The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - The Anchormen Show EP 153 - Where's the Line？

00:00:00.000 now it's time for the anchorman podcast with matt gates and pearson sharp

00:00:11.220 welcome back to another episode of anchorman i'm matt gates here with my terrific co-hosts

00:00:22.820 pearson sharp of the famous sharp report that you can find on one american news and

00:00:28.700 my partner in crime in primetime

00:00:31.140 David Pollack primetime

00:00:32.380 10pm eastern 7pm pacific

00:00:35.420 every night we get to bring you

00:00:37.180 through the news as I host the Matt Gaetz show

00:00:38.980 at 9 o'clock eastern 6 pacific so we have

00:00:40.960 a lot to go through but there is some scuttlebutt

00:00:43.520 in the

00:00:44.340 San Diego area republican circles

00:00:47.320 that a

00:00:48.740 certain republican group

00:00:51.120 had the house brought down

00:00:53.180 by a guest speaker who came

00:00:55.160 in and wowed them

00:00:56.100 One Pearson Sharp of One America News spoke to a local activist group.

00:01:02.420 Now, this is not something you're used to doing.

00:01:04.000 You're a researcher.

00:01:05.360 You're an investigative reporter.

00:01:06.540 You like to lock yourself in your room, get it as dark as possible,

00:01:10.540 and go deep into Anthony Fauci's mind and into what is going on all around the world.

00:01:17.540 But you came out of – Bruce Wayne came out of the cave as Batman and went to the local –

00:01:23.480 Give just, you know, David and I have done this a lot, but give us your, like, first draft of history.

00:01:29.420 Tell us who it was and how you found the experience.

00:01:31.900 It was the San Diego GOP, and they're having their, it was a meeting where they bring in officials who are running up for election and re-election and things like that.

00:01:43.940 And so they have a committee meeting, and they talk about, you know, the issues that are going on, and they close the doors for that.

00:01:48.880 But leading up to that, they have the public invited, and I was the keynote speaker.

00:01:54.660 And there was probably about 150 people there.

00:01:58.200 So not a big crowd.

00:01:59.200 Pack in the house, nowhere near an election for Pearson Sharp.

00:02:03.020 That's pretty good.

00:02:05.420 And, yeah, it's –

00:02:07.940 All right, so what did you talk about?

00:02:09.060 What was the message, bro?

00:02:09.620 The message they wanted from me was how we need to keep people from fleeing California.

00:02:14.740 We need to stay in California and fight.

00:02:16.500 So you said build a wall, right?

00:02:18.420 Essentially.

00:02:19.260 Walls work.

00:02:20.520 So I opened with, this is my first speech.

00:02:23.260 I've never done anything like this before.

00:02:24.720 And so I'm not good at extemporaneously discussing random political ideas.

00:02:29.700 I needed something to like-

00:02:30.560 Literally do it every week as part of your job on this podcast.

00:02:33.120 Go right ahead.

00:02:34.840 Well, there's differences.

00:02:36.020 You said he's not good at it.

00:02:37.360 Yeah.

00:02:37.660 In any case, I opened with the story of Nehemiah. 0.71

00:02:41.460 I wanted to open with the story.

00:02:42.640 And so I thought that would be a good way to break it down.

00:02:44.300 because if you're not familiar, Nehemiah was not exiled,

00:02:49.340 but he was in the court of the Persian king,

00:02:51.800 living the life of luxury,

00:02:52.820 and his brother came to visit him from Judah

00:02:55.620 and told him what was happening back in Jerusalem.

00:02:57.680 Basically, the city was in ruins.

00:03:00.100 And so instead of staying in the life of luxury, 0.65

00:03:03.240 Nehemiah went back and fixed Jerusalem.

00:03:05.800 And he could have said, someone else can do it. 0.75

00:03:07.440 It's not my problem. 0.96

00:03:08.700 I'm going to leave, da-da-da-da-da. 0.94

00:03:10.040 But he went in and he fought to rebuild Jerusalem

00:03:13.280 through all kinds of perils and hardships.

00:03:16.220 And so the lesson is, you know, this is our job.

00:03:18.540 It's our responsibility.

00:03:20.060 So, like, what is Jerusalem in the metaphor?

00:03:21.800 Is it California?

00:03:22.420 Yeah, it's California. 0.86

00:03:22.980 Or is it actually Jerusalem? 0.55

00:03:24.560 No, it's California.

00:03:25.400 Okay, because that could get lost in the story.

00:03:26.880 No, no, no, exactly.

00:03:27.880 But it's California.

00:03:29.400 The message is stay here.

00:03:30.660 Don't leave.

00:03:31.160 Don't let it be somebody else's problem.

00:03:32.480 Don't flee somewhere safer.

00:03:34.280 We need to fix this here and now.

00:03:35.900 You know, obviously it spreads.

00:03:37.080 That's the other thing.

00:03:37.800 It doesn't just stay in California.

00:03:39.060 So you give this inspiring speech, standing ovation.

00:03:42.100 I did get a standing ovation.

00:03:43.000 Standing ovation. And Pearson takes questions. And question one is what?

00:03:47.340 Question number one from a lady was, when are you running for office? 0.96

00:03:50.700 Let's go. Let's go. I am here for the Pearson Sharp 2028 movement. 0.99

00:03:57.000 Yeah. My response was, no one would vote for me. I'm too radical.

00:04:00.420 Well, that might be exactly what California needs.

00:04:03.180 I told him that I go the Donald Trump approach in that don't apologize for your positions.

00:04:09.420 Don't back down from something. Don't try and meet them in the middle.

00:04:11.700 go as hard right as you can and i said i have never met somebody who's far right enough and

00:04:17.340 the room erupted like they loved that so do you have a taste of this now is it in the blood did

00:04:22.700 it did you was your heart pumping did you go home and tell your sweet wife and your children to

00:04:27.160 prepare for the campaign trail that's the thing i don't think if someone put me in office i think i

00:04:32.620 i could and would do it but i don't want to do the political thing i don't want to do the schmoozing

00:04:36.660 i don't want to ask people for money i don't want to promote myself the whole getting elected part

00:04:41.040 you would prefer fascism where you just take sure yeah that would be easier okay but no as a

00:04:46.920 personality i don't like asking people for things i don't like asking for money i don't like putting

00:04:51.240 myself out there i hate that david you have done i could not you have done so much of that in the

00:04:56.120 central florida uh do you get desensitized to whatever the the constant asking of people for

00:05:03.520 their saturday to go on a neighborhood walk their yard to put up your yard sign their funds to run

00:05:09.940 a campaign yeah how how do you i mean it is kind of the most awkward part of politics to ask so

00:05:16.580 much of other people for your own ambition at first it is i remember um a state rep then you

00:05:23.500 get numb to it no no yeah well i'm not numb to it so when i was a new candidate in 2020 uh there

00:05:29.980 was a state representative david smith did a great job um he got me on the phone and because i had

00:05:35.640 never run before and i called there so please people give me advice because i have no idea

00:05:39.220 what i'm doing in my race i got a phone call from a former council member who said hey there's a

00:05:43.360 democrat running unopposed and they're going to take the seat unless you run i said okay well

00:05:47.020 count me in in two days i qualified okay that's the hard part right no then once i qualified i was

00:05:52.760 like okay now you have to run a campaign and i had no idea what i was going to do so i called all

00:05:56.300 these elected officials i'm like can you help me please i have no idea what i'm doing and david

00:06:00.380 smith told me he says well just go in your phone and literally go through your phone book literally

00:06:04.860 call every single person in your phone book and ask them for money i'm like you want me to call

00:06:08.180 people I haven't spoke to in 10 years and ask for money. He goes, yeah. Yeah. Everyone that you know

00:06:12.340 from law school, everyone, you know, everybody ask him for money. And then I said, and he goes,

00:06:17.000 and if you can't raise an X, you know, X amount of dollars from your phone book, then drop out

00:06:20.320 of the race. And I'm like, okay. So met with the challenge. I started going through, I called

00:06:25.000 people I haven't spoke to in 10 years. You know what? $1,000 check, $500 check. Oh, I think that's

00:06:29.140 great. I always imagined you would do something like this. Check, check, check. And then it got

00:06:33.680 to the point where people expected me to ask them for money every event. And I'm sure you've

00:06:37.960 experiences as well so when it went from being uncomfortable to when i'm at a vent they're like

00:06:42.220 okay so you want me to write you a check and you're like uh yeah i guess i do and then it

00:06:46.180 almost became insulting if you didn't ask them for money like don't you want to ask me for money

00:06:49.680 and so once you start realizing that the certain people that you go to that are donors they want

00:06:54.720 you to pitch them and they want you to ask them for money because that's what they do that's how

00:06:57.300 they feel like they're helping the movement they're saying hey by the way you're wincing at

00:07:00.640 this pearson yeah but this is the noble part of it to be clear like talking to your own friends

00:07:06.360 and people who know you and asking them to support you,

00:07:08.660 that's the noble part, right?

00:07:10.240 Because the layer that comes next is if you get any power

00:07:13.140 or if it looks like you're going to have any degree of influence,

00:07:16.200 that's when the special interests roll in.

00:07:18.500 And then, you know, they show up with checks by the many thousands

00:07:22.660 and the lobbyists, then you get the bundlers

00:07:24.820 who get multiple checks together, right?

00:07:27.160 And with them, the asking and the delivery

00:07:29.720 is just part of the experience, but it's what comes next.

00:07:33.180 You know, that friend that you call, that you hung out with five years ago and sends you $200, $300, they don't expect you to be anything other than the best version of yourself.

00:07:43.700 But it gets worse from there.

00:07:46.580 So now maybe all of that optimism and all of that jubilance is, have we zapped it from you?

00:07:53.940 I didn't want to do it to begin with.

00:07:56.600 I'm happy to go in and tell these politicians what they're doing wrong and that we're going to hold them accountable.

00:08:01.780 But I don't want to be one of them.

00:08:03.180 i uh i ran i think seven elections won all of them uh and what i found is that when you invite

00:08:11.460 people into a campaign you have to be inviting them into a cause and it's one they have to know

00:08:16.980 you believe in uh if if you if people think you're just kind of doing the next rung on the ladder

00:08:24.180 you know i regularly run ran for higher office and won higher office but if people think that

00:08:28.840 that's just kind of the end game then the buy-in is very tepid yeah where if like you know if you

00:08:35.760 say hey look you have got to vote for me because if you do not vote for me the person who is going

00:08:40.580 to be the congressman is for giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens like if you do not

00:08:45.940 vote for me the guy is you know somebody that they dropped in here from missouri you know is 0.72

00:08:51.020 going to be your congressman just because kevin mccarthy doesn't like me you know yep you when

00:08:55.440 you explain people that they have a role to play it is actually a virtuous and inspiring in a in a

00:09:01.560 wonderful way to spend your time you know and you put you make an excellent point with this and this

00:09:05.380 Pearson's where I think you should run I'm co-signing this campaign with Matt I'll even help

00:09:08.980 you do it um because and you know this Matt anytime somebody wants to run for office I'm sure

00:09:13.920 everybody comes to you when they want to run for office and they go Matt I want to run for office

00:09:16.960 and I'm pretty sure I know exactly the next question you ask them it's a question everybody

00:09:21.020 that has a check asks me why why do you want to run and how you answer that question determines

00:09:26.620 how successful you're going to be in your campaign and as you just heard matt matt can articulate why

00:09:31.180 i'm running when i ran people like why are you running i said well because i like my community

00:09:34.540 and the democrat was going to run unopposed and i wasn't going to let somebody just come in

00:09:37.900 and steal your seat without giving you a choice on the direction that's a good reason yes you're

00:09:42.600 going to run because people are not conservative enough people are not far right enough when you 0.98

00:09:47.080 take that message you can compare it to some schmuck who's like well i was on law review and 0.86

00:09:51.360 always wanted to be elected to something that person loses all day long because it's about bio 0.92

00:09:56.540 correct bio loses and a lot of people don't understand that you know what to some extent

00:10:02.000 people want to know you're a good person but at the end of the day what are you going to do for

00:10:05.680 them yeah what what you achieved in life is like not really what drives whether or not you're going

00:10:11.160 to fight for somebody so voting is a selfish act i think when people go vote they vote for who they

00:10:17.000 think will fight for them yeah and i think i think you could convey that that great i gotta get to

00:10:21.760 my favorite story of the week okay air force one the media is freaking out because the mainstream

00:10:29.780 media is reporting that donald trump pulled some sort of james bond maneuver where he gets out of

00:10:36.060 the old air force one through a uh a cart where they deliver the food and is off to another plane

00:10:43.700 as old Air Force One is the decoy on the way out of the country.

00:10:50.320 Oh, the press, they are losing their minds over it.

00:10:53.580 I just think it's like, look, man, this is a guy who uses every tool.

00:10:57.240 This is a guy who's always thinking.

00:10:58.820 This is a team that's always thinking.

00:11:00.580 And it got me thinking about my time on Air Force One.

00:11:02.600 You know, I always bring for you guys my menus that I stole, my Air Force One.

00:11:06.960 See if we can get that.

00:11:07.700 In post, we'll get them to get a photo of every time I'm on Air Force One,

00:11:12.800 I steal a menu.

00:11:13.700 So, so what do you make of it, David Pollack? Is this a scandal for the White House or is this the agile Donald, can you imagine like Joe Biden having to do this? The agile Donald Trump maneuvering the, the food cart to safety.

00:11:29.900 Well, they had several Joe Biden, so it would have been fine. They would have had to, you know, they just animate the other one. He comes up like one of the little, you know, the arm waggling things out front of car dealerships. They say inflate him. Hello, can I smell you?

00:11:42.220 But I think the funny thing was the press pivoted so quickly because they were like, well, yeah, it was a security center.

00:11:49.480 They're like, but you let us go on the airplane.

00:11:51.580 That's what they're upset about.

00:11:52.660 They're upset because they got on the airplane and nobody snuck them out of the back door.

00:11:56.840 And what's so funny is it tells you how important the press think they are.

00:12:00.200 The press has the privilege of being on Air Force One in their little press cabin.

00:12:05.340 They have the privilege of being with the president, covering the president.

00:12:07.900 They can fly there on their own if they want to, but they're flown for free for the privilege of covering the president.

00:12:13.400 And with that, they're like, we're so important that you should escort us out, too.

00:12:18.300 Nobody cares if a plane full of press falls out of the sky.

00:12:21.440 There'll be plenty more who can't get the seeds.

00:12:23.500 That's what I'm saying.

00:12:24.140 The news would get truer.

00:12:25.540 And I'm not advocating for it.

00:12:26.660 I'm just saying the press aren't as important as they think they are.

00:12:28.740 They might throw themselves.

00:12:29.920 They're not part of the continuity of the government.

00:12:31.880 I don't want anything bad to happen to any reporters, but nobody elected you to anything.

00:12:36.700 Right.

00:12:37.160 Nobody cares.

00:12:38.020 Like, you're replaceable press.

00:12:39.560 Sorry.

00:12:40.020 And there's a lot of people who should be doing their jobs that would probably do it better.

00:12:43.140 But they think they're so important that they're outraged that the president's safety was put above their own.

00:12:48.220 I would be honored to be a decoy on the old Air Force One, and I would still steal the menu.

00:12:53.700 Of course you would.

00:12:54.280 Any thoughts on this?

00:12:54.840 What's on the menu?

00:12:55.600 You didn't share what was on the menu.

00:12:57.040 Oh, grilled flank steak.

00:12:58.500 Yeah.

00:12:59.900 I'm in the same camp.

00:13:00.920 I'd be honored to be there.

00:13:01.820 And I think if you are flying with the president, you inherently take on some risk.

00:13:09.220 You have to be aware that something could happen at some point.

00:13:12.480 When the sniper takes his shot, you might be the person who's in the way.

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00:14:18.520 wait for your family pearson i have to rage rage bait you and my best way to do that is to talk

00:14:24.240 about what's happening in the united states senate week in week out uh we we get the news

00:14:29.040 not a high bar we get the news that the senate has passed the lindsey graham sanctions package

00:14:35.160 on russia nobody knows this dispute uh between russia and ukraine like you do you've been to

00:14:40.980 the front lines what do you make of the sanctions package and your united states senate i think it's

00:14:48.080 disgraceful honestly um there's so many different things that we could be focusing on right now and

00:14:54.060 we could be passing and we could be working on um to target russia once again and it's it's not

00:15:01.420 even really like it's going to do that much they are so sanctioned at this point from all of the

00:15:06.900 previous sanctions that have not been lifted that i don't think they're even going to notice

00:15:10.280 no i think this bill sanctions the sanctions yeah it's yeah the sanctions have their own

00:15:14.660 exactly um and i think it's also it's also sad because this is another layer another barrier

00:15:23.100 between us and finding peace and common ground with Russia,

00:15:25.980 resolving this war that doesn't need to be happening.

00:15:29.800 Trump started out with very high hopes from all of us,

00:15:33.300 and himself, I think, in resolving this,

00:15:35.780 getting it finished, taking care of it.

00:15:37.720 This wasn't his war to begin with.

00:15:39.300 It's kind of his war now,

00:15:40.500 because I think he has the power to end these things.

00:15:45.020 And instead, we're still sending them weapons.

00:15:46.880 We're still sanctioning them.

00:15:48.500 We're still doing all these things

00:15:49.880 that are stopping us from ending this war.

00:15:51.880 So I'm very disappointed in that.

00:15:54.360 And it was introduced by Graham's sister. 0.69

00:15:56.020 What the hell is she doing in office? 1.00

00:15:57.620 She shouldn't be there. 0.96

00:15:58.740 That's such a token appointment.

00:16:00.280 She should be out of there. 1.00

00:16:01.440 We should have a real serious person in there. 1.00

00:16:03.920 Do you think she's going to win the election?

00:16:05.720 I don't know, man.

00:16:07.320 Lindsey kept winning.

00:16:08.380 Why wouldn't she? 1.00

00:16:09.300 People are so retarded when it comes to who they decide to put in office. 1.00

00:16:12.540 Well, we've now nestled into the real center cut of the show. 0.99

00:16:16.620 Pearson is fully rage baited.

00:16:18.340 David, any value to these sanctions bills?

00:16:21.100 Do you want to defend them?

00:16:22.840 I don't.

00:16:23.200 I mean, I think it was really just symbolic for Lindsey Graham.

00:16:26.300 I don't know that the sanctions are moving the needle at all, nor have they from the very beginning.

00:16:30.400 I don't know what's going to move the needle on the war between Russia and Ukraine.

00:16:34.060 But I want to nail you down on this.

00:16:35.900 You do not view sanctions as a strategy to leverage Putin.

00:16:40.400 I mean, I don't know the extent of these sanctions or what the economic impact is going to be to Russia.

00:16:45.940 But so far, nothing has deterred Russia with sanctions.

00:16:50.680 They've never deterred. 0.62

00:16:51.980 Sanctions have never deterred.

00:16:52.920 It's not like Russia's Iran. 0.74

00:16:54.460 Like, okay, fine, we're going to sanction.

00:16:55.540 By the way, where have sanctions ever worked?

00:16:57.460 I don't think they ever have, have they?

00:16:58.840 If sanctions worked.

00:17:00.380 Cuba.

00:17:01.160 Oh, yes, yes, Cuba. 0.96

00:17:02.500 By the way, if sanctions worked, Cuba would be a Caribbean Garden of Eden. 0.97

00:17:08.140 Okay? 0.98

00:17:08.720 Because they have been sanctioned. 0.98

00:17:10.420 Instead, Cuba is a hellhole. 1.00

00:17:13.220 Cuba is a total hellhole. 0.91

00:17:14.920 Cuba is not a place where sanctions have worked. 0.77

00:17:17.520 We have sanctioned Cuba more than anybody.

00:17:19.440 Well, it starves the regime. 0.56

00:17:20.780 And life there is worse than ever.

00:17:21.520 It starves.

00:17:23.080 I think sanctions can work on a smaller scale. 1.00

00:17:25.400 Like a country like Q. 1.00

00:17:26.340 But where do they change behavior? 1.00

00:17:27.540 I should have had more precise in my question.

00:17:28.940 Where do sanctions change behavior?

00:17:31.360 That's an excellent point.

00:17:32.240 You're right.

00:17:32.700 They don't change behavior because the problem is we usually put sanctions on countries that have dictators.

00:17:39.340 And so all you're doing is the people get really upset with their leaders when they're suffering, but they can't do anything to do anything about it.

00:17:45.860 So sanctions really don't convince leaders to lose power.

00:17:48.420 Well, I think it's even worse than that.

00:17:49.440 I think that what sanctions allow despots to do is externalize their conflict.

00:17:53.940 Well, yeah, exactly.

00:17:54.700 Right? 1.00

00:17:55.080 You're mad that the garbage is... 1.00

00:17:56.980 Look what they're doing to us. 0.99

00:17:57.900 Exactly.

00:17:58.200 Yeah, I agree with you.

00:17:59.380 I think that's fair.

00:18:00.040 The other thing is, specifically in Russia, we just said sanctions don't work.

00:18:04.280 They found a way around them.

00:18:05.880 They're making a lot of their stuff domestically now, or they're importing it from China.

00:18:09.480 And I talked about this in my documentary, where they used to buy Ford and Chevy.

00:18:13.540 Now they're buying Hong Xi and Wang Fan from China.

00:18:16.360 You know, and it's not stopped.

00:18:17.620 They're still getting new cars.

00:18:18.640 I'm surprised there isn't more resistance within Russia of kind of the Chinese-leveraged buy-up of my country. 0.70

00:18:24.400 You might think there would be. 0.98

00:18:25.120 You might think there would.

00:18:25.780 But at this point, they're so fed up with what we've done to them that it's, well, China's willing to work with us, so why not?

00:18:33.320 And the other hilarious one is Starbucks pulled out, so they came up with their own Starz coffee, and it literally is the exact same logo.

00:18:43.820 Go to there, get whatever coffee they want, no problem whatsoever.

00:18:46.720 so like we so wait that didn't break them that exactly you're saying that when we took starbucks

00:18:52.060 away from the russians right no that did not cause a total and complete surrender and it hurts 0.99

00:18:56.820 because in many suburban american neighborhoods the white women would be waving the flags of 0.81

00:19:02.420 surrender immediately if the starbucks was taken away and so when i was there you don't notice any

00:19:06.380 of this you don't notice the sanctions everybody goes around lives their lives normally i had some

00:19:11.200 of the best meals i've ever had walking around moscow down in donbass i had some phenomenal

00:19:15.520 meals you know in the war zone so i don't know where these sanctions are supposedly working

00:19:19.900 but the thing that they do actually hurt is goodwill and solving this david i i i did a lot

00:19:27.620 of uh of research on russia this week and i got two kind of reports from sources friends

00:19:32.880 one was that there is a lot of domestic pressure on putin right now to be more aggressive yeah

00:19:40.900 that the populist view in russia is we want to see you know more munitions landing on on kiev

00:19:50.180 at the same time someone else i spoke with off the record said they believe that if these long

00:19:58.400 range strikes into moscow continued uh and it continued to hurt russia's energy infrastructure

00:20:05.800 that you would start to see russia striking europe interesting uh do you do you think any

00:20:12.280 of that could be like well how do you how do you assess a putin who is 74 years old feeling

00:20:19.480 domestic political pressure to accelerate this war i'm so excited when we get our merriweather

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00:20:53.820 It's really interesting. And before I answer that, I think you just came up with the best idea ever

00:20:58.360 to win the war against the left in america we need to start sanctioning starbucks in the elitist

00:21:04.200 liberal neighborhoods listen we can use that as i'm not letting this clip get put next to like

00:21:09.120 a photograph of me in a hoodie at a starbucks i go to starbucks okay i go there too i'm just saying

00:21:15.680 we could sanction it from the suburbs and really it really leveraged some strength and power um

00:21:21.520 No. So it's really interesting. Oh, first with Putin's pride. Yes. Because he runs ads in Russia. We've seen these ads, right? Oh, yeah. They're amazing where they like they portray Americans as being like the soy boys and the trans people. And he really just he really pokes fun at America. And he's like, this could be Russia if you know. Right. And then so Russians are like point. They walk around with their chest out proud that they don't have these left wing lunatics running around and they make fun of us.

00:21:50.160 So I can see, when faced with international pressure from the United States, that's what I'm saying, and so I can see Russians going, you know what, I'm more proud to be Russian than American, because America, remember, in the 80s and 90s, we were Top Gun, and Blue Jeans, Red Heat, Michael Jackson, when that was an okay picture before.

00:22:10.180 Michael Jordan, Sidney Sweeney, and Kiss.

00:22:12.900 Like, America was badass.

00:22:14.800 And now, I mean, America still is badass, but the version they see of America is not the badass version.

00:22:20.620 You know, they got Top Gun 2 instead of Top Gun 1, although Top Gun 2 is still very good.

00:22:24.200 Top Gun 2 is pretty good.

00:22:24.600 Yeah, it's pretty good.

00:22:25.200 It's pretty good.

00:22:25.540 But they had the pilots, and anyway, we'll get there later.

00:22:28.280 But the point is, on the strike, I don't think Russia is going to do a kinetic strike on a NATO European country.

00:22:38.360 I mean, maybe if they're talking about Europe, maybe like a non-NATO Europe, maybe.

00:22:42.000 Or kind of like a Moldova. 0.63

00:22:44.560 Yeah, like maybe they throw a bottle rocket in Moldova.

00:22:49.000 But I don't really see – there's no benefit to Russia. 0.58

00:22:51.840 Russia has a goal for Ukraine, right? 0.59

00:22:53.500 Russia wants territory. 0.77

00:22:54.880 Russia wants its citizens that they believe is in Ukraine.

00:22:59.120 Russia has their stated goals for Ukraine.

00:23:01.800 It does not achieve their objective to attack any other country unless they perceive that country is providing material support to Ukraine.

00:23:07.540 situation dramatically worse right and the only countries that are providing material

00:23:10.820 support for ukraine are nato countries and i don't foresee uh putin inviting nato into a conflict

00:23:17.120 when there's some disagreement with how much we want to support ukraine so i think that would be

00:23:21.140 not the smartest move but i do believe i do believe that the russian population is going

00:23:25.920 to be emboldened behind the pride of russia and i do i do think that encourages uh putin to get

00:23:32.020 more aggressive in the ukraine which inevitably puts us in a tougher position they hate when you 0.58

00:23:36.100 say the Ukraine they do hate that I hate that what do I say instead Ukraine yeah you don't say 0.59

00:23:41.040 the Germany what about Russia let's see the connotation uh David the connotation of the

00:23:46.920 Ukraine is that it's not a country it's the Ukraine a region of Russia what about Bronx

00:23:52.920 what about the Bronx well the Bronx is not its own state the Bronx but it's its own borough a

00:23:58.280 bureau a borough within New York right but you have Brooklyn you have Queens you have Long Island

00:24:03.340 the Bronx. Well, I guess that's the point. Which is a funny language, but. The Ukrainians just

00:24:08.060 need to chill. To continue to rage bait you with the United States Senate. Please. Well, no, first 1.00

00:24:11.560 actually I want your reaction to this because you've been to Russia, you've talked to these

00:24:16.260 people. How can you assess the pressure Putin is under domestically to be more aggressive and

00:24:25.460 violent against Ukraine? He's under a lot of pressure. He's under a lot of pressure. I have

00:24:29.460 a friend who's in Crimea, and he said the situation there is dire because of the strikes

00:24:35.960 from Ukraine. He said they'll go weeks without electricity. They can't get oil. The bridges are

00:24:41.640 being knocked out. They're having a really hard time down in Crimea. It's miserable. And they

00:24:47.100 want him to go harder on Ukraine, knock these people out, stop them from attacking us, you know,

00:24:51.660 save us, basically, as you would want your leader to do. So they're pushing for a much stronger 0.59

00:24:57.720 response particularly because what do you think that looks like starting to hit more targets in

00:25:03.040 not targeting civilian areas but knocking out warehouses or knocking out uh civilian infrastructure

00:25:08.980 things like that because the very stuff that i'm like railing that i'm saying we shouldn't be doing

00:25:13.420 in all right but that's what that's what ukraine has been doing to russia russia has been focused

00:25:18.220 primarily on military targets while ukraine has been focused on civilian targets they've been

00:25:22.580 focused on the energy because it's the energy money that goes yeah but also civilian targets

00:25:27.140 when I was in Donbass, I went to a school that had been hit, a children's school.

00:25:32.100 Yeah, the United States struck a girl's school in Iran, too, sadly.

00:25:35.680 So this is the situation they're facing.

00:25:38.080 When you're living in an area and your schools are getting hit

00:25:41.260 and your bank is getting hit and your mall is getting hit

00:25:44.040 and they're nowhere near any military targets, 0.93

00:25:46.020 you're going to be like, screw these guys. 1.00

00:25:47.840 Let's kill them. 1.00

00:25:48.820 Why are we being nice? 1.00

00:25:50.240 They're murdering us. 1.00

00:25:51.100 So by kill them, you mean kill civilians? 0.99

00:25:53.340 Well, whoever's causing this, whatever it takes to stop this. 0.99

00:25:55.640 Yeah, don't say whoever, because that wax is poetic over a pretty important point.

00:25:59.520 Yeah, well, if you're living there, then sure, you're going to say, 1.00

00:26:01.540 they're killing us, we're going to kill them. 0.99

00:26:03.720 I can understand that. 1.00

00:26:04.660 It's horrendous.

00:26:04.780 I don't condone it.

00:26:05.740 It's horrendous.

00:26:06.400 But I can understand it, and I think you would too. 0.96

00:26:08.680 If people were murdering your family, you would want to murder them too. 0.75

00:26:11.840 I think murdering innocent civilians, knowingly, is a war crime. 0.97

00:26:16.680 No, I agree with that. 0.97

00:26:17.680 And there's no conflict in the world right now where I say,

00:26:23.100 gosh, you know what would really bring that conflict to end?

00:26:26.120 Killing a bunch of children. 0.99

00:26:27.540 Let's go hit a desal plant in Iran and see what it's like when a village of children dies because of dehydration. 0.99

00:26:36.520 Let's see if that advances America's interests. 0.91

00:26:38.620 Matt, I agree.

00:26:39.240 Yeah.

00:26:39.540 I don't think Russia should do it either.

00:26:41.180 Well, no, I don't think they should either, but there has to be a way that they can win this.

00:26:48.060 And right now, one side is playing fair and one side is not.

00:26:53.100 How do you reconcile that?

00:26:55.180 I think that is the nature of war is that that is always the allegation.

00:26:57.900 It is.

00:26:58.280 Speaking of fair play, the Senate was involved in another piece of legislation that we're going to talk about, college sports.

00:27:05.300 David Pollack, you and I had a conversation about this recently.

00:27:09.280 The Senate, unable to pass the big college sports bill we've been talking about.

00:27:15.480 Have you been talking about it on David Pollack Primetime?

00:27:18.420 Walk us through what you make of this dissolving.

00:27:23.580 Well, there was something that we didn't talk about because we all get focused on the NIL portion of the – I forget what the name of the act is.

00:27:30.600 Save College Sports Act.

00:27:31.180 Save College Sports Act.

00:27:32.200 We get caught up in the NIL portion because that's the part we pay attention to as college sports fans.

00:27:36.600 We're like, oh, NIL and the transfer portal, and that's our experience with it.

00:27:40.440 But there was a lot of objection and I had a five-time Olympian on my show to talk about the protections it gives to the NCAA because she had negative experiences with the Olympic Association and having sort of this antitrust protection and they kind of make the rules and they do whatever they want.

00:27:58.180 The NCAA was being given this sort of antitrust insulation, and they would be basically the judge and jury on things NCAA-related, and the athletes were pointing out the fact that the NCAA has a bad track record of treating athletes poorly, and this would take the power out of the courts and give it right to the NCAA, and they can't be trusted with that power.

00:28:19.600 So I think some of the 11th hour opposition to this was surrounding the fact that there wasn't enough oversight over the NCAA with respect to some other things.

00:28:28.780 Like, for example, the NCAA could have decided that they allow women in men's sports or men in women's sports if they wanted to.

00:28:35.260 And that could potentially trump states' rights even in light of the Supreme Court precedent saying that states can pass their own legislation.

00:28:41.900 And so there's all these questions surrounding how much power you're giving the NCAA and what that meant.

00:28:46.520 And I think that's what stalled the act inevitably.

00:28:49.600 Pearson's more angry that time in the United States Senate

00:28:53.560 was spent even debating college sports

00:28:55.900 as the Save America Act languishes

00:28:57.960 and as supervisors of elections are printing ballots.

00:29:03.160 Senators are burning floor time on the college sports bill. 0.99

00:29:08.340 Pearson, bring us inside your rage.

00:29:10.940 You act like that's unreasonable.

00:29:12.060 Is that not a reasonable concern?

00:29:13.800 Oh, I completely agree with you.

00:29:14.900 Yeah.

00:29:15.260 I completely agree with you.

00:29:16.360 just just david made a very smart point by the way about about the lack of oversight and and

00:29:21.760 you know what he's saying about the antitrust exemption there are naturally going to be

00:29:25.380 disputes that arise in sports and eligibility and transfer that that's an inherent part of

00:29:31.560 the process so what the ncaa wants is to have their own concierge decision making that is uh

00:29:39.400 encapsulated outside of the way we resolve any other dispute dissolution of marriage breach of

00:29:45.800 contract negligence products liability we have courts that are paid for by taxpayers to resolve

00:29:51.080 disputes and the ncaa like every special interest wants their own way to do it and david just laid

00:29:58.320 the case out as to why maybe maybe we should look into how they've treated some of these athletes 0.99

00:30:02.660 before giving them a complete off-ramp to the system that is for schmucks like you and me 0.93

00:30:09.240 to go resolve our disputes and so i think that's very wise but you i think want to make 0.96

00:30:13.700 a broader point about bandwidth

00:30:15.960 and priorities and the message

00:30:18.160 being sent to voters like you?

00:30:20.320 I'm not a sports guy, so I've not

00:30:22.060 got any cat in that race.

00:30:23.920 They can do whatever they want.

00:30:25.340 I don't think anyone races cats.

00:30:27.260 It's a horse or a dog in the race.

00:30:29.900 There's no cat races that I'm familiar with.

00:30:32.440 There probably should be.

00:30:33.520 But they're not banned, so maybe not.

00:30:35.720 I know producers right now are searching

00:30:37.180 for cat races, but please

00:30:40.080 don't go there.

00:30:41.300 All right, so you don't care about sports, but you care about elections.

00:30:44.360 There are 55% of America that have faith in the integrity of our elections.

00:30:50.820 55%.

00:30:51.300 Just barely half of Americans believe that our elections will be fair in November.

00:30:56.800 And our Senate's talking about sports.

00:30:59.040 And they went on a recess for a month.

00:31:02.160 You want me to make you madder?

00:31:04.120 Please.

00:31:04.660 They're not even on recess.

00:31:06.500 Because they've got the pro forma sessions every three days.

00:31:09.580 They can't even go on a recess.

00:31:11.200 And why is that? Oh, it's so good. Do you really you want to you want to get real mad?

00:31:15.320 He might go nuclear and explode on this couch. It's actually a very interesting sort of scenario here.

00:31:21.720 In order for the Senate to recess, the House has to actually they have to agree the House and the Senate for Senate to leave.

00:31:26.580 It's a weird rule that the Senate has to follow. House can go wherever they want.

00:31:29.600 But the Senate can't recess unless the House and the Senate agree.

00:31:32.440 Well, the House is on recess, so they can't agree. And two, I don't think the House would have let him go on recess on this one with the Save America Act pending.

00:31:38.060 But it's an interesting nuance because of this.

00:31:40.300 If the Senate recesses for more than 10 days, our Supreme Court has decided that if there's a president who has nominations pending, well, guess what?

00:31:48.960 During a recess, they're called recess appointments, the president could have had all his picks, boom, put in right away.

00:31:55.420 And remember, we have hundreds, hundreds of nominations still pending.

00:31:58.520 Now, John Thune, because he thinks he's slick, moved forward on about 94 of these appointments right before he did nothing on the Save America Act.

00:32:06.400 and then he wanted to go on break, right?

00:32:08.660 Here's the best part.

00:32:09.940 He can't actually recess the Senate

00:32:11.500 because the House didn't give him permission.

00:32:13.600 So he's doing a pro forma session.

00:32:15.480 Every three days, they come in.

00:32:17.160 One senator gavels into the Senate, pro forma,

00:32:19.880 and they say, okay, we have no business.

00:32:21.720 Gavel it closed.

00:32:22.600 And do you know what that does?

00:32:24.000 It keeps him from getting the recess.

00:32:25.780 Do you know when?

00:32:26.460 We were that close to having you

00:32:27.740 as the U.S. ambassador to Kiev.

00:32:29.620 But it gets worse.

00:32:30.640 We were that close, Pearson.

00:32:31.880 There's one more level of this

00:32:33.040 that's going to make you even madder.

00:32:34.080 Let's assume for a second

00:32:34.920 the House agreed to let the Senate recess.

00:32:36.400 Do you know when in history a president's own party prevented him from getting recess appointments?

00:32:43.040 I don't think ever.

00:32:43.740 It's never happened.

00:32:44.660 President Trump is the only president in modern history to have his own Senate prevent him from having recess appointments when we control both the House and the Senate.

00:32:53.120 If this Senate wanted to, this Senate could have said, hey, House, let us go on break, and we're going to give President Trump all of his nominations.

00:33:00.420 And you know what that means?

00:33:01.100 We could have used that as leverage to pass the Save America Act because we just said, hey, Democrats, if you don't work with us on Save America, we're going to recess the House and the Senate.

00:33:08.760 And every single one of Trump's picks goes through unless you work with us.

00:33:11.560 But you know what John Thune did?

00:33:12.580 He let all the leverage go.

00:33:14.440 He's coming in pro forma to screw President Trump.

00:33:16.780 And if you had any doubt that John Thune is doing everything in his power to stop President Trump, this is all the proof you need.

00:33:22.120 Are you mad yet?

00:33:23.700 I could say a lot of things right now, but we would have to cut them out of the show.

00:33:29.680 We can bleep them.

00:33:32.320 I can't fathom that level of incompetence and malice against the United States.

00:33:38.760 It's about control, Pearson.

00:33:40.020 It's not incompetence.

00:33:41.540 It's a competent way for senators to maintain their control over who gets what positions in the executive branch of government. 1.00

00:33:50.400 It's a straight legislative power grab where they want to be the HR department.

00:33:55.220 You wonder why we're screwed in November.

00:33:58.240 It's because we do stuff like this.

00:33:59.680 We get in control, and we do stuff like this.

00:34:01.540 Okay, okay, but that's a perfect segue to my next topic.

00:34:04.820 I do want to mention one other thing

00:34:06.200 while we're talking about what they've screwed up.

00:34:08.080 Okay, okay.

00:34:09.240 Do you know how many executive orders,

00:34:11.020 and this drives me nuts,

00:34:12.660 because Trump has passed some phenomenal executive orders,

00:34:16.160 things that our country desperately needs.

00:34:18.880 Do you know how many he's passed?

00:34:20.660 It's on the order of 275 executive orders, this term.

00:34:24.740 Do you know how many the legislature has made law?

00:34:28.740 You know how many they've signed into law?

00:34:30.820 28.

00:34:33.460 That's higher than I ever thought.

00:34:34.840 28.

00:34:35.720 Well, that probably includes a number of them that were baked into the one big, beautiful bill.

00:34:39.920 And that's what they are.

00:34:41.120 Right.

00:34:41.640 Yep.

00:34:42.340 Right.

00:34:43.020 What the hell are we doing?

00:34:44.900 All of Trump's accomplishments, all of the things he's done are going to be gone like that.

00:34:50.040 Day one.

00:34:50.640 We're going to have Gulf of Mexico.

00:34:52.280 No, don't take the Gulf of America away from me, Pearson.

00:34:55.900 Wow.

00:34:56.420 Now you're rage baiting me.

00:34:57.980 Wow.

00:34:58.380 This is not, no, now my blood pressure is up.

00:35:02.000 The Gulf of America is awesome.

00:35:04.000 They will not take that away from us.

00:35:05.380 There will be a fight.

00:35:06.160 We will defend the Gulf of America with our lives.

00:35:09.600 But you talk about us and what's going on on our side,

00:35:12.580 but every once in a while we like to peek our nose over the fence

00:35:15.140 at what's going on on the other side.

00:35:16.800 This is the headline I'm bringing you.

00:35:18.800 DSA, the Democrat Socialists of America, is our MAGA.

00:35:23.080 The Democrat establishment faces a reckoning with the DSA takeover.

00:35:27.040 So here's kind of the news of the week, right? This is not the Bronx. This is not Queens. You have any socialist that has just been nominated to be the governor candidate for the Democrats in Wisconsin and a socialist in Michigan for the U.S. Senate.

00:35:43.720 this is in the heartland this is the great lakes lake states the great lake states are deciding

00:35:48.900 presidencies they are deciding control over the chambers and what the democrats are putting

00:35:53.400 forward is the dsa but let me offer some some some self-criticism on my coverage of this

00:36:01.040 i've kind of been covering it as an insurgent takeover but it was pointed out to me that like

00:36:07.440 al-said goes to an ivy league school on a soros scholarship rolls out and said he was encouraged

00:36:14.380 to seek public office by bill clinton gets mentored in his own words by barack obama

00:36:20.580 because maybe this is not a takeover as much as a progression like kind of a fully planned

00:36:28.720 progression and maybe like the bill clintons and the and and the old cats in the democratic party

00:36:35.080 aren't getting rolled maybe this was their plan how do you see it well i agree it is the plan but

00:36:41.720 the plan can still be a takeover but is it a hostile takeover or is it a top is it a plan's

00:36:47.120 takeover i want it's a takeover from the top david how do you see it i i agree with you completely

00:36:51.800 it is a plan takeover the democrats have been socialist until they invented this since they

00:36:57.220 invented the phrase progressive i mean they have been toying with this idea of socialism from the

00:37:03.440 very beginning and they just didn't know how to sell it to the american people and what they've

00:37:08.440 decided is they can sell it to the american people by having somebody else be the straw man for the

00:37:13.800 argument and if they're successful well we have to go along with them we haven't always been

00:37:18.020 socialists that's why you have james carville out here saying i'm done with these socialists

00:37:21.320 he knows exactly what he's doing this is the entire play they've been socialists the whole

00:37:24.640 time and they're using these socialists to be like well we have no choice and the fact that

00:37:28.940 they put these maga hats on they say it's our maga they're not doing it pejoratively if i'm

00:37:32.700 using that word correctly no they're you're doing it because they want to motivate their base to say

00:37:37.480 this is our moment remember how you felt when they did it this is our moment and they're taking

00:37:41.160 they want to show the takeover correct correct and they're using our grievances and our disunity

00:37:46.400 as a power play to take MAGA from us they're taking MAGA from us and that's why Joe Biden

00:37:52.780 put on that hat remember when he put on the MAGA hat during the campaign and everyone thought he

00:37:56.620 was just having a senior moment what was on that hat no I'm telling you remember when Hillary

00:38:00.920 Clinton told Donald Trump

00:38:02.960 about Russia at a debate stage and he goes,

00:38:04.720 Russia? I know nothing about Russia.

00:38:06.820 Everything these people do is like a scripted villain

00:38:08.840 movie. They always tease what they're planning

00:38:11.000 and they are going to take MAGA from us

00:38:12.640 because they know how powerful it is. That's what's

00:38:14.980 coming. These people are way smarter than we give them credit for.

00:38:17.440 And, you know, it is dangerous.

00:38:19.020 Pollock, I'm here for most of your conspiracy theories

00:38:21.060 but that MAGA is a brand at risk

00:38:23.080 of the left to take over.

00:38:24.480 I don't know if I'm there with you on that.

00:38:26.920 You'll see.

00:38:28.260 Usually, you know, it's

00:38:29.840 you and I against Pearson right now. I'm

00:38:32.080 teaming up with Pearson on this. Hey, it's on tape. It's on tape

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00:39:50.880 slash matt you just mentioned something you said everybody's going back to school

00:39:54.380 I know you just had your baby's a little young to be heading out,

00:39:57.200 but what's your plan for school?

00:39:58.300 Are you going to send him to school or are you going to homeschool?

00:40:00.580 I personally found much of public education to be a complete waste of my time as a student.

00:40:08.300 And I had some great teachers, made some great friends along the way,

00:40:11.560 but my God, it was a waste of time.

00:40:13.800 No, it was.

00:40:14.320 And that was before my teachers were trying to tell me what they were doing in the bedroom.

00:40:20.200 I didn't even know my teacher's first names, much less whether they were married or a pansexual, which is now, I guess, the standard of being a teacher is you've got to lead with all strange elements of your personal life.

00:40:32.620 you know, we are in such a period of changing the way information flows. We have more democratized

00:40:40.360 information today than at any other time in human history. And we're on this crazy acceleration

00:40:46.320 mode. So I got a few years, but to me, the rate of change is so much faster than the educational

00:40:56.200 bureaucratic system can keep up with. And it's not even a system built for change. And it's not

00:41:00.680 even a system built for the students it's largely a system built for the adults that are in the

00:41:04.880 in there florida will give you fifteen thousand dollars to homeschool your kid yeah you know you

00:41:10.760 got to meet some metrics and milestones but you know you have a few kids uh you can make a system

00:41:16.380 work for your so it sounds like you're advocating that you're going to homeschool my wife was

00:41:20.420 homeschooled and she's incredible and i'm i'm such an admirer of hers that it's a it's a great

00:41:27.460 advertisement for homeschooling that my wife was homeschooled. You homeschool and you found it

00:41:33.420 very rewarding. Well, you know, COVID opened, you know, COVID, there's a lot of bad things

00:41:38.340 came out of COVID. We'll probably, maybe we'll get to that. Homeschooling opened everybody's

00:41:44.400 eyes during COVID because everybody was doing virtual. They're like, wait a second, what do

00:41:47.680 you do all day? You do nothing all day. We realized how much time was being wasted in school.

00:41:51.960 And once I realized how much time was being wasted in school, and then once the kids started going

00:41:55.820 back to school and they were like, I don't just sit there and do nothing. And I'm like, you know

00:42:00.140 what? Let's try this homeschool gig. And when we did, um, the kid, my daughter did so much better.

00:42:05.900 Her grades improved, her, her attitude improved, her mental health improved because of the stress

00:42:11.780 and, and all the interpersonal tensions from school. I will say this though. I think homeschool

00:42:18.320 is a great option for people who can do it. What Florida and a lot of States have done with school

00:42:22.440 choice, and this is why I think teachers are so

00:42:24.400 afraid of school choice, because it takes the kid out

00:42:26.420 of these indoctrination camps and puts the power

00:42:28.360 back in the parents' hands. You don't

00:42:30.340 necessarily have to homeschool your kid at

00:42:32.340 home at the table with you sitting there

00:42:34.200 teaching a math. Microschools, homeschool

00:42:36.180 groups, smaller private schools.

00:42:38.360 Tons of options. You have options in education now

00:42:40.300 that we never had before. More this year than ever before.

00:42:42.180 Thanks to the big, beautiful bill. And so

00:42:44.460 I love the fact that

00:42:46.260 exactly like you're saying, we are in a different era

00:42:48.280 of education, and I think the more states

00:42:50.300 that come online and offer choice to

00:42:52.100 families i think the weaker public schools become now look public school does a lot of good things

00:42:56.960 there's a lot of great educators who do that mission and serve communities who need it but i

00:43:00.720 don't think parents should be forced to send their kids to failing schools i don't even think public

00:43:04.720 schools get right what skills you need when yeah because that is so much different now yeah uh i

00:43:11.460 think a lot of time is wasted on i mean i went to typing class i went to so many dang typing classes

00:43:16.700 and you know why i went to typing class because they had some like baseball coach that was such 0.82

00:43:20.500 an idiot that he couldn't teach any classes, but he was a good baseball coach. So they made him a 0.93

00:43:24.180 typing instructor. You know what got me typing fast? Wanting to get on AOL Instant Messenger

00:43:29.200 and talk to my friends. I talked to four of them at one time. Pearson, what is your advice for me?

00:43:33.820 You are a parent. Is homeschooling the right choice? Based on what we've seen and everything

00:43:38.640 you've described, we're on the same page. And especially in California. Oh, I wouldn't even

00:43:43.100 consider it here. Yeah, it's insane. Shockingly though, California, you wouldn't expect it,

00:43:47.680 is one of the best places to homeschool.

00:43:49.640 They're very open and facilitating about that.

00:43:51.760 They make it really easy for you to do that

00:43:53.380 and provide a lot of incentives and a lot of help and stuff like that.

00:43:56.240 In a lot of places, the school districts are hostile to homeschoolers.

00:43:59.320 It's not in Florida, but people who have been homeschoolers

00:44:02.960 who will listen to this are like,

00:44:04.340 my school district just makes my life hell

00:44:06.400 because they want you to have that kid show up 0.99

00:44:09.640 so they can get their drawdown on the big federal money.

00:44:13.520 Yeah, I was shocked about that, but it's a great option.

00:44:16.180 kids graduate and they're 18, they don't know how to do

00:44:18.900 anything. They don't know how to do their taxes.

00:44:20.620 They don't know how to do their finances. They can't work

00:44:22.860 on a car. They can't do any. They don't have no

00:44:24.740 life skills. And they don't even know what

00:44:26.740 gender they are. So there's no 0.77

00:44:28.740 reason to send your kid to play. They don't even know how to pee.

00:44:30.880 Exactly. I think we know that Pearson

00:44:32.740 Sharp is now running for the school board.

00:44:35.320 Let's go.

00:44:36.460 Alright, David. I've got to get your opinion on something else

00:44:38.840 that's been in the headlines around the

00:44:40.660 WNBA. And I am

00:44:42.620 covering the WNBA on the Mad Gates

00:44:44.860 show like white on rice because it is such a microcosm of what happens to the left if you just

00:44:50.080 leave them to themselves to self-destruct two former nba players enos canter and royce white

00:44:58.620 have declared for the wnba draft

00:45:02.300 if they don't pick them is there is there a federal civil rights action here 1.00

00:45:09.800 Well, first, before they can either be picked or not picked, the WNBA is meeting to determine what the W stands for in the WNBA. 0.97

00:45:19.400 So that's the first hurdle they have to overcome.

00:45:20.860 Have you heard this, Pearson?

00:45:21.600 No.

00:45:22.280 Because they're so freaked out about this. 0.66

00:45:24.860 The deal is there's this French trans woman, which we would call a man, that is crushing it. 0.52

00:45:31.680 And you know there's some team that's going to pick him up.

00:45:35.240 And you've got a bunch of players and coaches being like, yeah, equity demands trans women get to play.

00:45:41.740 So these two jacked up former NBA players are like, man, I feel like a woman.

00:45:48.460 Yeah.

00:45:49.400 Yeah.

00:45:50.020 And so the commissioner, what David's describing is the commissioner has just said, well, now we have to have a committee review what the eligibility is. 0.80

00:46:00.960 Already in the collective bargaining agreement, it says you have to be a woman.

00:46:05.240 yeah but what it is they are is there any way out of this for the WNBA like that South Park 1.00

00:46:12.580 episode where Randy Savage yes he's a woman that's exactly what it is goes in and crushes it

00:46:17.580 or the plot of Juana man yeah all right Pollock yeah how did they get out of this man and and

00:46:22.020 truly do you think there's liability here if they well if they define a woman that would include

00:46:29.020 them as eligible for the WNBA draft, then yeah, if they excluded them because they weren't

00:46:36.180 woman enough, you might have a discrimination lawsuit. 1.00

00:46:41.080 I'm not going to nerd out, but there's a scrutiny issue there with what level of scrutiny they 1.00

00:46:46.860 would deserve in gender because it doesn't get the higher level of scrutiny, which is

00:46:50.420 why we won that Supreme Court case with banning men or women from men's sports.

00:46:56.620 No, I got a couple of minutes to nerd out with you.

00:46:57.980 You think it would be subject to...

00:47:01.200 Intermediate scrutiny. 0.99

00:47:02.500 Well, I mean, if they say the trans women can play in the WNBA, 0.83

00:47:09.320 which, I mean, after all their coaches are wearing the protect the trans, 1.00

00:47:13.160 they're going to have to go there. 0.99

00:47:15.320 They're not going to be able to shut down the people with an X and a Y chromosome 0.57

00:47:20.320 because they're just too out. 0.98

00:47:22.400 These stadiums are booing Sophie Cunningham 0.97

00:47:25.340 because she has stood up for girl sports, okay? 1.00

00:47:28.960 They're going to come down one way on this. 0.99

00:47:31.140 And once they say that trans women can play,

00:47:34.460 whoa, whoa, whoa, they're going to have a committee

00:47:35.740 to review whether Enos Cantor and Royce White are woman enough. 1.00

00:47:40.240 I think that could be subject to strict scrutiny.

00:47:42.100 I agree.

00:47:42.920 But you look down the road, 1.00

00:47:44.220 then you're just going to have the entire WNBA full of men. 1.00

00:47:46.780 Women are out. 1.00

00:47:47.480 Which, by the way, we have decided what the WNBA needs to save it. 1.00

00:47:52.180 Mediocre male players. 1.00

00:47:53.420 but realistically

00:47:56.140 the way this ends is very simple

00:47:57.920 is that they're going to have to put

00:47:59.960 some sort of test in place that is

00:48:02.000 inevitably going to

00:48:02.900 design that test for me David Pollock

00:48:05.500 design for me the test

00:48:08.340 how far up the skirt do you reach

00:48:10.640 for the Trig and Dingleberries

00:48:12.140 before the test has been achieved

00:48:14.060 I think they're going to use the Olympic standard

00:48:15.460 it's going to be a chromosomal standard

00:48:17.000 I think they're going to exclude

00:48:18.640 you don't think they're going to allow 0.98

00:48:21.140 non-biological 1.00

00:48:22.080 No way they go the way of the Olympics.

00:48:23.700 No way.

00:48:24.180 I don't see how they don't.

00:48:25.460 Their woke fan base will not allow them to do what the Olympics is doing.

00:48:29.660 I think they'll find a reason to sell it to them and blame somebody else.

00:48:34.780 But maybe, you know what they'll do?

00:48:36.220 I think I figured it out.

00:48:37.160 Another prediction being made right now on the podcast.

00:48:39.860 They're going to, because here's what's going to happen. 1.00

00:48:41.560 If they allow men in the WNBA, right, there'll be certain states. 1.00

00:48:46.360 Florida already said it. 0.94

00:48:47.420 Florida said, after that woman hit Sophia Cunningham, Utmeier said,

00:48:50.660 if that was in Florida, we would have arrested her for committing a crime. 0.70

00:48:54.500 So red states are going to say the WNBA cannot play in our states 1.00

00:48:58.420 if they allow men to play, and they're going to cite that Supreme Court precedent. 0.99

00:49:01.480 And so the WNBA is going to say, well, we can't allow it in the league 1.00

00:49:04.360 because certain states would be excluded and it would hurt our revenue base. 1.00

00:49:07.240 They're going to blame red states.

00:49:08.400 They're going to exclude men, but they're going to do it by blaming somebody else 0.97

00:49:12.120 because that's what liberals do.

00:49:13.260 It's never their fault.

00:49:14.420 It's always somebody else's.

00:49:15.580 That's the David Pollack prediction.

00:49:17.680 Pearson Sharp, I know this annoys and probably bores you to no end,

00:49:23.980 but our final moment in this program is going to be your prediction

00:49:26.660 on whether there will be men in the WNBA following the 2027 WNBA draft.

00:49:33.100 If they keep on this course, it seems like they're going to have to. 0.74

00:49:36.140 They either have to admit that they're hypocrites or double down on it 0.97

00:49:39.540 and follow it to a logical conclusion. 0.92

00:49:41.960 David Pollock may be a hero on this prediction,

00:49:44.860 but we will make a note of it one way or the other.

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