
you know live radio. We're waiting on Congressman Jim Jordan.
I you know this is I'm trying to contact his
help me out, Josh, Hey, what's up while I'm while

(00:24):
I'm trying to facilitate and see where Jordan is. Please.
That's why I started. On a cold November night in
nineteen ninety.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Three, me and Abbey Road, We're sitting in a tree.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
There, it goes. I was just trying to send something
to his handler.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
And that's the first time I ever saw a pair
of Hooters. And that's I mean not seeing seeing owl's
up close like that was really impressive.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
You know.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I gotta tell you, I'm really happy about the fact
that it's going to Thank God. Jenna Ortega said no,
thanks to being a female James Bond, and I said, man,
she goes, I don't want to be Jamie Bond. And
it's just like I'm thinking to myself, why are they
trying to make a female And look, I'm not I'm

(01:18):
not a sexist. I just don't think it works for
James Bond to have a female version of him. Am
I off base here?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
I don't think most females want a female version of
James Bond, to be honest with you, I.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Mean, it just it just doesn't feel right. And look,
people could say, well what about Magnum. I mean, I
will say that I was a little skeptical at first,
but I ended up liking that with the girl that was,
you know on Magnum p I you know what I'm
talking about. Yes, I do.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
She was, Yeah, but it wasn't so obviously force fed.
And this seems like they're just doing it to do it.
And then they asked him that. They asked the director
and you know, Daniel Craig sitting there next to him,
and they.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Asked the director, will we ever see a gay Bond?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
And Daniel Craig just rolls his eyes and the Director's like,
it's all about his mission. It's all about Kenny complete
his mission, not about his preferences.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
That's the thing that is so jacked up in our
world right now.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's exactly like people were like, oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
But they just focus on that crap. Oh, he saved
a burning building full of shoulder, but is he gay?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Because if he's not, well, put the shoulder back in
the building. It's like, bro, we don't care anymore. Like well,
I keep trying to tell people this, we don't care
anymore about that stupid stuff. I do not care if
you're gay or lesbian. I do not care. I've got

(02:56):
friends that are both that, you know. I got some
lesbian friends, I got some gay friends. I know people,
and they're good people. But the only ones who are
obsessed about this crap are the lefties. They're the only
ones literally obsessed with sexual identity politics. It is remarkable

(03:18):
how their worldview is shaped based on who you sleep
with and what your pronouns are.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
That's all that matters. That's it, That's all that matters.
Forget about the notoriety of your craft, what you do
while you're in said craft, and all of the different
things you're able to accomplish inside of said craft. Then
forget about all that. Forget about all that you get
simple accolades if you are fill in the blank, the EI.

(03:47):
That's it. It doesn't matter. You know what, as I
read this article, I thought, you know it reads During
an interview with MTV, I go, oh, MTV still around.
I didn't even really they were still. I know that
I'm not in the demographic. I get it, but I
remember when they played video, so I go, oh, MTV
is still around anyway. She was asked about this gender

(04:09):
flipped version of Edward Scissorhands, which is another you know,
Johnny Depp or whatever. Yeah, and she hit back that
women deserve their own specifically crafted roles. Okay, go, Jenny.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Didn't pick one that already hasn't been done. But what
are you saying? Women are not as creative as men
coming up with characters. I think that's all I hear
is that women are not as good at being creative
writers and developers of new storylines and new characters.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
See. I took it as she was saying, Look, women
deserve their own, specifically crafted roles. I'm not interested in
playing flipping a you know, some sort of a role
that is supposed to be a male and flipping it
and turning it into a female version of it. That's
what she's saying. But I think by that, at least

(04:58):
that's the way it's coming across from me.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
She was saying that women like if you well, if
there was a male Edward scissor Hands, there needs to
be a female Edward scissor Hands.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, no, she was saying the she was asked about
a potential gender flipped version of Edward Scissorhands. She hit back,
she's going, look, women deserve their own, specifically crafted roles.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Okay, now I hear. I'm sorry I misinterpreted what she
was saying. Now she goes, because she's saying what I
was saying.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Right, she goes because women deserve their own super cool spy.
We should have our own. I don't like it when
it's a spinoff. I don't want to see like Jamie Bond.
You know, she goes on to say, and then you know.
Previous Bond actor Daniel Craig weighed in on people asking
for a different take on the character a few years ago.
And there should simply be better parts for women and

(05:47):
actors of color. Why should a woman play James Bond
when there should be a part just as good as
James Bond, but for a woman. And that was back
in like twenty twenty one, when Daniel Craig was saying that, uh,
was Craig your favorite Bond? He wasn't he had I
didn't really have a favorite Bond.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
I mean, the first Bond movie I really watched was
Pierce Brosnan GoldenEye.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, that was really the first one I ever watched.
Congressman Jim Jordan is joining us now, And do you
have a favorite Bond Congressman.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Sean Connery the original.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
One he was he was the orint I think.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
Right, I am.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
I remember some of those when I was a kid,
I guess or at some point or watched the old movies. Oh,
those were good. I just like good movies. And in fact,
I saw one Monday. The Reagan movie is good. Oh
that's Dennis Quaid, right, It's very good. And I thought
Dennis Quaid was was was very good at playing the part.
But we really enjoyed it. And there's just parts that

(06:48):
are emotional. One. It's just good. I really enjoyed it.
So I told my wife we watched it on Monday.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, I was sold. We well, they're working on getting
Dennis Quaid for us to be on air with us. Yeah,
and so I was pretty excited about that. I haven't
been able to check that is that on that Netflix.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
We watched it on our little theater in or Banta, Ohio.
There downtown little theater and there was a button on
Labor Day afternoon Matt Day was you know, we did
the whole routine. You get the popcorn, a big soda,
you sit there and watch it. It was all goods
apple pot.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah. Oh, what were you gonna say? No, No, I
was just gonna say, yeah, it's in the theater. I
plan on going to see it in the theater. I
just you know, Ronald Reagan was like larger than life
figure for me because you know, I was born in
eighty one. My first memories of the President of the
United States were all Ronald Reagan, and you know, he

(07:41):
just defined the eighties for me. So he was like
a large is larger than life figure. So I figured,
why not see him on the big screen, right, you know,
bring bring a big personality to life on the big screen.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah. It was good and same here. That's when I
you know, the first first first president's election I got
the vote in was the before race and under vote
naps from college and you got to vote for Reagan
when he when he beat the tar out of Mandale,
like forty nine states, I think Monday one, Minnesota was it.
And so yeah, so we we sort of came of
age with Reagan as well, and it was it was

(08:14):
it was definitely worth. It's definitely worth.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, that's cool. So Congressman Jim Jordan joining us now
Congressman last hour. It was either last hour or the
late in three o'clock hour. It was on the three o'clock,
wasn't okay. We had a caller call in who said, hey,
when you talk to Jordan again. I go, hey, he's
going to call in. Uh, he'll he'll be on a
little bit later. And he was talking about, you know,
situation that's happening. I think it was on the tail

(08:39):
end of Josh and I talking about the gang, right.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
The gang takeover and Aurora in Chicago.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Of the apartment buildings. Yeah. Yeah, And so this caller
was calling in to talk about that and he goes, hey,
are you going to be talking to Congressman Jay? Okay,
that was it, And I wanted to play this call
for you and better get your reaction or whatever.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Okay, here we go, Hey, guys, how convenient mass shooting
five days before the next debate, And uh, there's probably
a good chance that there's going to be another school
shooting or another mass shooting that way as the whole
topic of the debate, and uh, change the change the narrative.

(09:22):
But I gotta see what is Jordan's going to be
on with you guys anytime soon?

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, this afternoon at five that he'll be on in
a couple of hours.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Okay, So where's the at F, the DHS, the FBI.
Why why have they all been dispatched off to Aurora,
Colorado and taking care of this gang problem? I mean,
what are we doing? And why why hasn't my ORC
has been called before, uh, the House Jordan's House Committee

(09:51):
to get to the bottom of the bots assassination attempt
because the Secret Service reports to my orcis So I
mean what I mean, we got to get some answers here, guys.
We are becoming a third world live active Banana Republic,
and I am so sick here and that we're a

(10:12):
free country, the Gates country. I don't even recognize this
country anymore. Jordan has and the Republicans had the power
of the purse. It's time to start doing something. We're
losing the republic.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
So there it is Congressman Jim Jordan's He's he clearly
is fired up. I don't know how accurate all the
things he was. Frustration is what I frustration. Yeah, definitely,
But I said, you know what, when he hung up,
I was like, you know what, We're going to play
this for Congressman, and and that way you can hear,
because I don't like to do calls while you're here,
because you know, it's too it gets too crazy, like

(10:48):
trying to wave through everything. But and I don't know
how accurate some of the things he was saying, but
I did want to at least get your take on that.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
Well.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
To the second question relative to the assassination tempt on
President Trump that has now been turned over to the
Task Force, that the entire thing. You'll remember the week
after it happened, our committee the House District we had
in the FBI director. We had in Christopher Ray. That
sified four hours and we asked him all kinds of questions.
And then two days prior to that, the Oversight Committee,
which I'm also a member of, we had in former

(11:17):
Director Chiel, who's you know, since since resigned. Appropriately. So,
so the task Force is now looking into the assassination
attempt and they're due to buy the legislation that passed
the House. They're due to have the report sometime in
December that that explains what you know what all happened
and the shortcomings that we know we're there relative to

(11:37):
the situation out that I just saw brief clips of
this on the news as well, where this gang it
looks like it's a gang from Venezuela, was taking over
apartment buildings and just just stealing people just that, but
functioned like a mob, like a gang right there in Moora, Colorado,
based on what I saw on the news report. I mean,
the short answer is, you remember, the Justice Department's too busy,

(11:59):
you know, investigation moms and dads and show up at
school board meetings to busy saying if you're a pro
life Catholic, you're an extremist to figure out some of
the things that needs figuring out. I said, just yeah,
I said, just you know they're doing that. But meanwhile,
they can't tell us who planned the pipe op is
on January sixth, that both the R and G and
the D and C. They can't tell us who leaked
the DABS opinion, and they can't even tell us who

(12:20):
put cocaine at the White House. Meanwhile, we got all
this other stuff going on that we kind of like
some answers to. So I'm misfrustrated as well, and we
continue to call these people in in front of us
oftentimes though they just don't give us many answers and
seamed the stonewall when they're in front of the committee.
So we're going to keep digging, We're going to keep investigating,
but to the assassination attempts to task force. The chairman

(12:42):
of that committee is the congressman film actually from Butler,
Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Kelly.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah. And also you know we were talking to about
you know, this shooter is was cremated, he's gone. That's it.
You know, with that whole situation, it's very unfortunate a
lot of people. There were a lot of answers that
still have not been answered or questions I should say
that haven't been answered. And again there you heard the

(13:08):
frustration of a lot of I think he echoes on
sentiment from a lot of Americans. Congressman, I think you'd
probably agree.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah, And I'd say one of the frustrating things I
have and I raised this when when director Cheetle was
in front of the Oversight Committee, I asked him, I said,
why do you lie to Why did you li to us?
Because remember what the assassination attempt is. On July thirteenth,
Corey COMBARATORI loses his life to other people are shot,
and of course President Trump is shot. So the next day,
the Secret Service spokesperson comes out and says, it's absolutely

(13:36):
false that we denied security requests from President Trump's detail
for additional resources. He's absolutely false. My orcas said the
same thing the next day on the fifteenth, and then
four days later they said, well, there were occasions where
they asked for resources and we turned them down. They
lie to us the day after, within forty eight hours,
two different lines, they told to we the people who
they're supposed to serve about something that happened to the

(13:59):
former president and I I think the guy who's going
to be our next president. That to me is almost
as bad as the total screw up and how they
maintain or you know, try to secure the facility there
in Butblo, Pennsylvania. So to me, that is you're not
supposed to. First of all, you're supposed to do your
job right, which it obviously looks like the Secret Service
didn't and didn't secure all the billings. Second, don't lie

(14:20):
to us. After all, we pay your salary, and you're
supposed to serve we the people.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Congressman, I have.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
To go back to something that Jay said, which is
the power of the purse.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
I'm going to ask a more.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
General question than I'm going to ask a specific question.
More generally, is there some sort of divide within the
Republican leadership of exactly what to spend money on and
what not to spend money on? Is there any ever
talks about cuts cuts to places like you know, the

(14:52):
DOJ and and all these other places that they are incompetent.
They seem to drag their feet. We never get any answers.
Is there not anything on a funding level we can threaten?
Or is like Speaker Johnson not on that same page?
And is he with more of the establishment types? I
guess is what I'm trying to say. Is there a

(15:13):
conflict going on right now financially speaking? Is there some
sort of battle within the party right now going forward
because a lot of people want to see some serious
cuts across the board.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Well, Democrats don't want to cut anything. Republicans do want
to scale back, particularly in the in the in the
you know, the environment of a thirty five trillion dollars
debt and spending a trillion dollars in interest payment each
year now, so Republicans do want to cut The problem
is when you get to the showdown moment, when you
get to like, oh, a shutdown situation or the government's
not going to be funded unless you do, then you

(15:46):
have some Republicans who don't want to go into that fight.
And frankly, if we're not willing to stand firm on
something that they send yet, we're probably never going to
win that when that debate unfortunately. So I'm for standing
firm when you get these fights, particularly mixed government. It's hard,
but I'm for standing firm if you pick the right issue,
and you haven't picked ten things. For example, we got

(16:07):
this very situation coming up right now. I think we
should fund the government artistical year in September thirty or thirty.
If we're going to go back into session next week,
I think we should fund the government. I'm willing to
fund the government at the current level, which is way
too high, as long as we do one thing. Put
on that bill, the legislation that we've passed in the
House that sits in the Senate, the legislation that says

(16:28):
you cannot vote, You cannot be on the voter registration
rolls unless you demonstrate that you're a citizen. We don't
want non citizens participating in our election. I'm for standing
firm for that one thing. And here's how politics works.
Once you stand firm on one thing and prevail, then
the next time you can do two things. The next
time you say, okay, now we need this in order

(16:48):
to fund the government, and oh, by the way, we
should fund that a little less than we currently are.
After all, families have had to do that for the
last three years under the Biden Harris regime. So that
to me is how smart politics is, on how principal
politics is done, and how you can win a national debate.
But if you try to do ten things on one bill,
it all gets lost in everyone's and what's going on here?

(17:08):
One really important thing in politics is better than ten
pretty good things.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Every single time, it sounds like what I'm hearing from
you is a lack of leadership when it's time to
hold feet to the fire.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
That's I mean.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
And I'm not coming at you, Congress, so I'm just
saying it sounds like you're is frustrated with the lack
of courage and conviction when the time is come to.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Do the right thing.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah, we got to stand firm for something, and that's
why people elected this. And if we can't, if we
can't say only citizen should be able to vote in
our election and you should have proof of citizenship. In
a context of ten million who's come into our country
in three and a half years, I don't know what
we're good for, So it seems we should beify for that.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
It seems pretty elementary to me. You have to be
a citizen in order to affect change by voting. For
the love of God, we can't go to Venezuela and
vote you know wherever fill in right. I mean, that's
the thing. It's just like, come on, it seems so
elementary me and the fact we're battling it out.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Wait, wake me up when a gang of American savages
are down in Venezuela, taken over a.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Part of complexes, Yeah for sure. Oh my gosh. Congressman
Jim Jordan, thanks for jumping on with us.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Take care, guys, We'll see you.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Whoops, you're let's do traffic