The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - January 27, 2023


Episode 85 LIVE： Backbenching with Burchett (feat. Rep. Tim Burchett) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz


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In this episode, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) joins Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to discuss the ongoing saga of Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican who took a knee during the national anthem.

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00:00:01.000 The embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:03.000 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress
00:00:06.000 who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:10.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.000 He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:16.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:20.000 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer,
00:00:23.000 if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,
00:00:27.000 then welcome, my fellow patriots. You are in the right place.
00:00:31.000 This is the movement for you.
00:00:33.000 You ever watch this guy on television?
00:00:35.000 It's like a machine. Matt Gaetz.
00:00:38.000 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.
00:00:41.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
00:00:46.000 They aren't really coming for me. They're coming for you.
00:00:49.000 I'm just in the way.
00:00:51.000 Matt and Ginger Gaetz, my congressman buddy from Florida.
00:00:58.000 Florida, Matt, little Matthew.
00:01:00.000 He's on the nice list this year and will probably be,
00:01:04.000 as long as him and Ginger and she's in his life,
00:01:07.000 I don't see him getting off of that nice list.
00:01:10.000 And that really makes me feel good in my heart
00:01:13.000 because when you watch someone for so many years
00:01:16.000 and then you see them turn their life around,
00:01:19.000 that means a lot.
00:01:21.000 It's exciting to me. It really is.
00:01:25.000 That was Tennessee Talks with Tim Burchett.
00:01:28.000 Tim Burchett, congressman from Tennessee,
00:01:29.000 will be our guest tonight.
00:01:31.000 That's his podcast.
00:01:32.000 You're going to want to subscribe and have your notifications on for it.
00:01:35.000 He was recently interviewing Santa
00:01:37.000 and I felt the need to offer my rebuttal.
00:01:40.000 First of all, nobody calls me little Matthew.
00:01:43.000 So I don't know what the deal is there, Santa.
00:01:45.000 And then to suggest that I've turned my life around,
00:01:48.000 it's a whole lot of judgment from a guy who lives with elves,
00:01:51.000 abuses animals, and isn't real.
00:01:53.000 So I'm glad I got the chance to respond.
00:01:56.000 Even more thrilled that I'm here with Tim Burchett.
00:01:58.000 Make sure you follow his podcast, Tennessee Talks.
00:02:00.000 Tim, there's so much I want to discuss with you.
00:02:03.000 We've titled the episode Back Benching with Burchett
00:02:06.000 because you are my seatmate.
00:02:08.000 You are my seatmate.
00:02:09.000 A lot of people know that after the first week of the 118th Congress,
00:02:13.000 but you and I sit together each and every day,
00:02:15.000 share our perspective on the legislation before the floor.
00:02:18.000 And it used to be a pejorative to call someone a backbencher.
00:02:22.000 It meant you weren't up front.
00:02:24.000 It meant you weren't in the action.
00:02:26.000 It meant you weren't, you know, in the corner office
00:02:30.000 with all the new and exquisite staff telling you, you know,
00:02:35.000 that your jokes are funny and that you've lost weight.
00:02:37.000 And yet we sit there purged on the back bench,
00:02:40.000 and I wear it as a badge of honor, my friend,
00:02:42.000 because sometimes the folks have to come to the back bench in order to ensure
00:02:48.000 that we're doing the right thing for the American people.
00:02:50.000 So I really wanted to start welcoming you and say, how do you see, you know,
00:02:54.000 you've been in Congress a little bit now.
00:02:56.000 You've been here a couple of terms.
00:02:58.000 What's your assessment of the place and how do you see your role here?
00:03:01.000 It's exactly what I thought it would be.
00:03:03.000 And I've spent 16 years in the legislature, eight years as county mayor,
00:03:07.000 and I've had my ups and downs.
00:03:09.000 And it's pretty much what I expected it to be.
00:03:11.000 I wasn't overly impressed.
00:03:13.000 My biggest disappointment with D.C. is the food.
00:03:16.000 I haven't really found a good barbecue place up here.
00:03:18.000 Hill Country is not terrible barbecue.
00:03:21.000 Not terrible.
00:03:22.000 If you're from an SEC state, you've got a different standard for barbecue
00:03:25.000 than Washington can usually provide.
00:03:27.000 We've got folks watching right now on the live stream from all over the country.
00:03:31.000 Indiana, Oklahoma, Ohio, Syracuse, New York, Florida.
00:03:36.000 Thanks for letting us know you're watching.
00:03:38.000 Even some foreign viewers from Ontario.
00:03:41.000 And our podcast is actually currently rated in Canadian politics.
00:03:45.000 So thank you for watching from Ontario.
00:03:47.000 Tim, we have elements of our districts that are rural.
00:03:51.000 And there are times in Congress when I really wonder whether or not rural America
00:03:56.000 gets a fair shake because a lot of the folks who serve with us have spent
00:04:01.000 most of their lives in big cities and live in big cities and have businesses
00:04:06.000 businesses and enterprises in suburban and urban areas.
00:04:11.000 What's your assessment of the representation that rural America gets in the Congress?
00:04:15.000 Well, it's a lot of times the battles are not Democrats and ours.
00:04:20.000 It's rural versus urban areas, it seems to me, if you want to really break it down to that,
00:04:24.000 because it seems to folks of those belief systems matriculate to those areas.
00:04:29.000 And I feel like a lot of times the rural folks don't have the representation because, frankly, they're working.
00:04:36.000 They don't have time to sit around and watch C-SPAN and get on the Internet and contact their legislators.
00:04:44.000 So I feel like they're underrepresented a lot of the times.
00:04:48.000 And I feel like folks like myself and you can kind of voice their opinion.
00:04:52.000 The underdog is always, it seems to be my dog.
00:04:58.000 Write that down.
00:04:59.000 The issue that I think really ripened that dynamic was the issue of rising gas prices.
00:05:04.000 Because, you know, a lot of people who live in urban areas that, you know, hop in a taxi or use a metro card,
00:05:11.000 they don't feel the impact of filling up that gas tank like folks in Knox County, like folks in Okaloosa County feel it.
00:05:18.000 And oftentimes people in rural America have to drive as a part of work, have to drive to get to work.
00:05:23.000 Go ahead.
00:05:24.000 It's a shock to me, a lady that works up here for me in campaign mode. 0.50
00:05:30.000 Her husband doesn't even have a dadgum driver's license.
00:05:33.000 I mean, you know, I had that learner's permit.
00:05:35.000 The day I remember dad getting, it was the only day I got up early at that age.
00:05:39.000 And I got up and we went down to the highway patrol office.
00:05:41.000 You know, I hopped in a little VW Bug and four-speed and I drove it through and got my license.
00:05:48.000 And, you know, folks up here in big cities, you're right.
00:05:50.000 It's Uber.
00:05:51.000 It's everything else.
00:05:52.000 And, you know, if I didn't, if I couldn't burn some gasoline, I'd probably go hungry,
00:05:58.000 as a lot of the people in my legislative district would as well.
00:06:01.000 And I think a lot did feel that pressure because Joe Biden has no problem playing politics with energy.
00:06:08.000 And he really played politics with the strategic petroleum reserve.
00:06:12.000 Now, Trump, understanding the value of hard assets as a businessman does, when gas was cheap, when crude was cheap,
00:06:19.000 buddy, he topped off the strategic petroleum reserve.
00:06:22.000 If anything happened to our country, we would be secure.
00:06:25.000 We would have a place to go.
00:06:27.000 But Joe Biden converted his political emergency into an emergency justification to tap the strategic petroleum reserve.
00:06:35.000 You and I are just stepping off the House floor where the House of Representatives is working to advance legislation
00:06:41.000 to stop Biden from playing politics with the strategic petroleum reserve.
00:06:45.000 Are you pleased with the Republican majority's focus on energy policy and what that's going to mean for our constituents in rural areas?
00:06:52.000 I am.
00:06:53.000 I am.
00:06:54.000 So far, I am.
00:06:55.000 I would hope, though, in the future that we make sure we let the American public know exactly how important that strategic reserve is.
00:07:02.000 You know, you have an area that you represent a lot of military folks, a lot of folks in active duty in your area,
00:07:08.000 and a lot of folks in my area, there's some, but mostly retired military.
00:07:12.000 And that strategic reserve was something that was designed, I believe, for emergency situations, not for an election,
00:07:19.000 which Joe Biden obviously used it for his election.
00:07:22.000 And, you know, and I always say this, too, when these these hardcore liberals like Biden say, I'm coming after your guns.
00:07:31.000 I'm going to do away with internal combustion engines.
00:07:33.000 I'm going to raise the price to seven dollars.
00:07:35.000 Dadgum, you better believe them, because that's exactly what their intents are on doing.
00:07:39.000 And then by saying that he's going to release the reserve to bring the prices down.
00:07:43.000 I mean, that's a joke.
00:07:44.000 It didn't it didn't go down.
00:07:46.000 It didn't do anything.
00:07:47.000 And Trump understood that being from a business background, not from a grifter's background, as the occupiers of the White House are now.
00:07:55.000 And that's not to say that there aren't issues on energy policy, on waste policy, where we should and can work across the aisle to try to get some things done.
00:08:06.000 You've got composting legislation that you've worked on and you've even had some some interesting assistance from across the aisle on on that bill.
00:08:15.000 Yeah, I'm working.
00:08:16.000 Well, Adam Schiff is one of them.
00:08:18.000 And of course, AOC, they've got some big issues with it up in D.C.
00:08:23.000 I mean, in New York.
00:08:24.000 My biggest concern there is is big business comes in and what they'll do is they'll say, oh, we're going to try to say these gas stoves.
00:08:31.000 They're going to say it's for the environment for the environment.
00:08:33.000 And really what it is is big business is going to put some crazy regulations like they did in the meat industry and the meat processing, where the only people that can do it are the big multinational corporations, which you and I would have little or no control or say over.
00:08:47.000 The American public would not.
00:08:48.000 And then they say under they had it under the guise of safety.
00:08:52.000 And then they pass these crazy rules and regulations.
00:08:55.000 And then nobody's going to compost except the big corporations.
00:08:58.000 And then it's the same way there was an issue a while back, if I can digress, when I was county mayor, grease traps.
00:09:05.000 We were getting too much grease in our sewage system.
00:09:07.000 It causes the composting or the decomposition of sewage waste to stop and it clogs up the system.
00:09:15.000 So what did they do instead of educating the public that say, hey, when you wash off your fork, you know, don't wipe it off with a napkin and throw that in the trash instead of wiping it down the sink.
00:09:25.000 So they said all the big businesses said we're going to put these grease traps in to stop.
00:09:30.000 We're going to mandate that everybody put them in.
00:09:34.000 Everybody said, well, that's great.
00:09:35.000 That's great for the environment.
00:09:36.000 But the only people could do it were the big multinational corporations, McDonald's, those kind of folks.
00:09:40.000 And then what did it do?
00:09:41.000 It drove the little man out of business.
00:09:43.000 We lost three businesses in my area when I was mayor when they started enforcing this grease trap law.
00:09:49.000 And as it turned out, it was a big EPA law.
00:09:52.000 And that's exactly what they're going to do with composting, I'm afraid.
00:09:55.000 So I would abolish the EPA and devolve that authority to our states.
00:09:59.000 I mean, when the EPA was established in the 1960s, there was this belief that all human talent that was valuable and smart would be assembled in Washington, D.C.
00:10:07.000 And the enlightened people could then make decisions for everyone else.
00:10:11.000 And the reality is we've got sensor technology now that where folks in county government and state government are able to really protect the environment that is around them.
00:10:21.000 And we're not for letting every business pollute our beautiful waters and air and land.
00:10:26.000 You and I think that, you know, part of being America first is keeping America splendid and lovely.
00:10:31.000 You spend a lot of time outdoors, I do too, and we want to be able to do that.
00:10:34.000 I own a farm.
00:10:35.000 I own a farm.
00:10:36.000 I want to keep it.
00:10:37.000 And I don't even allow any chemicals on it other than organic stuff.
00:10:40.000 So, I mean, I'm 100% there.
00:10:42.000 So in the comments on the live stream on Rumble, they are loving the use of dad gum.
00:10:47.000 Dad gum has been democratized out of the country and they're digging that.
00:10:50.000 Catherine on Facebook made an interesting point.
00:10:53.000 Christine also making the point on Facebook about the help farmers need.
00:10:56.000 But Catherine made the point that the intention of some of these policies that the left pushes is actually to drive people off of the farm.
00:11:04.000 And they believe that our wilderness areas, our wild areas, our farm areas should really not be occupied by humans and that all humans should be forced into the city.
00:11:13.000 Do you think, do you agree with Catherine on Facebook that the policy's goals are that depraved?
00:11:18.000 100%.
00:11:19.000 I see it all the time.
00:11:20.000 I saw it when I was mayor.
00:11:21.000 I was the county mayor and we had the city mayor and we'd always fight.
00:11:25.000 Lovely lady.
00:11:26.000 But the ultimate goal was more or less housing projects and this urban sprawl.
00:11:34.000 They were afraid of urban sprawl.
00:11:35.000 I don't know what that is.
00:11:36.000 To me, that's capitalism.
00:11:38.000 You have certain codes and things you can do.
00:11:40.000 You can't burn.
00:11:41.000 You know, you don't want your next door neighbor burning tires in his yard or something like that.
00:11:45.000 But as it turns out that a lot of these things.
00:11:48.000 See, in Florida, if my neighbor was burning my tire or burning tires, I wouldn't need the federal government's help.
00:11:53.000 You're that gum right you wouldn't.
00:11:54.000 All you'd have to do is call county codes and they'd come, they'd put the smack down on them quick in Knox County.
00:12:00.000 And so it's just, that's exactly what these big government liberals who think, I've got, I know more than they do.
00:12:08.000 Let me handle this.
00:12:09.000 And then they just drive everybody out and then it consolidates.
00:12:13.000 It's the same way with, you know, I've seen it in a lot of these road projects that are coming down the pike now.
00:12:19.000 No pun intended.
00:12:20.000 It's a, it's, it's primarily for, for mass transit and not for somebody like me wants to ride a motorcycle down the middle of the street.
00:12:27.000 Because I'm an American and I want to do that.
00:12:30.000 And I, or I ride my little Volkswagen car and gear convertible, which was my graduation present from high school.
00:12:34.000 You know, that's the kind of, that's freaking America, man.
00:12:37.000 And I'm, and I get sick of it. 0.80
00:12:39.000 I watch this stuff happen.
00:12:40.000 And we, we, we, as good conservatives, we say, well, let's go along with them.
00:12:46.000 Let's go.
00:12:47.000 No, heck no, man.
00:12:48.000 Stop this stuff.
00:12:49.000 We've got to stop it or we'll lose everything.
00:12:51.000 And that's what they want.
00:12:52.000 They want control.
00:12:53.000 I mean, Biden, again, I see him whispering, I'm going to raise gas to $8 a gallon and drive them out.
00:12:59.000 Well, that's exactly what he wants to do.
00:13:01.000 And it just shows in all this, this big government program.
00:13:04.000 So sorry, I got worked up.
00:13:07.000 No, I completely agree.
00:13:08.000 And frankly, you know, there are a lot of folks chiming in right now saying that they think that the government is being weaponized against a way of life.
00:13:17.000 And what I think the left needs to realize is it was farmers and small merchants who built this country, who created a value system, a connection to faith, a connection to the land, a connection to family, to one another, to community.
00:13:30.000 And those are uniquely American values.
00:13:32.000 Tim Burchett is our guest.
00:13:34.000 He's got a great podcast called Tennessee Talks.
00:13:36.000 I'm a regular listener, so you'll see his episodes posted on my feed as well.
00:13:41.000 But you also serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
00:13:43.000 And I want to get into some of your work there because as we approach these budgeting questions, a lot of people wonder why we borrow money from one country to give it to another country.
00:13:54.000 And you have had a chance to observe and even kill some pretty frivolous spending in the foreign affairs space.
00:14:01.000 Talk about what you see in terms of how we spend money abroad.
00:14:06.000 Well, it's virtue signaling with your money.
00:14:10.000 You know, when Trump was trying to build the wall, I remember they said $4 billion.
00:14:14.000 You remember that?
00:14:15.000 They were saying we can't afford that.
00:14:16.000 And then it's $100 billion plus tanks, everything else to Ukraine.
00:14:20.000 And then they're fighting us for even accounting for the dollars that are spent.
00:14:25.000 So I'm really, in Foreign Affairs Committee, it was the original chair of that was Benjamin Franklin, oddly enough.
00:14:33.000 And Benjamin Franklin's probably the original libertarian.
00:14:36.000 He lived a pretty cool life.
00:14:38.000 And I kind of dig that.
00:14:39.000 And, you know, I don't know about all the clothes and stuff, but he traveled and had a good time with life.
00:14:44.000 But anyway, back to my original point.
00:14:46.000 In Foreign Affairs, we tend to, you know, everybody in this world doesn't have to be like Americans.
00:14:54.000 And we shouldn't have to force our values on us.
00:14:57.000 And I think we're going to get into some real trouble in these wars, Matt.
00:15:01.000 My daddy fought in the Second World War.
00:15:03.000 Mama lost a brother fighting the Nazis.
00:15:05.000 Daddy was fighting the Japanese.
00:15:06.000 My mama flew an airplane during the Second World War.
00:15:09.000 She was a badass, if I can say that. 1.00
00:15:11.000 Can I say that on there?
00:15:12.000 Hey, we're on Rumble.
00:15:13.000 You can say whatever you want.
00:15:14.000 Good deal.
00:15:15.000 And I think about that.
00:15:16.000 And I think about when we start down this path of fighting these wars via somebody else.
00:15:23.000 There's a name, a fancy name for it.
00:15:25.000 But really, we're fighting a war with Russia right now with our tax dollars that we're borrowing from China.
00:15:30.000 And eventually, that note's going to come due at what end.
00:15:33.000 And I was sitting there when everybody was cheering for the—and I was sitting beside you.
00:15:38.000 We were on Center's Row back there, although a Democrat took my seat, which I wasn't sure about.
00:15:42.000 We're not happy about that.
00:15:43.000 I was still not happy about it.
00:15:45.000 But I remembered I said to one of the liberal members, I said,
00:15:49.000 I hope you all start cheering when China rolls in on Taiwan. 1.00
00:15:53.000 Are you all going to cheer for—are you all going to obligate us to that?
00:15:57.000 Because I guarantee you they won't.
00:15:59.000 They're gutless.
00:16:00.000 And they'll run from it.
00:16:02.000 This is a war that's—it is a war.
00:16:06.000 It's horrible, but there's—
00:16:08.000 What do you think about the decision to send the Abrams tanks?
00:16:11.000 I'm not a supporter of that.
00:16:12.000 I think it's a slippery slope.
00:16:14.000 Biden, again, said, you know, we send trains, tanks, and planes.
00:16:20.000 That's World War III.
00:16:21.000 Well, guess what they said today?
00:16:23.000 They said, send us some planes.
00:16:25.000 Oh, yeah.
00:16:26.000 They want the F-16 now.
00:16:27.000 They want our F-16s.
00:16:28.000 And what people need to realize is this is not like an Ikea delivery.
00:16:32.000 We don't just, like, pack up an M1 Abrams in a shipping container and send it over.
00:16:37.000 It takes a logistics package to go along with it.
00:16:40.000 There is a maintenance supply chain that has to exist for those tanks that Americans have to be involved in.
00:16:46.000 And you see Russia's response to that decision saying that they view this as direct involvement in the conflict.
00:16:52.000 And while we don't let them set terms, it also seems like we have to think about where in this fight the tanks are going to be used.
00:17:00.000 And it's not going to be to defend Kharkiv and Kyiv and these urban centers.
00:17:04.000 You're talking about the Donbas region, and that is an area where even the Ukrainians called it the ungoverned region prior to the February invasion.
00:17:15.000 Right.
00:17:16.000 And so you're not supportive of the M1 Abrams tank.
00:17:19.000 But, you know, as we look at budgetary issues, do you think we can save money by sending less abroad?
00:17:24.000 100%.
00:17:25.000 I think we should.
00:17:27.000 We've, you know, we have no clear direction.
00:17:30.000 You know, we pull out of Afghanistan.
00:17:32.000 The last person to get killed was a kid from my district, Ryan Knoss, Staff Sergeant, Army.
00:17:39.000 And, you know, it's just tragic.
00:17:42.000 And we have no clear plan.
00:17:44.000 This president, as I've been told, is very arrogant in his way of thinking.
00:17:49.000 He thinks he knows it all. 0.90
00:17:51.000 And it's just got Americans killed.
00:17:53.000 It got us embarrassed.
00:17:54.000 And now you'll see those weapons, that weaponry.
00:17:57.000 I don't know how many billions it was.
00:17:59.000 But they will show up elsewhere.
00:18:01.000 And I suspect they'll show up.
00:18:02.000 That's a prediction.
00:18:03.000 You're saying that you believe U.S. materiel will show up outside of our intended distribution of that material into this conflict.
00:18:12.000 100%.
00:18:13.000 And I'm worried, too, about these tanks and things.
00:18:15.000 My degree was technological adult education.
00:18:17.000 You would call it shop.
00:18:18.000 But I dig the trades.
00:18:20.000 You know, welding, if you want me to burn your house down, I could probably do that because I don't know how to do the wiring very well.
00:18:25.000 But I can weld pretty well.
00:18:26.000 And I can work on equipment.
00:18:28.000 I can rebuild carburetors and work on internal combustion engines, cars, motorcycles, you know, cool stuff like that, occasional lawnmower.
00:18:37.000 But when we sent those tanks over there, we're not just going to send a manual.
00:18:42.000 At some point, are we going to have somebody on one side of the border that's telling them how to do this?
00:18:48.000 And at what point do we say are Americans over there?
00:18:52.000 I mean, when you send the tanks, the Americans are over there.
00:18:55.000 Yeah.
00:18:56.000 There is no veneer that we are not there.
00:18:59.000 Best tank in the world, but they'll tell you they're prone to break down just the nature of that much metal, that much stress, the tolerances and things like that.
00:19:07.000 Tolerances are pretty tight.
00:19:08.000 It's a well-made machine.
00:19:09.000 It's supposed to be the best one in the world right now.
00:19:11.000 Oh, and I believe it is.
00:19:12.000 I think it's great we make them.
00:19:13.000 I think that it's great to provide them to our allies.
00:19:16.000 But did you believe the theory that the national security apparatus and the Biden administration put out that, well, we have to send these tanks literally as a virtue signal to unlock Germany's ability to then send leopards?
00:19:29.000 I mean, if Germany wanted to send the leopards, why wouldn't they just send the leopards?
00:19:33.000 Send the dadgum leopards. 0.98
00:19:34.000 And I'm not against Germany choosing to send the leopards.
00:19:37.000 But it's Europe.
00:19:38.000 It's a European war, Matt.
00:19:39.000 Exactly.
00:19:40.000 Because you're saying, well, this country is going to fall if we don't.
00:19:44.000 So what about all the other countries in the world that we're ignoring right now because of this thing that the media and the national media, you know, this is our moment.
00:19:55.000 No, it's not our moment.
00:19:57.000 It's Ukraine's moment. 0.98
00:19:58.000 It's Ukraine's moment. 0.98
00:19:59.000 And by the way, I hope they coalesce and are successful in stopping this carnage.
00:20:04.000 Not a single American, not a single member of Congress whose heart doesn't break when observing this terrible carnage in Ukraine. 0.99
00:20:12.000 At the same time, why do we have to act like it's just as big an issue to us as it is to Europe and Germany?
00:20:20.000 Why isn't it OK to say, you know what, if Germany sends the tanks, that's OK?
00:20:24.000 And by the way, if some of our allies that have purchased F-16s want to give them to Ukraine and want to be there in theater to provide logistical assistance to training and joint operations, let them do that.
00:20:34.000 Do it.
00:20:35.000 Estonia was the number two country for the longest time in supporting this, behind the American taxpayers.
00:20:40.000 They have a vested interest.
00:20:41.000 They do.
00:20:42.000 And they should be.
00:20:43.000 But I'm just saying, the point is that they were so far ahead of Germany and the rest of Europe. 0.85
00:20:48.000 It's just ridiculous to me. 0.71
00:20:49.000 And I don't see the need. 0.63
00:20:51.000 Our Facebook is going off with the farm talk still.
00:20:54.000 They're saying, no farmers, no food.
00:20:56.000 That's from Karen.
00:20:57.000 Can I say one other thing about the farm?
00:20:58.000 Sure.
00:20:59.000 I meant to say, I wish folks would pay attention to meat processing right now.
00:21:02.000 This is another thing where the big liberals said, oh, we're not doing this safely.
00:21:06.000 We've got to do it safer.
00:21:07.000 So what'd they do?
00:21:08.000 They drove it out of the hands of the mom and pop meat processors.
00:21:11.000 And now it's controlled by two big companies.
00:21:15.000 One's owned by China.
00:21:16.000 One's owned out of Brazil, I believe.
00:21:18.000 We have got to get back control of that.
00:21:21.000 Because our states are regulating this.
00:21:23.000 At Tennessee, for instance, they have some pretty strict regulations that put some of my farmers out of business.
00:21:29.000 To the point where they have to, you have to, when you take a cow to get processed or slaughtered,
00:21:35.000 or what we used to call it, but that's not politically correct.
00:21:37.000 When you get one processed, sometimes you've got to wait six months.
00:21:40.000 Six months.
00:21:41.000 Because we can't do it like we used to do it anymore.
00:21:44.000 That's a hell of a wait for the cow. 1.00
00:21:47.000 Yeah, it is.
00:21:48.000 Yeah, it is.
00:21:49.000 It's a hell of a wait for the farmer who's got all that.
00:21:50.000 You're six months away, and you have to sit there and endure the wait.
00:21:53.000 Well, he doesn't know it.
00:21:54.000 I mean, you know, you just kind of sneak it up on him.
00:21:56.000 You go, oh, we're going to see Aunt Susie.
00:21:57.000 And then whack! 0.94
00:21:58.000 You know, then he's on the buffet at the Sizzler.
00:22:01.000 We have always had a lot of animal lovers and pro-peta people watch the podcast.
00:22:06.000 Sure.
00:22:07.000 So this will probably be their last episode.
00:22:08.000 I'm sorry.
00:22:09.000 But I am glad that the people watching understand and appreciate this.
00:22:13.000 And it's just a classic example of how issues that affect the quality of life of our constituents
00:22:19.000 often get ignored in this place.
00:22:20.000 And you're right.
00:22:21.000 We shouldn't have foreign countries and foreign entities and foreign businesses owning what 1.00
00:22:26.000 is essential to the food supply chain of our country.
00:22:30.000 How is that even a debatable point?
00:22:33.000 And during the Second World War, Matt, I'll give you an example.
00:22:35.000 During the Second World War, radio stations were owned by foreign entities.
00:22:39.000 And they made that.
00:22:40.000 The Congress stepped in and said, in fact, no, that is illegal.
00:22:42.000 They have to be American-owned.
00:22:44.000 I don't know now if they do.
00:22:45.000 But back then, because radio was such a vital part of our communication structure,
00:22:49.000 and when I was in the state legislature, I put an amendment in that said that the toll
00:22:55.000 roads, because they were trying to do some toll roads, and the company was out of Belgium,
00:22:59.000 as I found out.
00:23:00.000 I'm not a fan of toll roads.
00:23:02.000 And I said, you know, they don't need to be foreign-owned. 0.98
00:23:04.000 And then it killed the bill, of course, when the amendment came on.
00:23:07.000 They said, hey, we're out of business.
00:23:09.000 We're not going to do it.
00:23:10.000 But it goes back to that.
00:23:11.000 It's a creative way to kill a toll.
00:23:13.000 Yeah, it was.
00:23:14.000 I was not a big fan of that.
00:23:15.000 I'm not a big fan of government spending, period.
00:23:19.000 There you go.
00:23:20.000 Or too much government collection of the resources out of the pockets of our constituents.
00:23:24.000 We are here with Tim Burchett, my seatmate on the back bench.
00:23:29.000 We wouldn't have it any other way.
00:23:31.000 He's got a great podcast called Tennessee Talks.
00:23:33.000 Make sure that you subscribe.
00:23:34.000 I want to get to the debt limit next.
00:23:36.000 So Joe Biden has come out and said, we're $32 trillion in debt.
00:23:40.000 But I will not negotiate with House Republicans for any, for one penny of spending reduction.
00:23:47.000 You just have to increase the spending limit on the national credit card past this $32 trillion.
00:23:52.000 Your thoughts? 0.98
00:23:53.000 Ridiculous. 1.00
00:23:54.000 Totally ridiculous. 1.00
00:23:55.000 Again, he has a very short memory. 0.99
00:23:57.000 I don't know if he's pathological or if he's just cognitively lacking right now.
00:24:03.000 And he, I always say, to give this example, is when I send my little girl, Isabel, down to Longmire's IGA.
00:24:09.000 And I always say, we trade down there.
00:24:11.000 And she said, Dad, nobody says that.
00:24:12.000 Or they said they buy down there.
00:24:14.000 I said, well, we say it because we're out in the country, honey.
00:24:16.000 So we trade down at Longmire's.
00:24:18.000 And I send her down there with a $10 bill.
00:24:20.000 And she says, I spent $15 or $20.
00:24:22.000 And I say, hell no, baby.
00:24:24.000 It ain't going to work that way.
00:24:25.000 It's $10.
00:24:26.000 That's it.
00:24:27.000 Get your energy drink and your whatever that I don't like.
00:24:30.000 And we get in the car.
00:24:31.000 We're going back to the farm.
00:24:32.000 But that's not the way this is.
00:24:34.000 And they're trying to spin it that this is, well, this is money we've already spent.
00:24:38.000 And here's what happens.
00:24:39.000 Every dadgum time, Matt, we on the side of conservatism and the moderate Republicans, we say, okay, we'll cut this deal with you.
00:24:48.000 We're going to put this.
00:24:49.000 And I know they're going to say every plan that's been a reduction.
00:24:53.000 Sorry, I'm pointing.
00:24:55.000 Every reduction plan in the last 30 years has had an element that raised the debt ceiling.
00:24:59.000 Because they cut a deal with the left.
00:25:02.000 And the left sticks.
00:25:03.000 And we don't stick.
00:25:05.000 And they do not honor their dadgum word.
00:25:08.000 And then, boom, where are we at?
00:25:09.000 Where are we at?
00:25:10.000 We're spending more dadgum money.
00:25:11.000 We're back higher in debt.
00:25:13.000 And that's how we're $32 trillion, whatever the heck that is.
00:25:16.000 There is $31 plus trillion now in debt.
00:25:19.000 And that's how it happens every time.
00:25:21.000 Two dadgums on the debt limit.
00:25:23.000 Tim Burchett says we've got to cut spending.
00:25:24.000 I love it.
00:25:25.000 They're loving it.
00:25:26.000 On Rumble, they're saying, dadgum, drink.
00:25:28.000 Right on.
00:25:29.000 They dig it.
00:25:30.000 The way we get the spending cuts, I want to talk through a little bit of strategy with you.
00:25:36.000 And you're right.
00:25:37.000 First, the notion of just conceiving of $31, $32 trillion.
00:25:42.000 If you started counting today, I'm sorry, if you started counting the day Jesus was born, you would not be at a trillion yet.
00:25:52.000 Not at one yet.
00:25:53.000 And the magnitude of it is remarkable.
00:25:57.000 So one of our colleagues, Republican Don Bacon of Nebraska, said on Meet the Press recently that it's a nonstarter to have any reduction in entitlement spending.
00:26:07.000 That whatever clawbacks or reductions we do cannot touch any entitlement that anyone has.
00:26:13.000 Do you agree that that's a good frame for negotiation?
00:26:16.000 Or are you more open-minded than that?
00:26:18.000 That's a terrible thing to say.
00:26:20.000 I think we're going to have to reduce, you know, entitlements or just that.
00:26:25.000 In Tennessee, I remembered when I was trying to do some welfare reform, I said the unspeakable.
00:26:32.000 I said, well, some of these folks need to work, you know?
00:26:35.000 Yes.
00:26:36.000 And so I said, and then everybody was labeled a racist.
00:26:39.000 I was labeled everything.
00:26:40.000 This was years ago.
00:26:41.000 I mean, pre 9-11, I was saying these countries that are terrorist countries, when they send people over here, they need to register when they go to colleges at their college police stations.
00:26:51.000 That was about six weeks before 9-11.
00:26:55.000 And then I was a racist, and then Bush did it automatically.
00:26:58.000 But going back to your point, yeah, they need to work.
00:27:01.000 Okay, so let's go into this specifically, because a lot of folks don't realize how these work requirements get flushed out.
00:27:07.000 In state legislatures, there are a lot of people who say that they want work requirements, not even because it's their state budget that is strained by it, because so much of the money comes down as a drawdown from the federal government.
00:27:19.000 But they want the policy of getting people who are on welfare off of welfare into the workforce.
00:27:26.000 The problem is when states have applied for waivers to go from welfare to work, the federal government doesn't grant those waivers.
00:27:33.000 So you raised it.
00:27:34.000 Here's the math.
00:27:36.000 If you just had work requirements for food stamps, for SNAP, not for seniors, but just for able-bodied, working-class people, you would save $412 billion during the budget window.
00:27:52.000 $412 billion in savings on work requirements.
00:27:56.000 Shouldn't that be something that we could get 222 Republicans behind?
00:28:01.000 I would think, but I bet you, as I stated, our moderate liberal Republicans would not go that route.
00:28:07.000 Well, let me throw another one at you. 0.88
00:28:08.000 Let me throw another one at you. 1.00
00:28:09.000 But I'd be all about it.
00:28:10.000 When Obamacare was expanded, there was a massive Obamacare expansion for able-bodied, working-age people.
00:28:19.000 Now, I mean, should the rest of our constituents pay for the health care of able-bodied, working-age people?
00:28:29.000 You know, because to me, when you tie health care to your job or to the government, you're not able to ever drive down the cost of care because people aren't able to have a cafeteria plan to select the coverage that is relevant to their family and their circumstances.
00:28:43.000 So if you just did that, if you just eliminated Obamacare for able-bodied, working-age people, $1.1 trillion in savings over a 10-year budget window, is that something you think all Republicans should support?
00:28:57.000 That is 100%.
00:28:59.000 All Americans should support it.
00:29:01.000 If you're able-bodied, unless you're a Marxist, a lazy Marxist, I would say, yes, that would be the thing to do.
00:29:08.000 See, these are concrete ideas.
00:29:10.000 Often, I see our Republican colleagues in interviews, and they're asked, well, you know, what would you cut?
00:29:15.000 What do you want for the debt limit?
00:29:16.000 Here's my advice to my fellow Republicans.
00:29:18.000 Don't talk about this just in terms of the numbers.
00:29:21.000 The numbers are important.
00:29:22.000 We have to show people that savings are real and not imagined.
00:29:25.000 But we have to talk about the policies that we would change that would result in better quality of life for people in a more fair and just society while at the same time not bankrupting our nation and indebting our entire future to China.
00:29:40.000 Another one I want to throw at you.
00:29:42.000 Right now, illegal aliens earn a ton of tax credits. 0.60
00:29:47.000 They get the earned income tax credit.
00:29:49.000 They get the child tax credit.
00:29:50.000 If we just abolished tax credits that are obtained by illegal aliens, $75 billion. 0.65
00:29:58.000 What do you think about that?
00:29:59.000 I love it.
00:30:00.000 100%.
00:30:01.000 100%.
00:30:02.000 Man, I go to this little place called Ball Market, and they do a little business on Western Avenue.
00:30:09.000 Ball Market, number three, when you come to Knoxville, I'll bring you there.
00:30:12.000 They cash checks, and when they're cashing the government check day, it's unbelievable.
00:30:19.000 It just makes you sick.
00:30:21.000 People will come in, and it'll be a whole family, and everybody will hand Mama their check, and she puts it all in her pocketbook, which I'm not sure how that works.
00:30:31.000 I just don't understand why Americans who are here legally, who are working legally, should have to fund tax credits for illegal aliens. 0.92
00:30:41.000 That is ludicrous to me, and I would hope that these would be ideas that unite Republicans, because here's the math.
00:30:49.000 If there's a debt limit strategy that 5, 6, 10, 20 moderate liberal Republicans peel away from, then we lose.
00:30:58.000 Right.
00:30:59.000 Then Joe Biden wins, and so our appeal here is not just to the Firebrand audience.
00:31:03.000 It's to our colleagues to embrace some of these policy reforms that I know you would campaign on in your elections, and now that you're here, you've got a chance to do something about it and something to fight for.
00:31:13.000 I want to move on to sort of the bicameral system here, because I really admire the Senate delegation from Tennessee.
00:31:21.000 I would suggest, I'd make this argument, that Tennessee and Florida have to be number one and number two, top to bottom on the Senate delegation.
00:31:30.000 Because, like, there are other states that have got great, you know, Rand Paul, terrific, but then you've got to pair that with Mitch McConnell, you know.
00:31:36.480 Ted Cruz, out of this world, awesome.
00:31:38.540 You've got to pair that with John Cornyn.
00:31:39.960 So, like, is there, like, a better one-two punch in the U.S. Senate than Tennessee?
00:31:45.820 Well, Marsha Blackburn, Hagerty, they're both good buddies of mine.
00:31:49.580 Rock-solid conservatives.
00:31:50.800 Yep.
00:31:51.000 You wouldn't trade your two senators for any other delegation straight up?
00:31:54.820 None.
00:31:55.700 None whatsoever.
00:31:56.680 The only one I could think I would trade mine for would be Tennessee.
00:31:59.360 I like Rubio and Scott, but, you know, Tennessee, you've got a very special breed of conservative that you guys have sent to the Senate, and I think that that's to be celebrated.
00:32:10.520 I was in the state Senate with Marsha, Senator Blackburn, and we had great times back then.
00:32:17.940 It was crazy fun.
00:32:20.140 Actually, I took out her daughter one time because I thought it would make her mad at me, and then she invited me.
00:32:27.200 She found out I was taking her out, and so she invited me out with the family, and I was like, whoa, whoa, this is going a little fast here.
00:32:32.800 I had to.
00:32:34.000 It's Firebrand After Dark with Tim Burcham.
00:32:37.160 Got into some places we didn't entirely expect.
00:32:39.320 But you know what?
00:32:39.800 While we're getting weird, let's go intergalactic weird, Tim.
00:32:42.940 All right.
00:32:43.140 You are widely known in the Congress as one of the experts on the UFOs.
00:32:50.840 You've been to some of the hearings.
00:32:52.720 You assess the data.
00:32:53.900 You meet with experts.
00:32:55.220 What do you think the American people need to know about UFOs?
00:32:57.740 I think that it's the biggest cover-up there is.
00:33:00.240 I think, you know, they changed the name to UAP to kind of throw everybody off.
00:33:03.880 I was at the Intelligence Committee meeting, which, by the way, I wasn't allowed to be on.
00:33:09.800 I tried to get on, but, you know, I don't think I'll ever be on an A committee.
00:33:14.540 No, they ensure that you don't have too much intelligence to be on the Intelligence Committee.
00:33:18.460 As I like to say, I don't kiss enough butt, and I don't raise enough money to do that, to get much farther than I am.
00:33:23.640 Do you think even the Intelligence Committee is fundraising-based?
00:33:26.840 I don't know if it's intelligence.
00:33:28.300 Well, it's – there's some – well, it all is.
00:33:32.720 I'll just say it all is.
00:33:33.840 Everything up here is.
00:33:34.880 That's the one thing that really hacks me off, both parties.
00:33:38.440 If this – if that guy – I mean, if Congress was the NFL, Peyton Manning would still be waiting to get in.
00:33:44.060 I mean, seriously, you know.
00:33:45.560 But back to the UFO thing.
00:33:47.560 I'm at the Intelligence Committee meeting, and this was one that was open to the public,
00:33:50.580 so I'm not telling any double secrets, you know, my X-file stuff.
00:33:54.260 So I'm told I'm going to get to ask a question, right?
00:33:58.140 And then I'm going to ask a question because I know something about this issue.
00:34:02.020 I know about issues where there's been unidentified flying objects that have flown over nuclear plants,
00:34:08.440 and they've had issues with the power and things like that.
00:34:11.320 And I want to ask specifics about things going on.
00:34:14.400 Right before I get up to ask my question, I get a text and say, in fact,
00:34:17.360 no, you'll not be able to ask a question.
00:34:19.340 So the one person who asked a question during the whole dadgum meeting, believe it or not, was Adam Schiff.
00:34:25.280 That was a good question because they showed these two bureaucrats who were heading it up.
00:34:31.520 They couldn't spell UFO. 0.95
00:34:33.320 You know, it was ridiculous.
00:34:35.200 They asked them, they were asking them questions that were just simple stuff. 0.81
00:34:39.720 I mean, could these cats even spell Google?
00:34:42.380 I don't know.
00:34:43.020 They could have Googled it.
00:34:43.900 And so they show this video, Matt, and it shows it's inside the canopy of an airplane.
00:34:50.860 And dadgummit, the pilot's filming it with his cell phone.
00:34:54.240 And there's some kind of speck or something on the thing.
00:34:57.120 And it's 20 seconds.
00:34:59.040 And Adam Schiff, I remember he said, I had a question.
00:35:01.180 He said, what exactly am I looking at here?
00:35:04.900 I thought, finally.
00:35:06.180 And the guy says, well, let me explain it to you.
00:35:08.140 And he wasn't really even sure.
00:35:11.040 And so, and he said, can you slow the video down?
00:35:13.500 Most technologically advanced country in the world.
00:35:15.980 Isabel Burchett could have stopped. 1.00
00:35:17.740 He could have figured that thing.
00:35:18.660 And my little girl, 15 years old, she's a genius.
00:35:21.660 But, and so he couldn't even slow the video down to show us exactly what we're showing.
00:35:27.900 And we had a pilot in the audience who was a Navy pilot.
00:35:31.900 And he was on one of the more famous videos.
00:35:34.760 And I would encourage people to YouTube this, tic-tac, not tick-tock.
00:35:38.820 Don't say, hey, boomer.
00:35:40.140 It's my daughter said, hey, boomer, it's tick-tock.
00:35:42.240 And I said, no, baby, it's tic-tac like the candy.
00:35:44.700 60 Minutes did an expose.
00:35:46.260 And the only reason we're talking about this is because it was leaked.
00:35:48.960 Some very brave Navy pilots were following a UFO.
00:35:52.040 And it had no vapor trail.
00:35:53.640 And I've been briefed on it by people that are not in the government,
00:35:56.660 but that are associated, that know this.
00:35:58.760 Had no vapor trail.
00:36:00.420 It had characteristics of nothing in this world.
00:36:03.940 And they wouldn't even show that dadgum video.
00:36:07.020 So I'm walking by the press after it's over with.
00:36:09.400 They're putting up all their stuff.
00:36:10.440 And there's just, you know, there's a big table up here
00:36:12.220 and all these seats reserved for congresspeople.
00:36:14.160 I'm the only person, only member of congress who's not on the freaking committee 0.88
00:36:17.240 that's sitting there.
00:36:18.600 So I sit there and the press said, what do you think, congressman?
00:36:22.120 I said, we got hosed.
00:36:23.860 And then immediately it was Matt Gaetz time.
00:36:26.320 You know, all the cameras were on me.
00:36:27.800 The boom was that furry.
00:36:29.400 They put that boom with the furry thing. 0.99
00:36:30.940 It was hanging over me.
00:36:32.660 And I talked about it.
00:36:35.500 And I said, you know, what the heck's going on with this thing?
00:36:37.500 I said, this is crazy.
00:36:38.620 This is the biggest cover-up.
00:36:40.720 All right, so Joe on Rumble asks you this question.
00:36:43.740 He wants to know, do you think that the UFO cover-up
00:36:46.180 is as big as the cover-up of the COVID origins in China?
00:36:50.420 That's the question.
00:36:52.440 Well, UFO cover-up has been around since at least 1947 during Roswell.
00:36:58.340 Well, there was a Roswell incident.
00:37:01.120 If you don't know, the Army Air Corps predates the Army Air Force.
00:37:05.380 Army Air Corps, there's some kind of collision in the air.
00:37:09.500 Farmer finds this stuff out there.
00:37:12.320 The military's press office puts out a thing, says saucer recovered.
00:37:19.800 Goes nationwide.
00:37:20.940 Next day, oh, no, it wasn't a saucer.
00:37:22.840 It was a dadgum hot air balloon.
00:37:24.240 And they show this poor colonel hole in this piece of a hot air balloon.
00:37:26.860 But big cover-up.
00:37:28.620 Now, look, let's be honest.
00:37:30.680 And I go back to this.
00:37:32.160 I'm a Christian.
00:37:32.740 I'm not a very good one.
00:37:33.640 Read your dadgum Bible, first chapter of Ezekiel.
00:37:36.380 Ezekiel saw the wheel, although it's translated from King James Version.
00:37:40.780 And it describes basically a UFO.
00:37:42.860 We have Apollo astronauts who describe at a training facility,
00:37:48.560 out in the desert somewhere, there was one of our facilities,
00:37:52.480 a craft comes down, lands, and he describes it.
00:37:56.740 They videoed it, or they taped it, not video, but taped it.
00:38:00.240 They end up sending it to the base, and then they claim they never had it.
00:38:04.200 So Corey on Facebook wants to know what you think the motive is for this cover-up.
00:38:09.500 Yeah, that's a great question.
00:38:10.720 It's a couple of things.
00:38:11.820 It's arrogance and it's money.
00:38:13.740 It's so compartmentalized that I represent an area in Knoxville.
00:38:17.860 A lot of people in Oak Ridge National Laboratory work in the district I represent.
00:38:23.420 And I would talk to them when I was first running for office,
00:38:26.600 people that actually worked on the atomic bomb.
00:38:28.840 And a guy told me one time, he said, you know, my wife worked.
00:38:31.780 I worked on the fuse, and she worked on something else.
00:38:34.280 And he said, but we didn't know what each of us did.
00:38:36.500 That was back in the day before cell phones, and everybody was having a book deal.
00:38:40.140 And it was compartmentalized.
00:38:41.380 The knowledge that we gained back in those days from the people that had it have died off.
00:38:46.900 So what has happened is that it's been passed on to industry.
00:38:50.680 I believe there's probably – I think there's recovered craft.
00:38:53.440 I think there's – we have –
00:38:56.240 Well, you believe that the U.S. government has recovered craft that is not from the planet Earth.
00:39:02.340 At some point, I believe that has happened.
00:39:04.460 And what's your strongest basis for that belief?
00:39:06.500 Too many people that in the know have told me that.
00:39:08.920 And that we've – we had to do something with these multiple craft that have crashed,
00:39:15.700 and we do not have the technology.
00:39:17.640 We reverse engineer everything.
00:39:19.740 And I believe that – I just believe it in my heart.
00:39:22.920 I've talked to too many people.
00:39:24.020 I've talked to too many pilots, top, top pilots, our Navy pilots, best pilots in the world,
00:39:30.540 that have said that this – what they've seen.
00:39:32.580 I mean, the human body would become a catch-up package turning at these Gs.
00:39:37.360 And there's no vapor trail.
00:39:39.400 It just – it can turn.
00:39:41.020 And, you know, I've talked to too many people.
00:39:42.820 Yeah, and what I'm really worried about, too, is the rat hole.
00:39:46.620 You know, somebody will send you information.
00:39:49.640 People will send me pictures of UFOs and things.
00:39:51.820 And some of them I've sent – I have access to some folks who have analyzed several of these.
00:39:59.180 And on one thing, there was three different.
00:40:02.080 And two of them – one of them they said was not.
00:40:07.020 But two of them they said were definitely something not of this world.
00:40:13.280 Tim Burchett thinks your government is lying to you.
00:40:16.460 He doesn't want them to send your money to Ukraine.
00:40:19.260 And he wants you to be able to live a rural life and to be able to fill up your car with gas
00:40:24.300 and maybe go get some protein that was processed in the United States by a company that is owned in the United States.
00:40:31.340 That's the kind of life I want to live, Tim.
00:40:33.360 I'm glad I get to sit by you on the back row in the House of Representatives.
00:40:37.680 We'll be backbenching as long as these good folks keep sending us
00:40:40.600 and we're able to give them high-quality representation.
00:40:43.060 Tell folks where they can follow your content on Twitter.
00:40:46.140 I know you do a lot of live videos and also where they can get your podcast.
00:40:49.560 Yeah, at Tim Burchett is, you know, the little squiggly thing, at.
00:40:53.200 And then Tim, T-I-M-B-U-R-C-H-E-T-T.
00:40:56.140 And my podcast are Tim Talks.
00:40:59.560 And I'm looking over at Rachel.
00:41:00.700 How do they get them, Rachel?
00:41:01.560 I don't know how to get them.
00:41:03.760 YouTube, anywhere you get podcasts.
00:41:05.440 Thank you.
00:41:05.920 That was easy enough.
00:41:06.740 See, I listen to mine on Apple.
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00:41:31.260 We've got a lot of work to do ahead on the debt limit.
00:41:33.140 Thank you to everyone for your feedback.
00:41:35.580 Thank you, Tim, for joining me.
00:41:37.040 Thanks for being my friend.
00:41:38.640 Let's roll the credits.
00:41:39.260 Let's roll the credits.