The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - August 13, 2026


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

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00:00:00 now it's time for the anchorman podcast with matt gates and pearson sharp
00:00:11 welcome back to another episode of anchorman i'm matt gates here with my terrific co-hosts
00:00:22 pearson sharp of the famous sharp report that you can find on one american news and
00:00:28 my partner in crime in primetime
00:00:31 David Pollack primetime
00:00:32 10pm eastern 7pm pacific
00:00:35 every night we get to bring you
00:00:37 through the news as I host the Matt Gaetz show
00:00:38 at 9 o'clock eastern 6 pacific so we have
00:00:40 a lot to go through but there is some scuttlebutt
00:00:43 in the
00:00:44 San Diego area republican circles
00:00:47 that a
00:00:48 certain republican group
00:00:51 had the house brought down
00:00:53 by a guest speaker who came
00:00:55 in and wowed them
00:00:56 One Pearson Sharp of One America News spoke to a local activist group.
00:01:02 Now, this is not something you're used to doing.
00:01:04 You're a researcher.
00:01:05 You're an investigative reporter.
00:01:06 You like to lock yourself in your room, get it as dark as possible,
00:01:10 and go deep into Anthony Fauci's mind and into what is going on all around the world.
00:01:17 But you came out of – Bruce Wayne came out of the cave as Batman and went to the local –
00:01:23 Give just, you know, David and I have done this a lot, but give us your, like, first draft of history.
00:01:29 Tell us who it was and how you found the experience.
00:01:31 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 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 But leading up to that, they have the public invited, and I was the keynote speaker.
00:01:54 And there was probably about 150 people there.
00:01:58 So not a big crowd.
00:01:59 Pack in the house, nowhere near an election for Pearson Sharp.
00:02:03 That's pretty good.
00:02:05 And, yeah, it's –
00:02:07 All right, so what did you talk about?
00:02:09 What was the message, bro?
00:02:09 The message they wanted from me was how we need to keep people from fleeing California.
00:02:14 We need to stay in California and fight.
00:02:16 So you said build a wall, right?
00:02:18 Essentially.
00:02:19 Walls work.
00:02:20 So I opened with, this is my first speech.
00:02:23 I've never done anything like this before.
00:02:24 And so I'm not good at extemporaneously discussing random political ideas.
00:02:29 I needed something to like-
00:02:30 Literally do it every week as part of your job on this podcast.
00:02:33 Go right ahead.
00:02:34 Well, there's differences.
00:02:36 You said he's not good at it.
00:02:37 Yeah.
00:02:37 In any case, I opened with the story of Nehemiah. 0.71
00:02:41 I wanted to open with the story.
00:02:42 And so I thought that would be a good way to break it down.
00:02:44 because if you're not familiar, Nehemiah was not exiled,
00:02:49 but he was in the court of the Persian king,
00:02:51 living the life of luxury,
00:02:52 and his brother came to visit him from Judah
00:02:55 and told him what was happening back in Jerusalem.
00:02:57 Basically, the city was in ruins.
00:03:00 And so instead of staying in the life of luxury, 0.65
00:03:03 Nehemiah went back and fixed Jerusalem.
00:03:05 And he could have said, someone else can do it. 0.75
00:03:07 It's not my problem. 0.96
00:03:08 I'm going to leave, da-da-da-da-da. 0.94
00:03:10 But he went in and he fought to rebuild Jerusalem
00:03:13 through all kinds of perils and hardships.
00:03:16 And so the lesson is, you know, this is our job.
00:03:18 It's our responsibility.
00:03:20 So, like, what is Jerusalem in the metaphor?
00:03:21 Is it California?
00:03:22 Yeah, it's California. 0.86
00:03:22 Or is it actually Jerusalem? 0.55
00:03:24 No, it's California.
00:03:25 Okay, because that could get lost in the story.
00:03:26 No, no, no, exactly.
00:03:27 But it's California.
00:03:29 The message is stay here.
00:03:30 Don't leave.
00:03:31 Don't let it be somebody else's problem.
00:03:32 Don't flee somewhere safer.
00:03:34 We need to fix this here and now.
00:03:35 You know, obviously it spreads.
00:03:37 That's the other thing.
00:03:37 It doesn't just stay in California.
00:03:39 So you give this inspiring speech, standing ovation.
00:03:42 I did get a standing ovation.
00:03:43 Standing ovation. And Pearson takes questions. And question one is what?
00:03:47 Question number one from a lady was, when are you running for office? 0.96
00:03:50 Let's go. Let's go. I am here for the Pearson Sharp 2028 movement. 0.99
00:03:57 Yeah. My response was, no one would vote for me. I'm too radical.
00:04:00 Well, that might be exactly what California needs.
00:04:03 I told him that I go the Donald Trump approach in that don't apologize for your positions.
00:04:09 Don't back down from something. Don't try and meet them in the middle.
00:04:11 go as hard right as you can and i said i have never met somebody who's far right enough and
00:04:17 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 it did you was your heart pumping did you go home and tell your sweet wife and your children to
00:04:27 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 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 i don't want to ask people for money i don't want to promote myself the whole getting elected part
00:04:41 you would prefer fascism where you just take sure yeah that would be easier okay but no as a
00:04:46 personality i don't like asking people for things i don't like asking for money i don't like putting
00:04:51 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 central florida uh do you get desensitized to whatever the the constant asking of people for
00:05:03 their saturday to go on a neighborhood walk their yard to put up your yard sign their funds to run
00:05:09 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 much of other people for your own ambition at first it is i remember um a state rep then you
00:05:23 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 was a state representative david smith did a great job um he got me on the phone and because i had
00:05:35 never run before and i called there so please people give me advice because i have no idea
00:05:39 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 democrat running unopposed and they're going to take the seat unless you run i said okay well
00:05:47 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 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 these elected officials i'm like can you help me please i have no idea what i'm doing and david
00:06:00 smith told me he says well just go in your phone and literally go through your phone book literally
00:06:04 call every single person in your phone book and ask them for money i'm like you want me to call
00:06:08 people I haven't spoke to in 10 years and ask for money. He goes, yeah. Yeah. Everyone that you know
00:06:12 from law school, everyone, you know, everybody ask him for money. And then I said, and he goes,
00:06:17 and if you can't raise an X, you know, X amount of dollars from your phone book, then drop out
00:06:20 of the race. And I'm like, okay. So met with the challenge. I started going through, I called
00:06:25 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 great. I always imagined you would do something like this. Check, check, check. And then it got
00:06:33 to the point where people expected me to ask them for money every event. And I'm sure you've
00:06:37 experiences as well so when it went from being uncomfortable to when i'm at a vent they're like
00:06:42 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 almost became insulting if you didn't ask them for money like don't you want to ask me for money
00:06:49 and so once you start realizing that the certain people that you go to that are donors they want
00:06:54 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 they feel like they're helping the movement they're saying hey by the way you're wincing at
00:07:00 this pearson yeah but this is the noble part of it to be clear like talking to your own friends
00:07:06 and people who know you and asking them to support you,
00:07:08 that's the noble part, right?
00:07:10 Because the layer that comes next is if you get any power
00:07:13 or if it looks like you're going to have any degree of influence,
00:07:16 that's when the special interests roll in.
00:07:18 And then, you know, they show up with checks by the many thousands
00:07:22 and the lobbyists, then you get the bundlers
00:07:24 who get multiple checks together, right?
00:07:27 And with them, the asking and the delivery
00:07:29 is just part of the experience, but it's what comes next.
00:07:33 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 But it gets worse from there.
00:07:46 So now maybe all of that optimism and all of that jubilance is, have we zapped it from you?
00:07:53 I didn't want to do it to begin with.
00:07:56 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 But I don't want to be one of them.
00:08:03 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 people into a campaign you have to be inviting them into a cause and it's one they have to know
00:08:16 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 you know i regularly run ran for higher office and won higher office but if people think that
00:08:28 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 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 to be the congressman is for giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens like if you do not
00:08:45 vote for me the guy is you know somebody that they dropped in here from missouri you know is 0.72
00:08:51 going to be your congressman just because kevin mccarthy doesn't like me you know yep you when
00:08:55 you explain people that they have a role to play it is actually a virtuous and inspiring in a in a
00:09:01 wonderful way to spend your time you know and you put you make an excellent point with this and this
00:09:05 Pearson's where I think you should run I'm co-signing this campaign with Matt I'll even help
00:09:08 you do it um because and you know this Matt anytime somebody wants to run for office I'm sure
00:09:13 everybody comes to you when they want to run for office and they go Matt I want to run for office
00:09:16 and I'm pretty sure I know exactly the next question you ask them it's a question everybody
00:09:21 that has a check asks me why why do you want to run and how you answer that question determines
00:09:26 how successful you're going to be in your campaign and as you just heard matt matt can articulate why
00:09:31 i'm running when i ran people like why are you running i said well because i like my community
00:09:34 and the democrat was going to run unopposed and i wasn't going to let somebody just come in
00:09:37 and steal your seat without giving you a choice on the direction that's a good reason yes you're
00:09:42 going to run because people are not conservative enough people are not far right enough when you 0.98
00:09:47 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 always wanted to be elected to something that person loses all day long because it's about bio 0.92
00:09:56 correct bio loses and a lot of people don't understand that you know what to some extent
00:10:02 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 them yeah what what you achieved in life is like not really what drives whether or not you're going
00:10:11 to fight for somebody so voting is a selfish act i think when people go vote they vote for who they
00:10:17 think will fight for them yeah and i think i think you could convey that that great i gotta get to
00:10:21 my favorite story of the week okay air force one the media is freaking out because the mainstream
00:10:29 media is reporting that donald trump pulled some sort of james bond maneuver where he gets out of
00:10:36 the old air force one through a uh a cart where they deliver the food and is off to another plane
00:10:43 as old Air Force One is the decoy on the way out of the country.
00:10:50 Oh, the press, they are losing their minds over it.
00:10:53 I just think it's like, look, man, this is a guy who uses every tool.
00:10:57 This is a guy who's always thinking.
00:10:58 This is a team that's always thinking.
00:11:00 And it got me thinking about my time on Air Force One.
00:11:02 You know, I always bring for you guys my menus that I stole, my Air Force One.
00:11:06 See if we can get that.
00:11:07 In post, we'll get them to get a photo of every time I'm on Air Force One,
00:11:12 I steal a menu.
00:11:13 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 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 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 They're like, but you let us go on the airplane.
00:11:51 That's what they're upset about.
00:11:52 They're upset because they got on the airplane and nobody snuck them out of the back door.
00:11:56 And what's so funny is it tells you how important the press think they are.
00:12:00 The press has the privilege of being on Air Force One in their little press cabin.
00:12:05 They have the privilege of being with the president, covering the president.
00:12:07 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 And with that, they're like, we're so important that you should escort us out, too.
00:12:18 Nobody cares if a plane full of press falls out of the sky.
00:12:21 There'll be plenty more who can't get the seeds.
00:12:23 That's what I'm saying.
00:12:24 The news would get truer.
00:12:25 And I'm not advocating for it.
00:12:26 I'm just saying the press aren't as important as they think they are.
00:12:28 They might throw themselves.
00:12:29 They're not part of the continuity of the government.
00:12:31 I don't want anything bad to happen to any reporters, but nobody elected you to anything.
00:12:36 Right.
00:12:37 Nobody cares.
00:12:38 Like, you're replaceable press.
00:12:39 Sorry.
00:12:40 And there's a lot of people who should be doing their jobs that would probably do it better.
00:12:43 But they think they're so important that they're outraged that the president's safety was put above their own.
00:12:48 I would be honored to be a decoy on the old Air Force One, and I would still steal the menu.
00:12:53 Of course you would.
00:12:54 Any thoughts on this?
00:12:54 What's on the menu?
00:12:55 You didn't share what was on the menu.
00:12:57 Oh, grilled flank steak.
00:12:58 Yeah.
00:12:59 I'm in the same camp.
00:13:00 I'd be honored to be there.
00:13:01 And I think if you are flying with the president, you inherently take on some risk.
00:13:09 You have to be aware that something could happen at some point.
00:13:12 When the sniper takes his shot, you might be the person who's in the way.
00:13:16 Who knows?
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00:14:24 about what's happening in the united states senate week in week out uh we we get the news
00:14:29 not a high bar we get the news that the senate has passed the lindsey graham sanctions package
00:14:35 on russia nobody knows this dispute uh between russia and ukraine like you do you've been to
00:14:40 the front lines what do you make of the sanctions package and your united states senate i think it's
00:14:48 disgraceful honestly um there's so many different things that we could be focusing on right now and
00:14:54 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 even really like it's going to do that much they are so sanctioned at this point from all of the
00:15:06 previous sanctions that have not been lifted that i don't think they're even going to notice
00:15:10 no i think this bill sanctions the sanctions yeah it's yeah the sanctions have their own
00:15:14 exactly um and i think it's also it's also sad because this is another layer another barrier
00:15:23 between us and finding peace and common ground with Russia,
00:15:25 resolving this war that doesn't need to be happening.
00:15:29 Trump started out with very high hopes from all of us,
00:15:33 and himself, I think, in resolving this,
00:15:35 getting it finished, taking care of it.
00:15:37 This wasn't his war to begin with.
00:15:39 It's kind of his war now,
00:15:40 because I think he has the power to end these things.
00:15:45 And instead, we're still sending them weapons.
00:15:46 We're still sanctioning them.
00:15:48 We're still doing all these things
00:15:49 that are stopping us from ending this war.
00:15:51 So I'm very disappointed in that.
00:15:54 And it was introduced by Graham's sister. 0.69
00:15:56 What the hell is she doing in office? 1.00
00:15:57 She shouldn't be there. 0.96
00:15:58 That's such a token appointment.
00:16:00 She should be out of there. 1.00
00:16:01 We should have a real serious person in there. 1.00
00:16:03 Do you think she's going to win the election?
00:16:05 I don't know, man.
00:16:07 Lindsey kept winning.
00:16:08 Why wouldn't she? 1.00
00:16:09 People are so retarded when it comes to who they decide to put in office. 1.00
00:16:12 Well, we've now nestled into the real center cut of the show. 0.99
00:16:16 Pearson is fully rage baited.
00:16:18 David, any value to these sanctions bills?
00:16:21 Do you want to defend them?
00:16:22 I don't.
00:16:23 I mean, I think it was really just symbolic for Lindsey Graham.
00:16:26 I don't know that the sanctions are moving the needle at all, nor have they from the very beginning.
00:16:30 I don't know what's going to move the needle on the war between Russia and Ukraine.
00:16:34 But I want to nail you down on this.
00:16:35 You do not view sanctions as a strategy to leverage Putin.
00:16:40 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 But so far, nothing has deterred Russia with sanctions.
00:16:50 They've never deterred. 0.62
00:16:51 Sanctions have never deterred.
00:16:52 It's not like Russia's Iran. 0.74
00:16:54 Like, okay, fine, we're going to sanction.
00:16:55 By the way, where have sanctions ever worked?
00:16:57 I don't think they ever have, have they?
00:16:58 If sanctions worked.
00:17:00 Cuba.
00:17:01 Oh, yes, yes, Cuba. 0.96
00:17:02 By the way, if sanctions worked, Cuba would be a Caribbean Garden of Eden. 0.97
00:17:08 Okay? 0.98
00:17:08 Because they have been sanctioned. 0.98
00:17:10 Instead, Cuba is a hellhole. 1.00
00:17:13 Cuba is a total hellhole. 0.91
00:17:14 Cuba is not a place where sanctions have worked. 0.77
00:17:17 We have sanctioned Cuba more than anybody.
00:17:19 Well, it starves the regime. 0.56
00:17:20 And life there is worse than ever.
00:17:21 It starves.
00:17:23 I think sanctions can work on a smaller scale. 1.00
00:17:25 Like a country like Q. 1.00
00:17:26 But where do they change behavior? 1.00
00:17:27 I should have had more precise in my question.
00:17:28 Where do sanctions change behavior?
00:17:31 That's an excellent point.
00:17:32 You're right.
00:17:32 They don't change behavior because the problem is we usually put sanctions on countries that have dictators.
00:17:39 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 So sanctions really don't convince leaders to lose power.
00:17:48 Well, I think it's even worse than that.
00:17:49 I think that what sanctions allow despots to do is externalize their conflict.
00:17:53 Well, yeah, exactly.
00:17:54 Right? 1.00
00:17:55 You're mad that the garbage is... 1.00
00:17:56 Look what they're doing to us. 0.99
00:17:57 Exactly.
00:17:58 Yeah, I agree with you.
00:17:59 I think that's fair.
00:18:00 The other thing is, specifically in Russia, we just said sanctions don't work.
00:18:04 They found a way around them.
00:18:05 They're making a lot of their stuff domestically now, or they're importing it from China.
00:18:09 And I talked about this in my documentary, where they used to buy Ford and Chevy.
00:18:13 Now they're buying Hong Xi and Wang Fan from China.
00:18:16 You know, and it's not stopped.
00:18:17 They're still getting new cars.
00:18:18 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 You might think there would be. 0.98
00:18:25 You might think there would.
00:18:25 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 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 Go to there, get whatever coffee they want, no problem whatsoever.
00:18:46 so like we so wait that didn't break them that exactly you're saying that when we took starbucks
00:18:52 away from the russians right no that did not cause a total and complete surrender and it hurts 0.99
00:18:56 because in many suburban american neighborhoods the white women would be waving the flags of 0.81
00:19:02 surrender immediately if the starbucks was taken away and so when i was there you don't notice any
00:19:06 of this you don't notice the sanctions everybody goes around lives their lives normally i had some
00:19:11 of the best meals i've ever had walking around moscow down in donbass i had some phenomenal
00:19:15 meals you know in the war zone so i don't know where these sanctions are supposedly working
00:19:19 but the thing that they do actually hurt is goodwill and solving this david i i i did a lot
00:19:27 of uh of research on russia this week and i got two kind of reports from sources friends
00:19:32 one was that there is a lot of domestic pressure on putin right now to be more aggressive yeah
00:19:40 that the populist view in russia is we want to see you know more munitions landing on on kiev
00:19:50 at the same time someone else i spoke with off the record said they believe that if these long
00:19:58 range strikes into moscow continued uh and it continued to hurt russia's energy infrastructure
00:20:05 that you would start to see russia striking europe interesting uh do you do you think any
00:20:12 of that could be like well how do you how do you assess a putin who is 74 years old feeling
00:20:19 domestic political pressure to accelerate this war i'm so excited when we get our merriweather
00:20:25 farm shipments in you get a beautiful piece of ribeye look at that marbling now i take it out
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00:20:53 It's really interesting. And before I answer that, I think you just came up with the best idea ever
00:20:58 to win the war against the left in america we need to start sanctioning starbucks in the elitist
00:21:04 liberal neighborhoods listen we can use that as i'm not letting this clip get put next to like
00:21:09 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 we could sanction it from the suburbs and really it really leveraged some strength and power um
00:21:21 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 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 Michael Jordan, Sidney Sweeney, and Kiss.
00:22:12 Like, America was badass.
00:22:14 And now, I mean, America still is badass, but the version they see of America is not the badass version.
00:22:20 You know, they got Top Gun 2 instead of Top Gun 1, although Top Gun 2 is still very good.
00:22:24 Top Gun 2 is pretty good.
00:22:24 Yeah, it's pretty good.
00:22:25 It's pretty good.
00:22:25 But they had the pilots, and anyway, we'll get there later.
00:22:28 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 I mean, maybe if they're talking about Europe, maybe like a non-NATO Europe, maybe.
00:22:42 Or kind of like a Moldova. 0.63
00:22:44 Yeah, like maybe they throw a bottle rocket in Moldova.
00:22:49 But I don't really see – there's no benefit to Russia. 0.58
00:22:51 Russia has a goal for Ukraine, right? 0.59
00:22:53 Russia wants territory. 0.77
00:22:54 Russia wants its citizens that they believe is in Ukraine.
00:22:59 Russia has their stated goals for Ukraine.
00:23:01 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 situation dramatically worse right and the only countries that are providing material
00:23:10 support for ukraine are nato countries and i don't foresee uh putin inviting nato into a conflict
00:23:17 when there's some disagreement with how much we want to support ukraine so i think that would be
00:23:21 not the smartest move but i do believe i do believe that the russian population is going
00:23:25 to be emboldened behind the pride of russia and i do i do think that encourages uh putin to get
00:23:32 more aggressive in the ukraine which inevitably puts us in a tougher position they hate when you 0.58
00:23:36 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 the Germany what about Russia let's see the connotation uh David the connotation of the
00:23:46 Ukraine is that it's not a country it's the Ukraine a region of Russia what about Bronx
00:23:52 what about the Bronx well the Bronx is not its own state the Bronx but it's its own borough a
00:23:58 bureau a borough within New York right but you have Brooklyn you have Queens you have Long Island
00:24:03 the Bronx. Well, I guess that's the point. Which is a funny language, but. The Ukrainians just
00:24:08 need to chill. To continue to rage bait you with the United States Senate. Please. Well, no, first 1.00
00:24:11 actually I want your reaction to this because you've been to Russia, you've talked to these
00:24:16 people. How can you assess the pressure Putin is under domestically to be more aggressive and
00:24:25 violent against Ukraine? He's under a lot of pressure. He's under a lot of pressure. I have
00:24:29 a friend who's in Crimea, and he said the situation there is dire because of the strikes
00:24:35 from Ukraine. He said they'll go weeks without electricity. They can't get oil. The bridges are
00:24:41 being knocked out. They're having a really hard time down in Crimea. It's miserable. And they
00:24:47 want him to go harder on Ukraine, knock these people out, stop them from attacking us, you know,
00:24:51 save us, basically, as you would want your leader to do. So they're pushing for a much stronger 0.59
00:24:57 response particularly because what do you think that looks like starting to hit more targets in
00:25:03 not targeting civilian areas but knocking out warehouses or knocking out uh civilian infrastructure
00:25:08 things like that because the very stuff that i'm like railing that i'm saying we shouldn't be doing
00:25:13 in all right but that's what that's what ukraine has been doing to russia russia has been focused
00:25:18 primarily on military targets while ukraine has been focused on civilian targets they've been
00:25:22 focused on the energy because it's the energy money that goes yeah but also civilian targets
00:25:27 when I was in Donbass, I went to a school that had been hit, a children's school.
00:25:32 Yeah, the United States struck a girl's school in Iran, too, sadly.
00:25:35 So this is the situation they're facing.
00:25:38 When you're living in an area and your schools are getting hit
00:25:41 and your bank is getting hit and your mall is getting hit
00:25:44 and they're nowhere near any military targets, 0.93
00:25:46 you're going to be like, screw these guys. 1.00
00:25:47 Let's kill them. 1.00
00:25:48 Why are we being nice? 1.00
00:25:50 They're murdering us. 1.00
00:25:51 So by kill them, you mean kill civilians? 0.99
00:25:53 Well, whoever's causing this, whatever it takes to stop this. 0.99
00:25:55 Yeah, don't say whoever, because that wax is poetic over a pretty important point.
00:25:59 Yeah, well, if you're living there, then sure, you're going to say, 1.00
00:26:01 they're killing us, we're going to kill them. 0.99
00:26:03 I can understand that. 1.00
00:26:04 It's horrendous.
00:26:04 I don't condone it.
00:26:05 It's horrendous.
00:26:06 But I can understand it, and I think you would too. 0.96
00:26:08 If people were murdering your family, you would want to murder them too. 0.75
00:26:11 I think murdering innocent civilians, knowingly, is a war crime. 0.97
00:26:16 No, I agree with that. 0.97
00:26:17 And there's no conflict in the world right now where I say,
00:26:23 gosh, you know what would really bring that conflict to end?
00:26:26 Killing a bunch of children. 0.99
00:26:27 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 Let's see if that advances America's interests. 0.91
00:26:38 Matt, I agree.
00:26:39 Yeah.
00:26:39 I don't think Russia should do it either.
00:26:41 Well, no, I don't think they should either, but there has to be a way that they can win this.
00:26:48 And right now, one side is playing fair and one side is not.
00:26:53 How do you reconcile that?
00:26:55 I think that is the nature of war is that that is always the allegation.
00:26:57 It is.
00:26:58 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 David Pollack, you and I had a conversation about this recently.
00:27:09 The Senate, unable to pass the big college sports bill we've been talking about.
00:27:15 Have you been talking about it on David Pollack Primetime?
00:27:18 Walk us through what you make of this dissolving.
00:27:23 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 Save College Sports Act.
00:27:31 Save College Sports Act.
00:27:32 We get caught up in the NIL portion because that's the part we pay attention to as college sports fans.
00:27:36 We're like, oh, NIL and the transfer portal, and that's our experience with it.
00:27:40 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 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 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 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 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 And so there's all these questions surrounding how much power you're giving the NCAA and what that meant.
00:28:46 And I think that's what stalled the act inevitably.
00:28:49 Pearson's more angry that time in the United States Senate
00:28:53 was spent even debating college sports
00:28:55 as the Save America Act languishes
00:28:57 and as supervisors of elections are printing ballots.
00:29:03 Senators are burning floor time on the college sports bill. 0.99
00:29:08 Pearson, bring us inside your rage.
00:29:10 You act like that's unreasonable.
00:29:12 Is that not a reasonable concern?
00:29:13 Oh, I completely agree with you.
00:29:14 Yeah.
00:29:15 I completely agree with you.
00:29:16 just just david made a very smart point by the way about about the lack of oversight and and
00:29:21 you know what he's saying about the antitrust exemption there are naturally going to be
00:29:25 disputes that arise in sports and eligibility and transfer that that's an inherent part of
00:29:31 the process so what the ncaa wants is to have their own concierge decision making that is uh
00:29:39 encapsulated outside of the way we resolve any other dispute dissolution of marriage breach of
00:29:45 contract negligence products liability we have courts that are paid for by taxpayers to resolve
00:29:51 disputes and the ncaa like every special interest wants their own way to do it and david just laid
00:29:58 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 before giving them a complete off-ramp to the system that is for schmucks like you and me 0.93
00:30:09 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 a broader point about bandwidth
00:30:15 and priorities and the message
00:30:18 being sent to voters like you?
00:30:20 I'm not a sports guy, so I've not
00:30:22 got any cat in that race.
00:30:23 They can do whatever they want.
00:30:25 I don't think anyone races cats.
00:30:27 It's a horse or a dog in the race.
00:30:29 There's no cat races that I'm familiar with.
00:30:32 There probably should be.
00:30:33 But they're not banned, so maybe not.
00:30:35 I know producers right now are searching
00:30:37 for cat races, but please
00:30:40 don't go there.
00:30:41 All right, so you don't care about sports, but you care about elections.
00:30:44 There are 55% of America that have faith in the integrity of our elections.
00:30:50 55%.
00:30:51 Just barely half of Americans believe that our elections will be fair in November.
00:30:56 And our Senate's talking about sports.
00:30:59 And they went on a recess for a month.
00:31:02 You want me to make you madder?
00:31:04 Please.
00:31:04 They're not even on recess.
00:31:06 Because they've got the pro forma sessions every three days.
00:31:09 They can't even go on a recess.
00:31:11 And why is that? Oh, it's so good. Do you really you want to you want to get real mad?
00:31:15 He might go nuclear and explode on this couch. It's actually a very interesting sort of scenario here.
00:31:21 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 It's a weird rule that the Senate has to follow. House can go wherever they want.
00:31:29 But the Senate can't recess unless the House and the Senate agree.
00:31:32 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 But it's an interesting nuance because of this.
00:31:40 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 During a recess, they're called recess appointments, the president could have had all his picks, boom, put in right away.
00:31:55 And remember, we have hundreds, hundreds of nominations still pending.
00:31:58 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 and then he wanted to go on break, right?
00:32:08 Here's the best part.
00:32:09 He can't actually recess the Senate
00:32:11 because the House didn't give him permission.
00:32:13 So he's doing a pro forma session.
00:32:15 Every three days, they come in.
00:32:17 One senator gavels into the Senate, pro forma,
00:32:19 and they say, okay, we have no business.
00:32:21 Gavel it closed.
00:32:22 And do you know what that does?
00:32:24 It keeps him from getting the recess.
00:32:25 Do you know when?
00:32:26 We were that close to having you
00:32:27 as the U.S. ambassador to Kiev.
00:32:29 But it gets worse.
00:32:30 We were that close, Pearson.
00:32:31 There's one more level of this
00:32:33 that's going to make you even madder.
00:32:34 Let's assume for a second
00:32:34 the House agreed to let the Senate recess.
00:32:36 Do you know when in history a president's own party prevented him from getting recess appointments?
00:32:43 I don't think ever.
00:32:43 It's never happened.
00:32:44 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 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 And you know what that means?
00:33:01 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 And every single one of Trump's picks goes through unless you work with us.
00:33:11 But you know what John Thune did?
00:33:12 He let all the leverage go.
00:33:14 He's coming in pro forma to screw President Trump.
00:33:16 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 Are you mad yet?
00:33:23 I could say a lot of things right now, but we would have to cut them out of the show.
00:33:29 We can bleep them.
00:33:32 I can't fathom that level of incompetence and malice against the United States.
00:33:38 It's about control, Pearson.
00:33:40 It's not incompetence.
00:33:41 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 It's a straight legislative power grab where they want to be the HR department.
00:33:55 You wonder why we're screwed in November.
00:33:58 It's because we do stuff like this.
00:33:59 We get in control, and we do stuff like this.
00:34:01 Okay, okay, but that's a perfect segue to my next topic.
00:34:04 I do want to mention one other thing
00:34:06 while we're talking about what they've screwed up.
00:34:08 Okay, okay.
00:34:09 Do you know how many executive orders,
00:34:11 and this drives me nuts,
00:34:12 because Trump has passed some phenomenal executive orders,
00:34:16 things that our country desperately needs.
00:34:18 Do you know how many he's passed?
00:34:20 It's on the order of 275 executive orders, this term.
00:34:24 Do you know how many the legislature has made law?
00:34:28 You know how many they've signed into law?
00:34:30 28.
00:34:33 That's higher than I ever thought.
00:34:34 28.
00:34:35 Well, that probably includes a number of them that were baked into the one big, beautiful bill.
00:34:39 And that's what they are.
00:34:41 Right.
00:34:41 Yep.
00:34:42 Right.
00:34:43 What the hell are we doing?
00:34:44 All of Trump's accomplishments, all of the things he's done are going to be gone like that.
00:34:50 Day one.
00:34:50 We're going to have Gulf of Mexico.
00:34:52 No, don't take the Gulf of America away from me, Pearson.
00:34:55 Wow.
00:34:56 Now you're rage baiting me.
00:34:57 Wow.
00:34:58 This is not, no, now my blood pressure is up.
00:35:02 The Gulf of America is awesome.
00:35:04 They will not take that away from us.
00:35:05 There will be a fight.
00:35:06 We will defend the Gulf of America with our lives.
00:35:09 But you talk about us and what's going on on our side,
00:35:12 but every once in a while we like to peek our nose over the fence
00:35:15 at what's going on on the other side.
00:35:16 This is the headline I'm bringing you.
00:35:18 DSA, the Democrat Socialists of America, is our MAGA.
00:35:23 The Democrat establishment faces a reckoning with the DSA takeover.
00:35:27 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 this is in the heartland this is the great lakes lake states the great lake states are deciding
00:35:48 presidencies they are deciding control over the chambers and what the democrats are putting
00:35:53 forward is the dsa but let me offer some some some self-criticism on my coverage of this
00:36:01 i've kind of been covering it as an insurgent takeover but it was pointed out to me that like
00:36:07 al-said goes to an ivy league school on a soros scholarship rolls out and said he was encouraged
00:36:14 to seek public office by bill clinton gets mentored in his own words by barack obama
00:36:20 because maybe this is not a takeover as much as a progression like kind of a fully planned
00:36:28 progression and maybe like the bill clintons and the and and the old cats in the democratic party
00:36:35 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 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 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 it is a plan takeover the democrats have been socialist until they invented this since they
00:36:57 invented the phrase progressive i mean they have been toying with this idea of socialism from the
00:37:03 very beginning and they just didn't know how to sell it to the american people and what they've
00:37:08 decided is they can sell it to the american people by having somebody else be the straw man for the
00:37:13 argument and if they're successful well we have to go along with them we haven't always been
00:37:18 socialists that's why you have james carville out here saying i'm done with these socialists
00:37:21 he knows exactly what he's doing this is the entire play they've been socialists the whole
00:37:24 time and they're using these socialists to be like well we have no choice and the fact that
00:37:28 they put these maga hats on they say it's our maga they're not doing it pejoratively if i'm
00:37:32 using that word correctly no they're you're doing it because they want to motivate their base to say
00:37:37 this is our moment remember how you felt when they did it this is our moment and they're taking
00:37:41 they want to show the takeover correct correct and they're using our grievances and our disunity
00:37:46 as a power play to take MAGA from us they're taking MAGA from us and that's why Joe Biden
00:37:52 put on that hat remember when he put on the MAGA hat during the campaign and everyone thought he
00:37:56 was just having a senior moment what was on that hat no I'm telling you remember when Hillary
00:38:00 Clinton told Donald Trump
00:38:02 about Russia at a debate stage and he goes,
00:38:04 Russia? I know nothing about Russia.
00:38:06 Everything these people do is like a scripted villain
00:38:08 movie. They always tease what they're planning
00:38:11 and they are going to take MAGA from us
00:38:12 because they know how powerful it is. That's what's
00:38:14 coming. These people are way smarter than we give them credit for.
00:38:17 And, you know, it is dangerous.
00:38:19 Pollock, I'm here for most of your conspiracy theories
00:38:21 but that MAGA is a brand at risk
00:38:23 of the left to take over.
00:38:24 I don't know if I'm there with you on that.
00:38:26 You'll see.
00:38:28 Usually, you know, it's
00:38:29 you and I against Pearson right now. I'm
00:38:32 teaming up with Pearson on this. Hey, it's on tape. It's on tape
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00:39:50 slash matt you just mentioned something you said everybody's going back to school
00:39:54 I know you just had your baby's a little young to be heading out,
00:39:57 but what's your plan for school?
00:39:58 Are you going to send him to school or are you going to homeschool?
00:40:00 I personally found much of public education to be a complete waste of my time as a student.
00:40:08 And I had some great teachers, made some great friends along the way,
00:40:11 but my God, it was a waste of time.
00:40:13 No, it was.
00:40:14 And that was before my teachers were trying to tell me what they were doing in the bedroom.
00:40:20 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 you know, we are in such a period of changing the way information flows. We have more democratized
00:40:40 information today than at any other time in human history. And we're on this crazy acceleration
00:40:46 mode. So I got a few years, but to me, the rate of change is so much faster than the educational
00:40:56 bureaucratic system can keep up with. And it's not even a system built for change. And it's not
00:41:00 even a system built for the students it's largely a system built for the adults that are in the
00:41:04 in there florida will give you fifteen thousand dollars to homeschool your kid yeah you know you
00:41:10 got to meet some metrics and milestones but you know you have a few kids uh you can make a system
00:41:16 work for your so it sounds like you're advocating that you're going to homeschool my wife was
00:41:20 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 advertisement for homeschooling that my wife was homeschooled. You homeschool and you found it
00:41:33 very rewarding. Well, you know, COVID opened, you know, COVID, there's a lot of bad things
00:41:38 came out of COVID. We'll probably, maybe we'll get to that. Homeschooling opened everybody's
00:41:44 eyes during COVID because everybody was doing virtual. They're like, wait a second, what do
00:41:47 you do all day? You do nothing all day. We realized how much time was being wasted in school.
00:41:51 And once I realized how much time was being wasted in school, and then once the kids started going
00:41:55 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 what? Let's try this homeschool gig. And when we did, um, the kid, my daughter did so much better.
00:42:05 Her grades improved, her, her attitude improved, her mental health improved because of the stress
00:42:11 and, and all the interpersonal tensions from school. I will say this though. I think homeschool
00:42:18 is a great option for people who can do it. What Florida and a lot of States have done with school
00:42:22 choice, and this is why I think teachers are so
00:42:24 afraid of school choice, because it takes the kid out
00:42:26 of these indoctrination camps and puts the power
00:42:28 back in the parents' hands. You don't
00:42:30 necessarily have to homeschool your kid at
00:42:32 home at the table with you sitting there
00:42:34 teaching a math. Microschools, homeschool
00:42:36 groups, smaller private schools.
00:42:38 Tons of options. You have options in education now
00:42:40 that we never had before. More this year than ever before.
00:42:42 Thanks to the big, beautiful bill. And so
00:42:44 I love the fact that
00:42:46 exactly like you're saying, we are in a different era
00:42:48 of education, and I think the more states
00:42:50 that come online and offer choice to
00:42:52 families i think the weaker public schools become now look public school does a lot of good things
00:42:56 there's a lot of great educators who do that mission and serve communities who need it but i
00:43:00 don't think parents should be forced to send their kids to failing schools i don't even think public
00:43:04 schools get right what skills you need when yeah because that is so much different now yeah uh i
00:43:11 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 and you know why i went to typing class because they had some like baseball coach that was such 0.82
00:43:20 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 typing instructor. You know what got me typing fast? Wanting to get on AOL Instant Messenger
00:43:29 and talk to my friends. I talked to four of them at one time. Pearson, what is your advice for me?
00:43:33 You are a parent. Is homeschooling the right choice? Based on what we've seen and everything
00:43:38 you've described, we're on the same page. And especially in California. Oh, I wouldn't even
00:43:43 consider it here. Yeah, it's insane. Shockingly though, California, you wouldn't expect it,
00:43:47 is one of the best places to homeschool.
00:43:49 They're very open and facilitating about that.
00:43:51 They make it really easy for you to do that
00:43:53 and provide a lot of incentives and a lot of help and stuff like that.
00:43:56 In a lot of places, the school districts are hostile to homeschoolers.
00:43:59 It's not in Florida, but people who have been homeschoolers
00:44:02 who will listen to this are like,
00:44:04 my school district just makes my life hell
00:44:06 because they want you to have that kid show up 0.99
00:44:09 so they can get their drawdown on the big federal money.
00:44:13 Yeah, I was shocked about that, but it's a great option.
00:44:16 kids graduate and they're 18, they don't know how to do
00:44:18 anything. They don't know how to do their taxes.
00:44:20 They don't know how to do their finances. They can't work
00:44:22 on a car. They can't do any. They don't have no
00:44:24 life skills. And they don't even know what
00:44:26 gender they are. So there's no 0.77
00:44:28 reason to send your kid to play. They don't even know how to pee.
00:44:30 Exactly. I think we know that Pearson
00:44:32 Sharp is now running for the school board.
00:44:35 Let's go.
00:44:36 Alright, David. I've got to get your opinion on something else
00:44:38 that's been in the headlines around the
00:44:40 WNBA. And I am
00:44:42 covering the WNBA on the Mad Gates
00:44:44 show like white on rice because it is such a microcosm of what happens to the left if you just
00:44:50 leave them to themselves to self-destruct two former nba players enos canter and royce white
00:44:58 have declared for the wnba draft
00:45:02 if they don't pick them is there is there a federal civil rights action here 1.00
00:45:09 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 So that's the first hurdle they have to overcome.
00:45:20 Have you heard this, Pearson?
00:45:21 No.
00:45:22 Because they're so freaked out about this. 0.66
00:45:24 The deal is there's this French trans woman, which we would call a man, that is crushing it. 0.52
00:45:31 And you know there's some team that's going to pick him up.
00:45:35 And you've got a bunch of players and coaches being like, yeah, equity demands trans women get to play.
00:45:41 So these two jacked up former NBA players are like, man, I feel like a woman.
00:45:48 Yeah.
00:45:49 Yeah.
00:45:50 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 Already in the collective bargaining agreement, it says you have to be a woman.
00:46:05 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 episode where Randy Savage yes he's a woman that's exactly what it is goes in and crushes it
00:46:17 or the plot of Juana man yeah all right Pollock yeah how did they get out of this man and and
00:46:22 truly do you think there's liability here if they well if they define a woman that would include
00:46:29 them as eligible for the WNBA draft, then yeah, if they excluded them because they weren't
00:46:36 woman enough, you might have a discrimination lawsuit. 1.00
00:46:41 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 would deserve in gender because it doesn't get the higher level of scrutiny, which is
00:46:50 why we won that Supreme Court case with banning men or women from men's sports.
00:46:56 No, I got a couple of minutes to nerd out with you.
00:46:57 You think it would be subject to...
00:47:01 Intermediate scrutiny. 0.99
00:47:02 Well, I mean, if they say the trans women can play in the WNBA, 0.83
00:47:09 which, I mean, after all their coaches are wearing the protect the trans, 1.00
00:47:13 they're going to have to go there. 0.99
00:47:15 They're not going to be able to shut down the people with an X and a Y chromosome 0.57
00:47:20 because they're just too out. 0.98
00:47:22 These stadiums are booing Sophie Cunningham 0.97
00:47:25 because she has stood up for girl sports, okay? 1.00
00:47:28 They're going to come down one way on this. 0.99
00:47:31 And once they say that trans women can play,
00:47:34 whoa, whoa, whoa, they're going to have a committee
00:47:35 to review whether Enos Cantor and Royce White are woman enough. 1.00
00:47:40 I think that could be subject to strict scrutiny.
00:47:42 I agree.
00:47:42 But you look down the road, 1.00
00:47:44 then you're just going to have the entire WNBA full of men. 1.00
00:47:46 Women are out. 1.00
00:47:47 Which, by the way, we have decided what the WNBA needs to save it. 1.00
00:47:52 Mediocre male players. 1.00
00:47:53 but realistically
00:47:56 the way this ends is very simple
00:47:57 is that they're going to have to put
00:47:59 some sort of test in place that is
00:48:02 inevitably going to
00:48:02 design that test for me David Pollock
00:48:05 design for me the test
00:48:08 how far up the skirt do you reach
00:48:10 for the Trig and Dingleberries
00:48:12 before the test has been achieved
00:48:14 I think they're going to use the Olympic standard
00:48:15 it's going to be a chromosomal standard
00:48:17 I think they're going to exclude
00:48:18 you don't think they're going to allow 0.98
00:48:21 non-biological 1.00
00:48:22 No way they go the way of the Olympics.
00:48:23 No way.
00:48:24 I don't see how they don't.
00:48:25 Their woke fan base will not allow them to do what the Olympics is doing.
00:48:29 I think they'll find a reason to sell it to them and blame somebody else.
00:48:34 But maybe, you know what they'll do?
00:48:36 I think I figured it out.
00:48:37 Another prediction being made right now on the podcast.
00:48:39 They're going to, because here's what's going to happen. 1.00
00:48:41 If they allow men in the WNBA, right, there'll be certain states. 1.00
00:48:46 Florida already said it. 0.94
00:48:47 Florida said, after that woman hit Sophia Cunningham, Utmeier said,
00:48:50 if that was in Florida, we would have arrested her for committing a crime. 0.70
00:48:54 So red states are going to say the WNBA cannot play in our states 1.00
00:48:58 if they allow men to play, and they're going to cite that Supreme Court precedent. 0.99
00:49:01 And so the WNBA is going to say, well, we can't allow it in the league 1.00
00:49:04 because certain states would be excluded and it would hurt our revenue base. 1.00
00:49:07 They're going to blame red states.
00:49:08 They're going to exclude men, but they're going to do it by blaming somebody else 0.97
00:49:12 because that's what liberals do.
00:49:13 It's never their fault.
00:49:14 It's always somebody else's.
00:49:15 That's the David Pollack prediction.
00:49:17 Pearson Sharp, I know this annoys and probably bores you to no end,
00:49:23 but our final moment in this program is going to be your prediction
00:49:26 on whether there will be men in the WNBA following the 2027 WNBA draft.
00:49:33 If they keep on this course, it seems like they're going to have to. 0.74
00:49:36 They either have to admit that they're hypocrites or double down on it 0.97
00:49:39 and follow it to a logical conclusion. 0.92
00:49:41 David Pollock may be a hero on this prediction,
00:49:44 but we will make a note of it one way or the other.
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