From the Kitchen Table: The Duffys - Q & A With The Duffys: If We Were In The White House

Episode Date: September 16, 2023

Sean and Rachel lead in with their reaction to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's press conference outside of a migrant relief center in New York City, and share their thoughts on how to fix the nation by eliminating the administrative state and the Department of Education.   Later,  they answer listener questions, from who should pay for the bill on a date, if looks or intelligence are more important in a relationship, and talk about their favorite parts of the fall season. Follow Sean & Rachel on Twitter: @SeanDuffyWI & @RCamposDuffy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's so good to be back, Sean. And it is Q&A. And we have some really great questions. We also have questions on some news that broke today, which is AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the comrade, the communist in the Congress, the most outspoken of that class, by the way. And she is now facing and this has been building up, and I've been reporting on Fox & Friends. Every week, we're getting more and more buildup of the people in the district that she represents becoming angrier and angrier at the open border policy as it begins to affect her district the most

because it's a pretty working class district. It is, and so what you've seen in New York City is, again, a flood of migrants have come in. They've been bused from Texas, but many of them have just come across the border and they've found their way to New York City. Probably with the government-funded airline tickets. Could be. And what's happened is you have Mary Adams now who says, listen, this is unsustainable for us. It's going to wreck our city. It's costing a lot of money. The way we manage and address our budget is we have to cut New York City services starting off at 5%, but going to have a 15% cut in services for the city. So people in New York are wildly angry.

Why? They were saying they're a sanctuary city. They all voted for that. Well, again. Until it actually starts. Nydia Vlasquez was there and some others. So they went to the Roosevelt Hotel where many of these migrants are being housed and they decided to have a press conference. Well, they were given the treatment that usually is reserved for Republicans because Republicans do press conferences. The radical left show up and shout them down, don't let them speak. Well, they were met with their own kind because protesters showed up. Yeah, protesters showed up from their own district. These are residents there. Because, of course, if you cut back by 15% of government services and you live on the Upper East Side, it might not hurt you as bad. You might be annoyed at it, but it's not going to affect your life. You cut back services 10%, 15% in Brooklyn or or in some of these queens this affects their their life on a much greater scale and so these protesters showed showed up they are shouting

down these democrat uh congresswomen and and congressmen listen to this federal resources to cities and municipalities dealing with this issue. The second is to allow for work authorizations so that folks in here can get to work and start supporting themselves as soon as possible. They are prevented from getting jobs. They are prevented from employment. And that is part of the strain on our public systems. The faster that folks can access the work that they're asking for legally, the better we can solve this problem.

And the third is extension of temporary protected status for Venezuelans who are the largest population that are arriving here. So with that, we thank you all. And ready to wrap up? All right.

So in the back, they're yelling. It's hard to tell in the video, in the audio, but they're saying, close down the border, shut down the border. Americans first. That's what they're hearing as she's trying to give the list because her solution, she's coming with her solutions to the problem. Right. And I was hopeful as they were going to have this press conference. I'm like, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has seen the light and is going to present real solutions that will fix the problem, not the symptoms of the problem. Because she's been saying for weeks now, she's been hearing it, right? This is August. She's coming. This is on this break. She's going to talk a little bit about her communist South American tour.

So she went to South America on a communist tour. But she has been back to her district as well in August. And she's been getting an earful. And so she's been back to her district as well in August, and she's been getting an earful. And so she's been making comments. She's been saying, you know, this is, you know, Biden needs to work on this policy. Suddenly she's pretending like she's not part of the policy, right? I want to get your reaction to all three of the proposals. Yes. So let's talk about now.

Now she's come back with her three things. The first one, she says, is she wants more federal money for communities that are dealing with a migrant crisis. OK, good idea, Rachel. So let's not close the border. Just send us more money so we can put more of these people in hotels. By the way, the hotels are doing very well in New York. Not a lot of tourists want to come because of crime, but they're able to fill their rooms because they're getting federal money in order to put the migrants into these hotels. So, yeah, she just wants more money not to solve the problem. More federal money to, you know, accommodate the schools that are now overflowing, the need for more English language, you know, teachers.

And by the way, not just Spanish. These are people coming from all over the world and, and Eastern Europe. You've got to accommodate a lot of needs as these schools get filled up. And by the way, they're not going. Most of these kids aren't going to the private schools. These illegal immigrant kids that come, they're going to the public schools. They're not going to the she-she schools that all the rich people send their kids to. But this policy makes sense because we all know that if we spend more money on education, our kids will get better educated. If we spend more money on homelessness, we'll have less homeless. Actually, that's false. We don't have better educated kids the more money we spend. And there's more homeless with the more money that we spend on homelessness. educated kids, the more money we spent. And there's more homeless with the more money that we spend on homelessness. And again, sending more money to cities is not going to bring down

the raging migrant crisis that New York faces. So what's your second one? The second one is she wants work permits for those who have come here illegally so they can get out of the hotel and fund their own lifestyle. So interesting that she would say that, by the way, on the same day week that we're hearing that support for Joe Biden among union workers has plummeted. And it's just not it's not just union workers, all working class people have had it with Joe Biden and these kinds of policies. When you say I want to let illegal immigrants come in, they are going to undercut the wages of the working class. There's no question that, and people aren't stupid. The people that are screaming down AOC right now,

they know what's going to happen to their wages when these work permits happen. That's right. So if you have more people that are willing to be waiters or cooks or room cleaners, you have an increased supply of workers, which means they're going to pay the workers less because there's a lot of people who want those jobs. Now, would that actually, would this policy go over well if these were high-tech, high-educated tech workers, or if they were high-end bankers or financiers who were going to compete against the white, rich, liberal class that donates and votes for these Democrats, there's no way Wall Street would let those workers come in and compete against them for their jobs. But as long as it's the middle class, the working class people,

they can deal with the competition. And by the way, they can live in the working class's neighborhood as well, the migrants, but they're not going. And by the way, they can live in the working classes neighborhood as well, the migrants. But they're not going to live in the elite she-she areas that you talk about, where the bankers and the Wall Street workers and the tech workers, where those guys all work. Yeah. You know, it's interesting when the congressmen, men and women were there, they're basically not just laying out these solutions, but they were trying to explain, you know, over the noise, like why this is so great for everybody that all these immigrants are good. This is the American dream. This is going to make everything better. And I

thought about, Sean, the illegal, the illegal immigrants who were sent brilliantly by Ron DeSantis in one of the most brilliant political moves of the year. They were sent to Martha's Vineyard. And of course, as you remember, St. Troy Island, yeah, they were sent to Martha's Vineyard. And of course, as you remember, a sanctuary island, yeah, they were sent to Martha's Vineyard. And immediately the rich ladies of Martha's Vineyard gave them, it was weird, they had on their porches, on their, you know, beautiful porches on Martha's Vineyard, they laid out like stuff they wouldn't even feed their kids, like Lucky Charms, you know, these are the Whole Foods ladies leaving Lucky Charms for the, the for the, you know, poor illegal immigrants are coming. And then they basically called the National Guard. And then as these people were being, you know, let off in buses by the National Guard,

they were singing and they were hugging them and saying, which in Spanish means I love you. We love you. Get the hell off the island. OK, but there were no congresswomen or congressmen. Where was AOC there on that island explaining to the rich ladies why this is actually such a great idea? You can see the frustration of the working class in these in the neighborhood where AOC was today. They they're not just mad that this is happening. They're mad that this is happening. And their representatives are they're telling them this is going to be good for you. And they're like, do you think we're stupid? Our hotels are filled with illegal migrants. Our jobs are going to be taken away. Our wages are going to go down.

Our city services are going to get dirtier because you're cutting our services in order to pay for this. And by the way, my grandma in Dominican Republic or my grandmother in Panama has been on the list to get in here legally for 10 years and she can't. But you want me to make accommodations for people who are coming illegally over the border. It's just it's absolutely insane. Third reason, Sean. Our third solution from AOC. This is not going to get Rachel excited at all. Oh, my God. The first solution is she wants special protections for people who come from Venezuela. Are you just trying to get me to pull my hair out?

Yes, I am. No, AOC is. So what do you think about... So, Sean, let me ask you a question. What are we protecting the Venezuelans from? Who are we protecting them from? That's a great question. Well, we're protecting them from Maduro, who is a communist. A socialist. And a socialist who shares the same kind of ideas that are shared by none other than AOC.

None other than AOC. And AOC's mentor, who is Bernie Sanders, who cheered on that revolution. That's right. Who was absolutely saying he on his Web site said the American dream can be found. There's more likely to be found in Caracas, Venezuela than in the United States of America. And then as all socialist movements, you know, it went all when the you know what hits the fan, he quietly took that off his website. But the truth is that he and all the Hollywood fans of his, Danny Glover, Sean Penn, all the usual suspects, all cheered the socialist revolution. They loved Hugo Chavez. They loved Maduro. Now they're trying to pretend that they didn't, but they did. And they do. And they're trying to bring those policies here to the United States. These people are fleeing the most horrible poverty that has

been brought. And not just that political repression and oppression on, because if you oppose the socialist dictatorship, you will be disappeared. Um, the kind of like if you're in opposition to Joe Biden, you'll be disappeared here, too. You'll be sent to a gulag in D.C. That's what happened to the January 6th people. And they are now and many of them are in solitary confinement going on two years. There have been several suicides that have happened, four of them now from people being pursued by the FBI and people who haven't even, you know, didn't commit any violence at all while they were there. They were walking through and yet they were pursued by the FBI. A one young man, 22 years old, committed suicide. So let's just get back to this with

this Venezuela thing, because AOC not only it's not like she was got in as a socialist and now she's I've seen the light. I'm back to, you know, supporting, you know, capitalism and free markets. Oh, no. During her August break, when her old constituents were suffering shock and have been suffering because we now you saw those figures that showed, you know, the highest child poverty rate in in like five decades um we've just hit i think it's 22 percent um so her constituents are suffering it's a working class district but she took time to take a communist tour of south of south america she went and visited with the worst actors the worst dictators social socialists, communists in Latin America. She was in Chile. Basically, you know, Daniel DiMartino, a Venezuelan who lives here in the United States. We've interviewed him many times, Sean, who has said basically she is enabling the socialists in Latin America. She's empowering them. She's giving them aid and comfort. She is a socialist asset. So if you look at socialists, look at communists, they have no honor. They have no shame. Their policies hurt people. And as the very policy that she's advocated for, open borders, blows up in her face, you would think someone with honor, someone with some common sense that cares about the community would go like, okay,

this isn't working. We actually have to secure the border. But that's not what she does. She goes back to the same old talking points. Give them work permits so they can compete against American labor. Give us more money so we can deal with the crisis. When does she ever put that kind of focus and attention and love onto her own citizens, to her own country? And again, if you hate your country and you want to destroy it and make it like Venezuela, these are the things that you actually do. So such a great point. When she was saying Joe Biden is wrong on the border policy or she was concerned about his border policy, I actually thought for a second, is she going to change it? I know she was the one crying, you know, when she was running for Congress, she was in white jeans outside of the detention center, crying about child separation at the border, crying about, you know, all the problems

that were happening there when it's at the child separation was to find out if the child was indeed with the parent. And it turns out many of them weren't. So that's why we have sex trafficking among children exploding because the cartels are doing that. But she didn't change her mind. She just said, give us more money. Well, because what she what she was doing at the border was trying to leverage political power, trying to go after Donald Trump. Because it was Donald Trump. She wasn't crying for the kids. She was conjuring up some tears for a press avail that they

can go, oh, AOC, she's crying for the poor kids. There's no tear for the kids right now that are being sold into sex slavery or that are dying at the border. No, there's none. Or the plight of kids in New York City trying to go to New York schools or American schools where they don't speak the language that are way for their families and their friends. She has no tears for that, which goes to show you this is really just about political power. And that's what socialists are about. They're about power. They're about gaining and leveraging more power, and they'll use all means to do it. That's what AOC is doing here. And she was there, by the way, not just trying to convince the Americans that were outside

protesting or that it would be better for them, but she was advocating for the migrant. We have right now the deadliest border in the entire world, in the entire world. Just think about all the war zones out there. Think about Ukraine. Think about all the civil wars in Africa. No border is deadlier than our southern border. No border has more sex trafficking going across than our southern border. We are missing. We cannot find 80,000 children that have crossed that border. We have no idea where they went.

Terrorists coming across the southern border. Exactly. Terrorists coming across. Over a million gotaways. We don't know who they are. We don't know where they've gone. They could be drug dealers. They could be sex traffickers. They could be terrorists. We have no idea. And the fentanyl. Let's not forget about that. This policy is shameful. It's really easy to fix. But if you actually don't want a solution, but this policy is what you do want, you just want you want to flood more people in this country.

You don't believe that your country deserves to have borders because it's so bad. You're not going to see a change until you see people's hearts, the voters hearts change and say, we're going to pick different leaders to advocate for us, not a group of migrants who don't live here, that aren't from here, that don't pay taxes here, don't have a history here. And again, I say this all the time, it really comes down, and you alluded to this, it really comes down to the voters of New York City. Yeah.

They have asked for this. They voted for this. And now they, too, get to live with the consequences of this. But it hurts the working class more than anyone. And that's why I think the fate of the country is in the hands of the working class right now. There's more working class in New York than there are rich Wall Street tycoons. And so it's not just the rich liberals that have voted for these policies. It's the very working class that you mentioned that are getting hurt by these policies that are actually voting for these politicians. And when they have a change of heart and they say, you know what, this is too crazy for me.

I want a common sense Republican. Then you'll see the change. Can I say one last thing about and I know I'm obsessed with AOC because I think she's so bad. She's so bad and she's so powerful and she's effective. The policies that are happening at the border are the policies she advocated for, which is what's so, you know, amazing and ironic about what we saw there. This fight, you know, on the streets of her district between, you know, this argument and these protests. I want to talk about that just for a second before we move to Q&A about this trip that she made, her communist tour of Latin America that she made in August. She not only met with communists who are destroying their country, but she met with communists who are aligning themselves with China. And China is absolutely taking over the Western Hemisphere.

AOC's voice, because she is Latina, actually carries a lot of weight in Latin America. I know it's hard to believe. She probably has more impact even there in terms of her American power there. And she has made it very clear with this delegation. They went specifically to meet with the communists, with the socialists. This administration and the CIA and big tech helped to undermine the elections in Brazil. There's no doubt in my mind. I mean, that's why millions of Brazilians were out on the streets protesting that election, because that election was absolutely interfered with by big tech, by the Biden administration and by our intelligence agencies. And why would we undermine and let in a leftist who is aligning himself with the Chinese,

who is selling his ports, his resources, mine to the Chinese instead of Bolsonaro, who was anti-China and pro-America? This is what this so she's just destroying her own district. She is wreaking havoc in Latin America. And that is having an impact on the Western hemisphere and on national security and global policy here in the United States. So my mom would use a phrase, they're thick as thieves. Right. So China, a communist country, these communists stick together. They do.

So we see communists as a massive threat to the United States. But she has more affection and love for any communist leader or country than she does for her own country. Yeah. And by the way, the protesters were screaming, communists, communists. I'm like, you know what? We're making it's frustrating that the New Yorkers voted for her. But I'm like, I saw it awakening there. I'm like, you know, the first step is admitting we have a problem. And the first step is admitting that you elected a communist as your representative in Congress. Good luck. Take action. Take action. All right. Let's go to

question and answer. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. She gets me heated because she is so bad. She is so wrong. She is everything that's wrong with our country. Okay. We'll have more of this conversation after this. Some things require a lot of work to grow, like plants, hair, babies, or your savings. But when you run a business, you already have enough on your plate. Scotiabank's right-size savings for business account can help you grow your savings with ease.

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At United Way, we wake up to a different alarm every day. Help us end poverty and build a better GTA any way we can. Donate today at unitedwaygt.org. So let me go to these questions, Sean. Question net. Okay. You know what? I'm going to take a question that's totally non-political. What? Just because we just went so often. It's Friday and let's just go with something non-political. What is your take on splitting the bill on a date so that's a great question i have a very clear answer on that but so listen from for me and listen i'm old school so i can't imagine going on a date with um a girl and not picking up the bill now it's one thing

she's like whoa whoa whoa we're to split it. That's fine. I might go like, no, I'm going to pay. And she's like, no, I want to split it. I'd be like, okay. That would be a turnoff if you said okay to that. I would offer and then you have to go. I would have said it in the second time. Absolutely not. I said it twice.

And then I'm like, okay, fine, you can pay. All right, we can pay the whole thing. No, I'm just kidding. No, I'm not. Listen, we dated. I paid for her food. I paid for her air travel. I paid for her life. You paid for her air travel. I paid for her life.

You did. You did. Not my whole life, but I was short on the rent a couple months, and you helped me out. That's true. So I think that, again, I think that men are bred, if they're not vocified, to take care, to provide for. And I think if you're a woman, you go, is this guy going to be a good provider? Is he willing to actually buy me a dinner? Is he chivalrous? That's a great assessment of who you're sitting across the table with, sharing a meal with. Do you want to have a

second one? If he doesn't pay the bill and wants to split with you, cash him in and go somewhere else. So first of all it's interesting when we were dating um you did you picked up the bill um you the bills for when we went out to eat um very rarely did i mean maybe once in a while i you know would pay but it was definitely very traditional she's paying for one thing yeah one it was maybe a breakfast somewhere but like you know for the most part sean everything. And we were a long distance relationship for a year and a half. And so there was the expense of having to go out and see each other. He was in Minneapolis in law school. I was in L.A. at the time. And we were both poor. I mean, I was, you know,

a substitute teacher and trying to audition and doing that kind of stuff. And I was teaching English. I'm sorry, I was teaching Spanish at adult school in L.A. And then Sean was in law school and he was living off the money he would make off the summers of working in lumberjack shows. We would have a couple of speeches that we would do related to the real world when we would do that. But but there wasn't a lot of money. And it was to me, it was really great that you kind of stepped up and made sure that you paid those tickets. Because I literally didn't have the money to do it. But what's interesting is this conversation reminded me of those couple months where I didn't have enough money for my rent.

And I remember that it was a little bit embarrassing because I had to go to you and go, hey, my parents didn't have the money to help me out with that. And they'd be like, Rachel, you know, you're in your 20s figure it out and but we were dating um and i don't remember that yeah you did you did you i don't think you paid the full thing but like i was short and you helped pay for it and i will tell you that i took that as a it was a really positive sign for me that you were a provider. And it registered to me like, okay, this is somebody who would take care of me if we ended up getting married. It registered that way. So here's what, this is how it breaks down 25 years later. So it says, it's that my money is our money and her money is her money.

It is true. She never paid my rent, but I'm fine with that. No, I would say that that was a good sign. And so for me, I'm very old fashioned and I think girls should be more old fashioned. I've talked to several Gen Z or girls. And when I when they all like to split the bill, by the way, Sean, I don't know if you know this new thing. This is almost all the Gen Z girls think it's a great idea to split the bill. I think it's a terrible idea. Girls have been lied to. It's like, did they blog? I know. It's like everything that the feminism has brought worked out really great for guys.

Abortion worked out better for guys. They didn't buy the whole meal. It's like the whole thing. Everything worked out great for guys. It all worked out great for guys. Men get to compete against them in their sports. I mean, the whole, this is so stupid. I know.

You're like, we're in power. Yeah. Life is better. The best women are men now. Exactly. Okay. So, yes, if I was a Gen Z woman, I would rethink this. A man who doesn't pay for your meal is a beta male. You don't want to marry a beta male.

You want to marry an alpha male. Somebody who's going to provide, take care of you, love you, protect you. So that's my thing. OK, let's go to another one here. If you were president, what's the first thing you would do to fix the country? Sean. So, first thing I would do to fix the country. What would you do? Well, we had a whole podcast on this. You said it was the deep state.

You would fix the deep state. You said it's the number one thing to do. Well, it is. That is a problem with government. And then I also think that it's not just the deep state. You also have all of these suckers that are not governmental, but are funded by the government. And they're usually radical leftist socialists. What are they called? They're called NGOs. Which means?

Non-governmental organizations. So give me an example so people can understand. What's an example of an NGO? There's a ton of them, by the way, at the border right now. And we subcontract to them to do things that the government doesn't want to do or can't do or whatever. So, for example, like at the border, you have Catholic charities, Lutheran charities. Catholic, Catholic charities, Lutheran charities, all of them are getting so rich off, you know, they're, they're, they're, they're getting, they're making a lot of money off of what's happening at the border. But more importantly, in Ukraine, you have Yeah, so in oftentimes, these are, these are Democrat aligned operatives. Yeah, that do socialist leftist activists work

that are funded by the American taxpayer. And so, as Republicans or conservative groups, they go raise money from individuals to fund their efforts. The left raises a little bit of money, but then they get funded by every American taxpayer through these NGOs. So, here's what they do. It's a beautiful... So, of course, I remember ACORN. So it's a beautiful one for back in the day. So, of course, I remember Acorn. Acorn just Acorn still exists. It just has all these other different names.

And most of these NGOs are, by the way, funded by the Open Society, which is George Soros. You see Bill Gates funding some of them. You see all these rich globalists. And it's really easy for them. What they do is they fund a little bit for the NGO. Then they give a check to the politicians and then the politicians go and vote to give your money to their group, which will then push their leftist policies. This is how it works. It is the greatest trick of all times. Pay the politician to fund your ideological pet project. And so when you see, like, for example, you know, these justice groups, you know, these are the groups that are funding, you know, you know, defund the police things or or or find

ways to fund campaigns for D.A. to won't enforce the law or on the side of the victim of the of the of the of the criminals instead of the victim. All of these groups get their money from George Soros, from Bill Gates, from all these big oligarchs, a little bit. And then those oligarchs give the money to the politicians and the politicians vote to give your money to those groups. So you're funding the new acorns, whether you like it or not. And these leftist groups, they're like the cockroach, right? So if you see a cockroach in your house, you don't have one cockroach. Your house is infested with cockroaches. You might only see one or two of them, but they're like cockroaches.

These organizations are everywhere taking all of your money, which brings me back to the point of what the hell are Republicans doing? They have a chance to defund all these people, to take their money away, including the FBI and the Department of Justice. And we're going to talk about the border? Oh, look, okay. But at what point do they get backbones? And by the way, there's a lot of good members of Congress. They'll never foresee majority.

So if you have some softy- Are you saying we shouldn't talk about the border? No, I, listen, no matter what the Congress does in an appropriations bill, they're not going to stop Joe Biden from not enforcing the border, right? He's not going to enforce the law there. They can say they're going to get some progress on the border, but they really don't have any power. You're saying focus on the things you have power over. And you have power over money. Such a great point, Sean. And the money can be taken away from the Department of Justice

and the FBI, maybe even the CIA and these NGOs. That's your power. Your power is not securing the border. You're a legislative branch. The executive branch, air quotes, enforces the law and they choose not to enforce the southern border, you can't make them enforce it. And you're not going to get Democrats to agree with you to build a wall. So your power is money. Yeah, because you can literally defund the NGOs. The NGOs are doing all the work.

Government doesn't have the resources to house them to bust them to do all the things that the ngos are doing right now if they didn't have the money it's such a great point you can't say how it's going to play out um and listen i i love my former republican colleagues and i feel a little bit bad um bashing them so harsh on them i do because they're good friends and they're good and they try to do the right thing but they're not doing the right thing here. Here's what they're going to do. They're going to come up with some BS deal on border security. And it'll be so BS that Democrats are going to say,

okay, we're going to make this concession to you, like throwing the rabbit in the briar patch. It's like, oh, don't throw me the briar patch. Oh, don't do that to the border, Republicans. Everyone's going to know it's not going to do anything to help secure the border. And they're going to pass a massive funding bill. They're not going to do the hard work of actually doing the cutout. They're going to hold it up as like, we got a victory here.

We got a big, we won on the border. So just be aware. That's what's going to come your way. And just know you are being duped when they tell you that they got big concessions on the border. So just be aware that's what's going to come your way. And just know you are being duped when they tell you that they got big concessions on the border because the border is not going to change at all, no matter what deal they cut with Democrats. So if Sean was the president right now, that was the question. He would take on the deep state. If I was the president, my first issue, and that's not to undermine yours, because I think you're 100% right on that. And that's a massive issue. But my first thing would

be I would do school choice and eliminate Department of Education. And the reason I say that is because I think right now the future is in the hands of the children and those children are in the hands of a bunch of commies. And that is what our teachers unions have created. They indoctrinate. I would get rid of licensures. Like you shouldn't have to get licensed to become a teacher. You should just have a four-year degree and you can teach and every child and every family gets their pot of money and they can choose whatever school they want. I would totally democratize this. I would decentralize it. I would get rid of the Department of Education,

give the money back to the states, let the states deal with it, and I would make it. And I just think it would be so transforming of America. That's what I would do. Here's what I would do. I would actually keep the Department of Education and I would beef it up.

And I would, in essence, say, we are going after every single commie, because I talked about the cockroaches, the house, the room with the most cockroaches is education. No. I'm going to go, now this is going to be the police state. We're going after every school that's turning out little woke commies, and we're coming for you. And by the way- How? How are you coming for that? I'm going to take their money away, right? So we'll look at funding for universities that have

a woke education department. If you're not pro-American, pro-free enterprise, and that's what you teach, and you just teach how you teach math or how you teach science or how you teach English, any of those things, any of the other things that you do, you get no cash for university. And the students that go to your school cannot get federally subsidized student loans. Watch and see how fast they change. I'm going to outlaw communism in American education. And I'm going to use the Department of Education to do it. We have to attack the communists in this country. We have to use the Department of Education to do it. We have to attack the communists in this country. You have to use the Department of Education to do that. See, I say just get rid of it, decentralize it, give the money back to the states, let the people decide what works for them. And, you know, if you are in New York City and you

want a bunch of communists to run your schools, fine. But I just think it should be... You want the cockroaches to scatter. I want to stomp on them. I'm going to kill the cockroaches. Get rid of communism. It's not hard for me. I'm going to put the cream on the kitchen table today. A little bit. A little bit.

Okay. So let me go with another. All right. What's your favorite part of the fall season? I like the summer. I do like when the air gets a little crisp. I love the summer. But when I change it to a little Christmas in the air, football comes on.

And I love when the trees change colors. All right. You know, I'm going to be very controversial here. I hate fall. I hate fall because fall means the end of summer. And fall means that winter's around the corner. And I don't like winter other than christmas um and i like christmas and then that's it and then i want winter to go away um

and so that's just kind of the arizona girl in me it's okay that's kind of how i feel i know i i really should enjoy it because actually fall is beautiful and where we live actually to jackie when we lived in when we lived in wisconsin and when we and where we live here in new jersey are actually so we live in the country in new jersey and it is so beautiful um so many trees they change colors i love it i love decorating the front of the house with pumpkins and and all the fall things and the corn husks and And I do all that stuff. I do do it. But I'm a summer girl. And so fall reminds me that winter is coming.

And that just makes me not so happy. What is the right age for kids to start dating? That's a good question. But if I'm on, like, to go on a date, and again, are you talking about my kids or kids in general? Your kids. Never advise something you wouldn't have for your own kids. I think, you know, to go on a date your junior year is probably appropriate.

Because I want to, you don't want your child to start dating when they're in college where you don't have, you can't see it, you don't know what's going on, you can't advise. It's okay to go, listen, a safe date, right? A safe place, safe date, you know, very secure, open locations, people around. So do you want them to, should they date before they even have a license? I don't think, well, no. Well, if you're 17 and don't have a license, you're a junior and don't have a license, that might be fine. Yeah, maybe your parents are going to drive you and you're going to figure something out. Or maybe you're going to go to the fair and your date is you're going to meet at the fair and do some rides together.

I don't mean some cheesy little things like that. and cheesy little things like that. But I mean, there should be good parental involvement in overseeing and advising your kids on what they should look for, what's acceptable, what's not, talk about it. And especially if it's a young boy or girl that you think is a good young boy or girl. And again, I get one of the bad ones,

I'm going to say no to that. Yeah, you always like to meet the boy that the girls date and both of our girls dated in high school um their senior years so i think the dating started senior year for our girls um so i guess i i'm i i think it is very situationally you know dependent right like who is my daughter dating do i trust that person to be with them um so i think that's important and i guess i would discourage early earlier than that and i think we can't pretty much have great dating i'm like that's crazy yeah yeah we're in agreement about that we we ought to be. We've been through it.

We haven't. We've never talked about it. We've just done it. This is kind of an interesting question. These people. All right. What do you find more important in a relationship? Looks or intelligence? I don't know. I'd get them both. Oh, that's so nice.

But what is more important? I think you need them both. you can't have a long-term relationship with them both i totally yeah i mean i don't want drop dead gorgeous something that's a box of rocks right um and i don't want someone really intelligence to intelligent who you're not attracted to is You know, is like not attractive. Yeah, I agree with that. To me. I think for me, it has to be both as well. I'm not going to accept the premise of the question. Thank you. That said, the only advice my mother ever gave me,

and she's given me no love advice at all. The only advice she gave me as a kid was make sure he's cute. It'll help you forgive them better. It has. You know, forgiveness is a big part of marriage. And it's something that, you know, you have to, you know, especially if you're married to a Latino, you have to forgive me a lot. We have a sharp temper. What was the meme you sent me yesterday about?

Oh, yeah. Somebody sent, my sister sent me this great meme. It was Tommy Lee Jones, right? Yeah. And it's from a movie um is it worth it and then he turns around he goes yeah but only if you're strong enough and then underneath it said um like it was basically about like being latino is it worth it yes but only if you're strong enough it's so true It's so true. It's so true.

So, yeah, it has to be a combination. My mom is right. You know, marriage involves a lot of, you know, give and take and forgiving and loving, despite, you know, learning all of each other's imperfections. I think that's much easier to do when you're actually really physically attracted to someone. And so, good advice, good advice mom um so that's it for today but she didn't really I don't know how keen your mom was on me so oh she loves oh my god my my mom no no I would that fine one absolutely She absolutely loves you. With Peely. So, yeah.

So those are actually, those are fun questions. And our hot topic on News of the Day, AOC's craziness. Friday's one of my favorite days. I like doing Q&A. It's kind of fun. This was a real mixed bag, too. Like, there was, like, you know, serious topics and some pretty, you know, you like fall. Interesting. Listen, what I think of sending the questions into us, we appreciate that.

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