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1:15

Good Tuesday to all of you. Welcome

1:17

back to the ruthless variety program. I'm

1:19

Josh Holmes along with comfortably smug

1:21

Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook Left

1:24

to right across your radio dial

1:26

as always we're gonna be talking

1:28

about a bunch of things here

1:30

today including the real reason From our

1:32

perspective that the left is attacking

1:34

Tesla Doge a lot of developments over this.

1:36

I'm sure you've seen a lot on the

1:38

news But we're gonna be putting a fine

1:40

point on this for all of you to

1:42

know exactly why all of this is happening.

1:44

I mean that's the thing so we

1:46

started discussing this topic and I think we

1:49

we really came up with some insightful stuff

1:51

I'm really proud of what this episode's

1:53

gonna have because it's not the standard

1:55

discussion that you're seeing online and on

1:57

cable news of being like oh boy

1:59

This is just, you know, some paid

2:02

lefting activists going crazy. But there's more

2:04

to it. And we really have a

2:06

lot of good info on that. A

2:08

lot of good info. We're also going

2:11

to be talking a little bit about

2:13

special elections happening today. Today. That's right.

2:15

Great state of Florida. Also a big

2:17

one that we've discussed on the program

2:19

in Wisconsin and that Supreme Court race.

2:22

All of that stuff we're going to

2:24

provide you with some. updated numbers and

2:26

some context and predictions potentially about where

2:28

all of that goes very very important

2:31

stuff in terms of how governing goes

2:33

going forward and then we've got literally

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the the greatest show in the digital

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universe hack madness yeah and an update

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on all that smug huge I mean

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thank you all so much for your

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vote so far it's been exciting again

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to go vote for this this is

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picking the biggest hack in media biggest

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smug to vote the votes have been

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pouring in and there's lots of surprises

2:59

we're going to be covering. I also

3:02

re-ran the numbers in the prediction rankings.

3:04

Oh yeah? Both in the public bracket

3:06

of all the people who submitted a

3:08

prediction. Also thank you to everyone who

3:11

did. We got like over 1100 brackets

3:13

submitted in this. Wow. And then us,

3:15

the four of us. So we can

3:17

go through that too. Let me guess

3:19

who's winning it. I'm not going to

3:22

spoil it. No, I'm sure you don't

3:24

want to hold suspense on that one.

3:26

Don't you old man? Yeah, it's a

3:28

tease. Yeah, yeah. Well, breaking news, the

3:31

old man's probably winning it because he

3:33

wants to talk about it. So we're

3:35

going to do that and we've got

3:37

some variety. This one's a disgusting mess

3:39

on varieties. You're going to want to

3:42

do it into that. Before we get

3:44

into the meats of all this. Fellas,

3:46

I've had the disturbing trend in my

3:48

personal life on the weekends. We have

3:51

a lot of fun here during the

3:53

week and then, you know, you go

3:55

on the weekend, kids, sports, all kinds

3:57

of different stuff, we run around like

4:00

a crazy person. But there's a new

4:02

disturbing trend where my wife has planned

4:04

things that I have to go to

4:06

the request. a costume. Oh wow that's

4:08

a bit much. Yeah it was several

4:11

weeks ago I had to go like

4:13

there was a costume party where I

4:15

had to dress and like I don't

4:17

know about this stuff until like two

4:20

hours beforehand. I like Jesus I got

4:22

in she's like oh well here's your

4:24

costume. So I wish I could tell

4:26

you, I'm like, we're on a real

4:28

tough household where I'm just, you know,

4:31

this is the guy. I'm gonna, dad

4:33

needs rest this week. No, that's not,

4:35

it all the way it works. The

4:37

way it works is I show up.

4:40

I take kids to things and then

4:42

they're like, no, but dress up, like,

4:44

you know what? And, you know, then

4:46

make fun of yourself. So this is,

4:48

I have this a couple weeks ago.

4:51

This weekend, it's a Western themed auction

4:53

themed auction thing. One of my kids'

4:55

schools. Like, they're going to be worse,

4:57

right? But you're dressing up as a,

5:00

as a cowboy in Northern Virginia. There's

5:02

a certain connotation that comes. You're not

5:04

in Texas. You're not in Wyoming. You're

5:06

not even South Dakota. Like you're, you

5:08

got a cowboy hat and a big

5:11

belt buckled cowboy boots in Northern Virginia.

5:13

If people could get the wrong idea.

5:15

about what's going on. Anyway, I show

5:17

up, I have a nice dinner with

5:20

some people, we're on our way to

5:22

the auction, my wife hits a curb

5:24

in the car and blows the tire.

5:26

Oh my God. So I find myself

5:28

in Rosalind, which is the closest possible

5:31

metro thing to, it's literally sharing a

5:33

bridge with Washington DC, laying along the

5:35

side of the road. where I sent

5:37

my wife along with friends to go

5:40

to the auction and this gentleman, it

5:42

was just a terrific guy, decided to

5:44

stay along and help me out with

5:46

all this, but we're changing a tire

5:48

and like laying on the side of

5:51

the road in full cowboy uniform. Looking

5:53

like a lot lizard. I mean, absolute

5:55

humiliation. I can't even imagine what people

5:57

were thinking when they were driving past

6:00

me, but this is my lot in

6:02

life on the weekends. I got to

6:04

tell you it says something about you

6:06

that you changed it yourself. You didn't

6:09

call AAA. You didn't call a dealership.

6:11

You got out there as humiliating as

6:13

it might be in costume and you

6:15

broke those nuts. Yeah. Well that's what

6:17

everybody else was thinking I was doing

6:20

on that side of the road. And

6:22

then you. Jacked it up. Oh, Jesus

6:24

man. And then you changed the tire.

6:26

Did a couple of cars slow down

6:29

and roll down their window? See if

6:31

you needed a ride? May have been

6:33

proposition. May have been. But I mean,

6:35

this is like, this is what I'm

6:37

dealing with. Yeah. Yeah, that doesn't sound

6:40

fun at all. It's a humiliation. I

6:42

don't know. I'm sure all of you

6:44

can relate to this at some level.

6:46

You don't have control of your weekends

6:49

at a certain point in your life.

6:51

A testament to personal responsibility. It is.

6:53

It is. I love my kids and

6:55

my wife very much, but it has

6:57

its limits. Anyway, all right, let's look

7:00

into this big story. You guys have

7:02

all seen all of these headlines. If

7:04

you're on social media at all, it's

7:06

all over the place. But what's happening

7:09

with Tesla as a result of Elonon

7:11

Musk running Doge is unbelievable. and starting

7:13

to get a little scary, right? It

7:15

used to be sort of your one-off

7:17

attack somebody driving something. I mean, who

7:20

doesn't get attacked for something in America

7:22

these days? But it's the repetition and

7:24

the pattern and going after the dealerships

7:26

and all these things. I mean... They're

7:29

skyrocketing. You know, and you look at,

7:31

there was arrests that were made by

7:33

DOJ in Vegas, all kinds of different

7:35

stuff that's happening here. But let's start

7:37

with a setup clip, if you don't

7:40

mind. Clip one, please. This

7:42

is video from the victim's Tesla camera.

7:44

It shows a green car pulling up

7:46

to a Tesla on Busy Route 66,

7:49

then swerving in front to box the

7:51

Tesla in. The driver then walks over

7:53

the 61-year-old woman in the Tesla and

7:56

reportedly starts hitting her while she's sitting

7:58

behind the wheel. At one point the

8:00

woman says she bit the man's hand.

8:02

Moments later the passenger of the green

8:05

car appears to walk over and pull

8:07

the attacker away, they finally get back

8:09

in their car and drive off. Okay.

8:12

All right. So this is in Arizona.

8:14

or a flagstaff woman was was targeted

8:16

this according to azy family.com the violence

8:18

against Tesla's building cities across the country

8:21

vehicle set on fire in Las Vegas

8:23

graffiti in cars in Colorado a man

8:25

caught on camera keying in Dallas and

8:27

then you know what you just saw

8:30

in Arizona it's repetitive it's a pattern

8:32

and the intent is to try to

8:34

scare like let me jump to like

8:37

a little bit of a I don't

8:39

want to ruin it for you, but

8:41

you're wondering why it is that people

8:43

are doing all that brain damage. Brain

8:46

damage. That's exactly right, and that's what

8:48

the left does to people. They pretend

8:50

like they care about Elon Musk, and

8:53

this is going to hurt Elon Musk,

8:55

but who it actually hurts is that

8:57

lady sitting in her car trying to

8:59

get from A to B, and a

9:02

lunatic comes over out of nowhere, starts

9:04

ruining her day. You know, she's the

9:06

one who suffers. The people who are

9:08

key in these cars that have to

9:11

go and take them, and take them.

9:13

a body shop and pay $1,000 to

9:15

have their car fixed, they're the ones

9:18

who suffer. Elon Musk isn't the one.

9:20

And when the left targets people, when

9:22

communists target people, regular Americans suffer. Yeah,

9:24

no, I mean, look, there's no question

9:27

about it. She's not alone. Can we

9:29

play clip two, please spigets? Lay

9:32

was on the way to a doctor's

9:35

appointment in Linwood Wednesday morning when she

9:37

says all of a sudden a driver

9:39

behind her just laid on the horn

9:41

as they came up to a red

9:43

light. Things spiraled out of control when

9:45

a white SUV followed her and cut

9:48

her off stopping in the middle of

9:50

the road. Gets out and walks straight

9:52

up to my door window. He's wearing

9:54

a mask. He's wearing a mask. And

9:56

I said what? What is for the

9:59

problem? He goes, you need to sell

10:01

your car. This is a Nazi car.

10:03

You're driving it. You need to sell

10:05

your car. Lisa, she's been driving a

10:07

Tesla for the last two years. Okay.

10:09

All right. This is a Nazi call.

10:12

I mean, not for nothing. But the

10:14

vast majority of Tesla owners are not

10:16

hardcore Republicans. We're talking about an electric

10:18

car here. The vast majority of the

10:20

center of this country doesn't want anything

10:23

part of an electric car. And it

10:25

is over-indexed off the left from the

10:27

very beginning. Like what they're doing here

10:29

is basically attacking like center left humans

10:31

who probably have absolutely no idea what

10:33

it is at political statement these lunatics

10:36

are making. But I mean I think

10:38

that's the thing is this isn't necessarily

10:40

like a partisan thing like they're not

10:42

like I'm trying to attack Republicans or

10:44

conservatives. This is yet again something that

10:47

the left has been doing for the

10:49

better part of almost two decades at

10:51

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Even if you're on the left. you're

11:27

not left enough unless you tow the

11:30

line 100% because it's like 10 years

11:32

ago if you tried asking you know

11:34

your standard progressive should you have a

11:37

gender surgery on a kid they be

11:39

like no of course right you asked

11:41

them that today and they say no

11:43

it's like you're going to a gulag

11:46

you're out of the party so they

11:48

want Like this anti-test thing is like

11:50

100% it's like a compliance test of

11:53

you have to be with the party

11:55

comrade 100% smug you're absolutely right because

11:57

you always say it's not about principle

11:59

it's about power. What it is, the

12:02

rules don't actually matter to these people.

12:04

It's the enforcement of the rules. It's

12:06

keeping everybody in that same group think

12:09

about what we're supposed to believe. That's

12:11

more important than actually believing in anything.

12:13

And so what's funny is we're talking

12:16

about, you know, who is the customer

12:18

base for Tesla generally, right? And it's

12:20

not just random people who, you know,

12:22

are in these news clips who are

12:25

horrified, scared of these interactions they've had

12:27

with other people. the senior associate editor

12:29

at the Atlantic. No! I have a

12:32

story here from newsbusters. Well, this should

12:34

be good. This is fantastic. Maybe good

12:36

work. You're going to love this. So

12:38

this Atlantic editor, Sahil DeSai, was driving

12:41

around Washington DC in their cyber truck.

12:43

No, they have a Tesla cyber truck.

12:45

This is the Atlantic guy. This is

12:48

the Atlantic guy. He works for the

12:50

Atlantic, so you know he's left away.

12:52

Talk about like immediate regret on that

12:54

purchase, by the way. Atlantic must pay

12:57

an awful lot of money. He put

12:59

up an article on Saturday called My

13:01

Day Inside America's Most Hated Car. It

13:04

was just fantastic content. I'll just read

13:06

some excerpts here. On the first Saturday

13:08

of spring, I surrounded by row houses

13:10

and Magnolia trees. I came to a

13:13

horrifying realization. My mom was right. I

13:15

had been flipped off at least 17

13:17

times. What the? Called motherfucker in both

13:20

English and Spanish in a fucking dork.

13:22

A woman in a blue sweater stared

13:24

at me side and said, you should

13:27

be ashamed of yourself. As I idled

13:29

with the windows down on the street

13:31

in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, a woman

13:33

glared at me from her front porch.

13:36

Fuck you and this truck and Elon.

13:38

You drive a Nazi truck. She slammed

13:40

her front door and then opened it

13:43

again. someone blows your shit up. Oh

13:45

my god! I mean this is what's

13:47

going on. These people have lost their

13:49

minds. Derangement. Derangement. Yeah. Which you know

13:52

we're gonna get to after the break

13:54

I got a couple more clips for

13:56

you but we're gonna get to why

13:59

this is all happening and put a

14:01

fine point on it that will like

14:03

you'll lose your mind when you find

14:05

this out. That story up until the

14:08

lady who was like... You know, you

14:10

drive a Nazi truck, one is just

14:12

people being like, you should be ashamed

14:15

of yourself and flipping them off. I

14:17

think I've been just wearing a hat

14:19

that says I work at the Atlantic.

14:21

Because I hope that's what their days

14:24

are like. But like, they've been so

14:26

conflicted. The fact that for driving a

14:28

Tesla, it's insanity. Totally, total insanity. So

14:31

you remember the fire bombing at the

14:33

Tesla dealership. We got an update on

14:35

that one in clip three here, Nikki.

14:38

So this is the several vehicles that

14:40

were set on fire. Uh, burn and

14:42

explode and all of that. And bullets

14:44

were fine. Yeah, this is the one

14:47

in, the one in Vegas. Yeah, yeah.

14:49

Well, so arrests are made on that.

14:51

And we've got a, a update from

14:54

Pam Bondi on Fox News and clip

14:56

four, please. What's happening with this Las

14:58

Vegas Tesla criminal who he was arrested

15:00

and now federal charges have been filed

15:03

against him? This was this was something

15:05

that was needed given everything we're seeing

15:07

happening to those dealerships and those cars.

15:10

Look at this guy. That was remarkable.

15:12

Police working with the state police. Our

15:14

guy. They have been going nonstop on

15:16

this case. This guy is in custody.

15:19

Laura he's facing... five-year minimum mandatory to

15:21

20 years in prison and this was

15:23

great police work this guy thought he

15:26

got away with it so these people

15:28

better look out they better cut it

15:30

out because we are coming after you

15:32

and at my direction there will be

15:35

no negotiating on these people no plea

15:37

seeking 20 years in prison yeah they

15:39

are studying off bombs the huge fires

15:42

look what you're seeing huge massive fires

15:44

in residential neighborhoods Someone is going to

15:46

get killed, a citizen is going to

15:49

get killed, and these people, we are

15:51

not doing any plea negotiations on them.

15:53

Well, they better cut it out. Yeah,

15:55

let's go. So why is that important?

15:58

It's important, obviously, that we enforce the

16:00

law and everything else. It also stands

16:02

in stark contrast to the experience that

16:05

this American society had during the George

16:07

Floyd riots, during COVID, everything else, when

16:09

everything was just, whether it was a

16:11

federal government or local. which has really

16:14

been the problem state and local. through

16:16

communities throughout this country, you'd have a

16:18

random acts of violence burning down police

16:21

stations for crying out loud without any

16:23

sort of prosecution whatsoever. And the message

16:25

to the public writ large was there's

16:27

no real law and order here. And

16:30

if you got an opinion, it's because

16:32

you're probably repressed and the society has

16:34

failed you. And so go commit whatever

16:37

crime you want. Firing, but mostly peaceful.

16:39

Firing as CNN said aptly at the

16:41

time. But what it did is prolong

16:43

the period of time that we saw.

16:46

all of this incredible random acts of

16:48

political violence, they're shorting this timeline here

16:50

by having a really aggressive prosecution at

16:53

the federal level. I'm heartened to see

16:55

it. Yeah, and that's the thing is

16:57

when when Pam Bondi says that there

17:00

will be no plea negotiations because I

17:02

think, you know, especially during the Biden

17:04

years, Americans got demoralized because You just

17:06

accept that, hey, you know, there are

17:09

cities in this country where you go

17:11

into a drugstore and every single thing

17:13

you'd want to buy is behind a

17:16

piece of glass because prosecutors in this

17:18

city have made crime legal and you're

17:20

going to walk outside and people are

17:22

going to be shooting drugs and selling

17:25

drugs and you just have to accept

17:27

that because the prosecutors in this city

17:29

have decided that crime is legal and

17:32

you just became used to that, you

17:34

know? So when you set this new

17:36

standard, there's no plea agreement here. We're

17:38

shooting for 20 years. Yeah. Because what

17:41

that says, it's a very simple thing.

17:43

It's worth our time, is when you

17:45

put criminals away, it dis- gorgeous crime.

17:48

Well and the reason why it's really

17:50

important I think is like given the

17:52

context of the rhetoric that the Democrats

17:55

are employing on Elon Musk and Doge

17:57

because like if a reporter asks a

17:59

Democrat right now like will you condemn

18:01

this violence of course what they say

18:04

this is the standard thing they had

18:06

their comms director you know type up

18:08

which was like of course Ayabor violence

18:11

and we should not have violence in

18:13

our book discourse in America. But a

18:15

lot of people are very upset that

18:17

Elon Musk is killing kids with cancer

18:20

and firing nuclear safety officers. You know

18:22

what I mean? The transition is something

18:24

like that at the same time. Yeah,

18:27

do it. I do deeply understand the

18:29

frustrations of people throughout the country who

18:31

feel as though Elon Musk is ruining

18:33

access to children's education and cancer research.

18:36

Because they don't want to actually talk

18:38

about what... Doge is really do. And

18:40

that is super important. That's the heart

18:43

of it. It's existential. Yes. Which is

18:45

what we're going to get to at

18:47

the back half of all this when

18:49

we come back. The existential piece to

18:52

the left and why it is that

18:54

they are totally involved in trying to

18:56

brainwash all these people that are doing

18:59

what you're seeing and making it seem

19:01

as though. There's something here that's not

19:03

because they don't want you to talk

19:06

about what is. This is so critical

19:08

because you don't hear anywhere else and

19:10

this is, I mean, this is the

19:12

heart of all of it. We're going

19:15

to get to all of that and

19:17

some hack madness and some variety right

19:19

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19:22

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19:24

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19:26

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19:44

this is all sort of an organic

19:47

response to you know what they see

19:49

is great offense that's happening here. It's

19:51

not organic at all in large part.

19:54

It's probably funded and organized by these

19:56

radical 501c4s that we've seen operate with

19:58

Hamas protests, the BLM protests. I mean

20:00

this is a tried and true tactic

20:03

of the left. All part of the

20:05

same. And what you've seen in terms

20:07

of how they've characterized Doge. And look,

20:10

this is a charitable explanation, to be

20:12

honest with you, and we're involved in

20:14

this, but up for the first couple

20:17

of months, it's like, oh, it's run

20:19

by a bunch of 19-year-olds. They're like

20:21

statisticians, no personal ability to relate to

20:23

humans, that they just have a mission

20:26

and they launch into all of these

20:28

departments and basically just annihilate all of

20:30

them, fire everybody, and then dispassionately move

20:33

to the next deal. And that's the

20:35

way it's been characterized. And I would

20:37

say widely. It's not just characterized in

20:39

the New York Times and Washington Post

20:42

and all the people who have an

20:44

investment in the federal government. It's broadcast

20:46

news. I mean, this is specifically the

20:49

way that this has been framed. Well,

20:51

Brett Bayer and Fox News did an

20:53

awful lot of work in one interview

20:55

last week that from my perspective... changed

20:58

the narrative entirely. This is not your

21:00

19-year-old antisocial personality that is sort of

21:02

roaming through. These are like some of

21:05

the most successful people in our entire

21:07

country who are very thoughtfully and meticulously

21:09

going in and trying to figure out

21:11

where there is waste in our government.

21:14

And we have a couple of clips

21:16

that I just sort of stood out

21:18

and then I know there are others

21:21

that we... wanted to talk about, but

21:23

let's start with the first clip and

21:25

clip five. overstaffing, a good example of

21:28

overstaffing would be the IRS has got

21:30

1400 people who are dedicated to provisioning

21:32

laptops and cell phones. So if you

21:34

join the IRS, you get a laptop

21:37

and a cell phone, you have provisioned.

21:39

So if each of those IRS officers

21:41

or employees provisioned two employees per day,

21:44

you could provision the entire IRS. in

21:46

a little more than a month. So

21:48

12 times a year you can read

21:50

for this. Why would you have 1,400

21:53

people whose only job it is to

21:55

give out a laptop and a phone?

21:57

Right. The whole IRS could be handled

22:00

once a month. Wow. Think about that.

22:02

Think about that. It's just wild. And

22:04

this, and I know we're going to

22:06

go through a couple of other clips,

22:09

but what struck me most about that

22:11

interview and the context that you laid

22:13

out ahead of time where the Democrats

22:16

painted this picture of... people who are

22:18

19 and didn't know what they were

22:20

doing and then you see the reality.

22:22

These are captains of industry, very smart

22:25

people who are offering common sense reactions

22:27

to what anybody would offer if they

22:29

were aware of how bad this government

22:32

is. Not political ideologues. These are people

22:34

that I'm not even sure you could

22:36

characterize as Republican. Yeah, not at all.

22:39

And what this moment reminded me of

22:41

was how the left treated JD Vance

22:43

at the very... beginning of his announcement

22:45

as VP. They said he is weird

22:48

and he did unspeakable things to a

22:50

couch and then all of a sudden

22:52

he is toe-to-toe with their national standard

22:55

bear and just annihilates the guy and

22:57

people are like wait a minute he's

22:59

actually incredibly intelligent and he's exactly what

23:01

we want at the top of this

23:04

country. Because they have completely lost touch

23:06

with the American people their only method

23:08

for convincing people has come up with

23:11

some kind of made up... lie about

23:13

an individual to smear them. And they

23:15

try to brand it. Yeah, blast that

23:17

out there again and again and again

23:20

again. The way that you saw like

23:22

all those Senate Democrats released the same

23:24

message talking to the camera, 20 of

23:27

them at the same time, they put

23:29

it online at the same time, because

23:31

in their minds it's just like, come

23:34

up. with the smear and hammer and

23:36

hammer and hammer and hammer and hammer.

23:38

You saw they've done it to Supreme

23:40

Court nominees on their side. You see

23:43

that they do it to JD Vance.

23:45

They did it to all the Doge

23:47

people. This is their play. Yeah, but

23:50

we kind of did it to ourselves

23:52

though a little bit too. Like if

23:54

I had a criticism of the Trump

23:56

administration in Doge, it's that they should

23:59

have been leading with this. Like they

24:01

should have did more public media right

24:03

out the gate to define the terms

24:06

of the terms of the debate. in

24:08

the beginning it was a lot of

24:10

stuff in USAID and all of that

24:12

I'm glad that they're cutting right yeah

24:15

but then our opponents got to control

24:17

the entire narrative and it was like

24:19

oh well these are 19 year old

24:22

coders and big balls and all they

24:24

couldn't they couldn't defend trans studies in

24:26

Tanzania so they had to attack the

24:28

process by which I found right which

24:31

is why I think like given everything

24:33

we know now yeah and watching that

24:35

Brett Bear interview You should have led

24:38

with these guys. Yeah. You know what

24:40

I mean? I didn't know they existed

24:42

to the extent that, I mean, I

24:45

knew some of them, but this is

24:47

just like a tour to force. If

24:49

you haven't seen it on Fox, it's

24:51

on their website and go to the

24:54

special report tab and you'll find the

24:56

full interview. Watch the full interview. It

24:58

will change everything in how you view

25:01

all of this. But what he was

25:03

talking about was 1,400 people that are

25:05

employed at the IRS to give out.

25:07

They're literally, their only job is to

25:10

hand over a laptop and a laptop

25:12

and a laptop and a phone. and

25:14

they could repopulate the entirety of the

25:17

workforce twice a year every day. You

25:19

know, every day if these guys, you

25:21

could repopulate the entire workforce. I mean,

25:23

at no point does that make any

25:26

sense, but if you understand that there

25:28

is absolutely zero responsibility. an accountability within

25:30

an administration, you could understand where they're

25:33

looking around, they're like, I don't know,

25:35

we hired a bunch of new people,

25:37

we can even have a laptop guy.

25:39

And then every like other month, they're

25:42

like, oh, it's fun another laptop guy.

25:44

It's fun another. And what these guys

25:46

did, I thought, was sort of dispassionally

25:49

explain how all of a sudden a

25:51

job offer goes out there and these

25:53

people, like, you know, they see a

25:56

job offer for the United States government

25:58

and doing. some IT stuff, they take

26:00

it, and they get the job. It's

26:02

like really their fault. The fact that

26:05

the job was open in the first

26:07

place is entirely the fault

26:09

of an administration that has

26:11

absolutely no concern about taxpayer

26:13

dollars whatsoever. And they see

26:15

that, like that, that's just

26:17

a very easy piece to

26:19

understand. Let's get to a second clip,

26:21

which I find even more fascinating, clip

26:23

six. Care and Medicaid, NIH. What

26:26

are you finding? Yeah. Well, I'd

26:28

say there's a couple things we're

26:30

really committed to in our work

26:32

at HHS. Number one, making sure

26:34

we continue to have the best

26:37

biomedical research in the world. And

26:39

number two, making sure which President

26:41

Trump has said over and over

26:43

again that we 100% protect Medicare

26:45

and Medicaid. But there's a lot

26:47

of opportunity. So if I take

26:50

NIH as an example, today, if

26:52

you're an NIH researcher and you

26:54

get a $100 grant at your

26:56

university, 85 of that and your

26:59

university spends 15. So that's more

27:01

money going directly to the scientists

27:03

who are discovering new cures. Did

27:05

you hear that? That is such

27:08

an insane statistic. Did you

27:10

hear that? So what we've read and

27:12

what we have been told... is that

27:14

they're their cutting NIH budgets. Right, we're

27:16

going to have another pandemic because of

27:19

Doge and Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

27:21

That they straight face you, that there

27:23

is no research that's going to be

27:25

done into disease, the next pandemic,

27:28

preventable health outcomes, because

27:30

they're cutting all this. What these

27:32

guys are saying is what we found out.

27:34

as the universities are taking a

27:36

massive cut. The universities, by the

27:39

way, that are raising your kids'

27:41

tuitions. Right, that have billion dollar

27:43

endowments. Yeah, and surviving exclusively on

27:45

their non-profit status to go rule

27:47

over Palestinian protesters that are

27:49

shutting your school down. Like they're taking

27:51

the line share of the cut on

27:53

that and the researchers in of themselves

27:55

that they applied and are doing the

27:58

research are not getting the money. I

28:00

mean you hear all these statistics over

28:02

how the cost of college has exploded,

28:04

exploded over the past 10 years, how

28:06

the cost has doubled, tuition, fees has

28:08

doubled, and then the number of administrators

28:11

at universities has exploded at the exact

28:13

same rate. They have all these employees

28:15

who are just administrators of the bureaucrat

28:17

or bureaucrat. These people are taking a

28:20

40% rip off of that cancer research

28:22

money. It's just, it's a little moral,

28:24

it's a moral. It's a moral. It's

28:26

just the way you guys are looking

28:28

at it, but I'm telling you, we

28:31

will have another pandemic if every provost

28:33

doesn't get a raise in it. It

28:35

will happen. No, but for real. I

28:37

mean, it's eye opening. It's the way

28:40

that they view it and that they

28:42

never disclose any of this. And by

28:44

the way, it's sort of all hooks

28:46

into the other part of their constituency

28:48

where they tried to make all college

28:51

student loans the property of American taxpayers

28:53

to make everybody to go, but they

28:55

still weren't changing the tuition. It's all

28:57

back to that same constituency, the people

29:00

that run these colleges and universities. You

29:02

imagine with a straight face having to

29:04

defend the fact that you're taking a

29:06

40, 45% rip on every disease? research?

29:08

Honestly, there should be congressional hearings on

29:11

that. Like why, how could you ever

29:13

defend that? They have billion dollar downments,

29:15

drag these clowns in front of Congress

29:17

and make them say like Holmes just

29:20

said, drag them and make them say,

29:22

yeah we deserve a 40% percent. And

29:24

this is the real reason why the

29:26

left is that this is it. Tesla

29:28

and Dosh. It's not because, you know,

29:31

they're trying to make government more efficient.

29:33

It's that they're exposing the racket. That's

29:35

it. That's it. That there is institutional

29:37

rot. and all these left-wing NGOs and

29:40

non-profits who do studies, where like the

29:42

Biden administration can appropriate billions, tens of

29:44

billions of dollars to build out electric

29:46

charging stations and they built eight, right?

29:48

Which happened. Or like California passed this

29:51

high-speed rail 15 years ago and it's

29:53

still not even done. How two billion

29:55

dollars goes to an organization? set up

29:57

by Stacey Abrams five weeks before with

30:00

$100 in the bank and no technical

30:02

expertise in the grant that they're supposed

30:04

to be administering. And the reason why

30:06

I think it's really important is there's

30:08

a lot of discourse right now about

30:11

this like abundance. thing. Ezra Klein's out

30:13

there selling he wrote a book and

30:15

he did Gavin Newsom's podcast and he

30:17

went on Pods of America talking about

30:20

how you know as liberals we have

30:22

to acknowledge that we've been really bad

30:24

at implementing all of these policies and

30:26

it's like you dumb shit they fail

30:28

on purpose and they fail on purpose

30:31

because 99% of the people in the

30:33

Democratic Party wanted to fail. It's a

30:35

trough for them to suck taxpayer money

30:37

and put it in their wallet. They

30:40

don't actually care about improving the lives

30:42

of anyone. Seriously like 10 earnest liberals

30:44

and think tanks putting out white papers

30:46

being like we could change the world

30:48

if we really Try hard and it's

30:51

like their whole rest of their parties

30:53

like gimmy gimmy gimmy Yeah, and Bernie

30:55

ain't one of them folks. Yeah, right

30:57

the funny thing exactly and like that's

30:59

what dose is so good at doing

31:02

is just like investigating the institutional rot

31:04

of the left. Yeah, and like if

31:06

you can take a step back it's

31:08

not just about government. I mean, we

31:11

spent an awful lot of time on

31:13

this program talking about institutional capture and

31:15

what they've done throughout the country, particularly

31:17

in the late 20 teens in through

31:19

the George Floyd post-covid era into the

31:22

Biden administration, of you have higher education,

31:24

you've got entertainment, you've got corporate America

31:26

for a large portion of that, and

31:28

you've got the government. and all of

31:31

these things sort of all working together

31:33

in what seems like a bonkers left-word

31:35

ideological pursuit that is totally divorced from

31:37

the experience the American people have on

31:39

a day-to-day basis. And you asked yourself

31:42

why? Well, it turns out they're all

31:44

in on it. They're all in on

31:46

it. And the federal government for the

31:48

United States of America is big enough,

31:51

prosperous enough to have this bleed over

31:53

where you wonder how higher education... ends

31:55

up entirely institutionally captured by the left?

31:57

Well, a huge part of their bottom

31:59

line is... from the left. They cut

32:02

the checks. Somebody made the deal, the

32:04

45% of the AAH research was fine

32:06

to just have a slush fun sloshing

32:08

around. Doesn't need to go to students

32:11

or the research. The fucking mafia doesn't

32:13

charge a rip that high. I mean,

32:15

they just think that we could be

32:17

embarrassed. They'd be embarrassed. I mean, that's

32:19

the thing is, this is so eye

32:22

opening. Because for so long, it's like

32:24

the American people have. had this abstract

32:26

idea of like why are things getting

32:28

worse? Why is it when you hear

32:31

all these statistics like America spends more

32:33

in health care than any other country

32:35

and ends up with the worst outcomes

32:37

in the Western world? Why is it

32:39

America spends more in education than in

32:42

any country and ends up with the

32:44

worst outcomes in the Western world? Why

32:46

is it in every single instance? We

32:48

spend more than anyone and we end

32:51

up getting the least and this is

32:53

what Doge has uncovered. All of it's

32:55

been a rip-off. All of it's been

32:57

a ripoff and the left, their surge

32:59

in power over these past 20 years

33:02

is because you've been paying for a

33:04

dear listener. Your tax money that's getting

33:06

ripped out of your pockets in two

33:08

weeks has been paying for all these

33:11

clowns. And I don't think we have

33:13

the clip, but it extends to Social

33:15

Security. There was a guy in that

33:17

panel who talked about how Social Security

33:19

money is going over to illegal. in

33:22

Wisconsin vote on Tuesday. We're going to

33:24

get to that. They have discovered multiple

33:26

instances of payments being sent to illegal

33:28

aliens through Social Security myself when you

33:31

were being told that there's not going

33:33

to be Social Security for you when

33:35

you reach retirement age, but it's there

33:37

today for illegal immigrants who are being

33:39

paid and they're, Elon was describing that

33:42

their settings in the Social Security database

33:44

was max. Give them max benefits, max

33:46

payments, max payments, max everything. It's like.

33:48

This previous administration was doing everything they

33:51

can to encourage people to illegally enter

33:53

this country. They're just... bribing what they

33:55

were hoping for another generation of voters

33:57

to just have permanent control over this

33:59

country. It's at the expense of regular

34:02

people who rely on this stuff. They're

34:04

hoping Social Security will be there for

34:06

them. They're hoping Social Security disability insurance

34:08

is there if they actually need it,

34:10

but the left is milking it dry.

34:13

So it touches absolutely everything in government

34:15

and I mean... It also explains everything

34:17

there is to know about the left.

34:19

Yeah. Like that's the problem. The reason

34:22

that you've got this full information flow

34:24

through lefty chambers that are brainwashing these

34:26

poor people that are out committing acts

34:28

of violence is because they don't want

34:30

you to know any of this stuff.

34:33

They want you to think that Elon

34:35

is a Nazi and that he's going

34:37

to take away your Social Security and

34:39

all of that because they don't have

34:42

a good answer for what it is

34:44

that Elon's found. And what he's found

34:46

is that the people who are claiming

34:48

to protect your Social Security and protect

34:50

your way of life and ensure that

34:53

you have cures diseases and all that

34:55

are doing the exact opposite Yeah, the

34:57

media would have you believe that those

34:59

people are burning Tesla Because they're worried

35:02

that there's gonna be an Ebola outbreak

35:04

in Africa because of Elon mosque, right?

35:06

And we're here to tell you that's

35:08

not true. No, it's quite the opposite.

35:10

I mean if the resources that we

35:13

dedicated to these problems were used for

35:15

it We've been a lot better spot

35:17

It also extends to their whole ideological

35:19

point of view on elections and everything

35:22

else. Well, you might wonder why it

35:24

is that Democrats are so hard-pressed. to

35:26

get power and keep power and all

35:28

the like you get Kamala Harris out

35:30

who's just an absolute fucking numbskull who

35:33

says her first line of a debate

35:35

is like I'm a champion of small

35:37

businesses like there's no she's a lot

35:39

of things that is the furthest furthest

35:42

thing from anything that she's ever run

35:44

a business she's never even been if

35:46

you're like me starting every debate saying

35:48

I am a NBA champion point guard.

35:50

Yeah, no, it's not funnier than that.

35:53

I mean it really is true, but

35:55

you might ask yourself why? Like why

35:57

would you be that disingenuous? about your

35:59

point of view and the reason is

36:02

because they don't want you to know.

36:04

Like they don't want you to know

36:06

and it's taken me a while to

36:08

get to this spot. But I feel

36:10

like we're now in a place where

36:13

everything the doge is uncovering is unmasking.

36:15

The Democrats are less of a political

36:17

movement. It's less of an ideological difference

36:19

on how to solve the same problems

36:22

we all agree are problems as it

36:24

is institutional capture. power amassing and then

36:26

central control over the way they think

36:28

you ought to live your life. And

36:30

it can all be based on a

36:33

lie. I did a threat over the

36:35

weekend on X about this, but like

36:37

Al Gore can say they'll never be

36:39

snow again on Mount Kilimanjaro and create

36:42

the entire green cottage industry out of

36:44

thin air. And then it just exists

36:46

and sucks out billions of dollars from

36:48

our economy and from our government over

36:50

the next 20 years. Like think about

36:53

that. Think about what that power is.

36:55

You can just lie and then people

36:57

get paid billions of dollars on your

36:59

lie. The plastic straws going in in

37:02

the turtle knows. Yes, right. That was

37:04

also a lie. Turns out that was

37:06

a kid's school project. Yes. That was

37:08

done incorrectly. But dams were like, listen.

37:10

Well, base for all lives on it.

37:13

Opportunity for emotional. If it was. Because

37:15

they love weaponizing people's sympathy against them.

37:17

They want to use your emotions to

37:19

make you do what they want. That

37:21

was all alive. But if it wasn't

37:24

for Al Gore saying the earth has

37:26

a fever, if it wasn't for the

37:28

plastic straws and the turtle noses, then

37:30

Stacey Abrams would have never received two

37:33

billion. to her small NGO which Kamala

37:35

probably thinks is a small business to

37:37

somehow change out stoves. Small business. And

37:39

I saw another statistic that was put

37:41

out this past weekend that America had

37:44

the fewest 90 degrees plus days last

37:46

year than the 1920s since the 1920s.

37:48

So all these lies that become widely

37:50

accepted that the left has pushed only

37:53

for one purpose it's a money making

37:55

operation yes that's all all there it's

37:57

like home says they actually believe in

37:59

nothing these people are nihilists who just

38:01

want money they just want power and

38:04

money government's got lots of it so

38:06

they snatch it from there that is

38:08

the core of the ideological left today

38:10

And so at the end of this

38:13

story you look at what's happening to

38:15

Tesla's. You look at what's happening to

38:17

Tesla dealerships and all of that just

38:19

remember all of this is it considered

38:21

like an effort on behalf of the

38:24

left to try to convince these people

38:26

some of which have real mental health

38:28

problems evidently. And that's their favorite. That's

38:30

their foot soldiers. Yeah. to go to

38:33

violence in the name of employing 1400

38:35

people to hand out laptops at the

38:37

IRS, or trans studies in Tanzania, or

38:39

the fact that university provost can keep

38:41

40% of any age money instead of

38:44

it going for cancer research as it

38:46

was intended by Congress. Like, by the

38:48

way. constitutional crisis. Yeah. They think they

38:50

think that like we had such a

38:53

problem with oh this was congressionally appropriated

38:55

money. How many members of Congress do

38:57

you think knew they were gonna 40%

38:59

rip from a provost? I mean in

39:01

my entire life I've been told that

39:04

the Republican Party cares about cutting you

39:06

know the waste out of government and

39:08

Doge is actually doing it. Like for

39:10

the first time in my in my

39:13

life I really feel like this is

39:15

a priority for a Republican administration and

39:17

they're doing it out in public and

39:19

that's the important thing. Yes. It's like

39:21

we've worked a long time in this

39:24

business and you know how slow DC

39:26

operates when you actually have to go

39:28

before Congress and be like, well we

39:30

have this blue ribbon commission and these

39:33

are our recommendations and like now you

39:35

can turn that into law and that's

39:37

a difficult thing to get done. So

39:39

the most important thing I think. is

39:41

winning the argument first with the American

39:44

people. And that's what that Brett Bear

39:46

interview did, and that's why it's so

39:48

important. Yeah, well, and we're giving you

39:50

a little something to work on your

39:53

neighbors for, because my sense is that

39:55

an awful lot of you have heard

39:57

from either colleagues that you work. with

39:59

or folks that your kids go to

40:01

school with or whatever, some bonkers stuff.

40:04

Bonkers stuff. I want to know for

40:06

a question of the day, what is

40:08

the most bonkers take on Elon and

40:10

Doge that you have heard to date

40:13

in your own communities? Yeah. Give us

40:15

what you've got on that front, throw

40:17

in some stuff that you know, you

40:19

can, you can. And what's the most

40:21

shocking thing that Doge has even found?

40:24

I want to know that. What do

40:26

people think is the most surprising? finding

40:28

out that universities are taking 40% of

40:30

money. I had no clue. No, yeah,

40:32

I mean I had no clue and

40:35

I didn't know a lot of that

40:37

stuff that came out on Thursday. It

40:39

was like a real, very radily do

40:41

you watch news and you're like, holy

40:44

smokes, it changed my world. Yeah, I

40:46

mean that one did. Hats off to

40:48

Brett Bayer and the entire crew had

40:50

special report for Aaron that thing because

40:52

that was a heck of an interview.

40:55

Okay, last Thursday we did a very

40:57

in- of everything about signal gate and

40:59

I think by the way we've been

41:01

proven entirely right about I mean the

41:04

fact that literally zero people are still

41:06

talking about it I think we are

41:08

right about it our big question was

41:10

is signal gate a real story because

41:12

it dominated every newscast in the front

41:15

page of every newspaper for all five

41:17

days last week is it a real

41:19

story is this DC palace intrigue of

41:21

people just talking to each other about

41:24

it your takes fantastic memory get a

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41:28

your takes on here we read every

41:30

single one of them And to do

41:32

that, we always start with a voice.

41:35

Okay, first one comes from Catherine De

41:37

Mill and Catherine rights of President Trump

41:39

was a normal politician. He would have

41:41

fired or at least disciplined either NSA

41:44

or SECT-EF or both. But our president

41:46

is way smarter than that. That's right.

41:48

He treated it with all the sincerity

41:50

it deserved. I like that a lot.

41:52

Well done. Recall is successful mission. punishing

41:55

people for a successful mission because the

41:57

mainstream media doesn't see it that way.

41:59

That's it right there. Not great, not

42:01

great management. We talked about this at

42:04

drinks last week and what I said

42:06

then was like another superpower Donald Trump

42:08

has is he makes everyone so crazy

42:10

that when he just says a normal

42:12

thing yeah like he gets to be

42:15

the most normal person in the room

42:17

yeah they're all insane he's like yeah

42:19

that was a problem we'll fix it

42:21

we'll move on yeah and it's like

42:24

They're like, what are you? Full seizure.

42:26

So like, don't you understand where we're

42:28

going crazy? It's like epileptic episodes all

42:30

over the Roosevelt room. And he's like,

42:32

you guys OK? Everybody OK. Seems like

42:35

we goofed a little. We'll fix it.

42:37

All right, comment two dunks or runks.

42:39

This is from Martini Man. Martini Man

42:41

writes. This is obviously a government media

42:44

complex. Gend up, quote scandal. to harm

42:46

the administration as evidenced by the Wall

42:48

Street Journal and Washington Post piling on

42:50

with their likely fictional unnamed sources. No

42:52

one cares that they use signal for

42:55

a real-time chat about the bombing of

42:57

the Houthis. We care about terrorists being

42:59

decimated so shipping can return to normal.

43:01

That was the real story. Yep, yep,

43:04

that's exactly our take. Great, great comment

43:06

there. All right, Smuggles, what do we

43:08

got for the third? This one comes

43:10

from the Homestead Journey, and they write,

43:12

the dog segment on last episode was

43:15

far more newsworthy than the signal nonsense.

43:17

I'm so disappointed that MSNBC didn't run

43:19

a hot take about White House correspondent

43:21

John Ashbrook, giggling like a school girl

43:24

at Smurg's lack of care and concern.

43:26

The fight will snatch that shame. I

43:28

love this I love this comment because

43:30

I think this is the first time

43:32

I've seen Like a blowback from the

43:35

audience about a segment bleed into the

43:37

next week's oh, yeah, I know it's

43:39

still they don't care for it They

43:41

don't care. Well, I mean, some of

43:43

them love it. No, yeah. You know,

43:46

I mean, I would say the vast

43:48

majority have loved it. For those of

43:50

you, it was two episodes ago. Yeah.

43:52

Where there was a take about a

43:55

woman taking care of her dog in

43:57

the restroom because they wouldn't allow her

43:59

on a plane. Taking care of. That's

44:01

a way to describe it. I'm the

44:03

bad guy? Smug! Smug! Smug! It's not

44:06

like Ralph Northam describing an abortion. Yeah!

44:08

Did you catch that? Smug, it's like

44:10

the dog's gonna be taken to the

44:12

restroom. It'll have some care. A

44:15

decision will be made. A decision will

44:17

be made. Well, well, you laid out

44:19

the conservative case for murdering a dog

44:22

in a restroom. So I'll just leave

44:24

it at that. He did. It was

44:26

wild. People got it. People, they love

44:29

it. They love it. All right, we're

44:31

going to give you election update. So

44:33

today, this very day, if you live

44:35

in the great state of Florida or

44:38

in Wisconsin, you've got important stuff to

44:40

do. There are two congressional races to

44:42

fill two vacancies in Florida, both of

44:45

which have gotten the attention, obviously, because

44:47

we're dealing with a one or two

44:49

seat majority in the House of Representatives,

44:51

taxes, border, everything to do with the

44:54

Trump administration's agendas entirely on the ballot

44:56

for you today. And the first one,

44:58

look, we're talking about the Supreme Court

45:01

race, which we did. a number and

45:03

we had some folks in to talk

45:05

about it. Really really important stuff. I

45:07

think like Elon's been involved. You've seen

45:10

Don Jr. involved. Typically a Supreme Court

45:12

race in a state doesn't get this

45:14

kind of attention. This one is... What

45:17

do you fellas think about it? Well

45:19

I think it's tight as a tick

45:21

and I think that if you don't

45:23

get out, if you're in Wisconsin, you

45:26

do not get out and vote today,

45:28

you need to just check yourself tomorrow

45:30

because if we lose, the left will

45:33

continue to control the Supreme Court in

45:35

Wisconsin and what the left has in

45:37

mind for your state and what they

45:39

have in mind for the congressional districts

45:42

that they will draw in that state

45:44

is the absolute worst of the worst.

45:46

You heard every reason of what the

45:49

left is doing. against our country right

45:51

now, they're going to continue to do

45:53

it in much worse fashion if they

45:55

can hang on to that majority of

45:58

Wisconsin. Especially at a time in which

46:00

President Trump is facing so much opposite.

46:02

in the judiciary on the federal level.

46:05

It's like Republicans, you've got to pay

46:07

attention to these local races, the Supreme

46:09

Court fights and you know things like

46:11

that because it matters a ton. I

46:14

mean there's going to be a lot

46:16

of stuff in voter ID, not just

46:18

drawing of the lines in Wisconsin. That's

46:21

going to be very important for future

46:23

elections. It's important that Republicans show up.

46:25

The other thing I would say is,

46:27

you know, we had this, this happened

46:30

in the first Trump administration as its

46:32

own thing. Right? It's a unique coalition

46:34

of voters, a lot of them low

46:37

propensity, presidential election year only, voters. And

46:39

if you believe in the Trump administration

46:41

and Donald Trump's vision for this country,

46:43

you've got to show up in the

46:46

other elections. You have to. It's not,

46:48

his vision of what he wants to

46:50

accomplish will not be made real unless

46:53

you show up. when it's less convenient.

46:55

It's not the presidential election. It rattles

46:57

the nerves of all the people whose

46:59

vote that agenda depends upon. Right. When

47:02

you start losing elections in a significant

47:04

way, knowing you're all in the same

47:06

home team. If you expect somebody to

47:09

take a tough vote in June, July,

47:11

or August on whether it's taxes, or

47:13

whether it's border, or whatever it is,

47:16

pretty important that they have confidence in

47:18

the coalition going forward. So these are

47:20

the kind of things that make a

47:22

big difference. The final thing I'll say

47:25

is we just talked about power. Like

47:27

the woman, the person who's running, Susan

47:29

Crawford, the Democrat here. She basically like

47:32

worked to try to get rid of

47:34

voter ID yes in Wisconsin and now

47:36

they're pretending like oh no we're on

47:38

the same page on that but they're

47:41

going to go get rid of voter

47:43

ID like they what they want to

47:45

do is dismantle any sort of electoral

47:48

protections in safety and elections. They want

47:50

to redraw districts to add two more

47:52

Democrats in Wisconsin, thereby nullifying a Republican

47:54

majority. They're not hiding this. Like this

47:57

is what they intend to do. I

47:59

mean, that's very critical folks. because right

48:01

now we know how razor within the

48:04

House majority is. We know what a

48:06

big deal it was that Trump won

48:08

Wisconsin. This is their effort that left

48:10

right now to make sure none of

48:13

that happens again. They won total control.

48:15

The other two big ones in Florida

48:17

that we mentioned, the race to replace

48:20

Matt Gates, he was the first district

48:22

of Florida, feels pretty good. Jimmy Petronis,

48:24

Florida's chief financial officer, endorsed by Trump,

48:26

faces gay Valomont. There's a name for

48:29

you. A gun violence prevention activist who

48:31

ran for the seat in 2024, one

48:33

of those like sort of perennial candidates.

48:36

That one feels pretty good. It's in

48:38

the panhandle, remember? We've got a nice

48:40

little partisan index, but stranger things have

48:42

had, you got to go out and

48:45

vote and make sure that that one

48:47

gets over the finish line. Because again,

48:49

without the vote, we don't get the

48:52

Trump agenda. The second one which has

48:54

been under huge scrutiny is the race

48:56

to replace Mike Walt. Remember he left

48:58

to be the national security guy in

49:01

the White House and this race is

49:03

more, I mean look there's a partisan

49:05

advantage on the Republican side, no question

49:08

about it. We should win the race.

49:10

But when you have people fire bombing

49:12

Tesla's. you know what the left is

49:14

willing to do to try to disrupt

49:17

the rest of the Trump agenda and

49:19

they're doing it here. And I heard

49:21

that the Democrat has raised nine million

49:24

dollars. Huge spending advantage. Yeah, if you

49:26

live in Orlando you've seen those ads

49:28

on TV every single day and so

49:30

if you're a Republican living in the

49:33

Orlando area you have to get out

49:35

and vote. Yeah, the district spans from

49:37

St. Augustine down to Daytona Beach. Marion

49:40

St. John's, Volusa counties. If you're in

49:42

anywhere, you have to go vote. This

49:44

one is a very, very big mine.

49:46

Yeah, honestly, if you know any friends

49:49

or family that live in Florida, give

49:51

them a call today. Ask them if

49:53

they voted and if they have not,

49:56

tell them to go vote if they

49:58

say they don't live in that district.

50:00

then that's one thing, but just cover

50:02

your base. Yeah, sure. If they're in

50:05

Florida, there's two house races there. Make

50:07

sure that they vote. Incredibly important stuff,

50:09

so I'm glad we cover that. We'll

50:12

on Thursday, do a recap of where

50:14

we landed on all those things. God

50:16

willing, we end up on the right

50:18

side, but I know all of you

50:21

will do everything in your power to

50:23

make sure if you live in those

50:25

districts to get things done. Hack Madness.

50:29

Well, it's the greatest show on Earth

50:31

and Hack Madness is a race as

50:33

you recall an online race to determine

50:36

who's the biggest journalist hack in all

50:38

of politics. It's a 67. 66. 66.

50:40

66 person field, but there are 64

50:43

different games in this bracket to determine

50:45

who's the biggest one. And we have

50:47

whittled down to an elite eight smug.

50:50

I like to call it the elitest

50:52

eight. You've got the worst of the

50:54

worst hacks hacks. And thank you all

50:57

of you who have been voting. I

50:59

mean, it's been incredible that seeing the

51:01

votes being cast, the debates being had,

51:03

the results of these matches have been

51:06

incredible. There's only eight left. So it's

51:08

coming down to it. Remember folks? Some

51:10

upsets. Yeah, there's been upsets, but if

51:13

you want to vote, you visit my

51:15

profile at comfortably smug on X. I

51:17

have it pinned right at the top.

51:20

to vote and I mean we're going

51:22

to talk about this bracket because it's

51:24

been it's been mind-blown. It's incredible. The

51:27

powerhouse is a number of them that

51:29

we've discussed still very much alive here

51:31

and a lot of interesting stories along

51:33

the way. Michael I know you have

51:36

some statistics on what we've been doing

51:38

here. Yeah I mean what's interesting I

51:40

think here in the bracket number one

51:43

is Mika Brzinsky going on a tear

51:45

through Jonathan Capart and then Phil Bump.

51:47

She was a seven seed as you'll

51:50

recall. Yeah, working her weight, she's the

51:52

lowest seed that's in the elite eight.

51:54

Look man, she's tough, but she has

51:57

run into a wall here in the

51:59

elite estate because Margaret Brennan has been

52:01

on a heater. She is headed. for

52:03

the championship and she will defeat make

52:06

a Brazil. What's the, what's the March

52:08

Madness thing, the metric? The Ken Palm?

52:10

The Ken Palm? The Ken Palm? Yeah.

52:13

I feel like if there was a

52:15

Ken Palm. evaluation of the hottest teams

52:17

in this tournament Margaret Brennan would be.

52:20

Oh, number one overall seat. I mean,

52:22

not only that, but she's been destroying

52:24

the competition. She went through David Clepper,

52:27

David French, Caitlin Collins, all like they

52:29

were just standing still. Yeah, I think

52:31

the closest she's come is like 80%

52:33

like it's just been just total domination.

52:36

On the other hand, what caught me

52:38

off guard is her CBS co-worker and

52:40

and and debate partner for that JD

52:43

Vance debate. Nora O'Donnell's been taken out

52:45

folks. Yeah, I went down to Tapper.

52:47

Yeah, a number one seed. She was

52:50

a number one seed, went down to

52:52

number five, Jake Tapper, who also steamrolled

52:54

number four, John Harwood. Like, Tapper is

52:57

on a terror. That one was a

52:59

surprise to me. I thought Harwood would

53:01

skate to the finals, but he, you

53:03

know, he's... Listen Jake got hot at

53:06

the right time some residual anger I

53:08

think over the election. Yeah, and he's

53:10

facing Brian Stelter in this elite estate

53:13

competition I think the best story of

53:15

the tournament. That's pretty great. The potato

53:17

as you recall wasn't a part of

53:20

last year's field. Yeah, he had to

53:22

take a year off when seeing and

53:24

fired him, but he was a former

53:27

back former champion. Yeah, former champion. I

53:29

mean the potato was a dominant force

53:31

in this game for years. for years.

53:33

It was almost always a question of

53:36

is it going to be the potato

53:38

stelter or is it going to be

53:40

Jen Rubin perennial champs battling it out.

53:43

Um, stelter came in as the number

53:45

three seat. He's been doing what he's

53:47

he beat Anderson Cooper facing Jake Tapper.

53:50

I mean, I the way that Jake

53:52

Tappers been been just on a surge

53:54

and all CNN lower bracket. Yeah. The

53:57

other matchup I'm really watching closely is

53:59

this way to online with Anna Navarro

54:01

against Joy Reed. Interesting. Interesting, and a

54:03

Navarro, somebody who doesn't get kind of

54:06

face time that they have in previous

54:08

years, was a, you know, relatively modest.

54:10

five seed she's been much higher than

54:13

previous years came in but it's been

54:15

steam rolling I mean took care of

54:17

Don Lemon that's to me a surprise

54:20

she beat Chris Hayes and Don Lemon

54:22

back to back yeah and that's after

54:24

Don Lemon knocked off the number one

54:27

seed Eugene Daniels in that part of

54:29

the bracket yeah I mean big stuff

54:31

big stuff yeah but you can't take

54:33

anything away from Joy Reed who beat

54:36

Joe Scarborough it to get to this

54:38

round and beat uh Sunny Austin Austin

54:40

Yeah, I mean it's it's pretty incredible.

54:43

It could be like Joy Reed's last

54:45

ride, you know, yeah, she lost her

54:47

job. Yeah, we got, listen, we got,

54:50

we got, we got a top seed

54:52

matchup just to round out the bracket.

54:54

Nicole Wallace. I had her in the

54:57

finals. She's been putting up numbies all

54:59

the way through. She's taking on a

55:01

very difficult co-host at MS NBC and

55:03

Rachel Maddow. That's going to be a

55:06

barnburn. It is, but I like your

55:08

prediction. in the for the championship and

55:10

I just think those two have really

55:13

been standout players. Well Ashbrook getting to

55:15

the prediction rankings as they are currently

55:17

overall of all the over 1100 brackets

55:20

that were submitted our current leader is

55:22

farbo with 160 points and a big

55:24

number coming in close second here rich

55:27

Carter and 158 points that's the overall

55:29

bracket our internal numbers are closer here

55:31

and number one is Yours truly. Is

55:33

that right? Surprise. Surprise. 133. John Ashbrook

55:36

is second at 123 points. Josh Holmes

55:38

at 101 points? Oh, I've moved up

55:40

to three. Smug. is in the basement

55:43

at 97 points. Wow, that is surprising.

55:45

I feel maybe you went with your

55:47

heart on a couple of those third

55:50

rounders. Yeah, I mean, I wish I

55:52

would have focused more on this bracket

55:54

than the March Madness one that I'm,

55:57

you know, at the top. Yeah, that's

55:59

true. Dominating. You focus too much on

56:01

the bracket that doesn't matter. Exactly. This

56:03

is the one that matters. So are

56:06

we putting out the next... Next round

56:08

today. Yeah, the voting, as you watch

56:10

this show, listeners and viewers on YouTube,

56:13

voting should be live when you're seeing

56:15

this. Eight goes to four and then

56:17

we're gonna have a final four folks.

56:20

And there's been hundreds of thousands of

56:22

people who have hundreds of thousands of

56:24

votes. It's been huge. Remember, go to

56:27

my profile on X at Comfortably Smug.

56:29

Vote. It's happening now. It's just the

56:31

funniest thing that we do. Absolutely. Absolutely.

56:33

Absolutely. Thank you for your participation. This

56:36

one's gonna... Yeah. We should probably preemptively

56:38

apologize to Karen Duncan. Yeah. Your mom...

56:40

Sorry mom. If you want to turn

56:43

down the volume, or if you've got

56:45

children in the car, maybe this is

56:47

a good time to... Hit pause and

56:50

come back to, you're not going to

56:52

want to miss it, but you probably

56:54

want to watch mixed company. There's a

56:57

story in New York Post, which I

56:59

think accurately covers many of these airline

57:01

problems that we've been having. This headline,

57:03

Perth passenger next to female CEO, masturbated

57:06

for hour on first-class flight. An hour.

57:08

It attendant did nothing, suit alleges. There's

57:10

so much to get to. Let me

57:13

read a little bit, then I want

57:15

some commentary on. There was a snake

57:17

on the plane. Only the New York

57:20

Post? All the New York Post? A

57:22

first class perve on American airline plane

57:24

masturbated for an hour next to a

57:27

stunned fashion entrepreneur on a flight from

57:29

New York City to Milan. But a

57:31

flight attendant dismissed his resulting behavior saying,

57:33

quote, men just do stuff like that.

57:36

Neil Elshriff, the CEO of three different

57:39

companies, including a luxury vegan leather brand,

57:41

Mala, said she was terrified to go

57:43

to sleep during the May 27 trip

57:46

out of JFK Airport, fearing her seat

57:48

mate would assault her. The man identified

57:50

in court papers only as John Doe,

57:53

chug multiple glasses of champagne before. She

57:55

noticed him grabbing his groin and rubbing

57:57

his genitals over his pants. She said

58:00

in illegal filing. She froze in her

58:02

seat and began to panic. She felt

58:04

extremely uncomfortable and helpless. The court docs

58:07

read. John Doe continued to masturbate for

58:09

approximately 60 minutes. And during that time,

58:11

neither flight attendant nor the American Airlines

58:14

crew member walked through the preview of

58:16

economy cabin. So she was left to

58:18

fend for herself. When he finally stopped,

58:21

she left her seat and found a

58:23

flight attendant, but got no help. She

58:25

continued. This is all according to her

58:28

lawsuit. Flight attendant told her there was

58:30

nothing really that she could do about

58:32

it, other than move the businesswoman to

58:35

coach. Which is, frankly, on one of

58:37

those airlines. If you're going overseas, the

58:39

Milan, I'll take the master bag. But

58:41

here's the thing. For the free champagne.

58:44

Can't the stewardess just say, hey, buddy,

58:46

can't the stewardist just say, hey, can

58:48

you just say, hey, can't the steward

58:51

just say, Like what's what's the I

58:53

can't do anything about it that makes

58:55

no sense Why why can't they just

58:58

in it and if if it's a

59:00

stewardess and she doesn't feel comfortable approaching

59:02

the guy? Find the the guy who's

59:05

with maybe the co-pilot Come back and

59:07

say hey fella not here Yeah, maybe

59:09

not, maybe not. Maybe not sitting here

59:12

on the plane. Maybe not. Yeah, the

59:14

stewardess is acting like it's a chihuahua

59:16

humping your leg. Psychologist, let him, you

59:19

know. Let him go. Let him do

59:21

it. I, men just do stuff like

59:23

that. Maybe, come on. Lady, I don't

59:26

know about you. Men, just do stuff

59:28

like that. It's not exactly a boys

59:30

will be boys situation. You know what

59:33

I mean. First clue here. It's a

59:35

flight from New York City Milan. So

59:37

extremely high likelihood this is an Italian

59:40

guy Okay, that's if you start there

59:42

you start putting the pieces together. Yeah,

59:44

hot blood There you go. Finally the

59:47

sound board. Now I think there's also

59:49

some important things to clarify. So the

59:51

New York Post in this like headline

59:54

says this happened in first class. Yeah.

59:56

Then you read a little bit and

59:58

it says premium economy. I noticed that

1:00:01

too. And then it says this guy.

1:00:03

was slamming down some champagne so you've

1:00:05

got folks premium economies economy it's just

1:00:08

it's just it's just coach where you're

1:00:10

delusional delusional delusional it's it's coach with

1:00:12

an embroidered headrest yeah you know that's

1:00:15

the difference between premium economy and economy

1:00:17

it's the same folks you've got an

1:00:19

Italian and economy I was wondering slam

1:00:22

and down champagne but I was wondering

1:00:24

about that I mean that's a good

1:00:26

heads up because you should talk about

1:00:29

a seatmate here And typically a first

1:00:31

class international flight, you get those pods.

1:00:33

And I just, all the pieces are

1:00:35

there folks. It's an Italian guy in

1:00:38

economy, slamming down champagne as maybe Italians,

1:00:40

attendance, who are like, oh, you know,

1:00:42

that's just what guys do in Italy.

1:00:45

Maybe in Italy. Maybe that flies in

1:00:47

Italy. You know, bunga, bunga parties or

1:00:49

whatever they do? We all heard about

1:00:52

these Italian things. It's all well-known. No,

1:00:54

you're right. You're right. You know, it's

1:00:56

a very well-known thing. And last... Oh

1:00:59

my gosh. It's American Airlines, folks. I

1:01:01

can pray. American Airlines, you know, this

1:01:03

is what you get. Wait, this is,

1:01:06

you're now in America, I thought we

1:01:08

were in Southwest and all that. Well,

1:01:10

no, no, no, no. No, no, no.

1:01:13

You're looping in American? There's essentially no

1:01:15

difference anymore. They're all low-cost, low-run carriers.

1:01:17

No, I like my people in America.

1:01:20

No, American is trash. Horrible people. They

1:01:22

treat you. US carrier internationally you're going

1:01:24

to be treated like you're flying domestic

1:01:27

which is to say terribly. You said

1:01:29

you bought your ticket you knew the

1:01:31

risks I say let the plane crash.

1:01:34

The Italian man should be jailed though.

1:01:36

I say let the masturbator. The Italian

1:01:38

man jailed 100% jail him. Well he's

1:01:41

got some legal trouble on her hand.

1:01:43

I mean she must have been really

1:01:45

if you're going to take this kind

1:01:48

of thing public. Yeah, I hope she

1:01:50

sues the hell out of him and

1:01:52

he gets locked out. This is, this

1:01:55

is, if you're gonna, if you're gonna

1:01:57

deboard the flight and be like I'm

1:01:59

taking legal action, that must have been

1:02:02

a stressful experience. I mean, tough stuff,

1:02:04

tough stuff on the airline. All right,

1:02:06

well that's our variety for today. I'm

1:02:09

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1:02:11

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1:02:22

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