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00:02:39.960 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:50.900 Welcome to it.

00:02:52.560 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn today.

00:02:54.420 He's a little under the weather.

00:02:58.220 He is.

00:02:59.600 He even came in today, started prepping the show, and then got sick while he was here.

00:03:03.980 Yes.

00:03:04.380 So now we're surrounded by all of his germs and attempting to do a radio show all day.

00:03:08.200 So thank you for that, Glenn.

00:03:10.660 So we're just a tad hesitant to be speaking into the microphone, which was just polluted.

00:03:17.700 You know, Pat, I think what we should do today is wear four different masks to honor Anthony Fauci and his health advice.

00:03:26.740 Right.

00:03:27.080 Because, you know, it's very important to protect yourself.

00:03:29.140 Is that two apiece or four each?

00:03:31.420 I think we get large masks and we just have them wrapped all the way around both of our heads as we do the show.

00:03:37.440 Okay.

00:03:37.700 That's just a recommendation, though.

00:03:38.880 That's not science.

00:03:39.700 All right.

00:03:40.120 He is science.

00:03:41.500 We are not science.

00:03:42.600 We're not.

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00:03:43.600 We are not.

00:03:44.040 No.

00:03:44.520 All right.

00:03:44.780 There is a lot going on.

00:03:46.440 You know, the whole tariff thing, I think you're kind of in a similar place where I am on tariffs.

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00:05:17.640 Again, Pat and Stu for Glenn today.

00:05:20.500 I'm sure you guys have talked about how President Trump has done so much so fast

00:05:27.180 that it's almost impossible for us to keep up with, let alone the liberal media to try

00:05:33.920 to complain, whine, and cry about everything he's doing.

00:05:37.260 I mean, as soon as they start complaining and crying about one thing, he's already on to the next.

00:05:42.340 And it's been a breakneck pace.

00:05:45.000 It's been unbelievable.

00:05:47.100 It really has.

00:05:47.820 It's sort of the opposite of overwhelming the system that the left was always trying to do.

00:05:53.280 They were always trying to load so much stuff on so you wouldn't notice half the stuff that's going on.

00:05:56.900 I don't think Trump is in that position.

00:05:58.500 I think he likes that everyone notices when he signs a new executive order.

00:06:02.060 But there has been so much in just the first couple of weeks.

00:06:06.260 Certainly the most I've ever seen.

00:06:08.400 Oh, by far.

00:06:09.300 In my lifetime.

00:06:10.700 Yeah.

00:06:11.220 The only thing I can think of that compares to this is the job that Harding and Coolidge did.

00:06:16.860 Yeah.

00:06:17.600 But I'm not sure it was on this kind of scale.

00:06:21.180 I mean, the cuts in the budget were beyond what's going on right now.

00:06:27.040 Yeah, not even close.

00:06:28.000 Not even close.

00:06:28.640 He cut the budget 50% in the first year and then 50% again the next year.

00:06:34.680 But those were the days when the U.S. budget was like, I think, $11 or $12 billion annually.

00:06:42.980 So the first year he cut it to like $6 billion.

00:06:46.280 And then the next it was down to $2 billion.

00:06:48.620 I mean, it was staggering what happened then.

00:06:52.600 But I don't know if they did as many things as are happening right now on as many fronts, tackling as many issues.

00:07:02.020 I really strongly believe that this would not have happened had he won consecutive terms.

00:07:09.340 Oh, I think you're right.

00:07:10.460 You know?

00:07:10.480 I think it's, you know, again, you don't wish the Biden years into existence by any means.

00:07:16.200 But because they happened, it allowed this.

00:07:17.940 It allows this.

00:07:18.600 I think when you have, because you know, this is true with, I think, any job, right?

00:07:22.400 Like you can go through and when you're working in a day-to-day, the day-to-day can kill you.

00:07:28.080 It can overwhelm you.

00:07:29.560 There's always a new development.

00:07:30.840 And certainly his entire last year of that last term was lost to COVID.

00:07:36.220 So it was one of those situations where you're always having a new catastrophe.

00:07:41.400 He was being investigated for Russia.

00:07:43.560 Russia was invading Ukraine.

00:07:45.440 I mean, you know, that was actually after his first term, right?

00:07:48.740 Yes, it was after his first term.

00:07:49.720 That was 2022.

00:07:50.520 Now I think about it.

00:07:51.300 But there was still stuff going on over there.

00:07:54.240 You had so much to deal with on a day-to-day basis.

00:07:56.240 A lot of it from the media, from congressional investigations, from impeachment efforts.

00:08:03.640 You know, I think that day-to-day got to him a little bit.

00:08:06.900 And taking four years off where all you have to do is stew about how the last years went,

00:08:14.300 but also plan for how I would do it again if I had the opportunity.

00:08:18.480 That is what I think he did.

00:08:19.980 And he put people around him who came up with a plan.

00:08:22.380 And it has been, you know, a little shock and awe-ish.

00:08:26.240 It has.

00:08:26.560 Right?

00:08:27.060 It really has, yeah.

00:08:27.880 It really has been.

00:08:28.500 Even for someone who likes the things, generally speaking, that he's doing, it has been like,

00:08:32.940 wow, this is a lot.

00:08:34.280 Yeah.

00:08:34.660 And I think that's, I think it's smart.

00:08:37.300 Because if you think of the timeline of a presidency, Pat, they've got, what, a one-seat

00:08:42.800 majority right now, basically?

00:08:44.380 When these people that he's appointed get into office and they're trying to slow play the

00:08:49.220 Stefanik seat in New York right now to try to keep the majority as small as possible.

00:08:53.820 You go through that period, the chances of you winning after two years when you have

00:08:59.860 such a small majority are low.

00:09:01.360 I mean, most presidents lose seats in that first election.

00:09:05.660 Yeah.

00:09:05.840 So if you kind of look at it that way, let's just say they lose that and we hope they don't.

00:09:10.140 But if the Republicans lose that election in 2022, you've got a two-year presidency where

00:09:14.700 you're really going to be able to get a lot done, especially with Congress.

00:09:17.780 And then you start shrinking that down.

00:09:19.440 Well, that last year before the election, all these purple district moderates are not

00:09:27.100 going to want to get on board with anything hard in that year before the election.

00:09:31.200 So you probably lost that year.

00:09:33.260 And then you have this first year, kind of the only thing.

00:09:36.180 And it starts off with all these appointments.

00:09:38.440 So you're kind of jumbled usually up in that process for the first month or two.

00:09:43.240 And you start shrinking down and you just don't have that much time to do anything.

00:09:46.480 The way our system is set up right now, he's decided he knew that he decided, I'm going

00:09:52.880 to do something about it.

00:09:54.420 I'm not going to slow play this.

00:09:55.840 They're going to be appointing people.

00:09:57.060 I'm going to be doing stuff on my own.

00:09:58.800 They're going to get as much done as they can.

00:10:00.380 And then they do have this one big reconciliation bill to pass this year too, which is going to

00:10:04.900 be a struggle with small majorities, but hopefully they get that done as well.

00:10:10.140 But he's just going for it.

00:10:13.180 And I think that's the right approach.

00:10:15.000 Yeah.

00:10:15.780 I mean, he's going for things that I didn't expect him to.

00:10:19.540 Like they are saying that he's already written drafts for the executive order to close down

00:10:24.280 the Department of Education.

00:10:27.480 I mean, eventually that'll take Congress to do it too.

00:10:30.260 But the executive order to begin the process or start dismantling it is about to happen,

00:10:37.340 apparently.

00:10:38.200 Yeah.

00:10:38.380 I think, and it's going to include a plan as to how to unwind it.

00:10:42.820 Yeah.

00:10:43.320 Which, you know, again, I, you don't, you, I am completely on board with ending the Department

00:10:50.220 of Education as I have been ever since, ever since I've been politically aware.

00:10:54.040 It has to be done congressionally.

00:10:55.440 It has to be done congressionally.

00:10:56.480 And I will say that's the, that's the same thing with USAID.

00:10:58.640 Like, I mean, he's, he's been talking about, they're talking about Doge coming in and dismantling

00:11:02.320 it.

00:11:02.540 You can't really do that without Congress.

00:11:05.320 It was started by an executive order, but was later codified by Congress.

00:11:09.680 So you do have to go through Congress.

00:11:11.640 Much later.

00:11:12.020 Yeah.

00:11:12.240 It started under Kennedy.

00:11:13.880 Yeah.

00:11:14.540 So yeah.

00:11:15.280 Then it happened under Clinton.

00:11:17.540 It was 98, I think.

00:11:18.700 Yeah.

00:11:19.260 Yeah.

00:11:19.660 And, you know, Bill Clinton had some, a lot of stuff going on in 1998.

00:11:23.340 Yes, he did.

00:11:24.040 Yeah, he did.

00:11:24.600 Lots of stuff going on.

00:11:25.840 But while he, you know, while Monica was under the desk, he was signing, he was getting,

00:11:30.260 putting together an effort to put that congressionally through and it did succeed.

00:11:34.920 So you would have to go through.

00:11:36.140 That doesn't mean though you can't change these things.

00:11:38.380 And we're seeing that a lot with, with a lot of stuff Doge is doing.

00:11:41.360 You come in here and you say, Hey, you know, if you want to resign, give us an email to resign.

00:11:47.260 That is within his authority.

00:11:49.420 It's ridiculous to say that it is not, even though the Democrats are trying and the unions are trying

00:11:53.700 to say that, of course, it's okay to say, we'd like you to leave.

00:11:57.720 It depends on how much you can pay.

00:11:59.140 And there's some legal lines there.

00:12:00.580 Yeah.

00:12:00.700 But at the end of the day, they say now 20,000 employees have so far taken them up on that.

00:12:06.740 Now that's not a, it's not a number that you're going to notice in the budget, honestly,

00:12:10.520 20,000 employees.

00:12:12.540 But still it's something and it's the beginning of an effort and maybe more jump on board as we go.

00:12:17.480 I think they're all being encouraged to not take it because they, they, they have all

00:12:23.700 these protections built in, right?

00:12:25.660 And the left has done a good job in putting this sort of government apparatus in concrete.

00:12:32.260 So it can't be, it can't be moved.

00:12:34.720 It can't be reshaped.

00:12:35.880 They're doing everything they can to stop this.

00:12:37.720 But 20,000 supposedly have already taken the offer to just get out, get paid till September

00:12:42.000 and not have to work.

00:12:43.580 I mean, it's, it's a pretty sweet deal.

00:12:46.560 But, you know, you got seven, seven months to find a new job.

00:12:51.260 You're, you're getting paid a decent amount of money until then.

00:12:56.160 Why not?

00:12:57.040 If you're going to go anyway, and a lot of them probably are, a lot of them probably

00:13:00.760 were going to be fired.

00:13:01.940 Like if you were working, Pat, in the, in a Trump administration, the first term, you're,

00:13:06.340 you're working in some civil service job under Trump and you're doing something you believe

00:13:09.920 in and then Joe Biden gets elected and all of a sudden you're like promoting LGBTQ abortions

00:13:15.360 every day, you'd probably leave too.

00:13:17.400 Yeah.

00:13:17.760 So for sure.

00:13:18.320 I got to understand why a lot of those people would want to get out and they get a nice

00:13:21.900 long runway to do set.

00:13:23.840 Yeah.

00:13:23.940 You know, if you're really smart, this is going to not going to make much sense entrepreneurial,

00:13:27.940 uh, in the entrepreneurial spirit to a lot of government employees, but like maybe you

00:13:33.540 take it and then go get another job.

00:13:34.920 And then you've got two salaries for nine months.

00:13:37.780 Would that put you ahead?

00:13:39.140 I bet it would.

00:13:40.360 Yeah.

00:13:40.520 That's a nice way to go.

00:13:42.500 So it's actually a, quite a generous offer if it, if it holds up in court.

00:13:47.660 And honestly, like I, if I'm in that, if I'm in that situation, there's a good chance.

00:13:52.620 I think I take it.

00:13:53.680 I don't want to sit here and try to promote the initiatives of some left-wing, you know,

00:14:00.740 nut job.

00:14:01.400 Right.

00:14:01.560 You completely disagree with.

00:14:03.020 Yeah.

00:14:03.160 You don't want to be doing that.

00:14:04.380 So get out.

00:14:05.100 Yeah.

00:14:05.720 Get out.

00:14:06.700 You know, the people who want to stay, stay and help.

00:14:09.600 Right.

00:14:09.840 Right.

00:14:10.040 If you don't want to stay and help, then get out.

00:14:12.300 That's a, that's a pretty basic request and it should be the approach of every company.

00:14:17.580 You know, this is the same thing they did at Twitter.

00:14:19.400 They basically said, look, we're going to be cutting anyway.

00:14:21.380 So you might get fired anyway.

00:14:22.760 So there's, I want to tell you right up front that that pressure is on.

00:14:25.940 You might wind up losing your job with very, with much less severance.

00:14:29.080 But isn't it a better thing to know about it going in?

00:14:31.420 Yeah.

00:14:31.640 Than to wonder if you're going to keep your job.

00:14:34.020 Yeah.

00:14:34.100 I mean, when you're told, yeah, there's a really good chance you could lose your job.

00:14:37.800 So you could, here's a, here's an umbrella.

00:14:41.300 Here's a, here are a parachute to use on the way out.

00:14:46.700 I mean, it's generous.

00:14:49.180 Go ahead and take it.

00:14:50.240 Yeah.

00:14:50.520 Take the parachute.

00:14:51.280 We had a situation like this.

00:14:52.440 My wife who has her, had her own national radio show.

00:14:55.600 She didn't do this music radio.

00:14:57.440 But she was doing a radio show on a daily basis.

00:15:00.420 She signed a new three-year contract.

00:15:02.780 And, and then there was this thing that happened.

00:15:05.420 There's, there was a, a, a pangolin in, in Wuhan that apparently started making out with some guy.

00:15:13.000 And it passed.

00:15:13.900 I hate when that happens.

00:15:14.500 I know.

00:15:14.920 Well, you know, look, I, to each his own, Pat.

00:15:17.760 If you're going to make out with a pangolin, you make out with a pangolin.

00:15:20.120 Right.

00:15:20.340 Who am I to be all judgy all of a sudden?

00:15:22.120 Yes, exactly.

00:15:23.680 The LGBTQQIA2P community.

00:15:28.520 So you're loving on a pangolin, a pangolin a little bit.

00:15:30.700 And a little, a little virus broke out.

00:15:32.680 Yeah.

00:15:32.880 And the radio company decided, holy crap, we need to fire everyone.

00:15:36.900 So they laid off my wife.

00:15:38.940 I don't know.

00:15:39.280 That was like April or May, 2020, you know, right in the middle of everything.

00:15:42.540 I think she signed her contract in April, 2020.

00:15:45.800 And then they laid her off in May, 2020.

00:15:47.940 She signed a three-year deal.

00:15:49.600 Wow.

00:15:49.740 So she got this payout where she was just getting paid for nothing for a really long time.

00:15:55.420 It was, it was absurd.

00:15:56.500 That's pretty sweet.

00:15:56.840 It was awesome.

00:15:57.560 Yeah.

00:15:57.860 I was like, this is the best job you've ever had.

00:16:00.100 You can sit here and not have to do any shows.

00:16:02.300 You don't have to show up to work at all.

00:16:04.180 You can do whatever you want and you still get paid.

00:16:07.100 Like, this is incredible.

00:16:08.340 I don't remember how much, it was like half the time we were contract or something.

00:16:11.420 She just got paid for nothing.

00:16:12.600 I was like, that's a good gig.

00:16:13.660 Yeah.

00:16:14.380 I don't know that it made any economic sense for the company, but whatever.

00:16:18.420 It was awesome for her.

00:16:19.560 She was excited about it.

00:16:20.700 So at the end, certainly.

00:16:22.680 So it's one of those things where if you get a, that thing comes around once in a lifetime.

00:16:28.700 Take it.

00:16:29.240 Take it.

00:16:29.940 Take it.

00:16:30.220 Hey, you in Washington.

00:16:31.540 If you don't like what you're doing, get out.

00:16:34.960 Yeah.

00:16:35.200 The chances of you getting fired are there anyway.

00:16:38.720 Take the risk.

00:16:39.920 Get out.

00:16:40.880 Go find something you want to do in a field you want to work in, in the private sector.

00:16:45.160 Now, they're going to ask you to show up to work probably.

00:16:47.920 They're not going to let you stay.

00:16:49.060 You're not going to be able to work three hours a week like the government.

00:16:51.200 Oh, those bastards.

00:16:51.940 I know.

00:16:52.440 They're going to say you need to leave your bathtub.

00:16:54.720 Wow.

00:16:55.140 You know, there are some negatives.

00:16:57.060 You mean they might ask you to actually come into an office of some sort?

00:17:00.480 They may.

00:17:00.940 They may ask that.

00:17:02.480 Although I will say if one of the reasons why you don't want to, you don't like your job so much is because you're currently remote working and have to change that.

00:17:12.440 There are actually a lot of companies that will allow you to remote work.

00:17:16.160 Yeah.

00:17:16.280 So go find one of them and go work there.

00:17:19.160 Maybe you'll like it more.

00:17:20.620 The bottom line is there's way too much waste in our government.

00:17:24.000 We all understand it.

00:17:25.300 We all know it.

00:17:26.400 Yeah.

00:17:26.580 And if we have an opportunity to shrink that, I mean, really, I don't think any Republican president has ever taken it seriously.

00:17:31.620 By the way, including Trump won.

00:17:34.040 I don't think anybody really took shrinking government seriously until this effort that we're seeing with Elon Musk and Doge.

00:17:40.960 Yeah.

00:17:41.240 And Trump obviously on board with that.

00:17:43.060 So this is a good change.

00:17:44.140 More coming up in 60 seconds.

00:17:48.800 So as you know, I'm a big fan of the free market.

00:17:51.240 I think you know that by now.

00:17:52.620 And I think the people who founded this country understood that the best way to exist in a society was to strive toward a balance of freedom and moral responsibility.

00:18:01.920 This is Adam Smith.

00:18:02.820 Goes back to his writings.

00:18:04.440 You know, of course, you try to use your freedom wisely.

00:18:06.960 You try not to take it for granted.

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00:18:16.820 We were just talking about this.

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00:19:26.680 So President Trump talked about why some of these things are happening right now.

00:19:31.740 And why they're happening with the rapidity with which we're viewing right now.

00:19:39.000 And a lot of it's because we're just getting ripped off.

00:19:42.220 And he talked about that in his first term.

00:19:45.300 But, man, this time he's really putting the hammer down.

00:19:48.120 Check this out.

00:19:49.240 Every single one of those countries is dying to make a deal.

00:19:52.540 You know why?

00:19:53.020 Because they're ripping us off really badly.

00:19:55.840 And the United States is tired of just being ripped off.

00:20:01.100 And that's why we have $36 trillion in debt.

00:20:04.620 We have it for a reason.

00:20:05.680 Because we make bad deals with everybody.

00:20:08.800 And we don't allow that anymore.

00:20:11.040 So the Wall Street Journal is wrong.

00:20:13.020 Because very simply, every single country that you're writing about right now is dying to make a deal.

00:20:19.020 Because the deals they have right now are so good and so good for them and so profitable for them.

00:20:25.160 You didn't know that Canada didn't allow our banks.

00:20:27.660 You didn't know all of these different things.

00:20:30.840 And I think in the end you're going to see that either very, very substantial tariffs are going to be paid by them.

00:20:37.540 Or they're going to make some kind of a deal.

00:20:39.800 So why would they want to do a deal if they're ripping us off?

00:20:43.980 And wouldn't they prefer to keep the one in place that they have?

00:20:47.500 I think what he's referring to is the deal's there to be made.

00:20:52.180 Because there's a lot of room.

00:20:53.820 Right?

00:20:54.100 Like they've got the good side of this deal.

00:20:57.340 And now he's going to end that.

00:20:59.920 He's going to end that.

00:21:00.760 So they're going to want to do a deal once he puts them on alert.

00:21:03.960 Which, by the way, we saw yesterday.

00:21:05.620 We saw immediately yesterday with both Canada and Mexico.

00:21:08.580 Yes, because the tariffs were supposed to take place today.

00:21:14.300 25% on Canadian goods.

00:21:17.040 25% on Mexican goods.

00:21:18.620 10% extra on Chinese goods.

00:21:21.160 And so it caused them to come to the table and have a little conversation with the president.

00:21:27.600 And so now it's been delayed with both Canada and Mexico.

00:21:30.740 Because he's right.

00:21:32.040 They're willing to deal now.

00:21:33.620 It's not just that, too.

00:21:34.660 It was Colombia.

00:21:35.580 Yeah.

00:21:35.780 They were rejecting planes.

00:21:38.060 Then they turned that around really fast.

00:21:40.180 I will also say, I was doing the Megyn Kelly show yesterday.

00:21:43.480 And I was going to come on right at the beginning of the show.

00:21:45.920 And then they moved me back like 15 minutes.

00:21:48.420 And the reason why, they were talking to Rick Grinnell, who went to Venezuela and negotiated the release of six of our hostages.

00:21:56.980 Of their hostages, you know, our people being held hostage there and was able to bring six of them home.

00:22:01.780 And he went through the entire story, which was incredible.

00:22:04.060 Wow.

00:22:04.660 You know, again, could we have done that during the Biden administration?

00:22:07.600 I mean, I don't think he would have ever been capable of it.

00:22:10.500 But like, why not?

00:22:11.840 Yeah.

00:22:11.980 Why weren't we there saying, hey, look, we don't agree with, you know, the Maduro regime, but like, you got some of our people there.

00:22:20.300 What can we do to make this happen?

00:22:21.780 And that happened in the first week?

00:22:24.140 Yeah.

00:22:24.400 I mean, it seemed like listening to Grinnell, he's going to be going all over the world and doing stuff like this.

00:22:29.360 And that's a great thing.

00:22:31.100 Yeah.

00:22:31.300 So, yeah, it's just it's look, it's just been impressive.

00:22:35.180 It's been impressive.

00:22:36.300 I think it has been an impressive first couple of weeks.

00:22:39.040 You run the risk.

00:22:40.160 I mean, some of the stuff we really like and, you know, maybe isn't as popular across the country.

00:22:44.860 Some of that stuff will start catching up to you over the long term.

00:22:46.940 But this is the right approach for that stuff.

00:22:48.780 Yeah.

00:22:48.960 If a cut is unpopular, get it done, rip off the Band-Aid and everybody move on so we can kind of look for more, you know, things that American people can unite on and also reap the benefits of cuts.

00:23:00.500 Because the earlier you make them, the better they are.

00:23:03.020 He had much more to say about tariffs and about USAID fraud.

00:23:08.040 We'll get into that coming up.

00:23:10.800 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

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00:24:44.820 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn today, who's a little bit under the weather.

00:25:01.480 Hopefully he'll be back tomorrow.

00:25:04.740 We should probably poison him less.

00:25:06.740 You know, thinking about it in retrospect, I know we have a long-term multi-year program to poison him slowly,

00:25:11.580 but I think maybe we added a little too much this morning.

00:25:14.820 Well, we've been working for years building up an immunity to Iocane powder.

00:25:18.720 Yes.

00:25:19.200 He doesn't have that.

00:25:19.920 He does not have that.

00:25:20.920 No.

00:25:21.540 And a little does a lot, apparently.

00:25:23.500 It does.

00:25:24.160 Yeah, it goes a long way.

00:25:25.800 So he's experiencing that today.

00:25:27.580 So we're talking about the deal with Canada.

00:25:34.360 President Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian products and Mexican products.

00:25:41.180 And then, shockingly, he had a discussion with Justin Turdow yesterday, between Turdow and Donald Trump.

00:25:51.420 I think you're mispronouncing that.

00:25:52.880 Really?

00:25:53.240 Turdow?

00:25:53.820 No, you got it.

00:25:55.920 Okay, I'm sorry.

00:25:56.700 All right.

00:25:57.700 So they came around to some sort of arrangement where we're going to wait for 30 days.

00:26:04.940 It's weird.

00:26:05.920 Yeah.

00:26:06.640 It's almost like this was a negotiating tactic.

00:26:09.340 It is almost like that.

00:26:10.540 It's also why I never freak out about this stuff.

00:26:13.120 Yes.

00:26:13.420 Right.

00:26:13.740 Trump does what he does.

00:26:14.820 He says things.

00:26:16.040 Mm-hmm.

00:26:16.400 Some type, like, he just said he's friends with Kim Jong-un.

00:26:20.340 So what?

00:26:21.640 Who cares?

00:26:22.880 Right.

00:26:23.160 Right?

00:26:23.480 Like, I don't, is he really friends with Kim?

00:26:25.280 I doubt he's hanging out with him on the weekends.

00:26:27.880 But, you know, he says these things for a reason.

00:26:31.200 He's trying to lead to something.

00:26:32.840 You might not like that thing.

00:26:34.040 You might not like his approach to get to that thing.

00:26:36.120 Right.

00:26:36.480 But the bottom line is, you can't just sit here and, like, you can't freak out over it.

00:26:41.660 Right.

00:26:41.880 You have to look at it and understand.

00:26:43.400 And yet the left does every single time.

00:26:44.820 I know.

00:26:45.320 Every time.

00:26:45.380 Does anyone remember?

00:26:46.260 This guy was actually, and I don't know if you even know this, Pat, but he was Donald

00:26:49.840 Trump president of the United States already once.

00:26:52.420 Whoa.

00:26:52.960 Yeah.

00:26:53.540 Really?

00:26:53.820 So we all got to see him be president.

00:26:56.200 Yeah.

00:26:56.560 And all kind of got to see his tactics and how he would handle the job.

00:26:59.920 Uh-huh.

00:27:00.140 And while this, as we just pointed out, I think I would argue this one's seemingly more

00:27:05.080 smooth and I think well planned out maybe than the first one where it was kind of a surprise

00:27:09.340 he even won.

00:27:10.640 I think this is going better so far.

00:27:13.120 Yeah.

00:27:13.440 But I will also say, you get the hint, right?

00:27:17.560 Like, it's like, oh my gosh, is Vin Diesel really going to go on that highway at 100 miles

00:27:22.640 an hour and jump over the bridge and somehow land and then get in a fight with The Rock?

00:27:27.000 Yes.

00:27:27.620 It's a Fast and Furious sequel.

00:27:29.040 Yes, that's going to happen.

00:27:30.540 And the same thing here.

00:27:31.760 Like, yeah, these are sometimes explosive things that he says, but like, as a person

00:27:37.480 who does not appreciate tariffs as economic policy, I don't like them.

00:27:41.380 I don't think they're good with economic policy.

00:27:42.780 They do work in situations like this.

00:27:45.000 They work to get other things.

00:27:47.020 Tariffs are not good in and of themselves.

00:27:48.860 They are good if you want something else because it is a punishment to that country and

00:27:55.060 to your country.

00:27:55.780 You're putting pain, as Trump has talked about, you are putting some pain on yourselves, but

00:28:02.100 your bet is we can withstand it a lot better than they can withstand it and they will fold.

00:28:06.500 That's how he uses tariffs.

00:28:08.600 Yeah.

00:28:09.120 And it looks like it's going to work, frankly.

00:28:11.280 It worked twice yesterday.

00:28:12.220 Yeah.

00:28:12.440 Here he is talking about the new tariffs.

00:28:16.760 Is there any chance that Canada or China could also get out of the tariffs after you start

00:28:21.460 the deal with Mexico?

00:28:22.080 Well, nobody's out with Mexico.

00:28:24.440 We had a great talk with Mexico and we had President Scheinbaum is a woman.

00:28:33.440 I like her very much.

00:28:34.440 We've had good relationships, but we have to stop fentanyl from coming in, whether I like

00:28:38.700 somebody or not, and we have to stop the illegal aliens from coming in.

00:28:43.180 I think we've lost 200,000 people on average a year for many years, much higher than the

00:28:47.920 100,000.

00:28:48.780 It could be even closer to 300,000.

00:28:51.960 And they've agreed to put in 10,000 soldiers permanently, like forever, 10,000 soldiers at

00:28:59.580 their side of the border and stop fentanyl and illegal aliens from coming into our country.

00:29:04.620 They have a big incentive to do other than that.

00:29:07.580 We've agreed to talk and consider various other things.

00:29:12.180 We haven't agreed on tariffs yet, and maybe we will, maybe we won't, but we have a very

00:29:17.060 good relationship.

00:29:17.920 I also spoke with Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada, and we had a good talk in the morning,

00:29:25.300 but I did ask him a couple of questions like, you know, banks aren't allowed to do business

00:29:29.080 in Canada.

00:29:29.740 Canada is very tough.

00:29:31.160 Canada is very, you know, we're not treated well by Canada.

00:29:34.620 And we have to be treated well.

00:29:37.620 Canada is really protectionist.

00:29:40.200 I mean, they protect their stuff.

00:29:41.760 Yeah, they have tons of tariffs on us.

00:29:43.380 Oh my gosh.

00:29:44.140 Tariffs, rules, the broadcast companies have to go by, I mentioned on my show yesterday,

00:29:49.020 the Canadian broadcasting rule, where 35% of their weekly content has to come from Canadians.

00:29:57.180 So, if you're a music station, 35% of the music you play every week has to come from Canadians.

00:30:05.520 It either has to be completely written.

00:30:08.400 It's a lot of Brian Adams.

00:30:09.360 It's a lot of Anne Murray.

00:30:10.940 Yeah.

00:30:11.140 No matter what format you're in, you're pulling from that.

00:30:15.820 It doesn't matter, because if you're a country station in Canada, I don't know who you're

00:30:19.420 going to play, but it's got to be 35% Canadian, so there's going to be some bad country music.

00:30:25.580 You're probably not a country music station in Canada.

00:30:28.260 No.

00:30:28.920 Probably not.

00:30:29.860 But it's true.

00:30:30.240 This happens, by the way, all over the world.

00:30:32.580 You know, and that's one of the things I like about America, and that we don't do those

00:30:36.120 things to people.

00:30:37.620 But like, you know, I was doing some business out of the country, and it was on a project

00:30:42.600 that had stalled multiple times.

00:30:46.720 You know, it was a 20-year project.

00:30:48.840 It was stalled, and we started and stopped and started and stopped.

00:30:52.180 And then, like, the former, like, prime minister or the prime minister's son or something

00:30:57.240 got involved in the project, and all of a sudden, everything started going totally fine.

00:31:02.060 It's so weird how that occurs.

00:31:04.080 It's like, that is how business is done all over the world.

00:31:07.740 Yeah.

00:31:08.080 And I don't want to be the country that does that.

00:31:10.560 I don't think that helps your economy long-term.

00:31:13.300 It is protectionist, and protectionist policies don't work.

00:31:17.000 They wind up screwing everybody, both the people who want to invest in your country from

00:31:22.780 outside of it, but also the people inside your country.

00:31:25.480 It hurts them, too.

00:31:26.340 You can sometimes protect one group in your country at the expense of another group in

00:31:31.480 your country with protectionism.

00:31:33.640 That does happen.

00:31:34.800 But generally speaking, it's just a negative economic consequence, which is why it's a

00:31:39.180 good threat.

00:31:40.460 It's like, it's why it works.

00:31:42.660 They're not folding because they're like, oh, I'm scared of Donald Trump, or I worry about

00:31:46.980 what Donald Trump's voters think of me as Trudeau in Canada.

00:31:50.920 They're voting because they're changing these policies because, holy crap, like, we don't

00:31:56.320 want to face that pain.

00:31:58.120 I don't want to have to deal with my own voters when they say, hey, Trudeau allowed this to

00:32:03.920 happen.

00:32:05.160 He's on his way out anyway, Trudeau.

00:32:07.980 But that's the instinct.

00:32:09.760 You don't want to deal with the pain yourself.

00:32:12.460 And we as America, the strongest nation on earth.

00:32:14.640 I mean, think of how strong we are, Pat.

00:32:16.120 Like, is there another country on earth that's like, we want 10,000 troops from your country

00:32:20.560 on our border?

00:32:22.040 Like, we just, we're so confident.

00:32:24.200 We're like, yeah, Canada and Mexico.

00:32:25.520 Go ahead.

00:32:26.080 Put 10,000.

00:32:26.700 We want you to.

00:32:27.540 We're requiring you to put troops on our border.

00:32:32.040 Again, they'll be on the Canadian or Mexican side.

00:32:34.140 But still, like, how did the Ukraine feel when 10,000 Russian troops started showing up

00:32:38.740 on their border?

00:32:39.240 They didn't look at it as a positive.

00:32:40.640 Slightly nervous, I think.

00:32:41.780 Yeah, they're a little worried about that, rightfully so.

00:32:43.860 We're like, ah, you're not going to do anything.

00:32:45.740 That's how strong we are.

00:32:47.100 And because we're so strong, we can, we, you know, Trump is making that calculation that

00:32:51.180 if necessary, and it is happening with China, we can accept a little of this pain.

00:32:55.480 And we think we can withstand it longer than you can.

00:32:58.260 Yeah.

00:32:58.960 And as a result of this, everybody's come to the table again, including China.

00:33:03.620 We're all renegotiating with these deals again.

00:33:08.260 So it's been fascinating to watch.

00:33:11.000 And again, that's why you don't panic when President Trump says these things.

00:33:16.060 Like, we're going to impose a 25% tariff on North American trade partners.

00:33:21.500 Okay, well, let's see if that really happens.

00:33:24.020 Because, again, it's a negotiating tactic, I think.

00:33:27.740 And I really doubt that the 25% tariff will ever happen.

00:33:33.560 But President Trump also talked about the USAID situation and the fraud coming out of that

00:33:40.640 organization yesterday.

00:33:42.620 Here's what he had to say about that.

00:33:44.180 The first term, though, USAID was something that you liked in some respects.

00:33:47.540 I love the concept of it.

00:33:49.260 Yeah.

00:33:49.480 That's a program.

00:33:50.260 Sure.

00:33:50.720 I love the concept.

00:33:51.820 But they turn out to be radical left lunatics.

00:33:54.720 And the concept of it is good.

00:33:56.600 But it's all about the people.

00:33:59.460 Yeah.

00:34:00.740 The concept is good.

00:34:02.000 But in practice, it's turned out not so good when you're talking about things like a one

00:34:08.400 and a half million to advance diversity and equity and inclusion in Serbia.

00:34:13.680 You're not big on DEI in Serbia?

00:34:16.200 Not that big, no.

00:34:17.040 Really?

00:34:17.540 Yeah.

00:34:17.820 How much money do you think we should spend on it?

00:34:19.240 A billion or a trillion?

00:34:20.720 No.

00:34:20.840 What are you thinking?

00:34:21.820 Like, how many zeros you want after that number?

00:34:23.780 Just the one zero.

00:34:25.320 And that's the only number I would use.

00:34:27.360 Just the zero.

00:34:28.080 Just the zero.

00:34:28.660 Just the straight zero?

00:34:29.720 Yeah.

00:34:30.000 Zero point zero.

00:34:30.300 But then they wouldn't get any money for diversity, equity, and inclusion, Pat.

00:34:33.080 Right.

00:34:33.600 Okay.

00:34:33.940 Yeah.

00:34:34.200 You know that.

00:34:35.160 I do know that.

00:34:36.200 I do know that.

00:34:36.880 That seems like the right amount.

00:34:38.320 What do you think is the right amount for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland?

00:34:44.140 I mean, how good is the musical?

00:34:45.320 Can I hear some of the songs?

00:34:46.980 I don't actually have any examples of the songs.

00:34:49.940 Really?

00:34:50.360 No.

00:34:51.060 What if it's a great musical, though, Pat?

00:34:53.240 How much money should we give it then?

00:34:54.560 Let's say, let's just put this out there.

00:34:56.400 Would you go $70,000?

00:34:57.260 What if it's the best musical of all time?

00:34:59.960 Okay.

00:35:00.420 Okay.

00:35:00.780 Now, I've never seen a musical I enjoyed.

00:35:03.800 I kind of like the Little Shop of Horrors movie when I was a kid.

00:35:07.320 Okay.

00:35:07.720 Which was very twisted.

00:35:08.980 But I mean, Steve Martin, Rick Moranis.

00:35:10.620 All right.

00:35:10.860 I was in on that a little bit.

00:35:11.340 Yeah.

00:35:11.400 You can't go wrong.

00:35:11.960 But pretty much nothing else.

00:35:13.800 Okay.

00:35:14.380 But let's say it's the best musical ever created.

00:35:18.980 In Ireland?

00:35:19.500 In Ireland.

00:35:20.220 No, not just in Ireland.

00:35:21.220 Just anywhere.

00:35:21.860 But it happens to be in Ireland, but it's all over the world.

00:35:23.840 The best musical ever created from the dawn of time.

00:35:26.120 Okay.

00:35:26.460 Go back to Bach.

00:35:28.100 Go back to Beethoven.

00:35:30.020 This is the greatest of all time.

00:35:31.860 Mozart.

00:35:32.860 Better than all that crap.

00:35:34.120 Never created anything better than this.

00:35:34.460 Their stuff is trash compared to this musical.

00:35:37.160 What if it's that good?

00:35:38.320 How much money should we give it?

00:35:39.180 I was going to say zero.

00:35:41.540 No dollars.

00:35:41.880 That's always the right number, regardless of the idea.

00:35:46.580 If it's DEI or if it's like, what if it's a, what if it's a, Pat, what if it is a musical

00:35:52.580 that is praising the BYU football program in Ireland?

00:35:57.480 And it's like, it's a whole thing about, hey, we really love the BYU football program.

00:36:01.960 We think they're going to win every national championship from here on out.

00:36:05.040 That's one of the songs.

00:36:06.120 That's the title of one of the songs, Pat.

00:36:08.380 Even if I get free airfare offered to me to go to Dublin and enjoy that musical.

00:36:13.880 At any time.

00:36:14.840 I'm still going to say the total investment into that program should be zero.

00:36:20.860 Yeah, no.

00:36:21.200 We should never.

00:36:22.280 Here's another thing, Pat.

00:36:23.480 No matter what the situation, we should never fund a musical.

00:36:27.840 Right.

00:36:28.260 What about if it's in America?

00:36:29.700 We have all these big art sites.

00:36:31.040 No.

00:36:31.520 No.

00:36:31.940 Zero.

00:36:33.020 Every single time you bring up a musical for our government to fund, the answer is zero.

00:36:38.500 Certainly you don't feel that way about electric vehicles in Vietnam, though.

00:36:41.720 Right?

00:36:41.940 You're okay with two and a half million dollars being invested into electric vehicles in Vietnam.

00:36:48.280 I am not okay with that.

00:36:49.240 You're not okay with that?

00:36:50.000 I am okay with some expenditures to that, obviously.

00:36:52.880 The amount would be zero.

00:36:56.460 Okay.

00:36:57.020 But what about $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia?

00:37:01.200 Okay.

00:37:01.320 Now, that's a high priority on the Stubergear list.

00:37:05.040 You found the one thing worse than a musical.

00:37:08.780 An opera.

00:37:09.780 An opera.

00:37:10.720 A transgender opera.

00:37:12.220 And you can get a whole opera for only $47,000.

00:37:15.240 That's not bad.

00:37:16.040 I got that.

00:37:16.620 However, what if instead of that opera, which I'm sure is wonderful, do we have any of the

00:37:21.220 songs, Sarah?

00:37:22.000 Sarah's going to sing some of the transgender opera songs here for us in a second.

00:37:26.400 I can't wait for that.

00:37:27.400 Yeah, it's going to be great.

00:37:28.000 It's coming up in just a few minutes.

00:37:29.140 But if it was instead of a transgender opera, an opera that was specifically designed, all

00:37:39.440 of the songs were about Keksi Cookies.

00:37:44.000 Every single song was about a new variety.

00:37:47.020 Now you're kind of hitting me where I live.

00:37:48.620 A delicious Keksi Cookies.

00:37:50.120 K-E-K-S-I dot com.

00:37:51.720 Go buy them.

00:37:52.320 They're fantastic.

00:37:53.440 We all know they're fantastic.

00:37:54.560 Yeah, and it's a whole opera that's devoted to that.

00:37:56.380 It was an opera devoted to Keksi Cookies in Vietnam, Serbia, where was it?

00:38:01.800 In Colombia.

00:38:04.280 In Colombia.

00:38:05.620 A Colombian pro-Keksi Cookie opera.

00:38:09.200 Really increasing our international market.

00:38:11.260 Really would, because I don't know how many cookies you sell to Colombia.

00:38:13.620 Not that many.

00:38:14.040 Probably a low amount.

00:38:14.780 Not that many in Colombia.

00:38:15.600 Unless you're selling cocaine cookies.

00:38:16.640 I don't think you are at this point.

00:38:18.040 No, no.

00:38:18.600 But if they came up with that opera, how much should our government-

00:38:21.480 I'm going to go, in this case, I'm going to make an exception.

00:38:23.780 Okay.

00:38:24.040 And say a total of zero dollars.

00:38:27.940 Zero.

00:38:28.680 None.

00:38:29.280 None!

00:38:30.120 You never fund an opera.

00:38:32.460 No.

00:38:33.040 Ever.

00:38:33.640 No.

00:38:33.980 If people want to do operas, they do them on their own.

00:38:37.720 They find people who want to buy tickets to an opera.

00:38:41.040 What if there are none?

00:38:42.240 Then you shouldn't be funding it.

00:38:44.880 Maybe you find some private money.

00:38:46.620 Some private donors, perhaps.

00:38:48.340 Yeah, like this one, you could get Keksi to maybe sponsor.

00:38:51.000 They probably are excited about that expenditure.

00:38:53.300 Right.

00:38:53.700 40,000, we get a whole opera?

00:38:55.140 That sounds great.

00:38:55.820 That's pretty good.

00:38:56.800 But like-

00:38:58.200 It's unbelievable.

00:38:58.680 This is so hard for people to understand, and I don't know why.

00:39:01.900 Like, they're like, what about the funding for the arts?

00:39:04.480 Zero!

00:39:05.060 None.

00:39:05.300 All of it's zero.

00:39:06.180 So, arts are things that, generally speaking, people like to do.

00:39:11.680 Mm-hmm.

00:39:12.160 Right?

00:39:12.600 Mm-hmm.

00:39:12.760 People like to sing.

00:39:14.480 People like to produce musicals for some reason.

00:39:17.180 Like Sarah's going to show us in a minute.

00:39:18.580 Yeah, in just a minute with her transgender opera.

00:39:20.960 It's a medley, right, Sarah?

00:39:22.020 Yeah, she said it's a medley.

00:39:24.820 But like, people like to do that.

00:39:26.260 They like to paint.

00:39:26.980 They like to sculpt.

00:39:27.840 They like to do those things.

00:39:28.980 Right.

00:39:29.260 Those are things they want to do.

00:39:30.640 Go ahead.

00:39:31.240 In fact, you know what happens, Pat?

00:39:32.960 When you don't fund it, when you don't pay people to do it, they pay others to go do

00:39:38.540 it at like establishments that are built.

00:39:41.100 They have painting places.

00:39:42.480 You go, you paint, you have a glass of wine.

00:39:44.940 That's your night out.

00:39:45.280 What a concept.

00:39:45.960 That is weird.

00:39:47.300 That's just a weird idea.

00:39:49.080 All right, more coming up.

00:39:50.280 All right.

00:39:52.140 Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where we weren't funding transgender operas?

00:39:55.680 Yes.

00:39:56.600 Mm-hmm.

00:39:56.940 But also, wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where your credit card balance wasn't

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00:40:02.540 That kind of sounds nice as well, doesn't it?

00:40:04.560 Unfortunately, we don't live in that particular world, nor one that does not fund transgender

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00:43:28.620 Yeah.

00:43:29.260 Trump finds objectionable.

00:43:30.820 Yeah, because you're listing these off and I had not heard the details on them.

00:43:35.080 And they're obviously all ridiculous.

00:43:37.220 Uh-huh.

00:43:37.600 When I heard the reporting on this, it was just Trump finds objectionable and it was a list.

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00:45:50.700 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:45:58.280 Today featuring Pat and Stu for Glenn, who's sick today.

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00:46:03.780 We haven't even scratched the surface on the USAID situation yet.

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00:47:47.240 Marco Rubio yesterday on USAID.

00:47:50.440 Now, the big deal with USAID is that the agency has effectively been shuttered, right?

00:47:56.900 The Democrats surrounded the building yesterday demanding that it be reopened.

00:48:01.140 And, you know, they want to continue to spend money on really important things, like the Transgender Comic Book in Peru, for instance, which is only $32,000.

00:48:15.200 It's not that big an investment.

00:48:18.540 Okay?

00:48:18.700 And is it not worth it to have a little bit of fun for transgenders in Peru?

00:48:26.640 You know, it's a good question.

00:48:28.280 I don't know.

00:48:29.160 What is the transgender population looking like in Peru these days?

00:48:32.240 40%?

00:48:33.320 50% of the population?

00:48:34.340 I think it's more like 80% or 85%.

00:48:36.180 It seems to be growing dramatically in every culture right now, which is interesting from such a natural and normal thing, you know, that it would be just growing.

00:48:44.340 Yeah.

00:48:44.560 Why would that happen?

00:48:45.580 I'm not sure, but it's gone from about 0.7% to about 89%, I think, worldwide.

00:48:51.440 Just the 89%.

00:48:52.420 Okay.

00:48:53.460 Yeah.

00:48:53.960 I'm going to say that we shouldn't fund it.

00:48:55.620 Really?

00:48:55.940 Really?

00:48:56.300 Not only that comic book, but any comic book.

00:48:58.600 Huh.

00:48:59.100 No comic books at all?

00:49:00.360 Our friend Eric July, who, of course, Blaze TV contributor, he came up with an idea for his own world, right?

00:49:09.220 How much did he get from USAID?

00:49:11.740 Zero dollars.

00:49:12.780 What?

00:49:13.120 And you know how many he would accept if offered?

00:49:15.100 Zero.

00:49:15.860 Oh, wow.

00:49:16.260 Because he doesn't want to be voted by the government.

00:49:18.600 He wants it to be funded by the people who actually enjoy the comic series.

00:49:22.300 That's interesting.

00:49:23.100 I know.

00:49:23.380 It's a crazy idea.

00:49:23.960 It's a crazy concept.

00:49:25.140 Yeah.

00:49:25.460 But it is possible.

00:49:26.520 And again, people enjoy coming up with comic books.

00:49:30.720 They'll do it on their own.

00:49:32.540 You don't need to fund it.

00:49:35.300 Really?

00:49:35.900 And if you need to fund it.

00:49:37.240 Where are you getting that?

00:49:38.400 This is just a crazy idea I have.

00:49:40.800 If you need to fund it, probably not worth it.

00:49:43.700 Really?

00:49:44.100 If a person's like, I won't make that comic book for you about transgendered superheroes unless you give me from the U.S. government.

00:49:53.320 Remember, think about this position.

00:49:55.480 You're in Peru.

00:49:56.420 You're like, I won't make this comic book unless the U.S. government gives me $32,000.

00:50:01.920 Right.

00:50:02.180 Maybe it's not a worthwhile project at that point.

00:50:05.480 I don't know.

00:50:06.700 You're a little too radical for me this morning.

00:50:08.440 Okay.

00:50:08.640 I'm sorry.

00:50:09.160 I'm sorry.

00:50:09.540 I don't mean to be radical.

00:50:11.340 But I'm an American conservative.

00:50:13.740 It's really the only thing I have going on for me.

00:50:15.780 Certainly, you're okay with $6 million to fund tourism efforts in Egypt.

00:50:22.140 No.

00:50:22.700 No?

00:50:23.020 No.

00:50:23.360 What?

00:50:23.840 You know, my thought is they got the pyramids.

00:50:26.120 People like going there.

00:50:27.360 Yeah.

00:50:27.760 And then there's Sphinx or two you can check out while you're there.

00:50:30.200 A couple, I think.

00:50:31.100 Yeah.

00:50:31.500 People really like Egypt, Cairo.

00:50:33.780 I remember watching one of the Indiana Jones, was it Raiders of the Lost Ark?

00:50:38.660 Yeah.

00:50:39.040 Weren't they in Cairo for that?

00:50:39.920 I believe so.

00:50:40.340 When they met the guy who we've had on the show a bunch of times.

00:50:43.540 I can't think of his name off the top of my head.

00:50:47.060 But great dude.

00:50:48.220 And he was one of the most beloved characters.

00:50:51.320 He was in Cairo.

00:50:52.260 You take Cairo because people like it.

00:50:55.140 People like Egypt.

00:50:56.280 They want to go visit.

00:50:57.220 They want to see these incredible wonders of the world.

00:50:59.760 Right.

00:50:59.960 You don't need to advertise Egypt.

00:51:03.500 People just know about it.

00:51:05.020 So the American government doesn't have to give money to Egypt to advertise for their tourists.

00:51:09.980 In fact, here's another incredible thing, Pat.

00:51:12.440 Even if no one wanted to visit Egypt at all, we still shouldn't advertise Egypt.

00:51:18.360 What if they had like, what's another country?

00:51:20.300 Not a lot of people go to visit, I don't know, Mongolia.

00:51:22.860 Not a lot of people go into outer Mongolia on vacations.

00:51:27.780 I do have one planned right after the Super Bowl.

00:51:30.540 Yeah, I'm going to tack it on to the Super Bowl trip.

00:51:32.340 Oh.

00:51:32.820 But most people don't have the timeshare that I have there.

00:51:35.560 Oh, yeah.

00:51:35.980 So that's the issue.

00:51:37.220 I understand timeshares are beautiful in outer Mongolia.

00:51:39.800 Outer Mongolia.

00:51:40.400 The inner Mongolia is trash.

00:51:41.700 It's overpriced, Pat.

00:51:42.500 Don't go there.

00:51:43.120 But outer Mongolia is fantastic.

00:51:45.620 Yeah.

00:51:45.740 Especially this time of year.

00:51:48.320 And if they really needed the tourism, though, you know, like let's say they were thinking

00:51:52.720 like, wow, we only had zero visitors this year.

00:51:56.400 Maybe we should up the tourism.

00:51:58.040 We'd like to get like five.

00:51:59.220 Five.

00:51:59.560 Next year.

00:51:59.860 Right.

00:52:00.100 And you know how much we should spend on that?

00:52:01.520 Zero dollars.

00:52:02.820 There's never an incident.

00:52:04.320 But we're the richest country on earth.

00:52:06.380 Yeah.

00:52:07.100 And if we want to spend some of those riches on trips and timeshares in outer Mongolia,

00:52:12.620 we can do that.

00:52:14.280 Yeah.

00:52:14.560 But see, it's not our responsibility to fund their government's tourism budget.

00:52:20.920 Yeah.

00:52:21.060 That's not a thing.

00:52:22.300 Yeah.

00:52:22.880 Six million dollars.

00:52:24.700 And again, it's Egypt, a place that people dream about visiting.

00:52:29.060 Mm-hmm.

00:52:29.460 You don't need a...

00:52:30.320 We're running an ad?

00:52:31.420 Hey, we got pyramids.

00:52:33.100 We know.

00:52:34.380 We all know you got a bunch of big...

00:52:36.680 I've seen them on TV.

00:52:37.860 ...triangles there.

00:52:38.560 They're fantastic.

00:52:39.400 I'd like to see them in person someday.

00:52:40.800 But I doubt the U.S. government will pay for my trip when I do decide to go.

00:52:46.040 No, they're just going to entice you with advertising.

00:52:48.580 So you spend your own money on the trip?

00:52:50.260 What the hell is this?

00:52:51.620 Crazy.

00:52:52.300 It's just...

00:52:52.760 It's nuts.

00:52:53.240 But that's kind of the mindset that the left has fallen into, right?

00:52:56.980 Is that it is our responsibility to do all these things on the planet.

00:53:02.200 We're the planet's police officers.

00:53:05.900 We're the planet's babysitters.

00:53:08.760 We're the planet's bank.

00:53:12.860 Their bank account for every expenditure they need.

00:53:15.940 I mean, it's unbelievable.

00:53:17.220 Despite the fact, when I look at our balance sheet, I'm not impressed.

00:53:21.000 What?

00:53:21.520 The $36 trillion in debt?

00:53:23.040 I feel like it should be lower than that.

00:53:24.860 Am I wrong on that?

00:53:25.580 I don't know.

00:53:26.180 It feels to me that $36 trillion...

00:53:27.140 Again, you're kind of picky this morning.

00:53:28.880 ...a little high.

00:53:29.700 Yeah, wow.

00:53:30.420 Yeah, I feel like it...

00:53:31.980 And by the way, increasing every single month...

00:53:36.100 By $1 trillion every 100 days.

00:53:38.680 Is it 100 days?

00:53:39.440 Yeah, every 100 days, it goes up another trillion.

00:53:41.960 A trillion dollars.

00:53:43.440 Something that took us 200 years to get to in the first place, from George Washington

00:53:48.420 to Ronald Reagan to accrue $1 trillion.

00:53:53.920 Now we do that every 100 days.

00:53:56.340 And we're getting to the point now...

00:53:58.000 You don't even want to get me started on what the budget looks like the next 30 years.

00:54:02.880 I mean, it's abhorrent.

00:54:04.500 To the point where we are...

00:54:06.260 Our interest on the debt is going to be bigger than our defense department.

00:54:09.980 Jeez.

00:54:10.800 Which is close to a trillion dollars a year, right?

00:54:14.480 I think it's $300 billion or so right now, every year.

00:54:18.280 That we spend on defense?

00:54:19.100 That we spend on interest.

00:54:19.940 No, we spend on interest.

00:54:20.620 Oh, just the interest.

00:54:20.940 And it catches up over the next 10 or 15 years.

00:54:23.920 Yeah.

00:54:24.240 That's...

00:54:24.720 The defense budget is what?

00:54:26.080 $800 billion, I think?

00:54:28.120 Give or take, Pat.

00:54:29.020 Yeah.

00:54:29.360 And look, you can find plenty of waste in that number, I'm sure.

00:54:32.820 We know that for a fact.

00:54:34.420 However, at least that's a core application of government.

00:54:38.600 It's something we should be spending money on.

00:54:39.500 We should be spending a lot of money on it.

00:54:40.780 I just don't know if we should spend it the way that we do, or maybe not quite that much.

00:54:44.940 You can make an argument, but I'm not uncomfortable with that number if it was spent on things

00:54:51.960 that we really needed, like new weapons systems and new ways to defend our nation.

00:54:55.900 Those things I'm comfortable with, but I can understand why people might think there's

00:55:00.040 waste, and there's certainly tons of waste in that number.

00:55:03.040 That being said, Pat, that is at least a core responsibility of the federal government.

00:55:07.920 As far as I understand, transgender comic books are not.

00:55:12.520 I don't know.

00:55:13.260 You've got a kind of a weird understanding this morning, I've noticed, so I'm not sure

00:55:17.860 if I can go with you on that.

00:55:19.020 Now, Madison did write about transgender comic books and the need for us to be funding them.

00:55:24.320 Yeah.

00:55:24.680 Wasn't it Federalist 42?

00:55:26.860 42.3.

00:55:27.940 I believe, yeah.

00:55:28.740 Yeah.

00:55:29.220 He was like, you know, there's a lot of things that the government shouldn't do, but they

00:55:32.820 should fund transgender comic books in Peru.

00:55:35.360 It was either Madison or Hamilton, I think.

00:55:37.740 Yeah, it was one of the two.

00:55:38.400 I can't remember.

00:55:39.680 Federalist 42.

00:55:40.400 But anyway, look it over, review it, see what you think about it.

00:55:45.000 Here's what Marco Rubio said about USAID.

00:55:48.000 You're now the head of USAID.

00:55:50.340 The head of Doge, Elon Musk, called USAID a criminal organization and added that it is

00:55:55.820 time for it to die.

00:55:57.800 Do you agree with that?

00:55:58.620 They have basically evolved into an agency that believes that they're not even a U.S.

00:56:02.480 government agency, that they are out, they are a global charity, that they take the taxpayer

00:56:06.600 money and they spend it as a global charity, irrespective of whether it is in the national

00:56:11.060 interest or not in the national interest.

00:56:12.780 One of the most common complaints you will get if you go to embassies around the world

00:56:15.960 from State Department officials and ambassadors and the like is USAID is not only not cooperative,

00:56:21.680 they undermine the work that we're doing in that country.

00:56:24.280 They are supporting programs that upset the host government for whom we're trying to work

00:56:28.680 with on a broader scale and so forth.

00:56:30.460 So they're completely unresponsive.

00:56:32.040 They just don't consider that they work for the U.S.

00:56:34.560 They just think they're a global entity and that their master is the globe and not the

00:56:38.260 United States.

00:56:39.000 And that's not what the statute says.

00:56:40.500 And that's not sustainable.

00:56:41.680 Can it be reformed or does it need to die?

00:56:43.420 Well, that was always the goal was to reform it.

00:56:45.440 But now we have rank insubordination.

00:56:47.820 Now we have basically an active effort.

00:56:49.900 Their basic attitude is we don't work for anyone.

00:56:52.720 We work for ourselves.

00:56:54.100 No agency of government can tell us what to do.

00:56:56.560 So the president made me the acting administrator.

00:56:59.360 I've delegated that power to someone who's there full time.

00:57:02.260 And we're going to go through the same process at USAID as we're going through now at the

00:57:06.320 State Department.

00:57:07.220 I think there are some this is not about getting rid of foreign aid.

00:57:10.500 There are things that we do through USAID that we should continue to do.

00:57:14.700 That makes sense.

00:57:15.540 And we'll have to decide, is that better through the State Department or is that better through

00:57:18.680 something, you know, a reformed USAID?

00:57:20.880 That's the process we're working through.

00:57:22.160 There are things that are happening at USAID that we should not be involved in funding

00:57:25.500 or that we have a lot of questions about, but they're completely uncooperative.

00:57:30.140 So we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control.

00:57:34.560 Incredible.

00:57:35.360 Amen.

00:57:35.800 That's a great outlying of all of the issues there from Marco Rubio.

00:57:43.720 And I would add one more, Pat.

00:57:46.060 USAID is an organization that provides aid to, in theory, provides aid to places all over

00:57:52.960 the world.

00:57:53.420 And yet they call it USAID and not USAID.

00:57:56.180 It is, that is how inefficient this organization is.

00:58:01.660 The actual initials make the word aid, which they're supposed to be providing, and they

00:58:07.100 still all call it USAID.

00:58:10.040 That's how dumb this organization is.

00:58:12.520 And there is a, you know, look, of course, if you have a giant budget, you can definitely

00:58:17.360 find money to throw around at global causes and do some good.

00:58:20.760 There's no doubt about that.

00:58:21.540 You can, you know, transgender comic books don't fit into that.

00:58:25.240 And it is true that they see themselves, because they're called an independent government agency,

00:58:29.920 that they think, we'll just do whatever we want.

00:58:32.340 What if we just do whatever we want?

00:58:34.020 And that's what they've been doing.

00:58:35.200 And that's what they've been doing.

00:58:36.080 It's got to stop.

00:58:36.840 Obviously.

00:58:37.360 I mean, think about it.

00:58:38.280 If you are Marco Rubio, you're Secretary of State, and you're working with a government

00:58:42.460 in, you know, the Middle East that, you know, has, you know, thoughts on gay rights

00:58:48.860 that are not equal to ours, let's say, for example.

00:58:52.020 Um, and then you're providing transgender comic book funding.

00:58:56.200 What is the, what happens when you go to meet, if you're Marco Rubio, to meet with that leader?

00:59:01.900 You're complicating whatever you're trying to get done.

00:59:04.760 Yeah.

00:59:04.920 And you might say, what, I really want them to change their mind on those rights.

00:59:10.020 And I would too.

00:59:11.440 But that might not be the goal of that particular meeting.

00:59:14.320 Yeah.

00:59:14.700 And now you got to deal with that complication.

00:59:16.160 Well, do you remember how ridiculous it looked when the old clip of Kamala Harris was played

00:59:22.580 where she was talking about the fact that she changed, uh, the law in California to allow

00:59:31.120 for prisoners who wanted a sex change to be paid for by the taxpayers in California.

00:59:37.780 Yep.

00:59:38.400 And she saw to it that that was, uh, able to happen.

00:59:41.680 Well, we, most Americans realized that's insanity.

00:59:47.920 Well, USAID is doing $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala.

00:59:53.720 Okay.

00:59:54.120 These were Americans and American prisoners.

00:59:56.600 Now we're going to, we're going to fund sex changes for Guatemalans.

01:00:00.440 I mean, if we're going to carve up some genitals, it should at least happen on American soil.

01:00:04.000 Yes.

01:00:04.260 Yes, it should.

01:00:04.840 You know?

01:00:05.860 Yes, it should.

01:00:06.260 If we're going to pay.

01:00:07.340 Right.

01:00:07.760 For someone to go in with a sharp instrument.

01:00:12.220 Yeah.

01:00:12.420 And carve up somebody's genitals, it should at least happen in Ohio.

01:00:16.160 Yeah.

01:00:16.580 I think so too.

01:00:17.340 Not in Guatemala.

01:00:17.840 Right.

01:00:18.040 That's not right.

01:00:19.520 Right.

01:00:19.880 It's absurd.

01:00:20.960 So incredible.

01:00:22.180 It would be, even, you know, even if it was the best activity in the world, it would be absurd.

01:00:26.640 Mm-hmm.

01:00:26.940 When you say that it's related to, you know, a sex change, it becomes even more crazy.

01:00:32.840 Insanity.

01:00:33.360 And that's not, look, you can argue with it, but your argument died in November.

01:00:40.260 People looked at this argument and voted.

01:00:42.600 Mm-hmm.

01:00:42.980 And this is what they voted for.

01:00:44.180 They voted for someone to go in with a maniacal focus to get rid of this nonsense.

01:00:50.520 And that's what he's doing.

01:00:52.120 And Rubio has been great on this.

01:00:54.020 Obviously, Elon Musk has been really focused.

01:00:56.760 Yeah.

01:00:56.940 And look, the changes are, you have to give you a sense of optimism.

01:01:01.820 This is a lot of, a lot of this stuff is stuff that other presidents, even if you like their

01:01:05.300 policies more, you like their attitudes more, you like their tweets more, just wouldn't

01:01:08.860 get involved in because it was too much of a problem.

01:01:11.020 They didn't want to deal with the pushback.

01:01:12.240 They didn't want to deal with the, you know, every news station, trashing them every night.

01:01:17.200 Trump doesn't care.

01:01:18.280 Not at all.

01:01:19.020 He doesn't care.

01:01:19.440 He likes it.

01:01:20.780 You know?

01:01:21.300 I really think he does.

01:01:22.520 Yeah.

01:01:22.840 All right.

01:01:23.340 We've got more coming up in 60 seconds.

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01:01:31.940 You know, again, it worked out yesterday for sure.

01:01:35.180 I understand that people are battening down the hatches and some of the stock market stuff

01:01:40.340 is scary, though.

01:01:40.960 I mean, it was down 600, 700 points until this stuff got reversed.

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01:02:53.940 We were just talking about how great a job Marco Rubio has been doing so far.

01:03:05.500 But also, you've got to admire the activity from Pete Hegseth, who is at the border right now.

01:03:14.160 Christy Noem is at the border right now.

01:03:16.880 When did the previous administration officials ever show up at the border as these operations are happening?

01:03:23.660 First of all, there were no operations to stop illegal immigration under the last administration.

01:03:29.380 So, of course, they were never there.

01:03:31.640 But it's pretty amazing to see in the first two weeks these officials at the border actually getting things done.

01:03:40.260 Quite clearly a real priority, right?

01:03:43.260 Yeah.

01:03:43.800 Border crossing is down 93%.

01:03:45.660 I think Christy Noem said 95%.

01:03:49.260 95, okay.

01:03:49.840 93, 95.

01:03:51.320 It's down a lot.

01:03:52.240 I know it was like 10,000 or 11,000 a day.

01:03:55.820 The latest stat I saw was something like 500 to 600 per day now.

01:04:01.600 I mean, that's amazing.

01:04:02.380 It's really, really good.

01:04:03.800 Some of that drop happened before Trump got into office.

01:04:08.460 But was it after the election?

01:04:10.000 A lot of it was after the election.

01:04:11.840 Some of it was they did make – if you remember before the election, though, Biden made some changes where they implemented some of the Trump plan that they had –

01:04:20.460 Because they realized the American people don't want this to continue.

01:04:23.120 Right.

01:04:23.400 And they were like, crap, we got to win this election.

01:04:25.160 So, they did do some of those changes.

01:04:26.360 So, they had some of the drops there, though it's even more extreme now.

01:04:29.020 And, you know, you don't necessarily – you don't necessarily, like, look at this and say, you expect zero.

01:04:36.760 It's going to be hard to get to zero.

01:04:38.260 I mean, I want zero.

01:04:39.060 I don't think it'll ever be zero.

01:04:40.060 But it'll probably never be zero.

01:04:41.560 Yeah.

01:04:41.740 But I was talking about this with my daughter who was – you know, we were talking to her about cleaning her room, getting up on time.

01:04:46.820 And I said, you know, it's not that I expect perfection.

01:04:50.520 I just want you to care.

01:04:53.300 Just care.

01:04:54.720 Care about it.

01:04:55.640 Mm-hmm.

01:04:55.860 Care.

01:04:56.400 Try to do it.

01:04:57.300 Mm-hmm.

01:04:57.640 Show me that you're doing something in this arena.

01:05:02.280 Okay.

01:05:02.900 And that is what I kind of – like, that's the basic idea I want from the U.S. government.

01:05:10.180 Trump is going well beyond that, actually doing something.

01:05:12.860 It's not even just a surface effort where it looks like he cares.

01:05:16.560 We're talking about 95% reductions.

01:05:19.860 Already.

01:05:21.560 It's two weeks.

01:05:22.600 And it's, again, considerably better than his first term.

01:05:26.540 Yeah, it is.

01:05:27.340 His first term numbers were okay.

01:05:28.620 Yeah.

01:05:28.720 They're better than Biden's.

01:05:30.000 Yeah.

01:05:30.200 But, like, they weren't anything like this.

01:05:33.180 And who knows if this is going to last forever.

01:05:35.560 It may not.

01:05:36.840 At some point, there could be a surge.

01:05:38.400 There could be things going on.

01:05:39.340 But Trump is focused on this.

01:05:40.800 And Tom Homan is focused on this.

01:05:43.220 He is such a no-nonsense guy.

01:05:45.400 I love it.

01:05:45.920 You talk about the fact that Trump doesn't care what they're saying.

01:05:48.180 Yeah.

01:05:48.480 Tom Homan really doesn't care what you think of him.

01:05:51.740 He couldn't care less.

01:05:53.120 I don't know if Tom Homan has ever given a two-word response.

01:05:55.660 I don't think so.

01:05:56.140 It's always just like, no.

01:05:59.500 Yes.

01:06:00.600 So?

01:06:01.280 Yeah, that's it.

01:06:02.180 That's all he needs.

01:06:03.200 That's great.

01:06:03.560 I love it.

01:06:04.320 It is incredible.

01:06:05.640 So, the improvement has been dramatic.

01:06:08.200 Yeah.

01:06:08.300 And, look, you can complain about stuff.

01:06:11.140 I'm sure people do.

01:06:12.180 But, at the end of the day, this is what he ran on.

01:06:14.320 This is what he promised.

01:06:15.200 And this is what he's doing.

01:06:17.640 Can't ask for more than that.

01:06:18.640 It's actually fun to watch the Democrats weep and wail and gnash their teeth over it, too.

01:06:24.480 It's actually been kind of satisfying.

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01:08:10.240 Today is sick this morning.

01:08:12.960 Hopefully he'll be back tomorrow.

01:08:14.460 888-727-B-E-C-K.

01:08:18.980 Been really fun to watch the Democrats try to go nuts on every single thing that Donald Trump is doing,

01:08:27.420 except he's moving so fast and doing so much that they really can't settle on any one thing.

01:08:33.500 So they're just trying to shoot at everything right now.

01:08:37.280 They're just throwing a bunch of spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.

01:08:39.880 And here is Bernie Sanders talking about what he just doesn't like what's happening.

01:08:47.180 Oh, no.

01:08:47.560 Margaret, we are living in an unprecedented moment in American history.

01:08:51.660 We're looking at a rapid growth of oligarchy.

01:08:55.180 We're looking at a rapid growth of authoritarianism.

01:08:58.600 And I fear that we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy as well.

01:09:03.300 These are all new words he just learned to work with my supporters all over this country to stand up and fight back,

01:09:11.400 to make sure we have an economy that works for everybody, not just Elon Musk, and that we maintain American democracy.

01:09:18.680 Oh, wow.

01:09:19.120 That's weird.

01:09:19.600 How does it work so well for Elon Musk?

01:09:21.560 Anyone track that one down?

01:09:23.100 What's he done to make all that money?

01:09:25.280 I think it must have been government handouts.

01:09:27.760 Is that what's happening there?

01:09:28.840 Now, he opposes those handouts these days, but, you know, a lot of that money, they subsidized a lot of those cars that were purchased.

01:09:35.960 Well, that is true.

01:09:36.940 And I will also point out, the other part of it is he's doing the space stuff better than the government can do it.

01:09:43.440 So a lot of the money he's making is coming from the government, who all may have made decisions that the products he's making are so valuable,

01:09:51.280 they can't do without them, even though they hate his guts.

01:09:53.340 And he's doing the space stuff so well, so much better than the government, read NASA, can do it,

01:09:59.320 that it's gotten to the point where Donald Trump has asked him to finally bring home the two astronauts who've been stranded in space for eight months.

01:10:09.360 Hey, Elon, could you maybe bring them home as soon as possible?

01:10:13.120 And he's taken on that task.

01:10:14.680 But eight months, and they were supposed to be there for a week.

01:10:20.860 One-week mission has turned into eight months because of the ineptitude of NASA right now.

01:10:26.980 They've got no way to bring them home.

01:10:29.340 So SpaceX has to.

01:10:31.700 It's incredible.

01:10:33.000 Incredible.

01:10:33.380 And, you know, this is something when you think about it, you know, they've had this transition since, I would say, 2019, 20.

01:10:41.580 I guess COVID was probably the start of this with Musk, where the left started turning on him because he wanted to open up his factories

01:10:47.080 and make the electric cars for the existential threat, the greatest existential threat our world faces, global warming.

01:10:54.560 And he wanted to open up his factories, and they got mad at him about that.

01:10:57.640 And that's really, I think, the start of most of the problems between the left and Elon Musk.

01:11:01.940 But, like, you think about this, they have hated him for five years.

01:11:06.360 Five years of just pure hatred.

01:11:08.340 And they cannot unplug the stuff that he, they can't unplug themselves from the stuff that he does in business.

01:11:15.320 Right.

01:11:15.860 Including SpaceX, which is a miracle.

01:11:19.920 You know, it is an incredible company that's doing incredible things at a level that the government can't achieve.

01:11:26.840 And he didn't really start, it doesn't seem like it started all that long ago.

01:11:30.320 Has it been 20 years, maybe?

01:11:32.580 No, it's been, it's less than that.

01:11:33.960 Less than that, right?

01:11:34.680 Yeah, I think.

01:11:35.500 Yeah.

01:11:35.780 Yeah.

01:11:36.100 I mean, and certainly with any, any notoriety, it's been less than that.

01:11:40.900 I mean, he was, you know, go back and look at the history.

01:11:43.840 He was, he was blowing up these spaceships all over the globe for like the first five years of the company.

01:11:50.780 Yeah.

01:11:51.040 They got down to the last one.

01:11:52.580 He said, if this next one blows up, the company's over, we have to shut it down.

01:11:56.580 And the last one worked.

01:11:58.860 Wow.

01:11:59.380 He was, that's how close that company was from just not even existing.

01:12:02.500 Now he's sending rockets into space and bringing them back and landing in the launch pad.

01:12:06.900 Incredible.

01:12:07.680 It's amazing.

01:12:08.740 Yeah.

01:12:09.060 Stuff we've never seen before.

01:12:10.480 And then of course, Tesla, like it's funny because I have a friend who was a big conservative,

01:12:15.040 like, you know, big loves, you know, like really wanted Trump to win.

01:12:20.700 And it was very, very out there talking about it a lot.

01:12:24.180 And he, he had a big old truck, you know, big old truck in Texas and just bought a Tesla plaid.

01:12:33.020 He's like, I did it because Elon Musk.

01:12:35.180 He's like, I just love Musk.

01:12:37.900 I love what he's doing.

01:12:39.060 I want to support him.

01:12:40.220 How fascinating is that?

01:12:41.660 Wow.

01:12:41.820 He has taken conservatives to electric cars.

01:12:45.960 Yeah.

01:12:46.760 Yeah.

01:12:47.040 I mean, that is like, that's a magic trick you couldn't have told me that it was, was

01:12:51.600 possible to pull off.

01:12:53.840 And he did it to the point that like, now it's a lot of, it's, it's kind of the opposite.

01:12:58.140 People like AOC who bought a Tesla for the environment are now trying to get rid of them

01:13:02.460 because they are, they're embarrassed to be associated with Musk.

01:13:06.560 I mean, that's awesome.

01:13:07.900 It is.

01:13:08.560 It is awesome.

01:13:09.220 And they're great cars.

01:13:10.380 You know, I, I would not mind having a Tesla.

01:13:13.560 It just, the range is not quite there for me to go with an EV yet.

01:13:19.140 But if I were to buy an EV, it would be a Tesla because they're just great cars.

01:13:24.800 And the pickup, I mean, we knew that from what, five or six years, seven years ago.

01:13:28.920 Yeah, they brought one to the studio here one day.

01:13:30.540 And this is way before COVID.

01:13:32.180 I mean, it was 2017, 18, something in that range.

01:13:34.860 That's true.

01:13:34.880 Yeah, it's been a while.

01:13:35.360 And they brought it to, they're like, hey, like take a test drive.

01:13:38.360 See, see if you like the acceleration.

01:13:40.180 And they were like, just punch it.

01:13:41.440 It's, it's jaw dropping.

01:13:43.380 It is.

01:13:44.040 It is.

01:13:44.440 You've never felt anything like it.

01:13:45.480 And this is an older model.

01:13:46.720 Yeah.

01:13:47.400 But it is, my friend has one that's not the Plaid.

01:13:50.600 It's a, it's the version, I think the Model S Performance or whatever.

01:13:55.080 It is really, really fast, but not as fast as the Plaid.

01:13:58.440 It is like an incomprehensible amount of acceleration.

01:14:03.280 It feels as if.

01:14:04.980 Because it's immediate.

01:14:05.960 It's immediate.

01:14:06.820 And it's so fast.

01:14:08.420 And it throws you back in your seat.

01:14:10.160 And it, it honestly, like, it can make you kind of uncomfortable.

01:14:13.800 Like you almost feel like when you feel like going on like a crazy roller coaster and you

01:14:17.220 get off of it, you're like, oh, my stomach doesn't quite feel right.

01:14:19.320 Like you can only punch it so many times because it's jaw dropping.

01:14:24.080 And the technology is really impressive.

01:14:26.400 A friend of my, another friend of mine who has a Tesla lives in Colorado and comes here

01:14:30.300 for work.

01:14:31.020 You know, he does some work with us and he takes it from Colorado to here, self-driving

01:14:37.420 from Colorado to Texas.

01:14:39.920 And he, he's like, I barely, I barely ever touched the wheel.

01:14:43.700 Oh, my gosh.

01:14:44.760 Really?

01:14:45.300 Yep.

01:14:45.900 And he just, and now I like driving.

01:14:47.660 That's amazing.

01:14:48.220 You know, it's something I like doing.

01:14:50.060 Though on a ride like that, I would love to have a self-driving option.

01:14:52.700 It's amazing.

01:14:53.180 And he's okay with that?

01:14:54.140 He's okay with just letting it, he trusts it.

01:14:56.480 He's, you know, he's a nerd.

01:14:57.660 He's a Tesla nerd.

01:14:58.800 Yeah.

01:14:59.020 And he is so into it.

01:15:00.780 Like he, he's.

01:15:01.520 Would you trust it that much?

01:15:02.580 Because I would not.

01:15:03.560 I, I probably wouldn't at first.

01:15:05.480 One of the other friends I was just talking about who, who has this, has the same thing.

01:15:09.180 And he's much less trusting about it.

01:15:11.080 He's like, I'm just getting to the point now where I can like remove my hands for just

01:15:14.360 a second, but they're like right above the wheel.

01:15:15.980 And I'm like panicked the entire time.

01:15:17.800 He's like my other friend who's just a, you know, he's a technology geek.

01:15:20.520 And he's just like, he reads all about it.

01:15:23.400 He knows every update that comes down.

01:15:25.020 He's on the list of like the beta updates that come really early.

01:15:27.860 And he would show me every time he'd come to town, show me the improvement of how they

01:15:33.300 take certain court.

01:15:34.060 Like at the beginning it was like, oh, it would tell you to take control a lot.

01:15:37.800 And it would, it would come up to a, you know, a traffic circle and not exactly know what

01:15:41.780 to do.

01:15:42.200 And you'd have to kind of grab it.

01:15:43.400 Now it's like, it just does it.

01:15:45.440 It just handled it.

01:15:46.180 He, the other day, last time he was here, uh, was he, he was, um, uh, out and my daughter

01:15:51.360 was, uh, there and my wife was there and, um, they were at a, you know, they were

01:15:56.740 at my wife's business and he was doing some work over there.

01:16:00.280 And as they were leaving, he's like, oh, watch this.

01:16:02.440 He takes out his phone and presses some buttons.

01:16:05.380 Car just pulls up.

01:16:06.920 He's not in it.

01:16:08.000 The car just comes, comes from the parking lot and pulls up to pick them up.

01:16:12.020 Like that's, that's amazing.

01:16:14.180 That is Jetson level crap.

01:16:16.000 Like that's insanity.

01:16:17.720 It is.

01:16:18.040 And the fact that this guy has made it cool for conservatives to own these vehicles should

01:16:25.380 be something he should be put in the, the liberal hall of fame for, right?

01:16:30.440 He has crossed.

01:16:31.800 He's been able to make it cool to have a car.

01:16:36.060 That's an electric freaking car.

01:16:38.160 You guys keep telling us this is the solution to all of our global problems.

01:16:42.900 And this 0.9 degree temperature rise over a century is really what we need to be worried

01:16:47.200 about.

01:16:47.700 Well, here's a big step in that direction.

01:16:49.400 And they despise him because he challenges their power.

01:16:53.820 And, and what is the greatest existential threat in our nation?

01:16:57.500 Pat, is it global warming or is it Democrats losing control of your lives?

01:17:02.500 That's what they certainly seem like.

01:17:04.660 That's the one they care about.

01:17:06.300 That's for sure.

01:17:07.140 That's for sure.

01:17:09.060 And not only has he made the EVs so cool, but like you said, with SpaceX, I mean, everybody

01:17:16.020 loves SpaceX, right?

01:17:17.920 Well, that was created so that we could move to Mars.

01:17:21.640 Yeah.

01:17:21.920 Why?

01:17:22.500 Because the, this planet is dying.

01:17:25.160 Yes.

01:17:25.660 Supposedly.

01:17:26.140 It was the two, it was the existential threat.

01:17:28.880 The two existential threats he sees.

01:17:30.840 One was AI, but the other one was global warming.

01:17:34.840 And he wanted to be able to have a place for human beings to escape to because he took

01:17:39.180 liberal concerns that seriously and still does, by the way.

01:17:41.960 I mean, he's still, he's still, you know, what I would hate him though so much now that

01:17:45.780 they completely disregard that.

01:17:47.580 Yep.

01:17:47.760 But again, if it was really the threat you say it is, wouldn't you still embrace him?

01:17:53.660 You would think so.

01:17:54.400 I don't know.

01:17:54.800 If there was someone, I'm trying to think of the right example, but like if someone was,

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01:18:12.120 Like, would we be supportive of that person?

01:18:14.060 Yeah.

01:18:14.620 Yeah.

01:18:15.020 I would be thrilled to have someone on the left who was like, you know what?

01:18:18.040 Yeah, we should get rid of the income tax because this is crazy.

01:18:20.360 It's taking everybody's money and it doesn't make any sense.

01:18:22.960 I'm with you.

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01:18:32.900 they're sane on one issue, we're overly welcoming, I would say, to liberals who are sane on one

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01:18:39.220 Look how we've treated RFK Jr.

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01:18:42.460 Yes.

01:18:43.860 Yes.

01:18:44.460 It was April of 2024.

01:18:46.640 I mean, there's a lot of conservatives.

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01:18:52.280 You know, yesterday, Donald Trump called USAID a bunch of left-wing lunatics.

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01:23:36.160 Coming up in just a few minutes, I guess we've got Sarah Sullivan and her opera medley, right?

01:23:44.360 Your transgender opera medley is coming up.

01:23:48.440 That'll be the last hour of the program.

01:23:50.220 Yeah.

01:23:50.600 Yeah, I'm a little concerned.

01:23:51.500 I mean, she told me in the break it's 14 songs, which is a lot.

01:23:55.420 It's a lot.

01:23:55.920 It's a lot.

01:23:56.860 We're a talk radio program, and it's like to fit in 14 songs on a medley is really a

01:24:01.940 big ask, but we decided to say yes, Sarah.

01:24:04.380 Because we're sure it's really good.

01:24:06.060 I'm sure it's good.

01:24:06.740 Really, really good.

01:24:07.640 Did you get funding from USAID?

01:24:09.840 I did.

01:24:10.380 Oh, good.

01:24:10.860 Okay, good.

01:24:11.120 Good.

01:24:11.360 That's good, because I would hate to see her have to do that on her own.

01:24:16.340 No, I mean, that's ridiculous.

01:24:17.880 You know, you can't do that.

01:24:18.900 You can't do it on your own.

01:24:19.520 Like, she would have to sit at home and write, like, music on her computer and then, like,

01:24:23.660 you know, get somebody to perform it and all that.

01:24:26.880 Normally, what people do in the free market when they want to create an entertainment product.

01:24:30.700 But thankfully, our government steps in, in foreign countries, to provide that funding

01:24:35.020 for people to come up with transgender opera.

01:24:37.540 Well, you can't ask somebody in a foreign country to do that.

01:24:39.400 That's insane.

01:24:40.200 Yeah, it's ridiculous.

01:24:40.940 And you know why?

01:24:42.160 Because most likely, in some of these countries, the people who wanted to produce the opera

01:24:46.580 would get killed.

01:24:47.700 They would probably get executed by the state.

01:24:50.920 But in addition to that, no one would want to go to it.

01:24:56.240 Now, obviously, Sarah's medley is going to be so profound and beautiful that I think people

01:25:00.940 might like that.

01:25:01.880 Yeah, I think so.

01:25:02.600 You know, it's hard to even get to that position.

01:25:03.960 I mean, I haven't heard any of the songs that she's going to sing, but I'm sure they're

01:25:07.360 fantastic.

01:25:08.420 They are.

01:25:08.780 That's the kind of confidence we all have.

01:25:10.860 Yeah.

01:25:11.380 And you know, yeah, that'll be good.

01:25:13.420 I heard a little bit of song nine.

01:25:15.200 And I will say, at least if you're not going to stick around for all 14, at least stick

01:25:19.140 around till song nine.

01:25:20.500 That's all I'm saying.

01:25:21.800 All right.

01:25:22.160 How did it go?

01:25:22.680 Can you remind me?

01:25:23.460 I can't.

01:25:24.120 Well, I wouldn't want to ruin it.

01:25:25.080 Obviously, your beautiful singing voice is going to perform this for us in just moments.

01:25:29.300 Yeah.

01:25:29.840 You don't want to hear Stu sing it.

01:25:31.300 No.

01:25:31.680 That wouldn't be the same.

01:25:32.700 Wouldn't be the same.

01:25:33.360 You can't just have men and women performing the same role.

01:25:35.560 That doesn't make any sense.

01:25:36.560 No, it does not.

01:25:37.060 Oh, wait.

01:25:37.720 It really doesn't.

01:25:40.740 Strangely, that's actually a true statement.

01:25:43.380 Yeah.

01:25:43.740 It doesn't make any sense for men and women to just change genders on a whim and with a

01:25:48.580 series of magical words.

01:25:49.980 Unless you're like 12, then it makes perfect sense.

01:25:52.800 Yeah.

01:25:53.120 Right?

01:25:53.600 12?

01:25:55.240 12 is pretty old.

01:25:56.140 10 is 12 waiting too late.

01:25:58.480 Yeah.

01:25:58.780 I got to say, like, a 12-year-old knows that's insane.

01:26:01.360 Maybe four or five?

01:26:04.820 Maybe that logic makes sense to a five-year-old, perhaps.

01:26:08.360 Mm-hmm.

01:26:08.680 Perhaps.

01:26:09.100 So, again, I think you'd be able to talk them into, honey, you can't just change genders

01:26:13.240 with a series of magical words.

01:26:15.080 I think they would probably understand that.

01:26:16.620 Yeah, I think they would.

01:26:17.640 You know?

01:26:18.060 Yeah.

01:26:18.300 They might want to be an astronaut and think that that's right around the corner for them,

01:26:22.160 but I'm pretty sure they could figure out they're not changing genders that easily.

01:26:26.080 And yet, pretty amazing to watch what's been going on.

01:26:30.740 All right.

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01:30:56.320 You know who Creative Artists Agency is, right?

01:30:59.640 Yes.

01:31:00.040 They represent some of the biggest stars in the world.

01:31:03.680 Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Lady Gaga.

01:31:09.660 If you combine all those people,

01:31:10.900 how many songs could you name from them?

01:31:14.260 I mean, Lady Gaga and Kelly Clarkson,

01:31:15.780 you could probably get a couple, right?

01:31:16.640 Yes.

01:31:16.860 Yes, I could.

01:31:17.300 Any Ariana Grande songs you know of?

01:31:19.680 Only from Wicked, because I just saw that with my family.

01:31:23.360 Oh, yeah.

01:31:23.880 My daughter loved it.

01:31:25.080 What did you think?

01:31:25.920 It was good?

01:31:26.240 I liked it.

01:31:26.820 Yeah.

01:31:27.020 I liked it.

01:31:27.580 From what I understand, it was actually pretty well done.

01:31:29.520 It was.

01:31:29.820 It was really well done.

01:31:30.860 As I've stated-

01:31:31.540 There's just too many songs.

01:31:32.620 As I've stated on the show, I don't like musicals.

01:31:34.440 Yes.

01:31:34.720 There are too many songs.

01:31:36.260 Not going to be my thing.

01:31:36.660 So I do have a hard time with them.

01:31:39.160 Well, yours is an opera, not a musical.

01:31:41.040 It's the same.

01:31:41.780 Okay.

01:31:42.040 Well, okay.

01:31:42.760 So Sarah's opera, transgender opera coming up here in just a couple minutes, but we're

01:31:46.420 going to get to that.

01:31:46.900 Before we get to that.

01:31:47.660 But there's 14 songs, so we've got to find the right place for it.

01:31:51.300 So that's coming up here in a minute.

01:31:52.600 We're working on that.

01:31:53.380 Yeah.

01:31:53.540 Maybe Sarah will become a CAA client after this.

01:31:58.840 I think that's highly likely.

01:32:00.960 Highly likely.

01:32:01.780 Frankly.

01:32:02.600 So we'll see.

01:32:03.800 So who else is a new CAA client?

01:32:06.160 Joe Biden.

01:32:07.500 Joe Biden is a new CAA client.

01:32:10.680 Joseph Robinette Biden?

01:32:12.180 The very same.

01:32:13.280 Yes.

01:32:13.820 And so you could book him soon for events, bar mitzvahs, birthdays.

01:32:22.440 He'll show up and drool on your kids as he smells their hair.

01:32:29.320 Kind of exciting.

01:32:30.240 Weird attraction for a birthday party.

01:32:32.740 Drooling on your kids as he smells their hair.

01:32:34.540 He's a former president.

01:32:35.620 I mean, wouldn't that be kind of cool?

01:32:37.280 Yeah.

01:32:37.520 Joe Biden showed up and drooled on my kid's hair while he was sniffing them.

01:32:41.340 At that price point, they can drool on your hair.

01:32:45.120 That's true.

01:32:46.460 I mean, I guess after he was vice president, he signed up with CAA.

01:32:52.840 And then he became president.

01:32:54.280 And so he dropped it or they dropped him.

01:32:57.200 I'm not sure how that worked.

01:32:58.540 But, I mean, even after his vice presidency, people were actually paying him to show up and give speeches.

01:33:05.560 He went to some place called Drew University in New Jersey.

01:33:11.600 You ever heard of Drew University?

01:33:14.680 They paid him $190,000 to speak after he was vice president.

01:33:20.860 Drew?

01:33:21.580 Drew University in Jersey.

01:33:23.640 University.

01:33:24.580 I would say, first of all, you really missed an opportunity to call it Drew University.

01:33:29.640 Right?

01:33:29.980 You just got to go with Drew University at that point.

01:33:31.780 Yes, I think you do.

01:33:32.560 That's a major – I already have a major problem with this college now.

01:33:36.420 But Drew University is a hub of innovation, education, and community, Pat.

01:33:40.680 I was just – that was on the tip of my tongue.

01:33:42.560 I was about to tell you that.

01:33:43.860 Oh, you were?

01:33:44.340 Yeah.

01:33:44.580 I didn't mean to cut you off.

01:33:45.580 No, that's all right.

01:33:46.160 Go ahead.

01:33:46.680 They say they would like you to discover their diverse programs.

01:33:51.140 I mean, Sarah, I'm just saying, like, if you've got a university and you want to back your transgender opera,

01:33:55.480 I mean, maybe Drew University is – the Drew-niversity is the place to go.

01:33:59.560 I'll check it out.

01:34:00.400 Okay.

01:34:00.620 He also received $182,000 from Lake Michigan College.

01:34:05.660 Now, Lake Michigan College might be a great college.

01:34:08.200 I don't know much about it.

01:34:09.700 Might be.

01:34:10.180 $180,000.

01:34:10.820 You just wouldn't think they had $182,000 to pay.

01:34:13.600 Laying around.

01:34:14.360 Yeah.

01:34:15.700 $180,000 from Vanderbilt.

01:34:18.260 Okay.

01:34:18.560 They probably do have that laying around.

01:34:20.140 Now, $125,000 at Southern Connecticut State University.

01:34:27.780 Really?

01:34:28.060 At CSU.

01:34:28.600 Oh, yeah.

01:34:28.940 I remember them.

01:34:29.380 They were right in our backyard for a while when we lived in Connecticut.

01:34:34.500 Yes.

01:34:34.840 I wouldn't say that they should be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to speakers.

01:34:40.480 No, I wouldn't either.

01:34:41.200 I never got that sense.

01:34:41.820 I wouldn't have guessed that.

01:34:42.800 They don't have a Harvard-style endowment.

01:34:46.140 No.

01:34:46.240 And so, he spoke at Brown.

01:34:47.720 Brown only paid him $93,000.

01:34:49.460 Is that because it's more prestigious and they don't have to pay you as much?

01:34:52.960 I don't know.

01:34:53.340 That's really interesting.

01:34:54.580 By the way, I'm on the Drew University page still.

01:34:57.100 Yeah.

01:34:57.500 You know, average annual cost to attend the Drew University?

01:35:01.320 Mm-hmm.

01:35:02.820 $68,495.

01:35:06.240 Thus, they had $190,000 to give to Joe Biden.

01:35:08.420 I guess they did.

01:35:09.420 Wow.

01:35:09.780 Just three kids had to go.

01:35:12.940 $68,000 for a college we didn't even know existed?

01:35:17.400 That's amazing.

01:35:18.660 That's amazing.

01:35:20.400 Holy crap.

01:35:21.120 I just started by somebody named Drew.

01:35:22.920 Somebody named Drew was like, I just started a university.

01:35:25.340 And now there's the Drew University.

01:35:26.780 And they're making $68,000 a person?

01:35:31.100 I wonder what the...

01:35:32.020 Holy crap, man.

01:35:33.180 Why would you go...

01:35:33.940 Let's see enrollment at Drew University.

01:35:35.440 They have it listed there on the webpage?

01:35:37.360 Yes.

01:35:37.840 1,520.

01:35:39.660 Wow.

01:35:40.880 Notable alumni.

01:35:41.860 Wow.

01:35:42.500 Notable alumni.

01:35:43.540 Mm-hmm.

01:35:44.420 James Van Der Beek.

01:35:47.020 There you go.

01:35:47.700 The actor.

01:35:48.240 There you go.

01:35:49.480 And Soon-Yi Priven.

01:35:51.800 Who?

01:35:52.380 Soon-Yi.

01:35:52.860 Soon-Yi.

01:35:53.640 Yeah.

01:35:53.840 Oh, okay.

01:35:54.480 That's...

01:35:54.960 She said the one, you know, Woody Allen's kid he was dating.

01:35:57.820 The stepdaughter who he dated or whatever.

01:35:59.920 And married, I believe.

01:36:00.880 Yeah.

01:36:01.060 I think they're still together.

01:36:02.120 Soon-Yi went to the Drew University.

01:36:03.800 Okay.

01:36:04.300 James Van Der Beek.

01:36:05.240 Drew University.

01:36:07.240 James Van Der Beek.

01:36:08.940 He was in...

01:36:11.140 Dawson's Creek?

01:36:12.020 Dawson's Creek.

01:36:12.560 Maybe?

01:36:12.920 Okay.

01:36:13.160 I think that's right.

01:36:13.900 There you go.

01:36:14.100 Yeah.

01:36:14.440 That's right.

01:36:15.160 So there you go.

01:36:15.920 Okay.

01:36:16.420 So I apologize for disparaging the $68,000 a year you're paying.

01:36:22.160 Incredibly prestigious.

01:36:23.480 Obviously.

01:36:24.420 Obviously.

01:36:24.880 That's insanity.

01:36:26.100 That's crazy.

01:36:27.300 Good God.

01:36:27.980 I told my kids, screw college.

01:36:29.820 You think you're going to college?

01:36:31.460 You better start working.

01:36:33.560 Wait, but I'm only 13, daddy.

01:36:35.800 Yeah.

01:36:36.300 Get to a factory somewhere.

01:36:39.340 I will say that's the way it used to be.

01:36:41.560 You know?

01:36:41.720 You worked during your high school days and saved your money and then you paid for your

01:36:49.720 own college or your parents could help you where they could, but you didn't just necessarily

01:36:55.260 take out massive loans that you then declined to pay back later on.

01:37:01.500 And that's a perfectly acceptable thing now.

01:37:03.760 I could be wrong though.

01:37:04.720 I don't think colleges cost $68,000 at the time.

01:37:08.780 No, that's true.

01:37:09.840 That is, that's very true, but we didn't make the kind of money we do now either.

01:37:14.000 So it's sort of a trade-off.

01:37:16.080 I mean, look, I'm all for capitalism.

01:37:18.820 And if you can get $68,000 from a bunch of dumb kids to come to your college that you're

01:37:24.260 naming the Drew University, that's great.

01:37:26.560 And I give you credit for that.

01:37:27.980 I will say it almost feels criminal for the value for what you're getting for your money.

01:37:35.360 It feels criminal.

01:37:36.940 That's why I'm starting Pat State University.

01:37:39.620 Pat State University.

01:37:40.760 Pat State.

01:37:41.200 Yeah.

01:37:41.720 Is it a state college or are you just calling it Pat State?

01:37:44.220 I'm just calling it Pat State because that adds a certain je ne sais quoi, if you will.

01:37:49.180 So what's Pat State University like?

01:37:52.420 It's an education that you can't get anywhere else.

01:37:56.940 I'll tell you that.

01:37:57.540 But I'll tell you that right now.

01:37:58.680 I bet that's true.

01:37:59.720 Yeah, it is true.

01:38:00.600 Now, are you going to be teaching classes at Pat State?

01:38:03.400 No, but I'm going to select only the finest instructors and professors to educate the

01:38:09.580 young minds.

01:38:10.160 What's tuition running these days at Pat State?

01:38:12.160 It's going to come in under Drew University.

01:38:15.760 Really?

01:38:16.420 It's going to be $65,000 per person.

01:38:20.440 Yeah.

01:38:20.860 That way, I think we'll do better in volume.

01:38:23.260 We'll have...

01:38:24.400 How many students are you looking for?

01:38:27.440 I'm looking for $56,000.

01:38:30.220 $56,000.

01:38:30.960 $56,000 to $60,000.

01:38:32.100 Well, you just kind of add on annex buildings to your building just to fill it up.

01:38:36.780 Eventually.

01:38:37.400 As people join.

01:38:38.640 You're not building in advance.

01:38:40.420 People need to buy on spec.

01:38:41.940 Yeah.

01:38:42.960 This is an on spec education at Pat State.

01:38:45.920 Uh-huh.

01:38:46.880 Yeah.

01:38:47.480 Are you going to have a sports team?

01:38:50.380 Oh, there's got to be a football team, right?

01:38:51.520 So, what's the mascot for Pat State?

01:38:54.320 I haven't worked that out yet, but I'm working on it.

01:38:57.460 Really?

01:38:58.160 Yeah.

01:38:58.300 How about a cookie?

01:38:59.500 The Pat State Cookies.

01:39:01.480 I like that.

01:39:02.640 And you could probably get...

01:39:03.940 I would say Kexi Cookies would sponsor it, but it doesn't seem like it needs to be sponsored

01:39:07.360 at $65,000.

01:39:08.040 The name of the school, the Pat State Cookies.

01:39:10.840 Yeah.

01:39:11.300 Yeah.

01:39:11.700 Sounds terrifying, doesn't it?

01:39:14.180 I don't know how prestigious it feels.

01:39:16.920 No, I'm a cookie.

01:39:17.960 Yeah.

01:39:18.100 I'm a dedicated cookie alum.

01:39:21.720 It doesn't sound as great as you might think.

01:39:23.520 No.

01:39:24.120 But I'm interested.

01:39:25.120 It's almost as bad as the beavers or the ducks in Oregon.

01:39:30.700 A little goofy.

01:39:31.780 Yeah.

01:39:32.160 It feels a little goofy.

01:39:33.280 But I'm interested.

01:39:34.340 You know, my kids, I told them no to most schools, but Pat State...

01:39:37.800 Pat State sounds pretty good.

01:39:38.980 Yeah.

01:39:39.580 Sounds pretty good.

01:39:41.220 I mean, it's just as prestigious as Drew University, right?

01:39:45.300 I mean, God...

01:39:46.020 Amazing.

01:39:46.540 I mean, this is...

01:39:48.140 I don't know who's booking Joe Biden at this point in his life.

01:39:54.440 You know?

01:39:55.200 Bless his heart.

01:39:56.120 He can't get through a sentence.

01:39:59.420 And are people going to pay him $500?

01:40:01.700 Because that's about the going rate for former presidents, right?

01:40:05.820 When you're a vice president, you can command close to $200,000 per speech.

01:40:10.500 When you've been president, you can do half a million per speech.

01:40:14.540 Is anybody going to pay him that to come speak at their university, knowing what you know

01:40:20.260 about Joe Biden and how deficient he is in speaking now?

01:40:25.400 He can't even speak, let alone give a speech.

01:40:27.380 No.

01:40:27.540 I also would say that he should be paying you to speak at your university.

01:40:33.440 Right?

01:40:33.820 I mean, this is a guy who's a disaster.

01:40:36.360 He's got a horrible approval rating.

01:40:38.120 I mean, I don't know what you're getting out of that, you know?

01:40:41.260 But I guess this is the way of the world with this stuff.

01:40:44.440 If you've got...

01:40:45.200 You get that job, you're set for life.

01:40:48.120 Oh, yeah.

01:40:48.780 No question.

01:40:49.460 You can always get another gig.

01:40:50.380 You can always get some high-level speeches.

01:40:54.220 You can always just milk this thing forever.

01:40:57.260 Netflix will pay you to do some sort of producing situation like they did with the Obamas and

01:41:02.300 gave them $100 million to do it and they barely produced anything.

01:41:05.900 Yep.

01:41:06.360 What have they really...

01:41:07.220 What have they done?

01:41:08.700 Nothing.

01:41:09.180 Nothing of note.

01:41:09.780 Nothing.

01:41:10.340 Nothing of note.

01:41:11.880 They were involved as a...

01:41:13.140 They were involved in a...

01:41:14.680 As a consultant on one movie that I saw, which was...

01:41:17.880 Was it a documentary?

01:41:18.980 No.

01:41:19.420 Or an actual movie?

01:41:20.200 We talked about it at the time.

01:41:21.220 Do you remember the name of the thing, Sarah?

01:41:22.240 It was a movie about like a...

01:41:26.600 I want to say it was like a nuclear disaster or, you know, the whole world...

01:41:30.820 Sounds somewhat familiar.

01:41:31.820 Yeah.

01:41:32.360 And he was...

01:41:33.320 They were criticized because there's one scene where they're...

01:41:35.200 I want to say critical of guns or talking about gender or something.

01:41:38.360 I can't remember exactly what it was.

01:41:39.840 Though I did not seem...

01:41:40.980 The movie to me did not seem like overly woke.

01:41:43.000 It was just a...

01:41:43.360 Was it Leave the World Behind?

01:41:44.740 Yeah.

01:41:44.980 I think it was.

01:41:45.300 Is that what it was?

01:41:45.820 I think it was.

01:41:46.580 And it was like one of those like, you know, just awful, like sort of, you know, the whole

01:41:53.720 world has a tragedy and you don't know what's going on the entire time.

01:41:56.720 Surprisingly, I did not watch Leave the World Behind.

01:41:58.660 I will say it never really paid off.

01:42:01.440 It was not a...

01:42:02.220 It was not an event.

01:42:03.020 And it...

01:42:03.420 Just like many people who attend Pat State University, it's not something you'd want to repeat.

01:42:09.020 Wait, are you disparaging my university before it's even opened its doors?

01:42:12.500 I'm saying it's so, so good.

01:42:14.500 You don't need to do it twice.

01:42:16.180 You know, why would you need to go back?

01:42:17.760 I drew university.

01:42:18.640 I don't know.

01:42:19.060 You might be 65K over and over and over again.

01:42:21.140 All right.

01:42:21.420 That's fair enough.

01:42:22.020 It's one and done.

01:42:22.880 Fair enough.

01:42:23.380 All right.

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01:43:56.260 1867, Pat.

01:43:57.420 What?

01:43:57.600 Drew University.

01:43:59.000 No.

01:43:59.300 Founded in 1867.

01:44:01.720 Wow.

01:44:02.260 I think we've just missed it.

01:44:04.140 It was called Drew Theological Seminary for a while and then changed over to the Drew

01:44:08.540 University after that.

01:44:10.200 So.

01:44:10.380 Is it still like a religious university?

01:44:14.900 It is affiliated with a Methodist faith.

01:44:16.960 Oh, okay.

01:44:17.600 So, I mean, it might be great.

01:44:18.920 I don't know.

01:44:19.140 Yeah, might be.

01:44:20.140 So there you go.

01:44:21.180 Seems like 68,000 serious tuition though.

01:44:23.920 Serious tuition.

01:44:24.680 And I will say you could get it at Pat State for 65.

01:44:27.000 So why would you just not shop it around?

01:44:29.360 Why not?

01:44:29.820 You know, it's like when you're trading Luka Doncic.

01:44:31.320 You should travel.

01:44:31.920 You should shop it around a little bit.

01:44:32.960 Maybe get a better package.

01:44:33.940 Do you believe that actually happened?

01:44:35.040 No.

01:44:35.960 That one is unbelievable.

01:44:38.000 I mean.

01:44:38.840 Old things happen.

01:44:39.700 Especially here in Dallas.

01:44:40.920 Wow.

01:44:41.400 He was like such a pillar of the community here.

01:44:44.260 Yeah.

01:44:44.440 Like everybody loved him.

01:44:45.340 Loved him.

01:44:45.380 He's in every ad campaign.

01:44:46.900 He's on every billboard.

01:44:48.120 It's really the only reason to go to a Mavs game, isn't he?

01:44:50.720 I mean.

01:44:51.140 Yeah.

01:44:51.600 They went to the finals last year.

01:44:53.540 Was it last year?

01:44:54.140 Last year.

01:44:55.080 Oh, wow.

01:44:55.520 And they're like, hey, let's trade away the second or third best player in the NBA.

01:44:59.500 Yeah.

01:44:59.800 In the world.

01:45:01.600 Incredible.

01:45:02.320 And the Lakers certainly need yet another of the greatest players on the planet.

01:45:07.780 Always luck out with these trades too.

01:45:09.560 Unreal.

01:45:09.660 They somehow just pull out.

01:45:10.880 They get these amazing guys like out of nowhere.

01:45:13.720 It doesn't seem possible.

01:45:15.240 And it happens to the Lakers.

01:45:16.580 Like good things happen to the Lakers.

01:45:17.920 I don't know why.

01:45:18.460 I don't look forward to them.

01:45:21.060 Not a fan.

01:45:21.520 Yeah.

01:45:22.000 Yeah.

01:45:22.280 So now you got Doncic coupled with your favorite guy, LeBron James.

01:45:27.280 Not really worth mentioning, frankly, on that team.

01:45:30.020 No.

01:45:30.540 You know, who cares if LeBron is there.

01:45:33.020 But I don't think they're going to be necessarily that great this year.

01:45:36.360 But, you know, they've reset their franchise for years and years and years to come by having

01:45:42.560 Luka, who is basically a franchise in and of himself.

01:45:45.180 I mean, that team that made the finals last year was not that great a team for the Mavs.

01:45:50.600 I mean, Kyrie is good.

01:45:52.160 Yeah.

01:45:52.540 But he was having all sorts of problems everywhere else.

01:45:54.780 Luka seems to have helped him along.

01:45:57.080 And you look at the rest of the team, they've got some good players, but they're not, I wouldn't

01:46:00.600 say utterly amazing.

01:46:02.000 Yeah.

01:46:02.340 And he had to make a run to the finals last year.

01:46:04.200 Like, maybe you could understand it if they had underperformed for five or six years in

01:46:07.500 a row.

01:46:07.920 And you're like, this just isn't working.

01:46:09.180 We have to change this up.

01:46:10.520 They went to the finals last year.

01:46:12.800 Weird.

01:46:13.480 And completely unexpected.

01:46:15.180 Right.

01:46:15.400 I mean, I don't follow the NBA very closely, but, or at all, but that seems like nobody

01:46:21.280 saw that coming.

01:46:22.620 No, I mean, I don't think that anyone did.

01:46:25.660 And that's the best part about that.

01:46:27.700 They had the press conference with the GM here of the Mavs.

01:46:30.820 And he's like, you know, I just got to thank Rob Palenka, the GM of the Lakers, because

01:46:35.040 we worked on this for weeks and weeks.

01:46:36.560 And he just kept it quiet.

01:46:38.160 And then, like, it's really hard to keep things like this quiet.

01:46:40.400 I just thank him so much.

01:46:41.440 Of course he kept it quiet.

01:46:42.780 He didn't want anyone else to know.

01:46:44.180 The second anyone else found out, they'd offered twice as much.

01:46:47.700 Yeah.

01:46:48.360 Like, of course he wanted to keep it quiet.

01:46:50.780 Jeez.

01:46:51.940 Absolutely incredible.

01:46:53.260 Now there's all these conspiracy theories.

01:46:54.600 Have you heard the conspiracy theories on this, Pat?

01:46:56.460 I don't think so.

01:46:58.040 Some of them are sort of over the top and ridiculous.

01:47:00.060 Like, they, you know, Mark Cuban owned the Mavs for a long time.

01:47:03.360 Yeah.

01:47:03.620 He sold to the Adelson family.

01:47:05.200 They, you know, well-known Republican financiers and well, you know, involved in the casino

01:47:11.040 industry.

01:47:11.760 And that's how they make their money.

01:47:12.580 Lives in Vegas.

01:47:13.220 Lives in Vegas.

01:47:14.160 So the theory is they want to try to either pressure Texas to legalize gambling so they

01:47:21.660 could build a casino here or tank the franchise to then draw them to Vegas and

01:47:28.000 instead, which it's hard to imagine they'd pull a team out of Dallas.

01:47:31.860 It's what is the fourth biggest market?

01:47:33.320 Yeah.

01:47:33.500 So I, it is hard to imagine to, to be possible.

01:47:37.280 Yeah.

01:47:37.960 That doesn't seem reasonable.

01:47:38.700 But I, there are a lot of people who are wound up on conspiracy theories on this because

01:47:43.120 it doesn't make any sense to anybody.

01:47:44.380 No.

01:47:45.160 And, you know, Anthony Davis, good player, but not Luka Doncic.

01:47:49.640 Not Luka.

01:47:50.940 Level, but.

01:47:51.880 And I, it's just a shocking, shocking, especially when Luka is 25 and Davis is 30.

01:47:58.780 Yeah.

01:47:59.260 You, if it was reversed, like if you had a player who was coming up and he was 20, like

01:48:03.960 if Luka was 31 and Davis was 25, maybe you could.

01:48:07.620 Would make some sense.

01:48:08.460 You could at least get yourself there.

01:48:09.940 Yeah.

01:48:10.260 This makes no sense at all.

01:48:11.340 None.

01:48:11.900 It makes, it sounds like something, it's like Joe Biden negotiated the trade.

01:48:17.640 He's like, I just can't believe, you know, I just can't believe.

01:48:20.560 I was so happy to hear that Zelensky kept this quiet.

01:48:23.920 We were going to give him $750 billion and he didn't tell anybody.

01:48:27.800 Oh, great.

01:48:30.680 Thanks, Joe.

01:48:31.780 I'm sure he didn't tell anybody.

01:48:33.660 Yeah.

01:48:34.000 That's it.

01:48:34.420 I wouldn't tell anybody either.

01:48:35.620 I'd love to, I'd love president Trump's comments on Ukraine yesterday, talking about how he

01:48:44.020 wants a guarantee that we're going to have access to their rare earth minerals now because

01:48:49.540 of all the money we've given to them over the last almost three years now.

01:48:54.820 Okay.

01:48:56.160 It would be nice to get something in return, wouldn't it?

01:49:00.280 And I think, you know, of course, Democrats are all pissed off about it because how dare

01:49:04.160 you, how dare you ask them for rare earth minerals with our $200 billion investment into

01:49:10.200 the Ukrainian cause.

01:49:11.800 Yeah.

01:49:12.000 We shouldn't be asking anything of them.

01:49:13.660 Just, just continue to give and give and allow them to take and that'll be fine.

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01:51:25.540 Hmm.

01:51:25.800 New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has changed his tune just a little bit.

01:51:30.580 Huh?

01:51:31.080 Uh, yeah.

01:51:31.980 Because his tune was quite clear yesterday, Pat.

01:51:34.680 Well, he had an illegal alien who was living in an apartment above his garage.

01:51:41.180 Well, I believe he said someone whose immigration status was not where they wanted it to be.

01:51:46.300 Right.

01:51:47.020 What does that mean?

01:51:48.680 I mean, it means an illegal immigrant.

01:51:51.300 Yeah.

01:51:51.520 And he was proud of it.

01:51:52.560 Yes, he was.

01:51:53.160 And didn't he say something at the end there, Pat?

01:51:54.920 He said, come in, if they, and good luck to the feds, coming in trying to get her.

01:52:00.340 So, essentially, he's challenging the feds to come get her.

01:52:03.760 Yeah.

01:52:04.660 And I think the feds should take...

01:52:06.920 Take him up on that.

01:52:07.980 Well, that's what Tom Homan thought.

01:52:09.300 Tom Homan said, well, if he does have an illegal alien living above his garage,

01:52:14.400 uh, and he's breaking the law, I'll prosecute him for that.

01:52:19.120 He can go to jail for that.

01:52:20.280 We'll arrest him.

01:52:21.640 Now, my argument is that Murphy has broken the law many times, um, considering, especially,

01:52:26.760 and it's been underplayed, how terrible he was during COVID.

01:52:31.160 He was on...

01:52:32.120 Oh, yeah.

01:52:32.140 Yeah.

01:52:32.680 It's hard for me to say this, but he was almost on the Cuomo level of incompetence and danger

01:52:39.240 to his own citizens.

01:52:40.220 He did many, many of the same policies when it comes to, uh, elderly people into nursing

01:52:44.720 homes with COVID that, uh, Cuomo did.

01:52:47.740 He just didn't get the attention because Cuomo is such an unmitigated jerk that he, he, you

01:52:52.340 know, took all the, uh, attention for that particular, I would call crime.

01:52:56.980 Uh, now I know Cuomo also had the, I don't think Murphy's been groping people, so that's

01:53:02.440 good.

01:53:03.220 But, uh, although I don't know, maybe, maybe the illegal alien living above his, uh, garage,

01:53:08.760 uh, you know, who knows?

01:53:10.040 What's going on there?

01:53:10.820 I, I don't think so.

01:53:11.680 Well, it's interesting because, uh, now his people are saying no one has ever lived in

01:53:18.860 the home under those circumstances that the governor described.

01:53:23.240 Wait, what?

01:53:24.860 Hmm?

01:53:25.260 So he doesn't have an illegal alien living above his garage?

01:53:28.500 So, wait, he's saying that no one...

01:53:31.100 No one's ever lived in the home.

01:53:32.420 Uh, he had a statement issued by one of his people.

01:53:35.580 Okay.

01:53:35.880 That no one has ever lived in the home under those circumstances that the government, that

01:53:39.980 the governor described.

01:53:42.640 Uh, well, he's, he was pretty clear on it yesterday.

01:53:46.780 Yeah, he was.

01:53:47.980 And that's, so that's interesting.

01:53:51.340 The, uh...

01:53:52.020 Sometimes people forget, Pat.

01:53:52.940 Yeah, they do.

01:53:53.560 You know?

01:53:54.100 Yeah, they do.

01:53:54.740 Oh, I thought I had an illegal alien living above my garage, but, yeah, I guess not.

01:54:01.360 So that's why you can't come get her, because she's not there.

01:54:05.460 So, but good luck finding her, because I just made the whole thing up.

01:54:09.780 Now, the representative didn't explain why Murphy, who lives with his family in a mansion

01:54:14.660 in Middletown, New Jersey, would dare the Trump administration to go after the woman at

01:54:20.580 his home who wasn't actually there.

01:54:24.120 Nobody really explained any of that.

01:54:26.640 Of course, he's just lying through his teeth.

01:54:28.960 I mean, I...

01:54:29.800 Now.

01:54:30.320 Why are you doing that?

01:54:31.140 Right, like he...

01:54:31.800 The truth was there is an illegal immigrant living over his garage, right?

01:54:35.400 That's the truth.

01:54:36.380 Yeah.

01:54:37.460 Maybe?

01:54:37.880 I mean, I'm asking for a...

01:54:38.680 Yeah, I don't know.

01:54:39.860 If you go, maybe you could talk to some of your researchers at Pat State University.

01:54:43.760 Right.

01:54:44.080 If you're thinking of a projection here, if you had to take a guess, gun to your head, Pat

01:54:47.980 Gray...

01:54:48.300 I would say, yeah, he probably did.

01:54:50.000 And that's the side I think he's lying about.

01:54:52.160 He did.

01:54:52.760 And now probably doesn't because...

01:54:55.200 She had to clear out.

01:54:56.140 She had to clear out because of what he said publicly to get, you know, I guess, points

01:55:01.840 from the audience, right?

01:55:04.520 Sold out the girl he was supposed to protect that was living above his garage.

01:55:08.340 Yeah.

01:55:08.620 And what happened to her, by the way?

01:55:10.140 If she was there, and now...

01:55:13.280 So now where is she?

01:55:14.340 Because she had to make a pretty quick exit, I would imagine.

01:55:17.820 I would imagine.

01:55:18.520 I would hope if there were actual journalists in the state of New Jersey, which I'm not

01:55:22.700 sure about, that you'd have someone camped outside of their house waiting for someone

01:55:26.060 to leave the garage.

01:55:28.420 Because I would want to interview that person.

01:55:29.940 What happened?

01:55:30.860 Yeah.

01:55:31.080 Why are you living at Phil Murphy's house?

01:55:33.420 Right.

01:55:33.860 You know, usually governors and politicians hide the fact that they're hiding random women

01:55:38.000 at their establishments.

01:55:40.000 He was proud of it.

01:55:40.700 He was proud of it.

01:55:41.300 He was like, yeah, we got some illegal immigrant women just living right above my garage.

01:55:45.360 Step over whenever I need to.

01:55:47.500 That's nice of him.

01:55:48.820 That is nice.

01:55:49.780 But now...

01:55:50.200 But it was not true, Pat.

01:55:52.160 Definitely did not occur.

01:55:54.120 No.

01:55:54.700 No, no.

01:55:54.980 That was 24 hours ago.

01:55:55.880 Because that would be illegal.

01:55:57.360 Was he in some sort of, like, sugar haze?

01:56:00.280 Like, what...

01:56:00.800 Why would he blurt out that he had an illegal immigrant living above his garage if it didn't

01:56:04.700 actually happen?

01:56:05.380 It is so bizarre, because I don't even know...

01:56:09.280 You know, we don't have a press that will really push him on this, of course.

01:56:13.740 And nobody's going to hold his feet to the fire on this and demand answers to, why did

01:56:19.800 you say you have an illegal immigrant living above your garage if you don't have one and

01:56:24.560 you never have had one?

01:56:26.640 What are you trying to prove here?

01:56:29.580 You're just trying to embarrass the Trump administration?

01:56:32.840 You're trying to, I don't know, challenge them in some way?

01:56:37.140 I mean, it is not...

01:56:38.060 I will say this.

01:56:38.760 Not entirely impossible that he was lying to the crowd for their favor.

01:56:44.220 Now, Phil Murphy will lie in any room he's in about anything, in my view.

01:56:48.760 So, it's possible he was just saying this to make himself look good to the pro-illegal

01:56:55.380 immigration crowd he was in front of.

01:56:57.180 You can't rule that out entirely.

01:56:59.540 But again, this is why you have journalists in the state of New Jersey that I'm sure were

01:57:02.400 camping out by the house, seeing if anyone packed up belongings at the garage that day.

01:57:07.140 Oh, no, they weren't.

01:57:07.940 If it was Trump, though, how many journalists would have been camped outside his garage to

01:57:14.000 watch the illegal leave the premises before he got arrested?

01:57:18.460 I mean, you'd have dozens of reporters there waiting for that to occur.

01:57:25.040 Mm-hmm.

01:57:25.920 Mm-hmm.

01:57:26.560 And, of course, not in this situation.

01:57:28.080 Pat, real quick, some breaking news.

01:57:31.660 Bill Cassidy, senator.

01:57:33.760 He is the doctor who had some tough questioning for RFK Jr. during the hearing.

01:57:39.180 Is this Bill Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

01:57:41.800 It is Bill Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

01:57:43.480 Okay.

01:57:43.680 Both he and the Sundance Kid are going to vote for RFK Jr., which I would say is that ends

01:57:50.200 it.

01:57:50.520 It's over.

01:57:51.180 He's in.

01:57:51.880 He's going to get it.

01:57:52.360 Yeah, because he's the one that everybody thought might be the wild card for the Republicans.

01:57:56.280 Yeah, because you could probably find a—I think there's a chance, a good chance McConnell

01:57:59.880 votes against him.

01:58:01.240 I think there's a good chance that, you know, you could talk about, you know, of course,

01:58:04.660 Collins and Murkowski are always up for a vote against a Republican nominee.

01:58:08.360 Although Collins said—

01:58:09.280 Collins said she would go with him.

01:58:10.860 Yeah.

01:58:10.960 Right, so—and she said the same—about Tulsi, didn't she?

01:58:15.600 I think she did, yeah.

01:58:16.640 So I think all these people are getting it.

01:58:17.920 I think the only one really Trump is going to lose over this entire process is Gates.

01:58:22.660 Yeah.

01:58:23.080 That's it.

01:58:23.300 And that happened—

01:58:24.320 Months ago.

01:58:24.640 Some time ago.

01:58:25.260 Yeah.

01:58:25.700 So that's it.

01:58:26.620 Interesting.

01:58:27.120 I think that's going to happen.

01:58:27.880 I mean, I'm looking now—let's see what the markets are looking like right now.

01:58:30.880 Give me one second.

01:58:32.480 Tulsi Gabbard, 98% chance to get in.

01:58:34.660 RFK, 97%.

01:58:35.920 Kash Patel, 97%.

01:58:37.300 I mean, low-key possibility of Lori Chavez de Remmer, the Labor Secretary.

01:58:44.260 There is, I think, legitimate Republican conservative opposition to her as she voted for a bunch of left-wing labor bills.

01:58:53.980 I don't understand why she's the pick, honestly.

01:58:55.760 I don't understand it at all.

01:58:57.500 That being said, I just don't think anyone wants to do anything with Trump right now.

01:59:01.900 I don't think anyone would oppose anything he says on the Republican side.

01:59:04.880 That's basically the truth.

01:59:07.060 I mean, it's just his party, and, you know, that is—it is just whether you like it or not true.

01:59:15.460 Yeah.

01:59:16.060 You know, so—

01:59:17.060 I just—I read that they were filibustering Pam Bondi, which just ended yesterday.

01:59:23.620 So that was kind of interesting.

01:59:25.000 I think they're trying to delay that.

01:59:26.140 I don't think you can technically filibuster a nominee like that.

01:59:28.500 Yeah, they were delaying it.

01:59:29.520 But they're slow playing it.

01:59:30.360 Yeah.

01:59:31.240 To let you know, she on the markets is 99.8%.

01:59:34.360 Wow.

01:59:34.980 So she's—

01:59:35.940 Wow.

01:59:36.100 And I'm looking down the entire list.

01:59:37.640 I don't see anybody below 98% or 97%, which would be RFK Jr., Cash Patel, and Lori Chavez de Remmer.

01:59:45.700 That's it.

01:59:47.000 So—

01:59:48.240 Isn't that interesting that all these Republicans are on board with RFK Jr.?

01:59:52.560 That's fascinating.

01:59:53.620 I find that interesting.

01:59:54.540 I mean, because I think you could say, like, if you look at the—maybe the most controversial nominees, where you'd say someone like Tulsi Gabbard, who was a Democrat, who ran a campaign for Bernie Sanders in Hawaii.

02:00:04.760 But we've all seen a long, slow transition, I think, from Tulsi.

02:00:12.860 And she's someone who—I don't know.

02:00:16.700 That arc is pretty understandable.

02:00:18.780 And I know a lot of people love RFK Jr.

02:00:21.580 So—but forgive me here for pointing out that this is blatantly transactional.

02:00:25.760 I mean, remember, RFK Jr. went to—what's-her-face—Kamala first to see if he could get this kind of arrangement.

02:00:35.960 And Kamala didn't return his phone calls.

02:00:38.060 And then he went to Trump.

02:00:39.600 And Trump did.

02:00:40.860 And it was a brilliant move by Trump.

02:00:43.060 It was a smart move by Trump.

02:00:44.440 It, I think, did expand the party tent, his voter base.

02:00:49.940 I don't know that it won him the election, but it's not impossible to make that case.

02:00:55.460 You know, as I pointed out, you know, he needed to win a blue wall state in this election to win it.

02:01:01.060 Everything else was, you know—there wasn't any huge shocks outside of the blue wall.

02:01:05.240 That was really where most of the controversy was.

02:01:07.260 There was a few other swing states that were up for debate.

02:01:09.460 But, you know, the blue wall was where the action was.

02:01:12.340 She needed to win all three of those.

02:01:13.800 He needed to win one of those.

02:01:14.860 The biggest blowout of those three states was two points.

02:01:18.700 Yeah.

02:01:18.860 That was the blowout.

02:01:20.480 So, two-point difference here in that election, in that state.

02:01:25.320 And it's like—I think it was Pennsylvania.

02:01:28.040 I think it was Pennsylvania.

02:01:28.820 I can't remember if it was Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Wisconsin.

02:01:30.660 But I think it was Pennsylvania that was two points.

02:01:33.100 The bottom line is, it's not impossible to make the case RFK Jr. was the difference.

02:01:37.420 And I do think that Donald Trump does sort of owe him something.

02:01:40.680 I think they did make an arrangement.

02:01:41.840 It was very out there, right?

02:01:45.680 Like, he wanted—RFK Jr., I think if he had won the presidency, would have basically focused on HHS all the time anyway.

02:01:53.260 So, he wanted that role.

02:01:55.700 Donald Trump, I don't think it's a super high-priority role for him.

02:01:59.140 I think Trump looks at that and says, look, I think we can make some improvements.

02:02:02.180 I'd like to see—I'd like to be run a lot better.

02:02:04.960 You're the guy that knows it.

02:02:06.280 Go for it.

02:02:07.480 And it was a transactional thing.

02:02:09.300 Like, RFK Jr. would not have endorsed him if not for the promise of a role like this.

02:02:16.260 And to the extent that, as we mentioned, less than one year ago, Donald Trump was calling him a left-wing lunatic.

02:02:23.600 And RFK Jr. was saying—

02:02:24.500 Which he has been.

02:02:25.940 I mean, he is.

02:02:26.780 His whole life.

02:02:27.400 He's just not going to supposedly do those types of things in this role.

02:02:30.940 Right.

02:02:31.100 He is still left-wing on almost every single issue.

02:02:34.040 Trump correctly is saying, we're going to keep him away from those issues.

02:02:37.240 Now, I think he's going to be somebody you're going to need to watch.

02:02:40.320 Yeah.

02:02:40.780 You're going to need to watch him like a hawk in that role.

02:02:43.300 Because while he may do things that you like, he will also do many things that you hate if you let him get away with it.

02:02:49.700 If you let him get involved in other things.

02:02:50.820 Yep.

02:02:51.200 Like climate change.

02:02:52.320 Right.

02:02:52.700 Oh, my gosh.

02:02:53.480 Abortion.

02:02:54.320 Abortion.

02:02:55.980 You know, those are the two maybe headline issues, but there's a lot to it.

02:02:59.480 Yeah.

02:02:59.760 There's a lot to that role.

02:03:01.000 It's a trillion-dollar budget he's going to be overseeing.

02:03:03.600 That's not just talking about your Froot Loops, guys.

02:03:07.060 Like, this is a big, big job.

02:03:09.300 So, my recommendation, if he cared, which he doesn't, to Trump, if you're going to give HHS to RFK Jr.,

02:03:18.440 come up with a panel of people, and their only job will be, like Doge, to watch RFK Jr. and what he's doing.

02:03:26.100 Just make sure he sticks to his side of the deal.

02:03:29.120 If he does, he'll be fine.

02:03:30.380 If he doesn't, throw him out.

02:03:34.360 Because you can do that as soon as he goes off the reservation, you can toss him out of the job.

02:03:39.440 So, you just got to watch really closely.

02:03:42.120 He's the type of person that will do a lot of, he's going to be hiring people that he knows to these jobs.

02:03:47.600 Those people didn't make promises to Donald Trump.

02:03:51.360 And, you know, you're just going to have to watch him like a hawk in this role.

02:03:54.580 But he will probably do some good things as well.

02:03:56.340 It's not to say that there's no positives here.

02:03:57.900 I just would have preferred it in, like, maybe a Doge-type role, an outside committee-type role.

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02:05:56.460 All right, are we ready then to hear just a little taste of the Sarah Sullivan opera that you're preparing, the transgender opera for Columbia?

02:06:09.580 I'm just going to give you a little taste, okay?

02:06:11.340 I've only had a couple years to work on that.

02:06:12.660 We can't do all 14 songs, apparently, right?

02:06:14.920 Yeah, a little medley.

02:06:15.820 All right.

02:06:16.100 Sounds a little bit masculine.

02:06:25.480 Yes.

02:06:25.720 Is this for you, Sarah?

02:06:26.700 Sarah, is that?

02:06:28.740 You're telling us that you, though?

02:06:31.100 Yeah, I had to work on my voice.

02:06:33.260 Oh, it's the transgender opera.

02:06:34.980 Yeah.

02:06:35.180 That's right.

02:06:35.620 I will say, that actually sounds more like you than opera.

02:06:39.160 That doesn't sound like opera at all.

02:06:41.320 I don't even know how to take that.

02:06:43.900 It's good for Columbia, though, because it's obviously...

02:06:47.080 Well, the best operas are not operas.

02:06:49.160 No, right?

02:06:49.620 If you want to get people to show up to an opera, make it not opera.

02:06:53.340 Because nobody likes opera.

02:06:54.800 That's just one song.

02:06:55.720 You've got to have more than that, right?

02:06:56.720 Okay, I'll give you another.

02:06:57.800 All right.

02:07:02.620 Ooh.

02:07:03.640 Nice.

02:07:03.960 It's a nice height out there.

02:07:05.160 Wow.

02:07:05.760 What's the drama of this?

02:07:07.460 The pageantry.

02:07:09.620 And you don't speak Spanish, so you don't know what it's about.

02:07:11.560 No, I have no idea.

02:07:12.640 I don't.

02:07:13.260 I do.

02:07:14.560 Is it really about transgender issues?

02:07:17.660 You have to come see it.

02:07:18.560 I'm not telling you.

02:07:20.480 In Columbia?

02:07:21.240 We've got to go to Columbia to see this thing?

02:07:23.420 Yeah.

02:07:24.100 How much did they give you from USAID for this project?

02:07:27.100 $47,000.

02:07:28.000 $47,000.

02:07:29.180 Wow.

02:07:29.680 But I had to study at Pat State.

02:07:31.720 Pat State University?

02:07:33.360 Yeah.

02:07:34.040 Okay.

02:07:34.780 Had to be a cookie.

02:07:35.880 Yeah.

02:07:36.380 Well, you want to...

02:07:36.900 Yeah, that's true.

02:07:37.860 That's interesting.

02:07:38.780 I think you need to learn what opera is.

02:07:42.260 That's one thing I would say.

02:07:43.360 Before getting the $47,000, you should know what it sounds like.

02:07:46.960 I would blame my education.

02:07:49.120 Oh.

02:07:49.440 Yeah.

02:07:49.620 It sounds like we didn't do a very good job.

02:07:51.400 I will say the arts department at Pat State, we need to work on that.

02:07:54.640 It's not its priority.

02:07:55.560 It really is.

02:07:56.760 It didn't seem real opera-ish, did it?

02:07:58.160 No.

02:07:58.420 It sounded like, I don't know, like Enrique Iglesias or something.

02:08:02.380 Talamundo.

02:08:03.080 Yeah.

02:08:03.580 Maria.

02:08:04.860 Talamundo.

02:08:06.180 Yeah, that's what it sounded like.

02:08:07.440 All right.

02:08:08.560 Hopefully, Glenn will be feeling better tomorrow, and we'll see you then.

02:08:12.540 You're off to the Super Bowl, right?

02:08:14.320 Off to the Super Bowl.

02:08:14.960 Go, Birds.

02:08:15.660 Come on.

02:08:17.000 Come on.

02:08:18.040 It's going to be three straight for the Kansas City Chiefs.

02:08:21.660 No, it will not.

02:08:23.180 It's on.

02:08:23.720 Don't lie.

02:08:25.000 I hate Pat State University.

02:08:30.480 This is Glenn Beck.

The Glenn Beck Program - February 04, 2025

How Much Should the Government Spend on Trans Musicals？ ZERO ｜ 2⧸4⧸25

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