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It's Patton Stew for Glenn today.

He's a little under the weather.

He is.

He even came in today, started prepping the show, and then

got sick while he was here.

Yes.

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

So thank you for that, Glenn.

So we're just a tad hesitant to be speaking into the microphone, which was just

polluted.

You know,

I think what we should do today is wear four different masks to honor Anthony Fauci and his health advice.

Right.

Because, you know, it's very important to protect yourself.

Is that two a piece or four each?

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

Okay.

That's just a recommendation, though.

That's not science.

All right.

He is science.

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All right.

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I'm sure you guys have talked about how

President Trump has done so much so fast that

it's almost impossible for us to keep up with, let alone the liberal media to try to complain, whine, and cry about everything he's doing.

I mean, as soon as they start complaining and crying about one thing, he's already onto the next.

And it's been a breakneck pace.

It's been unbelievable.

It really has.

It's been, it's sort of the opposite of overwhelming the system that the left was always trying to do.

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

I don't think Trump is in that position.

I think he likes that everyone notices

when he signs a new executive order.

But there has been so much in just the first couple of weeks.

I mean, certainly the most I've ever seen

in my life.

Any president.

Yeah.

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

Yeah.

But I'm not sure it was on this kind of scale.

I mean,

the cuts in the budget were beyond what's going on right now.

Yeah, not even close.

Not even close.

He cut the budget 50% in the first year and then 50% again the next year.

But those were the days when the U.S.

budget was like $12, I think $11 or $12 billion

annually.

So the first year he cut it to like like 6 billion and then the next it was down to 2 billion.

I mean it was

it was staggering what happened then.

But I don't know if

they did as many things as are happening right now on as many fronts, tackling as many issues.

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

Oh, I think you're right.

I think it's, you know, again, you don't wish the Biden years

existence by any means.

As they happened, it allowed this.

It allows this.

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

Like you can go through and, and when you're working in a day-to-day,

the day-to-day can kill you.

It can overwhelm you.

You can, you know, there's always a new development.

And certainly his entire last year of that last term was lost to COVID.

Yeah.

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

He was being investigated for Russia.

Russia was invading Ukraine.

I mean, you know, no, that was actually after his first term, right?

Yes, it was after his first term.

That was 2022.

Now that I think about it, but there was still stuff going on over there.

You had so much to deal with on a day-to-day basis.

A lot of it from the media, from

congressional investigations, from impeachment efforts.

I think that day-to-day got to him a little bit.

And taking four years off, where all you have to do is stew about how

the last years went, but also plan for how I would do it again if I had the opportunity.

That is what I think he did.

And he put people around him who came up with a plan, and it has been, you know, a little shock and awe-ish.

Yes.

Right?

It really has.

It really has been.

Even for someone who likes the things, generally speaking, that he's doing, it has been like, wow, this is a lot.

Yeah.

And I think that's...

I think it's smart because if you think of the timeline of a presidency, Pat, they've got what, a one-seat majority right now, basically.

When these people that he's appointed get into office and they're trying to slow play the Stefanik seat in New York right now to try to keep the majority as small as possible, you go through that period, the chances of you winning after two years when you have such a small majority are low.

I mean, most presidents lose seats in that first election.

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

But if the Republicans lose that election in 2022, you've got a two-year presidency where you're you're really going to be able to get a lot done, especially with Congress.

And then you start shrinking that down.

Well, that last year before the election, all these

purple district

moderates are not going to want to get on board with anything hard in that year before the election.

So you probably lost that year.

And then you have this first year, kind of the only thing.

And it starts off with all these appointments.

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

And you start shrinking down and you you just don't have that much time to do anything the way our system is set up right now.

He's decided he knew that.

He decided, I'm going to do something about it.

I'm not going to slow play this.

They're going to be appointing people.

I'm going to be doing stuff on my own.

They're going to get as much done as they can.

And then they do have this one big reconciliation bill to pass this year too, which is going to be a struggle with small majorities.

But hopefully they get that done as well.

But

he's just going for it.

And I think that's the right approach.

Yeah.

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

Like, they're saying that he's already written drafts for the executive order to close down

the Department of Education.

I mean, eventually that'll take Congress to do it, too.

But the executive order to begin the process or start dismantling it is about to happen, apparently.

Yeah, I think, and it's going to include a plan as to how to unwind it.

Yeah.

Which, you know, again,

you don't, you, I am completely on board with ending the Department of Education, as I have been,

ever since I've been politically aware.

It has to be done congressionally, though.

It has to be done congressionally.

And I will say that's the same thing with USAID.

Like, I mean, he's been talking about, they're talking about Doge coming in and dismantling it.

You can't really do that without Congress.

It was started by an executive order, but was later codified by Congress.

So you do have to go through Congress much later.

Yeah.

It started under Kennedy.

Yeah.

So, yeah, then it happened under Clinton.

It was 98, I think.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And, you know, Bill Clinton had a lot of stuff going on in 1998.

Yes, he did.

Yeah, he did.

A lot of stuff going on.

But

while Monaco was under the desk, he was signing, he was putting together an effort to put that congressionally through, and it did succeed.

So you would have to go through.

That doesn't mean, though, you can't change these things.

And we're seeing that a lot with a lot of stuff Doge is doing.

You come in here and you say, hey,

if you want to resign, give us an email to resign.

That is within his authority.

It's ridiculous to say that it is not, even though the Democrats are trying and the unions are trying to say that.

Of course, it's okay to say, we'd like you to leave.

It depends on how much you can pay, and there's some legal lines there.

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

Now, that's not a, it's not a number that you're going to notice in the budget, honestly, 20,000 employees.

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

I think they're all being encouraged to not take it

because they have all these protections built in, right?

And the left has done a good job in

putting this sort of government apparatus in concrete so it can't be it can't be moved, it can't be reshaped.

They're doing everything they can to stop this, but 20,000 supposedly have already taken the offer to just get out, get paid till September, and not have to work.

I mean,

it's a pretty sweet deal.

Yeah, I'm kidding.

You know, you got seven months to find a new job.

You're getting paid a decent amount of money until then.

Why not?

If you're going to go anyway, and a lot of them probably are.

A lot of them probably were going to be fired.

Like if you were working, Pat, in a Trump administration, the first term, you're working in some civil service job under Trump and you're doing something you believe in, and then Joe Biden gets elected and all of a sudden you're like promoting LGBTQ abortions every day, you'd probably leave too.

Yeah, so for sure.

I can understand why a lot of those people would want to get out and they get a nice long runway to do set.

You know, if you're really smart, this is gonna not gonna make much sense

in the entrepreneurial spirit to a lot of government employees.

But like, maybe you take it and then go get another job, and then you've got two salaries for nine months.

Would that put you ahead?

I bet it would.

Yeah, that's a nice way to go.

So it's actually quite a generous offer if it if it holds up in court.

And honestly, like

if I'm in that, if I'm in that situation, there's a good chance I think I take it.

I don't want to sit here and try to promote the initiatives of some left-wing nut job.

Right.

That you completely disagree with.

You don't want to be doing that.

So get out.

Yeah.

Get out.

The people who want to stay, stay and help.

If you don't want to stay and help, then get out.

That's a pretty basic request.

And it should be the approach of every company.

You know, this is the same thing they did at Twitter.

They basically said, Look, we're going to be cutting anyway, so you might get fired anyway.

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

You might wind up losing your job with very, with much less severance.

But isn't it a better thing to know about it going in?

Yeah.

Than to wonder if you're going to keep your job.

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

So you could, here's a

here's an umbrella, here's a here, a parachute

to use on the way out.

I mean, it's generous.

Go ahead and take it.

Yeah.

Take the parachute.

We had a situation like this.

My wife, who

had her own national radio show, she does music radio.

But she was doing a radio show on a daily basis.

She signed a new three-year contract.

And then there was this thing that happened.

There was a pangolin in Wuhan that apparently started making out with some guy.

And it passed.

I know.

Well, you know, look,

to each his own, Pat.

If you're to make out with a pangolin, you make out my pangolin.

Right.

Who am I to be all judging?

Yes, exactly.

The LGBTQQIA2P community.

So you're loving on a pangolin a little bit, and a little virus broke out.

Yeah.

And the radio company decided, holy crap, we need to fire everyone.

So they laid off my wife.

That was like April or May 2020, right in the middle of everything.

I think she signed her contract in April 2020, and then they laid her off in May 2020.

She signed a three-year deal.

Wow.

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

It was, it was absurd.

It was awesome.

Yeah.

I was like, this is the best job you've ever had.

You can sit here and not have to do any shows.

You don't have to show up to work at all.

You can do whatever you want and you still get paid.

Like, this is incredible.

I don't remember how much, it was like half the time of her contract or something.

She just got paid for nothing.

I was like, that's a good gig.

Yeah.

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

It was awesome for her.

She was excited about it.

So at the end, certainly.

So it's one of those things where if you get a,

that thing comes around once in a lifetime.

Take it.

Take it.

Take it.

Hey, you in Washington, if you don't like what you're doing, get out.

Yeah.

The chances of you getting fired are there anyway.

Take the risk.

Get out.

Go find something you want to do in a field you want to work in in the private sector.

Now, they're going to ask you to show up to work probably.

They're not going to let you stay.

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

Oh, those bastards.

I know.

They're going to say you need to leave your bathtub.

Wow.

You know,

there are some negatives.

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

They may.

They may ask that.

Although, I will say, if one of the reasons why you don't want to,

or you don't like your job so much is because you're currently remote working and have to change that.

There are actually a lot of companies that will allow you you to remote work.

Yeah.

So go find one of them and go work there.

Maybe you'll like it more.

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We all understand it.

We all know it.

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By the way, including Trump won.

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So President Trump talked about why some of these things are happening right now and why they're happening with

the rapidity with which we're viewing right now.

And a lot of it's because we're just getting ripped off.

And he talked about that in his first term.

But man, this time he's really putting the hammer down.

Check this out.

Every single one of those countries is dying to make a deal.

You know why?

Because they're ripping us off really badly.

And the United States is tired of

just being ripped off.

And that's why we have $36 trillion in debt.

We have it for a reason, because we make bad deals with everybody.

And we don't allow that anymore.

So the Wall Street Journal is wrong.

Very simply, single country that you're writing about right now is dying to make a deal because the deals they have right now are so good and so good for them and so profitable for them.

You didn't know that Canada didn't allow our banks.

You didn't know all of these different things.

And I think in the end, you're going to see that

either very, very substantial tariffs are going to be paid by them or they're going to make some kind of a deal.

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

Wouldn't they prefer to keep the one in place that they have?

Well, I think what he's referring to is the deal's there to be made because there's a lot of room, right?

Like, they've got the good side of this deal, and now he's going to end that.

Yeah, he's going to end that, so they're going to want to do a deal once he gives he puts them on alert, which, by the way, we saw yesterday.

Yeah, we saw immediately yesterday with both Canada and Mexico.

Yes, because the tariffs were supposed to take place today:

25% on Canadian goods, 25% on Mexican goods, 10% extra on Chinese goods.

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

And so now it's been delayed with both Canada and Mexico because he's right.

They're willing to deal now.

It's not just that, too.

It's Colombia.

Yeah.

They were rejecting planes.

Then they turned that around really fast.

I will also say I was doing the Megan Kelly show yesterday, and I was going to come on on right at the beginning of the show, and then they moved me back like 15 minutes.

And the reason why they were talking to Rick Rinnell, who went to Venezuela and negotiated the release of six of our hostages, of their hostages, our people being held hostage there, and was able to bring six of them home.

And he went through the entire story, which was incredible.

Wow.

You know, again, could we have done that during the Biden administration?

I mean, I don't think he would have been there.

They'd ever been capable of it, but like, why not?

Why weren't we there saying, hey, look, we don't don't agree with

the Maduro regime, but like you got some of our people there.

What can we do to make this happen?

And that happened in the first week.

Yeah.

I mean, it seems like listening to Grinnell, he's going to be going all over the world and doing stuff like this, and that's a great thing.

Yeah.

So

it's just, it's, look, it's just been impressive.

It's been impressive.

I think it has been an impressive first couple of weeks.

You run the risk.

I mean, some of the stuff we really like and, you know, maybe isn't as popular across the country, some of that stuff will start catching up to you over the long term.

But this is the right approach for that stuff.

Yeah.

If a cut is unpopular, get it done, rip off the band-aid, and everybody move on so we can kind of look for more

things that the American people can unite on and also reap the benefits of cuts because the earlier you make them, the better they are.

He had much more to say about tariffs and about U.S.

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We'll get into that coming up.

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Hopefully, he'll be back tomorrow.

We should probably poison him less.

You know, thinking about it in retrospect, I know we have a long-term multi-year program to poison him slowly, but I think maybe we added a little too much this morning.

Well, we've been working for years building up an immunity to iocaine powder.

Yes.

He doesn't have that.

He does not have that.

No.

So.

And a little does a lot, apparently.

It does.

So it goes a long way.

So he's experiencing that today.

So we're talking

about the deal with Canada.

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

And then shockingly,

he had a discussion with Justin Turdo yesterday

between Turdo and Donald Trump.

I think you're mispronouncing that.

Really?

Turd, Doe?

That's not going to be a good idea.

No, you got it.

You got it.

Okay, I'm sorry.

All right.

So

they came around to

some sort of arrangement where we're going to wait for 30 days.

It's weird.

Yeah.

Like, it's almost like this was a negotiating tactic.

It is almost like that.

It's also why I never freak out about this stuff.

Like,

Trump does what he does.

He says things

sometimes, like, he just said he's friends with Kim Jong-un.

So what?

Who cares?

Right?

Like, I don't, is he really friends with Kim?

I doubt he's hanging out with him on the weekends, but

he says these things for a reason.

He's trying to lead to something.

You might not like that thing.

You may not like his approach to get to that thing.

Right.

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

Right.

You have, you have to look at it.

And yet the left does every single time.

I know.

Does anyone remember?

This guy was actually, and I don't know if you even know this, Pat, but he was Donald Trump president of the United States already once.

Whoa.

Yeah.

So we all got to see him be president.

Yeah.

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

And while this, as we just pointed out, I think I would argue this one's a lot seemingly more smooth and I think well planned out maybe than the first one, where it was kind of a surprise he even won.

I think this is going better so far.

Yeah.

But I will also say, you get the hint, right?

Like, it's like, oh my gosh, is Vin Diesel really going to go on that highway at 100 miles an hour and jump over the bridge and somehow land and then get in a fight with The Rock?

Yes.

It's a fast and furious sequel.

Yes, that's going to happen.

And the same thing here.

Like,

yeah, these are sometimes explosive things that he says, but like...

As a person who does not appreciate tariffs as economic policy, I don't like them.

I don't think they're good economic policy.

They do work in situations like this.

They work to get other things.

Tariffs are not good in and of themselves.

They are good if you if you want something else because it is a punishment to that country and to your country.

You're putting pain, as Trump has talked about, you are putting some pain on yourselves, but your bet is we can withstand it a lot better than they can withstand it and they will fold.

That's how he uses tariffs.

Yeah.

And it looks like it's going to work

twice yesterday.

Yeah.

Here he is talking about about the new tariffs.

Is there any chance that Canada or China could also get out of the tariffs after you start the deal with Mexico?

Well, nobody's out with Mexico.

We had a great talk with Mexico, and

we had President Scheinbaum

is a woman.

I like her very much.

We've had good relationships, but we have to stop Fenton from coming in, whether I like somebody or not, and we have to stop the illegal aliens from coming in.

I think we've lost 200,000 people on average a year for many years, much higher than the 100,000.

It could be even closer to 300,000.

And they've agreed to put in 10,000 soldiers permanently, like forever, 10,000 soldiers at their side of the border and stop fentanyl and illegal aliens from coming into our country.

They have a big incentive to do.

Other than that, we've agreed to talk and consider various other things.

We haven't agreed on tariffs yet, and maybe we will, maybe we won't, but we have a very good relationship.

I also spoke with Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada, and we had a good talk in the morning, but I did ask him a couple of questions like, you know, banks aren't allowed to do business in Canada.

Canada is very tough.

Canada is very, you know, we're not treated well by Canada, and we have to be treated well.

Canada.

is really protectionist.

I mean, they protect their stuff.

Yeah, they have tons of tariffs on us.

Oh, my gosh.

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

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

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

It either has to be

completely written.

It's a lot of Brian Adams.

It's a lot of Anne Murray.

Yeah.

It's a lot of format you're in.

Yeah, you've got to to see you're pulling from that.

It doesn't matter because if you're a country station in Canada, I don't know who you're going to play, but it's got to be 35% Canadian.

So there's going to be some bad country music.

You're probably not a country music station in Canada.

Probably not.

But it's true.

This happens, by the way, all over the world.

That's one of the things I like about America and that we don't do those things to people.

But like, you know, I was doing some business out of the country and, you know, it was on a project that

had stalled multiple times.

You know, it was a, it was a 20-year project.

It was stalled.

We started and stopped and started and stopped.

And then, like, the former prime minister or the prime minister's son or something got involved in the project.

And all of a sudden, everything started going totally fine.

It's so weird how that occurs.

It's like that is how business is done all over the world.

Yeah.

And I don't want to be the country that does that.

I don't think that helps your economy long term.

It is protectionist and protectionist policies don't work.

They wind up screwing

everybody, both the people who want to invest in your country from outside of it, but also the people inside your country.

It hurts them too.

You can sometimes protect one group in your country at the expense of another group in your country with protectionism.

That does happen.

But generally speaking, it's just a negative economic consequence, which is why it's a good threat.

It's like it's why it works.

They're not folding because they're like, oh, I'm scared of Donald Donald Trump or I worry about what Donald Trump's voters think of me as Trudeau in Canada.

They're voting because they're changing these policies because, holy crap, like we don't want to face that pain.

I don't want to have to deal with my own voters when they say, hey, Trudeau allowed this to happen.

He's on his way out anyway, Trudeau.

But

that's the instinct.

You don't want to deal with the pain yourself.

And we as America, the strongest nation on earth, I mean, think of how strong we are, Pat.

Like, is there another country on earth that's like, we want 10,000 troops from your country on our border?

Like, we just, we're so confident.

We're like, yeah, Canada and Mexico.

Go ahead, put 10,000.

We want you to.

We're requiring you to put troops on our border.

Again, they would be on the Canadian or Mexican side, but still, like,

how did Ukraine feel when 10,000 Russian troops started showing up on their border?

They didn't look at it as a positive.

Slightly nervous.

Yeah, they're a little worried about that.

Rightfully so.

We're like, ah, you're not not going to do anything.

That's how strong we are.

And because we're so strong, we can, we, you know, Trump is making that calculation that if necessary, and it is happening with China, we can accept a little of this pain.

And we think we can withstand it longer than you can.

Yeah.

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

We're all renegotiating with

these deals again.

So it's been fascinating to watch.

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

Look,

we're going to impose a 25% tariff on North American trade partners.

Okay, well, let's see if that really happens.

Because again, it's a negotiating tactic, I think.

And I really doubt that the 25% tariff will ever happen.

But President Trump also talked about the U.S.

AID situation and the fraud coming out of that organization yesterday.

Here's what he had to say about that.

The first term, though,

I love the concept of it.

Yeah.

I love the concept, but they turn out to be radical left lunatics.

And the concept of it is good, but it's all about the people.

Yeah.

The concept is good, but in practice, it's turned out

not so good when you're talking about things like a one and a half million to advance diversity and equity and inclusion in Serbia.

Oh,

you're not big on DEI in Serbia?

Not that big, no.

Really?

Yeah.

How much money do you think we should spend on it?

A billion or a trillion?

No.

What are you thinking?

Like, how many zeros do you want after that number?

Just the one zero, and that's the only number I would use.

Just the zero.

Just the zero.

Just the straight zero?

Yeah, zero.

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

Right.

Okay.

Yeah.

And you know that.

I do know that.

I do know that.

That seems like the right amount.

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

I mean, how good is is the musical?

Can I hear some of the songs?

I mean, don't make me have any examples of the songs.

Really?

No.

What if it's a great musical, though, Pat?

How much money should we give it then?

Let's say, let's just put it on the music.

Would you go 70,000?

What if it's the best musical of all time?

Okay.

Okay.

Now, I've never seen a musical I enjoyed.

I kind of like the Little Shop of Horrors movie when I was a kid.

Okay.

Which was very twisted.

But I mean, Steve Martin, Rick Moranis.

All right, I was in on that one.

You can't go wrong.

But pretty much nothing else.

Okay.

But let's let's say it's the best musical ever created.

In Ireland?

In Ireland.

No, not just in Ireland.

Just anywhere.

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

The best musical ever created from the dawn of time.

Okay.

Go back to Bach.

Go back to Beethoven.

This is the greatest of all time.

Mozart.

Better than all that crap.

Anything better than all that stuff is trash compared to this musical.

What if it's that good?

How much money are you going to do?

I'm still going to say

zero.

No.

It's always the right number, regardless of the idea.

If it's DEI, or if it's like,

what if it's a

Pat?

What if it is a musical that is praising the BYU football program in Ireland?

It's a whole thing about, hey, we really love the BYU football program.

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

That's one of the songs.

That's the title of one of the songs, Pat.

Even if I get free airfare offered to me, I could go to Dublin and enjoy that music at any time.

i'm still going to say the total investment into that program should be zero yeah no we should never here's another thing pat no matter what the situation we should never fund a musical right what about if it's in america we have all these big arts no no zero

every single time you bring up a musical for our government to fund the answer is zero certainly you don't feel that way about electric vehicles in vietnam though right you're you're okay with two and a half million dollars being invested into electric vehicles in Vietnam.

I am not okay with that.

You're not okay with that.

I am okay.

I'm not okay with some expenditures to that, obviously.

The amount would be

zero.

Okay, but what about $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia?

Now, that's a high priority on the Stubergear list.

You found the one thing worse than a musical.

The opera.

An opera.

A transgender opera.

And you can get a whole opera for only $47,000.

It's not bad.

I got that.

However, what if instead of that opera, which I'm sure is wonderful, do you have any of the songs, Sarah?

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

I can't wait for that.

Yeah, it's going to be great.

It's coming up in just a few minutes.

But if it was instead of a transgender opera, an opera

to an opera that was specifically designed, all of the songs were about Kexie cookies.

Every Every single song was about a new variety

where I live.

Delicious Kexie cookies, K-E-K-S-I.com.

Go buy them.

They're fantastic.

We all know they're fantastic.

Yeah, and it's a whole opera that's devoted to that.

It's a whole

devoted to Kexie cookies in Vietnam, Serbia, where was it?

In

Colombia.

In Colombia.

In Colombia.

A Colombian pro Kexie cookie opera.

Really increasing our international market.

Really would, because I don't know how many cookies you sell, though.

That's probably a low amount.

Not unless you're like cocaine cookies.

I don't think you are.

No, no.

But if they came up with that opera, how much

government in this case?

In this case, I'm going to make an exception

and say a total of

$0.

Zero.

None.

None.

You never fund an opera.

No.

Ever.

No.

If people want to do operas, they do them on their own.

They find people who want to buy tickets to an opera.

What if there are none?

Then you shouldn't be funding it.

Maybe you find some private money, some private donors, perhaps.

Yeah, like this one, you could get Texi to maybe sponsor.

They probably are excited about that expenditure.

40,000?

We got a whole opera.

That sounds great.

That's pretty good.

But like,

it's unbelievable.

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

Like, they're like, what about the art funding for the arts?

Zero.

None.

All of it's zero.

Arts are things that, generally speaking, people like to do.

Right?

People like to sing.

People like to produce musicals for some reason.

Like Sarah's going to show us in a minute.

Yeah, in just a minute, with her transgender opera.

It's a medley, right, Sarah?

Yeah, she said it's a medley.

But like, people like to do that.

They like to paint.

They like to sculpt.

They like to do those things.

Right.

Those are things they want to do.

Go ahead.

In fact, you know what happens, Pat?

When you don't fund it, when you don't pay people to do it, they pay others to go do it at like establishments that are built.

They have painting places.

You go and you paint.

You have a glass of wine.

That's What a concept.

That is weird.

That's just a weird idea.

All right, more coming up.

All right.

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

Yes.

Mm-hmm.

But also, wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where your credit card balance wasn't hit with crippling compound interest?

That kind of sounds nice as well, doesn't it?

Unfortunately, we don't live in that particular world, nor one that does not fund transgender operas.

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

The Democrats surrounded the building yesterday, demanding that it be reopened.

And,

you know,

they want to continue to spend money on

really important things like

the transgender comic book in Peru, for instance, which is only $32,000.

It's not that big an investment.

And is it not worth it to have

a little bit of fun for transgenders in Peru?

You know, it's a good question.

I don't know.

What is the transgender population looking like in Peru these days?

40%, 50% of the population?

I think it's more like 80% or 85%.

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

Why would that happen?

I'm not sure, but it's gone from about 0.7% to about 89%.

Just the 89%.

Okay.

Yeah, I'm going to say that we shouldn't fund it.

Really?

Really, not only that comic book, but any comic book.

No comic books at all?

Our friend Eric July,

who, of course, plays TV contributor, he

came up with an idea for his own

world, right?

How much did he get from USAID?

$0.

What?

And you know how many he would accept if offered?

Zero.

Oh, wow.

Because he doesn't want to be funded by the government.

He wants it to be funded by the people who actually enjoy the comic series.

That's interesting.

I know it's a crazy concept.

It's a crazy concept, but it is possible.

And again, people enjoy coming up with comic books.

They'll do it on their own.

You don't need to fund it.

Really?

And if you need to fund it.

Where are you getting that?

This is just a crazy idea I have.

If you need to fund it, probably not worth it.

If a person's like, I won't make that comic book for you about transgendered superheroes

unless you give me from the U.S.

government.

Remember, think about this position.

You're in Peru.

You're like, I won't make this comic book unless the U.S.

government gives me $32,000.

Maybe it's not a worthwhile project at that point.

I don't know.

You're a little too radical for me this morning.

Okay, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I don't mean to be radical, but

I'm an American conservative.

It's really the only thing I have going on for me.

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

No.

No.

No.

What?

You know, my thought is they got the pyramids.

People like going there.

Yeah.

Isn't there a Sphinx or two you can check out while you're there?

A couple, I think, yeah.

People really like Egypt, Cairo.

I remember watching

one of the Indiana Jones, was it Raiders of the Lost Ark?

Yeah.

Weren't they in Cairo for that one when they met the guy who we've had on the show a bunch of times?

I can't think of his name off.

Jonathan.

I can't think of his name off the top of my head.

But great dude.

And

he was one of the most beloved characters.

He was in Cairo.

You take Cairo because people like it.

People like Egypt.

They want to go visit.

They want to see these incredible wonders of the world.

You don't need to advertise Egypt.

People just know about it.

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

No.

In fact, and here's another incredible thing, Pat.

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

What if they had, like, what's another country?

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

Not a lot of people go into Outer Mongolia

on vacations.

I do have one planned right after the Super Bowl.

Yeah, I'm going to tack it onto the Super Bowl trip.

But most people don't have the timeshare that I have there.

So that's the issue.

I understand timeshares are beautiful in Outer Mongolia.

Outer Mongolia.

The Inner Mongolia is trash.

It's overpriced, Pat.

Don't go there.

But Outer Mongolia is fantastic.

Especially this time of year.

And

if they really needed the tourism, though, you know, like let's say they were thinking like, wow, we only had zero visitors this year.

Maybe we should up the tourism.

We'd like to get like five next year.

Right.

And you know how much we should spend on that?

Zero.

There's never an incident.

We're the richest country on earth.

Yeah.

And if we want to spend some of those riches on trips and timeshares in Outer Mongolia, we can do that.

Yeah.

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

Yeah.

That's not a thing.

Yeah.

Six million dollars.

And again, it's Egypt, a place that people dream about visiting.

You don't need a...

We're burning an ad.

Hey, we got pyramids.

We know.

We all know you got a bunch of big

triangles there.

They're fantastic.

I'd like to see them in person someday, but I doubt the U.S.

government will pay for my trip when I I do decide to go.

No, they're just going to entice you with advertising so you spend your own money on the trip?

What the hell is this?

Crazy.

It's just, it's nuts.

But that, that's kind of the mindset that the left has fallen into, right?

Is that it is our responsibility to do all these things

on the planet.

We're the planet's police officers.

We're the planet's babysitters.

We're the planet's bank,

their bank account for every expenditure they need.

I mean, it's unbelievable.

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

What, the $36 trillion in debt?

I feel like it should be lower than that.

Am I wrong on that?

I don't know.

It feels to me that

you're kind of picky this morning.

A little high.

Yeah, wow.

Yeah, I feel like it.

And by the way, increasing every single month.

By one trillion every hundred days.

Is it a hundred days?

Yeah, every 100 days, it goes up another trillion.

A trillion dollars.

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

to Ronald Reagan to get to 10 trillion.

$1 trillion.

Now we do that every 100 days.

And we're getting to the point now, you don't even want to get me started on what the budget looks like the next 30 years.

I mean, it's abhorrent.

To the point where

our interest on the debt is going to be bigger than our Defense Department.

Jeez.

Which is close to $1 trillion a year, right?

I think it's it's

300 billion or so right now, every year that we spend on

interest.

No, we spend on interest.

And it catches up over the next like 10 or 15 years.

Yeah.

That's the defense budget is, what, 800 billion, I think?

Give or take, Pat.

Yeah.

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

We know that for a fact.

However, at least that's a core

application of the business.

It's something we should be spending money on.

We should be spending a lot of money on it.

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

You can make an argument.

But I, you know, and I'm not, I'm not uncomfortable with that number if it was spent on things that we really needed, like new weapons systems and new ways to defend our nation, like those things I'm comfortable with.

But I can understand why people might think it's, you know, there's waste, and there certainly is tons of waste in that number.

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

As far as I understand, transgender comic books are not.

I don't know.

You've got a kind of a weird understanding this morning, I've noticed.

So

I'm not sure if I can go with you on that.

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

Yeah, wasn't it Federalist 42?

42.

I believe that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He was like, you know, there's a lot of things that the government shouldn't do, but they should fund transgender comic books in Peru.

It was either Madison or Hamilton.

Yeah, it was one of the two.

I can't remember.

Federalist 42.

But anyway, look it over, review it, see what you think about it.

Here's what Marco Rubio said about USAID.

They take the taxpayer money and they spend it as a global charity, irrespective of whether it is in the national interest or not in the national interest.

One of the most common complaints you will get if you go go to embassies around the world from State Department officials and ambassadors and the like is USAID is not only not cooperative, they undermine the work that we're doing in that country.

They are supporting programs that upset the host government for whom we're trying to work with on a broader scale and so forth.

So they're completely unresponsive.

They just don't consider that they work for the U.S.

They just think they're a global entity and that their master is the globe and not the United States.

And that's not what the statute says, and that's not sustainable.

Can it be reformed or does it need to die?

Well that was always the goal was to reform it but now we have rank insubordination.

Now we have basically an active effort where their basic attitude is we don't work for anyone.

We work for ourselves.

No agency of government can tell us what to do.

So the president made me the acting administrator.

I've delegated that power to someone who's there full-time and we're going to go through the same process at USAID as we're going through now at the State Department.

I think there are some this is not about getting rid of foreign aid.

There are things that we do through

USAID that we should continue to do that that make sense.

And we'll have to decide: is that better through the State Department or is that better through something, you know, a reformed USAID?

That's the process we're working through.

There are things that are happening at USAID that we should not be involved in funding

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

So we have no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control.

Incredible.

Amen.

That's a great, that's a great

outlying of all of the issues there from Marco Rubio.

And I would add one more, more, Pat.

USAID is an organization that provides aid to,

in theory, provides aid to places all over the world, and yet they call it USAID and not USAID.

It is, listen,

that is how inefficient this organization is.

The actual initials make the word aid, which they're supposed to be providing, and they still all call it USAID.

That's how dumb this organization is.

And there is a, you know, look, of course, if you have a giant budget, you can definitely find money to throw around at global causes and do some good.

There's no doubt about that.

You can.

You know, transgender comic books don't fit into that.

And it is true that they see themselves, because they're called an independent government agency, that they think, we'll just do whatever we want.

What if we just do whatever we want?

And that's what they've been doing.

And that's what they've been doing.

It's got to stop.

Obviously.

I mean, think about it.

If you are, Marco Ruby, you're Secretary of State, and you're working with a government in the Middle East that

has

thoughts on gay rights that are not equal to ours, let's say, for example.

And then you're providing transgender comic book funding.

What happens when you go to meet, if you're Marco Rubio, to meet with that leader?

You're complicating whatever you're trying to get done.

And you might say, but I really want

them to change their mind on those rights, and I would too.

But that might not be the goal of that particular meeting.

And now you got to deal with that complication.

Well, do you remember how ridiculous it looked when the old clip of Kamala Harris was played, where she was talking about the fact that she changed

the law in California to allow for prisoners who wanted a sex change

to be paid for by the taxpayers in California.

And she saw to it that that was able to happen.

Well,

most Americans realized that's insanity.

USAID is doing $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala.

Okay, these were Americans and American prisoners.

Now

we're going to fund sex changes for Guatemalans?

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

Yes.

Yes, it should.

Yes, it should.

If we're going to pay for someone to go in with a sharp

instrument and carve up somebody's genitals, it should at least happen in Ohio.

Yeah, nothing in Guatemala.

That's not right.

It's absurd.

So incredible.

Even if it was the best activity in the world, it would be absurd.

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

Insanity.

And that's not, look,

you can argue with it, but your argument died in November.

People looked at this argument and voted.

And this is what they voted for.

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

And that's what he's doing.

And Rubio has been great on this.

Obviously, Elon Musk has been really focused.

And look, the changes

have to give you a sense of optimism.

A lot of this stuff is stuff that other presidents, even if you like their policies more, you like their attitudes more, you like their tweets more, just wouldn't get involved in because it was too much of a problem.

They didn't want to deal with the pushback.

They didn't want to deal with

every news station trashing them every night.

Trump doesn't care.

Not at all.

He doesn't care.

He likes it.

I don't really think he does.

Yeah.

All right.

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

But also, you've got to admire

the activity from Pete Hagseth, who is at the border right now.

Christy Noam is at the border right now.

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

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

So, of course, they were never there.

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

Quite clearly a real priority, right?

Border crossing is down 93%.

I think Christian Noam said 95%.

95, okay.

93, 95.

It's down a lot.

I know it was like 10 or 11,000 a day.

The latest data I saw was something like 500 to 600 per day now.

I mean, that's amazing.

It's really, really good.

Some of that drop happened before Trump got into office.

But was it after the election?

A lot of it was after the election.

Some of it was they did make, I mean, if you remember before the election, though, Biden made some changes where they implemented some of the Trump plan that they had.

Because they realized the American people don't want this to continue.

Right.

And they were like, crap, we're going to win this election.

So they did do some of those changes.

So they had some of the drops there, although it's even more extreme now.

And, you know, you don't necessarily,

you don't necessarily like look at this and say

you expect zero.

It's going to be hard to get to zero.

I mean, I want to think it'll ever be zero.

It'll probably never be zero.

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

And I said, you know, it's not that I expect perfection.

I just want you to care.

Just care.

Care about it.

Care.

Try to do it.

Show me that you're doing something

in this arena.

Okay.

And

that is what I kind of like, that's the basic idea I want from the U.S.

government.

Trump is going well beyond that, actually doing something.

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

We're talking about 95% reductions.

Already.

It's three weeks.

And it's, again, considerably better than his first term.

His first term numbers were okay.

They're better than Biden's, but like they weren't anything like this.

And who knows if this is going to last forever?

It may not.

At some point, there could be a surge.

There could be things going on.

But Trump is focused on this.

And Tom Homan is focused on this.

He is such a no-nonsense guy.

I love it.

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

Yeah.

Tom Homan really doesn't care what you think of him.

He couldn't care less.

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

I know.

It's always just like, no.

Yes.

So?

Yeah, that's it.

That's all he needs.

Great.

I love it.

It is incredible.

So the improvement has been dramatic.

And look, you can complain about stuff.

I'm sure people do.

But at the end of the day, this is what he ran on.

This is what he promised.

And this is what he's doing.

Can't ask for more than that.

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

It's actually been kind of satisfying.

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Been really fun to watch the Democrats try to go nuts on every single thing that Donald Trump is doing, except he's moving so fast and doing so much that they really can't settle on any one thing.

So they're just

trying to shoot at everything right now.

They're just throwing a bunch of spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.

And here is Bernie Sanders talking about what he just doesn't like what's happening.

Margaret, we are living in an unprecedented moment in American history.

We're looking at a rapid growth of oligarchy.

We're looking at a rapid growth of authoritarianism.

Authoritarianism.

And I fear that we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy

as well.

These are all new words he just learned.

I'm just planning to work with my supporters all over this country to stand up and fight back, to make sure we have an economy that works for everybody, not just Elon Musk, and that we maintain American democracy.

Oh, wow.

That's weird.

How does it work so well for Elon Musk?

Anyone track that one down?

What's he done to make all that money?

I think it must have been government handouts.

Is that what's happening there?

Now, he opposes those handouts these days, but a lot of that money, they subsidize a lot of those cars that were purchased.

Well, that is true.

And I will also point out the other part of it is he's doing the space stuff better than the government can do it.

So a lot of the money he's he's making is coming from the government, who all may have made decisions that the products he's making are so valuable, they can't do without them, even though they hate his guts.

And he's doing the space stuff so well, so much better than the government, read NASA, can do it, that it's gotten to the point where Donald Trump has asked him to finally bring home the two astronauts who've been stranded in space for eight months.

Hey, Elon, could you maybe bring them home as soon as possible?

And he's taken on that task.

But

eight months, and they were supposed to be there for a week.

One week mission has turned into eight months because of the ineptitude of NASA right now.

They've got no way to bring them home.

So SpaceX has to.

It's incredible.

Incredible.

And, you know, this is something when you think about it.

You know, they've had this transition since, what do we say, 2019, 2020?

I guess COVID was probably the start of this with Musk, where the left started turning on him because he wanted to open up his factories and make the electric cars for the existential threat, the greatest existential threat our world faces, global warming.

And he wanted to open up his factories, and they got mad at him about that.

And that's really, I think, the start of most of the problems between the left and Elon Musk.

But like, you think about this, they have hated him for five years,

five years of just pure hatred.

And they cannot unplug the stuff that he, they can't unplug themselves from the stuff that he does in business,

including SpaceX, which is a miracle.

You know, it's

an incredible company that's doing incredible things at a level that the government can't achieve.

And he didn't really start it.

It doesn't seem like it started all that long ago.

Yeah.

Has it been 20 years, maybe?

No, it's been, it's less than that.

Less than that, right?

Yeah, I think.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, and certainly with any notoriety, it's been less than that.

I mean, he was, you know, if you

go back and look at the history,

he was blowing up these spaceships all over the globe for the first five years of the company.

Yeah, they got down to the last one.

He said, if this next one blows up, the company's over.

We have to shut it down.

And the last one worked.

Wow.

He was.

That's how close that company was from just not even existing.

Now he's sending rockets into space and bringing them back and landing in the launch pad.

Incredible.

It's amazing.

Yeah.

Stuff we've never seen before.

And then, of course, Tesla, like it's funny because I have a friend who is a big conservative, like, you know, big

loves, you know, like

really wanted Trump to win and was very, very out there talking about it a lot.

And he

had a big old truck, you know, big old truck in Texas and just bought a Tesla plaid.

He's like, I did it because Elon Musk.

He's like, I just love Musk.

I love what he's doing.

I want to support him.

How fascinating is that?

Wow.

He has taken conservatives to electric cars.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, that is like, that's a magic trick you couldn't have told me that it was possible to pull off.

And he did it to the point that, like, now it's a lot of, it's, it's kind of the opposite.

People like AOC, who bought a Tesla for the environment, are now trying to get rid of them because they are, they're embarrassed to be associated with Musk.

I mean, that's awesome.

It is.

It is awesome.

And they're great cars.

You know,

I would not mind having a Tesla.

It just, the the range is not quite there for me to go with an EV yet.

But if I were to buy an EV, it would be a Tesla because they're just great cars.

And the pickup, I mean, we knew that from what, five or six years, seven years ago.

I went to the studio here one day.

And this is way before COVID.

I mean, it was 2017, 18 or something in that rain.

And they brought it to and they're like, hey, like, take a test drive.

See if you like the acceleration.

And they were like, just punch it.

It's jaw-dropping.

It is.

I've never felt felt anything like it.

And this is an older model.

Yeah.

But it is,

my friend has one that's not the plaid.

It's the version, I think, the Model S performance or whatever.

It is really, really fast, but not as fast as the plaid.

It is like an incomprehensible amount of acceleration.

It feels as if...

Because it's immediate.

It's immediate and it's so fast.

And it throws you back in your seat.

And it honestly, like, it can make you kind of uncomfortable.

Like, you almost feel like when you feel like going on like a crazy roller coaster and you get off of it, you're like, oh, my stomach doesn't quite feel right.

Like, you can only punch it so many times because it's jaw-dropping.

And the technology is really impressive.

A friend of another friend of mine who has a Tesla lives in Colorado and comes here for work.

You know, he does some work with us.

And he takes it from Colorado to here self-driving.

From Colorado to Texas.

And he's like,

I barely ever touch the wheel.

Oh, my gosh.

Really?

Yep.

And he just, and now I like driving.

That's amazing.

It's something I like doing.

Though on a ride like that, I would love to have a self-driving option.

It's amazing.

And he's okay with that.

He's okay with just letting it dig trust.

He's a nerd.

He's a Tesla nerd.

Yeah.

And he is so into it.

Would you trust it that much?

Because I would not.

I probably wouldn't at first.

One of the other friends I was just talking about who has this has the same thing.

And he's much less trusting about it.

He's like, I'm just getting to the point now where I can remove my hands for just a second, but they're like right above the wheel.

And I'm like panicked the entire time.

He's like, my other friend, who's just a, you know, he's a technology geek.

And he's just like, he reads all about it.

He knows every update that comes down.

He's on the list of like the beta updates that come really early.

And he would show me, every time he'd come to town, show me the improvement.

of how they take certain core like at the beginning it was like oh it would tell you to take control a lot and it would it would come up to a you know traffic circle and not exactly know what to do and you have to kind of grab it now it's like it just does it.

It just handles it.

He, the other day, last time he was here, was he was he was out, and my daughter was there,

and my wife was there, and they were at a, you know, they were at my wife's business, and he was doing some work over there.

And as they were leaving, he's like, oh, watch this.

He takes out his phone and presses some buttons.

Car just pulls up.

He's not in it.

The car just comes from the parking lot and pulls up to pick him up.

Like, that's amazing.

That is Jetson level crap.

Like, that's insanity.

It is.

And the fact that this guy has made it cool for conservatives to own these vehicles should be something he should be put in the liberal hall of fame for.

Right?

He has crossed, he's been able to make it

cool to have a car that's an electric freaking car.

You guys keep telling us this is the solution to all of our global problems and this 0.9 degree temperature rise over a century is really what we need to be worried about.

Well, here's a big step in that direction.

And they despise him because he challenges their power.

And what is the greatest existential threat in our nation, Pat?

Is it global warming or is it Democrats losing control of your lives?

That's what they certainly seem like that's the one they care about.

That's for sure.

That's for sure.

And not only has he made the EVs

so cool, but like you said, with SpaceX, I mean, everybody loves SpaceX, right?

Well, that was created so that we could move to Mars.

Yeah.

Why?

Because this planet is dying.

Yes.

Supposedly.

It was

the two.

The two existential threats he sees.

One was AI, but the other one was

global warming.

And he wanted to be able to have a place for human beings to escape to because he took liberal concerns that seriously and still does, by the way.

I mean, he's still...

He's still, you know, what I mean.

They hate him, him, though, so much now that they completely disregard that.

Yep.

But again, if it was really the threat you say it is, wouldn't you still embrace him?

You would think so.

I don't know.

If there was someone, I'm trying to think of the right example, but like if someone was,

you know, I don't know, an actor or something, some leftist actor or actress was fighting really hard, but then took up the cause of like,

you know, repealing the 16th Amendment for income taxes, like, would we be supportive of that person?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I would be thrilled to have someone on the left who was like, you know what?

Yeah, we should get rid of the income tax because this is crazy.

It's taking everybody's money and it doesn't make any sense.

I'm with you.

Like, go, I will support you.

Now, I will oppose you on the policies I oppose, of course.

But, like, I'm not going to, just because they're on the left, if they're going to, if they're sane on one issue, we're, we're overly welcoming, I would say, to liberals who are sane on one issue.

I give you RFK Jr.

Thank you.

Yes.

Yes.

It was was April of 2024.

I mean, there's a lot of conservatives

that are embracing these guys now because they're saying things we like.

You know,

yesterday, Donald Trump called USAID a bunch of left-wing lunatics.

He used that exact phrase, left-wing lunatics, to describe RFK Jr.

in April of last year.

And we're like, hey, you know,

he doesn't even agree with RFK Jr.

on vaccines.

Remember, Trump is the one who was in office when this was developed with the COVID vaccine.

They agree kind of a little bit on the food stuff, but I mean, I see Donald Trump eat a lot of McDonald's and Diet Coke to think that they don't really agree on that issue.

Yet we're like, hey, we kind of like you on a couple of things.

Come be our HHS secretary.

Like, we are at times too willing to do that.

The left is the opposite.

Like, you go back to the history, you got Roe versus Wade, and we all know the Dobbs decision.

In between that, the most

biggest ruling in the abortion world was the Casey decision.

Because Casey was a pro-life Democrat.

And now there are no pro-life Democrats.

They're all excised from the party.

All of them are gone.

You have to support abortion all the way up to birth.

Yep.

To even be considered.

They won't have anything to do with it.

At least until the second trimester.

Maybe you can get a couple of Democrats who are like, I don't know, the last couple of minutes, maybe we should avoid.

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I guess we've got Sarah Sullivan and her opera medley, right?

Your transgender opera medley is coming up.

That'll be the last hour of the day.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm a little concerned.

I mean, she told me in the break it's 14 songs, which is a lot.

That's a lot.

Go on.

We're a talk radio program, and it's like to fit in 14 songs in a medley is really a big ask, but we decided to say yes, Sarah.

Because we're sure it's really good.

I'm sure it's good.

Really, really good.

Did you get funding from USAID?

I did.

Oh, okay, good.

Good.

Good.

That's good.

Because

I would hate to see her have to do that on her own.

No, I mean, that's ridiculous.

You know, you can't do that.

You can't do it on your own.

She would have to sit at home and write music on her computer and then

get somebody to perform it and all that.

Normally what people do in the free market when they want to create an entertainment product.

But thankfully, our government steps in in foreign countries to provide that funding for people to come up with.

But you can't for somebody in a foreign country to do that.

That's insane.

That's insane.

And you know why?

Because most likely in some of these countries, the people who wanted to produce the opera would get killed.

They would probably get executed by the state.

But in addition to that, no one would want to go to it.

Now, obviously, Sarah's medley is going to be so profound and beautiful that I think people might like that.

Yeah, I think so.

You know, it's hard to even get to that position.

I mean, I haven't heard any of the songs that she's going to sing, but I'm sure they're fantastic.

They are.

That's the kind of confidence we all have in Sarah.

So, yeah, that'll be good.

I heard a little bit of Song nine, and I will say, at least if

you're not going to stick around for all 14, at least stick around till song nine.

That's all I'm saying.

All right.

How did it go?

Can you remind me?

I can't.

Well, I wouldn't want to ruin it, obviously.

Your beautiful singing voice is going to perform this for us in just moments.

Yeah, you don't want to hear Stu singing.

No, that wouldn't be the same.

It wouldn't be the same.

You can't just have men and women performing the same role.

That doesn't make any sense.

No, it does not.

Oh, wait.

It really doesn't.

Strangely, that's actually a true statement.

Yeah.

It doesn't make any sense for men and women to just change genders on a whim and with a series of magical words.

Unless you're like 12.

Then it makes perfect sense.

Yeah, right?

12?

12's pretty.

10?

Pretty old.

12 waiting too late.

Yeah.

I gotta say, like, a 12-year-old knows.

That's insane.

Maybe four or five.

Maybe that logic makes sense to a five-year-old, perhaps.

Perhaps.

So again, I think you'd be able to talk them into, honey, you can't just change genders with a series of magical words.

I think they would probably understand that.

Yeah, I think they would.

You know, yeah, they might want to be an astronaut and think that that's right around the corner for them, but I'm pretty sure they could figure out they're not changing genders that easily.

And yet, pretty amazing to watch what's been going on.

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Because,

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Yes,

They represent some of the

biggest stars in the world.

Ariana Grande, Harry Stiles, Katy Perry,

Kelly Clarkson, Lady Gaga.

If you combine all those people, how many songs could you name from them?

I mean, Lady Gaga and Kelly Clarkson, you could probably get a couple or yes.

Yes, sir.

Any Ariana Grande songs you know of?

Only from Wicked, because I just saw that with my favorite.

My daughter loved it, huh?

What did you think?

It was good.

I liked it.

Yeah.

From what I understand, it was actually pretty well done.

It was really well done.

As I've stated.

There's just too many songs.

As I've stated on the show, I don't like musicals.

Yes, there are too many songs.

Not going to be my song.

So I do have a hard time with them.

Well, yours is an opera, not a musical.

It's the same.

Okay.

Well, okay.

So, Sarah's opera, Transgender Opera, coming up here in just a couple of minutes.

We're going to get to that before we get to that.

But there's 14 songs, so we've got to find the right place for it.

So that's coming up here in a minute.

We're working on that.

Yeah.

Maybe Sarah will become a

CAA client after this.

I think that's highly likely.

Highly likely.

Frankly.

So we'll see.

So who else is a new CAA client?

Joe Biden.

Joe Biden is a new CAA client.

Joseph Robinette Biden.

The very same.

Yes.

And so

you could book him soon for events, Bar Mitzvah's birthdays.

He'll show up and drool on your kids as he smells their hair.

Kind of exciting.

It's a weird attraction for a birthday party.

Drooling on your kids as he smells their hair.

President.

I mean, wouldn't that be kind of cool?

Yeah, Joe Biden showed up and drooled on my kids' hair while he was sniffing them.

At that price point, they can drool on your hair.

That's true.

I mean, he, I guess, after he was vice president, he signed up with CAA.

And then he became president, and so he dropped it, or they dropped him.

I'm not sure how that worked.

But I mean, even after his vice presidency, people were actually paying him to show up and give speeches.

He went to

some place called Drew University in New Jersey.

You ever heard of Drew University?

They paid him $190,000 to speak after he was vice president.

Drew?

Drew University in Jersey.

University.

I would say, first of all, you really missed an opportunity to call it Drew University.

You just got to go with Drew University at that point.

Yes, I think you do.

That's a major.

I already have a major problem with this college now.

But Drew University is a hub of innovation, education, and community, Pat.

That was on the tip of my tongue.

I was about to tell you that.

Oh, you were?

Yeah.

I didn't mean to cut you off.

No, that's all right.

Go ahead.

They say they would like you to discover their diverse programs.

I mean, Sarah, I'm just saying, like, if you've got a university, you want to back your transgender opera, I mean, maybe Drew University is, the Drew University is the place to go.

I'll check it out.

Okay.

He also,

he also received $182,000 from Lake Michigan College.

Lake Michigan College, it might be a great college.

I don't know much about it.

Might be.

$180,000.

You just wouldn't think they had $182,000 to play.

Laying around.

Yeah.

$180,000 from Vanderbilt.

Okay.

They probably do have that laying around.

Now,

$125,000 at Southern Connecticut State University.

SCSU.

Oh, yeah.

I remember them.

They were right in front of us.

They were right in our backyard for a while when we lived in Connecticut.

Yes.

I wouldn't say that they should be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to speakers.

No, I wouldn't either.

Got that sense of their worst.

They don't have a Harvard-style endowment.

No, and so he spoke at Brown.

Brown only paid him $93,000.

Is that because it's more prestigious and they don't have to pay you as much?

That's really interesting.

By the way, I'm on the Drew University page still.

Yeah.

Do you know

average annual cost to attend the Drew University?

Mm-hmm.

$68,495.

Thus they had $190,000 to give to Joe Biden.

Yes, they did.

Wow.

Just three kids had to go.

$68,000

for a college we didn't even know existed.

That's amazing.

That's amazing.

Holy crap, just started by somebody named Drew.

Somebody named Drew was like, I just started at a university, and now there's the Drew University.

And they're making $68K a person.

I wonder what the holy crap, man.

What a woman at Drew University.

They have it listed there on the webpage.

Yes, 1,520.

Wow.

Notable alumni.

Wow.

Notable alumni,

James Vanderbeek.

There you go, the actor.

There you go.

And Soon Yee Priven.

Whoe.

Soon Yee.

Oh, okay.

That's.

She said the one, you know, the Woody Allen's kid he was dating.

Stepdaughter, who he dated or whatever.

And married, I believe.

Yeah, I think they're still together.

Soon Yee went to the Drew University.

Okay.

James Vanderbeek, Drew University.

James Vanderbeek.

He was in

Dawson's Creek.

Dawson's Creek.

Okay.

I think that's right.

Yeah.

That's right.

So there you go.

Okay.

So I apologize

for disparaging

$68,000 a year you're paying.

Incredibly prestigious, obviously.

Obviously.

That's insanity.

How much is it?

That's crazy.

Good God.

I told my kids, screw college.

You think you're going to college?

You better start working.

Wait, but I'm only 13, Daddy.

Yeah,

get to a factory somewhere.

I will say that's the way it used to be.

You know,

you worked during your high school days and saved your money, and then you paid for your own college.

Or your parents could help you where they could, but you didn't just necessarily take out massive loans that you then declined to pay back

later on.

And that's a perfectly acceptable thing now.

I could be wrong, though.

I don't think colleges cost $68,000 at the time.

No, it's true.

That is

very true.

But we didn't make the kind of money we do now either.

So it's sort of a trade-off.

I mean, like, I'm all for capitalism.

And if you can get $68,000 from a bunch of dumb kids to come to your college that you're naming the Drew University, that's great.

And I give you credit for that.

I will say,

it almost feels criminal.

The value for what you're getting for your money, it feels criminal.

That's why I'm starting Pat State University.

Pat State University.

Pat State.

Yeah.

Is it a state college?

Are you just calling it Pat State?

I'm just calling it Pat State because that adds a certain,

if you will.

So,

what's Pat State University like?

It's an education that you can't get anywhere else.

I'll tell you that.

I'll tell you that.

I bet that's true.

Yeah, it is true.

Now, are you going to be teaching classes at Pat State?

No, but I'm going to select only the finest instructors and professors

to educate the young minds.

What's tuition running these days at Pat State?

It's going to come in under Drew University.

Really?

It's going to be 65,000

per person.

Yeah.

That way I think we'll do better in volume.

We'll have.

How many students are you looking for at Pat State?

I'm looking for 56,000.

56,000.

56,000 to 60.

Will you just kind of add on annex buildings to your building just to fill it

as people join?

You're not billing in advance.

People need to buy on spec.

This is an on-spec education at Pat State.

Yeah.

Are you going to have a

sports team?

There's going to be a football team, right?

So what's the mascot for Pat State?

I haven't worked that out yet, but I'm working on it.

Really?

How about a cookie?

The Pat State Cookies.

I like that.

And you could probably get, I would say Kexie Cookies would sponsor it, but it doesn't seem like it needs to be sponsored at 65K.

The school, the Pat State Cookies.

Yeah, yeah.

Sounds terrifying, doesn't it?

I don't know how prestigious it feels.

No, I'm a cookie.

Yeah, I've been a

dedicated cookie alum.

It doesn't sound as great as you might think.

No.

But I'm interested.

It's almost as bad as the Beavers or

the Ducks in Oregon.

A little goofy.

Yeah.

Feels a little goofy.

But I'm interested.

You know, my kids, I told them no to most schools, but Pat State.

Say yes to Pat's Day.

Yeah.

Sounds pretty good.

I mean, it's just as prestigious as Drew University, right?

I mean, guys.

Amazing.

I mean, this is,

I don't know who's booking Joe Biden at this point

in his life.

You know, bless his heart.

He can't get through a sentence.

And are people going to pay him 500,000?

Because that's about the going rate for former presidents, right?

When you're a vice president, you can command close to $200,000 per speech.

When you've been president, you can do half a million per speech.

Is anybody going to pay him that to come speak at their university?

Knowing what you know about Joe Biden and how deficient he is in speaking?

He can't even speak, let alone give a speech.

No.

I also would say that he should be paying you to speak at your

university.

Yeah.

Right?

I mean, this is a guy who's a disaster.

He's got a horrible approval rating.

I mean, I don't know what you're getting out of that,

you know, but I guess this is the way of the world with this stuff.

If

you get that job, you're set for life.

Oh, yeah.

You can always get another gig.

You can always get some high-level.

speeches.

You can always just milk this thing forever.

Netflix will pay you to do some sort of producing situation like they did with the Obamas and gave them $100 million to do it.

But they're not really produced anything.

What have they really, what have they done?

Nothing.

Nothing of note.

Nothing.

Nothing of note.

They were involved in a, as a consultant on one movie that I saw, which was it a documentary?

No.

Or an actual movie.

We talked about it at the time.

Do you remember the name of the thing, Sarah?

It was a movie about like a, I want to say it was like a nuclear disaster or, you know, the whole world.

It sounds somewhat familiar.

Yeah.

And he was, they were criticized because there's one scene where they're, I want to maybe say critical of guns or talking about gender or something.

I can't remember exactly what it was.

Though I did not seem, the movie to me did not seem like overly woke.

It was just

Leave the World Behind?

Yeah, I think it was what it was.

I think it was.

And it was like one of those like,

you know,

just awful, like sort of, you know, the whole world has a tragedy and you don't know what's going on the entire time.

It's something I did not watch, Leave the World Behind.

I will say, it never really paid off.

It was not an event.

Just like many people who attend Pat State University, it's not something you'd want to repeat.

Wait, are you disparaging my university before it even opened its doors?

I'm saying it's so good, you don't need to do it twice.

You know, why would you need to go back?

I drew university.

I don't know.

You might be 65K over and over and over again.

All right, that's fine.

That's fair enough.

It's one and done.

Fair enough.

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1867, Pat.

Drew University.

No.

Founded in 1867.

Wow.

I think we've just missed it.

It was called Drew Theological Seminary for a while, and then changed over to the Drew University after that.

Is it still

like a religious

university?

It's affiliated with the Methodist faith.

Oh, okay.

So, I mean, it might be great.

I don't know.

Yeah, it might be.

So, there you go.

It seems like $68,000 serious tuition, though.

Serious tuition.

And I will say, you can get it at Pat State for $65,000.

So why would you just not shop it around?

Why not?

You know, it's like when you're trading Luca Donchas, you should travel.

You should shop it around a little bit.

Maybe get a better package.

Do you believe that actually happened?

No.

That one happened.

That is unbelievable.

I mean, the whole thing's happening, especially here in Dallas.

Wow.

He was like such a pillar of the community here.

Yeah.

Everybody loved him.

He's in every ad campaign.

He's on every billboard.

It's really the only reason to go to a Mavs game, isn't he?

I mean,

they went to the finals last year.

Was it last year?

Last year.

Oh, wow.

And they're like, hey, let's trade away the second or third best player in the NBA.

Yeah, in the world.

Incredible.

And the Lakers certainly need yet another of the greatest players on the planet.

Always luck out with these trades, too.

They somehow just pull out.

They get these amazing guys out of nowhere.

It doesn't seem possible, and it happens to the Lakers.

Good things happen to the Lakers.

I don't know why.

I don't look forward to them.

Not a fact.

Yeah.

So now you got Donsich coupled with your favorite guy, LeBron James.

Not really worth mentioning, frankly, on that team.

No.

You know, who cares if LeBron is there?

But

I don't think they're going to be necessarily that great this year, but

they've reset their franchise for years and years and years to come by having Luca, who is basically a franchise in and of himself.

I mean, that team that made the finals last year was not that great a team for the MAFs.

I mean, Kyrie is good,

but he was having all sorts of problems everywhere else.

Luca seems to have helped him along.

And you look at the rest of the team, they've got some good players, but they're not, I wouldn't say utterly amazing.

Yeah.

And they had a major run to the finals last year.

Like, maybe you could understand it if they had underperformed for five or six years in a row.

And you're like, this just isn't working.

We have to change this up.

They went to the finals last year.

Weird and completely unexpected, right?

I mean, I don't follow the NBA very closely,

or at all.

But that seems like nobody saw that coming.

No, I mean, I don't think that anyone did.

And that's the best part about that, they had the press conference with the GM here of the the Mavs.

And he's like, you know, I just got to thank Rob Plenka, the GM of the Lakers, because we worked on this for weeks and weeks.

And he just kept it quiet.

And like, it's really hard to keep things like this quiet.

I just thank him so much.

Of course he kept it quiet.

He didn't want anyone else to know.

The second anyone else found out, they'd offered twice as much.

Yeah.

Like, of course he wanted to keep it quiet.

Jeez.

Absolutely incredible.

And now there's all these conspiracy theories.

Have you heard the conspiracy theories on this bat?

I don't.

I think so.

Some of them are sort of over the top and ridiculous.

ridiculous like they you know the mark cuban owned the mavs for a long time yeah he sold to the adelson family the you know no well-known republicans financiers and well you know involved in the casino industry and that's how they make their money lives in vegas he lives in vegas so uh the theory is they want to try to either pressure Texas to legalize gambling so they can build a casino here or

tank the franchise to then draw them to Vegas instead, which it's hard to imagine they'd pull a team out of Dallas as what is the fourth biggest market?

Yeah, so I

it is hard to imagine to be possible, yeah, you know,

but I there are a lot of people who are wound up on conspiracy theories on this because it doesn't make any sense to anybody, no, and you know, Anthony Davis, good player, uh, but not Luca Donson

level, but and uh it's just a shocking, shocking, especially when Luca is 25 and Davis is 31.

Yeah, you, if it was reversed, like if you had a player who was coming up and he was 20, like if Luca was 31 and Davis was 25, maybe you could make some sense.

You could at least get yourself there.

This makes no sense at all.

None.

It sounds like something.

It's like Joe Biden negotiated the trade.

He's like, I just can't believe.

You know, I just can't believe.

I was so happy to hear that Zelensky kept this quiet.

We were going to give him $750 billion and he didn't tell anybody.

Oh, great.

Thanks, Joe.

I'm sure he didn't tell anybody.

Yeah.

I wouldn't tell anybody either.

I love President Trump's comments on Ukraine yesterday, talking about how

he wants a guarantee that we're going to have access to their rare earth minerals now because of all the money

we've given.

to them over the last almost three years now.

It would be nice to get something in return, wouldn't it?

And I think, you know, of course, Democrats are all pissed off about it because how dare you?

How dare you ask them for rare earth minerals with our $200 billion investment into the Ukrainian cause?

Yeah, we shouldn't be asking anything of them.

Just

continue to give and give and allow them to take, and that'll be fine.

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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has changed his tune just just a little bit.

Huh?

Yeah.

Well, because his tune was quite clear yesterday, Pat.

Well, he had

an illegal alien who was living in an apartment above his garage.

Well, I believe he said someone whose immigration status was not where they wanted it to be.

Right.

What does that mean?

I mean, it means an illegal immigrant.

Yeah.

And he was proud of it.

Yes.

Didn't he say something at the end there, Pat?

He said, coming, if the, and good luck to the feds, coming in trying to get her.

So essentially, he's challenging the feds to come get her.

Yeah.

And I think the feds should

take him up on that.

Well, that's what Tom Holman thought.

Tom Holman said, well, if he does have an illegal alien living above his garage and he's breaking the law, I'll prosecute him for that.

He can go to jail for that.

We'll arrest him.

Now, my argument is that Murphy has broken the law many times,

considering especially, and it's been underplayed, how terrible he was during COVID.

He was on,

it's hard for me to say this, but he was almost on the Cuomo level of incompetence and danger to his own citizens.

He did many of the same policies when it comes to elderly people into nursing homes with COVID that Cuomo did.

He just didn't get the attention because Cuomo is such an unmitigated jerk that he took all the attention for that particular, I would call, crime.

Now, I know Cuomo also had the, I don't think Murphy's been groping people, so that's good.

But

although I don't know, maybe the illegal alien living above his

garage.

You know, who knows what's going on there?

I don't think so.

Well, it's interesting because now his people are saying

no one has ever lived in the home under those circumstances that the governor described.

Wait.

What?

So he doesn't have an illegal alien living above his garage?

Wait, he's saying that no one...

No one's ever lived in the home.

He had a statement issued by one of his people that no one has ever lived in the home under those circumstances that

the governor described.

Well,

he was pretty clear on it yesterday.

Yeah, he was.

And so that's interesting.

Sometimes people forget, Pat.

Yeah, they do.

Yeah, they do.

Oh, I thought I had an illegal little alien living above my garage, but I guess not.

So that's why you can't come get her because she's not there.

But good luck finding her because I just made the whole thing up.

Now, the representative didn't explain why Murphy, who lives with his family in a mansion in Middletown, New Jersey, would dare the Trump administration to go after the woman at his home who wasn't actually there.

Nobody really explained any of that.

Of course, he's just lying through his teeth.

I mean,

now.

Why are you doing that?

Right.

Like, the truth was there is an illegal immigrant living over his garage, right?

That's the truth.

Yeah.

Maybe.

I mean,

I don't know.

If you go, maybe you could talk to some of your researchers at Pat State University.

If you're thinking of a projection here, if you had to take a guess, gun to your head, Pat Gray.

He probably did.

That's the side I think he'd be lying about.

He did.

And now probably doesn't because

she had to clear out because of what he said publicly to get, you know, I guess, points from the audience.

Right.

Sold out the girl he was supposed to protect that was living above his garage.

Yeah.

And what happened to her, by the way, if she was there.

And now, so now where is she?

Because

she had to make a pretty quick exit, I would imagine.

I would imagine.

I would hope if there were actual journalists in the state of New Jersey, which I'm not sure about, that you'd have someone camped outside of their house waiting for someone to leave the garage.

Because I would want to interview that person.

What happened?

Yeah.

Why are you living at Phil Murphy's house?

Right.

You know, usually governors and politicians hide the fact that they're hiding random women at

their establishments.

He was proud of it.

He was proud of it.

He was like, yeah, we got some illegal immigrant women just living right above my garage.

I can step over whenever I need to.

That's nice of him.

That is nice.

Now, but it was not true, Pat.

Definitely did not occur.

No.

That was 24 hours.

That would be illegal.

Was he in some sort of like sugar haze?

Like,

why would he blurt out that he had an illegal immigrant living above his garage if it didn't actually happen?

It is so bizarre because

I don't even know.

You know, we don't have a press that will really push him on this, of course.

And

nobody's going to hold his feet to the fire on this and demand answers to why did you say you have an illegal immigrant living above your garage if you don't have one and you never have had one?

What are you trying to prove here?

You're just trying to embarrass the Trump administration?

You're trying to

challenge them in some way?

I mean, it is not, I will say this, not entirely impossible that he was lying to the crowd for their favor.

Now, Phil Murphy will lie in any room he's in about anything, in my view.

So it's possible he was just saying this to make himself look good to the pro-illegal immigration crowd he was in front of.

You can't rule that out entirely.

But But again, this is why you have journalists in the state of New Jersey that I'm sure were camping out by the house, seeing if anyone packed up belongings at the garage that day.

Oh, no, they weren't.

If it was Trump, though,

how many journalists would have been camped outside his garage

to watch the illegal leave the premises before he got arrested?

I mean,

you'd have dozens of reporters there waiting for that to occur.

And of course, not in this situation.

Pat, real quick, some breaking news.

Bill Cassidy, senator.

He is the doctor who had some tough questioning for RFK Jr.

during the hearing.

This is Bill Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

It is Bill Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Both he and the Sundance Kid are going to vote for RFK Jr., which I would say that ends it.

It's over.

He's in.

He's going to get it.

Yeah, because he's the one that everybody thought might be the wild card for the Republicans.

You could probably find a ⁇ I think there's a good chance McConnell votes against him.

I think there's a good chance that, you know, you could talk about, you know, of course, Collins and Murkowski are always up for a vote against a Republican nominee.

Although Collins said Collins said she would go with him.

Yeah.

Right.

So,

and she said the same about Tulsi, didn't she?

I think she did, yeah.

So I think all these people are getting out.

I think the only one really Trump is going to lose over this entire process is Gates.

Yeah.

That's it.

And that happened months ago.

Some time ago.

Yeah.

So that's it.

Interesting.

I think that's going to happen.

I mean, I'm looking now.

Let me see if the markets are looking like right now.

Give me one second.

Tulsi Gabbard, 98% chance to get in.

RFK, 97%.

Cash Patel, 97%.

I mean, low-key possibility of Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the labor secretary.

There is, I think, legitimate Republican-conservative opposition to her as she voted for...

a bunch of left-wing labor bills.

I don't understand why she's the pick, honestly.

I don't understand it at all.

That being said,

I just don't think anyone wants to do anything with Trump right now.

I don't think anyone would oppose anything he says on the Republican side.

That's basically the truth.

I mean,

it's just his party, and, you know, that is,

it is just, whether you like it or not, true.

Yeah.

You know, so I just, I read that they were filibustering Pam Bondi, which just ended yesterday.

So that was kind of interesting.

I think they're trying to delay that.

I don't think you can technically filibuster a nominee like that.

Yeah, they're

slow playing it.

But

to let you know, she on the markets is 99.8%.

Wow.

So she's in, and I'm looking down the entire list.

I don't see anybody below 98% or 97%, which would be RFK Jr., Cash Patel, and Laurie Rechavez de Remer.

That's it.

Isn't that interesting that all these Republicans are on board with RFK Jr.

That's fascinating.

I find that interesting.

I mean, because I think you could say, like, if you look at maybe the most controversial nominees, where you'd say someone like Tulsi Gabbard, who was a Democrat and ran a campaign for Bernie Sanderson in Hawaii.

But we've all seen a long,

slow transition, I think, from Tulsi.

And she's someone who,

I don't know, that arc is pretty understandable.

And

I know a lot of people love RFK Jr., but forgive me here for pointing out that this is blatantly transactional.

I mean,

remember, RFK Jr.

went to

what's her face, Kamala first to see if he could get this kind of arrangement.

And Kamala didn't return his phone calls.

And then he went to Trump, and Trump did.

And it was a brilliant move by Trump.

It was a smart move by Trump.

It, I think, did expand

the party tent,

his voter base.

I don't know that it won him the election, but it's not impossible to make that case.

You know, as I pointed out, you know, he needed to win a blue wall state in this election to win it.

Everything else was, you know, there wasn't any huge shocks outside of the blue wall.

That was really where most of the controversy was.

There was a few other swing states that were up for debate.

But, you know, the blue wall was where the action was.

She needed to win all three of those.

He needed to win one of those.

The biggest blowout of those three states was two points.

That was the blowout.

So two-point difference here

in that election in that state.

And it's like,

I think it was Pennsylvania.

Was it Pennsylvania?

I think it was Pennsylvania.

I can't remember if it was Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Wisconsin, but I think it was Pennsylvania.

Those two points.

The bottom line is it's not impossible to make the case RFK Jr.

was the difference.

And I do think that Donald Trump does sort of owe him something.

I think they did make an arrangement.

It was

very out there, right?

Like he wanted RFK Jr., I think if he had won the presidency, would have basically focused on HHS all the time anyway.

So he wanted that role.

Donald Trump, I don't think it's a super high priority role for him.

I think Trump looks at that and says, look, I think we can make some improvements.

I'd like to be run a lot better.

You're the guy that knows it.

Go for it.

And it was a transactional thing.

Like, RFK Jr.

would not have endorsed him if not for the promise of a role like this.

And to the extent that we, as we mentioned, less than one year ago, Donald Trump was calling him a left-wing lunatic, and RFK Jr.

was saying.

I mean, he is.

His whole life.

He's just not going to supposedly do those types of things in this role.

He is still left-wing on almost every single issue.

Trump correctly is saying we're going to keep him away from those issues.

Now, I think he's going to be somebody you're going to need to watch.

You're going to need to watch him like a hawk in that role because while he may do things that you like, he will also do many things that you

let him get away with it.

In other things,

like climate change.

Right.

Oh, my gosh.

Abortion.

Abortion.

You know, those are the two maybe headline issues, but there's a lot to it.

Yeah.

There's a lot to that role.

It's a trillion-dollar budget he's going to be overseeing.

That's not just talking about your fruit loops, guys.

Like, this is a big, big job.

So

my recommendation,

if he cared, which he doesn't, to Trump, if you're going to give HHS to RFK Jr., come up with a panel of people, and their only job will be, like Doge, to watch RFK Jr.

and what he's doing.

Just make sure he sticks to his side of the deal.

If he does, he'll be fine.

If he doesn't, throw him out because you can do that as soon as he goes off the reservation.

You can toss him out of the job.

So you just got to watch really closely.

He's the type of person that will do a lot of, he's going to be hiring people that he knows to these jobs.

Those people didn't make promises to Donald Trump.

And, you know, you're just going to have to watch him like a hawk in this role.

But he will probably do some good things as well.

It's not to say that there's no positives here.

I just would have preferred it in like maybe a Doge type role, an outside committee type role.

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All right,

are we ready then to hear just a little taste of the Sarah Sullivan opera that you're preparing, the transgender opera for Columbia?

Just going to give you a little taste, okay?

I've only had a couple years.

We can't do all 14 songs, apparently, right?

Yeah, a little medley.

All right.

Sounds a little bit masculine.

Yes, this is for you, Sarah.

Sarah is it.

You're telling us that's you, though?

Yeah, I had to work on my voice.

Oh, it's the transgender.

Yeah,

I will say that actually sounds more like you than opera.

That doesn't sound like opera at all.

I don't even know how to take that.

It's good for Colombia, though, because it's obviously.

Well, the best operas are not operas.

No, right.

If you want to get people to show up to an opera, make it not opera.

Because nobody likes opera.

That's just one song, though.

You got to have more than that, right?

Okay, I'll give you another.

All right.

Oh,

tight out there.

Wow.

Look at the drama of this.

The pageantry.

And you don't speak Spanish, so you don't know what it's about.

No, I have no idea.

I don't.

I do.

Is it really about transgender issues?

You have to come see it.

I'm not telling you.

In Colombia, we got to go to Columbia to see this thing?

Yeah.

Huh.

How much did they give you from USAID for this project?

$47,000.

$47,000.

Wow.

But I had to study at Pat State.

Pat State University?

Yeah.

Okay.

You had to be a cookie.

Yeah.

Well, you want to be.

Yeah, that's true.

That's interesting.

I think you need to learn what opera is.

Like, that's one thing I would say before getting the $47,000, you should know what it sounds like.

I would blame my education.

Oh, you know what?

It sounds like we didn't do

the arts department at Pat State.

We need to work on that.

It's not its priority.

It didn't really.

It didn't seem real opera-ish.

Oh, it sounded like, I don't know, like Enrique Iglesias or something.

Telemundo.

Yeah.

Maria.

Maria.

Yeah, that's what it sounded like.

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Hopefully, Glenn will be feeling better tomorrow, and we'll see you then.

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