Talkline | Dec. 22, 2025

The guys talk about the president's executive order for expediting the reclassification of marijuana. Erin DuLullo of The Poisoning podcast and Taylor Richmond, WV Chair of the Libertarian Party, weigh in. 

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Good morning, Welcome in. It is almost Christmas, just a
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producer today and Jake Link is handling the video stream.
Aaron Delulo will join us bottom of the hour. She
hosts the Poisoning Podcast. We'll get her take on the
President's executive order urging the reclassification of marijuana. Then in

(02:05):
the second hour, Taylor Richmond, West Virginia Libertarian Party chairman,
will offer his point of view. Also, we'll get updates
from Ryan Schmels, who is in Washington, d C. Jared
Halpern will join us in just a moment, but please
welcome back TJ. Meadows, who's refreshed, ready to go and
as merry and jolly as they come.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
And I tell you, if marijuana and Epstein Files just
doesn't scream Christmas, I don't know what does I mean.
I feel like we need to have Jeff come down
and read the Christmas Story today as well as on Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Well, we'll need it by the time we get to Wednesday's.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
Hey, we talked about what's happening. We talk about what's happening,
and that's what's happening. So whatever, you've been going a week,
what's been going on?

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Man?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Been taking it easy?

Speaker 6 (02:47):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Thanks? Read cookies or something or No.

Speaker 5 (02:50):
We did a few things. My kids had some things
earlier in the week. My son had his birthday party,
so we did that. My wife and I went away
for a few days, just she and I and that
was I ignore that. It's like, okay, now for when
my wife and I go away on vacation, that's awesome.

Speaker 7 (03:10):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
But no, it was nice. You know, I got I
got a massage, relaxed a little bit. Uh uh yeah,
just chilled. Didn't really pay much attention to politics. You know,
you're better off. Yeah, so, uh, took a nap. Sometimes
naps in the right chair are just so much better
than eating. Nap you can take. I grabbed like an

(03:30):
hour and a half one of those and one of
my favorite chairs. You know, simple stuff, just just spending
time and chilling.

Speaker 8 (03:38):
I hear you.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Uh, there's nothing wrong with that at all. Speaking of
just relaxing, taking some time chilling. Fox News Radio Jared
Halpern joins us from DC to get the show started.
Jared Good, I'm sure that's what you've been doing the
last week, just chilling, relaxing, taking some time.

Speaker 7 (03:55):
We'll see. I mean I had joked that, you know,
maybe the spenies your week, the presidents that have washed.
Then he's down in South Florida, and then I see
in the schedule today he's got like a four to
three pm announcement with hegg seth In, the Secretary.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
Of the Navy.

Speaker 7 (04:10):
We understand that's going to be an announcement about shipbuilding.
So it just shows that, you know, the president can
make news I suppose wherever he is.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well, let's since you brought up Secretary of hegseeth In
the Navy, the latest with Venezuela and the administration, we'll
start there. In pursuits of another oil tanker, there was
another one sees. What's the latest on that situation?

Speaker 7 (04:32):
Jared, Yeah, so there, the Coastguard is currently an active
pursuit of what they say is a sanctioned oil tanker.
They say that it is flying a false flag to
try and evade those sanctions, but that this is a
shift that is under current sanctions. And so they are
pursuing that it would make the third tanker sees if successful.

(04:55):
Since December tenth, that is when the first tanker was
seized in announced by the president, and then last week
the President announced what he is calling a total and
complete blockade of all sanctioned vessels entering and leaving Venezuela.
And so you are seeing that now play out. That's
an extraordinary step. I mean, a naval blockade is a

(05:20):
military operation, and so this just rat sets up what
we have seen now is it relates to these strikes
on these alleged drug boats. You now have something like
a quarter of the naval fleet in the Southern Command Area,
the Caribbean, the Eastern Pacific. It is a pretty massive

(05:40):
military build up. And now the President is saying this
blockade will stay in place until Venezuela gives back assets
that are American. There is some question about what exactly
it is that the President's referring to, and certainly there
is I think growing questions about what the endgame here.
Is this all kind of an attempt to destabilize further

(06:04):
the Maduro regime to force him out. Obviously, oil revenue
is a major income source for that government, and so
getting to the heart of that black market oil could
go a long way in kind of exerting the economic
pressure necessary to force out somebody like Madero.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Jared, I'm reading this morning that the Chinese have criticized
the US for seizing those oil tankers, basically saying they
stand behind Caracas. Didn't take long for this to become
a global issue and bring the Chinese into it.

Speaker 7 (06:37):
Well, the Chinese are anew because the largest purchaser of
Venezuelan oil, and so that's why China is certainly going
to be watching closely. They will argue that these are
not sanctioned illegal oil shipments, that these are legitimate, lawful
oil shipments. Obviously China has not put any sanction on

(07:00):
the Maduro regime, has a much different view of the
Maduro regime. But most of the oil that leaves Venezuela
makes its way to China. They are one of the
major purchasers here of this oil. So it's going to
have an impact on, you know, the supply for China.

(07:21):
And so one of the other kind of things we'll
be looking at over the next several days is what
this does for the price of oil. Price of oil
is falling considerably over the last several months, by the way,
so much so in fact, that you even hear Saudi
Arabia there. Their crown prince was here in Washington a
couple of weeks ago talking about how they are diversifying

(07:43):
their economy, that they don't want to be an economy
that is dependent on oil revenue. And so we'll see
what the oil market here does.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Is these seizures.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
Continue up this morning two hundred basis points Brent and
West Texas. So I don't know if that's the reason,
but up this morning.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (08:00):
I mean, I'm not an analyst in oil, but I
would imagine anytime there's a disruption to the supply, whether
it's legitimate or illegitimate, right when you're talking about sanctioned oil,
markets are going to react to that, right and if
there is less oil in the marketplace, I would imagine
that would take the price go up.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Fox and these radios. Jared Halpern joining us from DC
Jared Friday late Friday afternoon, Friday evening. Another round of
documents from the Epstein files release, not all of them.
There's been criticism of them. What's been your takeaway from
the latest release.

Speaker 7 (08:36):
Well, the criticism is that this was unlawful, that the
Friday was a deadline for the Justice Department by law,
a law signed by President Trump to release everything, and
this was not everything. It was a lot, but it
certainly fell short of what Congress said was required by law.
And so it is reacing questions from those especially who

(08:57):
wrote the law, Rocanna Thomas Massey, about why there is
a further delay here, how much longer it's going to
take to get these documents out. Certainly criticism of some
of the amount of redaction that we saw. The law
said that there could be redactions only to protect victims

(09:18):
identity and privacy, and so this seem to fall short
of what the sponsors of that legislation say that it
compelled the Justice Department to do.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
So what's next? What can Congress do to get better oversight?
Do we need someone to police the police here in
terms of what gets redacted, what's released, what's not.

Speaker 7 (09:38):
Well, I mean, I assume there are departments as that
they are still releasing it. So I think you'll see
Congress kind of wait and see how fast the rest
of these come out. I don't know what the remedy
would be I suppose Congress go to court and force
a court to order the release, but the law already.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
Does that, so.

Speaker 7 (09:58):
We'll see I think how Congress responds. They are out
of session now for the rest of the year, so
this likely would not be anything that would that that
action would be taken until you until the new year.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
You could see I guess.

Speaker 7 (10:14):
A resolution. You could see contempt resolutions, but if Congress
holds an entity and contempt, it would be up to
the Justice Department to enforce that contempt, and they would
be the ones being held in contempt, So you could
see I guess judges get involved. But I think we're

(10:34):
probably a few weeks away from any of that. I
think we'll wait and see here if this release from
the Justice Department picks up speed here of the next
couple of days.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
From the files that have been released, Jared, what what
has people talking there in DC?

Speaker 7 (10:49):
I mean there's a lot there. Obviously, we've seen these
photographs of very famous people and prominent people. I don't
think that's the Even President Trumps kind of downplayed that
he's been in a lot of these photographs that we've
seen in previous releases from especially Congressional Democrats, and he

(11:09):
has said, listen, this was a guy in Jeffrey Epstein
who was very ameshed in kind of the rich and
the famous, and a lot of people probably have their
pictures taken with them. Nobody has been accused of anything illegal,
of any wrongdoing. Obviously, that's the point of these files

(11:30):
and in these releases. So I'm sure you're going to
see lawmakers and the Justice Department kind of go through
all of that. But I think that the reaction has
just been Boy, there were a lot of people, prominent people,
maybe even some surprising people who seem to enjoy the
company of Jeffrey Epstein in some capacity. But again, nobody

(11:52):
has been accused of you know, wrongdoing, of breaking the law,
of being of being tied to the awful crimes that
Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of and charged with.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
A number of photos featuring Bill Clinton. And again, to
reiterate your point, no one's been proven guilty of any wrongdoing,
et cetera. But the Clinton camp striking back, what did
they have to say.

Speaker 7 (12:20):
Basically, just like, listen, these are pictures from a long
time ago, and there's a lot of pictures with President
Trump as well, so it's a very similar message, right
that Jeffrey Epstein kind of made himself available to all
of these people, and it would not be surprising that
there would be photographs. But again say that there is

(12:42):
no evidence here, there's been no activation here. It was
formerly a wrongdoing on the part of the former president.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Jared, I'll leave you with this thought today, for the
thirtieth year, there's always next season, Jared, There's always next season.

Speaker 7 (12:57):
Thirtieth year, the thirty consecutive season the Cowboys will not
playing an NFC championship game. I was my son's age
the last time they played in an NFC championship game,
and I mean that was kind of the thought I had.
I was like, wow, thirty years ago.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Don't worry your son of Cowboys fans.

Speaker 7 (13:18):
The nineties were great for me, and since then it's
been kind of tough sledding to be a Cowboys fan.
But there is always be season, maybe with a new GM,
probably not.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Probably not. Fox News Radio is Jared Halper. Jared, appreciate it.
Merry Christmas, and we'll talk again soon.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
Take care.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
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Aaron Delulo from the Poisoning podcast going to join a
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sixty five Talk three or four Talk three oh four.
We were talking during the preshow meeting, and I'll be
honest right up front, I don't know what to make
of it yet, other than it's very odd, mister Meadows.
CBS News last night pulled a sixty minute segment from

(16:56):
this episode that was set to air after football in
the notorious conditions inside the Salvador In prison where the
Trump administration had deported Venezuelan migrants. Let me see this
is reading from the Hill dot com. The New York
Times reported that the decision was made after Barry Weiss,
Is it Barrier, Bari Barry Barry? I think Barry Yeah,

(17:18):
The new CBS News editor in chief requested numerous changes
to the segment. CBS News, according to a statement reported
by the Time, said the piece needed additional reporting. MPR
meanwhile reported that Weiss said the segment could not air
without first getting an on the record statement from the
Trump administration now. The corresponded on the piece said it

(17:38):
was factually correct. In my view, pulling it now after
rigorous internal checks have been met is not an editorial decision.
It is a political one. She continued. She also said
it was screened five times and cleared by both CBS
attorneys and standards and practices. You can get more details. Again,
that's the Hill dot COM's version of the story. Clearly

(17:59):
we weren't in on that decision. Did find it odd though,
ToJ because, as the correspondent said, by the time a
network piece gets to air, it's been reviewed, legal has
looked at it. They have these attorneys for a reason,
and the administration not giving a statement is not a
reason to not air a piece. As MPR reported, there,

(18:19):
if you offer, if you ask for a statement, you
offer an interview. What else can you do as a
reporter at that point? We do this all the time,
don't we. Hey, we ask you to come on. If
you don't want to come on, that's that's your prerogative.
That doesn't kill the story.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
No, I mean, I've written several commentaries where I wanted
folks to offer their take on different things. They didn't
do it. I'm not gonna kill the commentary. Plus, you
know CBS promoed this the week before on sixty minutes.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Do yourself a favor.

Speaker 5 (18:46):
If you have any doubts or the final person hasn't
given the blessing, don't put it out there.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
It was out there.

Speaker 5 (18:54):
So of course now it looks a little sus to
use one of the words that my kids use. This
is the convergence of business versus editorial decisions, and I
think you would like to see one not involve the other.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
However, given everything that.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
Paramount has in play and the people that are that
bop paramount, I mean, I can't keep up with all
the mergers. Who's buying Netflix, who's not? I mean, it's
it's it's Warner Brothers, It's It's just it's a huge business.
So if you're the CEO and you're trying to answer
to shareholders, you need a merger to go through. You
may not want to rock the boat. You may not
want to call Donald Trump. Shame on Donald Trump for

(19:37):
being a president that, in my opinion, uses retribution to
go after people that he doesn't like what they write.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
In terms of.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
Well, the Justice Department won't to prove this deal or
that you got to be bigger than that. So there's
a lot of blame to go around here. But yeah,
I mean, this thing just odd sus makes no sense
and now opens up this question of okay, why did
you do this? And Barry Weiss, what a tough position,

(20:06):
What a tough position, and you can I can sit here,
anyone considers, oh no, it'd be easy to yeah right, yeah, right,
until you've been in that chair and had to make
that decision and balance commerce with editorial decisions.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah right, and I go that PR or PR NPR reporting.
It would I love to hear the administration side of
the story if, in fact that was part of the
decision making process there. As you said, this is a
convergence of business and politics. But do I want to
hear the administration side? Yes, yes, I want to hear
their explanation. But they have to give an explanation. And

(20:41):
if you offer them an opportunity, that's all you can
do as a reporter, as a correspondent, as a news
organization is offer the opportunity and if they don't take it, well,
then you don't get your side of the story told.
You have to tell your side.

Speaker 5 (20:55):
Yeah, so what CBS do now, they've said a precedent,
if the Trump administration doesn't want to common on something,
they're not going to run it.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
I mean you've said that's an easy president. Yeah, that's
an easy way to kill a steeper no comment done. Okay,
guys can't run it.

Speaker 5 (21:09):
Yeah, it's dangerous.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
But uh yeah, just watching football last night, just watching
football and that story starts to break about halftime of
the late game of the Steeler game, and I'm going, Oh,
that's that's weird. That's odd. That was my reaction. That's
still my reaction. That's odd.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
And if it truly was just a check or miss
check or whatnot, get a better process. I mean, get
the Gant chart out and figure that sucker out, because
I mean, you're all embarrassed this morning for no good reason.

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President Trump cited an executive order to expedite the reclassification
of marijuana in an effort to increase research on its
medical use, but not fully legalize that. The order, which
directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to hasten the process of
loosening federal restrictions but does not included timeline, comes after
an intensive lobbying campaign from the Cannabis is Cannabis industry.

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Aaron Delulo hosts the Poisoning podcast. She's a friend of
the show, joined us. I'll mention news talk line this morning. Aaron,
good morning, Good to talk to you again.

Speaker 20 (26:06):
Good morning, greetings from the Eastern Panhandle.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Glad to have you on a This is a weird subject.
It goes a lot of weird directions when we start
getting into marijuana, medical use, recreational use, and it's reclassification.
So from your point of view, is this a step
in the right direction to reclassify it? And again, this
is the President's order doesn't do that. It pushes the

(26:30):
AG to do that. But is it a good idea
to reclassify it from Schedule one to Schedule three?

Speaker 20 (26:35):
Very good question, and it is a little bit confusing
right to the average person. What's going on here? I
think it's a bad idea. A Schedule one drug has
no medical use, it is a complete controlled substance. By
expediting this change to making it a Schedule three drug,

(26:58):
which yes, started under President Biden's administration, basically makes it
a significant shift and makes marijuana seem less risky than
it is. And right now, with all the drug problems
we have in this country, marijuana, our current marijuana these days,

(27:22):
is not the marijuana of your grandfather's sixties nineteen sixties.
It has been genetically modified, it is stronger. We are
seeing THHC levels of ninety nine percent in this marijuana,
and the last thing we need to do is normalize it.
Now this does this mean I don't believe that if

(27:43):
someone is smoking marijuana in their home we should raid
their house and arrest them. But there are a lot
of complications with marijuana youth, especially among youth and the workforce.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
Right now, one of the oh there we go, sorry
about that, I was on vacation, didn't hit the right button,
no problem. One of the criticisms that I hear from
folks that do want to legalize marijuana, they are quick
to point out that alcohol is more addictive than marijuana,

(28:19):
and yet we're not regulating alcohol. We're not trying to
pull alcohol off of the shelves. What would you say
to that criticism.

Speaker 20 (28:27):
We are regulating out. Well, there's two things. One, we
are regulating alcohol. Do you go and stop at convenience
stores and buy alcohol that hasn't been through the governmental process.
You can go to smoke shops and children are buying
these THHC vapes and over across the border. I don't
live too far from the Maryland border. A thirteen year

(28:48):
old child was vaping THHC and walked into traffic last
month because he felt so bad. He wanted the feeling
to stop. We make it accessible, and children think it's
okay to do because they hear, oh, it's not bad,
let's legalize it. So that is very concerning.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Aaron you mentioned, and I've heard some of the same
from sources who would know. Let me put it that way,
sources who would know that today's marijuana is nothing like
you said the sixties, we think smoking a joint, you're
thinking part in the comparison cheech and chong, that sort
of thing. And the source who said who would know
told me back in the day it would get you high.

(29:35):
This stuff will knock you on your hind end. So
what happened in the last thirty forty years.

Speaker 20 (29:41):
It has been a lot of illicit drugs have been
genetically altered. You're seeing that with seven Oh, which I've
done a whole episode on, also known as gas station Heroin,
and they're doing it with marijuana, and it is leading
to psychosis. If you all, my podcasts and substack are free,

(30:02):
anyone can listen. I have interviewed doctor after doctor where
they're seeing psychosis present and teens messing up their schooling.
And if you have a underlying mental health condition but
didn't know it and you take this drug, it will
present and present in the worst ways. We are finding

(30:23):
it's causing strokes lower IQ. Every day we are finding
out the negative effects of genetically modified marijuana. And in fact,
last week the Journal of American Medicine put out a
study saying that people using medical marijuana weren't even seeing
that much benefit, and in fact, thirty percent of them

(30:46):
were becoming daily addicted users. And to the question on alcohol,
people who drink alcohol one in ten use it daily.
Marijuana now one into our using it daily. We have
let not only the government, but then the culture tell

(31:07):
us this is safe, this does not cause harm. And
you know here what our state has been through with
the opioid epidemic that has been going on how long?
And I think since the nineties when oxy cotton came
on the scene. Do we now know that ventinyl nitizine

(31:28):
surf fentanyl would be surfacing and that we're still dealing
with it as a state and a society. West Virginia
News just reported last I think it was in October,
a teenage girl in Berkeley County died from using marijuana
with lace with sentinel and she probably thought, well, why

(31:50):
can't I get it cheaper another way? And marijuana there's
no harm in it. This is a very complex issue
and I don't think where we're at as a society
we understand the long term ramifications.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
Talk to me about why marijuana has been genetically manipulated,
not knowing what I don't know, but working off of
the example Dave was talking about someone he spoke to. Okay,
it'll get you high. Why isn't that enough? Because if
you have a product people want and it goes far enough,
why do you got to take it even further and

(32:26):
risk some kind of additional bad outcome. I'm just trying
to understand why somebody would do that.

Speaker 20 (32:33):
Well, oh well, in melyssa drug space. Even if it
is maybe you can buy it at a gas station
or a smoke shop. Once you use it once and
then you want it again, you're looking for the next high.
It's the same thing when you think of heroin to fentanyl.

(32:53):
Once you start using, you want more and more and more.
So the people selling you want to get you home
and chasing that next buzz. This is about money at
the end of the day. With de scheduling or a
lower scheduling level, this is giving big business who were

(33:15):
not able to get tax breaks when you are a
Schedule one drug you cannot take certain tax deductions. Now
they are going to which is as a Schedule three.
And some of these businesses, sadly, they were donors to
the President's inaugural committee. They had been lobbying him very

(33:35):
very hard on this there's a lot of money in it,
just like tobacco, and who pays the consequences in society,
It's going to be the state and our families and
our children. But there's going to be a lot of
freed up money in the marijuana industry to target our
kids with social media, network advertising, direct advertising, texting, you

(33:59):
name it. That's what they're going to do. And that's
a big problem to me.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Is there also and we're talking to Aaron Delulu she's
a host of the Poisoning podcast and uh are you
on substack? Is that where you're so?

Speaker 20 (34:12):
My newsletters on substack? You can find my podcast on Apple, Spotify,
all the usual places the Poisoning Podcast.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
I am a subscriber, by the way, just saying share.
But there's also a push or is there a push
to also expand the limits of how much THHC can
be uh in mariw in marijuana that's being sold at
these commercial stats.

Speaker 20 (34:35):
We'll see, well, we will wait and see. Like right
now you cannot buy a codein coded tail and all right,
you have to have it prescribed and that I don't
think these businesses care about that. This is this is profit,

(34:56):
This is not medical This is not, you know, solving
a health issue. These are about profits, and when I
think about it, it's just the worst in our society
with the addiction issues.

Speaker 5 (35:11):
Given the black market, wouldn't it be better to legalize
this or at least continue this framework that the President
has suggested, and have some level of federal regulation as
you mentioned, as we do with alcohol, so we can keep,
to Davi's point, the high THHC stuff off the streets
and maybe ding the black market to some degree. Wouldn't

(35:32):
that be better than just continuing the path we're on
and people getting hold of the bad stuff anyway they can't.

Speaker 20 (35:39):
We don't even necessarily think, well, this is a good question.
But I don't think they're going to be able to
control it as much as they think they can. I mean,
we have legalization in some states, and how's it going
right now? Main and Massa Sis two. I wouldn't call

(36:02):
those red states. I call them blue states. Are actually
looking to put on the ballot to rescind their legalization.
Three states last year, including Florida, failed in legalizing marijuana.
Because you can't control it, can we? I mean, if
you this rug world we're living in it, whether it

(36:24):
be illicit drugs or even some of these so called
legal drugs. In certain states, the state and society cannot
keep up with the fallout from it. Even in Oregon,
when they had decriminalized fentanel by a vote by a
popular vote, they went back because nothing good happened from it.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Talking to Aaron Delulo, host of the Poisoning Podcast that
you can also find her newsletter if it were to
be I guess this is kind of piggyback and TJ's question.
If it were to be federally regulated? Would that discourage
the black market?

Speaker 6 (37:03):
Though?

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Wouldn't that take the dealers off the streets or at
least take that away from them as an option the
cartels as an option? Would that would that put them
out of business?

Speaker 20 (37:12):
I mean again, heroin, fentonal, cocaine, meth. Are they on business?
We may have a lower overdose rate currently, which is wonderful,
but that doesn't mean we have a lower addiction rates
right now, and sadly we have we have El Chapo
in our jails and these drugs are still coming through.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
What do we do?

Speaker 1 (37:39):
What do we do now?

Speaker 20 (37:41):
We have education and prevention. I know it's so fresh,
believe me. It's so frustrating when I talk to parents
who don't even say carry narcan on them, or have
it in their home, or are unaware of what's going on.
And I will give some credit where credits due. So
the Attorney General of Kentucky, he has just led the

(38:04):
effort to schedule Roma's a lamb which is a benzo diasaphine.
May have butchered that A little bit, very long word,
got it. So you know, twenty one a state ags
have asked the administration and they're now in the process
of scheduling one that because it is killing people and

(38:27):
it is highly addictive and there's no medical use for it.
And that's what we need to think about. How many
kids are getting psychosis? Are we having lower IQs? And oh,
back to workforce. There are companies now developing these testing
systems for THHC. Because our workforce, our bus drivers, our pilots,

(38:48):
you know, folks like that, we need to be testing
them for THHD. It's becoming that prevalent and China and
India aren't doing this. I think this hurts us not
only as a fan families in society, but as a
workforce as well.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Aaron D. Lulo, host of the Poisoning Podcast. Where can
we find your podcast? A newsletter?

Speaker 18 (39:08):
One more time?

Speaker 20 (39:10):
So I'm on Instagram, the Poisoning Pod, substack the Poisoning Podcast,
and then you can find it wherever great podcasts are available.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Aaron, We always appreciate it. Merry Christmas, happy holiday is,
Happy New Year, all the above.

Speaker 20 (39:25):
Merry Christmas, gentlemen, Bye.

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Speaker 5 (43:12):
At that point, my wife doesn't allow me to have
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Speaker 1 (43:18):
Let's get a couple of texts in here, three or
four to talk, three or four. Alcohol kills more people
to marijuana, and it's on my TV every day. We
have had this war on drugs since the seventies. Look
where we are. I agree with your caller about the drugs.
Why can't you do a segment about the billions of
honest taxpayer dollars that the governor, DA mayor and congresswoman
allowed to be stolen in Minnesota. I'm seventy five, still working,

(43:39):
and it fries my behind. Democrats care more for illegal
criminals than Americans. I will just answer that with we're
not in Minnesota. If we were in Minnesota, we would
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Speaker 5 (43:54):
Are you shocked that there's fraud in the system though,
I don't think either of us are just to point
that out.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
But no, And they're fraud with every governmental system at
some to some degree. It's a staple of the government.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
If it's it's either unintentional inefficiency or fraud, you're gonna
find it almost everywhere.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
And the two seem to go hand in hand.

Speaker 5 (44:15):
Anyway, Well, there you go, all.

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Coming up top of the hour, Taylor Richmond's going to
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He has a different take on the rescheduling of marijuana. Plus.
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(48:00):
of the hour. We'll talk about what Congress did or
more about what it did not do before heading home
before the Christmas break. Say good morning once again to TJ.
Meadows from the Charleston Studios. Morning, Sir, good morning to you, sir.

Speaker 5 (48:13):
And yet another example on reading the news during the break, Dave,
another example of how the Trump administration is not conservative,
not free market. They come out today and they basically
cancel the leases on Coastal Virginia offshore wind. That's a
project owned by Dominion. We've heard a lot about the Menion.
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side in West Virginia. Their stock goes down four percent.
The White House says, well, national security concerns, can't build
out there, Get out of the way and let the
market do what the market does. Dominion wouldn't be building
these things unless they had an off taker for them.
They wouldn't be putting that capital up unless they knew
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(48:55):
will adjust to risk if there's a national security concern,
if somebody's going to blow these things to smithereens, the
market will price risk that. Get out of the way
and let the market do what the market does.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Which is why the government should get out of the
way and legalize marijuana.

Speaker 4 (49:10):
Right.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Well, let's see, Well, let's ask Taylor Richmond. He is
chair of the West Virginia Libertarian Party. That's the best
way I could segue that, TJ. That's all I had.
Taylor Choice in studio here in Morgantown.

Speaker 8 (49:24):
Again.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
He's the chair by the West Virginia Libertarian Party.

Speaker 23 (49:27):
Morning Taylor, Good morning, gentlemen. Thanks for having me back on.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
Appreciate you stop and buy everything ready to go. Christmas
a couple of days away.

Speaker 8 (49:33):
Good to go.

Speaker 23 (49:34):
Festivus is tomorrow more, Yes it is. We got some grievances,
but something to celebrate here with the reclassification of marijuana.
So I wanted to come back in and be in
person so that you can see that I'm a relatively
clean cut, upstanding, at least on the surface individual and
not your cliche Republican who likes marijuana with dreads and
a grateful dead T shirt. Bourbon's my vice of choice.

(49:57):
But wanted to come on and celebrate this minor victory
that we got from the Trump administration.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
All right, let me give the official setup again in
case you missed. At last hour, the Trump Administration or
President Trump, signed an executive ordered last week to expedite
the reclassification of marijuana from Schedule one to Schedule three.
The order directs Attorney General pam BONDI to hasten the
process of loosing federal restrictions, but does not include a timeline.

(50:23):
This does not make it legal at the federal level.
You said it's a small victory.

Speaker 23 (50:28):
Why, well, it's a small victory because what reclassification down
to Class three does is allows for additional research of
THHG marijuana as well as loosening some restrictions around banking
for cannabis companies who are already kind of in that
space where there are a lot of gray areas. But
as you mentioned, what it doesn't do is legalize it.
So unless you have an actual prescription for it, possession

(50:51):
can still be a federal helony, which can then infringe
upon your rights as a Second Amendment gun carrier. So
it does not go as far as we would like,
we would eventually like to see legalization. We know and
have said since the foundation of our party over fifty
years ago, that prohibition does not work. It has never
worked since the nineteen twenties when we tried it with

(51:12):
alcohol and we gave rise to the black market. Around
that that birth, the organized crime and the mob and
the federal government poisoned American citizens by putting toxins in
industrial alcohols that they knew folks were actually drinking and
converting from drinking uses. And fast forward to the day
when we have the war on drugs. It is as
much of a failure as the war on poverty in

(51:33):
the war on terror. So we want to see a legalization.
We can get back to some normalcy and some common
sense around the drug crisis. And as your previous guest
was talking about addiction and other problems that arise around substances,
and we can be happy to talk more about that.

Speaker 5 (51:50):
Taylor, good morning, sir. Merry Christmas to you. Thanks for
coming in appreciating Christmas, Sir.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
I want to get right to brass tacks.

Speaker 5 (51:58):
I don't know that I really care whether or not
someone smokes marijuana, whether or not they do a certain drug,
whether or not they drink alcohol to excess. I'll tell
you what I do care about. I care about it
if that cost is somehow passed on to me. So
if you smoke ten packs a day, I'm not entirely
confident that that's not passed on into my medical premiums.

(52:18):
And I don't smoke at all. Same with marijuana. If
there's some kind of downside to it, and I think
we can have the argument that potentially there could be
how can you assure those out there who would want
to fall into that stance, let live, let' do what
you do, that there won't be a spillover into society
that I have to pay for if I'm not the
one partake.

Speaker 23 (52:36):
Well, I know that the slippery slope is a logical
fallacy here, DJ, But let's go down that road and
talk about you know, bad eating habits and all kinds
of other things that we do as Americans regularly that
could increase our premiums because of OBCD, heart disease, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. Right, so, I think you have
to take insurance premiums kind of off the table in

(52:58):
that regard. But I think there are are still viral
concerns about uses of substances and negative effects on other
people drunk driving, for example, driving while under the influence
of marijuana, so on and so forth. And if you
lose control of your vehicle and cause bodily harm to
somebody else, that is still a crime. That is, you
are still liable for the costs associated with that. But
as you allude, to if you're utilizing marijuana or any

(53:20):
other substance in your home, doing no harm to yourself,
that should be i llegal right that you have as
a as a citizen.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
This is just about money, isn't it.

Speaker 23 (53:28):
The two guys everything is well.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
I mean, the CEO of True Leave, a cannabis company,
and the CEO of Scott's Miracle Growth. Imagine that a
fertilizer company are the two biggest the two biggest lobbyists
for this and this is all just about commercializing this
and making as much profit as possible.

Speaker 23 (53:45):
Well, and on the flip side is like, why would
you want to keep it off? Because we realize and
we're coming to realize that marijuana and THHC is a
viable alternative to the opioid crisis that we have in
the United States, pushed on us by medical professionals and
big pharma, which has probably ravaged more homes and lives
than marijuana could ever dream of. Right, but it has money.
On that side, if people can't legally utilize marijuana as

(54:08):
a or easily utilize marijuana as an alternative to pain
medication for chronic pain, then they have to take the
pills that are prescribed to them by big pharmasts. So
someone's always making money off of it, right, So it's
just a matter of who and what is the best
option for individuals.

Speaker 5 (54:24):
Let's talk about degrees. Would the Libertarian Party be in
favor of a limit on a THHC percentage? Aaron talked
about the fact that your father's your grandfather's marijuana isn't
the marijuana today, It's got much more THHC. Should there
be a limit on how much TC is in there?
Would the Libertarian Party support that kind of construct So speaking.

Speaker 23 (54:45):
For myself and not necessarily the party as a whole,
but I think we can take a pragmatic approach, right.
I don't think that anything any solution by snapping your
fingers and getting to our final goal is the best
way to go. Libertarian Party as a whole, legalization of
all substances, but that doesn't make sense in the real world.
So if starting by reclassification and putting limits on the

(55:07):
amount is a way for us to realize that marijuana
is not the scary thing that your previous guest wants
us to believe it is, then let's go down that route.
You know what's interesting is the one substance that we've
actually really drastically reduced the use of in American society
is cigarettes. And how did we do that. We didn't
do it by or having a prohibition on them. We

(55:30):
had a social approach to making it one understood that
they are not healthy for you, but also that it's
kind of just ugly when you smoke cigarettes, and they
smell bad and all these other kind of things. Right,
And we have reduced the use of tobacco in that capacity.
You can do the same thing with marijuana and with
other substances as well. Utilizing social pressures instead of the

(55:51):
government is a much better solution to these problems of
addiction and other uses of things we don't want to have.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
You can't smoke anywhere, what do you mean, we haven't
had a prohibition, But.

Speaker 23 (56:00):
You can still go to you can go to Gomart
and other supporters of this station and purchase them legally
as long as you're twenty one, right, So you can
still access and it's still legal to have and possess
and utilize cigarettes. But we as a society have put
social pressures on the use and consumption of tobacco and
cigarette form, and we've seen a drastic decrease over the

(56:21):
past twenty years and its use. So we can do
the same thing with marijuana, with cocaine, with other substances
in a much better way, a much safer way, and
one that doesn't flood our prisons with non violent drug offenders,
which in West Virginia cost us what five million dollars
last year to send the National Guard in to help
monitor and secure, and doesn't ruin countless families by putting

(56:42):
people in prison for the minor possession of a plant,
which is much safer than the opioids that were pushed
down our throat by big pharma and medical professionals.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
Who do you think if we get to the point
of legalization, who do you think is going to be
running the marijuana industry. It's not going to be Uncle
Bob growing weed out in the backyard. It'll be big
companies like Big Pharma. They're the ones who are going
to control and regulated.

Speaker 23 (57:00):
Unfortunately more than likely because Big Farmer has their hand
in Washington's back pocket. But again that's a whole other
larger conversation about libertarian free market principles is to say,
if you get government out of corporatism, which is very
different from capitalism. Then we have a much better fairer
way to go about regulating the market in the in
the in the short term, and the long term really,

(57:23):
and then your Uncle Bob's dispensary will have an availability
to compete much easier than they do now against the
major true leafs and other companies that exist and are
given the green light by the federal and state governments.

Speaker 5 (57:34):
I love big business. I love small business. We can
argue about that another day, but I love big business.
Big business put food on my table at any rate.
Talk to me a little bit about some of these
hypotheticals that we may see with the use of marijuana.
So an employer, and I'm sure you would say employer

(57:56):
has a right to do whatever they want to do.
It's their business. What if me, as an employer, I
tell my employees, I'm not going to hire you if
you use marijuana. If I see you're testing positive for marijuana,
I'm going to fire you.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
Who's right? Who's wrong?

Speaker 23 (58:06):
The employer, the employer is The employer is now again
the same problem.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
The employer is right or the employer is wrong.

Speaker 23 (58:13):
The employer is right in their ability and their right
to do So now the problem is if marijuana, just
like alcohol or tobacco and cigarettes, it's such a common
utilized substance, then the market for you know, suitable employees
is going to be much lower than probably what they
will be able to do to maintain operations and competitiveness
in their industry, in their market. So then they'll have
to rethink that policy. And just like right now, if

(58:35):
I go to my employer and I say I have alcohol,
I'm an addict of alcohol, I need to go to AA,
I will be applauded. I will be like your brave
way to go. We'll get you the help that you need.
If I go and say I'm addicted to meth or
heroin or one of those terrible things, i'muckly fired. Right So,
because those are classified substances and it's a federal crime
to possess and to utilize them. But that what does

(58:57):
that do for the the addict? What is it for
the epidemic of addiction of these substances nationwide? It drives
people into the shadows. It makes it, you know, a
much harder thing for us to confront. So the free
market will handle that just like they've handled alcohol, just
like they've handled tobacco and people who are addicted and
utilized those substances heavily.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
Taylor Richmond joining us he as chairman of the West
Virginia Libertarian Party. Has this improved society in regions where
recreational marijuana has been legalized whereas is commonly used out in.

Speaker 23 (59:30):
Public, define improves society. I mean, I would say that
the tax revenue from the legalization or the legalization, but
the recreational use of marijuana has definitely provided, you know,
a base of support for a number of government agencies
which I don't support, but provide some benefits to those
areas and offset probably a number of pension deficits that

(59:52):
are causing cities like Pittsburgh right up the roads who
are facing a twenty five billion dollar deficit to be
able to offset some of those problems of me management
and corruption that you all talked about right before I
came on. So, yeah, it provided some benefit. But it's
a substance just like alcohol is, just like tobacco is,
that has its negative effects. And I'm not here promoting
the use of marijuana. Just the fact that prohibition on

(01:00:15):
it is a negative on society much more than the
use of it is because we just like I said,
we saw earlier than nineteen twenties of alcohol, we see
it now with this with war on drugs and all
drugs has not solved the problem that it was intended
to solve. Just like most problems government sets out to solve,
never actually gets solved, but gets worse.

Speaker 5 (01:00:34):
Talk about voters making a choice on this, let's take
the federal regulation off the table for a second. If
West Virginians want to endorse it on the ballot versus
I don't know Nebraskans who may not. What are your
thoughts on state my states? Or does that infringe on
individual liberty? From your point of view?

Speaker 23 (01:00:53):
Well, I would agree, I would say that it does
infringe upon individual liberty. I mean, democracy in its purest
sense is just two wolves voting to eat the one
lamb for dinner. Right, So it's just a matter of
who has a popular support. And there's a great quote
that you know nine people in robes four hundred and
thirty five or four and fifty five congressmen and one
hundred centers should have no right to remove or restrict

(01:01:15):
my rights. But I think it does allow us to
see in the idea of the bounding Fathers, the fifty
laboratories of liberty, what benefits and what actually doesn't work out?
So I think we're seeing Dave's last question. A number
of states who have allowed for recreational marijuana use the
benefits of the tax increase or the tax revenue, which

(01:01:37):
taxationist theft for all my libertarians listening, But it has
at least offset and proved that marijuana is not the
boogeyman that, as I said, your last guest and all
the other pearl Clutchers down in Charleston and everywhere else
want to make it out to be.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
Taylor, give me thirty seconds. What do you got planned
for twenty twenty six for the Libertarian Party?

Speaker 23 (01:01:55):
Well, stay tuned to our social tomorrow. It is best
of us will be sharing our gripes for the current
year and looking forward. Obviously, we're keeping a close eye
in the legislative session and what's going on down in Charleston.
In February March. I'm hoping that we might actually get
some tax cuts and con law repealed. But we'll have
our convention in March out in Martinsburg and looking to

(01:02:16):
put some candidates up to fill some seats here in
the State Lege. So curn a round.

Speaker 5 (01:02:20):
So let me just follow up quickly on it. They've
forgive me you, Shaid. Taxation is theft, But we have
to tax something, we have to pay for something. What
about consumption tax?

Speaker 23 (01:02:27):
Consumption taxes are the best kind of taxes, if you
have to rank them on a scale of terrible to
less terrible, just because the individual gets the right to
choose where they and what they purchase.

Speaker 4 (01:02:37):
Right.

Speaker 23 (01:02:38):
You don't forced to pay at the barrel of a
gun your income tax and get thrown in jail. If
you don't pay that, you just don't buy that thing.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
Terrible to less terrible. That's actually how we write this
show on most James.

Speaker 23 (01:02:50):
Well, it's less terrible now that TJ's back.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
See what he did there, TJ. I saw what he
did there. I don't know whether it be sad for
you or flattered for me, but a little Colum, Little
columby Taylor's last appearance on the show. So it's all good, Taylor,
thanks for stopping by, buddy. Thanks gentlemen, Taylor Richmond, chairman
of the Westernian Libertarian Party. We'll get your phone calls
and text right after this.

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Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
Brian schmell as Fox News Radio the bottom of the hour,
will join us from Capitol Hill. Let's get some of
your comments. Let's go to the phones. Ralph in Tays Valley, Hey, Ralph,
what's on your mind?

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Buddy?

Speaker 26 (01:05:12):
Heyboddy, I was just listening to you guys. There are
men to go and your libertarian candidate just or your
libertarian friends, made one glaring mistake. He said that he
should go and get help to his employer. He could
get help if he had tobacco or alcohol addiction, but
he couldn't for anything else. As long as the man

(01:05:33):
hadn't tested dirty. He can go to his companies and
asking for helping. By federal law, they're required to help him.
He's nita. He's cherry picking the facts he wants to use.
He's using it for the legal addictions, but not the
illegal ones. And that's not right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
Ralph appreciate the phone call. Merry Christmas as well. Let's
get some text in here before the news three or
four talk three oh four that the guys started smoking
medical marijuana back in the early seventies. It's an old
remedy and cure all. Back in the day it was
called Indian tobacci. Grandpaul would send us to pick him
a pokeful every once in a while. It has successfully

(01:06:15):
replaced xanax or oxy cotton, and we'd used to be
a lot stronger. Nothing like Panama red to make your day,
says the Texter. Bottom line is everything is Trump's fault. Well, yeah,
I think you hit the nail on the head there.
Thank you, Taylor, A voice of sanity in an insane world,
Texter says, it's just me or as the Libertarian Party

(01:06:36):
as nuts as the Democrat Party. Sure, no taxes, let
the country implode. Sure legalized pot and see an already
weak workforce get smaller. I swear you must be successfully
fail an intelligence test to be able to run for
political office. They're all morons, says the Texter.

Speaker 5 (01:06:54):
Don't sugarcoat it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:56):
That has nothing to do with what we're talking about.
Right at the moment. Let me see through a talk
three or four. Want to sum up America's drug policies.
Listen to Frank Zappa. Yum yum tree. He nailed it,
says the Texter.

Speaker 5 (01:07:08):
I'm sitting here doing some reading about why it was
banned in the first place, nineteen thirty seven, the Marijuana
Tax Act, And I have to tell you, from what
I'm reading here, this was more trying to get it
banned because certain industries didn't like hemp and they wanted
their industry to prosper and hemp not to politics. I mean,

(01:07:29):
the American Medical Association opposed the nineteen thirty seven Marijuana
Tax Act. I'm not saying they would do that today,
but I always think it's interesting why did we do
in the first place? There you go money in politics, taxes,
et cetera.

Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
Three or four talk three oh four. Has anyone died
from coffee being laced with fentanyl? C You can regulate
a very popular, let highly addictive drug and keep it
safe from evil doers who would poise and our children,
Texter says. Over eating, smoking, dipping, Copenhagen, vaping, chemicals, all
capital d affect our insurance premium premiums. Cannabis is low

(01:08:12):
man on the TOTEM poll. When we talk about the
effects to society, research as limited as it has shown,
it has more benefits than downsides, says the Texter Well
switch gears. We'll talk about what Congress, more about what
Congress probably did not do before the Christmas break. Ryan
Schmells Fox News Radio will join us from DC. More

(01:08:33):
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Speaker 1 (01:12:38):
Three or four Talk three or four is the text
line eight hundred and seven to sixty five eight two
five five is the phone number going to connect with
Ryan Schmells Fox News Radio if he doesn't forget about us.
I went through the proper channels this morning, Tjay. I
did the thing. You clicked the button and you booked
the big time Fox News guy.

Speaker 5 (01:13:02):
I just sent him a text, say, hey, what are
you doing? Want to come on today? That works too?

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
Oh No, I try. I try to do the proper thing.
They get mad at you.

Speaker 5 (01:13:08):
You know, he's low maintenance. He doesn't tell on us
when we do that.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
So you're saying Halpern Halpurn's a tattletale.

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (01:13:16):
I didn't, may Wow? Did I say that? I? I
said that. Oh how about here's a quick story for
you while we wait on Yeah man Halpern or uh?
Who's coming on? Shmells Smells scrolling through Facebook during the break,
and you know, memories pop up and remind you, hey,
six years ago today you were and so this this
picture pops up six years ago today, I was working

(01:13:38):
with Marshall Basketball out at Northern Iowa and we flew out,
we were actually flying, I flew separate from the team.
We met up in I met them out there, and
then we flew back through Chicago. But TJ. That was
December twenty nineteen, and I was just telling Jake, the producer,
that one of the assistant coaches at the time for
Marshall was a guy from Eastern Europe and he was

(01:14:00):
wearing a mask. Insisted on wearing a mask through the
airport and on the plane because that weird virus from
China that everybody was talking about had been detected at
I think we were going through O'Hara O'Hara Airport in Chicago, eh.
And then he said, you guys, you guys are going
to you're going to see I'm right, you should be
wearing one of these things. And we all laughed at

(01:14:20):
him and lo and behold what two months later, two
months later, Little did I know that was going to
be one of the last basketball games I would do
for a while. But two months later it all broke loose,
maybe more like three I think it was March, right
late February.

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
Yeah, late February because we had at the time we
owned a business that was heavy for Valentine's Day and
we had just gotten through Valentine's Day. After that, thing
kind of settled in and yeah, then.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
Well we were at the state turn we were at
the girls basketball tournament when when COVID when the governor
shut things down?

Speaker 5 (01:14:53):
Yeah, yeah, in fact, about a month later.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
Yeah, in fact, I remember the night before the governor
shuts every down. He was sitting in the arena. He
was scouting because this team was supposed to play the
next day. Yeah. Yeah, I was sitting right there in
the arena amongst the rest of us. And then shut
it all down the next day. A memory, such great memories.
I brought that up. But thanks Facebook for jogging my
memory of that. I had forgotten all about it.

Speaker 5 (01:15:16):
Actually, I was cleaning a trunk out in my office
last week and I found a whole box of it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:22):
What is it, the N one mask, the one that
was really good.

Speaker 5 (01:15:25):
Oh yeah, that you couldn't get anywhere. I founally got
a hold of some and uh so you were there,
you were hoarding them all.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
I didn't hoard them all.

Speaker 5 (01:15:33):
This was well into the pandemic and by the time
they said, yeah, you really want an end one mask.
I mean this is after it had been going on
for a while. Truth be told. I used to use
them because I'm allergic to grass. Oh, so I'd put
them on when I was mowing grass to try to
not sneeze my head off. But I'm like, man, these
things used to.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
Be worth something.

Speaker 5 (01:15:53):
Not I don't know if they're still good or not.
I had to put them back in there because I thought, well,
the next pandemic and better than nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
You know, historical archives right there are you know, you
can save them and tell your grandchildren one day. GOODBNDY.
I don't know how we went down that well, it
was all my fault because of Facebook, see social media.
I tried to defend it last week. Now it's you're right,
it's ruining everything.

Speaker 5 (01:16:18):
It's necessary evil.

Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
Let's go to DC Fox News radios. Ryan Schmells joins us. Ryan,
good morning, glad you could join us.

Speaker 4 (01:16:24):
Of course, good morne.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
So Congress is on holiday break, but didn't get anything
done before it walked out the door.

Speaker 4 (01:16:32):
He got the NDAA don which is pretty big. But
besides that, you know, yeah, it was there the the
and you know, the Epstein Files vote happened, you know,
but they're coming back from in January still needing to
get the government funded and also figure out something on
this healthcare situation, so you know, there's still a lot

(01:16:52):
to do.

Speaker 5 (01:16:53):
Back to the NDAA, what all did they Christmas Tree
on this go around, because they're always trying to put
stuff in knowing that we have to pass that. For
the military, what did they sneak in this go around on.

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
US plus nine hundred and spending a pay increase for troops.
The probably the big thing that stands out with this
one that is most notable would probably be the provision
in there that would require Secretary of Hexat to give
up portions of his travel budget if he does not
release the fully redacted or fully unredacted video of the

(01:17:27):
Venezuelan boat strikes, particularly the double tap situation that has
gotten a lot of criticism from Democrats. So that's probably
one of the most notable things in there that stands out.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
Fox News Radios Ryan Schmels is joining us, So Ryan,
nothing got situated or solved with the healthcare subsidies, the
ACA subsidies. So when Congress returns they have a funding
deadline of January thirtieth. How are those two things going
to I worked in concert or you'd be used.

Speaker 4 (01:17:59):
As left rige what to wait and see? I mean,
certainly you know where there is a question. Since Democrats
have not gotten a deal on health care, they're going
to do exactly what they did in the previous government
funding situation. Now keep in mind this one might be
a little different because it doesn't appear that a CR
is on the table as time the ideas actually get done.
The appropriations bills, and those are currently being negotiated in

(01:18:25):
what appears to be good faith. So if Democrats negotiate
the bills and get some of their priorities in there,
and and the negotiators agree to it, including one you know,
one of the lead negotiators is a member of Democratic
leadership in the Senate, are they going to just ignore
what they did and go forward with trying to shut
the government down again, or are they just going to

(01:18:47):
you know, accept what happens and pass the bills. There's
a lot, you know, questions surrounding that.

Speaker 5 (01:18:53):
People will start paying these What the subsidies expired December
thirty one, so come January first, I mean they kick in.
Is this Congress sending a hard nosed message saying, hey, sorry,
but this.

Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
Is how it's going to be, we can't afford everything anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:19:09):
Well maybe, but that's that's certainly there's some Republicans who
have that mindset. But I think you know, if you're
going to talk to Speaker Johnson and some of the
other members of leadership, I think their message is that,
you know, Democrats are going to learn to take yes
and no for an answer on something because they're not
going to just expand this program with how significant reforms.

(01:19:29):
And if Democrats want to put a clean extension of
three years on the table, that's just not going to
get the votes for Republicans. So Democrats have to be
open to maybe a one or two year extension with
significant changes to the program, and if not, well they're
not going to be able to pass anything.

Speaker 1 (01:19:44):
Fox News Radios Ryan Schmell is joining us here on
Metro News talk Line. Ryan, I know most of the
congressmen and women all went home for the holidays, but
you hearing any reaction, any buzz around DC after the
release of the Epstein files on Friday.

Speaker 4 (01:19:58):
No I was on vacation don't too much of a
reaction to that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
So that's where you were all I saw your Your
name wasn't on the list at all last week. That's
where you were.

Speaker 4 (01:20:09):
I was in I was in Florida and living my life.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
Nice. Nice.

Speaker 4 (01:20:13):
I didn't I didn't watch any news. It is great.
So I mean, yes, I was totally up to date
with everything.

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
Yeah, yeah, So what does a news guy do on vacation.
You go to the beach, You take it easy. Let's
talk about your vacation.

Speaker 4 (01:20:25):
Then I went, I went on the beach, I did
some line dancing. I I did all the things that
Ryan Schmells likes to do, watch some football, A little
miss one by the way, But yeah, no, it was
it was good family time day.

Speaker 5 (01:20:38):
The least line dancing. I mean, do you have your
boots on or you're out there doing that thing? I mean, yeah,
I want to have pictured you as a line dancer.
If I'm being completely honest.

Speaker 4 (01:20:46):
Wow wow, And you're saying I look like a yuppie.

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
I'm saying that for your age. I just don't think.
God love you, man, I love you. That's all too
love to.

Speaker 4 (01:21:03):
What yuppie?

Speaker 1 (01:21:04):
No line dancing?

Speaker 4 (01:21:06):
Oh uh not? Really actually learning most of it in DC,
really believe or not. Yeah, we have a pretty big
line dance community here, and after doing it in Miami
and uh, you know, the southwest Florida, I've learned that
we should not take our line dance community for granted because, uh,
you know where we do it. We enforce a strict

(01:21:26):
no drinks on the dance store policy. At the place
I went to in right outside Miami, they did not
enforce that, and I nearly slipped and fell several times
because of beer.

Speaker 1 (01:21:38):
On somebody else's no.

Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
Yeah, I mean like the people to spill it because
they're dancing with drinks in their hands and it's gone
flying everywhere. And next thing, you know, someone's like, I'm.

Speaker 5 (01:21:49):
Just making sure you're practicing what you preach, that's all.

Speaker 4 (01:21:52):
Yeah, Oh yeah, no, I you get yelled at here.
We have a guy on the microphone only screamed at you.
And so when I wore my care and Halloween costume,
I made sure to make enforcing it much easier, Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:22:06):
You know, TJ. The real takeaway from this whole conversation
is DC has a very strong line dancing community, which
I never knew. You've been to DC. You spent a
lot of time in d C. Did you know that?

Speaker 5 (01:22:17):
I didn't know that, but when when Schmels told me that,
it made me go back to that. Remember when the Democrats,
I think was back in the Clinton years at the convention,
they all did the macarena. I mean, talk about embarrassing.

Speaker 1 (01:22:27):
That's that's why you made me think of this morning Brine.

Speaker 8 (01:22:30):
You know that video?

Speaker 1 (01:22:31):
Have you seen that? No?

Speaker 4 (01:22:33):
But I I don't think. Maybe we've done like the
mockarina once or twice.

Speaker 5 (01:22:38):
So if you want to feel really bad for someone
and just like be like, oh my, I have pity
on those people, google Democrat convention doing the macharna and
then you'll feel really bad for Democrats if you didn't already.
But they are.

Speaker 4 (01:22:52):
They won that election, didn't they.

Speaker 5 (01:22:55):
Well, I guess that's one reason to do the macarrea.
I would rather lost the election though, personally.

Speaker 4 (01:23:00):
Have that on youtubees right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
I think it was mid nineties.

Speaker 4 (01:23:03):
Yeah, it worked out.

Speaker 8 (01:23:06):
It is a.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
It's two days before Christmas. Smells has nothing to do
in DC. Everybody's at home and this is where we are.

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
Ryan, keep it that way.

Speaker 1 (01:23:19):
Anybody always appreciate it. Thanks, for checking in.

Speaker 4 (01:23:21):
Of course, let's do this one more time for Christmas
if we can.

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
All right, we might have you back to Christmas Eve.
If you're not doing anything in the morning, I'm nothing
better to do. That's a ringing endorsement. Thanks, Ryan, appreciated.

Speaker 4 (01:23:35):
Love you guys. I love you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
Anybody Ryan smells Fox News Radio Line Dancer didn't have
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Speaker 5 (01:23:42):
That wasn't on my being go card with him. I
didn't see him. I mean, you go and you look
at some of his photos, his head shots like on
his and you know, he's to the nines. Just doesn't
seem like a country kind of guy. Although I will
say this, he did tell me Dave a couple of
weeks back when I did the show you were on vacation.
We got to talking about both, uh, both of us
liking shooting handguns, and I told him I have this

(01:24:04):
thing called TJ shoot Apalooza where we all go down
to the range and just bring all the guns that
you own and we throw like some object like that.
One time we use an old toilet and just threw
it out in the range and blew at the smith reens.
And he wanted to be all in on that, so
you know, maybe.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
Maybe old miss Guy Hatty Toddy whatever, haughty fine dancer
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Speaker 1 (01:27:28):
I just spent that entire break, I know, watching the
Democratic National Convention from nineteen ninety six. She see Hillary
so many shoulder pads, bad haircuts, a lot of pleated khakis. Man,
the nineties were great, weren't they.

Speaker 5 (01:27:47):
Yeah, Sliquity had the good sense to just walk around
and shake hands and just bob the head every now
and then.

Speaker 1 (01:27:52):
He knew, he knew that the Internet was a thing.
He's even the thumbs up and you know, shaking hands.

Speaker 5 (01:27:58):
Hillary, on the other hand, I mean, she's up there
clapping with her head nod just like good night.

Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
How can politicians who are so well you know Clinton
was pretty good, so he didn't dance, But how other
politicians did you? I don't get this. Are so good
at reading the room and being able to you know,
and then for some reason decide to dance. It's not
a good look, man, don't do it. This is the urge.

Speaker 5 (01:28:22):
Well, and even if something is acceptable, then there's always
the aging factor. And this is an example of something
that did not age well. It just didn't go watch
it though. Hey you know what put a smile.

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
On my face.

Speaker 5 (01:28:36):
So hey, thanks, hell appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
Three or four made my day. I'm so glad you
brought that up. Three or four talk three h four
textas says Tell Schmells, Glen Echo Park is awesome. If
he doesn't already know, Spanish ballroom is a giant barn,
all right, This text says, I'd love to take part
of the next toilet shebang. Where's the sign up? You've
started something there.

Speaker 5 (01:28:57):
I gotta get management's approval and the insurance and everything.

Speaker 1 (01:28:59):
But we'll see democrats doing macarena? What about Milania reading
Michelle Obama's convention speech word for word insanity. See, we
were just trying to have some fun. We just try
to have some fun. Watch Trump do the YMCA. If
we're still here in let's see ninety six. Was how
long ago is that? Twenty years ago? Now thirty years here? Yeah,

(01:29:25):
all right, if we're still here in thirty years, we
will rate the Trump dance thirty years from now, which
I'm sure we'll be laughing at thirty years from now.

Speaker 5 (01:29:33):
You know, the kids will, because you know, I was,
I was sixteen at the time when this thing and you.

Speaker 1 (01:29:39):
Were doing and you were doing the macarena, don't lie
at the high school dance at the prom, you were
doing the macarena.

Speaker 5 (01:29:46):
Oh yeah, the slide. Everybody did the electric slide. Everybody
still does the electric slide. Yeah, and that whole Chodshaw
slide thing was I was already grown up after that.
That was the big one. I think the kids were
doing for a while.

Speaker 1 (01:29:57):
That Charlie Brown Oh yeah, oh yeah, texts says, doing
the electric slide counter to the rest of the group.
There you go, Dave Wim Will Jeff be reading Christmas
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(01:30:21):
know if it's eleven thirty or eleven forty five. I
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holiday week. It feels like a holiday week. We will
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you what movies to look out for over Christmas for TJ,
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