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Real tragedy in Japan today as

their former prime minister, Abe,

was just assassinated by somebody who was, I guess,

dissatisfied with his policies.

He's not even enacting them anymore.

Very strange.

There's some back and forth about that.

Apparently,

the assassin is denying that.

He seems to be potentially very crazy.

Okay.

So he's not dissatisfied with his policy.

No, Big Feels.

He's fine with it.

No, no, I didn't say that.

But he did say, I think there are recent reports that he said to police that he didn't mean to shoot him.

What?

Yeah, he was actually trying to kill somebody else who, we should point out, was not there.

Okay.

So

this is very weird.

I think dismissing what this person is saying at this point is probably the wise way to go.

Former a Navy veteran in Japan, and he killed him with a homemade gun.

Yeah.

It looked like two pipes on a plank.

Yeah.

Which is crazy.

Yeah.

It's crazy.

Yeah.

It just shows you that

no matter what you do,

you can't legislate this stuff out of existence.

Now, I've never really looked into Japan's gun laws.

I'm assuming they're sort of strict.

I could walk you through it.

Okay, why?

Would you like to purchase a gun in Japan, sir?

Yes, I would.

You would.

Okay.

Just a couple steps for you.

Okay.

Okay.

Now, I've never been there, nor will I probably ever go, but I still

want to buy a gun.

I was really suspicious that you want to buy a gun there.

It is, isn't it?

Yes.

Yeah, you might want to tag me.

Do a little red flag sort of thing.

Yeah, because I have a person who has never been to Japan, is not planning to go to Japan, but wants to buy a gun in Japan.

This seems suspicious.

It does.

It does.

Okay, so I've red-flagged you.

Okay.

Here's the process, though.

Are you ready for it?

Yes, I am.

Okay, step one: take a firearm class.

Not that big of a deal if you can do that.

How long is it?

How long is a firearm?

I don't know, but there's more to this.

You have to also pass a written exam.

Okay, from the firearm class?

Yes.

So I better pay attention to what I'm doing.

Yeah, you can't just blow it off.

I can't just sit there and pretend like I'm listening.

I really need to listen.

And step one C, I guess this would be,

it's going to be held held three times a year.

So you're going to be taking this test three

times

a year.

For how long?

Like every year?

Forever.

Like the rest of my life.

You're taking a test.

Take a test three times a year.

Three times a year.

Okay.

Now.

That seems inconvenient for me.

I am going to have to request something else, though.

It's not just that.

Oh, okay.

I'm going to have to ask you, Pat, to also get a doctor's note saying that you are mentally fit and do not have a history of drug abuse.

Now, this is the end of the road for you.

Obviously, you're a huge drug abuser.

Yeah.

Coke, toke, nose cancer.

But you could probably find a doctor that would go along with your story.

Possibly.

Possibly.

Okay, so let's just say you could.

Okay.

Okay.

There's more, though, too.

I don't know if there's a Japanese doctor who would find me mentally competent, but let's just go with it and say I define somebody.

My guess is Jeffy has a connection.

I don't know how, but he probably knows a doctor in Japan that would lie for you.

So that's just step two.

Step three, you have to apply for a permit to take firing training, which may take up to about a month.

Huh.

And I'm not sure if that's the firing training that takes a month or the permit that takes a month, but it's going to take a little bit of time for you to get that step done.

But that's not too arduous so far, right?

You got to ask three times a month or three times a year.

You have to get a doctor's note and you have to just apply for a permit to take the firing training, which may take a month.

There's also, you have to describe in a police interview why you need a gun.

So what if I just need it for safety?

I'm trying to protect myself.

I mean, I don't know.

Is that not good enough?

It is not good enough.

In fact, generally speaking, unless you go through this entire process, they're not going to give you a gun.

You might be able to get one to hunt or something like that, but you have to go through this whole process and it's a bit arduous, as you can see.

You also have to pass a review of your criminal history, your gun possession record, employment, involvement with organized crime groups.

This one's going to be a little iffy for you because I know you have some serious involvement in that area.

Hugely tied into

criminal elements.

Yes.

They have to review.

Especially in Japan.

Yes, it's true.

You also have to pass a review of your personal debt.

Oh.

You have to pass a review of your relationships with friends.

Okay.

Your relationship with your family.

And your relationship with neighbors.

How well do you get along with your neighbors?

I know you get really along well with your HOA.

Oh, I do.

Yeah.

Love them.

They are big fans of yours.

I mean, with the exception of that time you left the garbage out.

Yes, for three hours.

Past the deadline.

Past the deadline.

Yeah.

So, I mean, you would not be getting a gun in Japan.

No.

Because of the garbage incident.

Okay.

So, but we'll see.

Then you have to apply for a gunpowder permit.

Like a gunpowder permit?

Yeah, totally different permit, Pat.

You need a gunpowder permit.

Okay.

Then

you have to take a one-day training class and pass a firing test.

So,

and then

you have to obtain a certificate from a gun dealer describing the gun that you want.

Okay, not again, this is not that bad so far.

No, no, so far, it seems really convenient.

So, that's not too bad.

Oh, oh, yeah.

Then

you have to, if you want a gun for hunting, you have to apply for a hunting license.

Now, this is pretty much the only way they're going to grant you a license, so you do have to get the hunting license.

All right.

Then you have to buy a gun safe.

Then you have to buy an ammunition locker, both of which have to meet safety regulations.

But you're doing well so far.

There is no way anybody has a gun in Japan.

Then,

you have to allow the police to inspect your gun storage.

So police go over to your house and I mean

imagine and inspect it all.

Then

I get my gun I get my AR-15 and I can do what I want with it definitely not

definitely not huh then you have to pass an additional background review that of some sort finally you get to buy your gun now again it's only going to be a gun that you're going to be able to use for hunting essentially

but that is the process in japan and you see this and you think okay well

That has to stop something like this from happening.

If laws can possibly stop this from happening,

those laws would stop this from happening.

And yet...

Instead, he makes a homemade gun

and he doesn't go through any of the process.

I didn't outline this, but I'm almost positive ghost guns are illegal in Japan.

So,

yeah, I mean, now look, people will point out, and by the way, the media is doing everything they can to make you know that gun crime is rare.

In Japan, and that's true.

It is very rare in Japan.

They don't really allow guns for any reason.

And so it is very rare.

Of course, they have a much higher suicide rate than us because

it's not about the gun, right?

They have almost no guns in the country and their suicide rate is higher than ours.

So it's not about the gun, but you do see this

terrible thing going on, going on with Shinzo Abe.

The guy who made the gun out of, as you point out, a couple of pipes and a plank.

Now, I don't know.

Can you ban pipes?

Can you ban planks?

Would that do anything for this problem?

It's hard to imagine.

I don't know how you could make sure

you have to take a pipe class three times a year and then pass the pipe class test.

Just the three times a year?

Yeah, just three times.

Maybe six.

Maybe we up it a little bit for pipes.

So you think double it on the pipe?

I think so.

Well, he had two pipes.

Okay, yeah.

I mean, it really is fascinating to watch that, right?

I mean, there's nothing, you just realize at some some level, we all do this.

We must just trust other people we don't know to not be insane, to not be violent, to not be crazy.

I think of this option, this

example often in that you're driving down the street.

You are driving 50 miles an hour on the

right-hand side of the road.

On the left-hand side of the road, a car approaches you also going 50 miles an hour.

In between you is is a double yellow line.

Your entire life is at the hands, in the hands of this person that you will never even see driving at you 50 miles an hour that they don't just swerve into you as you get close.

You are just sitting here, just trusting the goodwill of a complete stranger and the deterrent power of a double yellow line to protect your life.

And we do this every day, and we all pretty much survive it.

And that is really the best defense against this.

That is really all you can do.

When evil decides evil is going to act, it is really, really difficult to stop it.

You know, you just have to realize that it does exist.

You can do everything you can to stop it.

But I mean, this is a guy who's the former prime minister of the country, the guy who held the office longer than anyone else in history.

Yeah.

A very

prominent figure making a campaign speech.

And some guy just walks up behind him and shoots him in the back a couple times.

Yeah.

Incredible.

Really, really bad.

In front of hundreds of people and tons of cell phones.

There's all sorts of disturbing video and

still images of all this stuff going on.

And right in the middle of broad daylight, Pat.

Yeah.

It's interesting because there doesn't seem to be a heck of a lot of security around him.

No.

There were only, I think, a few guys.

Now, the the guy was immediately tackled after he shot Abe.

But I think the point of security is to try to get to somebody before they shoot.

But, you know, you're just, you're not expecting somebody with a homemade gun,

two pipes and a plank, and being able to fire that and kill the former prime minister.

Just amazing.

But I did wonder, you know, why don't they have more security around the guy when he's out in public, right out in the open, making a speech, a campaign speech.

It's pretty weird.

It's pretty strange.

I don't know.

I guess at that point, you're just depending on your gun laws.

Yeah, you are.

You know, you're just saying, well, we don't need security because we banned guns.

Well, it didn't work out all that well in this case.

No, it didn't.

You know,

there's not much you can do

now, but I mean, you can look at this and say, hey, you know, any world, like, I mean, and this just seems like obvious common sense.

Any world leader should have security around them when they're making speeches in public.

You can't tell what's going to happen.

There's a million ways someone can do something crazy.

And we went through that obviously terrible period where this was commonplace.

I mean, this was happening all the time here with major world leaders in the 60s and all the way up to really Reagan, where this stuff happened often to major public figures.

And that's one of the things we've talked about when it comes to these mass shootings.

Societies and cultures seem to select these crimes of spectacle.

Whatever the, for right now, for us, it's these mass shootings, right?

It's not the biggest crime problem we have in this country by any means.

It's a small, small slice of the gun violence and total violence and total crime in this country.

But like, there's this very small group of people who think

fame and notoriety and infamy will come to them from doing these types of things.

And it's hard to know right now with what happened in Japan, if that's the beginning of this or whatever.

But if you look back at our history, we went through

a period where that was the crime of spectacle, right?

There was always somebody who,

there was threats on major public figures' lives over and over and over and over again, many of them successful.

Yeah.

I mean, the 60s were awful.

So bad.

For assassination.

Yeah.

You think about that decade with JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King.

I mean, it just happened over and over and over again.

And

it's

really hard to prevent everything like that.

All of these shootings and

protect everybody who needs protection, it's impossible.

It's really impossible to completely safeguard our society.

And even in a place, as you just went through, with the restrictions

on guns like they have in Japan, you still can't safeguard everybody?

That tells you a lot.

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Pat, I have a question for you for just some legal process here.

What should happen to the guy who assassinated Shinzo Abe?

What's the appropriate punishment?

Does he go to jail for a while?

Until you execute him, yeah.

What if he just stays in jail for the rest of his life?

Would you be okay with that?

Let me give you another option.

All right.

Let me give you another option.

What if he kind of goes away for a while and then we give him his full release and he's walking around doing interviews with the media, talking about his life?

No.

What about that?

What about that option?

I wouldn't be in favor of that option.

Is that a bad option?

Frankly, it seems like a bad option to me.

Yeah.

Why am I seeing John Hinkley doing interviews with the media?

Why is he in a full release walking around?

Could be at your restaurant.

Could be at your grocery store.

Why is that happening?

Could be in concert in your neighborhood.

Could be in concert.

He's doing a freaking tour.

Yeah.

Now,

they say he's reformed.

They say he's healed.

He says he's still taking his meds.

So maybe he won't assassinate another president anytime soon.

But why the hell is this happening?

If you shoot the president of the United States, is there no line where we just say, nah, you're not walking around anymore, really under any circumstance?

Is there any crime?

I mean, it's inconceivable that this has happened with him.

It really is.

And we forget how close Ronald Reagan was to death.

Oh, very close.

I mean, initially, I don't think the American people knew how serious it was was because it kind of blew it off.

Hey, he's fine.

He's going to be all right.

He's going to have a full recovery.

Well, yeah, that wasn't always the case.

They were very afraid that he wasn't going to make it at first.

And so it's just by the grace of God that John Hinckley didn't kill him.

He sure tried and he almost succeeded.

And so, yes, he should be in prison the rest of his life.

I don't understand how he's out now walking around.

I just don't get it.

And it's a guy who is trying to do this to impress Jodie Foster?

I mean, what a weird.

You're ever going to let that guy go?

And

one of the restrictions on his release was: you got to stay away from Jodi Foster.

Okay.

What is the problem?

Jodie Foster.

You have to stay away from Jody Foster.

I think that's good advice, but I don't know that necessarily I would trust this guy.

I would not.

I know I necessarily would not trust him.

Mental health is a difficult thing.

Sure, is a difficult nut to crack.

And to prove that he's healed, that's virtually impossible.

How about this?

He doesn't even have to take his meds, he says.

He does because he, you know, he wants to just be careful, but he doesn't have to take them now.

He doesn't need them anymore.

Didn't he also come out as a gun control advocate?

Oh, yeah, yes, he did.

So that's good.

Of course.

And we've got one on that side.

So the journalists.

He's just the right president.

I guess

the journalists are fine

interviewing you.

If you say the gun control thing, I guess it's fine.

But I mean, it's an absolute disgrace.

It is.

How on earth are we standing for this?

This guy,

you know, he's out there

talking to the media, going on tour, living his life after.

And remember, it wasn't just Reagan.

It was Brady.

And it was, you know, this guy did a lot of damage.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

And he's just out there.

And by the way, in the interview, he's like you know what actually i actually kind of liked ronald reagan i wasn't against i wasn't against reagan i liked reagan what yeah

so guys so you shoot the people you like yeah

okay because they couldn't make him look like a left-wing nut job they had to make him look like a right-wing guy they're like oh you assassinated the president but you were still right wing right sir yes i swear and give me some gun control please and you know it's interesting because back in 1981 i don't think we even knew if he was right or left or i don't think even anybody even asked We just knew he was a nut job.

Yeah, you knew he wasn't.

That's a new thing that we have to determine their political ideology.

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You forget that

Shinzo Abe

left a pretty towering, as it's described here in this article, a towering legacy.

They think that he's really the most significant leader in Japan post-war.

A hawkish, conservative, economic reformer who dragged the country out of decades of stagnant economic growth and made it a power player on the world stage again.

And so that's who Japan and the world lost today.

One of his big priorities was getting closer to the United States.

He believed that that was smart for them to do to bolster their defense.

Trump said they were very good friends.

Yeah.

They were.

They seemed to be tight.

He was one of the world leaders that was not overtly critical of Trump.

He also took China seriously.

It was a big part of that.

Japan had been sort of deferential to

sort of took a position post-war of, we're not bad guys.

We're not a threat.

We're just going to hang back here.

And he was one of the first prime ministers there to say,

sure,

we're not a threat, but we also need to have defenses.

We need to have good relationships with those who do have defenses.

We need to take China seriously.

We've seen what they've done in the past, and they could do it again.

And, you know,

that's a big part of his legacy.

And he's very well regarded there.

I mean, it's, and he's only 67, Pat.

You know, I think because he left office, and he left office for health reasons in 2020, people kind of think, oh, you know, he was, you know, at the end of his life.

You know, he was 67.

He's still running around the country campaigning for various people that he knew and supported

and,

you know, had a long life of influence ahead of him.

Yeah.

And to see that happen.

I mean, really,

it's bizarre because you see pictures of Abe making this speech.

You can see the guy just standing there behind him.

No security back there at all.

He's just standing there.

And he's got the homemade weapon just slung around his shoulder.

And

in a bag of some sort, it was like

a messenger bag type of situation.

Right.

And it just,

it doesn't look like much, but they say that, and when you see the video, you hear the sound of it, and it did sound like a bazooka.

Yeah.

It sounded like a cannon or a bazooka going off.

It's no handgun.

No, that was a very powerful weapon.

It was also described as a shotgun at one point, I think, because they believe, you know, sort of that the shrapnel kind of hit in a very wide pattern and really, I mean, did so much damage there was no hope.

I mean,

they were describing it as he was in cardiac arrest.

And I've seen some people say that that's not a great translation.

It was more like he has no vital signs almost immediately.

It didn't last.

He did not last long after that.

And now the shooter, the assassin, says it wasn't political.

At first, they said he didn't like his policies or something.

And now there's some contention about that.

Yeah.

That he was there for a religious leader who wasn't even there.

That is one of the reports that's out there.

The police have basically paraphrased some of the things this guy is saying.

What does that mean, though, right?

What does it mean when you're getting the words of an assassin moments after?

You know, we just don't know.

I guess if it was a politically motivated group looking to take responsibility, maybe

they're going to be honest about it.

But we don't know at this point.

It's hard to know if he could actually believe anything they're saying.

Supposedly, this guy is saying it wasn't, oh, I didn't even mean to shoot him.

I meant to assassinate some religious leader who wasn't even on the premises.

So

I think at this point, could be that he's saying, you know, that he actually is just completely nuts.

Could be that he's trying to give you the impression that he's completely nuts.

Could be he's just does not have very good eyesight.

I don't know what it could be.

I will say the one thing you could say about the guy, and this is important, he was wearing a mask when this was going on.

He was protecting himself and others because, Pat, you wear your mask to protect others.

Yes.

Okay.

Correct.

And he was protecting others from COVID-19 at the time of the assassination.

And that's important.

You know, he was outside.

So would you call him a hero?

You almost would call him a hero.

I don't know if I'd go exactly that far.

It's unbelievable.

You can almost believe the media would be like, well, you know, yes, he did that, but he was also saving lives as he was wearing his mask

outdoors.

I could see that on CNN.

We should note, by the way, no cases of COVID-19.

have been documented outside of close conversation outdoors in the entire pandemic.

So when you are seeing people outside with masks on, it's important to note that, by the way, according to the New York Times, there have been literally zero cases globally that have been documented outside of close conversation

when it comes to outdoor transmission of COVID-19.

I will also say, Stu,

that he doesn't seem to be wearing his mask properly in one of these photos.

It looks like the mask is below his nose.

You should have known you can't trust the guy.

Yeah, you can't trust the guy.

He should have been brought down at that point.

Where's your N95, you know, at this point?

It seems to be a normal surgical mask.

It is amazing when you look at these photos.

Everybody's got a mask.

Everybody.

So they're still doing that in Japan, obviously.

It's just a thing that you wear a mask no matter where you go, no matter what you're doing.

Yeah, it does seem that.

I mean, of course, that was part of the culture, not to that extent, but part of the culture.

Before.

Before.

I mean, I remember whenever you'd be on an airplane, like pre-2020, you're on an airplane, someone's wearing a mask, you could guarantee they're from Asia.

Like they lived in Asia or they currently live in Asia because, you know, and obviously they had the SARS outbreak.

They've had several of these things that happened before.

And so it became part of the culture long before it did here.

But, you know, it's still going on there.

I mean, China is, by the way, Pat, currently in the middle of shutting down a bunch of cities again.

Because they have a couple hundred cases of COVID.

Which every time they do that, yes, it makes the lives of people in China miserable, but it also affects our economy and our supply lines.

Right.

Every time they do this, this idiotic idea that you can keep COVID at zero, they're the only country on earth trying to do this right now.

Well, they have a zero policy, I should say, with the exception of zero COVID policy.

So, yeah, Turkmenistan is also doing this, and they have the distinction of having no cases since the beginning of COVID.

Never had a case in Turkmenistan.

Oh, wow.

Their policies, they're the only ones that are doing it right.

You know, it's working there.

Now, some would say maybe their government is denying the reality of the situation, but no, no.

But no, they just actually had no cases whatsoever since the beginning of the pandemic.

Wow.

That is impressive.

Yeah.

It's pretty impressive.

We should all learn from Turkmenistan.

Yeah.

I think that's what we should do is we should just say there are no cases and then you have no cases.

That's essentially their approach.

And I don't know.

Maybe

we should adopt that.

Probably not the best idea.

But this is just an incredible thing to watch because, you know, of course, it is in broad daylight in public with people watching the speech.

So there's all sorts of footage, much of it very disturbing.

There's footage of the actual shot going off, of him falling,

of the aftermath, of the tackling of

the assassin.

of him of Abe being

taken off in a helicopter from a rooftop.

I mean, it's all

documented.

This is the age, right?

You see, now it's, you see all of this stuff happen when it happens.

And it's, of course, all out there on social media.

Really disturbing stuff.

And, you know, you're right, Pat, when you describe it almost like a cannon.

I mean, this guy was former military.

I obviously knew a lot, apparently, about how to build these things.

This isn't the only one he built.

Yeah.

He built a bunch of handguns, too, that they found at his home.

They've already been, obviously, to his residence, and they found a ton of of handmade, homemade handguns and other explosives that they took out and destroyed.

But the guy was pretty proficient at building these weapons, apparently.

So, yeah, he knew what he was doing, and he was planning for something for some reason.

I don't know if it's political.

I don't know if it's religious.

I don't know if he's just a whack job.

That's my assumption.

But he was well prepared to do some damage.

It's really awful.

And you see it's this stuff is really difficult to stop.

I mean, there was a it was in Japan, I believe,

years ago now, that they did, wasn't it in Japan where they did the chemical attacks in the subways?

Yeah.

That one release group.

And,

you know, again, like, you have no guns in your community,

but, you know, they filled literal garbage bags with...

like sarin cass, wasn't it?

And they went to a subway and just released it all.

And it was a terrible, terrible attack.

You know, you just, we had, we had a biological attack here in the United States in the Northwest years ago with a

questionable sort of

cultish group

that they, you know, put all sorts of,

essentially biological attack.

They put, was it, was it salmonella or what it was

in a buffet.

In buffets around town.

Oh, yeah.

Remember that?

Yeah.

Yeah.

They made it eventually turned into a Netflix documentary, but it's like the only biological attack or the first, certainly, that happened.

Did you kill anybody?

I can't remember if anybody died from that.

I think it did, but I can't.

It's been a while since I've looked into it.

But like, you just realize that like when you have people who are dedicated enough and determined enough to do something terrible,

it's very difficult to live in a free society.

Yeah.

Or honestly, even in a locked down society, it's difficult.

But in a free society, it's almost impossible to eliminate this stuff.

You just have to be realistic that you are fragile at some level.

And certain things are going to happen.

Certain things are going to happen.

You can't safety proof the entire society.

It's impossible to do it.

You learn this as a parent.

Right.

I mean, I can't tell you how much time I spent looking at corners of tables trying to figure out how to make sure my toddlers didn't fall into them.

And you spent, you're constantly thinking about it.

And then my son was on, this is when he was, gosh, one or two, on the couch and fell fell off the couch

rolled rolled off the couch and landed on one of his matchbox cars oh which almost almost blinded him I mean I legitimately I remember going to the hospital he had to go to the hospital and I remember looking at it being like I cannot believe that did not hit his I mean it hit right above his eye like on his

you know like in between the bone there and the eye like that space that's kind of soft in between that's where it hit oh wow and and I remember being like this kid almost I mean he almost blinded his eye.

Yeah, he almost lost his eye.

And again,

it was nothing at all that could have possibly been prevented.

Everything around the house, we were basically living in an inflatable house at that point.

Everything was protected all the time.

And still, this stuff happens.

It's just, you have to realize that life is fragile at some point.

And you don't control the outcome all the time.

And it sucks.

You'd like to be able to, but as much as the the media will act as if there are common sense, easy solutions to these problems, everywhere else is able to stop it.

Why can't we?

It's just not true.

It's not true.

Triple 8, 727, BECK, more Pat and Stu for Glenn coming up.

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Ever since he tried the rough greens for the first time, my dog Uno has changed.

He's a completely different dog.

I hear from people all the time in the audience.

I mean, hundreds and hundreds of letters have come in who have had the same experience with their dog.

They've heard me talk about rough greens on the show, they get some from themselves.

And as soon as they sprinkle it on the dog's food, the dog literally wolfs it down and it's really good for him.

It's not a dog food, it's just chock full of vitamins, minerals, and probiotics, and omega oils that you sprinkle.

Your dog needs these things to be healthy.

My dog was easy.

From the first time he tried rough greens, Uno was in love.

Some dogs take a little bit to get used to the new flavor, though.

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James Cond.

We lost him.

We lost him.

82 years old.

And everybody makes a big deal out of the fact that he was in The Godfather.

Yes.

Yes, he was.

And The Godfather is great.

But he was also in Brian's song.

Okay.

Not too many people bring that up in the coverage that I've heard.

No, they don't.

I don't know why either.

He was brilliant in Brian's song as Brian Piccolo,

the best friend of Gail Sayers of the Chicago Bears.

And it's,

you know, I watched that movie again a few years ago, maybe five or six years ago for the first time and probably since I was 10.

And it didn't hold up quite as well as I remembered it.

Never does.

Never does.

I mean, as a 10-year-old, I remembered that being one of the greatest movies of all time.

As, you know,

older than 10, as an adult, it was a little bit cheesy.

We should also point out Elf.

Elf.

He was great in Elf.

He was great in Elf.

One of the greatest Christmas movies of all time.

Yes.

And really the last...

classic Christmas movie, right?

That I can think of.

Has there been a more recent one that has come close to that level?

I don't think so.

You know,

we had a bunch in the 80s.

We had the Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation.

Again, you may or may not like those movies specifically, but and then the 90s with Santa Claus and Santa Claus 23.

And Elf was what, early 2000s?

I think 2003-ish.

And then since then, we're like, ah, we're done with the Christmas movies.

We have enough of them.

Well, and they're just not good usually.

You know, they've come out with new ones.

No, they have.

They're just not good.

I mean, Hallmark comes out with 47 every single Christmas.

Yes, they do.

And then Lifetime does.

They're just not good.

No.

Well, let's not say that.

I mean, some of them are fantastic.

Okay.

One of my favorite things around Christmas to do, and we've talked about this before, is watching those movies on Lifetime and or

Hallmark.

Yes.

And just

you can watch those movies and within 30 seconds know the entire plot.

Oh, for sure.

It's incredible.

Because it's the same every time.

Yeah, some guy's in a suit walking down the street.

He looks like a business guy.

He's obviously going to be the guy that winds up with the first woman you see yes which is uh usually candace cameron burray

and

she

she is also she is i usually also the business it's usually the woman who's the business person in a lot of these yeah a lot of candace cameron burray she's a very highly accomplished woman she doesn't have time for this traditional stuff but she's in her small town where she's from uh after having worked in new york right for a long time and she made a lot of money but now she's back she's back because just for the weekend yeah no big deal, bumps into a whole high school sweetheart who's he says not doing anything with his life, he's still in the same hometown.

No, and she already has a jerky boyfriend, yeah, so

she's got no room in her life for a new man, and yet somehow she winds up with the guy from high school.

It's amazing every time, happens every single time.

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You're going to hear some fantastic things that this administration has done with our strategic oil reserve.

We're going to get into that and more in about 60 seconds.

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Okay, so the strategic oil reserve.

It's called that because it's supposed to be strategic

and it's in reserve and it's in reserve for, say, the U.S.

military.

Like we're having a shortage of oil.

And so if we're in the middle of a war, what would you do?

You run out of oil, your tanks grain to a halt, all your vehicles stop.

Well, that's where the oil reserve comes in.

That's why we have 750 million barrels on reserve so that you could use it for the military to keep it going.

Hmm.

I'm just going to question your use of the word have.

You used to have.

We used to had.

We had.

We had 750 million barrels.

Right now, I think it's under 300.

Yeah.

I think it's like 200.

Four and half, almost two-thirds is gone.

If you just.

But the good thing was it all went to American motorists.

It went directly to the pumps here in the United States of America so that people could, you could lower the price of

what you're paying every gallon here at the pump.

And, man, it just went right to provide relief

to the American people.

I think the feeling Americans would describe when talking about the last few months at the pump would be relief.

They just feel like, wow, this has been what an incredible relief to come to this pump right now and pay 501 a gallon instead of 502 or 503 a gallon i will say though i just went to the pump yesterday now the time before this it i it was 120 to fill my tank

yesterday it was only only 99.25.

i only paid 99.25

miracle wow man it has come down a little bit it's actually i i i believe the average price now is 480.

it was 502 was the peak and now we're down to 480 which is um unthinkable 480 is a terrible, terrible, terrible price.

Because it was when the election took place, I believe it was $1.87.

I think when he left office, it was, was it $2.36 or something to that effect?

Unbelievable.

It was really low.

And that's normal.

I don't even think that is low.

That's normal.

Yeah.

But this is not.

This is ab normal.

Very.

That's what this is.

Very.

And of course.

And it's unsustainable.

We should also point out:

just wait, mark my words.

When the inflation report comes out, either this month or next month, and the drop in gas prices is factored in, and inflation looks like it's come down a little bit.

Mark my words, they will take credit for that.

Oh, you bet they will.

And they will say, Oh, it's all because of our amazing policies.

Now, of course, the real reason here is largely due to the fears of global recession.

So, it's actually his policies are so bad

that

people are terrified.

And so, demand

is being played with.

Even the supply chain is not enough

to hold up this dynamic.

And so, we're getting to that point now where people are freaking out about the economy.

When that happens, gas prices are going to start coming down.

You know, again, there's good things, and that's obviously a good side effect of economic worry, I suppose.

But I don't think that's not a path to economic success.

Terrify everybody over constant recession, maybe depression, and they'll stop buying stuff is not a great way to stop

inflation.

And it is sort of one of those things that seems to be the only approach they have.

Their approach seems to be, what if we come up with the worst ideas possible and everyone loses confidence and then the economy crashes?

That should cure inflation.

Yes, it should.

It will.

That will cure that part of the economy.

Really quickly, we did have a job report come out today, which was, as you might imagine, still

good.

You'd say, you know, pretty, pretty good.

I mean, this is, of course, they're trying to slow this down at this point.

I mean, when they're raising these rates, they're trying to slow down the job growth because they think it's out of control because people are,

you know, the markets and the economy is overheated.

That's essentially the problem and why we have all this inflation.

And they're like bragging about this.

Like, well, the wages went up 5%.

Well, yeah, when inflation's up 10

most people are not going to cheer you on when it comes to a five percent raise

and most people of course are not getting that five percent raise either so it's a difficult thing for them to navigate but to back to the uh strategic oil reserve here they did now

not every single gallon of oil is going to go to American consumers.

I mean, come on.

What do you, what, you can't, how can you even keep track of it, first of of all?

Some of it's just going to, you're just going to spill it, right?

You're going to spill it on the ground.

Really?

Yeah.

You just got to.

Sometimes.

Oops.

Yeah, exactly.

Like if you just spills.

Like, if you've ever been to an office water cooler, there's always a little puddle of water on the ground.

Somebody spilled a little bit.

That happens a little bit.

That's a strategic oil reserve.

You go there to fill it up to give to the American consumers.

Some's going to spill on the ground.

Okay.

Okay.

Some,

you know, may go to some of our close allies,

you know?

Like, you know, like everyone like such as like China, for example, China.

Some of our really

people we work with so closely and have done so many good things for the world.

Um, have you heard of a COVID-19?

I have.

They did that for us.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They, they were, they, uh, that's been very prevalent.

Yeah, it was almost everywhere.

It's been a gift that has, that keeps on giving for multiple years now.

And that's thanks to the Chinese government, who didn't really kind of tell anybody about it for a while and let it kind of rage out of control, maybe leaked out of one of their labs.

So that's a real positive they've done for the world.

And,

you know, there's other things too.

You know,

we don't have time to get into all of them.

Well,

you know, but

sweet and sour chicken

is a contribution for the Chinese.

Yeah, I don't know if there was a real general sow or not, but delicious.

They're on that bandwagon pretty well.

Yeah.

You've got the you've got the

Great Leap Forward,

which is a really great title

for a movement.

It

had some negative side effects to it.

A few.

Cultural Revolution.

Wow, what an incredible, a revolution of culture.

Yeah.

You know, you can't beat that.

You know, it had, again, a couple of negative side effects.

It could, you know, maybe tens of millions of negative side effects, but it was, again, something that we all were affected by.

So as a reward, we just sent some

oil over to them.

A couple barrels.

Like how many?

How many barrels wound up?

A few, well, a few more than we spilled, you know, because you do spill a couple drops here and there.

A couple barrels got over there, you know, something like

950,000 barrels, you know, but

just just the 950,000.

And that's, that's not all that went to China, of course, but that did go to the trading arm of the China Petrochemical Corporation, which is

wholly owned by the Chinese government.

And that's, you know, that's

probably a gift to them, you know, for all the things they've done for us and continue to do for us on a daily basis.

You know,

do you ever have a computer problem?

You got a computer problem.

You go to the Apple genius or the IT person, and they'll come in, they'll log into your computer, and you can kind of see them moving the mouse around, and they'll click on stuff, and they'll say, hey, this is what you need to do.

They're logging into our computers all the time.

That is true.

Helping us out.

Chinese do log into our computers.

Who knows how many problems on your computer they've fixed?

You know, how about here's another one they've done for us.

TikTok.

Right.

Where would people go to lip sync to random audio?

I don't know.

And what do we do for them in return?

Sure, we send them the 950,000 barrels of oil and we give them all of our personal location information so that they can study it.

You know, but that's a

minor thing, and we are agreeing to that.

So you can't say that that's really, you know,

that's not a fair deal.

We need to give them more and that's why we gave them this oil.

So anyway, the Biden administration claimed the move would help address the pain Americans are feeling at the pump and help lower energy costs.

But then 950,000 barrels went to China.

So I'm not sure how that would happen.

More than 5 million barrels of oil released from the U.S.

Emergency Reserves were sent overseas, according to a Reuters report that came out Wednesday.

At least one shipment of American crude oil went to China, the report said.

The Biden administration also claimed

the company UNIPEC, the sale, would support American consumers and the global economy in response to Vladimir Putin's war of choice against Ukraine and combat the Putin price hike.

We like to call it the tax increase now.

It's the Putin tax increase.

That's what they're calling it?

Yeah.

Not the price hike anymore?

No, it's not the price hike anymore.

It's the Putin tax increase.

Now,

there's an issue with this particular

issue in that

this company is one of the companies that was tied to Hunter Biden.

So

unbelievable.

It's kind of a problem.

Power the future founder Daniel Turner admonished Biden for selling, quote, raw materials to the communist Chinese for them to use as they want.

We were assured Biden was releasing this oil to America so that it could be refined for gasoline to drive down prices at the pump.

So, right off the bat, they're just lying to the American people, Turner told the Washington Free Beacon.

What

they're saying they did and what they did are not remotely related.

Turner also said the decision highlights the Biden's family relationship with China.

Biden's son, Hunter Biden, is tied to Sinopec, which is one of these companies.

In 2015, a private equity firm he co-founded bought a $1.7 billion stake in Sinopec marketing.

Sinopec went on to to enter negotiations to purchase Gazprom in March, one month after the Biden administration sanctioned the Russian gas giant.

So the company that Hunter Biden worked directly with was the company Joe Biden sent 950,000 barrels of oil to.

But other than that, you should be happy with this administration because everything else is going well.

Everything is...

Remember, it's just a Hunter Biden story.

He's a guy that's out of control, Pat.

Well, and Joe doesn't even know anything about his business dealings.

He's never even discussed it with his son.

No.

He doesn't even know where the guy worked.

He was gone for years at a time overseas.

He didn't even know where he was.

Now, sure.

Did they just catch him leaving a voicemail about his business interests?

Yes.

Yes, they do.

Yes, but that was a guess.

How many times have you called somebody up and said, hey, let me guess about several specific details of your life on your voicemail?

That is one of those things that moms and dads do all the time.

Wow.

This is unbelievable.

It is unbelievable.

I keep saying that word, and it must not mean what I think it means because it keeps happening over and over again.

I can't wait till Peter Doocy asks KJP about

that specific instance.

Is that what we're calling her KJP?

Yeah.

You're not calling her Corinne Jean, Pierre?

No, I'm not.

No.

KJP.

It takes too long to say, and she's not worth it.

No.

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More More coming up in one minute.

Ever since he tried the rough greens for the first time, my dog, Uno, has changed.

He's a completely different dog.

I hear from people all the time in the audience.

I mean, hundreds and hundreds of letters have come in who have had the same experience with their dog.

They've heard me talk about rough greens on the show.

They get some from themselves.

And as soon as they sprinkle it on the dog's food, the dog literally wolfs it down.

And it's really good for him.

It's not a dog food.

It's just chock full of vitamins and minerals and probiotics, and omega oils that you sprinkle.

Your dog needs these things to be healthy.

My dog was easy from the first time he tried rough greens.

Uno was in love.

Some dogs take a little bit to get used to the new flavor, though.

Dr.

Dennis Black, the inventor of Rough Greens, was on the phone with me last week.

He doesn't want that to be a reason for you not to try.

So, right now, he's got a special gift available.

You can get a free bag of rough greens for your dog just to try out.

All you pay is shipping.

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It's Power Hour Day, by the way.

Stu DoesPowerHour.com is the place to go.

Check it out.

It's on youtube.com slash Stu DoesAmerica tonight after the regular show.

So we're going to do the regular show, talk about all the news of the day, then go into Power Hour.

It's going to be a really fun time.

Chad Prather will be there.

Sarah Gonzalez.

My wife, Lisa Page, is joining.

She's an

interesting person in the particular condition she might be in tonight.

You also have Alex Stein and Andrew Heaton joining us as well.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

If you don't know what this is, we do this thing semi-annually where we all get together and attempt to

talk politics

while having one shot of beer every minute for for an hour.

And it's completely ridiculous and turns into

as idiotic as you might imagine.

So, and look, you don't have to put your body through this torture.

You can watch us do it.

It's at stu doespowerhour.com.

Go check it out.

It's tonight, 9 p.m.

Eastern.

Now,

until Steve Doocy, or Peter Ducey, not Steve, Steve's in the studio, but his son Peter Doocy goes to the White House press conference every day.

And until he has the chance to ask about the strategic oil reserve, part of that being sent to the Chinese company that he was directly involved with,

until he can ask that question, he did.

They asked about, I think it was him that asked about the economy yesterday.

And

KJP had some interesting things to say about the economy.

Why do you think it is that 88% of people in this country, polled by Monmouth, think the country is on the wrong track?

So I'll this.

The president understands what the American people are going through.

He understands.

He understands that gas prices are high.

He understands that.

Because of Putin's tax hike, because of the war that's the brutal war that Putin has taken on in Ukraine and their brave fight to fight for their democracy.

That's what we're seeing here.

And also the food insecurity, the food costs have skyrocketed.

And that's why the president has done everything that he can to blunt those high prices.

That's why he's tapped into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

amount of barrels coming out a day, $1 million a day.

That's why he's doing

the homegrown biofuels, the ethanol-15, making that available this summer, which is not normally available this summer, so that we can try and bring down those costs.

why he's going to continue to work to make sure we lower those costs.

But again, we understand what American people are feeling.

We're doing everything that we can.

We have a plan.

Here's the thing: we have a plan.

Republicans do not have a plan.

What they want to do is take away rights from the American people.

But they want to take your rights.

Do you think it's possible that your plan just is not popular with the American people?

No, that's not possible.

I don't think it's that our plan is not popular with the American people.

We know that the American people are feeling

high costs.

We understand what they are feeling.

What they're feeling.

Because

when you look at inflation, when we look at where we are economically, and we are in a stronger economically than we have been in history.

When you look at the unemployment,

we are stronger economically than we have been in history.

She's just saying, she's just looking for anything to say.

She has no idea where to go with us.

Oh, my good God.

It's incredible.

She is a catastrophe.

Oh, she's a catastrophe.

I mean, she seems like a very nice lady, but oh my God.

And this is, I know.

That's embarrassing.

That's embarrassing to watch.

That's like, it makes you feel like when you're watching one of those like hidden camera reality shows and someone's in the middle of like

just blowing it in some way and you have that cringy feeling inside, like inside your stomach, just watching her try to answer these questions.

That's how I feel every time.

Yeah.

It just feels like she has no idea what she's talking about.

She's reaching for literally anything to not go to her book and just read which is usually where this winds up and to say that this is the most

the best economy we've ever had is completely nuts nobody believes that it is literally insane it's insane to make that claim

what sort of opinion must you have of the american people to think they would believe that

i i don't know i

like it's it's the kind of lie i i set up my show today it's it's like you're standing there in front of everybody and saying i am not

here

but we're looking right at you no you're not i

am not

here

wait not a bad impression of her except you should be reading that line

it really is that bad it's so bad it is so bad and you're telling she said it multiple times by the way that this is the best economy in history she has said it over and over and over again How could you say that?

I mean, I don't know.

Honestly, with a straight face, it's remarkable.

And at one point, she says, oh, well, Joe Biden's doing everything he can to help solve these problems.

Has he done everything he could?

Because I haven't seen him resign yet.

When he resigns, you can take credit for that.

Then he's done everything he can.

Get out.

Then we, then we could probably do.

Now, again, of course, would go to Kamala Harris, which would probably make it worse.

But maybe she could give it to somebody else.

Why don't we just keep going down the line?

Maybe everybody holds holds the presidency for one day until we get somebody good.

How about that idea?

I'm almost willing to hold out for the Secretary of Agriculture.

What is he in line?

I don't know.

It's like 14th.

I don't know.

Yeah, somewhere down the line, but let's try it.

Let's try it because this is not working.

No.

You know, I don't like, we said, I don't like the parliamentary system where, you know, you just lose a

confidence vote and you've got to resign.

That might not be that bad a thing here in the United States.

Let's keep it, it'll be like Israel.

We'll just trade presidents and have an election every like three or four weeks.

Yep.

Willing to try it right now.

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Has it been a while since you've had something really delicious to eat?

Now I could fix that by

just sending you to Kecksi.com.

Really?

So you brought in the strawberry Pop-Tart cookie.

to remind you?

You know, I didn't.

Somebody ate them.

Yeah, ate the cookies that I brought in.

You promised me you would bring in a strawberry Pop-Tart cookie.

And so I did.

And then somebody ate them.

I don't know who it was.

It doesn't really do me any good.

No, it doesn't.

But dang it.

I did remember to bring them in.

But then, of course, as I said,

somebody ate them.

Yeah, I had the caramel cream, or the coconut cream, I had the

strawberry Pop-Tart cookies.

And they're just all gone.

Somebody ate them.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Turn my back for half a minute, and they're gone.

You know, I have.

So it's unconscionable, really.

We have a pretty big audience coming to watch the power hour tonight here in the studio.

Yeah.

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I mean, you just go home, you know, go back, pick them up, and come right back after the show.

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You could do that.

Well, I could do that, but you're in the same room as me, and it's your wife's company and recipes.

Yeah, I know.

I know.

It's weird.

Well, it's not weird at all.

You know, it's not weird.

You don't think it's not weird at all.

All right.

No, it's easy to explain.

Well, let's see if that can happen.

Okay.

We'll see.

We'll see about that.

We'll see about it.

We'll see about it.

You don't care about people.

No, you don't care.

You don't care.

You must be a Republican or something.

You must be a conservative.

A conservative, yes.

I could tell.

Republican.

I could tell.

Yeah, really.

It doesn't always feel so good.

No, it doesn't.

No.

KJP was asked about

comparing January 6th to

because Trump was supposedly doing nothing but watching TV on January 6th right how is that any different she was asked than what Joe Biden did when the Supreme Court was under assault from all those protesters at their homes and he was at the beach just hanging out check this out here's her response

Thank you, Karen.

I would like to ask you about the announcement that the president made in at the G7 for the Global Partnership on Infrastructure.

But before that,

I would like to know what's the difference between President Trump watching TV,

even pleading to go to the Capitol while the Capitol was being attacked, and President Biden going to the beach and having found what Supreme Court justices are under attack by a verbally violent mob.

What's the difference between those two leaders?

Wait, what's the comparison you're making?

Could you say the first part?

So I'm saying that what's the difference between President Trump not doing anything while the capital was being attacked and President Biden not doing anything while protesters,

while the Supreme Court justices were under attack in their own homes with their families and with their children?

Well,

there are two major differences here.

True, true of all.

First of all, first

you can't even get it out.

Our predecessor

was very

we have said that his behavior on that day

on January 6th was atrocious.

Was atrocious.

They've said it.

The president said it, too, that it was atrocious.

We are going to let the select committee, the January 6th Select Committee, continue to do their independent

view of that, their hearing.

And you guys all saw for yourselves.

The American people have seen for themselves

what

our predecessor has done.

His behavior and his individuals.

Is she the the worst?

So that is not the same.

That is absolutely not the same.

Did they run the contest for this job?

What the hell happened?

We are talking about

the person who was here before us seemingly, if you watched her involved.

For some reason.

So that's very, very different.

Very, very different.

Fast forward to this president.

Now, fast forward to this president.

This president

for women's rights.

Roe v.

Wade.

He's fighting for women's freedom.

He spoke it out.

Right.

What does that have to do with anything?

That was not the question.

That has to do with the assassination attempt or Brett Campbell.

And you were going to give two examples and you only gave.

You only said one thing.

And now you're talking about something you don't know.

Okay, I can't take it.

She's a completely different topic now.

It has nothing to do with the question.

And by the way, how cool is it that Africa today has a representative at the White House press briefing, and he gets to ask a question.

Like that.

Yeah.

I mean,

that's kind of amazing, really.

It is amazing.

And I honestly ask you,

sincerely here, Pat, I don't think we should play any more clips of her.

I can't.

Is she bad?

It's embarrassing.

It makes me cringe.

It makes me uncomfortable.

Did they just have a random drawing to select anyone, anyone to come in and do this job?

No, I think you would have gotten somebody better if you'd done it that way.

I think you would have had a better representative.

This is what happens when you hire hire people based on their genitals, their skin color, which genitals they prefer to hang out with often.

When you hire people based on that instead of their actual ability, you get this.

Yes, we need a black lesbian who's going to be our representative here.

And a woman.

And a woman.

A black lesbian woman.

And usually lesbians are women.

So that's a good point.

Yeah, I guess that's a little reduction.

Well, no, you know what?

Probably not.

Not necessarily.

Not these days.

Right.

You know what?

A lot of male and lesbians out there.

And what are you?

A biologist?

Do you know she's a woman?

I don't know.

No.

No.

And I wouldn't know even if I were a biologist because it's whatever she says at any given moment.

That's what I'm supposed to go along with.

And it's not that, you know, necessarily a black lesbian.

would be bad in this role.

Of course.

If that was the best representative you could get, that'd be great.

Convince me she's the best.

Convince me this person is the best person for this job.

And this, the problem with this is not this, it's not her, Corinne Jean-Pierre, specifically, because this job is largely meaningless.

There's no person on earth that can make Joe Biden look good.

So the fact that she's going to go out there and stumble through it and embarrass herself and embarrass the country every day she does a press briefing is not all that big a deal honestly it's it's a very minor piece of the puzzle however they're doing this all over government they had just hired a nuclear scientist who has been writing op-eds defending child prostitution sites.

They are just

because I guess he's trans or something.

My

gosh.

Look at

the HHS person.

Is that the person you want making your health decisions?

Is that person really the person?

Is it Rachel

Levin?

Is that the person you really want in charge of HHS?

Is that person really the most qualified for that job?

Really?

And the answer is no, of course, on all of these things.

They're just looking for special interest groups.

It's easy for us to see it with Corinne Jean-Pierre, right?

We can all look at Corinne Jean-Pierre and say, she seems like a very nice, wonderful person that has absolutely no business having that job.

She's clearly terrible at it.

And the thing is, whoever you hire is going to face the same problem in that they have to lie to the American people every single day, all day.

It's not an easy job.

It's not.

It's not.

I'm not saying it's an easy job.

That's why this guy is virtually impossible.

It's impossible.

You have nothing to go with.

Is terrible at it.

There's no way to make an argument in his defense that is credible.

We all know that.

Right.

Okay.

But at least What's her face, who just left Jensaki?

Did somewhat of a reasonable job of lying every day.

I thought she was mediocre too bad at that job.

I didn't think she was great.

She's fine.

I mean, like, at times she was fine.

At times, she was kind of bad.

She'd get lost sometimes.

But again, very difficult task.

I'm not underselling how difficult this job is to sit here and try to defend Joe Biden every day and these politics.

It's how do you defend a series of non-stop catastrophes?

It's really hard to do.

So I'm not saying that it would be easy, but this is why you hire based on merit.

Right.

You don't hire based on genitals.

When you hire based on genitals, you get a situation like this.

And I don't know, honestly, whether how many times they've done this?

How many times throughout, I mean, we're talking about our nuclear infrastructure here.

Is that person really the most qualified?

It's possible.

It's possible.

But geez, it seems quite odd that they over and over and over again find the most qualified people for almost every job just happen to be a first of something.

Yeah.

Does that seem reasonable to anybody?

I mean, look, no.

Katanji Brown Jackson, is she the most qualified person for that role?

We will never know the answer to that.

Why?

Because he disqualified 98% of the population before he started choosing.

She might be the greatest Supreme Court justice ever.

I have my doubts on that.

But we will never know.

And he will never know because he refused to look.

Think about that.

I mean, he said it before he was even president.

When he's president, he's going to nominate a black woman.

That's what he said.

And he did that

specifically to appease

a congressman from

South Carolina, Clyburn,

because he needed the endorsement.

And the reporting is that, and I don't know, maybe you haven't heard this.

The reporting is.

In the middle of one of the debates, in the middle of one of the debates, they went to commercial.

And James Clyburn went up to Biden in the commercial break and said, you need to mention that publicly now.

And then Biden did.

That is legitimately how that happened.

Wow.

Think about that.

And by the way, he did went on to win because of that endorsement.

Because of that endorsement.

And that turned around his whole campaign.

Yep.

And that's why he's president now.

Yep.

So

think about that for a second.

This is

he did the same thing with his vice presidential pick, and he's doing it all over government, meaning that your government, which you probably already suspected was filled with people that were completely incompetent, now we know we're not even picking the best incompetent person from the entire population.

We're minimizing it to small slivers of the population and then acting as if we picked the right person so that he can come out and have Corinne Jean-Pierre say how diverse his staff is.

In the greatest country on the planet, in the most powerful nation on earth, this is what we're doing.

This is how we're choosing people.

This is who's running the government and answering for the government.

Wow.

That's not good.

That's kind of an understatement, but it's not good.

Not good.

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We're just kind of being reintroduced.

I know we were introduced, was it fairly recently to this nuclear guy,

but his office is

what is the office he holds?

It's Sam Brinton.

He is the deputy

assistant

secretary.

Okay, the deputy assistant secretary.

For spent fuel.

For spent fuel.

And

waste.

Disposition.

Disposition.

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste.

Waspition.

Disposition.

Cumbersome, but in the office.

In the office.

Of nuclear energy.

Of nuclear energy.

Okay.

In the Department of Energy.

That's legitimately the title.

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy in the Department of Energy.

That's the title.

That is unbelievable.

I mean, that just shows how dumb our government is.

But yeah.

But it goes beyond that.

The dumbness goes way beyond that.

Now, he's probably a very smart guy.

He apparently holds dual graduate degrees in nuclear science and engineering,

as well as the technology policy program from MIT.

You don't go to MIT if you're a dummy, as a rule.

Unless you're Thomas Massey, then they can say that about you.

They can say you're the dumbest person in the world when you go to MIT.

But this person is completely brilliant in every way.

Sam is also a well-known advocate, though, for LGBTQ youth and helped to secure.

That's one way of putting it.

You know, advocating for LGBTQ youth is one way of putting his past writings, which advocated for

the reopening, apparently, of Rent Boy, the website where, you know, you go to Rent Boy's.

That was the.

That's what you literally did at Rentboy.

I think it's come or whatever away.

Not a member.

Me neither.

But they shut it down.

They shut it down.

He advocated for it to be

reopened.

He made an argument about how.

He or she, they were getting his pronouns all mixed up because they made an argument.

They identify as gender fluid.

They come up with singular fake words.

I know.

If we're going to butcher the language, can we at least not make them plural?

Apparently, they identify as gender fluid and use the

pronouns, they, them, theirs.

Okay, I don't care what pronouns they use, and I used they, so I guess I'm okay.

I don't care what pronouns they happen to be using.

Yeah.

But I will say this.

The op-ed went on to argue because they closed this site down because it was essentially a giant front for underage male prostitution for men.

Oh, my gosh.

And there was all sorts of

problems with that.

Apparently, there's some legal issues that go along with underage prostitution.

Oh, really?

Yeah, I'm not exactly familiar with all the details, but it was apparently a lot of young, this is what she says, many gay, bisexual, and transgender young adults threw them into turmoil as their main source of of income had been ripped away due to irresponsible and archaic views of sex work.

Oh my god.

So, this person's helping with your nuclear waste problem.

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Stu, what are your thoughts on UFOs?

Do you believe that they're from another planet?

Do you think they're from this planet?

They're just high-tech we don't know about?

It's secret military stuff.

Or is it from somewhere else?

I don't spend an awful lot of time thinking about this particular topic, but I tend to

land on the side of probably some military tech we don't know about.

That's kind of where I usually end up too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But

according to this story, they're so prevalent that I, I don't know, they're crowding our skies with so many UFOs.

In April 2014, four naval aviators narrowly escaped disaster.

Just as they entered highly controlled airspace for a training exercise, their two FA-18F fighter jets nearly collided with a UFO.

To the frustration of dozens of their fellow aviators, such a near catastrophe was inevitable.

For months before and after,

air crews flying in exclusive-use training areas off the U.S.

East Coast frequently observed unknown objects exhibiting highly anomalous flight characteristics.

Despite the collision hazard posed by the UFOs, aviators lacked a formal mechanism to report the mysterious objects.

Apparently, they couldn't report it to the Pentagon, so

their frustration level rose because it's a big problem to them.

And what I had heard up until recently was that they'd never fired on them, but apparently they have fired on them.

I don't think they've ever hit anything.

So

it's a really strange problem.

In one UFO incident, an aviator reported that he had never seen anything like this before.

In another encounter, an aviator noticed an object with flight characteristics unlike anything I had ever seen in my redacted years of redacted service, implying a particular anomalous encounter.

Yet another pilot's report states that she had never seen redacted like it.

Are they just redacting the swears?

It feels like all these are just swears.

No.

Go back and read that and think about the

redacted parts here.

She had never seen

redacted like it.

So could that be she'd never seen anything like it?

Or do you have to, do you have have to redact the word anything?

I think it might have been a swear.

I've never seen S like this.

Okay, probably, yes.

You think?

They're not supposed to be redacting swears on government documents, are they?

I don't know.

Maybe they don't like people to think that they're naval aviators swear.

Yeah, because swearing never happens in the military.

If there's one thing we know about the military, never any naughty words used.

The UFO did not change position like an aircraft would, and it was too high to be a ship.

I thought you didn't redact something there for a good part of that word ship.

I was like, uh-oh, no, that's supposed to be redacted, Pat.

No.

For fighter pilots armed with an array of advanced sensors, the confusion and bewilderment reflected in the reports is striking.

One aviator had a difficult time explaining the redacted.

In another incident, a pilot could only describe a UFO in a puzzled voice over the radio.

Yet another aviator described a UFO that appeared as odd as it sounds to be redacted.

So this is what I knew was going to happen when they released this report.

Everything interesting was going to be redacted.

And we're going to find out nothing about this ever.

So

I don't know.

What are you protecting us from?

I think they're protecting the military secrets.

That's what I think they're doing.

I think so, but I mean, I hope so.

Because if it's China or Russia, then we're in real trouble.

And if it's China or Russia, you would think they would have have already done whatever it is they're going to do with this new tech, right?

Yeah, I mean, like, and really, they're going to risk this stuff being seen.

And a lot of this stuff happened over the United States or close to the United States.

Like, they're not, that would not be the way.

It just doesn't seem possible.

They'll be testing it in their own territory.

Right.

So, this is obviously either from another planet, which I highly doubt, or it's, you know, secret tech that we have that they don't want anybody to know about yet.

So that's what I hope it is, because that bodes well for us.

I hope so, man.

I hope so.

I used to definitely believe this.

You know who threw me on that?

Because I used to believe even Democratic presidents

would have serious interest in making sure our defense was developing the best technology in case we needed to use it.

And we might disagree with them and when they would use it or how they would use it, or maybe we would want them to use it and they didn't use it.

But we were all on the same page that we wanted to have the best stuff, right?

Like, that's pretty clear.

Yes.

No, no, no, it's not.

Listen to the words of Obama.

I mean, they specifically went out and criticized the idea of just developing better weapons.

They didn't want to develop them.

They outwardly told the American people and much more importantly, our adversaries around the globe, that we didn't want to develop any new weapons.

How does that make any sense?

That doesn't make any sense.

I guess the theory being like, if we tell them we're not going to develop new weapons, then they won't develop new weapons.

Right, right.

Yeah, that's how this works.

I mean, how naive do you have to be to believe that?

Okay, if we just stop, if we unilaterally stop developing things, you think the Russians and Chinese would follow suit?

No.

Not in a million years.

Nope.

There's absolutely no way, and they've proved that over and over and over and over.

Now, hopefully, the only defense of this is you just hope Obama was lying.

Yeah.

You know, I mean, maybe he was.

Maybe our military was still doing these things.

And just, I mean, again, we hope we never have to use any of them, but you better have them in case you need them.

Clearly.

I mean, they were talking about these, like, the, you know, the hypersonic missiles and such that were formed to be used by, that China has and Russia was claiming they were using, even though there's been some questions about that.

But China has them, seemingly for sure.

And the military experts, the people who are watching this stuff every day, many of them with former military experience, are saying that they're way ahead of us on this stuff.

We don't have any defenses for it, and they are way ahead of development of these weapons, which follows exactly to.

Seems impossible to believe.

It's exactly what Obama

is for.

All the tech that they do have has been stolen from us.

I know.

But, you know, they stole a bunch from us, and then they advanced it.

Who knows?

Wow.

Who knows how they're doing it?

That would suck if that's true.

Yeah, if that's true, that's really, really bad.

And it can only happen when you have people who are ideologically committed to the United States not being the global superpower.

And we know, I mean, Obama, you know, Biden is committed to God only knows what.

I mean, I don't know that he has any values at all.

We just know he's terrible at his job.

Oh, well, Mitt Romney said he's a genuinely good human being.

Which I genuinely don't believe.

No.

No, he's really.

I mean, like, I...

He's not.

He's despicable.

He lies every single day.

He seems to have

some sort of ethic, Biden.

Like, to the point, like, I think his actions with Hunter Biden are interesting to me because

he does seem to have that ethic of defending his family.

Yeah, I think he has that.

And that's not a good, it's not a good ethic when your family is committing crimes.

That's not something to be admired when your family is committing crimes.

But it also could very well just be he likes the money that Hunter brings in, the 10% for the big guy.

It might just be that.

It It might just be that he sees

the downfall of his own presidency if the Hunter Biden stuff comes out.

So he defends him that way.

But when you hear the text messages and stuff that's come out from the laptop, it really gives you the, it does give you the feeling of an empathetic father who's just absolutely has no idea how to help his kid.

Yeah, it does.

And I think that's part of it with Joe Biden.

I mean, he realizes his son

is a catastrophe on the level only measured by Joe Biden's presidency.

The life of Hunter Biden and Joe Biden's presidency are equally terrible things.

But, you know, I'm sure that would rip a father apart.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

And of course, he's done.

When your son is an absolute douchebag,

who's

cheating on his wife with hookers and strippers and all of that stuff and doing drugs on a regular basis and

ignoring children that he's had with other women, with other strippers.

And I mean, there is so much there with Hunter Biden.

And it's not to say that I'm not arguing that Joe Biden's a good dad for doing that.

I mean, it's a terrible thing.

Your kid,

what he was doing with his son, at least according to these text messages, you know, his kid would have no money because he blows it all on cocaine and hookers.

And then comes.

He blows his money almost as fast as his dad blows taxpayer money.

Yes.

So.

And so he, Hunter blows all all of his money on cocaine and hookers and then says, okay, dad, I'm finally okay.

Manipulating his father, I think, and saying, okay, I'm going to go, I'm going to go back and I'm going to go to rehab now, daddy.

But I'm just a little short on money.

Can you please help me?

And stupid Joe Biden

sends him tens of thousands of dollars, which he then spends on more hookers and does not go to rehab.

Yeah.

Now, that's not a, that's not a, it might be a father who really does want to help, but is completely naive and failing at that.

It could be that could be the story there.

But can't give him the tough love he needs.

No,

I think that's quite clear.

Yeah.

You know, and

his life has been a disaster, you know, mostly from his own doing, but his dad has not helped.

And I would think that it would be kind of a problem within the family of Hunter hooking up with his dead brother's wife, widow.

That seems like a sleazy kind of move, Sarah.

It's one of the strangest things I've ever heard in my entire life.

Yeah, it's weird.

And sadly, it was his daughter that discovered it, apparently, and

then told the mother, and that's how she found out.

And they made a statement at the time.

It was like, you know, it's been a complicated time.

It was not like, I can't believe my son is doing this.

He's out of control.

It was like, you know,

it's been a complicated time.

And they're finding their peace

in a certain way.

And we think

we asked for privacy in this time.

You know, it was not, it wasn't a full-throated endorsement, I wouldn't say, of the relationship, but it was not.

I mean, how, you know, I can't even imagine you go through a terrible situation where your son dies, he's married to someone, and then your other son starts hooking up with her.

I mean, like, that is like uncool.

That is an understatement, Pat.

That is an understatement.

Yeah.

Right there.

That's not cool.

I mean, that's similar to the Gavin Newsom thing, right?

Like, it's one thing for the guy you're working for, this political leader, to be having an affair.

But then when it's your wife that he's sleeping with, you get a little more upset, you know?

Yeah.

And that's what happened with Gavin Newsom when he slept with his best friend's wife and his political advisors.

But again, none of these things matter to Democrats.

So it's perfectly fine.

None of it matters.

I mean, don't even worry about it.

That's their personal life.

That doesn't mean they can't govern.

Oh, okay.

All right.

But I mean, look at what we covered the story before.

He has this relationship where he's constantly funneling money to Hunter Biden and seemingly getting it from his business.

And a lot of money.

A lot of money.

In the case you're talking about, it was like $50,000 over a couple of weeks.

50 grand.

It's a lot.

And where are you getting that?

I thought you were just this humble middle-class lunch

Joe

middle-class Joe who is making

top 5% earnings in the country for the past 40 years, just middle-class Joe.

That's all.

Because everyone's like, oh, well, he just was a senator.

Yeah, well, he's making basically you know, executive corporate money for his entire.

I mean, that's making a couple hundred thousand dollars a year.

And there's more than that coming in.

A lot.

Oh, yeah.

And we know there's a lot more than that.

He's made millions off of his book deals and all the other shady things he's been up to.

And his son's shady deals in the Ukraine and China.

And you know, Hunter has information that, if utilized, would

destroy Joe Biden's presidency.

Yeah, oh, whatever.

If the media listened to it.

Now, they would just immediately dismiss Hunter Biden as a crack addict and try to brush it off.

But we know Hunter does know enough about this to

do severe damage to his dad.

So, really, you know, Joe Biden is incentivized to try to help him.

I mean, this could very well be why 950,000 barrels of oil went to a company that

was working with.

It very well could.

This is why you don't allow these things to happen.

You can't be compromised like this.

That's the problem.

So we don't know the results of of those things, but we know that Biden is doing a terrible job, and many of his decisions don't make sense to people that think rationally.

And a lot of it, I think, he gets excused because he looks incoherent and looks like a person who should be in a nursing home immediately.

And so, people brush those things off.

But all these explained actions, you wonder how many of them are to cover for previous

activities that would be questionable if seen by the the public.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't think the number's zero is

not when it comes to those explanations.

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CNN's ratings are kind of in the toilet.

What?

Yeah.

Whoa, you are surprised by that?

What?

Took Stu by complete surprise.

I'm shocked by no.

No, right?

Now, you're not talking about CNN Plus's ratings because those

doesn't exist.

CNN Plus's.

Bad ratings on CNN Plus do not exist.

That I agree with.

That is true.

Right, because

they don't have any ratings.

But the major changes they've made already in leadership and philosophy and structure have not yet borne fruit in the ratings.

That's stunning.

That's stunning, Pat.

The numbers are indeed a cause for concern, according to this article.

In June,

CNN primetime shows averaged 654,000 nightly viewers.

In primetime?

Wow.

That's terrible.

Really, really bad.

That's really terrible.

148,000 in the demo.

So

to give you an idea, that's less than what Glenn was doing at CNN headline news

years and years ago.

Yeah,

no one knew who Glenn was.

He had just started at CNN Headline News and he was out doing those numbers.

Glenn's repeat show overnight numbers were bigger than this,

I think by a lot.

And the ratings for Brian Stelter's show, Reliable Sources.

I stumbled into the fact that I don't even know where that, when that's on.

Do you?

I feel like

we have weekends, maybe?

We did discover it's a Sunday morning show

at 11

a.m.

I think.

I mean, I do see clips of it from time to time, but I have

ever seen a viewer.

It is surprising to me.

Sure, it's a great show.

You don't love his show?

I don't.

Don't catch it all that often.

So his ratings are 585,000.

Total viewers, 79,000 in the demo.

Oh, God.

How do they continue to leave him on the air?

How is it possible?

I don't understand it.

Yeah, I know.

It doesn't make any sense, especially with this new direction.

Well, they keep saying we're going to get rid of all the bias.

We're going to get rid of the people who just have opinions and we're going to replace them with news people.

I've yet to see that happen.

Yeah.

What are you going to do then?

I don't want to see much movement.

I mean, they did.

It did just,

they've only been in there for a couple of months.

I mean, I don't know.

But

you'd think it's.

I would think that there's a whole urgency, although urgency is a white supremacy situation.

What do you mean?

Well, when you're urgent,

that's white supremacy.

When you have a sense of urgency?

Yes.

Like you think something's important, so you want to do it as quickly as possible.

Yes.

because it's high on your priority i'm not going to remember the the did we do the story on this show or was it mine remember um because

uh all the details are a bit fuzzy right now but we'll tell you about that eventually but as for cnn um

it's i mean it's indicative of what happened to cnn plus because they thought that was going to explode for some reason i don't know where they got that research that anybody cared about seeing more cnn than they were already not watching uh

and then they drew 10,000 total subscribers.

10,000.

They tried to blow that number up and lie about it, but

10,000 is a...

I don't even, I would be surprised if they even hit that number.

I would too.

I would too.

By the way, so Discovery is the company that took over, basically.

Right.

They have Discovery Plus.

The thought was they would roll CNN Plus into that.

This weekend on Discovery Plus, they have the documentary that you may have heard of during the January 6th hearings.

And the only reason I'm mildly interested in this is because it's actually like Donald Trump talking about this at the moment.

Oh, wow.

It's Donald Trump, it's Ivanka Trump, it's Jared Kushner, it's all the big people.

They did this at the time with sort of a friendly documentary to kind of, you know, show the history of the administration.

And so they're talking about this stuff in real time.

And I don't know how the documentary turned out, if it wound up being a negative piece or not, but it's supposed to air on Discovery Plus this weekend.

Oh, I'm interested in that.

Yeah, it could be interesting.

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between 6 and 8 Central and 7 and 9 Eastern Time live right before this show.

It's Pat Gray Unleashed, where we do traffic and weather together every eight minutes on the 7th.

Really important to get you there.

What city do you do traffic?

In your local area.

All local areas.

Yeah, it's pretty wide-ranging.

It's going to be a long segment.

Yeah.

You should check it out sometime.

You got a nationwide audience.

Yeah.

Right.

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Together.

Every eight minutes on the sevens.

Yeah.

So.

Hey, that's not how the clock works.

So you can check that out right before the show or anytime you want on podcast.

And then I understand you have something going on this very day.

Big night tonight.

It's Power Hour Night.

Yes.

Dude's PowerHour.com.

Go there, share it, like it, do all the things.

Give the machine what they want, algorithmic engagement.

Yes, feed the beasts.

We're doing the show on YouTube tonight.

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It happens at 9 p.m.

right after our regular show.

So you get some news of the day and then watch us

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It gets harder and harder as the hour goes on.

So I can imagine.

It's a fun kickoff to the weekend, if anything else.

And check it out tonight.

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Live it.

Love it.

Do it.

You're just a woman.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

I want to give you

this rant from Sean Trendy.

He is at Real Clear Politics.

He's the senior elections analyst at Real Clear Politics.

And I honestly don't know his political leaning really at all.

He was at AEI for a while, which is sort of a right-leaning think tank, but I've never heard him give, you know, like, I'm a Democrat, I'm a Republican.

I don't know what his politics are.

I kind of sense that he's like a moderate Republican, maybe.

Okay.

But he had a really interesting rant.

And I want to, tell me if this rings true to you, Pat.

Okay.

The roots of the GOP's base, the GOP base's disdain for the old establishment are deep, but they trace back to the Reagan years.

For decades, rank-and-file Republicans were told, we want to do the things that you want to do, but

we've only ever had the Senate and the presidency.

Our hands are tied.

So in 2000, Republicans get the trifecta.

Then, one of their moderates.

Right, they had the presidency, they had the House, they had the Senate.

Yeah.

So they should have been able to do whatever they wanted to do.

Then one of their moderates, who the GOP had just spent tons of money getting re-elected in 2000, flips to the Democrats.

Remember that one?

Yeah, was that

Ireland?

No, that was a Forrest win.

Oh, God, I can't think of the guy's name.

Was it Vermont?

Vermont or New Hampshire?

I can't remember.

It's been a while, but I do remember that happening.

That was a big deal at the time.

Two years later, Republicans get the trifecta in a historic midterm win.

Well, we need a bigger trifecta is their argument.

So in 2004, Republicans get a bigger trifecta.

What do base Republicans have to show for the Bush years?

A tax cut, which gets reversed in part in 2012.

Yeah.

A Medicare prescription drug benefit.

Woo!

The largest expansion of the welfare state since the Great Society.

Yes, yeah.

What a Republican principle that is.

Right.

Then, now that particular prescription drug benefit has most of its market-based sweeteners added to get conservatives to swallow it, then removed by Democrats in Obamacare.

Republicans also, for this big trifecta, get no child left behind, the federalization of education spending.

These were justified at the time with the argument, well, if we get them off the plate, we'll lock in a majority.

Then we can do what we want with our trifecta, right?

I remember hearing these pitches from the right.

That did not happen because the the old establishment screws up the one thing Republicans are overwhelmingly trusted on at the time, foreign policy.

Now, you could point to the judges until 2012 when Roberts votes to uphold Obamacare.

To be clear, Roberts is no suitor, that's true, but

not by much.

But most Republicans don't care about Citizens United or know what Section 4B of the VRA is.

For a visible political win, Roberts blinked.

Yes, Alito, it's also in the Bush ears, wrote Dobbs.

And we all are very appreciative of that, and I am a big fan of Alito.

But do you remember who Bush wanted for that slot?

Yeah, it was

WhatsApp.

Harriet Myers.

Yes, Harriet Myers.

Now, as Sean Treadney points out,

Harry Reed really, really liked Harriet Myers.

which tells you a lot about how she would have been potentially as a jurist.

Republicans only got Alito because the base went into open revolt.

It's a similar story with Obamacare repeal.

We'll force Obama to repeal after the 2010 wave.

We'll shut down implementation in 2013.

Okay, we had the House and Senate in 2015.

Then they finally had the trifecta in 2017 and repeal gets thwarted by John McCain,

another Republican.

Now, the base has also made clear it wasn't fond of a comprehensive immigration reform in 2005, which Bush almost pushes through anyway.

In 2013, a conservative revolt stymies the gang of eight

for their immigration reform push.

Who does the establishment put hundreds of millions of dollars behind in 2016?

Jeb Bush.

Right.

Whose brother is viewed as a failure on all fronts by large portions of low energy.

Right.

Yeah, that's true.

By large portions of the base, and who's being pushed because he speaks Spanish so well he can modulate his accent.

Okay.

In the meantime, Obama is viewed, rightly or wrongly, as racking up win after win after win and bringing knives to gunfights.

Seriously, whatever disappointments the Dem base has with him, the guy wasn't afraid to fight to push things leftward.

There's no doubt that the government is further left on January 19th, 2017, than it was on January 19th, 2009.

He fights for Obamacare after Democrats lose a Senate seat in freaking Massachusetts.

After a disastrous Obamacare rollout.

He goes and sells the hell out of the thing, and it ends up hitting enrollment targets.

You remember, speaking of this, remember the website alone on Obamacare that cost, was it $2 billion

for a website?

Go to Squarespace.

Geez.

Come on.

It'll actually work.

After getting smacked with a second wave-like election in 2014, the first president that happens to since the 1870s,

he does immigration reform by executive order and repackages an obvious multilateral treaty as an executive order.

Think of that.

Why do you think the voter base is so pissed off at establishment Republicans?

That is a pretty darn good summary.

Yeah, that's a good one.

On that story.

Yeah, and it's why we don't like Republicans as a rule.

They never do what they tell us they're going to do.

Ever.

It seems like every time they get the majority, they have both the House and the Senate, they have the executive branch, and they don't want to be too mean.

We don't want to abuse our power.

Let's give the Democrats a chance to veto a couple of things.

Like all the things on our agenda.

They haven't really jammed through an agenda since, what, 1994, maybe?

When

King Rich and the contract with America and all that stuff, which really was great, but they haven't done anything great since.

I mean, I think people would look at Donald Trump's presidency and say, that's what we liked about Trump, right?

He was not fearful of those battles, which is true.

He did not, he was, he did not, he was not scared of them.

I don't know that he, you know, a lot of the things he wanted to get done, he was unable to, you know, I mean, again, it doesn't mean you're going to get everything you want to get done.

Trump, I think, at least gave that outward appearance of, I'm fighting for these things, and he wasn't shy about talking about it.

For example, the wall.

Now, we know the wall isn't built.

I mean, we didn't get the wall, but he was, he never backed down from wanting it and arguing for it.

And you could say the same thing, I think, about Reagan in

a certain sense, in that a lot of the stuff he argued for, getting rid of the Department of Education, he never backed off of those things, but he was unable to get them done.

Some of that stuff exists with every president.

Every president tries to get something done.

But it seemed like there have been many cases where Republicans have almost acted as if, here's the thing I really believe in.

And then over time, those things

don't seem quite as passionate about them.

And then all of a sudden, they're giving watered-down versions of it.

And all of a sudden, you're like, wait a minute, what's the difference between you and some moderate guy that's, you know, Paul Ryan's a great example of this.

Paul Ryan, early Paul Ryan is like an early rock band doing their authentic stuff.

You go back and read those early Paul Ryan bills.

They were good.

Like legitimately good.

Legitimately would move the country in the right direction and make a real difference.

And every one of his budgets just got softer and softer to the point where eventually he was like doing pop.

You know, he's doing like pop ballads instead of the old good stuff he used to get.

He's all the hard rock he used to play.

Right.

When I used to see him live, he was amazing.

And now he's playing, he just covered a Shakira song.

You know, it's like, it's just not the same.

That's what it's like.

And Republicans are used to this and they're sick of it.

And it happens so often.

When have we ever seen a hardcore super left-wing Democrat become really moderate and then maybe even slightly to the right?

Has that ever happened?

I can't think of

an instance of one

freaking example of that.

I can give you a dozen instances of Republicans doing.

John Cornyn here in Texas is a great example of that.

When he was first elected, he was a solid conservative.

Now, all he wants to do is reach across the aisle and compromise.

Now let's find a way we can all get together.

Can't we just get along?

Let me shepherd through the gun control bill.

Yeah.

Which he just did, by the way.

And if anyone in Texas happens to be listening that is thinking maybe I should challenge him in a primary in his next election, please remember that bill.

Please remember that they he helped shepherd through a gun control bill.

The Texas senator who shepherded a gun control bill.

Probably would not have happened without him.

Yeah, would not have.

I don't think it would have.

What happened to Dan Crenshaw?

I mean,

he seems to have gone

on a leftward journey since

coming into office.

There's a, you know, Ryan Paul Ryan was a great example of it.

I mean, over and over and over and over, you see the examples.

You see, you see Republicans doing this.

Republicans that change parties often.

You mentioned Arlen Specter before.

I still can't think of the guy's name who did it in the early 2000s, which was, again, about control of the Senate.

It was a really big deal.

But you have people, you know, like, you know, Charlie Christ bounces back and forth in parties every 10 minutes.

He's in another party.

But it's interesting because you're right.

You don't, you do occasionally see Democrats that

maybe not as well known.

You know, like the Zell Millers of the world from back in the day, who were kind of conservative Democrats anyway, and then just, okay, I can't do beat with this party anymore.

They've gone too far.

You do see that.

But you don't see these like revolutions.

Like, I used to be a hardcore liberal, uh, and now after all the perks the party has given me, I'm going to abandon them and go the other way.

Yeah, it doesn't happen all that time.

I never see that.

It doesn't happen much.

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It's Pat Stew in for Glenn.

Also, joining us, the one, the only, Jeff Fisher.

Thank you.

Hello, thank you.

So happy to be here of Chewing the Fat, the fattest podcast available

wherever you get your podcast.

Thank you very much.

I came sporting a gift.

I

had a contestant on my game show, What's the Lie, of which you both have participated.

Lots of fun, yeah.

I've never won, but it was fun.

Well, this contestant showed up with a gift, brought me a tomahawk from his Tomahawk Lanes in Michigan

engraved.

Jeffy CFT, it's got chewing the fat on the blade.

That's kind of cool.

I have now started a new thing.

If you're a contestant on my game show, you bring me gifts.

Yeah, you don't win now.

You don't do my thing.

You can't can't win a thing on the show, but you bring him a gift.

I like that a lot.

Yeah, that's a really good deal.

When I was on the show, he offered me as a prize a blaze mug.

Like, I want to work here, and I didn't even win, and he took it back.

He actually didn't give it to me at the end.

Well, I mean, he had an opportunity.

Now, why is this person here?

I'm curious.

The person is here because they wanted to participate live in a What's the Lie game show.

What's the real reason?

And that was their only purpose?

Well, they decided since they were in town, they might as well go to Stu's Power Hour.

That's right.

We have people coming in from all across the country to make us, to see us look like idiots.

So the audience doesn't participate in the drinking.

Oh, they can't.

We may have some coolers

being brought in.

There may be some beverages for the fine adults that are coming to participate in the Studo's America Power Hour.

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Check it out.

It's going to be fun very much tonight.

Jeff, are you going to come by?

You did crash one of those.

I did.

I crashed the last one.

Yeah, the last one in December.

It was fun.

I won an award.

I got the best Gensaki impersonation.

That's right.

I'm very proud of that.

Very proud of that.

That's right.

Jeffy had a Gensaki wig on.

And

you want to talk about something that's attractive.

Jeffy in a Gensaki wig, you will never get it out of your head.

Wow.

Your eyes will never see another thing that will be burned, seared into your memory for you.

All I know is I have

a proud little sign that says I was the best Jensaki impersonator.

Congratulations on that one.

Your family must be proud, too.

They must be proud of you for that because that's special.

I haven't put it in a frame yet, but I still have it somewhere.

Corinne Jean-Pierre is trying to figure out this Jensaki impersonation.

She doesn't seem to be able to do it.

If she could even get to that level, I mean, that would be

massive exponential improvement, as Joe Biden would say it.

Yes.

A decade of her doing this job and she would not be as good as Jensaki.

Who was not good?

We should remind you.

This is not a compliment to Gensaki.

Has she started the MSNBC show yet?

I haven't seen her.

Oh, no, I don't think so.

I don't think so either.

No, I don't think so.

I wonder if that really, I wonder if that fell through.

No, no, no.

No, no way.

They're going to not drop her, not yet.

I think she's going to be more, was more skeptical as spokesperson for the president, of the president's actions than she will be on MSNBC.

She's going to be more.

The MSNBC

ecosystem will pull her farther toward Biden.

And that does happen.

I mean, that's incredible what happens when you're surrounded.

And look at all the former Fox people who have gone so far left.

Like, What's Her Face in the Morning

on CS?

Yeah, yeah, I know.

I think I heard her tell you.

Oh, what's her face?

Yeah, What's Her Face, old What's Her Face?

Have a great weekend.

Glenn will be back on Monday.

This is the Glenn Back Program.

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