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On the recall petition.

I think you have to have 2,000 or 2 million confirmed names.

Well, no, technically, it's only 1.5 million.

But they wanted to get to 1.8 to 2 million because they wanted to have a little bit of leeway.

And now they have that.

Yeah, they're well above it.

They were at 2.06 million, and this is a couple days ago now.

Which is pretty amazing.

That's an impressive recall effort.

Considering, especially

that they did it in the middle of a pandemic.

Yeah.

You know, people weren't allowed to go out.

I mean, the governor was able to repress this effort for much of it because,

you know, he was not letting people out of their houses.

I mean, California wasn't even letting people go to the beach for part of this time.

So how would you sign a petition?

How would you get this going?

The only place you could go was to that French restaurant, the French laundry.

and the only way you could go there is if you were the governor of the state really or one of his close personal friends is that how it worked that's how it worked yeah everybody else had to stay home i really think that's the difference between this working and not working is that dinner well it is it had a really good thing that kicked everything into gear the guys who were behind this worked their butts off to get this done but it was an impossible effort in the middle of a pandemic how can you do it and doing it to a democrat in california that doesn't work out very very hard right only i mean you know Gray Davis was 2003.

Yeah.

So that was a long time ago.

These things normally fail.

Several against Gavin Newsom had failed already.

And they stepped up and they just, they worked really hard and they did a great job.

But I don't know, without that dinner, I don't know if it would have worked.

I don't think it would have.

I think that was the last straw for an awful lot of Californians.

They're like, okay, I mean, I liked that guy.

I liked his policies, but I'm sorry.

The do-as-I-Say, as I do thing, I can't go there with him.

It's so frustrating.

Yeah.

It's so frustrating for people because I think people went into this pandemic and they said, look, this is a crazy situation.

It's something none of us have ever dealt with before unless you were alive in 1918.

You know, and this is something that has been, it's very, very difficult to deal with.

And we understood at some level things were going to change for a time, right?

That doesn't mean that we were going to endorse full-out lockdowns, but I think a lot of us were fine with, let me, let's cut down the big parties, let's stay away from each other a little bit more, maybe let's uh wash our hands a little more often, whatever, you know,

whatever those steps were.

But

when you say we're going to lock down all of society, I'm based on a complete lie.

I mean, you know, and I don't mean a lie like the coronavirus is a lie.

I mean, the lie that Gavin Newsom specifically used to justify the recall

was completely insane and to this day holds up as insane.

John Ziegler was on my show, Studios America, last night, and he went over this.

I had forgotten because really one of the first,

really, one of the first states, I think it was the first to really shut down, was

California.

And it was done based on this ridiculous lie

that something like 60% of all Californians would have the coronavirus in eight weeks.

And

that did not happen.

I've forgotten about that.

Yeah, in fact, not only did it not happen,

it still hasn't happened.

I mean, it happened in eight weeks, but it hasn't happened in 52 weeks either.

I mean, like,

no state in the union has had 60% of its population infected with coronavirus.

I mean, this just didn't happen.

And he was using it as a scare tactic to try to get assistance and to

and to scare people.

And it was really

way over the top.

I mean, it's not even close.

I think something like 3.6 million have tested positive in California, which is it's the most in the country.

It's a big state, a lot of people in it.

That's probably about 8%

of their population.

I don't know.

Let's see if I can find his.

He has the stats in his article.

We'll tweet it at Studos America.

What are there?

40 million?

I think there's 40 million residents of California, right?

40, 42 million somewhere in there.

It's amazing, right?

And so this guy comes out and he justifies this based on a lie that he holds everyone down.

And he does the thing where, again, people in March and April were much more, okay, I understand this is a tough time.

You're taking big steps.

I'm not comfortable with them.

But okay, until we get a handle on this, for example, until we at least have testing.

that if I feel sick, I can go and get a test, right?

Okay, you can do these things.

Then it comes to this period where there's not a lot going on, there's not a lot of the virus out there for months and months, and he's still not letting go, not letting people go to the beach and the park.

I mean, you know, the lockdowns that Newsom did were completely different than they were.

You know, lockdown gets totally overused in this conversation because it seems to mean both Texas has a mask mandate and Gavin Newsom won't let anyone go to school, right?

Like these are totally different standards.

So you have to kind of like look at this and say,

this has been

an overreaction from Newsom for a claim that was not even close to accurate.

And now we stand back and we look at this and we say, wow,

he needs to be held accountable.

And I think that's what this recall does.

It at least gives the people of California a chance to say, oops.

Yeah, we shouldn't have have done that.

I mean, as if his other actions in his life do not already tell you that you should not have him as your governor.

I don't know how.

Again, it's California.

Weird things happen.

But at least this will give California a chance.

Now, do I have faith if they do recall Gavin Newsom?

Because it looks like it's going to be on the ballot for sure.

If it does happen, then, you know, will it work?

I don't know.

They may still keep him in office.

Do we know when the election would be held

if it happens?

They don't wait clear till November, do they?

No, it happens faster.

They'll have a special election.

I talked to Mike Nedder, who's the guy, one of the guys running it, and he told me,

it's definitely before November.

I don't remember the exact date.

But it's interesting.

Newsom has gone this entire time not discussing it.

Media organizations would call him up and say, hey, what do you think about this recall?

What do you think about it?

What does this say about your governorship?

He would just not respond.

No comment.

No comment, no comment, no comment until yesterday, basically.

And yesterday, he started taking taking all sorts of interviews because he's realized this is happening and now he has to fight it.

And so he went on with Jake Tapper yesterday.

He talked to Tapper went after him pretty hard.

He talked to Tapper about the recall and really his first extended public comments.

Listen.

You have people that are part of the lead coalition that started this petition that are avid proboid members.

They're part of the three percenters, the right-wing militia group.

They are supporters of QAnon conspiracy theorists, white supremacist groups.

That's not just that, that's factual.

And so, at the end of the day, that's the origins of this.

And you combine that with Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee and Devin Nunes, and now the RNC nationalizing this recall.

Time and money, you're going to get something on the ballot.

Well, what do you think of the two million or so Californians who have signed it, who have signed this petition?

I'm not talking about the leaders that you just went after.

Certainly, all two million Californians who signed this aren't all Trumpsters.

Yeah, that's right.

Very, very true.

And look, this has been one of those things that I don't think they could have done this in a pandemic, particularly without a bunch of Democrats on board.

Certainly, tons of independents have signed this.

And, you know, we've talked to the organizers.

They have tons of Democratic signatures as well.

This is a very bipartisan thing.

It crosses the line because, you know, look, Democrats own businesses too.

Democrats have jobs.

I mean, it's not common, but Democrats have jobs too.

And people are pissed off about this, especially when they see the hypocrisy.

And I love that he blames prominent Republicans.

Like, they're all powerful.

Yeah.

Like, it's these super powerful Republicans that are to blame for this.

Really?

It's these feckless Republicans that you're going to blame?

They've got no power.

They couldn't even win elections in Georgia.

Right.

And you're saying that

they're responsible for changing the political landscape in California?

I don't think so.

No, I don't think so either.

By the way,

the actual promise from Gavin Newsom was he wrote to Donald Trump and he said in the next eight weeks, more than 25 million Californians

would, and there's 40 million residents, as you point out, Pat, 25 million would get the virus.

As of this week, 3.6 million had it.

25 million in eight weeks.

Is what he predicted.

Now, look, lots of people said things that were wrong in this era.

You know, granted.

Yeah, a lot of people did.

Who else would have

Anthony Fauci might have been inaccurate on almost every Fauci thing that he said?

Well, one Dr.

Fauci.

Yes, I know.

Yes, you could definitely find tons of Dr.

Fauci things that he's been doing.

Well, he's only taken both sides of an issue on everything.

That's all.

But it wasn't just Dr.

Fauci.

No, it wasn't.

I will say, there was a poll that came out one year ago today.

Came out today.

55 of americans believed there would be less than 1 000 deaths from the coronavirus i was among them i think probably i think a lot of a lot of people were yeah and it was

87 percent of americans believed it would be less than 10 000 has it been more has it been more yeah it's been a tad more wow uh so yeah i mean it was look you know there this was a totally different world at that point yeah but only 13 of americans even were remotely close to what was going to happen.

And that was in mid-March.

That wasn't like January where like you'd really have a, I mean, in January, I probably would have said nobody in the United States would die from it.

You know, you go,

this is a very widely held viewpoint that nothing was going to happen.

You know, I mean, a lot of people believed it.

But also,

there was people on the other side just as insane.

I mean, this is completely absurd.

It has happened literally nowhere in the world, what he's talking about.

It did not happen.

It never was going to happen.

And he shut the state down based on this idea that was completely wrong.

And I still think the American people and people in California would forgive that if it wasn't for the hypocrisy on top of it.

I think they would say, look, you know, it was a tough time.

People didn't know.

People will make excuses for their leaders, you know, especially in their local leaders.

They don't like the national people.

They don't like people in other states.

They don't like other congressional districts, but they tend to re-elect their

people over and over and over and over again.

Because people, I don't know, maybe tend to side with their own guy.

But in this case, when you're seeing this guy, especially, it wasn't like he was indoors at In-N-Out Burger, you know, with his kids.

He's at a freaking,

the French laundry, one of the most fancy restaurants in America, and also sitting there indoors without a mask with other health officials.

It wasn't just him and his friends.

He was sitting there with the leaders of the California Health Department.

Right.

Yeah, it's bizarre and blatant.

And yeah, I think that turned the tide.

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So, the Tapper interview of Kevin Newsom, I think there was more that he had to say, right?

Or is this a separate interview?

Is this the same one?

This is

where

I think the views Megan McCain

was giving Newsom the latest stats between Florida and California, the COVID pandemic.

Well, Governor, news outlets like the AP are pointing out that California and Florida have virtually identical case rates, even though California has had strict rules and Florida's essentially been wide open.

Florida also has a booming economy, a booming real estate market, and much lower unemployment rate than California, 4.8% compared to 9%.

I also have to point out that California has the lowest percentage of kids in schools and the seventh worst mortality rate.

I'd much rather live in Florida than California right now.

How do you explain that?

Well, we have our positivity rate is three times less than Florida at the current moment.

We have a lower death rate than Florida.

We have a lower case rate than Florida.

In this pandemic, the story still needs to be told.

But that said, let's be just candid about this.

Florida and California are very different in every way, shape, or form.

In this respect, most importantly, the issue of density is profoundly significant as it relates to the disease spread, the disease burden, particularly multi-generational households, and density.

Just consider just LA alone, its density is seven times greater than that of Miami.

And so I'm not here to critique other states, quite the contrary, save one, and that was Texas that notably, I think, made a terrible, reckless mistake on setting down the gauntlet on removing masks, not implementing strategies to enforce and be more aggressive on mask wearing.

And at the same time, I think what we've done is save lives.

Wow.

Oh my God, there's so much wrong with that clip.

Oh, so much wrong with that clip.

By the way, just in case you wonder, we did a show last night on ranking the top five states, well, all the we did all 50 states, but the best five states, the worst five states, and just results.

Like not about what we think should work.

And California didn't do well.

We can get into that here in a second.

But when it comes just to density, that was one of the factors we factored into

the formula.

California is the 12th most dense state in America.

Florida's ninth.

The state is actually more dense than California.

More dense.

Even that argument was ridiculous.

Yeah, he's pointing to one city, you know, one city comparison and saying it's more dense, which, you know, I don't have, I mean, I don't have that in front of me.

I assume he's right on that, but who knows with Gavin Newsom.

But, I mean, the state as a whole is more dense in Florida.

The other thing that's interesting about that, and California to Florida comparison, there are far more senior citizens in Florida than California.

Everybody retires to Florida.

Florida is the fifth oldest state in the Union, and California is the 43rd oldest state in the Union.

So that's a huge difference, right?

Huge difference.

A much bigger vulnerable population than California has.

Exactly.

And that's a big, big difference.

I didn't even know it was that wide.

Fifth and 43rd.

Wow.

So, look, Gavin Newsom does not have an argument here.

He was able to, he does have better numbers.

I mean, really, the better comparison would be like a New York or something.

where he i mean he does have better numbers than a new york where they had that really bad um outbreak but

you can't are it's very difficult to argue that lockdown measures like they took in california uh can be justified they're not they just didn't work you know and and california really went crazy with this doubled and tripled down on it and you know the economy got hit pretty hard and it's bizarre how he goes after texas at the end of that thing when Texas has way better numbers than California does.

And now he's trying to, he's lashing out because the mandate's been removed, but nobody said you can't wear a mask.

In fact, what I've noticed is really nothing's changed in Texas as far as mask wearing.

Have you noticed any difference?

Every time I go into a grocery store, everybody's masked up.

Everybody.

Everybody.

I see no one walking around grocery stores without a mask.

It is interesting.

Now, as you may know, my wife, Lisa Page, and she features this on her Instagram page over and over again, is

possibly the most prominent anti-mask activist in the United States.

And she will go,

even before the mask mandate was over, would just walk in.

Now, again, we've already had the virus, so it's really stupid, really stupid for us to be wearing masks.

But she will go anywhere.

And, you know, most of the time, I think that the formula is pretty static, which is, and this is before the mask mandate and after the mask mandate, in most places, if you walk in without a mask, you'll get some looks.

Occasionally, someone will talk to you that's a customer, but the stores themselves are not going to hammer you over it typically.

Maybe that's improving a little bit.

I've seen a couple places that have taken the mask science down, but still, as you point out, everyone inside is still wearing them.

Yep.

So, I don't know.

Doesn't seem to make much of a difference.

We have more on that in a moment.

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All right, some statistics that may or may not surprise you,

but

Stu has a list of the states that are doing the best right now with COVID and also states that are doing the worst.

And I would say this is a look at the entire year, right?

So it's not just where they are right

now.

How do they do over the past year?

Yeah.

And so we went through, did a formula.

Let me give you some of the factors that went into this.

One, obviously, how well did you avoid people dying in your state?

You know what I mean?

Like,

that's obviously a big factor.

But number two, I mean, this, because all we hear from the news media is trying to compare death totals and everything else.

We also looked at the economy.

How well were you able to protect the economy through this?

Okay.

It was a really difficult thing for states to do.

Some states did a lot better than others.

We also looked at what is from, there's an Oxford University, University of Oxford Stringency index, which is basically a measure of how hard the government cracked down.

How long did they put the people into relative shutdown levels, right?

Did they have a light touch?

Did they have a heavy touch when it comes to that?

And I think that's somewhat controversial in that like people would say, well, what does that matter?

I think if you have two states that had the same results with the economy and deaths, right?

But one gave you complete freedom, the other one

locked you down in individual plastic bubbles.

That matters.

Yeah, that matters, right?

I mean,

it's the United States of America here.

So I use that as a factor.

Those are the three biggest factors.

However, there's also, you know, we factored in the age of the population.

So a state that has an older population should get a break in comparing the death rate

to a state that has a younger population.

Same thing with a density.

If you have a state with a population density that's high, we looked at vaccine rollout, all sorts of different things, and kind of came up with a final score, 0 to 100 for all 50 states.

So let me give you some of the bottom states.

I'll start seventh from the bottom for a reason because it was California.

Score of 35.7 out of 100.

They did, they actually didn't do terribly as far as the rate of COVID, but as we point out, they have a relatively young population in

in

California.

So that does make a difference as far as the death rate.

But we factored that in.

They finished seventh from the bottom.

Sixth from the bottom was Massachusetts, 28.1 out of 100.

Fifth from the bottom,

Connecticut, our old home state, Pat.

Now, again,

can you blame some of its neighbors for this?

I think you could.

Yes, but we'll go.

Connecticut also didn't do all that well.

Rhode Island

is fourth from the bottom.

25.2 is the score out of 100.

Third from the bottom, Red State, Louisiana,

20.6 out of 100.

Now, you can probably fairly note that part of the reason Louisiana had a really bad outbreak of COVID was

Mardi Gras,

which happened at the end of February last year.

And of course, was held in a very blue area of Louisiana, not a very red area of Louisiana.

But, you know, as long as you have New Orleans in your state, you're responsible for it, Louisiana.

I apologize for that.

But, you know, I didn't put it in your state.

That was your thing.

So you're responsible for

the outbreak in New Orleans.

So they came out third to worst, 20.6 out of 100.

Then there's quite a drop off.

From third to worst at 20.6 to second to worst, New Mexico, 7.9 out of 100.

Wow.

So from 20.6 to 7.9.

People don't realize that New Mexico had the hardest lockdown in the nation, harder than any other state california new york nobody locked down further harder than new mexican i didn't know that yeah uh they had their economy was a disaster as well they and they didn't even get good results as far as covet i mean really they didn't do anything well for throughout this entire process so new mexico figure finishes second to last and in dead last place without anyone's surprise of course is new york with a score of 6.8 out of 100 they had the second strongest lockdown in the country.

Despite that, they had the second worst COVID numbers, only to New Jersey, which is completely New York's fault anyway.

And also, their economy was a disaster.

Despite the fact they have a giant industry there that could work from home, they still couldn't protect the economy at all.

So they finish in dead last place.

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Shall we give you some of the

top picks?

Yeah, who did the best?

Let's see.

All right.

Who did the best?

And we're starting at

let me give you 10.

All right.

Alaska, number 10, score 66.7.

And again, we take into account population density.

But again,

there's some asterisks in this, like Hawaii.

What do you do with it?

You know, Hawaii obviously is going to have a really good result on COVID because they're an island, but also a really bad result on the economy because they're dependent on flights.

So it's a tough one to measure, but Alaska came in 10th, South Dakota in 9th.

And I think a lot of people would think South Dakota would do really well on this.

They were number two on the stringency index.

So it's the second least amount of time in lockdown.

But they really, they're 44th as far as COVID per million.

So

that hurt them.

Like they, they had a very open

attitude towards this, which I respect and I like Christine

quite a bit.

But

look, they just had a really, had a really rough battle with that when it comes to their rates.

Eighth place, Nebraska, 67.8 out of 100.

Then Virginia actually did pretty well.

In seventh place, 68.9.

Iowa in sixth place, 69.9 out of 100.

Iowa, another one that never,

they had that initial shutdown period and then were pretty open after that and had

relatively good results, certainly good economic results.

Number six,

number five, Oregon.

That's a surprise.

That one is a surprise to me.

And so I was thinking about this because the score is 70.1 out of 100 for Oregon.

Again, best COVID results by state for the entire year.

They had very low rates of COVID, but they'd locked down.

I mean, they were in middle of the pack when it comes down to

how long they locked down.

My theories on this were: one,

Portland in particular was burning down most of the year, so probably people were terrified to go outdoors at all and see anyone.

Plus, you also have a and their economy did relatively well compared to some of these other more locked down type states.

And I think you might have a population that was more able to work from home.

You know, the industries there are friendlier to being able to work at home, so there wasn't as much of a need for that.

But that's where that finished.

Number, let's see, number four,

Idaho,

74.1 score out of 100.

Idaho did pretty much everything pretty well.

Every one of their categories was pretty good.

Not at the top of the list, but in the top third on pretty much every single thing.

A couple of surprises here towards the top here.

Number three, and there's an asterisk on this one a little bit too.

Number three was Wisconsin.

And I would think Wisconsin,

how the heck?

Really?

They have a Democratic governor, yet they ranked on this, you know,

how long did they lock down the stringency index?

They were only fifth.

They were somehow fifth.

Now, I looked into that a little bit more thinking, how the hell did Wisconsin finish fifth in this measure?

Because it's really the strongest thing that they had going for them in this, in the little formula here.

And the reason was

the courts kept overturning all the things the Democratic governor wanted to do.

So they never, they were on and off again a little bit, but

the courts were like, no, you can't do any of this crap.

So they didn't go into lockdown as much as a lot of other blue states did, which is kind of an interesting factor.

Score of 83.9 out of 100.

Number two, New Hampshire, 84.9 out of 100.

Wouldn't have guessed that one either.

Yeah, you know, I wouldn't have either.

Although you got live free or die, right?

They were actually, they did not lock down all that hard.

They had pretty good results from COVID, and their economy was relatively well protected.

They are also

an older population, which helps them in this measure.

I mean, considering they were eighth overall in death rate and have the second oldest population in the country, it's pretty impressive that that stuck together.

And it kind of, I don't know, kind of makes sense in some ways.

You know, it's a state that has a motto where you're supposed to be taking responsibility for your own actions, and maybe that helped play in.

Number one, though, are you ready?

Score of 90.1 out of 100.

I am.

90.1 out of 100, the number one score

in the entire union.

This was a surprise to me.

I will say, I didn't see this one coming.

Number one.

The state of...

But does this end or?

Confusion.

The state of confusion?

No.

Okay.

The state of Utah.

That is what I was going to guess.

Really?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's what I was going to guess.

That's pretty interesting to me.

I would not have guessed it.

Really?

Just because I don't know.

I mean, I.

It didn't get any press.

You know, like people talk, the right has talked about Texas.

They've talked about Florida.

They talked about Arizona.

They've talked about South Dakota.

They've talked about a lot of different states.

Georgia got press at the beginning quite a bit.

Really, I haven't heard much conversation about Utah, but Utah kind of sat there and did incredibly well in every measure here.

Number three,

as far as how long were they in lockdown?

Third least amount of time.

So they were third, say, on the freedom index, right?

Okay.

Economy, they finished seventh in the entire country

and their covid results they finished sixth wow so really did now i will say they are the youngest state in the union which i did not know either until doing this uh research youngest state in the union however that they get punished in this uh in this measure for that like if you're a young state you lose points on on the formula because you know you shouldn't have you know an older state has a tougher time with something like this yeah so even despite the fact that they got punished for that still finished number one in the union with a score of 90.1.

Wow.

And really has had no press and no credit and

no love.

I mean, I haven't heard anybody saying, well, you know, who's doing a good job is Utah.

And this comes back to something I, you know, I think has proved since the beginning of this to be really important.

We've talked so much about what the government does.

Am I going to sit here and say that everything that Utah did from the government level was right?

I doubt it.

I mean, I don't know all the details.

I don't live in Utah, but I guarantee if we open up the phone lines, we get lots of people complaining about what the government was saying or doing in Utah, as we would from every state.

But like, there's something to do with this coming back to, instead of the government, the people.

You know, this is the United States of America.

We lead the government.

The government doesn't lead us.

That's not the way this works.

And if you look at the type of population you'd want to potentially have

in the time of a pandemic, I got to say, you might draft Mormons number one.

You might.

First of all, they're pretty healthy.

Second of all, as you point out, pretty young.

Yeah.

I would say they do a good job following rules.

Would you say that's an accurate statement?

I would say pretty accurate.

Like, they're not like the type of people who are going to, you know,

they're not like people who are going to go out and like, you know, burn down government buildings because they don't like a policy.

They're going to argue with it.

They're going to say what they believe, but

they're not going to do that.

They're not activists.

Yeah, they're not like, yeah.

And I think that's, you know, I mean that in a good way, in this particular measure,

specifically.

And then also, there are people who tend to do a lot of thinking about others, right?

Like they're much, I would say less focused on like, well, damn it, it's my right than, you know what?

Like I don't like this, but I don't want to make anyone else sick.

I want to make, I want to make sure that like every, I think there's a very selfless aspect of that culture.

that that makes a state like Utah perform really well.

And I will note, too, number four was Idaho.

Yes, also quite Mormon.

Also quite Mormon.

And I, you know, that it's, it's an interesting thing.

And I think that it comes down to that a little bit more than

cable news and even talk shows and politicians have talked about.

You just mentioned this with the masks.

The government policy has been such a factor.

But really, I mean, you look at the states with no mask mandates.

and compare them to the ones with mask mandates.

There's about a 10 to 12% difference of mask usage.

It's really not that different.

Yeah.

It really doesn't make all that much difference.

It's really about what the people wind up doing.

We lead this government.

They don't lead us.

So would this be a good time to send a couple of guys in white shirts and bicycles over to your house?

Seems like a pretty good time, maybe, for that.

I'll make the call.

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So,

where did Texas wind up in these rankings, Duke?

Texas was actually did not do all that well.

They were, let's say, I'm going to say

38th, 39th out of 51.

We had a GC.

No, yeah, not very good.

You know, the biggest problem with Texas was the economy, actually.

They had a bigger drop-off in the economy.

Maybe chalk that up to energy.

I mean, you know, you had a lot less flying, obviously, but you know, aircraft.

So maybe that was the reason for it.

But yeah, they were, did not do well in the economy.

We're eighth in the sort of freedom index, but 42nd in the economy, middle of the pack for COVID.

Florida was another one I think people were interested in.

Florida finished right in the middle of the pack overall.

So they were actually in lockdown a lot longer than people remember.

People, they came out, they removed the mask mandate early, but were in lockdown a lot longer than people remember.

Did middle of the pack kind of on everything.

So, but again, with a bigger population, there's reasons to understand why that could be possible.

I don't know if there's any other huge ones.

I mean,

the bottom is very blue.

I'll say Pennsylvania was down there, New Jersey was down there, Nevada, Illinois.

You know, all kind of down there towards the bottom, which I guess you'd expect because they had bad outbreaks and locked down harshly.

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So the vaccine

going really well in certain countries.

Israel, are you aware that Israel is over 50%

now in at least part of the vaccine being administered?

Yeah, they're almost, I think they might be up to 50%

fully vaccinated.

Vaccinated?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's amazing what they're doing.

Fully vaccinated, 50.4% as of today.

Wow.

So out of 9 million, that's about 4.5 million people vaccinated already.

And so they're getting these

badges now.

The green badge, which.

Yeah, the vaccine passport.

Yeah.

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Which is ironic.

Yeah, we know.

Yeah.

So

we'll see how that works out.

It's apparently going really well, though.

As far as

the virus is concerned, their numbers are way down.

Yeah, way down.

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I have kind of a different impression of many Americans because I hear from a lot who just have no intention of ever being vaccinated.

Yeah, the polling has been pretty consistent.

It's improved as far as people wanting to take the vaccine, which is what you would expect, right?

It's been basically the entire time broken down like this.

About 40% of people are like, absolutely give me the vaccine.

Like, give it to me.

I'm ready for it.

Day one.

I'm rushing down.

Throw some needles at me, whatever sticks in, and I'll take that one.

They're fine.

About 30% 30% of people are like, say basically, I'm open to it, but I want to kind of see if everyone starts dropping dead first.

You know, like, can you have, can I not be first in line?

Let me just see if people, these needles go in people's arms and they just spontaneously combust.

If that doesn't happen, all right, I'll go check it out.

Then there's about 20% of the population who says, I don't want to get it, but like, if I have to, like, if work tells me I need to do it, or I can't get into any I can't take any flights because I can't get a vaccine all right I'll whatever I'll do it and then there's about 10% of the population that is like sign up ideologically against you know vaccines in general or this particular vaccine for some reason

so the polling's been pretty consistent in that general format some of the people who have were in that 30% group that say look

I'm open to getting it, but I'm a little worried.

Some of those people have now moved into the I'm going to get the vaccine group.

So it's, and some of the people have received the vaccine already in that group.

So it is, most people are fine getting it.

They realize, you know, they might not be excited about getting a shot, but they're going to go through it and get it anyway.

I think there's a certain percentage of people, you know, it seems to be about 10% that are just, you know, ideologically against the vaccine for whatever reason or just don't think it's going to work or don't think it's safe or healthy.

And I don't think you're going to change those people's minds.

You know, that's just the way, you know, the way they've, you know, processed the information.

A larger part of that area, though, are people who just don't go to the doctor all that often.

You know, people who, those are the people that are reachable on the vaccine.

People who just like, I don't tend, like, there's a lot of people who like never go to the dentist, for example.

Like, you know, they just don't ever do it.

And it's a surprisingly high percentage of the population that.

you know, don't get dental care for decades on end.

Right.

And the same thing happens with doctors, you know, especially in minority communities, in communities in inner cities that just don't have access or don't have money or don't desire to go see the doctor for every little thing.

And they just don't come in contact that often with medical professionals.

So there's some skepticism there as well.

And I think that's, those are the people they're going to try to reach.

In Israel, they have kind of the same problem where the Orthodox communities are much less likely to want to get the vaccine for ideological reasons.

So those communities are much harder for the government to get the vaccine to.

But they are at, as you point out, Pat, over now 50% fully vaccinated in Israel.

They lead the world by a very large margin in that world.

Let's see if I can get to the exact

numbers.

This is fully vaccinated numbers right now.

Here we go.

50.4% in Israel.

Number two is Bahrain at 12.9.

Wow.

So a huge, huge gap there.

Because we're at between partially and fully vaccinated.

I think we're at around 20%, aren't we?

And we've between those who have gotten one of the two shots and those who have gotten both of them.

I've got that right here.

It's not quite.

Oh, you mean between both?

Yes.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, here we go.

So

at least one dose in the United States.

18 plus population, 27.9% has already received one dose.

But more importantly here, right, for this particular virus is the 65-plus population.

Now, 65% of that population has received at least one dose.

Which was the important group.

Yeah.

And look, you know, the Biden administration can try to take credit for all of this, which is completely ridiculous, right?

Like

during the Trump administration, they developed the vaccine.

They got it all ready.

They did all the testing.

They got it all prepared.

They designed the entire rollout strategy.

And then Biden comes in office.

is like, look what we just did with the vaccines.

We're great.

We inherited a broken system, a completely broken, non-existent system.

A lot of the people who are from the Trump administration who are running this effort are still there.

You know, they're not partisans.

They're just, you know, people who are really good at logistics.

And you know what the record was?

The record development time before this for a vaccine from start of the disease to when you have a vaccine for it before now,

10 years.

Measles took,

I think it was a measles vaccination.

10 years.

I thought there was one for like whooping cough or something that was like more like four or five years.

But still, maybe it was.

Yeah, it's a long time.

It's a lot longer than a year.

Yeah.

I mean, from start to finish, this thing happened in less than a year.

Yeah.

Really incredible.

It's incredible.

Whether you like it or not, it is an absolutely impossible miracle.

Which is, it really is incredible.

And really more exciting than this particular vaccine is the technology behind the vaccine, this

mRNA technology, which

offers the ability to develop vaccines quickly like this.

Not just like pandemics.

I'm talking about like, you know, diseases that have existed in the third world for generations and no one's really been able to get them under control because the development cost is so high and it takes so long.

And obviously these countries don't have the money and all of this.

This technology can be adapted really easily to things we've been fighting for a really long time.

So I think long-term, the upside is even more exciting than just what we have here.

Hey, we can go back to restaurants in a couple of weeks.

But we're now fully vaccinated in the country, 15% of the 18-plus population and 37% of 65 plus.

So you're going to see, you know, the one thing you're seeing in Israel is

when they break down the death rates from the vaccinated population and the non-vaccinated population, it's remarkable how well this is working.

More than half of the deaths right now in cases are coming from only the 5% of the population that isn't vaccinated in the older groups.

And the other 95% of the population is

accounting for less than the 5%, which is really remarkable.

You look at it when it comes down, they break it down by age.

The older population, their deaths are dropping like crazy in israel and they're down by you know seven over 70 now as far as just cases overall with the entire population so you know it's encouraging you know what do you make of all the stories though of people you know dying within a day or two of this and or

or becoming uh

uncontrollably shaky for

you know, the rest of, I mean, I don't know how long it's going to last, but there was, for instance, there was a woman who did a video and she couldn't stop shaking.

I mean, every part of her body was shaking and it had been going on for days and couldn't stop.

And the only thing she could attribute it to was the vaccine.

So, I mean, you're hearing these stories.

And I, you know, maybe some people are just not able to handle it.

I don't know.

It's possible.

I mean, I think, you know, look.

Science via YouTube video is never a good idea.

Are you sure?

Yeah, that's actually the first scientific principle.

Don't Don't do science based on YouTube videos.

What about internet stories?

Internet stories are a different thing.

Well, if it's forwarded, then it's science.

If people forward it enough times, it becomes science.

So I get it in my email in my inbox, I can take it directly to the bank.

Yes, definitely.

I can believe it's true.

As long as the person sending it to you is not the source.

If it's been passed three or four times, then it becomes science.

I mean, look, you have to look at the anecdotal cases as

what they are.

And some of them,

there are some people who have had bad reactions to it, I guess.

It's pretty minor.

I mean, we know this, that the people who are taking the vaccine are dying at a much lower rate than people that are not taking the vaccine.

And getting extremely sick at a much lower rate.

At a much lower rate.

And that's not just COVID.

That's overall.

Now, there could be a reason for that, in that people who are maybe healthier and more engaged in the healthcare system are more likely to get the vaccine.

But it's certainly not showing.

There's no evidence whatsoever of these effects in a large scale.

For example,

there's a debate going on with this AstraZeneca vaccine in Europe.

And AstraZeneca is not approved for use here in the United States.

They're in the middle of the test that would get it to approval, but it is not approved in the United States yet.

It was improved very early on, as you might expect, because it has to do with Oxford in the UK.

And that's really what they're using in the UK.

It went over to

Europe, and there's a debate now about a lot of the European countries have pulled it from usage.

And they, because they believe there was, I believe, five cases of

blood clots, or maybe it might have made it up to about 30 cases of blood clots related to the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Again, totally different technology than Pfizer and Moderna, but still,

this was the concern.

And so people were freaked out about it.

They pulled it off the market.

It's interesting, though, to look at the numbers there in that Europe, the people that pulled it off the market, are saying that blood clots are happening in one in 167,000 people who get the vaccine.

Now,

in Britain, who's been using this vaccine the entire time, they're saying it's one in 500,000.

So there's a disagreement between one in 167,000 and 1 in 500,000.

However, both of those numbers are better numbers than the population in general.

The idea that it's the vaccine causing this, the people,

more than one in 167,000 people just get blood clots on a normal, everyday life basis.

So there's no reason to believe none of this, you know, none of the science shows that any of this stuff is happening.

Now, look, that does not mean, and you know, as you can probably tell,

I'm very pro-vaccine.

I want to get back to normal life.

I think this is the best path to do it.

I love what the Trump administration did on this.

I love the fact that capitalism was involved.

I love the fact that the ultimate enemy of every single left-wing newspaper in America, big pharmaceutical companies were involved.

I think it's hilarious.

And I love the fact that this is, I feel like the American way out of something like this.

We just innovate, come up with something great and get out of it and go on with our lives.

So I do like that.

I am pro.

However, nobody should be forcing you to take it if you don't want to take it.

And that is, you know, we have not seen anyone in the United States yet require it.

And they don't even require it in Israel.

But it is something that you could see Gavin Newsom or Andrew Cuomo doing and saying that it is required.

And you should not have to take any of these things if you don't want to take them.

That's an important part of liberty.

You shouldn't have to wear a mask if you don't want to wear a mask.

Same thing.

Right.

Like, even if, even if it was the best idea in the world,

you still get to.

I mean, look,

I would not for

this is a country in which we're not supposed to be forcing people through the government to do pretty much anything.

You know, I mean, with the exception of don't murder, you know, don't steal.

There's a bunch of things.

There's a few commandments that outline some of these ideas at one point in an old book.

But, I mean, really, the government should have very limited access to your life as far as managing it.

And so, you know, the people who are much more skeptical on the vaccine than I am, I stand with them in the idea that they should not be forced to take it.

That's a terrible idea.

And it also will just turn people off from wanting to take it.

You know, people who are on the fence are just going to be like, screw you.

Don't tell me what to do.

It's exactly how I'd be if they started to mandate it.

Well, now I don't want it.

Yeah, now I don't want it.

And the messaging on this has been terrible.

It's basically like in Israel, they're saying, hey, get the vaccine, then go do what you want.

As soon as you're vaccinated, none of these rules apply to you anymore, basically.

That's what they're trying to communicate to the people.

That's not entirely true in Israel, but it is what they're trying to communicate.

That's the messaging.

Here, the messaging is the opposite.

It's like, hey, get the vaccine.

And then in the year 2027, you'll be able to see another person again.

You know, you may even be able to eat outdoors before 2050.

We'll let you know.

You know, we get to tell you when that happens.

And the American people are just like, wait a minute, what?

I know.

Yeah.

And it's if

you behave yourself, if you do everything we tell you to do,

then maybe you can get together and have a backyard barbecue the 4th of July.

We'll see.

And we'll see.

And we'll let you know, by the way.

Do you think any of this, Pat, is them just trying to underplay it?

It's like, you know, when an airplane company, you know,

a flight tells you that you're going to be there at 3 o'clock when they know you're supposed to be there at 2.30.

So they have that wiggle room in there.

Yes.

They're just trying to say, like, it's like when he's like, oh, a million vaccines a day.

It's like, well, we're already doing that.

Like, he's trying to set expectations so low that he's definitely going to clear them.

Maybe it's just that way.

I don't know.

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Do you realize this is not FDA approved?

None of the vaccines have been FDA approved.

Well, yeah.

I didn't realize that until Fauci was asked that by a

comedian from Mexico the other day.

He did an interview.

I don't know if it's the guy who has a podcast.

And he asked him, I understand, are these FDA-approved vaccines?

And they're not.

They're emergency.

The use of the rise is what it is.

I mean, the FDA approval process takes, I mean, conservatives have complained about this forever.

Yeah.

It takes a long time.

It takes forever.

And, you know, half the time, other countries are approving these treatments before we do.

While we have people dying of slow-acting diseases.

So in the middle of a pandemic,

you're not going to be able to wait the four years for FDA approval.

But

what I think is interesting about this is I do think it would be very difficult in court to win a battle on requiring it

without FDA approval.

I think so, too.

Like, which I think, if you happen to be skeptical on this and don't want to take it, that is going to work in your favor.

That will be something that helps you.

Someone will challenge that.

And I think we'll win.

I don't think you can force someone to take something that is under emergency use authorization.

That is a real stretch when it comes to...

Now, I don't think you should be able to do it anyway, even if it is approved, but you shouldn't be able to force people to take it.

But I think with a under emergency use authorization, I just don't think that there's any, any way you can require it.

Now, we've all, as conservatives, argued for a very long time on right to try

legislation, which, by the way, Donald Trump was able to get through.

And it's really important because just because you don't get an FDA approved drug, you should be able to try something that's experimental if your life is on the line.

And look, that's where we are.

That is where we are.

And I will say,

when you get to the point where this gets widely used,

hopefully we'll see the results like Israel is seeing.

And really, I don't know, you're not going to know for a while because it's really the absence of these massive flare-ups, which is going to tell the story rather than a drop right now.

It's still too early to tell.

But if we can get back to life as normal and this becomes something that is more like the flu, we're only like 100 people a day are dying, which sucks, but

it's something that we were used to.

We're used to that level of risk.

We're not used to 4,000 people a day from a virus.

It's a lot.

But as far as getting back to normal, it's starting to happen.

We're seeing the first fruits of that beginning to sprout up.

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Yes, America's team.

Well, actually, Canada won't let them them in just right now.

They can't even play their games at home.

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Looks like, to me,

I think Sharon Osborne, is probably not coming back to the show The Talk.

No.

which I'm going to miss her so much on that show.

Me too.

Wow.

I mean, great show.

The times I've had watching her on that show, you know, doing whatever it is she does on that show.

I think she talks, essentially, right?

If I'm not mistaken, on the talk,

Sharon talks.

That is my understanding of the current situation.

Although I don't think it's lasting very long.

No, it's not, frankly.

Now, she defended Piers Morgan and

just kind of defended him that he wasn't racist.

She's friends with Piers Morgan, said he wasn't racist, had this little back and forth with one of the other talk people on the talk.

And so it created this big controversy.

Now the controversy has gotten considerably worse for her.

They've actually taken the show off of the air for now.

Because now they're saying that she has actually said racist things to and about people,

including frequently referring to then co-host Julie Chen, who's Chinese American,

as two really disparaging things, which probably get in trouble for even repeating.

And then she apparently said something about Sarah Gilbert, who was a former co-host and executive producer of the show.

I think she kind of developed the show, right?

Wasn't it her?

I think she was one of the founders of it.

You definitely can't say what she said about her.

No, I definitely can't say that.

She's a lesbian, and she used very derogatory terms.

This is a shock.

I mean, I wouldn't expect to hear foul-mouthed terms from an Osbourne.

From Ozzy Osborne's wife?

Yeah.

Right.

No, you would think only the politest of things would come out of her mouth.

Yeah, it's really disturbing that you'd even hear nasty language coming from an Osbourne now.

Where is our country going?

I mean,

sure, he was biting heads off bats on stage, but I expected the most refined

culture possible, and I didn't get it.

I'm surprised.

It is kind of stunning.

But I think her career is probably ended now.

Yeah.

Even though she's not going to have, she's not going to enjoy due process.

I mean, I don't think anybody has to prove she said these things.

She says she didn't, obviously.

Yeah.

As you'd expect, she said she did not do it.

Now, Leah Remini, who's also on that show, has come out and said she did say those things to her as well.

So there's now like multiple people saying that she did say these things.

So she's going to have a tough time surviving this.

What I think is more interesting.

Look,

is anyone surprised that Sharon Osborne would say offensive things?

Like it is literally the reason she's on the show.

You know, she, this is her entire persona is saying, it's like saying like you'd think Simon Cowell would say something bad, right?

Like he was not that he's accused of anything like this, but like, you know, he was insulting people.

That was kind of his, his bag.

That's why he was on the show.

Yes.

And, you know, she was saying mean things and some very offensive things about her coworkers.

I'm not exactly stunned by this.

I don't think anyone else is either.

It's interesting because it's not the thing that you say that crosses the line here, if you're Sharon Osborne.

It's the thing you say in defense of Piers Morgan that makes you a bad person.

People come out after you because you said, look, Piers Morgan isn't a racist.

And then people decide to say, well, you are.

How can you judge Piers Morgan's racism when you yourself

are a racist?

And if she did say these things, I think you make a pretty strong case that, yeah, she is.

Although, again, like you said, she denies that she ever said these things.

She does.

And I think, too, there is an element.

When you are a person like an Osborne, I don't, is she a racist?

I have no idea.

I don't know anything about her heart.

I don't know anything about her mind.

But I'm not surprised to see her say something in the most offensive way possible.

Like when she, this was exactly what her entire show was.

Like, they all just swore.

This is the whole gig, they were just swearing all the time.

That's the only reason she's on television is because she swear, she said the F-word a lot,

right?

And then so it's not a surprise that she would come out and instead of saying,

you know, lesbian, she

would use some other terms some other terms that were very offensive.

It is

unsurprising to me.

Unsurprising.

But

the same thing happened with the Roseanne Barr situation, though.

It's like, you know, if you want someone who is going to say all the things that you want her to say, you don't hire Roseanne Barr for a job.

She was all, I mean, she was literally on television calling for the execution of CEOs a few years before you hired her.

What the hell do you think she was going to do?

You think you were going to like all of her jokes?

Like, no.

She was seriously calling for guillotines for CEOs of companies.

And then, yeah, she, yes, she also made an offensive joke online.

I don't know.

I wasn't surprised by it.

And you'd think if you hire someone who has that sort of reputation, you're hiring them knowing about those warts, right?

Knowing about the

concept that perhaps she was not a great example of someone who's going to have refined language behind the scenes.

That's not

a surprise.

But again, so going to, she's going to be fired.

I don't think there's any way she's going to survive it, considering there's multiple people saying it.

And, you know, it goes like there's this thing that happens that seems to go from, oh,

can you believe her spunk?

She says all these crazy things, these offensive things.

She's just a spunky lady.

And then all of a sudden, the same comment six months later has a totally different,

you know,

a lot of things look really bad when you read them in the pages of like the New York Times.

Jokes don't look good there.

Yeah.

And if she's really good friends with Sarah Gilbert,

they might be, they might be really good friends.

Sometimes you say things among friends that, you know, sounds really horrible to other people, but you guys are used to, right?

Because you're comfortable with each other and that's what you do.

It's the Morgan, what's his face, country star, same thing with him.

I mean, I'm sure in the scope of being with his friends, he, they said things all the time.

This time he happened to be heard by somebody else, and so he really

got whacked for it.

Yeah.

And look, if there are obviously lines to this, right?

I mean, like, you know, the fact that you hide your public, your private speech because you're saying, you know, viscerally racist things behind the scenes and you're just hiding them publicly.

That's, you know, that's the type of thing that these scandals are sort of designed to unearth, right?

And that, and it might be a good use of those scandals.

There's a different, a different category that gets applied a lot where people say things that, you know, I mean, you know, we keep coming back to this one bachelor story because it's perhaps the clearest example.

But like this guy basically came out and said, hey, this, you know, this 18-year-old that was at a sorority and went to an antebellum party.

Maybe we should at least hear what she has to say and give her a little grace and see what was going on in her mind.

How dare you?

And how dare you?

Now,

since then,

she has come out and said, I know, I can't, he shouldn't defend me.

I was terrible.

I was a terrible human being.

He came out and said, I didn't realize how terrible of a human being I was.

He got fired,

suspended first, now basically fired.

And now,

she wound up winning.

Did you know this?

Winning The Bachelor?

No.

The girl who

went to the antebellum party?

She actually won The Bachelor.

They had the nice thing.

Everything was working out fine.

Now, The Bachelor learned about her racist past, quote unquote, and now broke it off with her because of that.

Because she went to an antebellum party as a sorority girl.

Oh, my gosh.

I mean, it is completely ridiculous.

There is no reason to believe any of the people associated with the story are racists.

And I think everybody on earth knows it.

No, except for the person who wore the dress, right?

The antebellum dress.

No.

Now, clearly, she's racist.

No.

No, it was a dress that Southerners wore.

Well, here's the thing, Pat.

The best Halloween costume I ever had in my entire life when I was a little kid, I was a three-headed skeleton.

And you might think, that doesn't sound like a great costume at all.

No, no.

It was my head in the middle and two inflatable heads on the side.

And every house we went to said, oh, three-headed skeleton.

I guess you get three pieces of candy then, huh?

And it happened over and over and over again.

It was incredible, the greatest night of my life.

I did not, however, take up the opinions of other three-headed skeletons after wearing the costume.

I don't know what their opinions might be, but I was not influenced by the costume I was wearing.

I did not become that person.

I did not advocate for everything three-headed skeletons have done in the past.

I did not take on the personality of a three-headed skeleton.

Then why did you appropriate their culture?

Why did you do that?

Because that's not how costumes work.

When you dress up as someone's Captain Kirk, you don't become Captain Kirk.

When you dress up as Freddy Krueger, you don't become a actual murderer.

You're dressing up representing, you know, think of all the costumes that this would apply to.

If you dress up as, I mean, is Burger King taking on all of the, you know, the

personality and opinions of past kings who are executing their constituents?

I don't think so.

It seems like a guy trying to sell burgers.

It's not the way costumes work.

Costumes don't make you the people you're dressing as.

Do I really need to explain this?

I'm glad America has this opportunity to hear the hatred that spews out of your mouth on such a regular regular basis.

I just, wow.

I just feel like this should be obvious.

And it's not.

So stupid.

Now, that's different than

what we're talking about here.

But it just seems like everything gets blamed on this stuff right now.

There's a story we were talking about briefly off the air from, I think it's Connecticut.

And it's a woman who went into

a bank.

and wanted to get her money.

The money that she had deposited a check, the check had cleared.

And

the teller, this is the quote.

It says, she hands me my license and says, I don't feel comfortable giving you the money.

So I get confused.

And I said, you don't feel comfortable.

She said, well, you just deposited the check yesterday.

And she said, well, the check is cleared.

And she said, oh, yeah, it cleared.

The money is available.

I just don't feel comfortable giving it to you.

Is the person trying to get the money a minority?

And that's the story, Pat.

Yes.

The person who wanted to get the money was black.

So she wasn't comfortable because

a minority can't handle their own money.

Now, my guess

is

that's the accusation.

I can't give you your money because you're black.

Now, look, I don't know the exact story.

So I force you to leave these things open because we want to have results of whatever investigation might occur.

Do they admit that the teller said I'm not comfortable giving you your money?

She said they say they can't comment on why because of security reasons.

But she did say it.

They don't confirm it.

They say they're investigating it.

But again, like

are there any other black customers at the bank?

Right?

Like, you know, I guess you could prove this pretty easily, right?

Are they giving other black customers their money?

Right.

That would kind of indicate maybe that it's not about the color of the skin.

I have to imagine, you know, Connecticut's not exactly

a haven for the KKK.

I don't know exactly if

I would,

like, I just don't even understand how a policy like that could exist in 2021, right?

What do you mean?

You're not going to give black people the money out of their own accounts?

Like, I just can't be the explanation for this, but it just immediately we jump down these roads every single time.

Right.

If it can be, if, if we can take the worst accusation, the most divisive thing to say about someone and apply it to them, we just do.

Whether there's evidence of it or not, there is no evidence this guy, Chris Harrison from The Bachelor, has any racist attitudes whatsoever.

He didn't even advocate for the party.

He didn't even defend her.

He didn't even say, hey, of course she should be able to go to a stupid dress-up party.

All he said was, we should give her some grace and we should at least hear what she has to say first.

And for that, that was too much.

Multi-million dollar job.

Apparently, yeah.

Wow.

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Mitch McConnell has warned of a scorched earth senate if the filibuster goes away.

I'm glad that they're at least trying to

do something that would prevent the Democrats from just

driving over the top of them completely and just getting anything done they want to in the the next at least the next two years before the midterm elections um so at least they're trying to prevent uh the nuclear option from happening because i i think that's exactly where we're headed it does well they're not going to get rid of the filibuster because joe manchin promised us that he wouldn't vote for it you have to understand his word is as good as gold

in every way possible oh i trust him in the you're talking about the incredibly moderate uh joe Joe Manchin.

Yes, and he will stand up against this.

He will not show one little bit of wavering, with the exception of the wavering he's already done.

And, of course, the wavering he has scheduled for next week.

But just that amount of wavering and then no more.

He's not going to get rid of the filibuster, Pat.

They're just going to get rid of the filibuster on votes where they don't want the filibuster.

Oh.

They're just going to reform it so that when they need

to pass something with only 50 votes, they can just pass something with 50 votes.

That's not getting rid of the filibuster.

The filibuster will still be there in some way.

But I'll tell you,

it's just not there for that important vote.

And that vote is too important

to allow the filibuster.

Do you see what the Republicans are doing?

I do.

They're getting in the way of progress in every way possible.

Well, McConnell promised that the Senate would become a 100-car pileup where even the most basic aspects of business would be blocked.

He would grind it to a legislative halt if Democrats engaged the nuclear option.

That bastard.

You know he will, too.

You know he will.

Yep.

And that's why, like you said, they'll only eliminate the filibuster for really important things.

And then, you know, it'll serve McConnell right, frankly.

It'll serve him right.

Yeah, I mean, look, they couldn't have predicted these Republicans would be so obstructionist.

So they have to make this maneuver.

They didn't want to.

I mean, I promised on CNN over and over again I wouldn't do it.

And I don't, so I don't take this lightly, but these Republicans are just too much in their turning away.

They forced his hand.

They forced his hand.

There's nothing we could do.

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I don't, must have really thrown his back out quite badly.

So, there's been a little bit of delay on the special, on tonight's special.

I think that'll probably happen next Wednesday instead.

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Joe Biden last night

with George Stephanopoulos.

And Stephanopoulos actually actually pressed him on the crisis going on at the border, which, of course, to the Biden administration isn't a crisis at all.

It's the same thing that's been happening for years.

And this is all Donald Trump's fault anyway.

Here's Stephanopoulos actually asking him some decent questions about the border.

A lot of the migrants coming in saying they're coming in because you promised to make things better.

It seems to be getting worse by the day.

Was it a mistake not to anticipate this surge?

Well, Well, first of all, there was a surge the last two years and

19 and 20, there was a surge as well.

This one might be worse.

No, well, it could be, but here's the deal: we're sending back people.

First of all,

the idea that Joe Biden said, come, because I heard the other day that they're coming because they know I'm a nice guy and I won't give a job

because you told them to.

Well, here's the deal.

They're not.

Now you have to say quite clearly.

I mean, they're not

a follow-up there.

I can say quite clearly.

Here's the deal: they're not in the process of getting set up.

Don't leave your town or city community.

Democrats get to say this every time, and it's not hateful.

Unbelievable.

You know, don't leave your town or city is the thing that Donald Trump would say, and that would be hateful when he said it.

And xenophobic.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You should.

Well, you shouldn't.

You know, he's right on that point.

If you want to give him a very narrow, he's correct.

You shouldn't illegally come to another country in any circumstance.

Other than

that, potentially like a massive war going on in your country and you're escaping as a refugee.

Really, there's no reason to do this.

It's not for economic benefit.

And that's not what these laws are set up to do.

And honestly, illegally, you shouldn't ever come.

You should come as a refugee in certain circumstances.

Well, Biden denies that he is responsible at all for this.

But let's go back to the campaign and the promise he made essentially to the people of Mexico and Central and South America when he talked about the first hundred days of his administration, cut number two.

They're there seeking asylum.

First time ever we've told people they can't come to America.

That ends.

The cage is closed.

That ends.

Cages are closed.

And in the first 100 days, he goes on to say, you know, they're going to, they can come here, essentially, and

receive asylum from the United States of America.

Like we've never told them before not to come.

Yeah.

And by the way, the cages are open, just so you know.

They're now open.

Come on in.

You're going to Cageville, everybody.

All right.

Cage Town.

And they're at full capacity, too, beyond full capacity.

Yep.

The cages.

I mean, the average is something like 300% of pre-COVID capacity.

So.

I mean, Democrats were weeping over it.

They would literally have press conferences where they would break down and weep openly about how inhumane it was Donald Trump treating these these children that came across the border that were ripped, that were torn from the arms of their crying mothers and then tossed into these cages like animals.

All of that was

so tragic under Donald Trump and now

Now it's just the humane thing to do.

Now, what else are we supposed to do with them?

They're just all here without their parents and we've got to find some place for them and we don't know where they belong and we're trying really hard to find their parents um so what are we supposed to do other than put them in these facilities they're facilities now they're not gauges no now they're just facilities they're wonderful facilities i went back by the way pat and i think you'll remember the story when

Alexandria Casio-Cortez, these photos came out of her at the border and she was crying at a fence.

You remember these things?

I do.

Yeah.

And, you know, the people were kind of mocking them as sort of looking very staged.

And they were actually taken before AOC was like a figure, a public figure.

She was running for office, but like no one knew who she was at this point.

And I went back and just glanced at those.

They are among the most cringeworthy photos I've ever seen in my life.

I'd love to see them.

She, it, they, now, she claims this was a real moment, and the photographer says it was a real moment of emotion overtaking her.

Yeah.

They look so

cringy and staged.

And, you know, she's standing in front of this fence and it is like down the road along like driveway, if you will, to a facility.

So people were saying, well, she's just in front of an empty lot.

It's not true exactly.

Like, you know, she was near the facility.

It was as close as she could get.

I mean, they weren't allowing people inside.

But still, like, I just, I don't know.

It's like, can you, you know, I don't know, I'm trying to think of like, if you were,

if you went to a meeting, a site that somehow meant something to you, but you could barely see it in the distance,

it doesn't seem like it would evoke the emotion.

And then it just like, it just doesn't look real.

It looks like she's just standing there fake crying for the camera.

I mean,

I don't know what it is seeing them again after knowing her.

Because when you first saw them, she was kind of in the news and it wasn't a huge story at the time.

Knowing how awful she is, and how her only goal in life is to pander to cameras.

You know, all she does all the time is go on Instagram Live and run her mouth about God knows what, how she doesn't know how the freaking, you know, garbage disposal works or whatever she talks about.

And

to see these photos in that light now that we know kind of who she is, oh, they're cringy.

Are you looking at them?

Could you bring up the paper?

I'm trying to find them.

I haven't seen them yet.

I have to sell them.

They are so cringy.

I know we had them on the we

showed briefly on the show the other day on Studos America.

And it's just, oh, it gives you that feeling inside your stomach when you realize like someone's like trying,

like a really bad actor or actress who's trying to pull off a role and failing.

And like everyone around you knows that they're failing to get that like tightness in your stomach.

And it's like, oh, God, this is so cringy.

That's what it feels like when you look at them.

I know she said something early on when it came out again that Biden is using the cages.

And she actually said something

negative about it.

Moderately.

Moderately negative.

It wasn't a literal concentration camp when Joe Biden was.

No, that's for sure.

But she's been amazingly silent since.

I think she said one thing about it and then she shut her mouth about it.

And she said, like, this is wrong.

It's always been wrong.

That's what it was.

But Donald Trump is evil.

It was like that type of thing.

That's pretty much.

Yeah, a totally different standard.

And, of course, all these things that she talked about, you know, she complained about wanting this $15 minimum wage and how she was going to hold up the process.

She didn't vote against the bill.

It's amazing.

She let it go through anyway because she's just like so many other Democrats.

You know,

there's nothing there.

And back in late February, Glenn tweeted out, maybe you guys talked about this at the time.

Just for the record, the Biden administration is separating children and parents.

Did you talk about that at the time?

Because PolitiFact.

fact-checked that.

They are separating children and parents.

Yes.

Glenn Beck said that.

The evil Glenn Beck with his hatefulness.

I love this one.

This is the one where he said a full sentence and they fact-checked half the sentence.

They actually broke the sentence into two pieces so they could give him a false ranking.

That's unbelievable.

And like, I don't understand why this is better.

What is happening now?

This is their argument.

When Donald Trump was president, a mom and a son would come across the border.

And the mom would get arrested for coming across the border.

They didn't want to throw the son into jail, right?

Yes.

So they would detain them in two different places.

That was the separation of children from parent that we heard so much about.

Right.

Right.

Right.

What's happening now is the parents, at some point before they cross the border, are having the children ahead of them by themselves.

So they're now crossing the border solo instead of with their parent.

They're still separate.

They just separated on the other side of the border.

And that means Donald Trump is evil and Hitler and literal concentration camp guy and Joe Biden is totally fine.

And they act as if Donald Trump had his minions down at the border stealing babies from the arms of their parents, when in fact it was mostly teenagers then, like it's mostly teenagers now.

It was older children and teens.

I don't think a lot of babies were torn from the arms of their mothers as they carried across the border.

Now, I mean, what we're looking at right now is 15, 16, and 17 year olds largely.

Now look, are those quote-unquote children?

I mean, in the lies of the law, sure, they're underage,

but you know, it's a different story than what you picture.

And, you know, they will use the photos to elicit emotion.

They will find the one younger child who happens to be in a large group and focus on them who doesn't know what's going on.

I mean, just obviously they use this, they use these photos for their advantage, just like these AOC photos.

I think we have them now.

Oh, good.

Look at.

Oh, yeah, look at that.

It's just

that just happened to be somebody walking by with a camera at the same time that AOC started breaking down.

It is

clearly spontaneous.

If you happen to be on Blaze TV, it's worth watching because basically...

You have the, there's a couple of different vibes here.

You have one vibe where she's looking like a sad puppy dog at the camera, which is just

hysterical.

And then the other one where she's standing by herself and awkwardly bending over in her pristine white clothing and her nice new watch, and she's kind of just like crying.

It doesn't seem.

It bent her in half.

The grief.

Bent her in half.

The grief bent her in half.

The grief of these children being taken from their parents bent her in half.

And look, there are a lot of sad stories on the border.

This is why we say we should have it under control.

I mean, there are really terrible, tragic stories that happen on the border all the time.

People who are convinced by Democrats, largely, that this is not really an offense, that it's basically less than a speeding ticket because you don't even get fined.

And, you know, they come across the border thinking they're going to get a better life because Democrats are screaming that it's possible.

And now they see Biden as the, quote, migrant president.

The Mexican president said that these migrants see Joe Biden as the migrant president.

And

they are coming here because they believe it's okay.

They believe, because half the country and all of the media is saying it's okay.

And just to accentuate that point,

we have one of the migrants actually

speaking about this.

Let me see.

Did we have this today?

Yeah, okay.

Here's one of the migrants talking about Joe Biden, actually.

What I want for my people, I just want patient and pest that we can get to the U.S.

because they're having a new president, Verse Biden.

He's going to help all of us.

He's giving us 100 days to get to the U.S.

and give us legal mental paper so we can get a better life for our kids and family.

Isn't that great?

So they got it right from Joe Biden.

He's giving him 100 days to get here and just have a better life for him and his family.

And I, look, we, that's amazing.

It is amazing.

And we as conservatives would look at this and say, a lot of times we'll say, like, you shouldn't come across the border and, you know, it's a bad idea, blah, blah, blah.

And that's, of course, true.

But it's also like from their perspective, the messaging they're getting from the entire media and not to mention the candidate himself and all of his allies in Congress is it's mean if we send you back.

Yeah.

If we say, hey, you know, we're going to deport you.

That's the mean thing.

We're not going to do that anymore.

He campaigned on it.

Of course they believe they can come in they we've they've been we've been telling you this for months and months and months and months if joe biden gets in everything's going to be fine well of course they believe they can come in of course they do

they told him yeah i mean that he essentially told them that look i'm your guy i'm your president too because i'm going to invite you in that's what he did that's the message they got yeah and they're not experts on the law of the united states think about this like sure you could say okay it's against the law but like when the leader of the nation and all of the big Democrats are all saying it's basically okay,

well, of course that's the impression they're going to have.

It's basically okay.

Yeah, it might be frowned upon.

Yeah, you know, I mean, they're not going to like fly you in and give you a welcome ceremony, but at the end of the day, you're going to come in, you're going to be in a facility for a couple of days and get released into the country and you're going to get what you want.

And anything other than that is mean and Hitler and literal concentration camps.

So of course they believe this is okay.

You know?

I mean,

if you had a speeding limit of, you know, a speed limit of 55, but the governor,

the sheriff, the police force were all saying it's actually 75.

You guys can all go 75.

What the hell would you do?

You go 75.

Right?

I do anyway.

So yes, the answer to that is yes.

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Take a good look at that kid.

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It's a really sad story.

Apparently, there's a shortage now of songbirds.

And what?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Male songbirds usually learn their tunes from their adult mentors.

But when these aspiring songbirds lack proper role models, they hit the wrong notes in their songs, and then they have less success

with the ladies.

Attracting mates.

It's tough.

It's been going on for a while now, and so there's only about 300 to 400 wild birds left today.

While male birds once formed large winter flocks, now they're sparsely distributed across the landscape, and a lot of them just fly solo, which means fewer of them have mentors to teach them the songs that they need to attract.

uh their mate song learning in many birds is a process similar to to humans learning languages.

They learn by listening to other individuals.

If you can't listen to other individuals, you don't know what you should be learning.

And apparently, now none of them know any Zeppelin songs at all anymore.

And

apparently, the female birds really like Led Zeppelin.

Really?

They used to sing a lot of Berry White, too.

And yeah.

And now it's mostly De Baby songs.

And that just, that's not doing it for them.

Apparently, De Baby doesn't work quite as well.

Really?

As the Berry White tunes they used to sing.

Unconventional male singers were less successful in wooing mates.

Scientists have found.

We think the females are avoiding breeding and nesting with males that sing unusual songs.

Typical, typical females.

So hard to please.

Apparently, they're learning songs from other species of birds.

And so the songbird females don't like the songs they're learning from other females, from other from other birds and so uh they won't mate they just that's

tragic when male birds sing it's like putting out an ad saying i'm over here i'm species x i'm bob

and i'm really interested in finding a partner that's that's what they're saying

but then things go wrong if the males uh sing the wrong songs and uh the females don't respond to it i believe global warming for all of us that's exactly what the problem is.

Is it?

It's global warming.

It's shocking.

It is global warming.

It's changed their migratory patterns, and now they don't learn the songs they need in order to mate.

Because of the migratory patterns?

Because of their migratory patterns.

And too many of them flying solo and aren't learning the songs that they need to attract the females.

Sad.

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You know what's going on with our economy.

You know what's going on with our dollar.

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Pat, there's a new clip from Joe Biden.

He's speaking out after being asked about the Andrew Cuomo situation.

Of course, we should note that Andrew CuomoisAwful.com.

And this is an interesting.

Is that a new theory for you?

Yeah, he's

AndrewCuomoisawful.com is a very important theory that everyone should know.

Because I know at one time you liked him a lot.

Oh, right.

Wasn't there a time when you were a huge fan?

Yes, huge fan.

That's changed a little bit.

A little bit.

In fact, I never liked him, and I don't think I ever will.

But I will say I didn't have much of a feeling about him until the COVID situation.

I didn't really regard him in either way.

I mean, he was a liberal governor of New York that obviously I disagreed with.

And we just didn't pay much attention to him.

Yeah, and he seemed to be better than like Bill de Blasio as far as policy.

I would have said yes, that's true.

Right, if I had to point to one.

They both sucked, but he wasn't the worst politician in New York.

Right.

Now, it's hard to...

to deny anything.

And I think to get a guy like Andrew Cuomo thrown out of office for him to actually resign, you basically, I would say, need all of these things to happen.

You need to have local officials.

First of all, none of this means you need to have Democrats.

I mean, Republicans don't matter at all in this situation.

Obviously, Republicans are going to call for his resignation.

Doesn't matter.

You need local Democrats, first of all.

We have those.

Because Republicans have no power in New York.

Virtually none.

No.

You need New York congresspeople.

The majority now of the congressional

delegation have called for his resignation.

Yeah.

So you have that.

You need the New York senators.

Both of them came out this past week and said

that Andrew Cuomo should resign.

Gillibrand and Schumer have resolved.

And Schumer.

They both came out.

And they did it on Friday night, which is somewhat revealing to me.

Yeah.

But it did happen.

Then you need the other two things, only two that you have left, I think, are big Democratic national figures unrelated to New York.

So I'm talking about, you know, Nancy Pelosi.

You're talking about like a big,

a Dick Durbin, right?

These prominent,

influential Democrats that are unrelated to New York politics, giving that sense that essentially they're noticing this too.

This happened with like Al Franken, for example.

You had people like Kirsten Gillibrand from New York calling for his resignation,

and it kind of adds to the momentum.

And that's why it happened.

And then you need the executive branch.

Now, we don't have that.

I would say we don't at this point have national, regular national Democrats, but we have a comment from Biden.

People are making a big deal about this.

I'm not sure it's as big a deal as people are saying.

Here it is.

This is Joe Biden talking about Andrew Cuomo.

Let me ask you about Governor Cuomo of New York.

I know you've said you want the investigation to continue.

If the investigation confirms the claims of the women, should he resign?

Yes.

I think he probably ended up being prosecuted, too.

Oh, yeah.

Well,

that's stronger than he's been.

Stronger than he's been.

Because the other day he just said, well, let's let this play out and see what happens.

That was basically what he said.

Right.

Although he said it like this.

Are you playing a sound clip of Biden saying it right now?

Because that's exactly how he sounded.

Yes.

It's amazing because he is at times, at certain times during the day, gone.

He's completely, the lights are on, but nobody's home inside.

And then other times, I don't know if it's when he's well rested or if he's just had his medication, but he can be somewhat sharp like he sort of used to be.

Not as sharp as he used to be, but you can see that, okay, he, yeah, he's there.

Like there.

Like in that interview, I think he was there.

And I think his team and his wife,

the evil lady McBiden, prep him for these things and they

plan accordingly for when he has to do like a George Stephanopoulos interview or he's got something that he's going to do on network television.

And so he can get through brief moments of the day.

Yeah, it's tough, too, because we'll see.

First of all, he's not appearing in long form often.

Hardly ever.

Almost never.

And if you watch only conservative media, and obviously I like conservative media and we're on a conservative, you know, we're a conservative media platform, you do tend to get a lot of highlights of him just losing his mind where he's just

where it's clear that something's wrong.

Yeah, and so those are the ones that get a lot of play on conservative media.

When you watch Biden in long form,

he's bad, but not as bad as we picture him.

He does have moments of coherence.

You notice it in the debates.

He's lucid sometimes.

He wasn't.

You kind of go into those debates,

the hurdle for him to clear was so low.

I mean, people were like, is he going to come out and just like start yelling the word squirrel repeatedly?

We didn't know what was going to happen.

And And he, you know, I'm not saying he did well in the debates, but he was able to at least form sentences.

But the other thing is he's worse since then.

Even then.

Yeah.

He does seem like,

look, if he was better than then, if he was equal to then, they wouldn't be hiding him.

Right.

They are hiding.

They are clearly hiding him.

And they don't want you to think

or to remember that Joe Biden is president of the United States.

They are just kind of hoping you forget about it.

Let them pass their bills.

Don't worry about it.

You know what?

He's no longer a factor in your life.

And there's a lot of people, I will say, in the United States who are thankful for that because they felt that Donald Trump and his giant media presence was intrusive to their life.

Whether they liked him or not, he was just always there.

Every story was about Trump.

This isn't, I mean, Trump, you know, of course, encourages this.

He loves the media.

He loves being the center of attention for this stuff.

But also, the media overdid it and they made him part of stories he had no role in constantly.

And then Trump would tweet about a story he had no role in, and then he'd become that story.

And there was a lot of, I mean, part of the election story was told where people were just kind of just tired of the constant presence of the president in their life.

I don't think that's a great design for this country, frankly.

I mean, Trump did it well and used it to his advantage many times, but I don't really want a president who's in my face all the time.

It's a little bit fatiguing.

It is.

And so I think a lot of people, especially people who don't really follow politics or care about these things,

kind of are liking the idea they don't hear from Biden.

And the Democrats are,

I think, smartly taking advantage of that.

And they're passing all sorts of incredibly damaging bills and efforts to our country that I think they're getting away with because the media is always asleep at the wheel.

Biden's asleep at the wheel.

And

they take advantage of the fact that people don't really want to hear from him.

And there are people who are just fatigued with politics in general and just don't want to hear it anymore.

It's true.

I was talking to some friends over the weekend

at a wedding reception that we were at, and they were saying to me,

I can't take it.

I just can't take it.

And so I've turned off.

And I'm like, I can't hardly blame you.

It's natural.

But it's dangerous.

It is.

Especially when there's really no one to stop the Democrats from doing what they're doing.

$1.9 trillion bill, they jam-packed that thing.

Even Even if you take the most aggressive and

favorable view of that bill for the Democrats, still you're basically at a third that was somewhat related to COVID, you could argue, right?

Even though a lot of it was still nonsense.

You go to, that's two-thirds of this bill.

You know, you're talking a trillion dollars, which they just,

a trillion dollars plus, where they just basically put through a bunch of Democratic priorities that would have, in other contexts, been giant debates in our country where we would fight back and forth about how, wait, this is way too much money to spend on X, Y, and Z.

We shouldn't spend any money on this.

And they just dumped it into this bill because it does seem like every president gets one bill that is not controversial.

Like, you know, I mean, even if it is controversial, you get it through.

And he took this one bill and took real advantage of it.

We have asked the Republicans to do such things many times, and they don't do it.

No, they can't for some reason.

Trump was the best thing that could have ever happened to Republicans on policy because he dominated the news coverage so much.

They could have put anything through.

No one cared about policy.

No, no, no, they didn't.

For four years, no one talked about policy.

All they had to do was just send it through, send it through.

And you know what?

When we're about to take the vote, Don, do you mind tweeting about, I don't know,

Morning Joe.

Say something denigrating about Mika, and then the entire media will be talking about that, and we'll pass health care reform.

They could have done all of these things,

and they did not take advantage of it.

I mean, it was a real, it could have been.

It couldn't even do the one thing that everybody wanted to do, and that was to get rid of Obamacare.

The thing they promised us, they swore up and down, as soon as we can do this, can't do it right now.

But when we have both houses and the executive office, why then?

Then we can do it.

Yep.

And they didn't do it.

Yep.

Didn't do it.

And really, the only thing they got done legislatively that was controversial was the tax bill, which was moderately okay.

I mean, it wasn't a terrible bill, but it was not a

great one I was inspired by.

Right.

And it

didn't inspire America.

And it's going to be completely negated now.

Yep.

Because we're going to get a massive tax increase.

And they'll get the tax increase through.

They'll get the tax increase through.

They may have to wait a year to do it, but they'll get it through in these first two years.

Yeah.

Because

they will be able to get it through with 50 votes.

And guess what?

Once again, Joe Manchin will not protect you.

Wait, what?

Joe Manchin.

He said, though.

He will not protect you.

He will not.

But he promised.

And we're probably going to get a minimum wage thing, too, don't you think?

Oh, absolutely.

I mean, I don't think they get to $15 an hour.

I don't think they'll get there.

I could see a compromise of 12.

I could see 10 to 12.

I mean, there are Republicans.

I mean, Mitt Romney has come out and said he'll vote for $10 an hour.

Well, here's the thing.

I can't support my family of 10 on $7.25 an hour.

And that's what I've been trying to do my whole life.

Really?

Yes.

First of all, let me...

So it's kind of weird.

I should help you negotiate your next contract here, but I also think

it's not designed.

So you think I'm underpaid at $7.25 an hour?

There's a lot of people who think I'm overpaid at that number.

A lot of listeners are like, wow, that's way too much.

Wow, he's making that kind of money?

Yeah.

Wow, that's not worth it.

But it's not designed to do that.

To support families.

It's designed to support a 15-year-old just getting into the workforce.

Yeah.

You know, this is pretty interesting.

We're talking about minimum wage.

There's a The Daily today, which is the flagship podcast of the New York Times,

had a

their podcast today was dedicated to the minimum wage.

And I'm sure they're pushing it.

Of course, they're pushing it.

Obviously, they're pushing it.

However, it was pretty interesting because it was, their case was not, hey, fairness.

Hey, this will be wonderful for everyone.

Their case was more nuanced, and they did handle it, I think,

as fairly as you could expect the New York Times to handle it.

What was interesting, though, is they were making the case that economists have always been against the minimum wage, and now they've turned.

They now think it's a good thing, and it's not going to be damaging to society.

Oh, it's not going to hurt businesses, small businesses.

Apparently not.

Although there was a conversation, they did mention that debate, right?

Like, you know, Josh Hawley is pitching a bill where he's agreeing with the Democrats.

Yes, $15 an hour minimum wage.

A Republican center, $15 an hour minimum wage, but only on big companies, is his line.

Which to me, it's like I'd rather have at least two parties.

I feel like having one party and having people act like they don't like each other, but then voting for the same things is not a great formula.

Yeah.

But

I guess that's where we are right now.

There's a big push.

And minimum wage has been one of the most popular

items in public policy for a very long time.

Well, yeah, because nobody explains why it's a bad thing.

Everybody, you know, they buy into the hype from the Democrats that

you can't live on $725 in Manhattan.

No, but who's trying to do that?

Number one, let them set their minimum wage then.

And by the way, that's what's happened all over the country.

So the minimum wage in the country is not $7.25.

It is in certain low-priced areas,

but even cities raise it all over the place.

But just to tell you how far we've come here, Pat, 1987, January 14th, an op-ed from the New York Times editorial board.

So, like their official kind of position, the headline is the right minimum wage, $0.07.

Oh, my gosh.

That's how far we've come from 1987.

A long,

long way.

Wow.

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Can you tell that story of your friend with the businesses?

Yeah, I I was talking to a friend who does really well and has several businesses.

And I asked him over the weekend how his businesses were going in the COVID era.

And he said, well, to give you an idea, went into the COVID situation with three businesses and 450 employees.

And I came out of it with one business and 150 employees.

And it was the best year I've ever had.

And he went on to explain that, you know, he was kind of struggling a little bit with those two businesses that went out of business.

And he said, so they needed to go anyway.

And his theory was that a lot of businesses that were on shaky ground

just were

put out of their misery, essentially.

And it's like clearing out the dead brush in a forest.

You know,

creative destruction, right?

It's a capitalistic principle.

So the one that is doing well, you can focus on and make it thrive even more.

And in theory, right, the new businesses will prop up and those 300 people who lost their job hopefully hopefully have been able to slide into a new business that is thriving instead of one that's struggling and was going to go out of business eventually anyway.

That's the theory and the hope.

That's the hope.

It's going to be a tough.

With all this government money, eventually it's going to dry up.

And where do we go from there?

It's going to be

a hell of a thing to watch.

That's for sure.

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