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So, Stew Returns, Super Bowl 59 kind of went your way.

Yes.

Didn't it?

Gosh, it was the greatest.

It was the greatest, Pat.

I noticed Glenn didn't bother showing up today.

No, right?

It's interesting.

I'm just a Mr.

Big Chiefs fan.

No show today, huh?

Did you talk to him about it yesterday?

Yeah, we talked.

Yes, we did.

And how did he feel?

Can you give me a little sense of?

He was a little bummed.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A Super Bowl party at his house ended rather abruptly at the halftime.

I did get a report that the ranch was a bit solemn.

Yeah.

That was the report I got from the ranch, which made me a little happy.

And again, look, the Chiefs have had so much success.

They have.

Yeah, they have.

The first time I went to the Super Bowl was the the Eagles in early 2000s against the Patriots.

And the Patriots, you'd think, oh, that team's going to bust on you on the way home

on the bus.

They're going to be all over you and just be like, oh, yeah, our team got your team.

Not at all.

They were like, hey, you guys did well.

Good job getting to this game.

Because the Patriots were so used to it at that point.

They'd won three or four Super Bowls or whatever it was.

And that's kind of where the Chiefs are.

They're like, we're probably going to win five more of these things.

So good job.

They're great fans.

And it's a great organization.

Mahomes is awesome.

It's a great team.

It is.

It is.

They've got a great coach who used to be the coach of the team you love.

I know.

And it would have been tough to see him take away another Super Bowl from the Eagles.

Isn't he the only coach who's ever been the

coach with the most wins at two franchises?

Being Philadelphia and Kansas City.

That sounds right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think he's the only one ever.

He's the only one also who has a shot at getting the all-time win record.

He keeps going at this rate.

He's only, what, 30 games or something behind?

Yeah.

Chiefs are great.

And if you're a Chiefs fan, I feel for you all, though.

You know,

you've had your run here, which is great.

It was good to see, though.

The Eagles, I mean, really dominated that game from the very beginning.

It was just a bad game.

I said yesterday,

I think only Eagles fans could have enjoyed that.

Yeah, I could see that.

I can see that.

It was

an absolute domination.

It was a beatdown.

Yeah, it really was.

I mean, they got a couple garbage time touchdowns at the very end to make the score look a little respectable, but geez, it was not a 40-22 game.

It was more like a 40-6 game.

Yeah.

And I understand that, like, you know, this is not a sports show, and we could do, I could do sports talk on this all day long, but I will say it was fascinating to see.

It was just an absolute destruction.

And

it's different.

I think every Super Bowl, you know, we've been doing these things for a long time.

It was in my 20th Super Bowl, though.

20?

So, yeah.

We were trying to figure that out the other day.

How many of you'd actually picked up 20 Super Bowls.

Did you wait again until the last minute to get the tickets, or did you have them when you went?

This one was, we got them, that was pretty last minute.

It's always last minute.

Yeah.

You know, I don't want to advise people too much on this because it would cost money for me.

But basically, like, what happens every single Super Bowl, if your team's ever going to go, I'll give you this because I want people in this audience to get better values.

What happens is your team wins the championship game.

Everyone gets really excited.

They go, oh, my gosh, my team's in the Super Bowl.

We should go.

And they pump themselves up.

And over the next 24 to 48 hours, they decide to go buy tickets.

And so that is almost always where the highest price tickets go.

24 to 48 hours after the championship games, because the teams in those cities are about, we got to go.

What are we going to do?

And now I will say, if your wife is going to say no and you need the emotion to get over that hump, okay, you can buy them that day.

But it's going to be crazy.

You're going to pay the highest price possible.

The lowest prices are typically Tuesday to Thursday before the game.

So skip that whole first week.

First Super Bowl week?

Yeah, skip that whole first week.

And you go Tuesday to Thursday.

This game in particular was a really weird situation because the prices were really low.

This is probably the lowest price Super Bowl as

compared to face value that I can remember in years and years and years and years.

Part of that is probably Chiefs fatigue.

Part of it is Eagles versus Chiefs.

Both of those teams have been there recently.

If it was Detroit, Buffalo or something, the tickets I'm sure would have been sky high.

The other thing was the, I don't know if they're just using more and more hotel rooms.

in these cities because the operation is getting so much even bigger than it used to be.

And also that New Orleans is a city, they've had their issues.

I don't know if you've heard heard this, Pat.

Over the past 20 years or so, there have been some incidents that have hurt the growth of New Orleans.

No.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Let me give you an example of this.

So

after the game, on Monday, you know, my son and I, we have got like an hour to kill before we go to the airport, which, by the way, was a terrible idea because we did not have an hour to kill because I've never seen an airport like that in my entire life.

After going to 20 Super Bowls, never seen a worse airport.

It was.

a madhouse and we had to run to get our flight and the only reason we made it was because it was delayed.

Anyway,

we had this supposed hour to kill.

And I'm like, what I want to go do is drive by Six Flags New Orleans.

So, because Six Flags New Orleans was a amusement park that they built in like the early 2000s, I want to say 2002, 2003.

And then a couple years after they built it,

there was this issue with a little storm that rolled in and kind of wiped the city out.

So they just gave up on it.

Like it was built, it was open.

They closed it for the weekend and it never

reopened.

Nope.

A whole amusement park.

Wow.

And so it's to the point now, and I'm fascinated with this type of stuff where...

Do they maintain it or do they do anything with it?

They just let it go?

There was a talk at the very beginning.

What do we do?

Do we rebuild?

And they eventually got to the point where like, nope, it's just, it's going to be white elephant.

It's really interesting.

Yeah.

So

you go drive by it on the highway and there's just a giant roller coaster that just kind of starts going down the drop and then just the track stops and it just drops off, and there's nothing.

There's like Ferris wheels with carts at the top just missing, right?

Just at some point fell off.

You know, all the, it's all just.

So, track has actually broken off, yeah.

Or did they just not finish it in the first place?

No, it was done.

It was

been open, I believe.

Wow.

And it was totally done, and it was going to be open the next weekend.

That's what they were planning.

And then they just never went back.

So there's been some people who have broken in and taken real footage of the inside.

Oh, it's fascinating to look at.

There's a documentary made on it and stuff.

It's one of those things I like.

I'll go on this afternoon.

I'm watching that documentary.

That is fascinating.

You too?

Yeah.

Okay.

I'm going to be down that rabbit hole.

We for sure.

We do have a couple of those same weird images.

Like really tall buildings.

Like there's a couple things.

Pat and I will have 45-minute conversations about.

Like, do you see the skyscraper they're built in Saudi Arabia?

So I didn't know this was one of yours.

Yes, it is.

There's the abandoned photography.

Like, I have a whole, I buy books on it.

I think it's fascinating.

These, these, you know, modern things that get abandoned and just decay.

So I was fascinated to go see this.

And so I went out to that and drove by it, which it was as expected.

You can't see that much from the highway, but it is really, really interesting to look at.

And so I went down to the next exit and turned around.

Pat,

if I were to describe to you like an apocalyptic scene from a movie,

I'm looking at some of the photos now.

Yeah, it's incredible to see that

something.

Jeez.

But that one I knew about.

I had seen the insides.

You know, it is really, really incredible.

The next exit, I turned around.

Pat, I've never seen anything like it.

It had looked like no one had been there in 15 years off of an exit off a major highway.

Really?

And it is coat on both sides of the off-ramp.

You know, the little turnaround when you just come back to go the other way?

Both sides of it.

Just stacked up tires all over the place,

sofas,

you know,

it looked like there was all, there was stuff here and

it just all washed into this area and they just never bothered to pick it up.

I've never seen anything like it.

In the United States,

it felt like I was in

some torn land.

I mean, I mean, seriously, it was the most bizarre thing.

And I'm just driving through this and I was like, it was creepy.

It was 10 out of 10 creepy.

10 out of 10 creepy.

And I'm just like, I'm driving through this.

Like the, the, the streets just had stuff all over them, like as if there hadn't been a car that had driven off of this exit.

How do you let that happen?

How do you let that happen?

It was really, it's depressing.

And like they, a lot of the city, they kind of, and parts of it are great.

And, you know, of course, the downtown, they did a great job.

The Super Bowl is, you know, that downtown area is tough to beat from a central party area, obviously.

Like, you know, it's got its positives.

But it is, you realize that, you know, it's completely devastated.

So there's not like a lot of new hotels.

There's not a lot of stuff down there.

So the tickets for the game wound up going down partially because the tickets for

tickets, the rooms in these hotels were so expensive that people were looking at them like, hey, I want to go down the Super Bowl.

Oh, I can't get a room anywhere in the city for even a mildly normal price for a hotel.

Like even with the expanded typical Super Bowl prices, they were through the roof.

And so

it was a weird, it was a weird

city.

We stayed 10, 15 minutes out of the city, which which made it a lot easier.

But

it's a strange environment, and I've never seen security like it.

Well, they just had terrorism there.

They had a terrorist attack, and there was a guy who went to the game, pretty famous, Donald Trump.

So between those two things

in the city, holy crap, man, it was serious.

They took it seriously, and they did a great job with the security.

His welcome was pretty impressive.

Really?

Was it not?

Yeah.

I mean, it was very powerful.

He gets wildly cheered, and Taylor Swift gets wildly booed.

Yeah.

Did it feel that way in the stadium?

Yeah,

sort of.

The Trump thing did feel that way.

He got on the screen,

immediate, really strong applause.

A little bit, you could hear a little bit of negative after the positive, like in the stadium.

It wasn't overwhelming.

I would say it was, it felt like a 70, 30, 80, 20 type of thing that was positive.

The Taylor Swift thing felt, I think, totally different in the stadium than it did to people that I've I've seen reaction on.

Yeah.

Where everyone's like, oh, she got booed.

I know Trump was kind of going after her for getting booed and played the pushback.

In the stadium, it felt very good-natured.

Really?

I've heard Philadelphia Eagles fans boo stuff before, usually their own coach.

So I've heard that.

I've heard the visceral hatred of somebody.

That is not what it felt like.

It felt kind of like,

look,

she's an Eagles fan.

She grew up outside of Philadelphia.

Probably going to marry an Eagle or a Kansas Philippine.

She's going to marry a Chief.

And she's now wearing a Chief.

It was like, all right, you turn coat.

We, you know, we know.

It was sort of that sort of vibe.

It was much more like.

I didn't know she used to be an Eagles fan.

Yeah, she grew up in, I think, Redding, which is right outside of Philly.

She was an Eagles fan her whole life.

And then, you know, she's dating Travis Kelsey.

So she's wearing the Chiefs thing.

Again,

would I do that for love?

No.

But I understand that some would.

And so it was honestly, it felt kind of good natured, like, we're going to boo her.

And then, like, she also played it off, I thought, very well.

Like, she kind of made this sort of side eye or like, are you, you talking about me?

Like, it was like, it honestly felt playful for the audience.

It did not seem like this visceral hatred moment.

Yeah.

And again, I think it was one of those things where Eagles are like, look, we boo Santa Claus.

We're certainly booing you.

It was that type of thing is what it felt like.

But it was overall,

you know,

she played it off, actually, I thought pretty well.

And it was, you know, it was fun.

Just a fun moment.

I thought it was fun.

Yeah.

But, you know, it comes off, you know, you just hear a bunch of booze.

You don't necessarily want that.

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Documentary is closed for storm, by the way.

Oh, I'm looking at the sign right now that says that once said closed for storm.

Closed for storm.

That's what the sign said at that amusement park.

In fact, right now it says closed our orm.

Yeah.

Because most of the sign is broken off, including the entire front of it, that you must have once said six flags, New Orleans, or whatever.

Yeah.

It's creepy.

It is

creepy, man.

I can't wait to watch it.

Yeah, it's so fascinating that you like this.

We have the weirdest

interest when it comes to that stuff.

There is a,

and again, you got to be careful the way you type this on Reddit, but there's, I think it's called abandoned porn.

Like, in other words, you know how like

where are things that have been abandoned?

Yeah, it's not, it's not actual porn that's been abandoned.

It's kind of like a funny way of saying like the stuff you really want to see if you like this type of photography yeah so type carefully if you're interested in that but there's a reddit there's a subreddit called abandoned porn i believe that's the name of it and it's fascinating i can see where that might be dangerous don't want to miss you don't want to miss a couple of kids around just in case yeah be careful be careful and not safe for work or whatever the yeah you don't want that but uh this one it's and people who go into abandoned malls and abandoned like schools and these cities that have just and they take all the footage inside.

I think, find that stuff just to be fascinating for some reason.

I don't know what it is.

I know, me too.

Or, like, you know, you have one of those, like, there's a natural disaster and it means that a brand new housing development has to be abandoned.

And then you go back like 15 years later, and it's like this perfectly, like, you know, it's like a movie set that's just, they just left.

Yeah.

And it's just, I find it to be really, really interesting.

I'll bet we see some of that stuff in Los Angeles now because gosh, that's terrible to think about.

So much of that has been destroyed.

And, you know, are we going to fix it all?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I mean, you think the Palisades, like, there's so much of land value there that it's going to be hard to stop people from rebuilding.

I was just looking at, I don't know, I get this stuff on my YouTube feed because I accidentally click on things that are like, see this amazing house that was $83 million.

Well, one of them was in Pacific Palisades, and it's.

absolutely beautiful because they they show the before

and it completely burned down.

I mean, it's burned to the the ground.

$83 million home.

I don't know how you ever replace that.

I mean, obviously you have some money in the first place, but man,

that is just heartbreaking for all the people who lost their homes and their livelihood and the businesses and everything that just went away.

It's just gone now.

Yeah, and I'm just saying it's obviously easy to focus on those big houses, but it's also obviously they do have resources.

That doesn't make it any easier.

No, it doesn't.

You see these people who are like, oh, gosh, they're rich.

Well, yeah, they're rich, but their families were raised in these homes.

And anytime you lose something like that, it's emotionally devastating as well.

For sure.

But of course, tons of people who were, you know, who had family homes in that area long before it was impossibly expensive to get into them.

Right.

And that's a lot.

Yeah.

A lot of

those problems.

They were hit that way.

And, you know, not like it's not their fault, Gavin, no, some of them, I guess it is because they voted for him, but it's not their fault.

Gavin Newsom is terrible.

Right.

It's not their fault that, you know,

Karen Bass is incompetent.

But some of them built their homes in 1970 for $25,000, and now it's worth $3.5 million.

And you can't afford, you couldn't afford to live there had you not bought it in 1970.

There's a lot of those families.

Right.

And who knows if the insurance is covering all that?

Probably not.

Almost for sure not.

And some of them, of course, lost their insurance as well.

And you realize, like, in the Pacific Palisades, they're probably just going to build it up.

They're probably going to be nicer houses.

Probably a lot of those people who live there are going to wind up selling and it's not going to be great, but it'll probably be rejuvenated as a community eventually.

There's just chunks of New Orleans where they just gave up.

Still from Katrina?

Yeah.

They're just like, okay, nothing here.

Nothing will ever come back here.

We're not even going to clean it.

It's been hard multiple times.

Oh, man.

I mean, between Katrina and then the horrible.

terrorist attack on New Year's Eve.

And I mean, it's just been pounded.

So.

Wow.

The security.

I've never seen,

and maybe they were there.

I never noticed it, but like going into the Super Bowl, all of the security being done by Secret Service.

Wow.

I was like, I didn't know he had this many Secret Service, honestly.

Yeah.

It was intense.

It was intense.

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Been talking about Stu's Super Bowl experience.

It doesn't compare to my weekend.

I actually

went to the George W.

Bush Presidential Museum and Library.

Yeah.

Really?

What a spectacular outing that was.

I mean, I have thought it's here locally in Dallas.

Yeah, we've been here.

We've been here for 13 years now.

And I've been here.

And I thought I've never been.

I'm going this weekend.

I bet there's some pretty cool stuff there, actually.

Yes.

And the 9-11 exhibit, of course, is

solemn and fascinating and brings back memories.

But on the whole, it's probably not the most exciting adventure I've ever been on.

But it was good.

It was good.

Was it worth, I don't know, $26?

Your borderline on $26.

That's not that great.

I mean, we went to a really great presidential library in Springfield, Illinois.

It's Abraham Lincoln's presidential library or a museum.

And it's both.

They're all both, pretty much.

That one's worth the $15.

It's less expensive and more impressive.

So

that one was awesome.

Wait, it was which library?

Abraham Lincoln.

So you're saying the Abraham Lincoln library was more impressive than that.

Better technology than the George W.

Bush.

And it was finished before.

I think they finished Lincoln's in 2005.

They finished W's in 2013.

So it's kind of weird, but the technology is way better.

No offense to George W.

Bush.

No, but he did have a little bit more to work with with a Lincoln presidency, I feel like.

I feel like a little more.

Yeah, he had a longer period of time.

He had a more modern period of time.

You would think the technology would be better.

I mean, technology I would expect to be better.

But as far as like stuff to highlight at a presidential museum, I feel like Lincoln might have the edge on that one.

I think that too, but I don't know.

One of them was more consequential than the other, perhaps.

You notice that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then you get that from the museums.

Did you not know that until I didn't know that until I went to the museum?

So, yeah, it was a big surprise to me.

Yeah, I don't know.

The presidential library itself, like as an idea,

you know, they're going to have incredible

historical stuff.

Yeah.

But like it doesn't seem like number one on my visitation list.

Also, I don't feel like you're getting a fair picture.

Yeah.

Do you get it?

Did you get a fair, like, hey, you know what?

George W.

Bush really blew the spending stuff.

Was that covered?

No, it was not.

No.

No, it wasn't.

It was all positive.

No.

I mean, it was neutral.

It was all pretty neutral, I thought.

They didn't really make him out to be super fabulous.

And they talked about other presidents and didn't disparage them in any way, which I think you would expect from George W.

Bush.

People think he was super, super partisan.

He was not.

He was not.

And his library isn't either.

So I found that kind of interesting and a little bit refreshing.

I mean, I didn't mind that they talked about

in a neutral way all the presidents who preceded him.

Yeah, you want that at some level.

Again, we all can form our own opinion.

This is actually, Pat, our generalized request of the media, which is just talk about the stuff that's neutral and describe what's going on.

And then I'll decide.

And then we'll decide.

I believe someone once said, we report, you decide, I believe was a slogan for Fox News at one point.

Kind of what I want out of the media.

Definitely.

Tell me what's going on.

Tell me what's been, what's the real story.

Just generally,

you don't need to put in your little like,

you know, stuff about what you think or what your intern really thinks needs to be in the article about DEI.

Just give me the facts.

Yeah.

and then I will just determine how I feel about it.

How about that?

What a concept.

It's a crazy approach, bro.

Crazy.

That's like nuts.

I mean, we have,

let's see, I think this is the one I'm thinking of on my list of videos here.

CNN on Trump's first three weeks.

It's cut to.

We are three weeks into the second Trump presidency.

Three weeks.

And tonight there are warnings that the U.S.

is dangerously close to a constitutional crisis.

Pause it for a second.

Okay.

That's what we're talking about.

All right.

Let me decide how close we are to a constitutional crisis and for what reason we're close to it.

Yeah.

Even if she's telling us at the top.

At the top, we're dangerously close.

We're dangerously close to a constitutional crisis.

Like you could instead describe what's going on.

And then if you have maybe an expert that comes in and says, you know, I think we're actually

dangerously close to a constitutional crisis.

Okay.

Like maybe that's a perspective I could get.

Maybe you give me the opposite side, be someone who's not freaking out as if

the world is on fire.

Mm-hmm.

But you could present that view as part of a news story.

You could.

You could.

I don't think it would be

the best decision.

You probably have a kind of a person who's a little bit over-panicked

about things if you're bringing that person in.

But like, if you got somebody who thinks it's serious, okay, maybe, maybe.

But the fact that the anchor is starting with this.

Yeah.

Taints it.

It's tainted from the top.

From the top.

So,

yeah, I don't even want to hear the rest because you've already tainted it now.

So, yeah, that's a problem.

And

I found it fascinating that they didn't do that at his library.

You know, it's a place where these

former presidents raise hundreds of millions of dollars for these museums.

And so you probably want it to be as positive about your legacy as you possibly can get it.

Right.

You would think anyway, you're paying $200 and well, you're raising $250 million and it's going into building this library.

You want it to be, I don't know, kind of a monument to what you did for your eight years or four years.

So it was, I thought it was, I thought it was fascinating that they really didn't, they didn't, they didn't taint it

like the news does, like CNN does.

And here, here, on the other hand, though, was CNN talking about, yesterday we played

the

CBS talking about the ratings for

Donald trump so far in his presidency which are really pretty good he's got a 53

uh approval rating which is the highest he's ever had either term and uh

he has 70 of americans who are now saying that he's doing what he said he was going to do if you got 70

of american citizens saying you're you're doing uh what you said you were going to do, that's pretty amazing because that's not just Republicans.

That's Republicans and Democrats.

Now, that doesn't mean Democrats are necessarily happy with you doing what you said you were going to do, but at least they're acknowledging, yeah, he's doing what he said he was going to do.

Yeah, like it or not.

Yeah.

And he's being very decisive, obviously, and has done

a lot in a very short period of time.

Obviously, the big reconciliation bill is something that's coming up, and it's going to be a huge part of whatever this term's legacy is.

If he can pull that off in a really positive way, he's going to have to work with Congress on that one.

I know they're already starting to work on it.

So that's coming up around the corner.

I mean, he's got a lot to do.

He's got a lot to unwind.

A lot of damage has been done.

He does.

You know,

he's coming off one of the worst presidents ever.

And that's why I don't mind so much the fact that he's done a lot of executive orders.

That's not the preferable way to maybe

do these things because they can be undone the second the next guy comes in.

Yeah.

And most of most of his work has been in that, basically undoing the thing.

Yeah, it's something like 70% of these executive orders have just been unwinding things that Biden had done that damage to the country.

Had to be done.

Now, hopefully, he'll follow up with

legislative efforts

and will codify it in law.

That would be great.

But so far, the results are phenomenal, in my opinion.

You can't even, I had a guy, a friend at church ask me how we're keeping up.

How do you keep up with what's going on?

It's happening so fast.

And really, you don't.

Yeah, that's basically the real answer.

You don't.

You don't.

You got to pick and choose

what you can keep up with and what you can talk about because there's just too much.

He's done 300 executive orders or something so far.

Yeah, that's a lot.

A lot.

And first of all, it's strategically a very smart approach because you just don't have that much time.

You don't have that much time.

I mean, right now, his overall approval rating

for an average, real clear politics, using that as just a baseline, 48.8%.

That is 45% disapprove.

If we don't know what's going to happen, he's above water on that then.

48%.

And that is very rare, by the way, for Donald Trump.

It did not happen at all during his first term.

And generally speaking,

his best numbers are from Trafalgar and Rasmussen, which is kind of where you expect to see it.

But CBS News has him at 53%, too.

It's not just

right-leaning pollsters, if you will.

The Economist has him at 48.

His worst number here, Reuters, has him at 45, but still 45 would be a very good number for his first term.

If you're President Trump and you're thinking about this strategically, you don't know what's going to happen.

I'm sure Trump in his head is saying, I'm going to be so great that my approval rating is going to go through the roof and this will be the best thing ever.

And I'm sure that's something that he's a power of positive thinking guy.

That being said, you have to strategically plan for what is more likely, which is once we get past the afterglow of the election and a lot of these things that he did at the beginning were positive, were very popular, right?

He's going to run out of that stuff.

He's going to start coming up with

policy positions that are more partisan.

You know, it's easy to say, hey, we shouldn't judge people by their skin color.

Like 80% of people believe that.

Even Democrats, a lot of Democrats believe that you shouldn't be doing that.

This DEI stuff is kind of nonsense, right?

When you poll it,

that stuff is popular.

And it's easy to be able to go in there and do that sort of thing.

When you get into more divisive stuff, you're going to wind up probably losing some of those moderates and probably losing some of those people who are Democrats who kind of like what Trump does generally, unless the economy like takes off and everything else.

You never know.

So what you should expect, you should plan for, plan for the worst, hope for the best, plan for the worst

is to think.

I got two years.

I got two years max.

You'll probably lose Congress.

Again, just historically, you'll probably lose Congress in 2026.

If he's able to hold on to it, it'll be historic.

Yeah.

Because it usually does happen.

It's happened basically every single time.

I remember

the aftermath or 2002 being one where that was kind of turned around.

After 9-11, Bush did better than expected in 2002.

There's been a few times.

You've seen some of these we did better than expected versions of this.

Like, for example, when Joe Biden lost the House.

Also could have lost the Senate.

They probably did do slightly better than projections in that, in that 2022 election.

But, like, you still lost the House.

You still lost your ability to pass things without Republicans.

Yeah.

And you don't want to be in that position if you're Donald Trump.

And it's not going to be.

There's not any Democrats to participate with.

Right.

None.

I mean, you know, again, you'll get an occasional Fetterman vote.

You'll get an occasional here and there, but you're not going to get a lot.

So you have to plan as if this is it.

You've got about a year, you got two years.

And Pat, when you have a one-seat majority in the House, you don't even have two years because you're going to get these purple district moderates that are going to bail on your proposals in that second year.

So if you think about it realistically, you got about a year.

Yeah.

And he's acting like that.

And he's acting like it.

And he's smart to act that way.

Yeah.

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You know, we were talking about the Stu's Super Bowl experience.

What I wanted to ask you about, too, was

not just the game, but what about the halftime?

What was the feel in the stadium for the halftime show?

Because is it just me, or was that one of the worst of all time?

Well, first of all, I don't know anything about Kendrick Lamar.

I don't either.

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I know one of his songs, kind of.

Oh, you did?

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Like billions of streams, right?

Yeah.

I think they miss with artists like that because they're

like there's not a, you know, of course, the average person going to the Super Bowl is basically like me, some like almost, almost 50-year-old guy who's just, you know, I don't know, who works for a living and, you know, I don't know, like, goes and loves sports, right?

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We think of it.

You know, I think, like, look, Kendrick Lamar is one of the biggest acts in the world, right?

Like, and he's, I get it.

I guess.

He's huge.

But, like, I always feel like the actual sweet spot for

a Super Bowl, I think, was 2002 U2.

You two.

Because now, U2 today would not be the right act.

No, right.

In 1989, U2 would have not been right there.

But 2002, they were still one of the biggest bands in the world, still releasing stuff that was really relevant

and had a long catalog.

I remember we went to one that was also The Who, and that felt like the opposite direction.

Like

20 years past that.

You know, if you'd done it 20 years earlier, it would have worked.

This was like...

You know, Kendrick Lamar is like really appealing to 25-year-olds and, you know, and he's been around for a while, so it's not like he's super young, but it just doesn't feel like it connects with certainly the people in the audience.

That being said, it is not a made-for-stadium show, it is a made-for-TV show.

So, like, for example, me, I was on the opposite side, and what I saw was the back of a bunch of dancers for a few minutes.

It looks terrible in the stadium.

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It's awful.

But no doubt you were digging the music, right?

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setting you on fire.

I will tell you that I took the opportunity to go to the food stand and the bathroom.

Totally clear, which is great.

Most people in the stadium, it's the best part.

Oh, that's nice.

i didn't i i i would have preferred to hear not and see basically none of it um my son did want to see it for a little bit and that tells you a little bit i suppose about it like he knows a couple of the songs i guess he's 13 i would not allow him to listen to most of them so i don't know how he knows them but um he's 13 yeah yeah so that's another great part that's really cool that you now take zach yeah

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Well, the left thinks it's a big deal that Donald Trump seemed to say that J.D.

Vance is not going to be his successor.

That's kind of interesting.

Brett Baer

interviewed Donald Trump for the Super Bowl, and here's a little section of that.

Do you view Vice President J.D.

Vance as your successor, the Republican nominee in 2028?

No, but he's very capable.

I mean, I don't think so.

I think you have a lot of very capable people.

So far, I think he's doing a fantastic job.

It's too early.

We're just starting.

But by the time you get to the midterms, he's going to be looking for an endorsement.

A lot of people have said that this has been the greatest opening, almost three weeks, in the history of the president.

It's definitely been the fastest and the most stuff.

We have done so much so fast.

And we really had to because they have really, what they've done to our country is so sad.

It's so sad.

We're going to be bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.

The big headline there, of course, is that he said no, that J.D.

Vance, he doesn't look at him as his successor.

Now, could it be the reason is that Donald Trump Jr.

might be running in 2028?

It's interesting.

That's what I think it is.

I think he's already, you know, he's got an endorsement that's already

set aside for somebody else.

I think that's the issue.

So let's get

three possibilities here.

I think that's a really interesting one.

Donald Trump Jr., he's already knows that he's going to run, and he's his pick, obviously.

Yeah.

If he winds up running in some serious way.

So that's number one.

Number two, you could make the argument.

I think this is more of an argument for a traditional politician than Donald Trump, but like to look at this and say, I've got a lot of allies.

A lot of people are probably going to run in 2028.

I need to see what the field is.

Like, I can't make that decision right now.

Like, let's let this play out.

He's got you know, people that are allies, people who worked really hard for him that might run.

I'm not going to make that call right now.

If you remember, you know, even like Obama was not really involved in an endorsement type of thing.

He wasn't like.

No, Joe asked him not to.

Do you remember that?

Joe asked him

not to not to endorse him because that would be an unfair advantage.

Right.

You know, and so he didn't want that.

You know, Joe, if Joe Biden's about anything, it's merit.

Yeah, oh, yeah.

And he just doesn't want to mess with that process at all.

He wouldn't want an endorsement from a very very popular president in his party.

No.

He wouldn't want that.

That would be awful.

So he didn't get it.

In fact, he was actually talked out of running by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton wind up getting the nomination.

You see how well that turned out.

Let me give you a third possibility while we're just throwing stuff out there.

I mean this sincerely.

I know other,

this is, I really do think this is something, which is,

what if Donald Trump sees the successor of Donald Trump in 2028 being Donald Trump?

Period.

No joke.

Donald Trump Sr.

Donald Trump Sr.

Yeah.

I felt that word coming on.

He's totally floating this for a reason, boys and girls, because

he wants to have another term.

He wants to have a third term.

And

again,

there's a constitutional limitation to this process.

There is already a bill, by the way, being floated around that would give him the opportunity to run for a third term,

which would need to be through a constitutional amendment.

It was cleverly designed so that it would prevent Barack Obama running for a third term

because it was

a good time.

Yeah, you can.

Or a third consecutive term.

You can only run a third consecutive term if you had a separation between your first and second term.

He's floated it out there multiple times in front of these audiences.

I think he sees it as

an anti-market situation.

If the market wants me, they should be able to have me for another term.

And I think as we get there's something called the Constitution, right?

He'd have to.

He just allows that.

You've got to

amend the Constitution.

That's almost impossible.

Now, I will say, I will not be surprised if some

legal, you wait, some legal mind

in the constitutional sphere

who is attempting to curry favor with a with a Mr.

Donald Trump comes up with a little theory that actually,

no, it's not prevented.

Do not be surprised to see this argument pop up.

You've seen it before

with Trump.

Of course, you've seen it a million times on the left.

We all know how this works.

Actually,

the Equal Rights Amendment already passed

Actually, we all really did it.

Did it?

We just didn't notice all this time.

Joe Biden actually came out with that right before Trump took over.

Everyone was ignoring what Biden was doing at that point.

But he just came out and said, by the way, I consider that already passed.

And there is a legal theory that has been bubbling a long time on the left that this is true.

It's not.

It's nonsense.

But I will not be surprised at all if in the back of Donald Trump's head is either one of our philosophies, right?

It's either Donald Trump Sr.

who is the next guy, or if that fails, Donald Trump Jr.

is the next guy.

So that is,

I think it's possible.

It is also possible that he's just saying, look, I think J.D.

Vance is great, but he's got to win the nomination, and I'm not going to get involved in that right now.

He's three weeks into his presidency.

There's no, most presidents, I think, wouldn't answer that a resounding yes.

I think you could say, look.

He'd be one of the candidates.

We don't even know who's running yet.

It'd be really easy, though, to just say, it's way too early for that.

Yeah.

You know, it's way too early.

And just not answering.

No, he's not.

Rather than say no, just say it's way too early for that.

Right.

Totally fair, and I think not controversial.

I also would say kind of a weird question at this point in the presidency.

It is.

Three knocked on bear.

I think it's an interesting one, obviously newsworthy.

But it is, it's a three weeks into the problem.

Why is he?

Because

answering that question

in any way, really, indicates you're also a lame duck.

It's almost a no-win situation for him.

You're kind of like a lame duck.

You're like, okay, well, now all I'm here for is to endorse the next guy.

Right.

I don't think he's ready for that yet.

He's three weeks into his residency, right?

He's not.

So I do think that there is

a reason why you wouldn't be like, well, of course he is.

I love him.

He's the best guy ever.

He might think he's the best guy ever, but what do you get out of that if you're Donald Trump?

And he's pretty good.

I really like J.D.

Vance.

I was talking to somebody over the weekend.

He's like, gosh, I was watching J.D.

Vance get off a plane with his family.

You know, he's got a

beautiful wife.

He's a good-looking guy.

They're getting off.

His kids are bundled up, wearing pajama pants under their coats.

And he's so good on TV.

He's so good at beating the left.

Like, it's just this all-American family.

Like,

you know, if this, if the first term of Donald Trump goes really well,

and he doesn't have another Trump to run against, it's hard to see anybody.

Like, you know, you might say, like, I, you know, Ron DeSantis has got a great record and I think totally deserves to be the nominee of the Republican Party at some point with what he's done.

Like, I, and I've said that a million times.

Yeah.

But, like, it's, it's going to be tough to beat Vance if this is a popular Republican presidency in that, in that, in that, uh, for sure.

In that world, because, yeah, now, if Donald Trump has a rough go of it, something terrible happens, and you know, we get a big economic downturn and their approval rating is 37%, well, it's not, might not be that hard.

It might be a different story.

But Vance is going to be formidable

really no matter what goes on because he's just really good at this.

Yeah.

He does not have a problem with the left.

He does not have a problem with the media.

He disassembles them every single time he gets in front of them.

Every time.

Yeah.

Yeah, he's really good.

He really is.

The vape.

I mean, you think Ramaswamy's got a shot in 28?

Yeah.

I mean, he's, look, maybe.

He's a good speaker.

Him getting, you know, becoming governor of Ohio or senator from Ohio or something of that nature

will probably help.

It's the, by the way, also the Buttigieg approach, it looks like, you know, on the left.

It's tough to go from mayor of South Bend to the presidency.

It is, might even be more difficult to go from the Department of Transportation to the presidency.

You need to have

some role that shows

some sort of performance.

I mean, look, Budigej was a catastrophe when it came to the Secretary of Transportation.

He was horrible.

Yeah.

But

they really want him.

You could tell the left,

there's a contingency on the left that really wants him to be president.

They want to have the first gay president.

They want the first LGBTQQIA two plus president.

They want that on their little record.

He's kind of the only thing they have going that way.

And

they want to roll him out because of that sort of like

technocratic left really loves him.

That version of the left loves him.

Now, I don't think the AOC left loves him.

I think they're bored by him.

But I think there's that Obama left loves Budige for some reason.

I don't really get it.

Identity politics.

I think that's identity politics.

And there's a way of his approach.

It's like that calm sort of like, you know, intellectual sort of, I use, you know, I use big words to describe my bad policies.

Like that sort of approach is loved by that technocratic left.

And so I think they want to make, you know, it's that whole thing of you want to make Fetch happen.

Like they want to make Budigech happen.

They want it to be a thing so badly.

And I don't think there's a lot of passion on the

day-to-day Democrat for Budigech.

Like, I don't think they're inspired by him.

I don't think.

I don't know why they would be.

Yeah, he's really butt, boring and dull.

Yeah, and

he doesn't have any accomplishments to his

record.

It's not done.

He couldn't even fill the potholes in South Bend, Indiana.

Apparently.

And by the way, the evidence we have from that is the Biden campaign.

Yeah.

They pointed it out.

Saying this guy couldn't even run South Bend correctly.

How is he going to run America correctly?

Yeah.

And then they put him in it for Department of Transportation, which to me was really more just like a way of derailing his political career.

How many, Pat, name them, have come from the Department of Transportation to the presidency?

One, two, three, oh, zero.

None.

Yeah.

None.

None.

It doesn't happen because it's a job that

couldn't present a presidential campaign.

It's not possible to go from that job.

It's just not a, it's not a good thing.

And this is an.

There are certain cabinet positions that aren't sexy enough to go from there to the presidency.

Only downside, right?

Yeah.

When planes start crashing into each other, people say, oh my God, let's get the Secretary of Transportation.

Then you're up there saying, holy crap, all this bad stuff happened.

I don't know.

We're going to do it.

And he was terrible in those moments.

Oh, my gosh.

When he wasn't on maternity leave.

What train derailments did he not show up to?

Jeez.

It was pathetic.

And Sean Duffy's dealing with this now, right?

Like, they've had three,

another one over the weekend, another, another plane incident over the weekend where planes are crashing into each other.

People, like, again, like, is that Sean Duffy's been in the job for like six hours?

Like, it's not his fault, but that's how you're going to be known.

And if this stuff keeps happening, you have these situations, it's impossible.

Like, if there's only downside to it from your, for your political career, which I think has been true with Buddha Jeff, he's been terrible.

Like, I, and I, yes, he really has.

He has no accomplishments.

He's failed at everything he's done in political office.

He's been awful.

And he is identity politics plus that sort of like appeal to that certain sect of the Democrats who they just really like that stuff.

They really, and they get, they, they love the guy who's going to come out and be, you know, very calm and, and, and say all these big words and, and talk down to everybody and how smart he is and how dumb you are.

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So, the FBI just discovered 2,400 records tied to President Kennedy's assassination that were never provided to a board tasked with reviewing or disclosing the documents.

The still secret records are contained in 14,000 pages of documents the FBI found in a review that was triggered by President Trump's executive order on the 23rd of January demanding the release of all JFK assassination records.

So apparently the FBI is taking this seriously and they're actually looking into it and they found 14,000 more pages that we didn't even know about.

Completely secret.

Very strange.

Isn't that a little bit suspicious?

I would say very suspicious.

Huh?

Look at this.

14,000 more pages that were just in a drawer.

Who knew?

It seems unlikely.

It does.

It does seem like, hey, wait a minute, they're going to release this stuff.

We need to, I mean, that's what the conspiracy-minded would go immediately to

they just created these?

Well, I didn't even go to that point.

I was thinking to myself, like, these are things they've had the whole time and show something that they've never disclosed.

And this is the reason we never disclosed it because they were lost.

That's what, yeah.

You know, again, I don't necessarily believe that.

I think there's a chance that maybe this is true.

Maybe the story is true i i would like to i guess i would like to have more evidence on it either way uh but it i just want to see the documents yeah i just want once and for all let's just get this out all right let's just lance this boil and move on past the jfk situation yeah because even if it was the worst of of suspicions i i don't know at this point

i mean what do you do about it i do i mean it would be i guess maybe it would give us a little bit more suspicion of some of these institutions but i don't think it would necessarily make the country collapse.

Like, I think we all are somewhat comfortable with the idea that something a little bit out of the outside of the official story happened.

And I keep coming back to this in my head, Pat.

The official story was crafted essentially by Arlen Specter, and that makes me not believe it just because of that.

Arlen Specter, the former president.

Arlen Spector,

the man who wrote the book about what it was like to be in the Senate bathhouse,

The man

loved to be in the bathhouse when Jon Thune showed up.

He did love that.

Now Senate majority leader.

But the man

would show up completely naked.

This is in his book.

He had the body of a Greek god.

That's and

he'd show up and we'd make tender love for the next 14 or 15 hours or so.

That's almost in the book.

It's very close to a good book.

It's very close.

And I'm paraphrasing there a little bit, one section of it.

Did I bring up Arlen Spector specifically just to hear Pat's impression of Arlen Spector?

Yes.

Yes, I did.

He's been dead for many years.

But yes, that is why I brought up Arlington.

I know.

It's it's been a decade at least.

It's been a while.

It's been a while.

And he was, he really was behind that.

And that's the, like, it's the most

evidence of the conspiracy theories that Arlen Spector said the opposite.

I don't know.

I don't believe anything Arlen Spector ever said.

That's for sure.

Except,

you didn't leave the Republican part of the Republican party left to meet.

You believe that, right?

Well, I believe that, and I believe Jon Thune has great abs.

That I believe.

I do, too.

I believe he has the body of a Greek god.

I've never seen him naked as a jaybird, but

you're willing to check it out.

I can see it in your eyes.

Why not?

Whatever.

I mean, he's a darn handsome man.

What a weird thing to put in your book.

I know.

It's just so bizarre.

Like, why is there a Senate bathhouse?

I don't know.

Why do we look at it?

Are we in Turkey or something?

What is this?

I don't know.

I mean, I'm used to Turkish bathhouses, but nothing.

How used to it are you?

How often do you get there?

Quite a bit.

Three, four times a week.

Unlimited membership.

I just feel like your

description of naked male senators gets the cutting room floor.

Naked as a jaybird.

Look like a Greek god.

Got through

a Senate majority.

Is this how he got to be Senate Majority Leader?

Because I don't really understand

otherwise.

Yeah, I don't either.

I don't either.

There's so many better choices.

Yeah, I don't really get it, but maybe it's just the abs the whole time.

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Let's go to Kevin in Idaho.

Hey, Kevin, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu.

Hey, Pat and Stu.

I'm about to head over a little past here.

I might lose it for a second, but it won't be long.

Maybe about five seconds.

We'll just wait in silence, don't worry.

Mm-hmm.

Okay, sure.

We'll wait for it.

All right.

I was wondering if you guys would be willing to have an issue pressed on you guys.

Something y'all were talking about earlier.

Y'all had a little back and forth.

The third term presidency of Trump Junior.

i want to i want to force the issue on you guys because you guys were talking a lot about kind of how you think it might go down or might not go down yeah but i would really like to know is would you actually support if if you

and then we lose he actually did

he really knows his self-coverage math really well you did break up just when you thought you were going to all right would we what

Yeah, would you want it?

Would you be in support of it?

And what reservations, if it went through, what reservations would you have?

Yeah.

Other other than the constitution because if they amended the constitution that's obviously not an issue because it's not against the constitution it's an amendment yeah so what reservations would anyone reasonably have to a third term trump presidency and if i may i would i would have my own reservations but i want to get y'all's thoughts on that i would like to hear your reservations as well um i i will tell you my thoughts

i am 100 no on a third term for donald trump or anyone else i don't think it's a good idea i think the constitution is right on this they think this is it's a good idea to limit the executive power.

The reason

we have the Constitutional Amendment was FDR.

We wanted to prevent a guy who basically became a dictator for 12 years.

And,

you know,

you might be saying, well, they had a chance to vote for somebody else.

And that's true.

That's true.

But I don't think, though, what we see from the American people over and over again, they don't see this in Congress.

They don't do it.

It won't.

And that's why people have been in office for 40 years.

Right.

And this is why, by the way, I also would support constitutional amendments to limit the congressional terms.

I think 12 years is plenty of time.

Two terms in the Senate and six terms in Congress.

12 years.

Another person who supported congressional term limits was Donald Trump.

Yeah.

And I think he was right on that.

I think his point is like, hey, if I'm limited, you should be limited too.

But I do think he's going to be interested in this, and I understand why.

And if you think he's a great president, president, you might very well be open to that possibility.

I think, though, the Constitution is correct on this issue.

And that's where I say.

What are you thinking, Kevin?

What are your hesitations?

Do you agree with any of that?

Well, yeah, I agree with most of that in general.

Obviously, if it's an amendment to the Constitution, then it's not a constitutional issue in theory.

However, to the person who would support a third Trump presidency, what I would say to them is the reservation that I would have and the issue I see with that is that it's basically admitting defeat in the entire Republican Party.

If Trump himself cannot trust anyone else in his team at all to take forward the moniker, what Trump himself is doing, that spells bad news for America, really, because it kind of indicates that there's no other hope other than Trump.

And if he doesn't work out, and it's just kind of toast, it shows a real lack of confidence in his team and the people around him.

And the other thing is, he's going to be 82 years old by 2028.

And he's got tons of energy.

I had a problem with Biden at that age.

It wasn't just the number.

It wasn't just the number.

Yes, that is true.

However, the chances increase exponentially when you're at that age.

You know, because then you're talking about 86 by the time your term ends.

It's just, no,

I'm ready for somebody else at that point.

It's a plethora of reasons.

And

Kevin mentioned a couple of times there, like, it's not a constitutional amendment if you amend the Constitution, which is true technically.

But of course, when you look at something that's a constitutional issue, you have to determine whether you think the Constitution is right or wrong on that issue.

Right.

Like, do you think,

you know, is it right or wrong on the Second Amendment?

You know, I think it's right, so I wouldn't want to amend that.

Do I think, you know,

there's a bunch of other stuff that I would like as constitutional amendments that we can come up with a fantasy league on if we want.

But like, I think if the Constitution is wrong on something, you do want to amend it.

I don't think the Constitution is wrong on this.

No, I don't.

I think the amendment was correct to limit that power.

I think it's a smart thing to do for the country.

But also, what Kevin said, I think, is real.

If you like Donald Trump, that's one thing.

If you like Trumpism,

it's another thing.

If you believe America first or MAGA or Trumpism or whatever you want to call it is the right approach for the country, it can't be limited to one guy.

You can't play hero ball.

If you're an NBA fan, you've seen this a hundred times.

You get some guy who's on a hot streak and they're just dribbling around.

And if all you can do

is, you know, maybe a good example of this, Pat,

would be Patrick Mahomes.

If what your approach is, is Patrick Mahomes has to make incredible play after incredible play after incredible play after he's almost sacked.

I mean, he did this.

He ran around and avoided 12 more sacks in that game.

He's incredible.

But if all you're doing is depending depending on Patrick Mahomes to make every play for your team, it's really hard to win a Super Bowl.

You're going to lose 40 to 22.

You're going to lose 40 to 22 specifically.

Yeah.

And actually, it should have been 40 to 6, but that's a whole other story.

My point here is that

it can't be Donald Trump hero ball.

It's got to be a movement if you believe in the policies behind it.

And that's why J.D.

Vance, I think, was a really good pick.

Yeah.

for Donald Trump because he, I think in his, in, in his mind, and, you know, we talked about the clip earlier where he didn't say yes to this, but I think he did pick him with his legacy in mind.

And

maybe there's another thing here.

Maybe a third term for Donald Trump is something in his mind.

Maybe Donald Trump Jr.

is in his mind.

But also, J.D.

Vince is a person who can bring forward Trumpism in a way that Donald Trump doesn't really do it.

And when Donald Trump's not around, he can push those policies forward.

Another problem for me would be...

amending the Constitution because Democrats are already saying he's trying to become a dictator.

They're already saying that he wants a third term.

They're already saying that we're not going to have another election while he's around.

This will tear the country apart trying to amend the Constitution specifically for Donald Trump.

And that's what you'd be doing, especially if you've rewritten the law or the amendment to reflect the fact that you can't do three consecutive terms, but you can only do three terms if they're not consecutive on your first term.

First or whatever.

But you can be consecutive on your second term.

It's clear what you're trying to do there.

It is what you're doing.

And that would just tear us apart.

And

I don't know that we need that.

I mean, I do.

There's part of me that thinks the Democrats would be fine with no term limits on this.

I mean, they were.

That's how FDR, I mean, it was him, eventually said, wow, this isn't working.

And even they came on the side of wanting term limits for the president.

I do think that, look, you're going to see a lot of things that you like out of Donald Trump.

It has to be deeper than that.

He is not immortal.

He is not a god.

And if you sit here and depend on him to be in office forever, you will eventually be disappointed.

That I can promise.

And even right now, there's other good people.

There's got to be.

Or it's not a movement.

It's just a guy.

Yeah.

You know, like Donald Trump's an impressive person.

He's accomplished a lot in his life.

Whether you like him or not, he's done a lot.

He's been able to do a lot of things.

He's been able to accomplish a lot of things.

He's been able to be incredibly famous

for 45 years.

Like, that's really just that is impressive.

All that being said, he's going to die someday.

I mean, he almost got shot in front of our eyes.

The left wants to take him out.

We know, you know, ACT Blue donors seem to have a particular interest in ending it quickly.

So

you got to build this beyond one guy.

It's not a knock on Donald Trump.

It's not disloyal to Donald Trump.

I know a lot of people care about that crap.

I don't care about loyalty to a politician, whoever he is.

You can be loyal to him or not.

But even if you are concerned about it, it's like at the end of the day, this man is not immortal.

You have to find a way past him.

And if you sit here and say, oh, I want term after term after term, eventually that's going to run out.

It ran out with FDR.

And it's going to run out on Donald Trump, too.

That's one enemy he can't beat.

And you got to think beyond it.

And you have to have something built to be able to take his message forward if you believe in it.

Because if you don't, if you don't have that set up, if you're not comfortable with that, then it's not the message that you're supporting.

And I think a lot of people in the United States voted for policies that Donald Trump, that wasn't just voting for Donald Trump because of his last name.

It was voting because they really liked his policies and they really liked the direction he was taking the country.

And if that's true, you have to be able to understand that

it has to be, a movement is not one man.

Let's go to Tom in Kentucky.

Hey, Tom, you're on the Glenbeck program with Patton Stu.

Hey, I was just looking at this.

The amendment we're talking about is the 22nd Amendment.

And it was only proposed in 1947, and it was ratified in 1951.

So it's not like we're dealing with the founding fathers here or anything like that.

Right.

And

generally speaking, I don't think it's a bad idea.

But by the same token, you know, we can vote for anybody we want to,

except if he's already been the president

That is what the amendment basically says.

Yeah.

So again, like there obviously was an argument in the 40s about this.

The argument in the 40s came to everyone's mind, Republicans and Democrats, because of what they just saw.

They saw that this was not a good idea.

And it was widely agreed upon at the time.

Now, it's been a long time since we've dealt with that.

So people, like, this happened, you know, there's an example of this in New York.

It happened with Bloomberg.

Bloomberg got through two terms.

They were like, well, but we want more Bloomberg.

Now, again, this is New York, so you have to be skeptical of their brain power in some ways.

Love you, New York.

I was born there, but

New York City not making it.

They're about to put Andrew Cuomo in his mayor.

So I think we can be critical of their voting habits.

But they were like, well, we want more Bloomberg.

So they were like, well, what if we just amend the Constitution to have more Bloomberg?

And that's what they did.

They did.

This happened in Russia.

They wanted more Putin.

And now they have

more Putin.

Like permanently, forever.

And if you say anything against Putin, you're going to fall out a window from the ninth story.

And that's not what's going to happen here.

No, but the point is.

That's what that can lead to eventually.

But the point is, yeah,

you make the rules of the game

and then you keep those rules.

Changing the rules to benefit

one person like this is not usually a good thing.

It's not a very American thing to do.

It's not something we've done very often.

Alan in Idaho.

What do need to do it for George Washington.

Welcome.

Yeah.

Good morning, gentlemen.

Hey.

Oh, on the same deal as, hey, we've talked about it before.

You know, we'll amend the Constitution.

That way, we can serve a third term.

But what happens when the other side does this?

I mean, he would have done this during the Obama term.

Do you think Obama would have got a third term?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He would have.

Yeah.

Unquestionably, he would have.

That would not have been good.

Yeah.

That's a good point.

Thanks, Alan.

Yeah, it works both ways.

By the way, if you did this,

now, again, they wrote it so Obama could not run.

But if you just say, hey, let's do third terms, which is the only way it would pass, right?

Yeah.

You could theoretically maybe get some Democrats on board for it.

Otherwise, writing it for one man.

You're not going to amend the Constitution for one person.

And you'll never get enough on both sides to do it.

This is why it's a silly thing.

But I mean, I honestly think the

more likely situation is they come up with a way to legally challenge it and see if they can get it through the courts.

Again, this is sort of silly because

I don't think they would even admit to wanting to do this right now.

but you have seen Donald Trump.

They keep like, Donald Trump jokes about a third term.

Dude,

how long have you guys known Donald Trump?

This is not, he doesn't, he's like, oh,

maybe I could stay in office for four or more years.

That's not a joke.

That is a, he's floating these things out.

And you may love him.

He may be the best president in the world, right?

Like, he's done a lot of good things.

We've spent non-stop time talking about all the good things he's done since he's been in office.

At the beginning of the show, we can't keep up with it.

It's not a criticism of Donald Trump or like that he, if this was his first term, would he deserve another?

That's not what we're talking about here.

You're talking about amending the Constitution to allow that.

And I do believe what we will see is a popular, on the right, a swell of support for it.

I mean, we're seeing it in some of the colors here, some of them.

I think that

as this Overton window

is moved, you will see people start talking about this more and more.

I'm just trying to be honest with you.

I do think that's coming.

I don't think it's a good idea, though.

I hope,

you know,

I think the

you have to, you know, this is what I believe.

I'm not going to change it because Donald Trump is the one suggesting it or one of his people is suggesting it.

I do think that it is a good rule.

It's good to have good rules.

Sometimes you need to have good rules.

There's good rules in sports, and sometimes they're frustrating to your team.

But you know what?

They're there for a reason.

They're there for a reason.

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Did you see what happened to John Larson, Representative John Larson?

I'm not sure we have it.

I'm going to have to wait a few minutes, but

it looks like in the middle of a speech, he

has a stroke.

Now, I think they're saying it's something else, but they always do.

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Oh, wow.

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This is bad.

Yeah.

It's disturbing.

Oh, that's sad.

Is this kind of a problem?

Why is this?

I only see it with politicians.

Yeah, I don't know.

All right, we got it.

It's really hard to watch.

That's hard to see.

And you don't want that to happen to anybody.

They're calling it, I think, an adverse reaction to medication.

I hope it's that.

But, you know, with Mitch McConnell, it was he was dehydrated.

And this is an adverse reaction to medication.

Okay.

So you start freezing up when you're dehydrated multiple times.

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The Democrats

continue to make a lot of noise about what's happening with Doge.

And elected officials unprecedented.

This is unbelievable.

We'll get into what Representative Rosa DeLauro.

You remember Rosa, right?

Oh my gosh.

From Connecticut?

I do remember her fantastic.

She has been in office since 1990.

So that's 35 years.

But she's just a spry 81 years old now.

So she's still doing

a terrific job.

She's New Haven, New Haven area, right?

Connecticut.

I lived near New Haven at that time, and I was was in eighth grade.

Eighth grade?

Eighth grade.

So she's been

since you've been in eighth grade.

Eighth grade or ninth grade, depending, yeah, somewhere in there.

Oh, that's that's uh that's crazy.

That's pretty amazing.

And she, I will say, looks

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Fantastic.

She looks like

she's not a day over 93.

Yeah, and a lot of people ask, did she get her hair colored?

No, that's natural.

No, right.

Yeah, that's natural.

No hair color whatsoever.

Nope.

Involved here.

We'll share what she had to say and much more coming up in one minute.

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No, just recently.

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I would expect that.

Yeah, that's it.

Most people would.

Interesting.

So Representative Rosa Doloro, she's been doing just incredible work in the U.S.

Congress for 35 years now.

So she's been elected 17 times?

That's

the hell is the matter with you in New Haven, Connecticut.

This is why stop it.

That's why you need turbo nets.

People just get an autopilot.

They don't even know.

They don't even know who she is anymore.

It's just, oh, I know that name.

There's your problem.

That's bad.

Yep.

Because

you don't even look into anybody else.

Well, I know that name.

Well, yeah.

You've known that name for 35 freaking years.

She's been your representative all that time.

Really?

You want to give her another term?

Stop it.

And what is she?

Honestly, what's she known for?

As I look up at the video we're about to potentially play, I see the purple hair.

She's known for purple hair.

Now, that's what she's known for.

We just noted natural.

It's natural purple.

She's just a natural purple head.

That's just who she is.

Right.

But

that's all she's known for.

She's not, she's a.

Well, she's known for stupidity as well as performance.

That's true.

But mostly just being a complete non-entity.

Yeah,

that is true.

How many times have we spoken of Rosa DeLauro in the last 35 years since we left Connecticut anyway?

Not that many times.

Not that many times.

Not that many times.

I think this is the first time.

We knew of her because she was the representative of the area where we lived.

Yes, right.

And she was very, very bad then.

Yeah.

Was she the mayor?

Couldn't stand her then.

Was she the mayor of New Haven?

Am I remembering that correctly?

Well, that might be.

That might be.

Yeah, that might be right.

I could be wrong wrong on that.

So apologies to her illustrious career if I am.

But I think that's where she was at one point.

Back when you were hosting a show with Glenn in that city.

And she was a joke then.

Yes, she was.

I mean, she was bad then.

And Connecticut has what they've done and what they do is has rewarded her with multiple decades of paying her a six-figure salary to do a terrible job.

Yeah.

And that is just wrong.

It's unacceptable.

It is what it is.

It is.

But here's what she has to say about Doge and what Doge is doing.

The other piece of that is the outrage of the American public.

And when you think about there is the legal issue, but you have to think about

what are the repercussions to American families.

You take education.

You're looking at denying people school lunches.

You are taking the opportunity for a college education if you cut Pell Grants.

You cut student financial aid.

There are a whole range of

student financial aid, nobody has to pay back their loans from their student loans anymore.

What do you mean?

Well, they do now, but they didn't for a while.

Nobody has a student loan anymore because Biden wiped them all out.

These people.

All right, let's hear the rest.

What these services do for the American public.

That's the word that has to get out.

When you cut education, how much socialism could you have?

I can cut Title I, 72,000 teachers nationwide are gone.

Your kid may be in a classroom that doesn't have a teacher.

Special education for developmentally challenged kids.

Dog at a moment.

What happens to those kids?

But again, it's U.S.

aid.

It's education.

It's not U.S.

aid.

It's going to be Medicaid.

And it is about the effect of what happens.

I can't take it anymore.

It's not even U.S.

aid.

And it should be.

I don't even want to pronounce it that way anymore because because it's important to note it's USAID, which stands for Agency of International Development.

Right.

It's got nothing to do with 72,000 teachers in America.

It might have 72,000 teachers in

Uganda.

I don't know.

Maybe we fund 72,000 teachers there through USAID.

But they are funding.

Probably not.

I feel like their programs don't do any good.

So

probably not even teachers from Uganda.

who they're trying to make it out, though, as if

children are going to die because this program has been at least suspended for a while, at least looked into.

And now that's going to kill children all over the world.

And now Rosa DeLaura trying to make it about teachers and students in America.

I mean, same these are the same tactics we've been seeing forever.

I mean,

she's a good representative of that argument because this argument's been around for as long as she's a million in Congress, which is forever.

Yeah.

You know, it really is sort of like, if you're falling for this crap at this point, I don't know what we even do to convince you.

You know, isn't it nice, though, that

if you're falling for this kind of crap,

you've sort of fallen out of power and you can't do anything about it right now.

For the moment.

For the moment.

For the moment.

And let's savor that moment.

Fantastic.

Yeah.

I love it.

I really do love it.

I do love it.

I do love it.

And Rosa Deloro is, you know, a good example of just this sort of old way of thinking.

Yeah.

And

I don't know that that works anymore.

Do you think it works?

I mean, it definitely does on some people, right?

I mean, it was still a relatively close election.

We've got a one-seat majority, basically, in the House because of some of the appointments Trump has made.

So

it's still close, right?

It's still a close country.

It's shocking that that sort of argument would work on anybody at this point.

The scare tactics of we're not going to have a tea.

I mean,

you're going to have teachers in your classrooms like they might suck frankly yeah but you're probably going to have somebody there but if you if you open this up if you got rid of all public uh education completely you'd still have teachers in your classrooms in fact the only time we didn't have teachers in classrooms is when the democrats told them that they were going to stay home and not go to school and they were going to close all the schools that's when you didn't have teachers in classrooms

that's about it the the market would absolutely be able to solve that problem if you would allow it to.

What about children in Chad who don't have faces?

Will we be able to have faces?

Yeah, we're buying children in Chad.

We're buying

children in Chad, Pat.

Mouths.

Oh, oh, they're buying them.

Yeah.

Okay, you're buying them.

You're getting them face parts so that they can now have a face, which they didn't have before.

Can I play the Doge committee here for a second?

Sure.

How did they get no faces?

I think it's the water and the air in Chad.

So water and the air in Chad are so bad.

The kids, about 98% of them, are born without a face.

Without a face, and so we have to buy them eyeballs?

Eyeballs, noses.

Don't forget their nose.

You look like Baltimore without a nose.

And then you need a mouth, and I think ears

as well.

Can I follow up?

Yeah, sure.

So you.

Go ahead.

Have you done an environmental study to tie the water to

know it?

Yeah.

Okay.

And then you felt it.

And I'm going to ask and answer a question real quick.

Okay.

Which is, where are you getting all these eyeballs?

Oh, your best friend?

Oh, your best friend knows the company that makes eyeballs.

Oh, wow.

That's a surprise.

Yeah.

Did I get it right?

Did I get it right?

Right.

Wow.

How did you know that?

Yeah, I know.

It's just.

He makes eyeballs.

Noses.

Noses and mouths.

And mouths.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know how I knew it.

They're really crazy about that.

They're a little bit rubbery, I guess, on the lips.

It wouldn't happen to be one of your donors, would it?

I just kind of no curiosity with it, but yes.

It does, of course.

Nothing to do with it whatsoever.

But shockingly,

I got that right, too.

Yeah.

Wow.

That's the way the world works.

It is.

That is where we are.

It just is.

And it's pathetic.

Pathetic.

And they don't want this looked into in any way because we're stopping their gravy trade right here.

I mean,

this means a lot of money and a lot of power for a lot of people.

And as Glenn has mentioned several times,

more of what USAID does than save children without faces is

regime change in third world nations.

I mean, how many times, how many coups have they accomplished?

How many times did they overthrow Ukraine?

I mean, it's over and over and over.

They're using their money and these funds for something other than taxpayers certainly intend these funds to go to.

Yeah, and if you could dig out

whatever percentage of that budget is worthwhile, maybe there is something in there.

I don't know.

I mean,

there are definitely some programs.

I'm sure they've done some.

I will say there are definitely programs in there that do help people.

Now, whether that's the responsibility of the United States or the appropriate use of taxpayer dollars is another question.

But like let's make, let's kind of come up with a tier process here.

Let's say the A tier bat is money that we should be spending on something valuable.

That's A, A tier.

Okay.

B tier is money maybe we shouldn't be spending.

Maybe that shouldn't be our responsibility, but it's still doing a lot of good.

Oh, okay.

Is this like what would fit into that category, for instance, like a Shakespearean player?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, one-legged

non-binary nun in Columbia.

There's a ton of non-binary nuns these days.

I've noticed they're not.

So many, and that's why we've funneled so much money together.

Right, no.

So, Pat, that would not fall.

Okay, so that's not in category B?

No.

C tier is money we shouldn't be spending because it's not really our responsibility on things that don't make any difference at all.

Yeah.

Maybe we could put your one-legged nun into the C tier.

Don't forget, she's not binary.

Non-binary.

They are non-binary.

They are non-binary.

Not she.

Not she.

They are non-binary.

Yes, let's get our pronouns correct.

I don't even make, you know what?

I can't.

I'm sorry, Pat.

I can't.

I'm sorry.

I can't.

even put that into the C category because I would say that probably actually does do damage.

Most likely, because the government that we're doing it under probably hates the policy.

So they hate us and it's probably

causing animosity in our foreign relations.

I haven't even heard that that's going on.

Not to mention the non-binary thing, I don't think it's a positive, calling people non-binary.

There's you know there's women.

So I would say something like let's say you're going biblical on me now.

Yeah, yeah, I kind of wow.

So the C tier, let's say it like it's more like a

normal Shakespeare, like a Romeo and Juliet in the park.

Okay.

Okay, like not doing any damage, you know, but like why the heck are we paying for it?

Okay.

D tier would be your one-legged nun.

Okay.

Because if you shouldn't be spending it.

Non-binary nun.

Non-binary.

I keep forgetting that part.

One-legged, non-binary nun.

It's discriminatory.

I'm kind of ashamed of that right now.

It's shocking.

D tier would be that, which is like, okay, so we shouldn't spend the money and it does a little bit of damage.

And then the E or F tiers get into what the vast majority of the portfolio is, which we shouldn't be spending it, and it's doing real hardcore damage.

It's not just a we're using it to overthrow governments or it's going into somebody's bank account.

Right.

It's going directly to corruption.

We have a story today.

I don't have it pulled up in front of me, but I believe the numbers.

27%

of funding into, I believe it's the Department of Education's funding goes to DEI programs.

27%.

27%.

That's bonkers.

Because you think, okay, well, yeah, sure, Rand Paul gets up in front of everybody and pulls out five programs, and they all sound really crazy, and that's it.

Yeah.

No, like a quarter of the budget

is going to this.

Let me get the exact thing for you here.

And I mean, basically, that's what President Trump was talking about the other day: how much of this stuff goes to absolute nonsense, and we've just got to put a stop to it.

We have to.

60%

is

all they use for actual aid to anybody or actual help or humanitarian efforts.

It's like 60% of the budget.

And even that is like, I mean, is it really valuable?

It's like, is it in your A category?

Is it in your B category?

Or is it in your C category?

We don't even know.

Yeah.

We don't even know.

A lot of it is just blind.

Yeah.

Maybe that's the E category.

And then the F is the one that's really doing the damages.

We're building this tier list on the fly.

By the way, I was slight misspeak there.

27% of National Science Foundation grants went went to DEI projects.

0.29%

of all grants with start dates in 2021 centered on DEI.

By 2024, it was up to 27%.

So from 0.29% to 27% during Biden.

Tell me the guy didn't make a difference.

Oh, my God.

You could say he was a disaster.

You could say he was asleep at the wheel.

The guy made a difference.

The difference was negative.

Right.

But the difference was made.

Right.

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Huh.

Got to say, Stu, I'm a little disappointed.

I thought you were a little more compassionate toward children and Chad born without faces.

I mean, what did I put them in?

You pretty much don't care.

I guess I put him in a...

Yeah, you put him in I think you put them in

yeah it's money we shouldn't spend but actually probably does some good.

I feel like if you have no face at all and you have a great organization like your best friend's company that's making eyeballs and noses.

It's a good cause, right?

Or it could fit into EE or F, the corruption one.

Oh, wow.

It could be that one because it could be that you are, you wouldn't be having to get a kickback from each sale of each eyeball, right?

That wouldn't happen to be something that's going on, would it?

No.

You don't have to be an investor in their company by any chance.

No.

No.

I just, I've been saving up for that Ferrari that I just parked in the parking lot.

Because it's very nice.

I've been saving up for it for a long time.

I did notice you have a bumper sticker with just a bunch of eyeballs on it.

And I thought that was weird.

Especially on a Ferrari.

On a Ferrari.

I don't know.

It seemed appropriate.

It did seem appropriate.

And it does seem like exactly.

Now, you didn't happen to invest in this company, let's say, two weeks before the funding went out.

I think it was, no, I think it was like 17 days.

Okay.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

You just decided one day.

You're like, you know what?

That eyeball company looks promising.

And it turned out to be a pretty good investment.

It's up like 600% now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it's nice.

The Nancy Pelosi plan.

Not everybody has the feel I have for the market.

You know what I mean?

No, that's definitely true.

You do have that Pelosi-esque vibe.

You just seem to nail every one of your stock picks.

All of them, yeah.

Really impressive.

Well, except for Bitcoin.

That's about the, there's one that I did not nail.

No.

So others have, and good for them.

That's great.

Yeah, Yeah, those people.

They're not going to get any eyeballs from me, though.

I'll tell you that right now.

They can buy their own eyeballs.

I'm not helping them on that.

Because they what?

Because they already invested it.

Yeah.

And made a lot of money.

How much time do we have here, BJ?

Okay.

Because I want to play what Donald Trump had to say about the hostage situation.

It's changed again thanks to Hamas.

And here's what President Trump said about a cut 10.

When I see that scene that I saw today with people coming out of helicopters and airplanes that are emaciated, that look like they haven't had a meal in a month.

No reason for that.

And I don't know how much longer we can take it.

Do you want to recast that?

I don't know how long we can take it.

When I watch people that were healthy people

a reasonably short number of years ago and you look at them today, they look like they've aged 25 years.

they literally look like the old pictures of holocaust of artist it's the same thing i mean the same thing and i don't know how long we're going to take this

he has uh

he has said that the hostages all of them need to be returned by saturday at noon or all hell breaks loose And then, so the next question was, what does that mean?

And he said, they'll find out, and so will you, on Saturday, if they don't return the hostages.

But this drips and drabs thing that they've been getting away with now for a month with Hamas,

it's not right, and it needs to stop.

We just need to have the hostages return.

What is this coming?

What is this game we're playing here?

Bizarre.

Give them back.

Yeah.

Give them back now.

And we're not giving you 200 criminals in return for them.

But that's what's been going on so far.

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what day?

Is it Sunday?

Friday?

Oh, no, it's Friday.

Yeah.

I mean, I assume you know that from the reservations you've already booked.

Right.

Right.

Yeah, yes.

Okay.

Yeah, that's why it was so busy when I booked it.

And we had to go in there some other time than I usually wanted to go in.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so, yeah, but

that's all set.

Because I think ahead.

I'm not like the procrastinators who have put this off and now are just trying to scramble right now.

But if you're one of those people who have put things off until now, gosh.

I wonder if there's any kind of...

Cookie order you could place.

Oh, probably not.

To take advantage of a 10% off sale right now.

I I doubt it because

procrastinators in particular.

Oh, really?

Yes.

I like that.

I don't know.

It looks like a foreign language, like it's from Finland or something.

Kexi?

I don't know what that means, really.

K-E-K-S-I?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like kexi.com, where you could go there and get 10% off cookies and save yourself.

And then on orders over $100, we'll pick up the shipping tab.

So I don't know about we.

I don't know who.

I think I'm using we in the royal sense there, but kexi.com for that.

The president has been

talking about

tariffs lately, which I know you love, Stu.

I know you're a big, big fan and advocate of tariffs.

I'm not a big fan of tariffs.

When did that happen?

I know.

It's a shocking turn.

I just had it over the weekend.

I totally changed my mind.

Did you have to

extra

at some kind of shop where they're selling Eagles paraphernalia or something, and that pissed you off a little little bit?

Yes, I was, yeah,

well, that's understanding.

I want my imported Eagles material to be very cheap.

Now, yeah, as an economic policy, not a fan of it.

I don't think it works and don't think it's a good way to go.

That being said, of course, I don't think that's usually how they work with the Trump administration.

It's mostly just threats and

negotiation.

And negotiation.

And so it certainly does work for that.

And, of course, there's limitations on that, but it certainly works so far.

Yeah.

We've seen it in a couple of countries, not just Colombia,

but also

Mexico, Canada.

Brought them right to the table.

Brings them to the table.

It does.

It's been effective in that way so far.

Now, will we come up with an arrangement where that's agreeable to both?

It's happened all the time.

I hope so.

And now, of course, the last time was the

U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement, which Trump negotiated, which eliminated all these tariffs.

Right.

And now, I mean, now.

Then they got placed back on American products during Biden.

And so

this, you know, they keep calling

when we assess a tariff on a product from another nation and then they respond, we're told that that's retaliation.

Well, no, we're the ones who retaliated against what was being charged to us.

What he said the other day was, if you charge us, we're going to charge you.

That seems fair.

I mean, I don't like the plan, but I do love it as a negotiation tactic.

And I think it's been pretty effective that way.

But he's talking about placing tariffs, and I think this already went into, did it go into effect the producers of steel, the tariffs on steel?

Here he is talking about that cut 25.

So the failed American trade policies have led our once incredible United States steel and aluminum industries once incredible.

It's once incredible.

Not now, but

they're not bad.

I saved them because of my first term, totally saved them.

If I didn't do what I did, I put massive tariffs, not the highest level, but

pretty massive tariffs.

We got

there.

We took in a lot of money and we took in a lot of jobs.

But

we were being pummeled by both friend and foe alike.

Our nation requires steel and aluminum to be made in America, not in foreign lands.

We need to create, in order to protect our country's future, a resurgence of U.S.

manufacturing and production, the likes of which has not been seen for many decades.

It's time for for our great industries to come back to America.

I want them back to America.

This is the first of many, and you know what I mean by that.

We're going to be doing others on other subjects, topics.

Protecting our steel and aluminum industries is a must, and today I'm simplifying our tariffs in steel and aluminum so that everyone can understand exactly what it means.

It's 25% without exceptions or exemptions.

And that's all countries, no matter where it comes from, all countries.

If made made in the United States, however,

United States of America, there is no tariff, it's zero.

So if it's made in the United States, there is no tariff.

All you have to do is make it in the United States.

We don't need it from another country.

As an example, Canada.

If we make it in the United States, we don't need it to be made in Canada.

We'll have the jobs.

That's why Canada should be our 51st state.

We'll bring back industries and we'll bring back our jobs and we'll make America industry great again.

again.

Oh, man.

So I think the end result of this, if he has to follow through and actually place the tariff on these products, there's going to be some pain involved.

You know, and can we ride that out will be the question.

Or will that hurt his presidency to a point where he can't recover from it?

That's the fear here.

Because if you start a trade war and

things get ugly for two years,

that midterm election is not going to go our way.

Correct.

That is the risk.

Yeah.

I mean, it's one of the risks of that policy.

And I think, you know, that's something he's been very honest and forthright about, that it's going to cause pain.

It does.

And it is.

You know, you think about the best way to think about tariffs is

it's not a policy that's good.

It's what it is good

to do is to help achieve another goal.

If you can utilize it to get something else of higher value eventually, it can be beneficial.

Or if it levels the playing field to where American products aren't taxed by other countries to the point where their people, their citizens, can't buy them.

But like, that's still not a good outcome.

Yeah.

Right.

Like,

it's not a positive.

It's just more fair.

It's like how the left looks at income inequality.

Like, well, what if we just take a bunch of money away from rich people and everyone's poor?

Well, okay, I guess that's more fair.

That's not necessarily a good policy for everybody.

I think the issue with tariffs are you're saying like, we're going to cause pain on ourselves

and we're going to cause pain on you,

on the opponent.

And we are saying we can survive that pain more successfully.

We can withstand it more.

We will be, we'll stand up to it.

We'll deal with it until you cry out for relief.

And then we'll get rid of all this and we'll get whatever we want.

That's kind of like the approach of tariffs.

And Trump has used it successfully

as far as threats.

He has, now he's also like, you know, he did, he put

a 20% tariff on washing machines back when he was in his first term.

Right.

And this is stunning to hear, but it made washing machines go up by about 20%.

What a coincidence.

It's shocking.

It's a shocking development.

Yeah.

Really?

I believe the actual number was 16.82% or something like that.

And the reason was the imports went in and they came up about 20%.

And then

you think, well, wouldn't it be less than that, 16%?

Because there's a lot of, there still are domestically made products.

Wouldn't that lower it?

And it did.

But what happened was the domestic companies were like, well, everyone else is going up by 20%.

We can at least go up by like 10 or 12.

So then they went up to just get a bunch of free money to them, which, again, is great for that company, I suppose.

But overall, it costs American consumers a bunch of cash.

I mean, look, we're not idiots.

It's a tax.

That's what it is.

It's a tax.

And look, taxes are bad, generally.

However, when you need to fund defense, we're all like, okay, we can deal with taxes in that circumstance.

That's what you're dealing with with tariffs.

Interestingly, too, Stu, it's interesting that you mention

that particular aspect of a tax because that's one of the things that the Constitution specifies you can tax for.

Yes.

It's a common defense.

Defense.

It's the actual function of the government.

Our government has gotten a little bit out of its gourd on what counts as

a function of government.

Just a bit.

But I think like, you know, when you see a tax come in, we all know

taxes don't help your economy, but they can do things if you believe they're leading to something positive.

You know, most taxes don't.

In this case, you might say, well,

we want to maintain American manufacturing.

We want to increase American manufacturing.

Therefore, this tax is worth it.

Like, that's this calculation being made.

And that's a calculation that all governments must make.

Uh, it's just a matter of whether you think these are the right things or not.

How about the just really mean attitude of Donald Trump that people should come in to their workplace, though?

Oh, that's mean.

Aren't you pissed off about

angry?

I'm angry.

I'm about to get into the streets with a sign.

I'm that angry.

We see what Glenn is out.

He's out protesting at 10 right now.

He hates coming to work so much.

He's taken the day off to avoid anything.

He's a bad example because he really does.

He does work remotely quite a bit.

He does.

But that is,

you know, that's the good thing about owning a company.

Yep.

You know,

you do get to do so.

You can do that.

You know, these federal employees, especially

they don't get to make those decisions.

Here's what he said about

nobody works from home.

Many of those people, and we talk about

reporting to work, right?

I happen to be a believer that you have to go to work.

I don't think you can work from home.

I don't know.

It's like there's a whole big oh, you can work from home.

Nobody's going to work from home.

They're going to be

going out.

They're going to play tennis.

They're going to play golf.

They're going to do a lot of things.

They're not working.

It's a rare person that's going to work.

You might work 10% of the time, maybe 20%.

I don't think you're going to work a lot more than that.

And I think they have an obligation to work.

And they have an obligation not to have a second job when they're supposed to be working for the federal government.

You're going to find that a lot of these people had second jobs instead of working for they'll be collecting a federal government check and they'll be working two jobs and that's that's big trouble for them there's a good chunk of the workforce that that you can tell a lot about them um how they pulled that process off during covet like the lazy workforce just didn't work or worked like a few percent of the time just to get by but the real entrepreneurs just got another job to fill the time that they weren't working for the real job that's that's when you when you had that sort of inspiration you're like you know what i'm just going to take another job i'm going to work at 20 and then i'll make double the money that's the entrepreneurship entrepreneurship our country was built on.

It really is.

It's fascinating to watch this process, though, because those

who have been allowed for the last few years to work from home have become so entitled with that now that how dare you now ask me to make that commute.

Yeah.

What's incredible is that when all of this

trophy participation trophy culture began, I thought, wow, wait till you join the real world.

Wait until the time when you have to go out and get a real job and be actually

held accountable for that job you're doing and have to go in nine to five every single day and actually work.

You're going to be so shocked.

Well, it didn't work out that way.

What shocked me was instead businesses to a large extent are actually caving into the participation trophy people.

So the young people aren't learning any lessons.

They're just realizing that, yeah, we can get them to bend to our will.

Well, Trump's not going to.

No, Trump is bucking that trend.

This is sometimes like everyone's like, oh, we need a new, uh, a new view of leadership.

Sometimes you just need the guy who's been around for a while and it's like, screw you.

Yeah.

You know, sometimes you just need that.

You just need the guy who's going to be like, no, no, I, you know, I've been around for 70 years.

I know what you're doing.

No.

Yeah.

And you need that sometimes.

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I was just about to get into Pete Hagseth, who I think is going to be such a great defense secretary.

I mean, the guy,

he's no nonsense.

We've got some people in office right now and in positions of power that just don't care what you think about them.

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what he said the other day though was great that

uh the stupidest thing he's ever heard in his life was that the military's focus was going to be on uh diversity equity and inclusion.

That is kind of the dumbest possible thing, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And he basically said, look, we're getting back to what the military focuses on.

I mean, I don't care what color you are.

I don't care what culture you come from.

I don't care what language you speak.

You just have to be able to do the job and do it well.

And isn't that how you want your military to operate?

I certainly do.

And when you've got a budget of $800 billion,

I think this is another thing that's coming up quickly.

And Glenn mentioned yesterday that he's excited about this.

I am too, because we're supposed to be the kind who just fall in line with everything militarily.

But

you got to believe that there's a lot of waste and a lot of fraud in the military-industrial complex

as they deal with defense contractors and all of that.

I bet it's hundreds of billions of dollars.

Has to be.

Has to be.

I mean, what was it?

Dick Cheney on September 10th, 2001, said Rumsfeld.

It was Donald Rumsfeld.

Yeah.

Said that we were missing, was it $3 trillion?

It was somewhere $1 to $3 trillion.

It was over a trillion dollars that was just missing.

I don't know where it is.

And then 9-11 happened and nobody paid any attention to it.

But I've never heard where that money went.

And it's probably still going wherever that black hole is.

Yep, maybe we should look into it.

You think?

Yeah, I think so.

That's a weird situation.

Is it too picky of me?

I don't know if we have time.

Yeah.

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